bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Determination of Hair and Serum Metal Levels in Petrol Station Workers
Authors: KÖMÜROĞLU Ahmet Ufuk , ALACABEY İhsan , ATASOY Nurhayat , ÜÇLER Rıfkı 
Published: September 2019

The aim of this study is to determine some metals in hair and serum samples of petrol station workers. A total of 50 petrol
station workers (exposure group) and 50 office workers (control group) were included in the study. Li, Ni, V, Tl, Ti and Sr
levels in hair samples and Sr, Ti and V levels in serum samples were measured using the ICP-OES instrument. Li, Ni, V, Tl, Ti
and Sr levels in hair samples were found to be significantly higher in the exposure group than in the control group. Ti level in
serum samples was found to be significantly higher in the exposure group than in the control group. However, Sr and V levels
in serum samples did not differ significantly between the two groups. These results show that petrol station workers are
exposed to these toxic metals. For this reason, it may be recommended that petrol station workers should undergo regular
biomonitoring and healthcare screening.
Ethics of Russian parliamentarian as a subject matter of normative and legal regulation
Authors: Aminov I. I. 
Published: September 2019

Professionalization of ethics in the first quarter of the 21st century leads to the fact that it increasingly acts as a regulator of behavior of representatives of all branches of government: legislative, executive and judiciary. To this end, scholars — authors of modern concepts of political ethics — increasingly correlate fundamental ethical values with the features of modern politics, law, democratic organization of the society that put forward as fundamental such ethical qualities as professionalism, discipline, financial integrity, political correctness, prevention of malpractice and power abuse in the activities of members of the Council of Federation and deputies of the State Duma in their interpersonal and intergroup relations.Since the authority of the Parliament, as the highest legislative (representative) body, largely depends on personal and moral qualities, ethical standards of behavior of holders of state authorities should be enshrined not only in the regulations of the Chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, but also in an independent normative legal act — the code of ethics regulating ethical behavior of the lawmakers and responsibility for its violation. The adoption of such an important codified act will make it possible to control the individual, personal and behavioral characteristics of parliamentarians, their interaction with the public, the mass media, to establish uniform moral guidelines for parliamentarians and voters and directions of the legislative activity.
Impact of cold dissection tonsillectomy method combined with selective low voltage bipolar diathermy cauterization on the post tonsillectomy pain in the pediatric age group
Authors: Varadharajan Ramesh , Radhakrishnan Vaishnav , Suresh Sneha , Babu Sreedevi S. 
Published: September 2019

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Pediatric tonsillectomies are commonly performed by cold<strong> </strong>dissection or electro cautery dissection. Both the techniques have been compared in many articles for their role in controlling the post-operative pain and bleeding. With the electro cautery dissection the blood loss is comparatively less, but the post-operative pain is reported as more. Several expensive new techniques are available to address the problems. A simple technique of cold dissection tonsillectomy combined with selective low voltage bipolar diathermy cauterization performed in the pediatric age group is being studied retrospectively for its impact in managing the post-operative pain.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> The case records of 73 patients aged 4-15 years who were operated for tonsillectomy from January 2018 to July 2019 are retrospectively studied. 33 patients underwent cold dissection and ligature tonsillectomy and 40 patients underwent tonsillectomy by cold dissection combined with selective low voltage bipolar diathermy cauterization. The postoperative pain incidence in these two groups is studied. </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> The cold dissection tonsillectomy combined with selective low voltage bipolar diathermy cauterization technique was found to be useful in managing the postoperative pain in pediatric tonsillectomies.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Performing<strong> </strong>cold dissection tonsillectomy with precise mucosal incision, gentle<strong> </strong>dissection and combining it with selective low voltage bipolar diathermy cauterization of the bleeding points was found to be helpful in controlling the postoperative pain in pediatric tonsillectomies. Prescribing a syrup form of NSAID from the second post-operative day was found to be of additional help.</p>
SOCIO-CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL PHENOMENA OF THE RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION
Authors: Vorontsova Valeriya Leonidovna , Salimgareev Maksim Vladimirovich , Vladimirovich Dmitriy 
Published: September 2019

Purpose: Identification of the heuristic significance of radicalism and solidarity as elements of the Russian civilization concept, not only within the framework of a unified, strictly fixed theory, but as universal intellectual tools of a modern socio-humanitarian vision of historical reality.
Methodology: The basis of the work is a civilizational approach, which allowed to most effectively evaluate the interesting aspects of the social development of Russian civilization.
Main Findings: The authors revealed the specific content of national manifestations of radicalism and solidarity in a philosophical and historical context. The most important manifestations of the social aspirations of key mega-objects of Russian history: the ethnic group, the state and the church are analyzed. When considering the historical specifics of the designated vectors of civilizational dynamics, attention is drawn to the role of individuals in the process of activating or deactivating the indicated directions of Russia development.
Novelty/Originality: The authors revealed the specific content of national manifestations of radicalism and solidarity in a philosophical and historical context. The tendency towards radical and solidary forms of interaction among the participants in the civilization process, especially at the tragic moments of historical changes, was a special form of manifestation of social dynamics. Its total completeness, expressed, among other things, through the acceleration or deceleration of the adaptation to historical reality processes, became a state of self-disclosure of specific subjects of social action, acting as vehicles of unknown metahistorical forces.
THE COOPERATION BETWEEN FAMILY AND SCHOOL AS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GIFTED CHILDREN
Authors: Gali Gulnara Faritovna , Fakhrutdinova Anastasiya Viktorovna , Grevtsova Gulsina Yakupovna , Gali Ilshatovich 
Published: September 2019

Purpose of the Study: One of the important features of effective pedagogical school is the close cooperation of parents and teachers in the gifted students’ educationworldwide. Cooperation represents a joint action and negotiation, which is aimed at finding solutions, and a new, common ground. Cooperation between schools and parents may be traditional and partnership-oriented. In what way it will be achieved and placed, depends on the legal regulations, school environment, professional competence and individual characteristics of teachers, sociodemographic, and psychosocial characteristics of the parents. The study aims to determine the teacher functions in cooperation between the family and school.
Methodology: The leading approaches to the study of this problem are: the method of historical and logical analysis of regulatory documents of foreign governments and research papers by leading scientists dealing with gifted education issues and the method of analysis, comparison, synthesis and generalization of innovative foreign, and domestic pedagogical experience.
Results: The paper is based on the assumption that parents do not participate in decision-making at the school and that the cooperation between family and school in primary schools is still traditional. The results showed that parents are not involved in decision-making at the school, and the cooperation between family and school is still traditional and that is mainly related to parent meetings and informative conversations, without involvement of the partnership.
Implication: The authors focus on the specifics of working with gifted students’ parents, as well as on the analysis of the problems of gifted students’ education in different countries. The studies confirm that the task of parents and teachers working with gifted students is to create the necessary conditions and environment in which the gifted students could successfully develop and learn to overcome various difficulties.
Novelty: Materials of the article can be useful for professors, teachers, students, and a wide range of readers interested in the problems of gifted students' education.
AMBIVALENCE OF SOCIAL STIGMATIZATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
Authors: Turkulets Svetlana , Turkuletc Aleksei Turkuletc , Listopadova Evgenia , Gareeva Irina , Slesarev Alexandr 
Published: September 2019

Purpose of the study: The purpose of the article is to study the characteristics of the stigmatization process of modern youth in the Russian Far East. Special attention is paid to living conditions in the Russian Far East, noting that the majority of the population in the Far Eastern region and, above all, young people, are in a situation of social inequality and marginality in relation to the rest of Russians. Many young people associate their life strategies with leaving the territory of the Far East of Russia.
Methodology: At the first stage of the study, the method of participant observation was used, which provided primary information about the impact of stigma on the self-identification of young people. At the empirical level of research, such sociological methods as document analysis, sociological surveys in the form of questioning and interviewing were applied. A sociological survey was conducted as a pilot study of the problems of stigmatization among high school and university students of the cities of Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Main findings of this article: Stigma is manifested in its own way in different times and in different communities, it is historically and socioculturally specific. Territorial stigma possesses signs of ambivalence, on the one hand, it has a negative effect on the socialization and self-identification process of young people in the Russian Far East, but on the other hand, it can act as an incentive for young people to make an active and conscious choice of their life strategy.
Applications of this study: The findings can be used in the implementation of youth policy in the Far Eastern Federal District by state and local authorities in order to prevent the outflow of young people from the region. The main results of the study can be useful for use in the educational process in such disciplines as sociology, political science, regional studies, as well as for the further study of the problems of social stigmatization.
Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty and significance of the study lie in the fact that in Russian sociology practically no attention is paid to the problems of territorial stigmatization. The theoretical conclusions were obtained on the basis of the original sociological research conducted by the authors of the article in the cities of the Far Eastern region of Russia. The results provided new knowledge of both territorial stigmatization and social stigmatization in general. The novelty of the conducted study lies in the actualization of the problem of social stigmatization of Russian youth living in the Far Eastern region remote from the center of Russia.
CONSENSUS ASPECTS OF COUNSELING SUPERVISION PRACTICES IN DRUG TREATMENT CENTRE
Authors: Sabri Farhana 
Published: September 2019

Purpose of the study: This study aims to examine aspects of counseling supervision practices in a drug treatment center in Malaysia. The aspects are served as facilitative factors for supervisor to practice counseling supervision in the drug abuse field.
Methodology: Data were collected using a mixed-method explanatory sequential research design that involved 30 respondents. Two sets of questionnaires were used namely Supervisee Levels Questionnaires-Revised and Supervisee Needs Index. A semi-structured interview was conducted to selected respondents to further explain and justify the quantitative data.
Main Findings: The findings show that most of the respondents scored highest at motivation subscale and supervisor competency for their supervisee levels and their needs index, respectively. Four themes namely a) attending courses periodically, b) in-house training, c) supervision from the upper management, and (d) consultation from other agencies were examined to corroborate the quantitative results.
Social implications and novelty: The findings of this study would facilitate the supervisors to focus more on the aspects found in this study throughout their counseling supervision practices. Having identified aspects that should be focused on during supervision would be served as a fundamental framework for future studies pertaining to counseling supervision practices.
Novelty/Originality of this study: This study examines consensus aspects of counseling supervision practices, of which limited studies available in Malaysia. Each aspect of counseling supervision found in this study can be further investigated for future studies.
THE EFFECT OF BOARD CHARACTERISTICS ON INTERNET FINANCIAL REPORTING: A META-ANALYSIS STUDY
Authors: Waromi Juliana , Chairiri Anis , Yuyetta Etna Nur Afri , Imaningati Sri , Falah Syaikhul 
Published: September 2019

Purpose of this study: This paper aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance, namely board characteristics and internet financial reporting.
Methodology: The method used is a meta-analysis technique developed by Hunter and Schmidt’s (1990) covering 26 previous articles published in 2004-2017.
Main Findings: Empirical evidence found that board characteristics represented by board size and board independence have a positive effect on internet financial reporting, while role duality does not correlate.
Implications of this study: This paper has important implications for regulators as it reports board size and board independence as important predictor variables to internet financial reporting. The paper is also of interest to investors and companies related to accountability and transparency.
Research limitations: In these studies, other characteristics of corporate governance such as audit committee board and ownership structure are not included due to the limited number of studies related to corporate governance and internet financial reporting.
Originality/Value: This study extends meta-analysis literature related to corporate governance characteristics on Internet Financial Reporting.
A Binary Quantifier for Definite Descriptions in Intuitionist Negative Free Logic: Natural Deduction and Normalisation
Authors: Kürbis Nils 
Published: September 2019

This paper presents a way of formalising definite descriptions with a binary quantifier ℩, where ℩x[F, G] is read as `The F is G'. Introduction and elimination rules for ℩ in a system of intuitionist negative free logic are formulated. Procedures for removing maximal formulas of the form ℩x[F, G] are given, and it is shown that deductions in the system can be brought into normal form.
O ensino de Geografia física e os jogos digitais
Authors: Siqueira Beatriz 
Published: September 2019

O presente trabalho tem como finalidade o desenvolvimento de uma prática de ensino-aprendizagem no Ensino Básico, por meio de jogo digital e aplicada ao estudo do meio natural. O tema selecionado foi a observação do tempo atmosférico, conteúdo do 6° ano dos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental e a dinâmica natural do planeta Terra, conteúdo do 8° ano dos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental, ambos expressos na Matriz de Avaliação Processual de Geografia, da rede pública do Estado de São Paulo. O jogo Roblox, familiar entre os alunos, teve uma de suas plataformas, denominada Natural Disaster Survival, selecionada para o desenvolvimento da aula prática e trouxe à tona a necessidade de ressignificar o uso dos dispositivos eletrônicos no espaço escolar.
Five-Year Follow-up of Arthroscopic Superior Capsule Reconstruction for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears
Authors: Mihata Teruhisa , Lee Thay Q. , Hasegawa Akihiko , Fukunishi Kunimoto , Kawakami Takeshi , Fujisawa Yukitaka , Ohue Mutsumi , Neo Masashi 
Published: September 2019

Background:
Arthroscopic superior capsule reconstruction was developed to restore superior stability, muscle balance, and function in the shoulder joint after an irreparable rotator cuff tear. Our objective was to assess the functional and radiographic results of superior capsule reconstruction after 5 years of follow-up.

Methods:
Thirty patients who underwent arthroscopic superior capsule reconstruction using fascia lata autograft were enrolled in this study. The inclusion criteria were an irreparable rotator cuff tear confirmed by shoulder arthroscopy and 5 years of postoperative follow-up. Shoulder range of motion, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) and Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) scores, rates of return to sport and physical work, acromiohumeral distance, Goutallier grade of all rotator cuff muscles, graft healing and thickness, and postoperative cuff tear arthropathy were investigated.

Results:
Compared with preoperative values, ASES and JOA scores, active elevation, and acromiohumeral distance increased postoperatively at both 1 year (p < 0.001) and 5 years (p < 0.001); the 1-year values increased by 54.0 points for the ASES score, 34.4 points for the JOA score, 53° for active elevation, and 5.7 mm for acromiohumeral distance, and the 5-year values increased by 63.3 points for the ASES score, 39.9 points for the JOA score, 66° for active elevation, and 4.7 mm for acromiohumeral distance. The ASES score was greater at 5 years postoperatively than it was at 1 year postoperatively (mean difference, 9.3 points; p = 0.03). At 5 years postoperatively, 11 of 12 patients returned to physical work, a rate of 92% (95% confidence interval [CI], 73% to 100%), and 8 of 8 patients returned to sports, a rate of 100% (95% CI, 79% to 100%). None of the 27 patients who had graft healing showed progression of cuff tear arthropathy, but all 3 patients with a graft tear (10% [95% CI, 0% to 22%]) had severe cuff tear arthropathy at 5 years postoperatively. In the 27 patients whose grafts remained intact, the graft thicknesses at 3 months, 1 year, and 5 years postoperatively did not differ (p = 0.67).

Conclusions:
In this 5-year follow-up study, healed arthroscopic superior capsule reconstruction restored shoulder function and resulted in high rates of return to recreational sport and work. In patients with postoperative graft failure, severe cuff tear arthropathy was present at 5 years.

Level of Evidence:
Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
Randomized Controlled Trials for Geriatric Hip Fracture Are Rare and Underpowered
Authors: Bernstein Joseph , Weintraub Sara , Morris Tyler , Ahn Jaimo 
Published: September 2019

Background:
Geriatric hip fracture is a common condition, and there are many open questions regarding patient management. Among the various types of medical evidence, the prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) is considered the best. Our primary hypothesis was that small sample size would be seen frequently among RCTs involving geriatric patients with hip fracture. A related hypothesis was that studies from the United States would have particularly large deficits in sample size. Therefore, we asked the following research questions: (1) What is the mean sample size of RCTs involving geriatric patients with hip fracture? (2) How do sample sizes for studies from the U.S. differ from those performed elsewhere?

Methods:
Following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines, a systematic review of hip fracture RCTs was conducted. The Embase and MEDLINE databases were searched. Additional data included the country of origin, the power of the study, and whether sample size calculations were performed. One hundred and forty-seven RCTs were identified.

Results:
The mean sample size of the 147 RCTs was 134.9. The mean sample size for the 7 American trials was 110.3, and the mean sample size for all trials conducted outside of the United States was 136.1. A sample size that was sufficient to ensure 80% power was used in only 31.3% of the RCTs.

Conclusions:
RCTs for hip fracture are small and underpowered. Moreover, <5% of the RCT studies have been conducted in the U.S., and they were smaller than those conducted elsewhere. The shortage of American trials may be a feature of the dispersion of geriatric hip fracture care across many hospitals in the United States. If so, better clinical research might require more centralized care (e.g., in specialized geriatric hip fracture centers) or greater collaboration among the many hospitals that provide care.
Cervical Cord Injury Following Posterior Spinal Fusion in a Patient With Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Authors: Kristobak Anne , Helgeson Melvin D. , Jex Jefferson 
Published: September 2019

Case:
We present an 11-year-old girl with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis who underwent uncomplicated posterior spinal fusion and developed transient upper extremity weakness secondary to a cervical cord injury several hours after the conclusion of the case.

Conclusions:
Perioperative hypotension, positioning, and mild cervical canal stenosis contributed to cervical cord injury following posterior thoracic instrumentation. Optimal perioperative resuscitation and awareness of cervical spine anatomy along with proper positioning may prevent this rare but potentially serious complication.
Scurvy Findings in a Child with Jacobsen Syndrome
Authors: Puddy Alan C. , Hughes Jessica L. , Joffe Avrum L. , Khanna Paritosh C. , Thornburg Courtney D. , Mubarak Scott J. 
Published: September 2019

Case:
We describe the first reported case of scurvy developing secondary to behavioral traits of Jacobsen syndrome. The diagnosis of scurvy was significantly delayed because bleeding symptoms were initially attributed to baseline thrombocytopenia and platelet dysfunction associated with Jacobsen syndrome and patient's medication. Following vitamin C supplementation, signs and symptoms of the patient's disease quickly resolved.

Conclusions:
We aim to reinforce the need to consider nutritional deficiencies in patients with complex medical histories and behavioral issues, especially when presenting with new complaints.
A Locked Sacroiliac Joint Dislocation Requiring Open Reduction
Authors: Yarboro Seth R. , Hadeed Michael M , Vess Eric M. , Weiss David B. 
Published: September 2019

Case:
Vertically unstable pelvic ring injuries are often associated with sacroiliac (SI) joint subluxations or dislocations. The following report describes an irreducible SI joint dislocation where the ilium was locked in a position superior to the sacrum. This injury was refractory to initial closed reduction techniques and ultimately required an open reduction.

Conclusions:
This report demonstrates the limitations of closed manipulation for some vertically unstable pelvic ring injuries. It is critical to have a strong understanding of the anatomy and typical manipulations to succeed in both closed and open SI joint reduction attempts.