bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Sassano Michele , Collatuzzo Giulia , Teglia Federica , Boffetta Paolo 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Background
Diesel exhaust (DE) is human carcinogen with sufficient evidence only for lung cancer. Systematic evidence on other cancer types is scarce, thus we aimed to systematically review current literature on the association between occupational DE exposure and risk of liver and pancreatic cancers.

Methods
We performed a systematic literature review to identify cohort studies on occupational DE exposure and risk of cancers other than lung. We computed pooled relative risks (RRs) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for liver and pancreatic cancers using DerSimonian and Laird random-effects model.

Results
Fifteen studies reporting results on pancreatic cancer and fourteen on liver cancer were included. We found a weakly increased risk of pancreatic cancer in workers exposed to DE (RR: 1.07, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.14), mainly driven by results on incidence (RR: 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.22). As for liver cancer, results were suggestive of a positive association (RR: 1.09; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.19), although a significant estimate was present in studies published before 2000 (RR: 1.41; 95% CI: 1.09, 1.82). We found no compelling evidence of publication bias.

Conclusions
Our findings suggest an association between occupational DE exposure and liver and pancreatic cancer. Further studies with detailed exposure assessment, environmental monitoring data, and appropriate control for confounders are warranted.
Does Ethnicity Affect Ever Migrating and the Number of Migrations? The Case of Indonesia
Authors: Pardede Elda Luciana , Venhorst Viktor Andreas 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
This paper is the first to examine to what extent ethnicity affects ever migrating and the number of migrations across the lifespan for the case of internal migration in Indonesia. We use all five waves of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) to study migration behaviour of respondents belonging to some of the largest ethnic groups in Indonesia. Our logistic regression results show that the Minangkabau, Betawi, Madurese, Balinese, Buginese and Makassarese, and Sasak, Bima and Dompu are less likely to ever migrate than the Javanese. Using only migrants and controlling for the first migration and other characteristics, truncated negative binomial regression results show that, in comparison with the Javanese, the Minangkabau and Banjarese have a higher expected number of migrations while the numbers are lower for the Betawi and Balinese. Thus, ethnicity contributes to ever migrating as well as the number of migrations, but we find that the differences between the ethnic groups diminish for the latter. These results also point out that a higher likelihood of ever migrating does not always correspond with a higher number of migrations, highlighting the importance of studying migration count to complement the study of migration as a one-time event.
Uncommon life history and winter spawning of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in a natural thermal spring, under temperate climate
Authors: Müller Tamás , Ferincz Árpád , Weiperth András , Ivánovics Bence , Tóth Balázs , Bógó Bence , Horváth József , Urbányi Béla , Specziár András 
Published: January 2024

AbstractCommon carp female generally matures at age 4–5 years old and spawns between April and July under the temperate climate. Contrary to a range of 0–28 °C of temperate freshwaters, the water temperature of Lake Hévíz (Hungary, Central Europe), the largest natural bathable thermal lake in the world, varies between 26 and 35 °C seasonally. The specific environmental conditions (continuously warm water and its individual chemical composition, special nutrient base, lack of natural lakeside spawning substrate compared to usual spawning grounds, continuous high human disturbance, etc.) suggest that the carp population here may also differ in reproductive characteristics from their counterparts in surrounding waters. Our findings suggest that the self-sustaining dwarf common carp population of Lake Hévíz matures 2 to 4 years earlier (at the age of one) and spawns 1 to 3 months before (between February and April, at 27–30 °C water temperature) than carp typically do in the temperate zone (16–20 °C). Successful winter spawning was verified by rearing larvae from the collected eggs and in situ induced propagation.
The Simons Observatory: Development and Optical Evaluation of Achromatic Half-Wave Plates
Authors: Sugiyama Junna , Terasaki Tomoki , Sakaguri Kana , Bixler Bryce , Sakurai Yuki , Arnold Kam , Crowley Kevin T. , Datta Rahul , Galitzki Nicholas , Hasegawa Masaya , Johnson Bradley R. , Keating Brian , Kusaka Akito , Lee Adrian , Matsumura Tomotake , Mcmahon Jeffrey , Silva-Feaver Maximiliano , Wang Yuhan , Yamada Kyohei 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe Simons Observatory (SO) experiment is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The SO’s small aperture telescopes (SATs) consist of three telescopes designed for precise CMB polarimetry at large angular scales. Each SAT uses a cryogenic rotating half-wave plate (HWP) as a polarization modulator to mitigate atmospheric 1/f noise and other systematics. To realize efficient polarization modulation over the observation bands, we fabricated an achromatic HWP (AHWP) consisting of three sapphire plates with anti-reflection coatings. The AHWP is designed to have broadband modulation efficiency and transmittance. This paper reports on the design and the preliminary characterization of the AHWPs for SATs.
Single-Cell Transcription Mapping of Murine and Human Mammary Organoids Responses to Female Hormones
Authors: Ortiz Jenelys Ruiz , Lewis Steven M. , Ciccone Michael , Chatterjee Deeptiman , Henry Samantha , Siepel Adam , dos Santos Camila O. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractDuring female adolescence and pregnancy, rising levels of hormones result in a cyclic source of signals that control the development of mammary tissue. While such alterations are well understood from a whole-gland perspective, the alterations that such hormones bring to organoid cultures derived from mammary glands have yet to be fully mapped. This is of special importance given that organoids are considered suitable systems to understand cross species breast development. Here we utilized single-cell transcriptional profiling to delineate responses of murine and human normal breast organoid systems to female hormones across evolutionary distinct species. Collectively, our study represents a molecular atlas of epithelial dynamics in response to estrogen and pregnancy hormones.
Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field: Why a Rapid Reconciliation Between Functional and Evolutionary Biology is Unlikely
Authors: Benz Pierre , Bühlmann Felix 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe past decade has been marked by a series of global crises, presenting an opportunity to reevaluate the relationship between science and politics. The biological sciences are instrumental in understanding natural phenomena and informing policy decisions. However, scholars argue that current scientific expertise often fails to account for entire populations and long-term impacts, hindering efforts to address issues such as biodiversity loss, global warming, and pandemics. This article explores the structural challenges of integrating an evolutionary perspective, historically opposed to functional determinants of health and disease, into current biological science practices. Using data on Swiss biology professors from 1957, 1980, and 2000, we examine the structural power dynamics that have led to the division between these competing epistemologies, and how this division has influenced resource allocation and career trajectories. Our analysis suggests that this cleavage presents a significant obstacle to achieving fruitful reconciliations, and that increased academicization and internationalization may benefit functional biologists at the expense of evolutionary biologists. While evolutionary biologists have gained symbolic recognition in recent years, this has not translated into valuable expertise in the political domain.
Design of a liposome with the property to induce CD16 on cervical cancer cells with a purified spermidine-cholesterol
Authors: Weiss-Steider Benny , Marcelín-Jiménez Gabriel , Soto-Vázquez Ramón , Reyes-Rodríguez Adelfo N. , Rangel-Corona Rosalva , Vargas-Ángeles Carlos Adrián , Corona-Ortega María Teresa 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe purpose of the study is to investigate the use of a purified cationic lipid for fabricate liposomes capable of inducing the appearance of CD16 receptors on the membranes of cervical carcinoma cells. The methods used in this study are chemical synthesis of purified spermidine-cholesterol, liposome fabrication, UPLC-MS analysis, cell culture, and flow cytometry. This study reveals the construction of a liposomal system with a highly purified spermidine-cholesterol with CD16 inducing capacity on cervical cancer cells. We were able to synthetize a highly purified spermidine-cholesterol to fabricate a liposomal system capable to induce CD16 on cervical cancer cells.
Searching in an unfamiliar environment: a phenomenologically informed experiment
Authors: Alcock Madeleine , Wiener Jan M. , Hardman Doug 
Published: January 2024

AbstractWayfinding is generally understood as the process of purposefully navigating to distant and non-visible destinations. Within this broad framework, uninformed searching entails finding one’s way to a target destination, in an unfamiliar environment, with no knowledge of its location. Although a variety of search strategies have been previously reported, this research was largely conducted in the laboratory or virtual environments using simplistic and often non-realistic situations, raising questions about its ecological validity. In this study, we explored how extant findings on searching translate to a real-world environment, using a phenomenologically informed experiment. Our findings demonstrate a previously undescribed complex and dynamic interplay of different search strategies. Importantly, our results reveal that: (i) the presence of other people is importantly entangled with the process of searching; and (ii) people frequently probe and switch between search strategies based on local environmental characteristics. Together, our results reveal that search behaviour is critically dependent on environmental features and that searching in complex real-world settings should not be conceptualised as depending on a simple singular strategy. This raises questions about the dominance of laboratory-based experiments and their narrow cognitivist framework, highlighting the value of studying wayfinding in the real world.
Fighting Political Corruption with the Citizens
Authors: Valsangiacomo Chiara 
Published: January 2024

AbstractPolitical Corruption by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti (2021) presents a deontological account of political corruption, understood as an interactive injustice. The aim of the present contribution is to contextualize the authors’ arguments in relation to democracies and through the lens of democracy theory. In particular, it proposes to expand on one of the book’s main theses—namely, that public officials have a moral duty of office accountability towards their colleagues that stems from the nature of public institutions as systems of embodied and interrelated rule-governed roles. In a democratic context, however, officeholders should be accountable not only to their colleagues, but also to citizens, since the latter also occupy an embodied and interrelated rule-governed role in democratic institutions. Consequently, the moral burden of ensuring that public authorities and the public administration operate in a way that conforms with public ethics does not lie exclusively with officeholders or oversight agencies, but, at least in part, with the citizenry. Finally, this contribution shows how democratic innovations could contribute to fighting corruption and to realizing the conception of public ethics advanced in the book.
New geographic location data on the occurrence and abundance of carrion insects of forensic interest
Authors: Morris Beryl 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe world’s forensic entomologists have much in common. They face similar research challenges, apply the same scientific methodology, study the same kinds of evidence, and access global research databases. Nevertheless, some regional heterogeneity inevitably exists. For most countries, and particularly those that have complex and diverse ecosystems, the current priority is to stimulate use of forensic entomology by establishing open access databases with time series data using standardised protocols for occurrence, abundance, distribution, niche preferences, life cycle, and identification characteristics for the key regional species that may be encountered in forensic entomology cases. Even in countries where forensic entomology is routinely used as a tool in reconstructing the history of corpses found on crime scenes in accordance with principles found in the rapidly developing body of literature, there is still much to learn about forensically useful insects. Examples of regional gaps include the taxonomy of lesser-known carrion insect species, seasonal occurrence of carrion species in the country’s various geographical regions, and rates of development of the local species modeled in the many site situations of forensic interest. The first published study of carrion insects found in Athens, Greece published in this journal is an example of entomologists in a region taking the necessary first step towards establishing baseline data about native and introduced species and hence, physiological and behavioural responses to local environmental conditions, including life cycles and likelihood of occurrence or absence in the region.
Death and injuries caused by cattle: A forensic overview
Authors: Byard Roger W. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractLethal episodes arising from interactions with cattle may be the result of a response of the animals to simple handling and herding, or from reactions to deliberate provocation or goading intended to incite aggressive behavior for public entertainment purposes. Deaths may be considered to be unprovoked and unanticipated, or provoked and predictable. Cattle cause significant numbers of deaths globally and are considered the most dangerous large animal in Britain. Behavior may be unpredictable even in apparently docile domesticated animals, and attacks may be by a single animal or a herd and result in injuries from kicking, head/butting/charging, stomping, goring, and crushing. Craniofacial injuries may involve fractures of the spine or skull with cerebral contusions and lacerations associated with subarachnoid, subdural, and extradural hemorrhages. Chest injuries are also characterized by fractures which may be multiple with flail chest, hemo- and pneumothoraces, and organ disruption. Injuries to the abdomen and perineum include intestinal perforations, splenic rupture, perineal and vaginal tears, urethral lacerations and avulsions, and bladder and rectal perforations. Significant vascular injuries include complete and partial transections and lacerations. Males living in rural areas are most at risk of a fatal encounter.
Contributions of Perennial Pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) Invasion to Rarity of the Endangered Suisun Thistle (Cirsium hydrophilum var. hydrophilum)
Authors: Schneider Rosa S. , Buchbinder Margot V. , Boyer Katharyn E. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractInvasive species exert disproportionate impacts in wetlands and pose particular challenges for rare species persisting at small spatial scales. In the urbanized San Francisco Estuary (SFE), which contains 90% of California’s remaining coastal wetlands, invasive and rare species often co-occur. One narrow endemic taxon, the federally listed Suisun thistle (Cirsium hydrophilum var. hydrophilum) is restricted to two or three locations where the invasive perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) has an increasing presence. Perennial pepperweed has invaded salt, brackish, and freshwater wetlands around the SFE, leading to high management concern. In this study, we investigated how perennial pepperweed may contribute to further rarity of the Suisun thistle, by conducting a removal experiment and surveying soil-plant relationships. Removing pepperweed led to a doubling of native species relative cover and an increase in native species richness by an average of one species per plot, positive effects on Suisun thistle cover, number, and reproductive output, and shifts in soil properties. Combined with survey data inside and outside of pepperweed stands, we conclude that pepperweed competes with Suisun thistle via competition for space, nutrients, and light, interferes with the Suisun thistle’s reproductive success, and alters brackish marsh soil physicochemical characteristics to further favor pepperweed. We recommend local control of pepperweed to prevent further loss of Suisun thistle. Further, the wide range of mechanisms by which this invasion may proceed if unchecked should be considered in other settings where rare or uncommon species are at risk from invaders.
Towards efficient strain engineering of 2D materials: A four-points bending approach for compressive strain
Authors: Li Hao , Carrascoso Félix , Borrás Ana , Moreno Gloria P. , Aparicio Francisco J. , Barranco Ángel , Gómez Andrés Castellanos 
Published: January 2024

AbstractStrain engineering, as a powerful strategy to tune the optical and electrical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials by deforming their crystal lattice, has attracted significant interest in recent years. 2D materials can sustain ultra-high strains, even up to 10%, due to the lack of dangling bonds on their surface, making them ideal brittle solids. This remarkable mechanical resilience, together with a strong strain-tunable band structure, endows 2D materials with a broad optical and electrical response upon strain. However, strain engineering based on 2D materials is restricted by their nanoscale and strain quantification troubles. In this study, we have modified a homebuilt three-points bending apparatus to transform it into a four-points bending apparatus that allows for the application of both compressive and tensile strains on 2D materials. This approach allows for the efficient and reproducible construction of a strain system and minimizes the buckling effect caused by the van der Waals interaction by adamantane encapsulation strategy. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of introducing compressive strain on 2D materials and the potential for tuning their optical and physical properties through this approach.
The new approach to establish a better match between obtained electrofacies and hydraulic flow units for oligo-Miocene reservoir rocks, North of Dezful Embayment, SW Iran
Authors: Jamilpour Mahmood , Mahboubi Asadollah , Moussavi-Harami Reza , Khanehbad Mohammad , Hooshmand-Koochi Hamed 
Published: January 2024

AbstractRoutine core analysis data (porosity and permeability)—used in various methods for hydraulic flow unit (HFU) determination of reservoir rocks—are unavailable in all drilled wells. On the other hand, raw petrophysical wireline logs—applied to determine reservoir electrofacies (EF)—are usually available in all wells. Since cores provide accurate data on reservoir characteristics, the lack of cores has always interested petroleum geologists and engineers. Therefore, introducing a new method to give almost accurate data about reservoir rocks in uncored wells has always interested petroleum geologists and engineers. As the type of input data that was used to determine HFUs and reservoir EFs are fundamentally different from each other, providing an approach that can create a better match between the results of these two rock typing methods is always one of significant interest for researchers. In this research, capillary pressure (Pc) test results are vital in obtaining reservoir EFs compatible with HFUs for the Oligo-Miocene Asmari Formation in Qale Nar Oilfield. So that only EFs that are compatible with Pc test results are approved. Flow zone indicator (FZI) method was applied to determine five HFU including A (Log FZI > − 0.05, average of core porosity and permeability are 5.8% and 0.37 mD) to E (Log FZI < − 0.65, average of core porosity and permeability are 0.07% and 0.03 mD). Furthermore, based on raw petrophysical wireline logs and MRGC algorithm in Geolog software, five electrofacies (EF) were indicated containing EF 1 (average of core porosity and permeability are 5.91% and 0.38 mD) to EF 5 (average of core porosity and permeability are 0.08% and 0.02 mD). The correlation between HFUs and EFs shows that HFU A to HFU E is compatible with EF 1 to EF 5. Also, examining the obtained electrofacies in the modified Lorenz plot indicates that EF 1 and 2 perfectly match intervals with a high fluid flow regime. By this method, it is possible to provide an almost accurate estimation of hydraulic flow unit distribution for wells and intervals without cores.
Clustering and Geodesic Scaling of Dissimilarities on the Spherical Surface
Authors: Fernando Vera J. , Subiabre Ricardo , Macías Rodrigo 
Published: January 2024

AbstractSpherical embedding is an important tool in several fields of data analysis, including environmental data, spatial statistics, text mining, gene expression analysis, medical research and, in general, areas in which the geodesic distance is a relevant factor. Many data acquisition technologies are related to massive data acquisition, and these high-dimensional vectors are often normalised and transformed into spherical data. In this representation of data on spherical surfaces, multidimensional scaling plays an important role. Traditionally, the methods of clustering and representation have been combined, since the precision of the representation tends to decrease when a large number of objects are involved, which makes interpretation difficult. In this paper, we present a model that partitions objects into classes while simultaneously representing the cluster centres on a spherical surface based on geodesic distances. The model combines a partition algorithm based on the approximation of dissimilarities to geodesic distances with a representation procedure for geodesic distances. In this process, the dissimilarities are transformed in order to optimise the radius of the sphere. The efficiency of the procedure described is analysed by means of an extensive Monte Carlo experiment, and its usefulness is illustrated for real data sets. Supplementary material to this paper is provided online.
A nomenclatural note on Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Squamata, Mosasauroidea)
Authors: Schulp Anne S. , Slootjes Daniëlle , Jagt John W.M. , Mulder Eric W.A. , Bardet Nathalie 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
The historically important mosasaur fossil (known as ‘le grand animal fossile des carrières de Maestricht’) has been known as Mosasaurus hoffmanni for almost two centuries now. Recently, it has been proposed to amend the spelling of the species name, by adding a second ‘i’ to the species epithet. We present historical evidence to the contrary, and recommend, following article 33.2.3.1 of the ICZN, to retain the specific epithet hoffmanni.