bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Using the equation for computing the wind erodible fraction of soils in the conditions of the Czech republic
Authors: Dufková Jana Kozlovsky , Procházka Vít , Szturc Jan , Mašíček Tomáš 
Published: May 2021

Abstract
The erodible fraction (EF) of soil (soil aggregates and particles <0.84 mm) is one of the basic factors according to which the susceptibility of soil to wind erosion can be assessed. The standard method for determining the EF content is the use of a rotary sieve. Nevertheless, its availability is limited by its price and the fact that it is not mass-produced and is necessary to build the sieve to order. An alternative method of determining the EF content is to use an equation based on knowledge of the content of sand, silt, clay, organic carbon, and calcium carbonate. However, this equation has only been tested for US conditions. Therefore, the research focuses on the validation of the equation for the conditions of the Czech Republic, specifically in the territory of Southern Moravia. The results show that the equation validated for the USA cannot be used to determine the EF content in soils of the Czech Republic. Using the statistical program Unistat©, a new equation was proposed with correlation coefficient R = 0.8238 which means good applicability of the equation for the local soils at least in the area of Southern Moravia.
Bilateral Endophthalmitis and Auto-evisceration from retained products of conception after planned surgical abortion: a case report
Authors: Verma Gargi , Choudhary Dharamveer Singh , Ranwa Rajkumari , Kumar Kishor 
Published: May 2021

Background:
Endogenous endophthalmitis (EE) is a rare but potentially blinding ocular infection caused by hematogenous spread from a remote primary source.

Case Presentation:
A 30-year-old woman presented in eye outpatient department (OPD) with the loss of vision, redness, and purulent discharge in both eyes for 3 days. Detailed history revealed that the patient had 2 months of pregnancy for which she underwent a surgical abortion 5 days back in a hospital of local area followed by intense bleeding per vagina. On ocular examination, patient denied for light perception and an area of corneal thinning was present in the center in both eyes.
Fundus examination revealed absence of normal red glow bilaterally. On general physical examination, patient was found to be semiconscious, hypotensive; pulse was feeble, and patient was in stage of shock. Medical management for the ocular condition was initiated and patient was referred to emergency department immediately. Follow ups continued in the ICU for the ocular condition.

Conclusion:
To conclude, it could be said that minor procedures may sometimes lead to life threatening complications; thus, full antibiotic prophylaxis should be given before initiation of any (major or minor) surgical procedure to reduce incidences of post-operative morbidities.
Pain Management of Budd Chiari Syndrome in the Primary Care Setting: A Case Study
Authors: Murphy Pilar Z. , Thomas Jimiece , McClelland Taylor P. 
Published: May 2021

Introduction: Budd Chiari Syndrome (BCS) is a very rare disease affecting approximately 1 in 100,000 people in the general population. It is caused by an obstruction of the hepatic veins leading to blood backing up in the liver. Treatment options to improve hepatic blood flow and relieve ascites are well documented. However, there are no established guidelines or treatment preferences for pain associated with BCS while patients are awaiting other treatment options.
Case: A 22-year-old African American female was diagnosed with Budd Chiari Syndrome. The initial attempt at a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure failed. While awaiting a second attempt at the procedure, the patient presented to her primary care provider complaining of abdominal and right upper quadrant pain. Treatment guidelines were searched for acute pain management options; however, no BCS pain management guidelines exist.
Discussion: Individuals with BCS often present with abdominal pain, however, no guidelines outlining analgesic options in BCS exists. Acetaminophen, NSAIDs, and opioids are commonly used prescription medications for moderate to severe pain. Acetaminophen use was not considered due to acute liver injury and portal venous thrombosis. Anticoagulation with apixaban prevented concurrent use with NSAIDs. Opioid medications combined with acetaminophen were excluded to minimize exacerbating the liver injury. Tramadol 25 mg was chosen due to its lower abuse profile than other opioid analgesics, and was initiated for pain management.
Conclusion: The patient reported adequate pain control with tramadol, tolerated the medication with no complications, and underwent a successful TIPS procedure one month later. Abdominal pain is a common symptom of BCS and needs to be effectively managed. Guidelines on treating pain associated with BCS in the outpatient setting would improve quality of life for patients and provide guidance to primary care providers requiring direction on how to address pain associated with Budd Chiari Syndrome safely and adequately.
A sedimentological record of fluvial-aeolian interactions and climate variability in the hyperarid northern Namib Desert, Namibia
Authors: Miller R. McG. , Krapf C. , Hoey T. , Fitchett J. , Nguno A-K. , Muyambas R. , Ndeutepo A. , Medialdea A. , Whitehead A. , Stengel I. 
Published: May 2021

AbstractThe aeolian regime of the 100 km wide, hyperarid Namib Desert has been sporadically punctuated by the deposition of fluvial sediments generated during periods of higher humidity either further inland or well within the desert from Late Oligocene to Late Holocene. Four new Late Cenozoic formations are described from the northern Skeleton Coast and compared with formations further south: the Klein Nadas, Nadas (gravels, sands), Vulture’s Nest (silts) and Uniab Boulder Formations. The Klein Nadas Formation is a trimodal mass-flow fan consisting of thousands of huge, remobilised, end-Carboniferous Dwyka glacial boulders, many &gt;3 m in length, set in an abundant, K-feldspar-rich and sandy matrix of fine gravel. Deluge rains over the smallest catchments deep within the northern Namib were the driving agent for the Klein Nadas Fan, the termination of which, with its contained boulders, rests on the coastal salt pans. These rains also resulted in catastrophic mass flows in several of the other northern Namib rivers. The Uniab Boulder Formation, being one, consists only of huge free-standing boulders. Gravelly fluvial deposition took place during global interglacial and glacial events. The Skeleton Coast Erg and other smaller dune trains blocked the rivers at times. The low-energy, thinly bedded silt deposits of the central and northern Namib are quite distinctive from the sands and gravels of older deposits. Their intermittent deposition is illustrated by bioturbation and pedogenesis of individual layers. Published offshore proxy climatological data (pollens, upwelling, wind, sea surface temperatures) point to expansion of the winter-rainfall regime of the southern Cape into southwestern Angola during strong glacial periods between the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene. In contrast to deposition initiated by short summer thunder storms, we contend that the silt successions are river-end accumulations within which each layer was deposited by runoff from comparatively gentle winter rains that lasted several days.
Fossil wood from the Upper Cretaceous crater sediments of the Salpeterkop volcano, North West Province, South Africa
Authors: de Wit M. , Bamford M. 
Published: May 2021

AbstractThe Salpeterkop volcano forms part of what has been referred to as the Upper Cretaceous Sutherland Suite of alkaline rocks, an igneous province composed of olivine melilitites, carbonatites, trachytes and ultramafic lamprophyres. Salpeterkop is a remnant of the summit tuff ring structure that surrounds a crater which is almost 1 km in diameter and is filled with epiclastic strata.Five pieces of silicified wood were collected from the crater filled sediments, sectioned and identified as a new species of Cupressinoxylon, C. widdringtonioides. This is the first example of the fossil genus in South Africa. Only one member of the Cupressaceae s.l. occurs in southern Africa today. From the wide and indistinct growth rings in the fossil wood it can be deduced that the local climate was warm and humid with little or no seasonality, in support of global records of a warm Late Cretaceous. The preservation of the crater further signifies the low level of erosion the region has experienced since its emplacement.
Eye Colour: A Physical Trait Correlates with Personality & Mental Health
Authors: Rupali Chandola  
Published: May 2021

Background: Eyes are the window to the soul, eye is so closely linked neurologically to the brain that you might call it the only part of our brain you can see from the outside. It seems to hold vital clues to our brain function. Therefore the study was conducted to know the association between colour of eye relate with personality and mental health Methods: Study examined personality of 300 subjects selected purposively. The study was conducted on 143 were normal subjects (77male & 66 female) GHQ negative (score less than 3) subjects from the community formed the normal group for the study and 157 indoor & outdoor psychiatric patients (suffering with three type of disorder like schizophrenics, bipolar and conversion) (102 male & 55 female) admitted in Nirwan neuropsychiatric clinic Lucknow & Bareilly mental hospital, Bareilly U.P. India. Age ranging between 20-30, 40-50 & 60 and above served as participants. Sentence completion test (SCT) was administered on all the included subjects. Result: Light brown color of eyes male had high psychiatric morbidity (68.47%) then female. Conclusion: Colour of eye can be indicate the personality trait of human being black colour of eyes indicate negative traits of personality in female.
Temporal Experience as a Correlate of Problematic Internet Use
Authors: Nithyanandan D.V  , Prof. Dr. S. Subramanian  
Published: May 2021

The present study aimed to study the hypothesis that whether temporal factors associated with the years of experience in internet use and years of experience in research make any differences in problematic internet use (PIU). Descriptive survey research design was followed in this study to examine the hypothesis. The sample of this study comprised of 673 research students pursuing Ph.D. degrees in technical institutions and arts and science universities in Tamilnadu. The Online Cognition Scale measuring problematic internet use and Personal Information Blank were administered on the sample. One-way ANOVA was applied to find out the significant personal as well as temporal variations in problematic internet use. The results suggested that temporal factors were found to make significant differences in the social comfort, lonely/depressed, impulsive and distraction dimensions of problematic internet use.
Counselling Skills and Social Work Practice
Authors: Shabbeer Ahmed  
Published: May 2021

The relationship between counselling and social work has always been complex and interactive. Relationship, one person interacting with another, is at the heart of all social work in health and social care settings. Social work emerged as profession in the 20th century and today it is profession charged with fulfilling the social mandate of promoting well being and quality of life. Thus social work encompasses activities directed at improving human and social conditions and alleviating human distress and social problems. It is essential that social workers take responsibility for developing and improving those skills which enable them to build relationships. This enables them to provide a professional service for which they can be accountable. Social workers become involved with people needing support in a crisis, change, transition or loss; protection from self or others; help to deal with disadvantage or injustice; in fact any combination of life changing events depending on the particular circumstances (Seden and Katz 2003). The present paper attempts to focus on relationship between counselling skills and social work practice.
Social Construction of Aging
Authors: Dr. Rashmi Saxena  
Published: May 2021

In life, we must take the good with the bad, and how we view these life events determines our well being and ability to adjust. Aging is not optional. We are all, in fact, aging from the moment we are born. The biggest issue regarding aging and getting old is how we look at it. Social constructivisms uncover the ways in which individuals participate in the creation of their perceived social reality. It involves looking at the ways old age are perceived, created, institutionalized, and made into traditions by human beings. Individuals construct their own life course through the choices and actions they take within the opportunities and constraints of history and social circumstances. This paper examines social construction of old age and aging in general and self-aging in particular among a small sample of 300 male and female respondents in the age range of 25-85 years.
Main themes that emerged in the context constructions of general aging were as follows: good aging – ‘all responsibilities being over’; worst part of growing old – ‘empty nest’; females spend less time than males with elderly parents but expect a better relationship with them and are perceived to be the best support to elderly; best type of support for male elderly – ‘emotional’, for female elderly – ‘physical’; best support that old parents can extend is in ‘caring for children’; amount of advice that young adults are willing to accept from elderly – ‘only a bit’; for old respondents caring for elderly – a ‘government’s responsibility.
When people were asked to construe their own old age they reported that the most predominant feeling in old age would be ‘loneliness’; most important concern –‘health’; expectations about living in old age – ‘with son and their families’; possibilities of receiving day to day care from grown up children – ‘great’.
Data analysis revealed several interesting findings by way of anxiety about aging, ageist attitudes and some utopian expectations. Most importantly, it indicated that even though people try to maintain a distance from elderly people, are unable to engage with them and/or care for their elderly parents they are sure of receiving, in their own old age, much better support, emotional closeness and daily care from their children.
Uni-Representational Vs. Cross-Representational Difference in Imagery Formation: Verification of Dual Coding Theory
Authors: Anwesha Chakrabarti  , Dr. Amrita Panda  , Prof. Mallika Banerjee  
Published: May 2021

Dual coding theory states that information is stored by visual and verbal channel separately. During formation of imagery the visual and verbal channels are used distinctly. The study explores how retrieval of visual imageries of natural scenes varies with the variation in representational forms of encoding and recognition. Each stimulus set contained two different cards for encoding and recognition purpose. Both encoding and recognition of visual scenes were varied in both pictorial (picture form) and linguistic (word form) mode. Thus four plausible conditions are pictorial encoding associated with pictorial recognition, pictorial encoding and linguistic recognition; linguistic encoding and linguistic recognition and lastly, linguistic encoding with pictorial recognition. The aim of the study is to see whether the mode of object representation influences imagery formation. The aim of the study is to explore which kind of representation benefits recognition of imagery. 40 female University students (21 to 23 years) were selected and randomly assigned in to four experimental conditions. From each participant data was collected in the laboratory set up in a single session. Nine stimulus cards were presented to each subject. Presentation of a single stimulus card in encoding situation was followed by the recognition situation. The two way ANOVA result shows changing the representational forms has significant effects on retrieval. The present finding supports the notion of Dual coding hypothesis with an additional observation that poor retrieval in case of pictorial recognition when the information has been encoded linguistically.
Self Efficacy as Predictor of Organizational Commitment among Revenue Personnel
Authors: Sonal Agarwal  , P.C Mishra  
Published: May 2021

Organizational commitment is becoming increasingly recognized in industrial/organizational literature. Self efficacy beliefs affect performance in a wide spectrum of life including the work place. The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between self efficacy and organizational commitment and to find out the extent to which self efficacy significantly predicts organizational commitment among revenue personnel. It was hypothesized that the relationship between self efficacy and organizational commitment will be positive and that self efficacy will significantly predict organizational commitment. For this purpose, a sample of one hundred revenue personnel, in the age range of thirty to forty years were incidentally selected from Lucknow and other nearby cities and districts of India. The minimum job experience of the participants was five years. Self efficacy was measured using the Generalized self efficacy scale by Schwarzer and Jerusalem (1995).The organizational commitment scale developed by Khan and Mishra [2002], was used to measure the commitment of employees towards their organization. Pearson product moment correlation analysis and regression analysis was conducted on the obtained data. Results reveal a positive and significant relationship between self efficacy and organizational commitment[r=0.356][ p value 0.01]. A positive significant relationship was also found between self efficacy and the three sub scales of organizational commitment namely affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. Further, the regression analysis revealed that self efficacy significantly predicts organizational commitment among revenue personnel.
Comparative Study of Family Pathology Based On Old-Age Habitants & Family Habitants
Authors: Himani Bhasin  
Published: May 2021

The family is a primary social unit of every culture. In India, the family rather as an individual has been considered as the unit of social system. A family is a set of human beings related to each other in a non-professional manner, giving rise to a concrete cohesion within the family. Love, care, and affection are the most prominent human values, which are responsible for maintaining these bonds of relationships within a family. The Indian family reflects the socio-cultural fabric of Indian society, its philosophy and values. (Sethi, 1989)

The relationships within a family are complex of varying degrees of intensity and myriad in nature. The emotional tone, which governs the relationship between any two persons, is continuously influenced in its course by emotional relationships of all others in the family.
Intraoperative hematoma volume can predict chronic subdural hematoma recurrence
Authors: Honda Masaru , Maeda Hajime 
Published: May 2021

Background:
We routinely measured the exact chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) volume during single burr hole surgery. To date, several risk factors have been reported for CSDH recurrence, including sex, hematoma volume and degree of midline shift calculated from computed tomography, use of anticoagulants or antiplatelet medications, and alcohol consumption habits. The aim of this study was to clarify whether hematoma volume, in conjunction with other factors, can predict recurrence.

Methods:
We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of 194 consecutive patients with CSDH who underwent single burr hole surgery. The risk factors for recurrence were analyzed based on patients’ sex, age, bilaterality, existence of apparent trauma history, exact intraoperative hematoma volume, and various clinical factors, including preoperative anticoagulant/antiplatelet intake.

Results:
Recurrence occurred in 22 patients (11.3%). Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that intraoperative hematoma volume was an independent risk factor for CSDH recurrence (odds ratio [OR], 1.01; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01–1.02, P < 0.001), in addition to sex (male) (OR 9.25; 95% CI, 1.00–84.8; P = 0.049) and diabetes mellitus (DM) (OR: 3.97, 95% CI, 1.34–11.7, P = 0.013). Based on receiver operating characteristics analysis, the cutoff value of the hematoma volume predicting CSDH recurrence was 150 ml (sensitivity and specificity of 72.7% and 72.1%, respectively; area under the curve: 0.7664, 95% CI: 0.654–0.879, P < 0.001). Of these, a hematoma volume ≥150 mL was the strongest independent risk factor for recurrence according to multiple regression (OR: 8.98, 95% CI: 2.73–29.6, P < 0.001) and Cox regression analysis (hazard ratio: 3.05, 95% CI: 1.18–7.87, log-rank P = 0.0046, P = 0.021). Follow-up periods after surgery were significantly longer for cases with recurrence than for non-recurrence cases (24.8 ± 11.5 vs. 15.9 ± 9.7 days), and the recurrence prediction cutoff value was 17 days, with a sensitivity and specificity of 83.1% and 68.2%, respectively (AUC: 0.7707, 95% CI: 0.6695–0.8720, P < 0.001).

Conclusion:
Intraoperative hematoma volume could be a predictive value for CSDH recurrence.
Dynamics of the Cultural Benefits Provision to the Russian Population (2000—2019)
Authors: Abankina Tatiana V. , Ksynkina Galina M. , Nikolayenko Elena A. 
Published: May 2021

The article studies the dynamics of the cultural benefits provision to the Russian population from the point of view of the main functional types in the period of 2000—2019, and develops proposals to overcome the existing imbalances. The study is aimed at determining the composition of indicators that characterize the population’s provision with conditions and services in the field of culture; forming a database of five functional types for the period of 2000—2019; selecting the methods of analysis, as well as analyzing the dynamics of the cultural benefits provision to the Russian population; assessing the positive effects and negative consequences of the cultural institutions network optimization.To this end, the article analyzes the statistical data of the Main Information and Computing Center of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, examines the legislative acts regulating the state guarantees of providing the population with cultural benefits. For each functional type (theaters, concert organizations and independent groups, museums, libraries, cultural and leisure institutions), the authors select the indicators that characterize conditions and services in the field of culture and compare them with the indicators of attendance and demand for the services by the population. The article applies an indicative model using the methods of horizontal (temporal), vertical (structural) comparative analysis. There is revealed that, firstly, the dynamics of the cultural benefits provision to the Russian population during the specified period was uneven in terms of functional types; secondly, the measures to improve the efficiency of cultural budget expenditures led to some positive changes in the conditions of provision. At the same time, there were certain imbalances in the form of a decrease in the provision of cultural benefits to the population and reduced opportunities for participation in cultural life due to some unreasonable optimization of the network of libraries and cultural and leisure institutions. The study concludes that the identified negative trends can be neutralized by creation of new cultural development centers, active introduction of mobile forms of cultural services and inclusive forms of working with people with special needs, modern digital technologies, development of cultural and educational tourism, volunteerism.