bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Favorable and unfavorable health conditions within OECD countries: An exploratory study
Authors: Park Myung-Bae , Nam Eun Woo , Kim Chun-Bae , Lee Hae Jong , Lee Kwang-Soo , Koh Sang-Baek 
Published: February 2018

Objectives: This study compared the physical, mental, and social health levels among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Methods: We sampled from 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries and divided physical, mental, and social health into three domains based on World Health Organization health definitions. Results: A multivariate hierarchical cluster analysis was conducted to group countries that were similar in terms of health. Regarding physical health, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and ten more countries reported favorable health conditions. For mental health, Australia, Canada and eight more countries revealed favorable conditions. Finally, in terms of social health, Austria, Finland, Iceland, and seven more countries reported favorable conditions. Sweden and Switzerland reported the best health conditions aggregated across all three domains. Conversely, Estonia, Hungary, and Turkey reported comparatively poorer health across all three domains when compared with other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Conclusions: We suggested that mental health policy should be further strengthened in cases of Korea and Japan. In case of the Eastern Bloc countries, health policies should be established focusing on health equity for effective improvement of indicators.
Let the Pleasure Guide Your Resistance Training Intensity
Authors: ELSANGEDY HASSAN MOHAMED , MACHADO DANIEL GOMES DA SILVA , KRINSKI KLEVERTON , DUARTE DO NASCIMENTO PAULO HENRIQUE , DE AMORIM OLIVEIRA GLEDSON TAVARES , SANTOS TONY MEIRELES , HARGREAVES ELAINE A. , PARFITT GAYNOR 
Published: February 2018

ABSTRACT

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and reliability of the Feeling Scale (FS) to self-regulate resistance training (RT) intensity.

Methods
Sixteen sedentary men (39.7 ± 7.5 yr) performed 3 familiarization sessions, 2 one-repetition maximum (1RM) testing, and 16 RT sessions (four sessions for each FS descriptor; randomized). The FS descriptors were “very good” (FS + 5), “good” (FS + 3), “fairly good” (FS + 1), and “fairly bad” (FS − 1). Resistance exercises were leg press, chest press, knee extension, and seated biceps curl. Participants were instructed to select a load associated with the verbal/numerical descriptor of the FS to perform three sets of 10 repetitions.

Results
Participants lifted a significantly greater %1RM as the FS level decreased from FS + 5 to FS − 1 (P < 0.001). The mean %1RM values for the FS descriptors of +5, +3, +1, and −1, respectively, were as follows: leg press, 42.5% ± 9.5%, 58.2% ± 7.4%, 69.9% ± 7.0%, and 80.7% ± 5.4%; knee extensor, 37.4% ± 9.6%, 54.5% ± 9.3%, 65.3% ± 8.7%, and 78.2% ± 5.9%; chest press, 42.4% ± 11.3%, 54.9% ± 11.4%, 66.4% ± 12.6%, and 78.2% ± 13.5%; and biceps curl, 39.0% ± 8.1%, 54.0% ± 9.7%, 68.4% ± 5.9%, and 83.2% ± 3.0%. The interclass correlation coefficient over the four experimental sessions ranged from 0.73 to 0.99 for %1RM and from 0.77 to 0.99 for weight lifted, with a coefficient of variation of approximately 7%, 4%, 2%, and 2% for FS descriptors of +5, +3, +1, and −1, respectively.

Conclusion
This study is the first to demonstrate that the FS can be used to self-regulate exercise intensity in RT. The lower the FS descriptor, the higher the weight lifted. In addition, the load self-selected for each FS descriptor was reliable across the four sessions.
Exercise Improves Physical Activity and Comorbidities in Obese Adults with Asthma
Authors: FREITAS PATRÍCIA DUARTE , SILVA ALINE GRANDI , FERREIRA PALMIRA GABRIELE , DA SILVA ANALUCI , SALGE JOÃO MARCOS , CARVALHO-PINTO REGINA MARIA , CUKIER ALBERTO , BRITO CLAUDIA M. , MANCINI MARCIO C. , CARVALHO CELSO R. F. 
Published: February 2018

ABSTRACT

Introduction
Obese adults with asthma have an increased number of comorbidities and reduced daily life physical activity (DLPA), which may worsen asthma symptoms. Exercise is recommended to improve asthma outcomes; however, the benefits of exercise for psychosocial comorbidities and physical activity levels in obese adults with asthma have been poorly investigated.

Objective
This study aimed to assess the effects of exercise on DLPA, asthma symptoms, and psychosocial comorbidities in obese adults with asthma.

Methods
Fifty-five grade II obese adults with asthma were randomly assigned to either a weight loss program + exercise program (WL + E group, n = 28) or a weight loss program + sham (WL + S group, n = 27). The WL + E group incorporated aerobic and resistance muscle training into the weight loss program (nutrition and psychological therapies), whereas the WL + S group performed breathing and stretching exercises. DLPA, asthma symptoms, sleep quality, and anxiety and depression symptoms were quantified before and after treatment.

Results
After 3 months, the WL + E group presented a significant increase in daily step counts (3068 ± 2325 vs 729 ± 1118 steps per day) and the number of asthma symptom–free days (14.5 ± 9.6 vs 8.6 ± 11.4 d·month−1) compared with the WL + S group. The proportion of participants with improvements in depression symptoms (76.4% vs 16.6%) and a lower risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea (56.5% vs 16.3%) was greater in the WL + E group than that in the WL + S group (P < 0.05). Significant improvements in sleep efficiency (6.6% ± 5.1% vs 1.3% ± 4.7%) and latency (−3.7 ± 5.9 vs 0.2 ± 5.6 min) were also observed in the WL + E group.

Conclusions
Our results strongly suggest that exercise training plus a weight loss program improves DLPA, sleep efficiency, and depression and asthma symptoms in obese adults with asthma.
Comparing photon and proton-based hypofractioned SBRT for prostate cancer accounting for robustness and realistic treatment deliverability
Authors: Goddard Lee C , Brodin N Patrik , Bodner William R , Garg Madhur K , Tomé Wolfgang A 
Published: February 2018

Objective:
To investigate whether photon or proton-based stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT is the preferred modality for high dose hypofractionation prostate cancer treatment. Achievable dose distributions were compared when uncertainties in target positioning and range uncertainties were appropriately accounted for.

Methods:
10 patients with prostate cancer previously treated at our institution (Montefiore Medical Center) with photon SBRT using volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) were identified. MRI images fused to the treatment planning CT allowed for accurate target and organ at risk (OAR) delineation. The clinical target volume was defined as the prostate gland plus the proximal seminal vesicles. Critical OARs include the bladder wall, bowel, femoral heads, neurovascular bundle, penile bulb, rectal wall, urethra and urogenital diaphragm. Photon plan robustness was evaluated by simulating 2 mm isotropic setup variations. Comparative proton SBRT plans employing intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) were generated using robust optimization. Plan robustness was evaluated by simulating 2 mm setup variations and 3% or 1% Hounsfield unit (HU) calibration uncertainties.

Results:
Comparable maximum OAR doses are achievable between photon and proton SBRT, however, robust optimization results in higher maximum doses for proton SBRT. Rectal maximum doses are significantly higher for Robust proton SBRT with 1% HU uncertainty compared to photon SBRT (p = 0.03), whereas maximum doses were comparable for bladder wall (p = 0.43), urethra (p = 0.82) and urogenital diaphragm (p = 0.50). Mean doses to bladder and rectal wall are lower for proton SBRT, but higher for neurovascular bundle, urethra and urogenital diaphragm due to increased lateral scatter. Similar target conformality is achieved, albeit with slightly larger treated volume ratios for proton SBRT, &gt;1.4 compared to 1.2 for photon SBRT.

Conclusion:
Similar treatment plans can be generated with IMPT compared to VMAT in terms of target coverage, target conformality, and OAR sparing when range and HU uncertainties are neglected. However, when accounting for these uncertainties during robust optimization, VMAT outperforms IMPT in terms of achievable target conformity and OAR sparing.

Advances in knowledge:
Comparison between achievable dose distributions using modern, robust optimization of IMPT for high dose per fraction SBRT regimens for the prostate has not been previously investigated.
Human dragons playing in cyberspace
Authors: Sier André 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
DRACO.WOLFANDDOTCOM.INFO is an interactive proto-videogame installation that immerses users, personified as abstract dragons in a cathartic, stochastic, full-body immersive videogame experience, in cyberspace. The work attempts to playfully shift user consciousness towards non-human embodiment, by real-time 3D meshing the data from the human body into a mirrored abstract, ill-defined dragonic 3D shape. It gifts humans with special virtual powers, such as flying and cusping fireballs, as they fight for their progression in the game-space and facing annihilation, through invisible, interactional camera-based technologies which will be exposed in this paper. Inside the piece’s virtual world, users play as endangered dragons in the XXIst century populated by companies, websites and humanoids eager to stop the mythological beasts. The dragons progress in the game-space by inflicting damage upon the city’s landscape. The stochastic game-space ascends in difficulty as the levels progress, slowly changing the joystick’s response into faster speeds and generating larger city-scapes, inducing the game’s ultimate goal of a cathartic ilinxian state of disruption and otherness in human perception.
‘Sustainable’ reframed: How China’s cities and companies are moving from data to decisions, from trees to forests and from pixels to platforms, and how they can play with technologists and data artists
Authors: Fonda-Bonardi Allegra G. 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
Reframing reveals possibilities. This article highlights how conceptual shifts regarding ‘sustainability’ occurring inside China’s municipalities and major corporations are opening the way for new collaborations with technology companies and technology artists. These shifts – from predetermined accounting to systems thinking – reveal new opportunities to intervene in the biophysical and economic challenges facing China today. In companies, this shift implies placing financially relevant environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors at the core of business strategy. In municipalities, this shift necessitates designing and implementing systems that track ecosystem services rather than simply stocks of natural resources and recognizing interdependencies between these services and economic development. This article suggests that this sustainability reframing can draw heavily on systems thinking from environmental science, technology companies’ drive to develop products that meet these emerging demands, corporations’ need to compete in an uncertain developing market and the reframing skills of artists, particularly digital artists. This article concludes with opportunities for digital artists to intervene and collaborate with sustainability practitioners to open new directions for cities and companies in China.
Techno-spiritual horizons: Compassionate networked art forms and noetic fields of cyborg body and consciousness
Authors: Moore Lila 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
The article proposes that the modern notion of the spiritual in art, which was theorized at the beginning of the twentieth century, although remains pivotal to the discourse of art and the spiritual, has radically shifted as a result of changing attitudes to the body–mind relations instigated by popular trends of contemporary spiritualities. This cultural tendency is demonstrated by the analysis of the networked art form of Moon Ribas, e.g., dance with earthquakes. Ribas performs a cyborg body and consciousness that, as contended, could be holistically enhanced and develop a unique compassionate awareness. In addition, I reflect on two examples from my performative practice of Networked Rites that interplay with speculative metaphors, spiritual and shamanic techniques, networked aesthetic forms and technologies. The first invokes communitas as a collective, non-local, networked noetic field. The second utilizes a decision-making app as a mediating device between the body and mind for the making of a prototype cyborg noetic field instilled with auspicious resonance. The article mainly implies that spiritual art continues to evolve through technoetic aesthetics fusing emerging technologies, science and shamanic, spiritual insight. Current trends may develop into benevolent and experiential applications based on the interrelations of human and cyborg body and consciousness.
Race as Aesthetic: The Politics of Vision, Visibility, and Visuality in Vogue Italia’s “A Black Issue”
Authors: Thompson Summers Brandi 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
This essay highlights the construction of black bodies as valuable in the fashion system as a mark of difference and evidence of diversity. Here, I also render the high fashion industry as a site of conflicting elements concerning the deployment and meaning of the black female body. To do so, I use a combined analysis of activism in the fashion industry, which calls for the representation of black models through the visible inclusion of more black bodies on the runway and in magazines, and a textual/image analysis of the July 2008 issue of Vogue Italia, “A Black Issue.” I argue that representations of the black models in the Vogue Italia Black Issue present the “glamorous” black model’s body as unthreatening, alluring, and integrated into dominant discourses of feminine attractiveness. I draw from the presentation of images in the high fashion industry to highlight instances when blackness is asked to prove a post-race and post-racist reality. In an industry in which models are celebrated for being “blank palettes” for designers and fashion editors to mold into a stunning work of art, I ask, what might black do here? Through the aesthetic transformation of race, the neoliberal dimension of race is being played out in the name of art and taste, making race visible even as it elides racism and locating (racial) difference under the rubric of cultural diversity. Therefore, the presentation of black bodies becomes less about their blackness, and more about their ability to sell a marketable black aesthetic.
Black Girls Queer (Re)Dress: Fashion as Literacy Performance in Pariah
Authors: Pritchard Eric Darnell 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
As the many works on the vast scholarly landscape of fashion studies has shown, we underestimate the significance of fashion and style as a tool at our peril. Fashion has much to tell us in an analysis of and intervention into systems of power and domination historically, sociologically, economically, and rhetorically. Merging this claim with another, that the sociopolitical stakes of fashion deepen within a Black queer context, this article employs literacy theory, fashion theory, Black feminism, and Black queer theory to examine how the adornment performances of Alike Freeman, a Black queer girl who is the main character of director Dee Rees’s Pariah, disrupts rigid representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Such interventions, I argue, show how fashion functions as a literacy performance toward the pursuit of protection and desire. Through analysis of these literacy performances I demonstrate that the intersections of literacy and Black queer identity in the film require an understanding of literacies that are inclusive of, but not exclusive to, writing, reading, and traditional forms of literacy. Through dress, and in some instances undress, Alike refashions representations of Black girlhood and racialized masculinities that have held discursive prominence. Alike’s use of dress is situated on a genealogy of Black girls’ literacies actualized for self-definition, self-affirmation, self-love, and other pursuits and expressions of freedom.
Evaluation of Anatolian Alevi people living in Istanbul with “Purnell' Cultural Competence Model”<p>İstanbul’da yaşayan Anadolu Alevilerinin Purnell’in Kültürel Yeterlilik Modeli ile değerlendirilmesi
Authors: Çınar Fadime , Eti Aslan Fatma 
Published: February 2018

The purpose of this study is to evaluate Anatolian Alevi People Living In Istanbul With Cultural “Purnell' Cultural Competence Model”. Sample of this qualitative conducted study includes total 30 Alevi people aging between 19 and 56, registered at Ümraniye Ihlamurkuyu djemevi. Snowball sampling method was used to select sample. The research data were collected in the form of a semi-structured interview form, written recordings and voice recordings, which included the topics included in Purnell's cultural competence model to assess cultural features.Focus group interviews were conducted between January and March 2017. Data were collected by using voice and written records. Collected data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis and semiotics methods. It is reported that early marriage, marriage with relatives and early pregnancy are common, and alcohol and smoking are rare in Alevi population. In addition, it was also reported that there are some negative perceiving such as double standard in society, low health service opportunity, and religious discrimination. Results found in the research showed that there are not significant differences between Anatolian Alevi and Turkish population on social demographic and social structures. In order to decrease this perceiving, more social and cultural combining programs may be conducted.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetBu araştırmanın amacı, İstanbul’da Yaşayan Anadolu Alevilerinin Purnell’in Kültürel Yeterlilik Modeline bağlı olarak değerlendirmektir. Niteliksel türde desenlenen araştırmanın evrenini, Ümraniye Ihlamurkuyu cem evine kayıtlı olan Türk kökenli 19-56 yaş arası toplam 30 alevi oluşturdu. Örneklem seçiminde kartopu örnekleme yöntemi kullanıldı. Araştırma verileri, kültürel özellikleri değerlendirmek için Purnell’in kültürel yeterlilik modelinde yer alan temaları içeren yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ile yazılı kayıt ve ses kaydı şeklinde toplandı. Odak grup görüşmeleri Ocak-Mart 2017 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirildi. Elde edilen veriler betimsel analiz ve gösterge bilimsel analiz yöntemleri ile değerlendirildi. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre Alevilerde erken yaşta evlilik, akraba evliliği ve erken gebe kalmanın yaygın olduğu, alkol ve sigara kullanımının az olduğu ifade edildi. Araştırmada elde edilen bulgular, Türk Alevilerinin aslında sosyo demografik ve sosyal yapılarının Türk toplumunun genel yapısından farklı olmadığını, temelde inanç farklılığı üzerinden, Türk toplumunda var olan olumsuzlukların buna yorulduğu görüldü. Bu algının azaltılması için, daha fazla sosyal ve kültürel kaynaşma programlarına yer verilebilir.
Internet addiction among vocational students in Çanakkale; Example of Biga Vocational School<p>Çanakkale’de meslek yüksekokulu öğrencileri arasında internet bağımlılığı; Biga Meslek Yüksekokulu örneği
Authors: Dinç Ayten , Aşkın Ayşin 
Published: February 2018

Internet addiction is an important problem especially for the younger generation in today's technology. This study is to investigate internet addiction among vocational students in Çanakkale. Without using the sample selection, 266 students, who were at school at the time of the study and agreed to participate in the study, were included in the study. The data were collected by using the Form of Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Internet Addiction Test. 68.8% of the students connected to the internet via their mobile phones. 69.6% of them use the internet every day. They connected to the internet for averagely 8.2±7.2 hours. 54.5% of the students were normal internet users, 42.1% were risky internet users and 3.4% were internet addicted.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.Özetİnternet bağımlılığı, günümüz teknolojisinde özellikle genç nesil için önemli bir sorundur. Bu araştırmada Çanakkale'de bir meslek yüksekokulu öğrencilerinin internet bağımlılığı durumu incelenmiştir. Örneklem seçimine gidilmeden, araştırmaya katılmayı kabul eden 266 öğrenci çalışma kapsamına alınmıştır. Araştırma verilerinin toplanmasında sosyo-demografik özellikler formu ve internet bağımlılık ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Öğrencilerin %68,8’i internete cep telefonlarından bağlanmaktadırlar. Öğrencilerin %69,6'sının interneti her gün kullandığı görülmektedir. Günde ortalama 8,2±7,2 saat internet kullanmaktadırlar. Öğrencilerin %54,5'inin normal internet kullanıcısı, %42.1'inin riskli internet kullanıcısı, %3.4 ünün ise bağımlı internet kullanıcısı olduğu saptanmıştır.
Review of Environmental Aspects and Community Behavior in the Determination of Filariasis Risk Vulnerability Zone
Authors: Khikmah Nurul , Pawenang Eram Tunggul 
Published: February 2018

ABSTRACT
Pekalongan City is a filariasis endemic area with the highest number of filariasis cases in Central Java. One of the factors influencing the risk of transmission of filariasis is environmental factors and community behavior. The purpose of this research was to know the potential areas of filariasis transmission risk in terms of environmental condition and behavior of society. This research was conducted on 6 urban villages in Pekalongan City on May-June 2017.
It was quantitative descriptive research based on Geographic Information System (GIS) with the object of research in the form of environmental factors and community behavior in the mapping unit. The sample technique used proportional random sampling with 387 respondents in a sample area. Data analysis used univariat and spatial analysis with buffer, overlapping and overlay techniques.
The result of this study were still there region that categorized very vulnerable to transmission of filariasis with amount each variable as many as 55.3% (21 RWs) based on sewerage condition, 57.8% (22 RWs) based on the presence of stagnant water, 23.7% (9 RWs) based on the night outdoor habit, 86.9% (33 RWs) based on the habit of using mosquito nets, and 39.5% (15 RWs) based on the overlay of vulnerability to environmental conditions and community behavior.

ABSTRAK
Kota Pekalongan merupakan daerah endemik filariasis dengan jumlah kejadian filariasis tertinggi di Jawa Tengah. Salah satu faktor yang mempengaruhi tingkat risiko penularan filariasis di Kota Pekalongan adalah faktor lingkungan dan perilaku masyarakat. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui daerah potensial penularan filariasis ditinjau dari kondisi lingkungan dan perilaku masyarakat. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada 6 kelurahan di Kota Pekalongan pada bulan Mei-Juni 2017.
Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif berbasis Sistem Informasi Geografis (SIG) dengan objek penelitian berupa faktor lingkungan dan perilaku masyarakat dalam unit pemetaan. Pengambilan sampel perilaku dilakukan dengan teknik proporsional random sampling menggunakan sampel wilayah terdahap 387 responden. Analisis data menggunakan analisis univariat dan analisis spasial dengan teknik buffer, pengharkatan dan overlay.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa masih terdapat wilayah yang masuk kategori sangat rentan penularan filariasis proporsi sebanyak 55,3% (21 RW) berdasarkan kondisi SPAL, 57,8% (22 RW) berdasarkan keberadaan genangan air, 23,7% (9 RW) berdasarkan kebiasaan keluar rumah pada malam hari, 86,9% (33 RW) berdasarkan kebiasaan memakai kelambu, dan 39,5% (15 RW) berdasarkan overlay kerentanan kondisi lingkungan dan perilaku masyarakat.