bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effect of Acute Caffeine Exposure on Blood Glucose and Hepatic Glycogen Content in Normal and Thyroidectomized Male Wistar Rats
Authors: Shittu Shehu-Tijani , Isehunwa Grace O , Alada Abdulrasak Akinola 
Published: February 2024

Acute caffeine exposure had been shown to induce hyperglycemia however; the influence of thyroid hormones on the caffeine-induced hyperglycemia is yet to be established. The present study was therefore designed to investigate the effect of caffeine exposure on blood glucose and hepatic glycogen content in thyroidectomized rats. Sixty adult male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 10 groups as I-X (n=6). Rats in groups I, III, V, VII and IX were given normal saline, caffeine, prazosin + caffeine, propranolol +caffeine, combined prazosin+ propranolol+caffeine injections respectively while rats in groups II, IV, VI, VIII and X were thyroidectomized and treated in similar manner as the normal rats respectively. Surgical removal of the thyroid gland was done in the thyroidectomised groups while sham-operation was done in Normal group to serve as control. After healing and following an overnight fast, the rats were anaesthetized and the femoral vein and carotid artery were cannulated for drug administration and blood glucose measurement respectively. After stabilization, following basal measurements, rats from each group were injected normal saline or caffeine (6mg/kg) while another sets were pre-treated prazosin (0.2 mg/kg), propanolol (0.5 mg/kg) or their combination before caffeine administration. Blood glucose was then monitored for 60 minutes post-injection of caffeine at 5 minutes interval. Liver samples were collected at the end of the observation period for glycogen content determination. Caffeine caused significant increased blood glucose levels in both normal and thyroidectomized rats which were up to 210% and 180% respectively at the peak of their responses. Liver glycogen content of the thyroidectomized rats (3.11 ± 0.20 mg/100g tissue weight) was significantly higher than the normal rats (1.91 ± 0.43 mg/100g tissue weight). These glycogen contents were significantly reduced by caffeine in both normal (0.25 ± 0.04 mg/100g tissue weight) and thyroidectomized rats (1.65 ± 0.16 mg/100g tissue weight) when compared with their controls. The caffeine effects on blood glucose and hepatic glycogen content were abolished by pretreatment with propanolol or a combination of prazosin and propanolol in both normal and thyroidectomized rats but pretreatment with prazosin caused only significant reduction in hyperglycemic response to caffeine. The findings of this study suggest that caffeine-induced hyperglycemia in both normal and thyroidectomized rats are mediated through both alpha and beta adrenoceptors
Prevalence and Factors associated with Short Interpregnancy Intervals among women attending antenatal care at first level hospitals in lusaka, zambia.
Authors: Ikabongo Imanga , Vwalika Bellington , Lubeya Mwansa K. 
Published: February 2024

INTRODUCTION
The Interpregnancy Interval (IPI’s) is defined as the spacing between a live birth and the beginning of the following pregnancy according to the world health organization. Research has shown that short IPI’s are associated with adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. The IPI therefore offers an opportunity for women to optimize their health status in between pregnancies for better pregnancy outcomes.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
This study was aimed at determining the prevalence of short IPI’s and further determining the demographic, sociocultural and health care related factors associated with short IPI’s among women of reproductive age in Lusaka, Zambia.
METHODOLOGY
This was a cross sectional study involving 218 women aged between 15 and 49 years attending antenatal clinics at selected hospitals. Eligible participants were recruited using systematic random sampling method and a structured interviewer administered questionnaire was used to collect the data which was later processed using Epi-Data and exported to STATA for analysis.
RESULTS
The results of this study revealed that the prevalence of short IPI’s was 33.4%. Among the factors associated with short IPI’s, it was noted that women aged 35 years or older were 61% (aOR=0.39;95% CI:0.21-0.98) less likely to have short IPI’s compared to those aged less than 25 years. Furthermore, women from Matero hospital had 4.89 (95% CI; 2.59-11.6) times higher odds of short IPI’s than women from Chawama hospital. In addition, women who reported having discussed the pregnancy with their partners were 59% (aOR=0.41; 95% CI; 0.31-0.96) less likely to have short IPI’s compared to those who did not discuss. For those women who indicated that they did not receive information about recommended IPI’s from health care workers, their odds of short IPI’s were 4.47% (95% CI; 1.57-12.6) times higher than those who received the information.
CONCLUSION
Based on the results of this study, raising awareness among women on the recommended birth intervals and encouraging partner participation on when to have the next child may help in efforts to avert the problem of short IPI’s and its effect on maternal and perinatal outcomes.
KEY WORDS : Short interpregnancy intervals, antenatal care, maternal adverse outcomes, perinatal adverse outcomes
The effect of quality of worklife, work motivation and employee engagement on employee performance
Authors: Fancha Rizka Fathya , Hadiwijaya Dudung , Muttaqijn Muhammad Imam 
Published: February 2024

This study aims to analyze the effect of quality of worklife, work motivation and employee engagement on employee performance at PT. Cahaya Engineering Sukses Bekasi used as a case study. This research approach uses quantitative, a total sample obtained as many as 110 respondents with a population of 150. Data collection techniques with observation, documentation and questionnaires with random sampling techniques. Multiple linear regression analysis methods with SPSS programs are used to analyze the data. The results showed that Quality Of Worklife had a positive but not significant effect while Work Motivation and Employee Engagement had a positive and significant effect on Employee Performance with Work Motivation variables that had a more dominant effect. Quality Of Worklife, Work Motivation and Employee Engagement simultaneously have a positive and significant effect on the performance of PT. Cahaya Engineering Sukses Bekasi. This shows that companies should focus more on improving Quality of Worklife and Employee Engagement in order to produce better employee performance.
Konstribusi Ilmuwan Indonesia dalam Pengembangan Matakuliah ‘Ulumul Qur’an di Perguruan Tinggi 2010-2023
Authors: Ulya Wardatul , Masri Dedi , Alfiansyah Muhammad 
Published: February 2024

This newsletter examines numerous works of 'Ulûm Al-Qur'ân written through Indonesian scientists which might be used and widely used as references in universities and their actual contributions; due to the fact thus far what has been used as a reference is the paintings of 'Ulûm Al-Qur'ân in Arabic or a number of its translations. This studies became conducted in the form of qualitative studies the usage of the library research method with statistics series strategies inside the form of documentation of the literature with the aid of 'Ulûm Al-Qur'ân to then perform a descriptive-interpretative analysis. From the studies in preferred it became concluded that inside the 2010-present duration the works of 'Ulûm Al-Qur'ân from Indonesian scientists in this area of technological know-how skilled pretty great traits and there had been increasingly more, with the invention of 21 works which were extra than preceding studies and had no longer been used because the item of studies. those works are a actual contribution from Indonesian scientists in writing the work 'Ulûm Al-Qur'ân, and then it is hoped that those works can end up a source of reference inside the route 'Ulûm Al-Qur'ân after which serve as a supply of reference inside the bibliography. for other next works, parallel to the work of different students of the Islamic international.
Keywords: 'Ulumul Qur'an, Indonesian scientist, clinical paintings
Budaya Ma’pasilaga Tedong Ditinjau Dalam Model Budaya Tandingan Menurut Perspektif Stephen B. Bevans
Authors: Patibang Ocsilia 
Published: January 2024

Perkembangan zaman akan terus maju, dan hal ini juga akan mempengaruhi budaya atau pun tradisi. Berbagai pandangan yang menjadikan pula keunikan, kekhasan, bahkan nilai dan makna dalam kebudayaan setiap daerah juga terancam mengalami suatu perubahan atau pergeseran makna. Tidak terlepas dari itu, yang seharusnya apa yang menjadi makna atau tujuan budaya tersebut hendaknya tetap dipertahankan. Berbicara soal kebudayaan atau konteks, maka bagaimana sebuah konteks itu akan dipandang dari suatu perspektif salah satu model kontekstual yaitu “Model Budaya Tandingan” yang akan melihat bagaimana tradisi Ma’pasilaga Tedong di Toraja yang memiliki perubahan makna akan dimurnikan melalui suatu perspektif Stephen Bevans dengan modelnya “budaya tandingan”. Ma’ pasilaga tedong diakui sebagai ungkapan penghiburan dan kesenangan dengan cara mengadu beberapa kerbau di upacara pemakaman (rambu solo’) pun juga sebagai salah satu adat budaya Toraja. Dengan tetap mempertahankan konteks dan juga memperhatikan kekeliruan yang terjadi dalam budaya Ma’pasilaga Tedong ini, serta memurnikan konteks tersebut. Selain itu, penerapan Injil untuk memperbaiki perubahan budaya pun perlu dilakukan agar pengembalian makna Ma’pasilaga Tedong menjadi tradisi sesuai dengan jati dirinya.
Kata kunci: Ma’ Pasilaga Tedong, injil, model budaya tandingan, kebudayaan
Pengembangan Lembar Kerja Peserta Didik pada Mata Pelajaran Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial Terpadu Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Sasmita Lita , Mahdin Mahdin 
Published: February 2024

Salah satu unsur eksternal yang dapat mempengaruhi keberhasilan proses pembelajaran adalah penggunaan bahan ajar. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengembangkan Bahan Ajar Lembar Kerja Peserta Didik (LKPD) Pada Mata Pelajaran IPS Terpadu Kelas V Sekolah Dasar. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian Research and Development (R&D). Model yang digunakan adalah model pengembangan Rowntree dengan teknik pengumpulan data berupa angket. Data hasil penelitian dianalisa dengan menggunakan rumus persentase. Dari hasil uji coba, ahli media, memberikan nilai 83,42% dengan kriteria “baik”, ahli desain menilai produk yang dibuat dengan persentase 81,76% dengan kriteria “baik”, dan ahli materi menilai produk yang dibuat dengan persentase 86,78% dengan kriteria “baik”. Berdasarkan pada hasil validasi dari ahli media, ahli desain, dan ahli materi menunjukkan bahwa produk layak untuk diuji cobakan. Pada evaluasi produk skala perorangan dengan responden 3 orang siswa diperoleh rata-rata presentase 87,69% dengan kriteria “baik sekali”. Kemudian dilakukan evaluasi skala kecil dengan responden 6 orang siswa diperoleh rata-rata persentase 87,23% dengan kriteria “baik sekali”. Selanjutnya dilakukan evaluasi produk skala besar dengan responden 25 orang siswa diperoleh rata-rata persentase 80,9% dengan kriteria “baik sekali”.
Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962. MÓNICA ESTI REIN: Armonk, NY & London: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Authors: Newton Ron 
Published: February 2024

The subject of Mónica Rein's Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962 is precisely what its title indicates: Peronism and the manifold impacts of Peronism on the education system, top to bottom; and the politics of de-Peronization, from 1955 to 1962, and the many consequences of that enterprise for the educational system. Her area of concern is the operational and institutional moves of the successive regimes (Perón, the Revolución Libertadora,$$ Frondizi); she does not, she says (p. 204), address the question of how, or whether, the Peronist world-view was received and absorbed by the young until 1955, or how or whether Perón was expunged from the hearts of the Argentines afterwards. Those are even more difficult questions, ones which will in the end demand an informed speculation --but Mónica Rein has provided the indispensable information and heuristic framework without which such speculation would simply be empty vaporing.
The Redemptive Work: Railway and Nation in Ecuador, 1895-1930. A. KIM CLARK: Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1998.
Authors: Rosenthal Anton 
Published: February 2024

The Guayaquil and Quito Railroad is one of the most unusual industrial creations in the history of Latin America. Built relatively late, it connected Ecuador's chief port with its capital city in 1908, some 70 years after the region's first railroad was inaugurated in Cuba. Built by an American company, the G & Q was an incredibly difficult railroad to construct, crossing a multitude of rivers, tropical zones and the constantly shifting Andes. It was an expensive project, both in terms of capital and lives lost in the construction and maintenance of the enterprise. Unlike many of the railroads of the region, the Guayaquil and Quito Railroad was not built primarily for the extraction of exports. It was, as Kim Clark demonstrates, part of a larger 19th century liberal project of modernization and national integration that also featured centralized state control of education, expanded markets for goods and labor, and "moral reform" through new forms of work.
Strategy, Security, and Spies. Mexico and the U.S. as Allies in World War II. MARÍA EMILIA PAZ: Pennsylvania: University Press, 1997.
Authors: Casanova Marina 
Published: February 2024

El libro de María Emilia Paz, Estrategia, seguridad y espías, es una interesante contribución al conocimiento de la historia de México durante la II Guerra Mundial, tanto en el aspecto de sus relaciones militares y diplomáticas con los Estados Unidos como en el ámbito más específico de las actividades de los servicios de información.El libro se estructura en dos grandes apartados bien definidos, aunque al mismo tiempo muy relacionados entre sí. El primero aborda la política realizada por los EE.UU. para la defensa del Hemisferio Occidental, analizando en particular los avances de Hitler en Europa a partir de 1938 y la penetración del totalitarismo nazi en América Latina --muy concretamente en México--, así como los pactos estratégicos establecidos con México.
Los inmigrantes invisibles: Condiciones de vida e identidad de los españoles en São Paulo, en la segunda mitad del siglo XX
Authors: González Martínez Elda 
Published: February 2024

La últimas oleadas migratorias de los españoles hacia América Latina se produjeron a mediados del siglo XX. Para esos años, aunque ya se había iniciado la emigración a distintos países europeos, algunas repúblicas americanas todavía aparecían como destino para los peninsulares. Argentina, Venezuela y Brasil fueron los lugares hacia donde persistió ese éxodo.En este artículo intentamos reconstruir la experiencia migratoria y las condiciones de identidad de los españoles en Brasil. Nuestro análisis, basado en entrevistas de historia de vida realizadas en São Paulo, se centra en un período de tiempo que se inicia poco después de acabar la Guerra Civil y que se prolonga hasta finales de los sesenta.
Toward A Model of Democratic Stability: Political Culture in Central America
Authors: Seligson Mitchell A. 
Published: February 2024

At a recent conference on democratization, one of the Latin Americanists present was overheard saying, "been there, done that." Such comments reflect the views of many Latin Americanists, who, having experienced prior waves of democratization, are perhaps justifiably skeptical about the durability of the current wave. Rather than speaking of long-term trends, we are used to looking at waves of democratization followed by waves of authoritarianism. Latin American democracies grew in number in the early 1940s, declined toward the end of World War II, grew again in the early 1960s and declined thereafter, only to rise again in the 1980s and 1990s A broader, world-wide view of cycles has been provided by Huntington, who has characterized the present upsurge as "democracy's third wave. An even longer-term view is found in the recent work of John Markoff
Re-Thinking the New Approaches: An Introduction
Authors: Lesser Jeffrey 
Published: February 2024

It has long been a scholarly contention that the analysis of any particular country demands approaches not always applicable to other nations. The accuracy (or lack thereof) of the statement notwithstanding, it can be said with some certainty that discussing approaches to national analysis has not been an academic priority. The essays that appear in this special issue of EIAL seek to remedy this lacuna by focusing on Brazil.
Strange Pilgrimages: Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 1800-1900s. INGRID E. FEY and KAREN RACINE (eds.): Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000.
Authors: Rodríguez Julia E. 
Published: February 2024

Those who have spent a substantial amount of time outside of their homelands know that living abroad can give fresh perspective on one's personal and even national identity. Are those insights gleaned abroad of a purely individual nature, or do they in their recorded forms hold promise for the scholarly study of national identity formation? The editors and authors of Strange Pilgrimages: Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 1880-1900s answer that question in the affirmative. The volume, a collection of fourteen essays and three short primary texts about Latin Americans' experience abroad, aims to provide "case studies not only for intellectual and social historians but also for all people concerned with the issue of national identity formation"(xi). The book also includes a short but useful bibliography and filmography.
Viva Mexico! Viva la Independencia!: Celebrations of September 16. WILLIAM H. BEEZLEY and DAVID E. LOREY (eds.): Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2001.
Authors: Young Eric Van 
Published: February 2024

Within the rapidly expanding historiography on the "invented traditions," "imagined communities," and "hegemonic" state- and nation-building projects of modern polities, a growing number of scholars have looked at public celebratory life in Mexico from the colonial period to the present. The public panoply of patriotic and religious ritual has been richly reconstructed empirically, and analyzed as state pedagogy, an appropriated festal vehicle for popular protest, a juggernaut of social and political control, deep cultural text, and so forth. Both co-editors of the anthology under review have made significant contributions to this virtual sub-genre in recent years, David Lorey with an ongoing project on secular political holidays in the twentieth century, William Beezley with similar work of his own on the nineteenth century and as co-editor of an earlier, foundational collection of essays on cognate themes, Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (1994). Beezley and Lorey have produced a fascinating volume here on public observances of Mexico's Independence day, 16 September, since the years immediately following the Mexican colony's separation from Spain in 1821. The essays are for the most part empirically rich, evocative of the eras they portray, and of more than sufficient sophisticated conceptualization to speak to ongoing debates in political and cultural history about the function of public rituals not only as instruments of elite hegemonic projects, and as venues for struggle over public memory and national identity, but also as opportunities for the expression of more exuberant popular ideas and forms of subaltern resistance.
Argentina: revisiones sobre el surgimiento, apogeo y caída de una clase política
Authors: Bosoer Fabián 
Published: February 2024

DAVID ROCK Y OTROS: La derecha argentina. Nacionalistas, neoliberales, militares y clericales. Buenos Aires: Colección Textos Libres, Ed. Javier Vergara, 2001.
MARCELO SÁNCHEZ SORONDO: Memorias. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, (conversaciones con Carlos Payá). Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 2001.
FERNANDO DEVOTO: Nacionalismo, fascismo y tradicionalismo en la Argentina moderna. Una historia. Buenos Aires: Ed. Siglo XXI Argentina, 2002.NATALIO BOTANA: La República vacilante. Entre la furia y la razón (conversaciones con Analía Roffo). Buenos Aires: Ed.Taurus Alfaguara, 2002.
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History. GILBERT M. JOSEPH (ed.): Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
Authors: Handelman Howard 
Published: February 2024

Originating from an homenagem to Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, this volume is primarily a work of historiography in which the contributors - her former graduate students and colleagues at Yale - call for a re-politicization of historical research on Latin America in a "post-revolutionary age." The authors seek a renewed historical focus on the political arena following a decade in which research has concentrated more often on cultural studies and social history. Moreover, the contributors insist that such historical research need have an overtly political purpose, more specifically a radical purpose, as they face an era in which most radical scholars have been dispirited. Historiographical chapters by Gilbert Joseph, Steve Stern, and Viotti da Costa examine "The Politics of Writing Latin American History" while Florencia Mallon analyzes the role of the historian (including her political role) in testimonial and ethnographic history. Other authors discuss "historical narratives and memory, class, race, sexuality or gender" in the context of research on Brazilian or Jamaican slavery, revolutionary nationalism in Jamaica, U.S. copper mining in Chile, or the Chilean agrarian reform.
Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City. KATHERINE ELAINE BLISS:. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
Authors: Buffington Robert 
Published: February 2024

There is something about the world’s oldest profession that seems to attract the best and brightest commentators on human social relations. For the turn of the nineteenth-century, it was male novelists like Emile Zola (France) and Federico Gamboa (Mexico). For the turn of the twentieth, it has been female historians like Judith Walkowitz (England), Donna Guy (Argentina), and, most recently, Katherine Bliss. The book’s expansive subtitle —from prostitution to public health to gender politics— gives some indication of prostitution’s appeal. As the introduction explains in more detail: “Studying the urban debates over prostitution, public health, gender relations, and reformism is . . . a good way to shed light on questions of revolution, state-building, and popular experience”(p. 11). Compromised Positions also manages the delicate trick of engaging important theoretical questions—gender and sexuality, biopolitics and governmentability, state hegemony and popular resistance, the practices of everyday life—while sparing the uninitiated or uninterested reader distracting forays into high theory.