bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Authors: Sabe Eksil
Published: March 2021

Buku ini sangat penting bagaimana kita bisa mengembangkan Sebagai orang Kristen sabagai orang kristen kita perlu membutuhkan ruangan untuk tidak terjadi dalam keselahan hidup kita antara hidup kita, secra pribadi bahwa saya mereupakan dukungan untuk erus berusaha dalam hidup kita sebagai orang kristen. berikanlah diri kita untuk waktu yang banyak bagi hidup kita untuk bisa berkembang dalam kehidupan kita. kemudian kita setelah pelan dalam melakukan lebih baik bagi hidp kita, bahwa kita meresa mengalami keberhasilan dengan unsur dalam hidup kita. atau apa yang kita inginkan untuk meneruskan hidup kita jikau waktu yang lama. untuk sebuah contoh dalam perubahan dalam didup kita jika kita bisa berubah dalam bimbingan rohani, oleh karana itu kita harus membangun hubungan bagi serang pemimpin bisa melayani. jangan kita sebagai orang kristen jangan melarikan diri dari jalan keselamatan. pelayanan seperti apa yang Allah minta supaya bisa melakukan perjalan sepertia apa yang Allah minta dalam hidup kita saat ini . dalam cara saya bisa melakukan untuk memberkan teladan dalam hidup kita dengan orang lain. bagaimana untuk kita bisa megingini kita untuk mengatur hidup kita sebagai pemimpin dalam hidup kita sekarang ini.pertumbuhan dengan pememahaman sehat dalam kesulitan yang kita hadapi dalam hidup kita sebagai orang kristen.
Supervision and Work Environment on Nurses' Job Satisfaction through Job Promotion in Inpatient Rooms of Mother and Child Hospital RSKD
Authors: Umanailo M Chairul Basrun
Published: March 2021

This study aimed to establish the impact of supervision and the work climate on the job satisfaction of nurses by supporting roles in the hospital room of the Mother and Child Hospital of the Motherland. This style of study is retrospective with a survey procedure and a cross-section approach. The study instrument used a questionnaire to 100 nurses in the inpatient room of RSKD Ibu and Anak Pertiwi on supervision, work climate, career promotion, and job satisfaction. Study data has been analyzed using route analysis. The findings of the research showed that the significant impact of supervision (X1) was 0.097>0.05, indicating that Ha was not effectively adopted, there was no significant influence (constant value 0.870) of management (X1) on promotion (Y). The work environment (X2) of 0.098> 0.05 implies that Ha is not effectively approved. There is no significant impact (constant value of 1,000) of the work environment (X2) on promotion (Y). The considerable weight of Supervision (X1) of 0.000 <0.05 implies that Ha is successfully recognized, there is a significant impact (constant value of 0.415) of Supervision (X1) on work satisfaction (Z). The work environment (X2) of 0.024 <0.05 implies that Ha has been effectively recognized. There is a significant impact (constant value of 0.089) on the work environment (X2) on job satisfaction (Z). The considerable effect of the progression (Y) of 0.000 <0.05 implies that Ha has been effectively approved. There is a significant influence (constant value of 0.855) of the advertisement (Y) on work satisfaction (Z). The impact of supervision (X1) on the work satisfaction (Z) of nurses by advancement (Y) is 0.053> 0.05, which indicates that the indirect effect of job promotion is not entirely significant. The impact of the work environment (X2) on the job satisfaction (Z) of nurses by the upgrade (Y) is 0.054> 0.05, which indicates that the indirect influence by job promotion is not entirely essential.
Improvement of Supervision Quality at the Regional Inspectorate of Soppeng Regency
Authors: Umanailo M Chairul Basrun
Published: March 2021

The study's purpose was to define and examine, either directly or indirectly, the change in the level of supervision at the Regional Inspectorate of Soppeng Regency, with work ethic being the intervening component. A quantitative methodology is a technique in this report-study Position at the Soppeng Regency Regional Inspectorate. Ninety-two workers were as a population sampled. Statistical research uses visualization of roads. The findings of this research are as follows: 1) Education and training and management have a direct effect on the ethics of work and also on the quality of supervision at the Central Inspectorate of Soppeng Regency 2) And have an indirect impact on the quality of care through work ethics on education and training and governance.
Health Promotion and Medical Services on Health Services Through Performance at Tajuncu Health Center (Puskesmas)
Authors: Umanailo M Chairul Basrun
Published: March 2021

This analysis aims to define and evaluate the effects of health promotion and medical services on health services through success at the Tajuncu Health Centre, Soppeng Regency. This research used the causality design and quantitative method used at the Tajuncu Health Center, Soppeng Regency. This research sample was 100 health workers and nurses at the Tajunju Health Center, Soppeng Regency. The sampling procedure was carried out using an objective sampling technique. The analysis included all demographics as a sample. Data collection was carried out by observation, interviews, questionnaires, and documentation. Analysis of data using route analysis. The findings revealed that the degree of health promotion carried out by the Tajuncu Health Center in Soppeng Regency improved the awareness and ability of the population on the value of receiving health knowledge or education. Puskesmas related to sickness suffered by the group. Health promotion, which is well carried out, is due to the good results of health staff and health programs. Also, patient facilities are factors that decide the improvement of health services. The medical services are sufficient and proportionate to the specialty's level and specialization level. The social care given can be seen by advancing public health, early diagnosis and adequate consideration, prevention of injury, and successful recovery. Indirectly, success is a potent mediator between emergency care and health services.
Prototyping a collaborative data curation service for coastal science
Authors: Goldstein Evan , Braswell Anna , Mc Shane Caitlin
Published: March 2021

The growing push for open data has resulted in an abundance of data for coastal researchers, which can lead to problems for individual researchers related to discoverability of relevant data. One solution is to explicitly develop services for coastal researchers to help curate data for discovery, hosting discussions around reuse, community building, and finding collaborators. To develop the idea of a coastal data curation service, we investigate aspects of the UNESCO International Coastal Atlas Network member sites that could be used to build a curation service. We develop a minimal example of a coastal data curation service, deploy this as a website, and describe the next steps to move beyond the prototype phase. We envision a coastal data curation service as a way cultivate a community focused on coastal data discovery and reuse.
Through thick and thin: changes in creativity during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Authors: Lopez-Persem Alizee , Bieth Théophile , Guiet Stella , Ovando-Tellez Marcela , Volle Emmanuelle
Published: March 2021

COVID-19 took us by surprise. We all had to face a new situation never encountered before and find new solutions to the problems it generated, either related to the disease or the lockdown's consequences. The lockdown and pandemic crisis caused new issues and placed us in an entirely new context, changing our way of life, work time and conditions, and habits. Coping with such an unprecedented situation may have stimulated creativity. However, the situation also restricted our liberties and wellbeing and triggered health or psychological difficulties. Worrying, concerns, challenging conditions of confinement may have hampered creativity or its expression. Hence, wellbeing factors related to affective experience, living conditions, social interactions, as well as workload or available free time, may have impacted creativity during the lockdown. We carried out an online survey based on a self-administered questionnaire to examine whether the first lockdown period related to the COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2020) was associated with creativity changes and explore the role of several factors in these changes. We measured self-reported creativity changes using two approaches: changes in creative self-efficacy and creative activities and achievements. We related them to several variables estimating time availability, conditions of confinement, social interactions, and affective experience of the situation. Despite a global negative subjective experience of the situation, individuals who participated in our survey (n=380) reported that they were on average more creative during the lockdown than before and engaged in more creative activities. The converging results from self-perceived and activity-based measures showed that this positive change could be linked with more time availability, feeling more motivated or inspired, or the need to solve a problem. However, when negative changes in creativity were experienced, they were instead related to negative affective experiences, including stress and anxiety, a low mood, a feeling of pressure, or a lack of resources or opportunities. This study helps to document what happened during the first lockdown period in France regarding aspects of creativity, showing some positive outcomes of the situation despite its negative consequences, and providing cues about the key factors that stimulated or, on the contrary, blocked creativity.
The role of task similarity for ego depletion: a registered report
Authors: Primoceri Pierpaolo , Ramer Nicolas , Ullrich Johannes , Job Veronika
Published: March 2021

Ego depletion refers to decrements in self-control performance resulting from prior use of self-control. The ego depletion effect has received much research attention, but the more recent literature reports small or null effects. This registered report examined the moderating effect of task similarity on the ego depletion effect. We predicted a crossover interaction between type of primary and secondary task such that engaging in a demanding self-control task should lead to better performance in the secondary task when it is similar to the primary task (facilitation effect) but worse performance when it is dissimilar (ego depletion). In a preregistered pilot study, N = 80 participants first completed either a visual stop-signal task (SST) or a simple lexical categorization task. They proceeded with one of four tasks classified as increasingly dissimilar based on their underlying operations and executive functions: (1) auditory stop-signal task, (2) Stroop task, (3) Eriksen flanker task, and (4) unsolvable anagrams. Both the pilot study and a high-powered registered replication (N = 300) revealed the predicted interaction effect. However, evidence for facilitation from similar tasks was stronger than evidence for depletion from dissimilar tasks. Together, these findings highlight the important role of task similarity for the study of ego depletion and related phenomena.
Effects of item distinctiveness on the retrieval of objects and object-location bindings from visual working memory
Authors: Markov Yuri , Utochkin Igor
Published: March 2021

Visual working memory (VWM) is prone to interference from stored items competing for its limited capacity. Distinctiveness or similarity of the items is acknowledged to affect this competition, such that poor item distinctiveness causes a failure to discriminate between items sharing common features. In three experiments, we studied how the distinctiveness of studied real-world objects (i.e., whether the objects belong to the same or different basic categories) affects the retrieval of objects themselves (simple recognition) and object-location conjunctions (information about which object was where in a display, cued recall). In Experiments 1 and 2, we found that distinctiveness did not affect memories for objects or for locations, but low-distinctive objects were more frequently reported at “swapped” locations that originally contained other objects, showing object-location memory swaps. In Experiment 3 we found that observers swapped the location of a tested object with another object from the same category more frequently than with any of the objects from another category. This suggests that more similar studied objects cause more retrieval competition in object-location judgments than in simple recognition. Additionally, we discuss a possible role of categorical labeling of locations that can support object-location retrieval when the studied objects are highly distinct.
What can parents do? The causal mediating role of parenting in SES differences in children’s language development
Authors: Rodríguez Sánchez Alejandra
Published: March 2021

This study estimates how much of the effect of parental socioeconomic status (SES) on children’s language development is mediated through parenting styles, practices, and parental investments and whether the effects of early literacy-related parenting practices are heterogeneous. Previous studies suggest SES gaps in language skills among preschoolers result from differences in parenting. However, the extent to which parenting mediates the effects of growing up in low-SES contexts, and whether parenting may have heterogeneous effects are still unknown. This paper uses data from the National Educational Panel Study starting cohort 1, a random sample of N=1892 children born between 2012 and 2013 in Germany. The paper uses latent class analysis to measure SES and joint mediation analysis to estimate the mediated share of the SES effect on children’s language going through parenting. Quantile regression is used to explore heterogeneity in the effects of parenting practices to further explain the mediated share.Parenting explains or mediates around half of the total effect of SES, and the positive effect of parenting practices are heterogeneous, affecting mostly children around the first quartile of the distribution of language skills. Although a large chunk of the SES effect operates through parenting, and parenting practices positively impact children,their effects on reducing gaps in language skills are limited. Interventions on parenting should not neglect the alternative pathways through which inequality in language skills may be still transmitted.
Pot baking: revisiting an ancient analogy
Authors: Taranto Sergio
Published: March 2021

In 1990, Chazan and Lehner published a paper in which, based upon several similarities suggested an analogy between the Mesopotamian bevelled-rim bowl dated to the Uruk Period and the Old Kingdom Egyptian bedja. They concluded that, as most surely verified for the bedja, the bevelled-rim bowls could have also had the function of a container for baking. To enhance this hypothesis, the two authors pointed out that also a Late Neolithic pottery shape of the Near East, the so-called husking trays, were supposedly used for baking. In recent years, studies related to ancient baking thanks to the adoption of new ad hoc methods, have received an impressive impulse. New discoveries about ancient bread production, husking trays and bevelled-rim bowls interestingly all seem to go in the same direction. Although it is not currently possible to retrace an uninterrupted sequential line throughout the time, all of these discoveries could mutually strengthen one another, suggesting the possible existence of an ancient pot baking tradition in the Near East.
Predicting Educational Background using Text Mining
Authors: Corten Rense , Nadi Shiva , Frank Laurence
Published: March 2021

We examine to what extent educational background can be inferred from written text, assuming that educational levels are associated with the style of writing and use of language. Using a large public dataset of almost 60000 dating profiles, containing written text for each profile, we look for a methodology to measure author style. We focus on education and essays fields in each profile from which we try to identify relevant features of written text that reveal the level of education of authors behind texts. Using different types of extracted features, we explore the level of education within three approaches: (i) classifying the level of education to elementary or higher education using lexical features; (ii) using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) features; (iii) combining LIWC features and lexical features. For classification, we rely on regularized logistic regression. The joint model which uses both lexical and LIWC features predicts the education level better than other text representation models, but the contribution of LIWC is marginal. Our results may not only be useful in the context of the platform economy and online markets, also more generally to researchers who need to rely on written text as an indicator of educational background.
Memorialising and Commemorating Traumatic Past: Diary of a Guerrilla Girl
Authors: Pokharel Badri Prasad
Published: March 2021

This article makes an attempt to analyze Tara Rai’s Chhapamar Yubatiko Dayari (The Diary of a Guerrilla Girl) with the help of trauma theory. It is a memoir which unfolds many hidden parts of a combatant as his/her testimony to signify the traumatic memory. Past events related to war and conflicts always bring a horrible consequence to the survivors who, if anything can, remember these historical events as an act of witnessing the painful traumatic events as a psychological need and a social duty to reminisce those who died in the battle. Testimony, expressed about those events would bring afore the facts which, otherwise, may not be known. In doing so, I have used the critical insights of Caruth and other trauma theorists to illustrate the historical role in understanding the psychological response to war trauma in the form of testimony.  It is important to elucidate the social factors which play a pivotal role in psychological understanding and building together to develop the concept of the personal narrative.
Salient Features of the Constitutions of Nepal and India: A Comparative Observation
Authors: Gautam Dilli Raj
Published: March 2021

While comparing the Constitution of Nepal 2015 and the Constitution of India 1950 the paper comparatively analyses the major issues such as citizenship, inclusiveness, fundamental rights and independence of judiciary. Both constitutions are committed to socialism based on democratic norms and values, including people’s competitive multiparty democratic system of governance, civil liberties, fundamental rights, federal republic, secularism, adult franchise, periodic elections, full freedom of the press, and independent, impartial, competent and free judiciary and concept of the rule of law. This qualitative research article observes the salient features of the constitution of Nepal and India in descriptive and analytical order with comparative methodology.
Nationalism: A Border–Making Ideal
Authors: Giri Pradip Kumar
Published: March 2021

In this research article, my purpose and goal will be to show nationalism as a border-constructing ideal. Various different types of nations and nationalities, divide humans in different nationality groups. Nationalism, as a term, refers to a doctrine or political movement that holds a nation, usually defined in terms of ethnicity or culture, has the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community based on a shared history and common destiny. In the true sense, nationalism does not cover all humans but just a community in which people share common history, culture and so on. It is concerned mainly with the creation of a state and its maintenance and strengthening. It can be understood as a political program that sees creation and maintenance of a fully sovereign state owned by a given ethno-national group, people or nation, as a major duty of each member belonging to the group. This article incorporates the ideas and theoretical insights of various theorists/writers towards nationalism. I introduce nationalism, discuss, very briefly, the seven types of nationalism presented in contemporary literature, present an overview of ‘nation,’ ‘ state’ and ‘nation-state,’ and draw the conclusion that nationalism is a boundary making ideal. I use qualitative technique in preparing this article prove my claim that nationalism makes wall and divides people in different groups.
Knowledge and Attitude towards Sexually Transmitted Disease and HIV/AIDS among Secondary Level School Students
Authors: Sunuwar Urmila
Published: March 2021

Adolescent sexuality leads to adolescent pregnancy, unsafe abortion, reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS.The study objective is to assess the knowledge and attitude towards sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDs among secondary level school students of Kathmandu metropolitan city. Descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted by using self-administered questionnaires. The study population was school adolescent students. They were selected by using random sampling method. After data collection, descriptive statistics were used to analyse the collected data. Knowledge and attitude towards sexual transmitted disease is significantly varied with student’s background characteristics. Around 95% of study population had heard about sexually transmitted disease and almost 99% heard about HIV/AIDS. Majority 85.6% of students reported that they “agreed” that HIV/AIDS is a major problem in Nepal however 14.4% students were not agreed on it. 73% respondents reported that teachers are the main source of knowledge regarding sexual transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS.It is clear that students need a specific package of education about sexual and reproductive health in school curriculum so that they could gain more information about sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS.
Consumer Purchase Intention towards Organic Foods
Authors: Shrestha Sajeeb Kumar
Published: March 2021

This research tries to measure consumer purchase intention toward organic foods. The descriptive and causal research design was used. Primary cross-section data were collected by administering structured questionnaires. Two-hundred responses were collected. The convenience sampling method was used. The PLS-SEM tool was used to test the psychometric and econometric dimensions of the proposed model. This research confirmed that environmental concern, trust, and availability were the important predictor for motivating organic food purchase intention. Health concern and awareness were not supported for organic food purchase intention. Marketers have to make their organic food easily available in the markets with a view of health and environmental consciousness to generate trust.
Service quality and customer satisfaction on two wheelers in Nepal
Authors: Shrestha Mikha
Published: March 2021

Service quality is a key to survival for all service providing companies. The modern customer is savvy and technology driven who is demanding better services. With better services companies ensure customer satisfaction which eventually leads to retention of customers. This study accesses to explore the relation between service quality variables and customer satisfaction on two wheelers in Nepal. For this purpose, descriptive cum analytical research design was been adopted. Total 200 Bajaj motorbike owners were taken as a sample. Primary data have been used in the study with the pre structured questionnaires. The findings from correlation matrix showed a significant and positive relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction while comparing dimensions like responsiveness, reliability, assurance, tangibility and empathy. This research resulted in the development of a valid and reliable scale for measuring service quality in the Bajaj two wheelers in Nepal.
Training and development in Nepalese commercial banks
Authors: Chalise Dhan Raj
Published: March 2021

Present study is designed to investigate training and development practices and its relation with performance in Nepalese Commercial Banks. This study is based on descriptive research design and comprehensively developed structured questionnaire. All the commercial bank are considered as the population and 10 bank are selected as random basis for sample banks for the study. The results are based on primary information collected form 200 staffs of 10 different branches of commercial bank of Kathmandu valley. Through the use of descriptive statistics to analyze the data the study found training and development as an integral part of the organizational development in Nepalese commercial banks. In addition, majority of the respondent reported that they acquire technical knowledge and skills, learning and development skills from training program. More specifically the study reveals that Nepalese commercial banks provide adequate importance to the employees training however the training provided are not well planned and designed according to need of the employee. Finally study shows that training and development program are factor responsible for organizational performance and employee satisfaction. Proper and systematic human resource development practices ensures the higher productivity, working efficiency, institutional promise and corporate governance.
Effect of Dividend on Stock Market Price: A Panel Data Approach
Authors: Shrestha Purna Man
Published: March 2021

Dividend policy is major concern for investor, managers and policy makers. Proper dividend policy helps to achieve the wealth maximization goal of the firm. This study has examined the impact of dividend on stock market price of Nepalese enterprises. For this purpose 33 dividend paying companies listed on NEPSE has been selected as sample. Likewise, this study used unbalance panel data for the period of 2000/01 to 2018/19. Breusch and Pagan Lagrangian multiplier test concluded that Pooled regression model is not appropriate and Hausman test concluded that Random Effect model is not appropriate for the data used in this study. Thus, this study adopted Fixed Effect model to analyze the impact of dividend on stock market price. This study concluded that there is significant impact of dividend on stock market price of Nepalese enterprises after controlling return on equity, earnings per share and return on equity. Finally, this study concluded that cash dividend has significant negative and stock dividend has significant positive impact on stock market price of Nepalese enterprises.
Clinical assessment of impacted lower third molars at Ekpan, Delta State in Nigeria
Authors: Etetafia Mabel Okiemute , Anibor Ese , Obaroefe Martins
Published: March 2021

Introduction: Diagnosis and management of impacted mandibular third molars call for a cogent appraisal and treatment choice both for the sick person and the dental practitioner. This academic work scrutinized the pattern as well as treatment of impacted mandibular third molars at the Teem Clinic and Dental Centre, Ekpan, Delta State, in Nigeria.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional survey involved 131 cases who reported impacted mandibular third molars. The age, gender, impacted tooth, type of impaction, pathological conditions, and treatment proffered were recorded.Results: The male to female ratio was 0.8:1, with an age range of 10 to 40 years. Of the lower third molar impactions 58 (42.0%) were mesioangular, 5 (3.6%) horizontal, 18 (13.0%) vertical and 57 (41.3%) were distoangular. A total of 47 (34.1%) quested for dental attention following varying degrees of pain induced by pericoronitis. Teeth removal was accomplished for 76 (55.0%) owing to carious lesions on the impacted teeth, proximate tooth, or both. Surgical extraction was the option taken in 69 (50.0 %) with caries on the impacted teeth while 3 (2.2%) had to pull out of their teeth done owing to carious lesions on the bordering second molars. In 3 (2.2%) both the impacted third molar and the proximate second molar were decayed. Conclusions: The prevailing indication for pulling out impacted mandibular third molars was acute pericoronitis. Mesioangular sort of impaction was most recurrent and ought to be considered for theplausibility of frequentness of complications.
Microbiome in Health: Establishment, Metabolism, Immunity and Neuronal Pathway
Authors: Ojezele Matthew Obaineh , Ovuakporaye Simon Irikefe , Adedapo Emmanuel Adesola
Published: March 2021

The studies on microbiome encountered a blast, lately, as scientists become mindful of the role of microbiota in the advancement of specifi c kinds of maladies. The human microbiome is described as a community of microorganisms of different taxa colonizing the human body; this includes the metagenomics and metabolomics of these organisms. Humans have customized microbiome in terms of distribution and composition which are partly determined by host genotype as well as the initial colonization which takes place after delivery. The human gut microbiome has a vital infl uence on immunity and how it responds to body signals, which is very important for the lymphoid tissue growth, maintenance, and regulation of intestinal immunity. This review aimed at providing an overview of the role of the human microbiome in health spanning the development of the microbiome in utero to postnatal period.
Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Services in Pediatric Population During COVID Pandemic in Nepal
Authors: Bhatarai Prabuddha , Bhattarai Biraj , Karna Sureshwor Lal
Published: March 2021

The pandemic has affected the daily working of people worldwide, including Audiology and speech languageservices. The Audiology and speech-language pathology services require proximity to the patients and hence increases the risk for transmission of the virus. These services are required during this time are immense to utilize a critical period of language development. Teleservices are a suitable option to assess and rehabilitate the client at this time. In a country like Nepal, where limited professionals are working in this fi eld, telehealth not only reduces transmission risk but also could be useful for patients who cannot attend clinics regularly due to the unavailability of services near their reach. The Speech and Hearing Association and all professionals working in this field should be ready to accept the changes that will eventually lead to the growth of the fi eld and the reach of the services for the patients in need.
Doctor-Patient Communication for Adherence to Hypertension Treatment in Nepal
Authors: Sah Ram Kishor , Khanal Hari Har , Shrestha Deepak Sundar , Paudel Bishnu Dutta , Gautam Roshani , Straus Andrea M , Love Richard R.
Published: March 2021

Effective doctor-patient communication is key to addressing the signifi cant issue of nonadherence to hypertension treatment in Nepal. Common clinical messages about hypertension are evaluated utilizing the framework of the Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation for their role in shaping the patient models that underlie nonadherent behavior. Clinical communications and practices are recommended: to respectfully elicit and address patient reliance on self-identifi ed symptoms; to accompany warnings of hypertension’s serious consequences with specifi c individual action-plans for durable effects; to emphasize the necessity of long-term continuous treatment without creating fears of dependence and withdrawal effects or burdensome monitoring and counseling; to inform of side-effects while presenting medication as nontoxic and necessary for the body’s maintenance of a healthy balance. By acknowledging the patient as an active agent engaged in self-regulation and by employing culturally consonant concepts (often Ayurvedic), we can encourage accurate patientillness and treatment representations that guide medication adherence.
Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy and Horseshoe Kidneys
Authors: Basnet Robin Bahadur , Shrestha Anil , Shrestha Parash Mani , Joshi Biswa Raj
Published: March 2021

Introduction: The most common fusion anomaly, horseshoe kidney, is associated with vascular anomalies, malrotation, anterior displacement of the collecting system, superior insertion of ureter into the pelvis, and a higher rate of ureteropelvic junction obstruction; thus increasing the chances of nephrolithiasis. We present our experience with percutaneous nephrolithotomy in this anomaly.Materials and Methods: A retrospective study of all the percutaneous nephrolithotomy performed by standard technique within four years at Bir Hospital was made. A comparison was made with similar cases with the anatomically normal location of the kidney. Intraoperative variables were recorded and postoperative stonefree status and complications were evaluated.Results: Six hundred and twenty-seven patients out of 691 who had undergone percutaneous nephrolithotomy in this period were included. Patients with nephrolithiasis in horseshoe kidney were younger, the incidence of multiple stones was more; without full staghorn calculus and occupying fewer calyces. Upper pole access was easier, a stone clearance of 85.42 % was achieved with no major complications in the horseshoe kidney.Conclusions: Percutaneous access and nephrolithotomy are safe in horseshoe kidney with a good stone clearance rate.
Pre-stenting for Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery: Need and Duration: a Prospective Randomized Clinical Study
Authors: Chhettri Prakash , Shrestha Anil , Basnet Robin Bahadur , Shrestha Parash Mani
Published: March 2021

Introduction: To evaluate if retrograde intrarenal surgery with ureteral access sheath requires prestenting. In case pre-stenting becomes an option, how long does it need to be stented. 

Materials and Methods: After obtaining approval from Institutional Review Board and informed consent, a prospective randomized controlled study was conducted in the Department of Urology, Bir Hospital for 18 months. All the patients enrolled for retrograde intrarenal surgery were grouped into 3 groups: Group 1 – without pre-stenting, Group 2 – one week of pre-stenting, and Group 3 – two weeks of pre-stenting. Success was defi ned as an ability to accommodate a 10/12 F ureteral access sheath during retrograde intrarenal surgery. Ureteral access sheath induced ureteric wall injury was also taken into consideration.Results: Among 179 cases, 152 cases were included in the study. In 36 patients out of 53 (67.92%) in group 1, 10/12 F ureteral access sheath was negotiable without pre-stenting, marking the frequency of distensible ureters. In 44 patients out of 47 (93.66%) from group 2 and all 52 patients (100%) from group 3, ureteral access sheath placement was successful after one and two weeks of pre-stenting respectively. Ureteric wall injury of grade1 and 2, was found in 9 patients (5.9%).Conclusions: The majority of ureters (67.92%) are distensible, not requiring pre-stenting before retrograde intrarenal surgery. One and two weeks of pre-stenting carries a success rate of 93.66% and 100% respectively.
Correlation of Arterial Blood Gas Value with Outcome of Patient Admitted with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Authors: Gautam Santosh , KC Shiva Raj , Sijapati Milesh Jung , Gyawali Purnima , KC Geetika , Gurung Sukh Bahadur
Published: March 2021

Background: The outcome of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease depends upon the partial pressure of oxygen and carbon dioxide This study was aimed to find the role of arterial blood gas parameters during the length of hospital stay among patients admitted for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseasewith acute exacerbation.
Materials and Methods: This was an observational study conducted in KIST Medical College Teaching Hospital from February 2017 to August 2019. Patients admitted with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were evaluated. Demographic data as well as oxygen saturation (SPO2), pulmonary function test, and arterial blood gas analysis were recorded and analyzed.
Results: Among 112 patients, the female to male ratio was 1.38: 1 with 84.8% over 60 years of age. One-third of patients (n=38) had exposure to both tobacco smoking and biomass and of them, 86.8% were females. Mean SpO2 was 75.9% and mean FEV1 was 0.92 L (SD=0.295) and significant association was found (p<0.001) between them. Furthermore, 70 (62.5%) patients had type I respiratory failure and 42 patients (37.5%) had type II respiratory failure. Patients with type II respiratory failure and hypercapnic patients had prolonged hospital stay with significant p-value (p<0.001). Similarly, significance was observed in the p-value for acidic blood pH, which was <0.05.
Conclusions: Increased length of hospital stay is seen in patients with acute exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with type II respiratory failure. Hence, aggressive early management to correct hypercapnia may lead to decreased hospital stay along with a better outcome. Thus hypercapnia should be considered as one of the important criteria to flag the patient and manage accordingly.
The Psychology and Parapsychology of Spiritual Emergency
Authors: Storm Lance , Goretzki Monika
Published: March 2021

A defining aspect of Spiritual Emergency (SE) is ‘psychic opening’ which may predict psi performance. This study tested paranormal (psi) performance of individuals who have or have had experiences of spiritual emergency (i.e., ‘SE-Experients’), and compared their performance against controls. The study also assessed psychological aspects of SE to differentiate it from psychosis and other proposed psi-inhibitive symptoms—namely, alogia (i.e., poverty of speech), depression, anxiety, and stress. Two groups of participants were formed: controls (mainly Psychology students) and SE-Experients. Participants either completed the study on computer in the laboratory or online. Questionnaires on spiritual emergency (which includes a subscale on psychic opening), positive symptoms of psychosis, alogia, spiritual identity, paranormal belief, mysticism, depression, anxiety, and stress, were administered to participants, who then completed the Imagery Cultivation (IC) picture-identification psi task, which uses a shamanic-like journeying protocol (Storm & Rock, 2009). The differences between controls and SE-experients on the psi measures, direct hitting (as a percent hit-rate) and mean rank scores, were not significant, but the sum-of-ranks difference was highly significant. Also, SE-experients had a marginally significant mean rank score. Direct hitting did not correlate significantly with any variable, except rank scores, which correlated significantly with psychic opening, spiritual identity, and paranormal belief, and marginally significantly with spiritual emergency. Direct hitting, rank scores, and SE did not correlate significantly with alogia, depression, anxiety, or stress, but the psychosis measure did correlate significantly with alogia, depression, anxiety, stress, and SE. The statistical evidence suggests some proportion of SE-experients experience psychic opening. While SE and psychosis overlap, only SE was predicted by spiritual identity, extrovertive mysticism, and paranormal belief (but not alogia), whereas psychosis was predicted by alogia only.
Mediumistic Materializations in France During the Early 1920s
Authors: Alvarado Carlos S.
Published: March 2021

As I have argued before in this journal, there is a rich tradition of psychical research studies of materialization mediums published before 1930 (Alvarado, 2019a). The phenomenon, associated with many well-known mediums such as Eva C., Florence Cook, William Eglinton, D. D. Home, Franek Kluski, and Eusapia Palladino, has been reviewed by many both during the nineteenth century and later (e.g., Moses, 1884–1886; Richet, 1922, Part 3). Opinions about it have been diverse. In a review of nineteenth-century evidence about it in his book Modern Spiritualism, Frank Podmore (1902, Vol. 2, Chapter 6) was rather dubious about the existence of the phenomenon. In his later concise history of psychical research, Rudolf Tischner (1924) argued that we cannot be sure if “strict proof of the reality of materialization has been provided,” but there has been “circumstantial evidence of considerable strength” (p. 68; this, and other translations, are mine). More positively, Charles Richet (1922) wrote in his celebrated Traité de métapsychique that materializations could “take a definitive rank in science” even if “we understand absolutely nothing about it” (p. 690). Over the years these attitudes have been maintained by many writers and students of the subject, some of which speculate about vital forces and spirit action. In addition, there have been various reports of fraud with materialization mediums (e.g., Sitwell & Von Buch, 1880; Wallace, 1906).

Students of the history of materialization phenomena are aware of the studies on the subject by French individuals such as Juliette Bisson and Gustave Geley. This is the main work reviewed by Antonio Leon, who has a doctorate in history from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In Sessões de Ectoplasmia, which focuses on French developments during the 1920s, Leon analyzes materialization phenomena, some of which were studied at the Institut Métapsychique International (IMI) during the 1920s. This book appears at an appropriate time because IMI celebrated their centenary in 2019.

Leon states that in his work about IMI he set out to

investigate how the experiments took place, their organization, the precautions taken to prevent fraud, their procedures of control, the phenomena, their description, and who the mediums were and the investigators involved . . . [The book] aims to verify the various aspects that pervaded the experiments during the decade of the 1920s, . . . the values and rules of the investigations of ectoplasm of this period. It will also focus on the research context in which the experiments were located. (p. 19)
Life Before Life: Is There Life Before Birth 750 Cases of Hypnosis by Helen Wambaugh
Authors: Hayen Todd
Published: March 2021

This book was originally published in 1979. This reviewer is not certain why it has been re-published in 2020—possibly because a very popular, relatively current, text by Dr. Jim Tucker of the same name has been on the market since 2008—of course a reprint of a past life research classic is always welcome. The current book by Helen Wambach being reviewed is also quite different from Tucker’s and consists of a compilation of answers from individual questionnaires (750) filled out by participants who gathered for a group workshop in Chicago with Dr. Wambach. Nearly all of the data that Wambach analyzes was acquired though these questionnaires which were distributed to the participants of the workshop after undergoing extensive hypnosis. The book begins with an introduction where Wambach shares a bit of her history as a psychologist and researcher in the field of past life regression hypnosis. The reader must keep in mind she wrote this book in 1979 regardless of the 2020 copyright and the “new release” feel of the book. 1979 was over 40 years ago and quite a few advances have been made in both medical science (she mentions her interest in doing work in the area of biofeedback “so we can begin to relate specific EEG recordings with subjective phenomena experienced…” (Wambach, 2020, p. 7)) as well as past life regression work. Although not a serious hindrance in assimilating the material she presents, it is something worth keeping in mind while reading Life Before Life.
CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CRITICAL IN ANTITANK-PROJECT INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
Authors: Pramasepta Wipti Aga , Rochayanti Christina , Ardhanariswari Kartika Ayu
Published: March 2021

Criticism is one element that can keep the existing system in its tracks and not get out of the way the system should be. Anti-tank has initially been one of the artists and activists who expressed their criticism using posters in Yogyakarta. This study aims to determine the content of criticism in the Antitank Project and the tendency of criticism. The method is content analysis. The theory used is the spiral silence theory and Habermas' critical theory. The study population amounted to 192 images in the period of January 2016 - December 2018. The study sample was taken 46 pictures to be examined because of the repetition of several photographs. The research results show that there is a tendency in Antitank criticism, namely in the political field, in which there is an important element of power and has high publicity. The object of criticism of Anti-tank's dominant work is the state government, which holds the country's highest authority. Communication of indirect criticism works or symbols becomes dominant in Antitank social criticism works. The use of symbols is more interesting and wise, to reduce conflict with the object of criticism. Antitank uploads through Instagram to get broad support and increase the approach to his work to cause movement to a broad audience by the theory adopted, namely the spiral of silence theory.
Development of Applications for Simplification of Boolean Functions using Quine-McCluskey Method
Authors: Nugroho Eko Dwi
Published: March 2021

Purpose: This research makes an application to simplify the Boolean function using Quine-McCluskey, because length of the Boolean function complicates the digital circuit, so that it can be simplified by finding other functions that are equivalent and more efficient, making digital circuits easier, and less cost.Design/methodology/approach: The canonical form is Sum-of-Product/Product-of-Sum and is in the form of a file, while the output is in the form of a raw and in the form of a file. Applications can receive the same minterm/maksterm input and do not have to be sequential. The method has been applied by Idempoten, Petrick, Selection Sort, and classification, so that simplification is maximized.Findings/result: As a result, the application can simplify more optimally than previous studies, can receive the same minterm/maksterm input, Product-of-Sum canonical form, and has been verified by simplifying and calculating manually.Originality/value/state of the art: Research that applies the petrick method to applications combined with being able to receive the same minterm/maksterm input has never been done before. The calculation is only up to the intermediate stage of the Quine-McCluskey method or has not been able to receive the same minterm/maksterm input.
The Determinant Analysis of the Utilization of Google Classroom as the E-Learning Facility in Yogyakarta Nahdlatul Ulama University
Authors: Dewi Pipit Febriana , Abadi Anis Susila
Published: March 2021

Purpose: to find out what factors cause lecturers and students to adopt and refuse to adopt Google Classroom as a means of E-Learning at the Yogyakarta Nahdlatul Ulama University.Design/methodology/approach: This research was conducted using a qualitative approach to get the meaning of a phenomenon. The Innovation Diffusion Theory is used as the basis for this research to find out how the role of Google Classroom as a means of E-Learning and how the suitability of Google Classroom as a means of E-Learning at Nahdlatul Ulama University Yogyakarta.Findings/result: the factors of adoption consisted of synchronizing the students and lecturers’ email with Google, integrating other Google features, making an efficiency of fund, time and place, finding an alternative way for e-learning, evaluating the facilities, filling the teaching and learning process, communicating between the lecturers and students, and knowing the lateness of submitting assignment. Besides, there were some factors of rejection such as the limited ownership of electronic media, limited knowledge, Internet connection, and no attendance facilityOriginality/value/state of the art: The factors of lecturers and students are adopt and refuse to adopt Google Classroom as a means of E-Learning at Nahdlatul Ulama University Yogyakarta.