bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Robot-assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy with displaced B3 and absence of minor fissure: A case report
Authors: Tomioka Yasuaki , Watanabe Jo , Iga Norichika , Yamane Masaomi 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Introduction

B3 downward-shifting is a rare bronchial anomaly characterized by abnormal pulmonary arteries associated with downward displacement of B3 and complete fusion between the right upper and middle lobes.

Case presentation

We report a case of robot-assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy in a patient with lung cancer with B3 downward-shifting. An 81-year-old male was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer in S3 of the right upper lung. Preoperative three-dimensional computed tomography angiography revealed a B3 bronchus derived from the middle lobe bronchus and an anterior segmental pulmonary artery variation. Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery right upper lobectomy with ND2a-1 was performed via four-port incisions and an assist incision. No interlobar fissure was observed between the right upper and middle lobes. After dissecting B1 + 2, the displaced B3 root was dissected. The displaced A3a was difficult to dissect because of an extremely severe complete fissure. Therefore, we dissected the bronchus preceding from the cranial side. To confirm a minor fissure, indocyanine green was administered intravenously, and the interlobar boundary was identified as the line separating the dark and green lung parenchyma. The boundary was divided using mechanical staples. No surgical complications occurred.

Conclusions

Using three-dimensional reconstruction imaging and systemic indocyanine green administration, we successfully performed a right upper lobectomy through robotic-assisted thoracic surgery.
Comparison of transumbilical single-site laparoscopy and traditional laparoscopy for children with high-level intra-abdominal testes
Authors: Bu Weizhen , Li Xiaohua , Hu Shaohua , Wan Zhisheng , Chen Songqiang , Zhao Zhenli 
Published: March 2023

Abstract

Purpose: Laparoscopy is the most frequently performed surgery in children with high-level intra-abdominal testes. The aim of the study was to compare outcomes of transumbilical single-site laparoscopy and traditional laparoscopy in children with high-level intra-abdominal testes at Hainan Women and Children's Medical Center.
Methods:Retrospective review of children with high-level intra-abdominal testes undergoing transumbilical single-site laparoscopy between March 2019 and March 2022 was performed.The patients were divided into transumbilical single-site laparoscopy and traditional laparoscopy groups. The age, clinical characteristics of high-level intra-abdominal testes, and internal ring were evaluated. The results were assessed for complications, operative time, tension of spermatic cord, location of the testis being fixed, hospital stay, and satisfaction
Results: Seventy-two children were included in the analysis, thirty-eight patients in traditional laparoscopy, thirty-four patients in intransumbilical single-site laparoscopy. The median duration of surgery was 89.29 mintues in intransumbilical single-site laparoscopy versus 91.26 mintues in traditional laparoscopy (p=0.699) .The median age in intransumbilical single-site laparoscopy was 21.00 months, traditional laparoscopy was 20.53 months.There was no signifcant difference in spermatic cord location of the testis being fixed,and hospital stay in both groups, and no postoperative complications were reported in both groups. However, parents of intransumbilical single-site laparoscopy have higher satisfaction than traditional group(p=0.048).
Conclusion:The transumbilical single-site laparoscopy for children with high-level intra-abdominal testes was safely adopted at our institution, should be considered as the preferred surgical approach.
Human Death Due to Road Traffic Accidents in Sidama Regional State, Ethiopia: A Finite Mixture Count Regression Analysis
Authors: Kambata Dara Kafala , Debeko Dereje Danbe 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Background
The Sidama region is one of the Ethiopian regions facing high burdens of human death due to road traffic accidents.
Objective
The aim of current study was to identify the determinants of human death due to road traffic accidents in Sidama regional state, Ethiopia.
Methods
A total of 291 road traffic accident data collected from July 2020-June 2021 was obtained from the department of traffic control and crime investigation, Sidama region. The two-component zero inflated finite mixture models (2-ZIFMM) to accommodate the unobserved heterogeneity of the traffic data used in the analysis.
Results
Out of the 291 accidents recorded in the region, nearly 47% of them had resulted in at least one human death. Drivers who were between 17–30 years old had accounted the highest proportion of road traffic accidents in the region (66.7%). About 87% of the total traffic accidents took place on the dry road condition in the region. A driver who had the least (1–5 years) driving experiences had caused nearly 2 times higher road traffic accident that had resulted human deaths compare to drivers who had 5 and more driving experience, on average. The main source of human death due to traffic accidents was due to motor motorcycles that were caused during vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle to pedestrian crash because of drivers were over speeding.
Conclusions
Drivers in the younger age, road type, whether condition on the road, driving in the mid-day (12:00–2:00 pm) had increased incidence rate of human death due to road traffic accident in the region. The government and other stakeholders should create over all awareness among drivers and set strong restriction on the legal age for driving license, should monitor and evaluate the service years of drivers and the vehicles.
Hypophusiary involvement and immuno/growth depression in rabies I. bovine paralytic rabies (BPR)
Authors: Torres-Anjel M. J. , Wolff W. , Mollett T. A. , Martz F. A. , Kintner L. , Blenden D. C. , Turk M. , Volz D. , Riordan M. , Wilson M. , Stafford M. 
Published: March 2023

This investigation was designed to study the feasibility of extrapolating our formerly described rabies virus (RV) associated immuno- and growth-depression data from the mouse and the rat and more recently the rabbit, to the bovine model. Such information was not available from any of the classical bovine rabies studies.
This work is dedicated to the memory of Tadeus ("Tad”) J. Wiktor, Dr. med. vet., mentor, friend and permanent source of inspiration.
Use of nutritional consultation in beef cattle practive
Authors: Hentschl Arnold F. 
Published: March 2023

When first becoming involved with herd health maintenance activities with feedlot producers it became obvious that although respiratory disease caused a substantial loss to the producer, improved management of the ration and related matters could provide an improved financial return to the producer.
To address the topic of feedlot nutritional consultation it is appropriate to begin by discussing the ration of incoming feeder cattle.
Allergic Pneumonitis in Cattle
Authors: Fox Francis H. 
Published: March 2023

During the past year we have investigated herd outbreaks of an unusual respiratory syndrome in two widely separated dairy herds in New York State and one in Canada. The Canadian herd consisted of approximately 70 purebred Holstein milking animals; one of the N.Y. herds was comprised of 40 purebred Guernsey milkers and the other was a “commercial” dairy consisting of approximately 70 head, mostly Holsteins with a few Guernseys and Jerseys. In each herd, the history, signs, progression of the syndrome and subsequent sequellae have been identical.
Role of blood profiles in cattle health problems
Authors: Guss Samuel B. 
Published: March 2023

Fifteen herds located on the major soil types in Pennsylvania were selected. Twenty-five of the cows in each herd were bloo sampled four times annually for two years. At the same time blood was taken from the cows, forage, grain and water samples were taken. Soil samples were collected from all of the forage-producing fields. Blood parameters are compared with findings of several others who have published on this subject.
Toxic nitrate accumulation in the sorghums
Authors: Clay B. R. , Edwards W. C. , Peterson D. R. 
Published: March 2023

The sorghums are valuable crop plants to the cattle industry. Their use as forages is varied and widespread throughout the United States. As pasture they may become hazardous to grazing ruminants if toxic accumulations of cyanide and/or nitrates exist. As hay the major toxic threat is excessive nitrates since cyanide is readily lost as gaseous HCN during the curing process.
The sorghum plant is a hardy soil feeder which allows for tremendous dry matter production in a relatively short period of time. This feature also allows for excessive nitrate accumulations when there is a luxury of soil nitrogen or if the plant becomes stressed. An understanding of sorghum culture and the plant’s growth processes is essential to the prevention and management of toxic nitrate accumulations.
Bovine leukemia virus
Authors: Kenyon S. J. 
Published: March 2023

Although BLV antigens have been detected in the urine of infected cows, infectious BLV has not been detected, and attempts to transmit the virus by inoculation of urine into susceptible recipients have failed. Neither BLV nor its antigens have been detected in saliva or semen, and neither secretion has been implicated in the natural transmission of the virus.
[Symposium: Clinical Aspects of Bovine Viral Diseases]
Retrospective investigation and random sample survey of acute bovine pulmonary emphysema in Northern California
Authors: Heron Billy R. , Suther Dan E. 
Published: March 2023

A retrospective investigation (RI) of Acute Bovine Pulmonary Emphysema (ABPE) involved 14 veterinarians, 20 premises, and 30 occurrences of the disease in 10 Northern California counties. There were 9,851 cattle at risk in the investigation, and 6,046 of these were adults. The adult mortality rate was 2.61 %. Attack rates and case fatality rates were variable; but in general, inversely related. Calves were not significantly affected. Cases were noted in all months except February and December.
A statistically designed random sample survey (RS) was conducted on 81 premises in three of the counties. Equivalent mortality rates were found in the RI and the RS for each class of cattle. Sex differences were not statistically significant. Type of forage management was found to be significant (p < .005) to the occurrence of ABPE. The incidence of ABPE was estimated at 594 adult cases with 121 deaths out of 90,688 cattle in Lassen, Modoc, and Siskiyou counties. The total estimated economic costs for ABPE in these three counties was $127,550.00 in 1973.
Clinical picture of the enzootic and sporadic forms of bovine leukosis
Authors: Stober M. 
Published: March 2023

As enzootic lymphatic leukosis of adult cattle has been the most frequent tumorous ailment in large ruminants in our country. It became notifiable in 1965 and an official program was elaborated to eradicate it in the Federal Republic of Germany (and in other European countries). Contrary to the other forms of bovine leukosis, animals infected by the BL-virus develop (within 2 weeks to 3 months) specific antibodies in their serum; these antibodies serve to detect the carriers of the virus at an early state, when all the other symptoms eneumerated here are still lacking. Since the introduction of the serological control campaign in 1978 which uses the agar-gel immuno-diffusion-test and gradually superceded the former control by counting the number of circulation lymphocytes to find the animals affected with persistent lymphocytosis, we only very rarely get cases of tumorous enzootic leukosis in our clinic; therefore, the following report is based on an earlier situation and these animals were, at that time, not been tested serologically:
We had a total of 470 cases of tumorous leukosis of all types as indoor patients during the 15 years from 1960 to 1974. Among them, 439 were of the enzootic lymphatic adult type; 27 concerned calves with juvenile or adolescent (thymic) lymphatic leukosis, one animal suffered from lymphatic leukosis of the skin ( and we saw two more cases of this kind in the meantime); two patients showed monocytic leukosis and one animal was diagnosed as mastocytic reticulosis with tissue mast-cells in the blood, so we may classify it as mastocytic leukosis.
Estrus synchronization of beef cows with a palpable corpus luteum using PGF2α
Authors: Ott R. S. , Lock T. F. , Brodie B. O. , Memon M. A. , Mansfield M. E. 
Published: March 2023

There are many small herds of purebred beef cattle ranging from twenty to fifty cows. Breeders of these herds would like to produce calves by artificial insemination using semen from the well-known sires of their breeds. Most beef cattle breed associations now allow registration of calves born from artificial insemination. However, these herds are part-time endeavors, and the owners seldom have either the time or management experience necessary for artificial insemination unless the procedure can be simplified.
To test under field conditions, an artificial insemination method that would require minimal labor and management.
Possible relationship between feeding, fertility, and blood parameters of milking cows
Authors: Avidar Y. , Gordin S. , Davidson M. , Francos G. 
Published: March 2023

Blood parameters from 1000 Israeli-Flolstein breed milking cows in 30 kibbutz dairy herds, were studied during a period of 3 years and the relationship to feeding and fertlity was studied. The cows were raised and kept under similar management and A.I. regimes. Herds with high OCR (Overall conception rate) of 48.3 ± 1.3 were considered good ones, while farms with low OCR (30.0 ± 1.3) were considered poor ones. High producing cows were cows that gave 28 kg (and over) milk/day while low producing cows were those that gave 27 (and less) kg milk/day, this at a period of up to 90 days postpartum.
Feed composition had a significant effect (p 0.001) on OCR. In the high OCR herds, cows were fed concentrates and roughage at a ratio of 69:31, while in the low OCR herds the ratio was 80:20, based on dry matter. There was also a good correlation (p 0.001) between OCR and the blood parameter Δ Pi (a difference obtained by subtracting the level of the whole blood inorganic-P from the serum inorganic-P). In cows from herds with high OCR A Pi was 0.75 ± 0.06 (n=107), while in herds with low OCR this value was 1.33 ± 0.05 (n = 106). There was no significant difference between feeding or OCR and the blood parameters urea, total proteins, albumine, glucose, totallipids, cholesterol inorganic and organic-P, calcium and magnesium.
Screening tests for abnormal milk and physical examination of the udder
Authors: Heider Lawrence E. 
Published: March 2023

Many tests have been described for use in detecting abnormal milk. These include: black plate or strip cup, catalase test, (modified) Whiteside test, serum albumin, milk chloride, electrical conductivity, California Mastitis Test (CMT), Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT), Direct Microscopic Somatic Cell Count (DMSCC) and Electronic Somatic Cell Counts (ESCC). In summary, the black plate is still a useful tool for the examination of lactating cows to detect clinical mastitis.
The CMT Test is a useful cowside test for detecting subclinical infections.
ESCC provides useful information for assessing the prevalence of subclinical infection and for regular evaluation of mastitis control practices.
Examination of the udder may be indicated. Udder palpation is not as important in the current scheme of management of cows as it may have been in the past but could still provide useful additional indications for culling decisions.
Teat end lesions may be reduced by avoiding chemical irritation and faulty machine function. However, teat end appearance may be related to high production and, depending on degree, is not always an indication of unusual trauma.
Milk fever prevention update and vitamin D3 toxicity
Authors: Olson William G. 
Published: March 2023

Discussing problems of milk fever with practicing veterinarians today reveals that in some herds there are occasionally epidemics that occur for a variable period of time in some herds. The overall incidence in the U.S. is apparently down from the 8-9% of the 1960’s to about 6-7%. However, sales of milk fever treatments may be rather stable. This may also mean that the average milk fever cow may get 2 bottles per treatment.
Today, in the large herds, where caloric and calcium intake are very closely regulated to minimize overfeeding of energy and calcium, the herd incidence of milk fever may be below 1%. The major question for the medium size farm is whether or not it is worthwhile to prevent milk fever if the management upset is too great. This is a real problem for dairymen on all legume forages.
Vengeful Equity: Gendering the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Authors: Mackey Hollie 
Published: March 2023

The ‘school-to prison pipeline’ problem has typically been framed as predominantly affecting boys since punitive school discipline practices become firmly entrenched in U.S. public schools beginning in the 1990’s. Since then, the experiences of girls and gender non-conforming students has largely been overlooked. Girls and gender non-conforming students represent an increasing number of students suspended from schools annually and the number of juvenile justice involved girls has increased. This policy brief presents context to the problem and suggests a gendered analysis of aggression and violence is warranted to identify differences in the ways girls’ and gender non-conforming students’ behaviors are perceived and punished in schools utilizing intersectionality as an analytic tool of critical praxis to provide researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners recommendations for future empirical study and practical approaches to correct policy and practice that perpetuate gender bias and social inequality. Improved policy and practice that address inequitable application of school discipline decision-making and juvenile justice decisions can have a direct effect on girls’ and gender non-conforming students’ academic success and decrease the number of women incarcerated across the United States.
Melatonin as a Harmonizing Factor of Circadian Rhythms, Neuronal Cell
Cycle and Neurogenesis: Additional Arguments for Its Therapeutic Use in
Alzheimer’s Disease
Authors: Shukla Mayuri , Vincent Bruno 
Published: March 2023

Abstract:
The synthesis and release of melatonin in the brain harmonize various physiological functions.
The apparent decline in melatonin levels with advanced aging is an aperture to the neurodegenerative
processes. It has been indicated that down regulation of melatonin leads to alterations of circadian
rhythm components, which further causes a desynchronization of several genes and results in an
increased susceptibility to develop neurodegenerative diseases. Additionally, as circadian rhythms and
memory are intertwined, such rhythmic disturbances influence memory formation and recall. Besides,
cell cycle events exhibit a remarkable oscillatory system, which is downstream of the circadian phenomena.
The linkage between the molecular machinery of the cell cycle and complex fundamental
regulatory proteins emphasizes the conjectural regulatory role of cell cycle components in neurodegenerative
disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Among the mechanisms intervening long before
the signs of the disease appear, the disturbances of the circadian cycle, as well as the alteration of the
machinery of the cell cycle and impaired neurogenesis, must hold our interest. Therefore, in the present
review, we propose to discuss the underlying mechanisms of action of melatonin in regulating the
circadian rhythm, cell cycle components and adult neurogenesis in the context of AD pathogenesis
with the view that it might further assist to identify new therapeutic targets.
Power Minimization in Cell-Free Massive MIMO with AP Selection
Algorithm
Authors: Sheikh Tasher Ali , Rasagnya Yannabhathala , Rajesh Valipi , Raju Devarenti Salman , Rajasekaran Subramamiam 
Published: March 2023

Background:
The cell-free massive multiple input multiple outputs (CF M-MIMO) is the
key and emerging technology for 5G and beyond, which gains more attention from many researchers
and academicians. The cell-free M-MIMO enhances the system throughput, latency, spectral
efficiency (SE), and energy efficiency (EE) of the communication network.

Objective:
In this paper, we formulate a framework for joint access point selection (APS) and power
control algorithm for improving the EE and at the same time maintaining the system capacity.

Methods:
The max-min power control algorithm is used for efficient power allocation among the
access points (APs) by using the minimum mean square error (MMSE), zero-forcing (ZF), and
conjugate beam-forming (CB).

Results:
We were successfully able to enhance and maintain the optimal system capacity of the cellfree
M-MIMO systems.

Conclusion:
The simulation result shows that the system capacity is improved when efficiently allocating
the power with max-min power control algorithm.