bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus at a University Hospital in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Abualhamael Shahad , Mosli Hala , Baig Mukhtiar , Noor Abdulelah M. , Alshehri Fahd M. 
Published: February 2019

Objectives: We aimed to find out the prevalence and associated risk factors of GDM among females who attended antenatal clinic at King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (SA).
Methods: This retrospective study was carried out from 25th September 2016 till 20th December 2016, at the Endocrine Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, KAUH, Jeddah, SA. A total of 5000 women attended antenatal clinic and 637 women were referred to the endocrine clinic for GDM. The data of only 103 GDM was included in the study because only these patients’ complete data was available. The electronic record of 93 pregnant age and BMI matched females, not having GDM were selected as a control group.
Results: The prevalence of GDM was 12.75% (637/5000). Parity was associated with GDM (X2=16.82, P=.001) and GDM was significantly higher in multigravida while no association of GDM was found with working status, place of living, hypertension, family history of DM and BMI. Logistic regression analysis revealed that grand multigravida female had the lower risk of GDM as compared to multi, primi and nulligravida while age, working status, place of living, hypertension, family history of DM and BMI were not found significant risk factors for GDM. In GDM group, according to nationality, 68(66%) women were Saudi while 35(34%) were expatriates’ (Yemeni 11.2%, Egyptians 3.9%, Indians 3.9%, Pakistanis 2.9%, Sudanese 2.9%, Syrians 2.9% and others).
Conclusions: The prevalence of GDM was 12.75% and it was not associated with working status, place of living, hypertension, family history of diabetes and BMI.
How to cite this:Abualhamael S, Mosli H, Baig M, Noor AM, Alshehri FM. Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus at a University Hospital in Saudi Arabia. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(2):325-329. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.2.498
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Screening for Humoral Immunodeficiency in Patients with Community‐Acquired Pneumonia
Authors: Vadamalai Karthik , Sanchez‐Tejera Denise , Bress Jonathan , Mustafa S Shahzad 
Published: February 2019

BACKGROUNDImmunodeficiency is an underrecognized risk factor for infections, such as community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP).OBJECTIVEWe evaluated patients admitted with CAP for humoral immunodeficiency.DESIGNProspective cohort studySETTINGInpatientsPATIENTS, INTERVENTION, AND MEASUREMENTSWe enrolled 100 consecutive patients admitted with a diagnosis of CAP from February 2017 to April 2017. Serum IgG, IgM, IgA, and IgE levels were obtained within the first 24 hours of admission. CURB‐65 score and length of hospital stay were calculated. The Wilcoxon rank‐sum test, Kruskal‐Wallis test, and simple linear regression analysis were used in data analysis.RESULTSThe prevalence of hypogammaglobinemia in patients with CAP was 38% (95% CI: 28.47% to 48.25%). Twenty‐seven of 100 patients had IgG hypogammaglobinemia (median: 598 mg/dL, IQ range: 459‐654), 23 of 100 had IgM hypogammaglobinemia (median: 38 mg/dL, IQ range: 25‐43), and 6 of 100 had IgA hypogammaglobinemia (median: 36 mg/dL, IQ range: 18‐50). The median hospital length of stay for patients with IgG hypogammaglobinemia was significantly higher when compared to patients with normal IgG levels (five days, IQ range [3‐10] vs three days, IQ range [2‐5], P = .0085). Fourteen patients underwent further immune evaluation, resulting in one diagnosis of multiple myeloma, three patients diagnosed with specific antibody deficiency, and one patient diagnosed with selective IgA deficiency.CONCLUSIONThere is a high prevalence of hypogammaglobinemia in patients hospitalized with CAP, with IgG and IgM being the most commonly affected classes. IgG hypogammaglobinemia was associated with an increased length of hospitalization. Screening immunoglobulin levels in CAP patients may also uncover underlying humoral immunodeficiency or immunoproliferative disorders.
Negative Urinalyses in Febrile Infants Age 7 to 60 Days Treated for Urinary Tract Infection
Authors: Schroeder Alan R , Lucas Brian P , Garber Matthew D , McCulloh Russell J , Joshi‐Patel Ashley A , Biondi Eric A 
Published: February 2019

The role of the urinalysis (UA) in the management of young, febrile infants is controversial. To assess how frequently infants are treated for urinary tract infection (UTI) despite having normal UA values and to compare the characteristics of infants treated for UTI who have positive versus negative UAs, we reviewed 20,570 well‐appearing febrile infants 7‐60 days of age evaluated at 124 hospitals in the United States who were included in a national quality improvement project. Of 19,922 infants without bacteremia and meningitis, 2,407 (12.1%) were treated for UTI, of whom 2,298 (95.5%) had an initial UA performed. UAs were negative in 337/2,298 (14.7%) treated subjects. The proportion of infants treated for UTI with negative UAs ranged from 0%‐35% across hospitals. UA‐negative subjects were more likely to have respiratory symptoms and less likely to have abnormal inflammatory markers than UA+ subjects, indicating that they are mounting less of an inflammatory response to their underlying illness and/or might have contaminated specimens or asymptomatic bacteriuria.
Partial Deregulation and Competition: Effects on Risky Mortgage Origination
Authors: Di Maggio Marco , Kermani Amir , Korgaonkar Sanket 
Published: February 2019

We exploit the preemption of national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex mortgages. Following the preemption ruling, national banks significantly increased their origination of loans with prepayment penalties relative to national banks in states without anti-predatory-lending laws. We highlight a competition channel: in counties where OCC-regulated lenders had larger market shares, non-OCC-regulated lenders responded by increasing their supply of contracts with riskier features, such as deferred amortization, which were not restricted by the state anti-predatory-lending law. Non-OCC lenders were able to lure borrowers into these higher-margin contracts by increasing their appeal with teaser rates. This paper was accepted by Tyler Shumway, finance.
Are mentors failing to fail underperforming student nurses? An integrative literature review
Authors: North Hannah , Kennedy Michelle , Wray Jane 
Published: February 2019

Aim: this review aimed to identify and review primary research to address the question: ‘Is there evidence that mentors are failing to fail underperforming student nurses?’ Design: this was an integrative literature review. Methods: online databases (Medline, Scopus, PsycINFO, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)) were searched using specified inclusion and exclusion criteria to focus the review. Critical appraisal was undertaken and key findings, outcomes and emergent concepts were identified from each study. These were then collated and synthesised into themes. Results: five articles met the criteria and review aim. Three main themes were identified. These were the mentors' relationship with the university, documentation when failing a student, and psychological and emotional impacts. Conclusion: the phenomenon of failing to fail continues to concern the nursing profession but there is limited primary research evidence to inform contemporary discussions in the UK regarding the management of this in practice.
Penerapan Literasi Informasi Berdasarkan Kemampuan Berbahasa Inggris : Studi Kasus Mahasiswa Prodi S1 Ilmu Perpustakaan FIB Undip Angkatan 2013
Authors: Suwanto Sri Ati , Jumino Jumino 
Published: February 2019

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana penerapan literasi informasi berdasarkan kemampuan berbahasa Inggris oleh mahasiswa Prodi S1 Ilmu Perpustakaan Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Diponegoro Semarang angkatan 2013. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif deskriptif dengan jenis studi kasus. Subyek penelitiannya adalah mahasiswa prodi S1 Ilmu Perpustakaan angkatan tahun 2013, dan objeknya kemampuan berbahasa Inggris dan penerapan nya untuk literasi informasi. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara dan studi dokumen. Informan dipilih dengan cara purposive sampling, yaitu mahasiwa prodi Ilmu Perpustakaan angkatan tahun 2013 yang sudah mendapatkan mata kuliah literasi informasi sebanyak 10 orang. Hasil peneltian menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa angkatan 2013 telah menggunakan bahasa Inggris untuk menjadi literat. Mereka memahami kebutuhan mereka, kemudian mencari informasi dari jurnal-jurnal internasional baik melalui internet, maupun dari perpustakaan. Penggunaan informasi mereka sudah jelas yaitu untuk mendukung penulisan skripsi. Mereka dapat mengatasi permasalahan kemampuan bahasa Inggris mereka yang kekurang.
Penerapan Teknologi Produksi dan Perbaikan Kemasan Produk Guna Meningkatkan Nilai Produk Batik Tulis di Kampung Batik Kauman Pekalongan
Authors: Irhandayaningsih Ana 
Published: February 2019

Pengrajin batik di Kampung Batik Kauman menghadapi tantangan dalam hal daya saing produk batik yang dihasilkan. Hal tersebut ditambah dengan penurunan daya bei masyarakat dan adanya kain bermotif batik buatan pabrik dengan harga yang jauh lebih murah. Salah satu alternatif pemecahannya adalah upaya perbaiakan dari sisi intern maupun ekstern. Sisi ekstern yaitu dengan cara peningkatan kualitas sumber daya produksi untuk meningkatkan pengelolaan usaha. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan nilai tambah produk batik dari UKM Batik Mas dan UKM Batik Nulaba dengan menerapkan menerapkan teknologi produksi dan perbaikan kemasan produk batik. Teknologi produksi yang diterapkan adalah kompor listrik untuk pembakaran lilin batik. Dampak yang dihasilkan bagi UKM Batik Mas adalah efisiensi pada proses pembakaran lilin malam, peningkatan kualitas batik yang dihasilkan, serta tidak adanya polusi yang dihasilkan. Dampak yang dihasilkan bagi UKM Batik Nulaba adalah meningkatnya keberagaman kemasan produk batik serta adanya desai kemasan yang menarik perhatian konsumen.
Nasionalisme Buruh Versus Kolonialisme: Suatu Kajian Tentang Gerakan Buruh di Semarang pada Awal Abad XX
Authors: Yuliati Dewi 
Published: February 2019

Negara dan buruh berhubungan erat, karena negara adalah suatu kesatuan politik antara rakyat (termasuk buruh) dan pemerintah sebagai administrator (pengurus) negara. Dalam konteks hubungan industrial, sering terjadi perbedaan kepentingan antara negara dan buruh, dan kondisi ini dapat menimbulkan konflik di antara dua pihak tersebut. Secara umum, buruh sering dianggap sebagai pihak marjinal yang hanya berjuang untuk alasan ekonomi, tanpa mempertimbangkan stabilitas politik. Akan tetapi, penelitian ini menemukan fakta bahwa pandangan tersebut tidak benar sepenuhnya, karena kenyataannya kaum buruh berani menuntut keadilan dan kesejahteraan untuk rakyat bumiputera yang menjadi bagian dari warga negara. Dari penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa factor-faktor yang mendasari gerakan buruh tidak hanya kepentingan ekonomi, tetapi juga suatu semangat nasionalisme antikolonial, yang mencakup keinginan untuk merdeka, memperoleh keadilan, dan menunjukkan harga diiri bangsa.
Tradisi Lokal Penguat Etos Kerja di Daerah Industri Kreatif (Studi Kasus di Mantingan Jepara dan Trusmi Cirebon)
Authors: Indrahti Sri , Maziyah Siti , Alamsyah Alamsyah 
Published: February 2019

Penulisan artikel ini bertujuan untuk menggali faktor apakah yang dapat menumbuhkan etos kerja pada dua daerah penelitian ini, di Desa Mantingan Jepara dan di Desa Trusmi Cirebon, sehingga dua daerah penelitian ini memiliki industri kreatif yang khas dalam waktu yang cukup lama. Desa Mantingan Jepara dikenal dengan industri ukirnya dan Desa Trusmi Cirebon dikenal dengan industri batiknya. Penulisan artikel ini dimulai dengan melakukan pengumpulan data yang meliputi pengumpulan sumber primer dan sekunder seperti kajian pustaka, observasi, partisipatoris, dan dept interview dengan informan dari berbagai elemen. Semua data yang telah dikumpulkan melalui berbagai pendekatan di atas selanjutnya akan diklasifikasikan, dihubung-hubungkan atau diakumulasikan antara data satu dengan yang lainnya, dikaitkan antara sumber primer dengan sumber-sumber pustaka atau sumber sekunder, sebagai suatu bentuk interpretasi dan disintesakan dalam rangka mendapatkan hasil penelitian. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat faktor yang menyebabkan kuatnya etos kerja pada dua daerah penelitian tersebut, yaitu adanya peran tokoh lokal yang dikeramatkan serta menumbuhkan tradisi yang dapat meningkatkan etos kerja sehingga ciri khas industri kreatif desa masih lestari hingga sekarang. Tradisi yang dimaksud adalah ganti luwur makam Ratu Kalinyamat dan Sultan Hadirin, upacara memayu di Trusmi, serta ziarah, tahlilan, dan manaqiban.
A STUDY ON THE ASPECTS OF EUROCENTRISM AND DIFFUSIONISM REPRESENTED IN FOREIGNERS’ TRAVEL RECORDS ON KOREA IN EARLY 1900s
Authors: CHO Kang Sok 
Published: February 2019

This paper deals with three different perspectives appeared in foreign visitors’ records on Korea in 1900s. Jack London was a writer who wrote novels highly critical of American society based on progressivism. However, when his progressive perspective was adopted to report the political situation of Korea in 1904, he revealed a typical perspective of orientalism. He regarded Korea and ways of living in Korea as disgusting and ‘uncivilized.’Compared with Jack London’s perspective, French poet Georges Ducrocq’s book was rather favorable. He visited Korea in 1901 and he showed affectionate attitude toward Korea and its people. However, his travel report, Pauvre et Douce Coree, can be defined as representing aesthetic orientalism. He tried to make all the ‘Korean things’ seem beautiful and nice, but it is true that this kind of view can also conceal something concrete and specific. This perspective at once beautifies Korea and also conceals the reality about Korea.E. Burton Holmes was a traveler and he often used his ‘motion-picture’ machine to record things he witnessed while travelling around worldwide countries. So, his report (travelogue) and motion picture film on Korea written and made in 1901 was based on close observation and rather objective point of view. Nonetheless, he couldn’t avoid the perspective of the colonizer’s model of the world, in other words, geographical diffusionism of western culture.
SOUTH KOREAN LEADERS IN THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRATIZATION
Authors: STRNAD Grażyna 
Published: February 2019

This article aims to show the process of formation and operation (functioning) of the changing political system of South Korea. It is undertaken for the analysis of the process of the collapse of the former authoritarian political system and formation of South Korean democracy. Indicated in this article are the roles and participation of political leaders (Chun Doo Hwan, Roh Tae Woo, Kim Young Sam, and Kim Dae Jung) in the process of intense political change that took place in South Korea from the 1980s to the late twentieth century.During the authoritarian regimes of South Korea, the nation recorded spectacular economic development, but without political development. Political leadership in the democratization of the country was still authoritarian. Core values and attitudes of politicians pointed to the presence of the cultural heritage of Confucianism in politics.
A study of partitioning policies for graph analytics on large-scale distributed platforms
Authors: Gill Gurbinder , Dathathri Roshan , Hoang Loc , Pingali Keshav 
Published: February 2019

Distributed-memory clusters are used for in-memory processing of very large graphs with billions of nodes and edges. This requires partitioning the graph among the machines in the cluster. When a graph is partitioned, a node in the graph may be replicated on several machines, and communication is required to keep these replicas synchronized. Good partitioning policies attempt to reduce this synchronization overhead while keeping the computational load balanced across machines. A number of recent studies have looked at ways to control replication of nodes, but these studies are not conclusive because they were performed on small clusters with eight to sixteen machines, did not consider work-efficient data-driven algorithms, or did not optimize communication for the partitioning strategies they studied.
This paper presents an experimental study of partitioning strategies for work-efficient graph analytics applications on large KNL and Skylake clusters with up to 256 machines using the Gluon communication runtime which implements partitioning-specific communication optimizations. Evaluation results show that although simple partitioning strategies like Edge-Cuts perform well on a small number of machines, an alternative partitioning strategy called Cartesian Vertex-Cut (CVC) performs better at scale even though paradoxically it has a higher replication factor and performs more communication than Edge-Cut partitioning does. Results from communication micro-benchmarks resolve this paradox by showing that communication overhead depends not only on communication volume but also on the communication pattern among the partitions.
These experiments suggest that high-performance graph analytics systems should support multiple partitioning strategies, like Gluon does, as no single graph partitioning strategy is best for all cluster sizes. For such systems, a decision tree for selecting a good partitioning strategy based on characteristics of the computation and the cluster is presented.
HetExchange
Authors: Chrysogelos Periklis , Karpathiotakis Manos , Appuswamy Raja , Ailamaki Anastasia 
Published: February 2019

Modern server hardware is increasingly heterogeneous as hardware accelerators, such as GPUs, are used together with multicore CPUs to meet the computational demands of modern data analytics work-loads. Unfortunately, query parallelization techniques used by analytical database engines are designed for homogeneous multicore servers, where query plans are parallelized across CPUs to process data stored in cache coherent shared memory. Thus, these techniques are unable to fully exploit available heterogeneous hardware, where one needs to exploit task-parallelism of CPUs and data-parallelism of GPUs for processing data stored in a deep, non-cache-coherent memory hierarchy with widely varying access latencies and bandwidth.
In this paper, we introduce HetExchange-a parallel query execution framework that encapsulates the heterogeneous parallelism of modern multi-CPU-multi-GPU servers and enables the parallelization of (pre-)existing sequential relational operators. In contrast to the interpreted nature of traditional Exchange, HetExchange is designed to be used in conjunction with JIT compiled engines in order to allow a tight integration with the proposed operators and generation of efficient code for heterogeneous hardware. We validate the applicability and efficiency of our design by building a prototype that can operate over both CPUs and GPUs, and enables its operators to be parallelism- and data-location-agnostic. In doing so, we show that efficiently exploiting CPU-GPU parallelism can provide 2.8x and 6.4x improvement in performance compared to state-of-the-art CPU-based and GPU-based DBMS.
Leaching Behavior of Hardened Cement Paste with Mineral Admixtures in Deionized Water
Authors: He Shao-Li , Zuo Xiao-Bao , Sun Xiang-Hua , Zou Shuai , Tang Yu-Juan 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
In order to obtain the influence of mineral admixtures such as fly ash and slag on the leaching resistance of cement-based materials in water environments, a conventional leaching experiment on the slice specimens with pure, binary, and ternary cement pastes immersed into deionized water was performed. The dissolved calcium concentration, porosity, microstructure, calcium–silicon ratio (Ca/Si), and phase composition of the specimens were characterized by using ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid titration, saturation-drying weighing, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectrometry, and X ray diffraction analysis. Results show that more fly ash mixed in the blended cement paste results in lesser dissolved calcium concentration in the solution, slower microstructure deterioration, lower porosity increment, and smaller Ca/Si decrease, while the optimum content of fly ash is 40 %. The partial replacement of fly ash with slag in the binary cement paste can improve its microstructure and slow down its leaching process. The ternary cement paste with 20 % fly ash and 20 % slag has an optimum leaching resistance exposed to deionized water.
LİMON (Citrus limon) VE ACI PORTAKAL (Citrus aurantium) UÇUCU YAĞLARININ 4±1°C’DE MUHAFAZA EDİLEN GÖKKUŞAĞI ALABALIKLARININ (Oncorhynchus mykiss) MİKROBİYOLOJİK KALİTESİ ÜZERİNE ETKİLERİ
Authors: ÖZPOLAT Emine 
Published: February 2019

Bu çalışmada farklı oranlardaki (kontrol, %3 ve %6)
limon (Citrus limon) ve acı
portakal (Citrus aurantium)
kabuklarından elde edilen uçucu yağların, 4±1°C’de muhafaza edilen gökkuşağı
alabalıklarının (Oncorhynchus mykiss) mikrobiyolojik kalite
özellikleri (mezofil aerob, psikrofil aerob, maya-küf, Enterobacteriaceae
ve Escherichia coli) üzerine olan etkileri incelenmiştir. Yapılan
analizler neticesinde; kullanılan uçucu yağ oranındaki, artış ile birlikte
mikrobiyolojik kalitenin olumlu yönde etkilendiği belirlemiştir. Özellikle %6
oranında kullanılan limon ve acı portakal uçucu yağlarının, gökkuşağı
alabalıklarının mikrobiyolojik kalitesini etkileyerek, toplam mezofil aerob
bakteri sayılarına göre, raf ömrünü ortalama olarak 6 gün uzattığı görülmüştür.
Limon ve acı portakal uçucu yağlarının etkilerinin benzer olduğu görülmüştür.
Sonuç olarak basit, ucuz ve güvenli bir yöntem olarak limon ve acı portakal
uçucu yağlarının, gökkuşağı alabalıklarının mikrobiyal kalitesini korumaya
yardımcı olarak kullanılabileceği belirlenmiştir.Bu çalışmada farklı oranlardaki (kontrol, %3 ve %6)
limon (Citrus limon) ve acı
portakal (Citrus aurantium)
kabuklarından elde edilen uçucu yağların, 4±1°C’de muhafaza edilen gökkuşağı
alabalıklarının (Oncorhynchus mykiss) mikrobiyolojik kalite
özellikleri (mezofil aerob, psikrofil aerob, maya-küf, Enterobacteriaceae
ve Escherichia coli) üzerine olan etkileri incelenmiştir. Yapılan
analizler neticesinde; kullanılan uçucu yağ oranındaki, artış ile birlikte
mikrobiyolojik kalitenin olumlu yönde etkilendiği belirlemiştir. Özellikle %6
oranında kullanılan limon ve acı portakal uçucu yağlarının, gökkuşağı
alabalıklarının mikrobiyolojik kalitesini etkileyerek, toplam mezofil aerob
bakteri sayılarına göre, raf ömrünü ortalama olarak 6 gün uzattığı görülmüştür.
Limon ve acı portakal uçucu yağlarının etkilerinin benzer olduğu görülmüştür.
Sonuç olarak basit, ucuz ve güvenli bir yöntem olarak limon ve acı portakal
uçucu yağlarının, gökkuşağı alabalıklarının mikrobiyal kalitesini korumaya
yardımcı olarak kullanılabileceği belirlenmiştir.