bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
U.S. global health aid policy and family planning in sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Brooks Nina , Gunther Matt , Bendavid Eran , Boyle Elizabeth H. , Grace Kathryn , Miller Grant
Published: December 2023

The Trump administration reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy (MCP) in 2017 as the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA) policy, forbidding international organizations receiving all U.S. health assistance from promoting abortion. Existing evidence suggests that abortion rates rise under the MCP, but the direct effect of U.S. funding restrictions on supply and use of family planning has received less attention. By studying PLGHA’s impact on health service delivery providers and women in eight sub-Saharan African countries, we are able to fill this gap. We find that health facilities provide fewer family planning services, including emergency contraception, and that women are less likely to use contraception and more likely to have given birth recently under the policy. These findings suggest that PLGHA has important unintended consequences that are detrimental to reproductive health and the autonomous decision-making of health service providers and women.
Checkmate: Metabolic flexibility with a STING in its tail
Authors: O’Connor Roddy S.
Published: December 2023

Inhibiting a key metabolic enzyme, ACLY, in cancer cells impacts T cell function in immunotherapy-resistant tumors and may offer a target for therapeutic treatment.
Entanglement with tweezed molecules
Authors: Smerzi Augusto
Published: December 2023

Controlled molecular connection will advance quantum technologies
Al Gore’s climate watchdog spots emission gaps
Authors: Voosen Paul
Published: December 2023

At U.N. meeting, Climate Trace reveals missing greenhouse gases in nations’ inventories
Estimating the size of fields in biomedical sciences
Authors: Dragotakes Quigly , Casadevall Arturo
Published: December 2023

Scientific research output has increased exponentially over the past few decades, but not equally across all fields of study, and we lack clear methods for estimating the size of any given field of research. Understanding how fields grow, change, and are organized is essential to understanding how human resources are allocated to the investigation of scientific problems. In this study, we estimated the size of certain biomedical fields from the number of unique author names appearing in field-relevant publications in the PubMed database. Focusing on microbiology, where the size of fields is often associated with those who work on a particular microbe, we find large differences in the size of its subfields. We found that plotting the number of unique investigators as a function of time can show changes consistent with growing or shrinking fields. In general, the number of unique author names associated with a particular microbe correlated with the number of disease cases attributed to that microbe, suggesting that the microbiology field workforce is deployed in a manner consistent with the medical importance of the microbe in question. We propose that unique author counts can be used to measure the size of the workforce in any given field, analyze the overlap of the workforce between fields, and compare how the workforce correlates to available research funds and the public health burden of a field.

IMPORTANCE

Science and its individual fields are growing at spectacular rates along with the number of papers being generated each year. However, we lack methods to investigate the size of these fields, many times relying on anecdotal knowledge on which fields are “hot topics” or oversaturated. Thus, we developed a bibliometric method analyzing authorship information from PubMed to estimate the size of fields based on unique author counts. Our major findings are that unique author counts serve as an efficient measurement of the size of a given field. Additionally, the size of a biomedical science field correlates to its public health burden when compared to case numbers. This method allows us to compare growth rates, workforce distribution, and the allocation of resources between fields to understand how scientific fields self-regulate. These insights can, in turn, help guide policymaking, for example, in funding allocation, to ensure fields are not neglected.
Effect of aridity on the β-diversity of alpine soil potential diazotrophs: insights into community assembly and co-occurrence patterns
Authors: Lei Shilong , Wang Xiangtao , Wang Jie , Zhang Lu , Liao Lirong , Liu Guobin , Wang Guoliang , Song Zilin , Zhang Chao
Published: December 2023

Microbial diversity plays a vital role in the maintenance of ecosystem functions. However, the current understanding of mechanisms that shape microbial diversity along environmental gradients at broad spatial scales is relatively limited, especially for specific functional groups, such as potential diazotrophs. Here, we conducted an aridity-gradient transect survey from 60 sites across the Tibetan Plateau, the largest alpine ecosystem of the planet, to investigate the ecological processes (e.g., local species pools, community assembly processes, and co-occurrence patterns) that underlie the β-diversity of alpine soil potential diazotrophic communities. We found that aridity strongly and negatively affected the abundance, richness, and β-diversity of soil diazotrophs. Diazotrophs displayed a distance-decay pattern along the aridity gradient, with organisms living in lower aridity habitats having a stronger distance-decay pattern. Arid habitats had lower co-occurrence complexity, including the number of edges and vertices, the average degree, and the number of keystone taxa, as compared with humid habitats. Local species pools explained limited variations in potential diazotrophic β-diversity. In contrast, co-occurrence patterns and stochastic processes (e.g., dispersal limitation and ecological drift) played a significant role in regulating potential diazotrophic β-diversity. The relative importance of stochastic processes and co-occurrence patterns changed with increasing aridity, with stochastic processes weakening whereas that of co-occurrence patterns enhancing. The genera
Geobacter
and
Paenibacillus
were identified as keystone taxa of co-occurrence patterns that are associated with β-diversity. In summary, aridity affects the co-occurrence patterns and community assembly by regulating soil and vegetation characteristics and ultimately shapes the β-diversity of potential diazotrophs. These findings highlight the importance of co-occurrence patterns in structuring microbial diversity and advance the current understanding of mechanisms that drive belowground communities.

IMPORTANCE

Recent studies have shown that community assembly processes and species pools are the main drivers of β-diversity in grassland microbial communities. However, co-occurrence patterns can also drive β-diversity formation by influencing the dispersal and migration of species, the importance of which has not been reported in previous studies. Assessing the impact of co-occurrence patterns on β-diversity is important for understanding the mechanisms of diversity formation. Our study highlights the influence of microbial co-occurrence patterns on β-diversity and combines the drivers of community β-diversity with drought variation, revealing that drought indirectly affects β-diversity by influencing diazotrophic co-occurrence patterns and community assembly.
Carcinoid heart disease: a potentially fatal complication of carcinoid syndrome
Authors: Bdiwi Mustafa , Ramaseshan Karthik , Uddin Mohammed , Goel Mishita , Razzaq Saman , Alrayyashi Mohamed , Afonso Luis
Published: December 2023

Carcinoid heart disease is a unique and serious cardiac complication of the neuroendocrine tumour that affects the right side of the heart, especially the tricuspid and pulmonic valves, eventually causing right heart failure. We present a middle-aged man with a history of well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumours of the small intestine with extensive metastases to the liver, mesentery and spine who is receiving monthly octreotide therapy. He presented with generalised fatigue, severe ascites and worsening dyspnoea. Both the transthoracic echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography revealed severe tricuspid and pulmonic regurgitations. He was considered a poor surgical candidate, underwent transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement with two bioprosthetic valve-in-valve implantations and was discharged in a stable condition.
Face failure of EPB shield tunnels in dry dense sand: a model test and DEM study
Authors: Wang Jun , Lin Guojin , Tian Ning , Feng Kun , Xu Guowen , Hu Xiongyu , Chen Ziquan , He Chuan
Published: December 2023

This study aims at addressing the face failure of earth pressure balance (EPB) shield tunnels in dry dense sand by model tests and discrete element method (DEM) models. The model tests incorporated a miniature EPB shield which could fully reproduce the real tunnel construction of excavation and support. DEM models simulating the model tests were developed to capture the underlying face failure mechanism. Results show that both the limit support pressure obtained at chamber board and tunnel face increase with increasing C/ D ( C is tunnel cover depth, and D is tunnel diameter). The ratio of the former to the latter approximates 0.60 due to the soil retaining of cutter head panel, and it is independent of C/ D. The local face failure initializes around tunnel face and develops directly to the global failure outcropping the ground surface in one phase with C/ D ≤ 1.0, while the local failure develops to the global failure in three phases with C/ D = 2.0 due to the soil arching evolution. The soil arching gets weaker when it propagates upward, and the horizontal stress concentration in the longitudinal direction is stronger than the transverse direction due to the difference of arch foot.
Autoregressive GAN for Semantic Unconditional Head Motion Generation
Authors: Airale Louis , Alameda-Pineda Xavier , Lathuilière Stéphane , Vaufreydaz Dominique
Published: December 2023

In this work, we address the task of unconditional head motion generation to animate still human faces in a low-dimensional semantic space from a single reference pose. Different from traditional audio-conditioned talking head generation that seldom puts emphasis on realistic head motions, we devise a GAN-based architecture that learns to synthesize rich head motion sequences over long duration while maintaining low error-accumulation levels. In particular, the autoregressive generation of incremental outputs ensures smooth trajectories, while a multi-scale discriminator on input pairs drives generation toward better handling of high- and low-frequency signals and less mode collapse. We experimentally demonstrate the relevance of the proposed method and show its superiority compared to models that attained state-of-the-art performances on similar tasks.
Experimental Progress in Superconducting Nickelates
Authors: Wang Bai Yang , Lee Kyuho , Goodge Berit H.
Published: December 2023

The superconducting nickelates were first proposed as potential analogs to the cuprate unconventional superconductors in 1999, but it took twenty years before superconductivity was successfully stabilized in epitaxial thin films. Since then, a flurry of both experimental and theoretical efforts have sought to understand the similarities and differences between the two systems and how they manifest in the macroscopic superconducting and normal state properties. Although the nickelates and cuprates indeed share many commonalities within their respective phase diagrams, several notable differences have also emerged, especially regarding their parent compounds, electronic hybridization, and fermiology. Here, we provide a survey of the rapidly developing landscape of layered nickelate superconductors, including recent experimental progress to probe not just the superconducting but also normal state and other ordered phases stabilized in these compounds.
Effects of reward and effort history on decision making and movement vigor during foraging
Authors: Sukumar Shruthi , Shadmehr Reza , Ahmed Alaa A.
Published: December 2023

Much of life is spent foraging. Whereas previous work has focused on the decision regarding time spent harvesting from a reward patch, here we test the idea that both decision making and movement control are tuned to optimize the net rate of reward in an environment. Our results show that movement patterns reflect not just immediate expectations but also past experiences in the environment, providing fundamental insight into the factors governing volitional control of arm movements.
Organisational Strategies for Women Nurses to Advance in Healthcare Leadership: A Systematic Review
Authors: Pincha Baduge Mihirika Surangi de Silva , Mousa Mariam , Garth Belinda , Boyd Leanne , Teede Helena J.
Published: December 2023

Aim. We aimed to undertake a systematic review focusing on organisational strategies that specifically advance women nurses in healthcare leadership. Background. Despite nursing being the largest health workforce and being dominated by women, they face significant barriers in career progression and have limited leadership opportunities, with a need to move from a focus on individuals to organisational level change. Methods. Methods for our overarching systematic review are published and follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) checklist. Databases searched include MEDLINE via OVID; MEDLINE in-process and other nonindexed citations via OVID; PsycINFO; and Scopus. Any study describing a strategy that was not implemented for nurses and all non-peer-reviewed studies were excluded. Included studies were appraised using CASP checklists. A thematic analysis approach was employed to facilitate the systematic generation of themes. Results. Findings were reported under two main themes: leadership barriers and enablers and organisational strategies for advancing women nurses to leadership. The latter included: mentorship, leadership training, career planning and coaching, opportunities for networking, sponsorship, and targeted recruitment processes for increasing gender diversity in leadership roles. Conclusion. This review synthesises organisational-level strategies that advance women nurses in healthcare leadership. Barriers and individual-level strategies for advancing women nurses in healthcare leadership have been extensively studied in the current literature. Systems and organisational strategies are less studied yet show that they can advance women in nursing into healthcare leadership. Implications for Nursing Management. This paper suggests that optimising women nurses’ leadership attainment needs to shift focus from individual strategies to systemic level and organisational strategies and use tailored evidenced-based approaches.
Facile Synthesis of Ethyl Acetate over ZrO2.TiO2 Mixed Oxide Supported Vanadium Boasted Phosphomolybdic Acid Catalyst at Room Temperature
Authors: Viswanadham Balaga
Published: December 2023

Initially, mixed oxide of ZrO2.TiO2 support was synthesized by the sol-gel method, and then after vanadium was incorporated, phosphomolybdic acid (VPMA) was synthesized by the hydrothermal method. VPMA supported on ZrO2.TiO2 support of various VPMA loadings that were synthesized by the impregnation method. The structure, surface area, acidity, and morphology of the materials were analysed by X-ray diffraction, BET surface area, ammonia TPD studies, and SEM analysis, respectively. The XRD result shows crystallites of zirconia, titania, and Keggin ion of VPMA catalysts, and also, below 20 wt% of VPMA loading, crystallites of Keggin ion are not observed. BET surface area analysis reveals that increase of VPMA loading, surface area was sharply declined at higher loadings. Ammonia TPD analysis finds that acidity is inclined with VPMA loadings. SEM studies reveal that bulk formation of the active phase is observed at higher loadings. Esterification of acetic acid was tested over VPMA/ZrO2.TiO2 catalyst that exhibited higher activity during reaction than pure VPMA catalyst. These findings were well correlated with surface area and acidity loadings.
TABLE 1 from Longitudinal Natural History Study of Children and Adults with Rare Solid Tumors: Initial Results for First 200 Participants
Authors: Ahmed Shadin , Wedekind Mary Frances , Del Rivero Jaydira , Raygada Margarita , Lockridge Robin , Glod John W. , Flowers Crystal , Thomas BJ , Bernstein Donna B. , Kapustina Oxana B. , Jain Ashish , Miettinen Markku , Raffeld Mark , Xi Liqiang , Tyagi Manoj , Kim Jung , Aldape Kenneth , Malayeri Ashkan A. , Kaplan Rosandra N. , Allen Taryn , Vivelo Christina A. , Sandler Abby B. , Widemann Brigitte C. , Reilly Karlyne M.
Published: December 2023

Demographics and clinical characteristics of first 200 enrollees showing number of participants in each category
Supplementary Fig 9 from Longitudinal Natural History Study of Children and Adults with Rare Solid Tumors: Initial Results for First 200 Participants
Authors: Ahmed Shadin , Wedekind Mary Frances , Del Rivero Jaydira , Raygada Margarita , Lockridge Robin , Glod John W. , Flowers Crystal , Thomas BJ , Bernstein Donna B. , Kapustina Oxana B. , Jain Ashish , Miettinen Markku , Raffeld Mark , Xi Liqiang , Tyagi Manoj , Kim Jung , Aldape Kenneth , Malayeri Ashkan A. , Kaplan Rosandra N. , Allen Taryn , Vivelo Christina A. , Sandler Abby B. , Widemann Brigitte C. , Reilly Karlyne M.
Published: December 2023

Other health issues reported in 3 or more participants out of 115 respondents by tumor type.
Supplementary Fig 2 from Longitudinal Natural History Study of Children and Adults with Rare Solid Tumors: Initial Results for First 200 Participants
Authors: Ahmed Shadin , Wedekind Mary Frances , Del Rivero Jaydira , Raygada Margarita , Lockridge Robin , Glod John W. , Flowers Crystal , Thomas BJ , Bernstein Donna B. , Kapustina Oxana B. , Jain Ashish , Miettinen Markku , Raffeld Mark , Xi Liqiang , Tyagi Manoj , Kim Jung , Aldape Kenneth , Malayeri Ashkan A. , Kaplan Rosandra N. , Allen Taryn , Vivelo Christina A. , Sandler Abby B. , Widemann Brigitte C. , Reilly Karlyne M.
Published: December 2023

Age at diagnosis.
Supplementary Fig 12 from Longitudinal Natural History Study of Children and Adults with Rare Solid Tumors: Initial Results for First 200 Participants
Authors: Ahmed Shadin , Wedekind Mary Frances , Del Rivero Jaydira , Raygada Margarita , Lockridge Robin , Glod John W. , Flowers Crystal , Thomas BJ , Bernstein Donna B. , Kapustina Oxana B. , Jain Ashish , Miettinen Markku , Raffeld Mark , Xi Liqiang , Tyagi Manoj , Kim Jung , Aldape Kenneth , Malayeri Ashkan A. , Kaplan Rosandra N. , Allen Taryn , Vivelo Christina A. , Sandler Abby B. , Widemann Brigitte C. , Reilly Karlyne M.
Published: December 2023

Success of TSO500 panel sequencing depending on age of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue.
Supplementary Fig 10 from Longitudinal Natural History Study of Children and Adults with Rare Solid Tumors: Initial Results for First 200 Participants
Authors: Ahmed Shadin , Wedekind Mary Frances , Del Rivero Jaydira , Raygada Margarita , Lockridge Robin , Glod John W. , Flowers Crystal , Thomas BJ , Bernstein Donna B. , Kapustina Oxana B. , Jain Ashish , Miettinen Markku , Raffeld Mark , Xi Liqiang , Tyagi Manoj , Kim Jung , Aldape Kenneth , Malayeri Ashkan A. , Kaplan Rosandra N. , Allen Taryn , Vivelo Christina A. , Sandler Abby B. , Widemann Brigitte C. , Reilly Karlyne M.
Published: December 2023

Tumor-directed treatments.
FIGURE 4 from Longitudinal Natural History Study of Children and Adults with Rare Solid Tumors: Initial Results for First 200 Participants
Authors: Ahmed Shadin , Wedekind Mary Frances , Del Rivero Jaydira , Raygada Margarita , Lockridge Robin , Glod John W. , Flowers Crystal , Thomas BJ , Bernstein Donna B. , Kapustina Oxana B. , Jain Ashish , Miettinen Markku , Raffeld Mark , Xi Liqiang , Tyagi Manoj , Kim Jung , Aldape Kenneth , Malayeri Ashkan A. , Kaplan Rosandra N. , Allen Taryn , Vivelo Christina A. , Sandler Abby B. , Widemann Brigitte C. , Reilly Karlyne M.
Published: December 2023

Molecular analysis for 3 highlighted patients. A, Path (red), LP (gold), and VUS (Blue) variants identified by TSO500 in colon adenocarcinoma from 15-year-old male. Pathogenic germline mutations were identified in MLH1 (c.156del p.Glu53Argfs*4) and APC (c.3329C>A, p.Ser1110*) and VUS in SMAD4 (c.947A>G, p.Asn316Ser; hatched bars). B, Variants identified by TSO500 in a malignant melanotic schwannoma from a 36-year-old female, with Path mutations in NF1 (c.276dupA, p.C93fs*14) and PRKAR1A (c.207_208delGA, p.K70fs*11) and LP variant in SETD2 (c.4405dupA, p.M1469fs*6).C, Variants identified in two lymph node metastases collected 1 year apart from a carcinoma of unknown primary in a 75-year-old male (purple collected first, green collected second). VUS with higher percentage VAF (>45%) were identified in both samples (NCOR1, MST1R, ABL2, ROS1, ESR1, FAT1, POLE, NTRK3, and GEN1), as well as low VAF (∼6%) VUS in ZNF703. Pathogenicity of variants is indicated in y-axis label.
FIGURE 2 from Longitudinal Natural History Study of Children and Adults with Rare Solid Tumors: Initial Results for First 200 Participants
Authors: Ahmed Shadin , Wedekind Mary Frances , Del Rivero Jaydira , Raygada Margarita , Lockridge Robin , Glod John W. , Flowers Crystal , Thomas BJ , Bernstein Donna B. , Kapustina Oxana B. , Jain Ashish , Miettinen Markku , Raffeld Mark , Xi Liqiang , Tyagi Manoj , Kim Jung , Aldape Kenneth , Malayeri Ashkan A. , Kaplan Rosandra N. , Allen Taryn , Vivelo Christina A. , Sandler Abby B. , Widemann Brigitte C. , Reilly Karlyne M.
Published: December 2023

Variant genes found in 3 or more patients for ACC, N = 27 (A), GIST, N = 22 (B), and NEN, N = 24 (C). Variant genes found in 2 or more patients for MTC, N = 8 (D) and chordoma, N = 5 (E). TSO500 gene panel sequencing identified pathogenic or likely pathogenic mutations for most tumors (F), with NEN and chordoma showing the lowest percentage of pathogenic mutations identified. ACC and MTC tumor analysis identified the highest percentage of pathogenic mutations. G, sdGIST and MTC had the most actionable mutations in Tier 1A. Germline sequencing on participants was performed using directed variant, single gene, or small gene panels (<100 genes; hatched bars) or using comprehensive large gene panels or WES (solid bars; H). The proportion of Path/LP mutations identified (red) varied by tumor type. I, The most common Path/LP germline mutations found were SDHA/B/C, in participants with sdGIST and their family members, and RET, in an ACC, three MTCs, and a pheochromocytoma.
Home Hospital Outcomes for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure and Factors Associated With Escalation of Care
Authors: Achanta Aditya , Wasfy Jason H. , Moss Carson Tyler , Cherukara Abraham , Ho David , Boxer Robert , Schmieding Malte , Phadke Neelam Ameya , Thompson Ryan , Levine David Michael , Weiner Rory B.
Published: December 2023

BACKGROUND:

Overall outcomes and the escalation rate for home hospital admissions for heart failure (HF) are not known. We report overall outcomes, predict escalation, and describe care provided after escalation among patients admitted to home hospital for HF.

METHODS:

Our retrospective analysis included all patients admitted for HF to 2 home hospital programs in Massachusetts between February 2020 and October 2022. Escalation of care was defined as transfer to an inpatient hospital setting (emergency department, inpatient medical unit) for at least 1 overnight stay. Unexpected mortality was defined as mortality excluding those who desired to pass away at home on admission or transitioned to hospice. We performed the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator logistic regression to predict escalation.

RESULTS:

We included 437 hospitalizations; patients had a median age of 80 (interquartile range, 69–89) years, 58.1% were women, and 64.8% were White. Of the cohort, 29.2% had reduced ejection fraction, 50.9% had chronic kidney disease, and 60.6% had atrial fibrillation. Median admission Get With The Guidelines HF score was 39 (interquartile range, 35–45; 1%–5% predicted inpatient mortality). Escalation occurred in 10.3% of hospitalizations. Thirty-day readmission occurred in 15.1%, 90-day readmission occurred in 33.8%, and 6-month mortality occurred in 11.5%. There was no unexpected mortality during home hospitalization. Patients who experienced escalation had significantly longer median length of stays (19 versus 7.5 days,
P
<0.001). The most common reason for escalation was progressive renal dysfunction (36.2%). A low mean arterial pressure at the time of admission to home hospital was the most significant predictor of escalation in the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression.

CONCLUSIONS:

About 1 in 10 home hospital patients with HF required escalation; none had unexpected mortality. Patients requiring escalation had longer length of stays. A low mean arterial pressure at the time of admission to home hospital was the most important predictor of escalation of care in the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator logistic regression model.
EMG-projected MEG high-resolution source imaging of human motor execution: Brain-muscle coupling above movement frequencies
Authors: Huang Ming-Xiong , Harrington Deborah L. , Angeles-Quinto Annemarie , Ji Zhengwei , Robb-Swan Ashley , Huang Charles W. , Shen Qian , Hansen Hayden , Baumgartner Jared , Hernandez-Lucas Jaqueline , Nichols Sharon , Jacobus Joanna , Song Tao , Lerman Imanuel , Bazhenov Maksim , Krishnan Giri P. , Baker Dewleen G. , Rao Ramesh , Lee Roland R.
Published: December 2023

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a non-invasive functional imaging technique for pre-surgical mapping. However, movement-related MEG functional mapping of primary motor cortex (M1) has been challenging in presurgical patients with brain lesions and sensorimotor dysfunction due to the large numbers of trials needed to obtain adequate signal to noise. Moreover, it is not fully understood how effective the brain communication is with the muscles at frequencies above the movement frequency and its harmonics. We developed a novel Electromyography (EMG)-projected MEG source imaging technique for localizing early-stage (-100 to 0 ms) M1 activity during ~l min recordings of left and right self-paced finger movements (~1 Hz). High-resolution MEG source images were obtained by projecting M1 activity towards the skin EMG signal without trial averaging. We studied delta (1-4 Hz), theta (4-7 Hz), alpha (8-12 Hz), beta (15-30 Hz), gamma (30-90 Hz), and upper-gamma (60-90 Hz) bands in 13 healthy participants (26 datasets) and three presurgical patients with sensorimotor dysfunction. In healthy participants, EMG-projected MEG accurately localized M1 with high accuracy in delta (100.0%), theta (100.0%), and beta (76.9%) bands, but not alpha (34.6%) or gamma/upper-gamma (0.0%) bands. Except for delta, all other frequency bands were above the movement frequency and its harmonics. In three presurgical patients, M1 activity in the affected hemisphere was also accurately localized, despite highly irregular EMG movement patterns in one patient. Altogether, our EMG-projected MEG imaging approach is highly accurate and feasible for M1 mapping in presurgical patients. The results also provide insight into movement-related brain-muscle coupling above the movement frequency and its harmonics.
Proximate Thuggery
Authors: Akinwole Tolulope
Published: December 2023

In this paper, I rethink thuggery, an overt form of dissent, as a spatial structural frame. Through a close reading of everyday forms of thuggery in Nigeria, exemplified in literary, musical, and photographic forms, I argue that not only is thuggery ubiquitous in the African postcolony but also that it is the means by which the citizenry assert their citizenship, structure their space, and perform democracy. I use the phrase “proximate thuggery” in two ways: first, to broaden the commonplace definition of thuggery as violent antisocial behavior which does not hold up in many postcolonial states where there seems no line separating the violent from the non-violent, where the insidiously violent masquerades as non-violent; and second, to signal the quotidian nature of dissent and therefore refocus attention on those manifestations of thuggery even in corridors of power. If the purpose of critical cultural studies is to understand a problem from its roots in order to suggest useful solutions, it seems fitting to pay attention to everyday, non-spectacular forms of dissent—for, among other reasons, attention to overt forms of dissent isolates them as anomalies and leads to inadequate solutions.
The first description of an apterous aphid morph of the family Canadaphididae (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aphidomorpha)
Authors: OGŁAZA BARTOSZ , WEGIEREK PIOTR
Published: December 2023

The first apterous morph of the Canadaphididae family is described based on Canadian amber inclusions. On the basis of morphological features, it was assigned to the species Canadaphis carpenteri. For the first time, a fluorescence microscope was used to examine a representative of the Canadaphididae family, revealing previously unknown details.
A new species of Eocene whitefly—Snotra herczeki sp. nov. (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) from Baltic amber
Authors: DROHOJOWSKA JOWITA , BOGUSIAK WERONIKA , KURKINA SONIA , ZMARZŁY MARZENA , SZWEDO JACEK
Published: December 2023

The second species of the Aleyrodinae whitefly genus Snotra Szwedo et Drohojowska, 2016 is described based on an inclusion in the Eocene Baltic amber. It is second species of the genus, adding new data to knowledge on disparity and taxonomic diversity of whiteflies in the Eocene Baltic amber. The diversity of the group and its fossil record in the Eocene fossil resins is briefly discussed.
Description of three new species of Carvalhygia Brailovsky, 1995 from The Republic of the Philippines and a key to species (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Colpurini)
Authors: BRAILOVSKY HARRY , BARRERA ERNESTO
Published: December 2023

Three new species of Carvalhygia Brailovsky, 1995 collected in The Republic of the Philippines are described in the tribe Colpurini (Heteroptera: Coreidae)—C. complanus sp. nov., C. herczekia sp. nov. and C. stellata sp. nov. A key to the seven described species is included, illustrated with photomicrographs of dorsal and lateral habitus, female genital plates, male genital capsule of C. camarinesa, C. carvalhoi and C. herczekia, and parameres of C. camarinesa and C. herczekia.
School Leaders and Transphobia: Direct, Facilitative, Accommodative, and Resistant Forms of Gender-Based Bias and Bullying
Authors: McQuillan Mollie , Mayo Cris
Published: December 2023

Purpose: If PK12 administrators aspire to interrupt bias-based bullying, they need to understand their role in perpetuating structural and social inequality. The purpose of this study was to examine administrators’: 1) awareness of gender-based bullying, 2) initial intentions to address bullying, and 3) actions that interrupted or perpetuated gender-based bullying. Methods: This qualitative study used a purposeful sample U.S. court cases and 36 interviews with administrators and policy consultants to explore PK12 leaders’ understanding of gender-based bullying and actions to disrupt bullying. Findings: Our findings provide a more expansive definition of administrative bullying and brings attention to the personal complicity of educational leaders in perpetuating gender-based bullying. Administrators in this study modeled support for bullying through each of these four types of bullying – by direct action, facilitated support, accommodating external stakeholders, and resisting efforts to educate themselves or others on issues related to gender-based bullying. All of these approaches allow bias and bullying to continue. The study also reveals how some leaders interrupt bullying by collaborating with students, parents, and community-based organizations. Implications: Policymakers, leadership preparation instructors, and PK12 administrators may be interested in how administrative behaviors perpetuate gender-based bullying. A lack of knowledge about leaders’ personal complicity in bullying and about gender-diversity fundamentally interrupts two of the main roles of PK-12 leaders: implementing policies and leading instructional practices. The results of the study suggest the need for additional policies, procedures, and training to support leaders committed to interrupting gender-based bullying.
How Does Confucian Culture Shape Employee Gratitude in the Workplace? Exploratory Research Based on Grounded Theory
Authors: Chang Saichao , He Beiting , Gu Xinran , Chao Gang , Wang Lei
Published: December 2023

Gratitude significantly affects employees’ positive psychology and behavior, and how to cultivate workplace gratitude has become an important practical issue. This article selected a Chinese company for field research and employed a grounded theory approach to investigate how Confucian culture shapes gratitude in the workplace. The findings indicated that Confucian culture influenced employees’ inward and benevolent attributional tendencies in the continuous interaction among the organization, employees, and their families. This prompted employees to engage in positive benefit appraisals and ultimately be grateful. The findings contribute to a Confucian cultural shaping process model of gratitude in the workplace and demonstrate distinct advantages over currently prevalent gratitude interventions or cultivation methods. This not only enriches the theory of workplace gratitude cultivation and cultural construction of emotions but also provides a clear pathway for organizational implementation. More specifically, we highlight that workplace emotion research needs to focus on the shaping processes of different social cultures, which can serve as a valuable corporate resource.
A New Nursing Aesthetic
Authors: Reed Pamela G.
Published: December 2023

Conceptions of the art and aesthetics of nursing traditionally focus on the nurse and nursing practice. My purpose here is to propose a shift in thinking from this traditional focus that dominates the “art of nursing” literature, to consider a new nursing aesthetic that focuses on human beings proper: health as wellbecoming. I present a framework based on everyday aesthetics, feminist aesthetics, and Deweyan perspectives, along with attention to the nursing disciplinary perspective of health and well-being. I conclude with a look ahead to philosophical questions and scientific issues regarding theorizing and scientific inquiry about the health as wellbecoming aesthetic to advance nursing knowledge.
Parenting by Lying
Authors: Setoh Peipei , Low Petrina Hui Xian , Heyman Gail D. , Lee Kang
Published: December 2023

Parenting by lying is a practice in which parents lie to their children to influence their emotions or behavior. Recently, researchers have tried to document the nature of this phenomenon and to understand its causes and consequences. The present research provides an overview of the research in the emerging field, describes some key theoretical and methodological challenges in studying this topic, and proposes a theoretical framework for understanding parenting by lying and for guiding future research to advance our knowledge about this understudied parenting practice.
Young refugees’ experiences of accumulating horizontal and vertical social capital through organised and informal sports
Authors: Nesse Martin , Agergaard Sine , Piggott Lucy V
Published: December 2023

For the last 20 years, Putnam's conceptualisations of bonding and bridging social capital have become a common reference for policies and programmes that seek to promote integration in and through sports. However, few researchers have looked beyond face-to-face interactions to how sports may develop migrants’ relations to formal associations, institutions, and agencies in civil society. In this article, we aim to explore how young refugees accumulate diverse forms of social capital through participation in sports clubs and informal sports. Drawing on Lewandowski's conceptualisations of horizontal and vertical social capital, we analyse 10 young refugees’ experiences with sports participation in Norway. The results show that informants found it challenging to participate in sports clubs due to conflicting views on how to ‘do sports’ as well as processes of ‘othering’. As a result, their opportunities for accumulating vertical social capital (social connections and resources across vertical power differentials) were limited and only identified for the most highly skilled informants. Consequently, the informants dropped out of sports clubs and instead joined informal sports to experience a sense of community and belonging with peers similar to themselves. By doing so, the informants were able to accumulate horizontal social capital (resources within a specific socioeconomic or cultural stratum) as well as negotiating specific types of vertical social capital. Overall, our findings illustrate some of the challenges and limitations of Norwegian sports policy and clubs in facilitating social capital and, thus, social mobility for young refugees.
The EU Commission: Supplying enforcement and demanding compliance
Authors: Waters Kari
Published: December 2023

During the last 20 years, the European Union has been mired in crisis after crisis. At the same time, the number of infringement procedures, the formal requests from the European Commission to member states for compliance, decreased dramatically, despite the addition of 10 member states in 2004. Yet, the link between crises and Commission enforcement activity has not been systematically examined. In this article, I theorize about the role of time, and demonstrate that crises limit the Commission's ability to act as guardian of the treaties. However, crises are not deterministic in nature – the European Parliament and European Union citizens can alter the costs of Commission enforcement. I find that as Euroscepticism increases, the Commission's demand for compliance decreases, in part due to the steep reputational costs to the Commission when member states refuse compliance, especially after sanctions. The number of infringements is also positively correlated with European Parliament action, suggesting that even without formal sanctioning power, the European Parliament plays a role in European Union law enforcement.
The Urban Voter: Emerging Trend and Changing Pattern
Authors: Kumar Sanjay
Published: December 2023

The recent phenomenon of growing urbanization in India has shifted the focus from rural vote to urban vote in electoral politics. The discussion on urban politics and urban vote revolves largely around two issues—first the issue of turnout and second, a somewhat different political choice among the urban voters compared to the rural voters. The two issues have been highlighted by the fact that urban constituencies have registered lower turnout compared to the turnout in rural constituencies. Among the former, the constituencies of big metropolitan cities register much lower turnout compared to the constituencies of small and medium towns. Results of various elections in the past indicate that the backbone of electoral support of the BJP during the late 1990s is its strong support among the urban voters. The BJP’s strong support base among the urban voters enabled it to emerge as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha during the 1998 and 1999 Lok Sabha elections enabling it to form a coalition government along with other regional parties. This article tries to seek answers to the question, why do we see this distinct difference in voting patterns among rural and urban voters, especially till 2009 Lok Sabha elections, though it has changed somewhat during the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections? Is it because the rural India and Urban India represent two different kinds of voters, or is it because the issues and concerns of rural and urban voters are vastly different from each other which make them vote differently?
Book review: Vasanthi Srinivasan, Virtue and Human Ends: Political Ideas From Indian Classics
Authors: Jha Priyanka
Published: December 2023

Vasanthi Srinivasan, Virtue and Human Ends: Political Ideas From Indian Classics. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2021, 202 pages, ₹685.
The Body Guidelines: A Metacognitive and Harm Reducing Approach to Gender and Sex in Preclinical Medical School Curriculum
Authors: Parsa Neeki , Myers Hunter , Ravichandran Kae , kus til , Indig Gnendy
Published: December 2023

The incorporation of sex and gender variables in medical education can be made more intuitive and accurate with thoughtful intervention. The authors propose a flowchart to make medical education tools more precise and applicable to patients who would benefit from a nuanced approach to sex and gender. The Body Guidelines can empower educators to consider sex and gender in terms of the etiology and epidemiology of any given pathologic process or disease.
Impact of SARS, H1N1, and COVID-19 on Medical Trainees’ Academic and Personal Experience: A Systematic Search and Narrative Review
Authors: Cipro Megan , Pitre Lyne , Fotsing Salomon , Pomerleau Marjorie
Published: December 2023

OBJECTIVES

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a destabilizing experience for medical students and resident doctors and troubles their training in the hospital setting. This narrative review aims to identify the effect of health crises on the academic and personal lives of medical trainees and to develop solutions to support them.

METHODS

EducationSource, MedLine and PsychInfo were consulted on June 30th and December 16th, 2020 to identify the articles explaining the effect of SARS-CoV-1 (2002), A/H1N1 (2009) or SARS-CoV-2 (ongoing) on medical learners. Exclusion criteria included policy papers, letters to the editor or articles detailing the impact on undergraduate medical curricula, on nonmedical trainees, on the residency application process, or the physical impact of the disease. The quality of the selected papers was appraised using CASP for qualitative studies and NHLBI-NIH for cross-sectional studies.

RESULTS

Ninety-four manuscripts were initially generated and 229, secondarily, of which respectively 14 and 16 were included in the final analysis according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines and reviewed qualitatively. It was found that the learners consider their education compromised by exam delays, the suspension of academic activities, and elective surgeries. Anxiety associated with this academic disruption developed. Burnout is exacerbated by the heightened workload. The main difference between the two searches was the long-term effect of COVID-19, including the opportunity for didactic innovation, the worry regarding professional identity formation and the development of mental health issues. The proposed solutions varied from continuous access to mental health resources to the follow-up of learners’ well-being.

CONCLUSION

It would be interesting to assess the impact of medical trainees’ specialty and country’s development on their experience with COVID-19.
Heterosynaptic plasticity-induced modulation of synapses
Authors: Kourosh-Arami Masoumeh , Komaki Alireza , Gholami Masoumeh , Marashi Seyed Hossein , Hejazi Sara
Published: December 2023

Plasticity is a common feature of synapses that is stated in different ways and occurs through several mechanisms. The regular action of the brain needs to be balanced in several neuronal and synaptic features, one of which is synaptic plasticity. The different homeostatic processes, including the balance between excitation/inhibition or homeostasis of synaptic weights at the single-neuron level, may obtain this. Homosynaptic Hebbian-type plasticity causes associative alterations of synapses. Both homosynaptic and heterosynaptic plasticity characterize the corresponding aspects of adjustable synapses, and both are essential for the regular action of neural systems and their plastic synapses.

In this review, we will compare homo- and heterosynaptic plasticity and the main factors affecting the direction of plastic changes. This review paper will also discuss the diverse functions of the different kinds of heterosynaptic plasticity and their properties. We argue that a complementary system of heterosynaptic plasticity demonstrates an essential cellular constituent for homeostatic modulation of synaptic weights and neuronal activity.

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Comparative and phylogenetic analysis of Chiloschista (Orchidaceae) species and DNA barcoding investigation based on plastid genomes
Authors: Liu Ding-Kun , Zhou Cheng-Yuan , Tu Xiong-De , Zhao Zhuang , Chen Jin-Liao , Gao Xu-Yong , Xu Shao-Wei , Zeng Meng-Yao , Ma Liang , Ahmad Sagheer , Li Ming-He , Lan Siren , Liu Zhong-Jian
Published: December 2023

Background

Chiloschista (Orchidaceae, Aeridinae) is an epiphytic leafless orchid that is mainly distributed in tropical or subtropical forest canopies. This rare and threatened orchid lacks molecular resources for phylogenetic and barcoding analysis. Therefore, we sequenced and assembled seven complete plastomes of Chiloschista to analyse the plastome characteristics and phylogenetic relationships and conduct a barcoding investigation.

Results

We are the first to publish seven Chiloschista plastomes, which possessed the typical quadripartite structure and ranged from 143,233 bp to 145,463 bp in size. The plastomes all contained 120 genes, consisting of 74 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA genes and eight rRNA genes. The ndh genes were pseudogenes or lost in the genus, and the genes petG and psbF were under positive selection. The seven Chiloschista plastomes displayed stable plastome structures with no large inversions or rearrangements. A total of 14 small inversions (SIs) were identified in the seven Chiloschista plastomes but were all similar within the genus. Six noncoding mutational hotspots (trnNGUU–rpl32 > rpoB–trnCGCA > psbK–psbI > psaC–rps15 > trnEUUC–trnTGGU > accD–psaI) and five coding sequences (ycf1 > rps15 > matK > psbK > ccsA) were selected as potential barcodes based on nucleotide diversity and species discrimination analysis, which suggested that the potential barcode ycf1 was most suitable for species discrimination. A total of 47–56 SSRs and 11–14 long repeats (> 20 bp) were identified in Chiloschista plastomes, and they were mostly located in the large single copy intergenic region. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that Chiloschista was monophyletic. It was clustered with Phalaenopsis and formed the basic clade of the subtribe Aeridinae with a moderate support value. The results also showed that seven Chiloschista species were divided into three major clades with full support.

Conclusion

This study was the first to analyse the plastome characteristics of the genus Chiloschista in Orchidaceae, and the results showed that Chiloschista plastomes have conserved plastome structures. Based on the plastome hotspots of nucleotide diversity, several genes and noncoding regions are suitable for phylogenetic and population studies. Chiloschista may provide an ideal system to investigate the dynamics of plastome evolution and DNA barcoding investigation for orchid studies.