bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Numerical Investigation of Wave Energy Absorbed by the Edinburgh Nodding Duck Device in Front of a Vertical Wall
Authors: Li Shu , Teng Bin 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
An open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package, openfoam, is extended and applied to study the power takeoff (PTO) efficiency absorbed by an Edinburgh nodding duck wave energy converter (WEC) device installed in front of a vertical wall. The duck WEC device is axis-fixed by a rigid cantilever beam extended from the vertical wall. After numerical validations and convergent verifications, the characteristics of the duck WEC device for power takeoff with various distances between the rotation center of the duck WEC device and the vertical wall are examined. The present numerical investigation illustrates that the absorbing efficiency by the duck WEC device is insensitive to the distance when subjected to incident waves of higher frequencies, while sensitive when subjected to incident waves of lower frequencies. Furthermore, for incident waves of lower frequencies, when the distance is approximately 0.58 times of the wavelength, a lower absorbing efficiency is achieved. While a higher absorbing efficiency is achieved, when the distance is approximately 0.32 times of the wavelength. Besides, the wave-induced force and torque impacting on the vertical wall are checked. It is found that both the force and torque significantly decrease when the distance is approximately 0.32 times of the wavelength, owing to the installation of the duck WEC device in front of the vertical wall.
Diuretic-induced hypokalaemia: an updated review
Authors: Lin Ziying , Wong Louisa Y F , Cheung Bernard M Y 
Published: March 2021

AbstractDiuretic-induced hypokalaemia is a common and potentially life-threatening adverse drug reaction in clinical practice. Previous studies revealed a prevalence of 7%–56% of hypokalaemia in patients taking thiazide diuretics. The clinical manifestations of hypokalaemia due to diuretics are non-specific, varying from asymptomatic to fatal arrhythmia. Diagnosis of hypokalaemia is based on the level of serum potassium. ECG is useful in identifying the more severe consequences. A high dosage of diuretics and concomitant use of other drugs that increase the risk of potassium depletion or cardiac arrhythmias can increase the risk of cardiovascular events and mortality. Thiazide-induced potassium depletion may cause dysglycaemia. The risk of thiazide-induced hypokalaemia is higher in women and in black people. Reducing diuretic dose and potassium supplementation are the most direct and effective therapies for hypokalaemia. Combining with a potassium-sparing diuretic or blocker of the renin–angiotensin system also reduces the risk of hypokalaemia. Lowering salt intake and increasing intake of vegetables and fruits help to reduce blood pressure as well as prevent hypokalaemia.
Joint Bilateral Filter for Signal Recovery from Phase Preserved Curvelet Coefficients for Image Denoising
Authors: Panigrahi Susant Kumar , Gupta Supratim 
Published: March 2021

Thresholding of Curvelet Coefficients, for image denoising, drains out subtle signal component in noise subspace. In effect, it also produces ringing artifacts near edges. We found that the noise sensitivity of Curvelet phases — in contrast to their magnitude — reduces with higher noise level. Thus, we preserved the phase of the coefficients below threshold at coarser scale and estimated the corresponding magnitude by Joint Bilateral Filtering (JBF) technique. In contrast to the traditional hard thresholding, the coefficients in the finest scale is estimated using Bilateral Filtering (BF). The proposed filtering approach in the finest scale exhibits better connectedness among the edges, while removing the granular artifacts in the denoised image due to hard thresholding. Finally, the use of Guided Image Filter (GIF) on the Curvelet-based reconstructed image (initial denoised image in spatial domain) ensures the preservation of small image information with sharper edges and textures detail in the final denoised image. The lower noise sensitivity of Curvelet phase at higher noise strength accelerates the performance of proposed method over several state-of-the-art techniques and provides comparable outcome at lower noise levels.
Forward start options under Heston affine jump-diffusions and stochastic interest rate
Authors: Ahlip Rehez , Park Laurence A. F. , Prodan Ante , Weissenhofer Stephen 
Published: March 2021

This paper presents a generalization of forward start options under jump diffusion framework of Duffie et al. [Duffie, D, J Pan and K Singleton (2000). Transform analysis and asset pricing for affine jump-diffusions, Econometrica 68, 1343–1376.]. We assume, in addition, the short-term rate is governed by the CIR dynamics introduced in Cox et al. [Cox, JC, JE Ingersoll and SA Ross (1985). A theory of term structure of interest rates, Econometrica 53, 385–408.]. The instantaneous volatilities are correlated with the dynamics of the stock price process, whereas the short-term rate is assumed to be independent of the dynamics of the price process and its volatility. The main result furnishes a semi-analytical formula for the price of the Forward Start European call option. It is derived using probabilistic approach combined with the Fourier inversion technique, as developed in Ahlip and Rutkowski [Ahlip, R and M Rutkowski (2014). Forward start foreign exchange options under Heston’s volatility and CIR interest rates, Inspired By Finance Springer, pp. 1–27], Carr and Madan [Carr, P and D Madan (1999). Option valuation using the fast Fourier transform, Journal of Computational Finance 2, 61–73, Carr, P and D Madan (2009). Saddle point methods for option pricing, Journal of Computational Finance 13, 49–61] as well as Levendorskiĩ [Levendorskiĩ, S (2012). Efficient pricing and reliable calibration in the Heston model, International Journal of Applied Finance 15, 1250050].
Chapter 7.3 Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann
Authors: Gambino Salvatore , Armienti Pietro , Cannata Andrea , Del Carlo Paola , Giudice Gaetano , Giuffrida Giovanni , Liuzzo Marco , Pompilio Massimo 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are quiescent, although potentially explosive, alkaline volcanoes located 100 km apart in Northern Victoria Land quite close to three stations (Mario Zucchelli Station, Gondwana and Jang Bogo). The earliest investigations on Mount Melbourne started at the end of the 1960s; Mount Rittmann was discovered during the 1988–89 Italian campaign and knowledge of it is more limited due to the extensive ice cover. The first geophysical observations at Mount Melbourne were set up in 1988 by the Italian National Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA), which has recently funded new volcanological, geochemical and geophysical investigations on both volcanoes. Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are active, and are characterized by fumaroles that are fed by volcanic fluid; their seismicity shows typical volcano signals, such as long-period events and tremor. Slow deformative phases have been recognized in the Mount Melbourne summit area. Future implementation of monitoring systems would help to improve our knowledge and enable near-real-time data to be acquired in order to track the evolution of these volcanoes. This would prove extremely useful in volcanic risk mitigation, considering that both Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are potentially capable of producing major explosive activity with a possible risk to large and distant communities.
Chapter 5.4b Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land: petrology
Authors: Panter K. S. , Wilch T. I. , Smellie J. L. , Kyle P. R. , McIntosh W. C. 
Published: March 2021

Abstract

In Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land 19 large polygenetic volcanoes and numerous smaller centres are exposed above the West Antarctic Ice Sheet along the northern flank of the West Antarctic Rift System. The Cenozoic (36.7 Ma to active) volcanism of the Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Group (MBLVG) encompasses the full spectrum of alkaline series compositions ranging from basalt to intermediate (e.g. mugearite, benmoreite) to phonolite, peralkaline trachyte, rhyolite and rare pantellerite. Differentiation from basalt is described by progressive fractional crystallization; however, to produce silica-oversaturated compositions two mechanisms are proposed: (1) polybaric fractionation with early-stage removal of amphibole at high pressures; and (2) assimilation–fractional crystallization to explain elevated
87
Sr/
86
Sr
i
ratios. Most basalts are silica-undersaturated and enriched in incompatible trace elements (e.g. La/Yb
N
>10), indicating small degrees of partial melting of a garnet-bearing mantle. Mildly silica-undersaturated and rare silica-saturated basalts, including tholeiites, are less enriched (La/Yb
N
<10), a result of higher degrees of melting. Trace elements and isotopes (Sr, Nd, Pb) reveal a regional gradient explained by mixing between two mantle components, subduction-modified lithosphere and HIMU-like plume (
206
Pb/
204
Pb >20) materials. Geophysical studies indicate a deep thermal anomaly beneath central Marie Byrd Land, suggesting a plume influence on volcanism and tectonism.
Adaptive Performance Modeling of Data-intensive Workloads for Resource Provisioning in Virtualized Environment
Authors: Makrani Hosein Mohamamdi , Sayadi Hossein , Nazari Najmeh , Dinakarrao Sai Mnoj Pudukotai , Sasan Avesta , Mohsenin Tinoosh , Rafatirad Setareh , Homayoun Houman 
Published: March 2021

The processing of data-intensive workloads is a challenging and time-consuming task that often requires massive infrastructure to ensure fast data analysis. The cloud platform is the most popular and powerful scale-out infrastructure to perform big data analytics and eliminate the need to maintain expensive and high-end computing resources at the user side. The performance and the cost of such infrastructure depend on the overall server configuration, such as processor, memory, network, and storage configurations. In addition to the cost of owning or maintaining the hardware, the heterogeneity in the server configuration further expands the selection space, leading to non-convergence. The challenge is further exacerbated by the dependency of the application’s performance on the underlying hardware. Despite an increasing interest in resource provisioning, few works have been done to develop accurate and practical models to proactively predict the performance of data-intensive applications corresponding to the server configuration and provision a cost-optimal configuration online.
In this work, through a comprehensive real-system empirical analysis of performance, we address these challenges by introducing ProMLB: a proactive machine-learning-based methodology for resource provisioning. We first characterize diverse types of data-intensive workloads across different types of server architectures. The characterization aids in accurately capture applications’ behavior and train a model for prediction of their performance.
Then, ProMLB builds a set of cross-platform performance models for each application. Based on the developed predictive model, ProMLB uses an optimization technique to distinguish close-to-optimal configuration to minimize the product of execution time and cost. Compared to the oracle scheduler, ProMLB achieves 91% accuracy in terms of application-resource matching. On average, ProMLB improves the performance and resource utilization by 42.6% and 41.1%, respectively, compared to baseline scheduler. Moreover, ProMLB improves the performance per cost by 2.5× on average.
Impact of Poststenting Fractional Flow Reserve on Long-Term Clinical Outcomes
Authors: Diletti Roberto , Masdjedi Kaneshka , Daemen Joost , van Zandvoort Laurens J.C. , Neleman Tara , Wilschut Jeroen , Den Dekker Wijnand K. , van Bommel Rutger J. , Lemmert Miguel , Kardys Isabella , Cummins Paul , de Jaegere Peter , Zijlstra Felix , Van Mieghem Nicolas M. 
Published: March 2021

Background:
Fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided treatment has been demonstrated to improve percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) results. However, little is known on the long-term impact of low post-PCI FFR.

Methods:
This is a large prospective all comers study evaluating the impact of post-PCI FFR on clinical outcomes. All patients undergoing successful PCI were eligible for enrollment. FFR measurements were performed immediately after PCI when the operator considered the angiographic result acceptable and final. No further action was undertaken based on the post-PCI result. Suboptimal post-PCI FFR was defined as FFR<0.90. The primary end point was major adverse cardiac events, a composite of cardiac death, any myocardial infarction, or any revascularization at 2-year follow-up. Secondary end points were target vessel revascularizations and stent thrombosis and the separate components of the primary end point.

Results:

A total of 1000 patients were enrolled. Post-PCI FFR was successfully measured in 1165 vessels from 959 patients. A poststenting FFR<0.90 was observed in 440 vessels (37.8%). A total of 399 patients had at least 1 vessel with FFR<0.90 post-PCI. At 2-year follow-up, a patient level analysis showed no association between post-PCI FFR and major adverse cardiac event (hazard ratio [HR], 1.08 [95% CI, 0.73–1.60],
P
=0.707), cardiac death (HR, 1.55 [95% CI, 0.72–3.36],
P
=0.261), any myocardial infarction (HR, 1.53 [95% CI, 0.78–3.02],
P
=0.217). A vessel level analysis showed a higher rate of target vessel revascularization (HR, 1.91 [95% CI, 1.06–3.44],
P
=0.030) and a tendency toward higher rate of stent thrombosis (HR, 2.89 [95% CI, 0.88–9.48],
P
=0.081) with final post-PCI FFR<0.90.

Conclusions:
Suboptimal post-PCI FFR has only a moderate impact on major adverse cardiac event but coronary arteries with a post-PCI FFR<0.90 have a higher rate of target vessel revascularization.
Angiographic Patency of Coronary Artery Bypass Conduits: A Network Meta‐Analysis of Randomized Trials
Authors: Gaudino Mario , Hameed Irbaz , Robinson N. Bryce , Ruan Yongle , Rahouma Mohamed , Naik Ajita , Weidenmann Viola , Demetres Michelle , Y. Tam Derrick , Hare David L. , Girardi Leonard N. , Biondi‐Zoccai Giuseppe , E. Fremes Stephen 
Published: March 2021

Background
Several randomized trials have compared the patency of coronary artery bypass conduits. All of the published studies, however, have performed pairwise comparisons and a comprehensive evaluation of the patency rates of all conduits has yet to be published. We set out to investigate the angiographic patency rates of all conduits used in coronary bypass surgery by performing a network meta‐analysis of the current available randomized evidence.

Methods and Results
A systematic literature search was conducted for randomized controlled trials comparing the angiographic patency rate of the conventionally harvested saphenous vein, the no‐touch saphenous vein, the radial artery (RA), the right internal thoracic artery, or the gastroepiploic artery. The primary outcome was graft occlusion. A total of 4160 studies were retrieved of which 14 were included with 3651 grafts analyzed. The weighted mean angiographic follow‐up was 5.1 years. Compared with the conventionally harvested saphenous vein, both the RA (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 0.54; 95% CI, 0.35–0.82) and the no‐touch saphenous vein (IRR 0.55; 95% CI, 0.39–0.78) were associated with lower graft occlusion. The RA ranked as the best conduit (rank score for RA 0.87 versus 0.85 for no‐touch saphenous vein, 0.23 for right internal thoracic artery, 0.29 for gastroepiploic artery, and 0.25 for the conventionally harvested saphenous vein).

Conclusions
Compared with the conventionally harvested saphenous vein, only the RA and no‐touch saphenous vein grafts are associated with significantly lower graft occlusion rates. The RA ranks as the best conduit.

Registration

URL:
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero
; Unique identifier: CRD42020164492.
Farming on the Front Lines
Authors: Krone Adrienne 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
The Jewish community farming movement began in 2004 with the founding of Adamah and it now comprises over twenty farming organizations bound together by a shared sense that the best way to face the climate crisis is by drawing on the well of Jewish tradition. These Jewish farmers put environmental ethics into practice as they face the realities of our time. The multispecies theorist Donna Haraway refers to this era as the Chthulucene, which she describes as “a kind of timeplace for learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying in response-ability on a damaged earth.” In this article, I draw on Haraway’s work and on my ethnographic fieldwork conducted at Jewish community farming organizations all over North America to describe the ways in which Jewish farmers are “staying with the trouble” in this era.
Ne bis in idem, nulla poena sine lege and Domestic Prosecutions of International Crimes in the Aftermath of a Trial at the International Criminal Court
Authors: Anderson Keilin , Sinclair-Blakemore Adaena 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
The outcome of an icc trial – be it a conviction or acquittal – receives significant attention. However, what happens to a defendant in the aftermath of the proceeding garners little discussion. This article seeks to fill this gap in the literature by analysing how the ne bis in idem and nulla poena sine lege principles, enshrined in Articles 20(2) and 23 of the Rome Statute, protect defendants from subsequent prosecutions and punishments by states and regional courts following their trials at the icc. We argue that these provisions do not provide adequate protection. Further, we argue that given the icc’s limited power to enforce compliance with these provisions as well as the primary role that states enjoy in the enforcement of international criminal law, the most appropriate way to address this issue is through the inclusion of robust protections in domestic legislation and the constituent instruments of regional courts.
Establishing a Family in the Nile Delta
Authors: Lamblin Célia 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
In Egypt, the economic costs incurred by spouses to pay for a marriage are huge, going far beyond the parties’ regular income. Migration often appears to be the only possible way to amass the capital required to pay the expenses associated with their establishment as a couple and to support the household. This article is based on data collected in the course of several ethnographic surveys carried out between 2014 and 2017 in a village in the Nile Delta, and deals with the issue of establishing a family in the context of migration for men who have left for France, and for women who remain in the village. It presents the marriage of migrants in the village as an instrument which both guarantees the homecoming of the men who have emigrated and enables the upward social mobility of women without however challenging the patriarchal organisation of Egyptian society.
Faire famille dans le Delta du Nil
Authors: Lamblin Célia 
Published: March 2021

Résumé
En Égypte, les coûts économiques engagés par les futurs époux pour le paiement du mariage sont colossaux, dépassant largement les revenus réguliers des contractants. La migration apparaît souvent comme une voie possible pour accumuler les capitaux économiques nécessaires au paiement des frais consécutifs à la mise en couple et à l’ entretien du ménage. Cet article s’ appuie sur des données récoltées lors de plusieurs enquêtes ethnographiques réalisées entre 2014 et 2017 dans un village du Delta du Nil. Cette contribution aborde la question du « faire famille » en situation migratoire pour des hommes partis en France, mais également pour des femmes restées au village. Elle présente le mariage des migrants au village comme un instrument qui assure à la fois le retour des hommes émigrés et permet l’ ascension sociale des femmes sans pour autant remettre en cause l’ organisation patriarcale de la société égyptienne.
Origen, Plato and the Afterlife
Authors: Edwards Mark 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
This paper argues that at First Principles 2.3.6 Origen is responding to Gnostics who used a particular reading of Plato’s myths about the afterlife to justify their own belief that the elect will go after death into an incorporeal state. It examines (1) the use of the terms idea and phantasia in commentary on Plato’s Phaedo; (2) the evidence for Origen’s knowledge of such commentary; (3) the evidence which allegedly shows that Origen himself believed in an incorporeal paradise; and (4) the evidence that Gnostics in the third century drew on Platonic eschatology.
Taiwan–Myanmar Relations within the Framework of the New Southbound Policy
Authors: Kironska Kristina 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
This article combines the study of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy with a case study of Taiwan–Myanmar relations from a perspective of political relations, economic cooperation, and Taiwan’s (un)recognisability in Myanmar—i.e. Taiwan’s soft power in Myanmar. The first part of the paper introduces the policy and compares it with the previous ones, and sheds light on Taiwan’s motivation to engage with Myanmar. It considers the ongoing trade war between the United States and China, due to which investment relocation from China is expected to sharply increase. The second part of the paper provides an insight into the relationship between Taiwan and Myanmar after Myanmar’s state-led political transformation from military rule and economic liberalisation since approximately 2010. It explains the main aspects and determinants of the relationship between two countries that share a neighbouring potential hegemon which they both wish to balance against.
A Model for Right-Wing Populist Electoral Success?
Authors: Muno Wolfgang , Stockemer Daniel 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
This article adds to the large literature on right-wing populist parties (RWPP), explaining how anti-immigrant sentiments become salient for vote choice. Within the large literature on RWPP, anti-immigration attitudes are the most important variable to explain the vote share of RWPP. Yet, recent research shows that there is not always an empirical effect between having anti-immigrant attitudes and voting for the RWPP. In this article, we develop a theoretical model that explains the conditions under which anti-immigration attitudes matter. We then test this model based on the case of the AfD in Germany, a typical case for a right-wing populist party exploiting anti-immigrant sentiment. Focusing on the AfD in Germany, we illustrate that the refugee crisis in 2015 in combination with a perception of high government unresponsiveness to stop the crisis provided the structural conditions necessary to activate latent anti-immigration sentiment among large parts of the population. Using a structural analysis and individual panel data for Germany’s general elections in 2013 and 2017, we find that immigration critical attitudes were already present among parts of the population in 2013 but immigration was a secondary topic in the 2013 election, even among AfD voters. Due to the immigration crisis in 2015, immigration became a salient topic. The combination of a perceived external crisis or shock combined with a perceived government’s unresponsiveness quickly offered a winning formula for the AfD. A probability probe for two other countries (Sweden and Italy) with different contexts also show salience for the model.