bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Impact of text reminders on pneumatic compression device (PCD) compliance in patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema
Authors: Maingi Shail , O’Malley Ellen M. 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Purpose
Do cell phone text reminders impact the rate of compliance with pneumatic compression device (PCD) therapy among women with breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL)?

Methods
A prospective, randomized, 2-group feasibility study conducted at 2 centers. Participants were adult females (≥18 years old) with unilateral BCRL who had the capability of receiving reminder text messages. All participants underwent PCD therapy. Participants were randomized 1:1 to control (no text messages) or test group (received text message reminders if the PCD had not been used for 2 consecutive days). The rate of compliance between treatment groups was the main outcome measure. Secondary outcome measures were changes in arm girth, quality of life (QOL), and symptom severity.

Results
Twenty-nine participants were enrolled and randomized, 25 were available for follow-up at 60 days (14 test, 11 control). Overall, 52.2% (12/23) of all participants were completely compliant, an additional 43.5% (10/23) were partially compliant, and 1 patient (4.3%) was noncompliant. The test and control groups did not differ in device compliance. In the pooled population, weight, BMI, and arm girth were improved. Overall disease-specific QOL and symptom severity were improved. Regression analysis showed benefits were greater among participants with higher rates of compliance.

Conclusions
Automated text reminders did not improve compliance in patients with BCRL as compliance rates were already high in this patient population. Improvements in weight, BMI, arm girth, disease-specific quality of life, and symptom severity measures were observed regardless of the treatment assignment. Full compliance resulted in greater functional and QOL benefits.

Trial registration
The study was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04432727) on June 16, 2020.
Study of the Dynamic Failure Characteristics of Anisotropic Shales Under Impact Brazilian Splitting
Authors: Feng Xianhui , Gong Bin , Liang Zhengzhao , Wang Shanyong , Tang Chun’an , Li Hong , Ma Tianhui 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe mechanical behaviors of shales with transversely isotropic characteristics under dynamic loading have great significance for structural instability in geotechnical engineering. To understand the effect of transverse isotropy on the deformability and tensile strength of shales subjected to dynamic loading, a group of impact Brazilian tests were carried out on shale specimens via a split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) testing system. High-speed digital image correlation technology was applied to monitor the fracture process. The experimental results demonstrate that the failure strength has considerable anisotropy as the bedding angle of the embedded layers changes. Moreover, the tensile strength of shales with vertical bedding is usually higher than that of shales with parallel bedding. The observed failure mode is mainly the interaction between tensile and/or shear fractures, and with increasing loading rate, layer-activated fractures tend to occur. Furthermore, five typical failure patterns of transversely isotropic shales characterized by different mechanisms under dynamic Brazilian testing were found. The shales were sensitive to the strain rate when the deformation and fracture response under dynamic loading were assessed. In addition, the modified Nova‒Zaninetti criterion that considers the strain rate effect was proposed according to the Brazilian splitting data and dynamic coordinate system. The established criterion not only properly represents the law of dynamic strength but also provides a new understanding of the effect of strain rate on strength. It has proven to be effective for predicting the dynamic strength characteristics of shales.
Mechanisms of Block Instability at the Toe of a Slowly Deforming Rock Slope
Authors: Carlà Tommaso , Gigli Giovanni , Lombardi Luca , Nocentini Massimiliano , Gracchi Teresa , Rossi Guglielmo , Tacconi Stefanelli Carlo , Raspini Federico , Fubelli Giandomenico , Casagli Nicola 
Published: December 2023

AbstractSteep alpine rock slopes undergoing deformation may give rise to concurrent landslide hazards of different type and magnitude. The underlying mechanisms of instability are often challenging to investigate due to their inherent complexity; furthermore, they can occur on poorly accessible terrain, preventing the collection of data by means of traditional field techniques or even inhibiting awareness of hazards. This paper focuses upon one such case, in which a major transportation corridor running along the floor of the Aosta Valley (Western Italian Alps) is affected by significant—and until recently unknown—rockfall hazards promoted by a previously collapsed rockslide still deforming slowly at elevations almost 600 m above the road. In particular, two large discrete blocks (volume > 103 m3) lie precariously at the toe of the slide and could fall downslope at extremely rapid velocity. The design of countermeasures for the stabilization or removal of these blocks would require the assessment of their mechanical interaction with the bedrock and degree of internal fracturing (i.e., possible pervasive damage within the blocks). We perform this task by first exploring potential kinematic styles and damage patterns at failure according to a series of preliminary finite-element models. We then use detailed displacement measurements from remote sensing and in situ monitoring, in conjunction with repeat topographic surveying from a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) and a drone laser scanner (DLS), to reconstruct the actual kinematics of the blocks. The results substantiate the hypothesis that instability is primarily controlled by transient degradation of friction on a through-going basal rupture surface. Development of a large tensile fracture in one of the two blocks is inferred to be conditioned by increased non-planarity of the slipping joint in comparison with the other block. We highlight that optimized integration of cutting-edge rock slope investigation tools can help address otherwise unresolved key aspects of complex instabilities in steep mountainous areas.
Changes to women’s childbirth plans during the COVID-19 pandemic and posttraumatic stress symptoms: a cross-national study
Authors: Mesquita Ana , Costa Raquel , Dikmen-Yildiz Pelin , Faria Susana , Silvestrini Gabriela , Mateus Vera , Vousoura Eleni , Wilson Claire A. , Felice Ethel , Ajaz Erilda , Hadjigeorgiou Eleni , Hancheva Camellia , Contreras-García Yolanda , Domínguez-Salas Sara , Motrico Emma , Soares Isabel , Ayers Susan 
Published: December 2023

AbstractA considerable number of women giving birth during COVID-19 pandemic reported being concerned about changes to their childbirth plans and experiences due to imposed restrictions. Research prior to the pandemic suggests that women may be more at risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) due to unmet expectations of their childbirth plans. Therefore, this study aimed to examine if the mismatch between women’s planned birth and actual birth experiences during COVID-19 was associated with women’s postpartum PTSS. Women in the postpartum period (up to 6 months after birth) across 11 countries reported on childbirth experiences, mental health, COVID-19-related factors, and PTSS (PTSD checklist DSM-5 version) using self-report questionnaires (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04595123). More than half (64%) of the 3532 postpartum women included in the analysis reported changes to their childbirth plans. All changes were significantly associated with PTSS scores. Participants with one and two changes to their childbirth plans had a 12% and 38% increase, respectively, in PTSS scores compared to those with no changes (Exp(β) = 1.12; 95% CI [1.06–1.19]; p < 0.001 and Exp(β) = 1.38; 95% CI [1.29–1.48]; p < 0.001). In addition, the effect of having one change in the childbirth plan on PTSS scores was stronger in primigravida than in multigravida (Exp(β) = 0.86; 95% CI [0.77–0.97]; p = 0.014). Changes to women’s childbirth plans during the COVID-19 pandemic were common and associated with women’s postpartum PTSS score. Developing health policies that protect women from the negative consequences of unexpected or unintended birth experiences is important for perinatal mental health.
Exploring the influence of nasal morbidity on quality of life following endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery: a retrospective cohort study of 95 patients
Authors: Hegde Rutwik , Prodan Vlad , Futera Karolina , Hathorn Iain , Gohil Rohit , Hughes Mark A. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe endoscopic endonasal approach is more disruptive to normal anatomy (particularly nasal mucosa) than the transseptal submucosal microscopic approach. This may result in greater postoperative nasal morbidity, in turn reducing quality of life. We aimed to assess the severity and time course of nasal morbidity, and its impact on quality of life, following endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery in this retrospective cohort study. We identified 95 patients who underwent endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery for anterior skull base pathologies. Nasal-specific questions from the Sino-Nasal Outcome Test-22 (SNOT-22) and the Anterior Skull Base inventory (ASB-12) were combined with quality-of-life questions. Patient demographics, diagnosis, and operative data were collected from electronic records. Age of the cohort ranged from 14–83 years. Time elapsed since surgery ranged from 3–85 months. 85/95 (89%) felt that nasal morbidity associated with surgery was acceptable, given the underlying reason for, and outcome of surgery; 10/95 (11%) did not. 71/95 (75%) reported no change or improvement in olfaction 3-months following surgery. 24/95 (25%) reported a deterioration in olfaction which was mild in 7%, moderate in 7%, and severe in 11%. Nasal crusting, nasal obstruction, and headache were moderately problematic symptoms but improved significantly by 3-month follow-up. Nasal discharge, nasal pain, and nasal whistling were mildly problematic and improved significantly by 3-months. 62/95 (65%) patients reported ‘no change’ in day-to-day activities due to the effects on their nose after surgery. 19/95 (20%) had ‘mild inconvenience’, 8/95 (8%) ‘moderate inconvenience’ and 6/95 (6%) ‘severe inconvenience’. Endoscopic anterior skull base surgery is associated with nasal morbidity. Whilst 35% of patients appreciate a consequent negative impact on day-to-day life, the overwhelming majority feel that nasal morbidity is acceptable, given the wider surgical goals.
Kea, bird of versatility. Kea parrots (Nestor notabilis) show high behavioural flexibility in solving a demonstrated sequence task
Authors: Suwandschieff Elisabeth , Huber Ludwig , Bugnyar Thomas , Schwing Raoul 
Published: December 2023

AbstractSocial learning is an important aspect of dealing with the complexity of life. The transmission of information via the observation of other individuals is a cost-effective way of acquiring information. It is widespread within the animal kingdom but may differ strongly in the social learning mechanisms applied by the divergent species. Here we tested eighteen Kea (Nestor notabilis) parrots on their propensity to socially learn, and imitate, a demonstrated sequence of steps necessary to open an apparatus containing food. The demonstration by a conspecific led to more successful openings by observer birds, than control birds without a demonstration. However, all successful individuals showed great variation in their response topography and abandoned faithfully copying the task in favour of exploration. While the results provide little evidence for motor imitation they do provide further evidence for kea’s propensity towards exploration and rapidly shifting solving strategies, indicative of behavioural flexibility.
Robustness of priority deriving methods for pairwise comparison matrices against rank reversal: a probabilistic approach
Authors: Górecki Jan , Bartl David , Ramík Jaroslav 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis work aims to answer the natural question of how probable it is that a given method produces rank reversal in a priority vector (PV) if a decision maker (DM) introduces perturbations to the pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) under concern. We focus primarily on the concept of robustness against rank reversal, independent of specific methods, and provide an in-depth statistical insight into the application of the Monte Carlo (MC) approach in this context. This concept is applied to three selected methods, with a special emphasis on scenarios where a method may not provide outputs for all possible PCMs. All results presented in this work are replicable using our open-source implementation.
Presuppositional Fallacies
Authors: Macagno Fabrizio 
Published: December 2023

AbstractPresuppositions are at the same time a crucial and almost neglected dimension of arguments and fallacies. Arguments involve different types of presuppositions, which can be used for manipulative purposes in distinct ways. However, what are presuppositions? What is their dialectical function? Why and how can they be dangerous? This paper intends to address these questions by developing the pragmatic approaches to presupposition from a dialectical perspective. The use of presuppositions will be analyzed in terms of presumptive conclusions concerning the interlocutor’s acceptance of a proposition, which can be assessed as reasonable or unacceptable. Their dialectical function is described in terms of dark side commitments attributed to a collective "voice" representing what is commonly shared. For this reason, they count as attempts to include the presupposed contents into the hearer’s commitment store, which in some circumstances can reverse the burden of proof. The different manipulative strategies grounded on controversial presuppositions will be examined by showing the distinct roles that the latter play and the relationship between the degrees of presuppositional implicitness and the speaker’s burden of retraction.
Constrained evolution of Hamiltonian phase space distributions in the presence of natural, non-conservative forces
Authors: Boodram Oliver , Scheeres Daniel 
Published: December 2023

AbstractConfidence regions for spacecraft state can be constructed in phase space which encapsulate some region where there is a likelihood for the state to reside. These regions can be treated as phase space distributions or structures. Structures, such as surfaces or volumes, are constrained to preserve specific properties as they evolve in phase space under Hamiltonian dynamics. Thus, spacecraft uncertainty is then constrained by Hamiltonian flow which can provide insight into state determination. This work examines the modified constraints in the presence of non-conservative forces which relate to both probabilistic and geometric properties of the evolving uncertainty structure. The modified constraints are then derived for a Two-Body and drag environment and are shown to be valid after comparison with alternative methods. Applying the modified constraints, the constrained evolution of the confidence region is then tied to a simple physical explanation for the changing knowledge in our spacecraft state, in the atmospheric drag environment and Poynting–Robertson drag environment.
The relative importance of distance education challenges to instructors in higher education – A ranking-type Delphi study
Authors: Sällberg Henrik , Folino Emil 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe many challenges faced by instructors in distance education have been extensively documented in current literature. Nevertheless, the relative importance of such challenges has not been researched to the same extent. As instructors and institutions face limitations in terms of time and budget, the ability to effectively prioritise challenges becomes increasingly vital. This paper aims to investigate the relative importance of various distance education challenges to instructors. For this purpose, a ranking-type Delphi study of 90 instructors was conducted at a Swedish higher education institution of technology. In total 26 unique challenges were identified, out of which the top 13 challenges were further ranked by instructors. The ranking revealed that pedagogical challenges were regarded as being of highest relative importance, whereas technological and organisational challenges were of lesser significance. Instructors rated the following challenges as the most significant: lack of student responsiveness, diminished collaboration due to social distancing among students, substantial upfront course design investments by instructors, and limitations in instructor accessibility. These rankings were found to be largely consistent across different instructor characteristics. The findings of the study indicate the importance of investing in faculty training and support functions within higher education institutions to ensure the quality of distance education.
COVID-19 and public support for the Euro
Authors: Roth Felix , Jonung Lars , Most Aisada 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic had disastrous effects on health and economic activity worldwide, including in the Euro Area. The application of mandatory lockdowns contributed to a sharp fall in production and a rise in unemployment, inducing an expansionary fiscal and monetary response. Using a uniquely large macro database, this paper examines the effects of the pandemic and the ensuing economic policies on public support for the common currency, the euro, as measured by the Eurobarometer survey. It finds that public support for the euro increased in a majority of the 19 Euro Area member states and reached historically high levels in the midst of the pandemic. This finding suggests that the expansionary fiscal policies initiated at the EU level significantly contributed to this outcome, while the monetary measures taken by the European Central Bank did not have a similar effect.
Interrogatives, inquiries, and exam questions
Authors: Gaszczyk Grzegorz 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe speech act of inquiry is generally treated as a default kind of asking questions. The widespread norm states that one inquires whether p only if one does not know that p. However, the fact that inquiring is just one kind of asking questions has received little to no attention. Just as in the declarative mood we can perform not only assertions, but various other speech acts, like guesses or predictions, so in the interrogative mood we can also make various speech act types. I propose a speech-act-theoretic account of a distinct kind of question that I label exam questions. According to the proposed account, one performs an exam question p only if (i) one has access to the answer to p, and (ii) one does not officially know whether the hearer knows the answer to p. Exam questions satisfy all the necessary requirements of being a distinct kind of speech act. Additionally, my proposal contributes to the recent expansion of the normative approach to a variety of speech acts.
Why Specialized Service Ecosystems Emerge—the Case of Smart Parking in Germany
Authors: Zimmermann Sina , Schulz Thomas , Hein Andreas , Kaus Alexander Felix , Gewald Heiko , Krcmar Helmut 
Published: December 2023

AbstractTraffic caused by drivers searching for a free parking space has numerous negative effects, such as increased emissions and noise pollution. Innovative solutions can reduce these negative effects by providing car drivers with better information via a smart parking app. However, smart parking apps currently do not offer overarching solutions which support the entire parking process. Utilizing a service-dominant logic perspective, we examine why such overarching solutions do not emerge, whereas specialized ecosystems flourish. We follow a multiple case study approach and conduct qualitative interviews with three app providers and fourteen associated parking operators in Germany. Our results show how conflicting institutional arrangements at the micro, meso, and macro context levels lead to specialization. Our study deepens the understanding of how conflicting institutional arrangements affect the emergence of service ecosystems, drawing practical recommendations to overcome specialized smart parking apps in favor of overarching solutions.
The technological physical laboratory to achieve improvements in the quality of learning in epistemic terms
Authors: Pequeno Jaildo Tavares , Fonseca Benjamim , Lopes Joaquim Bernardino Oliveira 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis work aims to identify teaching and learning practices in practical classes of Computer Network Technology courses, which promote the use of the Physical Laboratory (PL) as an epistemic tool to improve learning in epistemic terms. Content analysis of Multimodal Narrations (MN) of three classes by two teachers were used. An MN aggregates and organizes the data collected in the PL environment. Based on the results, we infer that the student and the teacher, under certain conditions, use the physical laboratory as an epistemic tool since the physical interactions prove its use and reuse. In addition, this study allows, in the context of work in the physical laboratory of networks, to identify that the orchestrations of mediation patterns adopted by the teacher influence the students’ epistemic practices and the use of the laboratory as a tool to produce new knowledge. The following contributions are presented: (1) The quality of the students’ epistemic practices is increased if, in the teacher’s dynamics of mediation, the control of the students’ action is reduced; (2) The orchestration of the teacher’s mediation patterns is essential to achieve beneficial results in student learning with the use of artifacts from the physical laboratory of Computer Networks; (3) For the physical laboratory to become an epistemic tool, it is necessary that the mediation standards allow students to develop epistemic practices to a high or very high degree and there is a certain mediation orchestration.
Assessing the Longitudinal Associations Between Decision-Making Processes and Attention Problems in Early Adolescence
Authors: Wiker Thea , Pedersen Mads L. , Ferschmann Lia , Beck Dani , Norbom Linn B. , Dahl Andreas , von Soest Tilmann , Agartz Ingrid , Andreassen Ole A. , Moberget Torgeir , Westlye Lars T. , Huster Rene J. , Tamnes Christian K. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractCognitive functions and psychopathology develop in parallel in childhood and adolescence, but the temporal dynamics of their associations are poorly understood. The present study sought to elucidate the intertwined development of decision-making processes and attention problems using longitudinal data from late childhood (9–10 years) to mid-adolescence (11–13 years) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (n = 8918). We utilised hierarchical drift-diffusion modelling of behavioural data from the stop-signal task, parent-reported attention problems from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and multigroup univariate and bivariate latent change score models. The results showed faster drift rate was associated with lower levels of inattention at baseline, as well as a greater reduction of inattention over time. Moreover, baseline drift rate negatively predicted change in attention problems in females, and baseline attention problems negatively predicted change in drift rate. Neither response caution (decision threshold) nor encoding- and responding processes (non-decision time) were significantly associated with attention problems. There were no significant sex differences in the associations between decision-making processes and attention problems. The study supports previous findings of reduced evidence accumulation in attention problems and additionally shows that development of this aspect of decision-making plays a role in developmental changes in attention problems in youth.