bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Sub-National Spatial Price Indexes for Housing: Methodological Issues and Computation for Italy
Authors: Benedetti Ilaria , Biggeri Luigi , Laureti Tiziana 
Published: March 2022

Abstract
It is essential to measure within-country differences in housing costs in order to evaluate costs of living, assessing and comparing poverty levels, quantifying salaries and disposable income of families and finally for designing housing policies at local level. To the authors knowledge, no studies have yet been carried out on the computation of Space Price Indexes for Housing Rents (SPIHRs). In this article we computed preliminary estimates of sub-national SPIHRs by using hedonic regression model, which is an extension of the Country Product Dummy method, for all the Italian regions. The hedonic regression is generally used to obtain multilateral spatial indexes, thus allowing us to obtain multilateral SPIHRs for the Italian regions. The estimates have been done using 2017 data from the Real Estate Market Observatory which is a part of the Italian Agency of Revenue and Tax. This data source is the most comprehensive source of information on Italian houses price rents with a wide geographical coverage, including data for each Italian municipality. The obtained results show significant differences across the Italian regions, thus highlighting the importance of calculating SPIHR in Italy on a regular basis and the need to continue researches in this field.
Comparison of organs at risk doses between deep inspiration breath-hold and free-breathing techniques during radiotherapy of left-sided breast cancer: A Meta-Analysis
Authors: Tegaw Eyachew Misganew , Tadesse Getu Ferenji , Geraily Ghazale , Gholami Somayeh , Gebreamlak Wondesen Tassew 
Published: March 2022

Abstract
After radiotherapy (RT) of left-sided breast cancer patients, organs at risk (OARs) such as heart, left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery, and left lung could be affected by radiation dose in the long term. The objective of this study was to perform a comprehensive meta-analysis and determine OARs dose reduction during left-sided breast cancer treatment using different RT modalities combined with deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) relative to free-breathing (FB). PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, ProQuest, Google Scholar, and Cochrane Library electronic databases were used to search for studies until June 6, 2021. Nineteen eligible studies were selected and analyzed using the RevMan 5.3 statistical software package. The pooled weighted mean difference (MD) with their 95% confidence intervals for each of the three OAR mean doses were determined using a random-effects meta-analysis model to assess the dose reductions. From a total of 189 studies, 1 prospective study, 15 retrospective studies, and 3 randomized control trials (RCTs) with an overall of 634 patients were included. Reduction of doses to the heart (weighted MD = -1.79 Gy; 95% CI (-2.28, -1.30); P = 0.00001), LAD (weighted MD = -8.34 Gy; 95% CI (-11.06, -5.61); P = 0.00001), and left-lung (weighted MD = -0.90 Gy; 95% CI (-1.19, -0.61); P = 0.00001) were observed using DIBH combinations relative to FB combination. This study emphasizes that during the treatment of left-sided breast/chest wall (CW) ± supraclavicular (SCV) ± infraclavicular (ICV) ± internal mammary chain (IMC) lymph nodes (LN) ± axillary (Ax)/ cancer patients, different RT modalities combined with DIBH techniques are better options to reduce dose to OARs compared to FB, which benefits to minimize the long-term complications.
Neutron conversion coefficients of ambient dose equivalent and personal dose equivalent
Authors: Kanti Hassan Al , Hajjaji Otman El , Bardouni Tarek El , Mohammed Maged 
Published: March 2022

Abstract

Introduction: This work aims to calculate the ambient and personal dose equivalent conversion coefficients.

Material and methods: The conversion coefficients have been calculated using MC simulation. Additionally, this paper proposes a new method that depends on an analytical approach.

Results: The obtained results in good agreement between MC and an analytical approach were observed. The obtained results were compared to those published in ICRU 57 report.

Conclusions: We deduced that the analytical approach is as effective and suitable as the MC simulation to calculate the operational quantity conversion coefficients.
Fractional CO2 laser with topical 1% terbinafine cream versus oral itraconazole in the management of onychomycosis: A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Ranjan Eeshaan , Arora Sandeep , Sharma Neha 
Published: March 2022

Background
Onychomycosis accounts for 20-40% of all nail disorders. It is difficult to cure with resistance to anti-fungal drugs, their side effects and drug interactions limiting treatment options. Itraconazole is a widely accepted oral medication used for onychomycosis while fractional CO2 laser along with a topical anti-fungal has shown promising results for nail plate clearance in onychomycosis.

Aim
To compare the efficacy of fractional CO2 laser with 1% terbinafine cream versus itraconazole in the management of onychomycosis.

Methods
A prospective, randomised, single-centre, two-arm, parallel-group interventional study was conducted at Command Hospital Air Force, Bangalore. Onychomycosis cases confirmed by KOH mount/culture-positive were included. Patients were randomly divided into two groups. Group A received 4 sessions of fractional CO2 laser every fourth week with twice-daily application of 1% terbinafine cream; Group B received one-week pulse therapy with capsule itraconazole once every four-week for three pulses. The response was assessed by Onychomycosis Severity Index, a validated onychomycosis assessment scale, at baseline and at six months.

Results
Group A had 50 patients with a total of 98 nails. Clinical improvement was seen in 83/98 (84.7%) nails. The average reduction in Onychomycosis Severity Index was 8.65 (P < 0.05). Group B had 50 patients with a total of 136 nails. Clinical improvement was seen in 104/136 (76.5%) nails. The average reduction in Onychomycosis Severity Index was 7.37 (P < 0.05). Both groups showed statistically significant improvement measured by ‘Reduction in Onychomycosis Severity Index’ at six months; however, there was no significant difference between the two arms.

Limitations
The main limitations of the study are the small sample size and lack of long-term follow-up to assess recurrence of infection.

Conclusion
Fractional CO2 laser with 1% terbinafine cream is an effective and safe method for inducing nail clearance in onychomycosis and has efficacy similar to itraconazole pulse therapy.
Surgical resection of giant extrasellar thyrotropinoma: Use of orbitozygomatic and endoscopic endonasal approach
Authors: Gimenez Patricio , Asad Mahmoud , Bradley Karin , Thorogood Natasha , Bennett Warren , Abhinav Kumar 
Published: March 2022

Background:
Thyrotropinomas (TSHoma) are rare pituitary adenomas.

Case Description:
A 34-year-old female presented with mild bitemporal field defect in third trimester with intact pituitary function. MRI demonstrated an enhancing lesion from the posterior planum to suprasellar, interpeduncular and prepontine cisterns with chiasmal compression and right fetal posterior communicating artery encasement. With no sellar expansion, the differentials included meningioma or craniopharyngioma. She underwent a postpartum expanded endoscopic endonasal transtuberculum transchiasmatic sulcus approach [Video 1]. The lesion was debulked in the chiasmatic cistern to decompress the chiasm with preservation of superior hypophyseal perforators. Pituitary transposition and midclival approach to access the retrosellar component was not undertaken pending formal histology as the lesion encased the perforators and was atypical for the outlined differentials. In addition, the diaphragm was intact. Postoperatively, visual field normalized and the patient developed mild diabetes insipidus. Following the diagnosis of TSHoma (with an abnormal thyroid function test [TFT]) and due to patient preference and slightly increased risk of CSF leak with revisional endoscopic procedure, she underwent an orbitozygomatic craniotomy (pretemporal and transsylvian approach) without tentorial division to resect the disease in the interpeduncular and prepontine cisterns [Video 1]. The anatomical triangles and tumor characteristics facilitated this. A residual cuff was left along the base of the stalk and the floor of the third ventricle to preserve the superior hypophyseal and thalamoperforators. Postoperatively, the patient had normal TFT without any neurological deficit.

Conclusion:
Operative treatment strategy is presented for a rare large challenging multicompartmental extrasellar TSHoma using endoscopic endonasal and open skull base approaches.
Brain cryptococcoma mimicking a glioblastoma in an immunocompetent patient: A rare case report and comprehensive review
Authors: Boa Sorte Anselmo Alves , Garcia Cesar Carvalho , Neto Mateus Reghin , de Oliveira Matheus Fernandes , Rotta Jose Marcus 
Published: March 2022

Background:
Cryptococcosis is an invasive fungal infection primarily affecting lungs and potentially spreading to the central nervous. This fungal infection might be misdiagnosed as other infection diseases, such as tuberculosis; granulomatous diseases, like sarcoidosis; and even neoplastic diseases. Some previous reports described cases of cryptococcomas resembling brain tumors. In this paper, we present a very rare presentation of brain cryptococcoma mimicking a malignant glioma. To the best of our knowledge, this is the third case description in the literature.

Case Description:
A 64-year-old male patient presented at the hospital with a history of progressive frontal headache for 1 month, becoming moderate to severe, associated with visual changes, without nausea or vomiting. No fever was reported. He was a heavy smoker and denied other relevant previous medical data. Neuroimage disclosed a right temporal expansive lesion initially considered a malignant glioma. The patient underwent a right temporal craniotomy and biopsy revealed a cryptococcoma.

Conclusion:
Cryptococcomas characteristics in magnetic resonance are quite nonspecific. They should always be included in differential diagnosis of expansive brain lesions, both malignant and benign. Therefore, once cryptococcomas may resemble like other intracranial expansive lesions, biopsy should always be carried out to clarify diagnosis and avoid inadequate treatment and definition of prognosis only based on radiological patterns.
Reconstructive embolization for contralateral vertebral artery dissecting aneurysm that developed after internal trapping of ruptured vertebral artery dissection: A case report and literature review
Authors: Masuko Yu , Shimizu Nobuyuki , Suzuki Ryosuke , Suenaga Jun , Nagao Kagemichi , Ohgaki Fukutaro , Yamamoto Tetsuya 
Published: March 2022

Background:
It is not well-known that contralateral vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms (VADA) may be newly revealed after parental artery occlusion for unilateral VADA. However, the optimal treatment strategies and perioperative management have not been established. In this report, we present the case of a patient who required reconstructive embolization in the subacute stage for contralateral VADA developed after endovascular internal trapping of the ruptured VADA.

Case Description:
A 61-year-old man developed subsequent disturbance of consciousness. Head CT showed a diffuse and symmetrical SAH. 3DCT revealed a fusiform aneurysm of the left intracranial vertebral artery with bleb formation. We performed emergency endovascular parent artery occlusion of the left vertebral artery. A digital subtraction angiography on postoperative day 16 showed continued occlusion of the left VA, and a fusiform aneurysm was noted at the right VA. We performed reconstructive embolization and the patient eventually recovered with minimal persistent symptoms.

Conclusion:
Since the outcomes of contralateral VAD complicated by infarction or hemorrhage are poor, and most cases develop within 7–14 days after endovascular internal trapping for unilateral VAD, performing bilateral radiographic reinspection within this time frame is recommended for early detection and preventive treatment of possible contralateral VADs.
Extradural hemorrhagic spinal cavernous angioma in a paucisymptomatic child: A rare case with review of the current literature
Authors: Scafa Anthony Kevin , Giugliano Marco , Gallo Marco , Piccirilli Manolo 
Published: March 2022

Background:
Cavernous angiomas, also referred to as cavernous hemangiomas or cavernomas (CMs), are vascular malformative benign neoplasms that may develop in any part of the central nervous system. Spinal CMs are uncommon (overall incidence rate of 0.04–0.05%). Pure epidural CMs account for 1–2% of all spinal CMs and 4% of all spinal epidural tumors. Diagnosis is extremely rare in the pediatric age. To the best of our knowledge, only 10 cases have been described so far. The treatment of choice is microsurgical resection.

Case Description:
We describe here the rare case of a cervicothoracic hemorrhagic spinal epidural cavernoma in a paucisymptomatic, 8-year-old female Bangladeshi child. C7–T2 laminectomy with excision of a scarcely defined, capsulated dark red lesion was performed with good recovery.

Conclusion:
Spinal epidural cavernomas are rare. Childhood presentation is even rarer. The reason could be found in a greater “compliance” and to a rarer occurrence of acute bleeding in children, thus resulting in a delayed diagnosis. Surgical excision is the gold standard of treatment.
Présence des aflatoxines et de l’ochratoxine A dans les denrées alimentaires : évaluation du risque encouru par des consommateurs de poisson fermenté (adjuevan) commercialisé à Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
Authors: Kpan Kouakou Gains Kpan , Youan Bi Bouet Diane Hyacinthe , Gnonsoro Urbain Paul , Ardjouma Dembele 
Published: March 2022

Description du sujet. Le poisson fermenté « adjuevan » est utilisé comme exhausteur de gout en Afrique de l’Ouest grâce à sa flaveur, mais l’environnement insalubre dans lequel cette denrée est produite porte à croire qu’elle pourrait renfermer des mycotoxines. Objectifs. Évaluer le niveau de contamination du poisson fermenté par les aflatoxines et l’ochratoxine A (OTA) et le risque encouru par les consommateurs. Méthode. L’ochratoxine A et les aflatoxines ont été quantifiées par chromatographie en phase liquide à haute performance (CLHP) dans les échantillons de poisson fermenté. Les marges d’exposition ont été déterminées pour l’OTA et les aflatoxines. Résultats. La teneur en aflatoxine totale était comprise entre 1x10-3 µg·kg-1 et 42,86 µg·kg-1, tandis que celle de l’OTA a oscillé entre 0,09 µg·kg-1 et 0,15 µg·kg-1. Par ailleurs, les marges d’exposition relatives à l’OTA ont oscillé entre144 227 et 1 484 892 pour les effets non néoplasiques et entre 442 134 et 4 551 995 pour les effets néoplasiques. Les marges d’exposition relatives aux aflatoxines B1 et G2 ont respectivement varié entre 423 et 3 683, et entre 431 et 3 754. Pour l’aflatoxine B2, 76,04 % des marges d’exposition ont été inférieures à 10 000, tandis qu’au niveau de l’aflatoxine G1, les marges d’exposition ont été supérieures à 10 000. Conclusions. L’adjuevan peut engendrer les effets cancérigènes des aflatoxines (AFB1, AFB2 et AFG2) chez le consommateur. Par contre, la consommation de l’adjuevan seul n’est pas suffisante pour l’apparition des effets (non néoplasique et néoplasique) de l’OTA et des effets cancérigènes liés à l’AFG1.
Discursos e representações legitimadas pelo mercado
Authors: Vassoler Juliana Ferreira 
Published: March 2022

Este artigo apresenta parte de pesquisa mais ampla acerca de representações linguístico-discursivas em letras de funk ostentação e tem com objetivo examinar como esses textos veiculam discursos socialmente articulados pelas práticas sociais de consumo. Trata-se de um estudo textualmente orientado que está amparado nos princípios teórico-metodológicos da Análise de Discurso Crítica (ADC), proposta por Fairclough (2001 [1992], 2003) e por Chouliaraki e Fairclough (1999), por estudos recentes que tentam redefinir os conceitos de identidade e cidadania, conforme discussões postuladas por Zigmund Bauman (2008), Guy Debord (2015) e Garcia Canclini (2015). Os dados empíricos foram levantados com base na seleção de letras de funk ostentação com vistas Ã pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa (descritiva e interpretativa). O discurso de consumo em letras de funk ostentação constitui o objeto de análise deste estudo e os resultados indicam como os significados das escolhas do léxico contribuem para representações linguístico-discursivas que revelam uma prática social que reforça o consumo de produtos da moda como condição de inclusão ou exclusão social e como forma de delimitação de identidades sociais.
Representações imagéticas no jornal O Globo
Authors: Resende Viviane de Melo 
Published: March 2022

Com objetivo de discutir a representação de pessoas em situação de rua por mecanismos imagéticos com efeitos de distanciamento e encobrimento na mídia eletrônica de notícias, neste artigo analiso dados do jornal O Globo. Considero textos que cruzam as temáticas situação de rua e políticas públicas, contendo imagens em sua composição. A categoria analítica que dirige a composição do corpus é o aspecto saliência dos significados composicionais (Kress; van Leeuwen, 1996). São analisadas as 13 fotografias do corpus que põem em saliência elementos não humanos. Resultados apontam elementos em relação locativa de encaixe conceitual, criando um espaço entre ausência e presença.
“Senhora presidente, esta é uma carta pessoal” - as relações dialógicas emergentes de uma carta
Authors: Lopes Bortolini Fernanda , Da Silva Valério Patricia 
Published: March 2022

Este artigo assume como tema as relações dialógicas que emergem de uma interação discursiva instaurada por uma carta envolvendo dois interlocutores públicos do mais alto cargo do poder executivo brasileiro e vazada Ã imprensa em dezembro de 2015. Com objetivo de compreender as relações dialógicas instauradas em dois momentos de leitura: imediatamente após a divulgação da carta Ã imprensa e passados quatro anos da publicação da carta, foram mobilizadas noções e princípios teóricos da teoria/análise dialógica do discurso do Círculo de Bakhtin. A análise revela que a carta se configura como uma grande resposta, não simplesmente Ã interlocutora imediata, mas a toda sociedade brasileira.
Palavreando em travessia: as potencialidades do design para a ampliação dos patrimônios vivenciais dos surdos
Authors: Dorta Jessica Vasconcelos 
Published: March 2022

Neste artigo, proponho-me a discutir o Palavreando: uma proposta de aplicativo educacional móvel voltado às comunidades surdas, cujo propósito é se constituir como um espaço em que essas comunidades, por meio da mobilização e ampliação de seus patrimônios vivenciais (MEGALE e LIBERALI, 2020), possam construir sentidos para palavras-sinais em Português-Libras. A partir de uma compreensão ontoepistemológica das pessoas surdas, de suas dores e de suas urgências em relação à educação linguística, a discussão aqui apresentada pretende ampliar as percepções já lançadas ao aplicativo e ao seu design em trabalhos anteriores, e, assim, discutir o potencial do Palavreando em possibilitar que as comunidades surdas expandam seus patrimônios vivenciais e, dessa forma, ampliem seus potenciais de agência e mobilidade.
REGULATORY APPROACHES OF THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACCESS IN THE ARAB STATES
Authors: Kamel Jomaah Alkhalidy Marwan , Binti Abdul Halim Zalina 
Published: March 2022

Purpose – However, the Right to Access to Information (RTI)[1] is guaranteed by article 91 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and more than 120 have adopted such a right, fewer Arab countries; mainly in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria, whose constitutions included the right of people to access information. Hence, the purpose of this research is to assess and provide an in-depth study of the status quo of the right to access to public information in the Arab region as well as to highlight whether the adopted laws have met people need of information.
Methodology/Approach/Design – In order to achieve the purpose of this research project, a ‘non-doctrinal’ empirical socio-legal research type of qualitative method has been undertaken to examine the right to access and request information in Arab States.
Findings – The paper findings shows that Arab countries are not keeping the pace on adopting and implementing the Right to Access to Information laws where culture of secrecy prevails and overcomes the openness in the Arab World.

1 The term “Right to Access to Information” RTI will be used in this article interchangeably as the right to information RTI, Freedom of Information FOI, and Right to Know RTK. Calland 2010 refers to the terminology point by stating that civil society activists, advocates and authors do not prefer using the ‘Freedom of Information’ terminology of choice in this field; instead, ‘the right of access to information’ (ATI) or ‘the right to know’ RTK have gained a kind of ascendency in the past years.
Investigation and Seizure of Electronic Media in the Production of Investigative Actions
Authors: Vasyukov Vitaliy , Ilduzovna Khisamova Zarina 
Published: March 2022

[Purpose] This article is devoted to the study of the problem of authorization of the removal of electronic media according to Russian Criminal Procedure Code.
[Methodology] The methodological basis of this study is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the main place is taken by the methods of historicism, consistency, analysis and comparative law. The authors’ position is based on the legislation and opinions of the competent scientific environment on the need to use special knowledge in the investigation and seizure (copying) of electronic information relevant to the criminal case.
[Findings] Based on a legal analysis of the rules of criminal procedure authors argue the necessity to use specialists in the field of information and communication technologies in inspections, searches, and seizures. The systematization of rules-exceptions that must be observed by investigators during inspections, searches, and seizures is carried out. The questions of the evidentiary value of the results of electronic withdrawal are raised.