bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Psychiatric Comorbidity in Patients With Chronic Pancreatitis Associates With Pain and Reduced Quality of Life
Authors: Phillips Anna Evans , Faghih Mahya , Drewes Asbjørn Mohr , Singh Vikesh K. , Yadav Dhiraj , Olesen Søren Schou ,   On behalf of the Pancreatic Quantitative Sensory Testing (P-QST) Consortium
Published: August 2020

INTRODUCTION:
Abdominal pain, frequent in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP), has a negative impact on quality of life (QOL). Psychiatric comorbidities including anxiety and depression are associated with pain, but their prevalence and effects on QOL in CP have not been quantified. We studied the prevalence of anxiety and depression in patients with CP and their associated patient and disease characteristics and impact on QOL.

METHODS:
This was a cross-sectional, multicenter prospective study. Patients were screened with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale questionnaire. A Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale score >7 on the respective anxiety or depression subscales indicated the presence of anxiety or depression and was used as a surrogate for the diagnosis of psychiatric comorbidities. Patient demographics, disease characteristics, QOL (EORTC-QLQ-C30), and pain symptoms (Brief Pain Inventory Short Form) were compared between patients with and without psychiatric comorbidities.

RESULTS:
One hundred seventy-one patients with CP (mean age 53.8 ± 13.7 years, 60% men) were included. Anxiety and depression were present in 80 (46.8%) and 66 (38.6%) patients, with overlap in 50 (29%). Patients with anxiety or depression reported higher pain prevalence, pain severity, and pain interference scores (all P < 0.001). Psychiatric comorbidities also associated with reduced global health scores and functional subscales (all P < 0.001) and higher symptom burden (P ≤ 0.03). An independent association was noted between global health status and depression (P < 0.001).

DISCUSSION:
Psychiatric comorbidities are prevalent in patients with CP and associated with pain and QOL. Where the effect of anxiety on QOL may be mediated via pain, depression is independently related to QOL. These findings warrant consideration in the management of patients with CP.
Endoscopic or Conservative Management of Iatrogenic Duodenal Perforations Caused by Long Plastic Biliary Stent Distal Migration
Authors: Thapa Namisha , Loudin Michael , Sharzehi Kaveh , de Melo Silvio W. , Enestvedt Brintha K. 
Published: August 2020

ABSTRACT
Plastic biliary stents are associated with rare but potentially life-threatening distal stent migration. We present 4 patient cases with distal migration, whereas the proximal aspect remained in the bile duct. Time to stent migration ranged from 1 week to 2 months. Stent migration caused contralateral duodenal wall perforation; 2 underwent endoscopic over-the-scope clip placement for defect closure. All required previous stent removal and stent exchange. This case series highlights that proximal stricture and longer stents have higher migration risk, also shown in the literature. We also show that duodenal perforation can successfully be managed endoscopically with an over-the-scope clip.
Veblen e a Psicologia dos Instintos
Authors: Rabelo Freitas Tales 
Published: August 2020

Veblen é conhecido na literatura como o primeiro expoente institucionalista de ala heterodoxa. Entretanto, grande parte dos seus escritos sobre a natureza humana são negligenciados pelas abordagens institucionais contemporâneas. Para o autor, as propensões existentes na mente dos agentes econômicos são essenciais para explicar os objetivos das instituições. A importância dos instintos é evidenciada na maior parte de suas obras. Inclusive, alguns economistas julgam que o intitucionalista norte americano deu maior destaque para este componente do que as próprias instituições. Diante disto, julga-se de grande relevância o aprofundamento dos estudos sobre a teoria dos instintos e seu efeito na análise institucional de Veblen.
House finance for low income groups in Pakistan
Authors: Hanif Fouzia , Shamshir Mussarat , Alwi Khurram Khan 
Published: August 2020

Shelter is the third basic need of human beings after food and clothing. Everyone has a desire to own a house. Pakistan is a developing country and due to limited resources, is unable to fulfill the complete demand of shelter of the population. In the four provinces, different housing schemes are offered by the government but due to the scarcity of resources, they are not enough to satisfy people. Governments should introduce new housing schemes in each of the four provinces, other than the existing ones. Private sector should also help the government in this regard by constructing employee’s colonies and deduct the nominal amount from their salaries, so that by the time of their retirement they become the owners of their houses. Descriptive statistics technique is used to analyze the housing schemes with the comparison of population accordingly in each province. Pakistan is an Islamic country and due to religious issues people are not in favor of availing financing facilities provided by conventional banks and HBFC. But after the establishment of Islamic banks up to some extent this issue has been slightly resolved. Islamic banks should introduce house financing facility to women on easy terms and then up to some extent, help the government to solve the problem of providing shelter to the population. Banking sectors should easy the procedure of house financing to increase the number of borrowers.
Woman political leadership in Romania versus other countries
Authors: Tonis Rocsana B. Manea , Braicu Cezar , Bucea-Manea-Tonis Radu , Gurgu Elena 
Published: August 2020

This paper explores the Romanian women influence as political leader over the Romanian economy. The whole research is based on global gender gap index for Romania analyzed on 2013-2018 period. The data was integrated in a linear regression model. The model interpretation findings show that reducing gender gap in Romania could bring an increase on Romanian GDP. The paper states that this situation is due to a higher emotional intelligence of Romanian women as leaders. They are also characterized by perseverance and conscience. In 2017 Romania made important progress in reducing this gap, but it seems that the world political dimension gap could be closed within 99 years.
Geometric Reliability Analysis of Composite Foundations Comprising Cement–Fly Ash–Gravel Piles at Site-Specific Scale
Authors: Wu Xing Zheng , Xin Jun-Xia 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Evaluating the pressure-settlement response of a composite foundation at a specific site is important for supporting the safety of superstructures in the design process to determine the bearing performance of the foundation. The uncertainties in the power law regression parameters stem from a significant scattering of pressure-settlement curves when a series of static load tests are conducted for the composite foundations composed of cement–fly ash–gravel piles at a particular site. Thus, in this work, a probability density contour (PDC) of these regression parameters is constructed using a bivariate distribution, which offers great flexibility in fitting the marginal distributions and the dependency between the two regression parameters. Based on an intuitive evolutionary geometry of the PDCs in the original physical space of two dependent random variables, a reliability index is defined as a distance ratio of two PDCs, i.e., the dispersed PDC that just touches the limit state curve and the one standard deviation PDC. These bivariate PDCs are discretized with several segments that adapt to the different spreads of the asymmetric data. Reliability indices are calculated based on the geometric reliability analysis, which offers great transparency for engineers in evaluating the safety of the composite foundation at a site-specific level. By using this reliability technique, the effects of uncertain regression parameters are explicitly explored at six sites consisting of 280 static loading tests.
Viscosity of Mineral Oil Diluted by Biodiesel Methyl Esters: Methods for Mixture Predictions and Small Samples after Tribometer Testing
Authors: Molina Gustavo J. , Shanta Sultana M. , Onyejizu Emeka F. , Soloiu Valentin 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
The use of biodiesels in internal combustion engines leads to tribology concerns because significant oil dilution occurs when biodiesels leak into the oil pan. Dilution by biodiesels may substantially alter oil lubricity and lead to reduced viscosity, which produce tribological changes on engine materials. It is also possible that such oil-biodiesel mixtures undergo further viscosity decreases when subjected to the high temperatures and high contact pressures typical of internal combustion engine boundary lubrication. This research presents new methods to test viscosity reductions because of biodiesel addition in mineral oil and to assess prediction of mixture viscosity considering the chemical breakdown of biodiesel. The results of dynamic viscosity versus dilution rates are presented for small after-tribometer-testing samples of SAE 15W40 mineral oil diluted by four biodiesels (from canola, peanut, and soybean and chicken fat oil). The small sample remaining after tribometer-testing required an ad-hoc method, the suitability of which is discussed; large viscosity decreases in a range of about 70 to 95 % were observed for after tribometer testing of the mixtures. Preliminary data of viscosity versus temperature also are presented for the mineral oil diluted by increasing fractions of different biodiesels and by six pure fatty-acid methyl esters (methyl-oleate, -palmitate, -linoleate, -laurate, -myristate, and -stearate, which are typical components of biodiesels), and they are discussed to explain tribological properties of such mixtures. The results suggest that the viscosity of commercial biodiesels blended in oils could not be fully explained by assuming the former as mixtures of pure methyl esters, which is consistent with the previous experimental data on their tribological effects.
Effect of Temperature on Friction and Wear Behavior under Reciprocating Dry Sliding of AISI 52100 Steel against AISI H13 Steel
Authors: Durango Alexander Zuleta , Cano Michell Felipe , Souza Roberto Martins , Sinatora Amilton 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Previous work about the effect of temperature on friction and wear of dry steel-on-steel sliding tests showed a transition from severe wear to mild wear. Nevertheless, in dissimilar counterpart materials, the mechanical properties and microstructural characteristics generate differences in friction and wear behavior. In this work, experimental tests were conducted in an SRV-4 tribometer using a ball-on-disk configuration (i.e., nonconformal contact). The selected materials were AISI 52100 bearing steel balls and AISI H13 steel disks, which are used in different engineering applications. Frequency, load, and stroke length parameters were fixed, and analyses refer to the effect of different times and temperatures. The results of friction coefficient above 300°C showed 2 friction regimes as a function of test time. In the first friction regime, abrasion of the counterpart was observed, and for the second friction regime, the reduction of friction and wear was related to an oxide tribolayer formation. Tribological tests for the lowest time, of 0.5 h, were not long enough to show two friction regimes, which were observed in other test times (4, 8, and 15 h).
Connecting Engineering Technology with Enterprise Systems for Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Authors: Ethirajan Manavalan , Kandasamy Jayakrishna , Kumaraguru Senthilkumaran 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Organizations have been facing quite a few challenges, including a growing global competitive market, shorter time to market, rising product variants, and adjustments in production because of fluctuation in demand. To handle these challenges, industries need to connect engineering technology with enterprise systems to transform their practices toward industry 4.0 requirements. The supply chain sector is targeting stakeholders to enhance their product competitiveness by leveraging innovative digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things (IoT), and blockchain to make effective decisions instantaneously. This article will help in contextualizing emerging adaptive intelligence technology to drive connected intelligence and achieve supply chain operational excellence. A real-time case study in the manufacturing industry will be discussed. Subsequently, how adaptive intelligence can help quality management in real-time will be explored to manage the production quality, which is measured by rejections, scraps, and cost savings. Additionally, this article discusses how technology-embedded enterprise systems help the organization to manage the daily production, which is measured by production rate, quality, and yield. For the case organization, the IoT architecture is proposed and the performance metric framework for the supply chain is described. Furthermore, the article discusses how materials can be reused to extract economic benefits with collaborated diverse industries. This influences the eco-friendly environment across the supply chain with the focus on reducing the carbon footage.
Genomic Patterns of Introgression in Interspecific Populations Created by Crossing Wheat with Its Wild Relative
Authors: Nyine Moses , Adhikari Elina , Clinesmith Marshall , Jordan Katherine W , Fritz Allan K , Akhunov Eduard 
Published: August 2020

AbstractIntrogression from wild relatives is a valuable source of novel allelic diversity for breeding. We investigated the genomic patterns of introgression from Aegilops tauschii, the diploid ancestor of the wheat D genome, into winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars. The population of 351 BC1F3:5 lines was selected based on phenology from crosses between six hexaploid wheat lines and 21 wheat-Ae. tauschii octoploids. SNP markers developed for this population and a diverse panel of 116 Ae. tauschii accessions by complexity-reduced genome sequencing were used to detect introgression based on the identity-by-descent analysis. Overall, introgression frequency positively correlated with recombination rate, with a high incidence of introgression at the ends of chromosomes and low in the pericentromeric regions, and was negatively related to sequence divergence between the parental genomes. Reduced introgression in the pericentromeric low-recombining regions spans nearly 2/3 of each chromosome arm, suggestive of the polygenic nature of introgression barriers that could be associated with multilocus negative epistasis between the alleles of wild and cultivated wheat. On the contrary, negative selection against the wild allele of Tg, controlling free-threshing trait and located in the high-recombining chromosomal region, led to reduced introgression only within ∼10 Mbp region around Tg. These results are consistent with the effect of selection on linked variation described by the Hill-Robertson effect, and offer insights into the introgression population development for crop improvement to maximize retention of introgressed diversity across entire genome.
Disjoint connectivity of wireless sensor network
Authors: Al-Zuhairi Ahmed S. , Altimimy Alaa H. , Al-Aqbi Ali T. , Al-Kargole Hazim M. 
Published: August 2020

AbstractGrowing ramification in WSN contemplations are not restricted to routing, construction of protocols, dynamic of mobile nodes and infrastructure of the network. Although transcended to geometric level demonstrated as computational and dynamical geometries in spite of graph theory. In this paper we present step forward recognition features of a network devoted to solve the problem of reconstructing the disconnected network by connecting any disconnected chains. It considers geometrical properties of random depletion nodes deviated from unit grid. Number of chains and number of nodes in each chain are calculated with the average number of connections to a total nodes and longest chain. Histogram represented number of chains and numbers of nodes for each chain are used to show fragmentation of the network. Algorithm included a method to translate adjacent matrix to chain matrix and vice versa to check the agreement of initial case with the results. The amount of chain deviation and average connections per node for longest connected chain and for the total network are drawn as bar charts and conduct interpretations.
Mathematical modeling on the propagation of guided elastic waves
Authors: Teidj Sara 
Published: August 2020

AbstractThe main cause of train derailment is related to transverse defects that arise in the railhead. These consist typically of opened or internal flaws that develop generally in a plane that is orthogonal to the rail direction. Most of the actual inspection techniques of rails relay on eddy currents, electromagnetic induction, and ultrasounds. Ultrasounds based testing is performed according to the excitation-echo procedure [1]. It is conducted conventionally by using a contact excitation probe that rolls on the railhead or by a contact-less system using a laser as excitation and air-coupled acoustic sensors for wave reception. The ratio of false predictions either positive or negative is yet too high due to the low accuracy of the actual devices. The inspection rate is also late; new numerical method has been developed in this context: The semi-analytical finite element method SAFE. This method has been applied in the case of anisotropic media [2], composite plates [3] and media in contact with fluids [4]. This method has been used successfully for several structures and especially in the case of beams of any cross-section such as rails that are the subject of this work and we were interested in wave propagation in waveguides of any arbitrary cross-section in the case of beams or rails.
Microbiota composition and inflammatory immune responses upon peroral application of the commercial competitive exclusion product Aviguard® to microbiota-depleted wildtype mice
Authors: Heimesaat Markus M. , Weschka Dennis , Kløve Sigri , Genger Claudia , Biesemeier Nina , Mousavi Soraya , Bereswill Stefan 
Published: August 2020

AbstractNon-antibiotic feed additives including competitive exclusion products have been shown effective in reducing pathogen loads including multi-drug resistant strains from the vertebrate gut. In the present study we surveyed the intestinal bacterial colonization properties, potential macroscopic and microscopic inflammatory sequelae and immune responses upon peroral application of the commercial competitive exclusion product Aviguard® to wildtype mice in which the gut microbiota had been depleted by antibiotic pre-treatment. Until four weeks following Aviguard® challenge, bacterial strains abundant in the probiotic suspension stably established within the murine intestines. Aviguard® application did neither induce any clinical signs nor gross macroscopic intestinal inflammatory sequelae, which also held true when assessing apoptotic and proliferative cell responses in colonic epithelia until day 28 post-challenge. Whereas numbers of colonic innate immune cell subsets such as macrophages and monocytes remained unaffected, peroral Aviguard® application to microbiota depleted mice was accompanied by decreases in colonic mucosal counts of adaptive immune cells such as T and B lymphocytes. In conclusion, peroral Aviguard® application results i.) in effective intestinal colonization within microbiota depleted mice, ii.) neither in macroscopic nor in microscopic inflammatory sequelae and iii.) in lower colonic mucosal T and B cell responses.
Macroeconomic determinants of external indebtedness of Ethiopia: ARDL approach to co-integration
Authors: Beyene Sisay Demissew , Kotosz Balázs 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Although Ethiopia is one of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), there is a lack of empirical studies about the determinants of its external indebtedness. This paper aims to fill this gap by examining the macroeconomic determinants of the external indebtedness of Ethiopia between 1981 and 2016, using the two- and three-gap models as a theoretical framework and an autoregressive distributed lag bound testing approach. The result shows that in the long run, the savings-investment gap, trade deficit, fiscal deficit, and debt service have a positive and significant impact on external indebtedness. However, the growth rate of gross domestic product, trade openness, and inflation negatively and significantly affect the external indebtedness of the country. These results coincide with the predictions of the two- and three-gap models of the theoretical framework. The study argues that appropriate macroeconomic, social, and supply-side policies are essential to reducing the external indebtedness of Ethiopia.
Daya hasil dan indeks panen ubi jalar unggul baru berdaging kuning (Ipomoea batatas L. (Lam.))
Authors: Karuniawan Agung , Aulia Reviana , Maulana Haris , Ustari Debby , Rostini Neni 
Published: August 2020

Estimasi daya hasil dan indeks panen dalam pemuliaan tanaman dibutuhkan untuk menyeleksi genotip ubi jalar. Genotip ubi jalar terseleksi yang berdaya hasil tinggi dapat digunakan sebagai bahan pendukung diversifikasi pangan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk memperoleh genotip ubi jalar berdaya hasil tinggi serta memiliki indeks panen tinggi. Penelitian dilaksanakan di Kebun Percobaan Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Padjadjaran Kabupaten Sumedang, Jawa Barat dari bulan November 2018 sampai April 2019. Penelitian ini menggunakan delapan genotip ubi jalar dan tiga genotip pembanding (Ac Putih, Kidal, dan Rancing). Metode yang digunakan adalah rancangan acak kelompok (RAK) dengan 11 perlakuan yang diulang sebanyak tiga kali. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa jumlah ubi per tanaman, jumlah ubi total, jumlah ubi ekonomis, bobot ubi per tanaman, bobot ubi total dan bobot ubi ekonomis menunjukan perbedaan yang nyata. Terdapat tujuh genotip yang berdaya hasil tinggi yaitu MZ 332, PR 91 (838), Awachy 4, KMDK, IND 38 (48), IND 8 (11), IND 264. Terdapat empat genotip ubi jalar unggul baru yang memiliki hasil indeks panen > 1 yaitu, Mz 332, PR 91(838), KMDK, dan IND 8(11). ABSTRACT Estimation of yield and harvest index on sweet potato are needed to select new superior genotypes of sweet potato in the breeding program. Selected sweet potato genotypes with high yield can be used as supporting material for food diversification. The purpose of this study was to obtain new superior genotypes of yellow-fleshed sweet potato with high yield and high harvest index. The study was conducted in the Experimental field, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang Regency, West Java from November 2018 to April 2019. This study used eight sweet potato genotypes as treatment and three genotypes as check i.e. Ac Putih, Kidal and Rancing. The method used was randomized block design (RBD) with 11 treatments repeated three times. The results showed that the numbers of tuber per plant, numbers of tuber per plot, numbers of economic tuber, weight of tuber per plant, total weight per plot, weight of economic tubers were significantly different. There are seven genotypes with the high yield, i.e. MZ 332, PR 91 (838), Awachy 4, KMDK, IND 38 (48), IND 8 (11), IND 264. Four genotypes with harvest index > 1 i.e. Mz 332, PR 91 (838), KMDK, and IND 8 (11).