bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to COVID-19 Pandemic among healthcare workers in the United Arab Emirates: A cross-sectional study
Authors: Marzouqi Amina M. Al , Otim Michael E. , Kehail Leena S. , Kamal Ramsha A. 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19 Pandemic) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a global health issue that continues to have an impact on many aspects of everyday life. A new variant, Omicron variant, has just been detected in Southern Africa. Most countries are jittery and unsure what the impact of this new variant will be. This study, undertaken in 2021, investigated the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) related to the COVID-19 Pandemic among healthcare workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Methods: We used an online questionnaire to collect data using the Google Forms link in this cross-sectional study. The participants included healthcare workers currently working in UAE healthcare facilities using snowball sampling. The questionnaire contained information on demographic variables and COVID-19 Pandemic-related KAP.Results: Among the participants, the majority (90.7%) knew that the absence of fever did not mean there was no chance of transmission from an infected person. Further, 84.1% agreed that wearing general medical face masks helps prevent one from contracting COVID-19 Pandemic. However, only 36.4% strongly believed that wearing a well-fitting face mask was effective. In addition, only 15.9% reported confidently managing patients with symptoms of COVID-19 Pandemic, while 54.2% indicated they were afraid of contracting the virus from patients. Almost half the participants noted that they avoided patients who had symptoms of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Conclusion: Overall, the COVID-19 Pandemic-related KAP for healthcare workers in UAE healthcare facilities was very high. However, we found gaps in awareness regarding the spread of the virus. We recommend providing healthcare workers with education programs and counseling services to help increase their confidence in treating patients with the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Binding Energy And Absorption of Donor Impurity In Spherical GaAs/AlxGa1-x As Quantum Dots With Konwent Potential
Authors: Al E. B. , Kasapoglu E. , Sari H. , Sökmen I. , Duque C. A. 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
In this study, the electronic and optical properties of single or core/shell quantum dots, which are formed depending on the parameters in the selected Konwent potential, are investigated. Namely, the effects of the size and geometric shapes of quantum dots on the binding energy of the on-center donor impurity, the total absorption coefficient and refractive index which are including transitions between the some confined states, and the electromagnetically induced transparency between the lowest six confined states related to the donor impurity are investigated. We have used the diagonalization method by choosing a wave function based on the Bessel and Spherical Harmonics orthonormal function to find the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the electron confined within the quantum dots which have different types mentioned above. To calculate the optical absorption coefficients and electromagnetically induced transparency related to shallow-donor impurity, a two- and three-level approach in the density matrix expansion is used, respectively.
Interoperable System for COVID-19
Authors: Chaudhari Yash , Sachdeva Shelly , Aggarwal Lakshita 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
In the year 2020, the world halted due to the spread of COVID-19 or SARS-CoV2 which was first identified in Wuhan, China. Since then, it has caused a plethora of problems around the globe such as the loss of millions of lives. India was one of the countries which were majorly affected by this pandemic. Thousands lost their lives and millions had to be hospitalized and taken into medical care. Due to this, there is an abundance of unorganized and redundant medical data in the Health Information Technology sector. Many hospitals contain various mismatched health records of a single person. We attempt to develop an Interoperable System specifically for COVID-19 using the openEHR standard to organize health records in digital form by creating Electronic Health Records. These records can be accessed and shared by multiple hospitals and clinics to reduce the redundancy of health records. This would establish effective communications between different hospitals and greatly make data sharing, efficient and low cost. Standardization can hugely affect medical errors. Interoperability provides hospitals to share across many channels and help Health care workers to detect discrepancies easily. Lives that are lost due to human error in the health care system can be minimized or even completely avoided. The number of hospitals using interoperable standards is still low and we hope that this paper will help make a change towards following the standard.
passive as a lexical rule
Authors: Müller Stefan 
Published: December 2021

In this paper I show that object to subject raising approaches as suggested by Pollard (1994) and Müller (1999) are problematic since they cannot account for adjective formation in a satisfying way. The approach by Heinz and Matiasek (1994), which is a formalization of Haider's (1986) ideas, cannot account for modal infinitives and control.
I develop a lexical rule based approach and it will be shown that this approach also extends to tricky cases of remote passive.
Gender mismatches in Spanish and French N1/A de N2 affective constructions
Authors: Casillas Martínez Luis D. 
Published: December 2021

I examine Spanish and French agreement in sentences with "affective" N/A de N constructions, in terms of an agreement theory growing out of Pollard and Sag (1994, §2) and Kathol (1999), with a distinction between two kinds of agreement relations: index agreement and morphosyntactic concord. The application of this theory to hybrid nouns (Wechsler and Zlati´c, 2000) extends straightforwardly to affective constructions. Furthermore, Kathol's characterization of the difference between hybrid nouns in Spanish and French, which I pair with an interpretation in terms of the default unification mechanism of Lascarides and Copestake (1999), turns out to make correct predictions about subtle differences in predicate agreement with affective constructions in the two languages.
Bulgarian vocative in HPSG
Authors: Osenova Petya N. , Simov Kiril Iv. 
Published: December 2021

Crosslinguistically vocatives are an underexplored linguistic phenomenon and in different languages they can be highly idiosyncratic and complex (Levinson, 1987, p.71). Therefore, the problem, which is discussed in this paper, is not a language-specific one, in spite of the fact that most of the languages have their own repositories for marking the role of the addressee in the communicative utterances. In our opinion this linguistic phenomenon needs its adequate treatment in HPSG because of three main reasons:

The vocative is supposed to be present on two levels: syntax and pragmatics. Therefore it needs more elaborate interpretation on the interface side, which, in HPSG, is more developed for morphology/syntax and syntax/semantics than syntax/pragmatics. Note that a challenge for the theory is the semantic weight of the vocatives with respect to the head sentence.
It will be useful for HPSG-oriented implementations, especially treebanks and dialogue systems.
On prosodic grounds the vocatives are often viewed as being 'side or extended parts' of the sentence and therefore - very close to the parenthetical constructions. From our point of view, both phenomena are pragmatic and hence, the treatment of vocative, presented here, could be generalized to cover other phenomena of pragmatic nature.

In our work the vocatives are viewed through the possibility of the integration/separation of their pragmatic, syntactic and semantic properties.
Phrasal typology and the interaction of topicalization, wh-movement and extraposition
Authors: Kiss Tibor 
Published: December 2021

Ever since Chomsky's "On Wh-Movement" (Chomsky 1977) it has been assumed that topicalization and wh-question formation can be analyzed as instances of the same operation. Leaving certain features aside, this proposal carries over to the analysis of unbounded dependency constructions in HPSG since structurally, topicalization does not differ from wh-question formation in the analysis suggested in Pollard & Sag (1994: 157-163). In the present paper, we challenge this assumption and suggest an alternative analysis of unbounded dependency constructions. Here, topicalization and wh-question formation are considered as structurally different at least in certain languages. They may, however, be structurally identical in other languages. This difference is empirically reflected in patterns of relative clause extraposition. As has been pointed out by Culicover & Rochemont (1990: 28), an extraposed relative clause must not take an antecedent contained in a VP if the VP is topicalized but the relative clause is not.
Dynamics of the cytokine profile in achieving the therapeutic effect of allergen-specific immunotherapy in children with allergic rhinitis and bronchial asthma
Authors: Skorokhodkina O. V. , Arkhipova S. A. , Klykova T. V. , Zaynetdinova G. M. , Kruglova E. B. , Volkova D. A. 
Published: December 2021

Allergen-specific immunotherapy is a pathogenetic method for the treatment of IgE-mediated allergic diseases.Objective. To evaluate effectiveness of allergen-specific immunotherapy in 471 children with allergic rhinitis and bronchial asthma, as well to analyze the dynamics of the cytokine profile at baseline and 1 year after the start of treatment in 86 children. The research was supported by a grant from the International Scientific Council for Young Scientists of Kazan State Medical University.Results. Analysis of the data obtained demonstrated that allergen-specific immunotherapy is a highly effective method of treating children with allergic rhinitis and atopic bronchial asthma. The dynamics of the level of the studied cytokines during treatment indirectly indicates an increase in the functional activity of adaptive subpopulations of regulatory T-lymphocytes (T-reg) and B-lymphocytes (B-reg) with a decrease in the activity of Th2 lymphocytes, which may indicate the reconstruction of the immune response and possible disease-modifying effect.
Трехфакторная модель зависимости от социальных сетей
Authors: Шейнов Виктор П. , Девицын Антон С. 
Published: December 2021

Введение. Зависимость от социальных сетей – одна из самых массовых немедицинских зависимостей. Многочисленные отрицательные последствия для ее жертв создали психологическую проблему, что сделало актуальным изучение факторов зависимости от социальных сетей. Ввиду отсутствия исследований этих факторов, проблему может разрешить соответствующая модель, разработка которой является целью статьи. Гипотеза исследования: главенствующую роль в модели играет «психологическое состояние» пользователя социальной сети. Методы. Факторная структура зависимости от социальных сетей изучается посредством эксплораторного и конфирматорного анализа (инструменты jamovi платформы R), непараметрическими корреляциями Кендалла и параметрическими Пирсона (пакет SPSS-22). Респонденты: 618 пользователей сетей (430 женщин 16–76 лет (M = 37,01) и 188 мужчин 16–67 лет (M = 31,3). Результаты и их обсуждение. Показано, что модель зависимости от социальных сетей включает три фактора: «психологическое состояние», «коммуникация», «получение информации». Показатель надежности модели = 0,828 (p-value < 0,001). Гипотеза исследования подтвердилась. При этом корреляции фактора «психологическое состояние» с тревожностью, депрессией, одиночеством, экстраверсией, самооценкой, удовлетворенностью жизнью (тесно связанными с зависимостью от социальных сетей) превышают корреляции других факторов и опросника в целом. Большая, чем у мужчин, зависимость женщин от социальных сетей объясняется более сильными корреляциями их фактора «психологическое состояние» с вышеперечисленными состояниями и свойствами личности. Для разных социумов модель зависимости от социальных сетей может иметь принципиально отличающуюся факторную структуру. Проведенный анализ показал, что построенная трехфакторная модель зависимости от социальных сетей обладает высокой степенью надежности; модель адекватно описывает сущность этой зависимости и может быть использована в изучении теоретического и практического аспектов данной проблемы.
Внутренняя стигма и нарциссическая регуляция больных эндогенными психозами
Authors: Лутова Наталия Б. , Макаревич Ольга В. , Вид Виктор Д. , Новикова Ксения Е. , Сорокин Михаил Ю. 
Published: December 2021

Введение. Самостигматизация психически больных является актуальной проблемой психиатрии. В литературных источниках влияние личностных характеристик больных психозами на формирование внутренней стигмы остается изученным недостаточно. Целью исследования стало изучение взаимного влияния нарциссической саморегуляции и показателей самостигматизации, выявление протективных, относительно формирования внутренней стигмы, черт нарциссической регуляции. Методы. Обследован 81 пациент психиатрического стационара (62 – с диагнозом рубрики F2 и 19 – с диагнозом в рамках F3 согласно МКБ-10). Использовались: шкала интернализованной стигмы психических заболеваний (ISMI) и методика «Индекс функционирования Self-системы» (ИФСС). Применялись статистические процедуры: описательные статистики, дисперсионный анализ (U-критерий Манна – Уитни), определение размера эффектов Cohen’s d. Результаты. Анализ показателей методики ИФСС выявил статистически значимое ослабление нарциссической регуляции в обследованной выборке по всем субшкалам и интегративному показателю ИФСС (21,1 ± 4) в сравнении с нормативной величиной для идеально сильной личности (0). Общая выраженность самостигматизации у опрошенных пациентов была низкой (2,4 ± 0,24), превышение пороговых 2,5 баллов, свидетельствующих о высокой интенсивности переживания стигмы, было выявлено у 30 (37 %) обследованных. Сравнение особенностей нарциссической регуляции у больных с высоким и низким уровнем самостигматизации обнаружило существенные взаимосвязи между проявлениями внутренней стигмы и показателями силы личности. Размеры эффектов Cohen’s d для восьми субшкал (Self1, Self2, Self3, Self5, Self6, Self7, Self12, Self18) составили 1,1–1,8 при p ≤ 0,05, что свидетельствует о значимом ослаблении нарциссической регуляции у пациентов с высоким уровнем переживания самостигматизации. Обсуждение результатов. Выявленные особенности функционирования системы регуляции нарциссизма обуславливают ослабление силы личности, которое может способствовать формированию внутренней стигмы и нарастанию социальной дезадаптации. Данные об индивидуализированном профиле дефицитарности адекватных механизмов защиты личности имеют практическую ценность при проведении сфокусированных психотерапевтических вмешательств.
Развитие лидерских способностей студентов-психологов средствами психологического консультирования
Authors: Сукнева Елена А. , Чернецкая Надежда И. , Кедярова Елена А. , Монжиевская Вера В. , Уварова Маргарита Ю. 
Published: December 2021

Введение. Современная стратегия системы образования, декларативно нацеленная на подготовку специалистов с развитыми лидерскими способностями, фактически таких специалистов выпускает критически мало, что особенно негативно проявляется в психологическом образовании. Лидерские способности, содержательно составляющие основу для многих профессионально важных качеств психолога, у многих студентов развиты минимально, и традиционная вузовская подготовка психологов не предусматривает их целенаправленного развития. Было предпринято эмпирическое исследование, в котором мы впервые доказали, что проведение группового психологического консультирования за относительно короткий срок позволяет добиться повышения уровня лидерских способностей студентов-психологов и что эта работа может быть интегрирована в учебный процесс. Методы. В эмпирическом исследовании приняли участие 50 студентов, обучающихся на разных курсах очной формы бакалавриата факультета психологии Иркутского государственного университета. В исследовании были использованы следующие методы: тестовый метод многошкальных личностных опросников; развивающие, моделирующие, обучающие и аналитические методы психологического консультирования; методы непараметрической статистики (угловое преобразование Фишера). Результаты. В результате проведенной консультационной работы со студентами-психологами нам удалось повысить не только собственно показатель лидерских способностей, но и показатели сопряженных с ним коммуникативных и организаторских способностей, а также показатели личностных лидерских качеств (например, экстраверсии, лабильности, спонтанности). Обсуждение результатов. Психологическое консультирование способствует повышению уровня лидерских способностей будущих психологов: лидерские способности улучшаются как в части лидерских личностных качеств, так и в части сопряженных с лидерством коммуникативных способностей. Заключение. Развитие лидерских способностей будущих психологов методами психологического консультирования может и должно стать частью их профессиональной подготовки. Групповые консультационные сессии по развитию лидерских способностей могут быть реализованы как в рамках специализированных факультативов, так и в контексте дисциплин, содержание которых предусматривает развитие личности и лидерства (социальная психология, психологическое консультирование и др.).
Extracellular Vesicles as Innovative Tools for Assessing Adverse
Effects of Immunosuppressant Drugs
Authors: Lucafò Marianna , De Biasi Serena , Curci Debora , Norbedo Alessia , Stocco Gabriele , Decorti Giuliana 
Published: December 2021

Background:
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a heterogeneous family of small
vesicles released by donor cells and absorbed by recipient cells, which represent important
mediators with fundamental roles in both physiological and pathological conditions.
EVs are present in a large variety of biological fluids and have a great diagnostic and
prognostic value. They have gained the interest of the scientific community due to their
extreme versatility. In fact, they allow us to hypothesize new therapeutic strategies since,
in addition to being cell signal mediators, they play an important role as biomarkers, drug
vehicles, and potential new therapeutic agents. They are also involved in immunoregulation,
have the ability to transmit resistance to a drug from one cell to a more sensitive
one, and can act as drug delivery systems.

Objective:
The main reciprocal interactions between EVs and immunosuppressive drugs
will be presented.

Results:
The known interactions between EVs and immunosuppressive drugs, in particular
cyclosporin, glucocorticoids, rapamycin, methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, eculizumab,
infliximab, certolizumab, etanercept, glatiramer acetate, and fingolimod are presented.

Conclusion:
This review provides relevant information on the links between EVs and immunosuppressive
drugs with a focus on EVs' role as tools to assess the effects of immunosuppressants,
suggesting innovative properties and new possible therapeutic uses.
In Search for Biomarkers in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: New Evidence on Saliva as a Practical Source of DNA to Assess Epigenetic Regulation
Authors: D’Addario Claudio , Macellaro Monica , Bellia Fabio , Benatti Beatrice , Annunzi Eugenia , Palumbo Riccardo , Conti Dario , Fasciana Federica , Vismara Matteo , Varinelli Alberto , Ferrara Luca , Celebre Laura , Viganò Caterina , Dell’Osso Bernardo 
Published: December 2021

Background:
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) is a promising candidate
biomarker in both the development and aetiology of different neuropsychiatric conditions,
including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Most of the studies in the field
have been carried out in blood cells, including peripheral blood mononucleated cells
(PBMCs), although DNA of high quality can be easily isolated from saliva.

Objective:
The objective of this study was to evaluate the epigenetic regulation of the BDNF
gene in the saliva of a clinical sample of OCD patients in order to assess this source
as an alternative to blood.

Methods:
We first analyzed DNA methylation levels at BDNF in the saliva of subjects
suffering from OCD (n= 50) and healthy controls (n=50). Then, we compared these data
with the results previously obtained for the same genomic region in blood samples from
the same patients and controls (CTRL).

Results:
Our preliminary data showed a significant reduction of 5mC levels at BDNF
gene (OCD: 1.23 ± 0.45; CTRL: 1.85 ± 0.64; p < 0.0001) and a significant correlation between
DNA methylation in PBMCs and saliva (Spearman r = 0.2788).

Conclusion:
We support the perspective that saliva could be a possible, reliable source,
and a substitute for blood, in search of epigenetic biomarkers in OCD.
Stimuli-responsive Polymeric Nanosystems for Therapeutic Applications
Authors: Handa Mayank , Singh Ajit , Flora Swaran Jeet Singh , Shukla Rahul 
Published: December 2021

Background:
Recent past decades have reported emerging of polymeric nanoparticles as a promising technique for controlled and targeted drug delivery. As nanocarriers, they have high drug loading and delivery to the specific site or targeted cells with an advantage of no drug leakage within en route and unloading of a drug in a sustained fashion at the site. These stimuli-responsive systems are functionalized in dendrimers, metallic nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles, liposomal nanoparticles, quantum dots.

Purpose of Review:
The authors reviewed the potential of smart stimuli-responsive carriers for therapeutic application and their behavior in external or internal stimuli like pH, temperature, redox, light, and magnet. These stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems behave differently in In vitro and In vivo drug release patterns. Stimuli-responsive nanosystems include both hydrophilic and hydrophobic systems. This review highlights the recent development of the physical properties and their application in specific drug delivery.

Conclusion:
The stimuli (smart, intelligent, programmed) drug delivery systems provide site-specific drug delivery with potential therapy for cancer, neurodegenerative, lifestyle disorders. As development and innovation, the stimuli-responsive based nanocarriers are moving at a fast pace and huge demand for biocompatible and biodegradable responsive polymers for effective and safe delivery.