bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Establishing a Plan to Improve Pediatric Patient Comfort during PIV Insertions and Blood Specimen Collection: A Quality Improvement Effort
Authors: Lorenc Jamie , Flaucher Nicholas , Evans Emily , Schurman Jennifer V. 
Published: March 2024

Highlights
Patient comfort during peripheral intravenous (PIV) insertion and specimen collection was increased. The authors extended the contingency plan implemented for PICC insertion to include PIV insertion and specimen collection. The authors met their goals by using quality improvement methodology. Prioritizing patient comfort often requires institutional culture change.

Abstract

Background:
Needle procedures can cause pain and distress, especially in pediatric patients.1 Retrospective data collected at a freestanding pediatric facility revealed that approximately 30% of pediatric patients were not demonstrating sufficient levels of comfort during peripheral intravenous (PIV) catheter insertion and specimen collection (lab draws) even after successful implementation of comfort measures by the vascular access team (VAT) in an adjacent procedure (i.e., peripherally inserted central catheter placement). The current quality improvement project was implemented to support adaptation and expansion of previous lessons learned to PIVs and lab draws specifically.

Design and Methods:
The VAT used the Pediatric Sedation State Scale,2 a standardized assessment tool integrated into the electronic medical record, to assess procedural comfort during PIVs and lab draws from February 2021 through April 2023. A total of 24,134 patients aged 0 to 18 years were included in the data collection. Interventions were delivered concurrently and included (1) reeducation/ongoing support for implementation of the Comfort Promise3 measures, (2) the creation and implementation of advanced comfort options, and (3) culture change.

Aims and Objectives:
The goal of the interventions was to improve the percentage of pediatric patients achieving adequate levels of comfort beginning at 68% in year 1 to 90% in year 2.

Results:
From February 2021 to April 2023, the VAT team was able to improve procedural comfort scores from 68% to 90% of pediatric patients with adequate comfort for lab draws and/or PIV insertions.

Conclusions:
While standard comfort measures are a good first step in pain management during needle procedures, they are not sufficient for every pediatric patient. Nitrous, sedation, and the use of anxiolytics and analgesics can play an important role in reducing pain and anxiety during needle procedures and should be considered for patients not achieving adequate levels of comfort with standard comfort measures.
Personality Traits and Values of Men and Women with Different Degrees of Success Avoidance Orientation
Authors: Myagkova A. S. 
Published: March 2024

Introduction. The relevance of studying this topic is due to the insufficient knowledge of such a phenomenon as “success avoidance”. An analysis of existing studies has shown that the motive of “avoiding success” is almost not studied in comparison with the motives for achieving success and avoiding failure. Avoidance of success, in turn, has been studied only in women, and attempts have been made to establish the causes and consequences of its occurrence. In our study, for the first time, the specificity of personality traits and values of men and women with varying degrees of success avoidance orientation is considered.Purpose. The study of personal traits and values of men and women depending on the severity of the orientation towards avoiding success.Materials and methods. The study used the projective method of avoiding success by M. Horner in the modification of T. V. Bendas; the 16-factor personality questionnaire by R. B. Kettell (Form C); the Value questionnaire by Sh. Schwartz; methods of mathematical statistics (Friedman, Wilcoxon criteria).Results. The study involved 70 people – men and women aged 20 to 35 years. It has been found that women and men with a low degree of success avoidance orientation have sociability, social courage, skepticism and innovation, as well as responsibility and emotional stability; along with this, women are more anxious and sensitive, and men are more selfconfident. With a moderate degree of focus on avoiding success, women are characterized by leading values, and men are characterized by leading personality traits.Discussion. The analysis of empirical data shows that men and women who do not avoid success are characterized by almost identical personality traits, but a different value structure – women have a leading value, and the value sphere of men is conflicted. The results of this study provide a basis for discussion and additional analysis of issues related to success avoidance.
Relationship between Adaptation to the Group and to the Activity with the Personal Characteristics of Future Teachers
Authors: Ulybysheva I. N. 
Published: March 2024

Introduction. The article discusses the relationship between the indicators of adaptation to learning activities and to the student group with the personal characteristics of future teachers. This work is relevant, since existing studies have insufficiently disclosed the mechanisms of the relationship between the personal characteristics of future teachers and the level of adaptation to the conditions of study at the university. The article reveals the factors and conditions of successful adaptation, which can be used in the work of curators, mentors, heads of student groups to improve the effectiveness of students’ adaptation to the conditions of study at the university.Purpose: to study the relationship of adaptation to the group and to the activity with the personal characteristics of future teachers.Materials and methods. The study was conducted on a sample of full-time students, pedagogical training areas, consisting of 290 respondents, among whom 80 % were girls, 20 % were boys, aged 18 to 20 years. The following methods were used in the study: “Adaptation of students in higher education” by T. D. Dubovitskaya and A.V. Krylova, “Five-factor personality questionnaire by R. McCrae and P. Costa” interpreted by A. B. Khromov. Results. As a result of the analysis of the empirical data obtained and the use of the rs-Spearman correlation criterion, statistically significant correlations were revealed between the level of adaptation to the activities of teaching at the university and to the study group of students with personal characteristics. Thus, a relationship was found between the level of adaptation to university learning activities and the indicator of attachment/isolation (0.284 at rs= 0.000), as well as a correlation between the level of adaptation to the student group and indicators of extraversion/introversion (–0.521 at rs= 0.000) and expressivity/practicality (–0.125 at rs= 0.034). Discussion. An important component of successful professional training of specialists is the adaptation of students to the conditions of study at the university. Especially successful adaptation is important for students of pedagogical training areas, since their further development in the teaching profession largely depends on the success of their adaptation. The results obtained indicate that personality characteristics play one of the key roles in the adaptation of future teachers
How to measure employees’ interests so as to be a more socially-responsible employer: A proposal of a new scale and its validation
Authors: Piwowar-Sulej Katarzyna , Cierniak-Emerych Anna 
Published: March 2024

Research background: Many authors emphasize that successful human resource management (HRM) practices align with employees’ needs associated with the construct of employees’ interests. In particular, the importance of considering employees’ interests is emphasized in the process of shaping the architecture of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management (SR-HRM) systems.
Purpose of the article: The aim of the article is to contribute to understanding employees’ interests by designing and validating a measure to recognize these interests.
Methods: Through the use of literature sources and expert opinions, the authors developed a list of employee interests. Empirical data collected via the survey method in Poland was used to statistically verify the measurement scale. In particular, exploratory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modelling were applied.
Findings & value added: This article shows that it is important to create a comprehensive list of interests, as well as validate the research tool used. The newly developed scale has 22 items and five dimensions: support and development at the level of the enterprise, employee participation, support and development at the departmental level, employment security, working conditions and remuneration. It may be used in a variety of companies, as well as in complex research models, and developed further taking into consideration the context of other countries.
New Physics – The Negation of Einstein’s Theories of Relativity
Authors: Malek Abdul 
Published: March 2024

From ontological considerations alone, a new revolutionary quantum dynamical-materialist dialectical (Quantum Dialectics or QD) perspective of space-time-matter-motion achieves a new quantitative mass-energy-velocity relation for any ponderable fundamental particles. This new relation, based on the quantum uncertainty principle, gives the mass m of any free fundamental particle at its origin, in terms of the inverse cube of its velocity v. This quantitative relation is different and is a negation of the one derived from mechanical-metaphysical (Classical Mechanics or CM) approach since Isaac Newton and its relativistic post-quantum formulation of Albert Einstein. This new mass-energy-velocity relation is in conformity with known knowledge and is appropriately substantiated by the recent reports that “high-energy photons of gamma radiation from a distant galaxy arrived at Earth four minutes after lower-energy photons, although they were apparently emitted at the same time”; and another saying that “the time delays of gamma-ray photons are inversely proportional to their energy”. These findings would contradict Einstein's theory of relativity, which says that all photons (particles of light) must move at the same speed c.
QD considers matter-antimatter particle pairs in their elementary virtual forms and kinetic motion as an eternal quantum dynamical process of existence and non-existence (Being-Nothing) arising from abstract space and abstract time in a contradiction to each other. The virtual particles can transition to real particles through quantum tunnelling or when equivalent energy becomes available. Any existence in this view is a contradiction; vulnerable to change, motion, evolution, development etc. The aggregation of the elementary particles and their motions mediated by chance and necessity, give rise to the phenomenology of this infinite, eternal and ever-changing universe.
The CM approach on the contrary is based on epistemology and considers that matter (ordinary + light) and motion have an esoteric origin from the mystery of the single act of creation by God; of a finite universe in the finite past; where the premise of conservation laws and “ex nihilo nihil fit” prevail. In its relativistic version, this approach makes a fundamental difference between ponderable matter and light and in fact question the existence of particulate matter. Two axiomatic assumptions, one by Newton of one-sided universal gravitational attraction and the other by Einstein that the velocity of light c is an absolute and universal constant has brought in unphysical objects and phenomena into scientific discourse leading to century-long confusion and scholastic debates among the physicists; with no end in sight!
Resource setting impacts neonatal but not maternal survival in bitches treated for dystocia: 243 cases (2015–2020)
Authors: Zhu Cece , Timothy Clare L. , McCobb Emily , Rozanski Elizabeth A. , Schoeffler Gretchen L. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
To compare maternal and fetal outcomes of dystocia managed surgically and nonsurgically at referral hospitals (RHs) versus community medicine clinics (CMCs), determine the rate of C-section, and evaluate the incidence of hypoglycemia and hypocalcemia in bitches presented with dystocia.

ANIMALS
Bitches presented with dystocia at 2 RHs and 2 CMCs.

METHODS
Information on signalment, presence of hypoglycemia and/or hypocalcemia, diagnostic imaging performed, nonsurgical and surgical interventions performed, maternal and fetal outcomes, and total cost of care was obtained from the electronic medical records of bitches presenting for dystocia between October 2015 and October 2020. Descriptive statistics were performed and outcome compared between RHs and CMCs using a Fisher exact test, with a P < .05 considered significant.

RESULTS
230 bitches were evaluated with 243 separate episodes of dystocia, with 183 (75%) episodes treated at an RH and 60 (25%) at a CMC. There was a low incidence of hypoglycemia (5% [9/178]) and ionized hypocalcemia (1% [2/164]). Seventy-three percent (177/243) of bitches underwent surgical intervention, 25% (61/243) received nonsurgical management, and 2% (5/243) transferred to their primary veterinarian. There was no difference in survival for bitches operated at an RH compared with a CMC. However, bitches operated at an RH were more likely (P = .04) to be discharged with at least 1 live neonate.

CLINICAL RELEVANCE
In bitches diagnosed with dystocia, hypoglycemia and hypocalcemia were rare. The majority of bitches underwent a C-section. The setting where the C-section was performed did not impact maternal survival.
A novel corporate-community partnership model provides safe housing for pets of domestic violence victims
Authors: Pearce Hillary L. , Spielman Becca , Weatherwax Cassie , Pairis-Garcia Monique 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
To document and evaluate a novel partnership model of a safekeeping program for pets owned by domestic violence victims between May 1, 2021, and June 1, 2023.

ANIMALS
19 animals referred to the program.

METHODS
Procedures for identification, intake, medical and behavioral needs, and shelter of pets belonging to domestic violence victims were established and cases reviewed over the program's initial 2 years.

RESULTS
13 dogs and 6 cats belonging to 13 owners were referred to the program. Seven dogs and 1 cat were placed into foster housing. Most pets were intact. One pet had medical concerns at intake (cardiac disease and seizures). Five pets were returned to their owners after an average stay of 5.3 weeks. Two pets were rehomed to new owners.

CLINICAL RELEVANCE
Veterinarians are likely to encounter pets affected by domestic violence and may be mandatory reporters in some states. This paper will aid veterinarians and community partners to understand the challenges and pet types they are likely to encounter and how best to assist.
Measurement Approach to Evaluation of Ultra-Low-Voltage Amplifier ASICs
Authors: Ravasz Richard , Potočný Miroslav , Arbet Daniel , Kováč Martin , Maljar David , Nagy Lukáš , Stopjaková Viera 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This article presents measurement circuits and a test board developed for the experimental evaluation of prototype chip samples of the Fully Differential Difference Amplifier (FDDA). The Device Under Test (DUT) is an ultra low-voltage, high performance integrated FDDA designed and fabricated in 130nm CMOS technology. The power supply voltage of the FDDA is 400mV. The measurement circuits were implemented on the test board with the fabricated FDDA chip to evaluate its main parameters and properties. In this work, we focus on evaluation of the following parameters: the input offset voltage, the common-mode rejection ratio, and the power supply rejection ratio. The test board was developed and verified. The test board error was measured to be 38.73mV. The offset voltage of the FDDA was −0.66mV. The measured FDDA gain and gain bandwidth were 48dB and 550kHz, respectively. In addition to the measurement board, a graphical user interface was also developed to simplify the control of the device under test during measurements.
Comparison of Low-Cost GNSS Receivers for Time Transfer using Zero-Length Baseline
Authors: Doršic Marek 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
A comparison between low-cost single-frequency and dual-frequency Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver timing modules is presented, focusing on their suitability for time transfer applications. The study uses a zero-length baseline measurement approach to assess their performance and highlights the advantages of dual-frequency receivers. The clock comparison residuals between these low-cost devices and a reference receiver are analyzed. In particular, it is shown that the use of averages longer than 200s can effectively mitigate the quantization error inherent in pulse per second outputs of the timing modules. The results showcase sub-nanosecond time deviation instabilities between the reference receiver and the dual-frequency timing module. In contrast, the single-frequency module exhibits time deviations of 3.3ns at a one-day averaging interval. This research provides insights into the selection and utilization of GNSS timing modules for time transfer applications, where such modules can serve as attractive, cost-effective alternatives for applications requiring moderate accuracy.
Correlation of laminin subunit alpha 3 expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with tumor liver metastasis and survival
Authors: Xing Yueyi , Jing Xue , Qing Gong , Jiang Yueping 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

Background
The high mortality rate of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is primarily attributed to metastasis. Laminin subunit alpha 3 (LAMA3) is known to modulate tumor progression. However, the influence of LAMA3 on liver metastasis in PDAC remains unclear. This study aimed to elucidate whether LAMA3 expression is increased in PDAC with liver metastasis.

Patients and methods
We extracted information related to LAMA3 expression levels and associated clinicopathological parameters from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and four Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets. Clinicopathological analysis was performed; the Kaplan-Meier Plotter was used to evaluate LAMA3’s prognostic effect in PDAC. We retrospectively collected clinicopathological data and tissue specimens from 117 surgically treated patients with PDAC at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University. We assessed LAMA3 expression and investigated its correlation with the clinicopathological traits, clinical outcomes, and hepatic metastasis.

Results
Amplified expression of LAMA3 was observed in PDAC tissue compared with normal tissue in the TCGA and GEO databases. High LAMA3 expression was associated with poor overall survival (OS) and relapse-free survival (RFS) in patients with PDAC. LAMA3 expression was significantly enhanced in PDAC tissues than in adjacent tissues. Tumor tissues from patients with PDAC exhibiting liver metastasis showed higher LAMA3 expression than those without liver metastasis. High LAMA3 expression correlated with large tumor size and TNM stage. LAMA3 expression and liver metastasis were independent predictive factors for OS; the former was independently associated with liver metastasis.

Conclusions
LAMA3 expression is elevated in patients with PDAC with liver metastasis and is a predictor of prognosis.
Social Assessment of the Effect of Construction of the Southern Warsaw Ring Road on the Quality of Life and Residential Real Estate Market in the Wilanów District
Authors: Sajnóg Natalia , Wierzchoś Monika , Sobolewska-Mikulska Katarzyna 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Every road investment has both positive and negative consequences in spatial, economic, environmental, and social terms. The objective of the article is the social assessment of the effect of construction of the Southern Warsaw Ring Road (WRR) on: (i) the quality of life of the local community, and (ii) the residential real estate market. The analyses employed the method of quantitative analysis with the application of the survey technique. The questionnaire was made publicly available to residents of the Wilanów district in Warsaw. Results obtained in the scope of the study render decision making models of respondents depending on the distance of the place of residence from the WRR. The results reveal that responses given by the group of respondents living nearer the ring road are the most variable, particularly in the context of assessing the effect of the investment on the quality of life, including nuisance related to the express road and plans to change the place of residence. The same group of respondents provided the highest share of responses supporting the claim that housing prices increased due to the construction of the ring road.
Alternative Forms of Currency: An Exploratory Theoretical Analysis of Bitcoin
Authors: E Soares Ricardo de Moraes , Heliodoro Paula , Martins Vanda , Palma Cristina Morais da 
Published: March 2024

Objective: The study aims to critically analyse the role of digital currencies in the context of the monetary system and the challenges and implications for monetary liberalism.

Method: Critical review based on an analysis of financial doctrine. A descriptive approach was applied to identify the relevant theories, followed by a critical analysis of the perspectives adopted by the authors. The main theoretical arguments are identified and debated. The methodology enables a critical study to be carried out through comparisons.

Results and conclusions: The results highlight the clarity of the arguments, the logical solidity, and the relevance of the evidence presented by the authors. The comparative analysis reveals points of convergence and divergence in the arguments. Inclusive interpretation and reflection allowed the implications of the theoretical approaches for the field of study to be analysed. The conclusions reveal the evidence obtained.

Implications if the research: They include an in-depth understanding of the financial theories examined at the level of Bitcoin, highlighting contributions and limitations. Promotes the advancement of knowledge in the theoretical field, identifies possible gaps in the literature, and suggests areas for future research. Provides relevant insights for academia, society, and policymakers.

Originality/value: It resides in the application of a critical and analytical approach to financial theories, offering a detailed and contextualised review of the literature. The value comes from providing enlightened insights into the theoretical foundations and possible applications, contributing to the advancement of the academic and social fields.