bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Women’s traditional birth attendant utilization at birth and its associated factors in Angolella Tara, Ethiopia
Authors: Taye Birhan Tsegaw , Zerihun Mulualem Silesh , Kitaw Tebabere Moltot , Demisse Tesfanesh Lemma , Worku Solomon Adanew , Fitie Girma Wogie , Ambaw Yeshinat Lakew , Amare Nakachew Sewnet , Behulu Geremew Kindie , Ferede Addisu Andualem , Kebede Azmeraw Ambachew 
Published: November 2022

BackgroundIn developing countries, home delivery without a skilled birth attendant is a common practice. It has been evidenced that unattended birth is linked with serious life-threatening complications for both the women and the newborn. Institutional delivery with a skilled birth assistance could reduce 20–30% of neonatal mortality. This study aimed to assess traditional birth attendants’ (TBAs) utilization and associated factors for women who gave birth in the last two years in Angolella Tara District, Ethiopia.MethodsA community-based cross-sectional study was employed among 416 women who gave birth in the last two years at rural Angolella Tara District. Study participants were recruited by using a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using a structured, pretested, and interviewer-administered questionnaire. Epi Data 4.6 and SPSS version 25 were used for data entry and analysis, respectively. A multivariable logistic regression model was fitted to identify factors associated with women’s utilization of traditional birth attendants. The level of significance in the last model was determined at a p-value of <0.05.ResultOverall, 131 (31.5%) participants were used traditional birth attendants in their recent birth. Unmarried marital status (AOR 2.63; 95% CI: 1.16, 5.97), age at first marriage (AOR 2.31; 95%CI: 1.30, 4.09), time to reach health facility (AOR = 3.46; 95% CI: 1.94, 6.17), know danger sign of pregnancy and childbirth (AOR = 5.59, 95% CI; 2.89, 10.81), positive attitude towards traditional birth attendants (AOR = 2.56 95% CI; 1.21,5.52), had antenatal care follow-up (AOR: 0.11 95% CI 0.058, 0.21), and listening radio (AOR = 0.43; 95% CI: 0.18, 0.99) were significantly associated factors with the use of traditional birth attendants.ConclusionNearly one-third of women used traditional birth attendant services for their recent birth. TBAs availability and accessibility in the community, and respect for culture and tradition, problems regarding infrastructure, delay or unavailability of ambulance upon call, and some participants knowing only TBAs for birth assistance were reasons for preference of TBAs. Therefore, effort should be made by care providers and policymakers to ensure that modern health care services are accessible for women in a friendly and culturally sensitive manner. In addition, advocacy through mass media about the importance of maternal health service utilization, particularly antenatal care would be important.
Bedeutende Städte jenseits der Metropolen? Regiopolen und ihre Rolle im deutschen Städtesystem
Authors: Growe Anna , Terfrüchte Thomas 
Published: November 2022

Regiopolises and regiopolitan regions are receiving unprecedented attention in German spatial planning policy. In addition to the promotion of the German RegioPole network by the federal government, regiopolises and regiopolitan regions are already designated in several spatial development plans. In the academic discourse, however, regiopolises are hardly taken up. This is particularly evident in the fact that dimensions such as city size (more than 100,000 inhabitants) and spatial location (outside metropolitan regions) are used to empirically identify regiopolises as such. A specific functionality or a specific significance in the German urban system, however, is only hinted at, following the established spatial planning concepts of metropolitan regions and central places. Against this background, this paper examines the question of what constitutes a regional centre or region in terms of its specific functionality and what significance it has in the urban system. The international discourses on second-tires-cities, borrowed size and agglomeration shadow are also taken up.
Development of alkaline phosphatase-scFv and its use for one-step enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for His-tagged protein detection
Authors: He Shuzhen , Xu Ruixian , Yi Huashan , Chen Zhixin , Chen Congjie , Li Qiang , Han Qinqin , Xia Xueshan , Song Yuzhu , Xu Junwei , Zhang Jinyang 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
A histidine (His)-tag is composed of six His residues and typically exerts little influence on the structure and solubility of expressed recombinant fusion proteins. Purification methods for recombinant proteins containing His-tags are relatively well-established, thus His-tags are widely used in protein recombination technology. We established a one-step enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for His-tagged recombinant proteins. We analyzed variable heavy and light chains of the anti-His-tag monoclonal antibody 4C9 and used BLAST analyses to determine variable zones in light (VL) and heavy chains (VH). VH, VL, and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) regions were connected via a linker sequence and ligated into the pGEX-4T-1 expression vector. Different recombinant proteins with His tags were used to evaluate and detect ALP-scFv activity. Antigen and anti-His-scFv-ALP concentrations for direct ELISA were optimized using the checkerboard method. ZIKV-NS1, CHIKV-E2, SCRV-N, and other His-tag fusion proteins demonstrated specific reactions with anti-His-scFv-ALP, which were accurate and reproducible when the antigen concentration was 50 µg mL−1 and the antibody concentration was 6.25 µg mL−1. For competitive ELISA, we observed a good linear relationship when coating concentrations of recombinant human anti-Müllerian hormone (hAMH) were between 0.78 and 12.5 µg mL−1. Our direct ELISA method is simple, rapid, and accurate. The scFv antibody can be purified using a prokaryotic expression system, which provides uniform product quality and reduces variations between batches.
Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, hypersensitive C-reactive protein and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for bloodstream infections in pediatric tumor patients
Authors: Li Dongmei , Li Jie , Zhao Chuanxi , Liao Xianglu , Liu Lisheng , Xie Li , Shang Wenjing 
Published: November 2022

AbstractObjectivesBloodstream infection (BSI) is one of the major causes of death in pediatric tumor patients. Blood samples are relatively easy to obtain and thus provide a ready source of infection-related biological markers for the prompt evaluation of infection risk.MethodsA total of 259 pediatric tumor patients were included from May 2019 to March 2022. Patients were divided into BSI group (n=70) and control group (n=189). Clinical and biological data were collected using electronic medical records. Differences in biological markers between BSI group and control group and differences before and during infection in BSI group were analyzed.ResultsThe infected group showed higher levels of procalcitonin (PCT) and hypersensitive C-reactive-protein (hsCRP), and lower prealbumin (PA) than the uninfected group. Area under the receiver-operating curve (ROC) curves (AUC) of PCT, hsCRP and NLR (absolute neutrophil count to the absolute lymphocyte count) were 0.756, 0.617 and 0.612. The AUC of other biomarkers was ≤0.6. In addition, PCT, hsCRP, NLR and fibrinogen (Fg) were significantly increased during infection, while PA and lymphocyte (LYM) were significantly decreased. Antibiotic resistant of Gram-positive bacteria to CHL, SXT, OXA and PEN was lower than that of Coagulase-negativeStaphylococcus. Resistant of Gram-positive bacteria to CHL was lower, while to SXT was higher than that of Gram-negative bacteria.ConclusionsThis study explored the utility of biomarkers to assist in diagnosis and found that the PCT had the greatest predictive value for infection in pediatric tumor patients with BSI. Additionally, the PCT, hsCRP, NLR, PA, LYM and Fg were changed by BSI.
“Thank you for the terrific party!” – An analysis of Hungarian negative emotive words
Authors: Szabó Martina Katalin , Vincze Veronika , Bibok Károly 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
The term negative emotive word refers to those words that, on their own, i.e. without context, have a semantic content that may be associated with negative emotion, but sometimes they lose it partly or wholly. In the literature negative emotive words are mainly discussed within the group of intensifiers, e.g. awfully good. In the present paper, we call this phenomenon polarity loss. At the same time, there is another use of negative emotive words that is rarely discussed in the literature, namely the case where the examined word, despite its negative semantic content, expresses a positive evaluation of the speaker, e.g. brutális alaplap (lit. ‘brutal motherboard’ – ‘high quality motherboard’). We call this phenomenon polarity shift. The aim here is to thoroughly examine the two different phenomena on the basis of the data of a Hungarian speech corpus HuTongue. After an in-depth analysis of the qualitative and quantitative features of negative emotive words, we propose corresponding ways of their meaning representations, using a lexical pragmatic approach and the concept of enantiosemy.
Convergence of a Finite Difference Scheme for a Flame/Smoldering-Front Evolution Equation and Its Application to Wavenumber Selection
Authors: Kobayashi Shunsuke , Yazaki Shigetoshi 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
In this paper, we propose a finite difference scheme combined with the Crank–Nicolson-type discretization of the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation defined on an expanding circle, and show the existence, uniqueness, and second-order error estimate of the scheme.
The equation is obtained as a perturbed graph equation from the circle solution to an interfacial curvature-dependent equation.
The graph representation can provide guidelines for understanding the wavenumber selection of solutions to the interfacial equation.
Indeed, the linearized stability analysis shows a relation between the parameters and the wavenumbers.
Our proposed scheme can realize the relation with second-order accuracy.
Entropy bounds, compactness and finiteness theorems for embedded self-shrinkers with rotational symmetry
Authors: Ma John Man Shun , Muhammad Ali , Møller Niels Martin 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
In this work,
we study the space of complete embedded rotationally symmetric self-shrinking hypersurfaces in

ℝ

n
+
1

{\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}

. First, using comparison geometry in the context of metric geometry, we derive explicit upper bounds for the entropy of all such self-shrinkers. Second, as an application we prove a smooth compactness theorem on the space of all such shrinkers. We also prove that there are only finitely many such self-shrinkers with an extra reflection symmetry.
The statue of Bruce Lee in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Authors: Wong May L.-Y. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThis article presents an analysis of the most recent statue of Bruce Lee displayed in the entrance to the Bruce Lee exhibition at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. The analysis primarily utilizes O’Toole’s social semiotic framework as outlined inThe language of displayed art(1994, 2011) in the tradition of systemic functional linguistics for analyzing the multimodality of sculpture, and provides insights into how the statue represents the kung fu legend Bruce Lee, who created the martial arts discipline of Jeet June Do. The article begins by first analyzing its sculptural features and then interprets these features against the sociocultural context of the city. The paper argues that the cultural background for the representation of Lee in the statue with its unique representational, modal, and compositional features testifies that meanings attributed to visual information in sculpture are to a large degree socially structured and culturally bound. It shows that the location of the statue and its features such as its gaze and torso can be better understood with reference to the political and cultural significance of Lee’s legacies, thereby enhancing our understanding of the social semiotic nature of statues as a means of commemoration- and a significant part of our cultural heritage.
Umwelt, enchantment, and McDonaldization
Authors: Creighton Andrew Mark 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
The enchantment and re-enchantment of formal rationalized systems has been an important study in sociology and the social sciences since its first discussion by Max Weber. However, it has received relatively little attention in animal studies, ecology, or environmental studies. This article attempts to fill this gap in the research by focusing on a multiscale perspective that considers the relationship between nonhuman animal umwelt and human perception within the confines of enchantment, re-enchantment, and McDonaldized systems. This is done through a theoretical synthesis of George Ritzer’s work on rationalization, spectacles, extravaganzas, and simulations with Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of umwelt, and zoosemiotic and ecosemiotic perspectives on multispecies environments. It is concluded that enchantment and re-enchantment make use of nonhuman animals and environments to enchant formal rationalized systems, which consequently presents and uses nonhuman animals in situations injurious to their umwelt, while also making use of affect, intersubjectivity, and simulations to influence human perspectives.
Products of Toeplitz operators with angular symbols
Authors: Alshormani Farouq S. , Guediri Hocine 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
We study products of Toeplitz operators with angular symbols on the Bergman space over the upper half-plane. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the product of two such Toeplitz operators to give rise to a Toeplitz operator, especially in case one of the symbols is absolutely continuous or with bounded variation. Our conditions make appeal to Volterra and Fredholm integral equations, and to Duhamel–Mikusiński convolution products as well as to functional equations involving Stieltjes integrals. We illustrate our results by concrete examples showing that there are many angular symbols satisfying our natural conditions and ensuring Toeplitzness of such Toeplitz products.
Effect of stacking sequence on mechanical, water absorption, and biodegradable properties of novel hybrid composites for structural applications
Authors: Manickam Tamilselvan , Iyyadurai Jenish , Jaganathan Maniraj , Babuchellam Ashokkumar , Mayakrishnan Muthukrishnan , Arockiasamy Felix Sahayaraj 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
This study used a hand layup process to create tri-layer hybrid composites composed of snake grass fiber (SGF) and jute fiber (JF). Two types of hybrid composites were investigated: jute/snake grass/jute (J/S/J) and snake grass/jute/snake grass (S/J/S). The fabricated composites were subjected to mechanical characterization and water absorption studies to verify their compatibility for various applications. The outcome revealed that the J/S/J hybrid sample shows the highest tensile and flexural strength at 68.46 and 78.62 MPa, respectively. This is due to stacking the maximum-strength JF as an exterior layer in the hybrid J/S/J sample. Meanwhile, the S/J/S composite shows a very high impact strength value of 4.45 kJ/mm2 due to the placement of SGF at the outermost layer. It leads to absorbing more impact energy at sudden load applications. Water absorption studies revealed that the S/J/S composite absorbed more moisture than the J/S/J composite. Furthermore, the S/J/S composite exhibited greater biodegradability than the J/S/J composite based on soil burial experiments. From this study, it can be concluded that the J/S/J composite is suitable for structural applications because it has higher tensile and flexural qualities. In contrast, the S/J/S composite can be employed under damping conditions because it has better impact strength.
On the continuity properties of the Lp
balls
Authors: Huseyin Nesir , Huseyin Anar 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
In this paper the right upper semicontinuity at

p
=
1

{p=1}

and continuity at

p
=
∞

{p=\infty}

of the set-valued map

p
→

B

Ω
,
𝒳
,
p

⁢

(
r
)

{p\rightarrow B_{\Omega,\mathcal{X},p}(r)}

,

p
∈

[
1
,
∞
]

{p\in[1,\infty]}

, are studied where

B

Ω
,
𝒳
,
p

⁢

(
r
)

{B_{\Omega,\mathcal{X},p}(r)}

is the closed ball of the space

L
p

⁢

(
Ω
,
Σ
,
μ
;
𝒳
)

{L_{p}(\Omega,\Sigma,\mu;\mathcal{X})}

centered at the origin with radius r,

(
Ω
,
Σ
,
μ
)

{(\Omega,\Sigma,\mu)}

is a finite and positive measure space,

𝒳

{\mathcal{X}}

is a separable Banach space. It is proved that the considered set-valued map is right upper semicontinuous at

p
=
1

{p=1}

and continuous at

p
=
∞

{p=\infty}

. An application of the obtained results to the set of integrable outputs of the input-output system described by the Urysohn-type integral operator is discussed.
Marital status and its correlation with age, race, and gender in prognosis of tonsil squamous cell carcinomas
Authors: Li Yujiao , Hu Chaosu 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of marital status on tonsil squamous cell carcinomas (TSCCs) prognosis and to analyze whether the impact is correlated with gender, age, and race. We examined the clinicopathological variables using Chi-squared tests and evaluated the association between survival and different variables using the methods of Kaplan–Meier. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to determine the effects of each variable on survival. A total of 10,720 patients were analyzed. The rate of being married was higher among Asian or Caucasian, and this rate decreased with higher tumor stage. While both married male and female survivors benefit from their marital status, we found a differential in cancer-specific survival based on gender, with males benefitting more than females (p < 0.05). The same results were found in overall survival. Subgroup analysis shows that the protective effect of marriage was consistent in all patients except for N3 groups (all, p < 0.05). While there are survival benefits for married patients with TSCCs, married/partnered males may benefit more than females. Age, race, and gender could affect the correlation between marital status and survival.
Biogenic synthesis of palladium nanoparticles: New production methods and applications
Authors: Law Cindy Ka Y. , Bonin Luiza , De Gusseme Bart , Boon Nico , Kundu Kankana 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe palladium (Pd)-catalysed reaction has attracted much attention, making Pd the most valuable of the four major precious metals. Several different forms of Pd can be used as a catalyst; nanoparticles (NPs) have the advantage of a high surface area:volume ratio. Since the chemical production of Pd NPs is not environmentally friendly, biological synthesis interest has grown. However, the production mechanism remained unknown in several cases and was recently described for the electroactive bacteriumShewanella oneidensisMR-1. The application of these green synthesised NPs was established in different fields. This review discusses the production pathway and the novel biological-inspired methods to produce tailored biogenic palladium nanoparticles (bio-Pd NPs), with their broad application fields as biogenic nanocatalysts. Two significant applications – reductive bioremediation of persistent organic contaminants and energy-producing microbial fuel cells – are discussed in detail. The current challenges in optimising bio-Pd NPs production and the potential research directions for the complete utilisation of its novel catalytic properties are highlighted.
Reason, Its Real Use, and the Status of Its Ideas and Principles: Response to Caimi, Gava, and Lewin
Authors: Willaschek Marcus 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
In this contribution, I respond to articles published in a Topical Issue of Open Philosophy on Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic by Mario Caimi, Gabriele Gava, and Michael Lewin, who criticize some of the views I put forward in my book Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2018). In particular, I discuss the “real use” of reason (in response to Caimi), the “regulative use” of principles and ideas of reason (in response to Gava), and Kant’s conception of reason (in response to Lewin).
L’intimocide: de la violence de masse à celle des camarades
Authors: Bonéva Ralitza 
Published: November 2022

Résumé
Le terme d’intimocide nous permet d’interroger une autre dimension, à côté de celles de génocide et d’ethnocide, de la violence infligée à des êtres humains. Atteinte violente à l’intimité, l’intimocide est une étape de l’extension du domaine de la mise à mort, il vise le dernier rempart du sens d’une existence, la détruire dans son for intérieur. Phénomène politique, lié au gouvernement d’une société et aux aspirations que ce gouvernement manifeste vis-à-vis de l’individu, l’intimocide est une stratégie de domination totale. Notre étude, au croisement des approches sémiotique et anthropologique, a pour but de différencier le terme d’intimocide des termes limitrophes, tout en cernant ses aspects, repérés dans des ouvrages de référence ainsi que dans notre propre observation participante du régime totalitaire communiste et du régime post-communiste.
Typologie des implicites ethnosocioculturels en discours
Authors: Kiki Abdulrahman 
Published: November 2022

Résumé
Cet article présente la notion d’implicite ethnosocioculturel et dresse, avec de nombreux exemples, une typologie des implicites ethnosocioculturels en discours à partir d’un corpus constitué des médiacultures. Onze formes d’implicites ethnosocioculturels ont été détectées dans différents types de discours. Ces formes permettent de distinguer les implicites pragmatiques, logiques et interpersonnels des implicites ethnosocioculturels qui, ces derniers, relèvent désormais d’une sémiotique patrimoniale. Le résultat de cette étude peut aider à combler certains déficits constatés dans la formation des traducteurs-interprètes en matière de bagage cognitif du sujet-interprétant.
Increasing Compressive Strength of The Red Brick with Fly Ash and Rice Husk Ash
Authors: Candra Agata Iwan , Romadhon Fajar , Azhari Faiz Muhammad , Hidiyati Evita Fitrianis 
Published: November 2022

Abstract. Red brick is a building material widely used in Indonesia as a non-structural separator wall of a building. Soil is the main material in the production of red bricks. The soil used for the main material of red brick is sandy clay soil. The advantage of red brick is that it is resistant to hot weather or fire because it has undergone the combustion process. However, new innovations are necessary for the red brick manufacturing process due to the reduced soil. The innovation carried out in this study was adding the main material with fly ash and rice husk ash. The purpose of this study was to obtain red brick mixture fly ash and rice husks with increased compressive strength than normal red bricks. The research method used is an experimental method with the addition of fly ash and rice husk ash by 4%, 8%, and 12% of the soil weight. The results obtained from this study are red bricks with fly ash and rice husk ash produced the highest value in the fly ash mixture of 12% (in sample D2) content of 75.07 Kgf / cm² so as to improve the quality of conventional red bricks.