bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Influence of prosthodontic rehabilitation and dietary advice on glycaemic control, nutritional status and oral health‐related quality of life of older adults with type 2 diabetes
Authors: Brígido Jandenilson Alves , da Rosa Wellington Luiz de Oliveira , Lund Rafael Guerra 
Published: July 2024

ObjectivesThis prospective clinical study aimed to determine the influence of oral prosthodontic rehabilitation with partial removable dentures and simplified dietary advice on glycaemic control, nutritional status and oral health‐related quality of life (OHRQoL) of older adults with type 2 diabetes.BackgroundIndividuals with tooth loss who did not wear complete or partial dentures are more likely to be at nutritional risk, suggesting that using dental prostheses would benefit the re‐establishment of an adequate nutritional status and potentially improve quality of life. Nutritional therapy is essential for diabetes prevention, treatment and management, favouring glycaemic control. The literature provides little evidence on the contribution of partial removable dentures to improving diabetes control, nutritional profile and satisfaction in older adults, especially those with type 2 diabetes.Materials and MethodsOlder individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus, aged 60 years or older and needing oral rehabilitation with partial removable dentures were eligible for this prospective study. The primary outcome measure was glycaemic control, measured by glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels. The Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP‐14) questionnaire and the Mini Nutritional Assessment short‐form (MNA‐SF) represented secondary outcome measures. These measures were assessed at baseline and 12 months of follow‐up after prosthesis delivery, combined with simple dietary advice in pamphlet form. The data were analysed using the Wilcoxon matched‐pairs test.ResultsForty‐four patients who met the inclusion criteria and required treatment with removable partial dentures were selected for this study, which was carried out for a year. During this period, seven participants declined to participate because they moved to another city. Hence, a final sample of 37 participants (16 men and 21 women, average age of 65.8 years, ranging from 60 to 83 years) were included in the study. No laboratory parameter (HbA1c levels) changed significantly during the investigation. The number of older adults at risk of malnutrition was significantly lower at 12 months than at baseline. Furthermore, nutritional status significantly improved 12 months after prosthodontic treatment combined with dietary advice, and the effect sizes were large. OHRQoL significantly improved after prosthodontic therapy combined with dietary advice.ConclusionsProsthodontic treatment with partial dentures associated with simple dietary advice did not influence glycaemic control but improved the nutritional status and OHRQoL of older adults with type 2 diabetes.
The mediating role of psychological well‐being on the effect of fear of future violent events at work on nurses’ intention to migration
Authors: Güneş Deniz , Günaydin Nevin , Amarat Mustafa 
Published: July 2024

AbstractAimTo evaluate the effect of the fear of violence of nurses working in Turkey on their intention to migrate and to examine the mediating role of psychological well‐being on this effect.BackgroundMany countries are concerned about nurses’ fear of violence and their intention to migrate. The fear of violence at work may influence nurses’ intention to migrate. Additionally, psychological well‐being may impact this process. However, the impact of the fear of violence at work on the intention to migrate, as well as the moderating effect of psychological well‐being in a nursing context, is not well understood.MethodsWe conducted this cross‐sectional study on a sample of 221 nurses from two public hospitals. We collected survey data between November 2022 and January 2023 using three scales. We analyzed the data using SPSS, AMOS, and HAYES. We followed the STROBE statement guidelines for cross‐sectional studies.ResultsNurses reported a moderate intention to migrate and a moderate to high level of fear of violence and psychological well‐being. Fear of violence is positively associated with the intention to migrate. Mediation analyses indicated that the association between fear of violence and intention to migration was mediated by psychological well‐being.Discussion and conclusionThe fear among nurses of being exposed to violence increases their intention to migrate. However, high psychological well‐being can reduce this intention.Implications for nursing and health policyNursing managers, policymakers, and decision‐makers need to take serious precautions against the fear of violence in the future and make necessary improvements for nurses who witness violence. To achieve this, it can begin by paying attention to the high psychological well‐being of each nurse.
The work of palliative care from the perspectives of district nurses: A qualitative study
Authors: Robinson Jackie , Goodwin Hetty , Williams Lisa , Anderson Natalie , Parr Jenny , Irwin Rebekah , Gott Merryn 
Published: July 2024

AbstractAimTo explore the work of palliative care from the perspectives of district nurses with a focus on the strategies they use to achieve positive outcomes for patients.DesignAn exploratory descriptive qualitative study.MethodsA combination of group and individual interviews using semi‐structured interviewing were used to explore district nurses' views of providing palliative care across two large urban community nursing services.ResultsSixteen district nurse participants were interviewed. Three key themes were identified: “Getting what was needed” involved finding solutions, selling a story and establishing relationships. District nurses sought ways to “Stay involved” recognizing the benefit of delaying discharge for some patients. “Completing a nursing task” was a way of managing time constraints and a form of self‐protection from having difficult conversations.ConclusionThis study highlights the importance of understanding the contextual nature of the practice setting in relation to the provision of palliative care. In doing so, it has revealed the strategies district nurses use to overcome the challenges associated with providing palliative care within a generalist workload.Implications for the Profession and/or Patient CareDistrict nurses experience a tension between managing high patient workloads and remaining patient centred in palliative care. Being task focused is a way of remaining safe while managing a high volume of work and is not always a negative factor in the care they provide. However, focusing on a task while at the same time addressing other unmet needs requires a set of skills that less experienced nurses may not have.ImpactPalliative care education alone will not improve the quality of palliative care provided by generalist community district nurses. The practice context is an important factor to take into consideration when supporting the integration of palliative care in district nursing.No Patient or Public ContributionNo patient or public contribution was made to this study.Reporting MethodWe have adhered to the relevant EQUATOR guidelines and used the COREQ reporting method.
Septal late enhancement by cardiac CT is associated with repeat ablation in nonischemic cardiomyopathy patients
Authors: John Leah A. , Divakaran Sanjay , Blankstein Ron , Batnyam Uyanga , Suranyi Pal , Gregoski Mathew , Cochet Hubert , Peyrat Jean‐Marc , Cedlink Nicolas , Kabongo Luis , Soré Bruno , Schoepf Joseph , Sauer William H. , Winterfield Jeffrey R. , Tedrow Usha B. 
Published: July 2024

AbstractIntroductionScar substrate in nonischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) patients is often difficult to identify. Advances in cardiac imaging, especially using late iodine‐enhanced computed tomography (LIE‐CT), allow better characterization of scars giving rise to ventricular tachycardia (VT). Currently, there are limited data on clinical correlates of CT‐derived scar substrates in NICM. We sought assess the relationship between scar location on LIE‐CT and outcomes after radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) in NICM patients with VT.MethodsFrom 2020 to 2022, consecutive patients with NICM undergoing VT RFCA with integration of cardiac CT scar modeling (inHeart, Pessac, France) were included at two US tertiary care centers. The CT protocol included both arterial‐enhanced imaging for anatomical modeling and LIE‐CT for scar assessment. The distribution of substrate on CT was analyzed in relation to patient outcomes, with primary endpoints being VT recurrence and the need for repeat ablation procedure.ResultsSixty patients were included (age 64 ± 12 years, 90% men). Over a median follow‐up of 120 days (interquartile range [IQR]: 41–365), repeat ablation procedures were required in 32 (53%). VT recurrence occurred in 46 (77%), with a median time to recurrence of 40 days (IQR: 8–65). CT‐derived total scar volume positively correlated with intrinsic QRS duration (r = .34, p = 0.008). Septal scar was found on CT in 34 (57%), and lateral scar in 40 (7%). On univariate logistic regression, septal scar was associated with increased odds of repeat ablation (odds ratio [OR]: 2.9 [1.0–8.4]; p = 0.046), while lateral scar was not (OR: 0.9 [0.3–2.7]; p = 0.855). Septal scar better predicted VT recurrence when compared to lateral scar, but neither were statistically significant (septal scar OR: 3.0 [0.9–10.7]; p = 0.078; lateral scar OR: 1.7 [0.5–5.9]; p = 0.391).ConclusionIn this tertiary care referral population, patients with NICM undergoing VT catheter ablation with septal LIE‐CT have nearly threefold increased risk of need for repeat ablation.
Stable isotopes reveal trophic ontogeny in Cisco (Coregonus artedi)
Authors: Martin Benjamin E. , Mrnak Joseph T. 
Published: July 2024

AbstractCisco (Coregonus artedi) are a widespread, cold‐water zooplanktivore native to North America. Although Cisco are generally referred to as an “obligate zooplanktivore,” there is some evidence that the species exhibits considerable variability in trophic niche. Here, we assessed how Cisco body size relates to trophic position, that is, trophic ontogeny. We analysed 13C and 15N isotopes from Cisco ranging from 127 to 271 mm in body length (n = 66) from Trout Lake, Vilas County, Wisconsin, USA. 15N isotopes showed smaller Cisco had a trophic position of ~3, which steadily increased to ~3.5 for larger Cisco. Further, 13C isotope signatures showed Cisco transitioned to be more pelagically reliant (lower 13C signatures). Using gillnet catch data, we found that larger Cisco were using deeper habitats than smaller Cisco. Our results support that Cisco have significant variability in trophic niche even though they are traditionally thought of as an obligate planktivore. Overall, we emphasize that researchers should be cautious when generalizing Cisco trophic function, particularly when considering the broader food web.
Skills and knowledge therapists need to work with foster youth and families: According to key stakeholders in child welfare
Authors: Linville Deanna , Ruff Saralyn , Morgan Kaycee , Zilberstein Karen 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThe current study relied on community‐based participatory action research and qualitative methodology to explore the necessary skills and knowledge psychotherapists need to work effectively with foster youth and their families. In this study, the research team conducted interviews and focus groups with stakeholders (n = 48) in child welfare to learn how to support therapeutic relationships with foster youth clients. Using qualitative content analysis, the research team identified eight categories for needed knowledge and/or skills, such as collaboration with and inclusion of others in a client's system; flexibility and open‐mindedness to individualize care follow the client's lead; and a solid understanding of trauma and attachment supported by therapist training and regular consultation specifically around foster care. These findings offer tangible suggestions for skills that psychotherapists can learn and practice in order to support beneficial mental health services for foster youth.
Cell type‐specific and subcellular expression of phospholipid phosphatase‐related proteins to modulate lyso‐phosphatidic acid synaptic signaling in the developing and adult CNS
Authors: Polyzou Alexandra , Fuchs Joachim , Kroon Cristina , Kotoula Androniki , Delis Foteini , Turko Paul , Antoniou Katerina , Eickholt Britta , Leondaritis George 
Published: July 2024

AbstractLysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a bioactive phospholipid that participates in critical processes in neural development and adult brain function and is implicated in various pathophysiological conditions. Along with its six well‐characterized receptors, atypical regulators of LPA signaling have also been suggested, including phospholipid phosphatase‐related proteins (PLPPRs). PLPPRs have been mostly studied in the developing brain where they control LPA‐dependent axon guidance, cortical network hyperexcitability, and glutamatergic neurotransmission. PLPPR4 and PLPPR3 represent two closely related proteins reported to localize predominantly in dendrites and axons, respectively, and differ in their developmental expression patterns. Herein, we have revised the expression patterns of PLPPRs in the cerebellum, dorsal and ventral hippocampus, prefrontal cortex (PFC), nucleus accumbens, and striatum during development and in the adult using quantitative PCR. Expression patterns of Plppr2,4 and 5 were consistent with previous studies, whereas Plppr3 and Plppr1 exhibited a unique expression profile in nucleus accumbens (NAc) and striatum in later developmental and adult stages, which we verified at the protein level for PLPPR3. To investigate neuron type‐specific expression at the single cell level, we developed a bioinformatic tool to analyze recent single‐cell RNA‐sequencing data in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus of adult mice. Our analysis revealed a widespread but also selective adult neuron‐type expression with higher expression levels of Plppr3, Plppr1, and Plppr5 in GABAergic and Plppr4 and Plppr2 in glutamatergic neurons. PLPPR4 has been identified as a post‐synaptic modulator of LPA levels in glutamatergic synapses operating via an uptake mechanism, to control LPA‐dependent cortical network hyperexcitability. Using subcellular fractionation experiments, we found that both PLPPR4 and PLPPR3 are co‐expressed in adult synaptosomal membranes. Furthermore, flow cytometry experiments in HEK293 cells showed comparable LPA uptake by PLPPR4 and PLPPR3, whereas PLPRR3, but not PLPPR4, induced also uptake of monoacylglycerol, the dephosphorylation product of LPA. We propose that synaptic LPA may be subject to both pre‐synaptic and post‐synaptic mechanisms of regulation by PLPPRs in addition to LPARs in developing and adult synapses.image
Ontogeny of the masticatory muscles in the opossum Didelphis albiventris (Marsupialia, Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae)
Authors: Abreu Juann A. F. H. , Astúa Diego 
Published: July 2024

AbstractOpossums (marsupials of the Didelphidae family) retain a generalized masticatory apparatus and tribosphenic molars, often used as models to understand the evolution of mastication in early therian mammals. Like all marsupials, their growth goes through a stage when pups complete their development while permanently attached to the mother's teats before weaning and starting feeding on their own. Yet, while the masticatory muscles of adults are known, as is the ontogeny of the cranium and mandible, the ontogenetic changes in the masticatory muscles remain unknown. Here we describe for the first time the changes in the masticatory muscles observed in lactating pups, and weaned juveniles, subadults, and adults in the White‐eared opossum, Didelphis albiventris, through dissection of 25 specimens and quantification of relative muscle masses, lines of actions and mechanical advantages whenever possible. We also assessed the scaling patterns of muscle masses and mechanical advantages through ontogeny. The main changes, as expected, were found between suckling and weaned specimens, although some changes still occurred from juveniles to adults. The adult adductor musculature is similar to the other Didelphis species already known, with a dominant m. temporalis that originates on the lateral wall of the skull, up to the sagittal and nuchal crests, and fills the zygomatic arch when inserting into the lateral and medial surfaces of the coronoid process, respectively through the pars superficialis and pars profunda. The m. masseter is also subdivided in superficial and deep bundles which originate posteriorly in the maxilla and zygomatic arch, and insert into the angular process and masseteric fossa in the mandible. The m. pterygoideus medialis originates from the palatine, the pterygoid bone and the alisphenoid, and it inserts on the angular process medially. Suckling pups showed muscles with more restricted attachments, reduced muscle lines of action, and less diversity in the fiber orientation. The absence of the postorbital constriction also resulted in a distinct morphology of the m. temporalis pars profunda, through two bundles, one anterior and one posterior, which insert more inferiorly into the mandible. These major changes can be related to the onset of mastication and to size‐related changes in growing weaned age classes. In general, all adductor muscles grew with positive allometry, and increased their fixation areas through, in part, the development of specific regions of the cranium and mandible. Their lines of action also increase and diversify along ontogeny. These changes can be related to the functional requirements for fixation during lactation, which shift to adduction and mastication movements after weaning.
How does failure normalization foster product innovativeness in new product development? The role of passion and learning
Authors: Tao Xiangming (Tommy) , Ucbasaran Deniz 
Published: July 2024

AbstractTolerating failure has gained recognition as a crucial catalyst for product innovation. However, there is a limited understanding of how and under what conditions project leaders' perceptions of failure normalization—the norms regarding failure in their work environment—can enhance product innovativeness in the context of new product development (NPD). Drawing upon sensemaking and motivation theories, we propose a moderated mediation model to address this research gap. Data were collected from 181 high‐tech ventures in China, with responses gathered at three different time points from matched respondents. Utilizing moderated path analysis and the Monte Carlo method, our findings reveal that failure normalization primarily fosters product innovativeness by facilitating learning from failure. Importantly, this positive effect is contingent upon the project leader's passion for inventing. A profound passion for inventing significantly enhances NPD leaders' motivation to learn from failures, thereby acting as a pivotal factor that determines whether failure normalization promotes or impedes product innovativeness. This research thus elucidates the previously inconclusive relationship between failure normalization and product innovativeness as presented in the literature. It underscores the dual importance of organizational culture (specifically, failure normalization) and individual motivation (specifically, the passion for inventing) in driving learning and innovation within the NPD process. The practical implications of these findings are significant for high‐tech ventures seeking to enhance their NPD outcomes. Specifically, cultivating an organizational culture that perceives failure as an opportunity for learning, coupled with recognizing and fostering the passion for inventing among NPD project leaders, can boost NPD product innovativeness.
Open innovation under authoritarianism: The case of the Soviet Union
Authors: Lebedenko Svitlana 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThe Soviet Union was a productive and technologically developed economy. It achieved a remarkable transformation from a feudalistic society to an advanced industrial society. How was it able to do this? This article argues that such rapid industrialisation was possible because the Soviets invested in legal institutions that created a special kind of open and highly coordinated innovation system confined to national borders. These legal institutions remain underappreciated in Western intellectual property scholarship. The article reassesses the Soviet legal institutions, by explaining their functions and effects on knowledge flows. It also conceptualises the Soviet reward system as having elements of an ‘economy of esteem’. The article is informative not only as a revisited historical account on the Soviet regulation of innovation, but also as one that teaches much about the modern models of innovation in market economies.
Hayek, Buchanan and the justification of the market
Authors: Sugden Robert 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThis paper discusses the work of two twentieth‐century liberal economists, Friedrich Hayek and James Buchanan, who have made lasting contributions to our understanding of the role of the market in a free society. I argue that they offer significantly different but complementary visions of the value of the market as a system of individual freedom. Hayek's vision is of the price system as a marvel of spontaneous order which solves a fundamental economic problem – that of making efficient use of a totality of knowledge that is divided between individuals. Buchanan's vision is of the market as a space in which individuals are free to make voluntary exchanges. In his words, ‘this is all that there is to it’: the market is not a solution to any collective problem. These visions have a common blind spot. Both writers recognise the need for programmes of social insurance and consider how they should structured so as to be as compatible as possible with the workings of a market economy and a liberal democracy. But, I argue, neither sees the full importance of social insurance in a justification of the market system.
Development of parenting difficulties in infectious disease pandemic inventory
Authors: Tsai Ching‐Shu , Hsiao Ray C. , Lin Chung‐Ying , Yen Cheng‐Fang 
Published: July 2024

AbstractBackgroundThe objective of this study was to develop the Parenting Difficulties in Infectious Disease Pandemic Inventory (PDIDPI) for the assessment of parenting difficulties during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic and to examine its psychometric properties.MethodsThe 31‐item PDIDPI was developed on the basis of the results of focus group interviews. An exploratory factor analysis using principal axis factoring was conducted to examine the PDIDPI factor structure. The internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach α values. The test–retest reliability was assessed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The concurrent validity was established by examining the correlations of the PDIDPI with Fear of COVID‐19 Scale and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD) scores.ResultsWe determined that the PDIDPI has seven factors: infection, school and learning, life change, care burden, daily living, health care, and emotion and behavior. The PDIDPI also had good internal consistency (α = 0.685–0.929) and acceptable test–retest reliability (ICC = 0.404–0.794). Regarding concurrent validity, the overall PDIDPI and its seven factors were all significantly associated with depression, determined by the CESD (r = 0.223–0.370), but not all factors were significantly associated with fear of COVID‐19 (r = 0.082–0.203).ConclusionsOur findings support the psychometric properties of the PDIDPI, confirming its utility for evaluating the multifaceted challenges parents face in child management during the COVID‐19 pandemic.