bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of monitoring tools for WASH response in a cholera outbreak in northeast Nigeria
Authors: Ricau Marine , Lacan Lise , Ihemezue Emmanuel , Lantagne Daniele , String Gabrielle 
Published: September 2021

Abstract
Monitoring water, sanitation, and hygiene programs in cholera outbreaks is critical to improve humanitarian response. The objective of this research was to evaluate, and improve, WASH in cholera monitoring tools currently used in northeast Nigeria. We collected 723 forms from 2019 from three form types, combined them into one database of 980 activities, and stratified data by form type, response, implementing organization, activity, month/day, and geographical area. We conducted seven key informant interviews (KIIs) with monitoring tool users and decision-makers. Data irregularities (including in design, collection, and entry) led to an inability to meaningfully analyze monitoring forms. In KIIs, eight themes emerged: ease of use of current tools, improvement in monitoring over time, lack of access to data, need for training, inconsistent reporting practices, need for modification of current questions, need for the addition of new questions, and connectivity issues. Although informants reported monitoring helped organizations identify gaps during the response, the scarcity and inconsistency of the reported data make it difficult to draw any conclusions about program effectiveness, accountability in humanitarian response, or to make recommendations for improving programming. To improve monitoring, we recommend refining data collection by increasing the quantity of data reported, data consistency, and data relevancy.
PREPARAÇÕES CULINÁRIAS ELABORADAS COM FARINHA DAS SEMENTES DE MELÃO CANTALOUPE: ESTUDO PILOTO
Authors: Priscilla dos Santos Miranda Mayara , Lopes de Lima Rosivania , Teixeira de Lima Oliveira Vanessa , Santana Luz Anna Beatriz 
Published: September 2021

Introdução: O Brasil está no ranking dos 10 países que mais desperdiçam alimentos no mundo, é também o 3º maior produtor de frutas, sendo o Nordeste responsável pela produção de 95% do melão. Em consequência da elevada produção de frutas, o país tem enfrentado problemas ambientais decorrentes do lixo orgânico formado pelo desperdício. As cascas e sementes que são desprezadas, como exemplo do melão, podem ser utilizadas na alimentação por meio do aproveitamento integral de alimentos que tem sido uma ótima alternativa na busca de reduzir o desperdício, bem como enriquecer nutricionalmente as preparações culinárias. Objetivo: Realizar um estudo piloto para verificar características organolépticas de preparações culinárias elaboradas com farinha das sementes de melão cantaloupe (Cucumis melo L. var. reticulatus). Metodologia: Foram elaborados 2 produtos, bolo simples e torta de frango, com diferentes percentuais de farinha das sementes de melão (FSM) adicionados à farinha de trigo enriquecida com ferro e ácido fólico, seguindo as concentrações de 25%, 50% e 75% de FSM. Resultados: As preparações feitas com farinha cuja constituição possuía 50% de FSM foram as comentadas na avaliação das características organolépticas, visto que eram mais palatáveis, em virtude da menor quantidade de resíduos, bem como apresentaram aroma e sabor mais agradáveis. Conclusões: Diante dos resultados observou-se que os participantes optaram pelos produtos que não possuíam grande quantidade de resíduos de melão nas preparações, visto que esses dificultam a mastigação e deglutição, bem como alteram algumas características organolépticas como aroma e sabor.
Glipizide Combined with ANP Suppresses Breast Cancer Growth and Metastasis by Inhibiting Angiogenesis through VEGF/VEGFR2 Signaling
Authors: Mao Guanquan , Zheng Shuting , Li Jinlian , Liu Xiaohua , Zhou Qin , Cao Jinghua , Zhang Qianqian , Zheng Lingyun , Wang Lijing , Qi Cuiling 
Published: September 2021

Background:
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide among women, and angiogenesis
has an important effect on its growth and metastasis. Glipizide, which is a widely used drug for type 2 diabetes mellitus,
has been reported to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis by upregulating the expression of natriuretic peptide
receptor A (NPRA). Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), the receptor of NPRA, plays an important role in angiogenesis.
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of glipizide combined with ANP on breast cancer growth and metastasis.

Methods:
This study aimed at investigating the effect of glipizide combined with ANP on breast cancer. Glipizide,
ANP, or glipizide combined with ANP was intraperitoneally injected into MMTV-PyMT mice. To explore whether the
anticancer efficacy of glipizide combined with ANP was correlated with angiogenesis, a tube formation assay was
performed.

Results:
Glipizide combined with ANP was found to inhibit breast cancer growth and metastasis in MMTV-PyMT
mice, which spontaneously develop breast cancer. Furthermore, the inhibitory effect of ANP combined with glipizide
was better than that of glipizide alone. ANP combined with glipizide significantly inhibited tube formation of human
umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) by suppressing vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)/VEGFR2 (vascular
endothelial growth factor receptor 2) signaling.

Conclusions:
These results demonstrate that glipizide combined with ANP has a greater potential than glipizide alone
to be repurposed as an effective agent for the treatment of breast cancer by targeting tumor-induced angiogenesis.
In Vivo Treatment Efficacy of Essential Oil Isolated from Seeds of Momordica charantia in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes Mellitus
Authors: Mariammal Berlin Grace Viswanathan , Devarajan David Wilson , Jerrin Ruselraj , Viswanathan Sundaram , Siddikuzzaman  , Gopal Rengaswamy 
Published: September 2021

Background:All parts of Momordica charantia L. have potential hypoglycemic properties in reversing the metabolic disorder of diabetes mellitus. However, there exists a need for preparing an effective and safer formulation of active phytochemicals. We have also reviewed and analyzed certain patents on such preparatory methods for Momordica charantia L. formulations.Objective:This study aimed to isolate essential oil from the seeds of Momordica charantia L., analyze its phytochemicals, and study their anti-diabetic effects.Methods:The essential oil was isolated by the hydrodistillation method and analyzed for phytochemicals by GC-MS. Furthermore, its acute toxicity was tested in rats. Anti-diabetic effects were evaluated in Streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats with 17.5 and 55 mg/kg b.wt of essential oil by evaluating blood glucose, serum lipid profile, liver glycogen, protein, and other serum markers such as ALT, AST, ALP, urea, and creatinine. The histologic changes in the liver, pancreas, and kidney were evaluated using Haematoxylin and Eosin staining.Results :The phytochemicals having hypoglycaemic and insulin induction potency were identified in the GC-MS analysis. A highly significant (p≤0.01; p≤0.001) reduction in blood glucose was observed from 17.5 mg/kg and 55 mg/kg essential oil treatments, respectively. Diabetes-associated metabolic alterations (p≤0.001) observed in diabetic control rats such as lipid profile, enzymes, glycogen, protein, urea, and creatinine were normalized upon treatment with essential oil. Moreover, the histologic changes in vital organs reversed in treated rats.Conclusion:The essential oil of Momordica charantia L. seed has promising potency to normalize the metabolic changes of type II diabetes mellitus.
Fine-tuned Siamese Network with Modified Enhanced Super-Resolution GAN Plus Based on Low Quality Chest X-ray Images for COVID-19 Identification: Algorithm Development and Validation (Preprint)
Authors: Nneji Grace Ugochi , Cai Jingye , Jianhua Deng , Hossin Md Altab , Monday Happy Nkanta , Oluwasanmi Ariyo , Chikwendu Ijeoma Amuche , Ejiyi Chukwuebuka Joseph , Ukwuoma Chiagoziem Chima , James Edidiong Christopher , Mgbejime Goodness Temofe 
Published: September 2021

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Background:	Coronavirus disease has explosively spread globally since the early January of 2020. With the millions of the death rate of individuals, it is essential for an automated system to be utilized for aiding the clinical diagnosis and reduce time consumption for the image analysis.
Objective: Our aim is to rapidly develop an automated AI model to diagnose COVID-19 in CXR images and differentiate COVID-19 from healthy and other pneumonia.
Methods: This article presents a GAN-based deep learning application in precisely regaining high-resolution (HR) CXR images from low-resolution (LR) CXR correspondents for COVID-19 identification. Respectively, using the building block of generative adversarial network (GAN), we introduce a modified enhanced super-resolution with generative adversarial network plus (MESRGAN+) to inculcate a connected nonlinear mapping collected from noise-contaminated low-resolution input images to produce deblurred and denoised HR images. As opposed to the latest trend of increasing network elaboration and depth to advance imaging performance, we incorporated an enhanced VGG19 fine-tuned twin network with wavelet pooling strategy in order to extracts distinct features for COVID-19 identification. The qualitative results establish that the proposed model is robust and reliable for COVID-19 screening.
Results: We demonstrate the proposed enhanced siamese fine-tuned model with wavelet pooling strategy and modified enhanced super-resolution GAN plus based on low quality images for COVID-19 identification on a publicly available dataset of 11,920 samples of chest x-ray images, each having 2,980 cases of COVID-19 CXR, healthy, viral and bacterial cases for our four-class classification. Furthermore, we performed binary classification of COVID-19 verse healthy cases. The proposed method achieves accuracy of 98.8%, precision of 98.6%, sensitivity of 97.5%, specificity of 98.9%, F1-score of 97.8% and ROC AUC of 98.8% for the multi- class task while for the binary class, the model achieved accuracy of 99.7%, precision of 98.9%, sensitivity of 98.7%, specificity of 99.3%, F1-score of 98.2% and ROC AUC of 99.7%.
Conclusions: Our method obtained state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, according to experimental results, which is helpful for COVID-19 screening. This new conceptual framework is proposed to play an influential task in the issue facing COVID-19 examination and other ailments, using CXR datasets.
Mujeres mexicanas retornadas: reconfiguraciones en la dinámica familiar / Mexican women migrants returning. Reconfigurations in the family dynamics
Authors: Franco Aguilar José 
Published: September 2021

El presente artículo analiza los cambios o continuidades generados por mujeres mexicanas retornadas dentro de su dinámica intrafamiliar, derivados de su experiencia migratoria en EE. UU. El objetivo será la construcción de una tipología que discrimine la existencia de transformaciones dentro de dicha dinámica. En concreto, se exploran cuestiones intrínsecas en las familias que dan la pauta para contrastar situaciones. Particularmente, se estudian las siguientes dimensiones de análisis: trabajo doméstico, cuidado de los hijos, pautas de interacción familiar y concepción propia de la posición dentro del grupo doméstico. Los sujetos de análisis son veinte mujeres retornadas que tuvieron una residencia en EE. UU., quienes radican en una localidad rural, en el estado de Jalisco en México.Abstract: This article analyzes the changes and continuities in gender roles and family dynamics among migrant women returning from the United States. It considers the migratory experience as a potentially important factor influencing changes in gender dynamics within the family. The objective is to construct a typology that discriminates between existing changes in family dynamics and changes in gender roles resulting from the migratory experience. In order to provide a context to contrast situations, the article explores gender dynamics apparent in certain family dynamics, including housework, childcare, patterns of family interaction, and returning migrants’ conception of their position within the domestic group. The subjects of analysis are twenty returning migrant women from the United States who currently reside in a rural village in Jalisco, Mexico. Keywords: return migration; female return migration; family dynamics; rural area; Mexico. Résumé : Cet article analyse les changements et les continuités générés par les femmes mexicaines de retour de migration dans leur dynamique intra-familiale, comme résultats de leur expérience migratoire aux États-Unis. L’article propose de construire une typologie qui observe l’existence de transformations dans ces dynamiques. Plus précisément, les problèmes intrinsèques sont explorés au sein des familles et définissent la norme dans des situations contrastées. En particulier, sont analysées les dimensions suivantes : travail domestique, garde des enfants, modèles d’interaction familial et conception du rôle féminin dans le groupe domestique. Les sujets analysés sont vingt femmes de retour de migration qui ont résidé aux États-Unis et qui vivent actuellement dans une ville rurale de l’État de Jalisco au Mexique.Mots-clés : migration de retour ; femmes rapatriées ; dynamique intra-familiale ; zones rurales ; Mexique.
Hidroextractivismo en la cuenca del Usumacinta: entre dinámicas transfronterizas y diferenciaciones fronterizas / Hydroextractivism in the Usumacinta river basin: among transboundary dynamics and border differentation
Authors: Kauffer Edith 
Published: September 2021

Partiendo de una reflexión teórica sobre el extractivismo, el artículo desarrolla una tipología que evidencia a la vez las características del hidroextractivismo y su profunda diversidad. ¿Qué entendemos por hidroextractivismo y cuáles son sus componentes? ¿Cuáles son las expresiones del hidroextractivismo en la cuenca transfronteriza del río Usumacinta? ¿Cuál es la relación con lo fronterizo y transfronterizo en este escenario? Para contestar a estas tres interrogaciones, el trabajo aborda, en primer lugar, la noción de hidroextractivismo como fenómeno sociopolítico y sus diversas expresiones. En segundo lugar, presenta las formas que adopta en la cuenca del Usumacinta a partir de hallazgos del trabajo de campo. Finalmente, profundiza en torno a sus relaciones con las dimensiones transfronterizas del fenómeno y al papel de la frontera en la existencia de diferenciaciones asociadas a este fenómeno. Abstract: Starting from a theoretical reflection on extractivism, the paper proposes a typology that evidences the characteristics of hydroextractivism and its deep diversity. What is hydroextractivism and what is it compounded by? How is hydroextractivism stated in the Usumacinta transboundary river basin? How does it relate with transboundary and border issues in this context? To attend these questions, the text first evokes the notion of hydroextractivism as a socio-political phenomenon and its diverse expressions. Then it focuses on its manifestations in the Usumacinta basin according to fieldwork findings. It eventually deepens on the links between hydroextractivism, transboundary and border issues that deal with observed differentiations.Keywords: extractivism; hydroextractivism; Usumacinta; transfronterity; border.Résumé : A partir d’une réflexion théorique sur l’extractivisme, l’article développe une typologie qui met à la fois en évidence les caractéristiques de l’hydroextractivisme et sa grande diversité. Qu’est-ce que l’hydroextractivisme et quels en sont ses composantes ? Quelles sont ses expressions dans le bassin transfrontalier de l’Usumacinta ? Quelles sont les relations avec le frontalier et le transfrontalier dans ce contexte ? Pour répondre à ces trois questions, le texte aborde en premier lieu la notion d’hydroextractivisme en tant que phénomène socio-politique et ses diverses expressions. Il présente ensuite les formes qu’il adopte dans le bassin de l’Usumacinta à partir de données de terrain. Enfin, il approfondit les relations que ce phénomène entretient avec les dimensions transfrontalières et le rôle de la frontière dans l’existence d’éléments de différentiation.Mot-clés : extractivisme ; hydroextractivisme ; Usumacinta ; transfrontérité ; frontière.
Supercapacitors and energy conversion structures based on WS2 and MoS2 disulfides
Authors: Ondrejka Peter , Kemény Martin , Dubina Matúš , Novák Patrik , Hotový Ivan , Mikolášek Miroslav 
Published: September 2021

Abstract
In this paper, disulfides WS2 and MoS2 were successfully prepared using thermal decomposition and utilised for fabrication of supercapacitor- and water splitting electrodes. Both, energy storage and conversion performances of these electrodes were compared with electrodes prepared with commercial MoS2, WS2, and activated carbon (AC). The electrochemical characterisation confirmed the pseudocapacitive character of disulfide-based supercapacitor electrodes. A strong influence of the scan rate on the specific capacitance was found, which is due to the diffusion of ions and the pseudocapacitive nature of charge storage. A specific capacitance of 405 mF/cm2 at 10 mV/s scan rate was achieved on MoS2 structures prepared by thermal decomposition. This value is 3.5-times greater than the capacitance achieved on commercial MoS2 and 6.8-times greater than capacitance achieved on structures with activated carbon. A specific capacitance of 396 mF/cm2 at 10 mV/s scan rate was achieved on WS2 structures prepared by thermal decomposition, which was 2.2 and 6.7-times greater than the capacitance achieved on commercial WS2 and AC based electrodes, respectively. Water-decomposition structures showed greater catalytic activity of thermally decomposed disulfides for HER compared to commercial materials and AC. The study showed a high perspective of MoS2 and WS2 prepared by thermal decomposition for energy storage applications by means of supercapacitors and energy conversion trough water electrolysis and hydrogen generation.
ABSURDITY IN PUTU WIJAYA’S SHORT PLAY
Authors: Sathotho Surya Farid 
Published: September 2021

Short play known as Drama Pendek (Drapen) is the latest form of Putu Wijaya's work. The play only ranges from two to twelve pages. From the number of pages, it is assumed that the drapen performance will only last five to ten minutes. Although only a short duration, Putu Wijaya is consistent with the aesthetic concept of terror. This concept, if traced further, is a derivative of the concept of the theater of the absurd. To see the possibility of performing the drapen, an analysis of the structure and texture of randomly selected drapes will be carried out. The analysis is carried out with a theoretical approach that sees the terror in the structure and texture in a drafted text. It is hoped that the results will show whether the short play meets the rules of dramaturgy to be performed on stage Key words: Short play, Theater of the Absurd, Putu Wijaya
Resiliencia en la infancia en contextos de marginalidad
Authors: Carrero Torres Cindy Tatiana , Pinilla López Heidy Yohanna 
Published: September 2021

La resiliencia en la infancia ha sido objeto de análisis académicos para su comprensión como habilidad y como capacidad determinante de dicha transición vital. El presente artículo de revisión sistemática se basa en el análisis de 50 artículos ubicados en bases de datos científicas y académicas, así como diferentes repositorios digitales. Mediante la revisión se demuestra que, aunque la resiliencia es una habilidad inherente al ser humano, se puede alterar o no de acuerdo con el sistema en el cual crece el niño y la niña; por lo tanto, la resiliencia es considerada como una capacidad que se puede desarrollar o no, y depende de dicho contexto sistémico (microsistema, mesosistema, exosistema y macrosistema). Esto podría indicar que, si un niño o una niña crece en contextos de marginalidad, es posible que su resiliencia se vea comprometida.
minería como dinamizadora de conflictos socioculturales en el municipio de Lloró, Chocó, Colombia
Authors: Renteria Saida Patricia Guerrero 
Published: September 2021

Esta investigación tiene como objetivo principal analizar la relación entre los conflictos socioculturales en el municipio de Lloró, Chocó, Colombia y la minería aluvial en los últimos 10 años (2007-2017). A partir de ello se encuentra que hay una correlación entre la configuración de un modelo minero aurífero con diferentes actores que incrementó los problemasfamiliares y comunitarios.
Para esta investigación se realizaron entrevistas semi-estructurales con líderes comunitarios, organizaciones comunitarias (Consejo comunitario)y funcionarios de la Alcaldía de Lloró, quienes proporcionaron información relevante y contundente para afirmar que las conflictos en el municipio obedecen al aumento de la actividad minera, que inició en 2008 con la entrada de aproximadamente 37 retroexcavadoras de propiedad de personas foráneas y con el permiso de la Alcaldía Municipal, consejos comunitariosy familias dueñas de los predios. Aunque para el año 2012 esta cifra se baja a 25 retroexcavadoras se agudizan los conflictos con la llegada de bandas criminales. En lo corrido del 2016 en el municipio existían aproximadamente 10 dragones1 y 2 para el año 2017.
Este estudio muestra que al pasar de un modelo socio-económico agrícola a un modelo socio-económico minero, dirigido por foráneos nacionales y extranjeros, se generan rupturas sociales y culturales, y se provoca un cambio sustancial en el relacionamiento de los ciudadanos del municipio, lo que demuestra que existe una estrecha relación entre la cultura, el comportamiento social y la actividad económica.
Los principales aspectos donde se evidencia los cambios son el sociocultural con la música, la dieta alimentaria, el lenguaje, el vestuario, el medio ambiente, el cambio en el comportamiento socio-cultural de los jóvenes y el inicio de homicidios; en el aspecto familiar se identificaron problemas en los límites o linderos entre las familias, problemas en la tenencia o propiedad de la tierra (las familias no llegan a un acuerdo para alquilar o vender el terreno para el ejercicio de la minería, las familias pelean la propiedad de las tierras, las familias no llegan a un acuerdo en la redistribución de las ganancias); y en el aspecto comunitario problemas en los límites y linderos entre comunidades y entre municipios.
Algunas observaciones sobre el pensamiento crítico aristotelizado
Authors: Castro-Manzano J.-Martín , Platas-García Alejandra , Reyes-Meza Verónica 
Published: September 2021

En este trabajo recuperamos algunas ideas del método lógico aristotélico con el propósito de observar algunas de sus cualidades en la enseñanza del pensamiento crítico. Para alcanzar esta meta seguimos dos pasos: primero exponemos un modelo de pensamiento crítico que llamamos pensamiento crítico aristotelizado y luego mostramos los resultados de un experimento utilizando este modelo. Con ello, ofrecemos evidencia empírica del desempeño favorable de un grupo de estudiantes formados en un curso de pensamiento crítico aristotelizado, especialmente frente a problemas de irrelevancia