bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
COMPARISON OF LOCAL METHYLCOBALAMINE INJECTION VERSUS LOCAL BUPIVACAINE INJECTION FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE HERPETIC NEURALGIA
Authors: Yasmin Ghazala , Raza Naeem , Bari Arfan -Ul- , Yousaf Farah , Saleem Summaya , Ahmed Najia 
Published: January 2022

Objective: To compare the reduction in mean pain score with local Methylcobalamin injection versus local Bupivacaine injection in patients with acute herpetic neuralgia.
Study Design: Quasi experimental study.
Place and Duration of Study: Dermatology Outpatient Department, Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from Jun to Dec 2019.
Methodology: Total 100 patients, having pain score more than 3, fulfilling the selection criteria were divided into two groups. Group A was treated with daily subcutaneous injection Bupivacaine, whereas Group B was treated with daily subcutaneous injection Methycobalamin at the site of neuralgia. Patients were followed up for 4 weeks. The pain score was noted. All the data was entered and analyzed on SPSS version 21.
Results: In this study mean age of patients in group A was 43.82 ± 15.76 years and in group B was 44.76 ± 16.92 years. The mean visual analogue pain score at 4th week in the group A patients was 1.14 ± 0.32 and in group B was 1.90 ± 0.97. Statistically significant difference was found in group A (local Bupivacaine) with visual analogue score (VAS) at 4th week (pvalue=0.002).
Conclusion: The local Bupivacaine injection showed significant reduction in mean pain score than local Methylcobalamin injection in patients with acute herpetic neuralgia.
ASSOCIATION OF LATTICE DEGENERATION IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC SEROUS CHORIO-RETINOPATHY
Authors: Abidin Farooq Ul , Sarfaraz Muhammad Haroon , Javaid Hassaan , Khan Asfandyar , Khan Summaya , Javaid Haroon 
Published: January 2022

Objective: To establish the association of lattice degeneration in patients with chronic serous chorio-retinopathy at tertiary care ophthalmology hospital.
Study Design: Comparative cross-sectional study.
Place and Duration of Study: Armed Forces Institute of Ophthalmology, Rawalpindi, from Sep 2019 to Dec 2020.
Methodology: The sample population comprised of 80 subjects which included 40 cases of chronic serous chorio-retinopathy and 40 controls. Chronic serous chorio-retinopathy was diagnosed by consultant ophthalmologist on basis of fluorescein angiography and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. Peripheral retinal examination was done among all the study participants to look for lattice degeneration. Pearson chi-square test was applied to look for the relationship of various factors with lattice degeneration including the presence of chronic serous chorio-retinopathy.
Results: Two groups with equal number of subjects were included in the study. Mean age of the study participants was 49.14 ± 2.93 years. 60 (75.0%) participants were male while 20 (25%) were female. Fifty four (67.5%) had no lattice degeneration while 26 (32.5%) showed the presence of lattice degeneration on detailed ophthalmic examination. Chi-square test showed that having chronic serous chorio-retinopathy and use of steroids were statistically significantly associated with presence of lattice degeneration among the study participants.
Conclusion: Chronic serous chorio-retinopathy emerged as a condition strongly associated with lattice degeneration of peripheral retina. Use of topical or systemic steroids also increased the chances of developing lattice degeneration in our study population.
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas
Authors: Gogina Mayya , Zettler Anja , Zettler Michael L. 
Published: January 2022

Abstract. The availability of standardised biomass data is essential
for studying population dynamics, energy flows, fisheries and food web
interactions. To make the estimates of biomass consistent, weight-to-weight
conversion factors are often used, for example to translate more widely
available measurements of wet weights into required dry weights and ash-free dry weight metrics. However, for many species and groups the
widely applicable freely available conversion factors have until now remained
very rough approximations with high degree of taxonomic generalisation. To
close up this gap, here for the first time we publish the most detailed and
statically robust list of ratios of wet weight (WW), dry weight (DW) and
ash-free dry weight (AFDW). The dataset includes over 17 000 records of
single measurements for 497 taxa. Along with aggregated calculations,
enclosed reference information with sampling dates and geographical
coordinates the dataset provides a broad opportunity for reuse and
repurposing. It empowers the future user to do targeted sub-selections of
data to best combine them with their own local data, instead of only having a
single value of conversion factor per region. The dataset can thereby be
used to quantify natural variability and uncertainty. The dataset is
available via an unrestricted repository from https://doi.org/10.12754/data-2021-0002-01 (Gogina et al., 2021).
Vertical profiles of leaf photosynthesis and leaf traits and soil nutrients in two tropical rainforests in French Guiana before and after a 3-year nitrogen and phosphorus addition experiment
Authors: Verryckt Lore T. , Vicca Sara , Van Langenhove Leandro , Stahl Clément , Asensio Dolores , Urbina Ifigenia , Ogaya Romà , Llusià Joan , Grau Oriol , Peguero Guille , Gargallo-Garriga Albert , Courtois Elodie A. , Margalef Olga , Portillo-Estrada Miguel , Ciais Philippe , Obersteiner Michael , Fuchslueger Lucia , Lugli Laynara F. , Fernandez-Garberí Pere-Roc , Vallicrosa Helena , Verlinden Melanie , Ranits Christian , Vermeir Pieter , Coste Sabrina , Verbruggen Erik , Bréchet Laëtitia , Sardans Jordi , Chave Jérôme , Peñuelas Josep , Janssens Ivan A. 
Published: January 2022

Abstract. Terrestrial biosphere models typically use the
biochemical model of Farquhar, von Caemmerer, and Berry (1980) to simulate
photosynthesis, which requires accurate values of photosynthetic capacity of
different biomes. However, data on tropical forests are sparse and highly
variable due to the high species diversity, and it is still highly uncertain
how these tropical forests respond to nutrient limitation in terms of C
uptake. Tropical forests often grow on soils low in phosphorus (P) and are, in
general, assumed to be P rather than nitrogen (N) limited. However, the
relevance of P as a control of photosynthetic capacity is still debated.
Here, we provide a comprehensive dataset of vertical profiles of
photosynthetic capacity and important leaf traits, including leaf N and P
concentrations, from two 3-year, large-scale nutrient addition
experiments conducted in two tropical rainforests in French Guiana. These
data present a unique source of information to further improve model
representations of the roles of N, P, and other leaf nutrients in
photosynthesis in tropical forests. To further facilitate the use of our
data in syntheses and model studies, we provide an elaborate list of
ancillary data, including important soil properties and nutrients, along
with the leaf data. As environmental drivers are key to improve our
understanding of carbon (C) and nutrient cycle interactions, this comprehensive
dataset will aid to further enhance our understanding of how nutrient
availability interacts with C uptake in tropical forests. The data are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5638236 (Verryckt, 2021).
PyCO2SYS v1.8: marine carbonate system calculations in Python
Authors: Humphreys Matthew P. , Lewis Ernie R. , Sharp Jonathan D. , Pierrot Denis 
Published: January 2022

Abstract. Oceanic dissolved inorganic carbon (TC) is the largest pool of carbon that substantially interacts with the atmosphere on human timescales. Oceanic TC is increasing through uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), and seawater pH is decreasing as a consequence. Both the exchange of CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere and the pH response are governed by a set of parameters that interact through chemical equilibria, collectively known as the marine carbonate system. To investigate these processes, at least two of the marine carbonate system's parameters are typically measured – most commonly, two from TC, total alkalinity (AT), pH, and seawater CO2 fugacity (fCO2; or its partial pressure, pCO2, or its dry-air mole fraction, xCO2) – from which the remaining parameters can be calculated and the equilibrium state of seawater solved. Several software tools exist to carry out these calculations, but no fully functional and rigorously validated tool written in Python, a popular scientific programming language, was previously available. Here, we present PyCO2SYS, a Python package intended to fill this capability gap. We describe the elements of PyCO2SYS that have been inherited from the existing CO2SYS family of software and explain subsequent adjustments and improvements. For example, PyCO2SYS uses automatic differentiation to solve the marine carbonate system and calculate chemical buffer factors, ensuring that the effect of every modelled solute and reaction is accurately included in all its results. We validate PyCO2SYS with internal consistency tests and comparisons against other software, showing that PyCO2SYS produces results that are either virtually identical or different for known reasons, with the differences negligible for all practical purposes. We discuss insights that guided the development of PyCO2SYS: for example, the fact that the marine carbonate system cannot be unambiguously solved from certain pairs of parameters. Finally, we consider potential future developments to PyCO2SYS and discuss the outlook for this and other software for solving the marine carbonate system. The code for PyCO2SYS is distributed via GitHub (https://github.com/mvdh7/PyCO2SYS, last access: 23 December 2021) under the GNU General Public License v3, archived on Zenodo (Humphreys et al., 2021), and documented online (https://pyco2sys.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, last access: 23 December 2021).
Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, transport, distribution, and impacts
Authors: Pattiaratchi Charitha , van der Mheen Mirjam , Schlundt Cathleen , Narayanaswamy Bhavani E. , Sura Appalanaidu , Hajbane Sara , White Rachel , Kumar Nimit , Fernandes Michelle , Wijeratne Sarath 
Published: January 2022

Abstract. Plastic debris is the most common and exponentially increasing human
pollutant in the world's ocean. The distribution and impact of plastic in
the Pacific and Atlantic oceans have been the subject of many publications
but not so the Indian Ocean (IO). Some of the IO rim countries have the
highest population densities globally and mismanagement of plastic waste is
of concern in many of these rim states. Some of the most plastic-polluted
rivers empty into the IO, with all this suggesting that the IO receives a
tremendous amount of plastic debris each year. However, the concentration,
distribution, and impacts of plastics in the IO are poorly understood as the region is under-sampled compared to other oceans. In this review, we discuss sources and sinks, which are specific to the IO. We also discuss unique atmospheric, oceanographic, and topographic features of the IO that control plastic distribution, such as reversing wind directions due to the monsoon, fronts, and upwelling regions. We identify hotspots of possible plastic accumulation in the IO, which differ between the two hemispheres. In the southern IO, plastics accumulate in a garbage patch in the subtropical gyre. However, this garbage patch is not well defined, and plastics may leak into the southern Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean. There is no subtropical gyre and associated garbage in the northern IO due to the presence of landmasses. Instead, the majority of buoyant plastics most likely end up on coastlines. Finally, we identify the vast knowledge gaps concerning plastics in the IO and point to the most pressing topics for future investigation.
EFFECT OF BANANA PEEL FLOUR INFUSION ON SERUM LDL LEVELS OF MALE WISTAR RAT GIVEN HEATED COOKING OIL
Authors: Astuti Ilmi Dewi , Kurniasari Fuadiyah Nila , Rahmi Yosfi 
Published: January 2022

Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease causing a coronary heart disease (CHD). Atherosclerosis is related to the levels of LDL in the blood. An increased LDL in the blood can be prevented by consuming soluble fiber and antioxidants from such Kepok banana peels. The aim of this study is to know the effects of Kepok banana peel flour infusion in various dosage on LDL serum level of male wistar rats which were treated with a repeatedly heated cooking oil. This study used post test control group as experimental design in which 24 male rats were randomly categorized in five groups, namely (1) a negative control group, (2) a positive control group treated with a repeatedly heated cooking oil and distilled water, as well as the groups treated with a repeatedly heated cooking oil and 0.5, 1, and 2 ml/rats of Kepok banana peel flour solution, for group (3), (4), and (5) respectively. LDL level were measured by using calorimetric method . The result of this study showed that the highest average levels of LDL obtained in control positive group K(+) was 14,25 mg/dl and the lowest average level of LDL obtained in the group treated with a repeatedly heated cooking oil and 0.5 ml/rat was 11,2 mg/dl. It can be concluded that Kepok banana peel flour can not significantly reduce the mean of LDL serum level of male Wistar rats treated with repeatedly heated cooking oil (p>0,05)
Introduction: Creative and Practice-led Research Symposium, University of Canberra, 9 October 2010
Authors: Burr Sandra 
Published: January 2022

Held at the University of Canberra on 9 October 2009, and co-convened by Professor Jen Webb (University of Canberra) and Associate Professor Donna Lee Brien (CQUniversity, Australia), the symposium was funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) under their funding of Webb and Brien’s ALTC Competitive Grants Scheme project. It brought together leading creative and practice-led research practitioners from Australia’s higher education sector including relevant program heads, convenors and invited postgraduate students in Design, Writing, and the Visual, Performing and New Media arts (including film), with the aim of identifying and discussing the current environment and future aspirations in the field of creative practice. In all, thirty-seven participants from sixteen institutions accepted an invitation to attend the symposium.
Managing creativity: practice-led research and training the person
Authors: Brook Scott 
Published: January 2022

In an attempt to move debate beyond advocatory accounts of practice-led research, this paper asks whether craft-based research is sufficient as a research paradigm for creative arts disciplines. In the context of a broader account of practice theory, one that might enable disciplinary links across the arts, human sciences, government and the cultural industries, it asks whether the practice-led research model may in fact reify the notion of craft at the expense of considering the more mundane and uncreative domains of practice that underpin cultural value. It draws attention to the potentially counterproductive effects of the creative industries policy push in relation to creative arts education, and makes some tentative proposals concerning the supervision of research students.
Some (post-romantic) reflections on creative writing and the exegesis
Authors: Hetherington Paul 
Published: January 2022

The link between creative practice and research outcomes in universities remains a vexed issue, as does the associated question about the function of the exegesis in creative and practice-led higher degree theses. This paper reflects on these issues through discussing the nature of inspiration and some of the features of creative work, arguing that research and art are intimately connected.
Rewriting a national cultural food icon: a gastrobiography of Vegemite
Authors: Brien Donna Lee 
Published: January 2022

In the current publishing environment, where there is an unprecedented level of reader interest in food-related texts, a wide range of subject matter is providing a rich source of opportunities for writers. In this context, the individual food product (either biological or processed) is one such area of professional and creative opportunity. Suggesting that the ‘gastrobiography’ is a form of writing that can serve the particular interests of writers as well as their readers and publishers, this article defines the term and its applications in food writing. It then presents a gastrobiography of Vegemite, utilising the form to consider the yeast spread’s history, ongoing role in Australian life, and how this has been conceptualised and written about. Also investigated is Vegemite’s place in the personal politics of eating and politics more broadly. In the process, the gastrobiographical form is revealed as one that can present Vegemite as a site of contradiction and paradox that can reveal much about the world in which it is produced and sold.
‘The drink has called it into being’: a year in a wine column
Authors: Costello Moya 
Published: January 2022

For a year, between 2009 and 2010, I wrote a wine-review column in a free regional newspaper as a passionate amateur. I conceive of the wine reviews as creative nonfiction and of myself as a role model for my students who have the option of writing on food. Genre has its courtiers and jesters and, in itself, it is bound for change as any other cultural phenomena. I think of my wine-writing practice as destablising that specific genre, attempting a transformation of it into an expanded field, via the efficacy of writing and wine as art. It is contentious to place winemaking in the realm of art. What I want to do is commend art, which includes creative writing and winemaking, for its efficacious capacity. This is also a contentious proposition. I think of my wine writing as public intellectual practice, linking wine as art to culture, politics and history, when, on the whole, wine columns stick solely to descriptions of the wine. Wine writing is about technical details, but it is also about what wine—its appearance (bottle label and wine colour), aroma and taste—sets the dreaming, remembering mind doing, and what links emerge to contemporary issues in the practice of the everyday.
Grubs with gusto: imagining recipes for change
Authors: Hayes Nigel 
Published: January 2022

It is hardly a matter of contention that the cultural processes informing eating habits and food choices have always had ethical, economic and environmental implications; eating is both political and personal. Australian culinary thought and practice over the past 50 years has been widely influenced by ‘celebrity chefs’ who, through challenging and effecting their audience, can be seen to have broad social impact and profound modifying influence upon individual, community, and national eating habits. One of the most important Australian culinary figures is Margaret Fulton whose 1968 Cookbook has gone on to sell almost 2 million copies. This paper imagines that The Margaret Fulton Cookbook included a selection of recipes that used Indigenous Australian insects as their main ingredients and that Fulton’s intention in providing these recipes was to promote not only cultural understanding but also some wider ethical considerations of nature and Australian eating habits. That this scenario is almost unimaginable is both important and interesting enough for it to be ‘played with’, albeit in a critical manner. This paper therefore constructs a new Cookbook and deconstructs the socio-cultural meaning and the new culinary history it might make possible. Imagining one particular recipe to be especially influential in this ‘history’ allows us to think critically about food norms and the ‘otherness’ of insects which, for most Australians, are a part of nature that should not be eaten or be ‘made’ part of the self. This paper asserts not only that food is a window on the political, but that we embody our ethics through our food choices and practices, and that what we don’t eat may be even more telling than what we do. Among the disciplinary perspectives used here is Foucault’s ‘technologies of the self’, which can be seen to provide ways for individuals to rationalise and justify their beliefs, understandings and practices. In using imagination to help understand the complex ways in which social norms, cultural meanings and economic realities underlie food habits, this paper is posited as an ethical intervention in, and of, itself.
Is food and nutrition knowledge the proof in the pudding?: the Jamie Oliver effect
Authors: Muggleston Holly 
Published: January 2022

The cliché, ‘The proof is in the pudding’ is a shortened version of the original phrase ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’. It means that the true value or quality of something can only be judged when put to use; results are what count. In this regard ‘the pudding’ can be represented by nutrition knowledge (i.e. information) and the ‘proof of the eating’ as the influence or effectiveness of how this knowledge is applied. As this paper will show, food and nutrition knowledge has the potential to affect eating behaviour, health and the food supply, and it is the process in which knowledge is communicated that is of relevance to this discourse. Mass media can profoundly shape our perceptions about the world, including attitudes towards how we feel about food and nutrition, what we eat and drink, and consequently, our health. Popular entertainment, such as television, provides an ideal vehicle for sharing health information and influencing behaviour. This paper explores how Jamie Oliver, a media celebrity, is using mass media to affect the food supply and promote healthier eating practices.
The red frog prince: a fairytale about the shifting social status of sugar confectionery
Authors: Risson Toni 
Published: January 2022

Once upon a time, sugar was a magical substance in an ordinary world. When it became cheap and readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, sugar and sugar confectionery became part of the ordinary diet, and have since fallen to the status of junk food, and, more recently, poison. But children relate to lollies at the level of imagination, so lollies are a vital part of the wonder of childhood and retain for children the magical cultural status once attributed to them. Allen’s red jelly frogs are banned from school tuckshops, but they play a noble role in opening doors for youth chaplains during the notorious Schoolies Week. Furthermore, the humble lolly descends from the elaborate sugarwork that once featured in royal banquets; it was noble all along. Lollies are no longer on the menu, and they do not even fit into food categories, but judgements based on food value alone fail to take into account the magical role they play in children’s lives and ignore the ways in which health authorities, artists, and advertisers use confectionery. Lollies have more in common with fairytales than food. The Frog Prince—a fairytale about a royal son who is turned into an ugly frog by a wicked enchantress and then rescued through his relationship with a child—is a metaphor for red frog lollies. This paper examines red frogs as sites of transformation, thereby repositioning sugar confectionery as magic and challenging dominant narratives that reduce the complexity of lollies and their cultural significance.