bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Confronting the Giants of Neoliberalism, Managerialism, and Positivism: Emancipatory Praxis and the Pursuit of Peace
Authors: Sewpaul Vishanthie 
Published: September 2024

AbstractWhile conflicts, wars, and structural violence compromise all of the sustainable development goals, the corollary argument is that without reducing environmental degradation, patriarchal power, poverty, hunger, and inequality there can be no peace. This means cutting to the chase of how social criteria such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality intersect to reproduce exclusions, othering, and structural violence. Explosive inequalities, linked with neo-colonial imperialism, neoliberal racialised capitalism and gendered racism, and unprecedent migration flows as people are forced to flee from their homes on account of conflict, poverty, and climate-induced disasters, reflect the world’s crisis of values. Spinoza’s popular refrain “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice” links personal dispositions, attributes, and morality to the macro states of peace, violence, and war. So, does Gandhi’s assertion that peace between countries rests on the foundation of love between individuals, Bauman’s call to being for the Other, and Mandela’s demonstration of how love, compassion, forgiveness, and understanding of one’s oppressor can be transformed into broad socio-political forces of reconciliation and peace. In this article, I argue that the core values of social work, supported by an emancipatory social work theoretical approach, have much to contribute to peace at personal, inter-personal, community, and global levels. At the heart of emancipatory praxis lies the dialectical relationship between self and society, the transformation of societies through politicization of the self, characterized by an evolutionary consciousness that recognizes inter-connectedness and the inherent divinity of humanity.
Racial disparities in central line-associated bloodstream infections: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: DeWitt Michael E. , Sampson Mindy M. , Kester Shelley , MacNeill Emily , Passaretti Catherine 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis retrospective cohort study analyzed differences in rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in Black and White inpatients across 11 southeastern US hospitals from 2019 to 2021. Results showed higher CLABSI rates in Black patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, even after adjustment for COVID-19 infection and clinical factors.
Advising the prince: the pluralization of the internal policy advisory system in Italy (2019–2021)
Authors: Bandera Sabrina , Cattaneo Maria Chiara , Galanti Maria Tullia , Lippi Andrea 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis paper investigates the composition of the internal policy advisory system (PAS) in a Napoleonic country, Italy, where policy formulation and advice have traditionally been dominated by the Ministerial Cabinets, legal competences, and with a clear influence of political parties in the selection of experts. Based on the literature on the PASs, we argue that the role of the governments in shaping the systems of advice is growing and discuss how different trends push towards a pluralization of the advisers in the Napoleonic systems. Our research undertakes a unique mapping of the internal PAS in the second Conte government (2019–2021), in order to show if the Italian PAS is becoming more plural, and who are the advisors (in terms of how varied are their characteristics, skills and mandates). Our analysis combines the descriptive mapping of the internal PAS with qualitative interviews aimed at better understanding the move from the domination of the Ministerial Cabinet towards a complex and loosely coupled network of advisors.
BETWEEN DISABILITY AND CULTURE: THE SEARCH FOR A LEGAL TAXONOMY OF SIGN LANGUAGES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Authors: Ferri Delia , Tekuchova Iryna , Krolla Eva 
Published: September 2024

AbstractSince the 1960s sign languages have been identified as natural human languages and conceived of as a key feature of Deaf culture and identity. Eschewing the notion of disability, deaf advocacy organisations have connected the use of sign language to linguistic and cultural rights. Despite the clear preference of deaf advocates, the legal protection of sign languages remains uneven and somewhat difficult to grasp, being situated at the intersection of disability rights and linguistic rights. Few attempts have been made to identify the extent to which sign languages are recognised and enshrined within domestic legal systems. This article aims to propose a novel taxonomy that focuses on the normative conceptualisation of sign language and deaf people in national legislation. Based on a comparative analysis and focusing on European Union Member States, it identifies three main approaches: an explicit ‘minority’ approach—ie the express recognition of deaf persons as a linguistic minority; a more nuanced ‘cultural approach’—which acknowledges sign language as autonomous language and provides for promotional measures; and a ‘disability’ approach—which mandates and/or promotes the use of sign language primarily as an accessibility measure.
Need estimates of psychiatric beds: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Mundt Adrian P. , Rozas-Serri Enzo , Fritz Francesco D. , Delhey Sabine , Siebenförcher Mathias , Priebe Stefan 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis study aimed to review and synthesize the need estimates for psychiatric beds, explore how they changed over time and compare them against the prevalence of actually existing beds. We searched PubMed, Embase classic and Embase, PsycINFO and PsycIndex, Open Grey, Google Scholar, Global Health EBSCO and Proquest Dissertations, from inception to September 13, 2022. Publications providing estimates for the required number of psychiatric inpatient beds were included. Need estimates, length of stay, and year of the estimate were extracted. Need estimates were synthesized using medians and interquartile ranges (IQRs). We also computed prevalence ratios of the need estimates and the existing bed capacities at the same time and place. Sixty-five publications with 98 estimates were identified. Estimates for bed needs were trending lower until 2000, after which they stabilized. The twenty-six most recent estimates after 2000 were submitted to data synthesis (n = 15 for beds with unspecified length of stay, n = 7 for short-stay, and n = 4 for long-stay beds). Median estimates per 100 000 population were 47 (IQR: 39 to 50) beds with unspecified length of stay, 28 (IQR: 23 to 31) beds for short-stay, and 10 (IQR: 8 to 11) for long-stay beds. The median prevalence ratio of need estimates and the actual bed prevalence was 1.8 (IQR: 1.3 to 2.3) from 2000 onwards. Historically, the need estimates for psychiatric beds have decreased until about 2000. In the past two decades, they were stable over time and consistently higher than the actual bed numbers provided.
Unity and Disunity Today
Authors: St John Henry 
Published: September 2024

Educated Catholics today are at least dimly aware that considerable changes are taking place among Protestants in regard to the problems set by Christian disunity. It is doubtful, however, whether the majority, even of educated Catholics, know just how considerable these changes are; still less do they envisage them as important. In this paper I propose to outline some of the facts concerning these changes and to attempt to interpret their significance for us.From the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Constant fragmentation became a commonplace and accepted condition of Protestantism. On the continent, from the first, the two great movements initiated by Luther and Calvin were antagonistic, and in due course each produced its sub-divisions. Here in Britain Scottish Presbyterianism suffered, in the course of its history, at least a threefold fission, and the Elizabethan settlement of Anglicanism produced a number of non-conformist bodies, Baptists, Congregationalists and Methodists; and these in turn soon began to sub-divide.
Justice
Authors: Hill Edmund 
Published: September 2024

When our Lord said ‘Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after justice', he did not mean, presumably, those who are out to get justice, agitators demanding justice for the workers, or men determined to defend the sacred rights of property. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst, not after the rights of justice, but after the virtue of justice, who are eager to do, not to receive justice. These are the ones who shall be filled.This virtue of justice, being just, is not only a matter for judges or persons in authority. It is the very first virtue required of every Christian. And it is also very last virtue, the one that will be looked for by your judge at the end. On whether you are truly just or not will depend whether you go to heaven or to hell. Hell for the unjust, heaven for the just; the just to the right and the wicked to the left, and these shall go into everlasting punishment, but the just into life everlasting.
Meditation or Mental Prayer?
Authors: Dowling Adrian 
Published: September 2024

It is consoling at times to reflect that whereas men have prayed to God from their earliest origins, it is only comparatively recently that they have probed and analysed the structure and development of prayer. Consoling, because of the vast and ever growing literature on the subject which, if anything, becomes more remote and obscure.In the recently published Paternoster Series (Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1s. 6d. each), four of the six booklets are directly concerned with prayer—all are reprints—and are written by well-known writers. The Path of Prayer, by Fr Vincent McNabb, O.P., might be called 'prayer meditated',
Seasonal Prayer
Authors: E.B.  
Published: September 2024

There is in our lives a natural rhythm to which we must all conform: we are born, we grow to adolesence, reach maturity and then die. This larger individual rhythm, which is repeated in all animate nature, has its smaller counterpart in each cell of our bodies, and then again our bodily functions fit into the larger rhythms of our lives. All the rhythms must in their turn harmonize with the mighty throb of nature herself, whose endless cycle of the seasons brings home to all of us our ultimate dependence upon the Creator—God himself.Mankind used to be very conscious that he was only a small part of the whole: he was much more aware than he is today that he had his appointed place in the vast scheme of things, and that he must co-operate with, rather than go against, nature. He knew, too, that certain work had to be done at certain seasons of the year in order to live at all.
Alpha And Omega
Authors: Elwes Columba Cary 
Published: September 2024

Alpha and Omega—these, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, are used to signify that Christ include within himself all. He is the beginning and the end, the sum total of all things, from which all creatures derive, to whom they all tend. This title is true of Christ because he is God from whom all creatures derive and towards whom they all tend. God is the sum total, the beginning and the end. But he is not the sum total or the beginning and the end in the Eastern sense that creatures are an emanation from God, that history is the slow return into God of all that came out.We all derive from God as things made from nothing by the act of his power, we tend towards him as creatures who behave as he designed us to behave, and as godlike men with grace who will see God as he is in himself.
On boom-bust stock market dynamics, animal spirits, and the destabilizing nature of temporarily attracting virtual fixed points
Authors: Gardini Laura , Radi Davide , Schmitt Noemi , Sushko Iryna , Westerhoff Frank 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
We propose a stock market model with chartists, fundamentalists and market makers. Chartists chase stock price trends, fundamentalists bet on mean reversion, and market makers adjust stock prices to reflect current excess demand. Fundamentalists’ perception of the stock market’s fundamental value is subject to animal spirits. As long as the stock market is relatively stable, fundamentalists neutrally believe in a normal fundamental value. However, fundamentalists optimistically (pessimistically) believe in a high (low) fundamental value when the stock market rises (falls) sharply. Our framework may produce boom-bust stock market dynamics that coevolve with waves of optimism and pessimism for parameter settings that would ensure globally stable stock market dynamics in the absence of animal spirits. Responsible for such a surprising outcome is the destabilizing nature of temporarily attracting virtual fixed points, brought about by animal spirits.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program healthy eating incentives and fruit and vegetable spending across the month
Authors: Cuffey Joel , Lantz Candace , Newby Kara , Powers Alicia 
Published: September 2024

Abstract

Objective:
To estimate how incentives that encourage healthy eating among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants impact intra-monthly variation in fruit and vegetable spending.

Design:
We used transaction data from three Alabama grocery stores participating in a programme that offered dollar-matching coupons for fresh produce. For each store, we calculated daily spending on fresh produce out of SNAP benefits and daily incentive coupon redemptions. We compared total daily spending on fresh produce and daily coupon redemptions on days over which SNAP benefits are distributed in Alabama with spending and redemption on days at the end of the month with no SNAP distribution.

Setting:
SNAP and incentive transactions in three Alabama grocery stores.

Participants:
SNAP participants purchasing fruit and vegetables April 2023–July 2023.

Results:
Daily spending with SNAP on produce dropped by 38% at the end of the month. Incentive coupon redemption did not significantly drop at the end of the month. The share of total SNAP spending going to fresh fruits and vegetables increased by two percentage points and the share of fresh fruits and vegetables spending coming from redemptions increased by ten percentage points at the end of the month.

Conclusions:
SNAP households may use incentive coupons to smooth drops in produce consumption at the end of the month. These findings also highlight trade-offs inherent in different delivery mechanisms for SNAP incentives.
Association between overweight/obesity and iron deficiency anaemia among women of reproductive age: a systematic review
Authors: Rachmah Qonita , Mondal Prasenjit , Phung Hai , Ahmed Faruk 
Published: September 2024

Abstract

Objective:
Numerous studies have examined the relationship between overweight/obesity and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) across diverse population groups, but a definitive link has not been clearly determined. This systematic review examined the association between overweight/obesity and IDA in women of reproductive age (WRA).

Design:
The initial search was performed in the CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, SCOPUS and Web of Science databases. The studies included should report at least one Fe status with/without an inflammatory marker, using the BMI to define overweight/obesity. Only baseline data were extracted for longitudinal studies.

Setting:
Global.

Participant:
Pregnant or non-pregnant women aged 18–50 years.

Results:
In total, twenty-seven papers were included (twelve addressing pregnant women and fifteen addressing non-pregnant women). Overall, most of the studies reported no association between overweight/obesity and Hb concentration. However, a positive association was reported more frequently in pregnant women. The association between overweight/obesity and serum ferritin concentrations was mixed. Most of the studies on non-pregnant women reported a positive association. Only a few studies measured hepcidin and inflammatory markers, and the majority revealed an increased level among overweight/obese WRA. Among pregnant women, overweight/obesity was positively associated with anaemia and IDA but negatively associated with iron deficiency (ID). Meanwhile, overweight/obese non-pregnant women were positively associated with anaemia, ID and IDA.

Conclusions:
Overweight/obesity was associated with a decreased prevalence of anaemia and IDA but an increased prevalence of ID, while its association with several Fe markers was inconclusive. Further studies integrating the assessment of various Fe markers, inflammatory markers and hepcidin are needed.
Due Regard for Future Generations? The No Harm Rule and Sovereignty in the Advisory Opinions on Climate Change
Authors: Foster Caroline E. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractStates have long been understood to have an obligation to protect the international legal rights and interests of others, consistent with the maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas (use what is yours in such a manner as not to injure that of another). As the world's population becomes more interdependent, this no harm obligation becomes more significant. Further, as knowledge increases about the consequences of human activity for the climate and the environment, the no harm obligation takes on greater relevance vis-à-vis the interests of the Earth's future populations. Future generations’ legal interests have been recognized in the context of sustainable development and through the principle of intergenerational equity. The no harm rule requires that these interests be properly considered and addressed appropriately, commensurate with what is at stake. At a minimum, this may require avoidance of ‘manifestly excessive adverse impacts’.
An Assessment of HF Radio Wave Propagation in Antarctica for a Radio Link Between McMurdo and South Pole Station
Authors: Liu B. , Perry G. W. , Chartier A. T. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractIn this work, we analyze data collected by an HF transmitter/receiver radio link, operating as an oblique ionosonde between the McMurdo Station (transmitter) and South Pole Station (receiver) at 4.1, 5.1, 6.0, 6.4, and 7.2 MHz between 28 February and 14 March 2019. To help contextualize the link's data we have performed numerical raytrace simulations to help understand the observations. By considering both the data and simulations, we have identified both single‐ and two‐hop E‐ and F‐region propagation modes in the data, where the multi‐hop modes were observed in the hours around sunrise and sunset in the 4.1 and 5.1 MHz channels. This is an unexpected result given the accepted wisdom that multi‐hop modes, which require a ground scatter component, cannot be supported in Antarctica because of the highly absorptive ice covering much of the continent. Our results show that multi‐hop propagation modes can be supported in the region under specific ionospheric conditions—around sunrise and sunset—if the mode's ground scatter component is collocated with the Transantarctic Mountains. The mountains are located along the great‐circle path between the link's transmitter and receiver. However, the combination of favorable ionospheric and ground scattering conditions makes the detection of the multi‐hop mode a rare occurrence in the data set analyzed here. These findings are critical to data analysis efforts of any current or future oblique ionosonde systems operating in Antarctica and other regions such as the Arctic.
High‐Resolution Fracture Dynamics Simulation of Pack‐Ice and Drift‐Ice Formation During Sea Ice Break up Events Using the HiDEM2.0 Code
Authors: Åström J. A. , Polojärvi A. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractCreating accurate predictive models for drift and pack ice is crucial for a wide array of applications, from improving maritime operations to improving weather prediction and climate simulations. Traditional large‐scale sea ice dynamics models rely on phenomenological ice rheology to simulate ice movements. These models are efficient on large scales but struggle to depict smaller‐scale ice features. In our study, we use a new version of the HiDEM discrete element model software to examine the formation of drift and pack ice under various stress conditions. Our findings show that high‐resolution size distributions of ice floes are universal and multimodal, and that compression ridges form three distinct zones. Reproducing complex characteristics of this nature in a standard rheology model is challenging, suggesting that a combination of models may be necessary for more precise predictions of sea ice dynamics. We propose a potential hybrid algorithm that integrates these approaches.
A material change for ultra-high precision force sensing
Authors: Perrella Christopher , Dholakia Kishan 
Published: September 2024

AbstractAn original form of photonic force microscope has been developed. Operating with a trapped lanthanide-doped crystal of nanometric dimensions, a minimum detected force of the order of 110 aN and a force sensitivity down to 1.8 fN/$$\sqrt{{\rm{Hz}}}$$

Hz

have been realised. This opens up new prospects for force sensing in the physical sciences.
MRI textural plasticity in limbic gray matter associated with clinical response to electroconvulsive therapy for psychosis
Authors: Choe Eugenie , Kim Minah , Choi Sunah , Oh Harin , Jang Moonyoung , Park Sunghyun , Kwon Jun Soo 
Published: September 2024

AbstractElectroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is effective against treatment-resistant psychosis, but its mechanisms remain unclear. Conventional volumetry studies have revealed plasticity in limbic structures following ECT but with inconsistent clinical relevance, as they potentially overlook subtle histological alterations. Our study analyzed microstructural changes in limbic structures after ECT using MRI texture analysis and demonstrated a correlation with clinical response. 36 schizophrenia or schizoaffective patients treated with ECT and medication, 27 patients treated with medication only, and 70 healthy controls (HCs) were included in this study. Structural MRI data were acquired before and after ECT for the ECT group and at equivalent intervals for the medication-only group. The gray matter volume and MRI texture, calculated from the gray level size zone matrix (GLSZM), were extracted from limbic structures. After normalizing texture features to HC data, group-time interactions were estimated with repeated-measures mixed models. Repeated-measures correlations between clinical variables and texture were analyzed. Volumetric group-time interactions were observed in seven of fourteen limbic structures. Group-time interactions of the normalized GLSZM large area emphasis of the left hippocampus and the right amygdala reached statistical significance. Changes in these texture features were correlated with changes in psychotic symptoms in the ECT group but not in the medication-only group. These findings provide in vivo evidence that microstructural changes in key limbic structures, hypothetically reflected by MRI texture, are associated with clinical response to ECT for psychosis. These findings support the neuroplasticity hypothesis of ECT and highlight the hippocampus and amygdala as potential targets for neuromodulation in psychosis.