cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_0961203320935184 - Supplemental material for Clinical features, damage accrual, and survival in patients with familial systemic lupus erythematosus: data from a multi-ethnic, multinational Latin American lupus cohort
Creators: name: Quintana, Rosana
name: Pons-Estel, Guillermo J
name: Roberts, Karen
name: Sacnún, Mónica
name: Serrano, Rosa
name: Nieto, Romina
name: Conti, Silvana
name: Gervasoni, Viviana
name: Catoggio, Luis J
name: Soriano, Enrique R
name: Scolnik, Marina
name: García, Mercedes A
name: Alvarellos, Alejandro
name: Saurit, Verónica
name: Berbotto, Guillermo A
name: Sato, Emilia I
name: Costallat, Lilian T Lavras
name: Neto, Eduardo Ferreira Borba
name: Bonfa, Eloisa
name: Xavier, Ricardo M
name: Montandon, Ana Carolina De Oliveira E Silva
name: Molina-Restrepo, José Fernando
name: Iglesias-Gamarra, Antonio
name: Guibert-Toledano, Marlene
name: Reyes-Llerena, Gil Alberto
name: Massardo, Loreto
name: Neira, Oscar J
name: Cardiel, Mario H
name: Barile-Fabris, Leonor A
name: Mary-Carmen Amigo
name: Silveira, Luis H
name: Torre, Ignacio García De La
name: Acevedo-Vásquez, Eduardo M
name: Ugarte-Gil, Manuel F
name: Alfaro-Lozano, José Luis
name: Segami, María Inés
name: Chacón-Díaz, Rosa
name: Esteva-Spinetti, María H
name: Gomez-Puerta, José A
name: Alarcón, Graciela S
name: Pons-Estel, Bernardo A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_0961203320935184 for Clinical features, damage accrual, and survival in patients with familial systemic lupus erythematosus: data from a multi-ethnic, multinational Latin American lupus cohort by Rosana Quintana, Guillermo J Pons-Estel, Karen Roberts, Mónica Sacnún, Rosa Serrano, Romina Nieto, Silvana Conti, Viviana Gervasoni, Luis J Catoggio, Enrique R Soriano, Marina Scolnik, Mercedes A García, Alejandro Alvarellos, Verónica Saurit, Guillermo A Berbotto, Emilia I Sato, Lilian T Lavras Costallat, Eduardo Ferreira Borba Neto, Eloisa Bonfa, Ricardo M Xavier, Ana Carolina de Oliveira e Silva Montandon, José Fernando Molina-Restrepo, Antonio Iglesias-Gamarra, Marlene Guibert-Toledano, Gil Alberto Reyes-Llerena, Loreto Massardo, Oscar J Neira, Mario H Cardiel, Leonor A Barile-Fabris, Mary-Carmen Amigo, Luis H Silveira, Ignacio García De La Torre, Eduardo M Acevedo-Vásquez, Manuel F Ugarte-Gil, José Luis Alfaro-Lozano, María Inés Segami, Rosa Chacón-Díaz, María H Esteva-Spinetti, José A Gomez-Puerta, Graciela S Alarcón and Bernardo A Pons-Estel in Lupus
history of polio vaccination with “Sabin’s OPV” 60 years after its introduction in Italy: an unforgivable “delay”
Creators: name: Minet, Carola
name: Valchi, Lucia
name: Martini, Mariano
name: Orsini, Davide
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: history of vaccines and vaccinations
polio
Sabin’s OPV
public health
hygiene
infectious disease
vaccines

description: ABSTRACT


In the spring of 1964, polio vaccination with the oral vaccine developed by Albert Sabin began in Italy. Polio was feared in the world and in Italy. Thus, between 1957 and the beginning of 1958, Italian children began receiving the “Salk vaccine”, though the results were not particularly convincing. In July 1960, the international scientific community was able to verify the data from the mass testing of the Sabin vaccine. It became clear that the OPV, could prevent the virus from multiplying, thereby providing greater protection and determining the eradication of the disease. In 1960 over 70 million people in the USSR alone had already received the oral vaccine and mass vaccination in the USA would start in March 1961. However, in Italy there was no similar initiative; only later the new vaccine was accepted but was not made compulsory at the beginning. As a result of the commission’s report, registration of the “Polioral” vaccine, was authorized in September 1962 but the sale of the vaccine was not authorized until November 1963.  At the beginning of 1964, the production of “Polioral” started and the product was marketed and on the 1 st of March 1964, anti-polio vaccination with the “Sabin anti-polio vaccine” also began in Italy.


This manuscript focuses on a crucial issue about a historical delay for public health and it points out as the preparation and diffusion of the Sabin polio vaccine demonstrates that decisions regarding health treatments, and specifically vaccination campaigns, must be based exclusively on the results of clinical studies and on independent evaluation by the scientific community. This process ensures trust in vaccines, adequate protection of public health andcitizens’ well-being.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
Serra_Garcia_Supplemental_Material_rev – Supplemental material for Can Short Psychological Interventions Affect Educational Performance? Revisiting the Effect of Self-Affirmation Interventions
Creators: name: Serra-Garcia, Marta
name: Hansen, Karsten T.
name: Gneezy, Uri
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, Serra_Garcia_Supplemental_Material_rev for Can Short Psychological Interventions Affect Educational Performance? Revisiting the Effect of Self-Affirmation Interventions by Marta Serra-Garcia, Karsten T. Hansen and Uri Gneezy in Psychological Science
title: ZiFM Stereo : Negotiating Identity on Private Radio in Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Masina, Nomalanga Leander
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: Despite a sizable amount of research on Zimbabwean media, there is significantly little known about the internal production practices within radio stations in Zimbabwe. My original contribution to the analysis of Zimbabwean media is in moving away from the broad analyses of Zimbabwean media that primarily focuses on the actions of the government. Instead, by using this case study, I advance the field of study by showing the complex power dynamics at play during the media production process. The thesis offers a unique insight into how young Zimbabweans negotiate their identities and sense of belonging through private radio broadcasting. In gaining entry into a Zimbabwean radio station, one of the most protected areas of Zimbabwean media production, I argue that while Zimbabwean broadcast practices still work to shape a world that benefits an elite minority, that power dynamic is being questioned regularly by ordinary Zimbabweans. My conclusion is that this private station has created a space of resistance for those who live on the periphery of power to articulate their perspectives. Through this study I advocate for the research approach of a case study as a means to understand how each individual in a given media organisation influences the final media product. This thesis advances the literature on the strategies Zimbabweans are employing to challenge norms.
title: ‘Seeking Saracens’ : Exploring the representation of Muslims and Islamic Religious Practice in the English Charlemagne Romance Cycle and Petronius Redivivus
Creators: name: Munro, Elizabeth Henrietta Jane
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis examines the representation of Muslims (‘Saracens’) and Islamic religious practice across two bodies of medieval literary works, the complete English Charlemagne Romance Cycle and stories VII and VIII of Petronius Redivivus [‘Petronius Revived’]. Both literary collections emerged during the medieval period, but were produced in different languages (Middle English and Latin) for different audiences and, as a result, these texts are highly complementary. Using these literary texts, this thesis gathers collective evidence for the representation of Muslims (or ‘Saracens’ as they are referred to in the works examined) and Islamic religious practice. Taking the evidence gathered, the thesis examines whether the representations found correspond to a contemporary understanding Islamic belief and practice, and how and when the literary figure of ‘the Saracen’ can be recognised as Muslim. To deconstruct the representations of Muslims and Islamic religious practice present in these works four key themes are examined, divided according to the dichotomy of body and soul: the senses; sex and sexuality; fixed boundaries of religious practice; and conversion and apostasy. The dichotomy of body and soul is used to divide exploration of Muslims (as ‘body’), from exploration of Islamic religious practice (as ‘soul’). The broader significance of this research derives from the fact it raises new interpretive possibilities that challenge the established stereotype of the Saracen in medieval literature. Rather than presenting the Saracen as a distant Eastern ‘Other’, practising a false religion, this thesis utilises a contemporary understanding of Islam in order to reassess medieval representations of Saracens.
Balto and Togo during the cold winter of Alaska (1925): the two canine heroes in the fight against diphtheria.
Creators: name: Simonetti, Omar
name: Cosimi, Lavinia
name: Cigana, Marco
name: Martini, Mariano
name: Di Bella, Stefano
name: Penco, Arturo
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: diphtheria
immunization
antitoxin
dogs
history of vaccines
vaccinations
history of vaccines and vaccinations

description: In recent years, diphtheria has re-emerged in areas with inadequate vaccination coverage, and Europe has not been spared with several cases among migrants. Diphtheria is a potentially fatal infection caused mainly by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Due to the high mortality rate, especially among young children, the fight against diphtheria is considered one of the first conquests of immunization. In the history of medicine, there is a unique case of an unconventional response to a diphtheria outbreak in which sled dogs were used to overcome the supply difficulties of diphtheria antitoxin. The mass media followed the medical response to the outbreak and raised audience awareness of public health issues. The facts of Nome, Alaska, in 1925 can serve as a catalyst to rethink conventional responses to diphtheria outbreaks in low-income countries today and promote mass media awareness of public health importance.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
Supplementary_File - Development of EFL Student Global Mindedness Through Transformative Learning in the Literature Classroom at a Thai University
Creators: name: Sukanya Kaowiwattanakul
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: Supplementary_File for Development of EFL Student Global Mindedness Through Transformative Learning in the Literature Classroom at a Thai University by Sukanya Kaowiwattanakul in Journal of Transformative Education
Johnston_SupplementaryAppendix – Supplemental material for Effectiveness of Latent TB Screening and Treatment in People Initiating Dialysis in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Romanowski, Kamila
name: Rose, Caren
name: Cook, Victoria J.
name: Sekirov, Inna
name: Morshed, Muhammad
name: Ognjenka Djurdjev
name: Adeera Levin
name: Johnston, James C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, Johnston_SupplementaryAppendix for Effectiveness of Latent TB Screening and Treatment in People Initiating Dialysis in British Columbia, Canada by Kamila Romanowski, Caren Rose, Victoria J. Cook, Inna Sekirov, Muhammad Morshed, Ognjenka Djurdjev, Adeera Levin and James C. Johnston in Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
title: Kingship and Procreation in a Pyu Viṣṇu Anantaśāyin Stone Relief from Śrīkṣetra
Creators: name: Cheong, Conan
Publisher: name: SAAAP (SOAS)
Year: 2020

description: This paper examines closely a stone relief carving found in 1919 at the Pyu city of Śrīkṣetra in Myanmar, which appears to be an unusual variant of the Viṣṇu Anantaśāyin iconographic type — the lotus stem germinating from the reclining Viṣṇu’s navel sprouts not one, but three lotus seats, with a recursion of Viṣṇu now flanked by Brahmā on the right and Śiva on the left. Only six images depicting this iconographic variant of Viṣṇu Anantaśāyin have been found in Myanmar. Taking to heart Elizabeth Moore’s calls to complicate the “ethnic and linguistic homogeneity of ‘Pyu culture’ [which] has become entrenched in Burmese archaeology,” this paper seeks to suggest alternative ways of thinking about such Pyu art. It considers the apparent reinterpretation of Viṣṇu’s Creator-function in this particular Viṣṇu Anantaśāyin image in relation to his possible cadastral functions, to the Bagan king Kyanzittha’s conceptions of kingship which are clearly linked to the foundation of Śrīkṣetra, and to Buddhist lineages as reflected in, for example, the succession of the four Buddhas of the Past.
title: Nine Deities Panel in Ancient Cambodia
Creators: name: Chhum, Menghong
Publisher: name: SAAAP (SOAS)
Year: 2020

description: The nine deities panel has been found in large numbers and existed with several configurations of deities in ancient Cambodia. The oldest known example dates from the pre-Angkorian period and shows the navagrahas (nine celestial bodies) in a standing posture. The iconographic form differs on Angkorian-period panels, with the nine deities on their individual vāhana (mount). By reanalysing the iconography of the deities and the typological development of the panels, it is argued that this later group represents the navadevas, a term used to designate the combination of four grahas and five dikpālas (guardians of the directions). This study also considers issues relating to the imagery’s meaning and significance, based on their iconographic and architectural contexts in Khmer temples. The colocation of the navadevas and related iconographic themes including Viṣṇu Anantaśayana, the grahas as seven ṛṣis, and the mātṛkās, clarifies that the imagery’s meaning relates to the celestial bodies, the directions and the notion of cosmological order. The panel was used both as a lintel above a temple doorway and installed inside the sanctum as an independent object near the image of the main deity, and appears to have been especially associated with shrines located in the southeast of a temple complex. The significance of the panel is suggested to relate to the idea of the temple as cosmic space.
OnlineAppendix_Tables_and_Figures_clean – Supplemental material for How Do the Hospital Prices Paid by Medicare Advantage Plans and Commercial Plans Compare With Medicare Fee-for-Service Prices?
Creators: name: Maeda, Jared Lane K.
name: Nelson, Lyle
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, OnlineAppendix_Tables_and_Figures_clean for How Do the Hospital Prices Paid by Medicare Advantage Plans and Commercial Plans Compare With Medicare Fee-for-Service Prices? by Jared Lane K. Maeda and Lyle Nelson in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
title: Challenges in modelling photosynthesis as a function of spectral photon flux density
Creators: name: Zwenger, Adrian
name: Balasus, Jens
name: Klir, Stefan
name: Khanh, Tran
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Controlled-environment agriculture (CEA)
subject: photosynthesis
subject: machine learning
subject: UMAP
subject: HDBSCAN
subject: 621.3

description: To establish a sustainable and efficient crop cultivation, independent of season and climate, artificial lighting remains a critical factor. Artificial lighting can incur a significant environmental and financial cost. Thus, a key challenge is reducing power consumption for lighting without compromising crop quality and yield. In other terms, lighting needs to be optimized with regard to net photosynthetic activity, which is directly linked to crop quality and yield. Determining an optimal lighting strategy is not trivial, as the photosynthetic process and its influencing factors have not been fully understood yet. Furthermore, interaction between the influencing factors is not only possible, but can occur non-linearly. This is the reason why using data-driven approaches and machine learning to model photosynthetic behaviour as an abstract black-box has become one of many focal points in photosynthesis research. Currently, studying photosynthesis requires the examination of the net CO2-assimilation-rate, which is labour- as well as resource-intensive. The aim of this work is to propose a framework for modelling the photosynthetic activity of C3- and C4-plants as a function of the spectral photon flux density, with the goal of eliminating the assimilation-rate measurement altogether. Challenges arising from the biochemical complexities are highlighted and possible workarounds determined. A special focus is placed on data pre-processing and augmentation steps, as well as proposed machine learning approaches.
description: Lux junior 2024: 17. Internationales Forum für den lichttechnischen Nachwuchs, 6. – 8. September 2024, Ilmenau : Tagungsband, p. 241
A historical and palaeopathological perspective on cancer.
Creators: name: Galassi, Francesco Maria
name: Varotto, Elena
name: Vaccarezza, Mauro
name: Martini, Mariano
name: Papa, Veronica
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: cancer
breast cancer
epidemiology
global health
palaeopathology
history of medicine
history of cancer and paleapathology

description: Cancer is often wrongly considered to be a modern disease in many popular medical venues. Cancers have been known to mankind since ancient times. In fact, its antiquity can be proved through the application of palaeopathological methodologies.
The present perspective piece demonstrates by means of a historical and palaeopathological analysis how oncological manifestations were present long before the emergence anatomically modern humans and addresses the epidemiological transition from ancient times to the contemporary world.


The final section of the article is dedicated to the analysis of breast cancer and its identification in ancient human remains.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
Supplemental material 1 for Mobile health and the performance of maternal health care workers in low- and middle-income countries: A realist review
Creators: name: Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde
name: Onaedo Ilozumba
name: Marchal, Bruno
name: Zweekhorst, Marjolein
name: Dieleman, Marjolein
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material 1 for Mobile health and the performance of maternal health care workers in low- and middle-income countries: A realist review by Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde, Onaedo Ilozumba, Bruno Marchal, Marjolein Zweekhorst and Marjolein Dieleman in International Journal of Care Coordination
SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus coinfections in the Tuscan population during the 2021/2022 influenza season
Creators: name: Manini, Ilaria
name: Milano, Giovanna
name: Marchi, Serena
name: Vicenti, Ilaria
name: Biba, Camilla
name: Fiaschi, Lia
name: Trombetta, Claudia Maria
name: Lazzeri, Giacomo
name: Montomoli, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: coinfection; population; respiratory viruses.
Sars-Cov-2
Influenza
RSV

description: The 2021/2022 influenza season was not characterised by a well-defined incidence peak. As reported by the Italian National Institute of Health, a high value of incidence of influenza cases was recorded in week 13, but it was still lower than in other influenza seasons. This abnormal circulation was probably due to relaxation of the COVID-19 pandemic restriction measures, which greatly reduced the circulation of respiratory-transmitted viruses, including human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV). The symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza are quite similar, sharing the human-to-human transmission route via respiratory droplets. The aim of this study was to estimate the rate of coinfection with influenza viruses and/or HRSV in SARS-CoV-2-positive subjects (N=940) in a population of central Italy during the 2021/2022 season. A total of 54 cases of coinfection were detected during the study period, 51 cases (5.4%) of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus and three cases (0.3%) of SARS-CoV-2 and HRSV coinfection. These results highlight the importance of continuous monitoring of the circulation of influenza virus and other respiratory viruses in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
Sola-Valls_et_al._supplementary_table_1 – Supplemental material for Combined walking outcome measures identify clinically meaningful response to prolonged-release fampridine
Creators: name: Sola-Valls, Núria
name: Blanco, Yolanda
name: Sepúlveda, María
name: Llufriu, Sara
name: Martínez-Lapiscina, Elena H.
name: Irati Zubizarreta
name: Pulido-Valdeolivas, Irene
name: Montejo, Carmen
name: Villoslada, Pablo
name: Saiz, Albert
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Sola-Valls_et_al._supplementary_table_1 for Combined walking outcome measures identify clinically meaningful response to prolonged-release fampridine by Núria Sola-Valls, Yolanda Blanco, María Sepúlveda, Sara Llufriu, Elena H. Martínez-Lapiscina, Irati Zubizarreta, Irene Pulido-Valdeolivas, Carmen Montejo, Pablo Villoslada and Albert Saiz in Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
Unique path partitions: Characterization and Congruences
Creators: name: Bessenrodt, Christine
name: Olsson, Jørn B.
name: Sellers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A17, 11P83, 20C30

description: We give a complete classification of the unique path partitions and study congruence properties of the function which enumerates such partitions.
description: 11 pages
title: Cinema in Ethiopia : Genre, Melodrama and the Commercial Amharic Film Industry
Creators: name: Thomas, Michael William
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis explores the emergence of the commercially viable Amharic film industry in Ethiopia, investigating its system of genres and the manifestation of an Ethiopian-style melodrama. Emerging in 2002 from an economic scenario devoid of government support and dependent on entrepreneurial action, the commercial Amharic film industry is centred in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, where cinemas are devoted to screening the latest local releases to a young cinemagoing public. Film genre terms in Amharic are strikingly visible in the Ethiopian context. They often appear written on film posters, voiced in television and radio trailers and denoted in cinema listings. This experience of locally produced and consumed popular cinema and the prevalence of Amharic genres to its organisation offers an alternative case study to mainstream film cultures and experiences of cinema in Africa and around the world, while also presenting a point of keen comparative interest. Enabled through ethnographic and textual research methods, this study applies a sustained and detailed appreciation of the history of Ethiopia, its specific cultural milieu and social orientations as central to understanding the nature of Amharic cinema. Contributing a historically and culturally conditioned study helps to focus on the role of local specificities in understandings of cinema in a field experiencing a trend towards more transnational approaches. Balancing an awareness of both local and global interactions through a study of genre and melodrama and their usages by producers and consumers in the Ethiopian case study reveals new conceptualisations of these phenomena and their interdependency. The research findings detail the affective characteristics that delineate most Amharic genres and the role an Ethiopian-style melodrama plays in this popular cinema, negotiating between romantic, familial, patriotic and spiritual notions of ፍቅር - fiker/love.
Assessment of workhour feeding practices, healthy behaviour score and body mass index of physicians in Northern Nigeria: a cross-sectional multi-centre study
Creators: name: Michael, Godpower
name: Ehalaiye, Doris
name: Ibrahim, Haliru
name: Falaki, Fatima
name: Suleiman, Abdullahi
name: Grema, Bukar
name: Mutalub, Yahkub
name: Mohammed, Abubakar
name: Ogwuche, Emmanuel
name: Fikin, Aminu
name: Umar, Zainab
name: Aliyu, Ibrahim
name: Madaki, Jeremiah
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: Body Mass Index
Lifestyle behaviours
Obesity
Physicians
Feeding Practice
Workplace
medical doctor

description: Background: The increasing obesity/overweight prevalence among health workers calls for an appraisal of their lifestyle. This study assessed medical practitioners' workhour feeding and lifestyle practices and explored the relationship between these practices and their body mass index (BMI).


Methods: The survey involved 321 medical practitioners selected from 9 northern Nigeria hospitals in 2021. Data collected included biodata, medication history, workhour feeding characteristics, lifestyle behaviours, blood pressure, height, and weight measurements. Data were analyzed using Epi info software (version 7).


Results: Most respondents were male (70.7%). Their mean age was 38±7.4 years. During their last workhours, 84.1% had lunch, 46.4% took sugary drinks, 2.7% brought lunch from home, and 1.3% took nothing. Only 18.7% patronize their hospital canteen weekly. Most reported healthy behaviour towards alcohol (99.7%) and, fruit/vegetable (54.8%) consumption, and smoking (98.4%), but only 22.4% were physically active. Their mean healthy behaviour score and BMI were 2.8±0.7 and 26.1±4.6 kg/m2, respectively. The obesity and overweight rates were 18.4% and 37.7%, respectively. Their source of lunch during workhours, age, sex, years of practice, employment duration, marital status, job category, systolic blood pressure, anti-hypertensive, and antidiabetic medication use were significantly associated with mean BMI. However, only antihypertensive medication use, being married, inadequate fruit/vegetable consumption and workhour sugary drinks consumption predicted obesity. The predictors of overweight/obese were long practice experience (<10y) and use of antihypertensive medications.


Conclusions: Overweight and obesity rates were high. Most were physically inactive. Workhour sugary drink consumption predicted obesity. Effective workplace and community interventions to improve practitioners' lifestyle behaviour and curtail obesity and overweight are needed.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
An Unexpected Congruence Modulo 5 for 4--Colored Generalized Frobenius Partitions
Creators: name: Sellers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A17, 11P83

description: In his 1984 AMS Memoir, George Andrews defined the family of $k$--colored generalized Frobenius partition functions. These are denoted by $cϕ_k(n)$ where $k\geq 1$ is the number of colors in question. In that Memoir, Andrews proved (among many other things) that, for all $n\geq 0,$ $cϕ_2(5n+3) \equiv 0\pmod{5}.$ Soon after, many authors proved congruence properties for various $k$--colored generalized Frobenius partition functions, typically with a small number of colors.
 In 2011, Baruah and Sarmah proved a number of congruence properties for $cϕ_4$, all with moduli which are powers of 4. In this brief note, we add to the collection of congruences for $cϕ_4$ by proving this function satisfies an unexpected result modulo 5. The proof is elementary, relying on Baruah and Sarmah's results as well as work of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
title: The Deeds of Sītā : A Critical Edition and Literary Contextual Analysis of the Sītācarit by Rāmcand Bālak
Creators: name: Plau, Adrian
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The Sītācarit ('The Deeds of Sītā') is a retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa story written in the mid-seventeenth century by Rāmcand Bālak. While popular throughout the first centuries after its composition, the Sītācarit fell into obscurity by the middle of the 19th century and has never been printed. This thesis presents a critical edition of the entire work, based on manuscripts from research archives and temple libraries across North India. The thesis employs comparative methodologies of narrative, aesthetic and religious features to situate the Sītācarit within the contexts both of the preceding Jain Rāmāyaṇa tradition and of its contemporary literary and religious culture. Identifying that earlier Jain Rāmāyaṇa studies have been focused on their Purāṇic super-structure, the Sītācarit is presented as a defining example of the satī-kathā branch of that tradition. In showing how the Sītācarit is informed by a Digambara adhyātma outlook yet remains sensitive to wider currents of bhakti devotionalism, in a similar vein to how it blends artful – though not courtly - aesthetics with open devotional didacticism, the study also indicates that the Jains who shifted from Maru- Gurjar to Brajbhāṣā in their literary productions were not marginal, but were influenced by and partook in a multilingual and multireligious literary culture.
title: Dynamics of Micro and Small Enterprises in the Garment Industry in Vietnam
Creators: name: Byrne, Mary Rose
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This research is concerned with the dynamics of capital and labour in Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in the garment industry in Vietnam. There has been a large reduction in poverty in Vietnam since its transition to a socialist market economy began in 1986 but approximately half of the Vietnamese people still live under the moderately poor poverty line of US$2 a day. The garment industry is labour intensive and has a considerable effect on poverty reduction through the creation of employment. In Vietnam the garment industry is the fifth largest in the world in terms of the value of exports. The main findings of my research are that conventional neo-liberal WC policies remain dominant for MSEs in the garment industry in Vietnam. The main reason provided by the enterprises for operating in the informal economy is that business was insecure. A range of activities was observed within the broadly defined Cut Make and Trim (CMT) and Full On Board (FOB) categories and micro enterprise subsistence and/or profit making, gender focussed, actualities. Global Commodity Chains (GCCs), Global Value Chains (GVCs) and domestic chains operate simultaneously in Vietnam. MSEs are predominantly involved in low skilled assembly carried out by workers who labour in poor conditions with low wages. However a level of process upgrading was observed in enterprises that produce for both export and domestic markets whereas the signs of social upgrading were negligible in terms of measurable standards or enabling rights. An examination of the wider benefits of the enterprises revealed that these were less for micro enterprises as fewer resources in terms of property were spread further among larger families than small enterprises.
title: Experiencing God in Sound : Music and Meaning in Uyghur Sufism
Creators: name: Mu, Qian
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Living in Xinjiang or Chinese Central Asia, the Uyghur people have developed a unique set of sounded Sufi practices in a largely isolated environment, although they have been historically connected to Sufism in other parts of Asia. The spectrum of such sounded Sufi practices range from the more basic vocalisation styles in dhikr recitation to the more musically sophisticated form of muqam/mäshräp, with their different functions in religious lives. Based on rare ethnographic data from a year’s fieldwork in the region, this study tries to provide in-depth analysis of meanings of these sounds and their related behaviour, especially the relationship between sounds and altered state of consciousness in the Uyghur Sufi case. Using musical, textual, and experiential analyses, this dissertation considers the meanings of Uyghur Sufi sounded practices and altered state of consciousness, drawing on previous research in ethnomusicology and approaches to Sufism. The study also looks at the mediation and transmission of Uyghur sounded Sufi practices in the context of the transnational flows, which connect this isolated region to wider trends, and ideological conflicts that are exacerbated by the development of media technologies. Finally, the dissertation analyses the political situation that is affecting Uyghur Sufi practices, especially through the author’s personal experience of organising tours for Uyghur Sufi musicians, which provides insights into the contemporary political context of these practices, as well as providing a reflexive approach to ethnomusicological practice when working with a musical culture that faces suppression.
On the number of spanning trees in random regular graphs
Creators: name: Greenhill, Catherine
name: Kwan, Matthew
name: Wind, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $d \geq 3$ be a fixed integer. We give an asympotic formula for the expected number of spanning trees in a uniformly random $d$-regular graph with $n$ vertices. (The asymptotics are as $n\to\infty$, restricted to even $n$ if $d$ is odd.) We also obtain the asymptotic distribution of the number of spanning trees in a uniformly random cubic graph, and conjecture that the corresponding result holds for arbitrary (fixed) $d$. Numerical evidence is presented which supports our conjecture.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. This version addresses referee's comments
title: The Female Protestor : Sexual violence and the making and unmaking of the state in Egypt post January 25, 2011
Creators: name: Pinilla, Marta Agosti
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Secular feminist activists have been the focus of previous research in Egypt. Yet the link of this constituency to the historical event that propelled its emergence has received little attention. Moreover, the specific significance of the female protestor and the gendered dimension of protests, have often been left unexplored. ‘Tahrir Square’ epitomises the critical event that prompted a third generation of feminist and human rights activists to join citizens in the streets to claim a new social contract. However, sexual violence episodes became a routine experience for female protestors, gradually intensifying in frequency and violence. This thesis engages with young urban secular activists, female and male, who joined street initiatives, NGO campaigns, and social movements more generally, to combat sexual violence during the Egyptian Revolution that started in January 2011. As the prevalence of sexual violence in many different forms (sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, etc.) was very persistent and widespread prior to 2011, some initiatives to fight it already existed. Yet, the revolution was a milestone after which these interventions developed and evolved against the state or standing in for it. These interventions were part and parcel of the revolutionary action that questioned the state and fought against disciplinary and regulatory techniques of ‘governmentality’ (Foucault 1991). In this context, the female protestor came to be a highly controversial subject that tested the limits of the state and revolutionaries alike. Hence, the female protestor came to signify the central role of gender in the political process, in such a way as to debunk arguments based on cultural explanations for the prevalence of gender-based violence in society. This thesis argues that the female protestor is a focus of political violence whose experiences illuminate the matrix that sustains and normalises sexual violence in a society. This, in turn, allows us to connect female body politics with broader socio-economic and political conflicts. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted for two years among groups of young, secular, feminist and human-rights activists, this thesis aims to answer how women’s bodies interrelated with other social forces to effectively bring down the regime. It also addresses women’s interplay with its reconstitution after June 30, 2013. Thus, this thesis engages with female body politics to contribute to the literature on urban youth, nationalism, social movements and gender.
title: Ibn ʿAsākir’s History of Damascus and the Institutionalisation of Education in the Medieval Islamic World
Creators: name: Manstetten, Paula Caroline
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: From the tenth century onwards, the Middle East saw the rise of specialised educational institutions, most importantly the madrasa. Before, Muslim scholars had for centuries convened in study circles in mosques, houses, and other multi-functional venues. In the last three decades, modern historiography has often downplayed the impact of the madrasa, claiming that Islamic education remained informal, unsystematic, and a personal affair. In contrast, this thesis argues that various aspects of Islamic education became more formalised and institutionalised over the course of the medieval period and that these processes had been underway long before the appearance of the madrasa. Focusing on the case of medieval Damascus, I approach the subject through a close reading of Ibn ʿAsākir’s twelfth-century History of Damascus – an 80-volume biographical dictionary written in the same decades in which the first madrasas appeared in Damascus – alongside comparisons with other dictionaries and topographical works. Biographical dictionaries were the main sources in which scholarly communities collected and preserved data about themselves and their peers, making them the ‘archives’ of these communities. Rather than merely extracting data from them, I put these sources at the centre of the investigation, exploring their functions and tracing how historical changes are reflected in biographies. Based on Ibn ʿAsākir’s inclusion of ḥadīth citations and detailed data on transmission relations, I trace the institutionalisation of the isnād in the context of post-canonical ḥadīth transmission. By examining how Ibn ʿAsākir portrays educational venues in his biographies, I assess their significance before and after the rise of the madrasa. Lastly, I show how Mamlūk-era sources projected the more institutionalised character education had acquired in their period backwards into the twelfth century, thus ‘creating’ institutions retrospectively.
Dental caries, oral hygiene status and deleterious habits among migrant construction workers of Belagavi, India
Creators: name: Patel, Ayeesha
name: Jalihal, Sagar
name: Ankola, Anil V.
name: Santhosh, Varkey Nadakkavukaran
name: Komala, Kavitha R
name: Thakker, Jasleen
name: Coutinho, David
name: Kabra, Laxmi
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: Dental caries
workers
Occupational Health
oral health
Oral hygiene
Workers

description: Background: Occupation significantly influences oral health, with factors like the work environment, stress levels, access to dental care, and job-related habits playing crucial roles. The oral health of construction workers, especially migrant workers, is a noteworthy concern. Understanding the oral health of this population is crucial for enhancing their quality of life through various means. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of dental caries, oral hygiene status, and deleterious habits in this occupational group of Belagavi district, Karnataka.


Materials and Methods: Study design was cross-sectional in nature. After a pilot study, multi-stage random sampling technique was employed, and 610 participants were recruited. Trained and calibrated examiners recorded WHO dentition status and treatment needs (2013) and Oral Hygiene Index Simplified (OHI-S). Collected data was analyzed using descriptive analysis, chi-square, one-way ANOVA, and multiple linear regression analysis.


Results: Prevalence of dental caries among construction workers was significantly higher (81%) and 36.9% had poor oral hygiene. Prevalence of smoking, tobacco chewing habit, and alcohol consumption among the construction workers was found to be 21.6%, 59.9%, and 37.3%, respectively. The dependence of OHI-S and DMFT on age, gender, and habits such as smoking, tobacco chewing, and alcohol consumption was found to be 21.5% and 39.6%, respectively.


Conclusion: Migrant construction workers in Belagavi had a high caries prevalence, poor oral hygiene status, and a high prevalence of deleterious habits such as tobacco use. These results emphasize the necessity of awareness and dental health education programs to improve the oral health of construction workers.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
title: Institutional Complementarities and Regional Economic Growth in China : A Comparative Study of Nanjing and Suzhou
Creators: name: De Podestá Gomes, Alexandre
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis seeks to illuminate and compare two different ‘models’ of economic development trailed by two different prefecture-level cities in China: Nanjing and Suzhou. Although both are considered affluent cities, and located in the same broad economic area, the Yangtze river delta, and in the same sub-provincial region, Southern Jiangsu, the cities in case present markedly distinct patterns of local institutional configurations and of economic growth outcomes. While Suzhou features an industrial base more heavily concentrated on information and communication technologies, traditionally dominated by foreign-invested enterprises, geared towards external markets and reliant on lower wages, Nanjing, by contrast, has an industrial base dominated by state-owned enterprises, is more sectorially diversified, and is less reliant on exports and cheap labour. In order to make sense of these structural characteristics of both cities, the concept of institutional complementarities is employed, and it is argued that each city benefits from the coherence of institutional interconnections present at the city-level. After analysing the singular structural-institutional characteristics of each city, the thesis focuses on their respective economic performances. It is observed that in the years prior to the 2008 global financial crisis Suzhou clearly outperformed Nanjing, but after 2009 the scenario is reversed, with Nanjing taking the lead. Hence, one cannot assert which local ‘model’ is unambiguously superior to the other in terms of growth outcomes. The research aims to demonstrate how different local institutional-structural characteristics render distinct growth performances, and under which macroeconomic conditions one particular local ‘model’ outperform the other, elucidating, thus, the ability of city-specific institutional complementarities to spur regional growth in different periods of time. Following demand-led theories on economic growth, it will be argued that it is the match between the national-level aggregate demand composition and the local-level structural-institutional characteristics which will render localities relatively faster (or slower) growth rates.
Is social media our new quitline? A descriptive study assessing youtube coverage of tobacco cessation
Creators: name: Jawed, Aysha
name: Hogan, Anna
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: smoking cessation
quit smoking
social media
YouTube
health education
health communication
smoke-free
tobacco cessation
health promotion

description: Background Tobacco use and exposure continue to be leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the past decade, educational efforts to reduce tobacco use and exposure have extended to social media, including video-sharing platforms. YouTube is one of the most publicly accessed video-sharing platforms. Despite the public health importance of tobacco use and exposure as preventable causes of morbidity and mortality, and the increasing use of social media as a way consumers access health-related information, few studies have explored this topic.


Purpose This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to identify and describe sources, formats, and content of widely viewed YouTube videos on smoking cessation.


Methods In August to September 2023, using a cleared browser, the keywords “stop quit smoking” were used to search in YouTube and identify 100 videos with the highest view count.


Results Collectively, these videos were viewed over 220 million times. The majority (n = 35) were posted by nongovernmental/organization sources, with a smaller number posted by consumers (n = 25), and only eleven were posted by governmental agencies. The median length of the 100 videos was 5.17 minutes; interquartile range was 2.52 -11.40 minutes. The format used in the highest number of videos was the testimonial (n = 32 videos, over 77 million views). Other popular formats included animation (n = 23 videos, over 90 million views) and talk by professional (n = 20 videos, almost 43 million views). Video content included evidence-based and non-evidence-based practices. Evidence-based strategies aligned with U.S. Public Health Service Tobacco Treatment Guidelines and included seeking support from the health system in tobacco treatment and using Nicotine Replacement Therapy products. Strategies warranting further evaluation but not currently recommended by official governmental agencies included mindfulness and hypnotherapy. One most important finding was that environmental tobacco exposure received scant coverage across the videos.


Conclusions Environmental exposure presents significant risks for acute and chronic diseases for both smokers and nonsmokers, and specific risks for children and pregnant women, and this requires further investigation. Education for individuals, families and communities on tobacco cessation can help people achieve cessation. Social media such as YouTube promises to reach large audiences at low cost without requiring high reading literacy. Additional attention is needed to create videos with up-to-date, accurate information that can engage consumers.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
Congruences for the Fishburn Numbers
Creators: name: Andrews, George E.
name: Sellers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A19, 11F20, 11P83

description: The Fishburn numbers, $ξ(n),$ are defined by a formal power series expansion $$ \sum_{n=0}^\infty ξ(n)q^n = 1 + \sum_{n=1}^\infty \prod_{j=1}^n (1-(1-q)^j). $$ For half of the primes $p$, there is a non--empty set of numbers $T(p)$ lying in $[0,p-1]$ such that if $j\in T(p),$ then for all $n\geq 0,$ $$ ξ(pn+j)\equiv 0 \pmod{p}. $$