bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Rapid biodegradable microneedles with allergen reservoir for skin allergy test
Authors: Tran Le-Giang , Park Woo-Tae 
Published: July 2020

AbstractWith the increasing allergy cases worldwide, this study introduces a biodegradable microneedle system to facilitate allergy testing process. Dissolving microneedle provides a minimally invasive manner to go through skin barrier while avoiding needle phobia among patents, especially children. The microneedles were fabricated using copolymer polyvinylpyrrolidone-co-methacrylic acid (PVP-MAA) material. To ensure the successful insertion of microneedles into the skin, we tailored the mechanical strength of the copolymer by adjusting the weight ratio of two constituted polymers. A reservoir was designed to load allergy specimen for the allergy test. This system is expected to offer a simple and effective allergy testing that can facilitate the allergy testing protocol.
Risks to the community pharmacists and pharmacy personnel during COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from a low-income country
Authors: Dzingirai B. , Matyanga C. M. J. , Mudzviti T. , Siyawamwaya M. , Tagwireyi D. 
Published: July 2020

AbstractCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that has become a global pandemic. COVID-19 is spreading in Africa, and Zimbabwe has not been spared. The cases in Zimbabwe are mainly from imported cases due to high volume of travellers from the COVID-19 hotspots. In Zimbabwe, local transmission is also anticipated due to inter- and intracity travelling. Frontline health workers are at risk of infection due to contact with infected people as they discharge their duties. In this setting, the risk to community pharmacists and pharmacy personnel is poorly understood and characterised. This paper looked at the risks of infection that are peculiar to community pharmacy personnel and suggested some recommendations to reduce the risk to COVID-19 infection.
Anxiety, depression and perceived stress among breast cancer patients: single institute experience
Authors: Alagizy H. A. , Soltan M. R. , Soliman S. S. , Hegazy N. N. , Gohar S. F. 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
Background
Statistics reveal that the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer is increasing in Egypt. It is seen as a terrifying disease due to its high mortality rate and its impacts on the self-image and the sexual relationship. Many of its patients experience psychological reactions and may have psychiatric morbidities. The present study aimed to identify the prevalence and associated psychosocial factors of anxiety, depressive disorders, and perceived stress among breast cancer patients in Menoufia university hospitals. This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Clinical Oncology Department, Menoufia University. Sixty patients were subjected to questionnaires for socio-demographic data, structured psychiatric clinical interview to screen for psychiatric diagnoses, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) for measuring the emotional, cognitive and motivational symptoms of depression, Manifest Anxiety Scale to assess the degree of anxiety, and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) to assess stress level.

Results
The prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and perceived stress were 68.6%, 73.3%, and 78.1% respectively. Moderate to severe anxiety, depression, and stress were more prevalent among advanced disease patients, patients who underwent surgery, married patients, patients who were living in rural areas, illiterate, and those without satisfactory income but without statistically significant difference except for the effect of occupation on the anxiety state as unemployed patients had significantly higher prevalence of moderate to severe anxiety (100%) than employed patients p = 0.003.

Conclusion
Depressive disorders, anxiety, and perceived stress are common psychiatric disorders among the studied breast cancer patients. Understanding these common psychiatric disorders and associated stress can help to plan for their management.
Effect of sofosbuvir plus daclatasvir on virological response and liver function tests as a line of treatment for HCV related cirrhosis (a prospective cohort study)
Authors: Ali Omaima Mohamed , Hussein Alaa Aboelela , Kholef Emad Farah Mohamed , Elsewify Wael Abd Elgwad 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
Background
Patients with chronic HCV infection are the most in need for antiviral treatment. However, patients with cirrhosis exhibit difficulty with direct antiviral agents (DAA) treatment. We intended to evaluate the virological response of DAA in HCV-related cirrhosis treatment as well as its effect on liver function tests and other laboratory tests. Our study was a prospective cohort study of 240 patients with HCV-related liver cirrhosis. Those patients were consecutively selected from Gastroenterology and Hepatology out-patient clinic at Aswan University Hospital. They were subjected to the DAA regimen (sofosbuvir 400 mg plus daclatasvir 60 mg).

Results
The study showed a rapid decrease in HCV viral load; HCV RNA was undetectable in 65% of patients on 4th week of treatment and in 88.3% of patients on 8th week of treatment. It was undetectable in 100% of patients on 12th week of treatment and remained unchanged until therapy was completed (24 weeks). The SVR (sustained virological response) was 96.3%. Other laboratory tests demonstrated that serum level of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) decreased rapidly to normal limits on 4th week of treatment and remained within normal range until 12th week post-treatment. Significant improvements in serum albumin, total bilirubin, INR, and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels were observed during and after treatment. Child-Pugh score showed a significant improvement post-treatment. We also observed a significant improvement in platelet count during and after treatment.

Conclusion
The DAA regimen (sofosbuvir 400 mg plus daclatasvir 60 mg) for treatment of HCV-related liver cirrhosis can achieve satisfactory virological response (SVR more than 96%). It can lead to improvement of serum ALT, serum albumin, total bilirubin, INR, AFP, and Child-Pugh score and also increase in platelet count after treatment.
MR texture analysis in differentiating renal cell carcinoma from lipid-poor angiomyolipoma and oncocytoma
Authors: Razik Abdul , Goyal Ankur , Sharma Raju , Kandasamy Devasenathipathy , Seth Amlesh , Das Prasenjit , Ganeshan Balaji 
Published: July 2020

Objectives:
To assess the utility of magnetic resonance texture analysis (MRTA) in differentiating renal cell carcinoma (RCC) from lipid-poor angiomyolipoma (lpAML) and oncocytoma.

Methods:
After ethical approval, 42 patients with 54 masses (34 RCC, 14 lpAML and six oncocytomas) who underwent MRI on a 1.5 T scanner (Avanto, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) between January 2011 and December 2012 were retrospectively included in the study. MRTA was performed on the TexRAD research software (Feedback Plc., Cambridge, UK) using free-hand polygonal region of interest (ROI) drawn on the maximum cross-sectional area of the tumor to generate six first-order statistical parameters. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to look for any statically significant difference. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was done to select the parameter with the highest class separation capacity [area under the curve (AUC)] for each MRI sequence.

Results:
Several texture parameters on MRI showed high-class separation capacity (AUC &gt; 0.8) in differentiating RCC from lpAML and oncocytoma. The best performing parameter in differentiating RCC from lpAML was mean of positive pixels (MPP) at SSF 2 (AUC: 0.891) on DWI b500. In differentiating RCC from oncocytoma, the best parameter was mean at SSF 0 (AUC: 0.935) on DWI b1000.

Conclusions:
MRTA could potentially serve as a useful non-invasive tool for differentiating RCC from lpAML and oncocytoma.

Advances in knowledge:
There is limited literature addressing the role of MRTA in differentiating RCC from lpAML and oncocytoma. Our study demonstrated several texture parameters which were useful in this regard.
Association between socioeconomic factors and soft drink consumption among adults in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Sim Samphors , Pisey Vong , Dewey Rebecca S. 
Published: July 2020

Background: Soft drinks are an attractive and popular drink, consumed by many people to fulfill their energy. However, soft drink consumption is an important risk factor for non-communicable diseases. This study aimed to investigate the association between socioeconomic factors and soft drink consumption among adults in Cambodia. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study with multi-stage random sampling was used to select 749 respondents from 12 communes across 5 districts in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. A structured questionnaire was used to assess socioeconomic factors and soft drink consumption. Data were analyzed using bivariate and multivariable logistic regression. Crude odds ratios and adjusted odds ratios (AORs) with 95% confident intervals (CI) were calculated to show the strength of associations. Results: The overall prevalence of soft drink consumption was 44.73% (95%CI: 41.16-48.30%) across the sample population. The final model of multiple logistic regression showed only four factors to be significantly associated with soft drink consumption: gender, age, family size and income. Respondents most likely to consume soft drinks were men (AOR: 1.49, 95%CI: 1.10-2.00; p=0.009), those aged 31-59 years (AOR: 1.93, 95%CI: 1.98-4.62; p<0.001), those in a household of less than 5 individuals (AOR: 1.38, 95%CI: 1.44-3.19; p=0.036), and those earning <300$/month (AOR: 1.59, 95%CI: 1.10-2.31; p=0.003). Conclusion: The prevalence of soft drink consumption in Cambodia is a major concern for public health. The predictive factors significantly associated with soft drink consumption identified by this study were gender, age, household size and income. Therefore, all stakeholders should contribute to social marketing and intervention focusing on reducing the consumption of soft drinks through advertising on social media, television and other popular media platforms. Furthermore, additional taxation of soft drinks should be considered.
Znaczenie eurosceptycyzmu na scenie politycznej Republiki Czeskiej
Authors: Koźbiał Krzysztof 
Published: July 2020

The Importance of Euroscepticism on the Political Scene of the Czech Republic. Conditions and Consequences
Czech society is one of the most eurosceptic in the European Union. One of the reasons is a low degree of trust in authority (government, parliament) in general, also at the supranational level. Consequently, Czech political parties have eurosceptic slogans in their programs that do not prevent voters from supporting them, both in the elections to the Czech and European Parliaments. The political system is dominated by parties presenting the so‑ called „soft euroscepticism” (according to Taggart’s and Szczerbiak’s approach), such as: Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO 2011), Civic Democratic Party (ODS) or Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM). In the 2017 election, they received a total of almost 50% of the vote. However, euroscepticism is not a threat to the Czech presence in the EU. Extremely eurosceptic parties do not enjoy great public support.
Reincorporación laboral de mujeres con cáncer de mama: experiencia de un centro oncológico en la ciudad de Medellín
Authors: Vasquez Trespalacios Elsa Maria 
Published: July 2020

Introducción: los avances en el diagnóstico y tratamiento del cáncer de mama han mejorado el pronóstico para estas pacientes, por lo tanto, se espera que un mayor número de supervivientes se enfrenten con el proceso de retornar al trabajo. El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar la frecuencia, la mediana del tiempo, así como los factores relacionados con el retorno al trabajo de pacientes con cáncer de mama, posterior al diagnóstico en un centro de referencia oncológico de la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia
Métodos: estudio de cohorte retrospectiva realizado con los registros de pacientes con cáncer de mama (n=141) atendidas un centro oncológico de referencia. Se midieron variables sociodemográficas, laborales, relacionadas con el tratamiento y de retorno al trabajo.
Resultados: la edad promedio al diagnóstico fue de 45.8 ±9 años, La mayoría de las mujeres estaban en la premenopausia, el 45% realizaban trabajo manual. Los indicadores de mayor severidad de la enfermedad, así como el trabajo manual, la presencia de linfedema y un mayor número y días de incapacidad se relacionaron negativamente con el retorno al trabajo de estas pacientes. El 93% de las pacientes retornaron al trabajo.
Conclusiones: el retorno al trabajo después de un cáncer de mama difiere según la severidad de la enfermedad, factores relacionados con el tratamiento y tipo de trabajo.
Análisis mineralógico y Registros laborales de amianto, un ejemplo más de su valor
Authors: García López Vega 
Published: July 2020

Navarra cuenta con el primer y más exhaustivo Registro de trabajadores expuestos laboralmente a amianto del país. Actualmente constan 2858 trabajadores, 395 mujeres y 2463 hombres. La práctica totalidad ya no ocupan puestos de riesgo. Durante años ha ayudado al reconocimiento de la contingencia profesional de los daños.
Paradójicamente, en este caso, un trabajador fallecido por cáncer de pulmón con patología intersticial previa, un resultado negativo de una necropsia, 425CF/gr de tejido seco de pulmón (CF cuerpos ferruginosos), se utilizó como argumento para rechazar el origen profesional.
Es necesario considerar que un resultado positivo confirma exposición pasada pero los negativos no han de valorarse cuando ha sido a crisotilo, dada la baja persistencia temporal en tejidos.
Una historia laboral detallada y, cuando existan, los Registros han de ser el principal argumento causal.
The Prevalence, Frequency and Social Ecology of Sexual Concurrency Among Young Adult Women
Authors: Weitzman Abigail , Kusunoki Yasamin 
Published: July 2020

CONTEXTSexual concurrency among women is associated with increased risks of STD transmission, unintended pregnancy and sexual health disparities. Understanding the prevalence of concurrency—overlapping sexual partnerships—is imperative to reducing these disparities.METHODSWeekly, population‐representative panel data from 757 women aged 18–22, collected from 2008 to 2012 in Michigan, were drawn from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life study. Univariate analyses assessed the prevalence of two forms of sexual concurrency. Multivariate logistic regression models investigated associations between women's social‐ecological characteristics and concurrency.RESULTSTwenty percent of women had vaginal intercourse with two partners in one week; 14% had intercourse with a second partner during an ongoing relationship. In both cases, the majority of individuals had intercourse with the second partner in one to three weeks in total. The likelihood of both types of concurrency was elevated among women who believed they should have sex with men after seeing them for a while (log‐odds, 0.27 and 0.23, respectively) and among those who were Black (0.58 and 1.02, respectively); the likelihood was reduced among women who were more willing to refuse unwanted sex (–0.10 and –0.13, respectively) and who were in exclusive, cohabiting, or married or engaged relationships (–1.82 to –2.64). Having intercourse with multiple partners in one week was also associated with receiving sex education from parents, the degree that parents and friends approved of sex, and having had early intercourse without contraception.CONCLUSIONSSexual concurrency among young women is prevalent but intermittent, and interventions that address individuals’ social‐ecological contexts are needed to reduce negative health outcomes.
O imaginário erótico pessimista na poesia de Francisco Espinhara
Authors: Dantas Maia Jordy , Martins de Barros Melo José Eduardo 
Published: July 2020

Este trabalho destaca a influência e as marcas do pessimismo na expressão erótica da obra poética de Francisco Espinhara, corroborando com BATAILLE que o poeta em estudo exacerbadamente traz o sentimentalismo entrelaçado no seu imaginário erótico[1] permeado pela solidão e pela angústia do homem contemporâneo, assim, como afirma Octávio Paz, “A solidão é o fundo último da condição humana. O homem é o único ser que se sente só e que procura outro” também só. Nesse sentido, esta expressão erótica é elemento preponderante de sua linguagem poética enquanto elemento transubstanciador de seus desejos e de suas frustrações que permeia entre o real e o imaginário. Desta forma, analisa-se a obra do autor pernambucano sob o prisma dos elementos distintivos da sensualidade e do erotismo enquanto particularidades de um fazer literário que se cobre pelo mundo das negatividades, tal como temos em grande parte da poesia brasileira contemporânea.

[1] O erotismo é sexualidade transfigurada: metáfora. A imaginação é o agente que move o ato erótico e o poético. (PAZ, 1994, p. 12).
The potential effectiveness of lean construction principles in reducing construction process waste: an input-output model
Authors: Bajjou M. S. , Chafi A. 
Published: July 2020

With the spread of a culture of waste reduction in the construction industry, the traditional management system has become insufficient, so it has become crucial to implement more innovative techniques to improve the performance of this sector. In response to this need, Lean Construction (LC), which is the global reference of a production system with the minimum of waste generation, has attracted several construction companies all over the world. However, previous studies indicate that are several implementation scenarios that differ from one company to another according to their own understanding of the Lean Construction concept. In this paper, the authors attempt to fill this gap by proposing an original input-output model that aims at clarifying the main conceptual basis of Lean Construction philosophy, as well as establishing interactions between the main principles of this concept and all sources of wastes that exist in the construction industry. The proposed model shows nine main principles: customer focus, supply, continuous improvement, waste elimination, people involvement, planning and scheduling, quality, standardization and transparency. In addition, the practical relationships between those principles and nine sources of waste (transportation, motion, inventory, waiting, overproduction, defects, over-processing, unused employee creativity, and work Accidents) have been analysed.
Frustula nagranitica
Authors: Marrassini Paolo 
Published: July 2020

The article tries to point out some miscellaneous problems related to the traditions of the Nine Saints and to the Ethio-Ḥimyaritic war of the 6th c. A.D. For the first subject the interesting results achieved by Antonella Brita 2010 are basically confirmed, and a paragraph against the alleged Syrian/Syriac provenance of these saints is added. As for the second subject, after some onomastic notes stressing the traditional etymology of the second name of king Kaleb (from *sbḥ ‘to dawn’) and recalling the existence in the Islamic tradition of two kings Yūsuf (this explaining in turn the indication “Yūsuf the younger” found in at least one of the versions of the “Martyrium Arethae”), the texts which tell of a pagan king of Ethiopia who defeats a Judaizing one from Yemen (who in turn has persecuted Christians) are identified as speaking of the first of the two Ethio-Ḥimyaritic wars. Finally, the interesting proposal by Beaucamp – Briquel-Chatonnet – Robin 1999–2000, according to which the war should be dated at least in 531 because Procopius speaks of a still active (and not yet retired to monasticism) king Kaleb at that epoch, is put in doubt, because it tries to conciliate two entirely different kinds of sources, one historical and the other purely hagiographical, which as such has not to be compulsorily harmonized with the first.
The Term ʿālam in 1 Enoch
Authors: Assefa Daniel 
Published: July 2020

In 1 Enoch, the term ʿālam offers various meanings, most of which are temporal. It qualifies God as well as heaven. It also expresses the type of angelic life in heaven. With regard to life on earth, ʿālam signifies the most distant past and the most distant future. It also refers to things that will have a long duration, yet not without limit, like the suffering of fallen angels. In contrast human suffering on earth is never associated with an eternal one.
Notes on Encoding Ethiopic for LATEX
Authors: Beyene Berhanu , Kudlek Manfred , Kummer Olaf 
Published: July 2020

Encoding Ethiopic for computer application is increasingly important for linguists, librarians, information and communication technologists. This paper focusses on encoding Ethiopic for the LATEX document preparation system, and on the methods and principles of the ethiop package which supports Ethiopie for LATEX. ethiop is a package developed by a research group at the University of Hamburg, that integrates Ethiopic to the TEX/LATEX system.We hope that this package opens up a new venue to scientific and mathematical document processing, using the rich and well developed TEX/LATEX system. Moreover, it could render a better data exchange mechanism by virtue of its platform independence and plain ASCII nature.
Das Mäṣḥafä fälasfa ṭäbiban und sein Verhältnis zu griechischen und arabischen Gnomensammlungen
Authors: Pietruschka Ute 
Published: July 2020

The Mäṣḥafä fälasfa ṭäbiban (The Book of the Wise Philosophers) is the only literary work in Gǝʿǝz which can be reckoned among philosophical literature in the strict sense of the word. It is a translation of a Christian Arabic gnomologium, entitled Kitāb al-Bustān, which dates from the 16th century CE. The present article discusses previous studies in the Mäṣḥafä fälasfa ṭäbiban and deals with the lines of tradition of Arabic collections of sayings going back to Greek gnomologia. The Arabic original of the Mäṣḥafä fälasfa ṭäbiban was compiled about the end of the 10th century CE and contains besides sayings of Greek and Persian origin also doxographical material. The view concerning the central role of Ḥunain ibn Isḥāq’s Nawādir al-falāsifa in the tradition of sayings in the Kitāb al-Bustān, must be revised. An edition and a detailed comparison of the Kitāb al-Bustān with other Arabic and Greek gnomologia are still to be expected, and the question how the Christian gnomologium and thus the Ethiopic Mäṣḥafä fälasfa ṭäbiban are to be placed in the Hellenistic tradition of gnomologia, is still to be established.