bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The importance of the multidisciplinary team in the decision-making process of patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
Authors: Fancellu Alessandro , Pasqualitto Valerio , Cottu Pietrina , Giuliani Giuliana , Grasso Lavinia , Ariu Maria Laura , Porcu Alberto , Sanna Valeria 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Background and objectives
Recent literature suggests that rates of breast conservation surgery (BCS) are lower than expected in patients submitted to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for breast cancer. The aim of this study was to underscore the role of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in the decision-making process of patients who underwent breast surgery after NAC.

Methods
We conducted a retrospective study on patients with breast cancer treated according to an algorithm developed at the Breast Unit of Northern Sardinia between January 2019 and May 2023. Data collected included demographics, tumor characteristics, upfront treatment (surgery or NAC), type of primary surgery (BCS or mastectomy [Ma]) and patients’ adherence to the treatment proposed by the MDT.

Results
Overall, 1061 women were treated during the study period, of whom 164 received NAC (Group A) and 897 upfront surgery (Group B). In group A, conversion from BCS ineligibility to BCS eligibility was observed in 47 patients (40.1%). Final surgery in patients who became BCS-eligible after NAC was BCS in 42 cases (89.3%) and Ma in 5 (10.6%). Rates of patients’ adherence to the treatment proposed by the MDT were significantly better in the Group A (p = 0.02).

Conclusions
Our results suggest that the MDT has a pivotal role in increasing the rates of breast conservation in women submitted to NAC.
Identification, Evaluation, and Management of Post-breast Surgery Pain Syndrome
Authors: Chang Philip , Wu Sammy , Emos Marc Ramos 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Purpose of Review
The purpose of this review is to provide a practical framework for the diagnosis and treatment of post-breast surgery pain syndrome.

Recent Findings
There has been increasing evidence that nerve blocks, regional anesthetic blocks, and surgeries including fat grafting and targeted muscle reinnervation may be effective in treating post-breast surgery pain syndrome.

Summary
Post-breast surgery pain syndrome is identified as clinically affecting the upper extremity and chest wall on the post-surgical side. There are several treatment options including topicals, oral medications, therapeutic interventions, and surgeries which may be discussed and explored with affected patients.
Influence of the 3D architecture and surface roughness of SiOC anodes on bioelectrochemical system performance: a comparative study of freeze-cast, 3D-printed, and tape-cast materials with uniform composition
Authors: da Rosa Braun Pedro Henrique , Kuchenbuch Anne , Toselli Bruno , Rezwan Kurosch , Harnisch Falk , Wilhelm Michaela 
Published: February 2024

Abstract3D-printed anodes for bioelectrochemical systems are increasingly being reported. However, comparisons between 3D-printed anodes and their non-3D-printed counterparts with the same material composition are still lacking. In addition, surface roughness parameters that could be correlated with bioelectrochemical performance are rarely determined. To fill these gaps, slurries with identical composition but different mass fractions were processed into SiOC anodes by tape-casting, freeze-casting, or direct-ink writing. The current generation was investigated using electroactive biofilms enriched with Geobacter spp. Freeze-cast anodes showed more surface pores and the highest surface kurtosis of 5.7 ± 0.5, whereas tape-cast and 3D-printed anodes showed a closed surface porosity. 3D-printing was only possible using slurries 85 wt% of mass fraction. The surface pores of the freeze-cast anodes improved bacterial adhesion and resulted in a high initial (first cycle) maximum current density per geometric surface area of 9.2 ± 2.1 A m−2. The larger surface area of the 3D-printed anodes prevented pore clogging and produced the highest current density per geometric surface area of 12.0 ± 1.2 A m−2. The current density values of all anodes are similar when the current density is normalized over the entire geometric surface as determined by CT-scans. This study highlights the role of geometric surface area in normalizing current generation and the need to use more surface roughness parameters to correlate anode properties, bacterial adhesion, and current generation.
Association of personality traits and socio-environmental factors with COVID-19 pandemic-related conspiratorial thinking in the D-A-CH region
Authors: Han Emilie , Weitzer Jakob , Birmann Brenda M. , Bertau Martin , Zenk Lukas , Caniglia Guido , Laubichler Manfred D. , Schernhammer Eva S. , Steiner Gerald 
Published: February 2024

AbstractMisinformation, lack of trust, and uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic have fostered the emergence of new conspiracy theories. In August 2021, we examined the association of individual personality traits and socio-environmental factors with high belief in pandemic-related conspiracies through an online survey among 3,067 quota-sampled German-speaking adults residing in the D-A-CH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). In multivariable-adjusted regression models, pandemic-related conspiracy belief was, first, negatively associated with tertile (T) of complexity thinking, optimism, and higher level of education (complexity thinking, ORT3vs.T1: 0.43, 95% CI 0.32–0.57, Ptrend < 0.01; optimism, ORT3vs.T1: 0.41, 95% CI: 0.30–0.56, Ptrend < 0.01; higher education, ORT3vs. T1: 0.67, 0.50-0.89; Ptrend <0.01) and second, positively associated with regular participation in religious meetings, not having recently voted, unwillingness of oneself or one’s close contacts to vaccinate, past COVID-19 infection and disapproval of COVID-19 mitigation measures. Our findings highlight the importance to foster complexity understanding through targeted interventions, such as in education settings, to help curb the spread of conspiracy theories. We conclude that, in order to effectively address the challenges posed by pandemic-related conspiracy theories, policymakers must acknowledge the impact of conspiracy beliefs on public health decisions while promoting transparent communication and interdisciplinary (between scientific disciplines) and transdisciplinary (between science and society) research, as well as science literacy and science diplomacy collaboration.
Automatic printed circuit board inspection: a comprehensible survey
Authors: Fonseca Luis Augusto Libório Oliveira , Iano Yuzo , Oliveira Gabriel Gomes de , Vaz Gabriel Caumo , Carnielli Giulliano Paes , Pereira Júlio César , Arthur Rangel 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe printed circuit board (PCB) plays a critical role in any electronic product, and its manufacturing quality assurance is responsible for substantially impacting the final product’s price. Hence, research and development (R&D) for better inspection methods have been an internationally growing subject. Regarding the multiple PCB inspection paradigms, the visual investigation of these boards represents the majority of modern techniques. Thus, the present survey collects the most impacting studies over the last 25 years, highlighting their operation strategies and how they evolved until recently, including introducing artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to increase their overall performance and lower operating costs. Furthermore, this work calls attention to the importance of public PCB datasets to contribute to developing such methods and provide benchmarking references. Finally, the most recent challenges in the field are described and discussed.
Control of Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde in eucalyptus forests: shading increases sensitivity to glyphosate applied alone and in a mixture with carfentrazone-ethyl
Authors: Ferreira Guilherme Augusto Paiva , Donato Luan Mateus Silva , Montes William Gomes , Rocha Leonardo Michel , Tuffi Santos Leonardo David 
Published: February 2024

AbstractShading, the predominant condition in most of the eucalyptus cultivation cycle, causes changes in the morphological and physiological weed's characteristics, which can alter their responses to glyphosate and carfentrazone-ethyl, important herbicides for the crop. The objective was to evaluate the influence of light on the efficiency of glyphosate and carfentrazone-ethyl used alone and in a mixture in Digitaria insularis control, a priority pest in the crop. The experiment was carried out in a 3 × 6 factorial scheme. The first factor corresponded to 3 cultivation environments (full sunlight, 45 and 63% shading) and the second factor to doses of glyphosate and carfentrazone-ethyl applied isolated (1920 and 40 g ai ha−1) and mixed (1536 + 8; 1152 + 16; 768 + 24 and 384 + 32 g ai ha−1), respectively. Shading increased D. insularis sensitivity to glyphosate alone and in a mixture with carfentrazone-ethyl. In shading, the glyphosate application alone at a dose of 1920 g ha−1 and in a mixture with carfentrazone-ethyl at doses of 1536 + 8 and 1152 + 16 g ha−1 were efficient in D. insularis control. In the environment of 63% shading, the dose of 768 + 24 g ha−1 was also efficient in this species control. None of the doses were effective in controlling D. insularis in full sunlight. Isolated carfentrazone-ethyl was inefficient in controlling D. insularis, regardless of the growth environment. Shading increases the quantum yield of photosystem II and reduces the electron transport rate, photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, and transpiration rate of D. insularis. In shady environments, it is possible to control D. insularis with lower glyphosate doses, used alone and mixed with carfentrazone-ethyl.
Quantifying the impact of X-band InSAR penetration bias on elevation change and mass balance estimation
Authors: Abdullahi Sahra , Burgess David , Wessel Birgit , Copland Luke , Roth Achim 
Published: February 2024

AbstractInterferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data suffer from an elevation bias due to signal penetration into the firn and ice surface, rendering the height information unusable for elevation and mass-change detection. This study estimates the penetration bias in X-band InSAR data to quantify its impact on elevation and mass-change detection and to demonstrate the applicability of TanDEM-X digital elevation models (DEMs) for cryosphere research. To achieve this, a multiple linear regression model is applied to a time series of four TanDEM-X DEMs acquired between 2010 and 2018 over the Sverdrup Glacier basin (SGB), Devon Ice Cap, Canada. The resulting penetration corrected TanDEM-X DEMs agreed to within ±14 cm of spatially and temporally coincident precise in situ kinematic dGPS data (±10 cm RMSE). Additionally, multi-year estimations of mass change for the SGB derived from differencing TanDEM-X DEMs over multi-year periods between 2010 and 2018, showed good agreement with mean deviation of 338 ± 166 mm w.e. with independent measurements of mass change derived from annual in situ surface mass balance over the same time periods. The results show that the penetration bias can vary significantly, leading to random under- and overestimations in the detection of elevation and mass changes.
A virtual recruitment protocol promotes enrollment of underrepresented groups in a diabetes prevention trial
Authors: Ritchie Natalie D. , Turk Melanie T. , Holtrop Jodi Summers , Durfee Michael Josh , Dickinson L. Miriam , Kaufmann Peter G. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractStrategies are needed to ensure greater participation of underrepresented groups in diabetes research. We examined the impact of a remote study protocol on enrollment in diabetes research, specifically the Pre-NDPP clinical trial. Recruitment was conducted among 2807 diverse patients in a safety-net healthcare system. Results indicated three-fold greater odds of enrolling in remote versus in-person protocols (AOR 2.90;P< 0.001 [95% CI 2.29–3.67]). Priority populations with significantly higher enrollment included Latinx and Black individuals, Spanish speakers, and individuals who had Medicaid or were uninsured. A remote study design may promote overall recruitment into clinical trials, while effectively supporting enrollment of underrepresented groups.
The Methodologically Flawed Discussion about Deep Disagreement
Authors: Melchior Guido 
Published: February 2024

AbstractQuestions surrounding deep disagreement have gained significant attention in recent years. One of the central debates is metaphysical, focusing on the features that make a disagreement deep. Proposals for what makes disagreements deep include theories about hinge propositions and first epistemic principles. In this paper, I criticize this metaphysical discussion by arguing that it is methodologically flawed. Deep disagreement is a technical or semi-technical term, but the metaphysical discussion mistakenly treats it as a common-sense concept to be analyzed and captured by our pre-theoretical intuitions. Since the literature on deep disagreement is subject to this fundamental confusion and deep disagreement is not a helpful umbrella term either, I propose eliminating the notion of deep disagreement from the philosophical discourse. Instead of analyzing the nature of deep disagreement, we should develop theories about different forms of disagreement, including disagreement about hinge propositions and disagreement about epistemic principles, and, in particular, a theory of rationally irresolvable disagreement.
The role of hyperparameters in machine learning models and how to tune them
Authors: Arnold Christian , Biedebach Luka , Küpfer Andreas , Neunhoeffer Marcel 
Published: February 2024

AbstractHyperparameters critically influence how well machine learning models perform on unseen, out-of-sample data. Systematically comparing the performance of different hyperparameter settings will often go a long way in building confidence about a model's performance. However, analyzing 64 machine learning related manuscripts published in three leading political science journals (APSR, PA, and PSRM) between 2016 and 2021, we find that only 13 publications (20.31 percent) report the hyperparameters and also how they tuned them in either the paper or the appendix. We illustrate the dangers of cursory attention to model and tuning transparency in comparing machine learning models’ capability to predict electoral violence from tweets. The tuning of hyperparameters and their documentation should become a standard component of robustness checks for machine learning models.
The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions
Authors: da Cunha Olívia Maria Gomes 
Published: February 2024

AbstractHow can we remain attentive to the scale of the environmental damage caused in traditional Maroon territories by the effects of the Plantationocene and the material vestiges of colonial and racial violence left by capitalism? Dwelling on conversations held with Maroon Cottica Ndyuka women living in Moengo, a small town established on the Cottica River in Eastern Suriname to support a bauxite industrial plant in the early twentieth century, this text seeks to illuminate what Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (2021) calls “elemental affinities,” relationships in which humans and more-than-humans interact in composing body and earth through refractive and diffractive effects. The paper observes how the women mixed and modeled clay, turning it into sculpted balls known as pemba or pemba doti, frequently used as a therapeutical and spiritual substance, and as food. In so doing, the text deals with processes such as creating, composing, undoing, decomposing, and perishing once the earth—as soil—takes part in and renders possible the existence of diverse creatures. This is a contribution toward an ethnography of (de)compositions of the earth that sets out from the affinities between earth and bodies, attentive to certain metamorphic possibilities, the multiplicities of relations in which soils act.
Transcanal endoscopic carbon dioxide laser resection of early-stage (A1–B1) glomus tympanicum tumours: single-centre case series
Authors: Remacha Joan , Pujol Laura , Caballero-Borrego Miguel , Sandoval Marta , Viza Ignacio , Codina Alberto , Bernal-Sprekelsen Manuel , Larrosa Francisco 
Published: February 2024

AbstractObjectiveTo report a single-centre experience in the endoscopic carbon dioxide laser-assisted approach to glomus tympanicum tumours.MethodsA retrospective case review was conducted of patients diagnosed with class A1 to B1 glomus tympanicum tumours who underwent exclusive transcanal endoscopic carbon dioxide laser surgery.ResultsSeven patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. All patients (100 per cent) were women, with a mean age of 65.4 years (standard deviation, 13.6). There were five A2 tumours, one A1 tumour and one B1 tumour. One patient presented with a delayed tympanic membrane perforation needing myringoplasty on follow up. There were no substantial post-operative complications. The mean hospitalisation time was 9.5 hours (standard deviation, 9.8). The mean follow-up period was 32.7 months (standard deviation, 13.1), with all cases having resolution of pulsatile tinnitus and no tumour recurrence.ConclusionThe study provides further evidence on the safety and efficacy of endoscopic carbon dioxide laser surgery as a minimally invasive technique for treating early-stage glomus tympanicum tumours.
Social cognition and social motivation in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: are impairments linked to the disorder or to being socially isolated?
Authors: Green Michael F. , Wynn Jonathan K. , Eisenberger Naomi I. , Horan William P. , Lee Junghee , McCleery Amanda , Miklowitz David J. , Reavis Eric A. , Reddy L. Felice 
Published: February 2024

AbstractBackgroundPeople with schizophrenia on average are more socially isolated, lonelier, have more social cognitive impairment, and are less socially motivated than healthy individuals. People with bipolar disorder also have social isolation, though typically less than that seen in schizophrenia. We aimed to disentangle whether the social cognitive and social motivation impairments observed in schizophrenia are a specific feature of the clinical condition v. social isolation generally.MethodsWe compared four groups (clinically stable patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, individuals drawn from the community with self-described social isolation, and a socially connected community control group) on loneliness, social cognition, and approach and avoidance social motivation.ResultsIndividuals with schizophrenia (n = 72) showed intermediate levels of social isolation, loneliness, and social approach motivation between the isolated (n = 96) and connected control (n = 55) groups. However, they showed significant deficits in social cognition compared to both community groups. Individuals with bipolar disorder (n = 48) were intermediate between isolated and control groups for loneliness and social approach. They did not show deficits on social cognition tasks. Both clinical groups had higher social avoidance than both community groupsConclusionsThe results suggest that social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, and high social avoidance motivation in both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are distinct features of the clinical conditions and not byproducts of social isolation. In contrast, differences between clinical and control groups on levels of loneliness and social approach motivation were congruent with the groups' degree of social isolation.
Confidence in research findings depends on theory
Authors: Gal David , Sternthal Brian , Calder Bobby J. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Almaatouq et al. view the purpose of research is to map variable-to-variable relationships (e.g., the effect of X on Y). They also view theory as this mapping of variable-to-variable relationships rather than an explanation of why the relationships occur. However, it is theory as explanation that allows us to reconcile disparate findings and that should guide application.
Integrative design for thought-experiments
Authors: Dohrn Daniel , Mezzadri Angelica 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Integrative experiment design should be extended to thought-experiments. Thought-experiments are closely connected to “real” experiments. They are involved in devising the design space of theories and possible experiments. The latter may be partitioned into experiments to be really performed and mere thought-experiments. The proposed extension of integrative experiment design lends guidance to a more methodical performance of thought-experiments.
Experiment commensurability does not necessitate research consolidation
Authors: Tsvetkova Milena 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Integrative experiment design promises to foster cumulative knowledge by changing how we design experiments, build theories, and conduct research. I support the push to increase commensurability across experimental research but raise several reservations regarding results-driven and large-team-based research. I argue that it is vital to preserve academic diversity and adversarial debate via independent efforts.
Riotous Lives and Subversive Literatures: New Directions in Global Histories of Resistance
Authors: Aziz Zaib un Nisa 
Published: February 2024

AbstractOver the past two decades, the relatively young field of global history has generated remarkable excitement among students, scholars, and readers who want to read scholarship that crosses borders and brings many worlds to a single methodological framework. Global perspectives have been particularly fruitful for telling political histories that have defined the modern world. Today, there is increasing scholarly interest in writing global intellectual histories of decolonisation and anti-colonialism. In the pages that follow, I consider new work, situated in several disciplines, that pushes the methodological boundaries of historical inquiry into our connected pasts. These works include Daniel Elam's World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth; Madhumita Lahiri's Imperfect Solidarities; Peace on Our Terms by Mona L. Siegel; and The Fury Archives by Juno Jill Richards.
EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, POVERTY, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Authors: Noussair Charles N. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractAs in other sciences, an economic experiment is an artificial situation created by a researcher for the purpose of answering one or more scientific questions. Experiments of various types are used in economics to understand the causes of poverty and how it might be alleviated. The methods can identify causal relationships between variables and thereby isolate factors that can lead to poverty as well as to document the behavioral consequences of poverty. Experiments can also be used to provide test beds for proposed policies to alleviate poverty. This essay describes a variety of ways in which experiments have been employed to understand and combat poverty. A line of laboratory experiments that considers which economic institutions are conducive to economic growth is discussed in detail. The results show that decentralized markets are conducive to allowing an economy to operate as efficiently as it can. However, in an economy with a theoretical “poverty trap,” the market works more efficiently if accompanied by a democratic voting process and freedom of communication.
FOREIGN AID AND FREEDOM
Authors: Tesón Fernando R. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThis essay examines the many problems with public and private development aid and argues that global liberalization of trade and immigration would have a greater direct effect in reducing global poverty. It also examines and rejects the view that people in rich countries have a strong moral obligation to give to the global poor. Such an obligation is in tension with an ethic that prizes personal projects. A political morality of equal respect and concern is congenial not with foreign aid, but with recognizing the agency of the global poor by lifting the many obstacles they currently face to participating in the market as producers and consumers.