bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Physicochemical, sensory, and antioxidant characteristics of stirred‐type yogurt enriched with Lentinula edodes stipe powder
Authors: Zhu Hanyu , Chen Zheng , Li Geqing , Yao Xiaoqian , Hu Yujing , Zhao Wenxia
Published: July 2023

The Lentinula edodes stipe (LES), a by‐product of L. edodes fruiting body processing, is rich in dietary fiber, protein, and polysaccharides, which can be served as the functional ingredient in dairy products. In this study, stirred yogurts fortified with 1%, 2%, and 3% LES were prepared, and the effects of LES on the changes in color, pH, titratable acidity (TA), viable lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cells, syneresis, viscosity, texture, and antioxidant activity of the flavored yogurt were monitored at the beginning and the end of storage. The LES decreased the lightness, increased the red–green color values and yellow–blue color values, decreased the pH values, and increased the contents of TA, the viable LAB cells, and the antioxidant activity of yogurt samples in a dose‐dependent manner. The addition of LES showed double‐edged effects on the texture of yogurt, which significantly reduced firmness and viscosity but decreased the syneresis. Compared with plain yogurt, the 2% LES‐fortified yogurt exhibited similar index values of texture parameters and higher scores of the appearance, fermented odor, taste quality, and overall acceptance, suggesting that this might be the optimal dose for industrial production. After cold storage for 28 days, pH values of all yogurt samples further decreased with increasing of TA. Interestingly, syneresis of LES‐fortified yogurt decreased and the viable LAB cells and antioxidant activity of 3% LES‐fortified yogurt slightly decreased. Therefore, LES is beneficial to improve physicochemical, sensory, and antioxidant properties of yogurt, which has the potential to be used in functional dairy products.
Structure Influence of Amine‐Containing Additives on the Solution State and Out‐of‐Plane Conductivity of PEDOT:PSS for Efficient Organic Solar Cells
Authors: Jing Wenwen , Xu Xiaopeng , Yu Liyang , Peng Qiang
Published: July 2023

Additives are extensively explored for improving PEDOT:PSS performances mainly through the removal of excess PSS and as a secondary dopant. In this work, amine‐containing additives are introduced to PEDOT:PSS solutions as processing additives where the interactions to the PSS are anticipated through electrostatic interactions. Such interactions affected solution property where the increased viscosity is found to significantly increase the out‐of‐plane conductivity of the PEDOT:PSS thin films. Organic solar cells adopting these additive‐assisted processed PEDOT:PSS layers as hole transporting layers (HTL) showed the improved device performances that resulted from the reduced series resistance provided by the PEDOT:PSS HTL. A top power conversion efficiency of 18.28% is achieved with para‐phenylenediamine (PPD) additive in the PEDOT:PSS HTL, which is 3.5% higher compared to devices with neat PEDOT:PSS thin film as the HTL.
Investigation on how carbon markets and digital transformation affect green innovation: evidence from Chinese listed companies
Authors: Wang Di , Dou Wei
Published: July 2023

Carbon markets and the digital economy are gaining popularity continuously. Under this context, corporate green innovation should be urgently guided, which is an important subject to be studied and solved with great urgency to achieve harmonious ecological and economic growth. In this study, the data of 836 Chinese A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2020 are selected, carbon market and digital transformation are integrated into a unified analysis framework, and the green innovation effect and mechanism of the two and their interaction terms are investigated, not showing consistency with the previous studies about the effect of carbon market or digital transformation on green innovation. The present study suggests that (i) both carbon market policy and digitalization level serve as vital factors in boosting green innovation among high-carbon companies, whereas the synthetic effect of carbon market policy and digital transformation inhibits corporate green innovation behavior. (ii) The influences exerted by carbon market policy, digital transformation, and the synthetic effect on green innovation are dependent on property rights, size, and industry of high-carbon companies. (iii) As revealed by the analysis of mediating effects, financing constraints are the main mechanism of action that leads to a negative correlation between the synthetic effect of the carbon market and digital transformation and green innovation. Besides, R&D investment and environmental information disclosure only affect the action mechanism about digital transformation and carbon market policy, whereas they do not affect the synthetic effect of carbon market and digital transformation. Therefore, to promote green innovation and green transformation of high carbon companies, the government needs to flexibly use market-based environmental regulation tools (e.g., carbon market), strengthen the influence exerted by digital technology in improving innovation quality, and flexibly formulate relevant policies in accordance with the heterogeneity of different objects.
Dharmakīrtian Inference
Authors: Bogacz Szymon , Tanaka Koji
Published: July 2023

Dharmakīrti argues that there is no pramāṇa (valid means of cognition or source of knowledge) for a thesis that is a self-contradiction (svavacanavirodha). That is, self-contradictions such as ‘everything said is false’ and ‘my mother is barren’ cannot be known to be true or false. The contemporary scholar Tillemans challenges Dharmakīrti by arguing that we can know that self-contradictions are false by means of a formal logical inference. The aims of the paper are to answer Tillemans’ challenge from what we take to be Dharmakīrti’s or Dharmakīrtian (someone who is like Dharmakīrti) perspective and to demonstrate the unique features of Dharmakīrti’s view of inference. By so doing, we show that the epistemology in relation to the formal conception of logic that underlies Tillemans’ challenge is problematic from Dharmakīrti’s or Dharmakīrtian perspective. The paper, thus, presents Dharmakīrti’s view of inference and logical reasoning as well as a Dharmakīrtian challenge to the formal conception of logic that is the dominant contemporary conception.
Feasibility of self-reported health related quality of life assessment with older people in residential care: insights from the application of eye tracking technology
Authors: Milte Rachel , Crocker Matthew , Lay Kiri , Ratcliffe Julie , Mulhern Brendan , Norman Richard , Viney Rosalie , Khadka Jyoti
Published: July 2023

Purpose

Increasingly there are calls to routinely assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of older people receiving aged care services, however the high prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment remains a challenge to implementation. Eye-tracking technology facilitates detailed assessment of engagement and comprehension of visual stimuli, and may be useful in flagging individuals and populations who cannot reliably self-complete HRQoL instruments. The aim of this study was to apply eye-tracking technology to provide insights into self-reporting of HRQoL among older people in residential care with and without cognitive impairment.

Methods

Residents (n = 41), recruited based on one of three cognition subgroups (no, mild, or moderate cognitive impairment), completed the EQ-5D-5L on a computer with eye tracking technology embedded. Number and length of fixations (i.e., eye gaze in seconds) for key components of the EQ-5D-5L descriptive system were calculated.

Results

For all dimensions, participants with no cognitive impairment fixated for longer on the Area of Interest (AOI) for the response option they finally chose, relative to those with mild or moderate cognitive impairment. Participants with cognitive impairment followed similar fixation patterns to those without. There was some evidence that participants with cognitive impairment took longer to complete and spent relatively less time attending to the relevant AOIs, but these differences did not reach statistical significance generally.

Conclusions

This exploratory study applying eye tracking technology provides novel insights and evidence of the feasibility of self-reported HRQoL assessments in older people in aged care settings where cognitive impairment and dementia are highly prevalent.
Plant fruit extracts enhance the in vitro propagation of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) on Murashige and Skoog media
Authors: Markin Grace , Eleblu John S. Y. , Amissah Jacqueline N. , Reynolds Samuel , Soraru Charline , Craze Melanie S. , Wallington Emma J. , Bentley Alison R. , Danquah Eric Y.
Published: July 2023

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is a versatile legume with diverse nutritional and nutraceutical properties that serve as a food security and medicinal crop for millions of households across Africa. An efficient protocol was developed to propagate shoot tip and cotyledonary node explants from six cowpea breeding accessions in vitro on Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal media supplemented with either banana extract, coconut water, orange or tomato juice. Micropropagation performance was compared to MS medium supplemented with B5 vitamins. A total of 500 plantlets were obtained in vitro across treatments and MS basal media supplemented with tomato juice had the highest micropropagation performance (154 plantlets), followed by banana extract (112 plantlets), orange juice (107 plantlets), and coconut water (82 plantlets). Three accessions (AGRAC 216, TA, and Asontem) were found to be the most amenable to in vitro propagation using plant-derived extracts. Overall, this study successfully established that plant-derived extracts can support in vitro cowpea propagation in the absence of synthetic plant growth regulators.
Bimetallic Zn/Co telluride spinel with enhanced metal–tellurium covalency for efficient water oxidation
Authors: Bo Shuowen , An Qizheng , Zhu Yu , Zhang Xiuxiu , Zhang Yuhao , Wang Hui-Juan , Han Juguang , Su Hui , Liu Qinghua
Published: July 2023

Study of the oxygen evolution kinetics of a telluride spinel electrocatalyst using synchrotron radiation spectroscopy.
Controllable synthesis of hollow COFs for boosting photocatalytic hydrogen generation
Authors: Ye Langhuan , Xia Zhihua , Xu Quanlong , Yang Yun , Xu Xiangju , Jin Huile , Wang Shun
Published: July 2023

A precisely synthesized COF-LZU1 with a cubic hollow structure displays enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production performance.
One-step synthesis of CePO4 nanoparticle-decorated cerium-doped ultralong flexible hydroxyapatite nanofibers
Authors: Wang Yin-chuan , Xiao Gui-yong , Lu Yu-peng
Published: July 2023

Ultralong flexible CePO4/Ce–HA nanofibers were synthesized via a solvothermal method, combining exceptional advantages of Ce ions and nanofibers.
Ni(ii)-catalyzed oxidative deamination of benzyl amines with water
Authors: Pal Nilay Kumar , Singh Kuldeep , Patra Moumita , Yadav Suman , Pandey Prabhakar K. , Bera Jitendra K.
Published: July 2023

A sulfonate-functionalized water-soluble Ni(ii)–NHC catalyst is utilized for the oxidative deamination of benzyl amines, wherein water acts as a formal oxidant to give an aldehyde, which is then converted to useful products.
Micro-/nanoscale robotics for chemical and biological sensing
Authors: Zheng Liuzheng , Hart Nathan , Zeng Yong
Published: July 2023

Micro-/nanorobotics has attracted extensive interest from a variety of research communities, witnessing enormous progress in applications ranging from basic research to global healthcare and even environmental remediation and protection.
Solar energy harvesting by a PtS2/ZrS2 van der Waals heterostructure
Authors: Parmar P. R. , Khengar S. J. , Mehta Disha , Sonvane Yogesh , Thakor P. B.
Published: July 2023

First principle calculations of PtS2/ZrS2 van der Waals heterostructure to design efficient photovoltaic devices for promising renewable energy applications.
The effect of metal matrix M (M = Co, Ni, Cu) on the water dissociation performance of oxophilic Cr from density functional theory
Authors: Kong Chao , Han Yanxia , Hou Lijie , Gao Liguo
Published: July 2023

The electron deviation levels from Cr to the metal matrix can markedly affect the H2O dissociation ability of Cr in Cr–M.
MIL-101(Fe)@Nb2C MXene for efficient electrocatalytic ammonia production: an experimental and theoretical study
Authors: Zhu Haiding , Xue Sensen , Zhao Fang , Hua Qianqian , Liang Zhuangzhuang , Ren Xuefeng , Gao Liguo , Ma Tingli , Liu Anmin
Published: July 2023

The environment-friendly electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) is considered to be a promising alternative to the traditional Haber–Bosch process for ammonia production.
A review of recent studies on nano zero-valent iron activated persulfate advanced oxidation technology for the degradation of organic pollutants
Authors: Lei Zhenle , Song Xiaosan , Ma Gui , Zhao Tiaobin , Meng Kai , Zhang Mengjie , Ren Jun , Dai Liang
Published: July 2023

Nano zero-valent iron activated persulfate (nZVI/PS) advanced oxidation technology is a novel approach with advantages in treating high-concentration and refractory organic pollutants.
Motile microorganisms hybrid nanoliquid flow with the influence of activation energy and heat source over a rotating disc
Authors: Ali Usman , Khan Hamid , Bilal Muhammad , Usman M , Shuaib M , Gul Taza
Published: July 2023

The present article examines the consequences of a magnetic field, Hall current, and thermal radiation on the spinning flow of hybrid nanofluid (HNF) across a revolving disc. The core objective of the study is to improve the energy transference rate through hybrid nano liquid for industrial and engineering operations. The HNFs have advanced thermophysical characteristics. Therefore, in the current study, a superior class of nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and Al2O3) are added to the base fluid. The modeled equations are demoted to a dimensionless set of Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) through similarity conversion and are analytically solved by engaging the homotopy analysis method. The physical constraints’ effect on energy, velocity, motile microorganism, and mass profiles have been drawn and discussed. For accuracy, the results are compared to the published studies, which ensures the accuracy and reliability of the technique and results. It is observed that the energy communication rate lessens with the flourishing values of thermal radiation and for Hall current. Furthermore, it is noted that due to its carbon–carbon bonding in CNTs, it has a greater tendency for energy propagation than Al2O3 nanoparticles.
New insights into programmed cell death protein 1 blockade-associated cutaneous immune-related adverse events
Authors: Micevic Goran , Daniels Andrew , Flavell Richard A
Published: July 2023

Cutaneous side-effects associated with immune checkpoint blockade occur in more than half of patients treated with CTLA-4 and PD-1 inhibitors, and are frequently encountered by dermatologists. The molecular mechanism of cutaneous side-effects is incompletely understood but holds important clues about immune tolerance and the antitumor immune response in the skin. A new landmark study published in Nature suggests a critical functional role for the checkpoint receptor PD-1 in restraining self-reactive T cells, which could help explain how some checkpoint-associated cutaneous side-effects arise.
When Specimen Choice Wags the Microscopy Education Dog
Authors: Armitage Mark
Published: July 2023

The use of microscope technology has proved to be foundational in the global advancement of science and medicine. However, fewer women are entering science and microscopy as a career. Many factors have been suggested for this decades-old trend, yet intense mentoring of female students by successful women in academia and industry may be reversing the trend. Our team designed a STEM microscopy curriculum in a mobile laboratory format to test the idea that more female students might show an interest in STEM training if they have a chance to operate a microscope. The interest in dinosaur remains is very high among secondary students, thus we reasoned that choosing dinosaur tissue remains as a specimen might attract such students to hands-on labs. Here we describe our efforts to attract female students to microscopy-related STEM content by using dinosaur soft tissue from our dinosaur digs as specimens during our hands-on microscope labs. We conducted 33 such labs in six states across the US over a 16-month period. Female student participation was over 52%. We suggest that the specimen choice (particularly dinosaur cells, veins, and nerves) in microscopy education provides a powerful incentive to female students to consider a science as a career.
Dust attenuation, dust content, and geometry of star-forming galaxies
Authors: Zhang Junkai , Wuyts Stijn , Cutler Sam E , Mowla Lamiya A , Brammer Gabriel B , Momcheva Ivelina G , Whitaker Katherine E , van Dokkum Pieter , Förster Schreiber Natascha M , Nelson Erica J , Schady Patricia , Villforth Carolin , Wake David , van der Wel Arjen
Published: July 2023

We analyse the joint distribution of dust attenuation and projected axis ratios, together with galaxy size and surface brightness profile information, to infer lessons on the dust content and star/dust geometry within star-forming galaxies at 0 < z < 2.5. To do so, we make use of large observational data sets from KiDS + VIKING + HSC-SSP and extend the analysis out to redshift z = 2.5 using the HST surveys CANDELS and 3D-DASH. We construct suites of SKIRT radiative transfer models for idealized galaxies observed under random viewing angles with the aim of reproducing the aforementioned distributions, including the level and inclination dependence of dust attenuation. We find that attenuation-based dust mass estimates are at odds with constraints from far-infrared observations, especially at higher redshifts, when assuming smooth star and dust geometries of equal extent. We demonstrate that UV-to-near-IR and far-infrared constraints can be reconciled by invoking clumpier dust geometries for galaxies at higher redshifts and/or very compact dust cores. We discuss implications for the significant wavelength- and redshift-dependent differences between half-light and half-mass radii that result from spatially varying dust columns within especially massive star-forming galaxies.
The MillenniumTNG Project: an improved two-halo model for the galaxy–halo connection of red and blue galaxies
Authors: Hadzhiyska Boryana , Eisenstein Daniel , Hernquist Lars , Pakmor Rüdiger , Bose Sownak , Delgado Ana Maria , Contreras Sergio , Kannan Rahul , White Simon D M , Springel Volker , Frenk Carlos , Hernández-Aguayo César , Barrera Fulvio Ferlito and Monica
Published: July 2023

Approximate methods to populate dark-matter haloes with galaxies are of great utility to galaxy surveys. However, the limitations of simple halo occupation models (HODs) preclude a full use of small-scale galaxy clustering data and call for more sophisticated models. We study two galaxy populations, luminous red galaxies (LRGs) and star-forming emission-line galaxies (ELGs), at two epochs, z = 1 and z = 0, in the large-volume, high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation of the MillenniumTNG project. In a partner study we concentrated on the small-scale, one-halo regime down to r ∼ 0.1 h−1 Mpc, while here we focus on modelling galaxy assembly bias in the two-halo regime, r ≳ 1 h−1 Mpc. Interestingly, the ELG signal exhibits scale dependence out to relatively large scales (r ∼ 20 h−1 Mpc), implying that the linear bias approximation for this tracer is invalid on these scales, contrary to common assumptions. The 10–15 per cent discrepancy is only reconciled when we augment our halo occupation model with a dependence on extrinsic halo properties (‘shear’ being the best-performing one) rather than intrinsic ones (e.g. concentration, peak mass). We argue that this fact constitutes evidence for two-halo galaxy conformity. Including tertiary assembly bias (i.e. a property beyond mass and ‘shear’) is not an essential requirement for reconciling the galaxy assembly bias signal of LRGs, but the combination of external and internal properties is beneficial for recovering ELG the clustering. We find that centrals in low-mass haloes dominate the assembly bias signal of both populations. Finally, we explore the predictions of our model for higher order statistics such as nearest neighbour counts. The latter supplies additional information about galaxy assembly bias and can be used to break degeneracies between halo model parameters.
From Nevins and the Federal Writers’ Project to Terkel
Authors: Trower Shelley
Published: July 2023

This chapter traces an ongoing preoccupation with how to mediate voices in print, through US-based work ranging from the Federal Writers’ Project’s to Terkel’s. In contrast, key figures in Columbia University’s Oral History Research Office, which in the 1950s was among the earliest organizations to use open-reel recorders, treated spoken narratives as written documents with minimal acknowledgment of what can be lost in the process. The chapter traces an emerging recognition in and beyond the FWP that written texts should not necessarily aim to reproduce the sound of the voice—for example, with phonetic spellings—but could more effectively “transmediate” it. In doing so, authors can seek to evade racist stereotypes associated with certain vernaculars, for example, and can improve “readability.” Accompanying such recognition of the active role of authors in transmediating voices was a growing sense of how speakers also re-create their memories in narrative form.
Oral History Transcribed, Edited, and Published
Authors: Trower Shelley
Published: July 2023

This chapter brings historical concerns with transcribing voices into more recent debates about the extent to which writing should aim to reproduce the spoken interview, or to re-create it through more extensive editing. The ongoing concern about editing interviews to improve the experience of readers is paralleled by questions about authorship. The more extensively and creatively transcribers edit, the more they shift from being transcribers or editors to authors. But there is also the sense in which oral histories are coauthored both by interviewee-narrators and interview-editor-writers; a repeatedly debated question in oral history is who the author is, or who they are. The chapter proposes that it is usually the editor-writers who have authority in shaping oral histories into new kinds of literary and scholarly forms, but also introduces the concept of “shared authority.”
Auto/biographical Life Stories
Authors: Trower Shelley
Published: July 2023

Autobiography is a genre that is traditionally understood to be single-authored, and this chapter focuses on how oral history challenges such a concept of authorship. After the mid-twentieth century, tape recorders contributed to a shift whereby autobiography became just one genre among other kinds of life stories, which tended to be far more inclusive. The chapter develops an understanding of oral histories as auto/biographical, as they involve both first-person self-narration and the presence of a facilitating interviewer and writer. The chapter develops some in-depth analysis of the co-creating relationship between speakers and authors through a series of auto/biographical works, especially The Autobiography of Malcolm X and All God’s Dangers, and more recent ghost-written memoirs, through which both parties negotiate and even battle for authority. Further, the chapter considers how the use of sound recording can allow such narratives to more fully incorporate orality.
Organizing around Precarity in China
Authors: Howell Jude
Published: July 2023

This chapter explores how labour legislation, the official union ACFTU, labour NGOs, and workers organize around precarity to improve labour conditions of migrant informal workers in a changing China. Historically, it traces the shift from employment and livelihood security during the Maoist decades to labour precarity in the post-Mao three key phases: (1) the phase from 1978 to the late 1990s when employment contracting and precarity are seeded, fertilized, and legitimized in law; (2) the phase from the late 1990s to 2011 when contracting and precarity deepen and new ways of protecting and organizing workers emerge, especially under the Hu-Wen administration; (3) the phase from 2012 onwards under Xi’s government, which marks the decline of labour NGOs, the stalling of trade union reforms, and the deepening of digital forms of labour precarity. In conclusion, the chapter considers the prospects for challenging precarity through organized resistance, particularly with respective to new challenges and opportunities arising from the rise of the gig economy
Brazil
Authors: Firpo Sergio , Portella Alysson , Riva Flavio , Úbida Giovanna
Published: July 2023

In this chapter, different sources of data on job-task content are used to investigate the importance of occupations and the intensity of routine tasks embodied in them to explain changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular their relation to polarization and inequality. It is shown that there is some evidence of polarization in earnings but not with respect to employment, although the patterns resemble more those seen for pro-poor or pro-rich growth. Changes in the earnings structure explain most of the reduction in inequality in the period between 2003 and 2012, while changes in composition dominate the rise in inequality in the period between 2012 and 2019. Both movements are dominated by changes in educational levels and their returns. The impact of changes in routine-task content on inequality varies between both periods, but is, in general, small.
Peru
Authors: Dávalos Jorge , Ballon Paola
Published: July 2023

This chapter explores the relationship between skill-biased technological change (SBTC) and the inequality improvement observed in Peru during its trade liberalization episode (mid-2000s and 2010s). We use household survey data for the period 2004–18 to describe the evolution of labour force characteristics, their labour market returns, changes in occupational earnings, and the distribution of occupations. We account for workers’ productivity gains that may result from skill-biased technological change, by including occupation-specific routine-task content indices in Shapley and RIF decompositions of alternative inequality indicators. Although we find no evidence of SBTC effects on inequality, an additional investigation suggests that most of the slight improvement in inequality was driven by the commodity boom and its spillover effects through the construction sector.
Perspectives on Women Writers in Print since 1670
Authors: Orr Leah
Published: July 2023

This chapter surveys critical and historical approaches to women writers from the seventeenth century to the present to show how such histories changed through time. It presents an overview of nearly 700 books by women writers in this time period. Half of these books were fiction, drama, or poetry, and half were something else. This quantitative overview shows a consistent rate of publication, which contradicts common scholarly views of the rise or fall of the woman writer. Finally, it concludes with a case study of the anonymous novel Love in Distress to show that alternative models for understanding authorship can enable scholars to study texts with uncertain or anonymous authors. Alternative authorship is a feminist approach because it emphasizes how women’s writing was represented in print as opposed to the historical record, where women were often overlooked.
Real and Imagined Readers
Authors: Orr Leah
Published: July 2023

This chapter begins by examining the evidence of readers of women’s writing, including anecdotal evidence from readers’ diaries and letters, the presence of books by women in libraries for sale, and the presence of readers’ marginalia in existing copies of books by women. This evidence shows that both men and women read books by women and primarily selected books based on genre, not the gender of the author. The readers imagined by authors, however, were often more specific than the actual readers, and idealized to be sympathetic or hostile in particular ways. Finally, this chapter concludes with a case study of the French classical translator and scholar Anne Dacier, for whom there is more surviving evidence of contemporary reception in England than for any other woman writer of this period. Dacier was admired by Alexander Pope and other critics, and her omission from English literary history is an example of the more widespread marginalization of early women writers.
Conclusion
Authors: Orr Leah
Published: July 2023

The conclusion describes a new approach to the history of women writers in England, as both advocated and exemplified in this book. By understanding authorship as encompassing a diversity of roles besides original creation of texts, scholars can see women writers in their work as editors, translators, and adaptors. Women writers and their publishers adapted paratextual models already in use by male writers to suit their own purposes and the texts they were creating and marketing. Readers, too, are important in shaping meaning. This view of alternative authorship and literary history as a form of reception study provides a model for other historical studies of people who have left incomplete archives due to being from marginalized economic and geographic backgrounds or racial and gender identities.
Introduction
Authors: Orlov Andrei A.
Published: July 2023

The “Introduction” explores the significance of the Leviathan imagery in the history of Jewish apocalypticism and mysticism. It describes the main objective of the study and provide outlines for each chapter of the book.
Leviathan and the Mysteries of Evil
Authors: Orlov Andrei A.
Published: July 2023

The fifth chapter, “Leviathan and the Mystery of Evil,” deals with the special role that the revelations about Leviathan play in Abraham’s initiation and transformation in the Apocalypse of Abraham. The chapter demonstrates that Abraham attains the mysteries of Leviathan through his descent and vision, a trend that later became pivotal for later Jewish mystical testimonies. The chapter shows that Abraham’s descent into the mysteries of evil serves as a blueprint for the adept’s emulation of Leviathan in later Jewish mystical accounts. In this praxis of the monster’s imitation, the ontological aspect of how the adept acquires the divine mysteries attains its most profound and paradoxical form. The chapter also explores the significance of the mysteries about Leviathan and Behemoth in the broader Jewish rabbinic and later mystical materials, including the Book of Zohar.
Conscience, Confession, and the Consolidation of Early Public Reform in Strasbourg, 1530–1535
Authors: Scheuers Timothy R.
Published: July 2023

Reformation historians count Strasbourg among the most tolerant Protestant cities of the sixteenth century. Magisterial concern for protecting the freedom of conscience and religion made the city a reputable safe haven for Anabaptists and related dissident groups until the late 1520s. Nevertheless, as the need for consolidating public moral reform grew more urgent, the Reformed preachers’ tolerance for religious dissidents and conscientious objections to governance wore thin. As this chapter illustrates, the early period of reform in Strasbourg witnessed frequent appeals to conscience among the general populace, as religious dissenters, magistrates, and clerics jockeyed for their respective interests—often appealing to conscience as a means to other ends. Indeed, the available documentary traces especially reveal that the Strasbourg reformers struggled—often with great frustration—to clarify the place that civic duty and moral discipline should occupy in an evangelical religion principally committed to Christian freedom of conscience.
Patient-derived bladder cancer organoid model to predict sensitivity and feasibility of tailored precision therapy
Authors: Jiang Ying , Sun Xun , Song Xiaoyun , Li Zhen , Zhang Ping , Zhang Wen , Tang Dongqi
Published: July 2023

Background

Bladder cancer is a common and highly heterogeneous malignant tumor with a relatively poor prognosis. Thus, personalized treatment strategies for bladder cancer are essential for improving patient outcomes.

Materials and methods

We developed an efficient 3-dimensional in vitro organoid culture system for bladder cancer organoids (BCOs), which maintains the homology with the original patient tumors and the heterogeneity between different individuals. In addition, we constructed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells targeting B7H3 and evaluated the antitumor function of CAR-T cells by coculturing them with BCOs.

Results

The BCOs closely resembled the characteristics of human tumors and were used to test individual sensitivity to platinum-based drugs and olaparib therapy. Coculture with CAR-T cells demonstrated specific antigen recognition and immune activation, indicating their potential in immunotherapy.

Conclusions

Our study highlights the potential of BCOs to facilitate the development of personalized medicine for bladder cancer and improve the efficiency of drug discovery for bladder cancer therapy.
Influence of managerial practices, productivity, and change management process on organizational innovation capability of small and medium businesses
Authors: Chatterjee Sheshadri , Chaudhuri Ranjan , Vrontis Demetris , Galati Antonino
Published: July 2023

Purpose

This paper aims to examine the influence of managerial practices, productivity and change management process (CMP) on organizational innovation capability of small and medium businesses. This study also investigates the moderating role of technological turbulence (TT) on organization capability.

Design/methodology/approach

A theoretical model was developed based on existing literature and theories. It was then validated using the partial least squares structural equation modeling technique to analyze 327 responses from small and medium businesses. Moderator analysis was conducted to investigate how TT moderates organizational innovation capability.

Findings

This study found that management practices have a significant and positive influence on the innovation capability of small and medium business. The study also found that both CMP and modern technology adoption are crucial toward improving their innovation capability. Finally, the study also demonstrated that TT has a significant impact on organizational innovation capability.

Research limitations/implications

This research study has proposed an effective theoretical model of the relationship between managerial practices and organizational innovation capability. The proposed model is effective in demonstrating to managers and leaders of small and medium businesses the importance of managerial practices, CMP and the adoption of modern technologies on organization innovation capability, which can help to develop new products.

Originality/value

This research is unique, as the proposed model is the first of its kind to establish the relationship between managerial practices of small and medium businesses with organizational innovation capability. No other extensive study has proposed such a model especially for these businesses. Also, the explanative power of the proposed model is 72%, which shows the effectiveness of the proposed model.
Transcranial pulse stimulation in Alzheimer's disease
Authors: Chen Xinxin , You Jiuhong , Ma Hui , Zhou Mei , Huang Cheng
Published: July 2023

Background

Transcranial pulse stimulation (TPS) is a novel noninvasive ultrasonic brain stimulation that can increase cortical and corticospinal excitability, induce neuroplasticity, and increase functional connectivity within the brain. Several trials have confirmed its potential in treating Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Objective

To investigate the effect and safety of TPS on AD.

Design

A systematic review.

Methods

PubMed, Embase via Ovid, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), VIP (China Science and Technology Journal Database), and WanFang were searched from inception to April 1, 2023. Study selection, data extraction, and quality evaluation of the studies were conducted by two reviewers independently, with any controversy resolved by consensus. The Methodological Index for Nonrandomized Studies was used to assess the risk of bias.

Results

Five studies were included in this review, with a total of 99 patients with AD. For cognitive performance, TPS significantly improved the scores of the CERAD (Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease) test battery, Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (cognitive), Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and Mini‐Mental Status Examination. For depressive symptoms, TPS significantly reduced the scores of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (affective), Geriatric Depression Score, and Beck Depression Inventory. By functional magnetic resonance imaging, studies have shown that TPS improved cognitive performance in AD patients by increasing functional connectivity in the hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex, precuneus, and parietal cortex, and activating cortical activity in the bilateral hippocampus. TPS alleviated depressive symptoms in AD patients by decreasing functional connectivity between the ventromedial network (left frontal orbital cortex) and the salience network (right anterior insula). Adverse events in this review, including headache, worsening mood, jaw pain, nausea, and drowsiness, were reversible and lasted no longer than 1 day. No serious adverse events or complications were observed.

Conclusions

TPS is promising in improving cognitive performance and reducing depressive symptoms in patients with AD. TPS may be a safe adjunct therapy in the treatment of AD. However, these findings lacked a sham control and were limited by the small sample size of the included studies. Further research may be needed to better explore the potential of TPS.

Patient and Public Involvement

Patients and the public were not involved in this study.
Supplemental Material: Basaltic sills emplaced in organic-rich sedimentary rocks: Consequences for organic matter maturation and Cretaceous paleo-climate
Authors: Bédard Jean H. , et al.
Published: July 2023

Supplemental Material includes field and thin section descriptions, XRD results, complete whole-rock data and coordinates, organic matter reflectance and Rock Eval data, and input parameters for the SILLi modeling.
Quantitative equidistribution of eigenfunctions for toral Schrödinger operators
Authors: Ueberschär Henrik
Published: July 2023

We prove a quantum ergodicity theorem in position space for the eigenfunctions of a Schrödinger operator [Formula: see text] on a rectangular torus [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] with an algebraic rate of convergence in terms of the eigenvalue. A key application of our theorem is a quantitative equidistribution theorem for the eigenfunctions of a Schrödinger operator whose potential models disordered systems with [Formula: see text] obstacles. We prove the validity of this equidistribution theorem in the limit, as [Formula: see text], under the assumption that a weak overlap hypothesis is satisfied by the potentials modeling the obstacles, and we note that, when rescaling to a large torus (such that the density remains finite, as [Formula: see text]) this corresponds to a size decaying regime, as the coupling parameter in front of the potential will decay, as [Formula: see text]. We apply our result to Schrödinger operators modeling disordered systems on large tori [Formula: see text] by scaling back to the fixed torus [Formula: see text]. In the case of random Schrödinger operators, such as random displacement models, we deduce an almost sure equidistribution theorem on certain length scales which depend on the coupling parameter, the density of the potentials and the eigenvalue. In particular, if these parameters converge to finite, non-zero values, we are able to determine at which length scale (as a function of these parameters) equidistribution breaks down. In this sense, we provide a lower bound for the Anderson localization length as a function of energy, coupling parameter and the density of scatterers.
Electronic structure and optical property of kagomes graphene doped with IVA group element by the first principles
Authors: Li Lingxia , Lu Xuefeng , Ren Junqiang , Xue Hongtao , Tang Fuling , Li Junchen , Guo Xin
Published: July 2023

Using first principles calculations, we have confirmed the electronic and optical properties of 2D kagomes graphene doped with IVA elements (Si, Ge, Sn, Pb). The results show that Si-doped system has higher structural stability. The doping system increases the band gap of single-layer kagomes graphene, with Sn doping system being the most pronounced, and therefore can be considered as an attractive material for optoelectronic devices. The difference charge density and bonding population verify that the covalence of doping atoms and C atoms decreases, and that the degree of covalence diminution increases with increasing atomic number. The undoped kagomes graphene exhibits a strong light absorption capacity in the ultraviolet region, and the absorption peaks value decreases after doping, indicating that the element doping has a great weakening effect on the light absorption capacity, which has a certain potential significance for this material to be used as the antireflection film and wave permeable material of solar cells. In addition, the Pb and Sn-doped models possess the highest and lowest static dielectric constants, respectively. The peak value of electron energy loss is lower in the range of ultraviolet and visible wavelengths. These characteristics demonstrate that kagomes graphene offers substantial potential in the areas of optoelectronic and microelectronic devices.
Analyzing pulse behavior in optical fiber: Novel solitary wave solutions of the perturbed Chen–Lee–Liu equation
Authors: Khater Mostafa M. A.
Published: July 2023

This study explores the novel solitary wave solutions of the perturbed Chen–Lee–Liu (CLL) equation, aiming to elucidate the physical and dynamic behaviors of pulses in optical fiber. The perturbed CLL equation is derived from the well-known Schrödinger equation and serves as an iconic model. Two analytical techniques are employed to obtain these novel solitary wave solutions. Subsequently, these solutions are subjected to objective analysis using a widely recognized semianalytical scheme to comprehend their underlying mechanisms. Multiple graphs with diverse styles are utilized to illustrate the analysis of pulse waves in optical fiber and assess the accuracy of the analysis. The scientific novelty of this research lies in providing a comprehensive explanation through a comparative analysis of our recently published results in related research papers.
An efficient and secure dynamic quantum direct two-secrets sharing scheme
Authors: Li Fulin , Chen Tingyan , Zhu Shixin
Published: July 2023

Dynamic quantum secret sharing occupies an important position in quantum cryptography. In this paper, an efficient and secure dynamic quantum direct two-secrets sharing scheme is proposed based on the GHZ state. The proposed scheme is a one-time sharing of a determined classic message and quantum states. For recovering the secret messages, the agents only need to have the ability to perform X-basis measurements on the particles without performing any unitary operation. When dynamically deleting agents, our scheme only requires the other agents to announce some information without transmitting any quantum. Moreover, the analysis shows that our scheme is able to resist dishonest revoked agent attack as well as a range of other common attacks. Compared with the existing dynamic quantum direct secret sharing schemes, the proposed scheme is more efficient and more secure.
Allogeneic Blood Transfusion and Risk of Postoperative Complications in Patients with Mild and Moderate Anemia of Any Cause? A Retrospective Cohort Study in Total Revision Hip Surgery
Authors: Uden Henning , Büttner Franziska , von Heymann Christian , Krämer Michael , Kaufner Lutz , Vorderwülbecke Gerald , Hardt Sebastian , Kruppa Jochen , Balzer Felix , Spies Claudia
Published: July 2023

Introduction: Patients undergoing revision total hip surgery (RTHS) have a high prevalence of mild and moderate preoperative anemia, associated with adverse outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of perioperative allogeneic blood transfusions (ABT) and postoperative complications in preoperatively mild compared to moderate anemic patients undergoing RTHS who did not receive a diagnostic anemia workup and treatment before surgery. Methods: We included 1,765 patients between 2007 and 2019 at a university hospital. Patients were categorized according to their severity of anemia using the WHO criteria of mild, moderate, and severe anemia in the first Hb level of the case. Patients were grouped as having received no ABT, 1–2 units of ABT, or more than 2 units of ABT. Need for intraoperative ABT was assessed in accordance with institutional standards. Primary endpoint was the compound incidence of postoperative complications. Secondary outcomes included major/minor complications and length of hospital and ICU stay. Results: Of the 1,765 patients, 31.0% were anemic of any cause before surgery. Transfusion rates were 81% in anemic patients and 41.2% in nonanemic patients. The adjusted risks for compound postoperative complication were significantly higher in patients with moderate anemia (OR 4.88, 95% CI: 1.54–13.15, p = 0.003) but not for patients with mild anemia (OR 1.93, 95% CI: 0.85–3.94, p < 0.090). Perioperative ABT was associated with significantly higher risks for complications in nonanemic patients and showed an increased risk for complications in all anemic patients. In RTHS, perioperative ABT as a treatment for moderate preoperative anemia of any cause was associated with a negative compound effect on postoperative complications, compared to anemia or ABT alone. Discussion: ABT is associated with adverse outcomes of patients with moderate preoperative anemia before RTHS. For this reason, medical treatment of moderate preoperative anemia may be considered.