bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Editor’s Note: Parents and teachers: In sync or at odds?
Authors: Heller Rafael
Published: March 2022

For more than 150 years, American parents have had a complex push-pull relationship with schools and educators. Rafael Heller describes how the April 2022 issue of Kappan explores that relationship. Articles consider both the progress being made through state policies and the growth of community schools, and the tensions educators face when they make choices that parents object to.
State leadership to strengthen family engagement programs
Authors: Epstein Joyce L. , Boone Barbara J.
Published: March 2022

The Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center (OhSFEC) is implementing a comprehensive, scalable approach to enact state policy for family and school engagement at local levels. Joyce Epstein and Barbara Boone report how OhSFEC’s research-based design, implementation, and evaluation of a leadership ladder has enabled state leaders to support regional, district, and school leaders as they organize and implement family engagement programs linked to schoolwide goals for student learning and development. Initial evaluation of the program shows that the policies and practices are being applied in schools, and families are seeing improvement in their interactions with schools.
Être gay ou lesbienne et musulman-e dans la Tunisie post-2011 : les négociations d’une antinomie
Authors: Lachheb Monia , Hamdi et Nassim
Published: March 2022

The present study focuses on the identity constructions of a group of young Tunisian homosexuals. Led by a survey based on semi-structured interviews with nine Muslim gays and six Muslim Lesbians, the study attempts to report on the negotiations between a Muslim identity and a homosexual identity. The qualitative analysis of the data reveals the attachment of gays and lesbians to their sexual identity. Nevertheless, the relationship with Islam takes many forms. Some opt for the separation between the practice of the precepts of Islam and the homosexual practice in order to diminish the dissonance between faith and homosexuality. Others choose to move towards a form of spirituality by creating an individual and singular relationship with God. Finally, one of the questioned gay men opts for detaching himself from Islam for a better preservation of his sexual identity.
Career agility and career embeddedness as psychological needs of the value-oriented psychological contract
Authors: Coetzee Melinde , Deas Alda , Veldsman Dieter , Dhliwayo Pfungwa
Published: March 2022

The present study drew from modern person-environment’s needs-supply fit theory and assessed the extent to which career embeddedness acted as a moderator in the link between individuals’ career agility and their perceptions of the value-oriented psychological contract. A sample of ( N = 293; mean age = 38.58 years) employees in the human resources and financial services industry participated in the study. Moderated regression results demonstrated that career embeddedness moderated the link between high levels of career agility (career navigation and agile learning) and positive perceptions of value-oriented obligated employee attitudinal inputs, including organisational obligated outcomes of job characteristics, career development opportunities, relationships, and rewards. The findings of the study inform career development support practices for the career agile employee in organisations who invest in the value-oriented psychological contract.
Not All Norm Information is the Same: Effects of Normative Content in the Media on Young People’s Perceptions of E-Cigarette and Tobacco Use Norms
Authors: Siegel Leeann , Liu Jiaying , Gibson Laura , Hornik Robert
Published: March 2022

Norm information in media can predict individuals’ norm perceptions and, ultimately, their behavior. Little research has examined how descriptive norm information manifests in media and impacts beliefs in the real world. Previously, using automated content analysis, we measured and examined longitudinal trends in two types of descriptive norm information, individual use depictions and population norms, pertaining to tobacco and e-cigarette use across six media sources from 2014 to 2017. Here, we assess how this norm information affected norm perceptions over time by pairing these data with a rolling cross-sectional survey of young people’s beliefs and intentions related to these behaviors. We found that individual use depictions predicted some norm perceptions, although the direction of effects varied depending on the source, behavior, and type of perceptions considered. Population norm content did not affect perceptions. These findings highlight that real-world media norm information has real-world effects, and moderators of these effects should be studied.
Examining victims’ experiences of Community Protection Notices in managing anti-social behaviour
Authors: Rodgers Zoe
Published: March 2022

The Community Protection Notice (CPN) is a civil order designed to protect communities from anti-social behaviour (ASB) within England and Wales by addressing unreasonable and persistent conduct, which has ‘a detrimental effect on the quality of life of those in the locality’. Introduced under the ‘Putting Victims First’ agenda and the ASB, Crime and Policing Act (2014), the civil order can impose prohibitions alongside positive requirements upon any person aged 16 or over, business, or organisation. Before a CPN is issued, a Community Protection Warning (CPW) must be put in place by the police, local authority, social housing provider, or any other authorised persons with delegated power from the local authority. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study that used semi-structured interviews to explore ASB victims’ experiences of CPWs/CPNs for the first time. Discussions focus upon the impact of the ASB, authorities’ responses, perceived effectiveness of CPWs/CPNs, and recommendations for change. Significant concerns emerge from the victims’ constructions of the CPN process regarding transparency, accountability, the correctability of requirements imposed, and victim involvement. The findings signify the need for an authentically restorative approach to ASB with three empirically grounded recommendations provided that account for ASB victims’ needs and vulnerabilities.
Empowering or addicting? An analysis of the effects of team members–supervisor relationships on job satisfaction in healthcare
Authors: Ciasullo Maria Vincenza , Douglas Alexander , Palumbo Rocco
Published: March 2022

Patient-centredness relies on integrated care, which requires teamwork to be effectively implemented. Positive relationships between team members and supervisors are crucial to enhance health professionals’ satisfaction with their job and, consequently, to increase their commitment to organizational excellence. However, the positive effects of team members–supervisor exchange may dilute when the team is endowed with autonomy at work. The article proposes a moderation analysis aimed at collecting evidence of the implications of team members–supervisor relationships on job satisfaction (JS) with team autonomy (TA) as a moderating variable. Results of the study suggest that positive exchanges between team members and supervisors enhance health professionals’ satisfaction with their job. However, TA acts as a negative and statistically significant moderator. Good exchanges between team members and their supervisor seem to lose their positive effects on JS when health professionals are provided with a greater self-determination to accomplish their organizational activities. Tailored management interventions should be designed to sustain teamwork when increased autonomy at work is assigned to health professionals.
Crisis management practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of a newly-opened hotel in Bali
Authors: Permatasari Made Gaby , Mahyuni Luh Putu
Published: March 2022

The global COVID-19 pandemic—and the ensuing safety measures—has inflicted a debilitating blow against the lodging industry by transforming tourism patterns and discouraging travel. Guided by tourism disaster management framework and the contingency theory, this study attempts to explore the crisis management practices (CMPs) conducted by the leaders of a newly-opened hotel in Bali, Indonesia, during each phase of crisis. Through an interview with eight hotel executives, the findings of this study provide both theoretical and managerial implications for comprehending CMPs during the current circumstances. As the pandemic has not yet ended, a company that has reached the resolution phase may revert to the emergency phase, or worse. Therefore, this study also recommends considering the advantages of communication, contingency plans, open leadership styles, organization culture, past experiences, and business continuity as the principle tools with which to increase the chances of successful CMPs. These findings may also prove to be significant to other areas of the tourism sector beyond the hotel industry, as well as to other cultural tourism destinations outside of Bali.
Structured Notetaking and Student Performance in Microeconomics Courses
Authors: Artz Benjamin , Robson Denise , Camacho Angel
Published: March 2022

Notetaking is a vital component of student learning and perhaps even more critical in the recent emergence of e-learning settings. The conventional literature proposes notetaking increases student attention, provides students an external source of knowledge, and gives students the ability to encode learned material into a form most digestible to them. We utilize a framed field experiment to investigate whether training students in a structured notetaking method improves the quality of students’ notes and their performance on assessments in two Principles of Microeconomics courses in Spring 2019. We find in t-tests, ordinary least squares regressions, and fixed effects estimations that training in structured notetaking positively correlates with both the quality of student’s notes and their performance on course assessments.
Study on the tribological properties of Si3N4/polyamide-imide composites
Authors: Jia Weichu , Shangguan Jingfei , Lang Feng , Li Duxin , Yang Haiyang
Published: March 2022

Si3N4 whiskers were modified with triethoxysilane as a means to improve the interfacial interaction with a poly-amide imide (PAI). The Si3N4/PAI composites were prepared by in-situ polymerization as an approach to improve the friction behavior and mechanical properties in order to meet the performance needs of electrical transformers and motors in harsh environments. 4,4′-diamino diphenyl ether, m-phenylenediamine, triethylamine, trimellitic anhydride chloride, and Si3N4 whiskers were used to manufacture Si3N4/PAI composite, which was then characterized for friction and mechanical behavior. The research showed that the addition of Si3N4 whiskers improved the mechanical properties and friction properties of PAI. When the whisker content was 10 wt%, the tensile strength of the composite was 137.5 MPa, which is 15% higher than pure PAI, and the wear rate was 0.69 × 10-8 g/N·m, which is 57% lower than pure PAI, and the friction coefficient was 0.47, which was an increase of 9%. In aerospace, machinery, and transportation applications, these materials may have better performance due to their improved combination of properties.
Effect of rotor eccentricity on the dynamic performance of a traction motor and its support bearings in a locomotive
Authors: Liu Yuqing , Chen Zaigang , Hua Xia , Zhai Wanming
Published: March 2022

Rotor eccentricity is a common fault of traction motors during operation. To ensure the stability and safety of the traction motor, it is essential to analyze the effect of rotor eccentricity on the dynamic performance of the traction motor, particularly the motor bearings. This study focuses on the extraction of the fault vibration features of a locomotive in the presence of rotor eccentricity under complex internal and external excitations from the traction power transmissions and wheel-rail interactions. A spatial locomotive-track coupled dynamics model with an eccentric rotor motor is applied in this study, and the detailed mechanical structures of the traction motor and motor bearings are comprehensively considered. The results indicate that rotor eccentricity can deteriorate the vibration conditions of the traction motor and intensify the interactions between the components of the motor bearings. Due to the effect of the time-varying mesh forces, the variation in the loaded region of the non-driving end bearing is more significant than that of the driving end bearing.
Diagnostic value of the QuickStripe™ chlamydia rapid test among high-risk women in Jakarta
Authors: Nilasari Hanny , Ade Krisanti Roro Inge , Rosana Yeva , Azizah Fitri
Published: March 2022

Background

Difficulty in diagnosing Chlamydia trachomatis infections, including chlamydial cervicitis, is a notable challenge in managing sexually transmitted infections in Indonesia. Gram staining is usually done to make a presumptive diagnosis despite its low sensitivity and specificity. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is considered the gold standard, but it is costly, technically demanding, and difficult to be performed in low-resource settings. Thus, rapid point-of-care tests with high sensitivity and specificity are needed to diagnose chlamydial cervicitis.

Methods

This cross-sectional study included symptomatic and asymptomatic high-risk women in the Mulya Jaya Sex Workers Rehabilitation Center in June to July 2020. Endocervical swabs from each participant were taken for QuickStripe™ chlamydia rapid test (CRT), Gram staining, and real-time PCR.

Results

A total of 41 participants were enrolled. The sensitivity and specificity for QuickStripe™ CRT were 73.6% (95% CI: 48.80%–90.85%) and 81.82% (95% CI: 59.72%–94.81%). Positive and negative predictive values were 77.78% (95% CI: 58.09%–89.84%) and 78.05% (95% CI: 62.39%–89.44%). Proportion of chlamydial cervicitis in study participants based on real-time PCR was 46.3%.

Conclusions

We concluded that QuickStripe™ CRT can be recommended as an alternative diagnostic test for high-risk populations in Jakarta.
Fracture energy of fiber-reinforced and rubberized cement-based composites: A sustainable approach towards recycling of waste scrap tires
Authors: Gillani S. Asad Ali , Riaz Muhammad Rizwan , Hameed Rashid , Qamar Adnan , Toumi Ahmed , Turatsinze Anaclet
Published: March 2022

Using crumb rubber particles obtained from end-of-life tires as aggregate in concrete can reduce the environmental overburden caused by the huge accumulation of these scrap tires. However, reduction in the mechanical properties of concrete is observed with the incorporation of rubber aggregates. To counter this detrimental effect of crumb rubber in concrete, amorphous metallic fibers are added to balance the loss in strength and durability issues. Mechanical characteristics along with the fracture energy of rubberized fiber-reinforced mortar are presented here. Four mortar mix compositions were investigated; the first one is reference mortar (control mortar), the second mix containing 30 kg/m3 of metallic fibers, the third mix containing 30% of rubber aggregates as replacement of sand by equivalent volume and fourth containing both rubber aggregates and metallic fibers with the dosage 30% and 30 kg/m3, respectively. Compression tests, modulus of elasticity and direct tension tests were conducted for mechanical characterization. Deformation capacity, residual post-cracking strength and fracture energy of these composite mortar mixes were evaluated through uniaxial direct tension tests. The fracture energy was determined from the obtained complete softening curves. Test results show a reduction in mechanical properties with the incorporation of crumb rubber as aggregates in mortar. However, a significant increase in fracture energy was observed in rubberized fiber-reinforced mortar mixes. Moreover, the mortar mixes containing both rubber aggregates and metallic fibers show positive synergetic effect resulting in enhanced post-cracking residual tensile strength, strain capacity and energy dissipation capacity.
Responses to Actual, Perceived and Imagined Scarcities
Authors: Sinha Jai B. P.
Published: March 2022

Making more money is the most dominant response to cope with actual, perceived or imagined scarcities. For the poor, it is a means to survive in extremely adverse conditions and to struggle to cross over the poverty line into the lower middle class; for the affluent middle class, it is a way to catch up with and overtake friends, relatives and neighbours by being able to have more expensive possessions and exciting experiences; and for the super-rich, it is a show of arrogance and a response to the imagined sense of still not having enough for an endless chase of unbridled ambitions. Money is a leading physical resource for building human resources by widening access to good education, adequate health care and sustainable livelihood as well as showing off one’s superiority. It has a curvilinear relationship with social resources where having too much or too little money erodes social sensitivity and bonding. The article makes a number of conjectures to stimulate research in future.
Scarcity Mindsets and Generational Differences in India: The Role of Cognitive and Affective Factors
Authors: Tripathi Rama Charan , Pande Namita , Tripathi V. N. , Shankar Shail , Pande Aditi , Bahadur Ragini
Published: March 2022

This article addressed the question of the role played by certain cognitive and affective factors in explaining the differences in scarcity mindsets of Gen Z, Millennials, and the Pre-millennial generations. Three cognitive factors, namely, horizontal individualism, belief in a just world and a spiritual belief factor, anasakti (non-attachment) along with five affective factors, personal relative deprivation, greed, need for achievement, positive and negative emotions were used as predictors of the scarcity mindsets. Pre-millennials showed a weaker scarcity mindset compared to the Millennials, who among the three had the strongest scarcity mindset. In the case of Gen Z, a downward trend in the scarcity mindset was observed. Male respondents had stronger scarcity mindset than females. Sequential Regression Analysis was used to understand the role played by cognitive and affective factors in predicting scarcity mindset for each generation. It found that cognitive factors were better predictors than affective factors in the case of all three generations. In the case of Gen Z, belief in a just world and anasakti significantly predicted a weak scarcity mindset. Belief in a just world also predicted a weaker scarcity mindset in case of the Millennials and Pre-millennial generations. Personal relative deprivation, an affective factor, was significantly associated with a weak scarcity mindset in the case of Millennials but inversely for the Pre-millennials. A high need for achievement raised the level of scarcity mindset, but only for the Millennial generation. Horizontal individualism and greed did not come out as significant predictors of the scarcity mindset for any generation. The results are discussed in the changing context of globalisation and the digital revolution.
Staffing and Retention Challenges of Teachers in Rural Schools of Eswatini: The Case of the Lubombo Region
Authors: Dlamini Jonathan , Plessis Ambrosé Ray Du , Markham Lyle
Published: March 2022

This article draws attention to staffing and retention challenges that teachers face in rural schools in Eswatini. Despite policies and strategies developed by the Ministry of Education and Training, retention and staffing challenges continue unabated in rural schools. The continuing challenges indicate that limited success is achieved with the implementation of staffing and retention strategies. Drawing on staffing and retention literature, coupled with empirical data derived from teachers and head teachers in the Lubombo Region in Eswatini, this article proposes an alternative, multifaceted contextual approach to reducing staffing and retention challenges. A focus on lived rural and teaching experiences at rural schools offsets the abstract and one-dimensional universal approach to staffing and retaining teachers adopted by the office of the Teaching Service Commission in the Ministry of Education and Training in Eswatini. The article recommends that the office of the Teaching Service Commission should follow a context-specific differentiated approach based on thick analysis of staffing and retention challenges of teachers in rural schools.
Press as Negotiator or Instigator between India and Pakistan: A Case Study of Ceasefire Violation Incident Occurred in January 2013
Authors: Singh Gurinder Pal
Published: March 2022

This cross-border ten newspapers interdisciplinary study examined the extent to which the editorial and opinion column coverage in India and Pakistan played the role as negotiator or instigator between two countries during the ceasefire violation incident occurred in January 2013. Many studies have been undertaken to understand bilateral rivalry between both the countries, but how Indian and Pakistan press view these contemporary South Asian bilateral dynamics remains underexplored. Using qualitative content analysis as methodological tool, central objective of the article stands analyzed with the help of five politico-historical core foreign policy issues through the lens of a cross section of the Indian and Pakistan media—the newspaper press to be more precise. The findings are based on the analysis of editorial and opinion articles published in ten English language newspapers in both countries. The study revealed that newspapers’ role as negotiator on both sides varied from newspaper to newspaper, however, on the whole, Indian newspapers remained much committed to their negotiator role vis-à-vis Pakistani counterpart.
Exploration of Caregiver Interrater Agreement and Test-Retest Reliability on the Infant Cleft Observer Outcomes (iCOO)
Authors: Jones Salene M. W. , Edwards Todd C. , Leroux Brian G. , Kapp-Simon Kathleen A. , Patrick Donald L. , Stueckle Laura P. , Rosenberg Janine M. , Albert Meredith , Bellucci Claudia Crilly , Aspinall Cassandra L. , Vick Katherine , Heike Carrie L.
Published: March 2022

Caregiver and observer-reported measures are frequently used as outcomes for research on infants and young children who are unable to report on their own health. Our team developed the Infant with Clefts Observation Outcomes Instrument (iCOO) for infants with cleft lip with or without cleft palate. This exploratory study compared test-retest and interrater reliabilities to inform whether differences in caregiver perspective might affect the iCOO.

This study is a secondary analysis comparing caregiver interrater agreement to test-retest reliability. Twenty-five pairs of caregivers completed the iCOO before surgery, 1 week later for test-retest reliability, 2 days after surgery, and 2 months after surgery. Reliability was assessed using intraclass correlations (ICCs) and t-tests were used to compare ratings between caregivers.

Infants had cleft lip (28%) or cleft lip and palate (72%). Primary caregivers were predominantly mothers (92%) and secondary caregivers were predominantly fathers (80%). Test-retest reliability met psychometric standards for most items on the iCOO (81%-86% of items). Caregiver agreement on the iCOO items was lower than test-retest reliability (33%-46% of items met psychometric standards). Caregivers did not systematically differ in whether they rated infants as healthier or less healthy than the other caregiver (5%-16% of items had statistically significant differences).

Caregivers used the measure consistently, but had different experiences and perceptions of their infant’s health and functioning. Future studies are needed to explore mechanisms for the differences in test-retest and interrater reliability. Whenever possible, the same caregiver should provide ratings of the infant, including on the iCOO.
The Bible as Holy Scripture
Authors: Sonderegger Katherine
Published: March 2022

The modern era has brought new elements to bear on the Doctrine of Holy Scripture: the centrality of Revelation and the character of the Bible as narrative. The first and second Vatican Councils exhibit these traits as much as do Karl Barth and Post-liberal theologians. This essay argues that the governing motif for a Doctrine of Scripture should be writing rather than speaking or disclosing, and Instruction rather than story. The pressure exerted by these modernist preoccupations has re-centered and deformed the proper weight and ordering of Scripture, diminishing Torah, elevating the Prophetic (historical) books, and bringing a Messianic reading of Scripture into sole possession of canonical interpretation. Paying close heed to Scripture's own self-identification as writing, as Book, brings the Five Books of Moses (the Pentateuch) to its proper place as head of the Scriptures, and places the New Testament as written text as proper complement to the Old.
Chromium [Cr(VI)] Exposure Causes Cytotoxicity of Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells (16-HBE) and Proteomic Alterations
Authors: Xia Bo , Yuan Jiao , Pang Li , He Kaiwu
Published: March 2022

Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is a common industrial pollutant, and exposure may cause toxic effects in multiple organ systems and carcinogenesis, including lung cancer. However, the toxic effect of Cr(VI) on the respiratory system is poorly understood. In the present study, it was demonstrated that Cr(VI) exposure significantly decreased the viability of human bronchial epithelial cells (16-HBE) in a dose-dependent manner. Flow cytometry demonstrated that Cr(VI) enhanced the transition of 16-HBE cells from G1 to S phase and arrested S-phase progression. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed a significant alteration in the expression of apoptosis-associated genes in Cr(VI)-treated 16-HBE cells. In addition, using two-dimensional fluorescence differential gel electrophoresis with mass spectrometry, 15 differentially expressed proteins (1 upregulated and 14 downregulated) were identified in 16-HBE cells with Cr(VI) treatment compared with controls. Functional classification revealed that these differentially expressed proteins were involved in apoptosis, cytoskeletal structure, and energy metabolism. In conclusion, these data suggested that Cr(VI) caused toxic effects in bronchial epithelial cells and the mechanisms may involve the abnormal expression of apoptosis-associated proteins, cytoskeletal proteins, and energy metabolism-associated proteins.
Is there a role of the kidney failure risk equation in optimizing timing of vascular access creation in pre-dialysis patients?
Authors: Kuningas Külli , Stringer Stephanie , Cockwell Paul , Khawaja Aurangzaib , Inston Nicholas
Published: March 2022

Background:

The aims of this study were to assess the utility of using the Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) as an indicator to guide timing of vascular access creation in pre-dialysis patients.

Materials and methods:

Patients referred for vascular access creation had KFRE calculated at the time of assessment and compared to standard criteria for referral. Receiver operating characteristic curves were produced for each parameter. The outcomes at 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year were used as time points for analysis.

Results:

Two hundred and three patients were assessed, and full data sets were available on 190 (94.6%). Access was created in 156 patients (82.1%) with a fistula in 153 (98.7%). Only 65.7% initiated dialysis within the follow up period. Those patients with an AV access created (n = 156) 37 (23.7%) did not reach end stage over the entire follow up period. Of the remaining patients (n = 119) that reached end stage 72.2% (n = 86) started on an AVF/AVG and 27.7% (n = 33) on a CVC. Using ROC analysis for referral eGFR, ACR and KFRE predicting dialysis initiation predictors resulted in C statistics for eGFR, ACR, and KFRE2 of 0.68 (0.58–0.79), 0.75 (0.65–0.84), and 0.72 (0.62–0.81) at 3 months; 0.73 (0.65–0.81), 0.70 (0.62–0.78), and 0.75 (0.67–0.81) at 6 months; and 0.65 (0.57–0.72); 0.67 (0.59–0.75), and 0.68 (0.61–0.77) at 12 months.

Conclusions:

In a group of patients referred for vascular access creation the predictive models are relatively poor when applied to initiation of dialysis. The application of current guidelines to fistula creation appears to result in a high rate of unnecessary fistula formation and non-use. The study requires further evaluation in a test set of patients to confirm these findings and also identify where such risk based approaches may need modification.
Facial Asymmetry in a Newly Born Baby: Diagnostic Challenge!
Authors: Kamal Naglaa M , Omair Maher MR , Attar Ruwayd , Abosabie Salma AS , Asiri Nawras M , Sherief Laila M , El-Shabrawi Mortada
Published: March 2022

Introduction:

Facial asymmetry during crying in neonates is an important entity which might be due to an underlying true paralysis of the facial nerve or due to the benign overlooked diagnosis of congenital absence of the depressor angularis oris muscle (DAOM).

Case Report:

We report a full-term newborn delivered by normal spontaneous vertex delivery with uneventful pregnancy and Apgar score of 9 and 10 at 1 and 5 minutes respectively. His parents are first-degree cousins with 4 living normal siblings. His birth weight was appropriate for his gestational age. His initial neonatal assessment was normal apart from facial asymmetry during crying in the form of deviation of the angle of the mouth to the left with an otherwise normal facial appearance. The facial asymmetry disappears at rest (without crying). This condition usually poses a diagnostic dilemma. Developmental and traumatic facial paralysis and being part of some syndromes like Mobius and CHARGE syndromes are among the most important differential diagnosis but the disappearance of the facial asymmetry at rest is diagnostic of absent DAOM which is a relatively common but missed diagnosis.

Conclusions:

Pediatricians should be aware about the diagnosis of DAOM in neonates with asymmetric crying face if the face was completely normal at rest with deviation of the angle of the mouth on crying which disappears on rest.
Performance of water-lubricated ceramic journal hybrid bearing
Authors: Zha Jun , Zhang Huijie , Lyu Dun
Published: March 2022

Strong shear force developed in the lubrication film in the high-speed spindles will resulting high temperature rise and expanding the mandrel, which would arouse safe servicing problem. This study aimed to address the temperature rise issue in spindles through the use of substitutes in the spindle bearing material. To this end, we developed a spindle with a water-lubricated ceramic hydrodynamic and hydrostatic journal bearing. To support the selection of ceramic materials for the water-lubricated journal bearing, we initially performed application-oriented tests; to this end, the water absorption and porosity among alumina, silicon nitride, and silicon carbide were considered. To investigate the performance, and particularly the temperature characteristics of the hybrid bearing, a water-lubricated ceramic hydrodynamic and hydrostatic bearing test rig was designed to include temperature sensors. At the test rig, the radial clearance was measured for solving the temperature distribution of the bearing during the simulation. The experimental results helped verify that the water temperature increased by approximately 0.7°C as the rotation speed increased from 1200 rpm to 5400 rpm without an external radial load. The increase in temperature with and without radial load under a rotation speed of 3600 rpm was compared, and the results revealed a difference of 0.14°C. This indicates that the developed ceramic bearing improves the thermal stability of the spindle which shows its potential for industrial application in machine tools or other high rotation speed machines.
Mood and gender effects in emotional word processing in unbalanced bilinguals
Authors: Naranowicz Marcin , Jankowiak Katarzyna , Bromberek-Dyzman Katarzyna
Published: March 2022

Aims and objectives:

We aimed to explore the relationship between mood and emotional word processing in the bilingual context, as modulated by participants’ gender.

Methodology:

We presented mood-inducing film clips to 28 female and 28 male unbalanced Polish–English bilinguals to put them in positive and negative moods. Participants were asked to decide if native language (L1) and non-native language (L2) single words were positive, negative, or neutral (an emotive decision task).

Data and analysis:

We analysed participants’ subjective mood ratings pre- and post-experimentally together with speed (a linear mixed-effects model) and accuracy (a generalised mixed-effects model) of their responses to single L1 and L2 words.

Findings:

The results revealed an interaction between mood and language as dependent on word valence, whereby faster reaction times (RTs) were observed to L1 than L2 neutral words only in a positive mood and to L2 positive words in a positive than negative mood. We also observed a response facilitation in a positive compared to negative mood, yet only in females. Finally, we observed faster and more accurate responses to positive and negative compared to neutral words, irrespective of gender and language of operation. Altogether, the results suggest that mood influences how unbalanced bilinguals respond to emotional words and shed a novel light on the role of participants’ gender in emotional word processing.

Originality:

This study extends monolingual research on emotional word processing to the bilingual context and shows how word valence modulates the way unbalanced bilinguals, being put in positive and negative moods, respond to L1 and L2 words. Our results also offer novel insights into research on mood and language, demonstrating that females can be more susceptible to mood changes than males.

Significance:

Our results highlight the importance of controlling participants’ mood and gender in research on emotional language processing in both monolingual and bilingual contexts.
Jauría: Documentary fiction and the transformative potential of sexual violence testimony
Authors: Núñez Puente Sonia , Gago Gelado Rocío
Published: March 2022

In this article, we examine the various strategies that Jauría employs to bear witness to sexual violence. Jauría’s script is based on the official court transcripts of a trial for the gang rape of a woman at the San Fermín Festival in Pamplona, Spain. Our analysis focuses on how the narration of violence from new representational frameworks questions the hegemonic paradigms in which violence makes itself intelligible. We address how sexual violence testimony, in the form of documentary fiction, has the transformative potential of appealing to a shared responsibility with the audience. To that end, we analyze the mise-en-scène and conduct a long series of interviews with the play’s actors, director and playwright. To carry out this analysis, we use the framework of ethical testimony that we apply as an analytical model both to the mise-en-scène and to the interviews conducted, which have been categorized along four dimensions of analysis. This article contributes to the current studies around the transformative potential of sexual violence testimony and ultimately proves how the testimony’s ethical dimension can transform the discursive conditions in which this type of violence is typically interpreted.
Flexural wave band gaps of steel bridge decks periodically stiffened with U-ribs: Mechanism and influencing factors
Authors: Zhang Xun , Hao Chenxi , Luo Hao , Kong Derui , Li Cong
Published: March 2022

To effectively and efficiently control vibrations in steel bridge decks, the flexural wave band gap and vibration attenuation mechanism are studied. The band structures and displacement fields of the eigenmodes at the band gap edges of infinite periodic U-rib stiffened plates are calculated. The calculation method is combining the finite element method with Bloch periodic boundary conditions. A scaled specimen test of a finite periodic U-rib stiffened plate is used to validate the numerical results. A comparison of results confirms that introducing the U-rib allows the periodic U-rib stiffened plates to yield several flexural wave band gaps. In the band gaps, flexural wave propagation is stopped and clear flexural vibration suppression is achieved. Furthermore, the effects of geometric parameters and structural schemes on the flexural wave band gaps are analyzed in detail. Finally, by analyzing a specific case, it is demonstrated that the flexural wave band gaps and vibration attenuation properties can be controlled. This provides a new approach to vibration and noise control in steel bridges.
An unbound critical lived-built environment
Authors: Kazan Helene
Published: March 2022

Through engaged analysis of entangled research-based practice, this article argues that thresholds of distinction between environmental or conflict-based violence are unbound across Lebanon’s critical lived–built environment. Drawing on the fields of architecture, law, art and cultural production, this investigative scope is engaged through de-colonial, feminist and critical legal theory and method. The analysis in this article is an attempt at dismantling the inherent asymmetric power structures – legal, political and architectural – operating through violent risk, which continue to evade certain frames of accountability. This is done to reveal the complexity of this violent limit condition and its materializations, in the proposal of a progressive methodological imagining and investigation: an unbound critical lived–built environment.
Epilogue: turning around the right to look
Authors: Feldman Allen
Published: March 2022

The forensics of environmental violence transposes habeas corpus from juridically individuated civil subjects to the forensic cartography of the conscripted, militarized and rapidly disappearing corpus of habitats. This forensics communicates with Peter Sloterdijk’s classification of terrorism (including state terror) in ‘Airquakes’ (2009) as environmental war, irrespective of disparate ideological justifications. A forensics of the power and privation that is entangled with juridical positivism and cognate humanitarian agendas presupposes the right-to-look as the property of a sovereign subject. However, the possession character of this right raises the question of envisioning a nonsovereign gaze and an ethics of opacity. The thinking through of a will not to will a right-to-look confronts the atmospheric and habitat hegemonies of technologies and ideologies of omnivoyance, including mass incarceration, policing, and the racial capitalism of environmental extraction.
Denervation Affected Skin Wound Healing in a Modified Rat Model
Authors: Lu Lu , Liu Dandan , Ying Jianghui , Yao Zuochao , Hou Qiang , Wang Hui , Qi Fazhi , Luan Wenjie , Jiang Hua
Published: March 2022

Introduction: Lacking of normal innervation increases the chance of chronic wounds and recurrence of ulceration. Various rodent models are designed to reveal nerve-wound relationship but present many limitations to mimic human wound which heals primarily by re-epithelialization rather than contraction in rodents. This article tested a modified rat model of denervated wound healing to better mimic clinical common denervated wounds. Material and Methods: The wounds formed on right hind paws of 18 SD rats served as the experimental (denervated) group and the left side as contra-lateral control (non-denervated). The denervation was achieved through sciatic and femoral nerve co-transection and the control side underwent sham-surgery 3 days prior to a skin punch wound formation on both sides. Wound closure rate was calculated under digital photographing. Loss of innervation and affected healing process was confirmed by histological analyses. Results: Truncation of the sciatic and femur nerve successfully denervated the skin of the hind paw and resulted in a significantly declined healing rate, prolonged inflammation, weakened dermal contraction, hindered macrophage recruitment, retarded re-epithelialization and collagen deposition, decreased angiogenesis and epidermal proliferation, and persisted epidermal apoptosis compared to the innervated contra-lateral control. Conclusion: Wound on denervated dorsal pedis in rats can be used to study denervated skin healing in multiple histological process. We believe that this model will assist in understanding the underlying mechanism of nerve-wound relationship and identifying new treatment strategies that can be more rapidly translated into clinical practice.
Activos de salud, calidad de vida y morbimortalidad de la población en Asturias
Authors: Álvarez O. Suárez , Ruíz-Cantero M. T. , Argüelles M. V. , Margolles M. , Cofiño R. , Álvarez-Dardet C.
Published: March 2022

Introducción:

n promoción de la salud se ha detectado en los últimos años un incremento de investigaciones con enfoques teóricos basados en activos de salud. Pese a los estudios identificados, no se dispone de suficiente evidencia sobre los efectos que diferentes tipos de activos pueden tener en la calidad de vida y en la morbimortalidad de la población.

Objetivo:

analizar la relación entre los activos de salud disponibles con indicadores de morbilidad, mortalidad y calidad de vida de la población asturiana en el año 2018.

Metodología:

diseño ecológico a partir de datos agregados municipales procedentes de los 78 municipios de Asturias (1.034.960 habitantes). Tras aplicar la definición de activos de salud como aquellas variables que pudieran redundar en una mejora de la salud y del bienestar de los individuos y de las comunidades, se seleccionaron 19 variables de activos agrupados en cuatro categorías: individuales, socioeconómicas, comunitarias e infraestructura. Una vez controladas las variables relacionadas con las características demográficas de la población, se analizó la asociación de los activos con las tasas de morbimortalidad y de calidad de vida. Se desarrollaron 5 modelos predictivos a partir de modelos de regresión lineal múltiple para las variables dependientes: calidad de vida, enfermedades crónicas, mortalidad por todas las causas, mortalidad por enfermedades cardiovasculares (ECV) y por cáncer.

Resultados:

la disponibilidad de recursos sanitarios (beta = 0.474), coberturas sociales (beta = 0.305) y redes de apoyo social (beta = 0.225) constituyen los activos de salud con mayor peso explicativo en los resultados de salud de la población asturiana. Las variables incluidas en los modelos predictivos de calidad de vida ( R2 = 0.650) y de mortalidad por ECV ( R2 = 0.544) son las que mostraron una mayor capacidad explicativa.

Conclusiones:

la inversión en recursos sociosanitarios y la mejora de redes de apoyo social impulsados desde el ámbito de la salud pública pueden producir importantes mejoras en la salud de la población asturiana.
Nonselective Cell Necrosis Mediated by the Total Flavones of Penthorum Chinensis Pursh and Thonningianin-A in Human Hepatic and Hepatoma Cells
Authors: Shen Xin , Li Zekun , Guo Zhifang , Wang Yanan , Li Tongtong , Li Guohui
Published: March 2022

Penthorum chinensis Pursh (PCP), family Penthoraceae, has been used for hundreds of years in China. With the launch of PCP tablets, clinical applications focused on liver fibrosis and hepatocarcinoma. The purpose of this research was to explore the selectivity and toxicity of the active pharmacodynamic ingredients of PCP in vitro. The total flavones of PCP (TFPCE) and thonningianin-A (Th-A), a major flavone in TFPCE, were investigated on the cell death patterns in human hepatoma cells (HepG2) and human hepatic cells (LO2), followed by a concentration detection of LDH in the supernatants. Apoptosis and necrosis detection kits were used to validate the patterns of cell death caused by TFPCE and Th-A. Finally, the cytotoxicity of both TFPCE and Th-A were reproduced in the colorectal adenocarcinoma cells (NCI-H716). The results indicated that TFPCE inhibits the cell viability of HepG2 cells at a concentration lower than 25 μg/mL. Alternatively, the cell viability of LO2 cells dramatically decreased in the treatment of TFPCE at 25 μg/mL. The effects of Th-A on the cell viability of HepG2 cells and LO2 cells were consistent with TFPCE. LDH detection indicated that TFPCE and Th-A increased the LDH concentration of the supernatants in a dose-dependent way, indicating the pattern of cell necrosis. Fluorescence staining verified the necrosis cell death caused by TFPCE and Th-A. A dose-dependent tendency was obtained in NCI-H716 cells, indicating that the cell viability of NCI-H716 cells was significantly suppressed with the treatment of TFPCE and Th-A. Our results bring the potential toxicity of PCP to the forefront of public attention. Therefore, the clinical application of P chinensis is required to focus more on its cytotoxic effect.
Comparison Between the Physical Performance Test and the Clinical Frailty Score in Adult Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Treated by Haemodialysis
Authors: Davenport Andrew
Published: March 2022

Elderly patients with chronic kidney disease treated by haemodialysis are at increased risk of malnutrition and cachexia, becoming frail, with associated greater mortality. The physical performance test (PPT), using nine tasks to assess multiple domains of physical function is robust and reproducible, but time consuming, whereas the clinical frailty score (CFS) is more rapid. We compared the results from independent blinded observers in 22 haemodialysis patients, 16 (72.7%) male, mean age 65 ± 12.5 years. The PPT and CFS scores were highly correlated (r = −0.88, p < .001), with a high level of agreement (kappa score 0.91) for classifying patients as frail. Both scores were strongly associated with serum creatinine (PPT r=0.76, CFS r=−0.86, p < .001), hand grip strength (PPT r = 0.68, p = .001 CFS r = 0.64, p = .002), lean body mass index (PPT r = 0.50, p = .02, CFS r = −0.46, p = .038). We found that the CFS performed favourably compared to the PPT for haemodialysis patients in identifying and screening patients for frailty.