bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Folliculogenesis in random start protocols for oocytes cryopreservation: quantitative and qualitative aspects
Authors: Galati Giulia , Serra Nicole , Ciaffaglione Marta , Pinna Monica , Reschini Marco , Pisaturo Valerio , Somigliana Edgardo , Muzii Ludovico , Filippi Francesca 
Published: April 2022

AbstractRandom start protocols are commonly used for oocytes cryopreservation in women with cancer. However, evidence to support their effectiveness is yet modest. This study aims to compare the quality of ovarian response between the ovary carrying the dominant follicle or the corpus luteum (active ovary) and the contralateral ovary (resting ovary). Women with a diagnosis of malignancy who underwent oocytes cryopreservation were reviewed. The main inclusion criterion was the presence of a unilateral dominant follicle or a unilateral corpus luteum on the first day of ovarian hyperstimulation. The primary outcome was the number of mature oocytes retrieved. Intra-patient comparisons between the two ovaries were made using the nonparametric Wilcoxon test for paired data. Forty-three women were included. The number of mature oocytes retrieved from the active and the resting ovaries did not differ, the median [interquartile range—IQR] being 4 [2–7] and 5 [2–8], respectively (p = 0.09). The rate [IQR] of mature oocytes per developed follicle was 58% [40–80%] and 65% [33–87%], respectively (p = 0.42). In addition, no significant difference emerged when repeating the analyses separately for women carrying dominant follicles and for those carrying corpora lutea. This study failed to detect any detrimental effect of the presence of a dominant follicle or a corpus luteus on the ovarian response to hyperstimulation, thus supporting the validity of random start protocols.
Navigating the 2021 update to the IDSA/SHEA Clostridioides difficile guidelines: An ethical approach to equitable patient care
Authors: Shoff Christopher J. , Spires S. Shaefer , Yen Christina , Advani Sonali D. 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
The 2021 focused update to the Infections Diseases Society of America/Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (IDSA/SHEA) guidelines for management of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) prioritizes the use of fidaxomicin over vancomycin for the treatment of initial and recurrent CDI. These recommendations have significant clinical and financial ramifications for hospitals and patients with CDI. Antimicrobial stewardship programs must balance the needs, goals, and barriers faced by patients and health systems when determining the best treatment strategy for CDI. In this commentary, we provide antimicrobial stewardship programs with a decision-making framework that acknowledges the fundamental principles of ethics to provide equitable patient care.
OnabotulinumtoxinA Reduces Health Resource Utilization in Chronic Migraine: PREDICT Study
Authors: Becker Werner J. , Boudreau Guy , Finkelstein Ian , Graboski Corrie , Ong May , Christie Suzanne , Sommer Katherine , Bhogal Meetu , Davidovic Goran 
Published: April 2022

ABSTRACT:Background:PREDICT was a Canadian, multicenter, prospective, observational study in adults naïve to onabotulinumtoxinA treatment for chronic migraine (CM). We descriptively assess health resource utilization, work productivity, and acute medication use.Methods:OnabotulinumtoxinA (155–195 U) was administered every 12 weeks over 2 years (≤7 treatment cycles). Participants completed a 4-item health resource utilization questionnaire and 6-item Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire: Specific Health Problem V2.0. Acute medication use was recorded in daily headache diaries. Treatment-emergent adverse events were recorded throughout the study.Results:A total of 197 participants were enrolled, and 184 received ≥1 treatment with onabotulinumtoxinA and were included in the analysis. Between baseline and the final visit, there were decreases in the percentage of participants who reported headache-related healthcare professional visit(s) (96.2% to 76.8%) and those who received headache-related diagnostic testing (37.5% to 9.9%). Reductions from baseline were also observed in the mean number of headache-related visits to an emergency room/urgent care clinic (2.5 to 1.4) and median headache-related hospital admissions (4.0 to 1.0). OnabotulinumtoxinA improved work productivity and reduced the mean (standard deviation) number of hours missed from work over a 7-day period (6.1 [9.7] to 3.0 [6.8]). Mean (standard deviation) acute medication use decreased from baseline (15.2 [7.6] to 9.1 [6.5] days). No new safety signals were identified.Conclusions:Real-world evidence from PREDICT demonstrates that onabotulinumtoxinA treatment for CM in the Canadian population reduces health resource utilization and acute medication use and improves workplace productivity, supporting the long-term benefits of using onabotulinumtoxinA for CM.
Modeling clinical trajectory status of critically ill COVID-19 patients over time: A method for analyzing discrete longitudinal and ordinal outcomes
Authors: Ward Michael J. , Douin David J. , Gong Wu , Ginde Adit A. , Hough Catherine L. , Exline Matthew C. , Tenforde Mark W. , Stubblefield William B. , Steingrub Jay S. , Prekker Matthew E. , Khan Akram , Files D. Clark , Gibbs Kevin W. , Rice Todd W. , Casey Jonathan D. , Henning Daniel J. , Wilson Jennifer G. , Brown Samuel M. , Patel Manish M. , Self Wesley H. , Lindsell Christopher J. ,   for the Influenza and Other Viruses in the Acutely Ill (IVY) Network
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization stressed the importance of daily clinical assessments of infected patients, yet current approaches frequently consider cross-sectional timepoints, cumulative summary measures, or time-to-event analyses. Statistical methods are available that make use of the rich information content of longitudinal assessments. We demonstrate the use of a multistate transition model to assess the dynamic nature of COVID-19-associated critical illness using daily evaluations of COVID-19 patients from 9 academic hospitals. We describe the accessibility and utility of methods that consider the clinical trajectory of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
First trigonotarbid arachnids from the Pennsylvanian of Indiana and Oklahoma
Authors: Shanks Ryan E. , Selden Paul A. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractA new specimen of the arachnid order Trigonotarbida is described from the Middle Pennsylvanian (lower Desmoinesian) Shelburn Formation of Indiana, which has previously yielded the remains of a phalangiotarbid. Two new trigonotarbid arachnid specimens are also described from the Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) Senora Formation of Oklahoma. These are the first trigonotarbid specimens reported from Indiana and Oklahoma. The Indiana trigonotarbid belongs to the Eophrynidae, as indicated by distinct features such as the large tubercles on the dorsal surface of the opisthosoma and two pairs of terminal opisthosomal spines. This specimen is the first arachnid fossil to be imaged using a Multistripe Laser Triangulation scanner. The heavy dorsal tuberculation, lobed and subtriangular carapace, rounded clypeus, lack of terminal opisthosomal spines, and rounded opisthosoma on Oklahoma specimen FMNH PE 56932 indicate it belongs to the genusAphantomartus, in Aphantomartidae. The other Oklahoma specimen, FMNH PE 56955, possesses opisthosomal tergites that are divided into five plates longitudinally as well as a subquadrate carapace, which identify it as a member of Anthracomartidae; its rounded opisthosomal margin shows it to belong to the genusAnthracomartus.
Dilemmas of Co-production: How Street Waste Pickers Became Excluded from Inclusive Recycling in São Paulo
Authors: Rosaldo Manuel 
Published: April 2022

ABSTRACTUnder what conditions do collaborations between informal workers and the state in public service provision lead to socially beneficial synergies, and when might they intensify inequalities? This article, based on 14 months of ethnographic research, addresses this question through a comparative case study of two attempts to co-produce recycling services in São Paulo. The first, a grassroots organizing effort in the 1980s and 1990s, improved the incomes and conditions of hundreds of waste pickers and inspired a national upsurge of waste picker organizing. The second, an ambitious overhaul of waste management in the early 2000s, generated about 1,500 jobs but functionally excluded the very population of street waste pickers it was designed to benefit. The findings suggest that co-production is most likely to lead to pro-poor outcomes if concerted efforts are made to level inequalities between poor constituents and more powerful stakeholders during processes of policy design and implementation.
Psychometric properties of the ASEBA Child Behaviour Checklist and Youth Self-Report in sub-Saharan Africa - A systematic review
Authors: Zieff Michal R. , Fourie Claire , Hoogenhout Michelle , Donald Kirsten A. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractObjective:Behavioural screening tools may be used to identify at-risk children in resource-limited settings in sub-Saharan Africa. The ASEBA forms (Child Behaviour Checklist and Youth Self-Report) are frequently translated and adapted for use in sub-Saharan African populations, but little is known about their measurement properties in these contexts.Methods:We conducted a systematic review of all published journal articles that used the ASEBA forms with sub-Saharan African samples. We evaluated the reported psychometric properties, as well as the methodological quality of the psychometric evaluations, using COSMIN (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments) guidelines.Results:Fifty-eight studies reported measurement properties of the ASEBA forms. Most studies came from Southern (n= 29, 50%) or East African (n= 25, 43%) countries. Forty-nine studies (84%) used translated versions of the tool, but details regarding the translation process, if available, were often sparse. Most studies (n= 47, 81%) only reported internal consistency (using coefficient alpha) for one or more subscale. The methodological quality of the psychometric evaluations ranged from ‘very good’ to ‘inadequate’ across all measurement properties, except for internal consistency.Conclusions:There is limited good quality psychometric evidence available for the ASEBA forms in sub-Saharan Africa. We recommend (i) implementing a standardised procedure for conducting and reporting translation processes and (ii) conducting more comprehensive psychometric evaluations of the translated versions of the tools.
A Hindu Champion of Pan-Islamism: Lajpat Rai and the Khilafat Movement
Authors: Bhargav Vanya Vaidehi 
Published: April 2022

AbstractLala Lajpat Rai is increasingly viewed in historiography as a “Hindu nationalist” with a strong affinity with Savarkarite Hindutva. This article demonstrates that during the Khilafat movement, Lajpat Rai articulated a secular Indian nationalism that was sensitive to Muslim religiosity and Indian Muslims’ extraterritorial sympathies toward the caliphate and the Muslim world. Pigeonholing the entire thought of Lajpat Rai as “Hindu nationalism” obscures a historical-intellectual juncture when a Hindu political figure like him enthusiastically supported pan-Islamism as necessary for Indian nationalism. This article complicates scholarship that portrays Hindu responses to the Khilafat movement as consisting solely of fear and counter-consolidation. More importantly, by unveiling Rai's Khilafat-era nationalism, it uncovers the intellectual and political possibility of firmly holding a Hindu identity and articulating conceptions of Indian nationhood that are at ease with Islam and the wider Muslim world.
A review of factors influencing the quality and sensory evaluation techniques applied to Greek yogurt
Authors: Gyawali Rabin , Feng Xi , Chen Yan Ping , Lorenzo Jose M. , Ibrahim Salam A. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractGreek yogurt is one of the fastest growing products in the dairy industry. It is also known as strained yogurt, which is obtained after draining the whey. As a result of the draining process, Greek yogurt has higher total solids and lower lactose than regular yogurt. Since it is a concentrated yogurt, its sensory characteristics are different from regular yogurt. However, there is little information about factors influencing the quality of Greek yogurt and sensory evaluation techniques applied to Greek yogurt. This review aims to describe the effects of ingredients, starter cultures, processing techniques and other parameters on quality characteristics and sensory properties of Greek yogurt. In addition, advantages and limitations of novel sensory evaluation techniques applied to Greek yogurt products are discussed. In particular, we take a look at advanced techniques such as the electronic nose and electronic tongue and the benefits of these techniques with regard to Greek yogurt. This review should help the Greek yogurt industry to improve its current products and develop innovative products based on appropriate food evaluation techniques.
Counting H-free orientations of graphs
Authors: BUCIĆ MATIJA , JANZER OLIVER , SUDAKOV BENNY 
Published: April 2022

AbstractIn 1974, Erdős posed the following problem. Given an oriented graph H, determine or estimate the maximum possible number of H-free orientations of an n-vertex graph. When H is a tournament, the answer was determined precisely for sufficiently large n by Alon and Yuster. In general, when the underlying undirected graph of H contains a cycle, one can obtain accurate bounds by combining an observation of Kozma and Moran with celebrated results on the number of F-free graphs. As the main contribution of the paper, we resolve all remaining cases in an asymptotic sense, thereby giving a rather complete answer to Erdős’s question. Moreover, we determine the answer exactly when H is an odd cycle and n is sufficiently large, answering a question of Araújo, Botler and Mota.
African Trade Union Material in the Library of the Trades Union Congress
Authors: Coates C. 
Published: April 2022

The nucleus of the TUC Library was formed in 1915 with the establishment of the Labour Party Information Bureau. In 1922, a number of Joint Departments were set up by the Labour Party and the TUC, and Sidney Webb became the main advisor on the stock and organisation of the new library. In 1956, the TUC moved in Congress House in Bloomsbury, bringing the greater part of the stock with them.The formation of the ILO in 1919 and contacts, particularly with the South African and Indian delegates, intensified the TUC's interest in labour conditions in British Protectorates. The new library began to gather material to service the Joint International Committee and the Joint Advisory Committee on Imperial Affairs. The formation in 1937 of a Colonial Advisory Committee led to a further organised attempt to collect African trade union literature.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, Oxford
Authors: Townsend R. J. 
Published: April 2022

The Library collection was formed on the establishment of the Institute of Colonial Studies by University Statute in 1945. The moving spirit behind the formation was the doyenne of British Africanists, Margery Perham (later Dame Margery), who became the first Director and a prinicpal benefactor. The Library's first home was at 10 Keble Road.In 1956 the Institute was renamed Commonwealth Studies basically because the word “Colonial” was no longer in vogue, and because it did not adequately describe the work done in the Institute which was naturally reflected in the material held by the Library. Then in 1960 the Institute, while retaining its identity and University responsbilities, moved with its Library, Office, and academic personnel into its present home, Queen Elizabeth House at 21 St. Giles.
African Philately and its Research Sources
Authors: Schoolley-West R.F. 
Published: April 2022

Philately is a subject which, generally, is little appreciated outside its devotees, and tends to be equated to the more general hobby of stamp collecting. However, the study of the production and use of stamps and postal history is very actively pursued and has a not insignificant place in the recording of the economic, social and, in some instances, the political history of virtually every country of the world.As a result of the lack of appreciation of the subject, the researcher sometimes finds difficulty in obtaining the necessary assistance and access to official and other records to enable him to find the information he requires. It is the intention of this paper to give some insight into the types of research work being undertaken and the various sources from which the required information can be obtained.
The Lesotho Agricultural Sector Analysis Project
Authors: Mahoney Maureen 
Published: April 2022

The Lesotho Agricultural Sector Analysis (LASA) Project was undertaken by the Department of Economics of the University of Colorado for the Lesotho government, with the intention of developing ”… the capacity of the Government of Lesotho to design, implement and utilize sector analysis in their development planning efforts”. The project was to consist of three phases: One, a “start up” period of approximately ten months; Two, six months for the establishment of a team of economists and related personnel in Maseru, Lesotho; and Phase Three, the agricultural sector analysis, estimated to take twenty months. Phase One will be the one of direct concern to this article.The object of Phase One was to set up a plan of work for the following two phases, and to develop a “knowledge base” with the primary purpose of serving the team, firstly in Colorado and later in Lesotho.
African Studies in British Universities: Human Geography
Authors: O'Connor Anthony 
Published: April 2022

Geography is well established as an academic discipline in Britain, and geographers make a substantial contribution to African studies here. About 30 British university teachers are concerned primarily with the human geography of Africa, and for about 30 others it is a subsidiary interest. These individuals are widely scattered around the country (Appendix 1), and their particular concerns are very diverse, so many are not closely in touch with one another. No organization binds them together or reviews their work, and therefore this is a purely personal assessment - though it has benefitted from the comments of several colleagues.A review such as this is inevitably somewhat arbitrary in its limits, for the studies in question take place within a complex system of interrelationships with a wider range of studies.
Les expériences de la bibliothèque nationale de Paris
Authors: Lethève Jacques 
Published: April 2022

Destinée à la réunion des experts dans le domaine des échanges qui doit se tenir à Vienne en 1972, cette étude est un document de travail dont je tiens à préciser la nature et les limites.L'expérience que possède le Service français des Echanges, rattaché à la Bibliothéque nationale de Paris, en matière d'échanges avec les pays africains, a paru susceptible d'intéresser tous ceux qui cherchent à établir, non sans difficulté parfois, des contacts avec ces pays. Certes les échanges entretenus avec 96 pays et plus de 1 100 partenaires différents donnent au Service des Echanges Internationaux une expérience étendue et des éléments de comparaison. D'autre part, l'utilisation de la langue française dans une partie importante des pays africains entraifie, entre ces derniers et la France, des relations privilégiées dans le domaine culturel. Enfin, parce que ces territoires ont été longtemps soumis au régime des colonies ou des protectorats, des liens existent depuis de longues années et subsistent dans différents domaines, en particulier ceux de l'édition, de l'enseignement ou des bibliothèques.
Standing Conference Of Eastern, Central And Southern African Libraries (Scecsal) VII
Authors: Giggey Shirley H. 
Published: April 2022

The successful Seventh Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Librarians was attended by approximately 200 librarians from the region and from the U.K. The Botswana Library Association must be congratulated on hosting and facilitating this conference; a task that included a great deal of fundraising, facilitating accommodation, travel and entertainment. Everyone was very kind, the accommodation good and the food and drink both generous and tasty.I would like to thank British Council for providing my travel and the Botswana Library Association for my meals and accommodation. I was able to attend all three ‘conferences', visit a village and talk with several government and nongovernment officers while there and it was all a very enjoyable experience.
African Source Materials from the Oxford Development Records Project
Authors: Kirk-Greene A.H.M. 
Published: April 2022

The Oxford Development Records Project (1977-) is the lineal descendant of the Oxford Colonial Records Project (1963-1972), whose work on collections of private papers acquired from those who had worked in the Colonial Service has been well described by Patricia M. Pugh in Journal of the Society of Archivists, 6, 1978, 76-86 and by J.J. Tawney (‘Personal thoughts on a rescue operation’) in African Affairs, 67, 1968, 345-50.Neither of these accounts, in the event, paid adequate attention to the Oral History dimensions of the OCRP whereby, with the help of an honorary Research Officer, tape-recorded interviews were concluded between 1967 and 1972 with nearly eighty members of the Colonial Service or Colonial Office (along with a few from the private sector), ranging from the Governor-General with thirty years’ service to his credit to the unconfirmed Cadet who resigned after three.
From Paper to PDF? The Publications of Africa-Related International Organisations, Past, Present and Future
Authors: Blake David 
Published: April 2022

This paper looks briefly at the pattern of hard copy publication of a number of ! international organisations and considers the extent of library holdings of items from these bodies, both in this country and, to a much more limited extent, in the United States. It then lookstat their websites and considers the extent to which the same information is available in both formats. Finally, questions are asked about the value of these websites both for users in Africa and elsewhere and there is also some discussion about the problems which they raise for librarians.Any mention of the term ‘international organisation’ leads most people to think immediately of the United Nations. But this paper is not about the output of the central bodies of the UN, although there is plenty of material of interest to Africanists coming out of bodies such as the General Assembly, the Security Council and UNESCO, based as they are in New York, Geneva or Paris.
British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP)
Authors: Ashton Stephen 
Published: April 2022

My presentation divides into two parts. The first explains what BDEEP is in terms of how the project originated, how it is administered and financed and what it is (and what it is not) intended to achieve. The second looks more closely at the place of Africa within the project by explaining at greater length the contents of some of the volumes and by introducing a number of documents which will be included.First then the background to the project. BDEEP has its origins in two earlier collections of published documents concerning the end of British rule in South and South-East Asia. The first is Constitutional Relations between Britain and India: The Transfer of Power, 1942-1947, which was edited by Professor Nicholas Mansergh and published in twelve volumes between 1970 and 1983 by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).