bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Atrial fibrillation and flutter and ocular diseases. The Ural eye and medical study and the Ural very old study
Authors: Bikbov Mukharram M. , Kazakbaeva Gyulli M. , Rakhimova Ellina M. , Panda‐Jonas Songhomitra , Fakhretdinova Albina A. , Tuliakova Azaliia M. , Rusakova Iulia A. , Jonas Jost B. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractPurposeTo assess associations between atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter (AF) and ocular parameters and diseases.MethodsThe population‐based Ural Eye and Medical Study (UEMS) and the Ural Very Old Study (UVOS) included 4894 individuals (age: 40+ years) and 835 individuals (age: 85+ years), respectively.ResultsIn the UEMS, AF prevalence (80/4894; 1.6%; 95% CI: 1.3, 2.0) increased from 1/1029 (0.1%) in the age group of 40 to <50 years to 29/619 (4.7%) and 12/159 (7.5%) in the age groups of 70 to <80 years and 80+ years, respectively. Higher AF prevalence correlated with older age (OR: 1.08; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.12; p < 0.001), urban region of habitation (OR: 1.08; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.12; p < 0.001), higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease/stroke (OR: 2.50; 95% CI: 1.32, 4.72; p < 0.001) and lower prevalence of neck pain (OR: 0.35; 95% CI: 0.14, 0.85; p = 0.02), higher serum concentration of bilirubin (OR: 1.03; 95% CI: 1.02, 1.05; p < 0.001) and lower prothrombin index (OR: 0.96; 95% CI: 0.93, 0.99; p = 0.003), higher stage of arterial hypertension (OR: 1.52; 95% CI: 1.01, 2.28; p = 0.04) and higher ankle‐brachial index (OR: 22.1; 95% CI: 4.45, 1.10; p < 0.001). In that model, AF prevalence was not associated with ocular parameters such as intraocular pressure (p = 0.52), retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (p = 0.70), refractive error (p = 0.13), axial length (p = 0.14), nuclear cataract degree (p = 0.50) and prevalence (p = 0.40), cortical cataract degree (p = 0.43) and presence (p = 0.17), lens pseudoexfoliation (p = 0.58), status after cataract surgery (p = 0.38), age‐related macular degeneration prevalence (p = 0.63), open‐angle glaucoma presence (p = 0.90) and stage (p = 0.55), angle‐closure glaucoma prevalence (p = 0.99) and stage (p = 0.99), diabetic retinopathy prevalence presence (p = 0.37) and stage (p = 0.32), and myopic macular degeneration (p = 0.98). In the UVOS, similar results were obtained.ConclusionsIn these multi‐ethnic populations from Russia, AF prevalence was not associated with any major ocular disease and may not play a major role in the pathogenesis of these disorders.
Considerable paediatric drug dispensing – A nationwide study of more than 2 million Swedish children
Authors: Dahlén Elin , Kimland Elin Eyfells 
Published: June 2024

AbstractAimThe aim of the nationwide study was to describe paediatric drug utilisation in Sweden.MethodsDrug prescriptions dispensed to all children aged 0–17 years in 2019 were analysed using data from the Swedish National Prescribed Drug Register.ResultsWe retrieved data on 2 180 508 unique children. Nearly 4.6 million prescriptions were dispensed to children aged 0–17 years, and 52% of these were to boys. Just under half of the children (47%) were dispensed at least one drug: 48% of girls and 45% of boys (p < 0.01). More than a third (34%) were dispensed three or more different drugs during 2019. The number of dispensed prescriptions per 1000 children was higher in boys than girls up to 12 years of age (p < 0.01), and the opposite trend was observed from 13 years and above, even when we excluded contraceptives (p < 0.01). The most common therapeutic areas were drugs for the respiratory tract (25%), namely antihistamines, antiasthmatics and cough medication. These were followed by psychoanaleptics and melatonin for the nervous system (19%) and dermatologicals (16%), namely cortisone creams and emollients.ConclusionPaediatric drug use was common, and a considerable proportion of children were dispensed multiple drugs.
ANXA1sp modulates the protective effect of Sirt3‐induced mitophagy against sepsis‐induced myocardial injury in mice
Authors: Ma Wanyu , Huang Zhijia , Miao Yanmei , Ma Xinglong , Zhang Zhiquan , Liu Wenjie , Xie Peng 
Published: June 2024

AbstractAimSepsis‐induced myocardial injury (SIMI) may be associated with insufficient mitophagy in cardiomyocytes, but the exact mechanism involved remains unknown. Sirtuin 3 (Sirt3) is mainly found in the mitochondrial matrix and is involved in repairing mitochondrial function through means such as the activation of autophagy. Previously, we demonstrated that the annexin‐A1 small peptide (ANXA1sp) can promote Sirt3 expression in mitochondria. In this study, we hypothesized that the activation of Sirt3 by ANXA1sp induces mitophagy, thereby providing a protective effect against SIMI in mice.MethodsA mouse model of SIMI was established via cecal ligation and puncture. Intraperitoneal injections of ANXA1sp, 3TYP, and 3MA were administered prior to modeling. After successful modeling, IL‐6, TNF‐α, CK‐MB, and CTn‐I levels were measured; cardiac function was assessed using echocardiography; myocardial mitochondrial membrane potential, ROS, and ATP production were determined; myocardial mitochondrial ultrastructure was observed using transmission electron microscopy; and the expression levels of Sirt3 and autophagy‐related proteins were detected using western blotting.ResultsANXA1sp significantly reduced serum IL‐6, TNF‐α, CK‐MB, and CTn‐I levels; decreased myocardial ROS production; increased mitochondrial membrane potential and ATP synthesis; and improved myocardial mitochondrial ultrastructure in septic mice. Furthermore, ANXA1sp promoted Sirt3 expression and activated the AMPK‐mTOR pathway to induce myocardial mitophagy. These protective effects of ANXA1sp were reversed upon treatment with the Sirt3 blocker, 3‐TYP.ConclusionANXA1sp can reverse SIMI, and the underlying mechanism may be related to the activation of the AMPK‐mTOR pathway following upregulation of Sirt3 by ANXA1sp, which, in turn, induces autophagy.
Unveiling sustainability: Tech‐infused governance and ESG performance in textile industry
Authors: Zhu Naiping , Yang Jinlan , Agyemang Andrew Osei 
Published: June 2024

AbstractWe investigate the impact of corporate governance (CG) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance in the textile industry in developing countries, taking into account the moderating role of technological innovation (TI). Based on institutional theory, we investigated the connection between CG, TI, and ESG performance. The study used secondary data from 197 textile firms in West Africa from 2010 to 2022. Our findings revealed a positive relationship between gender diversity and ESG performance. Similarly, a positive relationship was found between board independence and ESG performance. Contrarily, an inverse connection was found between board size and ESG performance, as well as CEO duality and ESG performance. The study adds to the academic literature on CG and ESG performance by emphasizing the necessity of balancing economic development with social responsibility and environmental preservation. In addition, the study highlights the need to stimulate technological innovation and create an effective governance structure conducive to implementing firms' ecological responsibilities. Lastly, policymakers can adopt the integrated ESG index in measuring firms' sustainability performance across all sectors and regions.
Surrogacy and the significance of gestation: Implications for law and policy
Authors: Mulligan Andrea 
Published: June 2024

AbstractGestational surrogacy is ethically complex, generating very different responses in law and policy worldwide. This paper argues that contemporary surrogacy law and policy, across many jurisdictions, fail to give sufficient attention to the significance of the relationship between the child and the gestational surrogate. This failure risks repeating the mistakes of historical, discredited approaches to adoption and donor‐assisted conception. This paper argues that proper recognition of the significance of gestation must be an organising principle in surrogacy law and policy. The paper begins by pointing to examples of surrogacy law and practice where the role of the gestator is unacceptably minimised, most notably the framing of the surrogate as a mere ‘carrier’. It goes on to examine the nature of gestation, including consideration of contemporary scholarship on the metaphysics of pregnancy and emerging work in epigenetics, and argues that current evidence supports the view that the gestational relationship must be taken more seriously than it currently is. The paper then draws analogies with parenthood in donor‐assisted conception and adoption to argue that approaches to parental status in novel family formations that fail to promote transparency and seek to deny the truth of familial relationships are doomed to fail. The paper concludes by suggesting some implications for law and policy that flow from placing sufficient emphasis on the gestational role. The overarching thesis of this paper is that gestational surrogacy is ethically permissible when these fundamental requirements are adhered to, and that surrogacy law should proceed on this basis.
Perspectives on technology: urethral slings in a post‐mesh world
Authors: Garcia Cindy , Homewood David , Gani Johan , O'Connell Helen E. 
Published: June 2024

ObjectivesTo detail the history of synthetic mid‐urethral slings (SMUSs) and fascial slings, their efficacy, associated complications, and changes to practice that have occurred after the issuing of the 2011 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Safety Communication statement on transvaginal mesh (TVM), and to highlight the need for surgical registries and high‐quality randomised controlled data to guide recommendations for continence procedures, in view of current concerns regarding mesh.MethodsA literature search was conducted in EMBASE, PubMed, and the Cochrane Database of systematic reviews to identify articles published from 2011 onward, following the FDA Safety Communication regarding TVM.ResultsPrior to the formal FDA Safety Communication in 2011, TVM was considered a safe option for the treatment of both pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The 2011 FDA safety communications and ensuing widely publicised litigation against TVM manufacturers have shifted both surgeon and patient acceptance of mesh products. Several efforts by medical and government bodies have been made to establish ways to monitor the surgical outcomes and safety of mesh products. The Australasian Pelvic Floor Procedure Registry is one such example. Although SMUSs have a long and established safety profile, perceptions of mesh products for SUI have also been negatively affected. The extent of this, however, has yet to be adequately measured through qualitative and quantitative data. The available data suggest it has been difficult for patients and consumers to distinguish between TVM morbidity for POP vs SUI. Furthermore, there remains a lack of high‐quality randomised or real‐world registry data to definitively exclude the SMUS from the SUI treatment algorithm. Since SMUSs are a viable option for SUI treatment, the concept of a ‘post‐mesh world’ remains contentious.ConclusionControversies surrounding SMUSs have changed the treatment landscape of SUI. Against the background of significant litigious action following the FDA warnings against mesh use, there has been significant reduction in the uptake of synthetic mesh products. Although there are ample data related to surgical outcomes and safety for both autologous fascial and retropubic SMUSs in carefully selected patients, informed consent and surgical training will be of paramount importance as newer synthetic materials reach clinical maturity.
Exploring the factors influencing the first singing date of a cicada, Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata: How will it be affected by climate change?
Authors: Tsujimoto Shohei G. , Koide Dai , Kumagai Naoki H. , Ikegami Makihiko , Nishihiro Jun 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Climate change affects various scales of biotic interaction through phenological shifts. The emergence phenology of cicadas is ecologically important because these insects have large effects on the ecosystem as herbivores, as food resources, and in nutrient flux from subterranean resources. However, little is known about the weather factors affecting their emergence patterns in the field because their nymphal stages grow underground for several years.
Here, we used long‐term observation data on the first singing date (i.e. the first emergence of male individuals) of Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata, recorded by the Japan Meteorological Agency and citizen scientists throughout Japan, to (1) explore the most influential weather factors across a variety of time spans on the first singing date of G. nigrofuscata and (2) determine whether the temporal trend of the first singing date could be explained by temporal weather trends caused by climate change by using a state space model.
Our results indicated that higher temperatures from midsummer to early winter in the previous year are bringing the cicadas' emergence forward, and the annual increase in temperature is causing the advancement of emergence patterns. Other weather factors, such as precipitation and humidity, did not have a strong effect.
Our findings suggest that increased growth rates at the nymphal stage due to warming in the previous year influence cicada emergence timing. To understand the mechanisms of how rising temperatures are advancing cicada emergence, we need an approach based on the physiology and ecology of their nymphs.
Data science methods for response, incremental response and rate sensitivity to response modelling in banking
Authors: Arevalillo Jorge M. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis work provides a review of data science methods that can be used to address a wide variety of business problems in the banking sector. The paper examines three modelling paradigms: the response, incremental response and the rate sensitivity to response approaches, emphasising the role they play to address these problems. These paradigms and the methods they involve are presented in combination with real cases to illustrate their potential in extracting valuable business insights from data. It is enhanced their usefulness to help business experts like risk managers, commercial managers, financial directors and chief executive officers to plan their strategies and guide decision making on the basis of the insights given by their outcomes. The scope of the work is twofold: it presents a unified view of the methods and how the fit the aforementioned paradigms while, at the same time, it examines some business cases for their application. Both issues will be of interest for technical and managerial teams involved in running data science projects in banking.
Industrial collaborative agglomeration and green economic efficiency—Based on the intermediary effect of technical change
Authors: Yu Haichao , Dai Shangze , Ke Haiqian 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIndustry upgrading and structure transformation are important methods for the green and sustainable development. This paper utilizes urban panel data from China spanning the years 2009–2022 to investigate the impact of manufacturing and producer services collaborative agglomeration on green economy efficiency. Additionally, it examines the mediating effect of three modes of technical change: domestic technological stock, international technology transfer, and innovation absorptive capacity. The key findings are summarized as follows: (1) The impact of Industrial collaborative agglomeration (ICA) on green economy efficiency follows a U‐shaped curve relationship, when the degree of ICA is below the inflection point (1.4022), it negatively affects green economy efficiency. However, when the degree surpasses that point, it demonstrates a positive impact. (2) Domestic technological stock and international technology transfer act as mediating variables between ICA and green economy efficiency. Advancements in domestic technology innovation and increased international technology transfer contribute to a positive effect of ICA on green economic efficiency.
State‐led urbanization and technological innovation: A quasi‐natural experiment from county‐to‐district conversion in China
Authors: Wang Chong , Wang Lei 
Published: June 2024

AbstractDifferent from the market‐led urbanization in western countries, China's urbanization process has the characteristics of being state‐led, in which county‐to‐district conversion (CTDC) policy plays a key role in promoting urbanization. Our study uses the data of 279 cities as a simple to explore the effect of the state‐led urbanization of CTDC on technological innovation. We find that CTDC significantly promote innovation, and this promoting effect is enhanced with the improvement of urban innovation ability. The mechanism test shows that financial expenditure on education and science, population agglomeration, information and communication technology industry are three channels for CTDC to boost technological innovation. We also find that this promotion effect is more obvious in eastern cities and the cities with higher administrative hierarchy, and is weakest in western cities, however, CTDC adjustment in northeastern cities significantly inhibited technological innovation. Further research shows that when the distance between merged county and city administrative center within 20 km, the effect is negative, after the distance is more than 20 km, with the increase of distance, the promoting effect of CTDC increases.
Competing against oneself and others? Competition as gendered technologies of the self
Authors: Carr Melissa , Kelan Elisabeth K. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis paper contributes to debates on gender and competition by drawing on a Foucauldian understanding of neoliberalism to explore how competition operates as gendered technologies of the self. Our findings are based on interviews and observations with women who work in a bank and a network marketing company. We unfold different modalities of competition that are in operation: competition has either an outward focus where women compete with other women or an inward focus where women compete with oneself. The study expands the theoretical understanding of gender and competition by exploring how different modalities of competition operate as gendered technologies of the self under neoliberalism. We conclude that while different modalities exist, they fulfill the same purpose in that they individualise women while making structural inequalities invisible.
The subjectivity load: Negotiating the internalization of “mother” and “creative worker” identities in creative industries
Authors: O’ Brien Anne 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis paper explores how mothers who are creative workers articulate their subjectivities and examines how their interdependent identities as both mothers and creatives lead to a constant and unresolved negotiation of subjectivity. This constitutes an additional cognitive work burden or a “subjectivity load” for mother‐creatives. The study is based on a small‐scale qualitative study of 40 mothers working in Creative Industries in Ireland. Venn's framework on subjectivity is used to explore the attitudes, values, expectations, and dispositions that respondents articulated when questioned about how they saw the self in relation to the identities of mother and worker. Key findings note that mother workers held ambivalent attitudes about the combination of mothering with work. In terms of their values, respondents internalized a negative and irresolute sense of self if they did not live up to social values on motherhood. With regard to expectations of themselves, mothers felt that they were always having to choose between conflicting demands and that there was an internalized expectation that motherhood should be prioritized over work. Finally, in terms of their disposition, respondents explained they felt that society refused to understand mothers as artists and so they could not easily achieve a settled subjectivity in light of the invisibility of mothers who were also creative workers. Consequently, mother‐creatives are always engaged in a process of negotiation across identity contradictions to form their own subjectivities. This ongoing ambivalence creates another cognitive or subjectivity load around the making and remaking of the internalized self.
PUBLICSERV: Quality assessment scale for public services
Authors: Vieira Kelmara Mendes , Ravanello Renata Pase 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThe quality of public services is a recurrent theme; however, it lacks the structuring of valid measures. The objective of the study was to build and validate a quality assessment scale for public services (PUBLICSERV). A total of 55 items were developed on a 5‐point Likert scale. The instrument validation involved two phases. In the qualitative phase, the validation by specialists and the pre‐test were carried out. In the quantitative phase, a sample of 660 cases was used in the exploratory stage, and another sample of 1284 individuals, in the confirmatory validation. The result of the study is the construction and validation of a scale for assessing the quality of public services composed of 50 items distributed in seven dimensions (tangible aspects, reliability, relationship, public value, transparency, equality and legality, and satisfaction), which evaluates the quality of public services. A methodology for applying the scale was developed to facilitate its use by researchers, managers, and public policymakers, who may have feedback on the quality of the service provided, helping to identify gaps and prioritize needs, thus being able to develop strategies for improvements in public administration.
Revision for unsatisfactory outcomes of scalp micropigmentation
Authors: Park Jae Hyun , Kim Narae , Kim Dae Woo , Lee Injae 
Published: June 2024

AbstractBackgroundScalp micropigmentation (SMP) is becoming increasingly popular. Accordingly, complications of the procedure are on the rise. However, the results of improperly performed SMP are exceedingly challenging to rectify and ultimately lead to severe mental stress and feelings of inferiority in patients.AimsThis retrospective study aimed to explore various aspects of unsatisfactory SMP outcomes and examine corrective measures available after the procedure.Materials and methodsA total of 120 patients who underwent corrective surgery or procedures due to unsatisfactory outcomes after SMP were enrolled in the study. Their photographs and medical charts were reviewed retrospectively.ResultsOut of 120 participants, 76 were women and 43 men. In total, 107 patients (89.2%) had been treated at a tattooing or cosmetic facility at a beauty salon performing permanent makeup, 12 (10.0%) at another clinic, and one (0.8%) at an oriental medicine clinic. Of 120 patients, hair transplant surgery was performed on 74 patients (61.7%). Twenty‐five (20.8%) underwent both hair transplant surgery and complementary SMP. Sixteen (13.3%) patients received laser tattoo removal and underwent SMP anew. Five patients (4.2%) had a previous tattoo removed without additional treatment. Patients' subjective satisfaction scores averaged 4.5/5. The physician's objective satisfaction score was 4.6/5.ConclusionIn cases where SMP is inadequately performed, satisfactory results can be achieved through appropriate revisions, such as tattoo removal, repeated SMP, or hair transplant surgery to conceal the tattoo by highly experienced medical professionals.Level of evidenceIV.