bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Weight Change and Development of Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis Among Metabolically Healthy Adults: A Cohort Study
Authors: Sinn Dong Hyun , Kang Danbee , Cho Soo Jin , Chang Yoosoo , Ryu Seungho , Song Young Bin , Paik Seung Woon , Hong Yun Soo , Zhao Di , Guallar Eliseo , Cho Juhee , Gwak Geum-Youn 
Published: September 2019

AbstractBackgroundThe benefit of weight loss for reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in metabolically healthy obese people is unknown.ObjectivesWe evaluated the association between weight change and incident subclinical carotid atherosclerosis (SCA) in metabolically healthy but overweight or obese subjects.MethodsCohort study of 3117 metabolically healthy overweight or obese adults who did not have any metabolic syndrome components or insulin resistance at baseline. SCA was assessed using carotid artery ultrasonography. The study outcome was the development of incident SCA among participants free of the disease at baseline.ResultsDuring 12 248 person-years of follow-up (median 3.42 years), 747 participants developed SCA. The proportions of participants with no reduction or increased weight, reduction in weight from 0.1% to 4.9%, and reduction in weight ≥ 5% during follow-up were 47.0%, 44.4%, and 8.6%, respectively. The fully-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for incident SCA in participants with a reduction in weight of 0.1% to 4.9% and ≥ 5% compared with those with no reduction or increased weight were 0.84 (95% CI, 0.72–0.98) and 0.66 (95% CI, 0.50–0.87), respectively.ConclusionsIn a large cohort study of metabolically healthy but overweight or obese adult men and women, weight reduction was associated with a lower incidence of SCA. Our findings suggest that metabolically healthy overweight or obese subjects may benefit from weight reduction in terms of CVD risk.
“As if His Heart Died”: A Reinterpretation of Moteuczoma’s Cowardice in the Conquest History of the Florentine Codex
Authors: Dufendach Rebecca 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
The first encounters between Nahuas and Spaniards from 1519 to 1521 resulted in widespread deaths in the indigenous communities of central Mexico. Although the first recorded disease epidemic is often acknowledged as a factor in the loss of rule to the invaders, Moteuczoma receives much of the blame. Historians contend that Moteuczoma’s cowardice facilitated the defeat of his people. Instead, this article argues that descriptions of the pain and fright that afflicted Moteuczoma and his people in Book XII of the Florentine Codex are references to long-standing cultural concepts of illness. This article uses colonial and modern ethnographic sources to illuminate enduring Mesoamerican concepts of health and sickness. The chaos and loss of life connected to the first epidemic in 1520 contributed significantly to the fall of Tenochtitlan. This article reveals how Nahuas remembered and understood the startling arrival of the Spaniards and the first terrifying disease epidemic during the invasion.
The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures
Authors: Vail Gabrielle 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
This article focuses on female-gendered activities in Mesoamerican culture and reveals a strong link between conception, pregnancy, and childbirth on the one hand and weaving and other activities that produce cloth on the other. Supporting evidence from sources such as codices painted during the Postclassic period (13th to 15th centuries) in the northern Maya area indicates that these associations have a longtime depth, spanning at least a millennium. Ethnohistoric sources from highland Guatemala, paired with contemporary practices in that region, provide further insights into beliefs and rituals associated with childbirth and midwifery among prehispanic Maya populations. A review of colonial-period Nahuatl sources provides a comparative perspective for framing the Maya data within the broader context of pre-Conquest Mesoamerica.
Despite the events that have transpired during the past five hundred years in this region, this study finds that many of the elements that were key to this conceptual framework during the Pre-Hispanic period continue to be important today, although their range is more restricted now than it was during the Postclassic and colonial periods. Striking commonalities, as noted, are those that link weaving activities with pregnancy and childbirth. Additionally, objects and iconography related to women and birth—in the form of serpents, umbilical cords, and ropes—tie the act of birth to primordial creation events and highlight the association between midwife and creator grandmother.
Perinatal Rites in theRitual of the Bacabs, a Colonial Maya Manuscript
Authors: Knowlton Timothy W. , Dzidz Yam Edber 
Published: September 2019

AbstractPregnancy and childbirth were among indigenous Maya women’s most dangerous life experiences, with very high maternal and perinatal death rates from pre-Hispanic times through the first decades of the twentieth century. This article contributes to the knowledge of colonial Yucatec Maya women through the interpretation of documentary evidence of three indigenous rites meant to facilitate women’s perinatal health and successful childbirth. This evidence is contained in the eighteenth-century collection of healing chants known as the “ritual of the bacabs.” The chants include those for cooling the steam bath used in indigenous perinatal treatments, for difficulty in childbirth, and for rites surrounding the disposal of the afterbirth. Through an analysis that combines philological approaches with ethnographic interviews of contemporary Maya speakers, this article provides new insights into the intersection between ritual and culture-specific notions of the body among the colonial Maya.
Low-density genetically diverse natural Wolbachia infections in malaria vectors in Kayin state, Myanmar
Authors: Sawasdichai Sunisa , Chaumeau Victor , Dah Tee , Kulabkeeree Thithiworada , Kajeechiwa Ladda , Phanaphadungtham Monthicha , Trakoolchengkaew Muesuwa , Kittiphanakun Praphan , Akararungrot Yanada , Oo Kyi , Delmas Gilles , White Nicholas J. , Nosten François H. 
Published: September 2019

Background: Natural Wolbachia infections in malaria mosquitoes were recently reported in Africa, and negatively correlated with the development of Plasmodium falciparum in the vectors. The occurrence and effects of Wolbachia infections outside Africa have not been described and may have been underestimated. Methods: Mosquitoes were collected by human-landing catch during May and June 2017 in ten villages in Kayin state, Myanmar. Closely related species of malaria vectors were identified with molecular assays. Wolbachia infection rates were assessed with quantitative real-time PCR. Results: Low titer of Wolbachia DNA was detected in 13/370 samples in six malaria vector species. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA sequences revealed a high diversity of Wolbachia strains and identified lineages different from those described in the African malaria mosquitoes. Conclusion: These low-density genetically diverse natural Wolbachia infections question the ecology and biology of Wolbachia-Anopheles interactions in Southeast Asia. Their effects on malaria transmission and mosquito vectors are yet to be determined.
Introduction to the Special Issue on IoT Cloud Solutions for Societal Applications
Authors: Benedict Shajulin , Gerndt Michael 
Published: September 2019

Addressing societal problems such as air pollution, water contamination, corruption, healthcare management, agricultural assistance, and so forth has increased in the recent past using several highend technologies, including IoT cloud.
In fact, innovations have become the key factor of economic growth in several developing and developed countries. For instance, Atal Innovation Mission of India has promoted innovations that addresses the needs of the society through IoT cloud based technologies at AIC-IIITKottayam; TUM-Germany and several top ranked universities across the globe have driven the research or product developments targeting the benefits of the society – energy, healthcare, agriculture, economic health, and so forth.
Existing IoT based societal applications require a large volume of data for the analysis; a secure environment for handling data (either in the cloud or edge environments); and, a diligent planning while handling heterogeneous devices on federated cloud environments. In fact, scalability of cloud resources is the backbone for IoT cloud environments, while edge computing is required for short response times. Many IoT applications are based on automatic decision making applying machine learning on huge data sets and thus, these techniques influenced a large group of researchers in the IoT cloud domain.
This special issue on “IoT Cloud Solutions for Societal Applications” discusses security aspects and a decision making in IoT applications. Syed et al discuss IoT security requirements, challenges, and in the context of smart cities, smart health, smart building, smart transport, and smart industry applications; Naveen et al have carried out a theoretical evaluation using spacio-temporal distance networks in a deep learning network in order to perform the action recognition tasks in IoT environments.
Ensemble Spatio-Temporal Distance Net for Skeleton Based Action Recognition
Authors: Naveenkumar M , Domnic S 
Published: September 2019

The performance of an efficient and accurate action recognition system heavily depends on distinctive representations for a different class of action sequences. To address this issue, we propose an ensemble network in this paper. We design two multilayer Long Short Term Memory networks to capture spatial and temporal dynamics of the entire sequence, referred to as Spatial-distance Net (SdNet) and Temporal-distance Net (TdNet) respectively. More specifically, SdNet captures the spatial dynamics of joints within a frame and TdNet explores the temporal dynamics of joints between frames along the sequence. Finally, two nets are fused as one Ensemble network, referred to as Spatio -Temporal distance Net (STdNet) to explore both spatial and temporal dynamics. The efficacy of the proposed method is evaluated on two widely used datasets, UTD MHAD and NTU RGB+D, and the proposed STdNet achieved 91.16% and 80.03% accuracies respectively.
Analysis of the Possibilities for the Implementation and Formation of Leadership Qualities among Teachers in the Modern Educational Environment
Authors: Андрюкова Д. , Andryukova D. , Виноградова Н. , Vinogradova N. 
Published: September 2019

In modern socio-cultural conditions, there is a request for professional growth of the teacher. It is confirmed by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation (5) and teachers (1). The problem is to increase the number and level of complexity of the requirements for teachers and the lack of theoretical and practical information base for both working and future teachers. The purpose of the study: to develop a Handbook designed to help in the possible implementation of the request for professional growth of the teacher, the formation of the teacher-leader. Research problem:
1) to study the features of teachers ' perception of the phenomenon of leadership and understanding the role of a leader for a teacher within his profession.
2) to analyze the difficulties in the pedagogical sphere, relevant at the moment. 3) the opinions of teachers about the specifics of their profession are revealed. The topic of the phenomenon of leadership in the pedagogical sphere and improving the quality of education was considered in the works of M. Barber, M. Murshed [2], I.B. Bicheva, O.M. Filatova [3], S.S. Lutkin [4], I.L. Feldman [6], S.N. Yaroshenko [7].
Bridging Academia and Industry: How Geographic Hubs Connect University Science and Corporate Technology
Authors: Bikard Michaël , Marx Matt 
Published: September 2019

Innovative firms rely increasingly on academic science, yet they exploit only a small fraction of all academic discoveries. Which discoveries in academia do firms build upon? We posit that hubs play the role of bridges between academic science and corporate technology. Tracking citations from patents to approximately 10 million academic articles, we find that hubs facilitate the flow of academic science into corporate inventions in two ways. First, hub-based discoveries in academia are of higher quality and are more applied. Second, firms—in particular young, innovative, science-oriented ones—pay disproportionate attention to hub-based discoveries. We address concerns regarding unobserved heterogeneity by confirming the role of firms’ attention to hub-based science in a set of 147 simultaneous discoveries. Importantly, hubs not only facilitate localized knowledge flow but also extend the geographic reach of academic science, attracting the attention of distant firms. This paper was accepted by Ashish Arora, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Ensino-Aprendizagem com Game of Thrones: aplicando ferramentas de Análise de Política Externa para analisar o Dragão, o Leão e o Lobo | Teaching-Learning with Game of Thrones: Applying Foreign Policy Analysis Tools to analyze the Dragon, the Lion and the Wolf
Authors: Gonçalves Fernanda Cristina Nanci Izidro , Marins Carolina Mendes 
Published: September 2019

Este artigo aplica ferramentas teóricas utilizadas para analisar liderança eprocesso decisório na subdisciplina de Análise de Política Externa (APE) à série Game of Thrones. Busca-se demonstrar que a série e seus protagonistas podem ser utilizados como instrumentos para o aprendizado aplicado do conteúdo teórico de APE no campo de estudo de Relações Internacionais. Por meio de um exemplo prático, este artigo apresenta como é possível aplicar ferramentas de Análise de Traços de Liderança a três dos principais personagens de GOT: Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen e Cersei Lannister. Conclui-se que a aplicação de novos métodos para compreensão do conteúdo teórico das disciplinas enriquece, estimula e facilita o processo de ensino-aprendizagem.Palavras-chave: Análise de Política Externa; Game of Thrones; Ensino-Aprendizagem.ABSTRACTThis article applies theoretical tools used to analyze leadership and decision making in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) to Game of Thrones. It demonstrates that the series and its protagonists can be used as instruments for an applied learning of the FPA theoretical content in the field of International Relations. Through a practical example, this article presents how it is possible to apply Leadership Trait Analysis tools to three of GOT's main characters: Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and Cersei Lannister. It is concluded that the application of new methods to understand theoretical content enriches, stimulates and facilitates the teaching-learning process.Keywords: Foreign Policy Analysis; Game of Thrones; Teaching-Learning.Recebido em 23 out.2018 | Aceito em 22 ago.2019
Epidemiology of paediatric elbow fractures: A retrospective multi-centre study of 488 fractures
Authors: Okubo H. , Nakasone M. , Kinjo M. , Onaka K. , Futenma C. , Kanaya F. 
Published: September 2019

Purpose Elbow fractures are common in children and occur during daily activities. The aim of this study is to evaluate the epidemiology of paediatric elbow fractures over a two-year period in Okinawa, a southern subtropical island in Japan. Methods This was a retrospective study of 488 elbow fractures in children younger than 15 years old treated at 11 hospitals in Okinawa. Data included age, gender, calendar month, type of fracture, operation rate, mechanism of injury, and aetiology. Results The most frequent age was 6 years old, with 47.5% of all elbow fractures occurring in an age range from 6 to 10 years old. The fracture rate for boys was 1.6 times higher than that for girls. The incidence was the highest in May (56 fractures) and the lowest in August (25 fractures). Supracondylar fractures were the most common type (44%), followed by lateral condyle fractures (22%); 45% of all fractures were treated operatively. Medial epicondyle fractures had the highest rate of operative treatment (91%). In the 6 to 10-year-old group, 19% of all fractures occurred while skateboarding or caster-boarding, the most frequent aetiology. Conclusions Supracondylar fractures are the most common fracture type in 4 to 7-year-old boys. In the 6 to 10-year-old group, skateboarding and caster-boarding are the most frequent and increasing cause of elbow fractures. Therefore, some preventive measures are needed. Level of evidence Level IV, case series
Об одной задаче движения внешней нагрузки по вязкому битому льду в канале
Authors: Завьялова Кристина Николаевна , Шишмарев Константин Александрович 
Published: September 2019

Рассматривается задача определения колебаний битого льда в канале в результате движения внешней нагрузки.
В пункте 1 приведен обзор литературы.
В пункте 2 приведена постановка задачи. Приводится прямоугольный канал с конечными глубиной и шириной. Жидкость в канале идеальная и покрыта битым льдом. Битый лед моделируется тонкой упругой пластиной с нулевой жесткостью. Внешняя нагрузка моделируется гладким локализованным давлением и движется по верхней поверхности битого льда с постоянной скоростью. Рассматривается модельная задача с учетом вязкости битого льда. Течение, вызванное прогибом битого льда, является потенциальным. Прогибы битого льда и потенциал течения жидкости удовлетворяют условию затухания в отдалении от нагрузки.
В пункте 3 приведен алгоритм решения задачи. Решение ищется в виде бегущей волны в системе координат, движущейся совместно с нагрузкой. Задача решена с использованием преобразования Фурье вдоль канала и методом разделения переменных. Решение получено в виде интегралов от образа Фурье прогиба битого льда. Данные интегралы решаются численно для некоторых заданных параметров задачи.
В заключение приведены основные результаты работы.
Об атомарности внешних мер
Authors: Саженков Александр Николаевич , Плотникова Елена Александровна 
Published: September 2019

Исследуется понятие неатомарности для абстрактных внешних мер, определенных на булевом кольце и принимающих значения в произвольном множестве. Для скалярных функций множеств неатомарность множества означает его представимость в виде объединения конечного числа попарно непересекающихся множеств, на любых принадлежащих кольцу подмножествах которых модуль значения функции будет меньше любого заранее заданного положительного числа.
Топологии, связанные с внешней мерой, рассматриваемые нами, являются согласованными со структурой булевого кольца и имеющими определенным образом составленную базу фильтра окрестностей нуля. В такой топологии операции конъюнкции, дизъюнкции, сложения и умножения являются равномерно непрерывными. В работах Л.Я. Савельева представлен обзор современного состояния результатов по обширному кругу вопросов, связанных с внешними мерами и топологиями.
Рассматриваются понятие абстрактной внешней меры, которое охватывает широкий класс мер, и понятие внешней топологии, даны два определения ограниченности в топологической абелевой группе и исследована взаимосвязь этих определений. В основных результатах работы понятие неатомарности меры характеризуется как свойство ограниченности области определения внешней меры в подходящей топологической группе.
К геометрии бутылки Клейна
Authors: Чешкова Мира Артемовна 
Published: September 2019

Данная публикация продолжает серию работ автора о моделировании односторонних поверхностей. На односторонней поверхности существует замкнутая кривая (дезориентирующий контур), обладающая тем свойством, что при обходе локальная ориентация в касательном пространстве меняет знак.
Односторонней поверхностью является бутылка Клейна.
Рассматриваются две гладкие вектор-функции. Предполагается, что одна из них есть 2π периодическая, другая 2π — антипериодическая.
С использованием найденных функций определяются уравнения бутылки Клейна, дезориентирующие контуры и уравнения двух листов Мебиуса, на которые разрезается бутылка Клейна. В работе исследуется инверсия бутылки Клейна.
Доказывается, что если бутылка Клейна не проходит через центр инверсии, то инверсия бутылки Клейна есть бутылка Клейна. Доказывается также, что если бутылка Клейна не проходит через центр инверсии, то дезориентирующие контуры бутылки Клейна при инверсии перейдут в дезориентирующие контуры.
С помощью системы компьютерной математики строятся исследуемые поверхности.
Adrenal incidentoma
Authors: Vetshev P. S. , Ippolitov L. I. , Sinatulina V. A. 
Published: September 2019

Accidentally detected adrenal tumors, or the so-called incidentalomas or adrenalomas (from incidentally discovered adrenal mass), are a relatively new and insufficiently studied problem of endocrinology and endocrine surgery [18, 25, 43, 48, 56].
Issues related to the etiology, morphogenesis, diagnosis and tactics of treatment with incidental have been little studied and are not consolidated into a single integrated system. Several years ago in the periodical press there were few works devoted to this problem [18, 48], and the corresponding sections in the special manuals were extremely short or absent. For many years, hormone-inactive adrenal tumors were, as a rule, an accidental sectional finding [24, 32, 38, 53]. Only with the introduction into wide clinical practice of highly effective diagnostic technologies (ultrasound - ultrasound, computed tomography - CT, magnetic resonance imaging - MRI, selective angiography, etc.) did real possibilities for intravital diagnosis of these tumors appear, as evidenced by the steadily increasing number of publications [ 18, 19, 41, 48, 53, 58, 82]. However, at present, in most cases, incidentalomas are detected by chance during a comprehensive study of the abdominal organs, carried out for some other reason, not related to the pathology of the adrenal glands. Thus, most authors use the term “incidentaloma” to refer to an accidentally detected adrenal tumor [20, 22, 30, 41, 48, 53, 58].
Impact of International Coauthorships to A Young Malaysian University Specializing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Authors: Ng Cheng Yee , Mustaffa Zahiraniza , John Kurian V 
Published: September 2019

Internationalization is defined as a process of integrating an international, intercultural, or global dimension into the teaching and learning of education. International co-authorship in research article is one of the means of collaboration towards internationalization. This paper investigates the impact of international co-authorship in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for a specialised young university (<50 years old). The study focused on approximately 9450 articles and the citations ranging from 2012-2017. The impact due to annual article publication, annual citation count, most cited article, annual citation per article and the correlation between the publication and citation were analysed. The finding shows that faculty members of the university have been collaborated with authors from 86 countries since 1997, which dominated by Asian institutions. Amongst, top 30 countries with highest international co-authored publications were identified, which led by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India, United Kingdom and Japan. Further in detail, annual citation per article (Cpp) showed that collaborations with European countries e.g. Spain, Netherlands, and Hungry, resulting greater mean Cpp. On the other hand, the analysis on the cumulative citation trend illustrated that the citation count is proportional to the number of articles. This study evinced that international co-authorship does show positive impacts to a STEM specialised young university.