bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Comprehensive analysis of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders with Early Onset Colorectal Cancer
Authors: Tanariyakul Manasawee , Wannaphut Chalothorn , Takahashi Toshiaki , Nakasone Ryon , Acoba Jared 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Purpose
Rates of early-onset colorectal cancers (EOCRC) are increasing in Hawaii across all racial groups. Previous studies have shown that Native Hawaiians have a higher mortality rate compared to other racial groups, however these studies only performed limited adjustments for sociodemographic factors. Our objective is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of outcomes among patients with EOCRC in a racially diverse population accounting for tumor factors and patient sociodemographics.
Method
Data were abstracted for patients under the age of 50 years diagnosed with colorectal cancer between 2000 and 2022 in Hawaii. Overall survival of Asians, Whites, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders (NHOPI) was calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Cox proportional hazards regression models were created to assess predictors of survival adjusting for clinical and pathological factors.
Results
A total of 379 patients were included in the final analysis. NHOPI patients more often had Medicaid or were uninsured and their cancers had a higher histopathology grade compared to White and Asian groups. In the unadjusted Cox regression model, NHOPI race, insurance status, grade, and stage were prognostic for survival. However, after adjusting for confounders, having Medicaid or being uninsured, grade, and stage remained prognostic factors, but race was not significantly associated with survival.
Conclusion
This study concludes that while NHOPI patients with EOCRC demonstrated poorer survival compared to other racial groups, this disparity was largely explained by the large percentage of Medicaid and uninsured NHOPI patients. This study emphasizes the importance of addressing disparities in treatment access and utilization to improve outcomes.
Metabolite Signatures and Their Mediation Effects on the Relationship Between Mediterranean Diet Adherence and MASLD Progression
Authors: Wang Kai , Xiang Shijian , He Qiangsheng , Huang Chumei , Yang Zhen , Li Renjie , Liu Anran , Cai Ruisheng , Mi Ningning , Liang Zixin , Xu Zuofeng , Yuan Jinqiu , Xia Bin 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background Mediterranean Diet (MED) is recommended for managing patients with Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD). However, the potential metabolic changes involved in this relationship remain unclear. This study aims to investigate how metabolic biomarkers mediate the association between MED adherence and liver-related events (LRE) and mortality in patients with MASLD.Methods We performed a prospective analysis using UK Biobank data, including 47,429 MASLD participants free of LRE at baseline. MED adherence was assessed as alternate Mediterranean Diet (aMED) score through a validated questionnaire covering 206 foods and 32 beverages. Metabolic biomarkers were measured using high-throughput nucleic magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Cox regression and restricted cubic splines assessed the association of aMED, its components, with risk of LRE and mortality. Mediation analysis evaluated the role of metabolites in the relationship between aMED, its components, and MASLD progression.Results Over a median follow-up of 13.3 years, 296 LRE cases and 3,616 deaths occurred. Higher aMED scores (6–9) were associated with lower risks of LRE (HR: 0.553, 95% CI: 0.351–0.874) and mortality (HR: 0.854, 95% CI: 0.762–0.956) compared to the lowest scores (0–3). Linear dose-response relationships were observed for both LRE incidence (Pnonlinear = 0.91) and mortality (Pnonlinear = 0.07). Certain aMED components, including vegetables and legumes, were associated with a reduced risk of LRE, while vegetables, nuts, fish, the MUFA:SFA ratio, and moderate alcohol intake were linked to lower mortality risk. Of 143 metabolites, 46 were significantly associated with aMED. Positive associations included very large HDL particles (n = 3), unsaturated fatty acids (n = 8), albumin, and acetate, while negative associations were found with large VLDL (n = 11), small and middle HDL (n = 13), saturated fatty acids (n = 2), Apo-AI, and creatinine. Five aMED-related lipid metabolites were negatively associated with LRE, while five were positively linked to mortality. Mediation analysis revealed that omega-3 fatty acids, the omega-3 to total fatty acid ratio, and albumin accounted for 7.9%, 11.9%, and 2.6% of the reduction in LRE, and 19.4%, 23.1%, and 4.7% of the mitigation in mortality, respectively.Conclusions Adherence to MED is linked to reduced LRE risk and mortality in MASLD patients. Metabolic biomarkers such as small HDL particles and omega-3 fatty acids may mitigate MASLD progression.
Daily night-time lights reveal prolonging global electric power system recovery times following tropical cyclone damage
Authors: Mo Yu , Thomas Fred , Rui Jianan , Hall Jim W 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Tropical cyclones are a leading cause of electric power outages, and the time required for power system recovery after storm damage is a critical measure of system resilience. However, systematically collected data on power supply disruptions are available for only a limited number of countries, leaving global patterns largely unexplored. In this study, we conducted the first global analysis of electric power system recovery times after 407 storms across 65 countries from 2012 to 2021, using satellite-based daily nighttime lights (NTL) observations to detect blackouts following storms. The median duration blackouts detected worldwide was 3 days, with a 5th-95th percentile range of 1 to 11 days. We found that high density urban areas had significant (P < 0.05) longer blackout events than low density urban areas and rural areas, which was driven by an upper tail of the events (95 quantiles of, respectively, 16, 12, and 11 days). Blackout durations have significantly increased over the study period (P < 0.05), with the rate of increase in rural areas (1.7 day/decade) nearly double that observed in urban areas (1 day/decade). The temporal variations in blackout duration in rural areas were significantly correlated with both storm attributes and pre-storm NTL brightness, whereas those in low-density urban areas were only correlated with storm attributes (P < 0.05 in all cases). These findings highlight the pressing need to strengthen the resilience of electric power systems to storms, particularly as global reliance on electricity grows and storm activity patterns shift in response to climate change.
Universality of closed nested paths in two-dimensional percolation
Authors: Song Yu-Feng , Jacobsen Jesper Lykke , Nienhuis Bernard , Sportiello Andrea , Deng Youjin 
Published: February 2025

Recent work on percolation in d=2d=2 [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 55, 204002 (2015)] introduced an operator that gives a weight k^{\ell}kℓ to configurations with \ellℓ ‘nested paths’ (NP), i.e. disjoint cycles surrounding the origin, if there exists a cluster that percolates to the boundary of a disc of radius LL, and weight zero otherwise. It was found that \mathbb{E}(k^{\ell}) \sim L^{-X_{NP}(k)}𝔼(kℓ)∼L−XNP(k), and a formula for X_{NP}(k)XNP(k) was conjectured. Here we derive an exact result for X_{NP}(k)XNP(k), valid for k ≥ -1k≥−1, replacing the previous conjecture. We find that the probability distribution \mathbb{P}_\ell (L)ℙℓ(L) scales as $ L^{-1/4} (L)^ℓ[(1/ℓ!) Λ^ℓ]$ when \ell ≥ 0ℓ≥0 and L \gg 1L≫1, with \Lambda = 1/\sqrt{3} \piΛ=1/3π. Extensive simulations for various critical percolation models confirm our theoretical predictions and support the universality of the NP observables.
Estimation of daily evapotranspiration using machine learning models in China: based on ChinaFLUX sites
Authors: Gu Haiting , Pan Suli , Ma Di , Bai Yu , Zhang Jinxin 
Published: February 2025

ABSTRACT

Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the hydrological cycle and its accurate estimation is very necessary for water resource management and agricultural precision irrigation. The direct measurement of ET is difficult and the observed data are very limited. Therefore, this study explores the possibility of a back-propagation (BP) neural network for simulating ET based on eight flux sites in China. The input variables consist of land surface temperature, the water vapor pressure of the land surface, net radiation, and photosynthetically active radiation. Four input combination categories are determined, including one input variable, two input variables, three input variables, and four input variables. The results demonstrated the following: (1) Adding more input variables generally improves model performance, with a significant gain from one to two variables, but only slight improvements from two to three. (2) While some stations show better performance with four variables, others perform best with three. (3) Daily and monthly ET estimates are achieved across all stations, with summer estimates consistently outperforming winter ones. (4) The variability in the best input combination for the stations indicates that factors such as climate zonesand land cover influence ET accuracy.
Use of water quality indices in environmental management in Argentina
Authors: Cicerone Daniel Salvador , Quaini Karina , Martín Pablo , Romeo Fabia 
Published: February 2025

ABSTRACT

The aim of this work is to provide the contribution of water quality indices (WQIs) to environmental management of water resources, during the last three decades in Argentina. As part of the Latin America and the Caribbean region, one of the most water-rich regions in the world, monitoring and management of water stress has not always received enough attention. Particularly, if it is taking into account that due to high temporal and geographic variability in water distribution, it was, it is and it will be the main driver for the development of the activities of the country. A summary of the role of key actors involved in the integral management of water resources is presented, with particular emphasis in those ones responsible of the implementation of water quality monitoring programs and the management of environmental data coming from them. Finally, this work presents different WQIs that have been used in Argentina to assess decision-making. Two case studies (Matanza-Riachuelo River basin and Río de la Plata River) have been selected to show how one of them, the WQI of the Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment, has been implemented.
Environmental Management System in Micro and Small Enterprises: Case Study of Minimarkets in Brasília – DF
Authors: Almeida Alexandre Nascimento de , Angelo Humberto , Almeida Rodrigo Franco Flores Vidal de 
Published: February 2025

The achievement of sustainable development depends on the actions taken by companies. Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) require special attention due to their large number and financial limitations for the adoption of green technologies. The objective of the study is to analyze the main difficulties of minimarkets to implement an Environmental Management System (EMS), as well as to identify the benefits of this tool. The data were obtained from personal interviews with the owners of 19 minimarkets in Brasília – DF. For data analysis, the following techniques were used: 1) Correspondence Analysis and 2) Content Analysis. Financial difficulties, lack of qualified human resources and lack of information about the EMS were the main difficulties of the mini-markets in the DF to implement an EMS. The main benefits of this system were related to water and energy savings, reduction of waste of goods and improvement of the business image by customers. The main contribution of the work comes from the diagnosis carried out in minimarkets, which can support effective interventions for the environment.
Associação entre os Adoecimentos Respiratórios e as Queimadas no Município de Anápolis - Goiás: Um Estudo Ecológico de Série Temporal
Authors: Rocha Romulo Araujo da , Paz e Silva Andressa , Peixoto Josana 
Published: February 2025

Os focos de calor decorrentes de queimadas podem trazer vários prejuízos à saúde humana, entre eles problemas respiratórios. Este trabalho buscou analisar os perfis temporais da distribuição de focos de calor detectados por satélites e as internações hospitalares por problemas respiratórios em crianças de 1 a 4 anos e em idosos acima de 65 anos na população residente no município de Anápolis, Goiás, no período de 2012 a 2021. A metodologia utilizada foi um estudo ecológico de série temporal. Foram utilizadas bases públicas de dados, disponíveis na Internet por meio das páginas eletrônicas do INPE, IBGE e DATASUS, de onde foram levantadas informações sobre focos de calor, área territorial, população e internações hospitalares, respectivamente. A prevalência dos focos de calor em Anápolis segue o mesmo padrão de Goiás, entre os meses de julho a agosto. O período com maior incidência de focos de calor foi em setembro de 2017 e também foi o período com maior número de internações por problemas respiratórios. O estudo aponta para uma possível associação positiva entre o aumento de focos de calor detectados por satélites e das internações hospitalares por problemas respiratórios em crianças de 1 a 4 anos e em idosos acima de 65 anos. Como este é um estudo exploratório e descritivo, destaca-se a necessidade de mais estudos na área, visando melhor detalhamento, análise e exploração destes resultados.
Mortalidad de mamíferos terrestres medianos a grandes en carreteras del estado de Tamaulipas, México
Authors: Gómez Moreno Vannia del C. , Niño-Maldonado Santiago , Medellin Rodrigo A. , Ponce Marroquín Melissa 
Published: February 2025

Las carreteras con su tráfico vehicular tienen un impacto negativo sobre el medio ambiente y representan una amenaza para los mamíferos terrestres. En México, la información sobre las especies de mamíferos silvestres con mayor frecuencia a ser atropelladas y sobre los factores que influyen es limitada. El objetivo de este estudio fue identificar las especies con mayores tasas de mortalidad, conocer los tramos carreteros con mayor número de cadáveres y analizar factores que contribuyen al aumento de la mortalidad de los mamíferos, como el tipo de hábitat y la presencia de cuerpos de agua cercanos en carreteras en el estado de Tamaulipas. Para ello, se realizaron muestreos mensuales a lo largo de un año (julio 2021-junio 2022) en cuatro carreteras, con 12 visitas cada una para un total de 48 visitas. Se obtuvieron un total de 64 registros que correspondieron a 22 especies de mamíferos, siendo Didelphis virginiana (N=14) y Canis latrans (N=ocho) las más afectadas. Los meses con mayor mortalidad fueron febrero, abril y octubre. Además, se identificó que la carretera Victoria-Monterrey (MEX-085) presentó una mayor abundancia de cadáveres (20 ejemplares). La vegetación cercana a las carreteras fue una variable que influyó en la mortalidad de los mamíferos. Es crucial seguir investigando para identificar áreas de riesgo y aplicar medidas de mitigación que conserven la fauna silvestre en las carreteras de Tamaulipas.
Scientist, Organizer, Citizen (Dedicated in loving memory to the Corresponding Member of RAS Valery Petrovich Chichkanov)
Authors: Sukharev O. S. 
Published: February 2025

The paper is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding scientist and statesman, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Valery Petrovich Chichkanov, who was a member of the Editorial Council of the journal Economics of Science and actively participated in its work. The goal is to describe the main ideas that he reproduced over the last three years of his life, which are reflected in a series of nine articles.Additionally, it aims to demonstrate the significance of his figure for the Russian economic school and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The methodology used is descriptive and historical-bibliographical analysis. The main result of this study is the systematization of V. P. Chichkanov’s main proposals on the development of the Russian Academy of Sciences, regions, and management teams. It also proposes an alternative methodology for assessing these teams in the field of public administration and import substitution policy, which collectively reflects their contribution to the economy and management. The originality and role of the Corresponding Member of RAS V. P. Chikanov for Russian science emphasize the usefulness and importance of these ideas.
The Impact of Engagement Quality Review Practices on Concurring Partner Objectivity
Authors: Black Paul , Brandon Duane M. , Holt Travis P. , Long James H. , Mueller-Phillips Jennifer M. 
Published: February 2025

ABSTRACT
Effective EQR is crucial to ensure audit quality. We conduct an experiment with a unique and experienced sample: 65 public company EQR partners. In contrast with the prior audit literature, we find that partners involved throughout the audit or who are subjected to a situation intended to increase conformity pressure are less likely to sign off on audits containing potentially material goodwill impairment issues, relative to EQR partners who are only involved at the end of an audit or who do not face additional pressure. We also describe the EQR process subsequent to changes in the regulatory environment and conduct exploratory analyses, which increase our understanding of how EQR is conducted in practice, factors important to EQR partners, and how EQR partner attributes moderate their responses to pressure. Our findings suggest that EQR partner involvement throughout the audit, along with several EQR partner attributes, can enhance audit quality.
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JEL Classifications: M42; M48.
A correlative study of the clinical and radiographic signs of periodontal disease in dogs
Authors: Smith Mark M. , Zontine William J. , Willits Neil H. 
Published: February 2025

SUMMARY
Twenty-four dogs admitted for routine teeth cleaning were selected arbitrarily to undergo a periodontal examination and a dental radiographic examination before the dental procedure. Data pertaining to the physical and radiographic manifestations of periodontal disease of 783 teeth were collected. All dogs had lesions consistent with periodontal disease, ranging from mild gingivitis and minimal plaque accumulation to severely inflamed gingiva, exuberant calculus formation, and root exposure. Of the 783 teeth examined, 153 (20%) had a pocket depth ≥ 4 mm and ≤ 9 mm. Data regarding these teeth were subjected to statistical analysis. The clinical signs of plaque, calculus, mobility, pocket depth, and furcation were positively associated with radiographic signs of periodontal disease. The association between grossly evident gingivitis and radiographic signs of periodontal disease was not significant. Conditional probability analysis was applied to determine confidence intervals for the probability of a radiographic sign of periodontal disease occurring given that a clinical sign of periodontal disease occurs.
Intestinal decompression: Preliminary study in the horse
Authors: Beroza Gregory A. , Donawick William J. , Topkis Virginia A. 
Published: February 2025

SUMMARY
A technique of nasoduodenal (N-D) intubation and intestinal decompression was developed and used in the horse to explore the prevention of gastric and intestinal distention after abdominal surgical operation. Three styles of tubes (2 single-lumen tubes and 1 double-lumen tube) were positioned in the duodenum of 12 mature horses (10 experimental and 2 clinical) during laparotomy (without enterotomy), and an iatrogenic occlusion at the small intestine was created and later released in the 10 experimental horses. The 2 clinical horses had an exploratory laparotomy to correct a natural obstruction of the small intestine. After each horse recovered from surgical manipulation, suction was used to keep fluids from accumulating in the cranial part of the gastrointestinal tract. In 5 of the 12 horses, the most simple N-D tube was positioned successfully and functioned properly. Three of the 5 horses which were fasted before surgical manipulation (to obtain an empty stomach) survived without postsurgical complications. Volume of reflux material was measured. Clinical data, such as periods of comfort during decompression without giving analgesics, were recorded. Necropsies were done on 10 of the 12 horses (9 experimental and 1 clinical). Although already tested in 2 clinical horses, use of the N-D tube remains experimental, and the N-D tube functioned only in horses which were fasted before surgical manipulation. Perfection of a safe and dependable means of emptying the equine stomach of its solid ingesta before gastrointestinal intubation is done, is the next step in affording greater clinical application of the N-D tube for gastrointestinal decompression.
Deep Learning-based Image Recognition Technology in Medical Diagnosis
Authors: Wu Xia 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
In the context of the computer era, the system of deep learning and other intelligent algorithms to assist medical diagnosis is gradually applied in the diagnosis and treatment of medical clinical diseases. To further study the application value of intelligent algorithms in medical diagnosis, this paper analyzes the depth of deep learning algorithms. Then, for the needs of medical diagnosis, the network architecture of convolutional neural is improved on the basis of deep learning algorithms, and then the MobileNet V2 network model is constructed by using residual neural, and a distraction (SA) mechanism module is introduced for image recognition and classification. This paper presents a CAD medical diagnosis system that uses deep learning image recognition to facilitate its use in medical clinical diagnosis. The optimized network model in this paper achieves smooth accuracy and loss rate of approximately 0.975 left and -0.969 in training. Compared with other network models, the four indexes of frequency weight intersection and merger ratio (0.904), mean pixel accuracy (0.881), background intersection and merger ratio (0.941) and diagnostic region intersection and merger ratio (0.807) of this paper’s model are all optimal. The F1-score evaluation indexes for image recognition in all three lung diseases in this paper reached more than 97%, and the AUC was as high as 99%. At the same time, the sensitivity of the CAD system in this paper is much higher than that of other systems, and the image recognition algorithm, as well as the CAD system designed in this paper, can improve the diagnostic efficiency of the primary health care units, and it can provide a reference for the detection of diseases.
Research on Efficient Algorithms for Intelligent Computing in Big Data Analytics
Authors: Zhou Xiguo , Zhao Ziping , Gao Wentao 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
In this paper, we first collect massive data based on the Hadoop HDFS system and perform distributed data storage for it. Then, the massive data in the system is queried quickly by designing a secondary index and a parallel region query method based on Hilbert coding. Experiments are carried out to measure the efficiency of the Hadoop HDFS system in efficient data storage and querying, and to investigate its scalability. After completing the efficient storage and querying of data, the Spark DBSCAN algorithm is proposed to mine the data efficiently. The performance of the Spark DBSCAN algorithm is examined by comparing and analysing the clustering performance and running speed of the Spark DBSCAN algorithm with the traditional DBSCAN algorithm. The query performance of Hadoop HDFS is superior to that of Jena-Hbase and SHARD systems. The fast query time of Hadoop HDFS stays the same, and the scalability is nearly linear with the data size in the case of a slow query. The clustering accuracy of the Spark DBSCAN algorithm is slightly better than that of the traditional parallel DBSCAN algorithm, but the overall difference is small. The Spark DBSCAN algorithm runs significantly faster than the traditional parallel DBSCAN algorithm on different datasets.