bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Corneal stromal depth of the demarcation line after accelerated versus conventional cross-linking
Authors: Khallaf Magdy , Elshiekh Ehab Abd Elsamea , Elmadbouh Mohamed Amr Mohamed
Published: July 2022

Background: Keratoconus is one of ectatic corneal disease which is characterized by corneal steepening, visual distortion, apical corneal thinning, and central corneal scarring. Its exact etiology is unknown. Aim and objectives: to assess the depth of the corneal stromal demarcation line (a transition zone between the cross-linked anterior corneal stroma and the untreated posterior corneal stroma,which is considered a measurement of the depth of cross-linking treatment into the stroma). 6 After conventional crosslinking versus accelerated crosslinking after one and three months postoperative. Subjects and methods: This Prospective, randomized, comparative, cross-sectional study was conducted in Kobri El Qobba Military specialized eye hospital, Cairo, Egypt. This study was conducted on 40 eyes with progressive keratoconus divided into two groups, each of them included 20 eyes: group 1: 20 eyes underwent accelerated cross-linking, and group 2: 20 eyes underwent conventional (standard) cross-linking. Results: The demarcation line and Kmax at 1-month and 3-months postoperative showed no statistically difference between the two studied groups. Conclusion: cross-linking is a safe and efficient treatment in progressive keratoconus. Accelerated CXL was comparable with conventional CXL at all-time points and both conventional and accelerated CXL significantly improve CCT and Demarcation line depth.
rare mutation in PRUNE 1- gene causing a neurodevelopmental disease with rare systemic manifestations in a Saudi child
Authors: Alqahtani Youssef A. , Ghazali Bothaina M. , Abbag Huda F. , Abbag Wejdan F. , Alghamdi Majdoleen A. , Shati Sumiah A.
Published: July 2022

PRUNE 1- related disorder, is a neurodevelopmental problem characterized by microcephaly, hypotonia, and variable central nervous system abnormalities, it is a unique uncommon autosomal recessive disease caused by a homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the PRUNE1 gene on chromosome 1q21.4. Here we report a 15 months old girl who presented with characteristic features compatible with Prune syndrome informed of severe developmental delay, progressive microcephaly, hypertelorism, micrognathia and low set ears. The neurological evaluation revealed profound central hypotonia and spastic limbs with increased deep tendon reflexes. At the age of 15 months, she became more flaccid, with multiple hospitalizations because of recurrent aspiration, refractory seizure and severe gastroesophageal reflux disease. Eye examination showed severe optic atrophy. Further molecular genetic analysis revealed a homozygous variant c.383G>A – P(Arg128Gln)-chr1:150997134.
Endovascular management of iliac artery aneurysms
Authors: Raslan Mahmoud Ahmed Khalil , Eldesouky Mohamed Hosni , Mostafa Ahmed Sayed , Yousri Marwan Mohamed
Published: July 2022

Purpose:  The  aim  is  to  evaluate  the  role  of  endovascular  interventions  in treatment of  iliac artery aneurysms with one year follow up. Patients and methods: our study included 20 patients with iliac artery aneurysms defined as (iliac artery with a diameter >3cm) with adequate proximal and distal landing zone. Patients with anastomotic aneurysms, infected aneurysms or with severe renal impairment (GFR <30ml/min/1.73m2) were excluded. FOR ISOLATED ILIAC ANEURYSM: access used through either: 1) Retrograde ipsilateral common femoral artery puncture. 2) Contralateral femoral puncture and performing a crossover technique. Under fluoroscopy, the stent graft devices were advanced into the iliac axis up to the planned graft deployment site, Embolization of the IIA was performed in cases where backflow from the IIA was expected to result in a type II endoleak. For Aorto-Iliac Aneurysms: Bilateral femoral access is needed to place endografts and can be performed via surgical femoral cut down. Once vascular access is established and landmarks for positioning the device are obtained with aortography, the main device is positioned with particular attention paid to the location of the opening for the contralateral iliac limb ("contralateral gate").
Importance of hand impairment measures on return to work among industrial workers with zone II flexor tendon repair
Authors: Anitha A. , Manikumar M. , Muthukumaran J.
Published: July 2022

Introduction: Hand injuries are one among the commonest yet the most serious occupational trauma among industrial workers leading to impairment of the hand as it affect the return to work (RTW) and sometimes may even cause permanent dysfunction leading to disability. This study investigated the importance of hand impairment measures on RTW and the overall hand impairment measures among industrial workers with Zone II Flexor tendon repair. Methods: Seventy-six subjects with industrial hand injury were recruited in this study to answer the RTW questionnaire and hand evaluation was performed on their affected hands. RTW outcomes assessed whether the subjects successfully returned to the same work, either from a job change, job modification or salary reduction, and the length of the time taken to return to work (TRTW). The hand impairment measures included the hand impairment ratio, total active motion loss, grasp power loss, lateral-pinch power loss, and palmar-pinch power loss. Results: The result of the study indicated that grasp power loss was a significant predictor for the length of TRTW. Besides, the hand impairment ratio was also found to have mild significance influence with TRTW.
effect of the question-and-answer strategies and send a question on the achievement of second-grade intermediate students in Arabic grammar
Authors: Kazem Reyam Hatem , Al-Fatlawe Khled Rahei , Jlab Samer Abdulkadhim
Published: July 2022

The current research aims to know (the effect of the question-and-answer strategies and send a question on the achievement of second-grade intermediate students in Arabic grammar). To achieve this goal, the researchers prepared the following null hypothesis: There is no statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.05) between the average scores of second-grade intermediate students who study Arabic grammar in the two strategies of questions and answers and send a question, and the average scores of second-grade intermediate students who study Arabic grammar in the usual way. Therefore, the researchers relied on the experimental design with partial control for two experimental groups and a control group, and the researchers randomly chose a school (the middle school of thanksgiving for girls), and in the same way, section (E) was chosen to represent the control group of (32) students, and section (D) to represent the experimental group. The first, which has (31) students, and Division (F) to represent the second experimental group, which numbered (33) students. for mothers, and last year’s grades for Arabic grammar).
Fighting COVID-19 and forging organic solidarities
Authors: Hassan Basarat
Published: July 2022

This article is based on the fact that the current pandemic has created a new global order and the institution that has faced the real test is the public health sector. The fragile health care system in most underdeveloped countries has shed light on fundamental aspects of the public health care machinery that otherwise receives scant attention. In places where health care systems were semi-paralysed, doctors and other health care providers emerged as avant-garde Covid-19 workers, risking everything to fight the highly infectious disease and save thousands of human lives. This article provides anthropological insights to illustrate how doctors work at District Hospital Pulwama, a place that remains highly militarised and censored. Through the case of District Hospital, Pulwama, it is easy to understand how doctors faced unprecedented challenges, when the public health mechanism had collapsed into choas, and showed a group resilience and effective volunteerism to battle Covid-19 and the psychological and emotional fallout of the disease and its treatment.
The toxic effects of bisphenol a (BPA) on some biomarker blood of rats
Authors: Abdul-Hassan Zaid Abdul-Hamza , Hussein Haider Mashkoor
Published: July 2022

This study was conducted at the College of Science, University of Al-Qadisiyah, to study the relationship between the toxic environmental effects of BPA compound on some biochemical components of the blood of female and male rats. In this study, 60 male and female rats were used, They ranged in age from 8 to 12 weeks, and their weights ranged from 145-200 grams for females and 85-150 grams for males. Rats were divided into four groups according to the dose, with males and females separated. Two control groups: these two groups, three females and three males, dosed 5.0 ml/kg body weight of corn oil per day, group A. Nine females and nine males were fed BPA orally (every day after dissolving in corn oil at 50 mg./kg body weight). Group III (B): 9 females and 9 males were given BPA orally (every day with corn oil, 100 mg/kg body weight). In group C, nine females and nine males were orally injected with a dose of 200 mg/kg BPA dissolved in corn oil every day.
Modelling Subjective Consciousness: A Guide for the Perplexed
Authors: Burgess Peter
Published: July 2022

This paper challenges the conventional methodological tendencies of current monistic treatments of subjective consciousness (SC). I argue that it is highly unlikely that any one position will 'solve' the SC problem, as monism supposes. Instead, I argue for treating theories of SC akin
to scientific models, that (like models) theories only apply under certain empirical conditions, where each simply explains a necessary aspect of SC. Hence, a pluralistic, rather than monistic, approach is preferable to the literature as a whole. In lieu of conventional metaphysics, I advocate
applying a form of scientific realism to models of SC, scientific perspectivism. As authors must rely on some intuitive and/or experiential description of what is problematic about SC, theories are better treated as models deriving from a plurality of interpretive perspectives.
Psychedelics, Atheism, and Naturalism Myth and Reality
Authors: Letheby Chris
Published: July 2022

An emerging body of research suggests that psychedelic experiences can change users' religious or metaphysical beliefs. Here I explore issues concerning psychedelic-induced belief change via a critique of some recent arguments by Wayne Glausser. Two scientific studies seem to show that
psychedelic experiences can convert atheists to belief in God, but Glausser holds that academic and popular discussions of these studies are misleading. I offer a different analysis of the relevant findings, attempting to preserve the insights of Glausser's critique while setting the record
straight on some important points. For one thing, the studies provide stronger evidence for atheist 'deconversion' than Glausser allows. For another, Glausser's arguments against the 'Metaphysical Belief Theory' of psychedelic therapy involve scientifically dubious claims and inferences. Finally,
in evaluating this theory, we ought to focus on its strongest version, which posits belief shifts from metaphysical naturalism to nonnaturalism, rather than from atheism to classical monotheism.
La Red de Centros Culturales de la Cooperación Española. La cultura como marco imprescindible para el desarrollo sostenible
Authors: Balaguer José Carlos
Published: July 2022

El origen de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) se encuentra en el Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, creado en 1946 con el fin de fomentar las relaciones entre los países latinoamericanos y España.
Escultura pública en el siglo XIX: monumentos erigidos en Europa para instituir una identidad nacional en Honduras
Authors: Martínez Paúl
Published: July 2022

El siglo XIX marca la transición de antiguas provincias sujetas al dominio colonial español y el nacimiento de Estados independientes en la región centroamericana y el continente americano en general. La antigua Capitanía General de Guatemala se dividió en los cinco Estados que luego de fallidos intentos de conservar su unidad terminaron convirtiéndose en las actuales repúblicas de Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Costa Rica, naciones que buscaron de distintas maneras y en diferentes momentos construir su propia identidad y gestar su imagen como sociedades libres de cualquier dominio extranjero. Libres tal vez en el sentido político o económico, pero no así en el cultural, ya que muchos funcionarios e intelectuales de la región anhelaban parecer sociedades europeas, copiando estilos arquitectónicos, costumbres e ideas de las naciones allende el océano. En el caso de Honduras, es en tiempos de la Reforma Liberal hacia el último cuarto de esa centuria, que el Estado hondureño mira en el ejemplo de El Salvador y sus monumentos en honor a Francisco Morazán (1792-1842) cuando nace la idea de honrar en conjuntos escultóricos la memoria de ilustres ciudadanos que ayudaran a cimentar una idea de nación hondureña. Se inicia entonces una política institucional para dar una imagen culta a la recién nombrada capital: Tegucigalpa, la que sustituyó en 1880 a Comayagua como sede de los tres poderes del Estado y cuyo crecimiento económico e influencia política debían estar también reflejados en la decoración y ornato de sus espacios públicos.
Pensamiento y obra de Antonio José de Irisarri. Intelectual del siglo XIX en América
Authors: Zúñiga Diéguez Guillermo , Castillo Galindo Justo
Published: July 2022

El inicio del siglo XIX se puede considerar como una época en la que surgieron grandes personajes en el continente americano, destacándose los líderes independentistas, estrategas, militares, periodistas, intelectuales, científicos, académicos, escritores y pensadores con una clara visión de futuro. Algunos sobresalieron por poseer un amplio entendimiento sobre la compleja realidad de la época y fueron conocedores de su pasado para explicar la transformación social que les tocó vivir. Fue la época de brillantes “autodidactas, también conocidos como los sabios universales”, antes de que se difundiera y se afianzara el campo de las especialidades. Estos ilustres intelectuales, con su pensamiento y obra contribuyeron a realizar cambios importantes en su sociedad y en el continente; varios de ellos no realizaron estudios universitarios, fueron los grandes autodidactas, se ganaron el respeto y la admiración de muchos y legaron para su generación y la posteridad escribir obras literarias excepcionales que perduraron en el tiempo. Entre estos brillantes intelectuales del continente americano destaca Antonio José de Irisarri, quien desde una perspectiva crítica a través del tiempo constituyó una figura digna de ser conocida, interpretada y analizada junto a otros académicos, como: Andrés Bello, José Cecilio del Valle, José Nariño y algunos estrategas en el campo militar como: Antonio José de Sucre, El General José de San Martín, Simón Bolívar y otros que contribuyeron a la independencia hispanoamericana del dominio español. A Irisarri se le define como un pensador conservador, pero sus ideas correspondieron a las de un auténtico liberal, o de un pensamiento más avanzado para su época, por lo que fue llamado por Menéndez Pelayo “el Cervantes americano”.
The Impossibility of Return: Güney Dal and the Exilic Condition
Authors: Reisoğlu Mert Bahadir
Published: July 2022

This article examines the role exile plays in the works of the first generation of Turkish German authors by focusing on Güney Dal. The first part of the article deals with Güney Dal’s interviews with other Turkish German authors in 1983. Even though the authors interviewed by Dal do not consider themselves exiles, I show that exilic consciousness is marked not only by the impossibility of returning home, a condition that the authors interviewed deny sharing with exiles, but also by the fact that the exilic subject is already displaced within and is as such unable to be at home. In the second part, I interpret Dal’s novel Eine Kurze Reise nach Gallipoli (1994), which he wrote after moving back to Turkey, as a work that showcases this insurmountable uprootedness and argue that Dal’s modernist novel shows that the disintegration of exilic consciousness can establish a link with political and ethical issues beyond the reach of the isolated and paranoid subject.
“More Than a Trip”: Memory, Mobility, and Space in Un Franco, 14 Pesetas (2004)
Authors: Masterson-Algar Araceli
Published: July 2022

In Un Franco, 14 Pesetas (2004), Carlos Iglesias tells the story of Spanish migration to Central Europe during the 1960s through a fictional remembering of his family’s years as immigrants to Uzwil, in the Swiss eastern province of Toggenburg. His memories of the Swiss landscape, luminous, green, and open contrast with a grim, grey and enclosed Madrid, both origin and end of the six-year journey. This essay explores the interrelation between memory, space, and human mobility in Un Franco, 14 Pesetas. Through a journey of migration to Switzerland, Iglesias tells a story of return to Madrid, and unveils the contradictions of Spain’s so-called ‘economic miracle’ of the 1960s. Merging experiences of arrival and departure, presents and pasts, Iglesias’s film shows how immigration is rooted in space, and inseparable from economic, political and social processes that are historically specific.
Brown Eyed Boy: Narrating Internalized Oppression and Misogynoir in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Everything I Don’t Remember
Authors: Mier-Cruz Benjamin
Published: July 2022

The rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing extremism in Sweden in the wake of growing migration has affected Sweden’s global reputation as a model progressive welfare state that prioritizes human rights and generously extends citizenship, welfare, and labor rights to migrants and asylum seekers. In Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Allt jag inte minns [Everything I Don’t Remember] (2015), xenophobia, Islamophobia, and racialized heteronormativity appear in the unlikely form of Vandad, a hypermasculine Muslim immigrant who has secretly fallen in love with another Swedish Arab man. This study involves a narratological analysis of how internalized racism inspires the novel’s narrator of color to produce figurative narrative acts of internal colonialism—that is, violent narrative acts, made possible by the effects of racism, against other non-white characters in the story. The essay additionally explores how the objectification of non-white women’s bodies and acts of misogynoir, the anti-Black misogyny that Black women experience, by queer men of color in the text operate as secondhand technologies of oppression manufactured by the political discourse of the extreme right. The essay concludes with a critique of the far right’s exploitation of collective cultural memory to mass-produce white nationalism in the guise of tradition and the implications this has for non-white Swedes and migrants in Sweden.
Manlio Graziano, What is a Border? Stanford Briefs, 2018.
Authors: Klueppel Joscha
Published: July 2022

Review Essay
Feminism, Theory, Film: Critical Intersections in the Practice and Theorization of Experimental Filmmaking since the 1970s
Authors: Boos Sonja
Published: July 2022

Introduction to Volume 12 of Konturen.
The Aesthetic Hyper-Object in Experimental Short Film Practices: Lina Sieckmann and Miriam Gossing’s Art Documentaries
Authors: Ostmeier Dorothee
Published: July 2022

Short experimental films by the German female director duo Lina Sieckmann und Miriam Gossing put domestic environments on cinematic display in new and challenging ways. The essay discusses the links between the films’ documentary agendas, surreal visual montages, and poetic feminine voice-overs. Selected films are placed into dialogues with Michael Renov’s concept of aesthetics in documentary film and Timothy Morton’s notion of the “hyperobject.” This theoretical framework highlights the tensions between the films’ powerful aesthetics and feminine queer desire as they decenter socially ingrained dualisms.
Film Spaces, Memory Traces: The Family House in Recha Jungman’s Etwas tut weh (1979)
Authors: Brauerhoch Annette
Published: July 2022

In 2016 Recha Jungmann’s film Etwas tut weh (Something Hurts, 1976) was rediscovered and restored. Jungmann, alongside with Ula Stöckl, was one of the few women graduates of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, where Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge taught. In Etwas tut weh she revisits her family’s former estate which is now a ruin, abandoned and vandalized. This article explores how memory work and camera work unite to create spaces in which her family finds a (new) aesthetic home, and in which the film as a form of remembrance creates solidarity with the audience in the cinema -- a space that can give a home to films and spectators alike.
Poetics of Cross-Cultural Relation: Critical Performances by Artists kate-hers RHEE and Patty Chang
Authors: Lin Jenny
Published: July 2022

This article explores anti-racist, feminist performance and video art by kate-hers RHEE and Patty Chang. Parodic performances of awkward sexual encounters in works such as RHEE’s The Chocolate Kiss (2013) and Chang’s The Product Love (2009) embody and deconstruct identity formation within transnational German and Asian American contexts. I explore how RHEE and Chang distinctly challenge sexist and racist stereotypes and the objectification of Asian women, while problematizing cultural categorization through (mis)translations and poetic relations. The article illuminates how these artists complicate Asian American identities via variegated explorations of critical race theories and connected histories of cross-cultural representation.
Genevieve Yue, Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality. Fordham University Press, 2020.
Authors: Pek Ying Sze
Published: July 2022

Review Essay
A Case of Creuzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A Challenge Despite A Hundred Years of Experience
Authors: Balodis Arturs
Published: July 2022

Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease belongs to a group of prion diseases characterised by rapid clinical deterioration and high mortality due to the lack of specific treatment. In approximately 85% of cases the disease is sporadic, however, both congenital and jatrogenic [1,2]. Despite widespread decades-long knowledge of the disease by doctors, especially neurologists, confirming the diagnosis remains exceptionally challenging. We present a 69-year-old patient who was admitted to a university hospital due to complaints of progressive gait and balance impairment and cognitive changes. Due to the clinical appearance and radiological examinations, Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease was suspected, and an electroencephalography and liquor tests carried out. The patient’s neurological and overall state worsened, and the liquor test results received postmortem confirmed the clinical and radiological diagnosis.
Using DNA in Paternity Testing by Identifying 16 STR Loci with Chromosomal Positions
Authors: Essam Kareem
Published: July 2022

Paternity cases arise as a result of major issues between married couples, as women may have a sexual partner in their lives, resulting in a child who is not her husband’s son. This case is being investigated using Short Tandem Repeat (STR) analysis, which is commonly utilized in paternity cases to identify the biological father. STR analysis is based on 16 STR loci that are discovered on chromosomes, as well as the length of each locus.
Sinonasal Mucosal Melanoma- An Intriguing Case Report
Authors: Rawat Garima
Published: July 2022

Introduction Primary Mucosal melanomas of the head and neck region are a rare kind of malignancy arising from the melanocytes. The primary melanomas of the paranasal sinuses are extremely unusual and associated with a poor prognosis due to delayed diagnosis. These lesions tend to metastasize and locally invade tissues more than any other malignant tumour of the head and neck region. Case report Here, we present a case of a fifty-seven-year-old male who presented with epistaxis and nasal obstruction. Imaging revealed a soft tissue mass lesion involving the maxillary sinus and nasal cavity with erosion of the floor of right orbit. Discussion The mainstay of treatment for these sinonasal mucosal melanomas is surgical resection followed by adjuvant radiotherapy or
Right Ventricular Pacing-Induced Hypotension and Pulmonary Edema
Authors: Alhaj Eyad
Published: July 2022

We hereby report a case of hypotension and pulmonary edema induced by right ventricular pacing, Ventricular Intrinsic Preference (VIP) algorithm was inadequate in maintaining intrinsic ventricular rhythm, prolongation of Atrioventricular Delay (AVD) aided in restoration of normal hemodynamics.
Atrial Flutter Masquerading As Ventricular Tachycardia, A Case Report
Authors: Alhaj Eyad
Published: July 2022

We describe a challenging case of atrial flutter presenting as wide-complex tachycardia suspicious for ventricular tachycardia and intractable acute congestive heart failure with features of cardiogenic shock; electrophysiology study proved to be helpful in reaching the diagnosis, ablation therapy was key in reversing the course of the disease.
Admission Patterns and Outcome in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Althawra Hospital: Al-Bayda, Libya
Authors: Bofarraj Mabrouka A. M. , Tip Rania M. , Saad Wafa J.
Published: July 2022

A retrospective cross sectional descriptive study to all children from age groups (1month to 15 years) presenting with critical illnesses to the PICU at the pediatric department of Al –Thawra Hospital, from June 2015 to December 2015. A total of 1043 children  were admitted to PICU at Al Thawra Hospital, 54.1% were male and 45.9% were female with ratio male to female  1.1:1.  Age distribution showed that 51% were infants (1month to 1year). Respiratory system, central nervous system, and gastrointestinal diseases (32.3%, 28 %, 13 %) respectively were the most common diseases requiring PICU admission, followed by infectious diseases (7%) cardiovascular (6%), others which include poisoning and trauma (7%), and least common endocrine (2%), hematology (1.3%), nephrology (1%), metabolic ( 0.7%), and oncology (0.5%). The overall mortality rate was 30 (2.87%)  with  higher proportion of males (22\30) died following admission compared to admitted females (8\30) and these differences  were statistically significant. Infants had the highest proportion of the total death 22\30 which was statistically significant. Sepsis was the most common cause of total death 7\30 patients         ( 23.33%) followed by  6\30 patients ( 20%) for each of CHD and pneumonia followed by couple patients (6.6%) for each of cerebral palsy, convulsion and others. One patient (3.33%) each for encephalitis, acute gastroenteritis, anemia, chronic renal failure, and malignancy. Nine hundred and five patients (86.76%)  improved and discharged in satisfactory condition, 92 (8.82%) patients left against medical advice (LAMA), 61 (1,53%) patients were referred to more specified hospital and 30 patients died during the studied period. The estimated fatality rate was (2.87%). Infection remains a major problem for patients in intensive care units and associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Pneumonia and congenital heart diseases were the most next common cause of death. Therefore, these patients require early referral and timely institution of therapy for better outcome, and intensive care facilities should be expanded to decrease child mortality.
Effect of Ocimum basilicum L. and Eucalyptus camaledulensis Dehn. powders on Cowpea weevil ( Callosobruchus maculatus F.) in stored cowpea
Authors: Elsiddig Fathelrahman I. , Elneel Mohamed H. Hamad
Published: July 2022

A laboratory experiment was carried out during the period June – September 2011 at Abu Naama Faculty of Agriculture - University of Sinnar, Sudan,  to study the effect  of different  powdered preparations of leaves and flowers of Rehan and  leaves of Cafure on cowpea weevil (Callosobruchus maculatus Fabric.). The experiment was laid out as a complete randomized design (CRD) with four replicates. Different concentrations of  the two tested plants were formulated  by weight from 2 kg of cowpea seeds to give the following  treatments: Rehan leaves powder  5% and 10%, Rehan flowers powder  5% and 10%, Cafure leaves powder 5%, and 10%, and untreated control. The treatments were added to clean cowpea seeds. Number of eggs, number of adults, and 100 seed weight were recorded every two weeks up to the end of the experiment. Results indicated that Rehan and Cafure powders of the two concentrations 5%, 10% significantly reduced the number of eggs and adults of cowpea weevil Callosobruchus maculatus up to 12 weeks compared to the untreated control.  Results also indicated that starting from the 4th week up until the10th week; all treatments of 10% concentration were significantly different from the untreated control in term of 100 seed weight.  Results concluded that the performance of the tested preparations will still encourage the inclusion of these products in IPM programs with other natural and biological measures.
Efficacy of different Neem Azadirachta indica organic extracts on mosquitoes Anopheles arabiensis Patton
Authors: Elsiddig Fathelrahman I.
Published: July 2022

Laboratory experiments were carried out at the National Malaria Centre, Sinnar State-Sudan, to evaluate the effects of organic extracts of leaves and seed kernels of neem Azadirachta indica A.juss. against larvae and adults of the main malaria vector in Sudan Anopheles arabiensis Patton. Larvicidal activity, oviposition deterrency, and adult mortality after 24 hours exposure were measured according to the WHO standards, using ethanol and hexane extracts of the mentioned neem parts. Results indicated that all tested extracts exhibit larvicidal properties against Anopheles arabiensis mosquito. However, the seed hexane extract was superior to other ones, depicting minimum LC50 of 1998 mgℓ-1. Oviposition deterrency to Anopheles adult was noticed from all tested extracts, with their different concentrations. Meanwhile the extracts showed negligible insecticidal characteristics to the tested mosquito. It can be concluded from the present investigation, that the tested neem extracts could be compatible to be applied with other conventional biological measures used in malaria vector control program after field verifications. Keeping in view the great concern raised about vector resistance and environmental hazards of conventional insecticides.
Prevalence and Analytic Study of Diabetic Patients in Al-Bayda, Libya
Authors: Shareaf Heba. , Ali Marfoua. S. , Kahald Fayourz. A.
Published: July 2022

The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence and analyzing some parameters including family history and duration of diabetic foot among diabetic patients in El-Beyda city. This study was conducted to interview 176 patients diagnosed with diabetes at the main center of diabetes treatment in El-Beyda city. Several parameters were detected including age, sex, time of disease, levels of FBS, diabetes foot duration, and family history. Of the 176 patients, 77.8% (n=138), 22.2% (n=38) were female and male respectively, with a mean age of 55 years (20– 80). The most frequent diabetes patient age group was 51-60 years old followed by 41-50 years old (34.7% and 28.4% of the patients). The family history of diabetes in the first degree relatives was positive in males 73.7% and in female 67.2%. The majority of the patients (90 %) were on oral hypoglycemic drugs. The age, duration of diabetes, poor foot diabetes, and glycemic control were independent risk factors for the development of long-term diabetic complications. Education is recommended combined with other preventive measures to reduce these complications. In conclusion family history and age of diabets have anindependent association with the prevelence of diabires and their compleatid.
دراسة معملية لتقييم تأثير بعض المواد الزراعية على نمو وتكاثر الفطريات الأحيائية Trichoderma harzianum وفطر Pythium oligandrum
Authors: محمد نوارة علي , المبروك أسماء , المبروك آمنة عقيلة
Published: July 2022

أجريت هذه الدراسة بمعمل أمراض النبات التابع لقسم وقاية النبات،  كلية الزراعة -جامعة عمر المختار، البيضاء، ليبيا، لمعرفة تأثير بعض المواد الزراعية الأكثر تداولاً والشائعة الاستخدام في المنطقة على فطريات معزولة من الترب المحلية فطرTrichoderma harzianum  وفطر Pythium oligandrum، وشملت هذه المواد كلاًّ من المبيدات: السبيركل، الجول، البينومايل ودياثين م – 45، والأسمدة الكيميائية ( يوريا، نتروجين-فوسفات-بوتاسيوم (NPK)، فوسفات 18/46(P18/46) ،داى امونيوفوسفات) الهرمونات (إندول حمض الخليك، نفثالين، جبريلين، إندول حمض البيوتريك) والمضادات الحيوية (الفانكوميسين، الاستربتومايسين،كلورامفينكول، تتراسكلين) بعدة تراكيز بما فيها التركيز الموصى به. قيمَّ البحث تأثير هذه المواد على النمو الميسليومي، الوزن الجاف وتجرثم الفطر، وأظهرت النتائج أن هناك فروقاً معنوية بين المبيدات المختبرة عند التراكيز المستخدمة في تثبيط النمو الفطريات، وأن نسبة التثبيط للنمو الفطرى تزداد بزيادة تركيز المبيد، كان مبيد دياثين م – 45 الأعلى تثبيطاً للنمو الميسيليومي والوزن الجاف وتجرثم الفطريات، بينت النتائج أيضاً أن المعاملة بالأسمدة خفَّضت معنويا نمو الفطرين               P.oligandrum وT.harzianum، وبشكل خاص سماد اليوريا الذي أعطى أعلى تأثير، حيث أدى إلى تناقص في الوزن الجاف بزيادة التركيز، ووصلت نسبة تأثير المعاملة إلى 41% و36.6% لكلا الفطرين على التوالي. من ناحية أخرى عند معاملة الفطريات بالهرمونات كان فطرT. harzianum  أكثر تأثراً مقارنة بالفطر P. oligandrum ، وأعطى هرمون الجبريلين تثبيطاً عاليا للنمو والتجرثم، حيث أدى زيادة تركيز الهرمون إلى الانخفاض في الوزن الجاف. في حين سُجَّل تأثير عالٍ للمضاد الحيوى التتراسيكلين عند تركيز 0.012 مليجم/مل على نمو المسيليوم وإنتاج الجراثيم للفطريات المختبرة.
دراسة لمرض موازيك الفلفل المتسبب عن الفيروس Potato Virus Y بمنطقة المرج – الجبل الأخضر
Authors: الطيب يونس علي , السنوسي عمر موسى , المسماري فتحي سعد
Published: July 2022

لوحظ أثناء زيارات ميدانية لمحاصيل الفلفل المتداول زراعتها بالحقول والبيوت الزجاجية المحيطة بمدينة المرج – منطقة الجبل الأخضر انتشار واسع لإصابة فيروسية تتمثل أعراضها في تقّزم شديد للنباتات المصابة ، موازيك واصفرار الأوراق وتحزّم عروقها وتشوّه الثمار. ينتقل هذا الفيروس ميكانيكياً وكذلك بواسطة حشرات منّ الخوخ الأخضر Myzus persicae بالطريقة غير الباقية (Non-persistant) . وأثبتت الدراسات اللاحقة على كل من الأمراضية والأعراض التي يحفّزها الفيروس على النباتات الدالة والخواص الفيزيائية والتغيرات الخلوية الدقيقة Ultrasructural Changes Cytological المصاحبة للمرض والصفات المورفولوجية أن درجة الحرارة المميتة للفيروس هي 60°م ونقطة التخفيف النهائية تتراوح مابين 5 × 10-3 ، 5 × 10-4 وقدرة بقائه خارج أنسجة العائل 11 يوماً ، وأن جسيمات الفيروس من النوع العصوي المرن مصحوبة بتكوين أشكال مروحية ذات أذرع منحنية ملتفة حول المركز (Pin-wheels) المميزة للفيروسات التابعة لمجموعة بوتي (Poty virus group) ، وأكدت الدراسات السيرولوجية (المصلية) باستخدام اختبار إليزا غير المباشر أن المسبب لهذا المرض هو فيروس البطاطس واي (PVY) Potato Virus Y . وعند اختبار مدى مقاومة أصناف الفلفل المتداول زراعتها في المنطقة للإصابة بالفيروس ، أظهرت النتائج أن جميع الأصناف قابلة للإصابة.
وضع الغذاء المستهلك في الجماهيرية العظمى من حيث المضافات الغذائية والملوثات
Authors: عبد القادر رمضان الصالحين , الفرجاني سالم عمر , أرديّة يحيى خميس
Published: July 2022

إن للجهات الرقابية على الأغذية دوراً مهماً في تأكيد سلامة هذه الأغذية وجودتها، وقد أصبح وجود المضافات الغذائية المختلفة والمتنوعة في الغذاء المصنع أمراً طبيعياً لخدمة أهداف فنية معينة مثل زيادة فترة الصلاحية أو معالجة الخواص الفزيوكيميائية لهذه الأغذية ، غير أن مخاطرها الصحية عند عدم استعمالها بالنسب والمقررات المتفق عليها يجعلها موضع اهتمام الجهات الرقابية، وذلك لتجنب الخطر الذي قد ينشأ من عدم الاستعمال الصحيح للمضافات الغذائية أو وصول الملوثات المختلفة للغذاء ، من خلال استعراضنا لحالة الغذاء الموجود في السوق الليبي وذلك بدراسة نتائج الاختبارات المعملية والتي تجرى على كل الأغذية الموردة خاصة من المنافذ الشرقية ، وكذلك الأغذية المصنعة محلياً ، وجد أن معظم المواد المضافة للأغذية كمواد حافظة تتمثل في ثاني أكسيد الكبريت وبنزوات الصوديوم ، وقد لوحظ أن نسب معظم هذه المواد كانت بالنسب المصرح بها كما لوحظ وجود استعمال واضح للألوان الصناعية، ولوحظ عدم التوافق في بعض الأحيان بين بطاقة البيانات وبين الاشتراطات الموجودة في المواصفات الوطنية لتلك المواد، أما بالنسبة للاختبارات التي تجري فيما يخص الملوثات والتي تتمثل في الكشف الميكروبي للبكتيريا الممرضة والسموم الفطرية وكذلك المعادن الثقيلة وبقايا المبيدات فأوضحت نتائج التحاليل النوعي أن هناك العديد من العينات تحتوي على السموم الفطرية وخاصة في البقوليات. أما بالنسبة للعناصر الثقيلة فلوحظ تواجدها مثل الرصاص والنحاس والحديد بنسب أعلى من الحدود المسموح بها في عدد من العينات المختبرة ، ولم يلاحظ وجود كل من بقايا للمبيدات والمواد المشعة في أي من العينات التي تم اختبارها.
Yetişkin Bireylerde Bağırsak Hastalıkları Sıklığının Belirlenmesi
Authors: DENGİZ Kübra Sultan , HİSAR Filiz , CİNGİL Dilek , SAÇIKARA Zeynep
Published: July 2022

Giriş: Yetişkin bireylerin Roma IV tanı kriterlerine göre bağırsak hastalıklarının demografik özellikleri ve bazı sağlık/hastalık özelliklerinin belirlenmesi, bağırsak hastalıklarının temel özelliklerini değerlendirmektir.

Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı türdeki araştırmaya 18 yaş ve üzeri olan, en az 6 aydır gastrointestinal semptomları devam eden 333 birey katılmıştır. Veriler google form aracılığıyla Haziran 2020- Şubat 2021 tarihleri arasında toplanmıştır. Araştırmanın yürütülmesi için etik izin ve katılımcı onayları alınmıştır.

Bulgular: Çalışmaya katılan bireylerin yaş ortalaması 37.0±11.5; %62.2’si kadındır. Katılımcıların günlük 1-2 porsiyon meyve tüketenlerin oranı %69.7’dir. Bireylerin %41.1’i en az bir kronik hastalığa sahipken, %30’unun sürekli kullandığı en az bir adet ilacı vardır. Düzenli fiziksel aktivite yapanların oranı %23.4 iken, %67.3’ünün kullandığı tuvalet şekli alafrangadır.

Sonuç: Roma IV tanı kriterlerine göre en fazla görülen bağırsak hastalığının fonksiyonel abdominal şişlik/gerginlik (%43.8) olduğu; bağırsak semptom sayısının bağırsak hastalıkları, günlük meyve tüketimi ve ekonomik durumla ilişkili olduğu tespit edilmiştir.
Flower visitors and potential pollinating insects of Elaeocarpus angustifolius, the Rudraksha plant from India
Authors: Singh Pooja , Singh Amar
Published: July 2022

Studies on flower visitors and potential pollinating insects of Elaeocarpus angustifolius Bl., the Rudraksha plant from India have been carried out for the first time. A total of 19 species belonging to order Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera were recorded as visitors of the flowers or pollinating insects. These include 4 species of bees, 2 species of ants, 02 species of moths, 10 species of butterflies and 1 species of bug. Species of honey bees mainly Apis cerana indica and Apis florae and butterfly species like Rapala nissa nissa and Rapala varuna were assumed as the putative pollinating insects of Rudraksha plant under cultivation, while other insects were considered as flower visitors.
C98: Impact de la chirurgie associée à la radiothérapie sur le pronostic du cancer du sein en Guinée : Etude cohorte des cancers du sein de Guinée
Authors: Keita M , Toure A , Camara I , Barry A , Koulibaly M , Traore B
Published: July 2022

INTRODUCTION : Dans un pays où la radiothérapie n'est pas disponible, un plaidoyer basé sur la pertinence de la chirurgie + la radiothérapie adjuvante sur le contrôle locorégional et la survie des patients est nécessaire. Notre objectif était d’évaluer l'impact de la chirurgie et la radiothérapie sur le contrôle local et la survie par rapport à la chirurgie seule dans le cancer du sein. MATERIELS ET METHODES : Entre 2007 et 2016, 210 patients atteints de cancer du sein ont été revus rétrospectivement, dont 90 patients étaient traités par chirurgie et radiothérapie (groupe 1) et 120 patients par la chirurgie seule (groupe 2). Les facteurs pronostiques associés à la survie globale et au contrôle local ont été déterminés. RESULTATS : Il y avait plusieurs combinaisons de traitement, y compris la chirurgie associée à une chimiothérapie néoadjuvante, radiothérapie et la chimiothérapie adjuvante. Les résultats ont montré 88 (41,9%) cas de rechute, dont 31 (34,4 %) (groupe 1) et 57 (47,5%) (groupe 2) (p=0,046). La récidive était survenue après un délai moyen de 1,5 an dans le groupe 1 contre 0,66 an dans le groupe 2 (p=0,006). Les survies globales à cinq ans et spécifiques du cancer du sein étaient de 49,5% et 62,5%, respectivement. La survie à cinq ans était de 60,0% (groupe 1) et 40,0% (groupe 2) (p<0,05). Dans une analyse multivariée par modèle de Cox, nous avons constaté que le risque de décès était 1,90 (IC95% [1,1709-3,0701]) plus élevé dans le groupe 2 (p=0,009022), 1,69 (IC95% [1,00087-23,86157]) chez les patients obèses et a diminué de 0,21 (IC95% [0,129-0,368]) chez les patients qui n'ont pas rechuté (p<0,001). CONCLUSION : Dans cette étude avec plusieurs thérapies combinées, nous ne pouvons pas confirmer que la radiothérapie améliore principalement le pronostic des cancers localement avancés quel que soit le traitement systémique. Cependant, nous avons constaté que le risque de décès était en corrélation avec l'absence de radiothérapie, le surpoids et le risque de récidive. La prise en compte de combinaisons de thérapies locorégionales et systémiques, des données clinico-pathologiques et biologiques pourrait améliorer la pertinence de ces résultats avec un échantillon de grande taille.
Culturally Responsive Research Design as Complement to Hegemonic Paradigms in the Comparative, International, Development Educational Context
Authors: San Cristóbal G. María M.
Published: July 2022

Despite profuse research on the matter, the widely acknowledged gap between educational research and teaching/learning practices suggests that considering the cultural cannons of participants under research remains an issue -among others- when addressing the legitimization of knowledge production in Comparative, International, Developing, Educational (CIDE) contexts. Such premise acquires further relevance for initiatives conducted with research participants whose voices are commonly marginalized in the process of designing research instruments, including the youth and children. The present paper aims at analyzing the importance of conducting CIDE research from a culturally responsive approach, and to illustrate that research strategies which bridge the either hegemonic or alternative research dichotomy contribute the legitimacy of knowledge production in contexts including underage subjects. A small-scale pilot research was internationally implemented with two teenage students and two educational researchers from developed and undeveloped contexts to use their epistemologies as input for the design of a data-collection method. Results suggest that omitting the views of participants in the process of research design can risk the legitimacy of knowledge production, and that complementary approaches contribute better the validity of studies conducted in the field of Social Sciences.
Analisis Determinan Peningkatan Mutu Berkelanjutan Program Studi pada Perguruan Tinggi Swasta
Authors: Aliyah Jannatun , Hudaya Chairul , Masniadi Rudi
Published: July 2022

Setiap perguruan tinggi dituntut untuk mempersiapkan diri agar dapat menjadi perguruan tinggi yang siap berkompetisi dengan perguruan tinggi lain. Kompetisi yang semakin ketat tersebut tentunya akan semakin memacu seluruh perguruan tinggi untuk dapat meningkatkan kualitasnya. Kualitas perguruan tinggi banyak disorot oleh masyarakat terutama dari sisi para lulusan perguruan tinggi tersebut yang dapat diterima di pasar kerja. Perbaikan mutu pendidikan di perguruan tinggi perlu dilakukan dalam rangka meningkatkan daya saing perguruan tinggi. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis determinan peningkatan mutu berkelanjutan, dalam hal ini program studi pada perguruan tinggi swasta. Pengumpulan data menggunakan angket kuesioner pada 100 responden yang diambil berdasarkan teknik saturation sampling. Data dianalisis menggunakan analisis SEM-PLS. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa empat faktor atau variabel yang menjadi pemicu program studi dalam meningkatkan mutu yaitu Pendampingan Sistem Penjaminan Mutu Internal, Kesadaran Mutu, Pemeringkatan Jaminan Mutu Program Studi dan Dukungan Manajemen Puncak. Pada Uji statistik menggunakan SEM-SmartPLS menunjukkan nilai Adjusted R-square sebesar 0,608 untuk konstruk Peningkatan Mutu Berkelanjutan Program Studi. Artinya bahwa variabilitas konstruk dalam penelitian ini sebesar 60,8%. Sisanya yaitu 39,2% dijelaskan oleh faktor lain di luar model.
The Effect of Store Atmosphere and Social Media Marketing on Purchase Decisions on Consumers of the Damandiri Cafe
Authors: Dasmadi Dasmadi
Published: July 2022

This study aims to determine and analyze the influence of social media and store atmosphere on purchase intention at the Damandiri cafe in Selo, Boyolali Regency. This type of research is quantitative research using a conclusive classification: data collection techniques using non-probability sampling classification and judgmental techniques. The number of samples used in this study was as many as 100 respondents who knew and had accessed the Instagram account of Damandiri café. The analysis technique uses multiple linear regression analysis with the SPSS version 25 program. The results show that social media positively and significantly affect purchase intention at Damandiri cafe in Selo, Boyolali.  There is a significant influence of the store atmosphere has a positive and significant effect on the purchase intention of a Damandiri café in Selo, Boyolali. Café Damandiri is expected to be able to design outlets in such a way as to increase customer convenience with a positive store atmosphere. In addition, it is expected to consider the social media to increase consumer purchase intention. Further research can use newer variables such as convenience, promotion, or service quality.
The Effects of High Intensity Exercise to Exhaustion on the Concentrations of Endostatin and VEGF in Plasma
Authors: Inayat Shah  , Arif Tasleem , Amber . , Ali Imdad
Published: July 2022

Endostatin and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) are important markers driving the angiogenic switch. It is clear that short periods of moderate to high intensity exercise significantly increase the concentration of endostatin and VEGF in plasma. Objective: To investigate concentration of circulatory endostatin in plasma and impact of different intensities of exercise encompassing from low to maximum on distribution of endostatin and VEGF concentrations in plasma. Methods: Eight healthy male volunteers were recruited through advertisements and personal contacts, after assessing their fitness through two pre-participation health screening questionnaires, PAR-Q and ACSM Health Fitness Facility pre-participation health screening questionnaire for performing maximal exercise to volitional exhaustion. All the volunteers attend the lab on 2 consecutive days. The blood was centrifuged at 1000 RPM for 15 minutes for endostatin and VEGF and at 3000 RPM for 15 minutes for lipid profiles and insulin. Samples were analysed for endostatin and VEGF concentrations using QuantikinR ELISA kit of the R&D systems, while Insulin was measured using ELISA kit (Mercodia, Uppsala Sweden). Results: The basal endostatin concentration remained consistent and higher intensity of exercise significantly increased the endostatin concentration for up to 2 hours. Exercise also influenced VEGF concentration transiently and only at 30 minutes’ interval increase in VEGF was statistically significant. Conclusion: It is worth noting that those participants who showed an immediate decrease in VEGF after exercise, later on exhibited a concentration higher than basal
Revisiting the issue of finding common ground between traditional Chinese medicine and biodynamic craniosacral therapy
Authors: Lobusov Egor
Published: July 2022

A brief history of biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Chinese medicine is addressed in the article. Their main concepts in different discourses are analyzed. A fundamental similarity in the ideas underlying these two medical systems has been found.
Problems of sclerotomal pain
Authors: Vishnyakova Elena , Shirokov Vasiliy , Shirshov Yuriy
Published: July 2022

The problematic theoretical and experimental aspects of sclerotome and sclerotomal pain, their place and use in modern medicine are considered from the standpoint of neurology and embryology.