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Morphological characters, phenolic and flavonoid contents of Vitex trifolia accessions from Lamongan District, Indonesia
Authors: NISA AFIFATUN , KURNIAWATI ANI , FARIDAH DIDAH NUR 
Published: April 2023

Abstract. Nisa A, Kurniawati A, Faridah DN. 2023. Morphological characters, phenolic and flavonoid contents of Vitex trifolia accessions from LamonganDistrict, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 24: 1635-1641. Indonesia is a country with high biodiversity. Legundi (Vitex trifolia L.) is one of the plant species that has long been used as a raw material for traditional herbal medicine. This study aims to determine the morphological, agronomic, leaf production, and total phenolic and total flavonoid content of the V. trifolia accession from Lamongan District, East Java, Indonesia. Morphological and agronomic characterizations were observed using qualitative and quantitative parameters. The colorimetric method determined the total phenolic and flavonoid content in V. trifolia extract. The results showed differences in morphological and agronomic characters between accessions. The Bluluk accession had the highest leaf production that did not differ from the Pucuk, Sekaran, and Kedumpring accessions, while the Modo accession had the lowest. There was no difference in total phenol and flavonoid content between accessions. Leaves had the highest total phenolic content (3210.57 GAE mg/100 g dry powder), followed by twigs (1331.98 GAE mg/100 g dry powder) and fruit (973.77 GAE mg/100 g dry powder). Leave also contained the highest flavonoid content (1792.90 QE mg/100 g dry powder).The highest phenolic and flavonoid content in the leaves of V. trifoliamay support its use in traditional medicine.
Habitat use of proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) in production forests of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Authors: WARDATUTTHOYYIBAH WARDATUTTHOYYIBAH , PUDYATMOKO SATYAWAN , IMRON MUHAMMAD ALI , SUBRATA SENA ADI 
Published: April 2023

Abstract. Wardatutthoyyibah, Pudyatmoko S, Imron MA, Subrata SA. 2023. Habitat use of proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) in production forests of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 24: 1724-1734. Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus van Wurmb 1787) are endemic to Borneo and dependent on the presence ofwetlandforest as their habitat. Recent study shows that many potential habitats of this species are in non-protected areas including logging concessions. We investigate the use of logging concessions for the habitat of proboscis monkeys by determining habitat variables that influence the presence of proboscis monkeys in a selective logging system. We conducted research in seven logged-over areas/LOA during 2009-2015 and eight locations of unlogged forest as proboscis monkey habitat. We applied a logistic regression with the backward stepwise method for selecting environmental variables that influence the presence of proboscis monkeys. Our study showed that proboscis monkeys are no longer present in LOAs, which was indicated by the difference between the habitat characteristics of proboscis monkeys and LOAs. We found that if prosboscis monkeys are presentin an area, resource selection was influenced at site level for basal area of trees and poles explained the presence of proboscis monkeys. Reducing the number of trees logged and ensuring connectivity among trees in LOAs could help to reestablish habitat for proboscis monkeys.
Genetic variation within the coat color gene of Melanocortin 1 Receptor (MC1R) in Mong Cai pigs of Vietnam
Authors: THUY CAO THI THU , HA CHU DUC , LONG TRAN DUC , HAI TONG VAN , CHI TRAN THI , QUYEN TA THI HONG , YEN VU HAI , KHANH NGO THI MINH , TRUNG NGUYEN QUOC , TRUNG NGO THANH 
Published: April 2023

Abstract. Thuy CTT, Ha CD, Long TD, Hai TV, Long ST, Chi TT, Quyen TTH, Yen VH, Khanh NTM, Trung NQ, Trung NT. 2023. Genetic variation within the coat color gene of Melanocortin 1Receptor (MC1R) in Mong Cai pigs of Vietnam. Biodiversitas 24: 1735-1741. Pig (Sus scrofa) is considered one of the major domesticated animals in Vietnam. Various indigenous pig varieties have been successfully developed as the Vietnamese's main daily meat source. However, little information has been reported about the conservation of these indigenous pig varieties. In this study,the Mong Cai, a prized domestic pig breed in Vietnam, is well-characterized by a black saddle on the hips extending to the lower abdomen. As a result of the introduction of exotic breeds and crossbreeding, Mong Cai pigs exhibited various phenotypic characteristics and coat colors. We constructed a database of Melanocortin 1Receptor(MC1R) coding sequences, including the MC1Rsequences of 26 Mong Cai and 20 other pig breeds from Europe and Asia. Subsequently, 12 haplotypes were determined using 18 mutations in 46 individuals. The phylogenetic tree result indicated that the Mong Cai population was distributed into two distinct haplotypes. Moreover, Mong Cai pigs could belong to the Asian clade; however, six Mong Cai individuals formed a distinct cluster. These six individuals carried the nt729G gene, which is prevalent in European pigs. In addition, our study could provide a solid foundation for further investigation of the evolution of indigenous pig varieties in Vietnam.
Detection of biofilm-related genes and antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from clinical specimens
Authors: SAADULLA SHNA OTHMAN KAKA , MUHAMMED SIRWAN MUHSIN 
Published: April 2023

Abstract. Saadulla SOK, Muhammed SM. 2023. Detection of biofilm-related genes and antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from clinical specimens. Biodiversitas 24: 1809-1816. A total of 53 Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates were collected from patients treated at Shar Hospital in Sulaimani city to determine antibiotic susceptibility patterns and their association between biofilm formation and the distribution of biofilm-related genes. Identification of suspected A. baumannii was carried out by conventional and molecular approaches, including 16S rRNA and blaoxa-51 gene amplification. In addition, disk diffusion and microtiter plate methods determined antibiotic susceptibility and biofilm-forming capability, respectively. Out of 53 A. baumannii clinical isolates 42 (79.24%), were Multidrug-Resistant (MDR), of which 3 (5.66%) were resistant to colistin. Overall, 33 (62.26%) of the clinical isolates were strong biofilm producers, 6 (11.32%) were moderate or weak biofilm producers, and 8 (15.09%) were non-biofilm-forming isolates. The frequency of biofilm-related genes ompA, bap, csuE, blaPER-1, and cpaA among A. baumannii strains was 92.45%, 79.24%, 73.58%, 9.43%, and 7.54%, respectively. The high frequency of multi-drug resistant strains, and their ability to form biofilms, is a potential threat to effective therapy and may increase morbidity and mortality in infected patients. Colistin appeared to be the most effective antibiotic for treating MDR A. baumannii infections.
Association of hospital volume with conversion to open from minimally invasive colectomy in patients with diverticulitis: A national analysis
Authors: Ebrahimian Shayan , Verma Arjun , Sakowitz Sara , Olmedo Manuel Orellana , Chervu Nikhil , Khan Aimal , Hawkins Alexander , Benharash Peyman , Lee Hanjoo 
Published: April 2023

Background
Despite the known advantages of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for diverticular disease, the impact of conversions to open (CtO) colectomy remains understudied. The present study used a nationally representative database to characterize risk factors and outcomes associated with CtO in patients with diverticular disease.

Methods
All elective adult hospitalizations entailing colectomy for diverticulitis were identified in the 2017–2019 Nationwide Readmissions Database. Annual institutional caseloads of MIS and open colectomy were independently tabulated. Restricted cubic splines were utilized to non-linearly estimate the risk-adjusted association between hospital volumes and CtO. Additional regression models were developed to evaluate the association of CtO with outcomes of interest.

Results
Of an estimated 110,281 patients with diverticulitis who met study criteria, 39.3% underwent planned open colectomy, 53.3% completed MIS, and 7.4% had a CtO. Following adjustment, an inverse relationship between hospital MIS volume and risk of CtO was observed. In contrast, increasing hospital open volume was positively associated with greater risk of CtO. On multivariable analysis, CtO was associated with lower odds of mortality (AOR 0.3, p = 0.001) when compared to open approach, and similar risk of mortality when compared to completed MIS (AOR 0.7, p = 0.436).

Conclusion
In the present study, institutional MIS volume exhibited inverse correlation with adjusted rates of CtO, independent of open colectomy volume. CtO was associated with decreased rates of mortality compared to planned open approach but equivalence risk relative to completed MIS. Our findings highlight the importance of MIS experience and suggest that MIS may be safely pursued as the initial surgical approach among diverticulitis patients.
Propensity score-matched analysis of physician-controlled wire-guided cannulation as an effective technique against difficult cannulation in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: A retrospective study
Authors: Jeon Han Jo , Lee Jae Min , Yim Sun Young , Choi Hyuk Soon , Kim Eun Sun , Keum Bora , Seo Yeon Seok , Jeen Yoon Tae , Chun Hoon Jai , Lee Hong Sik 
Published: April 2023

Background
Advanced endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) cannulation strategies for difficult cases could replace conventional techniques, in which assistants control guidewires. We aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of a new salvage cannulation strategy, physician-controlled wire-guided cannulation (PCWGC), with those of a conventional strategy.

Methods
This retrospective study included patients with naïve papillae who underwent ERCP between January 2018 and December 2020. Patients, divided into two groups, received initial cannulation using a conventional catheter. After failed cannulation, the second attempt used PCWGC and double-guidewire technique (DGT) in the new and conventional strategy groups, respectively. Propensity score-matching (PSM) analysis compared outcomes between groups. Primary outcome included overall success rate, while secondary outcomes included cannulation time, adverse events, and cannulation difficulty subgroup analysis.

Results
The new strategy group comprised 255 (47.6%) of 536 patients who underwent ERCP. The total cannulation success rate was 98.4% (vs. 97.2%, p = 0.318), with similar post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP) (1.8% vs. 2.4%, p = 0.64) rates. Following 1:1 PSM, 219/438 patients were allocated to both the conventional and new strategy groups, and 46 patients from the difficult cannulation subgroup were distributed evenly among groups. No difference in overall cannulation success rate existed between the groups before (97.2% vs. 98.4%) and after PSM (96.8% vs. 98.2%). The primary cannulation success rate was higher in the conventional strategy group, while the secondary cannulation success rate was higher in the new strategy group. However, the difficult cannulation subgroup PSM results showed that only the salvage cannulation success rate was significant (9/23, 39.1% vs. 18/23, 78.3%, p = 0.007). In the difficult cannulation subgroup, the salvage cannulation success rate for PCWGC was four times higher than DGT (95% confidence interval; 1.129–14.175), with no significant difference in PEP rate (p = 0.571).

Conclusions
PCWGC demonstrated greater efficacy than the conventional salvage technique. PCWGC could be a safe and useful technique, especially for difficult biliary cannulation.
National-level key stakeholders’ perspectives regarding intervention progression and emerging challenges within the national stillbirth reduction response in Uganda
Authors: Ssegujja Eric , Andipatin Michelle 
Published: April 2023

Introduction
Implementation of evidence-based interventions was adopted to respond to the stillbirth burden from the global campaigns. However, new challenges emerge in the process of rolling out such interventions into routine services more so in the context of resource-limited settings. Since the scale-up of policy recommendations to address stillbirth in Uganda, the health system response has seldom been explored. This study was conducted among national-level key stakeholders to elicit their perspectives regarding intervention progression and challenges emerging from the implementation of the national stillbirth reduction strategies in Uganda.

Methods
The study adopted an exploratory qualitative design with interviews conducted among a purposively selected sample of national-level actors drawn from the maternal and Child Health (MCH) policy networks. Respondents were primed with ongoing national-level stillbirth reduction strategies as a case and later asked for their opinions regarding intervention progression and emerging challenges. All interviews were conducted in English and transcribed verbatim. Atlas. ti was used to facilitate the coding processes which used a pre-determined codebook developed a priori based on the applied framework. A thematic analysis technique was used.

Results
Human resources as reflected in the slow recruitment of essential staff, motivation and attitudes of the available human resource, on and off-drug stockouts, and equipment interruptions posed challenges to the effective implementation of interventions to address the stillbirth burden. The policy translation process was sometimes faced with deviations from the recommended practice. Deviations from guideline implementation, inadequate managerial skills of the health workers and managers in stewarding the implementation processes, inadequate implementation feedback, loops in communication and working with a passive community also posed process-dependent bottlenecks. Outcome expectation challenges stemmed from the inability to deliver stillbirth reduction interventions along the Reproductive Maternal New born Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) continuum of care and the overconcentration of facility-level intervention with less focus on community/demand side interventions.

Conclusion
In this exploratory study, national-level stakeholders perceive the adopted stillbirth reduction strategies as having the potential to address the burden. They, however, highlight potential challenges along the input-process-outcome continuum which ought to be addressed and opportunities to explore potential solutions befitting the national-level context.
The Contribution of Sufism in Building and Advancing Islamic Civilization in Indonesia
Authors: Mursalat Mursalat 
Published: April 2023

Sufism is accused of being a 'virus' that hinders progress and causes the Muslim world to lag in the arena of modern civilization. Sufism teachings and doctrines are considered irrelevant to the spirit of the global era and modernism. Likewise, puritan Islamic groups regard Sufism as a heresy and misleading superstition, as we have seen recently with the emergence of radical-puritan/salafi-Salafi-Wahabic groups. Sufism and Civilization. The two fields seem to be separate. Sufism is often perceived as an individual inner world, an ascetic activity that is super closed close material world. While civilization is something that requires the manifestation of progress, both physical and non-physical. Can the two of them meet, how is the relationship between the two, negate or affirm, if the answer is positive and affirmative, we can trace the relationship between Sufism and civilization from the relationship between Islam and civilization. Judging from the type of research, this research is included in qualitative research. It is said to be qualitative because this research emphasizes more on presenting the existing data descriptively. The results of this study explain that the important role of Sufism is awaited again to restore the glory of Islamic civilization, especially in Southeast Asia, in the mamidative views of some Muslims towards Sufism. Sufism is actually the of Islam being able to enter from various fields iing health, peace, economics, social, politics and culture.
Keywords : Islamic civilization, sufism, advanced civilization
Evasion
Authors: Thompson David 
Published: April 2023

This article examines Brazil’s project of incarceration through the figure of evasion (evasão)—the act of escaping prison custody, often temporarily. Evasion traces a path across the borders of captivity and freedom, as people routinely flee confinement, only to return of their own accord. I position both prisons and evasion as part of an ongoing history of, and tension between, Black fugitive life and emancipation in Brazil and the Americas. I argue that while evasion offers no clear exit from the punitive edge of the law, it produces another mode of inhabiting the time and territory of incarceration. With a focus on two incarcerated Black travestis, I outline some of these evasive movements and demonstrate the fault lines that they reveal—both within the prison system’s own claims to legitimacy and in the concepts that we bring to bear on incarceration.

RESUMO

O presente artigo examina o projeto brasileiro de encarceramento através da figura da evasão: o ato, muitas vezes temporário, de fugir da custódia penal. A evasão traça um caminho que atravessa as fronteiras entre a prisão e a liberdade, visto que as pessoas fogem frequentemente, voltando depois por vontade própria. Situo presídios e evasão como partes de uma história contínua e uma tensão entre vida negra em fuga e emancipação no Brasil e na América. Constato que, embora a evasão não ofereça saída do fio punitivo da lei, produz outro modo de habitar o tempo e o território do encarceramento. Focando em duas travestis negras presas, delineio alguns desses movimentos evasivos e demonstro as linhas de falha que elas revelam—tanto dentro das pretensões de legitimidade do sistema penal, como dos conceitos a que recorremos para analisar o encarceramento.
Blow-up for logarithmic viscoelastic equations with delay and acoustic boundary conditions
Authors: Park Sun-Hye 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
In the present work, we establish a blow-up criterion for viscoelastic wave equations with nonlinear damping, logarithmic source, delay in the velocity, and acoustic boundary conditions. Due to the nonlinear damping term, we cannot apply the concavity method introduced by Levine. Thus, we use the energy method to show that the solution with negative initial energy blows up after finite time. Furthermore, we investigate the upper and lower bounds of the blow-up time.
修订《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准⋅手写汉字表》的思考与实践
Authors: 陶 炼 
Published: April 2023

提要
“《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准·手写汉字表》修订案” (以下简称 “修订案”) 是对《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准·手写汉字表》 (以下简称《手写汉字表》) 的修订提案。本文阐说 “修订案” 提出的缘由、 “修订案” 编制的原则和方法、以及 “修订案” 一到八级手写汉字表的概况, 最后是 “修订案” 和《手写汉字表》的简要对比。 “修订案” 本身则作为 “附录” 列于文末。
Pediatric reference interval verification for 16 biochemical markers on the Alinity ci system in the CALIPER cohort of healthy children and adolescents
Authors: Bohn Mary Kathryn , Schneider Randal , Jung Benjamin , Adeli Khosrow 
Published: April 2023

Abstract

Objectives
Special chemistry parameters are useful in the diagnosis and management of inherited disorders, liver disease, and immunopathology. Evidence-based pediatric reference intervals (RIs) are required for appropriate clinical decision-making and need to be verified as new assays are developed. This study aimed to evaluate the applicability of pediatric RIs established for biochemical markers on the ARCHITECT for use on newer Alinity assays.

Methods
An initial method validation was completed for 16 assays, including precision, linearity, and method comparison. Sera collected from approximately 100 healthy children and adolescents as part of the Canadian Laboratory Initiative on Pediatric Reference Intervals (CALIPER) were also analyzed on the Alinity c system. Percentage of results within established ARCHITECT RIs were calculated and considered verified if ≥90 % fell within established limits. New RIs were established for three electrolytes, glucose, and lactate wherein no data were previously reported.

Results
Of the 11 assays for which CALIPER pediatric RIs were previously established on ARCHITECT assays, 10 met the verification criteria. Alpha-1-antitrypsin did not meet verification criterion and a new RI was established. For the other 5 assays, de novo RIs were derived following analysis of 139–168 samples from healthy children and adolescents. None required age- and sex-partitioning.

Conclusions
Herein, pediatric RIs were verified or established for 16 chemistry markers in the CALIPER cohort on Alinity assays. Findings support excellent concordance between ARCHITECT and Alinity assays with one exception (alpha-1-antitrypsin) as well as robustness of age- and sex-specific patterns originally reported by CALIPER in healthy Canadian children and adolescents.
Randomization-based, Bayesian inference of causal effects
Authors: Leavitt Thomas 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Bayesian causal inference in randomized experiments usually imposes model-based structure on potential outcomes. Yet causal inferences from randomized experiments are especially credible because they depend on a known assignment process, not a probability model of potential outcomes. In this article, I derive a randomization-based procedure for Bayesian inference of causal effects in a finite population setting. I formally show that this procedure satisfies Bayesian analogues of unbiasedness and consistency under weak conditions on a prior distribution. Unlike existing model-based methods of Bayesian causal inference, my procedure supposes neither probability models that generate potential outcomes nor independent and identically distributed random sampling. Unlike existing randomization-based methods of Bayesian causal inference, my procedure does not suppose that potential outcomes are discrete and bounded. Consequently, researchers can reap the benefits of Bayesian inference without sacrificing the properties that make inferences from randomized experiments especially credible in the first place.
Dynamic assembly and interaction of glycosphingolipids in cholesterol-containing model membranes
Authors: Hanashima Shinya , Nakano Mikito , Murata Michio 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Glycosphingolipids (GSLs) in the mammalian plasma membrane are essential for various biological events that occur on cell membranes by forming glycolipid-rich membrane domains, such as lipid rafts. Lactosylceramide (LacCer) forms a highly ordered phase in model and biological membranes. However, the details of this domain remain unclear. We examined the dynamic assembly of LacCer in cholesterol-containing phase-separated membranes by fluorescence imaging and solid-state NMR. Solid-state 2H NMR of the deuterated LacCer probes in the membranes indicated that the potent LacCer–LacCer interaction significantly reduced the incorporation of cholesterol in the LacCer domains. Moreover, increasing the amount of cholesterol induced the formation of nanometer-scale LacCer domains, which can be biologically relevant. The lateral interaction of ganglioside GM3 with the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) transmembrane segment was examined using fluorescence spectroscopy under membrane conditions. Lateral FRET between the NBD fluorophore on the EGFR transmembrane segment and the ATTO594 fluorophore on the GM3 head group suggested that GM3 interacts with the transmembrane segment and partially inhibits the EGFR dimerization by stabilizing the peptide monomer. More precise investigations of GSL–GSL and GSL-protein interactions occurring in membrane environments can lead to the elucidation of the cellular functions of GSL from structural points of view.