bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Hydraulic Fracture Propagation in Layered Heterogeneous Rocks with Spatially Non-Gaussian Random Hydromechanical Features
Authors: Sarmadi Nima , Harrison Matthew , Mousavi Nezhad Mohaddeseh , Fisher Quentin J. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis study proposes a stochastic method to analyse the propagation of hydraulic fractures affected by layered heterogeneity in rocks in a toughness-dominated regime. The study utilises the phase-field method in the context of two-dimensional finite element analysis to model the hydraulic fracture (HF) propagation in rock materials in laboratory scale. Field data on hydrogeologic properties of some rocks reveal that material heterogeneity may appear in the form of leptokurtic marginal distributions. Generalised sub-Gaussian (GSG) model is capable of capturing physical characteristics of such rocks, and it is employed to stochastically model rocks with layered lithologic heterogeneity by generating a large number of auto- and cross-correlated random fields for hydro-geomechanical properties. To investigate the sensitivity of the cracking response to the inherent characteristics of material heterogeneity, various GSG distribution forms are considered in Monte Carlo (MC) analyses. The HF’s deviation from the theoretically predicted direction, which is perpendicular to the direction of the minimum in situ stress, is correlated with the distribution of hydro-geomechanical properties, showing a Gaussian-type distribution. This study concludes that the differential stress and the bedding orientation are the main factors affecting the HF deviation and the required breakdown pressure for initiating the HF propagation from a borehole. In the application of directional hydraulic fracturing (DHF), the effect of bedding layers becomes dominant when the bedding orientation is aligned with the direction of perforations in the boreholes.
OIL: an industrial case study in language engineering with Spoofax
Authors: Bunte Olav , Denkers Jasper , van Gool Louis C. M. , Vinju Jurgen J. , Visser Eelco , Willemse Tim A. C. , Zaidman Andy 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Domain-specific languages (DSLs) promise to improve the software engineering process, e.g., by reducing software development and maintenance effort and by improving communication, and are therefore seeing increased use in industry. To support the creation and deployment of DSLs, language workbenches have been developed. However, little is published about the actual added value of a language workbench in an industrial setting, compared to not using a language workbench. In this paper, we evaluate the productivity of using the Spoofax language workbench by comparing two implementations of an industrial DSL, one in Spoofax and one in Python, that already existed before the evaluation. The subject is the Open Interaction Language (OIL): a complex DSL for implementing control software with requirements imposed by its industrial context at Canon Production Printing. Our findings indicate that it is more productive to implement OIL using Spoofax compared to using Python, especially if editor services are desired. Although Spoofax was sufficient to implement OIL, we find that Spoofax should especially improve on practical aspects to increase its adoptability in industry.
Nonlinear crossing strategy-based particle swarm optimizations with time-varying acceleration coefficients
Authors: Watanabe Keigo , Xu Xiongshi 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIn contemporary particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms, to efficiently explore global optimum solutions, it is common practice to set the inertia weight to monotonically decrease over time for stability, while allowing the two acceleration coefficients, representing cognitive and social factors, to adopt decreasing or increasing functions over time, including random variations. However, there has been little discussion on a unified design approach for these time-varying acceleration coefficients. This paper presents a unified methodology for designing monotonic decreasing or increasing functions to construct nonlinear time-varying inertia weight and two acceleration coefficients in PSO, along with a control strategy for exploring global optimum solutions. We first construct time-varying coefficients by linearly amplifying well-posed monotonic functions that decrease or increase over normalized time. Here, well-posed functions ensure satisfaction of specified conditions at the initial and terminal points of the search process. However, many of the functions employed thus far only satisfy well-posedness at either the initial or terminal points of the search time, prompting the proposal of a method to adjust them to virtually meet specified initial or terminal points. Furthermore, we propose a crossing strategy where the developed cognitive and social acceleration coefficients intersect within the search time interval, effectively guiding the search process by pre-determining crossing values and times. The performance of our Nonlinear Crossing Strategy-based Particle Swarm Optimization (NCS-PSO) is evaluated using the CEC2014 (Congress on Evolutionary Computation in 2014) benchmark functions. Through comprehensive numerical comparisons and statistical analyses, we demonstrate the superiority of our approach over seven conventional algorithms. Additionally, we validate our approach, particularly in a drone navigation scenario, through an example of optimal 3D path planning. These contributions advance the field of PSO optimization techniques, providing a robust approach to addressing complex optimization problems.
Rethinking Experts’ Perceptions in Money Laundering Risk Assessment
Authors: Ogbeide Henry , Thomson Mary Elizabeth , Gonul Mustafa Sinan , Onkal Dilek , Bhowmick Sanjay , Bello Abdullahi Usman 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis paper examines the factors that influence experts’ risk assessments of money laundering in the context of anti-money laundering (AML) measures. Employing a mixed-methods approach, a survey was first administered to 1497 AML risk assessment experts, followed by semi-structured interviews with nine selected AML experts. The study’s findings suggest that AML experts often heavily rely on their organization’s established risk response frameworks, sometimes at the expense of not exercising independent judgment. Personal biases, including preconceived notions about risk and fear of facing repercussions for independent judgment, significantly influence risk assessments. Based on these results and guidance from the literature, we propose a new decision framework aimed at shedding light on the mediating strategies employed by AML experts during risk assessment. The proposed framework offers valuable insights into the role of expert judgment in assessing money laundering risk for AML-regulated entities, with a particular focus on financial institutions aiming to enhance their risk assessment frameworks.
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice
Authors: Glynn Martin , Breen Damian 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis article presents a rationale and strategy for bringing urgent attention to ‘minority’, ‘excluded’, and ‘marginalised’ perspectives within contemporary mainstream criminology. Russell (2022) has previously called for the development of ‘Black criminology’, whilst Phillips and Bowling (2003) further argued that there is a need to develop ‘minority perspectives’ within mainstream criminology. In allyship with these traditions, this article applies a Critical Race Theory lens to provide a rationale for a new criminological perspective presented here as Critical Race Criminology (CRC). CRC is applied here to demonstrate the necessity for centring on ‘race and the racialization of crime’ within the discipline of criminology specifically, and within a global context more widely. It further calls for the development and articulation of a ‘counter narrative’ around race and crime within the discipline of criminology itself. Achieving this requires transcending the binary of the Global North–South divide, moving towards a unifying ‘Critical Race Criminology’ (CRC).
The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil
Authors: Spesny Sara León 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This article explores the necropolitical foundations of police violence in Brazil via a genealogical approach of analysis of criminal codes, creation decrees, and other legal documents and insights from ethnographic research. In this paper I argue that antiblackness determines the role of the police in contemporary Brazil and has inscribed its place in law. Historically, the police had the legal duty to repress and punish enslaved people; but their role in imparting immediate justice persisted with expanded powers during the dictatorship and democracy’s social demands over the war on drugs. Through all these political and ideological transitions, the police have been resilient to change precisely because of their unique necropolitical power.
Can a naturally depauperate Ephemeroptera, Plectoptera and Trichoptera (EPT) fauna track river degradation in south-western Australia?
Authors: Greenop Kathryn R. , Stewart Barbara A. , Close Paul G. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractFreshwater aquatic ecosystems are threatened globally. Biological monitoring is required to deliver rapid and replicable assessment of changes in habitat quality. The Ephemeroptera, Plectoptera, Trichoptera (EPT) index is a globally recognised rapid bioassessment that measures taxa richness of three insect orders whose larvae are considered sensitive to freshwater habitat degradation. South-western Australia contains threatened freshwater ecosystems but has depauperate EPT fauna and high endemism, potentially reducing the capacity of the EPT index to track degradation. This study investigated if EPT species richness, composition or individual species tracked physical or chemical river degradation in three catchments in south-western Australia. We sampled EPT fauna and measured water chemistry, erosion, sedimentation, riparian vegetation cover and instream habitat at 98 sites in the winters of 2007 and 2023. We found 35 EPT taxa across the study area with a median number of species per site of two. EPT species richness had weak positive associations with a composite water quality index and dissolved oxygen and weak negative associations with electrical conductivity and total nitrogen. No association was found between physical and fringing zone degradation measures and EPT species richness. EPT community structure generally did not distinguish between sites with high or low degradation levels. The presence of the mayfly Nyungara bunni tracked salinity, dissolved oxygen and nitrogen levels, but its usefulness as a bioindicator could be limited by its restricted range. This study suggests that the EPT index would need modification or combination with other indices to be a useful rapid bioassessment in south-western Australia.
Evaluation of a grid-connected PV power plant: performance and agrivoltaic aspects
Authors: Saka Kenan 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThe performance ratio, a globally recognized metric that correlates with reported global solar radiation values, serves as a crucial indicator for evaluating the efficiency of grid-connected PV plants. Also, a large scale PV power plant alone can afford some agricultural irrigation energy requirement of a region. In this study, the actual generation data from a power plant located in Bursa province in northwestern Türkiye, during its initial six years of operation have been analyzed. The analysis reveals that the annual electricity production of the power station reaches approximately 10 GWh. Notably, the time period between April and September witnesses a monthly electricity generation exceeding 1 GWh, with September emerging as the most productive month, characterized by an average performance ratio of 94.5% during this six-year period. However, over the span of six years, the highest average electricity generation occurs in July, peaking at 1.34 GWh. Also, the power plant alone can meet the agricultural irrigation energy requirement of the region in the range of 6.7–2.3%. From an environmental impact and global warming perspective, it is noteworthy that during the 36-month period in the summer season, the performance ratio exceeded 100% only three times. However, within the 32-month period in the winter season, the performance ratio exceeded 100% 19 times. This situation indicates that while the reported radiation rates by the managements are consistent with the actual values for the summer months, they need to be revised, especially for the winter months.
Neurological Diseases and Prevalence of Antineuronal Antibodies in Patients with Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome Type 1 – A National Cohort Study
Authors: Laakso Sini M , Häkkinen Aino , Mäkitie Outi , Laakso Saila 
Published: June 2024

AbstractAutoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS-1) is a rare monogenic disease caused by mutations in the autoimmune regulator gene. Although the disease-associated autoantibodies mostly target endocrine organs, autoantibodies from patients with APS-1 bind also to rat brain structures. The patients often have GAD65-antibodies, that can cause autoimmune encephalitis. However, neurological manifestations of APS-1 have not been systematically explored. We conducted a retrospective chart review on 44 Finnish patients with APS-1 (median age 38 years, 61% females) and collected all their neurological diagnoses. To assess the prevalence of serum antineuronal antibodies in APS-1, serum samples of 24 patients (median age 36 years, 63% females) were analyzed using a fixed cell-based assay. Of the 44 APS-1 patients, 10 (23%) had also received a diagnosis of a neurological disease. Of these neurological comorbidities, migraine (n = 7; 16%), central nervous system infections (n = 3; 7%), and epilepsy (n = 2; 5%) were the most prevalent. Other diagnoses recorded for single patients were axonal sensorimotor polyneuropathy, essential tremor, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, ischemic stroke, and trigeminal neuralgia. Serum antineuronal antibodies were detected in 42% of patients tested (10/24, 50% females, median age 42 years), GAD65 antibodies being the most common finding. Antibodies against glycine and aquaporin 4 were found in low titers. In four patients, relatively high titers of GAD65 antibodies without coexisting type 1 diabetes were found, but none presented with GAD65-encephalitis. Our study suggests an association between APS-1 and neurological disorders, the mechanisms of which are to be further investigated.
A Truthmaker-based Epistemic Logic
Authors: Saitta Vita 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThe aim of this work is to investigate the problem of Logical Omniscience in epistemic logic by means of truthmaker semantics. We will present a semantic framework based on $$\varvec{W}$$

W

-models extended with a partial function, which selects the body of knowledge of the agents, namely the set of verifiers of the agent’s total knowledge. The semantic clause for knowledge follows the intuition that an agent knows some information $$\varvec{\phi }$$

ϕ

, when the propositional content that $$\varvec{\phi }$$

ϕ

is contained in her total knowledge. We will argue that this idea mirrors the philosophical conception of immanent closure by Yablo (2014), giving to our proposal a strong philosophical motivation. We will discuss the philosophical implications of the semantics and we will introduce its axiomatization.
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation
Authors: Lee Tommy Tsz-Ming , Yip Ka-Fai 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis paper investigates an interaction between locality requirements and syntactic dependencies through the lens of hyperraising constructions in Cantonese and Vietnamese. We offer a novel piece of evidence from subject displacement in support of the claim that phasehood can be deactivated by syntactic dependencies during the derivation. We show that (i) hyperraising (to subject) constructions are attested in both languages, and that (ii) only attitude verbs that encode an indirect evidential component allow hyperraising constructions. We propose a phase deactivation account for hyperraising, where the phasehood of a CP is deactivated by an Agree relation in terms of an evidential feature with the embedding verb. The findings of this paper suggest that locality requirements in natural languages are less rigid than previously thought, and that there is a non-trivial semantic dimension to hyperraising phenomena.
Scientificity before Scientism: The Invention of Cultural Research in German Studies of Antiquity 1800–1850
Authors: Krause Monika 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis paper examines how scholars of Greek and Roman antiquity in the German-speaking territories in the first half of the nineteenth century define scientificity (Wissenschaftlichkeit). I will argue that antiquity studies in this period of its foundation as a discipline is an instructive case to examine with regard to questions as to how scientific knowledge is established as different from other forms of knowledge, how scientific fields establish relative autonomy from other fields and what forms scientific autonomy can take. Widely recognised as important for the history of the modern research university, the case is not only interesting because it is influential. It is also interesting because the discussions in this period are so different to discussions in the later nineteenth century in the social sciences and the humanities, which have shaped debates about scientificity in sociology and cognate disciplines: We find here a notion of social and cultural research as a scientific endeavour, discussed not primarily with reference to or in defence against the natural sciences, but rather defined against imitative learning and the expectation that research provide moral support for the emerging Germany by idealizing the Greeks. The case highlights moralization as a source of heteronomy in cultural fields in addition to the more widely discussed forces of the market and the influence of the state.
Towards a new approach to analyzing the geographical scope of national research. An exploratory analysis at the country level
Authors: Miguel Sandra , González Claudia M. , Chinchilla-Rodríguez Zaida 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis study aims to identify and compare the national scope of research at the country level, dealing with two groups of countries: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and a group of countries at the forefront in developing mainstream science (WORLD). We wish to explore whether similar or different patterns arise between the two groups at the global and disciplinary level, becoming apparent in their proportion of research related to local perspectives or topics. It is found that Latin America and the Caribbean countries present a greater proportion of local production. The trend to publish national-oriented research is related to disciplinary fields. Even though English is the dominant language of publication, the lingua franca is more likely to appear in the national scope of research, especially for Latin America and the Caribbean countries but also in the rest of non-Anglophone countries. Some implications and limitations for further studies are described.
Student–teacher gender congruence and student performance: The role of context
Authors: Doornkamp Laura , Doornkamp Frank , Van der Pol Lotte D. , Groeneveld Sandra , Mesman Judi , Groeneveld Marleen G. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractStudent–teacher gender congruence is suggested to be related to increased student performance, but little is known about the contexts in which these effects occur. Based on literature on gender stereotypes this study hypothesizes different effects of student–teacher gender congruence for male and female students across school subjects and in different educational contexts. Using administrative data of secondary schools in The Netherlands (N > 50,000), this study examined to what extent student–teacher gender congruence is associated with male and female students’ performance in the subjects math, physics, Dutch language, and French language. Further this study explored the role of students’ educational level, schools’ religiousness, and schools’ location in these relations. As expected, we found that gender congruence was positively related to female students’ performance in math and physics and to male students’ performance in Dutch language and French language. However, the role of educational context differed for male and female students across subjects and lacked a clear pattern that corresponded to the gender stereotypes hypotheses. This study emphasizes that effects of student–teacher gender congruence can differ in magnitude and direction in different contexts, encouraging future research to use qualitative methods to examine how context influences the role of gender in education.
Synergistic biocementation: harnessing Comamonas and Bacillus ureolytic bacteria for enhanced sand stabilization
Authors: Rajasekar Adharsh , Zhao Cailin , Wu Suowei , Murava Raphinos Tackmore , Wilkinson Stephen 
Published: June 2024

AbstractBiocementation, driven by ureolytic bacteria and their biochemical activities, has evolved as a powerful technology for soil stabilization, crack repair, and bioremediation. Ureolytic bacteria play a crucial role in calcium carbonate precipitation through their enzymatic activity, hydrolyzing urea to produce carbonate ions and elevate pH, thus creating favorable conditions for the precipitation of calcium carbonate. While extensive research has explored the ability of ureolytic bacteria isolated from natural environments or culture conditions, bacterial synergy is often unexplored or under-reported. In this study, we isolated bacterial strains from the local eutrophic river canal and evaluated their suitability for precipitating calcium carbonate polymorphs. We identified two distinct bacterial isolates with superior urea degradation ability (conductivity method) using partial 16 S rRNA gene sequencing. Molecular identification revealed that they belong to the Comamonas and Bacillus genera. Urea degradation analysis was performed under diverse pH (6,7 and 8) and temperature (15 °C,20 °C,25 °C and 30 °C) ranges, indicating that their ideal pH is 7 and temperature is 30 °C since 95% of the urea was degraded within 96 h. In addition, we investigated these strains individually and in combination, assessing their microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) in silicate fine sand under low (14 ± 0.6 °C) and ideal temperature 30 °C conditions, aiming to optimize bio-mediated soil enhancement. Results indicated that 30 °C was the ideal temperature, and combining bacteria resulted in significant (p ≤ 0.001) superior carbonate precipitation (14–16%) and permeability (> 10− 6 m/s) in comparison to the average range of individual strains. These findings provide valuable insights into the potential of combining ureolytic bacteria for future MICP research on field applications including soil erosion mitigation, soil stabilization, ground improvement, and heavy metal remediation.