bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The benefits of estradiol on cognitive aging in rats are independent from its effects on cardiometabolic health
Authors: Montanari Christian , Dong Emma L , Srinivasan Shruti , De Oliveira Leite Ana Paula , Delarge Alyssa F , Maroteaux Matthieu J , Desmoulins Lucie D , Menon Riva , Walker Alice B , Lindsey Sarah H , Zsombok Andrea , Daniel Jill M 
Published: December 2024

AbstractResearch in preclinical models of menopause indicates that exogenously administered estrogens positively impact cognitive aging. However, clinical evidence indicates that the effects of estrogen therapy on cognition are inconsistent and may be modulated by pre-existing cardiometabolic conditions. The extent to which cardiometabolic health affects the cognitive outcomes of estrogen therapy remains unclear. This study aimed to determine whether variations in cardiometabolic health, both prior to and resulting from different estradiol treatment regimens, are related to the ability of estradiol to improve the cognitive aging trajectory in ovariectomized Long-Evans rats. Cognitive function and health status were assessed at 10 months of age after which rats were ovariectomized and administered vehicle or various estradiol treatments. Rats were assessed again at 18 (middle age) and 22 (old age) months. Cognition was evaluated using a spatial memory radial-maze task. Health status was determined through body composition (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry), glucose tolerance testing, and blood pressure (tail-cuff plethysmography). Results demonstrated that both continuous ongoing estradiol treatment and a previous 40-day estradiol exposure (terminated long before testing) significantly improved the cognitive aging trajectory from middle to old age. However, only continuous estradiol treatment had positive impacts on health measures; previous estradiol treatment provided no benefits to aging cardiometabolic systems. In contrast, a delayed estradiol treatment (initiated months after ovariectomy) provided no benefits for cognition but provided health benefits. Results indicated that estradiol impacts on cognition in healthy aging rats are separate from and not secondary to its effects on cardiometabolic health.
Domain Structure and Interface Control of Mechanical Stiffness in Sustainable Cellulose Bio-nanocomposites
Authors: Jin Hanxun , Goldberg William , Wang Zhenqin , Li Huiyong , Huang Yuxuan , Foston Marcus , Genin Guy M. 
Published: December 2024

AbstractRenewable and biodegradable plastics derived from soy protein isolate (SPI) offer a promising alternative to conventional petroleum-based plastics, particularly for film-grade bioplastics applications such as plastic bags. However, even with reinforcement from cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), their mechanical properties including stiffness lag behind those of petroleum-based plastics. To identify pathways for improving CNC-reinforced SPI composites, we studied stiffening mechanisms by interpreting experimental data using homogenization models that accounted for CNC agglomeration and the formation of CNC/SPI interphases. To model effects of surface modification of CNCs with polydopamine (polyDOPA), we incorporated two key mechanisms: enhanced CNC dispersion and modified CNC-SPI interfacial interactions. Models accounted for interphases surrounding CNCs, arising from physicochemical interactions with the polyDOPA-modified CNC surfaces. Consistent wih experimental observations of polyDOPA modification enhancing mechanical properties through both increased spatial distribution of CNCs and matrix-filler interactions, results demonstrated that improved dispersion and interfacial bonding contribute to increased composite stiffness. Results highlight the potential of biodegradable CNC/SPI bio-nanocomposites as sustainable plastic alternatives, and suggest pathways for further enhancing their mechanical properties.
Intelligent construction benefits the public: evidence from the opinion analysis on social media
Authors: Wang Lingxiao , Yuan Jingfeng , Chen Yudi , Wan Xin , Huang Guanying 
Published: December 2024

PurposeThe construction and real estate sectors are vital to national economies, but traditional construction methods often lead to challenges such as safety risks, noise and environmental pollution. While intelligent construction is believed to mitigate these issues, there is a lack of solid empirical evidence on whether it truly benefits the general public. This paper seeks to explore the societal benefits of intelligent construction from the public’s perspective, addressing this research gap.Design/methodology/approachThe research adopts a two-step approach. First, topic mining is conducted to identify topics closely related to the public’s daily life, such as environmental impact, construction traffic management and construction technologies. These topics are then analyzed through sentiment analysis using a bidirectional long short-term memory model with attention mechanism to determine whether the public has a favorable view of these aspects of intelligent construction, indirectly demonstrating the benefits to the public.FindingsThe primary topics identified include “industry development,” “technology enterprise,” “construction equipment,” “intelligent technology,” “environmental protection,” “robots” and “construction traffic management.” Sentiment analysis shows that public sentiment is overwhelmingly positive across all topics and regions, with “environmental protection,” “construction traffic management” and “robots” receiving the most favorable reactions.Originality/valueThis study provides empirical evidence of the societal benefits of intelligent construction from the public’s viewpoint using social media data. The results highlight the need for continued promotion and adoption of intelligent construction due to its positive impact on society.
Enhancing carbonation resistance of foamed concrete via microbial incorporation: a response surface methodology approach with Aspergillus iizukae EAN605 fungi
Authors: Al-Shaeer Honin Ali Yahya , Irwan J.M. , Alshalif Abdullah , Amran Mugahed , Alanazi Hani , Tang W.C. , Tang Liyaning , Alhokabi Abdulmajeed , Alluqmani Ayed Eid 
Published: December 2024

PurposeThis study aims to enhance the resilience of foamed concrete (FC) against carbonation and water absorption (WA) by integrating microorganisms, specifically Aspergillus iizukae EAN605.Design/methodology/approachThe focus was on understanding how variables such as microorganism concentration, concrete density and water-to-cement (w/c) ratio affect these properties. Optimal results were observed under specific conditions—FC density set at 1800 kg/m³, a w/c ratio of 0.5 and an Aspergillus iizukae EAN605 concentration of 0.5 g/L—resulting in significant reductions in carbonation and WA compared to standard FC.FindingsIt is observed that fungi not only fill pores with calcium oxalate but also limit carbonation by consuming CO2 and block water penetration through their mycelial network. A central composite design within response surface methodology was employed for the experimental design, resulting in mathematical models that align closely with the empirical data. The models identified the most effective parameters for minimizing carbonation depth: FC density at 1970 kg/m³, fungal concentration at 0.585 g/L and w/c ratio at 0.470. Further regression analysis showed a high correlation between the experimental data and the predicted outcomes, with a coefficient of determination (R²) of 92.29 and a model F-value of 16.45.Originality/valueStatistical analysis highlighted the significant roles of density and fungal concentration in these reductions. Besides, scanning electron microscopy provided visual evidence of fungal-mediated mineral formation in FC, supporting the empirical findings. Overall, the study demonstrated the effective use of Aspergillus iizukae EAN605 in enhancing the durability of FC, marking an innovative stride in sustainable construction materials.
Does long-term management education change behaviors? A study of change in self-perceived leadership behaviors among participants in a three-year Danish diploma program
Authors: Sørensen Peter , Lindholst Andrej Christian 
Published: December 2024

PurposeFormal managerial education plays a pivotal role in organizational and personal career development. Research addressing the impact of managerial training and development programs has mainly relied on studies of short-term programs and focused on exam results, i.e. formal knowledge, as a main outcome. However, less is known about the impact of long-term programs in general, and specifically on managerial behaviors. We address these important gaps by raising the research question, “What is the impact of long-term formal management training on self-perceived leadership behaviors?” within the context of a three-year mandatory formal training program for Danish municipal managers.Design/methodology/approachWe utilize linear mixed-effect modeling to analyze survey-based panel data from a total of 116 Danish public managers (primarily working within welfare services, such as childcare, eldercare and school services) enrolled in a mandatory management education program offered by a business school over a three-year period. Leadership behavior is operationalized and measured with reference to Yukl’s conceptual framework, which includes task-, relations- and change-oriented behaviors.FindingsFormal management education has a differential impact on self-perceived management behaviors. During the observed period, task-oriented behaviors increase in absolute and relative levels for managers participating in management education, while relations- and change-oriented behaviors remain at the same levels.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, Yukl’s taxonomy has previously not been applied within this context, despite the fact that the three behaviors mirror core content in most formal management and leadership education.
Sipping and sharing: impact of emotions and topics on the usefulness of travelers’ wine festival forum posts
Authors: Bangwayo-Skeete Prosper , Skeete Ryan W. 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
Aficionados of wine festivals, a component of wine tourism experience, engage in vigorous online discussions that influence fellow travelers’ purchase behaviors. This study aims to delve into these overlooked discussions, identifying emotions, topics and assessing their usefulness in TripAdvisor’s Travel Forums for two US wine festivals: Taste of Yountville and Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, located in traditional and nontraditional wine tourism destinations.

Design/methodology/approach
The study uses state-of-art sentiment analysis and topic modeling methods to extract emotions and underlying latent topics in travel forum discussions. Drawing from information theory, two regression analyses are performed on 10,677 forum posts to examine how the extracted Ekman’s emotions and key underlying topics influence the helpfulness of wine forum posts for each festival.

Findings
While three topics were identified in Epcot and four in Yountville, both festival platforms highlight travelers’ common preferences for “culinary experience” and “planning” attributes but reveal notable differences in their utility. Other shared novel findings include the importance of “anger” and “surprise” emotions on the helpfulness of forum posts.

Practical implications
These findings enhance wine festival managers’ and destination planners’ understanding of online travelers’ preferences and cognitive evaluation of user-generated contents’ usefulness. This marketing intelligence informs strategies for boosting the wine destination’s economic development.

Originality/value
This research offers a novel comparative analysis of social media on wine festival tourism experiences in diverse regions. Unlike hotel reviews, typically posted after consumption, forums offer unique and broader perspectives on discussions before, during, and after experiencing the wine festival.
Economic sanctions in the twilight of retorsions and countermeasures: beaten tracks or untrodden paths?
Authors: Schäffer Johannes 
Published: December 2024

Purpose
This article begins, following a brief introduction (Section I), by delineating the current landscape and underscores the inherent shortcomings (Section II). On that basis, this paper aims to delve into the principal justifications for unilateral sanctions, seeks to identify common legal ground and highlights the inconsistencies (Section III). The last part concludes and advocates for reform (Section IV).

Design/methodology/approach
The article is based on “classical” legal methodology and designed to assess unilateral economic sanctions in their international law framework.

Findings
It is crucial to establish a more disciplined framework for the use of unilateral sanctions.

Originality/value
The article tries to buttress the need for reform based on inconsistencies regarding the present legal context of unilateral economic sanctions.
Evolution of financial advisory market with the advent of robo-advisors
Authors: Kumar Ishitha 
Published: December 2024

PurposeRapid adoption of financial technology by financial sector firms in recent years has warranted the need to understand their effect on the responses of other markets in the players. Robo-advisor is a financial technology that is provided as a new product to consumers. The purpose of this study is to understand their impact on the evolution of the financial advisory market.Design/methodology/approachI use novel hand-collected data on robo-advisors to study the empirical patterns among various players (firms that offer robo-services vs firms that do no offer robo-services) in this market. Using a simple extensive game model, I propose a channel through which the observed market evolution can be explained. I further use empirical analysis to confirm the implications of the model.FindingsI find that in response to the entry of robo-advisors incumbent firms adopt robo-advisory technology. I also find that in response to the incumbent firms adopting robo-advisory technology, the already existing robo-advisory firms increase their number of financial advisors. I also show that a demand expansion for financial advisors is induced due to the advent of robo-advisors – and this explains the observed responses by various players.Originality/valueTo my knowledge, there is no paper that has examined the responses of various players in the market due to the adoption of financial technology. Understanding the evolution of the market and the responses of players is the first step in estimating the evolution of various market-level variables, like market power. Understanding the responses of various players is important as this would guide policy makers to create an optimal policy that would improve the welfare of various players.
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right
Authors: Wraight Tom , Green Kai Roland 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe idea of ‘global Britain’ became a centrepiece of Conservative Party rhetoric in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum. This article examines how this formulation may evolve in the face of renewed conflict over immigration and identity on the British right. It is argued that, in recent years, British conservatism has faced two principal long‐term challenges: first, the challenge of broadening its appeal in an increasingly diverse and multicultural Britain and, second, the challenge of a national populist insurgency emphasising white British (especially English) identity and hostility to immigration and multiculturalism. In this context, it is argued that the term ‘global Britain’ exists in implied opposition to the idea of ‘little England’ and that this binary opposition has shaped the use and reception of the global Britain concept within conservative politics. It is further argued that the usefulness of the global Britain concept relies on its capacity to be a ‘coalition magnet’ linking liberal internationalist ideas to the more nationalist mood of the contemporary British right.
From Isolation to Social (and Psychedelic) Integration: A Sociology of Collective Effervescence and Therapeutic Community in Psychedelic‐Assisted Therapy
Authors: Rose Jarrett Robert 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTThere is a disparity between contemporary scientific investigations into psychedelic phenomena and their 20th‐century counterparts, notably the lack of examination of psychedelic experiences within group settings. Whereas early research studies from the 1950s to the 1970s explored communal settings in psychedelic‐assisted therapy (PAT), today's resurgence of scholarship in the field primarily considers individualised, often clinical, settings. Consequently, there is an absence of empirical research and theoretical innovation on collective psychedelic contexts, for example, how social connectedness occurs relationally and what its impacts are. This paper addresses this gap by revisiting and applying Emile Durkheim's theory of “collective effervescence.” By analysing interview data from participants of a group‐based weeklong PAT retreat and supplementing it with ethnographic data, this study highlights the usefulness of incorporating sociological theory to examine and explain the social dynamics and therapeutic outcomes of collective psychedelic experiences. In doing so, this research study contributes to bridging the divide between psychedelic science, psychedelic studies and the social sciences by offering sociological insight into the transformative yet hitherto neglected potential of group‐based psychedelic events for therapeutic benefits.
Effect of vegetable oil unsaturation and minor polar components on the physical properties of rice bran wax oleogels
Authors: Hwang Hong‐Sik , Kim Sanghoon , Winkler‐Moser Jill K. , Liu Sean X. 
Published: December 2024

AbstractFor the practical application of oleogels and to produce oleogels with consistent properties, a full understanding of the factors affecting properties of oleogels is necessary. This study aimed to understand the effects of type of oil and minor components in oils on the properties of 3% and 7% rice bran wax (RBW) oleogels, which were prepared with 12 vegetable oils with different degrees of unsaturation as well as the same oils where polar compounds were removed (stripped oils). Correlation coefficients of iodine values (IVs) of oils with the firmness of 3% and 7% RBW stripped oil oleogels were −0.632 and −0.499, respectively, indicating that the gel strength decreased with increasing unsaturation of oil. The gel strength increased after removing polar compounds in oil for all the oleogel samples. Higher unsaturation of oil resulted in higher solid wax contents (SWCs) in 7% RBW stripped oil oleogels (r = 0.617), which, however, did not affect the gel strength. Very thin, large platelet wax crystals were observed under phase‐contrast microscopy, which were almost identical across the oleogel samples. The permeation of dyed oil through oleogels was faster with unstripped oil oleogels than stripped oil oleogels, and the negative correlation between the color permeation rate and the firmness of oleogels was significant (r = −0.602 at Day 28) indicating that defects in the three‐dimensional crystal network is an important factor for the gel strength. This study found several important factors affecting the physical properties of RBW oleogels, which can be applied to their practical applications.Practical ApplicationFor the practical application of oleogels, factors affecting properties of oleogels must be fully understood so that the quality of oleogel‐containing food products could be well controlled. Although oil is the major component of oleogels, the effect of the type of oil on oleogel properties was not well understood to date, and this study revealed very important relationships between oil properties and oleogel properties, which can be applied to the production of oleogel‐containing products. The major findings are that gel strength was higher with lower unsaturation of oil and less polar compounds in oil and that melting temperature was higher with higher unsaturation of oil.
Strategic alliance, trust and accounting performance stability
Authors: Wang Yanyan , Fan Liwei , An Ran , Yu Lisheng 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIn this paper, we document tension in the effects of strategic alliances on partner firms' profitability and stability in China in that the formation of strategic alliances decreases partner firms' short‐term profitability but increases their operating stability. However, the unique institutional features of the Chinese market, namely, relational networks and the stakeholder‐driven governance model, can relieve this tension. We also find that societal trust, a remedy for weak formal governance and legal protection, helps mitigate the deterioration of profitability and strengthens the positive relationship between strategic alliances and stability. Lastly, we document a positive effect of strategic alliances on partner firms' Tobin's Q, suggesting that the market values a powerful network of stakeholders related through alliances. Our study emphasises the distinct mechanisms of value creation through strategic alliances in emerging markets and the role of market institutions, governance, and socio‐economic structures in shaping these mechanisms.
Discursive Extraction: Language, Value, and Capital in Myanmar's Tourism Frontier
Authors: Smith Sean P. 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe mid‐2010s tourism boom in Myanmar (Burma) shows how discourse creates and extracts value in tourism frontiers. Building on studies documenting tourism's operation as an extractive industry, interviews with 60 tourists, residents, and industry stakeholders in Myanmar in 2018–20 reveal that tourism in frontiers is oriented by an extractivist logic. The high‐value symbolic goods pursued by tourists are experiences with people who are otherised as “premodern”, which tourists accumulate and exchange on a linguistic market in a process described as discursive extraction. What is theorised as an extractive relation grounded in colonial hierarchies of value commodifies people and places as repositories of symbolic capital, supporting the territorialisation of spaces for tourism development and revealing discourse to be a constitutive force in the extractive geographies of tourism.
A psychologically interpretable artificial intelligence framework for the screening of loneliness, depression, and anxiety
Authors: Liu Feng , Wang Peiwan , Hu Jingyi , Shen Siyuan , Wang Hanyang , Shi Chen , Peng Yujia , Zhou Aimin 
Published: December 2024

AbstractNegative emotions such as loneliness, depression, and anxiety (LDA) are prevalent and pose significant challenges to emotional well‐being. Traditional methods of assessing LDA, reliant on questionnaires, often face limitations because of participants' inability or potential bias. This study introduces emoLDAnet, an artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven psychological framework that leverages video‐recorded conversations to detect negative emotions through the analysis of facial expressions and physiological signals. We recruited 50 participants to undergo questionnaires and interviews, with their responses recorded on video. The emoLDAnet employs a combination of deep learning (e.g., VGG11) and machine learning (e.g., decision trees [DTs]) to identify emotional states. The emoLDAnet incorporates the OCC–PAD–LDA psychological transformation model, enhancing the interpretability of AI decisions by translating facial expressions into psychologically meaningful data. Results indicate that emoLDAnet achieves high detection rates for loneliness, depression, and anxiety, with F1‐scores exceeding 80% and Kendall's correlation coefficients above 0.5, demonstrating strong agreement with traditional scales. The study underscores the importance of the OCC–PAD–LDA model in improving screening accuracy and the significant impact of machine learning classifiers on the framework's performance. The emoLDAnet has the potential to support large‐scale emotional well‐being early screening and contribute to the advancement of mental health care.