bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Leveraging geographic information systems (GIS) in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) research: a systematic review of applications and challenges
Authors: Pradhan Sojen , Pradhan Biswajeet , Joshi Abhasha 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are essential for the health, well-being, and socio-economic development of communities. Despite global efforts, the challenge of providing safe access to WASH service persists, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play a pivotal role in understanding and addressing these challenges by enabling the monitoring, mapping, and analysis of WASH facilities and their impacts. This systematic literature review aims to comprehensively understand how GIS is being used in WASH research. The review reveals that GIS is being used in various aspects of WASH, including mapping and monitoring of WASH facilities, spatial analysis of WASH-related health outcomes, and planning. The review also highlights the challenges of using GIS in WASH, such as data availability and quality, integration of technological advancement and adoption of a comprehensive approach. The review provides valuable insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working in the field of WASH.
Challenges, current innovations, and opportunities for managing type 2 diabetes in frail older adults: a position paper of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS)—Special Interest Group in Diabetes
Authors: Boccardi Virginia , Bahat Gülistan , Balci Cafer , Bourdel-Marchasson Isabelle , Christiaens Antoine , Donini Lorenzo Maria , Cavdar Sibel , Maggi Stefania , Özkök Serdar , Pavic Tajana , Perkisas Stany , Volpato Stefano , Zaidi Muhammad Shoaib , Zeyfang Andrej , Sinclair Alan J. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Purpose
This position paper aims to address the challenges of managing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in frail older adults, a diverse and growing demographic with significant variability in health status. The primary research questions are: How can frailty assessment be effectively integrated into diabetes care? What strategies can optimize glycaemic control and outcomes for frail older adults? How can innovative tools and technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), improve the management of this population?

Methods
The paper uses the 5 I’s framework (Identification, Innovation, Individualization, Integration, Intelligence) to integrate frailty into diabetes care, proposing strategies such as frailty tools, novel therapies, digital technologies, and AI systems. It also examines metabolic heterogeneity, highlighting anorexic-malnourished and sarcopenic-obese phenotypes.

Results
The proposed framework highlights the importance of tailoring glycaemic targets to frailty levels, prioritizing quality of life, and minimizing treatment burden. Strategies such as leveraging AI tools are emphasized for their potential to enhance personalized care. The distinct management needs of the two metabolic phenotypes are outlined, with specific recommendations for each group.

Conclusion
This paper calls for a holistic, patient-centered approach to diabetes care for frail older adults, ensuring equity in access to innovations and prioritizing quality of life. It highlights the need for research to fill evidence gaps, refine therapies, and improve healthcare integration for better outcomes in this vulnerable group.

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Overcoming photocorrosion in CdS photocatalysts: the role of lignin-derived carbon Co-based composites in hydrogen production
Authors: Liu Bowen , Luo Zhicheng , Wu Weidong , Qi Yi , Qin Yanlin , Qiu Xueqing 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The implementation of lignin composites with inexpensive metals for photocatalytic hydrogen production offers an economically viable solution to the global energy crisis. CdS, as a widely used photocatalyst, faces significant challenges such as rapid electron–hole recombination, severe photo-corrosion, poor stability, and easy aggregation of nanoparticles. To overcome these limitations, we synthesized a CdS@Co–N/C composite photocatalyst by in-situ loading CdS particles onto Co–N/C lignin carbon through a straightforward hydrothermal method. The uniform anchoring of CdS nanoparticles on Co–N/C prevents aggregation, mitigates photo-corrosion, increases the surface area to mass ratio, and generates an increased amount of active sites. With 100 mg of CdS@Co–N/C as the catalyst, the optimal photocatalytic hydrogen rate of generation reached 6.11 mmol g−1, which was 8.40-fold greater than that of pure CdS. This lignin carbon composite demonstrated remarkable stability, maintaining high hydrogen production efficiency without significant decline after five cycles. Electrochemical experiments and DFT (Density Functional Theory) results suggested that the carbon sourced from lignin in the composite possesses conductivity and, in synergy with Co nanoparticles, serves as an electron acceptor, enhancing electron transfer and hastening the separation of photogenerated charge carriers in CdS, and thereby enhancing photocatalytic hydrogen production efficiency. This study proposes a simple, cost-effective and noble-metal-free method for hydrogen production.
Józef Chałasiński’s Research on the Nationalization Process of Peasants in Poland
Authors: Poniedziałek Jacek 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This article describes the research on the nationalization of peasantry in Poland by the Polish sociologist Józef Chałasiński (1904–1979). He realized that the ethnicity and nation in Poland were formed with the exclusion of peasants marginalized by privileged classes. The idea of a nation was used to ensure class domination over peasants; their inclusion in the nation was tantamount to the abandonment of the peasant culture and rural lifestyle. Chałasiński described the emergence of a modern Polish nation through the popularization of the elite culture, which led to the gradual disappearance of the peasant class in Poland.
Music History, the Practice Turn, and Maria Yudina’s Journey through the Soviet ‘Thaw’, 1959–63
Authors: BEHAN ADAM 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This article develops an approach to music history that centres performers and their artistic work, drawing on insights from musical performance studies. It responds to criticisms of the practice turn and builds on recent scholarship on Soviet music to contextualize the life of pianist Maria Yudina in the years 1959–63, in which she dedicated herself (at great cost) to new, avant-garde music. Case studies include Yudina’s key role in performing the first Soviet twelve-tone composition in 1961 — Andrei Volkonsky’s Musica Stricta: Fantasia Ricercata — and her advocacy of Igor Stravinsky in the build-up to his homecoming in 1962.
Factors affecting test-day milk composition in dairy ewes, and relationships amongst various milk components
Authors: OTHMANE M. HOUCINE , CARRIEDO J. ANTONIO , DE LA FUENTE L. FERNANDO , PRIMITIVIO FERMÍN SAN 
Published: July 2002

A total of 7492 test-day observations for mean contents of fat, protein, casein, serum protein and lactose and individual laboratory cheese yield (ILCY) were obtained, at approximately monthly intervals, from 1119 ewes belonging to eight Churra dairy flocks. The effect of various factors on these variables was examined and phenotypic correlations among all traits were estimated. Least squares analyses showed significant effects of flock test-date, stage of lactation, age of ewe, and number of lambs weaned on almost all variables. Protein content and composition were not affected by the number of lambs weaned. ILCY had an unadjusted mean (26·55 kg cheese/100 l milk) close to those reported for real cheese yield in dairy ewes and was affected similarly to the main milk components. Fat, protein, casein, and serum protein contents, and ILCY, showed a generally increasing trend as lactation progressed. These components reached a minimum at 1 month into lactation, when milk yield was highest, and increased for the remainder of the lactation. ILCY depended mainly on fat, protein and casein contents. Protein and casein contents were closely related and equally correlated with ILCY. An increase in somatic cell count (SCC) was associated with decreased milk yield and decreased lactose content.
First report of Oscheius insectivorus (Körner, 1954) Andrássy, 1976 (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) from Iran with its efficacy against Chrysomela populi L. (Col.: Chrysomelidae) and Galleria mellonella L. (Lep.: Pyralidae)
Authors: Amiri Bonab M. , Atighi M.R. , Gholami Ghavamabad R. , Pedram M. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
A population of Oscheius insectivorus was recovered from inside the body of a live scarab beetle collected from natural forests of Jafar Abad village, Golestan province, and was reported from Iran for the first time. The Iranian isolate of the species is characterized by 1103–1942 μm long females with their vulva at 46.9–57.4% of the body, tail 75–118 μm long, males with spicules 60.0–74.5 μm long, gubernaculum 23.7–32.2 μm long, and infective juveniles measuring 790–985 μm long. Females and males of the recovered population had shorter body when compared with the type population. Molecular identification of the recovered population was performed using the SSU and D2-D3 expansion segments of LSU rDNA, and corresponding phylogenetic trees were reconstructed and discussed. The pathogenicity of the Iranian isolate was evaluated on the larvae and adults of the poplar leaf beetle, Chrysomela populi, and the larvae of the wax moth, Galleria mellonella, under laboratory conditions. A suspension of 200 infective juveniles per ml (IJs/ml) of the nematode was most effective against third instar larvae of C. populi, causing 75% mortality 72 hours post-exposure. In adults, mortality reached 70% at the same concentration and exposure time. For G. mellonella larvae, O. insectivorus caused 50% mortality at 200 IJs/ml within 72 hours post-exposure. The lethal concentration 50 (LC50) values of the nematode were 77.71 and 94.06 IJs/ml for third instar larvae and adults of C. populi, respectively, and 217.04 IJs/ml for fifth instar larvae of G. mellonella 72 hours post-exposure at 25°C and 60% relative humidity.
Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories
Authors: Saxena Vandana , Saigaran Nithiya Guna 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This article is an outcome of a search for the Tamil plantation woman in Malaysia and her voice—her stories and memories, in her own words. Through the plantation songs of Tamil workers in Malaysia, first collated and published in the 1980s, we explore the experiences and memories of these women, singing about their lives and work in the Malayan plantations. As memory-work, these songs constitute an oral history that provides an uneasy counter to hegemonic discourses like that of the colonial planters who employed the women, or the nationalist historiography of India and Malaysia where they are sidelined and reduced to figures of abject victimhood in the clutches of colonial capitalism, or the post-colonial discourse where their memories and experiences constitute a shameful past that obstructs optimism for the future. Tamil plantation songs call for a comparative approach to history and memory—between the position of the woman and that of the man, or the labourer and the supervisor/planter, as well as more problematic and shifting positionalities like seducer and the seduced, or the victim and the perpetrator.
Health technology assessment capacity to support Zambia’s health benefits package reform policy
Authors: Simangolwa Warren Mukelabai , Govender Kaymarlin , Mbonigaba Josue 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background
The need for more local technical capacity in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a leading challenge to its use in low- and middle-income countries. Zambia has been considering using HTA to support its universal health coverage initiative, which includes health benefits package design and implementation. This study assesses the local HTA capacity for the steering committee tasked with supporting the design and implementation of the national health benefits package in Zambia.

Methods
The study applied a cross-sectional web-based survey design and the consensus-based Checklist for Reporting of Survey Studies. Data were collected from the steering committee of the benefits package working group, tasked with leading the design process of the health benefits package using the Instrument for the Assessment of Skills to Conduct a Health Technology Assessment tool.

Results
The majority of respondents had not served on a selection and reimbursement committee. Clinical effectiveness skills in structuring a search strategy, handling missing data, conducting qualitative evidence synthesis, and grading the certainty of evidence were low. Skills for leadership, networking, conflict management, and project coordination, public and patient involvement were mid-level to low. Most of the respondents were aware of ethical issues with health technologies. Health economics skills in economic evaluations and decision analytic modeling, equity and health system efficiency measurement, budget impact analysis, and quality of life were identified for capacity strengthening.

Conclusion
Available technical capacities to revise and implement the national benefits package were lower in health economics, synthesis for clinical effectiveness evidence, ethics, patient and public involvement, and soft skills, in that order.
Precipitation analysis using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit in support of nowcasting applications
Authors: Bennartz Ralf , Thoss Anke , Dybbroe Adam , Michelson Daniel B 
Published: July 2002

AbstractWe describe a method to remotely sense precipitation and classify its intensity over water, coasts and land surfaces. This method is intended to be used in an operational nowcasting environment. It is based on data obtained from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) onboard NOAA‐15. Each observation is assigned a probability of belonging to four classes: precipitation‐free, risk of precipitation, precipitation between 0.5 and 5 mm/h, and precipitation higher than 5 mm/h. Since the method is designed to work over different surface types, it relies mainly on the scattering signal of precipitation‐sized ice particles received at high frequencies. For the calibration and validation of the method we use an eight‐month dataset of combined weather radar and AMSU data obtained over the Baltic area. We compare results for the AMSU‐B channels at 89 GHz and 150 GHz and find that the high frequency channel at 150 GHz allows for a much better discrimination of different types of precipitation than the 89 GHz channel. While precipitation‐free areas, as well as heavily precipitating areas (>5 mm/h), can be identified to high accuracy, the intermediate classes are more ambiguous. This stems from the ambiguity of the passive microwave observations as well as from the non‐perfect matching of the different data sources and sub‐optimal radar adjustment. In addition to a statistical assessment of the method's accuracy, we present case studies to demonstrate its capabilities to classify different types of precipitation and to work over highly structured, inhomogeneous surfaces. Copyright © 2002 Royal Meteorological Society
The stability and instability of the language control network: A longitudinal resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Authors: Li Zilong , Liu Cong , Pan Xin , Ding Guosheng , Wang Ruiming 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This study investigates the stability and instability of the language control network in bilinguals using longitudinal resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data. We compared the language control network of Chinese university students majoring in English with those not, using three other functional networks as controls. Results indicate that the English major group exhibits reduced stability and increased instability in the language control network compared with the non-English major group. This suggests that second language (L2) learning experience may induce adaptive neural changes. Moreover, the coexistence of stability and instability in the language control network appears less modular in the English major group, implying a more integrated response to language experience. Notably, these results were not observed in the control networks. Overall, these findings enhance the understanding of bilingual language control and the impact of L2 learning on neural plasticity.
Equitable Approaches for Public Health Data Collection Among Diverse Populations: Findings from a National Evaluation of Fruit and Vegetable Incentives
Authors: Shanks Carmen Byker , Izumi Betty , Eastman Jenna , Alvord Teala W. , Yaroch Amy L. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Objective:
Public health approaches for addressing diet-related health in the United States (US) include nutrition incentive (NI) and produce prescription (PPR) projects. These projects, funded through the US Department of Agriculture Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP), aim to support intake of fruits and vegetables through healthy food incentives. Measuring GusNIP impact is vital to assessing the ability of incentives to improve public health nutrition outcomes across populations. Shared measures used across GusNIP projects assess fruit and vegetable intake, food security, demographics, among other variables, through a participant survey. This study explored challenges and opportunities to support evaluation across GusNIP.

Design:
This qualitative study used a sociodemographic survey, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize survey data and applied thematic analysis was used to identify patterns in interview and focus group data.

Setting:
Data collection occurred in the United States virtually using Qualtrics and Zoom, fall 2021 to fall 2022.

Participants:
18 GusNIP PPR and NI data collectors, 24 external evaluators, and 11 GusNIP Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information Center’s (NTAE) staff participated.

Results:
Opportunities to improve evaluation among GusNIP’s participants include tailoring surveys to specific subpopulations, translations, culturally appropriate food examples, avoiding stigmatizing language, using mixed methods, and intentional strategies to enhance representation.

Conclusion:
To increase applicability, evaluation tools must reflect the experiences across populations. This study provides insights that can guide future NI and PPR evaluations, helping to more effectively measure and understand outcomes of all communities.
Barriers and facilitators influencing midwives’ implementation of South Africa’s maternal care guidelines in postnatal health: a scoping review
Authors: Okeke Ngozichika , Ngunyulu Roinah 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Introduction:
The implementation of South Africa’s maternal care guidelines is still subpar, especially during the postnatal periods, despite midwives playing a key part in postnatal care for women and their newborns. This article aimed to pinpoint the obstacles to and enablers of midwives’ roles in putting South Africa’s maternal care recommendations for postnatal health into practice.

Method:
A scoping review was conducted following Arksey and O’Malley method. Systematic searches were conducted using the PsycINFO, Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL), PubMed, EBSCOhost web, and Google Scholar. The screening was guided by the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data were analyzed using the Braun and Clarke method for thematic content analysis and included 22 articles. The quality of included studies was determined by Mixed Method Appraisal Tool and these were reported in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis for Scoping Review.

Results:
There is a gap between inadequate postnatal care services provision and suboptimal implementation of maternal recommendations. Owing to a lack of basic knowledge about the guidelines, an absence of midwives in the maternity units, inadequate facilities and resources, a lack of drive and support, inadequate training of midwives in critical competencies, and poor information sharing and communication. Maintaining qualified midwives in the maternity units and providing them with training to increase their capacity, knowledge, and competencies on the guidelines’ critical information for managing postnatal complications and providing high-quality care to women and their babies is necessary to effectively implement the recommendations.

Conclusion:
The relative success in implementing maternal care guidelines in South Africa lies in the contextual consideration of these factors for the development of intersectoral healthcare packages, strengthening health system collaborations, and stakeholder partnerships to ameliorate maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality.
The impact of primary care funding on health inequalities: an umbrella review
Authors: Holdroyd Ian , McCann Lucy , Berger Maya , Fisher Rebecca , Ford John 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background:
The funding of primary care is subject to intense debate internationally. Three main funding models predominate: capitation, pay-for-performance, and fee-for-service. A number of systematic reviews regarding the effect of primary care funding structures have been published, but not synthesized through an equity lens. Given the urgent need for evaluating funding models and addressing inequalities, a reliable, synthesized evidence base concerning the effects of funding on inequalities is imperative.

Aims:
This umbrella review aims to systematically evaluate all systematic reviews available on the effect of different primary care funding models in high-income countries on inequalities in funding, access, outcomes, or experience from inception until 2024.

Methods:
Three databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane) and a machine learning living evidence map were searched. Abstracts and titles were double screened, before two authors independently screened full texts, extracted data, and performed quality assessments utilizing the AMSTAR2 tool.

Findings:
The search identified 2480 unique articles, of which 14 were included in the final review. Only one review compared reimbursement systems; capitation systems were more equitable between ethnic groups compared to pay-for-performance in terms of primary care access, continuity, and quality. Twelve reviews reviewed the impact of the introduction of pay-for-performance models, predominantly focusing on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in the UK. Synthesized findings suggest that QOF’s introduction coincided with reduced socioeconomic health inequalities in the UK overall, but not in Scotland. Overall, inequalities in age narrowed, but inequalities measured by sex widened. One review found evidence that targeting funding for minority groups, with poorer health, was effective. A further review found that introducing privately provided general practices in Sweden and allowing patients to choose these over public-owned options generally benefitted those with higher income and lower health needs. We identify a range of gaps in the literature, which should inform future research.