bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Concerns about falling in people with Mild Cognitive Impairment and dementia: a scoping review of exercise interventions
Authors: Dove Erica , Hewston Patricia , Wang Rosalie H. , Patterson Kara K. , Astell Arlene J. 
Published: November 2024

BackgroundConcerns about falling (e.g., low balance confidence) increase fall risk in older populations with balance impairments. Exercise can improve physical limitations associated with falls (e.g., poor balance), which are more prevalent in people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and dementia. This scoping review aimed to understand exercise interventions targeting concerns about falling in people with MCI and dementia.MethodsUsing Arksey and O'Malley's five-stage scoping review framework, 968 search combinations were run across six electronic databases from inception to September 15, 2023. Articles were available in English full text, featured original peer-reviewed research with an intervention study design, targeted people with MCI or dementia with the exercise intervention, and included concerns about falling as an outcome measure.ResultsOf the 2,111 articles screened, 27 met the inclusion criteria. Only one article looked at concerns about falling as a primary outcome; in the remaining studies, concerns about falling were a secondary outcome. Multi-modal interventions (i.e., containing more than one type of exercise) were most common, with balance and strength as the most frequently employed exercise types. Secondary results are presented on (i) intervention details, (ii) outcomes and measures for concerns about falling, (iii) participant accommodations, and (iv) components of effective interventions for concerns about falling.ConclusionsThere is a lack of focus on concerns about falling experienced by people with MCI and dementia. Although concerns about falling were not the primary outcome of most papers, the results highlight the potential of exercise interventions to help address concerns about falling and other fall risk factors (e.g., balance, cognition) in people with MCI and dementia.
The coping strategies employed by individuals with chronic low back pain: secondary qualitative analysis of data from diverse adult populations in two sub-Saharan African countries
Authors: Igwesi-Chidobe Chinonso Nwamaka , Nkhata Loveness A. , Ozumba Benjamin 
Published: November 2024

IntroductionThe use and influence of coping mechanisms vary across cultures and evaluation methods. Limited research exists on coping mechanisms for non-specific chronic low back pain (CLBP) in African societies. This secondary qualitative study explored adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies used by adults with CLBP in Nigerian and Zambian communities.MethodsPrimary qualitative data from studies in rural Nigeria and peri-urban Zambia were used. Primary data were collected through in-depth face-to-face interviews with adults living with back pain to explore their experiences and coping strategies. Thematic analyses of interview transcripts from both studies were conducted using the framework approach, combining inductive and deductive analysis techniques.FindingsParticipants used a mix of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies for CLBP. Some strategies had both positive and negative aspects, with varying effects on individuals. A few participants focused on adaptive coping, staying positive, and actively managing their pain through stretching, exercise, pacing activities, spirituality, and belief in their strategies. They avoided seeking treatment for their back pain.DiscussionThe nuances in coping with CLBP should be taken into consideration when developing coping assessment strategies and rehabilitation interventions for individuals with CLBP.
Unroofing and curettage for recurrent sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease
Authors: Koc Mehmet Ali , Celasin Haydar , Sunter Kaan , Akyol Cihangir , Gecim Ibrahim Ethem 
Published: November 2024

PurposeSacrococcygeal pilonidal disease (SPD) is a global concern, notably in Southeast Europe and the Middle East. Unroofing curettage (UC), which provides faster recovery, better cosmetic appearance, and lower recurrence rates in the primary cases, was evaluated with the results of recurrent disease.MethodsThis retrospective study included 74 patients with recurrent disease who were over 16 years of age, experienced recurrence after at least one surgical attempt, and underwent unroofing curettage between 2007 and 2019. Operation time, return to work duration, and recurrence rates were assessed.ResultsMean age of patients was 29.8 ± 10.6 years, and 61 (82.4%) were male. Previous procedures included excision + flap reconstruction, excision + primary closure, and local excision + lay open. Mean operation time for unroofing curettage was 22 ± 5.3 min. Mean durations for return to work and recovery were 5.9 ± 3 days, and 6.5 ± 2.6 weeks, respectively. Mean follow-up duration was 81.6 ± 49 months. Recurrence was only observed in 1 (1.3%) patient. Unroofing curettage showed a mean recurrence-free period of 156.9 months (95% CI [, 152.9–160.9 months).ConclusionUnroofing curettage stands out as a low-recurrence approach, likely to persist as a treatment method, especially for a selected group with recurrence.
Mitigating the Perils of Suicide Associated with Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Chughtai Naeem Aslam , Ahmed Ammar 
Published: November 2024

Background: The mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic might be devastating. It has been expected that suicide-related deaths would rise over time, therefore urgent consideration is needed. In this article, we are identifying the individuals who are at heightened risks of suicide or are actively suicidal. Early identification of both external factors (bereavement, job loss, trauma, displacement, stigma, discrimination, victimization) and internal factors (hopelessness, despair, suicidal impulses, psychotic and manic episode, posttraumatic stress, and substance use) of suicide would be helpful to mitigate the risk of suicide.
Methods: Review of recently published articles that discuss the probability of suicide due to COVID-19 and that was available at PubMed, PsycINFO, and LISTA.
Results: Individuals with a prior history of suicide, having serious emotional and/or medical complications, individuals with substance use disorders and facing serious withdrawal symptoms, isolated and bereaved individuals, people having serious financial complications, unemployment or job loss, and those who are combating COVID 19 as a front line worker are highly vulnerable for self-harm.
Conclusions: Careful regular monitoring, screening, and detailed assessment of suicidal thoughts in high-risk populations would be helpful in harm reduction. Evidence-based online interventions and careful face to face interactive services are helpful. Specialized training for the workforce on crisis management would have additional benefits. The government should provide adequate resources to manage the COVID-19 crisis.
Emotional Intelligence, Eudaimonic and Hedonic Well-Being among Students
Authors: Rafique Erum 
Published: November 2024

Background: The relationship between emotional intelligence and wellbeing has been an emerging area of research for the last few decades. The study was planned to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence, eudaimonic, and hedonic well-being among university students. .
Methods: The sample consists of 300 college and university students with the participation of both the gender were selected from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Data collection was completed with self-report measures.
Results: For hypotheses testing Correlation, t-test, and ANOVA were computed. Results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence, eudaimonic well-being, positive affect, and life satisfaction. Emotional intelligence and eudaimonic well-beingwere negatively associated with negative affect. In addition, age was significantly positively related to emotional intelligence and Eudaimonic well-being. Post hoc analysis revealed that high levels of emotional intelligence, eudaimonic well-being, positive affect, and life satisfaction were higher in the highly educated group as compared to the middle and low education groups.
Implications: To enhance student’s educational competencies, social relationship, improvement in mental well-being and their emotional difficulties the findings provides insight for health practitioners, and teachers. This study provides grounds for other researches on cognitive and affective components. .
Conclusions: Appropriate interventions and training are needed to enhance the wellbeing and emotional intelligence of the students’. Psychological wellbeing and high adaptive skills are helpful in boosting and accelerating their academic performance.
Role of Guilt in Relationship of Negative Emotions and Attitude towards Society among University Students
Authors: Umer Samreen , Atta Mohsin , Malik Najma Iqbal 
Published: November 2024

Background:
The individual's behaviors and attitudes are the outcome of one’s feelings and emotions related to life. This study was aimed to understand the role of guilt in the relationship of negative emotions with aggression, bullying, and shyness among university students (N = 270) through cross sectional research design.
Methods: The current study was comprised of two phases: in phase I. Guilt and shame proneness scale (Cohen, Wolf, Panter, & Insko, 2011), Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (Gross & John, 1997), Aggression Scale (Orpinas & Frankowski, 2001), and Shyness Scale (Cheek & Melichor, 1985) were translated in Urdu for present study through the back-translation method. An Urdu translated version of the Illinois Bullying Scale (Espelage & Holt, 2001) translated by Shujja and Atta (2013) was also used to measure the pertinent construct.
Results: Phase-II was carried out to test study hypotheses through correlation coefficient and Hierarchical regression to study the moderating effect of guilt. Findings revealed that there is a positive relationship between aggression and bullying. A high level of guilt significantly moderated the relationship between negative emotions and aggression.
Conclusions: The current study focused on the role of guilt in the relationship of negative emotions with aggression, bullying, and shyness. The present study indicated that guilt has a negative relation with negative emotions, aggression, bullying and shyness. Aggression was found positively correlated with bullying and shyness. Limitations, suggestions, and practical implications were also thoroughly discussed
Age of Information-Aware Networks for Low-Power IoT Sensor Applications
Authors: Chache Frederick M. , Maxon Sean , Narayanan Ram M. , Bharadwaj Ramesh 
Published: November 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a fast-growing field that has found a variety of applications, such as smart agriculture and industrial processing. In these applications, it is important for nodes to maximize the amount of useful information transmitted over a limited channel. This work seeks to improve the performance of low-powered sensor networks by developing an architecture that leverages existing techniques such as lossy compression and different queuing strategies in order to minimize their drawbacks and meet the performance needs of backend applications. The Age of Information (AoI) provides a useful metric for quantifying Quality of Service (QoS) in low-powered sensor networks and provides a method for measuring the freshness of data in the network. In this paper, we investigate QoS requirements and the effects of lossy compression and queue strategies on AoI. Furthermore, two important use cases for low-powered IoT sensor networks are studied, namely, real-time feedback control and image classification. The results highlight the relative importance of QoS metrics for applications with different needs. To this end, we introduce a QoS-aware architecture to optimize network performance for the QoS requirements of the studied applications. The proposed network architecture was tested with a mixture of application traffic settings and was shown to greatly improve network QoS compared to commonly used transmission architectures such as Slotted ALOHA.
Fatigue behavior of damaged concrete beams repaired with composite material
Authors: Hadjazi Khamis , Hamiani A. , Zouaoui Sereir , Sofiane Amziane 
Published: November 2024

By the present paper, an analytical model was developed to study the cracked FRP-strengthened reinforced concrete beams subjected to fatigue loading. In order to follow the distribution of interfacial shear stresses causing the debonding phenomenon, a new analytical model based on the cohesive zone (CZ) approach was developed. The present model has the possibility to describe the evolution of the shear stress in the three zones (elastic, microcrack and debonding) and the bearing capacity of the repaired structure. Interface damage scenarios were evaluated for a fatigue load estimated to 90% of the elastic load and another at 60% of the ultimate load Pu. Results obtained are in good agreement with those given by the literature. The results showed that the shear strength developed by the repaired beam is sensitive to the variation of the mechanical properties (Concrete, FRP and Adhesive layer), the fatigue load ratio and the number of cycles. These parameters can be considered as indicators of damage affecting the health status of the structure repaired during fatigue. The debonding at the FRP-concrete interface noticeably reduced the strength and lifespan of the repaired structure.
ANALISIS MINERAL MAGNETIK GUANO GUA KAWASAN KARST MAROS TAMAN NASIONAL BANTIMURUNG BULUSARAUNG
Authors: Sandi Imam Ashari , Arsyad Muhammad , Tiwow Vistarani Arini 
Published: November 2024

Telah dilakukan penelitian dengan tujuan untuk menganalisis nilai suseptibilitas magnetik dan sifat guano Gua Mimpi Taman Nasional Bantimurung Bulusaraung. Sampel diperoleh di Gua Mimpi pada koordinat 05°01'10,6" S 119°41'11,3" E dengan mengambil sampel pada 30 titik yang berbeda. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode suseptibilitas magnetik dan XRD. Nilai suseptibilitas magnetik guano di Gua Mimpi bervariasi dengan rentang 2,867×10-6m3/kg hingga 85,507×10-6m3/kg. Hal ini mengindikasikan bahwa sampel mengandung mineral magnetik yang bersifat paramagnetik. Hasil analisis jenis mineral magnetik berdasarkan pola difraksi menunjukkan mineral yang dominan adalah Al(OH)3Aluminium (III) Hydroxide, Na2Al2Si3O102H2O Natrium Aluminosilikate, AlO(OH) Aluminium Oxide Hydroxide, Al2032Si4.2H2O Aluminium Silikate Hydrat, AlKO8Si3 Kalium Feldspar sementara mineral dalam jumlah minor terkandung pada sampel guano Fe3O4 Iron (II,III) Oxyde dan Si3O2 Quarzt.
ANALISIS MISKONSEPSI FISIKA MATERI USAHA DAN ENERGI DI SMA HASANUDDIN GOWA
Authors: Ustari Anggi Ayu , Palloan Pariabti , Dahlan Ahmad 
Published: November 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui miskonsepsi dan penyebab miskonsepsi peserta didik SMA pada konsep usaha dan energi. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada bulan Agustus tahun ajaran 2023/2024 di SMA Hasanuddin Gowa. Sampel dipilih menggunakan simple random sampling, yaitu teknik pengambilan sampel secara acak tanpa memperhatikan strata dalam populasi, sehingga diperoleh jumlah sampel sebanyak 61 orang. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian deskriptif, yaitu penelitian yang dimaksudkan untuk menyelidiki keadaan atau kondisi, yang hasilnya dilaporkan dalam bentuk laporan hasil penelitian. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini, yaitu instrumen two tier test berupa soal pilihan ganda dua tingkat dengan membagi pemahaman konsep peserta didik dalam kategori memahami, miskonsepsi dan paham konsep yang terdiri dari 12 butir soal dan juga dilakukan wawancara peserta didik. Berdasarkan hasil analisis instrumen two tier test, diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa terdeteksi miskonsepsi pada semua sub konsep usaha dan energi, yaitu usaha, teorema usaha energi kinetik, energi potensial, dan hukum kekekalan energi mekanik. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa persentase miskonsepsi sebanyak 45% peserta didik.
Uma demonstração da irracionalidade do número de Euler
Authors: Santos Felipe Fonseca dos , Santos Devison Rocha 
Published: November 2024

Euler's number, denoted by e, stands as one of the most emblematic constants in mathematics. It is an irrational number that serves as the base of natural logarithms, boasting significant historical and theoretical aspects. The present work aims to demonstrate the irrationality of any non-zero rational power of the Euler number. To construct this demonstration, a sequence of real numbers, derived from a definite integral, is used and through the technique of integration by parts and by the use of the second principle of induction, a special characterization is presented allowing to deduce the main result. As an immediate consequence, we obtain the irrationality of Euler's number and also that the natural logarithm of every positive rational number other than one is irrational.
Centella asiatica extract cream inhibited microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) expression and prevented melanin amount increase in Guinea pig skin exposed to ultraviolet-B
Authors: Idana Fatri , Anak Agung Gde Putra Wiraguna , Winarti Ni Wayan 
Published: November 2024

Background:

Centella asiatica has been popularly used in cosmetic products, especially due to its antioxidant benefits in soothing and healing wounds. However, the inhibition of melanogenesis in the content of Centella asiatica has not been widely studied. This study aimed to prove the effectiveness of 10% Centella asiatica cream on male Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) skin exposed to UVB.

Methods:
The randomized posttest-only control group study was conducted on 36 Guinea pigs aged 3-months, body weight 300-350 grams with a healthy skin condition. They were randomly divided into two groups; each consists of 18 Guinea pigs. The first group was a control group given base cream 20-minutes before and 4-hours after UVB exposure, 3-times-a-week for two weeks. The second group was the treatment group given 10% Centella asiatica cream and expose to UVB with the same procedure. The histopathological preparations were made using a punch biopsy after intervention was completed. Immunohistochemical staining was performed to measure the expression of microphthalmia-associated-transcription-factor (MITF) and Masson-Fontana to measure the amount of melanin. Data analysis was conducted to compare the results in both groups.

Results:
The treatment group had a significantly lower mean MITF expression (13.61 ± 5.36 vs. 27.24 ± 6.50%) and melanin amount (5.95 ± 3.81 vs. 16.59 ± 5.77%) (p < 0.001) compared to the control group.

Conclusion:
The administration of cream consists of Centella asiatica extract 10% effectively inhibits the expression of MITF and prevented the increase of melanin amount in male guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) exposed to UVB.
Correlation between knowledge, attitude, practice toward anxiety, and perception of the need for mental health services in Bali communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Upadhana Putu Satyakumara , Sastrawan I Gede Gita , Cahyarini I Gusti Agung Ayu Chintya , Sanjiwani Ni Putu Gita Raditya , Puspita Ida Ayu Kanaka , Putri Wayan Citra Wulan Sucipta , Wardani Ida Aju Kusuma 
Published: November 2024

Background:
The level of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of a person in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic can be a factor that influences the emergence of anxiety disorders. The study aims to determine the correlation between knowledge, attitude, practice toward anxiety, and perception of the need for mental health services in Bali communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods:
This study was a cross-sectional observational analytical study with a consecutive sampling method. An online questionnaire was distributed in all provinces by the enumerator from 1 November to 30 November 2020. The inclusion criteria are respondents that lived in Bali and were aged between 18 to 65 years old.

Results:
There were 356 respondents included in this study. Most of them were female (n = 227, 63.8%), and not married (n = 251, 70.5%), with a median age of 25 years old (18-64 years old). There was a significant correlation between attitude and perception of the need for mental health service (p = 0.028, R = 0.177) and anxiety of the respondent (p = 0.004, R = 0.151). Also, the correlation between practice and perception of the need for mental health (p = 0.039, R = 0.109) and anxiety with the perception of the need for mental health (p = 0.039, R = 0.109) were found to be statistically significant.

Conclusion:
There is a correlation between knowledge, attitude, practice toward anxiety, and perception of the need for mental health services in Bali communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Optimizing microsurgery training for plastic surgery resident: A systematic review
Authors: Samsarga Gede Wara , Hariantana Hamid Agus Roy Rusly , Hendra Sanjaya I Gusti Putu , Putri Purwanthi I Gusti Ayu , Purnama Dewi Ni Made Ratih 
Published: November 2024

Background:
Microsurgery for plastic surgery residents is complex and requires a long learning curve, psychomotor capabilities, and repeated practices. Microsurgery training for plastic surgical residents must be optimized due to the heavy workload during residency and the limited time available to master microsurgery skills.

Methods:
Electronic literature searching of the MEDLINE (PubMed), Cochrane, and Google Scholar databases was conducted. Studies that were eligible and published between January 2015 and September 2019 were chosen.

Results:
Surgical simulation platforms have been implemented as a result of new training methods to learn microsurgery. Plastic surgery residents can practice microsurgery in virtual, animal models, non-living models, and indirect patient practice. Resident's competency scores and surgical performance improve as a result of simulation-based training. The demand for simulation-based training in plastic surgery residency programs is expected to rise as a result of its usefulness. A microsurgical skill evaluation is also a mandatory aspect of enhancing microsurgical skills for plastic surgery residents.

Conclusion:
Because there is limited time for formal microsurgery training in the operating room, plastic surgery residents must optimize their microsurgery skills outside of the operating room. Implementation of living and non-living models for microsurgery training and standardized objective assessment tools will further advance microsurgical skills in plastic surgery resident.