bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Clinical study of prolene hernia system in inguinal hernia repair
Authors: Obaid Syed , Quazi Sohail 
Published: September 2017

Background: Lichtenstein was first to coin the term "tension-free hernioplasty" in his book "Hernia repair without disability". All direct, indirect and recurrent adult hernias can be repaired by this procedure. The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of using the prolene (polypropylene) hernia system for open tension-free repair on inguinal hernias.Methods: During period of 2 years, 42 patients were subjected to prolene hernia. Of these 42 patients, 3 patients underwent bilateral repair. Thus, in all 45 inguinal hernias were repaired. The median age of patients in our study was 57 years. In our study majority hernias were indirect inguinal hernias (47.61%). Nineteen (45.23%) hernias were of direct type while 2 (4.76%) pantaloon and 1 recurrent inguinal hernias. Out of the 42 patients, 16 were operated under local anesthesia while 17 patients operated under spinal anesthesia. Maximum hernias were Gilbert’s type III hernias.Results: The duration of surgery averaged 35 min (range 20-90 min). There were no postoperative deaths. Two out of 42 patients developed local infection at wound site. Wound seroma was found in 3 patients but subsided by giving antibiotics and patients were discharged as per routine protocol. 2 patients (4.76%) developed mild pain in testicular region which subsided with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. One patient (2.38%) in our series had pain in operative region that lasted for more than one month, only non-steroidal analgesics sufficed to deal with this problem and no patient complained of pain after 2 months of surgery. No patient in our series developed late infection or testicular atrophy. No recurrence was noted during the period of follow-up. This was consistent with the result of other series performed worldwide. Most of the patients in our study (18 patients i.e. 42.87%) were discharged on 3rd postoperative day. One patient had mild neuralgia up to maximum of 2 months in the follow up period which subsided with analgesics. No recurrence was seen in the follow up period.Conclusions: The prolene hernia system is a novel approach in the management of inguinal hernias, with encouraging initial results. Its long-term efficacy needs to be studied with larger, prospective double-blind randomized trials, with longer follow-up.
Aquisição e uso de informações nas práticas de inteligência competitiva em mercados de risco
Authors: Bertolini Ana Virgínia Alberici Giordani , D'Arrigo Fernanda , Fachinelli Ana Cristina 
Published: September 2017

O equilíbrio entre o risco de um investimento e a obtenção de lucro é um ponto decisivo para o sucesso nos mercados de ambientes incertos. A informação para a tomada de decisão adquire contornos estratégicos para o ganho e a manutenção desse equilíbrio. O objetivo do artigo é analisar as dimensões de aquisição e uso da informação nas práticas de Inteligência Competitiva no mercado caracterizado pelo risco. O estudo examina as dimensões relativas à importância, frequência e influência da informação nas decisões de investimento. A abordagem da pesquisa é qualitativa exploratória. O método utilizado na coleta de dados constitui-se de entrevistas em profundidade com profissionais que operam com a Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo. Os resultados indicam que as práticas de Inteligência Competitiva dos operadores do mercado de ações sofrem influência da incerteza nos ambientes de negócios. Quanto maior a percepção da incerteza no ambiente, mais informações o tomador de decisão irá adquirir e usar para obter melhores resultados.
Indígenas Antropólogos e o Espetáculo da Alteridade
Authors: Cruz Felipe Sotto Maior 
Published: September 2017

No presente artigo, apresento uma reflexão sobre a entrada de estudantes indígenas nas universidades brasileiras, enfatizando, a partir de minha experiência enquanto indígena antropólogo, o contexto dessa inserção em pós-graduações de antropologia. O meu foco de análise é a problemática que envolve a histórica invisibilidade indígena e os desafios de afirmação do protagonismo indígena nas academias frente às políticas de enunciação consolidadas nas práticas universitárias e à imagética nacional em torno da figura do “índio”. Palavras-Chave: indígenas antropólogos, indígenas na universidade, educação indígena, indigenismo, relações interétnicas.Indigenous Anthropologists and the Spectacle of OthernessAbstractIn this article I ponder on the access of indigenous students to Brazilian universities. From my own experience as an indigenous anthropologist, I focus on the context in which indigenous students are admitted to graduate programs in anthropology. I analyze the Indians' historical invisibility and the challenges they face to consolidate their roles in academy vis-à-vis the politics of enunciation that are deeply rooted in university practices and in the national imagery about the "Indian."Key Words: Indigenous anthropologists, University Indians, indigenous education, indigenism, interethnic relations.Indígenas Antropólogos y el Espectáculo de la AlteridadResumenEn el presente artículo presento una reflexión sobre la entrada de estudiantes indígenas en las universidades brasileñas, enfatizando, a partir de mi experiencia como indígena antropólogo, el contexto de esa inserción en los posgrados de antropología. Mi foco de análisis es la problemática que envuelve la histórica invisibilidad indígena y los desafíos de afirmación del protagonismo indígena en la academia frente a las políticas de enunciación consolidadas en las prácticas universitarias y la imagen nacional en torno a la figura del “indio”.Palabras Claves: indígenas antropólogos, indígenas en la universidad, educación indígena, indigenismo, relaciones interétnicas.
Hull Inspection Techniques and Strategy - Remote Inspection Developments
Authors: Caldwell Raymond 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
In 2013 the Hull Inspection Techniques and Strategies (HITS) paper SPE-13OE-P-409-SPE [1], introduced and outlined the HITS joint industry project (JIP) objectives. This paper summarises the JIP's progress and the success achieved to date. It describes the remaining challenges and how the JIP intends to resolve these.
In-Situ Subsea Processing Technique in an IOR Project
Authors: Xiao Jie 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
This paper presents a full scale subsea separation installation in the seabed, which enables separation of oil, sand and water on the sea floor, water treatment in the sea floor and in-situ injection of low sulfate and low salinity water for IOR (increased oil recovery) in the Bohai Bay oilfield.
Contrary to traditional topside approaches, the seabed separation system separates water from oil and sand and cleans water in the seafloor. The system is mainly composed of separator and de-sander vessel, water treatment components, boosting components, multi-phase and water injection pumps, leakage detectors, protection components, and pipeline manifold. Production stream is circulated into the system and then water, sand, and oil are separated. Oil is pumped into the platform through multi-phase pumps. Sand is separated and injected into the dump reservoir. Water is cleaned through the membranes in the water treatment system and rejected directly into the subsea injection wells.
Water quality report of the cleaned water in seabed indicates considerable low sulfate level, low chloride level and low salinity water. The membranes in the water treatment systems last a considerable long time without any degradation issues in performance. The system treats water subsea and lowers well head pressure, which increases oil production and oil recovery. The benefits also include reduction of weight and area topside, increased water separation capacity compared with conventional platform space limitations, and elimination of long injection lines and water injectors from platform. The subsea separation installation can handle up to 700 kg sand per month, which greatly boosts and extends the current IOR project.
This system separates and treats water in-situ in the seabed in the Bohai Bay oilfield. This technique enables a flexible and cost effective solution for subsea IOR projects.
The Solan Field Subsea Oil Storage Tank after One Year's Operation West of Shetland, UK - is it a Concept that has Delivered?
Authors: Wheaton S. R. , Clark S. R. , Cruickshank P. 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
The Solan oil field is located offshore in the hostile north Atlantic ~135 kilometres west of the Shetland Isles, UK, in ~135 metre water depth. The field commenced production in 2016. The relatively remote field was developed by four subsea wells tied back to a single slim jacket with a minimum facility topsides. The development includes several innovative features such as full automation, which enables full remote control from an onshore control room in Aberdeen, UK, but strikingly, a world development first involving the installation of an independent steel subsea oil storage tank (SOST) located ~300 metres from the platform. The concept selection, design, fabrication, installation and operation of this novel feature are the subject of this paper.
The concept selection of the SOST was driven by several factors including HSE, life cycle cost and operational considerations for this modest sized development in a harsh marine setting. An obvious competitor concept is a subsea well and FPSO alternate; the pros and cons of each approach are compared, using actual field performance now seen versus assumption at the time of concept select.
The multiple-compartment SOST is capable of holding almost 300,000 barrels of stabilised oil; it has an in-air weight of ~10,100 tonnes and internal dimensions of 45m x 45m x 25m. The oil is offloaded to a shuttle tanker through a single anchor loading (SAL™) system with the offloading hose stored on the seabed, which is picked up using a pennant line. Oil export to the tanker is driven by hydrostatic displacement by treated seawater from the topsides. This operation is conducted while still producing oil to the SOST. The tank design has novel features for installation, oil-water interface management and corrosion monitoring and subsea inspection.
The tank's detailed design and construction phase involved some significant changes as the structural and fatigue life issues were fully analysed and implemented. The installation required significant pre-planning with the use of a very large lifting sling arrangement and a smart air venting and water ballasting system, to then land its eight skirt piles to a tight tolerance on the seabed.
Following a commissioning program and trial tanker offload using treated seawater alone, over the past year the SOST has now successfully undergone numerous oil fill and tanker offload operations. There have been learnings regarding the offloading operation but to date the concept has worked in a manner very close to expectation with a full tank offload achieved in less than ~36 hours. The paper closes with a review of how the concept could be improved further considering the experiences now gained from both the project and operational phases.
Accelerated Adoption of Disruptive Robotic Inspection Technologies Through Targeted Roadmapping and Communities of Practice
Authors: Brown Russell , Bouma Tjibbe , Drenth Duco , van Hoorn Wim , Sjerve Eric 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Rapid advances in robotics and Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have the potential to revolutionize the way maintenance, inspection and Non-Destructive Testing within our industry is performed. This would make plant operation safer, by reducing exposure of personnel to hazardous environments and is likely to introduce more reliable inspection and maintenance routines. In addition, introduction of these technologies can provide significant economic benefits for the industry, particularly in mature basin assets with declining production rates, mainly through reduction of plant down time and increased asset life.
Despite these obvious advantages, industry acceptance of these new technologies is likely to be slow. Previous experience with other innovations in our industry has shown that typically it takes at least 20 years for new methods to be adopted as standard work practices. This is an enormous waste in unharvested economic potential and potentially avoidable injuries, or loss of life, at a juncture where the industry is under great pressure to improve its safety record and operate more efficiently.
Causes of slow industry adoption of new robotic technologies will be analysed and a novel approach for significant speed-up of market adoption through end-user led collaboration across the value chain is described in this paper. This approach is currently put to the test by a new global non-profit industry platform: The SPRINT Robotics Collaborative, founded in 2015. The SPRINT Robotics Collaborative has produced its first version of a Roadmap for introduction of key Robotic Technologies. The Roadmap has been developed from input from the entire value chain active in various areas of the Petrochemical industry; as such their input is representative for this industry.
In short, the ‘Robotics Roadmap’ sets dots on the horizon and sketches the way to get to these landmarks. It serves to: Align the industry on goals and priorities.Share knowledge and insight with potentially contributing parties from the entire value chain.Enable innovators, technologists and researchers to effectively and structurally contribute to the solution of problems relevant to the petrochemical industry.Prepare the end users (asset owners), so they can adapt new asset designs and (operational) procedures for the uptake of the technological advances.Inform policy makers about the changing landscape, to which they can respond.
In the SPRINT Robotics Roadmap input from the entire value chain is brought together.
In addition to the roadmap, this paper will discuss the achievements and challenges from the first two years of operation of the SPRINT Robotics collaborative; providing real world examples of full value chain collaboration and deployment of robotic technologies.
Estimation of the Areas of the Fields To Be Discovered in a Mature Play
Authors: Anderson Malcolm , Gullco Roberto , Ocampo Saúl Carrillo 
Published: September 2017

Summary
To estimate the areas of the fields to be discovered in a mature play, we use a model that conceptually divides the play (or a portion of it) into hexagons of “unit area,” loosely defined as the minimum area that an oil field should have to be commercial. The individual hexagons may contain oil, and they are supposed to be spatially independent. The distribution of field sizes is defined by just one parameter (the quotient cells with oil in the area of study/total number of cells in the area of study). Samples taken from this discrete distribution look as if they had been drawn from continuous log-normal distributions. The paper considers the hypothesis that all samples drawn from a distribution of field sizes are biased, overestimating the true areas of the fields existing in the play.
Enem: uma análise do efeito das políticas públicas educacionais em Alagoas e a comparação do resultado do ranking com os demais estados do Nordeste
Authors: Almeida Daniel Cabral de , Pierre Victor Hugo Lessa , Costa Carlos Eugênio Silva da , Santa Rita Luciana Peixoto , Pinto Ibsen Mateus Bittencourt Santana 
Published: September 2017

O artigo analisa os resultados de Alagoas no ranking do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio entre 2013 e 2015, comparando-os com os demais estados do Nordeste. Identificam-se as especificidades que contribuem para a conquista das melhores notas e a aplicação das políticas públicas educacionais em Alagoas. Usou-se a abordagem de pesquisa quali-quantitativa. Identificou-se que as escolas da Bahia e de Pernambuco detêm os melhores resultados do Nordeste e estimou-se que o nível socioeconômico tem grande influência nos resultados das escolas. Registrou-se ainda que o indicador de formação docente parece não ser ponto chave na elevação das notas.
THE MEANING BEHIND THROWING CHICKEN IN WEDDING CEREMONY Study of Kudus Kulon AndWetan Society
Authors: Fadhlullah Muhammad 
Published: September 2017

Our living traditions are an inheritance from our ancestors. One of them is Chicken Throwing ritual in Kudus City. This tradition celebrated when a villager of Kudus Kulon get married with Kudus Wetan society or in contrary. A villager should throw a chicken in Gelis bridge to eliminate the bad effect from spirits in this bridge. Almost of old people in the past include meaning in every tradition, they give some message not directly but in symbols. So that’s way the author want to describe what the meaning behind chicken throwing in wedding ceremony of Kudus society. This research used a qualitative method trough in depth interview to gain data. To analysis data, this research used the semiotic of Charles Sander Pierce. In sum, the tradition of Chicken Throwing has many meanings. Firstly, in Hindhu era this tradition was a symbol of offering that give to the spirits in Gelis river. Secondly in followers of Sunan Kudus era this tradition has the different meaning. They move to the purpose of this tradition became shodaqoh given to the vagrants. Thirdly, in this era it is carried out only on the basis of orders from parents or just hereditary
SUFI EDUCATIONAL TENETS: Practical Encounters of Sufi Teachings and Educational Curricula
Authors: Subaidi Subaidi 
Published: September 2017

This research focused on Sufism of ‘Abdul Wahab al-Sya’rani and studied about the education components which covers: the aspects of purpose and teaching material, the aspects of teacher and students, the aspects of method and strategy in Sufism Education, as well as the relevance of Sufism education by as-Sya’rani with the development of character building. The objectives of this research are: a) To describe what the objectives and teaching materials in Sufism by as-Sya’rani are; b) To describe how the position of the teacher and students in Sufism education by as-Sya’rani is; c) To describe what the method in Sufism education by as-Sya’rani is; d) To describe how relevant the Sufism by as-Sya’rani with the development of character building is. This qualitative research uses hermeneutic approach. The analysis method used in this research is content analysis with the descriptive features. The writer uses the hermeneutic approach because he efforts to describe the facts gained from text containing as-Sya’rani’s thoughts on Sufism education and performs the perception towards the sense of texts in effort to be possibly close to understand the idea of as-Sya’rani’s Sufism education.
Methylene blue removal by carbonized textile sludge-based adsorbent
Authors: Rahman Ari , Kishimoto Naoyuki , Urabe Takeo , Ikeda Kazuki 
Published: September 2017

AbstractColored effluent and a large amount of sludge are major pollutant sources derived from textile industry activity. In this research, the idea for converting textile sludge into a potential adsorbent was conducted through a carbonization process in order to solve the colored effluent problem. Textile sludge was carbonized at a temperature ranging from 400 to 800 °C in the absence of oxygen. Maximum adsorption capacity of carbonized sludge for methylene blue removal reached 60.30 mg/g when the sludge was carbonized at 600 °C with specific surface area of 138.9 m2/g and no significant alteration was observed until 800 °C. Experimental research by using a real wastewater also showed that there was almost no disruption during adsorption of methylene blue into surface of carbonized sludge. While reactivation process revealed that the regeneration of carbonized sludge was applicable by secondary heating at the same carbonization temperature. Furthermore, the application of this research demonstrated that the carbonized textile sludge was a good adsorbent for methylene blue removal and had a capability to be reactivated.
Relations between Sensorimotor Integration and Speech Disorders in Parkinson's Disease
Authors: Millian-Morell Lymarie , Lopez-Alburquerque Tomas , Rodriguez-Rodriguez Andrea , Gomez-Nieto Ricardo , Carro Juan , Meilan Juan J.G. , Martinez-Sanchez Francisco , Sancho Consuelo , Lopez Dolores E. 
Published: September 2017

Background:
Sensorimotor integration mechanisms can be affected by many factors, among which
are those involving neuromuscular disorders. Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by well-known motor
symptoms, among which lately have been included motor speech deficits. Measurement of the acoustic startle
reflex (ASR) and its modulations (prepulse inhibition and prepulse facilitation, PPI and PPF respectively) represent
a simple and quantifiable tool to assess sensorimotor function. However, it remains unknown whether
measures of the PPI and PPF are associated with motor speech deficits in PD.

Methods:
A total of 88 subjects participated in this study, 52 diagnosed with PD and 36 control subjects. After
obtaining written informed consent, participants were assessed with PPI at several interstimulus intervals, and
PPF at 1000 ms using the SRH-Lab system (San Diego, CA). Percentage of change in the amplitude and latency
of the ASR was analyzed between groups. Voice recordings were register of a specific text given to the
subjects with a professional recorder and temporal patterns of speech were analyzed.

Results:
Statistical analysis conducted in this study showed differences in PPI and PPF in subjects with PD
compared to controls. In addition, discriminative parameters of voice abnormalities were observed in PD subjects
related to control subjects showing a reduction in phonation time, vowel pulses, breaks, breakage and
voice speech periods.

Conclusions:
PD presents a disruption in sensorimotor filter mechanisms and speech disorders, and there is a
relationship between these alterations. The correlation between the PPI and PPF with an alteration of the voice
in PD subjects contributes toward understanding mechanism underlying the neurophysiological alterations in
both processes. Overall, easy and non-invasive tests such as PPI, PPF together with voice analysis may be useful
to identify early stages of PD.
O orçamento-programa e a execução das políticas públicas
Authors: Santos Flavio Rosendo dos , Moreira Cruz Jankoski Andréa Roseli , Gonçalves de Oliveira Antonio , Ishikawa Rasoto Vanessa 
Published: September 2017

O presente artigo tem por objetivo analisar o papel da técnica orçamento-programa na execução de políticas públicas no Estado brasileiro. Verificou-se que o orçamento público baseado em programas é um importante instrumento multidimensional de gestão, político e jurídico e de implementação de políticas públicas, expressando o planejamento dessas políticas que serão executadas pela administração pública. A metodologia utilizada foi pesquisa descritiva de cunho bibliográfico. Também é considerada quantitativa e qualitativa ex-post-facto, pois foram tratados dados orçamentário-financeiros no período de 2008 a 2013. Constatou-se que os recursos autorizados não foram executados integralmente, comparando-os com os recursos pagos. Conclui-se que as organizações da sociedade civil, os atores sociais e os grupos de interesse têm no orçamento-programa um importante instrumento de controle para cobrar da administração pública uma maior eficiência e efetividade nos gastos destinados aos programas de políticas públicas.