bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Households’ satisfaction with the healthcare services rendered by a ward-based outreach team in Tshwane district, Pretoria, South Africa
Authors: Masango Makgobela A. T. , Ndimande J. V. , Ogunbanjo G. , Bongongo T. , Nyalunga S. N. 
Published: October 2020

Introduction: Households’ satisfaction is an important and commonly used indicator for measuring quality in health care. An amelioration of primary health care services at the level of households, by utilising community health workers, has led to a good healthcare system in many countries, such as Brazil. In South Africa, little is known about the satisfaction of households (HH) regarding the healthcare services they receive from ward-based outreach teams (WBOTs). A study was undertaken to determine this phenomenon.Methods: The study used a cross-sectional study design. Tshwane district had established 39 ward-based outreach teams at the time of the study and households were conveniently selected. Hence the study population was estimated to be 3 600. Using 99% confidence level and 5% confidence interval, the sample size was 660, and oversampled to 765 since all households present during the data collection were willing to be included in the survey. Data collected was captured on Microsoft Excel and analysed using SAS, version 9.2.Results: Interviews were held with members of the families, who were willing to participate. Participants’ ages ranged from 18 to 110, mean age 53.1years (SD = 19.7). The study participants included more females (74.0%), and 45.2% were single. The majority (89.8%) were unemployed. Overall satisfaction was seen in 692 participants (90.7%). Outcome of satisfaction according to sex (91.9%), age (90.7%) and employment (90.8%) was not statistically significant with p-value 0.05.Conclusions: The findings of households’ satisfaction regarding the healthcare services rendered by the ward-based outreach team in Tshwane district, Pretoria, South Africa showed a high level of satisfaction from the households. This high level of satisfaction was referred to as excellent and was not associated with sex, age or employment status. A recommendation is made to all stakeholders that the ward-based outreach team programme cover all municipal wards in the country in order to raise the level of households’ satisfaction with the healthcare system.
Prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in a multiracial female population in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
Authors: Naidoo Yeshnee , Moodley Jagidesa , Madurai Lorna , Naicker Thajasvarie 
Published: October 2020

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency is a global health issue affecting many countries, especially those in temperate climates. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency and level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] in females categorised by age and race.Methods: The study was performed between January 2015 and January 2016. This study consisted of 1 976 females stratified by age into 18, reproductive age (18–45) and 45 years. Demographic variables were recorded and serum 25(OH)D levels measured by chemiluminescent emission.Results: The predictors of lower 25(OH)D levels included age and race, (p 0.0001 for each predictor). Approximately 46% of females had 20 ng/ml 25(OH)D level, the majority of whom were Indian (35%). The 25(OH)D level varied by race (White 27.33 ng/ml; Black 23.43 ng/ml and Indian 15.05 ng/ml; p 0.0001). In the 18-year age category, White and Black women had significantly higher 25(OH)D levels when compared with Indian women (38.25 ng/ml vs. 37.51 ng/ml vs. 13.68 ng/ml respectively; p 0.0001). Similarly, in the reproductive age category (18–45 years); White (27.63 ng/ml) and Black (20.93 ng/ml) women had a significantly higher 25(OH)D level compared with Indian (13.15 ng/ml) women (p 0.0001). Moreover, similar data were observed within the 45-year age category, where the White and Black women had higher 25(OH)D levels compared with Indian women (25.46 ng/ml vs. 22.73 ng/ml vs. 17.04 ng/ml; p 0.0001) respectively. Irrespective of age category, severe vitamin D deficiency was highest amongst Indian females.Conclusion: This study demonstrates a significant difference in 25(OH)D concentration in healthy females living in Durban, with Indians presenting with the highest vitamin D deficiency. These findings clearly highlight the need for a policy on vitamin D supplementation and/or fortification of food. Further studies are under way to assess the genetic predisposition of women to vitamin D deficiency.
Adherence to iron prophylactic therapy during pregnancy in an urban regional hospital in South Africa
Authors: Mkhize Princess Z. , Naicker T. , Onyangunga O. A. , Moodley J. 
Published: October 2020

Background: Iron and folic acid supplementation plays a major role in the prevention and control of iron-deficiency anaemia in pregnancy. Therefore, this study assesses adherence to prophylactic iron supplementation during the antenatal period in South Africa.Methods: An observational study was conducted in a regional hospital from January to December 2016. HIV-uninfected (n = 100) and HIV-infected (n = 100)] women were enrolled and subdivided into three groups: (a) ≤ 34 weeks (n = 33), (b) 34–36 weeks (n = 34) and (c) ≥ 37 weeks (n = 33) gestational age respectively. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were coded and statistically analysed using SPSS software. Pill count and self-reported data from women (n = 24) at ≤ 34 weeks and 34–36 weeks reflected 50% adherence and 46% non-adherence, being higher in the HIV-infected women (75%). Nausea was the commonest side effect across all trimesters (79. 2%). Adherence (27.8%) and non-adherence (72.1%) to iron, folic acid and calcium supplementation were found in 88% of women.Conclusion: This study found that adherence to micronutrient supplementation is low in pregnancy, albeit higher in HIV-infected women receiving antenatal care at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa.Abbreviations: Haemoglobin (Hb), Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV), antiretroviral therapy (ARV), zidovudine (ZDV), tuberculosis (TB), low to middle- income countries (LMICs), World Health Organization (WHO), antenatal clinic (ANC).
A study to observe the effects of physiotherapy with and without manual therapy in the management postural neck pain: a randomized control trial
Authors: Rubab Jawed  , Muhammad Fareed Nasir  , Nabeel Naeem Baig  , Maryam Younus  , Ayesha Arshad  , Aisha Tahir  
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Objective: To compare the effects of physiotherapy with and without manual therapy in the management of postural neck pain.
Method: The randomised controlled trial was conducted at the Physiotherapy Department of South City Hospital, Karachi, from September 2017 to July 2018, and comprised subjects with >6 months of neck pain with no related medical dysfunction. The patients were enrolled by non-probability consecutive sampling technique and randomly divided into Group A and Group B using computer-generated numbers. Group A received physiotherapy along with manual therapy, while Group B only had physiotherapy. Group A was also taught a home exercise programme. A printed exercise sheet was provided with frequency and repetition details. Visual analogue scale for pain intensity level and neck disability index were used to measure outcome at 3rd and 12th week. Data was analysed using SPSS 22.
Results: Of the 60 subjects, there were 30(50%) in each of the two groups. The mean age in Group A was 32.77±7.44 years and it was 32.53±7.9 years in Group B. Overall, there were 21(35%) males and 39(65%) females. Significant reduction in pain intensity and neck disability levels at 3 and 12 weeks was noted compared to baseline (p<0.05). Inter-group comparison at final follow-up showed better Group A results compared to Group B (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Physiotherapy with manual therapy was found to be better compared to physiotherapy alone.
Key Words: Neck pain, Visual analogue scale, Neck disability index, Manual therapy, Exercise. Continuous...
CORPORATE AGGRESSION: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF PRICE WAR
Authors: Alzoubi Ahlam 
Published: October 2020

Purpose: Despite the significance that prices take in companies, it appears that this factor has not researched extensively by academics and marketers. Therefore, this article investigates price war to provide a comprehensive reference about it.
Methodology: The researcher has conducted an extensive study of the available relevant literature about the price wars. Marketing research and empirical studies from marketing, industrial organizations and economics has provided the framework for this research.
Findings: It is essential to employ appropriate analytic tools for strategic planning of price war. Smart management, along with technical skills, experience and leadership work together for organizational success.
Contribution: This study is significant for compiling a wide range of analytical tests and suggesting their appropriate use on right time. This study is helpful for the companies as it has not only provided step by step strategic planning for price wars but has explained when and how to start price wars.
Possíveis relações entre livros didáticos e mortalidade causada por acidentes ofídicos no Brasil no período 1993-2007: o papel da educação científica na sociedade.
Authors: Bizzo Nelio , Monteiro Paulo Henrique Nico 
Published: October 2020

Os métodos de primeiros socorros nos casos de acidentes com serpentes são conteúdos tradicionais dos Livros Didáticos (LD) de Ciências no Brasil. Livros publicados antes de 1996 traziam comumente informações equivocadas a esse respeito, muito provavelmente advindas de uma incorporação acrítica de recomendações norte-americanas do início do século XX. A primeira avaliação do livro didático implementada pelo Ministério da Educação em 1996 apontou diversos erros presentes nos LD que tiveram grande repercussão na mídia, muitos deles relacionados a esses procedimentos. A partir de 1996 houve um importante decréscimo do número de mortes decorrentes de acidentes ofídicos, inclusive em ambiente hospitalar. O número de mortes pode estar associado com a redução de vítimas que desenvolveram algum tipo de complicação decorrente de procedimentos equivocados de primeiros socorros realizados por pessoas não especializadas. Este artigo busca relacionar as importantes mudanças ocorridas nos livros didáticos de ciências a partir de 1996 e o declínio de mortes causadas por acidentes ofídicos e suas complicações, ressaltando a importância e o papel da educação científica na sociedade.
Percorrer e possuir o mundo: os atlas de imagens e a experiência epistemológica do olhar
Authors: Castro Teresa 
Published: October 2020

Desde Abraham Ortelius e Gerhard Mercator, o fenômeno dos atlas se espalharam progressivamente pelo mundo, alcançando zonas do conhecimento e da criação, e conhecendo ao longo do século XIX um momento decisivo. Ao reunir o desenvolvimento de técnicas de reprodução gráfica e as novas disciplinas, o atlas científico – botânico, anatômico, antropológico etc. – se multiplica, organizando visualmente elementos gráficos para transmitir um saber, tornando possível uma forma particular de conhecimento articulada à associação de elementos visuais.
CARACTERIZACIÓN DE LA CALIDAD ECOLÓGICA DE LA RONDA HÍDRICA DE LA QUEBRADA TARUCA, MUNICIPIO DE MOCOA (PUTUMAYO).
Authors: Pérez Vallejo Ruth Jeanneth 
Published: October 2020

En el marco de la salida de campo del curso trabajo de campo, del departamento de Geografía de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, se realizó un diagnostico preliminar de la calidad ecológica del bosque de ribera, en la ronda hídrica de la quebrada Taruca afluente del rio Mocoa, en Putumayo.
Se evaluaron componentes del ecosistema como suelo y vegetación; mediante índices del entorno, como son el Índice de Hábitat Fluvial (IHF), el Indice de Bosque de Ribera, (QBR), Evaluación Visual del suelo, (EV), técnica de interpretación de bloques diagramas.
Strategi Pemasaran Dalam Meningkatkan Penjualan Pada CV. RA RAIHAN KONVEKSI dengan Pendekatan Blue Ocean Strategy
Authors: Imran Imran , Santi Asih Putri 
Published: October 2020

This study aims to develop innovation products, which should be added to CV. Raihan Konveksi using the Blue Ocean Strategy approach. This type of research uses qualitative and descriptive research, where trying to find out what strategies the employer uses in the effort to increase sales in the company. The technique of collecting data is carried out in a randomized manner and interviewed. The results of this research know which strategies are carried out by CV. Raihan Konveksi to increase its product by using the eliminated four steps, no factor is needed to be eliminated. Reduce, there is no factor that reduces it. Increase, improve product innovation and promotion. Create, create several factors as they receive design from consumers, provide unique materials, and make new products that many consumers are interested in. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan inovasi produk, yang perlu ditambahkan untuk CV. RAIHAN KONVEKSI dengan menggunakan pendekatan Blue Ocean Strategy. Jenis penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif, dimana mencoba untuk mengetahui strategi apa yang digunakan perusahaan dalam upaya meningkatkan penjualan didalam perusahaan tersebut. Teknikpengumpulan data yang dilakukan dengan cara observasi dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian ini mengetahui strategi apa yang dilakukan oleh CV. RAIHAN KONVEKSI untuk meningkatkan produknya yaitu dengan menggunakan kerja empat langkah seperti hapuskan, tidak ada faktor yang perlu dihapuskan. Kurangi, tidak ada faktor yang perludi kurangi. Tingkatkan, meningkatkan inovasi produk dan promosi. Ciptakan, menciptakan beberapa faktor seperti menerima desain dari konsumen, menyediakan bahan baku yang unik, dan membuat produk baru yang banyak diminati konsumen
Revolution to Dissolution: ‘the White Album's’ techniques, packaging, and songwriting as a reflection of The Beatles and their influence
Authors: Jones Kevin 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
“The BEATLES” a.k.a., the “White Album,” released in November 1968, has sold 24 times Platinum (U.S.) and continues to garner fans and analysis. The following examines the album as reflection of the band, its legacy, song writing, recording and production techniques, and packaging. The White Album reveals individual development and outside influence, as the core faded and different interests led to dissolution. The multi-genre album shows group and solo efforts, along with the politics, maturity, drug and religious inspiration, technology, social norms, and pop culture of tumultuous 1968; an account of how and why is justified.
Progressions of Urgency Within and Across the White Album
Authors: Lubell Gabriel 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Accepting the White Album as a complete listening experience, defined by its physical properties, brings with it a number of analytical problems. Given its expansiveness, complex production history, and diverse content, there is little explicit information offered to help listeners understand how to navigate their experience of the album. From within its contents, however, the concept of urgency presents itself as an important organizational theme. Using the language of experiential counterpoint, the ways in which urgency is both perceived and developed over the course of the album are explored, leading to assessments about the nature of the album's large-scale form.
Affect and its Circulation in and Beyond Richard Selzer's “Imelda”
Authors: Sun Jiena 
Published: October 2020

AbstractAppreciation and literary representation of affective responses in medical encounters help resist the reductionist temptation to quantify and simplify illness experience with test data, images, and medical jargon. Then how do these representations of affect make a difference in the medical profession? Surgeon writer Richard Selzer's short story “Imelda” (1982) might offer a unique perspective to examine physicians' affective engagements with illness experience and illuminate how literature works through the representation of affect in medical contexts. In light of Sarah Ahmed's ideas of circulation in affective economies and the forming of affective communities, I read Imelda's deformity and the narrative as two affect objects which trigger the circulation of affect and the formation of a transformative network of affect among all those who are involved in the dramatic event of a post mortem operation. I argue that the emergence of affect in medical encounters energizes literary representation, while literature captures affect with language, and animates affective circulation in and beyond the narrative. More importantly, affective circulation occasioned by physician writing brings in new possibilities to humanize medicine.
Uncovering Jean McConville: Seamus Heaney's Poetic Cartography of the Disappeared
Authors: Elkins Amy E. , O'Neill Roan 
Published: October 2020

AbstractIn 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten from Northern Ireland, was taken from her home by the IRA, a paramilitary group that suspected McConville was an informer after neighbors saw her help a wounded British soldier. McConville's disappearance emerged as one of the most notorious killings of the Troubles—a deeply traumatic period in Irish history defined by sectarian tensions between Protestants and Catholics. Over the course of the Troubles, Seamus Heaney traces his own poetic cartographies, bridging the imagined and real landscapes that connect the work of representation and commemoration in Northern Irish poetry. Following a renewed interest in McConville's case, this article brings together analysis of popular culture and contemporary poetry and shows Heaney's particular investment in representing the personal and political complexity of the period. This article argues that Heaney's poems map Jean McConville's journey to the grave and back again, enabling readers to see how this poetic remapping of McConville's disappearance has been tied to the fate of a nation, both during the troubles and in post-reconciliation Northern Ireland.
“Melanctha Was Too Many for Him”: Gertrude Stein's Challenges to Essentialism inThree Lives
Authors: Leslie Christopher 
Published: October 2020

AbstractModernist author Gertrude Stein attended medical school and conducted research when the now discredited theory that humanity was easily divisible into a small number of biological races and two genders reigned supreme. Stein's education connects her to scientists working to maintain the hierarchy of races, primarily in the field of medicine. Although she is better known for her formal experimentation that breaks with the literary traditions of the nineteenth century, Stein's nonfiction writing before she abandoned medicine and moved to Paris demonstrates her antagonism to the rigid evaluations made by theorists of human difference. This connection to the history of medicine is an important background for Stein's first published work, Three Lives. Stein's contemporaries praised this collection of novellas for providing an alternative to the dialect style of rendering African American speech. With Stein's scientific training in mind, this article shows how more of Stein's aesthetic choices in Three Lives can be seen as a pointed satire of scientific racism based on deductive logic. Stein's challenge to the prevailing paradigms of race and gender is evident when the narrator's original, biologically deterministic point of view gives way to a nuanced understanding of difference. Accepting that this narrator is unreliable shows that Stein's first fictional work was written in continuity with her academic nonfiction, challenging contemporary assumptions about the nature of humanity. This article also demonstrates how fiction leaves behind traces of intellectual debates that now can provide insight into the impact of scientific theory: Three Lives demonstrates that the acceptance of and challenges to scientific paradigms are not immediate and exemplifies how the literary sphere has been used to test the consequences of prevailing patterns of scientific analysis and challenge their acceptance.
Una revisión de Desde la biología a la psicología (reimpresión)
Authors: Ramírez M. Simón 
Published: October 2020

Autor: Humberto Maturana R.
Compilación y prólogo: Jorge Luzoro García.
Editorial: Universitaria.
Lugar de edición: Santiago, Chile.
Número de páginas: 206.
Año: 2019
ISBN: 9561118122
Datos autor: Humberto Maturana Romesín (Santiago, Chile, 1928) es biólogo y PhD por la Univer-sidad de Harvard. Premio nacional de ciencias naturales 1994. Profesor emérito y Cofundador de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Chile. Cofundador de Matríztica. Sus investigaciones (más de una centena de artículos, capítulos de libros y libros) sobre el sistema nervioso, lo vivo, lo humano, lo cultural ha tenido —y sigue teniendo— un impacto en áreas distintas a la de su forma-ción, ya sea a través de tesis, líneas de investigación, proyectos de diferente clase y reflexiones co-tidianas.
Datos compilador: Jorge Luzoro García es psicólogo de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y exacadémico de la misma institución. Fue director del Departamento de Psicología de la Universi-dad de Chile (1997-1999) y ha ostentado diferentes cargos directivos en universidades.
Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinusL.) Seed Extract as a New Plant-Based Milk Alternative and Its Potential Food Uses
Authors: Karim Roselina , Aini Mat Noh Nor , Giwa Ibrahim Shafa’atu , Zunairah Wan Ibadullah Wan , Zawawi Norhasnida , Saari Nazamid 
Published: October 2020

Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) seed is rich in protein, fat, fiber, and other essential nutrients. Kenaf seed comprises of high protein (22–31%) and oil (22–25%) contents which suggested its high potential food application. This chapter discusses the potential and early development of kenaf-based plant-milk and tofu. The step-by-step processes involved in preparation of kenaf-based milk and kenaf-based tofu at laboratory-scale are illustrated. Soaking conditions (temperature and time) of kenaf seed as pretreatment in preparation of kenaf seed milk were highlighted. Hydration of kenaf seed were found to be faster at elevated temperature, however higher soaking temperature and prolonged soaking time causes some losses of protein (%) and solid content (%) which are unfavorable for production of highly nutritious plant-based milk. Furthermore, in preparation of kenaf-based tofu, soaking temperature of seed also affected the properties of the tofu. As the soaking temperature was increased from 25–65°C, the yield, hardness, and chewiness of kenaf tofu decreased. It was recommended that soaking of kenaf seed at 25°C and the use of aluminum potassium salt at 1.00 g% as coagulant produces kenaf-based tofu with optimum quality.