bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Manifestaciones tomográficas extrapulmonares de TBC y algunas de sus complicaciones asociadas
Authors: Gana E. , Schiappacasse G. 
Published: October 2018

ResumenLa Tuberculosis (TBC) es una patología infecto-contagiosa de alta morbimortalidad en Chile y en el mundo, siendo la segunda causa de muerte por cuestión infecciosa y es considerada una patología de alta relevancia a nivel de salud pública. Es causada por una bacteria de alta virulencia y contagio llamada mycobacterium tuberculosis.En la actualidad contamos con protocolos de detección y tratamiento muy eficaces, que la convierten en una enfermedad prevenible y curable. El diagnóstico se realiza con estudios bacteriológicos específicos frente a una sospecha clínica-epidemiológica sugerente. Sin embargo, el uso de imágenes forma parte casi obligatoria de su estudio y control. Debido a que el órgano diana de la TBC es el pulmón, es habitual utilizar como apoyo diagnóstico una radiografía de tórax, la cual es útil, en caso de TBC pulmonar, al presentar hallazgos característicos y orientadores para su diagnóstico. Es importante destacar que el mycobacterium tuberculosis tiene alto potencial de diseminación por contigüidad, vía linfática y/o hematógena, siendo esa última vía la causante de la mayoría de las TBC extrapulmonares, las cuales se presentan en un 20% de pacientes inmunocompetentes y hasta en un 60% de inmunocomprometidos. La principal localización de una TBC extrapulmonar es a nivel pleural, seguida del compromiso ganglionar, urogenital y osteoarticular, siendo el resto de las localizaciones muy infrecuentes. Para esos casos la tomografía computada (TC) es el estudio por imágenes de elección para el diagnóstico y control, además de ser una herramienta muy útil para la detección de complicaciones.
Vestibular Neurectomy for Intractable Vertigo: Case Series and Evaluation of Role of Endoscopic Assistance in Retrolabyrinthine Craniotomy
Authors: Chen Brian S. , Roberts Daniel S. , Lekovic Gregory P. 
Published: October 2018

Objective This study evaluates the utility of endoscopy for retrolabyrinthine vestibular nerve section (RLVNS).
Design/Setting This is a retrospective review for RLVNSs by the senior author. The endoscope's utility was assessed and assigned a grade based on operative findings.
Participants/Main Outcome Measures Fifteen patients (eight males and seven females; 53 and 47%, respectively) were identified with mean age 56.7 years. Indications included Ménière's disease (MD) in 12 of 15 patients (80%), uncompensated vestibular neuritis in 2 patients (13%), and other vestibular neuropathy in 1 patient (7%). Vertigo resolved in 14 of 15 patients (93%). Complications included decreased hearing in two patients (13%) and deep venous thrombosis in one patient (7%). There were no facial nerve complications or mortalities.
Results Sectioning vestibular division of the vestibular–cochlear nerve was achieved without perceived benefit of endoscopy in the 80% of cases (grade 0, n = 12). Endoscopy was helpful in patients with a small mastoid (grade 1, n = 2, 13.3%), and deemed necessary where the flocculus of the cerebellum was adherent to the eighth nerve arachnoid at the porus acusticus (grade 2, n = 1, 6.7%).
Conclusion RLVNS is a safe and efficacious procedure for the treatment of vertigo; the surgical endoscope may be a useful adjunct in selected cases. Patients with MD may expect the greatest benefit from surgery.
Chronic Urinary Retention due to Fowler's Syndrome
Authors: Trachta Jan , Wachter Johann , Kriz Jan 
Published: October 2018

AbstractFowler's syndrome (FS) is a rare cause of chronic urinary retention in teenage girls and young women. We present a case of a 14-year-old girl who presented at our hospital 2 weeks after uncomplicated laparoscopic appendectomy. The girl complained of reduced urinary frequency and prolonged micturition time. Following an acute cystitis 2 months later, she completely lost her ability to void. A comprehensive set of investigations to assess the cause of her urinary retention including a cerebral and spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and videourodynamics were performed. The diagnostic workup revealed polycystic ovaries and an asensitive and hypotonic bladder with capacity up to 1200 mL and high maximum urethral pressure of 120 cm of water. She did not tolerate clean intermittent catheterization; therefore, a suprapubic catheter was placed. Under this treatment, she suffered recurrent urinary tract infections. Two years later, she was diagnosed with FS on the basis of the medical history, clinical symptoms, and urodynamic findings. Finally, the implantation of a S3 neurostimulator restored her ability to void.
The evolving response to antibiotic resistance (1945–2018)
Authors: Podolsky Scott H. 
Published: October 2018

AbstractThe intensity and character of concerns about antibiotic resistance, over the past nearly seventy-five years, have depended on a series of linked factors: the evolution and distribution of resistant microbes themselves; our differential capacity and efforts to detect such microbes; evolving models of antibiotic resistance and the related projected impact of antibiotic resistance on medical, social, and economic futures; the linkages of antibiotic prescribing and usage to the prevailing practice and identities of the medical and veterinary professions, and to the practice of agribusiness; the projected capacity of biomedicine (and especially the pharmaceutical industry) to stay ahead of such developing resistance; the perceived global context in which such resistance has developed; and the coordination of efforts and the development of infrastructure and funding to draw attention to and confront such microbial resistance. This paper traces the evolving response to antibiotic resistance through what at this point appear to be five eras: that between 1945 and 1963, a relatively optimistic period during which time the pharmaceutical industry appeared to most as capable of keeping up with antibiotic resistance; that between 1963 and 1981, characterized by increasing concern (though limited reformist activity) in the wake of the discovery of the transmission of antibiotic resistance via extrachromosomal plasmids; that between 1981 and 1992, notable for the explicit framing of antibiotic resistance as a shared global problem by such reformers as Stuart Levy and the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics; that from 1992 through 2013, during which time antibiotic resistance became linked to larger concerns regarding emerging infections and received increasing collective attention and funding; and that from 2013 through to the present, with antibiotic resistance still more palpably and publicly embedded within larger concerns over global emerging infections, social justice, and development goals, attracting interest from a diverse cohort of actors.
Supporting Young Children's Literacy Learning through Home-School Partnerships: The Effectiveness of a Home Repeated-Reading Intervention
Authors: Hindin Alisa , Paratore Jeanne R. 
Published: October 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a home repeated-reading intervention on the reading achievement of eight low-performing second-grade children in an urban school by taking into consideration their need to develop automaticity and the role their parents play in this process. Specifically we posed the following questions: Does participation in a home repeated reading intervention improve children's (a) reading accuracy, (b) reading fluency, and (c) reading skills on an independent reading task? When parents participate in a home repeated reading intervention, (a) what word-study strategies do they use to support their children's reading and (b) how do the strategies they use influence children's subsequent word errors? A multiple-baseline across-subjects design and a pre-post design were used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention. Results indicated that all participants made substantially fewer reading errors during the intervention as compared to their performance on baseline stories. All participants demonstrated decreased error rates from the first to the last reading of stories, and significant fluency gains were evident in all cases when comparing mean baseline fluency with mean intervention fluency. All participants made considerable gains in fluency from the first to the last reading of each story, and all children improved on an independent reading measure. All participants read more than 10,000 words during the home intervention. Parents monitored their children's home reading. Four parents provided substantial word-level support, and the children who received this support made fewer repeated reading errors. The children who begin school with full, or nearly full, literacy pocketbooks, in terms of the dominant literacy Discourse, will consistently and inevitably outperform, outlearn, and outscore those children who arrive at the school door with considerably less. While it is the responsibility of the schools to teach what is needed, programs that focus on increasing the level and degree of literacy in the homes of children have begun and are desperately needed. (Purcell-Gates, 1995, pp. 198–199)
Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub‐Saharan African Countries?
Authors: Balié Jean , Del Prete Davide , Magrini Emiliano , Montalbano Pierluigi , Nenci Silvia 
Published: October 2018

AbstractThe emergence of food and agriculture global value chains (GVCs) is challenging the way scholars look at trade data, as well as how policy makers establish their trade policies. The common perception is that Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries, unlike most Latin American and Asian countries, are not deeply integrated into global production networks. Consequently, it is believed that the border protection policies of the former may have a limited impact on GVC participation. This paper challenges this conventional knowledge in two ways. First, by decomposing bilateral gross export into its value added components, we show that the sectoral and bilateral SSA participation in GVC for food and agriculture is substantial. Second, we demonstrate that trade policies impact backward and forward value chain linkages. These results call for a refinement of trade policy priorities in SSA.
Implementing Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Outpatient Cosmetic Surgery Clinics: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Authors: Kaur Manraj , Pusic Andrea , Gibbons Chris , Klassen Anne F 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

Background
Patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) data are increasingly being collected over the internet or on a smart device by means of electronic versions (e-PROMs). Limited evidence exists about factors influencing e-PROM implementation in outpatient clinics.

Objectives
The authors sought to identify barriers to collection of PRO data from different locations (home or cosmetic surgery office) by means of different modes (paper vs e-PROM) from the perspective of patients, plastic surgeons, and clinic administrative staff; and to explore patient preferences for the design of e-PROM platforms.

Methods
Semistructured interviews were conducted with 11 patients, 3 cosmetic surgeons, and administrative staff. Patients were shown 1 of the 3 PROMs (ie, the BODY-Q Satisfaction with Body scale, BREAST-Q Augmentation Module Satisfaction with Breast scale, or FACE-Q Satisfaction with Facial Appearance scale). The formats included paper and electronic (REDCap and TickiT) on a tablet and laptop computer. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Qualitative descriptive analysis was conducted.

Results
Patients and providers preferred electronic over paper format. The flexibility of the hardware, data entry point (remote location vs point-of-care), and the privacy of the data were the most recurring themes from the patient’s perspective. The objective of collecting PROM data, role in peer-benchmarking, and return on investment were key to surgeons and administrative staff.

Conclusions
The e-PROMs were well accepted in the community setting by the patients and plastic surgeons alike. The design and interface features of e-PROMs were explored in this study, which may be useful for future, mixed method studies evaluating the implementation of e-PROMs.
Strong order 1/2 convergence of full truncation Euler approximations to the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross process
Authors: Cozma Andrei , Reisinger Christoph 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
We study convergence properties of the full truncation Euler scheme for the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) process in the regime where the boundary point zero is inaccessible. Under some conditions on the model parameters (precisely, when the so-called Feller ratio is greater than three) we establish the strong order 1/2 convergence in $L^{p}$ of the scheme to the exact solution. For the global error criterion studied in this paper this is consistent with the optimal rate of strong convergence for approximations to the CIR process based on sequential evaluations of the driving Brownian motion.
Non-deterministic algebraization of logics by swap structures1
Authors: Coniglio Marcelo E , Figallo-Orellano Aldo , Golzio Ana Claudia 
Published: October 2018

AbstractMultialgebras (or hyperalgebras or non-deterministic algebras) have been much studied in mathematics and in computer science. In 2016 Carnielli and Coniglio introduced a class of multialgebras called swap structures, as a semantic framework for dealing with several Logics of Formal Inconsistency (or LFIs) that cannot be semantically characterized by a single finite matrix. In particular, these LFIs are not algebraizable by the standard tools of abstract algebraic logic. In this paper, the first steps towards a theory of non-deterministic algebraization of logics by swap structures are given. Specifically, a formal study of swap structures for LFIs is developed, by adapting concepts of universal algebra to multialgebras in a suitable way. A decomposition theorem similar to Birkhoff’s representation theorem is obtained for each class of swap structures. Moreover, when applied to the 3-valued algebraizable logics J3 and Ciore, their classes of algebraic models are retrieved, and the swap structures semantics become twist structures semantics (as independently introduced by M. Fidel and D. Vakarelov). This fact, together with the existence of a functor from the category of Boolean algebras to the category of swap structures for each LFI (which is closely connected with Kalman’s functor), suggests that swap structures can be seen as non-deterministic twist structures. This opens new avenues for dealing with non-algebraizable logics by the more general methodology of multialgebraic semantics.
Short-term Efficiency and Tolerance of Ketoprofen and Methylprednisolone in Acute Sciatica: A Randomized Trial
Authors: Gastaldi Romain , Durand Marjorie , Roustit Matthieu , Zulian Myriam , Monteiro Irène , Juvin Robert , Gaudin Philippe , Baillet Athan 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

Objective
Although anti-inflammatory drugs are commonly used in acute discogenic sciatica, data regarding their efficacy are scarce and controversial. We compared the efficacy and safety of intravenous ketoprofen and methylprednisolone with placebo in sciatica.

Design
Multicenter, double-blinded randomized controlled trial.

Subjects
Patients with confirmed discogenic acute sciatica, without neurologic deficit, were randomized into three arms.

Methods
Besides standard-of-care analgesic therapy, they received intravenous injections of methylprednisolone (60 mg/d) or ketoprofen (200 mg/d) or placebo for five days. The primary outcome was leg pain over five days. Secondary outcomes were clinical responses at days 3 and 5, lumbar pain, Straight Leg Raise Test and lumbar flexion index, analgesic consumption, realization of lumbar spine injections, and surgery during the study period.

Results
Fifty-four patients were randomized, and 50 completed the study. In patients admitted to the hospital for pain control with acute lumbar radicular pain due to intervertebral disc herniation and receiving an oral analgesic protocol including paracetamol, nefopam, tramadol, and morphine, there was no additional analgesic effect seen between groups. There was no significant difference in leg pain between the three groups over the study period. In the methylprednisolone group, however, we observed a higher rate of clinically relevant responses at day 3. No difference was observed on other secondary efficacy outcomes and safety.

Conclusion
No significant difference in leg pain was observed between groups. However, there was a higher proportion of patients relieved with intravenous methylprednisolone at day 3, compared with ketoprofen or placebo.
Firming Up Inequality*
Authors: Song Jae , Price David J , Guvenen Fatih , Bloom Nicholas , von Wachter Till 
Published: October 2018

AbstractWe use a massive, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that one-third of the rise in the variance of (log) earnings occurred within firms, whereas two-thirds of the rise occurred due to a rise in the dispersion of average earnings between firms. However, this rising between-firm variance is not accounted for by the firms themselves but by a widening gap between firms in the composition of their workers. This compositional change can be split into two roughly equal parts: high-wage workers became increasingly likely to work in high-wage firms (i.e., sorting increased), and high-wage workers became increasingly likely to work with each other (i.e., segregation rose). In contrast, we do not find a rise in the variance of firm-specific pay once we control for the worker composition in firms. Finally, we find that two-thirds of the rise in the within-firm variance of earnings occurred within mega (10,000+ employee) firms, which saw a particularly large increase in the variance of earnings compared with smaller firms.
ORGAN DOSE ESTIMATION ACCOUNTING FOR UNCERTAINTY FOR PEDIATRIC AND YOUNG ADULT CT SCANS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Authors: Lee Choonsik , Journy Neige , Moroz Brian E , Little Mark , Harbron Richard , McHugh Kieran , Pearce Mark , Berrington de Gonzalez Amy 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Since our previous publication of organ dose for the pediatric CT cohort in the UK, there have been questions about the magnitude of uncertainty in our dose estimates. We therefore quantified shared and unshared uncertainties in empirical CT parameters extracted from 1073 CT films (1978–2008) from 36 hospitals in the study and propagated these uncertainties into organ doses using Monte Carlo random sampling and NCICT organ dose calculator. The average of 500 median brain and marrow doses for the full cohort was 35 (95% confidence interval: 30–40) mGy and 6 (5–7) mGy, respectively. We estimated that shared uncertainty contributed ~99% of coefficient of variation of median brain doses in brain scans compared to unshared uncertainty (1% contribution). We found that the previous brain doses were slightly underestimated for <1990 and overestimated for >1990 compared to the results in the current study due to the revised CTDI models based on CT films.
Nontoxic Three-Part Combination Local Wound Therapy to Eradicate Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Authors: Kim Nicholas , Murphy Mary , Choudry Umar 
Published: October 2018

ABSTRACT
This case report describes eradication of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae from an ischial pressure injury in a patient who underwent a 3-week course of nontoxic three-part combination local wound therapy. With this therapy, providers prevented systemic spread of this multidrug-resistant pathogen and avoided the nephrotoxicity associated with conventional triple antibiotic therapy.
Using Simulation to Improve Student and Faculty Knowledge of Telehealth and Rural Characteristics
Authors: Mennenga Heidi A. , Johansen Laurie , Foerster Becka , Tschetter Lois 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of senior baccalaureate nursing students and faculty members regarding telehealth and rural nursing concepts before and after participation in a newly developed simulation, which incorporated telehealth use in a rural home environment. Statistically significant increases in knowledge were found in both faculty and students following participation in the simulation. The results of this research indicate the need to increase student and faculty knowledge about telehealth and rural nursing concepts.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Two Teaching Strategies to Improve Nursing Students’ Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes About Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Authors: Maxwell Karen L. , Wright Vivian H. 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate two teaching strategies with regard to quality and safety education for nurses content on quality improvement and safety. Two groups (total of 64 students) participated in online learning or online learning in conjunction with a flipped classroom. A pretest/posttest control group design was used. The use of online modules in conjunction with the flipped classroom had a greater effect on increasing nursing students’ knowledge of quality improvement than the use of online modules only. There was no statistically significant difference between the groups for safety.
Exploring the Performance Outcomes of Senior-Level Nursing
Authors: Beroz Sabrina T. 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The new graduate nurse must be prepared for the complexities of the workplace. Research has shown the role that experience plays in providing quality nursing care. This pilot study explored the performance outcomes of final semester nursing students in a multiple-patient simulation. Twelve students were evaluated by an independent rater who viewed videotapes to measure the behaviors using the Seattle University Simulation Evaluation Tool. The data found that the students were unable to consistently prioritize, delegate, and communicate the plan of care while in an environment with competing demands. The findings support the use of multiple-patient simulation.
The Dark Side of Dissemination: Traditional and Open Access Versus Predatory Journals
Authors: Masten Yondell B. , Ashcraft Alyce S. 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

AIM
The purpose of the article is to alert faculty about predatory online journals, review characteristics of three broad categories of journals, and provide suggestions for faculty evaluation of journals before submission of scholarship for publication.

BACKGROUND
The availability of online journals in recent years has rapidly increased the number of journals available for publication of faculty scholarship. However, not all online journals meet the same standards as traditional journals.

METHOD
The article is not a report for a research study.

RESULTS
Currently, there are three broad categories of journals for faculty scholarship publication: traditional, open access scholarly, and predatory open access journals.

CONCLUSION
Faculty authors need to carefully evaluate the journal characteristics and publisher business practices before submitting a manuscript for publication to prevent inadvertent submission to a predatory open access journal.