bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Pain is associated with reduced quality of life and functional status in patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Authors: Strand Elin Bolle , Mengshoel Anne Marit , Sandvik Leiv , Helland Ingrid B. , Abraham Semhar , Nes Lise Solberg 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

Background and aims
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is challenging to live with, often accompanied by pervasive fatigue and pain, accompanied by decreased quality of life (QoL) as well as anxiety and/or depression. Associations between higher pain, lower QoL and higher anxiety and depression have been shown in patients with various chronic pain disorders. Few studies have however examined such associations in a sample of patients with ME/CFS. The aims of the current study were to examine the impact of pain levels and compare levels of pain, health related QoL, anxiety and depression between patients with ME/CFS and healthy controls. In addition, the study aimed and to examine these relationships within the patient group only.

Methods
This is a cross-sectional questionnaire based study comparing 87 well-diagnosed patients with ME/CFS with 94 healthy controls. The De Paul Symptom Questionnaire (DSQ), the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form Surveys (SF-36) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were used to examine and compare pain, physical function, QoL, anxiety and depression in patients and healthy controls. Further the pain variables were divided into pain total, pain intensity and a pain frequency score for analyses of the above mentioned variables within the patient group only.

Results
Significantly higher levels of pain, anxiety and depression, and lower levels of QoL were found in the patient group compared with healthy controls. For the patient group alone, pain was significantly associated with lower QoL in terms of physical functioning, bodily pain, general health functioning, vitality and social functioning capacity. In this patient sample, only frequency of joint pain showed significant difference in psychological variables such as depression and anxiety – depression combined.

Conclusions
ME/CFS patients differ significantly from healthy controls in pain, health related QoL, anxiety and depression. Pain is significantly associated with reduced QoL and overall a lower level of functioning. The relation between pain and anxiety and depression appears less clear.

Implications
Pain is for many ME/CFS patients associated with reduced physical functioning and reduced QoL. A thorough pain assessment can therefore be essential for clinicians, and subsequent medical pain treatment combined with good pain coping skills may increase functioning level and QoL for these patients. The link between joint pain and psychological factors should also be focused in clinical practice in terms of mapping and counseling. Pain should be further examined to understand the importance it may have for functioning level as reduced function is a main criteria when diagnosing the patients.
Generalised Sasa–Satsuma Equation: Densities Approach to New Infinite Hierarchy of Integrable Evolution Equations
Authors: Ankiewicz A. , Bandelow U. , Akhmediev N. 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
We derive the new infinite Sasa–Satsuma hierarchy of evolution equations using an invariant densities approach. Being significantly simpler than the Lax-pair technique, this approach does not involve ponderous 3 × 3 matrices. Moreover, it allows us to explicitly obtain operators of many orders involved in the time evolution of the Sasa–Satsuma hierarchy functionals. All these operators are parts of a generalised Sasa–Satsuma equation of infinitely high order. They enter this equation with independent arbitrary real coefficients that govern the evolution pattern of this multiparameter dynamical system.
How the Level of Reward Awareness Changes the Computational and Electrophysiological Signatures of Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Correa Camile M.C. , Noorman Samuel , Jiang Jun , Palminteri Stefano , Cohen Michael X. , Lebreton Maël , van Gaal Simon 
Published: October 2018

The extent to which subjective awareness influences reward processing, and thereby affects future decisions, is currently largely unknown. In the present report, we investigated this question in a reinforcement learning framework, combining perceptual masking, computational modeling, and electroencephalographic recordings (human male and female participants). Our results indicate that degrading the visibility of the reward decreased, without completely obliterating, the ability of participants to learn from outcomes, but concurrently increased their tendency to repeat previous choices. We dissociated electrophysiological signatures evoked by the reward-based learning processes from those elicited by the reward-independent repetition of previous choices and showed that these neural activities were significantly modulated by reward visibility. Overall, this report sheds new light on the neural computations underlying reward-based learning and decision-making and highlights that awareness is beneficial for the trial-by-trial adjustment of decision-making strategies.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTThe notion of reward is strongly associated with subjective evaluation, related to conscious processes such as “pleasure,” “liking,” and “wanting.” Here we show that degrading reward visibility in a reinforcement learning task decreases, without completely obliterating, the ability of participants to learn from outcomes, but concurrently increases subjects' tendency to repeat previous choices. Electrophysiological recordings, in combination with computational modeling, show that neural activities were significantly modulated by reward visibility. Overall, we dissociate different neural computations underlying reward-based learning and decision-making, which highlights a beneficial role of reward awareness in adjusting decision-making strategies.
Conversion and the Idea of the Secret
Authors: Viswanathan Gauri 
Published: October 2018

Gauri Viswanathan, “Conversion and the Idea of the Secret” (pp. 161–186)
Obsessed with the notion of the secret in his writings on religion, Jacques Derrida uncannily evokes a predecessor with whom he has rarely, if at all, been compared—the Russian occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. This essay argues that Blavatsky’s occult writings set the stage for the kinds of speculations on crypto-conversion, conscience, and responsibility that subsequently engaged Derrida. Like Blavatsky, Derrida saw conversion not as change but as retaining whatever it displaces in the form of a secret, persisting as an enduring reminder of supplanted religious beliefs. While Derrida was more interested in conversion as a form of repression that mutually constitutes the old and the new, Blavatsky held a broader and more dynamic view of conversion-as-repression: in describing Christianity’s battle against the heterogeneous belief-systems it eventually supplanted, she sought to illuminate conversion as a larger process well beyond the individual and involving religious expansion and consolidation. The essay culminates in a close reading of an occult text, W. B. Yeats’s “The Manuscript of ‘Leo Africanus,’” that exemplifies the problematics of crypto-conversion as delineated by Blavatsky and Derrida in their respective ways. “Leo Africanus” stages Yeats’s encounter with a dead spirit alternatively grasped as his anti-self and historical conscience. A breakthrough in understanding allows Yeats to acknowledge an occluded history—his as much as that of his deceased interlocutor—that can only be told in the terms of crypto-conversion, in this instance of a sixteenth-century African slave forcibly converted to Christianity and turned into a native informant of African history and geography.
Buggeln, G., C. Paine and S. B. Plate (eds.) 'Religion in Museums: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives'
Authors: Whitehead Amy 
Published: October 2018

Buggeln, G., C. Paine and S. B. Plate (eds) 2017. Religion in Museums: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury. iv + 265pp. £58.50. ISBN: 978-1-4742-5552-3 (hbk).
Ağrı Halkevi ve Tarihsel Gelişimi
Authors: AYDIN Harun 
Published: October 2018

Türkiye’de ilk olarak 19 Şubat
1932 tarihinde açılan Halkevleri, Atatürkçü fikirlerin unsurlarıyla bütünleşen
Cumhuriyet’in çağdaşlaşma düşüncesinin, toplumsal ve kültürel yönünü ilerletmek
gibi çok önemli bir görev üstlenmiştir.
Halkevleri önceleri sadece 14 ilde açılmış, ardından Türkiye genelinde
örgütlerini oluşturarak çalışmalarını devam ettirmiştir. Halkevleri 1951
yılında kapatıldıktan sonra önceki işlevlerini devam ettirmiyor olsalar da
mevcut yapıları ve kültürel birikimleriyle günümüzde halen etkisini
sürdürmektedir. Bu bağlamda, 23 Şubat 1934 tarihinde açılan ve faaliyete geçen
Ağrı Halkevi, Ağrı tarihinin ve kültürünün gelişmesinde önemli roller
üstlenmiştir.

Halkevi’nin kurulmasıyla beraber mezkur şehirde
eğitime büyük önem verilmiştir. Cumhuriyet’in eğitim ve kültür kurumu olan
Halkevleri ülke de yaygınlaşmasıyla beraber halkın gelişimine büyük katkı
sağlamıştır Ağrı Halkevi’nde birçok şube açılmış ve bunlar kentin kültürel
gelişimine önemli katkılarda bulunmuştur. Bu kapsamda araştırmanın amacı; Ağrı
Halkevi ve çalışmalarını, Ağrı’nın kent kültürünün ve kimliğinin oluşumundaki
etkilerini ortaya çıkarmaktır. Bu çalışma başta Cumhuriyet Arşivi belgeleri
olmak üzere ulusal basın ile araştırma ve inceleme eserlerinden yararlanılarak
oluşturulmuştur..
A Strengths-Based Multidisciplinary Leadership Team: A Case Study in an Urban Middle School
Authors: Crutchfield Jandel , Crutchfield Johnoson , Buford Jennifer 
Published: October 2018

Background:For school leaders challenged with meeting the needs of students, staff, parents, and community members, strengths-based leadership approaches have proven beneficial in accomplishing goals of teacher/staff development, addressing school climate, improving relationships between parents and school, and planning interventions for student success. The purpose of the present study is: (a) to offer a description of a multidisciplinary leadership team that employs a school social worker as a school administrator in a sixth–eighth grade middle school; (b) to identify the social worker's view of the strenghs-based approach and how this influences her administrative role; and (c) to consider whether the social worker’s unique skills are valued by others in the school community, when the social worker is a member of the school’s leadership team.Methods:A case study approach was used in this study.Results:The study identifies key areas in which school leadership can be informed and opportunities for further research on how multidisciplinary teams using strengths-based approaches in intervention could prove beneficial to K–12 educational reform.
THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS TO MOLLUSCS DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS IN NATURAL AND REHABILITATED MANGROVE ECOSYSTEM
Authors: Nur Samsi Andi , Bin Andy Omar Sharifuddin , Niartiningsih Andi 
Published: October 2018

Mangrove ecosystem is a habitat of Molluscs (Gastropoda and Bivalvia). This ecosystem is always influenced by environmental factors. This study aims to determine the influence of environmental factors on the distribution patterns Molluscs of natural mangrove ecosystems in Pannikiang Island, Barru Regency and rehabilitation mangrove ecosystem in Tongke-tongke village, Sinjai regency. This research uses the quantitative method. Environmental factors measured were temperature and salinity of the water, as well as carbon and nitrogen content of sediment. Samples of Molluscs (Gastropoda and Bivalves) and sediments were taken randomly. The observations of the Molluscan community include the composition of Mollusc species (Gastropoda and Bivalvia) and dispersal patterns. Data were analyzed by using multiple linear regression. The results showed that the distribution pattern of Molluscs (Gastropoda and Bivalvia) at both sites was not significantly different and the temperature, salinity, carbon, and nitrogen sediments also did not affect the Mollusk distribution pattern in both sites. Ekosistem mangrove merupakan habitat Moluska (Gastropoda dan Bivalvia). Ekosistem ini selalu dipengaruhi oleh faktor lingkungan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh faktor lingkungan terhadap pola distribusi pada ekosistem mangrove alami di Pulau Pannikiang, Kabupaten Barru dan ekosistem mangrove hasil rehabilitasi di Desa Tongke-tongke, Kabupaten Sinjai. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif. Faktor lingkungan yang diukur adalah suhu dan salinita air, serta kandungan karbon dan nitrogen sedimen. Sampel Moluska (Gastropoda dan Bivalvia) dan sedimen diambil secara acak. Pengamatan komunitas Moluska meliputi komposisi jenis Moluska (Gastropoda dan Bivalvia) dan pola penyebaran. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pola distribusi Moluska (Gastropoda dan Bivalvia) pada kedua lokasi tidak berbeda nyata dan suhu, salinitas, karbon, dan nitrogen sedimen juga tidak mempengaruhi pola distribusi Moluska di kedua lokasi penelitian.
Triamine-bearing activated rice husk ash as an advanced functional material for nitrate removal from aqueous solution
Authors: Phan Phuoc Toan , Nguyen Trung Thanh , Nguyen Nhat Huy , Padungthon Surapol 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
In this study, we proposed a simple method for preparing triamine-bearing activated rice husk ash material (TRI-ARHA) as an advanced functional material with high nitrate adsorption capacity and durability. The novel TRI-ARHA was generated via a post-synthesis grafting method and modified by acidification to form ammonium moiety. TRI-ARHA was then characterized by using thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and SEM-mapping. The TRI-ARHA had high nitrate adsorption capacity of 163.4 mgNO3−/g, which was 2.06 times higher than that of a commercial anion exchange resin (Akualite A420) due to strong interactions of Si, C, and N in the material structure. This functional material with good durability after 10 cycles could be very promising for adsorption of other anions (e.g. sulfate and phosphate) in water and wastewater treatment.
Novel Conjugated Unsaturated Ketones with Submicromolar Potencies Towards some Leukemic and Colon Cancer Cells
Authors: Das Swagatika , Gul H. Inci , Das Umashankar , Balzarini Jan , Dimmock Stephen G. , Dimmock Jonathan R. 
Published: October 2018

Background:
Cancer continues to be the major health burden worldwide. There is an
urgent need for the development of novel antineoplastic compounds to treat this devastating condition.
Various alkylating anticancer drugs have been employed in the clinic for treating cancers.
Unsaturated conjugated ketones are a group of alkylators which are of significant interest as potent
antineoplastic agents.

Objective:
The goal of this study is to discover unsaturated conjugated ketones which are novel
potent cytotoxins displaying growth-inhibitory properties towards neoplasms and also to serve as
cytotoxic warheads in drug development.

Methods:
A variety of 3,5-bis (benzylidene)-4-piperidones 2a-n were synthesized and evaluated
against a number of neoplastic cell lines. The short-term neurotoxicity of 2a-k, n was evaluated in
mice by i.p. administration using doses level of 30, 100 and 300 mg/kg. Statistical correlations for
determining structure-activity relationships were performed using an SPSS software.

Results:
A number of compounds display cytotoxic potencies in the region of 10-7 to 10-8 M and
some of the structural features contributing to the cytotoxicity were identified. Compounds 2a-d,
2h demonstrated substantially higher cytotoxic potencies compared to melphalan and 5-
fluorouracil against a panel of leukemic and colon cancer cell lines. These lead cytotoxins comply
with drug-likeness properties. In general, the antineoplastics 2 are well tolerated in mice using a
short-term neurotoxicity screening.

Conclusion:
In general, this group of compounds comprises excellent cytotoxic agents, which
warrant their further development as cytotoxic warheads.
System Modeling and Precoding Design for Multi-beam Dual-polarized Satellite MIMO System
Authors: Kai Tao , Xiaoyun Sun , Yang Wang , Li Jingchun 
Published: October 2018

Background:
As the multimedia service develops and the transmission rate in terrestrial
communication systems increases rapidly, satellite communication needs to improve the transmission
rate and throughput. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques can increase the system
capacity significantly by introducing the space dimension, as the system bandwidth remains the
same. Therefore, utilization of MIMO for satellite communications to increase the capacity is an important
research topic. So MIMO techniques for multibeam satellite communications are researched
in the dissertation.

Objective:
The goal of this work is improving the capacity of the satellite system. Multi-beam and
dual-polarized technologies are applied to a satellite system to improve the capacity further.

Methods:
In this paper, we first introduce a multi-beam dual-polarized satellite multi-put and multiout
(MBDP-S-MIMO) system which combines the full frequency multiplexing and dual-polarization
technologies. Then the system model and channel model are first constructed. At last, to improve the
capacity further, BD and BD-ZF precoding algorithms are applied to MBDP-S-MIMO and their performance
is verified by simulation.

Results:
Simulation results show the performance of the BD precoding algorithm gets better with the
growth of the XPD at the receiver and is almost not affected by the growth of the channel polarization
correlation coefficient. In addition, with the growth of the users’ speed, the performance becomes
worse.

Conclusion:
The multi-beam dual-polarized satellite MIMO system has high capacity, and it has
certain application prospects for satellite communication.
Pengembangan game edukasi berbasis android tentang domain teknologi pendidikan
Authors: Pratama Ujang Nendra , Haryanto Haryanto 
Published: October 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan produk gameAndroid berisi materi Domain TP yang layak sebagai alternatif media belajar bagi mahasiswa prodi TP FIP UNY. Nilai kelayakan diketahui melalui penilaian ahli, calon pengguna, dan daya guna pembelajaran. Pengembangan produk dilaksanakan melalui lima tahap utama: studi pendahuluan, perencanaan, perancangan, pengembangan, dan evaluasi. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara studi pendahuluan, identifikasi gaya belajar, validasi ahli, validasi calon pengguna, serta pengujian eksperimen. Jumlah responden terdiri dari satu dosen pengampu, dua ahli media dan materi, serta 60 mahasiswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa produk yang dikembangkan telah memenuhi kriteria kelayakan dari validasi media, materi, calon pengguna, serta uji daya guna. Penilaian ahli materi masuk dalam kategori sangat layak, sedangkan ahli media dan calon pengguna masuk dalam kategori layak. Produk juga terbukti memiliki kelayakan daya guna berdasarkan perbedaan rerata nilai pretes dan postes kedua kelompok uji, sehingga perbandingan nilai gain menunjukkan perbedaan yang signifikan.Kata kunci: game edukasi, domain TP, Android THE DEVELOPING ANDROID-BASED EDUCATIONAL GAME ON EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DOMAINSAbstractThe study aims to produce an Android game on EduTech Domain materials which appropriate as an alternative learning media for students of Educational Technology in FIP UNY. Appropriateness was known through assessment of experts, future users, and learning usability. The product development procedure implemented through five main stages: preliminary study, planning, design, development, and evaluation. Data collection was done by preliminary study interview, learning style identification, expert validation, future users validation, and experimental testing. The participants consisted of a supporting lecturer, two experts of media and subject matter, seven students, and also 60 students. The result showed that the developed product has been able to reach appropriateness criterion from the validations of media, subject matter, future users, and usability testing. Subject matter experts assessment included in the very appropriate category, while media experts and future users included in the appropriate category. The product are also had usability appropriateness evidently based on differences between the mean values of pre-test and post-test of both test group, so that the comparison of gain value showed a significant differences.Keywords: educational game, EduTech domains, Android
Pengembangan e-tahsin sebagai e-learning pada program learning qur’an for all (LQA) Rumah Tahfidzqu Yogyakarta
Authors: Rifai Achmad Ilfan , Sofyan Herminarto 
Published: October 2018

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) menghasilkan produk e-Tahsin sebagai media pembelajaran pada Program LQA Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta; (2) mendeskripsikan kualitas kelayakan e-Tahsin yang dikembangkan sebagai media pembelajaran; dan (3) mengetahui efektivitas pembelajaran pada Program LQA Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta menggunakan e-Tahsin. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian dan pengembangan (R&D) yang diadaptasikan dari model Alessi dan Trollip. Prosedur pengembangan meliputi tahap perencanaan, desain dan pengembangan. Penelitian ini memberikan tiga hasil. Pertama, produk e-Tahsin pada Program LQA Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta dihasilkan sesuai dengan model pengembangan Alessi dan Trollip melalui tahap perencanaan, perancangan dan pengembangan. Kedua, produk e-Tahsin pada Program LQA Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta masuk kategori moderate ditinjau dari materi, media dan tanggapan santri. Ketiga, produk e-Tahsin pada Program LQA Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta dinilai efektif karena dapat meningkatkan kompetensi santri dan menumbuhkan minat santri. Hal ini dapat dibuktikan dengan hasil nilai pretest dengan rata-rata 8,18 dan nilai posttest dengan rata-rata 9,03.Kata kunci: e-Tahsin, e-learning, moodle, efektivitas DEVELOPING E-TAHSIN AS E-LEARNING ON RUMAH TAHFIDZQU YOGYAKARTA LEARNING QUR'AN FOR ALL (LQA) PROGRAMAbstractThis study aims to: (1) produce e-Tahsin as a learning medium on Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta LQA Program; (2) describe the quality of the feasibility of e-Tahsin developed as a learning medium; and (3) determine the effectiveness of learning on Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta LQA Program using e-Tahsin. This research is a research and development (R&D) adapted from the model development of Alessi and Trollip. The procedure of development includes planning, design, and development. This research provides three results. First, the product e-Tahsin on Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta LQA Program produced in accordance with Alessi and Trollip development model through the planning, design, and development. Second, e-Tahsin product on Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta LQA Program is categorized as moderate in terms of materials, media and students feedback. Third, the e-Tahsin product on Rumah TahfidzQu Yogyakarta LQA Program is considered effective because it can improve the competence of students and foster interest in the students. This can be evidenced by the results of the pretest with an average value of 8.18 and posttest with an average of 9.03.Keywords: e-Tahsin, e-learning, Moodle, effectiveness