bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Adolescence Predatory Risk Alters Social Behaviors and Cognitive Ability and Central Oxytocin and Vasopressin Expression in Adult Brandt’s Voles
Authors: Wu Ruiyong , Pang Jinyue , Xu Zedong , Wu Xueyan , Wang Wei , Zheng Yujie , Yang Shengmei , Wei Wanhong
Published: December 2022

Introduction: Stress during adolescence causes long-term behavioral changes in adulthood. We previously found that adolescent exposure to predatory risk augments adolescent social contact and adult parental behavior in Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). Methods: Here, we determined whether this experience alters sexual behavior, pair-bond formation, and recognition ability as well as basal HPA axis activity, central oxytocin (OT), and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) expression in adulthood. Results: In the social interaction test, repeated cat odor (CO) exposure enhanced the frequency of lordosis by female voles toward an unfamiliar opposite-sex conspecific. CO voles preferred to engage with their partners after 48-h cohabitation whereas the control groups did not, which may reflect stable pair bonds in the CO treatment group. Furthermore, adolescent exposure to CO inhibited novel object recognition and place recognition ability, while it influenced social recognition only among adult males. No effect of adolescent CO exposure was observed for basal HPA axis activity, showing a habituation effect. Finally, we found that CO exposure increased OT and decreased AVP expression in the hypothalamus, including the paraventricular nucleus and anterior hypothalamus. The levels of OT in the medial amygdala were lower, and AVP in the lateral septum was higher in CO voles compared with the control. Conclusion: These findings demonstrate that adolescent exposure to predator risk promotes adult reproductive behavior of Brandt’s voles. Deficits in recognition ability may necessitate alterations in reproductive strategies to enhance inclusive fitness. OT and AVP systems may play a modulatory role in the alteration of social behaviors elicited by adolescent predatory risk.
Patient-Reported Versus Physician-Assessed Health Status in Heart Failure With Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction From ASIAN-HF Registry
Authors: Teramoto Kanako , Tay Wan Ting , Tromp Jasper , Katherine Teng Tiew-Hwa , Chandramouli Chanchal , Ouwerkerk Wouter , Lawson Claire A. , Huang Weiting , Hung Chung-Lieh , Chopra Vijay , Anand Inder , Mark Richards Arthur , Lam Carolyn S.P.
Published: December 2022

Background:

We aimed to assess if discordance between patient-reported Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ)-overall summary (os) score and physician-assessed New York Heart Association (NYHA) class is common among patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced or preserved ejection fraction, and determine its association with outcomes.

Methods:

A total of 4818 patients with HF were classified according to KCCQ-os score (range 0–100, dichotomized by median value 71.9 into high [good] versus low [bad]) and NYHA class (I/II [good] or III/IV [bad]) as concordant good (low NYHA class, high KCCQ-os score), concordant bad (high NYHA class, low KCCQ-os score), discordant worse NYHA class (high NYHA class, high KCCQ-os score), and discordant worse KCCQ-os score (low NYHA class, low-KCCQ-os score). The composite of HF hospitalization or death at 1 year was compared across groups.

Results:

There were 2070 (43.0%) concordant good, 1099 (22.8%) concordant bad, 331 (6.9%) discordant worse NYHA class, and 1318 (27.4%) discordant worse KCCQ-os score patients. Compared with concordant good, adverse outcomes were the highest in concordant bad (HR, 2.7 [95% CI, 2.2–3.5]) followed by discordant worse KCCQ-os score (HR, 1.8 [95% CI, 1.4–2.2]) and discordant worse NYHA class (HR, 1.5 [95% CI, 1.0–2.3]); with no modification by HF phenotype (preserved versus reduced ejection fraction,
P
interaction
=0.52). At 6 months, 1403 (48%) experienced clinically significant improvement in KCCQ-os score (≥5 points increase over 6 months). Patients with improved KCCQ-os at 6 months (HR, 0.65 [95% CI, 0.47–0.92]) had better outcomes and the association was not modified by HF phenotype (
P
interaction
=0.40).

Conclusions:

One-third of patients with HF had discordance between patient-reported and clinician-assessed health status, largely attributable to worse patient-reported outcomes. Such discordance, particularly in those with discordantly worse KCCQ, should alert physicians to an increased risk of HF hospitalization and death, and prompt further assessment for potential drivers of worse patient-reported outcomes relative to physicians’ assessment.
Ecological niche modeling of the Macedonian mouse, Mus macedonicus (Mammalia, Rodentia), under climate change conditions
Authors: Demirtaş Sadik , Gündüz Nevran E. , Bilton David T.
Published: December 2022

Mus macedonicus Petrov & Ružic, 1983, also known as the Macedonian mouse or Balkan short-tailed mouse, lives in the southern Balkans and the Middle East. While this species is common in Mediterranean ecosystems and is listed as “least concern” by the IUCN, little is known about how its distribution may shift with climate change. This study explores the ‘species’ potential distribution in three different periods: during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and under current and future climate scenarios, using Maximum Entropy modelling. Modelling was based on 137 georeferenced occurrence records from Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Georgia, and Russia and ten bioclimatic variables from the WorldClim database. We show that a combination of precipitation and temperature variables appear to shape the geographical range of the Macedonian mouse and that its predicted distribution during the LGM is consistent with its survival in multiple refugia, as suggested by previous genetic studies. Modelled future distributions are subtly but significantly different from the current, with population losses and gains in different regions. Our results provide a sound framework for future studies on this model species’ range dynamics, suggesting that the overall geographical range of M. macedonicus is relatively stable in the long term.
Trend of Presenters on The Ḥadīth of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj and Netizens’ Reflections in Selected Youtube Talks
Authors: Suliaman Ishak , Azmi Nur Wasitah , Ithnin Norazam Khair Mohd , Bahrudin Mohamad Khalid
Published: December 2022

YouTube is one of digital platforms in spreading the ḥadīth to the public that known as netizen. The topic of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj is one of the popular talks in YouTube particularly among Malaysian Muslims. The influenced presenters of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj attract a significant number of viewers as well as their reflections. However, it is questionable in terms of reliable and quality of ḥadīth whenever they apply mix references between accepted and rejected ḥadīth in their talk on al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj. Consequently, the netizen reflects on their talks with the mode of positive, negative and neutral attitude through the YouTube comments. Therefore, this study focuses on the trend of selected presenters in referring the ḥadīth of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj in the YouTube. Two Malaysian YouTube influenced presenters are selected as a case study. In order to evaluate the impact of both influenced presenters, this study examines netizen’s reflections on their talk of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj in the YouTube comments. This study applied the method of content analysis in evaluating the trend of both presenters in referring the ḥadīth of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj in the YouTube. In analysing netizens’ reflections, the classification attitude that established by Madden, Ruthven, and McMenemy (2013) is undertook as a guide to analyse YouTube video comments. The result of analysis revealed that the trend of mix references between accepted and rejected ḥadīth have been applied by both selected presenters with a significant number of those ḥadīth . Subsequently, the majority of netizen reflects positively on this trend of talk of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj in which the mix references between accepted and rejected ḥadīth have been applied by both presenters. The small portion of netizen reflects negatively and neutral attitude from the delivered talk. These findings signify that the netizen’s reflections on the selected talks of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʿrāj on YouTube mostly relies on the trend of presenters whether they refer to the authentic or the rejected ḥadīth.
4. Bringing the Debate over Marijuana Legalisation into the Mathematics Classroom
Authors: Méndez Andrade Agustín , Sánchez Aguilar Mario
Published: December 2022

We describe a teaching experience that is based on the ongoing discussion about the legalisation of marijuana, which continues to be a hot topic in Mexico and Latin America. The teaching experience took place in a private teaching institution attended by upper-middle-class students, mainly from families with a conservative political inclination. The analysis of the teaching experience focusses on the types of reflections that were triggered among the students during its implementation, and the role of mathematics in such reflections. The results of the analysis show that some of the discussions that were triggered by this activity went beyond the walls of the classroom, involving students from other school grades or even their families. We think that this contribution may be of interest to mathematics teachers interested in practical activities inspired by the critical mathematics education perspective―particularly those that have been tried out in actual mathematics classrooms.
7. Collaborative Learning within Critical Mathematics Education
Authors: Avcı Bülent
Published: December 2022

This chapter investigates ways in which collaborative learning in critical mathematics education can promote critical citizenship and democracy. Drawing on critical participatory action research in a US high-school classroom, the article argues that the critical mathematics education approach to collaborative learning is a coherent alternative to neoliberal, market-driven approaches. The results suggest that collaborative learning within critical mathematics education should aim to transfer classrooms to communities of learners in light of dialogic pedagogy and inquiry-based education.
9. About Unfinishedness, Dreams and Landscapes of Investigation
Authors: Alves Soares Daniela
Published: December 2022

This chapter aims to propose that landscapes of investigation are possible learning environments for the establishment of unfinished young students’ dreams. Thus, through the lens of certain authors, I present some philosophical ideas of the human being, such as those of unfinishedness and dreaming, as well as foreground and totalisation. Next, I briefly explore aspects of the school tradition evidenced by philosophers who have influenced education as it is today, such as students as “blank sheets”, school as the space to develop reason, and mathematics as “true reason”. Then, I address technical rationality and critical rationality, presenting some differences and identifying paradigms in which we can recognise mathematics education. Finally, I present landscapes of investigation as a possibility in the face of such studies. Therefore, despite this chapter being characterised as a theoretical essay, I present excerpts from observations, interviews and discussion groups that were part of the data production during my doctorate.
13. Inclusion and Landscapes of Investigation
Authors: Bonfim Gaviolli Íria , Godoy Penteado Miriam
Published: December 2022

This chapter presents aspects related to inclusion, landscapes of investigation and the perspective of deficiencialism. These ideas are based on a Master’s study of data produced in an elementary school classroom in the city of Rio Claro, in the state of São Paulo (Brazil). In this classroom, mathematical tasks from the perspective of a landscape of investigation were developed. We present a brief contextualisation of the research, methodological aspects and theoretical assumptions on inclusive education, as well as some of the children’s dialogues during the development of the tasks. As a conclusion, we present considerations on the relevance of the landscapes of investigation approach when considering inclusion from the perspective of deficiencialism.
2. Overview of the Arguments
Authors: Hens Kristien
Published: December 2022

In this chapter, I provide an overview of the chapters.
3. Research Ethics all the Way Down
Authors: Hens Kristien
Published: December 2022

In this chapter, I suggest a rapprochement of bioethics and the philosophy of science, specifically philosophy of biology. I describe the case of Paolo Macchiarini and what we can learn about research ethics. I use the ideas of Mary Midgley about philosophical plumbing to argue that getting the concepts right in science and helping scientists get the context right is the first ethical step in science. Hence, the practices of philosophers of science and bioethics are not so different, although there seems to be a wide gap between these disciplines.
5. Development and Ethics
Authors: Hens Kristien
Published: December 2022

Building on the previous discussions on genes and epigenetics, I describe ethical discussions in epigenetics. I argue that it is fruitful to adopting a long-term, developmental and dynamic perspective on life. I describe how such a perspective alters the way we think about traditional bioethics discussions such as those on embryo selection and the non-identity problem.
15. Unforgetting The Past
Authors: Hens Kristien
Published: December 2022

In this chapter, I use ideas from Iris Marion Young, Charles Mills and Mich Ciurria to argue for a non-ideal theory approach to bioethics. I argue that instead of using naïve utopianism or dystopianism in thought experiments, bioethicists should start from the messiness and injustices of the world.
18. Development
Authors: Hens Kristien
Published: December 2022

I describe how a truly developmental approach to studying autism, incorporating the experiences of autistic people over time, can lead to better and more ethical autism research. At the same time, I acknowledge that this would imply a thorough reform of the ways research is funded.
Absorption of three different forms of arsenic in water by three aquatic plants and their bioremediation potential
Authors: Pan Yihong , Xiong Guohuan , Zhou Fangfang , Li Xiaoting , Zhang Xiaolong , Zhang Jiayan
Published: December 2022

Arsenic (As) is a highly toxic carcinogen. Its pollution spreads to soil and water, posing a threat to the global environment, crop production and food safety. In this study, to explore the recovery potential of different aquatic plants to As polluted water, three submerged plantsHydrilla verticillataL.,Ceratophyllum demersumL., andPotamogeton malaianusM. were took as material, the absorption and accumulation of arsenic was investigated. The experimental plants were grown in standard Hoagland solution containing 3 form of As: As(V), dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) and As(III) at different concentrations for 10 days in a greenhouse, at 1.0 mg · L−1for a time-course study to evaluate arsenic uptake by the tested plants at different times (0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 days). The subcellular location and compartmentalization of As in plants were also studied in this study. The findings revealed that the biomass of the tested plants was drastically decreased when 3.0 and 5.0 mg · L−1of As(III) and As(V) was applied. Aside from this, the biomass of studied plants was reduced more effectively by As(III) compared to As(V), and absorption decreased in As(III) > DMA > DMA manner. Arsenic absorption was high in all three plants butH. verticillatahad a greater accumulation of arsenic thanC. demersumandP. malaianuswhen exposed to the As(III), As(V), and DMA compounds. The inorganic arsenic species As(V) and As(III) were mostly detected in the cell wall and cytoplasm, while the organic species (DMA) were mostly identified in the cell wall. In a word, the aquatic macrophytes, particularlyH. verticillata, aid in the phytoremediation of aquatic environments against both inorganic and organic As species. This study is expected to provide a reference for a phytoremediation method for removing As.
Selective delivery of pitavastatin-loaded nanoparticles induces arteriogenesis upon chronic myocardial ischemia
Authors: Lu Yanli , Sun Li
Published: December 2022

Recent evidence has depicted nanoparticles (NPs) targeted delivery of statin facilitates neovascularization. Herein, we aimed to examine the impact of pitavastatin carrying NPs (pitavastatin-NPs) on collateral arteries and myocardial ischemia (MI). After establishment of MI model and
preparation of nanomaterials, the animals were administered pitavastatin-NPs, pitavastatin or Fluorescein isothiocyanate-NP (FITC-NP) at concentration of 0.05, 0.15 and 0.5 mg/kg through intramuscular injection. Capillary and arteriole density was measured through immunofluorescence and angiogenesis
was assessed by angiography. Human endothelial cells were also treated with pitavastatin or pitavastatin-NPs, followed by detection of angiogenic activity. Pitavastatin-NPs (0.5 mg/kg) promoted endothelial cell arteriogenesis and growth of collateral arteries in the rabbit with myocardial
ischemia, exerting greater efficacy than NPs, FITC-NP, or PBS. For up to 4 weeks, FITC-NPs were mainly detected in the ischemic muscle tissue. Pitavastatin-NPs induced arteriogenesis and improved exercise-induced ischemic symptoms with enhancement in angiography score. Collectively, pitavastatin-NPs
enhance arteriogenesis and alleviate MI as presence of nanocarriers improve the efficacy of pitavastatin. This evidence indicates pitavastatin-NPs as a promising treatment strategy and may contribute to development of nanotechnology to promote the formation of new blood vessels.
The Hydrometeorology of Extreme Floods in the Lower Mississippi River
Authors: Su Yibing , Smith James A. , Villarini Gabriele
Published: December 2022

The Lower Mississippi River has experienced a cluster of extreme floods during the past two decades. The Bonnet Carré spillway, which is located on the Mississippi River immediately upstream of New Orleans, has been operated 15 times since its completion in 1931, with 7 occurrences after 2008. In this study, we examine rainfall and atmospheric water balance components associated with Lower Mississippi River flooding in 2008, 2011, and 2015–19. We focus on multiple time scales—1, 3, 7, and 14 days—reflecting contributions from individual storm systems and the aggregate contributions from a sequence of storm systems. Atmospheric water balance variables—integrated water vapor flux (IVT) and precipitable water—are central to our assessment of the storm environment for Lower Mississippi flood events. We find anomalously large IVT corridors accompany the critical periods of heavy rainfall and are organized in southwest–northeast orientation over the Mississippi domain. Atmospheric rivers play an important role as agents of extremes in water vapor flux and rainfall. We conduct climatological analyses of IVT and precipitable water extremes across the four time scales using 40 years of North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) fields from 1979 to 2018. We find significant increasing trends in both variables at all time scales. Increases in IVT especially cover large regions of the Mississippi domain. The findings point to increased vulnerability faced by the Mississippi flood control system in the current and future climate.
English-Speaking Immigrants in Israel During the Pandemic: Challenges and Pathways to Resilience
Authors: Dryjanska Laura , Zlotnick Cheryl , Suckerman Suzanne
Published: December 2022

This qualitative study explores the resilience of a community of 108 English-speaking immigrants in Israel facing the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. It features the social constructivist approach to resilience as a negotiation of adversities using coping strategies understood within the framework of control, coherence, and connectedness. We discuss data in an articulated perspective of themes comprised of language barriers, transnationality, and the us/them divide, which constitute a common thread in the negotiation of resilience. The pathways to resilience, geared to help individuals in the meaning-making process, build distress tolerance, increase social support, embrace a view of a deep human interconnectedness, and take goal-directed value-driven actions, constituting a basis for interventions. Counseling practice should offer English-speaking immigrants to Israel specific resources that encourage acceptance-based coping, culturally relevant practices of mindfulness, as well as tools that promote social interactions and build resilience by cultivating positive emotions and social connection.
Bel canto among the barricades: Rossini, his music, and history
Authors: Tristano Richard M
Published: December 2022

Rossini is often historicized by placing him in the context of the Restoration period (1815–1848). This article uses a historical methodology to examine that assumption in order to propose new insights into Rossini, his music, and his place in Italian history, culture, and opera. Rossini's experience shows how one of the great cultural icons of the Ottocento navigated the vicissitudes of one of Italy's most tumultuous centuries. The history is in dialogue with musicological research, especially by analyzing what listeners heard in his music. His music evoked strong binaries, the opposition of German and Italian music, which is sometimes identified with teleological history, here the tendency to manipulate the musical past for some more present purpose, for example, forcing Rossini into a nationalist narrative. Noting its dangers, this study expands the context in terms of time, by considering Rossini's entire career subject to historical categories, not only the Restoration but also the Risorgimento, the French Second Empire, and especially the often-overlooked Bologna period, and Rossini's relationship to politics. It also enlarges the sources consulted to include some of his minor works, for example his Messa di Gloria (1820), Cantata in onore del Sommo Pontefice Pio Nono (1847), and Hymn à Napoleon III (1867). Finally, the study also examines how Rossini developed his own historical consciousness amid his alienation from both the 19th-century and Italian opera in particular.
Community social work in Hong Kong during COVID-19: Intervention strategies to address social injustices
Authors: Fung Kwok Kin , Hung Suet Lin , Chan Yu Cheung
Published: December 2022

In Hong Kong, professional social workers made their presence felt when they delivered a variety of services at the height of the pandemic. Social workers who were working in community development projects or who had adopted community work approaches have become the major service providers when the availability and accessibility of other types of social services have been seriously impeded. This article reports on a qualitative research study conducted to examine (1) how community social workers have planned and implemented services, (2) their use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and (3) ideas for addressing injustices in disaster management work.
Ascending Critical Consciousness: Designing an Experiential Liberatory Teacher Education Collaborative in Atlanta
Authors: Hackett Jacob , Behizadeh Nadia , Hobson Maurice , Summers Ayinde , Ford Johnnie
Published: December 2022

The Atlanta Schools Critical Education Network for Distinction (ASCEND) is an ongoing interdisciplinary coalition supporting the critical consciousness of social justice educators. ASCEND partners include: (1) activist faculty from two university departments: Middle and Secondary Education and African American Studies; (2) a justice-oriented community-based organization; and (3) local public middle school faculty. This paper analyzes ASCEND's impact on deepening urban teachers’ awareness of, and attention to, local injustices within their curriculum, and initial application of critical pedagogy. Major findings capture the impact of providing experiential educator learning opportunities outside of schools and the urgency to center community in educator development.
Writing Toward a Decolonial Option: A Bilingual Student’s Multimodal Composing as a Site of Translingual Activism and Justice
Authors: Lee Eunjeong
Published: December 2022

Drawing on discussions of (de)coloniality and translanguaging, this article reports findings from a classroom-based ethnographic study, focusing on how a self-identified Latina bilingual student resists colonial constructs of language and literacies in her multimodal project. Based on an analysis of the student’s multimodal composition, other classroom writings, and a semistructured interview, I examine how she creatively and critically draws on her entire language and literacy repertoire in her multimodal composing. More specifically, I demonstrate how she draws from and builds on her lived experiences of linguistic injustices and racialization and transforms such experiences into embodied knowledge making and sharing through her multimodal composing. I argue that students’ engagement with multimodality can and should be cultivated, sustained, and amplified as a site of translingual activism and justice with decolonial potential, and I suggest, further, that such a shift requires a change in approaching, reading, and valuing students’ multimodal meaning making.
How Institutions Communicate Change: Casuistry and Loosely Coupled Change in China’s Market Transformation
Authors: Li Yuan , Suddaby Roy
Published: December 2022

How do institutions think about change? Building on Mary Douglas’s famous contention that institutions think by means of analogy, we suggest that institutions think about change by means of irony. Irony is pronounced during times of profound change when the rhetoric and the reality of change can be inconsistent. We show that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has enacted what we term loosely coupled change—change in which symbolic meanings and material practices are only weakly connected and retain their independence. The CCP employed the rhetorical form of irony, known as casuistry, to legitimize a change to market systems as being incremental while in practice radically adopting market systems and dismantling socialist practices. We contribute to research on institutional messaging by examining the hermeneutic depth of casuistry. We also contribute to research on organizational change by explicating how casuistry reconciles contradictory ideologies and facilitates loosely coupled change.
Damage identification of structures based on sensitivity equations using PCA and PSD data
Authors: Fallah Narges , Hoseini Vaez Seyed Rohollah , Esfandiari Akbar
Published: December 2022

This article presents a novel model updating approach to the problem of structural damage identification. The approach is based on principal component analysis (PCA) of power spectral density (PSD) data obtained from incompletely measured structural responses. Damage detection was done by solving an innovative sensitivity equation based on least-squares optimization that could help solve the problem in a time-efficient manner and extend the results for industrial applications. Simulations of a 2D steel truss and a 2D steel frame were considered for a thorough comparison. The simulation results clearly showed the effectiveness of the method and its superior performance for solutions such as a PSD-only strategy and frequency response function (FRF) based data analysis along with singular value decomposition.
Colette and Saint-Tropez
Authors: Wilson Emma
Published: December 2022

This article takes the novelist Colette, who bought a house outside Saint-Tropez in 1925, and examines moments and feelings from her time in that place. Inspired by Hewitt's approach, and by his example of ‘the unique hold exerted by Marseille on the nation's imagination’, it traces, through Colette, imaginative modes of inhabiting a space, seeing it as a psychic as much as material location, a repository of feelings. Colette's work invests a place with meaning through writing, so that it becomes an imaginary space, intimate, sensory, and consciously feminine. Since Colette's feminism resides most surely in her pursuit of pleasure, this place can be a house of feelings, about love, about present pleasures shaded by past experience, a space accessed through the senses. In this way, her house in Saint-Tropez appears as a space of speculation and exploratory relations, in which to think too about the lived and dreamed realities of other female lives.
Data preservation practices for enhancing agricultural research data usage among agricultural researchers in Tanzania
Authors: Mwinami Nolasko Victory , Dulle Frankwell W. , Mtega Wulystan Pius
Published: December 2022

The objective of this study was to investigate the role of research data preservation for enhanced data usage among agricultural researchers in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed to examine the data preservation methods used by agriculture researchers, find out how long agriculture researchers preserve their agriculture research data, and determine factors that influence agriculture researchers on their choice of data preservation methods for use. The study employed a cross-sectional research design. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative approaches. A survey was conducted to collect data in 11 research institutions. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 204 respondents from the study area while purposive sampling techniques were used to select 11 agriculture research institutions including 10 Tanzanian Agricultural Research Institution (TARI) centers, and Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). Also, 12 respondents were selected purposively for an in-depth interview as key informants. The study adopted Data Curation Centre (DCC) Lifecycle Model to explain data preservation process. Findings indicated that a majority of more than 90% of researchers preferred to preserve their data using different storage devices such as field notebooks, computers, and institutional libraries. Moreover, findings indicated that about 74% of agricultural researchers preferred to preserve their data for more than 6 years after the end of the project. Findings also indicated factors that influence researchers in the choice of data preservation methods to be easy to reach, cost-effective storage devices, support to use the devices, adequate infrastructure for data preservation, and reliable power supply. It can be concluded that there is yet a great role of research data preservation in enhancing data usage among researchers in Tanzania. It is recommended that the government should establish an agricultural research data bank to guarantee permanent availability of data at all times when needed.
Imatinib plasma levels in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumour under routine clinical practice conditions
Authors: Del Rosario García Betel , Morales Barrios José Alberto , Jurado Josefina Cruz , Díaz Ruth Ramos , Viña Romero María Micaela , Padrón Ivette Mourani , Nazco Casariego Gloria Julia , Nicolás Fernando Gutiérrez
Published: December 2022

Objectives

Imatinib is the first therapeutic option for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumours. Previous studies have shown an improvement in patient survival rates following the use of imatinib. Nevertheless, adequate plasma concentrations of imatinib are necessary to achieve such improvement in survival and limit the toxicity of the drug. This study aims to analyse the influence of imatinib plasma concentrations on efficacy and safety in the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumour.

Materials and methods

This descriptive, multicentre study analysed plasma levels of imatinib in patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal stromal tumour in the period 2019–2020. An optimal therapeutic range of 750–1500 ng/mL was established for the patient stratification based on their minimum plasma concentrations measured at the steady state.

Results

This study included 11 patients with metastatic disease in total, among whom only 54.5% (n  =  6) had a minimum plasma concentrations measured at the steady state value within the therapeutic range. A median progression-free survival of 7.0 months was recorded for those patients with minimum plasma concentrations measured at the steady state < 750 ng/mL, while that median progression-free survival value remained unachieved for the group with minimum plasma concentrations measured at the steady state > 750 ng/mL ( p   =   0.005). The toxicity rate was 25% and 14.3% for patients with minimum plasma concentrations measured at the steady state > 1500 ng/mL and minimum plasma concentrations measured at the steady state ≤1500 ng/mL, respectively ( p  =  0.66).

Conclusions

The present study aims to describe the correlation between the toxicity and effectiveness of imatinib as a function of minimum plasma concentrations measured at the steady state under routine clinical practice conditions. The results described here show the usefulness of imatinib plasma concentrations monitoring as part of the standard daily routine in our hospitals.
Homicide Outside the Family Sphere: Confession in Police Interrogation, Offender Motivation and Characteristics – An Exploratory Study
Authors: Bahary Pascal , Léveillée Suzanne
Published: December 2022

This study aimed to describe extrafamilial homicide offenders’ confessions in police interrogation. The Quebec Coroner’s office supplied data from 76 homicide files including coroner reports. Pearson’s Chi-squared analyses showed that the offenders were significantly different according to confession type for the method used and the antisocial, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorder traits. A two-step cluster analysis revealed three profiles: Confession—quarreler and sexual; Confession—quarreler and mental illness; No confession—quarreler and criminality. Our findings further our understanding of confessions in police interrogation by adding psychological variables and could allow investigators to refine their interrogation strategies.
Association Between Abdominal Adipose Tissue Distribution and Risk of Endometrial Cancer: A Case-Control Study
Authors: Cheng Yuan , Wang Zhongyu , Jia Xiaoxuan , Zhou Rong , Wang Jianliu
Published: December 2022

Background:

Obesity contributes to endometrial cancer (EC). However, it is not clear whether the distribution of adipose tissue affects the occurrence of endometrial carcinoma. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between abdominal adipose tissue distribution and EC.

Methods:

We designed a case-control study with 115 women with EC and a control group. The total abdominal adipose tissue, visceral adipose tissue, and subcutaneous adipose tissue were measured by single slice computerized tomography at the level of umbilicus. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) for the risk of EC associated with adipose tissue distribution. Furthermore, we analyzed the correlation between adipose tissue distribution and clinicopathologic features of endometrial carcinoma.

Results:

Multivariate analysis showed that a larger visceral adipose tissue ratio was associated with an increased risk of EC after adjusting for body mass index (BMI) and diabetes (OR = 1.046, 95% confidence interval = [1.008-1.079]). The ratio of International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FIGO) stage I and type I EC was higher in EC patients with larger visceral adipose tissue (84.5% vs 63.2%, P = .009; 91.4% vs 75.4%, P = .021). There was a higher positive ratio of progesterone receptor in EC patients with a larger subcutaneous adipose tissue area (91.2% vs 77.6%; P = .044).

Conclusions:

Higher visceral adipose tissue ratio, independent of BMI, was associated with an increased risk of EC. Therefore, this study demonstrated that women with normal BMI, but abnormal abdominal adipose tissue distribution, have an increased risk for EC.
Mothers’ ethnotheories of sibling relationships:A qualitative study in Turkey
Authors: Kapısız Zeynep , Sieben Anna
Published: December 2022

In this article, Turkish mothers’ perspectives on sibling relationships are described and analyzed on the basis of 15 qualitative interviews. It is surprising that sibling relationships have received little attention in cultural psychological or sociological research for decades, while other social relationships—such as parent–child relationships, (marital) partner relationships, peer relationships, or hierarchical relationships (e.g., superior–subordinate)—were often studied. The two main goals of the present study are first, to examine Turkish mothers’ ethnotheories of sibling relationships between their own offspring and second, to analyze these parental ethnotheories through the lenses of the cultural psychological and sociological concepts of collectivism/individualism and interdependent/independent self-concepts. The interview data for this empirical study was derived from a larger project which focuses on parental ethnotheories more broadly. Problem-centered interview method was used. Eleven of the interviews took place via a digital platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while four of the interviews were conducted face-to-face just before pandemic’s onset. The Turkish mothers interviewed were from Istanbul and Sinop, a small Turkish city on the coast of the Black Sea. The data was interpreted using the documentary method and relational hermeneutical analysis. The article examines and discusses three topics of sibling relationships, namely hierarchical/equal sibling roles based on birth order, solidarity/sharing, and conflict. We show that all of the mothers interviewed place a high value on connectedness between siblings. With regard to the hierarchical or egalitarian distribution of roles, some of the interviewees differ.
Nutritional richness of traditional foods in Uganda’s tourism industry: An investigation of luwombo
Authors: Katongole Celestine , Mukama Innocent T
Published: December 2022

International tourists often seek to have traditional food experience in the destinations they visit. The experience ranges from food harvesting to preparation and dining. While this experience is well developed in many advanced destinations, in Africa traditional food is yet to be accepted in many tourist facilities. In part this is because of limited information about the nutritional composition of traditional food and its contribution to the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs). This paper establishes the nutritional composition of Luwombo, a special traditional foodstuff that is becoming common among tourists to Uganda. The paper further assesses the contribution of Luwombo towards meeting the RDAs of the tourists. Understanding the nutritional value of luwombo is important for its own promotion, preservation and consumption. This would be helpful in instilling pride and cultural identity of Ugandans within a changing global system. For tourists, luwombo preparation and dining would be an additional experience, and once a positive experience is achieved, local communities can benefit both socially and economically. The study established that luwombo is nutritious, able to meet the RDAs of tourists across different age groups. Trust in the nutritional value of luwombo as well as the benefits associated with experiential preparation can generate socio-cultural and economic impacts in the host communities. A linkage with the African diaspora can even create further positive impacts.
A Call to Action on Assessing and Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Mental Health
Authors: Timmons Adela C. , Duong Jacqueline B. , Simo Fiallo Natalia , Lee Theodore , Vo Huong Phuc Quynh , Ahle Matthew W. , Comer Jonathan S. , Brewer LaPrincess C. , Frazier Stacy L. , Chaspari Theodora
Published: December 2022

Advances in computer science and data-analytic methods are driving a new era in mental health research and application. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies hold the potential to enhance the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of people experiencing mental health problems and to increase the reach and impact of mental health care. However, AI applications will not mitigate mental health disparities if they are built from historical data that reflect underlying social biases and inequities. AI models biased against sensitive classes could reinforce and even perpetuate existing inequities if these models create legacies that differentially impact who is diagnosed and treated, and how effectively. The current article reviews the health-equity implications of applying AI to mental health problems, outlines state-of-the-art methods for assessing and mitigating algorithmic bias, and presents a call to action to guide the development of fair-aware AI in psychological science.
The half-time talk: A mixed-method examination of youth-elite football coaches’ behaviours and team-management strategies
Authors: Raya-Castellano Pablo E , Reeves Matthew J , Cárdenas-Vélez David , Fradua Luis , McRobert Allistair P
Published: December 2022

Football, unlike some other team sports, includes limited game interruptions for coaches to easily communicate with players and affect their performance. However, a reduced number of studies have explored how coaches attempt to influence players during half-time. This study examined football coaches’ behaviours during half-time and their perceptions underpinning their talks’ delivery. Five Spanish coaches ( Mage = 32.2, SD = 8.8) working for a La Liga academy were systematically observed during half-time talks ( n = 20) and participated in a semi-structured interview each. Half-time talks were coded using a modified version of the Coach Analysis and Intervention System, and semi-structured interviews were analysed following thematic analysis procedures. Instruction and feedback were the most employed behaviours for four coaches, with younger age-group coaches employing greater divergent questioning and in-talk player participation. Furthermore, data suggested that coaches conferred with their staff, before entering the changing room and rapidly progressed from divergent to convergent questions and feedback and instruction. The team's ‘level of play’ was the most perceived relevant factor affecting the verbal and vocal strategies of coaches’ messages, albeit the score gained importance for coaches of older age-groups. This study is pioneering, examining how coaches attempt to influence their players during half-time talks of competitive youth football.
Preparing for the youth basketball European Championship: Perceptual response and acute effects of an injury prevention program
Authors: Arede Jorge , Ferreira António Paulo , Esteves Pedro , Gonzalo-Skok Oliver , Leite Nuno
Published: December 2022

The aims of this study were to determine the feasibility of the injury prevention program (IPP), to examine the reliability of perceptual response to an IPP and to analyze the acute effects of both external and internal demands of in-court training sessions in the IPP. Twelve young basketball players participated in a national team (NT) training camp (120 total individual samples). While players only completed five exclusive in-court training sessions, the IPP was always performed before such in-court practices in the rest of the sessions. The rating of perceived exertion (RPE) was determined at the completion of each IPP. Training load (TL) measures during in-court practices were collected using indoor tracking system, and individual heart rate monitors. Independent t-tests and analysis of variance were used to compare between-sessions TL measures and to test the main effect of RPE in TL. The mean RPE of all IPP sessions was 14.7 ± 0.86. Moreover, there was moderate reliability (ICC = 0.69) between IPP sessions for the RPE and an acceptable coefficient of variation (CV = 4.45%). Furthermore, after IPP, subjects significantly covered more distance per minute (total, ≤ 6 km/h and 6.1–12 km/h) and performed a higher number of body impacts per minute (total, very light and moderate do heavy). Also, the main effect of RPE during IPP sessions was significantly observed in distance covered per minute (total and 12.1–18 km/h) during in-court training sessions. This IPP could serve as a feasible and reliable strategy to implement during NT preparation.
Technology-facilitated violence: A conceptual review
Authors: Mitchell Matthew , Wood Jackson , O’Neill Tully , Wood Mark , Pervan Flynn , Anderson Briony , Arpke-Wales William
Published: December 2022

This article provides a conceptual review of the term ‘technology-facilitated violence’. In the last decade, discussion of technology-facilitated violence has become commonplace in criminological and social scientific discourses. Yet, scholars have not settled on what this term means or the kind of relationship between technology and violence it infers. Addressing this ambiguity, we review how scholars have conceptualised technology-facilitated violence, evaluate the adequacy of those conceptualisations, and develop strategies to improve them. To do so, we bring the philosophy of technology into conversation with the scholarship on technology-facilitated violence to identify the latent theories of technology that underpin existing definitions of technology-facilitated violence. Then, synthesising insights from these two fields of scholarship, we generate a new definition of technology-facilitated violence that builds on the strengths of existing definitions while avoiding their key limitations. This new definition and the conceptual review that informs it should improve scholarly understandings of technology-facilitated violence and help design better strategies to address its harms. Hence, we conclude by emphasising the importance of this kind of conceptual and synthetic work and the value it offers scholars concerned with improving both theory and practice.
Pharmacologic methods to minimise coughing during extubation in the era of COVID-19
Authors: Chabot Katherine , Yang Stephen Su
Published: December 2022

Background/aim:

Given the current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic, coughing at the time of extubation is at risk of creating aerosolisation. This may place health care workers at risk of nosocomial infection during the perioperative period. This study aims to summarise the current pharmacologic methods to minimise cough at the time of extubation, and to determine whether some strategies could be more beneficial than others.

Methods:

This is a summary of systematic reviews. A comprehensive search through MEDLINE was performed. Thirty-three publications were screened for eligibility. Only the manuscripts discussing pharmacologic methods to minimise coughing on extubation were included in this review.

Findings:

Many pharmacological agents have been proposed to decrease the incidence of cough at the time of extubation. Of these, intravenous administration of dexmedetomidine (relative risk 0.4; 95% CI: 0.4–0.5) or remifentanil (RR 0.4; 95% CI: 0.4–0.5) seems to have the largest effect to reduce cough on extubation.

Conclusion:

The available data in the current literature is sparse. Yet, dexmedetomidine and remifentanil seem to be the most efficient agents to decrease the incidence of emergence coughing.