bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Eschershia coli integrons and cfr, procfr genes identified from samples of autistic children's stools
Authors: Khwam Reissan Hussein  , NimahJulud  Al- Temimy  , Qasim Hassan Widaa  , Marwa Hassan Nasser  
Published: April 2023

Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative Bacilli belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family. It has a rod-shaped coliform . A number of neuropsychiatric conditions, likeanxiety, schizophrenia, autism, bipolar disorder, and depressive disorder, Have been reported to be associated with the microbiome. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disturbance. A sample of fifteen E.coli bacteria were isolated E. coliisolates From ASD children's stools.ASD children. The isolates were identified by phenotypic identification using API 20 E. The molecular analysis was processed for Integron I,II,I, cfr, procfr genes.These resultsshowed Integron II less prevalence Than in IntegronIand III. I,III while pro-cfr, more prevalence than cfrgene.Multidrug-resistant in E. coli has widespread.
Food Habits of Primary School students and Their Association with Body Mass Index.
Authors: Jamal SabrIdan  , Jabbar Trish Ahmed  , Hassan Faleeh Farhan  
Published: April 2023

food habits are a representation of the cumulative impacts of the foods that people eat, and they effectively explain how nutrition may influence overall results of wellness measurements. The overall purpose of the research is really to determine whether food habits and body composition are related amongst Al-Hilla city's students in primary schools. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study was done in Babylon Governorate (Al-Hilla District) in Iraq from 1st ofNovember 2021 to 1stof March 2022 on 384studentswho had been selected randomly and ranged in age from 6 to 13 years. The Body Mass Index (BMI)was calculated for students.Results: According to the results of the current study, 61% of individuals had normal BMI, 17% were obese, 16% were overweight, and 6% were underweight.BMI and gender have no statistically significant association.According to the survey, the majority of individuals (87%) possess neutral food patterns, while the minority (3%) has bad eating habits.Except for consuming snacks, the study have shownno significant connection between BMI and food patterns (P. value <0.001*). Conclusion:Most primary school students have neutral eating habits. Consumption of snacks and the educational level of the mother have been discovered to be significantly correlated with body weight.
Một phương pháp lọc cộng tác dựa trên mô hình đồ thị hai phía
Authors: Như Mai Thị , Phương Nguyễn Duy 
Published: April 2023

Collaborative filtering is a technique to predict the utility of items for a particular user by exploiting the behavior patterns of a group of users with similar preferences.This method has been widely successful in many e-commerce systems. In this paper, we present an effective collaborative filtering method based on general bipartite graph representation. The weighted bipartite graph representation is suitablefor all of the real current data sets of collaborative filtering. The prediction method is solved by the basic search problem on the graph that can be easy to implement for the real applications. Specially, themodel tackled the effect of the sparsity problem of collaborative filtering by expanding search length from the user node to the item node. By this way, some users or items can not be detemined by the correlations but can be computed by the graph model. Experimental results on the real data sets show that the proposed method improve significantly prediction quality for collaborative filtering.
Giải pháp sử dụng bộ lọc thích nghi Kalman cho hệ thống ước lượng kênh truyền WiMAX di động
Authors: Quang Nguyễn Đức , Trà Lưu Thanh 
Published: April 2023

Mobile WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) system has been recently applied widely in wireless communication systems [1]. WiMAX uses OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) as a technical platform because of high spectral efficiency [2]. In this paper, the channelestimation algorithms were studied for OFDM system for mobile WiMAX. The comb-pilot structure was usedfor channel estimation algorithms. We proposed algorithms of channel estimation based on two adaptive filters: Kalman and Extended Kalman, Thesealgorithms were compared with popular LS (Least Square) estimator. The simulation results showed that Estimators based on Kalman Filters had performance improvement in slow fading condition with low Doppler shift and limited quality in fast fading condition with high Doppler shift.
Anti-trafficking saviors: Celebrity, slavery, and branded activism
Authors: Heynen Robert , van der Meulen Emily 
Published: May 2023

<p>This article traces the development of popular forms of anti-trafficking activism in the United States through a social network and discourse analysis that focuses on NGO websites, celebrity advocacy, merchandising, social media campaigns, and policy interventions. This “branded activism,” as we describe it, plays an important role in legitimizing an emerging anti-trafficking consensus that increasingly shapes both US foreign policy and domestic policing, and is frequently driven by an anti-sex work politics. Popular anti-trafficking discourses, we find, build on melodramatic narratives of victims and (white) saviors, depoliticize the complex labor and migration issues at stake, reinforce capitalist logics, and enable policy interventions that produce harm for migrants, sex workers, and others ostensibly being “rescued.” Celebrity and marketing-driven branded activism relies especially strongly on parallels drawn between histories of chattel slavery and what anti-trafficking campaigns call “modern-day slavery.” We challenge these parallels, particularly as they encourage participants to see themselves as abolitionist saviors in ways that reinforce neo-liberal notions of empowerment rooted in communicative capitalist networks. </p>
Between Care and Control: Examining Surveillance Practices in Harm Reduction
Authors: Michaud Liam , van der Meulen Emily , Guta Adrian 
Published: May 2023

<p>As harm reduction programs and services proliferate, people who use drugs (PWUD) are increasingly subjected to surveillance through the collection of their personal information, systematic observation, and other means. The data generated from these practices are frequently repurposed across various institutional sites for clinical, evaluative, epidemiological, and administrative uses. Rationales provided for increased surveillance include the more effective provision of care, service optimization, risk stratification, and efficiency in resource allocation. With this in mind, our reflective essay draws on empirical analysis of work within harm reduction services and movements to reflect critically on the impacts and implications of surveillance expansion. While we argue that many surveillance practices are not inherently problematic or harmful, the unchecked expansion of surveillance under a banner of health and harm reduction may contribute to decreased uptake of services, rationing and conditionalities tied to service access, the potential deepening of health disparities amongst some PWUD, and an overlay of health and criminal-legal systems. In this context, surveillance relies on the enlistment of a range of therapeutic actors and reflects the permeable boundary between care and control. We thus call for a broader critical dialogue within harm reduction on the problems and potential impacts posed by surveillance in service settings, the end to data sharing of health information with law enforcement and other criminal legal actors, and deference to the stated need among PWUD for meaningful anonymity when accessing harm reduction and health services. </p>
“The Law Doesn’t Protect Me”: Examining the Effectiveness of Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Legislation
Authors: van der Meulen Emily , Chu Sandra Ka Hon 
Published: May 2023

<p><em>Background</em>: Amid an unprecedented overdose crisis in Canada, the federal government passed the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, which provides immunity from simple drug possession charges to overdose witnesses who phone 911. The law was meant to address the barriers posed by police presence and to encourage bystanders to seek emergency supports. <em>Objectives</em>: Our goal was to examine the effectiveness of the Good Samaritan law from the perspective of people who use drugs. We wanted to find out how aware they were of the law’s protections and limitations, if first responders were adhering to the legislation, and if it ultimately had an impact on bystanders’ helpseeking behaviors. <em>Methods</em>: We engaged a participatory research process that included surveys and focus groups with 109 people who use drugs in Ontario, Canada. This article focuses on the qualitative findings from focus group with 40 individuals in three cities. <em>Results</em>: Our results reveal that people who use drugs are confused about the law’s safeguards, and based on their negative experiences with police, do not trust police to uphold the letter or spirit of the legislation. As a result, many engage in strategies to avoid contact with law enforcement. <em>Conclusions/Importance</em>: Greater knowledge of the law is beneficial, but even with such knowledge, mistrust of police and fear of criminal charges continue to deter people from calling 911. Good Samaritan laws would be more effective if they included a broader range of protections beyond simple possession and if police did not routinely attend overdoses.</p>
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Knowledge Mobilization by Provincial Politicians: The United Front against Trafficking in Ontario, Canada
Authors: De Shalit Ann , Roots Katrin , van der Meulen Emily 
Published: May 2023

<p>In recent years, some Canadian provinces have followed the federal government’s intensification of anti-trafficking measures. Ontario is perhaps the most significant in this respect, especially with its introduction of the 2017 <em>Anti-Human Trafficking Act</em>. We set out to investigate debates in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario regarding the then proposed law. Our aim was to understand how politicians and others who presented at the debates mobilized knowledge, and to offer opportunities of resistance to discursive injustice for future policymaking. We engaged in a critical discourse analysis approach to examine how different types of knowledge were applied and reproduced, with a particular focus on explicit and implicit knowledge statements. Through analysis of the debate transcripts, we found a near unified front against a perceived humanitarian crisis that required an urgent punitive and securitized response, based largely in individualistic, moralistic, and colonial notions of “risk” and vulnerability. Our findings uncovered a reliance on strong beliefs and willful silences to narrate a trafficking story that displaced social conditions onto a purportedly immoral sex trade. This conceptualization was advanced through repeated invalidation of sexual labor, with invocations of childhood innocence, thereby hindering the promotion of just and inclusive societies.</p>
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Critical studies of harm reduction: Overdose response in uncertain political times
Authors: Watson Tara Marie , Kolla Gillian , van der Meulen Emily , Dodd Zoë 
Published: May 2023

<p>North America continues to witness escalating rates of opioid overdose deaths. Scale-up of existing and innovative life-saving services – such as overdose prevention sites (OPS) as well as sanctioned and unsanctioned supervised consumption sites – is urgently needed. Is there a place for critical theory-informed studies of harm reduction during times of drug policy failures and overdose crisis? There are different approaches to consider from the critical literature, such as those that, for example, interrogate the basic principles of harm reduction or those that critique the lack of pleasure in the discourses surrounding drug use. Influenced by such work, we examine the development of OPS in Canada, with a focus on recent experiences from the province of Ontario, as an important example of the impacts associated with moving from grassroots harm reduction to institutionalised policy and practice. Services appear to be most innovative, dynamic, and inclusive when people with lived experience, allies, and service providers are directly responding to fast-changing drug use patterns and crises on the ground, <em>before</em> services become formally bureaucratised. We suggest a continuing need to both critically theorise harm reduction and to build strong community relationships in harm reduction work, in efforts to overcome political moves that impede collaboration with and inclusiveness of people who use drugs.</p>
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Insights on Prison Needle and Syringe Programs: Research With Former Prisoners in Canada
Authors: van der Meulen Emily , Watson Tara Marie , De Shalit Ann 
Published: May 2023

<p>Although injection drug use occurs inside Canadian federal prisons, the correctional service does not allow prisoners access to sterile injection equipment as a harm reduction measure. International evaluations have shown that prison-based needle and syringe programs (PNSPs) lead to many beneficial health and other outcomes, and contribute to safer environments for prisoners and staff. This article presents qualitative data from a community-driven study with 30 former prisoners in Ontario, Canada. Participants shared insights that are highly valuable for understanding the prison context in relation to the need for PNSPs, both in Canada and in other jurisdictions.</p>
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When Sex is Work: Organizing for Labour Rights and Protections
Authors: van der Meulen Emily 
Published: May 2023

<p>Research on sex work in Canada tends to analyse the ways in which the Canadian Criminal Code contributes to stigma, discrimination, and violence toward sex workers.1 The negative implications of criminalization have been well documented in sexuality studies, women's studies, policy studies, and criminal justice studies research, not to mention by the courts themselves. In September 2010, a pronouncement by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice2 ruled that the sections of the Criminal Code which seek to prohibit aspects of prostitution are not congruent with the principles of justice as protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.3 In effect, the ruling supported the decriminalization of many common work-related activities, for example: working from a fixed location, including one's own home; hiring a driver or a bodyguard; and communicating in public for the purposes of engaging a client for services. The federal government appealed, and in March 2012 the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision which again supported partial decriminalization. 4 The section of the decision regarding bawdy-houses includes a twelve month stay, which gives policy makers, politicians, sex workers, and labour organizers a limited amount of time to make recommendations and decisions about how to best regulate and organize indoor sex work. </p>
Illegal Lives, Loves, and Work: How the Criminalization of Procuring Affects Sex Workers in Canada
Authors: van der Meulen Emily 
Published: May 2023

<p>Based on interviews with sex workers and advocates of decriminalization in Toronto, Canada, this article argues that aspects of the Criminal Code’s procuring legislation has detrimental impacts on sex workers’ daily realities and relationships. While the direct exchange of sexual services for money is not illegal in Canada, the laws that surround prostitution-related activities criminalize common work situations as well as sex worker’s personal and business relationships. Sex workers’ lived and intimate knowledge lend them a greater awareness of the effects and consequences of the current legislative framework as well as a greater awareness of what social and legal changes are necessary to improve their lives. </p>
Sex Work and Canadian Policy: Recommendations for Labor Legitimacy and Social Change
Authors: van der Meulen Emily 
Published: May 2023

<p>Sex workers are rarely considered expert consultants in policy development processes; instead, they often remain on the receiving end of harmful policy decisions. This article argues that sex workers’ narratives and analyses of their lives and work should be the driving force behind attempts to answer the following question: What social and policy changes are necessary to improve sex workers’ health, safety, and working conditions? As such, the findings from a narrative research study with sex workers (<em>N</em> = 10) from Toronto, Canada, have been analyzed to compile five key recommendations to achieve labor legitimacy and social change. They include: conceptualizing prostitution as a form of sexual labor; the inclusion of sex workers in policy-making efforts; decriminalization and the removal of the prostitution-related offenses from the <em>Criminal Code</em>; the implementation of sex worker-influenced workplace standards; and support for unionization and other forms of labor organizing.</p>
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On Point : Recommendations for Prison-Based Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada
Authors: van der Meulen Emily , Claivaz-Loranger Stéphanie , Clarke Seth , Ollner Annika , Watson Tara Marie 
Published: May 2023

<p>[Introduction]: "Prison-based needle and syringe programs (PNSPs) provide sterile injection equipment to prisoners who inject drugs. Like community-based needle and syringe programs, PNSPs have been shown to be very effective in international contexts. </p>
<p>Currently, however, Canadian prisons do not offer these programs. </p>
<p>Since the early 1990s, a growing body of evidence has established the need for and benefits of PNSPs, and community organizations responding to HIV — as well as a growing number of other expert bodies — have repeatedly recommended their implementation in Canada. After 20 years of discussion and presentation of the public health and human rights case for PNSPs, it was evident there was no reasonable prospect of the federal government agreeing to their implementation within the foreseeable future. Therefore, in September 2012, Steven Simons (a former prisoner), along with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN), Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, and CATIE initiated a constitutional court challenge seeking orders that would compel the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) to make sterile injection equipment available in federal prisons.</p>
<p>As the case progresses through the court system, community advocates, academics, infectious disease specialists, and others have been engaged in a variety of research and public educational activities in support of PNSPs, building on the extensive international work of the previous two decades. This report highlights three phases of these activities, each building on the previous one, which consisted of a stakeholder meeting (phase 1), prison site visits in Switzerland (phase 2), and a community-based research project (phase 3). We focus here mainly on the third phase, the primary aim of which was to develop a series of recommendations for PNSP implementation in Canadian federal prisons. </p>
<p>The community-based study was led by Dr. Emily van der Meulen from the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University, and the Research Team included Seth Clarke and Annika Ollner from PASAN, Stéphanie Claivaz-Loranger from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Krysta Williams from the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, and Dr. Tara Marie Watson, a prison health researcher. The study was generously funded by the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and received approval from the Ryerson University Research Ethics Board."</p>
La innovación sostenible y su vínculo con el desempeño organizacional. Un estudio de validez de constructo.
Authors: Alonzo-Godoy María , Cervantes-Rosas María , Ávalos-Pelayo Rafael , Bote-Caamal Rogelio 
Published: April 2023

El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo validar un instrumento que permita evaluar la innovación sostenible y el desempeño organizacional en grandes empresas mexicanas con el Distintivo de ESR®. Se hace una revisión de la literatura rescatando los aportes de diversos autores que estudian las variables que abordan la innovación sostenible y el desempeño organizacional para identificar sus dimensiones.
El enfoque de este estudio es cuantitativo y con un diseño transversal que permite obtener resultados exploratorios. Con base en la matriz metodológica se construye el instrumento piloto, estructurado con una escala de Likert de 6 puntos (en total desacuerdo, en desacuerdo, indiferente, de acuerdo, totalmente de acuerdo y no aplica) para un total de 50 ítems. El instrumento fue enviado vía correo electrónico a empresas que cuentan con el Distintivo de ESR® con el propósito de realizar una prueba piloto, recibiendo 172 respuestas, por lo que se considera una muestra no probabilística por conveniencia.
Los resultados muestran que el instrumento refleja una confiablidad y validez satisfactoria, lo que significa que el instrumento mide variables distintas y diferenciadas: la innovación sostenible y el desempeño organizacional.
Integrative proteomic profiling of lung tissues and blood in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Authors: Gong Rui , Luo Hong , Long Gangyu , Xu Jiqian , Huang Chaolin , Zhou Xin , Shang You , Zhang Dingyu 
Published: May 2023

IntroductionAcute respiratory distress syndrome and acute lung injury (ARDS/ALI) still lack a recognized diagnostic test and pharmacologic treatments that target the underlying pathology.MethodsTo explore the sensitive non-invasive biomarkers associated with pathological changes in the lung of direct ARDS/ALI, we performed an integrative proteomic analysis of lung and blood samples from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ARDS mice and COVID-19-related ARDS patients. The common differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were identified based on combined proteomic analysis of serum and lung samples in direct ARDS mice model. The clinical value of the common DEPs was validated in lung and plasma proteomics in cases of COVID-19-related ARDS. ResultsWe identified 368 DEPs in serum and 504 in lung samples from LPS-induced ARDS mice. Gene ontology (GO) classification and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analysis showed that these DEPs in lung tissues were primarily enriched in pathways, including IL-17 and B cell receptor signaling pathways, and the response to stimuli. In contrast, DEPs in the serum were mostly involved in metabolic pathways and cellular processes. Through network analysis of protein-protein interactions (PPI), we identified diverse clusters of DEPs in the lung and serum samples. We further identified 50 commonly upregulated and 10 commonly downregulated DEPs in the lung and serum samples. Internal validation with a parallel-reacted monitor (PRM) and external validation in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets further showed these confirmed DEPs. We then validated these proteins in the proteomics of patients with ARDS and identified six proteins (HP, LTA4H, S100A9, SAA1, SAA2, and SERPINA3) with good clinical diagnostic and prognostic value. DiscussionThese proteins can be viewed as sensitive and non-invasive biomarkers associated with lung pathological changes in the blood and could potentially serve as targets for the early detection and treatment of direct ARDS especially in hyperinflammatory subphenotype.