bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Studying different surgical methods in the management of pulmonary hydatid cysts for five years at Al-Mujtahid Hospital
Authors: Alhabachi Fatima , AlZoubi Lama , Alkhayer Issam 
Published: February 2024

Abstract

Research objective:
To study and analyze the surgical methods used to treat hydatid cysts in Al-Mujtahid Hospital for a period of five years, including new techniques and compare them to determine the best methods to treat this condition effectively and safely.
Place of study:
Damascus (Al-Mujtahid) Hospital, Damascus, Syria.
Duration of study:
for a period of five years from 5/5/2019 to 5/10/2023.
Study design:
retrospective cross-sectional.
Patients:
221 patients visiting Al-Mujtahid Hospital with pulmonary hydatid cyst disease.
Results
The percentage of single cysts was 66.5%, while the percentage of multiple cysts was 33.5%, and the percentage of cysts on one side and two sides was 85.1% and 14.9%, respectively, and the percentage of symptomatic cysts was 96.8%, while the rest of the cases were asymptomatic (by chance), and the percentage of complications ( Pneumonia, rupture, bleeding, vomiting, abscess) 39.4%, and the percentage of the presence of a right cyst was 47%, while the percentage of the presence of a left cyst was 41%, and both were 11%, 66.5% of the cysts were single, and the most common treatment method was by cyst puncture at a rate of 56.1%, and 65%. 2% of patients had fistulas closed. There is no significant effect of the patient’s sex, age, medical history, presence of extrapulmonary cysts, multiple cysts within the lung, affected lung, symptomatic or not, and the number of cysts on the type of surgical procedure. There is a significant effect of cyst complications on the type of surgical operation.
Conclusion
The optimal surgical management appropriate to the patient's condition must be chosen, with fewer complications, and work to preserve the lung and prevent removal of any part of it.
Expression of Concern: Construction of community health care integration using artificial intelligence models
Authors: Zhou Chen , Zhou Ping , Xiaolan Xuan 
Published: February 2024

ABSTRACT
In the information age, there's a growing need to improve eldercare services for the mobile elderly population. Current Chinese eldercare often separates medical and nursing care, leading to low resource use. This study aims to integrate community healthcare with data analysis and intelligent coordination to meet the floating elderly's needs. Using a Stacking model, it identifies key indicators and develops a mobile terminal based community healthcare model. Results show that primary indicators are crucial, scoring between 4.48−5.00, with secondary and tertiary indicators also significant. The KMO value is 0.93, confirming the model's validity. Compared to traditional methods, this new approach enhances accuracy by 7%, offering a valuable framework for community-based eldercare integration in China.
Evaluation of spatiotemporal variation of water quality in China: a study on the effectiveness of the River Chief System
Authors: Zhao Gaolei , Cheng Xiaolong , Tian Shimin 
Published: February 2024

Abstract

The River Chief System (RCS) is an institutional innovation launched to prevent and control water pollution. Its implementation has attracted much attention because it is a government-led effort to solve China's complex water problems. This study analyzed the characteristics and trends of four water quality (WQ) parameters, including pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), permanganate index (CODMn), and ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N), which were determined weekly from samples collected at 150 WQ monitoring stations in the Chinese rivers and lakes. The minimum WQ index (WQImin), Mann–Kendall test, wavelet analysis, and ArcGIS software were applied to evaluate the spatiotemporal variation of WQ before and after the implementation of the RCS, taking the main second-order basins and lakes in China as the research unit. The results demonstrated that CODMn and NH3-N were the main factors exceeding WQ. After the performance of the RCS, the WQ of each sub-basin and lake was improved, basically reaching the Class Ⅲ standard threshold; the WQImin values of sub-basins and lakes were above the ‘very bad’ level, where the proportion of ‘good’ was 68.09%, an increase of 52.38%. The spatial distribution of the trend coefficient of WQImin showed an upward trend, with the maximum trend coefficient being 4.99/a.
ACCESSIBILITY TO WORKPLACE AND HOUSING LOCATION CHOICE AMONG THE LOW-INCOME GROUP: A CASE STUDY OF PULAU PINANG, MALAYSIA
Authors: Rosli Hafizah , Samat Narimah , Abu Bakar Mohd Azmeer 
Published: February 2024

When deciding where to reside, households must consider several factors of accessibility, including proximity to their workplace and other aspects of accessibility that are necessary for their family. This study aims to examine job accessibility, evaluate the extent of accessibility, and identify the specific type of accessibility that low-income groups prioritise when choosing where they want to reside. A total of 306 respondents from the Pulau Pinang eKasih list for 2016 were chosen to participate in the survey using the quantitative approach. The study established a correlation between the availability of career opportunities and the decision-making process involved in selecting a residential area. In addition, the accessibility to the city centre and supermarkets are identified as significant variables in determining the choice of home site. Nevertheless, the degree of accessibility on the island part of Pulau Pinang is not consistent. The southwest district has a lower level of accessibility to the city centre and supermarkets in comparison to the northeast district. The authorities should formulate a strategy to attain a balanced and harmonic state between housing growth and the average distance to job locations, city centres, and supermarkets. By strategically planning home building in appropriate locations, the quality of life, especially for low-income households, would be improved.
ON RELOCATION OF SETTLEMENT AFTER THE CIANJUR EARTHQUAKE AND LANDSLIDE 2022
Authors: Sabita Aulia Putri , Amhar Fahmi , Fatchurohman Hendy 
Published: February 2024

An Earthquake and landslide occurred in Cianjur, Indonesia, in November 2022. This resulted in a lot of losses, both fatalities and the disappearance of some settlements. Relocation would be obligatory as post-disaster mitigation policies for areas with highest disaster threats. This research was conducted to find its relocation areas. The method used is overlay and scoring by utilizing GIS applications. The used data are rainfall data, slope, geological maps, Cianjur earthquake hazard maps, fault line buffering, and supervised classification of land cover/use maps. Analysis of the results in the form of landslide hazard maps and disaster safety maps. The search for the expected relocation area is carried out by overlaying a disaster-safe map with residential areas, so that a post-disaster residential relocation recommendation map is produced with five classes, namely very good, good, medium, bad, and very bad. An analysis is also carried out for directions for the use of the affected area for the very bad class used as a protected area and no buildings are allowed on it. Bad class is not allowed to live on it, but can be used for social activities, plantations and paddy fields. The moderate vulnerability class can still be used as a residence, economic centre, or other social activities. Meanwhile, the safe and very safe vulnerability classes do not have any land use restrictions.
Separate principles of the employer’s motivation for digitization in the field of work
Authors: Shvets N. M. 
Published: February 2024

Under today’s conditions, every third employee uses digital technologies at work. In order to be competitive on the labor market, a modern worker must possess knowledge in the field of using information and communication technologies in the course of performing his/her work function, and increase the level of his/her digital literacy in the process of professional development.
The definition of digitization in the field of labor is given as a process of introducing information technologies into the activities of an enterprise, institution, organization, thanks to which there is interaction and communication between the employee and the employer, between the employer/employee and state bodies; between the employer/employee and the trade union; between the employer/employee and consumers, suppliers, etc.
The employer’s motivation to introduce modern innovative technologies in the field of labor is outlined. The generalized goal of digitalization in the field of work is formulated and the specific goals of digitalization of work processes are highlighted. So, in general, the goal of the digitization of the labor process is to modernize the format of the relationship between the employee and the employer, between the employee and state institutions, between the employer and state bodies, taking into account the global challenges of the digitalized society.
The advantages of digitization are listed: 1) thanks to modern software, the productivity of the employee increases significantly; 2) saving time; 3) reduction of production costs; 4) positive image of the enterprise, which works on modern innovative technologies; 5) loyalty of customers, visitors; 6) innovativeness in production and management processes; 7) improvement of digital qualification, digital literacy of employees.
It lists the specific skills and abilities of workers in almost all industries that are becoming in demand in a digitalized society.
It was established that the employee’s digital skills should be constantly improved during trainings and professional development courses.
Certain circumstances are outlined that are essential for establishing a balance between the employee’s right to privacy at the workplace and the employer’s right to video surveillance of a subordinate.
Combating organized crime with criminal legal measures
Authors: Angelutsa N.P. , Negoda A.S. 
Published: February 2024

One of the main functions of the state is to ensure the safety of the individual, society and the state. In Ukraine, organized crime is one of the primary threats to national security. Criminal law norms, which are norms - prohibitions, affect the effectiveness of counteraction by law enforcement agencies and special services to organized crime as a socially dangerous, historically changing, relatively mass, social phenomenon. It should be noted that in the conditions of martial law, manifestations of terrorism, banditry, the creation of illegal paramilitary, armed formations, and criminal communities pose a direct threat to national security. Changes in its level, structure, and dynamics (increasingly) are evidenced by statistical data, in particular, the number of recorded criminal offenses. The purpose of the article is to analyze the criminal law norms that establish criminal responsibility for the commission of offenses in organized forms, and based on the analysis to show a comprehensive vision of the possible criminal law consequences for the person guilty of committing the specified illegal acts.
Elucidation of the concept of organized crime as a criminological phenomenon, identification of organized forms of committing criminally illegal acts, limits of responsibility of each of the accomplices (perpetrator, organizer, accomplice, instigator). Determination of the specifics of criminal liability and the rules for imposing punishment on persons who, as part of an organized group or criminal organization, committed a serious or particularly serious crime, combined with violence against the victim, during the performance of a special task to prevent or uncover the criminally illegal activities of these associations. Expanded definition of the concept of «organizer», analysis of articles of the Criminal Code establishing responsibility for various types of organized associations (criminal organization, criminal community, gang, terrorist group or terrorist organization, paramilitary or armed formation), determination of dispositions of criminal law norms, where «organized group» is a qualifying or particularly qualifying feature of the composition of a criminal offense undoubtedly affects the effectiveness of combating the phenomenon of organized crime. But the terminological inconsistency of individual normative legal acts does not help, and in some places complicates it, and does not provide an opportunity to clearly define all the components of organized crime in order to increase the effectiveness of the application of criminal law measures to combat crime as one of the directions of state policy.
Atypical features of the Austrian model of criminal law protection of circulation of medical devices
Authors: Berzin P. , Volynets R. , Frolova O. 
Published: February 2024

The article examines the atypicality of the Austrian model of criminal law protection of the circulation of medical products and medical devices. The authors note that the acts of foreign criminal legislation distinguish types of criminal offenses that encroach on pharmaceutical activity, which to a certain extent coincide with those provided for in the Criminal Code of Ukraine. At the same time, it is the Austrian model of protection of circulation of medical products and medical devices that most successfully, as the analysis of acts of foreign criminal legislation shows, demonstrates the legislator’s approach to the normative and legal regulation of this sphere of circulation.
The authors note that there are certain factors that influence the atypicality of the Austrian model, namely: a) the legislative definition of the concept of pharmaceutical products, since the content of this concept “legislatively outlines” the limits of criminal protection and affects the mechanism of ensuring this protection; b) determination of the limits of criminal protection of medical devices depending on the requirements of the Austrian Federal Law on Medical Devices (Bundesgesetz betreffend Medizinprodukte) dated October 28, 2021.
The article focuses on the fact that Austrian legislation provides legal protection of medical devices as a mandatory component of pharmaceutical activity despite the fact that the mentioned Austrian Federal Law on Medical Devices does not contain an independent “exhaustive definition” of the concept of medical devices, as is done, for example, in the German Medical Products Act of Austria (Gesetz uber Medizinprodukte) as amended on August 7, 2002.
The authors note that the atypicality of the Austrian “model” of criminal protection of medical devices is due to the fact that the Austrian Federal Law on Medical Devices in its § 80 contains provisions on “administrative punishment (Verwaltungsstrafe)” for violation of the established order of circulation of medical products, which (prescriptions ) affect the provision of criminal protection of medical products and its limits.
The article focuses on the characteristics of the “administrative penalty (Verwaltungsstrafe)” in the system of Austrian law, which is an independent type of measures of an administrative and legal nature.
Features of the functioning of the committee on issues of integration of the advocacy system of Ukraine in the EU at the national association of lawyers of Ukraine
Authors: Kuzmenko O.V. , Sichko N.P. 
Published: February 2024

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the functioning of the committee on the integration of the Ukrainian legal system in the EU at the national association of lawyers of Ukraine. It is noted that at the National Association of Lawyers of Ukraine, appropriate Committees are created for the purpose of effective regulation of the activities of the Institute of Advocacy. Each of the formed Committees has its own status, tasks, principles and functions of activity, organizational structure and regulates certain legal relations in the field of advocacy. Committees of the National Bar Association of Ukraine have the status of permanent advisory bodies formed under the National Bar Association of Ukraine by order of the Chairman of this organization, the Bar Council of Ukraine, or by decision of the Bar Council of Ukraine.
It is noted that the purpose of the creation of the Committee by the National Association of Lawyers of Ukraine is to define the implementation of European legal standards for the law enforcement activities of Ukraine, European integration and interaction with European institutions on the development of the legal profession, the establishment of the principle of the rule of law and the provision of human rights in Ukraine, the promotion of Ukrainian lawyers in professional development and promotion qualifications in Ukraine and abroad.
It was concluded that, unfortunately, the normative acts of the Bar Council of Ukraine do not regulate the functions of the Committee on Integration of the Bar System of Ukraine in the EU under the National Bar Association of Ukraine. However, in our opinion, its main functions can be: 1) analysis and study of European legal standards related to advocacy; 2) development of recommendations and proposals for adaptation and implementation of these standards in Ukraine; 3) providing training and informing lawyers about European standards and norms; 4) interaction with authorities and other interested parties to support the integration of the Ukrainian legal profession into the European legal space; 5) promotion and protection of the rights and interests of lawyers in the context of European standards, etc.
That is why further adaptation to European standards is important to ensure compliance of the Ukrainian legal profession with international requirements and improve the quality of legal services. This organization helps in solving issues related to the harmonization of the regulatory and legal environment and providing lawyers with the necessary knowledge and skills. Its activities contribute to the improvement of cooperation between lawyers and European colleagues, and also strengthen the status of lawyers in Ukraine in the international arena.
Virtual assets as a tool for legalization of property obtained through criminal means: a comparative legal aspect
Authors: Kamensky D.V. , Tytarenko S.S. 
Published: February 2024

The article deals with separate issues of legal evaluation and ways to counter dangerous practices of using virtual currencies in the course of legalizing property obtained through criminal means. The research analysis is based on the principle of interdisciplinary research with an active appeal to international and separately foreign experience of combating the legalization of criminal income through the use of transactions with cryptocurrencies.
The position is argued, referring to specific examples of large-scale “financial-virtual” abuses, that Ukraine also needs to develop its own clear action plan regarding the legal regulation of the circulation of virtual assets, in particular by implementing effective national mechanisms to prevent (or at least reduce) money laundering practices of money obtained by criminal methods, taking into account the immediate threats to the financial system of Ukraine from the actions of a country that carries out armed aggression against our state.
It was stated that although legal scholars traditionally have different approaches to the interpretation of the phenomenon of legalization of criminal income, there is still no complete understanding and definition of it, since money laundering can be considered as a multi-level phenomenon (as a crime, action, process, technology, stage, method and procedure, type of business activity, etc.), in scientific and practical circles, a common, established approach is to distinguish three main stages in the laundering of criminal proceeds: location, concealment and integration. It is shown that these stages cannot be equally applied to legalization schemes implemented using fiat or virtual currencies.
In the final part of the article, the authors emphasized that the improvement of the domestic model of combating practices of legalization of money obtained by criminal methods should be implemented primarily by improving the regulatory framework and the system of organizational and legal measures to combat such practices by national regulators and individual departments of law enforcement agencies; at the same time, the criminal law component in the process of introducing proposed changes should have a conditionally secondary, auxiliary value.
Mediation as a cognition: a synergistic approach
Authors: Havrylyuk R.O. , Patsurkivskyy P.S. 
Published: February 2024

The article critically assesses the generally accepted understanding of mediation as the settlement of a conflict (dispute) by the subjects of intersubjective relations by themselves with the help of a mediator. The author substantiates the cognitive nature of mediation. The purpose of the article is to analyze mediation as a living (cognitive) system. The specific objectives of the study are as follows: to clarify the instrumental capacity of the synergistic approach for analyzing mediation as a living (cognitive) system; to analyze the purpose, nature and content of mediation as cognition; to reveal the information matrix of mediation. The authors chose the synergistic paradigm as the methodological basis of the study.
In pursuit of the aim and specific objectives of the study, the following main results were obtained: mediation as a self-referential nonlinear procedural system belongs to the genus of cognitive systems. The subjects of cognition in it are its parties. The most adequate methodological tool for its cognition, given the purpose of the article and the specific objectives of the study, is the synergistic paradigm. Synergetic discourse is carried out with the help of a category and conceptual apparatus that is unique to it. Among the basic approaches of synergetics are the concepts of attractor, bifurcation, entropy, information, dissipative structures, order and chaos, systemic openness, and some others, which make it possible to analyze mediation as cognition. A fundamental feature of this cognition is that its subjects do not set themselves special cognitive tasks. These subjects reflect on their common intersubjective practices and the meanings of these practices and the experience gained in them, which led to a conflict (dispute) between them. Cognition, which is carried out within the paradigmatic framework of mediation as a system, is discursive and hermeneutic in nature. The key heuristic tool in it is information. The meaning of this cognition is the acquisition and use of the necessary information by the system. Its purpose is to develop and introduce the necessary correlations into the jointly acquired experience and, as a result, to achieve a qualitatively new state of dynamic balance of mutual goals and interests of the subjects of the intersubjective relationship, to overcome the state of dynamic chaos of the system and to establish a new dynamic order in it.