bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Narrative inquiry
Authors: Perrino Sabina M. 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
This chapter examines the key role that
narratives have in human communication and engagement across
cultures and as fertile analytical and methodological tools.
Storytelling practices allow researchers to study speech
participants’ visible and veiled interactional dynamics. Besides
analyzing narratives for their content (“denotational text”),
scholars have studied narratives also for their pragmatic
effects in the here-and-now of speech participants’
interactions, or their “interactional text,” and across various
spatiotemporal configurations. During their tellings, narrators
can assume and reverse roles, for example. Moreover, narratives
simultaneously shape and are shaped by their surrounding
context. In this light, storytelling practices are actual speech
events that are (co)created, and developed, and thus need to be
studied as such because of their interactional nature.
Repertory grids
Authors: Grogan Myles 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Recent literature suggests that
classroom-based assessment should perhaps work from a different
set of assumptions than large-scale testing. This idea is
explored through RGT by asking how seven teachers, each with a
unique approach to teaching and assessment, create their grades
in a multi-faculty undergraduate EFL course in Japan. In an
interview, the researcher asked each teacher to compare a sample
of their own students achieving different grades, demonstrating
the teachers’ constructs for teaching and assessment. These were
then analyzed, and subject to a form of content analysis used in
RGT. The process revealed that, although the assessment approach
used by each teacher differed, the grade reflected similar
underlying teaching values that seemed to be legitimate
expressions of the framework provided by the institution.
Challenges and contributions of less frequently used
methodologies
Authors: Riazi A. Mehdi 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
This concluding chapter is organized into four
sections. The first section, the introduction, discusses the
purpose of compiling the volume. In the second section, I
highlight some of the challenges faced by the researchers when
they used each methodology and the insights they gained.
Thirdly, I will provide a synthesis of the main ethical issues
discussed in the chapters and will attempt to relate them to the
current discussions of ethics in AL research. Finally, I will
elaborate on how these methodologies can inform research on
current and new language-related problems in the world we live
in. I hope these discussions will be the readers’ take-home
message if they consider employing these methodological
orientations in the future.
Daily and annual modulation rate of low mass dark matter in silicon detectors
Authors: Dinmohammadi Abolfazl , Heikinheimo Matti , Mirabolfathi Nader , Nordlund Kai , Safari Hossein , Sassi Sebastian , Tuominen Kimmo 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Low-threshold solid-state detectors with single electron excitation sensitivity can probe nuclear recoil energies in the sub-100 eV range, coinciding with the typical threshold displacement energies in the detector material. We investigate the daily and annual modulation of the observable event rate for dark matter mass ranging from 0.2 to 5 GeV/c2 in a silicon detector, considering the energy threshold and the direction of the nuclear recoil. The data for the energy threshold is obtained from a molecular dynamics simulation. It is shown that the directional dependence of the threshold energy and the motion of the laboratory result in the modulation of the interaction event rate. We demonstrate silicon’s average annual interaction rate is more considerable than germanium for low-mass dark matter. However, their event rates take a similar trend in large dark matter masses. Thus, silicon can be a reliable target to discriminate low-mass dark matter from backgrounds. We also find 8 h and 12h periodicities in the time series of event rates for silicon detectors due to the 45-degree symmetry in the silicon crystal structure.
Pairing effects on pure rotational energy of nuclei
Authors: Abe K , Nakada H 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
By applying the angular-momentum projection to the self-consistent axial mean-field solutions with the semi-realistic effective Hamiltonian M3Y-P6, the pairing effects on the pure rotational energy of nuclei, i.e. the rotational energy at a fixed intrinsic state, have been investigated. While it was shown at the Hartree–Fock (HF) level that the individual terms of the Hamiltonian contribute to the rotational energy with ratios insensitive to nuclides except for light or weakly-deformed nuclei, the pair correlations significantly change the contributions, even for the well-deformed heavy nuclei. The contribution of the interaction to the rotational energy is found to correlate well with the degree of proximity between nucleons, which is measured via the expectation value that two nucleons exist at the same position. While the nucleons slightly spread as the angular momentum increases at the HF level, accounting for the positive (negative) contribution of the attractive (repulsive) components of the interaction, the pair correlations reduce or invert the effect.
A Bayesian CNN-based fusion framework of sensor fault diagnosis
Authors: He Beiyan , Zhu Chunli , Li Zhongxiang , Hu Chun , Zheng Dezhi 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Sensors equipped on the high-speed train provide large amounts of data which contributes to its state monitoring. However, it is challenging to distinguish whether the fault originates from the mechanical component or the sensors themselves. The main difficulties lie in the biased amount of normal and fault data as well as the deficiency of multi-source data’s inherent correlation. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian convolutional neural networks (CNN)-based fusion framework to enhance the ability to identify sensor errors. The framework utilizes wavelet time–frequency maps to extract abnormal features, employs a Bayesian CNN to obtain spatial features from a single sensor, integrates multi-source features via bidirectional long short-term memory network and enhances the acquired spatial and temporal features using an attention mechanism. The enhanced information finally generated leads to precise identification of the sensor faults. The proposed feature-level fusion framework and the associated attention mechanism facilitate discovering the inherent correlation and filtering of irrelevant information. Results indicate that our proposed method achieves 95.4% in terms of accuracy, which outperforms methods relying on feature extraction with single-source sensors by 7.8%.
High-fidelity quantum gates via optimizing short pulse sequences in three-level systems
Authors: Zhang Cheng , Liu Yang , Song Jie , Xia Yan , Shi Zhi-Cheng 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
We propose a robust and high-fidelity scheme for realizing universal quantum gates by optimizing short pulse sequences in a three-level system. To alleviate the sensitivity to the errors, we recombine all elements of error matrices to construct a cost function with three types of weight factors. The modulation parameters are obtained by searching for the minimum value of this cost function. The purposes of introducing the weight factors are to reduce the detrimental impact of high-order error matrices, suppress population leakage to the third state, correct the operational error in the qubit space, and optimize the total pulse area of short pulse sequences. The results demonstrate that the optimized sequences exhibit strong robustness against errors and effectively reduce the total pulse area. Therefore, this work presents a valuable method for achieving exceptional robustness and high speed in quantum computations.
Sagnac interferometry and the impact of conductivity-dependent Raman gain on rotary photon drag
Authors: Ullah Sana , Ullah Arif , Javed Muhammad , Ahmad Rashid 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
We theoretically demonstrate the impact of conductivity-dependent Raman gain (RG) on rotary photon drag (RPD) in a Sagnac interferometer (SI). The presence of conductivity-dependent Raman gain results in enhanced RPD angles, ranging from θ

d
= ± 0.56 radians to θ

d
= ± 0.7 radians. The susceptibility, group index, relativistic group velocities, and RPD exhibit significant fluctuations with changes in the conductivity phase. Specifically, we observe gain-singlets when the control field is deactivated, while gain doublets are achieved when the control field is activated. Moreover, within the gain regions, we observe normal dispersion, whereas anomalous dispersion is observed around the gain regions. These findings have potential applications in controlled image coding/design, four-wave mixing, photo detectors, light modulation, and phase-matching in Brillouin scattering.
Current drive by using lower hybrid fast wave in VEST
Authors: Kim S.H. , Jo J.G. , Wang J.I. , Lim S.B. , Kim S.C. , Hwang Y.S. 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
An efficient central or off-axis current drive is necessary for the steady-state operation of tokamak fusion reactors. The fast wave branch in the frequency range above two times the lower hybrid resonance frequency at high density, the so-called lower hybrid fast wave (LHFW), could be such an efficient current drive scheme in high density and high temperature of reactor-grade tokamak plasmas. This is because it has a higher parallel wave electric field for efficient Landau damping, compared to the fast wave branches in other frequency ranges, and it can more deeply penetrate high density plasmas than the slow wave in the same frequency range. An experimental study has been carried out to confirm the feasibility, in collaboration with Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Seoul National University, KwangWoon University, and Korea Accelerator and Plasma Research Association, in VEST. The results show that plasma current can be driven by the fast electrons generated by the LHFW. The details are reported including the theoretical background and RF system as well as the experiment results.
Solar radiation variation weakened the boost of gross primary production by vegetation restoration in China’s most forestry engineering areas during 2001–2020
Authors: Zhou Yanlian , Wei Xiaonan , Wang Yuyan , He Wei , Dong Zhoutong , Zhang Xiaoyu , Liu Yibo , Nguyen Ngoc Tu , Ju Weimin 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Over the past decades, ecological restoration initiatives in China have made great progress in restoring degraded forests and increasing vegetation coverage, yet the carbon sequestration effects of these initiatives in the context of climate change are not clear. In this study, we assessed the effects of vegetation restoration on gross primary production (GPP) in China’s forestry engineering areas, where large-scale vegetation restoration programmes were launched, during 2001–2020 by disentangling the respective roles of land cover change (LCC), CO2 fertilization, and climate changes using a two-leaf light use efficiency model. We found that LCC attributed by the vegetation restoration dominantly accelerated the increase of GPP in seven out of the eight areas, and CO2 fertilization played a near-equivalent role in all areas. By contrast, the changes in different climate factors contributed to GPP variations diversely. The solar radiation variation greatly inhibited the vegetation GPP over time in seven out of these areas, and the changes in air temperature and vapor pressure deficit regulated GPP inter-annual variations without clear trends in all areas. This study advances our understanding of the contribution of China’s afforestation on its forest GPP in a changing climate, which may help to better manage forests to tackle the challenge of the climate crisis in the future.
Photogating enhanced photodetectors dominated by rubrene nanodots modified SnS2 films
Authors: Si Guoxiang , Liu Fangjun , Su Lizhao , Wu Zhaoxuan , Zhang Qi , Sun Shuoqi , Zhang Hongbin 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
The hybrid-induced photogating effect is considered as an effective way for photoconductance modulating in low-dimensional photodetectors. Besides, through constructing the local photogate vertical heterostructures on two-dimensional SnS2 surface can significantly increase its photoconductive gain. However, the potential of this photogain mechanism for SnS2 films has not yet been revealed in practical photodetection devices. To investigate its special advantages on promoting the optical-sensing activity, the high-quality SnS2 films with discrete, micro-area, and uniform rubrene-nanodots modification have been prepared. Benefit from the local interfacial photogating effect induced by hole trap states by rubrene-nanodots, the light-absorption and carrier-excitation efficiencies were significantly enhanced. Afterwards, the high-performance photodetector was designed based on the photogate vertical heterostructures of rubrene-nanodots/SnS2, which demonstrated an enhanced photoelectric response to 1064 nm light. Note that the maximum photocurrent density, photoresponsivity, and photodetectivity can reach up to 0.389 mA cm−2, 388.71 mA W−1, and 1.13 × 1010 Jones, respectively. Importantly, the optimal band-structure offsets accelerated the localized hole transfer from SnS2 film to rubrene-nanodots. The trapped holes in rubrene-nanodots induced an enhanced interface gating effect, which may help to modulate the number and lifetime of excess electrons under light illuminations. These superior features make the newly-developed photodetector be suitable for future multifunctional photodetection applications.
Empirical Measures, Geodesic Lengths, and a Variational Formula in First-Passage Percolation
Authors: Bates Erik 
Published: January 2024

This monograph resolves—in a dense class of cases—several open problems concerning geodesics in i.i.d. first-passage percolation on

Z

d

\mathbb {Z}^d

. Our primary interest is in the empirical measures of edge-weights observed along geodesics from

0
0

to

n

ξ

n{\boldsymbol \xi }

, where

ξ

{\boldsymbol \xi }

is a fixed unit vector. For various dense families of edge-weight distributions, we prove that these empirical measures converge weakly to a deterministic limit as

n
→
∞

n\to \infty

, answering a question of Hoffman. These families include arbitrarily small

L
∞

L^\infty

-perturbations of any given distribution, almost every finitely supported distribution, uncountable collections of continuous distributions, and certain discrete distributions whose atoms can have any prescribed sequence of probabilities. Moreover, the constructions are explicit enough to guarantee examples possessing certain features, for instance: both continuous and discrete distributions whose support is all of

[
0
,
∞
)

[0,\infty )

, and distributions given by a density function that is

k
k

-times differentiable. All results also hold for

ξ

{\boldsymbol \xi }

-directed infinite geodesics. In comparison, we show that if

Z

d

\mathbb {Z}^d

is replaced by the infinite

d
d

-ary tree, then any distribution for the weights admits a unique limiting empirical measure along geodesics. In both the lattice and tree cases, our methodology is driven by a new variational formula for the time constant, which requires no assumptions on the edge-weight distribution. Incidentally, this variational approach also allows us to obtain new convergence results for geodesic lengths, which have been unimproved in the subcritical regime since the seminal 1965 manuscript of Hammersley and Welsh.
O02 Assessing SleeP in INfants with moderate-severe atopic Dermatitis by Longitudinal Evaluation (The SPINDLE study)
Authors: O’Connor Cathal , Ventura Soraia , O’Sullivan Mark , Irvine Alan , Murray Deirdre , Hourihane Jonathan , Murphy Michelle , Boylan Geraldine 
Published: January 2024

Abstract

Introduction
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is associated with sleep disruption due to pruritus, inflammation, increased transepidermal water loss (TEWL) and circadian alterations. Little is known about the impact of AD on sleep in early infancy, a critical time for neurodevelopment.
The aim of this study was to deeply characterise the sleep architecture of 6-month-old infants with moderate-severe AD, compared to controls.

Methods
Overnight movements (defined as 10-15 seconds of movement) were measured for five consecutive nights using a novel wearable movement sensor. Infantile and parental sleep measures were reported by parents. Daytime sleep quality and quantity was measured by electroencephalogram (EEG) polysomnography. AD was assessed using clinical severity scoring, skin barrier assessment (TEWL, natural moisturising factor levels, and filaggrin mutational analysis) and inflammatory cytokine analysis by tape stripping.

Results
57 controls and 33 cases were recruited. Average EASI at time of 6-month assessment was 7.2 (range 0.8-34.8). Infants with AD recorded almost twice as many overnight movements as controls (19.2 versus 11.2, p&lt;0.05). Infants with AD slept for 13.1 hours versus 13.8 (p&lt;0.05), and woke 3.5 times versus 1.9 (p&lt;0.05). Infants with AD had differences in EEG sleep measures, including sleep spindle power and frequency. Mothers of cases had worse total sleep time (6.3 versus 7.1 hours, p&lt;0.05), sleep-­onset latency (27.1 versus 12.8 minutes, p&lt;0.05), and sleep ­efficiency.

Conclusion
This is the most detailed study ever performed on sleep in infants with AD using objective sleep measures, and has revealed significant effects on sleep architecture, sleep duration, and overnight movement.
P13 ‘Microneedle’ A new horizon of intradermal therapeutics
Authors: Faisal Waleed , Bamsey Ryan 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Microneedle array patch (MAP) is a patch of sharp but painless microstructure needles ranging from only a few microneedles to several hundred, attached to an adhesive patch. The arrays penetrate the outer layer of the skin on application and then are given time to dissolve to deliver a local dose of medication intradermally (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6jPA9liUMc ).
MAP enable alternative and easier delivery scenarios for physicians as they require less training to apply and not as hazardous as traditional needles. MAP also improve adherence to drug regimens as it makes the administration of drugs to patients safer and less painful. Additionally, microneedles offer suitability for self-administration, no biohazardous sharps waste, and no risk of needle-stick injuries.
The work that supported the preliminary research/development have been patented/published (Patent WO 2020/250210). The key opinion leaders KOLs and industry stakeholder feedback confirmed an unmet market need for the MN technology, particularly in support of many topical applications. The in-vivo data showed that the MAP delivers a superior localized drug dose compared current standard of care, which should translate to a reduced treatment-time. Also, the comparative plasma bioavailability of the MAP translates to less side effects. It was also observed that after one week, there was no sign of inflammation or irritation at the site of application.
We are seeking potential clinical partners for whom collaboration and MAP technology is advantageous. Such collaboration would ensure rapid product development and industrial production to allow clinical assessment.
P14 Midface Toddler Excoriation Syndrome (MiTES): a new mimic of non-accidental injury
Authors: Dewar Janine , Ahmed Alia , Moss Celia , Solman Lea 
Published: January 2024

Abstract

Background
Midface Toddler Excoriation Syndrome (MiTES) is a rare genetic condition first described in 2017. Commencing in the first year of life, it is characterised by intense mid-­facial itch with persistent scratching and skin breakdown. Symptoms improve later in childhood, leaving atrophic scarring. Disbelief that infants can damage themselves in this way can lead to an erroneous and damaging misdiagnosis of non-accidental injury (NAI).

Cases
A boy now aged 11 years presented at 6 months with recurrent scratching of the face, leading to ulceration of the nasal bridge, sides of the nose, infraorbital areas and central forehead. Extensive investigations were unhelpful and NAI was suspected with significant psychosocial sequelae for the family. When his sister, now aged 4 years, presented with strikingly similar lesions MiTES was suspected and confirmed by genetic testing which showed homozygosity for 18 alanine repeats in the PRDM12 gene. Testing of sibling and parents is planned. Both children are now asymptomatic but have significant facial scarring.

Discussion
Biallelic variants in PRDM12 usually cause hereditary sensory and motor neuropathy type 8 with widespread damage to distal appendages due to pain insensitivity. The specific variant found here and in all reported MiTES cases causes highly localised lesions with rarely any extra-facial ­involvement. Due to its novelty and rarity, MiTES may be misdiagnosed and safeguarding concerns raised, leading to distress for affected families and breakdown of parent-­provider relationships. This case, which for the first time provides longitudinal data on affected siblings, highlights the need for early recognition and diagnosis.
P19 Spontaneous regression of aleukaemic cutis leukaemia in a male infant
Authors: Oyedepo Jadesola , Bageta Maria , Polubothu Maanasa , Tan Jonathan , Gattens Michael , Levine Samantha , Hook Liz 
Published: January 2024

Abstract

Introduction
Congenital leukaemia is a rare haematologic disease presenting in the first 4-6 weeks of life. Affected children may present with systemic symptoms of fever, hepatosplenomegaly and skin infiltration in the form of leukaemia cutis. Prognosis is generally poor but some cases of spontaneous regression have been described. We report a case of a 5-week-old who had biopsy confirmed cutis leukaemia which went on to resolve spontaneously.

Case
A male infant developed widespread erythematous/violaceous patches and nodules in the first week of life. He remained systemically well. A skin biopsy at 5 weeks of age showed features of a malignant haematological infiltrate, favouring a myeloid/monocytic leukaemic process. Baseline bloods were normal including a blood film which did not show any evidence of blasts. Interestingly, following his biopsy, skin lesions began to improve with complete resolution of all skin lesions by six weeks of age. RNA fusion panel analysis of affected skin detected a PICALM::MLLT10 t(10;11) (p12;q14) fusion which is a rare but recurrent finding in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia . He continues monthly haematology surveillance and has remained disease free at 8 months.

Conclusion
Spontaneous regression of aleukaemic leukaemia cutis is a rare phenomenon. Patients require close ongoing surveillance as some may relapse with systemic disease after several years. Key to management of this case was prompt suspicion of leukaemia cutis and biopsy which enabled an accurate diagnosis despite the brief window of skin lesions and has subsequently enabled accurate genotyping and future rigorous surveillance in this child.