bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
An Improved Adaptive Iterative Extended Kalman Filter Based on Variational Bayesian
Authors: Fu Qiang , Wang Ling , Xie Qiyue , Zhou Yucai 
Published: February 2024

The presence of unknown heavy-tailed noise can lead to inaccuracies in measurements and processes, resulting in instability in nonlinear systems. Various estimation methods for heavy-tailed noise exist. However, these methods often trade estimation accuracy for algorithm complexity and parameter sensitivity. To tackle this challenge, we introduced an improved variational Bayesian (VB)-based adaptive iterative extended Kalman filter. In this VB framework, the inverse Wishart distributionis used as the prior for the state prediction covariance matrix. The system state and noise parameter posterior distributions are then iteratively updated for adaptive estimation. Furthermore, we make adaptive adjustments to the IEKF filter parameters to enhance sensitivity and filtering accuracy, thus ensuring robust prediction estimation. A two-dimensional target tracking and nonlinear numerical UNGM simulation validated our algorithm. Compared to existing algorithms RKF-ML and GA-VB, our method showed significant improvements in RMSEpos and RMSEvel, with increases of 21.81% and 22.11% respectively, and a 49.04% faster convergence speed. These results highlight the method’s reliability and adaptability.
Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Emergency Department Visits in Taiwan
Authors: Lee Yu-Ting , Lai Yen-Wen , Chen Jiann-Hwa , Chen Wei-Lung , Wu Meng-Yu , Chung Jui-Yuan 
Published: February 2024

Background and Objectives: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has profoundly impacted healthcare systems worldwide. To assess the effects of the pandemic on pediatric emergency department (ED) visits in Taiwan, we conducted a study to evaluate changes in pediatric ED visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included pediatric patients (age ≤ 18) who visited the ED between 21 January 2019 and 30 April 2019, at three hospitals of the Cathay Health System, and compared them with a corresponding period in 2020. Basic information, including mode of arrival, triage level, disposition, chief complaints, and incidence rates, were analyzed before and during the pandemic. Results: A total of 10,116 patients, with 6009 in the pre-pandemic group and 4107 in the pandemic group, were included in this study. The mean number of daily pediatric ED visits decreased from 60.09 before the pandemic to 40.66 during the pandemic, while ambulance use increased significantly by 2.56%. The percentage of patients with high acuity triage levels (levels 1 and 2) was significantly lower during the pandemic period (0.63% and 10.18%, respectively) than the pre-pandemic period (0.7% and 10.9%, respectively). Additionally, a significantly higher proportion of patients were discharged during the pandemic period (89.36%) than during the pre-pandemic period (88.33%). The proportion of COVID-19-related complaints, such as fever and respiratory tract infections, as well as other complaints including gastrointestinal issues, trauma, and psychological problems, significantly increased during the pandemic. Conclusions: In preparation for future pandemics, we recommend increasing emergency medical service capacity, establishing a non-contagious route for obtaining chronic medication prescriptions, optimizing staff allocation in pediatric emergency departments, and increasing the number of hospital social workers for enhanced support.
Assessing the uptake of incentivised physical health checks for people with serious mental illness: a cohort study in primary care
Authors: Matias Maria Ana , Jacobs Rowena , Aragón María José , Fernandes Luis , Gutacker Nils , Siddiqi Najma , Kasteridis Panagiotis 
Published: February 2024

BackgroundPeople with serious mental illness are more likely to experience physical illnesses. The onset of many of these illnesses can be prevented if detected early. Physical health screening for people with serious mental illness is incentivised in primary care in England through the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). GPs are paid to conduct annual physical health checks on patients with serious mental illness, including checks of body mass index (BMI), cholesterol, and alcohol consumption.AimTo assess the impact of removing and reintroducing QOF financial incentives on uptake of three physical health checks (BMI, cholesterol, and alcohol consumption) for patients with serious mental illness.Design and settingCohort study using UK primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink between April 2011 and March 2020.MethodA difference-in-difference analysis was employed to compare differences in the uptake of physical health checks before and after the intervention, accounting for relevant observed and unobserved confounders.ResultsAn immediate change was found in uptake after physical health checks were removed from, and after they were added back to, the QOF list. For BMI, cholesterol, and alcohol checks, the overall impact of removal was a reduction in uptake of 14.3, 6.8, and 11.9 percentage points, respectively. The reintroduction of BMI screening in the QOF increased the uptake by 10.2 percentage points.ConclusionThis analysis supports the hypothesis that QOF incentives lead to better uptake of physical health checks.
Bioinformatics – Supporting modern life science research, applications, and challenges
Authors: Singh Sarvendra Vikram 
Published: February 2024

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods, software tools for understanding biological data and aims to investigate questions about biological composition, structure, function, and evolution of molecules, cells, tissues, and organisms using mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science. As we are moving towards the era of cutting-edge technologies there will be a lot of data to store, process and analyze. It offers analysis software for data studies and comparisons and provides tools for modeling, visualizing, exploring and interpreting data. It includes analysis, structural and functional characterization of biomolecules leading to the development of Genomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics, and Metabolomics, etc. Drug discovery and development tools, supported by recent advancements in machine learning and cloud computing should shorten the time to find and produce an efficient drug compound with fewer side effects and more results emerge as a branch called Chemo-informatics. Personalized medicine where bioinformatics can help a lot to make drug molecules based on the genetic makeup of individuals for better outcomes is a prime area of research and need of the society at present. The major futures challenge of the scientific community is to create an in-vitro model of whole-cell or organism and further simulating a whole cell or an organism by applying in-silico approaches. To achieve that, reliable tools that utilize those technologies need to be developed and tested. Bioinformatics reduces the search space/size of the problem by thousand times. The main goal is to convert a multitude of complex data into useful information and knowledge. As a consequence of understanding such data, one can basically engineer longer life for society.
EXERCÍCIO MULTIARTICULAR VS. MONOARTICULAR EM RELAÇÃO A COMPOSIÇÃO CORPORAL E GANHOS DE FORÇA: UMA REVISÃO DE LITERATURA
Authors: Matola Isaac Barbosa , Fonseca Yuri Cordeiro , Navega João Henrique De Almeida , Brau Mikaela Camilla Silva , Aguiar Murilo Campos 
Published: February 2024

O treinamento de força tem papel fundamental nos programas de atividade física e tem sido recomendado por várias organizações de saúde importantes no intuito de melhorar a saúde geral e o condicionamento físico. O objetivo do estudo foi verificar através de uma revisão de literatura os efeitos do exercício monoarticular em relação ao multiarticular sobre os níveis de força e composição corporal. A amostra foi composta por artigos científicos em português e inglês que foram publicados período de janeiro de 2010 a maio de 2020 que continham os termos “single joint” e “multi joint” e “strength training”. Para seleção do material foram utilizados artigos científicos e dissertações teses que abordaram de forma experimental, descritivos os tipos de exercícios monoarticulares ou multiarticulares. Os benefícios promovidos por exercícios multiarticulares e monoarticulares são semelhantes. No entanto, as especificidades do treinamento, objetivos e o tempo do aluno devem ser levados em consideração. Os estudos apresentam diferenças nas amostras, essa variação na amostra pode variar no resultado final. Contudo, os resultados apresentados direcionam o profissional a levar em consideração a seleção dos exercícios, é necessário que se avalie de forma objetiva as necessidades do aluno. Ambos exercícios podem trazer benefícios aos praticantes, devendo o profissional avaliar as especificidades do indivíduo, os princípios e as variáveis do treinamento e o tempo que o aluno dispões para treinar.
Taste aversion learning during successive negative contrast
Authors: Boakes Robert A. , Badolato Connie , Rehn Simone 
Published: February 2024

AbstractPrevious experiments found that acceptance of saccharin by rats was reduced if they had prior experience of sucrose or some other highly palatable solution. This study tested whether such successive negative contrast (SNC) effects involve acquisition of an aversion to the new taste. In three experiments, rats were switched from sucrose exposure in Stage 1 to a less palatable solution containing a new taste in Stage 2. In Experiments 1 and 2, a novel flavor was added to a saccharin solution at the start of Stage 2. In Experiment 1, preference tests revealed a weak aversion to the added vanilla flavor in the Suc-Sacch group, while in Experiment 2 an aversion was found in the Suc-Sacch group to the salty flavor that was used, compared with controls given access either saccharin or water in Stage 1. In Experiment 3, the Suc-Quin group, given quinine solution in Stage 2, displayed a greater aversion to quinine than a Water-Quin control group. These results support the suggestion that taste aversion learning plays a role in the initial suppression of intakes in a qualitative consummatory SNC effect. However, in the light of other evidence, it seems that the unusual persistence of successive negative contrast when rats are switched from sucrose to saccharin is not due to a long-lasting reduction in the value of saccharin.
Vascular Aging and Telomere Biology: The Role of Vitamin D3 Deficiency
Authors: Dudinskaya E. N. , Tkacheva O. N. , Strazhesko I. D. , Brailova N. V. , Sharashkina N. V. 
Published: February 2024

Rationale. The impact of vitamin D3 deficiency on the risk and prognosis of numerous chronic diseases has been actively studied for years. Recent research has demonstrated that vitamin D is not merely involved in the control of calcium-phosphorus metabolism, but can also enhance insulin sensitivity, decrease the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), obesity and autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β-cells. The influence of vitamin D3 on some cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular disease (CVD) was described. Thus studying the role of vitamin D3 in the development of arteries wall changes in T2DM and IR, and their relationship with biology telomere seems to be quite relevant.Aim. To study the relationship between vitamin D3 deficiency and vascular wall condition, telomere biology in patients with varying insulin sensitivity.Materials and methods. The cross-sectional study involved 305 patients (106 men and 199 women) aged 51.5 ± 13.3 y.o. All patients underwent laboratory and instrumental research methods, study of morphofunctional state vascular wall. Telomere length and telomerase activity were determined using polymerase chain reaction.Results. Totally, 18 patients out of 248 (7.2%) were found to have normal vitamin D3 level (more than 30 ng/ml). In 92.8% of those studied Vitamin D3 insufficiency or deficiency was determined. As increase in vitamin D3 deficiency, an increase in fasting glucose was noted, HbA1c and its elevated concentration, HOMA index, glucose disorders up to T2DM, higher vascular stiffness. Telomerase activity in group with vitamin D3 deficiency was significantly lower than in groups with vitamin D3 insufficiency and normal content. Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that they are independently associated with vitamin D3 in T2DM (B=1.43; st. OR. 0.106; p=0.0001), vascular stiffness (B=0.075; st. OR. 2.11; p=0.017), fasting glucose (B=0.169; st. OR 1.62; p=0.004), HbA1c level (B=0.062; st. OR. 7.4; p=0.001) and the presence of “short” telomeres (B=0.09; st. OR. 1.154; p=0.001). ROC analysis revealed relationships between BMI (0.634, p=0.001), duration of T2DM (0.651, p=0.022), high intima media thickness (0.614, p=0.004), vascular stiffness (0.605, p&lt;0.001), HbA1c (0.588, p=0.022) and presence of vitamin D3 deficiency.Conclusion. In persons with varying insulin sensitivity — from insulin resistance up T2DM is advisable assess vitamin D3 levels for effective prevention of arterial wall changes in addition to traditional CVD risk factors. Availability Vitamin D3 deficiency requires active prevention metabolic disorders and vascular changes.
Ancrages et dislocations. Trajectoires d’un collectif rom en Europe des années 1920 aux années 1950
Authors: About Ilsen , Sutre Adèle 
Published: February 2024

Cet article étudie la trajectoire d’un collectif rom en Europe entre 1920 et 1960 dans un arc temporel marqué par l’aggravation des persécutions antitsiganes. L’enquête suit une approche biographique des sujets et repose sur l’usage extensif des archives administratives et sur une étude socio-professionnelle des mobilités géographiques. Jusqu’à la fin des années 1930, la trajectoire de ce collectif, issu des confins entre la Prusse orientale et la Russie, recoupe tous les pays de l’arc atlantique et méditerranéen et se prolonge jusqu’au Maghreb. L’arrivée en Italie du sud en 1940 coïncide avec la politique d’internement visant les ressortissants étrangers ainsi que les Rom et Sinté désignés comme Zingari (« Tsiganes ») par les autorités fascistes. Cette étude recompose la dislocation du collectif à travers l’archipel des camps d’internement du sud de l’Italie puis celui des camps de personnes déplacées entre 1943 et 1945. Au lendemain de la guerre, la recomposition des trajectoires, entre Italie, France et Suède permet d’observer la mobilisation de nouvelles ressources et de réseaux fragilisés par la guerre. L’étude des conditions de vie, lors de la sortie de guerre, manifeste les effets immédiats des violences génocidaires et de la dislocation mais aussi les nouvelles stratégies mises en œuvre pour composer de nouvelles pratiques migratoires et économiques.
Trajectoires de persécution enfantines et micropolitiques du réapparentement au sein du Centre Mémorial Gisimba. Kigali, 1994-2015
Authors: Dumas Hélène 
Published: February 2024

Comment tenter de saisir les trajectoires enfantines de persécution avant, pendant et après le génocide des Tutsi à partir de la dévastation des liens familiaux orchestrée par les responsables de l’extermination au printemps 1994 ? L’article propose de répondre à cette question à partir d’une approche microhistorique prenant pour lieu de l’enquête un orphelinat de la capitale rwandaise, le Centre Mémorial Gisimba. Rare havre de protection dans un quartier soumis à la loi des tueurs pendant le génocide, il a accueilli jusqu’à sa fermeture en 2015 des centaines d’orphelins et d’orphelines survivants. Les archives de l’orphelinat mobilisées ici permettent de restituer, à hauteur d’enfants, les itinéraires de persécution et les réagencements familiaux nés de l’amputation radicale de la filiation.
Gestes au travail. Rilke, Rodin, Simmel
Authors: Winkelvoss Karine 
Published: February 2024

Die Gebärde ist bei Rilke wie bei Simmel eine zentrale Kategorie der Rodin-Rezeption, und sie ist in vielerlei Hinsicht mit dem Arbeits-Begriff verbunden. Indem Rilke sowohl die Gebärden des Bildhauers bei der Arbeit als auch die Gebärden seiner Figuren beobachtet, entdeckt er die unbewusste Dimension, die in ihnen am Werk ist. Für Simmel wiederum ist Rodin einer der ersten, der Arbeitsgesten als Motiv in die Bildhauerkunst einführt und sie so den rhetorischen Posen der akademischen Tradition entzieht. Wenn Simmel das Verhältnis zwischen natürlichen und konventionellen Gebärden und Rilke das Verhältnis zwischen neuen und alten Gebärden untersucht, stellt sich die Frage, was in der Gebärde arbeitet : besonders Rilke entdeckt hier ein unbewusstes kulturelles Gedächtnis, das dem nahekommt, was Warburg das Nachleben der Antike nannte, das er in den Pathosformeln verkörpert sah.
Que se cache-t-il d’essentiel derrière l’anecdote ChatGPT ?
Authors: Rayna Thierry 
Published: February 2024

ChatGPT fait beaucoup parler, mais que faut-il retenir de ce buzz ? Après un état des lieux, le chercheur Thierry Rayna nous montre ce qui se cache derrière cette véritable boîte noire, non pas une menace sur les emplois qualifiés, mais une nouvelle vague d’ubérisation des entreprises.
Health Literacy Among Non-Communicable Disease Service Seekers: A Nationwide Finding from Primary Health Care Settings of Bangladesh
Authors: Salwa Marium , Islam Sharmin , Tasnim Anika , Al Mamun Mohammad Abdullah , Bhuiyan Mahfuzur Rahman , Choudhury Sohel Reza , Amin Md Robed , Haque M. Atiqul 
Published: February 2024

Background:
Considering the health literacy status of service seekers is crucial while developing programs and policies to improve service delivery in primary health care settings.

Objective:
Our aim was to assess health literacy among adults seeking non-communicable disease (NCD)-related services in primary health care centers (PHC) of Bangladesh and identify its contributing factors and its preventive effect on risky behaviors.

Methods:
In this cross-sectional study, 2,793 NCD service seekers were interviewed face-to-face from eight rural and three urban PHCs selected by a multi-stage random sampling method. We used the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire to collect data on health literacy. We applied logistic regression analysis to identify the contributing factors related to adequate health literacy. Odds ratios were used to calculate the preventive fraction of health literacy for NCD risk behaviors.

Key Results:
Limited health literacy was found among 43% of the respondents. Adequate health literacy was associated with younger age, male sex, having a formal education, living in an extended family, hailing from a high socioeconomic group, and attending urban PHC. After adjusting the sociodemographic factors, the prevalence of smoking, smokeless tobacco usage, and inadequate fruits and vegetables consumption among participants were found to be 25%, 51%, and 18% lower for people with sufficient health literacy.

Conclusions:

NCD service seekers have a high rate of inadequate health literacy. Adequate health literacy has the potential to lower the behavioral risk factors of NCDs. [

HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice
. 2024;8(1):e12–e20.

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La traduction chinoise des Trois Mousquetaires par Wu Guangjian et son édition annotée par Mao Dun : le rôle des paratextes dans les traductions d’œuvres littéraires occidentales
Authors: Zhenhuan Zou 
Published: February 2024

La traduction des Trois Mousquetaires d’Alexandre Dumas par Wu Guangjian fut publiée pour la première fois en 1907, à la Commercial Press de Shanghaï. Wu Guangjian adopta une méthode de traduction directe, tout en simplifiant les descriptions de paysages, les portraits psychologiques, ainsi que les références culturelles occidentales. Il parvint néanmoins à conserver le style de l’œuvre originale, ce qui lui valut les éloges unanimes du milieu académique. La version annotée de cette traduction, éditée par Shen Dehong (alias Mao Dun), est dotée d’une ponctuation modernisée et accompagnée de notes soigneusement rédigées regardant noms de personnages et de lieux, institutions, événements et objets notables du roman. Mao Dun ajouta à ce travail une « Biographie critique d’Alexandre Dumas », composée pour l’occasion. Cette édition fut incluse aux « Lectures complémentaires pour les cours de littérature au collège et au lycée », établies selon le Nouveau système scolaire mis en place par le ministère de l’Éducation en 1922. Jusqu’à présent, la question des paratextes attachés aux éditions annotées des traductions d’œuvres occidentales a suscité relativement peu d’intérêt chez les chercheurs. Or, le travail d’édition et d’annotation de Mao Dun a permis d’éliminer de nombreux obstacles à la compréhension, qui étaient apparus lorsque Wu Guangjian avait traduit Les Trois Mousquetaires près de vingt ans auparavant. Mao Dun redonna vie à la traduction originale et la rendit d’autant plus significative, contribuant ainsi à étendre le champ littéraire ouvert aux jeunes lecteurs chinois des années 1930 et 1940, durant l’ère républicaine.
Inclusion de Deux ans de vacances dans un manuel scolaire de la République de Chine : de Shiwu xiaohaojie [Quinze jeunes héros] à Xiaohaojie fangyang ji [Récit sur de jeunes héros qui s’abandonnent à la mer]
Authors: Xianqiang Guan , Guomin Zheng 
Published: February 2024

La littérature française est incluse au programme d’enseignement secondaire dans la République de Chine. La classicisation des œuvres et des auteurs français renvoie à la structure de connaissances et à la vision culturelle des rédacteurs chinois de manuels de l’époque. Nous aborderons ce sujet en prenant comme exemple l’inclusion de Jules Verne dans les manuels chinois durant la période du Nouveau système scolaire (1922-1928). Trois points saillants ressortent notre étude : premièrement, l’inclusion des œuvres de Jules Verne dans les manuels scolaires tient à des facteurs externes tels que la formation d’un groupe d’intellectuels modernes, la réforme de la culture et du système scolaire, ainsi que le développement de la littérature chinoise en langue vernaculaire ; deuxièmement, la réécriture des œuvres de Jules Verne par les rédacteurs de manuels scolaires véhicule la conception littéraire de l’époque ; troisièmement, l’inclusion de Jules Verne dans l’enseignement de la langue et la littérature chinoises signale l’établissement d’une culture moderne dans les manuels scolaires.
Un exemple de l’apostolat intellectuel des missionnaires en Chine dans les années 1940
Authors: Pino Angel 
Published: February 2024

Au printemps 1947, une réunion d’éditeurs religieux eut lieu à Shanghaï, qui confia au département des activités culturelles du Bureau catholique central, lequel venait tout juste d’être créé, la tâche de dresser une liste des « ouvrages catholiques » les meilleurs et les mieux « adaptés à la mentalité des non-chrétiens » susceptibles d’être traduits et publiés en chinois. Un premier inventaire fut préparé par un collège de missionnaires issus d’ordres différents, mais les choses n’allèrent guère plus loin : le climat du moment en Chine et les changements politiques qui s’annonçaient eurent raison du projet. C’est cet inventaire qu’on trouvera ici, assorti des corrections et des précisions nécessaires.