bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Women’s reproductive health needs assessment questionnaire: development and validation
Authors: Rezaie-Chamani Sedighe , Rahnavardi Mona , Bostani Khalesi Zahra 
Published: May 2019

Abstract

Background
Assessment of reproductive health (RH) needs is necessary for describing the status of women’s RH and identification of the actions needed. This study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire for the assessment of the women’s RH needs.

Materials and methods
A sequential exploratory mixed method study (qualitative and quantitative) was conducted with Iranian women of reproductive age (age 15–49 years) living in Rasht. The qualitative exploratory phase was used to explain the concept and dimensions of RH needs. The qualitative exploratory phase was used to develop and validate a questionnaire.

Results
The results of the qualitative section, RH needs consists of two themes “Reproductive Health Education Needs” and “Reproductive Health Services Features”. A Women’s Reproductive Health Needs Assessment Questionnaire (WRHNAQ) was designed with 19 items. The content validity ratio (CVR) and content validity index (CVI) of the questionnaire were 0.89 and 0.93, respectively. The instrument’s internal consistency was confirmed by an alpha coefficient of 0.881.

Conclusion
The results of this study showed that the WRHNAQ is a culturally sensitive, valid and reliable scale for assessing the RH needs. The WRHNAQ will be helpful for identifying needs and need-based intervention.
Control survey for a 6.7 km immersed tunnel in Chinese Lingding ocean
Authors: Li Guanqing , Huang Shengxiang 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
The immersed tunnel which is composed of elements has drawn more attention nowadays because of new advancements and developments. The elements are prefabricated somewhere else and floated to the tunnel site to be sunk into the prepared trench. Each element must line up exactly for the watertight gaskets to seal properly. The HZM immersed tunnel, a key part of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) that crosses the Pearl River Estuary and links Hong Kong to the east, and Zhuhai and Macao to the west, is 6.7 km long, one of the longest immersed tunnel ever realized in the world. For the construction of such a mega immersed tunnel, particular care should be taken in the perspective of geodetic control. This paper described the design and implementation of the geodetic basis and hierarchical surface control networks. And to decrease the influence of lateral refraction and to improve the configuration strength and increase the number of redundant observation compared with traverse, the design of underground surveying network named duo-linear joint chain and the results of gyro checks are presented. In the end HZM immersed tunnel surveying data is analyzed and the performance of the control networks is demonstrated.
Transient neonatal hypothyroidism following a short course of maternal amiodarone therapy
Authors: Huang Victoria , Wolf Risa M. 
Published: May 2019

Abstract

Background
Amiodarone is an iodine-rich medication used to treat maternal and fetal arrhythmias, with known effects on thyroid hormone homeostasis.

Case presentation
We describe a case of transient neonatal hypothyroidism following a short prenatal course of maternal amiodarone therapy resulting in neonatal TSH elevations exceeding those reported in the available literature.
Self-rated Tanner stage and subjective measures of puberty are associated with longitudinal gonadal hormone changes
Authors: Balzer Ben W.R. , Garden Frances L. , Amatoury Mazen , Luscombe Georgina M. , Paxton Karen , Hawke Catherine I. , Handelsman David J. , Steinbeck Katharine S. 
Published: May 2019

Abstract

Introduction
In large community-based studies of puberty, Tanner staging by a clinician is often not possible. We compared self-rated Tanner staging and other subjective ratings of pubertal development with serum hormone levels measured by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to reassess the utility of self-rated pubertal stage using highly sensitive and specific hormone analysis.

Methods
Adolescents and their parents enrolled in the Adolescent Rural Cohort study of Hormones and health, Education, environments and Relationships (ARCHER) answered annual survey questions on pubertal development. Annually, adolescents provided blood samples for serum testosterone and estradiol measured by LC-MS/MS.

Results
Longitudinally, self-rated Tanner stage was positively associated with serum testosterone and estradiol levels in both sexes. Confirmation by adolescent and parent that puberty had commenced was associated with higher gonadal hormone levels in both sexes. Parent and adolescent responses demonstrated ‘fair’ to ‘moderate’ agreement.

Conclusions
Over a 3-year follow-up, self-rated Tanner staging and simple questions regarding pubertal onset and development are positively associated with adolescent gonadal hormone concentrations in serum measured by mass spectrometry. Thus, self-report of puberty stage still has a role in large community-based studies where physical examination is not feasible.
Kant and the Understanding’s Role in Imaginative Synthesis
Authors: Arens Patrick E. 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
The aim of this article is to contribute to the ongoing debate about whether Kant is a conceptualist or a non-conceptualist, by criticizing Hannah Ginsborg’s conceptualist interpretation found in her “Was Kant a nonconceptualist?” (2008). Ginsborg’s conceptualist interpretation places important focus on imaginative synthesis. According to Ginsborg, our being conscious of imaginative synthesis is an essential element of such processes and it is our consciousness that confers intentionality to synthesized representations. In this article, I undermine Ginsborg’s account by offering several passages that challenge its central tenets. Then, I develop and argue for an interpretation of imaginative synthesis that respects the passages used against Ginsborg. In short, I think the original text supports an account of synthesis such that the manifold of intuitions produced by our faculty of sensibility is unconsciously synthetically unified by the imagination. It is important to note that while the interpretation I offer here does not decisively support a conceptualist or non-conceptualist interpretation of Kant, it is nevertheless favorable to both the content and state non-conceptualist readings and unfavorable to the Ginsborgian conceptualist reading; this is because my interpretation shows that the mere fact of imaginative synthesis does not itself entail conceptualism, as Ginsborg maintains.
Pure Reason’s Enlightenment: Transcendental Reflection in Kant’s first Critique
Authors: Boer Karin de 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
In this article I aim to clarify the nature of Kant’s transformation of rationalist metaphysics into a science by focusing on his conception of transcendental reflection. The aim of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, it is argued, consists primarily in liberating the productive strand of former general metaphysics - its reflection on the a priori elements of all knowledge - from the uncritical application of these elements to all things (within general metaphysics itself) and to things that can only be thought (in special metaphysics). After considering Kant’s conception of metaphysics and his various uses of the term ‘transcendental’ I closely examine his account of logical and transcendental reflection in the section entitled ‘On the Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection’. Whereas commentators generally attribute the activity called transcendental reflection to Kant alone, I contend, first, that Kant regarded philosophy as such to rely on a mode of transcendental reflection and, second, that the critical mode of transcendental reflection enacted in the Critique itself yields insight into the reason why our a priori knowledge is limited to the realm of possible objects. This is illustrated by outlining the difference between Kant’s and Leibniz’ employment of the concepts of reflection.
Kant on the Soul’s Intensity
Authors: Chepurin Kirill 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
In this paper I propose to consider a certain set of notions in Kant as subsumable under a single notion - that of the soul’s intensity - as well as the possibility of a transcendental grounding of this notion within Kant’s critical framework. First, I discuss what it means for Kant to attribute intensive magnitude to the soul, starting with his response to Mendelssohn where Kant introduces the soul’s intensity as a metaphysical notion immanent to the principles of rational psychology. I show, however, that in Kant’s counter-argument there occurs a subtle though crucial shift in perspective - from the soul’s substance to its powers. Then I move on to consider three fundamental variants upon the soul’s intensity - intensities of representation, of life, and of cognition - each governed, I argue, by the implied notions of measure of intensity and its balance. Also, I examine Kant’s accounts of the life of a species and the necessity of sickness; of intensity of “enlightenment” in a society and the benefit of ignorance; and of sermon as a practical exertion of cognition’s intensity. Next, the aforementioned shift of emphasis allows me to demonstrate that the notion of the soul’s intensity can indeed be transcendentally justified by appealing to Kant’s principle of the Anticipations of Perception. Finally, I conclude with an appendix on the possible connection of the soul’s intensity to Kant’s aesthetics.
Kant’s conception of self as subject and its embodiment
Authors: Onof Christian 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
This paper examines Kant’s conception of the self as subject, to show that it points to an understanding of the self as embodied. By considering ways in which the manifold of representations can be unified, different notions of self are identified through the subjective perspectives they define. This involves an examination of Kant’s distinction between subjective and objective unities of consciousness, and the notion of empirical unity of apperception in the first Critique, as well as the discussion of judgements of perception and judgements of experience in the Prolegomena. If this identifies the self as subject through its embodied perspective, it leaves open the question of the self’s existence. The paper proposes an interpretation of Kant’s brief statements on this matter which provides grounds for an existence claim that extends to the embodied self. This suggests considering Kant’s view of the certainty of one’s existence as involving a feeling of self, albeit in a specifically Kantian form drawing on the transcendental unity of apperception. This feeling of self introduces a practical dimension that supports the claim that any determination of the self as subject has to be practical, namely as free agent subject to inclinations, insofar as he is embodied.
Synthesis and crystal structure of bis{((E)-((4-((E)-1-(benzyloxyimino)ethyl)phenyl)imino)methyl)-2-phenolato-κ2
N,O}copper(II), C44H38CuN4O4
Authors: Huang Jing , Ma Jin-Xia , Wei Ping , Zhao Ji-Xing 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
C44H38CuN4O4, monoclinic, P21/n (no. 14), a = 8.0172(13) Å, b = 10.9003(17) Å, c = 42.154(8) Å, β = 94.749(6)°, Z = 4, V = 3671.2(11) Å3, R
gt(F) = 0.0483, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1072, T = 173(2)K.
Crystal structure of dichlorido-(μ2-2,2′-(diazene-1,2-diyl)bis(benzen-1-ido)-κ2
C:C′)dimercury(II), C12H8Cl2Hg2N2
Authors: Zhao Ying 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
C12H8Cl2Hg2N2, triclinic, P1̄ (no. 2), a = 3.9815(8) Å, b = 8.9837(18) Å, c = 9.755(2) Å, α = 102.10(3)°, β = 99.54(3)°, γ = 98.82(3)°, V = 329.98(12) Å3, Z = 1, R
gt(F) = 0.0368, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1061, T = 296(2) K.
Crystal structure of tetrabutylammonium 4,4-oxydibenzoate – boric acid – water (1/2/6) C46H98B2N2O17
Authors: Cui Yongxia , Chen Xiaohui , Zhang Tingting 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
C46H98B2N2O17, orthorhombic, Pbca (no. 61), a = 16.485(3) Å, b = 17.441(3) Å, c = 41.100(7) Å, V = 11817(3) Å3, Z = 8, R
gt(F) = 0.0516, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1557, T = 296(2) K.
Crystal structure of 4-isobutoxybenzaldehyde oxime, C11H15NO2
Authors: Tang Xian , Wang De-Cai 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
C11H15O2N, monoclinic, P21/n (no. 14), a = 13.5152(2) Å, b = 6.19120(10) Å, c = 14.3917(2) Å, β = 115.467(2)°, V = 1087.22(3) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt(F) = 0.0384, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1104 T = 170(2) K.
Obstructive sleep apnea: personal, societal, public health, and legal implications
Authors: Morsy Nesreen E. , Farrag Nesrine S. , Zaki Nevin F.W. , Badawy Ahmad Y. , Abdelhafez Sayed A. , El-Gilany Abdel-Hady , El Shafey Mohsen Mohammed , Pandi-Perumal Seithikurippu R. , Spence David Warren , BaHammam Ahmed S. 
Published: May 2019

AbstractIntroductionObstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a widely prevalent sleep-related breathing disorder, which leads to several life-threatening diseases. OSA has systemic effects on various organ systems. Untreated OSA is associated with long-term health consequences including hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, depression, metabolic disorders, and stroke. In addition, untreated OSA is reported to be associated with cognitive dysfunction, impaired productivity at the workplace and in an increased risk of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) resulting in injury and fatality. Other consequences of OSA include, but are not limited to, impaired vigilance, daytime somnolence, performance deficits, morning headaches, mood disturbances, neurobehavioral impairments, and general malaise. Additionally, OSA has become an economic burden on most health systems all over the world. Many driving license regulations have been developed to reduce MVAs among OSA patients.MethodsStudies of the personal, societal, public health, and legal aspects of OSA are reviewed. Data were collected through the following databases: MEDLINE, Google Scholar, Scopus, SAGE Research Methods, and ScienceDirect.ConclusionOSA leads to worsening of patients’ personal relationships, decreasing work productivity, and increasing occupational accidents as well as MVAs. The costs of undiagnosed and untreated OSA to healthcare organizations are excessive. Thus, proper management of OSA will benefit not only the patient but will also provide widespread benefits to the society as a whole.
Mindsets of Addiction: Implications for Treatment Intentions
Authors: Burnette Jeni L. , Forsyth Rachel B. , Desmarais Sarah L. , Hoyt Crystal L. 
Published: May 2019

Introduction: The goal of the current work is to contribute to the critical dialog regarding consequences of different communications about the nature of addiction by offering a new theoretical approach. Specifically, we merge a mindset perspective, which highlights the importance of beliefs regarding the malleability of human attributes, with the attribution literature to explore how messages stressing the changeable vs. fixed nature of addiction influence beliefs and treatment intentions. Method: We crafted a message about addiction designed to induce the belief in the potential to change without influencing self-blame (compensatory-growth mindset message) and compared it to a message focused on the fixed underpinnings of addiction (disease-fixed mindset message). Results: In an online sample of probable substance users (N = 214), we found that the compensatory-growth, relative to the disease-fixed message, led to participants reporting stronger growth mindsets and efficacy without an impact on blame. Additionally, the compensatory-growth, relative to the disease-fixed message, led to stronger intentions to pursue counseling and cognitive behavioral treatment therapies. Discussion: The current work finds support for an innovative theoretical approach for understanding motivation to seek treatment among individuals with probable substance use problems.
Prevalence of celiac disease and celiac-related antibody status in pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes in Jordan
Authors: Odeh Rasha , Alassaf Abeer , Gharaibeh Lubna , Ibrahim Sarah , Khdair Ahmad Fareed , Ajlouni Kamel 
Published: May 2019

Objective
Scientific findings regarding the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the Arab world are scarce. We aimed to determine the prevalence of biopsy-proven celiac disease (BPCD) among pediatric patients with T1D from Jordan. We also assessed the possible predictors for developing CD in this cohort of patients and we compared T1D patients who developed BPCD with those who had positive CD serology but negative histology and/or fluctuating CD serology.

Methods
Celiac serology and duodenal biopsy results from 2012 to 2017 were collected from patients with T1D. The outcome of positive celiac serology and the risk factors for CD in T1D patients were investigated.

Results
A total of 538 children of which 278 boys (51.7%) were included in the study. The prevalence of positive serology and the diagnosis of BPCD in this cohort of T1D patients were 16.6 and 9.1% respectively. Eighty percent of those with BPCD were asymptomatic and 47% were diagnosed with CD at onset of T1D. Spontaneous normalization of celiac serology occurred in 23.6% of those with positive serology.

Conclusion
CD is prevalent in T1D pediatric patients from Jordan (9.1%). It is often asymptomatic and the majority of cases were diagnosed at onset or within 5 years of T1D diagnosis. Spontaneous normalization of CD serology occurred in some patients with T1D. Hence, a watchful follow-up is recommended in such patients.
Cryptocurrency: Advantages and Disadvantages
Authors: Subačius Augustas , Subačienė Rasa 
Published: May 2019

[full article and abstract in Lithuanian; abstract in English]
The main feature of the twenty-first century could be named as permanent transformation that covers all areas. Payments and money are developing and changing especially fast. Technological evolution and development have led to the emergence of new transactional techniques on the Internet, mobile phones, and credit cards. Various systems of payment / money transfer have considerably expanded payment options and possibilities. And such conditions have created opportunities for the emergence of a cryptocurrency. The purpose of the study is to investigate the cryptocurrency, its concept, advantages and disadvantages. Analysis of the scientific literature, systematization, comparison, interpretation and generalization of information research methods were used for the study. Evaluation of the reasons for the emergence of cryptocurrency let to generalise, that the process was mostly influenced by technological progress and the aspiration to find faster, cheaper and more confidential settlement tools. Cryptocurrency may be defined as digital money or property in electronical form. This currency may be characterized by properties of decentralization, uncontrollability and higher risk management. The most important advantages of using a cryptocurrency may be: the speed of settlements; cheaper financial services; additional investment opportunities. Disadvantages - unpredictable, fluctuating value; possible fraud cases; possibility to use cryptocurrency for illegal activities.
Roboto asistuojama totalinė histerektomija: pirmoji patirtis
Authors: Šiaulys Raimondas 
Published: May 2019

[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba]
Straipsnyje retrospektyviai analizuojamos Klaipėdos universitetinėje ligoninėje atliktos pirmosios 23 totalinės histerektomijos, naudojant Senhance® robotinę sistemą. Pacientės operuotos dėl gimdos vėžio, miomatozės, endometriozės, profilaktiškai po krūties vėžio gydymo ir atskirais atvejais esant gimdos kaklelio patologijų ar nustačius gerybinį kiaušidžių naviką. Aptariama operacijų atlikimo technika, pateikiami rezultatai. Išvados. Roboto asistuojama totalinė histerektomija – metodas, saugus pacientėms ir komfortiškas chirurgui.
Robotinė pieloplastika: klinikinio atvejo analizė
Authors: Jasėnas Marius , Venckus Raimundas 
Published: May 2019

[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba]
Dėl geresnių operacinių ir pooperacinių rezultatų urologai vis dažniau atlieka minimaliai invazyvias operacijas. Robotinė pieloplastika – vienas iš metodų, kuris palengvina pielourterinio segmento susiuvimą. Ši operacija mažiau vargina operuojantį gydytoją, trumpėja operacijos ir hospitalizacijos laikas.
2019 m. sausio 4 d. Klaipėdos universitetinėje ligoninėje atlikta pirmoji robotinė (Senhance Transenterixsistema) pieloplastika. Operuota 61 m. pacientė, turėjusi sunkių gretutinių ligų. Operacinis ir pooperacinis periodai praėjo be komplikacijų, ketvirtą parą pacientė išrašyta į namus. Po dviejų mėnesių pacientė kliniškai nusiskundimų neturėjo, atlikus KT tyrimą, nustatyta regresuojanti hydronefrozė po robotinės pieloplastikos.
Įvertinus gautus rezultatus, galima teigti, kad robotinė pieloplastika yra minimaliai invazyvus, saugus ir efektyvus chirurginis metodas, išsiskiriantis labai greita paciento reabilitacija.
Journalism as a synergistic object
Authors: Butyrina M. 
Published: May 2019

The study highlights the latest mass-media trends and constructs in the context of the synergetic paradigm. Journalism is described as an open, non-linear, unbalanced, dynamic system which is capable of self-organization. The components of the synergetic cycle of the presented system are identified. Its actual phase of development is defined as post-journalism. The most typical phenomena with fractal features are determined. They include participative and amateur journalism. Manifestations of the holistic principle in the functioning of the system are also traced at the level of individual factors of the communication system - sender, recipient, message and code. Powerful influence of fluctuations of the external for journalism systems is outlined.
Media picture of the world, which integrates not only information, but also pseudo-information elements that are also part of the functional field of journalistic influence, is defined as a systematic result of the «work» of the given system. The author outlines the transformation of the two-stage communication model, the complementation of the communication system with such factors as «bubble filter» and «content aggregators», expansion of the functional and role position of the sender.It is stated that the increase in the level of entropy in the journalism system is due to the non-compliance with professional standards, ethical norms, and accepted functional roles from the fractal phenomena that are currently only beginning to be formed within the system. From the standpoint of synergetics, the phenomenon of mediatization, which is the result of self-organization of the journalism system in interaction with the actors of the environment, is disclosed.Methodological features of the synergetic approach to the study of journalism are also revealed. They include metaphorization of the synergetic terminology; discreteness in the application of the synergetic paradigm, which foresees emphasis on some regularities in the development of the system while levelling the others; implementation of the synergetic approach in a simplified version through the analysis of the objects as a set of the system features.
Dynamic recrystallization initiated by direct grain reorientation at high-angle grain boundary in α-titanium
Authors: Wang Hao , Bao Qili L. , Zhou Gang , Qiu J.K. , Yang Yi , Ma Y.J. , Bai Chunguang G. , Xu Dongsheng S. , Rugg David , Huang Aijun J. , Hu Qing-Miao , Lei J.F. , Yang Rui 
Published: May 2019

Abstract