bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Acceptability and Feasibility of Postpartum Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device Insertion in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Authors: Nahar Khadiza Nurun , Fatima Parveen , Dewan Farhana , Yesmin Afroja , Laila Tarafdar Runa , Begum Nurjahan , Deeba Farzana , Chowdhury Shiuly , Akhter Nargis 
Published: October 2019

Worldwide intra uterine contraceptive device (IUCD) is a reversible method of contraception. Postpartum IUCD insertion is labeled when IUCD is inserted within 10 minutes to 48 hours of expulsion of placenta. The objective of the study was to analyze the acceptability and feasibility of immediate postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device (PPIUCD) in a tertiary care hospital of Bangladesh. A cross sectional study was conducted among eligible postpartum women at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka Bangladesh. Counseling was done about the procedure of PPIUCD in details. After having the consent, Cu-T 380A was inserted in 343 women. The women were followed up at six weeks after delivery. A total number of 18190 women were counseled during antenatal period and at labor ward. A total number of 6441 were admitted for delivery. Among the admitted patients, 343 accepted this method. Forty nine percent of the acceptors belonged to the age group of 25 – 30 years. Majority were from urban area and had studied up to secondary level. More women from the group who had undergone caesarean section accepted this method than the women who undergone vaginal delivery. Expulsion rate was 1.6% and removal rate 5.8%. Most common reason for removal was irregular per vaginal bleeding. The immediate PPIUCD method appeared to be a safe and effective method of contraception.
Bangladesh Med J. 2018 Jan; 47 (3): 25-31
Early Outcome of on Pump Beating Heart CABG Surger
Authors: Kabir Md Mainul , Rahim AM Asif , Hossain ASM Iftekher , Hossain Nazmul , Islam Syed Monirul , Bari Md Sajedul , Shahidullah AYM 
Published: October 2019

Background: Current cardioplegic technique during conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) does not consistently avoid myocardial ischemic damage in high risk patients. Alternatively revascularization without CPB is not always technically feasible. The on-pump beating technique eliminates global myocardial ischemia and thus reduce the mortality and morbidity in high risk patients. This study evaluates the early surgical outcomes of on-pump beating-heart CABG in comparison to conventional CABG.
Methods: In this prospective study 60 high risk patients with EURO-SCORE of 6 and above were prospectively allocated into two groups in non-randomized way. Among them 30 patients underwent on-pump beating-heart CABG and 30 patients underwent conventional CABG. The early surgical clinical outcomes were compared between the groups.
Results: On-pump beating heart CABG significantly reduced the duration of operation time, cardiopulmonary bypass time, postoperative ventilation time and intensive care unit (ICU) stay. Total blood loss and transfusion requirement were less with reduced Peak Creatine-Kinase level in On-pump beating heart CABG. 30 day mortality was less in On-pump beating heart CABG group (6.7% versus 13.3%). No significant differences between the groups were found in morbidity regarding stroke, renal failure, mediastinitis and atrial arrhythmia.
Conclusion: On-pump beating heart CABG can be performed safely in high risk patients. It is still associated with the detrimental effect of CPB but eliminates intra-operative global myocardial ischemia.
Cardiovasc. j. 2019; 12(1): 13-19
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Dietary Salt Intake among Nurses Working in a Cardiac Hospital in Bangladesh Sciences
Authors: Mondal Rajib , Sarker Rajib Chandra , Sayrin Rumana , Afrin Rubya , Zaman Khurshid , Acharya Narayan Prasad , Sultana Sharmin , Banik Palash Chandra , Faruque Mithila , Choudhury Sohel Reza , Zaman M Mostafa 
Published: October 2019

Background: Noticeable proportion of Bangladeshi population including health professionals is habituated with excessive salt intake although having a good knowledge and attitude. There is no related data regarding salt intake practice among nurses in Bangladesh. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice towards dietary salt intake among the nurses working in a selected cardiac hospital.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 211 nurses working in National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute (NHFHRI), Dhaka. The NHFHRI was selected purposively and all of the nurses were targeted to recruit. Modified WHO Salt Module of STEPS Questionnaire was used for data collection.
Results: All of them believed that too much salt in diet could cause serious health problems, and majority (76.8%) had average knowledge regarding the health effects of excess salt intake. More than eighty percent (83.4%) believed that lowering the salt in diet is very important and about two-third (62.6%) used to consume salt just the right amount. Almost half (49.3%) of the nurses were used to add extra salt during their meal and three-quarter (76.8%) were used to take high salt content processed food. The median of extra salt intake among the always users (n=52) was found 2.5 g per day.
Conclusion: In spite of having good knowledge and positive attitude towards dietary salt intake, the added salt intake behavior was noteworthy among the nurses working in NHFHRI.
Cardiovasc. j. 2019; 12(1): 53-58
Prescribing pattern of antidepressant drugs in two teaching hospitals in Bangladesh
Authors: Islam Baishakhi , Shahriar Iram , Jannat Tamanna 
Published: October 2019

As depression is a major public health problem, a drug utilization study is beneficial in clinical practice for rational prescribing and helpful for minimizing the medication errors. In our country antidepressant drugs are commonly used in treatment of depression. To obtain information regarding the prescribing pattern of antidepressant drugs in accordance with WHO prescribing indicators, a descriptive cross sectional study was carried out at psychiatry out-patient department of Sir Salimullah Medical College & Hospital(SSMCH) and Dhaka Medical College Hospital(DMCH) in Bangladesh. A total of 300 (150 in each hospital) prescriptions were analyzed by using WHO prescribing indicators and Essential Drug List of Bangladesh. Among 300 patients with major depression (64%, 58.66%), females were(53.33%, 58%) and males were (46.67%, 42%) which is commonly seen between the age group 18-27 years in DMCH and SSMCH respectively. Most commonly prescribed antidepressant as monotherapy was sertraline (58.02%, 70%). Average number of drugs per prescription was (2.24 ± 0.93, 2.12 ± 0.83). Percentage of drug prescribed by generic name and percentage of encounters with an injection prescribed was nil in both hospitals. Percentage of drugs prescribed from Essential Drug List of Bangladesh was (37.5%, 25.47%) in DMCH and SSMCH respectively. Prescribing pattern of antidepressant drugs in both teaching hospitals are almost similar in accordance with WHO prescribing indicators.
Mediscope Vol. 6, No. 2: Jul 2019, Page 53-58
Extra Hepatic Portal Venous Obstruction in Children: Approach and Management
Authors: Khadga Mukesh , Md Benzamin - , Karim ASM Bazlul 
Published: October 2019

Portal hypertension in children is not uncommon and extra hepatic portal venous obstruction (EHPVO) constitute about 75% of portal hypertension. Several risk factors predispose to development of EHPVO such as neonatal sepsis, umbilical catheterization, severe dehydration, abdominal trauma or surgery etc. Common presentations are haematemesis and splenomegaly. Acute variceal bleeding is a medical emergency. Liver function is normal in extrahepatic portal hypertension unless there is portal bilopathy. High index of suspicion is the key of early diagnosis. Esophagogastrodudenoscopy is diagnostic for portal hypertension and doppler ultrasonography of portal vein confirm extra hepatic portal venous obstruction (EHPVO) in presence of thrombus and/or cavernoma. Adequate management including endotherapy, pharmacotherapy and/or surgery is an important key for better outcome.
Mediscope Vol. 6, No. 2: Jul 2019, Page 79-85
Medición de Ruido en Estaciones Transformadoras - Experiencias para el desarrollo de un Procedimiento
Authors: Steinmann Irene Beatriz , Gonzáliz Caravia Francisco , Fernández Juan Pedro 
Published: October 2019

El artículo que se presenta a continuación corresponde a los avances realizados en el marco del PID UTN 4436: "Ruido Audible En Estaciones Transformadoras", tomando como vía de trabajo la medición de ruido ambiental en estaciones transformadoras plenamente operativas a fin de desarrollar un procedimiento repetible y confiable, adecuado a lo exigido en la legislación vigente Res. SE N°77/1998, utilizando como sustento la Norma IRAM 4113, suplementaria de la Norma IRAM 4062, por razones que se presentarán más adelante.
Como antecedente, el LAMCEM (Laboratorio Ambulante de Medición de Campo Eléctrico y Magnético), viene desarrollando actividades in situ desde el año 2000, aproximadamente, conociendo problemáticas propias de las mediciones de campo. En varias ocasiones su normal desarrollo, se ve condicionado por cuestiones aleatorias como, por ejemplo, seguridad referente al riesgo eléctrico en sistemas de potencia, condiciones atmosféricas, o características del entorno y circunstanciales. En el caso de aplicación del presente artículo, se describen algunas de ellas. Los datos tomados ex profeso para el proyecto se trabajaron en laboratorio para incorporar o descartar perspectivas al procedimiento propuesto.
Desempeño hidrológico y Propiedades físico mecánicas de Hormigones Porosos elaborados con áridos de la Provincia de Entre Ríos
Authors: Garat María Eugenia , Palacio Alberto José , Larenze Gustavo Roberto , Sota Jorge Daniel 
Published: October 2019

Los antecedentes vinculados al estudio de hormigones porosos en la República Argentina son escasos. Especialmente en nuestra región (Entre Ríos, cuenca del Río Uruguay) prácticamente no se dispone de información específica. Por ello, este trabajo se orientó a caracterizar las propiedades mecánicas e hidrológicas de hormigones porosos construidos con materiales locales. Se avanzó en el diseño de distintas mezclas, con porosidades variables hasta un máximo del 25%. La resistencia a compresión se ubicó entre 9 y 39 Mpa, y la resistencia a tracción por flexión entre 1,4 y 2,4 Mpa, cuyos valores concuerdan con los reportados por la bibliografía. Se determinaron las tasas de infiltración de probetas limpias (Io en mm/h), las cuales están comprendidas entre 7000 mm/h y 44.000 mm/h, y su variación en función del grado de colmatación, observando una drástica reducción hasta alcanzar la colmatación total (Ic en mm/h) con tasas comprendidas entre 20 y 45 mm/h.
A Framework for Interrogating Social Media Images to Reveal an Emergent Archive of War
Authors: Pleska Arijus , Hoskins Andrew , Renaud Karen 
Published: October 2019

The visual image has long been central to how war is seen, contested and legitimised, remembered and forgotten. Archives are pivotal to these ends as is their ownership and access, from state and other official repositories through to the countless photographs scattered and hidden from a collective understanding of what war looks like in individual collections and dusty attics. With the advent and rapid development of social media, however, the amateur and the professional, the illicit and the sanctioned, the personal and the official, and the past and the present, all seem to inhabit the same connected and chaotic space. However, to even begin to render intelligible the complexity, scale and volume of what war looks like in social media archives is a considerable task, given the limitations of any traditional human-based method of collection and analysis. We thus propose the production of a series of ‘snapshots’, using computer-aided extraction and identification techniques to try to offer an experimental way in to conceiving a new imaginary of war. We were particularly interested in testing to see if twentieth century wars, obviously initially captured via pre-digital means, had become more ‘settled’ over time in terms of their remediated presence today through their visual representations and connections on social media, compared with wars fought in digital media ecologies (i.e. those fought and initially represented amidst the volume and pervasiveness of social media images). To this end, we developed a framework for automatically extracting and analysing war images that appear in social media, using both the features of the images themselves, and the text and metadata associated with each image. The framework utilises a workflow comprising four core stages: (1) information retrieval, (2) data pre-processing, (3) feature extraction, and (4) machine learning. Our corpus was drawn from the social media platforms Facebook and Flickr.
Written in “Women’s Ink”: French Translation and Female Power in Carol Shields’s Unless
Authors: Stovel Nora Foster 
Published: October 2019

Carol Shields’s last novel, Unless (2002), was a finalist for the Canada Reads contest for the best Canadian novel of the first decade of the 20th century. It would have been an ideal winner, not only because it is a brilliant novel, but also because it is distinctively Canadian in combining English and French. Protagonist-narrator Reta Winters, née Summers, daughter of a Francophone mother and Anglophone father, combines Canada’s official languages. Reta, like Shields, is bilingue and a translator and fiction writer. The opening segment of Unless focuses on the politics and poetics of her translations from French to English. She makes particular use of French: whenever Reta, or Shields, wants to emphasize a point, such as women’s powerlessness, she employs French translation.Shields employs three levels of translation in Unless. First, Reta’s literal translations of the texts of Danielle Westerman, French “feminist pioneer,” introduce the narrative. Second, Shields translates her breast cancer narrative into a novel about her daughter’s disappearance: Norah sits on a street corner with a sign reading “GOODNESS.” To discover her daughter, Reta embarks on an ethical quest. Third, Reta transfers her realization about women’s powerlessness, which she suspects instigated Norah’s disappearance, to her theory of fiction in this metafictional text. Finally, Reta's reflection on fiction is transformed into a feminist manifesto. Her awakening inspires a new understanding of the moral responsibility of fiction to reflect reality, especially the relationship between gender and power in this millennial novel. Reta practices “bean-counting,” noting the all-male lists of the world’s greatest thinkers and writers—“testicular hit-list[s] of literary big cats.” Reta writes six letters of protest, but doesn’t send them. If Reta is afraid to publish her views on inequality, Shields is not: she believes in “blurt[ing] bravely.”“Unless” is the pivotal concept of the novel, offering alternative narratives. Reta emphasizes the concept by noting, “Ironically, unless, the lever that finally shifts reality into a new perspective, cannot be expressed in French.”Unless women’s voices, including the silent voice of “a Muslim woman” who self-immolated on the street corner where Norah appeals for goodness, our society cannot become ethical.This essay explores Shields’s use of French language and translation to challenge the inextricable connection between gender and power in our society generally and literary culture particularly, to examine the ethics of egalitarianism regarding women and cultural “others,” and to explore the interrelationships between existence and fiction.
КОРРЕКЦИЯ ВОСПРОИЗВОДСТВА В ООО «ЗАОЗЕРНЫЙ» С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ НАБОРА ИФА OXILINE LAIT/MILK ДЛЯ РАННЕЙ ДИАГНОСТИКИ СТЕЛЬНОСТИ
Authors: PLANKOV A.V. , MASHNIN A.V. , MASHNIN D.V. 
Published: October 2019

В статье представлен анализ результатов использования в течение 7 месяцев в схеме технологического процесса молочной фермы в Челябинской области комплекса мероприятий, включающего в себя применение набора ИФА Oxiline Lait/Milk на 28й день после искусственного осеменения, а также осуществление последующих ветеринарнозоотехнических работ. Комплексный подход позволил сократить продолжительность сервиспериода со 190 до 100 дней, повысить оплодотворяемость коров на 17,98 (с 48,75 до 66,73), а также предотвратить возможные убытки от лишних дней бесплодия на 10 073 700 руб. на поголовье из 574 коров.Analysis of the result a 7 month long implementation of the IFA Oxiline Lait/Milk set on a 28th day after artificial insemination as well as subsequent veterinary and zootechnical works is presented in the article on the example of Ltd Zaozyorny (Chelyabinsk Region, Russia). An integrated approach allowed to reduce service period by 90 days from 190 days to 100 days, increase conception rate by 17.98 from 48.75 to 66.73 and also to prevent possible losses of 10 073 700 rub from excess days of infertility on a livestock of 574 cows.
GPs’ attitudes towards the diagnosis and treatment of male urinary tract infections: a qualitative interview study in Ireland
Authors: Fallon Róisín , Farrell Karen , Leon Genevieve , Rajan Aparna , Duane Sinead , FitzGerald Christine , Tierney Marie , Vellinga Akke 
Published: October 2019

BackgroundIn general practice, males represent around 20% of the total number of urinary tract infection (UTI) consultations. The majority of UTI research focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of women with UTIs but there is little evidence on how male UTIs are treated.AimTo better understand GPs’ attitudes towards the diagnosis and treatment of male UTIs. This research aimed to support future investigations to determine best practice in diagnosis and treatment of male UTI.Design and settingA qualitative interview study was carried out with 15 GPs across Ireland.MethodA topic guide was created to ensure consistency in interviews. The interviews were audiorecorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis.ResultsFifteen interviews with GPs were completed. Analysis indicated that GPs’ knowledge of guidelines and implementation of them varied widely when deciding a treatment plan for a male presenting with UTI symptoms. There was clear consensus that male UTIs were uncommon and complicated to diagnose. Three GPs reported never treating a male UTI, while others reported treating <5 patients in their careers. There was an assumption that sexually transmitted infections (STI) take precedence in young males when presenting with similar symptoms. The use of antimicrobial treatment guidelines varied widely, in line with the interpretation of the origin and severity of symptoms.ConclusionMale UTIs are perceived by GPs as rare and complicated. GPs expressed that patient age, resources, and guidelines available limited their confidence in diagnosing and treating male UTIs.
Исследование прямого электролиза воды Вьетнамского моря при производстве гипохлорита натрия
Authors: Pchel’nikov Igor, , Terikov A. , Nguen T.T.Z. , Shchukin S. 
Published: October 2019

Electrochemical sodium hypochlorite is used at water supply facilities all around the world. The use of natural waters containing chlorides as a raw material is very promising since it greatly simplifies the process flow scheme for producing sodium hypochlorite. Direct electrolysis technology can be retrofitted into the existing water treatment schemes without significant changes. The use of natural water containing chlorides eliminates the purchase of salt which reduces the cost of the finished product. The results of studies of direct electrolysis of water in the Vietnam Sea are presented. During the experiments the effect of seawater flow rate and current density on the concentration of active chlorine in the resulting sodium hypochlorite, the change in the current chlorine yield and the specific energy consumption per 1 kg of generated active chlorine were determined. The main process parameters are determined that provide for producing sodium hypochlorite by direct electrolysis of sea water using an iridiumruthenium oxide titanium anode as electrodes. It was shown that the current chlorine yield reaches maximum values (85 90) at an active chlorine concentration in the product of 2 0.2 g/dm3 which motivate the technological and economic feasibility of obtaining sodium hypochlorite from sea (ocean) water.Электрохимический гипохлорит натрия применяется на объектах водоснабжения во всем мире. В качестве сырья перспективно использование природных вод, содержащих хлориды, что существенно упрощает технологическую схему получения гипохлорита натрия. Технология прямого электролиза может встраиваться в действующие схемы водоподготовки без их существенного изменения. Применение природных вод, содержащих хлориды, позволяет отказаться от покупки поваренной соли, что снижает стоимость готового продукта. Представлены результаты исследований прямого электролиза воды Вьетнамского моря. В ходе экспериментов определяли влияние расхода морской воды и плотности тока на концентрацию активного хлора в получаемом гипохлорите натрия, изменение величины выхода хлора по току и удельный расход электроэнергии на 1 кг образующегося активного хлора. Определены основные технологические параметры, позволяющие получать гипохлорит натрия прямым электролизом морской воды с использованием в качестве электродов оксидный иридиеворутений титановый анод. Показано, что выход хлора по току достигает максимальных значений (85 90) при концентрации активного хлора в продукте 2 0,2 г/дм3, что обусловливает технологическую и экономическую целесообразность получения гипохлорита натрия из морской (океанской) воды.