bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Classification of pathozoospermia in infertile men
Authors: Nazarenko R. V. , Zdanovskiy V. M. 
Published: September 2022

Background. Since its growing social significance, the male infertility arouses much interest in medical and scientific communities. Nevertheless, it’s hardly possible to evaluate the contribution of male factor in all infertility cases. Basic infertility test in men is routine semen analysis. But its parameters often fluctuate vastly even among healthy fertile men. Also, there is lack of strong evidence concerning influence of different pathological conditions on conventional sperm parameters.Aim. To analyze causes (diseases and/or pathological conditions) that lead or might lead to decline of conventional sperm parameters, i. e. to pathozoospermia, and to evaluate varicocele impact at this parameters.Materials and methods. The study group consisted of 383 men (mean age 35,5 years) with pathozoospermia whose partners were unable to conceive more than 12 months (mean duration of infertility 4 years). Also, we have tested control group of 31 men with normozoospermia and varicocele of different grades. All men were undergoing standard physical examination, scrotal and prostate ultrasound and semen analysis according to WHO manual. Hormonal and genetic examination was performed if needed. The classification based of summary of conventional sperm parameters scores was proposed for evaluation of severity of pathozoospermia.Results. All patients were divided in 5 groups of pathozoospermia according to the classification: mild (n = 106; 27,7 %), intermediate (n = 46; 12 %), moderately severe (n = 19; 4,5 %), severe (n =147; 38,4 %) and azoospermia (n = 65; 17 %). Such differentiation allows to reveal pathological factors proven to lead to pathozoospermia. Among factors that might lead to pathozoospermia varicocele was a point of special interest. It was shown that grade of varicocele corresponds to the severity of pathozoospermia. Mild and intermediate pathozoospermia prevailed in grade I varicocele (n = 20; 65 %), in grade II mild + intermediate pathozoospemia was almost equivalent to moderately severe + severe (n = 84; 50 and 45,24 % respectively), in grade III moderately severe + severe prevailed over mild + intermediate pathozoospemia (n = 22, 54,55 % vs 36,37 % respectively). In control group, varicocele I and II grades prevailed over III grade (I grade – 48,4 %, II grade – 41,9 %, III grade – 9,7 %).Conclusion. Suggested classification of pathozoospermia has shown its efficacy and can be used by urologists, andrologists for assessment of men’s fertility and revealing indications for varicocele repair.
Sperm agglutination and ejaculate liquefaction time as negative prognostic factor in ICSI
Authors: Naumov N. P. , Shatylko T. V. , Gamidov S. I. , Popova A. Y. , Safiullin R. I. 
Published: September 2022

Background. Not all pathological mechanisms of fertility disorders in men are currently the correct diagnostic tests, this significantly reduces the prognostic value of the spermogram and makes the question of assessing spermogram character disorders and its impact on the effectiveness of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) procedures extremely relevant. In our study, we retrospectively evaluated the parameters of ejaculate and their effect on ART outcomes.Aim. To assess the effect of sperm agglutination and ejaculate liquefaction time on in vitro fertilization (IVF) with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) results.Materials and methods. The selection of married couples was carried out on the basis of the V.I. Kulakov National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology of the Ministry of Health of Russia. The study included 6,416 married couples who sought IVF-ICSI in the period from December 2012 to December 2016. Ages of men varied between 23 and 74 years, ages of women between 17 and 53 years. Examination data of the patients were extracted from the BABE software. In the study, sperm analysis parameters were evaluated during preparation to the IVF program, IVF-ICSI, and on the day of transvaginal ovarian puncture. Using univariant and regression analysis, prognostic factors of clinical pregnancy and childbirth after IVF-ICSI were determined.Results. Sperm agglutination rates adversely affect the incidence of clinical pregnancy (probability ratio (PR) 0.701; 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.589–0.834; p <0.001) and childbirth (PR 1.719; 95 % CI 1.220–2.422; p = 0.002) in IVF-ICSI assisted reproductive technologies. Ejaculate liquefaction has a negative effect on the incidence of clinical IVF-ICSI pregnancy (PR 0.967; 95 % CI 0.949–0.986; p = 0.001).Conclusion. Andrologists should seek to improve the above ejaculate parameters with various treatments to improve the effectiveness of ART programs.
Is arthroscopic intervention-assisted fragment-specific fixation technique superior to volar plating in distal radius fractures involving the middle column?
Authors: ÇETİN Mehmet Ümit , POLAT Abdulkadir , FİDAN Fırat 
Published: September 2022

Purpose: In this study, the clinical and radiological results of volar plating and arthroscopic intervention-assisted fragment-specific fixation techniques used in patients operated for AO Type B-C distal radius fracture in which the medial colon is affected were compared.
Materials and Methods: X-ray and clinical records of 98 patients who underwent surgical treatment for radius distal end (DER) fracture between April 2011 and January 2017. The patient groups treated with arthroscopy-assisted fragment-oriented fixation (Group A) and plate screw fixation with a volar approach without arthroscopic intervention (Group B) were compared in terms of joint range of motion, grip strength, and clinical scores. Flexion and extension, ulnar deviation, radial deviation, pronation, and supination angles measured with a standard goniometer were recorded in the joint range of motion measurement. Grip strength was measured with a Jamar dynamometer for power measurement. DASH score was used in clinical evaluation.
Results: When the operated wrists of both patient groups were compared, there was no significant difference between the DASH score, grip strength, palmar flexion, and pronation angles of motion. A statistically significant difference was observed between the mean dorsiflexion angles of 55 degrees in group A and 44 degrees in group B, mean radial deviation angles of 25 and 19 degrees, and the mean supination angles of 87 and 80 degrees, respectively.
Conclusion: Although arthroscopic-assisted fragment-specific fixation is technically a laborious procedure that requires a learning curve in patients with intra-articular distal radius fractures, it may be beneficial to provide better postoperative results, especially in young patients with high range of motion expectations.
Accepted Power: Black Authority and the Multiethnic Church
Authors: Scott Robin 
Published: September 2022

Black people, specifically American descendants of slaves, and the American church have had a complex and painful relationship. From the slave plantation, to Jim Crow, to the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Lives Matter, the relationship between Black Christians and the church seems to have improved. Black slaves are no longer being beaten or imprisoned for secretly having their own worship services, nor are Black Christians openly being told they can't sit on a pew in a White church, nor are Black Christians the only ones speaking out about racism and injustice, as many White Christians have joined in the fight. In an effort to unite Christians in America, the multiethnic church movement has gained momentum. But what does the dynamic between Black Christians and the American church look like now? I investigate this question through study of the contemporary multiethnic church movement. While Black and White Christians have come together in churches, it is not without relational issues that are the result of the unreconciled past.
​Integrated Nutrient Management in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
Authors: Mallick Rambilash , Majumder Kasturi 
Published: September 2022

Background: Importance of Integrated nutrient management through recycling of organic sources of wastes and renewable sources of bio-fertilizers are gaining popularity due to rising cost of energy and limited input availability. The current study aimed to investigate the combined effects of inorganic fertilizer, organic manures and bio-fertilizers (INM) on growth and productivity of sunflower. Methods: This experiment comprised of ten treatments which includes farm yard manure (FYM @ 10 t/ha, FYM @ 5 t/ha), Vermicompost (VC @ 5 t/ha, VC @ 2.5 t/ha), Bio-fertilizers (PSB, AZ), foliar spray NPK 19:19:19. Result: Maximum seed yield of 2.48 t/ha and 2.41 t/ha were obtained by the treatments T10 and T6 respectively. The physiological trait like CGR (3.216 and 3.210 g/day/plant) also recorded significantly higher values for the treatments T10 and T6 than all other treatments. It was also found that among organic manures, vermicompost at 5 t/ha produced higher seed yield than FYM at 10 t/ha. From this investigation, treatment T10 (VC @ 2.5 t/ha + PSB + AZ + 50% RDF + foliar spray) could be recommended to the farmers for sunflower cultivation. In case of acute shortage of vermicompost, farmers can go for treatment T6 (FYM @ 5 t/ha + PSB + AZ + 50% RDF + foliar spray) as this could be eco-friendly since chemical load to the environment has been 50% curtailed.
Deleuze e Guattari para pensar a educação em cièncias
Authors: Ferraro José Luís 
Published: September 2022

Este trabalho agencia a obra de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari à educação em ciências ao jogar luzes sobre o deslocamento que permeia a organização deste componente curricular. O uso destes autores para pensarmos a educação em ciências, possibilita a (re)inserção da diferença e da multiplicidade, extirpadas do estrato científico pelo sonho moderno de totalização da realidade – que persiste no pedagógico – por meio da redução conceitual operada pela lógica da identidade. Assim, evidencia as (des)continuidades das práticas entre um estrato e outro, como resultado da força de uma tradição que passa a ser subvertida pelo corte epistemológico deleuzo-guattariano.
Social media as a strategy for protest movements: A study of #EndSARS in Nigeria
Authors: Adedokun Theophilus 
Published: September 2022

The 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria gained global attention. The protests drawn thousands of youths to the streets in a wave of rolling fury that built into one of the largest demonstrations for years in the country. Unlike previous protests in the country, the 2020 year's protests played out across social networks in a buildup of videos, images, and stories on Twitter Facebook, and other platforms displaying pictures and footage from the streets. This study employed the Social Network Theory in identifying the influence of social media as a strategy for protest movements and for the diffusion of information about #EndSARS and the sustenance of this movement over a long period, despite forces that have tried to silence it. This study argued that the sustenance of protests such as #EndSARS over a long period was dependent on factors such as: (i) that some individuals were more resistant to being influenced than others; (ii) that some individuals tended to be more responsive than others; and (iii) that some individuals seemed to be more affected than others (and were, therefore, more likely to pass the information on to others). The findings revealed that protesters used emotional dynamics, collective identities, symbolic artifacts, and mutual values to sustain protests if their demands were not met on time.
The common characteristics of employment status during the Covid-19 Lockdown
Authors: Dunga Steven Henry 
Published: September 2022

The National Development Plan (NDP) of South Africa identifies the main ills that must be dealt with by 2030. These are poverty and inequality. The NDP also clearly points out the need to deal with unemployment. These build into the sustainable development goals with 2030 as the target year for achievement. Both the NDP for South Africa and the SDGs at the global level had these targets set way before the 2019 coronavirus hit. Now given the disruption that this pandemic caused, the trends and possibility of achieving these goes must be investigated. This paper looks at employment focusing on the characteristics of the people that had a job to return to after the hard lockdown in South Africa. The main objective is to identify the significant predictors of employment status at the household level. The paper uses data from Statistics in South Africa that were collected in 2021 during the midst of the pandemic. Variables such as age, province, race or population group and gender were included in the analysis. The results of the logistic regression show that age, race, age of the province, and household size are all significant predictors of whether the head of the household was in salaried employment during the Covid-19 pandemic. The fact that females were more likely to be in employment is painting a unique picture of the labour force than what is normally observed in the surveys.
The importance of training and development for government officials in South Africa
Authors: Rykleif Yasien , Tengeh Robertson K. 
Published: September 2022

An organisation's performance suffers when employees are not adequately skilled in certain job areas. This article sought to investigate whether training and development affected the delivery of citizen-centric services in a government department in South Africa. The study adopted a mixed research methodology and a non-experimental research design. The data was collected via 20 open-ended interviews and 130 structured questionnaires. The study results indicated that shifting the government's focus to citizen-centricity would improve efficiency and service delivery. One of the significant findings suggests that training in service delivery requirements awareness could positively improve and motivate public officials' performance to remain relevant to the needs of citizens.
Approaches to managing logistics processes under digital economy
Authors: Seliverstova N. S. , Sabitov R. A. , Smirnova G. S. 
Published: September 2022

Objective: to review the main management models and approaches to the study of logistics processes in production ecosystems.Methods: abstract-logical, dialectical, phenomenological methods.Results: the main directions and methods of research in the field of digitalization of logistics processes are described; the accelerated growth of e-commerce and force majeure factors (epidemic, a complex of geopolitical factors) are identified as a driver for the development of solutions in the field of improving the efficiency of logistics processes in the Russian economy; promising directions for the development of logistics process management models are identified.Scientific novelty: it is shown that the directions of foreign authors’ research in the field of logistics are broader, while Russian researchers have a significant potential to search for new technological and methodological solutions in this area; the relevance of the research development in the field of logistics processes digitalization is shown, including that on the basis of predictive analysis models.Practical significance: the understanding of problems in the field of logistics, revealed in the work, makes it urgent to develop a set of projects in this area to increase the efficiency of existing digital ecosystems, and also creates a basis for further research in this area.
Unearthing the Capital Choice for Learning Anatomy- A Study on the Students Perspectives on Cadaveric Dissection in India
Authors: James Jerin , K Sudha , Natarajan Pratheepa Sivasankari , S Sundara Pandian 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Introduction
What is the role of cadaveric dissection in the current scenario of anatomy education? We attempted to provide a valid answer to this controversial topic through our study. We analysed the students perspectives of different aspects of learning anatomy with their positive and negative experiences and got a better understanding of their opinions and their experience
Methods
In this cross-sectional study, a pretested and validated questionnaire was used to collect information from the students after approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee. Informed consent was obtained from every student prior to their participation in the study.
Results
Three hundred seventy seven students took part in this study and the response rate obtained was 63.5 %. The majority of the students endorsed that cadaveric dissection has helped them in learning the basic anatomy and has deepened their understanding of complexity of human body and has helped in better performance in clinical postings. The smell of formaldehyde and eye irritation was cited as the major reasons for finding dissection sessions challenging. Most of the students agreed that counselling before dissection sessions will help to alleviate the emotional reactions to cadavers.
Conclusion
The students unanimously agreed that cadaveric dissection sessions are the best way to learn basic anatomy complemented with newer teaching tools like prosections and computer based approaches. However, the problems encountered by the students like smell and irritation of formaldehyde need to be addressed with usage of alternative techniques.
Lisianthus enation leaf curl virus, a newly invaded begomovirus into Japan, is more virulent than the prevalent tomato yellow leaf curl virus in Ty-gene-mediated resistant tomato cultivars
Authors: Taniguchi Marina , Sekine Ken-Taro , Koeda Sota 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
In 2020, tomato plants showing yellow leaf curl disease (TYLCD) were tested for begomovirus infection in Okinawa prefecture, Japan. Amplification and sequence analysis of circular DNA in the diseased samples showed that, some of the tomato plants carrying a Ty-3a resistance gene to tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) were co-infected with TYLCV and lisianthus enation leaf curl virus (LELCV). LELCV infection was also detected in pepper plants in Okinawa by PCR-based diagnosis, suggesting that the virus is widespread in the region. To characterize the interactions of LELCV, TYLCV-IL and TYLCV-Mld with tomato cultivars that carry different Ty resistance genes, we conducted agroinoculation of the viruses. The resistance conferred by Ty-2 was effective against TYLCV-IL but not effective against TYLCV-Mld and LELCV. In contrast, Ty-3a conferred resistance was effective against TYLCV strains but not fully effective against LELCV. Furthermore, mixed infection of TYLCV-IL and LELCV in tomato plants bearing Ty-3a induced even more significant TYLCD symptoms and growth inhibition than did LELCV singly infected plants. Our study demonstrated that the newly invaded LELCV is a more virulent begomovirus species than the prevalent TYLCV isolates in resistant tomato cultivars.
The interaction between coping styles with relationship breakdowns, loss, and conflict and the frequency of self-harm thoughts and behaviours: a longitudinal analysis of 21,581 UK adults
Authors: Paul Elise , Fancourt Daisy 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Background
Relationship breakdowns or conflict are frequent precipitants for self-harm thoughts and behaviours, but the majority who experience these stressful life events do not think about or engage in self-harm. Understanding factors that attenuate or exacerbate this risk is therefore needed. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether relationship breakdowns, loss, and conflict lead to more frequent self-harm thoughts and behaviours. We also examine whether coping styles and neuroticism, posited by diathesis-stress models of suicide risk to interact with these events, attenuate or exacerbate the risk for self-harm thoughts and behaviours from these events.
Methods
This study utilised data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, which acted as a natural experiment by leading to a greater prevalence of relationship breakdowns than usual. Data from 21,581 adults who participated in the UCL COVID-19 Social Study between 28 February 2021 and 4 April 2022 were utilised. Poisson regression models which controlled for socio-demographics and a diagnosed mental health condition were used to examine the impact of four predictor variables (separation or divorce, family problem, an ‘other’ relationship breakdown [e.g., friend or colleague], and the death of a close relative or friend) with the number of times self-harm thoughts and behaviours were reported over the study period. Interactions between these events and coping styles (problem-focused, emotion-focused, socially supported, and avoidant coping) were also examined.
Results
Variables representing relationship breakdowns, loss, and conflict were associated with an increased frequency of self-harm thoughts (incidence rate ratio [RRR] range: 1.04 to 1.77) and behaviours (RRR range: 1.48 to 1.96). The use of more avoidant coping strategies (e.g., substance use, denial) increased the risk for both outcomes but unexpectedly attenuated associations between predictor variables and self-harm thoughts. Socially supported coping increased the likelihood of both outcomes, but not in sensitivity analyses which excluding ‘venting’ from the scale. Problem-focused coping strategies (e.g., active planning) attenuated the impact of separation or divorce and having had a family problem on the frequency of self-harm behaviours.
Conclusions
Findings underscore the importance of interpersonal loss and conflict for the frequency of thinking about and engaging in self-harm and suggest that the magnitude of these associations may depend on different coping styles.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Zimbabwean large scale dairy stockpeople towards animal welfare
Authors: matore zivanayi 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Stockpeople involved in day to day handling of animals in Zimbabwe are rarely assessed for their animal welfare knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP). However, given the growing demand for milk and dairy products in Zimbabwe and the increasing global demand for animal products that are produced in an animal welfare friendly environment there is potential benefit of studying the KAP of stockpeople towards the welfare of dairy animals. This cross sectional study was carried out among 75 stockpeople from 31 large-scale dairy farms in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. Results of this study revealed that, animal welfare KAP among stockpeople from Zimbabwe large-scale dairy farms are low. The KAP study showed low levels of knowledge, negative attitudes and practices that support poor animal welfare. These findings were attributed to the low levels of education among stockpeople and limited training received by stockpeople on animal welfare from agriculture extension service providers in Zimbabwe. It is recommended that further studies be done to find out better and more effective ways of teaching animal welfare concepts and practices. These approaches of teaching animal welfare to stockpeople should take into account the stockpeople’s cultural and education backgrounds.