bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A comparative analysis of infection and complication rates between single- and double-lumen ports
Authors: Kozlowski Konrad M. , Jalaeian Hamed , Travis Levi M. , Zikria Joseph F. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractObjective:Port-a-caths are implanted intravascular chest ports that enable venous access. With more port placements performed by interventional radiologists, it is important to discern differences in infection and complication rates between double- and single-lumen ports.Methods:We retrospectively reviewed 1,385 port placements over 2 years at the University of Miami. Patients were grouped by single- or double-lumen ports. Data on duration of catheter stay, bloodstream infections, malfunctions, and other complications (fibrin sheath, thrombosis, catheter malposition) were collected. Multivariate Cox regression was performed to identify variables predicting port infection.Results:The mean patient age was 58.8 years; the mean BMI was 26.9 kg/m2; and 61.5% of these patients were female. Our search revealed 791 double-lumen ports (57.1%) and 594 single-lumen ports (42.9%). The median follow-up was 668 days (range, 2–1,297). Double-lumen ports were associated with significantly higher rates of bacteremia (2.78% vs 0.84%;P= .02), port malfunction (8.3% vs 2.0%;P< .001), fibrin sheath formation (2.2% vs 0.5%;P< .02), catheter tip malposition (1.0% vs 0;P= .01), and catheter-associated thrombosis (1.4% vs 0;P= .003). Multivariate Cox regression analysis, after adjusting for other variables, showed that double-lumen chest ports had 2.98 times (95% confidence interval, 1.12–7.94) the hazard rate of single-lumen ports for developing bloodstream infection (P= .029).Conclusions:Double-lumen chest ports are associated with increased risk for bloodstream infection, malfunction, fibrin sheath formation, catheter tip malposition, and catheter-associated thrombosis. Interventional radiologists may consider placing single-lumen ports if clinically feasible; however, future studies are needed to determine clinical significance. The study limitations included the retrospective study design and the potential loss of patient follow-up.
The Headship of Christ and the Angels: An Ambiguity in Thomas’s Account
Authors: Lim Joshua Han 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe development of Thomas’s teaching on Christ’s headship relies upon the principle of the causality of the maximum: ‘the maximum in a genus is the universal cause in that genus’. This principle appears in the fourth way to demonstrate God’s existence. Applied to the humanity of Christ, Thomas argues that Christ, on account of his perfect fullness of grace, is, according to his humanity, the universal source of grace for all the members of the Church, including the angels. How does this cohere with Thomas’s teaching elsewhere in the Summa theologiae that it is only as Word that Christ causes grace in the angels? In this paper, I explore this tension and offer a way of understanding Thomas’s broader approach to the mystery of Christ.
Tradition as ‘Formative Environment’: Congar and Christian Formation
Authors: Queirós Anthony 
Published: January 2024

AbstractAlthough the theology of Tradition of the Dominican Yves Congar was highly influential in drafting the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum at the Second Vatican Council, postconciliar debates neglected some of the most original aspects of this theology. This article proposes a retrieval of the notion of Tradition as ‘milieu éducatif’, advanced by the theologian in Tradition and Traditions, as a valuable resource for contemporary discussions on Christian formation. It intends to highlight how Congar connected the theological realities of revelation and its transmission by the Church with the concrete practice of Christian life. This notion is, then, put in conversation with contemporary Christian thinkers who have reflected on the practical aspects of Christian formation, chiefly James K.A. Smith. This dialogue aims to show the relevance of Congar’s notion to current discussions. While the theology of Tradition exposed by the French Dominican can be completed and specified by current proposals, it can also offer a new theological depth to those proposals.
Pride and Probability
Authors: Zaffora Blando Francesca 
Published: January 2024

AbstractBayesian agents, argues Belot, are orgulous: they believe in inductive success even when guaranteed to fail on a topologically typical collection of data streams. Here we shed light on how pervasive this phenomenon is. We identify several classes of inductive problems for which Bayesian convergence to the truth is topologically typical. However, we also show that, for all sufficiently complex classes, there are inductive problems for which convergence is topologically atypical. Last, we identify specific topologically typical collections of data streams, observing which guarantees convergence to the truth across all problems from certain natural classes of effective inductive problems.
NEAR OPTIMAL THRESHOLDS FOR EXISTENCE OF DILATED CONFIGURATIONS IN
Authors: BHOWMIK PABLO , RAKHMONOV FIRDAVS 
Published: January 2024

AbstractLet
$\mathbb {F}_q^d$
denote the d-dimensional vector space over the finite field
$\mathbb {F}_q$
with q elements. Define for
$\alpha = (\alpha _1, \dots , \alpha _d) \in \mathbb {F}_q^d$
. Let
$k\in \mathbb {N}$
, A be a nonempty subset of
$\{(i, j): 1 \leq i < j \leq k + 1\}$
and
$r\in (\mathbb {F}_q)^2\setminus {0}$
, where
$(\mathbb {F}_q)^2=\{a^2:a\in \mathbb {F}_q\}$
. If
$E\subset \mathbb {F}_q^d$
, our main result demonstrates that when the size of the set E satisfies
$|E| \geq C_k q^{d/2}$
, where
$C_k$
is a constant depending solely on k, it is possible to find two
$(k+1)$
-tuples in E such that one of them is dilated by r with respect to the other, but only along
$|A|$
edges. To be more precise, we establish the existence of
$(x_1, \dots , x_{k+1}) \in E^{k+1}$
and
$(y_1, \dots , y_{k+1}) \in E^{k+1}$
such that, for
$(i, j) \in A$
, we have
$\lVert y_i - y_j \rVert = r \lVert x_i - x_j \rVert $
, with the conditions that
$x_i \neq x_j$
and
$y_i \neq y_j$
for
$1 \leq i < j \leq k + 1$
, provided that
$|E| \geq C_k q^{d/2}$
and
$r\in (\mathbb {F}_q)^2\setminus \{0\}$
. We provide two distinct proofs of this result. The first uses the technique of group actions, a powerful method for addressing such problems, while the second is based on elementary combinatorial reasoning. Additionally, we establish that in dimension 2, the threshold
$d/2$
is sharp when
$q \equiv 3 \pmod 4$
. As a corollary of the main result, by varying the underlying set A, we determine thresholds for the existence of dilated k-cycles, k-paths and k-stars (where
$k \geq 3$
) with a dilation ratio of
$r\in (\mathbb {F}_q)^2\setminus \{0\}$
. These results improve and generalise the findings of Xie and Ge [‘Some results on similar configurations in subsets of
$\mathbb {F}_q^d$
’, Finite Fields Appl.91 (2023), Article no. 102252, 20 pages].
ON THE CHARACTERISATION OF ALTERNATING GROUPS BY CODEGREES
Authors: DOLORFINO MALLORY , MARTIN LUKE , SLONIM ZACHARY , SUN YUXUAN , YANG YONG 
Published: January 2024

AbstractLet G be a finite group and
$\mathrm {Irr}(G)$
the set of all irreducible complex characters of G. Define the codegree of
$\chi \in \mathrm {Irr}(G)$
as
$\mathrm {cod}(\chi ):={|G:\mathrm {ker}(\chi ) |}/{\chi (1)}$
and let
$\mathrm {cod}(G):=\{\mathrm {cod}(\chi ) \mid \chi \in \mathrm {Irr}(G)\}$
be the codegree set of G. Let
$\mathrm {A}_n$
be an alternating group of degree
$n \ge 5$
. We show that
$\mathrm {A}_n$
is determined up to isomorphism by
$\operatorname {cod}(\mathrm {A}_n)$
.
COMPLETE EMBEDDINGS OF GROUPS
Authors: BRIDSON MARTIN R. , SHORT HAMISH 
Published: January 2024

AbstractEvery countable group G can be embedded in a finitely generated group
$G^*$
that is hopfian and complete, that is,
$G^*$
has trivial centre and every epimorphism
$G^*\to G^*$
is an inner automorphism. Every finite subgroup of
$G^*$
is conjugate to a finite subgroup of G. If G has a finite presentation (respectively, a finite classifying space), then so does
$G^*$
. Our construction of
$G^*$
relies on the existence of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds that are asymmetric and non-Haken.
Association between n-3 PUFA and lung function: results from the NHANES 2007–2012 and Mendelian randomisation study
Authors: Li Jingli , Sun Jian , Liu Lingjing , Zhang Chunyi , Liu Zixiang 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the association between n-3 PUFA and lung function. First, a cross-sectional study was conducted based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2012 data. n-3 PUFA intake was obtained from 24-h dietary recalls. A multivariable linear regression model was used to assess the observational associations of n-3 PUFA intake with lung function. Subsequently, a two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) was performed to estimate the potential causal effect of n-3 PUFA on lung function. Genetic instrumental variables were extracted from published genome-wide association studies. Summary statistics about n-3 PUFA was from UK Biobank. Inverse variance weighted was the primary analysis approach. The observational study did not demonstrate a significant association between n-3 PUFA intake and most lung function measures; however, a notable exception was observed with significant findings in the highest quartile for forced vital capacity (FVC) and % predicted FVC. The MR results also showed no causal effect of circulating n-3 PUFA concentration on lung function (forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), β = 0·01301, se = 0·01932, P = 0·5006; FVC, β = −0·001894, se = 0·01704, P = 0·9115; FEV1:FVC, β = 0·03118, se = 0·01743, P = 0·07359). These findings indicate the need for further investigation into the impact of higher n-3 PUFA consumption on lung health.
The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense
Authors: KUBOTA Maki , MATSUOKA Yuko , ROTHMAN Jason 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis study examined the acquisition of numeral classifiers in 120 monolingual Japanese children. Previous research has argued that the complex semantic system underlying classifiers is late acquired. Thus, we set out to determine the age at which Japanese children are able to extend the semantic properties of classifiers to novel items/situations. Participants completed a comprehension task with a mouse-tracking extension and a production task with nonce and familiar items. While the comprehension results showed ceiling effects on familiar and nonce items, age significantly modulated a difference in accuracy between familiar and nonce items in the production task. The findings suggest that the acquisition of the underlying semantic system is acquired much earlier than previously argued. Previously attested issues with Japanese classifier production in young(er) children are more likely to reflect accessing difficulties than indexing the underlying grammatical competence of the classifier system.
Public health nurse-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for postpartum depression: Assessing the effects of maternal treatment on infant emotion regulation
Authors: Amani Bahar , Krzeczkowski John E. , Schmidt Louis A. , Van Lieshout Ryan J. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe effects of maternal postpartum depression (PPD) on offspring emotion regulation (ER) are particularly deleterious as difficulties with ER predict an increased risk of psychopathology. This study examined the impact of maternal participation in a public health nurse (PHN)-delivered group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention on infant ER. Mothers/birthing parents were ≥ 18 years old with an Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) score ≥ 10, and infants were < 12 months. Between 2017 and 2020, 141 mother–infant dyads were randomized to experimental or control groups. Infant ER was measured at baseline (T1) and nine weeks later (T2) using two neurophysiological measures (frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) and high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV)), and informant-report of infant temperament. Mothers were a mean of 30.8 years old (SD = 4.7), 92.3% were married/ common-law, and infants were a mean of 5.4 months old (SD = 2.9) and 52.1% were male. A statistically significant group-by-time interaction was found to predict change in HF-HRV between T1 and T2 (F(1,68.3) = 4.04, p = .04), but no significant interaction predicted change in FAA or temperament. Results suggest that PHN-delivered group CBT for PPD may lead to adaptive changes in a neurophysiological marker of infant ER, highlighting the importance of early maternal intervention.
How adolescents’ lives were disrupted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal investigation in 12 cultural groups in 9 nations from March 2020 to July 2022
Authors: Rothenberg W. Andrew , Skinner Ann T. , Lansford Jennifer E. , Bacchini Dario , Bornstein Marc H. , Chang Lei , Deater-Deckard Kirby , Di Giunta Laura , Dodge Kenneth A. , Gurdal Sevtap , Junla Daranee , Liu Qin , Long Qian , Oburu Paul , Pastorelli Concetta , Sorbring Emma , Steinberg Laurence , Tirado Liliana Maria Uribe , Yotanyamaneewong Saengduean , Alampay Liane Peña , Al-Hassan Suha M. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIt is unclear how much adolescents’ lives were disrupted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic or what risk factors predicted such disruption. To answer these questions, 1,080 adolescents in 9 nations were surveyed 5 times from March 2020 to July 2022. Rates of adolescent COVID-19 life disruption were stable and high. Adolescents who, compared to their peers, lived in nations with higher national COVID-19 death rates, lived in nations with less stringent COVID-19 mitigation strategies, had less confidence in their government’s response to COVID-19, complied at higher rates with COVID-19 control measures, experienced the death of someone they knew due to COVID-19, or experienced more internalizing, externalizing, and smoking problems reported more life disruption due to COVID-19 during part or all of the pandemic. Additionally, when, compared to their typical levels of functioning, adolescents experienced spikes in national death rates, experienced less stringent COVID-19 mitigation measures, experienced less confidence in government response to the COVID-19 pandemic, complied at higher rates with COVID-19 control measures, experienced more internalizing problems, or smoked more at various periods during the pandemic, they also experienced more COVID-19 life disruption. Collectively, these findings provide new insights that policymakers can use to prevent the disruption of adolescents’ lives in future pandemics.
Attachment expectations moderate links between social support and maternal adjustment from 6 to 18 months postpartum
Authors: Gu Yufei , Waters Theodore E.A. , Zhu Victoria , Jamieson Brittany , Lim Danielle , Schmitt Gabrielle , Atkinson Leslie 
Published: January 2024

AbstractSignificant links exist between one’s perception of available social support and mental health outcomes, including during the transition to motherhood. Yet, attachment theory posits that individuals do not benefit equally from social support. As such, we examined the influence of attachment representations (i.e., secure base script knowledge) as they potentially moderate links between social support and psychological distress in a 1-year longitudinal study of an ethnically diverse (56% White) sample of infant-mother dyads. We hypothesized that higher social support would predict lower maternal psychological distress and this relation would be strongest in those with higher secure base script knowledge. Results indicated that maternal perceptions of social support were significantly negatively correlated with psychological distress. Analyses revealed that secure base script scores significantly moderated these associations. Interestingly, for those high in script knowledge, low social support predicted greater psychological distress. For those low in script knowledge, social support was unrelated to psychological distress. This pattern suggested that those who expect care (i.e., high secure base script knowledge) but receive minimal support (i.e., low perceived social support) find motherhood uniquely dysregulating. Practitioners may do well to examine individuals’ attachment expectations in relation to their current social support.
Pre-COVID respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates associations between COVID-19 stress and child externalizing behaviors: Testing neurobiological stress theories
Authors: Skov Hilary , Glackin Erin B. , Drury Stacy S. , Lockman Jeffrey , Gray Sarah A. O. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractExposure to stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic contributes to psychopathology risk, yet not all children are negatively impacted. The current study examined a parasympathetic biomarker of stress sensitivity, respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), as a moderator of the effects of exposure to pandemic stress on child internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a sample of children experiencing economic marginalization. Three to five years pre-pandemic, when children were preschool-aged, RSA during baseline and a challenging parent-child interaction were collected. Mid-pandemic, between November 2020 and March 2021, children’s exposure to pandemic stress and internalizing and externalizing behaviors were collected. Results demonstrated that children who, pre-pandemic, demonstrated blunted parasympathetic reactivity (i.e., no change in RSA relative to baseline) during the dyadic challenge exhibited elevated risk for externalizing behaviors mid-pandemic. Further, this risk was greatest for children exposed to high and moderate levels of pandemic stress. Consistent with diathesis stress and polyvagal frameworks, these conditional effects suggest that blunted parasympathetic reactivity in response to stress in early childhood may escalate the development of externalizing behaviors following stress exposure at school age.
The association between symptom burden and processing speed and executive functioning at 4 and 12 weeks following pediatric concussion
Authors: Sicard Veronik , Ledoux Andrée-Anne , Tang Ken , Yeates Keith Owen , Brooks Brian L. , Anderson Peter , Keightley Michelle , Desire Naddley , Beauchamp Miriam H. , Zemek Roger ,   for the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) 5P Neuropsych team
Published: January 2024

AbstractObjectives:Symptoms and cognition are both utilized as indicators of recovery following pediatric concussion, yet their interrelationship is not well understood. This study aimed to investigate: 1) the association of post-concussion symptom burden and cognitive outcomes (processing speed and executive functioning [EF]) at 4 and 12 weeks after pediatric concussion, and 2) the moderating effect of sex on this association.Methods:This prospective, multicenter cohort study included participants aged 5.00–17.99 years with acute concussion presenting to four Emergency Departments of the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada network. Five processing speed and EF tasks and the Post-Concussion Symptom Inventory (PCSI; symptom burden, defined as the difference between post-injury and retrospective [pre-injury] scores) were administered at 4 and 12 weeks post-concussion. Generalized least squares models were conducted with task performances as dependent variables and PCSI and PCSI*sex interaction as the main predictors, with important pre-injury demographic and injury characteristics as covariates.Results:311 children (65.0% males; median age = 11.92 [IQR = 9.14–14.21 years]) were included in the analysis. After adjusting for covariates, higher symptom burden was associated with lower Backward Digit Span (χ2= 9.85,p= .043) and Verbal Fluency scores (χ2= 10.48,p= .033) across time points; these associations were not moderated by sex,ps≥ .20. Symptom burden was not associated with performance on the Coding, Continuous Performance Test, and Color-Word Interference scores,ps≥ .17.Conclusions:Higher symptom burden is associated with lower working memory and cognitive flexibility following pediatric concussion, yet these associations were not moderated by sex. Findings may inform concussion management by emphasizing the importance of multifaceted assessments of EF.
The Postulate of Immortality in the Critique of Practical Reason (and Beyond)
Authors: Pasternack Lawrence 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIt is widely claimed that the second Critique’s argument for the postulate of immortality is relevantly different from the first Critique’s argument for the postulate. It is also widely claimed that after the second Critique, Kant distances himself from its particular version of the argument, and even the postulate altogether. It is the purpose of this article to challenge these claims, arguing instead that (a) there is overwhelming textual evidence showing that Kant did not abandon the postulate; (b) the second Critique does not contain a substantially different argument for the postulate than how it is argued for in the first Critique; and (c) the philosophical objections levied against the second Critique’s argument, including its putative substitution of holiness for virtue, become moot once its argument is better understood.
Radiative loss of coherence in free electrons: a long-range quantum phenomenon
Authors: Velasco Cruz I. , Di Giulio Valerio , García de Abajo F. Javier 
Published: January 2024

AbstractQuantum physics rules the dynamics of small objects as they interact over microscopic length scales. Nevertheless, quantum correlations involving macroscopic distances can be observed between entangled photons as well as in atomic gases and matter waves at low temperatures. The long-range nature of the electromagnetic coupling between charged particles and extended objects could also trigger quantum phenomena over large distances. Here, we reveal a manifestation of quantum mechanics that involves macroscopic distances and results in a nearly complete depletion of coherence associated with which-way free-electron interference produced by electron–radiation coupling in the presence of distant extended objects. This is a ubiquitous effect that we illustrate through a rigorous theoretical analysis of a two-path electron beam interacting with a semi-infinite metallic plate and find the inter-path coherence to vanish proportionally to the path separation at zero temperature and exponentially at finite temperature. The investigated regime of large distances originates in the coupling of the electron to radiative modes assisted by diffraction at material structures but without any involvement of material excitations. Besides the fundamental interest of this macroscopic quantum phenomenon, our results suggest an approach to measuring the vacuum temperature and nondestructively sensing the presence of distant objects.