bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A unique artificial intelligence-based tool for automated CBCT segmentation of mandibular incisive canal
Authors: Jindanil Thanatchaporn , Marinho-Vieira Luiz Eduardo , de-Azevedo-Vaz Sergio Lins , Jacobs Reinhilde 
Published: October 2023

Objectives:
To develop and validate a novel artificial intelligence (AI) tool for automated segmentation of mandibular incisive canal on cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans.

Methods:
After ethical approval, a data set of 200 CBCT scans were selected and categorized into training (160), validation (20), and test (20) sets. CBCT scans were imported into Virtual Patient Creator and ground truth for training and validation were manually segmented by three oral radiologists in multiplanar reconstructions. Intra- and interobserver analysis for human segmentation variability was performed on 20% of the data set. Segmentations were imported into Mimics for standardization. Resulting files were imported to 3-Matic for analysis using surface- and voxel-based methods. Evaluation metrics involved time efficiency, analysis metrics including Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC), Intersection over Union (IoU), Root mean square error (RMSE), precision, recall, accuracy, and consistency. These values were calculated considering AI-based segmentation and refined-AI segmentation compared to manual segmentation.

Results:
Average time for AI-based segmentation, refined-AI segmentation and manual segmentation was 00:10, 08:09, and 47:18 (284-fold time reduction). AI-based segmentation showed mean values of DSC 0.873, IoU 0.775, RMSE 0.256 mm, precision 0.837 and recall 0.890 while refined-AI segmentation provided DSC 0.876, IoU 0.781, RMSE 0.267 mm, precision 0. 852 and recall 0.902 with the accuracy of 0.998 for both methods. The consistency was one for AI-based segmentation and 0.910 for manual segmentation.

Conclusions:
An innovative AI-tool for automated segmentation of mandibular incisive canal on CBCT scans was proofed to be accurate, time efficient, and highly consistent, serving pre-surgical planning.
„Nam już chodzi o wszystko” – folklor protestacyjny Strajków Kobiet w Warszawie w 2020 i 2021 roku
Authors: Małanicz-Przybylska Maria 
Published: October 2023

W październiku 2020 r. ogłoszono wyrok Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, który drastycznie ograniczył możliwość dokonywania aborcji, nawet w przypadku poważnych i śmiertelnych wad płodu. Orzeczenie to wywołało niespotykane od 1989 r. protesty społeczne, które odbywały się w dużych i małych miejscowościach w całym kraju. Postanowiłam przyjrzeć się, stosując narzędzia antropologii zaangażowanej, autoetnografii i folklorystyki, sposobom komunikacji protestujących osób i procesom wytwarzania protestacyjnej wspólnoty. W tekście przedstawiam i analizuję trzy główne płaszczyzny działania folkloru protestacyjnego: słowno-wizualną zawartą na kartonowych transparentach, akustyczną i dotyczącą ruchu, ucieleśnioną.
Kosmogoniczne źródła muzyki w kontekście autoklasyfikacji tradycyjnych instrumentów muzycznych Hucułów. Nowa perspektywa analizy
Authors: Cząstka-Kłapyta Justyna 
Published: October 2023

W tradycji huculskiej instrumenty muzyczne dzielą się na dwie kategorie: boże i diabelskie. Podział ten stanowi punkt wyjścia do wielopłaszczyznowej analizy źródeł i wytworów muzyki ludowej. Refleksje badawcze dotyczą próby zrekonstruowania pierwotnego zamysłu konstrukcyjnego twórcy instrumentu, uzasadnienia wyboru odpowiedniego tworzywa instrumentu i sposobu wykorzystania jego właściwości brzmieniowych. Kluczowe dla rozważań jest dokładne prześledzenie tych jakości w różnych kontekstach wykonawczych w związku z archaicznym światopoglądem wierzeniowym, który odwołuje się do kosmogonii (mitu), czyli relacji łączących człowieka z naturą (makrokosmosem) i z jego uświadomionym umuzycznionym mikrokosmosem. W artykule podjęta została próba odpowiedzi na pytanie, w jaki sposób te relacje odzwierciedlają się w formie, materii, jakościach dźwiękowych, wykonawstwie muzycznym obu grup instrumentów.
Socio-economic factors and its influence on the association between temperature and dengue incidence in 61 Provinces of the Philippines, 2010–2019
Authors: Seposo Xerxes , Valenzuela Sary , Apostol Geminn Louis 
Published: October 2023

Background
Temperature has a significant impact on dengue incidence, however, changes on the temperature-dengue relationship across axes of socio-economic vulnerability is not well described. This study sought to determine the association between dengue and temperature in multiple locations in the Philippines and explore the effect modification by socio-economic factors.

Method
Nationwide dengue cases per province from 2010 to 2019 and data on temperature were obtained from the Philippines’ Department of Health–Epidemiological Bureau and ERA5-land, respectively. A generalized additive mixed model (GAMM) with a distributed lag non-linear model was utilized to examine the association between temperature and dengue incidence. We further implemented an interaction analysis in determining how socio-economic factors modify the association. All analyses were implemented using R programming.

Results
Nationwide temperature-dengue risk function was noted to depict an inverted U-shaped pattern. Dengue risk increased linearly alongside increasing mean temperature from 15.8 degrees Celsius and peaking at 27.5 degrees Celsius before declining. However, province-specific analyses revealed significant heterogeneity. Socio-economic factors had varying impact on the temperature-dengue association. Provinces with high population density, less people in urban areas with larger household size, high poverty incidence, higher health spending per capita, and in lower latitudes were noted to exhibit statistically higher dengue risk compared to their counterparts at the upper temperature range.

Conclusions
This observational study found that temperature was associated with dengue incidence, and that this association is more apparent in locations with high population density, less people in urban areas with larger household size, high poverty incidence, higher health spending per capita, and in lower latitudes. Differences with socio-economic conditions is linked with dengue risk. This highlights the need to develop interventions tailor-fit to local conditions.
Determination of Optimal Eosinophil Thresholds for Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Gastritis and Duodenitis: A Pooled Analysis of 4 Prospective Studies
Authors: Dellon Evan S. , Bortey Enoch , Chang Alan T. , Paterson Craig A. , Turner Kevin , Genta Robert M. 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT

Objectives:
Consensus is lacking regarding the number of eosinophils (eos) required for diagnosis of eosinophilic gastritis (EoG) and eosinophilic duodenitis (EoD). Additionally, thresholds that require multiple high-power fields (hpfs) may not be practical for clinical use, resulting in delayed or missed diagnoses. This pooled analysis of 4 prospective studies assessed thresholds for multiple and single hpfs used to diagnose EoG and EoD.

Methods:
Studies included the phase 2 ENIGMA1, the phase 3 ENIGMA2, an EoG/EoD prevalence study, and a healthy volunteer study. Eosinophils were quantified in the epithelium and lamina propria for controls and symptomatic participants. Symptomatic participants were further divided by histologic diagnosis of EoG/EoD. Peak eos counts were assessed, and area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve was analyzed to identify eos cutoffs for detection of EoG/EoD using the Youden index and sensitivity and specificity equality approaches.

Results:
Based on the highest specificity analysis in 740 patients, the optimal eos threshold was determined to be 20 eos/hpf in 5 gastric hpfs for EoG (71% sensitivity; 94% specificity) and 33 eos/hpf in 3 duodenal hpfs for EoD (49% sensitivity; 100% specificity). For single-field analysis, the optimal eos thresholds were 33 eos/hpf (EoG) and 37 eos/hpf (EoD), both corresponding to 93% sensitivity and 93% specificity.

Conclusions:
Highly specific single gastric and duodenal hpf thresholds may have more clinical applicability than thresholds requiring multiple hpfs and could better facilitate development of practical histopathologic guidelines to aid pathologists and clinicians in the detection and diagnosis of EoG and/or EoD.
Cumplimiento de las especificaciones en un programa de garantía externa de la calidad. ¿Han tenido impacto los nuevos estimados de variación biológica de la European Federation of Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) en la calidad de los resultados del laboratorio?
Authors: Ricós Carmen , Perich Carmen , Bullich Sandra , Ventura Montserrat , Piqueras Berta , Panadés Mariona , Pilar Fernández-Calle  
Published: October 2023

Resumen

Objetivos
Los resultados de los programas de garantía externa de la calidad se evalúan frente a especificaciones generalmente basadas en los datos de variación biológica (VB). En este trabajo se pretende comprobar, por un lado, si el cumplimiento de especificaciones varía con la aplicación de nuevos valores de VB y, por otro lado, señalar qué patologías estarían comprometidas debido a una prestación analítica poco satisfactoria de sus mensurandos clave.

Métodos
El material utilizado son los resultados de los programas externos de la SEQCML desde 2015 hasta 2022. El método es estimar la desviación del resultado individual respecto al valor diana considerado y calcular el porcentaje de resultados que cumplen la especificación pre-establecida.

Resultados
En 97 de los 133 mensurandos el cumplimiento se mantiene entre el 80 y el 100 % de los resultados obtenidos en los dos períodos estudiados. En 23 mensurandos el grado de cumplimiento oscila entre el 51 y el 79 % en los dos periodos. En ALT, AST y sodio el grado de cumplimiento es igual o menor al 50 % de los resultados en el primer período, quedando en este grupo únicamente el sodio en el segundo período.

Conclusiones
Para la mayoría de los mensurandos estudiados el cumplimiento se mantiene independiente de la especificación empleada (SEQCML o EFLM). Los resultados de ion sodio están por debajo del valor diana, por lo que podrían darse casos de diagnóstico falso de hiponatremia. Los métodos de picrato alcalino no compensado sobreestiman la creatinina, pudiendo ocasionar falsa información de insuficiencia renal.
Von der Entlehnung über das Codemeshing bis zum Translanguaging: Prozesse, Ergebnisse und Folgen von Sprachkontakt
Authors: Földes Csaba 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This article presents, as a form of opening and outline of problems for the journal issue “Language Contacts/Sprachkontakte”, a synthesized research report concerning processes, results, and consequences of language contact. It systematically summarizes, describes, and interprets research directions, concepts and results of the canonical works of contact linguistics as well as modern, e.g. poststructuralist research. Furthermore, this article serves as a form of think piece that strives to provide impulses for future research. At the center of the description stand the consequences of language contact as a) current results of language contact (e.g. code-switching) and b) specific traces of language contact within a language system that start synchronically but are also diachronically describable (e.g. borrowing).
Promoting speaking in the young learner classroom through task-based digital storytelling via online technology: a case study
Authors: Lustenberger Andrea 
Published: October 2023

AbstractIn the young learner (YL) foreign language (FL) classroom, oracy is more important than literacy, but teaching speaking is still primarily repetitive in many contexts. Free speaking activities are difficult to create for teachers and accomplish for learners. This research investigated the ways in which imaginative digital storytelling (DST) tasks can improve oracy and the prior knowledge needed to negotiate meaning. The main data of this study, which were collected over one academic year, comprised a questionnaire of 19 Swiss Year 4 students, video and audio recordings of two dyads working on four collaborative oral DST tasks and a semi-structured interview with the four children and their class/English teacher. The results revealed that collaborative end-of-unit tasks enabled the children to creatively recycle the language learnt. Scaffolding and language support provided on the task sheet allowed a creative and personal approach to DST, which was a motivating experience. Clear guidance for classroom talk fostered collaboration and personal, social and problem-solving competences. These findings have implications for YL FL pedagogy and highlight the need for further theoretical insights into task-based DST.
‘The seas was like mountains’: intra-writer variation and social mobility in Irish emigrant letters
Authors: Ávila-Ledesma Nancy E. , Amador-Moreno Carolina P. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This paper presents a case study based on the writing of James Horner, one of the many Irish emigrants who crossed the Atlantic between the late 1700s and early 1800s. Communication between Horner and his family back in Ireland was kept through personal correspondence. His letters, which contain about 14,000 words in total, are part of the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR), and they provide detailed accounts of his experiences and impressions of the recently adopted country. They also show progressive standardisation, which makes them an interesting site for historical sociolinguistic analysis: shifting from vernacular Irish English towards a more standardised type of English to some degree. Our study focuses on the use of subject-verb agreement and addresses the following research questions: does geographical and social mobility condition Horner’s speech? If so, how does an individual’s social status affect language? The findings reported below show that social mobility as well as dialect contact seem to have contributed to general standardisation and the subsequent blurring of identity markers in language use. The paper, thus, offers new perspectives on the analysis of intra-speaker variation using historical data and contributes to the discussion of the need for this type of micro-analysis in the area of historical sociolinguistics.
Option pricing: Examples and open problems
Authors: Halidias Nikolaos 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
There is no method of predicting the price of an option other than hedging strategies such as the binomial hedging strategy, the Black–Scholes hedging strategy and others.
We will study these two basic hedging strategies in terms of their feasibility, and we will see that the Black–Scholes hedging strategy is not feasible because this strategy demands instantaneously rebuilding the replicating portfolio.
Consequently, the real world prices of the options are not relevant at all with the Black–Scholes hedging strategy!
We will suitably redefine the binomial hedging strategy so that it will be practically useful and present other feasible and generally more effective hedging strategies with some of them practically useful for options with no tradable underlying assets.
Finally, we will mention some open questions related to the above.
Hybrid Ethical Theory and Cohen’s Critique of Rawls’s Egalitarian Liberalism
Authors: Buckland Jamie 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This article examines G. A. Cohen’s endorsement of a hybrid ethical theory and its relationship to his critique of John Rawls’s egalitarian liberalism. Cohen claimed that Rawls’s appeal to special incentives was a distortion of his own difference principle. I argue that Cohen’s acceptance of a personal prerogative (the central element of Samuel Scheffler’s version of a hybrid ethical theory) has several untoward consequences. First, it illuminates how any reasonable challenge to Rawls’s liberalism must recognise Thomas Nagel’s arguments concerning the problems that arise when one attempts to implement a political theory analogous to a hybrid theory of ethics. Second, it undermines Cohen’s critique of Rawls. Third, it undermines the plausibility of Cohen’s ethos-driven social egalitarianism. The article concludes that, despite Nagel’s concerns, the most plausible form of egalitarianism—one that can accommodate the requirements of a hybrid ethical theory—will be Rawlsian, rather than Cohen’s ethos-based system.
Video face target detection and tracking algorithm based on nonlinear sequence Monte Carlo filtering technique
Authors: Du Yunming , Liu Yi , Tian Jing 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
In order to achieve facial object detection and tracking in video, a method based on nonlinear sequence Monte Carlo filtering technology is proposed. The algorithm is simple, effective, and easy to operate, which can solve the problems of scale change and occlusion in the process of online learning tracking, so as to ensure the smooth implementation of learning effect evaluation. Experimental methods should be added to the article summary section. The results show that the algorithm in this study outperforms the basic KCF in terms of evaluation accuracy and success rate, as well as outperforms other tracker algorithms in benchmark, achieving scores of 0.837 and 0.705, respectively. In terms of overlapping accuracy, the reason why this study’s algorithm is higher than KCF is that this study determines the tracking status of the current target by calculating the primary side regulated (PSR) value when the target is obscured or lost, which does not make the tracking error to accumulate. The tracking algorithm in this study is not ranked first in the two attributes of motion blur and low resolution, but the rankings of all other nine attributes belong to the first. Compared with the KCF algorithm, the accuracy plots for the three attributes of scale change, occlusion, and leaving the field of view are improved by 10.26, 13.48, and 13.04%, respectively. Thus, it is proved that the method based on nonlinear sequence Monte Carlo filtering technology can achieve video facial object detection and tracking.
The role of synthetic peptides derived from bovine lactoferricin against breast cancer cell lines: a mini-review
Authors: Arbeláez Manuela de la Rosa , Aleixo Davi Trombini , Barragán Cárdenas Andrea Carolina , Pittella Frederico , Tavares Guilherme Diniz 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Breast cancer represents the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, accounting for approximately one in eight cancers diagnosed. Despite significant advances in the diagnosis and detection of this disease, there is still a great need for more effective therapies to combat the invasive forms, especially those with a high incidence of metastasis. For that reason, bioactive molecules as peptides, including bovine lactoferricin (LfcinB), have been investigated. In this sense, there are reports that 20RRWQWR25 motif derivate from the LfcinB has shown activity against different cancer cell lines. Thus, current studies are being carried out with synthetic derivatives (linear, palindromic, dimer and tetrameric structures) that contain the 20RRWQWR25 motif in order to increase its activity against cancer cell lines by altering its hydrophobicity and net positive charge. In this regard, studies have focused on the use of LfcinB derivatives to combat breast cancer cell lines, with encouraging results. Therefore, in this mini-review, we present the state of the art regarding the activity of LfcinB and its analogs against breast cancer cell lines.
Development and characterization of new formulation of biodegradable emulsified film based on polysaccharides blend and microcrystalline wax
Authors: Aoufi Djalila , Belloul Nabila , Serier Aicha 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The aim of the present work is the development and characterization of new formulation of emulsified films based on soluble starch/sodium alginate blend and microcrystalline wax. The developed films were studied in order to use them as new formulations to produce food packaging. The obtained films were generally homogeneous, thin, and slightly flexible. These films appeared more opaque compared to the non-emulsified film. Incorporation of microcrystalline wax was caused modifications of mechanical properties of films; these modifications were principally due to the formation of amylose–lipid complex. It was found that microcrystalline significantly reduced film water vapor permeability (WVP) of emulsified films. Atomic force microscope (AFM) was used to evaluate surface topography and roughness of the films. The surface topography was significantly affected, in the other word high roughness values were obtained. Microemultion formation in which the microcrystalline wax particles are distributed homogeneously within the polymer matrix was investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Moreover, the polysaccharides blend/microcrystalline wax emulsified films can be useful as a biodegradable packaging material to maintain the quality of food products.
Associations between psychological flexibility and daily functioning in endometriosis-related pain
Authors: Sundström Felicia T.A. , Lavefjord Amani , Buhrman Monica , McCracken Lance M. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract

Objectives
Processes of psychological flexibility (PF) are positively associated with health and wellbeing in several chronic pain disorders. However, these processes have not been investigated in endometriosis, a chronic pain disorder affecting 5–10 % of women worldwide. This study is a preliminary investigation of the associations between PF or psychological inflexibility (PI) and daily functioning in people with a primary diagnosis of endometriosis.

Methods
This study is based on a secondary analysis of survey data from Swedish-speaking adult participants with chronic pain recruited online. The current study included only those reporting a diagnosis of endometriosis and significant long-term pain. All participants completed the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI), a measure of PF and PI, as well as other measures of PF, and measures of pain and daily functioning. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were performed to examine relations of PF and PI with measures of pain and daily functioning.

Results
In general, PF facet scores from the MPFI did not correlate with pain interference but did correlate with depression, with the exception of acceptance. The overall facets of PI appeared to perform better as correlates and in regression. Established measures of PF performed in correlation and regression analyses generally as has been observed in other chronic pain populations, with significant positive associations.

Conclusions
In this preliminary analysis of PF and PI in participants with endometriosis-related pain, these processes appear relevant, especially in understanding depression, but results varied along with the measures used. Specifically, when employing the MPFI, the PI facets emerged as stronger correlates. The findings underscore the potential benefit of incorporating assessments of PF and PI as process variables in endometriosis-research, but also that careful consideration should be given when selecting instruments.