bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Efficacy of a Smartphone App in Enhancing Medication Adherence and Accuracy in Individuals With Schizophrenia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Chen Huan Hwa , Hsu Hsin Tien , Lin Pei Chao , Chen Chin-Yin , Hsieh Hsiu Fen , Ko Chih Hung 
Published: October 2023

Background
Poor medication adherence or inaccuracy in taking prescribed medications plays an important role in the recurrence or worsening of psychiatric symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, and the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their medication adherence with exacerbated symptoms or relapse. The use of mobile health services increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their role in improving mental health is becoming clearer.

Objective
This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a smartphone app (MedAdhere) on medication adherence and accuracy among patients with schizophrenia and to measure their psychiatric symptoms and cognitive functions.

Methods
In this 12-week experimental study, participants were provided interventions with the MedAdhere app, and data were collected between June 2021 and September 2022. A total of 105 participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control groups. We used the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and Mini-Mental State Examination to measure the participants’ psychiatric symptoms and cognitive functions. Generalized estimating equations were used for data analysis.

Results
A total of 94 participants met the inclusion criteria and completed the protocol, and the medication adherence rate of the experimental group was 94.72% (2785/2940) during the intervention. Psychotic symptoms (positive, negative, and general psychopathology symptoms) and cognitive functions (memory, language, and executive function) were significantly improved in the experimental group compared to the control group after the intervention.

Conclusions
The MedAdhere app effectively and significantly improved medication adherence and, thereby, the psychiatric symptoms of patients with schizophrenia. This artificial intelligence assisted app could be extended to all patients who need to be reminded to take medication on schedule.

Trial Registration
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05892120; https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05892120
Morfología y citogenética de nemátodos Rhabditida parasitando arañas y escorpiones en Argentina
Authors: Camino Nora B. , Rodríguez-Gil Sergio , Reboredo Guillermo R. , González Sandra E. 
Published: October 2023

El hallazgo de nematodos en arañas y escorpiones, fruto de habituales y sistemáticos de muestreos manuales de arácnidos en la ciudad de La Plata, Argentina, reveló la presencia de ejemplares del orden Rhabditda. Este estudio tiene como objetivo comunicar la presencia de nematodos en el grupo arácnidos, del cual hay escasos y limitados antecedentes. Uno de los nematodos hallados pertenece al género Rhabditis Dujardin, 1845, de carácter saprófito, caracterizado por llevar en el esófago un hongo que al matar al hospedador lo degrada para poder alimentarse. Este se halló en la cavidad general del cuerpo de la araña Dysdera crocata Koch, 1838. El mismo se caracteriza por tener la cutícula fina, papilas labiales cerradas, estoma largo, sin dientes, esófago con bulbo medio con valva y bulbo basal valvado, vulva media, apéndice caudal corto y cónico. Se describe la división mitótica y se aporta información acerca de la morfología de los cromosomas. Se realizó un estudio citogenético de los Rhabditis, los mismos mostraron poseer cinco cromosomas, de los cuales 2 son más grandes, en metafase, son acro-telocéntricos. El otro género hallado es Cruznema (Artigas, 1927) Dougherty, 1953, parásito del intestino del escorpión Tityus carrilloi Ojanguren-Affilastro, Kochalka, Guerrero-Orellana, Garcete-Barrett, De Roodt, Borges & Ceccarelli, 2021, caracterizado por tener una cutícula con estrías longitudinales y anillos transversales, boca rodeada de seis labios bien separados, estoma cuticularizado, largo y con tres dientes bien desarrollado, esófago con un bulbo medio fuerte y musculoso y un bulbo basal valvado, hembra con un ovario prodélfico, vulva posterior a la mitad de la longitud del cuerpo, apéndice caudal corto y cónico.
A Proposed Merging Methods of Digital Elevation Model Based on Artificial Neural Network and Interpolation Techniques for Improved Accuracy
Authors: Alemam Mustafa K. , YONG Bin , Sani-Mohammed Abubakar 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT
The digital elevation model (DEM) is one of the most critical sources of terrain elevations, which are essential in various geoscience applications. Most of these applications need precise elevations, which are available at a high cost. Thus, sources like the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DEM are frequently accessible to all users but with low accuracy. Consequently, many studies have tried to improve the accuracy of DEMs acquired from these free sources. Importantly, using the SRTM DEM is not recommended for an area that partly contains high-accuracy data. Thus, there is a need for a merging technique to produce a merged DEM of the whole area with improved accuracy. In recent years, advancements in geographic information systems (GIS) have improved data analysis by providing tools for applying merging techniques (like the minimum, maximum, last, first, mean, and blend (conventional methods)) to improve DEMs. In this article, DEM merging methods based on artificial neural network (ANN) and interpolation techniques are proposed. The methods are compared with other existing methods in commercial GIS software. The kriging, inverse distance weighted (IDW), and spline interpolation methods were considered for this investigation. The essential step for achieving the merging stage is the correction surface generation, which is used for modifying the SRTM DEM. Moreover, two cases were taken into consideration, i.e., the zeros border and the H border. The findings show that the proposed DEM merging methods (PDMMs) improved the accuracy of the SRTM DEM more than the conventional methods (CDMMs). The findings further show that the PDMMs of the H border achieved higher accuracy than the PDMMs of the zeros border, while kriging outperformed the other interpolation methods in both cases. The ANN outperformed all methods with the highest accuracy. Its improvements in the zeros and H border respectively reached 22.38% and 75.73% in elevation, 34.67% and 54.83% in the slope, and 40.28% and 52.22% in the aspect. Therefore, this approach would be cost-effective, especially in critical engineering projects.
Existence Of A Latent Developmental Program: Revisiting The Universal Genome Model Of Evolution Of Metazoa
Authors: Sherman Michael Y. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
In 2007, I published a hypothesis about mechanisms of evolution of large taxonomic groups of the Kingdom Animalia, which was based on advances in paleontology genome analysis, genetics and embryology that are difficult to understand within Darwinian intuition. According to this model that I called a Universal Genome hypothesis: (a) the Universal Genome that encodes major developmental programs essential for various phyla of Metazoa emerged in a unicellular or a primitive multicellular common ancestral organism shortly before the Cambrian period; (b) The Metazoan phyla, all having similar gene sets, are nonetheless very morphologically distinct because each utilize specific combinations of developmental programs. A highly counterintuitive prediction of this idea, which strictly dissociates it from the classical evolutionary model, is that latent developmental programs should exist in genomes of lower Metazoan taxa. These latent programs control the development of organs and other morphologies that would emerge in evolutionary higher taxa. Potentially such programs could be activated by mutations or application of signaling molecules, and thus be revealed in lower taxa. A paper on the embryology of fins published in the Cell journal provides an evidence for existence of such a latent developmental program. Here I comment of this discovery and its implication in our understanding of evolution.
Analisis Peran Zakat Produktif di Kampung Zakat Desa Sulung dengan Metode Center of Islamic Business and Economic Studies-IPB
Authors: Sukmawati U Sulia , Paizal Muhamad , Srihani Srihani , Perdana Wahyu 
Published: October 2023

One of the complex problems in Indonesia that is difficult to solve is poverty. In Islam, zakat can be used as a solution in poverty alleviation. The Ministry of Religious Affairs together with the National Amil Zakat Agency In 2018 cooperated in organizing zakat villages, initially there were only 7 zakat villages nationwide and Sulung village was selected as the only zakat village in West Kalimantan. In a study entitled Analysis of the Role of Productive Zakat in Kampung Zakat Sulung Village With the CIBEST Method. Researchers aim to examine the role of zakat in improving mustahik welfare, this research is a quantitative study with a Cibest model approach with primary data. The results showed that before the zakat village program, the 7 mustahik were in quadrant 1 which means materially poor but spiritually rich, while the changes obtained after receiving productive zakat, the 7 mustahik families experienced changes, namely 5 mustahik families shifted to quadrant II i.e. spiritual and material well-being.
Impact of Environmental Pollution in Enggros Tribe Women’s Forest
Authors: Tijjani Syafrina , Herdiansyah Herdis , Kertati Indra , Wurarah Rully Novie , Lazuardi Sinan Vidi , Putri Fithrina Nur Rahmadanty , Dewi Nafa Febrianti Mutia , Ramadhan Syahrul , Rizki Mochammad Naufal 
Published: October 2023

The environment has a close relation to the people, and the condition of the environment affects the livelihood of many people. The condition of women’s forests as the source of livelihood of the Enggros Tribe has been in critical condition. Human activities have been causing a decrease in water quality and increased waste from upstream. This condition has been causing social, economic, and environmental impacts. This study explores women's forests' social, economic, and environmental impact on the Enggros Tribe. The study used in-depth interviews to collect the data. The result of this study shows that the social impact of the women’s forest was that the space of the women of Enggros Tribe had been endangered, and the economic impact has been causing a decrease in the total catch of clams and fish. Also, the environmental impact has been causing the water to become polluted. A serious and effective effort to restore the condition was needed.
Illuminance Color Independent in Remote Photoplethysmography for Pulse Rate Variability and Respiration Rate Measurement
Authors: Suryasari Suryasari , Rizal Aminuddin , Kusumastuti Sri , Taufiqqurrachman Taufiqqurrachman 
Published: October 2023

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is now becoming a new trend method to measure human physiological parameters. Especially due to it noncontact measurement which safe dan suitable to use in this new era condition. Pulse rate variability (PRV) and respiration rate (RR) included as parameters can be measured by using rPPG. PRV and RR are used to measure both physical and psychological wellness of the subject. However, current performance challenges in rPPG algorithm in measuring PRV and RR are illuminance invariant and motion. Especially in different light condition which represent real-life environment, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) will be affected and directly reduce the measurement accuracy. Therefore in this study, we develop rPPG algorithm and then investigate the performance rPPG in different illuminance scenarios. We perform PRV and RR measurement under each scenario. On this study, for the pulse signal extraction, we were using algorithm is based on the modification of plane orthogonal-to-skin (POS) algorithm. While, for respiration signal extraction is done in CIE Lab color space. Our experimental results show the mean absolute error (MAE) of each measured parameters are 3.25 BPM and 2 BPM for PRV and RR respectively compared with clinical apparatus.Â The proposed method proved to be more reliable to use in real environments measurement. However, limitation of our proposed algorithm is still running in offline mode, hence for the future we want try to make our algorithm run in real time.
Preliminary study: Readiness of WLAN Infrastructure at Malaysian Higher Education Institutes to support Smart Campus Initiative
Authors: Rawia Roziyani , Isa Mohd Rizal Mohd , Ismaila M. N. , Sajak Aznida Abu Bakar , Mustafa Azmi 
Published: October 2023

Smart campus initiative enables higher education to enhance services, decision-making, and campus sustainability. The initiatives are being actively implemented globally by higher education, including in Malaysia. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for the education sector to explore a digital revolution. The adaptation of digital technologies has improved many aspects, including the teaching and learning experiences and administration tasks, which results in more efficient task handling. This study investigates the readiness of the WLAN infrastructure at Malaysian Public Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in implementing smart campus initiatives and measures readiness based on the availability of WLAN Infrastructure, WLAN logical architecture and WLAN populated coverage area. This study administered a questionnaire to 19 respondents, all of whom are IT personnel from Malaysian public HEIs to gather preliminary data on the readiness of WLAN infrastructure at Malaysian Public HEI to support the adaptation of smart campus initiatives in their teaching and learning activities. This study is a preliminary study concerning the readiness of WLAN infrastructure at Malaysian Public HEI in adapting smart campus initiatives. The findings show that, even though WLAN service is available at all Malaysian Public HEI, it is essential to enhance the adopted logical architecture and WLAN coverage to prepare HEI to become smart campuses. The findings of this study can provide the fundamental guidelines for the Ministry of Higher Education in determining the baseline of WLAN infrastructure required by Malaysian HEI to support smart campusÂ initiatives.
Self-reported low back pain intensity and interferences among three-wheel drivers in Southwest of Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-sectional Study
Authors: Kebede Ebissa Bayana , Terfa Yonas Biratu , Tucho Abdisa Eba , Germossa Gugsa Nemera , Hailu Fikadu Balcha , Abdisa Birhanu , Mamo Selam Ayele , Enbakom Mestawet Getachew , Akuma Adugna Olani 
Published: October 2023

Introduction: Low back pain is one of the most reported conditions among vehicle drivers. However, there is a paucity of information about low back pain experiences among three-wheel drivers in Ethiopia. This study aimed to determine the low back pain experience among three-wheel drivers in Ethiopia Jimma City, Southwest Ethiopia.
Methods: A Community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from March 1-25, 2020 among 396 samples. Computer generated simple random sampling method was employed to get the required sample. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. The data was checked for completeness, coded, cleaned and entered into Epi-data version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 23 for analysis. Data was analyzed using mean and standard deviations for continuous and proportions for categorical variables. Binary and multivariable logistic regression was used to see an association between dependent and independent variables. P-value <0.05 at 95% CI was declared statistically significant.
Results: Of 396 study participants, 26.26% of them had low back pain at any time among which, 73.1% reported pain in the last 24 hours. Regarding pain intensity in 24 hours, the mean ± standard deviation of worst pain was 5.3 ± 2.5. The independent variables significantly associated with low back pain along with their adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval) were: age 3.45 (1.98, 6.03), educational status: 1.96 (1.07, 3.59), physical exercise: 0.52 (0.31, 0.86) drinking alcohol: 2.32 (1.22, 4.39) and working hours: 0.32 (0.13, 0.83).
Conclusion: The three-wheel drivers experienced moderate to severe low back pain and moderate to severe functional and emotional interferences. More than half of the participants reported the worst pain experience within 24 hours. Age, educational status, physical exercise, drinking alcohol and working hours were significantly associated with low back pain.
Anxious Vigilance: Heresy and Ritual Pollution in John of Tella and Severus of Antioch
Authors: Shepardson Christine 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Anti-Chalcedonian Christians like John of Tella, Severus of Antioch, Philoxenos of Mabbug, and John Rufus were concerned about orthodox Christians mingling with heretics. This essay argues that John of Tella combined narratives of heresy with those of bodily purity and pollution, such as those related to menstruation, to frame heretics as dangerous to orthodox Christians not only in their beliefs that could lure an unsuspecting Christian to accept heretical views, but in their very bodies whose proximity brought the threat of contamination. John integrated expectations of bodily purity and doctrinal orthodoxy in ways that suggested that heresy could physically contaminate, while Severus tried to calm his congregants’ fears about the same. The spread of COVID- 19 and the global responses to it have heightened our awareness of the dynamics of fear and anxiety that can be produced by threats of physical contamination. The global pandemic in 2020 thus helps to clarify the power that the rhetoric of these sixth-century anti-Chalcedonian texts had to confront the spread of what John of Tella implied was the dangerous physical pollution of Christian heresy.
Considerations in Rendering in a Church Bible
Authors: Lund Jerome A. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
During the revision of the Antioch Bible, the question of how ګﻪﻌףּ ڪ﷼
should be translated arose. Currently, different translators have offered different solutions. This essay will trace the history of the term from the original translators of both the Old and New Testaments, through the commentators, and then through the lexicographers. The essay will offer a solution to the problem going forward.
Manichaeism and the Revelation of the Magi: Syriac “Christianities” in Late Antique Mesopotamia
Authors: Pettipiece Timothy 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The recently published Syriac Revelation of the Magi has proven to be a remarkable addition to the corpus of early Christian apocryphal literature. This unique amplification of the traditional Nativity narrative recounts the Magi’s encounter with a “star-child” who leads them from their homeland in the far east to the birth of Jesus at Nazareth, where the polymorphic nature of Christ is revealed along with his message of universal salvation. Interestingly, the Revelation of the Magi contains several important points of contact with early Manichaean texts. This paper will examine what those shared motifs might tell us about the common milieu out of which both Manichaeism and the Revelation of the Magi might have emerged.
Do NSAIDs and Other Pain Relief Drugs Can Inhibit the Growth of Lactobacillaceae?
Authors: Kruszewska Hanna , Zawistowska-Rojek Anna , Tyski Stefan 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) commonly used in clinical practice may cause gastrointestinal injuries and influence the gut microbiota. This study investigated the effects of various NSAIDs and some analgesics on the viability of Lactobacillaceae strains (including probiotic strains) in vitro. It was found that diclofenac, ibuprofen, ketoprofen, dexketoprofen, flurbiprofen, and acetylsalicylic acid inhibited the growth of lactobacilli at a concentration of 0.05−3.2 mg/ml. These MICs of NSAIDs are well above therapeutic plasma concentrations achieved in humans, indicating that the tested drugs should not inhibit the growth of lactobacilli in the human digestive tract.
Preparation of Highly Porous Scaffolds with Controllable Pore Size from Microbial Polyesters
Authors: Polyák Péter , Tóth Ágoston , Tátraaljai Dóra 
Published: October 2023

Microbial polyesters saw limited use in the field of tissue engineering, even though the biocompatibility of these polymers makes them ideal candidates for this role. The primary factor that hinders the proliferation of microbial polyesters in this market is that their processing with conventional techniques, such as electrospinning or 3D printing, is challenging. However, the full potential of these biopolymers could still be utilized by applying unconventional manufacturing methods, such as those based on the concept of salt leaching. An implementation of this concept facilitates the production of scaffolds that simultaneously have high porosity and excellent permeability. Moreover, the average pore size can also be varied in the range from 50 to 400 µm, which was reported to be optimal for the cultivation of eucaryotic cell cultures. By adjusting the pore size, the scaffold can be tailored to the eucaryotic cells the tissue consists of. Furthermore, we have developed an entirely new computational method for the approximation of the pore size distribution of the scaffolds. The method relies on 3D data reconstructed by the software of a digital optical microscope and also facilitates the modeling of the average pore size of scaffolds. Thus, besides the control of the pore size, our method enables its prediction as well.
Finite Element Analyses of Cast-in-situ RC Flat Slab with an Equivalent Frame for Horizontal Loads
Authors: Roszevák Zsolt , Haris István 
Published: October 2023

In structural construction practice, the use of reinforced concrete slabs is extremely common due to their structural and economic advantages. An important issue is the study of structural behavior given to horizontal effects. The significance of this is centered not only on the scales caused by wind and construction loads, which are considered to be “normal” i.e., the quasi-static, which is essentially one-way monotonically increasing but also the most researched seismic, i.e., cyclically varying, direction and magnitude effects. The most widespread methods for sizing flat plate slabs to unidirectional, quasi-static horizontal loads are the so-called Equivalent Frame Method and the Effective Beam Width Method. In addition to analytical and basically linear numerical theoretical methods, several laboratory experiments have been performed and published. In this paper, we investigate the behavior of column-supported flat plate slabs against unidirectional, monotonically increasing horizontal loads using an advanced nonlinear numerical modeling method. Numerical models constructed with different geometric dimensions were created with ATENA 3D three-dimensional nonlinear finite element software. In the numerical studies, in addition to the vertical loads in the global sense, the horizontal loads were also taken into account. In our studies, we analyzed the global behavior of the structure, crack propagation, and internal stresses. The results were illustrated on force - displacement diagrams and compared with the results of the laboratory experiments used, thus showing the accuracy and limitations of the numerical modeling procedure. The numerical results were also compared with the results determined on the basis of the equivalent framework models.