bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Positive Turn in Elder-Care Workers’ Views Toward Telecare Robots
Authors: Turja Tuuli , Taipale Sakari , Niemelä Marketta , Oinas Tomi 
Published: December 2021

AbstractRobots have been slowly but steadily introduced to welfare sectors. Our previous observations based on a large-scale survey study on Finnish elder-care workers in 2016 showed that while robots were perceived to be useful in certain telecare tasks, using robots may also prove to be incompatible with the care workers’ personal values. The current study presents the second wave of the survey data from 2020, with the same respondents (N = 190), and shows how these views have changed for the positive, including higher expectations of telecare robotization and decreased concerns over care robots’ compatibility with personal values. In a longitudinal analysis (Phase 1), the positive change in views toward telecare robots was found to be influenced by the care robots’ higher value compatibility. In an additional cross-sectional analysis (Phase 2), focusing on the factors underlying personal values, care robots’ value compatibility was associated with social norms toward care robots, the threat of technological unemployment, and COVID-19 stress. The significance of social norms in robot acceptance came down to more universal ethical standards of care work rather than shared norms in the workplace. COVID-19 stress did not explain the temporal changes in views about robot use in care but had a role in assessments of the compatibility between personal values and care robot use. In conclusion, for care workers to see potential in care robots, the new technology must support ethical standards of care work, such as respectfulness, compassion, and trustworthiness of the nurse–patient interaction. In robotizing care work, personal values are significant predictors of the task values.
Prediction and analysis of penetration rate in drilling operation using deterministic and metaheuristic optimization methods
Authors: Sobhi Ibrahim , Dobbi Abdelmadjid , Hachana Oussama 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe rate of penetration (ROP) optimization is one of the most important factors in improving drilling efficiency, especially in the downturn time of oil prices. This process is crucial in the well planning and exploration phases, where the selection of the drilling bits and parameters has a significant impact on the total cost and time of the drilling operation. Thus, the optimization and best selection of the drilling parameters are critical. Optimization of ROP is difficult due to the complexity of the relationship between the drilling variables and the ROP. For this reason, the development of high-performance computer systems, predictive models, and algorithms will be the best solution. In this study, a new investigation approach for ROP optimization has been done regarding different ROP models (Maurer, Bingham, Bourgoyne and Young models), algorithms (Multiple regression, ant colony optimization (ACO), fminunc, fminsearch, fsolve, lsqcurvefit, lsqnonlin), and different objective functions. The well-known data from the Louisiana field in an offshore well have been used to compare the used parameter estimation approach with other techniques. Indeed, datasets from an onshore well in the Hassi Messaoud Algerian field are explored. The results confirmed the superiority and the effectiveness of B&Y models compared to Bingham and Maurer models. Fminsearch, lsqcurvefit, ACO, and Excel (GRG) algorithms give the best results in ROP prediction while the application of the MNLR approach. Using the mean squared error (MSE) and the determination coefficient (R$$^{2}$$2) as objective functions significantly increases the accuracy prediction where the results given are ($$R=0.9522$$R=0.9522,$$RMSE=2.85$$RMSE=2.85) and ($$R= 0.9811$$R=0.9811,$$RMSE=4.08$$RMSE=4.08) for Wells 1 and 2, respectively. This study validates the application of B&Y model in both onshore and offshore wells. The findings reveal to deal with data limitation problems in ROP prediction. Simple and effective optimization techniques that require less memory space and computational time have been provided.
Shrub richness is primarily driven by climate conditions in Southwestern European woodlands
Authors: Moreno-Fernández Daniel , Cañellas Isabel , Alberdi Iciar 
Published: December 2021

Abstract

• Key message
The shrub species richness in Spanish forests is mainly linked to climatic variables and the importance of the groups of variables scarcely differs among forest types. Forest surrounding the Mediterranean Basin exhibit the highest levels of shrub richness.

• Context

Shrub species account for a high proportion of the plant diversity in Spanish forests and are a determinant factor in forest dynamics and ecosystem functionality.

• Aims

To investigate the relative importance of climatic, forest stand features, soil and topographic variables in explaining shrub richness in Spanish forests and if the relative importance of these four groups of variables reflects variations among forest types.

• Methods

We used the Spanish National Forest Inventory and a boosted regression trees approach to identify which climatic, soil, stand and topographic variables (N = 19 variables) are related to the richness of shrub species in Spanish woodlands.

• Results

The shrub species richness is mainly related to climatic variables followed by soil variables whereas stand and topographic variables play a minor role. The importance of the groups of variables scarcely differs among forest types although forests located around the Mediterranean Sea display the highest levels of shrub richness.

• Conclusion

Shrub richness in Spain is primarily driven by climatic and soil variables, both at country and forest-type scales. Forests surrounding the Mediterranean Basin account for the highest richness of shrub species but are also those most threatened by global change. Therefore, special attention must be paid to the monitoring and assessment of these forest ecosystems.
IoT-assisted physical education training network virtualization and resource management using a deep reinforcement learning system
Authors: Li Qiang , Kumar PriyanMalarvizhi , Alazab Mamoun 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe Internet of Things (IoT) development made it possible for technology to communicate physical education by connecting cost-effective heterogeneous devices and digital applications to uncontrolled and accessible environments. The traditional physical education monitoring environment creates crucial manual efforts on athletes' activity observations and tracking consistently. Similarly, remote monitoring and assessment of athletes in sports training seem to be barriers to physical education monitoring and training. It creates various chances to improve training and education through technology advancements like IoT and deep learning. Students can efficiently monitor their physical behavior to increase their physical and psychological benefits. The IoT-assisted physical activity monitoring device is proposed to track students' physical activity and enhance outcomes. The management ability allows students to organize and increase speed their physical activity in a wellness manner. In addition, this study examines the connections between monitoring ability which is an essential component for sports activities and physical activity. This system collects essential information from IoT-based wearable devices that interact with the data in real time by virtualizing the device. The IoT network includes several device activities and monitors the heartbeat and physical body temperature of a person. The analysis of specific studies and student feedback shows that the designed virtual system of physical educations is effective in its application and implementation and provides a reliable guide for developing student physical educational systems. The experimental analysis is evaluated; the solution offered is developing and supporting physical education and training approaches in reality and creates healthy environment systems to solve the health monitoring challenges posed by IoT devices. The proposed method has achieved extraordinary physical activity monitoring compared to the conventional systems, as shown by experimental findings. The simulation analysis of physical education can help students and improve the associated aspects of physical abilities with high accuracy ratio (98.3), prediction ratio (96.5%), interaction ratio (94.4%), performance ratio (95.1%), the efficiency ratio (93.2),F-score (92.2%), and reduce error rate (17.5%) and physical activity patterns.
3D bioprinting: current status and trends—a guide to the literature and industrial practice
Authors: Santoni Silvia , Gugliandolo Simone G. , Sponchioni Mattia , Moscatelli Davide , Colosimo Bianca M. 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe multidisciplinary research field of bioprinting combines additive manufacturing, biology and material sciences to create bioconstructs with three-dimensional architectures mimicking natural living tissues. The high interest in the possibility of reproducing biological tissues and organs is further boosted by the ever-increasing need for personalized medicine, thus allowing bioprinting to establish itself in the field of biomedical research, and attracting extensive research efforts from companies, universities, and research institutes alike. In this context, this paper proposes a scientometric analysis and critical review of the current literature and the industrial landscape of bioprinting to provide a clear overview of its fast-changing and complex position. The scientific literature and patenting results for 2000–2020 are reviewed and critically analyzed by retrieving 9314 scientific papers and 309 international patents in order to draw a picture of the scientific and industrial landscape in terms of top research countries, institutions, journals, authors and topics, and identifying the technology hubs worldwide. This review paper thus offers a guide to researchers interested in this field or to those who simply want to understand the emerging trends in additive manufacturing and 3D bioprinting.
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The Effect of Combination Treatment with Low-Intensity Shockwave Therapy and Tadalafil on Mild and Mild-To-Moderate Erectile Dysfunction: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial
Authors: Mykoniatis Ioannis , Pyrgidis Nikolaos , Zilotis Filimon , Kapoteli Paraskeui , Fournaraki Agrippina , Kalyvianakis Dimitrios , Hatzichristou Dimitrios 
Published: December 2021

ABSTRACT

Background
Combination of different first-line treatments for erectile dysfunction (ED) has emerged as a promising therapeutic approach.

Aim
To conduct the first double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combination therapy with low-intensity shockwave therapy (LiST) and tadalafil vs LiST and placebo in patients with mild or mild-to-moderate vasculogenic ED.

Methods
Fifty sexually active patients fulfilling the eligibility criteria were randomly assigned to 6 sessions of LiST twice weekly for 3 weeks and tadalafil (n = 25) or placebo (n = 25) once daily for 4 weeks. Patients were evaluated at 1, 3, and 6 months after completion of the treatment protocol.

Outcomes
The primary outcome was the mean change from baseline in the International Index of Erectile Function-Erectile Function (IIEF-EF) domain between the 2 groups at 3 months after treatment. Erectile function was also assessed at 1 and 6 months. The number of patients attaining a minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in the IIEF-EF, as well as the safety of combination therapy were evaluated.

Results
Adjusting for the baseline values, IIEF-EF improved by 0.8 points more (95% confidence interval [CI] = −0.2 to 1.9, P = .12) at 1 month, 1 point more (95% CI = 0.1–1.9, P = .02) at 3 months and 1.7 points more (95% CI = 0.8–2.7, P &lt; .001) at 6 months in patients treated with combination therapy compared to monotherapy. The number of patients attaining a MCID in the IIEF-EF between the 2 groups improved significantly only at the 3-month evaluation. No adverse events were reported during the whole study period.

Clinical Implications
Combination of LiST twice weekly for 3 weeks and tadalafil 5 mg once daily for 4 weeks may further ameliorate mild or mild-to-moderate vasculogenic ED compared to LiST monotherapy.

Strengths & Limitations
We conducted the first randomized trial exploring the role of LiST and tadalafil in the management of ED. Conversely, our study lacks external validity due to its single-center design.

Conclusion
The addition of daily low-dose tadalafil during application of LiST may further improve erectile function compared to application of LiST as a standalone treatment in patients with mild or mild-to-moderate vasculogenic ED. Still, further high-quality studies are warranted to corroborate our findings.
Tipping pro-environmental norm diffusion at scale: opportunities and limitations
Authors: Berger Joël , Efferson Charles , Vogt Sonja 
Published: December 2021

AbstractRapid and comprehensive social change is required to mitigate pressing environmental issues such as climate change. Social tipping interventions have been proposed as a policy tool for creating this kind of change. Social tipping means that a small minority committed to a target behaviour can create a self-reinforcing dynamic, which establishes the target behaviour as a social norm. The possibility of achieving the large-scale diffusion of pro-environmental norms and related behaviours with an intervention delimited in size and time is tempting. Yet, the canonical model of tipping, the coordination game, may evoke overly optimistic expectations regarding the potential of tipping, due to the underlying assumption of homogenous preferences. Relaxing this assumption, we devise a threshold model of tipping pro-environmental norm diffusion. The model suggests that depending on the distribution of social preferences in a population, and the individual cost of adopting a given pro-environmental behaviour, the same intervention can activate tipping, have little effect, or produce a backlash. Favourable to tip pro-environmental norms are widespread advantageous inequity aversion and low adoption costs. Adverse are widespread self-regarding preferences or disadvantageous inequity aversion, and high costs. We discuss the policy implications of these findings and suggest suitable intervention strategies for different contexts.
THE JACOBSON RADICAL OF A PROPOSITIONAL THEORY
Authors: FELLIN GIULIO , SCHUSTER PETER , WESSEL DANIEL 
Published: December 2021

AbstractAlongside the analogy between maximal ideals and complete theories, the Jacobson radical carries over from ideals of commutative rings to theories of propositional calculi. This prompts a variant of Lindenbaum’s Lemma that relates classical validity and intuitionistic provability, and the syntactical counterpart of which is Glivenko’s Theorem. The Jacobson radical in fact turns out to coincide with the classical deductive closure. As a by-product we obtain a possible interpretation in logic of the axioms-as-rules conservation criterion for a multi-conclusion Scott-style entailment relation over a single-conclusion one.
Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) conodonts from the Alengchu section, western Yunnan, China
Authors: Lu Jian-Feng , Ma Xue-Ping , Qie Wen-Kun , Liang Kun , Chen Bo 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy in China is poorly known, and conodont-based subdivision schemes for the Lochkovian in peri-Gondwana (the Spanish Central Pyrenees, the Prague Synform, Sardinia, and the Carnic Alps) have not been tested in China. Therefore, we studied conodonts from the lower part (Bed 9 to Bed 13) of the Shanjiang Formation at the Alengchu section of Lijiang, western Yunnan to test the application of established subdivision schemes. The conodont fauna is assignable to 12 taxa belonging to eight genera (Ancyrodelloides, Flajsella, Lanea, Wurmiella, Zieglerodina, Caudicriodus, Pelekysgnathus, and Pseudooneotodus), and enables recognition of two chronostratigraphical intervals from the lower part of the Shanjiang Formation. The interval ranging from the uppermost part of Bed 9 to the upper part of Bed 10 belongs to the lower Lochkovian; whereas an interval covering the uppermost part of Bed 11 to the upper part of Bed 13 is correlated with the upper half of the middle Lochkovian. The Silurian-Devonian boundary is probably located within Bed 9, in the basal part of the Shanjiang Formation. However, the scarcity of specimens precludes definitive identification of bases of the lower, middle, and upper Lochkovian as well as other conodont zones recognized in peri-Gondwana.
Implementing Partisan Symmetry: Problems and Paradoxes
Authors: DeFord Daryl , Dhamankar Natasha , Duchin Moon , Gupta Varun , McPike Mackenzie , Schoenbach Gabe , Sim Ki Wan 
Published: December 2021

AbstractWe consider the measures of partisan symmetry proposed for practical use in the political science literature, as clarified and developed in Katz, King, and Rosenblatt (2020, American Political Science Review 114, 164–178). Elementary mathematical manipulation shows the symmetry metrics to have surprising properties that call their meaningfulness into question. To accompany the general analysis, we study measures of partisan symmetry with respect to recent voting patterns in Utah, Texas, and North Carolina, flagging problems in each case. Taken together, these observations should raise major concerns about the available techniques for quantitative scores of partisan symmetry—including the mean–median score, the partisan bias score, and the more general “partisan symmetry standard”—with the decennial redistricting underway.
AN APPLICATION OF SCHUR’S ALGORITHM TO VARIABILITY REGIONS OF CERTAIN ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS II
Authors: ALI MD FIROZ , ALLU VASUDEVARAO , YANAGIHARA HIROSHI 
Published: December 2021

AbstractWe extend our study of variability regions, Ali et al. [‘An application of Schur algorithm to variability regions of certain analytic functions–I’, Comput. Methods Funct. Theory, to appear] from convex domains to starlike domains. Let
$\mathcal {CV}(\Omega )$
be the class of analytic functions f in
${\mathbb D}$
with
$f(0)=f'(0)-1=0$
satisfying
$1+zf''(z)/f'(z) \in {\Omega }$
. As an application of the main result, we determine the variability region of
$\log f'(z_0)$
when f ranges over
$\mathcal {CV}(\Omega )$
. By choosing a particular
$\Omega $
, we obtain the precise variability regions of
$\log f'(z_0)$
for some well-known subclasses of analytic and univalent functions.
The development of linguistic stimuli for the Swedish Situated Phoneme test
Authors: Witte Erik , Ekeroot Jonas , Köbler Susanne 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe speech perception ability of people with hearing loss can be efficiently measured using phonemic-level scoring. We aimed to develop linguistic stimuli suitable for a closed-set phonemic discrimination test in the Swedish language called the Situated Phoneme (SiP) test. The SiP test stimuli that we developed consisted of real monosyllabic words with minimal phonemic contrast, realised by phonetically similar phones. The lexical and sublexical factors of word frequency, phonological neighbourhood density, phonotactic probability, and orthographic transparency were similar between all contrasting words. Each test word was recorded five times by two different speakers, including one male and one female. The accuracy of the test-word recordings was evaluated by 28 normal-hearing subjects in a listening experiment with a silent background using a closed-set design. With a few exceptions, all test words could be correctly discriminated. We discuss the results in terms of content- and construct-validity implications for the Swedish SiP test.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human salmonellosis in the Netherlands
Authors: Mughini-Gras Lapo , Chanamé Pinedo Linda , Pijnacker Roan , van den Beld Maaike , Wit Ben , Veldman Kees , Bosh Thijs , Franz Eelco 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
The public health measures implemented to control coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may influence also other infectious diseases. Using national laboratory surveillance data, we assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human salmonellosis in the Netherlands until March 2021. Salmonellosis incidence decreased significantly after March 2020: in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2020, and in the first quarter of 2021, the incidence decreased by 55%, 57%, 47% and 37%, respectively, compared to the same quarters of 2016–2019. The decrease was strongest among travel-related cases (94%, 84%, 79% and 93% in the aforementioned quarters, respectively). Other significant changes were: increased proportion of cases among older adults and increased proportion of invasive infections, decreased proportion of trimethoprim resistance and increased proportion of serovar Typhimurium monophasic variant vs. Enteritidis. This led to decreased contributions of laying hens and increased contributions of pigs and cattle as sources of human infections. The observed changes probably reflect a combination of reduced exposure to Salmonella due to restrictions on international travels and gatherings, closure of dine-in restaurants, catering and hospitality sectors at large and changes in healthcare-seeking and diagnostic behaviours.
Dilated cardiomyopathy associated with a mutation in the dispatched RND transporter family member 1 gene
Authors: Torpoco Rivera Diana M. , Hafzalah Mina , Pomerantz Daniel J. , Garcia Richard U. 
Published: December 2021

AbstractDilated cardiomyopathy is the most common presentation of cardiomyopathy in children with 20–35% of patients having an identified genetic component. There are more than 30 genes implicated in the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy. We present the first report of a female infant with dilated cardiomyopathy with a genetic variant in the dispatched RND transporter family member 1 gene.
A gray zone in the literature: indications, options, and outcomes for surgical repair of pulmonary artery aneurysms
Authors: Arslanoglu Ergin , Kara Kenan Abdurrahman , Yigit Fatih , Arkan Cüneyt , Ozcan Esra , Arısut Seda , Uslu Ufuk , Cine Nihat , Tuncer Eylem , Ceyran Hakan 
Published: December 2021

AbstractPulmonary artery aneurysms are rare. They are characterised by an aneurysmatic dilatation of the pulmonary vascular bed, including the main pulmonary artery or the accompanying pulmonary artery branches. Increases in pulmonary flow and pulmonary artery pressure increase the risk of rupture: when these conditions are detected, surgical intervention is necessary.This study is a retrospective analysis of 33 patients treated in our paediatric cardiac surgery clinic from 2012 to 2020. Aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms in patients who were patched for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction and corrected with a conduit were excluded from the study. Seventeen (51.5%) of the patients included in the study were female and 16 (48.5%) were male. The patients were aged between 23 and 61 years (mean 30.66 ± 12.72 years). Graft interpositions were performed in 10 patients (30.3%) and pulmonary artery plications were performed in 23 patients (69.7%) to repair aneurysms. There was no significant difference in mortality between the two groups (p > 0.05).Pulmonary artery aneurysm interventions are safe, life-saving treatments that prevent fatal complications such as ruptures, but at present there is no clear guidance regarding surgical timing or treatment strategies. Pulmonary artery interventions should be performed in symptomatic patients with dilations ≥5 cm or asymptomatic patients with dilations ≥8 cm; pulmonary artery pressure, right ventricular systolic pressure, and pulmonary artery aneurysm diameter must be considered when planning surgeries, their timing, and making decisions regarding indications. Experienced surgical teams can achieve satisfactory results using one of the following surgical techniques: reduction pulmonary arterioplasty, plication, or graft replacement.