bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal spore communities and co-occurrence networks demonstrate host-specific variation throughout the growing season
Authors: Hopkins Jacob R. , Bever James D. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractMicrobial community assembly involves a series of ecological filtering mechanisms that determine the composition of microbial communities. While the importance of both broad and local level factors on microbial communities has been reasonably well studied, this work often is limited to single observations and neglects to consider how communities change over time (i.e., seasonal variation). Because seasonal variation is an important determinant of community assembly and determines the relative importance of community assembly filters, this represents a key knowledge gap. Due to their close associations with seasonal variation in plant growth and fitness, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are useful groups for assessing the importance of seasonal dynamics in microbial community assembly. We tested how seasonal variation (spring vs. summer), plant life history stage (vegetative vs. flowering), and host plant species (Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea & Andropogon gerardii) influenced AM fungal spore community assembly. AM fungal spore community temporal dynamics were closely linked to plant host species and life history stage. While AM fungal spore communities demonstrated strong turnover between the spring (e.g., higher sporulation) and late summer (e.g., higher diversity), the strength and direction of these changes was modified by host plant species. Here we demonstrate the importance of considering temporal variation in microbial community assembly, and also show how plant-microbe interactions can modify seasonal trends in microbial community dynamics.
Characterising the discharge of hillslope karstic aquifers from hydrodynamic and physicochemical data (Sierra Seca, SE Spain)
Authors: González-Ramón Antonio , Jódar Jorge , Morales-González Antonio L. , Moral-Martos Francisco , Jiménez-Espinosa Rosario 
Published: September 2024

AbstractGroundwater flow has been investigated in the Sierra Seca, Spain. Maximum recharge to the central core of the mountain occurs at high elevations, which provides recharge to two overlapping karst aquifers constituting a groundwater storage zone at a lower elevation break in slope. Both karst aquifers are associated with three springs arising from the upper part of the permeable formations. The climate is characterized by long and intense periods of drought and short periods of rainfall, which trigger discharges from the springs. Spring flow recession curve analysis, cross-correlation and monitoring of groundwater temperature and electrical conductivity have demonstrated contrasts observed in the hydrodynamic and physicochemical response of the three springs during flood events. One spring records floods with narrow and short peaks of high discharge accompanied by sharp drops in temperature and electrical conductivity. Another spring records floods with somewhat wider peaks and sharp increases in temperature and electrical conductivity (piston effect), whereas the third spring shows great consistency in all monitored characteristics. It is concluded that the absence of a piston effect in the spring with the highest flow rates is due to the contribution of rapidly circulating water that is expelled by semi-active karst networks (overflow) before reaching the saturated zone, which does not occur in the other springs due to the absence of overflow hydrological pathways. The most regular spring owes its functioning to the contribution of infiltrated water in the bed of an upstream riverbed, which explains this regularity.
Effects of treadmill training combined with transcranial direct current stimulation on mobility, motor performance, balance function, and other brain-related outcomes in stroke survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Usman Jibrin Sammani , Wong Thomson Wai-lung , Ng Shamay Sheung Mei 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Introduction
Treadmill training (TT) is a gait training technique that has commonly been used in neurorehabilitation, and has positive effects on gait, mobility, and related outcomes in stroke survivors. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive approach for modulating brain cortex excitability.

Aim
To evaluate the available scientific evidence on the effects of TT combined with tDCS on mobility, motor performance, balance function, and brain-related outcomes in stroke survivors.

Methods
Five databases namely the Cochrane library, PEDro, Web of Science, PubMed, and EMBASE, were searched for relevant studies from inception to March, 2024. Only randomized controlled trials were included, and their methodological quality and risk of bias (ROB) were evaluated using the PEDro scale and Cochrane ROB assessment tool respectively. Qualitative and quantitative syntheses (using fixed effects meta-analysis) were employed to analyze the data.

Results
The results revealed that TT combined with active tDCS had significant beneficial effects on some mobility parameters, some gait spatiotemporal parameters, some gait kinematic parameters, gait endurance, gait ability, and corticomotor excitability in stroke survivors, but no significant difference on gait speed (P > 0.05), functional mobility (P > 0.05), motor performance (P > 0.05), or some balance functions (P > 0.05), compared with the control conditions.

Conclusions
TT combined with active tDCS significantly improves some gait/mobility outcomes and corticomotor excitability in stroke survivors.
Dynamic evolution of causal relationships among cryptocurrencies: an analysis via Bayesian networks
Authors: Amirzadeh Rasoul , Thiruvady Dhananjay , Nazari Asef , Ee Mong Shan 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Understanding the relationships between cryptocurrencies is important for making informed investment decisions in this financial market. Our study utilises Bayesian networks to examine the causal interrelationships among six major cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Binance Coin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, and Tether. Beyond understanding the connectedness, we also investigate whether these relationships evolve over time. This understanding is crucial for developing profitable investment strategies and forecasting methods. Therefore, we introduce an approach to investigate the dynamic nature of these relationships. Our observations reveal that Tether, a stablecoin, behaves distinctly compared to mining-based cryptocurrencies and stands isolated from the others. Furthermore, our findings indicate that Bitcoin and Ethereum significantly influence the price fluctuations of the other coins, except for Tether. This highlights their key roles in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Additionally, we conduct diagnostic analyses on constructed Bayesian networks, emphasising that cryptocurrencies generally follow the same market direction as extra evidence for interconnectedness. Moreover, our approach reveals the dynamic and evolving nature of these relationships over time, offering insights into the ever-changing dynamics of the cryptocurrency market.
The Role of Dosage and Family Profiles in a Child Welfare Home Visiting Program
Authors: Hidalgo García Victoria , Pérez-Padilla Javier , Camacho Martínez-Vara de Rey Carlos , Jiménez García Lucía 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Background
Among the different modalities of family support, home visiting programs have proved to be one of the most effective secondary prevention models for families involved in child welfare services. Despite the promising outcomes and the extensive available literature, further research is needed to investigate target population characteristics and implementation factors that may explain the heterogeneity in the outcomes of these programs for families receiving child welfare services.

Objective
This longitudinal study explored the role of dosage and family characteristics related to the effectiveness of the Family Intervention Program (FIP), which is a home-based Spanish child welfare service for supporting families at psychosocial risk.

Method
To this end, a quasi-experimental design was followed, including a time-series evaluation of the 289 families receiving the FIP. In order to examine the impact of the FIP, the evolution of child well-being (CWB) was evaluated with Child Well-Being Scales every 6 months.

Results
The results showed that the highest average CWB score was observed after 39 months of intervention, observing no improvements in CWB from that point. Similarly, the results showed that the FIP was more effective for single parent families at higher socioeconomic levels.

Conclusions
This article provides new knowledge for the understanding of home visiting programs success, concluding that the programs are not equally effective for all family profiles, and that it is necessary to adjust each program to the specific characteristics of the target population.
Disfluencies as a Window into Pragmatic Skills in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Autistic and Non-Autistic Children
Authors: Beradze Marianna , Meir Natalia 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThere is little research on the production of speech disfluencies such as silent pauses, repetitions, self-corrections, and filled pauses (e.g., eh, em) in monolingual autistic children, and there is no data on this crucial part of speech production in bilingual autistic children. This study aims to address this gap by examining disfluency production in bilingual autistic and non-autistic children across two linguistically distinct languages, HL-Russian (the home language) and SL-Hebrew (the societal language). Fifty-one bilingual Russian-Hebrew-speaking autistic and non-autistic children aged 5–9 (autistic: n = 21; non-autistic: n = 30), matched for age and non-verbal intelligence, participated in picture-based story-generation tasks (LITMUS MAIN, Gagarina et al., ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 63:1–36, 2019). Audio recordings of narrative samples were transcribed, coded, and scored for eleven disfluency types using CLAN tools. The non-autistic group produced higher overall disfluency rate than the autistic group. The autistic group exhibited fewer filled and silent pauses than the non-autistic group in HL-Russian. Furthermore, non-autistic children manifested varied distribution of disfluency types across languages, while autistic children displayed more consistent patterns across languages. In summary, we replicated findings from previous research on monolinguals only partly, as no between-group difference in filled pauses was found in SL-Hebrew. Additionally, bilingual autistic children exhibited language-universal patterns of disfluency production, whereas their non-autistic peers displayed language-specific patterns.
Translation, Intercultural Dialogue and the Mediation of Legal Semiotics
Authors: Linhares J. M. Aroso 
Published: September 2024

AbstractContemporary meta-dogmatic legal discourse has frequently mobilized the signifier “translation”, in different stages and to face diverse problems ─ the multidirectional interactions between legal language and ordinary language, the plural network of (national and international, state and non-state) legal orders, the dialectics between presupposed legal materials and practical controversies, the intersubjective place of the judge as the impartial third, the invention of exemplarity as concreteness ─ always however with decisive projections in the understanding or experiencing of juridicalness (its aspirations, categories and limits). The purpose of this paper is to explore the claims to inter-semioticity which the mobilization of this signifier and the plurality of its contexts of meaning and performance seem to construct. This means, on the one hand, to resume the dialogue with Boyd White (justice as translation) and François Ost (le droit comme traduction). It also means, on the other hand, returning to the counterpoint between translation and tradition which MacIntyre’s narrativism exemplarily proposes (Whose Justice? Which Rationality?), this time to discuss the relevance of treating Law (a certain Law) as a cultural artifact, i.e. as a non-universal (culturally plausible and civilizationally moulded) answer to the universal (anthropologically necessary) problem of the institutionalization of a social order (law as a form of life, as a project and as a tradition). With an unexpected helping hand coming from Greimassian’s semio-narrative, this means also asking if translation (or the ethics of humility it celebrates) can actually be experienced, in our limit-situation, as the resource (if not the place or the environment) of a plausible intercultural dialogue.
Optimization of Brilliant Blue R photocatalytic degradation by silver nanoparticles synthesized using Chlorella vulgaris
Authors: Sidorowicz Agnieszka , Fais Giacomo , Desogus Francesco , Loy Francesco , Licheri Roberta , Lai Nicola , Locci Antonio Mario , Cincotti Alberto , Orrù Roberto , Cao Giacomo , Concas Alessandro 
Published: September 2024

AbstractSynthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) using microalgae is gaining recognition for its environmentally friendly and cost-effective nature while maintaining high activity of NPs. In the present study, Ag NPs were synthesized using a methanolic extract of Chlorella vulgaris and subjected to calcination. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis showed a crystalline nature of the products with Ag2O and Ag phases with an average crystalline size of 16.07 nm before calcination and an Ag phase with 24.61 nm crystalline size after calcination. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) revealed the capping functional groups on Ag NPs, while scanning electron microscopy (SEM) displayed their irregular morphology and agglomeration after calcination. The organic coating was examined by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and thermogravimetric (TGA) analyses, confirming the involvement of the metabolites. The UV–Vis analysis showed a difference in optical properties due to calcination. Synthesized Ag NPs were applied for the photodegradation of hazardous dye Brilliant Blue R in visible light. Different values of light intensity, catalyst dose, initial dye concentration, and pH were tested to identify the optimal set of operating conditions. The highest degradation efficiency of 90.6% with an apparent rate constant of 0.04402 min−1 was achieved after 90 min of irradiation in the highest tested catalyst dosage.
Trust in Legal Institutions: An Examination of the Philippines
Authors: Regalado Jullianne , Sun Ivan Y. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractWhile studies have examined the correlates of institutional trust across Asian countries, few studies have analyzed public attitudes toward two major social control institutions, the police and courts, in the Philippines. This study fills this gap in the literature by exploring the connections between social trust, institutional performance, media exposure and consumption, and trust in the police and courts. Using recent survey data from the Asian Barometer Survey, regression models were employed to assess and compare whether these factors are predictive of police and court trustworthiness. Results reveal the importance of social trust and institutional performance in predicting Filipinos’ trust in the police and courts. However, media exposure and consumption were largely ineffective in predicting police and court trust. Given the Philippines’ unique historical and political context, these findings contribute to existing literature and provide implications for future research and policy.
Relationship between environmental evolution and human activities in the northeastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau throughout the past millennium and its implications for the onset of the Anthropocene
Authors: Pu Yang , Wei Xueqiong , Liu Jianbao , Zhang Ke , Li Beibei , Wei Zhudeng , Zhang Mengmeng , He Tong , Wang Yanjun , Shao Xiaohua 
Published: September 2024

AbstractIn current research on the Anthropocene, assessing the impact of human activities via stratigraphic records of sediments and demarcating the Anthropocene epoch globally are critical scientific issues that urgently need to be addressed. The northeastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau (QXP), where humans first settled permanently in large numbers in the QXP, has varying sedimentary environments that are extremely sensitive to human activities. In contrast to other regions of the QXP, the northeastern sector boasts a richer array of climatic and environmental reconstruction sequences. This distinctive feature renders it an exemplary locale for investigating the stratigraphic boundary of the Anthropocene. Through in-depth analysis and integration of existing paleoclimate and paleoenvironment sequences in the northeastern QXP, we draw the following conclusions: (1) Throughout the past millennium, the impact of human activities on the environment of the northeastern QXP has become increasingly significant, especially in the past 200–300 years, gradually overshadowing climatic factors. (2) Since AD 1950, multiple physicochemical indicators related to human activities in the northeastern QXP have shown exponential growth, forming a distinct peak within the past millennium and clearly depicting the global “Great Acceleration” phenomenon and its development process. (3) Intensified human activities have driven swift environmental shifts and “decoupled” the interplay between climatic variations and the ecological environment, propelling the northeastern QXP into the “Early Anthropocene” from the “Late Holocene”. On the basis of the above findings, we construct a model suitable for identifying the stratigraphic boundary of the Anthropocene in the northeastern QXP and note that since the ecological environment in the northeastern QXP has entered the “Early Anthropocene”, the climate signals of certain physicochemical indicators in sediments are gradually becoming weaker, whereas the signals of human activities are becoming stronger.
Self-reported health, function, and use of health care services in older prostate cancer survivors compared to matched controls: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Sletten Reidun , Slaaen Marit , Oldervoll Line Merethe , Skjellegrind Håvard Kjesbu , Benth Jūratė Šaltytė , Åstrøm Lennart , Kirkevold Øyvind , Bergh Sverre , Grønberg Bjørn Henning , Rostoft Siri , Bye Asta , Mork Paul Jarle , Christiansen Ola Berger 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Purpose
Information about outcomes of particular relevance to older prostate cancer survivors is limited. This study aimed to compare health, activities of daily living (ADL), and use of health care services between survivors and matched controls.

Methods
A single-centre study on men treated for prostate cancer with curative intent at the age ≥ 70 years 2 to 7 years earlier. Controls matched on age and education were drawn (1:3) from the Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) in Norway. Self-reported general health, independence in ADL and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), hospital admissions and emergency room visits were compared by estimating non-adjusted and adjusted (age, education, comorbidity, cohabitant status and pack years of smoking) regression models.

Results
The majority of both survivors (N = 233) and controls (N = 699) reported good (58.7% vs. 62.7%) or very good (11.2% vs. 6.8%) health and independence in ADL (95.6% vs. 96.3%) and IADL (82.7% vs. 81.9%). Hospital admission was reported by 17.3% vs. 18.2% and emergency room visit by 23.6% vs. 26.7%. Regression models showed no significant differences between survivors and controls.

Conclusions
Older prostate cancer survivors reported similar health, independence in ADL and use of emergency room and hospital admissions as matched controls.
Implications for Cancer Survivors.
This study shows that survivors after curatively intended treatment of prostate cancer have as good health as matched controls, indicating that many patients tolerate such treatment well despite being of old age and that current practice for selection of patients offered such treatment is appropriate.
Getting in Shape: Updates in Exercise Anaphylaxis
Authors: Carlisle Annette , Lieberman Jay Adam 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Purpose of Review
Exercise induced anaphylaxis (EIA) can be difficult to diagnose due to the interplay of co-factors on clinical presentation and the lack of standardized, confirmatory testing.

Recent Findings
EIA has been historically categorized as either food-independent or food-dependent. However, recent literature has suggested that perhaps EIA is more complex given the relationship between not only food on EIA but other various co-factors such as medications and alcohol ingestion that are either required to elicit symptoms in EIA or make symptoms worse.

Summary
For the practicing clinician, understanding how these co-factors can be implicated in EIA can enable one to take a more personalized approach in treating patients with EIA and thus improve quality of life for patients.
Fatal exulceratio simplex (dieulafoy lesion) – a case report and review
Authors: Tan Luzern , Gilbert John D. , Byard Roger W. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractA 64-year-old man involved in a low-speed vehicle crash was found at autopsy to have altered blood extending from his stomach to his rectum. Within the stomach a small arterial vessel opened onto the mucosa of the posterior wall of the antrum adjacent to the pylorus with no adjacent mucosal ulceration or malignancy. Histologic sections showed the typical appearances of a Dieulafoy lesion with a tortuous small arteriole within the submucosa extending to the gastric lumen with an overlying cap of recently formed clot. There were no injuries attributable to the vehicle collision. Death was due to a bleeding Dieulafoy lesion of the stomach with a background of cardiomegaly. Dieulafoy lesion of the stomach is a rare disorder accounting for only 1–2% of cases of acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Although its pathogenesis is poorly understood it is capable of producing life-threatening bleeding, as in the present case. The small size of the lesion may make it difficult to identify at the time of autopsy.
Environmental and Human Impact on Ice Caves: The Example of the Wielka Śnieżna Cave in the Tatra Mountains (Poland)
Authors: Baturo Bartosz , Kasprzak Marek 
Published: September 2024

AbstractIce caves are characterised by specific microclimate, defined by the external climate as well as cave morphology (hence the location). They are unique components of Earth’s heritage. The ice formed there holds important paleoclimatic information and can be used to assess the global warming effect on the cryosphere in non-glaciated areas. We present an example from Wielka Śnieżna, the deepest cave system in the Polish Tatra Mountains, located in Tatra National Park (Tatrzański Park Narodowy). There have been no recent studies completed on the topic in this location. We provide the first contemporary results of temperature measurements by analysing microclimatic patterns and their response to global warming. There is ongoing ablation of the Ice Fall located in one of the lower entrances (Śnieżna) showing that the ice level has decreased by around 2 m in the last 10 years. The cave is under a minor human impact as it can be accessed only by professional cavers. However, some practices impact the balance of this fragile environment. By comparing our results with the outside temperature records, we aim to understand how dependent the cave microclimate is on the external fluctuations and changes. The ice in the Śnieżna is expected to be gone in the current century.