bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Assessing the impact of stimulation environment and error probability on ErrP EEG response, detection and subject attention: an explorative study
Authors: Farabbi Andrea , Mainardi Luca 
Published: December 2024

ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the impact of stimulus environments (Virtual Theatre vs Monitor) and error probabilities (20% vs 50%) on attentional states, Error Potentials (ErrP), and machine learning classification performance.ApproachEEG signals were recorded using different protocols, and features were extracted for subsequent analysis from single-trial response and attention level was computed from the second preceding error processing stimulation.ResultsThe results indicate significant differences across conditions: the Monitor environment consistently elicited higher and faster ErrP responses and elevated attentional states compared to Virtual Theatre. Additionally, classification performance in the Monitor environment outperformed Virtual Theatre consistently. Further analysis revealed that the 20% error probability protocol yielded increased ErrP responses, heightened attentional states, and superior classification performance compared to the 50% protocol. Classification performance under the 20% error probability condition consistently exceeded 75% validation and test sets. Moreover, a significant correlation between attention-related features and ErrP characteristics was observed, highlighting the intricate relationship between error processing and attentional engagement.RelevanceThese findings underscore the importance of considering stimulus environments and error probabilities in cognitive neuroscience research and machine learning applications. Understanding these factors can inform experimental design and model development, ultimately advancing our comprehension of cognitive processes and enhancing real-world applications of machine learning algorithms.
Tactical critical thinking program on the tactical efficiency index, declarative and procedural knowledge in male soccer players: a case study
Authors: Gaviria Alzate Samuel Jose , Valencia-Sánchez Wilder Geovanny , Espinal Frank Esteban , Bustamante Jorge Luis , Arias-Arias Elkin 
Published: December 2024

IntroductionThe purpose of this study was to explore the implications of the in-field implementation of a teaching strategy that promotes critical thinking (TPCT) on tactical ability, declarative, and procedural knowledge. The TPCT is grounded in socio-constructivist theory and aims to enhance players' analytical skills through inquiry, problem-solving, and observation. By emphasizing the socio-constructivist approach, the program fosters skills such as interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and self-regulation, encouraging players' active participation in questioning and collaborative problem-solving activities. The content of the program focuses on offensive tactical principles of soccer.MethodsThirteen male U-14 soccer players (mean age: 13.54 ± 1.00 years; mean soccer-federated experience: 3.92 ± 1.00 years; mean body mass: 39.44 ± 6.09 kg; mean height: 1.61 ± 0.10 m) performed a TPCT intervention strategy over 22 sessions, three times a week. Tactical ability was assessed using the Test for Performance Assessment in Team Sports (PATS), while declarative and procedural knowledge were evaluated with the Tactical Knowledge Test in Soccer (TCTOF). These assessments were administered before and after the intervention.ResultsAfter the 8-week teaching strategy, there was a significant improvement and substantial increase in the Tactical Efficiency Index (IE) [t (12) = 2.61, p &lt; 0.05, r = 0.73], reflecting a 41% rise from the pretest (M = 0.39, SD = 0.21) to the post-test (M = 0.55, SD = 0.24). Changes in declarative knowledge were minimal, with a 0.31% increase. Similarly, procedural knowledge showed a slight increase (3.53%) that did not reach statistical significance.DiscussionThe findings suggest that integrating critical thinking into sports training could be a strategy to enhance the tactical abilities of young soccer players. While the increase in tactical ability was significant, improvements in declarative and procedural knowledge were minimal. These results highlight the potential of critical thinking-focused programs to impact tactical performance but suggest that further research is needed to explore the broader effects on other types of knowledge.
Food Advertisement and Marketing Policies Aimed at Reducing Childhood Obesity: A Review of Existing Regulations in High-Income Countries
Authors: Khan Rida , Suggs L. Suzanne , Tanweer Afifa , Bányai Gábor 
Published: December 2024

ObjectivesTo identify and evaluate the difference between voluntary and mandatory food marketing policies and regulations targeting childhood obesity and to study the role of media, the food industry, and private associations in implementing such policies.MethodsA review of policies and legislation about unhealthy food marketing was conducted by searching and extracting relevant grey literature from the websites of international health agencies, food marketing pledge databases, GINA, and NOURISHING policy databases. Statutory laws and self-regulations of high-income countries were compared with each other and with the WHO recommendations.ResultsRegulations differ regarding target audience, nutrient profiling, communication media, and marketing techniques. To date, no country has implemented comprehensive regulations restricting all forms of unhealthy food marketing. Statutory laws are more meticulous and rigorous than self-regulatory policies.ConclusionThe goal of reducing childhood obesity through restrictions on unhealthy food advertising has not been met. While not welcomed by all actors, mandatory regulations may be more effective than voluntary measures in reaching this goal. A system for monitoring adherence to regulations and providing both incentives and penalties for violations is warranted.
Yield, Composition, and Chemotypes of Essential Oils from Origanum vulgare L. Aerial Parts Cultivated in Different European Countries
Authors: Raal Ain , Gontova Tetiana , Ivask Anu , Orav Anne , Koshovyi Oleh 
Published: December 2024

Origanum vulgare L. (Lamiaceae) is widely used in the food, pharmaceutical, perfumery, and cosmetic industries for the needs for which this raw material is cultivated. O. vulgare is a polymorphic species with subspecies, which differ in the structure of their reproductive organs, the location of essential oil (EO) trichomes, and the composition of EO. Therefore, it is very important to identify the most valuable chemotypes rich in biologically active substances and cultivate them more widely. This research aimed to study the chemical composition of O. vulgare EO from aerial parts (n = 17) of cultivated plants (leaves, leaves and flowers, flowering tops) from different European countries (n = 5) to determine the dynamics of EO yield and its component accumulation depending on vegetation phases, as well as to establish chemotypes of O. vulgare, which are the most promising for cultivation. EOs from the raw materials were obtained by hydrodistillation according to the European Pharmacopoeia method; their analysis was carried out by GC-MS. A total of 17 studied samples of O. vulgare aerial parts from Estonia, Turkey, Scotland, Moldova, and Italy contained 1.9–11.0 mL/kg of EO. The highest yields of EO were found in the samples from Moldova (11.0 mL/kg) and Italy (9.3 mL/kg). In total, 89 substances were identified in the studied EOs. By studying the variability of the chemical composition during the plant’s vegetation period, we found the highest content of EO was noted in the phase of full flowering and at the end of blooming. Strong correlations (r = 0.61–0.84) were found between the contents of some terpenoids. The six chemotypes of O. vulgare rich in (1) caryophyllene oxide; (2) sabinene; (3) caryophyllene oxide–(E)-β-caryophyllene; (4) (E)-β-caryophyllene; (5) carvacrol, and (6) thymol–carvacrol were found. In terms of quantitative EO content of O. vulgare, none of the studied samples (n = 17), and in terms of total carvacrol and thymol, most of the samples (n = 15) did not meet the minimum standards of the European Pharmacopoeia. When cultivating O. vulgare for the pharmaceutical industry, it is necessary to proceed from plant propagation material rich in EO and chemotypes rich in carvacrol and thymol.
On the Cryptic Speciation in the Mosses with East Asia–East North America Disjunction: A Case Study of Two Poorly Understood Mosses from the Southern Extremity of the Russian Far East
Authors: Fedosov Vladimir E. , Pisarenko Olga Yu. , Fedorova Alina V. , Afonina Olga M. , Ignatova Elena A. 
Published: December 2024

A survey of the moss flora of the southernmost part of the Russian Primorsky Territory yielded several intriguing taxa, whose identity is assessed herein based on an integrative morpho-molecular approach. Bellibarbula recurva was previously known in inland Asia only from the Sino-Himalayan region and the new locality is distant from the earlier known ones to ca. 3000 km. Despite the morphological uniformity, Russian specimens are remarkably distinct in sequences of all three obtained DNA markers, approaching an American specimen in the rps4 sequence. Another probable relic, Symblepharis cf. crispifolia, appeared to be fairly common in the southern part of the Primorsky Territory, where low mountains are covered with hard-leaved forests. Russian specimens of Symblepharis cf. crispifolia var. brevipes show significant divergence from S. crispifolia s.str., which also has complex phylogenetic structure, obscuring further taxonomic implications. The description and illustrations of both taxa based on Russian specimens are provided, and the area, where both species occur, is briefly characterized; it includes numerous thermophilous species, which are rare or do not occur northwards. Our case study uncovers the problem of cryptic speciation within species distributed in temperate climate and is considered to represent relics of Arcto-Tertiary flora.
Point Cloud Wall Projection for Realistic Road Data Augmentation
Authors: Kim Kana , Lee Sangjun , Kakani Vijay , Li Xingyou , Kim Hakil 
Published: December 2024

Several approaches have been developed to generate synthetic object points using real LiDAR point cloud data for advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) applications. The synthetic object points generated from a scene (both the near and distant objects) are essential for several ADAS tasks. However, generating points from distant objects using sparse LiDAR data with precision is still a challenging task. Although there are a few state-of-the-art techniques to generate points from synthetic objects using LiDAR point clouds, limitations such as the need for intense compute power still persist in most cases. This paper suggests a new framework to address these limitations in the existing literature. The proposed framework contains three major modules, namely position determination, object generation, and synthetic annotation. The proposed framework uses a spherical point-tracing method that augments 3D LiDAR distant objects using point cloud object projection with point-wall generation. Also, the pose determination module facilitates scenarios such as platooning carried out by the synthetic object points. Furthermore, the proposed framework improves the ability to describe distant points from synthetic object points using multiple LiDAR systems. The performance of the proposed framework is evaluated on various 3D detection models such as PointPillars, PV-RCNN, and Voxel R-CNN for the KITTI dataset. The results indicate an increase in mAP (mean average precision) by 1.97%, 1.3%, and 0.46% from the original dataset values of 82.23%, 86.72%, and 87.05%, respectively.
Podocyte Injury and Long-term Kidney Prognosis in Patients with Lupus Nephritis
Authors: Okabe Masahiro , Okabayashi Yusuke , Sasaki Takaya , Koike Kentaro , Tsuboi Nobuo , Matsusaka Taiji , Yokoo Takashi 
Published: December 2024

Background:
Lupus nephritis (LN) is a major complication of systemic lupus erythematosus. Like other types of glomerulonephritis, podocyte injury has been observed in patients with LN. However, the association between podocyte injury and kidney prognosis in patients with LN has not been well elucidated. This study aimed to explore the association between podocyte injury and clinical and histological status and kidney prognosis in patients with LN.

Methods:
Seventy-five patients histopathologically diagnosed with LN were enrolled in this study. Early growth response 1 (EGR1) expression in podocytes, representing podocyte injury, was detected through immunohistochemistry. The correlation between the proportion of glomeruli with podocytes expressing EGR1 (%EGR1glo) and the clinical and histological features of LN was evaluated. Subsequently, the association between %EGR1glo and kidney prognosis was examined in a group of patients with LN classes III, IV, or V who showed ≥ 0.5 g/g of urinary protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) and received immunosuppressive therapy. Hazard ratio was calculated using univariate Cox proportional hazards regression.

Results:
%EGR1glo was highest in patients with LN class IV, significantly correlated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index score, urinary protein level, and the prevalence of glomeruli showing cellular/fibrocellular crescents, endocapillary hypercellularity, and fibrinoid necrosis, and inversely correlated with eGFR. Higher %EGR1glo was significantly associated with sustained ≥ 30% eGFR decline over 10 years in patients with LN classes III, IV, or V (n = 42) (hazard ratio, 1.58 [95% confidence interval, 1.07–2.36] per 10% increase in %EGR1glo). There was no significant interaction between patients grouped by kidney function, urinary proteinuria level, presence of cellular/fibrocellular crescents, degree of tubulointerstitial fibrosis, and LN classification.

Conclusions:
Podocyte damage, as indicated by EGR1 expression, was associated with poor long-term kidney prognosis in patients with active LN. Treatment strategies based on the extent of podocyte injury may be necessary.
تنظيم الإفصاح عن المعلومات المالية بدولة الكويت: دراسة انتقادية وإطار للتطوير
Authors: شعيب شعيب عبدالله 
Published: December 2024

يهدف البحث الى اختبار وتحليل جوانب تنظيم الافصاح عن المعلومات المالية بدولة الكويت. وقد تناول البحث مراجعة للأدبيات ذات العلاقة، وخبرات البلدان المتقدمة- مثل الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية والمملكة المتحدة في اصدار القواعد المنظمة للافصاح.
وقد أوضح البحث مدى التوسع في القواعد والموجهات المنظمة للافصاح عن المعلومات المالية في الكويت، وارتباط ذلك بما أصاب الشركات العامة والخاصة نتيجة لأحداث انهيار التعامل المنظم في سوق الكويت للأوراق المالية عام ۱۹۸۲ ، والمنافع التي تحققت نتيجة لتنميط المعلومات المنشورة وتحسين نوعيتها .
ويقدم البحث بعض المقترحات لتحسين وظائف الافصاح ، خصوصاً فيما يتعلق باتجاهات البحث العلمي، والمعلومات غير المالية، والأسس المحاسبية لاعداد القوائم المالية.
Nested scalar convolutions in multi-criteria problems
Authors: Voronin Albert , Savchenko Alina 
Published: December 2024

A problem of structuring of the criteria set is considered in case of large dimension multi-criteria problems solving. A notion of the nested scalar convolution is introduced. The optimization problem is to determine the arguments by extremizing the objective function Essentially, this function is a scalar convolution of the criteria vector reflecting the utility function of the decision maker when solving a specific optimization problem. Scalar convolution is the act of composing criteria. A criterion is a measure of the quality of functioning of object in relation to the achievement of the k-th goal. If «more» means «better», then to improve quality this criterion must be maximized. Otherwise, the criterion is minimized. For definiteness, we consider the optimization problem with minimized quality criteria.
Анализ агролесоландшафтов, подверженных эрозионным процессам, на основе моделирования и данных дистанционного зондирования
Authors: Силова В.А. 
Published: December 2024

В статье затрагивается тема современного состояния природно-антропогенных агрокомплексов, которое обусловлено интенсивным использованием земель и сокращением затрат на восстановление их плодородия, что приводит к их деградации. Снижение продуктивности полей в целом подталкивает производителей к учету взаимосвязи ландшафтно-экологических и сельскохозяйственных требований к природопользованию, обосновывает становление адаптивно-ландшафтных принципов аграрного производства, что обеспечивает устойчивость развития и сохранения экосистем. Содержание исследования составляет анализ результатов геоинформационного картографирования земель сельскохозяйственного назначения, на их основе разрабатываются тематические геоинформационные слои, где отображается реальная ландшафтно-экологическая ситуация. Основное внимание в работе автор акцентирует на определении интенсивности эрозионных процессов в агроландшафтах, в частности интенсивности смыва почв в зависимости от длины и крутизны склона. Установлены закономерности изменения характеристик ландшафтных объектов, на основе которых можно осуществить прогноз их состояния. Получение пространственно-пределенных данных по размещению сельскохозяйственных угодий и их состоянию обеспечивает рациональное использование этих угодий для получения гарантированных урожаев полевых культур.
The article deals with the current state of natural and anthropogenic agricultural complexes, caused by intensive use of land and reducing the cost of restoring their fertility, which leads to their degradation. The decrease in field productivity in General encourages producers to take into account the relationship between landscape-ecological and agricultural requirements for nature management, justifies the formation of adaptive landscape principles of agricultural production, which ensures the sustainability of ecosystem development and conservation. The content of the research is the GIS mapping results analysis of agricultural land to developed thematic GIS layers showing the real landscape-ecological situation. The author focuses on determining the erosion processes intensity in agricultural landscapes, in particular, the soil washout intensity depending on the slopelength and steepness. The regularities of changes in the characteristics of landscape objects are established, on the basis of which it is possible to make a forecast of their condition.Obtaining spatially defined data on the agricultural land location and its condition ensures the rational use of these lands to obtain guaranteed yields of field crops.
Authority of Customary Village Heads in Bali from a Positive Legal Perspective at the Local Level
Authors: Prasada Dewa Krisna , Sulyantha Kadek Ray , Manuaba Ida Bagus Arya Lawa , Dvaipayana I Putu Duta Krisna 
Published: December 2024

Customary villages are an integral component of a nation, especially Indonesia. The customary village in the Province of Bali is a village that preserves cultural traditions and retains the traditional village governance system. The heads of customary villages in Bali are granted local authority under Law Number 6 of 2014 and Bali Provincial Regulation Number 4 of 2019, which pertain to customary villages. Nevertheless, a legal problem arises due to the lack of clarity regarding the authority of local-scale legislation mentioned above. This leads to overlapping and discriminatory actions by traditional village leaders in Bali. This study examines the limits of local-scale jurisdiction in the autonomy of customary village heads in Bali from a legal standpoint. This study employs a normative research methodology, utilizing a statute approach and analyzing legal concepts. The sample in this study uses primary legal materials, specifically laws and regulations, from Indonesia. The methodology employed in this work involves using prescriptive legal analysis approaches. This study finds that the jurisdiction of customary village heads in Bali is constrained by the notions of authority and local context. The authority of the head of the customary village encompasses traditional, cultural, religious, and economic activities, all confined to the territory or land controlled by the customary village. Contribution of this research to enhance the comprehension of indigenous village chiefs in Bali on the local jurisdiction of indigenous leaders, so preventing legal discrepancies that may result in overlapping authority and prejudice within the community.
SÍNDROME DE BURNOUT EM PROFESSORES UNIVERSITÁRIOS: UMA REVISÃO DE LITERATURA
Authors: Tortola Nathalia Caetano , Viana Emerson de Sousa , Rossi Valquiria Aparecida , Hamasaki Eliana Isabel de Moraes , Silva Rosa Maria Frugoli da 
Published: December 2024

O Brasil enfrenta desafios significativos relacionados à saúde mental no ambiente de trabalho. A Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) e a Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT) realizaram um chamado à concretização de ações que possam atender às diversas preocupações relacionadas à saúde mental da população trabalhadora. O trabalho pode amplificar questões sociais que afetam a saúde mental dos profissionais, incluindo discriminação e desigualdade. Os desafios enfrentados pelos docentes universitários englobam desde as transformações tecnológicas e exigências acadêmicas até questões de gestão e bem-estar psicológico. O objetivo geral dessa pesquisa foi realizar uma análise das publicações sobre a síndrome de burnout em docentes universitários, através da revisão de literatura, utilizando os seguintes termos de busca: síndrome de burnout; professores universitários; docentes de ensino superior; saúde mental. As bases de dados selecionadas para a busca foram: Periódicos CAPES e Scielo, abrangendo publicações no intervalo entre 2019 e 2024. Foram encontradas 24 publicações que, após os critérios de inclusão estabelecidos, resultaram em 10 publicações consideradas pertinentes à proposta dessa pesquisa. A análise dos resultados dos artigos identificados foi realizada por revisão bibliográfica dos dados encontrados na pesquisa. Os resultados encontrados nos estudos apontam que os docentes universitários tem sido acometidos por ansiedade e estresse, foram detectados nos estudos também a presença de exaustão emocional, redução na realização no trabalho, sobrecarga laboral e falta de suporte organizacional nos professores pesquisados, tais fatores podem ser considerados preditores de risco para a síndrome de burnout, contudo a maior parte da amostra nos estudos analisados nesta revisão não fecharam todos os critérios para o diagnóstico positivo da síndrome de burnout, embora os preditores de risco tenham se demonstrado presentes nos professores universitários.