bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Changes in anterior femoral articular cartilage structure in collegiate rugby athletes with and without a history of traumatic knee joint injury following a five-month competitive season
Authors: Hori Miyuki , Terada Masafumi , Suga Tadashi , Isaka Tadao 
Published: July 2021

AbstractThis study aimed to examine anterior femoral cartilage morphology before (pre-season) and after (post-season) a 5-month competitive season in collegiate ruby players with and without a previous history of traumatic injury to ligamentous, meniscus, and/or cartilage structures at the knee joint. Using a prospective cohort design, 42 male collegiate rugby players with a previous history of traumatic intracapsular knee joint injury and 124 players without knee injury history were included in this study. Ultrasonography assessments of anterior femoral cartilage were performed before (pre-season) and following a 5-month athletic season (post-season). Rugby players with a history of traumatic knee joint injury had greater lateral condylar thickness (2.37 ± 0.35 mm, p = 0.03), intercondylar thickness (2.51 ± 0.47 mm, p = 0.03), and partial area (44.67 ± 7.28mm2, p = 0.02) compared to control players (lateral = 2.23 ± 0.35 mm, intercondylar = 2.32 ± 0.47 mm, partial area = 41.60 ± 7.26 mm2), regardless of pre-and post-season assessment time points. Pre-season ultrasonography assessment of lateral condylar thickness (2.34 ± 0.47 mm, p = 0.02), medial condylar thickness (2.05 ± 0.43 mm, p = 0.03), and partial area (44.10 ± 9.23 mm2, p = 0.001) were significantly greater than the post-season ultrasonography assessment time point (lateral = 2.26 ± 0.43 mm, medial = 1.98 ± 0.43 mm, partial area = 42.17 ± 8.82 mm2), regardless of group membership. Rugby players with a history of intracapsular knee joint injury displayed altered anterior femoral cartilage size via ultrasonography assessments. Regardless of a presence of injury history, collegiate rugby players showed a decrease in cartilage thickness and partial area following a 5-month competitive season.
Low serum magnesium concentration is associated with the presence of viable hepatocellular carcinoma tissue in cirrhotic patients
Authors: Parisse Simona , Ferri Flaminia , Persichetti Marzia , Mischitelli Monica , Abbatecola Aurelio , Di Martino Michele , Lai Quirino , Carnevale Sara , Lucatelli Pierleone , Bezzi Mario , Rossi Massimo , De Santis Adriano , Spagnoli Alessandra , Ginanni Corradini Stefano 
Published: July 2021

AbstractThis study aimed to ascertain, for the first time, whether serum magnesium (Mg) concentration is affected by the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We retrospectively enrolled consecutive cirrhotic patients with a diagnosis of HCC (n = 130) or without subsequent evidence of HCC during surveillance (n = 161). Serum levels of Mg were significantly (P < 0.001) lower in patients with HCC than in those without (median [interquartile range]: 1.80 [1.62–1.90] mg/dl vs. 1.90 [1.72–2.08] mg/dl). On multivariate logistic regression, low serum Mg was associated with the presence of HCC (OR 0.047, 95% CI 0.015–0.164; P < 0.0001), independently from factors that can influence magnesaemia and HCC development. In a subset of 94 patients with HCC, a linear mixed effects model adjusted for confounders showed that serum Mg at diagnosis of HCC was lower than before diagnosis of the tumor (β = 0.117, 95% CI 0.039–0.194, P = 0.0035) and compared to after locoregional treatment of HCC (β = 0.079, 95% CI 0.010–0.149, P = 0.0259), with two thirds of patients experiencing these changes of serum Mg over time. We hypothesize that most HCCs, like other cancers, may be avid for Mg and behave like a Mg trap, disturbing the body’s Mg balance and resulting in lowering of serum Mg levels.
Relational quality and uncertainty in common pool water management: an exploratory lab experiment
Authors: Brugnach Marcela , de Waard Sander , Dubois Dimitri , Farolfi Stefano 
Published: July 2021

AbstractIf there is one certainty for the sustainable management of water resources is that facing uncertainty is an unavoidable matter. A concern that, in addition to the best available scientific knowledge and models, requires deep insights about the socio relational processes that underlie decision-making. Our objective here is to better understand if and how the socio relational environment in which decisions are made shapes decision-making under uncertainty in common pool water resource management. Our goal is twofold: methodological and analytical. It consists in designing experiments for carrying out uncertainty analysis to explore the influence that the relationships established among decision actors have in making decision choices under uncertainty in management processes. To this end, we developed one experimental game protocol, representing a typical water management scenario:irrigation, which we use to test two different conjectures about the combined effects of uncertainty and relationships. In doing so, we play close attention to the quality of relationships developed among players (acting as water managers), and how these relationships are structured and organized. Initial tests confirmed the importance that the relationships established among players have for coping with uncertainty in managing water resources.
Gyrotactic micro-organism flow of Maxwell nanofluid between two parallel plates
Authors: Xu Yun-Jie , Bilal Muhammad , Al-Mdallal Qasem , Khan Muhammad Altaf , Muhammad Taseer 
Published: July 2021

AbstractThe present study explores incompressible, steady power law nanoliquid comprising gyrotactic microorganisms flow across parallel plates with energy transfer. In which only one plate is moving concerning another at a time. Nonlinear partial differential equations have been used to model the problem. Using Liao's transformation, the framework of PDEs is simplified to a system of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). The problem is numerically solved using the parametric continuation method (PCM). The obtained results are compared to the boundary value solver (bvp4c) method for validity reasons. It has been observed that both the results are in best settlement with each other. The temperature, velocity, concentration and microorganism profile trend versus several physical constraints are presented graphically and briefly discussed. The velocity profile shows positive response versus the rising values of buoyancy convection parameters. While the velocity reduces with the increasing effect of magnetic field, because magnetic impact generates Lorentz force, which reduces the fluid velocity.
Increasing medicinal and phytochemical compounds of coneflower (Echinacea purpurea L.) as affected by NO3−/NH4+ ratio and perlite particle size in hydroponics
Authors: Ahmadi Fatemeh , Samadi Abbas , Sepehr Ebrahim , Rahimi Amir , Shabala Sergey 
Published: July 2021

AbstractMedicinal plants are considered as one of the most important sources of chemical compounds, so preparing a suitable culture media for medicinal plant growth is a critical factor. The present study is aimed to improve the caffeic acid derivatives and alkylamides percentages ofEchinacea purpurearoot extract in hydroponic culture media with different perlite particle size and NO3−/NH4+ratios. Perlite particle size in the growing media was varied as very coarse perlite (more than 2 mm), coarse perlite (1.5–2 mm), medium perlite (1–1.5 mm), fine perlite (0.5–1 mm), and very fine perlite (less than 0.5 mm) in different ratios to peat moss (including pure perlite, 50:50 v/v, 30:70 v/v, and pure peat moss). Two NO3−/NH4+ratios (90:10 and 70:30) were tested in each growing media. All phytochemical analyses were performed according to standard methods using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). It was found that theE. purpureagrown in the medium containing very fine-grade perlite with 50:50 v/v perlite to peat moss ratio had the maximum caffeic acid derivatives, including chicoric acid (17 mg g−1DW), caftaric acid (6.3 mg g−1DW), chlorogenic acid (0.93 mg g−1DW), cynarin (0.84 mg g−1DW), and echinacoside (0.73 mg g−1DW), as well as, alkylamides (54.21%). The percentages of these phytochemical compounds increased by decreasing perlite particle size and increasing of NO3−/NH4+ratio. The major alkylamide in theE. purpurearoot extract was dodeca-2E, 4E, 8Z-10 (E/Z)-tetraenoic acid isobutylamide in all treatments, ranging from 31.12 to 54.21% of total dry weight. It can be concluded that optimizing hydroponic culture media and nutrient solution has significant effects onE. purpureachemical compounds.
Automated stomata detection in oil palm with convolutional neural network
Authors: Kwong Qi Bin , Wong Yick Ching , Lee Phei Ling , Sahaini Muhammad Syafiq , Kon Yee Thung , Kulaveerasingam Harikrishna , Appleton David Ross 
Published: July 2021

AbstractStomatal density is an important trait for breeding selection of drought tolerant oil palms; however, its measurement is extremely tedious. To accelerate this process, we developed an automated system. Leaf samples from 128 palms ranging from nursery (1 years old), juvenile (2–3 years old) and mature (> 10 years old) were collected to build an oil palm specific stomata detection model. Micrographs were split into tiles, then used to train a stomata object detection convolutional neural network model through transfer learning. The detection model was then tested on leaf samples acquired from three independent oil palm populations of young seedlings (A), juveniles (B) and productive adults (C). The detection accuracy, measured in precision and recall, was 98.00% and 99.50% for set A, 99.70% and 97.65% for set B, and 99.55% and 99.62% for set C, respectively. The detection model was cross-applied to another set of adult palms using stomata images taken with a different microscope and under different conditions (D), resulting in precision and recall accuracy of 99.72% and 96.88%, respectively. This indicates that the model built generalized well, in addition has high transferability. With the completion of this detection model, stomatal density measurement can be accelerated. This in turn will accelerate the breeding selection for drought tolerance.
Use of electroconductive biomaterials for engineering tissues by 3D printing and 3D bioprinting
Authors: Alizadeh Parvin , Soltani Mohammad , Tutar Rumeysa , Hoque Apu Ehsanul , Maduka Chima V. , Unluturk Bige Deniz , Contag Christopher H. , Ashammakhi Nureddin 
Published: July 2021

Abstract
Existing methods of engineering alternatives to restore or replace damaged or lost tissues are not satisfactory due to the lack of suitable constructs that can fit precisely, function properly and integrate into host tissues. Recently, three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting approaches have been developed to enable the fabrication of pre-programmed synthetic tissue constructs that have precise geometries and controlled cellular composition and spatial distribution. New bioinks with electroconductive properties have the potential to influence cellular fates and function for directed healing of different tissue types including bone, heart and nervous tissue with the possibility of improved outcomes. In the present paper, we review the use of electroconductive biomaterials for the engineering of tissues via 3D printing and 3D bioprinting. Despite significant advances, there remain challenges to effective tissue replacement and we address these challenges and describe new approaches to advanced tissue engineering.
Airway Management of Critically Ill Pediatric Patients with Suspected or Proven Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection: An Intensivist Point of View
Authors: Díaz Franco , Cruces Pablo 
Published: July 2021

AbstractAdvanced airway management of critically ill children is crucial for novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) management in the pediatric intensive care unit, whether due to shock and hemodynamic collapse or acute respiratory failure. In this article, intubation is challenging due to the particularities of children's physiology and the underlying disease's pathophysiology, especially when an airborne pathogen, like COVID-19, is present. Unfortunately, published recommendations and guidelines for COVID-19 in pediatrics do not address in-depth endotracheal intubation in acutely ill children. We discussed the caveats and pitfalls of intubation in critically ill children.
Brand love: conceptual and empirical investigation of a holistic causal model
Authors: Rahman Renée , Langner Tobias , Temme Dirk 
Published: July 2021

AbstractExplicating and specifying the origins of brand love, as well as how it affects consumer behavior, establishes vital insights into how brand managers might reap favorable economic consequences from promoting brand love effectively. Therefore, this article presents and validates a holistic, causal model of brand love that accounts for brand stimulus features and the internal, mental processes of consumers, along with the behavioral outcomes of their resulting brand love. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the authors propose and test seven antecedents (including three mediators) and four consequences: Functional and sensory brand uniqueness emerge as indirect antecedents of brand love; brand satisfaction, brand fit with the inner self, and personal experiences are direct antecedents. Contrary to expectations, communicative uniqueness and brand pleasure are not influential factors. This study also verifies four desirable behavioral consequences of brand love: brand loyalty, willingness to pay a price premium, word-of-mouth intentions, and forgiveness of brand mistakes. These findings offer several theoretical and managerial implications.
Literature review and comparative analysis of inland waterways transport: “Container on Barge”
Authors: Bu Fan , Nachtmann Heather 
Published: July 2021

AbstractContainer on Barge (COB) facilitates intermodal transportation by transporting shipping containers on barge tows. COB has seen rapid expansion globally over the past 20 years, providing a cost-efficient, environmentally friendly, and congestion-reducing mode of container transportation. European countries have led COB transportation in both study and application over the past two decades. However, increasing interest is observed in both the USA and Asia. In this literature review and comparative analysis, 135 COB-focused peer-reviewed articles are reviewed and analyzed to systematically describe the development and current status of COB transportation research. The relevant literature is analyzed to reveal publication rates and titles, geographical regions of interest, research questions, applied methodologies, advantages of COB transportation, and key success factors. The aim of our effort is to provide information on various aspects of COB development among different regions in the world and to summarize the existing literature to support and guide future COB development.
Hemileia vastatrix
. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Authors: UK, CAB International  , Laundon G. F. , Waterston J. M. 
Published: July 2021

Abstract

A description is provided for
Hemileia vastatrix
. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On
Coffea arabica, C. canephora, C. liberica
, and other
Coffea
spp. DISEASE: Coffee leaf rust. Produces yellowish-orange, powdery, rounded blotches on the lower surface of the leaves, which may coalesce with others to form an irregularly shaped lesion, accompanied by a chlorosis of the upper surface. With age, the centre of the leaf turns dark brown and dies, followed by premature defoliation and die-back of the branches. Has also on rare occasions been recorded on berries and young shoots. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Africa, Asia, Australasia, end Oceania (CMI Map 5). TRANSMISSION: Earlier workers [Ward,
J. Linn. Soc
. (Bot.) 19: 299-335, 1882, Mayne (12: 285)] attributed spore dispersal to wind but more recent investigations have emphasised the role played by rain-splash over short distances (Bock,
Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc
. 45: 289-300, 1962). Air currents may be implicated in long-range inter-continental dispersal (Wellman, 1957). Two species of thrips have been found feeding on and aiding the dispersal of urediospores in India (40: 467) and urediospores have also been observed to be mechanically transported on the bodies of two species of hymenopterous parasites of larvae of cecidomyid midges commonly found feeding on urediospores in Kenya (Crowe,
Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc
. 46: 24-26, 1963).
Hemileia coffeicola
. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Authors: UK, CAB International  , Laundon G. F. , Waterston J. M. 
Published: July 2021

Abstract

A description is provided for
Hemileia coffeicola
. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On Coffea arabica; also on C. abeokutae, C. aruwimiensis, C. canephora, and C. liberica. DISEASE: Coffee rust. Producing a dusty coating of orange-coloured urediospores completely covering the undersides of the leaves, in contrast to the common coffee rust caused by
H. vastatrix
, which produces rounded blotches. There is at first no accompanying discoloration of the upper surface of the leaf; however, infected leaves eventually turn yellow and become desiccated. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Sao Tome and Principe Islands, Cameroon Republic, Northern Nigeria and Uganda.
Physopella zeae
. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Authors: UK, CAB International  , Laundon G. F. , Waterston J. M. 
Published: July 2021

Abstract

A description is provided for
Physopella zeae
. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On
Zea mays
. DISEASE: Rust causing premature death of leaves and reduction in crop yield. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: In tropical areas of Central and South America (Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nicaragua) and the Caribbean (Grenada, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, Santo Domingo and Trinidad). TRANSMISSION: Presumably aerial.
Xanthomonas citri
. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Authors: UK, CAB International  , Hayward A. C. , Waterston J. M. 
Published: July 2021

Abstract

A description is provided for
Xanthomonas citri
. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On
Citrus
spp. and numerous relatives. All plants of the sub-tribe
Citrineae
are apparently susceptible. Cankers formed abundantly on
Swinglea glutinosa
in the Philippine Islands. One non-rutaceous host
Lansium domesticum
has been reported [Caravan (36: 525) p. 260]. For full host list see Elliott [31: 105] p. 110 and Lee (
J. Agric. Res
. 15: 661-666, 1918). DISEASE: Citrus canker, cancrosis. The disease occurs on leaves, twigs, thorns, older limbs and fruit, causing infected fruit to drop, and general defoliation of the tree. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Africa. Asia, Australasia and Oceania. South America and Afghanistan (CMI Map 11, ed. 3, 1963). Eradicated from Mozambique, South Africa, Northern Territory of Australia and the United States of America (U.S. Dept. Agric. Quarantine No. 75 against Hawaii was rescinded in 1957 following a negative resurvey of the Islands for the pathogen). TRANSMISSION: Wind driven rain and air current, flood water, man, animals and insects. Fruit or other plant parts and nursery stock serve to carry the disease to new areas. The pathogen enters through natural openings or wounds.
Xanthomonas malvacearum
. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Authors: UK, CAB International  , Hayward A. C. , Waterston J. M. 
Published: July 2021

Abstract

A description is provided for
Xanthomonas malvacearum
. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On
Gossypium
spp. ; also on
Thurberia thespesioides, Eriodendron anfractuosum, Jatropha curcas
(32: 378) and
Hibiscus vitifolius
(33: 525). DISEASE: Bacterial blight. infecting leaves, bracts, stems (blackarm symptom) and bolls. The disease is also known as gummosis and is of major importance to rain-grown cotton in Africa. The leaf spots are usually angular, initially water soaked and vein delimited. Gummy bacterial exudations in the form of a crust or scales are often found on the under surface of leaves. Bacterial blight is primarily a disease of the parenchyma but veinal infection of leaves also occurs and has been well illustrated (11: 511; 35: 891; 38: 145; 40: 334). Veinal infection is not due to infection by a different strain of the pathogen (40: 334), as originally suspected. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: The disease occurs in cotton growing regions throughout the world (CMI Map 57, Ed. 3, 1961). TRANSMISSION: The pathogen is seed-borne. Secondary infection occurs through the agency of wind driven rain (Faulwetter,
J. Agric. Res
. 8: 457-475, 1917). In the Sudan the major climatic factors involved are wind-driven rainstorms, which spread the bacteria, alternating with hot sunny periods, which promote rapid incubation. An average daily maximum temperature of about 95°F, about 8 hr sunshine daily and a rainfall of 1-12 inches a week provides optimum conditions.
Xanthomonas malvacearum
can survive for many years in dry excised infected leaves (38: 208) and on surface trash throughout the season until sowing time. Loss of infectivity is more rapid on the surface of heavy, poorly drained soil types, than the free-draining ridges of the hill sands in Lake Province, Tanganyika. Buried trash loses infectivity more rapidly than trash lying on the surface (41: 154). The cotton bug,
Lygus vosseleri
, has been shown experimentally to disseminate the pathogen in Uganda (39: 581).
Xanthomonas phaseoli var. fuscans
. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Authors: UK, CAB International  , Hayward A. C. , Waterston J. M. 
Published: July 2021

Abstract

A description is provided for
Xanthomonas phaseoli var. fuscans
. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On
Phaseolus vulgaris, P. lunatus
and
P. coccineus
; also on other leguminous hosts on inoculation (39: 3). DISEASE: Fuscous blight. On seeds, pods, leaves and stem. The symptoms of fuscous blight are very similar to common blight,
X. phaseoli
, with small water-soaked lesions on the leaves which develop into spots with dry, brown centres but
X. phaseoli
var.
fuscans
is stated to be more virulent on inoculation to bean and to produce a slight hypertrophy of the tissues about stem wounds. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Africa (Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda): Australasia (New South Wales): Europe (Hungary, Switzerland, U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia); North America (Canada, U.S.A.); (CMI Map 402, 1965). TRANSMISSION: Seed-borne and by wind driven rain splash or wind blown soil in the field (31: 128). The pathogen can survive for long periods both in seed and on dead plant material.