bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Investigation of Blocking Performance in GMPLS Networks
Authors: Goel Sandeep , Kaur Ranjit , Wason Amit 
Published: May 2018

AbstractThe call blocking is the most vital factor in generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) Networks. Call blocking depends upon many factors such as traffic intensity, number of servers and number of links. Call blocking performance for GMPLS networks has been calculated in this paper by using a proposed mathematical model. The proposed model investigates the dependency of probability of call blocking upon the number of wavelengths and number of links. In the suggested model, the blocking performance of GMPLS network is improved.
CHALLENGES FOR THE UN AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS: THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION
Authors: Goga Harilla , Qirici Stefan 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
The article aims to put on the table the ongoing works of the United Nations Organization (its economic dimension) and others like World Trade Organization (WTO) being focused in their current and future challenges to build an effective and useful Multilateral Trading System (MTS). Apart from achievements and reforms undertaken, further ones - based on another approach: considering the diversity principle - are proposed in order to reach equitable and fair trading negotiations outcomes in benefits of all members.
Fracture Appearance of Steels in Transition: Experimental Observations and Measurements
Authors: McCowan C. N. , Lucon E. , Santoyo R. L. 
Published: May 2018

AbstractMeasuring the shear fracture appearance (SFA) of steel in the ductile-to-brittle transition region is challenging, largely because many modern steels have complicated mixtures of brittle and ductile fracture features that the carbon steels used to develop SFA measurements did not possess. Features of Charpy impact specimen fracture surfaces for nine different steels are reported here. The mixtures of ductile and brittle fracture surface features observed in the transition regions of these steels are presented in context with their instrumented impact data and fractographs illustrating the SFA measurements. The study then discusses the accuracy of the SFA measurements and suggests ways to improve them. These data can be used for future work focused on improving SFA measurements and will be of use to engineers interested in the ductile-to-brittle transition in steel and the fracture surface features related to it.
Avaliação em Saúde nos serviços de Atenção Primária no Brasil: uma revisão integrativa da literatura
Authors: Nicola Tainá , Weis Pelegrini Alisia Helena 
Published: May 2018

Objetivo: conhecer e sintetizar a produção científica sobre avaliação em saúde nos serviços de Atenção Primária à Saúde no Brasil. Métodos: trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura realizada por meio de buscas nas bases de dados Scielo, Lilacs e Medline, em abril de 2017, utilizando como descritores: Avaliação em Saúde e Atenção Primária à Saúde. Resultados: fizeram parte da pesquisa 13 estudos realizados no Brasil. Foram elaboradas as categorias temáticas: Uso de instrumentos para Avaliação em Saúde e Avaliação do desempenho da Atenção Primária à Saúde. Considerações Finais: a avaliação em saúde é essencial para mensurar o desempenho do sistema de saúde, sendo uma ferramenta condutora de mudanças nos processos de atenção à saúde. O instrumento mais utilizado para avaliar é o PCATool. Destaca-se a Estratégia Saúde da Família como o modelo que apresenta melhores resultados quanto os atributos da APS e o desempenho geral da qualidade da atenção.
A CONSTITUIÇÃO DA PESQUISA EM POÉTICAS VISUAIS A PARTIR DE UMA EXPERIÊNCIA PESSOAL DE ATELIÊ
Authors: Perufo Mello Ricardo 
Published: May 2018

Este artigo propõe-se como uma reflexão a partir das investigações que foram empreendidas durante Estágio Pós-Doutoral, em meio ao processo pictórico que elaborei enquanto artista/pesquisador na linha de Poéticas Visuais. A premissa foi a de que a pesquisa nesta linha deve contemplar os meandros de sua própria construção. Ou seja, estudos e análises são guiados pelos desdobramentos do trabalho de ateliê e, simultaneamente, fornecem os parâmetros para a continuidade desse próprio processo.THE CONSTITUTION OF RESEARCH IN VISUAL POETICS THROUGH PERSONAL STUDIO EXPERIENCE Abstract: This article proposes critical reflection about the investigations that were carried out during my postdoctoral research course [internship], in which I developed my pictorial process as an artist/researcher in the line of research visual poetics. This line is based on the premise that such research considers the intricacies involved in its own construction. That is, the analyses and studies are guided by the unfolding of the studio work which, simultaneously, supplies the parameters for the continuation of the process itself.
O ESPAÇO TRANSFRONTEIRIÇO E TRANSIDENTITÁRIO NA OBRA DE GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA
Authors: Selistre Jacks Ricardo , Blanca Rosa Maria 
Published: May 2018

O presente estudo busca através da obra do artista mexicano/chicano Guillermo Gómez-Peña, discutir as ideias acerca dos deslocamentos identitários e fronteiriços, de modo a compreendê-los e questioná-los como construções sociais, assim analisando de que maneira o artista em suas obras solapa as concepções hegemônicas do meio artístico, social e fronteiriço a fim de compreender como o sistema identitário e fronteiriço se constitui na contemporaneidade. TRANSBORDER AND TRANSIDENTITY SPACE IN THE WORK OF GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA Abstract: This paper seeks to discuss, in the artwork by Mexican/Chicano artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, ideas concerning identity and border displacements, in order to understand and question them as social constructions, thus analysing in which way his work undermines hegemonic conceptions of art, social and border milieus, and to understand how border and identity systems are being constituted at this time.
JAZIDA: ENTRE LIVROS, COLEÇÕES, CONSTELAÇÕES E DESCOBERTAS
Authors: Gomes Sacco Helene 
Published: May 2018

O texto apresenta e busca refletir sobre a proposição JAZIDA, desenvolvida pelo grupo de pesquisadores do projeto Lugares-Livro: dimensões poéticas e materiais (CNPq/UFPEL). Tal proposição iniciou como estratégia de autodescoberta por via de um pequeno levantamento pessoal de bibliografia e seguiu com a criação de diálogos entre os participantes e da formação de constelações de referências, como um desenho invisível de conexão entre os membros do grupo. Ao analisar os resultados procura pensar no porquê escrever um livro, e no valor dado à leitura e escrita. Destaca a importância da formação de acervos de livros ao apresentar a experiência artística de colagem coletiva nos tapumes da obra de construção da Biblioteca de Ciências Humanas da UFPEL em 22 abril de 2015, véspera do dia Mundial do Livro. MINE: BETWEEN BOOKS, COLLECTIONS, CONSTELLATIONS AND DISCOVERIESAbstract: This papel presents and reflects on the proposition JAZIDA (MINE), developed by the group of researchers on the project Book-Places: poetic dimensions and materials (CNPq/UFPEL). The proposition began as a strategy for self-discovery by means of a small personal survey of bibliographies, followed by the creation of dialogues between participants and the forming of constellations of references, a kind of invisible drawing of the connections between members of the group. In analyzing the results, I consider reasons why I am writing a book, and the value given to reading and writing. I highlight the importance of book collections as I present the artistic experiences involving group collages that were made on the boards isolating and surrounding the construction site of the Library of Human Sciences of UFPEL, on April 22, 2015, on the eve of World Book Day.
Genome-Wide Search for Quantitative Trait Loci Controlling Important Plant and Flower Traits in Petunia Using an Interspecific Recombinant Inbred Population ofPetunia axillarisandPetunia exserta
Authors: Cao Zhe , Guo Yufang , Yang Qian , He Yanhong , Fetouh Mohammed I , Warner Ryan M , Deng Zhanao 
Published: May 2018

AbstractA major bottleneck in plant breeding has been the much limited genetic base and much reduced genetic diversity in domesticated, cultivated germplasm. Identification and utilization of favorable gene loci or alleles from wild or progenitor species can serve as an effective approach to increasing genetic diversity and breaking this bottleneck in plant breeding. This study was conducted to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) in wild or progenitor petunia species that can be used to improve important horticultural traits in garden petunia. An F7 recombinant inbred population derived between Petunia axillaris and P. exserta was phenotyped for plant height, plant spread, plant size, flower counts, flower diameter, flower length, and days to anthesis in Florida in two consecutive years. Transgressive segregation was observed for all seven traits in both years. The broad-sense heritability estimates for the traits ranged from 0.20 (days to anthesis) to 0.62 (flower length). A genome-wide genetic linkage map consisting of 368 single nucleotide polymorphism bins and extending over 277 cM was searched to identify QTL for these traits. Nineteen QTL were identified and localized to five linkage groups. Eleven of the loci were identified consistently in both years; several loci explained up to 34.0% and 24.1% of the phenotypic variance for flower length and flower diameter, respectively. Multiple loci controlling different traits are co-localized in four intervals in four linkage groups. These intervals contain desirable alleles that can be introgressed into commercial petunia germplasm to expand the genetic base and improve plant performance and flower characteristics in petunia.
Concise review: Herbal remedies and herbal plants for constipation in children
Authors: Vakili Marjan , Ahmadipour Shokoufeh , Rahmani Parisa 
Published: May 2018

Background: Constipation refers to difficult or delayed bowel emptying lasting 2 weeks or more and causing anxiety and distress in patients, and it is one of the most common problems in children. To treat constipation, therapeutic measures such as nutritional methods, feedback training, osmotic laxatives and stimulants, as well as stool volume enhancers, are used; however, each has its own problems and side effects. Medicinal plants have been shown to be effective in the treatment of many diseases, including constipation. Therefore, this review was conducted to report the medicinal plants effective for constipation.
Methods: In the current review, eligible articles indexed from databases such as ISI (Web of Science), PubMed, Scopus, Islamic World Science Citation Center, Scientific Information Database, and Magiran were retrieved using the keywords ‘constipation’, ‘children constipation’, ‘baby’s and newborn constipation’, ‘medicinal plants’, and ‘traditional medicine’.
Results: Available evidence showed that the medicinal plants Olea europaea, Phaseolus vulgaris, Prunus armeniaca, Brassica oleracea var. italica, Malus domestica, Linum usitatissimum, Aloe vera, Vitis vinifera, Foeniculum vulgare, Ficus carica, Ricinus communis, Sesamum indicum, and Descurainia sophia are some of the most important medicinal plants for the treatment of constipation in traditional medicine.
Conclusion: Herbal plants are important for isolation/ preparation of new drugs in the treatment of constipation in children. In future studies, it may be beneficial to further understand and classify herbal plants/remedies, based on their mechanisms, as laxatives in the treatment of constipation.
Housing Assistance and Child Health: A Systematic Review
Authors: Slopen Natalie , Fenelon Andrew , Newman Sandra , Boudreaux Michel 
Published: May 2018

CONTEXT:
Given a large and consistent literature revealing a link between housing and health, publicly supported housing assistance programs might play an important role in promoting the health of disadvantaged children.

OBJECTIVE:
To summarize and evaluate research in which authors examine housing assistance and child health.

DATA SOURCES:
PubMed, Web of Science, PsycInfo, and PAIS (1990–2017).

STUDY SELECTION:
Eligible studies were required to contain assessments of public housing, multifamily housing, or vouchers in relation to a health outcome in children (ages 0–21); we excluded neighborhood mobility interventions.

DATA EXTRACTION:
Study design, sample size, age, location, health outcomes, measurement, program comparisons, analytic approach, covariates, and results.

RESULTS:
We identified 14 studies, including 4 quasi-experimental studies, in which authors examined a range of health outcomes. Across studies, the relationship between housing assistance and child health remains unclear, with ∼40% of examined outcomes revealing no association between housing assistance and health. A sizable proportion of observed relationships within the quasi-experimental and association studies were in favor of housing assistance (50.0% and 37.5%, respectively), and negative outcomes were less common and only present among association studies.

LIMITATIONS:
Potential publication bias, majority of studies were cross-sectional, and substantial variation in outcomes, measurement quality, and methods to address confounding.

CONCLUSIONS:
The results underscore a need for rigorous studies in which authors evaluate specific housing assistance programs in relation to child outcomes to establish what types of housing assistance, if any, serve as an effective strategy to reduce disparities and advance equity across the lifespan.
Leaving school and its outcomes on adolescents’ behavioral goals and change cognitions to times physically and socially inactive
Authors: Zerf Mohammed 
Published: May 2018

Purpose: Most important studies of PA and health have showed that Schools are an ideal venue for the implementation of healthy behaviors allied to levels of physical activities and physical mental health correlate to psychosocial well-being of scholars. Whereas this advantage is not consistent with excluded students. Support by psychological studies via self-efficacy relative to physical activity motivation especially with the economic crisis as challenges imposed for Algerian society, regarding the high unemployment rates in line to high school dropouts. Confirmed in similar as serious consequences influencing people's behaviors, lifestyle, interactions with family and friends, mental health and life satisfaction more likely to be involved in antisocial behavior and life conduct disorders. Method: For purpose, this controlled study tested 62 adolescents aged about 18, male. Before and one year after leaving school, for the academic years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017, built on their daily motivation lives accompanying with the ALPHA-Fitness test battery as valid tool to esteem the health related to fitness. Results: Based on the design, tests practiced and statistical processes applied within search limitation. Our results support the influence of leaving as a negative time trends via dropouts-students, poorly correlate with body image disorders and disturbances concomitant to energy-expending relative to missing time recreational and sporting endeavor. Conclusions: Leaving school in the Algerian communities is stress-related biological pathway that links physical disorders and depression virtual to social time structure proceeded to managing the relevant tasks, goals, and objectives. Indicated in similar as best when individuals are clear about what it is they are expected to achieve.
THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY IN GAMIFICATION AND GAME BASED LEARNING FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE IN THAILAND
Authors: Inchamnan Wilawan 
Published: May 2018

Purpose: This study aims to review the literature of the therapeutic strategies in gamification and a game-based learning for elderly people. During the increasing of the aging city in Thailand, how to prepare and how to live up the society are challenged. Gamification as a Game-based learning is a key issue in terms of conception. The conception of the game focuses on establishing trust with players and finding the right way to motivate the players to care for their health and to encourage the players to set goals.
Methodology:A survey of healthcare for aging people was conducted in regard to technology-driven gamification.Gamified training appears to be highly engaging and does boost participant motivation.The survey attempts to examine Thai culture in terms of game technology and family networks and supports the influence the health-promoting behaviors among older persons.
Main Findings:The reviews illustrate the role of game-based learning in therapeutic strategies. In accordance with the Gamification Concept, the concepts of games are broad in scope,encompassing various contexts, such as training. The results of this findings may influence Thai elderly to care their healthy by using gamification. The game design shows the Health Care Training Game and Gamification prototype.
Implications:Gamification strategies may contribute to sustainable healthcare in Thailand.The designing game examines the therapeutic strategy game by establishing a technology-driven trust relationship with players, and then determining the best way to motivate the players to care for their health.
Originality:Knowledge and skills can be improved by using game-based learning. A learning game is a self-contained unit with start, game play and ending activities. The games are based on a combination of well-known game-design principles and principles of task-oriented training and involve the manipulation of everyday physical objects.
ISLAM SEBAGAI IDEOLOGI ALTERNATIF DI ABAD KE DUA PULUH SATU
Authors: Dja'far Muhammadiyah 
Published: May 2018

<p>Islam is the only divine religion that is passed down to all humanity, regardless of nationality, color, language, origin, and age. Islam is a message that contains the meaning of natural mission. Nature is a sentence that has a deep, beautiful, and great meaning. The existence of a natural Islam, showing without doubt to the universality of this treatise, and its flexibility, and its absolute ability to understand all the changing times, and the development of life, as well as the human view of itself in this life in all circumstances and conditions. The mission of Islam is capable of making breakthroughs and spreads in every time and place, for he is the only religion that carries the seeds of the ultimate and noble life for mankind. Indeed Islam is the religion of human nature and in fact faith is the milestone of Islamic life. It is therefore impossible to erect the palace of true Islamic life unless it is sustained above the milestone of acknowledgment of monotheism, for it is the essential acknowledgment for man to color his life, in accordance with God's will for him.</p><p> </p><p>Islam adalah satu-satunya agama samawi yang diturunkan ke segenap umat manusia, tanpa memandang jenis kebangsaan, warna kulit, bahasa, asal-usul, dan zamannya. Islam adalah risalah yang bermuatan makna misi alamiah. Alamiah adalah suatu kalimat yang mempunyai arti yang dalam, indah, dan agung. Adanya Islam yang alamiah, menunjukkan tanpa keraguan kepada kesemestaan risalah ini, dan fleksibilitasnya, serta kemampuannya yang mutlak memahami segala perubahan zaman, dan perkembangan kehidupan, maupun pandangan manusia itu sendiri terhadap kehidupan ini dalam segala situasi dan kondisinya. Misi Islam mampu melakukan terobosan dan tersebar dalam setiap waktu dan tempat, karena dia adalah satu-satunya agama yang membawa benih-benih kehidupan hakiki dan mulia bagi umat manusia. Sesungguhnya Islam adalah agama fitrah kemanusiaan dan sesungguhnya iman adalah tonggak kehidupan Islam. Karena itulah tidak mungkin akan tegak istana kehidupan Islam yang benar kecuali jika ditopang di atas tonggak pengakuan tauhid, karena ia adalah pengakuan yang sangat esensial bagi manusia untuk mewarnai kehidupannya, sesuai dengan kehendak Tuhan baginya.</p>
AL-QUR’AN SEBAGAI SUMBER PENGETAHUAN
Authors: Kusrini Siti 
Published: May 2018

<p class="Bodytext20">By studying the history of Prophet Muhammad SAW then it can be understood that he was a leading man in that time because it has implemented a moral revolution so as to lift the human level from the valley of moral damage to the highest level of morality. This historical approach can be gained by understanding that the Qur'an contains the most powerful force in helping human beings reach the spiritual, moral, social and intellectual heights that are central to the manifestation of the welfare of mankind and the whole of nature. To achieve the level of human morality in realizing the welfare of life is not enough just to read, interpret, and praise the Koran. More than that, the next important thing is we must observe, research, search, and explore the most powerful values in the Qur'an. The Qur'an as a source of knowledge about Islam, God, man, and nature, contains God's commands to humans in the form of the most holy values. These values become the foundation of life that requires application in the form of behavior, which its validity is not limited by time, place and certain atmosphere.</p><p> </p><p>Dengan menelaah sejarah Nabi Muhammad SAW maka dapat dipahami bahwa beliau adalah orang terkemuka pada zaman itu karena telah melaksanakan revolusi moral sehingga mampu mengangkat derajat manusia dari lembah kerusakan moral ke tingkat akhlak yang paling tinggi. Pendekatan dari segi sejarah tersebut dapat diperoleh pemahaman bahwa al Quran mengandung kekuatan yang maha dahsyat dalam membantu manusia mencapai ketinggian spiritual, moral, sosial dan intelektual yang merupakan inti dalam perwujudan kesejahteraan umat manusia dan keseluruhan isi alam. Untuk mencapai tingkat akhlak manusia dalam mewujudkan kesejahteraan hidup itu tidak cukup hanya dengan membaca, menafsirkan, dan memuji al Quran. Lebih dari itu, hal penting berikutnya adalah kita wajib mengamati, meneliti, mencari, dan menggali nilai-nilai yang maha dahsyat dalam al Quran. Al Quran sebagai sumber pengetahuan tentang agama Islam, Tuhan, manusia, dan alam, mengandung perintah Allah kepada manusia dalam bentuk nilai-nilai Maha Suci. Nilai-nilai tersebut menjadi landasan hidup yang memerlukan penerapan dalam bentuk perilaku, yang keberlakuannya tidak dibatasi oleh waktu, tempat dan suasana tertentu.</p>
Relationship between masseter muscle thickness and overbite values in a Nigerian population
Authors: Olabimpe Soyoye Abigail , Olayinka Otuyemi Donald , Adebanke Kolawole Kikelomo , Oluwole Ayoola Oluwagbemiga 
Published: May 2018

Objective: This study determined the relationship between masseter muscle thickness and overbite values among Nigerians. Methods: The subjects included 66 consecutive patients (21 males and 45 females) who presented for fixed orthodontic appliance treatment. Overbite values were measured from standard lateral cephalometric radiographs taken for all patients,who were thereafter divided into three groups of reduced overbite (n=22, mean -1.11+ 2.18mm), normal overbite (n=22, mean 2.59+0.50mm) and increased overbite (n=22, mean 5.21+1.39mm). The masseter muscle thickness of each patient was measured bilaterally using ultrasonography. Associations between masseter muscle thickness and different overbite values were analyzed using unpaired t-test, ANOVA and Tukey's multiple comparison analysis. Results: Mean masseter muscle thickness was 11.23 ± 2.40 mm during relaxation and 12.81 ± 2.64 mm during contraction for study participants. The masseter muscle on the habitual side of mastication of participants was generally thicker but the difference was not statistically significant (P>0.05). There was a progressive increase in masseter muscle thickness from reduced overbite through normal overbite to increased overbite groups and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.01). Tukey's multiple comparisons showed significant differences between all the three overbite groups (P<0.05). Conclusion: There was a direct relationship between the muscle thickness and overbite variations.