bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Effects of “VelaMente?!” Project on Social Functioning of People With Severe Psychosocial Disabilities
Authors: Sancassiani Federica , Lorrai Stefano , Cossu Giulia , Cocco Alessio , Trincas Giuseppina , Floris Francesca , Mellino Gisa , Machado Sergio , Nardi Antonio Egidio , Fabrici Elisabetta Pascolo , Preti Antonio , Carta Mauro Giovanni 
Published: November 2017

Introduction:Physical activity helps to improve several clinical outcomes of people with severe psychosocial disabilities. The aims of this study were; 1) to assess the efficacy of a psychosocial rehabilitative intervention focused on sailing in a crew on: a) social functioning; b) severity of the psychosocial disability; c) general functioning; d) dysregulation of biorhythms of people with severe psychosocial disabilities, and 2) to evaluate the attenders’ satisfaction about the project.Methods:A randomized waitlist controlled trial with parallel groups was carried out involving 51 people with severe psychosocial disabilities. The intervention was a 3 months-lasting course to learn sailing in a crew. Just after the randomization, a group began the sailing course and the other group (wait list) attended the sailing course after 3 months of treatments as usual. Before and after the sailing course, as well as the waiting list period, all attenders were assessed by HoNOS, GAF, CGI-S and BRIAN. At the end of the sailing course, they completed also a self-report satisfaction questionnaire.Results:Social functioning significantly improved after the sailing course (HoNOS total score “time X group”: p=0.011), mainly because of the improvement of psychopathological symptoms (HoNOS symptoms score “time X group”: p=0.003). Furthermore, participants greatly appreciated the rehabilitative program based on sailing in a crew.Conclusions:When compared to more traditional rehabilitative activities that are usually carried out in mental health services, a psychosocial rehabilitative intervention based on sailing in a crew significantly improve the social functioning of people with severe psychosocial disabilities.
Literatura, cultura e construção de identidades: o velho e o novo, o campo e a cidade em Mia Couto
Authors: Baseio Maria Auxiliadora Fontana , Silva Lourdes Ana Pereira 
Published: November 2017

Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar as questões que envolvem a construção da cultura e da identidade a partir das inter-relações velho/novo, campo/cidade. O contexto mais amplo da problematização é a negociação que se estabelece na relação entre velho e cidade na literatura moçambicana e que elege por objeto de análise o conto do autor Mia Couto intitulado “A avó, a cidade e o semáforo”. Metodologicamente, este trabalho é de natureza bibliográfica e tem por principais categorias de observação e análise a cidade e o velho em suas implicações com o conceito de identidade. ---DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.2017n19a405
Os sentidos e os não sentidos da língua portuguesa: questões de língua e linguagem nos contos de Mia Couto
Authors: Silva Maurício 
Published: November 2017

O presente artigo trata da produção ficcional de Mia Couto, em especial seus contos, analisando o modo como o autor moçambicano trabalha em seus textos questões relacionadas à língua e à linguagem, além de vincularmos tais questões às teorias do pós-colonialismo. Para Mia Couto, o processo de colonização impõe ao colonizado um outro modo de falar, que corresponde a uma outra língua. ---DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.2017n19a424
Programa de cuentos para la mejora de actitudes ambientales de los pobladores de Alizo - Amazonas, 2012
Authors: Yóplac Acosta Manuel 
Published: November 2017

<p>La investigacion de enfoque cuantitativo-cualitativo tuvo como objetivo evaluar la influencia de un programa de cuentos en el cambio de actitudes ambientales en la dimension cognitiva, afectiva y conductual. Se trabajo con 76 campesinos utilizando un diseño pretest-postest on un solo grupo. El programa duro 32 meses donde se desarrollaron 17 cuentos ambientales, 7 peliculas, 4 talleres de formación y 23 acciones colectivas proambientales. Los resultados evidencian que el programa influye significativamente en la mejora de las actitudes ambientales. En la dimension cognitiva, el nivel eficiente de conocimientos de los recursos, aumentó de 0,76% en el pretest a 59,7% en el postest; el valor de la prueba Z:55,60, confirma la significancia. la dimensión afectiva, la postura de total acuerdo en valorar los recursos, aumento de 1,3% en el pretest a 42,9% en el postest; el valor de la prueba Z:66,70 confirma la significancia. En la dimensión conductual, la participación en todo el proceso se califica de buena. El aporte principal de la investigación fue demostrar que el programa de cuentos contribuyó favorablemente en la mejora de comprension del nivel de conocimientos, mayor valoración, y mejor capacidad de accion para la protección y manejo de los recursos ambientales.</p>
Método didáctico "Socioneuropsicológico" y su efecto en la estimulación de la integración hemisférica cerebral en estudiantes del nivel primario
Authors: Ayay Arista Guido 
Published: November 2017

<p>La investigacion tuvo por objetivo evaluar el efecto del metodo didáctico "Socioneuropsicológico", tratado principalmente en procedimientos que estimulan la predominancia en la integracion hemisférica cerebral; derecha-izquierda, sobre la base de las teorías derivadas de la neurociencia y las ciencias de la educación. Se ha empleado el diseño de investigacion cuasi-experimental denominado "diseño con pre y postprueba, con grupo de control no aleatorio". La muestra, estuvo conformada por 32 estudiantes de del sexto grado de la lnstitucion Educativa "San Juan de la Libertad de Chachapoyas". Los grupos: experimental y control estuvieron conformados por 17 y 15 estudiantes respectivamente. Las hipótesis contrastadas mediante el parámetro estadístico T-Student, revelan que la experimentación del método didáctico "Socioneuropsicológico", evidencia estimulación significativa de la predominancia en la integración hemisferica cerebral: derecha-izquierda. Por consiguiente, se concluye, que la sistematicidad del método estimula la integracién hemisférica cerebral de doce funciones bipolares. En el hemisferio cerebral izquierdo se estimulan la función verbal, analítica, simbólica, matemática, de abstracción, lógico-racional, temporal, audiovisual, intelectual, de convergencia y de interpretacion. En el hemisferio cerebral derecho se estimulan las funciones no verbal, sintética, espacial, artistica, de concreción,<br />emocional, atemporal, cinestésica, sensual, sistémica, de divergencia y creatividad.</p>
Miradas sobre intercambios internacionales y circulación internacional de ideas y modelos urbanos
Authors: Jajamovich Guillermo 
Published: November 2017

El presente artículo busca indicar la productividad del abordaje de intercambios entre “locales” y “extranjeros”. Así, se recorren diversos trabajos que desde la historia cultural, los estudios culturales y las historias de la arquitectura y el urbanismo discuten el modo dependentista de abordar las relaciones entre contextos centrales y periféricos. Tales trabajos habilitan el abordaje de procesos de circulación internacional de ideas, técnicos y modelos urbanos visibilizando fenómenos que se han intensificado en las últimas décadas. La discusión teórica se articula con referencias a un trabajo de investigación previo que analiza cómo diversas redes de técnicos y profesionales, cuyas trayectorias, saber-hacer, posicionamientos políticos y perspectivas de intervención difieren, pugnan por definir diagnósticos sobre los problemas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires entre 1983 y 1992, para lo cual producen múltiples y cambiantes intercambios con pares españoles.
La reificación como un olvido del reconocimiento. Apuntes para una revisión de la idea de reificación de Axel Honneth
Authors: Fleitas González Martín 
Published: November 2017

El presente trabajo se propone analizar los alcances y limitaciones de la reformulación que propuso Axel Honneth de la idea de reificación, durante sus Tanner Lectures del 2005. Para defender los aportes que puede abrigar una concepción de la reificación como olvido del reconocimiento, se reconstruye la propuesta de Honneth en contraposición al gran número de objeciones que ha recibido. El argumento central del trabajo se concentra en mostrar que las debilidades de la reificación de Honneth surgen como consecuencia de las debilidades de su “modelo receptivo” del reconocimiento. En virtud de ello, el trabajo propone sustituir el concepto honnethiano del reconocimiento por uno ontológicoanalítico, para luego esbozar el alcance de una reificación entendida como momentos graduados de amnesia.
Feminismos, postcolonialidad, descolonización: ¿del centro a los márgenes?
Authors: Millán Moncayo Márgara 
Published: November 2017

El llamado al dossier de este número de Andamios nos convoca sobre todo a clarificar desde dónde pensamos la imbricación entre feminismo como crítica y postcolonialidad, tanto como proyecto teórico como condición deseada y por venir. Este ensayo quiere preguntarse sobre esta relación relevando la intención transformativa de la crítica feminista atendiendo a que su sujeto es múltiple y contradictorio; una transformación que devela la diferencia de género como una parte del ensamblaje de lo social, configurado históricamente. Por ello, en el centro de la pregunta sobre el diálogo y terreno común entre feminismo crítico y postcolonialidad se encuentra la idea que tengamos de modernidad y su relación con la configuración capitalista del mundo. Quiero pensar en esas tensiones encubiertas desde el contexto mexicano.
Retracted: Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) in Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock in a Newly Emerging Cardiac Centre in Nepal
Authors: Maskey Arun , Regmi Shyam Raj , Bhatt Yadav , Malla Rabi , Rajbhandari Rajib , Sharma Deewakar , KC Man Bahadur , Limbu Yuba Raj , Dubey Laxman 
Published: November 2017

The following retraction notice for this article appears in Vol.16(1) 2019 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3126/njh.v16i1.25742
On 17th September 2019 the Editorial Board of Nepalese Heart Journal agreed to retract the article ‘Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) in Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock in a Newly Emerging Cardiac Centre in Nepal' published in Nepalese Heart Journal, Vol.6(1) 2009 pages 21-24 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3126/njh.v6i1.18451) as the paper had already been published in the Journal of Research in Medical Sciences Vol.14(2) 2009 pages 123-127 http://jrms.mui.ac.ir/index.php/jrms/article/view/2353. This error is regretted, and we apologise for any inconvenience.
Health-related quality of life outcomes in complex adult spinal deformity surgery
Authors: Riley Max S. , Bridwell Keith H. , Lenke Lawrence G. , Dalton Jonathan , Kelly Michael P. 
Published: November 2017

OBJECTIVESignificant health-related quality of life (HRQOL) benefits have been observed for patients undergoing primary and revision adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery. The purpose of this study was to report changes in HRQOL measures in a consecutive series of patients undergoing complex spinal reconstructive surgery, using Scoli-RISK-1 (SR-1) inclusion criteria.METHODSThis was a single-center, retrospective cohort study. The SR-1 inclusion criteria were used to define patients with complex ASD treated between June 1, 2009, and June 1, 2011. Standard preoperative and perioperative data were collected, including the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)–22r instrument. The HRQOL changes were evaluated at a minimum 2-year follow-up. Standardized forms were used to collect surgery-related complications data for all patients. Complications were defined as minor, transient major, or permanent major. Patients who achieved a minimum 2-year follow-up were included in the analysis.RESULTSEighty-four patients meeting SR-1 criteria were identified. Baseline demographic and surgical data were available for 74/84 (88%) patients. Forty-seven of 74 (64%) patients met the additional HRQOL criteria with a minimum 2-year follow-up (mean follow-up 3.4 years, range 2–6.5 years). Twenty-one percent of patients underwent posterior fusion only, 40% of patients had a posterior column osteotomy, and 38% had a 3-column osteotomy. Seventy-five percent of patients underwent a revision procedure. Significant improvements were observed in all SRS-22r domains: Pain: +0.8 (p < 0.001); Self-Image: +1.4 (p < 0.001); Function: +0.46 (p < 0.001); Satisfaction: +1.6 (p < 0.001); and Mental Health: +0.28 (p = 0.04). With the exception of Mental Health, more than 50% of patients achieved a minimum clinically important difference (MCID) in SRS-22r domain scores (Mental Health: 20/47, 42.6%). A total of 65 complications occurred in 31 patients. This includes 29.8% (14/47) of patients who suffered a major complication and 17% (8/47) who suffered a postoperative neurological deficit, most commonly at the root level (10.6%, 5/47). Of the 8 patients who suffered a neurological deficit, 1 (13%) was able to achieve MCID in the SRS Function domain.CONCLUSIONSThe majority of patients experienced clinically relevant improvement in SRS-22r HRQOL scores after complex ASD surgery. The greatest improvements were seen in the SRS Pain and SRS Self-Image domains. Although 30% of patients suffered a major or permanent complication, benefits from surgery were still attained. Patients sustaining a neurological deficit or major complication were unlikely to achieve HRQOL improvements meeting or exceeding MCID for the SRS Function domain.
Chiari-related scoliosis: a single-center experience with long-term radiographic follow-up and relationship to deformity correction
Authors: Ravindra Vijay M. , Onwuzulike Kaine , Heller Robert S. , Quigley Robert , Smith John , Dailey Andrew T. , Brockmeyer Douglas L. 
Published: November 2017

OBJECTIVEPrevious reports have addressed the short-term response of patients with Chiari-related scoliosis (CRS) to suboccipital decompression and duraplasty (SODD); however, the long-term behavior of the curve has not been well defined. The authors undertook a longitudinal study of a cohort of patients who underwent SODD for CRS to determine whether there are factors related to Chiari malformation (CM) that predict long-term scoliotic curve behavior and need for deformity correction.METHODSThe authors retrospectively reviewed cases in which patients underwent SODD for CRS during a 14-year period at a single center. Clinical (age, sex, and associated disorders/syndromes) and radiographic (CM type, tonsillar descent, pBC2 line, clival-axial angle [CXA], syrinx length and level, and initial Cobb angle) information was evaluated to identify associations with the primary outcome: delayed thoracolumbar fusion for progressive scoliosis.RESULTSTwenty-eight patients were identified, but 4 were lost to follow-up and 1 underwent fusion within a year. Among the remaining 23 patients, 11 required fusion surgery at an average of 88.3 ± 15.4 months after SODD, including 7 (30%) who needed fusion more than 5 years after SODD. On univariate analysis, a lower CXA (131.5° ± 4.8° vs 146.5° ± 4.6°, p = 0.034), pBC2 > 9 mm (64% vs 25%, p = 0.06), and higher initial Cobb angle (35.1° ± 3.6° vs 22.8° ± 4.0°, p = 0.035) were associated with the need for thoracolumbar fusion. Multivariable modeling revealed that lower CXA was independently associated with a need for delayed thoracolumbar fusion (OR 1.12, p = 0.0128).CONCLUSIONSThis investigation demonstrates the long-term outcome and natural history of CRS after SODD. The durability of the effect of SODD on CRS and curve behavior is poor, with late curve progression occurring in 30% of patients. Factors associated with CRS progression include an initial pBC2 > 9 mm, lower CXA, and higher Cobb angle. Lower CXA was an independent predictor of delayed thoracolumbar fusion. Further study is necessary on a larger cohort of patients to fully elucidate this relationship.
Frequency-specific effects of repetitive magnetic stimulation on primary astrocyte cultures
Authors: Clarke Darren , Penrose Marissa A. , Penstone Tamasin , Fuller-Carter Paula I. , Hool Livia C. , Harvey Alan R. , Rodger Jennifer , Bates Kristyn A. 
Published: November 2017

Background: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive technique that uses magnetic pulses over the cranium to induce electrical currents in underlying cortical tissue. Although rTMS has shown clinical utility for a number of neurological conditions, we have only limited understanding of how rTMS influences cellular function and cell-cell interactions. Objective: In this study, we sought to investigate whether repeated magnetic stimulation (rMS) can influence astrocyte biology in vitro. Method: We tested four different rMS frequencies and measured the calcium response in primary neonatal astrocyte cultures. We also tested the effect of rMS on astrocyte migration and proliferation in vitro. We tested 3 to 4 culture replicates and 17 to 34 cells for each rMS frequency (sham, 1 Hz, cTBS, 10 Hz and biomemetic high frequency stimulation - BHFS). Results: Of all frequencies tested, 1 Hz stimulation resulted in a statistically significant rise in intracellular calcium in the cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments of the cultured astrocytes. This calcium rise did not affect migration or proliferation in the scratch assay, though astrocyte hypertrophy was reduced in response to 1 Hz rMS, 24 hours post scratch injury. Conclusion: Our results provide preliminary evidence that rMS can influence astrocyte physiology, indicating the potential for a novel mechanism by which rTMS can influence brain activity.
Do whole body vibration exercises affect lower limbs neuromuscular activity in populations with a medical condition? A systematic review
Authors: Dionello Carla Fontoura , de Souza Patrícia Lopes , Sá-Caputo Danubia , Morel Danielle Soares , Moreira-Marconi Eloá , Paineiras-Domingos Laisa Liane , Frederico Eric Heleno Freire Ferreira , Guedes-Aguiar Eliane , Paiva Patricia de Castro , Taiar Redha , Chiementin Xavier , Marín Pedro J. , Bernardo-Filho Mario 
Published: November 2017

Background: The use of surface electromyography (sEMG) to evaluate muscle activation when executing whole body vibration exercises (WBVE) in studies provide neuromuscular findings, in healthy and diseased populations. Objectives: Perform a systematic review of the effects of WBVE by sEMG of lower limbs in non-healthy populations. Methods: The search using the defined keywords was performed in PubMed, PEDRo and EMBASE databases by three independent researchers. Applying the PRISMA statement several studies were selected according to eligibility criteria and organized for the review. Full papers were included if they described effects of WBVE for the treatment of illnesses, evaluated by sEMG of lower limbs independently on the year of the publication; in comparison or associated with other treatment and evaluation techniques. Results: Seven publications were selected; two in spinal cord injury patients, one in Friedreich’s ataxia patients, three in stroke patients and one study in breast cancer survivors. Reported effects of WBV in were muscle activation by sEMG and also on strength, blood flow and exercise resistance; even in paretic limbs. Conclusion: By the use of sEMG it was verified that WBVE elicits muscle activation in diseased population. These results may lead to the definition of exercise protocols to maintain or increase muscular activation. However, due to the heterogeneity of methods among studies, there is currently no consensus on the sEMG signal processing. These strategies might also induce effects on muscle strength, balance and flexibility in these and other illnesses.
The association between brain activity and motor imagery during motor illusion induction by vibratory stimulation
Authors: Kodama Takayuki , Nakano Hideki , Katayama Osamu , Murata Shin 
Published: November 2017

Background: The association between motor imagery ability and brain neural activity that leads to the manifestation of a motor illusion remains unclear. Objective: In this study, we examined the association between the ability to generate motor imagery and brain neural activity leading to the induction of a motor illusion by vibratory stimulation. Methods: The sample consisted of 20 healthy individuals who did not have movement or sensory disorders. We measured the time between the starting and ending points of a motor illusion (the time to illusion induction, TII) and performed electroencephalography (EEG). We conducted a temporo-spatial analysis on brain activity leading to the induction of motor illusions using the EEG microstate segmentation method. Additionally, we assessed the ability to generate motor imagery using the Japanese version of the Movement Imagery Questionnaire-Revised (JMIQ-R) prior to performing the task and examined the associations among brain neural activity levels as identified by microstate segmentation method, TII, and the JMIQ-R scores. Results: The results showed four typical microstates during TII and significantly higher neural activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, primary sensorimotor area, supplementary motor area (SMA), and inferior parietal lobule (IPL). Moreover, there were significant negative correlations between the neural activity of the primary motor cortex (MI), SMA, IPL, and TII, and a significant positive correlation between the neural activity of the SMA and the JMIQ-R scores. Conclusion: These findings suggest the possibility that a neural network primarily comprised of the neural activity of SMA and M1, which are involved in generating motor imagery, may be the neural basis for inducing motor illusions. This may aid in creating a new approach to neurorehabilitation that enables a more robust reorganization of the neural base for patients with brain dysfunction with a motor function disorder.
Evaluation of garlic, BAU-biofungicide, bion and chemical fungicides in controlling leaf spot of Taro
Authors: Sohag MAS , Hossen MT , Monjil MS 
Published: November 2017

The field experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Garlic extract @ 10%, BAU-Biofungicide @ 2%, Bion@ 0.2%, Bavistin DF (Carbendazim) @ 0.1% and Proud 250EC (Propiconazole) @ 0.1% for controlling leaf spot disease of taro (Colocasia esculenta). Performance of these treatments was assessed by applying as cormel treatment and foliar spray. Cormel treatment under field experiment was found effective for BAU-Biofungicide and Proud 250EC. Bavistin DF and Proud 250EC was more effective than other treatments in increasing plant height and healthy leaves, and in decreasing spotted and dead leaves. Before foliar spraying, BAU-Biofungicide as cormel treatment reduced the disease incidence (46.19%) and severity (25.28%) of taro leaf spot at 180 days after sowing. As foliar spray all the treatments has significant effect on taro leaf spot. Among the treatments BAU-Biofungicide was found superior to control leaf spot of taro. BAU-Biofungicide resulted maximum reduction of disease incidence and severity and increase in number of healthy leaf followed by Bion and Proud 250EC. BAU-Biofungicide showed enhanced results in terms of disease incidence and severity of leaf spot of Taro before and after foliar spraying.Progressive Agriculture 28 (3): 167--173, 2017