bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Evolutionary Game Analysis of Green Technology Innovation Behaviour for Enterprises from the Perspective of Prospect Theory
Authors: Wu Guancen , Deng Luqi , Niu Xing
Published: October 2022

Boosting green technology innovation of enterprise is the key to achieving a win‐win situation for both environmental performance and economic performance. However, some Chinese enterprises still have hesitations and misgivings as to whether they should adopt green technology. Considering the uncertainty of the innovation and the irrational psychological factors of decision makers, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the driving mechanisms and the long‐term behaviour of enterprises green technology innovation, as well as to explore what preconditions are required for enterprises to adopt green technology innovation. The methods are prospect theory and evolutionary games. This paper first calculates the equilibrium stability and evolutionary stability strategies of the enterprise green technology innovation system and then simulates the effect of subjective gains and losses values and other psychological parameters in the prospect editing and evaluation stage. Results show that increase in subjective gain and decrease in reference points and subjective spill benefit will motivate enterprises to adopt green technology innovation in the prospect editing stage; higher risk preference and lower loss aversion will increase enterprises’ motivation for green technology innovation in the prospect evaluation stage. Besides, we find that enterprise decisions are influenced by risk perception and loss aversion rather than just the magnitude of the benefits and cost. Small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises are more likely to turn to green technology innovation than large enterprises under the same level of risk preference and loss aversion. Finally, some suggestions are put forward for the government to encourage enterprises to adopt green technology innovation. This paper can provide a reference for theoretical and practical research on evolutionary game and prospect theory on green technology innovation of enterprises.
Evaluation Method of Advanced Mathematics Teaching Reform Effect Based on Big Data Analysis Technology
Authors: Chen Yeqin
Published: October 2022

In order to promote the teaching reform, deepen the professional construction, innovate the talent training mode and course teaching mode, improve teachers’ advanced vocational education teaching design ability and teaching level, and promote the connotation construction of higher vocational colleges, an evaluation method of higher mathematics teaching reform effect based on big data analysis technology is proposed. In the research, the teaching status of advanced mathematics courses and the problems existing in teaching are firstly analyzed and studied. Then, on the basis of comprehensive analysis of various influencing factors of course teaching effect evaluation, a set of two-level index system with a total of 25 indicators is established. The results verify the rationality of these indicator settings. Finally, combined with the real historical data of the teaching evaluation effect of a private college, the validity of the proposed model is verified. The experimental results show that the 530 sample data of the course are submitted to the RBF network for the training, and the network converges after 3385 iterations. Among all 100 test samples, the maximum test error is 0.0513, of which 92 samples are judged correct, 7 samples are judged as excellent, and 3 samples are judged as medium. Therefore, the evaluation accuracy rate of the RBF network is as high as 92%. It is concluded that this method provides a new way to evaluate the teaching effect of the course objectively and impartially.
[Retracted] Clinical Value of PET.CT Based on Big Data in Colorectal and Peritoneal Metastatic Cancer
Authors: Xiang Lili , Yang Chuanhua , Liu Wenneng , Li Dong , Jiang Zongze , Zhou Huijun
Published: October 2022

This study focuses on the evaluation of the clinical utility of PET‐CT imaging in peritoneal metastases and colorectal cancer. One hundred patients with colorectal peritoneal metastases, who underwent whole‐body PET‐CT imaging from January 2015 to December 2019, were selected as the experimental group, and 20 healthy individuals were selected as the control group. The SUVmax of the two groups of patients was 5.73 ± 3.84 and 2.70 ± 2.32, respectively, and the difference was statistically significant. The SUVmax AUC was 0.720, and the AUC of serum AFP, CEA, CA125, and CA199 were 0.596, 0.677, 0.642, and 0.696, respectively. Conclusion. 100 patients with colorectal and peritoneal metastatic cancer underwent PET/CT examination. The follow‐up or other imaging examinations confirmed the diagnosis. Analysis of the ROC curve in this study found that with a peritoneal SUVmax> 3.2 as the diagnostic index for colorectal peritoneal metastatic cancer, the sum of sensitivity and specificity reached the maximum.
IoT-Oriented Wireless Sensor Network and Sports Dance Movement Perception
Authors: Zhu Lin
Published: October 2022

The Internet of Things needs to connect different types of sensors in accordance with the agreement, and different agreements can be used for information and information exchange systems, which can facilitate the identification and control of intelligent systems. In many scenarios, location service application data are very important for obtaining accurate location information about nodes. In this paper, a wrist motion sensing sensor based on the PVDF piezoelectric film is developed. To realize the monitoring of wrist motion signals, this paper designs and manufactures a series of PVDF noninvasive sensors for motion perception. The characteristics of sports dance movements are reflected in the coordination between men and women, and the dance posture and movements must be synchronized with the music according to the level of music rhythm structure. The transfer of center of gravity is the main driving force of sports, and the gait of athletes is related to the transfer of center of gravity. Posture stability is the basic element of sports dance training. Only on this basis can it be possible to develop specific motion function trajectories and technical action forms.
New Lattice-Based Broadcast Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Yu Wangke , Yang Limeihui , Wang Shuhua
Published: October 2022

At present, wireless sensor networks have become one of the indispensable infrastructures in people’s lives. Considering the frequent mobility of wireless sensor network nodes, an efficient lattice-based random broadcast authentication protocol is proposed. The security of the proposed protocol is based on the SIS problem which helps to resist against quantum attacks. In this paper, we propose two forms of broadcast authentication, that is, one-to-many broadcast authentication and one-to-one broadcast authentication. The proposed protocol satisfies the broadcast authentication property. Moreover, the resistance against man in the middle attack, antireplay attack, unforgeability, and scalability properties are achieved. Moreover, its efficiency has certain advantages with other lattice-based studies.
miR-28-5p’s Targeting of GAGE12I Inhibits Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion of Gastric Cancer in Vitro
Authors: Xu Ruizhe , Guo Qi , Zhao Peifeng , Lu Haiyan , Zhang Bo
Published: October 2022

GAGE12I is a tumor metastasis-promoting factor, which can induce gastric cancer cells to invade and migrate. We investigated the effect of miR-28-5p targeting GAGE12I on proliferation, invasion, and migration of human gastric cancer cell lines SGC-7901, AGS, and MGC-803. The expression levels of miR-28-5p and GAGE12I were detected by real-time PCR and western blot, respectively. Cell proliferation, migration, and invasion were measured by MTT and Transwell chamber. The interaction between miR-28-5p and GAGE12I was investigated by bioinformatics analysis and luciferase assay. Results showed that the expression of miR-28-5p in human gastric cancer cell lines was lower than that in normal gastric epithelial cells (

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). Overexpression of miR-28-5p suppressed cell proliferation, invasion, and migration (

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). GAGE12I was confirmed as a target of miR-28-5p. Cell proliferation, invasion, and migration were decreased in cells transfected with shGAGE12I compared with those of the scrambled group (

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). Collectively, miR-28-5p negatively regulated GAGE12I and reduced the proliferation, invasion, and migration of gastric cancer cells.
Deep Transfer Learning for Question Classification Based on Semantic Information Features of Category Labels
Authors: Su Lei , Kang Wenqian , Wu Liping , Jiang Di
Published: October 2022

Question classification is an important component of the question answering system (QA system), which is designed to restrict the answer types and accurately locate the answers. Therefore, the classification results of the questions affect the quality and performance of the QA system. Most question classification methods in the past have relied on a large amount of manually labeled training data. However, in real situations, especially in new domains, it is very difficult to obtain a large amount of labeled data. Transfer learning is an effective approach to solve the problem with the scarcity of annotated data in new domains. We compare the effects of different deep transfer learning methods on cross-domain question classification. On the basis of the ALBERT fine-tuning model, we extract the category labels of the source domain, the question text, and the predicted category labels of the target domain as input to extract the category labels. Additionally, the semantic information of the category labels is extracted to achieve cross-domain question classification. Furthermore, WordNet is used to expand the question, which further improves the classification accuracy of the target domain. Experimental results show that the above methods can further improve the classification accuracy in new domains based on deep transfer learning.
A 3D REM-Guided UAV Path Planning Method under Communication Connectivity Constraints
Authors: Liu Xingguang , Zhou Li , Zhang Xiaoying , Tan Xiang , Wei Jibo
Published: October 2022

With the emergence of a large number of smart devices, the radio environment in which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) take tasks is becoming more and more complex, which puts forward higher requirements for UAVs’ situational awareness and autonomous obstacle avoidance capabilities. To tackle this issue, we propose a three-dimension (3D) UAV path planning method under communication connectivity constraints guided by radio environment maps (REMs), which are distributed by ground edge servers in the form of compressed global REMs and detailed local REMs. An interfered fluid dynamic system (IFDS) model is deployed on UAVs to allow them to avoid obstacles and plan paths. We propose a twin-delayed deep deterministic policy gradient- (TD3-) based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method to optimize the reaction coefficients of UAVs to avoid obstacles and improve the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR). The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively avoid static obstacles and dynamic interference under communication connectivity constraints, significantly improve the communication stability with a higher receive signal SINR and reduce the cost of UAV performing tasks with the shortest path.
Effect of Long Noncoding RNA HULC on Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion of Osteosarcoma Cells
Authors: Zhao Ran , Zhou Xin , Zhang Wencan , Li Le
Published: October 2022

Background. Previous studies had shown that lncRNA HULC exhibited different effects in human cancers. However, the role of HULC was not reported in osteosarcoma. Hence, we designed this research to explore the function of HULC in osteosarcoma. Methods. Firstly, HULC expression was measured in osteosarcoma tissues and cells via the RT-qPCR assay. The protein expression was detected through western blot. Then, CCK-8 and Transwell assays were conducted to measure cell proliferation, migration, and invasion. Results. The expression of HULC was obviously higher in osteosarcoma tissues and cells compared with normal control. Moreover, cell proliferation, migration, and invasion were inhibited by HULC knockdown in osteosarcoma cells. HULC overexpression markedly increased osteosarcoma cell proliferation and tumor size in vivo. Furthermore, HULC increased the activity of AKT-PI3K-mTOR pathway by blocking PTEN in osteosarcoma cells. LY294002 inhibited the phosphorylation of AKT, mTOR, and PI3K. Overexpressing HULC enhanced cell migration and invasion of SAOS-2 cells and MG63 cells, while LY294002 reversed the effects. Conclusion. HULC enhanced the progression of osteosarcoma through targeting PTEN.
Identification of Calcium Channel-Related Gene P2RX2 for Prognosis and Immune Infiltration in Prostate Cancer
Authors: Li Qinyu , Wu Bili , Daba Motuma , Gao Xintao , Chen Bingliang , Song Guoda , Zeng Kai , Miao Jianping , Yuan Xianglin , Liu Jihong , Wang Zhihua , Liu Bo
Published: October 2022

Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies in men. Calcium signaling is implicated in the progression of prostate cancer and plays a critical role in immune cell function. However, whether specific calcium channel-related genes play a crucial role in the immune cell infiltration levels of prostate cancer requires further research. In this study, we performed an integrated analysis of transcriptional, clinical, and somatic mutation data from The Cancer Genome Atlas database and identified the hub calcium channel-related gene P2RX2 to be associated with the prognosis and immune infiltration of prostate cancer. P2RX2 expression was positively correlated with immune cell infiltration levels and the expression of immune checkpoint genes, and downregulation of P2RX2 led to poor survival in patients with prostate cancer. Furthermore, we validated the molecular and clinical characteristics of P2RX2 by using multiple databases and conducting in-vitro experiments. Additionally, drug sensitivity analysis revealed that patients with low P2RX2 expression were sensitive to docetaxel and Bicalutamide. In conclusion, we revealed an association between calcium channel-related genes and prostate cancer, and identified P2RX2 as a biomarker for early diagnosis, prognosis prediction, and aiding treatment decisions for patients with prostate cancer.
Advances in Cuffless Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring Technology Based on PPG Signals
Authors: Qin Caijie , Wang Xiaohua , Xu Guangjun , Ma Xibo
Published: October 2022

Objective. To review the progress of research on photoplethysmography‐ (PPG‐) based cuffless continuous blood pressure monitoring technologies and prospect the challenges that need to be addressed in the future. Methods. Using Web of Science and PubMed as search engines, the literature on cuffless continuous blood pressure studies using PPG signals in the recent five years were searched. Results. Based on the retrieved literature, this paper describes the available open datasets, commonly used signal preprocessing methods, and model evaluation criteria. Early researches employed multisite PPG signals to calculate pulse wave velocity or time and predicted blood pressure by a simple linear equation. Later, extensive researches were dedicated to mine the features of PPG signals related to blood pressure and regressed blood pressure by machine learning models. Most recently, many researches have emerged to experiment with complex deep learning models for blood pressure prediction with the raw PPG signal as input. Conclusion. This paper summarized the methods in the retrieved literature, provided insight into the artificial intelligence algorithms employed in the literature, and concluded with a discussion of the challenges and opportunities for the development of cuffless continuous blood pressure monitoring technologies.
m6A-Related Angiogenic Genes to Construct Prognostic Signature, Reveal Immune and Oxidative Stress Landscape, and Screen Drugs in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Authors: Qu Xiaodong , Zhang Luyao , Li Songbo , Li Tian , Zhao Xingyu , Wang Na , Shi Yongquan
Published: October 2022

Background. m6A modification plays a key role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Angiogenesis-related genes (ARGs) are increasingly being used to define signatures predicting patient prognosis. The correlations between m6A-related ARGs (mARGs), clinical outcomes, and the immune and oxidative stress landscape are unclear. Methods. Univariate Cox regression analysis of 24 mARGs yielded 13 prognostic genes, which were then analyzed for their enriched functions and pathways. After LASSO regression analysis, a prognostic signature was constructed and its reliability validated. Patients were grouped by risk using the signature score, and then the clinical prognosis, the immune landscape, and the oxidative stress landscape between the two groups were analyzed. Drug sensitivity analysis was performed to identify potentially efficient therapeutic agents. Results. Thirteen prognosis-related mARGs consistently clustered patients with HCC into four groups with significantly different prognosis. Four mARGs (EGF, ITGA5, ITGAV, and PLG) were used to construct a prognostic signature and define risk groups. Among them, EGF, ITGA5, and ITGAV, were defined as prognostic risk factors, while PLG was defined as a prognostic protective factor. Compared to low-risk patients, HCC patients in the high-risk group had a poorer prognosis and showed significant differences in clinical characteristics, enriched pathways, tumor stemness, and tumor microenvironment. The drug sensitivity of oxaliplatin and LDK-378 negatively correlated with ITGAV expression. Ten drugs had lower IC50s in the high-risk group, indicating better antitumor efficacy than in the low-risk group, with epothilone B having the lowest IC50 value. Conclusions. A prognostic model consisting of mARGs can be used to predict the prognosis of HCC patients. The risk grouping of our model can be used to reveal differences in the tumor immune microenvironment of patients with HCC. Further in-depth study may provide new targets for future treatment.
Collaborative Music Creation Method Based on Image Collection of Lattice Code
Authors: Xiang Yuehua
Published: October 2022

With the development of science and technology, more and more emerging technologies have been integrated into electronic music, forming a rich and diverse form of interactive electronic music. This research mainly discusses the collaborative music creation method based on bit matrix code image acquisition. In the decoding process, the displacement value of each point should be determined according to the direction and distance from the point to the reference point of the corresponding grid raster. This article marks the position characteristics of image symbols according to the dot matrix code notation defined in the improved coding method. After searching for a pair of dot codes with the shortest distance in the horizontal or vertical direction, starting from the first code point in the vertical direction and following the second code point. Through the above method, it is possible to accurately construct the grid raster lines of the dot matrix position encoding symbol image formed after the improved encoding, so that the decoding of the dot matrix symbol image is more accurate, and the composition translation is reduced. The improved coding method reduces the error of the origin matrix code by about 0.11 mm as a whole. This research will realize the collaborative recording of data in the music creation process, which will bring great convenience to creators.
Teaching Reform of Undergraduate Courses in Colleges and Universities Based on Machine Learning and Improved SVM Algorithm
Authors: Zhou Yan
Published: October 2022

In order to deeply understand the current situation, problems, and satisfaction of undergraduate education courses in Contemporary Colleges and universities, and further improve the teaching level of professional courses, first, this paper makes an in-depth investigation on the teaching status and satisfaction of undergraduate education majors in two colleges and universities. The results show that the teaching and satisfaction of undergraduate education majors are at a medium level (m = 2.27). On this basis, combined with the existing problems, combined with the SVM parameter optimization algorithm of improved machine learning and particle swarm optimization algorithm, this paper puts forward the optimization strategy of undergraduate education curriculum teaching reform.
Modified Multiverse Optimizer Selective Harmonic Elimination for Five-Level Modified Packed U-Cells Inverter and Analysis of Motor Torque Ripple Suppression
Authors: Li Guohua , Wang Yibo , Fu Zhenfang
Published: October 2022

A selective harmonic elimination method of modified packed u-cells (MPUC) inverter fed induction motor built on modified multiverse optimizer (MMVO) algorithm is put forward. The proposed method adopts the MMVO algorithm to search the optimal solution in the SHEPWM equations through the two processes of exploring the optimal solution distribution and exploiting the optimal solution within it. On this basis, the influence of the different orders of power supply harmonics eliminated selectively on the motor’s torque ripple is compared and analyzed by using the Simulink and MAXWELL. From the results of simulation and experiments, it can be proved that the method can achieve the required fundamental voltage and selectively suppress the harmonic with particular order. At the same time, it is verified by ANSYS MAXWELL that the working quality of the motor can be improved by selectively eliminating the 5th, 7th, 11th, and 13th harmonics in the power source to effectively suppress the 6th and 12th periodic torque ripples that arise from these harmonics.
Wireless Multifunctional Display Platform for Visual Communication Design Based on IoT Big Data
Authors: Wang Baoqing
Published: October 2022

An important role of display visual design is advertising and advertising communication, which is an integrated medium, that is, a medium for communicating information. Visual communication design is the most direct way of information transmission in modern society. In today’s increasingly complex and diversified information, visual communication design has been more and more widely used in terms of form and function. On the display platform, the use of visual elements and the expression of visual communication design allows us to examine the different spatial experiences that visual communication design brings to people from a new perspective and adjust the way it is communicated, so as to find a scientific expression. This paper focused on the role of visual communication in display design and discussed its specific application in display design. The use of visual elements in the display space provides a new visual platform for spatial information, making the space design more connotative and cultural. For the smooth experience of media fusion design, it is necessary to ensure that information can be transmitted quickly and smoothly in every link of its processing. In the data write throughput experiment of the microperceptual data layer, the maximum write speed increased by 85.2% compared with the direct write method using the TSBPS method. The findings demonstrated that the IOT-HSQM model’s strategy of first queuing and then segmentation writes may more effectively fulfill the demands of high bandwidth than straight data transmission to HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System).
HSPA1A, HSPA2, and HSPA8 Are Potential Molecular Biomarkers for Prognosis among HSP70 Family in Alzheimer’s Disease
Authors: Dong Yeqing , Li Tongxin , Ma Zhonghui , Zhou Chi , Wang Xinxu , Li Jie
Published: October 2022

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, which leads to impairment of cognition and memory. The heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) family plays an important role in the pathogenesis of AD. It is known to regulate protein misfolding in a variety of diseases, including inhibition of Aβ aggregation and NFT formation in AD. As yet, the diagnostic molecular markers of AD remain unclear. Herein, we sought to investigate molecular markers of HSP70 family that can affect diagnosis and treatment in AD through computational analysis. In this study, the intersection between HSP70 family members and immune molecules was taken to screen immune-related HSP70 family genes. Based on the datasets from the NCBI-Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, we found that the expression levels of HSPA1A and HSPA2 were significantly increased in AD samples, while HSPA8 significantly decreased. Surprisingly, the combination of the 3 hub genes had a good diagnosis of AD via receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC). Moreover, the clinical value of the 3 hub genes was further assessed by the Spearman correlation analysis with AD-related genes, β-secretase activity, and γ-secretase activity. In terms of immune cell infiltration, we showed that the distribution of seven immune cell types (macrophages M2, neutrophils, T cells CD4 memory activated, macrophages M0, NK cells activated, plasma cells, and T cells follicular helper) was associated with the occurrence of AD by CIBERSORT. Furthermore, our data suggested that EP300, MYC, TP53, JUN, CREBBP, and ESR1 might be key transcription factors (TFs) for the 3 hub genes. In general, these findings suggest that HSPA1A, HSPA2, and HSPA8 are potential molecular biomarkers for prognosis among HSP70 family in AD, and it provides a new perspective on diagnostic and therapeutic targets for AD.
Meta-Analysis of the Application Effect of Different Modalities of Thermal Ablation and Surgical Treatment in Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma
Authors: Li Tao , Lu Bin , Zhang Yuanpeng , Sun Yong
Published: October 2022

Background. Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) refers to papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with a maximum diameter of 10 mm. Thermal ablation, including radiofrequency ablation (RFA), microwave ablation (MWA), and laser ablation (LA), has been applied in the treatment of benign thyroid nodules and captured extensive attention. At present, the application of thermal ablation in PTMC has been extensively reported, but outcomes such as volume reduction rate (VRR), complete remission rate (CRR), and adverse reaction rate (ARR) vary considerably. Therefore, this meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of different treatment methods of PTMC. Methods. We did a systematic review and network meta-analysis. We searched PubMed, EMBase, and Cochrane-Library from the date of inception to January 10, 2022, to retrieve the VRR, CRR, and ARR of MWA, RFA, LA and surgical treatment of PTMC, and a meta-analysis was performed using the R meta-package. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated, and sensitivity analyses, cumulative meta-analyses, and publication bias were also performed. Relevant literature was retrieved with keywords; the eligible cohort studies were screened based on the established inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results. A total of 1515 patients were included in the 12-month follow-up. The overall VRR was 86.25% (95% CI: 77.89, 94.60), and the VRR was RFA > WMA > LA, but the differences were not significant. A total of 1483 patients were included in the last follow-up. The overall VRR was 99.41% (95% CI: 99.11, 99.72), and the VRR was RFA > WMA > LA, but the differences were not significant. A total of 1622 patients showed complete remission at the last follow-up, and the overall CRR was 0.63 (95% CI: 0.46, 0.79). The CRR was RFA > LA > WMA, but the differences were not significant. A total of 1883 patients had adverse reactions at the last follow-up, and the overall ARR was 0.06 (95% CI: 0.03, 0.08). The ARR at the last follow-up was

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. The ARR of the RFA and Surg subgroups was significantly lower than that of the WMA subgroup. Conclusions. Similar good efficacy and safety profiles were observed in WMA, RFA, LA, and surgical treatment in PTMC, among which RFA showed the best volume reduction, complete remission rate, and adverse reaction reduction. However, there is a slight bias in the limited literature included in this study, and we did not conduct or refer to mechanistic studies to confirm its specific mechanism of action. Clinicians are advised to use their discretion in the choice of treatment.
Aristotle’s Three Logical Figures: A Proposed Reconstruction
Authors: Netz Reviel
Published: October 2022

Based on the evidence of the likely near-contemporary mathematical practice of diagrams, this article proposes a possible reconstruction of Aristotle’s three figures as introduced in Prior Analytics 1.4–6.
Colour, location and movement: what do models tell us about predation on colour morphs of a poison frog from eastern Amazonia?
Authors: da Rocha Sulamita M.C. , Magnusson William E. , Rojas Diana , Lima Albertina P.
Published: October 2022

Many dendrobatid frogs are known to be aposematic: brightly coloured and unpalatable to predators. To deceive predators, frog models used to test for predatory colour bias must be similar in size, colour, shape, and movement to frogs. We carried out an experiment with moving models of the species Adelphobates galactonotus, in two localities. A. galactonotus is a polytypic frog and each population of the species has a distinct colour. Birds and mammals were the vertebrates responsible for the marks on the models, but there was no difference in frequency of attacks on local-, non-local- and cryptic-colour models. Only invertebrates avoided cryptic models. Different populations of the species seem to be under different predation pressure, but colour differentiation in this species is probably related to other mechanisms, such as sexual selection.
From Diyārāt to Ziyārāt
Authors: Sajdi Dana
Published: October 2022

This essay explores the relationship between two geographical and literary genres, the diyārāt (Books of Monasteries), which disappeared in the 11th century, and the ziyārāt (shrine pilgrimage guides), which appeared in the 13th century. The relationship is discussed in the context of the transformation of the Syrian sacred landscape, which became thoroughly Islamized through the erection of Islamic public buildings including shrines and mausolea between the 11th–13th centuries. I argue that these two genres had a similar function of spatially inscribing the political order through the invitation to liminal practices in the marginal sites of the monastery and the Islamic shrine/mausoleum. The diyārāt registered the caliphal order and courtly culture, while the ziyārāt served to sanctify the professional scholar whose authority emerged in the post-caliphal sultanic age.
Revisiting al-Ṭabarī on Maqtal ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib: An Early Report from Historical Learning to Practical Prescription
Authors: El Ali Mariam Saeed
Published: October 2022

This paper examines the report (khabar) that relates the reasons behind the killing of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661), as transmitted in the famous History of al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923), exploring its historical, poetical, and practical facets. After considering its formal and historiographical structure, the paper analyzes some of the report’s phonetical, lexical, and textual elements, revealing its affective poeticity, or capacity to move readers in various ways. A review of different citations of the report in other Arabic medieval compilations positively sheds light on the practical morality that Muslim compilers were orienting their readers to observe, in their employment of titles, subtitles, explicit evaluations, and contextual arrangements among other constructions. The paper aims to attest to the report’s diverse potentials to aid its readers in ultimately answering the ethical question of “What to do, here and now?”
The Way We See It: Poetic-Visual Reciprocity in Egyptian Street Art Since 2011
Authors: Mohamed Eid , Mohamed Talaat Farouq
Published: October 2022

This article traces the manifestations of the newly adapted artistic form of “calligraffiti,” or the synthetic braiding of poetry and graffiti on what became known as the “walls of protest” in post-2011 Egypt. This new mode of writing/drawing answers to the immediacy of an unprecedented revolutionary moment in Egypt and rewrites Egyptian history in peculiar artistic instantaneity. The image-text discursive dynamics of this hybrid form of expression enhance our understanding of the 2011 Egyptian uprising, enabling us to explore the potential of revolutionary impulse for stretching new artistic forms. This article therefore engages calligraffiti as a means to expand the scope of the literary, and specifically the poetic, to involve the visual dimension as coupled with the conceptual (linguistic). In this border- and genre-crossing artistic mode, Arabic poetry and graffiti meld as a revolutionary form of self-expression that defies local and international hegemonic, patriarchal regimes. Calligraffiti serves not only as a means of registering a revolutionary moment in Egypt or of celebrating the epiphany of the uprising, but more importantly it stands as a cultural and literary tool developed and used by Egyptian artists to represent the revolutionary artistic self and galvanize dissent during a highly contested moment in Egypt’s history. The article thus traces the ways that the calligraffiti of Egyptian artists like Bahiyyah Shihāb (Bahia Shehab) and ʿUmar Fatḥī (Omar Fathy), ʿAmmār Abū Bakr (Ammar Abo Bakr), Ganzīr (Ganzeer), Al-Mushīr (El-Moshir) and ʿAlāʾ ʿAwaḍ (Alaa Awad), are enmeshed with the poetic lines of Amal Dunqul, Pablo Neruda, and Yāsir al-Manawahlī (Yasser el-Manawahly) on the artistic canvas of muralled Egyptian revolution.
Oral Transmission, Ekphrasis, and Technical Drawings: On the Formation of Mishnah Middot
Authors: Skarf Joshua
Published: October 2022

Scholars have often used the Mishnaic tractate Middot, “Measurements,” as the basis for recreating technical drawings of the Jerusalem Temple. Middot was never intended, however, to be used this way. Buildings in antiquity were largely erected without the use of technical drawings, and construction usually began without a fully resolved design. Furthermore, the very idea of copying a building was different, with no expectations of a faithful replica. Instead, Middot was concerned with transmitting the main elements of the Temple. As such, its compilers were willing to forgo the use of diagrams and rely on common, tried-and-true verbal methods for transmitting architectural information.
Sufyān al-Thawrī and the Kufans
Authors: Melchert Christopher
Published: October 2022

Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161/777?) was a major Kufan jurisprudent with a later reputation for special hostility to Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 150/767) and his school and for upholding hadith against raʾy. However, the record of his hadith transmission as preserved in third/ ninth-century collections shows that he mainly collected and disseminated hadith in Kufa. The record of his agreements and disagreements in law as preserved in Muḥammad b. Naṣr al-Marwazī (d. 295/907–8?), Ikhtilāf al-fuqahāʾ, Ibn al-Mundhir (d. 318/930–1?), al-Ishrāf, and al-Jaṣṣāṣ al-Rāzī (d. 370/981), Mukhtaṣar Ikhtilāf al-ʿulamāʾ, shows preponderant agreement with the Ḥanafiyya and a lower degree of agreement with, among others, al-Awzāʿī and al-Shāfiʿī. The biographical dictionaries record few traces of a personal school of law after him. Doubts have been raised, but in the end he is to be counted an adherent of the Kufan regional school of law.
Seeing in Visionary and Mystical Experience: A Perceptual and Cognitive-Semantic Account
Authors: Stocker Kurt
Published: October 2022

According to Stocker (in press), seeing in visual experience (visual perception and visual imagery) is organized by Talmyan concept structuring. Here, it is proposed that during seeing in extrovertive visionary experience and extrovertive mystical experience, this visual concept structuring is largely or totally suspended—except for the perspective point (pp), which seems to remain in place in all human seeing. Complemented with cognitive-semantic analysis, characterizations of extrovertive visionary experience draw from the writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley, and characterizations of extrovertive mystical experience additionally from the theologian Rudolph Otto and the philosopher Walter Stace. It is also examined how well extrovertive visionary experience and extrovertive mystical experience are captured with altered-state-of-consciousness questionnaires. Potential benefits for the mind from temporary suspension of Talmyan concept structuring are discussed.
Youth Access to Stolen Handguns
Authors: Flexon Jamie L. , D’Alessio Stewart J. , Stolzenberg Lisa , Cruz Erik , Meldrum Ryan C.
Published: October 2022

Youth with access to illicit handguns have an enhanced proclivity to engage in armed criminal violence and self-harm. While theft has been identified as a pathway for youth to gain access to handguns, little is known about whether and to what extent stolen guns represent a viable channel toward putting youth and others at risk. To evaluate this, several data sources and methods are used to evaluate whether handgun thefts occurring within proximity to a school predict self-reported ease of handgun acquisition among young people. Multilevel results fail to show any relationship between the availability of stolen handguns, measured in three different ways, and middle and high school youths’ self-reported access to handguns. Microlevel characteristics are predictive of gun access among youth.
Genre work: ‘How’ vs ‘what’ questions in the sociology of music culture
Authors: Nowak Raphaël , Whelan Andrew
Published: October 2022

The established conceptual frameworks in the sociology of music largely name forms of social collective, albeit emphasising different characteristics. ‘Scene’ and ‘neo-tribe’ are the principal contemporary examples of this. In this article, we describe scene and neo-tribe as conceptual responses to what questions (What kind of sociality is this? What kind of cultural context is this?). We engage critically with scene and neo-tribe, and with the underlying logic of sociological explanation which posits and then answers what questions about social collectives as the best means of accounting for social practices around music. We do this to advocate sociological enquiry into music via how questions, suggesting that such questions have a specific sociological trajectory which presents underexplored opportunities for the sociology of popular music. To this end, we introduce and describe the concept of ‘genre work’, to investigate how musical development and social groups are co-constituted through the same social processes and dynamics. We argue that scene and neo-tribe tend to background the empirical processes (and the music) around which their respective research agendas are oriented. Genre work and similar approaches, in contrast, seek to document and analyse the discourses, interactional forms and mediated and co-present activities by which genres and the social groupings interested in them are mutually cohered.
Contextual poverty and obtained educational level and income in Sweden and the Netherlands: A multi-scale and longitudinal study
Authors: Andersson Eva , Janssen Heleen , Ham Maarten van , Malmberg Bo
Published: October 2022

Studies of neighbourhood effects typically measure the neighbourhood context at one specific spatial scale. It is increasingly acknowledged, however, that the mechanisms through which the residential context affects individual outcomes may operate at different spatial scales, ranging from the very immediate environment to the metropolitan region. We take a multi-scale approach to investigate the extent to which concentrated poverty in adolescence is related to obtained education level and income later in life, by measuring the residential context as bespoke neighbourhoods at five geographical scales that range from areas encompassing the 200 nearest neighbours to areas that include the 200k+ nearest neighbours. We use individual-level geocoded longitudinal register data from Sweden and the Netherlands to follow 15/16-year-olds until they are 30 years old. The findings show that the contextual effects on education are very similar in both countries. Living in a poor area as a teenager is related to a lower obtained educational level when people are in their late 20s. This relationship, however, is stronger for lower spatial scales. We also find effects of contextual poverty on income in both countries. Overall, this effect is stronger in the Netherlands than in Sweden. Partly, this is related to differences in spatial structure. If only individuals in densely populated areas in Sweden are considered, effects on income are similar across the two countries and income effects are more stable across spatial scales. Overall, we find important evidence that the scalar properties of neighbourhood effects differ across life-course outcomes.
The political economy of land expropriation in urban Bangladesh
Authors: Mondal Lipon
Published: October 2022

This paper explores the 71-year (1947–2018) history of land expropriation in urban Bangladesh. It examines three interrelated questions regarding land occupation. First, how does the state and market pursue their mutual and competing class interests by expropriating land? Next, how does the state and market deploy primarily extra-economic means to seize land? Finally, how do actors, strategies and purposes of land expropriation vary from one political regime to another? This article addresses these questions by engaging with extant theories of land dispossession and class analysis and collecting a wide range of empirical evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh. It argues that state and market actors in different political regimes use extra-economic means to accumulate land, creating preconditions for capitalism and expanding the existing capitalist system. To elaborate on this argument, it examines three factors of land expropriation: class, power and structure. The class dimension examines state and market actors who pursue their respective class interests by grabbing land. The power dimension explores land occupation strategies: who can use what forms of legal or illegal means to expropriate land. The structural factor shows how actors, methods, and purposes of land accumulation vary from regime to regime. Overall, this paper examines historical and contemporary forms of class interests attached to land accumulation, distinct mechanisms and purposes of land expropriation, and the nature of capitalist transformation under various political regimes.
Competition, Cooperation, and Coexistence: An Ecological Approach to Public Agenda Dynamics in the United States (1958–2020)
Authors: Peng Tai-Quan , Zhu Jonathan J. H.
Published: October 2022

The public agenda is an ecosystem in which public issues interact and compete to gain public attention. Whether this ecosystem is primarily competitive or cooperative is an unsettled question in the literature on agenda-setting. This study employs an ecological approach to explicate interissue relationships. It quantifies the nature and evolution of the issue ecosystem and examines the roles of the value orientations of issues and of individuals’ education levels and political partisanship in interissue relationships. The study compiled and analyzed the Gallup Most Important Problem polls in the United States from 1958 to 2020. The findings indicate that the issue ecosystem of the American public is essentially competitive and that the balance of competition and cooperation has remained unchanged over time. The interaction between public issues involving materialistic values was more likely to be competitive and the interaction between issues involving postmaterialistic values was more likely to be cooperative.
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Refractory Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion Disorder
Authors: Huang Tien-Ru , Yeh Ta-Chuan , Cheng Sheng Yao
Published: October 2022

Paradoxical vocal fold motion disorder (PVFMD) is a condition involving the inappropriate narrowing of the larynx with symptoms of laryngeal tightness and dyspnea. A 23-year-old woman was diagnosed with PVFMD by imaging, revealing dynamically constricted, supraglottic tissue, an abnormal adduction of the vocal cords with a characteristic “posterior chink” observed. After diagnosis, laryngeal control retraining protocols and biofeedback therapy were initiated. To treat persistent symptoms, interventions such as vocal fold botulinum toxin (BoNT) injections were performed with slight improvements. Ultimately, psychiatry performed 10 repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulations (rTMS) with a right‐sided, low‐frequency approach to treat the patient’s underlying major depressive disorder and comorbid anxious distress. Afterward, the patient’s symptoms were successfully reduced with an improvement in Dyspnea Severity Index. Although most patients with PVFMD were relieved with laryngeal control therapy, some are refractory and lack the literature on the best treatment. In this case, we followed the multidisciplinary approach and individualized our novel therapeutic strategies including especially rTMS, which successfully reduced symptoms. This is the first reported case of refractory PVFMD to be treated with novel interventions, and rTMS might play a role in PVFMD mitigation.
Fashion and desire: A Kantian critique
Authors: Kang Eun Jung
Published: October 2022

By probing into how desire is involved in fashion phenomena, this article illuminates Willkür in tandem with desire. It first analyzes how the higher and lower faculties of desire, spelled out by Immanuel Kant, play a role in fashion, unveiling how fashion as a form of social relations exists in concert with the higher faculty of desire, which has a close connection with Willkür. This article maintains that the arbitrary choice manifested in and through fashion is illustrative of Willkür, on the grounds that it results from a self-conscious deliberation, demonstrating the ‘reflective distance’ from our incentives. Christine M. Korsgaard’s elucidation of the relationship between ‘reflective distance’ and self-consciousness helps formulate this argument. However, this article also discusses the foibles of Korsgaard’s reading of Kant, in particular in the area of theory of action. By doing so, this article argues that reason is not the only factor with which we make choices and take actions within the bounds of which freedom is secured, and that fashion allows us to comprehend not only how the power of choice, independent from necessitation by sensible impulses, exercises its freedom, but also how personal autonomy is related to Kant’s negative concept of freedom.