bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Risk factors for mortality among inpatients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis
Authors: Hameed Sidra , Zuberi Faisal Faiyaz , Hussain Sagheer , Ali Syed Khalid 
Published: August 2019

Objective: To evaluate risk factors having significant effect on mortality of smear positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) inpatients.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases, Dow University Hospital Ojha Campus, Karachi. One hundred and seventy (170) inpatients of smear positive PTB confirmed by Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) smear, aged between 13-80 years were enrolled by using consecutive sampling technique while patients with drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB) and extra pulmonary TB were excluded from the study. Selected patients were interviewed for collecting demographic data and risk factor data by using a standard questionnaire.
Results: Out of 170 PTB inpatients, mortality was observed in 23 (13.5%) patients among which male patients were 12 (52.2%), and female were 11 (47.8%). Mortality was significantly associated with increasing age (p=0.003), socioeconomic status (p=0.019), anemia (p=0.03), Chronic Liver Disease (CLD) (p=0.005), Diabetes Mellitus (DM) (p=0.001), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (p=0.007), Hypertension (HTN) (p=0.006), recurrent TB (p=0.001), and smoking (p=0.001).
Conclusion: Increasing age, poverty, smoking history, and presence of comorbidities like DM, CLD, HIV, hypertension, and anemia are associated with higher mortality in smear positive PTB cases.
doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.5.919
How to cite this:Hameed S, Zuberi FF, Hussain S, Ali SK. Risk factors for mortality among inpatients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(5):1361-1365. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.5.919
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CANDU FIRE LOAD DENSITIES IN CANADIAN NUCLEAR PLANTS
Authors: Shalabi Hossam , Hadjisophocleous George 
Published: August 2019

A fuel survey was carried out at all operating CANDU reactors in Canada in 5 sites (Bruce A, Bruce B, Darlington, Pickering, and Point Lepreau). The survey used the National Fire Protection Association 557 combination method for the fire zones that contain fire safe shutdown analysis equipment. A fire zone group list for the sites was developed to combine fire zones with similar functions; 38 fire zone groups were produced from this exercise. The results of the survey show that the average fuel load density for all 1230 fire zones is 170.1 MJ/m2, and the average fuel load is 79 183 MJ. The maximum fuel load density is 1319 MJ/m2, and the maximum fuel load is 2 785 404 MJ. High-energy arcing faults risk was found in 254 fire zones out of the 1230 fire zones. Electric fault is the highest ignition source risk present in all 1230 fire zones.
Escuta qualificada como ferramenta de humanização do cuidado em saúde mental na Atenção Básica
Authors: Santos Angelica Brandão 
Published: August 2019

Motivação:
A hipótese norteadora da investigação foi a de que a escuta qualificada na atenção primária a saúde é uma ferramenta capaz de revolucionar a lógica biomédica de cuidado.

Método:
Este artigo orientou-se pelos preceitos de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, a fim de, coletar, analisar e interpretar aquilo que já foi dito, escrito ou filmado sobre escuta qualificada, cuidados primários e humanização em saúde mental. Posterior ao levantamento bibliográfico a autora efetuou um estudo exploratório com o intuito de elucidar o fenômeno pesquisado através das contribuições teóricas já existentes.

Resultados:
A partir do referido estudo, a hipótese norteadora, pode ser comprovada, e os objetivos específicos possibilitaram que o potencial da escuta qualificada enquanto ferramenta de humanização do cuidado fosse explanado no decorrer da pesquisa.

Conclusões:
A escuta qualificada possibilita a humanização das práticas de promoção e prevenção, diagnóstico, tratamento e reabilitação em saúde mental, ou seja, possibilita que neste contexto que consideradas as circunstâncias sociais, éticas, educacionais e psíquicas dos sujeitos envolvidos.
Satisfação do atendimento fisioterápico disponibilizado pelo Núcleo de Apoio à Saude da Família
Authors: Mattos Juliana Gonçalves Silva de , Rodrigues Soares Keren Cristina 
Published: August 2019

Pergunta:
Avaliar a satisfação dos pacientes quanto aos serviços de fisioterapia.

Método:
Estudo quantitativo realizado com 32 pacientes atendidos pelo programa no município de Coromandel-MG, entre janeiro e fevereiro de 2018. A coleta de dados deu-se por aplicação do questionário sociodemográfico e da identificação da satisfação dos pacientes quanto ao atendimento fisioterapêutico. A análise dos dados foi feita de forma descritiva, com auxílio do software SPSS, versão 18.0.

Resultados:
Os entrevistados possuíam média de 72,2 anos de idade, viviam em união estável, com primeiro grau incompleto, renda familiar entre 1-3 salários mínimos advindos da aposentadoria, juntamente com benefícios da previdência social; sem plano de saúde. Uma pequena parte fazia duas ou mais sessões semanais de fisioterapia, sendo a maior demanda neurológica. Os fisioterapeutas realizam um atendimento com gentileza e que respeitam à privacidade durante o atendimento, mas que são insuficientes.

Conclusões:
Mesmo com os empecilhos encontrados, a satisfação geral relativa à experiência com a fisioterapia foi considerada entre boa a excelente.
Programa Nacional de Melhoria da Qualidade e do Acesso da Atenção Básica: avaliando o processo de trabalho das equipes do Espírito Santo
Authors: Almeida da Silva Rocha Paula , Marabotti Costa Leite Franciéle , Ferreira de Almeida Barbosa Bruna Lígia , De Cássia Duarte Lima Rita 
Published: August 2019

Pergunta:
Esse trabalho tem por objetivo avaliar o processo de trabalho das equipes de Atenção Básica participantes do primeiro ciclo do PMAQ-AB no Espírito Santo.

Método:
Trata-se de estudo descritivo de abordagem quantitativa, que utilizou dados secundários da avaliação externa do PMAQ-AB, no ano de 2012, referente a 321 equipes do ES. Os dados foram analisados por meio de estatística descrita e intervalo de confiança de 95%.

Resultados:
Das equipes avaliadas, 87,9% realizaram o planejamento das ações; 80,5% relatam receber apoio para o planejamento e organização do processo de trabalho; 96,9% realizam reunião de equipe; e 75,1% receberam o apoio matricial.

Conclusões:
Ainda que algumas dimensões tenham apresentado baixos percentuais, observa-se que as equipes do Espírito Santo têm planejado e organizado o processo de trabalho com a realização da autoavaliação para esse fim, recebido apoio institucional, realizado reuniões de equipe e recebido apoio matricial.
Análisis del discurso: de la lexicometría a la fraseología. El caso de los sintagmas nominales en el discurso político colombiano.
Authors: Hernández Bayter Henry 
Published: August 2019

Nos proponemos aquí estudiar y analizar con la ayuda de un programa lexicométrico, Lexico 5, los dos textos del acuerdo de paz en Colombia. Nuestro objetivo es poner de manifiesto los diferentes sintagmas nominales que se constituyen y fijan en nuestro corpus de estudio y las estrategias discursivas que se construyen alrededor de ellos.

El estudio se centra, por consiguiente, en las formas polilexicales nominales utilizadas en cada texto y en los diferentes campos semánticos que se construyen y gravitan en torno a dichas formas. Se utiliza así los diferentes métodos lexicométricos para identificar las formas o nodos monolexicales que se constituyen en temáticas. Más adelante se explotan el análisis distribucional y las concordancias para extraer las unidades polilexicales y las coocurrencias que forman un contexto frástico que sirve a la construcción de una estrategia discursiva en cada texto. La primera fase nos permitió identificar la forma o nodo “organizaciones” y la segunda fase nos permitió estudiar las formas polilexicales “organizaciones criminales”, “organizaciones de mujeres”, “organizaciones basadas en la fe”, entre otras. Comparando los dos textos, pudimos identificar una estrategia de atenuación de la controversia que se creo alrededor del primer texto y de las diferentes designaciones utilizadas para referirse a los participantes del acuerdo.
Exclusion and Genomic Relatedness Methods for Assignment of Parentage Using Genotyping-by-Sequencing Data
Authors: Dodds Ken G , McEwan John C , Brauning Rudiger , van Stijn Tracey C , Rowe Suzanne J , McEwan K Mary , Clarke Shannon M 
Published: August 2019

AbstractGenotypes are often used to assign parentage in agricultural and ecological settings. Sequencing can be used to obtain genotypes but does not provide unambiguous genotype calls, especially when sequencing depth is low in order to reduce costs. In that case, standard parentage analysis methods no longer apply. A strategy for using low-depth sequencing data for parentage assignment is developed here. It entails the use of relatedness estimates along with a metric termed excess mismatch rate which, for parent-offspring pairs or trios, is the difference between the observed mismatch rate and the rate expected under a model of inheritance and allele reads without error. When more than one putative parent has similar statistics, bootstrapping can provide a measure of the relatedness similarity. Putative parent-offspring trios can be further checked for consistency by comparing the offspring’s estimated inbreeding to half the parent relatedness. Suitable thresholds are required for each metric. These methods were applied to a deer breeding operation consisting of two herds of different breeds. Relatedness estimates were more in line with expectation when the herds were analyzed separately than when combined, although this did not alter which parents were the best matches with each offspring. Parentage results were largely consistent with those based on a microsatellite parentage panel with three discordant parent assignments out of 1561. Two models are investigated to allow the parentage metrics to be calculated with non-random selection of alleles. The tools and strategies given here allow parentage to be assigned from low-depth sequencing data.
On a generalized SVEIR epidemic model under regular and adaptive impulsive vaccination
Authors: Nistal Raul , De la Sen Manuel , Alonso-Quesada Santiago , Ibeas Asier 
Published: August 2019

A model for a generic disease with incubation and recovered stages is proposed. It incorporates a vaccinated subpopulation which presents a partial immunity to the disease. We study the stability, periodic solutions and impulsive vaccination design in the generalized modeled system for the dynamics and spreading of the disease under impulsive and non-impulsive vaccination. First, the effect of a regular impulsive vaccination on the evolution of the subpopulations is studied. Later a non-regular impulsive vaccination strategy is introduced based on an adaptive control law for the frequency and quantity of applied vaccines. We show the later strategy improves drastically the efficiency of the vaccines and reduce the infectious subpopulation more rapidly over time compared to a regular impulsive vaccination with constant values for both the frequency and vaccines quantity.
“Nowy Czas” (“New Time”): A Puzzling Journal for the Polish Intelligentsia in the UK (2006–2013)
Authors: Chwastyk-Kowalczyk Jolanta 
Published: August 2019

The article discusses issues published in New Time (Nowy Czas), the free periodical addressed to the Polish intelligentsia in the UK, coming out since 2006 until today in London. It is the only magazine - currently 32-page long monthly - representing the segment of elite cultural and social press for Polish émigré in the United Kingdom, consciously embedded in a wider European political reality. It has an interactive online version: nowyczas.co.uk. The mission of its founders – Grzegorz Małkiewicz and Teresa Bazarnik - is to inform about relevant events in the country and around the world, but above all, to create the Polish community in the UK. The assumed recipient is an educated Pole who is proficient in English and open to biculturalism. The texts written in the islanders' language are intended for the Polish people born in the United Kingdom and their British friends. It is an independent, reliable magazine trusted by the readers. Due to its "over curricular" activities (beyond the scope of regular editorial operations), it has a chance to become the Salon and Advocate of the high culture. The best proof for this argument is the ARTeria appendix. Moreover, New Time engages in pro bono activities in favour of the Polish community living in the British Isles. The most relevant issues, in addition to the widely meant culture, encompass education at all levels and high moral norms giving the readers a sense of the uniqueness of their time, the new time. Finally, there is the first long awaited magazine targeted at educated Poles.
The Language of Medical Advertising Materials
Authors: Briaukienė Birutė 
Published: August 2019

Increasingly audacious steps in advertising are made to affect the customer and to encourage them to buy the advertised goods. Advertising is highly important in gaining a foothold in the business environment. Usually, the advertising texts fail to meet the norms of the standard Lithuanian language. The aim of this article is to compare the language of the advertising booklets of two pharmacies.The linguistic analysis of the advertising booklets of Camelia and Euro Pharmacy for March 2014 showed that in terms of language errors the booklets of the two pharmacies were similar, and the character of the errors was identical in both cases. The advertising booklets of both pharmacies contained lexical, syntactic, morphological, and logical errors. The advertising booklet of the Camelia pharmacy presents 121 items, which advertising descriptions contain 55.3% of language errors. The advertising booklet of the EuroPharmacy presents advertising descriptions of 103 items, where language errors comprise 57.2%. The majority of the errors detected in the advertising booklets of the two pharmacies are lexical (Camelia – 33.8%, and Euro Pharmacy – 37.3%) or syntactic (Camelia – 27.9%, and Euro Pharmacy – 37.3%). Both publications contain nearly equal numbers of lexical errors (Camelia – 17.6%, and Euro Pharmacy – 18.7%). The greatest difference was observed in the number of morphological errors (Camelia – 20.7%, and Euro Pharmacy – 5.7%).In addition to that, the name of the Camelia pharmacy is in conflict with the norms of both Lithuanian and Latin languages.
How to Research Culture? About Cultural Turns: New Trends in Cultural Studies Doris Bachmann-Medick
Authors: Borowski Dominik 
Published: August 2019

BACHMANN-MEDICK, Doris. Cultural turns. Nowe kierunki w naukach o kulturze. Przeł. Krystyna Krzemieniowa. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2012. 502 ss. ISBN 978-83-7737-040-7
About Linguistic Introspection as a Method of Scientific Research (Self-Observation Experience)
Authors: Palatovska Olena 
Published: August 2019

The article considers introspection as a subject and method of the current linguistic research. The author of the article has undertaken an attempt to describe the introspective analysis of her own conscience directed to comprehension of the aims, problems and methods of scientific research at their initial stage. The background of this description was the newest research in the sphere of psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and discourse analysis. Algorithm of occurrence of scientific interest to a certain linguistic problem, as well as of development of its own theoretical research, comprises the following stages: observation of a certain lingual material, introspective analysis of personal reflections with the aim of constructing the research hypothesis, experimental checkup of relevance of the given hypothesis by way of referring to consciousness of other native speakers.
Conceptually-Pragmatic Aspect of the Neighbourhood Discourse Implementation (in the Materials of Riga Newspaper “Today” at th Beginning of 20th Century)
Authors: Kurpniece Rozanna 
Published: August 2019

The article examines the conceptual-pragmatic aspect of the realization of the discourse of neighbourhood in the Riga’s city newspaper Segodnya (Today) from 1923 to 1925. The mainrepresentatives of the discourse are the utterances containing the word/concept “neighbour”. The analysis revealed that the word/concept “neighbour” in the communicative space of the newspaper demonstrates the dynamics of the meanings that can be explained by a variety of linguistic and extra-linguistic phenomena. The conceptual dominants of the discourse of the neighbourhood are defined by the following factors: the specifics of a particular event, the manner of introduction of the role behaviour of participants, the distribution of the communicative roles. The choice by a speaker of a particular pragmatic type of “wrapping” of an event in the process of organization of the utterances containing the unit of “neighbour” is subjected to the goals of the creation of the effect of greater reliability as well as strengthening the level of information significance for a potential addressee. The inclusion of the addressee into the eventful space of the discourse is one of the forms of attraction of attention from the side of the speaker towards the socially significant phenomena.
The Concept of Equivalence and Translation Techniques in the Poststructuralists’ Theories of Translation
Authors: Salmeri Claudio 
Published: August 2019

This article studies the development of the translation theories in the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which significant theoretical contributions were made in translation circles. These contributions had a profound impact on the practice of translation. The individuals who contributed to the present state of translation theory worked in translation circles, and this article examines their contributions. A selected history of theoretical developments, focusing on the most important ideas relevant to translation work, is presented in order to examine the impact of such theories on the practice of translation. It has become commonplace to believe that the deconstructionist and poststructuralist views on translation have opened new perspectives in Translation Studies. The aim of this paper is to highlight the main tenets of the major authors of these theories. The attention is especially drawn to a well-known controversy related to the concept of equivalence and translation strategies. This paper presents the main criticism made by the poststructuralist translation views on interpretation. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.
Post-Colonial Issues of Modern Russian Literature
Authors: Shafranskaya Eleonora 
Published: August 2019

The article discusses the controversial reception of the terms “colonial” and “post-colonial”, used in the modern studies of postcolonial discourse. The author provides the analysis of the works of the modern Russian literature that focus on the post-colonial issues, or, to be more exact, the post-orientalistic judgment of the Soviet and imperial problems (Andrey Volos’s prose, Dina Rubina, Arkan Kariv, Larisa Bau, Sukhbat Aflatuni, Adel Khairov whose works contain the elements of traditional Orientalism as well as post-Said Orientalism). This article provides an overview (with arguments and illustrative material of interdisciplinary nature) of the specificity and techniques of the modern post-colonial Russian literature. In particular, it analyses the metaphor of stagnation – lethargic hospital – and the reception of enantiosemy; considers the image of the place genius loci, which is leaving or have already departed from the real world not physically but mentally, and the former locus of the former Soviet empire; places the emphasis on the post-colonial reflection of the modern novelists, a post factum wish to understand the reasons of post-imperial problems.
Elements of Dystopian Fiction in the Modern Lithuanian Prose
Authors: Buividavičiūtė Lina 
Published: August 2019

The theoretical problems and practical analysis of utopia and its subgenre dystopia are widely known in the global cultural discourse. Nevertheless, these analyses still remains almost terra incognita in the studies of Lithuanian prose. The aim of this article is to analyse and compare the ambivalent elements in these novels: Vilniaus pokeris (Vilnius Poker) by R. Gavelis, Užkeiktas miestas (The Town under the Spell) by R. Lankauskas, and Anapus rytojaus (Beyond Tomorrow) by J. Jankus. This article is based on the hermeneutical methodology and the context of existentialism. The theoretical part of the article “Dystopian World” describes the main sources, features, and polemical issues of genre. The first practical part “The Social-Historical Subordinated Dystopia in Lithuanian Literature” analyses the concrete historical and cultural features of the dystopian genre. The features of ontological-existential dystopia are described in the second practical part of the paper.
“The Master and Margarita” as a “Strong” Text of Russian Culture: Translation Aspect
Authors: Razumovskaya Veronica 
Published: August 2019

The paper deals with the original inexhaustibility and translation multiplicity as new literary translation categories. Particular attention is paid to the information ambiguity of “strong” literary texts, which directly results in the generation of numerous centres of translation attraction. A “strong” text of Russian culture The Master and Margarita and its secondary texts resulting from the performed interlingual and intersemiotic translations served as the material for the present study. The centre of translation attraction, which is formed from the Bulgakov’s text, is considered from the standpoint of translation theory and literary criticism, which corresponds to the universal scientific principle of complementarity and provides a complementary approach to the “strong” text as a research object. The formation and further functioning of the centres of translation attraction is of particular interest in the case of using a “strong” literary text of Russian culture as an attractor of literary translation due to the traditional literocentrism of the Russian culture. Numerous translations of the novel provides “expendability” of a culturally significant text in the temporal and cultural spaces and serve as a guarantee of its “preservation” and survival.