bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
De las precariedades de la política alimentaria argentina. Aportes para una transición crítica y desde la perspectiva de la acci´ón colectiva
Authors: Nessier María Celeste 
Published: October 2024

The objective of this text is to analyze Argentinian food policy from a perspective of collective action in the political process. First, we present reflections regarding the main concepts underlying the configuration of food policy and represent its uncritical assimilation. Then, recognizing the appearance of the agro-industrial model, we identify the emergence of actors with conflict of interest who join the political arena in order to make their sector interests prevail over food regulation attempts. Finally, we recognize that the theoretical approach of Promoting Coalitions adds an interruption of the consensual models, when becoming a reading alternative from the promotion of changes in policies led by the civil society. In this way, there is a call to review profiles of pragmatic food policies towards those ones with an integral-systemic base, with transforming and critical potential of the food context. The objective of this article is to recover theoretical approaches that, from public health as well as from political sciences, demand systemic understanding of food problems in the context of neoliberal economies and in the framework of a corporative food system.
Enfermedades prevenibles por vacunación en Ecuador y América Latina: un problema de Salud Pública
Authors: Arias Fabian , Vásquez Medina Gabriel Agustín , Arcos Valencia Michael David , Hidalgo Recalde Santiago Mauricio , Larcos Herrera Celene Lisseth , Chasi Llumiguano Nataly Alejandra , Calderón Moreira Rosa Elizabeth , Arias Carvajal Saira Marlene , Soto Silva Gustavo Alberto , Becerra Sánchez Tatiana Alejandra 
Published: October 2024

ntroduction: Current vaccination coverage rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are lower than regional rates set by the Pan American Health Organization, and this has been further exacerbated by COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas during 2020 and 2021.
Objective: The objective of this study is to inform the medical community about the gap regarding coverage of immunizations for vaccine-preventable diseases in pediatric age groups in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Materials and methods: Various bibliographic sources were used obtained from search engines such as PubMed®, Scopus, and Google Scholar, using the following keywords and MeSH terms: "vaccine-preventable disease, South America, children, vaccine rates." PICO questions were formulated when looking for therapeutic studies using the Trip® search engine. Later, results were discriminated based on significance and the relevance of the article titles. A total of 206 studies were discarded completely, and 18 were selected, along with other 3 documents which were chosen to do this review article.
Results and conclusions: The pandemic has jeopardized the fulfilment of integrated surveillance indicators for measles/rubella and acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). Despite many victories in the region, Latin American vaccination policies have significant deficiencies, and more work is needed to keep the progress and to be prepared for the introduction of newly available vaccines.
A common regulatory framework for vaccine approval is needed to speed up delivery and bring together human, technological, and scientific resources in the region. These reforms are now crucial, particularly now that vaccines for previously neglected diseases in the developing world have become available.

Keywords: vaccine-preventable disease, South America, children, vaccination rates.
Meningkatkan Produksi UMKM melalui Pelatihan Produksi dan Pemasaran Briket Arang
Authors: Dawood Muttaqien , Maisyuri Maisyuri , Salawati Salawati , Shanda Aftri , Akram Muhammad 
Published: October 2024

The aim of executing this communal activity is to enhance comprehension of the significance of utilizing coconut shell charcoal briquettes as a substitute for fuel in culinary pursuits, especially when grilling food. In addition, the training for making coconut shell charcoal briquettes for the residents of Gampong Kuta Krueng consisted of three stages, namely: the Preparation Stage, the Training Stage, and the Evaluation Stage. The purpose of this initiative was to offer instruction to the inhabitants of Gampong Kuta Krueng on producing coconut shell charcoal briquettes as a substitute energy source, particularly for cooking purposes. It is anticipated that this endeavor will proceed effortlessly and the community's awareness will be heightened, along with government backing, leading to expansion in both manufacturing and trade.
Comparative characteristics of the dimensions of the pons with the dimensions of the head in human fetes of different gestational age
Authors: Lopatkina O. P. , Tykholaz V. O. 
Published: October 2024

Annotation. Malformations of human fetuses brains occur in 2-3 cases per 1000 pregnancies and are one of the most common reasons for termination of pregnancy, therefore prenatal diagnosis is extremely important and is aimed at further genetic testing of the fetus and detailed counseling of parents regarding the risk of recurrence. Anthropometric parameters of human fetuses heads allow monitoring the growth of the fetus, estimating the term of pregnancy and determining the method of birth of a pregnant woman. Therefore, the parameters of the head of human fetuses are one of the most important biological characteristics during prenatal research. The purpose of our scientific work is to determine the dimensions of the pons in human fetuses of different gestational ages and compare them with the dimensions of the head. Anatomical research was conducted on 146 human fetuses from 9-10 to 39-40 weeks of gestation. The material for the study was obtained from the maternity hospitals of the city of Vinnytsia and from the communal non-profit enterprise “Vinnytsia Regional Pathological Bureau of the Vinnytsia Regional Council”, and the study was conducted on stillborns who died from various causes not related to brain diseases in relatively healthy mothers. Head circumference, head height, longitudinal and transverse dimensions of the head, pons height, pons width, pons thickness were measured using a ShTs-125 caliper. Statistical processing of digital values was performed using the standard Statsoft software package “Statistica 6.0” on a personal computer using Microsoft Excel 2016, Kolmagorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk test indicators were determined and histograms were built based on them for visual assessment of the distribution of features. The head circumference of human fetuses of 39-40 weeks compared to fetuses of 9-10 weeks became 5.2 times larger, the longitudinal size of the head – 5 times, the transverse size of the head – 4.9 times, the height of the head – 3.6 times (p<0.01). The height of the pons in human fetuses of 39-40 weeks compared to fetuses of 9-10 weeks became 3.8 times greater, thickness – 3.6 times, width – 3.1 times (p<0.01).
Complex technology for producing new types of tea
Authors: Seidishvili N. R. , Papunidze S. R. , Chkhartishvili I. I. 
Published: October 2024

Purpose. Development of an energy-intensive complex technology for processing tea leaves and obtaining new types of tea, which simplifies tea technology and expands the range of products.Materials and methods. Physicochemical methods of analysis were used. For the quantitative and qualitative determination of mineral elements, a plasma atomic emission spectrophotometer icpe-9820 (Shimadzu, Japan) was used.Results. Based on the developed technology, new types of liquid and granulated tea were obtained. The resulting green and black liquid teas are rich in catechins, which have antioxidant properties and P vitamin activity. Recipes have been developed for the preparation of carbonated and non-carbonated drinks, balms, low-alcohol drinks and prophylactic syrup from liquid green and black tea.Conclusions. The developed technology is unique in that for the first time in world practice in the tea industry, two products were simultaneously obtained from tea leaves: liquid and granulated tea. Recommendations are given for the preparation and use of products based on liquid green and black tea.
Sustainable ecosystem of business models: experience and lessons of the development project
Authors: Nekrasova M. A. , Palagin V. S. 
Published: October 2024

The article considers an example of expanding the area of interest of the project to the sphere of pre-project activities aimed at solving the tasks of business planning and forming the concept of the future product. The main objective of the study is to review current and propose effective approaches to project business planning in the National Park—Development Region system.To develop an effective, sustainable ecosystem of national park business models that make a positive contribution to the regional gross product (RGP) of the region, the current approaches to assessing the contribution of economic and other activities, including project activities, to the socio-economic development of regions and the country as a whole were analyzed. The analysis uses methodological recommendations for the development and adjustment of development strategies, as well as national indicators of socio-economic, sustainable, low-carbon development, climate change adaptation of the region’s economy. As a result of application of the considered approaches to business planning of the project in the system ‘National Park — Development Region’ a list of measures to increase the investment attractiveness of the national park was developed. All activities are successfully compatible with the main objectives of the national park, such as preservation of biodiversity and cultural values (code) of the region. Business models are proposed for the effective contribution of national parks to the socio-economic development of the development region, taking into account the natural-resource and recreational potential of the park, interests of the local population, participants of internal and external tourism.The sustainable ecosystem of business models for national park development considered in this article is not limited to the framework of a unique study for one region. The super task of this study was to create a prototype for sustainable socio-economic development of regions that include a network of regional protected areas and national parks.
The World is a Multi-Objective Multi-Agent System: Now What?
Authors: Rădulescu Roxana 
Published: October 2024

Most complex problems of social relevance, such as climate change mitigation, traffic management, taxation policy design, or infrastructure management, involve both multiple stakeholders and multiple potentially conflicting objectives. In a nutshell, the majority of real world problems are multi-agent and multi-objective in nature. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a pivotal tool in designing solutions for such critical domains that come with high impact and ramifications across many dimensions, from societal and economic well-being, to ethical, political, and legal levels. Given the current theoretical and algorithmic developments in AI, it is an opportune moment to take a holistic approach and design decision-support tools that: (i) tackle all the prominent challenges of such problems and consider both the multi-agent and multi-objective aspects; (ii) exhibit vital characteristics, such as explainability and transparency, in order to enhance user agency and alignment. These are the challenges that I will discuss during the Frontiers in AI session at ECAI 2024, together with a brief overview of my work and next steps for this field. This paper summarises my contribution to the session.
Backward Explanations via Redefinition of Predicates
Authors: Saulières Léo , Cooper Martin C. , Dupin de Saint-Cyr Florence 
Published: October 2024

History eXplanation based on Predicates (HXP), studies the behavior of a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent in a sequence of agent’s interactions with the environment (a history), through the prism of an arbitrary predicate [21]. To this end, an action importance score is computed for each action in the history. The explanation consists in displaying the most important actions to the user. As the calculation of an action’s importance is #W[1]-hard, it is necessary for long histories to approximate the scores, at the expense of their quality. We therefore propose a new HXP method, called Backward-HXP, to provide explanations for these histories without having to approximate scores. Experiments show the ability of B-HXP to summarise long histories.
CLCE: An Approach to Refining Cross-Entropy and Contrastive Learning for Optimized Learning Fusion
Authors: Long Zijun , Zhuang Lipeng , Killick George , Meng Zaiqiao , Mccreadie Richard , Aragon-Camarasa Gerardo 
Published: October 2024

State-of-the-art pre-trained image models predominantly adopt a two-stage approach: initial unsupervised pre-training on large-scale datasets followed by task-specific fine-tuning using Cross-Entropy loss (CE). However, it has been demonstrated that CE can compromise model generalization and stability. While recent works employing contrastive learning address some of these limitations by enhancing the quality of embeddings and producing better decision boundaries, they often overlook the importance of hard negative mining and rely on resource intensive and slow training using large sample batches. To counter these issues, we introduce a novel approach named CLCE, which integrates Label-Aware Contrastive Learning with CE. Our approach not only maintains the strengths of both loss functions but also leverages hard negative mining in a synergistic way to enhance performance. Experimental results demonstrate that CLCE significantly outperforms CE in Top-1 accuracy across twelve benchmarks, achieving gains of up to 3.52% in few-shot learning scenarios and 3.41% in transfer learning settings with the BEiT-3 model. Importantly, our proposed CLCE approach effectively mitigates the dependency of contrastive learning on large batch sizes such as 4096 samples per batch, a limitation that has previously constrained the application of contrastive learning in budget-limited hardware environments.
Zero-Shot Relabeling of Weak Labels for Fine-Grained Semantic Indexing of Biomedical Literature
Authors: Nentidis Anastasios , Krithara Anastasia , Tsoumakas Grigorios , Paliouras Georgios 
Published: October 2024

We address the need for focused retrieval and integration of biomedical literature, enabling improved subject annotation of documents with domain concepts for which no manual labels are available. To do so, we propose a novel zero-shot method, called PN Relabeler, that improves heuristic concept-level annotations by relabeling the documents Predicted as Negative (PN) by the concept occurrence (CO) heuristic. CO has proven to be a good heuristic for fine-grained semantic indexing (FGSI) of biomedical literature. In particular, it is quite precise but still misses some document labels, i.e. it suffers from lower recall. The PN Relabeler method addresses this problem, by introducing a novel approach to combine heuristic annotations for unseen labels with knowledge learned from past labels. To do so, it first tackles the intermediate task of zero-shot relabeling of documents labeled with CO-based FGSI annotations. Then, it builds upon the power of domain-specific deep pretrained language models to improve the recall of the heuristic annotation, i.e. reduce the rate of false negative cases. The results reveal that relabeling with PN Relabeler improves the micro-F1 by more than 6%, compared to CO annotations, and by 3%, compared to state-of-the-art CO-based FGSI methods. This highlights the potential of learning from the errors of a strong heuristic on concepts where manual labels are already available. This knowledge is useful for improving the heuristic FGSI labels on new unseen concepts without manual labels in a zero-shot scenario.
UCCIX: Irish-eXcellence Large Language Model
Authors: Tran Khanh-Tung , O’Sullivan Barry , Nguyen Hoang D. 
Published: October 2024

The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has predominantly focused on high-resource languages, leaving extremely low-resource languages like Irish with limited representation. This work presents UCCIX, a pioneering effort on the development of an open-source Irish-based LLM. We propose a novel framework for continued pre-training of LLMs specifically adapted for extremely low-resource languages, requiring only a fraction of the textual data typically needed for training LLMs according to scaling laws. Our model, based on Llama 2-13B [23], outperforms much larger models on Irish language tasks with up to 12% performance improvement, showcasing the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach. We also contribute comprehensive Irish benchmarking datasets, including IrishQA, a question-answering dataset, and Irish version of MT-bench [28]. These datasets enable rigorous evaluation and facilitate future research in Irish LLM systems. Our work aims to preserve and promote the Irish language, knowledge, and culture of Ireland in the digital era while providing a framework for adapting LLMs to other indigenous languages.
The here and clown
Authors: Van Wyk Klara 
Published: October 2024

This practise-as-research paper applies Cormac Power’s three categories of presence (2006) to contemporary clown training and performance in the theatre with specific reference to a recently devised performance that used clown principles to open up challenging discussions around shame, race and Afrikaner Identity. Through my perspective as a South African educator, clown practitioner and postdoctoral fellow, I propose that the contemporary clown’s failed efforts to sustain the audience's belief in their persona is what paradoxically leads to the clown’s success by drawing attention to presence as a multibodied phenomenon. Failure, a key principle of clowning, is an effective performance strategy that relies on the performer's awareness of their presence as a dynamic exchange to establish and maintain connection with an audience through listening and reacting to audience appreciation (laughter) or lack thereof (silence). Through critical reflection of the clown as both a state of presence and a performative strategy, this paper highlights the valuable role that the clown’s insider-outsider position plays in bringing about awareness and learning in both theatrical and pedagogic contexts.
This work is based on the research supported by the National Institute for The Humanities and Social Science.
Determinan Minat Pasangan Usia Subur (PUS) dalam Penggunaan Metode Kontrasepsi Jangka Panjang (MKJP)
Authors: Anggraini Margaretha Yuni , Kusumastuti Istiana , Novita Astrid 
Published: October 2024

Menurunkan minat pasangan usia subur dalam menggunakan metode kontrasepsi jangka panjang (MKJP) dilihat dari tingginya laju pertumbuhan penduduk baik didunia maupun di Indonesia yaitu sebesar 1,34% yang berarti sekitar 3-4 juta bayi lahir setiap tahunnya. Tujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pengetahuan, dukungan suami, sikap ibu, lingkungan sosial, dan peran tenaga kesehatan, terhadap minat pasangan usia subur (PUS) dalam penggunaan MKJP. Desain penelitian ini adalah penelitian dengan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah pasangan usia subur (PUS) di Kelurahan Tintin Peninjau, Kalimantan Barat sebanyak 150 pasangan usia subur. Sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 150 responden. Analisis dilakukan dengan menggunakan Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) dengan Partial Least Square (PLS). Berdasarkan hasil diketahui lingkungan sosial terhadap sikap (nilai p = 0.018), dukungan suami terhadap sikap (nilai p = 0,004), peran tenaga kesehatan terhadap sikap (nilai p = 0.014), dukungan suami terhadap pengetahuan (nilai p = 0,046), peran tenaga kesehatan terhadap pengetahuan (nilai p = 0.032), lingkungan sosial terhadap minat (nilai p = 0.011), dukungan suami terhadap minat (nilai p = 0.004), peran tenaga kesehatan terhadap minat (nilai p = 0.016), sikap pada MKJP terhadap minat (nilai p = 0.058) dan pengetahuan terhadap minat (nilai p = 0.001). Ada pengaruh lingkungan sosial terhadap sikap, dukungan suami terhadap sikap, peran tenaga kesehatan terhadap sikap, dukungan suami terhadap pengetahuan, peran tenaga kesehatan terhadap pengetahuan, lingkungan sosial terhadap minat, dukungan suami terhadap minat, Peran tenaga kesehatan terhadap minat, tidak ada pengaruh sikap pada MKJP terhadap minat dan ada pengaruh pengetahuan terhadap minat penggunaan MKJP.
ВИВЧЕННЯ МУЗИЧНОГО ФОЛЬКЛОРУ ДОНЕЧЧИНИ ОСТАННЬОЇ ЧВЕРТІ XX – ПОЧАТКУ XXI ст.
Authors: Zhuk Kateryna 
Published: October 2024

Мапа регіональних етномузикологічних досліджень невпинно розвивається та поповнюється новим й актуальним знанням. За допомогою цього дослідження авторці хотілося б доповнити всеукраїнську мапу традиційної пісенності статистичними даними Донеччини. Мета дослідження – актуалізувати сучасні відомості про фольклорні експедиції та наукові дослідження території Донецької обл. від початку останньої чверті XX ст. до сьогодення (до відома взято підконтрольну Україні територію Донецької області станом на початок 2014 р.); викласти статистичний фактаж пісенного матеріалу досліджуваної території. Методологія студії: для дослідження використовувалися історико-фактологічний, компаративний методи; метод музично-текстологічного вивчення джерел, а також метод жанрової систематизації. Наукова новизна. Вперше в науковий обіг введено дані польових експедицій І. Крюченко, О. Проселкової та авторки дослідження на території Донеччини. Розроблено наочну таблицю з повним переліком населених пунктів Донеччини, досліджених починаючи з експедицій 1980-х рр. і до сьогодення. Розширено відомості про наукові пошуки відомого фольклориста П. Тимофєєва, доповнено статистичні дані про фольклорні експедиційні дослідження О. Тюрикової та І. Фетисова. Висновки. Від середини 90-х рр. XX ст. до 2007 р. на території Донеччини П.Т. Тимофєєвим, О. Тюриковою, Л. Єфремовою, І. Фетисовим [9,14,15,17] проводились глибокі та місткі розвідки традиційної культури регіону. У 2006-2007 рр. Л. Васіною та Г. Ладигіною було записано та оприлюднено 5 дисків із автентичним звучанням носіїв традиції краю «Скарби Донеччини». Після 2009 р. спостерігаємо занепад наукового вивчення краю, та лише поодинокі експедиції І. Крюченко, О. Проселкової та авторки дослідження, що були призупиненні у звʼязку з початком повномасштабного російського вторгнення в Україну (з 2022 р.). Серед узагальнених на цей час матеріалів традиційної пісенності з 88-ти сіл 18-ти р-нів Донецької обл., 3-х р-нів Дніпропетровської обл., 2-х р-нів. Луганської та 6 р-нів Харківської обл. було зафіксовано: 212 пісенних зразків зимового обрядового фольклору; 48 пісенних зразків весняно-літнього обрядового фольклору; 335 весільних пісенних зразків; і 127 позаобрядових пісень.