bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Sub-lethal pesticide exposure erases colour vision memory and affects flower constancy in foraging honey bees
Authors: Mayack Christopher , Rükün Tuğçe , Ercan Neslim , Canko Ece , Avşar Bihter , Dyer Adrian , Garcia Jair , Çakmak İbrahim 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Neonicotinoid pesticide use has increased around the world despite accumulating evidence of their potential detrimental sub-lethal effects on the behaviour and physiology of bees, and its contribution to the global decline in bee health. Whilst flower colour is considered as one of the most important signals for foraging honey bees, the effects of pesticides on colour vision and memory retention remain unknown. We trained free flying foragers to an unscented artificial flower patch presenting yellow flower stimuli to investigate if sub-lethal levels of imidacloprid would disrupt the acquired association made between flower colour and food reward. We found that for concentrations higher than 4% of LD50 foraging honey bees no longer preferentially visited the yellow flowers and bees reverted back to baseline foraging preferences for blue flowers, with a complete loss of flower constancy. Higher pesticide dosages also resulted in a significant decrease in CaMKII and CREB gene expression, revealing a plausible mechanism to explain the disruption of bee foraging performance. Within important bee pollinators, colour vision is highly conserved and essential for efficient nutrition collection and survival. We thus show that to maintain efficient pollination services bees require environments free from neonicotinoid pesticides.
Banking sector Performance Evaluation in Ethiopia for the Period of Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP-II): Private vs. Public Commercial Banks
Authors: Tura Bekana Dembel 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
The main objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the financial performance of commercial banks in Ethiopia during the implementation of growth and transformation plan II. Moreover, determinants of financial performance were examined. The study was conducted using secondary data obtained from National Bank of Ethiopia, and official website of each commercial bank. Multiple panel regression and independent sample t-test were used to show the relationship and to compare the financial performance of commercial banks between the study periods. The ratio of non-interest expenses to total expense, log_net profit per employee, interest income to total income, and exchange rate were variables with positive and significant effect on the financial performance of commercial banks while log_total loans per branch and inflation affected negatively the financial performance measured by return on assets. Whereas, the ratio of debt to equity, log_net profit per employee, total liquid assets to total deposits, interest income to total income, and exchange rate have positive and significant impact while the ratio of loan loss provision to total loan, log_total loans per branch, and inflation negatively and significantly affected financial performance measured by ROE. The independent sample t-test shows that except the ratio of total loans to total deposits, and total capital to total assets the remaining variables did not show significant different between state and public owned banks.JEL classification: M14 M4 M1
Molluscs Community as a Keystone Group for Assessing the Impact of Urban Sprawl at Intertidal Ecosystems
Authors: Ortega-Jiménez Elena , Sedano Francisco , Espinosa Free 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Mollusc communities are getting endangered as a result of urban sprawl because artificial structures do not surrogate natural substrates. In this study, we compared diversity and community and trophic structures of molluscs among different models of artificial substrate and its adjacent natural rock, to detect relationships between some abiotic variables and the molluscs community. Complexity, chemical composition and age were tested as potential drivers of the community. Diversity, community and trophic structure differed between natural and artificial substrates. Complexity at the scale of cm was detected as the most important factor driving community structure. Besides, a chemical composition based on silica and/or scarce calcium carbonates seems to be relevant for molluscs, as well as for the secondary substrate where they inhabit. However, age did not seem to be a driving factor. Among the different artificial structures, macroscale complexity was detected as the main factor diverging a drastically poor community at seawalls from other artificial structures.
Energy-Based Approach for the Analysis of a Vertically Loaded Pile in Multi-layered Non-linear Soil Strata
Authors: Arvan Prakash Ankitha , Arockiasamy Madasamy 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Numerous studies have been reported in published literature on analytical solutions for a vertically loaded pile installed in a homogeneous single soil layer. However, piles are rarely installed in an ideal homogeneous single soil layer. This study presents an energy-based approach to obtain displacements in an axially loaded pile embedded in multi-layered soil considering soil non-linearity. A simple power law based on published literature is used where the soil is assumed to be nonlinear-elastic and perfectly plastic. A Tresca yield surface is assumed to develop the soil stiffness variation with different strain levels that defines the non-linearity of the soil strata. The pile displacement response is obtained using the software MATLAB R2019a and the results from the energy-based method are compared with those obtained from the field test data as well as the finite element analysis based on the software ANSYS 2019R3. It is observed that the results obtained from the energy-based method are in better agreement with the field measured values than those obtained from the FEA. The approach presented in this study can be extended to piles embedded in multi-layered soil strata subjected to different cases of lateral loads as well as the combined action of lateral and axial loads. Furthermore, the same approach can be extended to study the response of the soil to group piles.
Annotation and Classification of Graphs of Property Values Reported in Material Science Literature
Authors: Iinuma Naoki , Kuniyoshi Fusataka , Ozawa Jun , Miwa Makoto 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Building a system for extracting information from the scientific literature is an important research topic in the field of inorganic materials science. However, conventional extraction systems have a limitation in that they do not extract characteristic values from nontextual components, such as charts, diagrams, and tables, which provide key information in many scientific documents. Although there have been several studies on identifying the characteristic values of graphs in the literature, there is no general method that classifies graphs according to the property conditions of the values in the field of materials science. Therefore, in this study, we focus on graphs that are figures representing graphically numerical data, such as a bar graph and line graph, as the first step toward developing a framework for extracting material property information from such noncontextual components. We propose deep-learning-based classification models for identifying the types of graph properties, such as temperature and time, by combining graph images, text in graphs, and captions in neural networks. To train and evaluate the models, we construct a material graph dataset with different types of material properties from a large collection of data from journals in the field of materials science. By using cloud sourcing, we annotate 16,668 images. Our experimental results demonstrate that the best model can achieve high performance with a microaveraged F-score of 0.961.
Enhanced production of falcarinol-type polyacetylenes in hairy roots of cultivated carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus)
Authors: Dunemann Frank , Böttcher Christoph 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Polyacetylenes (PAs) are a large group of bioactive phytochemicals, which are primarily produced by higher plants of the families Apiaceae and Araliaceae. Especially aliphatic C17-polyacetylenes of the falcarinol-type such as falcarinol (FaOH) and falcarindiol (FaDOH) are known for their numerous biological functions including positive effects on human health. In this study we investigate the potential of carrot hairy root (HR) cultures for accumulation of PAs in vitro. Three individual plants of seven differently colored carrot cultivars were used for the development of HR cultures by transformation of root discs with the wild-type Rhizobium rhizogenes strain 15834. A total of 51 individual HR lines were established and quantitatively analysed by HPLC/DAD together with root, petiole and leaf tissue samples for their FaOH and FaDOH levels. Among the five tissues sampled from the donor plants, root periderm samples generally exhibited the highest PA levels with FaDOH as prevailing PA and large differences between cultivars. Compared with the periderm, FaOH levels were highly increased in HRs of all investigated carrot cultivars, whereas the FaDOH levels were not significantly increased. Considering the low to moderate PA concentration in root and leaf tissues of the orange cultivars there was an up to 30-fold increase of the FaOH concentration in HRs derived from orange genotypes. In this study, we demonstrate, that carrot HRs are able to produce large amounts of PAs. Hence, we suggest that HRs might be a suited tool to assess the function of candidate genes involved in the biosynthesis of major PAs.
Black Holes as Geometric Distortional Extrema
Authors: koehler dale 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
It is shown in the present work that the distorted-space model of matter as extended to extreme curvature limits results in characteristics mimicking those of galactic-holes. The distorted-geometry structures exhibit non-Newtonian features wherein the hole or core-region fields of the structures are energetically-repulsive (negative pressure), do not behave functionally in an r-4 manner and terminate at zero at the radial origin (no singularity). Of particular interest is that of r-6 energy-density behavior at structural radial distances near the core of the distortion, a region also displaying potential-well behavior.
The Effects of False-positive Result in Newborn Congenital Hypothyroidism Screening to Parents in Guangxi, China
Authors: Tu Si-Jing , Zhang Xiao-Fei , Jin Chen , Wang Bi-Yan , Luo Chao , Wang Xiao-He , Ma Jin-Feng 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Background: As more than 200,000 neonates participate in newborn congenital hypothyroidism (CH) screening in Guangxi each year, the overall number of false positives has increased. Concerns arise regarding the potential demographic impact on parental stress and knowledge of CH results has emerged. Methods: 255 parents were invited to participate in the false-positive (FP) group, and 1040 parents were invited to participate in the control group. After providing consent, the parents completed a semistructured questionnaire on demographic characteristics, knowledge of CH and the parental stress index-short form (PSI-SF). Results: The parents in the FP group had better knowledge of CH and higher PSI scores than did the parents in the control group (both P <0.001). The result of Logistic Regression showed that the major influence factors of knowledge of CH were FP experience and source of knowledge (both P <0.001). The parents in the FP group who were well-informed during the recall phone call had lower PSI scores than did the other parents (P = 0.001). The results suggested that FP screening results may affect parental stress and the parent-child relationships. Conclusion: Targeted health education should be carried out to increase prospective parents’ knowledge of NBS and reduce parental stress when false-positive results are received.
The effect of delivery ball and warm shower on the childbirth experience of nulliparous women: A randomized controlled clinical trial
Authors: sharifipour parvaneh , Kheirkhah Masoomeh , Rajati Mojgan , haghani hamid 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Background

Childbirth is a unique experience that affects women’s life. Therefore, this study was performed to determine the effect of delivery ball and warm shower on the childbirth experience of primiparous women.
Methods

This study is a clinical trial that was carried out on primiparous pregnant women referred to Motazedi Hospital in Kermanshah, Iran. Sampling was done by continuous method and pregnant women were divided into three groups of delivery ball-warm shower (n = 33), delivery ball (n = 33) and control (n = 33). Exercise with ball at the dilation of 4 cm was similar in the two groups of delivery ball-warm shower and delivery ball, but the first group also used warm shower at the dilatation of 7 cm. The control group only received the routine delivery care. Demographic information form consisting of pregnancy history and information about the mother and infant were completed and the childbirth experience questionnaire (CEQ) were completed by the women two hours after the childbirth.
Results

There was a statistically significant difference in the mean score of childbirth experience after the intervention between the two groups of delivery ball-warm shower and control (P = 0.001), and also between the delivery ball and control groups (P = 0.001). There was a statistically significant difference in the mean scores of professional support between the two groups of delivery ball-warm shower and control (P = 0.02) and also between the delivery ball and control groups (p = 0.02). There was a statistically significant difference in the mean scores of participation between the two groups of delivery ball-warm shower and control (P = 0.003) and also between the delivery ball and control groups (P = 0.01). There was also a statistically significant difference in the mean scores of sense of security between the two groups of delivery ball-warm shower and control (P = 0.01).
Conclusion

Delivery ball and warm shower were effective interventions to create a positive childbirth experience. This method was more effective than using delivery ball alone in childbirth experience. To achieve a positive experience of childbirth in mothers, the use of both intervention (delivery ball and warm shower) is recommended.
Analyzing the Effect of Pressure Management on Infrastructure Leakage Index in Distribution Systems based on Field Data
Authors: YILMAZ Salih , Firat Mahmut , ATEŞ Abdullah , ÖZDEMİR Özgür 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
In this study, the relationship between pressure management (PM) and infrastructure leakage index (ILI) in distribution systems was investigated based on the field data. Before PM, non-revenue water (NRW) rates were calculated as 48.44%, 76.49% and 36.57% and ILI indicators were determined as 16.97, 22.90 and 26.88, in three DMAs. The leakage volume is also calculated by the FAVAD equation and compared the field data. With the implementation of PM, although NRW ratios decreased, the ILI did not improve in the same rate. ILI class was improved in 3 regions, ILI class dropped from A to B in one region. Although the ILI class did not change in the 5 regions, the loss rates decreased. Using the ILI alone in regions where PM is used can create misleading results in performance analysis. It is thought that it would be more accurate to evaluate losses with performance indicators in PM areas.
The Effectiveness of a Media-Based Intervention Promoting Help-Seeking for Mental Health Difficulties By Australian Men: Study Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial
Authors: NICHOLAS ANGELA , Requena Simone Scotti , Ftanou Maria , Rice Simon , Fletcher Justine , McKinnon Andrew , Seidler Zac , Le Long Khanh-Dao , Mihalopoulos Cathrine , Pirkis Jane 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Background
Approximately one fifth of Australian males aged 16 + experience mood, anxiety or substance use disorders in a given year, and suicide by males accounts for three quarters of all suicides annually. However, males with mental health problems are less likely to seek and receive help than their female counterparts. Media campaigns with videos at their core are gaining popularity as a means of promoting help-seeking for mental health difficulties, but few studies have rigorously tested the impact of such videos. This randomised controlled trial tests the effectiveness of a short video promoting help-seeking by Australian men.
Methods
This study is an online randomised controlled trial (RCT). Participants will attend an online group orientation session, where they will provide consent to participate and complete a baseline questionnaire (T1). After completion of the T1 questionnaire, participants will be randomised to watch either the intervention or control video on a 1:1 basis. After randomisation, participants will be able to access their allocated video for one week. Seven days after T1, participants will again be sent links to the video and to the post-exposure questionnaire (T2). One month after T2, participants will be emailed the follow-up questionnaire (T3). The primary outcome will be change in help-seeking intentions from T1 to T2. Secondary outcomes will be changes in help-seeking intentions from T1 to T3, changes in intentions to encourage other males to seek help, self-reliance, and male depression symptoms from T1 to T2 and from T1 to T3. The cost-effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated. Participants will also complete questions about their opinions of the video and its effects at T2 and T3.
Discussion
Our video-based intervention is designed to promote help-seeking for mental health difficulties among Australian men. If a lack of net harm is shown to be associated with viewing the intervention video, the video will be publicly released and could have broad impacts on individual and community attitudes towards help-seeking for mental health difficulties, and ultimately enhance men’s mental health and wellbeing. An evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention is essential to ensure the intervention is achieving its objectives.
Trial registration:
anzctr.org.au: 2621001008819
Insights on The Morphological and Phylogenetic Delimitation of Dacrymyces Nees
Authors: Alvarenga Renato Lúcio Mendes , Gibertoni Tatiana Baptista 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Dacrymycetes has four families and 13 genera, few of them with molecular data available and then usually polyphyletic in phylogenetic analyses. Dacrymyces Nees is one of the polyphyletic genera in Dacrymycetes and it was introduced to accommodate one species, D. stillatus Nees. The morphological features of the genus are a homogeneous composition of the intra-structure and an amphigenous or superior hymenium. In this study, we included Neotropical specimens in the phylogeny of the Dacrymycetes and Dacrymyces s.s. is emended to include species with resupinate basidiomata, unilateral hymenium and heterogeneous context. In this new delimitation, the new species Dacrymyces flavobrunneus is described using morphological and molecular data and three new combinations (D. ceraceus comb. nov., D. maxidorii comb. nov. and D. spathularia comb. nov.) are proposed based on DNA analyses.
Mathematical modeling of the demographic dividend (DD) capture applied in economy.
Authors: cheikh GUEYE , Babacar TOUMBOU , Abdoulaye DIOUF 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
The purpose of this work is to develop tools and techniques for modeling the capture of the Demographic Dividend. We presented the ordinary differential equation (ODE) system modeling the variation of economically dependent and economically non dependent populations. The system uses natality, natural mortality, infant mortality, migration (incoming and outgoing), and transfers. The mathematical study of this ODE system shows the existence of an equilibrium point whose stability depends on a certain number of system parameters. Numerical simulations of the resulting model were performed using scenarios approach.
Comparative Study of HRCT Imaging Characteristics of Psittaci Pneumonia and COVID-19 Pneumonia
Authors: Mao Zhenni , Tan Changlian , Cai Sainan , Shen Qin , Liu Qinru , Zhang Lin , Li Junli , Wang Tianyu , Zi Yuheng , Wang Min , Zhou Fan , Song Chendie , Liu Jun , Liao Haiyan 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Backgroud: Both Chlamydia psittaci and COVID-19 virus can cause lung inflammation, which manifests extremely similarly in clinical symptoms and imaging. Especially during the epidemic of COVID-19, psittacosis pneumonia is easily misdiagnosed as COVID-19 pneumonia. The identification of the chest imaging between the two diseases is of special significance when the epidemiological contact history is unclear, and the etiology and nucleic acid test results are not available. This study conducts to compare the imaging characteristics on chest high-resolution CTs (HRCT) between patients with psittaci pneumonia and COVID-19 pneumonia.Methods: A retrospective analysis of the imaging characteristics on chest HRCTs of 10 psittaci pneumonia patients and 13 COVID-19 pneumonia patients. The similarities and differences in HRCT images of patients with psittaci pneumonia and COVID-19 pneumonia were analyzed. Results: HRCT showed that among the 10 psittaci pneumonia patients, 8 cases (80.00%) had single lobe involvement, and 2 cases (20.00%) had multiple lobe involvement. Among the 13 COVID-19 pneumonia patients, 2 cases had single lobe involvement (15.38%), and 11 cases had multiple lobe involvement (84.62%). The types of lesions in 10 psittaci pneumonia patients included simple consolidation in 5 cases (50.00%), and ground-glass opacity (GGO) with consolidation in 5 cases (50.00%). The types of lesions in 13 COVID-19 pneumonia patients included simple GGO in 6 cases (46.15%), GGO with consolidation in 4 cases (30.77%), GGO with paving stone sign in 2 cases (15.38%), and simple consolidation in 1 case (7.69%). Lymphadenopathy was observed in 1 psittaci pneumonia patient (10.00%) and 1 COVID-19 pneumonia patient (7.69%). Among the 10 psittaci pneumonia patients, 8 cases (80.00%) had bronchial inflation, and 6 patients (60.00%) had pleural effusion. Among the 13 COVID-19 pneumonia patients, 5 patients (38.46%) showed signs of bronchial inflation, while no pleural effusion was observed in 13 patients.Conclusion: Chest HRCTs can distinguish COVID-19 pneumonia from psittaci pneumonia, and can provide early diagnoses of these two diseases.
Low-Carbon Innovation, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions: Evidence From a Dynamic Spatial Panel Approach in China
Authors: Zhang Caijiang , Zhou Yu , Li Zhangwen 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Low-carbon innovation plays an essential role in carbon reduction worldwide. This study investigates how low-carbon innovation affects carbon emissions by the Dynamic Spatial Durbin Model based on 30 Chinese provinces from 2007 to 2017. The empirical results show that: First, there exists provincial agglomeration of carbon emissions. High emission provinces concentrate in major economic zones and energy extraction areas. Second, low-carbon innovation decreases carbon emissions in general. The spillover effects are higher than the direct effects in the short run, but the spillover effects are not significant in the long run. Third, the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is valid both in the short-run and long-run. Ninety percent of the provinces' GDP is above the inflection point by 2017. The summary of policy implications is as follows. First, targeted incentives for R&D in low-carbon technologies are needed; Second, the externalities of low-carbon innovation require attention; Third, energy transition need to be promoted as soon as possible.