bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Elective and Emergency Deep Brain Stimulation in Refractory Pediatric Monogenetic Movement Disorders Presenting with Dystonia: Current Practice Illustrated by Two Cases
Authors: Garofalo M. , Beudel M. , Dijk J.M. , Bonouvrié L.A. , Buizer A.I. , Geytenbeek J. , Prins R.H.N. , Schuurman P.R. , van de Pol L.A. 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Background Dystonia is characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions, leading to abnormal posturing and twisting movements. In pediatric patients, dystonia often negatively influences quality of life. Pharmacological treatment for dystonia is often inadequate and causes adverse effects. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) appears to be a valid therapeutic option for pharmacoresistant dystonia in children.
Methods To illustrate the current clinical practice, we hereby describe two pediatric cases of monogenetic movement disorders presenting with dystonia and treated with DBS. We provide a literature review of similar previously described cases and on different clinical aspects of DBS in pediatric dystonia.
Results The first patient, a 6-year-old girl with severe dystonia, chorea, and myoclonus due to an ADCY5 gene mutation, received DBS in an elective setting. The second patient, an 8-year-old boy with GNAO1-related dystonia and chorea, underwent emergency DBS due to a pharmacoresistant status dystonicus. A significant amelioration of motor symptoms (65% on the Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale) was observed postoperatively in the first patient and her personal therapeutic goals were achieved. DBS was previously reported in five patients with ADCY5-related movement disorders, of which three showed objective improvement. Emergency DBS in our second patient resulted in the successful termination of his GNAO1-related status dystonicus, this being the eighth case reported in the literature.
Conclusion DBS can be effective in monogenetic pediatric dystonia and should be considered early in the disease course. To better evaluate the effects of DBS on patients' functioning, patient-centered therapeutic goals should be discussed in a multidisciplinary approach.
Abnormal Spontaneous Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Fluctuations in Children with Focal Cortical Dysplasias: Initial Findings in Surgically Confirmed Cases
Authors: Dangouloff-Ros Volodia , Jansen Jacobus F.A. , de Jong Joost , Postma Alida A. , Hoeberigs Christianne , Fillon Ludovic , Boisgontier Jennifer , Roux Charles-Joris , Levy Raphael , Varlet Pascale , Blauwblomme Thomas , Eisermann Monika , Losito Emma , Bourgeois Marie , Chiron Catherine , Nabbout Rima , Boddaert Nathalie , Backes Walter 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Background Focal cortical dysplasias (FCD) are a frequent cause of drug-resistant epilepsy in children but are often undetected on structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We aimed to measure and validate the variation of resting state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) metrics in surgically proven FCDs in children, to assess the potential yield for detecting and understanding these lesions.
Methods We prospectively included pediatric patients with surgically proven FCD with inconclusive structural MRI and healthy controls, who underwent a ten-minute rs-fMRI acquired at 3T. Rs-fMRI data was pre-processed and maps of values of regional homogeneity (ReHo), degree centrality (DC), amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF) and fractional ALFF (fALFF) were calculated. The variations of BOLD metrics within the to-be-resected areas were analyzed visually, and quantitatively using lateralization indices. BOLD metrics variations were also analyzed in fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) hypometabolic areas.
Results We included 7 patients (range: 3–15 years) and 6 aged-matched controls (range: 6–17 years). ReHo lateralization indices were positive in the to-be-resected areas in 4/7 patients, and in 6/7 patients in the additional PET hypometabolic areas. These indices were significantly higher compared to controls in 3/7 and 4/7 patients, respectively. Visual analysis revealed a good spatial correlation between high ReHo areas and MRI structural abnormalities (when present) or PET hypometabolic areas. No consistent variation was seen using DC, ALFF, or fALFF.
Conclusion Resting-state fMRI metrics, noticeably increase in ReHo, may have potential to help detect MRI-negative FCDs in combination with other morphological and functional techniques, used in clinical practice and epilepsy-surgery screening.
Uncatalyzed Carbometallation Involving Group 13 Elements: Carboboration and Carboalumination of Alkenes and Alkynes
Authors: Woerpel K. A. , Liu Yudong 
Published: October 2022

AbstractCarbometallations of alkenes and alkynes are powerful carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions. The use of compounds containing bonds between carbon and group 13 elements, particularly boron and aluminum, are particularly attractive because of the versatility of subsequent transformations. Uncatalyzed carboboration and carboalumination represent less common classes of reactions. This Short Review discusses uncatalyzed carboboration and carboalumination reactions of alkenes and alkynes, including the reaction design and mechanisms.1	Introduction2	Uncatalyzed Carboboration of Alkenes3	Uncatalyzed Carboboration of Alkynes4	Uncatalyzed Carboalumination of Alkenes5	Uncatalyzed Carboalumination of Alkynes6	Conclusion
Tackling barriers to collective action for effective vaccination campaigns: rabies in rural Africa as an example
Authors: Lim Putthi Cheat , Lembo Tiziana , Hampson Katie , Changalucha Joel , Sambo Maganga , Ghosal Sayantan 
Published: October 2022

AbstractVaccine-based protection in populations that are vulnerable to infectious diseases represents a public good, whose successful attainment requires collective action. We investigated participation in mass domestic dog vaccination against dog-mediated human rabies endemic in Tanzania as a prototypical example of these issues. We employed advertising interventions, text messaging and/or engagement through community leaders, as well as operational adjustments to increase the saliency of rabies risks and reduce barriers to participation in vaccination campaigns. Neither advertising strategies were effective on their own, however, when taken together, the two advertising strategies substantially improved vaccination coverage. Operational interventions, such as increasing vaccination stations and extending time windows of delivery, greatly enhanced participation. Our experimental and theoretical findings highlight the importance of both salience and context: sparking successful collective action requires decision-making bodies to understand and respond to the challenges encountered by intended beneficiaries in their local contexts.
Productive effects of public spending, spillovers, and optimal matching grant rates
Authors: Ohsawa Toshikazu , Yang Tong 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThis study uses the model in which a central government gives a subsidy to the jurisdictions, and analyzes the optimal matching grant rate for local public spending that has characteristics of both public goods and public inputs. If the expenditures are public inputs, they raise the productivity of the jurisdiction which provides them. Their spillover effects to other regions are assumed to influence consumption and/or production. Contrary to this approach, traditional analyses of matching grants for public spending have only focused on public goods and consumption spillover. By considering these factors, this study obtains some intriguing results. The productive effect of public inputs on the optimal matching grant rate depends on whether the degree of the production spillover is higher than that of the consumption spillover.
Do Dog Behavioral Characteristics Predict the Quality of the Relationship between Dogs and Their Owners?
Authors: Hoffman Christy L. , Chen Pan , Serpell James A. , Jacobson Kristen C. 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
This paper explores whether dog behavioral characteristics predict the quality of the relationship between dogs and their owners (i.e., owner attachment to dog), and whether relations between dog behavior and owner attachment are moderated by demographic characteristics. In this study, N = 92 children and N = 60 adults from 60 dog-owning families completed questionnaires about their attachment to their pet dog, their level of responsibility for that dog, and their general attitudes toward pets. They also rated their dogs on observable behavioral characteristics. Individuals who held positive attitudes about pets and who provided much of their dog’s care reported stronger attachments to their dogs. The strength of owners’ attachments to their dogs was associated with dog trainability and separation problems. Relationships between owner attachment and both dog excitability and attention-seeking behavior were further moderated by demographic characteristics: for Caucasians but not for non-Caucasians, dog excitability was negatively associated with owner attachment to dog; and for adults, dog attention-seeking behavior was positively associated with owner attachment, but children tended to be highly attached to their dogs, regardless of their dogs’ attention-seeking behaviors. This study demonstrates that certain dog behavioral traits are indeed associated with the strength of owners’ attachments to their dogs.
Experimental Trial Demonstrates Positive Effects of Equine Facilitated Learning on Child Social Competence
Authors: Pendry Patricia , Roeter Stephanie 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Although equine facilitated programs have gained in popularity over the last decade, virtually nothing is known about the causal effects of equine facilitated interventions on human development and wellbeing. To address this gap in the literature, researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine if an 11-week equine facilitated learning program enhanced 5th-8th grade children’s social competence. Children were recruited for program participation through referral by school counselors and recruitment in schools and community agencies. Researchers then randomly assigned 64 physically and mentally able children to an experimental group or waitlisted control group. Children in the experimental group participated in an 11-week equine facilitated learning program designed to increase social competence through a series of once-weekly, 90-minute sessions of individual, team, and group-focused equine facilitated activities, whereas children in the control group did not until 16 weeks later. Parents of children in both groups provided ratings of child social competence at the beginning and again at the end of the 11-week program. Results indicated significant group differences in mean levels of child social competence at posttest (p = .020), suggesting a moderate positive effect of program participation (d = .61). Waitlisted children in the control group who completed the program at a later date demonstrated significantly higher posttest levels of social competence after program completion (p = .000), compared to their own pretest scores. Using a lagged dependent variable approach, program effects were robust (p = .026) when simultaneously considering children’s pretest levels of social competence, age, gender, and referral status.
Acculturation - Perceptions of breed differences in behavior of the dog (Canis familiaris)
Authors: Clarke Tracey , Cooper Jonathan , Mills Daniel 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThis study borrows the concept ofacculturationfrom Social Anthropology to explore human perception of breed behavior in domestic dogs. A core component of acculturation studies is thecontact hypothesis.This concept proposes that once culturally diverse individuals come into contact with each other and are able to develop an understanding of their differing cultures, prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination should be reduced resulting in more positive interactions in the future. Accordingly it is hypothesized that people with more limited contact with dogs will be more likely to accept breed stereotypes and less likely to recognize the significance of individual variation within breeds. Items within a survey were developed to investigate if personal perception of breed-typical behavior is associated with the informant’s experience with dogs. This was tested with reference to response to three statements premised on somatotyping assumptions (the tendency to link behavior with certain types of physical characteristic). The results were consistent with the prediction that level and quality of contact are major influences on the tendency to believe popular breed stereotypes, despite scientific evidence which challenges the justification for such generalizations. These results are of scientific, ethical, and practical significance since they suggest breed stereotyping in dogs is a similar phenomenon to the racial stereotyping of people.
Equine-Assisted Activities for Adolescents: Ethogram-based behavioral analysis of persistence during horse-related tasks and communication patterns with the horse
Authors: Hauge Hilde , Kvalem Ingela L. , Pedersen Ingeborg , Braastad Bjarne O. 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Earlier studies have indicated that learning to handle a horse through tasks and activities can lead to a feeling of mastery which may have an impact on self-efficacy. The aim of this study was to examine how adolescents conducted horse-related tasks presented to them in an intervention in a farm environment, and whether there was a change during the intervention in persistence on tasks with the horse. Furthermore, we wanted to examine the behavior of the adolescents towards the horse and the response from the horse. Each participant was given an intervention once a week for approximately 16 weeks consisting of tasks with the horse, riding, grooming, and stable work. The sample presented in this study consisted of 29 participants who were successfully video-recorded in the beginning and at the end of the intervention. Petting the horse was the most frequent way of initiating contact with the horse, and the distributions of contact behaviors were the same at both time spots. The response of the horse was mainly neutral or positive. When participants did not succeed at their first attempt when trying to solve a horse-related task or an exercise during riding, their subsequent behavior was recorded as either trying again or not trying again. Early in the intervention, these two options were chosen with about the same frequency, while at the end of the intervention trying again was chosen significantly more often than not trying again. This was operationalized as an increase in persistence when having difficulties in solving tasks with the horse. The increased persistence late in the intervention in retrying tasks may indicate that the adolescents developed a feeling of mastery, which is an important factor in development of self-efficacy.
Obstacles and anticipated problems associated with acquiring assistance dogs, as expressed by Japanese people with physical disabilities
Authors: Yamamoto Mariko , Hart Lynette A. , Ohta Mitsuaki , Matsumoto Koji , Ohtani Nobuyo 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
In western countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, many people with disabilities benefit from the help their assistance dogs provide. In contrast, assistance dogs have not become widespread in Japan. This study explores the perspectives of Japanese people with disabilities, including the obstacles they have experienced when considering acquiring an assistance dog. A paper-based questionnaire was used to investigate the experiences of people with orthopedic, hearing, or visual disabilities. The results showed that a minority of participants with orthopedic (13.9%), hearing (31.6%), or visual (16.0%) disabilities hoped to live with an assistance dog. Younger people (18-59 years of age) hoped to have one more often than older people (over 60 years of age), which was related to their frequency of going out of the house. Younger people were more active in going outside regularly; older women were the least active. People with orthopedic disabilities were less active than those with other disabilities. Younger people were also more experienced in keeping dogs, and liked playing with them more. Younger women showed the greatest interest in living with an assistance dog, and older women the least interest; targeting information and encouragement to younger women may be most productive for placing dogs. Among people who did not hope to acquire an assistance dog, 6.1-11.6% of them felt sorry for dogs that are required to go through training, and 8.3-16.1% of them answered that they hated dogs. Our results indicated that Japanese are influenced by cultural, historical, and environmental contexts, and are not yet fully familiar with and accepting of the concepts of working dogs that are typical in the western countries. Most of the participants who hoped to live with an assistance dog had not actually applied for one. They gave the following reasons: there were inevitable negative aspects of living with dogs and sources of information, training systems, and policies by the governments and/or assistance dog organizations were cumbersome and inconvenient. The overall strategies to provide assistance dogs to people with disabilities need to be more accessible and accommodate the specific needs of the people who have disabilities.
A Therapist’s Guide to Treating Grief after the Loss of a Pet: A Three-Tier Model
Authors: Miller Tamara A. K. , Prout Maurice F. , Rourke Mary , Lefkowitz Carin , Boyer Bret 
Published: October 2022

Abstract

Grief after the death of a pet has been demonstrated to parallel grief after the death of a person, yet many people report feeling a lack of support from family, friends, and even therapy providers when experiencing pet bereavement (
Archer & Winchester, 1994
;
Chur-Hansen, 2010
;
Gosse & Barnes, 1994
;
Sharkin & Knox, 2003
;
Stewart, 1983
;
Wrobel & Dye, 2003
). This lack of perceived social support is characteristic of “disenfranchised grief,” which can result in situations where survivors do not believe they have a right to grieve (
Doka, 2002
). Furthermore, there is a scarcity of literature offering therapy providers information on how to best work with this subset of grievers. The findings of recent research regarding pet bereavement, grief patterns, and grief therapy were used to design a three-tier pet-bereavement program for therapists to use with individuals after the loss of a pet. The selected intervention offered in Tier Two presents Therapy After the Loss of a Pet (TALP), a six-session intervention which integrates cognitive behavioral therapy with psychoeducation, resilience work, and coping skills in order to support an adaptive grief experience for the specific nature of grief after the loss of a pet.
Empathy and Donation Behavior Toward Happy and Sad Chimpanzees
Authors: Telle Nils-Torge , Pfister Hans-Rüdiger 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Past research indicates a moderate but robust relationship between human empathy and empathy toward animals. Further, it has been shown that human empathy is associated with more positive attitudes toward animals. What has not been researched, however, is human- and animal-directed empathy in combination with actual animal-directed helping behavior. Here, we report two studies with which we begin to fill this gap by assessing human trait and affective state empathy toward sad and happy chimpanzees and subsequent donations to a chimpanzee conservation project. Both studies involved between subject designs and college students samples, with study 1 (n = 405) having been an online study and study 2 (n = 121) having been conducted in a controlled laboratory environment. In study 1, we used a probabilistic donation measure, whereas in study 2, participants could actually donate some of their participation fee. Although our results show that neither human trait nor animal-directed state empathy predicted donation behavior, we found that moral attitudes as well as past donations were predictive of probabilistic donation behavior. Interestingly, happy and sad chimpanzees elicited equally high monetary donations. We discuss our results in light of the potentially different underlying mechanisms that trigger animal-directed helping behavior.
Assessing Attitudes Towards Animal Assisted Therapy among Students and Faculty in American Psychological Association Accredited Programs
Authors: Thew Kendra , Marco Lindsey , Erdman Phyllis , Idalia Caro Blanca 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Research on animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is rapidly growing. However, there is little research on the attitudes and knowledge held by helping professionals regarding its practice, benefits, and limitations. The authors aim to understand how students and faculty members in the clinical and counseling psychology programs of the American Psychological Association (APA) perceive AAT and its role in psychological settings. Participants (n=267) were recruited from APA accredited clinical and counseling psychology programs to complete an online survey. Results revealed a majority of participants (41.2%) know very little about AAT, yet most (79.4%) view it as a legitimate adjunct to treatment. Further, 39% of participants reported being somewhat likely to very likely to practice AAT if properly trained. Additionally, participants reported viewing AAT as beneficial in expediting rapport and aiding in client retention. Participants reported that barriers to the practice of AAT include stigma from the psychological community, lack of empirical research, and training accessibility. The survey results suggest that access to training and empirical research may aid in the acceptance and growth of AAT.
The Helping Horse: How Equine Assisted Learning Contributes to the Wellbeing of First Nations Youth in Treatment for Volatile Substance Misuse
Authors: Adams Cindy , Arratoon Cheryl , Boucher Janice , Cartier Gail , Chalmers Darlene , Anne Dell Colleen , Dell Debra , Dryka Dominique , Duncan Randy , Dunn Kathryn , Hopkins Carol , Longclaws Loni , MacKinnon Tamara , Sauve Ernie , Spence Serene , Wuttunee Mallory 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
There has been recent interest in Canada exploring the benefits of equine assisted interventions in the treatment of First Nations youth who misuse volatile substances. Using the richness of an exploratory case study involving the White Buffalo Youth Inhalant Treatment Centre and the Cartier Equine Learning Center, our community-based study examined the question of how an Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) program contributes to the wellbeing of First Nations female youth who misuse volatile substances. Both programs are grounded in a holistic bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework of healing. Our study shares how the EAL horses, facilitators and program content contributed to youths’ wellbeing in each area of the healing framework (bio-psycho-social-spiritual), with emphasis on the cultural significance of the horse and its helping role. The horse is a helper in the girls’ journeys toward improved wellbeing—the horse helps through its very nature as a highly instinctive animal, it helps the facilitators do their jobs, and it also helps put the treatment program activities into practice. In addition, the role of First Nations culture in the girls’ lives was enhanced through their encounters with the horses. The findings support the limited literature on equine assisted interventions and add important insights to the youth addictions treatment literature. Key implications to consider for EAL and volatile substance misuse policy, practice and research are identified.