bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
RESEARCH ON THE EFFECTS OF READING HABITS ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN BIOLOGY COURSE
Authors: Önel Arzu , Durdukoca Şule Fırat 
Published: September 2021

<p>The aim of this study is to examine whether reading habits have any effects on the academic achievement of the biology course of high school students in Turkey. In the research, the relational screening model was preferred from the quantitative research models and the phenomenological approach was preferred from the qualitative research models, so the mixed method was used. The study group consists of 266 students studying in the final year of various high schools and who took biology courses before in the province of Kars in Turkey. Data were collected by the questionnaire form prepared by the researchers. In the questionnaire, the participants were asked 12 questions in total; 4 questions to determine the variables of the type of school, education fields, gender, school report marks, 5 close-ended questions to be thought to be able to determine their reading habits, 2 open-ended questions and 1 metaphor question. Frequency and percentage values were calculated for descriptive analysis of the answers given to the questionnaire items. Chi-square analysis was used to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics and the reading habits of the students, and the content analysis technique was used to analyze metaphors. </p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0882/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
COVID-19 AND MEDICAL EDUCATION IN GHANA: ASSESSING THE IMPACT
Authors: Asumanu Edward , Tsevi Linda 
Published: September 2021

<p>Medical education in Ghana has been affected in many ways by the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the pandemic has affected both preclinical and clinical segments of medical education, the effect has been felt more at the clinical stage. Medical students on vacation who started their clinical training abroad could not return to their destination of study to complete their programmes because of COVID-19 linked travel restrictions. This qualitative study examined how COVID-19 impacted on teaching and learning at a public higher education institution offering clinical medical education in Ghana for over 200 medical students. These medical students were from three different higher education institutions with varied curriculum outcomes. Thus, for them to be considered as a single group required innovativeness on the part of administrators. Open-ended interviews were held with administrators and the outcome indicated that salient aspects of the clinical training process had been impacted. These included administration of clinical education, curriculum, student learning, student assessment and code of practice. As a result of the pandemic, student learning shifted from traditional face to face interaction to online learning at the beginning. Some of the administrative challenges that ensued included the need for reduced number of students per tutor and introduction of afternoon sessions with a limited budget. The paper concludes that COVID-19 has been disruptive to traditional medical education in Ghana. However, the novel learning processes may provide opportunities to increase access to medical education using a phased system of learning. The findings from this study should have implications for policy and contribute to the discourse on blended learning in medical education in Ghana while ensuring that quality is maintained in all instances.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0893/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
TO THE GLORY OF HIS GRACE: The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity and its Interrelatedness to the Economy of God in Salvation
Authors: Torseth Robb Lawrence 
Published: September 2021

It is a contemporary trend by many theologians and philosophers to view the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity (from hereon, DDS) as an unnecessary, illogical, and problematic addendum of scholasticism to theology proper. However, upon further investigation, this doctrine is found to be prevalent and implied in biblically orthodox ontology. Furthermore, it may be shown that the DDS bears potentially broad ramifications to how we understand the Trinity (given that it proceeds from simplicity in logical priority) and, subsequently, how we understand the initial, sustained, and perfected work of God in salvation through grace. Therefore, contrary to current theological trends, it may be stated that the DDS is, in fact, a centrifugal, practical, and even indispensablepart of the Christian understanding of how we know God.
PROLEGÔMENOS DA HISTÓRIA DO CURSO DE MESTRADO EM PSICOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE PETRÓPOLIS
Authors: Monteiro Campos Luís Antônio , Krüger (in memoriam) Helmuth Ricardo 
Published: September 2021

Este trabalho é dedicado ao professor Helmuth Krüger com quem tive o prazer de conviver desde minha graduação, e ser orientado por ele em todas as fases de minha formação em Psicologia: graduação, mestrado, doutorado e no estágio pós-doutoral. Falar do professor Helmuth é falar de um pensador de boa-fé, em busca da Verdade, pessoa de grandes ações morais e éticas. Agradeço a Deus por ter o acompanhado academicamente até o fim de sua digna jornada. Agradeço ao Padre Reitor Pedro Paulo pela autorização e incentivo para este estágio pós-doutoral. Este trabalho é sobre o Curso de Mestrado em Psicologia da Universidade Católica de Petrópolis, elaborado e desenvolvido pelo professor Helmuth Krüger. Este trabalho foi iniciado no ano de 2019, tendo como orientador o Professor Doutor Helmuth Krüger e visava além da obtenção do pós-doutoramento em Psicologia fazer um histórico do Mestrado do Curso de Psicologia. Nesse artigo nosso objetivo inicial é lançar as primeiras linhas da pesquisa feita para a o fim almejado, deixando para a posterior conclusão das pesquisas a edição de um livro com toda História. Metodologicamente trata-se de um levantamento de dados históricos com análise de documentos e depoimentos com alguns docentes e discentes que pela instituição passaram.
The modulating effect of ferulic acid on high fat diet induced hyperlipidemia and obesity:A dose response study in male Sprague Dawleyrats
Authors: Mohamed Mumtaz Khan , Ramamurthy V. 
Published: September 2021

Introduction and Aim: Ferulic acid (FA) is a phenolic compound predominantly found in cereals have been used in traditional Chinese medicine. Here, we studied the effect of FA on high-fat diet (HFD) induced hyperlipidemia and obesity in rats.

Materials and Methods:Hyperlipidemia was induced in male Sprague Dawley rats by feeding HFD for 14 weeks. The hypolipidemic effect was evaluated by co-administering 50,100, 200 and 250 mg/kg body weight of FA. At the end of the experimental period, rats were sacrificed and serum/plasma levels of total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT), 3-hydroxy-3methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMG CoA reductase) and adiponectin were determined. Moreover, Histopathological examination of liver and visceral adipose tissue (AT) was also carried out.

Results:HFD treatment significantly increased weight gain, body mass index, total fat pad mass, blood lipids, LDL cholesterol and serum transaminases.HFD +FA fed rats showed a significant decrease in blood lipids and an increase in antioxidant enzymes when compared to the HFD control rats. The activity of HMG CoA reductase and serum adiponectin levels were elevated in rats administered with FA. Among the 4 doses studied, 200 mg of FA/kg body weight exhibited optimum hypolipidemic activity. Histological observations in the liver and visceral AT added additional evidence for the lipid-lowering effect of FA.

Conclusion:These findings indicate that FA can act as a hypolipidemic agent, probably by modulating the activity of HMG CoA reductase and serum adiponectin levels.
Relevance of Placental protein 13 in combination with Xanthine oxidase activity andAsymmetric dimethylargininein early prediction of Preeclampsia with an evidence of LGALS13 gene promoter variant
Authors: Gadde Ranjeeta , Dayanand C.D. , Sharath B , Sheela S.R. 
Published: September 2021

Introduction and Aim:Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific hypertensive disorder and its complications are associated with maternal morbidity and mortality. The intention of the study is to determine early placental and endothelial dysfunction markers in first and second trimesters of pregnancy for the prediction of preeclampsia.
Materials and Methods:Study design was prospective which enrolled 268 pregnant women during their first ante-natal visit. Blood samples were analysed for Placental protein13 (PP13), Asymmetric dimethyl arginine (ADMA) by ELISA and Xanthine oxidase (XO) activity by colorimetric assay. On follow-up, 22 subjects developed preeclampsia, 12 had spontaneous abortions and the rest remained normotensive till delivery. PP13 gene, LGALS13 was sequenced in preeclampsia cases to know if any polymorphism was present.
Results:Results were analysed by Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test know the level of statistical significance, correlation analysis by Spearman’s correlation and diagnostic performance of the measured parameters was assessed by receivers operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Pregnant women who developed Preeclampsia had low PP13 levels in first trimester and elevated ADMA in second trimester (p<0.001). Gene sequencing of LGALS13 in preeclampsia showed -98C/A SNP at promoter region. ROC curve showed AUC for first trimester PP13 (0.932), second trimester PP13 (0.955) second trimester XO activity (0.967) and second trimester ADMA (1.000).
Conclusion: The results suggest that oxidative stress, placental and endothelial dysfunction biomarkers would be helpful for early prediction of preeclampsia.
Estimation of genotype MTBDRPLUS line probe assay in detection of rifampicin and isoniazid resistance in comparison to liquid culture (BACTEC-960) drug susceptibility testing in a tertiary care hospital from Eastern India
Authors: Poddar Chandan Kumar , Kumari Narmata , Kumar Rakesh , Shahi Shivendra Kumar , Kumar Naresh , Kumar Shailesh 
Published: September 2021

Introduction and Aim: India has the uppermost trouble of Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major challenge controlling resistance, reducing transmission and improving handling outcomes in MDR-TB patients is dependent on susceptibility testing. Isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (Rif) are the key first-line antituberculosis drugs, and resistance to these drugs i.e., MDR-TB, is likely to result in treatment failure and poor clinical outcomes. The present study was done to compare the performance of line probe assay test (GenoType® MTBDRplus) with liquid culture (MGIT 960) system for the detection of resistance to first-line drugs.

Materials and Methods: We estimate the performance of LPAs to BACTEC MGIT 960 system for susceptibility testing of bacterial resistance to first-line drugs: rifampicin (RIF), isoniazid (INH).

Results: We performing Drug susceptibility testing (DST), 219/258 MTB cultures were viable after subculture the results of DST using the MGIT 960 system were compared to those obtained by line probe assay. LPA detected a total 46/258 (17.81%) samples as drug resistant, of which 35/258 (13.70%) were resistant to both rifampicin and isoniazid (MDR), 6/258 (2.28%) were rifampicin mono?resistant samples and 11/258 (4.11%) were isoniazid mono?resistant. Out of the culture?positive samples (219), LPA detected 39/219 (17.83%) as drug?resistant, of which 31/219 (14.2%) were resistant to both rifampicin and isoniazid, 5/193 (2.08%) were rifampicin mono?resistant and 8/219 (3.7%) were isoniazid mono?resistant.
Conclusion: Drug resistant TB poses an enormous threat to TB control programs worldwide. Effective treatment of MDR-TB is very expensive, particularly in middle income countries such as India.
Variation in interpeak latencies of auditory brainstem responses with age in male adults:An observation
Authors: Khullar Shilpa , Rizvi S. Aijaz Abbas , Sachdeva Ankur , Sood Archana , Abidi Syed Sibte Akbar 
Published: September 2021

Introduction and Aim: Aging of the auditory pathway is a complex phenomenon consisting of changes in the auditory processing along with a significant elevation of the hearing threshold. The aim of our study was to see the variation in interpeak latencies (IPLs) of Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABRs) with advancing age in males.

Materials and Methods: It was an observational study conducted on 60 Indian male subjects aged between 20 and 80 years divided into three groups on the basis of age: Group 1: 20-40 years, Group 2: 41-60 years and Group 3: 61-80 years. Auditory threshold and ABRs were recorded and analysed for interpeak latencies (IPLs) – I-III,I-V and III-V in msec.The comparison of data between the groups was done using one – way ANOVA and Tukey Kramer multiple comparison test. The results were considered significantly different between the groups when ‘P value’ was ? 0.05.

Results: It was found that there was no significant difference in the auditory threshold and interpeak latencies (IPLs) when comparison was made between the three groups.

Conclusion: Hence we conclude thatage does not have any significant influence on neural conduction time of the auditory pathway which is represented by the IPLs in ABRs.
Clinical usefulness of eosinopenia in differentiating COVID-19 versus other flu-like illness in outpatient set-up
Authors: Muthu Raja M Koushik , Anand R. , Vinod V.G. , Rajagopalan B , Chandrasekar C. , Dhanasekar T 
Published: September 2021

Introduction and Aim:Corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is a highly infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). COVID-19 has affected over 200 countries and territories. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the role of eosinopenia in differentiating COVID-19 suspect from other flu-like illnesses in an outpatient setting.

Materials and Methods:It was a retrospective case control study in which data of 1252 suspected COVID 19 patients who visited the fever clinic were enrolled. Among this, 701 patients were found to have COVID-19 pneumonia and 551 had other flu-like illnesses. CBC (complete blood count) and CRP(C- reactive protein) were taken in all patients along with chest x-ray as routine protocol.

Results:Among the 701 positive patients, eosinopenia was seen in 527 patients and had a sensitivity of 75.2 % and specificity of 68.6 %. When combined with other lab parameters such as the increased CRP and lymphopenia, the specificity rises up to 78.6 %.

Conclusion:Our study shows that eosinopenia as an independent variable, is a reliable marker to differentiate COVID-19 suspect patients from other flu-like illnesses on outpatient basis, however when combined with other parameters like lymphopenia and CRP the specificity increases further.
Aplikasi Berbasis Android Dalam Meningkatkan Kognitif Anak Usia Dini
Authors: Ayuningrum Desy , Afif Nur 
Published: September 2021

Early childhood cognitive formation is formed more quickly in the first four years of life in the golden age. The phenomenon of android-based application media in the digital age has been widely used as a means to optimize children’s cognitive development by some parents. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of android based application media in improving cognitive development in children. The method used in observasion is qualitative. As for the data collection techniques in the study are interview and observasions to five parens of android-based application usersas a means of stimulation to optimize children’s development in lampung. The result of the study illustrate that there is an increase in cognitive development in children. This it can be concluded that the android-based application media in the form of educational games and youtube kids can be used as a means to optimize cognitive development in early childhood.
Documento de los teólogos latinoamericanos
Authors: Teólogos del Tercer Mundo Asociación Ecuménica de 
Published: September 2021

Segunda Asamblea General de la Asociación Ecuménica de Teólogos del Tercer Mundo. Oaxtepec, México, 7-14 de diciembre de 1986.

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Revista latinoamericana de teología, Vol. 3, No. 9, 1986: 303-325.
Differential Geometry in Physics
Authors: Lugo Gabriel 
Published: September 2021

Differential Geometry in Physics is a treatment of the mathematical foundations of the theory of general relativity and gauge theory of quantum fields. The material is intended to help bridge the gap that often exists between theoretical physics and applied mathematics. The approach is to carve an optimal path to learning this challenging field by appealing to the much more accessible theory of curves and surfaces. The transition from classical differential geometry as developed by Gauss, Riemann and other giants, to the modern approach, is facilitated by a very intuitive approach that sacrifices some mathematical rigor for the sake of understanding the physics. The book features numerous examples of beautiful curves and surfaces often reflected in nature, plus more advanced computations of trajectory of particles in black holes. Also embedded in the later chapters is a detailed description of the famous Dirac monopole and instantons. Features of this book: * Chapters 1-4 and chapter 5 comprise the content of a one-semester course taught by the author for many years. * The material in the other chapters has served as the foundation for many master’s thesis at University of North Carolina Wilmington for students seeking doctoral degrees. * An open access ebook edition is available at Open UNC (https://openunc.org) * The book contains over 80 illustrations, including a large array of surfaces related to the theory of soliton waves that does not commonly appear in standard mathematical texts on differential geometry.
HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF BIONIC CHIMERICAL WING PLANFORMS INSPIRED BY MANTA RAY EIDONOMY
Authors: Taheri Arash 
Published: September 2021

In this paper, inspired by the external morphology of a manta ray (Mobula alfredi), four chimerical wing planforms are designed to assess its gliding performance. The planforms possess an arbitrary combination of extra hydrodynamic features like tubercles at the leading edge (L.E.) and trailing edge (T.E.) inspired by humpback whale's flippers and flukes, respectively, as longitudinal ridges inspired by whale shark's economy. In addition, another planform is designed to investigate the possible effects of manta ray's injuries (geometric deficiency) generated by predator's attacks or boat strikes on its locomotion (gliding) performance. In this regard, turbulent flow physics involved in the problem is numerically simulated at different angles of attack (AoA). High Reynolds number, 106, corresponding to the swimming of a juvenile manta ray at an average speed equals one m/s. The results show that the manta ray-inspired planform with L.E. undulations exhibits a superior performance at high AoAs than its other counterpart variants. In addition, the results demonstrate that injuries on the manta ray's body can noticeably modify hydrodynamics and, as a result corresponding hydrodynamical forces and moments acting on the swimming animal in the gliding phase.
EFEKTIFITAS MODEL PEMBELAJARAN DISCOVERY DALAM MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM DI SMP NEGERI 5 PONOROGO
Authors: FARIDA KHOIRIYATUL 
Published: September 2021

Pelaksanaan Pendidikan Agama Islam dan Budi Pekerti di lembaga pendidikan SMP Negeri 5 Ponorogo Jawa Timur , salah satunya adalah dengan menggunakan model pembelajaran Discovery . Hal ini sebagai upaya untuk meningkatkan kualitas proses dan hasil pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam . Pembelajaran yang aktif dan menarik sangat diperlukan dalam rangka meningkatkan kemauan dan konsentrasi peserta didik untuk mengikuti pembelajaran. Di sisi lain hasil belajar peserta didik juga perlu untuk terus ditingkatkan dalam upaya memenuhi Kriteria Ketuntasan belajar klasikal . Hasil Penelitian Tindakan Kelas dengan dua siklus ini telah menunjukkan bahwa model Pembelajaran Discovery sangat efektif dalam meningkatkan kualitas proses pembelajaran dan hasil pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam dan Budi Pekerti terutama dalam Kompetensi Dasar Memahami Cara Berbakti dan Taat Kepada Orang Tua dan Guru pada Peserta Didik Kelas IX G SMP Negeri 5 Ponorogo Tahun Pelajaran 2019 / 2020 . Hal ini didasarkan pada pengamatan proses pembelajaran yang mengalami peningkatan keaktifan peserta didik dari siklus-1 ke siklus-2 dan juga adanya peningkatan nilai hasil belajar peserta didik sehingga ketuntasan secara klasikal dapat tercapai dari siklus -1sebesar 76 % ke siklus – 2 sebesar 86% .
PENGARUH MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN VIDEO TUTORIAL TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR GAMBAR TEKNIK SISWA KELAS XI JURUSAN TEKNIK PEMESINAN DI SMK NEGERI 2 BITUNG
Authors: Rozi Fahrurrozi , Parhusip Bastian RIkardo , Rampo Yohanis , Liow Herdy 
Published: September 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui ada tidaknya pengaruh penggunaan media pembelajaran video tutorial terhadap hasil belajar gambar teknik jurusan teknik pemesinan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode quasi experimental design dengan desain penelitian pretest-posttest control-group design. Populasi pada penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas XI teknik pemesinan dan sampel dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 60 siswa. Kemudian sampel tersebut diberikan pretest, setelah itu diberikan treatment secara bertahap. Setelah diberikan treatment, sampel tersebut diberikan posttest untuk mengukur hasil belajar pada kelompok tersebut. Perbedaan hasil pretest dengan posttest tersebut menunjukan hasil dari perlakuan yang telah diberikan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa: Terdapat pengaruh penggunaan media pembelajaran video tutotial terhadap hasil belajar gambar teknik siswa berdasarkan analisis yang diperoleh. Ini dibuktikan melalui analisis pengujian hipotesis dimana thitung = 15,40 dan harga ttabel = 1,671553 dengan db (n1 + n2) -2 taraf signifikan = 0,05. thitung = 15,40 > ttabel = 1,671553. Artinya bahwa H0 diterima dan H1 ditolak
Kata Kunci : Media Pembelajaran Video Tutorial, Hasil Belajar
Miniaturized Microstrip Diplexer Based on FR4 Substrate for Wireless Communications
Authors: Hussein Hussein Ali , Mezaal Yaqeen Sabah , Alameri Ban M. 
Published: September 2021

In this paper, the miniaturized microstrip diplexer has been designed for dual channels based on FR4 substrate material. It consists of two bandpass filters (BPFs) functioning under dissimilar frequency bands coupled with a unified junction. Every BPF has been created by a meandered line resonator, step impedance resonator, uniform impedance resonator, and input/output feed lines. The AWR electromagnetic simulator has been used for characterizing the frequency responses of the projected diplexer. Noble scattering parameter results with narrow band responses and negative group delay values are obtained for the proposed diplexer. The microstrip diplexer has an interesting band isolation between the two filters around 31 dB. The device has been successfully fabricated and verified with the simulations.
Estimation of BER Bit Error Rate Using Digital Smoothing Filters
Authors: Peksinski Jakub , Zeglinski Grzegorz , Mikolajczak Grzegorz , Kornatowski Eugeniusz 
Published: September 2021

In the article, the authors present a new method of numerical determination of Q and BER parameters based on which the quality of transmission in optical fibre transmission systems is determined. The proposed method is based on the use of digital smoothing filters algorithms and does not require the knowledge of the so-called “eye diagram”, which greatly simplifies the entire measurement procedure. This method can be implemented in a simple manner in real-time systems, and in particular it is crucial for ICT systems and networks with a high bit rate of more than 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps and systems with time division or wavelength division multiplexing of 100 GBE and 400 GBE.