bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Factores de riesgo asociados a incontinencia urinaria en una población de mujeres en edad fértil de Bucaramanga, 2011
Authors: Carreño Parra Lina Maria , Mora Karen Viviana , Urán Greys Johanna , Angarita-Fonseca Adriana 
Published: January 2016

Objetivo: Establecer los factores de riesgo asociados a incontinencia urinaria en mujeres en edad fértil de 10 a 49 años del barrio Girardot, Bucaramanga 2011. Metodología: Se realizó un estudio tipo transversal, se aplicó una encuesta mediante entrevista, entre marzo y mayo de 2011, a 80 mujeres seleccionadas por conveniencia (34±11,9 años). Se estableció la asociación mediante regresiones de Poisson simples y múltiples. La variable dependiente fue incontinencia urinaria definida como un puntaje mayor que cero en el cuestionario International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short-Form (ICIQ-SF). Resultados: Se encontró una prevalencia de incontinencia urinaria de 63,75% (IC95% 52,24-74,21), la prevalencia de incontinencia urinaria de esfuerzo fue de 50% (IC95% 38,8-61,2) y de urgencia de 11,3% (IC95% 4,2-18,3). En el análisis multivariado se encontró asociación entre fumadora activa e incontinencia urinaria [RP 1,6 (IC95% 1,3-2,1)]. Conclusión: La identificación de factores de riesgo asociados a incontinencia urinaria es importante para desarrollar intervenciones que disminuyan la carga de este fenómeno en la población general.
Insights From Ion Adsorption and Contact-Angle Alteration at Mineral Surfaces for Low-Salinity Waterflooding
Authors: Mugele Frieder , Siretanu Igor , Kumar Naveen , Bera Bijoy , Wang Lei , de Ruiter Riëlle , Maestro Armando , Duits Michel , van den Ende Dirk , Collins Ian 
Published: January 2016

Summary
Most solid surfaces acquire a finite surface charge after exposure to aqueous environments caused by desorption and/or adsorption of ionic species. The resulting electrostatic forces play a crucial role in many fields of science and technology, including colloidal stability, self-assembly, wetting, and biophysics. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is an example of a large-scale industrial process that hinges in many respects on these phenomena. In this paper, we present a series of experiments illustrating fundamental aspects of low-salinity waterflooding in well-defined model systems. We show how pH and ion content of the water phase as well as the presence of model polar components (fatty acids) in the oil phase affect the wettability (i.e., contact-angle distribution) of oil/water/rock systems. Specifically, we discuss high-resolution atomic-force microscopy (AFM) experiments demonstrating the preferential adsorption of multivalent cations to mineral surfaces such as mica and gibbsite. Cation adsorption leads to increased and, in some cases, reversed surface charge at the solid/liquid interface. In particular, the adsorption of divalent cations gives rise to charge reversal and thereby induces a transition from complete water-wetting in the absence to finite contact angles in the presence of such ions. Although already dramatic for pure alkanes as base oil, adding fatty acids to the oil phase enhances the effect of divalent ions on the oil/water/rock wettability even more. In this case, contact-angle variations of more than 70 ° can be observed as a function of the salt concentration. This enhancement is caused by the deposition of a thin film of fatty acid on the solid surface. AFM as well as surface plasmon-resonance spectroscopy measurement in a microfluidic continuous flow cell directly demonstrate that adsorbed Ca2+ ions promote secondary adsorption of acidic components from the oil phase. The combination of the effects discussed provides a rational scenario explaining many aspects of the success of low-salinity waterflooding.
Use of computed tomography for measurement of kidneys in dogs without renal disease
Authors: Hoey Seamus E. , Heder Brianne L. , Hetzel Scott J. , Waller Kenneth R. 
Published: January 2016

Abstract
OBJECTIVE To determine the size of the left and right kidneys by use of CT in dogs of various breeds without evidence of renal disease.
DESIGN Retrospective, observational study.
ANIMALS 21 client-owned dogs.
PROCEDURES Renal length, diameter of the abdominal aorta, and length of the L2 vertebral body were measured independently on multiplanar reformatted non–contrast-enhanced CT images by 3 observers at 3 time points. Intraobserver and interobserver agreement for renal length were determined. Associations of renal length with body weight, aorta diameter, and L2 vertebral body length were assessed by calculation of Pearson correlation coefficients and 95% confidence intervals. Renal measurements were normalized to patient size by calculating renal length-to-aorta diameter and renal length-to-L2 vertebral body length ratios for comparison with previously published radiographic and ultrasonographic measurements.
RESULTS All kidneys were identified and measured on CT images by all observers. Intraobserver and interobserver agreement were excellent. Body weight, aorta diameter, and length of the L2 vertebral body were significantly correlated with renal length. Renal length-to-aorta diameter and renal length-to-L2 vertebral body length ratios (7.4 and 2.7, respectively) fell within the ranges of previously published values for these measurements.
CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE As CT becomes more widely available in general practice, knowledge of typical renal measurements and anatomic ratios obtained with this modality in dogs may be useful. A prospective study with a larger population of dogs, ideally including formulation of a reference range, is needed.
Surgical management of vesicoureteral reflux with recurrent urinary tract infection after renal transplantation in a dog
Authors: Park Kyung-Mee , Nam Hyun-Suk , Hussein Kamal Hany , Woo Heung-Myong 
Published: January 2016

Abstract
CASE DESCRIPTION A 3-year-old male Cocker Spaniel renal transplant recipient was readmitted 39 weeks after transplantation because of acute clinical signs of pollakiuria, intermittent vomiting, decreased appetite, lethargy, and mild fever.
CLINICAL FINDINGS Hydronephrosis and hydroureter were observed with ultrasonography and contrast cystography, and a diagnosis of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) was made. Urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by Escherichia coli was also diagnosed on the basis of results of urine culture.
TREATMENT AND OUTCOME Despite treatment of the UTI with an appropriate antimicrobial for 6 weeks, the VUR persisted and the UTI recurred 9 weeks after cessation of antimicrobial treatment. Therefore, surgical correction by means of revision extravesicular ureteroneocytostomy was performed. Both VUR and hydronephrosis resolved after surgery. No recurrences of clinical signs of urinary tract complications were observed during the subsequent 22-month follow-up period.
CLINICAL RELEVANCE Results suggested that ureteral reimplantation with an extravesicular technique incorporating a long submucosal tunnel may be an effective treatment for VUR when medical management fails in canine renal transplant recipients with recurrent UTIs.
The historical origin of the term “meningioma” and the rise of nationalistic neurosurgery
Authors: Barthélemy Ernest Joseph , Sarkiss Christopher A. , Lee James , Shrivastava Raj K. 
Published: January 2016

The historical origin of the meningioma nomenclature unravels interesting social and political aspects about the development of neurosurgery in the late 19th century. The meningioma terminology itself was the subject of nationalistic pride and coincided with the advancement in the rise of medicine in Continental Europe as a professional social enterprise. Progress in naming and understanding these types of tumor was most evident in the nations that successively assumed global leadership in medicine and biomedical science throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, that is, France, Germany, and the United States. In this vignette, the authors delineate the uniqueness of the term “meningioma” as it developed within the historical framework of Continental European concepts of tumor genesis, disease states, and neurosurgery as an emerging discipline culminating in Cushing's Meningiomas text.
During the intellectual apogee of the French Enlightenment, Antoine Louis published the first known scientific treatise on meningiomas. Like his father, Jean-Baptiste Louis, Antoine Louis was a renowned military surgeon whose accomplishments were honored with an admission to the Académie royale de chirurgie in 1749. His treatise, Sur les tumeurs fongueuses de la duremère, appeared in 1774. Following this era, growing economic depression affecting a frustrated bourgeoisie triggered a tumultuous revolutionary period that destroyed France's Ancien Régime and abolished its university and medical systems. The resulting anarchy was eventually quelled through legislation aiming to satisfy Napoleon's need for qualified military professionals, including physicians and surgeons. These laws laid the foundations for the subsequent flourishing of French medicine throughout the mid-19th century. Subsequent changes to the meningioma nomenclature were authored by intellectual giants of this postrevolutionary period, for example, by the Limogesborn pathologist Jean Cruveilhier known for the term “tumeurs cancéreuses de la duremère,” and the work of histopathologists, such as Hermann Lebert, who were influenced by Pasteur's germ theory and by Bernard's experimental medicine.
The final development of the meningioma nomenclature corresponded to the rise of American neurosurgery as a formal academic discipline. This historical period of growth is chronicled in Cushing's text Meningiomas, and it set the scientific stage for the modern developments in meningioma research and surgery that are conducted and employed today.
Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 1: validation of an ICD-9-CM code search algorithm
Authors: Ladner Travis R. , Greenberg Jacob K. , Guerrero Nicole , Olsen Margaret A. , Shannon Chevis N. , Yarbrough Chester K. , Piccirillo Jay F. , Anderson Richard C. E. , Feldstein Neil A. , Wellons John C. , Smyth Matthew D. , Park Tae Sung , Limbrick David D. 
Published: January 2016

OBJECTIVE
Administrative billing data may facilitate large-scale assessments of treatment outcomes for pediatric Chiari malformation Type I (CM-I). Validated International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code algorithms for identifying CM-I surgery are critical prerequisites for such studies but are currently only available for adults. The objective of this study was to validate two ICD-9-CM code algorithms using hospital billing data to identify pediatric patients undergoing CM-I decompression surgery.

METHODS
The authors retrospectively analyzed the validity of two ICD-9-CM code algorithms for identifying pediatric CM-I decompression surgery performed at 3 academic medical centers between 2001 and 2013. Algorithm 1 included any discharge diagnosis code of 348.4 (CM-I), as well as a procedure code of 01.24 (cranial decompression) or 03.09 (spinal decompression or laminectomy). Algorithm 2 restricted this group to the subset of patients with a primary discharge diagnosis of 348.4. The positive predictive value (PPV) and sensitivity of each algorithm were calculated.

RESULTS
Among 625 first-time admissions identified by Algorithm 1, the overall PPV for CM-I decompression was 92%. Among the 581 admissions identified by Algorithm 2, the PPV was 97%. The PPV for Algorithm 1 was lower in one center (84%) compared with the other centers (93%–94%), whereas the PPV of Algorithm 2 remained high (96%–98%) across all subgroups. The sensitivity of Algorithms 1 (91%) and 2 (89%) was very good and remained so across subgroups (82%–97%).

CONCLUSIONS
An ICD-9-CM algorithm requiring a primary diagnosis of CM-I has excellent PPV and very good sensitivity for identifying CM-I decompression surgery in pediatric patients. These results establish a basis for utilizing administrative billing data to assess pediatric CM-I treatment outcomes.
Lateral access to paravertebral tumors
Authors: Boah Akwasi Ofori , Perin Noel I. 
Published: January 2016

Traditional transabdominal and retroperitoneal approaches for paravertebral tumors can be associated with injury to the viscera and lumbar plexus. The authors provide a technical description of a known approach with a new application for the resection of paraspinal tumors using both open and minimally invasive transpsoas techniques and report on 2 illustrative cases. In both cases, gross-total resection of the tumor was achieved and the patients experienced resolution of their presenting neurological symptoms, although one of the patients required 2 extra days of hospitalization due to an asymptomatic retroperitoneal hematoma, which was conservatively managed.
The authors conclude that the lateral transpsoas approach is a safe approach for paravertebral tumors and may not require an access surgeon.
Reconstitution of degenerated ovine lumbar discs by STRO-3–positive allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cells combined with pentosan polysulfate
Authors: Oehme David , Ghosh Peter , Goldschlager Tony , Itescu Silviu , Shimon Susan , Wu Jiehua , McDonald Courtney , Troupis John M. , Rosenfeld Jeffrey V. , Jenkin Graham 
Published: January 2016

OBJECTIVE
Disc degeneration and associated low-back pain are major causes of suffering and disability. The authors examined the potential of mesenchymal precursor cells (MPCs), when formulated with pentosan polysulfate (PPS), to ameliorate disc degeneration in an ovine model.

METHODS
Twenty-four sheep had annular incisions made at L2–3, L3–4, and L4–5 to induce degeneration. Twelve weeks after injury, the nucleus pulposus of a degenerated disc in each animal was injected with ProFreeze and PPS formulated with either a low dose (0.1 million MPCs) or a high dose (0.5 million MPCs) of cells. The 2 adjacent injured discs in each spine were either injected with PPS and ProFreeze (PPS control) or not injected (nil-injected control). The adjacent noninjured L1–2 and L5–6 discs served as noninjured control discs. Disc height indices (DHIs) were obtained at baseline, before injection, and at planned death. After necropsy, 24 weeks after injection, the spines were subjected to MRI and morphological, histological, and biochemical analyses.

RESULTS
Twelve weeks after the annular injury, all the injured discs exhibited a significant reduction in mean DHI (low-dose group 17.19%; high-dose group 18.01% [p < 0.01]). Twenty-four weeks after injections, the discs injected with the low-dose MPC+PPS formulation recovered disc height, and their mean DHI was significantly greater than the DHI of PPS- and nil-injected discs (p < 0.001). Although the mean Pfirrmann MRI disc degeneration score for the low-dose MPC+PPS–injected discs was lower than that for the nil- and PPS-injected discs, the differences were not significant. The disc morphology scores for the nil- and PPS-injected discs were significantly higher than the normal control disc scores (p < 0.005), whereas the low-dose MPC+PPS–injected disc scores were not significantly different from those of the normal controls. The mean glycosaminoglycan content of the nuclei pulposus of the low-dose MPC+PPS–injected discs was significantly higher than that of the PPS-injected controls (p < 0.05) but was not significantly different from the normal control disc glycosaminoglycan levels. Histopathology degeneration frequency scores for the low-dose MPC+PPS–injected discs were lower than those for the PPS- and Nil-injected discs. The corresponding high-dose MPC+PPS–injected discs failed to show significant improvements in any outcome measure relative to the controls.

CONCLUSIONS
Intradiscal injections of a formulation composed of 0.1 million MPCs combined with PPS resulted in positive effects in reducing the progression of disc degeneration in an ovine model, as assessed by improvements in DHI and morphological, biochemical, and histopathological scores.
Subsequent surgery rates after cervical total disc replacement using a Mobi-C Cervical Disc Prosthesis versus anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a prospective randomized clinical trial with 5-year follow-up
Authors: Jackson Robert J. , Davis Reginald J. , Hoffman Gregory A. , Bae Hyun W. , Hisey Michael S. , Kim Kee D. , Gaede Steven E. , Nunley Pierce Dalton 
Published: January 2016

OBJECTIVE
Cervical total disc replacement (TDR) has been shown in a number of prospective clinical studies to be a viable treatment alternative to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for the treatment of symptomatic degenerative disc disease. In addition to preserving motion, evidence suggests that cervical TDR may result in a lower incidence of subsequent surgical intervention than treatment with fusion. The goal of this study was to evaluate subsequent surgery rates up to 5 years in patients treated with TDR or ACDF at 1 or 2 contiguous levels between C-3 and C-7.

METHODS
This was a prospective, multicenter, randomized, unblinded clinical trial. Patients with symptomatic degenerative disc disease were enrolled to receive 1- or 2-level treatment with either TDR as the investigational device or ACDF as the control treatment. There were 260 patients in the 1-level study (179 TDR and 81 ACDF patients) and 339 patients in the 2-level study (234 TDR and 105 ACDF patients).

RESULTS
At 5 years, the occurrence of subsequent surgical intervention was significantly higher among ACDF patients for 1-level (TDR, 4.5% [8/179]; ACDF, 17.3% [14/81]; p = 0.0012) and 2-level (TDR, 7.3% [17/234]; ACDF, 21.0% [22/105], p = 0.0007) treatment. The TDR group demonstrated significantly fewer index- and adjacent-level subsequent surgeries in both the 1- and 2-level cohorts.

CONCLUSIONS
Five-year results showed treatment with cervical TDR to result in a significantly lower rate of subsequent surgical intervention than treatment with ACDF for both 1 and 2 levels of treatment.
Clinical trial registration no.: NCT00389597 (clinicaltrials.gov)
The Challenges of Water Resource Management from Top to Bottom: A Case Study in Chi River Basin, Thailand
Authors: Pechpakdee Pechladda , Jan Cowan David 
Published: January 2016

This paper focusses on the challenges of employing the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) approach in the Chi River basin in Northeast Thailand to determine its effectiveness and pitfalls. At the macro level, the problems of IWRM were found to be related to the fragmentation of the ministries associated with water issues and the poor coordination of political parties. Therefore, to address this challenge of IWRM, cooperation (sahakān) through deterritorialization and deregulation of both bureaucratic structures at the state level and the local authority’s recommendations needed to manage these water resources. Observation and interviewing methods were employed in the three villages to explore the conditions of IWRM. Gaps in cooperation between the institutions at the state and local levels were found from limited roles and budgets to manage water resources in each administrative area. This paper discusses recommendations at both the state and local level. At the state level, there are structural and non-structural measurements to consider. These measurements must be addressed by the facilitators of the institutions in order to bridge gaps in cooperation and in order to plan and address the larger scheme of water issues at both national and regional levels. At the local level, deregulation and deterritorialization were found to be the key concerns of IWRM between the different local authorities.
Surmortalité féminine et condition de la femme (XVIIIe - XIXe siècles). Une vérification empirique
Authors: Perrenoud Alfred 
Published: January 2016

The aim of this study is to test the theory that the exceptionally high death rates of women in certain age groups were related to the general worsening of the conditions women lived under starting in the 18th century. The statics employed allow us to follow the changes in the death rate by age, sex, and class for a specific region starting in the 17th century.
On the whole, the tendency was for the death rate to fall for women of childbearing age and to rise for women during their « active years » (10 to 50). A study of death rates due to infectious diseases contracted by mothers shows that advances in medicine during the 19th century had little or no effect on the death rate, since it only seemed to fall in periods when births themselves fell, meaning that from one period to the next the death rate remained relatively stable (about 15 per 1000 cases).
Le choix du conjoint à Versailles (1774-1836)
Authors: Combes-Monier Janine 
Published: January 2016

La Révolution Française entraîne-t-elle une modification de la condition féminine, observable au niveau du choix du conjoint ? telle était l'hypothèse de départ. La ville de Versailles, si affectée par les changements politiques, paraissait un terrain d'observation particulièrement indiqué.
Deux types d'information ont été mis en parallèle : la succession des mariages célébrés à Versailles pendant la période observée et une vision globale des couples constitués habitant la ville en 1792. Une première constatation s'impose : le circuit matrimonial versaillais ne subit pas de transformations durables du fait de la Révolution. Les taux de mariage et de remariage se maintiennent, le divorce n'est pratiqué qu'un temps.
Le choix du conjoint continue à s'opérer selon les mêmes critères fixés par la tradition culturelle : il en est ainsi des différences d'âge entre les conjoints, de l'âge au mariage de l'assortiment socio-professionnel toujours respecté.
On a cherché à savoir comment les conjoints ont pu faire connaissance. Si nouveautés il y a, elles sont antérieures à la période observée. Le phénomène migratoire urbain minimise l'influence parentale, amplifie le rôle du voisinage. Les liens du sang sont importants, mais ne se traduisent ni par la domination ni par la protection. La sociabilité urbaine est fondée sur le voisinage. Ce n'est pas le phénomène politique qui change le modèle culturel du mariage.
La mort du nouveau-né et l'amour des parents : quelques réflexions à propos des pratiques de « répit »
Authors: Gélis Jacques 
Published: January 2016

To get a good idea of the quality of feelings which parents — and not only mothers — had for their very young infants many years ago, it is essential to take into account the cultural context in which they lived.
Couples were scared of being sterile, but what frightened them most was having a still-born child, that is a child which died before having been fortified by the act of baptism. The parents' honour and tranquility, the fruitfulness of their union and the fertility of the soil were also tainted, for a barren pregnancy was synonymous with the curse.
Thenceforth, the last resort was the "sanctuary of respite" ; the father and mother were willing to make any sacrifice whatsoever fort their child to give, if even just for a moment, the "sign of life" which would allow it to be considered a Christian, to replace Evil with Good, to chase away any evil spirits and to bring back fertility.
In making baptism such a very high stake, not only for the child but also for its family, attendance at these "respites" was, of course, greatly encouraged ; but, as in Southern Germany in the xvmth and xixth centuries, parents' negligence towards new-born babies could be encouraged when the latter had been baptised : fortified by the Sacrament, the last-born of the family could die ; they feared nothing ; they even became precious helpers for the salvation of their parents.