bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Determining the directions of dangerous ecogeochemical impact of surface reservoirs of highly mineralized mine and open pit waters using a complex of geological and geophysical data
Authors: Tiapkin Oleh , Anisimova Larysa , Frolova Liliya , Yemelianenko Tamara 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
The issues of effective use of geological and geophysical methods for spatial assessment of dangerous ecogeochemical impact of storage ponds of highly mineralized mine and open pit waters are considered. An example of such an object is the Svystunovo gully (volume – 12 million m3), into which water is pumped out from all working open pits and mines of Southern and partially Central Kryvbas. To solve ecogeochemical problems associated with dangerous influence of such storage ponds, a well-known method for restoring Precambrian fault systems using a complex of geological, geophysical and geomorphological data was taken. At all research scales, based on the results of calculations of the significance of “weights” of fault signs, a clear trend was revealed for predominance of diagonal fault systems with strike azimuths: 35° - 305° and 45° - 315°. The spatial combination of tectonic information with results of detailed electrical exploration work made it possible to identify local directions of propagation of dangerous ecogeochemical influence of the studied storage pond of highly mineralized waters by anomalies of decrease / increase in geoelectric resistance in the emerging geochemical block of local system of integrated environmental monitoring of Southern Kryvbas.
Design and implementation of a polarization-encoding system for quantum key distribution
Authors: Mantey Sara , Silva Nuno , Pinto Armando , Muga Nelson 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
We present the design and implementation of a state-of-polarization (SOP) management technique and two efficient synchronizing methods for quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. This is achieved following a wavelength-division multiplexing approach, where the classical synchronization signal and the quantum states are propagated in the same optical fiber. The employed frame synchronization method is based on the monitoring of the quantum bit error ratio (QBER) of the quantum channel, thus avoiding additional hardware and high computational resources. We evaluate the operation of SOP generation method through the assessment of the individual response of the waveplates that comprise the employed electronic polarization controller. Finally, the performance was assessed by computing the overall QBER and the QBER contributions of each of the four polarization states associated with the different qubits. The measurements, obtained during six hours, show a slight variation of the QBER values associated with the individual contributions, reaching an overall QBER of 0.75%. This demonstrates the capability of the presented methods to operate, stably, with very low QBER values, making its application in practical QKD systems reliable.
Investigation on corrosion resistance of electroless Ni-W-P coatings co-deposited with SiO2 nanoparticles
Authors: Li Tao , Lv Yue , Zhou Haojie , Suo Xinkun , Ruan Dianbo , Jian Wei , He Jie , Ren Lu 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
The corrosion of materials in sea environment are generally caused by salt spray, tidal action and adhesion of marine organisms. It is necessary to ensure the materials possess the required strength and good corrosion resistance during operation. Although the existing Ni-W-P electroless plating can provide a certain degree of corrosion protection, its corrosion resistance is still limited under harsh marine condition. SiO2 nanoparticles have received extensive concern due to their excellent corrosion resistance, which has been considered as potential candidates for enhancing corrosion resistance in multicomponent electroless coatings. In this study, the electroless Ni-W-P coatings with SiO2 nanoparticles co-deposition on the Q235 substrate was prepared. The coating was characterized through scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), polarization techniques, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). As a result, the Ni-W-P coating co-deposited with SiO2 nanoparticles demonstrates superior corrosion resistance compared to the pure Ni-W-P coating. The surface of SiO2 nanoparticles contain three distinct bonded hydroxyl functional groups, which can influence the ionic reaction in the plating solution and the deposition of elements in the coating. After modified by PVA, it can be uniformly dispersed in the coating, and the composite coating with SiO2 nanoparticles co-deposited is transformed into a nanocrystalline structure. The even distribution of SiO2 nanoparticles fill the defects within the coating, leading to a reduction in porosity, permeability, and susceptibility to penetration of corrosive media. Concurrently, the nanoparticles facilitate surface passivation, forming a stable interface with substrate and coating that inhibits electrochemical reactions and diminishes the rate of self-corrosion reactions. The good and stable corrosion resistance is achieved at the SiO2 concentration of 9 g l−1 and PVA concentration of 1.08 g l−1. These findings offer valuable insights for addressing corrosion challenges in the field of marine engineering.
Damage behavior of cold-rolled sintered fiber felts
Authors: Tychsen J , Lück J M , Rösler J 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Porous Materials, such as sintered fiber felts (SFFs), can contribute to the reduction of aircraft noise by acting as a low-noise trailing edge (TE). A rolling process with a time-varying rolling gap was sucessfully used to tailor the aeroacoustic properties of SFFs. To ensure the suitability of rolled porous materials for application, the mechanical properties after rolling must be investigated. The objective of this study was to clarify the effect of the rolling process on the damage evolution during tensile loading. A SFF consisting of a functional layer and a support grid made of alloy 1.4404 was used for rolling. Interrupted tensile tests in combination with computed tomography (CT) were used to investigate the damage evolution of as-received material, uniformly rolled material and material rolled with a gradient in thickness reduction. Metallographic examination and fracture surface analysis using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) complemented the CT analysis. Uniformly rolled material with a low degree of deformation (−0.74 ≤ φ < 0) failed identically to the as-received material. The functional layer failed first, starting from the center. The support grid subsequently failed due to the incremental failure of individual wires. The material rolled with a gradient in thickness reduction failed accordingly. A significant change in damage evolution occured for material rolled at high degrees of deformation φ ≤ −1.53, where the support grid fails first and the functional layer second. The rolling process using a time-varying rolling gap does not result in a detrimental mechanical behavior under tensile load. The results improve the general understanding of the effects of rolling processes on the properties of porous materials and allow the damage behavior to be taken into account with regard to its application as a TE.
Introduction
Authors: Miller-McLemore Bonnie J 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This introduction describes ambivalence about the terms calling and vocation; their neglect and superficial rendering among religious communities; and the need for their retrieval and reclamation from reductive exploitation by popular psychology, corporate business, and self-help literature. It also reveals the importance of talking openly about the complications, limitations, and satisfactions in following callings as they evolve across life. The chapter briefly introduces the book’s content, defines its basic terms, and invites the reader to engage the book as it was written, beginning with the chapter that most draws the reader in. Telling the difficult truths about calling, which involves bliss and sacrifice, is a revolutionary way to approach it: as a complicated, ambiguous, and even painful reality that deserves to be understood in all its complexity and glory. Discussing the ups and downs of calling may lead to further conversation and help pave the way for living more meaningful and purposeful lives.
Blocked Callings: A Raisin in the Sun
Authors: Miller-McLemore Bonnie J 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This chapter addresses blocked callings, when hopes or aspirations are indefinitely deferred, ambushed, or denied because of circumstances outside one’s control. Drawing on Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem,” best known as “A Dream Deferred,” the chapter looks at callings that “explode” or are horribly thwarted as well as less dramatic instances when callings simply “dry up.” Social obstacles and insidious biases damage callings in profound ways, but banal obstructions also abound. The chapter explores the rage, discouragement, self-hatred, depression, and despair as well as viable responses: survival, visibility, radical self-love, affirmation, recompense, and hope across time and generations. As the chapter underscores, calling is not an autonomous choice so much as a communal and political matter, supported or destroyed by religion, prejudice, and the market. Yet, popular treatments of calling seldom acknowledge how much social location and economic power shape calling, thereby turning it into a luxury reserved for the elite.
Relinquished Callings: Riding Off into the Sunset?
Authors: Miller-McLemore Bonnie J 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Whereas other chapters are about finding, following, and managing callings amid difficulties, the book concludes by focusing on how to give callings up. With relinquished callings, people have found a calling and committed themselves to it, whether briefly or for years, and now must give it up. The chapter explores the difficulties of relinquishing callings in retirement and other times of life such as stepmothering, illness, and lost pregnancies. The chapter is organized around the movement from relinquishment and renunciation to reorientation and relief. It considers the necessary and frequently overlooked place of lament, the role of humility, and the dynamics of refashioning one’s life (“falling upward”) and discovering fresh callings ahead.
Discussing Illocution
Authors: Sbisà Marina 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis chapter expounds and discusses five challenges that have been levelled at Austin’s conception of illocution: (i) Austin’s theory holds for oral speech alone; (ii) Austin neglects the so-called ‘not serious’ uses of language; (iii) Austin is wrong in assuming that performative utterances are neither true nor false and giving priority to the felicity–infelicity assessment over the truth–falsity assessment; (iv) Austin does not succeed in providing a locutionary/illocutionary distinction; (v) Austin takes all illocutionary acts to be conventional, but this is not the case. It sketches out some replies to challenges (i)–(iv) arguing that Austin’s speech act theory is not tied to orality or personal presence, that it does not rely upon the speaker’s intention and sets ‘not serious’ uses apart merely in order to avoid considering them as kinds of illocutionary act, that Austin’s attitude towards truth-value gaps should be rediscussed in the light of his notion of the assessment of the accomplished utterance, and that the conviction that locutionary acts cannot be distinguished from illocutionary ones relies upon a misunderstanding of illocution. It discusses at length challenge (v), concerning the conventionality of illocution and introduces the distinction between the conventionality of the means of an act and that of its effect, arguing that the latter kind of conventionality amounts to the fact that the effect is brought about thanks to interpersonal agreement and is defeasible. It eventually offers some positive support to Austin’s view of illocution by considering the descriptive and explanatory powers of the illocutionary/perlocutionary distinction and of Austin’s illocutionary acts classification.
Perception and Knowledge
Authors: Sbisà Marina 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis chapter deals with Austin’s philosophy of perception as it emerges from his volume Sense & Sensibilia over and beyond its aim of criticizing sense-data theories. It states that Austin was influenced by Oxford Realism and discusses to what extent Austin should be considered as a realist. It illustrates Austin’s willingness to recognize a great deal of diverse things as objects of perception (overcoming the dichotomy of ‘sense-data’ and ‘material objects’) and his analysis of the notion of reality, conducted by observing how the adjective ‘real’ is used (in phrases such as ‘a real x’ or ‘not a real x’). It comments upon Austin’s refusal to adopt an inferential view of perception and claims that he views perception not as a sort of representation, but as presentational. It concludes with a note about the relation of Austin’s opposition to inferentialism in the philosophy of perception with his anti-scepticism.
The United States
Authors: Krotoszynski, Jr. Ronald J 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Not unlike the Greek god Proteus, a famous shape-shifter, the First Amendment seems to change its form and shape over time, through a process of dynamic judicial construction, to promote and safeguard the ongoing project of democratic deliberation. In fact, the First Amendment’s text plays virtually no meaningful role in protecting expressive freedom in the contemporary United States. Despite containing four distinct clauses (the Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition Clauses), only the Free Speech Clause seems to do any meaningful jurisprudential work. The Press, Assembly, and Petition Clauses have fallen into desuetude; they generate little constitutional litigation and very few Supreme Court decisions. Textualist jurists, including Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Hugo Black, routinely claim that they must strictly follow the text as written when interpreting the Constitution. Curiously, however, these self-described textualist and originalist jurists do not follow this interpretative approach when applying the First Amendment. Instead, First Amendment interpretation is invariably purposive, dynamic, and of the “living tree” stripe. This phenomenon raises important and interesting questions about the relevance and efficacy of constitutional text in securing both expressive freedom and fundamental rights more generally. In the United States, and abroad as well, expressive freedom depends much more on social, cultural, and political norms and traditions than on constitutional text. The protean First Amendment strongly suggests that—notwithstanding the vociferousness with which conservative judges, legal scholars, and lawyers advance textualist claims—the process of constitutional adjudication is, in its essence, a common law enterprise.
The United Kingdom
Authors: Krotoszynski, Jr. Ronald J 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
For generations, it was both commonplace and legally correct to observe that the United Kingdom lacked any legally enforceable bill of rights. Although once true, it is no longer so. Since October 2, 2000, the date that the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 98) came into effect, the domestic law of the United Kingdom has included a codified bill of rights that includes an express guarantee of freedom of expression. The standard narrative posits that, with respect to the rights codified in the European Convention, the HRA 98 worked a sea change in both the ability and willingness of the British domestic courts to protect fundamental human rights, which, under the European Convention, include freedom of expression. As it turns out, however, the emergence of judicial solicitude for expressive freedom as a human rights value in the United Kingdom significantly predates the HRA 98. This process of judicial recognition of speech as a legal value also shows how courts will respond—and respond directly—to a clear constitutional expectation that the government will respect, at least to some degree, the people’s right to speak their minds without fear of government censorship. Judges recognized and responded to the British people’s expectation that the courts would vindicate some sort of right to freedom of expression; they did so by reading down statutes restricting speech and modifying the common law to take account of free expression. This judicial recognition and protection of freedom of expression in the United Kingdom demonstrates common law constitutionalism in action.
Time-efficient filtering of imaging polarimetric data by checking physical realizability of experimental Mueller matrices
Authors: Novikova Tatiana , Ovchinnikov Alexey , Pogudin Gleb , Ramella-Roman Jessica C 
Published: June 2024

Abstract

Motivation
Imaging Mueller polarimetry has already proved its potential for biomedicine, remote sensing, and metrology. The real-time applications of this modality require both video rate image acquisition and fast data post-processing algorithms. First, one must check the physical realizability of the experimental Mueller matrices in order to filter out non-physical data, i.e. to test the positive semi-definiteness of the 4 × 4 Hermitian coherency matrix calculated from the elements of corresponding Mueller matrix pixel-wise. For this purpose, we compared the execution time for the calculations of (i) eigenvalues, (ii) Cholesky decomposition, (iii) Sylvester’s criterion, and (iv) coefficients of the characteristic polynomial (two different approaches) of the Hermitian coherency matrix, all calculated for the experimental Mueller matrix images (600 pixels × 700 pixels) of mouse uterine cervix. The calculations were performed using C++ and Julia programming languages.

Results
Our results showed the superiority of the algorithm (iv) based on the simplification via Pauli matrices over other algorithms for our dataset. The sequential implementation of latter algorithm on a single core already satisfies the requirements of real-time polarimetric imaging. This can be further amplified by the proposed parallelization (e.g. we achieve a 5-fold speed up on six cores).

Availability and implementation
The source codes of the algorithms and experimental data are available at https://github.com/pogudingleb/mueller_matrices.
KRAGEN: a knowledge graph-enhanced RAG framework for biomedical problem solving using large language models
Authors: Matsumoto Nicholas , Moran Jay , Choi Hyunjun , Hernandez Miguel E , Venkatesan Mythreye , Wang Paul , Moore Jason H 
Published: June 2024

Abstract

Motivation
Answering and solving complex problems using a large language model (LLM) given a certain domain such as biomedicine is a challenging task that requires both factual consistency and logic, and LLMs often suffer from some major limitations, such as hallucinating false or irrelevant information, or being influenced by noisy data. These issues can compromise the trustworthiness, accuracy, and compliance of LLM-generated text and insights.

Results
Knowledge Retrieval Augmented Generation ENgine (KRAGEN) is a new tool that combines knowledge graphs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and advanced prompting techniques to solve complex problems with natural language. KRAGEN converts knowledge graphs into a vector database and uses RAG to retrieve relevant facts from it. KRAGEN uses advanced prompting techniques: namely graph-of-thoughts (GoT), to dynamically break down a complex problem into smaller subproblems, and proceeds to solve each subproblem by using the relevant knowledge through the RAG framework, which limits the hallucinations, and finally, consolidates the subproblems and provides a solution. KRAGEN’s graph visualization allows the user to interact with and evaluate the quality of the solution’s GoT structure and logic.

Availability and implementation
KRAGEN is deployed by running its custom Docker containers. KRAGEN is available as open-source from GitHub at: https://github.com/EpistasisLab/KRAGEN.
FishTEDB 2.0: an update fish transposable element (TE) database with new functions to facilitate TE research
Authors: Shao Feng , Zeng Minzhi , Xu Xiaofei , Zhang Huahao , Peng Zuogang 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
We launched the initial version of FishTEDB in 2018, which aimed to establish an open-source, user-friendly, data-rich transposable element (TE) database. Over the past 5 years, FishTEDB 1.0 has gained approximately 10 000 users, accumulating more than 450 000 interactions. With the unveiling of extensive fish genome data and the increasing emphasis on TE research, FishTEDB needs to extend the richness of data and functions. To achieve the above goals, we introduced 33 new fish species to FishTEDB 2.0, encompassing a wide array of fish belonging to 48 orders. To make the updated database more functional, we added a genome browser to visualize the positional relationship between TEs and genes and the estimated TE insertion time in different species. In conclusion, we released a new version of the fish TE database, FishTEDB 2.0, designed to assist researchers in the future study of TE functions and promote the progress of biological theories related to TEs.
Database URL: https://www.fishtedb.com/
Cash Versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program Against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda
Authors: McIntosh Craig , Zeitlin Andrew 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
We develop a methodology to benchmark in-kind programs against cost-equivalent cash transfers. Our application compares a multi-dimensional child nutrition intervention to unconditional cash transfers, using randomised variation in transfer amounts and regression adjustment of expenditures to estimate impacts of cash transfers at identical cost as well as to estimate the return to increasing cash transfer amounts. While neither the in-kind program nor a cost-equivalent transfer costing $124 per household moves core child outcomes within a year, cash transfers create significantly greater consumption and asset accumulation. A larger cash transfer costing $517 substantially improves consumption and investment outcomes and drives modest improvements in dietary diversity and child growth.
Critical language pedagogues in Japan: enhancing student receptivity
Authors: Jackson Lachlan , Kennett Belinda 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This paper reports on part of a larger study of critical language pedagogy (CLP) in university EFL classes in Japan. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews, we examined the philosophies, approaches, pedagogic choices, and adaptations of nineteen self-identifying critical pedagogues. Here, we focus on the theme of student receptivity to the use of critical practices. We report that the majority of teachers thought that CLP was viable in their situations and we show the strategies that they have used to make it work. We particularly focus on the ways in which teachers have created classroom environments conducive to communication about challenging issues. The results may inform and guide teachers in their own explorations of CLP as they make decisions relevant to their own educational contexts.