bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Is improvement in depression in patients attending cardiac rehabilitation with new-onset depressive symptoms determined by patient characteristics?
Authors: Sever Serdar , Doherty Patrick , Golder Su , Harrison Alexander Stephen 
Published: August 2020

BackgroundPatients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) commonly experience depressive symptoms which is associated with adverse outcome and increased mortality. Examining the baseline characteristics of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients that determine Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) depression outcome may facilitate adjustments in CR programme delivery. This study aims to investigate whether comorbidities, demographic and clinical characteristics of patients, with new-onset post-cardiac event depressive symptoms, determine change in their depression following CR.MethodsAnalysing the routine practice data of British Heart Foundation National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation between April 2012 and March 2018, an observational study was conducted. Patients with new-onset post-cardiac event depressive symptoms and no previous documented history of depression constituted the study population.ResultsThe analyses included 64 658 CR patients (66.24±10.69 years, 75% male) with new-onset HADS measures, excluding patients with a history of depression. The comorbidities determining reduced likelihood of improvement in depression outcomes after CR were angina, diabetes, stroke, emphysema and chronic back problems. In addition, higher total number of comorbidities, increased weight, a higher HADS anxiety score, smoking at baseline, physical inactivity, presence of heart failure and being single were other significant determinants. However, receiving coronary artery bypass graft treatment was associated with better improvement.ConclusionThe study identified specific baseline comorbid conditions of patients with new-onset depressive symptoms including angina, diabetes, stroke, emphysema and chronic back problems that were determinants of poorer mental health outcomes (HADS) following CR. Higher total number of comorbidities, increased weight, physical inactivity, smoking, presence of heart failure and being single were other determinants of a negative change in depression. These findings could help CR programmes focus on tailoring the CR intervention around comorbidity, physical activity status, weight management and smoking cessation in patients with new-onset depressive symptoms.
Right lung agenesis in a one‐year‐old Chihuahua
Authors: Martinez Carlos , Rowan Conor 
Published: August 2020

SUMMARYA one‐year‐old neutered male Chihuahua was referred for further investigations of spontaneous pneumothorax. Before referral, thoracocentesis and chest drain placement was performed. On presentation, the dog was dull and dyspnoeic displaying a restrictive respiratory pattern. Thoracic radiography and CT findings performed at the referral centre were consistent with right lung agenesis and pneumothorax. Retrospective review of the radiographs obtained at the referring practice identified right‐sided mediastinal shift, separation of the cardiac silhouette from the sternum and overinflated left lung lobes. Neither free intrathoracic gas nor subcutaneous emphysema was identified. The initial images were suboptimally displayed resulting in artefactual ‘blackening’ of the lung parenchyma, necessitating digital manipulation to identify lung markings. The combination of mediastinal shift and separation of the cardiac silhouette from the sternum as a result of the right lung agenesis could potentially lead to a false impression of pneumothorax.
Description of a novel distribution and subsequent resolution of severe, bilateral thoracic limb and cervical vertebral abnormalities in a dog with craniomandibular osteopathy
Authors: Craciun Ioana , Gagea Alexandra Livia , O Cathasaigh Micheal 
Published: August 2020

SUMMARYA 6‐month‐old female entire, mixed breed dog was presented for evaluation of a 3‐week history of neck stiffness and pain on opening the mouth. Radiographs and subsequent CT were performed, as well as a further CT at a 3‐month follow‐up. The images revealed multiple osseous abnormalities characterised by severe periosteal reactions affecting the head, cervical vertebrae and the proximal thoracic limbs. Histopathological analysis was compatible with a severe case of extensive craniomandibular osteopathy (CMO). To the authors’ knowledge, a diffuse periosteal reaction effecting the cervical vertebrae, associated with CMO, has not been previously reported. Furthermore, it demonstrates that despite the novel distribution of the disease, clinical improvement is possible with conservative management, with partial resolution of excessive bone proliferation, improvement in the ability to flex and extend the neck, as well as a marked improvement in temporomandibular function.
Short-term effects induced by nicotinamide in ovariectomized females
Authors: Lima Natália Cristina Gomes Carvalho , Souza Suellen Aparecida Ribeiro de , Vieira Beatriz de Souza , Rizzi Joyce Santana , Andrade Thiago Antônio Moretti de , Oliveira Camila Andrea de , Corezola do Amaral Maria Esméria 
Published: August 2020

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)+precursors such as nicotinamide activate sirtuins and enhance energy metabolism. The aim of this study was to evaluate the metabolic effects of nicotinamide in ovariectomized (OVX) female rats to establish molecular targets against obesity, which support the safe therapeutic application of nicotinamide. The OVX animals were divided into groups: SHAM (simulated surgery), SHAMn (two weeks of 35 mg·kg–1nicotinamide per day, by gavage), OVX, and OVXn (two weeks of 35 mg·kg–1nicotinamide per day, by gavage). The results indicated that nicotinamide favored lipolysis, as evidenced by an increase in free fatty acid and hepatic triglyceride levels, which were not fully normalized during the treatment period. The lipolysis appeared to be due to increased SIRT1 and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in muscle and adipose tissue. There were decreases in muscle and fat nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT), which were associated with decreases in mass and triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLc), and total cholesterol content. Nicotinamide appeared to be beneficial for the glycemic profile, with normal hepatic glycogen storage and a tendency towards insulin sensitivity in the OVXn. In the SHAMn group, nicotinamide led to glucose intolerance, together with reduced muscle expressions of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) and SIRT3, suggesting that there were no short-term benefits. Supplementation with nicotinamide led to tissue-specific adaptive lipid and molecular changes in OVX rats.
On the properties of a deformed extension of the NUT space-time
Authors: Narzilloev Bakhtiyor , Malafarina Daniele , Abdujabbarov Ahmadjon , Bambi Cosimo 
Published: August 2020

AbstractWe consider a class of space-times given by a stationary extension of the Zipoy–Voorhees metric that was found by Halilsoy. We show that the solutions do not describe rotating sources but must be interpreted, similarly to the NUT case, as deformed sources endowed with a gravitomagnetic charge. We show that the Halilsoy family is directly linked to the NUT space-time, which can be obtained in the limit of vanishing deformations. We investigate the motion of test particles and photons in this class of space-times, in particular the innermost stable circular orbits and photon capture radius. Finally we show that this class of solutions possesses a sub-manifold where closed time-like curves are allowed.
Deuteronomy’s Book and Hammurapi’s Stela: The Referent of “This Sēper” in Deuteronomy 28:58
Authors: Arnold Bill T. 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
The deictic expression “this sēper” in Deut 28:58 is imprecise. Is the phrase pointing to a text coming earlier in Deuteronomy (anaphoric) or later (cataphoric)? Clarification has been provided recently by comparison to a Hittite treaty parallel, resulting in the conclusion that “this sēper” is exophoric, a self-reference to a textual artifact external to the book of Deuteronomy rather than to a narratologically imagined “book.” This investigation expands the comparison with ancient Near Eastern parallels by offering further examples of self-referentiality in the epilogue of Hammurapi’s law collection and other legal texts, as well as selected Northwest Semitic monumental texts.
Diaries and Oral Histories as Ego-Documents in the Representations of the Taiwanese Nation
Authors: Heylen Ann 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
This article positions published personal or ego-documents—with a focus on diaries and oral histories—within the framework of Taiwan historical studies. It specifically deals with the complexities involved in defining the literary generic of historical narratives against the background of the transition of Taiwanese society from the Japanese colonial period onwards. In tandem with this thematic issue, it offers a close-up on how the collection and analysis of data in resonance with general changes in history writing over the past decades raises research questions about the nature of an inclusive Taiwanese identity.
Chinese Marriage Migrants in Beijing’s Cross-Strait Diplomacy
Authors: Momesso Lara 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
The role of Chinese communities abroad has become increasingly significant in Beijing’s public diplomacy strategy. This is not only the case for Overseas Chinese communities, but also for people who migrate between China and Taiwan. This paper will explore how a group of Chinese migrant women, the mothers, wives and daughters-in-law of Taiwanese citizens, have become a target of Beijing in its cross-Strait diplomacy and how they have responded to Beijing’s initiatives. This paper gives a timely account of Beijing’s non-traditional diplomacy in the context of cross-Strait relations, as a constructed and gendered process.
A 28-years-long monitoring study suggests heavy decline and habitat shifts in three populations of a Mediterranean tortoise species
Authors: Rugiero Lorenzo , Capula Massimo , Dendi Daniele , Petrozzi Fabio , Di Vittorio Massimiliano , Luiselli Luca 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Long-term ecological studies are important for understanding wild populations’ dynamics and processes and the actual factors that can determine their decline. Here, we report the results of a 28-years-long (1992–2019) monitoring of three distinct populations of a tortoise, Testudo hermanni, in Central Italy, with an emphasis on their population abundance trends and on the eventual variation in their habitat use across years and among the study areas. Samplings were conducted by Visual Encounter Survey (VES) methodology, and using a suite of statistical analyses including correlations and Generalized Linear Models analyses. Our data showed a statistically significant decline in tortoise sightings through time, and concurrently also a variation in habitat use by tortoises. In all the three study areas, we observed a significant increase of tortoise sighting frequency in the habitat type characterized by high (>taller than 200 cm) shrubby and wooded vegetation. Since our analyses revealed no significant change in the habitat type availability by year in each study area, we suggest that T. hermanni was increasingly selecting closed vegetation spots throughout the years. We hypothesize that this observed trend of shift in habitat selection could be due to lowering their body temperatures to prevent overheating. So, the selection of more covered spots would be a thermal ecology adaptive consequence of the ongoing global warming.
The (Mis)framing of Arab Commercial Adjudication: The Sharīʿah, Political Contestation, and Due Process
Authors: Altamimi Abdulmalik M. , Abi Tayeh Cecile 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
This article argues that the claims that international commercial adjudication is inconsistent with Islamic law, or, in the Arab context, is born out of the 20th century petroleum concession disputes, are unfounded. First, the early Arab-Islamic trade interactions, in their multicultural and legal contexts, established transnational commercial adjudication. These interactions were facilitated by flexible Islamic regulations regarding free trade and adjudication, especially the freedom to arbitrate. Second, there have been profound international and inter-Arab political contestations since the 1950s that have affected international arbitration. These contestations could render the petroleum disputes irrelevant to the evolution of Arab commercial adjudication and foreign investment arbitration. However, international arbitration can be traced back to the principle of due process of law beyond the State; the perceived founding principle of Arab commercial adjudication. Recognising this history is important for researchers to assess the successes and flaws of arbitral due process in the Arab context.
Hara Tanzan and the Japanese Buddhist Discovery of “Experience”
Authors: Licha Stephan Kigensan 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
This paper explores the role of Hara Tanzan 原坦山 (1819–1892) in the transformation of Buddhism into an “experiential religion” during the Meiji period. Scholars such as Sharf have argued that this transformation is due to Western influence on figures such as DT Suzuki. Japanese language scholarship has instead shown that in the early 1900s, the notion of Buddhism as experiential religion was already widespread, considering Tanzan as a predecessor of this discourse. I argue that Tanzan was among the first to discover the importance of “experience” in the confrontation with science, yet interpreted it as an empirical standard for both religious and scientific knowledge. However, Tanzan did not yet establish the separation of science and religion characteristic of the modern understanding of both terms. I conclude that Tanzan was one starting point in a dialectic that is integral to the indigenous genealogy of “religious experience” in Japan.
The Past Sets the Context for the Present
Authors: Cinalli Angela 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
This contribution examines musical and poetic tradition, in so far as it influenced the culture and society of the Hellenistic period. Epigraphy attests to the recollection of traditional heritage as one driving force for public-at-large performances. Extra-agonistic and agonistic performances pursued by the so-called poeti vaganti, travelling all over the cultural centres of Greece chasing fame and rewards, attest to different ways to preserve the legacy of musical and poetic tradition, by lingering on it or re-modulating its facies. Re-performing ancient times, through selections of dramas and lyric poetry, and demonstrating the musical structures and poetic ways of former days, had the purpose of strengthening social identity and reinvigorating communal knowledge. Inscriptions allow us to envisage the nuances and potentialities of these thoughtful revivals, highlighting the ways this concept could shift with time, context, and place.
Atypical Effects of Visual Interference on Tactile Temporal Order Judgment in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Authors: Wada Makoto , Ikeda Hanako , Kumagaya Shinichiro 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Visual distractors interfere with tactile temporal order judgment (TOJ) at moderately short stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) in typically developing participants. Presentation of a rubber hand in a forward direction to the participant’s hand enhances this effect, while that in an inverted direction weakens the effect. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have atypical multisensory processing; however, effects of interferences on atypical multisensory processing in ASD remain unclear. In this study, we examined the effects of visual interference on tactile TOJ in individuals with ASD. Two successive tactile stimuli were delivered to the index and ring fingers of a participant’s right hand in an opaque box. A rubber hand was placed on the box in a forward or inverted direction. Concurrently, visual stimuli provided by light-emitting diodes on the fingers of the rubber hand were delivered in a congruent or incongruent order. Participants were required to judge the temporal order of the tactile stimuli regardless of visual distractors. In the absence of a visual stimulus, participants with ASD tended to judge the simultaneous stimuli as the ring finger being stimulated first during tactile TOJ compared with typically developing (TD) controls, and congruent visual stimuli eliminated the bias. When incongruent visual stimuli were delivered, judgment was notably reversed in participants with ASD, regardless of the direction of the rubber hand. The findings demonstrate that there are considerable effects of visual interferences on tactile TOJ in individuals with ASD.
Food choice by Messor arenarius ants in different distances from their nest: testing increased selectivity theory
Authors: Warburg Ittai 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
According to central-place-foraging theory, selectivity of central-place foragers to larger or more profitable food items should increase as the distance from their nest to the food increases. In this research it was checked, if the selectivity of ants of the species Messor arenarius (Fabricius) to larger food items increases as a function of the distance from their nest entrance to the food site. In food choice experiments, whole wheat seeds and halves of wheat seeds cut longitudinally were offered to M. arenarius ants at the same points. These ants preferred halves of wheat seeds cut longitudinally over whole wheat seeds, in all the distances from nest entrance that were checked in this research - 1m, 5m or 10m from nest entrance. According to these findings, M. arenarius ants did not show increased selectivity to different wheat particles within a distance range of 1m – 10m from their nest entrance. It is possible that since the nutritional value of wheat is relatively high, these ants could not evaluate the nutritional value of wheat particles that were offered to them.
Faut-il brûler Sagan ?
Authors: Falantin Flavien 
Published: August 2020

Résumé
« Elle m’ intimidait, comme m’ intimident les enfants, certains adolescents et tous les gens qui se servent autrement que moi du langage. Je suppose que de mon côté, je la mettais mal à l’ aise. » Par ces mots extraits de La Force des choses, Beauvoir revenait sur le mélange d’ intimidation et d’ embarras qui flottait sur ses rencontres avec la jeune Françoise Sagan. Cet article se propose de faire revivre l’ histoire des relations oubliées entre ces deux icônes des lettres françaises.
The Blood of Others
Authors: de Saint Aubert Emmanuel , McWeeny Jennifer 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
The author argues, with reference to a number of Merleau-Ponty’s unpublished manuscripts, that Merleau-Ponty’s notion of encroachment (empiétement) has origins in Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel, The Blood of Others. He examines how the two philosophers approach the encroachment of freedoms, the political stance of pacifism, and the interpretation of Voltaire’s Candide (Part I). The impact of Élisabeth Lacoin’s death on Beauvoir’s and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophies, as well as their relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre, is also considered (Part II).
Beauvoir/Iribarren/Dodera
Authors: Misemer Sarah M. 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
María Dodera’s theater production Simone, mujer partida (2017) builds on current movements against gender violence in Latin America. Actor Gabriela Iribarren’s portrayal of Dodera’s Beauvoir suggests we view her via a process of interaction between internal and external dialogic selves as she seeks subjectivity—a dynamic Iribarren makes evident through the juxtaposition of ephemeral live performance and the (re)presentation of Beauvoir’s life history. Her monologue is thus not univocal, but layered with multiple voices from the past and present.
Assessment of Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterizations and Urban Heat Island Comparison: Impacts and Implications for Tracer Transport
Authors: Lopez-Coto Israel , Hicks Micheal , Karion Anna , Sakai Ricardo K. , Demoz Belay , Prasad Kuldeep , Whetstone James 
Published: August 2020

AbstractAccurate simulation of planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) is key to greenhouse gas emission estimation, air quality prediction, and weather forecasting. This paper describes an extensive performance assessment of several Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model configurations in which novel observations from ceilometers, surface stations, and a flux tower were used to study their ability to reproduce the PBLH and the impact that the urban heat island (UHI) has on the modeled PBLHs in the greater Washington, D.C., area. In addition, CO2 measurements at two urban towers were compared with tracer transport simulations. The ensemble of models used four PBL parameterizations, two sources of initial and boundary conditions, and one configuration including the building energy parameterization urban canopy model. Results have shown low biases over the whole domain and period for wind speed, wind direction, and temperature, with no drastic differences between meteorological drivers. We find that PBLH errors are mostly positively correlated with sensible heat flux errors and that modeled positive UHI intensities are associated with deeper modeled PBLs over the urban areas. In addition, we find that modeled PBLHs are typically biased low during nighttime for most of the configurations with the exception of those using the MYNN parameterization, and these biases directly translate to tracer biases. Overall, the configurations using the MYNN scheme performed the best, reproducing the PBLH and CO2 molar fractions reasonably well during all hours and thus opening the door to future nighttime inverse modeling.
Dynamic Origin of the Interannual Variability of West China Autumn Rainfall
Authors: Zhu Zhiwei , Lu Rui , Yan Huiping , Li Wenkai , Li Tim , He Jinhai 
Published: August 2020

AbstractThe dynamic origin of the interannual variability of West China autumn rainfall (WCAR), a special weather/climate phenomenon over western-central China in September and October, was investigated via observational diagnosis and numerical simulations. Here we found that the interannual variability of WCAR is closely related to the local horizontal trough, which is passively induced by two lower-level anticyclonic (high pressure) anomalies over East Asia. The anticyclonic anomaly over the south is a Gill-type response to the central and eastern Pacific diabatic cooling, while that over the north is part of the mid- to high-latitude barotropic Rossby wave train, which could be induced by either the thermal forcing of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) cooling or that of the subtropical northern Atlantic Ocean SST warming. The quasi-barotropic high pressure anomaly over East Asia acts as an “invisible mountain” that steers the low-level anomalous southwesterly into a southeasterly and hinders the water vapor going farther to the north, leading to enhanced WCAR. However, the real mountain ranges in the region (the Qinglin and Ba Mountains) have no essential impact on the formation and interannual variability of WCAR.