bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Reversal of abnormal cardiac parameters following mitral valve replacement for severe mitral stenosis in relation to pulmonary artery pressure: A retrospective study of noninvasive parameters – Early and late pattern
Authors: Parvathy Usha T. , Rajan Rajesh , Faybushevich Alexander Georgevich 
Published: July 2016

Background and objectives
Although the regression of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in mitral stenosis (MS) has been studied over varying periods postintervention, corresponding studies on the cardiac chamber alterations after surgery are very limited. We sought to determine the degree of reversal of these and the clinical status in connection with that of pulmonary artery pressures (PAPs) in the early and late postoperative periods.

Methods
The preoperative, early, and 1-year postoperative data – functional class (FC), cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) in chest X-ray (CXR), and echocardiographically left atrium (LA), right atrium (RA), right ventricle (RV), left ventricle (LV), and pulmonary artery (PA) dimensions, PAP, tricuspid regurgitation (TR) – of 50 patients who had mitral valve replacement (MVR) for MS with PH were retrospectively analyzed for correlations with PAP (Pearson’s), and their change (t-test), in relation to that in PAP. PH group-based [Group (Gp)-I PAP ≤60 mmHg, Gp-II PAP >60 mmHg] analysis highlighted the differences.

Results
All parameters significantly correlated with the baseline PAP (p < 0.05), except LA (r = 0.081, p = 0.577). Postoperatively, there was significant reduction in all parameters (p < 0.001) and increase in LV (p < 0.003). The PAP regression was 39.42%; with the decrease in CTR, LA, and RA related to it, the early changes being significant (p < 0.01). The RV and PA showed lesser reduction (8.61% and 9.42%), late reduction being more conspicuous. The changes were greater and significant in Gp-II (especially PAP, RV, and PA). At 1 year, PAP normalized in only 19 (38%). Residual PH and chamber enlargement prevailed more in Gp-II.

Conclusions
This study emphasizes the importance of the baseline PAP in MS to which was proportionate the functional disability and the cardiac chamber alterations (except LA). Their postoperative improvement accompanying the PAP regression differed in degree and time frame relative to PAP. The higher pressure group showed greater regression, but greater prevalence of residual abnormalities, suggesting that the pathologic changes in them might take longer to resolve, necessitating further evaluation.
Transgastric removal of a polycystic liver disease using mini-laparoscopic excision
Authors: Sumer Fatih , Kayaalp Cuneyt , Polat Yılmaz , Ertugrul Ismail , Karagul Servet 
Published: July 2016

Surgical treatment is often necessary for patients with symptomatic or complicated polycystic liver diseases (PLD). In this paper, we describe a 52-year-old female with symptomatic PLD that had resulted in the formation of liver cysts, the largest of which was 23 cm in diameter. The patient underwent mini-laparoscopic fenestration through 5-mm abdominal trocars. The walls of the cysts were unroofed using a harmonic scalpel. Four thickened rubber-like pieces of specimens (sizes ranged between 9 × 6 × 0.5 cm and 6 × 3 × 0.1 cm) were not suitable for extraction through the 5-mm trocars. A gastrotomy was performed, and the specimens were extracted through the stomach with the help of an endoscope. Transoral removal of the specimens was completed without any complications, and the gastrotomy was closed intracorporeally. The patient was permitted to take fluids on day one, and oral intake was gradually increased. She was discharged on day four and was asymptomatic after two months of follow-up. The combination of mini-laparoscopy and intraoperative endoscopic specimen extraction represented a minimally invasive surgical approach for the treatment of PLD. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first case report of the transoral extraction of a liver specimen.
The microscopic and ultramicroscopic changes in the skeletal muscles, caused by heavy metal salts
Authors: Tymoshenko Alexey , Tkach Gennadii , Sikora Vitalii , Bumeister Valentina , Shpetnyi Ihor , Lyndin Mykola , Maksymova Olena , Maslenko Anna 
Published: July 2016

Purpose
The article is devoted to study the structural changes in the skeletal muscles caused by heavy metal salts.

Materials and methods
The study was conducted on 72 mature male rats. The experimental groups were given to drink water with combinations of heavy metal salts for one, two and three months. This type of water is typical for the water basins in the northern districts of the Sumy region. The study of morphological changes in the striated muscles was concluded using light and scanning electron microscopy.

Results
The data analysis revealed that a prolonged duration of negative factor could intensify sclerotic and edematous processes. The structure of muscle fibers was destroyed, nuclei were deformed and placed irregularly, and many petechial hemorrhages occurred. Besides, cross-striation was irregular, I and A bands were deformed and destroyed, H band was hardly visualized. The inner mitochondrial membrane and cristae become deformed. The symplastic nuclei were placed irregularly within sarcoplasm. Besides, they were swollen. Against swollen and enlarged symplastic nuclei, pyknotic nuclei were also found. The structures of sarcoplasmic reticulum were mainly dilated with deformed and ruptured areas.

Conclusion
Our study approves that high concentrations of heavy metal salts have a destructive influence on the skeletal striated muscles.
Gambling with Rose-Tinted Glasses on: Use of Emotion-Regulation Strategies Correlates with Dysfunctional Cognitions in Gambling Disorder Patients
Authors: Navas Juan F. , Verdejo-García Antonio , LÓpez-GÓmez Marta , Maldonado Antonio , Perales José C. 
Published: July 2016

Background and aims
Existing research shows that gambling disorder patients (GDPs) process gambling outcomes abnormally when compared against healthy controls (HCs). These anomalies present the form of exaggerated or distorted beliefs regarding the expected utility of outcomes and one’s ability to predict or control gains and losses, as well as retrospective reinterpretations of what caused them. This study explores the possibility that the emotional regulation strategies GDPs use to cope with aversive events are linked to these cognitions.

Methods
41 GDPs and 45 HCs, matched in sociodemographic variables, were assessed in gambling severity, emotion-regulation strategies (cognitive emotion-regulation questionnaire, CERQ), and gambling-related cognitions (gambling-related cognitions scale, GRCS).

Results
GDPs showed higher scores in all gambling-related cognition dimensions. Regarding emotion regulation, GDPs were observed to use self-blame and catastrophizing, but also positive refocusing, more often than controls. Additionally, in GDPs, putatively adaptive CERQ strategies shared a significant portion of variance with South Oaks gambling screen severity and GRCS beliefs. Shared variability was mostly attributable to the roles of refocusing on planning and putting into perspective at positively predicting severity and the interpretative bias (GDPs propensity to reframe losses in a more benign way), respectively.

Discussion and conclusions
Results show links between emotion-regulation strategies and problematic gambling-related behaviors and cognitions. The pattern of those links supports the idea that GDPs use emotion-regulation strategies, customarily regarded as adaptive, to cope with negative emotions, so that the motivational and cognitive processing of gambling outcomes becomes less effective in shaping gambling-related behavior.
Experiential Avoidance and Technological Addictions in Adolescents
Authors: García-Oliva Carlos , Piqueras José A. 
Published: July 2016

Background and aims
This study focuses on the use of popular information and communication technologies (ICTs) by adolescents: the Internet, mobile phones, and video games. The relationship of ICT use and experiential avoidance (EA), a construct that has emerged as underlying and transdiagnostic to a wide variety of psychological problems, including behavioral addictions, is examined. EA refers to a self-regulatory strategy involving efforts to control or escape from negative stimuli such as thoughts, feelings, or sensations that generate strong distress. This strategy, which may be adaptive in the short term, is problematic if it becomes an inflexible pattern. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore whether EA patterns were associated with addictive or problematic use of ICT in adolescents.

Methods
A total of 317 students of the Spanish southeast between 12 and 18 years old were recruited to complete a questionnaire that included questions about general use of each ICTs, an experiential avoidance questionnaire, a brief inventory of the Big Five personality traits, and specific questionnaires on problematic use of the Internet, mobile phones, and video games.

Results
Correlation analysis and linear regression showed that EA largely explained results regarding the addictive use of the Internet, mobile phones, and video games, but not in the same way. As regards gender, boys showed a more problematic use of video games than girls. Concerning personality factors, conscientiousness was related to all addictive behaviors.

Discussion and conclusions
We conclude that EA is an important construct that should be considered in future models that attempt to explain addictive behaviors.
Afectos y cognición de los futuros maestros en la resolución de problemas matemáticos
Authors: Pañellas Valls María Mercedes , Alguacil de Nicolás Montserrat , Boqué Torremorell María Carmen 
Published: July 2016

El sistema educativo ha dedicado muchos esfuerzos al desarrollo de la mente racional y del conocimiento lógico y reflexivo, sin dar importancia a la dimensión afectiva al considerarse que las influencias de naturaleza cognitiva y emocional no se presentan interrelacionadas.La aparición de actitudes, creencias y emociones hacia las matemáticas perdura en el tiempo y arraiga fuertemente. Los estudiantes del grado en Educación Primaria también las muestran y las padecen cuando dichas actitudes, creencias y emociones son desajustadas, por lo que, si no las modifican, pueden influir en los logros de sus futuros alumnos en el ámbito matemático. Así pues, el análisis de estos factores emocionales nos permitirá diseñar estrategias de actuación que redunden en la mejora del rendimiento en la práctica profesional docente.En este estudio, de carácter cuantitativo y cualitativo, valoramos los factores afectivos de los futuros maestros de educación primaria, cuando se enfrentan a la resolución de problemas matemáticos. Los resultados indican dificultades cognitivas a la hora de favorecer procesos heurísticos esenciales para la indagación y la búsqueda de soluciones a los problemas que, a su vez, pueden contradecir la percepción de los estudiantes en cuanto a las creencias sobre la propia seguridad, confianza, satisfacción, curiosidad, capacidad y recursos cuando resuelven problemas.
DESARROLLO EMOCIONAL EN LA INFANCIA. UN ESTUDIO SOBRE LAS COMPETENCIAS EMOCIONALES DE NIÑOS Y NIÑAS.
Authors: Heras Sevilla Davinia 
Published: July 2016

Este estudio tiene como objetivo la evaluación del desarrollo emocional de alumnado de Educación Infantil escolarizado en 2º Curso del Segundo Ciclo de esta etapa (N=123). Para este fin, se han analizado las competencias emocionales de los menores. Concretamente, la conciencia emocional, la regulación emocional, la competencia social y las habilidades de vida para el bienestar. Además, se han comparado los resultados obtenidos por los niños y por las niñas en cada dimensión, a fin de conocer la influencia del sexo del menor en su desarrollo emocional.Los resultados muestran diferencias significativas en función de la variable sexo en el nivel global de competencia emocional y en tres de las cuatro dimensiones que lo componen. El estudio evidencia además, la necesidad de evaluar los procesos emocionales en la infancia para favorecer una mejora en las competencias socio-emocionales del alumnado de Educación Infantil e incrementarlas a lo largo de su formación académica para su desarrollo integral. This research has the purpose of evaluating emotional development in the student body during pre-school education in the second course of the second cycle of this stage (N = 123).To this end, children emotional competences have been analyzed. Specifically, emotional awareness, emotional regulation, social competence and life skills for welfare. Furthermore, the results obtained by little girls and boys have been compared in each dimension, with the aim of recognizing the influence of the sex of the infant during his emotional management.The results show significant differences depending on the sex of the children in the global level of emotional competence and in three of the four dimensions which it is composed. Moreover, the study evidences the necessity of evaluating emotional processes during the infancy with the objective of improving social and emotional competences of the student body of Pre-school education and increasing them throughout their academic training for their development.
EXPLORACIÓN DE LA CONCIENCIA FONOLÓGICA Y LA VELOCIDAD DE NOMBRADO EN ALUMNOS DE 3º EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL Y 1º DE EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA Y SU RELACIÓN CON EL APRENDIZAJE DE LA LECTOESCRITURA
Authors: Rabazo Méndez Mª José , García López María , Sánchez Herrera Susana 
Published: July 2016

En este artículo se presenta un estudio descriptivo de corte transversal donde se compara el rendimiento en habilidades de conciencia fonológica y eficiencia en el nombrado de letras, de números, colores y dígitos en un grupo de niños prelectores y en otro de lectores ya iniciados. 45 niños, 20 de 3º de Educación Infantil y 25 de 1º de Educación Primaria fueron evaluados con el Rapid Automatized Naming Test (RAN) y la Prueba de Evaluación del Conocimiento Fonológico (PECO).Con los datos obtenidos se realizaron contrastes de medias y correlación de Pearson para valorar las diferencias y analizar las interrelaciones entre las variables. Los resultados mostraron diferencias significativas entre los dos grupos, siendo el alumnado de 1º de Educación Primaria el que obtuvo mejores resultados. Estos datos estarían en sintonía con los estudios sobre la direccionalidad de la causalidad entre conciencia fonológica y aprendizaje de la lectura en el sentido de que la enseñanza sistemática de la lectura favorece el conocimiento fonológico a nivel fonémico y con aquellos que han puesto de manifiesto la relación entre conciencia fonológica y velocidad de denominación.
SIBLINGS: ANALYSIS OF LIVED THROUGH THE DESIGN OF THE FAMILY
Authors: Trinceri Giuseppina 
Published: July 2016

Si intende mettere in evidenza come l’approccio alla disabilità di un bambino ha ormai acquisito senso e significato solamente se è l’intero mondo familiare ad essere preso in considerazione, con particolare riferimento ai siblings. In particolare, si vogliono cogliere, su un campione di 100 siblings, diviso in un gruppo di riferimento e uno in gruppo di controllo, le principali dinamiche relazionali dei fratelli con sviluppo tipico, le rappresentazioni di base e, soprattutto, gli indicatori di potenziali fattori di rischio e fattori protettivi rispetto all’evento disabilità del fratello/sorella.Il cuore di questo lavoro sarà l’analisi dei vissuti prototipi e i fattori ad esso associati, espresso mediante il disegno della famiglia e l’inchiesta associata. Si desidera attivare una ricerca in grado di offrire la possibilità di rintracciare, nel vissuto, elementi specifici in ordine alle proprie competenze di resilienza in correlazione con la rete di supporto o meno.
Situating STS and Thinking Ahead
Authors: Clarke Adele E. 
Published: July 2016

This essay sketches some of the broader sociopolitical and academic conditions of possibility at the time of the founding of the SKAT Section of the American sociological Association, noting the diversity of concerned groups and the affordances of epistemological diversity. I situate my own development as an early STS scholar, and discuss the growing salience of (post)colonial STS and concerns regarding current STS training and publishing.
FACTORES CLAVE PARA LA BÚSQUEDA DEL APRENDIZAJE ORGANIZACIONAL EN LA CADENA DE SUMINISTRO: UNA APROXIMACIÓN TEÓRICA
Authors: Castillo Mateo Belén , Tamayo Torres Javier , Cabeza Pullés Dainelis , Roldán Bravo María Isabel , Ruiz Moreno Antonia 
Published: July 2016

Dada la importancia que ha tenido la subcontratación en los últimos años y el auge de las cadenas de suministro, gestionarlas de forma eficiente es un factor clave a tener en cuenta para mejorar el rendimiento de la empresa. Una buena relación con los clientes/proveedores aumenta el flujo de comunicación e información entre ambos, lo que les permite aprender unos de otros, logrando que haya aprendizaje organizacional y llegar a la obtención de una ventaja cooperativa que sea beneficiosa para ambos. Sin embargo, a pesar de ser muchas las ventajas de esta relación, las empresas son reacias a compartir información de su organización, encontrándose con la controversia de perder control y protección de su organización. El objetivo de este trabajo es construir un marco teórico que permita explicar las variables que determinan el grado de influencia del aprendizaje organizacional dentro de la cadena de suministro. La metodología seguida ha sido una revisión de la literatura previa que nos ha servido de apoyo para cumplir el objetivo propuesto. Como resultado de este trabajo, hemos detectado que los factores clave para la búsqueda del aprendizaje organizacional en la cadena de suministro se agrupan en tres: externos a la organización, internos a la misma y relacionales, inherentes a la relación que mantiene con los integrantes de la cadena de suministro a la que pertenece. AbstractGiven the significant role played by subcontracting in recent years and the rise of supply chains, manage them efficiently is a key factor to consider for improving business performance. A good relationship with customers / suppliers increases the flow of communication and information between them, allowing them to learn from each other, making and organizational learning have come to obtain a cooperative advantage that is beneficial to both. However, despite being many advantages of this relationship, companies are reluctant to share information about your organization, meeting the controversy of losing control and protection of your organization. The objectives of this work are to analyze the influence of organizational learning within the supply chain because it improves the situation of the company, not only in terms of reducing costs but also optimize performance, consider some of the variables that influence this learning and suggest several proposals, laying the groundwork for future research.
The Role of Social Movements in the Recognition of Gender Violence as a Violation of Human Rights: From Legal Reform to the Language of Rights
Authors: Calvo García Manuel 
Published: July 2016

The history of rights shows that the struggle for the recognition of women’s rights was difficult enough and the recognition of the right of women to a life without gender violence has been even more difficult. With a perspective based in a socio-legal and critical approach, this article defends that the recognition of the right of women to a life free of gender violence must be seen as a conquest of the feminist movement and women’s organizations. It was the struggle of the feminist movement which provided the catalyst for the recognition of women’s rights and the specific right of women to a life free of gender violence and to protection against such violence. But not only the recognition, also the praxis of the right of women to a life free of gender violence is important. The right of women to a life free from gender-based violence cannot be fully realized without the implementation of this right at the international and the local level. The implementation of rights and the existence of social movements involved with the right to a life free from gender violence is decisive to transforms the demands for protection from violence and its eradication to be see not as a question of mercy, but as a question of justice; and putting the individual experiences of gender violence victims within a wider framework from which the abuse can be considered as a social problem.
The Role of an Urban Tallgrass Prairie Remnant in Conservation: A Case Study in Central Iowa (USA)
Authors: Thompson Jimmie D. , Lewis Deborah Q. , Norris *William R. 
Published: July 2016

Although more than 85% of Iowa (USA) was covered by tallgrass prairie at the time of settlement by Europeans in the early 19th century, less than 0.1% remains. The Richard W. Pohl State Preserve at Ames (IA) High School, surrounded on three sides by structures, roads, and other development, protects 4 ha of tallgrass prairie. The preserve, commonly referred to as Ames High Prairie (AHP), was grazed but never plowed under private ownership until its acquisition by the Ames School District in 1959.
Although considered for development as a parking lot or football field in the 1960s, the residents of Ames voted in 1970 to award The Nature Conservancy (TNC) a 49-year lease to the property (until 2019). This preserve, almost completely open in the 1930s, has been subject to numerous threats, including encroachment by woody plants, entry of non-native and invasive plant species associated with human activity, and erosion associated with storm water runoff, sewer line repair, foot and bike traffic, and major flood events.
Recent management activities at AHP, conducted by volunteer land stewards, high school and college students, TNC summer interns, and private contractors, has consisted of controlled burns, cutting and herbicide treatment of encroaching woody plants, manual removal and herbicide treatment of invasive herbaceous plants, and sowing of seeds (collected on site) into reopened areas.
Three vascular plant inventories of the 8.9 ha preserve (1966, 1995, current study) have documented the occurrence of 465 taxa (329 native) at AHP, including 5 Iowa special concern species. This flora includes 147 native prairie plant taxa, which ranks 8th in comparison with the 26 other (and mostly larger) prairies protected as state preserves in Iowa. As a vegetation remnant, AHP protects tallgrass prairie taxa and their gene pools, maintains an example of historically abundant (but now scarce) tallgrass prairie vegetation, and provides citizens an opportunity to experience prairie.
El Buen Vivir, una propuesta con potencialidad global
Authors: Acosta Alberto 
Published: July 2016

<p>Esta presentación editorial referida al “Buen Vivir”, parte con exponer el estilo de vida dominante en la actualidad, sustentado premisas de explotación y exclusión antropocéntrica. Donde el crecimiento económico no garantiza el “desarrollo” ni asegura la felicidad. Toda vez que las brechas se mantienen entre ricos de pobres y junto a ello, las confrontaciones socio ambientales. Su origen es la riqueza de pocos que casi siempre termina con la explotación de grandes mayorías. Lo paradójico, es que, parte de estas mayorías ni siquiera tienen, <em>privilegio</em> de ser explotados sino solo se quedan en el imaginario de alcanzar mejores niveles de vida en algun momento. Se pone a debate el Buen Vivir en plural, donde la coexistencia de modelos culturales dominantes y dominados con ideologías y utopías específicas. El discurso del Buen Vivir se construyó como un modelo cultural moderno (autónomo y racional) alternativo con una utopía propia. En ella, se sostiene que no se trata de “vivir mejor” (mejor que otros, de manera indefinida y no sostenible), se trata de construir alternativas al Mal Vivir. Para las que se requiere una auténtica democratización del poder que tienda a abrir la puerta para construir un proyecto emancipador. </p><p> </p><p> </p>