bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Key drivers shaping green investment decisions
Authors: Trinarningsih W , Damayanti R M , Rosdaliva M 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Environmental awareness is explored to understand how this drives the demand for greener investments among both institutional and individual investors. Making green investment decisions involves a comprehensive evaluation of the environmental, social, and governance factors associated with a potential investment. In Indonesia, women are involved in financial decision-making within the household, such as savings, investment, and debt repayment. Our research aims to identity and analyse the determinants of green investment decisions that drive investors. We are using a framework that examines the role of behavioural factors and demographic characteristics in understanding the determinants of green investment behavioural. We determine behavioural factors such as overconfidence and herd behaviours. Meanwhile, we use age, education level, and investment experience as demographic factors. Data was collected from 120 respondents of civil servants’ wives in Klaten Central Java Province in Indonesia. For data analysis, we employ partial least square (PLS) using the SmartPLS software application. Through quantitative assessment, our study finds that overconfidence, age, and education level enhance green investment decision, while investment experience diminish green investment decision. Furthermore, we cannot find any evidence that herding behaviour and income have an impact on green investment decision.
Lubrication and wear characteristics of bionic composite texture on friction pair under seawater condition
Authors: Liang Yingna , Zhang Fachun , Xing Hao , Wang Cunyan , Chen Nan , Wang Wei , Zhang Zhepeng 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
To improve the lubrication bearing capacity of the slipper pair of axial piston pump under seawater lubrication, a bionic composite texture (ball pit-ball convex) was designed based on the non-smooth surface structure of dung beetle, and friction and wear experiments were carried out with CF/PEEK and 316L stainless steel. Thirteen groups of experiments with different parameters and structure sizes were designed and studied. The surface morphology of materials under different structural sizes and test parameters were observed, and the lubrication and wear characteristics were analyzed. The results show that the cavitation effect can increase the total compressive capacity of the bionic composite texture by 51.2% and reduce the friction coefficient by 53.3%, and the diameter and area ratio of the ball pit have the most obvious influence on the bearing performance. It is also found that the bionic composite texture has better anti-friction performance than the single texture because it has the function of storing wear chips. This study is of great significance to improve the bearing capacity and efficiency of seawater hydraulic axial piston pump, and also provides a certain reference value for the research of non-smooth surface in other fields.
Optimizing transformer-based network via advanced decoder design for medical image segmentation
Authors: Yang Weibin , Dong Zhiqi , Xu Mingyuan , Xu Longwei , Geng Dehua , Li Yusong , Wang Pengwei 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
U-Net is widely used in medical image segmentation due to its simple and flexible architecture design. To address the challenges of scale and complexity in medical tasks, several variants of U-Net have been proposed. In particular, methods based on Vision Transformer (ViT), represented by Swin UNETR, have gained widespread attention in recent years. However, these improvements often focus on the encoder, overlooking the crucial role of the decoder in optimizing segmentation details. This design imbalance limits the potential for further enhancing segmentation performance. To address this issue, we analyze the roles of various decoder components, including upsampling method, skip connection, and feature extraction module, as well as the shortcomings of existing methods. Consequently, we propose Swin DER (i.e., Swin UNETR Decoder Enhanced and Refined), by specifically optimizing the design of these three components. Swin DER performs upsampling using learnable interpolation algorithm called offset coordinate neighborhood weighted up sampling (Onsampling) and replaces traditional skip connection with spatial-channel parallel attention gate (SCP AG). Additionally, Swin DER introduces deformable convolution along with attention mechanism in the feature extraction module of the decoder. Our model design achieves excellent results, surpassing other state-of-the-art methods on both the Synapse dataset and the MSD brain tumor segmentation task. Code is available at:
https://github.com/WillBeanYang/Swin-DER
Experimental and GEANT4 simulated FEPE of NaI(Tl) detector for linear sources
Authors: Mansoor Shahid , Malik Azhar Hussain , Satti Khizar Hayat , Ijaz Misbah , Siddique Muhammad Tariq 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The current study investigated the geometry, design and solid angle impacts on full energy peak efficiency (FEPE) of NaI(Tl) detectors for a line source. A line source is fabricated using 99mTc solution filled in a borosilicate glass tube of inner diameter 3 mm, tube wall thickness 2.5 mm and length 12.7 cm. The FEPE is measured for the fabricated linear source using 2″×2″ NaI(Tl) cylindrical detector at various source-detector distances. The experimental setup is simulated in GEANT4 and the computed FEPE values are compared with experimental values. The absolute error of 5% is observed between computed and measured FEPE values. Utilizing the advantages of MC simulations, the impact of numerous source parameters such as source length, diameter, source-detector distance, glass tube thickness and lead shield effects on FEPE are investigated to optimize the fabrication process of linear sources. A case study for current investigation has been analyzed by considering absolute FEPE of the NaI(Tl) system for a syringe filled with radioactive solution. This study provides an insight for the fabrication of standard linear sources by analyzing different source parameters and hence, may serve as a guideline to prepare standard linear sources for the calibration of radiation detectors.
Effective field theories in broadband quantum optics: modeling phase modulation and two-photon loss from cascaded quadratic nonlinearities
Authors: Gustin Chris , Yanagimoto Ryotatsu , Ng Edwin , Onodera Tatsuhiro , Mabuchi Hideo 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
In broadband quantum optical systems, nonlinear interactions among a large number of frequency components induce complex dynamics that may defy heuristic analysis. In this work we introduce a perturbative framework for factoring out reservoir degrees of freedom and establishing a concise effective model (effective field theory) for the remaining system. Our approach combines approximate diagonalization of judiciously partitioned subsystems with master equation techniques. We consider cascaded optical

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(quadratic) nonlinearities as an example and show that the dynamics can be construed (to leading order) as self-phase modulations of dressed fundamental modes plus cross-phase modulations of dressed fundamental and second-harmonic modes. We then formally eliminate the second-harmonic degrees of freedom and identify emergent features of the fundamental wave dynamics, such as two-photon loss channels, and examine conditions for accuracy of the reduced model in dispersive and dissipative parameter regimes. Our results highlight the utility of system-reservoir methods for deriving accurate, intuitive reduced models for complex dynamics in broadband nonlinear quantum photonics, and may help guide quantum technological proposals in emerging systems where quantum effects become significant at the single-photon level.
The impact of environmental fees to taxes on total factor productivity of manufacturing enterprises: empirical evidence from China
Authors: Huang Jing , Zhao Zhaoyang , Yang Xinjing , Tian Yuhang 
Published: January 2025

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Balancing environmental benefits with economic gains is a crucial challenge for developing countries striving for sustainable development in today’s context. On January 1, 2018, China transitioned from a sewage charge system to an environmental protection tax (EPT). This shift aims to determine whether it can incentivize businesses to enhance quality and efficiency, thereby achieving high-quality development while ensuring that both environmental and economic interests can thrive together. This paper examines the transition from environmental protection fees to tax (TEPFT) as a quasi-natural experiment. Utilizing microdata from A-share listed companies between 2013 and 2022, it focuses on manufacturing enterprises-characterized by high inputs, consumption, and pollution-as the experimental group. In contrast, non-manufacturing enterprises in the cleaning industry serve as the control group. Employing both difference-in-differences (DID) and triple-difference models, the study empirically analyzes the impact of the environmental protection fee tax change on the total factor productivity (TFP) of manufacturing firms. The findings indicate that: (1) TEPFT can significantly increase TFP of manufacturing firms by 4.9%. (2) this improvement in TFP is primarily driven by increased technological innovation within manufacturing enterprises. Additionally, while effective management practices have a positive moderating effect, financing constraints hinder this progress. (3) the impact of the TEPFT on TFP is particularly pronounced in state-owned enterprises and in provinces where tax rates are elevated.
Some interesting wrinkles
Authors: Phillips Ben 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter is a grab bag of ideas that elaborate in various ways on the theory developed in Chapters 1–6. The chapter looks at how moving from one- to two-dimensional space can change our expectations. It also looks at how trade-offs between traits can change our expectations. The chapter also introduces the idea of anomalous invasion speeds and examines the effect of spatial heterogeneity in the environment.
Parents as a United Front
Authors: Briggs Jonathyne 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter pivots away from the activities of professionals to those of parents’ associations, which dramatically expanded in size and number in the postwar period and, through local and national efforts, were established throughout France by the 1960s. These associations formed to connect parents of disabled children and help them advocate for services and share their stories with each other. The tension between parents and medical professionals developed as a result of the acceptance of the psychogenic origins of autism, which blamed parents for their children’s disability. Organizations sought to develop methods of assisting their children, engaging with professionals, and spreading information to the public to ameliorate the treatment and education of their children. They would be important in drawing attention to the challenges facing autistic children in France, especially after a series of tragic events in the 1960s.
Parental Expertise as Resistance
Authors: Briggs Jonathyne 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter highlights the reaction of parents to the situation during the 1980s, with many associations attempting to understand research on autism developed abroad and introduce these methods domestically. French parents increasingly became advocates for new interventions outside the accepted norms in French psychology, forming new associations that both challenged professionals and questioned the psychoanalysis directly. Parents posited themselves as the experts on the issue of autism and found some allies within French medicine and abroad. In this period there was also an increased awareness in the French public of the psychogenic interpretation of autism, fueled by several significant media events despite public campaigns by associations and parents’ biographies that rejected the assumptions of parent blaming.
A New Age of Autism?
Authors: Briggs Jonathyne 
Published: January 2025

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The conclusion reveals how the tensions created by the French divergence calcified despite numerous efforts from parents, professionals, politicians, and self-advocates to address the challenges facing autistic persons in France. The emergence of COVID-19 transformed the experiences of autistic individuals and their ability to get services outside France, even as the national government attempted solutions in the face of domestic and international pressure. With the end of yet another autism plan in 2023, the divisions between the various factions showed that the continuities of the divergence continued to define solutions and kept the focus on autism firmly placed in childhood.
‘It’s a Compromise, Really, Being with Someone Else’: The Romantic Lives of Established Adults
Authors: Mehta Clare M 
Published: January 2025

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During established adulthood people are generally expected to be in a steady, stable, long-term romantic relationship. More people, however, are remaining single, either by choice or otherwise. This chapter explores established adults’ romantic lives, starting with a description of the rewards of romantic partnerships and how romantic relationships change over time. The chapter then examines divorce in established adulthood, describing some of the causes and consequences of divorce, noting that divorce does not always have to be a ‘lifelong tragedy’ (Gottman & Gottman, 2017). Next, the chapter describes established adults’ experiences of being single and dating, including the experience of online dating. The chapter then examines the influence of the career and care crunch on romantic relationships. The chapter closes by presenting evidence-based advice for maintaining successful romantic relationships during established adulthood.
The Road Ahead: The Future of Established Adulthood
Authors: Mehta Clare M 
Published: January 2025

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The concluding chapter of this book highlights key themes and areas that deserve further attention and exploration in established adulthood. The chapter proposes that stability and change, relationships, and time horizons are themes in established adulthood worthy of future research. The chapter also suggests that the career and care crunch be expanded from career and care to include competing care responsibilities. Next, the chapter outlines important future directions for the field of established adulthood including attending to diversity, considering how race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, culture, sexual and gender diversity, and immigration status work independently and intersectionally to influence the experience of established adulthood. The chapter closes by suggesting that research on established adulthood be applied to benefit people’s lives through policy and clinical interventions.
Inferring tumor purity using multi-omics data based on a uniform machine learning framework MoTP
Authors: Lu Qiqi , Liu Zhixian , Wang Xiaosheng 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Existing algorithms for assessing tumor purity are limited to a single omics data, such as gene expression, somatic copy number variations, somatic mutations, and DNA methylation. Here we proposed the machine learning Multi-omics Tumor Purity prediction (MoTP) algorithm to estimate tumor purity based on multiple types of omics data. MoTP utilizes the Bayesian Regularized Neural Networks as the prediction algorithm, and Consensus Tumor Purity Estimates as labels. We trained MoTP using multi-omics data (mRNA, microRNA, long non-coding RNA, and DNA methylation) across 21 TCGA solid cancer types. By testing MoTP in TCGA validation sets, TCGA test sets, and eight datasets outside the TCGA cancer cohorts, we showed that although MoTP could achieve excellent performance in predicting tumor purity based on a single omics data type, the integration of multiple single omics data-based predictions can enhance the prediction performance. Moreover, we demonstrated the robustness of MoTP by testing it in datasets with Gaussian noise and feature missing. Benchmark analysis showed that MoTP outperformed most established tumor purity prediction algorithms, and that it required less running time and computational resource to fulfill the predictive task. Thus, MoTP would be an attractive option for computational tumor purity inference.
Superefficient estimation of future conditional hazards based on time-homogeneous high-quality marker information
Authors: Bagkavos D , Isakson A , Mammen E , Nielsen J P , Proust–Lima C 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
We introduce a new concept for forecasting future events based on marker information. The model is developed in the nonparametric counting process setting under the assumptions that the marker is of so-called high quality and with a time-homogeneous conditional distribution. Despite the model having nonparametric parts it is established herein that it attains a parametric rate of uniform consistency and uniform asymptotic normality. In usual nonparametric scenarios, reaching such a fast convergence rate is not possible, so one can say that the proposed approach is superefficient. These theoretical results are employed in the construction of simultaneous confidence bands directly for the hazard rate. Extensive simulation studies validate and compare the proposed methodology with the joint modelling approach and illustrate its robustness for mild violations of the assumptions. Its use in practice is illustrated in the computation of individual dynamic predictions in the context of primary biliary cirrhosis of the liver.
Why not all productivity leads to carbon sequestration: the role of plant carbon surplus, allocation, and the Gadgil effect
Authors: Noormets Asko 
Published: January 2025

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Increasing plant productivity is considered as the way to maximize carbon sequestration potential of forests. However, the changes in the vegetation and soil carbon stores often exhibit a puzzling divergence. Greater productivity is often associated with smaller rather than larger soil carbon pool. In the present report, I review plant and microbial processes that elucidate this phenomenon. Different growth-limiting factors affect carbon allocation (the relative sink strength of plants, symbiotic fungi, and free-living saprotrophs), biomass chemical composition, its carbon to nitrogen stoichiometry, and decomposition differently. The decomposition appears coordinated through detritus chemistry, asymmetric competition for carbohydrates between mycorrhizal and free-living saprotrophic fungi, and suppression of some extracellular enzymes by soil acidification under nitrogen addition (that increases sink strength) but not under elevated carbon dioxide (that increases carbon supply). The net effect of these interactions is a positive correlation between plant productivity and soil carbon accumulation in some environments and a negative one in others.
Acid vapor–responsive supramolecular gels of hydrogen-bonding D–A type fluorenones
Authors: Suzuki Mao , Yamada Syota , Iwai Kensho , Aoki Ken’ichi , Seki Atsushi 
Published: January 2025

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In this study, we investigated the gelation properties and stimulus-responsive behavior of donor–acceptor–donor-type (D–A–D-type) fluorenone derivatives bearing urethane units. The fluorenone derivatives exhibited characteristic photophysical properties that originate from π–π* and intramolecular charge transfer transitions, and dilute solutions exhibited fluorescence solvatofluorochromic behavior. In addition, the donor–acceptor–donor-type fluorenone derivatives formed supramolecular gels in appropriate organic solvents; these gels also exhibited acid vapor–responsive functional variations.
Carboxylative cyclization of propargylamines with carbamate salts as a non-gaseous CO2 source via dual-activation by Ag salts
Authors: Fujii Akira , Baba Ryuki , Yoshii Asami , Nishiyama Yasuhiro , Mori Hajime 
Published: January 2025

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2-Oxazolidinones were synthesized from propargylamines using carbamate salts as the CO2 source. Ag catalysts act as activators for both alkynes and carbamate salts. This system also functions with aliphatic amines containing two or more nitrogen atoms by preparing carbamate salts in situ even under ambient conditions.
Vapor-phase hydrogenation of citronellal over silica-supported copper prepared via organic additive-assisted impregnation protocol
Authors: Matsusaka Kenta , Kurniawan Enggah , Kojima Takashi , Yamada Yasuhiro , Sato Satoshi 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The hydrogenation of citronellal to citronellol proceeded over SiO2-supported copper (Cu/SiO2) catalysts prepared by organic additive-assisted impregnation protocol. Introducing Cu species on SiO2 support reduced the rate of the cyclization of citronellal to isopulegol and promoted the formation of citronellol. The utilization of organic additives, especially glucose, highly dispersed Cu nanoparticles, i.e. increased Cu surface area, which promoted catalytic hydrogenation activity. The proportional correlation between Cu surface area and the formation rate of citronellol substantiated this behavior.
Vocal characteristics of distress and reproductive vocalizations in North American wapiti
Authors: Romanow Cora Anne , Riede Tobias , Lingle Susan 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Variation in the vocal behavior of nonhuman vertebrates includes graded transitions and more dramatic changes. Wapiti males produce a reproductive bugle that has a fundamental frequency that surpasses 2,000 Hz with evidence of biphonation and other nonlinear phenomena. Here, we analyze the acoustic structure of captive wapiti vocalizations to compare the male bugle with 3 categories of distress vocalizations: neonate distress (capture) calls, calf isolation calls, and adult female isolation calls. These 4 high-arousal call categories serve a common general function in recruiting conspecifics but occur in different behavioral contexts (capture, isolation, reproduction). Our goal was to distinguish characteristics that vary in graded steps that may correspond to an animal’s age or size from characteristics that are unique to the bugle. Characteristics of the high and loud fundamental (G0) varied in an age/size-graded manner with a decrease in minimum G0, an increase in the maximum and range of G0, with no evidence of sex differences. The nonlinear phenomena of deterministic chaos, biphonation, and frequency jumps were present in all 4 call categories and became more common from the distress vocalizations of neonates to calves to adult females to the male bugle. Two temporal characteristics sharply distinguished the bugle from the 3 categories of distress vocalizations: these included a prolonged call duration and a maximum G0 that occurred much later in the call for the bugle than for distress vocalizations. Our results suggest that distress vocalizations of different age groups and the reproductive bugle of wapiti share a high G0, with age/size-graded changes in G0 and nonlinear phenomena, but differ sharply in temporal characteristics.