bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Rough set based information theoretic approach for clustering uncertain categorical data
Authors: Uddin Jamal , Ghazali Rozaida , H. Abawajy Jemal , Shah Habib , Husaini Noor Aida , Zeb Asim 
Published: May 2022

MotivationMany real applications such as businesses and health generate large categorical datasets with uncertainty. A fundamental task is to efficiently discover hidden and non-trivial patterns from such large uncertain categorical datasets. Since the exact value of an attribute is often unknown in uncertain categorical datasets, conventional clustering analysis algorithms do not provide a suitable means for dealing with categorical data, uncertainty, and stability.Problem statementThe ability of decision making in the presence of vagueness and uncertainty in data can be handled using Rough Set Theory. Though, recent categorical clustering techniques based on Rough Set Theory help but they suffer from low accuracy, high computational complexity, and generalizability especially on data sets where they sometimes fail or hardly select their best clustering attribute.ObjectivesThe main objective of this research is to propose a new information theoretic based Rough Purity Approach (RPA). Another objective of this work is to handle the problems of traditional Rough Set Theory based categorical clustering techniques. Hence, the ultimate goal is to cluster uncertain categorical datasets efficiently in terms of the performance, generalizability and computational complexity.MethodsThe RPA takes into consideration information-theoretic attribute purity of the categorical-valued information systems. Several extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the efficiency of RPA using a real Supplier Base Management (SBM) and six benchmark UCI datasets. The proposed RPA is also compared with several recent categorical data clustering techniques.ResultsThe experimental results show that RPA outperforms the baseline algorithms. The significant percentage improvement with respect to time (66.70%), iterations (83.13%), purity (10.53%), entropy (14%), and accuracy (12.15%) as well as Rough Accuracy of clusters show that RPA is suitable for practical usage.ConclusionWe conclude that as compared to other techniques, the attribute purity of categorical-valued information systems can better cluster the data. Hence, RPA technique can be recommended for large scale clustering in multiple domains and its performance can be enhanced for further research.
Protocol for the process evaluation of a counselling intervention designed to educate cancer patients on complementary and integrative health care and promote interprofessional collaboration in this area (the CCC-Integrativ study)
Authors: Bossert Jasmin , Mahler Cornelia , Boltenhagen Ursula , Kaltenbach Anna , Froehlich Daniela , Szecsenyi Joachim , Wensing Michel , Joos Stefanie , Klafke Nadja 
Published: May 2022

Background
Conducting a process evaluation is essential to understand how health interventions work in different healthcare settings. Particularly in the case of complex interventions, it is important to find out whether the intervention could be carried out as planned and which factors had a beneficial or hindering effect on its implementation. The aim of this study is to present the detailed protocol of the process evaluation embedded in the controlled implementation study CCC-Integrativ aiming to implement an interprofessional counselling program for cancer patients on complementary and integrative health care (CIH).

Methods
This mixed methods study will draw upon the “Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research” (CFIR) combined with the concept of “intervention fidelity” to evaluate the quality of the interprofessional counselling sessions, to explore the perspective of the directly and indirectly involved healthcare staff, as well as to analyze the perceptions and experiences of the patients. The qualitative evaluation phase consists of analyzing audio-recorded counselling sessions, as well as individual and group interviews with the involved persons. The quantitative evaluation phase applies questionnaires which are distributed before (T0), at the beginning (T1), in the middle (T2) and at the end (T3) of the intervention delivery.

Discussion
This protocol provides an example of how a process evaluation can be conducted parallel to a main study investigating and implementing a complex intervention. The results of this mixed methods research will make it possible to identify strengths and weaknesses of the team-based intervention, and to target more specifically the key factors and structures required to implement healthcare structures to meet patients’ unmet needs in the context of CIH. To our knowledge, this study is the first applying the CFIR framework in the context of interprofessional CIH counselling, and its results are expected to provide comprehensive and multidisciplinary management of cancer patients with complex supportive healthcare needs.
Assessing the association between air pollution and child development in São Paulo, Brazil
Authors: Luminati Ornella , Brentani Alexandra , Flückiger Benjamin , Ledebur de Antas de Campos Bartolomeu , Raess Michelle , Röösli Martin , de Hoogh Kees , Fink Günther 
Published: May 2022

Background
Outdoor air pollution is increasingly recognised as a key threat to population health globally, with particularly high risks for urban residents. In this study, we assessed the association between residential nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure and children’s cognitive and behavioural development using data from São Paulo Brazil, one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world.

Methods
We used data from the São Paulo Western Region Birth Cohort, a longitudinal cohort study aiming to examine determinants as well as long-term implications of early childhood development. Cross-sectional data from the 72-month follow-up was analysed. Data on NO2 concentration in the study area was collected at 80 locations in 2019, and land use regression modelling was used to estimate annual NO2 concentration at children’s homes. Associations between predicted NO2 exposure and children’s cognitive development as well as children’s behavioural problems were estimated using linear regression models adjusted for an extensive set of confounders. All results were expressed per 10 μg/m3 increase in NO2.

Results
1143 children were included in the analysis. We found no association between NO2 and children’s cognitive development (beta -0.05, 95% CI [-0.20; 0.10]) or behavioural problems (beta 0.02, 95% CI [-0.80; 0.12]).

Conclusion
No association between child cognition or child behaviour and NO2 was found in this cross-sectional analysis. Further research will be necessary to understand the extent to which these null results reflect a true absence of association or other statistical, biological or adaptive factors not addressed in this paper.
METODE K-HARMONIC MEANS CLUSTERING DENGAN VALIDASI SILHOUETTE COEFFICIENT (Studi Kasus : Empat Faktor Utama Penyebab Stunting 34 Provinsi di Indonesia Tahun 2018)
Authors: Salsabila Silvy ‘Aina , Widiharih Tatik , Sudarno Sudarno 
Published: May 2022

The k-harmonic means method is a method of using the cluster center point value, which is to determine each cluster from its center point based on the calculation of the harmonic average. The k-harmonic means determines the existence of each data point based on the membership function and weighting function by using a distance measure. in the clustering, which aims to increase the importance of data that is far from each central point. This causes the k-harmonic means to be insensitive in initialization in determining the cluster center point and significantly improves the quality of clustering compared to k-means. In determining the level of similarity, the determination of the level of similarity uses the distance measure and the distance measure used is the Euclidean distance measure. The distance measure used in cluster analysis can affect the cluster results obtained. Thus, to determine the quality of the results of the cluster analysis, validation tests were carried out using an internal criteria approach, namely silhouette coefficient. In this study, the k-harmonic means used to classify provinces in Indonesia based on the causes of stunting in 2018. The stunting in children under five in Indonesia has exceeded the limit set by WHO. In 2016-2017 there was an increase in the prevalence of stunting by 27.5% to 29.6%. The k-harmonic means method is used so that the four main factors causing stunting in every province in Indonesia can be seen and the prevention and cure of stunting can run optimally. This method is also used because the data on the four factors that cause stunting show a significant rate of change and as a measure of central tendency in 34 provincial objects in Indonesia. Four factors that cause stunting are used, namely the percentage of households that do not have access to clean drinking water, the percentage of exclusive breastfeeding, the percentage of Low Birth Weight Babies (LBW) 2,500-grams born safely and the percentage of households that do not have proper sanitation facilities. The results obtained by the cluster which is optimal at k= 3 using the Euclidean, where the silhouette coefficient = 0,3040722675 ≈ 0,3. Based on the results of the cluster analysis, it is known that in cluster one, the main factor that stands out the most is the percentage of exclusive breastfeeding. In cluster two, the main factor that stands out the most is the percentage of Low Birth Weight Babies (LBW) 2,500-grams born safely. In cluster three, the most prominent main factors are the percentage of Low Birth Weight Babies (LBW) 2,500-grams born safely and the percentage of households that do not have proper sanitation facilities with the highest average centroid among other clusters. Keywords: Clustering, K-Harmonic Means, Euclidean distance, Silhouette Coefficient, Stunting
The Great De-Mortgaging: the Retreat of Life Insurances From Housing Finance in US-German Historical Perspective
Authors: Kohl Sebastian 
Published: May 2022

Abstract
Recent research in economic history has found that mortgage debt in relation to GDP has taken off in the historical long run (“great mortgaging”), as growing banking assets have been redirected into mortgage credit. This paper maps the parallel long-run investment history of private (life) insurance as the much overlooked second pillar of the financial system. Drawing on in-depth studies of the US and Germany, it finds that a “great de-mortgaging” took place in insurers’ portfolios, with mortgages falling from up to 90 percent in the 19th century to below 5 percent today in favor of fixed-income securities. A parallel shift to secondary mortgage bonds has hardly offset this decline, while direct real estate remained largely a residual investment class. Banks’ great mortgaging is thus partly an institutional substitution effect. The paper sees insurers’ asset shift itself as mainly driven by long-run changes in capital demand and competition with banks and pension funds. It extends these findings to other long-term institutional investors and other OECD countries in the historical long run.
MicroRNA 322-5p reduced neuronal inflammation via the TLR4/TRAF6/NF-κB axis in a rat epilepsy model
Authors: Zhou Qin , Wang Qiong , He Baomei , Kong Haibo , Luo Huanjun , Wang Xiaowei , Wang Wenlan 
Published: May 2022

Abstract
This study aimed to determine whether microRNA-322-5p regulates seizure and seizure damage by targeting the TLR4/TRAF6/NF-κB-associated inflammatory signaling pathway. In a pilocarpine-induced epileptic rat model, the expressions of miR-322-5p, TLR4, NF-κB, TRAF6, IRF5, IL-1β, and GABA were assessed by a quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blotting. Tunel detects hippocampal neuron apoptosis. The results showed that the expression of miR-322-5p significantly decreased in status epilepticus (SE) rats. The reduction of miR-322-5p was accompanied by increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, an increased NF-κB expression, and reduced γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels. Exogenous miR-322-5p reduced the expression of inflammatory molecules and increased the GABA levels in SE rats, and also reduced hippocampal neuronal cell apoptosis caused by epilepsy. In conclusion, the miR-322-5p significantly inhibited the TLR4/TRAF6/NF-κB-associated inflammation and reduced neuronal apoptosis, suggesting that its induction may be of potential interest for novel antiseizure medications.
Nationalismus als Umkehr: Etwas zur jüdischen Meta-Politik der Moderne
Authors: Biemann Asher D. 
Published: May 2022

Abstract
“Metapolitics” is an ambiguous term. Recent philosophers have claimed the concept for neo-conservative, even right-wing agendas, while others have employed it to signal radical discontent with politics altogether. Beginning with Peter Viereck’s characterization of Nazi ideology as “Meta-Politics,” this essay works its way back from an “irrational,” “volkish,” and supposedly “conservative” concept to another use of “Metapolitics” as found in Martin Buber and Hermann Cohen that was rooted in a liberal tradition of the Enlightenment—especially in August Schlözer and Saul Ascher. Both, Buber and Cohen, linked “metapolitical politics” to prophetic and theopolitical sensibilities. As such, the prophetic motif of turning (Teshuvah) loomed large at the center of their respective philosophies of nationalism. But it was a theme that also connected a wide range of thinkers, including Hans Kohn and Leo Baeck, and which emerged as a Leitmotiv of cultural and spiritual Zionism as well as of the modern Renaissance of Jewish culture. Drawing on Moritz Lazarus, the essay argues that the recurring trope of turning helped establish a paradoxical nationalism founded not upon self-empowerment and political othering but on self-criticism. Concluding with a brief excursion on Abraham Joshua Heschel’s prophetic politics in the Civil Rights Movement, the essay gestures towards the possibility of nationalism as collective introspection and self-reformation.
The Neolithic Flint Quarry of Pozarrate (Treviño, Northern Spain)
Authors: Tarriño Antonio , López-Tascón Cristina , Hernández Hugo H. , Elorrieta Irantzu , Herrero-Alonso Diego , Aguirre Mikel , Larreina David , Castañeda Nuria , Mujika José Antonio 
Published: May 2022

Abstract
In this work, we present the preliminary data we have obtained in the Neolithic flint quarry of Pozarrate, currently under archaeological works. We want to put forward an update about the sedimentary fillings of one of the crescent-shaped dump quarries (6000–5600 BP). It is located at the Sierra de Araico-Cucho (Treviño, northern Spain). In this region, Tertiary carbonated terrains which host important silicifications called Treviño flint (Tarriño, A. (2006). El sílex en la cuenca vasco-cantábrica y Pirineo Navarro. Caracterización y su aprovechamiento en la Prehistoria. Monografía 21, Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura) are outcropped. The procurement of these silicifications by prehistoric populations was motivated by the good quality of this raw material for knapping. Currently, it constitutes one of the few Neolithic known flint mines of the Iberian Peninsula, understood as places of exploitation of flint with landscape modifications. Some instruments related to prehistoric quarry works have been recovered, such as picks, maces, and hammers made of flint, dolerite, and deer antler.
Studies on Pozarrate material remains have been conducted in an interdisciplinary way, in order to have a better understanding of the prehistoric mining processes. Several methodologies are being used in the study of the lithic industries, including flint characterization, procurement, typological, typometrical, technological, and functional approaches. We have obtained the initial data about extraction, selection, management, and use processes of the flint and dolerite assemblages. Deer antler remains have recently undergone a restoration process and preliminary data have been offered. Moreover, an experimental approach has been applied to clarify specific archaeological issues and technical solutions for quarrying using dolerite maces.
Mechanisms of homonym transformations: on Catholic variants of Stalinist discourse in Poland
Authors: Sadowski Jakub 
Published: May 2022

Abstract
Despite its anti-religious character, totalitarian discourse, in the years 1949–1956 filling the entire space of Polish official culture, had its Catholic segment. Within this segment, there occurred a transformation of the religious net of concepts into semantic units of totalitarian language, a transformation of Catholic worldview narratives into Stalinist ones. This text aims to describe the semiotic mechanisms of such transformation. The relations between the initial semiosphere of language and the sub-semiosphere of its totalitarian variant are described. Presented here is a proposal for a theoretical description of the transformation of signs and texts of natural language into totalitarian ones, and an analysis of its possible strategies: renomination of signs, resemantization of texts, and incorporation of signs and texts from foreign semiotic fields. The material analyzed here comes mainly from the weekly magazine Dziś i Jutro and from other parts of the discursive field of Polish Catholic journalism, which tended towards the official discourse, including periodicals of the circles of Catholic priests ready to institutionally cooperate with the communist authorities.
Sociological Tools for Improving Women's Representation and Experiences in Strength and Conditioning Coaching
Authors: Lord Rhiannon , Kavaliauskas Mykolas 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACT
Women are underrepresented in strength and conditioning (S&C) coaching, arguably more so than women in sport coaching. They account for approximately 6–16% of strength and conditioning coaches at all levels, thus negatively affecting the gendered experiences of women working in S&C. Based on evidence from coaching research, this is likely because of longstanding patterns of structural bias and discrimination, which is inherent in sport, but it is important for future strength and conditioning coaches (SCCs), both men and women, that more equitable practices and opportunities are implemented. In this article, we present 3 sociological perspectives as tools for those working in S&C, including individual coaches, educators, governing bodies, and organizations, to critically examine their gendered practices and environments. We hope that by doing sociology within their day-to-day practice, those working in S&C can develop a better awareness of structural bias and forms of discrimination that affect women SCCs' experiences and then, where possible, make positive changes for women working in the field.
Analysis of Immunization and Immunization Coverage in Children’s Outpatient Clinics of Any Type (Public or Private): Cross-Sectional Study
Authors: Grinchik Polina R. , Namazova-Baranova Leyla S. , Fedoseenko Marina V. , Vishneva Elena A. , Fominykh Mariya V. , Makushina Elena D. , Plenskovskaya Nina Y. , Privalova Tatiana E. , Rtishchev Alexey Yu. , Rusinova Dina S. 
Published: May 2022

Background. Worldwide private health care system plays significant role in promoting immunization programs for the children population. The role of private medical facilities in Russia in combating children vaccination issues has not been previously studied.Objective. The aim of the study is to study immunization and immunization coverage in children population according to the national immunization schedule (NIS) in outpatient clinics of different forms of property.Methods. The study of medical documentation of children in private (n = 1) and public (n = 2) facilities in Moscow and Moscow region was performed. Immunization (complete vaccination course in those who should be vaccinated by age) and immunization coverage (at least one dose of vaccine by those who have to be vaccinated) were estimated against the NIS schemes according to the data from preventive vaccination cards (form 063/y) and from preventive vaccination lists (form 112/y).Results. The study includes 313 cards of children from private outpatient clinic and 305 — from public outpatient clinic. Immunization and immunization coverage of children against tuberculosis were similar in these facilities: 293 (94%) and 294 (96%) (p = 0.114), respectively, as well as immunization coverage against hepatitis B — in 282 (90%) and 269 (88%) (p = 0.448). Rates of immunization and immunization coverage against the remaining NIS infections were higher in the private clinic. Maximum differences were noted in immunization (178 (57%) in private and 19 (6%) in public facilities; p < 0.001) and immunization coverage (238 (76%) and 52 (17%), respectively; p < 0.001) against pneumococcal disease. Immunization coverage of children for epidemic indications was also higher in private clinic: the largest differences were in immunization against hemophilic and meningococcal infections.Conclusion. Children followed up in private outpatient clinic have higher immunization and immunization coverage rates against most of the NIS infections.
Surgical Outcomes in Patients with Toe Walking after Percutaneous Myofasciotomy: Cohort Study
Authors: Pomarino David , Fregien Bastian , Nazarkin Alexandr Ya. , Rostasy Kevin , Emelina Anna A. 
Published: May 2022

Background.The main method of surgical treatment of toe walking is Achilles tendon extension, which is associated with the risk of excessive correction, tendon rupture, its poor blood supply, plantar flexion deformity. Another alternative is minimally invasive technique, myofasciotomy.Objective.The aim of the study is to study the results of percutaneous myofasciotomy in patients with idiopathic toe walking with severe foot deformity and with no effect of conservative therapy.Methods.The study included data (medical records) from patients with idiopathic toe walking who underwent Ulzibat percutaneous myofasciotomy. We have evaluated the frequency of persistence (recurrence) of toe walking on the next day and 12 months after surgery among all the treatment outcomes. Additionally, the range of motions in ankle joint, the presence of foot deformities, parental satisfaction with surgery results, as well as the number of postoperative complications were analyzed.Results.Percutaneous myofasciotomy was performed in 50 children (11 females) with median age of 13 (10; 16) years during the study period. There were no cases of toe walking on the next day after surgery. Recurrence of toe walking was revealed in 3 (6%) patients within 12 months after surgery. Dorsiflexion rates reached ≥ 10 degrees in all patients at evaluating foot mobility on the next day after surgery and 12 months later. The only revealed surgical treatment complication was postoperative hematoma in 10 (20%) patients. Parents of 3 (6%) children (all with recurrent toe walking) were dissatisfied with surgery results.Conclusion.Ulzibat percutaneous myofasciotomy has shown high efficacy and relative safety in the treatment of patients with idiopathic toe walking.