bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Serum Copper and Magnesium in Esophageal Cancer Patients
Authors: Wani Mansoora , Khan Nazir Ahmad , Arif Binish , Dar Abdul Waheed , Najmi Arshad Manzoor , Dar Nazir Ahmad , Khanam Rabiya 
Published: August 2023

Background:
Cancer esophagus continues to be an aggressive tumor that causes high mortality. Even with new approaches, treatment remains disappointing. There are various known risk factors that increase the chances of development in carcinoma esophagus; in this context, we conducted this study to find if there is any association of serum copper and magnesium as a risk factor in the development of carcinoma esophagus.

Aim:
This study aimed to assess the serum levels of copper and magnesium in carcinoma esophagus patients.

Materials and Methods:
Between June 2016 and 2018, 200 cases of histologically confirmed carcinoma esophagus (study group) and 200 healthy individuals (control group) from the same socioeconomic status were enrolled in the study prospectively. Blood samples were taken from both the groups at the same time for the analysis of serum copper and magnesium was done by atomic absorption spectrophotometrically. The rationale was to find out if there is any deficiency or access of these micronutrients in either of the groups.

Results:
Of 400 cases, males were predominant 58.5% and 65.5% than females 41.5% and 34.5% in the study and control group, respectively. The mean age was 62.1 ± 12.61 and 59.8 ± 14.87 years in the study and control group, respectively. In our study, we observed that no significant difference was seen in serum magnesium levels in both the groups, while a high level of serum copper was found in the study group and seems to have a strong association with the development of carcinoma esophagus.

Conclusions:
The higher serum copper levels, as observed in this study, has any role to play as a risk factor in the development of cancer esophagus need to be studied at a larger sample size.
Graves’ disease with acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: An unusual case of proximal myopathy in Graves’ disease
Authors: Jena Sweekruti , Mishra Ipsita , Baliarsinha Anoj Kumar , Jena Debarchan 
Published: August 2023

ABSTRACT
Graves’ disease (GD) is a condition of autoimmune etiology presenting with hyperthyroidism, ophthalmopathy, and dermopathy. Other conditions with autoimmune etiologies have been described in association with GD. Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy as a cause of acute onset proximal weakness has been elucidated in a few handful of case reports. Here, we present an interesting case of GD with characteristic features of ophthalmopathy, dermopathy, and acropachy, presenting with complaints of acute onset proximal weakness.
On the period of Li, Pertusi, and Zhao’s symplectic variety
Authors: Giovenzana Franco , Giovenzana Luca , Onorati Claudio 
Published: August 2023

AbstractWe extend classical results of Perego and Rapagnetta on moduli spaces of sheaves of type OG10 to moduli spaces of Bridgeland semistable objects on the Kuznetsov component of a cubic fourfold. In particular, we determine the period of this class of varieties and use it to understand when they become birational to moduli spaces of sheaves on a K3 surface.
Risk factors for post-endoscopic retrograde pancreatography pancreatitis in malignant extrahepatic biliary obstruction: a retrospective single-center study
Authors: Mamontov I.М. , Tamm Т.І. , Kramarenko К.О. , Rjabushhenko D.D. , Sytnik D.A. , Nepomniashchyi V.V. 
Published: August 2023

Background. Decompression interventions under the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the method of choice in malignant extrahepatic biliary obstruction (MEHBO). Acute pancreatitis is the most common complication of ERCP. Many studies have been performed to identify the risk factors for post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP). However, these works in general include the analysis of ERCP in patients with various causes of biliary obstruction without subdividing patients with malignant obstruction.
Purpose.The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for PEP in patients with MEHBO.
Materials and Methods. A retrospective analysis of 100 cases of ERCP in MEHBO was done. PEP was in 2 patients, and 14 patients had hyperamylasemia (HA). The following factors were analyzed: gender, age, level of MEHBO, obstruction of the main pancreatic duct (MPD), total bilirubin level, history of endoscopic papillosphincterotomy (EPST), periampullary diverticulum, successful ERCP, primary selective biliary cannulation, catheterization and/or contrast injection into MPD, Precut EPST, successful decompression.
Results and discussion. Univariate analysis showed that PEP is associated with an obstruction at the level of the proximal and middle third of the hepaticocholedochus (p = 0.004) and with absence of MPD obstruction (p = 0.022); female gender (p = 0.012), obstruction at the level of the proximal and middle third of the hepaticocholedochus (p < 0.001), absence of MPD obstruction (p < 0.001), catheterization and/or contrast injection into MPD (p = 0.040) are associated with PEP or hyperamylasemia (HA); female gender (p = 0.024), obstruction at the level of the proximal and middle third of the hepaticocholedochus (p < 0.001), absence of MPD obstruction (p=0.006), catheterization and/or contrast injection into MPD (p = 0.035), successful decompression (p = 0.004) are associated with HA. Multivariate regression analysis showed that, for PEP and for PEP or HA as well as for HA, the risk factors are obstruction at the level of the proximal and middle third of the hepaticocholedochus (p = 0.005; p < 0.001; p < 0.001, respectively) and absence of MPD obstruction (p = 0.022; p < 0.001; p = 0.008, respectively). Female gender is a risk factor for PEP or HA and HA (p = 0.011; p = 0.028, respectively), and catheterization and/or contrast injection into MPD are risk factors for PEP or HA (p = 0.04). Conclusion. Development of PEP in MEHBO depends on the localization of a tumor and involvement of the pancreas. The risk factors for PEP in MEHBO are tumor localization at the level of the middle and proximal third of the hepaticocholedochus and absence of MPD obstruction.
PESTISIDA GADUNG RACUN DAN DAUN SENTANG ATASI SERANGAN KEONG MAS PADA PADI SAWAH
Authors: Mawardiana Mawardiana , Karnilawati Karnilawati , Mardani Mardani 
Published: August 2023

Mengatasi serangan hama keong mas di tanaman padi sawah dengan gadung racun dan daun sentang merupakan tindakan petani untuk mendukung pertanian organik yang berkelanjutan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektifitas ekstrak gadung racun dan daun sentang dalam mengatasi serangan hama keong mas di padi sawah. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Gampong Lameue Baro Kecamatan Sakti Kabupaten Pidie. Penelitian ini menggunakan Rancangan Acak Kelompok (RAK) pola faktorial, ada 2 faktor yang diteliti yaitu faktor ekstrak gadung racun (G) dan Ekstrak daun sentang (S) Faktor ekstrak gadung racun terdiri dari 3 taraf yaitu G0 = 0 %r. G1= 20%, G2 = 40% dan faktor ekstrak daun sentang terdiri dari 3 tarap yaitu S0= 0%, S1 = 20%, S2= 40%. Parameter yang diamati : intensitas serangan hama dan hasil per hektar. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ekstrak gadung racun dan ekstrak daun sentang berpengaruh sangat nyata terhadap intensitas serangan hama umur 10, 15,20 HST dan hasil per hektar dan terjadi interaksi yang nyata antara keduanya. Pemberian ekstrak gadung racun dan ekstrak daun sentang dapat menurunkan intensitas serangan hama keong mas mencapai 37,78% dan peningkatan hasil panen mencapai 0,80 ton ha-1. Kata kunci: Pestisida nabati; hama keong mas; padi
Mucins: an overview of functions and biological activity
Authors: GÜNDOĞDU Habibe , KARADAĞ SARI Ebru 
Published: August 2023

This review aims to provide novel evidence on the function of mucins in defense of epithelia and to spot mucin changes in the epithelial surface.
High molecular weight glycoproteins known as mucins are distinguished by their substantial O-glycosylation. The cell surface-associated mucins are divided into two categories as surface and gel-forming mucins. These are among the significant mucins expressed by the surface epithelia. Recent developments in functional assays have evaluated their functions in preserving corneal, conjunctival, respiratory, and digestive epithelia. The presentation includes changes in mucin and mucin O-glycan production in epithelial surface illnesses, including infection, non-autoimmune dry eye, autoimmune dry eye, and allergy.
Mucins are high molecular weight glycoproteins characterized by their extensive O-glycosylation. Recent advances using functional assays have allowed the examination of their roles in protecting epithelial tissues. Alterations in mucin and mucin O-glycan biosynthesis in epithelial surface disorders, including allergy, non-autoimmune dry eye, cancers, and infection, are presented.
Fashion: Seductive Play
Authors: Fink Eugen 
Published: August 2023

In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes available Fink’s philosophical investigation into fashion to an English-speaking audience. One of the greatest figures in the “phenomenological movement,” Fink here investigates fashion at various philosophical levels - aesthetic, ethical, social - and in relationship to other forms of human culture, especially contemporary culture.
Although there have been many transformations and changes in the world of fashion since the late 1960s, from prêt-à-porter to fast fashion, fashion’s connection to both high culture and popular culture, and the new relationship between fashion and the advent of social media, Fink’s insights allow wide-ranging and far-reaching inquiries into fashion's philosophical essence. Fink's extraordinary lucidity and his unique conceptual capacities have made his work crucial to the study of the philosophy of fashion today. His work, like that of Simmel’s, Veblen’s or Benjamin’s, is as essential and important now as when it was first published.
Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art
Authors: Moscovitch Keren 
Published: August 2023

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions. Using psychoanalysis and object-oriented feminism, Keren Moscovitch focuses on the work of several contemporary, provocative artists to initiate a dialogue on the role of intimacy in challenging and reimagining ideology.
Moscovitch suggests that intimacy has played an under-appreciated role in the shifting of social and political consciousness. She explores the work of Leigh Ledare, Genesis P-Orridge, Ellen Jong, Barbara DeGenevieve, Joseph Maida and Lorraine O’Grady, who, through their radical practices, engage in such consciousness shifting in elegant, surprising, and provocative ways. Guided by the feminist psychoanalytic canon of Julia Kristeva throughout, as well as being informed by the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and the critical theory of Judith Butler, Moscovitch situates these artists in the emerging lineage of feminist new materialism. She argues that the instability of intimacy leads to radical and performative objecthood in their work that acts as a powerful expression of revolt. Through this line of argumentation, Moscovitch joins a growing group of philosophers exploring object-oriented theories and practices as a new language for a new era. In this era, the hegemony of subjectivity has been toppled, and a new world of human ontology is built creatively, expressively and in the spirit of revolt.
Analogical Thinking in Architecture
Authors: Chupin Jean-Pierre 
Published: August 2023

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, “design thinking” has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary boundaries need to be transcended in order to think “outside the box.” This book argues that these qualities have long been supported by “analogical thinking”—an agile way of reasoning in which think the unknown through the familiar.
The book is organized into four case studies: the first reviews analogical models that have been at the heart of design thinking representations from the 1960s to the present day; the second investigates the staying power of biological analogies; the third explores the paradoxical imaginary of "analogous cities" as a means of integrating contemporary architecture with heritage contexts; while the fourth unpacks the critical and theoretical potential of linguistic metaphors and visual comparisons in architectural discourse.
Comparing views on the role of analogies and metaphors by prominent voices in architecture and related disciplines from the 17th century to the present, the book shows how the “analogical world of the project” is revealed as a wide-open field of creative and cognitive interactions. These visual and textual operations are explained through 36 analogical plates which can be read as an inter-text demonstrating how analogy has the power to reconcile design and theories.
Staging Ancient Greek Plays
Authors: Ewans Michael 
Published: August 2023

Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guide offers directors and actors an excellent starting point for mounting their production.
Considering the conditions of ancient Greek performance and the conventions of the Greek theatre, the book examines large questions, including those related to ancient Greek values, myth and the individual (‘characterization’), and the gods and fate – all of which must be taken into consideration when approaching a contemporary production.
This practical guide also explores with analysed examples, the issues that today’s theatre-makers should consider in order to successfully stage ancient Greek drama.
These topics include:
- choice of translation- setting- costumes- masks- mode of delivery- acting style for both tragedy and comedy- handling of the chorus- solutions to staging Greek drama
’70s Teen Pop
Authors: Jasmine Lucretia Tye 
Published: August 2023

Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy music that isn’t primarily marketed to them, too. Teen pop encompasses several kinds of musical styles, not limiting itself to just one—teen pop wants to play.
During the 1970s, teen pop sometimes worked subversively, challenging the status quo it seemed to represent. Male pop stars such as David Cassidy were shown suggestively in popular magazines and female pop stars such as Cher had their own TV shows. Teen magazines, pin-ups, comics, films, and TV programs provided luscious visual stereo, promoting fashion styles, lingo, and dance moves, signaling individual identity but also community. The music provided a way for young people to believe they had something all their own, an authenticity experimenting with sexuality and social conduct, all dressed up in glitter and satin, blue jeans and boom boxes, torn fishnets and safety pins and, magically, their dreams. Cartoon pop and made-for-TV bands! Bubblegum pop! Glam! Hip hop! Hard rock and pop rock and stadium rock! Punk! Disco! Teen pop reinforced aspects of the counterculture it absorbed as the music kept playing—and playing back.
Although it’s very difficult to attain and maintain social progress and play it forward—there are so many tragedies—'70s Teen Pop examines how liberation and a true counterculture can be possible through music.
Presidents and Mass Incarceration
Authors: Mancillas Linda K. 
Published: August 2023

Mandatory minimum sentencing; "three-strikes-and-you're-out" legislation; harsher sentences and less parole and probation. The result of draconian criminal justice policies in the last six decades is that the United States is the largest incarcerator in the world, surpassing Russia and China, with significant overrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos in U.S. prisons, especially for low-level, nonviolent drug offenses.
Presidents and Mass Incarceration: Choices at the Top, Repercussions at the Bottom shows how American presidents from Lyndon B. Johnson to Donald J. Trump have operated as significant political criminal justice entrepreneurs and how the leadership choices made at the top by these chief executives continue to have severe repercussions for the citizens at the lowest levels of our communities. Author Linda K. Mancillas references State of the Union Addresses, presidential initiatives, laws passed by Congress, Supreme Court decisions, and public opinion on high-profile crime events to assemble a cohesive framework of data that supports each president's impact on the incarceration explosion. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation for the complexity and magnitude of the political, economic, and societal issue of over-imprisonment that both the federal and state governments are attempting to address.
The Puzzle of the American Economy
Authors: Pisano Mark A. 
Published: August 2023

This book explains how sweeping demographic changes have resulted in the ineffectiveness of recent monetary and fiscal policies, and it identifies corrective actions that will start to reverse the trends of low economic growth and widespread government deficits.
The field of demographics does not focus on the economic impacts and the funding issues resulting from demographic change. Similarly, economics does not take into account demographic changes. The omissions in both fields are negatively impacting the nation: income reductions caused by demographic changes that have not been accounted for are so large that current fiscal policies are not able to mitigate them. The Puzzle of the American Economy: How Changing Demographics Will Affect Our Future and Influence Our Politics exposes the factors that are undermining the nation's prospects for improving the rate of economic growth and keeping up with citizens' needs for government-provided services.
Author Mark A. Pisano explains the hidden drag on the economy that has led to the ineffectiveness of recent monetary and fiscal policies, how uncertainty in economic policymaking is affecting America politically as well as at the individual household level, and why those who are adversely impacted are becoming politically disaffected. He also presents an agenda for corrective individual action. Readers will understand how the results of changes in demographics will last for decades and extend beyond the United States to many developed countries?particularly Japan and nations in Europe?as well as to some developing countries. The book will be of value to students studying macro and micro economics; those in public policy at all levels of government, public administration, and governmental budgeting; and anyone attempting to understand the current dilemma in economic policymaking and our disjointed political process.
Relax, It’s Just Sex
Authors: Spurr Leslie 
Published: August 2023

Surveying the many forms of non-possessive intimate relationships, this book explains how these alternative lifestyle arrangements work, psychologically, and describes the benefits and risks for those involved within contemporary contexts such as swinging, threesomes, polyamory, and recreational sex clubs.
The thought that one could have sex with outsiders with the consent and support of your spouse or significant other, and still love and make love with your primary partner, is a radical notion for most men and women. And yet, an increasing number of married and unmarried couples are doing just this, and their relationships are flourishing as a result. Relax, It's Just Sex: Understanding Non-Possessive Intimate Relationships examines a relatively new form of intimate relationship that is increasingly popular among contemporary couples and singles. The book introduces the term "non-possessive intimate relationships" and shows from a psychological perspective how these arrangements work, emotionally and cognitively, for the individuals involved.
Licensed clinical psychologist and relationship therapist Leslie Spurr, PhD, explores the psychologically issues involved and then takes a close look at various examples of the non-possessive intimate relationship style within several, mostly covert, contexts, in which relationship partners agree to provide each other with the freedom to engage intimately with outsiders. Written in a nontechnical, accessible style, Relax, It's Just Sex uses humor and references to popular culture, including films, novels, and songs, to engage the reader in content that is primarily informative but also entertaining. This important and eye-opening book makes clear the significance and reasons for the growing popularity of the non-possessive intimate relationship phenomenon and explains why and how this "lovestyle" may constitute a sexual revolution.
Treaty of Versailles
Authors: Beckenbaugh Lisa L. 
Published: August 2023

An indispensable resource on the Treaty of Versailles, one of the most influential and controversial documents in history, this book explains how the treaty tried to solve the complex issues that emerged from the destruction of World War I. This carefully curated primary source collection includes roughly 60 documents related to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. By collecting all of the most significant documents in one volume, it allows readers to hear the original arguments surrounding the treaty and to explore the voices of the people involved at the Paris Peace Conference. Moreover, it allows readers to engage with the documents so as to better understand the complex motivations and issues coming out of World War I and highlights the differences between the victors and identifies the problems many countries had with the treaty before it was even signed.
The documents are organized in chronological order, providing a blueprint to help students to understand all of the significant events that led to the treaty, as well as the vast repercussions of the treaty itself. In addition to the Treaty of Versailles itself, documents include such significant primary sources as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and Germany's response to the treaty.
Exploring World History through Geography
Authors: Dunbar Julie Crea 
Published: August 2023

Exploring World History through Geography: From the Cradle of Civilization to a Globalized World takes readers on a fascinating and unique journey through time from many of the earliest world civilizations right into the 21st century.
From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted—and still interact—with the environment around them, as well as the environment's role in not only shaping the society's world view but enabling the building of socially stratified and successful civilizations. Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this book examines world history through the closely related discipline of geography.
The civilizations and events represented in the book, while not exhaustive, were selected to highlight geographic themes and areas of study. Upon completing the book, readers should have a firm understanding of the expansive, cross-curricular study of geography—from the study of world cultures and history to politics to the environment and Earth's physical processes. In addition, they will have a new understanding of the relevance of geography to not only human history but contemporary events, as well as their day-to-day lives. By presenting this history from a slightly different, geographic point of view, Exploring World History through Geography will inspire fresh curiosity in the world, both past and present.