bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Spatial Shifting of Biocondensate Assembly Zone in a Microfluidic Gradient of Dissipative Condition
Authors: Juneja Sakshi , Sivoria Neetu , Maiti Subhabrata 
Published: November 2024

AbstractPursuing non‐equilibrium chemistry with (bio)molecules is of utmost importance for the design of life‐like dynamic materials that emerge in a constant flux of energy. Herein, we explore spatial localization of dissipative self‐assembly of biocondensate (DNA‐histone) via passing chemical fuel (histone) and one fuel‐degrading agent (trypsin) through two arms of the Y‐shaped microfluidic chip. In this case, a continuous supply of fuel and fuel‐degrading agent results self‐assembly of biocondensate, maintaining a non‐equilibrium steady state (NESS). We find in the presence of gradient of dissipating conditions, the formation zone of biocondensate drifts towards fuel‐rich zone (away from dissipating zone). In absence of fuel‐degrading agent, diffusive transport of free DNA towards histone channel (perpendicular to advection) is restricted as it formed much larger micron‐sized biocondensate at the center of the channel (the meeting point of two flows). However, this sidewise DNA diffusion is operative in the presence of fuel‐degrading agent and therefore, the formation zone shifted to histone‐rich zone. Furthermore, we demonstrate that in the presence of trypsin, catalytic DNA's peroxidase reactivity can be moved to histone‐rich region. Transposition of self‐assembly process in a gradient of dissipative conditions will be of importance in the development of spatially‐controlled chemistry, reaction‐diffusion processes.
Growth and Mortality of Zoo‐Reared Ozark Hellbenders, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi (Grobman 1943)
Authors: Macklem D. Cristina , Augustine Lauren , Wanner Mark D. , Ettling Jeffery A. , Crabill Trisha , Pedigo Amanda S. , Schuette Chawna , Ihrig‐Bueckendorf Patty L. , Martin Aja J. , Noble Katie R. , Elden Justin M. , Briggler Jeffrey T. 
Published: November 2024

ABSTRACTOzark hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi, Grobman 1943) populations in Missouri and Arkansas have been federally listed as endangered since 2011. As part of the comprehensive recovery plan for the subspecies, the Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute's Ron and Karen Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation, in collaboration with the Missouri Department of Conservation, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, established a conservation breeding and head‐starting program to augment and create self‐sustaining wild populations. We examined how the river of origin and egg origin (i.e., Zoo‐bred or wild‐bred) influenced various growth and mortality responses of Zoo‐reared Ozark hellbenders. River of origin significantly predicted most larval and long‐term Zoo‐reared Ozark hellbender growth responses, with our results concurring with observed differences in wild populations and known genetic relationships between Ozark hellbender populations. Mortality of Zoo‐reared Ozark hellbenders was often predicted by river of origin and egg origin with Zoo‐bred hellbenders having significantly higher proportional mortality responses relative to wild‐bred hellbenders. Further exploration of this egg origin relationship revealed differences between the Zoo breeding group generations with higher proportional mortality rates for hellbenders from the less mature second‐generation breeding group relative to hellbenders from the first‐generation breeding group and wild‐bred hellbenders. Ultimately, our results provide baseline data on Zoo‐bred and wild‐bred Ozark hellbenders in the program, help identify differences in growth and mortality responses between Ozark hellbender populations, and contribute to existing evidence supporting distinct populations of Ozark hellbenders in Missouri to aid in targeted conservation strategies.
Using Social Media in NVivo
Authors: Mortelmans Dimitri 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThe chapter examines the challenges and techniques for incorporating social media data into NVivo. NVivo allows three types of social media data to be used in the program: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube data. The chapter shows how this data can be imported into the program using the add-on NCapture. This tool facilitates the import to either textual formats (PDF) or database formats (matrices). Next, the chapter illustrates how the social media data can be coded and queried.
Doing a Literature Review with NVivo
Authors: Mortelmans Dimitri 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThis chapter does not introduce any new tools. Instead, it reviews the tools already discussed in this book and applies them when a researcher wants to use NVivo for literature reviews. The chapter describes methods for importing bibliographic data, coding literature, and synthesising findings from the literature. The chapter introduces a double coding strategy with structure and content coding, making literature coding more efficient. NVivo’s visualisation tools are re-introduced and applied to coded literature. The chapter discusses the differences in using these tools when not relying on interview data but summarising literature content.
Heart Health, Climate Change and the UNSDGs
Authors: Stewart Simon 
Published: November 2024

AbstractBefore introducing the specific topic of climate change and how it might (and does) influence heart disease-related events on a global scale, this brief chapter frames this book within the bigger picture of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in Sustainable development (the 17 goals); 2024. https://sdgs.un.org/goals. Accessed June 2024). It should become clear to the reader that the intersection between heart health and climatic conditions spans from the individual to the population level. Throughout, the concept of climatic vulnerability versus resilience will be mainly discussed from an individual perspective. However, the broader picture (in the face of a global threat that extends to every horizon) demands we first consider vulnerability and priorities within the global population. In specific terms, who stands to lose most from climate change and, more pertinently, who is able to respond to the health issues that arise?
The Synergistic Threat of Pollution and Climate Change
Authors: Stewart Simon 
Published: November 2024

AbstractWhile it might be tempting to simplify our interactions with weather and longer-term climatic conditions as a simple byproduct of varying atmospheric conditions, this would be a mistake. As will be outlined in this chapter, air pollution (a nasty consequence of the mainly human activities and technology driving climate change!) by itself, is likely cardio-toxic. Moreover, concentrations of outdoor air pollution and its impact on the cardiovascular system varies according to the prevailing climatic conditions, topography and human structures/activity. Other forms of pollution, including indoor air pollution, metal pollutants, microplastics and noise pollution are also important factors in eroding the capacity of an individual’s cardiovascular (and broader cardiopulmonary) system to maintain homeostasis when confronted with provocative climatic conditions. It is for this reason that ‘pollution’ has been elevated to the status of being a “non-traditional, major risk factor” for cardiovascular disease. But how much does climate and climate change influence it’s impact on our heart health? To answer this question, in this chapter the synergistic threat of pollution as both a consequence and cause of climate change will be explored.
Developing Application Profiles for Enhancing Data and Workflows in Cultural Heritage Digitisation Processes
Authors: Barzaghi Sebastian , Heibi Ivan , Moretti Arianna , Peroni Silvio 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
As a result of the proliferation of 3D digitisation in the context of cultural heritage projects, digital assets and digitisation processes – being considered as proper research objects – must prioritise adherence to FAIR principles. Existing standards and ontologies, such as CIDOC-CRM, play a crucial role in this regard, but they are often over-engineered for the need of a particular application context, thus making their understanding and adoption difficult. Application profiles of a given standard – defined as sets of ontological entities drawn from one or more semantic artefacts for a particular context or application – are usually proposed as tools for promoting interoperability and reuse while being tied entirely to the particular application context they refer to. In this paper, we present an adaptation and application of an ontology development methodology, i.e. SAMOD, to guide the creation of robust, semantically sound application profiles of large standard models. Using an existing pilot study we have developed in a project dedicated to leveraging virtual technologies to preserve and valorise cultural heritage, we introduce an application profile named CHAD-AP, that we have developed following our customised version of SAMOD. We reflect on the use of SAMOD and similar ontology development methodologies for this purpose, highlighting its strengths and current limitations, future developments, and possible adoption in other similar projects.
Bildung in Zeiten der Klimakrise und sozial-ökologischer Transformation
Authors: Jansen Annegret 
Published: November 2024

ZusammenfassungIn diesem Kapitel werden die Entwicklung, Zielsetzung und bildungspolitische Implementierung des Konzeptes Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im internationalen und nationalen Zusammenhang nachgezeichnet (2.1). Am Beispiel zweier im bundesdeutschen Bildungskontext relevanter Kompetenzmodelle – das Modell der Gestaltungskompetenz (de Haan, 2008) und das des Orientierungsrahmens des Lernbereichs Globale Entwicklung (KMK & BMZ, 2016) – wird aufgezeigt, welche Bildungsziele, Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten als in schulischen Bildungsprozessen zu fördernd bestimmt werden, um Schüler*innen aller Altersgruppen Orientierung in einer globalisierten Welt zu ermöglichen. Die Kompetenzmodelle werden im Hinblick auf das politikdidaktische Bildungsziel der politischen Urteilsbildung diskutiert (2.2), wobei sich zeigen wird, dass der im Lernbereich angestrebte kritische und engagierte Umgang mit den politischen, ökologischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Herausforderungen relativ vage adressiert wird.
Ziele und Fragestellungen
Authors: Jansen Annegret 
Published: November 2024

ZusammenfassungIn den vorangegangenen Kapiteln konnte ein Forschungs- und Entwicklungsbedarf hinsichtlich einer pluralistisch orientierten und damit politischen Nachhaltigkeitsbildung identifiziert werden. Sowohl theoretische Überlegungen als auch empirische Befunde zum Umgang mit komplexen Problemstellungen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung haben dies verdeutlicht. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass bisher kaum theoretisch-konzeptionelle Überlegungen sowie empirische Untersuchungen an der Schnittstelle zwischen der Politischen Bildung und einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung vorhanden sind.Das vorliegende Forschungsvorhaben untersucht die Förderung nachhaltigkeitsbezogener Urteilsbildung durch einen Unterrichtsansatz, in dem problem-, konflikt- und erfahrungsorientierte
Zugänge kombiniert werden.
City Command and Control Centers as Think Tanks for Organization of Big Events
Authors: Martins Pedro , Hojda Alexandre , de Moraes Batista Simão Marcela 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThe city command and control center (C4) can be considered as the heart of a smart city. In this sense, the big picture is that the C4 integrates local urban services and teams to make the city run smoothly and efficiently for residents, businesses, and visitors, guaranteeing people’s safety and security, by providing prompt responses to risks and occurrences (unexpected or expected). To achieve this, three major roles need to be well covered by C4: to identify risks and problems; to integrate planning and operations; and to communicate with citizens and city teams. Big events in venues—or having urban open spaces as venues—gather in specific regions more people, risks and, consequently, more complexities, forcing the C4 to adapt its operational arrangement to deal with these temporary scenarios. Based on Rio de Janeiro’s experiences such as the annual carnival parades and the 2016 Olympic Games, this chapter aims to highlight lessons learned and best practices regarding city command and control for big events as key element to deliver, as results, higher levels of city operational governance for events and minimizing its impacts in citizens’ daily routines. The topics covered includes communication strategies with citizens and operational teams; integrated operational planning within the C4; real-time monitoring; risks and contingencies assessments, via exercises; and rearrangement of C4 for street events. Authors utilized participant observation as methodology to develop this chapter, as they gathered information from direct participation in the working processes in Rio, and organized it in knowledge that can be used as reference for Sure project and other cities’ initiatives worldwide
Archeology Expanded—a Multidisciplinary Approach for Natural Disaster Response
Authors: Bermúdez Víctor Andrés Pérez , Ariza Daniela Vargas 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThis article evaluates the vulnerability index of three elements associated with the historical and fortified heritage of Santa Catalina Island, a volcanic promontory located in the northwest of the Colombian Caribbean. The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season intensified the loss of valuable heritage assets of the Raizal community. Taking into account their intangible and historical values, the analysis focuses on the impacts of climate change on these elements over time, with the aim of contributing to scientific debate on the awareness and protection of cultural heritage for future generations.
Taking Seaflower to the Classroom: A Proposal to Bring Sustainability Education to High Schools in an Oceanic Archipelago (Western Caribbean, Colombia)
Authors: Blanco-Libreros Juan F. , López-Rodríguez Sara R. , Lasso-Zapata Jairo , Méndez Beatriz , De Armas Nairo , Mitchell-Bent Margareth 
Published: November 2024

AbstractGeographic understanding is an important ability to be developed in learning communities in islands, since, as previously established, they have unique interactions with natural and human systems. In the case of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, the curriculum standards, guidelines, and textbooks are designed mostly considering mainland learning communities of white/mestizo ancestry and overlooking the different backgrounds and needs of ethnic minority students, resulting in a total absence of a culturally responsive approach. In this chapter, we propose the geo-literacy umbrella as a tool to improve teacher training and institutional capabilities, previously proposed by academics as points of intervention to close the educational breach by 2030. The seascapes and landscapes protected by the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve offer a rich spatial template for context-based teaching and learning, particularly in local high schools where Geo-literacy might be also useful for introducing general knowledge about sustainability in islands. The General Law for Education in Colombia, provides guidelines that could be used by teachers as anchor points to integrate concepts and methods about sustainability in islands that challenge students to think about real-world problems.
Chemometrically driven multiplexed metal ion detection using a triple emitting quantum dots–based nanoprobe
Authors: Castro Rafael C. , Páscoa Ricardo N. M. J. , Saraiva M. Lúcia M. F. S. , Santos João L. M. , Ribeiro David S. M. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractMetal ion pollution poses a global concern due to its significant risks to both human health and environmental well-being. The toxicity of these ions can increase when they coexist, interacting with each other and with other harmful substances, even at low concentrations. Therefore, an accurate, rapid, and cost-effective methodology is urgently needed for the simultaneous quantification of multiple metal ions. This study presents a new approach for the multiplexed detection of various metal ions (Ag+, Cu2+, Hg2+, Al3+, Pb2+, Fe3+, Fe2+, Zn2+, Ni2+, Cd2+, and Ca2+) using a triple-emission nanoprobe comprising carbon dots and distinctly capped CdTe quantum dots, specifically green-emitting glutathione -quantum dots and red-emitting 3-mercaptopropionic acid-quantum dots. The method achieved high accuracy by analysing first- and second-order photoluminescence data with distinct advanced chemometric tools. R2P values for partial least squares and unfolded partial least square models exceeding 0.9 for several metal ions at low concentrations (mmol L−1) were obtained. Additionally, PL second-order data yielded significantly better results than PL first-order data, attributed to the distinct behaviour of the metal ions over time. Interestingly, it was also noted for the first time the significant contribution of the molar ratio between the metal ions on the models’ accuracy. This novel method provides a highly accurate and efficient way to detect multiple metal ions simultaneously, paving the way for improved environmental monitoring and pollution assessment. The utilization of the proposed method contributes to a better understanding of the complex interactions in mixed metal ion systems, allowing for earlier detection and mitigation of metal ion contamination threats.
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Journeys of change towards the blue economy: evaluating process in transformational change
Authors: Evans Tegan , Fletcher Stephen , Failler Pierre , March Antaya , Potts Jonathan 
Published: November 2024

AbstractTransformation is idealised as a solution to multiple ocean crises, and the blue economy has emerged as a paradigm to facilitate transformation towards a sustainable ocean future. Conceptualisations of transformation differ and processes of change to achieve transformation remain under-explored in literature, representing a significant gap in understanding how transformation is achieved. By exploring the process of blue economy governance transformations in Seychelles and Bangladesh, key attributes of transformation as a process are identified and contextualised. Connectivity of events and actions that addressed a range of different depths and parts of the governance system were identified as enablers of progress towards the blue economy. Strong, centralised leadership was identified as important at an early stage of change, but this must evolve to a distributed form of leadership to continue direction and flexibility. The role and importance of external agencies in creating and catalysing change is complex, presenting challenges to sovereignty but also acts as an independent driver of movement. From a national government perspective, the need to be ‘constantly seen as doing something’ hinders deeper changes and interventions, and instead promotes more superficial outcomes. These results demonstrate the challenges in creating transformative change, and suggest a need to explore evolutionary processes of change over time.
Expression of alpha smooth muscle actin decreases with ageing and increases upon lumen obstruction in mouse brain pericytes
Authors: Győri Fanni , Mészáros Ádám , Krecsmarik Mónika , Molnár Kinga , Balta Cornel , Hermenean Anca , Farkas Attila E. , Krizbai István A. , Wilhelm Imola 
Published: November 2024

Abstract Cerebral pericytes are mural cells covering brain microvessels, organized as ensheathing, mesh and thin-strand pericytes. These latter two, together called capillary pericytes, have low levels of alpha smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), regulating basal vascular tone and applying a slow influence on cerebral blood flow. Pericytes are subject to alterations in ageing which may be even more pronounced in age-related pathologies, including microinfarcts, which usually affect a large number of vessels in the ageing brain. We modelled this condition by injecting 10 µm-size microspheres into the circulation of mice resulting in the occlusion of capillaries covered by ensheathing and mesh pericytes. We observed that α-SMA and Acta2, the gene encoding it, as well as TGF-β1/Tgfb1, the major regulator of α-SMA, decreased during ageing in cerebral microvessels. In the vicinity of the microspheres stalled in the capillaries, expression of α-SMA increased significantly in both ensheathing and especially in mesh pericytes, both in young (2 to 3 months of age) and old (24 months of age) mice. On the other hand, γ-actin was detected in endothelial cells, but not in pericytes, and decreased in microvessels of microsphere-containing hemispheres. Altogether, our data show that obstruction of cerebral microvessels increases α-SMA expression in pericytes in both age groups, but this does not compensate for the lower expression of the contractile protein in old animals. Increased α-SMA expression may lead to constriction of the obstructed vessels probably aggravating flow heterogeneity in the aged brain.
Urban Rail Transit in China: Progress Report and Analysis (2015–2023)
Authors: Lu Kai , Zhang Lei , Li Shen , Huang Yunping , Ding Xiang , Hao Jingnan , Huang Siqi , Li Xiaojuan , Lu Fang , Zhang Hongwei 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThe urban rail transit (URT) system in China has undergone development spanning over 50 years. In the period from 2008 to 2015, numerous URT lines were under construction. After 2015, an increasing number of cities have transitioned to multi-line network operations, with greater emphasis on system efficiency and passenger service. This transition has been accompanied by numerous successful innovations and applications aimed at enhancing system intelligence and automation. This paper provides a review of operational statistics based on annual reports, successful operational practices, and industry development characteristics over the past decade in mainland China. Additionally, suggestions and trends for the further development of URT in China are proposed.
Police talk in the jury room: the production of race-conscious reasonable doubt among racially diverse jury groups
Authors: Lynch Mona , Laguna Sofia 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
A central goal of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is to deconstruct the “jurisprudence of color-blindness” that is infused with the language of equality while operating to maintain racial hierarchies. Color-blind ideology extends to the procedures governing criminal juries, ensuring they are disproportionately white while constraining diversity of perspectives, especially regarding policing issues. In this paper, we merge CRT insights about color-blindness and race-consciousness in the criminal jury context and in the Fourth Amendment law governing policing, to advance empirical socio-legal scholarship on race and jury decision-making. We analyze deliberations data from mock jury groups that decided on verdict in a federal drug conspiracy trial, focusing on how groups talked about law enforcement testimony. We find that negative discussions of the law enforcement testimony is associated with shifts toward acquittal, there are more skeptical discussions about this testimony when the defendant is Black, and that the presence of at least one Black juror in any given group is associated with more skeptical discussions of law enforcement testimony. Our qualitative analysis illustrates how Black jurors, in particular, raised concerns about policing, including unjust treatment of Black citizens, then successfully tied those concerns to the specific legal considerations at issue in the case.