bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Mit Low-Code vom digitalen Produktpass bis zur Automatisierung ganzer Wertschöpfungsketten
Authors: Hennig Stefan , Schulze Bruno , Wallisch Franz , Anke Jürgen 
Published: August 2024

ZusammenfassungMittelständische Unternehmen stehen unter einem enormen Marktdruck. Sie bewegen sich im Spannungsfeld von steigenden Kundenanforderungen, eines zunehmenden Fachkräftemangels sowie komplexer gesetzlicher Rahmenbedingungen u. a. in Bezug auf Cybersecurity, Nachhaltigkeit sowie Sorgfaltspflichten bezüglich Menschenrechte und Klimaschutz. Digitalisierung und Automatisierung von Geschäftsprozessen verspricht, diesen Druck auf die Unternehmen zu reduzieren, den Anforderungen verschiedener Stakeholder in kürzerer Zeit nachzukommen und Freiheit für strategische Handlungsfähigkeit zu gewinnen.Anhand eines Herstellers von Maschinenkomponenten wird gezeigt, welche Rolle Low-Code-Ansätze für die digitale Transformation in mittelständischen Unternehmen spielen. Mit einer Low-Code Integrationsplattform wurden die bereits vorhandenen jedoch isolierten Daten und Informationen im Unternehmen aufgabenorientiert aus den verschiedenen IT-Systemen erschlossen und zusammengeführt. Mittels APIs und ansprechenden Frontends wurden diese Daten für die verschiedenen Stakeholder (Kunden, Servicepartner, interne Vertriebs- und Serviceabteilungen) spezifisch aufbereitet und als digitaler Produktpass bereitgestellt. Durch den Einsatz von Low-Code-Ansätzen betrug der Aufwand dafür insgesamt nur 20 Personentage.Der Beitrag liefert zunächst eine Begriffsbildung und gibt anschließend einen Einblick in die Konzeption und Umsetzung des digitalen Produktpasses, diskutiert anhand konkreter Szenarien Grenzen von Low-Code-Ansätzen und zeigt Lösungsansätze auf. Ein Ausblick auf den Zusammenhang von Low-Code und künstlicher Intelligenz rundet den Beitrag ab.
Impact of body mass index on mortality outcomes in intensive care patients with Staphylococcus aureus sepsis: A retrospective analysis
Authors: Xu Heping , Liu Yiqiao , Niu Huan , Wang Hong , Zhan Feng 
Published: August 2024

Background
Evidence associating body mass index (BMI) with the prognosis of Staphylococcus aureus sepsis remains scarce.

Objective
To explore the association between BMI and clinical outcomes in intensive care units patients with Staphylococcus aureus sepsis.

Methods
A retrospective analysis of patients with Staphylococcus aureus sepsis was conducted using the MIMIC-IV database from the Critical Care Medicine Information. Data were collected within the first 24 hours of intensive care units admission. The primary endpoint was 28-day mortality. The association between BMI and 28-day all-cause mortality was assessed using multivariable logistic regression, subgroup analyses, restricted cubic spline curves and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.

Results
The study included 2,295 patients with an average age of 63.5 (16.1) years, 60.2% of whom were male. Multivariate analysis revealed that each 1 kg/m2 increase in BMI was linked to a 2.8% decrease in the risk of 28-day mortality (adjusted OR = 0.972, 95% CI: 0.955–0.990, P = 0.002). Patients in the medium and high BMI categories had significantly lower risks of 28-day mortality compared to those in the low BMI group (OR [95% CI] 0.650 [0.474–0.891]; OR [95% CI] 0.516 [0.378–0.705]; P trend < 0.0001). The RCS model showed a non-linear association between BMI and 28-day mortality (P = 0.014). Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that patients with elevated BMI had lower 28-day mortality (P < 0.0001). Notably, significant interactions between AKI and SOFA with BMI were observed (P<0.05).

Conclusion
Increased BMI is associated with a reduced risk of 28-day all-cause mortality in patients with Staphylococcus aureus sepsis.
DIDS: Double Indices and Double Summarizations for Fast Similarity Search
Authors: Hu Han , Qiu Jiye , Wang Hongzhi , Liang Bin , Zou Songling 
Published: August 2024

Data series has been one of the significant data forms in various applications. It becomes imperative to devise a data series index that supports both approximate and exact similarity searches for large data series collections in high-dimensional metric spaces. The state-of-the-art works employ summarizations and indices to reduce the accesses to the data series. However, we discover two significant flaws that severely limit performance enhancement. Firstly, the state-of-the-art works often employ segment-based summarizations, whose lower bound distances decrease significantly when representing a data series collection, resulting in numerous invalid accesses. Secondly, the disk-based indices for the exact search mainly rely on tree-based indices, which results in low-quality approximate answers, consequently impacting the exact search.
To address these problems, we propose a novel solution, Double Indices and Double Summarizations (DIDS). Besides segment-based summarizations, DIDS introduces reference-point-based summarizations to improve the pruning rate by the sorted-based representation strategy. Moreover, DIDS employs reference points and a cost model to cluster similar data series, and uses a graph-based approach to interconnect various regions, enhancing approximate search capabilities. We conduct experiments on extensive datasets, validating the superior search performance of DIDS.
Strategisch Denken: Privileg der Führungskräfte oder Gestaltungsspielraum für alle Mitarbeitenden?
Authors: Keller Alice 
Published: August 2024

Zusammenfassung
In der Diskussion um strategisches Denken als Führungskräfteprivileg oder Einsatzmöglichkeit für alle Mitarbeitenden zeigen verschiedene Quellen unterschiedliche Sichtweisen. Strategisches Denken auf Mitarbeitendenebene soll jedoch beitragen, Innovation, Identität und Mitarbeitermotivation zu stärken, sowie neue Perspektiven auf menschliche Bedürfnisse in technologieorientierten Umgebungen zu bieten. Der Aufsatz zeigt zwei Bespiele, wie Mitarbeitende aktiv in den Strategieprozess eingebunden werden können und bewertet diese Erfahrungen nach verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten.
Analysis of the microecological mechanism of diabetic kidney disease based on the theory of “gut–kidney axis”: A systematic review
Authors: Huang Lili , Wu Wenjing , Wang Xiaoqin 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is one of the main microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus, as well as the leading cause of end-stage renal disease. Intestinal microbiota has emerged as a crucial regulator of its occurrence and development. Dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota can disrupt the intestinal mucosal barrier, abnormal immunological response, reduction in short-chain fatty acid metabolites, and elevation of uremic toxins, all closely related to the occurrence and development of DKD. However, the underlying mechanisms of how intestinal microbiota and its metabolites influence the onset and progression of DKD has not been fully elucidated. In the current review, we will try to summarize the microecological mechanism of DKD by focusing on three aspects: the intestinal microbiota and its associated metabolites, and the “gut–kidney axis,” and try to summarize therapies targeted at managing the intestinal microbiota, expecting to provide theoretical basis for the subsequent study of the relationship between intestinal homeostasis and DKD, and will open an emerging perspective and orientation for DKD treatment.
Hong Kongers and their languages: bordering, scale and identity
Authors: Fleming Kara , Ansaldo Umberto 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
In this paper, we examine discourses about border and scale in the context of Hong Kong’s relationship with mainland China. We argue that, as the physical and political borders between Hong Kong and the mainland are eroding, other forms of bordering practices – such as linguistic borders – become more salient and contested. We draw on selected thematic analyses of a corpus of 70 articles from Hong Kong English media, as well as socio-historical analyses that have widely circulated since Hong Kong’s handover from Britain to China, in order to examine how the construction of “Cantonese” and “Mandarin” is managed against anxieties about Hong Kong’s potential loss of distinction and fears of becoming “just another Chinese city”. In this process, both borders and scales become key terrains of negotiation and function themselves as ideological resources in debates about Hong Kong’s identity and future, as certain distinctions take on reduced or pronounced meaning from particular scalar perspectives. Amid an ongoing reframing of what it means to be “Chinese”, examining language ideologies in Hong Kong contributes to our understanding of how national and linguistic categories achieve or reframe their social meanings.
Humanitarianism, victimisation, and bordering processes: debating the refugee experience in the classroom
Authors: Aristidou Xanthia , Charalambous Constadina 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Set in the peak of the so-called “European Migrant Crisis” and situated in the conflict-affected Cypriot context, this article examines Greek-Cypriot High School students’ representations of Syrian refugees as they were debated in classroom discussion. Drawing on ethnographic research that took place in 2016 in a Lower Secondary School in Cyprus, we analyse the interactional dynamics through which ‘bordering’ processes took place, showing how different types of borders were (re)-negotiated and re-instated in the classroom. Considering the sociohistorical context of Cyprus, we also investigate how teachers’ and students’ understandings of borders and ethnic identity-making were reshaped by local discourses. Our analysis shows that teachers, despite prompting students to take an active stance towards Syrian refugees as part of a peacebuilding stance, mobilised ethnocentric discourses that victimised refugees, portraying them as someone whose agency is taken away from, and for whom we can speak and act. Approaching borders as social constructs, we show how the national border separating “us” and “them” was construed and reaffirmed in such discussions, and how the representation of refugees as ‘the victim’ functioned as a way of narrating the ‘cultural fantasies’ of the national self.
Attitudes towards Sardinian and Italian finally compared via the Matched-Guise Technique
Authors: Mura Piergiorgio 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Adopting a mentalist approach to the study of language attitudes, social prestige and stigma, as well as the values and stereotypes bestowed on Sardinian and Italian and their speakers were studied for the first time in Sardinia using the Matched-Guise Technique. The experiment was administered to Sardinian students of different ages, from different parts of the island, with different degrees of Italian/Sardinian bilingualism. Results show that Sardinian speakers are more favourably perceived in terms of friendliness and social pleasantness. Both Italian and Sardinian speakers, with no statistical difference between them, received moderately positive evaluations in traits related to socio-economic and cultural status, suggesting a decline in the traditional negative stereotypes associated with minority language speakers. Moreover, participants’ self-reported use and competence of languages, as well as their amount of school activities involving Sardinian, turned out to interact with the attitudes towards the minority language, as higher values of those variables were associated with higher ratings for Sardinian speakers. Findings could be useful to policy-makers in efforts to maintain Sardinia’s multilingual repertoire, and, more generally, to the scientific community in understanding the patterns and most relevant factors that affect language attitudes in bilingual contexts involving an endangered minority language.
Linguistic justice in English-medium instruction contexts: a theoretical argument
Authors: Soler Josep 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
This article looks at English-medium instruction (EMI) contexts in higher education from a linguistic justice perspective and offers a theoretical argument to discuss the potential for EMI to be defended as a positive and valuable phenomenon, beyond economic and competitive arguments. In the final keynote panel at the 2022 ICLHE conference, Philippe Van Parijs pondered how EMI teachers might be seen: either as killers, traitors, sellers, saviours, upgraders, or liberators. After providing characterisations for each of these labels, Van Parijs suggested that EMI teachers should be better conceived of as civilisers, not in a missionary sense of civilising the barbarian, but in the Aristotelian meaning of civic virtue, of citizens being part of public life, actively involved in discussion of public affairs. This seems to imply a specific view of English, one that almost naturally equates the language to democratic progress and consensus. In the article, I challenge this assumption and suggest that for English to be a democratising agent and EMI truly a gate-opener to higher education, emphasis needs to be placed on listening subject positions and regimes of uptake as key aspects of democratic deliberation and key elements to overcome prejudiced views of accents and voices.
EMI programmes in Vietnamese higher education: a case study of translanguaging practices for inclusive education
Authors: Ngo Phuong Le Hoang 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Previous studies have discussed stakeholders’ perceptions of using first language in English-medium instruction (EMI), but only a few have examined classroom practices in Vietnam. Against this backdrop, this article focuses on lecturers’ translanguaging practices in an EMI programme where all the lecturers and students were Vietnamese. More specifically, it employs the conceptual framework of ROAD-MAPPING, proposed by Dafouz and Smit (“The ROAD-MAPPING framework: Taking stock and paving future directions for English-medium research”, in Emma Dafouz and Ute Smit (eds.), Researching English-medium higher education: Diverse applications and critical evaluations of the ROAD-MAPPING framework, 1–19. London: Routledge, 2016), to see if there was substantial evidence of a constructive co-existence between English and Vietnamese – the first language – in this EMI programme. The findings suggest that under the lecturers’ and students’ agency, the two languages were distributed across various domains of classroom practices to benefit students’ learning of content knowledge. In teacher talk, English and Vietnamese have different functions to support the process of knowledge co-construction. The study implies that the current monolingual orientation promoted in many top-down EMI policies should be reconsidered, given the linguistic diversity of higher education settings. In other words, EMI should be promoted as an educational environment where students can access their linguistic repertoires and develop their academic knowledge bi/multilingually. Translanguaging, therefore, should be acknowledged as an inclusive pedagogical practice.
Impact of English proficiency and self-efficacy on EMI content learning: a longitudinal study in Taiwan
Authors: Tsui Cynthia 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
In many countries, English-medium instruction (EMI) courses have become a requirement for universities to maintain their competitive global rankings. This study reports on a three-year EMI program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at a national university in Taiwan. A total of 63 students participated in the study. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected, including measures targeting students’ English proficiency, language learning beliefs, classroom anxiety, self-efficacy, content course grades, and interview data from four faculty members. The t-tests indicate that students’ English proficiency significantly improved from their freshman year to their sophomore year but then tapered off in their junior year. Multiple regression analyses show that students’ self-efficacy remained the strongest predictor of the content learning outcomes, overriding the English proficiency. Interview data show that, after navigating the initial language impact and adapting to the EMI environment, students were better able to focus on the content learning due to enhanced self-efficacy. The qualitative data provide enriched contexts to support the statistical findings, against the backdrop of the 2030 Bilingual Policy, initiated in 2018 by Taiwan’s National Development Council to build a bilingual society by 2030. Finally, pedagogical implications and future research endeavors are also discussed.
Enhancing equity in South Korean EMI higher education through translanguaging
Authors: Williams Dylan G. 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
This paper argues that to foster more equity in a South Korean Higher Education English Medium Instruction (EMI) learning environment, future policies should embrace a translanguaging medium of instruction. First, the paper provides an overview of current South Korean EMI challenges and then by drawing on data of a larger study presents examples of translanguaging practices used to offset these challenges. The study explored ten South Korean University students’ perceptions of how translanguaging affects access to subject content in their EMI experiences. The findings point to the presence of affordances in the L1 or L2 system in certain EMI situations, which may constrain students’ learning. This is because a translanguaging competence is not an overt part of current EMI policy which may prevent students from capitalising on opportunities. This paper further argues that translanguaging should be viewed as a viable, equitable, socially just medium of instruction to overcome these constraints. Recommendations are made for how students can be given the opportunity to be involved in critiquing and changing the social structures in which they learn, to co-imagine a socially just translanguaging future. The paper concludes by further arguing that the native speaker monolingual ideology needs to be challenged in EMI policy.
Clearing a path for light through non-Hermitian media
Authors: Dave Utsav D. , Bhatt Gaurang R. , Rodrigues Janderson R. , Datta Ipshita , Lipson Michal 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
The performance of all active photonic devices today is greatly limited by loss. Here, we show that one can engineer a low loss path in a metal-clad lossy multi-mode waveguide while simultaneously achieving high-performance active photonic devices. We leverage non-Hermitian systems operating beyond the exceptional point to enable the redistribution of losses in a multi-mode photonic waveguide. Consequently, our multi-mode waveguide offers low propagation losses for fundamental mode while other higher order modes experience prohibitively high losses. Furthermore, we show an application of this non-Hermitian waveguide platform in designing power-efficient thermo-optic phase shifters with significantly faster response times than conventional silicon-based thermo-optic phase shifters. Our device achieves a propagation loss of less than 0.02 dB μm−1 for our non-Hermitian waveguide-based phase shifters with high performance efficiency of P

π
⋅ τ = 19.1 mW μs. In addition, our phase shifters have significantly faster response time (rise/fall time), τ ≈ 1.4 μs, compared to traditional silicon based thermo-optic phase shifters.
Broadband mode exchanger based on subwavelength Y-junctions
Authors: Fernández de Cabo Raquel , Sánchez-Sánchez Alejandro , Yang Yijun , Melati Daniele , Alonso-Ramos Carlos , Velasco Aitor V. , González-Andrade David 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Multimode silicon photonics, leveraging mode-division multiplexing technologies, offers significant potential to increase capacity of large-scale multiprocessing systems for on-chip optical interconnects. These technologies have implications not only for telecom and datacom applications, but also for cutting-edge fields such as quantum and nonlinear photonics. Thus, the development of compact, low-loss and low-crosstalk multimode devices, in particular mode exchangers, is crucial for effective on-chip mode manipulation. This work introduces a novel mode exchanger that exploits the properties of subwavelength grating metamaterials and symmetric Y-junctions, achieving low losses and crosstalk over a broad bandwidth and a compact size of only 6.5 µm × 2.6 µm. The integration of SWG nanostructures in our design enables precise control of mode exchange through different propagation constants in the arms and metamaterial, and takes advantage of dispersion engineering to broaden the operating bandwidth. Experimental characterization demonstrates, to the best of our knowledge, the broadest operational bandwidth covering from 1,420 nm to 1,620 nm, with measured losses as low as 0.5 dB and extinction ratios higher than 10 dB. Enhanced performance is achieved within a 149 nm bandwidth (1,471–1,620 nm), showing measured losses below 0.4 dB and extinction ratios greater than 18 dB.
Two-dimensional flat-band solitons in superhoneycomb lattices
Authors: Shen Shuang , Zhang Yiqi , Kartashov Yaroslav V. , Li Yongdong , Konotop Vladimir V. 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Flat-band periodic materials are characterized by a linear spectrum containing at least one band where the propagation constant remains nearly constant irrespective of the Bloch momentum across the Brillouin zone. These materials provide a unique platform for investigating phenomena related to light localization. Meantime, the interaction between flat-band physics and nonlinearity in continuous systems remains largely unexplored, particularly in continuous systems where the band flatness deviates slightly from zero, in contrast to simplified discrete systems with exactly flat bands. Here, we use a continuous superhoneycomb lattice featuring a flat band in its spectrum to theoretically and numerically introduce a range of stable flat-band solitons. These solutions encompass fundamental, dipole, multi-peak, and even vortex solitons. Numerical analysis demonstrates that these solitons are stable in a broad range of powers. They do not bifurcate from the flat band and can be analyzed using Wannier function expansion leading to their designation as Wannier solitons. These solitons showcase novel possibilities for light localization and transmission within nonlinear flat-band systems.
The crystal structure of 18-crown-6-k6O6(2,4,5-trinitroimidazol-1-ido-k1O)potassium(I)
Authors: Haibin Hou , Guoliang Jin , Hongping Su , Lizhen Chen , Jianlong Wang 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
C15H24KN5O2, orthorhombic, Pbcn (no. 60), a = 14.0281(6) Å, b = 13.4110(6) Å, c = 12.2842(5) Å, V = 2311.04(17) Å3, Z = 4, R

gt
(F) = 0.0358, wR

ref
(F
2) = 0.0994, T = 150 K.
The crystal structure of poly[hexaqua-tetrakis(μ
4-pyridine-2,4-dicarboxylate-κ
5
N: O: O′: O″: O‴)-bi(μ
2-pyridine-2,4-dicarboxylate-κ
3
N: O: O′)-digadolinium(III)tricopper (II)], [Gd2Cu3(C7H3NO4)6(H2O)6]
n
Authors: Pan Xiang-Ping , Ping Zhao-Yan , Tong Yue , Zhou Wei-Wei 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
[Gd2Cu3(C7H3NO4)6(H2O)6]
n
, triclinic, P1̄ (no. 2), a = 9.4244(8) Å, b = 10.6875(9) Å, c = 12.2795(11) Å, α = 86.189(1)°, β = 81.500(1)°, γ = 86.605(1)°, V = 1209.0(2) Å3, Z = 1, Rgt
(F) = 0.0337, wRref
(F
2) = 0.0692, T = 296 K.
Crystal structure of poly[bis(4-(4-(pyridin-4-yl)phenyl)pyridin-1-ium-κ
1
N)-(μ4-benzene-1,2,4,5-tetracarboxylato-κ
5
O:O′: O″:O‴:O⁗)-(μ2-2,5-dicarboxyterephthalato-κ
2
O:O′)dizinc(II)], C52H32N4O16Zn2
Authors: Fan Fan 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
C52H32N4O16Zn2, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 27.6424(8) Å, b = 9.6359(3) Å, c = 16.8129(7) Å, β = 95.408(3)°, V = 4,458.3(3) Å3, Z = 4, Rgt
(F) = 0.0654, wRref
(F
2) = 0.1966, T = 296(2) K.
Crystal structure of 4-chlorobenzyl (S)-2-(6-methoxynaphthalen-2-yl)propanoate, C21H19ClO3
Authors: Li Fei , Xiao Ji-Xiang , Gao Li-Na 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
C21H19ClO3, orthorhombic, P212121 (no. 19), a = 6.0384(3) Å, b = 11.5696(7) Å, c = 24.6624(14) Å, V = 1722.96(17) Å3, Z = 4, Rgt
(F) = 0.0253, wRref
(F
2) = 0.0637, T = 100(2) K.