bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
$$\varLambda $$CDM suitably embedded in f(R) with a non-minimal coupling to matter
Authors: Ortiz-Baños María , Bouhmadi-López Mariam , Lazkoz Ruth , Salzano Vincenzo 
Published: March 2021

AbstractIn this work, we further study a metric modified theory of gravity which contains a non-minimal coupling to matter, more precisely, we assume two functions of the scalar curvature, $$f_1$$

f
1

and $$f_2$$

f
2

, where the first one generalises the Hilbert–Einstein action, while the second couples to the matter Lagrangian. On the one hand, assuming a $$\varLambda $$
Λ
CDM background, we calculate analytical solutions for the functions $$f_1$$

f
1

and $$f_2$$

f
2

. We consider two setups: on the first one, we fix $$f_2$$

f
2

and compute $$f_1$$

f
1

and on the second one, we fix $$f_1$$

f
1

and compute $$f_2$$

f
2

. Moreover, we do the analysis for two different energy density contents, a matter dominated universe and a general perfect fluid with a constant equation of state fuelling the universe expansion. On the other hand, we complete our study by performing a cosmographic analysis for $$f_1$$

f
1

and $$f_2$$

f
2

. We conclude that the gravitational coupling to matter can drive the accelerated expansion of the universe.
Recasting direct detection limits within micrOMEGAs and implication for non-standard dark matter scenarios
Authors: Bélanger G. , Mjallal A. , Pukhov A. 
Published: March 2021

AbstractDirect detection experiments obtain 90% upper limits on the elastic scattering cross sections of dark matter with nucleons assuming point-like interactions and standard astrophysical and cosmological parameters. In this paper we provide a recasting of the limits from XENON1T, PICO-60, CRESST-III and DarkSide-50 and include them in micrOMEGAs. The code can then be used to directly impose constraints from these experiments on generic dark matter models under different assumptions about the DM velocity distribution or on the nucleus form factors. Moreover, new limits on the elastic scattering cross sections can be obtained in the presence of a light t-channel mediator or of millicharged particles.
Ghost-free higher-order theories of gravity with torsion
Authors: de la Cruz-Dombriz Álvaro , Torralba Francisco José Maldonado , Mazumdar Anupam 
Published: March 2021

AbstractIn this manuscript we will present the theoretical framework of the recently proposed infinite derivative theory of gravity with a non-symmetric connection. We will explicitly derive the field equations at the linear level and obtain new solutions with a non-trivial form of the torsion tensor in the presence of a fermionic source, and show that these solutions are both ghost and singularity-free.
Association of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth With Heart Failure and Its Prediction for Short‐Term Outcomes
Authors: Song Yu , Liu Yuan , Qi Baozhen , Cui Xiaotong , Dong Xinyue , Wang Yanyan , Han Xueting , Li Fuhai , Shen Dongli , Zhang Xian , Hu Kai , Chen Shiyao , Zhou Jingmin , Ge Junbo 
Published: March 2021

Background
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a common pathological condition of intestinal microbiota. The prevalence of SIBO and its prognostic value in patients with heart failure (HF) are unknown.

Methods and Results

A total of 287 patients tested for SIBO using lactulose hydrogen‐methane breath test were evaluated. At least 1 of the following criteria fulfilled was SIBO positive: patients with fasting hydrogen level ≥20 parts per million (ppm) or a ≥20 ppm rise in hydrogen by 90 minutes were diagnosed with SIBO (H
2
) positive; and patients with methane levels ≥10 ppm at any test point were diagnosed with SIBO (CH
4
) positive. The association between SIBO and the composite of cardiovascular death and HF rehospitalization was investigated. In 287 consecutive patients with HF, 128 (45%) were positive for SIBO. Our result showed SIBO increased the risk of HF rehospitalization in patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction (
P
<0.001), and the risk of cardiovascular death in patients with HF with preserved EF (
P
=0.011). SIBO was an independent risk factor of primary end point in patients with HF (hazard ratio [HR], 2.13; 95% CI; 1.26–3.58;
P
=0.005). In addition, SIBO (CH
4
) showed a prognostic value on adverse outcomes (HR, 2.35; 95% CI, 1.38–4.02;
P
<0.001), whereas the association between SIBO (H
2
) and outcomes was not statistically significant.

Conclusions
There was high prevalence of SIBO in patients with HF, and SIBO was independently associated with poor outcomes. Proactive treatment for SIBO may provide extra benefit for patients with HF.
Observation of Collagen-Containing Lesions After Hematoma Resolution in Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Authors: Love Christopher J. , Kirschenbaum Daniel , Selim Magdy , Lo Eng H. , Rushing Elisabeth , Spector Myron , Aguzzi Adriano 
Published: March 2021

Background and Purpose:
The classic presentation of chronic (stage III) hemorrhagic stroke lesions is a fluid-filled cavity. In one of the most commonly used animal models of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), we noticed additional solid material within the chronic lesion. We examined the composition of those chronic ICH lesions and compared them with human autopsy cases.

Methods:
ICH was induced in rats by the injection of collagenase in the striatum. Tissue sections after hematoma resolution corresponding to 3 different chronic time points—28, 42, and 73 to 85 days post-ICH—were selected. Human autopsy reports at the University Hospital of Zurich were searched between 1990 and 2019 for ICH, and 3 chronic cases were found. The rat and human sections were stained with a variety of histopathologic markers.

Results:
Extensive collagenous material was observed in the chronic lesion after hematoma resolution in both the rat model and human autopsy cases. Additional immunostaining revealed that the material consisted primarily of a loose network of collagen 3 intermingled with occasional GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein)-positive processes and collagen 4.

Conclusions:
A key feature of the chronic ICH lesion is a loose network of collagen 3. The collagenase rat model reproduces the morphology and composition of the chronic human ICH lesion. While identifying new features of ICH lesion pathology, these results are important for treatment and recovery strategies.
The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions
Authors: Stausberg Michael 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
While it is generally acknowledged that religions can “die” or go “extinct,” little research has been dedicated to the problem of the demise of religions. This text reviews earlier research on this topic and develops some reflections on two types of religion (ethno-specific and transcendental ones) and on the end of indigenous religions. The text stresses the importance of ruler conversions and indigenous agency in religion demise and transformation processes, introduces the category of “religiocide,” and proposes some criteria for identifying “religion death.” Finally, it introduces the articles of this special issue.
Destruction, Death, and Drama: Narratives of Religiocide in the Hebrew Bible
Authors: Feldt Laura 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
This article analyzes active strategies for dismantling religion and discusses their role in religion demise. The aim is to throw light on how the dramatic and violent narratives of religion demolition stemming from different religious groups factor into processes and understandings of demise. I focus on religious change in the Hebrew Bible, analyzing aspects of two narratives that thematize an active dismantling of religious practices: (1) the story of the competition on Mount Carmel between the prophet Elijah and the Baʿal prophets in 1 Kings 18, involving the prophet’s mockery, denigration, and eventual killing of his religious opponents; and (2) the “reform” of King Josiah in 2 Kings 23 that involves the king instigating several different forms of destruction of religious objects and cult sites and the killing of priests deemed illegitimate. Analyzing how the dismantling activities are portrayed, I suggest that the dramatic narratives about dismantling religion form part of cultural memory in the Persian era, not in the eras they purport to depict. I discuss which roles dismantling strategies play in the narrative, and how they played a role in the identity building processes leading from ancient “Israelite” and “Judean” lived religion toward early forms of “Judaism” in the Persian era as performative group-internal communication supporting enclave characteristics. My key suggestion is that narratives about religion demolition should be taken into account in discussions of religious demise more broadly. Narratives of religion demolition are often spectacular, dramatic, and violent, and they can play important roles in forms of religious identity formation and cultural memory, especially by making apostasy appear risky within the in-group. Thus, they influence both processes of demise and understandings of religious demise in transformation processes.
What Comes to an End When a “Religion” Comes to an “End”? Reflections on a Historiographical Trope and Ancient Mediterranean History of Religion
Authors: Rüpke Jörg 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
This article argues that the neglect of narratives about the end of religious traditions is due to a complex entanglement of our positions as historical narrators and specifics of the sources for histories of religions, that is of emic and academic narrators. Typically, academic histories are not only based on emic narratives, but also tend to accept their conceptual frameworks with regard to the unities of description. It will be shown that such an entanglement has consequences for the neglect of the end of religious practices or groups. Against this background an analytical grid for change and discontinuation of different dimensions of “religion” will be offered and exemplified in an analysis of the “end of Paganism” in the late ancient Roman Empire. The most problematic implications of such narratives, the article will argue, are assumptions about the coherence of the religious protagonists brought center-stage.
“I Was Not Born to Obey, but Rather to Command”: The Self-Fashioning of Ṣägga Krǝstos, an Ethiopian Traveler in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Authors: Salvadore Matteo 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
In 1632, an Ethiopian traveler named Ṣägga Krǝstos arrived in Cairo and introduced himself to Franciscan missionaries as the legitimate heir to the Ethiopian throne. Following conversion to Catholicism, he embarked on an epic journey throughout the Italian peninsula and France, where he was hosted and supported by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, multiple northern Italian rulers, and the French monarchy. By cross-referencing his autobiographical statement with a vast body of archival and published sources, this article shows that Ṣägga Krǝstos was an impostor, but also that, thanks to a favorable historical juncture and skilled self-fashioning, he was extensively supported by his European hosts. Ṣägga Krǝstos’s story of survival in the early modern Mediterranean dovetails with the literature on imposture, highlights the role that Africans played in the making of European expansion, and sheds further light on the condition of elite Africans in early modern Europe.
Multiple Spatial Coordinates Influence the Prediction of Tactile Events Facilitated by Approaching Visual Stimuli
Authors: Kimura Tsukasa 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
Interaction with other sensory information is important for prediction of tactile events. Recent studies have reported that the approach of visual information toward the body facilitates prediction of subsequent tactile events. However, the processing of tactile events is influenced by multiple spatial coordinates, and it remains unclear how this approach effect influences tactile events in different spatial coordinates, i.e., spatial reference frames. We investigated the relationship between the prediction of a tactile stimulus via this approach effect and spatial coordinates by comparing ERPs. Participants were asked to place their arms on a desk and required to respond tactile stimuli which were presented to the left (or right) index finger with a high probability (80%) or to the opposite index finger with a low probability (20%). Before the presentation of each tactile stimulus, visual stimuli approached sequentially toward the hand to which the high-probability tactile stimulus was presented. In the uncrossed condition, each hand was placed on the corresponding side. In the crossed condition, each hand was crossed and placed on the opposite side, i.e., left (right) hand placed on the right (left) side. Thus, the spatial location of the tactile stimulus and hand was consistent in the uncrossed condition and inconsistent in the crossed condition. The results showed that N1 amplitudes elicited by high-probability tactile stimuli only decreased in the uncrossed condition. These results suggest that the prediction of a tactile stimulus facilitated by approaching visual information is influenced by multiple spatial coordinates.
Orlando’s Unseen Face
Authors: Dabija Maria 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
In this essay, I propose to complicate the paradigm of circulation through a close look at a case in which a unique life story, of the sexually ambiguous Chevalier d’ Éon (1728–1810), crosses back and forth across generic as well as national boundaries, reaching a nodal point when he receives an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography edited by Virginia Woolf’s father, and then becomes the model for her hero/ine Orlando. The Chevalier has never before been discussed by Woolf scholars, who have paid little attention to Woolf’s foreign intertexts, but a broader understanding of the concept of circulation as developed by David Damrosch, Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova will help me reveal the route of this hidden source from France to Russia and then to England, and can enable us to see Woolf’s gender- and genre-bending novel as a prime example of globality and worldliness.
Tracking Smoke from a Prescribed Fire and Its Impacts on Local Air Quality Using Temporally Resolved GOES-16 ABI Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
Authors: Huff Amy K. , Kondragunta Shobha , Zhang Hai , Laszlo Istvan , Zhou Mi , Caicedo Vanessa , Delgado Ruben , Levy Robert 
Published: March 2021

AbstractAerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieved from the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) was used to track a smoke plume from a prescribed fire in northeastern Virginia on 8 March 2020. Weather and atmospheric conditions created a favorable environment to transport the plume through the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, metro areas in the afternoon and concentrate smoke near the surface, degrading air quality for several hours. ABI AOD with 5-min temporal resolution and 2-km spatial resolution definitively identified the timing and geographic extent of the plume during daylight hours. Comparison to AERONET AOD indicates that ABI AOD captured the relative change in AOD due to passage of the smoke, with a mean absolute error of 0.047. Ground-based measurements of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) confirm deteriorations in air quality coincident with the progression of the smoke. Ceilometer aerosol backscatter profiles verify plume transport timing and indicate that smoke aerosols were well mixed in a shallow boundary layer. This event illustrates the advantages of using multiple datasets to analyze the impacts of aerosols on ambient air quality. Given the quickly evolving nature of the event over several hours, ABI AOD provided information for the public and decision-makers that was not available from any other source, including polar-orbiting satellite sensors. This study suggests that PM2.5 concentrations estimated from ABI AOD can be used to fill in the gaps in nationwide regulatory PM2.5 monitor networks and may be a valuable addition to EPA’s PM2.5 NowCast of current air quality conditions.
The Effects of Lake Representation on the Regional Hydroclimate in the ECMWF Reanalyses
Authors: Minallah Samar , Steiner Allison L. 
Published: March 2021

AbstractLakes are an integral part of the geosphere, but they are challenging to represent in Earth system models which either exclude lakes or prescribe properties without simulating lake dynamics. In ECMWF Interim reanalysis (ERA-Interim), lakes are represented by prescribing lake surface water temperatures (LSWT) from external data sources, while the newer generation ERA5 introduces the FLake parameterization scheme to the modelling system with different LSWT assimilation data sources. This study assesses the performance of these two reanalyses over three regions with the largest lakes in the world (Laurentian Great Lakes, African Great Lakes, and Lake Baikal) to understand the effects of their simulation differences on hydrometeorological variables. We find that differences in lake representation alter the associated hydrological and atmospheric processes and can affect regional hydroclimatic assessments. There are prominent differences in LSWT between the two datasets which influence the simulation of lake-effect snowstorms in the Laurentian winters and lake-land breeze circulation patterns in the African region. Generally, ERA5 has warmer LSWT in all three regions for most months (by 2-12 K) and its evaporation rates are up to twice the magnitudes in ERA-Interim. In the Laurentian lakes, ERA5 has strong biases in LSWT and evaporation magnitudes. Over Lake Baikal and the African Great Lakes, ERA5 LSWT magnitudes are closer to satellite-based datasets, albeit with warm bias (1-4 K), while ERA-Interim underestimates the magnitudes. ERA5 also simulates intense precipitation hotspots in lake proximity that are not visible in ERA-Interim and other observation-based datasets. Despite these limitations, ERA5 improves the simulation of lake-land circulation patterns across the African Great Lakes.
Characteristics of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Following an Earthquake
Authors: Yildiz Muhammed Gazi , Bilal Nagihan , Kara Irfan , Sagiroglu Saime , Orhan Israfil , Doganer Adem 
Published: March 2021

Introduction: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is a commonly encountered peripheral vestibular disorder. People exposed to massive earthquakes experience intense and long-term problem associated with dizziness. The purpose of our study is to investigate this relationship and to demonstrate the efficacy of the treatment modalities used in the management of patients with post-earthquake dizziness. Methodology: The study was carried out by examining the retrospective records of patients who presented with dizziness to the otorhinolaryngological outpatient unit before and after the Elazig earthquake that occurred on 24th Jan 2020. Parameters evaluated include patients’ age and gender, onset of dizziness, accompanying symptoms and comorbidities, videonystagmography (VNG) findings, pre- and post-treatment Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Results: The number of patients who presented with dizziness to our outpatient clinic after the earthquake and were included in our study totaled 84. The number of patients who visited the outpatient clinic before the earthquake was identified to be 75. In the earthquake related group, while there was a statistically significant difference between residual symptoms (RS) and the need for repetitive repositioning maneuvers, there was no statistically significant difference detected for age, gender, and comorbidities. Also, no statistically significant difference was found in the pre- and post-treatment assessments of VAS, DHI, and HADS median values in the earthquake group. Conclusion: There was a remarkable increase in the number of patients presenting with dizziness in the early post-earthquake period. Management of these patients may differ from the classic BPPV. Residual symptoms appearing after performing repositioning maneuvers can be more commonly seen among these patients.
Bringing psychiatrists into the picture: Automated measurement of regional MRI brain volume in patients with suspected dementia
Authors: Wibawa Pierre , Matta Gabrielle , Das Sourav , Eratne Dhamidhu , Farrand Sarah , Desmond Patricia , Velakoulis Dennis , Gaillard Frank 
Published: March 2021

Objective: The volumes of various brain regions can be rapidly quantified using automated magnetic resonance imaging tools. While these appear to be useful at face value, their formal clinical utility is not yet understood, particularly for non-neuroradiologists and in patients presenting with suspected dementia. This study investigated the utility of an automated normative morphometry tool on determinations of brain atrophy by psychiatrists and radiologists in a tertiary hospital. Methods: Consecutive magnetic resonance scans ( n = 110) of patients referred with suspected neurodegenerative disorders were obtained retrospectively and rated by two neuroradiologists, two general radiologists and four psychiatrists over two sessions. First, conventional magnetic resonance sequences were shown. Then, morphometry colour-coded maps, which segmented T1-weighted magnetisation prepared rapid gradient echo images into brain regions and visualised these regions in colour according to their volumetric standard deviation from a normative population, were added to the second reading which occurred ⩾6 weeks later. Presence and laterality of atrophy in frontal, parietal and temporal lobes and hippocampal regions were measured using a digital checklist. The primary outcome of inter-rater agreement on atrophy was measured with Fleiss’ Kappa (κ). We also evaluated the accuracy of the atrophy ratings for differentiating post hoc diagnosis of subjective cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Results: Agreement among all raters was fair in frontal lobe and moderate in other regions with conventional method (κ = 0.362–0.555). With morphometry, higher agreement was seen in all regions (κ = 0.551–0.654), reaching significant improvement in the frontal and temporal lobes. No significant improvement was seen within the various disciplines, except in frontal lobes rated by psychiatrists. Accuracy of atrophy ratings on determining post hoc diagnosis was significantly improved for distinguishing subjective cognitive impairment versus dementia. Conclusion: In routine clinical assessment, automated normative morphometry complements the determination of regional atrophy and improves inter-rater agreement regardless of neuroradiology experience.