bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Spór polityczny między PiS i PO wokół modelu integracji europejskiej
Authors:   Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, Polska, Sanecka-Tyczyńska Joanna
Published: February 2023

The dispute over the model of European integration and around the proposals for reform and change of the European Union, which appear time and again, has become one of the main axes of conflict in Polish politics. The aim of this article is to analyse the political views of the two main actors in this dispute – Law and Justice (conservative current) and Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (liberal current). Representatives of both ideological currents, despite significant axiological differences, were in favour of European integration. While the Law and Justice party presented a Eurorealist stance, the views of PO politicians can be described as Euro-enthusiastic. Sharp disagreements arose when the scope and extent of European integration and the model of the EU needed to be clarified, which de facto boiled down to a debate around the role and significance of the nation-state in international relations. The theoretical layer of political thought is particularly exposed in the study, as the acceptance of a realist or liberal paradigm of international relations by the parties studied was tantamount to support for a particular model of the European Union. It also seemed crucial to examine the relevance and importance of political values such as the state and its sovereignty, collective identity or security and their relationship to the desired vision of the EU.
Transformacja systemu pomocy społecznej w Polsce po 1989 roku – wybrane zagadnienia
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Bozacka Małgorzata
Published: February 2023

Three periods can be distinguished in the history of social assistance in Poland. The first of them includes the so-called public charity, carried out mainly by the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages. The second period was shaped by the Act on Social Welfare of 1923 and constituted the legal basis of the social welfare system at that time, while the third period was related to the organization of the social welfare system under the Act on Social Welfare of 1990. This development of social assistance in Poland after 1989 took place in two dimensions: vertical – creating an undeveloped organizational structure from 1990, consisting only of social assistance centers and voivodeship social assistance teams, and from 1999 – horizontal changes were introduced, which resulted in the creation of a complex network of social welfare institutions operating at many organizational levels of state administration and local government. Among the changes in the social welfare system after 1989 indicated in this article, the issues related to the amendments to the Act on Social Assistance (1990 or 2004) are noteworthy, as well as the presentation of new tasks and professional groups (such as family assistants and foster care coordinators) included in the social welfare system – after the introduction in 2011 of the Act on supporting the family and the foster care system – Additionally, important issues stated in this article are contemporary trends in the development of social welfare in Poland and indication of the perspective of new challenges or possible changes within the social welfare system.
Haszymidzkie Królestwo Jordanii w konfrontacji z ideologią panarabską (1946–1999). Z badań nad stabilnością polityczną monarchii arabskich
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Wróblewski Bartosz
Published: February 2023

Since early 1950s military coups were a frequent phenomenon in the Arab world. In consequence of that a lot of monarchies fell and they were replaced with republics. In fact, however, the politics became dominated by violence and the regimes quickly became oppressive dictatorships. The new governments made use of the pan-Arab ideology to legitimize their authority (which aimed at uniting Arabs from Morocco to Iraq). The small Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan became an important place of confrontation between the pan-Arab ideology and the monarchy, with its traditional legitimization of power. Since approximately 1948 until 1990s there was competition between parties and political movements opting for pan-Arabism or the court of the Hashemite. This resulted in severe political crises in 1956–1957, 1966 and 1991. The consequence of that was also the civil war of 1970. The Jordan monarchy succeeded in overcoming these crises and emerged victorious from the ideological struggle. The current monarchy maintained complete authority and recognition, while pan-Arabism underwent marginalization.
Stanowisko Afganistanu wobec przyjęcia instrumentów międzynarodowej ochrony praw człowieka, cz. II: lata 1973–1989
Authors:   Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie, Polska, Cenda-Miedzińska Klaudia
Published: February 2023

The article is the second part of studies showing Afghanistan's path towards adopting international instruments to protect human rights. Based on the acts of national and international law and historical sources, the conditions that led to the state's acceptance or rejection of international human rights treaties during the functioning of the Republic of Afghanistan was analysed. The main research goal is to show the changes in the state's political arena and the internal legal order, which conditioned the accession to the international instruments for the protection of human rights. Particular attention was paid to the state's situation in the context of international relations, including the impact of the Soviet Union on the government of Afghanistan.
Niepraworządne działania Straży Więziennej na tle seksualnym wobec więźniów i ich rodzin na terenie województwa rzeszowskiego (1944–1956) – wybrane przykłady
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Fudali Dariusz Jacek
Published: February 2023

The article attempts to present the unlawful behavior and attitudes of prison officers who, in the years 1944–1956, while serving in the then province, committed criminal, unethical, sexual behavior. The victims of this type of situation were persons deprived of their liberty and, in some cases, members of their families. The perpetrators of this type of behavior used their official position, and counted on impunity and no need to incur official and criminal liability.
Preventive control of the constitutionality of laws from 1997 to 2020 – a comparative analysis
Authors:   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska, Hadała-Skóra Anna , Piękoś Karol ,   Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Polska
Published: February 2023

The President of the Republic of Poland, by virtue of Article 122(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997, has the exclusive competence to initiate preventive control of regulations before the Constitutional Tribunal aimed at examining their constitutionality. The essence of this action is to seek to check those regulations that raise doubts in the President's mind as to their compatibility with the Constitution. Legal regulations concerning the procedure for removing inconsistencies are set out both in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and in the Regulations of the Sejm. This article will present an analysis of practice within the framework of the examined issue.
Thermopower of a Luttinger-liquid-based Two-channel Charge Kondo Circuit: Nonperturbative Solution
Authors: Parafilo Anton V. , Nguyen Thanh Thi Kim
Published: February 2023

Recently, the influence of electron-electron interactions on the thermoelectric transport in a two-channel charge Kondo circuit has been studied in [Phys. Rev. B 105, L121405 (2022)]. In this paper, we revisit the Luttinger-liquid-based model and discuss in details the limit where the spin field is noninteracting (\(g_\sigma = 1\)) and the interaction in the charge sector is repulsive (\(0< g_\rho \leq  1\)). The thermoelectric transport coefficients are computed nonperturbatively with respect to the reflection amplitude at the quantum point contact. At low temperatures the thermopower shows the non-Fermi liquid behavior in the vicinity of the Coulomb peaks. We also demonstrate that repulsive interaction results in the enhancement of the thermoelectrical power.
Implementing Organisational Ambidexterity for a Successful Transformation of the Automotive Supply Industry Towards a Green Future
Authors: Gackstatter Alexander , Goehlich Véronique
Published: February 2023

Background: Customers demand more sustainable mobility solutions and shift to electric vehicles and Mobility-as-a-Service offers. Because of these shifts, automotive suppliers must improve their corporate social responsibility (CSR). Especially in Germany, where they play a dominant role in the economy, they need to assume their responsibility towards the green future and seize new growth opportunities within and outside the traditional automotive industry to ensure their competitiveness.

Research objectives: The article aims to determine the role of ambidexterity, the competencies required from employees at all levels, and the success measurement of the transformation in the automotive supplier industry in working towards a green future.

Research design and methods: The research is based on 12 expert interviews with top managers from German automotive suppliers, consultants, ambidexterity experts, and employee representatives.

Results: The trends (electrification, autonomous driving, digitalisation and new mobility services pose unprecedented challenges for automotive suppliers. To deal with these challenges and improve their CSR performance, automotive suppliers must follow an ambidextrous approach to make their core business more efficient while at the same time seizing new growth opportunities towards a green future.

Conclusions: The organisational ambidexterity combined with CSR allows firms to improve their environmental performance. However, organisational ambidexterity is not only a structural design choice but a task that requires specific competencies.
Narracja w pedagogice – znaczenie, badania, interpretacje
Authors:   Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa we Wrocławiu, Nowak-Dziemianowicz Mirosława
Published: February 2023

The author addresses the position of narratives in the field of educational studies, the meaning of narratives, methodological conditions for research into narratives as well as the possibilities and limits of interpretation related to narrative research. The author argues for the importance of narratives for educational studies, because as a field of knowledge and academic discipline it relies on access to particular forms of individual experience. Educational studies need access to experience related to the subjectivities of those involved in educational processes – educators and pupils. Narratives as a departure point for learning about and understanding another person, her relations with others, intentions and course of her educational actions – as an educator or a pupil – is an important area for educational studies, which promises to open new perspectives of knowledge.
Innovative air purification by separation of gas-dust heterogeneous systems
Authors: Arustamov Vladimir , Arustamov Eduard , Leonov Vladimir , Pavlov Anatoly , Khomutova Irina , Shabanova Marina
Published: February 2023

The article analyzes the anomalous phenomena of nature, which are largely associated with the growing destructive, sometimes criminal in relation to nature, activity of "man" in the interests of irrepressible personal enrichment, through predatory extraction of all types of natural resources. Attention is drawn to the need to assess the activities of hundreds of thousands of facilities around the world that generate discharges into reservoirs and emissions into the atmosphere of various harmful inclusions in their production processes. Examples of recognized world leaders in the field of filtration technologies with vast experience, high scientific and technical potential of engineering staff and management are given. The design and technological features of existing modern filters are considered in detail. The requirements for the properties of filters of new generations and their cleaning capabilities are formulated. The distinctive aerodynamic properties of gases and dispersed inclusions used in FAD-G filters are considered in detail, the aerodynamics of gas media in them is considered and the results of research and testing of these models are analyzed. In conclusion, the signs and properties of new generations of FAD-G are analyzed, the world novelty of the invention and possible applications in our country are noted. Any abbreviations are prohibited.
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Effects of Exercises and Physiotherapeutic Modalities on Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications - A Narrative Review
Authors: Seth Samriddhi , Yangdon Karma Sonam , Gupta Shilpa
Published: February 2023

Background: Diabetes mellitus is slowly and steadily increasing with an estimate that 783 million people will be living with this condition by the end of 2045. Diabetic neuropathy, a complication of diabetes mellitus, is experienced by more than 50% to 70% of all patients with diabetes and results in decreased sensations, proprioception, reflexes, and strength in the lower limbs. This article includes effects of different types of exercises and physiotherapeutic modalities on diabetes mellitus and its complications.

Methods: A literature search was carried out in PubMed and Google Scholar by using key words including diabetes mellitus, diabetic neuropathy, diabetic foot, exercises, modalities, and quality of life. Thirty free full-text articles published between 2016 and 2022 were selected and reviewed to know about the recent trends, under 4 different sub-topics: (1) effects of exercises on diabetic neuropathy and diabetic foot, (2) effects of physiotherapeutic modalities on diabetes mellitus/diabetic neuropathy, (3) effects of exercises on diabetes mellitus, (4) effects of exercises on quality of life in diabetic patients. Case reports, randomized controlled trials, a cross-sectional study, and a pilot study, published in only the English language were included, regardless of country of origin.
Discussion: The studies deduced that the patients who followed any type of exercise protocol and used physiotherapeutic modalities in addition to following only pharmacological management showed significant decrease in the symptoms of diabetes mellitus and diabetic neuropathy. Various exercise protocols have produced improvements in diabetic neuropathy symptoms, with significant improvement in self-esteem, mental health, anxiety, depression, and insomnia in diabetic patients.
Conclusion: This review suggests that implementation of exercises significantly benefited the overall functional gait and balance along with an improvement in the signs and symptoms of diabetic and diabetic neuropathic patients thereby increasing the individual's quality of life. Similarly, the use of recent modalities has proven to be remarkably efficient in reducing the size of wound ulcers.
Effect of Exercise on Oxidative Stress and Telomere Length in Type 2 Diabetes
Authors: Gupta Shilpa , Kaushik Gaurav , Amaravadi Sampath Kumar
Published: February 2023

Diabetes mellitus is the ninth leading cause of death across the globe. Long-term hyperglycemia is associated with hyperlipidemia and oxidative stress. Increased oxidative stress reduces the length of the telomere, which is a biological indicator of aging in humans. Exercise regulates the equilibrium between reactive species generation and antioxidant processes, lowering oxidative stress and risk of chronic disease. Exercise has also been associated with molecular and cellular factors, such as telomere length, which are linked to reducing the risk of disease and improving longevity. Therefore, this review was conducted to appraise regular exercise intervention efficiency in minimizing the DNA damage and preserving telomere length along with genomic stability in various chronic conditions.
BAŞLANGIÇTAN GÜNÜMÜZE MAĞRİB TEFSİR TARİHİ
Authors: KARA Muhammet
Published: February 2023

İslam dünyasının çeşitli bölgelerinde tefsir yazma faaliyetleri artan bir ivmeyle devam etmektedir. Tefsirler yöntem ve ekol açısından sınıflandırıldığı gibi bölge açısından da sınıflandırılarak incelenmiştir. Bu eserde, Mağrib (Kuzey Afrika) bölgesinde yapılan tefsir çalışmaları belirli bir sistem dâhilinde sınıflandırılarak, bölgesel bir tefsir tarihinin yazılması hedeflenmiştir.
Making the Rainforest Aboriginal: Tindale and Birdsell’s foray into deep time
Authors:   Queensland Museum, McGregor Russell
Published: February 2023

In the late 1930s Norman Tindale and Joseph Birdsell identified the inhabitants of the North Queensland rainforests as a distinct race of Indigenous Australians. This classification was a keystone of their attempted reconstruction of the deep past of Australia. According to their narrative, the Aboriginal inhabitants of the rainforests were relicts of the first human occupants of Australia, refugees from later waves of Aboriginal invaders who seized all but the most inhospitable parts of the continent. From the outset, Tindale and Birdsell’s argument was burdened with serious problems, both in the qualities they attributed to rainforest people and in their representation of the rainforest environment as a ‘refuge’. While Tindale and Birdsell’s racial theorising and historical speculations drew some supporters, they failed to win general academic acclamation and by the 1970s were quite thoroughly discredited. Yet the category ‘rainforest Aboriginal’ survived, disengaged from the reconstruction of Australia’s past that had inspired it and anchored instead to the distinctive economy of rainforest subsistence, instantiated in a unique material culture. This paper takes Tindale and Birdsell’s relict-race representation of rainforest Aboriginal people as the starting point in an exploration of how European people represented the Aboriginal inhabitants of the North Queensland rainforests over roughly a hundred years, from the 1870s to the 1970s.
Walter Edmund Roth: Ethnographic collector and Aboriginal Protector
Authors: McGregor Russell , Fuary Maureen
Published: February 2023

Walter Roth ranks among the most prolific collectors of Aboriginal artefacts from North Queensland, including the Wet Tropics, as well as being one of the leading ethnographers in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australia. He was also one of Queensland’s first official Protectors of Aboriginals, appointed immediately after that colony introduced its now-infamous Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897. This paper explores Roth’s twin careers as ethnographic collector and Aboriginal Protector, teasing out the connections and commonalities between the two. It was for his achievements in ethnography and collecting, as well as his medical expertise, that he was appointed to the Protectorship. He carried out both his anthropological work and his administrative duties with determination and dedication. Yet his continuing activities as an ethnographer and collector contributed substantially to his downfall as a senior figure in Aboriginal administration. The paper also positions Roth in the historical context of an evolving Australian anthropology, with particular pertinence to North Queensland.
Purification of ACOD1 expressed in E. coli v1
Authors: Büssow Konrad
Published: February 2023

This protocol describes the purification of the human enzyme cis-aconitate decarboxylase (ACOD1) from recombinant E. coli cells.
Acute striatal or midbrain fiber photometry in head-fixed mice v1
Authors: Azcorra Maite
Published: February 2023

This protocol describes how to: - Implant head plates on mice for head-fixation during behavior - Train mice for head-fixed running on a cylindrical treadmill, and to receive rewards and air puffs while head-fixed - Record changes in neural activity during behavior using acute fiber photometry. - Perform histology to identify the recording location. While this protocol is focused on recordings from striatum with GCaMP, it can be easily modified to record from other brain regions and with other fluorescent reporters.
Identification of a Plasmid: Transformation v1
Authors: not provided SGD
Published: February 2023

Protocol for the identification of a plasmid by using transformation of E. Coli
SARS-CoV-2 inactivation and scRNAseq sample preparation protocol v1
Authors: M Osborn Raven
Published: February 2023

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. Direct assessment, detection, and quantitative analysis using high throughput methods like single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) is imperative to understanding the host response to SARS-CoV-2. One barrier to studying SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratory setting is the requirement to process virus-infected cell cultures, and potentially infectious materials derived therefrom, under Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) containment. However, BSL3 laboratory facilities are rare and only a subset of these facilities are outfitted with the equipment needed to perform high-throughput molecular assays. Here, we describe a method for preparing non-hazardous RNA samples from SARS-CoV-2 infected cells, that enables scRNAseq analyses to be conducted safely in a BSL2 facility – thereby making molecular assays of SARS-CoV-2 cells accessible to a much larger community of researchers.
Loading and Execution of Automatic Watering and Weighing v1
Authors: M Julkowska Magdalena
Published: February 2023

This is part of a bigger phenotyping project at the Julkowska lab in Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca,NY.
Short Review on the Suitability of CFD Modeling for Proton Conducting Fuel Cell Performance
Authors:   Proton Conducting Fuel Cell Research Group, Faculty of Applied Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA,  40450, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Abdul Malik Lidyayatty , Lee Sin Ang ,   Faculty of Applied Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 02600, Arau, Perlis, Malaysia, Osman Nafisah ,   Proton Conducting Fuel Cell Research Group, Faculty of Applied Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA,  40450, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Hassan Oskar Hasdinor ,   Facutly of Art and Design, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Mutalib Jani Abdul ,   Faculty of Applied Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 35400, Tapah Road, Perak, Malaysia
Published: February 2023

Electrochemical performance optimization of a conventional solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) has been massively performed with computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modelling but it’s usage in a proton conducting fuel cell (PCFC) is still minimal. PCFC is a category of SOFC but with proton conductor as electrolyte instead of oxygen-ion conductor in a conventional SOFC. The fabrication of high electrochemical performance of PCFC is desirable because of its ability to operate at lower temperature. The objective of this short review study is to explore the possibilities of CFD modelling application to improve electrochemical performance of a PCFC system. Some CFD study that have been done to SOFC and PCFC were reviewed. One main finding from this short review is that the application of CFD modelling in PCFC design optimization is still minimal. There is a lack of studies that focus on the impact of PCFC anode microstructure on transport phenomena of the PCFC; for example on gas diffusion. It was also found that CFD modelling software Ansys Fluent with add-on Fluent SOFC module that is widely applied to conventional oxygen-ion SOFC need to be modify using User Defined Function (UDF) in order to be used in PCFC system.
A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Urban Fabric of Nuremberg From the 1940s Onwards Using Historical Maps
Authors: Ludwig Carol , Alvanides Seraphim
Published: February 2023

As one of the most heavily bomb-damaged cities in Germany, with around 90% of its historic city centre destroyed, Nuremberg (Nürnberg) provides an excellent example to investigate the urban transformation of a post-war city. In this article, we bring together heterogeneous and under-researched data sets and archival material from the post-war period and convert urban features depicted in historic maps and scanned documents into digital geospatial data that is analyzed with a geographical information system. We combine morphological variables of townscape analysis to present three different transformations over time. First, using a damage map of Nuremberg from the Second World War, we examine the varying extent of bomb damage across the city at the detailed district level. Secondly, we focus on land-use units, comparing the pre-war spatial land-use distribution from 1940 with historical maps of land use/cover from 1956 and more recent land uses in 1969. Finally, using selected characteristics of urban form, we categorize pre-war and present-day urban block typologies to examine urban morphological change. In doing so, we contribute methodologically and substantively towards a new framework for the analysis of post-war cities. We demonstrate how geographical information systems can be utilized for historical research and the study of change in urban environments, presenting a map-based interpretation of the planning strategies to have guided post-war urban development in Nuremberg. Providing an alternative appraisal of post-war city transformation, our diachronic research offers insight into Nuremberg’s under-researched past, which is also of interest to planners and policymakers seeking to improve future cities.
Decolonize Knowledge and See the Postsocialist "Other"
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko national University of Kyiv, Kotliar Oleksandra
Published: February 2023

The essay considers approaches to understanding the current situation of the former socialist countries, proposed by the decolonial researcher Madina Tlostanova in her 2017 work «Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art». The eight chapters of Tlostanova's book analyze specific temporal and spatial relationships that define both the postsocialist cultural and political context. Tlostanova notes the impossibility of applying the terminology that has been integrated into Western scientific discourse since the Cold War to the postsocialist space. Such an approach automatically places the postsocialist countries in the post-bipolar hierarchy of the world built by the West. The article's author compared the basis of Tlostanova's research with the approaches of other colonialism and imperialism researchers, such as John McKenzie, Touraj Atabaki, Saurabh Dube, and Ramon Grosfoguel. In my opinion, they can expand the theoretical model formulated by Tlostanava. Tlostanova criticizes postcolonial optics as a paradigm leaving the countries of the former «Socialist Camp» behind a new, but already epistemological «Iron Curtain» and continuing to reproduce colonial narratives. In the book, Tlostanova considers postsocialism as a special state, marked by the intersection of multiple post-dependencies — Russian, post-soviet, post-dictatorship, as well as global coloniality. A symptom of global coloniality is, in particular, the phenomenon of self-colonization. This phenomenon manifests itself in self-exoticization through the transformation of folk culture into a commodity, unhealthy nostalgia for the past, historical memory distortion, and instrumentalization of images of the past. Tlostanova explains this recursiveness of the postsocialist space through the concept of tempo-localities, which are most clearly traced in art. Thus, decolonial artistic practices in a post-dependent society forms a sensual basis for art and knowledge decolonization in general.
Eastern for Westerners
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko national University of Kyiv, Osadchuk Tetiana
Published: February 2023

Periodization of art as a subject of research is a challenge for writing a monograph on the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Due to the dense layering of different cultural contexts and the presence of experience that Western Europe did not have (for example, the existence of the Soviet regime), it does not allow applying the optics of traditional art history to the Eastern European region. The authors of the collective monograph Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe joined in solving this problem, where researchers from the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and other countries of the region analyze periodization in the art historiography of specific countries, which sheds light on the "non-linear" art history, which combines three main discourses – imperial, academic and nationalist. The authors focus their attention on such problems as the Byzantine heritage, which in the historiography of the 19th century was supposed to replace the Italian Renaissance for a number of Eastern European countries, the interaction of large Western European narratives with local Eastern European ones, a change in the view of periodization under the influence of national movements, etc. Although the articles are devoted to different problems and topics, they are united by the application of postcolonial theory to the periodization and recognition of the Central/Eastern European region as a "near Other" in relation to the Western European one. In this article, I compare the ideas highlighted in the monograph with other concepts exploring Eastern Europe from a postcolonial perspective. In the end, I come to the conclusion that all of them, taking into account the book under review, are aimed at revealing questions that interest Western researchers, namely, what is the region of Central and Eastern Europe: a colonizer, a colony, or combines both of these features. At the same time, basing on Piotrowski’s concept of "horizontal history", I argue that for the Eastern European audience, what is relevant is not the deconstruction of narratives within the boundaries of modern Central and Eastern European states, but on the contrary, tracing the intersection of different cultural contexts of neighboring countries outside the borders of national narratives, since Eastern European countries know more about the art of the West than about each other’s art.
Cataract surgery in pseudoexfoliation syndrome
Authors: Potyomkin Vitaly V. , Goltsman Elena V.
Published: February 2023

Phacoemulsification is a main method of cataract surgery. The presence of pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX) may involve the procedure in difficulty and contribute to development of intra- and postoperative complications.

Purpose. To assess the effect of PEX on phacoemulsification.

Materials and methods. 1010 patients (580 with PEX and 430 without PEX) admitted for cataract surgery, underwent phacoemulsification with implantation of various IOL types. An analysis of main phacoemulsification parameters was carried out: cumulative dissipated energy (CDE), aspirated BSS amount, time of surgery. The prevalence of some possible intraoperative complications was assessed: descemet membrane detachment, posterior capsule rupture, retrolental lens material, and zonular dialysis.

Results. In patients with PEХ, local descemet membrane detachment and retrolental lens material were significantly more common, at the same time CDE was higher.

Conclusion. When planning phacoemulsification, patients with PEX require more thorough preoperative examination, higher alertness during surgery and longer follow-up in the postoperative period.
Development of the Community Impact Feedback Questionnaire for Service-Learning: A Delphi Study
Authors: Lau Ka Hing , Snell Robin Stanley
Published: February 2023

Community impacts of service-learning have gone largely unexamined by researchers, partly because of the absence of a well-established feedback tool. This study is a step toward filling this research gap by developing and validating the Community Impact Feedback Questionnaire (CIFQ) as a means for collecting feedback from partner organization representatives (PORs) on the impacts of particular service-learning projects on community partner organizations (CPOs) and, where applicable, end-beneficiaries. The CIFQ contains items about three categories of impact on CPOs, corresponding to a conceptual model developed by Snell & Lau (2022). These are: a) achieving project goals to further the CPO’s mission; b) augmenting resources of the CPO; and c) acquiring knowledge, insights, ideas, and techniques.There are also items on impacts for end-beneficiaries, overall impact evaluations, and future engagement. The CIFQ was validated with the Delphi method by inviting 16 practitioner panelists, mainly from CPOs, with prior involvement in service-learning. Three Delphi survey rounds helped refine the CIFQ as a tool for capturing the community impacts on CPOs and end beneficiaries arising from service-learning. Possible reasons for controversy and non-retention are discussed.
The role of oxidative stress in gestational diabetes
Authors: Stopińska Kamila , Marzec Adrianna
Published: February 2023

Cukrzyca ciążowa (gestational diabetes mellitus – GDM) jest jedną z najczęstszych chorób prowadzących do powikłań w trakcie ciąży. Zauważono, że GDM towarzyszy nasilenie stresu oksydacyjnego. Celem niniejszej pracy jest podsumowanie stanu wiedzy na temat wpływu stresu oksydacyjnego na występowanie i przebieg GDM oraz jej odległe skutki. Przegląd ma także na celu sprawdzenie potencjalnych implikacji klinicznych związanych z GDM. Przeszukano bazy danych takie jak Pubmed, Scopus i Google Scholar. Artykuły wyszukiwano m.in. z użyciem fraz „gestational diabetes mellitus” i „oxidative stress”. Wykazano istotnie wyższy poziom stresu oksydacyjnego u kobiet z GDM, zarówno we krwi, jak i w łożysku. Stres oksydacyjny może być ściśle związany z patogenezą GDM. Ze względu na istotną rolę stresu oksydacyjnego w patofizjologii GDM wiele badań skupia się na poszukiwaniu substancji, które mogą zmniejszyć stężenie prooksydantów i zwiększyć udział antyoksydantów, tym samym poprawiając potencjał oksydacyjny. Stres oksydacyjny odgrywa kluczową rolę w patogenezie i patofizjologii GDM. Ponieważ jest to choroba, która może prowadzić do wielu powikłań zarówno u matki, jak i u płodu, jej wczesne wykrycie i skuteczne leczenie wymaga szczególnej uwagi. Ocena możliwości zastosowania parametrów stresu oksydacyjnego jako biomarkerów do wczesnego wykrywania GDM wymaga dalszych szczegółowych badań.
Pregnant Women’s Knowledge of Prenatal Ultrasound in Jimma Town Public Health Institutions, Ethiopia
Authors: Yetwale Aynalem , Kabeto Tola , Biyazin Tsegaw , Fenta Belete , Dagnaw Yalemtsehay
Published: February 2023

BACKGROUND: Ultrasonographic (U/S) evaluation of the fetus, placenta, and amniotic fluid is an integral part of antenatal care (ANC). U/S results confirm fetal viability and gestational age, and multiple gestations. U/S can also provide evidence to rule out fetal abnormalities related to anatomy or blood flow. However, a woman’s knowledge about prenatal U/S is not clear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess pregnant women’s knowledge of this prenatal U/S assessment technique.

METHODS: An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 303 pregnant women attending ANC in Jimma Town, Ethiopia, from July to August 2021. Women were interviewed in Jimma town public health care facilities.

The sample size was calculated using the single population proportion formula, and samples were taken after proportional allocation was performed for the hospital and health centers using the proportion allocation formula.

Data were entered into Epi-data version 3.1.1 and exported into the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences version 21.0 for cleaning and further analysis. Logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the association between the explanatory and response variables.

The strength of the association of the dependent and independent variables was presented as crude and adjusted odds ratios at a 95% confidence interval. For the multivariable logistic regression, the level of significance was ap-value of less than 0.05.

RESULTS: In this study, 190 (62.7%) of the respondents had a good knowledge of obstetric ultrasound. Residency, primary school (grades 1–8), an education greater than secondary school, and a history of at least one abortion were significantly associated with participants’ knowledge about prenatal ultrasound.

CONCLUSIONS: Approximately two-thirds of pregnant women had a good knowledge related to prenatal U/S. However, the proportion with good knowledge in the current study was lower than the World Health Organization recommendation.
Does Membership in Agricultural Cooperatives Improve Marketing Efficiency?: Insights from Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Selected Provinces of the Philippines
Authors:   IAGBT, Cruz Liezel S. , Cuevas Agham C. , Asma Jan Danica S. , Duque JP Roma D. , Orlina Beah M.
Published: February 2023

Purpose - Cooperatives are people-centric organizations that are organized to meet the common needs of their members. One key goal for the establishment of agricultural cooperatives is to help improve the marketing efficiency of their members. This study aimed to analyze the correlation between cooperative membership and marketing efficiency among coffee farmers in the provinces of Cavite, Benguet, and Mountain Province, Philippines.
Design/Methodology/Approach - Primary and secondary data were gathered in the study. Linear regression with endogenous treatment was used to analyze the data which examined both observable and unobservable factors affecting the treatment, cooperative membership, potential outcome, and the marketing efficiency.
Findings - The results of the study revealed that the average farmer generated USD0.85 more farm income for every peso spent on marketing activities if he/she was a member of an agricultural cooperative. This implied that membership positively improved the marketing efficiency of coffee farmers. Moreover, farmers who sold their processed coffee to cooperatives and who had price access were observed to have higher marketing efficiency. Farmers who were females, adopted more processing technologies, took longer to search for price information, sold to cooperatives, had more coffee experience, and whose farms were located away from technology sources were more likely to become cooperative members.
Research Implications - The study recommended the promotion of cooperative membership among farmers to improve their marketing efficiency and capacity-building activities related to the technology adoption and management of cooperatives.
Research on the Influencing Factors and Transformation Path of Logistics Enterprise Low-Carbon Performance
Authors:   IAGBT, Li Jian , Hong Seung-Lin
Published: February 2023

Purpose - This study expounds that logistics enterprises should make use of an information-sharing mechanism, benefit distribution mechanism, and government guarantee mechanism to optimize and balance resource allocation with cooperative participants.
Design/Methodology/Approach - This study developed a theoretical research model with interface management analysis, interface resource allocation, and interface management measures as independent variables; an interface connection mechanism and collaborative innovation capability as intermediary variables; and the low-carbon performance of enterprises as a dependent variable based on the structural equation model (SEM) and the empirical test, by selecting a certain number of logistics enterprises nationwide as research objects.
Findings - This study discloses that elements such as interface management analysis, interface resource allocation, interface management measures, interface connection mechanism, and collaborative innovation capability contribute proportionally to the low-carbon performance of logistics enterprises. Meanwhile, the interface connection mechanism plays an intermediary role in the impact of interface management analysis and interface management measures on the low-carbon performance of enterprises.
Research Implications - This study proposes that the collaborative innovation capability of enterprises should be improved through various interface management measures, and that R&D and the application of low-carbon technology and equipment must be accelerated, thus promoting the improvement of the low-carbon performance of enterprises, and enabling a low-carbon transformation in logistics enterprises, and even the whole logistics industry, so as to help achieve the carbon peak and move toward carbon neutrality as soon as possible.
Firm-Specific Investor Sentiment, Confirmation Bias, and Market Response to Earnings Information
Authors:   IAGBT, Choi Su-Young , Shin Heejeong
Published: February 2023

Purpose - This study investigates the effect of firm-specific investor sentiment on the asymmetry of the market’s response to signed earnings of accounting information (i.e., positive/negative unexpected earnings). Applying cognitive attribution (i.e., confirmation bias), which arises due to the incongruency of prior and new information to market earning reactions, this paper aims to provide another insight into the market’s efficiency of accounting information.
Design/Methodology/Approach - This study hypothesizes that firm-specific investor sentiment is associated with market reactions to earnings information. Using 4,802 firm-year observations of KSE listed firms from 2011 to 2018, this study conducts a series of multiple regression analyses that estimate the moderate/ incremental effect of investor sentiment on market earnings responses.
Findings - The analysis results show that on average, firm-specific sentiment plays a role as a reference in interpreting subsequent earnings information. This leads investors to under-react to signed earnings at the announcement date, relying on the sentiment level.
Research Implications - This study is distinct from prior literature in using individual firm investor sentiment deemed to be relatively faithful for representing the external mood of firms. By linking the market’s earnings response with investor cognitive attribution (i.e., confirmation bias), this study looks more closely into market informational efficiency.
Preparation for Digital Transformation: A Case and Empirical Findings of South Korean Multinational Corporations
Authors:   IAGBT, Lee Joonghak , Kim Youngwoo , Kang Jisang
Published: February 2023

Purpose - Digital transformation is the key to success for recent multinational corporates. Ample studies have paid attention to the effectiveness of digital transformation and usage of advanced technology, but there is a lack of research related to how to prepare for digital transformation. The main purpose of this study is to organize specific case of preparation for digital transformation from a management perspective. In addition, the empirical results are presented to examine the impact of the preparation of the digital transformation.
Design/Methodology/Approach - The study first reviews previous literature about digital transformation to organize antecedents, theory, contingency, and outcomes. Second, based on the resource-based view, a case is explained the company’s context, processes, and methodology. Lastly, empirical analysis is conducted to investigate how effective the digital transformation is prepared, and results are presented with data from 50 affiliations and 1,059 employees.
Findings - This study finds the key to successful digital transformation is well-prepared talent, and suggests how multinational corporates can be ready for talent selection and development. Furthermore, readiness in digital transformation in talent varies by industry, company, and employee characteristics. Then, the study implies successful digital transformation should consider a contingency.
Research Implications - The current study expands the knowledge on digital transformation by suggesting an actual case of South Korean multinational corporations, which allows researchers and practitioners to understand the process and methodology. Second, this research extended the discussion of digital transformation to talent selection preparation since previous literature has focused only on recent technology. Lastly, the study introduces the empirical results of preparation for digital transformation and helps practitioners initiate digital transformation in their organizations.
Robotic-assisted microsurgery for lymphedema treatment
Authors: Gousopoulos Epameinondas , Grünherz Lisanne , Giovanoli Pietro , Lindenblatt Nicole
Published: February 2023

The recent development of robotic-assisted microsurgery and supermicrosurgery has raised great expectations to support some of the most demanding microsurgical procedures, which are applied in lymphatic reconstructive surgery to restore lymphatic vascular integrity and treat lymphedema. Procedures such as the establishment of lymphovenous anastomosis (LVA), the harvest of lymph nodes from anatomic locations that reduce donor-side morbidity and the transplantation of the vascularized lymph node flaps (VLNT) present procedures necessitating extreme precision and dexterity in often difficult-to-reach areas, thus pushing the physical limitations of the performing microsurgeon. Despite being limited in number, recent preclinical and clinical studies of independent groups using different robotic systems demonstrate the feasibility of robotic technology to perform supermicrosurgical procedures successfully. The robotic assistance offers unparalleled precision, refining the surgical techniques and minimizing potential side effects, with clinical outcomes comparable to the conventional techniques. Although the relative disadvantages of robotic assistance mostly appear to be related to adequate training and the prolonged learning curve, the technology promises to revolutionize the field of supermicrosurgery and improve the clinical outcomes of lymphatic reconstructive surgery.
How terroir shapes aromatic typicity in grapes and wines (Part II)
Authors: Van Leeuwen Cornelis , Barbe Jean-Christophe , Geffroy Olivier , Gowdy Mark , Lytra Georgia , Pons Alexandre , Thibon Cécile , Marchand Stéphanie
Published: February 2023

Over the past decades, great progress has been accomplished in the understanding of the molecular basis of aromas in grapes and wines. These aromas depend on the grapevine variety, but also on environmental factors involved in the so-called « terroir » effect. In the first part of this review, it was shown how the terroir effect can be decomposed in measurable climate and soil parameters, namely air temperature, radiation, nitrogen and water status. Their impact on aromas and wine typicity is well documented in the scientific literature. In the second part of this review, examples are provided about the terroir effect for three major red varieties (Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Syrah) and two white varieties (Sauvignon blanc and Riesling). How wine aromas can be optimized through vineyard management practices is also discussed.