bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Questionnaire based observational study of association of pruritus with intake of food items in common skin disorders
Authors: Tiwary Pankaj Kumar , Hussain Mobarak , Singh Anupama
Published: September 2024

Pruritus is the commonest symptom of majority of dermatological diseases. Various chemicals in certain foods are known to trigger release of pruritogenic mediators causing pruritus. Also, there are myths about diet in the population that consumption of certain food items exacerbates their pruritus, which needs proper patient counseling.

Questionnaire-based observational study of association of pruritus with intake of food items in common skin disorders.

The duration of this cross-sectional study was 6 months in a tertiary care hospital in Patna. Cases with pruritic skin disorders were asked about their food habits and the association of any specific food item with exacerbation in itching by using a fixed set of questions.

Among 306 patients, 147 patients complained of exacerbation in pruritus after eating certain food items (p-value- 0.02), out of which 69 had issues with single food item and 72 patients had association with multiple eatables. In specific food, it was observed that spicy vegetables like Brinjal, jackfruit, onion, and garlic were the most common culprits causing pruritus in 86 patients (p-value- 0.035), which was followed by fish which exacerbated pruritus in 45 patients (p-value- 0.055).

When the skin is inflamed by any pathology, its threshold to flare is low and various food items may trigger a pruritic sensation. So, proper counseling of such food items will help to relieve the pruritus and hence better management of the underlying diseases.
A comparative study on therapeutic efficacy between methotrexate iontophoresis and topical methotrexate 1% gel in palmoplantar psoriasis
Authors: Vijayananth Jayakalyani , Venu Sridhar , Iyappan Nithya , Ramasamy Sindhuja
Published: September 2024

Palmoplantar psoriasis is a disease which often leads to disfigurement and disability. It is resistant to conventional therapy where systematic therapy mostly with methotrexate is indicated. To overcome systemic toxicity of the drug, topical delivery methods has been tried recently with unsatisfactory results because of its poor penetration. Iontophoresis may help to increase its absorption and thereby efficacy.

Our study included a total of 60 patients fulfilling the selection criteria. They were randomly divided into two groups, group A & group B; comprising 30 patients in each. The patients in Group A received topical methotrexate 1% gel twice daily treatment for 8 weeks on all days. The patients in Group B underwent methotrexate iontophoresis once in a week for 4 weeks followed by every two weeks. A total of six session of iontophoresis was done and both groups were followed up for another 3 months. Evaluation of therapeutic efficacy was done by assessing the lesions for erythema, scaling and fissuring during each visit and follow up period.

Overall improvement in group A and group B were 82.4% and 95.3% respectively. Recurrence rates were nearly similar in both groups.

There was highly statistical significant improvement and clearance rates with group B at the end of 8 weeks of therapy and after follow up period compared to group A (p value < 0.01).
Assessment of efficacy of autologous platelet rich plasma in crow’s feet wrinkles
Authors: Gundappa Pavithra , Ramesh Heera , Somashekhar Sachin
Published: September 2024

The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of autologous platelet rich plasma in the treatment of crow’s feet wrinkles.

In a study conducted for 6 months duration, 20 participants were treated with 2 sessions of PRP monthly once. Patients received 1 ml of PRP to each side of crow’s feet and infra orbital area. Study was evaluated by comparing pre and post treatment photographs, subjective satisfaction score, objective clinical assessment and side effects.

A definitive improvement was found in most of the patients. Patient satisfaction score showed grade 3 improvement in 5%, grade 2 in 40%, grade 1 in 50% and no improvement in 5%. Objective clinical assessment showed grade 3 improvement in 5%, grade 2 in 60%, grade 1 in 35%. Good results were observed in objective clinical assessment (p value <0.001) as well as patient satisfaction scoring without much side effects.

The present study concludes that PRP therapy is cost effective and safe in treatment of crow’s feet wrinkles.
Nailfold capillaroscopic changes in diabetes mellitus patients using hand held dermatoscope - A comparative observational study
Authors: Thakur Abhirut , Kaur Gurkim , Dogra Devraj
Published: September 2024

Diabetes mellitus is a state of chronic hyperglycemia responsible for significant mortality and morbidity rate due to its vascular complications. Nail fold capillaroscopy using dermatoscope is a quick, cost effective screening tool in identifying the patients having chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus. We aimed at observing the nailfold capillaries in diabetes patients using a hand held dermatoscope.

To study nailfold capillaroscopic changes in diabetes mellitus patients using a dermatoscope.

A comparative observational study was conducted involving 100 patients of diabetes mellitus and 100 healthy individuals for nail fold capillaroscopic changes using a dermatoscope over a period of 12 months.

In our study, distribution of gender and age was comparable between patients with diabetes mellitus and healthy individuals. The capillaroscopic variables like tortuous capillary, receding capillary, capillary dilation, neoangiogenesis, avascular area, capillary dropouts and bizarre capillary were significantly higher in patients with diabetes mellitus as compared to healthy individuals .Other parameters like meandering capillary, bushy capillary, microhemorrhage, angulated capillary and subpapillary plexus visibility were not significant in diabetes mellitus patients.

Nailfold capillaroscopy is a simple, quick and effective screening tool for identifying early signs of diabetes mellitus.
A case series of bowen’s disease in a tertiary care centre in South India
Authors: Manivannan Logeshwari , Swaminathan Thamizhselvi , Rengarajan Madhu , Vadivelu Sampath
Published: September 2024

Bowen’s disease is a rare premalignant condition with multifactorial etiology. Usually, Bowen’s disease manifests as solitary, well defined erythematous plaque over sun exposed areas and less commonly over photo protected sites. Hereby we report eight patients with clinical diagnosis of Bowen’s disease confirmed by dermoscopy and histopathology. Dermatological examination revealed presence of pigmented, hyperkeratotic plaques and classical morphology. Scales and glomerular vessels were the most common features in dermoscopy. Histopathology was characteristic with presence of atypical cells in all patients. Five patients were treated with surgical excision, two other patients with 5% imiquimod and 5-fluorouracil creams respectively. One patient was lost to follow up. Post excision biopsy revealed presence of invasive malignancy in two patients. Hence it is important to diagnose and treat Bowen’s disease as early as possible.
Biochemical, ­­­radiological and histopathological assessment of bone regeneration properties of Cissus quadrangularis, a medicinal herb: A study on drill hole fractured bones of Wistar rats
Authors: Geda Arvind K , Saxena Purnendu , Banerjee Shambhunath , Sharma Rahul , Khokhar Dharmendra , Gupta Abhishree , Hussain Nighat , Hirpurkar S D
Published: September 2024

, iscommonly known as Hadjod in Hindi or bone setter due to its bone fracture healing properties. The presence of secondary metabolites plays an important role due to its characteristic properties. A number of studies were reported by the traditional healers for its bone healing properties but no clinical investigations including radiological and histopathological studies were done before in order for scientific validation of hadjod extracts.

The present study involves use of C-ARM X-ray under controlled condition for creating an artificial fracture of tibia bone of experimental Wistar rats. The phytochemical isolation was done by using successive extraction of plant material followed by chromatographic separation using polar to non-polar solvents. The radiological study was done using high resolution Helical CT scan by measuring variation in Hounsfield Unit (HU) value at proximal end of fracture at different time intervals. The histopathological study was done by the appropriate processing of slides at the fractured site. The histopathological changes were recorded and grading done on the basis of bone development stage within the callus.

The histopathological results of one of the fraction (F-5) of petroleum ether extract showed mature bone formation grade - 9 on scale of bone healing which was higher than control group with grade - 5 on scale of bone healing. On the other hand crude ethanol extracts (A-4) showed the highest scale grade-10 of bone formation represents lamellar /mature bone formation.

Based upon radiological and histopathological studies, secondary metabolites presents in Petroleum ether and ethanol extract showed good results in terms of callus formation at fractured site.
IDB Group Natural Capital and Biodiversity Mainstreaming Action Plan 2024-2025
Authors:   Inter American Development Bank,   IDB Invest,   IDB Lab
Published: September 2024

The IDB Group is committed to positioning the region as a nature powerhouse, aiming for a positive impact on biodiversity and improving the well-being of Latin America and the Caribbean people. The new Institutional Strategy: Transforming for Scale and Impact, treats biodiversity, natural capital, and climate action as vertical priorities and cross-cutting issues to be mainstreamed throughout the portfolio in diverse sectors and countries. The IDB Group Natural Capital and Biodiversity Mainstreaming Action Plan 2024-2025 (NCBMAP) responds to this institutional commitment and supports and enhances the implementation of the IDBG Climate Change Action Plan 2021-2025, the upcoming IDBG Disaster Risk Management Action Plan (2024-2025), and the Environmental and Social Policy Framework adopted in 2020. It also is consistent and aligns with the MDB Joint Statement on Nature, People, and Planet to mainstream natural capital and biodiversity signed in 2021. The objective of the IDB Group Natural Capital and Biodiversity Mainstreaming Action Plan is to mainstream biodiversity and natural capital within the IDB Groups operations in key areas where nature can support economic, social, and climate-smart development. The action plan should also help accelerate work by countries to achieve their nature-positive objectives.
Getting Lost Through the Relational Mail Art of Art/Re-search (T)here
Authors: Cloutier Genevieve
Published: September 2024

Art/Re-search (T)here is a SSHRC-funded project that creates new understandings of art, research and decolonized processes amongst theories of knowledge. The relational mail art of Art/Re-search (T)here unfolds through post theories of the (post)qualitative posthumanist philosophies and decolonized practices. These disruptive co-compositions happen by getting lost through thing-power, and through the decolonial project of re-turning to the dynamic whole. (T)here, co-conspirators collaborate through art to reimagine re-search. The project’s initial research questions change alongside co-conspirators in transit as binary knowledge is (un)learned and disrupted. As the mail art travels to entangled spaces, processes are risky, glitchy, (un)known, and trans-formed. In letting go of research questions, art/re-search creates trans-formations. The authors put a call to action for re-searchers to work together through art in ways that question the structure of academia and how we come to know/be. Through relational (un)learning and risk-taking, some-thing lost is getting (t)here.
From Threads to Frames
Authors: Hung Annie , Lin Ching-Chiu
Published: September 2024

Senior immigrants hold a wealth of experience and knowledge often unrecognized due to language and cultural barriers. This article promotes a collaborative approach within arts-based research (ABR) that flattens conventional hierarchies, creating a space where voices of participants and researchers are valued and heard. By embracing translation as both a method and metaphor in the co-creative research process, this article amplifies a senior immigrant’s unique response to the COVID-19 pandemic through her creative making. In this collaborative model, ABR actively involves a senior as co-researcher, building research on her local knowledge and insights. Our approach invites a reconsideration of social support strategies for immigrant seniors, advancing public discourse about their role and resilience within the arts education community.
“To be an Asian Girl”
Authors: Sanchez Shena , Gu Sun Young
Published: September 2024

In this study, we explore how three Asian high school girls from poor/working-class families construct their identity in relation to their experiences with school punishment and anti-Asian sexism rooted in model minority and perpetual foreigner stereotypes. Using found poetry as a method, along with intersectionality and Asian feminist frameworks, we analyze sister circle and kitchen table focus group interviews and diagramming data. We find that, despite their different ethnicities and geographic locations, participants shared significant experiences and perspectives that centered their resistance to anti-Asian sexism, agency and personhood, and familial responsibilities as a source of motivation to excel academically.
Exquisite Corpse
Authors: Green Deborah
Published: September 2024

After 14 complex years, I message him: “I keep saving you and losing me.” M hangs himself. Numbly I sit holding M’s cold dead hand in my warm shaking one. I’m 33. A widow. Twenty years on, and now a creative arts therapist/educator/researcher, I launched an arts-based autoethnographic (abr+a) quest to exhume and frankly face my role within my husband’s suicide. Naively, I imagined cultivating an ecotone where self-care and care-for-other intra-act. Lured by this poietic methodological experiment, Scarcity-Gargoyle, however, sloped in— an inner-alter symbolising a trauma-response that had outlived its usefulness. Leading a motley crew of author, animangels, Darwin, and new material/posthumanists, it incited a gyroscopically-circling contemplation of trauma and scarcity, now folded into this Exquisite Corpse game. As this game unfurls, the question lingers within creases and crevices: What might these critters speak/sing/growl/howl/whisper/rasp to the lofty aspiration of crafting capacity for simultaneous compassionate becoming-with self and other?
Poetics of Kinship
Authors: McKeon Margaret , James Kedrick
Published: September 2024

We write about the poetics of kinship with birds, trees, stones, and places as an act of resistance to neo-literal, neo-liberal destruction of refuge for non-human beings. Through research in which we situate ourselves in relation to the more-than-human, we take up kin as a verb. We offer experiences of kinning—that is, being present with that which is alive, has agency, and gives voice—as an invitation to readers to open themselves to listen in life and in research. We write in dialogue, through letters to each other, and we write poetically. With poetry’s attention to metaphor, embodiment, and vision, it is the natural language for describing the experience of kinning. Inquiring poetically helps us regain a communicative being-in-relation with wild, more-than-human others at a time of ecological distress, and to seek to better appreciate mystery and understandings that exceed human forms of knowing. Through this paper, we theorise from within our understandings and experiences about poetically kinning with the more-than-human.
Art/Research Cover: Artwork
Authors: Rhodes Kendrea
Published: September 2024

Mount Myoko, Japan; Alogopoiesis and climbing mountains. A mixed media artwork by Kendrea Rhodes, comprising charcoal, oil paint, digital art, and photography.
Genre-forming signs of self-presentation (based on the material of students’ self-presentation)
Authors:   Saratov State University, Veselkova Tat’yana V.
Published: September 2024

The article is devoted to a relatively new genre of speech – self-presentation. The research is based on self-presentations of non-philological students of the geographical, sociological, biological faculties, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, the Institute of Physical Culture and Sports of Saratov National Research State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky and philologists studying at the Institute of Philology and Journalism. The purpose of the study is to identify the genre features of these texts. The multidimensional analysis of self–presentations revealed genre-forming features, the most typical cognitive models (scenarios) of self-presentation, which allow us to conclude that the student’s self-presentation is a synthetic speech genre pursuing informative, imperative, evaluative goals. It can also be attributed to the genre of reaction. The genre of self-presentation interacts with other speech genres, as a rule, self-presentation includes a call, a message, gratitude. Bachelors and specialists choose a strategy – the desire to please, to seem attractive to others, Master’s students – self-advertisement, self-promotion, proving their professional competence. The choice of these strategies is related to the basic characteristics that the author defines for himself as essential: for Master’s students this is a career, for bachelors and specialists – a family, in which they live, and positive personality qualities. The article presents an overview of the forms of students’ self-presentations. Examples of atypical self-presentation are poetic texts and fairy tales, in which verbal-logical and emotionally expressive elements of speech as means of influencing the audience. Irony, jokes, puns are successfully used in students’ self-presentations, but in general the degree of seriousness within the genre is very high, for the most part self-presentations are a variant of business communication. In the works of students of all faculties, except philologists, a rhetorical technique is productive and frequent – the use of quotations and references to the opinions of famous people, philologists use lyrical reflections.
The Prevalence of Upper Gastrointestinal Malignancies Among Patients Undergoing Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at Jiblah University Hospital and Al-Matary Medical Center in Ibb Governorate, Yemen
Authors: Mohammed A. Almatary Abdullah , Mohammed Yaseen Al-Hetar Mohammed Abdo
Published: September 2024

Background: Upper gastrointestinal tract malignancies constitute a major health problem globally. There is a paucity of published data regarding upper gastrointestinal tract malignancy in Yemen. This study aimed to assess prevalence of upper gastrointestinal tract malignancy among patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy done in Jiblah University Hospital and Almatary Medical Centre in Ibb Governorate, Yemen.
Methods: A retrospective study was conducted by reviewing the complete records of 21148 patients who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopic evaluation between December 2005 and December 2023. Data were analyzed using SPPS version 26. Chi-square test was used to compare variables, with statistical significance set at P < 0.05.
Results: Of 2148 patients who underwent endoscopic evaluation of the upper GI tract, 259 (12.1%) had upper gastrointestinal tract malignancies. The mean age of the patients was 64.98 years. Males represented 156 (60.2%) of the patients with upper gastrointestinal tract. Esophageal tumor was the most common tumor among the 100 (38.61%) upper GI gastrointestinal tract and was prevalent in male patients in their fifth decade of life. Adenocarcinoma 64 (69.6%) in this study was found more frequently in the age group 65-79 years with a male predominance.
Conclusion: Upper gastrointestinal tract malignancies remain a public health issue in Yemen and need urgent intervention from health authorities due to the increasing incidence of gastrointestinal malignancies in Yemen.
Análise psicossocial da avaliação da aprendizagem na EJA no contexto pandêmico, em Boa Vista (RR)
Authors: Santos André Felipe Costa , Silva Maria Lucenir de Sousa da , Sousa Clarilza Prado de
Published: September 2024

Foi realizada uma análise psicossocial da avaliação da aprendizagem na Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) durante a pandemia de COVID-19 em Boa Vista-RR, focando nas representações sociais dos professores de escolas públicas. A pesquisa utilizou o aporte teórico-metodológico da Teoria das Representações Sociais (Moscovici, 2012) associado aos estudos da avaliação educacional (Stufflebeam, 1971; Scriven, 1967). Trinta professores da EJA foram entrevistados, e o software IRaMuTeQ auxiliou na análise psicossocial dos dados. Os resultados revelaram elementos representacionais como à falta de apoio do Estado, o receio dos professores em relação ao aumento do abandono e evasão escolar, as mudanças no tempo-espaço e clima escolar, e o uso das Tecnologias Digitais da Informação e Comunicação (TDIC) na educação. Esses resultados evidenciam a complexidade das representações sociais dos professores sobre a avaliação da aprendizagem nesse contexto, destacando a necessidade de políticas públicas efetivas e suporte adequado para enfrentar os desafios impostos pela pandemia. A pesquisa contribui para uma melhor compreensão das dinâmicas educacionais durante crises sanitárias e oferece subsídios para futuras intervenções na área da EJA.
Feminismo negro: tensionando interseccionalidades no currículo escolar
Authors: Silva Camila Ferreira da , Botelho Denise Maria , Silva Janssen Felipe da
Published: September 2024

Este artigo visa apresentar uma discussão sobre como a construção do sujeito universal, via Memória Hegemônica, silenciou, marginalizou e ocultou os modos de ser, de pensar e de produzir conhecimento da exterioridade colonial no currículo escolar. Por tal, a discussão curricular, aqui realizada, está firmada num campo epistemológico de diálogo com as diferenças (Raciais e de Gênero), contribuindo para a constituição de fissuras na Memória Hegemônica, ainda presente nos currículos. Para tanto, seguimos pelo caminho da revisão bibliográfica, vinculado a pesquisa qualitativa. Filiamo-nos ao Feminismo Negro e aos Estudos Pós-Coloniais, uma vez que estas abordagens nos ajudam a compreender as implicações da racionalidade eurocêntrica em relação à construção sócio-histórica da raça, do racismo, do sexismo e do conhecimento científico moderno e seus efeitos sobre o currículo, sobretudo no que se refere à Memória e ao Corpo Feminino Negro. Tais estudos nos permitem estabelecer conexões interseccionais de maneira mais consistente, visto que emergem das Memórias Vividas da própria exterioridade colonial que permanece tensionando e fraturando as metanarrativas epistêmicas da memória curricular única ao mesmo tempo que se direcionam para a re-construção de currículos contra-hegemônicos e de Práticas Docentes Antirracistas, firmadas em uma educação emancipadora.
O fechamento das escolas do campo e a dissonância com a legislação
Authors: Barral Beatriz Souza , Zanelli Fabrício Vassalli , Souza Dileno Dustan Lucas de
Published: September 2024

As escolas do campo são espaços importantes da organização da vida social nas comunidades camponesas. Entretanto, as últimas décadas foram marcadas, de um lado, por um expressivo fechamento dessas escolas e, de outro lado, por um conjunto de ações de resistência e de proposição de diretrizes, normativas e políticas públicas por parte dos movimentos sociais do campo. Este artigo objetiva contrastar os marcos normativos da Educação do Campo com a análise dos dados disponibilizados pelo Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP), do período entre 1998-2021. Em termos metodológicos, os dados quantitativos sobre o fechamento das escolas do campo e urbanas foram tabulados e analisados. Em seguida, estes dados foram analisados à luz de referenciais teóricos que assinalam a importância das escolas do campo e problematizam essa escolha política dos grupos g de poder hegemônicos. As escolas multisseriadas, a pedagogia da alternância e a formação de educadores do campo são destacadas como ações relevantes para enfrentar o problema e propor alternativas.
Dificuldades da pesquisa em educação: um estudo de caso com estudantes do sudoeste do Amazonas e as possibilidades de diálogos interculturais
Authors: Santos Vandreza Souza dos , Rizzatti Ivanise Maria
Published: September 2024

O artigo aborda as dificuldades de se realizar uma pesquisa em educação em um contexto amazônico, de acordo com o rigor científico, buscando promover um diálogo sobre a importância da pesquisa em educação associada a uma perspectiva intercultural, durante a disciplina de Pesquisa em Ensino de Ciências, dos cursos de Licenciatura em Ciências: Biologia e Química, com sete estudantes indígenas do município de Benjamin Constant - Amazonas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa de estudo de caso, mediante a observação participante, na qual se objetivou conhecer as dificuldades dos estudantes para discutir questões interculturais e de valorização sociocultural por um embasamento teórico-epistemológico, sendo apresentado dentro dos critérios metodológicos que a comunidade científica requer. Constata-se que serão necessárias muitas discussões sobre este tema para que os estudantes indígenas não se sintam às margens do fazer científico e do desenvolvimento necessário à pesquisa educacional no Brasil.
Campylobacter enteritis in animals in Ife-Ife, Oyo State, Nigeria
Authors: Adetosoye A.I. , Adeniran M.O.A.
Published: September 2024

Quarante trois isolats de Campylobacter ont été rassemblés à partir de 266 échantillons fécaux diarrhéiques récoltés sur des animaux de Ife-Ife, état de Oyo, Nigéria. On a répertorié 27 isolats de C. coli et 3 de C. jejuni biotype I, 3 de C. jejuni biotype II, 7 de C. coli et 3 de C. faecalis, alors q'un isolat restait inclassé. Les isolats étaient résistants à 3 antibiotiques : lincomycine, cephaloridine et triple sulpha.
Trypanosomose dans les élevages porcins du bas Zaïre
Authors: Kageruka P.
Published: September 2024

L'auteur a effectué une enquête parasitologique sur la trypanosomose porcine dans les élevages industriels et traditionels du bas Zaïre. Les résultats montrent que la prévalence des infections varie entre et au sein même des unités de production et selon les méthodes d'élevage. T. congolense est le principal agent etiologique identifié. Une souche de T. Bruceï spp. dont le comportement est comparable à T. gambiense a été isolée. T. congolense est responsable d'une maladie aiguë dont les conséquences sont l'avortement et la mortalité des truies. Cette différence de sensibilité permet de suggérer une approche économique de contrôle de la trypanosomose porcine.
Premier inventaire quantitatif des Tabanidae (Diptera) du Nord de la Guyane française
Authors: Raymond Hugues-Louis
Published: September 2024

Plus de 50 000 taons ont été capturés entre 1979 et 1984 dans 10 zones d'élevage bovin sur la côte de la Guyane française. Les taons ont été capturés principalement à l'aide de piège de Malaise dont certains appâtés au dioxyde de carbone. Les espèces pricipales sont, en ordre décroissant, Tananus importunus, tabanis occidentalis var. dorsovittatus, Phaeotabanus cajennensis, Cryptotylus unicolor et Tabanus wilkersoni qui composent plus de 90 p. 100 de l'ensemble. Les epèces crépusculaire Cryptotylus unicolor, Chlorotabanus mexicanus et Chlorotabanus inanis ont été capturées uniquement aux piêges appatés au dioxyde de carbone. L'importance économique de ces espèces est discutée, selon leur taille, leur abondance, leur comportement et leur écologie. A partir de ces critères, ont été déterminés comme les plus nocifs en Guyane française Tabanus importunus, Cryptotylus unicolor et Tabanus occidentalis var. dorsovittatus.
Courbe de progestérone plasmatique du cycle oestral chez les races taurines trypanotolérantes de Côte-d'Ivoire
Authors: Meyer Christian , Yesso P.
Published: September 2024

Pendant 45 jours, du sang a été prélevé quotidiennement sur 12 vaches Ndama et 12 vaches Baoulé cyclées pour doser la progestérone plasmatique. La durée du cycle observée était de 20,4 et 21,4 jours respectivement. La concentration moyenne en progestérone était de 0,6 ng/ml le jour des chaleurs. Après le 3e jour, elle augmentait de 1,3 à 1,4 ng/ml/j et se stabilisait, jusqu'à un plateau, du 8e jour (Ndama) ou du 9e jour (Baoulé) jusqu'au 17e jour du cycle avec une valeur moyenne de 9,5 ng/ml (Ndama) ou 9,3 ng/ml (Baoulé). Cette concentration a chuté brusquement après le 17e jour du cycle à raison de 3 ng/ml/j. La phase avec moins de 2 ng/ml a duré 5,7 jours pour les Ndama et 5,9 jours pour les Baoulé avec un écart de 4 à 9 jours. La phase pendant laquelle le taux de progestérone a été supérieur à 2 ng/ml a duré 14,5 (Ndama) et 14,9 jours (Baoulé) avec un écart de 13 à 19 jours. Des cas atypiques ont été rencontrés pour lesquels la concentration était supérieure à 3 ng/ml le jour des chaleurs pour 12 p. 100 de celles-ci. La concentration plasmatique en progestérone permet, pour les races taurines trypanotolérantes ivoiriennes, d'étudier la cyclicité (puberté, reprise de l'activité post partum) et de diagnostiquer la non-gestation 21 à 24 jours après l'insémination artificielle.
Les échanges internationaux de bovins trypanotolérants. II. Tendances et perspectives
Authors: Shaw A.P.M. , Hoste Christian
Published: September 2024

Une évaluation de la demande et du potentiel à l'exportation de bovins reproducteurs trypanotolérants dans 19 pays d'Afrique occidentale et centrale est effectuée. La demande, exprimée en termes de besoins en viande, lait et traction bovine, n'est pas facilement mesurable mais les déficits nationaux - du moins en viande bovine - peuvent être calculés. Il faut encore que cette demande estimée se concrétise et se traduise en projets gouvernementaux ou privés formulés de façon officielle et précise. Les paramètres de production des races Ndama et taurins à courtes cornes de savane observés dans certains pays et dans différents systèmes de production sont utilisés pour estimer dans quelle mesure les systèmes villageois traditionnels peuvent produire des excédents d'animaux reproducteurs. A cette source principale, il faut également ajouter quelques ranches qui sont devenus d'importants fournisseurs d'animaux de bonne qualité. Cette étude révèle qu'en Afrique occidentale, dans le système de production villageois, il existe par rapport aux besoins de renouvellement des troupeaux un excédent modeste de génisses, de l'ordre de 1 %, qui pourrait permettre de faire face aux demandes actuelles de différents pays africains.
Utilisation de Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin. pour la production de foin à la station expérimentale de Gampela, Burkina Faso
Authors: Achard François
Published: September 2024

Dans la région de Ouagadougou, au Burkina Faso, l'intensification de la production animale passe par la culture fourragère et la préparation de réserves sous forme de foin. Les semences des espèces proposées par les services techniques pour implanter des cultures fourragères sont difficiles à se procurer. On a donc choisi parmi les espèces locales Pennisetum pedicellatum, graminée annuelle spontanée, pour ses diverses qualités : facilité d'implantation, productivité élevée, production de semences importante. P. pedicellatum, semé dans la première moitié du mois de juillet, arrive au stade optimal pour la récolte (fin montaison) entre le 25 août et le 10 septembre. Les pluies, très fréquentes jusqu'au 15 septembre, s'espacent ensuite; un séchage correct du fourrage n'est donc possible qu'après cette date. Les recherches ont été orientées sur les moyens d'obtenir la plus grande quantité de foin avec des plantes récoltées au stade "fin montaison" après le 15 septembre, soit en faisant varier la date de première coupe (essai I), soit en échelonnant les semis de fin juin à début août (essai II). L'objectif a été atteint : dans le cas de l'essai I, avec une date de première coupe le 23 août, 1100 kg MS/ha ont été obtenus (avec les premières repousses); dans l'essai II, avec une date de semis le 20 juillet, la production a été de 1840 kg MS/ha (premières coupe et repousse).
The Use of Sitcom as Media to Improve Students’ Ability in Translating Grammatical Equivalence
Authors: Aisyah Siti , Ariani Musli , Puspa Areta
Published: September 2024

This study is aimed at investigating the difficulties and ineffectiveness of teaching translation and gaining significant development from the students. It highlights the use of popular media in the form of audio-visual to reinforce English grammatical structures as well as its cultural aspects for the students' better comprehension in English to Indonesian translation skill. The implementation of classroom action research that includes using audiovisual media to enhance their translation skill and it’s effectively was further determined through observation and close analysis. The data was analyzed using an analytical scoring rubric to present the results of pre/post tests and classroom observation. The average of the post-test score was 79.15, indicating an improvement after the implementation of using teenage American sitcom as learning media for translation skill in the aspect of grammatical equivalence. This suggests that alternative media learning with audiovisual elements as the American teenage sitcom "Sam and Cat" was effective in teaching translation with grammametric equation. This is evidence of how the implementation process and teacher's guidance can help students improve the material and understand the concept of using audio visual media as learning medium better. The results of this study are expected reliable and solid research source for the other researchers in the same field of education in the future, especially in the topic of determining the method in enhancing students' ability in language translation.
Investigating The Indonesian Senior High School’s English Classroom Anxiety and Its Factors
Authors: Mahendra Isnan , Wija Putra Bambang Arya , Andika Hudori Rizki Febri
Published: September 2024

The process of learning English as a foreign language is not easy as students face various difficulties and one of them is anxiety. Ketsman, (2012) and Yilmaz, (2011) stated that student's performance and achievement are affected by the teacher's effectiveness, and one of the teacher's roles is to reduce anxiety in the classroom by creating a friendly and supportive atmosphere in the classroom. For this purpose, it is important to know the level of anxiety of foreign language learners. The present study aimed to investigate the students' perceived level of foreign language anxiety among Indonesian high school students based on the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) by Horwitz et al. The present study was a survey design. This design focuses on describing trends in a large group of individuals (Creswell, 2012). The results of the present study showed that anxious students were quite common in foreign language classrooms within the scope of this study. The participants in the present study had a moderate-level of anxiety, and the three factors included in the research instrument contributed to it to varying degrees.
Produksi Xilosa dari Xilan Limbah Ampas Singkong Menggunakan Bacillus subtilis, Aureobasidium pullulans, dan Penicillium janczewskii
Authors: Arianti Fefpi Nur Afnifitri Wias , Ratnadewi Anak Agung Istri , Nurhayati Nurhayati , Jayus Jay
Published: September 2024

The demand for xylose as a xylitol raw material is increasing. The resource for this material can be explored from agricultural waste such as lignocellulosic material which is widely available in nature, cheap, and renewable. The bioconversion of lignocellulose waste into xylose can use microbes, either single culture or microbial consortia. The purpose of this research is to find out the ability of Bacillus subtilis, Aureobasidium pullulans, and Penicillium janczewskii to convert xylan of cassava waste to produce xylose, under both single individual culture and its consortia. The xylose release from the cultures were measured using DNS tests followed by HPLC determination. The results showed that the single microbial culture of B. subtilis, A. pullulans, and P. janczewskii was able to produce xylose released into the culture broth which was 75.06, 81.72, and 82.00 ppm respectively, indicating the xylanolytic enzymes activities from this microorganism which have the ability to convert xylan into xylose. Unexpectedly, all the mix culture of these microbial consortia were unable to produce higher xylose, the amount of xylose released were even lower became 63.11 ppm only when B. subtilis, A. pullulans, and P. janczewskii worked together in a simultaneous culture. This finding indicated that these three microorganisms might not be able to hydrolysed the xylan synergistically. 
Keywords: bioconversion, lignocellulosic material, microbial consortia, xylanolytic enzyme
STAGES OF EVOLUTION AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF OYSTERS IN THE LATE JURASSIC AND EARLY CRETACEOUS OF NORTH EURASIA
Authors:   A.A.Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, Kosenko I. N. ,   Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Published: September 2024

The paper presents the results of comparative analysis of oyster assemblages from the Kimmeridgian – Valanginian in a number of regions of North Eurasia. The Kimmeridgian and Volgian oyster assemblages of the pan-boreal region basins have a number of common taxa; the differences are in taxonomic diversity, which is maximum in Poland (where thermophilic taxa such as Actinostreon are present), it reaches the minimum in the north of Central Siberia. The Berriasian and Valanginian assemblages of the Urals and the north of Central Siberia vary widely from the assemblages of Poland: they are characterized by typically Jurassic genera, while the beginning of the Cretaceous in the Polish basin is marked by the appearance of widespread Cretaceous genera typical of Tethyan basins.
Human Resource Management Practices and Job Performance Under Investigation: Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction and Employee Value Proposition
Authors: Kurniawan Harisnu , Desiana Putri Mega
Published: September 2024

Objective: This study investigates the influence of human resource management practices on job performance by mediating job satisfaction and employee value proposition among state-owned enterprise company employees.
Design/Methods/Approach: This study was analyzed using an explanatory research approach with quantitative data collected through structured questionnaires involving 396 employees. Path Analysis was employed to investigate the research data using the Structural Equation Model and LISREL as statistical data processing tools.
Findings: The results show that human resource management practices do not directly, positively, and significantly impact job performance in the company. However, the findings indicate a significant favorable influence of Human Resource Management Practices on Job Performance by mediating Job Satisfaction and Employee Value Proposition.
Originality/Value: The existing literature highlights the unclear relationship between Human Resource Management Practices and Job Performance, often resembling a 'black box,' emphasizing the necessity to identify mediating variables operating through unexplained mechanisms. This study contributes to the existing literature by investigating the mediation role of employee value proposition alongside job satisfaction and explaining the relationship between human resource management practices and job performance in a state-owned enterprise.
Practical/Policy implication: The state-owned enterprise company is advised to improve job satisfaction and perceived employee value proposition to increase job performance. Specifically, the state-owned enterprise company should improve its human resource management practices by providing better job stability and competitive salaries and incentives.
Sustainable Employability, Organizational Identification, and Psychological Empowerment: A Moderation Mediation Model Test
Authors: Cahyani Intan Sukma , Ekowati Dian
Published: September 2024

Objective: This study examines the relationship of psychological empowerment and organizational identification to sustainable employability with work engagement as a mediator variable and affective commitment as a moderator variable in financial cluster state-owned enterprises (SOE) employees.
Design/Methods/Approach: This research utilized Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with 220 respondents. Data was gathered through open-ended questionnaires from employees in the financial sector of state-owned enterprises.
Findings: The findings of this study indicate that psychological empowerment and work engagement have a notable and favorable impact on sustainable employability. However, they do not have a significant effect on organizational identification. It is worth noting that organizational identification does have a large and positive influence on work engagement. Work engagement does not act as a mediator in the connection between organizational identification and sustainable employability. However, it does serve as a mediator in the association between psychological empowerment and sustainable employability. Affective commitment enhances the strong and favorable correlation between work engagement and sustainable employability.
Originality/Value: The field of sustainable employability is under-researched, leading to a lack of consistency in addressing its multifaceted issues and a scarcity of theoretical frameworks. This study aims to consolidate disparate research by integrating various variables and examining their interplay through mediating and moderating mechanisms informed by the Job Demand-Resource Theory and Social Identity Theory.
Practical/Policy implication: It is imperative for organizations to prioritize the cultivation of robust and morally upright leadership across all levels, particularly at the upper echelons where executive management holds sway over the direction of the enterprise. In the immediate context, fostering a sense of identification among employees with the organizational ethos is crucial. Over the long term, such efforts contribute to the holistic well-being of employees, encompassing both physical and psychosocial dimensions, thereby fostering sustainable employability.
Does Working Capital Management Impact Profitability? A Study on ASEAN-5 Food and Beverage Companies
Authors: Rahmadani Salsabila Gading , Pangestuti Irene Rini Demi
Published: September 2024

Objective: This study aims to examine the impact of working capital management on profitability of go-public ASEAN-5 food and beverage companies.
Design/Methods/Approach: This study employs multiple linear regression analysis on secondary financial data of go-public ASEAN-5 food and beverage companies from 2017-2022. The sample for the research is deliberately chosen through purposive sampling technique.
Findings: The results indicate that the cash conversion cycle (CCC), receivable conversion period (RCP), and accounts payable period (APP) have a significant negative impact on profitability, proxied by return on assets (ROA), while the inventory conversion period (ICP) has a positive effect on profitability.
Originality/Value: This study uniquely explores the food and beverage sector in the ASEAN-5 region with adding the dimension of crisis, COVID-19 pandemic.
Practical/Policy implication: Based on the results, food and beverage sector managers should be more careful in making investment decisions regarding inventory, especially during a crisis. Also, maintaining good trade relations with suppliers through timely debt payment would be better.
Current uses of adipose grafting with platelet-rich plasma
Authors: Braswell Ann Carol , Buchanan Katherine , Wagner Grant , Fujihashi Ayaka , Rudnicki Pamela , Collawn Sherry S.
Published: September 2024

Aim: The purpose of this study was to analyze fat grafting with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in the context of volume replacement and scar hypertrophy improvement in a variety of different cases.

Methods: A retrospective review was conducted on 40 patients who underwent a total of 50 fat grafting with PRP procedures by a single surgeon between October 2019 and October 2022. Fat was generally harvested from the abdomen, thighs, or flanks using an enclosed power-assisted system or Toomey syringes with 3.0 or 3.7 mm cannulas. The fat with PRP was grafted into various sites using a 0.9 mm Tulip single port injection cannula for faces/small defects. Of the 50 cases reviewed, the injection sites were as follows: 20 cases of injections into scars (hypertrophic scars, burn/trauma scars, and scars from hidradenitis suppurativa), 15 injections to the face [to replenish volume lost by aging and two cases for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) facial atrophy], 6 injections to the breasts, 4 injections to keloids, 4 injections to buttocks, and 1 case of injection to the nose.

Results: Overall, for all sites, the average amount of fat harvested was 360 mL, and the average amount of fat with PRP grafted was 96 mL. Of the face grafts, the average amount of fat grafted was 20 mL. The overall complication rate in our cohort was 2%, occurring only in one patient who developed cellulitis after fat grafting to the breast. There were no cases of embolization. The patients showed excellent improvement in volume and significant cosmetic improvement of scars.

Conclusion: Patients who underwent autologous fat grafting with PRP had favorable volume replacement and improvement in scarring deformity following the procedure. Fat grafting with PRP was found to be a safe and reliable technique to address various volume and skin concerns.
Operative efficiency in autologous breast reconstruction: a systematic review
Authors: Haddock Nicholas , Steele Thomas , Teotia Sumeet
Published: September 2024

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer in women worldwide. With increased public awareness of routine breast cancer screening, the incidence of mastectomy and, therefore, breast reconstruction continues to increase year over year. Value-based healthcare has become a universal priority in medical systems. A systematic review of the literature was performed in March 2024 across four electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, Google Scholar, and MEDLINE) and in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines. Screening was performed at two levels (title/abstract and full text screening) by two independent reviewers. Data items extracted included: year, authors, country, study size, duration, strategy implemented, main aims, area of application, study design and methodology, outcomes, relevant statistical analysis, and follow-up. Eleven articles were identified that met all inclusion criteria. Six were retrospective reviews and five were prospective cohort studies. The efficiency models implemented included Lean Six Sigma, the Four Disciplines of Execution, and process mapping and analysis. Emphasizing efficiency is pivotal in delivering outstanding breast reconstruction services and enhancing the overall patient journey.