bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Diffusely Diseased Coronary Artery by Instantaneous Wave-Free Ratio Co-Registration versus Quantitative Coronary Angiography
Authors: Hasan M E , El Emary M H , El Mageed  A A Abd , Fayed  H , Maher M , Nammour A Y , Ali M M 
Published: January 2023

Purpose: Coronary physiological assessment is now routinely applied in the catheter laboratory to guide percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Currently most physiological assessment is performed in a binary manner to determine whether a vessel requires intervention. Although studies have reported the high diagnostic efficiency of physiological assessment in minimizing the number of vessels requiring treatment, it is widely recognized that interrogation of individual stenosis in the presence of tandem lesions or diffuse disease under hyperemic conditions makes PCI planning complex and less practical. The aim of this study was to perform assessment of severity of coronary lesions of a pressure guide wire with continuous instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) co-registration measurement compared coronary angiography and quantitative coronary analysis (QCA) aiming to minimize the procedure, decrease number and length of stents used.
Methodology: This non randomized controlled trial was conducted at Cardiology Department, Benha University, National Heart Institute (NHI) from February 2020 to September 2022. The study included a group of 30 patients presented with diffuse coronary artery disease and undergoing elective PCI.
Findings: The study found out that the distribution of risk factors among studied groups was HTN representing 54%, regarding DM 60%, concerning dyslipidemia 64% and smokers represented 57%. The median of expected length of stent using QCA assessment was 40.2 mm with standard deviation (SD) (8mm) higher than detected actually deployed by iFR co-registration. The mean length of stents used by IFR co-registration was 20.2 mm stents (SD: 11.2 mm) and P-value was 0.0000. Also, all patients needed stent via QCA while only 86% actually need stent application via iFR co-registration assessment, leading to a fewer stents placed per patient. The difference was statistically significant p<0.0022. This study demonstrates that iFR co-registration performed under resting conditions predicted the physiological outcome of PCI with a high degree of accuracy. Compared with QCA, iFR co-registration significantly decreased the number and length of hemodynamically significant lesions identified for revascularization. iFR co-registration should be performed under resting Recommendation: iFR co-registration should be performed under resting conditions to predict the physiological outcome of PCI with a high degree of accuracy.
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION TAKING PLACE AMONG THE INTERNAL PUBLICS IN POSSS: THE CASE OF NAIROBI COUNTY, KENYA.
Authors: Adagala Nanncy 
Published: January 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze effective communication taking place among the internal publics in POSSS: the case of Nairobi County, Kenya.Methodology: The study used a descriptive research design engaging both the qualitative and quantitative approaches. A sample size of 18 schools with a total of 162 individuals was selected consisting School Managers (SMs), Heads of Departments (HODs) and Presidents of the Students’ Councils (POSCO) - categories using stratified and purposive sampling methods. The preferred data collection tools were questionnaires and an interview guide. Data was analysed using both descriptive and inferential statisticsResults: Effective feedback mechanisms were lacking in POSSs since some school managers failed to encourage direct communication between themselves and the student body. This was perceived as a potential problem which was likely to cause tension or disruption, especially when students feel they have been left out of the decision making processes affecting them. Effective communication can be enhanced in schools by putting in place both formal and informal feedback mechanisms to establish how the messages flowing in the schools are interpreted by the student body thus encouraging free flow of communication from all directionsPolicy recommendation: The study recommended that future studies can then investigate whether this status quo had changed. In addition, the study had contributed to communication audit methodology because of its rigorous and methodical approach in verifying the existence and effectiveness of communication in POSS promote idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, inspiration motivation and individualized consideration as they influence performance positively.
Stickstoffdünger kann grüner werden
Authors: Schaal René 
Published: January 2023

Frankfurt a.M. Wissenschaftler der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) Zürich und der Carnegie Institution for Science im US-amerikanischen Stanford zeigen in einer Studie auf, wie sich Stickstoffdünger nachhaltiger herstellen lässt. Dabei geht es nicht nur um Klimaschutz, sondern auch um eine reduzierte Abhängigkeit von Erdgasimporten.
PENGARUH BUDAYA ORGANISASI DAN LINGKUNGAN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA PEGAWAI PADA DINAS LINGKUNGAN HIDUP KABUPATEN TAPANULI TENGAH
Authors: Askal Wahid Sihite  , Yacub Hutabarat  , Zafril Abdi Nasution  
Published: January 2023

This thesis is the result of research that describes how much influence Organizational Culture and Work Environment have on Employee Performance at the Environmental Service Office of Central Tapanuli Regency.
In this study, several tests were carried out to determine the effect. Based on the description of the results of the research on the Influence of Organizational Culture and Work Environment on Employee Performance at the Environmental Office of Central Tapanuli Regency, it can be concluded as follows: Based on the correlation coefficient there is an adequate/moderate and positive relationship of 0.682 between Organizational Culture on Performance and 0.608 between Environment Work Against Performance, based on the Determination coefficient obtained at 0.541, this means that the model's ability to explain variations in Organizational Culture and Work Environment by Performance is 54.1% at the Environmental Service of Central Tapanuli Regency, while the rest is explained by other variables not included in the model by 45.9%, based on Simple Linear Regression the regression equation obtained is Y = 8.896 + 0.488X1 + 0.286X2 which shows employee performance will increase if Organizational Culture increases by a coefficient of 0.488 and Work Environment by 0.286 if at mas ing each independent variable (free) added with one-unit, and Based on the hypothesis test conducted by comparing the value of t count with t table it can be found that organizational culture and work environment variables with t calculated value are greater than t table, namely 4.577 > 2.00247 and 3.051 > 2.00247. And the significance value is 0.000 below α 5% and 0.003 below α 5%. Because t count is greater than t table, each independent variable has a positive or unidirectional influence on employee performance at the Environmental Service Office of Central Tapanuli Regency and the hypothesis proposed is accepted.
PENGARUH KOMPETENSI DAN KARAKTERISTIK PEKERJAAN TERHADAP PRODUKTIVITAS KERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT MUJUR TIMBER SIBOLGA
Authors: Chindi Ellionora Tamba  , Mansur Tanjung  , Yacub Hutabarat  
Published: January 2023

Productive employees are employees who are skilled and able to understand their work as expected and can be seen from the results of reports that are set to be completed in a shorter time, so that finally an effective and efficient level of employee productivity can be achieved. The formulation of the problem is the Influence of Competence and Job Characteristics on Employee Work Productivity at PT. Lucky Timber Sibolga. The objective of this research is to identify and analyze the effect of competence and job characteristics on employee productivity at PT. Lucky Timber Sibolga? the hypothesis in this study is that competence and job characteristics simultaneously influence the work productivity of employees at PT. Lucky Timber Sibolga. This type of research is descriptive correlational research. The population is 525 people and the sample in this study is 15% of (525 people), so that a total of 78 people are obtained.
The results of the study found that competence and job characteristics can affect the work productivity variables of employees at PT. Lujur Timber Sibolga with 54.7%. Competence and job characteristics jointly affect the work productivity of employees at PT. Lucky Timber Sibolga. Where the Fcount value is greater than the Ftable value (45.363 > 3.11). Partially competence has a positive and significant effect on the work productivity of employees at PT. Lucky Timber Sibolga. Where the value of tcount = (2.515) > ttable (1.992), Partially the most dominant job characteristics affect employee work productivity, meaning that job characteristic variables are more decisive in increasing employee work productivity compared to competence. Where the value of tcount = (4.441) is greater than the value of ttable (1.992). The multiple linear regression equation Y = 9.965 + 0.250X1 + 0.582X2 employee productivity shows a positive direction. It is recommended to improve employee competence, it would be nice for the company to encourage employees to continue their education to the tertiary level or attend training held external to the company
Epidermalization of Inferiority: A Fanonian Reading of Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Amour
Authors: Allan Keisha Simone 
Published: January 2023

As part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, the following reflections are akin to his critical work on the psychoaffective impact of colonialism. Fanon’s notion of the epidermalization of inferiority has inspired my analysis of the socio-political struggles in Haiti and the complex antagonisms shaped by colonialism, contemporary political personalities, and constantly clashing perceptions of race, gender and nation. I turn to Fanon’s notion of the epidermalization of inferiority in Black Skin, White Masks to explore the effects of French colonization on the female protagonist’s psyche in Marie-Vieux Chauvet’s Amour. Chauvet was born just short of a decade prior to Fanon, and writes, like him, in the moment of anti- colonial struggle in the Caribbean, exploring like Black Skin, White Masks the psychological effects and affects of colonialism. A Fanonian reading of the text illustrates the psychological impact of colonialism on women in post-colonial societies that remain deeply governed by the former colonizer’s values.
Black Skin, White Masks and the Paradoxical Politics of Black Historiography
Authors: Peters Tacuma 
Published: January 2023

Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks has the paradoxical status of being a text that rejects historiography and History as a primary means of facilitating radical political transformation while also being a key point of departure for histories concerning modern colonial and decolonial thought.1 This reflection is an examination of the tensions in Black Skin, White Masks as a political work and as an intervention into philosophical, psychoanalytic, literary, and existential debates. Prompted by the 70th anniversary of the publication of Black Skin, White Masks, I examine the richness of the past two decades of historiographical scholarship on slavery, abolition, and freedom struggles in the Caribbean and North America alongside arguments that Fanon made about the limited role of history in sustaining and guiding anti-colonial thought and praxis. Black Skin, White Masks remains relevant, albeit troubling, for querying the presumed connections between historical knowledge, political action, and scholarly production facilitated by academic and political trends. I am interested in how the provocations of Black Skin, White Masks, in particular its last chapter “By Way of Conclusion,” provides fertile grounds for questioning, positioning, and refining contemporary historiographical production.
Fanon and Hair
Authors: Seck Fatima 
Published: January 2023

What would it mean to think about Frantz Fanon’s work on race, embodiment, and identity in the context of the contemporary cultural politics of Black hair? Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks offers us some key terms for deepening our engagement with this issue and, in that continuing relevance, tells us something important about the persistence of the colonial gaze in contemporary life. The discourse around black hair has evolved to mean more than what it meant in the 1960s and 1970s. Though it continues to revolve around the symbol of black beauty, celebration and resistance, the symbol is not exclusive to one single hairstyle choice. One of the perils of freedom is the ability to exercise the right of choice. That includes the freedom to choose how you want to look and what language you want to speak. This is about giving agency to black bodies to make choices that make meaning for them and not define it around the white gaze or white ear. In trying to create safe spaces, we must take caution as not to create barriers around new thoughts and ideas that are uncategorizable. The existence of blackness has long been denied so we should take caution to not disqualify aesthetics that do not fit a specific type of mold. As a black woman born to Senegalese parents, raised in the United Arab Emirates and now living in the United States, I have always been around multiple cultures and that came with the ability to now speak multiple languages (Wolof, English, Arabic and French). And my hair journey…has ranged from having an Afro, braids, perming my hair, going through a period of transition, wearing it natural, adding extensions and the list goes on. Many have tried to disqualify my blackness for one reason or another. But, in no way am I less Black than another because of a hairstyle choice or the languages I speak. My blackness has always been spoken to me by my family. My blackness is a constant reminder to me by society. My blackness is rooted in my experiences. My blackness is rooted in my very existence. As long as I continue to live in my black body, no one can take away my blackness, and all the marvelousness it is capable of. To this, Fanon might suggest I read his Black Skin, White Masks as a way to explain my back-and-forth hair journey between natural and permed to further understand the effects of colonialism on the black psyche. Though Fanon’s perspective can explain so much this, I would like to put his text in dialogue with Rokhaya Diallo’s Afro where she compiles the experiences of 120 Afropeans, men and women, living in France and their experience of wearing their natural hair out. They range from professors, bankers to ministers and civil servants. Hair dictates a lot of factors in a black woman's life. Although they are talking about hair, their experience conveys what it means for a black body to exist in predominantly white spaces. By putting these two texts in dialogue, we can extend Fanon’s discourse around must black bodies conform when existing in white spaces? To what extent does Fanon’s theorization of black bodies in white spaces hold up?
TRABALHO PEDAGÓGICO COM TDIC NA EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA DE GOIÁS DURANTE A SUSPENSÃO DAS AULAS PRESENCIAIS NA PANDEMIA DE COVID-19
Authors: Lopes Rosemara Perpetua , Coimbra Fábio Rezende 
Published: January 2023

Este artigo apresenta resultados de uma pesquisa documental, de abordagem qualitativa, na qual se buscou investigar o trabalho pedagógico com tecnologias digitais durante o período de suspensão de aulas presenciais na rede pública de educação básica de Goiás. Os procedimentos metodológicos abrangeram a delimitação do percurso analítico em roteiros de elaboração própria, organizados em torno dos objetivos específicos da pesquisa, cada qual composto por categorias e indicadores. Fundamentaram a análise pressupostos sobre abordagens pedagógicas de uso das tecnologias, conhecimentos para a docência com tecnologias digitais e outros. Desse modo, constatou-se que, no cenário da educação goiana, durante o período pandêmico de aulas não presenciais, a Internet desponta como a tecnologia mais utilizada para atividades escolares; projetos políticos-pedagógicos datados de 2020 não tratam das aulas não presenciais e pouco se referem às tecnologias digitais; os planos de estudo criados para o Regime Especial de Aulas Não Presenciais também preveem atividades presenciais e as videoaulas, tratadas como material de apoio, têm o seu uso marcado por traços da abordagem instrucionista. Apurou-se que, dos conhecimentos necessários para a docência com tecnologias digitais, prevalece o tecnológico, que, sozinho, não permite afirmar que, após a pandemia, o professor esteja preparado para ensinar com tecnologias. Houve dificuldades na educação remota e elas variam da produção de videoaulas ao uso pedagógico de tecnologias pessoais, como o WhatsApp, incluindo a ampliação da jornada diária de trabalho, a separação entre trabalho e vida privada e as condições de estudo dos alunos. De modo geral, os resultados sugerem que nas aulas não presenciais os ambientes virtuais foram pouco explorados, reflexo, talvez, de fatores como condições de acesso e uso dos meios digitais e conhecimentos sobre a educação por meios digitais.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Tecnologia. Educação. Pandemia. Goiás.
Evaluation Of The Relationship Between Air Temperature And Treatment Cost In Diabetic Foot Infections
Authors: BEYAZGÜL Burcu , CİNDOĞLU Çiğdem 
Published: January 2023

Abstract:
Aim: When diabetic patients have problems in foot care, diabetic foot wounds can occur, and untreated diabetic foot infections can cause amputation and death. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the air temperature and treatment costs in diabetic foot patients treated in a University Hospital.
Materials and Methods: The study is of ecological type. The population of the study consisted of 123 diabetic foot patients who were treated in a hospital in 2019. Demographic characteristics of the patients such as age, gender, duration of diabetes, Wagner classification, length of hospital stay, cost of treatment, and climate parameters were examined.
Results: The mean hospital stay of the patients was 13.81±9.22 (min:1 max:43) days. The mean hospitalization cost of the patients was 2,724.95±2,344.04 (min:228 max:15,208) Turkish Lira (TL). The cost of treatment was higher in patients who were elderly, had a long hospital stay, and had a Wagner classification of 3 and above (p
Faulty Hip and Pelvis Biomechanics Do Not Differentiate Between 5k Performance in NCAA Division II Cross-Country Runners
Authors: Mokha Monique , Marshall Shandon , Varghese Maya , Rivero Isabella 
Published: January 2023

Introduction: Excessive hip adduction (HADD) and contralateral pelvis drop (CPD) angles during running are associated with running-related injuries. Their influence on performance is less known. Therefore, we aimed to determine if HADD and CPD could differentiate between high and low race performers, and if there were relationships between CPD, HADD and race performance.
Methods: Twenty-six healthy male and female NCAA Division II cross-country runners participated in this prospective study. They underwent 3D motion analysis of their HADD and CPD during pre-participation physical examinations. Times from the first race of the season were converted to International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) points and high and low performance groups were created. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to examine the associations between HADD, CPD and IAAF points, and Independent Samples T-tests were used to determine differences in HADD and CPD between high and low performance groups.
Results: There were no significant relationships between IAAF points and left HADD (r=0.11, p=0.59), right HADD (r=0.19, p=0.35), left CPD (r=-0.06, p=0.79), or right CPD (r=-0.06, p=0.76). There were no significant differences between high and low performance groups in left HADD (t(24)=0.48, p=0.64), right HADD (t(24)=0.45, p=0.33), left CPD (t(24)=0.62, p=0.27), or right CPD (t(24)=0.53, p=0.30).
Conclusions: The RRI biomechanics of excessive CPD and HADD do not influence 5k race performance in collegiate distance runners.
INFLUÊNCIA DA DRENAGEM LINFÁTICA EM PACIENTE COM FIBROMIALGIA: RELATO DE CASO
Authors: BARBOSA João Pedro Silva , RODRIGUES Érika Silva , SOARES Wilen Vilela , Pires Vanessa Chiaparini Martin Coelho , Fusco Geovana Valadão Borges , Silva Danielle Pereira 
Published: January 2023

O respectivo artigo teve como objetivo a redução de edemas, a melhora na circulação sanguínea, analgesia e diminuição do Quadro álgico recorrente da fibromialgia. A paciente foi atendida em 5 sessões de 45 minutos, 1 vez na semana. O tratamento consistiu na drenagem linfática que foi realizada com o intuito de aumentar o volume e a velocidade da linfa do corpo a ser transportada pelos vasos e ductos linfáticos, por meio de manobras que emitem o bombeamento fisiológico, diminuindo os edemas e o desconforto no corpo. Após a realização das 5 sessões, observou-se uma melhora significativa da paciente, reduzindo seu Quadro álgico e edemas.
Potencial de aislados de Trichoderma spp como promotor de crecimiento en plántulas de tomate (Solanum lycopersicum)
Authors: Sánchez Miranda María Delfina 
Published: January 2023

Debido a la necesidad de producir alimentos sanos y de calidad, los sistemas agroproductivos actuales están incursionando en el uso de métodos sostenibles e inocuos para el control de plagas y mejora de la nutrición vegetal. Entre estas opciones ha sido estudiado Trichoderma spp., como promotor de crecimiento vegetal, sin embargo, en Nicaragua existen pocos estudios sobre este tema. El presente estudio pretende identificar y cuantificar el potencial de aislados nativos de Trichoderma spp., como promotores de crecimiento y peso en el tomate. La solución de Trichoderma sp. utilizada se obtuvo de una solución madre diluida a una concentración de 108 conidias /ml, utilizando 1 ml de dicha solución en el sustrato de siembra. Los tratamientos evaluados fueron T1: T. harzianum; T12: T. asperelloide; T11c: T. viride; T8: T. songyi; F2TG-11: T. breve; T3: T. asperellum; CIXD-07: T. virens. Al tratamiento testigo (sin inocular) sólo se le agregó 1 mL de agua destilada estéril. Todas las bandejas se mantuvieron en oscuridad a 28±2°C. Las variables a medir fueron altura, peso, longitud de las raíces de las plántulas, realizándose la medición a los 25 días después de la emergencia. Los resultados muestran que, al compararse con el testigo, los aislados de T. harzianum y T. viride presentaron el mayor potencial promotor de crecimiento obteniéndose una ganancia de 38.8% y 22.6% en altura, 72% y 46.3% en peso y 70% y 36.3% en longitud de raíces respectivamente.
Pioneers and landmarks in intelligence testingSearching for a taxonomy of intelligence
Authors: McCredie Hugh 
Published: January 2023

Key digested messageSo far in this series we have seen how, in the wake of the pragmatic focus of intelligence testing during world War II, both Vernon and Cattell used factor analysis to explore the latent structure of intelligence from the data which had amassed. We have also seen how Cattell had effected some rapprochement between the American school, led by Thurstone, championing a multiplicity of mental abilities and the British hierarchical school, fathered by Spearman, championing an overarching general factor of intelligence, g. Cattell’s solution, which he proposed to the American Psychological Association in 1941, and which Thurstone accepted, was that if test scores from Thurstone’s Primary Mental Abilities were factor-analysed, post hoc, something like g would emerge as the factor explaining most of the variance.This article now takes us to the late 1960s/early 1970s when there were two attempts to raise the scientific status of intelligence testing by locating it within a comprehensive classification taxonomy.