bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Improving sampling and calibration of GRBs as distance indicators
Authors: Montiel Ariadna , Cabrera J I , Hidalgo Juan Carlos 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
We present a sample of 74 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) from the Fermi-GBM catalogue for which we compute the distance moduli and use them to constrain effective dark energy models. To overcome the circularity problem affecting GRBs as distance indicators, we calibrate the Amati relation of our sample with a cosmology-independent technique. Specifically, we use the latest observational Hubble parameter data, including associated systematics, to approximate the cosmic expansion through a Bezier parametric curve. We subsequently obtain the distance moduli of the GRBs and include the data in a suite of recent cosmological observations of the expansion history (Planck Compressed 2018, 2012 BOSS release of BAO data and Pantheon SNIa), to compute Bayesian posterior constraints for the standard cosmological model ΛCDM, as well as ωCDM, and the CPL parametrization. Throughout the analysis we strive to keep under control the error propagation and limit our GRBs sample to avoid observational bias. As a result, we find no evidence in favour of the alternatives to ΛCDM model. The latter agrees very well with our calibrated sample of GRBs and presently available luminosity distance probes.
Cross-correlation of Planck CMB lensing with DESI-like LRGs
Authors: Kitanidis Ellie , White Martin 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT
Cross-correlations between the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and other tracers of large-scale structure provide a unique way to reconstruct the growth of dark matter, break degeneracies between cosmology and galaxy physics, and test theories of modified gravity. We detect a cross-correlation between Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)-like luminous red galaxies (LRGs) selected from DECam Legacy Survey imaging and CMB lensing maps reconstructed with the Planck satellite at a significance of S/N = 27.2 over scales ℓmin = 30, ℓmax = 1000. To correct for magnification bias, we determine the slope of the LRG cumulative magnitude function at the faint limit as s = 0.999 ± 0.015, and find corresponding corrections of the order of a few per cent for $C^{\kappa g}_{\ell }, C^{gg}_{\ell }$ across the scales of interest. We fit the large-scale galaxy bias at the effective redshift of the cross-correlation zeff ≈ 0.68 using two different bias evolution agnostic models: a HaloFit times linear bias model where the bias evolution is folded into the clustering-based estimation of the redshift kernel, and a Lagrangian perturbation theory model of the clustering evaluated at zeff. We also determine the error on the bias from uncertainty in the redshift distribution; within this error, the two methods show excellent agreement with each other and with DESI survey expectations.
Identification of diverse tumor endothelial cell populations in malignant glioma
Authors: Carlson Jeff C , Cantu Gutierrez Manuel , Lozzi Brittney , Huang-Hobbs Emmet , Turner Williamson D , Tepe Burak , Zhang Yiqun , Herman Alexander M , Rao Ganesh , Creighton Chad J , Wythe Joshua D , Deneen Benjamin 
Published: December 2020

AbstractBackgroundGlioblastoma is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor, as most patients succumb to the disease less than two years after diagnosis. Critically, studies demonstrate that glioma recruits surrounding blood vessels, while some work suggests that tumor stem cells themselves directly differentiate into endothelial cells, yet the molecular and cellular dynamics of the endothelium in glioma are poorly characterized. The goal of this study was to establish molecular and morphological benchmarks for tumor associated vessels (TAVs) and tumor derived endothelial cells (TDECs) during glioblastoma progression.MethodsUsing In-Utero Electroporation and CRISPR/Cas9 genome engineering to generate a native, immunocompetent mouse model of glioma, we characterized vascular-tumor dynamics in three dimensions during tumor progression. We employed bulk and single-cell RNA-Sequencing to elucidate the relationship between TAVs and TDECs. We confirmed our findings in a patient derived orthotopic xenograft (PDOX) model.ResultsUsing a mouse model of glioma, we identified progressive alteration of vessel function and morphogenesis over time. We also showed in our mouse model that TDECs are a rare subpopulation that contributes to vessels within the tumor, albeit to a limited degree. Furthermore, transcriptional profiling demonstrates that both TAVs and TDECs are molecularly distinct, and both populations feature extensive molecular heterogeneity. Finally, the distinct molecular signatures of these heterogeneous populations are also present in human glioma.ConclusionsOur findings show extensive endothelial heterogeneity within the tumor and tumor microenvironment and provide insights into the diverse cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive glioma vascularization and angiogenesis during tumorigenesis.
Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the Severson 7-Item Smokeless Tobacco Dependence Scale (SSTDS)
Authors: Mushtaq Nasir , Beebe Laura A 
Published: December 2020

Abstract

Introduction
The objective of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Severson 7-item Smokeless Tobacco Dependence Scale (SSTDS).

Methods
Data from 95 male exclusive smokeless tobacco (ST) users were obtained through a self-administered mail survey to evaluate the reliability and validity of the SSTDS. Reliability of the scale was assessed by measures of internal consistency including Cronbach’s coefficient alpha and item-total correlation. Other ST dependence scales and salivary cotinine concentration were used to evaluate concurrent validity. Structure model of the scale was ascertained by exploratory factor analysis. Overall accuracy and optimal cutoff score were obtained to evaluate SSTDS as a screening tool for ST dependence.

Results
The SSTDS had high reliability as assessed by the internal consistency coefficient (ordinal α = 0.83). SSTDS total score was significantly correlated with Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence for ST users—FTND-ST (r = 0.42) and modified Tobacco Dependence Screener—TDS (r = 0.58). Exploratory factor analysis of the SSTDS identified two underlying factors measuring distinct dimensions of dependence. With reference to TDS based dependence diagnosis, SSTDS demonstrated good diagnostic accuracy (area under the curve: 0.82, 95% confidence interval: 0.74–0.90). Salivary cotinine concentration was not associated with the total score of the SSTDS; however, at an optimal cutoff score of SSTDS &gt;9, everyday ST users classified as dependent had significantly higher cotinine concentration.

Conclusions
SSTDS is a reliable measure of dependence that has higher concurrent validity and reliability as compared with other commonly used ST dependence scales. Further research is needed using a larger and more diverse sample of ST users to unequivocally establish the validity of the scale.

Implications
ST dependence has multiple aspects that can be best studied by multidimensional dependence scales. The study findings validate that the SSTDS measures not only the physical dependence but also the behavioral and psychological dimensions of dependence. Good psychometric properties, diagnostic accuracy, and multidimensional structure of SSTDS indicate that it may serve as an effective tool in assessing ST dependence in clinical and research settings.
A Comparison of the Smoking Outcomes of Self-reported and Agency-Notified Child Abuse in a Population-Based Birth Cohort at 30-Year-Old Follow-up
Authors: Kisely Steve , Strathearn Lane , Najman Jake Moses 
Published: December 2020

Abstract

Introduction
Retrospective studies show a strong association between self-reported child abuse and subsequent tobacco use. Prospective studies using reports to statutory agencies are less common with limited information on people in their 30s. In addition, there have been no comparisons of the effect of self- and agency-reported abuse on smoking. We therefore assessed the effect on the prevalence and persistence of smoking at the 30-year-old follow-up of prospective agency notifications of child abuse compared to retrospective self-reports of maltreatment in the same birth cohort.

Methods
There were 2443 young adults with data on smoking and child abuse at 30-year-old follow-up. Information on self-reported abuse was collected using the Child Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and linked to notifications of child maltreatment to statutory agencies.

Results
The prevalence of self- and agency-reported maltreatment was 600 (24.7%) and 142 (5.8%), respectively. At follow-up, 565 participants smoked (23.1%) but only 91 (3.8%) smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day. Of the 206 participants who smoked at 14 years, 101 were still smoking at follow-up. On adjusted analyses, both self- and agency-reported maltreatment showed a significant association with the prevalence and persistence of smoking from 14 years old. However, associations were weaker for some of the agency-notified child maltreatment subtypes possibly because of lower numbers.

Conclusions
Child maltreatment is associated with both an increased prevalence and persistence of smoking at 30-year-old follow-up irrespective of reporting source. This is despite self- and agency-reported maltreatment possibly representing different populations. Smoking cessation programs should therefore target both groups.

Implications
Retrospective studies show an association between self-reported child abuse and subsequent tobacco use. Prospective studies of reports to statutory agencies are less common with limited information on people in their 30s. In addition, there have been no comparisons of self- and agency-reported abuse on smoking outcomes even though they may represent different populations. We therefore compared the effect of both on smoking outcomes at 30-year-old follow-up of 2443 adults from the same birth cohort. On adjusted analyses, both self- and agency-reported maltreatment showed significant associations with the prevalence and persistence of smoking. Smoking prevention and cessation programs should therefore target both groups.
The Varieties of Symphonia and the State–Church Relations in Russia
Authors: Antonov Mikhail 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
Symphony as a legal concept was formulated in Late Antiquity by Justinian I, a famous Byzantine Emperor, in his Novella 6 of 535 C.E., and it is readily utilized by the post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church as the model of ideal church-state relations even at present. The question we ask in this article is if this model, in the manner it was laid down in the policy documents of the Russian Orthodox Church, is compatible (and, if so, to what extend) with the principle of the rule of secular law. This problem will be analyzed in the present paper on the example of the Church’s attitude toward the constitutional principle of secularity and separation of state and church. In Russia, this principle from Article 14 of the Constitution in fact collides with the church-supported tradition of their “harmonious cooperation” which is called “symphony of powers.”
Introduction: Seleucid literature on the Hellenistic stage
Authors: Visscher Marijn S. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The Introduction set the scene with Cavafy’s Fame of the Ptolemies, in which a boastful Ptolemaic king singles out his Seleucid neighbour as his biggest rival. This rivalry is at the heart of this book: Beyond Alexandria sets out to show how much the literary production of these two empires influenced each other. In order to achieve, the key point that this book puts forward is that a connected body of Seleucid literature existed and that this term is a meaningful, interpretative concept. After setting out the main goals of this book, the Introduction briefly discusses the scholarship that has provided the foundation for the arguments set out in the chapters. In addition, it outlines the chronological framework underlying the texts and authors discussed in this book. In the second part of the Introduction, two key concepts used in this book are discussed in more depth: the concept of royal ideology and the definition of literature in general.
Mapping the Realm
Authors: Visscher Marijn S. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The chapter considers the geographical literature of early Seleucid writers. It is argued that the first generation of Seleucid geographers appropriated the eastern regions of the Seleucid Empire with their works, often prioritizing useful political narratives over geographical accuracy. As literature, these works seem inexorably linked to the ambition of the early Seleucid court, especially its desire to assert its dominance over vast and previously unchartered territories. Patrocles, for instance, wrote a description of the coastal regions of the Caspian Sea and the Asian river system, parts of which appear to be pure invention. However, his puzzling claims evoked the image of a world empire stretching as far as the edge of the Ocean, bolstering the prestige of the Seleucids. Another work on the north-eastern regions of the empire, by Demodamas, establishes an image of transcendental rule, an image which he anchors in a specifically Hellenistic view of the succession of empires. Thirdly, Megasthenes used his Indica to convey the idea of imperial domination through knowledge, expressed in a colonial key and backed up by targeted cultural reimaginations and precise measurements. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the challenge to Seleucid geography from Alexandria in the form of Eratosthenes, who overturned the Seleucid knowledge of Asia and India while reflecting a distinctly Ptolemaic view of the world.
Babylon, City of Kings
Authors: Visscher Marijn S. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The chapter aims to demonstrate that Seleucid writings from and about Babylon provide insight into the ways in which literature was used to construct and reflect practices of empire. The literature dealing with Babylonia is of special significance because of the important ideological position Babylon held in the Seleucid imagination. To unpack this point further, the chapter analyses the Borsippa Cylinder as Seleucid literature, by arguing that King Antiochus I combined motifs from Mesopotamian kingship and Hellenistic royal practices to create a narrative of Seleucid euergetism embedded in, rather than superimposed upon, Babylonian traditions of kingship. The second part of the chapter argues that the Babylonian elites reciprocated the king’s offer of benefaction by offering him the tradition of Babylonian kingship, and by extension, universal dominion. The chapter concludes by looking at Ptolemaic attempts to match Seleucid prowess in the field of indigenous history. It is argued that, just as Seleucid Berossus had responded to the Ptolemaic Hecataeus, Manetho provided a Ptolemaic-Egyptian version of history to match the history of Babylon by Berossus.
The Lock of Berenice
Authors: Visscher Marijn S. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The third chapter discusses a moment of profound crisis in Seleucid history: the dynastic strife between the two wives of Antiochus II resulting in the Third Syrian War. It argues that Callimachus’ Lock of Berenice can be read as a poetic commentary on a key moment of crisis for the Seleucid Empire, in that it subtly contrasts the failure of a Seleucid dynastic marriage with the success of the Ptolemaic royal couple, which is placed in an unbroken tradition that reaches back via Arsinoe II and Ptolemy II to Berenice I and Ptolemy I. In the second part of the chapter, it is argued that Callimachus exploits Ptolemaic royal propaganda to cast the Seleucids as the heirs of the Persians and other Eastern empires, rather than a Greek kingdom. The final part of the chapter draws out the broader poetic implications of anti-Seleucid polemic by looking at the Aetia and the Hymn to Apollo.
A Distant Part of Asia
Authors: Patey Luke 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
For many of its Asian neighbors, China aspires to renew its historical role as regional hegemon. Beijing’s consistent attempts of economic coercion to shape the foreign and defense policy decision-making of its neighbors have pushed Asia’s middle powers to develop new security partnerships. As the respective wealthiest and the largest democracies, and the second and third largest economies in Asia, Japan and India stand out as a potential counterbalance to China’s assertiveness. South Korea and Australia are also reacting to pressures from China and looking to diversify their trade and investment and deepen regional cooperation in the face of Chinese pressure. China’s militarization of strategic waterways in the South China Sea over the past decade also kicked off a new period of hedging and balancing in Southeast Asia for the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and others. Beijing’s political rhetoric has heightened fears that war across the Taiwan Strait, and over the East China and South China Seas, is on the near horizon. But the rest of Asia is not standing still.
The Etherized Wife
Authors: Margolin Leslie 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The Etherized Wife provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of sex therapy through the prism of gender. The book makes the argument that in sex therapy, like other domains of life in which men set the standard of normality, women have been judged normal to the degree they match men’s expectations. What is particularly striking about this bias is that it contradicts therapists’ overt identification with feminism and the battle against women’s inequality. To support these claims, Leslie Margolin maps a series of case studies drawn from the discipline’s own literature—the articles and books that have been, and continue to be, treated as exemplars of the discipline’s collective consciousness. Through examination of case studies that focus on discrepancies in sexual desire, where the man wants more sex and the woman less, the book shows how therapists have favored the man’s side. The Etherized Wife shows how the sex therapy discipline has unintentionally enshrined male sexuality as the model of normal, healthy sexuality.
Introduction
Authors: Margolin Leslie 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The introduction outlines the book’s main goal, which is to describe how, during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, physicians, psychologists, social workers, sexologists, and counselors came to advocate heterosexual intercourse as the norm for both men and women without overtly acknowledging the effects of that advocacy: the legitimation of male sexuality and male supremacy. The author argues that sex therapy has been, and continues to be, based on a series of pro-male, anti-female assumptions and sustained through practices that treat those assumptions as true. The introduction describes how the research began, how the book is organized, and the kinds of materials and methodologies used to support the observations and conclusions.
Docile Bodies
Authors: Margolin Leslie 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
“Docile Bodies” focuses on behavioral sex therapists who were contemporaries of Masters and Johnson, including Joseph Wolpe, Arnold A. Lazarus, William Hartman, and Marilyn Fithian. This chapter shows how they valued intercourse for women partnered with men, much as Masters and Johnson did, not for what it means to women, but as a behavior that is intrinsically natural and healthful. This chapter shows that for Masters and Johnson’s contemporaries, intercourse was not only mandatory for heterosexuals; it was the unstated, unrecognized foundation of sexuality and sex therapy. Topics covered include systematic desensitization, typical hierarchies of sex scenes, and when sex therapists prescribe intercourse.
Discontinuities, Deviations, and Reversals
Authors: Margolin Leslie 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
This chapter discusses case studies where, in the name of treating a woman’s sexual disinterest/resistance, she is not etherized, overpowered, or pressured. Instead, she is taught how to become more attuned to her own feelings, to her own “authentic self.” In this chapter, we see how power in sex therapy sometimes operates more like a velvet glove than a mailed fist. We see how sex therapists sometimes operate with the understanding that a sexually disinterested woman may desire sex more if she feels she has the power to refuse. Thus conceived, sex therapy sometimes appears to support a woman’s autonomy and empowerment, yet, paradoxically, the normal conclusion of these cases is that the sexually disinterested/resistant woman becomes less resistant and more sexually compliant.
US and Indian Policies in Direct Conflict, Part I
Authors: Frankel Francine R. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The US policy of collective security against the Soviet Union led to the pursuit of the Middle East Defense Organization, which was undermined by Nehru’s success in persuading Egypt to follow his example of remaining nonaligned. Nehru failed, however, to prevent the 1954 Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement between the United States and Pakistan, which tilted the balance of power in the subcontinent away from India—although Mountbatten weighed in to provide advanced British aircraft and averted an incipient deal between New Delhi and Moscow. Subsequently, Nehru was confirmed in his belief that the United States was determined to build up Pakistan and build- down India.
André Bazin's Film Theory
Authors: Dalle Vacche Angela 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The best way to understand Bazin’s film theory is to pay attention to art, science, and religion, since spectatorship depends on perception, cognition, and hallucination. By arguing that this dissident Catholic’s worldview is anti-anthropocentric, Angela Dalle Vacche concludes that cinema recapitulates the history of evolution and technology inside our consciousness, so that we may better understand how we overlap with, but also differ from, animals, plants, objects, and machines. Whereas in “Art,” the author explains the difference between painting as a static object and the moving image as an event unfolding in time, in “Science,” she discusses Bazin’s dislike of classical geometry and Platonic algebra, his fascination with biology and modern calculus to underline his holistic Darwinism, and his anti-Euclidean mathematics of motion and contingency. Comparable to a religious practice, Bazin’s cinema is the only collective ritual of the twentieth century capable of fostering an emotional community by calling on critical self-interrogation and ethical awareness. Especially keen on Italian neorealism, Bazin argues that this sensibility thrives on beings and things displacing themselves in such a way as to turn the Other into a Neighbor. Bazin’s film theory acknowledges the equalizing impact of the camera lens, which is analogous to, but also different from, the human eye. In the cinema, two different kinds of eyes coexist: one is mechanical and objective, the other is human and subjective. By refusing to reshape the world according to an a priori thesis, Bazin’s idea of an anti-anthropocentric cinema seeks surprise, dialogue, risk, and experiment.