bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Glaucoma the Silent Thief of Vision! A Study to Assess Current Trends on Awareness and Knowledge About Glaucoma
Authors: Jain Amit Kumar , Singh Neha , Singh Naveen Kumar , Singh Praveen Kumar , Rajpoot Suman 
Published: November 2023

Introduction
Worldwide nearly 70 million populations are affected by glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness. Awareness and knowledge about glaucoma is the key to early diagnosis and effective management to prevent debilitating blindness. In India, the literature has shown that the level of awareness ranges from 0.32 to 13.5%, much lower than developed countries. Previous studies found higher levels of education and socioeconomic status along with positive family history of ocular diseases were directly related to improved levels of awareness and knowledge about glaucoma. Considering the improvement in literacy standards, socioeconomic status, and better utilization of medical care in the past few years, we aimed to assess the current trends in levels of awareness and knowledge about glaucoma in the North Indian population.

Methodology
This prospective cross-sectional questionnaire-based study included 1,536 participants enrolled from the outpatient department of a tertiary care teaching hospital. Data for the study were collected from the responses given by participants from two sets of questionnaires adopted and validated from previous similar work on awareness of glaucoma. Statistical analysis was done by applying the chi-square test and Fisher exact probability test using IBM SPSS Statistics version 20.

Results
In total, 7.74% of study participants were aware of glaucoma and the newspaper was the most common source of (57.9%) information. A significant correlation (p < 0.05) was found for male sex, education status, and past medical history between aware and not aware participants; however, non-significant (p = 0.182) correlation was seen for upper and lower socioeconomic status among the same group participants. Only 16% of aware participants had a good knowledge of glaucoma.

Conclusion
In current trends, the state of awareness and knowledge on glaucoma in the Indian population was poor compared to that in the Western world, although the levels of education status and the presence of past medical history had significant correlation among aware and not aware population, but socioeconomic status had no significant correlation. Electronic media and health camps were among the least common source of information; hence, improvised awareness programs and opportunistic screening of glaucoma is the answer to control this silent thief of vision called glaucoma.
How Medical Services Get Valued
Authors: Krol Katharine L. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe mechanisms for Medicare payment to physicians are complicated and, in fee for service Medicare, the value of a procedure code explicitly determines the payment to the physician and the out-of-pocket cost to the beneficiary. These codes are created and then valued for payment through a complex but reproducible and transparent process that allows for physician and specialty society input. This article describes the process and its implications for interventional radiology.
Role of Multidisciplinary Team Meetings in the Diagnosis and Management of Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Authors: Khan Mohammad Ayaz , Sherbini Nahid , Alyami Sami , Al-Harbi Abdullah , Alrajhi Suliman , Abdullah Reem , AlGhamdi Dhafer , Rajendram Rajkumar , Bamefleh Hana , Al-Jahdali Hamdan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Background Decisions on the management of interstitial lung diseases (ILD) and prognostication require an accurate diagnosis. It has been proposed that multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings for ILD (ILD-MDT) improve these decisions in challenging cases of ILD. However, most studies in this field have been based on the decisions of individual clinicians and there are few reports on the outcomes of the ILD-MDT approach. We therefore describe the experience of the ILD-MDT meetings at our institution.
Methods A single-center retrospective review of the electronic health care records of patients discussed in the ILD-MDT meetings at our institution from February 2016 to January 2021 was performed. At out institution, at each ILD-MDT meeting, the referring pulmonologist presents the clinical history and the results of all relevant investigations including serology, blood gas analyses, lung function tests, bronchoscopy, and bronchoalveolar lavage. A radiologist then describes the imaging including serial computed tomography (CT) scans. When available, the findings on lung biopsy are presented by a pathologist. Subsequent discussions lead to a consensus on the diagnosis and further management.
Results The study included 121 patients, comprising 71 (57%) males and 76 nonsmokers (62.8%), with a mean age of 65 years (range: 25–93 years). The average number of comorbidities was 2.4 (range: 0–7). Imaging-based diagnoses were usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)/chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP) in 32 (26%) patients, UIP in 20 (17%) patients, probable UIP in 27 (22%) patients, nonspecific interstitial pneumonia in 11 (9%) patients, and indeterminate interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA) in 10 (8%) patients. The most common consensus clinical diagnosis after an ILD-MDT discussion was chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis/idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 17 patients (14%), followed by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and connective tissue disease associated interstitial lung disease in 16 patients (13%), CHP in 11 patients (9.1%), and ILA in 10 patients (8.4%). Only a 42 patients (35%) required surgical lung biopsy for confirmation of the diagnosis.
Conclusion This study describes the characteristics of the patients discussed in the ILD-MDT meetings with emphasis on their clinical, radiological, and laboratory data to reach a diagnosis and management plan. The decisions on commencement of antifibrotics or immunosuppressive therapy for patients with various ILDs are also made during these ILD-MDT meetings. This descriptive study could help other health care professionals regarding the structure of their ILD-MDT meetings and with discussions about diagnostic and care decisions for diffused parenchymal lung disease patients.
CEO narcissism and cross-boundary growth: Evidence from Chinese publicly listed manufacturing firms
Authors: Yang Lin , Yang Jingyi , Zhang Chenjian , Lu Liangliang 
Published: November 2023

AbstractPrior research has shown that CEO narcissism can significantly impact firms’ strategic decision-making and performance. Additionally, studies on cross-boundary growth have demonstrated its positive effect on firms’ financial performance. However, little is known about the relationship between CEO narcissism and firms’ cross-boundary growth. In this study, we integrate upper echelon theory and agency theory and propose that CEO narcissism has a positive effect on a firms’ cross-boundary growth, both domestically and internationally. Furthermore, different types of corporate ownership and ownership concentration have varying effects on this relationship. Our research analyzed publicly listed manufacturing firms in China from 2005 to 2014 and found supportive evidence for our hypotheses. This study offers insight into how micro factors, such as CEO narcissism, can affect a firms’ growth strategy. Our study further sheds light on the differentiating role of corporate ownership and ownership concertation in affecting this relationship.
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger
Authors: Plonski Sharri 
Published: November 2023

AbstractIn this essay, in conversation with Azmi Bishara's Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice, I am wrestling with how to write about Palestine, at the same moment that I am contending with the media's erasure and dehumanisation of Palestinian life, in January 2023. And here I am again, on 19 October, 2023, with the proofs for this piece arriving in my inbox, while witnessing bombs rain down on Gaza; a second Nakba and genocide that has the world's full awareness and legitimacy. I wrote and write, full of rage, full of anger and full of love.
Nehari manifold method for singular double phase problem with optimal control on parameter
Authors: Fiscella A. , Mishra P. K. , Tripathi V. M. 
Published: November 2023

In this paper, we consider the following singular double phase problem −div(|∇u|p−2∇u + a(x)|∇u|q−2∇u) = λf(x)u−γ + g(x)ur−1, u &gt; 0 in Ω and u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω⊂RN is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary, dimension N ≥ 2, exponents p &lt; q &lt; r &lt; p* = Np/(N − p) with 1 &lt; p &lt; N, while 0 &lt; γ &lt; 1 and λ &gt; 0 is real parameter. The weight functions f, g are bounded continuous functions which may change sign and the modulating function a is non-negative, continuous and has compact support in Ω. Using fibering map and Nehari manifold method, we show the existence of at least two positive solutions for (0, λ* + ϵ) for some ϵ &gt; 0, where λ* is an extremal parameter, characterized via nonlinear Rayleigh quotient. An estimate on the extremal value λ* is also obtained.
Rewriting the Indian other
Authors: Hamdan Mohammed 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This article reexamines the colonial representation of Indians in Rudyard Kipling’s “The Story of Muhammad Din”
through a postcolonial resistant translation from English to Arabic. Set in India, Kipling’s short story depicts the buried
Anglo-Indian conflict between the world perspectives of an adult Englishman and an Indian child. To this Indian child, Muhammad
Din, existence is situated at the crossroads of an intense personal and national struggle for power, freedom, and independence.
The dominant presence of the colonial law, which is embodied in the English doctor’s presumed authority and strict medical
discourse in Kipling’s narrative, fashions a negative and inferior representation of Muhammad Din and his father Imam. Moreover,
the impersonal style of narration, which is noted in the final scene of Muhammad’s death, enhances a colonial desire of the
English to accentuate a rigorous sense of Englishness and national superiority that cannot be compromised. By offering a
postcolonial translation of Kipling’s story in Arabic, however, Arab readers re-conceptualize or re-imagine
othered Indians – here Muhammad Din – as central post-colonial agents who also function as vital sources of
artistic or creative power that is necessary to deflate colonial authoritative agency in Kipling’s colonial text.
Danmu-assisted learning through back translation
Authors: Chen Xuemei 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Based on a new type of online data, danmu comments, this article examines the reception of the
English-dubbed Chinese drama Journey to the West (Season II). This drama was adapted from a classic Chinese novel
of the same title. Studies on dubbing reception have focused on how audiences understand and appreciate dubbing products. However,
this article approaches dubbing reception from the perspective of usability, conceiving reception as using translations for
certain purposes. I first collected danmu comments on the dubbed version from Bilibili, the most popular
danmu video-sharing website in China. A multimodal discourse analysis of these comments shows that the dubbed
Journey has been used for Chinese viewers to learn English. Danmu interface functions like a
“blackboard” to provide back translations for viewers, helping them better understand the English lines. By proposing the concept
“danmu-assisted learning through back translation,” this study argues that dubbed material could be useful in
language learning. Such informal language learning may inspire the industry to develop a danmu-based learning
software for foreign languages, which could be applied in a pedagogical setting. This article reveals new temporal features of
danmu subtitling, including antecedent, concurrent, and delayed danmu translations,
potentially facilitating learning in various ways. It also contributes methodologically to AVT reception studies by using
danmu comments to study viewers in a naturalistic setting without researcher intervention.
Factors affecting voice onset time in English stops
Authors: Chen Chun-yin Doris , Liu Wei-yun Winona , Yeh Tzu-Fen Nellie 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This study investigates the voice onset time (VOT) of L2 English stops produced by native speakers of Chinese at
different L2 proficiency levels. Four factors were examined: English proficiency, gender, place of articulation, and vowel
context. High and low achievers of English were recruited as the experimental groups and native speakers of English as the control
group. Each group consisted of 16 participants, 8 males and 8 females. Each participant took part in a read-aloud task, in which
the target words were presented in an embedded sentence.
The results showed that the effects of L2 proficiency were significant in that high achievers outperformed low
achievers who were affected by L1 negative transfer more seriously when producing native-like English stops. Additionally, when
producing English stops, velar stops had significantly greater VOT values than either bilabial or alveolar ones. However, no
significant gender differences were found. Male and female participants produced similar VOT values in English stops. Last, the
vowel context was also a significant factor. The VOT lengths differed according to the context of a following vowels. More
specifically, the VOT of a stop is significantly longer when followed by a tense vowel.
Mass identifications and mythical violence
Authors: Prestifilippo Agustín Lucas 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Whoever intends to answer the question about how collective identities are articulated today in capitalist
societies cannot ignore the task of conceptually and empirically articulating two differentiated issues: on the one hand, the
anomic situations of disintegration, in which the individualizing logic of neoliberal ideology takes center stage; on the other,
the emergence of new phenomena of social authoritarianism in different strata where the psycho-affective dynamics of community
identifications become especially relevant. In this article I will analyze the mechanisms of communitarian subjectivation deployed
by neoliberalism in the time of its crisis. For this purpose, I examine some oral narratives extracted from a qualitative study of
Argentine society, in which the interlocutors thread hypotheses about issues of public significance such as social inequality, the
role of the State in our crisis context and the rights of immigrants.
Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy
Authors: Padmos Henrike , te Molder Hedwig , Koole Tom 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Credible expertise is no longer a given in our contemporary democracy: for knowledge to be authoritative, experts
must take into account a wider audience than just scientific colleagues. This study uses conversation analysis and discursive
psychology to investigate how experts deal with this role in practice. We show that experts in a Dutch public hearing on GM food
orient to ‘speaking on behalf of the public’ without undermining their status as experts. They do this by (1) animating but not
overlapping the voices of the public (2) speaking on behalf of ‘the consumer’ and (3) presenting hypothetical public opinions. In
this way, experts reconcile what they treat as the dual requirement of distance to support an expert opinion and the proximity to
the public required for good democracy. We further discuss what implications this research has for the role of experts in a modern
democracy.
Probing the strongly correlated magnetic state of Co2C nanoparticles at low temperatures using μSR
Authors: Roy Nirmal , Mahato P C , Saha Suprotim , Telling M , Lord J S , Adroja D T , Banerjee S S 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Co2C nanoparticles (NPs) are amongst transition metal carbides whose magnetic properties have not been well explored. An earlier study (Roy et al 2021 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
33 375804) showed that a pellet made from Co2C NPs exhibits exchange bias (EB) effect below a temperature, T
EB = 50 K and a spin glass (SG) feature emerges below T
SG = 5 K. In the current study we use magnetic, electrical transport, specific heat, and muon spin rotation (μSR) measurements to explore further the magnetic properties of a pellet made with 40 nm diameter pure Co2C NPs. We uncover the onset of Kondo localization at Kondo temperature T
K (= 40.1 K), which is close to the onset temperature (T
EB) of the EB effect. A crossover from the Kondo-screened scenario to the Ruderman–Kittel–Kasuya–Yosida interaction-dominated regime is also observed for T < T
K. Temperature-dependent specific heat measurement further supports the Kondo localization scenario in the pellet and shows the heavy fermionic nature of the strongly correlated electronic state in Co2C. The zero field μSR asymmetry spectra in the low-temperature regime are characterized by two distinct fast and slow relaxation rates. The spectra show the absence of long-range magnetic order in the sample. However, our analysis suggests the NPs-pellet shows the presence of a dominant magnetically disordered fraction and a smaller fraction with short-range order. Muons in the disordered fraction exhibit a slower relaxation rate, while muons in the smaller fraction with short-range order exhibit a faster relaxation rate. We observe an increase in this fast relaxation rate between T
EB and T
SG. This increase below T
EB ∼ 50 K suggests a slowing down of the fluctuating local magnetic environment around muons. Transverse field-μSR asymmetry spectra show the emergence of a stable, multi-peaked local magnetic field distribution in the pellet below T
EB. Longitudinal field μSR spectra shows distinct changes in the dynamics of fluctuations suggesting the presence of a frozen glassy like state below 6 K. Based on our results, we suggest that below T
EB, the pellet of Co2C NPs develops a magnetic interface that separates the two magnetic fractions; one is a disordered fraction, and the other is a fraction with short-range order. The exchange interaction that sets in below T
EB at the interface couples the two fractions, leading to a suppression of the fluctuations. With the suppression of magnetic fluctuations below T
EB, strong correlation effects in the electronic state of Co2C lead to Kondo localization.
A fast detection method for building wood measurement based on interval type-2 fuzzy model
Authors: Wang Chunyan , Xu Silu , Gui Qihao , Jin Man 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Automatic measurement detection in the process of wood processing can effectively improve production efficiency and yield to promote upgrading the wood processing industry. Therefore, this article researches visual detection technology for wood surface measurements and proposes a construction wood measurement detection method based on interval type-2 fuzzy theory. This method overcomes the problem of increasing heterogeneity and similarity of homogeneous areas on the wood surface, which increases the difficulty of measurement detection. Firstly, the Gaussian model is improved by establishing a wood measurement image feature model that considers rate neighborhood relationships as the basic model. Then, the basic model is fuzzified to construct an interval type-2 fuzzy model (IT2FM) to characterize the uncertainty features of the modeling and achieve measurement detection of building wood. We conducted experiments using a wood measurement detection dataset to study the influence of the construction form of IT2FM on wood measurement detection and evaluated the results using kappa values. The detection accuracy of this method is improved by about 10% compared to traditional machine learning and deep learning methods, and it only takes about 3–5 s to run the program. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively suppress the noise generated by wood measurement detection and prevent missed detection. It can achieve high-quality measurement detection of wood dead knots, loose knots, and cracked parts.
An efficient high dynamic range 3D shape reconstruction method based on double phase-shifting profilometry
Authors: Wang Jianhua , Yang Yanxi 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Phase-shifting profilometry is the most widely used wrapped phase extraction method due to the advantages of high accuracy and resolution, robust to noise. However, due to the local specular reflection of the measured surfaces and the limited camera dynamic range, some pixels of the captured fringes become intensity saturated, thus introducing wrapped phase error. In this work, we simulate the Fourier spectrum of the saturated fringe and represent the saturated fringe approximately by a third-order Fourier series. Subsequently, we establish the saturation-induced wrapped phase error model. According to this model, it can be found that for the N-step phase-shifting method, the spatial frequency of the saturation-induced wrapped phase error is N times of that of the ideal wrapped phase. We phase shift the N-step phase-shifting fringe sequence π/N to generate the additional phase-shifting fringe sequence, and thus generate the opposite saturation-induced wrapped phase error. Finally, the saturation-induced wrapped phase error can be greatly reduced by fusing the wrapped phases of the two sets of phase-shifting fringe sequences. Compared with the traditional method and the adaptive projection fringe method, the phase error of the double N-step phase-shifting method is reduced by 67.63% and 65.2%, respectively.
A synergistic approach to enhance sensitivity and selectivity of room temperature operable ammonia gas sensor with humidity assistance using RGO/WO3 nanocomposite
Authors: Tripathi Divya , Chauhan Pratima , Rawat Ravindra Kumar 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this study, the fabrication of an ultrahigh selective NH3 gas sensor based on RGO/WO3 nanocomposite has been proposed. The hydrothermal method was employed to synthesize the RGO/WO3 nanocomposite. The formation of RGO/WO3 nanocomposite and the elemental composition, structure and morphology of the as-synthesized materials were confirmed through an array of analytical techniques, including XRD, Raman, FT-IR, XPS and TEM. For gas sensing applications, pure RGO and RGO/WO3 have effectively spin-coated onto the interdigitated electrodes (IDE’s) based on fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) respectively, and their sensitivity towards NH3 was tested. Gas sensing characteristics of prepared materials were analyzed at room temperature (25 °C) under different relative humidity (RH) levels. The developed RGO/WO3 sensor was subjected to different NH3 concentrations, demonstrating a high sensing response of 89% towards 500 ppm NH3 under 11%–97%–11% RH conditions. Notably, the sensor exhibited rapid response and recovery times with an average response time of 92 s and recovery time of 26 s when exposed to 500 ppm NH3 under the specified RH conditions. To gauge the material selectivity, the prepared nanocomposite was exposed to a range of volatile organic compounds and the results showcased the sensor’s remarkable selectivity and sensitivity specifically toward NH3 vapor. This superior performance can be attributed to the abundant active sites and the excellent electron transport properties inherent to the RGO component. Importantly, the RGO/WO3 sensor displayed high reproducibility and consistent responses, with minimal degradation (1.98% degradation) over 30 d at 11%–97%–11% RH. Furthermore, we examined the sensor’s response with varying levels of relative humidity to assess its potential for real-world applications. The sensor exhibited extremely low power consumption, outperforming a commercially available metal oxide sensor while operating at ambient temperature. The robust performance of RGO/WO3 coupled with low power requirements and ambient temperature operation, positions it as a promising candidate for next-generation gas sensing technologies.