bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Variation from 6 Cities in Iraq Based on 15 Loci.
Authors: Al-Zubaidi mohammed.M , Sabbah Majeed .A , Saliha Thoalnoon Y , Namaa Dhuha S , Alrubai Haider K. , Ibrahem Hala K 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Background: 1061 individuals were sampled from the cities of Anbar, Baghdad, Basra, Diyala, Najaf, and Wasit in Iraq and typed for 15 forensic STRs to explore the genetic structure of Iraq and develop a forensic DNA database .The total number of alleles that were identified were 203 alleles .Analyses found that Iraq is similar to other countries in the Middle East, particularly Iran and Turkey, and is more similar to Europe than either Asia or Africa.
Results: These loci had an average heterozygosity of 0.779, homozygosity of 0.221, polymorphism information content of 0.77, power of discrimination of 0.927, and power of exclusion of 0.563. At these loci, a matching genotype will occur, on average, in 1 in 8.152 x 10 17 individuals. For paternity tests, the average paternity probability for a matching profile is 99.9997%. For both measures, this can be taken as an exact match. These loci are appropriate for use in forensic and paternity testing for this population.
Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that these 15 autosomal STR loci are useful markers for forensics and paternity testing for the population in Iraq. Some loci present with a large range of repeats which may be the result of admixture within the population. Further analyses on the allele frequencies of specific ethnic groups within Iraq may clarify the origins of the rarer alleles that were found in this study.
Examination of the Relationship Between Childhood Traumas and Dissociation, Social Appearance Anxiety and Gender Roles in People With and Without Aesthetic Surgery Experience
Authors: Güler Kahraman , Demir Deniz Senem 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Background
In the study, it was aimed to comparatively examine the relationships between childhood traumas, dissociative experiences, social appearance concerns and gender roles of people who have and do not have plastic surgery.
Methods
Socio-demographic Information Form, Childhood Trauma Scale, Dissociation Scale, Social Appearance Anxiety Scale, Gender Roles Attitude Scale were applied to 415 participants aged 18–55 residing in Istanbul. Participants in the research were reached through questionnaires created with the Google Forms application in electronic environment. Study data were evaluated with SPSS statistical analysis program. Kolmogorov Smirnov test was used for the normality distribution of the data. Normal distribution was not detected in the scales used.
Results
The relationship of the continuous variables was examined with the Spearman Correlation coefficient. According to the research findings, a positive relationship was found between childhood traumas scale scores and dissociation scale scores and social appearance anxiety scale scores of all participants, and a negative relationship with gender attitudes scale.
Conclusion
While the scores of the participants with plastic surgery experience in childhood traumas and all sub-scales, the identity confusion subscale of the dissociation scale, and the social appearance anxiety scale were higher than the participants who did not have plastic surgery, the childhood traumas of those with plastic surgery experience and the egalitarian and male gender roles were negatively correlated found to be in a relationship.
Multi-dimensional Evaluation of Diastasis Recti Abdominis by Ultrasound during Different Pregnancy and Perinatal Period
Authors: Guo Xiaohan , Xie Yujuan , Chen Shengjiang 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Background
To explore the application value of two-dimensional ultrasound and shear wave elastography (SWE) in the evaluation of diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) in different dimensions during perinatal period.
Methods
From June 2021 to September 2022, 26 cases of the first trimester (< 14 weeks), 36 cases of 14–27 weeks, 36 cases of 28–34 weeks, 32 cases of 35–38 weeks, 45 cases of postpartum 42 days and 27 cases of postpartum 3 months were identified. Inter-rectus distance (IRD) and muscle thickness measurements were taken by B-mode ultrasound. SWE values were acquired by two operators. IRD, thickness and SWE, were compared during different period using one-way ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis. Spearman correlation analyses were conducted for the variables of IRD, thickness, BMI, neonatal weight, delivery mode, and SWE. Bland-Altman plot was used to analyze SWE of rectus abdominis as a reliability index.
Results
IRD and SWE did not return to the early level (P < 0.001, P < 0.001), but the muscle thickness had no significant difference (P = 0.211). SWE was negatively correlated with IRD (r=-0.515), positively correlated with muscle thickness (r = 0.408), negatively correlated with BMI (r=-0.296), but not significantly correlated with neonatal weight and delivery mode (P = 0.147, 0.648). Bland-Altman plot showed that different operators have better consistency.
Conclusions
Multi-dimensional evaluation of DRA by ultrasound is feasible. IRD and SWE values can be used to evaluate the recovery of postpartum DRA, and the combination of them can objectively reflect the morphological and functional severity of DRA.
Advanced Frequency Study of Thick FGM Cylindrical Shells by Using TSDT and Nonlinear Shear
Authors: Hong C. C. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
For the advanced frequency study of thick functionally graded material (FGM) circular cylindrical shells, it is interesting to consider the extra effects of nonlinear coefficient term in third-order shear deformation theory (TSDT) of displacements on the calculation of varied shear correction coefficient. The formulation for the advanced nonlinear shear correction coefficient are based on the energy equivalence principle. The values of nonlinear shear correction coefficient are usually functions of nonlinear coefficient term of TSDT, power-law exponent parameter and environment temperature. The free vibration frequencies of thick FGM circular cylindrical shells are investigated with the simply homogeneous equation by considering that simultaneous effects of the TSDT, the nonlinear shear correction coefficient of transverse shear force and the two direction of mode shapes.
Progress and Prospects in the Ruthenium Catalyzed Allylic Amination Reactions
Authors: Archana Rajan , Aneeja Thaipparambil , Anilkumar Gopinathan 
Published: December 2022

Abstract:
Ruthenium-catalyzed amination reactions have gained much attention in recent
times. Due to the low cost and versatile nature of ruthenium, its chemistry is expanding rapidly.
The amination reaction provides an efficient pathway to synthesize organonitrogen
compounds. These reactions are highly regio- and stereoselective and exhibit wide substrate
scope. This review gives an overview of the ruthenium-catalyzed allylic amination
reactions covering literature up to 2021.
Formulation and Characterisation of Cilnidipine Microsponge Loaded
Hydrogels for Antihypertensive Activity
Authors: Shirodkar Shreya , Pissurlenkar Raghuvir 
Published: December 2022

Background:
Owing to presystemic metabolism following oral drug delivery, most antihypertensive medications have a low bioavailability. Cilnidipine is a calcium channel blocker used to treat mild to moderate hypertension. Cilnidipine's bioavailability is reduced by 13% due to substantial presystemic metabolism.

Objective:
The study aimed to fabricate non-irritant and stable microsponge-based hydrogel to enhance the bioavailability of cilnidipine, a weakly water-soluble medication. In addition, the goal was to enhance the permeation rate and retention time at the site of application.

Methods:
Formulation was developed by using a two-level factorial design with Design Expert software version 13 (14-day free trial). Microsponges were formulated by the emulsion solvent diffusion method, followed by evaluating responses, such as particle size, percentage entrapment efficiency, in vitro drug release, and surface morphology. In addition, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) were performed. Viscosity, swelling behaviour, spreadability, in vitro diffusion, skin irritancy using Wistar albino rats, and in vitro permeation using goat skin were assessed, and stability studies were performed after incorporating the finest formulation into the gel base.

Results:
Fabricated microsponges were found to be within the required micro dimensions having the necessary porous morphology as demonstrated by scanning electron microscopy studies. Drug entrapment efficiency was found to be in the range of 75-88%. The extended medicament release duration of up to 8 hours was observed. The diffusion data showed controlled release, as demonstrated by Higuchi’s plot. In vitro permeation studies displayed enhanced medicament retention and permeation rate at the site of application.

Conclusion:
The fabricated microsponge drug delivery system was found to be stable, non-irritant, and having enhanced permeation rate and retention time.
Diversity in Stakeholder Groups in Generative Co-design for Digital Health: Assembly Procedure and Preliminary Assessment
Authors: Vandekerckhove Pieter , Timmermans Job , de Bont Antoinette , de Mul Marleen 
Published: December 2022

Background
Diverse knowledge and ways of thinking are claimed to be important when involving stakeholders such as patients, care professionals, and care managers in a generative co-design (GCD) process. However, this claim is rather general and has not been operationalized; therefore, the influence of various stakeholders on the GCD process has not been empirically tested.

Objective
In this study, we aimed to take the first step in assessing stakeholder diversity by formulating a procedure to assemble a group of diverse stakeholders and test its influence in a GCD process.

Methods
To test the procedure and assess its influence on the GCD process, a case was selected involving a foundation that planned to develop a serious game to help people with cancer return to work. The procedure for assembling a stakeholder group involves snowball sampling and individual interviews, leading to the formation of 2 groups of stakeholders. Thirteen people were identified through snowball sampling, and they were briefly interviewed to assess their knowledge, inference experience, and communication skills. Two diverse stakeholder groups were formed, with one more potent than the other. The influence of both stakeholder groups on the GCD process was qualitatively assessed by comparing the knowledge output and related knowledge processing in 2 identical GCD workshops.

Results
Our hypothesis on diverse stakeholders was confirmed, although it also appeared that merely assessing the professional background of stakeholders was not sufficient to reach the full potential of the GCD process. The more potently diverse group had a stronger influence on knowledge output and knowledge processing, resulting in a more comprehensive problem definition and more precisely described solutions. In the less potently diverse group, none of the stakeholders had experience with abduction-2 inferencing, and this did not emerge in the GCD process, suggesting that at least one stakeholder should have previous abduction-2 experience.

Conclusions
A procedure to assemble a stakeholder group with specific criteria to assess the diversity of knowledge, ways of thinking, and communication can improve the potential of the GCD process and the resulting digital health.
Jaunas liecības par 11.–13. gadsimta ugunskapiem zemgaļu teritorijā: Tērvetes Viesturu kapulauka izpētes rezultāti
Authors: Jērums Normunds 
Published: December 2022

Šajā pētījumā aplūkots un analizēts jaunatklātā Tērvetes Viesturu kapulauka arheoloģisko izrakumu materiāls, kas sniedz iepriekš nezināmas, nozīmīgas liecības par zemgaļu apbedīšanas tradīcijām un materiālo kultūru 12.–13. gs. Rakstā aplūkots Tērvetes Viesturu kapulaukā atklātais ugunskapu inventārs, apbedījumu hronoloģija, apbedīšanas veids un konteksts.
Mihaila Kuscinska fotogrāfijas – unikālas liecības par latviešu zemnieku apģērbu Krustpils apvidū 1866. gadā
Authors: Pīgozne Ieva 
Published: December 2022

Raksts veltīts Viļņas Universitātes bibliotēkas krājumā esošajām Mihaila Kuscinska fotogrāfijām, kurās redzami Krustpils apkārtnes zemnieki 1866. gadā. Fotogrāfijas tapušas, gatavojoties Krievijas Etnogrāfiskajai izstādei, un ir vērtīgs latviešu tradicionālā apģērba vēstures izziņas avots. Tā kā muzeju krātuvēs saglabājušies tikai atsevišķi apģērba gabali no dažādām vietām un dažādiem laikiem, fotogrāfijas palīdz noskaidrot, kādi bija apģērba komplekti. Tās liecina, ka šajā laikā zemnieces vairs nevalkāja vainagus un izšūtās villaines, bet galvā sēja krāsainus lakatus un ap pleciem sedza baltas villaines. Vīrieši arvien biežāk valkāja naģenes. Sieviešu apģērbā vērojamas lielākas variācijas, kamēr vīriešu apģērbi ir savā starpā līdzīgāki.
Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor treatment and risk of atrial fibrillation: Scandinavian cohort study
Authors: Engström Arvid , Wintzell Viktor , Melbye Mads , Hviid Anders , Eliasson Björn , Gudbjörnsdottir Soffia , Hveem Kristian , Jonasson Christian , Svanström Henrik , Pasternak Björn , Ueda Peter 
Published: December 2022

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<p><em>Objective</em>: To assess the association between use of SGLT2 inhibitors and the risk of new-onset AF in routine clinical practice.</p>
<p><em>Research design and methods</em>: We used nationwide registers in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 2013-2018, to include patients without history of AF who were newly prescribed an SGLT2 inhibitor or an active comparator (glucagon-like peptide-1 [GLP-1] receptor agonist). We performed a cohort study to assess new-onset AF in intention-to-treat analyses using Cox regression, adjusted for baseline covariates with propensity score weighting.</p>
<p><em>Results</em>: We identified 79343 new users of SGLT2 inhibitors (59.2% dapagliflozin, 40.0% empagliflozin, 0.8% canagliflozin and <0.1% ertugliflozin) and 57613 new users of GLP-1 receptor agonists. Mean age of the study cohort was 61 years and 60% were men. The adjusted incidence rate of new-onset AF was 8.6 per 1000 person-years for new users of SGLT2 inhibitors as compared with 10.0 per 1000 person-years for new users of GLP-1 receptor agonists. The adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) was 0.89 (95% CI 0.81-0.96) and the rate difference was 1.4 fewer events per 1000 person-years (95% CI 0.6-2.1). Using an as-treated exposure definition, the aHR for new-onset AF was 0.87 (95% CI 0.76-0.99). No statistically significant heterogeneity of the aHRs was observed between subgroups of patients with and without a history of heart failure or major cardiovascular disease. </p>
<p><em>Conclusions</em>: In this cohort study using nationwide data from three countries, use of SGLT2 inhibitors as compared with GLP-1 receptor agonists, was associated with a modestly reduced risk of new-onset AF.</p>
The effects of diets incorporating natural source of tannins on laying hens’ production performances and physical parameters of eggs
Authors: Cornescu Gabriela Maria , Vlaicu Alexandru Petru , Untea Arabela Elena , Panaite Tatiana Dumitra , Oancea Alexandra , Saracila Mihaela 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of natural tannins in laying hens’ diets on production parameters and the alterations of eggs’ physical properties during storage time and temperature. A six weeks experiment was carried out on 168 Lohmann Brown laying hens, 51 weeks of age, accommodated within digestibility cages, structured on 3 levels. The dietary basic structure was the same for all 3 tested groups. The difference between the experimental and control groups was established by the type of plant additive added E1 (0.5% chestnut flour) vs. E2 (0.5% bark oak). At the end of the experiment, 36 eggs/group were collected to evaluate internal and external quality parameters of eggs during storage. These eggs were divided into two parts: 18 eggs/group were kept at room temperature (22°C) and 18 eggs/group were kept in the refrigerator (4°C) for 42 days and analysed to determine shelf time. The results obtained showed that the physical parameters of eggs laid by hens fed with diets supplemented with natural source of tannins (chestnut powder and oak bark) were improved in terms of Haugh Units, yolk colour and eggshell thickness, but only in refrigeration storage conditions.
New Public Management and ethics
Authors: Spano Dominick 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
New Public Management (NPM) is a business-oriented approach to public administration that has existed for many years. While there are mixed opinions on NPM’s level of effectiveness, I believe that the more pressing question is if it is ethical. This paper seeks to answer said question by utilizing Terry Cooper’s insights on ethics. By discussing various matters and providing multiple illustrations, such as NPM’s relationship to privatization, contrasting out, elites, and everyday citizens, this work concludes that NPM is not an ethical methodology to public administration.
Probabilistic Interpretation of Observer Effect on Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Authors: Leong David 
Published: December 2022

Abstract

Background: In quantum mechanics, the observer effect categorically states that observing a phenomenon changes it. This research explores a probabilistic interpretation of entrepreneurial opportunity and explains the observer effect reflecting on Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. This approach addresses opportunity as a “possibility” concept reinterpreting it from multiple observers’ perspectives and the cruciality of action to cause wave function collapse to an emergent reality. This paper intends to resolve the epistemological paradox and ‘opportunity’ war by re-contextualising opportunity as an artefact and positing it as a probability wave with a range of possibilities until alert entrepreneurs act on it.

Method: This conceptual development relies on literature review as a research methodology, using reasoning by analogy for the progress of theory and metaphors for theorisation.

Results: This conceptual narrative strengthens the epistemological foundation focused on possibility and probability (illustrated through wave function) to sharpen the definition of opportunity and action theory. The observer effect in opportunity is underexplored in entrepreneurial scholarship. This study features how the observer effect influences the evolving state of opportunity. Opportunity is affected by other observers and the entrepreneur’s imagination, social construction and effort. Each involved agent relates and interacts to give rise to possibilities in opportunities. The interrelations and interdependence are complex, giving rise to superposition with a mixed state with many possibilities.

Conclusions: The contribution of this research is manifold from a theoretical and practical level. It presents a quantum-like model where an ‘un-acted’ opportunity is in superposition (multiple possibilities emerging simultaneously until it is enacted), expanding on Ramoglou and Tsang’s (2016) view on propensity. The interactional effects – interfering and entangling between agents observing the same opportunity generate possibilities. The potentiality and the many-possibilities states in the opportunity artefact hold great promise in entrepreneurial research.
A Model of Organizational Change Process
Authors: Kharitonovich Alexander 
Published: December 2022

Abstract

Purpose/Goal: The article focuses on organization development process based on functioning of change motors; therefore, the author focuses on accomplishing three objectives. The first objective involves adding to the four change motors described by A. H. Van de Ven & M. S. Poole the fifth one, actually the balancing development motor. The second objective deals with devising a five change motor model based on motor interaction during the life cycle of an organization. The model represents the stages of change motor functioning, description of their interaction and combination of different stages of this functioning. The third objective implies developing and describing the method of the analysis of change motor interaction.

Method: Lewin’s field theory, punctuated equilibrium theory, and complexity theory common aspects were identified using the method of comparative analysis and the method of synthesis, which allowed describing balancing development as a change motor.

Results: The five change motor model was developed using the method of metaphors and the method of conceptual modeling.

Conclusion: The results presented in the article can provide more thorough understanding of the development process of an organization since they contribute to the explanation of how an organization declines in its life cycle due to the functioning of its change motors and how this decline can be overcome by implementing a transformational change. The use of the five change motor model presented in this article will provide insight into the development process of an organization as well as contribute to its further theoretical and empirical research.
Metrics on ℕ and the Distribution of Sequences
Authors: Paštéka Milan 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study sequences of numbers as random variables. The asymptotic density will play the role of the probability.
In the first part of this paper, the notion of natural metric on the set of natural numbers is defined. It is a metric so that the completion of ℕ is a compact metric space on which a probability Borel measure exists so that the sequence {n} is uniformly distributed. This condition connects the asymptotic density and the mentioned measure. A necessary and sufficient condition is derived so that a given metric is natural. Later, we study the properties of sequences uniformly continuous with respect to the given natural metric. Inter alia, the continuity ofdistribution function is characterized.
A Note on the Distributions of (log n)mod 1
Authors: Berger Arno 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
For sequences sufficiently close to (a log n), with an arbitrary real constant a, this note describes the precise asymptotics of the associated empirical distributions modulo one, with respect to the Kantorovich metric as well as a discrepancy-style metric. In particular, the note demonstrates how these asymptotics depend on a in a delicate, discontinuous way. The results strengthen and complement known facts in the literature.
On the Derivative of the Minkowski Question-Mark Function
Authors: Gayfulin Dmitry 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
The Minkowski question-mark function ?(x) is a continuous monotonous function defined on [0, 1] interval. It is well known fact that the derivative of this function, if exists, can take only two values: 0 and +∞.It isalso known that the value of the derivative ? (x)atthe point x =[0; a
1,a
2,...,a

t
,...] is connected with the limit behaviour of the arithmetic mean (a
1 +a
2 +···+a

t
)/t. Particularly, N. Moshchevitin and A. Dushistova showed that if

a

1

+

a

2

+
⋯
+

a

t

<

κ

1

,

{a_1} + {a_2} + \cdots + {a_t} < {\kappa _1},

where

κ

1

=
2
log

(

1
+

5

2

)

/
log
2
=
1.3884
…

{\kappa _1} = 2\log \left( {{{1 + \sqrt 5 } \over 2}} \right)/\log 2 = 1.3884 \ldots

, then ?′(x)=+∞.They also proved that the constant κ
1 is non-improvable. We consider a dual problem: how small can be the quantity a
1 + a
2 + ··· + a

t
− κ
1
t if we know that ? (x) = 0? We obtain the non-improvable estimates of this quantity.