bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Interleukin-15 is a significant predictor of sarcopenia in human immunodeficiency virus infected patients on antiretroviral therapy
Authors: Agus Aprianta , Agus Somia , Suka Aryana 
Published: September 2022

Objective:
To identify the relationship between interleukin (IL)-15 levels and sarcopenia in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected patients who have received antiretroviral therapy.

Methods:
This study was a cross-sectional design with 70 participants conducted from January to March 2021. All the participants were assessed for sarcopenia and the IL-15 levels. Sarcopenia was established based on the the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) 2019 criteria. Plasma IL-15 was determined. This analysis was carried out by means of 2×2 tabulation and the statistical test used is Chi-square.

Results:
Seventy patients received antiretroviral therapy >6 months and showed a good clinical response. Among them, 36 (51.4%) took zidovudine-based antiretroviral therapy with a median duration of illness of 5 years. The proportion of sarcopenia in patients with HIV infection was 32.9%. The median CD4 cell count was 395.5 cells/L (range: 203-937 cells/L). Logistic regression analysis revealed that age>50 years (aOR 8.3, 95% CI 1.6-44.5), underweight (aOR 7.7, 95% CI 1.5-40.5), IL-15≥150.5 ng/L (aOR 4.9, 95% CI 1.3-19.0) and female (aOR 4.8, 95% CI 1.2-18.3 were significant and independent adverse predictors of sarcopenia in subjects with HIV infection.

Conclusions:
There is an association between high levels of IL-15 and sarcopenia in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy for more than 6 months with good clinical response.
Efficacy and safety of pharmacotherapeutic interventions used in visceral leishmaniasis clinical trials
Authors: Bashir Aamir , Sahu Gautam , Rashid Ishfaq , Tiwari Pramil 
Published: September 2022

Objective:
To compare the efficacy and safety outcomes of different antileishmanial agents used in visceral leishmaniasis clinical trials.

Methods:
A systematic literature search in PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane, and Google Scholar was done using keywords “randomized controlled trials”, “antileishmanial” and “visceral leishmaniasis”. The outcomes included were cure rate, overall withdrawals, relapse rate, and treatment-emergent adverse events. Effect estimates through the frequentist network meta-analysis approach were presented as OR with 95% CI. Rankogram plots were used for identifying the “best intervention” based on p-scores obtained using the surface under the cumulative ranking. The risk of bias was evaluated by using Pedro Scale.

Results:
Seventeen randomized controlled trials with 5 143 visceral leishmaniasis patients who received different antileishmanial agents (amphotericin B, miltefosine, paromomycin, meglumine antimoniate, sodium stibogluconate, sitamaquine, and pentavalent antimonials) and met the inclusion criteria were included. For efficacy outcomes of the treatments, the rankogram of the network meta-analysis revealed that paromomycin (p-score=0.814 8) has the highest probability of being best in the pool, followed by sodium stibogluconate (OR 0.82, 95% CI 0.24-2.79, p-score=0.758 0), amphotericin B+miltefosine (OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.02-19.04, p-score=0.732 9) as compared to the remaining treatments; however, the most of the treatment-emergent adverse events were reported with sitamaquine.

Conclusions:
Paromomycin reported the highest cure rates, while the maximum treatment-emergent adverse events were seen with sitamaquine.
Spinal Anaesthesia in Kyphoscoliotic Parturients Undergoing Caesarean Delivery – A Retrospective Study from a Tertiary Care Centre in India
Authors: Singh Ranju , Sardana Rashi , Singh Pooja 
Published: September 2022

Introduction:
Kyphoscoliosis with pregnancy is a rare but serious disorder which often requires caesarean delivery. Both general and regional anaesthesia have been used in these cases but data regarding outcomes with spinal anaesthesia (SA) are limited.

Methods:
We conducted a retrospective study to identify patients with kyphoscoliosis undergoing caesarean delivery at a tertiary care hospital in India. Those parturients who received SA were compared with those receiving general anaesthesia (GA group) with respect to cardiorespiratory parameters, maternal outcomes and neonatal outcomes.

Results:
The GA group had significantly worse cardiorespiratory parameters including pulmonary function tests, right atrial pressures and cardiac ejection fraction as compared to SA group. All the GA group patients required mechanical ventilation while no patients in the SA group needed mechanical ventilation. Intraoperative hypotension was more common in the SA group. Neonatal outcomes were worse in the GA group with lower Apgar scores at 1 and 5 min and more nursery admissions than the SA group. No maternal or neonatal deaths occurred in either group.

Conclusion:
Kyphoscoliotic parturients scheduled for CD can be successfully managed with SA with good maternal and neonatal outcomes. GA may be reserved for severe kyphoscoliotic parturients with cardiorespiratory complications. The safety of SA in severe kyphoscoliosis requires further studies.
LQG, PID controller, ANN for single axis gimbal actuator
Authors: Danh Nguyen Cong 
Published: September 2022

Gimbal or other stable platforms have structures that move according to its functions. This is for the purpose of keeping track of the goals to the fullest. Tracking targets can become difficult as the subject moves further and further away and they are out of the gimbal’s allowable viewing range. Besides, under the influence of noise signals form outside space, it becomes even more difficult to observe the gimbal’s targets. To overcome above disadvantages, this paper is presented an adjustment method to limit above risks. Adjusting Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) for expensive gimbal systems, noise signals are processed purely by Kalman filters to improve the function of observing targets. In addition, proportional- integral-derivative (PID) controller, artificial neural network in this case is also considered to verify the effectiveness of control methods listed below. In particular, ANN is the most effective control method today to deal with unwanted signals. These unwanted signals can cause worsening conditions during the operation of systems.Therefore, artificial network (ANN) is a solution to information and communication security problems. Simulation is done by Matlab. Novelty of the work: no previous research has been published for this genre. The study of this genre with the use of artificial intelligence is suggestive of the study of artificial intellligence technologies at a higher level. This category is also a suggestion for studying a smoother control method based on existing data.
Correction to: “A Novel Blockchain-Based Model for Blood Donation System” [EAI Endorsed Context-aware Syst App (2022), vol. 8]
Authors: Zafar M.H. , Rehman A.U. , Zafar S. 
Published: September 2022

This article is a correction on:
Zafar, M., Khan, I., Rehman, A. and Zafar, S. 2022. A Novel Blockchain-Based Model for Blood Donation System. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications. 8, 1 (Aug. 2022), e8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.4108/eetcasa.v8i1.2546
In the above article, Imran Khan was added as an author of the paper when he had no participation in the research process. Imran Khan requested the removal of his name and all the co-authors agreed with this decision.
Geographical and population diversity of African honeybees, Apismellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A review
Authors: Legesse Gemechis , Getu Emana 
Published: September 2022

This review was prepared to summarize the information on geographic and genetic diversity of Apismellifera L. of African honeybees and the progresses made through time and applications of various advanced tools in their taxonomy at subspecies level. African honeybees have developed distinct morphology, behavior and physiology as they evolved in tropical favorable climate. The variations among the African honeybee populations have helped to produce geographic subspecies based on the morphological characteristics. However, the introduction of molecular taxonomic tools has come up with discrepancies in the number of subspecies and lineages, and subspecies composition of evolutionary lineages in Africa and other parts of the world. It has also brought up controversies in the evolutionary history of A. mellifera reporting different location as the center of origin of the species at different times: Asia, Africa and Europe. It is not only the tools that are used, but also the genetic variations within subspecies, within colonies in an apiary site and within individuals of the same colony temporally are the factors for continually appearing discrepancies. Natural hybridization between populations of adjacent subspecies along the geographic transition zones and introgression of genes through introduction of colonies that is mainly driven by human demand for desirable traits of honeybees have been among the challenges for discrimination of honeybee subspecies. Therefore, in future genetic diversity and taxonomic investigations, considering these natural variations at subspecies level and developing standardized and integrated procedures from sampling to analysis methods would help to produce generally recognized data base that is critically important to resolve the problem of inconsistencies in taxonomy and nomenclature of honeybee subspecies of Arica and elsewhere.
Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins
Authors: Shen Lu , Gautam Ritesh , Omara Mark , Zavala-Araiza Daniel , Maasakkers Joannes D. , Scarpelli Tia R. , Lorente Alba , Lyon David , Sheng Jianxiong , Varon Daniel J. , Nesser Hannah , Qu Zhen , Lu Xiao , Sulprizio Melissa P. , Hamburg Steven P. , Jacob Daniel J. 
Published: September 2022

Abstract. We use satellite methane observations from the
Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), for May 2018 to February 2020,
to quantify methane emissions from individual oil and natural gas (O/G)
basins in the US and Canada using a high-resolution (∼25 km)
atmospheric inverse analysis. Our satellite-derived emission estimates show
good consistency with in situ field measurements (R=0.96) in 14 O/G basins distributed across the US and Canada. Aggregating our results to the
national scale, we obtain O/G-related methane emission estimates of
12.6±2.1 Tg a−1 for the US and 2.2±0.6 Tg a−1 for
Canada, 80 % and 40 %, respectively, higher than the national inventories reported to the United Nations. About 70 % of the discrepancy in the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) inventory can be attributed to five O/G basins, the Permian, Haynesville, Anadarko, Eagle Ford, and Barnett basins, which in total account for 40 % of US emissions. We show more generally that our TROPOMI inversion framework can
quantify methane emissions exceeding 0.2–0.5 Tg a−1 from individual O/G
basins, thus providing an effective tool for monitoring methane emissions
from large O/G basins globally.
Chemical evolution of secondary organic aerosol tracers during high-PM2.5 episodes at a suburban site in Hong Kong over 4 months of continuous measurement
Authors: Wang Qiongqiong , Wang Shan , Cheng Yuk Ying , Chen Hanzhe , Zhang Zijing , Li Jinjian , Gu Dasa , Wang Zhe , Yu Jian Zhen 
Published: September 2022

Abstract. Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) makes a sizable
contribution to fine-particulate-matter (PM2.5) pollution, especially
during high-PM episodes. Past studies of SOA evolution at the episode scale mainly
rely on measurements of bulk SOA mass, with few studies probing individual SOA
molecular tracers. In this study, we continuously monitored (at a bi-hourly
resolution) SOA tracers specific to a few common volatile organic compound
(VOC) precursors at a suburban site in Hong Kong for a 4-month period from the end
of August to December 2020. The SOA molecules include tracers for SOA derived from
biomass burning (BB) emissions, monoaromatics, naphthalene/methylnaphthalenes,
and three biogenic VOCs (isoprene, monoterpene, and sesquiterpene).
Generally, the SOA tracers showed regional characteristics for both
anthropogenic and biogenic SOA as well as for the BB-derived SOA.
This work focused on the seasonal variation and evolution characteristics of
SOA tracers during 11 city-wide PM2.5 episodes, which are defined
as periods with PM2.5 concentrations exceeding 35 µg m−3 at 3 or more
of the 15 general air quality monitoring stations cross the city. Mass
increment ratios (MIR), calculated as the ratio of the mass concentration
prior to an episode to that during an episode, were examined for individual species
during each episode. During most episodes, the SOA tracer concentrations were enhanced (i.e. MIR >1), and the maximum MIR values were
in the range of 5.5–11.0 for SOA tracers of different precursors. Episodes
on summer and fall days showed notably larger MIR values than those falling
on winter days, indicating the higher importance of SOA to the formation of
summer/fall PM2.5 episodes. Simultaneous monitoring of six tracers for
isoprene SOA revealed the dominance of the low-NOx pathway in forming
isoprene SOA in our study region. The multiple monoterpene SOA products
suggested fresher SOA in winter, evidenced by the increased presence of the
early-generation products. Thus, the current study has shown by example the
precursor-specific SOA chemical evolution characteristics during PM2.5
episodes in different seasons. This study also suggests the necessity to
apply high-time-resolution organic marker measurement at multiple sites
in order to fully capture the spatial heterogeneity of haze pollution at the city
scale.
Çocuk acil servisine yeniden başvuran vakaların demografik ve klinik özelliklerinin değerlendirilmesi
Authors: AKÇAY Gürbüz , GÜL Özgür 
Published: September 2022

Giriş: Acil Servislere Yeniden Başvuru Oranı (ASYBO) belli bir zaman periyodunda tekrar gelen/getirilen hastaların toplam hastaya oranı olarak tanımlanmıştır. Genellikle ilk 24 ya da 72 saat, bazı çalışmalarda da 7 gün ölçüme esas alınmaktadır.
Materyal ve Metot: 2021 yılı 12 aylık çocuk acil servis başvuruları çalışmaya alındı. Veriler hasta protokol sayı temel alınarak, SQL yöntemiyle hastane bilgi sistemi veri tabanından elde edildi. Aynı hasta no’ya ait protokollerin 2021 yılı içinde geliş zamanları elde edilerek iki protokol arası süre ölçüldü. Hasta demografik bilgileri, geliş zamanları ve tanı verileri analiz edildi.
Bulgular: 37092 kayıt çalışmaya dahil edildi. Kayıtların %47,50’si kız diğerleri erkekti. Olguların yaşları en küçük 0 gün, en büyük 18 yıl, ortalama 7,68+-5,66 yıl ve ortanca 6,42 yıl idi. Cinsiyetler arası yaş frekansları benzerdi. Yıl boyu ilk 24 saatte başvuru oranı %1,35 iken ilk 72 saatte başvuru oranı %4,37 olarak hesaplandı. İlk 24 saat ve 72 saatte başvuranlarda yaş ortalaması başvurmayanlara göre anlamlı olarak küçük hesaplandı (p=0,0000). Tüm olgularda Genel semptom ve belirtiler diğer, tanımlanmış tanısı (R68.8) %26,77 ile ilk sıradaydı. Bunu %14,27 ile Sebebi bilinmeyen ve diğer orijinli ateş-ateş, tanımlanmamış (R50.9) ve 12,84% ile Öksürük (J06.9) tanısı takip ediyordu. İlk 24 saat tekrar başvurularda ilk ve ikinci sıradaki tanı grubu aynı iken üçüncü sırada %10,18 ile Bulantı ve kusma (R11) en sık başvurma nedeniydi. İlk 72 saat içindeki yeniden başvurularda ise ilk, ikinci ve üçüncü sıra başvuru nedeni tüm tanı kodlamalarına benzerdi.
Sonuç: Acil servis başvurularında yaşın küçük olması ve bulantı ve kusma şikayetleri yeniden başvuru için bir risk faktörüdür.
Sensibilidades e paixões políticas democráticas: Ansart entre leitores de Tocqueville
Authors: Bresciani Maria Stella Martins 
Published: September 2022

As instituições democráticas são, sem dúvida, um tema candente e atual. Tema controverso, perpassa os debates políticos em todas as mídias, acirra as controvérsias sobre seus fundamentos, faz com que os embates resvalem rapidamente dos argumentos racionais para os mecanismos da persuasão. Signos sensíveis e figuras de linguagem, em particular metáforas, acionam os imaginários políticos ao substituírem ideias por imagens e os argumentos por apelos emocionais. As reflexões de Pierre Ansart sobre as “paixões políticas democráticas”, presentes em Les cliniens des passions politiques, publicado em 1997, retomadas em Quatre leçons de Philosophie sur les passions politiques, artigo de 2002, me estimularam a reler De la Démocratie en Amérique, de Alexis de Tocqueville, publicado em dois tomos em 1835 e 1840. Neste ensaio, busco colocar as reflexões de Ansart entre as de contemporâneos seus, Lefort e Catoriadis, que frente ao desmonte da URSS, nos anos 1980 e 1990, buscaram responder a indagações comuns sobre os desafios colocados às democracias. Por ser Tocqueville em De la Démocratie en Amérique referência comum a eles penso ser importante indagar qual o legado intelectual deixado por Tocqueville, cujos escritos trazem como subtema as tensões de um período político bastante conturbado na França dos anos 1830? Pode Tocqueville ser definido como analista crítico das paixões políticas? Suas observações sobre as instituições republicanas dos Estados Unidos permitiram, certamente, compor um campo conceitual sobre o poder das paixões na política, mas teriam consistência para permitir indagações sobre nossos desafios atuais?
Reflexões de Pierre Ansart sobre o socialismo libertário de Proudhon
Authors: Lopreato Christina Roquette 
Published: September 2022

Resumo: Na produção acadêmica de Ansart (1922-2016), nota-se uma dedicação de longa duração à análise crítica dos escritos do pensador-ativista anarquista Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865). Cativado pela leitura dos textos de Proudhon e pela sua capacidade de imaginar um outro mundo possível cujo alicerce das relações sociais seria a justiça, isto é, a igualdade de condições para todos, Ansart construiu uma análise sociológica inovadora sobre a força crítica da extensa obra proudhoniana com proposições instigantes e ousadas que distanciam Proudhon dos seus contemporâneos socialistas utópicos e comunistas. Neste ensaio, apresento algumas reflexões de Pierre Ansart sobre o socialismo libertário proudhoniano com ênfase nas paixões e sentimentos que pulsam na obra de Proudhon como aversão à propriedade, ódio à autoridade, amor à liberdade e anticlericalismo.
STUDY KOMPARATIF KESEJAHTERAAN PETANI PROVINSI JAMBI SEBELUM DAN SAAT PANDEMI COVID-19
Authors: Putra Adi , Arniwita Arniwita , Veronica Deka 
Published: September 2022

Fenomena pandemi COVID-19 yang mewabah secara global dari awal tahun 2020 sampai saat ini sangat berimplikasi buruk terhadap pengembangan usaha dan investasi, begitu juga terhadap kesejahteraan petani. Penelitian ini dilakukan bertujuan mengetahui efek pandemi terhadap kesejahteraan petani di Provinsi Jambi dan Indonesia. Data penelitian pooled cross sections berupa penerimaan usaha tani (it), pengeluaran rumah tangga petani (IB) dan nilai tukar petani (NTP) dianalisis secara statistik menggunakan Paired Sample Test yang bertujuan untuk melihat perbedaan anatara kesejahteraan petani di Provinsi Jambi dan Indonesia sebelum dan saat pandemi COVID-19. Hasil penelitian ditemukan adanya perbedaan kondisi NTP Provinsi Jambi dan nasional satu tahun sebelum dan satu satu tahun masa pandemi. Indeks NTP Provinsi Jambi satu satu tahun masa pandemi kondisinya lebih tinggi dari indeks secara nasional, kondisi tersebut tersebut menggambarkan efek pandemi COVID-19 pengaruhnya terhadap kesejahteraan petani di Provinsi Jambi lebih kecil dari kesejahteraan petani secara umum di Indonesia.
Editorial
Authors: Rivera Figueroa César Humberto 
Published: September 2022

El cambio de régimen en México trajo consigo una vorágine de cambios, acciones y contradicciones en la conducción de la política científica. El gobierno de México, sin importar su filiación partidista, debe seguir apoyando a los estudiantes de postgrado en ciencias naturales, quienes enfrentan grandes retos en su formación académica. Esta inversión en capital humano facilitará la transición del país hacia un desarrollo sustentado en la economía del conocimiento, y a la formación de personas críticas y conscientes que tanto necesita nuestro país. Lo invito a reflexionar con el artículo de opinión: ¿Es pertinente estudiar en México un postgrado en ciencias naturales, aun cuando existen múltiples retos en la ciencia?
Pelatihan Sistem Informasi Penelitian Dan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (SIM-PPM) STMIK Pelita Nusantara
Authors: Nababan Adli Abdillah , Jannah Miftahul , Sianturi Fricles Ariwisanto 
Published: September 2022

Salah satu tugas dan kewajiban seorang dosen adalah melakukan penelitian dan pengabdian kepada masyarakat. Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (LPPM) STMIK Pelita Nusantara merupakan lembaga yang bertugas untuk mengelola dan mendata terkait penelitian dan pengabdian kepada masyarakat yang telah dilakukan oleh dosen dan mahasiswa. Pengelolaan data penelitian dan pengabdian kepada masyarakat masih menggunakan cara konvensional sehingga tidak efektif dan efisien dari sisi waktu dan biaya. Oleh karena itu diperlukan sebuah sistem informasi manajemen penelitian dan pengabdian kepada masyarakat (SIM-PPM) untuk kemudahan dalam pengelolaan dan pengontrolan progres laporan dari laporan proposal hingga laporan akhir. SIM-PPM yang diakses oleh Dosen dan Mahasiswa, butuh pengelola untuk memelihara atau mantenance, agar selalu dapat digunakan dan dikembangkan sesuai dengan kebutuhan. Untuk itu perlu dilakukan pelatihan bagi LPPM dalam pengenalan dan pengoperasian SIM-PPM kepada Dosen maupun Mahasiswa guna mempermudah proses pengajuan penelitian dan pengabdian di linkungan STMIK Pelita Nusantara secara online.
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS MORTALITY AND ITS RISK FACTORS AMONG PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES AND PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN FOUR COMMUNITY HOSPITALS, CENTRAL THAILAND
Authors: Lertsakulbunlue Sethapong , Kunsuwan Passawith , Rangsin Ram , Sakboonyarat Boonsub 
Published: September 2022

Background: Tuberculosis (TB), a communicable disease, is currently a significant health problem in Thailand. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is an indicator of poor TB outcomes; however, data according to specific antihyperglycemic use and tuberculosis outcomes in community hospital settings in Thailand remain limited. We aimed to determine TB mortality as well as explore the demographic and clinical risk factors among patients with pulmonary TB and underlying T2D.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2020, to determine tuberculosis mortality and its risk factors among patients with T2D and pulmonary TB visiting three community hospitals, in central Thailand. T2D and pulmonary TB were determined according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes presented in medical records. TB mortality data were reviewed and retrieved from the tuberculosis treatment cards. Patients were classified as “dead” when they died before completing treatment regardless of the causes. Multivariable cox proportional regression analysis was performed to obtain the adjusted hazard ratios (AHR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) of factors related to TB mortality.
Results: A total of 133 patients with T2D and pulmonary TB were enrolled in the present study; 74 (55.6%) participants were males. At baseline, the average age of participants was 57.29+12.51 years. During the study period, the TB mortality rate was 15.74 (95% CI 8.13-27.50) deaths per 100 person-years. The independent risk factors for TB mortality included age ≥70 years (AHR 5.45, 95% CI; 1.36-21.84), use of insulin (AHR 4.62, 95% CI; 1.11-19.21), and positive sputum test result at 1st follow-up (AHR 16.10, 95% CI; 2.10-123.40).
Conclusion: TB mortality among patients with T2D should be emphasized. Insulin use may be a proxy indicator for poor glycemic control associated with mortality. Additionally, elderly patients should be closely observed for successful treatment as well as monitoring for any adverse events.