bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Memory impressions in slow tourism: Intrapersonal and interpersonal authenticity as antecedents
Authors: Lu Carol Yirong , Wang Yao‐Chin , Suhartanto Dwi 
Published: November 2023

AbstractWith the trend of developing slow tourism in the global tourism industry, this study aims to examine the role of memory impressions in slow tourism. Building upon the theoretical support of authenticity, this study proposes an authenticity‐driven model for memory impressions in slow tourism. Data were collected from 303 foreign tourists who have been to three slow towns in Taiwan, including Chishang, Nanzhuang, and Chaozhou. Analytical results show that, in slow tourism, intrapersonal authenticity enhances interpersonal authenticity. Intrapersonal and interpersonal authenticity both improve memory impressions. Destination satisfaction and destination loyalty are significant outcomes of memory impressions. In addition, we found that memory impressions could mediate the relationship between intrapersonal, and interpersonal authenticity, satisfaction, and destination loyalty. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first attempts to contribute knowledge of memory impressions in slow tourism.
Effects of zeolite loaded with silver, copper, or zinc ions on antimicrobial properties of the ethylene‐vinyl acetate copolymer
Authors: Nekooei‐Fard Mahsa , Jahanmardi Reza , Fazaeli Reza , Sohrabi‐Haghdoost Nakisa 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe improvement of antimicrobial activity of ethylene‐vinyl acetate (EVA) resin is of significant importance from the hygienic point of view. Hence, the present work aimed to improve antimicrobial performance of the polymer with the aid of a novel, effective and low‐cost additive. Accordingly, the effects of incorporating Mobil‐twenty‐two zeolite loaded with silver, copper and zinc salts to EVA on antimicrobial activity of the polymer was investigated in this study. The used zeolite was hydrothermally synthesized and doped with silver, copper, or zinc nitrates. The loaded zeolite particles were added to EVA through melt mixing. The prepared composite samples were then compression molded to obtain thin films with a thickness of about 0.1 mm. X‐ray diffraction experiments and scanning electron microscopy revealed successful synthesis of Mobil‐twenty‐two zeolite and its metal‐salt loading. Moreover, favorable distribution of the loaded zeolite in the polymer matrix was proved by scanning electron microscopy images. Also, stress–strain test unveiled that the addition of the zeolite particles enhances Young's modulus and tensile strength of the polymer while decreases its elongation at break. In addition, among the studied samples, the one containing 2 wt.% of silver‐loaded zeolite showed the highest Young's modulus of 105 ± 4.7 MPa. however, its modulus was only about 2% higher than that of the sample containing 2 wt.% of copper/zinc‐doped zeolite. Moreover, the two mentioned samples showed the highest elongation at break among the samples containing 2 wt.% of the loaded zeolites. Besides, the lowest observed elongation at break was 491% ± 16.2 belonging to the composite sample containing 2 wt.% of copper‐loaded zeolite. Furthermore, the film samples containing either of the loaded zeolite particles exhibited antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Candida albicans, with maximum bacterial and fungal inhibitions of about 56% and 54% in the case of the film samples containing 2 wt.% of silver‐ and copper/zinc‐doped zeolite, respectively. Overall, it was concluded that copper and/or zinc‐loaded zeolites, the effects of which is comparable to that of silver‐loaded zeolite, have the potential for application as low cost additives to induce antimicrobial activity to EVA, while maintaining its beneficial mechanical properties.
Anorexia nervosa in a postoperative patient with Ebstein's anomaly
Authors: Sato Kengo , Watanabe Ryosuke , Okada Tsuyoshi , Nishiyori Yasushi , Kobayashi Toshiyuki , Suda Shiro 
Published: November 2023

AbstractBackgroundAlong with the improved prognosis of patients with congenital heart disease, the associated diverse complications are under scrutiny. Due to various medical restrictions on their upbringing, patients with congenital heart disease often have coexisting mental disorders. However, reports on patients with congenital heart disease and coexisting eating disorders are rare. Here, we report the case of a patient who developed anorexia nervosa (AN) following surgery for Ebstein's anomaly.Case PresentationA 21‐year‐old female with Ebstein's anomaly who underwent Fontan surgery was transferred to our institution with suspected AN after >2 years of intermittent stays at a medical hospital for decreased appetite. Initially, she did not desire to lose weight or fear obesity, and we suspected that she was suffering from appetite loss due to a physical condition associated with Fontan circulation. However, the eating disorder pathology gradually became more apparent.ConclusionOur experience suggests that patients with congenital heart disease are more likely to have a psychological background and physical problems that might contribute to eating disorders than the general population.
To be a freshman during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐lagged model of depression, mentalizing, and epistemic trust
Authors: De Coninck David , Matthijs Koen , Van Bavel Jan , Luyten Patrick 
Published: November 2023

AbstractResearch has shown that severity of depression increased in freshmen during their first months at university due to increased social and academic pressures. Since the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, several cross‐sectional studies have suggested that levels of depression in university students are higher than before the pandemic, but longitudinal data are largely lacking. This study investigated severity of depression and negative affect linked to the pandemic among freshmen during their first semester at a large university in Flanders, Belgium. We also investigated whether epistemic trust predicted severity of depression and pandemic‐related negative affect and whether problems with reflective functioning (or mentalizing) mediated these relations. Participants in this two‐wave prospective study were 289 first‐year students of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of a large Belgian university. We conducted paired samples t‐tests and cross‐panel analysis to answer the research question. The number of students at risk of clinical depression increased by 41% between T1 (early October 2020) and T2 (late December 2020). Epistemic mistrust at T1 was prospectively associated with an increase in the prevalence and severity of depression at T2. Problems with mentalizing and negative COVID‐19‐related affect were positively associated with severity of depression at T2 and mediated the association between epistemic mistrust and severity of depression at T2. The findings highlight the key role of epistemic trust in the development of depression among freshmen, with the COVID‐19 pandemic presenting an additional source of uncertainty.
Environmental consequence of Australian agricultural trade: An asymmetric analysis
Authors: Kashem Mohammad Abul , Rahman Mohammad Mafizur , Khanam Rasheda 
Published: November 2023

AbstractLink between environmental degradation and agricultural trade balance (ATB) is an under investigated issue. This article, therefore, investigates the issue for Australia using the data of 1988–2021. In this investigation when a linear model is applied, support for short‐run impact is revealed. However, linear model is unable to explore the asymmetry of the relationship. Therefore, to assess the asymmetry a nonlinear model is applied. The latter model has supported both short‐ and long‐run asymmetry adjustment by the ATB on Australian pollution. The findings reveal that improvement of the ATB is harmful for Australian environment, and agro import related economic activities are environmentally more efficient than agro export activities. However, to improve the environmental condition, agricultural commodity import substitution is not a viable option for the country. The result also validates the EKC hypothesis, and additionally when environmental pollution is concerned, national income is as important as the ATB of Australia.
Emerging ctDNA detection strategies in clinical cancer theranostics
Authors: Yi Kexin , Wang Xiaoju , Filippov Sergey K. , Zhang Hongbo 
Published: November 2023

AbstractCirculating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is naked DNA molecules shed from the tumor cells into the peripheral blood circulation. They contain tumor‐specific gene mutations and other valuable information. ctDNA is considered to be one of the most significant analytes in liquid biopsies. Over the past decades, numerous researchers have developed various detection strategies to perform quantitative or qualitative ctDNA analysis, including PCR‐based detection and sequencing‐based detection. More and more studies have illustrated the great value of ctDNA as a biomarker in the diagnosis, prognosis and heterogeneity of tumor. In this review, we first outlined the development of digital PCR (dPCR)‐based and next generation sequencing (NGS)‐based ctDNA detection systems. Besides, we presented the introduction of the emerging ctDNA analysis strategies based on various biosensors, such as electrochemical biosensors, fluorescent biosensors, surface plasmon resonance and Raman spectroscopy, as well as their applications in the field of biomedicine. Finally, we summarized the essentials of the preceding discussions, and the existing challenges and prospects for the future are also involved.
Advancing microdata privacy protection: A review of synthetic data methods
Authors: Hu Jingchen , Bowen Claire McKay 
Published: November 2023

AbstractSynthetic data generation is a powerful tool for privacy protection when considering public release of record‐level data files. Initially proposed about three decades ago, it has generated significant research and application interest. To meet the pressing demand of data privacy protection in a variety of contexts, the field needs more researchers and practitioners. This review provides a comprehensive introduction to synthetic data, including technical details of their generation and evaluation. Our review also addresses the challenges and limitations of synthetic data, discusses practical applications, and provides thoughts for future work.This article is categorized under:
Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Modeling Methods and Algorithms
Efficiency Controls and the Captured Fishery Regulator
Authors: Berck Peter , Costello Christopher 
Published: November 2023

AbstractRent dissipation in open access fisheries is well studied (Gordon J Polit Econ 62:124–142, 1954; Homans and Wilen J Environ Econ Manag 32:1–21, 1997) and has been shown to induce efficiency losses of over $50 billion per year in global fisheries (Costello et al Proc Natl Acad Sci 113(18):5125–5129, 2016). While fisheries are increasingly managed with quota-based approaches, over half of the world’s fish catch is still largely unregulated. This lack of complete management stems, in part, from the reluctance of fishery regulators to limit entry or directly regulate harvest. This often leaves restrictions on efficiency—such as technology or season restrictions—as the only means to achieve management goals. We study the situation when a regulator is “captured” in the sense that he cannot directly control entry but acts in the representative fisher’s best interest. Incumbent fishers are faced with the problem that potential entrants appear just like incumbents, so current profits must be weighed against the incentive for entry. We find that when the regulator is captured by industry members, he unambiguously allows overfishing—reaching a lower stock and higher effort than is socially optimal. This steady state has zero rents, but, interestingly, a higher stock and effort than in the pure open access equilibrium.
Assessing the Potential of Eucalyptus Plantation to Supply Timber for Greener Development in China
Authors: Xu Jintao , Shi Miaoying 
Published: November 2023

AbstractChina needs to increase forest productivity, not only to reduce pressure on tropical deforestation but also to help transform its growth pattern toward a low-carbon and green growth path. For more than two decades, the national efforts have focused mainly on forest conservation and logging restrictions. Efforts by the government to increase timber supply have been very limited, if not negligible. Meanwhile, eucalyptus plantations have emerged quietly in southern China and suddenly have become China’s largest timber source. Eucalyptus demonstrates unusual potential in solving China’s timber supply issues. Lots of questions remain. This paper intends to provide an assessment of eucalyptus development in China. Our analyses will use plot-level data to estimate current production and growth potential of eucalyptus in southern China, under several technological scenarios. The need for an enabling policy environment is also discussed.
The Future of Agriculture
Authors: Zilberman David , Rausser Gordon , Wesseler Justus 
Published: November 2023

AbstractPeter Berck started his career as a resource economist applying dynamic systems to study forest management. Over the years, his attention shifted toward other resource challenges, including land use and water management, and his range of techniques expanded to include econometrics and computable general equilibrium models. He immersed himself in various aspects of agricultural problems and policy in both developed and developing countries. As a scholar and especially as an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Peter had a significant impact on the evolution of agricultural economics. In this chapter, we address a topic that engaged Peter: the future of agriculture and its relationship with other natural resources. The first section of the chapter will discuss the emergence of agricultural systems and the transition from extraction systems to sustainable farming. The second section will address the challenges of modern agriculture in developed countries, and the third will address the future of agriculture, introducing three alternative themes: organic eco-agriculture, food plus, and the bioeconomy.
The Satellite at the End of the World: Infrastructural Encounters in North Greenland
Authors: Abildgaard Mette Simonsen 
Published: November 2023

AbstractIn this chapter, I examine processes of place-making in Qaanaaq, North Greenland which display how its marginality is produced on different scales. I focus on the mutual co-shaping of local everyday practices and infrastructural systems, which I term ‘infrastructural encounters’. Through stories of key infrastructural sites in Qaanaaq, such as its hotel, satellite ground station and telecommunication station, as well as the local concept “down south” which describes the world south of Qaanaaq, the chapter highlights how infrastructural encounters act in the ongoing making of Qaanaaq, leading to extractive processes in the circulation of people and information, marginalization of Qaanaaq’s internet users and remote control of infrastructure. I draw on fieldwork conducted across multiple sites in Greenland, including interviews with locals and representatives from various functions in Qaanaaq. Through this exploration of infrastructure and everyday life, the chapter sheds light on the ways in which marginality is produced and sustained, and the role that telecommunication infrastructures play in shaping the experiences of those positioned as living ‘on the margins’.
Poetics of Nothingness: Ordering Wilderness
Authors: Lund Katrín Anna 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThis chapter takes the reader on a journey into the wilderness of Melrakkaslétta and follows the researcher who takes on the role of an explorer to rethink the potentiality of a place as a tourist destination. Selected encounters with features and figures whilst journeying are examined. What these have in common, although different in nature, is that they bring the flow of movement to a momentary, sometimes poetical, standstill which requires rethinking the order of things in an explorative manner. The features selected are:

Beach

Arctic terns

Moss and lichens

Modern ruin

The aim is to examine how one can be in touch with the surroundings by allowing for the narratives they entail to emerge when moving with them. A beach reveals how heterogeneous materialities are moved about by natural forces which reflects on the constant rejuvenation that a place undergoes. Arctic terns provide a sense for constant renewal through seasonal changes and extreme mobile abilities. Moss and lichens bring one into direct touch with multispecies habitation that grows and nurtures, whilst modern ruins of a derelict farm give an insight into more-than-human co-habitation of flows and fluxes. These features represent mobile forces that constantly shape a place; a destination.
Statistische Datenauswertung der RST-Analyse
Authors: Wan Shujun 
Published: November 2023

ZusammenfassungIn diesem Kapitel werden die Ergebnisse der statistischen Datenauswertung der RST-Analyse, deren Annotationsprozess im vorherigen Kapitel vorgestellt wurde, präsentiert. Hierbei stehen vor allem drei große Fragen im Fokus: a) Gibt es Unterschiede und/oder Gemeinsamkeiten in der Häufigkeit der jeweiligen rhetorischen Relation in den argumentativen Texten der chinesischen Deutschlerner/-innen und der deutschen L1-Sprecher/-innen? b) Wie werden die Texte innerhalb und zwischen den Textregionen „Einleitung“, „Hauptteil“ sowie „Schluss“ rhetorisch aufgebaut? Besteht ein Unterschied zwischen den beiden Vergleichsgruppen? c) Was lässt sich aus diesen Ergebnissen für die Analyse der Argumentationsstrategien ableiten? Die erste Frage wird in Abschnitt 4.1 behandelt. Dabei werden die in den Texten vorkommenden Relationen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven verglichen.
Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in inhomogeneous supersymmetric field theories and BPS vacua
Authors: Kim Yoonbai , Kwon O-Kab , Tolla D. D. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
We study spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in inhomogeneous extensions of $$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
= 1 supersymmetric field theory models in 4-dimensions. The $$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
= 1 Abelian Higgs model with the inhomogeneous mass parameter and the FI coefficient that are dependent on spatial coordinates, as well as the O’Raifeartaigh model with all its parameters being dependent on spatial coordinates, are studied in detail. In the presence of inhomogeneous parameters, half supersymmetry can be preserved by adding appropriate inhomogeneous deformations to the original Lagrangians. The inhomogeneous deformations often break the R-symmetry explicitly. In cases where the inhomogeneous deformations do not break the R-symmetry explicitly, we demonstrate that spontaneous breaking of the R-symmetry is infeasible. We argue that those models can not be spontaneous supersymmetry breaking models, according to the Nelson-Seiberg argument. We comment on this issue in the context of a generic $$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
= 1 supersymmetric model as well.
Sortierung von Mehrschichtfolien durch Anwendung von Transflektion und Machine-Learning-Ansätzen
Authors: Koinig Gerald , Kuhn Nikolai , Tischberger-Aldrian Alexia 
Published: November 2023

ZusammenfassungDie Verbreitung von Mehrschichtfolien im Bereich der Kunststoffverpackungen bringt viele Vorteile für Verbraucher, Logistik und die Umwelt mit sich, stellt jedoch gleichzeitig neue Herausforderungen für das Abfallmanagement dar. Aufgrund eines Mangels an geeigneten Technologien im industriellen Maßstab ist der Materialverbund der dünnsten verschiedenen Kunststoffe bisher kaum vom übrigen Kunststoffverpackungsstrom zu unterscheiden. Die Mischung unerwünschter Materialien führt zu Inkompatibilität zwischen den Kunststoffen im Recyclingprodukt und infolgedessen zu einer Verringerung der Qualität der Sekundärrohstoffe. Projekte wie „Multilayer Detection“ des AVAW der Montanuniversität bieten Lösungen, die vorhandene NIR-Sortiertechnologie in bestehenden Kunststoffrecyclinganlagen so anzupassen, dass die Identifizierung und Ausscheidung von Mehrschichtfolien problemlos nachgerüstet werden können. Mit der Entwicklung der neuen Recyclingmethode können die bestehenden Vorteile von leichter Folienverpackung auf bestmögliche und umweltfreundliche Weise genutzt werden. Eine Herausforderung im Abfallmanagement kann gemeistert und in einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Kreislaufwirtschaft umgewandelt werden. Dazu werden adaptierte Messmethoden in der Nahinfrarotspektroskopie wie die Akquise von Spektraldaten in Transflektion angewandt. Weiters wird gezeigt, wie Machine-Learning-Klassifikationsmethoden Herausforderungen, die aus schierer Vielfalt an Mehrschichtfolien erwachsen, lösen können. Schlussendlich wird anhand einer Lebenszyklusanalyse von Folienverpackungen die Notwendigkeit einer verbesserten Sammlung und Sortierung gezeigt.
A Novel Splice Site Mutation in the FBN2 Gene in a Chinese Family with Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly
Authors: Zhang Cuiping , Qiao Fengchang , Cheng Qing , Luo Chunyu , Zhang Qinxin , Hu Ping , Xu Zhengfeng 
Published: November 2023

AbstractCongenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) is a rare connective tissue disorder characterized by arachnodactyly, multiple joint contractures, progressive kyphoscoliosis, pectus deformity and abnormal crumpled ears. FBN2 is the only gene currently known to be associated with CCA. In this study, we report on a prenatal case presented with skeletal, cardiac and spinal malformations. And his father had elongated limbs, contractures of the proximal interphalangeal joints, high myopia and scoliosis. We conducted whole exome sequencing (WES) on the fetus-parental trio and a heterozygous variant (hg19 chr5:127,673,685, c.3598 + 4A > G, NM_001999.4) in intron 27 of the FBN2 gene was successfully identified, inherited from the father. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was performed to evaluate the potential splicing effect of this variant, which confirmed that the variant caused a deletion of exon 27 (126 bp) by disrupting the splice-donor site and destroyed the 17th calcium-binding epidermal growth factor-like (cbEGF) domain. Our research not only finds the etiology of the disease in affected individuals and expands the mutation spectrum of FBN2 gene, but also provides genetic counseling and fertility guidance for this family.