bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Exploring the interplay of psychological and biological components of stress response and telomere length in the transition from middle age to late adulthood: A systematic review
Authors: Souza‐Talarico Juliana Nery , Chesak Sherry , Elizalde Natalie , Liu Wen , Moon Chooza , Oberfrank Natany da Costa Ferreira , Rauer Amy Joanna , Takao Camila Lopes , Shaw Clarissa , Saravanan Anitha , Longhi Palacio Fabiana Gulin , Buck Harleah 
Published: March 2024

AbstractAgeing and chronic stress have been linked to reduced telomere length (TL) in mixed‐age groups. Whether stress response components are linked to TL during the midlife‐to‐late adulthood transition remains unclear. Our study aimed to synthesise evidence on the relationship between psychological and biological components of stress response on TL in middle‐aged and older adults. We conducted a systematic review of studies obtained from six databases (PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Scopus) and evaluated by two independent reviewers. Original research measuring psychological and biological components of stress response and TL in human individuals were included. From an initial pool of 614 studies, 15 were included (n = 9446 participants). Synthesis of evidence showed that higher psychological components of the stress response (i.e., global perceived stress or within a specific life domain and cognitive appraisal to social‐evaluative stressors) were linked to shorter TL, specifically in women or under major life stressors. For the biological stress response, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate and IGF‐1/cortisol imbalance, IL‐6, MCP‐1, blood pressure, and heart rate presented a significant association with TL, but this relationship depended on major life stressors and the stress context (manipulated vs. non‐manipulated conditions). This comprehensive review showed that psychological and biological components of the stress response are linked to shorter TL, but mainly in women or those under a major life stressor and stress‐induced conditions. The interaction between stressor attributes and psychological and biological reactions in the transition from middle to late adulthood still needs to be fully understood, and examining it is a critical step to expanding our understanding of stress's impact on ageing trajectories.
Sonographer wellbeing in Australia: Perceptions of job demands and resources in clinical working environments
Authors: Hall Catherine , Pignata Silvia , Tie Mark , Bezak Eva , Childs Jessie 
Published: March 2024

AbstractIntroductionThe concept that job characteristics can have a profound impact on employee wellbeing has been well documented. This manuscript aims to highlight the job demands and resources experienced by Australian sonographers, and those resources perceived to be the most effective at improving workplace wellbeing.MethodsUtilising the Job Demands‐Resources Model, a national survey was issued to Australian sonographers in both public and private clinical working environments. The quantitative and qualitative data collected were analysed using non‐parametric tests of association as well as inductive coding of themes.ResultsSixty‐nine participants responded to the survey with 27 participants (39%) reporting moderate levels of job satisfaction. Workplace demands of unrealistic workloads, time pressures, and inadequate scheduled breaks were reported as the most frequently experienced demand by 67 participants (97%). Twenty‐four participants (35%) reported no access to any form of resource or strategy for improving wellbeing in the workplace and a further nine indicated they utilised entirely self‐driven resources. Workload reduction strategies were perceived to be the most consistently effective yet were the least accessible strategy for sonographers. Other strategies including psychology sessions, physical therapies, and injury prevention were perceived to be more accessible, yet minimally effective.ConclusionNew legislation in the management of psychosocial hazards at work is likely to generate positive changes. Further research establishing an acceptable workload for sonographers, introducing job crafting, and improving sonographer recognition would prove to be the most fruitful.
Unveiling the Benefits of Resistant Starch in Legumes: Overview of Current and Future Prospective
Authors: Ghare Mrunal , Vishwakarma Kiran , Tripathi Sandhya , Dixit Girish Prasad , Soren Khela Ram 
Published: March 2024

AbstractResistant starch has gained substantial attention in recent years due to its potential health benefits. Among the various sources of RS, legumes have appeared as a prominent and promising contributor. Legumes like beans, lentils, and chickpeas, comprise a unique composition that promotes the resistant starch formation during cooking and processing. The review begins by presenting an overview of resistant starch and its classification based on its structure and digestibility. The mechanisms by which legume‐based resistant starch impacts human health are discussed, including its potential role in controlling postprandial glucose and insulin responses, improve satiety, boost colonic health, and influence lipid metabolism. The promising role of resistant starch from legumes in controlling chronic diseases like obesity, cardiovascular disorders, and type 2 diabetes is also explored. This review briefly covers the recent advancements in regulating the starch biosynthesis pathway through the utilization of RNA interference (RNAi) and CRISPR/Cas9 techniques. In summary, the association between resistant starch and legumes offers a compelling pathway to enhance human health and mitigate the risk of chronic diseases. Legumes as a regular part of the diet can be a viable and effective approach to augment resistant starch intake and harness its potential health‐promoting effects.
Treatment of tannery effluent: An effective biological enhancement approach
Authors: Aarthi P. , Biswas Zeba , Hemalatha S. , Faridha Begum I. 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThe water pollution due to tannery industries that contaminate river water and other spheres, is a side effect of industry expansion. The research focused on the biological removal of synthetic azo dyes by using biological treatment under aerobic conditions. Through morphological observation, biochemical test, and 16S rRNA sequence analysis the isolated bacteria were determined to be Aeromonas caviae, Enterobacter sichuanensis. Reduction of the organic content present in the tannery effluent and removal of the nutrients that cause pollution or inactivate potential pathogenic microorganisms or parasites. Optimized the azo dye degradation conditions at the temperature of 37°C, at pH 7 in 10% inoculum concentration at the time of 48th hour where novel organism capable of performing effective degradation. The metabolite of an aliquot mixture of the optimized condition was analyzed using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and the results confirmed the reduction of azo dyes. These results indicate that A. caviae and E. sichuanensis can be utilized as a solution for the remediation of tannery industrial effluent containing azo dyes.
Detection of ammonia mercerization in cotton textiles
Authors: Manian Avinash P. , Široká Barbora , Bechtold Thomas 
Published: March 2024

AbstractCotton textiles are mercerized with anhydrous ammonia liquefied at ca. − 33 °C to improve their mechanical performance, appearance, and handle. Similar effects may also be achieved with NaOH mercerization, but goods mercerized with liquid ammonia (L-NH3) are judged qualitatively better (e.g., softer hand) and thus command a greater price. Therefore, it is of interest to be able to test and confirm whether cotton textiles labeled as L-NH3 treated are indeed so. Building on previous work, we report on tests in collaboration with a process house on identifying ammonia-mercerized fabrics from a pool of cotton textiles treated with L-NH3, NaOH, neither, or both––using FTIR-ATR spectroscopy. It is based on detecting the change in crystal lattice structure from type I (native cellulose) to type II (after NaOH mercerization) or type III (after ammonia mercerization). We could consistently differentiate the ammonia-mercerized fabrics from the untreated and those mercerized with NaOH, but the latter could not be differentiated from fabrics mercerized with both. It was also possible to detect evidence of ammonia mercerization in 4- and 14-year-old samples.
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Lithium-ion (LCO/NMC, NMC, LFP) battery recycling: partial LCA study
Authors: Fridrich Michael , Pražanová Anna , Weinzettel Jan , Knap Vaclav 
Published: March 2024

AbstractRecycling lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become increasingly important in response to expanding electromobility. This paper is focused on evaluating the environmental impacts (EIs) of recycling pre-treatment of three types of LIBs with black mass as its product. A detailed gate-to-gate Life Cycle Assessment study was conducted to obtain EIs of the recycling process. The benefits of LIBs recycling pre-treatment and significant recovery of secondary aluminum for compared battery types are highlighted in the analysis. This paper points out that the varying chemistry of the compared LIBs does not affect the resulting EIs of the recycling pre-treatment procedures.
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Modeling competences in enterprise architecture: from knowledge, skills, and attitudes to organizational capabilities
Authors: Calhau Rodrigo F. , Almeida João Paulo A. , Kokkula Satyanarayana , Guizzardi Giancarlo 
Published: March 2024

AbstractCompetence-based approaches have received increased attention, as the demand for qualified people with the right combination of competences establishes itself as a major factor of organizational performance. This paper examines how competences can be incorporated into Enterprise Architecture modeling: (i) we identify a key set of competence-related concepts such as knowledge, skills, and attitudes, (ii) analyze and relate them using a reference ontology (grounded on the Unified Foundational Ontology), and (iii) propose a representation strategy for modeling competences and their constituent elements leveraging the ArchiMate language, discussing how the proposed models can fit in enterprise competence-based practices. Our approach is intended to cover two tasks relevant to the combined application of Enterprise Architecture and Competence Modeling: ‘zooming in’ on competences, revealing the relations between competences, knowledge, skills, attitudes and other personal characteristics that matter in organizational performance, and ‘zooming out’ of competences, placing them in the wider context of other personal competences and overall organizational capabilities. An assessment of the representation is offered in the form of an empirical survey.
An assessment and characterization of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) within the Great Lakes Basin: Mussel Watch Program (2013–2018)
Authors: M. A. Edwards , K. Kimbrough , N. Fuller , E. Davenport , M. Rider , A. Freitag , S. Regan , A Leight , K.  , H. Burkart , A. Jacob , E. Johnson 
Published: March 2024

AbstractDefining the environmental occurrence and distribution of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs), including pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in coastal aquatic systems, is often difficult and complex. In this study, 70 compounds representing several classes of pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, insect repellant, antibacterial, antidepressants, chemotherapy drugs, and X-ray contrast media compounds, were found in dreissenid mussel (zebra/quagga; Dreissena spp.) tissue samples. Overall concentration and detection frequencies varied significantly among sampling locations, site land-use categories, and sites sampled proximate and downstream of point source discharge. Verapamil, triclocarban, etoposide, citalopram, diphenhydramine, sertraline, amitriptyline, and DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) comprised the most ubiquitous PPCPs (> 50%) detected in dreissenid mussels. Among those compounds quantified in mussel tissue, sertraline, metformin, methylprednisolone, hydrocortisone, 1,7-dimethylxanthine, theophylline, zidovudine, prednisone, clonidine, 2-hydroxy-ibuprofen, iopamidol, and melphalan were detected at concentrations up to 475 ng/g (wet weight). Antihypertensives, antibiotics, and antidepressants accounted for the majority of the compounds quantified in mussel tissue. The results showed that PPCPs quantified in dreissenid mussels are occurring as complex mixtures, with 4 to 28 compounds detected at one or more sampling locations. The magnitude and composition of PPCPs detected were highest for sites not influenced by either WWTP or CSO discharge (i.e., non-WWTPs), strongly supporting non-point sources as important drivers and pathways for PPCPs detected in this study. As these compounds are detected at inshore and offshore locations, the findings of this study indicate that their persistence and potential risks are largely unknown, thus warranting further assessment and prioritization of these emerging contaminants in the Great Lakes Basin.
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Precise Tail Behaviour of Some Dirichlet Series
Authors: Iksanov Alexander , Wachtel Vitali 
Published: March 2024

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Showcasing the usefulness of web probing: Do subtle variations in questionnaire translation lead to different survey responding?
Authors: Behr Dorothée , Braun Michael , Aiglstorfer Luisa 
Published: March 2024

AbstractIt is generally taken for granted that comparability in comparative research hinges, among others, on the quality of questionnaire translations. However, what do slight differences in translation mean for respondents’ answers? In this article, we look at a combination of quantitative evidence from split-ballot experiments and qualitative evidence from additional probing questions for three items that were translated according to different translation methods, resulting in different translations, e.g., for “our national way of life.” Two of the three items do not show any quantitative differences between translation versions when implemented in split-ballot experiments. However, using open-ended probing questions we delved deeper into the effects of different translation versions. This allowed us to show that different translations do indeed change respondent understanding. We suggest mechanisms that may lead to different translations (not) having an impact on the data, and we also try to align the results to the notion of equivalence/comparability in translation. Ultimately, we showcase the usefulness of web probing for exploring different translation understandings.
Achievable Spectral Efficiency of Line-of-Sight MIMO Fixed Links with Compact Planar Antenna Arrays and Power Amplifier Limitations
Authors: Filiberti Gaudenzio , Reggiani Luca , Dossi Laura 
Published: March 2024

AbstractFixed Point-to-Point microwave wireless systems with high spectral efficiency are needed to meet the pervasive and increasing demand for capacity in back-haul networks of mobile radio systems. In this context, spatially multiplexed LoS-MIMO (Line-of-Sight Multiple Input Multiple Output) systems have been studied for about twenty years, particularly in the millimeter wave frequency bands (above 15 GHz). However, their deployment in real networks has been really limited, to the authors’ knowledge. This has been due to several factors, i.e. the practical possibility of using extremely high-level modulation formats (nowadays up to 8192-QAM), the joint use of co-channel dual polarization, and the availability of wider channel bands in the new high frequency ranges (e.g. E-Band). In addition, a crucial reason has been the difficulty of installing multiple antennas spaced apart in order to maximize the MIMO spatial multiplexing so providing the maximum capacity gain. Thisoptimalantenna separation, even for the classical MIMO$$M \times N$$M×NwithM= 2 antennas at the receiver andN= 2 antennas at the transmitter, can be several meters, e.g. 5.71 m at 23 GHz on a 5 km link. In this article, we analyze the performance of LoS-MIMO systems where antenna separation is highly sub-optimal, for limiting the array size, and a satisfactory performance is made possible by the exploitation of specific bit loading and power allocation strategies and the setting of the working region of the RF transmitter power amplifiers to operate at a given Signal-to-Inter Modulation Distortion Ratio (SIMDR). The result is an overview of the advantages and drawbacks of compact LoS-MIMO from a wider perspective than in the existing literature, including fundamental aspects for the practical implementation of these systems. Performance is discussed in many cases of interest and compared with the state of the art SISO (Single Input Single Output) system.
Stress Evaluation Through the Layers of a Fibre-Metal Hybrid Composite by IHD: An Experimental Study
Authors: Nobre J. P. , Smit T. C. , Reid R. , Qhola Q. , Wu T. , Niendorf T. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Background
Incremental hole-drilling (IHD) has shown its importance in the measurement of the residual stress distribution within the layers of composite laminates. However, validation of these results is still an open issue, especially near the interfaces between plies.

Objectives
In this context, this study is focused on experimentally verifying its applicability to fibre metal laminates.

Methods
Tensile loads are applied to cross-ply GFRP-steel [0/90/steel]s samples. Due to the difference in the mechanical properties of each ply, Classical Lamination Theory (CLT) predicts a distribution of the uniform stress within each layer, with pulse gradients between them. The interfaces act as discontinuous regions between the plies. The experimental determination of such stress variation is challenging and is the focus of this research. A horizontal tensile test device was designed and built for this purpose. A differential method is used to eliminate the effect of the existing residual stresses in the samples, providing a procedure to evaluate the ability of the IHD technique to determine the distribution of stress due to the applied tensile loads only. The experimentally measured strain-depth relaxation curves are compared with those determined numerically using the finite element method (FEM) to simulate the hole-drilling. Both are used as input for the IHD stress calculation method (unit pulse integral method). The distribution of stress through the composite laminate, determined by classical lamination theory (CLT), is used as a reference.

Results
Unit pulse integral method results, using the experimental and numerical strain-depth relaxation curves, compare reasonably well with those predicted by CLT, provided that there is no material damage due to high applied loads.

Conclusions
IHD seems to be an important measurement technique to determine the distribution of residual stresses in fibre metal laminates and should be further developed for a better assessment of the residual stresses at the interfaces between plies.
Gender and generational cohort impact on entrepreneurs’ emotional intelligence and transformational leadership
Authors: Esteves José , de Haro Rodríguez Guillermo , Ballestar María Teresa , Sainz Jorge 
Published: March 2024

AbstractEmotional intelligence (EI) and leadership style are topics that have attracted a growing interest in the literature. In this study, we posit that entrepreneurs’ EI is an antecedent of transformational leadership (TL) while examining the moderating role of gender and generational cohort. Data were collected from 2,084 international entrepreneurs and analysed using multivariate analysis and hierarchical linear regression. The results confirm EI as an antecedent of TL and show that others’ emotion appraisal (OEA) and regulation of emotions (ROE) are the most contributing subdimensions of EI to TL. Moreover, the study also reveals significant gender and generational cohort differences for EI and TL. In one of the relevant findings, our research shows that only female Gen Z entrepreneurs have lower scores than their male counterparts. Although men’s EI scores are similar across generations, women’s scores are significantly higher in each older generation leaving ¡open questions for further research in the area.
Gestaltung einer gesundheitsgerechten Arbeitsumgebung: Was brauchen Beschäftigte in kleinen und mittleren Betrieben im ländlichen Raum?
Authors: Binder L. , Coenen M. , von Mallek P. , Kus S. 
Published: March 2024

Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
Die betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung (BGF) hat sich in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in der Arbeitswelt etabliert, dennoch ist in kleinen und mittleren Betrieben nach wie vor ein Defizit bei der Umsetzung der BGF festzustellen. Die Möglichkeiten der Mitbestimmung und die Berücksichtigung individueller Bedürfnisse sollten für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung gezielt genutzt werden.

Ziel
Branchenübergreifende Analyse und Darstellung von Arbeitsanforderungen und damit verbundenem Belastungsempfinden sowie von gesundheitsförderlichen Bedarfen von Beschäftigten in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen im ländlichen Raum.

Methodik
Ein multimethodischer Studienansatz kam zur Anwendung: In einer Querschnittstudie wurden Arbeitsanforderungen, damit verbundenes Belastungsempfinden sowie gesundheitsförderliche Bedarfe in vier Unternehmen quantitativ erhoben. In betriebsübergreifenden, semistrukturierten Fokusgruppeninterviews wurden (belastende) Arbeitsanforderungen und Bedarfe der Beschäftigten tiefergehend empirisch untersucht. Quantitativ erhobene Daten wurden deskriptiv analysiert, die Auswertung des qualitativ gewonnenen Datenmaterials erfolgte anhand der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Kuckartz.

Ergebnisse
Insgesamt beteiligten sich 251 Beschäftigte (68,9 % weiblich; 50,6 % > 45 Jahre) aus vier Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Branchen (z. B. Pflege, IT) an der Querschnittstudie (Rücklaufquote: 51,6 %). Branchenübergreifend wird am häufigsten eigenverantwortliches und selbstbestimmtes Arbeiten gefordert. Als belastend wird v. a. die hohe Arbeitsintensität empfunden. Maßnahmen zur Förderung der Rückengesundheit und zur Stressbewältigung waren die am häufigsten nachgefragten Themen. Zentrale Voraussetzungen zur Umsetzung der BGF sind ausreichende finanzielle und zeitliche Ressourcen sowie die Motivation der Beschäftigten.

Schlussfolgerung
Ein partizipatives und methodenintegratives Vorgehen bei der Bedarfsermittlung legt den Grundstein für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung und nachhaltige Verankerung von BGF in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen.