bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Modulation of the peak velocities and gains of abduction and adduction saccades according to head position
Authors: Mino Hana , Sawamura Hiromasa , Takahashi Koji , Hara Hiroya , Kudo Yosuke , Yamanaka Kenzo , Kaida Tomoko , Miyata Kazunori , Aihara Makoto , Johkura Ken 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Purpose
To assess the effects of modifying head position and of static ocular counter-rolling (OCR) on abduction and adduction in saccadic eye movements using a head-mounted video-oculographic device.

Study design
A clinical observational study.

Methods
The peak velocities and amplitude gains of visually guided 12° saccades were binocularly measured in 21 healthy volunteers with their heads in the upright vertical (0°) and horizontal (± 90°, bilateral side-lying) postures, and in 6 participants with their head positions bilaterally tilted by 30°. The rotation angles of eyeballs generated via OCR in the bilateral 30° and 90° head positions were evaluated in five participants.

Results
Peak velocities and gains were significantly higher with the head in the 0° position compared to ± 90°. The decreases in peak velocities and gains at ± 90° were not affected by the apogeotropic or geotropic directions. Faster peak velocities and greater gains on abduction, rather than adduction, were observed under each test condition. The tendencies toward faster peak velocity and greater gain in the 0° head position rather than bilaterally tilted at 30° were preserved. The absolute rotation angles at ± 90° were larger than those at 30°.

Conclusions
Head position affected the peak velocities and gains of both abduction and adduction saccades. The findings suggest that modified force vectors exerted by different eye muscles recruited during OCR play a role. Our research provides valuable insights for assessing eye movements across various head positions.
An Exploratory Longitudinal Dyadic Analysis of Couple Attachment Trajectories
Authors: Dansby Olufowote Rachael A. , Bradshaw Spencer D. , Bean Roy A. 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThe purpose of this exploratory study was to first examine the dyadic trajectory of attachment change over a longer period (i.e., 5 years) than has been examined in previous research; second, to identify a mean trajectory of attachment security for couples with no history of contact with therapy as well as the effect of therapy utilization; and third, to examine couples’ attachment trajectories for gender differences. This study included 294 heterosexual married couples (78.6% European American). One-hundred and nine (37.07%) female partners and 121 (46.60%) male partners indicated that they had never utilized therapy prior to the study or during the study (had never utilized therapy at all). Research questions were explored using dyadic longitudinal multilevel modeling with pre-existing data. Results indicate overall that couples in this sample were low on attachment insecurity at the start of data collection and became slightly more insecure over a five-year span at a statistically significant, but likely unnoticeable rate. Couples with no therapy use-ever began the study with low attachment insecurity and remained relatively secure throughout the study. Couples who consistently received therapy before and during the study reported the highest levels of insecure attachment and increased in insecurity at a faster rate in comparison to those who had never attended therapy. Males who received consistent therapy before and during the study also demonstrated significantly greater attachment insecurity than their female partners. Therapy that does not specifically focus on attachment related issues is not likely to alter attachment styles. Clinicians may wish to investigate partners’ attachment histories, including complications from trauma or abuse, and tailor treatment to attachment related issues if attachment style change is a treatment goal. Future research could examine attachment change over time for couples of lower income, more diverse racial stratification, and experiencing greater relationship distress.
Individual and Firm Taxation in a CO$$_2$$ Emitting Economy
Authors: Lambertini Luca , Wrzaczek Stefan 
Published: January 2025

AbstractTypical problems of negative effects of CO$$_{2}$$ emissions are that (i) they are suffered and generated not by the same agent and that (ii) individuals consider them as too small to influence the aggregated effect. Additionally, only little is known about how the behavior depends on the age-composition of a population and individual age-dependent life-cycle effects. We address these issues by an overlapping generations (OLG) structured population and a firm sector producing a homogeneous final consumption good. While firms generate CO$$_{2}$$ emission during the production process, individuals suffer from the aggregated effect. We analyze the difference between the decentralized market and the social welfare solution and study to which extent social optimality can be attained with different taxes on individual consumption and/or production. We find that firm taxation is always sufficient to reach the socially optimal level of CO$$_{2}$$ emissions. A social optimal distribution of consumption across cohorts, however, can only be attained by firm taxes in the steady state. In the general case, i.e., along a dynamic transitional path, additionally age-specific individual taxation is needed.
Fingers crossed behind the back: tactics of hidden resistance in Russian wartime academia
Authors: Yatluk Lidia , Khukalenko Iuliia 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis study examines the transformation of scholarly activity and academic freedom in Russia under state military censorship and new ideological interventions following the outbreak of the war with Ukraine. Pre-war higher education was characterized by a significant number of restrictions on academic freedom, combined with neoliberal reforms that increased the controllability of universities. The primary goal is to understand how academics navigate high uncertainty, new restrictions on academic freedom, and career threats. Using a theoretical framework based on Scott and de Certeau, the study analyzes localized reactions on external pressure and everyday resistance. Forty in-depth semi-structured interviews with faculty from Russian universities, conducted between May and September 2022, form the basis of this research. The interviewees represented diverse backgrounds, career stages, disciplines, and locations, both within and outside of Russia. The findings reveal a range of tactics, including normalization, adapting research portfolios, finding common ground, avoidance, bootlegging, window dressing, creating safe spaces, and exit. Two general conclusions emerge: tactics focus primarily on protecting teaching over research, and exit power is crucial to everyday resistance. Negotiating exit power facilitated the creation of safe spaces within universities that offered greater academic freedom, while leaving the university became a prominent form of protest.
Life in Perpetual Overdraft: Are Poor Households Doomed to Always be in Debt?
Authors: Costa-Agmon Oshra , Gendel-Guterman Hanna 
Published: January 2025

AbstractIn the last decade, the phenomena of using excessive credit has developed fast. Long-lasting household debt can jeopardize the personal well-being of every member of the household. Most existing research focuses on economic situations to explain the reason that households frequently use overdraft services. The aim of this study is to broaden the scope of the research of the overdraft phenomenon by building a theoretical model which integrates economic factors together with personal psychological traits and external social influence. Qualitative research was used that included in-depth interviews of 29 urban salaried employees. Results showed that economic factors were a significant contributor in explaining overdraft use. Yet social influencing factors, especially the past financial behaviour of the parents and the children’s social demands, were found to have a large effect on the tendency to use overdraft services regularly. Personality traits, mainly locus of control and self-control, added enlightenment to understanding this phenomenon. Through identification of these factors, appropriate preventive steps can be taken by institutions and individuals to reduce the use of surplus credit in ways that lead to harm to the household.
Exposure to Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic Among Asian and Non-Asian Children and Adolescents in the United States: NHANES 2015–2018
Authors: Song Lanxin , von Ehrenstein Ondine S. 
Published: January 2025

AbstractHigher concentrations of heavy metals were reported mainly among adult Asian persons compared to other racial/ethnic groups in earlier NHANES cycles’ studies. We aimed to examine concentrations of metals among Asian children/adolescents compared to children/adolescents identifying with other racial/ethnic groups, considering socio-demographic factors and potential mediation by fish/shellfish consumption. Using NHANES data (2015–2018), 5293 participants (1–19 years) with blood/urinary measurements of lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic were included. Survey-weighted adjusted generalized linear models assessed differences in log-transformed metal concentrations between Asian and non-Asian participants, considering potential effect measure modification by parental education. Causal mediation effects of recent fish/shellfish consumption were estimated. Log-transformed metal concentrations were higher among Asian than among non-Asian children/adolescents. Lower parental education was associated with higher concentrations of cadmium and methylmercury among Asian participants, and effect measure modification was suggested. Proportions of the mercury exposure disparity mediated by recent fish/shellfish consumption were 9.1% (95% CI 2.6, 17.3%) for fish, and 5.7% (0.5, 12.0%) for shellfish, with similar findings for methylmercury. Overall, Asian identification was associated with higher toxic metal exposure, and among Asian children/adolescents those with parents with lower education were particularly affected. Dietary fish/shellfish intake explained a portion of the disparities. Prevention efforts should identify sources of elevated metal exposure focusing children and adolescents while considering diverse backgrounds and dietary habits including high fish consumption.
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan
Authors: Acedo-Matellán Víctor , Real-Puigdollers Cristina 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis paper provides evidence from Catalan for the existence of bounded and unbounded locative prepositions, and proposes that boundedness in the adpositional domain is derived similarly to boundedness in the verbal, nominal or adjectival domains. Our contribution is both empirical and theoretical. First, we show that Catalan has two simple locative prepositions, a and en, which form a minimal pair as far as boundedness is concerned and exhibit, correspondingly, different selection patterns: while bounded a only selects DPs with a quantity interpretation, unbounded en can combine with both NPs and DPs, which receive a homogeneous interpretation. Second, we develop a syntactic and semantic theory to account for these facts that relates them to the crosscategorial property of boundedness: a-PPs, but not en-PPs, contain an aspectual projection that imposes the interpretation that the otherwise homogeneous region denoted by the preposition is delimited. Moreover, we show that the difference between the structures licensed by a and en has consequences for the interpretation of quantifiers within PPs. Specifically, we set eyes upon a particular context in which a and en take a universally quantified singular DP as complement and form a minimal pair. We propose that while the bounded preposition a allows for the interpretation of the quantifier tot ‘all’ as a universal quantifier of parts, the unbounded preposition en does not. Instead, with en the quantifier behaves as an adjective of sorts associated to a maximality operator. Our paper contributes to furthering our understanding of boundedness across categories in human language.
Wastewater Treatment using Innovative Green-Synthesized rGO, TiO2NPs, and rGO/TiO2 Nanocomposite: Structural, Morphological, Spectroscopic, Thermal, and Photocatalytic Studies
Authors: El-Borady Ola M. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Recently, innovative research focused on combining 2D nanosheet materials with semiconducting metal oxide for several industrial applications. Notably, for wastewater treatment, new techniques were developed by experts to mitigate environmental hazards. The TiO2/reduced graphene (rGO) nanocomposite has recently attracted interest due to its superior activity in diverse fields, particularly water treatment. This study compares and evaluates the environmental application of innovative and eco-friendly synthesized TiO2NPs, rGO, and TiO2/rGO nanocomposite using Carob pods (Ceratonia siliqua) extract. Extensive morphological, structural, spectroscopic, thermal, and surface charge analysis was performed, including TEM, AFM, SEM mapping, X-ray diffraction, UV–visible, FTIR, Raman Spectroscopy, EDX, TGA, and the Zeta Potential analysis were performed to bring out the properties of synthesized nanomaterials. In addition, the phenolic compounds determined (30.78 ± 0.1 µg/mL) in the pods' extract confirmed their role in the reduction process to form rGO and TiO2NPs. Furthermore, the three designed nanomaterials were applied as adsorbent candidates for heavy metals and as photocatalysts for removing industrial dye from wastewater. The nanocomposite exhibited the highest absorption capacity for Zn2+, Ni2+, Pb2+, and Cd2+. Also, the photocatalytic performance of the nanocomposite demonstrated a significant improvement in Methylene Blue (MB) dye elimination (90%, 15 min) compared to free TiO2NPs (87.5%, 150 min). The findings reveal that the green synthesized rGO/TiO2 nanocomposite can be used to improve the removal of heavy metals and dye contaminants from wastewater.

Graphical Abstract

Represents the green synthesis of rGO, TiO2, and rGO/TiO2 nanocomposite using carob extract and their potential application in wastewater treatment
Assessment of 40-year Al Deposition in some Exotic Conifer Species in the Urban Air of Düzce, Türkiye
Authors: Koç İsmail , Canturk Ugur , Cobanoglu Hatice , Kulac Semsettin , Key Kubra , Sevik Hakan 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Heavy metal (HM) pollution in urban air, a global dilemma, has increased drastically in the last century. Aluminum (Al) is one of the HMs and a neurotoxic element that can be absorbed into human tissues through digestion, breathing, and skin. Al accumulation in humans can cause diseases and even cause death. Due to the risks it poses to human and environmental health, it is vital to track the Al contamination shifts in the airborne and decrease them. In this study, 40-year Al concentration differences in Pseudotsuga menziesii, Cedrus atlantica, Picea orientalis, Cupressus arizonica, and Pinus pinaster grown in Düzce, Türkiye, the fifth most polluted European town, in terms of direction, tree species, and tissue type were assessed. As a result, Al accumulation in the tissues generally varies as outer bark > inner bark > wood. Whole species can accumulate Al significantly, and Al transfer between adjacent cells in the wood part is limited. In conclusion, all species can be used as biomonitors to track temporal Al pollution changes. However, the highest concentrations, especially in the wood part, were observed in Cedrus atlantica, Picea orientalis, and Cupressus arizonica, and these species were chosen to be the most suitable species to be used in phytoremediation studies.
The Effect of Metabolic Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Risks: A Prospective Study Measuring Antibodies to Apolipoprotein A-1
Authors: Elgazawey Mohamed Osama Soliman , EL-Sayegh Sarah , Mikhail Sameh , Ayad Amr Mohamed AbdelFattah , Abosayed Amir K. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Background
Obesity is a chronic disease associated with other associated medical problems, including atherogenic dyslipidemia. Metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) has been shown to reduce long-term cardiovascular risk (CVR). Anti-ApoA-1 antibodies (AAA1) are independently associated with cardiovascular disease, which remains a major cause of death in individuals with obesity. This study aimed to determine the effect of MBS on anti-ApoA-1 antibodies. We also looked for changes in lipid parameters, insulin resistance, inflammatory profile, and percentage of total weight loss (%TWL).

Methods
We assessed 72 patients before surgery and 12 months postoperatively. Clinical history and measurements of body mass index (BMI), lipid profile (including non-HDL cholesterol, TG/HDL-C ratio, TG-Gly index, total cholesterol to HDL ratio), AAA1, CRP, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), HbA1c, and HOMA-IR were measured/calculated at each point.

Results
MBS significantly improved BMI, %TWL, lipids, anti-ApoA-1 antibodies, CRP, HBA1c, FBG, and HOMA-IR. Baseline AAA1 antibodies were positive in 38.9% and were associated with higher CRP levels, total cholesterol, LDL-C, total cholesterol to HDL ratio, and non-HDL cholesterol. One year after MBS, there was a significant reduction in anti-ApoA-1 antibodies (p < 0.001). Furthermore, there was a significant postoperative correlation between anti-ApoA-1 antibodies with total cholesterol. Also, there were significant correlations between HBA1C (%), TG-Gly index, and HOMA-IR.

Conclusions
Antibodies to apolipoprotein A-1 levels are significantly reduced following MBS. Furthermore, there was a notable improvement in the HBA1C, CRP, and lipid profile.

Graphical Abstract
Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia Treatment: New Developments
Authors: Blom Dirk J. , Marais A. David , Raal Frederick J. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Purpose of review
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH) is characterized by marked elevation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC) and premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. This is a review of novel pharmacological therapies to lower LDLC in patients with HoFH.

Recent findings
Novel therapies can be broadly divided by whether their efficacy is dependent or independent of residual low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) function. Novel LDLR dependent therapies that reduce proprotein subtilisin kexin type 9 levels include monoclonal antibodies (alirocumab and evolocumab) and a small inhibitory RNA (inclisiran). LDLC reductions are highly variable and depend on residual LDLR function. Microsomal triglyceride inhibitors (lomitapide) and therapies that reduce angiopoietin like factor 3 (evinacumab and zodasiran) both reduce LDLC by approximately 50%, irrespective of residual LDLR function.

Summary

Most patients with HoFH require multiple therapies to achieve LDLC targets. Better LDLC control with LDLR independent therapies is likely to improve the outlook for patients with HoFH while at the same time reducing the need for other therapies such as apheresis or hepatic transplantation.
Screening of Plant UDP-Glycosyltransferases for Betanin Production in Yeast
Authors: Glitz Christiane , Dyekjær Jane Dannow , Vaitkus Dovydas , Babaei Mahsa , Welner Ditte Hededam , Borodina Irina 
Published: January 2025

AbstractTo cover the rising demand for natural food dyes, new sources and production methods are needed. Microbial fermentation of nature-identical colours, such as the red pigment betanin, has the potential to be a cost-efficient alternative to plant extraction. The last step of betanin production is catalysed by a UDP-glycosyltransferase (UGT). To find a high-performing UGT, we screened 27 UGTs from different plant species and tested their ability to produce betanin in vivo in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We identified two new UGTs likely involved in the betanin synthesis in the plant they derive from: CqGT2 (UGT73A37) from Chenopodium quinoa and BgGT2 (UGT92X1) from Bougainvillea glabra. The betanin-producing UGTs were also tested in Yarrowia lipolytica, where CqGT2 was the best-performing glycosyltransferase for betanin production. While it has previously been shown that the UGTs can glycosylate either betanidin or cyclo-DOPA to ultimately form betanin, the molecular mechanism behind the preference for the acceptor molecule has not been elucidated. Therefore, we performed in silico structural analysis to characterise the betanin-producing UGTs further, particularly by looking into their binding mechanism. The docking model suggested that a smaller binding site found in some UGTs only allows glycosylation of cDOPA, while a wider binding site allows glycosylation of both cyclo-DOPA and betanidin.
When AI-Based Agents Are Proactive: Implications for Competence and System Satisfaction in Human–AI Collaboration
Authors: Diebel Christopher , Goutier Marc , Adam Martin , Benlian Alexander 
Published: January 2025

AbstractAs the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to improve, collaboration with AI-based agents enables users to be more efficient and productive. Not only has the quality of AI-based agents’ outcomes increased, but they can now help proactively, and even take over entire work tasks. However, users need to be satisfied with the system to remain motivated to collaborate and engage with AI-based agents. Drawing on self-determination theory, a vignette-based online experiment was conducted that revealed that proactive (vs. reactive) help from AI-based agents leads to a higher loss of users’ competence-based self-esteem and thus reduces users’ system satisfaction. This effect is moderated by the users’ knowledge of AI. Higher (vs. lower) levels of AI knowledge cause a greater loss of competence-based self-esteem through proactive (vs. reactive) help. The findings contribute to a better understanding of help from AI-based agents and provide important implications for managers and designers who seek to enhance human–AI collaboration.
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?
Authors: Blandon Abigayil , Jonell Malin , Ishihara Hiroe , Zabala Aiora 
Published: January 2025

Abstract“Sustainability” can mean different prioritisations of society, environment and economy to different people. As one of the largest globally traded food commodities, for seafood, these differences could have large implications. The study captures different understandings of “sustainable seafood” among 29 key actors along the seafood supply chain—government, NGOs, industry bodies, retailers and producers—using a novel cross-country application of Q method in Japan and Sweden. Sweden, known for its uptake of green consumption, contrasts with Japan’s focus on alternative sustainability initiatives such as satoumi. Participants ranked 40 prepared statements on seafood sustainability revealing four distinct perspectives: Regulation-centric, Ecocentric, Industry-centric and Community-centric. There were clear country-based divisions, with only one perspective containing participants from both countries. Interactions and prioritisations of different dimensions of sustainability are also presented, through which we hypothesise areas of conflict and consensus. We stress the need to understand diverse perspectives when tackling global seafood sustainability challenges.