bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effect of therapeutic ultrasound in patients after flexor tendon repair
Authors: Gill Amarjot Singh , Chawla Nistara Singh , Saini Sandeep Singh , Pargal Pinki 
Published: March 2023

CONTEXT:
Injuries to the flexor tendons of the hand may not seem very complicated, but the rehab may take months. Adjunction of the existing protocols with therapeutic ultrasound at the early phase may speed up the recovery. The high prevalence of these injuries indicates the need for more studies in the area to improve tendon repair by reducing recovery time.

AIMS:
To evaluate the role of ultrasound therapy in improving the range of motion (ROM) and grip strength postflexor tendon repair surgery.

SETTINGS AND DESIGN:
A prospective study was conducted in the department of physiotherapy in a tertiary hospital in Ludhiana.

METHODS:
This was a prospective study. Patients with flexor tendon injury postsurgical repair, 1-week postoperative were the target population.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS:
The mean change in ROM and grip strength was analyzed in both the intervention and the control groups using paired t-test in SPSS software.

RESULTS:
The mean change in ROM before and after the intervention was19.2° and 32.02° for distal inter-phalangeal (DIP) joints and 14.3° and 23.14° for proximal inter-phalangeal (PIP) joints in the control and the experimental groups, respectively. The Pvalue for ROM comparison was 0.0082, which was very statistically significant. The mean change in grip strength was measured as 73.2 lbs and 81 lbs in the control and experimental groups, respectively. The Pvalue was 0.238, which was not significant at P< 0.05.

CONCLUSION AND KEY MESSAGE:
The use of therapeutic ultrasound in tendon repair significantly helps enhance the recovery of the active ROM of the DIP and the PIP joints when administered at an early stage. However, no significant change in grip strength was noted in this study.
Student Teachers’ Experiences of Open Distance e-Learning Support in a Posthuman Era: A Learner Engagement Perspective
Authors: Zwane Siyabonga Alfa , Mudau Patience Kelebogile 
Published: March 2023

Online learning uses information and communication technologies which rely on reliable connectivity. While this is a giant step to widen access in South African education as shown by a number of studies conducted already regarding online learning, less focus has been paid on rural students which are under-resourced. They are presumed to have access and support to online learning and assistive ICTs that make online learning possible. Therefore, the focus for this study was on KwaZulu-Natal rural student teachers’ experiences of open distance e-learning in a posthuman era. The study focused on students’ experiences regarding online support tools like discussion forum and others as tools for student engagement and support on myUnisa platform. The problem was investigated using a descriptive qualitative case study, which used individual interviews. The study involved fifteen UNISA student teachers from KZN and the findings revealed that, notwithstanding the countless challenges, students were very passionate about the use of online learning in open distance e-learning and they showed a desire to engage more using different types of devices and platforms as they learn through social media and also showed that learning resides in technological appliances they use(posthumanism), hence the study’s conclusion and implications stress that the distance between the student and the institution, student and lecturer and student and other students can be mediated and reduced through proper student support services such as provision of gadgets for internet connection, proper telecommunications infrastructure, ICT workshops and training for all students and in posthumanism terms, formal integration of social networks in learning in light of the finding that learning is non-linear and resides in technological devices used to connect students.
An Evaluation Framework for The Adoption of Big Data Technologies in Higher Educational Institutions
Authors: Ziezo Mercy , Osakwe Jude Odiakaosa , Ujakpa Martin , Iyawa Gloria 
Published: March 2023

The aim of this study is to develop a framework for the use of Big Data Technology in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). The research which employed a mixed method approach, is primarily based on relevant critical analysis and literature review of studies conducted within the Big Data Technology area in higher education institutions. It investigated the processes of monitoring student performance by Namibian HEIs. The challenges faced by Namibian HEIs on the use of BDT. The various methods of data collection by Namibian HEIs and determined the level of readiness to adopt BDT.in Namibian HEIs. The study further undertook quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with staff of the three (3) higher institutions in Namibia. A sample of 345 participants from International University of Management (IUM), Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), and The University of Namibia comprising the study's population (UNAM) were selected for this study using the simple random sampling technique. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) constructs model was used to analyse to collect and analyse the quantitative data collected in this study. Finally, the study developed a sustainable framework that will guide the use of Big Data Technology in Namibian Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). The validity of the framework was ascertained by expert reviews to ensure that the framework developed is effective and appropriate in fulfilling the purpose of the study and its objectives.
Optimization of Microgrid Energy Cost with Electrical Vehicles and Demand Response
Authors: Beenish Summaira , Ahmad Aftab 
Published: March 2023

Challenges with current power systems include increasing energy costs and Greenhouse gasses. Participation in distributed generators (DGs) and demand response (DR) strategies inside the distribution network may solve these issues. This paper's primary objective is to suggest an energy management system (EMS) strategy for campus microgrid reduce all the issues mentioned above. To practice this strategy a microgrid is considered. Conventionally the microgrid uses a utility grid to fulfill load demands. But in the proposed model the integration of a micro turbine, photovoltaic (PV) system, battery energy storage system (BESS), and Electric vehicles is proposed. Mix integer linear programming MILP technique is used in MATLAB to solve the non-linear optimization problem. The energy management system EMS and demand response policies are used to optimally schedule the available resources and reduce energy costs. The integration of EVs is also observed as source and load. The simulation results are discussed and different case studies are analyzed. Simulation results show that 46% cost saving is observed while using EVs in the system as source. The real-time energy interruption problem is also observed in this paper.
Hybrid Learning based Radio Resource Management in 5G Heterogeneous Networks
Authors: Iqbal Muhammad Usman , Ansari Ejaz Ahmad , Akhtar Saleem , Rafiq Muhammad Nadeem , Farooq-i-Azam Muhammad , Hassan Beenish 
Published: March 2023

Ultradensification using different types of small cells (SCs) is one of the key enabling solutions to meet the multiple stringent requirements of 5G cellular networks. However, radio resource management (RRM) in ultra-dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is not easy due to interferences in multi-tiered architecture and dynamic network conditions. Interferences in 5G HetNets can be efficiently managed only through the techniques which are adaptive and self-organizing to handle dynamic conditions in 5G HetNets. In this article, a machine learning (ML) based self-adaptive resource allocation scheme is proposed based on the combination of independent and cooperative learning and evaluated for ultra-dense 5G HetNets. The proposed scheme aims to improve the QoS of all users associated with different network tiers in ultra-dense HetNets simultaneously. The proposed solution adaptively optimizes the SCs transmit power either through independent learning or cooperative learning based on the varying density of small cells to minimize the interferences and ensure minimum QoS requirements for all users in different network tiers. The proposed scheme not only maintains the minimum required capacities for QoS provision to all users simultaneously but has also shown a significant improvement in the capacities of users in different network tiers in high interference scenarios as compared to the use of a single learning scheme.
SCIATRAN software package (V4.6): update and further development of aerosol, clouds, surface reflectance databases and models
Authors: Mei Linlu , Rozanov Vladimir , Rozanov Alexei , Burrows John P. 
Published: March 2023

Abstract. Since the initiation of development at the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, in 1994, the radiative transfer model SCIATRAN (formerly GOMETRAN) has been continuously improved and new versions have been released (Rozanov et al., 1997, 2002, 2005, 2014, 2017). In the course of development, the
SCIATRAN software package became capable of simulating radiative transfer processes through the Earth's atmosphere or coupled atmosphere–ocean system with a variety of approaches to treat the sphericity of the atmosphere (plane-parallel, pseudo-spherical, approximately spherical and full-spherical solutions) in both scalar and vector modes. Supported by a variety of built-in databases and parameterizations, these capabilities made SCIATRAN widely
used for various remote-sensing applications related to the retrieval of atmospheric trace gases and characteristics of aerosols, clouds and surfaces. This paper presents an overview of the cloud, aerosol and surface (CAS) databases and models implemented
in the SCIATRAN software package (V4.6) and provides some recommendations on their usage.
The new implementations offer potential users a flexible interface to perform radiative transfer simulations:
(1) accounting for multilayer liquid water, ice and mixed-phase clouds; (2) employing typical aerosol-type parameterizations (including vertical variability) used in the satellite and model communities as well as updated databases;
(3) including various surface bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) and albedo models for land, vegetation, ocean, snow and melt ponds on sea ice. The most recent version of the radiative transfer model SCIATRAN is freely available at the website of the IUP, University of Bremen: http://www.iup.physik.uni-bremen.de/sciatran (last access: November 2022).
Regionalisation of rainfall depth–duration–frequency curves with different data types in Germany
Authors: Shehu Bora , Willems Winfried , Stockel Henrike , Thiele Luisa-Bianca , Haberlandt Uwe 
Published: March 2023

Abstract. Rainfall depth–duration–frequency (DDF) curves are required for the design
of several water systems and protection works. For the reliable estimation of
such curves, long and dense observation networks are necessary, which in
practice is seldom the case. Usually observations with different accuracy,
temporal resolution and density are present. In this study, we investigate
the integration of different observation datasets under different methods
for the local and regional estimation of DDF curves in Germany. For this
purpose, two competitive DDF procedures for local estimation
(Koutsoyiannis et al., 1998;
Fischer and Schumann, 2018) and two for regional
estimation (kriging theory vs. index based) are implemented and compared.
Available station data from the German Weather Service (DWD) for Germany are
employed, which includes 5000 daily stations with more than 10 years
available, 1261 high-resolution (1 min) recordings with an observation period
between 10 and 20 years, and finally 133 high-resolution (1 min) recordings
with 60–70 years of observations. The performance of the selected approaches
is evaluated by cross-validation, where the local DDFs from the long
sub-hourly time series are considered the true reference. The results reveal
that the best approach for the estimation of the DDF curves in Germany is by
first deriving the local extreme value statistics based on
Koutsoyiannis et al.'s (1998) framework and later
using the kriging regionalisation of long sub-hourly time series with the
short sub-hourly time series acting as an external drift. The integration of
the daily stations proved to be useful only for DDF values of a low return
period (T[a] < 10 years) but does not introduce any improvement for
higher return periods (T[a] ≥ 10 years).
Aktivitas Antiadhesi Kombinasi Ekstrak Daun Pepaya dan Daun Sirih Hijau Terhadap Neutrofil pada Streptococcus Mutans, Staphylococcus Aurues dan Escheriachia Coli
Authors: Kurniati Nining 
Published: March 2023

Indonesia, menurut survei nasional riskesdas 2018, sebanyak 45,3% setara 1,2 juta penduduk mengalami karies gigi, untuk menanggulangi penyakit infeksi tersebut digunakan antibiotik. Antibiotik merupakan substansi yang dihasilkan suatu mikroorganisme, yang mempunyai kemampuan untuk menghambat pertumbuhan atau membunuh mikroorganisme. Negara berkembang terjadi masalah, timbulnya strain bakteri resisten terhadap antibiotik pada penyakit infeksi. Papain yang terkandung dalam daun pepaya merupakan enzim proteolitik juga memiliki efek bakterisid dan bakteriostatik, diharapkan kombinasi daun sirih menguatkan aktivitas penghambatan pertumbuhan bakteri Gram positif maupun negatif. Metode penelitian desain eksperimen laboratorium, rancangan acak lengkap. Telah dilakukan uji aktivitas anti adhesi melalui penambahan kombinasi ekstrak daun pepaya dan daun sirih hijau 5%, 15% dan 25% pada isolat neutrofil yang dipaparkan Streptococcus Mutans, Staphylococcus Aureus, Escheriachia Coli dibandingkan Kontrol. Kemampuan aktivitas anti adhesi diamati penurunan adhesi bakteri pada sel Neutrofil, diuji anova dan Benferroni. Uji Antiadhesi ekstrak 15% dan 5% dengan uji statistik terjadi penurunan adhesi terhadap Streptococcus mutans pada neutrofil (Sig 0,00) dan tidak menurunkan adhesi pada Staphylococcus aureus dan Escheriachia coli (Sig 1,00).
Insects, Age, and Failure: The Suppressed Chapter of “The Wasp in a Wig”
Authors: White Laura 
Published: March 2023

ABSTRACT
Why did Lewis Carroll decide to suppress “The Wasp in a Wig” from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871)? Certainly, he was acting on the advice of John Tenniel. However, the chapter’s suppression was likely not just because a wasp in a wig is hard to draw but because Carroll determined that the chapter was weaker in literary value than the rest of Looking-Glass. This article will argue that the weakness of the chapter follows from Carroll’s lifelong habit of digging at ideological sore points (in this case, how insects should be understood within a Christian as opposed to Darwinian view), conjoined with his growing anxieties about aging. These two themes work in tandem inadvertently to reach beyond the pleasures of nonsense to fall into genuine pathos; the human wasp, far more anthropomorphized than the looking-glass insects, is indeed both a social failure and close to death. Perhaps even a child reader cannot be much consoled by Alice’s reflection when she leaves the wasp that she was “quite pleased that she had gone back and given a few minutes to making the poor old creature comfortable” (AA 298).
“Let us veil our meaning”:Holiday Romanceand the Second Reform Act of 1867
Authors: Hamby James 
Published: March 2023

ABSTRACTDickens’s final completed fiction, Holiday Romance, is a neglected and misunderstood work. It is a suite of four short stories and what little critical attention it has garnered has missed the main idea behind the work. While most scholars who have written about Holiday Romance consider it as little more than children’s entertainment, it is better interpreted as political commentary on expanding voting rights. Read in the context of Dickens’s complex views on the Second Reform Act of 1867, this work reflects his support for expanding the vote, his pessimism that Parliament could introduce any meaningful reform, and also his anxiety over mob rule. Throughout the four stories, children dream of role reversals with adults, sometimes resulting in utopic visions and sometimes descending into disturbing fantasies of violence. This article explores the way Dickens used the image of the abused child one last time as a potent symbol of the need for reform.
What Is Consciousness and Does Nietzsche Really Think It Is Unimportant?
Authors: Clark Maudemarie 
Published: March 2023

Abstract:
What does Nietzsche mean by consciousness, and does he really consider it unimportant? And if he doesn’t, why does he make so many disparaging remarks about it? In this article the author considers and rejects Mattia Riccardi’s recent claim that Gay Science (GS) 354, Nietzsche’s most important passage on consciousness, is concerned only with reflective or Rconsciousness. The article shows that GS 354 attempts to explain why mental states ever became conscious, not Rconscious. Nietzsche accepts “Sartre’s thesis” that a conscious mental state is always prereflectively self-conscious, hence brings with it the potential to activate the “mirror effect” emphasized in GS 354 but missing from the consciousness of one absorbed in an activity. A conscious mental state is one its possessor “knows” from “the inside,” hence can report to self or others without further observation or inference. The resulting communication is essential to culture, hence to what is of value in human life.
Joy of the Black South: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Black Joy—A Review Essay
Authors: Jelks Randal Maurice 
Published: March 2023

ABSTRACT
This review article examines Zora Neale Hurston’s views on the joyful existence of Afro-Southerners. She did not believe the South was backward or inferior to middle-class northerners. The article explores philosopher Lindsey Stewart’s book The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s and Genevieve West’s Zora Neale Hurston, You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays to think through issues of Black blame and self-loathing.
Estranging Adorno: The Dialectics of Alienation in Leonard Michaels’s “I Would Have Saved Them If I Could”
Authors: Coker William Norman 
Published: March 2023

AbstractReflecting on his relatives’ deaths in the Shoah, Leonard Michaels lets their story unfold through a meditation on how not to tell it. He resists both the consolatory aestheticism he finds in Jorge Luis Borges and the teleological closure of Hegelian-Marxist history. Both modes press something positive out of Auschwitz’s absolute negativity. Yet Michaels finds he cannot do without Borges and Marx. As his standpoint emerges from theirs, light falls on what both tacitly teach: the necessity of alienation. Enabling a new reading of this key Marxian term, Michaels’s story complements and challenges the revisionary Marxism of Theodor W. Adorno. Adorno’s late works convey the awareness that a certain alienation inheres in subjectivity and that emancipation requires us to accept our own self-estrangement. In Michaels’s story, Borges and Marx appear as figures for the “nonidentity,” the internal contradiction, that every self must own in order to achieve an identity. By foregrounding the mismatch between narrative forms and their content, Michaels affirms narrative itself as “nonidentical.” Only through the alienation implicit to literature as self-conscious artifice, he finds, can one hope to grasp an experience in either its singularity or its universality.
Memory and the Exigencies of Literary Form: Anthony Hecht’s “The Book of Yolek”
Authors: Weisman Karen 
Published: March 2023

AbstractAnthony Hecht’s “The Book of Yolek” may be read as a test case for understanding a strand of twentieth-century American Jewish poetry, one that takes up a series of questions about the very meaning of the term “Jewish poetics,” especially when it sets itself to the task of remembering what Hecht once described as the “very terrible aspects of existence.” Hecht’s resistance to sentimentalism in “The Book of Yolek,” which is also a resistance to the consolations of culture, engages his complicated inheritance of elegy and pastoral. Such anti-sentimentalism also resists confidence in the perpetuation of memory, even though “The Book of Yolek” is centrally concerned with the burdens and the imperatives of memory. The poem implicitly interrogates the tensions inherent in the post-Holocaust American Jew establishing a ground for joining the tradition of high lyric.
Ultramafic-Hosted Ni-Cu-Co-(As) Mineralization from an Ancient Oceanic Transform Fault Zone in the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus: An Analogue for Ultramafic Sea-Floor Massive Sulfide Mineralization?
Authors: Martin Andrew J. , MacLeod Christopher J. , McFall Katie A. , McDonald Iain , Jamieson John W. , Cox Sophie 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Accumulations of sulfide minerals that are enriched in Ni-Cu-Co-(As) occur as sea-floor massive sulfide (SMS) deposits associated with ultramafic rock types on the sea floor and in ophiolite terranes as Outokumpu-type mineralization. In this study we focus on similar mineralization at Lakxia tou Mavrou in the Limassol Forest Complex of Cyprus, which represents the on-land exposure of an oceanic transform fault zone preserved within the Troodos ophiolite. Mineralization here consists of massive lenses of pyrrhotite associated with veins of isocubanite, chalcopyrite, Co pentlandite, and chrome spinel hosted in serpentinized mantle peridotite. We reexamine the field context of mineral occurrences and use in situ mineral chemistry, element mapping, and sulfur isotope ratios (δ34S) to constrain metal sources and provide an updated paragenetic model for Lakxia tou Mavrou. Highly variable S/Se ratios (304–108,571), a depletion in platinum group elements relative to mantle values, and an average δ34S value of –3.7 ± 2.4‰ (1σ, n = 17) in sulfide minerals support a hybrid hydrothermal and magmatic origin for the mineralization. Metals at Lakxia tou Mavrou were sourced from both the serpentinization of peridotites and from crosscutting intrusions, with later intrusions into the already serpentinized mantle lithosphere host providing a heat source to drive prolonged hydrothermal circulation. The reexamination of the field context of mineralization shows that the Ni-Cu-Co-(As) mineralization at Lakxia tou Mavrou originally formed because of the fault-guided intrusion of hot primitive magma bodies into serpentinized shallow mantle lithosphere in the active domain of an ocean-floor transform fault zone. The mineralization was subsequently partially disrupted by structures related to emplacement of the Troodos ophiolite. We show that the relationship between serpentinization, magmatism, and hydrothermal circulation at Lakxia tou Mavrou can be used to understand the formation of ultramafic-hosted SMS deposits in transform fault and other ultramaficdominated slow- and ultraslow-spreading mid-ocean ridge settings.
Los sistemas acusatorios
Authors: De Luca Javier Augusto , Figueroa Francisco 
Published: March 2023

En el presente artículo se buscan resaltar las diferencias sustanciales entre los sistemas preponderantemente inquisitivos y los de inclinación hacia el acusatorio. Al mismo tiempo reflexionamos sobre algunos aspectos a tener en consideración al momento de diseñar un procedimiento penal y organizar los órganos encargados de administrar justicia.