bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Enhanced reversible data hiding using difference expansion and modulus function with selective bit blocks in images
Authors: Arham Aulia , Nugroho Hanung Adi 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThe rapid growth of Information and communication technology not only has positive impacts but also unveils opportunities for data and information security threats. In recent years, many researchers have worked on developing methods to enhance data security, particularly through data hiding techniques aimed at safeguarding communications by concealing their existence. With the same objective in mind, this study introduces a novel method for Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) based on a combination of difference expansion (DE) and a modulus function. Our method enables the embedding of 3-bit data into 2-bit Least Significant Bit (LSB) difference values of pixel pairs formed in rectangular blocks. Based on the experimental results, the payload capacity of our method can reach 0.3953 bpp with a PSNR of 53.5900 dB on common images and 0.5764 bpp with a PSNR of 52.9234 dB on medical images. Our method consistently achieves high payload capacity with good visual quality, and our method surpasses previous approaches in terms of performance, payload capacity, and visual quality.
Industrial diet intervention modulates the interplay between gut microbiota and host in semi-stray dogs
Authors: Rhimi Soufien , Jablaoui Amin , Hernandez Juan , Mariaule Vincent , Akermi Nizar , Méric Tristan , Mkaouar Héla , Wysocka Magdalena , Lesner Adam , Borgi Mohamed Ali , Maguin Emmanuelle , Rhimi Moez 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Background
The gut microbiota and derived metabolites play a key role in regulating host physiology. Diet is identified as a key regulatory factor of the microbiota composition and, potentially, of subsequent functionalities. Demonstrating the role of diet may be complex as most human studies are cross-sectional and dietary intervention is often accompanied by hygienic changes. The objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of an industrial diet on the modulation of the microbiota and targeted functionalities using a canine “natural” model.

Results
We carried out a controlled dietary trial in a cohort of Tunisian semi-stray dogs. We made a transition from a natural diet to an industrial kibble diet and monitored the composition of the fecal microbiota, the concentration of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) and bile acids (BAs), and protease activities. We demonstrated that dietary change significantly decreased fecal primary bile acids levels and protease activities. Interestingly, correlation analyses demonstrated that variation of specific microbial genera were associated with modulated physiological parameters.

Conclusions
Our study reveals that an industrial diet induces beneficial changes in microbial composition and functions characterised by increased diversity, synthesis of SCFA and secondary bile acids production, stressing the key role of the diet-microbiota-dog crosstalk.
Parent–child interaction therapy in the treatment of children who stutter: a single-subject longitudinal study
Authors: Belal Manar , Amer Ayman , Abou-Elsaad Tamer 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Background
The study aimed to investigate the efficacy of the indirect home-based program, including parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT), in reducing the severity and degree of stuttering in young children to be used as a treatment program for young children who stutter.

Methods
A longitudinal multiple single-subject study was conducted on 16 Arabic-speaking Egyptian children aged 4–7 years who stutter. All parents and children were evaluated during the first clinic visit to assess stuttering and to start the clinic-based therapy. After six weeks, a follow-up was done. After three months of the home-based therapy program, a re-assessment of the degree and severity of stuttering was done using the Bloodstein classification of stuttering severity and Stuttering Severity Instrument-3 (SSI3).

Results
Mean SSI3 pre-therapy was 17.5 and decreased to 11 post-therapy. Before therapy, most cases were moderate stuttering 68.8%, 25% were mild, and 6.3% were severe; after treatment, most cases became mild stuttering (75%), 12.5% became very mild, and 12.5% became moderate stuttering according to SSI3 scores, also mean Bloodstein pre-therapy was II and decreased to I post-therapy.

Conclusion
An indirect home-based program, including PCIT, efficiently reduces the severity and degree of stuttering in young children and justifies its use as a treatment program for children who stutter.
Deep Diving Into the Fusion Across Cancer Types in the Indian Population From Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded RNA-Exome Data: A Road to Discovering Novel Rearrangements With Clinical Relevance
Authors: Khuntia Satya Prakash , Mukherjee Nilesh , Javle Vyomesh , Tanwar Nishtha AjitSingh , Sreekanthreddy Peddagangannagari , Varghese Linu , Gowda Pooja , Kottlahouse Anju , Chandrani Pratik , Choughule Anuradha , Pange Priyanka , Gupta Vinod , Noronha Vanita , Patil Vijay Maruti , Pramanik Raja , Kumar Sunil , Nayak Sandeep Peraje , Babu Suresh , Shetty Rohan , Kantharaju Madan , Chinder Pramod Shekarappa , Korlimarla Aruna , Srinath B.S. , Prabhash Kumar , Periyasamy Giridharan , Rishi Kshitij Datta , Goswami Hitesh Madan , Veldore Vidya Harini 
Published: November 2024

PURPOSE
Gene fusions are critical oncogenic mutations that drive cancer development and serve as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. Despite the increasing cancer burden in India, large-scale analyses of molecular landscapes, particularly gene fusions, have been relatively scarce.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
This retrospective study used RNA-exome data from 1,392 Indian patients with cancer across 15 major cancer types to explore gene fusions. The study used a comprehensive framework that integrated open-source and proprietary tools to detect gene fusions from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor samples. The process involved RNA extraction, RNA-exome library preparation, and analysis using tools such as FastQC, DRAGEN RNA Pipeline, STAR-Fusion, and FusionInspector. We validated and filtered potential false-positive fusion calls using AGFusion and FusionAnnotator to annotate fusion breakpoints and their functional impact through various in silico tools.

RESULTS

The study found a notable prevalence of FGFR fusions across cancer types, especially FGFR3, with
FGFR3::TACC3
as the most recurrent. Kinase fusions were prevalent in the cohort accounting for 37% of incidence in the patients. We also identified 91 novel potential driver fusions, including those involving
FGFR2
,
MET
,
ESR1
, and
PDGFRA.

CONCLUSION
This study underscores the critical role of gene fusions as biomarkers in cancer, extending beyond fusion-driven malignancies to encompass all cancer types. Gene fusions serve as both diagnostic markers and tumor-agnostic therapeutic targets within the current cancer treatment paradigm. Our insights into the prevalence of oncogenic drivers and novel targets expand the understanding of gene fusions, shedding new light on their mechanisms and clinical implications.
Four-loop elasticity renormalization of low-temperature flat polymerized membranes
Authors: Metayer Simon 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
We provide the complete four-loop perturbative renormalization of a low-temperature statistical mechanics model of flat polymerized membranes. Using a non-local effective flexural theory, which is based on transverse elastic fluctuations, we analytically determine the anomalous elasticity critical exponent η, which controls all scaling behaviors in the theory, at the four existing fixed points. The results are obtained as apparently convergent series, allowing for precise estimates without resummations. We independently verify and supplement the results of recent four-loop work (Pikelner A., EPL, 138 (2022) 17002) derived from a different model. Additionally, we find good agreement with non-perturbative theoretical approaches and experimental results on soft materials and graphene.
Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy and the So-Called Secret of the Historical Novel
Authors: Bajaj Ashwin 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This article advances a conceptualization of the historical novel and addresses the genre's specificity via a reading of Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy (2008–2015). To distinguish the historical novel from the trope of realism with which it is often thought to overlap, the article repurposes Georg Lukács's theorization of the genre via Marx's concept of “origin” (primitive accumulation) of the capitalist mode of production. Treating Ghosh's trilogy as an exemplary case, this article's reading focuses on how the text's formal attributes are central to its narration of colonial capitalism. The article concludes by suggesting that in narrating events from the standpoint of the surplus population produced by the capitalist mode of production, Ghosh is confronted with the limits of the novel form.
Trollope's Boxes: Liberal Privacy and Its Consequences in Phineas Finn and The Eustace Diamonds
Authors: Amit Oriah 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This article explores Anthony Trollope's attempts to answer a question that preoccupied Britain's Liberal party in the second half of the nineteenth century: Should all subjects have an equal right to privacy? Trollope's Palliser novels Phineas Finn (1867–68) and The Eustace Diamonds (1871–73) examine this question through locked containers—the ballot box and the safe, respectively—that promise individual privacy but also create opportunities for dishonesty, deception, and fraud. Trollope's depiction of these material objects underscores his view that privacy is a privilege rather than a right and that it should only be granted to citizens who are capable of wielding it responsibly. Responding to recent legislation that extended privacy rights to women (in the Married Women's Property Act of 1870) and working-class men (in the Ballot Act of 1872), Trollope warns readers that the safety deposit box in The Eustace Diamonds and the ballot box in Phineas Finn present opportunities for the abuse and misuse of discretion by these subjects. The containers in these two novels thus reveal Trollope's reluctance to extend the privileges of liberalism beyond the sphere of middle-class men.
The Populist Prince
Authors: Sharr Adam , Thornton Stephen 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Following the coronation of British king Charles III, this article returns to a book that he produced in 1989 while Prince of Wales. Titled A Vision of Britain, Charles's text promoted classical and traditional architecture. First, this article examines the reception of A Vision of Britain, arguing that the prince acted as a “policy entrepreneur” and reviewing key consequences of his activism. While Charles's interventions are now typically interpreted along party political lines in Britain, the article finds that they were understood as more complex at the time. Second, it revisits the book in the context of an executive order signed in 2020 by US president Donald Trump that mandated traditional architectural styles for new federal buildings. This parallel serves to highlight dimensions of populism at work in Charles's former activism. It illustrates how Charles deployed his unusual power and influence in architecture, while denying the operations of his power to claim popular appeal.
Memory Capture from “De-communization” to “Decolonization”
Authors: Amar Tarik Cyril , Roy Tania 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
German historian of modern Ukraine Tarik Cyril Amar positions the third year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 2022) between an analysis of escalated culture wars within Ukraine and its resonance for Anglo-American/European liberalism, whose most influential representatives suppress consideration of class-based, ethnicized contradictions that underlie the appeal to national self-determination, following the Maidan revolution of 2014. The discussion considers how notable “bellicists” of contemporary Anglo-Atlantic liberalism mobilize the Maidan's aspiration for EU and NATO membership (envisioned as the accomplishment of higher standards of living and a middle-class European Ukraine) while instrumentalizing the brutalities of the Russian invasion for a conjuncture marked by the eclipse of the “war on terror,” and the attendant exigencies of US-led realignment. Also a historian of the Holocaust, Amar reflects on his established study on the anomalous origins of “Soviet Ukraine” in the city of Lviv during the course of alternating occupation by Soviets and Nazis, in order to draw a sobering link between the twentieth century; the current, state-led “normalization” of memories of collaborationist violence during the interlude of Nazi rule (1941 – 44); and the prospect for a meaningful political future for Ukraine, in the wake of this war. Amar also indicates the unpopularity of such a position in the aftermath of February 2022 by pointing to the emergence of a new-left politics of identity, which, under the sign of “decolonization,” accelerates previous state-led efforts to erase traces of communist or Russian history from the built environment, cultural production, literature, and textbooks, even while consigning to illiberality the generally poorer, less educated Russian-speaking opposition to Maidan (from eastern and southern Ukraine). While Amar emphasizes unevenness within his discussion of the sovereigntist position and, more specifically, its uses by an Atlanticist geopolitical agenda, he also indicates its own appropriation of “third-world” vocabularies of emancipation (circulated through the rubric of “decoloniality” out of academic and cultural institutions of the West). The discussion draws links to the ongoing obliteration of Gaza and its alibi—insufficiently challenged by the Maidan generation of activists—in the West's memory culture of the Holocaust.
New Currencies or the Persistence of Representation
Authors: Goltz Sophie , Afisina Reza , Darmawan Ade , Hartono Iswanto 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
In an extended follow-up to their first interview with Sophie Goltz, “Collective Crafting in Post-Suharto Indonesia” (Cultural Politics 18, no. 3), key members of ruangrupa, the Indonesian art collaborative, reflect on their tenure as directors of the fifteenth edition of the international art exhibition documenta (2022), held every five years in Kassel, Germany. Afisina, Dramawan, and Hartono discuss ruangrupa's long-standing attempt to forge a mode of artistic cohabitation through which a perpetually emergent, networked space constitutes, in itself an articulation of autonomy. Emphasizing economic democracy, or pragmatically generated pools of shared resources—emblematically and practically associated with the Indonesian rice house, the lumbung—Darmawan, Afisina, and Hartono respond obliquely to charges of anti-Semitism and racism that overshadowed documenta fifteen, which stands as the most international and racially diverse edition of the exhibition in its history. Darmawan articulates the necessity of an “alternative currency,” based on ruangrupa's adherence to the fundamental value of friendship, as a counter to the recursive claims of identity and representation in large-scale international exhibitions. Hartono and Afisina comment on documenta's partial narration of its own history of postwar internationalism, which fails to account for the historic Asian-African Conference at Bandung from the same year of its founding (1955) and, more broadly, the cultural memory of decolonization.
A Stochastic Benders Decomposition Scheme for Large-Scale Stochastic Network Design
Authors: Bertsimas Dimitris , Cory-Wright Ryan , Pauphilet Jean , Petridis Periklis 
Published: November 2024

Network design problems involve constructing edges in a transportation or supply chain network to minimize construction and daily operational costs. We study a stochastic version where operational costs are uncertain because of fluctuating demand and estimated as a sample average from historical data. This problem is computationally challenging, and instances with as few as 100 nodes often cannot be solved to optimality using current decomposition techniques. We propose a stochastic variant of Benders decomposition that mitigates the high computational cost of generating each cut by sampling a subset of the data at each iteration and nonetheless, generates deterministically valid cuts, via a dual averaging technique, rather than the probabilistically valid cuts frequently proposed in the stochastic optimization literature. We implement both single-cut and multicut variants of this Benders decomposition as well as a variant that uses clustering of the historical scenarios. To our knowledge, this is the first single-tree implementation of Benders decomposition that facilitates sampling. On instances with 100–200 nodes and relatively complete recourse, our algorithm achieves 5%–7% optimality gaps compared with 16%–27% for deterministic Benders schemes, and it scales to instances with 700 nodes and 50 commodities within hours. Beyond network design, our strategy could be adapted to generic two-stage stochastic mixed-integer optimization problems where second-stage costs are estimated via a sample average. History: Accepted by Andrea Lodi, Area Editor for Design & Analysis of Algorithms–Discrete. Funding: The work of R. Cory-Wright was supported in part by the MIT-IBM Research Lab for Goldstine postdoctoral fellowship. J. Pauphilet was funded by the Research and Materials Development Fund [RAMD_Pauphilet_J_22/23_8789] at London Business School. Supplemental Material: The software that supports the findings of this study is available within the paper and its Supplemental Information ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/suppl/10.1287/ijoc.2023.0074 ) as well as from the IJOC GitHub software repository ( https://github.com/INFORMSJoC/2023.0074 ). The complete IJOC Software and Data Repository is available at https://informsjoc.github.io/ .
Exploring Transition Planning Among Racially Minoritized Parents of Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Using DisCrit and QuantCrit
Authors: Shikarpurya Sehrish , Gilson Carly B. , Dunn Claudia M. , Fletcher Katherine E. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Alongside ongoing efforts to increase postschool outcomes of racially minoritized young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), little is known about their parents’ experiences in preparing for and navigating the transition planning process. We conducted a transition survey with 362 racially minorized parents of children with IDD. Using the frameworks of DisCrit and QuantCrit, we explored parents’ needs, their expectations for their child to live a high quality of life, and how often they encountered challenges when accessing services. Our findings suggest that most parents (a) desired community-based resources, (b) prioritized collectivist expectations for their child, and (c) encountered challenges with advocacy. Parents’ perspectives also differed significantly based on their racial identity. We discuss implications for research, practice, and policy.
The cost of sleeping sickness vector control in Yasa Bonga, a health district in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Authors: Snijders Rian , Shaw Alexandra P. M. , Selby Richard , Tirados Inaki , Bessell Paul R. , Fukinsia Alain , Miaka Erick , Tediosi Fabrizio , Hasker Epco , Antillon Marina 
Published: November 2024

Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT), a neglected tropical disease caused by a parasite transmitted by tsetse flies, once inflicted over 30,000 annual cases and resulted in an estimated half a million deaths in the late twentieth century. An international gHAT control program has reduced cases to under 1,000 annually, encouraging the World Health Organization to target the elimination of gHAT transmission by 2030. This requires adopting innovative disease control approaches in foci where transmission persists. Since the last decade, case detection and treatment, the mainstay of controlling the disease, is supplemented by vector control using Tiny Targets, small insecticide-treated screens, which attract and kill tsetse. The advantages of Tiny Targets lie in their relatively low cost, easy deployment, and effectiveness. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), bearing 65% of the 799 gHAT cases reported globally in 2022, introduced Tiny Targets in 2015. This study estimates the annual cost of vector control using Tiny Targets in the health district of Yasa Bonga in the DRC and identifies the main cost drivers. Economic and financial costs, collected from the provider’s perspective, were used to estimate the average cost of tsetse control expressed as cost (i) per target used, (ii) per target deployed, (iii) per linear kilometre of river controlled, and (iv) per square kilometre protected by vector control. Sensitivity analyses were conducted on key parameters for results robustness.
The estimated annual economic cost for protecting an area of 1,925 km2 was 120,000 USD. This translates to 5.30 USD per target used each year, 11 USD per target deployed in the field, 573 USD per linear km treated, and 62 USD per km2 protected. These costs in the DRC are comparable to those in other countries. The study provides valuable information for practitioners and policymakers making rational, evidence-based decisions to control gHAT.