bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Night Songs
Authors: Taylor Hollis , Rose Jon
Published: December 2024

This article's authors record, transcribe, and analyze Australian pied butcherbird songs much as a musicologist might study any human music. They also arrange some of these vocalizations for human musicians. Here, the authors detail a recent interspecies engagement entitled Night Songs. This multimedia concert cultivates audience engagement by striving to create as deep a listening experience as the authors' was in the field. The music partner for the authors' (re)compositions is a field recording, typically of the avian composer in question; this allows musicians to perform across a perceived divide and audiences to make direct comparisons of avian and human musicians. As songbird aesthetics emerge in the concert hall, they challenge hierarchies of creative power. Night Songs folds concepts of multispecies justice into storytelling. This rich, varied, and often familiar-sounding avian vocal culture prompts a rethink of species boundaries, prompting narratives of enchantment and connection to replace those of exceptionalism
Attuning to the Pluriverse
Authors: Carbonell Isabelle
Published: December 2024

Environmental issues in mainstream documentary film have been aestheticized and personified through specific filmmaking methods such as talking-head interviews, single-character narrative arcs, and three-part dramatic structures. These anthropocentric approaches can make it difficult to pay attention to slower temporalities and more-than-human lifeworlds that are at the crux of understanding slower-moving environmental disasters. The groundwork for the ecological collapse of an ecosystem is often only partially discernible within a human time frame, encompassing connections across species, seasons, elements, genres, and time and space too temporally and spatially vast, too micro- or macroscopic to be captured as visible evidence, and therefore more experimental film practices are needed to register these scalar frequencies. Multispecies cinema is a new mode of filmmaking that centers the more-than-human through several experimental methodological expansions, with the goal of decentering the human while narrativizing ecosystems in trouble.
Steps toward Kinship
Authors: Ybarra Priscilla Solis
Published: December 2024

In this essay, Ybarra shares her experience of the Nibi Walk as one way to conceptualize practices of accountability and critical solidarity across cultures and modes of being, including the way the Nibi Walk's structure fundamentally disrupts concepts of linearity. Although Ybarra continues to ask some of the same questions she had when she first entered into the water walking ceremony, she gathers a bit more experience and knowledge every time she returns to the circle, every time she finds a different path into the inquiry. What she first learned growing up surrounded by Mexican American storytellers becomes confirmed without a doubt—that questions are more about the asking and the process of listening than they are about any particular answer. Reaching for justice and taking steps toward kinship takes humility before an ever-spiraling cyclical process.
Επιδημιολογική μελέτη ασθενών με μέλασμα στον Ελληνικό πληθυσμό
Authors: Πλατσιδάκη Ευτυχία
Published: December 2024

Το μέλασμα είναι μια κοινή επίκτητη διαταραχή της μελάγχρωσης του δέρματος που χαρακτηρίζεται από ακανόνιστες καφετί κηλίδες, συμμετρικά κατανεμημένες στα τμήματα του σώματος που εκτίθενται στον ήλιο και ιδιαίτερα στο πρόσωπο. Στόχος της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν η διερεύνηση των επιδημιολογικών χαρακτηριστικών της ασθένειας, της συσχέτισής της με ορμονικές διαταραχές, καθώς και της επίπτωσης στην ποιότητα ζωής, το άγχος, την κατάθλιψη και την χαμηλή αυτοεκτίμηση στον ελληνικό πληθυσμό. Στην έρευνα έλαβαν μέρος 254 συμμετέχοντες: 127 ασθενείς με μέλασμα και ισάριθμο δείγμα υγιών μαρτύρων. Τα ευρήματα έδειξαν ότι το μέλασμα επηρεάζει κυρίως γυναίκες (96%) και ιδιαίτερα κατά την αναπαραγωγική ηλικία (20-40 ετών).Οι παράγοντες που βρέθηκαν να επάγουν ή να επιδεινώνουν τη νόσο είναι η ηλιακή ακτινοβολία, τα αντισυλληπτικά χάπια (17%), η εγκυμοσύνη (36%), το οικογενειακό ιστορικό (38%), ενώ ένας σημαντικό αριθμός ασθενών έπασχε από υποθυρεοειδισμό (5%), ορμονικές διαταραχές (6%) και ανεπάρκεια βιταμίνης D (22%). Οι ασθενείς με μέλασμα (7,47±4,53) παρουσίασαν στατιστικά σημαντικά υψηλότερο άγχος σε σύγκριση με υγιείς μάρτυρες (6,06±3,59, p = 0,006), ενώ δεν προέκυψαν διαφορές όσον αφορά την κατάθλιψη ή την αυτοεκτίμηση. Μεγαλύτερη σοβαρότητα της ασθένειας (MASI) συσχετίστηκε στατιστικά σημαντικά με μεγαλύτερη διάρκεια της νόσου (r= 0,24, p <0,001), υψηλότερη κατάθλιψη (r = 0,28, p = 0,002) και χαμηλή ποιότητα ζωής (MelasQol; r = 0,29, p < 0,001). Συγκεκριμένα, χαμηλή ποιότητα ζωής συσχετίστηκε επίσης με υψηλότερη κατάθλιψη (r = 0,19, p = 0,027) και χαμηλότερη αυτοεκτίμηση (r = -0,31, p < 0,001).Τα αποτελέσματα αυτής της μελέτης υπογραμμίζουν τη σημασία του προσδιορισμού των επιπέδων των ορμονών και της βιταμίνης D σε ασθενείς με μέλασμα καθώς και της αξιολόγησης της ποιότητα ζωής, του άγχους και της κατάθλιψης τους. Η θεραπευτική προσέγγιση δεν πρέπει να βασίζεται μόνο στα κλινικά ευρήματα, αλλά θα πρέπει επίσης να περιλαμβάνει εκτίμηση των ψυχολογικών πτυχών των ασθενών. Οι δερματολόγοι μπορούν να βελτιώσουν περαιτέρω τη φροντίδα των ασθενών τους όντας υποστηρικτικοί ή ζητώντας ψυχολογική παρέμβαση όταν χρειάζεται, με αποτέλεσμα την επίτευξη της καλύτερης συμμόρφωσης στη θεραπεία και την βελτίωση τόσο της κοινωνικής όσο και της ψυχολογικής τους κατάστασης.
A proteomic study in the investigation of prostate cancer
Authors: Μάντσιου Άννα
Published: December 2024

Οι μηχανισμοί εξέλιξης του καρκίνου του προστάτη δεν έχουν διευκρινιστεί πλήρως. • Οι ιστοί FFPE είναι πολύτιμοι πόροι για πρωτεομική ανάλυση, αλλά συνδέονται με μεγάλους τεχνικούς περιορισμούς λόγω της διασταύρωσης πρωτεϊνών. • Αυτή η μελέτη αρχικά επικεντρώνεται στην ανάπτυξη ενός αξιόπιστου πρωτοκόλλου γιατην πρωτεομική ανάλυση κλινικών δειγμάτων FFPE για τη διερεύνηση του καρκίνου του προστάτη. • Η ανάλυση του FFPE και των αντιστοιχισμένων ιστών FF με το βελτιστοποιημένο πρωτόκολλο με LC-MS/MS έδειξε ισχυρή συσχέτιση στην αφθονία πρωτεϊνών • Στη συνέχεια, σχεδιάστηκε μια πιλοτική μελέτη για τη διερεύνηση της αξιοπιστίας του βελτιστοποιημένου πρωτοκόλλου στο πλαίσιο του PCa • Τα αποτελέσματα τόνισαν σχετικές οδούς σημαντικά απορυθμισμένες μεταξύ PCa και καλοήθων ιστών, οι οποίες είναι σύμφωνες με τις δημοσιευμένες αναφορές • Αυτή η μελέτη παρουσιάζει ένα αξιόπιστο, απλό και γρήγορο πρωτόκολλο για πρωτεομική ανάλυση κλινικών ιστών PCa FFPE • Η μέθοδος είναι αναπαραγώγιμη και εφαρμόσιμη σε περιορισμένη ποσότητα ιστού, επομένως πιθανές πολλαπλές εφαρμογές.
Η εγχάρακτη απεικόνιση του «ιερού τόπου» στα έργα περιηγητών (τέλη 15ου – τέλη 19ου αι.)
Authors: Πίκουλα Φλωρεντία
Published: December 2024

Η διδακτορική διατριβή έχει ως αντικείμενο έρευνας περιηγητικά κείμενα που χρονολογούνται από τα τέλη του 15ου αι. έως τα τέλη του 19ου αι., στα οποία παρουσιάζονται ταξιδιωτικά εγχειρήματα στους Αγίους Τόπους και το Όρος Σινά, και περιέχεται εικονογραφικό υλικό εν είδει παραστάσεων. Οι περιηγητές, των οποίων οι τόμοι μελετήθηκαν, προέρχονται από χώρες της δυτικής, κεντρικής και βόρειας Ευρώπης. Αναφορικά με τα γεωγραφικά πλαίσια, στους Αγίους Τόπους, η παρούσα μελέτη επικεντρώνεται στην πόλη της Ιερουσαλήμ, τα περίχωρά της και γειτνιάζουσες τοποθεσίες. Στην περίπτωση της Χερσονήσου του Σινά, τα σημεία ενδιαφέροντος είναι η ομώνυμη Μονή της Αγίας Αικατερίνης και το Όρος. Σκοπός της μελέτης είναι να τεθούν καίρια ερωτήματα αναφορικά με ζητήματα της εικονογραφίας: προσφιλή και σπανίως εικονιζόμενα θέματα, τα είδη των πληρoφοριών που αντλούνται από τις παραστάσεις και άλλα στοιχεία που ενίοτε τις συνοδεύουν, όπως υπομνήματα και τίτλοι, η μέθοδος του δανεισμού εικόνων μεταξύ έργων διαφορετικών συγγραφέων, οι ομοιότητες και οι διαφορές ανάμεσα σε ίδια εικονιστικά θέματα, η ταυτότητα του δημιουργού μιας παράστασης και το κατά πόσον η διαδικασία της φιλοτέχνησης είναι το προϊόν αυτοψίας ή δανεισμού.
Using text-mining to measure the scientific impact and legacy of ELIXIR, a distributed research infrastructure for life science data
Authors: De Leo Francesca , Balsyte Erika , Petryszak Robert , D’Ambrosio Marilena , Bruno Chiara , Cook Martin , Mičetić Ivan , Martin Corinne S.
Published: December 2024

Background ELIXIR is a pan-European public-funded research infrastructure dedicated to life science data. As such, it must demonstrate public value to its funders and stakeholders. We present methods to inventory research publications linked to ELIXIR that have received funding and support, as well as related citation metrics, used as performance metrics for these audiences. Methods To overcome challenges inherent in ELIXIR’s distributed structure, and the fact that those publishing ELIXIR-supported work are typically working part-time on ELIXIR matters, a semi-automated approach, consisting of text-mining followed by manual curation, is presented. A country-level case study (ELIXIR Italy) refines and expands the methods, notably by introducing more granularity in the curation process (e.g. considering all national-level grants, examining affiliations to report publication per institute) and by additionally looking at the scientific impact of the resources developed and operated by the Italian Node of ELIXIR. Results Overall, the methods described in this article have shown to: (1) be repeatable with acceptable levels of accuracy and consistency (notably across curators); (2) require reasonable effort in terms of curation of monthly ‘harvests’ of publications (obtained by text-mining); and (3) to be well-adapted to ELIXIR’s distributed nature. Conclusions Concrete examples are provided of downstream uses of the inventoried publications and their citations, both for ELIXIR as a whole and for the Italian case study. Limitations of the methods are discussed, particularly the challenges associated with using an ‘Open literature’ database (Europe PMC) for the text-mining, and the constraints related to curation capacity. The methods, along with the valuable lessons learned during their development, are sufficiently generic and pragmatic enough to be readily adapted by other similar research infrastructures.
Effect of hyperglycemia on lung microbiota and treatment outcome in pulmonary tuberculosis: A scoping review
Authors: Musyoki Victor Moses , Mureithi Marianne , Heikinheimo Annamari , Maleche-Obimbo Elizabeth , Kithinji Dennis , Musau Susan , Njaanake Kariuki , Anzala Omu
Published: December 2024

Abstract The comorbidity due to pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) is a global health problem, but its mechanism remains unclear. It is suspected that hyperglycemic alteration of the immune response to TB and the composition of the lung microbiota play an important role. This scoping review aimed to contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms by mapping evidence on the effect of hyperglycemia on physical health indicators, immune cell counts, cytokine levels, and the composition of lung microbiota in patients with the DM-TB comorbidity. A systematic search for research articles about the relationship between hyperglycemia and physical health, immune cells, and cytokine levels in humans was conducted in MEDLINE, Scopus, and CINAHL Plus. Then, articles on the interactions between the immune cells, cytokines, and lung microbiota were identified through Google Scholar and Google search engines. Characteristics of the studies focusing on effects of hyperglycemia, the findings of the articles relevant to the research objectives, and strengths and weaknesses of the selected articles were charted in a data extraction tool. Twenty-one articles on the effects of hyperglycemia on immune mediators and health outcomes of patients with DM-TB were included. The evidence showed hyperglycemia to be associated with unfavorable treatment outcomes; altered counts and functioning of dendritic cells, monocytes, and CD4+ T cells; and changes in cytokine levels (mainly INF-γ, IL-17, IL-1β, IL-2, IL-6, IL-10, and TNF-α) in patients with DM-TB. The composition of the lung microbiota changed in correlation with changes in physical health outcomes, counts of immune cells, and cytokine levels. Thus, hyperglycemia, immune responses, and dysbiosis of the lung microbiota are integral in the pathogenesis of DM-TB and TB treatment outcomes. A prospective cohort study, especially in individuals with newly diagnosed DM versus known DM and concomitant latent TB versus active TB, is recommended to define causal relationships.
Organization of assistance in the areas of physical and rehabilitation medicine
Authors: Ponomarenko Gennadiy , Lavrinenko Inna , Isaeva Anna , Ahmedov Vadim
Published: December 2024

The practical guide presents the issues of organizing specialized care for medical rehabilitation, physiotherapy, therapeutic physical education and sanatorium treatment. The procedures and stages of providing assistance, job descriptions of employees, the device and equipment of departments, sanitary and epidemic regime, quality control and safety of medical activities are considered.
It is addressed to the heads of medical organizations and sanatorium-resort institutions, doctors of medical rehabilitation, physiotherapists, doctors of physical therapy, secondary medical personnel.
The evolution of international law - from Westphal to Versailles
Authors: Farhutdinov Insur
Published: December 2024

Based on doctrinal research, the monograph examines the stages of the emergence and evolution of international law from the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 to the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The Westphalian-Vienna system of international relations, which is the subject of these studies, is of particular importance for the evolution of international law.
The research is devoted to the history of the branch of the science of international law, which studies the emergence and development of public international law as a set of legal norms governing interstate relations.
The formation of international law began with the fundamental work of Hugo Grotius "Three Books on the Law of War and Peace" (1625). The Dutch scientist developed humanistic rules of warfare, which later became the basis of the law of armed conflict in the system of international law.
The work shows that the myth of Westphalus created a system of beliefs that are far from reality. Based on the international legal analysis of historical texts, the generally accepted doctrine that the Treaty of Westphalia is, however, the beginning of a new international system that has stood up to the XXI century is being questioned.
It is intended for students, postgraduates, as well as for anyone interested in the problems of the history of international law and international relations. It is recommended for use as a textbook in the disciplines of "International Law", "International Relations".
Pedagogy of leadership activities
Authors: Borisova Marina , Pavlova Nadezhda , Ilyushina Nataliya , Korobova Oksana
Published: December 2024

The textbook contains a wealth of theoretical material necessary for the organization of work with children in a children's health camp (DOL), reveals recommendations for working with children of different age groups, performing routine moments, forms and methods of organizing the process of education in DOL, etc.
For students of higher educational institutions studying in the areas of training included in the enlarged group "Education and Pedagogical Sciences", as well as specialists of the education system and anyone interested in children's recreation and wellness.
Russian language and speech culture for police officers
Authors: Voroncova Yuliya , Horoshko Elena
Published: December 2024

The textbook includes theoretical and practical professionally oriented material aimed at deepening and systematizing knowledge of the norms of the modern Russian literary language. It is supplemented with illustrative material necessary for mastering the basics of business speech, and is intended for the formation and improvement of communicative competence.
Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of secondary vocational education of the latest generation.
It is intended for students, cadets and trainees of educational institutions of secondary vocational education, studying in the specialties 40.02.02 "Law enforcement", 40.02.04 "Jurisprudence".
Administrative liability for violations in the field of information circulation
Authors: Dzhafarova Naylya
Published: December 2024

The monograph examines the theoretical aspects of the implementation of administrative responsibility in the field of information turnover, as well as problematic issues arising in law enforcement practice in connection with the consideration of offenses encroaching on the legitimate circulation of information. The objective and subjective signs of these offenses are analyzed. Possible ways to overcome the problems of proving offenses in the field of information are proposed.
For researchers, practicing lawyers, teachers, graduate students and law students.
«THE EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING WHEEL»: RESULTS OF THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL TESTING
Authors: Elaneva D. , Fedorova A.
Published: December 2024

In the context of contemporary challenges for Russian business, human resource management strategies of enterprises are becoming increasingly humancentred, programs for supporting employee well-being are being actively implemented, and new ways of managing engagement, loyalty, and job satisfaction are being sought, which are integral components of well-being at work. The purpose of the pilot study is to develop and test a methodological approach to monitoring the level of employee well-being, which includes the conceptual model “Employee Well-being Wheel” and a subjective assessment tool for indicators of engagement, loyalty, and job satisfaction in the form of a questionnaire. Empirical data collection was carried out at a meat and dairy enterprise in 2023–2024 with the involvement of 10 employees from the Human Resources Department. Processing and analysing the data obtained was carried out in the logic of the conceptual model, within which employee well-being is considered as a holistic phenomenon consisting of its elements: physical and mental health, personal and professional development, social relationships and ties, opportunities for rest, financial stability. An important part of the author’s methodology is the visualization of the analysis results, which contributes to the improvement of the interpretation processes of cause-and-effect relationships, the identification of hidden trends, and the making of management decisions aimed at maintaining the well-being of the enterprise’s employees. As a result of the pilot study, the expediency of applying the author’s methodology at the enterprise was confirmed, as well as the need for the next stage with an increase in the number of employees involved in the study.
TRAINING OF STUDENTS IN THE FIELD OF «HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT» TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCY MODELS: METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS
Authors: Aleksandrova N. , Bryuhova O.
Published: December 2024

The article substantiates the importance and describes the difficulties of students mastering the training direction 38.03.03 «Personnel Management» of the competency-based approach as a fundamental basis for the organization and implementation of key functional areas of personnel management. Studying this issue in the process of preparing future specialists to solve real professional problems in the field of personnel management involves not only mastering the conceptual apparatus, but also developing skills in developing competency models. A generalization of many years of teaching experience allowed the authors to develop, apply and present to the teaching community for familiarization a unique methodology for conducting a practical lesson, during which students are asked to complete a practice-oriented task based on materials from a fairy tale narrative. The article presents an algorithm for conducting a lesson, indicates the goals and time frames of each stage, the necessary resources and results. The article will be useful, first of all, to teachers of socioeconomic and management disciplines seeking to replenish their pedagogical arsenal with new forms, methods and techniques of work.
MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: FORMATION OF A SYSTEM OF INDICATORS
Authors: Balashova N.
Published: December 2024

The subject of the research in this article is the process of managing organizational culture. The goal is to create a set of indicators characterizing the work of managing organizational culture. The main research methods were comparative analysis, literature analysis and description.

A distinctive feature of this article is that the management of organizational culture is considered in stages, the characteristics of indicators and their possible calculation are described in detail. To detail the work on the stages of organizational culture management, checklists have been developed that include the main tasks necessary for managing organizational culture at each stage.

The author concludes that it is advisable to use indicators reflecting the state of organizational culture.

The article may be of interest to practitioners involved in the development of elements of organizational culture, the formation of organizational culture, as well as those engaged in research on staff satisfaction, engagement and loyalty, graduate students, undergraduates.
IMPROVING THE ORGANIZATION'S PERSONNEL RESERVE
Authors: Borzhova E. , Erygina Anna
Published: December 2024

This study explores the concept of personnel reserve, its definitions, types, and stages of formation within organizations. The staffing of it with talented specialists, HiPo and HiPro employees is also considered, and the term “Talent pool” is indicated. Next, the stages of creating and managing a personnel reserve are presented, illustrating the scheme of external and internal personnel reserve of an existing organization, detailing a segment of an individual development plan for a candidate in the personnel reserve for a leadership position, and showcasing a segment of the reserve personnel’s information base. Additionally, the stages of forming a personnel reserve are examined using a specific example: the non-profit organization “Fund — regional operator of major repairs of common property in apartment buildings,” and measures for its improvement are proposed.
Słownik frazeologiczny gwary Staroobrzędców w Polsce
Authors: Grupa-Dolińska Magdalena
Published: December 2024

Słownik frazeologiczny gwary staroobrzędowców w Polsce jest pierwszą publikacją dokumentującą stosunkowo bogaty zbiór utrwalonych połączeń wyrazowych w gwarze staroobrzędowców w Polsce. Głównym celem przyświecającym autorce podczas tworzenia słownika była chęć ocalenia od zapomnienia tej unikalnej części dziedzictwa językowo-kulturowego wspólnoty. Praca skierowana jest zarówno do dialektologów i przedstawicieli innych subdyscyplin językoznawstwa, jak i do samych członków społeczności staroobrzędowców oraz sympatyków ich języka i kultury.
The Impact of the Ketogenic Diet on the Metabolic Profile, Hormonal Balance and Fertility in Women with PCOS
Authors: Turemka Mariola , Mandziuk Aneta , Cygnarowicz Aleksandra , Wojtas Aneta Klaudia , Zabojska Krystyna , Korotko Urszula , Witowska Kinga , Biskupski Mikołaj , Hosseinnejad Negar , Sacher Karolina
Published: December 2024

Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder among women of reproductive age. It is characterized by clinical symptom caused by high androgen level such as  acne, hirsutism and irregular menstrual cycles. The cause of PCOS is unknown but both genetic and environmental factors are believed to play a role. The key elements in the patogenesis of this syndrome are insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia and hyperandrogenism. PCOS increases the risk of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this review is to describe the efficiency, safety and potential benefits of the ketogenic diet on the metabolic profile, hormonal balance and fertility in women with PCOS. 
Materials and methods: A literature review was conducted using the  databases  such as Pubmed and Google Scholar.
Results: The ketogenic diet focuses on reducing carbohydrate intake while proportionally increasing fat and protein consumption. This diet reduces insulin resistance and positively impacts Patients’ metabolic profile and hormonal balance. This contributes to improve fertility in women, who often experience difficulty conceiving.
Conclusion: The results of the studies show that the ketogenic diet has a positive effect on metabolic profile and hormonal balance in Patients with PCOS. However, further research is needed in larger groups of Patients and over longer periods of time to evaluate whether it can become an effective form of therapy for PCOS Patients.
How Should Time Estimates Be Structured to Increase Customer Satisfaction?
Authors: Hu Beidi , Gaertig Celia , Dietvorst Berkeley J.
Published: December 2024

Businesses across industries, such as food delivery apps and GPS navigation systems, routinely provide customers with time estimates in inherently uncertain contexts. How does the format of these time estimates affect customers’ satisfaction? In particular, should companies provide customers with a point estimate representing the best estimate, or should they communicate the inherent uncertainty in outcomes by providing a range estimate? In eight preregistered experiments (N = 5,323), participants observed time estimates provided by an app, and we manipulated whether the app presented the time estimates as a point estimate (e.g., “Your food will arrive in 45 minutes.”) or a range (e.g., “Your food will arrive in 40–50 minutes.”). After participants learned about the app’s prediction performance by sampling a set of past outcomes, we measured participants’ evaluation of the app. We find that participants judged the app more positively when it provided a range rather than a point estimate. These results held across different domains, different time durations, different underlying outcome distributions, and an incentive-compatible design. We also find that this preference is not simply due to people’s dislike of late outcomes, as participants also rated ranges more positively than conservative point estimates corresponding to the upper (i.e., later) bound of the range. These findings suggest that companies can increase customer satisfaction with realized time estimates by communicating the uncertainty inherent in these time estimates.

This paper was accepted by Jack Soll, behavioral economics and decision analysis.

Funding: This research was supported by the Bakar Faculty Fellowship at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the Beatrice Foods Co. Faculty Research Fund at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.00137 .
Latest clinical research
Authors: Greener Mark
Published: December 2024

The latest studies of interest to primary care nurses, rounded up by Mark Greener
Dermatophytes: Fungal infections of the skin, nails and hair
Authors: Greener Mark
Published: December 2024

Mark Greener looks at the various species which cause fungal infections in the skin, nails and hair
A case-matched series comparing functional outcomes for robotic-assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty versus functionally aligned robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty
Authors: Manara Jonathan R. , Nixon Macdaniel , Tippett Beth , Pretty Wil , Collopy Dermot , Clark Gavin W.
Published: December 2024

Aims

Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have both been shown to be effective treatments for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Many studies have compared the outcomes of the two treatments, but less so with the use of robotics, or individualized TKA alignment techniques. Functional alignment (FA) is a novel technique for performing a TKA and shares many principles with UKA. Our aim was to compare outcomes from a case-matched series of robotic-assisted UKAs and robotic-assisted TKAs performed using FA.

Methods

From a prospectively collected database between April 2015 and December 2019, patients who underwent a robotic-assisted medial UKA (RA-UKA) were case-matched with patients who had undergone a FA robotic-assisted TKA (RA-TKA) during the same time period. Patients were matched for preoperative BMI, sex, age, and Forgotten Joint Score (FJS). A total of 101 matched pairs were eligible for final review. Postoperatively the groups were then compared for differences in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), range of motion (ROM), ability to ascend and descend stairs, and ability to kneel.

Results

Both groups had significant improvements in mean FJS (65.1 points in the TKA group and 65.3 points in the UKA group) and mean Oxford Knee Score (OKS) (20 points in the TKA group and 18.2 in the UKA group) two years following surgery. The UKA group had superior outcomes at three months in the OKS and at one year in ROM (5°), ability to kneel (0.5 points on OKS question), and ascend (1.3 points on OKS question) and descend stairs (0.8 points on OKS question), but these were not greater than the minimal clinically important difference. There were no differences seen in FJS or OKS at one year postoperatively. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups at 24 months in all the variables assessed.

Conclusion

FA-RATKA and RA-UKA are both successful treatments for medial compartmental knee arthritis in this study. The UKA group showed a quicker recovery, but this study demonstrated equivalent two-year outcomes in all outcomes measured including stair ascent and descent, and kneeling.

Cite this article: Bone Jt Open 2024;5(12):1123–1129.
České panelové šetření domácností. Dokumentace ke sběru a zpracování dat. Vlna 6
Authors:   Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Röschová Michaela , Klusáček Jan , Sukhotskaya Aliona ,   Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Published: December 2024

České panelové šetření domácností je longitudinální výběrové šetření, v němž jsou od roku 2015 sbírány údaje o reprezentativním souboru domácností žijících na území České republiky. Dotazování se opakovaně účastní tentýž soubor domácností, jedná se tedy o panelový sběr dat. Mezi lety 2015 a 2019 se s ročním odstupem uskutečnilo celkem pět vln šetření. V letech 2020 a 2021 byla na částech vzorku třetí, čtvrté a páté vlny provedena dvě krátká šetření zaměřená na tematiku pandemie nemoci covid-19.
On Vitality: Chemical Possibilities and Politics of Life Force, Ease, and Everyday Life
Authors: Durham Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT: This article contributes to scholarship on vitality by considering how staff and patients at Sommeil Psychiatric Hospital in Yaoundé, Republic of Cameroon, negotiated the means and ends of patient life through the prescription and use of psychopharmaceuticals. Drawing on 24 months of fieldwork from 2016 to 2019, I posit a key distinction between the approaches of staff and patients to the role of these drugs in everyday life outside the clinic. Many staffers viewed psychopharmaceuticals as supportive of patients' ability to face the duties of everyday life and citizenship in a period of secessionist threat to the Republic's national integrity. Patients, however, often incorporated psychopharmaceuticals into their pursuit of everyday ease: into an understanding of everyday life that prized relaxation over or as much as responsibility. Thinking with patients' common description of themselves as boire (in French; drinking, in English) their psychopharmaceuticals, I suggest that this understanding was informed by patients' former or ongoing use of alcohol and particularly commercial beer, widely seen in Cameroon as a substance that relaxes life. I suggest that this understanding was a political sentiment in its own right, a desire for a softer way of life that could be sustained collectively. Thinking with anthropological and similar studies that have often conceptualized vitality as the power or force of life, I argue that the differences that arose among staff and patients as to how to best use psychopharmaceuticals, and to live everyday life itself, were differences of vitality. I propose that at the heart of the chemical nexus of relationships among patients, staff, alcohol, and psychopharmaceuticals was an alternative notion of vitality as an imperfect coexistence of life eased and enforced.
Expansive Vision: Re-thinking Race and Class Divides in the French Banlieue
Authors: Epstein Beth S.
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT: Regularly portrayed as sites of breakdown and disorder, the disadvantaged French suburbs lie at the center of charged debates about diversity and integration, feeding deeply felt anxieties about the diminished promise of the French republican ideal and its impending decline. The suburbs are less well known, however, for their dynamic cultural pluralism and engaged civic life, facets which belie the overdetermined portrayals of France and its "others" regularly used to uphold an invested social order. Based on return fieldwork in the city outside of Paris where, 25 years prior, I conducted research, this article considers the significant shifts in race and class dynamics that have shaped perceptions of the disadvantaged suburbs and French public life more broadly during this same 25-year period. The racial question, long anathema to the republican "difference-blind" ideal, has come more prominently into view. Hitched to an acrimonious debate about the relative merits of the republican ideal, these shifts have engaged only obliquely with the radical potential of the everyday cultural mix of the disparaged suburban neighborhoods. As these polemics take center stage, they mask other singularly important elements of the suburbs' history, from the structural transformations that have undercut opportunities for social mobility for the most vulnerable residents of these neighborhoods, to the extreme social segregation that endures within the elite institutions of the well-to-do. Most important, these polemics sideline the significance of the plurality that has come of age in these districts, minimizing its possibilities for new forms of social and political engagement, and normalizing in the process the dispirited image that defines the suburbs in the public eye.
Paying for Gender (In)equality: The Individualization of Commodified Dating Rituals in South Korea
Authors: Glayzer Edward James , Nelson Alex Joseph
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT: In contemporary South Korea, the expectation that men should pay all, or the vast majority, of the costs of dating and courtship is shifting. Young women are increasingly achieving parity in educational achievement and employment with men, causing singles to see a more equal and individualized division of dating expenses align with their aspirations for an egalitarian and companionate romantic relationship. However, this seemingly equitable division belies the less obvious costs of dating, such as investments in cultivating body capital for women and men's often greater earning potential, reflected in South Korea's large gender wage gap, the highest among OECD countries. In this paper we draw on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and survey data to examine emergent ideologies and practices for sharing the costs of dating in South Korea and the implications for gender equality more broadly. We interpret these shifting practices and ideologies as part of a process of individualization in which the hegemony of certain patriarchal gender norms is wholly or partially rejected and new norms are negotiated by couples themselves. Ultimately, we argue that South Korean couples continue to struggle to establish gender equality in their romantic relationships despite the individualization of relationship norms. By further contextualizing decisions about the division of dating costs, we draw attention to the need for broader awareness of inequalities that continue to trouble the romantic pursuits of Seoul's youth. Our findings challenge more positive theorizations of the individualization of intimacy (e.g., Giddens 1992) and highlight how this process can just as easily reinforce, rather than challenge, existing patriarchal gender norms.
Spanish by Another Name? Racializing Sephardic Identity in Contemporary New Mexico
Authors: Leiter Sarah
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT: Racialization, the process of creating and populating racial categories, most often is a divisive and disparaging practice that artificially bounds and hierarchizes groups of people. But can racialization also be a socially productive practice? This article explores this question in the context of contemporary New Mexico, where some Hispanic residents recently discovered their Sephardic, or Iberian Jewish, ancestry and, as a result, are beginning to conceptualize their ethnic or racial selves in new ways. This article argues that they are using racial discourses to cast themselves as Sephardic by appealing to DNA test results and genealogical reports, framing their physical appearances as distinctively Spanish-Jewish, and likening themselves to Indigenous groups. Further, this article suggests that as Sephardic New Mexicans appeal to ideas about biology to embody their Sephardic lineages, racialization can be socially productive for them in several ways. First, it can blur borders between entrenched racial categories as Sephardic New Mexicans inhabit multiple categories at once. Second, it may help them cope with anti-Hispanic racism by establishing them as deeply rooted in the United States. Third, it can lend them a sense of autobiographical coherence at a time when they might be shifting their identification practices. Fourth, it can entitle them to a special form of conversion to Judaism that recognizes the ancestors with whom they have come to associate. Finally, it can facilitate a sense of belonging and connection with others. Each of these potential social effects is accomplished in part by establishing and relating to Sephardicness as genetically inherited, bodily apparent, and shared among a physically identifiable group of people.
“A Great Universal Future Equitably Open to All Peoples, All Nations, and All Species”: Decolonization Beyond Openness
Authors: Anyaduba Chigbo Arthur
Published: December 2024

Abstract: This essay reflects on a cosmopolitan vision of openness emerging in a growing discourse on decolonization in Africa and other parts of the world. I argue that this idea of openness often masks its limitation in envisioning and conceptualizing decolonization beyond the established historical and epistemic frameworks of Western colonialism.
Lost Parkland: Lumbering & Park Proposals in the Tahoe-Truckee Basin
Authors: Pisani Donald J.
Published: December 2024

Abstract: In the late 1890s Nevada’s U.S. Senator William M. Stewart drafted legislation to make Lake Tahoe and surrounding lands a national park. In the latter part of the nineteenth century Congress had created the national parks of Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Mount Rainier among others. Senator Stewart had every expectation of congressional approval, but Tahoe was different. A whirlwind of opposition in California and nationally stopped his effort.
Effects of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis outer membrane vesicles on Pseudomonas aeruginosa antigens immune response
Authors: Duan Zhongxu , Song Jingqi , Zhang Mingru , Zhang Zhe , Li Nan , Fu Yuqin , Sun Zhe , Lu Tiancheng , Li Siyuan , Cao Mingyue , Wang Qingyu , Sun Chunhui , Wang Xiuran
Published: December 2024

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are immunogenic self-adjuvanting vesicles produced by Gram-negative bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. While the effects of OMVs on different antigens immune stimulation are not clear. In this study, we constructed recombinant Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ΔlpxL strain,with pBlue-PcrV and pBlue-OprF/I, and then purified ΔlpxL rOMVPcrV (rOMVyp2P)and ΔlpxL rOMVOprF/I (rOMVyp2F) and analyzed its effect on immune response and protection against Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 infection. The results showed that OMV assists in eliciting similar humoral immune responses to PcrV and OprF/I antigens. ΔlpxL rOMVPcrV and ΔlpxL rOMVOprF/I elicited Th1/Th2 balanced immune response, and higher IgM and IgA antibodies.However, there are differences in immune protection for the pulmonary. The survival rate of mice in ΔlpxL rOMVPcrV group was 20%, which was significantly better than that in ΔlpxL rOMVOprF/I group. ΔlpxL OMVPcrV is better cooperation for Pseudomonas immune protection in lung.
Food-based indices for the assessment of nutritive value and environmental impact of meals and diets: A systematic review protocol
Authors: Thomas Eva-Leanne , Livingstone David , Nugent Anne P. , Woodside Jayne V. , Brereton Paul
Published: December 2024

Current food production and consumption practices are impacting both human and planetary health. Though these challenges are multifaceted, shifting to healthy dietary choices from sustainable food systems is one solution. Food-based labelling is a common public-health strategy aimed at influencing consumption practices, primarily displaying front-of-pack nutrition labelling to encourage healthier choices. Due to the dual impact of food on human and planetary health there is a growing need to additionally include environmental impact information. However, this potentially conflicting information could overwhelm consumers, necessitating a simplified approach that combines both nutritive and environmental values. Previous work has identified existing models, termed sustainable food profiling models, for labelling of individual food products based on their environmental impacts and nutritive value. Foods are rarely eaten in isolation and are often consumed as composite meals, which aggregate to diets. Therefore, it is important to identify indices that exist to assess or rank meals and diets according to their nutritional and environmental impacts. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 guidelines, our systematic review protocol was registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) on 01 May 2024 (PROSPERO registration ID = CRD42024537149). In the present protocol the methodology to identify and review existing food-based indices for the assessment of nutritive value and environmental impact of meals and diets and their intended public health purpose is described. Our primary research questions are: (i) what food-based indices assessing nutritive value and environmental impact exist for classification or ranking of meals or diets? and (ii) what are the methods used to create, and the key characteristics of, these indices?. The results are expected to increase understanding of, and highlight the variation in, the creation of combined measures for the assessment of nutritive value and environmental impact for meals and diets. Additionally, findings can be used to inform researchers, business, and policy actors on future approaches for labelling foods, meals, or diets in a way that supports healthy and sustainable meal choices and diets.
Surrealism and the manhua artists of Liuyi
Authors: Bevan Paul
Published: December 2024

Until recently, the phenomenon of surrealism in China had been overlooked in modern scholarship, while Chinese artists’ engagement with other movements in western art and literature received considerably more attention. An increasing number of scholars are now realizing just how important the pictorial magazine as source material has become for the study of modern Chinese art, and are engaging with the vast body of literature in that medium that is now available to them. Surrealist, and surrealist-inspired artwork, published by leading modernists of the day, is found in many pictorial magazines of the 1930s, including that of Zhang Guangyu, Pang Xunqin, Zhou Duo and Liang Baibo. This varied selection of artwork shows how these artists and their colleagues engaged with surrealism in their own very different ways. The focus here is on surrealist-inspired art, in the form of material specifically produced for the publications in which it can be found, as illustrations to stories, articles and poems, and looks at one magazine in particular, Liuyi (The six arts), to show how a typical Shanghai-published art and literature magazine engaged with surrealism. Liuyi was published during a period of political and social uncertainty, just over one year before the start of the War of Resistance against Japan (1937–45). The artists who worked for Liuyi and other related magazines changed direction when hostilities erupted in Shanghai to produce art in the service of national defence, and to a certain extent, began to reject what they had produced before. Nevertheless, the surrealist-inspired work these artists produced in the 1930s was of great significance, and understanding how it fits into the history of Chinese art in the first half of the twentieth century is central to our understanding of the visual arts in the twentieth century more broadly.
The sleepless theatre
Authors: Jiehong Jiang
Published: December 2024

Through a curatorial approach, Jiang Jiehong invites contemporary artists to focus on a 100-year-old building in Shanghai, now the Wu Changshuo Art Museum (WAM), which survived the turbulence of wars, political movements of the past century and the dramatic urban development in post-Mao China. Situated amongst the forest of the modernized skyscrapers in Shanghai’s CBD Lujiazui, this heritage house stays in its traditional style, contributing to a surrealistic urban landscape. With the artistic responses in various forms commissioned for the site-specific exhibition staged at WAM, this article re-examines the evolution of the building, the neighbourhood and the place, and critically reflects the revolutionary urban transformation in the past century and the societal and cultural changes in Shanghai.
Photographic surrealism and the art of awakening1
Authors: Hantao Shi , Zhang Qi (Weiqi)
Published: December 2024

In 2022, Shanghai-based photographer Zhang Qi, commonly known as Weiqi created several series of works related to Shanghai’s epidemic containment, such as Shanghai in Emptiness (2022), which were disseminated through WeChat video and other channels, which gained great social repercussions. This interview covers three aspects of the artist’s upbringing, creative process and religious beliefs. From his narration, we can not only understand his sincere feelings when he created his works, but also see the observation and thinking from an artist’s personal perspective about Shanghai’s urban history and the experience of closure and control. The transcendental reality brought to him by the epidemic is not the same as surrealism as a literary and artistic style, but there is some kind of essential connection between the two. This connection lies in the realization of social reality and truth that may be inspired by an individual’s genuine life experience at a specific historical moment. Especially as he is a devout Buddhist, his belief in ‘awakening art’ allows us to see the revelatory significance that art may have for individuals and society today.