bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Physical therapy in the intensive care unit: A cross-sectional study of three Asian countries
Authors: Viloria Mary Audrey Domingo , Lee Shin-Da , Takahashi Tetsuya , Cheng Yu-Jung 
Published: November 2023

Background
Physical therapy (PT) is beneficial for critically ill patients, but the extent of its application in the intensive care unit (ICU) differs between countries. Here, we compared the extent of PT intervention in the ICU in Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan by evaluating the sociodemographic and ICU-related profiles of ICU physical therapists.

Materials and methods
In this cross-sectional study, a semistructured nationwide online survey was distributed to ICU physical therapists in the three countries.

Results
We analyzed the responses of 164 physical therapists from Japan, Philippines, and Taiwan. Significant differences were observed between the countries in all sociodemographic variables and the following ICU-related profiles of physical therapists: ICU work experience, duration of the ICU posting, number of hours per day spent in the ICU, on-call ICU PT service engagement, source of ICU patient referral, therapist–patient ratio, and ICU-related PT training participation (p < 0.05). Medical, surgical, and neurologic ICUs were the most common ICU workplaces of the ICU physical therapists, but only surgical and neurologic ICUs exhibited significant differences between the countries (p < 0.05). Standard PT techniques in the ICU were passive and active-assisted range of motion, positioning, and breathing exercises but were implemented with significantly different frequencies between the countries (p < 0.05). The most common challenge faced in ICU PT service delivery by respondents from all three countries was lack of training prior to ICU duty, and lack of training was even bigger challenge in Japan than in other two countries after adjustment of age, highest educational attainment, and work experience.

Conclusion
The differences in the health-care system between Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan were related to differences in the compliance with internationally recommended PT practice standards in the ICU, differences in the type of PT intervention prioritized, and the challenges encountered in ICU PT service delivery.
Sustainable Consumption in the Behavior of Young Consumers
Authors: Wyrwa Joanna , Barska Anetta , Jędrzejczak-Gas Janina , Kononowicz Krzysztof 
Published: November 2023

The aim of the article is to characterize the attitude of young consumers towards the concept of sustainable consumption in the area of food consumption, which is manifested, among others, in the declared engagement in sustainable behaviors both in the market as well as in households. The research was conducted using the CAWI method on a sample of Polish consumers from the Lubuskie region. The article consists of two parts. The first part explores the problems of sustainable consumption. The second part presents the results of research on consumer attitudes towards the concept of sustainable consumption in the area of food consumption. Particular attention was paid to the awareness of the implications of consumer behavior in the process of satisfying food needs. Behaviors, attitudes and beliefs of consumers related to sustainable consumption were characterized, and an attempt was subsequently made to determine the extent of the gap existing between behaviors and attitudes. The conducted survey research constituted an attempt at highlighting certain consumption problems among young people, to have them share their views on the different issues of sustainable consumption, as well as to emphasize the importance of various factors in shaping sustainable food consumption patterns. The article certainly is not an exhaustive examination of all the problems areas of sustainable consumption, but it should make these more easily identifiable all while stressing the real role and importance of sustainable behaviors among young consumers in the modern economy.
Keywords: sustainable consumption, sustainable development, young consumer.
Antibiotics With or Without Rifaximin for Acute Hepatic Encephalopathy in Critically Ill Patients With Cirrhosis: A Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled (ARiE) Trial
Authors: Kulkarni Anand V. , Avadhanam Mahathi , Karandikar Puja , Rakam Kalyan , Gupta Anand , Simhadri Venu , Premkumar Madhumita , Zuberi Asim Ahmed , Gujjarlapudi Deepika , Narendran Ramyashri , Shaik Sameer , Sharma Mithun , Iyengar Sowmya , Alla Manasa , Venishetty Shantan , Reddy Duvvur Nageshwar , Rao Padaki Nagaraja 
Published: November 2023

INTRODUCTION:
Critically ill patients with cirrhosis admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) are usually on broad-spectrum antibiotics because of suspected infection or as a hospital protocol. It is unclear if additional rifaximin has any synergistic effect with broad-spectrum antibiotics in ICU patients with acute overt hepatic encephalopathy (HE).

METHODS:
In this double-blind trial, patients with overt HE admitted to ICU were randomized to receive antibiotics (ab) alone or antibiotics with rifaximin (ab + r). Resolution (or 2 grade reduction) of HE, time to resolution of HE, in-hospital mortality, nosocomial infection, and changes in endotoxin levels were compared between the 2 groups. A subgroup analysis of patients with decompensated cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure was performed.

RESULTS:
Baseline characteristics and severity scores were similar among both groups (92 in each group). Carbapenems and cephalosporin with beta-lactamase inhibitors were the most commonly used ab. On Kaplan-Meier analysis, 44.6% (41/92; 95% confidence interval [CI], 32–70.5) in ab-only arm and 46.7% (43/92; 95% CI, 33.8–63) in ab + r arm achieved the primary objective (P = 0.84).Time to achieve the primary objective (3.65 ± 1.82 days and 4.11 ± 2.01 days; P = 0.27) and in-hospital mortality were similar among both groups (62% vs 50%; P = 0.13). Seven percent and 13% in the ab and ab + r groups developed nosocomial infections (P = 0.21). Endotoxin levels were unaffected by rifaximin. Rifaximin led to lower in-hospital mortality (hazard ratio: 0.39 [95% CI, 0.2–0.76]) in patients with decompensated cirrhosis but not in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (hazard ratio: 0.99 [95% CI, 0.6–1.63]) because of reduced nosocomial infections.

DISCUSSION:
Reversal of overt HE in those on ab was comparable with those on ab + r.
De la omnipotencia no-divina
Authors: Galán Vélez Francisco Vicente 
Published: November 2023

Quentin Meillassoux defiende una posición llamada “materialismo especulativo”, la cual asegura haber alcanzado –por un procedimiento estrictamente racional– algo absoluto. Con este gesto afirma ir más allá de la crítica kantiana y del fideísmo. Esta postura es muy diferente de los materialismos tradicionales, pero también de todo tipo de absoluto metafísico, pues niega la validez del principio de razón suficiente y rechaza la existencia necesaria de cualquier entidad. Lo único necesario para Meillassoux es el principio que afirma que todo es contingente, y la concomitante irrazón de todo lo que existe. El autor objeta que se pueda sostener racionalmente que lo real carece de inteligibilidad, a la vez que argumenta que se puede justificar la tesis del surgimiento ex nihilo de la vida, el pensamiento, e incluso de la divinidad, con el razonamiento de que la contingencia radical de todo implica también que todo es posible, excepto lo contradictorio.
influencia de la escuela sociológica francesa en el pensamiento heterológico de Georges Bataille
Authors: Teruel Andrea 
Published: November 2023

El artículo indaga sobre la influencia que la escuela sociológica francesa tuvo en la conformación de la heterología batailleana. Para ello se toman como eje tres conceptos clave: lo sagrado, la bipolaridad de lo sagrado y el sacrificio. Se explora el alcance de estas nociones en el pensamiento de Bataille y se pone en tensión sus escritos con trabajos específicos de Durkheim, Hertz, Mauss y Hubert. Esto lleva a constatar la importancia fundamental de este último grupo de sociólogos en las reflexiones del heterólogo. No obstante también se evidencian las transgresiones de Bataille a los objetivos teóricos de aquel grupo al articular una motivación práctica en su heterología. Se establece así un vínculo y una distancia entre una sociología de lo sagrado y una sociología sagrada.
Reimagining the Body Without Organs Through Exchange Value in Never Let Me Go
Authors: Adler Daniel R. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the body without organs (BwO) is one of their most abstruse, yet it remains integral to their larger project of experimentation. While the BwO has previously been described by contemporary posthuman theorists as a force of desire, in the context of the organ harvesting scheme in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, clones are raised until they are mature enough to donate their organs and eventually ‘complete’ as literal bodies without organs. However, while narrator Kathy H. exists as a BwO, she is also forced to integrate into systems such as the art exchanges which occur in the novel’s primary setting of Hailsham, and the broader neoliberal marketplace of organ donation for which she was engineered. The BwO can also be read as a metonymic strategy by which to understand Speculative Posthumanism and its ethical concerns regarding the problematics of cloning. Despite the novel’s bleak reality, Kathy H. becomes a model posthuman by recording her qualitative lived intensities autopoietically. In a world increasingly obsessed with technoscience and its quantitative outputs, using the concept of the BwO to reconsider what it means to be posthuman can help us rethink what and how we value.
The stage-within-the-screen: Peter Brook’s film adaptation of King Lear
Authors: da Silva Gregório Paulo 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In his film of King Lear (1971), Peter Brook reimagined his landmark production of the play on screen through an intricate interplay of theatrical and cinematic codes. This article revisits Brook’s adaptation, focusing on how its much-discussed debt to theatrical traditions relates to broader issues regarding the production and reception of Shakespearean films in the UK. I argue that the film’s overt affiliation to theatre sets it apart from other Anglophone adaptations of Shakespeare grounded in Hollywoodian conventions that broaden considerably their potential to reach a global audience across time and location. In establishing strong links between his film and the RSC production, Brook’s counter-cinematic approach to filmic storytelling, alongside his casting of acclaimed stage actors, asserted the authority of theatre as a privileged medium where Shakespeare is made to signify. We shall see that the various marks of site-specific theatrical traditions in the film underscore its appeal to a local – rather than global – audience, thus dismantling essentialist and universalist views of Anglophone adaptations of Shakespeare on screen.
Assessing fungi in Portuguese marine environments: how many species?
Authors: Azevedo Egídia , Barata Margarida , Caeiro Maria Filomena 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The present review documents the diversity of marine fungi collected in Portuguese marine environments (sandy beaches, salt marshes and marinas) from studies over the past 30 years and results from new data. One hundred and ninety fungal species are reported (mainly identified by morphology, with 63 species at the same time identified by molecular approaches), of which 156 are currently listed as marine fungi in www.marinefungi.org. Twenty-two new species are exclusive to Portugal. Substratum specificity was observed in Portugal for 77 marine species but reduced to 26 considering the occurrence on multiple substrata for some of these species reported in other parts of the world. Worldwide data also confirmed a core group of more than 20 generalist marine fungi, which colonized the different categories of substrata (woody, herbaceous, and other marine sources). Most marine species are exclusively saprobes (100) or saprobe/parasite/pathogen (27). Temperate (85) and cosmopolitan (45) species are dominant, but some species were also found in tropical or tropical/subtropical regions (7 and 4, respectively). Ascomycota species were the dominant group (184), mostly as asexual morphs (120); with few Basidiomycota (5 species) and Mucoromycota (1 species). Acrostalagmus luteoalbus, Cladosporium tenuissimum, Nigrospora sphaerica, Scedosporium boydii, Stemphylium vesicarium, and Trichoderma lixii are new records for Portugal. Other species were isolated in Portugal for the first time on new substrata: Stachybotrys chartarum (from seawater), Corollospora maritima and Zalerion maritima (from sand), and Lulworthia cf. purpurea (from a drift culm).
Impact bending strength of thermally-modified timber
Authors: Hassan Vand Mojtaba , Tippner Jan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The article offers a perspective on how thermal-modification affects the impact bending strength of five different wood species, an aspect that has not received as much attention as the well-studied static load behavior of thermally-modified timber (TMT). Since the TMTs are mainly employed as outdoor materials, where they may encounter impact forces, a comparative investigation into the flexibility and strength of these materials under impact is useful. This article evaluates different aspects of the TMT, such as deflection, strain in the impact region, the maximum force needed to initiate cracks, and the energy required for rupture. Wood planks from ash, beech, larch, oak, and spruce were thermally modified at 180 and 220 °C. They were cut into test specimens, while a separate set of unmodified specimens from each wood species served as the reference group. The specimens were subjected to an impact 3-point bending test, and an ultra-high-speed camera meticulously recorded the results. The images were processed by the digital image correlation (DIC) method to determine the deflection and strain distribution of the beams during the impact test. The deflection, maximum force, maximum longitudinal strain, and required work for rupture of each group were determined. The results showed that thermal-modification decreases the wood deflection and maximum longitudinal strain by approximately 50 %. In addition, the impact bending strength decreased by nearly 60 %. However, the impact bending strength did not exhibit a statistically significant decrease at 180 °C; in some cases, it even increased.
Methionine restriction attenuates the migration and invasion of gastric cancer cells by inhibiting nuclear p65 translocation through TRIM47
Authors: Xin Lin , Yuan Yi-Wu , Liu Chen-Xi , Sheng Jie , Zhou Qi , Liu Zhi-Yang , Yue Zhen-Qi , Zeng Fei 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The prevention and treatment of gastric cancer has been the focus and difficulty of medical research. We aimed to explore the mechanism of inhibiting migration and invasion of gastric cancer cells by methionine restriction (MR). The human gastric cancer cell lines AGS and MKN45 cultured with complete medium (CM) or medium without methionine were used for in vitro experiments. MKN45 cells were injected tail vein into BALB/c nude mice and then fed with normal diet or methionine diet for in vivo experiments. MR treatment decreased cell migration and invasion, increased E-cadherin expression, decreased N-cadherin and p-p65 expressions, and inhibited nuclear p65 translocation of AGS and MKN45 cells when compared with CM group. MR treatment increased IκBα protein expression and protein stability, and decreased IκBα protein ubiquitination level and TRIM47 expression. TRIM47 interacted with IκBα protein, and overexpression of TRIM47 reversed the regulatory effects of MR. TRIM47 promoted lung metastasis formation and partially attenuated the effect of MR on metastasis formation in vivo compared to normal diet group mice. MR reduces TRIM47 expression, leads to the degradation of IκBα, and then inhibits the translocation of nuclear p65 and the migration and invasion of gastric cancer cells.
Probing 6He induced reactions with nuclear level density
Authors: Canbula Deniz , Canbula Bora , Babacan Halil 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this study, both elastic and inelastic cross sections of the light exotic nucleus 6He on 12C and 4He at energies of 18 MeV, 30 MeV, 3.8 MeV, 4.2 MeV, 4.7 MeV, 5.1 MeV, 5.4 MeV, and 5.8 MeV, as well as the quasi-elastic cross section of 6He on 9Be at 16.2 MeV and 21.3 MeV, are calculated using the coupled-channel method. The deformation parameters of the first excited states of 6He, 9Be and 12C are obtained through the collective nuclear level density. The results align well with the available experimental data. It is demonstrated that the collective nuclear level density is essential to reduce the uncertainty between the deformation parameter and the optical model parameters. Furthermore, it is shown that the first excited state of both the projectile and the target must be considered in calculations 6He + 9Be scattering at increasing energies.
Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results
Authors: Chousou-Polydouri Natalia , Inman David , Huber Thomas C. , Bickel Balthasar 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this work we are presenting a database structure to encode the phenomenon of differential possession across languages, considering noun possession classes and possessive constructions as independent but linked. We show how this structure can be used to study different dimensions of possession: semantics, noun valence, and possessive constructions. We present preliminary survey results from a global sample of 120 languages and show that there is a universal semantic core in both inalienable and non-possessible noun classes. Inalienables are centered on body parts and kinship. Non-possessibles are centered on animals, humans, and natural elements.
Adipose-derived stem cells repair radiation-induced chronic lung injury via inhibiting TGF-β1/Smad 3 signaling pathway
Authors: Huang Xin , Sun Wei , Nie Bin , Li Juan-juan , Jing Fei , Zhou Xiao-li , Ni Xin-ye , Ni Xin-chu 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
To investigate the effect of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) transplantation on radiation-induced lung injury (RILI), Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) group, ASCs group, Radiation + PBS group, and Radiation + ASCs group. Radiation + PBS and Radiation + ASCs groups received single dose of 30 Gy X-ray radiation to the right chest. The Radiation + PBS group received 1 mL PBS suspension and Radiation + ASCs group received 1 mL PBS suspension containing 1 × 107 CM-Dil-labeled ASCs. The right lung tissue was collected on Days 30, 90, and 180 after radiation. Hematoxylin–eosin and Masson staining were performed to observe the pathological changes and collagen fiber content in the lung tissue. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and western blot (WB) were used to detect levels of fibrotic markers collagen I (Collal), fibronectin (FN), as well as transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), p-Smad 3, and Smad 3. Compared with the non-radiation groups, the radiation groups showed lymphocyte infiltration on Day 30 after irradiation and thickened incomplete alveolar walls, collagen deposition, and fibroplasia on Days 90 and 180. ASCs relieved these changes on Day 180 (Masson staining, P = 0.0022). Compared with Radiation + PBS group, on Day 180 after irradiation, the Radiation + ASCs group showed that ASCs could significantly decrease the expressions of fibrosis markers Collal (IHC: P = 0.0022; WB: P = 0.0087) and FN (IHC: P = 0.0152; WB: P = 0.026) and inhibit the expressions of TGF-β1 (IHC: P = 0.026; WB: P = 0.0152) and p-Smad 3 (IHC: P = 0.0043; WB: P = 0.0087) in radiation-induced injured lung tissue. These indicated that ASCs could relieve RILI by inhibiting TGF-β1/Smad 3 signaling pathway.
Civil Conflicts and Exchange Rate Misalignment: Evidence from MENA and Arab League Members
Authors: Lemaire Thibault 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
For more than a decade, civil conflicts intensity has been high in the Middle East and North Africa, yet the monetary and financial impacts of such episodes have received relatively little attention. Using macroeconomic and conflict panel data for Arab League members, Iran and Turkey during the period 1970–2018, this paper constructs a country-specific real exchange rate misalignment index and adopts an instrumental variable approach to show that civil conflicts lead to real exchange rate overvaluations in the region: a 1 unit increase in civil conflict intensity leads to a 0.24 unit increase in the RER misalignment index. The results suggest that upward pressures on the real exchange rate, such as inflation resulting from physical capital and output loss, dominate. Economic policy during post-conflict transitions should mitigate this effect by incorporating a strategy to realign the currency.
América Latina, Europa Central y la Transformación Institucional a finales del siglo XX
Authors: Riojas López Carlos 
Published: November 2023

Este trabajo pretende comparar y contrastar la evolución de los procesos de cambio institucional en términos de adaptaciones inmediatas en América Latina y Europa Central donde se toman en cuenta sus respectivos ambientes políticos y económicos. La exposición clarifica algunos aspectos contextuales de estas transformaciones societales y establece las bases para impulsar un diálogo entre ambos subcontinentes. Por lo tanto, se propone una amplia perspectiva para enfatizar aquellos elementos susceptibles de compararse. La muestra de países que se incluyen es Argentina, Chile, México, Hungría, Polonia y República Checa. Este análisis de cambio institucional estará fundamentalmente basado en los principales conceptos utilizados por el Neo-institucionalismo Económico. La discusión contempla, por una parte, el comportamiento estructural de dichos sistemas y algunos indicadores económicos sobre el desempeño económico que serán vinculados con el fenómeno de cambio institucional y, por otra parte, el impacto de las políticas de inspiración neoliberal en el proceso de democratización, así como, el papel del Estado como un actor clave de las reformas dirigidas a la promoción de la democracia y del mercado.Palabras clave: Cambio Institucional, AméricaLatina, Europa Central, neo-liberalismo y transición
Premisas para una agenda de estudios sobre recepción y adopción del enfoque de políticas públicas en la administración pública, reflexiones desde la experiencia mexicana
Authors: Flores- Mariscal J.R. Joel 
Published: November 2023

El artículo propone que los problemas que la literatura ha encontrado sobre la recepción del enfoque de políticas públicas en contextos diferentes al de origen de la propuesta requieren en primer lugar el reconocimiento de la diferencia entre la recepción del enfoque en el ámbito académico y en el discurso, y su adopción en el proceso de gobierno, particularmente en la administración pública. En segundo lugar para desarrollar una estrategia de adopción real del enfoque se propone que la herramienta principal es la orientación de las reformas administrativas para la operación real del gobierno por políticas publicas, ello sustentado en dos premisas: la posibilidad de hacer compatible el enfoque con la tradición estatista y publiadministrativa propia de los países latinos como México, y la argumentación de las ventajas instrumentales para la propia administración pública que trae la adopción del enfoque.Palabras clave: administración pública, democratización, políticas públicas, recepción en México, reforma administrativa.