bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effect of Educational Intervention On Nursing Care in Patients Diagnosed with Thalassemia Major
Authors: Tabussam Sumaira , Afzal Muhammad , Sarwar Hajra , Khan Sadia 
Published: December 2022

Pakistan have highest burden of thalassemia major patients. These patients have life expectancy of ten years in Pakistan which is very low as compare to other countries. High-quality nursing care and management of thalassemia major Patients is essential. Objectives: To evaluates the understanding of nursing care quality among patients of thalassemia major which frequently have an effect on the patient's mental and physical health harmfully. Methods: Quasi experimental study was conducted in Mayo Hospital Lahore. The study population was those nurses who were working in thalassemia care units. 30 nurses have been taken by using purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by using an adopted tool to assess the nurse’s knowledge and their practices about care of thalassemia major patients. Results: Most of the nurses included in the study had a general nursing diploma 29(76.67%). The average experience of nurses was 6.04±3.57 years, and 97.7% of nurses did not receive any training on thalassemia care. Total post knowledge was 49.37±7.686 and total practices score was 61.13±11.672. These findings revealed that continue educational program for nurses improve these variables. Conclusions: The present study depicted that majority of nurses have not received any training about nursing care of thalassemia major patients. So, teaching program had a good impact on nurse's understanding of thalassemia, as well as their practice.
Relationship Between Serum Osteocalcin Levels and Glycosylated Hemoglobin in Type II Diabetes Patients
Authors: Mufti Maria , Khaliq Nida , Munir Mehtab , Khattak Almas , Mufti Arsalan , Ansari Fakeha , Hassan Bilqis , Ansar Farrukh 
Published: December 2022

Diabetic osteopathy is a complication of diabetes that elevates the risk of bone fractures and influences bone remodeling. Osteocalcin is a bone protein produced by osteoblasts that plays a role in the regulation of glucose and energy metabolism. Objectives: To explore the relationship between the level of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and osteocalcin in diabetic patients. Methods: This cross-sectional analytical study was carried out at Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar from January 2017 to February 2018. A total of 100 patients suffering from Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) were recruited. HbA1c and osteocalcin levels were measured by the enzymatic method and electrochemiluminescence immunoassay, respectively. SPSS was utilized for data entry and analysis; Pearson’s correlation was performed to assess the relationship between variables while statistical significance was accepted at p < 0.05. Results: The mean (SD) age of participants was 50 (9.2), while 58% of the study population was female. The mean (SD) HbA1c and osteocalcin levels were 11.3 (8.8) and 13.1 (6.8), respectively. The results of the correlation analysis yielded a negative relationship between HbA1c and osteocalcin levels (r =-0.099), but the results were statistically non-significant (p-value =0.328). Conclusion: Our study suggested that osteocalcin level has a negative correlation with HbA1c level in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients
Ultrasound Guided Hydrostatic Versus Open Reduction in Intussusception
Authors: Hameed Soban , Haider Naveed , Rehman Wajeeh Ur , Hashim Imran , Ahmed Armaghan , Shahbaz Ferheen , Saleem Muhammad 
Published: December 2022

The surgical and nonsurgical technique has been utilized to manage intussusception. Surgical management of intussusceptions involves open laparotomy along with manual reduction. The non-surgical technique, Ultrasound-guided hydrostatic reduction (USGHR) is a renowned alternative technique for intussusception reduction. Objective: To compare the ultrasound-guided hydrostatic reduction versus open reduction for the management of intussusception in terms of successful reduction, recurrence, and hospital stay. Methods: It was a randomized controlled trial in which 158 cases were admitted through the Emergency Department of Pediatric Surgery of The Children’s Hospital Lahore, from August 2018 to August 2019. These patients were divided into 2 groups (79 in each group), Group A (ultrasound-guided hydrostatic reduction) and group B (open reduction). Data were collected through a questionnaire, which was entered into the computer using SPSS version 24.0. Results: Among 79 patients treated in-group A, 54.4% were up to 12 months old, and 67.1% males, in this group the hospital stay for 74.7% was 1-2 days and 74.7% had a successful reduction. In group B; patients treated in group B, 77.2% were up to 12 months old, and 72.2% were males. The hospital stay for 59.5% of patients was 5-7 days, and 83.5% had a successful reduction of intussusceptions. The recurrence was only in group B (3.8%) after the reduction of intussusceptions. Conclusion: The study concluded that ultrasound-guided hydrostatic is effective in terms of successful reduction, recurrence and hospital stay and should be preferred among children due to its safety and effectiveness.
Open Versus Laparoscopic Appendicectomy in Pediatric Patients; A Comparative Study in A Single Center
Authors: Rehman Hayat Ur , Naeem Tahir , Bugti Quratulain , Shah Vaqar-E-Sahar , Fayaz Muhammad , Rashid Muhammad 
Published: December 2022

Appendicitis is the commonest surgical emergency in paeadtric patients. Appendicectomy is still being performed by both open and laparoscopic methods. The first laparoscopic appendicectomy was performed in 1983. Objective: To compare the outcome of open appendectomies with laparoscopic appendectomies in pediatric patients was the objective of this study. Methods: Two hundred pediatric patients of both genders with acute appendicitis were enrolled from emergency department of Pediatric Surgery, Qazi Hussain Ahmad medical complex, Nowshehra, from March 2020- December 2020. In this convenient study patients were dividing into two groups. Group A patients received open appendectomy and Group B received laparoscopic appendectomy. Outcome of both procedures were noted and compared between groups by chi square test. Results: Mean ages of patients were 10.11±2.67 and 10.01±2.31 years (p=0.796) in group A and B, respectively. There were 63.0% and 69.0% males 1) in group A and B, respectively. Mean operative time, mean hospital stay and mean VAS were26.19±8.14 vs. 36.79±11.41 min.,2.01±0.61 vs. 1.03±0.01 days and 3.67±1.41 and 6.07±2.01 (p=0.000) in group A and B, respectively. Complications were hemorrhage (0.0% vs. 0.0%; p=1.0), Iatrogenic injury (0.0% vs. 0.0%; p=1.0) and Pelvic collection (3.0% vs. 0.05; p=1.0), SSI (6.0% vs. 0.0%; p=0.00) in group A and B, respectively. None of the pediatric patients after laparoscopic appendectomy required another exploration to deal with complications however, 3.0% patients needed exploration in open appendectomy. No mortality (0.0%) was observed in any group. Conclusions: laparoscopic appendectomies in pediatric patients is safe and feasible as compared to open appendectomy
A Study On The Centrality Measures To Determine Social Media Influencers Of Food-Beverage Products In Twitter
Authors: Tan Wai Beng 
Published: December 2022

In these recent years, many people have been influenced by stars, celebrities, and influencers of social media platforms in promoting their online products. Many celebrities who have many followers would start to promote certain products, especially food and beverage to all their audiences, fans and followers. The influenced audiences, fans and followers have to share and show with their close friends and family members to gain more popularity among other audiences. Celebrities have played a significant role in corporate brands as they manage to promote the brand products and also attracted many people who are interested in purchasing the products. Therefore, the group of celebrities can be called social media influencers (SMI).
The previous study has reported that food products are top interest for Gen Z and millennials (Hanifawati, Dewanti, & Saputri, 2019). Many of Gen Z prefer to spend their money to buy food and beverage (Cheung, Davis, & Heukaeufer, 2017). Pricing strategy and providing variety are effective approaches for food and beverage. Gen Z has higher engagement with brands on social media compared to millennials. Either Gen Z or millennials are generally used multichannel to engage with the brands (Hanifawati et al., 2019).
In social network analysis (SNA), a node value influential a network called centrality. Centrality is defined as a value that represents how many connections are from nodes to other nodes (Wasserman & Faust, 1994). There are many methods to define centrality to identify the effect of each node in a social network such as Degree Centrality (DC), Betweenness Centrality (BC), Closeness Centrality (CC), and Eigenvector Centrality (EC). Among these, the eigenvector centrality will give the most influential node in a network. A node with the highest eigenvector value among the other nodes is the most influential/important node in a network.
Data was collected from Twitter using the Twitter API with the hashtag #pizzzahut. The goal of this research is to identify the main influencer in the Twitter community. It applied the eigenvector centrality to observe the effect of the centrality value for Twitter data. The result shows that there is a significant difference among the 3 most influential users. This result will be used for future research that will be focused on small and medium enterprise (SME) Twitter data.
This research is held a comparison analysis between the 4 centrality measurements approach for determining the most influential user with social network Twitter as its case study.
Effect of Shading on Interspecific Competition Between Aegilops tauschii and Triticum aestivum
Authors: Wang Ning , Yuan Mei-li , Wang Lei 
Published: December 2022

Abstract

Aegilops tauschii
is a competitive invasive weed typically found in winter wheat fields. In this study, using the replacement series experiments designed by de Wit, the effects of different shading treatments on the morphological structure, physiological characteristics, and competitiveness of the invasive plant
A. tauschii
were comparatively analyzed with the aim of providing knowledge for the ecological control of this weed in wheat fields. The results showed that in terms of morphological characteristics, shading caused an increase in plant height, leaf area, and specific leaf area (SLA); and a decrease in the root-to-crown ratio (R/C) of both
A. tauschii
and wheat plants. With regard to physiological characteristics, both
A. tauschii
and wheat plants adapted to the low-light environment by increasing the chlorophyll content, with an increase of chlorophyll
b
in particular. It could be concluded from the changes in superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) content that the low-intensity shading treatment significantly improved the stress resistance of
A. tauschii
, thus ensuring the continuation of its normal photosynthesis. In addition, the plasticity index average value of eight morphological indicators of
A. tauschii
(e.g., plant height and leaf area) was 0.18, which was greater than that of wheat (0.17). Similarly, the plasticity index average value of four physiological indicators of
A. tauschii
(e.g., chlorophyll content and SOD activity) was 0.46, which was also higher than that of wheat (0.37). Finally, the competitive balance (CB) value of
A. tauschii
showed that its competitiveness under low light conditions was still greater than wheat, but gradually diminished with increasing shading rate. In short,
A. tauschii
displays a certain adaptability to low light environments, but shading treatment may also significantly reduce its competitive inhibition of wheat.
Importancia de la tecnología en la educación a raíz del Covid-19 en los centros educativos de las zonas rurales del Ecuador.
Authors: García Álava Deysi Gabriela , Cifuentes Martínez Lucila Flor Alva , Ordoñez Meza Betty Geomara , León Cedeño Tatiana Jazmín , Vargas Holguín Tereza Beatriz 
Published: December 2022

La tecnología educativa ha jugado un papel muy importante durante la pandemia por la Covid-19, brindando nuevas herramientas para el aprendizaje y asegurando el éxito académico, la era digital ha revolucionado cada aspecto de nuestra vida cotidiana y la educación no es la excepción, es por ello que el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la importancia de la tecnología en la educación a raíz del Covid-19 en los centros educativos de las zonas rurales del Ecuador. Para ello se desarrolló una revisión sistemática de tipo descriptivo de artículos originales en idioma español e ingles en el periodo de 2017-2022, aplicando un diseño documental, se trazó una estrategia de búsqueda con descriptores y criterios de inclusión y exclusión para cribar y seleccionar los estudios más relevantes. Con la recopilación de investigaciones se obtuvo como resultado que la herramienta más utilizada por las instituciones rurales son los aplicativo de Whatsapp, seguido por Zoom y Microsoft Teams, donde su promedio general es del 91% para los medios digitales y respecto a los medios físicos un 9% que lo clasifican como fichas pedagógicas. Como conclusión se detalla que la tecnología a raíz del Coid-19 en la educación produjo cambios pedagógicos, donde las zonas rurales tuvieron que adaptarse a esta nueva enseñanza tecnológica y asegurar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes.
ROLE OF AMINO ACIDS IN IMPROVING GROWTH, YIELD AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF SOME EGYPTIAN CLOVER CULTIVARS
Authors: BADAWY A. S. M. , EL-NAHRAWY SHEREEN, M. A. , EL-MANTAWY RANIA, F. 
Published: December 2022

The lack of green forage of good quality is considered the main constraints that contribute to the lack of livestock development. An experiment was performed at Sakha Agricultural Research Station Farm, Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, to study the role of spraying commercial amino acids (g-plus) and pure tryptophan on forage yield and chemical composition of three Egyptian clover cultivars during the two successive winter seasons 2019/2020 and 2020/2021.
The experiment was laid out in a strip-plot design with three replications. The main plots were occupied by amino acids treatments i.e. spray with water (control), spray with g-plus (5cm/l water) and spray with tryptophan at two concentration (200 and 400 mg/l). While sub-plots contained three cultivars of berseem; Helaly, Serw1 and Giza 6. The results showed that, the maximum total fresh forage yield, total dry forage yield, average of plant height, number of stem per 0.25 m2, fresh leaf/stem percent and dry leaf/stem percent were obtained for variety Helaly spraying by amino acid g-plus (5cm/l water). Also, the obtained results showed that, foliar spraying of amino acids caused significant increase of most physiological characters in comparison to the control. The highest values of chlorophyll content, relative water content (RWC %), protein % and NPK% were obtained with spraying g-plus. Concerning, the cultivars effects showed a wide range of variation in their productivity where, Helaly was the highest values of the most physiological parameters as well as yield and yield components. The interaction effects of foliar spraying of amino acids and cultivars showed that, Helaly treated with g-plus (5cm/l) gave the highest values of growth and physiological parameters.
From Editor-in-Chief’s Keyboard (November-2022)
Authors: Sentosa Ilham 
Published: December 2022

From Editor-in-Chief’s Keyboard
Malaysia finally expected to end the political crisis since year 2020. The 19 November general election in Malaysia and the accompanying swearing-in of a new prime minister represent a further country's political establishment and portend future political stability. As a result of the renewed optimism, the country is once again on the rise.
The November issue emphasises issues related to smart city management. City planners and authorities are being pushed by increasing urbanisation rates and the numerous issues they bring to adopt smart systems. Article by Gunawan (page 1-19) identify the integrity model for data population in city. By constructing a model of the integrity of the use of population data, it is very easy to trace the misuse of population data through digital traces. To reinforce the implementation of the integrity model for the use of population data, the competency of human resources participating in each series of processes or phases of the model's construction must be enhanced. This competency development contains soft skill-related content. In addition, there are a number of articles (written by Chen Zhongcao, Li Bing, and Wang Zhipeng) that cover mobile applications for businesses while emphasising the need for technology and innovation for good municipal management. Therefore, better urban management may boost output, cut expenses, and stimulate the economy.
Let's relax and enjoy ourselves by reading the current issue. My teammates and I are hard at work on some topical and interesting pieces for the upcoming issue of the journal.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilham Sentosa
Editor-in-Chiefeditor@dreamjournal.my
PENGARUH PENDIDIKAN, PENGALAMAN KERJA DAN KOMITMEN ORGANISASI TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN PT RAJAWALI NUSINDO MATARAM
Authors: Robbiantara Wija , Irianto Irianto , Bairizki Ahmad 
Published: December 2022

This study aims to determine the effect of education, work experience and organizational commitment on employee performance at PT Rajawali Nusindo Mataram. The population of this study were employees at PT Rajawali Nusindo Mataram, the data of this study were obtained by interviews, observations, and questionnaires. This research is associative type by using classical assumption test and multiple linear regression analysis. Based on the t test, it shows that the education variable has a partially insignificant effect on the performance variable, with a value of (-2,680) <1.703. The work experience variable has a partially significant effect on the performance variable, with a value of 4.632>1.703. Meanwhile, the organizational commitment variable has a partially significant effect on the performance variable, with a value of 3.096>1.703. Based on the F test, it shows that the variables of education, work experience and organizational commitment have a significant effect simultaneously on employee performance variables, with a value of 18.491 > 2.96. Based on the beta test, it shows that the work experience variable has the highest value of 0.543 compared to the variable education and organizational commitment
Determinan Kualitas Laporan Keuangan Kota Palembang
Authors: Rahayuningsih Sri , Maria Maria , Amri Darul 
Published: December 2022

This study is intended to determine the contribution of the Internal Control System (SPI), Regional Financial Accounting System (SAKD), and the use of information technology (TI) to the quality of financial reports in the Palembang city government. The study was conducted at the Regional Financial and Asset Management Agency (BPKAD) of Palembang city as a reporting entity involving 65 employees as respondents. Respondents consisted of employees in the field of accounting, regional maintenance, asset management and regional budget fields. Sampling using saturated samples. The findings show that the quality of financial reporting is influenced by the application of SPI, SAKD, and IT by 93.9%. These three factors also have an impact on the reliability of financial statements.

Keywords: SPI , SAKD, information technology, Financial Statements
Reviews and notices
Authors: Löfgren Hans , Kanneh Kadiatu , DeCaires Narain Denise , Modiano Marko , Mobärg Mats , Korlén Gustav , Andersson Bo , Holzner Johann , Robinson Donna , Bernhardt Rüdiger , Kirsch Frank-Michael 
Published: December 2022

Includes the following reviews:
pp. 210-211. Hans Löfgren. Oates, J.C. (ed.), The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. + Ford, R. (ed.), The Granta Book of American Short Story.
pp. 212-213. Kadiatu Kanneh. Bail, M. (ed.), The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories.
pp. 213-214. Denise deCaires Narain. Morris, M. (ed.), The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories.
pp. 214-215. Marko Modiano. Baron, D., The English-Only Question: An Official Language fro Americans?
pp. 215-218. Mats Mobärg. Tuck, A. (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of Business English for Learners of English.
pp. 218-221. Gustav Korlén. Kluge, F., Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (22.Aufl.).
pp. 221-223. Bo Andersson. Schönau, W., Einführung in die psycoanalytische Literaturwissenschaft.
pp. 223-224. Johann Holzner. Rossbacher, K., Literatur und Liberalismus. Zur Kultur der Ringstaßenzeit in Wien.
pp. 224-225. Donna Robinson. Dinesen, R., Nelly Sachs: Eine Biographie.
pp. 226-228. Rüdiger Bernhardt. Kutsch, A. (Hrsg.), Zehn neue Gedichte deutschsprachiger Autor(inn)en. + Materni, U., Moschner, K. & Regber, H. (Hrsg.), "Land, ich fasse deine Nähe nicht..." Gedanken zu Deutschland.
pp. 228-231. Frank-Michael Kirsch. Maaz, H-J., Die Entrüstung. Deutschland, Deutscland. Stasi, Schuld und Sündenbock.
p. 232. Redaktionsmeddelande/A Message from the Editors.
Umberto Eco - författare, semiolog, tänkare
Authors: Ekblad Sven 
Published: December 2022

A summary: In this article Sven Ekblad gives a portrait of the eminent Italian weiter, semiotician and thinker Umberto Eco. He approaches his subject from three different angles. Firstly, it describes Eco's academic career: his undergraduate studies at the University of Turin, his appointment to the chair of Semiotics at the University of Bologna in 1975, a post he still holds today, and his international success as a lecturer. A general discussion of semiotics is exemplified by his fiction and his academic work. Secondly, the article deals with Eco's role as a cultural commentator, on TV and in journals and newspapers, on a wide range of popular and intellectual subjects. Thirdly Ekblad focuses on Eco as a writer of books on aesthetics, semiotics, literary criticism, pedagogics and essay writing, as an author of children's books and, in particular, as a writer of novels whose reputation has spread all over the world. The best known title, The Name of the Rose, has been translated into 25 different languages. Finally, an effort is made to characterize Umberto Eco the man, his likes and dislikes, his life as an academic, his favorite thinkers, his fascination with opposites and his agnostic view of the world.