bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Lessons Learned from Introducing a Village Health Registry in Malawi
Authors: Kubalalika Prestor J 
Published: October 2018

The Village Health Registry (VHR) was a community health data collection tool introduced in 1998. It was first introduced in Mwanza district of Malawi with the objectives of collecting community-based data, analysing and taking action in a local setting. The tool was collecting and updating data such as demography, immunization status for children under one year, growth monitoring for children under five, monitoring of all pregnant women, incidence of malaria, acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea cases, water and sanitation and deaths, by visiting households in every village every month.The tool was able to collect all targeted information as required. The data collected by the tool appeared to be more reliable than that obtained through a national information system used by the Ministry of Health (MoH) for the same district and the same year. It was easy for health centres to accurately order supplies based on actual requirements, to follow-up cases during disease outbreaks and to identify deficiencies in immunisation coverage rates.Despite promising results, the VHR registry fell into disuse following the establishment of a national register. The MoH’s Health Information System (HIS) data used projections which normally did not represent the actual situation on the ground while the VHR registry gave real physical data which was representative and verifiable. The potential of the VHR outweighed that of the HIS. Although the HIS had been rolled out nationally, there were shortfalls which MoH could consider rectifying to reach its full potential. In conclusion, the VHR was worth adopting as it would give MoH realistic statistics to be effectively used at all levels.Keywords: Village Health Register, Mwanza district, Ministry of Health, Community Health Workers, Health Information System.
And Ghana was scared: Media Representations of the Risk of an Ebola Outbreak in Ghana
Authors: Iddrisu Seidu 
Published: October 2018

Abstract Introduction The 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in parts of West Africa marked the 25th occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976. While earlier outbreaks in Central and Eastern Africa had limited geographical extension and little media coverage, news media interest in the 2014 epidemic was remarkably high. In countries like Ghana, where the risk of imported infection was estimated to be among the highest, news coverage for the epidemic proliferated. This study aimed to describe and analyze the central themes which characterized media representations of the risk of Ebola outbreak in Ghana.Method A quantitative content analysis (CA) was employed to study news media reportage of the risk of Ebola outbreak in Ghana. Two daily newspapers, the Daily Graphic and Today were sampled. An online search for Ebola news stories in the selected newspapers was conducted, and all hits with Ebola downloaded and screened. A total of 332 articles were retrieved and 156 articles met the inclusion criteria. Three independent coders carried out the coding using identical story analysis form.Results In the course of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in parts of West Africa, the Daily Graphic and Today newspapers in Ghana published 332 stories about the epidemic. Of this number, the study analyzed 156 news articles which met the inclusion criteria. The analysis found that, media coverage for the risk of Ebola outbreak in Ghana reflected nine salient themes: concerns about the Ghana’s preparedness, support for Ghana’s preparation, public education on Ebola virus, assurances on Ghana’s readiness, suspected cases of Ebola, effects of Ebola, critique of Ebola risk handling, Misinformation and other.Conclusion Analysis of news media coverage for the threat of Ebola outbreak in Ghana revealed nine important themes. These themes, contributed to an understanding of the broad impact of the recent Ebola outbreak on various sectors of the population. Key words: media coverage, Ebola threat in Ghana, epidemic preparedness, West Africa Ebola outbreak
“Fake Vets” and Viral Lies: Personal Narrative in a Post-Truth Era
Authors: Willsey Kristiana 
Published: October 2018

Abstract“Stolen valor” confrontations calling out “fake vets” have generated a popular genre of viral video, a highly concentrated and visible expression of contemporary anxieties over the commodification of identity online. The boom in first-person stories, particularly traumatic ones, has oversaturated the attention economy of the internet, creating a market for fakes that real veterans can’t criticize without challenging the authenticity of their own stories.
El estilo decorativo en las primeras producciones cerámicas en el valle del río vinalopó (Alicante).
Authors: Martínez Amorós Silvia 
Published: October 2018

En el presente trabajo se aborda el estudio de seis vasos procedentes de yacimientos del valle del Vinalopó –Cueva Santa, Arenal de la Virgen, Ledua, La Alcudia y Cova de les Aranyes–, cronológicamente vinculados al Neolítico inicial. El estudio consiste en un análisis estilístico de los recipientes con el fin de definir su estilo decorativo. Se desarrolla también su comparación con las producciones cerámicas de las primeras comunidades neolíticas del valle del Serpis para así plantear la existencia o no de una barrera social entre estos dos espacios
In the present dissertation we study the Neolithic ceramic decorative style from the Vinalopó’s Valley and from the Early Neolithic chronology, based on a sample of six ceramic vases – from Cueva Santa, Arenal de la Virgen, Ledua, Alcudia and Cova de les Aranyes –. The study consists of a ceramic stylistic analysis which attempts to define their decorative style. It has also been compared with the ceramic productions of the first Neolithic communities of the Serpis valley in order to question the existence or absence of a social barrier between these two areas
Analyse comparée d’attributs de Dieu et des bouddhas
Authors: Hébert Louis 
Published: October 2018

Le bouddhisme est, avec le jaïnisme, la seule religion traditionnelle non théiste. Le bouddhisme considère que tous les êtres sensibles deviendront inévitablement un jour un bouddha à l’égal de tous les bouddhas passés, présents et futurs. Or un bouddha n’est pas (un) Dieu. Selon le bouddhisme, Dieu n’existe pas. Le bouddhisme, confronté depuis sa fondation jusqu’à aujourd’hui aux religions théistes majoritaires ou dominantes, a développé une posture et un argumentaire pour soutenir sa position. Nous n’irons pas dans cette direction.Après avoir situé sommairement les attitudes face à la spiritualité – croyance, incroyance (dont l’athéisme), acroyance (agnosticismes), non-croyance (indifférence, ignorance), etc. –, nous expliquerons le statut des dieux dans le bouddhisme. Ensuite, nous comparerons sommairement les principales caractéristiques des bouddhas avec les principales caractéristiques de Dieu dans le judéo-christianisme, en regard principalement de : l’omnipotence, l’omniscience, “l’omni-amour” (omnibienveillance).Nous croiserons en route d’importantes questions philosophiques – comme l’existence de l’indicible, la coexistence de la pensée duelle et de la pensée non duelle, l’infinité des caractéristiques d’un objet – et théologiques – comme la cohabitation de la transcendance « toute-amour » et de la souffrance immanente omniprésente des êtres. Nous ne pourrons évidemment pas répondre à ces questions, mais nous les poserons dans un cadre rigoureux, fourni par une sémiotique accessible, ce qui est déjà un pas vers les réponses.
Harlem, coeur mythique de l’Amérique noire, revisité dans Nègre de personne de Roland Brival
Authors: Scheel Charles W. 
Published: October 2018

Cette étude porte sur les rapports entre les promesses affichées par le paratexte du roman de Roland Brival, Nègre de personne (Gallimard, 2016), et son contenu. Le titre frappe par son caractère fièrement revendicateur. Quant à la quatrième de couverture, elle précise que le roman traite d’un voyage à New York accompli par Léon-Gontran Damas pour rencontrer les intellectuels noirs de la Harlem Renaissance. Ce « rendez-vous qu’il s’est lui-même fixé avec l’histoire » va l’obliger « à revoir ses propres convictions d’une manière radicale », tandis qu’« une jeune femme rebelle et passionnée » va entrer dans sa vie. L’« emballage » est donc assez racoleur, mais ce voyage est une invention de Brival, tout comme ce carnet intime dans lequel Damas s’adresse à Césaire et Senghor. Il leur confie surtout des aventures sexuelles torrides avec une artiste haïtienne, perspective qui va plutôt à l’encontre de récentes lectures queer de la poésie de Damas. Le roman de Brival soulève donc toutes sortes de questions concernant les qualités de son texte et l’intérêt d’une fiction prétendument autobiographique qui prend d’aussi grandes libertés avec l’histoire littéraire et inclut même des calques de poèmes de Damas au statut ambigu.
L’afropolitanisme au féminin : une déterritorialisation des lieux communs ?
Authors: Alix Florian 
Published: October 2018

L’afropolitanisme apparaît comme un contre-discours visant les représentations sociales et médiatiques des Africains. Il produit cependant une autre image qui peut à son tour relever du stéréotype. Les romans étudiés, Americanah de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Need New Names de NoViolet Bulawayo, Ghana Must Go de Taiye Selasi et Behold the Dreamers d’Imbolo Mbue, confèrent une nouvelle complexité à ces images. En effet, les romancières construisent leurs personnages non seulement comme des migrants, mais aussi en fonction de leur genre. À l’intersection de ces deux caractéristiques, ils doivent trouver leur place : l’espace devient un enjeu majeur des romans, complexifié par cette double détermination des personnages. Ainsi, loin de faire de la multiplicité des espaces traversés une somme d’expériences enrichissantes, ces écrivaines la présentent plutôt comme le résultat d’une incomplétude, d’un manque fondamental. La construction de la narration nourrit ainsi une réflexion sur le rapport de l’individu au groupe.
Le Méridional, un roman hanté par la génétique
Authors: Martin-Granel Nicolas 
Published: October 2018

S’il a souvent et longuement exprimé ses réflexions sur la genèse de son oeuvre, sur son travail d’écrivain, Henri Lopes a longtemps été réticent à livrer ses brouillons et avant-textes à la curiosité des chercheurs en génétique des textes. Il s’y est enfin résolu à l’occasion de la sortie d’Une enfant de Poto-Poto, le 12 décembre 2011, en mettant à la disposition de l’équipe « Manuscrits francophones » de l’ITEM tous les dossiers génétiques qu’il avait pu conserver et ensuite, la mise au net à peine remise à l’éditeur, celui du Méridional consistant en deux tapuscrits autographes, versions 1 et 2 corrigées de la main de l’auteur. Une première lecture de ce dossier, qui se concentre sur l’incipit et l’explicit considérés comme les lieux stratégiques de l’écriture, permet de confirmer la théorie de sa pratique : immuabilité de la première phrase, premier jet dactylographié directement à l’ordinateur, re-travail acharné lors des multiples campagnes de relectures et réécritures. Au vu de celles-ci, cependant, la critique génétique peut avancer l’hypothèse que la singularité de ce roman autofictionnel tient à ce que l’écrivain aurait intégré, voire embarqué, le questionnement génétique dans le cabinet intime de son « écriture métisse », que ce soit pour le prévenir ou en émousser la pointe indiscrète. Le ver génétique est dans le fruit.
MANAGEMENT OF DIABETIC FOOT ULCER: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Authors: Sulistyo Angger Anugerah Hadi 
Published: October 2018

This article explores the effective management of diabetic foot ulcer. A literature review was conducted by analyzing scholar papers including systematic review, clinical and a randomized control trial published between 2000 to 2016 in the English language. Data were searched through CINAHL, PubMed, Proquest and Google Scholar. The keywords used were diabetic foot ulcer or diabetic foot ulcers or diabetic foot or neuropathic foot ulcer combined with assessment and treatment. There were two kinds of assessment used in diabetic foot ulcer which are risk assessment and wound assessment. The treatments that frequently used in diabetic foot ulcer are systemic treatment and local treatment. This literature review can be used as a guideline and literature for further experimental studies. Keywords: diabetic foot ulcer, management of foot ulcer, assessment of foot ulcer, treatment of foot ulcer Abstrak Artikel ini dibuat dengan mencari sumber literatur dari manajemen luka kaki diabetes. Tujuan studi literatur ini adalah untuk mencari manajemen luka diabetes yang paling efektif. Studi literatur ini dibuat dengan melakukan analisis artikel-artikel ilmiah meliputi systematic review, clinical and a randomized control trial dalam bahasa inggris yang dipublikasikan pada tahun 2000 sampai 2016. Data didapatkan dengan mencari di beberapa database meliputi CINAHL, PubMed, Proquest and Google Scholar. Kata kunci pencarian data yaitu dengan menggunakan kata kunci diabetic foot ulcer or diabetic foot ulcers or diabetic foot or neuropathic foot ulcer combined with assessment and treatment. Pada studi literatur ini didapatkan 14 artikel yang sesuai dengan kriteria penelitian. Hasil pencarian artikel ditemukan 2 jenis pengkajian luka diabetes yaitu pengkajian resiko dan pengkajian luka diabetes. Sedangkan penanganan yang sering digunakan dalam luka diabetes adalah penanganan sistemik dan penaganan local. Studi literatur ini dapat dijadikan petunjuk dan tambahan referensi untuk penelitian experiment. Kata Kunci: luka kaki diabetes, manajemen luka kaki, pengkajian luka kaki, penanganan luka kaki
Computed tomography in the diagnosis and management of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome
Authors: Wehmann Thomas W. 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Popliteal artery entrapment by an anomalous band of the gastrocnemius muscle is an uncommon but apparently underdiagnosed syndrome. Historically, arteriography has been used to diagnose this condition, but the standard method may not demonstrate arterial deviation or differentiate entrapment from other conditions that affect the popliteal artery, such as cystic adventitial disease and thrombosed popliteal artery aneurysms. Computed tomography has become increasingly useful to vascular surgeons in elucidating arterial disorders of the popliteal fossa. This case demonstrates the usefulness of computed tomography evaluation in the diagnosis and management of popliteal artery entrapment.
Thumbs up: movements made by the thumb are smoother and larger than fingers in finger-thumb opposition tasks
Authors: Rachaveti Dhanush , Chakrabhavi Niranjan , Shankar Vaisakh , SKM Varadhan 
Published: October 2018

BackgroundIn humans, the thumb plays a crucial role in producing finger opposition movements. These movements form the basis of several activities of the hand. Hence these movements have been used to study phenomena like prehension, motor control, motor learning, etc. Although such tasks have been studied extensively, the relative contribution of the thumb vis-à-vis the fingers in finger opposition tasks is not well understood. In this study, we investigated the kinematics of thumb and fingers in a simple finger opposition task. Further, we quantified the relative contribution and the movement smoothness aspects and compared these between fingers and thumb.MethodsEight, young healthy participants (four males and four females) were asked to perform a full finger to thumb opposition movement, where they were required to reach for different phalanges of the fingers. Position (X, Y and Z) of individual segments of the four fingers and the thumb were measured with reference to the wrist by a 16-sensor kinematics measurement system. Displacements and velocities were computed. An index, displacement ratio, that quantifies the relative contribution of thumb and fingers was computed from displacement data. Velocity data was used to quantify the smoothness of movement of thumb and fingers.ResultsThe Displacement Ratio showed that contribution of the thumb is higher than contribution of any other target finger or target phalanges, except for the distal phalanx of the index and middle fingers. Smoothness of movement of the thumb was higher than all the finger phalanges in all cases.ConclusionWe conclude that in the task considered (thumb opposition movements to different targets within the hand & fingers), the thumb made a greater relative contribution in terms of displacement ratio and also produced smoother movements. However, smoothness of thumb did not vary depending on the target. This suggests that the traditional notion of the thumb being a special digit when compared to other fingers is true at least for the opposition movements considered in this study.
Deep learning-based classification with improved time resolution for physical activities of children
Authors: Jang Yongwon , Kim Seunghwan , Kim Kiseong , Lee Doheon 
Published: October 2018

Background
The proportion of overweight and obese people has increased tremendously in a short period, culminating in a worldwide trend of obesity that is reaching epidemic proportions. Overweight and obesity are serious issues, especially with regard to children. This is because obese children have twice the risk of becoming obese as adults, as compared to non-obese children. Nowadays, many methods for maintaining a caloric balance exist; however, these methods are not applicable to children. In this study, a new approach for helping children monitor their activities using a convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed, which is applicable for real-time scenarios requiring high accuracy.

Methods
A total of 136 participants (86 boys and 50 girls), aged between 8.5 years and 12.5 years (mean 10.5, standard deviation 1.1), took part in this study. The participants performed various movement while wearing custom-made three-axis accelerometer modules around their waists. The data acquired by the accelerometer module was preprocessed by dividing them into small sets (128 sample points for 2.8 s). Approximately 183,600 data samples were used by the developed CNN for learning to classify ten physical activities : slow walking, fast walking, slow running, fast running, walking up the stairs, walking down the stairs, jumping rope, standing up, sitting down, and remaining still.

Results
The developed CNN classified the ten activities with an overall accuracy of 81.2%. When similar activities were merged, leading to seven merged activities, the CNN classified activities with an overall accuracy of 91.1%. Activity merging also improved performance indicators, for the maximum case of 66.4% in recall, 48.5% in precision, and 57.4% in f1 score . The developed CNN classifier was compared to conventional machine learning algorithms such as the support vector machine, decision tree, and k-nearest neighbor algorithms, and the proposed CNN classifier performed the best: CNN (81.2%) > SVM (64.8%) > DT (63.9%) > kNN (55.4%) (for ten activities); CNN (91.1%) > SVM (74.4%) > DT (73.2%) > kNN (65.3%) (for the merged seven activities).

Discussion
The developed algorithm distinguished physical activities with improved time resolution using short-time acceleration signals from the physical activities performed by children. This study involved algorithm development, participant recruitment, IRB approval, custom-design of a data acquisition module, and data collection. The self-selected moving speeds for walking and running (slow and fast) and the structure of staircase degraded the performance of the algorithm. However, after similar activities were merged, the effects caused by the self-selection of speed were reduced. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performed better than conventional algorithms. Owing to its simplicity, the proposed algorithm could be applied to real-time applicaitons.
Conversion of Skeletal Society of Radiology annual meeting abstracts to publications in 2010–2015
Authors: Tritz Daniel , Bautista Leomar , Scott Jared , Vassar Matt 
Published: October 2018

Background
Material presented at conferences is meant to provide exposure to ongoing research that could affect medical decision making based on future outcomes. It is important then to evaluate the rates of publication from conference presentations as a measure of academic quality as such research has undergone peer review and journal acceptance. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the fate of abstracts presented at the Skeletal Society of Radiology Annual Meetings from 2010–2015.

Materials and Methods
Conference abstracts were searched using Google, Google Scholar, and PubMed (which includes Medline) to locate the corresponding published reports. The data recorded for published studies included date published online, in print, or both; the journal in which it was published; and the 5-year journal impact factor. When an abstract was not confirmed as published, authors were contacted by email to verify its publication status or, if not published, the reason for nonpublication.

Results
A total of 162 abstracts were published out of 320 presented (50.6%) at the SSR conferences from 2010 to 2015 with 59.9% (85/142) of publications occurring within two years of the conference date (not counting abstracts published prior to conference). Mean time to publication was 19 months and is calculated by excluding the 20 (12.3%) abstracts that were published prior to the conference date. The median time to publication is 13 months (25th–75th percentile: 6.25–21.75). The top two journals publishing research studies from this conference were Skeletal Radiology and The American Journal of Roentgenology. These journals accepted 72 of the 162 (44.4%) studies for publication. Of the 14 authors who responded with 17 reasons for not publishing, the most common reasons were lack of time (7–41.2%), results not important enough (4–23.5%), publication not an aim (3–17.6%), and lack of resources (3–17.6%).

Discussion
At least half of the abstracts presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Skeletal Radiology are accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The majority (59.9%) of these publications were achieved within two years of the conference presentation. The rate at which presentations are published and the journals that accept the abstracts can potentially be used to compare the importance and quality of information at conferences.
Single‐Shot Multi‐Level All‐Optical Magnetization Switching Mediated by Spin Transport
Authors: Iihama Satoshi , Xu Yong , Deb Marwan , Malinowski Grégory , Hehn Michel , Gorchon Jon , Fullerton Eric E. , Mangin Stéphane 
Published: October 2018

AbstractAll‐optical ultrafast magnetization switching in magnetic material thin film without the assistance of an applied external magnetic field is explored for future ultrafast and energy‐efficient magnetic storage and memories. It is shown that femtosecond (fs) light pulses induce magnetization reversal in a large variety of magnetic materials. However, so far, only GdFeCo‐based ferrimagnetic thin films exhibit magnetization switching via a single optical pulse. Here, the single‐pulse switching of Co/Pt multilayers within a magnetic spin‐valve structure ([Co/Pt]/Cu/GdFeCo) is demonstrated and four possible magnetic configurations of the spin valve can be accessed using a sequence of single fs light pulses. The experimental study reveals that the magnetization final state of the ferromagnetic [Co/Pt] layer is determined by spin‐polarized currents generated by the light pulse interactions with the GdFeCo layer. This work provides an approach to deterministically switch ferromagnetic layers and a pathway to engineering materials for opto‐magnetic multi‐bit recording.