bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Simhypo-sand: a simple hypoplastic model for granular materials and SPH implementation
Authors: Wang Shun , Fang Hong-jie , Kang Xuan , Li Dian-qing , Wu Wei 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThis paper introduces a new hypoplastic model characterized by a simple and elegant formulation. It requires only 7 material parameters to depict salient mechanical behaviors of granular materials. The numerical implementation employs an explicit integration method, enhanced by a best-fit stress correction algorithm in a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. The performance of this model in capturing soil behavior across a range of scenarios is demonstrated by conducting various numerical tests, including triaxial and simple shear at low strain rates, as well as granular collapse, rigid penetration and landslide process at high strain rates.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health Care Experiences for Veterans Receiving VA Community Care from 2016 to 2021
Authors: Krishnamurthy Sudarshan , Li Yaming , Sileanu Florentina , Essien Utibe R. , Vanneman Megan E. , Mor Maria , Fine Michael J. , Thorpe Carolyn T. , Radomski Thomas , Suda Katie , Gellad Walid F. , Roberts Eric T. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Background
Prior research documented racial and ethnic disparities in health care experiences within the Veterans Health Administration (VA). Little is known about such differences in VA-funded community care programs, through which a growing number of Veterans receive health care. Community care is available to Veterans when care is not available through the VA, nearby, or in a timely manner.

Objective
To examine differences in Veterans’ experiences with VA-funded community care by race and ethnicity and assess changes in these experiences from 2016 to 2021.

Design
Observational analyses of Veterans’ ratings of community care experiences by self-reported race and ethnicity. We used linear and logistic regressions to estimate racial and ethnic differences in community care experiences, sequentially adjusting for demographic, health, insurance, and socioeconomic factors.

Participants
Respondents to the 2016–2021 VA Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients-Community Care Survey.

Measures
Care ratings in nine domains.

Key Results
The sample of 231,869 respondents included 24,306 Black Veterans (mean [SD] age 56.5 [12.9] years, 77.5% male) and 16,490 Hispanic Veterans (mean [SD] age 54.6 [15.9] years, 85.3% male). In adjusted analyses pooled across study years, Black and Hispanic Veterans reported significantly lower ratings than their White and non-Hispanic counterparts in five of nine domains (overall rating of community providers, scheduling a recent appointment, provider communication, non-appointment access, and billing), with adjusted differences ranging from − 0.04 to − 0.13 standard deviations (SDs) of domain scores. Black and Hispanic Veterans reported higher ratings with eligibility determination and scheduling initial appointments than their White and non-Hispanic counterparts, and Black Veterans reported higher ratings of care coordination, with adjusted differences of 0.05 to 0.21 SDs. Care ratings improved from 2016 to 2021, but differences between racial and ethnic groups persisted.

Conclusions
This study identified small but persistent racial and ethnic differences in Veterans’ experiences with VA-funded community care, with Black and Hispanic Veterans reporting lower ratings in five domains and, respectively, higher ratings in three and two domains. Interventions to improve Black and Hispanic Veterans’ patient experience could advance equity in VA community care.
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of Osteoporosis Knowledge Assessment Tool (OKAT) for Chinese populations in Australia
Authors: Bronio John Brianna , Si Lei , Lim David , Tang Clarice 
Published: May 2024

Abstract

Summary

The increased prevalence of osteoporosis among Chinese-speaking communities in Australia deemed it necessary to have a culturally appropriate tool for assessing knowledge. This study describes the cultural adaption of the validated Osteoporosis Knowledge Assessment Tool (OKAT). The adapted tool is readable and understandable for diverse Chinese-speaking communities.

Purpose
With an expected increasing prevalence of osteoporosis among Chinese-speaking communities in Australia, a cross-culturally adapted questionnaire is necessary to assess knowledge levels among the group. We aimed to cross-culturally adapt the Osteoporosis Knowledge Assessment Tool (OKAT) questionnaire for Chinese-speaking populations in Australia.

Methods
Cross-cultural adaptation guidelines were employed to culturally adapt the OKAT to simplified Chinese. This involved translation, revision, retroversion, and expert discussion before finalizing the Chinese version of OKAT. The participants were recruited through convenience sampling from a cohort of Chinese-speaking populations who attended a bone health promotion program. The adapted questionnaire was piloted with Chinese-speaking communities in the Greater Western Sydney area for face and content validity. The adapted questionnaire was compared with the original version for response agreement using Cohen’s kappa goodness of fit. The face validity of the adapted tool was analysed through a binary scale rating for readability and understandability.

Results
The cross-culturally adapted version of OKAT has a 71.8% total response agreement with the original version of OKAT. The cross-culturally adapted OKAT yielded higher total scores than the translated version. The cross-culturally adapted tool had a good face and content validity.

Conclusion
The cross-culturally adapted version of OKAT improves the overall readability and understandability of the questionnaire among Chinese-speaking populations in Australia.
Test-based behaviour model derivation and adaption to enable automated test case scheduling for automated production systems
Authors: Land Kathrin , Vogel-Heuser Birgit , Off Richard 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Automated production systems require continuous maintenance and validation through regression tests after on-site changes. However, identifying change-affected system parts, selecting relevant test steps, and scheduling them time-efficiently are time-consuming for on-site test engineers, especially in legacy systems lacking updated documentation. This paper proposes an approach to record a system behaviour model during system testing based on the system’s sensor, actuator and internal variable values. The resulting behaviour model is expandable, covers non-deterministic behaviour, includes timing information, more precisely, timestamps, and is usable for test planning. The resulting model is subsequently used for test step derivation based on the system states to be tested and automated test case scheduling.
Adaptive data-driven subsampling for efficient neural network inference
Authors: Machidon Alina L. , Pejović Veljko 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
In this paper we present a novel data-driven subsampling method that can be seamlessly integrated into any neural network architecture to identify the most informative subset of samples within the original acquisition domain for a variety of tasks that rely on deep learning inference from sampled signals. In contrast to existing methods that require signal transformation into a sparse basis, expensive signal reconstruction as an intermediate step, and that can support a single predefined sampling rate only, our approach allows the sampling inference pipeline to adapt to multiple sampling rates directly in the original signal domain. The key innovations enabling such operation are a custom subsampling layer and a novel training mechanism. Through extensive experiments with four data sets and four different network architectures, our method demonstrates a simple yet powerful sampling strategy that allows the given network to be efficiently utilized at any given sampling rate, while the inference accuracy degrades smoothly and gradually as the sampling rate is reduced. Experimental comparison with state-of-the-art sparse sensing and learning techniques demonstrates competitive inference accuracy at different sampling rates, coupled with a significant improvement in computational efficiency, and the crucial ability to operate at arbitrary sampling rates without the need for retraining.
Evolution of Private Forest Owner’s Cooperation: A Bibliometric Network Analysis
Authors: Pezdevšek Malovrh Špela , Avdibegović Mersudin , Morelli Stefano , Paletto Alessandro 
Published: May 2024

AbstractForests play an important role in adapting to and mitigating the negative effects of climate change and environmental degradation through sustainable forest management. In Europe and North America, where private forest ownership dominates, private forest owners play a crucial role in achieving diverse policy objectives. Given the importance of private forest owner cooperation to support the sustainable management and the achievement of policy goals, this paper systematically reviewed the international scientific publication on private forest owners (PFOs) cooperation using bibliometric network analysis complemented with a literature review to examine the development over the last two decades (2000–2021) and to determine where the trend of the research has been heading. The analysis provided a general overview of PFOs cooperation and focus more specifically on two main aspects of PFOs cooperation: “Reasons for joining forest owners’ organizations” and “Factors influencing PFOs cooperation”. The data was retrieved from the Scopus database and analysed using the VOSviewer software. The results showed that the number of publications on PFOs’ cooperation is more or less constant and that the most prolific authors’ institutions in this topic area come from the United States, Finland, Sweden and Germany. The keyword cluster analysis showed that there are three topic oriented clusters for both aspects of PFOs’ cooperation – “Reasons for joining forest owners’ organizations” and “Factors influencing PFOs cooperation”, while the trend of keywords showed a change in the perspective of PFOs’ cooperation over time: from cooperation for “timber production and supplying to the market” to cooperation for “multifunctional and sustainable forest management”, “biodiversity conservation” and “climate change mitigation”. The results also showed the influence of forest policy on PFOs cooperation.
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in HRQoL and Associated Risk Factors in Colorectal Cancer Survivors: With a Focus on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
Authors: Han Claire J. , Tounkara Fode , Kalady Matthew F. , Noonan Anne M. , Paskett Electra D. , Von Ah Diane 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Purpose
This study aimed to understand how health-related quality of life (HRQoL) differs by race/ethnicity in colorectal (CRC) survivors. We aimed to 1) examine racial/ethnic disparities in HRQoL, and 2) explore the roles of social determinants of health (SDOH) risk factors for HRQoL differ by racial/ethnic groups.

Methods
In 2,492 adult CRC survivors using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey data (from 2014 to 2021, excluding 2015 due to the absence of CRC data), we used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HRQoL measure, categorized into “better” and “poor.” Multivariate logistic regressions with prevalence risk (PR) were employed for our primary analyses.

Results
Compared with non-Hispanic Whites (NHW), non-Hispanic Blacks (NHB) (PR = 0.61, p = .045) and Hispanics (PR = 0.32, p < .001) reported worse HRQoL in adjusted models. In adjusted models, unemployed/retired and low-income levels were common risk factors for worse HRQoL across all comparison groups (NHW, NHB, non-Hispanic other races, and Hispanics). Other SDOH associated with worse HRQoL include divorced/widowed/never married marital status (non-Hispanic other races and Hispanics), living in rural areas (NHW and NHB), and low education levels (NHB and Hispanics). Marital status, education, and employment status significantly interacted with race/ethnicity, with the strongest interaction between Hispanics and education (PR = 2.45, p = .045) in adjusted models.

Conclusion
These findings highlight the need for culturally tailored interventions targeting modifiable factors (e.g., social and financial supports, health literacy), specifically for socially vulnerable CRC survivors, to address the disparities in HRQoL among different racial/ethnic groups.
The Cultural Evolution of Games of Chance
Authors: Hong Ze 
Published: May 2024

AbstractChance-based gambling has been a recurrent cultural activity throughout history and across many diverse human societies. In this paper, I combine quantitative and qualitative data and present a cultural evolutionary framework to explain why the odds in games of chance in premodern China appeared “designed” to ensure a moderate yet favorable house advantage. This is especially intriguing since extensive research in the history of probability has shown that, prior to the development of probability theory, people had very limited understanding of the nature of random events and were generally disinclined to think mathematically about the frequency of their occurrence. I argue that games of chance in the context of gambling may have culturally evolved into their documented forms via a process of selective imitation and retention, and neither the customers nor the gambling houses understood the probability calculus involved in these games.
Link Brain-Wide Projectome to Neuronal Dynamics in the Mouse Brain
Authors: Li Xiang , Du Yun , Huang Jiang-Feng , Li Wen-Wei , Song Wei , Fan Ruo-Nan , Zhou Hua , Jiang Tao , Lu Chang-Geng , Guan Zhuang , Wang Xiao-Fei , Gong Hui , Li Xiang-Ning , Li Anan , Fu Ling , Sun Yan-Gang 
Published: May 2024

AbstractKnowledge about the neuronal dynamics and the projectome are both essential for understanding how the neuronal network functions in concert. However, it remains challenging to obtain the neural activity and the brain-wide projectome for the same neurons, especially for neurons in subcortical brain regions. Here, by combining in vivo microscopy and high-definition fluorescence micro-optical sectioning tomography, we have developed strategies for mapping the brain-wide projectome of functionally relevant neurons in the somatosensory cortex, the dorsal hippocampus, and the substantia nigra pars compacta. More importantly, we also developed a strategy to achieve acquiring the neural dynamic and brain-wide projectome of the molecularly defined neuronal subtype. The strategies developed in this study solved the essential problem of linking brain-wide projectome to neuronal dynamics for neurons in subcortical structures and provided valuable approaches for understanding how the brain is functionally organized via intricate connectivity patterns.
Kulturen der Lebendigkeit in Kitas
Authors: Bilgi Oktay 
Published: May 2024

ZusammenfassungFolgt man einschlägigen Diagnosen, ist das Aufwachsen junger Kinder vermehrt sozial-ökologischen Folgen der Klimakrise unterworfen. Die Erforschung der mit dieser Diagnose einhergehenden Transformationsbestrebungen in Handlungsfeldern der frühen Kindheit hat bislang den Schwerpunkt auf programmatische Aspekte der Wirksamkeit von Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeitszielen orientiert an den 17 SDGs gelegt. Für eine kindheitstheoretische Auseinandersetzung mit diesen sozialen, kulturellen, ethischen und ökologischen Herausforderungen der Klimakrise bieten internationale Forschungsarbeiten im Kontext des Posthumanismus bzw. Neomaterialismus und der Critical Phenomenology erste Anhaltspunkte. Anhand ausgewählter ethnografischer Forschungsergebnisse geht der Beitrag der Frage nach, welche Wahrnehmungen, welches Wissen und welche ethischen Relationen sich durch vielfältige Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der Kita herausbilden. Am Beispiel einer Geschichte der Kind-Huhn-Begegnungen wird untersucht, wie durch die Erfahrung von Tod und Trauer sowie von Freude, Genuss und Verbundenheit Kulturen der Lebendigkeit entstehen, die Möglichkeiten eines Lernens miteinander zu leben eröffnen.
Stepping Up Summer Fun: the Cancer Research – Scholarship and Training Experience in Population Sciences (C-STEPS) Program
Authors: Lynch Paige A. , Gillette Jennifer M. , Sheche Judith N. , Jaffe Shoshana Adler , Rodman Joseph , Cartwright Kate , Kano Miria , Mishra Shiraz I. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Over the last two decades, strides in cancer prevention, earlier detection, and novel treatments have reduced overall cancer mortality; however, cancer health disparities (CHD) persist among demographically diverse and intersecting populations. The development of a culturally responsive workforce trained in interdisciplinary, team-based science is a key strategy for addressing these cancer disparities. The Cancer Research – Scholarship and Training Experience in Population Sciences (C-STEPS) program at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center is designed to increase and diversify the biomedical and behavioral research workforce by providing specialized and experiential curricula that highlight team-oriented cancer control and population science. Undergraduate students interested in CHD and in pursuing STEM-H (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health) graduate or professional degrees are eligible for the program. C-STEPS students are paired with a UNM faculty mentor, who guides the student’s 10-week summer research experience. They receive mentorship and support from three layers—faculty, near-peers (graduate students), and peers (undergraduates who have completed the C-STEPS program previously). Students generate five products, including a capstone presentation, grounded in the research they conduct with their faculty mentors. Since its founding in 2021, C-STEPS has trained three cohorts with a total of 32 students. The C-STEPS program provides a unique team-science approach with multilayer mentoring to create a sustainable pipeline for the development of students interested in STEM-H fields and CHD research. The capstone project led to 47% of students presenting their work at conferences, and two publishing their manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. Overall, 89% of students were either “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the program and the same percentage recommended the program to other undergraduates.
Overdetermination, underdetermination, and epistemic granularity in the historical sciences
Authors: Malaterre Christophe 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe optimism vs. pessimism debate about the historical sciences is often framed in terms of arguments about the relative importance of overdetermination vs. underdetermination of historical claims by available evidence. While the interplay between natural processes that create multiple traces of past events (thereby conducive of overdetermination) and processes that erase past information (whence underdetermination) cannot be ignored, I locate the root of the debate in the epistemic granularity, or intuitively the level of detail, that pervades any historical claim justification network. To reveal the role played by granularity, I elaborate a model of historical claim justification. This model maps out the different elements that enter the justification of historical claims (incl., actual and inferred states of affairs, dating and information reconstructing theories). It also incorporates the different types of processes that affect traces of past events (information creating, preserving, modifying, and destroying processes). Granularity is shown to play a pivotal role in all elements of this model, and thereby in the inferred justification of any historical claim. As a result, while upward or downward shifts in granularity may explain changes about claims being considered as overdetermined or underdetermined, epistemic granularity constitutes an integral part of evidential reasoning in the historical sciences (and possibly elsewhere).
Porous silicon and silica carriers for delivery of peptide therapeutics
Authors: Yan Jiachen , Siwakoti Prakriti , Shaw Siuli , Bose Sudeep , Kokil Ganesh , Kumeria Tushar 
Published: May 2024

AbstractPeptides have gained tremendous popularity as biological therapeutic agents in recent years due to their favourable specificity, diversity of targets, well-established screening methods, ease of production, and lower cost. However, their poor physiological and storage stability, pharmacokinetics, and fast clearance have limited their clinical translation. Novel nanocarrier-based strategies have shown promise in overcoming these issues. In this direction, porous silicon (pSi) and mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have been widely explored as potential carriers for the delivery of peptide therapeutics. These materials possess several advantages, including large surface areas, tunable pore sizes, and adjustable pore architectures, which make them attractive carriers for peptide delivery systems. In this review, we cover pSi and MSNs as drug carriers focusing on their use in peptide delivery. The review provides a brief overview of their fabrication, surface modification, and interesting properties that make them ideal peptide drug carriers. The review provides a systematic account of various studies that have utilised these unique porous carriers for peptide delivery describing significant in vitro and in vivo results. We have also provided a critical comparison of the two carriers in terms of their physicochemical properties and short-term and long-term biocompatibility. Lastly, we have concluded the review with our opinion of this field and identified key areas for future research for clinical translation of pSi and MSN-based peptide therapeutic formulations.
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Brain targeted lactoferrin coated lipid nanocapsules for the combined effects of apocynin and lavender essential oil in PTZ induced seizures
Authors: Youssef Julie R. , Boraie Nabila A. , Ismail Fatma A. , Bakr Basant A. , Allam Eman A. , El-Moslemany Riham M. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractApocynin (APO) is a plant derived antioxidant exerting specific NADPH oxidase inhibitory action substantiating its neuroprotective effects in various CNS disorders, including epilepsy. Due to rapid elimination and poor bioavailability, treatment with APO is challenging. Correspondingly, novel APO-loaded lipid nanocapsules (APO-LNC) were formulated and coated with lactoferrin (LF-APO-LNC) to improve br ain targetability and prolong residence time. Lavender oil (LAV) was incorporated into LNC as a bioactive ingredient to act synergistically with APO in alleviating pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizures. The optimized LF-APO-LAV/LNC showed a particle size 59.7 ± 4.5 nm with narrow distribution and 6.07 ± 1.6mV zeta potential) with high entrapment efficiency 92 ± 2.4% and sustained release (35% in 72 h). Following subcutaneous administration, LF-APO-LAV/LNC brought about ⁓twofold increase in plasma AUC and MRT compared to APO. A Log BB value of 0.2 ± 0.14 at 90 min reflects increased brain accumulation. In a PTZ-induced seizures rat model, LF-APO-LAV/LNC showed a Modified Racine score of 0.67 ± 0.47 with a significant increase in seizures latency and decrease in duration. Moreover, oxidant/antioxidant capacity and inflammatory markers levels in brain tissue were significantly improved. Histopathological and immunohistochemical assessment of brain tissue sections further supported these findings. The results suggest APO/LAV combination in LF-coated LNC as a promising approach to counteract seizures.
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