bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effects of DPP4 Inhibitors on Renal Outcomes in Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Authors: Dalui Saikat K. , Chakraverty Raja , Yasmin Nafisha , Pattanaik Smita , Pandit Kaushik , Chatterjee Suparna 
Published: December 2021

Objectives:This meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCT) intends to evaluate the efficacy of DPP4 Inhibitors (DPP4I) compared with placebo, other antidiabetics (or DPP4I) on renal outcomes, adverse events (AEs), and all-cause mortality.Methods:We searched relevant scientific database for RCTs with DPP4I and prespecified renal end point. The effect size (mean difference or risk ratio) was reported with its 95% confidence interval.Results:Eight RCTs (n = 39040 participants) were included in the analysis. The rate of change in eGFR was not different in DPP4 inhibitor and control group. DPP4I use beyond 52 weeks did not worsen albuminuria progression (RR 0.88; 95% CI 0.80 to 0.96; high quality evidence) compared to placebo. The risk of AEs within 52 weeks (RR 0.93; 95% CI 0.80 to 1.08; moderate quality evidence), beyond 52 weeks (RR 0.98; 95% CI 0.97 to 1.00; low quality evidence), and all-cause mortality (RR 1.04; 95% CI 0.96 to 1.12; very low quality evidence) were similar to placebo. In head-to-head comparison between two DPP4I studies, no significant differences were found between alogliptin and vildagliptin for improvement in eGFR, UACR, or AE at 24 weeks.Conclusions:DPP4I do not seem to provide persuasive benefit in the renal outcomes or all-cause mortality in diabetes mellitus, though there was no evidence for increased AEs.
A reference genome for the critically endangered woylie, Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi
Authors: Peel Emma , Silver Luke , Brandies Parice , Hogg Carolyn J. , Belov Katherine 
Published: December 2021

Biodiversity is declining globally, and Australia has one of the worst extinction records for mammals. The development of sequencing technologies means that genomic approaches are now available as important tools for wildlife conservation and management. Despite this, genome sequences are available for only 5% of threatened Australian species. Here we report the first reference genome for the woylie (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi), a critically endangered marsupial from Western Australia, and the first genome within the Potoroidae family. The woylie reference genome was generated using Pacific Biosciences HiFi long-reads, resulting in a 3.39 Gbp assembly with a scaffold N50 of 6.49 Mbp and 86.5% complete mammalian BUSCOs. Assembly of a global transcriptome from pouch skin, tongue, heart and blood RNA-seq reads was used to guide annotation with Fgenesh++, resulting in the annotation of 24,655 genes. The woylie reference genome is a valuable resource for conservation, management and investigations into disease-induced decline of this critically endangered marsupial.
Historiography of German Entrepreneurship in Siberia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Authors: Goncharov Yurii M. , Klimova Olga G. 
Published: December 2021

The historiography of ethnic entrepreneurship in pre-revolutionary Siberia has not yet been fully investigated. Individual works of researchers studied German entrepreneurship exclusively through the broader topic of foreign capital and its importance in the state economy. The subject of this article is historiography concerning the history of German entrepreneurship in the Siberian region. The purpose is to analyze the corresponding works on the history of entrepreneurial activity of the Germans in Siberia in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries. In this study both general and specialized scientific methods are used, which allowed to carry out a coherent analysis of the works of researchers on ethnic entrepreneurship in order to identify the main characteristics and approaches used. We have identified the characteristics and trends of German entrepreneurship considered by historians. German immigrants in Siberia in the second half of the 19th century became one of the main driving forces of the agrarian development in the region; they retained farms, acting both as independent merchants and as managers of firms. Historiographic analysis allows to formulate a conclusion about the positive influence of German entrepreneurship on the socio-economic development of Siberia in the period preceding the October Revolution. The article is of interest to researchers, teachers of history, and students of the humanities.
Muslim Population in the Siberian Cities according to the Census of 1897
Authors: Brukhanova Elena A. , Nezhentseva Natalya V. , Chekryzhova Oksana I. 
Published: December 2021

Processes of urbanization and modernization created preconditions for qualitative changes in the demographic, social and professional structure of the cities, as well as for the formation of specific socio-professional groups. Meanwhile the active region development contributed to the individual ethno-confessional communities and diasporas formation and institutionalization in cities.
The main authors’ task in to identify the ways of forming and the role of the Muslim community in the Siberian cities, based on the analysis of aggregated and nominative materials of the First General Census of the Russian Empire in 1897. The use of census lists makes for the specificity and novelty of the study. On the one hand, the data allow to obtain the most complete list of Muslim persons who were in the cities at the time of the census; on the other hand, it helps to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the demographic, social and occupational characteristics of the Muslim population.
We present the socio-demographic characteristics of Muslims who lived in Siberia at the late 19th century including the map of the Muslims’ location in the counties, as well as their number and gender composition in the Siberian cities. The general portrait of the Muslim in the Siberian cities was shaped based on the aggregated data of the 1897 census. The information taken from the census lists made it possible to surmise on about the formation of the Muslim community in individual cities, and to characterize the Muslim society structure in the Tobolsk province cities.
The article is intended for specialists-historians, ethnographers, social anthropologists and a wide range of readers.
The German Population of Siberia in the Conditions of Social Transformations of the 1900s-1920s
Authors: Shaidurov Vladimir N. 
Published: December 2021

At the turn of the 19th – 20th century Siberia became a “melting pot” once again, where the representatives of various ethnic groups found themselves. The reasons for the resettlement beyond the Urals were of predominant economic character. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of various social events of the first third of the 20th century on the life of Siberian Germans. Russian Germans engaged in agriculture were forced to seek the ways to survive inside Russia in the situation of the agrarian crisis. Modernization of the state migration policy at the beginning of the 20th century and development of the railway transport allowed for labor migration, as a result of which Siberia turned into one of the agrarian regions, being on the rise, by the mid-1910s. German immigrants, who created capitalist farm type households there and became a model for Russian old-timers and other immigrants, contributed greatly to his process. However, the events of 1914-1922 disrupted the customary pace of life in the German village. The economic policy of the Bolsheviks who came to power provoked famine in the first half of the 1920s.The German population suffered from hunger as well, which drove up emigration sentiments. However, NEP and restoration of cooperation allowed them to start rapid recovery of the small-scale economy. The All-Russian Mennonite Agricultural Union played a pivotal role in this process. The gradual curtailment of NEP and transition to a command-administrative economic model were connected with pressure on the German population among which the conservative-clerical sentiments prevailed. It was sure to provoke a new round of confrontation between the Russian Germans and the Soviet state in the late 1920s already. The article is intended for those interested in the history of ethnic minorities (Russian Germans) and national politics in the twentieth century.
The Place of Modernity: German Entrepreneurship in Western Siberia in the late 19th – early 20th Centuries
Authors: Krott Ivan I. 
Published: December 2021

The study focuses on the issues related to the process of adaptation and economic behavior of German entrepreneurship in Western Siberia in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The construction of the Siberian Railway and migration processes changed the economy, social structure and cultural practices of “old” Siberia. The “yesterday’s outskirts” became a “place of modernity”. The paper aims at presenting economic practices and strategies of German entrepreneurship adaptation in the conditions when the socio-spatial structures of the imperial periphery. were experiencing transformation. On the basis of representative resources, the mechanisms and methods of German entrepreneurs’ adaptation to the local community are shown. The structure of the market space and its segmentation as well as economic niches and economic strategies of German entrepreneurship are defined. The author comes to the conclusion that German entrepreneurs acted in the region as a “market ferment” changing Siberian society, and they could be regarded as actors of socio-economic, cultural modernization of the Siberian space. At the same time, the German merchants themselves experienced external influence from the host society. The research is based on the combination of macroanalytical strategies and microhistorical approach. The concept of “entrepreneurial minority” is a methodological basis for the study presented in the paper. The materials of the paper are addressed to the experts in the field of the history of Siberia as well as to the professional corporation of the researchers interested in the history of ethnic entrepreneurship and in the issues of various ethnic groups’ adaptation to the conditions of a non-ethnic host environment.
Communication Strategies of Polish Exiles of the second half of the 19th Century (the example of Tara and Kurgan)
Authors: Mulina Svetlana A. 
Published: December 2021

Diaspora studies penetrating into the Polish-Siberian theme since the late 1990s focused as a rule on the study of stable institutions, social organizations created by migrants for the preservation and development of ethnic community, and articulation of ethnic interests. However, such organizations among the Siberian Poles appeared only in the late XIX-early XX centuries. To understand the ethnic processes that took place among Polish migrants in the earlier period, the study of informal social ties of Polish migrants, various elements of group solidarity and communication systems becomes of paramount importance.
The purpose of this study is to reconstruct, on the basis of office documentation and correspondence, the communication strategies of exiled participants in the revolts of the 1863-1864 on the example of two cities of Tobolsk province, namely, Kurgan and Tara.
As a result of the study, we recorded the existence of a fraternity in Tara, covering most of the Poles who lived in the city. The self-organization of the exiles was facilitated by the presence of ready-made social structures – large traditional families and the system of communication between them that has developed at home. The emersion of the community in Kurgan was the result of the efforts of a group of exiled nobles who had a good education. In the conditions of a limited social status, and the absence of rich compatriots, the social value of this community turned out to be insufficient to become the center of attraction for Poles.
Disease knowledge and preferences for disclosure of information in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Authors: Gonçalves Rafael Pauletti , Simões Maria Carolina Diana , Saba Amine Barbella , Novaes Gilberto Santos 
Published: December 2021

Objectives: To verify the level of knowledge about rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the patient’s preferences for disclosure of information by the physician in patients with RA, we compared with a control group of patients without RA.
Methods: We evaluated 30 patients diagnosed with RA, according to the ACR criteria, and 30 patients with other diseases pared for age, gender, level of education, and disease duration followed in an Out-Patient Service. Clinical-demographic data as age, gender, level of education, and disease duration were obtained from both groups. We applied questionnaires to evaluate the level of knowledge about RA (10 questions) with answers yes or no, and the patient’s preference for disclosure of information by the physician (4 questions) in a Likert scale from a) strongly agree to e) strongly disagree to both groups. The questionnaires were validated for Portuguese by the method of translation and re-translation. The Ethical Committee at the Pontifical Catholic University approved the study, and we obtained informed consent from all patients. When appropriat-ed, statistical analysis of the data included the chi-square test and student’s t-test. The significance level was 0.05.
Results: Over 30 patients with RA, 27 patients (90%) were women, the mean age was 50.8 years old, with a mean of 3.03 years on school, and mean disease duration of 10.6 years. The knowledge about RA as a mean reached 5.36 points in 10 as a correct answer in RA patients and 5.13 in controls. Concerning the patient’s preference for disclosure of information by the physician, the results varied between 23.3% and 90% in the answers strongly agree or agree in the group of RA patients and 6.6% to 90% in controls. In a specific question about "patients with RA should not play a role in managing their disease because the physician is the one in charge," 56.6% of RA patients agreed, and 46,6% of controls too. Only one question about patient’s preference for disclosure of information by the physician “When there is more than one way to treat a problem, I should be told about each one” there was a trend to differ between the controls and the RA patients (p=0.06). The analysis of the results showed no statistical difference in answers to the questionnaires between RA patients and controls.
Conclusion: Our results showed that RA patients, compared to control patients with other non-rheumatic diseases, do not show differences to the level of knowledge about rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the patient’s preferences for disclosure of information by the physician.
CAMEROON PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERS Supporting leadership, management and administration development
Authors: Ashu Frederick , Etongwe Richard , Fuaty Christopher 
Published: December 2021

Purpose: Effective leadership is about executing the organisation's vision (or redefining and improving it, in some cases), setting direction and the culture for that particular organization, developing people, engaging communities, and creating conditions for successful teaching and learning. But what does that leadership management and administration look like? The recently updated Cameroon Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (CPSEL) identify what an educational leader must develop the ability to Influence Others, Transparent to an Extent., Encourage Risk-Taking and Innovation, Value Ethics and Integrity, Balance Hard Truths with Optimism and do their job effectively in order to demonstrate and sustain effective leadership in today global society.
Methodology: There are a number of essential understandings about the Standards that merit attention, since the Standards are based only on literature review and policy analysis evidence. The reality is that the Standards were never designed to be constructed using only literature and policy analysis findings. To be sure, a large portion of the Standards rest on the best available documental analysis of literature and policy documents governing educational leadership and administration. At the same time, the creation of the Standards was predicated on the conclusion that other empirical materials need to be employed in the building process of educational leadership; management and administration standards supporting educational leader’s development in Cameroon.
Findings: The CPSEL maintain the same basic footprint of the original standards, emphasizing: Development and Implementation of a Shared Vision and core values of sustainable leadership, Mission, vision and core values of sustainable leadership, Good Governance, Ethics and Professional knowledge and interpersonal skills, Equity and Cultural Responsiveness, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Community Engagement, Recruitment and Selection, School Leaders, Teachers, Students and Community Development, Professional Learning Community for School Leaders and Teachers, Financial Management, Succession Planning, School Improvement for the Future. Elements and indicator examples for each of these standards are included to further define leadership.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy (recommendation): The paper concludes with elements of all of the leadership standards are organised into inter-related categories with Professional Values and Personal Commitment at the heart of development. These standards emphasize equity, diversity, access, equal opportunity, and empowerment for students, educators, and all members of the educational community as they work together to ensure that all educational practitioners are ready for educational leadership career. CPSEL framework serves as a foundation for educational leader’s preparation, induction, professional learning, and evaluation.
Contrasting surface velocities between lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Himalayan region
Authors: Pronk Jan Bouke , Bolch Tobias , King Owen , Wouters Bert , Benn Douglas I. 
Published: December 2021

Abstract. Meltwater from Himalayan glaciers sustains the flow of rivers such
as the Ganges and Brahmaputra on which over half a billion people depend for
day-to-day needs. Upstream areas are likely to be affected substantially by
climate change, and changes in the magnitude and timing of meltwater supply
are expected to occur in coming decades. About 10 % of the Himalayan
glacier population terminates into proglacial lakes, and such
lake-terminating glaciers are known to exhibit higher-than-average total
mass losses. However, relatively little is known about the mechanisms
driving exacerbated ice loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the Himalaya.
Here we examine a composite (2017–2019) glacier surface velocity dataset,
derived from Sentinel 2 imagery, covering central and eastern Himalayan
glaciers larger than 3 km2. We find that centre flow line velocities of
lake-terminating glaciers (N = 70; umedian: 18.83 m yr−1; IQR – interquartile range – uncertainty estimate: 18.55–19.06 m yr−1) are on average more than double those of land-terminating
glaciers (N = 249; umedian: 8.24 m yr−1; IQR uncertainty estimate: 8.17–8.35 m yr−1) and
show substantially more heterogeneity than land-terminating glaciers around
glacier termini. We attribute this large heterogeneity to the varying
influence of lakes on glacier dynamics, resulting in differential rates of
dynamic thinning, which causes about half of the lake-terminating glacier
population to accelerate towards the glacier termini. Numerical ice-flow
model experiments show that changes in the force balance at the glacier
termini are likely to play a key role in accelerating the glacier flow at
the front, with variations in basal friction only being of modest
importance. The expansion of current glacial lakes and the formation of new
meltwater bodies will influence the dynamics of an increasing number of
Himalayan glaciers in the future, and these factors should be carefully
considered in regional projections.
Entrevistando a Javier Molina. Fotógrafo de Imágenes Paceñas
Authors: Daly Tara , Alfaro Raquel 
Published: December 2021

Interview with Javier Molina, photographer for mágenes paceñas (1979) by Jaime Saenz. Interviewers: Tara Daly and Raquel Alfaro
Penser les paysages avec les trois synthèses du temps de Deleuze
Authors: Kelly James 
Published: December 2021

Cet article examine, à partir de la philosophie du temps de Gilles Deleuze, la problématique de la faille entre l’être humain et le monde naturel décrite par Pierre Montebello dans son livre L'autre métaphysique. L’article présente la métaphysique deleuzienne comme une continuation de la lignée philosophique qui est tracée par Montebello. Il explore comment la philosophie du temps de Deleuze nous sert à penser les paysages – y compris ses habitants humains – non pas en termes d’espace ou d’étendue mais dans une perspective temporelle et ce, à travers l’identification d’ensembles de processus temporels qui capturent certaines de leurs caractéristiques. Cette lecture « chronopédique » révèle les paysages comme compositions de rythmes à différentes échelles : des processus géologiques qui durent des millions d’années jusqu’à d’autres, beaucoup plus courts, comme celui de l’habitation humaine. Tout en proposant une nouvelle perspective sur le temps deleuzien, en le libérant des termes humains auxquels il est exposé, cette lecture nous fournit une base métaphysique puissante pour penser le dépassement de la bifurcation entre le monde humain et la nature.
Jan Patočka and French Phenomenology
Authors: Novotný Karel 
Published: December 2021

In his phenomenological works Jan Patočka increasingly referred to movement and lived/physical corporeality. He conceived the concept of the world in terms of the correlation of life with its milieu. In conjunction with Edmund Husserl’s late phenomenology of the lifeworld, he took lived corporeality as his starting point and guiding motif in a way that is parallel to Merleau-Ponty’s work. The article expresses an opinion, that it was also one of the reasons why he kept his distance from Eugen Fink’s philosophical cosmology. And still, it is Patočka’s reference to this cosmological project that has had, and keeps on having, an important impact on the recent reception of his work in France.
Book Review: Leonard Harris, A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader. Edited by Lee A. McBride III (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).
Authors: Cordry Duncan R. 
Published: December 2021

The following paper serves as a review of a recent compilation of essays by Leonard Harris (edited by Lee A. McBride III), addressing the reimagining of philosophy contained therein and engaging a handful of views borne by this unique philosophical conception from a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective, focusing on a few of the strategic merits and challenges faced by a potential alliance between these thinkers.
Nghiên cứu tổng hợp vật liệu nano spinel MnFe2O4 bằng phương pháp đồng kết tủa
Authors: Nguyễn Anh Tiến , Đinh Thanh Quyến , Nguyễn Thị Hợi 
Published: December 2021

Vật liệu nano spinel MnFe2O4 được tổng hợp bằng phương pháp đồng kết tủa thông qua giai đoạn thủy phân các cation Mn(II) và Fe(III) trong nước sôi. Kết quả nghiên cứu bằng các phương pháp TG/DSC, XRD, TEM và VSM cho thấy vật liệu MnFe2O4 được hình thành sau khi nung kết tủa từ 600ºC với kích thước hạt < 50 nm, Hc=59,62 Oe, Mr=0.98 emu/g, Ms=1.15 emu/g.
Nghiên cứu đặc điểm sinh trưởng của Keo tai tượng (Acacia mangium Wild) tại huyện Phú Lương, tỉnh Thái Nguyên
Authors: Nguyễn Thị Thoa , Nguyễn Tấn Hùng , Trịnh Quang Huy 
Published: December 2021

Kết quả nghiên cứu về sinh trưởng của Keo tai tượng (Acacia mangium Wild) tại huyện Phú Lương cho thấy: Mật độ của rừng trồng giảm dần theo tuổi. Tốc độ sinh trưởng giữa các tuổi, các vị trí địa hình là có sự khác nhau rõ rệt, các giá trị D1.3,Hvn (max) và D1.3, Hvn (min) có sự chênh lệch lớn, chứng tỏ trong lâm phần, cây rừng đã có sự phân hóa mạnh, trữ lượng rừng thay đổi theo tuổi. Kết quả nghiên cứu là cơ sở để đưa ra những định hướng trong kinh doanh rừng nhằm nâng cao năng suất và trữ lượng rừng.