bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Comparing Effect of Auricular Acupressure and Body Acupressure on Pain and Duration of First Stage of Labor: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Alimoradi Zainab , Kazemi Farideh , Valiani Mahboubeh , Gorji MSc Maryam 
Published: November 2018

Abstract
Background: labor pain is one of the leading causes for fear of childbirth. Acupressure is a non-pharmacological pain relief method which showed promising results. Comparing the effect of body acupressure at multiple points and auricular acupressure on the pain and duration of labor, the present study is designed.
Methods/Design: In a randomized controlled trial, 90 primigravida women who attend for childbirth, would be randomly assigned to three groups (interventions: body acupressure and auricular acupressure, control: routine care). In order to determine the allocation sequence with 1:1:1 ratio, the computer-generated 6-block randomization techniques would be used. To hide the allocation, the type of intervention will be written based on the generated sequence and put in opaque enveloped pockets; then, the pockets as well as questionnaires are encoded respectively. The pain score of all the participants would be measured at the peak uterine contraction at the 4cm cervical dilation and at 10 cm dilation based on visual analog scale (VAS). Duration of the active phase of labor in these groups are recorded too. Data are imported into SPSS-16 software. First, normality of the data distribution will be investigated. To compare the labor duration among the research groups, ANOVA would be used, which will be followed, in case of significance, by the Scheffe post-hoc test. Furthermore, Chi-squared test would be used to compare the categorized demographic variables and ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis tests will be used to compare the quantitative variables in the studied groups. significance level of 0.05 is considered significant.
Discussion: In this study the effect of auricular acupressure and body acupressure on pain and duration of first stage of labor will be compared.
Temporal cost-of-living index: from the generation of conception to the applied assessment
Authors: Kozlova M. A. 
Published: November 2018

The purposeof this paper consists in the identification of historical development pattern of the cost-of-living index, which is a significant price indicator of macroeconomic process.Materials and methods. The analysis of the cost-of-living index conception in dynamics is realized on the base of the foreign (American and West European) periodical data, also on the base of bulletins of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The methods of research is an analysis of generated conceptions of the cost-of-living index, mathematically well-founded selection of possible formulae of cost-of-living index, empirical justification of hypotheses about the ratio of the cost-of-living index and other indexes, the numerical estimation of bias calculated in relation of the cost-of-living index.Results. The history of cost-of-living index development was divided into two stages, the boundary between two stages is 1945, when the price index, which was calculated before this moment and named the cost-of-living index, was renamed the consumer price index. The first stage (from the middle of 1910th to 1945) was described by the first accumulation of data and researches. The most part of researches consists of the survey papers and articles estimating the modern methods of cost-of living index assessment. In addition, there are some articles about the conception of cost-of-living index ant its formulae that are the base of researches after 1945. On the second stage when the investigations of cost-of-living index and consumer price index were divided, the most part of articles consists of the mathematical selection and proofs concerning the detection of the sphere of determinant to cost-of-living index of indicators (income and expenditure, used technology, family structure), also concerning the inclusion and connection of cost-of-living index in the context of economics. Empirical works of the second stage confirm some theoretical ideas on the base of national statistics.Conclusion. The temporal cost-of-living index is the significant indicator not only of price process in the national economy, also dynamics marker of the standard of living. The effort to attract the attention to cost-of-living index will allow methodically enriching the economic researches and generating the ways of this indicator development. Among the ways it needs to mark out the calculating “alternative” consumer price indexes with due regard to approximation to cost-of-living index, realization of econometric investigation on the base of Russian statistics and intensification of the theoretical analysis on the base of conception of the true cost-of-living index by A. Konüs.
Métodos para a superação da dormência em sementes de Schizolobium parahyba (Vellozo) S. F. Blake (Fabaceae)
Authors: Candido Danieli Ferneda , De Oliveira Adriana Dos Santos 
Published: November 2018

O presente estudo visou avaliar a eficiência de diferentes métodos de superação de dormência na germinação de sementes de Schizolobium parahyba. O delineamento experimental foi o inteiramente casualizado, com sete repetições de 15 sementes. Para isso, realizaram-se os seguintes tratamentos: T1) desponte com tesoura de poda; T2) imersão em água (80ºC), permanecendo em repouso na mesma água, fora do aquecimento, por 48 horas; T3) imersão em água (95ºC) por 2 minutos; T4) ácido sulfúrico concentrado por 10 minutos; T5) ácido sulfúrico concentrado por 20 minutos; T6) autoclavagem a 100ºC por 20 minutos; e T7) testemunha. As sementes foram colocadas para germinar em caixas “gerbox”, contendo vermiculita esterilizada, umedecida com água destilada, a temperatura de 25ºC e fotoperíodo de 16 horas. Observaram-se as maiores porcentagens de germinação em T1 (33,1%),T2 (24,4%) e T6 (22,6%), que não diferiram significativamente entre si. O grupo T2 proporcionou a menor porcentagem de sementes mortas (1,7%). As maiores porcentagens de germinação e as menores porcentagens de sementes duras foram obtidas nos grupos T1, T2 e T6. Desponte e autoclavagem ocasionaram maior mortalidade das sementes.
Simulated Protein Thermal Detection (SPTD) for Enzyme Thermostability Study and an Application Example for Pullulanase from Bacillus deramificans
Authors: Li Jian-Xiu , Wang Shu-Qing , Du Qi-Shi , Wei Hang , Li Xiao-Ming , Meng Jian-Zong , Wang Qing-Yan , Xie Neng-Zhong , Huang Ri-Bo , Chou Kuo-Chen 
Published: November 2018

Background:
The relationship between protein structure and its bioactivity is one of the fundamental
problems for protein engineering and pharmaceutical design.

Method:
A new method, called SPTD (Simulated Protein Thermal Detection), was proposed for studying and
improving the thermal stability of enzymes. The method was based on the evidence observed by conducting the
MD (Molecular Dynamics) simulation for all the atoms of an enzyme vibrating from the velocity at a room temperature
(e.g., 25°C) to the desired working temperature (e.g., 65°C). According to the recorded MD trajectories

and the coordinate deviations of the constituent residues under the two different temperatures, some new strategies
have been found that are useful for both drug delivery and starch industry.

Conclusion:
The SPTD technique presented in this paper may become a very useful tool for pharmaceutical
design and protein engineering.
Halogenated Compounds from Corals: Chemical Diversity and Biological Activities
Authors: Zhang Yuanyuan , Liu Junhong , Shi Dayong , Li Zheng 
Published: November 2018

:As important marine biological resources, corals produce a large amount of active organic compounds in their secondary metabolic processes, including numerous brominated, chlorinated, and iodinated compounds. These compounds, with novel structures and unique activities, guide the discovery and research of important lead compounds and novel biological mechanisms. Through a large number of literature surveys, this paper summarized a total of 145 halogenated secondary metabolites which were roughly divided into four major classes of terpenes, prostaglandins, steroids and alkaloids, and they were mainly isolated from ten coral families, Ellisellidae, Gorgoniidae, Briareidae, Plexauridae, Anthothelidae, Alcyoniidae, Clavularidae, Tubiporidae, Nephtheidae and Dendrophyllidae to the best of our knowledge. In addition, their organism species, structure composition and biological activity were also discussed in the form of a chart in this essay.
The effect of Gokshura Churna over Tilanalakshara Yoga in the management of Mutrashmari - A Randomized Comparative Clinical Study
Authors: Sanshi Dr. Anil M. , Hegde Dr.Pallavi A. 
Published: November 2018

Background: Mutrashmari is a stone like structure anywhere in the Mutravaha Srothas which can be compared with renal calculi and one among the Astamahagada, clinical features as renal angle pain, haematuria, pyuria and dysuria. Peak age is 3rd to 5th decade while majority of patients report regarding onset of disease in 2nd decade of life and male to female ratio is 3:1. Objectives:	To compare the effect of Gokshura Churna over Tilanalakshara Yoga in the management of Mutrashmari with special reference to Renal calculi. Materials and Methods: 30 patients were selected on the basis of inclusion criteria and divided into 2 groups with 15 patients in each group by chit method. Group A was treated with standard drug Tilanalakshara Yoga and Group B was traeted with trial drug Gokshura Churna. Results: It was found that standard group reduced the abdominal pain by 85.1%, dysuria by 89.4%, renal angle tenderness 88.4%, haematuria 100%, pyuria 100%, size of renal calculus 41.9% by 21st day of treatment. In study group it was observed that abdominal pain reduced by 92%, dysuria 96.1%, renal angle tenderness 91.6%, haematuria 100%, pyuria 100% and size of renal calculus 48.5% by 21st day of treatment. Conclusion: This assessment showed Gokshura Churna had significant result over Tilanala Kshara Yoga in both subjective and objective parameters with P value less than 0.0001.
Comunicado especial
Authors: Ciberlegenda Revista 
Published: November 2018

Os seguintes documentos não estão disponíveis: “Globalitarismo e dependência tecnológica – Considerações sobre a transnacionalidade de uma crise”, artigo de Delfim Soares; “Internet: táticas e estratégias no mercado global /virtual /total”, artigo de María Paula Sibilia; “O Planeta Mídia: tendências da comunicação na era global”, resenha de Ladislau Dowbor & Sergio de Souza Brasil; “City of Bits - Space, place and the Infobahn” resenha de Paula Sibília
Protracted HBsAg-aemia in a Patient with Acute Hepatitis B
Authors: Dudina K. R. , Znoyko O. O. 
Published: November 2018

Aim.This clinical observation was aimed at analysing the course of the disease in a patient with a protracted persistence of HBsAg and HBV DNA in the blood in the outcome of acute hepatitis B and the possible formation of a latent HBV infection in the phase of clinical recovery.General findings. We carried out a 31-month observation study of a patient suffering from acute hepatitis B. Subsequently, we performed a dynamic assessment of the viral kinetics and qualitative and quantitative assessment of HBsAg in the blood using highly sensitive analytical methods. These methods allowed a protracted persistence of HBV DNA in the blood and a late seroconversion of HBsAg/anti-HBs to be revealed.Conclusion.The described clinical case demonstrates the possibility of an atypically protracted persistence of HBsAg in the outcome of acute hepatitis B, which is followed by a clinical and laboratory picture of recovery and the formation of latent chronic HBV infection, as an example of the 5th phase of chronic HBV infection (HBsAg-negative), according to a new classification, reflected in the clinical guidelines for the treatment of hepatitis B (EASL 2017).
Differential Diagnosis of Jejunum and Ileum Tumours Based on Video Capsule Endoscopy Data Using Mathematical Analysis
Authors: Fedorov E. D. , Ivanova E. V. , Rauzina S. E. , Seleznev D. E. , Budykina A. V. 
Published: November 2018

Aim. The aim of this study was to develop an algorithm for identifying various types of jejunum and ileum tumour lesions based on video capsule endoscopy (VCE), which can be used by physicians in the process of decision making. Materials and methods. In the study, we analysed data on the examination and treatment of 65 patients (35 men and 30 women aged 18–80 years (mean age 46 ± 28 years)), who underwent VCE in the City Clinical Hospital No. 31 and in the Clinica K+31 during the period October 2008 — April 2017. The indications for VCE were a search for a reason of gastrointestinal bleeding, the anaemia of unknown etiology and suspected tumour of the small intestine. According to the VCE results, 181 cases of various changes in the jejunum and ileum were revealed. Each tumour object had been histologically verified before our study. Capsule endoscopy was performed using equipment produced by Olympus (Japan), MicroCam Intromedic (Korea), PillCam Given Imaging (Israel), OMOM Chongqing Jinshan Science & Technology (China).Results. Following expert interviews, 30 signs and their gradations were identified for assessing the type of lesion in the jejunum and ileum using video capsule endoscopy images. Among them, 8 were found to be statistically significant (affecting the division of objects into groups): patient gender, gut wall/lumen deformation, path of intestinal folds, polypoid changes, vascular pattern, mucosal regularity, mucosal lobulation and colour. Using a Bayesian heterogeneous diagnostic procedure and the calculation of diagnostic factors, a three-level algorithm has been developed for the differential diagnosis of jejunum and ileum lesions.Conclusions. The application of the proposed algorithm in clinical practice will not only allow the presence or absence of the jejunum or ileum tumour lesion to be verified, but also the type of this lesion to be determined with an accuracy of more than 86%. The developed diagnostic algorithm can support decision making by the clinician within the task of differentiating jejunum or ileum tumour lesions into three main types: benign epithelial tumours, benign non-epithelial tumours and malignant tumours. Differential diagnosis of the type of jejunum or ileum tumour lesion using the proposed diagnostic algorithm facilitates not only the development of a treatment tactic for managing such patients (dynamic observation, conservative therapy, operative treatment), but also the determination of terms (emergency, urgent, planned) and methods (endometrial luminal, laparoscopic, laparotomic) of surgical treatment.
PEMODELAN ALIRAN DEBRIS FLOW UNTUK ANALISIS POTENSI LONGSORAN STUDI KASUS: PEGUNUNGAN FISHHWAK, CALIFORNIA
Authors: Rustan Rustan , Purqon Acep 
Published: November 2018

Aliran debris (debris flow) merupakan aliran yang terdiri dari campuran material halus berukuran kecil (clay, lumpur, pasir) sampai material berukuran kasar (kerikil, bongkahan bebatuan) dengan sejumlah volume air. Material debris flow mengalir dengan volume besar dan kecepatan tinggi menghasilkan momentum yang bisa menyebabkan kerusakan infrastruktur, lingkungan, bahkan korban jiwa. Interaksi fisis antara campuran air dan material debris melibatkan interaksi yang sangat kompleks membuat mekanisme transpor aliran debris sulit untuk dikaji menggunakan pendekatan numerik. Prediksi distribusi aliran debris dapat dilakukan menggunakan pendekatan statistik empirik. Pendekatan ini dengan menghubungkan parameter volume debris flow dengan luas genangan yang akan dihasilkan. Analisis menggunakan pendekatan statistik empirik didukung oleh data spasial dapat dijalankan menggunakan perangkat lunak DFLOWZ. Parameter input dalam DFLOWZ yaitu data digital ketinggian (DEM), data polyline, dan volume debris flow. DFLOWZ berhasil diterapkan pada debris flow di pegunungan Alpen, Italia. Pada penelitian ini, DFLOWZ diaplikasikan di salah satu daerah yang pernah terjadi debris flow di wilayah California, Amerika Serikat. Didapatkan luas genangan debris flow sebesar 285.447 m2. Kata kunci: debris flow, pemodelan, DFLOWZ
PENGARUH FAKTOR EKSPOSI TERHADAP KUALITAS CITRA RADIOGRAFI
Authors: Sparzinanda Eif , Nehru Nehru , Nurhidayah Nurhidayah 
Published: November 2018

The research on the influence of exposure factor on radiographic image quality has been conducted. This research uses phantom, water in plastic container as human substitute with focus film distance (FFD) 100 cm and broad field of irradiation 15 cm × 15 cm. The exposure conditions are given by exposure factors including variations in tube voltages of 60 kV, 65 kV, 70 kV, 75 kV, 80 kV called standard techniques or routine voltage techniques and the time flow is as big as 20 mAs, 25 mAs and 30 mAs. The results showed that the image quality will decrease with the use of current and time high. Image quality can be seen on gray-level histogram using java Image-J Basics version 1.38 software to get optimum value from exposure factor on image quality.
Researcher Credentialing for Administrative Data: Easing the Burden, Increasing the Efficiency
Authors: Tyler Allison R.B. , Bleckman Johanna Davidson , Levenstein Margaret C. 
Published: November 2018

While not collected primarily for research purposes, administrative data gathered as part of normal agency or program operations present unique and vital opportunities for researchers. However, as with other types of restricted access data, these data are often not made available or require special authorization to access. The risks of re-identification, social stigma, and privacy violations for individuals represented in the data, especially for special populations, require that data be securely held and access authorization be moderated. Obtaining this authorization, especially for multiple datasets from one institution or spread across multiple data providers, imposes a significant administrative burden on researchers and data repository staff who must repeatedly and redundantly provide and validate user identities.
This presentation will offer the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research’s solution to ease the burden on both researchers and data repository staff -- the Researcher Passport. The researcher passport will incorporate standardized, community-normed identity verification criteria, data security level interpretations, and restricted data access training requirements. The researcher passport, using these standards, will be issued by a central authority who carries out the identity verification process and issues a tiered-access passport to users who are authorized for a streamlined data access request process for certain levels of secure data. Visas issued by data custodians control “entry” by passport holders to particular data sets. We describe these standards, how they fit into the repository workflow, and how they make the data access process for efficient and effective for administrative data users and providers.
The Washington State Merged Longitudinal Administrative Database
Authors: Romich Jennifer , Long Mark , Allard Scott , Althauser Anne 
Published: November 2018

This paper describes a uniquely comprehensive database constructed from merged state administrative data. State Unemployment Insurance (UI) systems provide an important source of data for understanding employment effects of policy interventions but have also lack several key types of information: personal demographics, non-earnings income, and household associations. With UI data, researchers can show overall earnings or employment trends or policy impacts, but cannot distinguish whether these trends or impacts differ by race or gender, how they affect families and children, or whether total income or other measure of well-being change. This paper describes a uniquely comprehensive new administrative dataset, the Washington Merged Longitudinal Administrative Database (WMLAD), created by University of Washington researchers to examine distributional and household economic effects of the Seattle $15 minimum wage ordinance, an intervention that more than doubled the federal minimum wage.
WMLAD augments UI data with state administrative voter, licensing, social service, income transfer, and vital statistics records. The union set of all individuals who appear in any of these agency datasets will provide a near-census of state residents and will augment UI records with information on age, sex, race/ethnicity, public assistance receipt, and household membership. In this paper, we describe 1.) our relationship with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services that permits this data access and allows construction of this dataset using restricted personal identifiers; 2.) the merging and construction process, including imputing race and ethnicity and constructing quasi-households from address co-location; and 3.) planned benchmarking and analysis work.
Returns to Late Aged College Degrees
Authors: Wallace Sally , Mroz Thomas , Hathaway Alex 
Published: November 2018

The benefits of a college education are well documented. However, the majority of existing research focuses on students who matriculate soon after high school graduation. There is little empirical evidence illustrating whether a college degree is similarly beneficial to those already in the workforce, particularly individuals over 50. Nonetheless, the coming years will see the dramatic growth of older individuals, many of whom will continue to be active in the labor force, and policymakers would benefit from effective strategies to improve the labor market outcomes of older individuals.
This research proposes to evaluate the labor market outcomes of individuals in Georgia who obtain a bachelor’s degree at age 50 or older by merging state-level individual level labor force (Dpt of Labor) with individual level educational data from the University System of Georgia (USG). Specifically, we explore whether these later-age degrees result in employment opportunities with higher wages and increased retention in the labor force beyond the traditional retirement age of 65 than those who do not attain a bachelor’s degree. The results will provide policymakers across the United States with information to make informed decisions regarding higher education incentives and policies for older students.