bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
PERFORMANCE OF SELF-CARE ACTIVITIES AMONG HEART FAILURE PATIENTS AT RANYA GENERAL HOSPITAL KURDISTAN –IRAQ
Authors: Mustafa Rezan , Amen Muhammad 
Published: June 2021

Background
Heart failure is a major and growing public health problem worldwide that a negative impact on self-care. Self-care is a crucial task for controlling the negative consequences of the illness. Insufficient self-care leads to poor health outcomes and re-hospitalization.
Objectives
The objectives of the present study were to investigate the Self-care activities performance in patients admitted to Ranya general hospital and to explore the relationship between self-care and patients’ characteristics.
Patients and Methods
A convenience sample technique was used to enroll 86 patients with heart failure to present a descriptive study conducted at Ranya general hospital from January to November 2019. The data were collected through a questionnaire by direct interview. Participants, self-care was assessed with the Self-care of Heart Failure Index. Verbal consent and ethical approval were obtained, the data analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistical analysis.
Results
The findings revealed that the self-care maintenance, management, and confidence scores were: (52.9±8.8, 63.1±9.3), and (59.6±9.9) respectively. Higher scores indicate better self-care. None of the self-care subscales reached the self-care adequacy cut point of 70. The score of the self-care subscale was higher in better educated, obese patients who had low self-care maintenance and confidence, female. Longer duration and a more severe class of heart failure owned a greater score of self-care management, while self-care maintenance was higher in more severe cases.
Conclusion
Self-care performance was inadequate in heart failure patients; participants’ age, gender, educational status, BMI, and the severity of heart failure significantly associated with participants’ self-care performance.
Obesity Parameters in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Duhok City
Authors: Rasool Suzan 
Published: June 2021

Background: PCOS is linked to obesity, increased risk of metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular adverse manifestations. About 30-75% of women with PCOS are obese. Aim of the study: This study aimed to estimate the obesity parameters in PCOS and compare these results to women without PCOS. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the BMI and Waist/Hip ratio of 150 women with established PCOS according to the diagnostic criteria were compared to 100 age-matched healthy women. Results: 95 patients and 50 of the comparison group were obese. The difference in the mean of BMI in PCOS patients and the comparison group was statistically highly significant (P < 0.001). The Waist/Hip ratio was above 0.85 in 91 patients and 73 healthy individuals and statistically, the difference was not significant when a cut-off point of 0.85 is considered (P > 0.05 unpaired T-test). Conclusions: BMI was found to be a more sensitive parameter than Waist/Hip ratio, in the determination of obesity-associated with PCO.
Impact of Quarantine Time in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown on Parents and their Children
Authors: Abdulkareem Awayi , Qader Delan , Ismael Niyan , Faris Gona 
Published: June 2021

On 11 March, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to respond COVID-19 threat on public health, different countries adopted various social distancing measures and/or locked down their communities completely. As a results of all these measures, global health crisis and other global crises have overlapped. The present cross-sectional quantitative study was aimed at determining the effect of COVID-19 lockdown on parents and their children in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. For this purpose, an online questionnaire-based survey was carried out using a constrictive tool. The study was conducted from the 1st to the 18th of September 2020. The online survey was participated by a total of 1,010 family members. According to the results, 69.5% of the participants were mothers, aged 30 to 39 years, 66.4% were college graduates, and 34.7% gained weight during the lockdown. It was also seen that getting infected, spending a lot of time with electronic devices, stress, and obesity risk have been referred to as the participants’ main concerns.
Result Involution Graphs of Finite Groups
Authors: Jund Asaad , Salih Haval 
Published: June 2021

In this paper, a new kind of graph on a finite group , namely the result involution graph is defined and studied. We use to denote this graph, is a simple undirected graph with vertex set. Two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if their product is nontrivial involution element in . The result involution graph for several finite groups are obtained. We study some properties of the result involution graph by resizing graph by using the conjugacy classes of . Finally, we show that the result involution graphs for the symmetric groups and the alternating groups are connected with diameter at most 3 and radius at most 2 for. Furthermore, they have girth 3.
Passage dependent changes in nuclear and cytoskeleton structures of endothelial cells under laminar shear stress or cyclic stretch
Authors: Jiang Yizhi , Witt Nathaniel , Ji Julie Y. 
Published: June 2021

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> The ability of vascular endothelium to sense and respond to the mechanical stimuli generated by blood flow is pivotal in maintaining arterial homeostasis. A steady laminar flow tends to provide athero-protective effect via regulating endothelial functions, vascular tone, and further remodeling process. As arterial aging appeared to be an independent risk factor of cardiovascular diseases, it is critical to understand the effects of cell senescence on endothelial dysfunction under dynamic mechanical stimuli.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> In this study, we investigated the morphological responses of aortic endothelial cells toward laminar flow or cyclic stretch. Automated image recognition methods were applied to analyze image data to avoid bias. Differential patterns of morphological adaptations toward distinct mechanical stimuli were observed, and the shear-induced changes were found to be more associated with cell passages than that of cyclic strain. </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> Our results demonstrated that the cytoskeleton and nuclear structural adaptations in endothelial cells toward laminar flow were altered over prolonged culture, suggesting that the failure of senescent endothelial cells to adapt to the applied shear stress morphologically could be one of the contributors to endothelial dysfunctions during vascular aging.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Results indicated that cells were able to adjust their cytoskeleton and nuclear alignment and nuclear shapes in response to the applied mechanical stimuli, and that the shear-induced changes were more dependent on PD levels, where cells with higher PDL were more responsive to external forces.</p>
Meta-analysis on prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in India
Authors: Sakthivel Poongothai J. , P. Poornima , S. Anantha Jothi 
Published: June 2021

<p class="abstract">Among various types of diabetes, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most common type constituting 90% of the diabetic population. Out of several complications, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is predominant which leads to mortality. Various studies have reported different incidence rates of CVD in patients with type 2 DM. Hence, this meta-analysis study is aimed at determining the prevalence of CVD in patients with type 2 DM in India. In this review, studies were extracted by searching databases from PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar and Web of Science published between 2001 and 2021. The data collected from the extracted studies were analysed using comprehensive meta-analysis software which employs random effect model to combine the studies. 17 studies reviled 21.1% (95% CI: 17.9-24.7%) prevalence of cardiovascular CVDs in patients with type 2 DM in India. It is evident from literature review that women with DM are more prone CVD. If it is instituted that CVD is a major risk factor for DM in India, suitable scheme should be followed to improve the status of DM patients and should be brought to the note of hospitals.</p>
The prevalence of middle turbinate pneumatization in patients of Southern region of Saudi Arabia
Authors: Mubaraki Musleh , Shamakhi Radeif , Dighriri Ramzi , Alzarei Ali 
Published: June 2021

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of middle turbinate pneumatization in patients of Southern region of Saudi Arabia.<strong> </strong> </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> This study used a retrospective radiological design to analyze computed tomography scans of 117 patients aged between 18 and 80 years of Southern region in Saudi Arabia were used in this study. Patients with altered anatomy (iatrogenic or pathological) were excluded, CT scans were analysed to determine the prevalence of middle turbinate pneumatization in patients of Southern region of Saudi Arabia. </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> There were forty percent (40%) male cases and sixty percent (60%) female cases. Concha bullosa (CB) was discovered in 17 (14.5%) of the cases, with 4 cases (23%) being bilateral and 13 (76%) being unilateral. 7 (53%) of unilateral cases were on the right side, while 6 (47%) were on the left.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> CB was discovered in 17 (14.5%) of the cases, in patients of Southern region of Saudi Arabia, most of them unilateral by 76%. That’s indicate there is significant number of patients have CB and surgeon should consider it one of his differential diagnosis in patient with nasal obstruction.</p>
INVESTIGATION OF WORK-FAMILY AND FAMILY-WORK CONFLICTS AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS FROM GENDER AND MARITAL STATUS PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Hussain Bashir , Zulfqar Asia , Gilani Nadia , Waheed Syed Abdul 
Published: June 2021

Purpose of the Study: The primary objective of this study was to investigate work-family and family-work conflicts and the nature of these conflicts among teachers in schools of Southern Punjab, Pakistan, from the perspective of their gender and marital status. Moreover, this research also examined the difference between work-family and family-work conflicts among teachers.
Methodology: This study used both descriptive and survey research designs. A questionnaire comprising 22-items work-family and family-work conflict scales was used. The researchers administered the tool to 422 elementary teachers from forty (40) schools of the three districts of southern Punjab, Pakistan, who were randomly selected using both multistage clusters and the stratified sampling techniques. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for analyzing the data.
Main Findings: This study found that teachers hardly believe that their workplace tasks create hurdles in performing their family roles. Likewise, the study found that teachers hardly believe that their family responsibilities create any hurdles in performing their tasks at work. The study further found that female teachers’ family is more affected by their work engagements than male.
Applications of this study: The results of this study will be helpful for teachers, counsellors, managers, and policymakers in developing programs that are likely to reduce work-family-work conflicts among teachers of elementary schools.
Novelty/Originality of this study: Work-family-work conflicts among teachers in schools of Southern Punjab, Pakistan, have not been addressed from the perspective of their gender and marital status.
Bacterias patógenas en leche cruda: problema de salud pública e inocuidad alimentaria
Authors: Aguilera-Becerra Astrid Maribel , Urbano-Cáceres Eliana Ximena , Jaimes-Bernal Claudia Patricia 
Published: June 2021

Artículo de revisión que muestra el panorama global de la situación actual de la presencia de bacterias patógenas en leche cruda, la cual constituye un peligro para la salud de los seres humanos, para este propósito se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica desde el año 2000 hasta el 2014, utilizando las palabras clave: Inocuidad de los alimentos, Productos lácteos, Inspección de alimentos, Leche, Bacterias gramnegativas y Bacterias grampositivas. El controlde calidad de la leche cruda es esencial para la salud humana y la competitividad en los mercados nacional e internacional, debido a lo anterior y a las dinámicas actuales en los mercados es necesario ofrecer a los productores de Boyacá herramientas de análisis que les ayuden a obtener leche de buena calidad, con alto valor nutricional e inocuidad, cumpliendo con las medidas higiénicas y sanitarias establecidas para la región cundiboyacense y el país, lo cual les garantizará, además, mejores beneficios económicos.
INDEPENDENT CONFIRMATION OF FLUVIAL REWORKING AT A LANCE FORMATION (MAASTRICHTIAN) BONEBED BY TRADITIONAL AND CHEMICAL TAPHONOMIC ANALYSES
Authors: MCLAIN MATTHEW A. , ULLMANN PAUL V. , ASH RICHARD D. , BOHNSTEDT KEIFER , NELSEN DAVID , CLARK ROBERT O. , BRAND LEONARD R. , CHADWICK ART V. 
Published: June 2021

ABSTRACTA dinosaur-bearing bonebed (Rose Quarry) from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lance Formation has yielded abundant, yet fragmentary, disarticulated, and disassociated bones and teeth of dinosaurs, turtles, crocodilians, and fish contained within a channelized sandstone unit along with large mud clasts. The vertebrate fossils of Rose Quarry possess varying abrasion states, tooth traces, and trampling marks, suggesting a complicated taphonomic history. To independently test hypotheses about the genesis of the assemblage, Rose Quarry bone samples were sent to members of our team who conducted “blind” analyses of their trace element signatures without knowledge of the physical taphonomic attributes of each specimen. The independent analyses of the chemical and physical taphonomic signatures both support a mixed, attritional bone concentration. Based on our cumulative data, we present a depositional model for the Rose Quarry bonebed in which a flooding event mixed bones already present in the channel or from an older bonebed with bones from the floodplain that had been scavenged, trampled, and broken. Our study demonstrates that striking variability is possible among fluvial bonebeds, and that such variability is influenced by pre-burial and post-burial factors, as well as depositional subenvironments and burial mechanisms. Additionally, we demonstrate that physical and chemical taphonomic analyses can independently confirm the taphonomic history of a bonebed.
Immunological and Molecular Diagnosis of Cytomegalovirus Infection between Aborted & Pregnant Women in Babylon City
Authors: Mousa Al-Mousawi Haider Turky , AL-Hajjar Qabas Neamah 
Published: June 2021

Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the globally highly prevalent herpesvirus worldwide. CMV infects populations of all ages according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO). CMV infections remain the most common viral complication potentially multiple in humans and are a major cause of congenital normality in women, which is why they are critical for diagnosis in several times when it happens during pregnancy. Pregnant women with CMV infection can be in charge of abortion or congenital expandaedby. This study involves the collection a total of (90) samples taken from each aborted and pregnant woman (70 with abortion cases and 20 of pregnant without history of abortion as control subjects) referring to Babylon teaching hospital for Maternity and Children, covering a period from (October 2018 to March 2019) to investigate the occurrence of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in Babylon city. Patients and controls were evaluated for IgG, IgM antibodies and anti-HCMV IgG, IgM for (90) subjects were controlled in this study using the Enzyme Immunoassay Test Kit and read by enzyme - linked immunosorbent analyze (ELISA). In addition the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA detection for CMV are based on the amplification of pathogen genomes in a particular region using different primers. The Chi-square test was used to analyze the data. The results show among 90 samples, women were evaluated for CMV infection, the seroprevalence titer was significantly higher at P <0.05 in seropositive cases ranging from 62(89%) toward positive CMV IgG, while the 65 (93%) of patients were positive CMV IgM from (70) women with abortions. By contrast, the results obtained from the controls were 9 (45%) subjects seropositive for IgG and all of them were seronegative with IgM. The anti – HCMV IgG finding showed high positivity that represents the furthermost of CMV infections among females through ages ranging between 20-29 years. Furthermore, the outcomes of molecular detection showed that a small number of samples 13 (19%) were HCMV DNA detectable in aborted women less than in pregnant women 3 (15%).
Exploiting Blockchain and Secure Access Control Scheme to Enhance Privacy-Preserving of IoT Publish-Subscribe System
Authors: Tian Hongliang , Ge Xiaonan , Wang Jiayue , Li Chenxi 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
With the dramatically increasing deployment of intelligent devices, the Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted more attention and developed rapidly. It effectively collects and shares data from the surrounding environment to achieve better IoT services. For data sharing, the publish-subscribe (PS) paradigm provides a loosely-coupled and scalable communication model. However, due to the loosely-coupled nature, it is vulnerable to many attacks, resulting in some security threats to the IoT system, but it cannot provide the basic security mechanisms such as authentication and confidentiality to ensure the data security. Thus, in order to protect the system security and users’ privacy, this paper presents a secure blockchain based privacy-preserving access control scheme for PS system, which adopt the fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to ensure the confidentiality of the publishing events, and leverage the ledger to store the large volume of data events and access cross-domain information. Finally, we analyze the correctness and security of our scheme, moreover, we deploy our proposed prototype system on two computers, and evaluate its performance. The experimental results show that our PS system can efficiently achieve the equilibrium between the system cost and the security requirement.
Biodegradation of p-xylene – A comparison for three Cold-active Pseudomonas strains
Authors: Miri Saba , Rasooli Azadeh , Brar Satinder Kaur , Rouissi Tarek , Martel Richard 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
p-xylene is considered a recalcitrant compound despite the similar aromatic structure with BTE (Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene). This study evaluated the biodegradation potential of p-xylene by three cold-active Pseudomonas strains (named Pseudomonas putida S2TR-01, Pseudomonas S2TR-20, and Pseudomonas S2TR-09). The catabolic genes (xylM, xylA and xylE) and their regulatory genes (xylR and xylS) were investigated for the p-xylene metabolism. The biodegradation results showed that only strain S2TR-09 was able to degrade 200 mg/L of p-xylene after 60 h at 15 °C. The gene expression study indicated that xylE (encoding catechol 2, 3-dioxygenase) represents the bottleneck for p-xylene biodegradation and lack of its expression leads to the accumulation of intermediates and inhibits biomass production as well as carbon recovery. The activity of xylene monooxygenase and catechol 2,3 dioxygenase was significantly high in P. azotoformans S2TR-09 (0.5 and 0.08 U/mg) in the presence of p-xylene. The expression of ring cleavage enzyme, its encoding genes (xylE), and its activator (xylS) enabled to link the differences in p-xylene metabolism and can be used as a novel biomarker for efficient p-xylene biodegradation in contaminated sites.
Jackfruit trees as seed attractors and nurses of early recruitment of native plant species in a secondary forest in Brazil.
Authors: Gomes Milena , Cazetta Eliana , Bovendorp Ricardo , Faria Deborah 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
The Atlantic Forest is one of the most threatened tropical forests in the world, being drastically reduced, fragmented and disturbed. The drastic process of anthropic occupation and exploitation of this biome has, in many cases, led to the introduction of exotic species, such as the jackfruits (Artocarpus heterophyllus). However, studies on the influence of jackfruits on the native biota are still scarce. Here we investigated the influence of fruit trees on the seed rain and early recruitment of seedlings in native remnants, comparing these patterns with those observed for a native species tapirira (Tapirira guianensis), which similarly to jackfruits, produces many fruits thruought the year, attracting a variety of frugivore species. Seed rain and seedlings observed under the jackfruits were both more abundant and equally rich to the assemblages reported under the native tapirira trees. In both species, co-specifics comprise a large part of the number of seeds (> 70%) and seedlings (> 45%) individuals and, although they attract similar seed assemblages, seedling composition diverge, particularly when co-specifics are excluded. We reported that jackfruits can attract a diverse seed and seedling assemblages, and we find no evidence that the presence of jackfruits negatively affects the arrival and initial recruitment of native plant species in the study area. These results should be analysed with caution but considered when evaluating costs and benefits of management options to control exotic species.
The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Clerodendranthus Spicatus, A Medicinal Plant For Preventing And Treating Kidney Diseases From Lamiaceae Family
Authors: Du Qing , Jiang Mei , Sun Sihui , Wang Liqiang , Liu Shengyu , Jiang Chuanbei , Gao Haidong , Chen Haimei , Liu Chang 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
Clerodendranthus spicatus (Thunb.) C.Y.Wu is one of the most important medicine for the treatment of nephrology which distributes in south-east of China. In this study, we obtained the complete chloroplast genome of C. spicatus with a length of 152155bp, including a large single copy (LSC) region of 83098bp, small single copy (SSC) region of 17665bp and a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions of 25696bp with the GC content of 37.86%. The genome contains 36 tRNA, 8 rRNA and 87 protein-coding genes. Most of them have one intron except the ycf3, rps12 and clpP genes. The length of rRNAs varies from 131bp to 2811bp and the GC contents are between 45.28% and 56.54%. The frequency of Isoleucine is fruitful accounting for 4.17%. The codons of AUG, UUA and AGA codon had presence of higher codon usage bias. For the repetitive sequence analysis, Thirty-six tandem repeats were identified with certain conditions. Forty interspersed repeats were identified, including 22 palindromic repeats and 18 direct repeats. The diverse positions of the specific rps19, ycf1, rpl2, trnH, psbA genes within the IR boundary analysis. The genetic distance analysis of the intergenic spacer regions for 5 relative species showed the areas of ndhG-ndhI, accD-psaI, rps15-ycf1, rpl20-clpP, ccsA-ndhD had high K2p value to distinguish the species through developing the molecular markers. From phylogenetic tree, C. spicatu was closely related to the genus of two Salvia speices, Tectona grandis, Cistanche deserticola and Glechoma longituba belonged to the Lamiales.