bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Insights from a multicenter study on adult H3 K27M-mutated glioma: Surgical resection’s limited influence on overall survival, ATRX as molecular prognosticator
Authors: Ryba Alice , Özdemir Zeynep , Nissimov Nitzan , Hönikl Lisa , Neidert Nicolas , Jakobs Martin , Kalasauskas Darius , Krigers Aleksandrs , Thomé Claudius , Freyschlag Christian F , Ringel Florian , Unterberg Andreas , Dao Trong Philip , Beck Jürgen , Heiland Dieter Henrik , Meyer Bernhard , Vajkoczy Peter , Onken Julia , Stummer Walter , Suero Molina Eric , Gempt Jens , Westphal Manfred , Schüller Ulrich , Mohme Malte 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

Background
H3 K27M-mutated gliomas were first described as a new grade 4 entity in the 2016 World Health Organization classification. Current studies have focused on its typical appearance in children and young adults, increasing the need to better understand the prognostic factors and impact of surgery on adults. Here, we report a multicentric study of this entity in adults.

Methods
We included molecularly confirmed H3 K27M-mutated glioma cases in patients ≥ 18 years diagnosed between 2016 and 2022. Clinical, radiological, and surgical features were analyzed. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to identify prognostic factors.

Results
Among 70 patients with a mean age of 36.1 years, the median overall survival (OS) was 13.6 ± 14 months. Gross-total resection was achieved in 14.3% of patients, whereas 30% had a subtotal resection and 54.3% a biopsy. Tumors located in telencephalon/diencephalon/myelencephalon were associated with a poorer OS, while a location in the mesencephalon/metencephalon showed a significantly longer OS (8.7 vs. 25.0 months, P = .007). Preoperative Karnofsky-Performance Score (KPS) ≤ 80 showed a reduced OS (4.2 vs. 18 months, P = .02). Furthermore, ATRX loss, found in 25.7%, was independently associated with an increased OS (31 vs. 8.3 months, P = .0029). Notably, patients undergoing resection showed no survival benefit over biopsy (12 vs. 11 months, P = .4006).

Conclusions
The present study describes surgical features of H3 K27M-mutated glioma in adulthood in a large multicentric study. Our data reveal that ATRX status, location and KPS significantly impact OS in H3 K27M-mutated glioma. Importantly, our dataset indicates that resection does not offer a survival advantage over biopsy.
Bettina Brentano von Arnim (1785–1859)
Authors: Pollok Anne 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Bettina Brentano von Arnim is one of the most fascinating writers of German Romanticism—after a late, but spectacular start of her career as an author with the biographically inspired Goethe’s Letters with a Child (1835) that boldly claims the legacy of Germany’s most admired poet, Bettina continues to explore the realm of biography (Günderode, Spring Wreath), but also widens the perspective to the pressing social questions of her time. This chapter aims to present the versatility, social conscience paired with playful innocence, and ingenuity that marks Bettina’s work and personality, with a particular focus on her redefinition of the role of a female intellectual.
Fanny Lewald (1811–1889)
Authors: Wagner Ulrike 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
In contrast to most of her critics, this chapter argues that Lewald’s ambivalent view on female emancipation is a vital ingredient rather than a shortcoming of her writing. This chapter discusses her statements on female independence along with narratives and arguments of key philosophical debates of the Enlightenment. The chapter examines the resonance of religious controversies involving Spinoza, Lessing, and Mendelssohn in her work, and investigates how Kant’s response to the question “What is Enlightenment?” formed her life and thinking. In dialogue with leading voices of her time, she stakes out her own position, first and foremost focused on pragmatic social changes as vehicles for an open-ended process of self-emancipation. Women, she claims, need access to formal education and the labor market to gain control over their lives. In laying out her plans, she is less concerned with how woman ought to be and more concerned with the circumstances that allow her to become.
Folk Tales in Greece
Authors: Kaliambou Maria 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter discusses the long tradition of folk tales in Greece as they developed from antiquity through modern times. It begins with the debate about the Greek term for folk tale, paramýthi, which indicates the close relationship of folk tales to myths. It continues in a discussion of the scholarly interest in Greek folk tales initiated by western European collectors in the nineteenth century and followed by Greek scholars. The chapter talks about the variety of sources the Greek folk tale draws upon, such as the long history of Greek oral and written traditions and elements from intercultural exchanges with southeast and western European, Turkish, and other cultures. The chapter analyzes basic characteristics of Greek folk tales related to narrative style, content, and performance and refers to the appreciation of the genre in popular culture and children’s literature.
A Spectral Methodology of the Cultural and the Physical
Authors: Alessandrini Patricia , Rutherford-Johnson Timothy 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter discusses the Computer-Assisted Composition (CAC) processes employed in recent compositions by Patricia Alessandrini—including the kinetic installation Adagio sans quatuor and scored works such as Ada’s Song for instruments, electronics, and robotics systems—and the aesthetic motivations for their use. The main interrelated themes that are touched upon are the avoidance of stylistic categorization; a focus on the production of sound, especially in relation to performer agency; and notions of the representation and identity of a piece of music. The last of these preoccupations is shared by other composers identified as “spectral,” as are some of the techniques employed in the CAC process that is described. However, the chapter argues that the relationship between forms of representation—including the analysis-resynthesis paradigm, commonly found in spectral music—and musical works as cultural objects is a unique characteristic of Alessandrini’s work; and, furthermore, that there are aspects of the CAC process employed and their realizations by instruments, virtual instruments, and electronics that differ significantly from other spectral practices.
Irish Traditional Songs in Print and Performance
Authors: Haslett Moyra 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
In 1740 Laurence Whyte published in Dublin a volume of original poems which included a poetic ‘Dissertation on Italian and Irish Musick’. While the poem claims that Ireland is beset by ‘Italian fever’, it also celebrates the durability of a number of Irish traditional tunes and songs and the poem concludes with a celebration of Carolan, a musician hailed in the poem’s subtitle as ‘our late Irish Orpheus’. This chapter takes Whyte’s poem as a starting point for an interrogation of how ‘Irish song’—particularly Irish-language song—is represented in print in the eighteenth century. It traces the history of the songs named in Whyte’s ‘Dissertation’ as a way of illustrating the varied ways in which popular songs, drawn by Whyte from such varied sources as oral tradition and theatre performances, would transform themselves through different settings and contexts across the period. They suggest that song did not accept the barriers of language, political affiliation or ‘refined taste’ found elsewhere in culture and that particular songs could ‘travel’ in sometimes eccentric and surprising ways.
Orisha Religion
Authors: Houk James 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter tackles the history and development of the Orisha religion in Trinidad. The borrowing, incorporation, and syncretism of traits from existing religious traditions all played significant roles in the growth and development of the Orisha religion. Thus, the religion's current dynamic can be described as both nativistic and revivalistic, wherein specific manifestations of the broader conceptual category are known classically as revitalization. In Trinidad, nativism and revivalism among Orisha worshipers manifested themselves in the form of an Africanization movement whereby some worshipers attempted to reclaim the African cultural roots of the Orisha religion. The chapter considers the expectation of the Orisha religion fronting another period of stasis that will sustain the religion for many generations.
Jamaica
Authors: Reid-Salmon Delroy A. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter considers the unique role religion plays in Jamaica. Religion is more than personal doctrinal beliefs and religious practices that interpret the meaning of life and embrace various elements that constitute culture. Although different traditions compose the Jamaican religion, it is one religion. The chapter clarifies that Jamaica is a microcosm of the Caribbean religion, wherein religious pluralism defines the Caribbean society. It explains that Jamaican religion is not monolithic or heterogeneous but a religion in itself with its own sources, norms, tradition, and belief system, so it is neither Christianity nor any other form of major world religion.
Roman Catholicism
Authors: Gonzalez Maldonado Michelle 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of Roman Catholicism in the Caribbean. It clarifies that the arrival of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean must be contextualized in light of the Spanish Catholicism that was brought to the Americas. The conversion was intimately linked with the conquest, especially after the Spanish understood conversion as a way of dominating the indigenous population. The chapter acknowledges the powerful presence and dominance of the Roman Catholic Church today despite its many challenges. It considers the shifting religious landscape of the region while referencing the issues like clergy sex abuse and debates over the ordination of women in the region.
Belief and the Cult of San Lázaro
Authors: Penagos Elaine 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter looks into the beliefs and cult of San Lázaro. The confluence of beliefs in the Caribbean unveils a worldview where conceptions of the divine or sacred are not limited or encased by a single religious tradition or authority. Thus, in the Caribbean, belief refers to the interweaving of the visible and invisible realms. The chapter expounds on the complexities of belief in the Cuban and Cuban American context while referring to the cult of San Lázaro. It explains that that the cult of San Lázaro is a beliefscape, a religious landscape whose construction is predicated on notions of belief archived in the body.
Haitian Vodou
Authors: Rey Terry 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter looks into the origins of Haitian Vodou. It explains how Haitian Vodou emerged as a religion under some of the worst oppression in human history, transatlantic slavery, and colonialism. Despite the long history of racist, colonialist, and oppressive misrepresentations and misappropriations of Vodou, Haitian Vodou is a religion of great sophistication and astounding creativity that provides for its adherents all that one can ask of any religion. Vodou embodies the most inspirational stories in human religious history, which are African religions thriving in the Americas and the world history’s only successful national slave revolt. The chapter mentions how Vodou delivered its meaning, solace, and healing to the Caribbean nation as Haiti endured political upheaval, abject poverty, epidemics, and earthquakes.
Abakuá
Authors: Miller Ivor L. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter explores Abakuá’s secret society, which had been fundamental in the formation of Cuban national identity. It explains how Abakuá lodges were necessarily created in secrecy due to being persecuted by colonial authorities before the adaptation of Abakuá to the Cuban context. Moreover, Abakuá exemplifies the concept of los cimarrones urbanos, which refers to urban underground fugitives from the cultural system of the colonizer. Abakuá tradition is an important example of established alternatives to assimilation to Western cultural norms. The chapter explains that Abakuá defended an autonomous and collective identity based upon an ancestral heritage that the dominant class persistently tried to abolish.
Palo, Las Reglas de Congo, Kongo Rule
Authors: Ochoa Todd Ramón 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Palo is Cuban-Kongo praise. It is “cosmologically sovereign” and works with myriad forms of the dead to heal people’s lives. Other African-inspired praise forms, like Ocha, Espiritismo, and Ifá, enter into mutual alliance with Palo, connecting with it so as to assemble an immense horizon of healing in Cuba today. Palo nurtures relations with the dead as discreet spectral individuals, just as it draws generic versions of dead out of common matter, like the sticks and roots (palos) for which it is named. Wisdom in building kinship between the living and the dead is what Palo offers the afflicted, which it gathers in communities of mutual affirmation. Viewed from without, Palo’s energetic closeness to the dead is daunting; from within it is a thing of promise, emancipation, and beauty.
Corn
Authors: Fitting Elizabeth 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Corn (or maize) is an exemplary commodity of far-reaching changes to capitalist agriculture. After briefly describing how corn traveled from Mesoamerica to Europe and Africa during the colonial period, this chapter describes several key processes through which corn became a ubiquitous, industrial “flex” crop. Drawing on agrarian political economy and food regime approaches, the chapter highlights several changes in government policies and technologies in the United States and Mexico and argues that corn played a pivotal role in the ability of capital to overcome natural barriers to accumulation and commodification found in agriculture. The chapter ends by suggesting that in addition to its pivotal role in capitalist agriculture and the emergence of a global food regime dominated by neoliberalism, corn has also been an important focus for anti-GMO activist networks that challenge the global food system.
Tobacco
Authors: Morris Melissa N. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Tobacco is perhaps the most important plant native to the Americas. Before Europeans arrived, it was an integral part of a number of Indigenous cultures. The rise of Atlantic empires made it a global commodity, yet despite its popularity, authorities initially met it with suspicion, and they sometimes banned its cultivation and consumption. Demand for it nonetheless rose, giving rise to vast plantations where enslaved Africans grew it. Beyond the Americas, peasant farmers often raised it. All cultivators came to see tobacco as a crop that required particular attention and skill to grow properly. This perception persisted into the modern era and led to widespread resistance to mechanization. The dangers of tobacco consumption became more well-known in the twentieth century, but global use still rose. For farmers in the southern United States, increased worldwide competition, combined with an end to government subsidies, led to a sharp decline in the cultivation of a crop that had long been an important part of its economy and culture.
The Islamic Agricultural Revolution
Authors: Decker Michael J. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
The Islamic Agricultural Revolution hypothesis has gained wide acceptance and notoriety among scholars of the medieval world. Under this model, scholars envision conditions favored the massive transfer of botanical knowledge, plants, and associated technologies, mostly from tropical regions to the core lands of Islam throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. Since many of these crops remain globally important staples today, the continual exploration and testing of the hypothesis helps historians understand complex interrelations between the past movements of people, crops, and technologies. This work examines the role of economic change, urban development and the rise of new elites in changes of the agrarian regime of the early Islamicate world.
Agriculture, the Atlantic Plantation, and the Environment in the US South
Authors: Whayne Jeannie 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter explores the Atlantic plantation as it operated in a specific setting: the US South between 1607 and the Civil War. It focuses on the role of the plantation economy’s dependence on three factors: its reliance on monoculture and the resulting degradation of soils; second, the use of forests as reserve lands to be used in place of worn-out lands; and third, the necessity of a substantial labor force to cultivate and harvest the crops but also to perform various tasks associated with mitigating the soil-depletive characteristics of monoculture. While the work of enslaved people was essential to the health of the plantation complex, the forest reserves provided them with a haven from the watchful eyes of plantation masters and overseers but also a source of food secured through hunting and fishing. It also served as a lesson in geography that served them well during the Civil War when their knowledge of the landscape offered avenues to freedom. The war’s destructive force in terms of military operations led to soil erosion and damage to forests, which, together with the flight of the enslaved, revealed the vulnerability of the plantation system.
Forest Transition Theory
Authors: Bennett Brett M. , Barton Gregory A. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Forest transition theory describes a body of interdisciplinary social scientific environmental research that explores the dynamics of how forest cover has historically declined and then expanded because of population growth, urbanization, industrialization, and globalization. Forest transition describes a general process, but each specific instance had unique drivers and scholars now identify distinct pathways. Europe and the eastern United States, followed by select countries in Asia and elsewhere in the world, have seen a rebound of forest cover after centuries of loss. A forest transition should not be confused with a return to a previous ecological condition. Regenerated forests tend to have lower biodiversity than primary native forests, and recovery in one area has often been matched by loss in another part of the world, so the process is no panacea to the ongoing global environmental crisis. Still, the process has been identified in over twenty countries, and there is strong evidence to suggest that overall deforestation continues to slow, so it raises the possibility of cautious optimism for the future of some of the world’s forests. From a historians’ viewpoint, forest transition theory offers a useful tool to explain broad, global processes, but it offers less analytic value in describing any particular instance because local factors differ considerably. As such, forest transition theory remains a valuable teaching concept and starting point for historical and contemporary environmental research, but it should not be used without reference to specific examples, nor does it offer a prediction of the future.
Love Match or Compatible in Theory?
Authors: Green Tristin K. , Rich Camille Gear 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
In this chapter, authors Tristin Green and Camille Gear Rich explore productive marriages between Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Queer Theory in legal scholars’ work in the United States. The chapter examines the blending of CRT and Queer Theory and also pays homage to the distinct histories and contributions of the two fields. The authors sketch the contours of each discipline in an account that highlights areas of agreement and disagreement, and they flesh out specific examples of shared methodology and cross-pollination between the fields, specifically (1) interconnectedness inquiries (including intersectionality and multidimensionality), (2) performativity analysis, and (3) discursive critique. They encourage scholars and readers to seek out productive intellectual spaces that willingly explore areas of friction between CRT and Queer Theory methods when these issues surface in scholars’ work. Successful coupling does not require that parties accept every aspect of another in a union—unorthodox methodological combinations between the two disciplines will produce novel insight and bear interesting fruit. To this end, the authors urge construction of productive spaces to explore differences and frictions and to deepen understanding of the operation of social power and barriers to social equality.
English in Timor-Leste
Authors: Macalister John 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Timor-Leste differs from most other countries in Southeast Asia in that English is not the primary foreign language. Reflecting the country’s colonial legacy, that place is held by Portuguese, one of two official languages; the other is the indigenous Tetun. English and Bahasa Indonesia are recognized in the Constitution as working languages. This chapter identifies the primary influence of English in Timor-Leste as being lexical. It shows that English forms a visible and dominant part of the linguistic landscape, is a language with instrumental value for Timorese, and is a resource drawn on for communicative purposes by multilingual Timorese, including in the classroom. It also recognizes that the importance attached to Portuguese for nation-building and identity construction is likely to constrain any expansion of the place of English in this complex linguistic ecology in the near future.
English in Outer Circle broadcast media and popular culture of Southeast Asia
Authors: Lee Jamie Shinhee 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This chapter discusses how Englishes are used in broadcast media and popular culture in Southeast Asia’s Outer Circle. It provides an overview of earlier research addressing language issues in music, advertising, TV, and film in Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. These three countries face similar linguistic challenges negotiating the power balance between endonormative and exonormative practices. Multiple languages are used in these countries including transplanted Englishes (i.e. British English and American English), nativized Englishes, and local languages; these languages not only coexist but also compete in varied domains. Standard English is valued particularly in formal domains, and localized varieties of English are evaluated somewhat negatively. Malaysian English, Philippine English, and Singaporean English are often viewed as critical in representing authentic linguistic realities in broadcast media and pop culture.
English in Southeast Asian linguistic landscapes
Authors: Rhekhalilit Kittinata , Huebner Thom 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
ASEAN declared English as its working language in November 2007. As a result, the language's significance and popularity have increased significantly in the region during subsequent years, to the point where it threatens to encroach on territory frequently allocated for national languages. This is particularly visible in public spaces, where it is so prevalent that it frequently goes unnoticed. This chapter will highlight the rapidly developing body of research on Southeast Asia's linguistic landscapes (LLs), with a particular emphasis on the use of English in the LLs of ASEAN's ten member countries and Timor-Leste. As we discovered, Southeast Asia is home to some of the world's most diverse ethnic groups, cultures, languages, histories, economies, and religions. English's pervasiveness is highlighted throughout, symbolically and as a lingua franca.