bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A complementary feeding and play intervention improves the home environment and mental development among toddlers in rural India
Authors: Fernandez Rao Sylvia , Bentley Margaret E. , Balakrishna Nagalla , Griffiths Paula , Creed‐Kanashiro Hilary , Vazir Shahnaz , Johnson Susan L. 
Published: December 2020

AbstractA cluster randomized trial design was used to test the efficacy of a behaviour change communication intervention on the quality of the home environment and infant development at 15 months of age. Children (n = 600) in rural South India were followed from 3 through 15 months of age. The control group (C group) received the standard of care, the complementary feeding group (CF group) received recommendations on complementary foods and the responsive complementary feeding and play group (RCF&P group) received recommendations on complementary foods plus skills on responsive feeding and play. The intervention was delivered in biweekly home visits to caregivers using flip charts. At postintervention, infants (n = 521) were assessed for development (Bayley‐II scales) and their home environment was assessed (Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment [HOME] scale). Cluster adjusted analysis of variance showed no significant differences at baseline. The HOME score at 15 months differed by group, F(2, 38) = 6.41, P = 0.004; the CF and RCF&P groups had higher scores than the C group. Scores on subscales ‘Opportunities for Variety in Daily Stimulation’ and ‘Caregiver Promotion of Child Development’ (CPCD) were higher for the RCF&P group than for the C and CF groups. Mental development index (MDI) scores differed by group, F(2, 37) = 3.31, P = 0.04, with the RCF&P group showing higher scores than the C group (P < 0.04); no differences were noted in psychomotor development index (PDI) scores (P = 0.48). The subscales of HOME associated with MDI at 15 months were ‘CPCD’ and ‘Cleanliness of Child’ (R2 = 0.076). ‘CPCD’ was also associated with PDI (R2 = 0.039). A responsive complementary feeding and play intervention delivered through home visits benefitted children's mental development and caregiving environment at 15 months.
Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Thermal Radiation on the 3D Flow of a Couple Stress Casson Nanofluid Due to a Stretching Sheet
Authors: Satya Narayana P. V. , Tarakaramu Nainaru , Sarojamma G. , Animasaun I. L. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
Little is known on the three-dimensional flow of a couple stress Casson fluid conveying nanoparticles when the significance of Lorentz force, chaotic gesture of those minute particles, and thermophoresis are significant. The intent of this investigation is to focus on the flow of such fluid along a horizontal surface due to dual stretching and internal heating. A zero nanoparticle mass flux condition is employed at the surface, which specifies that the nanoparticles’ fraction is submissively measured. The dimensional nonlinear equations are reduced into a system of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations by employing scaling analysis and later they are solved numerically. The results are discussed graphically for various emerged physical parameters through different plots. The results in the absence of stretching ratio factor indicate that the heat absorption parameter and Prandtl number accelerate the heat transfer rate. The temperature of the non-Newtonian couple stress fluid is found to be higher than that of viscous case. It may be suggested that the Casson couple stress nanofluid can be substituted for the corresponding viscous fluid in industrial applications for greater heat transfer. The outcomes are closely matched with the studies available in the literature as a limiting case.
Dynamics of Activation Energy and Nonlinear Mixed Convection in Darcy-Forchheimer Radiated Flow of Carreau Nanofluid Near Stagnation Point Region
Authors: Khan M. Ijaz , Alzahrani Faris 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
In this research work, heat and mass transport and radiated, two-dimensional, steady, incompressible nanofluid flow of non-Newtonian material (Carreau fluid) over a stretchable moving surface of sheet is examined. The flow is saturated through Darcy-Forchheimer porous medium and generated by stretching phenomenon. Furthermore, magnetodydrodynamics (MHD), mixed convection, heat generation/absorption, nonlinear thermal radiation, thermophoresis diffusion, activation energy, Brownian motion, and chemical reaction effects are accounted to develop the governing expressions, i.e., momentum, energy, and concentration for the considered flow problem. The governing equations are first altered into nonlinear ordinary differential equations with the help of appropriate similarity variables and then computational results are computed by Built-in-Shooting technique via mathematica. The salient aspects of sundry variables are discussed graphically on the velocity field, skin friction coefficient, temperature profile, Nusselt number, concentration field, and Sherwood number. Outcomes illustrate that the velocity field and temperature profile have contrast behavior against higher values of magnetic parameter. Also, the engineering quantities are discussed numerically with the help of important flow variables and the results are demonstrated through tables.
Molecular states from $$D^{(*)}{\bar{D}}^{(*)}/B^{(*)}{\bar{B}}^{(*)}$$ and $$D^{(*)}D^{(*)}/{\bar{B}}^{(*)}{\bar{B}}^{(*)}$$ interactions
Authors: Ding Zuo-Ming , Jiang Han-Yu , He Jun 
Published: December 2020

AbstractIn this work, we preform a systematic investigation about hidden heavy and doubly heavy molecular states from the $$D^{(*)}{\bar{D}}^{(*)}/B^{(*)}{\bar{B}}^{(*)}$$

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and $$D^{(*)}D^{(*)}/{\bar{B}}^{(*)}{\bar{B}}^{(*)}$$

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interactions in the quasipotential Bethe–Salpeter equation (qBSE) approach. With the help of Lagrangians with heavy quark and chiral symmetries, interaction potentials are constructed within the one-boson-exchange model in which we include the $$\pi $$
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, $$\eta $$
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, $$\rho $$
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, $$\omega $$
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and $$\sigma $$
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exchanges, as well as $$J/\psi $$

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or $$\varUpsilon $$
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exchange. Possible bound states from the interactions considered are searched for as the pole of scattering amplitude. The results suggest that experimentally observed states, $$Z_c(3900)$$

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, $$Z_c(4020)$$

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, $$Z_b(10610)$$

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, and $$Z_b(10650)$$

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, can be related to the $$D{\bar{D}}^{*}$$

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interactions with quantum numbers $$I^G(J^P)=1^+(1^{+})$$

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, respectively. The $$D{\bar{D}}^{*}$$

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interaction is also attractive enough to produce a pole with $$0^+(0^+)$$

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which is related to the X(3872). Within the same theoretical frame, the existence of $$D{\bar{D}}$$

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molecular states with $$0(0^+)$$

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are predicted. The possible $$D^*{\bar{D}}^*$$

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and their bottom partners are also suggested by the calculation. In the doubly heavy sector, no bound state is produced from the $$DD/{\bar{B}}{\bar{B}}$$

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interaction while a bound state is found with $$0(1^+)$$

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interaction. The $$D^*D^*/{\bar{B}}^*{\bar{B}}^*$$

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Strengthening the Legal Protection of Female Workers in Marine Fisheries—A Chinese Perspective
Authors: He Ruiyao , Chang Yen-Chiang 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
China is a large State with a large population and an enormous fishing industry. The marine fishery labour force represents a significant proportion of Chinese labour market share. Due to the special nature of working in marine fisheries, female workers have long represented a significant proportion of the workforce but have been undervalued or even recognised. So far, there has been little research on the protection of female workers’ rights in this field. In 2017, the Secretary-General of the United Nations presented the issue of people on the ocean in a special chapter within the Oceans and the Law of the Sea Report, highlighting the protection of women’s rights in the field of marine fisheries. There is evidence that this issue has already attracted the attention of the international community. Studying the issue of female workers’ protection in this field encourages the standardisation of the marine fishery labour market, thus promoting sound future development. As a result, this article tries to address the necessity for the legal protection of female workers in the field of marine fishery, through an analysis of the evolution of the marine fishery labour force and the current situation as regards the issue of human rights. To date, there is still a lack of effective protection of women’s rights in marine fisheries, especially through legal means, which requires to be addressed.
Associating machine-learning and analytical models for quality of transmission estimation: combining the best of both worlds
Authors: Seve Emmanuel , Pesic Jelena , Pointurier Yvan 
Published: December 2020

By associating machine learning and an analytical model (i.e., the Gaussian noise model), we reduce uncertainties on the output power profile and the noise figure of each amplifier in an optical network. We leverage the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of all the light paths of an optical network, monitored in all the coherent receivers. The learning process is based on a gradient-descent algorithm where all the uncertain input parameters of the analytical model are iteratively modified from their estimated values to match with the SNR of light paths in a European optical network. The design margin is then reduced to 0.1 dB for new traffic demands.
Bibliotecade artista
Authors: Penido Adriana Penido 
Published: December 2020

A partir das obras “Requiem” (2013) de Emilio Chapella, “Scultura de d´ombra” (2009) de Claudio Parmiggiani, “Missing Names” (2013) de Patricia Osses, “Flying Books - homenaje a Borges” (2012) de Christian Boltanski e “Biblioteca del bosque”, de Miguél Ángel Blanco (2002 - ), pretende-se refletir sobre a presença da biblioteca nas artes visuais. Nota-se a partir dos anos de 1990, um intenso volume de obras cujo interesse é a biblioteca. Poeticamente denominadas “bibliotecas de artista”, essa noção descreve obras produzidas por artistas a partir de ou no espaço de uma biblioteca. Utilizando-se dos mais diferentes suportes, muitas dessas obras são descritas como instalação, fotografia, livro de artista, pintura, desenho, vídeo e outras mídias conhecidas. A biblioteca passou a ser também um território de subversão, imaginação e poetização na contemporaneidade.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE
Biblioteca de artista, livro de artista, imagem, livros, biblioteca.
Kant and the Pre-Conceptual Use of the Understanding
Authors: Indregard Jonas Jervell 
Published: December 2020

AbstractDoes Kant hold that we can have intuitions independently of concepts? A striking passage from § 13 of theCritique of Pure Reasonappears to say so explicitly. However, it also conjures up a scenario where the categories are inapplicable to objects of intuition, a scenario presumably shown impossible by the following Transcendental Deduction. The seemingly non-conceptualist claim concerning intuition have therefore been read, by conceptualist interpreters of Kant, as similarly counterpossible. I argue that the passage in question best supports an underappreciated middle position where intuition requires a pre-conceptual use of the understanding. Such pre-conceptual use of the understanding faces both textual and systematic objections. I show that these objections can be rebutted.
Screening and analysis of xanthine oxidase inhibitors in jute leaves and their protective effects against hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress in cells
Authors: Zhang Lang , Liu Liangliang , Xiao Aiping , Huang Siqi , Li Defang 
Published: December 2020

AbstractJute (Corchorus capsularis L.) is an annual herb of the bast fiber plant and has great potentials in food and medicinal usages because of its various bioactivities. In this study, ultrafiltration coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry was established for screening xanthine oxidase inhibitors from the jute leaves extract. Under the optimum screening conditions, three inhibitors were successfully screened and identified as chlorogenic acid, echinacoside, and isorhamnetin-rutinoside with UV and MS data. The fluorescent quenching analysis showed that three inhibitors quenched the fluorescence intensities of enzyme with different binding capacities. For further exploring the bioactivity of three inhibitors, the protective effects on hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress was investigated using human normal liver cell (LO2), human gastric mucosal epithelial cell (GES-1), and human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC). As a result, they exhibited protective effects on three injured cells in dose-dependent manners without cytotoxicity. To evaluate the difference among different jute species obtained in our laboratories, the amounts of three compounds in ten samples were assessed and analyzed. The results showed that it could be divided into three groups. The jute leaves showed nutrient and medical potentials and deserved further research on pharmaceutical and biochemical utilization in future.
Rhetoric beyond Arguments: Thinking about the Role of Fictional Audiences in Plato’sGorgias
Authors: Suarez Dora 
Published: December 2020

AbstractIn this piece, I propose a reading of Plato’sGorgiasthat pays special attention to the role that the fictional audience plays in the unfolding of the dialogue. To this end, I use some of the insights that Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts–Tyteca conveyed in their seminal work,The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentationin order to argue that thinking about the way in which Socrates’ arguments are shaped by the different audiences that Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles aim to address and represent provides us with a new hermeneutical understanding of what is at stake in each of the different interactions Socrates engages in throughout the dialogue. In unpacking the way in which Socrates appropriates Gorgias’particular audience, transforms Polus’universal audience, and challenges Callicles’elite audience,I provide an outline of the difficulties that Plato’s Socrates has to overcome in order to achieve the ‘community of minds’ that Perelman and Olbrechts–Tyteca identify as the bedrock of fruitful argumentation. Having done this, in the last section I turn to Plato’sPhaedrus, for the purpose of making evident that thinking about Plato’s deployment of rhetorical audiences is a crucial step in the effort to expose the implicit continuity that links the discussion of rhetoric delivered by theGorgiasto that of thePhaedrus.
The features of Ni2MnIn polycrystalline Heusler alloy thin films formation by pulsed laser deposition
Authors: Aleksei Grunin , Ksenia Maksimova , Aleksander Goikhman 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The Ni-Mn-In-based Heusler alloys belong to the most studied intermetallic compounds due to a variety of physical effects inherent to them, including the shape memory and magnetocaloric effect, field-induced structural phase transition, and others. All of these properties are strongly depend on element concentrations, uniformity, and purity of the structure. Therefore, rather strict requirements are imposed on the synthesis technology of such samples.
We report the dependencies of Ni-Mn-In polycrystalline thin film composition on growth parameters. It was shown that the composition mismatch between sample and target caused by the resputtering of the sample material with high-energy particles of the ablation plume, and the different ablation yields of elements from the target. The main deposition parameters demonstrated (Ar growth pressure, laser energies, substrate temperature and annealing, target-to-sample distance) for the co-deposition process to obtain the Ni-Mn-In Heusler alloy polycrystalline thin films with the martensitic transition.
How do different histologic components of mixed endometrial carcinomas affect prognosis? Does it really matter?
Authors: Thomakos Nikolaos , Dimopoulou Stefania , Sotiropoulou Maria , Machairiotis Nikolaos , Pandraklakis Anastasios , Haidopoulos Dimitrios , Liontos Michalis , Bamias Aristotelis , Rodolakis Alexandros 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare outcomes of patients with mixed and pure endometrial carcinomas (MEC). We reviewed data of patients with MEC, endometroid (EC), serous (SC), and clear cell (CC) carcinomas between 2002 and 2015. Overall survival (OS) and disease-free (DF) survival rates were evaluated, according to the percentage of histologic components. Clinicopathological variables and treatment strategies were assessed. Furthermore, χ
2 tests were used to compare proportions and Kaplan–Meier curves to compare recurrence and survival. Sample consisted of 302 cases with mean age 66.3 years. Early-stage disease was recorded in EC compared with CC and SC. Adnexal involvement was more frequent in MEC compared with EC (p=0.043). Extra uterine metastasis was more frequent in the SC compared to the EC group, while lymphovascular space involvement was more frequent in the MEC and CC compared to the SC (p=0.001). EC had less omentum involvement compared to CC (p=0.035) and SC (p<0.001). Furthermore, cervical involvement was more frequent in CC compared to EC (p=0.011). Recurrence (p=0.265) and OS (p=0.533) were found to be similar in MEC compared with CC, SC, and EC. Moreover, recurrence and OS were similar between EC-CC and EC-SC. There were no differences in recurrence and survival in MEC with a type II component larger than 10% or 20% (p>0.05).
Climate change and declining fertility rate in Malaysia: the possible connexions
Authors: Jegasothy Ravindran , Sengupta Pallav , Dutta Sulagna , Jeganathan Ravichandran 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
Climate change is an incessant global phenomenon and has turned contentious in the present century. Malaysia, a developing Asian country, has also undergone significant vicissitudes in climate, which has been projected with significant deviations in forthcoming decades. As per the available studies, climate changes may impact on the fertility, either via direct effects on the gonadal functions and neuroendocrine regulations or via several indirect effects on health, socioeconomic status, demeaning the quality of food and water. Malaysia is already observing a declining trend in the Total fertility rate (TFR) over the past few decades and is currently recorded below the replacement level of 2.1 which is insufficient to replace the present population. Moreover, climate changes reportedly play a role in the emergence and cessation of various infectious diseases. Besides its immediate effects, the long-term effects on health and fertility await to be unveiled. Despite the huge magnitude of the repercussion of climate changes in Malaysia, research that can explain the exact cause of the present reduction in fertility parameters in Malaysia or any measures to preserve the national population is surprisingly very scarce. Thus, the present review aims to elucidate the possible missing links by which climate changes are impairing fertility status in Malaysia.
Can we use copeptin as a biomarker for masked hypertension or metabolic syndrome in obese children and adolescents?
Authors: Deligözoğlu Duygu , Kasap-Demir Belde , Alparslan Caner , Erbak Huriye , Çatlı Gönül , Mutlubaş Fatma , Alaygut Demet , Soyaltın Eren , Arslansoyu-Çamlar Seçil , Yavaşcan Önder 
Published: December 2020

AbstractObjectivesCopeptin, the C-terminal part of arginine-vasopressin, is increased in hypertensive adolescents and closely associated with metabolic syndrome (MS). We aimed to investigate whether serum copeptin can be used to differentiate masked hypertension (MHT) and MS, and the role of sodium intake, natriuretic peptide response and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in MHT and MS in obese youth.MethodsObese children aged 10–18 years with normal office blood pressure measurements were included. Patients with MHT and normotension and those with MS and non-MS were evaluated separately. Biochemical parameters, copeptin, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), aldosterone, renin, urine sodium, and protein were evaluated. Echocardiography, fundoscopic examination, and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring were performed.ResultsThere were 80 (M/F=39/41) obese patients with a mean age of 13.78 ± 1.93 years. The cases with MHT, MS, and concomitant MHT and MS were 53,24, and 13%, respectively. Copeptin levels were similar among patients with and without MHT or MS (p>0.05). However, multivariate analysis revealed that copeptin significantly increased the probability of MHT (OR 1.01, 95% CI=1.001–1.018, p=0.033). Copeptin was positively correlated with daytime systolic and diastolic load, aldosterone, BNP, and urine microalbumin/creatinine levels (p<0.05). Linear regression analyses revealed that copeptin was significantly correlated with BNP regardless of having MHT or MS in obese youth. In the MHT group, 24-h sodium excretion was not significantly correlated with BNP.ConclusionCopeptin may be a beneficial biomarker to discriminate MHT, but not MS in obese children and adolescents. An insufficient BNP response to sodium intake might be one of the underlying causes of MHT in obese cases.
Theoretical examination of efficiency of anthocyanidins as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells
Authors: Abdulsalami Ibrahim Olasegun , Semire Banjo , Bello Isa Adewale 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
The structural effects and electronic contributions of four anthocyanidins, cyanidin (Cy), delphinidin (Dp), malvidin (Mv) and pelargonidin (Pg), have been investigated to improve the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), using density functional theory (DFT) calculate parameters such as frontier molecular orbitals (MOs), band gap energies, reactivity descriptors. MOs surfaces showed that titanium dioxide (TiO2) orbital was susceptible to nucleophilic attack. The highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of terminal hydroxyl groups in dye was susceptible to nucleophilic attacks at different degrees. MOs of dye-semiconductor showed intramolecular charge transfer from dye to TiO2 upon photoexcitation of dye. Electronic properties of dyes showed maximum absorption transitions in this order Mv < Dp < Pg < Cy. Reactivity descriptors revealed relationship between light-harvesting-efficiency (LHE) and chemical hardness (η) for dye molecules in the order Cy < Pg < Dp < Mv. Cy-sensitized solar cell has the highest efficiency among anthocyanidins and this is in agreement with reported empirical report. Thorough understanding of the electronic factors that contribute to light absorption is necessary to select chromophores whose structural characteristics maximize the overall performance of the DSSCs.