bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Quality of Life and Clinical Correlates in Adults with Social Phobia: A Scoping Review
Authors: Lau Hui Miin , Sim Kai Samuel , Chew Qian Hui , Sim Kang 
Published: December 2021

Objective:
In light of the substantial clinical and societal burden of social phobia (SP) and impact on the sense of well-being of affected individuals, we sought to summarise extant data related to quality of life and relevant correlates in adults with SP to distill clinical profiles for earlier identification and appropriate management.

Methods:
A scoping review was carried out on studies examining quality of life in adults with SP and clinical correlates within different settings. PubMed/Medline and Web of Science databases were searched for relevant articles beginning from database inception until May 2021.

Results:
A total of 25 papers were included. Most of the studies (92%) were cross sectional in nature (80%), conducted in the West (92%), and within clinic or community settings (88%). Patients with comorbid psychiatric conditions, and undergraduate students reported higher rates of SP compared with community population. Significant correlates of SP included demographic (such as females, younger age, living alone, fewer years of education, unemployment) and clinical factors (such as family history of anxiety disorders, suicidal ideas, avoidant personality features). SP was widely associated with decreased QoL involving several domains and especially related to complexity, greater number of feared or trigger situations, and comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions.

Conclusion:
SP is not uncommon within clinical, and undergraduate populations, and has a significantly negative impact on quality of life. Awareness of its associated clinical profiles allows better identification and overall management of this condition including improvement in QoL.
Water Absorption Enhancement of Sodium Poly Acrylate and Poly(2-Acrylamido-2-Methylpropane Sulphonic Acid) Based Hydrogel Mixtures
Authors: Darwish Sohair A. , Ibrahim Ibrahim M. , Mostafa Nasser Y. , Radwan Mostafa A. , Sadek Mohamed A. , Elazab Hany A. 
Published: December 2021

Introduction:
Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymers which are cross-linked to form three-dimensional structures, which can absorb, swell and retain huge amounts
of water or aqueous fluids.

Objective:

This paper reports the preparation and characterisation of Poly(2-Acrylamido-2-Methylpropane Sulphonic Acid) (PAMPS) hydrogel with different
crosslinking intensities.

Methodology:

2-Acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (AMPS)
monomer was purchased from Alfa Aesar Company as reagent
grade. It was used as received (>98% purity) without any
further purification.

PAMPS hydrogel was prepared by free radical crosslinking
solution polymerization of AMPS in water at room
temperature under a nitrogen blanket in cylindrical glass tubes.
The characteristics of the obtained PAMPS hydrogel were compared with those of commercial sodium polyacrylates
hydrogel.

Results:
It was found that decreasing the crosslinker weight improved the absorbance capacity but to a limit. The suggested reasons were
discussed. The mixture showed higher absorbance rate than PAMPS, and bigger absorbance capacity than sodium polyacrylates.

Conclusion:
This paper investigates the effect of crosslinker ratio on the
swelling capacity of PAMPS. It was found that as the
crosslinking ratio decreases, the porosity of the hydrogel
increases, thus improving the swelling capacity.
Evaluation of the Therapeutic Potential of Oral Phycocyanin-Rich Spirulina
Extracts in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Authors: Donen Anna , Lifschytz Tzuri , Wolf Gilly , Ben-Ari Hagar , Lotan Amit , Lerer Leonard , Lerer Bernard 
Published: December 2021

Aim:
Spirulina is a microalga that is widely used as a food supplement and is regarded
as having performance-enhancing and health-promoting properties. We conducted a preliminary
evaluation of the possible anti-depressant, anti-anxiety, pro-socialization and cognition-enhancing
effects of Spirulina in mouse models.

Methods:
Sixty male BalbC mice aged 3 weeks were administered with phycocyanin-rich Spirulina
extract [PRSE, 545 mg/kg], fluoxetine [20 mg/kg] or water orally for 5 weeks. During the last 2
weeks of the experiment, a series of behavioral-cognitive tests were performed to evaluate motor
activity, anti-depressant and anti-anxiety effects, socialization and cognitive effects. Effects of
PRSE and fluoxetine were compared to those of water.

Results:
There was a significant effect of PRSE in the activity domain, manifesting as an increase
in velocity in the open field [p=0.0007 vs. water]. Fluoxetine significantly enhanced immobility in
the tail suspension test and the forced swim test reflecting the known anti-depressant effect of this
compound, but not PRSE. There were no significant effects of PRSE found in the tests of anxiety,
socialization or cognition.

Conclusions:
The most striking observation in this study was that PRSE significantly enhanced activity
in the open field test. Further studies are indicated to confirm and extend this finding and investigate
the possible mechanisms of action. The results of the current study do not support sporadic
reports of possible anti-depressant or cognition-enhancing effects of PRSE. Nevertheless, additional
studies are indicated using depression models rather than naïve mice, alternative mouse
strains, using additional cognitive tests, and administering higher PRSE doses.
International Virtual Exchange Conference (IVEC) 2020 special issue: editorial
Authors: Ullom Carine E. , Satar Müge 
Published: December 2021

We are pleased to bring you this Special Issue of the Journal of Virtual Exchange, the second such volume to publish articles resulting from the International Virtual Exchange Conference (IVEC) 2020. This special issue includes five research articles presented at IVEC 2020 (http://iveconference.org/2020-conference) and a panel discussion. Each manuscript underwent double-blind review, which was then followed by rigorous editing and revising. Their work represents the amazing diversity that is blossoming in the field of Virtual Exchange (VE) as practitioners, academic administrators, and researchers realise its potential as well as its inevitable challenges.
VE research presented in this special issue ranges from the study of the impact of VE on language learning (uptake) (Feng et al.) to a complex, three-way project with a focus on physical and digital accessibility (Oswal et al.). While Bartsch et al. describe their new framework that combines inquiry-based learning with digital storytelling in VE, Ganassin et al. share their findings regarding the underexplored area of staff (administrators and instructors) perceptions of the role of VE in Internationalisation at Home (IaH). In this same vein, Ruther et al. report on their work in an assessment-based approach to VE programme building. Findings from longitudinal studies are also presented, providing evidence that VE research as a discipline is maturing.
Viktor Zhivov "Toward a Typology of the Baroque in Russian Literature of the XVII—Early XVIII Centuries"
Authors: Levitt Marcus 
Published: December 2021

Viktor Zhivov’s 2007 article, here translated into English for the first time, attempts to describe the specific nature of the Baroque in Russia. According to Zhivov, Russian Baroque culture arose via transplantation and was not the result of organic cultural development. Because of their cardinal differences, the language of Western Baroque and that of traditional Russian culture represent polar opposites in many ways. Hence the transplantation of even the most insignificant element results in its radical transformation, highlighting the peculiarities of the process of reception. The article outlines the principles that governed this process. It argues that it was the external features of the Baroque style that were borrowed, while its deeper orientation on polysemy, which defined the Baroque worldview in the West, was not. The assimilation of Western literature was eclectic and replaced rhetorical ambivalence with the rhetoric of didacticism. It took what could be synthesized with traditional culture most easily, at the same time as the more content-oriented features and those specific to European Baroque were rejected. If in Western Europe the Baroque posed riddles for the reader, in Russia authors on the “European" trajectory assisted the reader by providing solutions. The Baroque in Russia was primarily a phenomenon of Western influence, so that its unique features took second place in the process of forming a new cultural paradigm as a whole. “Baroque” elements acquired a completely new pedagogical function, becoming carriers of the new ideology that was being introduced. The Baroque became a servitor of power, whose aim was the political reeducation of society.
An Association of Influenza Epidemics in Children With Mobile App Data: Population-Based Observational Study in Osaka, Japan
Authors: Katayama Yusuke , Kiyohara Kosuke , Hirose Tomoya , Ishida Kenichiro , Tachino Jotaro , Nakao Shunichiro , Noda Tomohiro , Ojima Masahiro , Kiguchi Takeyuki , Matsuyama Tasuku , Kitamura Tetsuhisa 
Published: December 2021

Background
Early surveillance to prevent the spread of influenza is a major public health concern. If there is an association of influenza epidemics with mobile app data, it may be possible to forecast influenza earlier and more easily.

Objective
We aimed to assess the relationship between seasonal influenza and the frequency of mobile app use among children in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

Methods
This was a retrospective observational study that was performed over a three-year period from January 2017 to December 2019. Using a linear regression model, we calculated the R2 value of the regression model to evaluate the relationship between the number of “fever” events selected in the mobile app and the number of influenza patients ≤14 years of age. We conducted three-fold cross-validation using data from two years as the training data set and the data of the remaining year as the test data set to evaluate the validity of the regression model. And we calculated Spearman correlation coefficients between the calculated number of influenza patients estimated using the regression model and the number of influenza patients, limited to the period from December to April when influenza is prevalent in Japan.

Results
We included 29,392 mobile app users. The R2 value for the linear regression model was 0.944, and the adjusted R2 value was 0.915. The mean Spearman correlation coefficient for the three regression models was 0.804. During the influenza season (December–April), the Spearman correlation coefficient between the number of influenza patients and the calculated number estimated using the linear regression model was 0.946 (P<.001).

Conclusions
In this study, the number of times that mobile apps were used was positively associated with the number of influenza patients. In particular, there was a good association of the number of influenza patients with the number of “fever” events selected in the mobile app during the influenza epidemic season.
Fertility Workup With Video Consultation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Pilot Quantitative and Qualitative Study
Authors: Grens Hilde , de Bruin Jan Peter , Huppelschoten Aleida , Kremer Jan A M 
Published: December 2021

Background
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, major parts of elective health care in the Netherlands, such as reproductive medicine, were paused. When health care was resumed, video consultation was used as a new solution to continue consultations with the new governmental rules of social distancing. Prior to this COVID-19 situation, video consultation was not used extensively in the Netherlands; therefore, physicians and patients are not familiar with this way of consultation.

Objective
The purpose of this study was to measure the level of patient centeredness and shared decision making in infertile couples who have undergone fertility workup through video consultation.

Methods
This is a questionnaire study with an additional qualitative part for a more in depth understanding. Infertile couples (ie, male and female partners with an unfulfilled wish for a child after 1 year of unprotected intercourse) were referred to a fertility center and underwent fertility workup through video consultation. The fertility workup consisted of 2 separate video consultations, with diagnostic tests according to a protocol. After the last video consultation couples received a digital questionnaire, which consisted of a modified version of the Patient-Centered Questionnaire-Infertility (PCQ-I) and CollaboRATE questionnaire. Fifty-three eligible infertile couples were approached, and of these, 22 participated. Four women were approached for a semistructured interview.

Results
The median score on the modified PCQ-I (scale of 0 to 3) was 2.64. The highest rating was for the subscale communication and information, and the lowest rating was for the subscale organization of care. The median score on the CollaboRATE questionnaire (scale of 1 to 9) was 8 for all 3 subquestions. Patients mentioned privacy, less travel time, and easy use of the program as possible benefits of video consultation. However, patients preferred the first consultation with their physician to be face-to-face consultation as video consultation was considered less personal.

Conclusions
The high levels of patient centeredness and shared decision making show that video consultation is a promising way of providing care remotely, although attention has to be payed to mitigate the more impersonal setting of video consultation when compared with face-to-face consultation.
Device- and Nondevice-Guided Slow Breathing to Reduce Blood Pressure in Patients with Hypertension: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Authors: de Freitas Gonçalves Kamila Shelry , Queiroz Godoy Daniel Ana Carolina , Tatagiba Lamas José Luiz , Ceretta Oliveira Henrique , Silveira Renata C C P , Cloutier Lyne , Velludo Veiga Eugenia 
Published: December 2021

Background
Physiotherapy can include both device-guided slow breathing (DGSB) and nondevice-guided slow breathing (NDGSB) in the treatment of systemic arterial hypertension.

Objective
The aim of this study is to summarize the effects of DGSB on blood pressure levels of patients with hypertension based on the published literature to date.

Methods
A systematic search of all published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of device-guided and nondevice-guided slow breathing in patients with hypertension, without language restriction, was carried out up to a publication date of January 2020 in nine databases: PubMed/MEDLINE, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS), EMBASE, CENTRAL (Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials), Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Scopus, Web of Science, and Livivo. Clinical trial records databases (ClinicalTrials.gov), and bases for the open gray literature, including Gray Literature Report and ProQuest Central (Citation, Abstract or Indexing, and Dissertations and Theses), were also searched for potentially eligible RCTs. The quality assessment of the included studies will be performed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool for Randomized Trials. The overall quality of the evidence for each outcome will be assessed using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Development and Evaluation) system.

Results
As of December 2021, the review was completed and all data from continuous variables referring to blood pressure values (mmHg) were synthesized.

Conclusions
This systematic review will provide a summary of the current evidence on the effects of both DGSB and NDGSB on blood pressure levels. This information can contribute to decision-making by health professionals related to the use of these interventions in patients with hypertension.

Trial Registration
PROSPERO (Prospective International Register of Systematic Reviews) CRD42020147554; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=147554

International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)
RR1-10.2196/33579
Interfaces. Averiguaciones sobre los mundos intermediarios
Authors: Paláu Castaño Luis Alfonso 
Published: December 2021

Traducción del francés al español de Luis Alfonso Paláu-Castaño
«Una de las cuestiones fundamentales a las que toda interrogación filosófica termina por conducir es probablemente la del sentido. Inmediatamente, el sentido no es el objeto de una averiguación; está dado primitivamente como una evidencia inmediata. Una vez planteada la pregunta, en un segundo tiempo el filósofo se dedica a cuestionar esa evidencia como si ella velase un irritante misterio. Es solamente entonces cuando la averiguación comienza. Esta búsqueda pasa por un examen minucioso de todos los órdenes, de todas las estructuras, tanto las del universo como las que resultan de nuestras actividades más diversas. Hemos esbozado un examen tal en dos obras precedentes (Chazal, 2011, 2000).»
An individually-controlled multi-tined expandable electrode using active-cannula-based shape morphing for on-demand conformal radiofrequency ablation lesions
Authors: Chai Zhiping , Lyu Liangxiong , Pu Menghao , Liang Huageng , Ding Han , Wu Zhigang 
Published: December 2021

Being minimally invasive and highly effective, radiofrequency ablation
(RFA) is widely used for small size malignant tumors treatment. However,
in clinical practice, a large number of tumors are found in irregular
shape, while the current RFA devices are hard to control their
morphologic appearance of RFA lesions on demand, which usually ends up
excessively ablating the tissues and often brings excessively
irreversible damage to the organs’ functions. Here, we introduce active
cannulas for each of individually-controlled sub-electrodes to achieve
an on-demand shape morphing and thus conformal RFA lesion. The shape as
well as the length of inserted sub-electrode can be precisely controlled
by tuning the expanded length of the active stylet and relative position
of the active cannula. Furthermore, owing to independent movement and
energy control of each sub-electrodes, our electrode is shown to be not
only efficient enough to accomplish accurate trajectory to target tissue
in a single insertion, but also adaptive enough to ablate target tissues
with diverse morphologic appearances and locations. Potentially, our RFA
electrode is a better choice in the future clinical practice for
minimally invasive treatments of malignant tumors of which preferred
treatment is conformal ablation.

Corresponding author(s) Email: zgwu@hust.edu.cn
Using Storytelling to Apply Lessons from PCAOB Enforcements
Authors: Herron Terri L. , McNellis Casey J. 
Published: December 2021

ABSTRACT
The real-life failures of others provide opportunities to learn. Audit failures and rule infractions stemming from Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspections represent the few instances for which detailed information about financial statement audits is made publicly available. The PCAOB enforcement reports contain key information and offer greater transparency in regard to the audits of SEC registrants. This project uses these reports to teach real-life lessons in the context of the complex regulatory environment in which registered audit firms operate. Students examine the information from these enforcements, and craft and present stories of the related audit failures. This approach has a proven impact on learning, and students who completed the project reported enhanced knowledge of the regulatory process and audit standards. The student presentations can be used in a professional environment for CPAs to earn CPE. We provide advice to faculty who wish to pursue a similar option.
Caracterización de los factores docentes en torno al índice de reprobación en universitarios
Authors: Torres-Zapata Ángel Esteban , Pérez-Jaimes Alejandra Karina , Lara-Gamboa Carmen Cecilia , Estrada-Reyes César Uziel 
Published: December 2021

El objetivo del presente ejercicio de investigación fue caracterizar los factores docentes que inciden en la reprobación de estudiantes universitarios. El estudio tuvo un enfoque cuantitativo no experimental transversal. La selección de la población de estudio fue no probabilística. Se incluyó a la totalidad de los profesores que impartieron las unidades de aprendizaje durante los ciclos escolares febrero-junio 2019 y agosto-diciembre 2019 en una universidad de México. Se llevó a cabo un análisis descriptivo, a través del cual se determinaron la media, la mediana, las frecuencias absolutas y la desviación estándar. Además, se vincularon los factores docentes con el índice de reprobación a partir de una prueba de ji al cuadrado. Entre los resultados destaca que el índice de reprobación del periodo de análisis de los cursos de competencia genérica fue de 34.37 %, de los interdisciplinarios 10.85 % y de los de competencias específicas de 16.03 %. Asimismo, 68.97 % de los profesores demostró un nivel máximo de estudios de maestría y 88.89 % refirió más de cinco años de experiencia profesional en el ámbito docente. Al asociar el índice de reprobación con las variables de estudio, no hubo significatividad con las unidades de aprendizaje por competencia y la evaluación docente; sin embargo, sí hubo significancia con el nivel máximo de estudios, con la experiencia profesional y con la preparación pedagógica.
Narrativas desviantes tramadas com palavras e linhas
Authors: Alfeld Elisabete 
Published: December 2021

O objeto de análise constitui-se no estudo de duas obras – vão e Moiras, autoria de Edith Derdyk –, livro de artista e instalação, manifestações artísticas interfaciadas com materiais de diversas procedências – a palavra, a linha branca de algodão, os bastões de ferro. O livro apresenta uma narrativa construída com um conjunto de palavras e frases – dispostas entre ‘vãos’, nos espaços em branco na linha da página. A instalação foi concebida especialmente para a área externa do SESC Ipiranga, cuja proposta foi enredar a linhas brancas de algodão pelos bastões fincados na parede do muro. O objetivo do estudo é apresentar um pensamento sobre poéticas de narrativas desviantes presentes no livro de artista e na instalação.
experiência da história
Authors: Freire Diego José Fernandes 
Published: December 2021

O corrente artigo investiga a experiência que historiadores e historiadoras universitário(a)s tiveram de sua própria disciplina – a história – na conjuntura problemática da década de 1970. Trata-se de discutir a vivência de um presente disciplinar experimentado sob o signo da crise social e cultural, conforme a percepção daquele grupo de intelectuais. O foco maior direciona-se para a maneira como profissionais de Clio viram, pensaram e sentiram o momento vigente de sua área de saber durante parte importante da Ditadura Militar, perfazendo, assim, uma dada experiência do tempo presente.