bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Function in Pediatric Survivors of Anthracycline-Treated Childhood Cancer
Authors: Slieker Martijn G. , Fackoury Cheryl , Slorach Cameron , Hui Wei , Friedberg Mark K. , Fan Chun-Po Steve , Manlhiot Cedric , Dillenburg Rejane , Kantor Paul , Mital Seema , Liu Peter , Nathan Paul C. , Mertens Luc ,   on behalf of the PCS2 Working Group*, Greenberg Mark , Hodgson David , Barr Ronald , Marjerrison Stacey , Lougheed Jane , Bassal Mylene , Rosenberg Herschel , Zelcer Shayna , Sender Leonard 
Published: December 2019

Background:
Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood cancer survivors (CCSs). Echocardiographic myocardial strain imaging is recommended in adult patients with cancer, but its role in pediatric CCSs has not been well established. Aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of abnormalities in left ventricular strain in pediatric CCSs, to compare strain with other echocardiographic measurements and blood biomarkers, and to explore risk factors for reduced strain.

Methods:
CCSs ≥3 years from their last anthracycline treatment were enrolled in this multicenter study and underwent a standardized functional echocardiogram and biomarker collection. Regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with longitudinal strain (LS).

Results:

Five hundred forty-six pediatric CCSs were compared with 134 healthy controls. Abnormal left ventricular ejection fraction (<50%) and mean LS (
Z
score, <−2) was found in 0.8% and 7.7% of the CCSs, respectively. LS was significantly lower in CCSs than in controls, but the absolute difference was small (0.7%). Lower LS in CCSs was associated with older current age and higher body surface area. Sex, cumulative anthracycline dose, radiotherapy, and biomarkers were not independently associated with LS. Circumferential strain, diastolic parameters, and biomarkers were not significantly different in pediatric CCSs.

Conclusions:
Global systolic function and LS are only mildly reduced in pediatric CCSs, and most LS values are within normal range. This makes single LS measurements of limited added value in identifying CCSs at risk for cardiac dysfunction. The utility of strain imaging in the long-term follow-up of CCS remains to be demonstrated.
Association Between Cerebral Small Vessel Disease With Antidepressant Use and Depression
Authors: Tully Phillip J. , Alpérovitch Annick , Soumaré Aicha , Mazoyer Bernard , Debette Stephanie , Tzourio Christophe 
Published: December 2019

Background and Purpose—
Evidence links antidepressant use with cerebral small vessel disease; however, it remains unclear whether people with depression face comparable risk. This study aims to determine the association between antidepressant drug use and depression with markers of cerebral small vessel disease.

Methods—

One thousand nine hundred five participants (mean age, 72.5 years; 60% women) without stroke or dementia history underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging at baseline, and 1402 individuals underwent a second magnetic resonance imaging at 4 years. Outcomes were lacunes 3 to 15 mm and white matter hyperintensity volume (cm
3
) at baseline and follow-up. Exposure to antidepressants was grouped as (1) selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (n=68), (2) tricyclics (n=40), (3) atypicals (n=24), (4) depressed nonusers (n=303), and (5) nondepressed/nonuser group (reference group, n=1470). Statistical analyses adjusted for propensity scores due to the nonrandomized exposure to antidepressant drugs.

Results—

There was an association between use of atypical antidepressants with lacunes at baseline (adjusted rate ratio, 2.59 [95% CI, 1.14–5.88];
P
=0.023) and follow-up (adjusted rate ratio, 3.05 [95% CI, 1.25–7.43];
P
=0.014). Lacunes at baseline were also associated with depressed nonusers (adjusted rate ratio, 1.53 [95% CI, 1.06–2.21];
P
=0.023). Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor users and depressed nonusers displayed higher total, periventricular, and deep white matter hyperintensity volumes at baseline. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor users had higher deep white matter hyperintensity volumes at follow-up.

Conclusions—
Users of atypical antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and depressed people without any antidepressant exposure all displayed markers of cerebral small vessel disease higher than the nondepressed/nonuser group. The findings suggest that cerebral small vessel disease is associated with depression and exposure to antidepressants.
Silvia’s Stag on the Tiber
Authors: Vuković Krešimir 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Much has been written on the various aspects of casus belli in Aeneid 7, but the setting of the episode (in which Ascanius shoots a stag with great horns) remains unclear. This paper proposes a new reading of this crucial juncture by situating it on the river Tiber and contextualizing the fluvial setting within the wider structure of books 7-9. The role of the Tiber is significant because the Italian landscape is a major theme in the second half of the epic and the Tiber features in several key episodes, e.g. Tiberinus appears to Aeneas and directs him to the site of Rome. The history of the river is tied up with the larger history of early Latium. The river shares many affinities with the stag in terms of legal status, visual representation, and mythic significance.
The Ancient Sublime(s). A Review of The Sublime in Antiquity
Authors: de Jonge Casper C. 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The sublime plays an important role in recent publications on Greek and Latin literature. On the one hand, scholars try to make sense of ancient Greek theories of the sublime, both in Longinus’ On the Sublime and in other rhetorical texts. On the other hand, the sublime, in its ancient and modern manifestations presented by thinkers from Longinus to Burke, Kant and Lyotard, has proved to be a productive tool for interpreting the works of Latin poets like Lucretius, Lucan and Seneca. But what is the sublime? And how does the Greek rhetorical sublime in Longinus relate to the Roman literary sublime in Lucretius and other poets? This article reviews James I. Porter, The Sublime in Antiquity: it evaluates Porter’s innovative approach to the ancient sublime, and considers the ways in which it might change our understanding of an important, but somewhat enigmatic concept.
Mermithid nematode (Nematoda: Mermithidae) parasites of a fossil black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Baltic amber
Authors: Poinar George O. , Currie Douglas C. 
Published: December 2019

Summary
A new species of fossil mermithid, Heydenius simulphilus sp. n. (Nematoda: Mermithidae), is described from two parasitic juvenile specimens adjacent to a male black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Baltic amber. It is proposed that the nematodes emerged from their developmental sites in the haemocoel of the black fly host through a wound in the abdomen of the latter, as indicated by the release of a droplet of haemolymph and damaged cuticle. Various internal structures of the nematodes are identified and related to those found on extant developing mermithids. This is the first fossil record of mermithid parasitism of a black fly.
The root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, profoundly affects the production of popular biofortified cassava cultivars
Authors: Akinsanya Aminat Korede , Afolami Steve Olaoluwa , Kulakow Peter , Coyne Danny 
Published: December 2019

Summary
Despite being the single largest cassava-producing country, yields in Nigeria remain consistently poor and among the lowest. Regionally, yields are also particularly low across Africa. Pests and pathogens, including plant-parasitic nematodes, play an important role in this current yield deficit. African countries are not only faced with the problem of food security but also that of nutritional deficiency, due to limited micronutrients in the diet. In this study, six biofortified cultivars were evaluated for their response to inoculation with approximately 30 000 root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) eggs in 30 l pots in Nigeria. All cassava cultivars proved highly susceptible to M. incognita infection after 6 months, with nematode reproduction factor ranging from 7.0 to 44.8. Galling was common on feeder roots and gall index scores were recorded between 4 to 5 (on a scale of 1-5 where 5 ⩽ 100 galls). Meloidogyne incognita infection significantly reduced plant height, stem girth, fresh plant mass, fresh storage root number and storage root weight. Percentage yield loss of between 41.8-88.4% was recorded in M. incognita-infected plants compared with non-infected controls. Although M. incognita reduced storage root weight, it did not necessarily affect the nutritional quality (total carotenoid) or dry weight percentage of the biofortified cassava cultivars. Total carotenoid and dry weight contents of the control cultivar were similar to some of the biofortified cultivars. The high susceptibility of the biofortified cassava cultivars to M. incognita infection indicates that substantial yield losses are likely being experienced by farmers, as this nematode pest is prevalent across sub-Saharan Africa and the tropics.
Language mixing in Palasa
Authors: Joseph Brian D. , Ndoci Rexhina , Dickerson Carly 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
We explore here several kinds of language mixing to be found in the Greek-Albanian bilingual speech community of the village of Palasa in southern Albania. Palasa is of particular interest for Greek dialect studies because it offers a window in the present day into highly localized dynamics of language contact. Among the mixing observed in Palasa is code-switching, motivated by various factors as identified by Myslín & Levy 2015, borrowing, both lexical and structural, and hybridization, at a number of levels of analysis, including phonology, morphology, and semantics. Our findings indicate that language contact is still alive and well in the Balkans at least at the level of village dialects.
Form and function of clausal particles in the Linear B documents from Pylos
Authors: Salgarella Ester 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
This paper sets out to explore an idiosyncratic linguistic feature only attested on a number of Linear B documents from Pylos, namely the occurrence of sequences of particles in clause-initial, and sometimes also tablet-initial, position. These sequences are o-a2, o-da-a2 and o-de-qa-a2. In this paper, a contextual analysis of the form and function of these sequences will be carried out in order to arrive at a plausible, and convincing, interpretation of their usage. The examination of their occurrences is conducted by placing the usage of these sequences of particles within the backdrop of recording procedures of the Mycenaean palatial administration.
Metal Jewellery in the Context of a Sanctuary: Interpretation Potential
Authors: Lysenko Aleksandr V. , Mordvintseva Valentina I. 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Metal jewellery used as votive offerings is discovered at the “barbarian” mountain sanctuary of Eklizi-Burun (the Crimea) and dating from the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD. Most of these items were probably part of female costume known from funerary contexts in the Central Crimea, which differ both regarding their location (in the Crimean Foothills and on the South-Coast), as well as the specific features of the burial rite (“cremation” vs. “inhumation”). A small part of the jewellery is characteristic only for the cemeteries in the South-Coast area containing burials with remains of cremation.
An analysis of the cultural environment, in which the jewellery items deposited in the Eklizi-Burun sanctuary of the Roman period were produced and used, suggests that its worshippers came from communities living on the southern macro-slope of the main ridge of the Crimean Mountains and practised cremation of the dead. Apparently, these people appeared in the Graeco-Roman narrative tradition and local epigraphic documents of the Roman period as “Tauri”, “Scythian-Tauri”, and “Tauro-Scythians” inhabiting “Taurica”. They are presumed to have appeared in the Crimean Mountains in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC (migrating from areas with archaeological cultures influenced by the La Tène culture?) and to have maintained their cultural identity until the beginning of the 5th century AD.
Leveraging Africa’s Global Diasporas for the Continent’s Development
Authors: Zeleza Paul Tiyambe 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
In this paper I seek to share some of the insights I have gained from my studies on the African diaspora over the past two decades. It begins by mapping out some of the analytical framings of African Diaspora Studies, with particular reference to the spatial scope and temporal dimensions of the African diaspora. This is followed by an examination of the multiple and multi-layered contributions that African diasporas have made and continue to make to African societies and countries. The paper analyses some of the challenges that undermine more productive engagements between the diasporas and their countries or regions of origin. The paper concludes by focusing an academic initiatives that aim to strengthen the project of engaging African diasporas for Africa’s sustainable development, namely, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.
The Social Network(s) of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Treasurers: Rehuerdjersen, Siese, Ikhernefret and Senebsumai
Authors: Stefanović Danijela 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Studies on the ancient Egyptian administrative system(s) are usually based on analysis of the institutions and officials attached to them. The present paper focuses on the social settings of the four Middle Kingdom / Second Intermediate Period highest ranking officials, i.e., treasurers. Starting with the traditional methodological approach, which focuses on collecting the prosopographic data, this paper further addresses the implementation of Social Network Analysis (SNA) tools for analyzing the obtained material. SNA is used to study people, or groups of people (nodes), linked together through social interaction, and relations or links between them (edges). SNA exemplifies various types of interaction through networks and analyzes them. By applying SNA methodology for studying the networks of the selected treasurers, it is possible to reconstruct more precisely their social setting (both private and institutional) and interrelations, which complement the traditional approach, but also provide new possibilities for research into ancient Egyptian administration.
“Borderland Translation”
Authors: Xie Miya Qiong 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
This paper explores the complexity of translation of borderland literature through a case study of the Japanese and Chinese translations of the Korean short story “The Red Hill.” Written by the renowned Korean writer Kim Tong-in (김동인, 1900–1951) in 1932, this story features the Korean agrarian community in the Northeast Asian borderland of Manchuria and is conventionally considered a masterpiece of Korean national literature. When it was translated into Japanese and Chinese and anthologized in inland Japan and the Japanese Manchukuo respectively, the three texts of the same story in three languages conveyed different and contradictory national/imperial claims over Manchuria, a Northeast Asian frontier. This case study demonstrates how the very act of translating and anthologizing, as a process of linguistic transposition across cultural and national constituencies, may crystallize the sense of territorial competition through revealing, reshuffling, and redefining the covert intricacy of national relations in the original text.
Narrative Fictions on State-Terrorism and Trauma: Re-reading Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel and John Nkemngong Nkengasong’s Across the Mongolo
Authors: Zuhmboshi Eric Nsuh 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The relationship that exists between the state and her citizens has been described by Jean Jacques Rousseau as “a social contract.” In this contractual agreement, citizens are bound to respect state authority while the state, in turn, has the bounden duty to protect her citizens and guide them in their aspirations. In fact, any state that does not perform this duty is guilty of violating the fundamental rights of her citizens. This, however, is not the case in most postcolonial societies where the citizens see the state as an aggressive apparatus against their wellbeing because the state is not fulfilling its own part of the social contract, which requires them to protect the citizens and guide them in their aspirations. This unfortunate situation has laid the foundation for protest and anti-establishment writings in post-colonial societies – especially in Africa. Since literature, as a semiotic resource, is coterminous with its socio-political context, this attitude of the state has drawn inimical criticism from key postcolonial African writers such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Mongo Beti, and Nadine Gordimer. Using Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel and John Nkemngong Nkengasong’s Across the Mongolo, this essay shows the relationship between state-terrorism and the traumatic conditions of the citizens in contemporary Africa. From the perspective of trauma theory, the essay defends the premise that the postcolonial subjects/characters, in the novels under study, are traumatized and depressed because of their continuous victimization by the state. Due to this state-imposed terror and hardship, the citizens are forced to indulge in political agitation, radicalism and violence in response to their destitute and impoverished conditions.
‫”تغيير الخلق“ وأحكام التصرف بالبدن: دراسة نقدية في أقوال المفسرين والفقهاء‬
Authors: حللي عبد الرحمن 
Published: December 2019

الخلاصة
“تغيير الخلق” تعبير مشهور في النصوص الإسلامية، وأصبح دليلاً نصياً في الاجتهادات الفقهية والفتاوى المعاصرة المتعلقة بالتدخل الجراحي أو الجيني في جسم الإنسان. فما الذي يعنيه هذا التعبير؟ وهل يصح الاستدلال به على حظر التصرف بالبدن؟ وكيف فهم المفسرون والفقهاء معناه؟ تجيب هذه الدراسة على هذه الأسئلة معتمدة المنهج التاريخي في تتبع فهم النصوص ذات الصلة، كما ترصد محاولات الفقهاء ضبط معنى “تغيير الخلق” أو تعليله دينياً أو أخلاقياً، وتقدم فهماً جديداً لمعنى “تغيير الخلق” اعتماداً على السياق ومقارنة النصوص، وتخلص إلى أنه لا ارتباط بين ”تغيير الخلق” كتصرف في الجسد وبين الذم المرتبط به، وأن التغيير في شكل المخلوق ليس موضوع ذم لذاته، ولا يصلح علة لإطلاق الأحكام‫.‬
Gender Equality in the Inheritance Debate in Tunisia and the Formation of Non-Authoritarian Reasoning
Authors: Hanafi Sari , Tomeh Azzam 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
This article discusses the debate on gender-equal inheritance in Tunisia. In it, Maeve Cooke’s conception of authoritarian versus non-authoritarian practical reasoning is applied to see whether binaries, like religious versus secular, are existent in the public debate on equal inheritance in Tunisia. The mapping of the debate shows the existence of three sets of arguments: jurisprudential/textual, sociological, and legal. Proponents of equal inheritance base their arguments primarily on legal, then sociological, then textual grounds, whereas law opponents base their arguments on textual, then legal, then sociological grounds. The weakness of the sociological arguments of law opponents is evident when stating that a gendered division of labor within the family still exists without providing statistics or empirical evidence to back up that claim. Through shared categories and grounds, the discussions in Tunisia share a common language in the public sphere, allowing for the reduction of authoritarian tendencies and longstanding polarization through public deliberation.
Rossby Wave Propagation from the Arctic into the Midlatitudes: Does It Arise from In Situ Latent Heating or a Trans-Arctic Wave Train?
Authors: Gong Tingting , Feldstein Steven B. , Lee Sukyoung 
Published: December 2019

AbstractThe relationship between latent heating over the Greenland, Barents, and Kara Seas (GBKS hereafter) and Rossby wave propagation between the Arctic and midlatitudes is investigated using global reanalysis data. Latent heating is the focus because it is the most likely source of Rossby wave activity over the Arctic Ocean. Given that the Rossby wave time scale is on the order of several days, the analysis is carried out using a daily latent heating index that resembles the interdecadal latent heating trend during the winter season. The results from regression calculations find a trans-Arctic Rossby wave train that propagates from the subtropics, through the midlatitudes, into the Arctic, and then back into midlatitudes over a period of about 10 days. Upon entering the GBKS, this wave train transports moisture into the region, resulting in anomalous latent heat release. At high latitudes, the overlapping of a negative latent heating anomaly with an anomalous high is consistent with anomalous latent heat release fueling the Rossby wave train before it propagates back into the midlatitudes. This implies that the Rossby wave propagation from the Arctic into the midlatitudes arises from trans-Arctic wave propagation rather than from in situ generation. The method used indicates the variance of the trans-Arctic wave train, but not in situ generation, and implies that the variance of the former is greater than that of latter. Furthermore, GBKS sea ice concentration regression against the latent heating index shows the largest negative value six days afterward, indicating that sea ice loss contributes little to the latent heating.
Could the North Pacific Oscillation Be Modified by the Initiation of the East Asian Winter Monsoon?
Authors: Tseng Yu-heng , Ding Ruiqiang , Zhao Sen , Kuo Yi-chun , Liang Yu-chiao 
Published: December 2019

AbstractThis study investigates the modulation of North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) variability upon initiation of the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM). The data show that the initiation of EAWM in the Philippine Sea strongly connects to the southern lobe variability of the NPO in January followed by a basin-scale oceanic Victoria mode pattern. No apparent connection was found for the northern lobe of the NPO when the ENSO signals are removed. The strengthening of the EAWM in November interacts with the Kuroshio front and generates a low-level heating source in the Philippine Sea. Significant Rossby wave sources are then formed in the lower to midtroposphere. Wave ray tracing analyses confirm the atmospheric teleconnection established by the Rossby wave propagation in the mid- to upper troposphere. Analyses of the origin of wave trajectories from the Philippine Sea show a clear eastward propagating pathway that affects the southern lobe of the NPO from the southern lobe of the western Pacific pattern at 500 hPa and above on the time scale of 20 days. No ray trajectories from the lower troposphere can propagate eastward to influence the central-eastern subtropical Pacific. The wave propagation process is further supported by the coupled model experiments.