bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The prevalence of overweight and obesity: a measurement-based analysis of 6–9-year-old school children from Montenegro
Authors: Vasiljevic Ivan , Petkovic Jovica 
Published: May 2023

IntroductionThis study aimed to conduct a measurement-based analysis of overweight and obesity prevalence among 6–9-year-old children in Montenegro.MethodsThe population of this cross-sectional study included 1993 (1059 boys and 934 girls) primary-school children. The sample of anthropometric variables includes body height, body weight and body mass index, as well as nutrition status that were presented based on BMI standardized categories: underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obesity. The descriptive statistics described the means for each variable, while post hoc tests and ANOVA were applied to explore differences between the proposed means.ResultsThe results indicate the overweight (including obesity) prevalence was 28% (15% of overweight and 13% of obese children), while boys have a higher overweight prevalence rate than girls. In addition, the tendency of higher prevalence rates to differ by age in both sexes is observed. This study also confirmed that overweight and obesity are affected by geographical regions but not by the level of urbanization in Montenegro.DiscussionThe innovation of this study is reflected in the fact that the overweight and obesity prevalence rates among 6–9-year-old children are within an acceptable range in Montenegro, since it does not deviate from the European average, but further interventions and continuous monitoring are necessary, due to the specific nature of this issue.
Arthroscopic vs. open Broström-Gould for repairing anterior talofibular ligament: mid-term outcomes comparison
Authors: Wang Ji , Tang Zhihong , Sun Hao , Lv Jing , Jiang Hongyang , Yue Yong 
Published: May 2023

IntroductionThere have been few mid-term follow-up studies comparing arthroscopic and open Broström-Gould repair of the anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the mid-term therapeutic effectiveness of arthroscopic ATFL repair with open Broström-Gould repair for chronic lateral ankle instability.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed the database of patients with chronic lateral ankle instability undergoing repair of the ATFL from June 2014 to June 2018. The choice of surgical approach will depend on computer-generated randomization. In total, 49 patients underwent the arthroscopic Brostrom-Gould technique (group AB), while the other 50 patients underwent the open Broström-Gould technique (group OB). The surgery duration, hospitalization time, postoperative complications, the preoperative/postoperative manual anterior drawer test (ADT), Visual analog scale (VAS) scores, American Orthopaedic Foot &amp; Ankle Society (AOFAS) scores, Karlsson-Peterson (K-P) scores, and Tegner activity scores were collected for comparative analysis during the follow-up period of 48 months.ResultsAt the final follow-up, the clinical outcomes, including ADT, VAS, AOFAS, K-P, and Tegner activity scores, were significantly improved after either arthroscopic or open treatment. Specifically, the AOFAS and K-P scores in the group AB were significantly higher than those in the group OB at 6 months post-surgery (P &lt; 0.05). Additionally, there were no significant differences in other clinical outcomes and postoperative complications between the two groups.ConclusionsArthroscopic has predictable and good mid-term results after ATFL and may be a secure and effective alternative to open Broström-Gould repair.
Blue Carbon Stock in Zostera marina Meadows in the Ría de Ferrol (NW Iberian Peninsula)
Authors: de la Cerda-Marín María del Carmen , Díaz-Agras Guillermo , Rodríguez Tato Ramiro , Candás Romero María , Pérez Señarís Marcos , de Solaun Eimil Andrés , Otero Xosé Luis 
Published: May 2023

The increase in greenhouse gases (GHG) has been constant since the Industrial Revolution. For this reason, different international organizations have devoted special attention to GHG sinks such as terrestrial soils and ecosystems. However, the initially estimated balances did not include the carbon stock associated with ocean waters, coastal soils and sediments, known as blue carbon. Currently, blue carbon sinks are the subject of numerous studies due to the limited information available, especially on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula. We studied the organic C stock present in soils and in Zostera marina biomass in the two main meadows in the Ría de Ferrol (O Baño and Castelo de San Felipe). The carbon stock associated with biomass was 0.37 Mg C ha−1, with 0.18 Mg C ha−1 corresponding to the epigeal portion and 0.19 Mg C ha−1 to the hypogeal portion. Soil carbon stock was much higher: 4.11 Mg C ha−1 at a depth of 5 cm and 82.14 Mg C ha−1 at a depth of 1 m. Together with carbon values in biomass, a stock of 82.5 Mg C ha−1 was obtained for the whole Ría de Ferrol. Z. marina accounted for 8.25% of total C in the Ría de Ferrol. These values were higher than those found in other regions. Isotope ratios (δ13C, δ15N) and C/N ratios indicated that the organic C stock in the O Baño soil may receive important organic matter inputs of terrestrial origin, while in San Felipe, it seems to have a marine origin.
Harmonic Mitigation Using Meta-Heuristic Optimization for Shunt Adaptive Power Filters: A Review
Authors: Duc Minh Ly , Hlavaty Lukas , Bilik Petr , Martinek Radek 
Published: May 2023

Shunt Adaptive Power Filter (SAPF) is widely used in the performance of power quality improvement activities in the power supply industry for processing industries or civil power sources in the world today based on its simplicity, transparency, high reliability, efficiency, and reliability, and their powerful compensating current-providing nature. The PI controller integrated into the SAPF operation mechanism works with extra high efficiency in selecting the current to compensate for the lost current generated in the power supply due to harmonics generated by the Kp, Ki parameter values. The system operates by the PWM method for bridge rectifier circuits that perform the function of selecting the appropriate compensating current, providing correct compensation for the amount of current loss in the power supply. Adjusting the Kp, Ki parameter to reach the optimal value by different methods is a promising and popular research direction at present. The Kp, Ki parameter serves the right purpose for the PI controller to generate enough PWM pulses to excite the bridge rectifiers to generate just the right amount of compensating current and enough current to be compensated on the power supply. The commonly used Kp, Ki parameter adjustment methods include the Ziegler Nichols closed-loop vibration method, the P-Q theoretical method, and several other methods. This study conducts a comprehensive review of the literature on modern strategies for adjusting the Kp, Ki parameters in the PI controller in the SAPF suite by using the meta-heuristic optimization method. This study performs classification according to the operation mode of meta-heuristic optimization methods to adjust the Kp, Ki parameter to control the PI to select the correct PWM frequency to activate bridge rectifiers to select the most optimal compensation current to compensate for the loss of current on the power supply to meet the goal of improving power quality in accordance with IEEE 519-2022 standard, leading to the total harmonic distortion (THD) value is below 5%. The study presents in detail some meta-heuristic optimization algorithms, including applications, mathematical equations, and implementation of flow charts for SAPF and provides some open problems for future research. The main objective of this study is to provide an overview of applying meta-heuristic optimization algorithms to the Kp, Ki parameter tuning of PI controllers.
Validity and Reliability of Vis-Screen Application: A Smartphone-Based Distance Vision Testing for Visual Impairment and Blindness Vision Screening
Authors: Abdul Rahman Siti Nor Aishah , Naing Nyi Nyi , Othman Abdul Mutalib , Mohamad Zarina , Ibrahim Tg Mohd Masrul , Hashim Syaratul Emma , Baig Atif Amin , Wong Ling Shing , Dewadas Hemaniswarri Dewi , Selvaraj Siddharthan 
Published: May 2023

Background and Objectives: The health-related mobile applications (app) might assist in promoting inclusive health and tele-treatment, especially for the less severe diseases. In this paper, a study had been done to determine the app’s reliability in terms of raters and the app’s agreement with the Snellen chart. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional sectional study was conducted between November 2019 and September 2020. Participants were selected via purposive sampling from selected communities in Terengganu state. All participants underwent vision testing with the Vis-Screen app and Snellen chart for validity and reliability accordingly. Results: A total of 408 participants were involved, with a mean age of 29.3. The sensitivity of the presenting vision of the right eye (PVR) ranged from 55.6% to 88.4%, with specificity between 94.7% to 99.3%, while the positive and negative predictive values were between 57.9% and 81.7% and 96.8% and 99.0%, respectively. The positive likelihood ratios ranged between 16.73 and 73.89, whereas the negative likelihood ratios ranged from 0.12 to 0.45. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for all cut-off points ranged between 0.93 and 0.97, and the optimum cut-off point was at 6/12. The kappa values for intra-rater and inter-rater were 0.85 and 0.75, respectively, while the app’s reliability with the Snellen chart was 0.61. Conclusions: Vis-Screen was concluded to be valid and reliable for use as a screening tool for detecting individuals with visual impairment and blindness in the community. A valid and reliable portable vision screener like Vis-Screen will help expand the eye care feasibility while providing similar accuracy as the conventional charts in clinical practices.
Une relecture nécessaire : la genèse du parti-État FRELIMO
Authors: de Brito Luis 
Published: May 2023

The Frelimo state-party : a reassessment of its origins.
At its formation in 1962, FRELIMO was no more than an alliance of unstable social fractions and ethnic groups with opposing tendencies. The crisis of 1968 resolved these internal contradictions in favour of the military and «revolutionary intellectuals» thus signalling the defeat of merchants and traditional authority. The guerilla movement received a boost but the peasant/military alliance was maintained more by the exigencies of war than by a social project internalized by the peasantry. The state apparatus then in formation was a generic factor of fragility as its object was the incorporation of rural society in the urban project of forging a Nation.
Paroles de «dévalués»
Authors: Dupraze Paule , Diallo Sanfa , Willier Mohammed , Sakbo Ibrahima , Goumbala Mamadou 
Published: May 2023

The words of «devaluates».
Back from Senegal and Mali, P. Dupraz presents african people’s comments on devaluation. With derision as last weapon, they loudly denounce their victimization, overlasting dependence on France and the failure of their own states policies.
L’économie mauritanienne au risque de l’informalisation.
Authors: Charmes Jacques 
Published: May 2023

Mauritanian economy at the risk of informality.
Following the setbacks of economical development, the structural adjustement programmes ini¬ tiated in 1984 was jeopardized by several factors. In 1992, Mauritania ranked 93rd on the World Bank scale and 161st on the UNDP. Confronted to a very high and ever increasing unemployment rate, the informal sector is widening tremendously, especially its tertiary sector, and employs almost three quaters of the working population which is not occupied by agriculture. A recent and relative new balance in favor of productive activities remains uncertain.
L’aventure contemporaine des diamantaires sénégalais
Authors: Bredeloup Sylvie 
Published: May 2023

The Senegalese diamond merchants’ contemporary adventure.
For the Senegalese diamond dealing is not new even if they don’t stand on the forefront. Their experience, though individual, draws on the pulaar oral tradition and drives them to the Central African Republic to Congo or Zaère. Despite the existence of family and integration political strategies in host countries, they are often deported during xenophobic upsurges. With these development, family mobilization is as much necessary to penetrate local networks as to manage for the best the capital brought back to the country. Back to Senegal, those who did well, take responsibilities within associations or political charges to go into business.
Bonn et la question sud-africaine
Authors: Oladé-Paraïso Jean-Yves 
Published: May 2023

Bonn and the South African question.
The various political coalitions in power which followed in Bonn, and especially the Christian Liberals, developed close ties with the apartheid regime in South Africa. There are a few reasons for this, psychological, economic and ideological determining factors as well as the multiplicity of decision making units, not forgetting the rivalries between the Ministry of Foreign affairs given to the liberal Hans Dietrich Genscher and the Ministry of Cooperation dominated by the party of the ultra conservative Franz-Josef Strauss.
Pages méconnues des relations germano-africaines
Authors: Oloukpona-yinnon Adjaï paulin 
Published: May 2023

Bala Demba and Behanzin : neglectèd pages in the history of german-african relations.
The diplomatie correspondence during the last half of the XIXth century between Guillaume II and Bismarck on the one hand and the kings Bala Demba of Baga in the present Guinea-Conakry and Behanzin d’Abomey on the other hand reveals that before colonization, African monarchs shared friendly and equal to equal relations with their European counterparts, in this case the German emperors Guillaume 1st and Ilnd regardless of dependence or subordination.
Le gang Serena : origine et production d’une contre-société de la rue à Nairobi
Authors: Rodriguez-Torres Deyssi 
Published: May 2023

The gang Serena : origin and production of a street's counter-society in Nairobi.
The shantytown, where the urban exclusion and marginalisation takes place, does not have physical or economical means to kelp its inhabitants to manage to get out of poverty. Because of precarious conditions, single mothers or parents are forced to abandon children who will go on the street, the only place were they can live. This article exposes how these children get on the street and in the gangs, the informal and illegal means they use to survive, and how they have created a new street counter society based on the violence.
L’exotisme peut-il être banal ? L’expérience de Politique africaine
Authors: Coulon Christian 
Published: May 2023

How banal is the exoticism ? An account of Politique africaine
The author offers a review of the work published by Politique africaine, as well as a thorough discussion of French Africanist studies in the last fifteen years. Important questions are arisen. Some refer to political analyses ; others to other areas of concern to all Africanists.
Jeux d’argent, jeux de vilains : rien ne va plus au Zaïre
Authors: Gondola Charles Didier 
Published: May 2023

Jeux d'argent, jeux de vilain : crisis in Zaïre.
The author presents a study of the crisis generated in 1991 in Zaire by a frenzy of pyramid-type gambling. The originality of the article is the way in which it demonstrates how such gambling is largely the result of the disintegration of society which resulted from the collapse of the economy in Zaire.
Les ambitions internationales du Soudan islamiste
Authors: Marchal Roland , Osman Oussama 
Published: May 2023

The international ambitions of the islamic Sudan.
Foreign policy, both formal and popular, is prominent in the Islamic agenda of the Sudanese regime. The Gulf war created a window of opportunity to promote the National Islamic Front at an international level, and to deal with Islamic movements as well as States. This paper provides a short analysis of the Sudanese context and a description of the new foreign relations of the NIF or the Sudanese State with its regional and international environment. The case of the ties with some Asian countries is not studied.
Réflexions comparées sur l’historiographie africaniste de langue française et anglaise
Authors: Coquery-Vidrovitch Catherine 
Published: May 2023

Comparative reflection on french and english-language africanist historiography.
This article discusses the genesis and apparent weaknesses of French Africanist historiography. Beyond the comparisons which the author makes with English-language Africanist historiography, what is of interest in this article is the call for a more open, broader and above multi-disciplinary approach to the analysis of politics in contemporary Africa.
De l’Authenticité à la Libération : se prénommer en République démocratique du Congo
Authors: Ndaywel è Nziem Isidore 
Published: May 2023

From authenticity to freedom : forenames in the democratic republic of Congo.
Local creativity, far from suffering from atrophy under the influence of «Christian» forenames, is capable of «using» them as original material at the service of «popular inventiveness». These hitherto unheard-of «practices» finally flourished once they had been freed from the imposed constraints. Instead of a spectacular «return» to the old norms, the «post-names» are tending to prevail as the new modes of individual identification.
PENGARUH BEBAN PAJAK DAN KEPEMILIKAN ASNG TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN TRANSFER PRICING
Authors: Ningsih Harianti , Dewanti Yopy Ratna 
Published: May 2023

<p align="justify">Article 21 Income Tax is one type of Income Tax imposed on income in the form of salary, wages, honorarium, allowances, and other payments received or obtained by domestic individual taxpayers in connection with work or position, services, and activities. Therefore, government agencies and companies that pay employees or employees must implement the calculation of Income Tax Article 21 on the income received by their employees every month. This research was conducted at PT. Trimuda Eka Bhakty. In making this Final Project Report the author wants to know whether the application of calculation, deduction, depositing and reporting income tax article 21 for permanent employees of PT. Trimuda Eka Bhakty is in accordance with Taxation Law No. 36 of 2008 concerning Income Tax. This study uses descriptive research methods with qualitative approaches, and data collection techniques used are by observation, informants and literature. The results of this Final Project Report indicate that PT. Trimuda Eka Bhakty in the application of calculations, deductions and deposits is in accordance with the applicable provisions, while in the income tax reporting article 21 for employees there is a delay of several months so that it is not fully in accordance with the applicable tax regulations.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Article 21 Income Tax, PT. Trimuda Eka Bhakty, tax regulations</p>
Публічне управління в умовах викликів воєнного стану
Authors: Izha Mykola , Kurnosenko Larysa 
Published: May 2023

В статті піддано аналізу особливості функціонування системи публічного управління в умовах воєнного стану. З’ясовано, що системними чинниками, які забезпечили стійкість країни в умовах активних бойових дій можна вважати: розвинене підприємництво; розвинені публічні комунікації; децентралізовану систему управління економікою; розвинене громадянське суспільство; високий рівень відкритості держави; високий рівень цифровізації державних сервісів. Визначено, що основою стійкості держави в умовах триваючих бойових дій є спроможність системи публічного управління здійснювати управлінську діяльність, направлену на організацію та упорядкування життя, забезпечення стабільності та розвитку суспільства. Визначено основні компоненти спроможності системи публічного управління: систему надання високоякісних та доступних адміністративних послуг, систему професійної публічної служби та систему формування і реалізації державної політики на основі аналізу та комунікацій зі всіма зацікавленими сторонами. Досліджено основні адаптаційні механізми зазначених компонентів стійкості системи публічного управління в умовах воєнного стану. Визначено, що основними викликами, які виникли в ході війни і будуть впливати на стійкість держави в повоєнний період, є: безпекові; ресурсні; інтеграційні; інформаційні виклики. Показано що система надання адміністративних послуг адаптувалася до умов воєнного стану завдяки урядовим рішенням щодо невідкладності та екстериторіальності надання окремих послуг.
Зроблено висновок, що пом’якшенню впливу викликів і загроз на стійкість системи публічного управління у воєнний час та час повоєнного відновлення буде сприяти дотримання поступовості започаткованих системних реформ, залучення громадськості у процеси прийняття публічних рішень, розвиток людського капіталу публічної служби.
Роль громадянського суспільства у становленні публічної політики національної пам’яті в Україні
Authors: Vlasenko Svitlana 
Published: May 2023

Мета статті – з’ясувати роль громадянського суспільства у становленні публічної політики національної пам’яті в Україні наприкінці 1980-х – на початку 1990-х років.
Дослідження здійснено на основі нормативно-правових актів Верховної Ради УРСР, офіційних документів громадських об’єднань, що діяли в Україні в зазначений період, а також із використанням наукових розробок вітчизняних дослідників з окремих аспектів поставленої проблеми.
У процесі підготовки статті були використані загальнонаукові методи (аналізу та синтезу, індукції та дедукції, пояснення й узагальнення) в поєднанні з міждисциплінарними та спеціальними методами. Застосування історичного, системного, структурно-функціонального, логічного підходів до наукового дослідження дало можливість розкрити суспільні процеси та діяльність громадських об’єднань у сфері відродження і збереження національної пам’яті наприкінці 1980-х – на початку 1990-х років.
У статті розкрито діяльність громадських об’єднана в Україні щодо відродження історії, культури, мови, традицій та збереження національної пам’яті українського народу. З’ясовано вплив громадської активності на політику радянської влади та досліджено владні рішення у відповідь на дії суспільства, що сприяли становленню публічної політики національної пам’яті в Україні наприкінці 1980-х – на початку 1990-х років. Доведено, що процес становлення публічної політики національної пам’яті в Україні був нерозривно пов’язаний із зародженням громадянського суспільства.
В результаті проведеної науково-дослідної роботи було зроблено висновок про важливу роль громадянського суспільства України у процесі становлення публічної політики національної пам’яті наприкінці 1980-х – на початку 1990-х років.