bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Interactive Shared Book Reading on Children's Language Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Noble Claire , Cameron-Faulkner Thea , Jessop Andrew , Coates Anna , Sawyer Hannah , Taylor-Ims Rachel , Rowland Caroline F. 
Published: June 2020

PurposeResearch has indicated that interactive shared book reading can support a wide range of early language skills and that children who are read to regularly in the early years learn language faster, enter school with a larger vocabulary, and become more successful readers at school. Despite the large volume of research suggesting interactive shared reading is beneficial for language development, two fundamental issues remain outstanding: whether shared book reading interventions are equally effective (a) for children from all socioeconomic backgrounds and (b) for a range of language skills.MethodTo address these issues, we conducted a randomized controlled trial to investigate the effects of two 6-week interactive shared reading interventions on a range of language skills in children across the socioeconomic spectrum. One hundred and fifty children aged between 2;6 and 3;0 (years;months) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a pause reading, a dialogic reading, or an active shared reading control condition.ResultsThe findings indicated that the interventions were effective at changing caregiver reading behaviors. However, the interventions did not boost children's language skills over and above the effect of an active reading control condition. There were also no effects of socioeconomic status.ConclusionThis randomized controlled trial showed that caregivers from all socioeconomic backgrounds successfully adopted an interactive shared reading style. However, while the interventions were effective at increasing caregivers' use of interactive shared book reading behaviors, this did not have a significant impact on the children's language skills. The findings are discussed in terms of practical implications and future research.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12420539
Wie verändert die COVID-19-Pandemie unsere Sexualitäten? Eine Übersicht medialer Narrative im Frühjahr 2020
Authors: Döring Nicola , Walter Roberto 
Published: June 2020

Zusammenfassung
Einleitung Anlässlich der COVID-19-Pandemie wurden ab März 2020 in Deutschland und vielen anderen Ländern weitreichende Infektionsschutzmaßnahmen verhängt. Deren Auswirkungen auf Individuen und Gesellschaft waren sofort Gegenstand intensiver medialer Debatten.
Forschungsziele Vor diesem Hintergrund verfolgt die vorliegende Studie das Ziel, die medialen Narrative speziell zu sexualitätsbezogenen Veränderungen durch die COVID-19-Pandemie herauszuarbeiten.
Methoden Dazu wurde eine Stichprobe von N = 305 massenmedialen Beiträgen aus dem Februar und März 2020 hinsichtlich 1) der behandelten Aspekte von Sexualität (z. B. Partnersex, Solosex), 2) der angebotenen Corona-Sex-Narrative (z. B. Mehr-Partnersex-Narrativ; Weniger-Partnersex-Narrativ) sowie 3) der Meta-Narrative (z. B. Krise als Chance, Krise als Risiko, Krise als Chance und Risiko zugleich) analysiert. Zudem wurden exemplarisch Beiträge aus Sozialen Medien untersucht. Die Studie folgt dem Open Science Ansatz: Stichprobe, Codebuch, Reliabilitätskoeffizienten und Datensatz sind über den Server der Open Science Foundation zugänglich (
https://osf.io/ew6t3/
).
Ergebnisse Es zeigte sich, dass in den Massenmedien Veränderungen beim Partnersex und Solosex sowie hinsichtlich verschiedener Aspekte sexueller und reproduktiver Gesundheit und Rechte auf der Agenda standen. Dabei wurden für Partnersex teilweise und für Solosex durchgängig Corona-Sex-Narrative angeboten, die eine Verbesserung der Situation in dem Sinne behaupten, dass es zu mehr und zu lustvollerem Sex kommt. Gleichzeitig gingen die problembezogenen Corona-Sex-Narrative fast durchgängig von einer Verschlimmerung der Lage aus, etwa einem Mehr an sexualisierter häuslicher Gewalt, einem Mehr an Zugangshürden zum Schwangerschaftsabbruch, einem Mehr an Ungewissheiten bei Schwangerschaft und Geburt, einem Mehr an ökonomisch existenzbedrohlichen Lagen in der Sexarbeit und einem Mehr an Diskriminierung von LGBTIQ-Personen.
Schlussfolgerung Im medialen Diskurs über sexualitätsbezogene Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie zeigten sich zwei auffällige Tendenzen: Eine sehr sexpositive, kommerzfreundliche bis geradezu glorifizierende Würdigung von Solosex und Onlinesex sowie eine starke Sensibilisierung für bestimmte Einschränkungen der sexuellen und reproduktiven Selbstbestimmung. Es bleibt unklar, inwiefern die medialen Corona-Sex-Narrative tatsächliche Veränderungen umfassend und akkurat abbilden, da dazu empirische Daten fehlen.
Quantification and Pathogenicity of Candida albicans in Denture-Wearing and Nondenture-Wearing Elderly
Authors: Bachtiar Boy M. , Fath Turmidzi , Widowati Retno , Bachtiar Endang W. 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
Objective The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the microbial loads and pathogenicity traits of oral Candida albicans in denture-wearing (DW; n = 15) and nondenture-wearing (NDW; n = 15) elderly persons.
Materials and Methods The fungal counts of the saliva, tongue dorsa, and prosthesis-fitting surfaces of the participants were assessed using real-time polymerase chain reaction to compare the quantity and expression of selected C. albicans biofilm-associated genes (ALS3, HWP1, and YWP1).
Statistical Analysis The obtained data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance, followed by Bartlett’s test. When appropriate, the Student’s t-test was also used; a value of p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results In both groups, the count of C. albicans was found to be significantly higher in saliva than in other oral samples. The expression of the hypha-specific genes (ALS3 and HWP1) in the tongue dorsa was higher in the DW group (p < 0.05), whereas the transcription level of the yeast-specific gene (YWP1) was significantly higher in the NDW group.
Conclusion Both tongue dorsa and dentures appear to be sharing factors that are important for C. albicans biofilm growth in abiotic and biotic oral surfaces of the elderly.
Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with
semantic properties
Authors: Romagno Domenica 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
In the present paper, we show that: (1) the
accusative of respect, a case marker for inalienable possession in
ancient Greek, represents a strategy for aligning syntactic roles
and case marking with animacy; (2) this hypothesis can consistently
account for a series of issues that remained unsettled; (3) the
semantic properties of the predicate involved in the accusative of
respect are fundamental to defining its function and specifically
govern its distribution. Our analysis comprises Greek literary
texts, from Homer to the fifth century B.C.
Parallel syncretism in early Indo-European
Authors: Rapaport Steve 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
Oblique-oblique case mergers are now known to be
exceedingly rare outside Indo-European, yet very common within it
(Baerman, Brown, and
Corbett, 2001, 2005). Explanations of these mergers given after 2001
now need to include factors that are, individually or collectively,
unique to Indo-European. In this paper, a set of such Indo-European
specific factors is proposed, mainly phonological and prosodic, and
its implications explored, particularly for the Germanic, Italic and
Celtic families. We begin with Proto-Indo-European accent and ablaut
morphology and PIE’s existing syncretism of the ablative case.
Timelines and examples in Proto-Germanic help flesh out the
explanation.
Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in
diachronic perspective
Authors: Ortiz Ciscomani Rosa María 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
This paper analyses the diachronic behavior (12th
to 20th centuries) of the ditransitive predications, with Direct
Object (DO) and Indirect Object (IO), coded by Noun Phrases in
Spanish. The analysis accounts for the properties of those
participants, possessor and possessed respectively, and the verbs in
the constructions. The analytic approach assumes that transitivity
is a scalar phenomenon, without distinction between actantial and
non-actantial dative. The possessive dative is an
IO that refers to the possessor of the DO, while the ditransitive
construction is an extension of the prototypical ditransitive. Our
claim is that the construction i) gives relevance to the possessor
over the possessed, and ii) shows that diachronically the DO has
lexically diversified from concrete to non-concrete and animate
entities, especially from the 16th century onwards.
The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance
Authors: Cennamo Michela 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
This article discusses some aspects of the
reorganization of voice distinctions in the transition from Latin to
Romance, namely the grammaticalization of activity (do /
make) and change of state (become) verbs as
markers of the passive voice, and the reanalysis of the reflexive
morpheme se as a voice modulator, focussing on patterns of
invariance (i.e., persistence) of Latin inheritance and principled
differences (i.e., divergence) in the type and extent of variation
and further developments in this area of Romance morphosyntax.
Synchrony, diachrony, and indexicality
Authors: Andersen Henning 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
This paper is about the current disconnect
between synchronic and diachronic linguistics and the need for
historical linguists to take the lead in addressing the big issues
in morphology: how agglutination develops into fusion and symbolism,
how these techniques are maintained through time, how they devolve
into agglutinative or isolating patterns. The formation and
reanalysis of allomorphy are central to these developments. The
paper advocates a theory of the morphological sign by which
allomorphs form subsidiary paradigms and the individual allomorph is
both symbol and index: it stands for its exponendum and points to
features of its environment. This articulate conception facilitates
the detailed analysis and interpretation both of synchronic patterns
and of the gradual typological transformations of inflectional
systems.
Remotivating inflectional classes
Authors: Gaeta Livio 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
In Titsch, a Walser German dialect spoken in the
Aosta Valley, a remodeling of the old strong/weak verb classes found
in the rest of the Germanic languages has taken place, whereby verbs
belonging to the strong class turn out to display both strong and
weak past participles. This outcome results from the reuse or
exaptation of the original morphological differentiation based on a
purely lexically-governed distribution which has been remotivated by
associating the morphological features with specific constructional
schemas resulting from several processes of grammaticalization.
Old French si, grammaticalisation, and the
interconnectedness of change
Authors: Wolfe Sam 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
The particle SI is ubiquitous across the early
French textual record, yet receives no uniform analysis, with
numerous competing and often contradictory claims in the literature
about its distribution and formal status. This study draws on a
novel diachronic corpus analysis to put forward an original analysis
of SI, under which it is not the homogeneous entity often assumed
but rather an adverbial which grammaticalises as a topic-continuity
marker and, later, two forms of V2-related expletive. SI loses its
previously specific temporal and discourse-pragmatic meaning, shows
a widening of distribution and occupies an increasingly high
position within the left periphery. In these respects it is shown to
instantiate a classic form of upwards grammaticalisation
pathway.
The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian
languages
Authors: Bubenik Vit , Ziamajidi Leila 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
This paper focuses on the long-term
grammaticalization of tense/aspect systems in the West Iranian
languages, beginning with Old Iranian (Section 1). In Middle Persian (Section 2) the Aorist and the
reduplicative Perfect of Old Persian were replaced by a new system
of analytic constructions. The fundamental mechanism in the rise of
the innovative Preterit (perfective) and Perfect categories was the
process of grammaticalization, reducing the auxiliary ‘be’ into
suffixes of the innovative Preterit. In Early New Persian (Section 3) an unambiguous
Perfect was recreated by attaching personal suffixes to the Perfect
stem. In the second part of the paper (Section 4) we turn to the elaboration of the
evidential (‘non-witnessed’) subsystem in New Persian through
grammaticalization and possible Turkic influence. A typological
parallel in the southernmost Slavic languages (Section 5) is provided.
On the grammaticalization of the -(v)ši-
resultative in North Slavic
Authors: Danylenko Andrii 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
It is commonly accepted that the
-(v)ši- resultatives in North Slavic are a
product of the areal diffusion of a similar resultative formation in
-vęs- (< *-ṷes-) from
Baltic. The author argues that the anterior grammaticalization of
the -(v)ši- resultative in North Slavic has been
largely an internally motivated process. The analysis is premised on
the distinction of spoken vs. written discourse which preconditions
the parallel use of finite and non-finite predication, including the
resultative structures, in the history and dialects of North Slavic.
The author argues that language contact was but one of several
factors influencing the convergent tendencies in the use of
resultatives in the Circum-Baltic zone and well beyond.
The rich get richer
Authors: Sundquist John D. 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
This study investigates five common light verbs
in an Old Swedish corpus of texts from 1225–1526, focusing on the
increasing frequency with which light verbs combine with an
ever-widening range of NP-objects. Tools of statistical analysis
from network science and ecology are used to track changes in
frequency and diversity. Results indicate that light verbs are a
small, closed class of verbs with unique historical properties that
set them apart from more lexically-specific verbs. The way in which
they grow more frequent and diverse is typical of the
“rich-get-richer” phenomenon of preferential attachment in studies
of dynamic network growth.
Contact-induced change and the phonemicization of the vowel /ɑ/
in Quảng Nam Vietnamese
Authors: Pham Andrea Hoa 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
This paper is an account of the emergence of the
low, back, unrounded vowel /ɑ/ in the Quảng Nam dialect spoken in
south central Vietnam. This vowel is not seen in any other dialects.
The paper provides evidence for a trace of this vowel in two
subdialects of Hà Tĩnh province, north central Vietnam (Phạm, 1997, 2014, 2016), and claims that the Quảng Nam /ɑ/
originated from Hà Tĩnh dialects through migration. It was brought
to Quảng Nam by early settlers mainly during the 15th to 18th
centuries, where the vowel was further internally restructured
through various linguistic processes. The Quảng Nam /ɑ/, therefore,
originates from two sources: dialect contact and internal
restructuring.
Compact, magnetically actuated, additively manufactured pumps for liquids and gases
Authors: Taylor Anthony P , Izquierdo Reyes Javier , Velásquez-García Luis Fernando 
Published: June 2020

AbstractWe report the proof-of-concept demonstration of novel, valve-less, and magnetically actuated miniature (∼1 cm3) positive displacement pumps for liquids and gases—both single-material-printed pumps with embedded sintered magnets and the first monolithic, fully 3D-printed, multi-material magnetic pumps in the literature; a valve-less design greatly simplifies the pump’s operation and consumes less power compared to designs with active valves, and is less prone to clogging than designs with passive valves. The miniature diaphragm pumps are fabricated using 150μm-thick to 225μm-thick layers via fused filament fabrication; the structural parts are printed in pure Nylon 12, while the magnet that makes possible the actuation of the pump chamber is either monolithically printed in Nylon 12 embedded with NdFeB micro-particles or press-fit into the pump after single-material printing of the enclosing piston. The fabrication of the pumps employs a novel multi-material-compatible 3D printing process flow that monolithically creates all features with less than 13μm of in-plane misalignment. Pump fabrication takes below 75 min to complete and costs under $3.89 in materials. The devices are driven by a rotating magnet and can deliver liquid flow rates as large as 7.88 ml min−1at 198 Hz for sintered magnet pumps (N35 grade) and 1.68 ml min−1at 204 Hz for the devices with monolithically 3D-printed magnets (∼N4 grade); the results surpass state-of-the-art, 3D-printed miniature liquid pumps. Actuation of a pump in excess of 14.4 million cycles shows no evidence of degradation, e.g. leaks. A pump with sintered magnet (N48 grade) was characterized as a vacuum pump using air as working fluid, achieving an ultimate pressure of 540 Torr in a 0.61 ml pumping volume and up to 9.3 ml min−1flow rate at 230 Hz actuation; the results compare well with miniature, commercial, non-3D-printed vacuum pumps.
Fabrication of a polycrystalline SiGe- and Ge-on-insulator by Ge condensation of amorphous SiGe on a SiO2/Si substrate
Authors: Lin Guangyang , Liang Dongxue , Huang Zhiwei , Yu Chunyu , Cui Peng , Zhang Jie , Wang Jianyuan , Xu Jianfang , Chen Songyan , Li Cheng , Zeng Yuping 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
In this work, the Ge condensation effect of amorphous SiGe on a SiO2/Si substrate is systematically investigated. As Ge condensation proceeds, the Ge content gradually enriches from an initial 0.24–1.0 with improving crystal quality. The enlargement of the grain size results in gradual roughening of the surface roughness. As the Ge content reaches 0.36, a high hole mobility of ∼211 cm2 · V−1 · s−1 is achieved with a hole concentration of ∼3.7 × 1015 cm−3. As the Ge content further accumulates, the grain number increases resulting in a higher hole concentration. The film mobility gradually deteriorates probably due to the following factors: strong impurity scattering at high hole concentration, increase of grain boundaries, decrease of SiGe thickness, and increase of surface roughness. A polycrystalline Ge-on-insulator with a hole concentration of ∼5.1 × 1018 cm−3 and mobility of ∼15 cm2 · V−1 · s−1 is ultimately fabricated. The investigation provides a promising method to fabricate a high hole mobility SiGe-on-insulator platform from low-cost amorphous SiGe.
Reconstructing complex system dynamics from time series: a method comparison
Authors: Hassanibesheli Forough , Boers Niklas , Kurths Jürgen 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
Modeling complex systems with large numbers of degrees of freedom has become a grand challenge over the past decades. In many situations, only a few variables are actually observed in terms of measured time series, while the majority of variables—which potentially interact with the observed ones—remain hidden. A typical approach is then to focus on the comparably few observed, macroscopic variables, assuming that they determine the key dynamics of the system, while the remaining ones are represented by noise. This naturally leads to an approximate, inverse modeling of such systems in terms of stochastic differential equations (SDEs), with great potential for applications from biology to finance and Earth system dynamics. A well-known approach to retrieve such SDEs from small sets of observed time series is to reconstruct the drift and diffusion terms of a Langevin equation from the data-derived Kramers–Moyal (KM) coefficients. For systems where interactions between the observed and the unobserved variables are crucial, the Mori–Zwanzig formalism (MZ) allows to derive generalized Langevin equations that contain non-Markovian terms representing these interactions. In a similar spirit, the empirical model reduction (EMR) approach has more recently been introduced. In this work we attempt to reconstruct the dynamical equations of motion of both synthetical and real-world processes, by comparing these three approaches in terms of their capability to reconstruct the dynamics and statistics of the underlying systems. Through rigorous investigation of several synthetical and real-world systems, we confirm that the performance of the three methods strongly depends on the intrinsic dynamics of the system at hand. For instance, statistical properties of systems exhibiting weak history-dependence but strong state-dependence of the noise forcing, can be approximated better by the KM method than by the MZ and EMR approaches. In such situations, the KM method is of a considerable advantage since it can directly approximate the state-dependent noise. However, limitations of the KM approximation arise in cases where non-Markovian effects are crucial in the dynamics of the system. In these situations, our numerical results indicate that methods that take into account interactions between observed and unobserved variables in terms of non-Markovian closure terms (i.e., the MZ and EMR approaches), perform comparatively better.
Covariance matrix entanglement criterion for an arbitrary set of operators
Authors: Tripathi Vinay , Radhakrishnan Chandrashekar , Byrnes Tim 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
A criterion for entanglement detection based on covariance matrices for an arbitrary set of observables is formulated. The method generalizes the covariance matrix entanglement criterion by Simon (2000 Phys. Rev. Lett.
84 2726) to a more general set of operators using the positive partial transpose test for the covariance matrix. The relation is found by starting from the generalized uncertainty relation for multiple operators, and taking the partial transpose on the bipartition. The method is highly efficient and versatile in the sense that the set of measurement operators can be freely chosen, and there is no constraint on the commutation relations. The main restriction on the chosen set of measurement operators is that the correlators and expectation values of the partially transposed observable operators can be evaluated. The method is particularly suited for systems with higher dimensionality since the computations do not scale with the dimension of the Hilbert space—rather they scale with the number of chosen observables. We illustrate the approach by examining the entanglement between two spin ensembles, and show that it detects entanglement in a basis independent way.
Variation tolerance for high-speed negative capacitance FinFET SRAM bit cell
Authors: Qian Yaqian , Qiao Shushan , Yang Rongqiang 
Published: June 2020

Abstract
Negative capacitance FinFET (NC-FinFET) has a promising developmental prospect due to its superior performance in SS < 60 mV/dec (subthreshold swing), especially in SRAM. Noise margin is an important metric to evaluate the performance for SRAM, together with static leakage, read speed, etc. In this paper, we study the effects of the variation of ferroelectric material (thickness, polarization), FinFET critical physical parameters (fin number, channel length) and some ambient factors (working temperature, supply voltage) on the performance of NC-FinFET SRAM within the reasonable fluctuation tolerance range. The SRAM bit cell is analyzed with a basic 6T structure. The impact of fin number and channel length for NC-FinFET SRAM is different from that of conventional FinFETs. Additionally, the ferroelectric material and some other factors are assessed in detail.