bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Development and Validation of a Nomogram for Predicting Heparin Resistance in Neonates and Young Infants Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Retrospective Study
Authors: Gao Peng , Zhang Yang , Jin Yu , Zhang Peiyao , Wang Wenting , Liu Jinping 
Published: May 2023

BACKGROUND:
Heparin resistance (HR) is a common finding in pediatric cardiac surgery and generally refers to decreased sensitivity to heparin. Antithrombin (AT) deficiency is considered the primary mechanism of HR; however, the etiology of HR may be multifactorial. Early identification of HR might help optimize heparin anticoagulation management. This study aimed to develop a predictive nomogram for HR in neonates and young infants undergoing cardiac surgery.

METHODS:
From January 2020 to August 2022, a total of 296 pediatric patients 1 to 180 days of age were included in this retrospective study. The patients were randomly divided into development and validation cohorts in a 7:3 ratio. Univariable logistic regression and the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) regularization were used for variable selection. A multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify predictors and establish a nomogram to predict HR risk. Discrimination, calibration, and clinical usefulness were assessed in the development and validation cohorts.

RESULTS:
After the multistep variable selection, AT activity, platelet count, and fibrinogen were predictors for HR in neonates and young infants. The prediction model constructed using these 3 factors achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC-AUC) of 0.874 and 0.873 in the development and validation cohorts. The Hosmer-Lemeshow test did not find evidence of a lack of fit (P = .768). The calibration curve of the nomogram was close to the ideal diagonal line. Furthermore, the model performed well in neonate and infant subgroups.

CONCLUSIONS:
A nomogram based on preoperative variables was developed to predict the HR risk in neonates and young infants undergoing cardiac surgery. This provides clinicians with a simple tool for the early prediction of HR, which may help optimize heparin anticoagulation strategies in this vulnerable patient population.
Daizō Sakurai's Trans-Asian Tent Theater, Picun, and the Reenchantment of Urban Space
Authors: Jaguścik Justyna 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
This article discusses the 2010 Picun performance of Crow2Topia, the first play by the Beijing division of Daizō Sakurai's tent theater. Sakurai had previously participated in grassroots theater activities in Japan and Asia: in 2007 members of the mainland independent theater scene introduced him to the labor NGO and community cultural center Migrant Workers Home in the urban village Picun in Beijing. Sakurai's collaborators suggested that the suburban village-in-the-city, populated by rural migrant workers, would be a performance venue that fit the Japanese director's vision of theater as being located on the margins of society. The article delineates the trajectory of Sakurai's tent theater, analyzing the play Crow2Topia and pointing to intertextual references to premodern theater traditions and modern texts. Drawing on similarities between the play, which portrays a contemporary Chinese city from the perspective of the inhabitants of a garbage dump, and the precarious position of the actual tenants of Picun, it argues that the tent theater and the Migrant Workers Home can both be described as unstable “shared spaces” with permeable borders. In these spaces, social roles and personal identities are in constant flux. The closing part of the article expands the notion of “shared space,” first introduced by Dai Jinhua in her discussion of the emerging popular culture in mainland China in the 1990s, beyond the borders of the local cultural scene and embeds it into transregional networks of grassroots cultural activism.
Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China
Authors: Cho Mun Young 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
With the simultaneous growth of the manufacturing and service industries and the rapid expansion of information and communication technology, what do Chinese workers actually do in order to survive, and what methodological approaches are useful for exploring their subjectivity? In this article, the labor trajectory of Zuo Mei, a young migrant woman, is traced over six and a half years. The author relates Zuo's experience to what Mario Tronti calls the “social factory,” where the extraction of surplus occurs not just on the factory floor but also through social relations inside and outside multiple workplaces; at the intersection of factory, service, volunteer, and domestic labor; encompassing urban and rural, waged and unwaged, (re)productive and distributive, and on- and offline work. By detailing the interactions between these multiple forms of labor, the article argues that Zuo's suffering does not end outside the factory but extends to wherever social relations are capitalized, unveiling how alienation results from the resistance to that alienation.
A novel statistical method for long-term coronavirus modelling
Authors: Gaidai Oleg , Yan Ping , Xing Yihan , Xu JingXiang , Wu Yu 
Published: May 2023

Background: Novel coronavirus disease has been recently a concern for worldwide public health. To determine epidemic rate probability at any time in any region of interest, one needs efficient bio-system reliability approach, particularly suitable for multi-regional environmental and health systems, observed over a sufficient period of time, resulting in a reliable long-term forecast of novel coronavirus infection rate. Traditional statistical methods dealing with temporal observations of multi-regional processes do not have the multi-dimensionality advantage, that suggested methodology offers, namely dealing efficiently with multiple regions at the same time and accounting for cross-correlations between different regional observations. Methods: Modern multi-dimensional novel statistical method was directly applied to raw clinical data, able to deal with territorial mapping. Novel reliability method based on statistical extreme value theory has been suggested to deal with challenging epidemic forecast. Authors used MATLAB optimization software. Results: This paper described a novel bio-system reliability approach, particularly suitable for multi-country environmental and health systems, observed over a sufficient period of time, resulting in a reliable long-term forecast of extreme novel coronavirus death rate probability. Namely, accurate maximum recorded patient numbers are predicted for the years to come for the analyzed provinces. Conclusions: The suggested method performed well by supplying not only an estimate but 95% confidence interval as well. Note that suggested methodology is not limited to any specific epidemics or any specific terrain, namely its truly general. The only assumption and limitation is bio-system stationarity, alternatively trend analysis should be performed first. The suggested methodology can be used in various public health applications, based on their clinical survey data.
Comparative evaluation and correlation of CVMI stages in Class II (vertical) and Class II (horizontal) cases with Class I malocclusion, as evaluated using 3D-DVT and lateral cephalogram
Authors: Bharti Lovely , Shrivastav Sunita , Sanchla Abhishek , Kamble Ranjit 
Published: May 2023

Background: The cervical vertebrae have attracted the interest of orthodontists, as the cervical portion of the spine serves as a reference structure to guide the normal head position. Skeletal age is determined by examining changes occurring in the morphology of the cervical vertebrae. There is relatively little data available from all the examinations that compare cervical vertebral phases between the various malocclusions. The purpose of this study was to compare the cervical vertebral maturation index (CVMI) stages of skeletal Class I and Class II malocclusions in the horizontal as well as vertical growth patterns. With distinct malocclusions, however, there are differences in cervical vertebral phases. Aim: To evaluate, compare and correlate the skeletal maturation using CVMI stages in cases with Class II (horizontal and vertical) using 3D-DVT and lateral cephalogram. Methodology: In the present observational study, a total of 45 adult patients reporting at the Orthodontics department at a dental college and hospital set up in Wardha district and diagnosed with Class II Horizontal and/or Class II vertical will be recruited. The patients will be divided into three sub-groups and biosafety measures will be taken. Conclusions: This study would give us a scope to compare the efficiency of lateral cephalogram versus 3D-DVT in estimating the skeletal maturity of patients who need to undergo growth modification in the orofacial region and orthodontic treatment.
Manual cervical therapy and vestibular migraine: A case series
Authors: O'Toole Roger , Watson Dean 
Published: May 2023

Background: Vestibular migraine (VM) is a relatively new diagnostic entity with incomplete knowledge regarding pathophysiological mechanisms and therapeutic guidelines. By reporting the effect of manual cervical therapy (MCT) on people with VM, we suggest a possible role for upper cervical afferents in VM treatment and/or pathogenesis. The objective was to describe the change in clinical presentation and self-reported symptoms of VM corresponding to MCT and followed up to six months. Methods: A nonrandomised *ABA design was utilised to consecutively and prospectively evaluate selected patients with diagnosed VM. Symptom characteristics (frequency and intensity) were recorded along with standardised patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to document the response to MCT. Results: Three patients were recruited who met the diagnostic criteria for VM. All three patients demonstrated improvement in both migraine attack and interictal symptom frequency. These improvements mirrored changes in PROs and were sustained over a six-month follow-up period. Conclusions: The improvement that coincided with the intervention including MCT was rapid, observable and sustained. This suggests that the upper cervical spine could be a therapeutic target in VM and may have implications for future research into the pathogenesis of VM.
MANIFESTATION OF AUTHOR’S GENDER MASK WITHIN THE SCOPE OF AMERICAN FEMALE PROSE
Authors: Vinnik Evgeniya I. 
Published: May 2023

Purpose. The study is aimed to ascertain the possible ways of translation of female identity in written form through gender mask.
Materials and methods. The survey is based on: the definitional analysis of gender tendencies, contextual observation of speech material of the fictional work, as well as linguistic facts interpretation and collation, statistical data manipulation.
Results. The hypothesis of potential epitome of the author’s identity via gender mask in the literary text through the verbal semantic space’s analysis of the novel The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society by M.A. Shaffer and A. Barrows (2700 manifestations) is justified.
Practical implications. The research outcome can find the application in systematic scrutiny of the verb/ verbals usage in the textual space as a means of gender aspect implementation.
PHILOSOPHIC CONCEPTIONS OF BEAUTY IN ANCIENT AESTHETICS
Authors: Yovanovich Tamara G. 
Published: May 2023

The research work is devoted to the examination of the definition of beauty in ancient philosophers’ worldview conceptions such as Aristotle, Platon, Pythagoras and Stoics. The author studied the basis development of philosophic ideas in the period of the ancient philosophy applied to idealistic conception of world understanding the definition of beauty.
Materials for research are based on works of ancient philosophers and scientific publications on the topic of research as well.
The method of research is a comparative analysis that allows synthesizing theoretical and conceptual basis of definitions; the interpreting method of scientific and fiction philosophy works; synthesis method and analogy of receiving data for systematization and definition patterns of world view ancient philosophers positions’ conceptual basis.
Results. The definition of beauty is examined consequently with words “soul”, “body”, “good’, so, it is morally oriented in the ancient philosophers’ work. It is used with strong relationship with idea about beauty in surrounding material and spiritual world. The conception of beauty was analyzed and generalized in the ancient philosophers’ treatises and arguments. The author evaluated aesthetics aspect of the idealistic conception of beauty.
The period under consideration characterized by rising and formation of anthropological aesthetics replaced cosmological theory and made a great impact on the definition of beauty in nature and art. The author examined idealistic and subjective approach to the definition of beauty. The conclusion is that ancient philosophers enrich the definition of beauty in art and nature, focusing their statements on subjective side of the relationship between a person and surrounding world. The article presents the analysis and interpretation of Aristotle, Plato’s philosophical writings, defined idealistic concepts’ basis of beauty in ancient philosophy.
Balancing Tradeoffs in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Will Selling Carbon Credits Offset Potential Losses in the Net Yield Income of Small-Scale Soybean (Glycine max L.) Producers in the Mid-Southern United States?
Authors: Contasti Adrienne L. , Firth Alexandra G. , Baker Beth H. , Brooks John P. , Locke Martin A. , Morin Dana J. 
Published: May 2023

There is a need to achieve sustainable agricultural production to secure food, fiber, and fuel for a growing global population. Climate-smart (CS) actions (no-till and cover crops) can reduce carbon emissions and promote soil organic carbon (SOC) storage. Contemporary voluntary carbon markets provide producers with a monetary incentive to adopt CS actions. However, SOC–yield dynamics under CS actions are not well known, making it difficult for producers to judge whether additional income from carbon credits will offset potential losses to yield income. We designed a SOC–yield framework that captures SOC–yield–income dynamics under traditional (reduced tillage, no cover crops) and CS actions. Using a modified structured decision-making approach, we applied the framework to a case study in which producers aim to increase income by selling carbon credits after adopting CS actions. Specifically, we demonstrated how to balance tradeoffs between yield and carbon credit income that arise from tillage and winter cover crop actions (cereal rye, Secale cereale L. and crimson clover, Trifolium incarnatum L.) in a soybean (Glycine max L.) production system in Mississippi. Results indicated that a producer could minimize losses to net yield income by adopting no-till if already using cover crops. There was also evidence that carbon credit income could offset losses to yield income when adopting CS in place of traditional actions. Identifying risks to yield income and SOC storage can help design carbon neutrality policies that have minimum impact on a producer’s income. History: This paper has been accepted for the Decision Analysis Special Issue on Decision Analysis to Advance Environmental Sustainability. Funding: This work was supported by the USDA-ARS [Grants 58-0200-0-002 (Advancing Agricultural Research) and 58-6001-8-003] and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture [McIntire Stennis Project 1020959]. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2023.0478 .
O NOVO MAIS EDUCAÇÃO E OS LIMITES DAS REFORMAS EDUCACIONAIS NO CONTEXTO DE CRISE ESTRUTURAL DO CAPITAL
Authors: Jordão Juliana Vieira , Colares Maria Lília Imbiriba Sousa , Fonseca André Dioney 
Published: May 2023

Este texto tem como objetivo analisar o Programa Mais Educação e sua reformulação, o Programa Novo Mais Educação, bem como os limites das reformas educacionais no interior do ordenamento sociometabólico do capital e da atual crise estrutural, a partir da perspectiva de István Mészáros. Por meio de uma abordagem fundamentada na teoria marxista sobre o Estado, realizamos uma investigação de caráter bibliográfico. Essa fundamentação nos permitiu uma visão do reformismo no campo educacional, o que levou à constatação de que, nas últimas décadas, a lógica do neoliberalismo, que nada mais é do que uma ordem econômica e social inerente à crise estrutural do capital, acabou sendo preponderante no bojo das políticas públicas voltadas à educação integral. Nessa perspectiva, demonstramos que o Programa Mais Educação foi criado e implementado em um momento de relativização do neoliberalismo no Brasil, no decurso dos governos petistas de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e de Dilma Rousseff. Nesse sentido, destacamos o fato de que essa política inicial de educação integral, a despeito de muitas limitações, tinha elementos para seu aperfeiçoamento, o que não veio a ocorrer em razão da descontinuidade da proposta original pelo governo ultraneoliberal de Michel Temer, com a criação do Programa Novo Mais Educação, que se voltou para as necessidades do mercado de trabalho. Essa transição demonstra que os reformismos apresentam limitações para o campo da educação, pois todo sistema educacional intracapital tem suas limitações, uma vez que reflete a sociedade de classe e a desigualdade.
Seroepidemiology of Lassa virus in pregnant women in Southern Nigeria: A prospective hospital-based cohort study
Authors: Kayem Nzelle Delphine , Okogbenin Sylvanus , Okoeguale Joseph , Momoh Mojeed , Njoku Antonia , Eifediyi Reuben , Enodiana Xavier , Ngwu Hilary , Irhiogbe Wilfred , Ighodalo Yemisi , Olokor Thomas , Odigie George , Castle Lyndsey , Duraffour Sophie , Oestereich Lisa , Dahal Prabin , Ariana Proochista , Gunther Stephan , Horby Peter 
Published: May 2023

BackgroundThere is limited epidemiological evidence on Lassa fever in pregnant women with acute gaps on prevalence, infection incidence, and risk factors. Such evidence would facilitate the design of therapeutic and vaccine trials and the design of control programs. Our study sought to address some of these gaps by estimating the seroprevalence and seroconversion risk of Lassa fever in pregnant women.Methodology/Principal findingsWe conducted a prospective hospital-based cohort between February and December 2019 in Edo State, Southern Nigeria, enrolling pregnant women at antenatal clinic and following them up at delivery. Samples were evaluated for IgG antibodies against Lassa virus. The study demonstrates a seroprevalence of Lassa IgG antibodies of 49.6% and a seroconversion risk of 20.8%. Seropositivity was strongly correlated with rodent exposure around homes with an attributable risk proportion of 35%. Seroreversion was also seen with a seroreversion risk of 13.4%.Conclusions/SignificanceOur study suggests that 50% of pregnant women were at risk of Lassa infection and that 35.0% of infections might be preventable by avoiding rodent exposure and conditions which facilitate infestation and the risk of human-rodent contact. While the evidence on rodent exposure is subjective and further studies are needed to provide a better understanding of the avenues of human-rodent interaction; public health measures to decrease the risk of rodent infestation and the risk of spill over events may be beneficial. With an estimated seroconversion risk of 20.8%, our study suggests an appreciable risk of contracting Lassa fever during pregnancy and while most of these seroconversions may not be new infections, given the high risk of adverse outcomes in pregnancy, it supports the need for preventative and therapeutic options against Lassa fever in pregnancy. The occurrence of seroreversion in our study suggests that the prevalence obtained in this, and other cohorts may be an underestimate of the actual proportion of women of childbearing age who present at pregnancy with prior LASV exposure. Additionally, the occurrence of both seroconversion and seroreversion in this cohort suggests that these parameters would need to be considered for the development of Lassa vaccine efficacy, effectiveness, and utility models.
Impact of early telemedicine follow-up on 30-Day hospital readmissions
Authors: Grauer Anne , Cornelius Talea , Abdalla Marwah , Moise Nathalie , Kronish Ian M. , Ye Siqin 
Published: May 2023

Introduction
Telemedicine is increasing in popularity but the impact of this shift on patient outcomes has not been well described. Prior data has shown that early post-discharge office visits can reduce readmissions. However, it is unknown if routine use of telemedicine visits for this purpose is similarly beneficial.

Materials and methods
We conducted a retrospective observational study using electronic health records data to assess if the rate of 30-day hospital readmissions differed between modality of visit for primary care or cardiology post-discharge follow-up visits.

Results
Compared to discharges with completed in-person follow-up visits, the adjusted odds of readmission for those with telemedicine follow-up visits was not significantly different (odds ratio [OR] 0.96, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.61 to 1.51, P = 0.86).

Conclusions
Our study showed that 30-day readmission rate did not differ significantly according to the modality of visit. These results provide reassurance that telemedicine visits are a safe and viable alternative for primary care or cardiology post-hospitalization follow-up.