bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Local Dynamic Stability of Trunk During Gait is Responsive to Rehabilitation in Subjects with Primary Degenerative Cerebellar Ataxia
Authors: Castiglia Stefano Filippo , Trabassi Dante , Conte Carmela , Gioiosa Valeria , Sebastianelli Gabriele , Abagnale Chiara , Ranavolo Alberto , Di Lorenzo Cherubino , Coppola Gianluca , Casali Carlo , Serrao Mariano 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis study aimed to assess the responsiveness to the rehabilitation of three trunk acceleration-derived gait indexes, namely the harmonic ratio (HR), the short-term longest Lyapunov’s exponent (sLLE), and the step-to-step coefficient of variation (CV), in a sample of subjects with primary degenerative cerebellar ataxia (swCA), and investigate the correlations between their improvements (∆), clinical characteristics, and spatio-temporal and kinematic gait features. The trunk acceleration patterns in the antero-posterior (AP), medio-lateral (ML), and vertical (V) directions during gait of 21 swCA were recorded using a magneto-inertial measurement unit placed at the lower back before (T0) and after (T1) a period of inpatient rehabilitation. For comparison, a sample of 21 age- and gait speed-matched healthy subjects (HSmatched) was also included. At T1, sLLE in the AP (sLLEAP) and ML (sLLEML) directions significantly improved with moderate to large effect sizes, as well as SARA scores, stride length, and pelvic rotation. sLLEML and pelvic rotation also approached the HSmatched values at T1, suggesting a normalization of the parameter. HRs and CV did not significantly modify after rehabilitation. ∆sLLEML correlated with ∆ of the gait subscore of the SARA scale (SARAGAIT) and ∆stride length and ∆sLLEAP correlated with ∆pelvic rotation and ∆SARAGAIT. The minimal clinically important differences for sLLEML and sLLEAP were ≥ 36.16% and ≥ 28.19%, respectively, as the minimal score reflects a clinical improvement in SARA scores. When using inertial measurement units, sLLEAP and sLLEML can be considered responsive outcome measures for assessing the effectiveness of rehabilitation on trunk stability during walking in swCA.
“You Fall in Love with the Person”: Narratives of Female Athletes Coming Out of the Closet in Competitive Sports Teams of Spain
Authors: Donoso Belén , Álvarez-Sotomayor Alberto , Reina Amalia 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Introduction
Previous research has shown that team sports are perceived as spaces conducive to homonegativism or as havens where female athletes can explore their sexuality. This paper aims to analyze the role of team sports in the discovery, acceptance, and respectful lived experiences of lesbian sexuality among competitive female athletes.

Methods
A qualitative methodology was used. Five focus groups organized by sport and the age of the athletes were conducted. Forty-five female athletes participated in the study. Data were collected from May 2017 to February 2018. Grounded theory was employed for the analysis.

Results
The athletes’ narratives suggest that the visibility of non-heterosexual persons, time spent together, emotional closeness, and similar lifestyles are features of team sports which allow lesbian female athletes to explore and establish affective-sexual relationships. These athletes participate in team sports because of their personal interest in the sport and not their sexual orientation.

Conclusions
Sports teams have a protective and liberating role in female athletes’ sexual exploration and the free and respectful experience of same-sex relationships in the Spanish sporting environment.
Policy Implications.
Although the democratization of sexuality in Spain has been positive for women in sport, further research is needed to determine whether gay men can participate in sport with full social protection.
A narrative on diversity, equity, and inclusion in surgery: insights from the European Society of Coloproctology and identification of points for action
Authors: Garoufalia Zoe , Bellato Vittoria , Cunha Miguel F , Avellaneda Nicolas , Dudi-Venkata Nagendra N , Gallardo Cristián , Meyer Jeremy , Zaffaroni Gloria , Christensen Peter , Aytac Erman , Brady Richard R W , Pellino Gianluca ,   the European Society of Coloproctology ESCP Operation Equal Access Working Group
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe focus of the 2022 European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) annual campaign was diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in surgery. The ESCP “Operation Equal Access” campaign sought to interview key-opinion leaders and trainees, to raise awareness on inequalities, inform the community of the status of the topic, and to identify future areas for improvement. The ESCP Social Media Working Group interviewed experts who have made significant contributions to DEI in colorectal surgery and were acknowledged opinion leaders in the field. The interviews focused on their career, professional life, experiences, and opportunities during their training, and their views on DEI in colorectal surgery. DEI principles, education, and values need further promotion to reduce and address bias within the profession and overall improve the experience of minority community including health professionals and patients. International Societies are working to facilitate training opportunities and overcome DEI, and networking have contributed to that. Collaborations between societies will be pivotal to contribute to offering research and leadership opportunities equally. Access to advanced workshops including cadaveric training and simulation can be consistently promoted and provided globally via societies through telemonitoring. Involving patients in research should be encouraged, as it brings the perspective of a living experience.
Effects of intermittent hypoxia and whole-body vibration training on health-related outcomes in older adults
Authors: Timón Rafael , González-Custodio Adrián , Gusi Narcis , Olcina Guillermo 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Background
Aging is associated with a health impairment and an increase of the vulnerability of the older people. Strength training under intermittent hypoxic conditions has been shown to have therapeutic effects on individual’s health.

Aims
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a combined intermittent hypoxia (IH) and whole-body vibration (WBV) training program on health-related outcomes in older people.

Methods
A total of 60 adults (over the age of 65) voluntarily participated in an intervention that lasted 20 weeks (three 30-min sessions per week). The participants were divided into four experimental groups subjected to different environmental conditions (IH vs normoxia) and exercise (non-exercise vs WBV). Functional fitness, body composition, metabolic parameters, inflammatory biomarkers, and bone turnover were evaluated before and after the intervention. A multifactorial ANOVA with repeated measures was performed to explore differences within and between groups.

Results
The results showed that IH and WBV had a positive synergistic effect on inflammatory parameters (CRP and IL-10), bone formation biomarker (PINP), and body composition (muscle and bone mass).

Conclusion
In conclusion, a combined IH and WVB training could be a useful tool to prevent the deterioration of health-related outcomes associated with aging.
Clinical trial registration NCT04281264. https://clinicaltrials.gov/.
Ultrasound-based quantitative tools in predicting renal involvement in asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism
Authors: Candemir B. , Cuce F. , Akın S. , Gulcelik N. E. 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Purpose
Asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism (aPHPT) has been recognized as a condition that can lead to renal complications. Timely identification of prognostic indicators for renal impairment holds the potential to facilitate proactive monitoring and treatment strategies in these patients. This study aims to investigate the utility of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging and renal resistive index (RRI), in identifying renal parenchymal and vascular changes in patients with aPHPT.

Methods
Forty-two patients with aPHPT and 42 controls matched for age, sex, and body mass index were included in the study. The presence of renovascular changes was evaluated by RRI measurement with Doppler ultrasonography, and the presence of renal parenchymal involvement was evaluated by ARFI quantification, given as shear wave velocity (SWV).

Results
In aPHPT patients, both the mean RRI and mean SWV values exhibited substantial elevation compared to the control group (P < 0.001 for both). Significant associations were observed between SWV values and serum calcium, parathyroid hormone (PTH), and adenoma size within the patient group (P < 0.001, P < 0.001, P = 0.016, respectively). Similarly, the mean RRI demonstrated positive correlations with serum calcium and PTH levels in the patient group (P< 0.001, P = 0.011, respectively). Multivariate linear regression analysis underscored the connection between mean RRI and mean SWV values with serum calcium levels within the patient group. In addition, serum PTH levels affected mean SWV positively and significantly.

Conclusion
The use of ARFI imaging and RRI measurements appears to hold potential in identifying renal involvement in patients with aPHPT.
Explanatory model of cyberbullying, cybervictimization, aggressiveness, social anxiety, and adaptation to university: a structural equation analysis
Authors: Aparisi David , Delgado Beatriz , Bo Rosa M. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe increase in the number of cases of cyberbullying and cybervictimisation among university students and the scarce amount of research on the subject justify the need to analyse its relationship with psychological and social variables to prevent its appearance and impact. The aim of this study was to establish and contrast the fit of an explanatory model on cyberbullying and cybervictimization based on its relationship with aggressiveness, social anxiety and adaptation to university using a structural equations analysis. A total of 1,368 Spanish university students aged 18–49 (M = 21.34; SD = 4.45) completed a battery of questionnaires with the aim of assessing cyberbullying, aggressiveness, social anxiety, and adaptation to university. An adjusted structural equations model was obtained (x2 = 198.53; df = 39; p < .001; CFI = .96; NFI = .96; IFI = .96; RMSEA = .06). Significant relationships are observed, aggressiveness is negatively related to adaptation to university and positively with cybervictimization. A negative relationship has also been observed between cybervictimization and adaptation to university and a positive relationship with cyberbullying. Indirect effects have not been observed between aggressiveness and cyberbullying and between social anxiety and cybervictimization through adaptation to university. Therefore, social anxiety does not act as a mediator in the relationship with adaptation to university. These results suggest the importance of efforts to promote coping strategies management of aggression and empowerment of student adaptation in the university context to prevent cybervictimization and cyberbullying. Contributions and implications of the results are discussed.
Ground control by L-shaped cemented paste backfilling technology in underground coal seam mining: a case study
Authors: Guo Mingjie , Guo Wenbing , Tan Yi , Zhang Hebing , Zheng Qinling , Zhao Gaobo , Bai Erhu 
Published: January 2024

AbstractTraditional cemented paste backfilling continues to face the shortcomings such as paste leakage, poor adaptability to geological structures and insufficient roof-contact. To solve the limitations, a novel L-shaped cemented paste backfilling (LCPB) technology was proposed in this study. It is to set L-shaped filling zones and partition zones in the goaf to perform interval and multiple filling. A mechanical model was established to calculate backfilling body strength, widths of L-shaped filling zones and partition zones and backfilled ratio and etc. The results of a case study showed that: (1) The LCPB mining has a high backfilled ratio, without prominent ground pressure. The maximum values of roof-to-floor convergence of the working face and roadway were 58 mm and 259 mm, respectively. It could effectively control the deformation of surrounding rock and achieve roadway retention. (2) When the floor strata were intact, the maximum floor damage depth was less than 4 m, and the floor near the fault was 10–12 m. The secondary lift height of the confined water was about 5 m near the fault. The LCPB mining allows for safety mining above a confined aquifer. (3) The maximum surface inclination and curvature were 1.75 mm/m and 0.06 mm/m2, respectively. The draw angle was 11.3°, and the subsidence factor was 0.085. The ground surface deformation was reduced to be less than that allowed in the first level of the building damage (inclination and curvature of 3 mm/m and 0.2 mm/m2, respectively).
Implementing Efficient Systems to Monitor Competency-Based Supervision in Rural Psychology Training Programs
Authors: Jordan Shiloh E. , Hampole Shilpa R. , Mackintosh Margaret-Anne , Reyes Sofia I. , Eliason Kristen D. , Felker Bradford L. , Shearer Erika M. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractRural populations face challenges receiving mental health treatment due to a shortage of providers and high turnover rates. Further, trainees typically participate in urban rather than rural training centers and often remain located where they train. Supervision via synchronous video-based communications, or telesupervision, may help increase the availability of supervisors in rural settings. There is ample research on telemental health, yet data regarding telesupervision is limited. While there is a gap in systematic approaches to ensuring the quality of supervision is maintained, telesupervision use is increasing. This project examined in-person and telesupervision via use of a competency-based supervision monitoring system within rural clinical psychology training programs. This paper argues for using a competency-based supervision model in psychology training programs and how the data management system developed for an implementation–effectiveness project assessing telesupervision use in seven VA training sites supports such a model. This project collected data monthly about telesupervision use, program-level data including professional competency ratings, and patient treatment and outcomes. The data collection system employed is used to outline the needs and associated solutions that help programs develop, monitor, and improve a competency-based approach to telesupervision. The use of automation and metrics can provide programs with the necessary supervision oversight information that can be implemented using low-burden and low-cost strategies. The paper concludes with best practices for utilizing a monitoring system to maintain the quality of training and clinical care when implementing new technology such as telesupervision. Findings further support the application of the monitoring system across healthcare training programs and supervision modalities.
Perspectives of Psychology Supervisors and Trainees: Implications for Supervision and Telesupervision
Authors: Shearer Erika M. , Jordan Shiloh E. , Eliason Kristen D. , Felker Bradford L. , Hampole Shilpa R. , Reyes Sofia I. , Caris Melissa K. , Mackintosh Margaret-Anne 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe onset of the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically increased the need for psychology training programs to use telesupervision, prompting a necessity to better understand telesupervision practice to enable success for both training and clinical care outcomes. Mirroring telemental health, telesupervision needs to be implemented in a manner that upholds elements associated with effective supervision. In the present quality improvement project, psychology supervisors (n = 242) and trainees (n = 128) at Veterans Affairs Health Care System (VA) sites throughout the USA were invited to complete anonymous online questionnaires regarding supervision experiences across in-person and telesupervision modalities. Data assessing the varying experiences of trainees and supervisors related to access of supervision and supervisors, amount and type of oversight, and frequency of evaluative feedback were analyzed. The findings suggest that supervisors and trainees differed in their endorsement of essential elements of supervision as in-person supervision shifted to the telesupervision modality. A thematic analysis of qualitative data revealed potential benefits, challenges, and needs for successful telesupervision implementation. Overall, the findings provide insight into supervisor and trainee perceptions of supervision and benefits and challenges across in-person and telesupervision modalities. Implications for scaffolding optimal learning experiences across both in-person and telesupervision modalities are discussed.
Effects of Eddies on the Formation and Subduction of North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water Based on Argo Observations
Authors: Sheng Jing , Liu Cong , Li Peiliang , Zhai Fangguo 
Published: January 2024

AbstractNorth Pacific subtropical mode water (NPSTMW) is formed in the winter deep mixed layer (ML), due to ocean‐to‐atmosphere interactions, south of the Kuroshio Extension (KE), one of the most energetic eddy activity regions. The large‐scale effects of eddies on the formation and subduction of NPSTMW are investigated on updated Argo observations via kinematic and thermodynamic parameterization approaches. The climatological annual mean eddy‐induced subduction of NPSTMW can reach 4.51 Sv, which accounts for nearly 56% of the total subduction. The local enhancement of the eddy‐induced subduction rate can reach 90 m yr−1 in the high eddy kinetic energy (EKE) zone. Moreover, the spatial distributions of the large eddy‐induced subduction are mostly generated in a zone of steep isopycnals near the KE front area via the parameterization. The diagnosis of the thermodynamic relationship indicates that the eddy‐induced buoyancy flux broadens the area of ocean surface buoyancy loss and then fosters the formation of NPSTMW in winter. The eddy‐induced buoyancy loss due to diapycnal mixing is likely to occur in the relatively steep isopycnals near the KE region, which accounts for 21.2% of the net NPSTMW formation. The contribution of eddy‐induced subduction has the same order as that of lateral induction in each year. The eddy‐induced subduction and lateral induction show similar interannual variations related to the KE variable state.
Late Holocene Dust Deposition Fluxes Over the Entire South Atlantic Ocean
Authors: van der Does Michèlle , Lamy Frank , Krätschmer Stephan , Stuut Jan‐Berend W. , Völker Christoph , Werner Martin , Schwarz Roseanne , Fleisher Marty , Winckler Gisela 
Published: January 2024

AbstractMineral dust accumulated on the ocean floor is an important archive for reconstructing past atmospheric circulation changes and climatological conditions in the source areas. Dust emitted from Southern Hemisphere dust sources is widely deposited over the oceans. However, there are few records of dust deposition over the open ocean, and a large need for extended geographical coverage exists. We present a large data set (134 surface sediment samples) of Late Holocene dust deposition from seafloor surface sediments covering the entire South Atlantic Ocean. Polymodal grain‐size distributions of the lithogenic fraction indicate that the sediments are composed of multiple sediment components. By using end‐member modeling, we attempt to disentangle the dust signal from non‐aeolian sediments. Combined with 230Th‐normalized lithogenic fluxes, we quantified the specific deposition fluxes for mineral dust, crrent‐sorted sediments and ice‐rafted debris (IRD). Although the method could not completely separate the different components in every region, it shows that dust deposition off the most prominent dust source for the South Atlantic Ocean—southern South America—amounts up to approximately 0.7 g cm−2 Kyr−1 and decreases downwind. Bottom‐current‐sorted sediments and IRD are mostly concentrated around the continental margins. The ratio of the coarse to fine dust end members reveals input from north African dust sources to the South Atlantic. The majority of the observations are in good agreement with new model simulations. This extensive and relevant data set of dust grain size and deposition fluxes to the South Atlantic could be used to calibrate and validate further model simulations.
Oxygen Fugacity of Global Ocean Island Basalts
Authors: Willhite Lori N. , Arevalo Ricardo , Piccoli Philip , Lassiter John C. , Rand Devin , Jackson Matthew G. , Day James M. D. , Nicklas Robert W. , Locmelis Marek , Ireland Thomas J. , Puchtel Igor S. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractMantle plumes contain heterogenous chemical components and sample variable depths of the mantle, enabling glimpses into the compositional structure of Earth's interior. In this study, we evaluated ocean island basalts (OIB) from nine plume locations to provide a global and systematic assessment of the relationship between fO2 and He‐Sr‐Nd‐Pb‐W‐Os isotopic compositions. Ocean island basalts from the Pacific (Austral Islands, Hawaii, Mangaia, Samoa, Pitcairn), Atlantic (Azores, Canary Islands, St. Helena), and Indian Oceans (La Réunion) reveal that fO2 in OIB is heterogeneous both within and among hotspots. Taken together with previous studies, global OIB have elevated and heterogenous fO2 (average = +0.5 ∆FMQ; 2SD = 1.5) relative to prior estimates of global mid‐ocean ridge basalts (MORB; average = −0.1 ∆FMQ; 2SD = 0.6), though many individual OIB overlap MORB. Specific mantle components, such as HIMU and enriched mantle 2 (EM2), defined by radiogenic Pb and Sr isotopic compositions compared to other OIB, respectively, have distinctly high fO2 based on statistical analysis. Elevated fO2 in OIB samples of these components is associated with higher whole‐rock CaO/Al2O3 and olivine CaO content, which may be linked to recycled carbonated oceanic crust. EM1‐type and geochemically depleted OIB are generally not as oxidized, possibly due to limited oxidizing potential of the recycled material in the enriched mantle 1 (EM1) component (e.g., sediment) or lack of recycled materials in geochemically depleted OIB. Despite systematic offset of the fO2 among EM1‐, EM2‐, and HIMU‐type OIB, geochemical indices of lithospheric recycling, such as Sr‐Nd‐Pb‐Os isotopic systems, generally do not correlate with fO2.