bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The economic research potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel study
Authors: Schröder Carsten , König Johannes , Fedorets Alexandra , Goebel Jan , Grabka Markus M. , Lüthen Holger , Metzing Maria , Schikora Felicitas , Liebig Stefan 
Published: June 2020

AbstractWe provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in answering economically-relevant questions by highlighting its diverse and impactful applications throughout the field.
Does soft tissue mobilization assist static stretching to improve hamstring flexibility? A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Nuhmani Shibili 
Published: June 2020

Abstract

Objectives
Objective of the study is to investigate whether Soft tissue mobilization (STM) can assist with static stretching to improve hamstring flexibly.

Methods
The design of the study was repeated measure design. The study was conducted at the physical therapy laboratory of Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi. Participants included 78 healthy males with hamstring tightness, randomly assigned to either the control group (static stretching) or the experimental group (STM and static stretching). The experimental group received five sets of four different STM techniques, followed by two sets of 30-s static stretches 3 days per week over the course of 12 weeks. The control group received 5 min of sham ultrasound with an inactive probe prior to static stretching. Active knee extension test (AKE) was the outcome measure.

Results
Both groups showed significant improvement in AKE compared with the baseline measurements. With ingroup analysis showed a significant difference in AKE across all measured time periods (weeks 4, 8, and 12) with pre-test in both groups (p<0.05). No significant difference in AKE improvement was found between groups (p>0.05).

Conclusion
The results of this study show that STM prior to static stretching does not significantly improve hamstring flexibility among healthy individuals. Although this study cannot be generalized, the results may be useful for evidence-based practice in the management of hamstring tightness.
Metalearning approach for leukemia informative genes prioritization
Authors: Rodrigues Vânia , Deusdado Sérgio 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
The discovery of diagnostic or prognostic biomarkers is fundamental to optimize therapeutics for patients. By enhancing the interpretability of the prediction model, this work is aimed to optimize Leukemia diagnosis while retaining a high-performance evaluation in the identification of informative genes. For this purpose, we used an optimal parameterization of Kernel Logistic Regression method on Leukemia microarray gene expression data classification, applying metalearners to select attributes, reducing the data dimensionality before passing it to the classifier. Pearson correlation and chi-squared statistic were the attribute evaluators applied on metalearners, having information gain as single-attribute evaluator. The implemented models relied on 10-fold cross-validation. The metalearners approach identified 12 common genes, with highest average merit of 0.999. The practical work was developed using the public datamining software WEKA.
Two types of hypergeometric degenerate Cauchy numbers
Authors: Komatsu Takao 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
In 1985, Howard introduced degenerate Cauchy polynomials together with degenerate Bernoulli polynomials. His degenerate Bernoulli polynomials have been studied by many authors, but his degenerate Cauchy polynomials have been forgotten. In this paper, we introduce some kinds of hypergeometric degenerate Cauchy numbers and polynomials from the different viewpoints. By studying the properties of the first one, we give their expressions and determine the coefficients. Concerning the second one, called H-degenerate Cauchy polynomials, we show several identities and study zeta functions interpolating these polynomials.
miR-30a-3p participates in the development of asthma by targeting CCR3
Authors: Li Xiaobo , Wang Binliang , Huang Mao , Wang Xiaomi 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the role and relevant mechanism of miR-30a-3p action in asthma. The results of this study revealed that the expression levels of miR-30a-3p were significantly decreased in the peripheral blood of asthmatic patients. In addition, we found that the CC chemokine receptor (CCR3) was a target of miR-30a-3p. Subsequently, an asthma mouse model was established using ovalbumin (OVA). The results showed that the expression of miR-30a-3p and CCR3 was downregulated and upregulated, respectively, in the peripheral blood of asthmatic mice. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in asthmatic mouse serum demonstrated that miR-30a-3p mimic treatment significantly decreased the secretion of OVA-specific IgE, eotaxin-1, interleukin (IL)-5, and IL-4. These results suggested that miR-30a-3p inhibited CCR3 signaling pathway and relieved the inflammatory response against asthma in vivo. Eosinophils have also been implicated in the asthmatic inflammatory response. Therefore, the in vitro effects of miR-30a-3p on eosinophil activity were determined. Findings suggested that miR-30a-3p mimic significantly reduced eosinophil viability and migration and induced apoptosis. In addition, CCR3 and eotaxin-1 downregulation were observed. The aforementioned results were significantly reversed following CCR3 overexpression. This study suggested that miR-30a-3p was involved in asthma by regulating eosinophil activity and targeting CCR3.
One-pot synthesis of nano titanium dioxide in supercritical water
Authors: Sun Panpan , Wang Shuzhong , Li Yanhui , Zhang Tuo , Wang Dong , Zhang Baoquan , Yang Jianqiao , Xu Donghai 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
Supercritical hydrothermal synthesis of nanosized metal oxides is of great interest for scholars due to its one-pot and readily realizing commercial production process. Hydrothermal synthesis of nanosized TiO2 in subcritical and supercritical water was investigated with different reaction temperatures (250–450°C), time (3–10 min), precursor species (Ti(SO4)2, TiCl4), and the addition of a surfactant (CH3(CH2)5NH2). TiO2 synthesized under supercritical state has a higher degree of crystallinity when compared with TiO2 obtained from subcritical state, which is attributed to a higher reaction rate. Extending reaction time from 3 to 10 min leads to the growth of crystal and broader size distribution (36.66 ± 8.5 nm). More uniform products can be obtained when Ti(SO4)2 acting as the precursor compared with TiCl4 being the precursor. The application of surfactant CH3(CH2)5NH2 in the synthesis makes chemical bonding between the particle surface and organic ligand. It affects the growth direction of TiO2 crystal; as a result, rod-like TiO2 crystal is obtained.
The Roman Food System in Southern Pannonia (Croatia) From the 1st–4th Century A.D.
Authors: Reed Kelly , Roguljić Ivana Ožanić 
Published: June 2020

AbstractFood is an excellent medium through which to explore trade, economies, migration and landscapes, yet little is known about food production and consumption in the Roman province of Pannonia. Here we explore the current evidence for agriculture, trade and diet in southern Pannonia (modern day eastern Croatia) and what this may say about life in the region. The influx of new ‘exotic’ foods and technologies had a profound influence on this region. The limited archaeobotanical data suggests complex trade and local agricultural systems that allowed large towns such as Mursa, Cibalae and Siscia to gain access to a wide range of food items. The large quantities of pottery found not only helps us understand traded goods but also the local tastes and fashions, as well as to infer the types of dishes that could have been cooked. More evidence is clearly needed in this region but what we can see so far is that urban centres along the Danube Limes were firmly integrated within the wider Roman food system and that diets were probably quite varied for many who lived there.
Negotiation of meaning in Chinese non-native speaker – Spanish native speaker communication in assessment context
Authors: Cordero Tatiana Pliego , Martín Leralta Susana 
Published: June 2020

AbstractThe article describes the characteristics of the negotiation of meaning (NOM) in oral interaction between native Spanish speakers and Chinese immigrant speakers of Spanish by assessing the context through 15 recordings, in which the candidates orally interacted with their interviewers. The goals of the research were to observe whether, in this context, NOM occurs; identify and classify the most frequent negotiation strategies of meaning in terms of their function; determine whether reactive negotiation strategies or preventive strategies predominate; establish which of the two interlocutors leads the negotiation; and determine whether this negotiation is effective. It has been observed that NOM is present in 11.21% of the total number of conversational turns (n= 4,379). The most frequently used strategies were confirmation check, comprehension check response, and confirmation. Of the strategies used (n= 491) by participants and interviewers to negotiate the meaning in this context, 64.95% was of a preventive nature. The NOM was effective in 90.02% of the cases.
The development of written expression in immigrant children from 6 to 9 years old
Authors: de las Fuentes Gutiérrez Elisa 
Published: June 2020

AbstractThis article presents the results of a pilot study carried out based on texts from 15 immigrant children aged 6 to 9 years, who are learning Spanish in situations of immersion in the Communities of Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha. The aim is to understand how these students try to integrate into the school context and especially to determine whether the development of written expression during the early years of primary education allows them to carry out more complex linguistic actions aimed at communication, such as expressing positive attitudes towards the recipient. These actions may reveal the need to communicate and, therefore, the need to learn the language in order to integrate. The texts were taken from the ESCONES Corpus and were collected in a prior study on lexical retrieval and auditory perception in the development of communicative skills in children aged 6 to 9. The analysis carried out considered the vocabulary used, syntactic complexity and the use of linguistic actions in the different grades and found that the development of written expression may allow students to better express actions related to manifesting positive feelings and attitudes towards their interlocutor.
On Music, Order, and Memory: Investigating Augustine’s Descriptive Method in the Confessions
Authors: Wiskus Jessica 
Published: June 2020

AbstractAugustine’s account in the Confessions Book IX of his ecstasy at Ostia remains unsurpassed in its poetic force, yet unusual, as a description of religious experience, in two particular respects. First of all, what he describes is not a “vision” of God, but an experience of listening. Second, it is not a solitary but a shared experience (e.g., with his mother, Monica). This essay considers the significance of these two elements by analyzing the relation between his description in Book IX and the understanding of rhythm that he develops in De musica. Drawing also on Book X (on memory) and Book XI (on time-consciousness) in the Confessions, I investigate a particular type of flowing memory – what I call, “perfect” memory – that characterizes the temporally ordered movements of musical rhythm, showing that it is in this type of memory that Augustine finds God.
Noetic and Noematic Dimensions of Religious Experience
Authors: Barber Michael David 
Published: June 2020

AbstractPhenomenologies of religious experience have been developed by Max Scheler and via Alfred Schutz’s frameworks of “multiple realities” and “finite provinces of meaning.” For both, religious experience resists the pragmatic imperatives of the mechanistic worldview or world of working. Schutz’s paradigm begins with a distinctive noetic religious epoché opening the religious province, in contrast with Scheler’s start with spheres of being (especially the absolute sphere) furnishing the noematic context for religious acts. Scheler’s religious act resembles the religious epoché, but his eidetic analysis highlights the act’s distinctiveness, irreducibility to non-religious acts, and immunity to psychological reductionism. Correlating the religious act with his value theory (the absolute sphere), Scheler better withstands the subordination of religion to the pragmatic imperatives and the absolute to lesser values than does a Schutzian ranking of purposes in the province’s form of spontaneity. Scheler’s absolute personal being, whose revelation one must respectfully wait, supports the Schutzian relaxed tension of consciousness. Respectfulness of persons, the social/communal/critical dimensions of religious experience, religion’s need for critique from theoretical provinces of meaning, and the wariness of idolatrously substituting one’s own finite goods for the absolute can all mitigate the religious imperialism and violence to which absolute commitments can lead.
Benefits of basic research from the Superfund Research Program
Authors: Suk William A. , Heacock Michelle L. , Trottier Brittany A. , Amolegbe Sara M. , Avakian Maureen D. , Carlin Danielle J. , Henry Heather F. , Lopez Adeline R. , Skalla Lesley A. 
Published: June 2020

AbstractThe National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Hazardous Substances Basic Research and Training Program [Superfund Research Program (SRP)] funds transdisciplinary research projects spanning the biomedical and environmental sciences to address issues related to potentially hazardous substances. We used a case study approach to identify how SRP-funded basic biomedical research has had an impact on society. We examined how transdisciplinary research projects from the SRP have advanced knowledge and led to additional clinical, public health, policy, and economic benefits. SRP basic biomedical research findings have contributed to the body of knowledge and influenced a broad range of scientific disciplines. It has informed the development of policies and interventions to reduce exposure to environmental contaminants to improve public health. Research investments by the SRP have had a significant impact on science, health, and society. Documenting the benefits of these investments provides insight into how basic research is translated to real-world applications.
Double randomization method for estimating the moments of solution to vehicular traffic problems with random parameters
Authors: Burmistrov Aleksandr , Korotchenko Mariya 
Published: June 2020

AbstractIn this paper we consider a Boltzmann type equation arising in the kinetic vehicle traffic flow model with an acceleration variable. The latter model is improved within the framework of the previously developed approach by introducing a set of random parameters. This enables us to take into account different types of interacting vehicles, as well as various parameters describing skills and behavior of particular drivers. We develop new Monte Carlo algorithms to evaluate probabilistic moments of linear functionals of the solution to the considered equation.
Randomized exponential transformation algorithm for solving the stochastic problems of gamma-ray transport theory
Authors: Medvedev Ilia N. , Mikhailov Gennadii A. 
Published: June 2020

AbstractThe paper presents a new algorithm of exponential transformation and its randomized modification with branching of a Markov chain trajectory for solving the problem of gamma-ray transport. Based on the example of radiation transfer in water, numerical study of presented algorithms is performed in comparison with standard simulation algorithms. The study of the influence of medium stochasticity on the probability of gamma-quanta passing through a thick layer of the substance is also carried out.
High order modified differential equation of the Beam–Warming method, II. The dissipative features
Authors: Shokin Yurii , Winnicki Ireneusz , Jasinski Janusz , Pietrek Slawomir 
Published: June 2020

AbstractThis paper is a continuation of [38]. The analysis of the modified partial differential equation (MDE) of the constant-wind-speed linear advection equation explicit difference scheme up to the eighth-order derivatives is presented. In this paper the authors focus on the dissipative features of the Beam–Warming scheme. The modified partial differential equation is presented in the so-calledΠ-form of the first differential approximation. The most important part of this form includes the coefficientsμ(p) at the space derivatives. Analysis of these coefficients provides indications of the nature of the dissipative errors. A fragment of the stencil for determining the modified differential equation for the Beam–Warming scheme is included. The derived and presented coefficientsμ(p) as well as the analysis of the dissipative features of this scheme on the basis of these coefficients have not been published so far.
Relation of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus to thyroid cancer
Authors: Grimmichova T , Haluzik M , Vondra K , Matucha P , Hill M 
Published: June 2020

Objective
Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) generally experience a higher incidence of cancer. However, the association between T2DM and thyroid cancer is inconclusive.

Methods
Case-control prospective study, where 722 patients were screened for T2DM and prediabetes (PDM) and underwent thyroid ultrasound and biochemical tests. The patients were assigned to groups of PDM (n = 55), T2DM (n = 79) or a non-diabetes group (NDM) (n = 588). Fine-needle aspiration biopsy was carried out in 263 patients. Histological examinations were done for 109 patients after surgery, with findings of 52 benign (BS) and 57 malignant tumors (MS).

Results
Thirty-three percent of patients with T2DM and especially PDM were newly diagnosed by our screening: 6.5% with T2DM and 72% with PDM, respectively. The percentage of thyroid cancers did not significantly differ between the groups (χ2 test = 0.461; P = 0.794). Relevant positive thyroid predictors for T2DM (t-statistic = 25.87; P < 0.01) and PDM (21.69; P < 0.01) contrary to NDM (−26.9; P < 0.01) were thyroid volume (4.79; P < 0.01), thyroid nodule volume (3.25; P < 0.01) and multinodular thyroid gland (4.83; P < 0.01), while negative relevant predictors included the occurrence of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) (−2.01; P < 0.05).

Conclusion
In general, we did not observe an increased risk for thyroid cancer in the diabetic and prediabetic groups in comparison to controls, in spite of well-established increased risk for other malignancies. Structural and benign changes such as larger and multinodular thyroid glands, in comparison to autoimmune thyroid disease, are present more often in diabetics.
High-Efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 Mutagenesis of the white Gene in the Milkweed Bug Oncopeltus fasciatus
Authors: Reding Katie , Pick Leslie 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
In this manuscript, we report that clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 is highly efficient in the hemipteran Oncopeltus fasciatus. The white gene is well characterized in Drosophila where mutation causes loss of eye pigmentation; white is a reliable marker for transgenesis and other genetic manipulations. Accordingly, white has been targeted in a number of nonmodel insects to establish tools for genetic studies. Here, we generated mutations in the Of-white (Of-w) locus using CRISPR/Cas9. We found that Of-w is required for pigmentation throughout the body of Oncopeltus, not just the ommatidia. High rates of somatic mosaicism were observed in the injected generation, reflecting biallelic mutations, and a high rate of germline mutation was evidenced by the large proportion of heterozygous G1s. However, Of-w mutations are homozygous lethal; G2 homozygotes lacked pigment dispersion throughout the body and did not hatch, precluding the establishment of a stable mutant line. Embryonic and parental RNA interference (RNAi) were subsequently performed to rule out off-target mutations producing the observed phenotype and to evaluate the efficacy of RNAi in ablating gene function compared to a loss-of-function mutation. RNAi knockdowns phenocopied Of-w homozygotes, with an unusual accumulation of orange granules observed in unhatched embryos. This is, to our knowledge, the first CRISPR/Cas9-targeted mutation generated in Oncopeltus. While we were unable to establish white as a useful visible marker for Oncopeltus, these findings are instructive for the selection of visible markers in nonmodel species and reveal an unusual role for an ortholog of a classic Drosophila gene.
La traducción de los cuestionarios de salud para pacientes
Authors: Pérez Fernández Lucila María , Miaja Menéndez Patricia 
Published: June 2020

Los cuestionarios de salud y calidad de vida para pacientes son una valiosa herramienta para evaluar la salud, tanto a nivel individual como poblacional. Tal es la importancia que esta herramienta está adquiriendo, que su traducción y buena adaptación también se hacen relevantes. El objetivo de este artículo es determinar la validez lingüística y cultural de diversos cuestionarios. Por ello, se ha llevado a cabo una comparación de las versiones originales y lastraducciones validadas en español de cinco cuestionarios que evalúan trastornos de dependencia al alcohol, de adicción al juego, los síntomas de la ansiedad, las conductas alimentarias y los síntomas de la depresión. Dicho análisis se ha efectuado de acuerdo con diversos parámetros lingüísticos, socioculturales y visuales. Los resultados obtenidos nos han permitido desarrollar una serie de indicaciones que se deben tener en cuenta a la hora de traducir cuestionarios de salud.
The First Record of Metaphire Birmanica (Rosa, 1888) in Vietnam, with Notes on Several Earthworm Species
Authors: Lam Dang Hai , Nguyen Anh Duc , Nguyen Tung Thanh 
Published: June 2020

The Amynthas and Metaphire species recorded in Vietnam have been rechecked based on original descriptions and preserved specimens. As a result, Metaphire birmanica (Rosa, 1888) is recorded in Vietnam for the first time. The species is recognized by having three pairs of spermathecal pores in 5/6/7/8, male pores in xviii, presence of copulatory pouches, no genial markings, and manicate intestinal caeca. In addition, three species have been rechecked and re-assigned to different genera, namely Amynthas tripidoporophoratus (Thai & Nguyen, 1993) comb. nov., Metaphire dranfocana (Do & Huynh, 1993) comb. nov., Metaphire anhumalatana (Thai & Huynh, 1993) comb. nov.