bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Meningkatkan loyalitas melalui kepuasan konsumen terhadap pengguna transportasi berbasis online
Authors: Eryandra Alvin 
Published: March 2021

Perusahaan memperoleh peningkatan laba, mendatangkan pelanggan baru dan konsumsi produk dan jasa secara terus menerus yang dilakukan oleh konsumen merupakan dampak dari loyalitas merek.Salah satu yang mempengaruhi terciptanya loyalitas merekadalah kepuasan pelanggan.Penelitian sebelumnya menunjukkan bahwa kepuasan pelanggan dengan loyalitas merekmemiliki pengaruh positif signifikan. Semakin tinggi kepuasan yang dirasakan pelanggan maka semakin tinggi juga terbentuknya loyalitas pada sebuah merek. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji apakah kepuasan berpengaruh terhadap loyalitas merekpada pelanggan aplikasi transportasi Gojek ditengah tingginya persaingan dengan perusahaan sejenis dan adanya kenaikan tarif yang dikeluarkan oleh pemerintah. Penelitian ini melibatkan 183 konsumen yang menggunakan aplikasi Gojek sebagai media transportasi dengan metode survei. Hasil analisa regresi menunjukkan bahwa kepuasan pelanggan memiliki pengaruh yang positif signifikan terhadap terbentuknya loyalitas merek.Penelitian ini juga menunjukan pentingnya persepsi harga yang positif dan dapat menguntungkan bagi pelanggan. Pelanggan dapat beralih ke merek layanan jasa sejenis apabila harga tersebut tidak lagi dianggap memuaskan dan menguntungkan. Kata Kunci : Kepuasan Pelanggan, Brand Loyalty, Pengguna Gojek
Clinical efficacy of hepatoprotector in the complex therapy of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis against the background of obesity for comorbidity with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Authors: Khukhlina O. S. , Hryniuk O. Ye. 
Published: March 2021

Objective — to establish the Antral efficacy in terms its effects on the intensity of clinical and biochemical syndromes of non‑alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) against the background of obesity at comorbidity with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Materials and methods. The examinations involved 65 NASH patients with I degree obesity and COPD 2 — 3 D. The patients were divided into two groups: 32 patients control groups received NASH therapy (Essentiale forte N (Sanofi Avensis/Nutterman and Cie GmbH) 300 mg, 2 caps., 3 times per day) for 30 days and basic COPD therapy. The second, main group consisted of 33 NASH patients with I degree obesity and COPD 2 — 3 D, who along with the basic therapy for COPD received hepatoprotector Antral (Farmak, Ukraine) 200 mg, 3 times daily for 30 days. The mean age of the patients was 56.3 ± 3.21 years. The comparison group consisted of 30 apparently healthy people (AHP). The values of 30 practically healthy individuals were used as reference.
Results. According to the scale of subjective assessment of the intensity of asthenia after treatment in patients of the main group, the effectiveness of its elimination was 3.9 times higher than that of patients in the control group (relative risk 3.87; 95 % CI [1.16 — 12.91], p < 0.05). The manifestations of dyspepsia disappeared faster in the patients of the main group. The use of antral 3.7 times more influenced the manifestations of cholestasis (p < 0.05). Body mass index (BMI) > 32 kg/m2 after treatment, which included a hypocaloric diet and Antral, remained in 13 patients in the main group (39.4 %) versus 29 patients in control group (90.6 %) (p < 0.05). During one month after the treatment, markers of cytolysis remained in 9 patients in control group (28.1 %), and in 1 patient of the main group (3.0 %) (OR 9.28; 95 % CI [1.11 — 77, 52], p < 0.05). The increased activity of cholestasis markers after treatment remained only in 5 patients in the main group (15.2 %) in comparison with 22 (68.8 %) controls. In the dynamics of treatment of patients in the main group, significant increase in the protein‑synthesizing function of the liver was revealed (albumin levels increased by 30.56 % (p < 0.05) relative to the indicator in the control group).
Conclusions. The use of Antral in the complex therapy of NASH of patients with the concomitant obesity and COPD was more effective than standard therapy in terms of removal of clinical NASH syndromes: asthenic‑vegetative, dyspepsia, abdominal discomfort, cholestasis, hepatomegaly, degree of liver steatosis; biochemical syndromes: cytolysis, cholestasis, mesenchymal inflammation, hepatocellular failure.
Modern aspects of the use of drugs of microbial origin
Authors: Pasichna I. O. , Vdovychenko V. I. 
Published: March 2021

The recent scientific researches provide evidence of the important role of microbiota for human health. The microbiome is a very complex system, that exists in an equilibrium state and performs multiple functions. The intestinal microflora is disturbed under the influence of iatrogenic factors, and products of microbial origin are used to correct this. The first group of such drugs include probiotics. Their positive effect is associated with immunological and non‑immunological effects. The results of many studies proved the positive effects of probiotics in clinical practice, however publications of recent years outline their low effectiveness and transient nature of the effect, even with prolonged use. Another group of preparations refers to prebiotics, which selectively stimulate the growth of colon microflora. A combination of probiotics and prebiotics, called synbiotics, also in use. Currently, much attention is paid to metabiotics. This group includes various low molecular weight molecules with various chemical manifestations. The components of metabiotics are cellular elements, metabolites and signaling molecules of probiotic cultures. Metabiotics provide the optimal conditions of homeostasis in the contact zone, which are necessary for the normal interaction of the epithelium and microflora, as well as directly affect the physiological functions and biochemical reactions of the macroorganism. The antibacterial properties of metabiotics allow to fight pathogenic and opportunistic flora, without affecting the beneficial microorganisms of the intestine. Creation of targeted metabiotics is a novel promising direction in this area. The possibility of creating a programmed metabiotic drug is considered, depending on the type of disorders of the intestinal microbiocenosis and the peculiarities of the life of specific pathogenic or opportunistic strains.
Competitor Accounting (CA) of Joint Venture Banks
Authors: Pokharel Prakash 
Published: March 2021

In order to facilitate the collection and analysis of accounting information related with the competitor in the context of strategic management accounting, the term competitor accounting has been developed. However, no empirical results are available as to the extent to which such information influences strategic decision behavior. Main purpose of this study is to explore the effect of competitor accounting on performance of the joint venture banks, and compare the effectiveness of competitor accounting between those banks. For this structured questionnaire survey with 133 staffs of the concerned banks as well as unstructured interview with 4 senior managers were conducted. Various published and unpublished reports like annual reports of the concerned banks were also used. From the study it is found out that levels of CA formalised application appear limited, especially when compared with a widely held managerial perception that significant benefits could derive from CA. The CA practices noted were conducted in an unstructured and ad hoc manner. CA does not have any effect on performance of Nepalese joint venture banks because of not applying any formalised CA application.
The study had /some of the limitations generally associated with a qualitative as well as quantitative study. These limitations include the degree of subjectivity that is invoked when researchers interpret qualitative data, scarcity of various resources, and accuracy of secondary data.
The study clarifies the notion of CA and provides an outline of CA management issues arising in the context of a joint venture banks. An outline is provided of those parts of a bank operation that are most likely to be more active in CA, together with empirically informed suggestions with respect to CA uses in a joint venture banks.
Gender Discrimination and Its Impacts in Macro-Economic Development
Authors: Shrestha Savitri 
Published: March 2021

Gender refers to the complex social construction of men’s and women’s identities. Sex and gender are different. The biological or physical construction is sex, which is created by nature. Gender is purely a social construct.
Gender Equality is a concept that is yet to be materialized. Around the world different individuals and groups of people are marginalized and discriminated on the basis of various factors, but discrimination against women is universal. Due to this, women are not able to use their full potential or assert their rights to live healthy life, and it has a deep impact in economic development.
Gender equality is not only matter of human right but also basic of economic development. Gender inequality is a severe obstacle to socio-economic development, human capital development and income generation. Gender inequality is harmful to long term development and growth. Unequal gender will never alone be sufficient for poverty reduction and economic development.
Gender discrimination not only affects females but males as well. The discriminatory practices do not only affect individuals but national economy and world economy as a whole. Due to stereotypical division of work most men are over loaded with economic duties, while women are being limited to household works only. Fifty per cent of the world population is over-loaded with economic duties, while fifty per cent of the brain is underutilized. The economic value of the household work which is done by females is not calculated and reflected in a country’s economy. This devalues the effort and work done by females and also is loss for the national economy. Education and development goes together, for a better balance of gender, educational equality is must. Education is key factor to promote human capital, which ensures economic growth. Formal education, trainings, study programs improves the capacity of individuals to live a decent life, which is the basic of development. Gender will never alone be sufficient for development.
Gender equality is not only matter of human right but also basis of economic development.
Status of Employment Among Tamangs and Non-Tamangs Women in Sindhupalchowk District
Authors: Dulal Tulasa Devi 
Published: March 2021

This paper tries to highlight the women’s working status in previous time to some changing status these days in Sinhupalchowk District. In the previous time women have to do all manual work, women reserve the grain, tend to the livestock, grow the vegetable in the kitchen garden, transplant the saplings at the start of the cropping season and than again reap, thresh and clean the harvest. Such activities are not restricted to the village economy alone; women are also equally involved in other development work of their community these days.
The family work could be defined as the total volume of physical and mental labour performed for the maintenance of a family. It incorporate all the endeavors applied for the person him/herself and for others. Indeed, the family work in total should be termed as the collective responsibility of all the members of family. However the burden of family work is usually greater for the women and for those people living in the marginalized economy of the household. The CNAS collected data suffices the ground to conclude that the women in Sindhupalchowk have miserable life .But now-days some women are changing their employment to government service and foreign employment.
Role of Bone Marrow Trephine Biopsies in the Diagnosis of Hematological and Non-Hematological Disorders
Authors: Pande Kricha , Sinha Arvind Kumar , Pradhan Anju , Rijal Suman , Bhatta Nisha Keshari 
Published: March 2021

Introduction: Bone marrow examination has become increasingly important for the diagnosis and treatment of hematologic and other illnesses. Bone marrow aspirates along with their peripheral smears and bone marrow trephine biopsies are considered to be complementary.Materials and Methods: This hospital-based, cross-sectional study was carried out in the Department of Pathology for one year (March 2011 to March 2012) at BPKIHS, Dharan. Fortyeight adequate bone marrow aspirates along with peripheral blood smears and trephine biopsies were selected and examined. Bone marrow trephine biopsies performed simultaneously with aspirate were correlated with the other two fi ndings to arrive at a conclusive diagnosis.Results: Bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy were found as complementary tests in 51.8% of cases. Bone marrow trephine biopsy provided a conclusive diagnosis in 25.9% of cases where bone marrow aspiration was inconclusive. Bone marrow aspiration alone was diagnostic in 22.2% of cases. In 43.7% of cases both aspiration and trephine biopsy were unable to provide a specificdiagnosis. Bone marrow biopsy was the diagnostic investigation in cases like aplastic anemia, myelofi brosis, and hypoplastic marrow.Conclusions: This study concludes that bone marrow aspiration smear along with peripheral smear findings and marrow trephine biopsy is required to arrive at a conclusive result.
The Pattern of viral seromarkers in patients with elevated plasma creatinine of ≥ 3.5mg/dl
Authors: Olaniyan Mathew Folaranmi , Ojediran Tolulope Busayo , Ozuruoke Donatus FN 
Published: March 2021

Introduction: Viral seromarkers are expressed in the serum or plasma to indicate viral infection while chronic viral infections may lead to organ failures and also kidneys have receptors as a point of entry for some viruses. This work was therefore designed to characterize viral seromarkers in patients with elevated plasma creatinine of ≥ 3.5mg/dl to determine the possible contribution of viral infections to renal disease as elevated creatinine is an index of renal disease.Materials and Methods: The study population included 62 patients aged 41 – 75 years with elevated plasma creatinine of 3.9± 0.4 mg/dl as test subjects and 100 age-matched volunteers with normal plasma creatinine of 0.8±0.2mg/dl as control subjects. Anti-HCV, HBsAg, HBeAg, and HIV; HIVp24Ag/Ab were determined in the subjects by ELISA while plasma creatinine was measured by spectrophotometry.Results: The viral seromarkers obtained in the subjects include:14.5%(09) Anti-HCV; 4.8%(03) p24Ag/Ab; 22.3%(14) HBsAg and 25%(16) HBeAb in the patients with plasma creatinine of 3.9 ± 0.4 mg/dl while 5%(05) Anti-HCV; 2%(02) p24Ag/Ab ; 12%(12) HBsAg and 18%(18) HBeAb were obtained in subjects with plasma creatinine of 0.8±0.2mg/dl.
Conclusions: There was a significant relationship between viral infection and renal disease (suggested by elevated plasma creatinine) as the expression of viral seromarkers of antiHCV, HBsAg, HBeAg, and HIV; HIVp24Ag/Ab in this work were more in patients with plasma creatinine of 3.9 ± 0.4 mg/dl than subjects with plasma creatinine of 0.8±0.2mg/dl while HBsAg and HBeAg were found to be more frequent.
Comparative Study of Colorectal Cancer Based on Tumor Location in Adolescent and Young Adult Population in Nepal
Authors: Deo Rajeeb Kumar , Chitalkar Prakash G , Malla Srijan , Shrestha Bikash , Shah Kunda B , Karki Binod 
Published: March 2021

Introduction: Colorectal cancer in the Adolescent and Young Adult population are increasing and are characterized by a more advanced stage at diagnosis, poorer cell differentiation, higher signet ring histology, and left-sided colon location of the primary tumor. This study aims to compare colorectal cancer data in the Adolescent and Young Adult population-based on tumor location.Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective cross-sectional study of colorectal cancer in the Adolescent and Young Adult population from April 2017 to September 2020 in Shree Birendra Hospital. Data were collected for age, sex, clinical features, histology, TNM stage, colonoscopy finding, radiologic features, treatment, and follow-up status based on tumor location. Data were analyzed using Excel 2010 and SPSS v 17.Results: The total number of patients was 61 with the mean age of 32.36 ± 6.24 years. There was a male preponderance of 63.93%. Right-sided colorectal cancer was 24.59% while left-sided colorectal cancer was 75.41%. For right-sided colorectal cancers, the most common symptoms were pain abdomen (73.3%) and diarrhea (53.3%) while for left-sided colorectal cancers, it was pain abdomen (80.4%) and bleeding per rectum (45.7%). The most common histology was adenocarcinoma (95.08%) with moderately differentiated being most common in both locations. Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy for right-sided and left-sided colorectal cancer were 86.66%, 0.0%, 86.66% and 58.67%, 28.26%, 89.13% respectively.Conclusions: Left-sided colorectal cancer was more common in the Adolescent and Young Adult population in our study. There were signifi cant differences in the clinical presentation of colorectal cancer as per the tumor location.
Dysgerminoma in Pseudohermaphroditism: A Case Report
Authors: Pun Rashmey , Pudasaini Sujata , Mahaseth Rita , Shrestha Kriti 
Published: March 2021

Female pseudohermaphroditism occurs when normal ovaries are present but the body is partially masculinized as individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia, also known as adrenogenital syndrome. This is an inherited disorder that accounts for about one-half of all cases of human intersexuality. We report a case of a 24-year-old male presenting with abdominal pain and increasing abdominal distension for one month. Computed tomography scan revealed large multiloculated heterogeneously enhancing solid –cystic lesion in the abdominopelvic cavity– malignant gonadal mass, gross ascites, and visualization of the poorly formed elongated uterus-like structure in the recto-uterine pouch and phallus-like structure with non-visualization of bilateral testes. Histopathology report suggested germ cell tumor and immunohistochemistry confirmed the diagnosis of dysgerminoma. Since dysgerminoma is sensitive to platinum-based chemotherapy patient was subjected to chemotherapy and the patient showed a good response. The patient underwent exploratory laparotomy with right salpingo-oophorectomy with omentectomy and appendectomy.
Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma: A Rare Aggressive Variant of Chondrosarcoma
Authors: Jhunjhunwala Adarsh Kumar , Ghosh Arnab , Shrestha Manish Kiran , Ghartimagar Dilasma , Thapa Sushma , Regmi Sudeep , Dhakal Binod 
Published: March 2021

A 15-year-old boy reported a 2-month history of severe left thigh pain Physical examination revealed left thigh swelling measuring 6x5 cm. X-ray of the region showed mixed lytic and sclerotic lesion involving the femoral head and neck. A Computed Tomography scan showed mixed lytic and sclerotic lesion involving the femoral head and neck with cortical irregularity and mild periosteal reaction with associated soft tissue in the anterior aspect. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated heterogeneous signal intensity lesion with areas of sclerosis involving the femoral head and neck. The large associated soft tissue in the anterior aspect appears predominantly hyperintense on T2W images. On post-contrast axial and sagittal images, heterogeneous enhancement with areas of necrosis involving soft tissue was seen. A presumptive radiological differential diagnosis of Ewing Sarcoma and Osteosarcoma was made. However, on histopathology, it was a case of mesenchymal chondrosarcoma.
Thought-Forms Gone Rogue: A Theory for Psi-Critics and Parapsychologists
Authors: Parker Adrian 
Published: March 2021

It is argued that psi-critics Reber and Alcock have lifted the debate from the impasse concerning the evidence for the existence of psi phenomena, toward focusing on understanding the nature of the phenomena. This focus concerns the demand to show that statistical findings are not anomalies but reflect real cause and effect relationships and to find a common theoretical framework for what otherwise appear to be heterogeneous rogue phenomena. It is maintained here that the demand for showing causal relationships is already met by a methodology using real-time recordings of changing target imagery along with receiver mentation. The demand by critics for a theoretical understanding linking all or most of the rogue phenomena, led to the proposition advanced here concerning thought-forms and co-conscious states. According to this, the many “rogue phenomena” both in psychology and parapsychology (such as automatic writing, lucid dream characters, spirit possessions, and entity experiences in psychedelic states) are to be understood as representing dissociated thought-forms with varying degrees of co-consciousness and in some cases the development of a genuine degree of autonomy and identity.
Keywords: altered states, thought-forms, consciousness, psi, skepticism, automatic writing, co-consciousness, possession
The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason A. Josephson-Storm
Authors: Fernandes Dmitri Cerboncini , Moreira-Almeida Alexander 
Published: March 2021

We live in a contradictory world. Self-proclaimed “skeptics”, as the original meaning itself suggests, should first of all strive for proper scientific rationality, for reflective and objective distancing in the apprehension of reality, for methodological caution and for the extended ability to theoretical and philosophical understanding of intricate problems, in practice, too often have entrenched themselves in dogmatic groups. Inquisitors often endowed with the appearance of religious fanaticism, in the worst sense of the term, invest their energies in a crusade of attacks to everyone to whom they attribute mistakes, naivety or even bad intentions. In practice, the universe of those who do not fit in their often restricted, idealized and naïve views of scientific practice. With them, there is hardly any possibility of frank dialogue or opening to research fields that escape their conceptions of what science and philosophy can approach and how they should operate. Charlatans, backward, believers, superstitious; these are some disqualifications generally granted to researchers who dare to go beyond the limits they established for science and rationality.
To substantiate their certainties, such self-proclaimed skeptics often claim to base their approach to science on the examples given by highly regarded scientists and philosophers of the past. We speak here of scholars of the stature of Giordano Bruno, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Isaac Newton, the Encyclopedists, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Sigmund Freud, James Frazer, the Vienna Circle, Max Weber, etc. Despite their different approaches, we are talking about many of the very founders of modern Western knowledge. The self-proclaimed contemporary “skeptics” claim their inscriptions in the tradition inaugurated by these illustrious intellectual ancestors. They claim to defend with determination such a rationalist tradition against “pseudoscientists” and “mystic-religious" philosophers who, according to their opinions, wish to corrupt it through insidious insertions in a field that would not rightfully belong to them. This would be their main mission.