bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Cardiac hypertrophy and insulin therapy in a pre-term newborn: is there a relationship?
Authors: Salvatori Guglielmo , Brindisi Giulia , Colantonio Mario , Zicari Anna Maria 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
Background
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in newborns is a rare condition with heterogeneous etiologies. While the relationship between hyperinsulinism and cardiac hypertrophy (CH) is known, hyperinsulinism has not been reported as cause of HCM.

Case presentation
We report the case of cardiac hypertrophy (CH) in an Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) infant; this patient underwent insulin therapy after the onset of persistent hyperglycemia due to parenteral nutrition (PN), supporting the hypothesis of a role of iatrogenic hyperinsulinemia in the development of HCM.

Conclusions
The present case underlines the importance of a close cardiological follow-up in infants undergoing insulin infusion for an alteration in the glucose metabolism.
Parasite dynamics in untreated horses through one calendar year
Authors: Steuer Ashley E. , Anderson Haley P. , Shepherd Taylor , Clark Morgan , Scare Jessica A. , Gravatte Holli S. , Nielsen Martin K. 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
Background
Horses are host to a plethora of parasites. Knowledge of the seasonality of parasite egg shedding and transmission is important for constructing parasite control programs. However, studies describing these patterns are sparse, and have largely been conducted only in the United Kingdom. This study evaluated strongylid egg shedding patterns and transmission dynamics of Strongylus vulgaris in naturally infected and untreated mares and foals through one calendar year in Kentucky, USA. The study also investigated the existence of a peri-parturient rise (PPR) in strongylid egg counts in foaling mares and collected information about Strongyloides westeri and Parascaris spp. in the foals.

Methods
This study was conducted from January to December 2018. A herd of 18 mares, one stallion, and 14 foals born in 2018 were followed throughout the year. Sera and feces were collected biweekly from all horses, and worm burdens enumerated in 13 foals at necropsy. An S. vulgaris ELISA antibody test was run on all serum samples. Fecal egg counts were determined for all horses, and coproculture and qPCR assay were employed to test for the presence of S. vulgaris in the mature horses. Data were analyzed using the proc glimmix procedure in the SAS 9.4 software program.

Results
We found a general lack of seasonality in strongylid egg shedding throughout the year among the mature horses, and no PPR was demonstrated. Shedding of S. vulgaris eggs displayed a higher abundance during the spring, but findings were variable and not statistically significant. Anti-S. vulgaris antibody concentrations did not display significant fluctuations in the mature horses, but evidence of passive transfer of antibodies to the foals was demonstrated, and foals assumed their own production of antibodies starting at approximately 20 weeks of age. Overall, colts shed higher numbers of strongylid, ascarid, and S. westeri eggs than fillies.

Conclusions
This study demonstrated a lack of seasonality in strongylid egg shedding for the study population, which is in stark contrast to previous studies conducted elsewhere. This strongly suggests that more studies should be done investigating these patterns under different climatic conditions.

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of dietary fat effects on reproductive performance of sows and growth performance of piglets
Authors: Wang Lixue , Zhang Shuai , Johnston Lee J. , Levesque Crystal L. , Yin Jingdong , Dong Bing 
Published: February 2022

AbstractEffects of added fat in sow diets on the sows’ reproductive performance and offspring growth performance are influenced by multiple factors such as genetics, nutrition, parity, ambient temperatures, and farm management. Individual studies cannot cover all these factors. With the view to address this challenge, we searched all studies that were published from 1986 to 2020, and performed a systematic review and meta-analysis on the fat effect. In total, 19 papers were collected and analyzed. Fat supplementation in sow diets during late gestation and lactation decreased average daily feed intake (ADFI,P< 0.05) and tended to increase average daily energy intake (ADEI,P= 0.11). It had no impact on litter weights at birth (P= 0.40) or weaning (P= 0.46). It increased total numbers of piglets at birth (P= 0.07), but had no effect on liveborn per litter (P= 0.90) or survival rate (P= 0.48) of piglets to weaning. Fat supplementation had no significant effect on sow body weight loss (P= 0.67) or backfat thickness changes (P= 0.66), but sows fed diets with added fat had increased milk fat concentration (P= 0.03) and shorter wean to estrus intervals (WEI,P= 0.01). In specific circumstances, fat supplementation tended to improve growth performance of piglets with low litter weights at birth (P= 0.14), or when the sows lost large amounts of body weight during lactation (P= 0.11). The level of supplemented fat was 10% and higher would decrease liveborn per litter at neutral temperature (P= 0.10). The meta-analysis revealed that fat supplementation to sows diet during late gestation and lactation can be beneficial for sow reproductive performance and litter growth performance.
Features of hardware implementation of quasi-continuous observation devices with discrete receivers
Authors: Maryliv Oleksandr , Slonov Mykhailo 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThis article proposes an approach to the formalization of tasks and conditions for the hardware implementation of quasi-continuous observation devices with discrete receivers in remote sensing systems. Observation devices with a matrix are used in medicine, ecology, aerospace photography, and geodesy, among other fields. In the discrete receivers, the sampling of an image in the matrix receiver into pixels leads to a decrease in the spatial information of the object. In a greater extent, these disadvantages can be avoided by using photosensitive matrix with a regularly changing (controlled) density of elementary receivers-matrix (RCDOER-matrix). Currently, there is no substantiation of the tasks and conditions for the hardware implementation of RCDOER-matrix. The algorithmic formation of a quasi-continuous image of observation devices with the RCDOER-matrix is proposed. The algorithm used a formal pixel-by-pixel description of the signals in the image. This algorithm formalizes the requirements for creating a photosensitive RCDOER-matrix of a certain size, as well as for changing the mechanism for forming and saving a frame with observation results. The application of the developed method will allow multiplying the pixel size of the image relative to the pixel size of the RCDOER-matrix. Developed algorithms for RCDOER-matrix are supplemented by formalizing the tasks that arise when creating prototypes. In addition, the conditions for hardware implementation are proposed, which ensure the completeness of registration of the observation picture, and allow avoiding excessive pixel measurements. Thus, the results of the research carried out approximate the practical application of RCDOER-matrix.
Maternal Stroke Associated With Pregnancy
Authors: Miller Eliza C. 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE OF REVIEW
This article summarizes current knowledge of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of cerebrovascular disease in pregnant and postpartum women.

RECENT FINDINGS
Stroke is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality, and most fatal strokes are preventable. Adaptive physiologic changes of pregnancy, including hemodynamic changes, venous stasis, hypercoagulability, and immunomodulation, contribute to increased maternal stroke risk. The highest-risk time period for maternal stroke is the immediate postpartum period. Migraine and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including gestational hypertension and preeclampsia, are major risk factors for maternal stroke. Adverse pregnancy outcomes, including gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, preterm delivery, and fetal growth restriction, are important risk factors for cerebrovascular disease later in life.

SUMMARY
Many catastrophic maternal strokes could be avoided with targeted prevention efforts, early recognition of warning signs, and rapid evaluation of neurologic symptoms. Neurologists play a central role in the care of pregnant patients with cerebrovascular disease, whether acute or chronic, and should be familiar with the unique and complex physiology of pregnancy and its complications, particularly hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Legal and Ethical Challenges in the Care of the Pregnant Patient After Brain Death
Authors: Kass Joseph S. , Rose Rachel V. 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT
Using two scenarios based on real-life cases reported in the media, this article examines the ethical and legal controversies that arise when a pregnant woman dies based on neurologic criteria while her fetus remains alive. In the first scenario, all parties agreed to maintain physiologic support until a safe delivery could be achieved, whereas in the second scenario the woman’s family sought a legal remedy to stop the hospital from continuing to provide physiologic support for the patient and her neurologically devastated fetus.
Mutations in Drosophila tRNA processing factors cause phenotypes similar to Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia
Authors: Schmidt Casey A. , Min Lucy Y. , McVay Michelle H. , Giusto Joseph D. , Brown John C. , Salzler Harmony R. , Matera A. Gregory 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT
Mature transfer (t)RNAs are generated by multiple RNA processing events, which can include the excision of intervening sequences. The tRNA splicing endonuclease (TSEN) complex is responsible for cleaving these intron-containing pre-tRNA transcripts. In humans, TSEN copurifies with CLP1, an RNA kinase. Despite extensive work on CLP1, its in vivo connection to tRNA splicing remains unclear. Interestingly, mutations in CLP1 or TSEN genes cause neurological diseases in humans that are collectively termed Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia (PCH). In mice, loss of Clp1 kinase activity results in premature death, microcephaly and progressive loss of motor function. To determine if similar phenotypes are observed in Drosophila, we characterized mutations in crowded-by-cid (cbc), the CLP1 ortholog, as well as in the fly ortholog of human TSEN54. Analyses of organismal viability, larval locomotion and brain size revealed that mutations in both cbc and Tsen54 phenocopy those in mammals in several details. In addition to an overall reduction in brain lobe size, we also found increased cell death in mutant larval brains. Ubiquitous or tissue-specific knockdown of cbc in neurons and muscles reduced viability and locomotor function. These findings indicate that we can successfully model PCH in a genetically-tractable invertebrate.
Trap of weights: The reuse of weights in the floating catchment area (FCA) methods to measuring accessibility
Authors: Zhang Lina 
Published: February 2022

Background: Geographic weights are vital in the floating catchment area (FCA) method of accessibility measurements due to their simulation of spatial barriers in various ways. When modelling population demand, geographical weights with different distance decay coefficients can reflect diverse distance tolerances in facility utilization and could lead to erratic accessibility results. Quantifying accessibility as the sum of weighted supply-demand ratios can alleviate the distance decay coefficient's influence and generate stable geographic patterns. However, the effects of weighted ratios on different FCA models and resources have not been investigated. Methods: To identify impacts of weighted ratios on various FCA variants, this study contrasted the accessibility calculated from the sum of ratios (access) and the sum of weighted ratios (access ratios) within three prevalent FCA models: enhanced two-step FCA (E2SFCA), modified two-step FCA (M2SFCA), and three-step FCA (3SFCA). In addition, the accessibilities of various resources evaluate the stability of the weighted ratios' effect. This study therefore examined the accessibilities to primary schools, job opportunities, and major hospitals in Shanghai. Shanghai is a case study that provides lessons on using big data to measure accessibility in metropolitan areas. Results: Geographic weights can not only mitigate the impact of the distance decay coefficients, but can also eliminate model features, which reduces the performance of the M2SFCA's supply decay and the 3SFCA's population demand adjustment in accessibility results. Moreover, weighted ratios tend to overestimate accessibility in marginal communities that lie within fewer catchments, regardless of the resource type. This tendency can lead to an epistemological trap that creates an inaccurate and counter-intuitive perception of resource distribution in a given area. Conclusions: The results identify a gap between the methodological logic and the empirical perception in accessibility measurements. This study concludes that the use of geographic weights needs to be cautious and epistemologically consistent.
Moving out of the silo: trialling a work-based education intervention to mobilise professional identity in integrated teams
Authors: Best Stephanie , Beech Christian , Fletcher-Miles Hayley , Eynon-Jones Sian , Robbé Iain , Williams Sharon 
Published: February 2022

Background/Aims Research on professional identity has largely focused on students, with limited knowledge of how professional identity is mobilised among integrated team members, especially in relation to how this might be achieved through education and training. This study aims to trial a work-based education intervention to mobilise professional identity and gather feedback on the impact on healthcare practitioners. Method This multi-method interventional study was centred around 2.5-hour workshops delivered for multidisciplinary teams, aiming to discuss and increase understandings of professional identity and its impact. Participants (n=61) completed a pre-workshop survey to gauge their views of professional identity, teamwork and cognitive flexibility. Data from observation and workshop activities were recorded, and participants completed an evaluation survey at the end of the workshop to identify areas for improvement. Results Participants generally welcomed the opportunity to discuss professional identity and the workshop was evaluated well overall. Most participants had a strong sense of professional identity. The design of the workshop needs to be reviewed to ensure that enough time is allowed for action planning. Conclusion Managers need to identify opportunities to regularly discuss professional identity and identify the support required for new members of staff joining existing, well-formed integrated teams.
Health inequity in the UK: exploring health inequality and inequity
Authors: Heaslip Vanessa , Thompson Ruth , Tauringana Memory , Holland Sharon , Glendening Nikki 
Published: February 2022

In this article, the first of two, Vanessa Heaslip et al examine the factors that lead to certain groups having poorer health outcomes in the UK Practice nurses are ideally placed within local communities to have a significant impact on addressing health inequities. However, to achieve this they need to understand the many factors that lead to certain groups having poorer health outcomes. Advances in longevity do not automatically match advances in health and wellbeing across all social groups. In the UK, someone living in a deprived area of England is more likely to die eight and a half years younger than someone living in a more affluent area. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted health inequities faced by ethnic minority groups in particular. This article, the first of two, will define the terminology used, explore access to health services in the UK and present the evidence driving healthcare policy.
Review on recent Computer Vision Methods for Human Action Recognition
Authors: Muhamada Azhee Wria , Mohammed Aree A. 
Published: February 2022

The subject of human activity recognition is considered an important goal in the domain of computer vision from the beginning of its development and has reached new levels. It is also thought of as a simple procedure. Problems arise in fast-moving and advanced scenes, and the numerical analysis of artificial intelligence (AI) through activity prediction mistreatment increased the attention of researchers to study. Having decent methodological and content related variations, several datasets were created to address the evaluation of these ways. Human activities play an important role but with challenging characteristic in various fields. Many applications exist in this field, such as smart home, helpful AI, HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), advancements in protection in applications such as transportation, education, security, and medication management, including falling or helping elderly in medical drug consumption. The positive impact of deep learning techniques on many vision applications leads to deploying these ways in video processing. Analysis of human behavior activities involves major challenges when human presence is concerned. One individual can be represented in multiple video sequences through skeleton, motion and/or abstract characteristics. This work aims to address human presence by combining many options and utilizing a new RNN structure for activities. The paper focuses on recent advances in machine learning-assisted action recognition.
Existing modern techniques for the recognition of actions and prediction similarly because the future scope for the analysis is mentioned accuracy within the review paper.
argumentos céticos de Hume contra a existência do mundo externo
Authors: Souza Borges Dener 
Published: February 2022

Esse trabalho analisa o ceticismo apresentado por Hume quanto à concepção de mundo externo, chamado por ele de ceticismo mitigado ou moderado, e mostra suas críticas aos sistemas que procuram justificar a existência de objetos distintos da mente. Hume apresenta uma nova compreensão acerca da natureza das percepções opondo-se à maneira como o senso comum as compreende ao considerarem as impressões dos sentidos como os próprios objetos. Também a crítica se estende ao sistema filosófico de sua época que buscou justificar uma dupla existência: percepções causadas por objetos externos. O trabalho mostra como as críticas são feitas ao senso comum e aos sistemas de Locke e Berkeley sobre a natureza das percepções. Será apresentado, durante o trabalho, que a noção de existência contínua e distinta de objetos do pensamento é uma forte crença que se fundamenta principalmente com as impressões registradas na memória e ganham força por meio do hábito e das funções da imaginação. Por fim, procurar-se-á mostrar que as causas de se supor o mundo contínuo e distinto da mente não justificam a crença em objetos externos de maneira distinguível da mente sem se fundamentar nas funções realizadas pela imaginação, considerada por Hume, falaciosa.
Palavras-chave: Mundo externo. Percepções. Ceticismo. Mente. Continuidade.

Hume's skeptical arguments against the existence of the external world

Abstract: This work analyzes the skepticism presented by Hume regarding the conception of the external world, which he calls mitigated or moderate skepticism, and shows his criticisms of systems that seek to justify the existence of distinct objects of the mind. Hume presents a new understanding about the nature of perceptions as opposed to the way common sense understands them, considering the impressions of the senses as the objects themselves. Criticism also extends to the philosophical system of its time that sought to justify a double existence: perceptions caused by external objects. The work shows how criticism is made of common sense and Locke and Berkeley's systems about the nature of perceptions. It will be presented, during the work, that the notion of continuous and distinct existence of objects of thought is a strong belief that is based mainly on the impressions registered in memory and gains strength through habit and the functions of the imagination. Finally, we will try to show that the causes, as Hume demonstrates, of assuming a continuous and distinct world of the mind, do not justify the belief in an external world in an intelligible way, without being based on the functions performed by the imagination, considered by Hume, fallacious.
Keywords: External world. Perceptions. Skepticism. Mind. Continuity.
Existência feminina como imanência: a relação entre liberdade, alteridade e opressão em Simone de Beauvoir
Authors: Isadora Pereira de Lima Danielli 
Published: February 2022

RESUMO: A partir da noção da alteridade absoluta como condutora fundamental da existência da mulher no mundo, Simone de Beauvoir analisa a situação feminina sob a perspectiva da moral existencialista, segundo a qual o ser humano coloca-se no mundo concretamente somente através de projetos. A existência encontra seu sentido e sua justificação quando aquele que existe age com vistas à superação do dado, exercendo, portanto, sua liberdade original. Quando contrário, ao negar a liberdade e assumir a passividade da facticidade, o indivíduo incorre em uma falha moral, a imanência. Beauvoir observa um sentido imanente na existência feminina, mas de modo diferente da falha moral. A mulher foi forçada à imanência através da opressão. Este artigo tem por objetivo tratar da situação da mulher no mundo, analisando os conceitos de liberdade e alteridade a fim de traçar de que modo a mulher foi privada do movimento de transcendência e forçada à imanência.

ABSTRACT: Based on the notion of absolute otherness as a fundamental conductor of the existence of women in the world, Simone de Beauvoir analyzes the female situation from the perspective of existentialist morality, according to which the human being places themselves in the world concretely only through projects. Existence finds its meaning and its justification when the one who exists acts in order to overcome what is given, exercising, therefore, their original freedom. Contrariwise, by denying freedom and assuming the passivity of facticity, the individual incurs a moral failure, immanence. Beauvoir notes an immanent meaning in female existence, but in a different way from moral failure. Women were forced into immanence through oppression. This article aims to address the situation of women in the world, analyzing the concepts of freedom and otherness in order to outline how women have been deprived of the moviment of transcendence and forced into immanence.
Keywords: Freedom. Otherness. Immanence. Feminism.