bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Functional results after reconstruction with modular tumor endoprostheses in patients with malignant bone tumors
Authors: Ivanov Yordan S. , Tsenkov Tsvetan 
Published: February 2023

Introduction: The functional outcome in patients after limb salvage surgery, and in particular reconstructions with modular tumor endoprostheses, has been the subject of many international series, but only a few publications mention the functionality in a Bulgarian patient group.
Aim: The aim of the present study was to analyze the functional outcome in a Bulgarian group of patients with malignant bone tumors that underwent resection and reconstruction with modular tumor endoprostheses.
Materials and methods: Our series consists of 14 patients with malignant bone tumors who underwent limb salvage surgery and reconstruction with modular tumor endoprostheses between February 2012 and January 2021. Staging was done using the AJCC staging system for bone sarcoma. The MSTS score system was used to evaluate the functional results.
Results: The mean follow-up time was 38.5 months (range, 8 to 96). The mean MSTS score for our series was 70%. Distant metastases were found in 4 (28%) patients. Local recurrence occurred in 3 (21%) patients. The most severe late complication was a mechanical failure of the expanding mechanism in 1 patient.
Conclusions: Reconstruction with modular tumor endoprostheses offer superb functionality and improved life quality in patients with primary malignant bone tumors.
Intraoperative ultrasound for nonpalpable breast lesions &ndash; experience and operative time
Authors: Ivanov Valentin , Dimov Rossen , Marinov Blagoi , Ivanov Valentin , Tashkova Desislava 
Published: February 2023

Introduction: The essential tools doctors need to diagnose breast cancer tumors at the early stages and with no clinical presentation are screening mammography and ultrasonography. Nonpalpable breast lesions are a current problem nowadays and there are various types of navigation techniques that are utilized in order to achieve cancer cell-free resection margins in the first place. Intraoperative ultrasound has been proven to be a safe and effective way to excise this type of breast tumors.
Aim: To study the correlation between the experience we obtained while using intraoperative ultrasound for excision of nonpalpable breast lesions, and the duration of surgery.&nbsp;
Materials and methods: Twenty-five women with nonpalpable breast lesions underwent breast-conserving surgery using ultrasound navigation. Nominal and ordinal data were presented using numbers and percentages. Spearman&rsquo;s rank-order correlation was used to assess the effect of experience gained on the duration of surgery.
Results: The tumor distribution was 72% malignant tumors and 28% benign. A 100% identification rate in the effective surgical excisions was reported. In the process of gaining experience using the method, the duration of surgery shortened by 30%. No tumor cells on ink were found in all specimens and there was no need for secondary surgeries.
Conclusions: Our results demonstrate a relatively short learning curve, and we believe that breast surgeons should be helped and encouraged to gather adequate expertise to ensure patient safety and gain confidence.&nbsp;
Stratégie d’une junior minière française face au « risque social » : le cas du projet Fonts-Bouillants
Authors: Reys Aurélien , Berre Sylvain Le , Gunzburger Yann , Jammes Laurent 
Published: February 2023

La question du risque social, c’est-à-dire de l’opposition des populations locales, se pose désormais comme l’un des enjeux majeurs pour tout projet d’exploration ou d’exploitation des ressources du sous-sol. En France, les mouvements de protestation à leur encontre contrarient depuis plus d’une décennie la relance minière souhaitée par l’État et les acteurs du secteur. Cet article propose d’examiner la trajectoire de l’un de ces projets qui se développe jusqu’à ce jour sans faire l’objet de mobilisations sociales ou de résistances locales. Situé dans le département de la Nièvre, il concerne des gisements gazeux constitués d’hélium et de gaz carbonique et est porté par une compagnie minière française junior récemment créée. L’analyse est conduite au prisme d’une grille de lecture qui cherchait à évaluer ce risque pour plusieurs projets miniers au Canada. Cette recherche offre, tout d’abord, l’occasion de revisiter cette grille en mettant en miroir les contextes miniers canadien et français, ce dernier étant marqué par un fort déclin depuis les années 1990. Elle permet également d’identifier les principales raisons du succès, à ce jour, du projet minier étudié : ses faibles impacts directs sur l’environnement et une stratégie de communication efficace de l’entreprise reposant en grande partie sur une approche marketing de type storytelling. Les dynamiques de co-construction sont à ce stade inexistantes, principalement en raison de parties prenantes locales qui ne souhaitent pas jouer un autre rôle que celui de simples partenaires dans le développement du projet.
WATER AVAILABILITY IN SOUTHERN PORTUGAL FOR DIFFERENT CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS SUBJECTED TO BIAS CORRECTION
Authors: Mourato Sandra , Moreira Madalena , Corte-Real João 
Published: February 2023

Regional climate models provided precipitation and temperature time series for control (1961-1990) and scenario (2071-2100) periods. At southern Portugal, the climate models in the control period systematically present higher temperatures and lower precipitation than the observations. Therefore, the direct input of climate model data into hydrological models might result in more severe scenarios for future water availability.
Three bias correction methods (Delta Change, Direct Forcing and Hybrid) are analysed and their performances in water availability impact studies are assessed. The Delta Change method assumes that the observed series variability is maintained in the scenario period and is corrected by the evolution predicted by the climate models. The Direct Forcing method maintains the scenario series variability, which is corrected by the bias found in the control period, and the Hybrid method maintains the control model series variability, which is corrected by the bias found in the control period and by the evolution predicted by the climate models.
To assess the climate impacts in the water resources expected for the scenario period, a physically based spatially distributed hydrological model, SHETRAN, is used for runoff projections in a southern Portugal basin. The annual and seasonal runoff shows a runoff decrease in the scenario period, increasing the water shortage that is already experienced. The overall annual reduction varies between -80% and -35%. In general, the results show that the runoff reductions obtained with climate models corrected with the Delta Change method are highest but with a narrow range that varies between -80% and -52%.
Afetividade: direito sucessório
Authors: De Melo Bruna Marinho 
Published: February 2023

São estudados, os textos constitucionais, as principais leis vigentes no Brasil e princípios que tratam do direito de sucessão. A relevância da investigação que resulta neste texto centra-se no estudo do objeto sucessão e sua configuração em diferentes períodos históricos, o que permite identificar as espécies de heranças: legítima, necessária e testamentária e duas especies de inventário: judicial e extrajudicial. Para análise, procedeu-se, à seleção de bibliografias, extraídas de textos legais, em que constam palavras que se vinculam, em alguma medida, a aspectos ligados a sucessão na legislação brasileira. Com a leitura da bibliografia selecionada foram realizados fichamentos que permitiram identificar quais pontos foram regulados pela legislação brasileira e nos textos infraconstitucionais que abordam a evolução da forma de divisão de bens do de cujus. Os resultados indicam que a atividade legislativa acerca da sucessão do cônjuge ou companheiro estão vinculados aos discursos que circulam na sociedade referente a concepção de família, a qual é marcada pelo discurso da legitimidade da relação conjugal, ligado à afetividade no direito sucessório.
Role of Parliament and Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects
Authors: Hossain Awal 
Published: February 2023

Purpose: This paper aims to critically evaluate the role of parliament in ensuring democratic governance as well as good governance in Bangladesh. The basic three functions of a parliament are a) law-making; b) representation; and c) oversight. Thus, parliament plays a crucial role in the development, people participation, rule of law, ensuring accountability and transparency, making laws and policies that promote good governance. Though Bangladesh has started its journey as a parliamentary form of government and past 48 years of its independence amid some(16) years of military intervention, however, the parliament of Bangladesh is not still effective to ensure the core elements of democratic or good governance by its three basic functions. Besides, the parliament of Bangladesh has been facing several problems and challenges to ensure its viability and effectiveness. The paper is a case-oriented qualitative study and based on secondary sources of materials.
Methodology: The study adopted desktop literature Method
Findings: The finding of this study is that a democratically elected parliament is the true voice of the people and responsible to the people which serves as the main platform of democratic governance. Besides, the quality of elections is crucial for a truly democratic parliament because parliaments can hardly fulfill their roles, specifically the role of representation, if elections are defective and controversial.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study concluded that parliament is should establish its functions through modernization by use of the latest technologies including ICT.
Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in Delta State: A Tool for Infrastructural Development
Authors: Sokoh G. 
Published: February 2023

Purpose: The study examines internally generated revenue (IGR) in Delta State as a tool for infrastructural development. The Ordinary Least Squares was used to analyze the impact of internally generated revenue on infrastructural development in Delta State; the data used covered the period between 2008 to 2018.
Methodology: The data was generated from a combination of publishing materials and data from Delta State Ministry of Finance
Findings: The study findings indicate that the internally generated revenue has an insignificant impact on government expenditure on health. This indicates that the fund generated internally within the state has not improved the spending on the health infrastructure. On the contrary, on education infrastructure, the result indicates that the internally generally revenue by the Delta State Government has a significant impact on government expenditure on education infrastructure. This result indicates that the internally generated revenue from Delta State has improved the money spent on the educational infrastructure.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Based on the findings, the researcher recommends that the government should spend at least 40 percent of the internally generated revenue in financing the health sector through improved budgetary provision. This will improve the development process in Delta State. The Delta State government should put in place measures to improve the total money generated internally by levying and collating appropriate taxes.
Assessment of Pedestrian Mobility on Road Networks in the City of Kigali
Authors: Nkurunziza David , Tafahomi Rahman 
Published: February 2023

Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyze and assess the pedestrians’ mobility issues that are affecting their free movement and safety in the City of Kigali by outlining the major challenges in the City and providing alternative solutions and measures for improving the mobility and safety of Pedestrians.
Methodology: This study was designed based on qualitative method with application of structured and unobtrusive. Referring to the paper findings about the mobility challenges of pedestrians within the City of Kigali, it is noted that the mobility of the pedestrians and their safety is still low and typical problems including road crossing viewed as the second challenges about pedestrians mobility, walking along the road networks due to lack of footpaths, lacking of enough road signs, lacking of information about pedestrian behavior on road networks, and improper functioning of existing traffic signals as the first challenge.
Findings: The study found that the majority of road networks in the City of Kigali did not provide walkways, traffics signals designs and availability is very poor and some of them not functioning, zebra crossing facilities were not provided adequately, pedestrians shelter on bus stop are almost absent and ignored, vehicles travelling speed is still high and does not allow pedestrians to move freely and the mobility of disables people has been forgotten and there is a need of introducing the pedestrian overpass bridges in clouded zones of Nyabugogo, Kicukiro Sonatube and Remera Giporoso areas of the City of Kigali.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: maintaining pedestrian’s safety by using the traffic lights to warn the drivers to be aware of the pedestrians’ safety and to think of how the implementation of the pedestrian overpass can be introduced in the City where more a great number of pedestrians crossing the road reduced to be killed in the accident.
An Assessment of Boko Haram Crisis and the Socio-Political Development of Borno State, Nigeria
Authors: Galadima Zanna 
Published: February 2023

Purpose: This research work attempt to examine the Boko Haram crisis in Borno State and how it undermines socio-political development, with Maiduguri being our case study. The work has five chapters, each chapter structured in analysing the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria and how it affects the socio-political development of Borno State.
Methodology: the research developed twelve questions, these questions were administered in form of questionnaires to 400 people who were selected as a sample of the population primary and secondary data were used as a source of data while tables and percentages were used in organizing and presenting the data collected.
Findings: The data analysis revealed that Boko Haram crisis has created so many backwardness, hatred, national disintegration and lack of unity in Nigeria.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The researcher therefore recommended that for Boko Haram crisis to be prevented, the government should take adequate measures to shut down any training terrorist camps operated by the Boko Haram sect. Then, the nation will start experiencing peace, oneness, security, national unity, development and progress for the betterment of all Nigerians.
Impacts of the Fight against Corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Promoting Good Governance and Accountability in Nigeria
Authors: C Ndukwe , David Ogo , Iroko Nwuzor 
Published: February 2023

Purpose: This study investigated the impact of the fight against corruption by the EFCC in promoting good governance and accountability in the current administration of president Muhammadu Buhari. Specifically the paper sought to examine the extent to which the fight against corruption by the EFCC have promoted good governance and accountability in Nigeria today.
Methodology: The methodology adopted is qualitative method of data collection and analysis where some informants with an experience and classified information on the subject matter were consulted for interview. The paper adopted Richard A Joseph (1996) Prebendalism theory on corruption. The data obtained was interpreted for analysis and findings.
Findings: The paper discovered that as laudable as the intentions and effort of the government to curb corruption through the EFCC and laws, they have left much to be desired. Infact the fight against corruption by the EFCC are of limited value because they fail to take into account much of the dymanics that support corruption making people now regard the EFCC as a tool to fight political enemies of the current administration.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The paper therefore recommends among others the need for greater transparency by the EFCC in combating corruption if its effort must promote good governance and accountability in Nigeria
Assessment of the Perception of Senior Secondary School Students on Climate Change in Osun State
Authors: FEMİ Oloidi 
Published: February 2023

This study examine the knowledge and awareness of the climate change among students in secondary schools in Osun state with the aim of determining the perception of students on climate change to create awareness, educate and inspire young people, particularly the students to do something about climate change. A total number of three hundred students were used for this study. The students were selected through a multi-stage sampling procedure. The quantitative data obtained was subjected to both descriptive and inferential analysis. The results from the data showed that there was a significant association between the sex of the respondents and their perception on climate change. Also, there was a significant association between the knowledge of the respondents and their perception on climate change. There is no significant correlation between the students’ awareness about the impacts of climate change and their perception of climate change. It was therefore concluded that there is correlation between the perception of the students and climate change. Creating more awareness on the impacts of climate change should be created among students, formation of climate change clubs among schools and incorporation of climate change education in subjects taught in schools were recommended.
Keywords: Students, Awareness, Knowledge, Climate change, Perception
Role of Nursing Managers in Enhancing the Clinical Decision-Making Skills of Critical Care Nurses in Yaoundé-Cameroon: A Qualitative Study
Authors: Wankam Mispar Guinyonga , Atanga Mary Bih Suh , Mbebeb Fomba Emmanuel 
Published: February 2023

Purpose: This study aims at exploring the role of nurse managers in decision-making in 4 referral hospitals in Yaoundé-Cameroon.
Methodology: The study used a qualitative exploratory design using semi-structured interview guides as data collection instruments. The study population was made up of 15 nurse managers (frontline, middle-level, and top-level managers) from four referral hospitals in Yaoundé-Cameroon. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview guide from a purposeful sample of nurse managers. The saturation level determined the sample size for the study. Data were analyzed using inductive content analysis.
Findings: There was a diversity in the role of nurse managers in developing the clinical decision-making skills of critical care nurses. Professional recognition, advocacy, and teamwork were the categories generated from the managers' views on nurses’ participation in institutional meetings. Nine managers viewed effective recognition and reward system as the main motivation system for empowering nurses in clinical decision-making. Administrative meetings and rounds, basic materials and skills, interdisciplinary collaboration and standardization of care were the main strategies used by nurse managers to support decision-making in critical care. Subordination of nurses, lack of qualified staff, and infrequent organization of seminars, and meetings involving nurses were the major challenges they faced.
Unique contributions to theory, practice, and policy: Findings from the study proposed that hospital nurse managers should employ various strategies to motivate nurses in decision-making by installing an effective recognition and reward system, involving them in institutional meetings, and creating a collaborative environment that favors nurse’s autonomy in decision-making.
El títere y sus posibilidades para explorar la subjetividad femenina
Authors: Jansen Dorte 
Published: February 2023

El ensayo parte de la idea de que una muneca y también un tétere puedenactuar como vehículos de expresión para comunicarse con la intuición
femenina, pues logran ayudar a una mujer a conectarse con la “mujer que sabe” (concepto de Clarissa Pinkola Estés) y que toda mujer lleva adentro. Ese fenómeno del títere parlanchín —que todo sabe y que todo dice— se analizará en la obra de teatro Mía de la titiritera Amaranta Leyva. Se presta particular atención a los diólogos entre la nina protagonista Mía y su peluche de la infancia; es como si este animal fuera su propia voz interior escondida, lo que intuye y piensa, pero lo que no se atreve a decir. Se menciona también lo importante que es tratar en las obras para ninos los llamados temas “tabú”, como la violencia doméstica en el caso de Mía. Se considera que no solo es una cuestión estética sino también ética hablarles a los ninos con la verdad (interior).
Por último, se indaga en el teatro de juguetes para adultos, intentando encontrar paralelismos con lo anterior. La Matrioshka, la muneca rusa, es una metáfora atinada para describir la naturaleza de la mujer que abarca diversas capas; también hay en ella bestialidad y un “Yo salvaje” (PinkolaEsté) lo cual se puede convertir en una poderosa fuente de creación como se observa en las obras narrativas de Leonora Carrington, que inspiraron a la compañía Caracola Producciones para escenificar Memorias de abajo.
PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF TIPE JIKSAW UNTUK MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR MAHASISWA PADA MATERI SPH II, PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN BIOLOGI, UNIVERSITAS CENDERAWASIH
Authors: Megawati Ruth 
Published: February 2023

Menyikapi masalah-masalah belajar di dalam kelas, membutuhkan kreativitas pengajar agar tujuan pembelajaran dapat tercapai yang tentunya berimplikasi pada hasil belajar. Salah satu hal yang bisa dilakukan pengajar yaitu melakukan penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK). Penelitian ini adalah PTK yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar mahasiswa melalui penerapan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe Jiksaw. Subjek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa semester IV yang mengikuti mata kuliah Struktur Perkembangan Hewan II (SPH II) sebanyak 43 orang. Penelitian ini mengacu pada model Kemmis & Mc. Taggart, dengan 2 siklus. Pengambilan data dilakukan melalui 2 teknik yaitu (1)teknik observasi dengan menggunakan instrument lembar observasi yang dilakukan disetiap proses pembelajaran berlangsung, dan (2)teknik tes dengan istrumennya adalah tes tertulis berupa pilihan ganda yang diberikan disetiap akhir topik bahasan. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis secara deskriptif kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hasil belajar mahasiswa setelah penerapan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe jiksaw pada siklus I ketuntasan belajar mahasiswa sebesar 60,46% dengan jumlah mahasiswa yang tuntas hanya 26 orang meningkat pada siklus II menjadi 81,39% dengan jumlah mahasiswa yang tuntas belajar sebanyak 35 orang. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe jiksaw dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar biologi khususnya pada materi Struktur dan Perkembangan Hewan II, mahasiswa semester IV, Program Studi Pendidikan Biologi Universitas Cenderawasih.Kata kunci: Pembelajaran Kooperatif tipe jiksaw, Hasil belajar.