bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Risk factors, clinical course and prognosis of patients with non-aneurysmal and non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
Authors:   Diomid Gherman Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Republic of Moldova, Dumanscaia Maria , Tibirna Natalia ,   Diomid Gherman Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Republic of Moldova, Dorobet Alexandru ,   Diomid Gherman Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Republic of Moldova, Manole Elena ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Odainic Olesea ,   Diomid Gherman Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) accounts for about 2-7% of all strokes. In 85% cases SAH is caused by an aneurysmal rupture, 10% of SAH are non-aneurysmal, non-traumatic, and 5% of SAH is due to other causes. The risk factors with a major resonance are arterial hypertension and smoking. The purpose of the study was the analysis of the risk factors, clinical course and prognosis in patients with SAH, which was not determined by the rupture of aneurysm or craniocerebral trauma. Methods: The patients were collected during the hospitalization in the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery “Diomid Gherman” between 2019 and March 2021. The diagnosis was confirmed by brain CT, CT angiography and cerebral MRI. In this study, for the clinical, paraclinical evaluation and prognostic were used the Hunt-Hess, WFNS, mFisher, mRankin scales. Results: The average age of the 23 research patients is 59,85 years old. Risk factors were assessed: hypertension – 20, smoking – 3, diabetes – 2, obesity – 3, dyslipidemia–2, COVID-19 – 2, autoimmune diseases – 2. The patient’s prognosis was determined according to the scales (medial score): Hunt-Hess grade 2 (2,39), WFNS grade 1-2 (1,78), mFisher grade 1-2 (1,82), mRankin score 1-2 (1,73), 5 patients – developed vasospasm, 2 patients – died. Conclusions: SAH non-aneurysm and non-traumatic, has an almost equal gender distribution, has developed in middleaged adult, the most common risk factor being arterial hypertension. Compared to women, men with non-anevrismal and non-traumatic SAH presented several associated risk factors, but at the same time they had good clinical results, low complication rates and favorable prognosis.
Drug use in patients with headache in the post-Covid period
Authors:   Diomid Gherman Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Republic of Moldova, Grosu Oxana
Published: February 2022

Drug use is a risk factor for the chronification of primary headaches and the development of secondary headaches. Forms of persistent post COVID headache have been reported, which may be due in part to the headache attributed to COVID 19 but also to drug use. The aim of the study was to analyze post-COVID drug use in subjects with headaches and to compare with preinfection levels. Material and method: An online survey was done. Questionnaires were completed by subjects who had experienced COVID 19 infection and had a headache. The questionnaire was structured in 72 questions validated and approved by the institutional bioethics committee. Completion time - 20 min. The analysis of drug use was performed and the possible prediction factors were determined by simple multivariate regression. Results: The study included 140 subjects with a mean age of 37.44 ± 10.18 years, 88.6% being women. They reported average drug use for the treatment of pain (days / month) before COVID 19 infection = 4.15 ± 4,041 (days / month) vs. during COVID 19 infection = 9.80 ± 7.742 (days / month) vs post COVID period = 7.7 ± 8.243 (days /month) (½ p <0.000, 1/3 p <0.026). Multivariate regression analysis allowed the prediction of factors that influence drug use. Model 1 - R2 = 0.471, p = 0.031, F = 2.13, df = 15; Predictor 1 = previous drug use before COVID: B = 0.641, β = 0.408, t = 2.85, p = 0.017; Predictor 2 = post COVID headache: B = -2.33, β = -0.293, t = -2.09, p = 0.044; Predictor 3 = post COVID depression: B = - 4.00, β = -0.300, t = -2.09, p = 0.050. Model 3 - R2 = 0.204, p = 0.004, F = 6.26, df = 2, Predictor 1 = drug use before COVID: B = 0.595, β = 0.379, t = 2.9, p = 0.005, Predictor 2 = vertigo post COVID: B = 2.183, β = 0.319, t = 2.462, p = 0.017 Conclusion: Drug use in the post-COVID period is associated with several factors but predictive value showed drug use before infection, the nature of post-COVID headache, depression, and vertigo in the post-COVID period.
Comparative study of genomic, immunological and functional features of squamous cell carcinomas in five anatomical locations
Authors:   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Stratan Valentina
Published: February 2022

Squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are the most common human solid tumors and a major cause of cancer mortality. They are a group of aggressive, genetically complex neoplasms with a high risk of recurrence and metastasis. In the Republic of Moldova in 2018 the incidence of head, neck, esophagus, lung, skin and cervical cancers constituted 3242 cases of which about 50% represented the histopathological form of Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Early diagnosis, improving the outcomes of disease management and adaptation of therapies are current and necessary requirements for reducing mortality. Genetic changes, alteration of intracellular signaling pathways, and immune system response in these cancers may be influenced by various factors such as: oncogenic viruses (HPV), local microbiome, tumor localization, etc. In order to extend the understanding and the area of knowledge about these malignancies, to highlight the biological similarities and differences between certain types of SCCs, are required complex, comparative studies of genomic, epigenomic, proteomic, metabolomic, imunological and microbiome events. This complex, comparative approach has not been widely applied in previous studies and will allow the identification of similarities and differences between the multi-omics and non-omics features, the determination of individual and common biomarkers in 5 types of Squamous Cell Carcinomas: skin, head-neck, esophagus, lung and cervical. The goal of the research is the comparative study of SCCs from different anatomical locations in order to improve the screening, early diagnosis, disease management and treatment of these tumors.
The emotional impact in cancer and the orientation of patients to reconstructive operations
Authors:   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Cosciug Natalia , Prepelita Diana ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Cojocaru Corneliu ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Prodan Liliana ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Gutium Rodica ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Crupenencov Eugenia ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

The results obtained show that the individual characteristics of patients, common stereotypes of behavior in stressful circumstances, various events in their personal lives are directly related and directly influence both the treatment process and the nature of the goal of reconstructive surgery.
Psycho-oncological approach in mutilating surgeries
Authors:   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Cosciug Natalia , Prepelita Diana ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Cojocaru Corneliu ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Prodan Liliana ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Tarnarutcaia Rodica ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Gutium Rodica ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova, Crupenencov Eugenia ,   Institute of Oncology, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

The examined patients were split in 3 groups depending on the nature of the objective regarding the reconstructive surgery. A direct dependence was established between the intensity of the emotional disorders and the character of the studied objective.
Pharmacoeconomic analysis of the use of antibacterial preparations in the curative institution
Authors:   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Chianu Marin , Arteni Ion ,   Municipal Clinical Hospital nr.1, Republic of Moldova, Crasiuc Iurii ,   Municipal Clinical Hospital nr.1, Republic of Moldova, Vasilache Eugenia ,   Municipal Clinical Hospital nr.1, Republic of Moldova, Topala Corneliu ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Bacinschi Nicolae ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Antibacterial preparations are some of the most common groups of drugs used in healthcare institutions that require significant financial resources, especially in the event of a dangerous increase in microbial resistance to antibiotics. The ABC / VEN pharmacoeconomic analysis will allow assessing the rationality of antibacterial drugs, redirecting financial resources for the purchase of effective preparations in the context of data on bacterial resistance in the curative institution, highlighting additional resources for inclusion in the pharmacotherapeutic form of more effective synthetic antibiotics and chemotherapeutics. The results of the analysis will contribute to the optimization of the use of antibacterial groups and preparations in the sections of the curative institution and the rational distribution according to the incidence of the treated pathologies.
Evolution of the destructive tuberculosis in children
Authors:   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Lesnic Evelina , Niguleanu Adriana ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

The aim of the study was to evaluate the outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis with lung destruction in children. Material and methods: a retrospective, selective, analytical research was performed, which included 43 children with tuberculosis. Results: the most frequently affected were girls 25 (58.1%) and the age group between 15 and 18 years 34 (79.1%) cases.. Every second child was in tuberculous contact, 41.9% were actively detected and passively 22 (52.4%) cases, even if all patients were symptomatic. Infiltrative tuberculosis predominated, in equally proportion was extended and limited, in most patients with unilateral localization, and with dissemination. Microscopic positive were 20 (46.5%) cases, GeneXpert MTB / Rif positive 30 (69.8%) cases, including resistant in 9 (20.9%) cases. Therapeutic success was registered in 30 (69.8%) cases, 2 (4.7%) cases were lost to follow-up, continued treatment with TB RR/MDR 11 (25.6%) children. Conclusions: destructive pulmonary tuberculosis evolves with unsatisfactory therapeutic results, due to the association with epidemiological risk factors, passive detection, extensive localization and bronchogenic dissemination.
Complications of glioma surgery
Authors:   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Galearschi Vasile
Published: February 2022

Background. Nowadays extensive resection remains the best treatment for gliomas. However, postoperative complications can disturb the benefits of surgery. The risk of surgical complications must be assessed against the benefits of obtaining a total resection, especially for tumors of eloquent brain. Object. The goal of this study was to review present evidence of glioma resection concerning the frequency of complications,their causes, predictive risk factors and current methods of reducing the occurrence of these events. This review strives to consolidate information about complications and preventive measures as well as to establish the utility of tools to improve neurosurgical outcome. Methods. A review of the literature concerning the main postoperative complications in patients with glial tumors was done. We performed a search using key words "cerebral neoplasm", "cerebral tumor", "glioma" and "complications". Papers that namely discussed complications rates were included. Anatomic, physiologic, clinical features were taken into consideration in patients with postoperative complications as well as current methods of investigations. Results. Documented overall complication rates ranged from 10% to 35%, with overall mortality rates of 1.0%-15%. Studies of series undergoing surgery for malignant gliomas found at least one surgical complication in 3.4% of patients with a 4.5% risk in patients for hospital-associated complications such as surgical site infection. There was a wide range of types of complications. The presence of new or worsened neurological deficit was up to 20% as the highest reported rate for treatment of eloquent arias glioma. Relatively common complications were postoperative peritumoral edema (2%-10%), CSF fistula (1%-15%), wound infection (0%-4%), surgery-related hematoma (1%-5%) and early postoperative seizure (1%-12%). The risk for cardiac complications was 0.7%, for respiratory complications - 0.5%, for deep wound infection - 0.8%,for deep venous thromboses - 0.6%, for pulmonary embolus - 3.1%, for acute renal failure -1.3%. Infratentorial tumour location, reoperations and previous radiotherapy were factors related to the incidence of regional complications. Age over 60 and severe comorbidities were risk factors for systemic complications. Conclusion. Postoperative morbidity in glial tumor surgery may be reduced by: encouraging use of standardized protocols for regional and systemic complications, intraoperative navigation that allows surgeon to maximize resection while preserving neurological function, clinical vigilance and attention to details.
Essential tremor- diagnostic criteria and treatment modalities
Authors:   Diomid Gherman Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Republic of Moldova, Gavriliuc Olga , Fala Paula ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Gavriliuc Mihail ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Andrusca Alexandru ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Essential tremor (EЕ) is the most common cause of action tremor in adults. In most cases, TE can be managed by primary care physicians, starting with the exclusion of secondary causes and followed by initiation of propranolol or primidone therapy if the tremor causes disability. The decision to refer a neurologist depends on the clinician’s confidence in the diagnosis, his or her level of comfort with the use of medications recommended for tremor suppression, and the patient’s response to treatment.
Injuries of the musculoskeletal system in pregnant women (literature review)
Authors:   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Kusturov Vladimir , Kusturova Anna ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Paladii Irina ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

We studied the influence of mechanogenesis, severity and the nature of trauma on the musculoskeletal system injuries in pregnant women. It was defined the main diagnostic measures, their consistency depending on the severity of the general condition of the traumatized pregnant woman. The evaluation of post-traumatic changes in the female body which negatively affect reproductive function should be performed. A complex of medical, social and other measures is required for the prophylaxis of injuries and post-traumatic complications during pregnancy.
Liver transplantation in acute liver failure: a challenging scenario
Authors:   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Pirvu Victor , Peltec Angela ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Hotineanu Adrian ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Acute liver failure is a critical medical condition defined as rapid development of hepatic dysfunction associated with encephalopathy. The prognosis in these patients is highly variable and depends on the etiology, interval between jaundice and encephalopathy, age, and the degree of coagulopathy. Determining the prognosis for this population is vital. Unfortunately, prognostic models with both high sensitivity and specificity for prediction of death have not been developed. Liver transplantation has dramatically improved survival in patients with acute liver failure. Still, 25% to 45% of patients will survive with medical treatment. The identification of patients who will eventually require liver transplantation should be carefully addressed through the combination of current prognostic models and continuous medical assessment.
Impact of comorbidities on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (literature review)
Authors:   Institute of Phthisiopneumology ", Stavila Ecaterina ,   Chiril Draganiuc",   , Republic of Moldova, Botnaru Victor ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova, Corlateanu Alexandru ,   Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova
Published: February 2022

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Multimorbidity is the presence of two or more chronic conditions in a person at the same time. Multimorbidity is frequently associated in patients with COPD and is a modifiable key factor, which requires timely identification and holistic management strategies, aimed at improving outcomes and reducing the burden of disease. Diagnosis and assessment of the severity of COPD can be difficult in the presence of comorbid conditions. Comorbidities increase in number and severity with the patient’s age and have a major impact on quality of life, hospitalization and direct mortality. Finally, we will focus on current management strategies with the goal of a holistic, patient-centered approach rather than single disease management. This literature review provides an overview of the impact of comorbidities on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
دراسة تأثير إضافة مسحوق قشور البيض على الخواص الفيزيائية الضوئية لمتعدد فينايل الكحول
Authors: الدليمي حميد خالد
Published: February 2022

اشـتمل البحـث احلـايل دراسـة التجزئـة الضوئيـة ألفـام متعـدد فينايـل الكحـول )PVOH )املحـرة بطريقـة الصـب
بعـد إضافـة نسـب وزنيـة خمتلفـة ملسـحوق دقائـق قشـور البيـض )5.0 ، 1 ،2 ، 4 ، 8 % )عنـد حجـم دقيقـة مسـاو اىل )nm
4.575 ، )وبسـمك )5±80 ) ُ مايكـرون لألفـام البوليمريـة . درس تأثـر نسـبة املـادة املضافـة عـى رسعـة التجزئـة الضوئيـة
للرقائــق البوليمريــة نســبة اىل االفــام النقيــة قبــل وبعــد تعريضهــا ملصــدر االشــعة فــوق البنفســجية املصنــع حمليا،والــذي
تقـع اعـى قمـة امتصـاص لـه عنـد الطـول املوجـي )356 )نانومـر، وبأزمـان تشـعيع تبـدأ مـن )0-20 ) ُ سـاعة. توبعـت
عمليـة التجزئـة باسـتعامل جهـاز طيـف االشـعة فـوق البنفسـجية- املرئيـة )VIS-UV)حلسـاب ثابـت رسعـة التفـكك )kd ،)
وجهـاز االشـعة حتـت احلمـراء )FTIR )حلسـاب معامـل نمـو جمموعتـي الكاربونيـل )Ico )واهليدروكسـيل )IOH )وتقنيـة
اللزوجـة ملتابعـة التغـر يف معـدل الـوزن اجلزيئـي اللزوجـي ، اذ وجـد مـن خـال مطيافيـة االشـعة فـوق البنفسـجية- املرئيـة،
ومطيافيـة االشـعة حتـت احلمـراء ان ثابـت رسعـة التفـكك ومعامـات نمـو الكاربونيـل واهليدروكسـيل تتناسـب طرديـا مـع
تركيـز دقائـق مسـحوق البيـض املضـاف وزمـن التشـعيع، وهـذا يتفـق مـع مـا اظهرتـه صـور املورفولوجيـا للسـطح.
بينـت نتائـج قياسـات اللزوجـة مـن حسـاب درجـة التجزئـة )α )واملعـدل العـددي لقطـع السلسـلة )s )ومنتـوج كـم
قطــع السلســلة )Φcs )ان معــدل الــوزن اجلزيئــي اللزوجــي يتناقــص مــع زيــادة مــدة التشــعيع وتركيــز املــادة املضافــة مــن
وبالتــايل تكــون دقائــق قشــور البيــض مالئمــة كمضــاف طبيعــي يف تعجيــل عمليــة التجزئــة الضوئيــة للبوليمــر ممــا حيســن
التحلـل البايولوجــي هلــذا البوليمــر عــن طريــق تقليــل اطــوال السلســلة.
أدبيات الماوردي و أثرها في الفكر السياسي بإشارة خاصة إلى كتاب الأحكام السلطانية
Authors: عطا محمد أحمد كنتول
Published: February 2022

أدبيات الماوردي و أثرها في الفكر السياسي بإشارة خاصة إلى كتاب الأحكام السلطانية

This paper attempted to analyze Al-Maourdi’s Scientific Contribution in promoting the Islamic political view in the most of the periods that came after his time.

The main theme is that, to present the major ideas of his studies with special reference to his available study "Al-Ahkam Al-Saultania", which created the political theory of Islamic state that lead to freedom and human respect, through discussed different conditions and issues that surrounded Al-Maourdi's life and explained its effects
الريح في القرآن الكريم
Authors: مها تاج السر محمد عابدون
Published: February 2022

الريح في القرآن الكريم

Wind, in Arabic language is the running of the air, it is a feminine word.

Wind has eight kinds, four are blessing and four are punishment.

Wind, the singular word means punishment and wind, the plural word means blessing.

Since human was born on the surface of the earth he thought about the changes of daily weather.

Arabs took care of geography since pre-Islam period .

Wind is told during Holy Qura’n as an evidence of deity, abenefit that leads to worship God, as the same as meaning of power, a force under the domination of prophet Suliman-peace be upon him, an evidence to prophet Yaagoab-peace be upon him-that the prophet Yousif- peace be upon him - was still living during that period, as exam that leads to faith and Allah frightened non-muslims by sending wind as a punishment, as an example to explain the wrong way that non-Muslims are going on and the useless of their gifts .

And wind was told also during the Holy Qura’n as an evidence for returning of the life ٠ Al baath".
كيفية القصاص في الجناية على الأطراف و ما يجري مجراها
Authors: عثمان أحمد عثمان محمد
Published: February 2022

كيفية القصاص في الجناية على الأطراف و ما يجري مجراها

In this research about “Gisas” on crimes of limbs and similar case, the research consider the views of scholars of ’ and their efforts concerning “Gisas” as a punishment on parties , definitions of “Gisas” and crime on limbs is given including the general and specific conditions, pointing out the crime on limbs and similar cases .The views that are taken by the researcher are based on strong evidence , Sudanese criminal law of 1991 is being considered as the main issue .Together with jurisdictional precedents of the supreme court in the period 1983- 1993
الإشارات النحوية عند ابن سهل الأندلسي
Authors: يحيى علي محمد الفادني
Published: February 2022

الإشارات النحوية عند ابن سهل الأندلسي

Ibrahim Ibn Sahl A1 Ashbily is one of the famous poets in the seventh century of the Hidjra .

Ibrahim was affected by the previous movement of poetry in using the figures of speech like similes and metaphors and other terms.

The poets were used to extract some verses of Quraan and some Hadith of the prophet (peace be on him) and the saying and wisdoms in their poetry .

Though we noticed that Ibrahim Ibn Sahl had used some Arabic Grammar Terms in his poetry as it was used in the centuries before his time .

Exceptionally it was not accepted the overuse of Grammar Terms in poetry for it makes the poetry of less quality and not affecting others and then to be a blame to the poet
Geochemical methods to prospect for gold mineralization in Shamkhyia area : northern state-Sudan
Authors: Yunus Sulayman Mustafa
Published: February 2022

Geochemical methods to prospect for gold mineralization in Shamkhyia area : northern state-Sudan

The study area is located in the northern border of Buyda Desert at the lobe of the River Nile at coordinates: latitude 19° 27 25" N, longitude 32° 59’ 37'.

Unconsolidates samples were collected from areas of the suspected Au bearing sector to reveal secondary dispersion patterns.

The results which were obtained for Au and accompanying elements (Ag, Cu, Co, Cu, Pb, and Zn) Table No (7 , 8) were subjected to statistical analysis to reveal parameters such as background values (Cb) coefficient of correlation (r), coefficient of variation (c.v), geochemical factors (u), and productivities (q,Q) and coefficient of dispersion (5).

These parameters can be used as prospecting and exploration criteria.

The coefficient of correlation of Au with the accompanying elements in rock chip composite samples show values more reliable for prospecting than those of the soil samples.

Geochemical factors of ratios of contents of epithermal elements to hypothermal elements indicate deeper levels of mineralization and weathering.

Gold dispersion shows less erratic behavior and this reflects more or less the morphology of the hidden ore bodies.

The main conclusions are:- Coefficient of corelations when they are reliable can be used to define pathfinders to prospect for the difficult gold.

Coefficient of mobility can be used to adopt sampling intervals and grid system.

Geochemical factors can indicate horizon of mineralization and level of weathering.

Geochemical reserve can be used to indicate priorities for further extensive explorational studies
Proverbial Wisdom and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Squire's Tale
Authors: Kramer Johanna
Published: February 2022

Chaucer was deeply interested in questions surrounding knowledge. He confronts the problem of knowledge in the Squire's Tale by examining various types of knowledge, epistemologies, the limits of knowledge, and curiosity. I argue that Chaucer offers a particular tool to approach this problem: proverbs. In the tale, the embedded microgenre of proverbs shows the value of traditionality and communal knowledge and regulates people's behavior. Guiding readers through a process of moral education to evaluate true and false knowledge, proverbs support the tale's argument for pursuing true knowledge grounded in traditional wisdom, while rejecting illicit curiosity and novelty. My examination engages challenging, informative, and diverse material that is widely integrated into Chaucer's works. Given the ubiquitous popularity of proverbs across social classes and their adaptability to a wide range of contexts, this microgenre reveals concerns and interests of fourteenth-century readers, and other aspects of medieval culture, that might otherwise remain hidden.
The Dragon of Love: Chaucer's Jason and the Cycle of Consumption in the Legend of Good Women
Authors: Harlan-Haughey Sarah
Published: February 2022

In the Legend of Hypsipyle and Medea, Jason is portrayed as a predator whose compulsive need for sex with new women lays waste to all around him. Chaucer's sequence of imagery explores the continuums of lust and desire, of form and formlessness, providing insight on sexually predatory men, the currency of love, and the deep lack that spurs avarice. This reading of the legend highlights some recurrent motifs—dragons, foxes, gold, and emptiness—and discusses what these interlinked signs tell us about Chaucer's philosophy, his aesthetic and moral plan for the Legend of Good Women, and his continuing fascination with predatory masculine sexual behavior and compulsive infidelity, which he reads as a kind of shapeshifting. This legend presents a pessimistic and cautionary vision of a recurring human behavior, a biological urge that becomes unstoppable when it is couched behind gentility, as it was in the “first” seducer, Jason.
Women's Land Ownership and Household Income Diversification Patterns in Malawi
Authors: Hillesland Marya , Swaminathan Hema , Grown Caren
Published: February 2022

This study investigates the association between women's land ownership within households and household income diversification in rural communities in Malawi in 1995, a period when households faced several welfare shocks due to weather and policy changes. Evidence suggests that diversification is positively associated with greater resilience of poor rural households, particularly when the diversification is in activities outside of agriculture. While studies have explored the relationship between household asset ownership and income diversification, little is known about the gender dimensions underlying these patterns, including the relationship between men and women's asset ownership and household diversification. Using a unique data set with detailed information on household income sources and individual-level information on land ownership, our study finds that in households where women own at least a small amount of land benefit by having a greater household total income diversification. Additionally, while the number of income sources is similar for couple households and female-headed households after controlling for diverse factors, the types of activities differ between the two. The findings suggest that promoting female land ownership in Malawi could indirectly contribute to households' greater security in the face of unfavourable conditions via household diversification of income sources.
Delightful Fruits and Bitter Weeds: Textual Consumption and Spiritual Identity in The Orcherd of Syon
Authors: Alakas Brandon
Published: February 2022

Prologues at the beginning of The Orcherd of Syon, which reimagine Catherine of Siena's Dialogo as a garden through which readers stroll, promote a material understanding of reading rooted in a complex notion of what occurred when devout readers encountered contemplative texts. These horticultural metaphors merit careful attention because they align Birgittine meditative reading with broader approaches among female religious toward food practice, the material world, and imitatio. Drawing these discourses together, The Orcherd, this article argues, offers readers an opportunity to communicate directly with God in a way akin to visionaries and prophets.
“The Land Called Sweeds Land”: “Ancient Settlers,” “Great Capitalists,” and the Anglicization of the Delaware Valley
Authors: Thompson Mark L.
Published: February 2022

This article considers how struggles over land shaped the process of “anglicization” in colonial Pennsylvania. It focuses on a property dispute in the 1720s that pitted a second-generation Swedish yeoman and his fellow “Ancient Settlers” against an aspiring English Quaker entrepreneur and his high-placed allies. Drawing on property records, official minutes, and contemporary correspondence to reconstruct the controversy, the article demonstrates that disputes over land not only mobilized the Swedish population in Pennsylvania as “Swedes” but also embedded them within the colony as property-owning and rights-bearing British subjects. Their eighteenth-century cultural transformation was ultimately a negotiated process of “Britonization” that fostered appeals to ethnic and national forms of distinction as well as to shared attachments to Englishness and Britishness.
Millerites in Pennsylvania
Authors: Franco Barbara
Published: February 2022

Pennsylvania's Second Advent history offers a new perspective on the nineteenth-century religious phenomenon of the Millerites since members were drawn from the state's diverse ethnicities and nonconformist religious sects. Accounts of Pennsylvania Adventists, especially in the central portion of the state, provide further evidence that the movement allowed an active role for women, engaged in outreach to African Americans, targeted rural communities, and maintained connections with other nineteenth-century reform movements, including abolition, temperance, and eclectic medicine. Rather than disappearing after 1844, Millerites in Pennsylvania remained active into the twentieth century, providing an unbroken link to the new evangelical denominations that eventually replaced them.
“Those damned, dirty apes”: Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy and the Evolution of the Ape-Man
Authors: Fuller Jennifer
Published: February 2022

Netflix’s popular science fiction series The Umbrella Academy raises new questions about how the familiar trope of the ape-man has been adapted for a contemporary audience. Tracing the figure of the ape-man through representative works of nineteenth-century science fiction—Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, H. G. Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau, and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes—shows that the character has often been used to interrogate ideas of race, gender, and power across the Victorian age. More than just a stand-in for nineteenth-century evolutionary debates, the figure of the ape-man reflects cultural ideas about the relationship between humans and their “animal instincts,” constantly questioning what sets humans apart in the hierarchy of animals.
Reconstructing an Ancient Monument to Mid-Victorian Liberalism, One Annotation at a Time: John Stuart Mill’s Marginalia in George Grote’s History of Greece
Authors: Pionke Albert D.
Published: February 2022

John Stuart Mill inscribed nearly 1,200 individual examples of marginalia into his personal copy of George Grote’s twelve-volume History of Greece (1846–56). Of these, roughly two-thirds are verbal annotations ranging in length from a single letter to a short paragraph. Analysis of the 136 annotations found in volumes one and two, and comparison of each page containing annotations across five editions of Grote’s History, reveal not only that Mill was directly responsible for sixty revisions made to the text of volumes one and two but also that Mill read and annotated his friend’s “opus magnum” multiple times. Considered not just in terms of its significance in intellectual history—when ancient Greece, specifically Athens, was repositioned as central to modern Britain, particularly as it was being reimagined by Victorian liberal reformers—but also as a case study for how to approach the epistemological challenges posed by marginalia more broadly, Mill’s interactive and durable relationship with Grote’s History testifies to the ongoing influence of reading conventions inherited by the Victorians from their Enlightenment and Romantic predecessors and demonstrates the heuristic value of considering marginalia’s effects in order to discern its content, attribution, intent, and chronology.
Promoting the Methodist Woman Preacher: Phoebe Palmer's Concept of ‘Female Prophesying’ and the Question of Spiritual Authority
Authors: Jetter Claudia
Published: February 2022

This article investigates the seeming dissonance between Phoebe Palmer's (1807–74) role as a charismatic leader who emphasized an unmediated, literalist approach to the Bible and her adoption of complex historical-critical arguments to defend female preaching. Drawing on Max Weber's concept of charisma, the article traces Palmer's performance as a pronounced biblicist before discussing her use of historical-contextual and linguistic arguments in response to male opposition to her ministry. The article presents Palmer as an innovative theologian and evangelist who negotiated male authority by strategically employing critical scholarship to establish ‘female prophesying’ as a necessary means to further the cause of holiness.
Preferential Places in the Manchester and Stockport Methodist District during the Early Twenty-first Century
Authors: Hirst Michael
Published: February 2022

Methodism has always placed concern for the poor at the heart of its identity and purpose, yet its local presence and reach is declining. This article examines recent trends in the location of manses and churches against area variations in socio-economic deprivation in one conurbation. Manses are often found in less-deprived neighbourhoods than the churches for which ministers hold responsibility. As churches contract and close, manses are becoming distanced from the most deprived church catchments. These findings raise questions about stationing and ministers' contribution to a national strategy for evangelism and growth that is focused on engaging marginalized communities.
Sexually transmitted diseases in women who aged 50 or older: a retrospective analysis from 2000 to 2017 in a public reference service in Niterói City, Rio de Janeiro State
Authors: Maia Mariana Cotta , Passos Mauro Romero Leal , Pinheiro Vandira Maria dos Santos , Salles Roberto de Souza
Published: February 2022

Introduction: Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are more common in young people. There are few studies on STDs in the older population, particularly women. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate and characterize, with epidemiological variables, the prevalence of STDs in the female population over 50 years old, in a public reference service in Niterói city, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Methods: The study was carried out at the STD Sector of Universidade Federal Fluminense. It was a descriptive retrospective study of quantitative character, carried out with women aged 50 years or older, attended at the aforementioned teaching, research, and extension unit, from 2000 to 2017. Data collection was performed with documentary research from the records of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sector of Universidade Federal Fluminense. A total of 6,822 records were analyzed, of which 2,363 were of women. Of these, 50 were medical records of women over 50 years old. The variables used were age, education, marital status, use of condom, diagnosis, sexual and behavior characteristics (extramarital relationships and history of homosexuality), skin color, history of STDs, sex education, the number of sexual partners, and family income. Results: There was a higher prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in the form of condyloma acuminata in 48% of cases and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) I, II, or III in 20%. Syphilis occurred in 14%, genital herpes and trichomoniasis in 6% each, HIV in 4%, and gonorrhea in 2% of cases. Notably, 64% of women had no pathological history of STDs, 6% had a previous diagnosis of syphilis, and 6%, of HPV. The predominant age group was 50–59 (78%), with a higher prevalence in white women (54%). Most patients (66%) reported having one fixed partner, were married (54%), and had no history of extramarital relationships (64%). In addition, 64% of patients had no degree of sex education and 56% lived on less than two minimum wages. Most patients (78%) reported not using condoms. In 50% of cases, the level of education was incomplete primary education and only 8% had concluded higher education. Conclusion: STDs were more frequent in white women who did not use condoms. The most prevalent STD was HPV infection, as condyloma acuminata in pardo women. HPV infection as a cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) was the second most common STD in white and pardo women.
Óbitos por sífilis congênita: agravo de saúde pública evitável
Authors: Romero Renata Olívia Gadelha , Silva Juliana Kelly Batista da , Medeiros Leidyanne Barbosa de , Lima Édija Anália Rodrigues de , Campos Juliana Soares , Wingerter Denise Guerra , Pereira Ivoneide Lucena , Ramalho Joanna Angélica Araújo , Silva Renata Cândido da
Published: February 2022

Introdução: A sífilis congênita ainda ocupa espaço entre as causas básicas de óbitos infantis, sobretudo entre as perdas fetais, contribuindo para os desfechos negativos da gestação. A transmissão vertical da sífilis representa uma falha na identificação da gestante infectada ou na aplicação das medidas profiláticas para diminuir a transmissão e, por isso, deveria ser considerada um evento sentinela. Objetivo: Descrever o perfil das gestantes e as causas mencionadas ao óbito por sífilis congênita. Métodos: Foi realizado um estudo descritivo, retrospectivo, com abordagem quantitativa, dos óbitos por sífilis congênita notificados no Sistema de Informação de Mortalidade no período de 2010 a 2020 no estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Resultados: No período analisado, houve o registro de 82 óbitos por sífilis congênita, dos quais 17% (14) ocorreram no ano de 2018, apresentando uma discreta tendência de declínio o número de óbitos nos anos subsequentes; 63,4% (52) das gestantes tinham entre 14 e 24 anos, 34,1% (28) das gestantes tinham o ensino superior incompleto, 25,6% (21) residiam na região metropolitana do estado, 51,2% (42) dos óbitos foram fetais e 46,3% (38) desses óbitos tinham como causa básica a sífilis congênita precoce não especificada. Conclusão: O monitoramento e a avaliação de indicadores pertinentes à avaliação da mortalidade perinatal por sífilis congênita devem ser estratégias que possam promover a análise de situação de saúde por meio das ações de controle e, com isso, propiciar meios de orientar e reforçar a qualidade do cuidado a gestantes no pré-natal para assim eliminar a transmissão vertical da sífilis, especialmente a mortalidade perinatal, como problema de saúde pública.
Uso das redes sociais na internet para a difusão de informação sobre vírus da imunodeficiência humana/aids e COVID-19
Authors: Malavolta Pedro Zavitoski , Oliveira Bárbara Lopes de , Abbate Maria Cristina
Published: February 2022

Introdução: Quarentena e isolamento social, medidas necessárias para conter a pandemia de COVID-19, ampliaram a necessidade do uso das plataformas de redes sociais para difundir informações sobre vírus da imunodeficiência humana, infecções sexualmente transmissíveis e COVID-19. Objetivo: Descrever as estratégias de comunicação digital desenvolvida pela Coordenadoria de Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/Aids da Secretaria Municipal da Saúde de São Paulo (SP) após a Organização Mundial da Saúde decretar pandemia da COVID-19 e apresentar alguns resultados. Métodos: Estudo descritivo de caso de natureza mista (quantitativa e qualitativa) com delineamento documental. O corpus da pesquisa é composto de publicações na página do Facebook do órgão público entre 13 de fevereiro e 13 abril de 2020, o mês anterior e o posterior à primeira publicação sobre COVID-19. Resultados: Foram analisadas 83 postagens e 46 publicações antes de 13 de março (A) e 37 após (B). Onze publicações trataram diretamente sobre o novo coronavírus (C), com temas como formas de transmissão da COVID-19, relação com vírus da imunodeficiência humana, relação com sexo, terminologias e reuniões para alinhamento com unidades especializadas. Ademais, foram realizadas diversas atividades on-line, lives. Os dados, obtidos na própria ferramenta, apontam que houve um aumento de 48,5% (B/A) na visualização média das postagens entre o primeiro período e o segundo período e de 193% (C/A) se contabilizar apenas as publicações sobre COVID-19. Sempre considerando a média, observou-se, entre o primeiro e segundo mês, um aumento de 60,3% no engajamento, 93,9% no compartilhamento e uma queda de 47,7% nos comentários. Analisando apenas as postagens sobre COVID-19 (C/A), as variações foram: 311,7% mais engajamento, 289,8% mais compartilhamento e 181,8% mais comentários. Conclusão: O conteúdo produzido foi influenciado pelo contexto de pandemia, reflexo de um olhar estratégico e de rapidez de produção pela Coordenadoria de Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/Aids. Houve uma maior procura da comunidade atendida por informações sobre COVID-19, o que pode ser visto pelo maior engajamento.
D-8 ÜLKELERİNDE YOLSUZLUK, BÜYÜME, HARCAMA VE YATIRIM: PANEL ARDL ANALİZİ
Authors: ALBAYRAK Muzaffer
Published: February 2022

Yolsuzluk, küresel düzeyde artan ve ülkelerin çözmesi gereken önemli bir sorundur. Yolsuzluk, ülkelerin makroekonomik göstergelerini olumsuz etkilemekte, ekonomik ve sosyal maliyetlerini artırmaktadır. Yolsuzlukla birlikte kamu kaynakları özel çıkarlar için kullanılmaktadır. Bu makale, 1990-2019 yılları arasında D-8 üyesi ülkelerde yolsuzluk ile reel GSYİH, toplam tüketim harcamaları ve toplam yatırımlar arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektedir. Sonuçlar, uzun vadede D-8 ülkelerinde Reel GSYİH ile yolsuzluk arasında önemli bir pozitif ilişki olduğunu göstermektedir. Ayrıca Panel ARDL sonuçları, uzun ve kısa vadede yatırımlar ile yolsuzluk arasında pozitif bir ilişki olduğunu göstermektedir. Kısa vadede yolsuzluk ve toplam yatırım arasındaki ilişki Endonezya, Malezya, Nijerya, Pakistan, Mısır ve İran'da negatif, Türkiye ve Bangladeş'te ise pozitiftir. Tüketim harcamaları ile yolsuzluk arasındaki ilişki Endonezya ve İran için pozitif, Türkiye, Bangladeş, Malezya, Nijerya, Pakistan ve Mısır için negatiftir. Öte yandan Dumitrescu-Hurlin Panel nedensellik analiz sonuçları, yolsuzluktan reel GSYİH’ya doğru nedensellik ilişkisi göstermektedir.
Manajemen Skala Prioritas dalam Aspek Keuangan Rumah Tangga pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19
Authors: Kusumastuti Anggit Dyah , Paningrum Destina
Published: February 2022

Pandemi covid 19 yang terjadi di Indonesia menciptakan ketidakstabilan dan krisis di sektor ekonomi, khususnya sektor rumah tangga. Kurangnya pengetahuan ibu rumah tangga dalam menentukan skala prioritas kebutuhan sehari-hari merupakan salah satu faktor yang menyebabkan kesulitan ekonomi dalam rumah tangga pada saat pandemi covid 19. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat dengan tema manajemen skala prioritas dalam aspek keuangan rumah tangga pada masa pandemi covid 19 pada ibu-ibu rumah tangga di lingkungan RT 04 RW 12 Kelurahan Pajang, Laweyan, Surakarta bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan dalam pengelolaan keuangan rumah tangga sehingga ibu-ibu rumah tangga dapat membuat suatu perencanaan dan penganggaran keuangan rumah tangga secara optimal. Pengelolaan keuangan rumah tangga merupakan salah satu solusi sehingga penggunaan sumber daya ekonomi terutama dalam hal keuangan dapat direncanakan, dipantau, dievaluasi, dan dikendalikan untuk menjamin stabilitas ekonomi keluarga. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan pengabdian ini adalah dengan melakukan sosialisasi dan diskusi yang berkaitan dengan materi manajeman skala prioritas dalam aspek keuangan rumah tangga pada masa pandemi covid 19. Hasil dari kegiatan ini adalah Ibu-ibu rumah tangga yang hadir dapat menambah pengetahuan dan pemahaman tentang pengelolaan keuangan berdasarkan manajemen keuangan dan prinsip akuntansi.
An Empirical Method for Decomposing the Contributions of Land and Building Values
to Housing Value
Authors:   National Taiwan
            University, Pan Kuan-Lun , Teng Hsiao Jung ,   Anfu Co., Ltd, Lin Shih-Yuan ,   National Chengchi
            University, Cheng Yu En ,   Anfu Co., Ltd
Published: February 2022

This paper develops an empirical method that uses two separate housing related
components to estimate housing value: land and building. The artificial neural network
(ANN) technique is used to iteratively solve for two hedonic models simultaneously by
minimizing the difference in the observed total value and the sum of the estimated land
and building values. This method enables one to objectively separate housing value into
land and building components. Using actual sales transaction data from Taipei City, we
estimate the land value as a share of the total housing value. The results show that the
land value accounts for a higher share with older properties. The share of the land
value of low-rise buildings tends to be higher than that of high-rise buildings. The
share of the land value can deviate by 20 percentage points between more or less
expensive housing communities within Taipei City.
The (De)merits of using Integral Transforms in Predicting Structural Break
Points
Authors:   WITS University, Kola Katlego , Sebehela Tumellano ,   WITS
            University
Published: February 2022

The structural break points of returns and volatility are generally illustrated by
using uni-and-multivariate time series models. Despite the elegance of
uni-and-multivariate models, the interchangeability of different structural break points
is not well accounted for in those models. This study uses integral transforms (Fourier
and Laplace) to illustrate the interchangeability of structural break points of indices.
Furthermore, structural break points are validated with commonly used unit root
structural break tests [(i) augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF), (ii) ADF-generalized least
squares (GLS), Phillips Perron (PP) 1988 and Zivot-Andrews (ZA) 1992 tests]. The results
illustrate persistent interchangeability and interconnectedness patterns of structural
break points throughout the time series. Moreover, the structural break points tests
confirm the findings of the integral transforms.