bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Sex differences in self-report anxiety and sleep quality during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders
Authors: Bigalke Jeremy A. , Greenlund Ian M. , Carter Jason R. 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Background
COVID-19 and home isolation has impacted quality of life, but the perceived impact on anxiety and sleep remains equivocal. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders on self-report anxiety and sleep quality, with a focus on sex differences. We hypothesized that the COVID-19 pandemic would be associated with increased anxiety and decreased sleep quality, with stronger associations in women.

Methods
One hundred three participants (61 female, 38 ± 1 years) reported perceived changes in anxiety and sleep quality due to stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic and were administered the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). Chi-square and T test analyses were utilized to assess sex differences in reported anxiety and sleep. Analysis of covariance was used to compare the associations between reported impact of COVID-19 and anxiety/sleep parameters.

Results
Women (80.3%) reported higher prevalence of increased general anxiety due to COVID-19 when compared to men (50%; p = 0.001) and elevated STAI state anxiety compared to men (43 ± 1 vs. 38 ± 1 a.u., p = 0.007). Despite these differences in anxiety, the perceived impact of COVID-19 on PSQI was not different between sexes. However, when stratified by perceived changes in anxiety due to COVID-19, participants with higher anxiety responses to COVID-19 had higher ISI compared to those with no perceived changes in anxiety (9 ± 1 vs. 5 ± 1 a.u., p = 0.003). Additionally, participants who reported reduced sleep quality due to COVID-19 reported higher state anxiety (45 ± 1 a.u.) compared to those that perceived no change (36 ± 2 a.u., p = 0.002) or increased (36 ± 2 a.u., p < 0.001) sleep quality.

Conclusion
COVID-19 and state-ordered home isolation was associated with higher anxiety and reduced sleep quality, with a stronger association in women with respect to anxiety.
COVID-19 in pastoral contexts in the greater Horn of Africa: Implications and recommendations
Authors: Griffith Evan F. , Pius Loupa , Manzano Pablo , Jost Christine C. 
Published: October 2020

AbstractCOVID-19 is a global pandemic that continues to spread around the world, including to Africa where cases are steadily increasing. The African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is leading the pandemic response in Africa, with direction from the World Health Organization guidelines for critical preparedness, readiness, and response actions. These are written for national governments, lacking nuance for population and local differences. In the greater Horn of Africa, conditions unique to pastoralists such as inherent mobility and limited health and service infrastructure will influence the dynamics of COVID-19. In this paper, we present a One Health approach to the pandemic, consisting of interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration focused on the determinants of health and health outcomes amongst pastoralists. Our contextualized public health strategy includes community One Health teams and suggestions for where to implement targeted public health measures. We also analyse the interaction of COVID-19 impacts, including those caused directly by the disease and those that result from control efforts, with ongoing shocks and vulnerabilities in the region (e.g. desert locusts, livestock disease outbreaks, floods, conflict, and development displacement). We give recommendations on how to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its secondary impacts on pastoral areas. Given that the full impact of COVID-19 on pastoral areas is unknown currently, our health recommendations focus on disease prevention and understanding disease epidemiology. We emphasize targeting pastoral toponymies with public health measures to secure market access and mobility while combating the direct health impacts of COVID-19. A contextualized approach for the COVID-19 public health response in pastoral areas in the Greater Horn of Africa, including how the pandemic will interact with existing shocks and vulnerabilities, is required for an effective response, while protecting pastoral livelihoods and food, income, and nutrition security.
A Fugitive Christian Public: Singing, Sentiment, and Socialization in Colonial Korea
Authors: Chang Hyun Kyong Hannah 
Published: October 2020

AbstractWell-known songs of colonial Korea such as “Kagop’a” and “Pongsŏnhwa” appear to be secular songs, but their origins lie in the complex intersection of North American Christian missions, Korean cultural life, and Japanese colonial rule. This article explores the historical significance of secular sentimental songs in colonial Korea (1910–45), which originated in mission schools and churches. At these sites North American missionaries and Christian Koreans converged around songwriting, song publishing, and vocal performance. Missionary music editors such as Annie Baird, Louise Becker, and their Korean associates relied on secular sentimental songs to cultivate a new kind of psychological interior associated with a modern subjectivity. An examination of representative vernacular song collections alongside accounts of social connections formed through musical activities gives a glimpse into an intimate space of a new religion in which social relations and subjective interiors were both mediated and represented by songs. The author argues that this space was partly formed by Christianity’s fugitive status in the 1910s under the uncertainty of an emergent colonial rule and traces the genealogy of Korean vernacular modernity to the activities of singing in this space, which she calls a fugitive Christian public.
The Student’s Hand: Industrial Education and Racialized Labor in Early Korean Protestantism
Authors: Huh Jang Wook 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
In the 1900s American missionaries used the industrial vision of the African American leader Booker T. Washington to instill the idea of economic progress in Koreans. Inspired by this uplift model, the Korean intellectual Yun Ch’i-ho (Yun Ch’iho) and US Southern Methodists founded the Anglo-Korean School in 1906, where students would later produce textile products called “Korea mission cloth” for global sale. This article examines the promotion of manual labor in the intersection of religious propagation and educational reform during the early twentieth century. The author argues that the idealization of industrialization by American and Korean Protestant leaders was a vehicle to both disseminate American discourses of race and institutionalize a system of capitalism in the name of modernizing Korea. This early history of Korean Protestantism has influenced the hierarchical conceptualizations of the white, black, and Asian races, which has been obscured by the benevolent achievements of missionary work.
Gut and intestinal biometrics of the giant trevally, Caranx ignobilis, fed an experimental diet with difference sources of activated charcoal
Authors: Firdus Firdus , Samadi Samadi , Muhammadar Abdullah A. , Sarong Muhammad A. , Muchlisin Zainal A. , Sari Widya , Batubara Agung S. 
Published: October 2020

Background:The giant trevally,Caranx ignobilis, is a commercially important marine fish in Indonesia. This species was initially cultured in Aceh Province. Previous reports showed that charcoal has a positive effect on survival and feed utilization of the giant trevally. However, the effects of adding charcoal to the diet on gut and intestine biometrics has, to our knowledge, never been described.Methods:Four activated charcoal sources were tested in this study using a completely randomized experimental design; coconut shell charcoal, mangrove wood charcoal, rice husk charcoal, and kernel palm shell charcoal. All treatments were performed with four replications. Juvenile giant trevally (average body weight, 16.52 ± 3.12 g; and average total length, 10.26 ± 0.64 cm) were stocked into the experimental tank at a density of 15 fish per tank. The fish were fed an experimental diet twice daily at 7 AM and 5 PMad satiationfor 42 days.Results:Analysis of variance showed that adding charcoal to the diet had significant effects on the length and width of the foveola gastrica and villous intestine (P < 0.05). The greatest length and width of the foveola gastrica was recorded in fish fed an experimental diet of rice husk charcoal with average values of 311.811 ± 9.869 µm and 241.786 ± 10.394 µm, respectively. The greatest length of intestinal villous was found in fish fed the mangrove wood charcoal diet, with a value of 135.012 ± 5.147 µm, but this length was not significantly different to that in fish fed rice charcoal and kernel palm shell charcoal. However, the greatest width of intestinal villous was recorded in fish fed the control diet (without charcoal; P < 0.05).Conclusion:The optimal sizes of the foveola gastrica and villous intestine were found in fish fed an experimental diet with rice husk charcoal.
Enabling in the Production-Oriented Approach: Theoretical Principles and Classroom Implementation
Authors: Qiu Lin 
Published: October 2020

AbstractEnabling as the second phase of the Production-Oriented Approach (POA) instruction (Wen, 2015), plays a vital role in determining the quality of productive performance of English language learners. To explore how to apply theoretical principles of enabling to practice, this paper interprets theoretical principles and reports the practice of the classroom implementation of enabling. The paper proposes a definition for enabling, clarifies the confusion between enabling and scaffolding, and clears up some misunderstandings about enabling. It explains three criteria for effective enabling, namely, alignment, gradualness, and variety, and elaborates on the relations among them. Based on the teaching material of Unit 7 of iEnglish, the paper demonstrates how to design and implement enabling activities under the guidance of these three criteria and evaluates the actual effectiveness of the enabling implemented in the classroom.
Role of time-normalized laboratory findings in predicting COVID-19 outcome
Authors: Ferrari Davide , Seveso Andrea , Sabetta Eleonora , Ceriotti Daniele , Carobene Anna , Banfi Giuseppe , Locatelli Massimo , Cabitza Federico 
Published: October 2020

Abstract

Objectives
The pandemic COVID-19 currently reached 213 countries worldwide with nearly 9 million infected people and more than 460,000 deaths. Although several Chinese studies, describing the laboratory findings characteristics of this illness have been reported, European data are still scarce. Furthermore, previous studies often analyzed the averaged laboratory findings collected during the entire hospitalization period, whereas monitoring their time-dependent variations should give more reliable prognostic information.

Methods
We analyzed the time-dependent variations of 14 laboratory parameters in two groups of COVID-19 patients with, respectively, a positive (40 patients) or a poor (42 patients) outcome, admitted to the San Raffaele Hospital (Milan, Italy). We focused mainly on laboratory parameters that are routinely tested, thus, prognostic information would be readily available even in low-resource settings.

Results
Statistically significant differences between the two groups were observed for most of the laboratory findings analyzed. We showed that some parameters can be considered as early prognostic indicators whereas others exhibit statistically significant differences only at a later stage of the disease. Among them, earliest indicators were: platelets, lymphocytes, lactate dehydrogenase, creatinine, alanine aminotransferase, C-reactive protein, white blood cells and neutrophils.

Conclusions
This longitudinal study represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first study describing the laboratory characteristics of Italian COVID-19 patients on a normalized time-scale. The time-dependent prognostic value of the laboratory parameters analyzed in this study can be used by clinicians for the effective treatment of the patients and for the proper management of intensive care beds, which becomes a critical issue during the pandemic peaks.
Zivilgesellschaft re-visited: Emanzipation oder Instrumentalisierung?Das neoliberal-autoritäre Regime der AKP in der Türkei
Authors: Al-Rebholz Anıl 
Published: October 2020

ZusammenfassungDer Aufsatz zeichnet die Einschränkungen des zivilgesellschaftlichen Aktivismus während der sogenannten autoritären Wende in der Türkei nach, die seit 2011 zu beobachten ist und sich insbesondere nach dem gescheiterten Putschversuch vom 15. Juli 2016 weiter verschärfte. In diesem Kontext werden zwei Felder näher betrachtet: Der „Frauen-Aktivismus“ und die sogenannte „Dezentralisierung“. Ersteres beinhaltet Themen wie anti-feministische Diskurse, regierungsfreundliche Frauen-NGOs, vergeschlechtlichte Wohlfahrtspolitiken und Versuche einer Restituierung der patriarchalen Ordnung unter der AKP-Regierung. Der Dezentralisierungstopos betrifft Themen wie das fragwürdige Demokratisierungspotenzial der kommunalen Selbstverwaltungen unter den AKP-Kadern, die regierungsfreundlichen islamisch-karitativen NGOs, das Großprojekt İstanbul-Kanal und die Schirmherrschaften und klientilistischen Politiken der städtischen Governance. Diese Beispiele zeigen, dass die Grenzen zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements unter der AKP-Regierung neu zu vermessen sind. Im letzten Teil wird – in Anlehnung an die Subjektivierungsformen im Zeitalter der neoliberalen Globalisierung nach Michael Hardt und Antonio Negri – der Frage nachgegangen, ob im Falle der Türkei aus einer hegemonietheoretischen Perspektive überhaupt noch von einemprekären zivilgesellschaftlichen Konsensgesprochen werden kann.
Zur Nutzung des Raumes in Wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken
Authors: Schuldt Karsten 
Published: October 2020

Zusammenfassung
Eine systematische Auswertung der Studien, die in den Jahren 2009 bis 2019 dazu publiziert wurden, wie der Raum Wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken genutzt wird, zeigt einerseits, dass weiterhin das individuelle Arbeiten für akademische Arbeiten überwiegt und andere vermutete Veränderungen nicht in großem Maße stattgefunden haben. Andererseits zeigt sich, dass Bibliotheken vor allem auf sich schauen, Instrumente nicht nachnutzen und fast keine Vergleiche mit anderen Bibliotheken durchführen.
Allergiedaten Analysieren
Authors: Rölke Heiko , Schmid Marco 
Published: October 2020

Zusammenfassung
Das Zentrum für Datenanalyse, Visualisierung und Simulation (DAViS) der Partner FH Graubünden und Schweizer Institut für Allergie- und Asthmaforschung bietet Unterstützung in allen Bereichen der Forschung und Anwendung von Maschinellen Lernverfahren, Big Data, Visualisierung und Simulation. Im Artikel wird exemplarisch an einem Forschungsprojekt die Analyse komplexer Daten aus dem Gesundheitsbereich dargestellt.
Impacts and implications of English as the corporate official language policy: A case in Japan
Authors: Ujiie Saeko Ozawa 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Increasing numbers of corporations are now operating across national borders as a result of globalization. The “language barrier” is the first and foremost challenge they encounter when starting a business in a foreign market, and many companies are trying to solve the problem by adopting a common corporate language. Using English as an official corporate language is the most common solution for those corporations. The present study explored the impacts of English as a corporate official language policy implemented at a company, a rapidly developed high profile IT Company with 20,000 employees, in Japan, a country often perceived to be relatively monolingual and monocultural. When I started studying the company, I first found that the company’s motive to use English as the official corporate language was different from other instances of corporate language policy making I had come across. In previous studies (e.g., Feely & Harzing 2003; Marschan-Piekkari, Welch, & Welch 1999), the companies implemented common corporate language to solve problems caused by language barriers between employees with diverse linguistic backgrounds. However, the company in this study implemented the corporate language policy to prepare for globalization and recruit talents globally. When the company introduced the English-only language policy, most of the employees of the company were Japanese. Therefore, at the time of implementing the language policy, there was no compelling reason for them to use English. The language policy did not work effectively except for a few departments with non-Japanese employees who spoke different first languages. English functioned as a lingua franca in those departments with multinational employees. The findings indicate that for NNESs (non-native English speakers) to communicate with each other in English, the environment has to be more multilingual, less dominated by a single first language. Although almost all Japanese citizens are required to take intensive English courses in compulsory schoolings, the average level of English proficiency is considered to be relatively low in the advanced economies. The present study indicates that it is not for linguistic competence but a lack of interaction with other ELF speakers. Therefore, for learners of ELF in an intensely monolingual society such as Japan to become competent communicators in ELF, providing multilingual learning environments would be more effective than the prevailing teaching practices of classroom learning in L1 Japanese speaker only environments.
Preface for the Number-Theoretic Methods in Cryptology conferences
Authors: Joux Antoine , Pomykała Jacek 
Published: October 2020

AbstractNumber-Theoretic Methods in Cryptology (NutMiC) is a bi-annual series of conferences that waslaunched in 2017. Its goal is to spur collaborations between cryptographers and number-theorists and to encourage progress on the number-theoretic hard problems used in cryptology. The publishing model for the series is also mixing the traditions of the cryptography and number theory communities. Articles were accepted for presentation at the conference by a scientific commitee and werereviewed again at a slower pace for inclusion in the journal post-proceedings.In 2019, the conference took place at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Sorbonne University,Paris. The event was organized in collaboration with the international association for cryptologic research (IACR) and supported by the European Union’s H2020 Program under grant agreement number ERC-669891. This support allowed us to have low registration costs and offer easy access to all interested researchers.We were glad to have the participation of five internationally recognized invited speakers who greatly contributed to the success of the conference.Nutmic 2019 Co-Chairs,Antoine Joux and Jacek Pomykała
Anthropometric indices and cardiometabolic risk factors in a Ghanaian adolescent population
Authors: Sirikyi Ignatius H. , Eliason Sebastian , Ghartey Frank N. , Ekenam Evans , Pereko Kingsley K. A. , Okai Emmanuel , Yiridong Felix , Hagan Oheneba C. K. , Nsiah Paul 
Published: October 2020

Abstract

Objectives
Adolescent overweight and obesity is a public health concern globally, especially in lower- and middle- income countries where there is an additional burden of undernutrition. The prevalence of adolescent overweight/2obesity has increased markedly over the past three decades. The transition in dietary habits coupled with reduced physical activity has been blamed for the increasing trend. Overweight/obesity in adolescence is complicated by cardiometabolic, respiratory, musculoskeletal and psychosocial disorders. Additionally, adolescent obesity is a predictor of future development of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disorders. The burden of cardiometabolic risk factors associated with adolescent overweight/obesity in Ghana is lacking, the project, therefore, was undertaken to add to the existing knowledge.

Methods
The study was undertaken in adolescent students of a tertiary institution in Ghana. Two hundred and one students consented to participate in the study. Questionnaires on sociodemographic characteristics, dietary and substance abuse habits were self-administered. Blood pressure, height, weight and waist circumference measures were performed and venous blood drawn for the determination of fasting serum total/LDL/HDL cholesterol and triglycerides. Body mass indices were determined as the weight per square of their heights.

Results
The prevalence of obesity was determined to be 15.81% generally, 27.71% in the females and 7.08% in the males. Diastolic blood pressure was the only cardiometabolic risk factor significantly associated with obesity in our study.

Conclusion
Overweight/obesity is common in Ghanaian adolescents, with the prevalence highest in the female population.
Care of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus in school – An interventional study
Authors: Gurunathan Umamaheswari , Prasad Hemchand Krishna , White Sherline , Prasanna Bala , Sangaralingam Thangavelu 
Published: October 2020

Abstract

Objectives
Paucity of data from India on care of children with Type 1 diabetes in schools. Aims: To study assess the knowledge, attitude, practices and fear of Type 1 diabetes in school teachers and to assess the impact of an educational model on the fear of teachers and care of children in Type 1 DM at school hours.

Methods
A community based study, involving school teachers and the intervention being educating them about diabetes conducted. Data pertaining to basic demography, attitude of teachers towards diabetic children, Hypoglycemia fear factor survey- parent version with worries domain and preparedness of school was collected. An education program was conducted on diabetes care in children. Immediately and after three months, the proforma details and HFSP-W scores reassessed.

Results
Forty two teachers (mean age: 38.7±5.4; M:F ratio 2:40) participated in the study. Post intervention, a higher willingness to have the diabetic child in class (100 vs. 57.1%; p>0.05), better support in daily care (100 vs. 92%; p>0.05), participation in sports activities (100 vs. 7.1%; p<0.05) observed. HFSP-W scores were 38.8±4.5 (pre-intervention), 22.5±4.3 (immediate post intervention) and 29.5±3.2 (at 3months) (p<0.05). To study the determinants of improvement in HFSP-W a regression analysis was performed: presence of glucometer the most likely determining factor (T=1.999, p=0.05).

Conclusion
There is a significant element of fear in the minds of teachers towards hypoglycemia which improves with a structured education program.
Positive solutions for parametric (p(z),q(z))-equations
Authors: Gasiński Leszek , Krech Ireneusz , Papageorgiou Nikolaos S. 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
We consider a parametric elliptic equation driven by the anisotropic

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