bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Impact of obesity-induced type 2 diabetes on long-term outcomes following stroke
Authors: Bhaskar Sonu 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
Diabetes is associated with poor recovery profiles following stroke. The pathophysiological mechanisms by which diabetes mediates neurological recovery after stroke are debatable. A recent paper published in the Clinical Science by Pintana et al. (Clinical Science (2019)133, 1367–1386) provides a possible explanation for the underlying mechanisms of poor long-term motor recovery after stroke in obesity-induced diabetes animal model. Authors report that stroke-induced neurogenesis and parvalbumin (PV)+ interneuron-mediated neuroplasticity is severely impaired due to obesity-induced type 2 diabetes (T2D). Poor long-term motor recovery after stroke in comorbid obese and diabetic mice was not associated with stroke-induced grey or white matter damage. Understanding these mechanisms is crucial to develop therapeutic strategies to improve recovery in the obesity-induced diabetic population. The strength of the present study lies in the use of a comorbid obese/diabetic animal model, which is more likely to reflect the clinical scenario. However, these findings should be understood from the context of this specific animal model and whether these findings hold true for another variant of the obesity/T2D model warrants further consideration. This is an interesting study from the perspective of understanding the stroke pathology in T2D; however, the interaction of microvascular changes (including vascular modelling, angiogenesis), oxidative stress and insulin resistance (IR) associated with T2D and poor recovery profile merit further discussions. Given the increasing burden of obesity, diabetes and/or stroke globally, understanding of mechanisms may be useful in developing cardiovascular risk management pathways in this subgroup of population who are at increased risk of poor clinical outcomes following acute stroke.
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Tinnitus Apps
Authors: Deshpande Aniruddha K. , Shimunova Tova 
Published: July 2019

Purpose
The use of mobile phones is on the rise worldwide. Many people who experience tinnitus often turn to the Internet and applications (apps) on their smartphones to acquire information on tinnitus and solutions to “cure” tinnitus. The aim of this study was to evaluate and summarize features offered by tinnitus-related apps on different mobile platforms.

Method

This study was conducted on 3 mobile platforms—Apple iOS, Google Android, and Windows. The key word
tinnitus
was searched, and all free and paid apps were downloaded. Relevant apps were reviewed in-depth and then classified into 4 categories based on their functionality—“tinnitus education, awareness, and prevention,” “tinnitus assessment and measurement,” “tinnitus management,” and “misinformation.”

Results
All mobile platforms yielded both free and paid tinnitus apps, allowing individuals to learn more about tinnitus, assess and measure their own tinnitus, gain access to different sounds to help manage their tinnitus, and find strategies to better cope with their tinnitus. The Google Android platform revealed the most number of tinnitus apps. The “tinnitus management” category consistently outperformed the other categories—containing the most number of apps and the most number of features. A small proportion of misinformation apps were detected across platforms. There were no significant differences in the total number of features between free and paid apps (except on the Windows platform). A cost–feature analysis revealed that more expensive apps did not necessarily offer more number of features.

Conclusions
This study reveals that a variety of tinnitus-related apps—both free and paid—are available on different mobile platforms. Clinicians should be aware that patients with tinnitus often rely on apps for additional help and should be prepared to direct them to valid apps. Implications for end users are discussed as well.

Supplemental Material

https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.8956775
Faint solar analogues at the limit of no reddening
Authors: Giribaldi R. E. , Porto de Mello G. F. , Lorenzo-Oliveira D. , Amôres E. B. , Ubaldo-Melo M. L. 
Published: July 2019

Context. The flux distribution of solar analogues is required for calculating the spectral albedo of solar system bodies such as asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects. Ideally a solar analogue should be comparatively faint as the target of interest, but very few analogues fainter than V = 9 mag have been identified so far. Only atmospheric parameters equal to solar guarantee a flux distribution equal to solar as well, while only photometric colours equal to solar do not. Reddening is also a factor to consider when selecting faint analogue candidates.
Aims. Our aim is to implement the methodology for identifying faint analogues at the limit of precision allowed by the current spectroscopic surveys. We quantify the precision attainable for the atmospheric parameters of effective temperature (Teff), metallicity ([Fe/H]), and surface gravity (log g) when derived from moderately low-resolution (R = 8000) spectra with S∕N ~ 100. We estimate the significance of reddening at 100–300 pc from the Sun.
Methods. We used the less precise photometry in the HIPPARCOS catalogue to select potential analogues with V ~ 10.5 mag (located at ~135 pc). We calibrated Teff and [Fe/H] as functions of equivalent widths of spectral indices by means of the principal component analysis regression. We derived log g, mass, radius, and age from the atmospheric parameters, Gaia parallaxes, and evolutionary tracks. We evaluated the presence of reddening for the candidates by underestimations of photometric Teff with respect to those derived by spectral indices. These determinations were validated with extinction maps.
Results. We obtained the atmospheric parameters Teff, [Fe/H], and log g with precision of 97 K, 0.06 dex, 0.05 dex, respectively. From 21 candidates analysed, we identify five solar analogues: HIP 991, HIP 5811, and HIP 69477 have solar parameters within 1σ errors, and HIP 55619 and HIP 61835 within 2σ errors. Six other stars have Teff close to solar, but slightly lower [Fe/H]. Our analogues show no evidence of reddening except for four stars, that present E(B−V) ≥ 0.06 mag, translating to at least a 200 K decrease in photometric Teff.
Nitrosoalkenes: Underappreciated Reactive Intermediates for Formation of Carbon–Carbon Bonds
Authors: Weinreb Steven M. 
Published: July 2019

This Account describes studies carried out by my group during the past decade on both intra- and intermolecular conjugate additions of carbon nucleophiles to nitrosoalkenes. Using the Denmark protocol for the generation of nitrosoalkenes from α-chloro-O-silyloximes, a number of bridged and fused bicyclic ring systems can be prepared via the intramolecular version of this process. Intermolecular conjugate addition reactions of nitrosoalkenes with a wide variety of ester enolates as coupling partners can also be achieved efficiently using a similar procedure. Some stereochemical aspects of these nucleophilic additions have been studied with both acyclic and cyclic nitrosoalkenes. This methodology has been applied as key steps in synthetic approaches to some complex indole and Myrioneuron alkaloids.1	Introduction2	Conjugate Additions of Nitrosoalkenes2.1	Background2.2	Intramolecular Reactions2.3	Intermolecular Reactions2.4	Stereochemical Aspects3	Applications to Natural Product Synthesis3.1	Angustilodine and Related Alkaloids3.2	Approach to Apparicine-Type Alkaloids3.3	Myrioneurinol4	Summary and Outlook
Transapical Deployment of Thoracic Stent Graft for Ascending Aorta Coronary Bypass Pseudoaneurysm in a Patient with Prosthetic Aortic Valve
Authors: Antonello Michele , D'Onofrio Augusto , Zavatta Marco , Isabella Giambattista , Maturi Carlo , Piazza Michele , Gerosa Gino 
Published: July 2019

AbstractThe authors describe the transapical deployment of a thoracic endograft to exclude a saphenous vein graft proximal anastomotic pseudoaneurysm following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in a 63-year-old male with a prosthetic aortic valve. A standard thoracic endograft has been deployed via transapical access after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of the native vessel perfused by the patent CABG. The procedure was uneventful; an 8-month computed tomography scan showed complete exclusion of the pseudoaneurysm with patency of supra-aortic trunks.
Omitting Chest Tube Drainage after Subxiphoid Thoracoscopic Thymectomy
Authors: Xu Hao , Guo Congying , Li Yi , Yang Lei , Zhang Linyou 
Published: July 2019

Background This study investigated the feasibility and safety of omitting chest tube drainage after subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy.
Methods From July 2018 through October 2018, 20 patients underwent subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy without chest tube drainage. The clinical characteristics and perioperative outcomes of these patients are presented.
Results All patients (10 males, 10 females; average age: 53.25 ± 12.50 years old) completed the operation. Chest tube drainage was omitted in a total of 20 patients. The operative time was 89.45 ± 49.80 minutes. No adverse events were observed. The bed-side ultrasound examination of the pleural cavity on the day of surgery showed a thimbleful of effusion and did not require thoracentesis. A postoperative chest roentgenogram on the next morning showed full expansion without pneumothorax in all patients. None of the patients required reintervention with chest drainage through the time of discharge.
Conclusion The omission of chest tube drainage may be an alternative procedure for selected patients undergoing thoracoscopic thymectomy. The omission of chest tubes in thymectomy is safe, but further investigation is required.
Turkish Validation of the Standardized Cosmesis and Health Nasal Outcomes Survey
Authors: Gode Sercan , Ozturk Arin , Sahin Mustafa , Berber Veysel , Apaydin Fazil 
Published: July 2019

AbstractThe objective of this study is to provide a valid and reliable Turkish version of the original Standardized Cosmesis and Health Nasal Outcomes Survey (SCHNOS). The SCHNOS questionnaire was translated from English to Turkish using standardized guidelines. Participants completed the questionnaire twice, with an interval of 7 to 10 days. Reliability and validity analyses were performed based on these answers. Differences between the rhinoplasty and control groups, the internal consistency of the instrument (Cronbach's alpha coefficient), and the strength of association between the two repeated measures (Pearson's correlation coefficient) were analyzed. Of the 188 included individuals (106 females, 82 males; mean age 28 ± 8.4 years), 97 were in the rhinoplasty group and 91 were in the control group. The mean total SCHNOS scores were 0.6 ± 0.4 and 29.4 ± 8.9 in the control and rhinoplasty groups, respectively, and there was a statistically significant difference in total scores between the groups (p < 0.001). The internal consistency reliability of the scale was found to be highly significant (Cronbach's alpha = 0.96, with a lower 95% confidence interval of 0.89). The test–retest correlation value was 0.95 for the total score, and each item had a strong test–retest correlation, ranging from 0.92 to 0.96. The Turkish version of the SCHNOS is a valid and reliable scale for evaluating both functional and cosmetic outcomes in Turkish-speaking patients undergoing rhinoplasty.
Locke’s and Leibniz’s virtual debate over Of our knowledge of the existence of God
Authors: Shoham Kuti 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
The paper tries to reconstruct a possible polemical dialog between Locke and Leibniz over Of our knowledge of the existence of God, which is the title of Chapter 10, book 4, of the Essay and the New Essays. God’s existence is crucial to Leibniz’s metaphysics as well as to Locke’s philosophical enterprise, however, Locke is a kind of a tabula-rasa empiricist and Leibniz is a kind of a rationalist, therefore any a priori argument will not gain their mutual consent. Furthermore, because the former is a kind of realist whereas the latter holds a kind of an anti-realist ‘no-windows-point-of-view’ of the world, any a posteriori argument will eventually likely fail too.
Locke and Leibniz on matter and solidity
Authors: Shimony Idan 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
In this paper I analyze the virtual debate between Locke and Leibniz on solidity as proposed in Leibniz’s chapter on solidity in his New Essays on Human Understanding. I first track the oddities of the dialogue presented in the New Essays’ chapter on solidity. In this virtual dialogue, Leibniz’s representative often digresses and sometimes overlooks or misrepresents some of Locke’s most important insights. I then argue that these oddities reflect Leibniz’s sentiment that a productive controversy on this issue cannot be conducted due to his substantial differences with Locke regarding solidity and the nature of matter. These differences are at most indirectly implied in passing in Leibniz’s chapter on solidity and to see them one has to consider other texts presenting Leibniz’s theory of matter.
Dialogue in philosophical practices
Authors: Bertolino Luca 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
The definition of the lowest common denominator of philosophical practices is widely debated: what is the
philosophical core that allows us to distinguish them from other activities? Also, is it possible to identify a
methodical peculiarity in philosophical practices? Indeed, many philosophical practitioners refer to dialogue as the
specific philosophical character marking their professional activity. This statement, which as such is rather naive,
is obviously somewhat problematic. However, philosophical practitioners stress the λόγος of dialogue.
In addition to investigating how the dialogue is understood in the different philosophical practices, this
contribution aims at enhancing the διά, the “between” of dialogue. This dimension, in fact, may be a possible
theoretical framework within which to understand philosophical practices as a whole.
Listening to the other
Authors: Giani Alberta 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
The listening process is the object of the present work. I start from the definition of listening, and then, I expound on its development by referring to studies about fetal auditory perception and to the first experiences of intersubjectivity (Trevarthen, 1998, 2001, Ammaniti & Gallese, 2014). Thereafter, I examine processual aspects through a psychological interpretation of “The Arabian Nights”, from which I take inspiration in identifying the defining elements of listening as a communicative dimension that, for Self and Other changing, is understood as intentional intersubjective practice, activated in a somewhat implicit way. The theoretical framework of this work is infant research (Beebe & Lachmann, 1994; Reddy, 2010), whose studies concern the child’s emotional and affective development, evaluated with dynamic constructs (Stern, 1985, 2005; Winnicott, 1965, 1988; Sanders, 1985, 2007).
Coordination games and disagreement
Authors: Laas Oliver 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
This essay explores the suitability of coordination games for the study of strategic argumentation in disagreements. An argumentative battle of the sexes (ArgBoS) game is introduced for studying various strategies of rational disagreement resolution. The properties of both normal- and extensive-form ArgBoS are explored. In addition, the strategic effects of burning money will be studied. It will be shown that burning money can have strategic advantages in resolving disagreements.
Nouns and nominalizations in economics
textbooks
Authors: Hu Chunyu , Gao Hongmiao 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
Grammatical metaphors are indispensable resources that
scientists employ to create scientific worlds. Nominalization, as a powerful
tool of grammatical metaphor, can shed new light on the nature of economics
through reconstruing human experiences in the process of economic activities.
This study endeavours to initiate an innovative way to study nominalizations in
economics discourses by extracting nouns in a self-built 1-million-word corpus
of economics textbooks (CETB). The results show that nouns and nominalizations,
accounting respectively for 21% and 10% of the total words in the corpus, have
construed the vast theoretical edifice of modern economic knowledge. In addition
to transmitting disciplinary knowledge to achieve ideational functions,
nominalizations can also situate the participants within the economics discourse
community to fulfil interpersonal functions, and facilitate the text to progress
as a chain of reasoning to perform textual functions. This investigation of nouns
as well as lexical bundles not only provides new insights into nominalization
but also provides an important entry point to observe discipline-specific lexis
and the typical co-text in which items occur. This study, as a combination of
work in economics, corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistics, has
implications for education in economics as well as the study of disciplinary
English in other fields.
The place/s of Tagalog in Hong Kong’s Central district
Authors: Guinto Nicanor 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
The Central district is the government, financial, and business center of Hong Kong. Yet, on Sundays, it turns
temporarily into a space densely occupied by migrant domestic workers from the Philippines. It is then that Tagalog emerges as a
valuable linguistic resource in the center of Hong Kong, primarily as it is used on commercial signage as well as by speakers of
other languages who see the presence of Filipinos – predominantly female domestic workers – as a business opportunity. Other signs
in central Hong Kong that include Tagalog are regulatory, indexing the same Filipinos as low status domestic workers. Using the
key concepts of sociolinguistic scales (Blommaert, 2007) and
center-periphery dynamics (Pietikäinen & Kelly-Holmes, 2013),
I analyze the underlying forces relevant to Tagalog’s (and hence its speakers) symbolic centering and peripheralization in Hong
Kong’s semiotic landscape.
X
Authors: Jaworski Adam 
Published: July 2019

AbstractThe grapheme and symbolxhas been documented as relatively indeterminate and polysemic (e.g.Gale, 2015). Yet, various typographic, orthographic and other design choices make it particularly salient in the contemporary semiotic landscape. The paper starts by outlining briefly the history of the changing uses and associations ofxin different areas of social life. This is followed by discussion of the typographic and orthographic salience ofx, emphasizing its unique, unsettling, and ‘foreignizing’ effect on displayed language. The paper concludes by linking the salience ofxwith a global verbal-visual register that I have called ‘globalese’ (Jaworski, 2015a), and by briefly pointing to its origins in the typographic experiments of avant-garde art.
Complex spatial prepositions from Latin to Castilian
Authors: Lehmann Christian 
Published: July 2019

AbstractFrom among the various processes that form prepositions in the history from Latin to Castilian, the investigation concentrates on the formation of prepositional adverbs like Spanishdelante (de)‘in front (of)’. There are two mechanisms for their formation: (a) An adverb or a preposition is preceded by a superordinate simple local preposition which initially specifies a local relation, but ends up as a reinforcing expansion of its base; and (b) an adverb is converted into a preposition by a following functional preposition which serves as a relationalizer.In case #a, the syntactic structure is often destroyed by univerbation, and the resulting reinforced preposition is lexicalized. In case #b, the alternation between adverb and relationalized preposition is regular and bidirectional, so that the combination of adverb and relationalizer is normally not univerbated. The exceptiondesdeis given some attention.As a result, the formation of prepositions of this structure is, at the outset, not a matter of word formation, and such complex prepositions are therefore not compound prepositions, but instead lexicalized univerbations.
The effect of cash transfers from the PROSPERA programme (formerly Oportunidades) on poverty in urban households in Northeast Mexico
Authors: Martínez-Martínez Oscar A. , Coronado-García Mauricio , Orta-Alemán Dania 
Published: July 2019

ABSTRACTThe paper presents the effects of Mexico’s conditioned cash-transfers programme (PROSPERA programme, formerly Oportunidades) on household poverty in the Northeast urban areas. The estimate was calculated using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Index. We use three poverty lines (i.e. food, capability, and patrimonial poverty) which costs were established by the National Assessment Council of the Social Development Policy. The results show that, in the three lines, the intensity and inequality of poverty diminished. Regarding incidence, only in extreme poverty was found a significant effect, so, there is no evidence to support that cash transfers help households to escape poverty.
The n-type Si-based materials applied on the front surface of IBC-SHJ solar cells*
Authors: Bao Jianhui , Tao Ke , Lin Yiren , Jia Rui , Liu Aimin 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
Interdigitated back contact silicon hetero-junction (IBC-SHJ) solar cells exhibit excellent performance owing to the IBC and SHJ structures. The front surface field (FSF) layer composed of electric field passivation and chemical passivation has been proved to play an important role in IBC-SHJ solar cells. The electric field passivated layer n+-a-Si: H, an n-type Si alloy with carbon or oxygen in amorphous phase, is simulated in this study to investigate its effect on IBC-SHJ. It is indicated that the n+-a-Si: H layer with wider band gap can reduce the light absorption on the front side efficaciously, which hinders the surface recombination of photo-generated carriers and thus contributes to the improvement of the short circuit current density J
sc. The highly doped n+-a-Si: H can result in the remakable energy band bending, which makes it outstanding in the field passivation, while it makes little contribution to the chemical passivation. It is noteworthy that when the electric field intensity exceeds 1.3 × 105 V/cm, the efficiency decrease caused by the inferior chemical passivation is only 0.16%. In this study, the IBC-SHJ solar cell with a front n+-a-Si: H field passivation layer is simulated, which shows the high efficiency of 26% in spite of the inferior chemical passivation on the front surface.
Passively Q-switched diode-pumped Tm, Ho:LuVO4 laser with a black phosphorus saturable absorber*
Authors: Li Linjun , Li Tianxin , Zhou Long , Fan Jianying , Yang Yuqiang , Xie Wenqiang , Li Shasha 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
We presented a passively Q-switched (PQS) diode-pumped c-cut Tm, Ho:LuVO4 laser with a black phosphorus saturable absorber for the first time. Under PQS mode, an average output power of 0.86 W and a peak power of 2.32 W were acquired from the Tm, Ho:LuVO4 laser with the pump power of 14.55 W, corresponding to a pulse width of

2.89

μ
s

, a pulse repetition rate of 71.84 kHz, and a pulse energy of about

6.70

μ
J

.
Coherent control of fragmentation of methyl iodide by shaped femtosecond pulse train*
Authors: Tong Qiu-Nan , Fei De-Hou , Lian Zhen-Zhong , Qi Hong-Xia , Zhou Sheng-Peng , Luo Si-Zuo , Chen Zhou , Hu Zhan 
Published: July 2019

Abstract
Coherent control of fragmentation of CH3I using shaped femtosecond pulse train is investigated. The dissociation processes can be modulated by changing the separation of the shaped pulse train, and the yield of I+ under the irradiation of the optimal pulse is significantly increased compared with that using the transform-limited pulse. We discuss the control mechanism of dissociation processes with coherent interference in time domain. A three-pulse control model is proposed to explain the counterintuitive experimental results.