bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Kuwaiti Instructors&#39; Beliefs about English Language Teaching and Their Awareness of Global English
Authors: Alnwaiem Ahmad F. , Alazemi Abdullah M. , Alenezi Abdullah A. 
Published: March 2021

The beliefs of EFL teachers are an essential term perceived in a number of educational fields. Especially in teacher education and behavioural research, this term is usually related to teachers&#39; habits and practices in classes, considering their impact on each other. The aim of this study is to add to prior studies on the subject of teachers&#39; beliefs and to concentrate on English language teachers (ELT). The objective is to merge the theory of instructors&#39; beliefs with Global English (GE). The research question &#39;what are the Kuwaiti instructors&#39; beliefs about ELT and their awareness of Global English?&#39; formalizes these aims. To accomplish the research: To discover teachers&#39; beliefs about ELT and their awareness of Global English. This research concentrates on English language teachers at the university level. The collection of data has been conducted over two months. For data collection and interpretation, this study adopted a qualitative research methodology. Surveys were chosen as the instrument for data collection. The study used qualitative content analysis in relation to the data analysis method. Moreover, the findings were evaluated based on a deductive and inductive approach to qualitative data analysis. Results indicated various kinds of teachers&#39; beliefs about ELT. Including views about the English language, ELT in relation to the standards, ELT with regard to the GE context. English-language beliefs played a central role in shaping two other views, which were considered secondary beliefs. Except for the content of teachers&#39; beliefs, the study&#39;s findings have shown two significant categories of influences: internal and external, that affect the development and application of teachers&#39; beliefs in classrooms.
In this study, the internal factor referred mainly to English-language teaching beliefs based on its ability to influence other cognitive constructs (i.e., different convictions, behaviours, sensitivity) and teaching practices. As far as external factors are concerned, the teachers&#39; diverse experiences with individuals (e.g., parents and retired teachers) and administrative legislation (e.g., policy and curriculum) are the main factors.
Finally, it was possible to conclude the findings of this analysis in the same manner as previous studies, which combined teacher cognition theory with the field of GE. In other words, teacher beliefs play a crucial part in the teacher&#39;s cognitive system as a decisive role in their teaching practice. This study proposes further research to reinforce the results of contemporary research in this area.
Incidence of Corrected QT Prolongation With Concomitant Methadone and Atypical Antipsychotics in Critically Ill Children
Authors: Hughes Kaitlin M. , Thorndyke Anne , Tillman Emma M. 
Published: March 2021

OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the safety of the combination of methadone and an atypical antipsychotic in PICU patients.

METHODS
This was a retrospective observational cohort pilot study in a single-center PICU in an academic children's hospital. Children 1 month to 18 years of age were included if they received methadone, were then initiated on an atypical antipsychotic (i.e., quetiapine or risperidone), and had EKG monitoring before and after medication initiation.

RESULTS
Prolongation of the corrected QT (QTc) interval occurred in 5 of the 34 included patients when an atypical antipsychotic was added to methadone. Of the 5 patients who had a prolonged QTc interval, 4 (80%) were older than 12 years and had a median weight of 91.3 kg. There were statistical differences between age and weight when comparing patients who experienced QTc prolongation, but no differences in sex, ethnicity, electrolyte deficiencies, number of additional QTc-prolonging medications, and number of additional drug-drug interactions were identified. When comparing atypical antipsychotics, 9.5% of patients receiving risperidone had a prolonged QTc interval, versus 23% of patients receiving quetiapine (p = 0.04). The net change in QTc interval after initiation of methadone was 0.19 milliseconds (IQR: −3, 15), which increased after atypical antipsychotic initiation to 4 milliseconds (IQR: −16, 15).

CONCLUSIONS
Our pilot trial suggests there is no clinically significant difference in incidence of QTc prolongation with addition of atypical antipsychotics to methadone.
El postmodernismo peruano: vida y obra de Abraham Valdelomar
Authors: Segura Zariquiegui Ainhoa 
Published: March 2021

Durante el modernismo y el postmodernismo peruano surgieron grandes poetas que dibujaron un panorama artístico muy significativo en este país. Todos ellos, aunque influenciados por la Europa (sobre todo la Francia) decadentista de fin de siglo XIX, supieron imprimir también una nota muy personal a sus creaciones literarias. Tal fue el caso de Abraham Valdelomar. Este artículo quiere rendir homenaje a este gran escritor, articulista y poeta peruano. De ahí que se realice un recorrido de su vida, y de sus obras literarias y periodísticas más relevantes.
During peruvian modernism and postmodernism great poests emerged who Drew a very significant artistic scenery in this country. Al lof them, although influenced by the decadentist Europe (especially France) of the late 19th century, also knew how to give a personal note to their poetic creations. Such was the case with Abraham Valdelomar. This article wants to pay tribute to this great Peruvian writer, journalist an poet, through showing his life and Works.
Filología y pintura conceptual: Análisis de dos obras de Hilario Bravo
Authors: Garcia-Manso Angelica , Tovar Paz Francisco Javier 
Published: March 2021

La creación pictórica de Hilario Bravo responde a una reflexión sobre la escritura, sobre la capacidad del arte pictórico para convertirse en texto y, a la inversa, acerca de las formas de los alfabetos y las lenguas que estos vehiculan. Se analizan las obras Fontis patet (2014) y “El tríptico de Freya” (2017) a partir de las expresiones en latín presentes en las mencionadas pinturas. Se concluye que el pintor utiliza la reflexión sobre la escritura como una exégesis conceptual del paisaje o entorno en tanto las variaciones lingüísticas en los lemas (en lengua latina en las obras estudiadas) suponen un esfuerzo hermenéutico de los cambios que se descubren en el hábitat objeto del cuadro.
Hilario Bravo's paintings are a reflection on writing, on the capacity of pictorial art to become text and, conversely, on the forms of alphabets and the languages they convey. The works Fontis patet (2014) and "Triptych about Freya" (2017) are analysed on the basis of the Latin expressions present in the aforementioned paintings. It is concluded that the painter uses the reflection on the writing as a conceptual exegesis of the landscape or environment in as much the linguistic variations in the lemmas (Latin lemmas in the studied works) suppose a hermeneutic effort of the changes that are discovered in the habitat object of the painting.
La Murcia modernista de los siglos XIX-XX. Autores del modernismo y el asentamiento del trovo o poesía popular repentizada como arte escénico
Authors: Tomás Loba Emilio del Carmelo 
Published: March 2021

Desde que en 1880 comienza oficialmente el periodo conocido como Modernismo, en la región de Murcia, la corriente fue asumida con el mismo grado de rechazo si bien es cierto que autores como Ricardo Gil dejaron entrever en su pluma la influencia parisina de la que hará gala Rubén Darío como figura literaria mundial indiscutible. Lo cierto es que, en ese cambio de siglo convulso, y debido al capital extranjero, el territorio del sureste español emerge en el sector primario de la minería, y es en ese contexto minero donde el modernismo arquitectónico eclosiona, pero también en torno al denominado Café Cantante, la representación poética del Trovo o poesía oral improvisada, evolucionando así de la calle y el ámbito tabernario, al arte escénico.
Since the period Known as Modernism officially began in 1880, in te Murcia region, the current was assumed with the same degree of rejection, although it is true that authors such as Ricardo Gil, hinted at the Parisian influence of wich Rubén Darío will show off as the undisputed world literary figure. The truth is that, in this turbulent turn of the century, and due to foreign capital, the territory of the Spanish southeast emerges in the primary sector of mining, and it is in this minig context, where architectural modernism hatches, but also, around the so-called Café Cantante, the poetic representation of the Trovo or improvised oral poetry, thus evolving from the Street and the tavern enviroment, to performing art.
Un breve recorrido por la poesía de Ramón Gaya
Authors: Durante Laura Mariateresa 
Published: March 2021

Además de la pintura y de la escritura ensayística, Ramón Gaya se dedicó a la poesía y, aunque sea una faceta poco conocida, lo hizo muy tempranamente. Esta contribución pretende ofrecer una visión panorámica de la producción poética del autor, desde las primeras obras en poesía hasta los poemas de la madurez. Asimismo, se propone añadir algunas reflexiones sobre este aspecto inédito del pintor de Murcia.
Oltre alla pittura e alla scrittura saggistica Ramón Gaya si è dedicato alla poesia e, nonostante, non sia noto, questa attività giunse anticipatamente. Il contributo desidera offrire una panoramica sulla produzione poetica dell’autore dalle prime opere in poesia fino ai poemi della maurità. Si propone, inoltre, di aggiungere alcune riflessioni su questo aspetto inedito del pittore di Murcia.
La necesidad de la revitalización sindical: una oportunidad para otras propuestas organizativas
Authors: Moral-Martín David , Brunet i Icart Ignasi 
Published: March 2021

Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar la emergencia de Nuevos Movimientos Sindicales (NNMMSS) vinculándola a la oportunidad de revitalización que puede suponer para las contemporáneas centrales sindicales mayoritarias, hijas del taylorismo-fordismo. Para ello, nos centramos en el análisis de sus aportaciones. A nivel teórico, estudiamos el alcance de las críticas vertidas al actual modelo de representación salarial, resaltando la necesidad de asumir la teoría de la oferta y la importancia de los factores internos para afrontar la citada revitalización. Y a nivel práctico, señalamos su apuesta por la horizontalidad en las tomas de decisiones de colectivos con menor representación histórica y por prácticas de afiliación múltiple que cuestionan tanto el reparto del poder como los límites de la negociación colectiva. Estas son las principales conclusiones extraídas de un estudio llevado a cabo en Cataluña. Cualitativamente nos hemos basado en la realización de entrevistas semiestructuradas a representantes cualificados de sindicatos mayoritarios y minoritarios, de NNMMSS y miembros de asociaciones empresariales y expertos académicos, junto al análisis crítico de la literatura científica vinculada.
Beyond Habitat
Authors: Safdie Moshe 
Published: March 2021

Habitat was one of the most intriguing buildings in the world when it opened as the housing exhibit of Expo 67 in Montreal. Seven million visited it; heads of state lived in it; models flew half way around the world to pose in front of it; children played hide-and-seek all over it; and critics heralded it as “the breakthrough of twentieth century architecture.”
As intriguing as the bilding is the story of how it came to exist. Here, in Beyond Habitat, its young architect Moshe Safdie describes – with a frankness that permits a rare view behind the scenes of modern architecture and mass housing – how his ideas developed and how he fought them into realization. It is a personal statement – almost a private diary and photo album, often containing observations “of a kind one confides only to a friend.”
Safdie tells his story now because he believes that what lies beyond Habitat, what Habitat presaged, is even more significant then Habitat itself. In each of his projects since, he has tried to advance the work Habitat began: in Habitat Puerto Rico (now under construction); in Habitat Israel, the 1,500 dwelling system covering a mountainside outside Jerusalem; in the design for a union building commissioned by students of the San Francisco State College which, when rejected by state officials, became a symbol influencing the campus uprising; in a spectacular suspension building system for the New York waterfront.
Safdie's work points to a new kind of environment:
... factory built cities where modern technology, far from regimenting, is used to liberate man to a wider choice of environment than he has ever known
... three dimensional cities reaching upwards with streets in the sky, gardens on rooftops, dwellings open on three sides to air and space and sun
... creative cities where the cultural riches of a high density environment combine with the quiet and privacy of low density to give men the best of both worlds
... and, most important of all, cities that would express a contemporary vernacular, be so harmony with man's spirit that he would no longer need arbitrary design, inappropriate furnishings and irrelevant art to help him forget the ugliness around him.
To achieve such an environment, Safdie believes we must change most of our present attitudes toward government, housing, industry, design and art. Governments must set themselves new action for cities, laws, taxes; they must adopt new environmental codes. Industry must undertake the kind of research in building materials it did for automobiles and airplanes. Contractors must reorganize their methods of working. Unions must give up present division of trades. Building codes and by-laws must be updated.
In all of this Habitatit Montreal was the beginning. The struggle to get Habitat built is indicative of the kind of the stuggleo build the new city, The fact that Hahitat di get built is casue for hope,
Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge
Authors:   Cambridge Historical Commission
Published: March 2021

This series, called the Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, was among the first inventories of its kind in America.
Shortly after the Cambridge Historical Commission was established it embarked on the task of surveying Cambridge's architectural resources. The Commission published five reports, from 1964 to 1977, on each area of the city. This series, called the Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, was among the first inventories of its kind in America. This new edition of East Cambridge, the first report, appears at a time when the neighborhood is experiencing increasing development pressures, making it a particularly valuable resource on the area's history and growth for residents, planners, and outside investors. Although its primary focus remains architectural, the second edition includes the results of extensive primary source research on the district's colonial history, industrial development, and social history. It breaks new ground by correlating city directory and census data with the types of workers' housing built in the period from 1820 to 1870. Development is not new to East Cambridge. Established on an isolated island in the salt marshes opposite Boston in 1809, it became the first part of Cambridge to undergo industrial expansion and attracted great numbers of immigrants during the mid-nineteenth century. The substantial Federal brick houses built on speculation by the Lechmere Point Corporation gave way to modest workers' cottages in the early 1820s. This building type soon became characteristic of the community densely populated, working class, with a distinctive architecture that still largely survives.
Nutritional content ofTotoaba macdonaldi(Gilbert, 1890), Antioxidants and lipid peroxidation in muscle
Authors: Conde-Guerrero Priscila , Méndez-Rodríguez Lia C. , de Anda-Montañez Juan A. , Zenteno-Savín Tania 
Published: March 2021

BackgroundTotoaba,Totoaba macdonaldi, is an endemic species of the Gulf of California, where wide variations in sea temperature throughout the year, surface salinities that gradually increase towards the north, and contamination by discharge of wastewater have been recorded. In addition to the challenges of reproduction and swimming, its characteristic biannual migration presents totoaba with changes in environmental factors that could affect oxidative stress indicators. The objective of this study was to assess spatial and seasonal changes in the oxidative stress indicators in muscle samples of totoaba.MethodsReactive oxygen species production, antioxidant enzyme activities and lipid peroxidation levels were quantified by spectrophotometry.ResultsResults suggest spatial-temporal variations of the oxidative stress indicators in muscle of totoaba that may be associated to a complex interaction between environmental and biological factors, including reproduction and nutrient availability. These results contribute to explain the appeal of totoaba as a marketable meat and suggest totoaba may provide antioxidant nutrients to consumers.
Automatic Generation of Scripts for Database Creation from Scenario Descriptions
Authors: Amarasinghe L. W. , Nawarathna R. D. 
Published: March 2021

Aims: Database creation is the most critical component of the design and implementation of any software application. Generally, the process of creating the database from the requirement specification of a software application is believed to be extremely hard. This study presents a method to automatically generate database scripts from a given scenario description of the requirement specification.
Study Design: The method is developed based on a set of natural language processing (NLP) techniques and a few algorithms. Standard database scenario descriptions presented in popular textbooks on Database Design are used for the validation of the method.
Place and Duration of Study: Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Between December 2019 to December 2020.
Methodology: The description of the problem scenario is processed using NLP operations such as tokenization, complex word handling, basic group handling, complex phrase handling, structure merging, and template construction to extract the necessary information required for the entity relational model. New algorithms are proposed to automatically convert the entity relational model to the logical schema and finally to the database script. The system can generate scripts for relational databases (RDB), object relational databases (ORDB) and Not Only SQL (NoSQL) databases. The proposed method is integrated into a web application where the users can type the scenario in natural or free text. The user can select the type of database (i.e., one of RDB, ORDB, NoSQL) considered in their system and accordingly the application generates the SQL scripts.
Results: The proposed method was evaluated using 10 scenario descriptions connected to 10 different domains such as company, university, airport, etc. for all three types of databases. The method performed with impressive accuracies of 82.5%, 84.0% and 83.5% for RDB, ORDB and NoSQL scripts, respectively.
Conclusion: This study is mainly focused on the automatic generation of SQL scripts from scenario descriptions of the requirement specification of a software system. Overall, the developed method helps to speed up the database development process. Further, the developed web application provides a learning environment for people who are novices in database technology.
Deep Learning Detection of COVID-19, Temporal Variation and its Link with Temperature in Nigeria
Authors: Precious Ebiendele Eromosele 
Published: March 2021

COVID-19 was announced as a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization due to its spread globally. Nigeria recorded its first case on 27 February 2020. Since then, it has spread to all parts of the country. In this paper we study the effectiveness and skill performance of deep learning architectures in assisting health workers in detecting COVID-19 infected patient through X-ray images. Analytical deductions obtained from 500 X-ray images of both infected and non-infected patients confirmed that our proposed model InceptionV3 is effective in detecting COVID-19 and attain an average accuracy of 92%. The relationship or link between the COVID-19 daily occurrence and two meteorological variables (minimum and maximum temperatures) are further assessed. The result also indicated that the cases recorded in Wednesdays and Fridays are observed to be higher than other days which usually coincide with either religious activities or market days in the country, while a progressively decline in weekday cases is observed towards the weekend with Sundays (ranging from 152 to 280 cases) having the lowest cases. The study further indicated statistically that COVID-19 daily cases significantly decline when maximum and minimum temperature are increasing (-0.79 and -0.44 correlation coefficient).
Ethnobotanical Practices among the People of Dagana District, Bhutan
Authors: Sherub Karma , Suberi Bhagat , Chapagai Purna Prasad , Penjor . , Jurmey Kelzang , Wangdra Karma , Neopaney Moni Kumar 
Published: March 2021

Medicinal plants are one of the most affordable and accessible method available for the treatment of various ailments and diseases by the local people. In this regards, the study aimed to document the ethno-medicinal knowledge of plants used by the local people of Dagana district of Bhutan. Data were collected between June and November of 2020 using semi-structured interviews from the local people, following snowball sampling. The study documented 74 medicinal plant species, used for treating 30 different body ailments and diseases. Maximum number of species (14) was used in treating cut/body wounds and commonly used plant parts was leaves (30 species). Current study area was found to be rich in ethno-medicinal knowledge, but equally threatened with declining practices and management of resources. Thus, appropriate conservation of resources and preservation of traditional knowledge is required.
Contactless Academia – The Case for Automated Essay Scoring (AES) System in COVID 19 Pandemic
Authors: Osakwe Kennedy A. , Ola Kunle , Omotosho Pete 
Published: March 2021

Background: The 2019 SAR COV- 2 outbreak ushered and made the term ‘contactless’ a new normal for most businesses as a mitigation measure to risky coronavirus exposure. Similarly, there are several exposure scenarios in higher education where contact poses a threat. One of which is the handling and marking of essay scripts from assignments, task, research outputs and more. An invaluable measure worth considering is the inclusion of ‘Automated Essay Scoring’ (AES) system in the mitigation toolkits for higher institutions of learning.
Objectives: We conducted this scoping review to identify the suitability of AES products in higher education and examine the type of methods used to present these products.
Methods: This study was undertaken in the form of a scoping review using the Prisma flow sequence of literature search and selection from 6 databases.
Findings: Different AES products, literatures and research designs were employed in the investigation of AES products. The outcome of reviewed literatures varied on suitability of AES in scoring essay task in Higher Institution of Learning.
Conclusion: There exist substantial case for the use of AES in most literatures amongst few opposing authors; however, in order to achieve contactless interface with human and materials in COVID 19 pandemic, AES should be used with triggers for human raters’ intervention in exceptional cases.