bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Acceptability and feasibility of using actigraphy to assess habitual physical activity and sleep parameters in men and women living in rural communities in conflict-affected Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Authors: Wood Lisa J. , Christian Mervyn , Perrin Nancy , Backikenge Mirindi Alfred , Heri Banywesize Jean , Murhula Mitima Clovis , Kajabika Binkurhorwa Arsene , Mitima Ntqali Eric , Ntakwinja Mushengezi Gisele , Mpanano Remy Mitima , Glass Nancy 
Published: November 2020

AbstractBackgroundThe goals of this study were to (1) determine the feasibility and acceptability of using actigraphy to objectively measure sleep quality and habitual physical activity in rural Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and (2) examine the relationship between sleep parameters, self-report symptoms, daytime physical activity, and physical function, including the ability to work.MethodThirty individuals were asked to wear a wrist-worn accelerometer for 5 nights and 4 days. Nighttime sleep parameters derived were average and intra-individual variability (IIV) in total sleep time (TST), sleep onset latency (SOL), sleep efficiency (SE), and wake after sleep onset (WASO). Daytime habitual physical data derived were average and peak activity and daytime napping.ResultsNinety-three percent (n= 28) of participants completed the study. All participants who wore the device marked sleep and wake cycles and periods of non-wear using the marker. Trauma-related symptoms were not associated with mean or IIV in TST, SE, SOL, or WASO (p> 0.01). Those with higher levels of bodily pain slept longer (β= 0.633,p= 0.003, adjustedR2= 0.279), were more likely to report that their physical health limited their physical activities (β= 0.71,p< 0.001, adjustedR2= 0.679) and had greater difficulty doing daily work (β= 0.84,p= 0.001, adjustedR2= 0.665).ConclusionThe use of actigraphy to collect objective measures of activity and sleep quality in rural post-conflict settings is feasible and acceptable. Our preliminary findings suggest that bodily pain and not trauma-related symptoms have a significant impact on sleep and functional outcomes in men and women survivors of prolonged conflict in the DRC.
Eastern Andalusian Spanish
Authors: de Haro Alfredo Herrero , Hajek John 
Published: November 2020

Eastern Andalusian Spanish (henceforth EAS), is spoken in the east of Andalusia, the southernmost autonomous region of Spain. EAS is most similar to Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS) and to Murcian Spanish, the latter spoken in the autonomous region of Murcia, immediately to the east of Andalusia, and it shares some phonetic traits with EAS, such as vowel lowering. Geographically, Eastern Andalusia includes the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén and Málaga, although the precise linguistic delimitation of this area is somewhat more complicated (Figure 1). The main criterion to differentiate EAS from WAS is the lowering or opening of vowels preceding underlying /s/ (Villena Ponsoda 2000). More detailed information on the differences between EAS and WAS can be found in Jiménez Fernández (1999), Villena Ponsoda (2000), Moya Corral (2010) and Valeš (2014). According to Alvar, Llorente & Salvador (1973: map 1696), Cádiz and Huelva in the west are the only Andalusian provinces where vowel lowering before underlying /s/ is not found. As the geographical extent of this phenomenon is widely debated, it is difficult to calculate the precise number of speakers of EAS, but we can assert that this geolect is the native variety of Spanish of approximately 2,800,000 speakers if we take into account the figures from the last census of Andalusia in 2011 (Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía 2011).
Natural language processing for similar languages, varieties, and dialects: A survey
Authors: Zampieri Marcos , Nakov Preslav , Scherrer Yves 
Published: November 2020

AbstractThere has been a lot of recent interest in the natural language processing (NLP) community in the computational processing of language varieties and dialects, with the aim to improve the performance of applications such as machine translation, speech recognition, and dialogue systems. Here, we attempt to survey this growing field of research, with focus on computational methods for processing similar languages, varieties, and dialects. In particular, we discuss the most important challenges when dealing with diatopic language variation, and we present some of the available datasets, the process of data collection, and the most common data collection strategies used to compile datasets for similar languages, varieties, and dialects. We further present a number of studies on computational methods developed and/or adapted for preprocessing, normalization, part-of-speech tagging, and parsing similar languages, language varieties, and dialects. Finally, we discuss relevant applications such as language and dialect identification and machine translation for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.
Introduction: special issue on the environment, resources and pollution – new challenges for economic development
Authors: Martínez-Zarzoso Inma , Oberst Christian , Turcu Camélia 
Published: November 2020

AbstractThis special issue contains a selection of six articles in the field of environmental and resource economics, which were presented in INFER workshops and supported events over the last two years. The topics include the effects of income inequality and freedom of the press on environmental stringency; the trade-environment nexus in China; the behavior of cross-country growth rates with respect to resource abundance and dependence; a stochastic frontier analysis to show that technological change is biased more towards energy rather than labor; how recycling and environmental taxes can affect the imbalances between the availability of and the demand for rare earth elements; and the interaction between demographic features and environmental constraints in Caribbean small island developing states. The papers include three empirical contributions and three methodological approaches, which help to improve our understanding of these topics.
Effects of maternal periconceptional undernutrition in sheep on offspring glucose–insulin axis function into adulthood
Authors: Oliver Mark H. , Bloomfield Frank H. , Bansal Amita , Phua Hui Hui , Thorstensen Eric B. , Harding Jane E. , Jaquiery Anne L. 
Published: November 2020

AbstractMaternal periconceptional undernutrition (PCUN) affected fetal pancreatic maturation in late gestation lambs and impaired glucose tolerance in 10-month-old sheep. To examine the importance of the timing of maternal undernutrition around conception, a further cohort was born to PCUN ewes [undernourished for 61 d before conception (PreC), 30 d after conception (PostC), or 61 d before until 30 d after conception (PrePostC)], or normally fed ewes (Control) (n = 15–20/group). We compared glucose tolerance, insulin secretion, and sensitivity at 36 months of age. We also examined protein expression of insulin signalling proteins in muscle from these animals and in muscle from a fetal cohort (132 d of gestation; n = 7–10/group). Adult PostC and PrePostC sheep had higher glucose area under the curve than Controls (P = 0.07 and P = 0.02, respectively), whereas PreC sheep were similar to Controls (P = 0.97). PostC and PrePostC had reduced first-phase insulin secretion compared with Control (P = 0.03 and P = 0.02, respectively). PreC was similar to Control (P = 0.12). Skeletal muscle SLC2A4 protein expression in PostC and PrePostC was increased 19%–58% in fetuses (P = 0.004), but decreased 39%–43% in adult sheep (P = 0.003) compared with Controls. Consistent with this, protein kinase C zeta (PKCζ) protein expression tended to be increased in fetal (P = 0.09) and reduced in adult (P = 0.07) offspring of all PCUN ewes compared with Controls. Maternal PCUN alters several aspects of offspring glucose homeostasis into adulthood. These findings suggest that maternal periconceptional nutrition has a lasting impact on metabolic homeostasis of the offspring.
Relationship between Assumed Differential Socialization and Emotional Disorders in Women: A Form of Covert Social Violence
Authors: Vinagre-González Agustina María , Aparicio-García Marta Evelia , Alvarado Jesús M. 
Published: November 2020

AbstractWomen suffer different forms of violence, both explicit and covert, due to gender asymmetry. This study analyzes the relationship between the internalization of norms assigned to the female gender understood as a form of covert social violence and the presence of anxiety and depression. 286 women were evaluated with the Inventory of Concealed Social Violence (IVISEM) to measure the internalization of gender norms, the Inventory of Situations and Responses to Anxiety (ISRA), to measure anxiety, and the Three-Dimensional Depression Questionnaire (CTD) to measure depression. In addition, the possible influence of some variables such as maternity, age and marital status on the internalization of norms and on the presence of emotional alterations is discussed. The findings showed the relationship between IVISEM factors and the seven health indicators measured. Age appeared as a modulating variable in relation to cognitive anxiety and depression and marital status is related to all depression factors. The results show that women's internalization of gender norms can be understood as hidden social violence, since it was associated with high scores in anxiety and depression.
An Improbable Collaboration
Authors: Southwood David J. , Kivelson Margaret G. 
Published: November 2020

AbstractFifty years of collaboration between the authors are reviewed. Common themes cover magnetospheric magnetohydrodynamic phenomena: MHD waves, wave‐particle interactions, circulation, global modes and field line resonances in the terrestrial context, and magnetosphere‐moon interactions, transport processes, instabilities, and global structure in the magnetospheres of giant planets. Over the period reviewed, instrumentation has improved, particularly in particle detectors, and interpretations that seemed radical when first suggested are now supported by measurements and seem commonplace.
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Forecasting of the wind speed under uncertainty
Authors: Aslam Muhammad 
Published: November 2020

AbstractIn this paper, the semi-average method under neutrosophic statistics is introduced. The trend regression line for the semi-average method is given in the presence of Neutrosophy in the data. The application of the semi-average method under indeterminacy is given with the help of wind speed data. The efficiency of the semi-average method under the neutrosophic statistics is discussed over the semi-average method under classical statistics. From the analysis, it is concluded that the proposed method is effective, informative, and flexible for the forecasting of wind speed.
Acute pathophysiological myocardial changes following intra-cardiac electrical shocks using a proteomic approach in a sheep model
Authors: Bodin Alexandre , Labas Valérie , Bisson Arnaud , Teixeira-Gomes Ana-Paula , Blasco Hélène , Tomas Daniel , Combes-Soia Lucie , Marcelo Paulo , Miquelestorena-Standley Elodie , Baron Christophe , Angoulvant Denis , Babuty Dominique , Clementy Nicolas 
Published: November 2020

AbstractImplantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) are meant to fight life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias and reduce overall mortality. Ironically, life-saving shocks themselves have been shown to be independently associated with an increased mortality. We sought to identify myocardial changes at the protein level immediately after ICD electrical shocks using a proteomic approach. ICD were surgically implanted in 10 individuals of a healthy male sheep model: a control group (N = 5) without any shock delivery and a shock group (N = 5) with the delivery of 5 consecutive shocks at 41 J. Myocardial tissue samples were collected at the right-ventricle apex near to the lead coil and at the right ventricle basal free wall region. Global quantitative proteomics experiments on myocardial tissue samples were performed using mass spectrometry techniques. Proteome was significantly modified after electrical shock and several mechanisms were associated: protein, DNA and membrane damages due to extreme physical conditions induced by ICD-shock but also due to regulated cell death; metabolic remodeling; oxidative stress; calcium dysregulation; inflammation and fibrosis. These proteome modifications were seen in myocardium both “near” and “far” from electrical shock region. N-term acetylated troponin C was an interesting tissular biomarker, significantly decreased after electrical shock in the “far” region (AUC: 0.93). Our data support an acute shock-induced myocardial tissue injury which might be involved in acute paradoxical deleterious effects such as heart failure and ventricular arrhythmias.
A new technique for measurement of subrotational lifetime of molecular ions
Authors: Rajput Jyoti , Kumar Herendra , Bhatt Pragya , Safvan C. P. 
Published: November 2020

AbstractSingly and multiply charged molecular ions are found in diverse environments and hold relevance for a wide range of research areas like combustion chemistry, accelerator physics, atmospheric sciences, plasma physics, astrophysics etc. Molecular dications are of special significance as they can be generated and studied comparatively easily in laboratory experiments. And they have enabled exploration of new and exciting phenomenon such as hydrogen migration, inter-atomic Coulombic decay, plasmonic excitations, orbital tomography etc. The lifetime of a molecular dication is one of its fundamental characteristics, whose measurement contributes to strengthening ab initio calculations and in predicting the concentration of its dissociation products. Most of the already reported lifetimes of molecular dications are in the range of nanoseconds to seconds and metastable states with lifetimes of the order of picoseconds have only been theoretical predicted and an experimental verification is pending. We present a method of measuring subrotational lifetimes of molecular dications formed in three-body sequential breakup of polyatomic molecular precursors. Specifically, we have measured the subrotational lifetime of $$\hbox {SO}^{2+}$$

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, which is formed as an intermediate in the three-body sequential fragmentation of $$\hbox {SO}_2^{3+}$$

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. The lifetime against dissociation is determined to be a fraction of the rotational period of $$\hbox {SO}^{2+}$$

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and is of the order of few picoseconds. The method proposed is general and is not restricted to triatomic precursors.
Polyrhythmic foraging and competitive coexistence
Authors: Mougi Akihiko 
Published: November 2020

AbstractThe current ecological understanding still does not fully explain how biodiversity is maintained. One strategy to address this issue is to contrast theoretical prediction with real competitive communities where diverse species share limited resources. I present, in this study, a new competitive coexistence theory-diversity of biological rhythms. I show that diversity in activity cycles plays a key role in coexistence of competing species, using a two predator-one prey system with diel, monthly, and annual cycles for predator foraging. Competitive exclusion always occurs without activity cycles. Activity cycles do, however, allow for coexistence. Furthermore, each activity cycle plays a different role in coexistence, and coupling of activity cycles can synergistically broaden the coexistence region. Thus, with all activity cycles, the coexistence region is maximal. The present results suggest that polyrhythmic changes in biological activity in response to the earth’s rotation and revolution are key to competitive coexistence. Also, temporal niche shifts caused by environmental changes can easily eliminate competitive coexistence.
Systematic comparison of the structure of homoleptic tetradentate N2O2-type Schiff base complexes of tetravalent f-elements (M(iv) = Ce, Th, U, Np, and Pu) in solid state and in solution
Authors: Radoske Thomas , Kloditz Roger , Fichter Sebastian , März Juliane , Kaden Peter , Patzschke Michael , Schmidt Moritz , Stumpf Thorsten , Walter Olaf , Ikeda-Ohno Atsushi 
Published: November 2020

Tetradentate N2O2-type Schiff base complexes with tetravalent 4f- and 5f-block metals, [M(salpn)2] (H2salpn = N,N′-disalicylidene-1,3-diaminopropane; M = Ce, Th, U, Np, and Pu), were characterised both in the solid state and in solution.
A random forest-based selection of optically variable AGN in the VST-COSMOS field
Authors: De Cicco D. , Bauer F. E. , Paolillo M. , Cavuoti S. , Sánchez-Sáez P. , Brandt W. N. , Pignata G. , Vaccari M. , Radovich M. 
Published: November 2020

Context.The survey of the COSMOS field by the VLT Survey Telescope is an appealing testing ground for variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). With 54r-band visits over 3.3 yr and a single-visit depth of 24.6r-band mag, the dataset is also particularly interesting in the context of performance forecasting for theVera C. RubinObservatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).Aims.This work is the fifth in a series dedicated to the development of an automated, robust, and efficient methodology to identify optically variable AGN, aimed at deploying it on future LSST data.Methods.We test the performance of a random forest (RF) algorithm in selecting optically variable AGN candidates, investigating how the use of different AGN labeled sets (LSs) and features sets affects this performance. We define a heterogeneous AGN LS and choose a set of variability features and optical and near-infrared colors based on what can be extracted from LSST data.Results.We find that an AGN LS that includes only Type I sources allows for the selection of a highly pure (91%) sample of AGN candidates, obtaining a completeness with respect to spectroscopically confirmed AGN of 69% (vs. 59% in our previous work). The addition of colors to variability features mildly improves the performance of the RF classifier, while colors alone prove less effective than variability in selecting AGN as they return contaminated samples of candidates and fail to identify most host-dominated AGN. We observe that a bright (r ≲ 21 mag) AGN LS is able to retrieve candidate samples not affected by the magnitude cut, which is of great importance as faint AGN LSs for LSST-related studies will be hard to find and likely imbalanced. We estimate a sky density of 6.2 × 106AGN for the LSST main survey down to our current magnitude limit.
Ureteroiliakale Fistel als eine Urologische Notfallsituation
Authors: Kajaia David , Hager Benjamin , Heidorn Timm , Schneider Hans , Weingärtner Karl , Zugor Vahudin 
Published: November 2020

ZusammenfassungEine ureteroiliakale Fistel stellt eine urologische Notfallsituation mit erheblicher Mortalität dar. In der vorliegenden Arbeit präsentieren wir 2 Fälle einer ureteroiliakale Fistel. Den Goldstandard in der Behandlung dieser Erkrankung stellt heutzutage die minimalinvasive endovaskuläre Therapie dar. Voraussetzung für eine optimale Behandlung ist ein multidisziplinäres Team mit einer raschen Verfügbarkeit von Radiologie, Gefäßchirurgie, Urologie und Anästhesie.
Kindler's Syndrome with Recurrent Neutropenia: Report of Two Cases from Saudi Arabia
Authors: Binamer Yousef , Chisti Muzamil A. 
Published: November 2020

AbstractKindler syndrome (KS) is a rare photosensitivity disorder with autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. It is characterized by acral blistering in infancy and childhood, progressive poikiloderma, skin atrophy, abnormal photosensitivity, and gingival fragility. Besides these major features, many minor presentations have also been reported in the literature. We are reporting two cases with atypical features of the syndrome and a new feature of recurrent neutropenia. Whole exome sequencing analysis was done using next-generation sequencing which detected a homozygous loss-of-function (LOF) variant of FERMT1 in both patients. The variant is classified as a pathogenic variant as per the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics guidelines. Homozygous LOF variants of FERMT1 are a common mechanism of KS and as such confirm the diagnosis of KS in our patients even though the presentation was atypical.
Imaging and Radiomics of Immuno-oncology of Primary and Secondary Gastrointestinal Malignancies
Authors: Uhlig Johannes , Biggemann Lorenz , Sheth Amar , Sharma Rohini 
Published: November 2020

AbstractIn recent years, systemic cancer treatment has been revolutionized with the advent of immunotherapy, which utilizes the body's immune system to target cancer cells and results in unique and novel imaging patterns of cancer response and therapy-associated toxicities. Hyperprogression is defined as a rapid tumor progression after treatment initiation. In contrast, pseudoprogression is defined as a tumor response after an initial increase in tumor burden, or appearance of new tumor lesions, and observed in <10% of patients undergoing PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy. Since traditional radiological strategies might not fully capture tumor response of patients receiving immunotherapy, several efforts have been made to better quantify specific immuno-oncological imaging patterns, including immune-related response criteria, immune-related RECIST, immunotherapy RECIST, and modified RECIST. These criteria account for potential pseudoprogression, and thus may prevent preemptive immunotherapy cessation. Immunotherapy is also associated with specific immune-related adverse events, including colitis (8–22% of patients), hypophysitis (8–13%), pneumonitis (<4%), lymphadenopathy (5–7%), hepatitis (1–7%), and pancreatitis (2%). Quantification of imaging studies using radiomic features has shown promising results in immuno-oncology, including prediction of individual patient's treatment response and survival, as well as characterization of tumoral expression of immunotherapy-relevant targets.
EURAMET.M.P-K15.1
Authors: Jousten Karl , Bock Thomas , Elkatmis Alper , Kangi Rifat , Phanakulwijit Suwat , Setina Janez 
Published: November 2020

In the present comparison, the degrees of equivalence of the measurement standards for vacuum pressures from 3E-4 Pa up to 1 Pa of three NMIs were evaluated by comparison with the measurement standards PTB serving as linking laboratory to the two key comparisons CCM.P-K15 and CCM.P-K4. The three NMIs were IMT, Slovenia, NIMT, Thailand and TUBITAK-UME, Turkey. Two spinning rotor gauges served as transfer standards and showed a very good stability. All NMIs and at all pressures showed equivalence with the key comparison reference values of CCM.P-K15 and CCM.P-K4. Another NMI, CEM, Spain, took part in the comparison, but did not deliver any data.

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