bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Stability of kangaroo rat burrows in the Sonoran Desert: evidence of biocementation
Authors: Tirkes Sera , Aydin Duygu , Thompson Madison , Collins Clint E. , Beyenal Haluk , Akin Idil Deniz 
Published: October 2024

Kangaroo rats ( Dipodomys deserti) construct complex burrow systems in loose desert sand that survive temperature and relative humidity fluctuations and storms. Animals that burrow in desert sand typically burrow in compacted sand, near plant roots, or when the soil is unsaturated. However, these processes are insufficient to explain tunnel stability of kangaroo rats. Our goal is to understand how kangaroo rat burrows remain stable in loose desert sand, intending to translate this knowledge to geotechnical engineering. A kangaroo rat habitat in the dunes of the Sonoran Desert, AZ, was selected for the study. Dynamic cone penetrometer tests performed at active, abandoned, and no-burrow sites demonstrated that the animals prefer loose sand for burrow construction. Soil samples collected from the burrows’ ceilings, subsurface, and surface were characterized. Brazilian tensile strength test results showed that burrow soil has approximately three times greater tensile strength than the rest at dry state, which indicates increased interparticle attractive stress in burrow ceilings due to biocementation. Laboratory experiments, scanning electron microscopy, and confocal microscopy images showed that fungal and microbial biofilms provided 17 kPa increase in interparticle attractive stress at less than 1% biomass concentration, indicating potential to be used in soil improvement applications.
Neutron spectrometry of a 241Americium-Boron neutron source using the NCT-WES single-moderator neutron spectrometer
Authors: Bedogni R. , Russo L. , Castro Campoy A. I. , Caballero-Pacheco M. A. , Dashdondog D. , Napolitano T. , Del Franco M. , Calamida A. , Loreti S. , Moro F. , Pietropaolo Antonino 
Published: October 2024

Abstract241Americium-boron (α,n) neutron sources have been produced for various application from nuclear industry to well logging or radiation protection. Compared to 241Americium–beryllium sources their specific emission rate is lower, but their spectrum is narrower, and their production cycle uses boron, which is less toxic than beryllium. Very few data are available in literature about the energy distribution of this neutron source: the 2001 version of Standard ISO 8529-1 reported a reference spectrum derived from 1970s data, exhibiting a single peak from about 1 to 6 MeV. Other spectra are available in recent works from PTB and NPL, based on high-resolution spectrometers and Bonner spheres. ENEA Frascati owns a 241Am-B neutron source with nominal emission rate 3.5 × 106 s−1. Knowing its spectrum is important, as this source is used to feed the HOTNES (Homogeneous Thermal Neutron Source) facility. A spectrometry experiment was organized relying on the recently developed NCT-WES neutron spectrometer. Belonging to the family of the Single Moderator Neutron Spectrometers, NCT-WES is a convenient alternative to Bonner spheres as it derives the whole spectrum from a single exposure. The experimental data were elaborated in comparison with the existing literature spectra. As a main results of the study, the spectrum of the ENEA 241Am-B neutron source nearly perfectly agrees with that derived at NPL.
The Correlation Between Maxillary Central Incisor Dimensions and Different Points on the Face in a Syrian Population
Authors: Ammar Yosha , Saker Rima 
Published: October 2024

Statement of the Problem: When replacing the maxillary central incisor (MCI) or adjusting its dimensions, Syrian dentists may have difficulties in selecting the appropriate size due to the lack of a dental anthropometric database for Syrian society.Purpose: The purpose of this observational study was to investigate the correlation between MCI dimensions and face length and width in Syrian females and males.Materials and Methods: The study included 180 Syrian participants (90 females and 90 males) without facial or dental defects and aged between 20 and 25 years. A digital photograph of each individual’s face was taken to measure face length and width. Maxillary stone casts were made for each individual to assess the MCI width and height using a digital caliper. The correlation between facial and dental variables was investigated with the Pearson correlation coefficient. Moreover, intersex variations were tested using an independent‐sample t‐test (p < 0.05 considered significant).Results: The mean MCI width was 8.58 mm, the mean MCI cervical width was 7.96 mm, the mean MCI height was 9.69 mm, the average MCI width‐to‐height ratio was 89%, and the average MCI cervical width‐to‐height ratio was 82%. The intersex variations in dental values were not statistically significant. None of the studied facial dimensions showed any significant correlation with any of the MCI measurements.Conclusion: The faces of Syrian men were larger than those of Syrian women, but their MCIs had similar proportions and sizes. Facial height and width were not the appropriate parameters for determining MCI size for Syrians.
Hepatic Duct Division During Robotic Living Donor Hepatectomy: A Comparison Between the Novel Triple C (Clip–Clamp–Cut) and the Cut–Suture Techniques
Authors: Soin Arvinder S. , Yadav Kamal S. , Valappil Fysal , Shetty Nikhitha , Bansal Raghav , Chaudhary Suchet , Gupta Ankur , Rastogi Amit , Bhangui Prashant 
Published: October 2024

Background: In robotic donor hepatectomy (RDH), hepatic duct division (HDD) and its stump closure technique are of paramount importance in avoiding postoperative biliary complications in both donors and recipients. We describe our novel triple C (“clip–clamp–cut”) technique of HDD.Methods: Out of 4016 living donor liver transplant (LDLT) (2004–October 2023), we have performed 208 RDH cases since December 2019. This study is a retrospective analysis of the first 160 RDH cases. After excluding the first 20 RDH cases (learning curve) and 3 left‐sided RDH cases, 137 cases with no exclusion criteria were included. We divided these 137 donors into the “cut and suture” (CS) group (n = 33) and the “triple C” technique group (n = 104). We compared intraoperative details and postoperative outcomes.Results: All 137 robotic donors and 128/137 recipients are currently well. Donor biliary leak rate was significantly lower among the triple C group (n = 3, 2.9%) compared to the CS group (n = 5, 15.2%) (p = 0.009). No other differences in postdonation morbidity were observed among the two groups. Recipient biliary complication rate was lower in the triple C group than in the CS group although not statistically significant (10.6% vs. 15.1%; p = 0.537), despite more multiple biliary anastomoses in the former. No significant differences in post‐transplant recipient morbidity and mortality were observed.Conclusions: Our simple yet novel triple C technique enables clean, precise, bloodless HDD resulting in lower donor and potentially recipient biliary complication rates. The ease and reproducibility make it ideal for widespread adoption.
Frantz Fanon: a violência colonial e a resistência intelectual a partir do documentário Concerning Violence
Authors: Cá Ricardo Aguinelo Aquixinco Gomes 
Published: October 2024

O presente artigo analisa o papel do intelectual argelino, Frantz Fanon na defesa da revolução africana, investigando a sua contribuição nos processos históricos coloniais e nas práticas de resistência negra. Considerada como crítica ao abandono social daqueles que lutaram e sonharam com a igualdade de oportunidades no pós-colonialismo, a escrita de Fanon busca dar voz a todos os excluídos no processo da legitimação do racismo em sua dimensão de violência e de desigualdade estrutural. O estudo também contemplará a questão das diásporas negras no contexto pós-colonial, privilegiando uma literatura produzida do ponto de vista dos intelectuais negros, alguns deles conhecidos e referenciados nos estudos raciais brasileiros. Como referencial teórico o artigo dialoga, entre outros, com Frantz Fanon ([1961] 2010), em suas reflexões sobre os vícios coloniais na formação nacional; Bell Hooks (2019), Leila Gonzalez (1984) e Sueli Carneiro (2011), em suas reflexões sobre problema da população negra, bem como, nas suas ideologias do branqueamento e seus efeitos na exposição do corpo negro, geralmente sendo discriminada pelo racismo.
Pediatric High Blood Pressure Recognition Associated With Electronic Decision Support: A Cohort Analysis
Authors: Zachariah Justin P. , Singh Tavleen , Collinson Shannon , Rahman Justin , Acosta Alisa A. , Campbell Jessica F. , Hoang Mary , Sigler Katharine E. , Onugha Elizabeth A. , Shah Shweta S. , Sexson-Tejtel S. Kristen , Farrior Mark , Watson Scott 
Published: October 2024

BACKGROUND:
Pediatric high blood pressure (BP) predicts future cardiovascular disease events. High BP is improperly measured, underrecognized, and undermanaged especially in disadvantaged populations. In a large, diverse, academic pediatric practice, we detail the associations of a comprehensive initiative with high BP provider recognition.

METHODS:

A comprehensive BP initiative was promulgated including (1) retraining providers and staff on BP management; (2) deploying equipment at 55+ sites; and (3) electronic decision support tool alerting staff and clinicians and suggesting management. During the 14-month preintervention and 14-month postintervention periods, data on BP and patient characteristics were collected. The outcome was incident BP recognition defined as any of the following: BP-specific
International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision
, diagnosis; problem list entry; specialty referral; diagnostic testing; repeat visit; or antihypertensives. Dichotomized as under versus at or over 13 years of age, analyses utilized interrupted time series and multivariable-adjusted logistic regression.

RESULTS:

From preintervention (children, n=105 674; adolescents, n=54 365) to postintervention (children, n=87 917; adolescents, n=56 470), the proportion measured with high BP declined in children and adolescents (30% versus 14% and 30% versus 15%, respectively, each
P
<0.001). Post-intervention, high BP provider recognition was 58% higher in children (4.6%–7.3%) and 43% higher in adolescents (7.9% versus 11.3%;
P
<0.001 for both). The improvement was not different in disadvantaged race, ethnicity, or zip codes.

CONCLUSIONS:
A comprehensive BP initiative was associated with more appropriate high BP measurement and recognition including in disadvantaged populations. Future work may address the low overall and nonsustained recognition and consideration of electronic decision support for pediatric BP management and mitigating disparities.
A fronto-insular network underlies individual variations in anger
expression and control
Authors: Grecucci Alessandro , Graci Francesca , Munari Ellyson , Yi Xiaoping , Salvato Gerardo , Messina Irene 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Anger can be deconstructed into distinct components: a tendency to outwardly express it (anger-out) and the capability to manage it (anger control). These aspects exhibit individual differences that vary across a continuum. Notably, the capacity to express and control anger is of great importance to modulate our reactions in interpersonal situations. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that anger expression and control are negatively correlated and that both can be decoded by the same patterns of grey and white matter features of a fronto-temporal brain network. To this aim, a data fusion unsupervised machine learning technique, known as transposed Independent Vector Analysis (tIVA), was used to decompose the brain into covarying GM–WM networks and then backward regression was used to predict both anger expression and control from a sample of 212 healthy subjects. Confirming our hypothesis, results showed that anger control and anger expression are negatively correlated, the more individuals control anger, the less they externalize it. At the neural level, individual differences in anger expression and control can be predicted by the same GM–WM network. As expected, this network included lateral and medial frontal regions, the insula, temporal regions, and the precuneus. The higher the concentration of GM–WM in this brain network, the higher the level of externalization of anger, and the lower the anger control. These results expand previous findings regarding the neural bases of anger by showing that individual differences in anger control and expression can be predicted by morphometric features.
How Not to Square the Left Vienna Circle’s Non-Cognitivism with its Political Commitment
Authors: Uebel Thomas 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This paper contextualizes and criticizes a recent attempt to square the socio-political commitment of the members of the so-called left wing of the Vienna Circle with the ethical non-cognitivism that follows from their conception of cognitive meaningfulness. It is shown that intolerable consequences result from the moral-political reading of the “scientific world-conception” proposed and it is argued that squaring their commitment and non-cognitivism does not require such a reading. It is also pointed out how deleterious consequences are avoided by an already existent reconstruction of the left wing’s position which was misunderstood by the author criticized and which is briefly recollected.
Addressing Qurʾan 4:34: Muslim Feminists’ Hermeneutics vs. Mahmoud Muhammad Taha’s Hermeneutics
Authors: Saleem Zainab 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
How to approach the Qurʾan to say ‘no’ to Q.4:34? This article explores the question by analyzing and evaluating the approaches to the Qurʾan by Muslim feminists and the Sudanese Sufi scholar, Mahmoud Muhammad Taha (d. 1985). The article argues that Taha’s hermeneutical approach to the Qurʾan which categorizes the ethical verses in the Qurʾan as universal and the legal verses in the Qurʾan as historical, provides a coherent framework for saying ‘no’ to this verse. On the other hand, Muslim feminists, such as Amina Wadud, Asma Barlas and Riffat Hassan, approach the Qurʾan by way of reinterpreting those verses in the Qurʾan which have a literal meaning reflecting gender inequality. These feminists reinterpret these verses considering the overall ethical worldview of the Qur’an and the ethical verses which contain notions of equality and justice. However, in the reinterpretation of these verses considering the ethical worldview, these feminists, in our view, rather end up misinterpreting the Qurʾan.
Sargūn Būluṣ: Writing Iraq baʿd al-qiyāmah
Authors: Antoon Sinan 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This paper explores how the poetry of the late Iraqi poet, Sargūn Būluṣ (1944–2007), responds to the material and epistemic violence inflicted on Iraq and Iraqis in recent decades. While Būluṣ was vehemently against podium poetry, he was never detached from politics. He believed that poetry could shelter the voices of those displaced and wounded by history. By reading several representative poems, this paper identifies the configuration of the aesthetic and the political in his poetic discourse. It explores the following questions: What are the strategies and tropes the poet deploys to mark and mourn the destruction and disintegration of a home/land? How does he do so without eliding the foundational violence of the nation-state or resorting to nationalisms? Which of the many Iraqs, real and imagined, does Būluṣ mourn, and how does he excavate the country’s history?
Hebrew Panegyric of the Late Middle Ages: Shemaryah, Son of Elijah, and His Praise Poems
Authors: Dönitz Saskia 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Late medieval Byzantine Hebrew poetry unfortunately belongs to a rather neglected field of Hebrew poetry. Only a few authors have been studied in-depth. This article will examine the poetic work of the fourteenth century exegete and philosopher Shemaryah son of Elijah who produced panegyrics and liturgical poetry alongside exegetical and philosophical writings. Shemaryah’s panegyric pieces were dedicated to the leader of the Jews in Egypt and the grandson of Maimonides, David ha-Nagid. Although spending most of his life in Negroponte or Chalkis on the island of Euboea, Shemaryah was in contact with leading figures of Egyptian Jewry around 1300 as well as with the Angevin King Robert of Anjou in Naples in the 1330s. These contacts to the east and to the west reflect Byzantium’s role as a cultural hub between Europe and the Middle East.
Is Reason Lost in Reasoning?
Authors: Locatelli Carla 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This essay explores the interface between Beckett and Italian Weak Thought. To do so, it develops an innovative hermeneutical practice, which proposes that their relation is not thematic or philological, but rather ‘co(n)textual.’ Their texts are determined by implied co-texts, and determine a shared con-text. The essay argues that Beckett and Weak Thought co(n)texts articulate a shared critique of absolutist reason. However, they maintain that metaphysics and logocentrism cannot be completely avoided. Thus, both Beckett and Weak Thought articulate the ethical imperative of beckoning towards new ways of a rhetorical dissolution of literature (Beckett), and the distortion of traditional metaphysics (Weak Thought).
“Abiding there Unliving”
Authors: Carville Conor 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer proposes that the public display of power over life and death that Foucault restricts to the 18th century were not displaced by the new disciplinary structures associated with the hospital and the asylum, but remained contemporary with them. This notion of the simultaneity of surveillance and spectacle can be helpful in thinking about Beckett’s novel The Unnamable. Agamben’s work can also demonstrate the centrality of the character of Worm. In this way the broader notion of biopolitics can usefully illuminate the historical and political contexts of the book.
Conceptualising Responsibility Comprehensively to Facilitate Internal Resolution – twail Perspectives to an icj-Routed r2p
Authors: Kalra Kartik 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
twail scholarship has been highly critical of the Responsibility to Protect (r2p) norm, citing the unfairness in its ahistorical and decontextualised allocation of responsibility for contemporary ethnic strife. Alongside the norm’s inability to capture the complex, historical creation of contemporary ethnic violence – much of which involved the Western world – state interventions in r2p’s pursuance have been unsuccessful in protecting populations. This has prompted the exploration of alternatives to humanitarian interventions, with one such alternative being an ‘icj-routed r2p’: a mode of moving the Court to obtain its findings pointing to a state’s commission of genocidal and other prohibited acts. This mode of obtaining judicial findings of r2p-prohibited acts is, I propose, compatible with the principles and ideas endorsed in twail thinking, for it is capable of (a) undertaking a genuine, historicised assessment of responsibility in the emergence of ethnic strife; (b) avoiding r2p’s colonial connotations by accepting an intervention’s normative impermissibility, instead entrenching the international community’s role as solely facilitating a state’s internal resolution of violence; and (c) pursuing a sustainable cessation of violence alongside other Pillar Two strategies.
Low Cloud–SST Variability over the Summertime Subtropical Northeast Pacific: Role of Extratropical Atmospheric Modes
Authors: Miyamoto Ayumu , Xie Shang-Ping 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Over the subtropical Northeast Pacific (NEP), highly reflective low clouds interact with underlying sea surface temperature (SST) to constitute a local positive feedback. Recent modeling studies showed that, together with wind–evaporation–SST (WES) feedback, the summertime low cloud–SST feedback promotes nonlocal trade wind variations, modulating subsequent evolution of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). This study aims to identify drivers of summertime low-cloud variations, using satellite observations and global atmosphere model simulations forced with observed SST. A transbasin teleconnection is identified, where the north tropical Atlantic (NTA) warming induced by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) increases precipitation, exciting warm Rossby waves that extend into the NEP. The resultant enhancement of static stability promotes summertime low cloud–SST variability. By regressing out the effects of the preceding ENSO and NTA SST, atmospheric internal variability over the extratropical North Pacific, including the North Pacific Oscillation (NPO), is found to drive the NEP cooling by latent heat loss and subsequent summer low cloud–SST variability. With the help of the background trade winds and WES feedback, the SST anomalies extend southwestward from the low-cloud region, accompanied by ENSO in the following winter. This suggests the nonlocal effects of low clouds identified by recent studies. Analysis of a 500-yr climate model simulation corroborates the NTA and NPO forcing of NEP low cloud–SST variability and subsequent ENSO.
A curious case of a negative control line on a dengue duo assay due to interference – A case report
Authors: Soh Sheila X. , Loh Tze Ping , Saw Sharon , Chong Ai Teng , Yap Jia Sing , Sethi Sunil K. , Ong Lizhen 
Published: October 2024

An elderly patient who presented with 1 week of fever and respiratory symptoms was tested for dengue infection with an Abbott Bioline™ Dengue Duo immunochromatographic assay. Unexpectedly, the control line of the dengue non-structural protein 1 (NS1) component was absent, necessitating result invalidation. It remained absent when the test was repeated on the SD Biosensor Standard™ Q Dengue Duo, but present on the Wells Bio careUSTM Dengue Combo and Asan Easy Test® Dengue DUO assays, suggesting potential interference. Dilution, polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitation and centrifugation with a 100 kDa filter were performed to reduce/remove the potential interferent. Sera from other patients that showed a control line, and a test line that was either positive or negative for NS1, were used as controls. Upon dilution with negative control serum, a faint control line emerged. PEG precipitation resulted in disappearance of control and test lines in the positive control. Filtration led to emergence of the control line for the patient’s serum but caused the test line for the positive control serum to disappear. Overall, investigations suggested the presence of a high molecular weight (>100 kDa) substance which interferes with chicken IgY-anti-chicken IgY binding at the control line of affected assays. Our results highlight two important points: firstly, some commonly used laboratory procedures (e.g. PEG or filtration) may inadvertently remove the target biomarker (e.g. multimeric NS1) and should be interpreted with appropriate controls. Secondly, alternative kits that use a different antigen-antibody combination for the control line can be considered when similar patients are encountered in future.