bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Diagnostic Value of Target Sign and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Measurements in the Differentiation between Hepatocelular Carcinoma and Liver Metastasis on Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Authors: ALBAYRAK Eda , GÜMÜŞAY Özge , SERVER Sadık 
Published: June 2023

Objective: The aim of our study is to investigate probable differences between the incidence of target sign detected by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values between metastases and hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC).
Materials and Methods: A total of 155 lesions obtained from 57 (female/male: 18/39) patients were included in the study. Dimensions of lesions, the appearance of lesions detected by DWI, minimum ADC (ADCmin) values, and average ADC (ADCav) values were evaluated with 1.5 Tesla MRI using b= 0 and b = 1000 s/mm2 values. Differences between metastases and HCC were investigated in terms of defined parameters. Also, ROC (receiver operating curve) analysis was used to evaluate the performance of ADCmin and ADCav parameters in distinguishing metastases from HCC.
Results: Of the lesions, 131 were metastases, while 24 were HCC. The image showing centrally hypointense, periphery hyperintense signal in DWI defined as target sign. Target sign detected in 72 metastatic lesions (55%) and 6 HCC lesions (25%) with DWI, and the rate of target sign detection was higher in the metastatic group compared with HCC (p
ORTHOPEDIC EVALUATION OF SKIING INJURIES IN ERZURUM PALANDOKEN SKI CENTER
Authors: ÇAKMAK Fatma , SEMİS Halil Sezgin 
Published: June 2023

Aim: To determine the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who presented to our emergency department with orthopedic injuries due to winter sports.
Material and Method: This study was retrospectively conducted in the winter seasons between 2018 and 2020. The patients’ age, gender, orthopedic injury localization, treatment applied for the injury, and injury patterns were examined. The findings obtained were statistically analyzed.
Results: In this study, a total of 881 patients, 311 (35.4%) female and 570 (64.6%) male, were evaluated. According to orthopedic localization, most patients (n=255, 28.6%) had knee injuries. Soft tissue trauma was detected in 519 (58.9%) of the patients. The knee injuries did not significantly differ according to gender (p=0.852).
Conclusion: During winter sports, injuries occur mostly in the lower extremity and knee area. Injuries related to winter sports can be reduced with the use of appropriate winter sports equipment and ski training.
Effect of Breastfeeding on the Risk of Developing Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Authors: TENLİK İlyas , ÖZTÜRK Ömer , COŞKUN Orhan , ARI Derya , BACAKSIZ Ferhat , YÜKSEL Mahmut , YEŞİL Bayram , DURAK Muhammed Bahaddin 
Published: June 2023

Aim: This study aimed to investigate whether breastfeeding in early childhood affect the risk of devoloping inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Materials and Methods: The data of patients obtained from the survey were compared to the data of their non-IBD siblings as a control group. The relationship between the demographic and clinical chararecteristics of IBD patients and breastfeeding was also analyzed.
Results: 304 IBD patients were included in the study. 182 (59.9%) of the patients were diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC), and 122 (40.1%) with Crohn’s disease (CD). The CD patients included in the study were compared to the CD siblings group of 332, and the UC patients compared with the UC siblings group of 508. Compared to the control groups, the proportion of those who never breastfed was higher in both the CD and UC groups (7.4% vs. 2.1% for CD [p=0.017] and 3.9% vs. 0.8% for UC [p=0.01]), and the risk of disease increased in those who was not breastfed (OR= 3.70 [1.35-10.16] for CD [p=0.017] and OR= 5.07 for UC [1.47-17.53] [p=0.010]). The protective effect against CD increased as the duration of breastfeeding increased, but that the protection increased with breastfeeding for up to 12 months for UC, and breastfeeding for more than 12 months did not provide additional protection. There was no relationship between breastfeeding and demographic and behavioral chracteristics of patients
Conclusions: Not having been breastfed in infancy increases the risk of developing both UC and CD, and as the duration of breastfeeding increases, the protection against diseases risk increases.
Relationship of Pro-BNP Levels with Cardiovascular Events in Pediatric Cardiac and Non-cardiac Diseases
Authors: SÜLÜ Ayşe , KIZTANIR Hikmet , KOSGER Pelin , UCAR Birsen 
Published: June 2023

Aim We aimed to determine the relationship of Pro-BNP levels, with the diagnosis, clinical, and laboratory parameters in children. In addition, the predictive power of the Pro-BNP levels in determining the cardiovascular events was evaluated.
Patients and methods: This study comprised 829 patients whose levels of Pro-BNP were measured. The data were obtained retrospectively from the hospital records. The relationship of the Pro-BNP level of the patients with the clinical, laboratory, and echocardiographic data was determined. The predictive power of the Pro-BNP and Troponin T levels in determining the development of cardiovascular events was evaluated.
Results: Cardiovascular events developed in 143 patients during the follow-up period. The Pro-BNP levels were observed to be significantly higher (p< 0.001) in the group in which patients developed cardiovascular events. The Pro-BNP levels demonstrated a positive correlation with both Troponin T levels and procalcitonin levels and a strong negative correlation with the age, height, and weight of the patients. The most important predictive factors for determining the development of cardiovascular events were the presence of tachypnea, increased Pro-BNP levels, increased left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, and increased tricuspid regurgitation velocity.
Conclusion: The most important determinants of a cardiovascular event, as revealed in the present study, are the presence of tachypnea, Pro-BNP levels, TR velocity, and the LVEDD z-score of patients. Moreover, the Pro-BNP levels and Troponin levels demonstrate a strong positive correlation. Randomized prospective studies are warranted to improve the efficacy of using Pro-BNP in differentiating cardiac and non-cardiac diseases in children.
Use of Early Warning Scoring Systems to Predict the Prognosis of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department
Authors: KORKMAZ Nurettin , KARAKAYA Zeynep , ACAR Hüseyin , BİLGİN Serkan , KAYALI Ahmet , ERMETE GÜLER Ecem 
Published: June 2023

Aim: Increased emergency department (ED) admissions and the need for intensive care unit (ICU) brought with the pandemic has led to the need to make fast and accurate decisions. Early warning scores (EWS) may be useful in ED in this regard. This study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of EWS in predicting mortality and need for ICU of patients with COVID-19.
Materials and methods: This retrospective observational study was performed with subjects presented to the ED and were later admitted to a general ward or to the ICU because of COVID-19. Subjects aged ≥18 years with positive RT-PCR were included in the study. Subjects experienced a cardiac or respiratory arrest or intubated at the time of presentation to the ED and pregnant women were excluded from the study. MEWS, NEWS, NEWS-2, REMS, and qSOFA scores were calculated using patients’ data on first presentation. We examined the association of these scoring systems with mortality and need for ICU.
Results: While 60(10%) of the 600 patients participating in the study were admitted to the ICU, 222(37%) patients died. The scoring systems’ negative predictive values for predicting ICU admission were 0.95, 0.98, 0.97, 0.96, and 0.96 respectively and for predicting mortality were 0.61, 0.67, 0.67, 0.66, and 0.61 respectively. All scorings assessed were significant predictors of the need for ICU and mortality in patients with COVID-19.
Conclusions: All evaluated scoring systems were successful; however, NEWS and NEWS-2 had the highest predictive value both for the need for ICU and mortality.
Hybrid MPPT Control: P&O and Neural Network for Wind Energy Conversion System
Authors: Dahmane Kaoutar , Boulaoutaq El Mahfoud , Bouachrine Brahim , Ajaamoum Mohamed , Imodane Belkasem , Mouslim Sana , Benydir Mohamed 
Published: June 2023

In the field of wind turbine performance optimization, many techniques are employed to track the maximum power point (MPPT), one of the most commonly used MPPT algorithms is the perturb and observe technique (PO) because of its ease of implementation. However, the main disadvantage of this method is the lack of accuracy due to fluctuations around the maximum power point. In contrast, MPPT control employing neural networks proved to be an effective solution, in terms of accuracy. The contribution of this work is to propose a hybrid maximum power point tracking control using two types of MPPT control: neural network control (NNC) and the perturbation and observe method (PO), thus the PO method can offer better performance. Furthermore, this study aims to provide a comparison of the hybrid method with each algorithm 𝑃𝑂 and NNC. At the resulting duty cycle of the 2 methods, we applied the combination operation. A DC-DC boost converter is subjected to the hybrid MPPT control. This converter is part of a wind energy conversion system employing a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG). The chain is modeled using MATLAB/Simulink software. The effectiveness of the controller is tested at varying wind speeds. In terms of the Integral time absolute error (ITAE), using the PO technique, the ITAE is 9.72. But, if we apply the suggested technique, it is smaller at 4.55. The corresponding simulation results show that the proposed hybrid method performs best compared to the PO method. Simulation results ensure the performance of the proposed hybrid MPPT control.
PROBLEMS OF STATE AND REGIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC POLICY IN UKRAINE
Authors: Yavorskaya V. V. 
Published: June 2023

The problems of formation of regional policy and stages of formation and growth of geodemography as modern scientific field of population geography were reviewed in details in the article. In the first stage, a central place in the system of knowledge of the population belongs to the demographics. The second stage are increased by interaction of demography with other sciences, including geography. At their junction, a new discipline – population geography. In the third stage are forming the new direction of population geography –geodemography which orientated to the study of regional differences of population and resettlement and development of a regional demographic policy.The basic concepts of the new trend are geodemography development, geodemographic situation, geodemographic processes regional, settlement system, demoreproductive – territorial complexes, demographic policy. We have presented a methodological scheme formation of geodemography as a new trend in the sciences of the population in the following order: Demography – Population Geography – Geodemography. It is clear that geodemography has a substantive methodological overlap with demography, geography of population. In certain domain of geodemography can be accented and dominated certain aspects of its components - demography and population geography. On the one hand, geodemography are considered as a separate section of population geography (S.A. Kovalev et al.). Geodemography situation is defined within of population geography as “historically established in a particular area relationship between aggregate of demographic processes and structures of the socio-economic conditions and factors.” On the other hand, geodemography is considered as a special area of socio-economic geography (A. A. Anokhin, G.M. Fedorov et al.). And geodemographic situation involves a spatially defined demographic system along with its relationship to other regional socio-economic systems. The third approach stands in demographic studies. Geodemography is considered as part of demographic and geodemographic situation as existed at the area ratio of fertility, mortality, migration, what creating a defined population structure and dynamics of its population. The prefix “geo”, in our opinion, in this case shows only the territorial aspect of demography and demographic processes that have casual, insignificant character.
SOCIOCULTURAL COMPONENT OF LIVING CONDITION OF THE POPULATION IN BIG CITIES OF UKRAINE
Authors: Pocliatskiy S. A. 
Published: June 2023

This article tells about one of the new areas of social geography, namely the study of «life categories». As the subject field are considered living conditions, and given the current relevance of the study of growth poles of the country, are the subject of the big cities of Ukraine (over 100 thousand inhabitants). The paper analyzes the sociocultural component, as one of the key components of the living conditions of the population. Resarch based on the integral evaluation (objectively-subjective research) to calculate an index of favorablesociосultural development. The objective side of sociocultural component represented by 14 statistical indicators. The subjective aspect of socio-cultural component includes the development of questionnaire and the mass survey of senior students (375 questionnaire) of geography faculties of higher educational institutions of Ukraine. It was established that the level of socio-cultural development of favorable conditions of big cities grows from the Eastto the Centre and from the Center to the West Ukraine. Found that the size of the city and its population size is not crucial for the socio-cultural component.
LATIN PROPER NAMES IN THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF THE ANCIENT ROME
Authors: Petkova Gergana , Ivanova Vanya 
Published: June 2023

Introduction. The fact that almost all contemporary European countries used to be part Roman Empire in the ancient past follows the question at what extend the culture and the way of living have affected the peoples in the different Provinces. Traces are observed in many layers – even in the field of onomastics and the patterns of naming.
The purpose of the present paper is to establish the main principles of formation of Roman personal name system, its structure and development.
Background and motivations. Most of the Latin names became extremely popular throughout the centuries due to the fact that they became canonized by the Church. As names of saints and martyrs and because of Christianity gaining popularity as a religion a lot of onyms, part of the Roman personal name system, enter other anthroponymicons. But being foreign their meaning in most of the cases remains unclear to the common people even today.
Methodology. The main methods used are onomastic data excerption and comparative analysis.
The expected results are related to describing the appearance and etymology of anthroponyms, Latin by origin, widely spread even today in contemporary European onomastycons.
Performance of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) as Influenced by Integrated Nutrient Management Under Fertigation
Authors: Sunitha N. , Reddy G. Krishna , Reddy S. Tirumala , Reddy M. Raveendra , Nagamadhuri K.V. 
Published: June 2023

Background: Groundnut (Arachs hypogeae) is a prominent legume vegetable oil seed crop in India and it’s lower productivity is a matter of concern attributed to the major constraints of inefficient irrigation and nutrient management in rabi season. Fertigation is the recent innovative gearing up technology in which the nutrients are applied in précised quantity along with drip irrigation at regular intervals throughout the crop growth matching with their requirement, resulting in enhanced resource use efficiency and crop yields. Liquid formulations of biofertilizers can be diluted sufficiently and applied through drip irrigation uniformly to the root zone of crop. Humic acid is widely used as fertilizer synergist and hence in combination with inorganic fertilizers can enhance their use efficiency and improve root zone activity. The present experiment was conducted to develop an integrated nutrient management practice in combination of chemical fertilizers with organic sources i.e., co inoculation of liquid biofertilisers and humic acid under fertigation for rabi groundnut under fertigation. Methods: The experiment was comprised of seven treatments of integrated nutrient management practices viz., T1- Soil application of 100% RDF(30-40-50 kg N,P2O5 and K2O haˉ¹) + Drip irrigation ; T2- 75 % RDF + Liquid biofertilizers @ 3.75 l haˉ1 ; T3- 75% RDF + Humic acid @ 12.5 l haˉ1 ; T4- 50 % RDF + Liquid biofertilizers @ 3.75 l haˉ1 ; T5–50 % RDF + Humic acid @ 12.5 l haˉ1 ; T6- 100 % RDF + Liquid biofertilizers @ 3.75 l haˉ1 ; T7- 100 % RDF+Humic acid @ 12.5 l haˉ1 which were laid out in randomised block design with three replications. Result: The integrated nutrient management practice with application of 100% RDF (30-40-50 kg N,P2O5 and K2O) + Liquid biofertilizers @ 3.75 l ha-1 (Rhizobium, Phosphorus solubilising bacteria and Potassium solubilising bacteria each @ 1.25 l ha-1) through fertigation recorded tallest plants (49.9 cm), highest LAI(2.05), SCMR value(34.5), highest number of nodules plant -1(60.2), pods plant-1(11.2), 100 pod weight(125.7 g), kernel weight (52.9 g) which resulted in the highest pod (3902 kg ha-1), kernel (2666 kg ha-1), haulm yied (4363kg ha-1 ), higher nutrient uptake and net returns (Rs.130818 ha-1) of groundnut, which were comparable to 100% RDF + Humic acid @ 12.5l ha-1 . However 75% RDF + Liquid biofertilizers @ 3.75 l ha-1 through fertigation recorded growth and pod yield (3988 kg ha-1) of groundnut on par with the best treatment of 100% RDF + Liquid biofertilizers @ 3.75 l ha-1 with a saving of 25 per cent of RDF and net returns of (Rs.130818 ha-1) and higher B:C ratio (2.31).
Pengaruh Komposisi Media Hidroponik dan Konsentrasi Pupuk Cair Cucian Beras terhadap Pertumbuhan dan Hasil Tanaman Basil Merah (Ocium Basilicum L.)
Authors: Sucipto Fani Firmanda , Soeparjono Sigit 
Published: June 2023

Modification of the nutrient solution in the red basil plant can be done hydroponically, because it is able to stimulate the synthesis of secondary metabolites of the basil plant so that the plant can easily get the necessary nutrients through the addition of nutrient doses. The application of liquid organic fertilizer can help the addition of nutrients, while the use of different planting media is expected to obtain a good combination for the cultivation process. This study used rice washing water with the trademark pandanwangi and a combination of planting media between husk charcoal, sand, and bokashi. This study used a factorial complete randomized design (4x3) and repeated 3 times. The factors used are the concentration of rice laundry liquid fertilizer (P), consisting of 4 levels: (P0) : Control 0%, (P1): Rice washing liquid fertilizer concentration 25%, (P2): Rice washing liquid fertilizer concentration 50%, (P3): Rice washing liquid fertilizer concentration 75%, and substrate media composition factor (Q), consisting of 3 levels: (Q1): Husk charcoal and sand 1:1, (Q2): Husk charcoal and bokasi 1:1, (Q3): Husk charcoal, sand and bokasi 1:1:1. The observation variables in this study are plant height, number of leaves planted, leaf area, fresh weight of leaves, dry weight of leaves, fresh weight of plants, dry weight of plants and volume of roots. Based on the results of research that has been carried out, the results of the treatment obtained The interaction between the composition of the planting media and the addition of liquid fertilizer for rice laundry does not have a noticeable effect on all treatments except the root volume parameter. The composition treatment of the growing medium had an unreal effect on all treatments except plant height and leaf area with recommendations of husk charcoal:sand (1:1) for plant height and husk charcoal:bokasi (1:1) for leaf area. The treatment of adding concentration of liquid fertilizer to rice laundry has a noticeable effect on all treatments except the fresh weight of the leaves and the fresh weight of the plant with the best recommendation in applying the concentration of liquid fertilizer of rice laundry 25% perliter - 50% perliter on each plant.
PERAN PELAKSANAAN WFH DALAM MENINGKATKAN KINERJA DI MASA PANDEMI (Studi pada ASN Politeknik Penerbangan Surabaya)
Authors: Afifah Dwi Nur , Ismail Iriani 
Published: June 2023

The study about the phenomenon during the pandemic, that there is a change in the work system which the work of employees who are usually done in the office can do their work from home (WFH). It means employees no longer need to come the office and face-to-face meetigs with others. Work activities for employees in government agencies are attendance at the office wearing uniforms, and making it with the working hours that have been determined.The aim was to determine the implementation of WFH in improving the employees performance (ASN) at the Surabaya Flight Polytechnic. This type of research uses qualitative research. This study involved 6 people as research subjects or informants. Representative techniques were used in determining the informants in this study. The results indicate that many employees feel uncomfortable with the implementation of WFH, employees performance becomes less than optimal due to limited facilities at home, while obstacles in implementing WFH regarding network constraints are one of the obstacles to WFH implementation. Keywords: WFH, and Performance.