bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The relationship between stone score and stone-free number in percutaneous nephrolithotomy procedure at Cirebon General Hospital
Authors: Bahagianto Aditya Fajar , Ferdian Vicky 
Published: January 2025

Background: PCNL is considered a safe and effective technique for removing kidney stones. PCNL success was determined by the absence of clinically significant residual stone fragments on X-rays or CT scans. The S.T.O.N.E Score can predict the PCNL stone-free rate. High points indicate complexity and low stone-free number probability. This study aims to evaluate the stone-free PCNL procedures at Cirebon Hospital using the S.T.O.N.E Score.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study uses participants' medical records from October 2018 to November 2019. Before surgery, participants' STONE scores were evaluated. The procedure recorded operating time, tubeless technique, and transfusion needs. Stone-free status and the number of additional procedures determined the procedure's success. Analysis was done using descriptive study and analytically with Mann-Whitney and linear regression test.
Results: This study included 124 samples, of which 64 (51.61%) were female and 60 (48.39%) were male. The mean age of the participants was 49.52 ±11.78 years. Most surgical outcomes in patients were stone-free, precisely 78 samples (62.90%), while 46 samples (37.10%). The average stone size for the stone-free surgical outcome was 791.47 ± 555.51 mm2 compared to 1049.50 ± 666.64 mm2 for the residual. The S.T.O.N.E score had a statistically significant relationship with the operation outcome, with a significance value of 0.001 between the stone-free outcome and a lower STONE score of 7.55 ± 1.48 compared to those with a residue of 9.59 ± 1.86.
Conclusion: The success rate of percutaneous nephrolithotomy based on the S.T.O.N.E score was high at our center, reaching 62.90%. A moderate correlation exists between the S.T.O.N.E score and the success rate of percutaneous nephrolithotomy.
Papillary thyroid carcinoma: a case of extremely rare sternal metastasis with concurrent lung involvement
Authors: Siregar Kamal Basri , Wijaya Jesslyn 
Published: January 2025

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer which arises from thyroid follicular cells. PTC is typically characterized by its slow growth and propensity for lymphatic spread to regional cervical lymph nodes. While distant metastasis, particularly to the lungs and bones, is uncommon, rare presentations such as sternal metastasis pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
Case description: We are reporting A 49-year-old male with dyspnea and a progressively enlarging mass in the neck and chest. Imaging studies including chest X-ray and CT scan confirmed lung and sternal metastasis along with lymph node enlargement. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy indicated a follicular neoplasm. Following total thyroidectomy with radical neck dissection, sternal and clavicle bone resection with titanium sternum reconstruction, histopathological analysis revealed PTC with lymphovascular invasion. Postoperative recovery was uncomplicated, leading to discharge on day 10, and planned radioiodine therapy.
Conclusion: A multidisciplinary approach is crucial for managing sternal metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma due to its atypical presentation.
PET-based perovskite solar cells to avoid potential-induced degradation
Authors: Breugelmans Robbe , Lammar Stijn , Aguirre Aranzazu , Aernouts Tom , Vermang Bart , Daenen Michaël 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Interest in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has grown, with advances in stability and scalability for commercialization. However, in real-world conditions, PSCs can encounter potential-induced degradation (PID), primarily due to sodium ion (Na+) migration from conventional soda-lime glass (SLG) substrates. This study investigates whether PID can be completely avoided using Na+-free substrates such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET). PET and SLG-based PSCs were subjected to –1000 V PID stress. The test was conducted in an inert environment to exclude other degradation factors. After 300 h, PET-based PSCs demonstrated only a 0.11% efficiency loss, staying well below the 5% stability threshold, compared to a 15% loss in SLG-based PSCs. The results confirm that using Na+-free substrates effectively prevents PID, and that Na+ migration is the primary cause of degradation during PID stress. These findings support further research to develop PID-resistant PSCs.

Impact statement
Potential-induced degradation (PID) is a critical challenge for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in real-world conditions, significantly impacting their stability and posing a barrier to large-scale commercialization. This study provides evidence that PSCs can be engineered to resist PID. The findings pave the way for developing strategies to mitigate, prevent, and even eliminate PID in future PSC designs. Moreover, the study confirms that Na+ migration is the primary driver of degradation during PID stress under inert conditions, providing valuable insights that could accelerate the advancement of long-term stability solutions for PSCs, thereby expediting their commercialization.

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Indication of Fluid-Driven Seismicity in the Palghar Region, India, from Local Earthquake Tomography
Authors: Kanaujia Jyotima , Kumar Mangalampally Ravi , Vengala Pavan Kumar , Shekar Mandadi 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACT
The Palghar region in western India has recently witnessed intense seismicity, categorized as swarm activity in an intraplate setting. Numerous studies have been hitherto conducted to interrogate the causative mechanisms for this nonvolcanic tremor. In this study, we present the seismic crustal velocity structure of the source region using travel times of 32,921 P and 31,452 S phases picked from waveforms of 8359 events recorded by a six-station seismological network of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Geophysical Research Institute, installed to closely monitor this activity. The tomographic sections reveal presence of low shear velocity and high VP/VS anomalies in the swarm area, indicative of fluids in the upper crust down to 15 km. Drawing support from the low-resistive zone inferred from inversion of magnetotelluric data, we emphasize the role of crustal fluids in the genesis of such swarms.
Importance of Considering Near-Surface Attenuation in Earthquake Source Parameter Estimation: Insights from Kappa at a Dense Array in Oklahoma
Authors: Chang Hilary , Abercrombie Rachel E. , Nakata Nori 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACT
Separating earthquake source spectra from propagation effects is challenging. The propagation effect contains a site-dependent term related to the high attenuation of shallow sediments. Neglecting the site-dependent attenuation can cause large biases and scattering in the corner-frequency (fc) estimates, resulting in significant stress-drop deviations. In this study, we investigate shallow attenuation at the LArge-n Seismic Survey in Oklahoma (LASSO) and site-related biases and scattering in source parameter measurements due to simplified attenuation models. We measure the high-frequency spectral decay parameter kappa on the vertical acceleration spectra of regional earthquakes (125 km away). The site-dependent kappa (κ0,acc) suggests that attenuation increases rapidly at shallow depth and is highly site-dependent. 10%–75% of the attenuation is site-dependent for S waves and even larger for P waves. The quality factor for S waves (QS) ranges from 10 to 100 in the upper 400 m. QP for P waves is mostly below 10 within the same depth. The Quaternary sediments tend to be more attenuating (QS&lt;30), but the Permian rocks also can have high attenuation. We demonstrate that using a non-site-dependent attenuation model in single-spectra fitting leads to large scattering in fc estimates among stations with apparent good fits. The apparent fc can significantly deviate when the range of site-dependent kappa is large or with a higher assumed source spectral fall-off rate n. The biases in apparent fc depend on site condition and distance; however, the correlation between fc and these factors might not be obvious, depending on model assumptions. An apparent increase of stress drop with magnitude in a previous study for local microearthquakes (1.3&lt;Mw&lt;3.0) can be largely negated by including a site term, restricting to sites on the higher Q formations, and fixing n. This study highlights the importance of considering near-surface attenuation when modeling source parameters.
Does Subsurface Fault Geometry Affect Aleatory Variability in Modeled Strike-Slip Fault Behavior?
Authors: Zielke Olaf , Mai P. Martin 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACT
The nonplanar geometry of faults influences their seismotectonic behavior, affecting the initiation, propagation, and termination of individual earthquakes as well as the stress–slip relationship and probability of multisegment rupture. Consequently, computer simulations that aim to resolve the earthquake rupture process and make predictions about a fault’s future behavior should incorporate nonplanar fault geometries. Although surface traces of faults can be mapped with high accuracy, a key challenge is to define a fault’s detailed subsurface geometry due to a general lack of data. This raises the question of which geometry to use. Does it matter which subsurface geometry is utilized in earthquake rupture simulations, as long as at least the fault trace is considered? How different is the simulated fault behavior for faults that share the same surface trace but different subsurface geometries? Using the physics-based earthquake-cycle simulator MCQsim, we generate seismic catalogs for 100 × 20 km strike-slip faults, assuming variations in fault surface trace, subsurface geometry, and strength distribution. We investigate how the long-term fault behavior—in the form of magnitude–frequency distribution, earthquake interevent time, and maximum earthquake size—is affected by fault geometry and strength distribution. We find that the simulated behavior of strike-slip faults with identical fault traces is interchangeable—even if their subsurface fault geometries differ. Implementing the fault trace constrains possible fault geometries to a level that makes the long-term behavior indistinguishable—at least for strike-slip faults with “known” strength distribution and length-to-width aspect ratios that are equal or larger than what we used here. The fault trace can provide a satisfactory representation of subsurface geometry for assessing long-term fault behavior.
The untranslatability of Environmental Affective Scales: Insights from indigenous soundscape perceptions in China
Authors: Wu Duotuo , Han Rumei , Zhang Ruining , Yang Xinhao , Zhang Yuan , Kang Jian 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Soundscapes significantly influence human well-being and urban liveability. Accurate assessment of emotional responses to soundscapes is crucial for environmental management and urban planning. However, standardised soundscape affective quality (SAQ) scales developed in Western contexts may not fully capture the specific perceptions shaped by different cultures. We investigate whether Chinese soundscape emotional experiences structurally differ from those in other cultures due to unique soundscape emotional concepts. Using an indigenous approach with 108 culturally relevant soundscape affective descriptors (SADs), we conducted perceptual evaluations of 132 soundscape excerpts (SEs) from 13 provinces, involving 264 university participants from 30 provinces, to develop the Indigenous Chinese Soundscape Affective Quality (ICSAQ) scale. Principal component analysis revealed a unique semantic space with two dimensions, Comfort and Richness, contrasting with the global SAQ model's Pleasantness and Eventfulness. Comparison of measurement results showed that the ICSAQ scale captured a broader and more specific range of emotional responses, while the translated global SAQ (TGSAQ) scale exhibited significant bias, overestimating positive emotions and activation levels. Regression models further indicated that the ICSAQ scale had stronger interpretability by objective indicators of SEs. Our study demonstrates significant structural differences in soundscape emotional experiences between Chinese and Western cultures, highlighting limitations of translation-based measurement methods. We advocate developing culturally appropriate environmental affective assessment tools to enhance evaluation accuracy, supporting more inclusive urban environmental management.
Identification of the Recurrence of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer by Stacking Classifier
Authors: Das Sulekha , Chaudhuri Avijit Kumar , Choudhury Nobhonil Roy , Ghosh Partha 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

The performance of different machine learning models for predicting well-differentiated thyroid cancer recurrence is compared in this study using several accuracy metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, precision, F1 score, specificity, the area under the curve (ROC), and Kappa statistics. The models that the paper considered for ranking are Logistic Regression (LR), Naïve Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), Random Forest (RF), and the proposed Stacked model. The results suggest that the use of ensemble learning methods, especially the proposed Stacked model, results in a generalized improvement over individual classifiers in terms of most of the measures. From Stacked models, there was a boosted level of sensitivity, precision, and F1-score, and the AUC in the higher train-test split (such as 80-20%) and 30-fold cross-validation where the accuracy was at par 100% and consistent. Random Forest also showed good accuracy of results and increased their speed when working with large data sets. The best outcomes were achieved using Decision Trees depending on the 80-20 split and 30-fold cross-validation. However, in Naive Bayes, which was used as a baseline, all the metrics were the lowest, indicating its inapplicability to this data set. Among the ensemble models, the newly designed Stacked model is the best for prediction accuracy of thyroid cancer recurrence; Random Forest is preferred for volume datasets. The results imply that using ensemble methods of constructing classifiers and selecting training data splits are indicative of operationalizing better models in intricate classification problems.
Multiscale Cell-Cell Interactive Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis
Authors: Cottrell Sean , Wei Guo-Wei 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Spatial transcriptomics data analysis integrates gene expression profiles with their corresponding spatial locations to identify spatial domains, infer cell-type dynamics, and detect gene expression patterns within tissues. However, the current spatial transcriptomics analysis neglects the multiscale cell-cell interactions that are crucial in biology. To fill this gap, we propose multiscale cell-cell interactive spatial transcriptomics (MCIST) analysis. MCIST combines the advantages of an ensemble of multiscale topological representations of cell-cell interactions in the gene expression space with those of cutting edge spatial deep learning techniques. We validate MCIST by a comparison of 14 cutting edge methods on a huge collection of 37 benchmark spatial transcriptomics datasets. We demonstrate that MCIST yields superior performance in spatial domain detection. It achieves the best clustering score on 23/37 datasets and is among the top three methods on 33/37 datasets, whereas the second best method scored only 6/37 and 17/37 on these measures, respectively. In terms of overall performance with regards to a quantitative metric, MCIST offers over an 11\% improvement to the previous state-of-the-art in spatial domain detection. Additionally, MCIST offers multiscale insights with respect to trajectory inference, differentially expressed gene detection, and signaling pathway enrichment analysis. Our MCIST sheds valuable light on the multiscale perspective in spatial transcriptomics.
Teacher Incentive Strategy in Secondary Schools: The Missing Link between Policy and Practices
Authors: Mesfin Shimelis 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the implementation of teachers’ incentive strategy from the perspectives of Expectancy Motivation theory.
Methods: Descriptive survey design was employed. The size of the population was 346. Of these, 173 teachers were selected using simple random sampling technique. Questionnaire and interview were used to collect the data.
Results: The result of one sample t-test indicated that the mean scores of teachers about the awareness of the incentive strategy (4.21) and attractiveness of the incentives (4.69) were significantly higher than the expected mean value (3) at (t = 43.27) and (t = 150.739) respectively at df = 172, p< 0.05. Conversely, the mean scores of teachers’ expectancy in exerting effort in achieving the provided duties (2.00) and instrumentality of getting the incentives when they perform the required tasks (1.98) were lower than the expected mean value (3) at (t = -59.0) and (t = -37.1) respectively at p < 0.05, df =172.
Conclusion: Based on expectancy motivation theory, it is concluded that the incentive strategy was not effective in motivating teachers due to the absence of certain personal and institutional factors. Therefore, incentives need to be provided for teachers who perform the required tasks with clear criteria.
FcγIII receptor expression and neutrophil granularity as prognostic biomarkers for infectious complications in newborns
Authors: Obraztsov I. V. , Kopteva A. A. , Obraztsova A. A. , Chernikova E. V. , Voronina O. V. , Davydova N. V. , Fedorova L. A. , Zhirkova Yu. V. , Korsunskiy A. A. , Afukov I. I. 
Published: January 2025

Neonatal sepsis remains a pressing issue for healthcare both in Russia and globally due to its high mortality rate and resistance to treatment. Infection generalization in newborns is facilitated by a deficiency in innate immunity, which is particularly evident in impaired neutrophil function.The aim of this study was to identify phenotypic characteristics of specific neutrophil subsets that could be significant in predicting the development and progression of infection in newborns. Using flow cytometry, we examined CD16 and CD62L expression as well as neutrophil granularity in newborns across three groups: those without infectious complications (n=38), with localized infection (n=32), and with generalized infection (n=21). Neutrophil subsets with high and intermediate levels of CD16 and CD62L expression demonstrated prognostic relevance. Patients with generalized infection exhibited a significant reduction in surface CD16 and granularity in these neutrophil subsets. Cutoff points were calculated, showing that a decrease in these parameters on the first day of illness was significantly associated with extended stays in intensive care units and overall hospitalization duration. The proposed indicators show promise for predicting infectious complications in newborns, facilitating more targeted and proactive care in neonatal practice.
A reação do mercado de ações à obrigatoriedade da divulgação de informações ESG
Authors: Lopes Mateus Del Col , Jucá Michele Nascimento 
Published: January 2025

Objetivo: Analisar a reação da obrigatoriedade da divulgação das informações de ESG no Brasil sobre o preço das ações do mercado local.
Metodologia: Referida análise é feita por meio de um estudo de evento, o qual refere-se à publicação do formulário de referência (FRE) das empresas do setor de metal e mineração – que são ambientalmente sensíveis. A data do evento é aquela da divulgação do FRE de cada companhia, relativo ao exercício social que se encerra em 31 de dezembro de 2022.
Resultados: Os resultados confirmam a hipótese principal de que a divulgação obrigatória de práticas de sustentabilidade das companhias brasileiras impacta o retorno de suas ações. É possível que o mercado entenda que os custos de curto prazo - relacionados à implementação das práticas de sustentabilidade - ainda excedam os benefícios que levarão à valorização das companhias no longo prazo. Porém, a integração progressiva dos mercados globais prevê um alinhamento de práticas sustentáveis que devem alcançar o mercado brasileiro no médio prazo.
Contribuições do Estudo: Essa pesquisa se diferencia das demais por ser – até o limite do nosso conhecimento – uma das primeiras a investigar os efeitos da implementação da Resolução no. 59/2021 no Brasil sobre o retorno das ações das companhias. Ele contribui para a academia com a análise empírica da hipótese de eficiência de mercado. Além disso, seus resultados podem auxiliar as companhias, investidores e mercado de capitais a melhor compreender os efeitos iniciais da publicação obrigatória das práticas sustentáveis. Por fim, este estudo colabora ainda com o estímulo ou adequação das políticas definidas pelos órgãos reguladores sobre temas de sustentabilidade.
Navegando pelos rios da sustentabilidade na Amazônia: o dilema da contabilização dos créditos de carbono
Authors: Santana Aleff dos Santos , Círico Juh , Miranda Claudio de Souza , Souza Alessandra de Fátima Souza de , Belo Rayane de Lima Silva 
Published: January 2025

Objetivo: O presente caso para ensino objetiva fomentar discussões acerca do tratamento contábil para créditos de carbono, com a apresentação de uma história fictícia sobre uma mulher contadora, chefe de uma empresa familiar ecologicamente sustentável chamada Econorte. Por meio do caso para ensino, docentes e discentes de cursos de Ciências Contábeis poderão discutir sobre a escrituração contábil dos créditos de carbono de empresas sustentáveis.
Metodologia: A metodologia deste caso para ensino é mista, pois parte de um processo de reflexividade sobre a importância dos estudos da contabilização dos créditos de carbono até a classificação, escrituração contábil e as explicações/justificativas para tais registros.
Resultados: Com base nos dados apresentados neste caso para ensino é possível refletir, classificar, registrar e justificar a importância da contabilização dos créditos de carbono.
Contribuições do Estudo: O caso contribui como um instrumento que pode ser aplicado nas disciplinas de Contabilidade Ambientes, Gestão Ambiental, Responsabilidade Socioambiental e Desenvolvimento Sustentável em cursos de graduação na área de negócios, principalmente no curso de Ciências Contábeis.