bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Predicting of factors associated with valsartan response among hypertensive patients attending the Jordan University Hospital
Authors: Khalil Shahd , Quran Aseel , Thalji Leen , Al-Adamat Malk , Sabha Lina , Khraisat Joud , Al Na’ami Abdel rahman , Al-Jazzazi Hatem , Alhawari Hussein , Jarrar Yazun 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Objectives
There is an inter-individual in the valsartan response among hypertensive patients. However, clinical factors associated with this variation in the response is still not fully understood. The major purpose of this study is to predict the factors associated with valsartan response and their influence on decreasing blood pressure among patients.

Methods
This study is a cross-sectional observational study. It included 91 hypertensive patients on valsartan treatment, selected through simple random sampling from the Jordan University Hospital. The clinical data was collected through documented medical records in the hospital’s computerized system. The data was analyzed using the chi-square test to compare frequencies and categories.

Results
Patients were divided into systolic and diastolic responders. No statistical significance was found between systolic response to valsartan’s and gender, smoking, age, BMI, lipid profile and HbA1c status. Diastolic responders had a positive significance of p value = 0.006 with BMI categories, however there was no significance with any other factor.

Conclusions
There was a better diastolic response to valsartan among hypertensive patients with lower BMI levels. BMI can be considered as a factor to personalize the therapy among patients on valsartan. However, further clinical studies with larger sample size are needed to confirm these data.
Technical aspects and clinical applications of synthetic MRI: a scoping review
Authors: Pires Tancia , Pendem Saikiran , M.M. Jaseemudheen , Priyanka  
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Introduction
Synthetic magnetic resonance imaging (SyMRI) is a non-invasive, robust MRI technique that generates multiple contrast-weighted images by acquiring a single MRI sequence within a few minutes, along with quantitative maps, automatic brain segmentation, and volumetry. Since its inception, it has undergone technical advancements and has also been tested for feasibility in various organs and pathological conditions. This scoping review comprehensively pinpoints the critical technical aspects and maps the wide range of clinical applications/benefits of SyMRI.

Content
A comprehensive search was conducted across five databases, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and CINAHL Ultimate, using appropriate keywords related to SyMRI. A total of 99 studies were included after a 2-step screening process. Data related to the technical factors and clinical application was charted.

Summary
SyMRI provides quantitative maps and segmentation techniques comparable to conventional MRI and has demonstrated feasibility and applications across neuroimaging, musculoskeletal, abdominal and breast pathologies spanning the entire human lifespan, from prenatal development to advanced age. Certain drawbacks related to image quality have been encountered that can be overcome with technical advances, especially AI-based algorithms.

Outlook
SyMRI has immense potential for being incorporated into routine imaging for various pathologies due to its added advantage of providing quantitative measurements for more robust diagnostic and prognostic work-up with faster acquisitions and greater post-processing options.
Micro-mechanism analysis of Zhongchuan loess liquefaction disaster induced by Jishishan M6.2 earthquake in 2023
Authors: Wang Yi , Wang Qian , Zhang Wuyu , Zhong Xiumei , Liu Fuqiang , Jia Shichao , Hu Xuefeng 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
On December 18, 2023, the M
S 6.2 Jishishan earthquake triggered a large-scale liquefaction disaster of loess sites in Jintian and Caotan villages, Zhongchuan town, Minhe County, Haidong City, Qinghai Province. To clarify the micro-mechanism of the liquefaction disaster, the Q3 Malan loess layer of the disaster site and its overlying red silty clay layer samples were selected and quantitatively analyzed for the differences in physical properties, structure, microstructural parameters, and mineral compositions. Based on the discrepancy results, the micro-mechanisms between loess microstructure and macro-mechanical properties of soil and liquefaction disaster were investigated. The research shows that compared with red silty clay, the dynamic index of loess corresponding to the physical indices of Zhongchuan loess obviously exceeds the critical threshold of liquefaction under actual seismic intensity. Additionally, its pore structure is dominated by point contact and weakly cemented overhead macropore structure, and its quantitative pore microstructure parameters and mineral composition show significant liquefaction potential. The comprehensive analysis of the liquefaction mechanism shows that the rapid deformation of the soil skeleton and the destruction of the cementation and contact system of the water-sensitive minerals under seismic loading and hydraulic force lead to the collapse of the overhead macropores, the damage of structural strength, the increase of the complex pore channels, the rapid accumulation of pore water pressure, and the reduction of the effective stress, which leads to the liquefaction of the loess.
Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind and the univariate Lommel function: Integral representations
Authors: da Fonseca Carlos M. , Glasser M. Lawrence , Kowalenko Victor 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This study investigates a number of integrals possessing products of different indices of the univariate Lommel function,

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,
ν

(

a

)

{s}_{\mu ,\nu }\left(a)

, with various elementary and special functions. As a consequence, connections between the function and Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind are established.
Digital, nachhaltig, drittmittelstark: Die Ausschreibungen von VWL-Professuren in Deutschland
Authors: Stock Kathrin , Tillmann Peter , Walter Andreas 
Published: February 2025

Zusammenfassung
Kathrin Stock, Peter Tillmann und Andreas Walter untersuchen den Markt für volkswirtschaftliche Professorinnen und Professoren an Universitäten in Deutschland zwischen 2014 und 2022. Dabei stützen sich die Autoren auf die Texte der Ausschreibungen von 429 Professuren in diesem Zeitraum. Die Texte zeigen, dass der Anteil an Tenure-Track-Professuren infolge des Bund-Länder-Programms deutlich gestiegen ist, dass Interdisziplinarität in jedem zweiten Ausschreibungstext Erwähnung findet und dass Drittmittel sogar in bis zu 85 Prozent der Ausschreibungen thematisiert werden. Die großen gesellschaftlichen Themen spiegeln sich in den Ausschreibungen wider: Die Bezüge zu den Themen Digitalisierung, Nachhaltigkeit und Migration nehmen im Zeitablauf zu.
Die übersehene Verletzbarkeit? Erfahrungen geflüchteter Männer zwischen Verletzung, Solidarität und Gewalt
Authors: Schneider Matthias 
Published: February 2025

Zusammenfassung
In gesellschaftlichen Diskursen und im Flüchtlingsschutz werden geflüchtete Männer selten als verletzbar wahrgenommn. Empirische Studien verwenden diesen Begriff zwar, oft jedoch nur vage. Dadurch bleibt das Verhältnis zwischen Männern, Flucht und Verletzbarkeit unterbestimmt. Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, dieses Verhältnis zu ergründen, indem es theoretisch unterfüttert und anhand der Biographien von aus Eritrea geflüchteten Männern näher beleuchtet wird. Die Analyse von zwei Biographien zeigt dabei vier unterschiedliche situationale Verletzbarkeiten auf, in denen die Männer verletzt werden. Gleichzeitig wird deutlich, wie aus diesen Erfahrungen sowohl Solidarität als auch Gewalt erwachsen kann. Diese Ergebnisse tragen dazu bei, bisherige gesellschaftliche Diskurse über die Unverletzbarkeit geflüchteter Männer zu verkomplizieren und die Betrachtung von Verletzbarkeiten weiterzuentwickeln.
Stability analysis of semi-analytical technique for time-fractional Cauchy reaction-diffusion equations
Authors: Ullah Saif , Ali Rahat 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
In this article, classical Cauchy reaction-diffusion equations are converted into the corresponding time-fractional Cauchy reaction-diffusion equations using Caputo–Fabrizio fractional order derivative. The obtained equations are then solved using a semi-analytical method, which is the combination of Laplace transform and Picard’s iterative scheme. The derived solutions are innovative, and such derivations are not found in the previous literature. In addition, the Banach fixed-point principle and G-stable mapping are used to analyze stability of the implemented semi-analytical method. Error estimation and comparison of derived results with exact solutions already available in the literature through graphical illustrations and tables reveal that the implemented semi-analytical method is more efficient and fruitful for solution of time-fractional Cauchy reaction-diffusion equations.
Hazardous gambling behavior is associated with amplified emotional reactivity to gambling outcomes
Authors: Cholewick Antonia , Bennett Daniel 
Published: February 2025

AbstractBackground and aimsEmotion dysregulation has been suggested to play a role in gambling-related harm, but past gambling research has typically assessed emotion dysregulation via self-report surveys rather than in a gambling context. Here, we sought to investigate how the severity of participants' hazardous gambling behavior was associated with their emotional reactivity and choice behavior within a simulated slot-machine task.MethodsParticipants (N = 100) recruited via Prolific completed a behavioral task involving repeated choices between two simulated slot-machines. When chosen, slot-machines could produce one of five outcome types (win/near-win/neutral/near-loss/loss). After each outcome, participants reported their subjective emotional valence. Emotion data were analysed using a beta-autoregressive computational model, allowing us to extract per-participant estimates of trial-by-trial emotional reactivity to different slot-machine outcomes.ResultsCorrelation analyses revealed that people who engaged in more hazardous gambling behavior (higher PGSI scores) showed greater emotional reactivity to all slot-machine outcome types (all Spearman ρ > |0.31|, all p < 0.01, corrected for multiple comparisons). There were no significant associations between patterns of choice behavior and PGSI scores.Discussion and conclusionsWithin a simulated slot-machine task, individuals who engaged in more hazardous gambling behavior showed greater emotional reactivity in general (more positive emotional reactions to wins and more negative emotional reactions to unpleasant events such as losses and near-wins). These results are consistent with a model in which emotion dysregulation is a risk factor for gambling-related harm, and serve to validate this model in a more naturalistic setting.
The neverending trip: Associations between Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) and non-visual perceptual disturbances
Authors: McConnell Anneliese , He Wei , McConnell Harry , Sperandei Sandro , Sowman Paul F 
Published: February 2025

AbstractObjectiveHallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder (HPPD) is a condition where the effects of hallucinogenic drugs reoccur long after the acute effects have stopped. No established risk factors or mechanisms for HPPD have been identified. However, reports have suggested a risk phenotype for HPPD due to associations with other perceptual disturbances. With recent increases in therapeutic psychedelic drug use, it is essential to consider the existence of HPPD risk factors. Therefore, exploring potential links between HPPD and other perceptual disturbances, such as tinnitus and migraine with aura, is a necessary first step. This study aimed to investigate the association between HPPD and other perceptual disorders.MethodsOne hundred thirty-eight individuals with HPPD and 116 controls participated in a survey assessing the prevalence of various perceptual disturbances: photosensitivity, phonosensitivity, tinnitus, migraine with aura, vertigo, paraesthesia, and synaesthesia.ResultsThe survey results showed a significant association between HPPD and photosensitivity (OR = 10.65), phonosensitivity (OR = 8.00), and the number of perceptual disturbances (OR = 1.59) in the HPPD group compared to the control group. The study also observed trends of dual prevalence between HPPD and tinnitus, migraine with aura, vertigo, paraesthesia, and synaesthesia. Participants with both HPPD and other perceptual disturbances were likelier to experience additional perceptual disturbances after the onset of HPPD.ConclusionsThese findings suggest a common vulnerability or pathophysiological mechanism among these perceptual disturbances. Given the increasing therapeutic use of hallucinogens, the results of this study provide essential considerations for HPPD risk profiles. Moreover, they may guide future investigations into HPPD's pathophysiology and management options.
Clinical role of manual and electropulse therapy in improving preconception care in patients with thin endometrium
Authors: Borisevich О. О. , Shatilina A. Yu. 
Published: February 2025

Objective: to determine the efficacy of comprehensive preconception care programs, including sodium chloride baths, electropulse therapy, manual therapy, and their impact on the endometrium, uterine blood flow parameters according to ultrasound and Doppler ultrasound, as well as on the pregnancy rate in patients with chronic endometritis.Material and methods. The randomized study included 95 patients with chronic endometritis aged 28 to 45 years. In the main group, 32 women underwent a complex of electropulse therapy (10 procedures), sodium chloride baths (10 procedures), and manual therapy (5 sessions). In the comparison group, 32 patients received treatment consisting of electropulse therapy and sodium chloride baths. In 31 patients of the control group, restorative treatment was used, including electropulse therapy and fresh baths.Results. The arterial perfusion index increased by 2.6 times (p<0.05) in the main group, and by 2.36 times (p<0.05) in the comparison group. In the control group, this parameter demonstrated no significant changes. The systolic-diastolic ratio in the right uterine artery decreased by 6.18% (p<0.001) in the control group, by 9.18% (p<0.001) in the comparison group, by 20.8% (p<0.001) in the main group. The systolic-diastolic ratio in the left uterine artery decreased by 7.44% (p<0.001) in the control group, by 9.27% (p<0.05) in the comparison group, by 20.4% (p<0.001) in the main group. The reduction in the systolic-diastolic ratio after treatment in the main group was significantly greater than that observed in the control and comparison groups (p<0.001).Conclusion. Sodium chloride baths and manual therapy as part of comprehensive restorative treatment contribute to the improvement of endometrial structure and increase uterine blood flow volume. Manual therapy reduces vascular resistance, as evidenced by a decrease in the systolic-diastolic ratio in the uterine arteries. Electropulse therapy revealed no particular efficacy in the present study, and may be considered as part of a comprehensive therapy to enhance effects.
Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
Authors: Spiegelman Willard , Everett-Pite Constance 
Published: February 2025

In recent years, Professor Willard Spiegelman has devoted himself to one American poet above others, Iowa-born Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), whom Spiegelman knew personally and whose correspondence he edited in 2005 for a volume of selected letters, Love, Amy. In our conversation, we discussed his recent biography of the poet, Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt (2023), the cumulation of many years spent engaging with her five extant poetry collections and his efforts to piece together biographical fragments from remaining archival materials in order to compile a narrative of her life. Tracing her nearly four decades of artistic anonymity, her childhood in Iowa and early adult life in Manhattan, his biography narrates the surprise appearance of The Kingfisher, Clampitt’s first book of poems, published by Knopf in 1983 when she was sixty-three. All but overnight, Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, winning Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, accepting prestigious writer positions at Amherst and Smith, and endearing herself to critics like Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler for a whirlwind eleven years before a premature death from ovarian cancer in 1994.
Reprinted Excerpt from Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art (2024)
Authors: Gurstein Rochelle 
Published: February 2025

Rochelle Gurstein talks to the editors about her latest book, Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art (Yale University Press, 2024), part of which is reprinted here with her permission (Chapter 14: The Future of the Classic). In the book and the interview, the author reflects with astonishment on the many “instances of wildly fluctuating reputations” and “stunning rediscoveries of long forgotten or previously demeaned artists, lost classics, and unstable canons” which, as she writes, “put my original project of establishing the reality of a timeless classic in jeopardy, and forced me to reconsider what turned out to be a number of my own unexamined assumptions”—a book about the ephemeral classic.
Historia pública y enseñanza de la historia
Authors: Palacios-Mena Nancy , Rodríguez-Ávila Sandra , Acuña Rodríguez Olga Yanet 
Published: February 2025

Este texto recoge las discusiones planteadas en el Panel: «Historia pública y enseñanza de la historia» presentada en el marco de los 50 años de vida académica de la Maestría en Historia de la Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, UPTC, 21 de septiembre de 2023. Enlace del evento: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvot2XDySLA&t=7626s.
Duration of Gadget Use and Severity of Dry Eye Syndrome based on the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) Questionnaire in Final-Year Students of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga
Authors: Subagiono Arya Agung Hari , Komaratih Evelyn , Umiastuti Pirlina , Loebis Rozalina 
Published: February 2025

Highlights:

Screen time is one of the risk factors for dry eye disease (DED). Therefore, students are at high risk for DED.

The ocular surface disease index (OSDI) is one method used to assess dry eye disease based on subjective symptoms. However, the correlation between screen time and the incidence of dry eye and/or its severity based on OSDI produces varying results.

The majority of respondents had dry eyes based on OSDI. There was no correlation between screen time and dry eye incidence or severity based on OSDI parameters. Females had higher mean OSDI scores than males.

Abstract
Introduction: People’s screen time surged during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Screen time was a risk factor for dry eye disease (DED). This study examined the correlation between screen time and DED severity based on an ocular surface disease index (OSDI) questionnaire in final-year undergraduate students of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Respondents were recruited via a total sampling method. One hundred eight students participated in this study. Independent variables were sex, average duration of device use per day, and degree of daily gadget usage time. Dependent variables were OSDI score, degree of dry eye based on OSDI score, and dry eye incidence. Chi-Square, Spearman, Kruskal-Wallis, and Mann-Whitney tests were used in data analysis.
Results: There was no significant relationship between daily gadget use duration and OSDI score (p=0.497; r=-0.066) and between the degree of daily gadget usage time and dry eye severity (p=0.609; r=0.050). Sex was unrelated to dry eye incidence (p=0.072) nor severity (p=0.125). There were no significant differences in daily gadget use duration between dry eye vs non-dry eye respondents (p=0.926) and across dry eye severity (p=0.934). There were no significant differences in OSDI scores between degrees of screen time (p=0.978). There was no significant correlation between the incidence of dry eye and the degree of daily gadget usage time (p=0.640). Female respondents had higher mean OSDI scores than males (p=0.009).
Conclusion: Screen time was not related to the incidence and severity of dry eye based on OSDI. However, many respondents had dry eyes based on OSDI.
Resolution of Persistent Radicular Leg Pain After Posterior Lumbar Fusion by Filum Terminale Lipoma Resection
Authors: Tatara Yasunori , Nagashima Kiyotaka , Mihara Hisanori 
Published: February 2025

Case:
A 79-year-old woman presented with persistent left leg pain following right-sided L4–5 minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. Imaging studies revealed residual left L4–5 stenosis, a filum terminale lipoma, and no bone bridging. Additional left L4–5 decompression with reinstrumentation achieved temporary relief, but complete pain resolution was achieved only after sectioning of the filum terminale lipoma causing the tethered cord syndrome.

Conclusion:
Although rare, the coexistence of lumbar spinal stenosis and filum terminale lipoma can occur, and even in cases presenting with radicular leg pain, the potential contribution of the lipoma to the symptomatology should not be dismissed.
Supporting parents to support children. A UK Randomised Controlled Trial testing a text-message intervention to cultivate the home learning environment [Pre-registered report].
Authors: O'Reilly Fionnuala , Loeb Susanna , Farrell Alice , Scerif Gaia 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

A stimulating and supportive home learning environment helps children to be cognitively and emotionally ready to learn by age 5. Despite the growing availability of parenting resources, the attainment gap between affluent and disadvantaged families continues to widen across many developed nations. Tips by Text is a 12-month text-message program originally developed in the US to support parents in embedding developmental activities into daily routines with their children. Targeting 4-5-year-olds, the messages aim to enhance language, literacy, numeracy, and socioemotional skills. We adapted and tested Tips by Text in a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 109 schools in England from 2019 to 2021 (n=3,600). Due to Covid-19, post-intervention data collection faced approximately 70% attrition on the primary outcome measure, resulting in a final analytical sample of n=753. This sample, however, is comparable to the US-based sample initially used to evaluate the program’s efficacy, allowing us to proceed with analysis. In this study, we replicate the primary impact analysis conducted by the original RCT evaluators and extend it to explore whether children facing diverse challenges including various forms of socioeconomic disadvantage, language barriers, special educational needs, or multiple simultaneous challenges - show differential responses to the program.