bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Laparoscopic retroperitoneal approach for urinary tract surgery. Predictive factors of complications and conversion to open surgery
Authors: González-León Tania , Ochoa-Gibert Yarumi , Rodríguez-Prieto Magela , Rodríguez-Gómez Yalaysy 
Published: February 2022

Introduction: Surgery by lumboscopic approach is of choice for some work groups, despite being more arduous and requiring a higher learning curve.
Objective: To assess the lumboscopic approach and identify predictive factors of complications and conversion to open surgery.
Material and Methods: A transversal, retrospective study of 436 patients that underwent surgery by lumboscopy at the National Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, 2008-2019. Absolute and relative frequencies; the Chi-Square Test and Student´s t Test and the Multiple Logistics Regression, were utilized, (p≤0.05).
Results: Renal atrophy due to benign diseases (49.8%), renoureteral lithiasis (26.6%), surgery of moderate complexity (71.9%) prevailed, such as nephrectomy (50.2%). 16.1% had undergone prior surgery, and 12.4% a urinary derivation. 3% required conversion to open surgery and 18.8% presented complications. Renal staghorn and non-staghorn lithiasis, surgical technique, level of complexity of the surgery, operative time, transoperative bleeding and length of hospital stay were significantly associated (p<0.05) to complications, but after measuring logistics regression, only hospital stay resulted statistically significant (p=0.000). Regarding conversion: gender, past history of prior surgery, operative time and bleeding were significantly associated (p<0.05) in both the univariate and multivariate analysis.
Conclusions: Nephrectomy due to benign causes and surgeries of moderate complexity prevailed in this series. The perioperative outcomes were satisfactory and the most frequent complications were postoperative, infectious and of grade II severity. Longer hospital stay was a predictive factor for complications whereas males, past history of prior surgery, longer operative time and bleeding were identified as predictive factors for conversion to open surgery.
Training, performance and value of Latinas in the United States urology workforce
Authors: Hernández Natalia , González Ricardo René 
Published: February 2022

With the increasing diversity in the population of the United States, efforts and interest in diversity in healthcare have followed. The article offers an insightful review of recent studies evaluating the role of women and underrepresented minorities (URM) in Urology in order to better understand the state of Latinas in Urology. We review the representation of women in urology residency in the United State (U.S.), international medical graduates (IMGs) in urology, and the most recent initiatives developed by urologists to increase diversity in the urological community to better reflect the communities served.
Patrimoine géologique et géomorphologique : base pour le géotourisme et la création d'un géoparc UNESCO dans le Dahar (Sud-est tunisien)
Authors: Reynard Emmanuel , Ben Fraj Tarek , Ghram Messedi Aziza , Ben Ouezdou Hédi , Ouaja Mohamed , Matthijs Yves 
Published: February 2022

Abstract. The presence of geoheritage of international value is the basis of any candidature as a UNESCO Global Geopark. Within the framework of the elaboration of a roadmap for the creation of a UNESCO Global Geopark in South-East Tunisia, a geological and geomorphological study was carried out. The selected geoheritage can be divided into two main families :
palaeontological and sedimentological sites, which provide complete documentation of the opening of the southern Tethysian margin, from the
Triassic to the Cretaceous, and geomorphological and landscape sites
(cultural geomorphosites), which offer an exceptional range of adaptations
of human societies to the morphoclimatic context. This analysis of the
geoheritage is the basis for the implementation of a strategy of geoconservation, geotouristic enhancement and, ultimately, the creation of a geopark in the Djebel Dahar. It demonstrates the importance of the
interrelationships between the cultural, tangible and intangible, heritage
and the geomorphological context.
Influence of initial soil moisture in a regional climate model study over West Africa – Part 1: Impact on the climate mean
Authors: Koné Brahima , Diedhiou Arona , Diawara Adama , Anquetin Sandrine , Touré N'datchoh Evelyne , Bamba Adama , Kobea Arsene Toka 
Published: February 2022

Abstract. The impact of soil moisture initial conditions on the mean climate over West Africa was examined using the latest version of the regional climate model of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (RegCM4) at a 25 km horizontal resolution. The soil moisture reanalysis of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis of the 20th century (ERA-20C) was used to initialize the control experiment, while its minimum and maximum values over the entire domain were used to establish the respective initial dry and wet soil moisture conditions (hereafter referred to as dry and wet experiments, respectively). For the respective control, wet and dry experiments, an ensemble of five runs from June to September was performed. In each experiment, we analyzed the two idealized simulations most sensitive to the dry and wet soil moisture initial conditions. The impact of soil moisture initial conditions on precipitation in West Africa is linear over the Central and West Sahel regions, where dry (wet) experiments lead to a rainfall decrease (increase). The strongest precipitation increase is found over the West Sahel for wet experiments, with a maximum change value of approximately 40 %, whereas the strongest precipitation decrease is found for dry experiments over the Central Sahel, with a peak change of approximately −4 %. The sensitivity of soil moisture initial conditions can persist for 3–4 months (90–120 d) depending on the region. However, the influence on precipitation is no longer than 1 month (between 15 and 30 d). The strongest temperature decrease is located over the Central and West Sahel, with a maximum change of approximately −1.5 ∘C in wet experiments, whereas the strongest temperature increase is found over the Guinea coast and Central Sahel for the dry experiments, with a maximum change of around 0.6 ∘C. A significant impact of soil moisture initial conditions on the surface energy fluxes is noted: in the wet (dry) experiments, a cooling (warming) of the surface temperature is associated with a decrease (increase) in sensible heat flux, an increase (decrease) in latent heat flux and a decrease (increase) in the boundary layer depth.
Part 2 of this study (Koné et al., 2022) investigates the influence of soil moisture initial conditions on climate extremes.
Социальное признание как фактор формирования профессионального имиджа учителя
Authors: Шаруева Екатерина Викторовна 
Published: February 2022

В настоящее время система образования предъявляет новые требования не только к профессиональной деятельности современного учителя, которые не только направлены на модернизацию профессиональной деятельности педагога, но и вносят качественные изменения в его профессиональный статус. Таким образом возникает противоречие между потребностью государства в повышении статуса учителя и ограниченными социальными возможностями формирования его положительного профессионального имиджа. Несмотря на большое количество публикаций по данной тематике, социальное признание как фактор его формирования не был достаточно изучен. Цель данного исследования – подтвердить гипотезу: ведущим социальным фактором, оказывающим значительное влияние на формирование профессионального имиджа учителя и отражающее его социальный статус, выступает социальное признание его педагогической деятельности участниками образовательных отношений. Исследование проводилось на основе контент-анализа нормативно-правовых документов, регламентирующих профессиональную деятельность учителя, и анализа педагогического состава Самарской области. В результате исследования были выявлены уровни и виды социального признания представителя педагогической профессии, направленные на повышения статуса учителя и формирующие положительный профессиональный имидж. Полученные данные доказывают влияние социального признания на формирование профессионального имиджа учителя, что способствует повышению статуса педагога. Результаты исследования вносят вклад в развитие теории социального признания в контексте педагогической науки, и могут быть использованы при построении кадровой политики образовательного учреждения.
Многозначность как основа синкретизма предлогов
Authors: Гречухина Земфира Ришадовна 
Published: February 2022

На современном этапе развития филологической науки проблемы теории предлогов, такие как многозначность, семантика и синкретизм названных единиц языка привлекают к себе внимание лингвистов, поскольку ни в русском, ни во французском языке до сих пор нет такого описания семантики предлогов, которое охватывало бы все единицы данного класса слов. Трактовка значений большинства многозначных предлогов в словарных статьях представляется несколько упрощенной, наблюдается разница в толковании и количестве значений, приписываемых тому или иному предлогу в разных словарях. Это препятствует адекватному пониманию, употреблению и переводу предлогов и вызывает трудности при изучении иностранного языка. Несмотря на многочисленность публикаций по проблематике синкретизма, практически отсутствует комплексный анализ явления синкретизма предложных единиц в разноструктурных языках: русском и французском. Цель данной статьи заключается в представлении многозначности предлогов русского и французского языков как основы для возникновения синкретизма предложных значений. Автором рассмотрены примеры синкретизма значений предлогов на материале русской и французской художественной литературы ХIХ–ХХI веков. При исследовании применены методы наблюдения, описания, компонентного анализа, обобщения и интерпретации результатов. В ходе работы были выявлены и рассмотрены некоторые виды синкретизма предложных значений, возникших на основе многозначности: а) пространственно-временной, б) пространственно-целевой, в) причинно-целевой, а также условия возникновения данного явления. Результаты исследования демонстрируют, что многозначность, являясь внутренним семантическим свойством предлогов, служит основой для возникновения синкретизма. В синкретическое единство могут вступать как компоненты (семы) одного, так и разных уровней в составе структуры предложного значения. Результаты исследования вносят вклад в развитие теории синкретизма, теории предлогов и предложной семантики.
A study of sea surface temperature and pressure patterns over the Indian Ocean regions in some years of contrasting SW monsoon rainfall in India
Authors: SINGH RANJIT 
Published: February 2022

A study is made of the sea surface temperature and pressure patterns for different months over Indian Ocean (north of 15 deg. S and between 40 deg. E and 100 deg. E) with the help of marine annual summary data published for the years 1961, 1964 and 1965, 1966.
The zone of warmest sea surface waters during the months of April and May was observed to be located northward in the years 1961 and, 1964, the years of good monsoon over India as compared to 1965 and 1966, the years of bad monsoon over India. The values of SST were also higher for most of the oceanic areas in the years 1961 and 1964 as compared to 1965 and 1966.
Well defined pressure patterns with isobars 1008 and 1009 mb encircling and pressure gradient directed towards Indian Peninsula were observed during the months of April in 1961 and 1964 but in 1965 these features in the pressure pattern were absent.
A general fall of SST values ranging from 1 deg. to 3 deg. C was observed during the monsoon months in most of the oceanic areas. Besides, a study has been made of the seasonal variation of SST and pressure and some probable explanation has been offered for the appearance of coldest waters along north Somali coast to east Arabia coast during monsoon season (June to September).
A Cross Sectional Study to Estimate Occupational Stress among Higher Secondary School Teachers in Thalassery, Kerala
Authors: Raj Krishna , Neelopant Sushrit A , Wadhwa Manisha , Dabas Pratibha 
Published: February 2022

Background: Changing norms have overburdened the educators. Our study aims to assess the levels of occupational stress among higher secondary school teachers and demographic, academic characteristics and relevant factors influencing it.
Methodology: Cross sectional study was conducted in Thalassery block of Kannur district, Kerala. The block comprised of 38 schools with 516 teachers. Overall, 484 teachers participated in the study. Modified ‘Manual for teacher’s occupational stress scale’ questionnaire was used. Results were analyzed using Chi square test, ‘t’ test and one way ANOVA.
Results: Males were 155 (32%) and females were 329 (68%). The mean age was 40.6 years. Four-fifth (81%) were from government and one-fifth (19%) were from private schools. Majority, 268 (55%), of teachers were found to have mild occupational stress. While, 171 (35%) had moderate stress and 45 (9%) had severe occupational stress. Stress was linked to vast syllabus, time constraint, outside interference, students’ behavior, poor infrastructure and favoritism from authorities. Increased teaching experience and rising position in school were significantly associated with stress.
Conclusion: All higher secondary school teachers in Thalaserry block of Kannur, Kerala felt occupational stress. Majority (55%) had mild stress, 35% had endured moderate and 9% suffered severe stress.
Assess and Evaluation the Quality Of Life (Qol) Among Cancer Patients Undergoing Treatment by Using EORTC QLQ-30 Scale
Authors: Agarwal Anil Kumar , Yadav Abhishek , Yadav Chanderpal Singh , Mahore Ramniwas , Dixit Prashant 
Published: February 2022

Background: Cancer is a challenge for majority of population’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL), compromising their physical health and emotional well-being. QoL is equally distributed among different social groups. The aim of this study to analyze the impact of clinical characteristics and social determinants of health on the QoL of a cohort of persons diagnosed and/or treated for cancer.
Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study in a cohort of 155 with various stages of cancer at different stages of their disease. Data were obtained using questionnaires QLQ-C30 from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), which include a set of functional and symptomatic scales. We conducted descriptive and bivariate analysis using the Chi-Square test, Anova Test and adjusted for relevant variables using logistic regression. The dependent variables were the functional scales of QoL and the independent variables were socio-demographic and clinical variables.
Results: Among the participants, 80(51.6%) were male and 75(48.4%) were female and majority 66(42.6%) in between the age of 40-60 years. Large proportion of patients were diagnosed with Oral cancer 67(43.2%), and Breast cancer 23(14.8%), and the clinical stages during the beginning of therapy were maximum at stage II a 104(67.1%). The mean of global health status/QoL was 52.34 (SD= 23.34). Quality of life was found to be significantly associated with some functional scales as role functioning (P≤0.001), social function, (P=0.00), and symptom scales as pain (P=0.00), loss of appetite (P=0.004) and financial impact (P=0.02) as well as associations were noted in relation to socio demographic characteristics. Women from the most disadvantaged class, and showed the poorest results for most of the function scales. In contrast, age, education, occupation and social status had differential effects depending on the function studied. The highest functional status was cognitive functioning (54.58±27.68).
Conclusions: The cancer diagnosis has become more prevalent and carries significant changes to the method of living with physical and emotional changes in term of quality of life (QoL) because of inconvenience, torment, disfigurement, reliance and loss of confidence. In addition, addressing the unmet needs of these patients and ensuring higher satisfaction rate are recommended to maintain adequate HRQoL.
Prevalence of Violence against Health Care Personnel in a Tertiary Care Centre, Hubballi, India
Authors: HR Sushma , Nekar Manjunath S , Bant Dattatreya D 
Published: February 2022

Background: The sudden outburst of events in different parts of country like Dhule, Dharwad, Chennai and Jaipur led to the need of conducting a survey about violence against health care personnel. Health care personnel are at high risk of being victims of verbal and physical violence, its effect on them and their views on causes for sudden increase in such events.
Methodology: A semi-structured questionnaire regarding their experience with violence against health care personnel was prepared. Data was collected for two months –May and June 2017. Sample size of 200 was calculated which included doctors, nursing staff and group D workers from KIMS Hubballi and analysed using SPSS version 21.
Results: 99.5% were aware of increasing violent events.76% of them have experienced violence of which, Verbal abuse- 92.10% being the highest form, emotional abuse -17.76% and physical violence 6.58%. The common place of violence was the emergency department -62.09% during daily working hours. 92.10% have reported that patient attenders caused violence.
Conclusion: Verbal and emotional abuse against health care workers has significantly amplified which is deteriorating physician patient relationship. Violence against health care personnel is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with more safety measures at the hospital.
The Development Opportunities and Difficulties of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in the Construction of the Belt and Road
Authors: Bian Haozheng , Wang Xiangyue , Xu Zihan , Zhang Xinge 
Published: February 2022

This paper mainly studied the structural transformation of Pakistan’s power sector and the internal and external political problems encountered in its development, as well as the solutions. This study found that Pakistan changed from oil to coal to generate electricity, which can resolve its internal power shortage problem in short term. However, the best way later in the cooperation is to develop green energy to match the green economy, such as wind power. The construction of the economic corridor can expand the import and export of goods and personnel exchanges between China and Pakistan, and promote the transit trade with Pakistan. Besides, it would effectively increase China’s energy import routes-bypassing the traditional chokepoints of the Malacca Strait and the disputed South China Sea, bringing Middle Eastern oil directly to its southwestern hinterland and reducing dependence on the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipelines under construction. From a broader perspective, the completion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will closely unite countries in South Asia, Central Asia, North Africa and the Gulf through economic and energy cooperation, forming economic resonance and strengthening Pakistan’s strategic position as a bridge connecting Eurasia and Africa.
An Introduction to MRI
Authors: Wolbarst Anthony , Yanasak Nathan 
Published: February 2022

This introduction to the science and technology of MRI has been written at the beginning graduate level primarily for professional medical physicists and engineers in training. Others, such as physicians with physical science backgrounds, may well also find it to be of interest.
From Devon Godfrey in
Medical Physics International…

"The authors manage to successfully take the reader on a journey from the discovery and fundamentals of NMR all the way to novel k-space sampling and advanced MR imaging sequences—and their underlying molecular physics—in a manner that is quite thorough, yet should be approachable even to a reader with limited prior MRI knowledge. I believe this will be an excellent source for graduate students and professionals alike, and intend to incorporate it into my own teaching."

From Andrew Maidment in Medical Physics…"As with all of Wolbarst’s books, the figures are of high quality, and I am sure they will find their way into many PowerPoint presentations in the future."
This book will help readers understand not just the basics of MRI, but how recent variations on its original implementation have produced the many alternative interpretations of data that have made MRI such a powerful diagnostic tool.
Several more advanced topics—like Fourier analysis, k-space, and statistical distributions—are introduced as they are needed.
Effectiveness Of Polyethylene on Hypothermic Events in Low Birth Weight
Authors: Haryoso Haryoso 
Published: February 2022

Background: Treatment of low-birth-weight babies so far has mostly used incubators and swaddled babies using cloth whenever possible using the kangaroo method. While the kangoro method can be done if the mother and baby are both stable. Another way that can be done is to use a polyethylene blanket. The purpose of this study was to determine the use of polyethylene on the incidence of hypothermia in LBW.
Methods: This type of research is a quasi-experimental design with Pre-Posttest Only Control Design, a sample of 60 LBW infants was taken by means of Systematic Random Sampling. Data collection techniques using the method of observation. Statistical analysis using the General Linear Model with a significant level of : 0.05
Results: The results obtained in this study are based on the overall analysis obtained p-value 0.000 <0.05, it can be interpreted that giving blankets polyethylene to respondents is effective in increasing the temperature of infants and reducing the incidence of hypothermia. Furthermore, the results of research based on Partial Eta analysis can be seen that blankets made of polyethylene increase the body temperature of low-birth-weight babies by 91.1%, while the increase in the kangaroo method group with Partial Eta 0.861 by 86.1%.
Conclusion: This means that the use of blankets made from polyethylene increases the temperature higher than the kangaroo method.
STRATEGI KOMUNIKASI PEMASARAN KOPI MELALUI DIGITALPRENEUR STUDI KASUS PADA CV. PUTRI CAHAYA CEMERLANG (KOPI ONCAK)
Authors: Angellia Filda , Riyantie Mayang 
Published: February 2022

Area DKI Jakarta adalah area yang mempunyai potensi bisnis yang cukup besar untuk berkembang karena area tersebut merupakan area padat penduduk dan padat akan kegiatan bisnis serta perekonomian lainnya. Pertambahan jumlah penduduk juga terus meningkat sehingga kebutuhan akan bahan atau barang tertentu juga cenderung ikut meningkat. Seiring dengan era industrial 4.0 yang mengusung tema IoT (Internet of Things), maka sangat diperlukan penentuan strategi komunikasi yang sesuai. Pemasaran berbasis digital merupakan salah satu strategi yang cukup vital dan sangat dominan untuk meningkatkan jumlah pangsa pasar (konsumen).Begitupun dengan usaha penjualan kopi, dimana kopi sudah menjadi ketuhan sehari-hari yang harus terpenuhi. Kopi telah dianggap memiliki pangsa pasar besar dalam industri. Sehingga untuk proses produksi dan penjualannya butuh strategi untuk ditingkatkan atau minimal bertahan di pasaran. Penelitian ini tergolong penelitian kualitatif. Data yang diperlukan diperoleh dengan studi lapangan, dokumentasi survey lapangan, dan hasil wawancara. Hasil observasi dan survey lapangan memperlihatkan data bahwa usaha penjualan bahan kebutuhan sehari-hari seperti kopi menggunakan strategi pemasaran berbasis digital (digital marketing) yang terus dilakukan bersamaan dengan strategi pemasaran lain.