bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Value configurations in sharing economy business models
Authors: Reuschl Andreas , Tiberius Victor , Filser Matthias , Qiu Yixin 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThe sharing economy gains momentum and develops a major economic impact on traditional markets and firms. However, only rudimentary theoretical and empirical insights exist on how sharing networks, i.e., focal firms, shared goods providers and customers, create and capture value in their sharing-based business models. We conduct a qualitative study to find key differences in sharing-based business models that are decisive for their value configurations. Our results show that (1) customization versus standardization of shared goods and (2) the centralization versus particularization of property rights over the shared goods are two important dimensions to distinguish value configurations. A second, quantitative study confirms the visibility and relevance of these dimensions to customers. We discuss strategic options for focal firms to design value configurations regarding the two dimensions to optimize value creation and value capture in sharing networks. Firms can use this two-dimensional search grid to explore untapped opportunities in the sharing economy.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Survivorship with a Focus on the Low-grade and Benign Brain Tumor Populations
Authors: Worrell Stacey L. , Kirschner Michelle L. , Shatz Rhonna S. , Sengupta Soma , Erickson Melissa G. 
Published: January 2021

AbstractPurpose of Review“Brain tumor is a bump in the road.” Sheryl Crow a famous singer was quoted talking about her meningioma, a benign brain tumor that caused her to forget her lyrics. In this review, we focus on low-grade gliomas in adults and benign brain tumors, such as meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, and pituitary tumors, since these individuals survive a long time and morbidity is a major issue.Recent FindingsAs per the NCI dictionary definition, cancer survivorship focuses on thehealth and well-beingof a person with cancer from the time of diagnosis until the end of life. This includes the physical, mental, emotional, social, and financial effects of cancer that begin at diagnosis and continue through treatment and beyond.SummaryThe survivorship experience also includes issues related to follow-up care (including regular health and wellness checkups), late effects of treatment, cancer recurrence, second cancers, and quality of life. Family members, friends, and caregivers are also considered part of the survivorship experience (NCI Dictionary:https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms).
Lacking Evidence to Recommend Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Definitive Radiotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
Authors: Böhmer Dirk , Grün Arne 
Published: January 2021

AbstractWe comment on the paper of Di Maria Jiang et al. published in Current Oncology Reports 2020, 10.1007/s11912-020-0880-5. We disagree on a major recommendation of the authors because of lacking evidence. This response is considered to be important for readers of Current Oncology Reports.
Assessment of determinants of behavioral problems among primary school children in Mangalore city of South India
Authors: Joseph Nitin , Sinha Ushasti , D’Souza Mariella 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThe primary aim of this study addresses a key question relating to the identification of the determinants of behavioral problems among primary school children. The secondary aim was to suggest remedial measures among teachers on how to deal with behavioral problems among students. An assessment of students studying from Class 2 to 5 was taken by the teachers using the Rutter Children Behavior Questionnaire to identify the ones with behavioral problems. Determinants of behavioral problems were identified using a self-administered questionnaire filled by the mothers of these children. Finally discussion on various findings of this study were done among the primary school teachers through a focus group discussion. Suggestions on how to deal with these problems were given to the teachers. Out of the 750 students who took part in this study, 65(8.7%) were identified by their teachers to have behavioral problems. Children whose biological parents were not currently married, those reported to have undergone physical harm routinely as a disciplinary measure, those with maternal history of inadequate diet during the related antenatal period and those belonging to nuclear families had behavioral problems in multivariable analysis. Adequate nutritional care need to be taken during early developmental years and correct disciplinary methods need to be advised to prevent behavioral problems among children.
Intrapartum Fetal Heart Monitoring Practices in Selected Facilities in Aspirational Districts of Jharkhand, Odisha and Uttarakhand
Authors: Sarin Enisha , Bajpayee Devina , Kumar Arvind , Dastidar Sourav Ghosh , Chandra Subodh , Panda Ranjan , Taneja Gunjan , Gupta Sachin , Kumar Harish 
Published: January 2021

AbstractBackgroundThe risk of mortality for the mother and the newborn is aggravated during birth in low- and middle-income countries due to preventable causes, which can be addressed with increased quality of care practices. One such practice is intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring, which is crucial for the early detection of fetal ischemia, but is inadequately monitored in low- and middle-income countries. In India, there is currently a lack of sufficient data on FHR monitoring.MethodsAn assessment using facility records, interviews and observation was conducted in seven facilities providing tertiary, secondary or primary level care in aspirational districts of three states. The study sought to investigate the frequency of monitoring, devices used for monitoring and challenges in usage.ResultsFHR was not monitored as per standard protocol. Case sheets revealed 70% of labor was monitored at least once. Only 33% of observed cases were monitored every half hour during active labor, and none were monitored every 5 min during the second stage of labor. More time was observed for monitoring with a Doppler compared with a stethoscope, as providers reported fluctuation in readings. Reportedly, low audibility and a perceived need of expertise were associated with using a stethoscope. High case load and the time required for monitoring were reported as challenges in adhering to standard monitoring protocols.ConclusionThe introduction of a standardized device and a short refresher training on the World Health Organization and skilled birth attendant protocols for FHR monitoring will improve usage and compliance.
MiR-27b-3p inhibits the progression of renal fibrosis via suppressing STAT1
Authors: Bai Lin , Lin Yongtao , Xie Juan , Zhang Yiyuan , Wang Hongwu , Zheng Donghui 
Published: January 2021

AbstractRenal fibrosis is a pathologic change in chronic kidney disease (CKD). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been shown to play an important role in the development of renal fibrosis. However, the biological role of miR-27b-3p in renal fibrosis remains unclear. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the role of miR-27b-3p in the progression of renal fibrosis. In this study, HK-2 cells were stimulated with transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 for mimicking fibrosis progression in vitro. The unilateral ureteric obstruction (UUO)-induced mice renal fibrosis in vivo was established as well. The results indicated that the overexpression of miR-27b-3p significantly inhibited epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in TGF-β1-stimulated HK-2 cells, as shown by the decreased expressions of α-SMA, collagen III, Fibronectin and Vimentin. In addition, overexpression of miR-27b-3p markedly decreased TGF-β1-induced apoptosis in HK-2 cells, as evidenced by the decreased levels of Fas, active caspase 8 and active caspase 3. Meanwhile, dual-luciferase assay showed that miR-27b-3p downregulated signal transducers and activators of transcription 1 (STAT1) expression through direct binding with the 3′-UTR of STAT1. Furthermore, overexpression of miR-27b-3p attenuated UUO-induced renal fibrosis via downregulation of STAT1, α-SMA and collagen III. In conclusion, miR-27b-3p overexpression could alleviate renal fibrosis via suppressing STAT1 in vivo and in vitro. Therefore, miR-27b-3p might be a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of renal fibrosis.
Experimental and numerical modeling to investigate the riverbank’s stability
Authors: Aldefae Asad H. , Alkhafaji Rusul A. 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to assess the failure mechanism of riverbanks due to stream flow experimentally and numerically to avoid recurring landslides by identifying the most dangerous place and treating them by a suitable method. The experiments and the physical models were carried out to study the failure mechanism of riverbank and evaluation of their stability in two cases: short-term condition and long-term condition flow where three models were tested. The Tigris River (Iraq) is considered as a model in this paper in terms of the applied velocity and modeled soil of the banks it was used at the same characteristics in the prototype scale. Also, a numerical simulation was performed using the FLOW-3D program to determine the velocity distribution and to identify the areas subjected to the high stress levels through the water flow. The obtained results in this paper are inspecting of failure mechanism types that occur under the influence of specific limits of flow velocity, which have shown good compatibility with the type of failure in the prototype scale. In addition to calculating the amount of soil erosion, the failure angle, and the amount of soil settlement at the riverbank model is investigated also. The results of experimental work and numerical simulation were well matched, where the standard error rate for Froude number ranged between (1.8%–6.6%), and the flow depth between (2.7%–6.9%).
The Greatest Movie Never Made: The Life of the Buddha as Cold War Politics
Authors: Harrington Laura 
Published: January 2021

ABSTRACTThis article explores the backstory of a 1953 screenplay on the life of the Buddha conceived by the CIA as a psychological warfare strategy to draw Asian Buddhists away from the Communist orbit and into the Free World. Developed in collaboration with Ceylonese Buddhist scholar G. P. Malalasekera,Tathagata: The Wayfarer(hereafter,Wayfarer) is best read through the lens of the U.S. Campaign of Truth propaganda effort launched by Truman in 1950. I draw on declassified government documents and archives to highlight the screenplay's trajectory as a covert attempt by the U.S. government to work with Asian Buddhists to further U.S. foreign policy needs in Asia and to demonstrate a truth rarely recognized by scholars of religion and American culture: For the early Cold War American state, Buddhism was an object of foreign policy.
Pentecostals, Israel, and the Prophetic Politics of Dominion
Authors: Williams Joseph 
Published: January 2021

ABSTRACTThis essay traces the evolution of a specific tradition of prophecy interpretation in U.S. pentecostal-charismatic circles, which I dub the “prophetic politics of dominion.” From the start, this strain of pentecostal-charismatic religiosity merged transnational sensibilities with dominion-style language but typically shied away from overt political organization. Building on Israel-themed symbols and ideas acquired from nineteenth-century evangelical prophecy interpretation, a small but influential group of white proto-pentecostals and early pentecostals embraced a distinctive set of eschatological teachings known as British Israelism and its attendant literal racial identification of Anglo-Saxons with Jews. Such emphases bolstered a conviction that spirit-empowered Christians would exert significant influence on global politics prior to the Second Coming of Jesus. In the ensuing decades, a vocal minority of notable pentecostals and their charismatic successors kept alive similar emphases even as they eschewed the highly racialized conceptions of pentecostal connections to the “Lost Tribes of Israel.” More comfortable employing Christian millennial tropes than engaging pragmatic politics, these figures, nevertheless, anticipated the rapid Christianization of society and their own ascendance to positions of spiritual and temporal power in preparation for Christ's return. All the while, Israel-centric symbols and identities remained central. The crystallization of this transnational, dominion-now tradition, with its unique Israel-centric emphases and millennial motifs, represented one of the most significant—and most misunderstood—contributions to evangelical politics by U.S. pentecostals and charismatics over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Remarkable cases of parallel evolution of the placodioid thallus growth form in theLecanographaceae(Arthoniales) with the description of a new species ofAlyxoriafrom Mexico
Authors: Ertz Damien , Huereca Alejandro , Salcedo-Martínez Sergio Manuel , Tehler Anders 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThe new speciesAlyxoria sierramadrensisis described from Mexico where it inhabits limestone rocks. The lichen developing from this fungus is characterized by a placodioid to subfoliose thallus with a white pruinose surface; rounded to shortly elongated ascomata with a black epruinose margin and a widely exposed, white pruinose hymenial disc; hyaline, 3-septate ascospores, 17–25 × 7–9 μm; the presence of anthraquinones rendering the medulla orange. Phylogenetic analyses of nuLSU, mtSSU andRPB2sequences place this species in the genusAlyxoria(Lecanographaceae). This generic affiliation is surprising because all knownAlyxoriaspecies have a crustose thallus.Lecanographaceaemainly includes species without a thallus (lichenicolous taxa) or with a thin crustose thallus, the only exception beingSimonyella variegatawith a fruticose thallus. The new species belongs to theAlyxoria ochrocheilasubgroup, which includes lichens also frequently known to have anthraquinones, white pruinose hymenial discs and 3-septate ascospores. Phylogenetic analyses further determined the systematic position of the monotypic genusPhoebus. This genus, considered as anArthonialesof uncertain family affiliation, is shown to belong to theLecanographaceae. With its placodioid thallus, it is another example of a lichenized fungus with a deviating morphology in thallus structure for the family, increasing the number of remarkable cases of parallel evolution of lichen growth forms within theArthoniales.Phoebus hydrophobiusis newly recorded for Mexico.
New methods for mycocalicioid fungi
Authors: Tuovila Hanna , Huhtinen Seppo 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThe identification of mycocalicioid species continues to be based on morphological and chemical characters, even though molecular data and substratum preferences can provide many important insights into specific problems associated with species delimitation and other taxonomic challenges. Our results reinforce the usefulness of many morphological and chemical characteristics and reveal several new features that can be used for both species delimitation and identification. Given the fact that mycocalicioid species can rarely be distinguished by just a single character, combinations of different chemical and morphological characteristics must be used. Additional characteristics must also be sought, including those that have previously been overlooked or still need to be discovered. As a result of this search, we introduce a new term, pseudohemiamyloid, for a reversible, KOH resistant/enhanced reaction in Lugol's solution.
Plural marking in the second language: Atomicity, definiteness, and transfer
Authors: Choi Sea Hee , Ionin Tania 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThis paper examines whether second language (L2)-English learners whose native languages (L1; Korean and Mandarin) lack obligatory plural marking transfer the properties of plural marking from their L1s, and whether transfer is manifested both offline (in a grammaticality judgment task) and online (in a self-paced reading task). The online task tests the predictions of the morphological congruency hypothesis (Jiang 2007), according to which L2 learners have particular difficulty automatically activating the meaning of L2 morphemes that are incongruent with their L1. Experiment 1 tests L2 learners’ sensitivity to errors of–soversuppliance with mass nouns, while Experiment 2 tests their sensitivity to errors of–somission with count nouns. The findings show that (a) L2 learners detect errors with nonatomic mass nouns (sunlights) but not atomic ones (furnitures), both offline and online; and (b) L1-Korean L2-English learners are more successful than L1-Mandarin L2-English learners in detecting missing–swith definite plurals (these boat), while the two groups behave similarly with indefinite plurals (many boat). Given that definite plurals require plural marking in Korean but not in Mandarin, the second finding is consistent with L1-transfer. Overall, the findings show that learners are able to overcome morphological incongruency and acquire novel uses of L2 morphemes.
A Sound of Silence in the Archives: On Eighteenth-Century Russian Diplomacy and the Historical Episteme of Central Asian Hostility
Authors: Sartori Paolo 
Published: January 2021

AbstractCui bonoinformation and record keeping? In his most recent work devoted to the study of British and French imperialism in the Levant in early modern history, Cornel Zwierlein has argued that “empires are built on ignorance.” It is, of course, true that during the old regime Western knowledge of things “Oriental” was patently defective, marked as it was by blind spots and glaring gaps; and if observed in the broader context of European colonialism in Asia, the British and French cases are hardly exceptional. Sanjay Subrahmanyam'sEurope's Indiahas shown compellingly that the Portuguese, too, blindly forged ahead in their imperial expansion into South Asia, with a good dose of improvisation. By focusing on a mission to Khiva, Bukhara, and Balkh in 1732, I set out to show that the Russian venture in Asia too was premised upon ignorance, among other things. More specifically, I argue that diplomatic and commercial relations between Russia and Central Asia developed in parallel with the neglect of intelligence gathered and made available in imperial archives. Reflecting on the fact that the Russian enterprise in Asia was minimally dependent on information allows us to complicate the reductive equation of knowledge to power, which originates from the “archival turn.” Many today regard archives as reflective of projects of documentation, which granted epistemological virtue to the texts stored, ordered, and preserved therein. The archives generated truth claims, we are told, about hierarchies of knowledge produced by states and, by doing so, they effectively operated as a technological apparatus bolstering the state. However, not all the texts which we find in archivesalwaysretained their pristine epistemic force. To historicise the uses, misuses, and, more importantly, the practices of purposeful neglect of records invites us to revisit the quality of transregional connectivity across systems of signification in the early modern period.
Reimbursement for Nursing Services: Issues and Trends
Authors: Baker Nancy 
Published: January 2021

Americans have long wanted a health care system that is accessible, comprehensive and affordable. Our failure to accomplish these goals has resulted in a resurgence of interest in national health insurance as a mechanism for increasing access, expanding the scope of services, and controlling costs.Unfortunately, the health care industry (which is really a sick care industry) has fostered dependence on the two most expensive components of care: physician services and hospitalization. This situation has evolved from several historical themes, three of which threaten to perpetuate our inflationary system and prevent reimbursement for non-physicians:1.failure to distinguish between medical care and health care2.control of the industry by physicians and hospital administrators3.lack of recognition for and undervaluing of the services of nursesAll of these factors have reduced the health options for consumers and have been demoralizing for nurses. This discussion will focus on various ways these issues impact upon the contributions nurses can make.
Prosociality in Majority Decisions: A Laboratory Experiment on the Robustness of the Uncovered Set
Authors: Sauermann Jan 
Published: January 2021

AbstractSocial choice theory demonstrates that majority rule is generically indeterminate. However, from an empirical perspective, large and arbitrary policy shifts are rare events in politics. The uncovered set (UCS) is the dominant preference-based explanation for the apparent empirical predictability of majority rule in multiple dimensions. Its underlying logic assumes that voters act strategically, considering the ultimate consequences of their actions. I argue that all empirical applications of the UCS rest on an incomplete behavioral model assuming purely egoistically motivated individuals. Beyond material self-interest, prosocial motivations offer an additional factor to explain the outcomes of majority rule. I test my claim in a series of committee decision-making experiments in which I systematically vary the fairness properties of the policy space while keeping the location of the UCS constant. The experimental results overwhelmingly support the prosociality explanation.
Optimization and Representativeness of Atmospheric Chemical Sampling by Hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Over Tropical Forests
Authors: Ma Yongjing , Ye Jianhuai , Ribeiro Igor Oliveira , Vilà‐Guerau de Arellano Jordi , Xin Jinyuan , Zhang Wenyu , Souza Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de , Martin Scot T. 
Published: January 2021

AbstractAtmospheric chemical species play critical roles in ecosystem functioning and climate, but spatially resolving near‐surface concentrations has been challenging. In this regard, hovering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent an emerging technology. The study herein provides guidance for optimized atmospheric sampling by hovering copter‐type UAVs. Large‐eddy simulations are conducted for species having chemical lifetimes ranging from reactive (i.e., 102s) to long‐lived (i.e., 108s). The case study of fair‐weather conditions over an equatorial tropical forest is used because of previous UAV deployments in this region. A framework is developed of influence length and horizontal shift of upwind surface emissions. The framework quantifies the length scale of the contribution of upwind forest emissions to species concentrations sampled by the downwind hovering UAV. Main findings include the following: (1) sampling within an altitude that is no more than 200 m above the canopy is recommended for both high‐ and intermediate‐reactivity species because of the strong decrease in species concentration even in a highly turbulent atmosphere; (2) sampling durations of at least 5 and 10 min are recommended for intermediate‐ and high‐reactivity species, respectively, because of the effects of atmospheric turbulence; and (3) in the case of heterogeneity of emissions across the underlying landscape, maximum recommended altitudes are presented for horizontal sampling strategies that can resolve the variability in the landscape emissions. The coupled effects of emission rate, wind speed, species lifetime, turbulence, and UAV sampling duration on influence length must all be considered for optimized and representative sampling over forests.