bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
«Il n'y a pas d’avenir dans ce métier.» Être chauffeur de VTC en Afrique par temps de pandémie
Authors: ANWAR Mohammad Amir , ONG'IRO ODEO Jack , OTIENO Elly 
Published: March 2023

RésuméSi les plateformes ont donné du travail à beaucoup d’Africains, les emplois créés sont de mauvaise qualité, comme la pandémie l'a bien montré. Dans ce contexte, les auteurs examinent la situation particulière des chauffeurs VTC en Afrique en s'appuyant sur des entretiens approfondis, réalisés au Kenya, et sur les méthodes de l'ethnographie virtuelle. Ils montrent que ces travailleurs ont recours à un «régime de débrouille», associant résilience, réajustement et résistance. Pour améliorer les conditions de travail et lutter contre la précarité dans le secteur, il faut à la fois que les pouvoirs publics instaurent des cadres réglementaires et que les travailleurs se mobilisent collectivement.
Control enactment in context: Understanding the interaction of controlee and controller perceptions in inter‐organisational project teams
Authors: McCarthy Stephen , O'Raghallaigh Paidi , Li Yuzhu , Adam Frédéric 
Published: March 2023

AbstractControl is necessary for aligning the actions of management (i.e., controllers) and subordinates (i.e., controlees) around common goals. The enactment of control often fails in practice; however, as controlee perceptions may not match those of controllers, leading to a myriad of possible outcomes. Through an interpretive case study of two inter‐organisational IT projects, we reveal how controlees' appraisals and responses to controls are context‐dependent and play out across multiple levels (e.g., personal, professional, project and organisational contexts). We build on a coping perspective of IS controls to theorise the ‘coping strategies’ that controlees pursued relevant to these contexts and the ‘coping routes’ followed when combining different consecutive coping strategies. We find the process need not end with the selection of a single strategy but can potentially continue as both the controller and controlees make ongoing readjustments. While Behavioural Control Theory traditionally assumes the presence of a single control hierarchy, interorganisational IT projects are multi‐level entities that amalgamate different structures and cultures. Our study moves beyond the existing assumptions of Behavioural Control Theory to discuss how a controller's choice of activities shapes the salience of different contexts in controlee appraisals.
Epidemiology of chemical burns: An 11‐year retrospective study of 126 patients at a referral burn centre in the north of Iran
Authors: Eftekhari Hojat , Sadeghi Mahsa , Mobayen Mohammadreza , Esmailzadeh Mojdeh , Feizkhah Alireza , Lahiji Majid Salimi , Taghizadeh Pourgarfami Ali , Toolaroud Parissa Bagheri 
Published: March 2023

AbstractThe etiology and outcomes of chemical burns vary worldwide, influenced by the local population structure, industry distribution, and geographical and social environments. The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology of chemical burns among patients referred to a burn centre in the north of Iran. A single‐centre, retrospective study was conducted on patients with chemical burns between 2011 and 2021. Data collection was carried out using the hospital information system (HIS), and data collected from medical records included gender, age, marital status, occupations, burn season, place of residence, intention to burn, location of the accident, percent of total body surface area (%TBSA), the primary cause of burns, the body region of the burn, length of hospital stay (days), infection, and discharge status. The data were analysed using descriptive statistical methods and SPSS 24.0 software. Of the 10 133 burn patients treated in a burn centre in the north of Iran between 2011 and 2021, 1.2% had chemical burns. The average age of patients was 34.45 (SD = 22.16) years, and most chemical burns cases were male (70.6%, n = 89). Chemical burns occurred most frequently in patients aged 20 to 49 years (69.8%, n = 107), and most of the burns were accidental (84.9%, n = 107). The home was the most common place of chemical burn injury, accounting for 49.2% (62 cases), followed by the workplace (43.7%, n = 55), respectively. Most chemical burns occurred in the summer season (36.5%, n = 46), and acid (74.6%, n = 94) was the most common cause of chemical burns. The mean TBSA was 16.41 (SD = 15.10). The most common burn area was the lower limb (34.9%, n = 44), and the overall mortality rate was 4.8%. The average length of stay in the hospital was 6.53 (SD = 5.57) days. Community education on household safety, restricting non‐specialists' access to chemical substances, and the promotion of early consultation could reduce chemical burn prevalence and improve outcomes.
Climate stressors modulate interannual olive yield at province level in Italy: A composite index approach to support crop management
Authors: Di Paola Arianna , Di Giuseppe Edmondo , Gutierrez Andrew Paul , Ponti Luigi , Pasqui Massimiliano 
Published: March 2023

AbstractAlthough a large part of Italy is characterized by a Mediterranean climate intrinsically highly suitable for olive cultivation, farmers may experience variable interannual yields with associated agronomic and management costs. A detailed overview of major climate stressors and their ongoing impacts on olive yield variability at a broad spatial–temporal scale across Italy could improve the understanding of how interannual olive yields are modulated by seasonal local climate and would enhance the development of actionable services to alert stakeholders of potential climate risks. We analysed aggregated olive yield data from the Italian National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) at the provincial level during 2006–2020, and several climatic variables from the Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) of the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) as a basis to (i) explore olive yield trends and inter‐annual variations over the whole country; (ii) identify major seasonal climate stressors likely responsible for the largest variations in yield and (iii) develop a composite index that summarizes the risk of having exceptionally low yields due to the co‐occurrence of multiple stressors. To this end, we defined two extreme classes of yield, namely, exceptionally low and high yields (LY and HY, respectively) and explored the climatic variables aggregated on a bimonthly time scale that influenced yield outcomes. Our analysis showed that exceptional low yields have been erratically increasing since 2014 with temperature‐related variables having the highest impact, especially a relatively warm winter and cool early autumn. These period‐specific variables were major components of the resulting composite index predicting the likelihood of LY ranging from 28% to 49% due to increasing stress effects. Possible explanations of our findings are discussed, including the proliferation of the olive fly. We suggest the composite risk approach could lay the groundwork for an integrated meteorological seasonal forecasting system that provides timely insights on factors affecting within‐season olive yield development.
A novel low permittivity microwave dielectric ceramic Sr2Ga2SiO7 for application in patch antenna
Authors: Yin Changzhi , Du Kang , Song Xiaoqiang , Xiong Ying , Yang Jiaqing , Cheng Mingfei , Cai Yiyang , Luo Wei , Guo Huanhuan , Lu Wenzhong , Li Chunchun , Lei Wen 
Published: March 2023

AbstractThe dielectric properties of a Ga‐based melilite type ceramic Sr2Ga2SiO7 via theoretical prediction based on far‐infrared spectroscopy and experimental measurement by the Hakki–Coleman method were studied in this work. Dense and single‐phase ceramics were fabricated via solid‐state reaction at 1330°C and exhibited comprehensive microwave dielectric properties (εr ∼ 7.6, Q × f ∼ 23 600 GHz, and τf ∼ −35.2 ppm/°C) at 14.3 GHz. Chemical modifications were proposed to adjust the thermal stability and reduce the densification temperature. By adding 10 mol% CaTiO3, the negative τf can be compensated to a near‐zero value of −3.8 ppm/°C. The densification temperature was reduced to 940°C by adding 3 wt.% LiF. A patch antenna was designed using Sr2Ga2SiO7 ceramic with a high radiation efficiency of 99.1% and a gain of 2.788 dBi at the center frequency of 4.371 GHz. All results indicate that the Sr2Ga2SiO7 ceramic has promising application potential for 5G wireless communication technology.
Development and validation of the advance care planning practice preference scale for clinical nurses
Authors: Yang Zhen , Wang Huan , Wang Aiping 
Published: March 2023

AbstractAimsThe aim of this study was to develop the advance care planning (ACP) practice preference scale and validate its psychometric properties among clinical nurses.DesignAn instrument development and validation study was completed in the following three phases: (a) the generation and revision of the item, (b) the preliminary exploration and evaluation of the item and (c) the psychometric evaluation of the scale.MethodsA literature review was conducted to develop the indicator system. A total of 360 clinical nurses (for item analysis) and 688 clinical nurses (for psychometric evaluation) were recruited. The exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted to evaluate the construct validity. The reliability was explored by internal consistency and test–retest reliability. The study was conducted from October 2021 to January 2022.ResultsA total of 24 items were finally retained by the item analysis from the initial 78‐item pool. In the exploratory factor analysis, the six‐factor model explained 79.933% of the total variation. After limiting to three factors, 59.305% of the total variation was explained. Above factor models supported by the confirmatory factor analysis were consistent with the theoretically structure, and the fitting indexes were all satisfactory. Also, the findings showed appropriate internal consistency and test–retest reliability.ConclusionsACP practice preference scale presents satisfactory psychometric properties among clinical nurses and can be adopted to evaluate the propensity of clinical nurses to practice ACP.ImpactACP practice preference scale can be adopted to understand the training needs of clinical nurses on ACP clinical practice.Patient or Public ContributionClinical nurses participated in the pilot testing and validation of ACP practice preference scale.
Unmet needs, limited access: A qualitative study of postpartum health care experiences of people with disabilities
Authors: Tarasoff Lesley A. , Lunsky Yona , Welsh Kate , Proulx Laurie , Havercamp Susan M. , Parish Susan L. , Brown Hilary K. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractAimTo understand the postpartum care received by birthing people with disabilities and their newborns, from their own perspectives.DesignA qualitative study with semi‐structured interviews.MethodsBetween July 2019 and February 2020, in‐person and virtual interviews were conducted with 31 people with physical, sensory, and intellectual/developmental disabilities in Ontario, Canada, about the formal inpatient and outpatient services and supports they used in the first few months after they gave birth. Thematic analysis was used identify common themes.ResultsWe identified three overall themes concerning participants' postpartum care experiences and the different types of formal services received in and out of hospital: (1) lack of adequate care, (2) lack of provider awareness of disability and disability accommodations, and (3) fear of judgement, discrimination, and intrusive surveillance. The identified themes were applicable across disability groups. However, most comments on disability accommodations came from participants with physical or sensory disabilities, while participants with intellectual/developmental disabilities most commonly reported concerns about lack of adequate care and fear of judgement, discrimination, and intrusive surveillance.ConclusionFindings indicate that postpartum care often fails people with disabilities. This could contribute to negative health consequences for them and their newborns.ImpactBirthing people with disabilities need multidisciplinary, proactive, and strengths‐based postpartum care to mitigate risk for health complications. Further, disability‐related training and guidelines for health and social service providers is required.Reporting methodConsolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ).Patient or Public contributionOur research team included two peer researchers with physical disabilities who served as co‐interviewers and participated in data analysis, contributing their lived experience of disability and interactions with the health care system. All stages of the study were also informed by feedback from the study's Advisory Committee, which comprised women with disabilities (many of whom are parents), disability organization staff, clinicians, and policy representatives.
Short form development of the Chinese work readiness scale for graduate nurse: An optimal test assembly approach
Authors: Li Jiaying , Li Sha , Fong Daniel Yee Tak 
Published: March 2023

AbstractAimTo develop and psychometrically test shortened 37‐item Chinese Work Readiness Scale for Graduate Nurse without compromising its reliability and validity.DesignTwo cross‐sectional studies.MethodsData were obtained from two cross‐sectional online surveys on the same target group of newly graduated nurses in China. The two periods of data collection were from June to August 2018 and from June and July 2021, with 1348 respondents completing the 37‐item Chinese Work Readiness Scale for Graduate Nurse. The optimal test assembly procedure based on a generalized partial credit model was adopted to shorten the scale.ResultsThe mean age of the 1348 nurses was 22.3 years (standard deviation = 1.5), with 1257 (93.2%) being female. The category characteristic curve showed that a 5‐point Likert scale was adequate in lieu of the original 10‐point Likert scale. The optimal test assembly procedure identified a 17‐item version that maintained at least 0.9 correlation with the full scale, a Cronbach's alpha of at least 0.9, and at least 70% of the test information retained. Its discrimination parameters ranged from 1.68 to 2.84, whereas the difficulty parameters were monotonic and ranged from −4.50 to 1.56. When retaining only 50% of test information, a 9‐item version was obtained. Its discrimination parameters ranged from 1.84 to 4.55, and difficulty parameters ranged from −3.37 to 1.15. The Cronbach's alphas for the 17‐item and 9‐item versions were 0.97 and 0.95 respectively.ConclusionsBoth the 17‐item and 9‐item versions are appropriate for assessing registered nurses' work readiness, with the 9‐item version demanding more subjects to compensate for the reduced information. Optimal test assembly approach is appropriate in shortening self‐reported scales in the nursing field, while retaining satisfactory levels of reliability, validity, test information and conceptual adequacy.Patient or Public ContributionThis study involved graduate nurses who provided responses to the test scale and experts who contributed to the content validation.
Commitment and Reasons – A Comment on Ruth Chang, ‘Three Dogmas of Normativity’
Authors: Railton Peter 
Published: March 2023

ABSTRACTRuth Chang has argued convincingly that we must recognize that some choices will not involve strict, univocal comparison of options. How, then, can such choices be made well? Chang suggests that commitment is a fundamental way of ‘putting one's very self’ behind a normative consideration, thereby ‘endow[ing] that consideration with the normativity of a reason’. This view challenges what Chang deems to be three dogmas of normativity, and the current comment critically assesses the relation of her view to the first and third of these dogmas. I suggest some alternative ways of thinking about these dogmas, which enable us to see how her work might uncover a fourth dogma, and which can, I believe, lend strength to a position very close to Chang's.
Effect of Baduanjin on physical functioning and balance in adults with mild‐to‐moderate intellectual disabilities: A comparative study
Authors: Bidaurrazaga‐Letona Iraia , Ayán Carlos , Duñabeitia Iratxe , Esain Izaro , Monasterio Xabier , Zulueta Biotz , Torres‐Unda Jon 
Published: March 2023

AbstractBackgroundAdults with intellectual disabilities often experience mobility limitations. Baduanjin, a mindfulness‐based exercise intervention, can exert positive effects on functional mobility and balance. This study examined the impact of Baduanjin on physical functioning and balance of adults with intellectual disabilities.MethodTwenty‐nine adults with intellectual disabilities participated in the study. Eighteen received a Baduanjin intervention for 9‐months; 11 participants did not receive any intervention (comparison group). Physical functioning and balance were assessed using the short physical performance battery (SPPB) and stabilometry.ResultsParticipants in the Baduanjin group experienced significant changes in the SPPB walking test (p = .042), chair stand test (p = .015), and SPPB summary score (p = .010). No significant changes between groups were observed in any of the variables assessed at the end of the intervention.ConclusionsBaduanjin practice may cause significant, albeit small, improvements in physical functioning of adults with intellectual disabilities.
Survival analysis of productive life in Florida dairy goats using a Cox proportional hazards model
Authors: Ziadi C , Sánchez J P , Sánchez M , Morales R , Molina A 
Published: March 2023

AbstractLongevity is an economically important trait, since extending the functional life of a doe would allow us to keep the most productive females in the herd as long as possible, and this could result in the increased profitability of dairy farms. Thus, the objectives of this study were to determine the most important factors that influence the length of productive life (LPL) of female Florida goats and to estimate its genetic additive variance using a Cox proportional hazards model. The data consisted of 70,695 productive life records from 25,722 Florida females kidding between 2006 and 2020. A total of 19,495 does had completed their productive life while 6227 (24.2%) does had censored information. The pedigree contained information on 56,901 animals. The average censoring age and average failure age after first kidding for LPL were 36 and 47 months respectively. The model included, as time‐independent effects, the age at first kidding and the interaction between herd, year and season of birth of the doe, and as time‐dependent effects, the age at kidding, the interaction between herd, year and season of kidding, the within‐herd class of milk production deviation, and the interaction between the lactation number and the stage of lactation. All fixed effects had a significant effect on LPL (p < 0.05). Does with older ages at the first kidding and an earlier age at kidding were at higher risk of being culled. A large difference among herds was observed in terms of culling risk, which highlighted the importance of adequate management practices. Also, high‐producing does were less likely to be culled. The estimate of the additive genetic variance was 1.844 (in genetic standard deviation), with a heritability estimate of 0.58 ± 0.012. The results of this study are expected to contribute to the development of a genetic model for genetic evaluation of the length of the productive life of Spanish dairy goat breeds.
Experimental investigation of single open pan heat exchanger for jaggery making: A novel technique to enhance the performance of a system
Authors: Kore Abhijeet N. , Lakade Sanjay S. , Padalkar Atul 
Published: March 2023

AbstractJaggery is an essential ingredient in the food. Due to its medicinal properties, it keeps humans away from diseases. So it is imperative to make good quality jaggery. Mechanical and thermal energy are used to manufacture jaggery. Effective utilization of these energies is essential for better efficiency of jaggery plant. Current single‐pan jaggery plants are 14.75%–24.36%. efficient. Due to its low efficiency, jaggery traders suffer losses, and the quality of jaggery also differs. To solve this problem, it is necessary to use a new operating system. In the modified plant, a conventional single pan with the open‐hearth furnace is replaced by a single open pan heat exchanger and thermic fluid heater to cope up with above mentioned losses. First batch of modified plant has an efficiency of 74.84%, whereas it has been improved to 96.49% for the second batch due to the removal of stack losses. Process time for this plant has been reduced by 13%–27% for first batch and 29%–44% for second batch as compared to the conventional plant.
Women at the margins: Experiences with spousal incarceration inIndia
Authors: Gupta Shivangi , Arditti Joyce A. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractJustice‐involved families in India are underserved despite concurrent challenges including inadequate penal systems and widespread poverty. Families provide emotional and financial support to incarcerated individuals—burdens that fall upon female kin who are underresourced. Women experiencing spousal incarceration in India are likely to be from marginalized sections of society, vulnerable to co‐occurring forms of oppression, making intersectional feminism a suitable theoretical framework to contextualize their lives. Through consistent interactions with the carceral institution, these women become integrated in the prison culture, experiencing secondary prisonization. Intersectional feminism helps understand variations in secondary prisonization for women inhabiting different social locations. However, this population remains understudied. We bridge the gap by building a contextualized understanding of this population using intersectional feminism, by attending to scholarship that illustrates sources of marginalization including exploitive informal work, a minoritized caste identity, and a minoritized religious identity. We offer recommendations for theory and research.
Celastrol pretreatment attenuates concanavalin A‐induced hepatitis in mice by suppressing interleukin‐6/STAT3‐interleukin‐17 signaling
Authors: Li Dingwu , Chen Jianing , Lin Bingru , Guo Yanjun , Pan Jiaqi , Yu Chaohui , Wan Xingyong 
Published: March 2023

AbstractBackground and AimCelastrol is extracted from Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F. It has been reported to have protective effects against various liver diseases and immune regulation of autoimmune diseases. However, little is known about whether celastrol protects against immune‐mediated hepatitis. This study aimed to investigate the effect of celastrol on liver injury induced by concanavalin A (ConA) and the potential mechanisms.MethodsIntravenous administration of ConA was applied to induce acute liver injury in mice with or without pretreatment of celastrol. The effects of celastrol on ConA‐induced liver injury were further demonstrated by biochemical and histopathological assessments, immunoblotting, and flow cytometry analysis.ResultsBoth biochemical and histopathological observations showed that pretreatment of celastrol significantly ameliorated liver injury induced by ConA. Moreover, the hepatocyte apoptosis and inflammatory responses induced by ConA were also improved in celastrol‐pretreated mice. Further studies revealed that these improvements were characterized as the celastrol‐mediated suppression of total interleukin (IL)‐17 from liver mononuclear cells in ConA‐treated mice. Flow cytometry analysis suggested that celastrol specifically decreased IL‐17 production by CD4+ T cells but not by CD8+ T cells. Fundamentally, pretreatment with celastrol inhibited both the IL‐6 produced by F4/80+ macrophages and the IL‐6 receptor on Th17 cells in the liver, which further led to the downregulated activation of STAT3, thus accounting for blocked Th17 signaling.ConclusionsCelastrol may exhibit immune regulatory effects by regulating IL‐6/STAT3‐IL‐17 signaling in ConA‐induced hepatitis, which suggested new potentials for celastrol to be applied in treating immune‐mediated liver diseases.