bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of peripheral arterial disease in type 2 diabetic patients using computed tomography angiography
Authors: Salih Mohamed , Gameraddin Moawia , Yousef Mohamed , Malik Bushra Abdel , Alshammari Qurain Turki , Bilal Dalia 
Published: May 2024

Background:
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has broad characteristics and various complications.

Aim:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate PAD in T2DM and their association with age, gender, and the duration of T2DM.

Materials and Methods:
This study is a prospective cross-sectional one conducted at the radiology department in Royal Care International Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan, over 3 years. A total of one hundred and ten patients, 69 males and 41 females, were examined using MDCT. A binary logistic regression test was applied to identify independent predictors of PAD.

Results:
PAD in T2DM is found to be 50.91% atherosclerosis, 43.64% plaques, 29.09% stenosis, and 14.55% thrombosis (mean age 65.84 ± 9.57 years; mean duration of T2DM 29.37 ± 6.7 years). The prevalence of PAD was common in patients over 60-year-old. Atherosclerosis is significantly higher in males than females (59.4% vs. 36.6%, 95% confidence interval = 1.092–5.600, P = 0.03%). Plaques and stenosis of lower-extremity arteries were higher in males than females 44.9% vs. 41.5% and 29.0% vs. 29.3%) respectively. The incidence of thrombosis was higher in femoral arteries than lower distal arteries, and the prevalence was higher in females than males (22% vs. 10.1%, odds ratio = 2.228), respectively.

Conclusion:
Atherosclerosis, plaques, stenosis, and thrombosis were the most common PAD findings in patients affected with T2DM. Age, gender, and duration of diabetes, relatively risk factors associated with PAD. Thrombosis is more prevalent in the femoral artery than lower distal arteries.
Economic burden of obstetric fistula among patients in the National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Nigeria
Authors: Dattijo Lamaran Makama , Kabuga Nasir , Aminu Muhammad Bafah , Umar Nasir Ibrahim 
Published: May 2024

Background:
Obstetric fistula (OF) continues to be a major health problem in developing countries such as Nigeria. It is a communication between the vagina and bladder/rectum following prolonged obstructed labor that leads to urine/and fecal leakage per vaginam. There is a paucity of information on cost of accessing care by women with OF.

Objective:
The study was to evaluate the cost implications of accessing care and treatment among women with OF in the National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Ningi Bauchi, state.

Materials and Methods:
A prevalence-based cost-of-illness approach was employed in this study to estimate the cost of fistula treatment from the patients' perspective. Data on costs of health-care utilization of services rendered to the patients in the facility and indirect costs were estimated. The data were analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS V21).

Results:
A total of 75 women participated in the study. The total costs incurred by all the 75 patients amounted to Nigerian Naira (NGN) 8211640.00 (USD 26923.41). The average cost of accessing care for fistula per patient was NGN109488.50 (USD 358.98). Direct cost accounted for 5751740.00 (USD 18858.16), whereas the indirect cost was 2785600.00 (USD9133.11). There was a significant difference in cost of care between patients that were teenagers compared to those who were not (P = 0.04) and the type of treatment (P < 0.001).

Conclusions:
The cost of illness of OF is high in the studied area, and the patients are from the low socioeconomic background. Both the direct and indirect costs were high relative to the national minimum wage in Nigeria. The age of the patients and the type of treatment received by the patient accounted for the differences in cost of illness between the patients.
EFEKTIFITAS PERUBAHAN KURIKULUM TERHADAP TUJUAN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DI INDONESIA
Authors: Wahyuni Sri , Giantara Febri 
Published: May 2024

Kurikulum merupakan sebuah perencanaan dan panduan dalam proses pembelajaran di berbagai jenjang Pendidikan dalam mencapai tujuan dari sebuah pendidikan. Cakupan kurikulum diantaranya materi pembelajaran, metode dalam mengajar, penilaian dan mengembangkan keterampilan pada siswa. Perubahan kurikulum yang terjadi berungkali dalam satu daswarsa ini membuat tujuan Pendidikan Islam di Indonesia juga mengalami perubahan. Selain itu, dampak negatif perubahan kurikulum juga dirasakan oleh siswa, guru dan orang tua. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain meta analisis untuk mengetahui pengaruh dari penerapan beberapa model kurikulum yang mengalami perubahan dari waktu ke waktu. Adapun hasil penelitian ini adalah bahwa Indonesia perlu mempersiapkan diri dalam menyusun, menghasilkan serta mengevaluasi kurikulum yang digunakan secara matang agar menghasilkan dan mencapai tujuan pendidikan nasional yang bermutu serta mengedepankan nilai-nilai Pendidikan Islam di dalam penyusunan kurikulum.
Comparison of pain perception among university students using musculoskeletal injury scenarios: a vignette study
Authors: Yıldız Ziya , Başkurt Ferdi , Başkurt Zeliha , Çimen Murat 
Published: May 2024

Objective: The intensity of pain experienced in sports or daily life injuries can be perceived differently in different social environments. The aim of this study is to compare the perceived intensity of pain in sports and daily life musculoskeletal injuries among university students with different social backgrounds.
Methods: Pain beliefs of 521 university students (309 physical education and sport, 212 physical therapy and rehabilitation students) were evaluated using the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire. Pain fear was evaluated using the Fear of Pain Questionnaire-III Scale. Perceived pain intensity was measured using vignette scenarios of musculoskeletal injuries in sports and daily life. The students were grouped according to department, gender, and professional sports branch.
Results: A significant difference was found in pain psychological beliefs between groups (p<0.01). Psychological pain beliefs of women were lower than men (p<0.01). Estimated pain intensity in vignettes containing sport injury scenarios was found to be higher in women than men (p=0.01). A strong positive correlation was found between fear of pain and pain intensity in both sport and daily life vignettes (p=0.001). Individuals who are professionally involved in sport activities reported higher pain intensity in daily life scenarios (p=0.01).
Conclusion: The vignette method can be used to determine pain intensity in musculoskeletal injuries for different genders. Women are more sensitive in perceiving and determining pain intensity. Professional athletes did not yield high scores to sport vignettes, despite giving high scores to daily life vignettes. This may suggest that the sport social environment normalizes pain from sport injuries.
Komentar: Sejauh Manakah Keupayaan Penyelidikan Malaysia Menyumbang Kepada Pembangunan Kuasa Nasional?
Authors: Mohd Salleh Norsaleha 
Published: May 2024

Isu lambakan penyelidikan di Malaysia yang terperap dalam jurnal telah mendapat perhatian dari banyak pihak. Beberapa punca dan penyelesaian kepada masalah ini telah dilontarkan namun realiti ini tidak akan dapat diubah sekiranya punca sebenar masalah ini tidak dikenal pasti dan ditangani dengan tepat. Isu timbunan penerbitan hasil kajian dalam jurnal ini turut membuka semula wacana tentang pelbagai isu lain seperti isu petunjuk prestasi utama atau KPI pensyarah yang lebih menekankan aspek kuantiti penerbitan dan sitasi, isu penarafan atau ranking universiti, isu monopoli syarikat penerbitan kapitalis, isu penyelidikan yang tidak selari dengan kehendak industri serta isu birokrasi dalam hubungan kerjasama antara universiti dan industri. Bagaimanapun, semua isu ini sebenarnya hanya simptom kepada penyakit yang lebih kritikal untuk dirawat iaitu keterbatasan kehendak dan keupayaan penyelidikan nasional yang terperangkap dalam kerangka keilmuan Barat sehingga menyekat potensi sebenar negara untuk mencapai kuasa nasional.

The issue of an overabundance of research in Malaysia burried in journals has garnered attention from many parties. Several causes and solutions to this problem have been presented, but this reality will not change unless the root cause of the issue is identified and addressed accurately. The issue of the piling of research publications in journals also reopens the discourse on various other issues, such as the key performance indicators (KPIs) for lecturers that emphasize the quantity of publications and citations, university ranking, the monopoly of capitalist publishing companies, research that is not aligned with industry demands, and the bureaucracy in the collaboration between universities and industries. However, all these issues are merely symptoms of a more critical condition that needs to be treated, which is the limitation of the national research agenda and capacity trapped within the framework of Western scholarship, thereby hindering the country's true potential to achieve national power.
EFEKTIVITAS MEDIA BOOKLET TERHADAP PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP IBU BALITA TENTANG PEMBERIAN MAKANAN BAYI DAN ANAK DI POSYANDU TERATAI MEKAR DESA SELACAI KECAMATAN CIPAKU KABUPATEN CIAMIS TAHUN 2023
Authors: Wina Pusfita Sari  , Sulistyoningsih Hariyani 
Published: May 2024

Latar Belakang: Stunting merupakan masalah gizi kronis di Indonesia yang menjadi prioritas untuk diselesaikan. Tahun 2022 prevalensi stunting di Ciamis sebesar 3,4% dan di Puskesmas Cipaku sebesar 1,2%. Stunting pada balita dapat terjadi karena pemberian makan yang tidak tepat pada anak, sehingga pemerintah mendorong program Pemberian Makan Bayi dan Anak (PMBA). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas media booklet terhadap pengetahuan dan sikap ibu balita tentang pemberian makanan bayi dan anak (PMBA) di posyandu teratai mekar Desa Selacai Kecamatan Cipaku Kabupaten Ciamis tahun 2023. Metode Penelitian : Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan desain quasi eksperimental, pre post one group test. Populasi yaitu ibu balita yang ada di wilayah posyandu Teratai Mekar berjumlah 58 orang. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan total sampling. Instrumen penelitian menggunakan kuesioner, serta booklet PMBA. Analisis data secara univariat dilakukan untuk mendeskripsikan masing-masing variabel yang diteliti, sedangkan analisis bivariat menggunakan Uji Wilcoxon. Hasil Penelitian : rata-rata skor pengetahuan ibu sebelum mendapatkan edukasi sebesar 2,21 dan sesudah edukasi 5, rata-rata skor sikap ibu sebelum mendapatkan edukasi sebesar 4,33 dan sesudah edukasi sebesar 6. Nilai signifikansi untuk kedua variable adalah 0,000. Terdapat perbedaan pengetahuan dan sikap ibu sebelum dan sesudah mendapatkan edukasi menggunakan media booklet. Saran: keluarga balita hendaknya meningkatan pengetahuan tentang PMBA dengan cara mengakses informasi salah satunya media booklet tentang PMBA yang disediakan di fasilitas kesehatan. Puskesmas Cipaku dapat meningkatkan pemanfaatan media booklet dalam melakukan edukasi kesehatan kepada masyarakat, dan bagi peneliti lain dapat melakukan penelitian untuk melihat efektivitas media edukasi lain dalam peningkatan pengetahuan dan sikap masyarakat.
PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN IBU HAMIL TENTANG PENCEGAHAN STUNTING MELALUI MEDIA EDUKASI VIDEO TRADISI NUJUH BULANAN DI DESA CIKUNIR TAHUN 2022
Authors: Hartiningrum, SST, M.Kes Chanty Yunie 
Published: May 2024

Latar Belakang : Stunting adalah suatu kondisi gagal tumbuh pada anak dibawah lima tahun yang disebabkaan karena kekurangan gizi kronis, yang membuat anak tumbuh terlalu pendek menurut usianya. Terjadinya stunting merupakan proses yang terjadi secara kumulatif sejak masa kehamilan. Salah satu penyebabnya adalah tingkat pengetahuan ibu yang kurang tentang nutrisi dan kesehatan sebelum, selama, dan setelah kehamilan. Metode Penelitian : Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh ibu hamil yang ada di Desa Cikunir. Pengumpulan data primer diperoleh langsung dari responden melalui kuesioner. Analisis data menggunakan analisis Uji T di karanakan data berdistribusi normal. Hasil Penelitian : Dari hasil penelitian didapatkan hasil rata rata nilai sebelum edukasi adalah 43,17 sedangkan sesudah edukasi meningkat menjadi 65.83. Nilai probabilitas/p value uji T Paired: Hasil = 0,000 Artinya: ada perbedaan antara sebelum dan sesudah perlakuan. Sebab: Nilai p value < 0,05 (95 % kepercayaan). Dengan adanya pemberian edukasi melalui media edukasi video tradisi nujuh bulanan ibu hamil dapat meningkatkan derajat kesehatanya dengan mengkonsumsi makan-makanan yang kaya akan mengandung gizi sesuai dengan kebutuhan ibu selama kehamilan.Sarana Pemberian edukasi melalui media edukasi video tradisi nujuh bulanan ibu hamil dapat meningkatakan pengetahuan ibu hamil terhadap pencegahan stunting melalui berbagai metode berbeda-beda dan di sesuaikan dengan budaya masing-masing yang ada di Indonesia.
Transformation of the accountant profession in the context of the development of the "digital economy"
Authors: Курманбаева С.Т. , Садыкова А.Н. 
Published: May 2024

В статье поднимается вопрос трансформации этой профессии в новых, «цифровых», условиях День за днем новые технологии проникают во все большее число сфер общественной жизни. Бухгалтерское дело не осталось без внимания, теперь информационные технологии напрямую связаны с профессией бухгалтера.
Мақалада осы мамандықты жаңа, "сандық", күн сайын жаңа технологиялар қоғамдық өмірдің көптеген салаларына енеді. Бухгалтерлік іс назардан тыс қалмады, енді Ақпараттық технологиялар бухгалтер мамандығымен тікелей байланысты.
The article raises the question of the transformation of this profession in new, "digital" conditions, Day after day, new technologies penetrate into an increasing number of spheres of public life. Accounting has not been left without attention, now information technology is directly related to the profession of an accountant.
Colin Gunton’s Trinitarian Theology of Culture
Authors: Picard Andrew 
Published: May 2024

Whilst upholding some of the criticisms of Colin Gunton's work, this incisive book argues that there is a Hauptbriefe in Gunton reception that assumes his early classic works, The One, the Three and the Many and The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (1st ed), are definitive of his project and fail to engage adequately with the progressions in Gunton’s later thought. Instead, this book offers a fresh reading of Gunton by giving greater prominence to his later writings, which are centred in the mediation of the Son and the Spirit in creation.
Andrew Picard argues that Gunton’s trinitarian theology of culture emerges from his later trinitarian theology of mediation, creation, Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology. Exploring these doctrinal foci enables an understanding of Gunton’s account of faithful human culture as embodied worship; a living sacrifice of praise which contributes to the divine redemption and perfection of creation. It is the church’s particular calling to embody such praise through its visible life in community. The study concludes by intersecting Gunton’s theology with the social sciences to critique ableism and consider the politics of the church’s belonging in community.
The Iranian Christian Diaspora
Authors: Römer Benedikt 
Published: May 2024

Over the past few decades, whilst evading severe governmental restrictions in Iran, the Iranian Evangelical diaspora has grown across Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, the US and the UK. Far from the censorship of the Islamic Republic, Iranian Evangelical pastors and ministers publish Persian-language Christian magazines and online videos with the aim to reach the transnational Iranian Christian community, as well as potential converts in Iran. This book explores notions of nationhood and diasporic dwelling in the religious narratives and practices of Iranian Christian exilic communities, showing how claims to the authenticity of a distinct Iranian-Christian identity are constructed.
Examining abundant source material available in the Iranian Christian exilic milieu, the book draws extensively upon five unstudied series of Persian-language Christian exile magazines published between the early 1990s and the 2020s, Persian-language video material and a number of interviews with Iranian Christian pastors with leadership positions in the Iranian Christian diaspora. These sources demonstrate the significance of exile and religious affiliation as key factors shaping diasporic images of the homeland and visions of a future return. Benedikt Römer weaves the history and contemporary story of the Iranian Christian community together, placing it in the context of a wider ongoing religious transformation in Iranian society.
Language, Cognition, and the Way We Think
Authors: Kompa Nikola A. 
Published: May 2024

The cognitive potency of the human mind can be fully appreciated only if it is conceived of as a linguistic mind. This is the starting of Nikola Kompa’s investigation into the relationship between language and cognition.
Underpinned by philosophical ideas from Plato to Ockham, and from Locke to Vygotsky, Kompa use theories within the philosophy of language, mind, and cognitive science and draws on neuro-psychology and psycholinguistic studies within cognitive studies to explore core ideas about language and cognition. How did language transform our ancestors into creatures of considerable cognitive and social accomplishment? How does language augment cognition? Is language only a means of communicationg our ideas or is a means of thinking itself? Her study has repercussions for a broad range of questions, from how humans differ from other animals and what a cognitive architecture looks like if it approximates the achievements of the human mind, to questions of education and cross-cultural communication.
Theorizing and forming hypotheses about how language and cognition might have coevolved, how the availability of (symbolic) labels enhance various cognitive functions, what the cognitive function of inner speech might be and how inner speech an thought relate to each other, Kompa addresses the perennial philosophical question of what the benefits of having a language might be, and brings into sharper relief the intimate connection between linguistic and other cognitive functions. Informed by recent discussions on language evolution, labels, and inner speech, this timely contribution helps us understand more about how language changes the way we think.
Early Childhood Education in Social and Political Transitions
Authors: Klaus Sarah , Peeters Jan , Vonta Tatjana 
Published: May 2024

This open access book is about the successes and challenges of the institutions and individuals who transformed early child education in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (CEE) and Eurasia in response to the political transitions to democracy in the 1990’s. Through new interviews and unpublished reports, the book gives voice to committed practitioners, researchers and policymakers who are developing inspiring services for and with young children and their families, including children who live in very difficult circumstances. They work with children affected by war, refugee families with young children, children who live in poverty, children of minorities, and children with disabilities and developmental delays. The voices of these pedagogues, experts and NGO leaders, who were supported by the Open Society Foundations Early Childhood Program, bring inspiring messages to those in the field of early childhood seeking to promote democratic values and social inclusion. The book traces the extension of programs to Africa and Asia and explores how strategies used to transform early childhood education following the political and social transformations in Europe and Eurasia can inform responsive reforms and innovations in early childhood education today and in the future.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Open Society Foundation (OSF).
The Archaeology of Amazonia
Authors: Iriarte José 
Published: May 2024

This open access book examines the untold human history of the Amazon rainforest, from the arrival of the earliest humans to the present. A spate of recent discoveries in unexplored regions and technological breakthroughs have allowed us to peer through the forest canopy to the earth below, revealing an entirely new picture of Amazonian past, which overturns the long-held assumption of a virgin rainforest.
This book demonstrates how Amazonia’s current diversity of landscapes and people are deeply rooted in prehistory with lasting repercussions on today’s rainforests. Among the major achievements of ancient Amazonian peoples were the domestication of globally important crops, including manioc, cacao, rice, yams and sweet potato, manufactured America’s first ceramics, engineered the landscape for sustainable food production, built massive geometric ceremonial structures, and had distinctively complex, early urban polities that can rival any civilization of antiquity.
Amazonia is currently facing a crisis and lessons from its traditional peoples are more urgent than ever. The extraordinary archaeological discoveries of recent years are not just spectacle, but represent the history of a way of life that is rapidly disappearing, and on which the Amazonian rainforest as a major reservoir of biodiversity, and in turn all humanity, depends. By connecting the past to the present and bringing to light the critical role of today’s indigenous and traditional lands in providing a barrier to deforestation under current climate and political pressures, The Archaeology of Amazonia lays out the way ahead to a more socially responsible future of rainforest management.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.
Theory for Theatre Studies: Light
Authors: Wilcox Dean 
Published: May 2024

What properties of light can be manipulated for aesthetic effect? What role does the perception of the audience play in how stage information is received and processed? How do changes in technology affect methods or approaches to design and practice?
This book is designed to introduce key ideas about light and to generate questions and perspectives that will encourage readers to explore light in the theatre more fully in their own critical and creative practices.
Examining the theories behind stage lighting practice to help students learn to analyse the aesthetic and critical impacts of light in performance, this book traces the development of lighting practice by focusing on important shifts in technology and aesthetics from the classical period to the modern era.
Central to this study are ideas developed by ‘New Stagecraft’ theorists and designers Adolphe Appia, Edward Gordon Craig and Robert Edmond Jones. Case studies include semiotic approaches to Loïe Fuller’s combination of light, movement and costume, Robert Wilson’sEinstein on the Beachand Tadashi Suzuki’sThe Trojan Women. Further case studies including the installation work of James Turrell and Refik Anadol, the Winston Salem Light Project and David Byrne’sAmerican Utopia,examine the use of light in theatrical and non-theatrical spaces by focusing on phenomenology, community engagement and the evolution of lighting technology.
A companion website features links to images, chapter summaries, questions and further resources for study.