bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Predictors of Postoperative Rehabilitation Therapy Following Congenital Heart Surgery
Authors: Ubeda Tikkanen Ana , Nathan Meena , Sleeper Lynn A. , Flavin Marisa , Lewis Ana , Nimec Donna , Mayer John E. , del Nido Pedro 
Published: May 2018

Background
Patients with congenital heart disease are at risk of motor, cognitive, speech, and feeding difficulties after cardiac surgery. Rehabilitation therapy could improve functional outcomes in this population if applied in the acute postcardiac surgical in‐hospital stay. However, information on the types of acute postcardiac surgery therapy needs in children is scarce. Our goal was to describe rehabilitation therapy following congenital heart surgery and pre/intraoperative factors associated with need for therapy.

Methods and Results
This is a retrospective cohort study of patients <18 years undergoing heart surgery at our center from January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2015. Demographic, and pre‐, intra‐, and postoperative clinical and rehabilitation therapy (physical, occupational, speech, feeding therapy, and neurodevelopment intervention) data were collected. Need for rehabilitation therapy in the acute postoperative period, particularly following palliative repair, was the outcome variable in a multivariable logistic regression model to identify independent pre‐ and intraoperative factors associated with therapy. A total of 586 out of 1415 (41%) subjects received rehabilitation therapy postsurgery. Certain subgroups had increased rehabilitation therapy use such as neonates (80%). On multivariable analysis, palliative repair, prematurity, genetic syndrome, presurgical hospital stay of more than 1 day, and prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass time were independently associated with rehabilitation therapy.

Conclusions
Nearly half of patients who underwent post–congenital heart surgery received rehabilitation therapy. Frequency of use and types of therapy vary according to patient characteristics; however, certain pre‐ and intraoperative factors are associated with need for rehabilitation therapy, and may aid decision‐making for appropriate resource allocation.
Correlation between workplace learning and job satisfaction of NHS healthcare professionals
Authors: Iliopoulos Efthymios , Morrissey Natasha , Baryeh Kwaku , Polyzois Ioannis 
Published: May 2018

Introduction:Job satisfaction is directly connected to job performance. This correlation is very important in the health service, where employee performance is linked to patient care. It has been reported in other organisations that workplace learning enhances job satisfaction. The aim of this study is to investigate if such a correlation exists within the health service.Methods:Job satisfaction and workplace learning questionnaires were distributed to healthcare employees at aN NHS hospital. The participants were directly involved in patient care. The professionals who participated in the study were doctors, nurses, paramedics, physiotherapists and radiographers.Results:In total, 102 questionnaires were collected. There was a direct significant correlation between job satisfaction and workplace learning (Pearson's correlation=0.38). Compared to doctors, nurses felt that workplace training was better (P=0.001). Moreover, total job experience and the time spent in the Trust had a mild negative correlation with job satisfaction. Frequent departmental teaching also had a significant positive impact on employee job satisfaction (P=0.05).Conclusion:Workplace learning is directly linked to employee job satisfaction in the NHS, and frequently scheduled departmental teaching enhances staff satisfaction.
A literature review of Breathworks and mindfulness intervention
Authors: Mehan Suraj , Morris Julia 
Published: May 2018

Objective:To review and discuss the literature concerning mindfulness interventions and the Breathworks Mindfulness for Health Programme.Methods:Electronic databases used consisted of MEDLINE, PubMed, PsychINFO and Google Scholar. Search terms used consisted of ‘Breathworks Mindfulness’, ‘Mindfulness for Health’ and ‘Mindfulness for Pain’. Breathworks endorsed literature was also considered.Results:Studies found varied in mindfulness interventions used from Breathworks, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. While other studies focused on specific mindfulness techniques such as the body scan and breathing anchor. Designs varied from pre to post intervention comparisons, randomised control trials, thematic grounded theory and systematic and meta-analytic reviews. Studies predominately focused on populations with long-term conditions and chronic pain. Overall, findings indicated Breathworks and other variations of mindfulness interventions to be beneficial towards health, well-being and pain management. However, true reflection of efficacy is confounded by methodological issues presented in the research.Conclusion:There is clear potential benefit for mindfulness helping those with long-term conditions and chronic pain.
PDGF-AB rich-trombocyte lysate supplementation from breast cancer patients increased the proliferation of breast cancer stem cells
Authors: Kartolo Wiwi A. , Pawitan Jeanne A. , Harahap Alida R. , Wanandi Septelia I. 
Published: May 2018

Background: Thrombocytosis in breast cancer (BC) patient was thought to play a role in the invasiveness of breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs). Modification of tumor microenvironment was proposed to increase the efficacy of anticancer therapy. This study was aimed to analyze the effect of platelet lysate (PL) as well as its PDGF-AB content as a tumor microenvironment on (CD24-/CD44+) BCSC proliferation.Methods: This was an experimental study that treated culture of BCSCs with PL from breast cancer (BC) patients or healthy donors. Venous blood from all subjects were subjected to prior hematology test and then processed to obtain platelet rich plasma (PRP). Platelet counts in PRP were determined. PRP was processed to obtain PL. PDGF-AB contents in PL were measured. PL at concentrations of 0.01% (v/v) was supplemented into DMEM-F12 medium and used for culturing BCSCs (CD24-/CD44+ cells). After 48 hours, total cell count, population doubling time (PDT), and cell viability were calculated and their correlation with platelet count and PDGF-AB levels were analyzed.Results: BC patients (n=5) had higher platelet counts and PDGF-AB levels in PL compared to healthy donors (n=15), (p=0.02). PL from BC patients could stimulate the proliferation of BCSCs higher than healthy donors (p<0.001) and showed lower PDT value (p=0.001). Cell proliferation and PDT showed strong correlation with PDGF-AB level. This observation suggests that PDGF-AB has a role on BCSCs proliferation. PL showed no effect on BCSCs viability.Conclusion: Breast cancer patient platelet lysate stimulated BCSC proliferation.
Antiviral effect of <em>Archidendron pauciflorum</em> leaves extract to hepatitis C virus: An <em>in vitro</em> study in JFH-1 strain
Authors: Hartati Sri , Aoki Chie , Hanafi Muhammad , Angelina Marissa , Soedarmono Pratiwi , Hotta Hak 
Published: May 2018

Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of chronic liver diseases. Drug resistance to the regimen is also increasing. Hence, there is a need for new anti-HCV agents that are less toxic and more efficacious. The aim of this study is to evaluate the possibility of A. pauciflorum extracts can be a antiviral drug.Methods: Huh-7it cells were infected with the HCV genotype 2a strain JFH-I in the presence of methanol extracts of Archidenron pauciflorum. The methanol extract further partition used n-hexane, ethyl acetate, n-butanol, and water showed in which butanol extracts exerted the strongest IC50 (6.3 g/ml). Further, the butanol fraction was fractionated and yielded into 13 fractions.Results: The methanol extract of the leaves of A. pauciflorum exhibited concentration dependent inhibition against the JFH1 strain of HCV genotype 2a with an IC50 is 72.5 μg/ml. The butanol fraction exhibited the highest anti-HCV activity with an IC50 is 6.3 μg/ml. The butanol fraction was fractionated which yielded 13 fractions. Fractions 5 and 13 exhibited high anti-HCV activities with IC50 is 5.0 μg/ml and 8.5 μg/ml and a time-of-addition study demonstrated that fraction 5 inhibited viral infection at the post-entry step, whereas fraction 13 primarily inhibited the viral entry step.Conclusion: The extract A. pauciflorum can be used as a herbal-based antiviral drug.
Cardiac catheterization and percutaneus catheter in grown-up congenital heart diseases: single center experience at developing country
Authors: Dewi Luh G.A.P. , Yantie Ni P.V.K. , Gunawijaya Eka 
Published: May 2018

Background: Grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH) patients are unique and challenges especially at developing country. The numbers of diagnostic as well as interventional cardiac catheterization procedures in GUCH patients are growing. The aim of this study was to report the outcome of cardiac catheterization including intervention procedure in GUCH.Methods: The descriptive study was conducted at Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. All patients (age of more than 12 years) who underwent cardiac catheterization from 2011 until 2017 were included in this study. Patients, characteristic, types of catheter procedures, immediate complications, and outcomes were documented.Results: A total 54 subjects were included with median age of 23 years and 70% were female. The first symptom that brought patients to hospital is dyspnea 46% and palpitation 32%. Five subjects underwent a diagnostic catheter procedure and 49 (91%) diagnostic and catheter based interventions. Transcatheter interventions procedures included atrial septal defect (ASD) (success rate of 20 per 21), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) (success rate of 16 per16), ventricular septal defect (VSD) (success rate of 9 per 9), pulmonal stenosis (PS) (success rate of 1 per 2), and aortic stenosis (AS) (success rate of 1 per 1). The complications encountered were transient dysrhythmias in 15 subjects, device embolization in 4 subjects, massive bleeding in 1 subject, and overall mortality in 2 subjects.Conclusion: The number of the catheterization interventions in GUCH was 91% and ASD device closure was the most common procedure. Transcatheter intervention has a high procedural success rates (96%) and low procedural-related complications.
Emergent affect in Final Fantasy VII and Japanese role-playing games
Authors: van Ommen Mattias 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
In this study, I consider the ways in which Final Fantasy VII, a game with a history of over two decades, has been nostalgically and affectively remembered by a generation of global fans. By focusing on audience reception and employing qualitative methods, I show how players of video games can establish affective connections with game worlds and characters. This affective linkage between player and artefact is the result of emergent processes, which are accentuated by the emergent structures that make up video games themselves. The study also considers the affective association with Japan as site of national-cultural production of these games and the genre of Japanese role-playing games, in the context of an increasingly globally interconnected video game industry.
The dialectic of the avatar: Developing in-world identities in Second Life
Authors: Kuznetcova Irina , Teeple Jamie , Glassman Michael 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
This article explores identity development and understanding of avatars as an important educational goal in the avatar-based multi-user virtual environment platform of Second Life (SL). There are in general two ways to understand identity development in virtual worlds. The first way is to examine the role that these platforms play in the search for identity. The second way is to see avatar development as a micro-version of the identity task outlined by Erik Erikson. This article, which also looks to explore how avatar identity development might foster what the Brazilian educator refers to as conscientization, the ability to recognize the ways that society predetermines perceptions of self and others, focuses on the latter. We suggest that these micro-identity tasks involve a place–space dialectic in which users’ experiences in their place-based emotional/identity development initially serve as context for avatar development. There is then an ensuing dialectic in which the space-based avatar helps these users gain further understanding of their place-based lives as they continue to create their in-world avatar identities. We include interviews and blog posts of four undergraduate students who participated in a course that integrated SL as a primary learning tool into a general education course. The students discuss the development of their avatars, which coincided with a unit on identity development. Each of these students brought their place-based experiences into their avatar development in different ways, which in turn affected their place-based understandings. The article argues that place-based experience serves as an important social/cultural indicator for conscientization as part of the ongoing learning process.
Listening in the aether: Rehearing and imagining the world virtually
Authors: Johnson Phylis 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
This discussion examines the use of sound in the massive multiplayer online social platform Second Life (2003–18), by drawing upon ideas and works of traditional and new media ‘sound’ scholars and practitioners. In particular, this study draws from the theoretical works of prominent sound scholar R. Murray Schafer, and new media theorists Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Janine Marchessault, Lev Manovich and Edward Castonova. This study explores listening within simulated environments through a case study of sound teaching and research in what was constructed as a sound laboratory, which is situated on a simulated estate created in Second Life. Participation during the course work evoked students’ memories of childhood events and other prior experiences. The study is focused on the first phases of the project conducted during 2013 and 2014. What began as a lesson in sound literacy called forth questions about how sound contributes to understanding reality, especially when acoustic space is located within virtual reality. The sound laboratory is still operational in Second Life.
The impossible relationship: Deconstructing the private space in Gone Home
Authors: Snyder Shane 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
Based in the 1990s, the video game Gone Home has the player take control of Katie Greenbriar, a woman who arrived at the United States to her family’s abandoned mansion from a year of travel abroad. Pinned to the front door, a note written by Katie’s teenage sister, Sam Greenbriar, urges Katie not to search the mansion for evidence of the family’s whereabouts because Sam has run away to live a life with her girlfriend, Lonnie, after her father, Terrence Greenbriar, surveilled them and forced them to conceal themselves in the mansion’s secret rooms. Deploying a queer theoretical approach informed by the work of queer game theorists and cultural studies scholars, this article analyses the queer narrative and content of Gone Home’s lesbian relationship in order to illustrate how the home the player interacts with is a site through which to deconstruct the public/private dyad. It is also a space where lesbian identities are constantly surveilled and forced into hiding. The article concludes that Gone Home rethinks the home as a series of figurative closets within which gay and lesbian identities can only temporarily escape the trauma of the public gaze.
Traditional methods for the protection of mother and baby during birth and after birth<p>Doğum ve doğum sonrasında anne ve bebeğin korunmasına ilişkin geleneksel uygulamalar
Authors: Vargün Berivan 
Published: May 2018

Birth, a rite of passage, is a cultural condition as well as a biological phenomenon. Changes in humans’ social status are expressed in ritual ways at birth- which causes cultural changes and transformations, and several practices of avoidance, refrainment and protection are observed. This study investigates the beliefs, rituals and practices in relation to protecting the mother and the baby at birth and after birth in Harran, Bozova and Eyyubiye districts of Şanlıurfa. Several beliefs and practices were developed in the region to protect and heal the mother and the baby at birth and in the period following birth. It was found that practices in relation to protection, avoidance, refrainment and healing at birth and after birth were still continuing in Harran, Bozova and Eyyubiye districts as in the past. The study, based on field study, was conducted with 68 women in the first week of July 2016. This paper presents findings about beliefs, ritual and practices in relation to protecting the mother and the baby at birth and after birth. Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetGeçiş ritüellerinden biri olan doğum, biyolojik bir olgu olmasının yanı sıra kültürelde bir durumdur. Kültürel değişim ve dönüşümlere sebep olan doğum evresinde, insanların toplumsal statülerindeki değişim, törensel yollarla ifade edilir ve bu durum karşısında pek çok sakınma kaçınma ve korunma pratikleri gerçekleştirilir. Çalışmamızda Şanlıurfa’nın Harran, Bozova ve Eyyübiye ilçelerinde doğum ve doğum sonrasında anne ve bebeğin korunmasına ilişkin inanç, ritüel ve uygulamaların neler olduğu araştırılmıştır. Harran, Bozova ve Eyyübiye ilçelerinde doğum ve doğum sonrasına yönelik korunma, kaçınma, sakınma ve sağaltıma ilişkin pratiklerin geçmişte olduğu gibi halen devam ettiği saptanmıştır. Alan araştırmamıza dayalı çalışmamız 2016 yılında Temmuz ayının ilk haftalarında Şanlıurfa iline bağlı Bozova, Eyyübiye ve Harran ilçelerinde yaşayan 68 kadınla kendi evlerinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Makalede doğum ve doğum sonrasında anne ve bebeğin korunmasına ilişkin inanç, ritüel ve uygulamaların neler olduğuna ilişkin bulgular yer almaktadır.
An unusual circulating steroid profile in a virilized postmenopausal woman
Authors: Benavent Correro Patricia , Sáenz Valls Marta , García Cano Ana , Jiménez Mendiguchia Lucía , Moreno Moreno Esther , Luque-Ramírez Manuel 
Published: May 2018

Abstract

Background:
Virilism is a female disorder in which secondary male sexual characteristics develop, caused by an excessive adrenal or ovarian androgen secretion.

Case presentation:
Here, we report an unusual case of an ovarian steroid cell tumor, not otherwise specified (NOS), in a 68-year-old female who presented with androgenic alopecia, clitoromegaly and an increased muscle mass. Laboratory investigations revealed both ovarian and adrenal hyperandrogenism with an elevation of androgen precursors mimicking congenital adrenal hyperplasia. A left adnexal mass was confirmed by imaging techniques. A laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy was performed and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of an ovarian steroid cell tumor NOS. After surgical intervention, circulating androgen levels and their precursors returned to normal values in the postmenopausal woman.

Conclusions:
A detailed anamnesis and physical examination are key to the correct diagnosis in a woman with hyperandrogenism independent of her circulating androgen profile.
Critical success factors for build–operate–transfer (BOT) projects in China
Authors: Yang Jiaju , Nisar Tahir M , Prabhakar Guru Prakash 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
This study aims to create a list of CSFs for China’s BOT projects to help organizations achieve project success. We first describe the role of CSFs in terms of three broad categories of whether BOT projects adopt strategies for risk transfer, the degree to which BOT projects foster the ‘whole- life approach’ to project design and management and extent to which BOT projects ensure timely delivery and supplies good-quality products and services. Based on an initial CSF list, a questionnaire survey was conducted to identify the relatively important CSFs for BOT projects in China. Our initial assessment shows that the key CSFs corresponded to our defined categories of BOT projects’ success factors. We then provide an updated list of CSFs with the top ten factors in ranking analysis. This list of CSFs could play a useful role in the phases of preparing, bidding, constructing, operating and transferring of BOT projects.
Changing role of women in the Irish society: an overview of the female consumer
Authors: Sheehan Ashling , Berkery Elaine , Lichrou Maria 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
The changing role of women in the Irish society has attracted significant attention within the sociology literature; however, there has been little discussion within the field of marketing. This paper aimed to synthesise existing research and literature in the area to outline the key changes in the role of women in the Irish society since the 1920s, highlighting the impact of such changes on consumer behaviour patterns in Ireland. It specifically focused on key landmarks in the transformation of women in the Irish society, including the participation of women in the labour force, Ireland's economic growth since the mid-1990s and the current economic recession. These changes provide the backdrop for the emergence of female consumer patterns in Ireland, which were then discussed under the following themes: changing attitudes towards family life, representations of women in the media and the recession.
Pension provision by small employers in Ireland: an analysis of Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA) using bounded rationality theory
Authors: Maloney Maureen , McCarthy Alma 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
This paper applies a model of bounded rationality to study small employers’ decision-making on pension provision in Ireland. Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA) pension products were intended to provide inexpensive, flexible pension options, particularly targeted towards small enterprises. After 10 years of their introduction, evidence suggests that the PRSA pension product has little impact on pension coverage in Ireland and the employees of small organisations are least likely to be the members of pension schemes. Drawing on the theory of bounded rationality and a review of the legislative and institutional context within which small employers in Ireland make decisions on pension provision, this paper presents a pension decision-making model of small employers based on the work of Simon (1983). A range of propositions are set out for empirical research to examine pension provision practices of small employers relating to whether they have a tendency to organise rather than sponsor PRSAs for their employees. The implications for theory, research and policy are explained.
What’s love got to do with it? Employee engagement amongst higher education workers
Authors: Byrne Orla , MacDonagh Joe 
Published: May 2018

AbstractEmployee engagement is an important construct in management research as engaged employees not only perform better in their jobs but also feel happier and more fulfilled in the workplace. Employee engagement is a function of the job resources employees have in coping with their job demands. This paper makes a threefold contribution to the existing engagement literature by: (1) exploring this construct with a sample of third-level academics in the Irish public sector – a relatively unmapped sample in engagement research, (2) identifying organisational support as a key job resource that enables academics to cope with their job demands and (3) proposing that employee engagement reflects how strongly an employee puts his or her heart into work – suggesting a reconceptualization of engagement as love. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.