bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Seroprevalence of Toxocara canis infection and associated risk factors among primary schoolchildren in rural Southern Thailand
Authors: Phasuk Nonthapan , Punsawad Chuchard 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
Background
Human toxocariasis is a parasitic zoonosis caused by a parasite in the genus Toxocara and is transmitted mainly by the accidental ingestion of embryonated Toxocara canis (dog roundworm) or T. cati (cat roundworm) eggs. Several studies reported that children were the main population at risk for T. canis infection. Currently, no reports on the seroprevalence of T. canis infection in Thailand are available, and its status remains unknown among children who live in rural areas of southern Thailand.

Objective
This study aimed to investigate the seroprevalence of T. canis infection and its associated risk factors among primary schoolchildren in rural areas of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand.

Methods
A total of 177 schoolchildren between 6 and 13 years of age were recruited between June and July 2019. Serum anti-T. canis IgG antibodies were detected with a commercial ELISA kit. A questionnaire administered by direct interviews was used to collect demographic and behavioral risk factor data.

Results
The overall seroprevalence of T. canis infection was 58.2% (103 of 177). The univariate analysis revealed that schoolchildren who did not practice handwashing before a meal (crude odds ratio (COR) = 3.67, 95% CI 1.93–6.95, P < 0.001), did not practice hand washing after animal contact (COR = 2.89, 95% CI 1.53–5.47, P = 0.001), and drank untreated water (COR = 1.87, 95% CI 1.00–3.48, P = 0.049) had an increased risk of acquiring T. canis infection. However, after adjusting for confounders, only a lack of handwashing before a meal remained a significant risk factor (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.20, 95% CI 1.11–4.34, P = 0.023). Age, sex, owning a dog, and eating fresh vegetables were not significantly associated with T. canis infection in the current study.

Conclusions
This is the first serological investigation of T. canis infection among schoolchildren in Thailand. The high rate of Toxocara seropositivity reflected high levels of exposure to T. canis among schoolchildren in rural areas of southern Thailand. The results also provide baseline data regarding modifiable risk behaviors for effective T. canis infection prevention strategies in southern Thailand, especially strengthening hand washing practices among schoolchildren.
Highlights on selected microscopy techniques to study zebrafish developmental biology
Authors: Abu-Siniyeh Ahmed , Al-Zyoud Walid 
Published: April 2020

AbstractBio-imaging is a tedious task when it concerns exploring cell functions, developmental mechanisms, and other vital processes in vivo. Single-cell resolution is challenging due to different issues such as sample size, the scattering of intact and opaque tissue, pigmentation in untreated animals, the movement of living organs, and maintaining the sample under physiological conditions. These factors might lead researchers to implement microscopy techniques with a suitable animal model to mimic the nature of the living cells.Zebrafish acquired its prestigious reputation in the biomedical research field due to its transparency under advanced microscopes. Therefore, various microscopy techniques, including Multi-Photon, Light-Sheet Microscopy, and Second Harmonic Generation, simplify the discovery of different types of internal functions in zebrafish. In this review, we briefly discuss three recent microscopy techniques that are being utilized because they are non-invasive in investigating developmental events in zebrafish embryo and larvae.
Management of Amyand’s hernia in children: should appendectomy be mandatory or not?
Authors: Almetaher Hisham A. , Mansour Mohammed A. , Arafa Mohamed A. 
Published: April 2020

AbstractBackgroundAmyand’s hernia (AH) is defined as protrusion of the vermiform appendix within the sac of the inguinal hernia and usually misdiagnosed as obstructed hernia. It is more common in pediatric patients but there are controversies about dealing with the normally looking appendix in AH. The aim of this study is to present our experience in the management of AH and highlights the difference in dealing with normally looking appendix between pediatric and adult patients. Patients’ demographics, intraoperative, and postoperative outcome were reported and analyzed.ResultsThis is a retrospective analysis of 12 pediatric patients aged between 15 days and 5 years presented with AH and operated in tertiary referral hospital over 10 years. This study included 10 males and 2 females. The median age at the operation was 7 months. Eleven patients were operated using conventional technique, and only one patient was operated using laparoscopy. In 11 patients, the appendix was looking normal and was reduced without appendectomy, and the hernia was repaired. Appendectomy was done in one patient presented with AH containing inflamed appendix. The postoperative course was uneventful in all cases.ConclusionsThere is a difference in the management of pediatric and adult patients presenting with AH, and appendectomy is not mandatory in normally looking appendix in pediatric patients.
Robert Lowth’s Bible: Between Seraphic Choirs and Prophetic Weakness
Authors: Raz Yosefa 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
Between 1741 and 1750 Robert Lowth, Oxford’s fifth chair of poetry, presented a series of groundbreaking lectures that reimagined the Hebrew Bible as literature, emphasizing its artful formal qualities. Today he is best known for rediscovering the parallelism of ancient Hebrew poetry, which he imagined as originating in the responsive singing of the seraphim. At a time when the divine authority of the Bible was waning, the reclassification of large swaths of prophecy as poetry helped Lowth extol the human figure of the prophet as a literary genius. Lowth idealized the prophetic-poetic text as “strong”: artful, controlled, ordered, and balanced. He responded to an anxiety about the place of the Bible and biblical prophecy in eighteenth-century English society by disavowing or minimizing the irregularities, stutters, and fissures in prophecy. But by introducing prophecy into poetry, Lowth—with much ambivalence—also ushered more passion, enthusiasm, and subjectivity into neoclassical English poetry. Despite his attempts to minimize the formal and theological weaknesses he found in the prophetic text, his scholarly project also transmitted them into English literature, allowing Romantic poets like William Blake to draw on biblical prophetic weaknesses in constructing their own complex prophetic positions.
Translating Style: Flaubert’s Influence on English Narrative Prose
Authors: Lee-Lenfield Spencer 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
General accounts of Gustave Flaubert’s influence on English-language writers have tended to assume that the publication of his fiction was enough to change the style of English prose. However, close examination of Flaubert’s reception in the second half of the nineteenth century shows that the novels and stories alone did not bring about a widespread shift in English prose style. Before such a transformation could happen, his theoretical statements about style in the correspondence needed to be shared with and interpreted for a new audience. Flaubert’s fiction did exert a qualified influence on the relatively few English-language writers who read and responded to it, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Henry James. However, not until the 1883 publication of his correspondence with George Sand, as well as significant critical mediation and translation (most notably by Guy de Maupassant, Walter Pater, and Eleanor Marx-Aveling), did his influence on English writers reach its full extent.
Correlation between salivary estrogen levels and oral epithelial cytokeratin 5 expression
Authors: Handajani Juni , Effendi Nuraini , Sosroseno Wihaskoro 
Published: April 2020

Background: Estrogen expression levels may be associated with age and may affect keratinization of the hard palate. Keratinized epithelium expresses cytokeratin 5 and 14 in the basal layer. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between the levels of salivary estrogen and number of cytokeratin 5-positive oral epithelial cells. Methods: A total of 30 female subjects were recruited and divided into children, adults and elderly (N=10 per group). Salivary estrogen levels and cytokeratin 5-expressing oral epithelial cells were assessed using ELISA and immunohistological methods, respectively. Data were analyzed using ANOVA with post hoc LSD test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Results: The results showed that both the number of cytokeratin 5-positive cells and the level of salivary estrogen were significantly higher in adults but decreased in the elderly, as compared with those in children (p<0.05). Furthermore, the levels of salivary estrogen were significantly correlated with the number of cytokeratin 5-positive cells (r=0.815). The ANOVA result showed significance difference cytokeratin 5 expression and estrogen level (p<0.05). The post hoc LSD test revealed cytokeratin 5 expression and estrogen level to be significantly different in children, adults, and elderly participants (p<0.05). Conclusions: These results suggest that the profile of salivary estrogen and oral epithelial cell-expressed cytokeratin 5 may be positively correlated with age and depend on age.
Lasteaiaõpetajate hinnangud ja selgitused oma töö raskuse muutumisele: professionaliseerumine kui sümboolne kapital
Authors: Mikser Rain , Veisson Marika , Tuul Maire , Õun Tiia , Kööp Kerstin 
Published: April 2020

Edendamaks alushariduse kvaliteeti ja kergendamaks lasteaiaõpetajate tööd, on Eestis ja mujal tõstetud õpetajate töö- ja haridusalaseid nõudeid. Lasteaiaõpetajad tunnustavad kõrgemaid nõudeid kui oma staatuse tõusu sümboleid, ent tajuvad samas, et lisanduvad kohustused muudavad töö üha raskemaks. Uurimuse eesmärk oli välja selgitada lasteaiaõpetajate hinnangud ja selgitused muutustele oma töö raskuse suhtes. Ankeetküsitlusele vastas 628 Eesti lasteaiaõpetajat, neist viieteistkümnega tehti hiljem individuaalne eluloointervjuu. Sõltumata staažist leidis enamik vastajaist, et töö on muutunud raskemaks, eelkõige lastesse, lapsevanematesse ning vahetusse töökorraldusse puutuvas. Samas väärtustasid vastajad oma ametinimetuse muutumist kasvatajast õpetajaks, erialaste haridusnõuete tõusu ning õppekavamuudatusi õpikäsituse ja õpetaja valikuvabaduse asjus. Lähtudes Pierre Bourdieu sümboolse kapitali teooriast, arutleme lasteaiaõpetajate professionaliseerumise võimaluste üle.
Summary
Õpetaja professionalismi võimalikud tulevikustsenaariumid aastaks 2035
Authors: Loogma Krista , Erss Maria , Ümarik Meril , Aasa Maret 
Published: April 2020

Kiired üleilmsed muutused mõjutavad õpetajatööd ja -ametit. Artikli eesmärk on selgitada võtmetegurid, mis mõjutavad ootusi õpetaja professionaalsusele, ning konstrueerida tulevikustsenaariumid 2035. aastani, et tuua esile võimalikud alternatiivsed arengurajad ja neile suundumist mõjutavad võtmetegurid üldhariduse kontekstis. Stsenaariumide peamine funktsioon pole ennustamine, vaid pigem püüd tulevikku ennetada, ärgitades selle üle arutlema ning hariduspoliitika strateegilisel planeerimisel võimalike tulevikuteedega arvestama. Stsenaariumimeetod põhineb tuleviku võtmetegurite valikul, nende vastastikuse mõju analüüsil ja stsenaariumide lugude koostamisel. Stsenaariumide aluseks valitud õpetaja töökeskkonda oluliselt mõjutavad võtmetegurid on võimalikud muutused õpetajate ametisse sisenemisel ja alternatiivsed haridustehnoloogia arengutendentsid. Nende kahe dimensiooni alusel on visandatud neli võimalikku õpetaja professionalismi stsenaariumi: "digitark arengusuunaja", "tehnoloogiakaubamaja instruktor", "biheivioristlik tööampsutaja" ja "arenguline paradoks".
Summary
A new percentage of biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) of nanoparticles synthesized directly by hydrothermal process
Authors: Rochdi Naima , Naimi Youssef , Majidi Brahim , Habti Nordine 
Published: April 2020

<p>Apatitic calcium phosphates have a mineral phase close to that of bone and are commonly used as substitutes or fillers in bone surgery. Also, they are used for their excellent biocompatibility and bioactivity. The purpose of this study is to produce directly biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) from calcium-deficient apatite (CDHA), by the hydrothermal process. The precursors used were calcium acetate (CH<sub>3</sub>COO)<sub>2 </sub>Ca, phosphoric acid (H<sub>3</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>) and triethylamine N (CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>, the product was calcined at 900°C. The composition phase, morphology, particle size and the molecular structure of the product were studied using these techniques: X-Ray Diffraction techniques, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy, Fourier Transforms Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR ) to reveal its phase content, Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometers (ICP-AES), Thermogravimetric analysis, Thermo-Differentials (ATG / ATD). The results showed that the synthesized product is CDHA. It gives after calcination at 900°C, the biphasic calcium phosphate (a mixture of HA + β-TCP). The product is also found with a new percentage and high crystallinity and nanometric size.</p>
Writing for the Screen: Creative and Critical Approaches, Craig Batty and Zara Waldeback (2019)
Authors: Daniels Y’Dhanna 
Published: April 2020

Review of: Writing for the Screen: Creative and Critical Approaches, Craig Batty and Zara Waldeback (2019)
London: Red Globe Press, 2nd ed., 282 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-352-00608-7, h/bk, $89.99
ISBN 978-1-352-00602-5, p/bk, $27.99
Writing Hollywood: The Work and Professional Culture of Television Writers, Patricia F. Phalen (2018)
Authors: Morgasen David 
Published: April 2020

Review of: Writing Hollywood: The Work and Professional Culture of Television Writers, Patricia F. Phalen (2018)
New York: Routledge, 110 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-13822-982-2, p/bk, $42.95
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?, Jane M. Gaines (2018)
Authors: Phillips Amelia 
Published: April 2020

Review of: Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?, Jane M. Gaines (2018)
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 203 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-25208-343-3, p/bk, $29.95
This is neither America nor Paris: The east–west divide in Eastern European queer-themed films
Authors: Feldmann Fanni 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
The fantasy of the west as a land of 'dreams come true' is a long tradition in the Eastern European cultural imagination and in cinema as well. Eastern European queer-themed films imagine the west as a utopian dreamland and depict the East (Eastern Europe) as backward and futureless. By analysing relevant Eastern European queer-themed films from three different decades, this article points out how the inherited fantasy of the west as imagined during the state socialist era infiltrates Eastern Europe's self-perception, when – in an act of self-colonization – the films create a hierarchy of values within which the liberal west is contrasted with the depiction of Eastern European spaces through othering strategies central in western thought. When the characters' dreams do come true – and they reach the west – disappointment is inevitable. Their retreat to their Eastern origins results in double disappointment, being trapped between crushed western dreams and Eastern nightmares.
'More coming out, bigger market': Queer visibility and queer subjectivity in the Chinese pink market
Authors: Huang Shuzhen , Wong Terrie Siang-Ting 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
The transnational circulation of Euro-American queer discourse affects queer subjectivity in local contexts. Through a case study of the Rainbow Love wedding competition, this article unravels the interplay between transnational queer politics, queer affect and the economy of visibility in the emerging pink market to explore how they shape the queer landscape in mainland China. Rainbow Love demonstrates how recent queer visibility in Chinese media manifests as a narrative commodity that is embedded in consumerism and in colonialist sexual discourse. By exploiting post-Cold War anxiety in mainland China, Rainbow Love invites affective identification and produces an 'ideal' queer subjectivity in the Chinese pink market: cosmopolitan, mobile and middle-class queers who desire and can afford luxury consumption. We argue that such queer visibility in the Chinese pink market has become a regulatory force on Chinese queer subjects despite the liberatory narratives that are advocated in the mass media.
Observing and controlling a Tamm plasmon at the interface with a metasurface
Authors: Buchnev Oleksandr , Belosludtsev Alexandr , Reshetnyak Victor , Evans Dean R. , Fedotov Vassili A. 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally that Tamm plasmons in the near infrared can be supported by a dielectric mirror interfaced with a metasurface, a discontinuous thin metal film periodically patterned on the sub-wavelength scale. More crucially, not only do Tamm plasmons survive the nanopatterning of the metal film but they also become sensitive to external perturbations as a result. In particular, by depositing a nematic liquid crystal on the outer side of the metasurface, we were able to red shift the spectral position of Tamm plasmon by 35 nm, while electrical switching of the liquid crystal enabled us to tune the wavelength of this notoriously inert excitation within a 10-nm range.
Fabrication, optical properties, and applications of twisted two-dimensional materials
Authors: Gao Xiao-Guang , Li Xiao-Kuan , Xin Wei , Chen Xu-Dong , Liu Zhi-Bo , Tian Jian-Guo 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, black phosphorus, and transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted significant research attention due to their novel properties and wide range of applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices. In particular, investigation of twist-controlled 2D materials has attracted tremendous attention due to their excellent properties such as smooth heterointerfaces, highly gate-tunable bandgaps, and ultrafast carrier transport. Twist-controlled 2D materials combined with their fascinating electronic structures have also indicated their outstanding potential in electronic and optoelectronic applications. In this review, the recent developments in twisted 2D materials are summarized, covering aspects related to their fabrication, twist angle-dependent optical properties, and optoelectronic applications. The photodetectors and orientation-dependent van der Waals junctions are introduced and discussed systematically. Finally, we deliver a summary and outlook to provide a guideline for the future development of this rapidly growing field.
Small RNA-MediatedDe NovoSilencing ofAc/DsTransposons Is Initiated by Alternative Transposition in Maize
Authors: Wang Dafang , Zhang Jianbo , Zuo Tao , Zhao Meixia , Lisch Damon , Peterson Thomas 
Published: April 2020

AbstractTransposable elements (TEs) are a ubiquitous feature of plant genomes. Because of the threat they pose to genome integrity, most TEs are epigenetically silenced. However, even closely related plant species...Although transposable elements (TEs) comprise a major fraction of many higher eukaryotic genomes, most TEs are silenced by host defense mechanisms. The means by which otherwise active TEs are recognized and silenced remains poorly understood. Here we analyzed two independent cases of spontaneous silencing of the active maize Ac/Ds transposon system. This silencing is initiated by alternative transposition, a type of aberrant transposition event that engages the termini of two nearby separate TEs. Alternative transposition during DNA replication can generate Composite Insertions that contain inverted duplications of the transposon sequences. We show that the inverted duplications of two Composite Insertions are transcribed to produce double-stranded RNAs that trigger the production of two distinct classes of small interfering RNAs: a 24-nt class complementary to the TE terminal inverted repeats and noncoding subterminal regions, and a 21- to 22-nt class corresponding to the TE transcribed regions. Plants containing these small interfering RNA-generating Composite Insertions exhibit decreased levels of Ac transcript and heritable repression of Ac/Ds transposition. Further, we demonstrate that Composite Insertions can heritably silence otherwise active elements in trans. This study documents the first case of transposon silencing induced by alternative transposition and may represent a general initiating mechanism for silencing of DNA transposons.
A 10-year single-center experience on Stenotrophomonas maltophilia resistotyping in Szeged, Hungary
Authors: Gajdács Márió , Urbán Edit 
Published: April 2020

AbstractStenotrophomonas maltophiliais an aerobic, oxidase-negative and catalase-positive bacillus.S. maltophiliais a recognized opportunistic pathogen. Due to the advancements in invasive medical procedures, organ transplantation and chemotherapy of malignant illnesses, the relevance of this pathogen increased significantly. The therapy ofS. maltophiliainfections is challenging, as these bacteria show intrinsic resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics, the first-choice drug is sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim. Our aim was to assess the epidemiology ofS. maltophiliafrom various clinical samples and the characterization of resistance-levels and resistotyping of these samples over a long surveillance period. The study includedS. maltophiliabacterial isolates from blood culture samples, respiratory samples and urine samples and the data for the samples, received between January 2008 until December 2017, a total of 817S. maltophiliaisolates were identified (respiratory samplesn= 579, 70.9%, blood culture samplesn= 175, 21.4% and urine samplesn= 63, 7.7%). Levofloxacin and colistin-susceptibility rates were the highest (92.2%;n= 753), followed by tigecycline (90.5%,n= 739), the first-line agent sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (87.4%,n= 714), while phenotypic resistance rate was highest for amikacin (72.5% of isolates were resistant,n= 592). The clinical problem of sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim-resistance is a complex issue, because there is no guideline available for the therapy of these infections.
Left ventricular apical rotation is associated with mitral annular function in healthy subjects. Results from the three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiographic MAGYAR-Healthy Study
Authors: Nemes A. , Kovács Z. , Kormányos Á. , Domsik P. , Kalapos A. , Ajtay Z. , Lengyel C. 
Published: April 2020

AbstractIntroductionLeft ventricular (LV) twist is considered an essential part of LV function due to oppositely directed LV basal and apical rotations. Several factors could play a role in determining LV rotational mechanics in normal circumstances. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between LV rotational mechanics and mitral annular (MA) size and function in healthy subjects.MethodsThe study comprised 118 healthy adult volunteers (mean age: 31.5 ± 11.8 years, 50 males). All subjects had undergone complete two-dimensional (2D) Doppler echocardiography and three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (3DSTE) at the same time by the same echocardiography equipment.ResultsThe normal mean LV apical and basal rotations proved to be 9.57 ± 3.33 and −3.75 ± 1.98°, respectively. LV apical rotation correlated with end-systolic MA diameter, area, perimeter, fractional area change, and fractional shortening, but did not correlate with any end-diastolic mitral annular morphologic parameters. The logistic regression model identified MA fractional area change as an independent predictor of ≤6° left ventricular apical rotation (P < 0.003).ConclusionsCorrelations could be detected between apical LV rotation and end-systolic MA size and function, suggesting relationships between MA dimensions and function and LV rotational mechanics.