bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Advanced and prospects in phenol wastewater treatment technologies: unveiling opportunities and trends
Authors: da Silva Aires Francisco Izaias , Dari Dayana Nascimento , Freitas Isabelly Silveira , da Silva Jessica Lopes , de Matos Filho José Roberto , dos Santos Kaiany Moreira , de Castro Bizerra Viviane , Sales Misael Bessa , de Souza Magalhães Francisco Lucas , da Silva Sousa Patrick , Neto Francisco Simão , de Sousa Junior Paulo Gonçalves , Cavalcante Antônio Luthierre Gama , de Castro Érico Carlos , Melo Rafael Leandro Fernandes , dos Santos José Cleiton Sousa 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis study aims to explore technological advances and prospects in phenol treatment by providing a detailed bibliometric survey of wastewater treatment applications, highlighting innovative advances in research. Using the Web of Science database, we identified 79,104 articles from 2003 to 2023, later refined to 1848. The keywords were used for the initial search: “phenol”, “wastewater”, “degradation”, “treatment” and “removal”. The bibliographic review details the occurrence of journals, authors, newspapers, countries, institutions, keywords, highly cited articles, and prominent predominant research fields. In particular, the field of “Engineering” was responsible for 32% of the published articles, followed by “Ecology of Environmental Sciences” (25%) and “Chemistry” (12%). In addition, a keyword analysis revealed five major groups of clusters that indicate where the research is progressing. This aspect is crucial for understanding the evolution and perspectives of research interests over time. Therefore, future research in the field should prioritize wastewater treatment and feedstock diversification. This focus is essential to address significant challenges, such as production costs, stability, and durability of treatment processes.
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Maternal and child health care access to skilled delivery services among Ghanaian rural mothers
Authors: Adongo Awinaba Amoah , Dapaah Jonathan Mensah , Azumah Francess Dufie , Onzaberigu John Nachinaab 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Introduction
Most new-born babies are born at home in rural communities which is not new phenomenon due to lack of access to primary healthcare services and trained skilled health attendants, exposing mothers and children to a high risk of labour complications. The purpose of this study was to better understand factors influence rural women's access to primary health care and skilled delivery services as well as their reasons for using or not using maternal health care and skilled delivery services.

Methods
The study employed a social survey design with a quantitative approach to data analysis. Cluster Sampling was used, possibly based on rural communities, to efficiently collect data from different geographic locations. Simple random sampling individuals from each cluster ensures that all eligible individuals have an equal chance of being included in the study. This enhances the representativity of the sample. A total of 366 mothers were selected from four rural communities in the North East Region of Ghana. The choice of sample size considered factors like the study's objectives, available resources, and the desired level of statistical power. Data was primarily gathered through the administration of a questionnaire to the respondents. Factors considered for achieving representativity include, geographic representation, accessibility, healthcare infrastructure and healthcare professionals’ attitudes.

Findings
The study found that distance to health centres limits women's access to skilled delivery services. Lack of primary health facilities in the rural communities hamper maternal and child care services delivery. The attitude of health care professionals determines a mother’s utilisation of maternal health care and skilled delivery services.

Conclusion
The study contributes to the limited research on maternal health services and their impact on mother and child health in the study area. This study is one of the first to investigate into maternal health care as a key predictor of mother and child health in the study area. The study's theoretical lens was the Andersen and Newman Health Behavioural Model theory, which supports the explanation of distance, lack of primary health centres, attitudes and lack of skilled personnel to the non-utilisation of maternal and health services in rural communities. The study recommended that primary healthcare facilities and trained health professionals should be a priority of government in rural communities to promote maternal and child healthcare.
Artificial human thinking: ChatGPT’s capacity to be a model for critical thinking when prompted with problem-based writing activities
Authors: Janse van Rensburg Joalise 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe ability to think critically is an important and valuable skill that students should develop to successfully solve problems. The process of writing requires critical thinking (CT), and the subsequent piece of text can be viewed as a product of CT. One of the strategies educators may use to develop CT is modelling. Given ChatGPT’s ability to generate textual responses, one could suggest that educators can use AI-generated responses to problem-based writing activities as a model for CT. This study employed a qualitative research approach guided by the interpretivist paradigm to thematically analyse 57 digital texts produced by ChatGPT 3.5. The study found that ChatGPT 3.5 has the capacity to produce a model response which exhibits CT skills and dispositions to three different degrees namely explicit, guided, and limited. Each degree requires a certain level of educator involvement for ChatGPT 3.5ʹs textual responses to be used as a model for CT.
Understanding cross-country differences in assessment simulations: insights from South African and Canadian students
Authors: Kotlyar Igor , Pearse Noel J. , Krasman Joe 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAI-based simulations for educational and assessment purposes are gaining global recognition. Informed by cultural comparison research, this study investigates cross-country variations in users’ utilization and perceptions of a simulation-based assessment. Specifically, we conducted a comparative analysis between a sample of South African and Canadian students to uncover potential differences in assessment scores, communication patterns, and reactions vis-a-vis a simulation assessment for evaluating teamwork skills. Data were collected from over 500 undergraduate students in South Africa and Canada who completed a simulation assessment and reported their reactions and perceptions. The findings yielded several noteworthy observations. First, South African students attained higher assessment scores than Canadian students; although, the difference did not quite reach statistical significance at p < 0.05. Second, significant variations were observed in the quantity and style of communication. South African students used fewer words and more polite language, while Canadian students tended to use more decisive language and provided more explanations and help to their virtual teammates. Third, South African students were more likely to perceive their virtual teammates as “human” and were less concerned whether they were real people or virtual. Lastly, compared with their Canadian counterparts, South African students reported more positive reactions and perceived the assessment to be more accurate. These findings warrant further investigation.
Prognostic value of pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in advanced gastrointestinal cancer immunotherapy: evidence from published studies and a Chinese single center cohort
Authors: Yan Yidan , Rong Shiyue , Xi Yufei , Peng Huixin , Wang Xin , Wang Xiaomeng , Wu Xiuqi , Zhu Tianyi , Wu Guangyu , Yu Minhao , Xia Qing 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Background
Identification of prognostic biomarkers for outcomes in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer with immunotherapy is important. This study investigated the relationship between the prognostic biomarker, pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (preNLR), and immunotherapeutic outcomes in patients with advanced GI cancer.

Methods
We searched the PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases for studies reporting predictive values for preNLR in patients with advanced GI cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI). The primary outcomes considered were progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). Hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for PFS and OS were pooled using a random effects model. We then validated the results observed in an in-house cohort of patients treated with ICIs for advanced GI cancers. Other prognostic factors for PFS and OS were explored using Cox proportional hazard analyses.

Results
Overall, 27 observational studies involving 3,610 patients with advanced GI cancer were included. Patients with higher preNLR were associated with poorer PFS (HR 1.70, 95% CI 1.50–1.92) and OS (HR 2.35, 95% CI 1.82–3.03) with ICI treatment. Subgroup analyses based on NLR cut-off value, research center, sample size, and ICI drugs used were consistent with the primary results. A retrospective analysis of the in-house patient cohort validated these results (PFS: HR 3.173, 95% CI 2.314–4.351; OS: HR 3.004, 95% CI 1.837–4.912). Multivariable Cox regression analysis of 174 patients showed that higher preNLR and negative programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression were independently, significantly, and unfavorably associated with PFS and OS.

Conclusion
PreNLR might be an effective prognostic biomarker for patients with advanced GI cancer treated with ICIs.
Rapid dynamic aeroelastic response analysis of the highly flexible wing with distributed propellers influence
Authors: Wu X. , Zhou Z. , Wang Z.P. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractA rapid nonlinear aeroelastic framework for the analysis of the highly flexible wing with distributed propellers is presented, validated and applied to investigate the propeller effects on the wing dynamic response and aeroelastic stability. In the framework, nonlinear beam elements based on the co-rotational method are applied for the large-deformation wing structure, and an efficient cylinder coordinate generation method is proposed for attached propellers at different position. By taking advantage of the relatively slow dynamics of the high-aspect-ratio wing, propeller wake is modeled as a quasi-steady skewed vortex cylinder with no updating process to reduce the high computational cost. Axial and tangential induced velocities are derived and included in the unsteady vortex lattice method. For the numerical cases explored, results indicate that large deformation causes thrust to produce wing negative torsion which limits the displacement oscillation, and slipstream mainly increases the response values. In addition, an improvement of flutter boundary is found with the increase of propeller thrust while slipstream brings a destabilising effect as a result of the increment of dynamic pressure and local lift. The great potential of distributed propellers in gust alleviation and flutter suppression of such aircraft is pointed out and the method as well as conclusions in this paper can provide further guidance.
Exploring beneath the retreating ice: swath bathymetry reveals sub- to proglacial processes and longevity of future alpine glacial lakes
Authors: Hosmann Siro L. , Fabbri Stefano C. , Buechi Marius W. , Hilbe Michael , Bauder Andreas , Anselmetti Flavio S. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Knowledge of how glaciations formed landscapes is particularly important as receding glaciers currently uncover subglacial landscapes that are prone to a series of natural hazards, but that also bring opportunities for hydropower or water resources. We present high-resolution (1 × 1 m) swath bathymetric data of a proglacial lake in front of the Rhonegletscher (Swiss Alps) that started to form in the early 2000s allowing a look into a freshly uncovered glacier bed and its characterized morphology in an overdeepened setting. The comparison of two surveys from 2015 and 2021 allows an unprecedented quantification of the accumulation and erosion processes in the central lake basin. This highly dynamic environment is characterized by iceberg calving, fluctuating outflow conduits, rapid sedimentation due to particle-laden meltwaters and dumped glacial debris. Assuming constant sediment yield, the Rhone Lake would persist for ~300 years. However, as intense glacier retreat continues in the coming decades, a chain of overdeepened lakes will be revealed that will act as long persisting sediment traps.
A distant traveller: a Late Jurassic nerineoid gastropod (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) on the Maasvlakte 2 beach, the Netherlands
Authors: Reumer Jelle W.F. , Schinkel Anders 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
A fragmentary nerineoid gastropod collected from the Maasvlakte 2 beach may be identified as Ptygmatis cf. bruntrutana (Thurmann, 1832). Probably originating from Upper Jurassic strata in north-eastern France, it must have been transported here by a forerunner of the River Meuse (Maas).
Between Land Reform and Postcolonial Frustration: Understanding the Social Roots of Local Opposition to the PAIGC/PAICV in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 1975–91
Authors: Keese Alexander 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis study discusses the processes of increasing social malaise and an “oppositional mood” in the Cape Verdean island of Santo Antão, where growing frustration between 1975 and 1990 led to the building of massive political opposition against the single-party regime in the archipelago. Early scrutiny of the shortcomings of independent administration, anger about the installation of a new police force, resettlement schemes, a failed agrarian reform, regime violence to achieve that reform, and a generalised mood of decline in the second half of the 1980s, constitute different elements explaining the unrest in that island. Based on newly available, local archives as an innovative source, the interpretation of a remote Cape Verdean opposition island also addresses the potential of studying opposition against “winning parties” and regimes after independence in wider regional frameworks, referring to discontent and “oppositional mood” elsewhere in postcolonial (Lusophone) Africa.
Forced to live in the present: older people's temporal experiences of the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Leinonen Emilia , Era Salla 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
This article explores the temporalities experienced by persons aged 70 years and over during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. Although the temporalities of the pandemic have been analysed from multiple perspectives, we contribute to this line of research in two ways. First, we show how deeply the pandemic affected older people's experiences of temporality. Second, we further develop the concept of forced present to highlight the consequences that the restriction measures had on older persons’ situations and perceptions of temporality. More specifically, we asked the following question: How did older people perceive time (past, present and future) during the pandemic? We used thematic analysis to examine a dataset consisting of written letters (N = 77) collected between April and June 2020. The findings showed that social isolation forced older people to live in the present without being able to plan their near future because they had no knowledge of when they would be ‘free’ again, which made some participants feel anxious and depressed. Furthermore, we found that the present became intertwined with the personal past as well as with the collective past, as evidenced by participants’ descriptions of war, previous pandemics and hardships. This article deepens our understanding of older people's everyday lives during the pandemic and highlights the problematic nature of social isolation of older people as a safety measure. Overall, this article reveals the particularity of older people's experiences in unequal pandemic times and the ageism inherent in the restriction measures.
Real-time adaptive super twisting algorithm based on PSO algorithm: application for an exoskeleton robot
Authors: Tiaiba Hichame , Daachi Mohamed El Hossine , Madani Tarek 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIn this paper, an online adaptive super twisting sliding mode controller is proposed for a non-linear system. The adaptive controller has been designed in order to deal with the unknown dynamic uncertainties and give the best trajectory tracking. The adaptation is based on an optimal Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm whose goal is online tuning the parameters through focusing on decreasing the objective function. The novelty of this study is online handling parameters setting in the conventional super twisting algorithm, bypass heavy offline calculation, and also avoid the instability and abrupt changing of the controller’s parameters for better actuators lifetime. This novel approach has been applied on an upper limb exoskeleton robot for arm rehabilitation. Despite the changes of the dynamic model of the system which defers from one patient to another due to the direct interactions between the wearer and the exoskeleton, this control technique preserves its robustness with respect to bounded external disturbances. The effectiveness of the proposed adaptive controller has been proved in simulation and then in real-time experiment with two human subjects. A comparison between the proposed approach and classic super twisting algorithm has been conducted. The obtained results show the performance and efficiency of the proposed controller.
Unfolding of maternal-infant bonding amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: Social support as a risk and protective factor
Authors: Shiffman N. , Gluska H. , Margalit Shiri , Mayer Y. , Daher R. , Elyasyan L. , Elia N. , Sharon Weiner M. , Miremberg H. , Kovo M. , Biron-Shental T. , Gabbay-Benziv R. , Helpman L. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract

Background:
Social, familial, and physiological stressors may put maternal-infant bonding at risk. Therefore, it is plausible that the stressful conditions brought on by COVID-19 could influence maternal-infant bonding. This study aimed to elucidate the contribution of COVID-19-related experience to variance in maternal-infant bonding, beyond that of established risk factors and as moderated by social support.

Methods:
This longitudinal, multicenter study examined the relationship of demographic and obstetric variables, social support, postpartum depression, as well as COVID-19-related fear, exposure, and subjective difficulty with mother-infant bonding six months following birth. Participants (N = 246) were women who delivered during the pandemics’ strict lockdown period and were recruited 10 weeks after a liveborn delivery and followed up six months later.

Results:
Relationship between fear of COVID-19 and maternal-infant bonding was moderated by social support: Amongst mothers with high levels of social support, fear of COVID-19 negatively predicted bonding.

Discussion:
Results indicate that social support, while overall a protective factor for mother-infant bonding, may lose its buffering effect when fear of COVID-19 is high. This relationship was maintained even when early bonding experiences such as forced separation and the risk incurred by postpartum depression were accounted for. Implications for providers are discussed.
Merchants’ agents and the process of bottom-up harmonization between European towns, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Authors: Kypta Ulla 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Since merchants typically traded between towns, they had to cross legal boundaries on a regular basis. This article discusses one of the instruments they used in order to deal with the challenges of legal pluralism, namely the instalment of proxies. The proxy had to be recognized as a legitimate representative of another merchant and, for that purpose, he carried with him a procuration letter. These letters look remarkably similar considering that they were drafted in different towns across Europe. An analysis of the procurations shows that common rules and norms developed through the constant exchange between merchants and urban authorities.
Humanitarian Aeromedical Retrieval using a Long-Range Commercial Aircraft: A Field Report
Authors: Ghio Federico Emiliano , Zoli Alberto , Stucchi Riccardo , Serini Carlo , Della Torre Simone , Tomaselli Andrea , Di Leo Aurelio , Carenzo Luca 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
This field report presents the planning and execution of a large-scale aeromedical refugee retrieval operation amid the on-going Russia-Ukraine crisis. The retrieval was coordinated by the Italian Department of Civil Protection and led by the Centrale Remota Operazioni Soccorso Sanitario (CROSS), a governmental facility overseeing medical assistance. An Airbus A320 was chosen for its capacity of 165 passengers, with one emergency stretcher maintaining maximum seating. The aircraft was equipped with an Advanced Life Support kit, and specific considerations for medical equipment compliance were made. Special cases, including patients with on-going chemotherapy and end-stage kidney disease, underwent fit-to-fly screening. The boarding process in Lublin, Poland involved triage and arrangements for passengers with gastroenteric symptoms. Notably, 22 passengers with recent episodes of illness were isolated. The successful operation, demonstrating the viability of evacuating vulnerable individuals via commercial airlines, underscores the importance of precise planning and coordination in crisis situations.
Possible Eoarchean Records of the Geomagnetic Field Preserved in the Isua Supracrustal Belt, Southern West Greenland
Authors: Nichols Claire I. O. , Weiss Benjamin P. , Eyster Athena , Martin Craig R. , Maloof Adam C. , Kelly Nigel M. , Zawaski Mike J. , Mojzsis Stephen J. , Watson E. Bruce , Cherniak Daniele J. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractRecovering ancient records of Earth's magnetic field is essential for determining the role of the magnetosphere in protecting early Earth from cosmic radiation and atmospheric escape. We present paleomagnetic field tests hinting that a record of Earth's 3.7‐billion‐year (Ga) old magnetic field may be preserved in the northeastern Isua Supracrustal Belt as a chemical remanent magnetization acquired during amphibolite‐grade metamorphism in the banded iron formation. Multiple petrological and geochronological lines of evidence indicate that the northernmost part of Isua has not experienced metamorphic temperatures exceeding 380°C since the Eoarchean, suggesting the rocks have not been significantly heated since magnetization was acquired. We use “pseudo” baked contact tests (intrusions emplaced 3.26–3.5 Ga ago) and a fold test (folding 3.6 Ga ago) to demonstrate that some samples preserve a ca. 3.7 Ga record of the magnetic field. We recover a field strength of >15 µT. This suggests that Earth's magnetic field may have been weak enough to enhance atmospheric escape during the Archean.