bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effect of Community Support on the Implementation of Primary Health Care-Based Measurement of Alcohol Consumption
Authors: Solovei Adriana , Jané-Llopis Eva , Mercken Liesbeth , Bustamante Inés , Kokole Daša , Mejía-Trujillo Juliana , Medina Aguilar Perla Sonia , Natera Rey Guillermina , O’Donnell Amy , Piazza Marina , Schmidt Christiane Sybille , Anderson Peter , de Vries Hein 
Published: January 2022

AbstractAlcohol measurement delivered by health care providers in primary health care settings is an efficacious and cost-effective intervention to reduce alcohol consumption among patients. However, this intervention is not yet routinely implemented in practice. Community support has been recommended as a strategy to stimulate the delivery of alcohol measurement by health care providers, yet evidence on the effectiveness of community support in this regard is scarce. The current study used a pre-post quasi-experimental design in order to investigate the effect of community support in three Latin American municipalities in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru on health care providers’ rates of measuring alcohol consumption in their patients. The analysis is based on the first 5 months of implementation. Moreover, the study explored possible mechanisms underlying the effects of community support, through health care providers’ awareness of support, as well as their attitudes, subjective norms, self-efficacy, and subsequent intention toward delivering the intervention. An ANOVA test indicated that community support had a significant effect on health care providers’ rates of measuring alcohol consumption in their patients (F (1, 259) = 4.56, p = 0.034, ηp2 = 0.018). Moreover, a path analysis showed that community support had a significant indirect positive effect on providers’ self-efficacy to deliver the intervention (b = 0.07, p = 0.008), which was mediated through awareness of support. Specifically, provision of community support resulted in a higher awareness of support among health care providers (b = 0.31, p < 0.001), which then led to higher self-efficacy to deliver brief alcohol advice (b = 0.23, p = 0.010). Results indicate that adoption of an alcohol measurement intervention by health care providers may be aided by community support, by directly impacting the rates of alcohol measurement sessions, and by increasing providers’ self-efficacy to deliver this intervention, through increased awareness of support. Trial Registration ID: NCT03524599; Registered 15 May 2018; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03524599
Role of anatomical location, cellular phenotype and perfusion of adipose tissue in intermediary metabolism: A narrative review
Authors: Camastra Stefania , Ferrannini Ele 
Published: January 2022

AbstractIt is well-established that adipose tissue accumulation is associated with insulin resistance through multiple mechanisms. One major metabolic link is the classical Randle cycle: enhanced release of free fatty acids (FFA) from hydrolysis of adipose tissue triglycerides impedes insulin-mediated glucose uptake in muscle tissues. Less well studied are the different routes of this communication. First, white adipose tissue depots may be regionally distant from muscle (i.e., gluteal fat and diaphragm muscle) or contiguous to muscle but separated by a fascia (Scarpa’s fascia in the abdomen, fascia lata in the thigh). In this case, released FFA outflow through the venous drainage and merge into arterial plasma to be transported to muscle tissues. Next, cytosolic triglycerides can directly, i.e., within the cell, provide FFA to myocytes (but also pancreatic ß-cells, renal tubular cells, etc.). Finally, adipocyte layers or lumps may be adjacent to, but not anatomically segregated, from muscle, as is typically the case for epicardial fat and cardiomyocytes. As regulation of these three main delivery paths is different, their separate contribution to substrate competition at the whole-body level is uncertain. Another important link between fat and muscle is vascular. In the resting state, blood flow is generally higher in adipose tissue than in muscle. In the insulinized state, fat blood flow is directly related to whole-body insulin resistance whereas muscle blood flow is not; consequently, fractional (i.e., flow-adjusted) glucose uptake is stimulated in muscle but not fat. Thus, reduced blood supply is a major factor for the impairment of in vivo insulin-mediated glucose uptake in both subcutaneous and visceral fat. In contrast, the insulin resistance of glucose uptake in resting skeletal muscle is predominantly a cellular defect.
Crowdfunding and bank financing: substitutes or complements?
Authors: Miglo Anton 
Published: January 2022

AbstractIn this paper, we analyze a firm choice between crowdfunding and bank financing. For many entrepreneurs, it is an important issue. We analyze a model where the choice of financing is affected by moral hazard problem regarding the choice of production scale that favors bank financing, and by the uncertainty about market demand that favors crowdfunding. We argue that long crowdfunding campaigns or campaigns with large targets usually are less efficient in mitigating moral hazard problem than small/short campaigns. We also argue that high-quality firms and firms with potentially large markets will tend to select bank financing while projects with largest amount of investment should select mixed financing where the firm uses a short crowdfunding campaign and a bank loan. Most of our model empirical predictions have not been directly tested so far while they are indirectly consistent with available evidence.
A Probabilistic Formulation of the Diffusion Coefficient in Porous Media as Function of Porosity
Authors: Zech Alraune , de Winter Matthijs 
Published: January 2022

AbstractWe investigate the upscaling of diffusive transport parameters using a stochastic framework. At sub-REV (representative elementary volume) scale, the complexity of the pore space geometry leads to a significant scatter of the observed diffusive transport. We study a large set of volumes reconstructed from focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy data. Each individual volume provides us sub-REV measurements on porosity and the so-called transport-ability, being a dimensionless parameter representing the ratio of diffusive flux through the porous volume to that through an empty volume. The detected scatter of the transport-ability is mathematically characterized through a probability distribution function (PDF) with a mean and variance as function of porosity, which includes implicitly the effect of pore structure differences among sub-REV volumes. We then investigate domain size effects and predict when REV scale is reached. While the scatter in porosity observations decreases linearly with increasing sample size as expected, the observed scatter in transport-ability does not converge to zero. Our results confirm that differences in pore structure impact transport parameters at all scales. Consequently, the use of PDFs to describe the relationship of effective transport coefficients to porosity is advantageous to deterministic semiempirical functions. We discuss the consequences and advocate the use of PDFs for effective parameters in both continuum equations and data interpretation of experimental or computational work. The presented statistics-based upscaling technique of sub-REV microscopy data provides a new tool in understanding, describing and predicting macroscopic transport behavior of microporous media.
Prevalence and predictors of occupational asthma among workers in detergent and cleaning products industry and its impact on quality of life in El Asher Men Ramadan, Egypt
Authors: Ahmed Amani Shawki , Ibrahim Dalia Anas , Hassan Tarek Hamdy , Abd-El-Azem Wael Galal 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Cleaning products are mixtures of many chemical ingredients that are known to contain sensitizers, disinfectants, and fragrances, as well as strong airway irritants which associated with lower respiratory tract and asthma symptoms. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence and possible risk factors of occupational asthma and its effect on quality of life among workers in detergent and cleaning products industries in El Asher men Ramadan city.
This cross-sectional study was conducted on 780 workers. All participants were personally interviewed at their workplaces and were subjected to a questionnaire regarding sociodemographic, work characteristics and asthma symptoms, clinical examination, chest X-ray, spirometer, and bronchodilator test. The prevalence of occupational asthma among the studied workers was 35.4%. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that female gender [odds ratio 1.397; 95% CI 1.09–1.96], manually working participants [odds ratio 3.067; 95% CI 1.72–5.46], and history of atopy [odds ratio 1.596; 95% CI 1.09–2.33] were risk factors for development of occupational asthma. The total mean score of asthma-specific quality of life was significantly lower in asthmatic (5.10 ± 0.49) than non-asthmatic workers (5.89 ± 0.46) (P < 0.01) indicating impairment of quality of life among asthmatic group. Workers in detergent and cleaning products industry are at higher risk for developing occupational asthma that adversely affects their general health and quality of life.
Celebrating Heritage, Promoting Tourism, and Relocating Svāmī Vivekānanda: A Study of the Vivekananda Rock Memorial
Authors: Beckerlegge Gwilym 
Published: January 2022

AbstractSvāmī Vivekānanda’s (1863–1902) relationship with hisguruŚrī Rāmakṛṣṇa (ca.1836–1886), and his role in the creation of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission in the final decade of the nineteenth century, has attracted far more scholarly attention than the meanings invested in Vivekānanda after his death by devotees and admirers beyond the Math and Mission and by the various organizations that have disseminated these meanings. To redress this imbalance, this article examines the message embodied in, and projected by, the Vivekananda Rock Memorial at Kanniyakumari. It explores the Memorial’s contribution to Kanniyakumari’s expanding role as a tourist destination and the problematic nature of the story that has provided the rationale for the Memorial’s location. It shows how evolving versions of this story have fed the different understandings of Vivekānanda’s mission now institutionalized respectively in the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission and the Vivekananda Kendra, which manages the Memorial. It argues that the creation of the Memorial has directed attention away from Kolkata (Calcutta), the scene of Vivekānanda’s interaction with hisguruRāmakṛṣṇa, and thus away from that seminal relationship. The Memorial presents, instead, Vivekānanda’s experience at Kanniyakumari as the defining moment in his evolving mission as a “spiritual nationalist.” The article concludes by noting implications of this shift for the critical understanding of Vivekānanda, emphasizing the importance of the Rock Memorial’s function as an increasingly popular portal to “Vivekānanda of Kanniyakumari.”
Long-Term Results of Single-Anastomosis Duodeno-ileal Bypass with Sleeve Gastrectomy (SADI-S)
Authors: Sánchez-Pernaute Andrés , Herrera Miguel Ángel Rubio , Ferré Natalia Pérez , Rodríguez Carlos Sáez , Marcuello Clara , Pañella Clara , Antoñanzas Leyre Lopez , Torres Antonio , Pérez-Aguirre Elia 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Background
Single-anastomosis duodeno-ileal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy (SADI-S) is a simplification of the duodenal switch (DS) in which the alimentary limb is eliminated, and the common channel is lengthened from 200 to 300 cm. Short-term results have demonstrated that SADI-S is safe and reproducible and that weight loss and comorbidities resolution are comparable to biliopancreatic diversion or DS.

Objective
To analyze the long-term outcomes of SADI-S.

Methods

From May 2007 to December 2015, 164 patients were consecutively submitted to a one-step SADI-S. The mean age was 47 years, and the mean body mass index (BMI) was 45.8 kg/m2. A total of 101 patients had type 2 diabetes, 91 arterial hypertension, 81 obstructive apnea, and 118 dyslipidemia. Limb length was 200 cm in 50 cases, 250 cm in 99, and 300 cm in 15.

Results
There was no mortality. One patient had a gastric leak, and 2 patients had an anastomotic leak. A total of 25% of the patients were lost to follow-up at 10 years. Excess weight loss and total weight loss were 87% and 38% at 5 years and 80% and 34% at 10 years. A total of 12 patients were submitted to revisional surgery for hypoproteinemia. Preoperatively 41 diabetics were under insulin treatment; at 5 years, 7 remained with insulin and 12 at 10 years. Mean glycemia was 104 mg/dL at 5 years and 118 mg/dL at 10 years. Mean HbA1c was 5.51% at 5 years and 5.86 at 10 years.

Conclusion
In the long term, SADI-S offers satisfactory weight loss and comorbidities resolution.

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A potential crack region method to detect crack using image processing of multiple thresholding
Authors: Chen Cheng , Seo Hyungjoon , Jun ChangHyun , Zhao Yang 
Published: January 2022

AbstractIn this paper, a potential crack region method is proposed to detect road pavement cracks by using the adaptive threshold. To reduce the noises of the image, the pre-treatment algorithm was applied according to the following steps: grayscale processing, histogram equalization, filtering traffic lane. From the image segmentation methods, the algorithm combines the global threshold and the local threshold to segment the image. According to the grayscale distribution characteristics of the crack image, the sliding window is used to obtain the window deviation, and then, the deviation image is segmented based on the maximum inter-class deviation. Obtain a potential crack region and then perform a local threshold-based segmentation algorithm. Real images of pavement surface were used at the Su Tong Li road in Suzhou, China. It was found that the proposed approach could give a more explicit description of pavement cracks in images. The method was tested on 509 images of the German asphalt pavement distress (Gap) dataset: The test results were found to be promising (precision = 0.82, recall = 0.81, F1 score = 0.83).
Nature of Mineralizing Fluid in Paleoproterozoic Dolomite Hosted Talc Deposits, Cuddapah Basin, India
Authors: Banerjee Amlan , Majumder Tuasha , Patranabis-Deb Sarbani , Saha Dilip 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Dolomite hosted talc deposits of the Vempalle Formation (VF), Cuddapah basin, Andhra Pradesh produces nearly 6% of total talc demand of India. The strata bound talc zones extending over kilometers along strike have tabular geometry and are concordant with the stratification and primary depositional contacts, though sometimes the talc bodies locally cross-cut the stratification. Field and petrographic evidences suggest that the strata-bound talc deposit, located at the flank of the basin, was formed by replacement of platformal carbonate sequences of the passive margin (stromatolitic dolomite), preserving the primary texture and structure of the host. Lack of anomalous concentrations of V, Fe, Ni, Cr and Co; depletion of Ta, Hf, Zr and Th and Ni, Cu, Pb, Zn in the talc and talc bearing dolomites may be indicative of the absence of magmatic and/or metamorphic source for the mineralization fluid. The igneous intrusions within the Vempalle Formation (VF) – earlier thought to be the source of mineralization fluid – thus are neither coeval with talc mineralization nor they acted as the heat source. Furthermore, depletion of REE, Al3+, K+, Na and Sr in the talc and talc bearing dolomites suggest that the mineralizing fluid was probably evolved from Paleoproterozoic ocean water that was super-saturated with respect to talc and had higher dissolved silica concentration. This evolved fluid source can also explain the supply and sustenance of large volume of water needed for the talcification of the host dolomite.
Chrome-diopside Xenocrysts Entrained in a Neoproterozoic Lamprophyre Dyke from the Mysuru Area: Their Origin and Implications for Lithospheric Thickness Beneath the Western Dharwar Craton, Southern India
Authors: Raghuvanshi Sneha , Chalapathi Rao N.V. , Talukdar Debojit , Sharma Abhinay , Pandey Rohit 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
In comparison to the eastern Dharwar Craton, the mantle-derived xenocrysts/xenoliths are extremely rare or even unreported from the western Dharwar Craton, southern India. A Neoproterozoic (ca. 800-900 Ma) lamprophyre cropping out in the Mysuru area of southern India contains chrome-diopside xenocrysts (Cr2O3 content varying from 0.2 – 1.23 wt%) which provide important evidence about the pressure-temperature conditions and lithospheric thickness beneath the western Dharwar Craton. Studied chrome-diopsides show compositional zoning which is lacking in the liquidus phases (amphiboles and feldspars) of the lamprophyre which additionally favors a non-cognate origin of the former. Based on the compositional zoning, all the chrome-diopside xenocrysts can be divided into three groups: (i) Group I- which are euhedral and show reverse zoning with increasing Cr-content from core to rim; (ii) Group II- which are characterized by fractures and resorption textures, show complex reverse zoning and display up to three distinct compositional layers, and (iii) Group III- which evidence the reaction of chrome-diopsides with lamprophyric melt and are marked by alteration phases, such as actinolite and chlorite, together with relicts of some unaltered xenocrysts. High Cr2O3, moderate MgO and low Al2O3 content of all the three varieties of chrome-diopside suggest them to represent disaggregated xenocrysts of mantle-derived garnet peridotite. Temperature-pressure estimates for chrome-diopside xenocrysts ranges from 895 - 1026 °C (± 30 °C) and 32 – 38 kbar respectively and correspond to depth range of 106 – 127 km. The study reveals that lithospheric thickness during the Neoproterozoic beneath the western Dharwar craton was at least ~115 km and is similar in composition to that of the cratonic lithosphere found in the other cratonic domains.
Small Size Gastropod Fauna from the Matli Geothermal Spring, Bhagirathi Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand: Ecological Implications
Authors: Chatterjee Nikitasha , Gupta Anil K. , Tiwari Sameer K. , Clemens Steven C. , Sharma Kanishak 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
The occurrence of freshwater molluscs in the geothermal springs is reported by numerous workers in different parts of the world. However, reports of such occurrences in the Indian subcontinent are either scanty or are not available in the published literature. In this study, a swarm of small size gastropod community have been encountered in the vicinity of Matli geothermal spring, which is located on the right bank of the downstream Bhagirathi river in the Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand, India. Gastropod samples were collected from 3 locations near the spring and water samples were collected from the spring and the river. The samples were identified as belonging to the species Lymnaea acuminata Lamarck, 1822 according to their form and habitat. The abundance, size and thickness of the snails were higher near the spring than near the Bhagirathi river. The δ18Oshell and δ13Cshell values of all the bulk samples range from – 8.2 to – 7.8‰ (VPDB) and from – 9.5‰ (VPDB) to – 6.5‰ (VPDB), respectively. Since the temperature of the geothermal spring remains constant irrespective of seasons, no significant intra-shell variation in δ18O is observed, while intra–shell δ13C values show shell shell significant variation reflecting season change. Lymnaea accuminata is originally a freshwater gastropod which is found all along the Ganga-Brahmaputra watersheds. This species prefers a habitat near the geothermal spring owing to the abundance of nutrients in spring water and other physiological factors.
Differential Crustal Attenuation in the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalaya Obtained from Seismological and Geophysical Studies
Authors: Joshi A. , Pandey Mohit 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
The Uttarakhand Himalaya which comprises of the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalaya lies in the central seismic gap region of India. Strong motion networks have been installed separately in the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalaya under various sponsored research projects funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES). These networks have recorded several near field earthquakes in the recent past. Recorded data from these networks have been utilised to study the crustal attenuation characteristics of these two regions. The crustal attenuation characteristics of medium can be directly estimated from the frequency dependent quality factor ‘Q’. Estimation of shear wave quality factor, coda wave quality factor and attenuation relations have been made by using same methodology in the data set obtained separately from these two regions. It has been found that there is a substantial difference in the attenuation characteristics of the crustal rocks in these two regions. Since shear wave attenuation has a close relation with the shear wave velocity, therefore, the shear wave velocity has been estimated at various locations of the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalaya by both active and passive methods. It has been found that the average shear wave velocity of crustal rocks in the Garhwal Himalaya is comparatively higher than that in the Kumaon Himalaya which clearly support the high attenuation property of the crustal rocks in the Kumaon Himalaya compared to the Garhwal Himalaya.
“Novel 2019 Coronavirus Outbreak” through the Eyes of GNSS Signal
Authors: Kundu Bhaskar , Panda Dibyashakti , Vissa Naresh Krishna , Tyagi Bhishma 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Besides the global crisis of the novel COVID-19 outbreak, we have presented the other side towards an environmental perspective. Due to the economic shutdown of major cities, the novel COVID-19 outbreak has significantly influenced air quality in the atmosphere and also affected the tropospheric refraction on Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS signal propagation in the horizontally stratified column. We suggest that GNSS signal propagation and variation in Zenith Tropospheric Delay (ZTD) in the tropospheric column can be used as a proxy for the pollutionmonitoring tool in the future. Although we have presented a case study from mainland China, the hypothesis can be tested globally.
Aquifer Mapping in Parts of Murshidabad and Adjoining Birbhum Districts, West Bengal, India
Authors: Brahma Supriya 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Aquifer Mapping has been carried out in an area of 2660 sq km in Ganga Basin lying on the west of River Bhagirathi. The present area comprises a total of 13 C. D. blocks, 4 north-eastern C. D. blocks of Birbhum district, and 9 western C.D. blocks of Murshidabad district, in the state of West Bengal. Present area is entirely covered by Quaternary alluvium. This study revealed the existence of multiple aquifer groups characterised by inherent litho-logical properties and often typical geo-morphological setup, distribution in space and geological time, and ground water potentiality. The geogenic contamination of ground water by arsenic and fluoride poses a serious health problem in the area. The objective of the present study is to delineate the subsurface aquifer groups in successive geological formations up to targeted depth of exploration of 325m, graphically represent them by 3D model & 2D sections, to generate geo-environmental data of aforesaid contaminants in ground water of individual aquifer groups separately and to provide a plausible explanation behind this contamination. This study is helpful for identification of aquifers, which bear potable ground water and those, which are under stress and need immediate intervention for sustainable management.