bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Association Between Plasma Fatty Acids and Risk of Lung Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study of the UK Biobank
Authors: Huang Jianv , Li Jiacong , He Lu , Miao Junyan , Zhu Meng , Dai Juncheng , Jin Guangfu , Ma Hongxia , Hang Dong , Shen Hongbing 
Published: September 2024

Abstract

Context
Fatty acids (FAs) have emerged as significant contributors to tumorigenesis, yet prospective evidence regarding their specific effects on lung cancer risk remains scarce.

Objective
To investigate the association between plasma FAs and lung cancer incidence, as well as a potential modification effect of genetic susceptibility on lung cancer risk.

Methods
A cohort study was conducted involving 112 547 cancer-free participants from the UK Biobank, with measurements of plasma FAs, including saturated fatty acids (SFAs), monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs), and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), at baseline (2006-2010). Cox regression models were employed to assess lung cancer risk according to plasma FA quartiles or 1-SD increments. Furthermore, interaction between plasma FAs and polygenic risk score was evaluated using an additive model.

Results
Over an average 10.9-year follow-up, 1122 lung cancer cases occurred. After multivariable adjustment, MUFAs were positively associated with lung cancer risk (hazard ratio [HR] per 1-SD = 1.32; 95% CI, 1.13-1.54). In contrast, PUFAs, particularly n-3 PUFAs, n-6 PUFAs, docosahexaenoic acid, and linoleic acid, were associated with a lower risk of lung cancer, with HRs ranging from 0.79 (95% CI, 0.72-0.87) to 0.89 (95% CI, 0.83-0.95). SFAs were not significantly associated with lung cancer risk. Moreover, we observed an additive interaction between plasma PUFAs and genetic risk. Individuals with a high genetic risk and the lowest quartile of plasma PUFAs had the highest risk of lung cancer (HR = 2.20, 95% CI, 1.43-3.38).

Conclusion
Our findings suggest that plasma PUFAs may serve as protective factors, while MUFAs represent risk factors for lung cancer, offering novel insights into lung cancer carcinogenesis and prevention.
Genre, Place, and the Persian Literary Imagination in the Punjab, ca. 1650–1750
Authors: Shah Zahra 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This article examines descriptions of the Punjab, particularly Lahore and its environs, in Persian writings from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Specifically, it traces the usage and movement of topographical registers and imagery across genres and literary forms that are usually studied separately, highlighting the ways in which they interacted with (and resisted) each other. It suggests that such experimentations with the writing of place were central to the ways in which individuals engaged in processes of self-fashioning. Further, it argues that such experimentations with literary-topographical themes and registers also helps explain the increasing interest in the Punjabi qiṣṣa and other regional narratives in Persian during this period. These observations help to further nuance understandings of the ways in which genres and languages interacted in the early modern Punjab.
To Africa
Authors: Otta Yoshiaki 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This article examines how one of modern Japanese literature's inaugural texts envisions Japan's geographical self-image. The focus here is on Ukishiro monogatari (Floating Castle) by Meiji statesman Yano Ryūkei (1851–1931). Ukishiro monogatari tells the story of an adventure undertaken by Japanese men with a shared political objective who are diversely skilled in areas such as military expertise, medicine, geography, and technology. They are so dissatisfied with the delay in Japan's territorial expansion that in 1878 they travel to Southeast Asia as the first step in an ambitious attempt to establish Japanese territory in central Africa. By exploring why and how the crew of the Ukishiro heads to Africa, this article argues that the Ukishiro crew's plans take shape in relation to their drive to eschew Japan's status as an island nation (deislandization) and establish Japan as a continent (pseudocontinent).
Writing Confucian History in an Indian Language
Authors: Green Nile 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This article uses a case study of an Urdu translation of the classical Chinese Shujing (Book of Documents) to bring to light a process of multiperson, mediated, and ultimately transimperial translation in which European source texts played crucial roles in transmitting detailed knowledge of China to the Indian public sphere. After outlining the theoretical approach of transimperial history and its value for Asian intellectual history, the article positions the Urdu Shujing in relation to earlier Indian and Middle Eastern accounts of China whose triangulated transmission—from East Asia to Europe and thence to South or West Asia—set various precedents for the translation of the Shujing from a prior English translation. The article then focuses on the Urdu version to reveal the transimperial mechanisms it used to not only translate and transliterate classical Chinese but also to “transcalculate” dates and render Chinese history comparable to both Europe's and India's past. The conclusions argue that, from Ming China via the early modern Catholic empires to the occult subcurrents of British colonial culture, the transimperial pathways along which Confucian history reached India were ultimately Eurasian rather than narrowly inter-Asian in scope. This reliance on earlier European translations would later recur with the spread of “world literature” in the postcolonial era.
The Questionable Middle Class
Authors: Baas Michiel 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This article examines what the idea of a new or changing India signifies in the way it is experienced from a middle-class perspective. While the often-used adjectives of lower, new, and upper in terms of middle-class belonging seem to indicate economic difference, the article argues that it is more productive to think of this hierarchical structuring as primarily sociocultural in nature. The way studies have attempted to capture the size of the middle class offers important insight here. This article draws upon long-term fieldwork among lower or new middle-class men who hail from vernacular backgrounds and who are employed as fitness trainers in India. The gym floor not only offers an opportunity to make money but also to acquire sociocultural capital through interactions with clients. The upward mobility this facilitates, in which the men's own muscular bodies are key, underscores the porousness as well as the rigidity of middle-class boundaries.
Design and experimental validation of an aspheric multi-lenticular plano-convex lens for VCSEL beam collimation
Authors: Madeniyeti Naerzhuoli , Yi Zihan , Ge Aiming , Zhao Hui , Qiu Jian , Liu Kefu 
Published: September 2024

In this work, we propose a design method of an aspheric lens that achieves collimation for a VCSEL laser beam. The designed lens features a planar front surface and an aspheric back surface of which the profile is mathematically characterized and precisely determined based on the proposed method. The method is derived from a basic geometric-optics analysis and construction approach. The collimating effect of the lens was first analyzed in simulation and then validated in experimental measurement. The experimental results show that the collimator lens transforms the input VCSEL laser beam divergence angle from 25° (436.33 mrad) to an output angle of 3.6906 mrad.
Comparative analysis of central aortic blood pressure, pulse wave velocity & arterial stiffness in patients with obstructive airway disease
Authors: Bajpai Jyoti , Pradhan Akshyaya , Bajaj Darshan Kumar , Verma Ajay Kumar , Kant Surya , Sethi Rishi 
Published: September 2024

AbstractBackgroundAs the pulmonary system and cardiovascular system are intimately linked, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma have high risk for developing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and altered central hemodynamic.ObjectiveWe aim to assess the central aortic blood pressure (CABP) indices, pulse wave velocity (PWV) and other indicators of arterial stiffness in Indian patients with COPD and bronchial asthma.MethodsThis is a single‐center, cross‐sectional study conducted in outpatients diagnosed with either chronic stable phase of COPD or bronchial asthma. CABP indices, vascular age, arterial stiffness and central hemodynamics were measured in patients.ResultsOf 193 patients with obstructive airway disease who were enrolled, (n = 81 had COPD and n = 112 had partially‐controlled bronchial asthma) the proportion of male patients was higher in both groups. The PWV, augmentation index (AI) and vascular age (VA) were significantly higher in patients with COPD compared to those with bronchial asthma (all, p < 0.05).ConclusionThe study showed that PWV, AI and VA were higher in patients with stable COPD without any cardiac comorbidities compared to bronchial asthma.
Touching the Franks Casket: Global History and the Trojan Past on an Early Medieval English Object
Authors: Hartmann Jan-Peer , Johnston Andrew James 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The contribution examines the Franks Casket, a whale-bone casket probably produced in the northern British kingdom of Northumbria in the eighth century that displays a number of carved images referencing events from different cultural and temporal contexts as well as inscriptions in Roman script and runes, Latin and Old English. We focus on the casket’s lid, which shows a siege scene, with an archer prominently displayed towards the middle, the word ægili carved above him. Traditionally understood as a reference to an unknown story about Weland’s brother Egil, the image has also been read as a depiction of the siege of Troy by a minority of scholars. While we offer evidence that the latter reading is at least somewhat better founded than the former, we argue that the lid’s design does not necessarily invite a straightforward identification with a single cultural context but rather works as a hinge that ties together the various cultural and temporal references on the casket. In allowing the viewer to construct various contexts in which the image might be viewed, the Franks Casket suggests their fundamental compatibility, as if the supposedly distinct historical and legendary materials had always overlapped and permeated each other. Taking into account the object’s material and aesthetic form thus makes it possible to break away from all-too-simple narratives of historical succession and helps us understand the complex temporalities that early medieval English art was capable of generating.
Touching the Shield of Achilles: Ekphrasis and/as Re-Mediation
Authors: Shohet Lauren 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Homer’s treatment of the Matter of Troy illuminates the foundational impossibility of representation in ways that sponsor examination of the semiotic choices, the costs and benefits and tradeoffs, of different practices. Homer’s ekphrastic description of the shield of Achilles highlights a variety of available semiotic systems focused on different media of representation. This article explores Homeric ekphrasis in relation to later theories of media intersection, interaction, and transformation. Not only word, image, music, and dance, but also human perception as such, are subject to mediation.
Defacing Troy: From Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece to Medieval Manuscripts
Authors: Ravenhall Henry 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Shakespeare’s 1594 The Rape of Lucrece recounts the eponymous character’s defacement of an image of the Fall of Troy. When reread in light of a widespread medieval practice of defacing images, including those in manuscripts about Troy, Lucrece’s act is not (solely) a metaphor or a literary device, but an indication of how visual matter could be touched in premodern Europe. Reciprocally, Shakespeare’s poem provides a rare glimpse of the complex affective and psychological dynamics behind medieval defacements of Troy (or otherwise), for which very little documentary evidence survives.
The crystal structure of tetrakis(μ2-acetato-κ2
O:O′)-bis[(4′-phenyl-4,2′:6′,4″-terpyridine-κ1
N)dicopper(II)], C25H21CuN3O4
Authors: Duan Hong-Xin , Li Rou , Zhou Zhi-Wei , Li Zhen , Fu Wei-Wei 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
C25H21CuN3O4, triclinic,

P

1
‾

$P\overline{1}$

(no. 2), a = 7.935(4) Å, b = 10.849(6) Å, c = 13.782(7) Å, α = 77.946(9)°, β = 78.917(9)°, γ = 82.223(10)°, V = 1133.0(10) Å3, Z = 2, Rgt
(F) = 0.0703, wRref
(F
2) = 0.1781, T = 293 K.
The crystal structure of dichloridobis[4′-(p-methoxylphenyl)-4,2′:6′,4″-terpyridine-κN] zinc(II), C44H34Cl2N6O2Zn
Authors: Lin Miao , Wu Meng-Qin , Ou Wei-Kun , Wan Qin , Fu Wei-Wei 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
C44H34Cl2N6O2Zn, triclinic, P

1
‾

$\overline{1}$

(no. 2), a = 10.875(9) Å, b = 11.755(9) Å, c = 16.471(13) Å, α = 105.924(14)°, β = 97.552(13)°, γ = 104.507(13)°, V = 1,914(3) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0455, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1154, T = 296 K.
Agree, agreement dissociation and subject ellipsis. Towards a new characterization of the Null Subject Parameter
Authors: Saab Andrés 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis paper offers a new characterization of the Null Subject Parameter (NSP). I contend that the NSP must be modeled referring to two main properties of theAgree/agreement systems: (i) presence/absence of abstractAgree, and (ii) presence/absence ofagreement dissociationat PF. The first property results in the division between radical argument ellipsis languages of the Japanese type and consistent null subject languages of the Spanish type, including languages like Central Trentino, i.e., languages with some obligatory clitic subjects but with rich agreement and free inversion. The second property results in the division between consistent null subject languages and consistent non-null subject ones. The agreement dissociation hypothesis also accounts for the partial null subject type, which characterizes languages like Brazilian Portuguese that have impoverished agreement expansion at PF (perhaps, only for number features). From a theoretical point of view, this study focuses on the agreement dissociation property showing why abstractAgreecannot guarantee subject ellipsis even in those perplexing cases in which it produces enough agreement distinctions at PF. The reason is that only an expanded agreement morpheme adjoined to the T0node can serve as a licit antecedent for ellipsis of a subject D0head at PF. Therefore, the theory derives the bimorphemic principle in Koeneman and Zeijlstra (Koeneman, Olaf & Hedde Zeijlstra. 2021. Pro-drop and the morphological structure of inflection. Ms. Available at:https://www.heddezeijlstra.org/bio) without further ado, i.e., the observation that null subject properties correlate with a bimorphemic T0node expressing tense and agreement separately.
Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 release in fecal specimens of discharge COVID-19 patients
Authors: Koparan Arzu , Dede Süreyya , Işıksaçan Nilgün , Yeşilbağ Zuhal , Karakuş Emine 
Published: September 2024

Abstract

Objectives
The presence of live SARS-CoV-2 viruses in the fecal specimens and the positive results for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in gastrointestinal samples after respiratory specimens had become negative indicate that there may be a risk of transmission of the disease not only through the respiratory tract but also through the fecal-oral route. The study aim is to determine the time period that the SARS-CoV-2 virus remains in the fecal specimens of discharged COVID-19 patients to reveal the time interval in which the risk of transmission continues.

Methods
In 65 patients hospitalized with a COVID-19 diagnosis, the viral RNA was isolated from the supernatant of the stool sample using CVXTM viral RNA extraction kit. The extracted RNAs from the stool samples were detected using a commercial RT-PCR method.

Results
Positive results were obtained in the stool samples in eight of sixty-five patients and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in these patients was detected for up to three weeks.

Conclusions
By determining the residence time of SARS-CoV-2 virus in stool samples of discharged COVID-19 patients, the time interval during which the possibility of transmission risk continues has been revealed. The findings of the study could prove beneficial in comprehending the risks of transmission and translating them into preventative measures.
Computation Legendre moments using image analysis technique
Authors: Mallika Karamcheti , Vijaya Lakshmi K. , Lakshmi Sarada K. , Sreehari Sastry S. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
In this paper, phase transition temperatures of nematic liquid crystals: 4-n alkoxy benzoic acid (nOBA, where n = 4 and 6) are determined from the Legendre moments of liquid crystal textures. Here, the image analysis technique in conjunction with polarizing optical microscope is used to compute the Legendre moments from the textures of liquid crystals. As a function of temperature, Liquid crystal textures are recorded from the arthroscopic mode of optical microscope. Changes in textural features of the sample with respect to temperature bring the variations in intensity values of liquid crystal textures. The brightness image that is generated from the liquid crystal textural patterns separates the information about fluctuations in intensity. In this approach, Legendre moments are computed from the brightness images of the liquid crystal textures and are plotted as a function of temperature. Significant variations in the brightness Legendre moment curve provide insight into the liquid crystal transition temperatures. Results obtained from the present methodology are compared with gray color textures data and the experimental technique of differential scanning calorimetry and are in good agreement with each other. This method is an objective and quantitative technique whereas POM method is qualitative and subjective.
The combined modelling of dynamic systems control
Authors: Alzbutas Robertas , Janilionis Vytautas 
Published: September 2024

The advantages and disatvantages of modelling methods were evaluated, afterwards the combined mo­delling was proposed and the corresponding software was developed. This software allows formalization and modelling of different parts of the same system using different aggregate and dynamic mathemati­cal modelling schemes (A-scheme and D-scheme). The usage and application of the developed combined modelling means are presented.
Oleogel containing beeswax and monoglycerides as a potential substitute for confectionery palm fats
Authors: Homolya Szabolcs , Vozáry Eszter , Badak Kerti Katalin , Kaszab Tímea , Mardani Mohsen , Lambert Meretei Anikó 
Published: September 2024

AbstractIn the confectionery industry large quantities of palm fat in the fillings of chocolate products are used. Based on today's nutritional science results, it is desirable to replace palm oil with healthier fats. Oleogels can provide a kind of solution for this replacement. In our work the rheological, textural and thermal properties of oleogels containing high oleic sunflower oil, beeswax and monoglycerides were determined. In the samples we examined, the gelator concentrations were: 20% beeswax, 15% beeswax and 5% monoglyceride, 10% beeswax and 10% monoglyceride, 5% beeswax and 15% monoglyceride, and 20% monoglyceride. Based on our results, the oleogel containing 15% beeswax and 5% monoglyceride seems an eutectic crystal of beeswaxes and monoglyceride. It has relative high hardness, high storage modulus and high viscosity therefore it can replace the Chocofill filling fat, which contains mainly palm fat, used in large quantities in sweets.
“This Musical Peace is Worse than War:” Cultural History, Musical Banality and Political Context in the Ballet Excelsior
Authors: Ujvári Hedvig 
Published: September 2024

AbstractFrom 1847, the head of the Budapest ballet was Federico Campilli (1820–1889), an individual of Italian origin. He regarded Viennese taste as authoritative in designing the program, thereby building on the international ballet repertoire. This repertoire included romantic pieces from Western Europe, along with Campilli's own choreographies. Campilli concluded his forty-year tenure in Budapest in 1887, and Cesare Smeraldi (1845–1924) assumed his position. The imperial city served as the model for shaping the ballet program, commencing its operations with the staging of Manzotti's spectacular Excelsior, which had premiered in Vienna two years earlier. This sensational performance, focused on the rise of human civilization and the development of technology, involved hundreds of actors and was destined for success throughout Europe. It ran for 29 years in Vienna and nine years in Budapest. In this study, an exploration of the driving forces behind this ballet success story with unconventional themes is undertaken. Various aspects are examined, such as the discourse of dance and the articulation of otherness in local and global spaces. The study delves into what technophile ballet entails, how cultural history, abstract concepts, discoveries, and inventions can be narrated through ballet. The thesis also highlights the debatable aspects of the ballet's music, utilizing music reviews from Budapest and Viennese newspapers. Through these reviews, an attempt is made to map the reception history of the ballet in Vienna and Budapest. The significance of Excelsior in the political power field within Hungarian conditions is also emphasized.
Correlation between tourniquet duration and the increase of interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and malondialdehyde (MDA) before and after using tourniquet in total knee replacement procedure
Authors: Adisthanaya Surya , Astawa Putu , Dusak I Wayan Suryanto , Karna Made Bramantya , Lestari Anak Agung Wiradewi 
Published: September 2024

Introduction: Total Knee Replacement (TKR) is a final therapeutic recourse for knee osteoarthritis (OA) when conservative treatments are ineffective. Tourniquet application can precipitate complications, including an augmented inflammatory response characterized by elevated levels of IL-6 due to tissue trauma during surgery and ischemic
reperfusion. This study aims to assess the changes in MDA, IL-1, and IL-6 levels before and after 15 minutes of tourniquet application and to investigate their correlation with the duration of tourniquet use.
Methods: This study used a longitudinal observational with a repeated cross-sectional design. The sample for this study consisted of patients who underwent TKR at Prof. Dr. IGNG Ngoerah Hospital and met the inclusion and exclusion criteria set by the researchers. Results: This study found that there was a significant increase before and after 15 minutes of the tourniquet use in MDA levels (3.22; SD 0.5), IL-6 (64.18 + 19.40) but not significant IL-1 (65.86; SD 19.60). With the Spearman correlation test, there was no significant correlation between the duration of tourniquet use with an increase in IL-6 levels (r = 0.27, p> 0.05) and an increase in MDA levels (r = -0.21, p> 0.05), with an increase in IL-1 levels (r = 0.442;(p> 0.0 .5) respectively.
Conclusion: The study found increased levels of MDA, IL-1, and IL-6 before and after 15 minutes of tourniquet use, but no correlation with duration of use. Inflammatory mediators persist locally during ischemia-reperfusion; IL-6 peaks up to 24 hours post-tourniquet release, suggesting delayed systemic effects beyond the studied timeframe.