bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Rebalancing meat and legume consumption: change-inducing food choice motives and associated individual characteristics in non-vegetarian adults
Authors: Reuzé Anouk , Méjean Caroline , Carrère Myriam , Sirieix Lucie , Druesne-Pecollo Nathalie , Péneau Sandrine , Touvier Mathilde , Hercberg Serge , Kesse-Guyot Emmanuelle , Allès Benjamin 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Background
A shift toward more plant-based foods in diets is required to improve health and to reduce environmental impact. Little is known about food choice motives and associated characteristics of those individuals who have actually reduced their consumption of animal-based foods. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify change-inducing motives related to meat and legume consumptions among non-vegetarians. The association between change-inducing motives and individual characteristics was also studied.

Methods
This study included 25,393 non-vegetarian participants in the French NutriNet-Santé cohort (77.4% women, mean age 55.4 ± 13.9 y.). The motives related to the declared change in meat and legume consumptions (e.g., taste, environment, social pressure) were assessed by an online questionnaire in 2018. For each motive, respondents could be classified into three groups: no motive; motive, not change-inducing; change-inducing motive. Associations between change-inducing motives and individual characteristics were evaluated using multivariable polytomic logistic regressions. Characteristics of participants who rebalanced their meat and legume consumptions were also compared to those who reduced their meat but did not increase their legume consumption.

Results
Motives most strongly declared as having induced a change in meat or legume consumptions were health and nutrition (respectively 90.7 and 81.0% declared these motives as change-inducing for the meat reduction), physical environment (82.0% for meat reduction only) and taste preferences (77.7% for legume increase only). Other motives related to social influences, meat avoidance and meat dislike were reported by fewer individuals, but were declared as having induced changes in food consumption. Most motives that induced a meat reduction and a legume increase were more likely to be associated with specific individual characteristics, for example being a woman or highly educated for health motives.

Conclusions
Besides the motives reported as important, some motives less frequently felt important were declared as having induced changes in meat or legume consumptions. Change-inducing motives were reported by specific subpopulations. Public campaigns on health and sustainability could usefully develop new tools to reach populations less willing to change.

Trial registrations
The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03335644).
Increasing cervical cancer screening in Iran: effectiveness of a theory-based educational intervention
Authors: Hosseini Zahra , Mohseni Shokrollah , Momeni Rahimeh , Aghamolaei Teamur , Alavi Azin , Dadipoor Sara 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Purpose of study
The high mortality rate of cervical cancer in developing countries is mainly related to inefficient screening programs. The aim of the present study was, thus, to determine the effect of an educational intervention based on BASNEF (Belief, Attitudes, Subjective Norms, and Enabling Factors) model on increasing the rate of cervical cancer screening (CCS) in Bandar Deir in the south of Iran.

Methods
A quasi-experimental educational intervention was made with 202 women participants (101 in the intervention group (IG) and 101 in the control group (CG)) in 2019–20. The sampling was convenience in type. The data were collected using a reliable and valid tripartite questionnaire (demographic information, knowledge, BASNEF constructs). A total number of 14 training sessions were held each taking 60 min, at two levels, personal and interpersonal (for family members, health workers and healthcare givers). Finally, there was a three-month follow-up held in December 2021.

Results
After the training, a statistically significant difference was found between the IG and CG in all model constructs (p < 0.001). Before the intervention, in the IG, the personal health score was 4.35 ± 2.52, which was increased to 5.25 ± 0.753 after the training (p < 0.001). However, in the CG, the difference was not statistically significant (p < 0.030). 63.4% of women in the IG and 32.7% in the CG performed the CCS and the between-group difference was statistically significant (p < 0.001). Attitude, enabling factors and behavioral intention were the main predictors of CCS.

Conclusion
The present findings showed though the training intervention based on the BASNEF model had limited resources and was run in a short time, it managed to motivate women to perform the CCS. It could maximally remove barriers at both personal and interpersonal levels and suggest strategies in the light of these barriers to achieve a successful screening program.
Reasons for informal payments from the perspective of health care providers and recipients: a qualitative study in Iran
Authors: Arab Mohammad , Khosravi Bahman , Safari Hossein , Rahmani Hojat , Rajabi Vasokolaei Ghasem , Mobinizadeh Mohammadreza , Habibi Farhad 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Background
Informal payments are one of the major obstacles to health system reform in many developing countries, and its elimination is on the agenda of health system policymakers in many countries, including Iran. This study was conducted to identify the causes of informal payments in the Iranian health system.

Methods
This was a qualitative and exploratory study. The study environment included the Ministry of Health, physicians' offices, medical universities, and hospitals and health centers. The study population included health care providers (physicians and hospital staff, managers, supervisors, and nurses) and health care recipients (patients or patients who had a history of dealing with informal payments). Data were collected using open-ended questions and semi-structured interviews. Snowball sampling method was used to select managers, chief executive officers (CEOs) and nurses. Convenience sampling was used to select physicians due to their lack of participation and cooperation. Content analysis method was used to analyze the data.

Results
Reasons for informal payments were divided into 4 themes including: Economic factors (improper tariff valuation of services; failure to increase tariffs proportionate to inflation; lack of comprehensive participation of stakeholders in determining tariffs; tariff inconsistency in the public, private and charity sectors; etc.); socio-cultural factors (decreased social capital of the medical community among the people; improving the quality of life; incorrect comparison of providers' income levels with the income of doctors in other countries; existence of a culture of gratitude and appreciation; health as a priority for society; pride of service recipients; pride of service providers; etc.); service delivery challenges (high professional skills of the doctor; use of modern medical equipment; the monopoly of some doctors, etc.) and legal-political factors (inadequate monitoring by upstream organizations; lack of strict rules; difficulty of proving informal payments; presence of stakeholders in management and policy making processes).

Conclusions
Knowing the causes of informal payments can help reduce or eliminate it. The results of this study identified the causes of informal payments in the Iranian health system. Accurate knowledge of the needs and motivations of both health care providers and recipients can be effective in accurately identifying and eliminating this phenomenon.
Good is not meaningful?
Authors: Zaidi Shabih H , Zaidi Hasan 
Published: August 2022

Ethics is a branch of moral philosophy. It is as old as mankind itself. Even the caveman observed a code of conduct for owning or sharing a piece of land, cultivating it, hunting for food, building a shelter and so forth.
Medical ethics is embedded with medicine. And yet it has not been given its due status until recently. COVID-19 may have played a significant role in its recognition as a measuring tool of professionalism. We all know that ethics teaches us how to differentiate good from evil. But what's more pertinent is, the practical illustrations of goodness during the pandemic.
One major lesson we learnt was the moral failure of governments and health authorities in telling the truth. Was telling the truth not good? Might telling it have embarrassed the authorities?
“Do you think it is a Pandemic?” Apocalypse, Anxiety and the Environmental Grotesque in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl
Authors: Sarkar Sanchar , Rangarajan Swarnalatha 
Published: September 2022

Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009), set in the post fossil-fuel, post turbo-capitalist country of Thailand, portrays the shocking after effects of bioengineering and gene-hack modifications in food crops. The narrative depicts a country tottering on the brink of an agricultural apocalypse on account of food production being severely affected by crop driven anomalies and rogue diseases such as “cibiscosis” and “blister rust” transmitted by variants of mutating pests. Natural seed stock becomes completely supplanted by the new genetically engineered seeds which become sterile after a single seasonal cycle of sowing and harvesting. The native population of Thailand is adversely affected by the pandemic scenario, which becomes aggravated by an expedient “scientocracy” that is at the heart of the neocolonial enterprises of American megacorporations and calorie companies like Agrigen, PurCal and Redstar who hail gene hacking as the new future of food resources and market profiteering. The consumption of the gene-hacked produce spreads through crops and affects the human body in unimaginable ways thereby resulting in a considerable rise of health issues including digestive and respiratory failures.
This paper intends to articulate the idea of a pandemic, its historical understanding and affective influences in the context of a post techno-fossil fuel economy set in Thailand. It will analyse the idea of epidemiological colonialism; diseases introduced by colonising forces that reshape the natives’ existing environment thereby bringing forth a deep pandemic anxiety that percolates the collective memory of the Thai people. It also highlights how the novel portrays the conflict between traditional ecological knowledge systems and modern extractive enterprises that acts as a catalyst to hasten the destruction of sustainable systems of agriculture and food production that have endured the impact of climate change and ecological fallout. The paper will study the relevance of the pandemic as an agency of ecocatastrophe and its function in an eco-speculative science fictional narrative. Finally, the paper looks into the concept of the posthuman android, genetically modified humans in a “technologiade”, a society reconfigured by technoscience to resist the impact of environmental collapse, and explores how this trope is incorporated in Bacigalupi’s narrative to celebrate human striving for hope and survival in an imagined environmental future marked by a self-created agro-scientific grotesqueness.
Selected effects of combined oral contraceptives use
Authors: Bogucka Julia , Brzyska Anna , Domańska Natalia , Bojarska Małgorzata , Wilczek Natalia , Piecewicz-Szczęsna Halina 
Published: September 2022

Introduction and objective:: Combined oral contraceptives (COCs) are one of the most popular methods of contraception worldwide. The universality of this method leads to the constant analysis of its influence on the female body. The purpose of this study is to discuss selected side effects of COC use.
Review methods: In July 2022, articles found in the Medline (Pubmed) and Google Scholar databases were selected by using the following keywords: oral contraceptive use; risk of cancer; depression; side effects of hormonal contraception; venous thrombosis.
Brief description of the state of knowledge: COC use has been shown to be associated with a 2-6 fold increase in the risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE). The component responsible for this side effect was initially thought to be synthetic estrogen - ethinylestradiol. It is now recognized as having the greatest influence on mood disorders. An increased risk of cancer has been reported in women taking COCs in case of breast cancer and liver cancer. Inverse relationship was observed in colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer.
Summary: COC use can have side effects, but it also has many health benefits. Therefore, it is important to constantly learn about this topic and minimize the risk of adverse side effects.
Empowering Users with Narratives: Examining the Efficacy of Narratives for Understanding Data-Oriented Conceptual Models
Authors: Hvalshagen Merete , Lukyanenko Roman , Samuel Binny M. 
Published: August 2022

Elevator PitchA quiet revolution is happening in the offices, cubicles, and boardrooms of the world. Non-IT professionals are becoming empowered by leveraging organizational data for analytics. We support this movement by offering a powerful way to make data more usable via a combination of graphical conceptual models with narratives.Longer VersionWe are witnessing a quiet revolution—the rise of empowered users. These non-IT professionals increasingly seek to leverage the ever-expanding amount of organizational data for analytics to support their initiatives, decisions, and actions. All too often, however, the enthusiasm of these users collides against the harsh reality—many of them lack sophisticated IT skills, and they struggle to find/access relevant data, understand their meaning, and extract and adapt them to meet their needs.We propose a powerful way to support empowered users with a combination of conceptual models and narratives. Conceptual models are diagrams that accurately and succinctly represent rules and patterns captured in data. Although somewhat intuitive, these models alone do not suffice, as interpreting them still requires some specialized IT knowledge. Hence, we add narratives—stories written in natural language. The narratives intuitively explain some of the challenging aspects of the conceptual models.We conducted a series of experiments and interviews with empowered users to assess our idea. These studies show the value of the conceptual models with narratives for understanding organizational data. Our work unlocks an important missing puzzle for further user empowerment—a way for non-IT professionals to get the most out of the data.
Cross-Channel Integration and Customer Experience in Omnichannel Retail Services
Authors: Chung Kyunghwa , Oh Kyung Wha , Kim Minjeong 
Published: August 2022

Despite the increasing attention being given to cross-channel integration services, an understanding of the impact of cross-channel integration on customer experience is still lacking. This study fills this gap. With a focus on retail brand experience, this study demonstrates that cross-channel integration impacts customer experience and further results in changes in perception and behavioral intention. A conceptual model that illustrates the customers’ psychological mechanism responding to cross-channel integration was developed. To test the model, a scenario-based online experiment was conducted. The results show that perceived channel integration impacts retail brand experience, which in turn impacts perceived service convenience, satisfaction, and patronage intention. Creating a better experience is a key challenge for retailers to ensure customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. Our results show that cross-channel integration services can play a pivotal role in the shaping of retail brand experience in today’s competitive retail environment that continuously evolves, owing to digital technology. The findings of this study add valuable new knowledge to the growing omnichannel retailing literature and provide practical insights to develop omnichannel retail services. Funding: This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017S1A5A8022718).
Determination of Physical and Mechanical Properties of Sugarcane Single-Bud Billets
Authors: Wang Meimei , Liu Qingting , Ou Yinggang , Zou Xiaoping 
Published: September 2022

HighlightsCoefficients of restitution between billet and steel decreased with an increase in drop height and moisture content.Coefficients of restitution between billets increased with an increase in moisture content.Static friction coefficient between billet and steel, and between billets decreased with an increase in contact area.Rolling friction coefficient between billet and steel increased with an increase in angle and interval.Rolling fiction coefficient among billets first increased and then decreased with an increase in angle.Abstract. Determining the physical and mechanical properties of sugarcane single-bud billets is a critical step in the mechanical structure design of a sugarcane planter. In this study, samples of the Tai Tang F66 cultivar sugarcane billets were analyzed. The moisture content of the samples of billets ranged from 63.78% to 77.72%, and their average density was 244.67 kg/m3. The coefficient of restitution (CoR) of the samples was determined by a drop test wherein samples were dropped onto a steel plate from different heights. The static friction coefficient (SFC) of four types of samples was determined by the inclined plate method at two orientations. In addition, the rolling friction coefficient (RFC) was determined at three plate inclination angles and sample displacement. The experiment results showed that with increasing drop height and moisture content, the billet-steel CoR decreased from 0.625 to 0.458, while the billet-billet CoR increased from 0.603 to 0.698. With an increase in contact area, the billet-steel SFC decreased from 0.515 to 0.377 and the billet-billet SFC decreased from 0.498 to 0.323. With increasing angle and sample displacement, the billet-steel RFC increased from 0.0315 to 0.2175 and the billet-billet RFC increased from 0.0203 to 0.1007. These parameters can help to build a more accurate simulation model of a single-bud billet particle for the discrete element analysis of a sugarcane single-bud billet planter mechanical structure. Keywords: Coefficient of restitution, Rolling friction coefficient, Single-bud billet, Static friction coefficient.
The in vivo RNA structurome of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan with an A/U-rich transcriptome
Authors: Dumetz Franck , Enright Anton J. , Zhao Jieyu , Kwok Chun Kit , Merrick Catherine J. 
Published: September 2022

Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan parasite and causative agent of human malaria, has one of the most A/T-biased genomes sequenced to date. This may give the genome and the transcriptome unusual structural features. Recent progress in sequencing techniques has made it possible to study the secondary structures of RNA molecules at the transcriptomic level. Thus, in this study we produced the in vivo RNA structurome of a protozoan parasite with a highly A/U-biased transcriptome. We showed that it is possible to probe the secondary structures of P. falciparum RNA molecules in vivo using two different chemical probes, and obtained structures for more than half of all transcripts in the transcriptome. These showed greater stability (lower free energy) than the same structures modelled in silico, and structural features appeared to influence translation efficiency and RNA decay. Finally, we compared the P. falciparum RNA structurome with the predicted RNA structurome of an A/U-balanced species, P. knowlesi, finding a bias towards lower overall transcript stability and more hairpins and multi-stem loops in P. falciparum.
This unusual protozoan RNA structurome will provide a basis for similar studies in other protozoans and also in other unusual genomes.
A new anthropometric model for body composition estimation: Comparison with a bioelectrical impedance consumer device
Authors: Dahlmann Nicolaus , Demond Vera 
Published: September 2022

Background
The present study refers to an anthropometric model, Dahlmann-Body-Analysis (DBA), based on formerly developed weight-height-frame tables. Including the anthropometric variable abdomen circumference (AC), a further differentiation into muscularity and fat mass could be realized. This enables to calculate the individual percentage fat mass (%FM), providing a cost-effective method for epidemiological studies. The present work sets out to investigate, whether %FM computed by the DBA model compares to BIA measurements, notably under conditions of heavy obesity.

Subjects/methods
In 103 adults (37 males, 66 females, age 42.5 ± 12.5 years, BMI 38.2 ± 4.8 kg/m²) %FM was estimated by a tetrapolar BIA device and compared to results derived by the DBA system. Bland-Altman and simple linear regression analyses were used to determine agreement between methods.

Results
The mean %FM estimates of men (women) ± standard deviation were 36.1 ± 4.8 (49.7 ± 4.5) for BIA and 36.7 ± 4.2 (49.1 ± 4.9) for DBA measurements. Pearson correlation coefficients (r) and Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) were r = 0.86 and CCC = 0.84 for men and r = 0.85 and CCC = 0.83 for women, respectively. Bland-Altman plot showed limits of agreement between DBA and BIA %FM that ranged from 5.5% to -4.3% for men and 4.6% to– 5.7% for women, respectively. Correlations between values measured by both methods were high and the observed confidence interval (SD of the difference between DBA and BIA result multiplied by 2) was low. No systematic error was found. The DBA system overestimates FM by 0.63 ± 4.98 (2SD) % for men and underestimates FM by -0.56 ± 5.28 (2SD) % for women, respectively, compared to the BIA results. The result for both genders is -0.066 ± 5.17 (2SD) %FM. Over all, there is a strong concordance and reproducibility between the DBA and BIA data sets.

Conclusions
The implementation of the abdomen circumference (AC) into the DBA model as a proxy for body fat (%FM) resulted in a strong concordance with BIA measurements. These findings indicate that the DBA model may reflect the body shape of severely obese white European patients with regard to body composition.