bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Brain metastases from primary colorectal cancer: is radiosurgery an effective treatment approach? Results of a multicenter study of the radiation and clinical oncology Italian association (AIRO)
Authors: Navarria Pierina , Minniti Giuseppe , Clerici Elena , Comito Tiziana , Cozzi Salvatore , Pinzi Valentina , Fariselli Laura , Ciammella Patrizia , Scoccianti Silvia , Borzillo Valentina , Anselmo Paola , Maranzano Ernesto , Dell'acqua Veronica , Jereczek-Fossa Barbara , Giaj Levra Niccolò , Podlesko Anna Maria , Giudice Emilia , Buglione di Monale e Bastia Michela , Pedretti Sara , Bruni Alessio , Bossi Zanetti Isa , Borghesi Simona , Busato Fabio , Pasqualetti Francesco , Paiar Fabiola , Scorsetti Marta 
Published: October 2020

Objectives: The prognosis of brain metastatic colorectal cancer patients (BMCRC) is poor. Several local treatments have been used, but the optimal treatment choice remains an unresolved issue. We evaluated the clinical outcomes of a large series of BMCRC patients treated in several Italian centers using stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Methods: 185 BMCRC patients for a total of 262 lesions treated were evaluated. Treatments included surgery followed by post-operative SRS to the resection cavity, and SRS, either single-fraction, then hypofractionated SRS (HSRS). Outcomes was measured in terms of local control (LC), toxicities, brain distant failure (BDF), and overall survival (OS). Prognostic factors influencing survival were assed too. Results: The median follow-up time was 33 months (range 3–183 months). Surgery plus SRS have been performed in 28 (10.7%) cases, SRS in 141 (53.8%), and HSRS in 93 (35.5%). 77 (41.6%) patients received systemic therapy. The main total dose and fractionation used were 24 Gy in single fraction or 24 Gy in three daily fractions. Local recurrence occurred in 32 (17.3%) patients. Median, 6 months,1-year-LC were 86 months (95%CI 36-86), 87.2% ± 2.8, 77.8% ± 4.1. Median,6 months,1-year-BDF were 23 months (95%CI 9-44), 66.4% ± 3.9, 55.3% ± 4.5. Median,6 months,1-year-OS were 7 months (95% CI 6–9), 52.7% ± 3.6, 33% ± 3.5. No severe neurological toxicity occurred. Stage at diagnosis, Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS), presence and number of extracranial metastases, and disease-specific-graded-prognostic-assessment (DS-GPA) score were observed as conditioning survival. Conclusion: SRS/HSRS have proven to be an effective local treatment for BMCRC. A careful evaluation of prognostic factors as well as a multidisciplinary evaluation is a valid aid to manage the optimal therapeutic strategy for CTC patients with BMs. Advances in knowledge: The prognosis of BMCRC is poor. Several local treatments was used, but optimal treatment choice remains undefined. Radiosurgery has proven to be an effective local treatment for BMCRC. A careful evaluation of prognostic factors and a multidisciplinary evaluation needed.
Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation” after the pandemic: Windows of opportunity for adaptative policies
Authors: Morales Oyarvide César , Villalpando Acuña Antonio 
Published: October 2020

The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the infectious agent that caused COVID-19, has put a level of pressure on governments and their structures only seen in times of war. The governments of the world face a health challenge that will have profound economic consequences, which requires an effective response to contain the contagions of the disease and, at the same time, an unprecedented economic effort to preserve jobs, value chains and lifestyles. This reality has reached Mexico during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who, since the beginning of his presidential term on December 1, 2018, has launched an ambitious set of austerity measures aimed at releasing resources for cash transfer programs and infrastructure projects. The struggle between a model that bets on reducing the size of the State and that of public spending and an economic reality that will demand more public investment and state intervention will define the course of Mexico's future public policies. The authors discuss a new world full of windows of opportunity to promote a more ambitious social, fiscal and security policy agenda, on which depends the Mexican government ability to avoid the worst social consequences of the pandemic and the economic crisis. Abstract (in Spanish)La propagación del virus SARS-CoV-2, el agente causante de COVID-19, ha ejercido un nivel de presión sobre los gobiernos y sus estructuras como solamente se había visto en tiempos de guerra. Los gobiernos del mundo enfrentan un desafío sanitario que tendrá profundas consecuencias económicas, lo que demanda una respuesta eficaz para contener los contagios de la enfermedad y, al mismo tiempo, un esfuerzo económico sin precedentes para preservar empleos, cadenas de valor y estilos de vida. Esta realidad ha llegado a México durante la administración de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, quien, desde el comienzo de su mandato presidencial el 1 de diciembre de 2018, ha puesto en marcha un ambicioso conjunto de medidas de austeridad a fin de liberar recursos para programas de transferencias y obras de infraestructura. La pugna entre un modelo que apuesta por reducir el gasto del Estado mexicano y una realidad económica que demandará mayor inversión e intervención estatal definirá el rumbo de la política pública de México. Los autores discuten sobre un mundo nuevo lleno de ventanas de oportunidad para impulsar una agenda de política social, fiscal y de seguridad más ambiciosa, de cuyo aprovechamiento depende el poder evitar las peores consecuencias sociales del binomio pandemia-crisis económica.
Shared-knowledge, Transparency, and Accountability: In Enabling State-Society Relations Governance on COVID-19 Resilience Building Societies
Authors: Esien Eddy Bruno 
Published: October 2020

This policy brief examines shared-knowledge, transparency and accountability to improve enabling state-society relations on COVID-19 resilient building governance and takes into account the impact on third-country nationals (TCNs) in Austria, Finland, Czechia, and Lithuania. Existing research pointed to state-society relations as decentralised multi-stakeholder governance in public service reform for sustainable resilience building societies. However, the governance faced budgetary constraints and low public sector performance management. Although the relational governance shows certain public authorities have failed and/or ineffective to administer and achieve a range of public policy goals, there is still little policy study research in Nordic, Baltic, Central Eastern European- CEE and Central Western European countries explaining the improvement of state-society relations model on COVID-19 resilient building societies and its impacts to TCNs’ in the selected entities. Based on a qualitative cross-country oriented research approach with fewer country com­parisons, primary data from the authors of this policy paper research, documents, published and unpublished scholarly texts are collected and analyzed with document and content analysis techniques. The findings indicates insufficient shared-knowledge for responsive decision to local concerns, lack of diverse interests groups’ consultations, and quality service delivery often not transparent that infringe the core values of trust, public accountability, mutual responsibilities, and citizens’ participation in effective public service relational governance implementation and impact TCNs and ethnic minorities peoples’ COVID-19 crisis-related resilient in the selected entities. This policy brief recommends shared-knowledge for open access to relevant information, mutual corporate responsibilities between government, public and private organization policy for public interest, diversify migrants communities involvement in policy consultation for open democracy, rebuilding of bureaucrats’ professional capacity to ensure commitment and increase public service staff, and legislation to set specific working ethics and values compatible with public interest that combine honesty, integrity, transparency, accountability, and fair equal treatment of citizens (especially from heterogeneous minorities subgroups) in the formulation, implementation, and delivery of public care to sustain COVID-19 resilient building societies. Not meeting these marginal policy adjustments and recommendations may intensify the reinforcement of public service distrust and corruption, deepen political and /or social inequalities, jeopardize open democracy, and impair sustainable COVID-19 resilient building societies.
Fundamentals of development of energy potential of cadets and students of educational organizations of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia
Authors: Ivanov Roman , Maltseva Tatyana 
Published: October 2020

this article substantiates the need to develop the energy potential of cadets and students in classes on the discipline "Socio-psychological training of professional communication" in educational organizations of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia. The relevance of this problem is considered by the authors in two planes. On the one hand, there is a growing need to include "energy" concepts in the paradigm of modern social and psychological Sciences, and to build the structural elements of this system. On the other hand, the reality of modern social life and its increasing complexity make all people in General, as well as employees of the internal Affairs bodies of the Russian Federation, in particular, increasingly think about preserving their physical, mental and psychological health, which is impossible without understanding the energy potential of a person, without the necessary elements that make up it.
Since the European and Russian scientific traditions do not operate properly today with definitions related to human energy, the paper presents several points of view regarding this phenomenon from ancient Chinese, ancient Indian philosophy and medicine. Also, to understand the development of energy potential, the article presents as an example some practices of ancient Yaqui shamans who lived in the South of North America.
In the second part of the work, some examples of ancient Eastern practices are given that can be used in classes on social and psychological training of professional communication. In particular, breathing practices, meditative techniques, and exercises for the development of perception and attention are considered separately. Furthermore, it describes in detail one of the practices of acromegaly.
Maintenance of indwelling urinary catheters with a novel polyhexanide-based solution: user experience
Authors: Andersen Litti , Bertelsen Marianne , Buitenhuis Vicki , Carstensen Annette , Hannibalsen Jane , Larsen Bente Holmgaard , Hvirvlkær Renata , Malinowska Zofia Anna , Pedersen Beritt , Ulla-Britt Würtz Susanne 
Published: October 2020

Background:Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) can significantly affect patients' quality of life and increase healthcare costs.Aims:This study aimed to capture patients' and nurses' experience of catheter maintenance using a polyhexanide-based solution (PS) in everyday practice.Methods:Retrospective analysis of data was collected for a product evaluation. PS was used twice a week for five weeks.Findings:The study included 42 patients, 30 (71%) men and 12 women (29%). After five weeks of rinsing catheters with PS, nine patients reported no or decreased frequency of CAUTI, eight a better quality of life, eight reduced blockage, seven a decrease in odour and five fewer catheter changes. Three patients reported no benefit from PS use. Nurses reported that fewer visits were needed and consumption of disposables was lower.Conclusions:User experiences suggest that, as a novel means of catheter maintenance, PS has the potential to reduce catheter-associated complications such as CAUTI, improve quality of life and reduce healthcare costs.
High resolution, fast response fiber-optic temperature sensor with reduced end conduction effect
Authors: Sheng Qiwen , Li Bo , Uddin Nezam , Mitul Abu Farzan , Zhu Yupeng , Qiu Zhen , Han Ming 
Published: October 2020

We report a fiber-optic silicon Fabry–Perot temperature sensor with high speed by considering the end conduction effect, which refers to the unwanted heat transfer between the sensing element and the fiber stub delaying the sensor from reaching thermal equilibrium with the ambient environment. The sensor is constructed by connecting the narrow edge surface of a thin silicon plate to the edge of the microtube attached to the fiber tip. Compared to the traditional design where the silicon plate is attached to the fiber end face on its large plate surface, the new sensor design minimizes the heat transfer path to the fiber stub for improved sensor speed. It has the additional benefit of increased cavity length for improved resolution. We show that, compared with the sensor of traditional design, the sensor of the new design shortened the characteristic response time in still air from 83 ms to 13 ms and improved the sensor resolution by a factor of 12, from 0.15 K to 0.012 K.
Effects of Locally Delivered Morin Hydrate on Iodoacetate-induced Temporomandibular Joint Osteoarthritis in Rats
Authors: Abdelhameed Abdelrahman Mohamed Galal , Hani Said Mahmoud Mohamed , Soliman Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed 
Published: October 2020

Objectives: morin hydrate has been reported to possess many beneficial pharmacological potentialities including antioxidant and anti-osteoarthritic effects. The antiosteoarthritic properties of locally administrated morin have not been investigated. The objective of this study is to evaluate the locally delivered morin on the temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis in rat. Materials and methods: thirty young adult female Sprague Dawley rats were randomly arranged into three groups; control, osteoarthritis and osteoarthritis with morin. Both the iodoacetate for osteoarthritis induction and morin hydrate therapy were delivered unilaterally via intra-articular route. Results: morin reduced osteoarthritis manifestations with prominent thickening of both condylar fibrous layer and articular disc accompanied with discal cells hypertrophy that ultimately acquired chondrocytes features. The condylar cartilage matrix showed enhancement of extracellular matrix production with morin administration. Discussion: the present study has elucidated antiosteoarthritic effect of intraarticular injection of morin hydrate. Although morin has managed to prevent the propagation and advancing some of the recorded osteoarthritic manifestations; however, it showed some failure in managing others. The administration of morin hydrate modulated the structure of the joint rather than restore it back to its typical configuration. Conclusion: the morin hydrate administration to osteoarthritic animals showed relieve in some of osteoarthritic features and modulated the structure of some joint components to compensate the unhandled manifestations.KEYWORDSIodoacetate; Morin; Osteoarthritis; OARSI Score; Temporomandibular joint.
Integrating the Daily Newspaper into the College Classroom
Authors: Schrank Zachary 
Published: October 2020

Newspaper readership has declined dramatically over the last few decades. Millennials and students of college age report reading a daily newspaper less frequently than any other generational cohort in America. However, credible newspapers continue to provide in-depth coverage and analysis of key contemporary issues that facilitate civic literacy and a sociological understanding of the world. This case study discusses an exploratory approach to integrating the newspaper into the college classroom as a way of connecting journalism with theoretical knowledge. In an Introductory Sociology course, I provided daily copies of The New York Times to students throughout the duration of a semester. Students worked in assigned groups, regularly read articles in the paper, and searched for stories related to a wide variety of sociological issues. As a final project, students wrote detailed summaries of several articles published throughout the semester and explained how they were connected with key sociological concepts studied in the class. Nearly all students in the course reported that consistent readership over a 12-week period of the semester to be an effective learning activity that expanded their understanding and exposure to core sociological issues.
RESPONSES OF ACCOUNTABILITY TRANFORMATION PRACTICED IN MULTIPLE LEVEL OF INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS FOR BEING AUTONOMOUS STATE UNIVERSITIES IN INDONESIA
Authors: Utomo Dwi Cahyo 
Published: October 2020

This study investigates accountability practices of Indonesian state universities during the reform implementation for being autonomous universites called as PTN Badan Hukum. Although the reform has been implemented based on government regulation, lack of empirical study can be viewed in published articles. For that reason, this study is addresed to filling the lack of accountability research in the reform of state universities in Indonesia. The context of the reform is the adoption of autonomous universities that are more close to the concept of privatisation affected by the internationalization objective of national agenda. Interpretive research approach is adopted to develop inductively a conceptual perspective based on central phenomenon. Moreover, the cases of the study are three Indonesian state universities which implement the form of autonomous state university with pseudo named as UG, UD and UA. Straussian grounded theory approach was adopted in data analysis and collection. The central phenomenon of substantive grounded theory is labelled as multiple accountability responses in various institutional logic during transformation process of state universities that have been transformed from fully governed by Indonesia government become autonomous entities. The main finding of the study explains the presence of various institutional accountibility logics practiced in the context of internationalization process of Indonesia higher education institutions. The various institutional logics arise from personal, professional, managerial and public accountability logics. The various accountability logics display from two different environmental background that are university with less and high internationalization. Less and moderate conflict are resulted from low and high internationalization achievement respectively. The practice of accountability seem displaying more emphasize on public accountability logic in social level, managerial accountability logic in organizational level, personal and professional in individual level. The contribution of this research relates to empirical findings that enrich higher education accountability research in developing countries, employs interpretive methodology and grounded theory, and provides incremental development of institutional logics theory in explaining organizational change in a specific context.
OPTIMALISASI HARGA KOMODITI AGROFORESTRI UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PENDAPATAN PETANI
Authors: Hilmanto Rudi 
Published: October 2020

Farmer often undergo of constraint in determining optimal price so that the farmer often undergo of loss, it is because the price of the commodity sold is less than the cost of production in the management of agroforestry systems. Determination Optimalization price of commodity agroforestry expected able to improve income of farmer agroforestry maximally. Objectives of this Research is to analyze the optimization of agrocommodity prices to increase farmers' income. This research used Rudihilmanto Pricing method. Result of this research points out proportion plants: coffee (98.30%), clove (0.45%), melinjo (0.23%), and petai (1.02%) in farmers' fields have optimal price ≥ real price so that this condition has risks and disadvantages for farmers now, but if the proportion is changed as coffee (31.77%), clove (28.79%), melinjo (19.06%), petai (20.37%), therefore optimal price is lower than the real price and it is possible to provide the maximum gain to the farmers of Rp.122,056,970.00 per annum in one hectare. Petani sering mengalami kendala dalam menentukan harga optimal sehingga petani sering mengalami kerugian, hal ini karena harga komoditi yang dipasarkan lebih kecil daripada biaya produksi dalam pengelolaan sistem agroforestri. Penentuan optimalisasi harga pada komoditi agroforestri diharapkan mampu meningkatkan pendapatan petani pengelola agroforestri secara maksimal. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis optimalisasi harga komoditi agroforestri untuk meningkatkan pendapatan petani. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode Harga Rudihilmanto. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan proporsi tanaman kopi (98,30%), cengkeh (0,45%), melinjo (0,23%), dan petai (1,02%) di lahan petani memiliki harga optimal ≥ harga riil sehingga kondisi ini memiliki risiko dan kerugian bagi petani, tetapi apabila proporsi diubah menjadi tanaman kopi (31,77%), cengkeh (28,79%), melinjo (19,06%), petai (20,37%) maka harga optimal ≤ harga riil dan dimungkinkan mampu memberikan keuntungan yang maksimal bagi petani sebesar Rp.122.056.970,00 tiap tahun dalam satu hektar.
Effects of 5-Week Foam Rolling Intervention on Range of Motion and Muscle Stiffness
Authors: Kiyono Ryosuke , Onuma Remi , Yasaka Koki , Sato Shigeru , Yahata Kaoru , Nakamura Masatoshi 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Kiyono, R, Onuma, R, Yasaka, K, Sato, S, Yahata, K, and Nakamura, M. Effects of 5-week foam rolling intervention on range of motion and muscle stiffness. J Strength Cond Res 36(7): 1890–1895, 2022—In clinical and sports settings, foam rolling (FR) intervention is widely used to increase the range of motion (ROM). However, the chronic effects of FR on ROM and muscle stiffness are unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of 5-week FR intervention on dorsiflexion ROM (DFROM) and shear elastic modulus of the medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscle. Accordingly, 30 healthy young adults were enrolled and randomly assigned to either the FR or control group with the former receiving 90 seconds of FR thrice per week over 5 weeks. Thereafter, DFROM, passive torque at DFROM, and shear elastic modulus of the MG during passive ankle dorsiflexion were assessed using a dynamometer and ultrasonography before and after 5 weeks. Our results showed that the FR group exhibited a significant increase in DFROM (Δ = 11.7%, p < 0.05, effect size = 0.39), but no changes in passive torque at DFROM, and shear elastic modulus at 0° and 10° dorsiflexion. Moreover, significant correlations were observed between change in DFROM and change in passive torque at DFROM in the FR group (r
s = 0.607, p = 0.016). These results suggested that FR was an effective method to increase DFROM given its ability to change passive torque at DFROM (stretch tolerance) without altering muscle stiffness.
Writing Bureaucracy, Bureaucratic Writing
Authors: Banerjee Sukanya 
Published: October 2020

Sukanya Banerjee, “Writing Bureaucracy, Bureaucratic Writing: Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, and Mid-Victorian Liberalism” (pp. 133–158)
In its famed representation of the Circumlocution Office, Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1857) is widely recognized as satirizing bureaucracy. Arguing instead that the novel proffers a more nuanced perspective on bureaucracy, this essay situates Dickens’s depiction of the Circumlocution Office amid mid-Victorian debates on liberalism. More specifically, the essay makes note of the tension between ascendant ideals of representative government and the acknowledged importance of a nonelected but competent bureaucracy. Dickens’s mediation of this tension, the essay argues, not only informs his representation of the Circumlocution Office but also accounts for the novel’s subdued tone and characterization, which the essay reads as ambivalence. But in reading the novel’s depiction of bureaucracy through the lens of ambivalence, the essay is also alert to Dickens’s bureaucratic method of writing Little Dorrit itself. The bureaucratic writing of the novel, the essay suggests, opens up the possibility not only of rethinking the role and place of bureaucracy but also of the boundaries between bureaucratic and literary sensibilities as well.