bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Building a queer- and trans-inclusive microbiology conference
Authors: Gregor Rachel , Johnston Juliet , Coe Lisa Shu Yang , Evans Natalya , Forsythe Desiree , Jones Robert , Muratore Daniel , de Oliveira Bruno Francesco Rodrigues , Szabo Rachel , Wan Yu , Williams Jelani , Chappell Callie R. , Matsuda Shayle B. , Ortiz Alvarez de la Campa Melanie ,   Queer and Trans in Microbiology Consortium, Weissman J. L. , Fagre Anna C. , Frese Steven A. , Hamilton Maria , Labbate Maurizio , Mollner McK , Moroenyane Itumeleng , Pacciani-Mori Leonardo , Piedade Gonçalo J. , Pontrelli Sammy , Yang Mica Y. , Weiss Anna C. B. , Zablocki Olivier , Vyas Heema Kumari Nilesh 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT
Microbiology conferences can be powerful places to build collaborations and exchange ideas, but for queer and transgender (trans) scientists, they can also become sources of alienation and isolation. Many conference organizers would like to create welcoming and inclusive events but feel ill-equipped to make this vision a reality, and a historical lack of representation of queer and trans folks in microbiology means we rarely occupy these key leadership roles ourselves. Looking more broadly, queer and trans scientists are systematically marginalized across scientific fields, leading to disparities in career outcomes, professional networks, and opportunities, as well as the loss of unique scientific perspectives at all levels. For queer and trans folks with multiple, intersecting, marginalized identities, these barriers often become even more severe. Here, we draw from our experiences as early-career microbiologists to provide concrete, practical advice to help conference organizers across research communities design inclusive, safe, and welcoming conferences, where queer and trans scientists can flourish.
False-positive
Aspergillus
galactomannan immunoassay in the glucose component of total parenteral nutrition products
Authors: Chong Eunbin , Ko Jae-Hoon , Kim Doo Ri , Lee Young Ho , Yang Jinyoung , Kim Haein , Huh Kyungmin , Kang Cheol-In , Chung Doo Ryeon , Peck Kyong Ran , Jeong In Hwa , Kim Tae Yeul , Huh Hee Jae , Lee Nam Yong , Shin Areum , Kim Yae-Jean , Sohn You Min , Cho Sun Young , Kang Eun-Suk 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT

In October 2022, we experienced a significant increase in samples showing high galactomannan (GM) indexes ranging from 6.22 to 10.58, as determined by the Platelia
Aspergillus
antigen immunoassay, also known as the GM test. After reviewing the medical records of nine GM antigenemia cases that did not show evidence of invasive aspergillosis, we found that these patients had received total parenteral nutrition (TPN) products from the same manufacturer, whose supplier of the glucose component had recently changed. The TPN products supplied by the specific manufacturer in October were subjected to a GM assay. The glucose component of the products from three different lot numbers exhibited strong positive results in the GM assay. Microbiological investigations through fungal culture and PCR on the TPN products were negative. The present study demonstrated that the glucose component of the TPN products contained a high level of GM antigen, which caused false-positive GM test results. The source of GM in the glucose component was glucoamylase, which was produced from
Aspergillus niger
to obtain glucose monohydrate from starch. Investigation of three commercially available glucoamylase products exhibited positive GM and 1,3-β-D-glucan tests with various titers positive up to 1:1,000 dilutions, while fungal cultures were all negative. Quality assurance measures of TPN products to prevent GM contamination should be emphasized during the manufacturing process to avoid unnecessary additional diagnostic procedures and overtreatment of invasive aspergillosis due to false-positive GM tests.

IMPORTANCE

This manuscript describes an occurrence of false-positive GM tests in patients receiving TPN products from a manufacturer who had recently changed the supplier of the glucose component. We describe the clinical presentation of nine false-positive cases and the results of serologic and microbiological investigations of the TPN products suspected of contamination with GM. Attempts to detect GM in parenteral nutrition products were made since the detection of GM in sodium gluconate-containing solutions in 2007, but none of them identified the source of elevated GM indexes in TPN products. However, the present study demonstrated that the glucose component of the TPN products contained a high level of GM antigen, which caused false-positive GM assay results. The source of GM was glucoamylase, which was derived from
A. niger
in the manufacturing process. Physicians and clinical microbiology laboratories should be aware of this issue to improve interpretation and patient care.
Silybum marianum seed extract as a potential phytogenic feed additive for improving growth performance and nutrient digestibility in growing pigs
Authors: Hossain Md Mortuza , Bo Cho Sung , Kim In Ho 
Published: October 2023

Silymarin is the flavonoid extracted from Silybum marianum seed. It has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, and it supports liver health. The growth performance parameters, nutrient digestibility, and blood profile in growing pigs fed the dietary Silybum marianum seed extract were analyzed in this study. A total of 196 crossbred growing pigs ((Yorkshire × Landrace) × Duroc) were allocated into three dietary groups: CON: basal diet; TRT1: basal diet with 0.05% Silybum marianum seed extract; and TRT2: basal diet with 0.10% Silybum marianum seed extract. Results showed that pigs fed with Silybum marianum seed extract up to 0.10% increased average daily gain ( p < 0.10) and feed intake ( p < 0.05). The digestibility of dry matter, nitrogen, and energy were increased linearly ( p < 0.05) with addition of Silybum marianum seed extract up to 0.10%. However, serum bile acids, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and aspertate aminotransferase (AST) were not changed ( p < 0.05). In conclusion, the significant improvements in average daily gain, feed intake, and nutrient digestibility indicate that Silybum marianum seed extract can positively influence the growth of growing pigs. Finally, natural feed additives like Silybum marianum seed extract may be used as an efficacious growth promoter and ultimately contributing to sustainable pig farming.
Three-Dimensional Dynamic Modelling and Analysis of a Dual-Cable Winding Hoisting System
Authors: Wang Yandong , Chen Zemin 
Published: October 2023

In this paper, a three-dimensional dynamic model of a dual-cable winding hoisting system is presented to simulate and analyze its coupled vibrations. The equations of motion of this system are derived based on a substructure method and Lagrange’s equations of the first kind, in which the longitudinal–torsional coupled mechanical characteristics of the hoisting cables are considered. Longitudinal and transverse natural frequencies of the system are obtained and studied, and its dynamic responses due to some assumed displacement excitations are calculated. Numerical results agree well with those from ADAMS simulation, and the results have shown that longitudinal and transverse resonances are inevitable, but the transverse resonance has little effect on the conveyance; Slow longitudinal excitations should be avoided, thus avoiding the first-order longitudinal resonance since the system longitudinal vibration is dominated by its first-order mode; the torque in the hoisting cable is mainly induced by its tension under longitudinal–torsional coupled mechanical characteristics of the cable, and a torque release device is suggested to protect the hoisting cable from torsion failure; Torsional and transverse vibrations of the conveyance are been well restricted by the guiding cables even when the guiding cable pre-tension is zero. The results of this paper can be used to improve the parameter design of the ultra-deep shaft hoisting systems.
Hub overload and failure as a final common pathway in neurological brain network disorders
Authors: Stam Cornelis Jan 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Understanding the concept of network hubs and their role in brain disease is now rapidly becoming important for clinical neurology. Hub nodes in brain networks are areas highly connected to the rest of the brain, which handle a large part of all the network traffic. They also show high levels of neural activity and metabolism, which makes them vulnerable to many different types of pathology. The present review examines recent evidence for the prevalence and nature of hub involvement in a variety of neurological disorders, emphasizing common themes across different types of pathology. In focal epilepsy, pathological hubs may play a role in spreading of seizure activity, and removal of such hub nodes is associated with improved outcome. In stroke, damage to hubs is associated with impaired cognitive recovery. Breakdown of optimal brain network organization in multiple sclerosis is accompanied by cognitive dysfunction. In Alzheimer’s disease, hyperactive hub nodes are directly associated with amyloid-beta and tau pathology. Early and reliable detection of hub pathology and disturbed connectivity in Alzheimer’s disease with imaging and neurophysiological techniques opens up opportunities to detect patients with a network hyperexcitability profile, who could benefit from treatment with anti-epileptic drugs.
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–31
Authors: Goswell Gregory 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
2 Chronicles 32:24–31 provides an early reading of Isa 38–39, but the brevity of the account in Chronicles makes its interpretation challenging. There is an additional motif of pride that is not easy to interpret (32:25–26). In this article I suggest that it might have been added by the Chronicler because he had noticed the admission of fault by the sick king in the psalm in Isa 38. Building on the portrait of Hezekiah found in Isa 38, the Chronicler depicts Hezekiah acknowledging that he was not worthy of the benefit received and humbling himself. Hezekiah models for the reader the Chronistic ethic of repentance. When Hezekiah is tested by God (32:31), the statement that “God left him to himself” reflects the Chronicler’s interpretation of what is found in Isa 39, where the king responded as best he could to the arrival of Babylonian envoys without the benefit of prophetic guidance. The glowing depiction of Hezekiah’s achievements in the surrounding verses implies that the Chronicler believed that Hezekiah passed this test.
Bahrain: Recent Developments in the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and of Women
Authors: Kanchana Radhika 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This survey reviews some of the key legislative and executive measures of the government of Bahrain in the year 2021–2022, which have relevance to mainly the rights of the migrant workers. Further, and in less detail, this survey also refers to some of the developments pertinent to the rights of women living in Bahrain. However, more generally these rights are less relevant to women who are not Bahraini nationals. Bahrain is a member country of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC comprises six states in the Arab-Gulf region: Oman, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. These oil-producing states have significant proportion of foreign workforce in the population. Foreign workers work mostly in the private sector and are also residents in the host countries. At 55 per cent, Bahrain has a relatively lower proportion of migrants in its population among the GCC members (UN DESA, 2020). Therefore, a broader spectrum of governments’ measures relating to the issues like labour, entry and residence, and ownership of property or business touch the lives of the foreign/migrant workers or expatriates in the Gulf country. Governments’ initiatives targeting domestic workers are relevant also for women because they comprise the majority in this group. The survey notes that most of the governmental activity in Bahrain in the past year largely concern new laws or amendments of the existing legislation and regulations linked to labour and residency matters. Some of the more relevant ones that the survey has selected here confirms this. It also marks the period post the pandemic, which had posed considerable economic challenge for the government. Hence, as also some neighbouring Gulf countries, Bahrain has shown a balance of measures. On the one hand, to revive its economic dynamism and competitiveness, measures have been taken aimed at facilitating more ease and benefits to attract and retain foreign labour and investment in the country. On the other hand, measures have been taken that expressly favour the national workforce in order to boost their more active participation in the labour market and to support increased nationalisation efforts. The Bahraini government’s introduction of new labour reforms replacing its Flexi-work permit programme, initiatives to enforce the Wage Protection System, and easing of residence permits are a few notable highlights. The survey has essentially drawn on the government’s documents and announcements as available in English or translated text, in addition to information in the press and other relevant sources.
Palestine
Authors: Awawda Osayd 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
During the last year, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has issued more than seventy decrees-by-law, which are legislative tools that the Palestinian Basic Law allows the President to use only in cases of emergency. However, the President has never shown in any of those decrees-by-law that they were issued to face an emergency, which is an immense, imminent danger that may solely be stopped with a decree-by-law. This is a significant increase in the number of decrees-by-law that the President has issued between 2007, the year in which the coup d’état occurred in Palestine, and 2021, which amounts to thirty decrees-by-law per year. This increase might be the result of Abbas’s clique attempt to shape the legal framework of the Palestinian Authority for its own benefits, fearing that the old, ill, Palestinian President would pass away in the near future, leaving a huge vacuum behind, particularly with regards to who might be his successor, amongst all of the rivalling senior figures of the regime.
Human Rights in Türkiye: Freedom of Expression and the Right to Liberty and Security in 2021/2022
Authors: Kabis-Kechrid Laura 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Türkiye’s human rights situation continues to deteriorate, especially since the failed coup attempt in 2016. Many of the provisions introduced under the state of emergency remain in force and anti-terrorism laws as well as provisions regarding national security have been used to curtail fundamental rights and freedoms. In 2021, violations of the freedom of expression and the rights to liberty and security ranked first and second respectively in the ECtHR decisions against Türkiye. In the same year, Türkiye ranked first in amounting to the highest number of cases filed against a country with the ECtHR. Türkiye’s new “Disinformation Law” (Law No. 7418) has raised further concerns regarding freedom of expression in the country. This survey seeks to illustrate some of the most important developments regarding human rights in Türkiye in 2021 and 2022, particularly focusing on freedom of expression and the right to liberty and security (arbitrary detentions).
Revisiting “the Great Divergence”: Clarifying the Two Major Modes of Agricultural Change in China and the West
Authors: Huang Philip C. C. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Kenneth Pomeranz and Li Bozhong have recently conceded that they had been wrong that “the great divergence” between China and the West occurred only after 1800, but they continue to insist that when it came to agriculture and its labor productivity, their earlier argument still holds. This article summarizes the broad differences between eighteenth-century England’s crops cum animal husbandry agriculture and China’s crops-only agriculture to demonstrate the fundamental differences between the two. It is time we recognize fully how very different the two were and are, and how and why each follows an entirely different pattern to modern development. It is simply wrong to continue to obscure those basic differences by insisting on equivalence between them.
A Political Historical Examination of the Tianhu Embankment Case at Dongting Lake (1937–1949)
Authors: Zeng Gui , Yue Qianhou 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Water disputes between Hunan and Hubei provinces persisted from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and the Tianhu Embankment case stands as a representative conflict between the two provinces concerning lake and river management. The dispute originated from the construction of embankments by people from Hunan in the Datong Lake, a sub-lake of Dongting Lake. People from Hubei argued that the embankments significantly reduced the flood storage capacity of Dongting Lake and that river floods would directly inundate the riverside counties. On the contrary, people from Hunan argued that the construction of the Tianhu Embankment did not hinder water management and that the key to solving the problem of water disasters lay in dredging rivers and not in destroying the fertile farmland that tens of thousands of people relied on for survival. From 1936 until the collapse of the Guomindang government’s rule on mainland China, a dispute lasting over a decade unfolded over the issue of dismantling the Tianhu Embankment. Both provinces used various tactics, such as leveraging local interpersonal networks, creating public opinion through news media, and using “people-oriented” rhetoric. This issue was frequently mentioned in official correspondences between the Executive Yuan of the Guomindang government and the two provinces. Numerous high-ranking officials from both provinces were involved in the dispute, and it even escalated to the point where Chiang Kai-shek had to intervene. Though the case remained unresolved for a long time, it was temporarily concluded at the end of 1947 with the symbolic dismantling of nine outlets in the major dikes of the Dongheng East Islet and the Orphan Embankment. However, these outlets were soon refilled by people from Hunan, making the case an unresolved legacy of the Guomindang Government on the mainland. Reviewing the development and outcome of this case, the Guomindang Government always appeared as a conciliator in the dispute, but ended up yielding ground and making a muted exit. The helplessness and impotence that the Nationalist Government displayed in resolving this problem vividly illustrate its weak governance capability.
The Puppet Regime, Rent-Collecting Groups, and Rent-Tax Relations in Changshu County, Jiangsu Province, during the Japanese Puppet Regime Era
Authors: Yuan Kailin 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The land tax was a major source of local fiscal revenue in southern Jiangsu during the Japanese puppet regime era. It involved a complex tug-of-war between the puppet “central” and local governments and was closely tied to rent affairs. At the onset of the “Rural Pacification,” the simultaneous imposition of rent and taxes by the Japanese puppet regime infringed upon various stakeholders’ interests but did not aid in increasing land tax revenue or stabilizing the economy. Instead, the regime could only profit from local surcharges via the embezzlement case in Changshu County. In the process of grabbing land taxes and constructing tax collection standards, both the puppet regime and the rent-collecting groups pursued their own interests, colluding and competing with each other. In the meantime, the puppet regime, aiming at extracting land output, disrupted the existing rent-tax management method, thereby reconstructing the urban-rural relationship in southern Jiangsu and increasing the peasants’ burden. The rent-tax issue in Changshu County during the occupation period reflects the entanglement of the three-fold relationships – “central” vs. local, “official” vs. civilian, and landlord vs. tenant – under the Japanese puppet regime. Yet, the acute landlord-tenant contradiction was ultimately replaced by social conflicts provoked by the Japanese puppet regime’s intervention in land ownership and usage rights.
On Metaphysics and Supersessionism
Authors: Mitchell Nicholas 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Scholars, theologians and lay people are in the midst of a wave of vital conversations about the nature of Christian supersessionism and the possibility of a post-supersessionist theology. This paper seeks to contribute to these conversations by drawing out the presuppositions about evental relationship that underly supersessionistic habits of thought and their alternatives. This effort will proceed primarily through a critique of Alain Badiou’s supersessionistic reading of the Jewish/Christian evental relationship while attempting to salvage his formal concept of evental recurrence as a potential resource for post-supersessionist theology. The bulk of the paper is dedicated to this critique and salvage project. However, it will close with a series of brief reflections on how a non-teleogical metaphysics of evental recurrence might displace some of the teleological thought patterns that drive the dilemmas of supersessionism
Integrating Art and Dynamic Geometry Software into the Teaching and Learning of Middle School Geometry
Authors: Lyublinskaya Irina , Cabral Marta 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This study focuses on understanding the ways in which integration of art and dynamic geometry software (DGS) into geometry influenced middle school teachers’ understanding of geometric concepts that are difficult to teach, and their perceptions of teaching these topics. The study indicated that art materials combined with DGS played different roles in teachers’ understanding of geometry: in some cases, they helped acquisition of new knowledge and development of deeper conceptual knowledge while addressing misconceptions; in other cases, they helped the retention of knowledge by association with the activity; and in some cases, they facilitated the transfer of knowledge and development of strategic knowledge. Study results also indicated that integration of art combined with DGS led to a higher level of creative engagement that supported productive struggle and helped teachers appreciate and understand pedagogy differently. Lastly, the teachers made connections from learning mathematics content to the pedagogy of teaching that same content.