bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The impact of water vapor thermal therapy of the prostate (rezūm) on sexual functions: a narrative review
Authors: Katib Atif , El Esaily Khaled 
Published: February 2024

Background: Senile prostate enlargement is an age-related condition. Many sexually active patients fear formal prostate surgeries owing to their negative impact on sexual performance. Minimally invasive procedures, including prostate water vapor thermal therapy (Rezūm®), were devised to make ends meet. This study aims to present a comprehensive narrative synthesis about the impact of prostate water vapor therapy on sexual functions.
Methods: A narrative literature review was performed in May 2023, using MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Ovid-Embase, Scopus, Science Direct, and Google Scholar; for the MeSH term “rezum AND sexual functions”. Selected reports were published articles from 2018 to date (the last 5 years). Only open-access journals in English were analyzed. Efforts were made to focus on the 2 main domains of sexual functions; erection and ejaculation.
Results: As per the concise MeSH term “rezum AND sexual functions”, a score of 207 hits appeared on the initial search. After eliminating duplicate and irrelevant papers, only 7 articles fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were subjected to analysis. The analyzed articles were critically appraised to point out the studies` strengths and limitations. The gathered data were found to be consistent with one another as no outliers were detected.
Conclusion: Water vapor thermal therapy of the prostate showed satisfying preservation of erectile function with minimal ejaculatory dysfunction.
ANALISIS EFEKTIFITAS PENERAPAN ENHANCED RECOVERY AFTER CESAREAN SECTION (ERACS) TERHADAP NYERI DAN MOBILISASI DINI PADA PASIEN POST-SC DI RS HERMINA JATINEGARA
Authors: Nurani Intan Asri , Huda Mega Hasanul , Argarini Diah 
Published: February 2024

ABSTRACTThere are a number of side effects that can occur after the surgery is completed,including pain.Caesarean section (CS) method requires longer time to heal uterinewounds than normal delivery, therefore early mobilization is an attempt togradually bath the patient for the post-CS mother to speed up recovery so that themother can perform optimal care for her baby. Enhanced Recovery AfterCaesarean Surgery (ERACS) is a phase of the perioperative protocol aimed atenhancing post-CS and subsequent recovery. The study assessed the impact of theEnhanred Recovery after Cesarean Section (ERACTS) protocol on the rate of painand early mobilization in the first 24 hours in post-CS patients at HerminaJatinegara Hospital. The study is a quantitative research approach and usesexperimental Quasi Experimental Design, with the research design used isNonequivalent Control Groups Design. The study uses the t-test to find out therelationship between the characteristics of two groups with the N-gain Score toknow the impact of ERACS on the rate of pain and early mobilization. Keywords: ERACS, Sectio, Pain, Mobilization ABSTRAKAda beberapa efek samping yang dapat muncul setelah proses operasi selesai,termasuk rasa sakit. Metode sectio caesar (SC) membutuhkan waktu penyembuhanluka rahim yang lebih lama dari persalinan normal, oleh karena itu mobilisasi dinimerupakan upaya memandikan pasien secara bertahap bagi ibu pasca-SC untukmempercepat pemulihan sehingga ibu dapat melakukan perawatan yang optimaluntuk bayinya. Enhanced Recovery After Caesarean Surgery (ERACS) adalahtahap protokol perioperatif yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pasca-SC yangakibatnya pulih. Penelitian ini mengevaluasi pengaruh protokol EnhancedRecovery After Cesarean Section (ERACS) terhadap tingkat nyeri dan mobilisasidini dalam 24 jam pertama pada pasien pasca-SC di RS Hermina Jatinegara.Penelitian ini merupakan pendekatan penelitian kuantitatif dan menggunakanmetode penelitian kuasi eksperimen (Quasi Experimental Design), dengan desainpenelitian yang digunakan adalah Nonequivalent Control Groups Design.Penelitian ini menggunakan uji-t untuk mengetahui hubungan antara karakteristik2 kelompok dengan N-gain Score untuk mengetahui pengaruh ERACS terhadaptingkat nyeri dan mobilisasi dini. Kata Kunci: ERACS, Sectio, Nyeri, Mobilisasi.
Intersectionality of Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, Disability and Other Social Identities in Shaping the Experiences and Opportunities of Marginalized Groups in Ukraine
Authors: Ivanov Bondarenko 
Published: February 2024

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the intersectionality of gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and other social identities in shaping the experiences and opportunities of marginalized groups.
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: Intersectionality recognizes how various social identities intersect to shape the experiences of marginalized groups, acknowledging compounded disadvantages. For instance, a Black woman may face discrimination based on race and gender simultaneously, affecting her access to opportunities. This framework emphasizes considering intersecting identities in analyzing social issues and advocating for inclusive policies. It underscores the need for understanding the interconnected nature of oppression and inequality.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Intersectionality theory, social identity theory & critical race theory may be used to anchor future studies on the intersectionality of gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and other social identities in shaping the experiences and opportunities of marginalized groups. Organizations should adopt inclusive practices that recognize and value the diverse identities and experiences of individuals. Policymakers should design and implement policies that address the intersecting needs of marginalized groups
The Neural Correlates of Creativity and Innovation in Various Domains and Contexts in Germany
Authors: Lina Alice 
Published: February 2024

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the neural correlates of creativity and innovation in various domains and contexts.
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: Neuroscientific studies reveal that creativity and innovation engage diverse brain networks, including those governing divergent thinking and cognitive flexibility. These processes show consistent neural activation patterns across different domains, suggesting a universal basis for creativity regardless of context. Environmental factors, like novelty exposure and social interactions, also play significant roles in shaping neural activity underlying creative thinking.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Conceptual blending theory, network theory of creativity & four-stage model of creativity may be used to anchor future studies on the neural correlates of creativity and innovation in various domains and contexts. Practical implications of understanding the neural correlates of creativity and innovation can inform the design of interventions and training programs aimed at fostering creative thinking skills. Policymakers can leverage insights from research on the neural correlates of creativity to inform decision-making processes related to education, workforce development, and innovation policy.
How Social Welfare Programs Impact Mass Immigration in Norway and Canada
Authors: Mehta Aarush 
Published: February 2024

This research paper examines the effectiveness of social welfare policies in managing mass immigration in Norway and Canada. With increasing global migration, countries face the challenge of integrating immigrants while sustaining their welfare systems. Norway emphasizes state-centered support, facilitating immigrants' rapid integration through comprehensive social welfare programs. This approach promotes socio-economic well-being and labor market participation, fueled by a commitment to social solidarity and inclusive group boundaries. Additionally, Norway invests in education and language training, ensuring immigrants' long-term self-sufficiency.
Canada, on the other hand, employs an inclusive approach, providing equal access to a range of welfare programs tailored to immigrants' needs. This strategy fosters a sense of belonging and self-reliance among immigrants, reducing their reliance on government assistance. While both nations offer unique insights, their approaches achieve success through different avenues: Norway prioritizes rapid integration and social cohesion, while Canada focuses on fostering self-sufficiency and reducing welfare dependence. The study underscores the need for evidence-based policy decisions that strike a balance between immigrants' needs and sustainable welfare systems. By understanding the successes and challenges of mass immigration policies, policymakers can create comprehensive and effective strategies that promote integration, social cohesion, and economic well-being.
Refreshing the Tree of Liberty: An Introduction to the Case Against Gun Control
Authors: Johnson Michael , Kerns Justin 
Published: February 2024

This paper analyzes the Second Amendment regarding whether or not it affirms an individual the right to own firearms by looking at previous Supreme Court rulings and the historical context in which the Second Amendment was written: coming to the conclusion that it does support an individual’s right to bear arms. Gun control measures, including but not limited to assault weapon bans, red-flag laws, and licensing, are reviewed by looking at how the policies work and what the effects of each are. The data on these measures were ultimately found to have no conclusive evidence supporting an inverse relationship between gun control measures and violent crime. Ethical concerns relating to gun control measures were analyzed by establishing an ethical framework of natural rights. This framework leads to the conclusion that gun control measures such as assault weapons bans, red-flag laws, and licensing are unethical on the grounds of violating natural rights. This paper also looks at the effectiveness of bans and restrictions advocated by gun control advoactes and compares them to bans and restrictions that were previously and or currently in effect in American history. Concerns on gun policy such as public safety, the defensive usage of firearms, and common arguments for gun control are analyzed and critiqued in this paper.
Arab tilini o’qitishning muammolari Toshkent Davlat universiteti
Authors: Махмуд Ахмад Мухаммад 
Published: February 2024

Arab tili qadimiy sivilizatsiya uchun konteyner, chuqur ta'sirga ega. U sobit va uzoq tarixga ildiz otgan til, lekin mavjud nuqson ona tilisi arab tili bo'lmaganlar uchun ta'lim sohasida yaqqol namoyon bo'ladi. Mutaxassislar va unga qiziquvchilar oldida turgan muhim muammo esa tadqiq qilishdir. Shuning uchun men ushbu maqolada eng mashhur arab tili o'qituvchilari va talabalari bilan bog'liq muammolar ta'limotni ko'taraman. Va men bu maqolada arab tilini o'rganishning qiyinchiliklarini yengib o‘tishga hissa qo‘shishi mumkin bo‘lgan yechimlarni ilgari surishga va bu tilning qirralarini oshkor qilish va yangilangan xususiyatining turli fanlarda moslashishini namon qilishga harakat qilaman
Code of Ethics and Professional Standards of Conduct for Emergency Management Professionals
Authors: Smith Sandy Maxwell , Feldmann-Jensen Shirley 
Published: February 2024

The Code of Ethics and Professional Standards of Conduct for Emergency Management Professionals (2022) was recently created to further delineate the ethical boundaries and conduct expectations for professional emergency management practice. Significantly, the code of ethics provides an essential foundation toward recognition as a profession with hallmarks of monopoly, autonomy, and authority.
The code and standards of conduct establish a clear definition of the role emergency management has in overseeing a complex, diverse risk portfolio that protects lives, livelihoods, and quality of life. The document captures the intent, challenges, dimensions, and significance of emergency management practice in a rapidly changing world and brings ethics to the forefront of decisions. This article speaks to the discursive dialogue toward, methodological development of, and future tools for integrating into practice the Code of Ethics and Professional Standards of Conduct for Emergency Management Professionals.
Listeners' convergence towards an artificial agent in a joint phoneme categorization task
Authors: Nguyen Noël , Lancia Leonardo , Huttner Lena , Schwartz Jean-Luc , Diard Julien 
Published: February 2024

This study focuses on inter-individual convergence effects in the perception and categorization of speech sounds. We ask to what extent two listeners can come to establish a shared set of categorization criteria in a phoneme identification task that they accomplish together. Several hypotheses are laid out in the framework of a Bayesian model of speech perception that we have developed to account for how two listeners may each infer the parameters that govern their partner’s responses. In our experimental paradigm, participants were asked to perform a joint phoneme identification task with a partner that, unbeknownst to them, was an artificial agent, whose responses we manipulated along two dimensions, the location of the categorical boundary and the slope of the identification function. Convergence was found to arise for bias but not for slope. Numerical simulations suggested that lack of convergence in slope may stem from the listeners’ prior level of confidence in the variance in VOT for the two phonemic categories. This study sheds new light on perceptual convergence between listeners in the categorization of speech sounds, a phenomenon that has received little attention so far in spite of its central importance for speech communication.
Progesterona para bloqueio hipofisário na indução da ovulação – possibilidades de emprego
Authors: Ribeiro Diogo Isabela , Oliveira Soares Renata , Wolff Machado Vanessa 
Published: February 2024

Os protocolos convencionais de reprodução assistida utilizam análogos do hormônio liberador de gonadotrofinas (GnRH) nas etapas de supressão pituitária, entretanto, possuem limitações (efeitos colaterais gerados, custo elevado, necessidade de injeções subcutâneas e longo tempo de estimulação). O objetivo desse trabalho foi apurar as possibilidades de emprego dos progestagênicos na estimulação ovariana controlada como uma opção para substituir os análogos do GnRH. Foi realizada uma revisão de escopo nas bases de dados MEDLINE, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde e Science Direct. Foram selecionados artigos publicados de janeiro/2015 a maio/2022, sem restrição de idioma. 35 estudos foram selecionados. Progestinas avaliadas: acetato de medroxiprogesterona, didrogesterona, desogestrel e progesterona natural micronizada em diferentes concentrações. Quinze estudos compararam o protocolo com preparado de progestinas (PPOS) com os antagonistas do GnRH, 6 compararam o PPOS com os agonistas do GnRH, 14 avaliaram o uso de diferentes progestinas ou com outra dosagem da mesma progestina ou com o citrato de clomifeno. As pesquisas incluídas envolveram 11.684 pacientes com idade média de 30 anos, ciclo menstrual regular nos últimos 3 meses e indicação para realização de fertilização in vitro. O protocolo PPOS se mostrou alternativa viável e efetiva para a supressão do pico do hormônio luteinizante durante a estimulação ovariana controlada, apresentando vantagens: mais amigável às pacientes, apresenta melhor custo-benefício, menos associado a efeitos adversos, taxas reduzidas de Síndrome da Hiperestimulação Ovariana, além de ser altamente comparável com o protocolo convencional quanto ao número de oócitos obtidos e ao desfecho gestacional.
A FALTA DE INTERESSE DOS EDUCANDOS PELOS ESTUDOS NOS TEMPOS ATUAIS
Authors: Lima Herison Batista de , Sales Martinele Marinho de França , França Dayse Danielly Cordeiro de Oliveira 
Published: February 2024

Nos dias atuais a falta de interesse nos estudos, por parte dos estudantes, vem expandindo, com o passar do tempo, na mesma proporção que a tecnologia avança, que a modernidade se apresenta, que as telas, cada vez com novos recursos, crescem, onde surge a cada dia uma rede social nova, com inúmeros atrativos, nessa mesma velocidade à vontade dos educandos em estudar vem diminuindo, de forma inversamente proporcional, as tecnologias avançam e o interesse pelos estudos restringem, onde na realidade, era para estar ampliando, para que pudesse acompanhar o ritmo do desenvolvimento da sociedade atual, porém essa mesma modernidade, as telas, as redes sociais, vem tirando a vontade do educando em estudar, devido a vários fatores que iremos aprofundar e tentar descobrir, através desse artigo, o motivo pelo qual os estudantes vem perdendo o interesse pelos estudos, nesse sentido decidimos ouvir os professores, de várias disciplinas, seja do ensino infantil, ensino fundamental e ensino médio, através de um questionário, para que possamos averiguar e entender o motivo dessa falta de vontade em estudar por parte dos discentes, entender o papel da família e da escola, se os mesmos estão juntos proporcionando uma melhor qualidade no ensino dos educandos, ou se estão contribuindo para essa falta de interesse em progredir nos estudos.
Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model
Authors: Yoon Jim , Voisin Nathalie , Klassert Christian , Thurber Travis , Xu Wenwei 
Published: February 2024

Abstract. Large-scale hydrological models (LHMs) are commonly used for regional and global assessment of future water shortage outcomes under climate and socioeconomic scenarios. The irrigation of croplands, which accounts for the lion's share of human water consumption, is critical in understanding these water shortage trajectories. Despite irrigation's defining role, LHM frameworks typically impose trajectories of land use that underlie irrigation demand, neglecting potential dynamic feedbacks in the form of human instigation of and subsequent adaptation to water shortages via irrigated crop area changes. We extend an LHM, MOSART-WM, with adaptive farmer agents, applying the model to the continental United States to explore water shortage outcomes that emerge from the interplay between hydrologic-driven surface water availability, reservoir management, and farmer irrigated crop area adaptation. The extended modeling framework is used to conduct a hypothetical computational experiment comparing differences between a model run with and without the incorporation of adaptive farmer agents. These comparative simulations reveal that accounting for farmer adaptation via irrigated crop area changes substantially alters modeled water shortage outcomes, with US-wide annual water shortages being reduced by as much as 42 % when comparing adaptive and non-adaptive versions of the model forced with US climatology from the period 1950–2009.
Links between seasonal suprapermafrost groundwater, the hydrothermal change of the active layer, and river runoff in alpine permafrost watersheds
Authors: Qin Jia , Ding Yongjian , Shi Faxiang , Cui Junhao , Chang Yaping , Han Tianding , Zhao Qiudong 
Published: February 2024

Abstract. The seasonal dynamic of the suprapermafrost groundwater significantly affects the runoff generation and confluence in permafrost basins and is a leading issue that must urgently be addressed in hydrological research in cold and alpine regions. In this study, the seasonal dynamic process of the suprapermafrost groundwater level (SGL), vertical gradient changes of soil temperature (ST), moisture content in the active layer (AL), and river level changes were analyzed at four permafrost watersheds in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau using comparative analysis and the nonlinear correlation evaluation method. The impact of freeze–thaw processes on seasonal SGL and the links between SGL and surface runoff were also investigated. The SGL process in a hydrological year can be divided into four periods: (A) a rapid falling period (October to mid-November), (B) a stable low-water period (late November to May), (C) a rapid rising period (approximately June), and (D) a stable high-water period (July to September), which synchronously respond to seasonal variations in soil moisture and temperature in the AL. The characteristics and causes of SGL changes significantly varied during these four periods. The freeze–thaw process of the AL regulated SGL and surface runoff in permafrost watersheds. During period A, with rapid AL freezing, the ST had a dominant impact on the SGL. In period B, the AL was entirely frozen due to the stably low ST, while the SGL dropped to the lowest level with small changes. During period C, ST in the deep soil layers of AL (below 50 cm depth) significantly impacted the SGL (nonlinear correlation coefficient R2 > 0.74, P < 0.05), whereas the SGL change in the shallow soil layer (0–50 cm depth) showed a closer association with soil moisture content. Rainfall was the major cause for the stable high SGL during period D. In addition, the SGLs in periods C and D were closely linked to the retreat and flood processes of river runoff. The SGL contributed approximately 57.0 %–65.8 % of the river runoff changes in the period D. These findings will help to facilitate future hydrological research in the permafrost basins and the development and utilization of water resources in cold and alpine regions.