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Improving the attitudes of primary care practitioners toward adolescent care: a pre-post intervention pilot study
Authors: Santos Maria Inês , Rosário Frederico , Santos Elisabete , Ferrão Alzira 
Published: April 2018

AbstractBackgroundInvesting in adolescent health is among the most cost-effective health measures. Primary care practitioners are ideally positioned to deliver such interventions. However, several barriers hinder them from engaging with adolescents.ObjectiveTo pilot test the impact of a 1-day training session on adolescent health on the attitudes of primary care practitioners toward adolescent care.SubjectsParticipants were family physicians and nurses enrolled in a 1-day training session on adolescent health.MethodsA non-randomized, pre-post intervention study with no control group. Data on barriers for providing care to adolescents, preferred pediatric age group and attitudes toward adolescent care were collected immediately prior. Participants’ attitudes were measured again immediately after training.ResultsMost participants reported they preferred to attend pediatric groups other than adolescents. The most frequently reported barriers were: excessive amount of time needed and lack of training. Participants reported positive pre-training attitudes, with mean scores above the midpoint of the scale in all dimensions. Significant positive improvements were observed after training in Adequacy, Self-esteem and Satisfaction. Subgroup analysis showed that at baseline, professionals who preferred to work with adolescents had significantly more positive attitudes in Adequacy, Self-esteem and Satisfaction. After training there was a general improvement in attitudes in both groups, with attenuation of the differences between them.ConclusionParticipation in a 1-day tailored educational intervention on adolescent health had a positive impact on the attitudes of primary care practitioners, regardless of their preferred age group. This improvement may lead to more active engagement with adolescents and substantial health gains.
Effects of acetone extract of Cola nitida on brain sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase activity and spatial memory in healthy and streptozotocin-induced diabetic female Wistar rats
Authors: Imam-Fulani Aminat Omolola , Sanusi Kamaldeen Olalekan , Owoyele Bamidele Victor 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Background
This study was carried out to investigate the effects of acetone extract of Cola nitida on brain Na+/K+-ATPase activity and spatial memory of healthy and streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic female Wistar rats.

Methods
Forty-two female Wistar rats were used for this study and were randomly distributed into six groups (n=7). Rats in group 1 were used as control and were administered normal saline; group 2 rats were healthy rats administered 50 mg/kg of kola nut extract per day; group 3 rats were healthy rats administered 100 mg/kg of kola nut extract per day; group 4 rats were a diabetic group also administered normal saline; group 5 rats were diabetic rats administered 50 mg/kg of kola nut extract per day; and group 6 rats were diabetic rats administered 100 mg/kg of kola nut extract per day. Diabetes was induced with 50 mg/kg of STZ. After 3 weeks of administration, the spatial memories of the rats were tested using the Y-maze, followed by assay of Na+/K+-ATPase activity.

Results
The result shows a significant increase in Na+/K+-ATPase activity of diabetic treated groups (5 and 6) when compared with the diabetic group (4) and a significant increase in Na+/K+-ATPase activity of healthy treated groups (2 and 3) when compared with control. Also, there was a significant increase in spatial memory of the diabetic treated groups when compared with diabetic group.

Conclusions
This study revealed that kola nut extract has restorative effect on brain Na+/K+-ATPase activities and spatial memory of STZ-induced diabetic female Wistar rats.
Haloperidol-induced parkinsonism is attenuated by varenicline in mice
Authors: Sharma Amit K. , Gupta Sparsh , Patel Ranjan K. , Wardhan Neeta 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Background
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system (CNS). However, there is no known drug to stop/slow down this neurodegeneration. Varenicline is an anti-smoking drug and has the potential to prevent neurodegeneration. Thus, the present study was designed to evaluate the effect of varenicline in animal models of PD.

Methods
Levodopa and haloperidol were administered in doses of 30 and 1 mg/kg, intraperitoneally (i.p.), respectively. Group 1 was administered haloperidol; groups 2, 3 and 4 were administered haloperidol along with varenicline in doses of 0.5, 1.5 and 2.5 mg/kg, i.p., respectively and group 5 was administered levodopa along with haloperidol. Varenicline was administered daily, 30 min prior to the administration of haloperidol. Varenicline was administered for the first 8 days, and then from the 9th day until the 15th day. Behavioral assessment (rotarod and catalepsy tests) was performed on days 9 and 15. Assessment of striatal dopamine levels and histopathology were also performed.

Results
In the haloperidol-treated groups, significant decrease in latency to fall off (on rotarod) and increase in catalepsy duration (in catalepsy test) were observed as compared to the control group. In the levodopa-treated group, significant increase in latency to fall off the rotarod and significant decrease in catalepsy duration were observed as compared to the haloperidol-treated groups. Further, on day 9, varenicline (2.5 mg/kg) significantly increased the latency to fall off the rotarod, while varenicline (0.5 and 1.5 mg/kg) did not cause any significant change in latency to fall off the rotarod as compared to the haloperidol-treated group. On day 15, significant increase in latency to fall off the rotarod was observed in varenicline (at all doses) as compared to the haloperidol-treated group. In the catalepsy test, the varenicline-treated (at all doses) groups showed significant decrease in duration of catalepsy on day 9 and day 15 as compared to the haloperidol-treated group. Significant decrease in striatal dopamine levels was observed among the haloperidol-treated groups as compared to the control group. Further, varenicline-treated (at all doses) and levodopa-treated groups showed significant increase in striatal dopamine levels when compared with the haloperidol-treated group. In histology, varenicline (0.5 mg/kg) showed moderate decrease in neurons, while varenicline (1.5 and 2.5 mg/kg) showed mild decrease in neurons. However, the levodopa-treated group did not show any significant decrease in neurons. Thus, varenicline has shown promising results and has provided novel strategy for the treatment of PD.
The Varchenko determinant of a Coxeter arrangement
Authors: Pfeiffer Götz , Randriamaro Hery 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThe Varchenko determinant is the determinant of a matrix defined from an arrangement of hyperplanes. Varchenko proved that this determinant has a beautiful factorization. It is, however, not possible to use this factorization to compute a Varchenko determinant from a certain level of complexity. Precisely at this point, we provide an explicit formula for this determinant for the hyperplane arrangements associated to the finite Coxeter groups. The intersections of hyperplanes with the chambers of such arrangements have nice properties which play a central role for the calculation of their associated determinants.
An adaptive iteration reconstruction method for limited-angle CT image reconstruction
Authors: Wang Chengxiang , Zeng Li , Zhang Lingli , Guo Yumeng , Yu Wei 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The limited-angle computed tomography (CT) reconstruction problem is an ill-posed inverse problem, and the parameter selection for limited-angle CT iteration reconstruction is a difficult issue in practical application. In this paper, to alleviate the instability of limited-angle CT reconstruction problem and automatize the reconstruction process, we propose an adaptive iteration reconstruction method that the regularization parameter is chosen adaptively via the plot of the normalized wavelet coefficients fitting residual versus that the

ℓ
0

{\ell_{0}}

regularization part. The experimental results show that the reconstructed images using the method with adapted regularization parameter are almost as good as that using the non-adapted parameter method in terms of visual inspection, in addition, our method has an advantage in adaptively choosing the regularization parameter.
A New Construction of Optical Zero-Correlation Zone Codes
Authors: Fassi Benattou , Taleb-Ahmed Abdelmalik 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
A new method for constructing optical zero-correlation zone (OZCZ) codes based on the Hadamard matrix and the concatenation operation is proposed. The most important property of the obtained codes is that the periodic correlation function of the proposed codes is zero for the phase shifts within the zero-correlation zone. The structure of the proposed OZCZ code is simple and their construction is more flexible. The proposed code is expected to be useful for reducing co-channel interference in optical code division multiple access system.
On new strong versions of Browder type theorems
Authors: Sanabria José , Carpintero Carlos , Rodríguez Jorge , Rosas Ennis , García Orlando 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
An operator T acting on a Banach space X satisfies the property (UWΠ
) if σa
(T)∖

σ

S

F

+

−

$\begin{array}{}
\sigma_{SF_{+}^{-}}
\end{array} $

(T) = Π(T), where σa
(T) is the approximate point spectrum of T,

σ

S

F

+

−

$\begin{array}{}
\sigma_{SF_{+}^{-}}
\end{array} $

(T) is the upper semi-Weyl spectrum of T and Π(T) the set of all poles of T. In this paper we introduce and study two new spectral properties, namely (VΠ
) and (VΠa

), in connection with Browder type theorems introduced in [1], [2], [3] and [4]. Among other results, we have that T satisfies property (VΠ
) if and only if T satisfies property (UWΠ
) and σ(T) = σa
(T).
A splitting method for free surface flows over partially submerged obstacles
Authors: Nikitin Kirill D. , Olshanskii Maxim A. , Terekhov Kirill M. , Vassilevski Yuri V. 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The paper proposes a stable time-splitting method for the numerical simulation of free-surface viscous flows. The key features of the method are a semi-Lagrangian scheme for the level-set function transport improved with MacCormack predictor–corrector step with limiting strategy and an adaptive volume-correction procedure. The spatial discretization is done by a hybrid finite volume/finite difference method on dynamically adaptive hexahedral meshes. Numerical verification is done by comparing full-scale 3D numerical simulations of the sloshing tank and the coastal wave run-up with other numerical and experimental results known from the literature.
What is the minimum change in left ventricular ejection fraction, which can be measured with contrast echocardiography?
Authors: Suwatanaviroj Tan , He Weimin , Pituskin Edith , Paterson Ian , Choy Jonathan , Becher Harald 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Background: There are limited data on what is the minimum change that can be detected in cancer patients undergoing treatment with cardiotoxic drugs and are referred for monitoring left ventricular (LV) function.

Objective: To assess the variability in the measurement of LV volumes and ejection fraction (EF) in contrast echocardiography and to determine the minimum detectable difference (MDD) between two EF measurements that can be deemed significant.

Methods: A total of 150 patients were divided into three groups according to EF (EF <53, 53–60, and >60%). Each group consisted of 50 randomly selected cancer patients who underwent contrast echocardiography between July 2010 and May 2014. Repeated measurements of LV volumes and EF were performed offline by a sonographer and a cardiologist. Inter-observer variability was assessed by analysis of variance. Measurement error was estimated by standard error of measurement and MDD.

Results: The 95% confidence interval with a single measurement of EF was 2 percentage points in the groups of patients with EF <53% and EF >60%, and 2.5 percentage points for patients with EF 53–60%. The MDD for EF, end-diastolic volume and end-systolic volume that could be recognized with 95% confidence interval were 4 percentage points, 7 mL and 4 mL, respectively.

Conclusion: Contrast echocardiography is a reliable tool for serial measurements of EF to monitor cardiotoxicity due to chemotherapy. In a high-volume echocardiography laboratory with experienced staff, the MDD for EF of 4 percentage points on a good-quality recording demonstrates the high reproducibility of the Simpson’s method using contrast echocardiography.
Políticas de formação de professores no Brasil: desdobramentos e interlocução com diretrizes dos organismos internacionais
Authors: Corte Marilene Gabriel Dalla , Sarturi Rosane Carneiro , Nunes Janilse Fernandes 
Published: April 2018

No texto analisam-se as políticas de formação dos professores no Brasil em seus desdobramentos e recomendações de organismos internacionais. O artigo é fruto de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, à luz de marcos teóricos e legais que subsidiam reflexões acerca das prioridades, orientações e programas de governo subjacentes à formação de professores. Entre os principais resultados, destacam-se: as reformas educacionais observam as recomendações dos organismos internacionais; as políticas educativas atuais reafirmam a centralidade da formação para o/no exercício da docência; os programas de formação estão relacionados à natureza das funções docentes; e as instituições formadoras atuam como mecanismos para atender às demandas de processos produtivos e performativos oriundos da lógica global.
El oficio del filósofo y la técnica
Authors: Prada Dussán Maximiliano 
Published: April 2018

Este artículo se pregunta por el oficio del filósofo en relación con la técnica, recorre los planteamientos de Bacon con respecto a la noción de utilidad del saber y el papel de la técnica.A continuación se realiza una exploración sobre la función de las telecomunicaciones y del entorno que ellas crean, en relación con la enseñanza, la investigación y el quehacer de la filosofía. Se exploran algunas de las direcciones de las tecnologías actuales de la información, señalando cómo el conocimiento se va desprendiendo de la naturaleza en busca de esa dirección
Family Support and Glucose Control Related to Microvascular Complications Symptoms
Authors: Wardani Alfiah Kusuma , Isfandiari Muhammad Atoillah 
Published: April 2018

ABSTRACTDiabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease whose prevalence continues to increase. WHO predicts that diabetes will be 7 major diseases that will cause the death in 2030. Many people with diabetes are not aware of it so that they get complications. The increasing number of people with diabetes mellitus who develop complications because of the bad controlling of blood sugar levels and the lack of support from family. The Complications were observed in this study is microvascular complications. This study aims to analyze between family support and control blood sugar levels with the incidence of microvascular complications in the patients with symptoms of diabetes mellitus in the Community Health Center Jagir Surabaya.This research uses analytic observational study sample of patients with diabetes mellitus who had diabetes mellitus ≥ 5 years as many as 34 samples. The Sampling was done by the simple random sampling, while the data analysis was done by the Chi Square test.The results showed that there was no relationship between family support with symptoms of microvascular complications (p=0.069), but there is a relationship between the control of blood sugar levels with symptoms of microvascular complications (p=0.002).The Microvascular symptoms that are often experienced by people with diabetes mellitus in the Community Health Center Jagir is symptomatic neuropathy complications . The proportion of patients with diabetes mellitus who received family support at 55.9%, while the patients with diabetes mellitus who control the blood sugar levels well totaling 17 respondents. It is expected that people with diabetes mellitus to control eating diet and regular exercise. Keywords : Family support, blood sugar levels control, symptoms of microvascular complications.
The Differences of the Behavioral Factors of Midwifes in UCI village and non UCI
Authors: Wati Siti Fatma , Wahjuni Chatarina Umbul 
Published: April 2018

ABSTRACT2-3 millions of people in all groups of age die every year caused by the diseases that can be prevented by immunization: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and measles. It is due to the UCI village target from year to year are not increased properly. One of the reasons of the unattainable UCI’s target is due to the factor of the officers. This research aims to determine the differences of the characteristic and the behavioral of the officers in UCI village as well as non-UCI in the District of Pasuruan (Kabupaten Pasuruan). The research is conducted by using the design of cross sectional. The samples in this study were 76 village midwifes. Sampling was stratified random sampling method. Data were analyzed using chi square statistical test. The independent variabel is the status of village UCI. The dependent variable is the characteristics of the village midwifes ( age, background of the knowledge, work experiences, employment status, training and double/dual duty), knowledge, action and attitude. There are significant differences in some variables of obstetricians such as the work experiences (p=0,023), the employment status (p=0,030), the double/dual duty (p=0,013), the knowledge (p=0,003), the action (p=0,017), and the behavior (p=0,045). Meanwhile, several variables have not significant differences, such as the age (p=0,193), the knowledge (p=0,185), the training activity (p=0,762), and the behavioral (0,219). Based on the brief explanation above, we can draw the conclusion that there are the differentiations in UCI village as well as non UCI village from the officers including the factors of the work experiences, the staffing, the double duty, the knowledge, the action and behavior. The policy so that the obstetricians will focus on running the programs in accordance with the skills.Keywords: the characteristic, the duty, the behavioral, the status of UCI villages, the village midwifes.
Risk Analysis of Typhoid Fever Based on Personal Hygiene and Street Food Consumption Habit at Home
Authors: Nuruzzaman Hilda , Syahrul Fariani 
Published: April 2018

Typhoid fever is disease caused by Salmonella typhi bacteria transmission trought contaminated food and drink. Data from RSUD dr. Abdoer Rahem showing that from 2011–2013 typhoid fever case always increase and often happened to children age 5–14 years old. The objective research to analysis risk factor of typhoid fever according to snacking habit at school and at house of children age 7–12 years old. This research was observasional case control study. Data for case in this research are taken from medical record of ‘Unit Teratai’ for the past 1 year in RSUD dr. Abdoer Rahem Situbondo, whereas for control are case group. There are eighty person taken for this research as sample. This result was the risk of typhoid fever children which has habit of hand washing had after defecation at home OR 3.67 (1.29 < OR < 10.64), children which has habit of hand washing before eating had OR 4.33 (1.54 < OR < 12.44), children with short dirty fingernails had OR 7.79 (1.46 < OR < 46.18) frequent street food consumption OR 3.89 (1.39 < OR < 11.06), buy snack at food street OR 3.95 (1.40 < OR < 11.30), buy some snack with packing had OR 3.5 (1.26 < OR < 9.38). The conclusion is that habit hand washing after defecation, habit hand washing before eating, short dirty fingernail, frequent food street consumption, buy food street and buy some food with sealed packing can secrease the risk of typhoid fever for children age 7–12 yearsKeywords: typhoid fever, risk factor of typhoid fever, personal hygiene, street food consumption habit
Influence of Family Support and DM Status with Hemodialysis Patient’s Quality of Life
Authors: Bestari Anikha Widya 
Published: April 2018

Handling CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) final stage is mostly done in Indonesia is hemodialysis. Hemodialysis can prevent death, but not fully restore the quality of life of patients as before. Psychosocial problems such as lack of family support sometimes be a severe problem that must be faced by the patient. While diabetes mellitus which is etiology of PGK can increase the risk of morbidity and mortality for patients. This study aimed to analyze influence of family support and DM status with hemodialysis patient’s quality of life. This study is an observational analytic study with cross sectional design. Samples of this study are 72 patients on hemodialysis Installation RSU Haji Surabaya, which is calculated using a simple random sampling from hemodialysis schedule. Data is collected using interviews and secondary data on the patient diagnosis document. The questionnaire is WHOQOL-BREF which assess quality of life and family support questionnaire in accordance with the theory of family support from House. The results showed that there is a influence between family support (p = 0.005) and diabetes status (p = 0.003) on the status of the patient's quality of life. From these two variables known that DM status is strongest variable that influence quality of life. Therefore, interventions focused on controlling patients with DM and supportive therapy in the family. Keywords : Hemodialysis, Quality of Life, Family Support, Diabetes Mellitus (DM)
Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection Based on Surveillance Attributes in RSU Haji Surabaya
Authors: Vebrilian Spica Redina 
Published: April 2018

Surveillance system is instrumental in reducing the incidence of nosocomial infection. The implementation of this surveillance system is necessary in the hospital. Surveillance CAUTI is one of the focus prevention and infection control program in RSU Haji Surabaya 2015. The success of surveillance system highly depends on the association of attributes inside it. Surveillance attributes are indicator that describes the characteristics ofsurveillance system. In 2015, there was a delay in the collection of data reports which exceeds the prescribed time limit and there was also a lot of blank space in the confi rmation sheet. It affects the surveillance system in RSU Haji Surabaya. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the surveillance CAUTI based on the surveillance attributes in RSU Haji Surabaya2015. This research is a descriptive evaluative research. Subjects in this study are the surveillance attributes (simplicity, flexibility, acceptability, sensitivity, positive predictive value, representativeness, timeliness, data quality, and stability) CAUTI in RSU Haji Surabaya, while survey respondents are IPCN, IPCLN, and head nurse. Data collected by interview and documentation study. The results showed that the attributes of surveillance is already has simplicity, high acceptability, high sensitivity, high positive predictive value, representative, and high stability. However, other attributes were not fl exible, not timeliness, and has a low data quality. Alternative solutions that can be done are to improve the regulatory function in every unit, establish standardization of hospital data, and manage reward and punishment system.Keywords: surveillance system, surveillance attributes, evaluation, nosocomial infections, CAUTI