bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among kidney transplant recipients in Singapore
Authors: Liew Ian Tatt , Kadir Hanis Abdul , Thangaraju Sobhana , Ho Quan Yao , Ng Eleanor , Foo Fiona , Kee Terence 
Published: April 2023

Abstract

Introduction:
A successful vaccination programme forms the cornerstone of controlling coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The unprecedented speed of COVID-19 vaccine development and lack of long-term data have raised fears regarding its safety and efficacy. Vaccine hesitancy can undermine the uptake, and hence success of the vaccination programme. Given the high complication rates of COVID-19 infections in kidney transplant recipients, it is particularly important to identify and address vaccine hesitancy in this population.

Methods:
We conducted a cross-sectional survey among kidney transplant recipients attending transplant clinic between 5 April and 5 May 2021. The survey assessed attitudes towards COVID-19, willingness/hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccination, vaccination concerns and prompts to vaccination. This was scored on a Likert scale with scores ranging from ‘strongly disagree’ – 1 point to ‘strongly agree’ – 5 points.

Results:
One hundred and one completed responses were captured. Of these, 86% respondents reported to agree or strongly agree to vaccination. This was despite significant concerns of allograft rejection (mean score 4.12, standard deviation [SD] 0.97) and decreased immunosuppressant efficacy (mean score 4.14, SD 0.96) with vaccination. Multivariable model showed a positive association with transplant vintage of ≥ 5 years (median 2.41), lower educational levels of secondary school or less (median 5.82) and healthcare provider advocacy (median 1.88) in predicting vaccine acceptance.

Conclusions:
Vaccine acceptance rate was high among kidney transplant recipients. Vaccine hesitancy remains a concern in those with a transplant vintage of less than 5 years and those with tertiary educational level. Healthcare provider advocacy is important in improving vaccine acceptance rates.
Los consumos de medios de comunicación en los mayores de 50 años: entre el asombro y la nostalgia
Authors: Loyola María Inés , Morales Susana , Vidal Elizabeth 
Published: April 2023

Este informe es parte de una investigación realizada durante el año 1997, a partir del análisis de entrevistas a personas mayores de 50 años para conocer sus modalidades de recepción de medios de comunicación en Córdoba.
Como punto relevante del análisis, pudimos señalar el gran asombro que provocaba en los entrevistados la aparición de los cambios tecnológicos que impactaron particularmente en profundas transformaciones en los proceso de producción, circulación y consumo de medios. Este asombro ante lo novedoso no se observa en la sociedad actual, en todo caso lo asombroso es la ¿naturalidad¿ conque se asiste a los más revolucionarios inventos, tal vez porque justamente lo que caracteriza a la sociedad argentina (y mundial) de las últimas décadas es la globalización y la importancia capital de los medios masivos de comunicación en la constitución de ese escenario. A medida que se internan en sus recuerdos, la nostalgia aparece en los entrevistados, por la pérdida de los encuentros familiares alrededor de los medios.
Las formas de expresión en el periodismo actual
Authors: Moreno Espinosa Pastora 
Published: April 2023

El lenguaje periodístico está formado por un conjunto de discursos que tienen estructuras lógicas y gramaticales distintas, no es un tipo de discurso homogéneo en su estructura. No obstante, todas estas formas específicas del discurso implican el conocimiento por el periodista de que los receptores son personas concretas que viven en un tiempo determinado con sus circunstancias sociales, políticas, culturales, etc. adyacentes.
La distinción de las formas del discurso nos permitirá establecer un sistema de análisis que contribuirá a conocer mejor el propósito general de los mensajes y determinar el modo más conveniente de redactarlos.
La voz de los espectros Imagen y política en la Argentina de fin de siglo
Authors: Alem Beatriz 
Published: April 2023

El presente trabajo intenta dar cuenta de ciertas imágenes políticas que aparecen en el escenario público, a partir de la relación de presencia/ausencia; y que marcan en principio una particularidad, la de no ser hechos actuales; sin embargo, siempre vuelven, y se instalan generando diversas y antagónicas reacciones, que van desde la adhesión al rechazo.
En este recorrido intentaremos explicar esta modalidad, a partir de ciertas imágenes de la política argentina. Para ello vamos a citar dos ejemplos: la imagen de Eva Perón y la imagen de los desaparecidos en la última dictadura militar de 1976.
Comenzaremos por describir el origen de las imagos, ya que las mismas tenían por función inmortalizar el poder. Y esta categoría de inmortal era posible a partir de la consagración de los cuerpos.
Las imágenes que aquí proponemos aparecen de modo diferente, podemos inferir que la imagen de Eva Perón se constituye en el modo que tienen las imágenes religiosas que unen a la comunidad de creyentes y mantienen con su imagen una relación que trasciende la devoción para instalarla en el plano milagroso. En tanto que la imagen de los desaparecidos vuelven de un modo fantasmagórico, al modo que vuelven los fantasmas reclamando justicia.
Concluiremos que entender el significado de estas imágenes, desde lo espectral y desde lo siniestro que ellas contienen, es sacarlas de la simple idea alucinógena que pueden resultarnos; fundamentalmente porque el escenario de la política argentina sigue recibiendo el mensaje de los fantasmas, que sectores del poder se niegan a escuchar, por se justamente un reclamo que cuestiona el "orden" establecido.
Isolation and Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phages with a Broad Host Spectrum from Hospital Sewage Systems and Their Therapeutic Effect in a Mouse Model
Authors: Dai Fangfang , Yang Gengxia , Lou Jinli , Zhao Xiuying , Chen Ming , Sun Guizhen , Yu Yanhua 
Published: April 2023

ABSTRACT.
This study aimed to isolate and characterize phages as an alternative treatment of multidrug- or pan-drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Phage titers and bacterial densities correlated, with the phages disappearing after bacteria were eliminated. We isolated phages in filtered sewage water by a double-layered agar spot test. Fifty-eight P. aeruginosa strains were used to screen the host spectrum of the 14 phages isolated. Random amplification of polymorphic DNA-typing polymerase chain reaction was used to analyze the genomic homologies of the 58 host bacteria strains and four phages with a broad host spectrum. Transmission electron microscopy was used to observe the morphology of the four phages with a broad host spectrum. Mice with intraabdominal P. aeruginosa infection were used as an in vivo animal model to investigate the therapeutic effect of the selected phage. Four virulent phages with a broad host spectrum specific to P. aeruginosa strains were isolated. They were all double-stranded DNA viruses and belonged to four different genotypes. The test curve showed that phage I had the highest adsorption rate, the shortest latent period, and the largest burst size. The infected mouse model indicated that small doses of phage I could prevent the death of infected mice. Phage titers and bacterial densities correlated, with phages disappearing after bacteria were eliminated. Phage I was the most effective and promising treatment of drug-resistant P. aeruginosa.
House Condition Scoring Scale as a Risk Indicator of Infestation by Aedes in Two Mexican Localities
Authors: Monroy-Díaz Ángela Liliana , Ramos-Castañeda José , Amaya-Larios Irma Yvonne , Diaz-Quijano Fredi Alexander , Martínez-Vega Ruth Aralí 
Published: April 2023

ABSTRACT.
Mexico has shown an increase in dengue incidence rates. There are factors related to the location that determine housing infestation by Aedes. This study aimed to determine factors associated with housing infestation by immature forms of Aedes spp. in the dengue endemic localities of Axochiapan and Tepalcingo, Mexico, from 2014 to 2016. A cohort study was carried out. Surveys and inspections of front- and backyards were conducted every 6 months, looking for immature forms of Aedes spp. A house condition scoring scale was developed using three variables (house maintenance, tidiness of the front- and backyards, and shading of the front- and backyards). Multiple and multilevel regression logistic analysis were conducted considering the housing infestation as the outcome and the household characteristics observed 6 months before the outcome as factors; this was adjusted by time (seasonal and cyclical variations of the vector). The infestation oscillated between 5.8% of the houses in the second semester of 2015 and 29.3% in the second semester of 2016. The factors directly associated with housing infestation by Aedes were the house condition score (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 1.64; 95% CI: 1.40–1.91) and the previous record of housing infestation (aOR: 2.99; 95% CI: 2.00–4.48). Moreover, the breeding-site elimination done by house residents reduced the housing infestation odds by 81% (95% CI: 25–95%). These factors were independent of the seasonal and cyclical variations of the vector. In conclusion, our findings could help to focalize antivectorial interventions in dengue-endemic regions with similar demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Duration of Symptoms Prior to Pediatric and Adolescent Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Its Impact on Schooling in Tanzania: A Mixed Methods Study
Authors: Ilaiwy Ghassan , Lukumay Saning’o , Augustino Domitila , Mejan Paulo , Bukhay Rehema , Justine Museveni , Massong Cornel , Rao Prakruti , Petros de Guex Kristen , Pfaeffle Herman , Mduma Estomih , Vinnard Christopher , Xie Yingda L. , Heysell Scott K. , Thomas Tania A. 
Published: April 2023

ABSTRACT.
At least a third of tuberculosis (TB) cases remain undiagnosed, disproportionately so in children and adolescents, which is hampering global elimination goals. Prolonged symptom duration presents a high-risk scenario for childhood TB in endemic areas, but the prolonged period of symptoms and its impact on educational attainment are rarely documented. Using a mixed method approach, we aimed to quantify the duration of respiratory symptoms and describe their impact on education among children from a rural area of Tanzania. We used data from a prospectively enrolled cohort of children and adolescents aged 4–17 years in rural Tanzania at the start of active TB treatment. We report on the cohort’s baseline characteristics and explore the correlation between duration of symptoms and other variables. In-depth qualitative interviews were designed on the basis of a grounded theory approach to explore the impact of TB on educational attainment among school-aged children. In this cohort, children and adolescents diagnosed with TB experienced symptoms for a median of 85 days (interquartile range: 30, 231 days) prior to treatment initiation. In addition, 56 participants (65%) had a TB exposure in the household. Of the 16 families with school-aged children who were interviewed, 15 (94%) reported a significant negative impact of TB on the schooling of their children. Children in this cohort experienced a long duration of TB symptoms; the extent of illness impacted absenteeism at school. Screening initiatives for households affected by TB may lead to a shortened duration of symptoms and may minimize the impact on school attendance.
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting
Authors: Collins Kindzeka Ke-afoon 
Published: April 2023

Purpose: The study aimed at portraying the current role of Artificial intelligence in accounting, auditing, and financial reporting.
Methodology: The study used a descriptive research design. This form of research design aims at describing the current status of an identified variable. Data was collected from secondary materials.
Findings: Currently, multiple AI technologies are being utilized in accounting, auditing, and financial reporting. The AI expert systems accept human experiences as well as technical know-how as their fundamental and try to develop aggregate behavior or practice. Also, AI has allowed for factors such as automated data input, thus enhancing the scope of accounting, and enabling modern accounting to integrate and process huge data.
Recommendations: It is critical for future policymakers to ensure standardization of the AI system in the accounting paradigm to ensure high-quality systems that adhere to the principles of accounting.
The Validity Measurement of Murder using Model Penal Code of Statutory Codes and Common Law Jurisdiction based on Heidegger’s Theory of Truth
Authors: Llarena Zharama 
Published: April 2023

Purpose: Heidegger’s philosophy of truth is a critical revelation concerning criminalization. The idea of truth has been a long series of debates among scholastic artworks since the idea of man’s interactions cannot be extrapolated to knowledge-seeking existence. Hence, evidence law, pertaining to types of killings, such as degrees of murder, with depraved heart killings of another, based on statutory codes and murder from common law jurisdiction, have elements for evaluation of its severity of criminal offense subject to punishment based on Model Penal Code. Although centuries have passed, erudite articulation of these issues led to development of questions, like ‘what are the elements of murder crucial for unlawful perpetration?’, ‘what are the arguments concerning exact copy of legal instruments?’ or ‘what must be the facts needed to make it essential for validity of measurement concerning crime perpetration of murder?’, for tools of becoming.
Methodology: This article asserts that when the concept of truth, known as Aletheia (disclosure), is applied to criminal law, there must be three repercussions for this truth characterization. First, Aletheia is not restricted to propositions resulting to discovery of its various forms depicting Being-in-the-World. Second, the idea of truth does not only involve a substance for language and thought, but also exposure of factual materials. Lastly, Aletheia simultaneously reveals, and hides planned occasions constantly discussing that the truth is always a becoming process, a series of returning existence.
Findings: Every discussion of truth in murder, under criminal law, has the tendency to create another intricate philosophical issue. The three exceptional principles of truth, namely, correspondence, coherence, and pragmatic theories, are deemed to be inadequate in resolving the questions on proof of facts as mentioned due to issue of existence.
Recommendation: The theory of Heidegger suggests that we must rely on ancient Greek concept of ‘unconcealment.’ Upon this validation, this paper applies critical assessment to reveal the concept of truth, seeking justice based on proof of facts involving crime perpetration of murder constituting Heidegger’s opinions and judicial decisions. Heidegger’s truth is designed to Dasein (existence) as for being. The philosopher believes in the existence of truth due to exposure of its existence, hence, the Australian Legal System serves as the common ground in formulating laws based on legal theories as legislative framework pre-emptive to constitutional law towards application of its legal practice and regulatory policies to be in harmony set for amendments of constitutional gaps in terms of applying the critical assessment of Heidegger to other comparative laws based on political agendas for monetary success.
Risk Management: Gaining Control of Medical Malpractice Litigation
Authors: Smith Howard 
Published: April 2023

The purpose of risk management is to anticipate a crisis and prepare an actionable strategy, which accurately predicts the most successful outcome for the crisis. For doctors, a malpractice lawsuit is a crisis. It is always foreshadowed by a complication from a medical intervention. The complication can result from a medical error. However, it, also, can result from an error-of-nature. CCC+C is a risk management tool that is data driven and uses the scientific method to define, measure, analyze, improve, and control processes so that a medical error can be distinguished from an error-of-nature with 95% confidence. An error-of-nature is not preventable but a resulting frivolous lawsuit can be dismissed. Likewise, a medical error is preventable and a resulting meritorious lawsuit can be settled. Both outcomes depend on damage control. CCC+C is the damage control tool. When used by doctors as soon as a complication occurs, it manages all other obstacles presenting upstream from actuaries in medical malpractice insurance companies, plaintiff attorneys, defense attorneys and medical experts. In court, CCC+C is a forensic science designed to work in the same way as ACE+V, which is a forensic science that identifies fingerprints. Lastly, because CCC+C is transparent, it exposes unscrupulous tactics by any party on either side of litigation. It accurately predicts outcomes and controls litigation because it effectively protects from, defends against and prevents unscrupulous tactics. Therefore, CCC+C is a game changer in the arena of medical malpractice litigation.
The Hidden Life of Clothing
Authors: Worth Rachel 
Published: April 2023

Since the democratisation of the clothing industry in the early 19th century, buyers have become increasingly disconnected from the creative and human aspects of the production of clothing. Arguably clothing is now valued less for its aesthetic qualities or because of the hours spent in its making, but more for the extent to which it serves current ‘fashion’.
In a climate of increasing anxiety about the environmental and social impact of the contemporary global fashion industry, Rachel Worth suggests that, rather than seeking solutions only in the present, looking to history can assist in understanding better the challenges consumers face today in making decisions about the contents of their wardrobes, which, in turn, will impact on the nature of the future global fashion industry. She does not seek to offer simplistic historical solutions to contemporary problems, but explores ways in which it might be possible to bridge divides between knowledge of the past, current individual choice, and possible directions for future action.
The more we know about our clothes, the less likely it is that we will wear an item of clothing only a few times before replenishing it with newer purchases that are ‘on trend’. By taking ownership of our personal clothing choices rather than feeling pressurised to respond to sophisticated marketing and to ‘influencers’, this book suggests how we might rethink our wardrobes in philosophical and practical ways in order to create a sense of order and beauty in our lives and to wrest control back from the increasing chaos of seemingly endless choice that perpetuates unsustainable, impersonal and fast fashion.
Faith in Art
Authors: Masheck Joseph , Brandl Mark Staff , Carrier David , Gladston Paul , Geczy Adam , Carrier David , Kalina Richard , Rubinstein Raphael , Karaminas Vicki 
Published: April 2023

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with the initiators of abstract painting, Joseph Masheck reveals how an underlying religiosity informed some of our most important abstract painters.
Covering Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and El Lissitzky, Masheck shows how ‘revealed religion’ has been an underlying but fundamental determinant of the thinking and practice of abstract painting from its originators down to the present. He contextualizes their art within some of the historical moments of the early 20th century, including the Russian revolution and the Stalinist period, and explores the appeal of certain themes, such as the Passion of Christ.
A radical new theorization of the influence of religion over visual art, Faith in Art asks why metaphysics has been eliminated from the discussion where it might have something to say. This is a new way of thinking about a hundred years of abstract painting.
Evaluación de la cadena de frío en cortes de res vendida en supermercados
Authors: Arriaga-Lorenzo Pedro , Maldonado-Simán Ema , Ramírez-Valverde Rodolfo , Martínez-Hernández Pedro Arturo , Tirado-González Deli Nazmín , Saavedra-Jiménez Luis Antonio 
Published: April 2023

La demanda de alimentos a nivel mundial ha mantenido un constante crecimiento, y en particular los productos perecederos que requieren de manejo especializado para asegurar su inocuidad al llegar con el consumidor final. La cadena de frío es una importante herramienta para lograr este objetivo. Sin embargo, existen problemas en los distintos eslabones que pueden afectar la calidad del producto. La venta al menudeo resulta ser un eslabón débil, por lo que la cadena de frío necesita ser monitoreado para asegurar que no se presenten fluctuaciones de temperaturas que afecten negativamente la calidad e inocuidad de los alimentos. En esta investigación, se evaluó la gestión de cadena de frío de carne de res vendida en cuatro supermercados del estado de México, considerando aquellos que utilizan refrigeradores de tipo abierto. Se registró la temperatura superficial del producto localizado en diferentes posiciones del refrigerador. Los datos obtenidos se analizaron con un modelo mixto con mediciones repetidas en el tiempo bajo un diseño completamente al azar. Se determinó que dos de los cuatro supermercados, presentaron problemas de gestión de la cadena de frío durante los meses evaluados, incumpliendo lo estipulado en la norma NOM-213-SSA1-2018. Esto representa un riesgo para el consumo humano, por la posible proliferación de microorganismos causada por el aumento de temperatura, además de reducir la vida de anaquel y posterior desperdicio de alimentos, generando pérdidas económicas.
Conflictual Rebordering: The Russia Policies of Finland and Estonia
Authors: Makarychev Andrey , Romashko Tatiana 
Published: April 2023

This article seeks to analyse the process of conflictual rebordering in the EU’s relations with Russia. The authors single out three major crises that triggered and shaped the process of toughening the border regime and the related transformations of political meaning of the EU-Russia border: the COVID-19 pandemic, the drastic deterioration of Moscow-Brussels relations in the beginning of 2021 and the war in Ukraine that started on 24 February 2022. Correspondingly, the EU’s reactions to each of these critical junctures might be described through the academic concepts of governmentality, normativity and geopolitics. Our aim is to look at the three ensuing models – governmental, normative and geopolitical rebordering – from the vantage point of Estonia and Finland, two EU member states sharing borders with Russia, yet in the meantime remaining distinct from each other in developing particular border policies and approaches vis-a-vis their eastern neighbour.
Соборность и общественность в философии Вл. Соловьева
Authors: Тонковидова Анна Викторовна , Бойко Павел Евгеньевич , Орлов Михаил Олегович 
Published: April 2023

Соборность рассматривается в качестве основания традиционных ценностей, которые постулируются в современном обществе в качестве целей деятельности, личного и общественного развития. В связи с этим важно определить онтологию соборности, значение которой в философии В. Соловьева расширяется за пределы исключительной церковности и рассматривается как отражение соборности в общественности. Посредством применения диалектического метода, имманентно присущего соловьевским текстам, нами выявлено, что церковная общественность, светская общественность и церковно-светская общественность в своем основании содержат соборный принцип. Человек в своей деятельности реализует соборность в общественности.
Благодарности: исследование выполнено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ в рамках научного проекта № 21-011-44127 «Взаимодействие светского и религиозного мировоззрения как теологическая проблема: социальные риски, вызовы цифровизации и основания гражданского диалога».