bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Occurrence of Rare Liesegang Rings in the Neoproterozoic Upper Bhander Sandstone, Vindhyan Supergroup, Rajasthan
Authors: Quasim M. A. , Jain Sreepat , Asjad Shaikh , Ahmad Faiz 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The Upper Bhander Sandstone Member exposed along the Agra-Fatehpur Sikri tract near Rasulpur (Rajasthan) was investigated for a rare sedimentary structure, Liesegang rings. The studied unit also yielded other sedimentary structures such as cross-bedding, parallel lamination, ripple marks and trough cross-bedding; Liesegang rings were the most common and abundant. Two types of Liesegang rings were identified, one with a central core with outwardly radiating and alternating iron-rich (dark) and iron-poor (light) rings that were usually aligned parallel to the bedding plane (here designated as the Nucleation-type), and the other, that followed a fracture, and are composed of wavy rings (Wavy-type). The studied sandstone unit is quartz-arenite type, wherein the monocrystalline plutonic quartz makes up 91% of the total framework grains. The grains are bound by two types of cementing material: silica (occurring as syntaxial overgrowth around detrital quartz grains) and iron oxide; higher amount of iron oxide and secondary porosity was noted. The formation of Liesegang rings involves iron-rich meteoric waters being infiltrated through fractures, pores and more importantly, by the formation of secondary porosity within the sandstone (diagenetic processess). Addition to this microscopic character, other factors that are responsible for the formation of Liesegang rings include surface water, suitable topographic exposure, condensed grid of joint polygons, and composition and thickness of the sandstone beds under study. Detailed microscopic analysis of rings (iron-rich and iron-poor) may provide a better understanding of the pathways of fluid movement enabling the formation of Liesegang rings.
Agroforestry supports high bird diversity in European farmland
Authors: Edo Manon , Entling Martin H. , Rösch Verena 
Published: December 2023

AbstractIntensification and homogenization of agricultural landscapes have led to a strong decline in European farmland birds. Agroforestry systems, which were widespread in the past, are regaining attention as they could return structural heterogeneity to agricultural landscapes. However, few studies focus on the effects of such systems on biodiversity and especially bird diversity. We hypothesized that agroforestry systems host a higher alpha and beta diversity of birds compared to open agriculture as well as distinct bird communities. Moreover, we expected that bird communities in temperate Europe and the Mediterranean are differently affected by agroforestry systems. In this study, we assessed breeding bird diversity via audio recordings in nineteen mature agroforestry plots, comprising both silvoarable and silvopastoral systems distributed across seven countries in temperate and Mediterranean Europe. For comparison, bird diversity was also assessed in nearby open agricultural land, forests, and orchards. Bird species richness in agroforestry was more than doubled compared to open agricultural land and similar to the diversity found in forests and orchards. Community composition and within-habitat beta diversity differed between the habitat types and between European regions. While temperate agroforestry systems hosted generalist and woody habitat species, bird communities in Mediterranean agroforestry were composed of species from both open and woody habitats. Beta diversity was significantly higher in agroforestry than in open agriculture in temperate systems but not in the Mediterranean. Our study demonstrates that agroforestry systems represent a valuable habitat for breeding birds in European agricultural landscapes. A wider adoption of these systems could thus contribute to halting and reversing the decline in bird diversity, especially in temperate agricultural landscapes.
Large eddy simulation study of the impact of an obstacle on cooling properties of a multiperforated liner
Authors: Duranton Thibault , Tillou Julien , Dauptain Antoine , Gicquel Laurent , Nicoud Franck 
Published: December 2023

Large eddy simulations are performed to investigate the impact of a solid obstacle on the flow around a multiperforated plate typical of aeronautical combustion chambers. The reference configuration is a perforated plate with approximately 200 holes immersed between a cold vein and hot vein at a typical operating point of helicopter combustors. The micro-jet Reynolds number is of the order of 4000, while the blowing and momentum ratios are close to 4 and 8, respectively. A variant configuration is considered that features an additional cylindrical obstacle located in the cold vein and mimicking a spark plug. The study reveals that, downstream of the obstacle, the cooling effectiveness of the plate is reduced by approximately 40 % compared with the reference case, mainly due to the absence of perforation at the obstacle location. The mass flow rate within the holes in the wake produced by the obstacle is reduced by 7 %, which is likely to locally influence the plate cooling. The reduction is attributed to the wake's pressure loss and its impact on the discharge coefficient. Additionally, the cooling effectiveness outside the wake shows a 5 % increase that can be linked to the mass flow rate increase within corresponding holes.
“African Opinions” at the Brazzaville Conference: Evolué Politics, Representation, and the Future of French Colonialism in Africa
Authors: Sanchez Danielle Porter 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis article focuses on the essays that évolués wrote and Félix Eboué presented to participants at the Brazzaville Conference in 1944 and specifically analyzes how this group of elite Africans understood and participated in debates on citizenship, empire, and rights and how they articulated their arguments about the future of French colonialism to the most important decision-makers in the francophone world. For these évolué writers, the continuation of French colonialism was a necessity with no immediate end in sight. Their arguments, which ranged from expanded citizenship rights for elites to the dangers of assimilation, captured the fraught social, political, economic, and intellectual landscapes of wartime French colonial Africa. As a result, their letters tell us a great deal about both not only their beliefs and desires for the future but also the nature of reform that Félix Eboué felt comfortable sharing at the Brazzaville Conference with other colonial administrators and stakeholders in 1944.
Positioning of applicants in asylum interviews: Case officers as recontextualising agents
Authors: Rehnberg Hanna Sofia 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
This study aims to develop an understanding of how different communicative strategies used by case officers in asylum interviews may position applicants in various ways. The analysis focuses on a relatively standardised sequence at the start of asylum interviews, where the communicative situation and its legal framework are explained to the applicant. Case officers use guidelines to support them with this process. Using a comparative discourse analysis of excerpts from two asylum interviews, I examine the discursive means by which the applicants are positioned in the case officers’ utterances, drawing mainly on the concepts of positioning and recontextualisation. The findings show how case officers’ instructive statements could be used as a resource not only to provide information to the applicants but also to position asylum seekers in a respectful way. (Asylum interview, intertextuality, positioning, recontextualisation, speaker role)*
The role of imageability in noun and verb acquisition in children with Down syndrome and their peers with typical development
Authors: GALEOTE Miguel , ARIAS-TREJO Natalia , ANGULO-CHAVIRA Armando Q. , CHECA Elena 
Published: December 2023

AbstractOur main objective was to analyze the role of imageability in relation to the age of acquisition (AoA) of nouns and verbs in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome (DS) and their peers with typical development (TD). The AoA of nouns and verbs was determined using the MacArthur-Bates CDIs adapted to the profile of children with DS. The AoA was analyzed using a linear mixed-effect model, including factors of imageability, group, and word class, and controlling for word frequency and word length. This analysis showed that high imaginable and short words were acquired early. Children with DS acquired the words later than TD peers. An interaction between imageability and group indicated that the effect of imageability was greater in the DS group. We discuss this effect considering DS children’s phonological memory difficulties. The overall results confirm the role that imageability and word length play in lexical acquisition, an effect that goes beyond word class.
A Novel High‐Resolution In Situ Tool for Studying Carbon Biogeochemical Processes in Aquatic Systems: The Lake Aiguebelette Case Study
Authors: Grilli R. , DelSontro T. , Garnier J. , Jacob F. , Némery J. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractLakes and reservoirs are a significant source of atmospheric methane (CH4), with emissions comparable to the largest global CH4 emitters. Understanding the processes leading to such significant emissions from aquatic systems is therefore of primary importance for producing accurate projections of emissions in a changing climate. In this work, we present the first deployment of a novel membrane inlet laser spectrometer (MILS) for fast simultaneous detection of dissolved CH4, ethane (C2H6) and the stable carbon isotope of methane (δ13CH4). During a 1‐day field campaign, we performed 2D mapping of surface water of Lake Aiguebelette (France). Average dissolved CH4 concentrations and δ13CH4 were 391.9 ± 156.3 nmol L−1 and −67.3 ± 3.4‰ in the littoral area and 169.8 ± 26.6 nmol L−1 and −61.5 ± 3.6‰ in the pelagic area. The dissolved CH4 concentration in the pelagic zone was 50 times larger than the concentration expected at equilibrium with the atmosphere, confirming an oversaturation of dissolved CH4 in surface waters over shallow and deep areas. The results suggest the presence of CH4 sources less enriched in 13C in the littoral zone (presumably the littoral sediments). The CH4 pool became more enriched in 13C with distance from shore, suggesting that oxidation prevailed over epilimnetic CH4 production and it was further confirmed by an isotopic mass balance technique with the high‐resolution data. This new in situ fast response sensor allows one to obtain unique high‐resolution and high‐spatial coverage data sets within a limited amount of survey time. This tool will be useful in the future for studying processes governing CH4 dynamics in aquatic systems.
Numerical treatment of the radiated and dissipative power-law nanofluid flow past a nonlinear stretched sheet with non-uniform heat generation
Authors: Khader M. M. , Megahed Ahmed M. , Eid A. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe main aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of non-uniform heat generation and viscous dissipation on the boundary layer flow of a power-law nanofluid over a nonlinear stretching sheet. Within the thermal domain, the analysis considers both thermal radiation and variable thermal conductivity. Through the use of similarity transformations, the governing boundary layer equations are transformed into a system of ODEs. The spectral collocation method (SCM) with shifted Vieta-Lucas polynomials (VLPs) is implemented to give an approximate expression for the derivatives and then use it to numerically solve the proposed system of equations. By employing this technique, the system of ODEs is converted into a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. The dimensionless temperature, concentration, and velocity are graphically presented and analyzed for various values of the relevant governing parameters. Through the presented graphical solutions, we can see that the main outcomes indicate that an increase in the power law index, thermal conductivity parameter, and radiation parameter leads to a noticeable decrease in the local Nusselt number, with reductions of around 0.05 percent, 0.23 percent, and 0.11 percent, respectively. In contrast, the Prandtl parameter demonstrates an opposing effect, elevating the local Nusselt number by about 0.1 percent. We validated the accuracy of the numerical solutions by comparing them in some special cases with existing literature.
Effective one‐dimensional dynamic modelling of latent heat thermal energy storage units for heating applications
Authors: Bastida Hector , De la Cruz‐Loredo Ivan , Ugalde‐Loo Carlos E. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractEffective use of the energy stored within thermal energy storage systems requires mathematical models that faithfully represent the dynamics of interest. Although three‐dimensional or two‐dimensional models may provide an accurate representation of the thermal store, these are computationally intensive and may not be suitable for control system design or to simulate complex networks. Following this line, a low‐order one‐dimensional model of a latent heat thermal store is presented. The model is based on energy balance, the specific heat–temperature curve of the storage medium, and the dynamic calculation of the heat transfer coefficient. The simplicity afforded by the model facilitates its implementation in any programming language, guaranteeing its compatibility with commercial software to simulate complex systems. The model was implemented in MATLAB/Simulink and verified against experimental data of the real unit and simulation results obtained with a two‐dimensional model. Simulation results for charging and discharging operations obtained with the one‐dimensional model exhibit a root mean square error of ≤0.53 °C and a mean square error of ≤0.32 °C when compared with experimental results of the output temperature of the heat transfer fluid. These outcomes are deemed acceptable considering the low order of the one‐dimensional model.
Morbus Bechterew – zielgerichtete Physiotherapie und
Bewegungsübungen
Authors: Heusinger Tobias , le Maire Maxime 
Published: December 2023

ZusammenfassungDie Bewegungs- und Physiotherapie ist seit jeher ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil in der Therapie des
Morbus Bechterew. Die überragende Bedeutung dessen spiegelt sich auch darin wider, dass viele
Patient*innen mit Morbus Bechterew Langzeitverordnungen für Physiotherapie und Bewegungstraining (z.B.
Rehasport oder Funktionsgymnastik) erhalten. Doch wie lassen sich Physiotherapie und
Bewegungsinterventionen so gestalten, dass Patient*innen langfristig am meisten davon profitieren?
Water scarcity challenges across urban regions with expanding irrigation
Authors: Rathore Lokendra S , Kumar Mukesh , Hanasaki Naota , Mekonnen Mesfin M , Raghav Pushpendra 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Irrigation expansion is often posed as a promising option to enhance food security. Here, we assess the influence of expansion of irrigation, primarily in rural areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS), on the intensification and spatial proliferation of freshwater scarcity. Results show rain-fed to irrigation-fed (RFtoIF) transition will result in an additional 169.6 million hectares or 22% of the total CONUS land area facing moderate or severe water scarcity. Analysis of just the 53 large urban clusters with 146 million residents shows that the transition will result in 97 million urban population facing water scarcity for at least one month per year on average versus 82 million before the irrigation expansion. Notably, none of the six large urban regions facing an increase in scarcity with RFtoIF transition are located in arid regions in part because the magnitude of impact is dependent on multiple factors including local water demand, abstractions in the river upstream, and the buffering capacity of ancillary water sources to cities. For these reasons, areas with higher population and industrialization also generally experience a relatively smaller change in scarcity than regions with lower water demand. While the exact magnitude of impacts are subject to simulation uncertainties despite efforts to exercise due diligence, the study unambiguously underscores the need for strategies aimed at boosting crop productivity to incorporate the effects on water availability throughout the entire extent of the flow networks, instead of solely focusing on the local level. The results further highlight that if irrigation expansion is poorly managed, it may increase urban water scarcity, thus also possibly increasing the likelihood of water conflict between urban and rural areas.
The Reality of Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Usage Data in Asia: The CAPTURA Experience
Authors: Leslie Toby , Parry Claudia , Ondoa Pascale , Walsh Timothy , Moore Catrin , Poudyal Nimesh , Marks Florian , Gordon N Claire 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), particularly in low- and middle-income countries, is threatening to undermine advances in health and development. Scarce technical and human resources in these countries limit the collection of quality AMR data for evidence-based decision-making. The CAPTURA consortium, funded by the Fleming Fund, was implemented across 7 countries in the South and Southeast Asian region. The program focused on collating historical bacteriological data for qualitative and quantitative analyses. The team gathered standard data on the quality of laboratories and clinics and the quality and quantity of retrospective historical AMR data. In addition, retrospective data on antimicrobial use and consumption were analyzed. While standard protocols guided the project, a tailored approach for stakeholder engagement was implemented to work with countries and secure data-sharing agreements. The program also had to navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, making some innovative adaptations to overcome logistical barriers. From 2018 through 2022, a large body of data was collected that was used to base a series of recommended key measures for strengthening the development of standardized national surveillance programs and to support alignment with international efforts.
Pervasive cranial allometry at different anatomical scales and variational levels in extant armadillos
Authors: Le Verger Kévin , Hautier Lionel , Gerber Sylvain , Bardin Jérémie , Delsuc Frédéric , González Ruiz Laureano R , Amson Eli , Billet Guillaume 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Allometry, i.e., morphological variation correlated with size, is a major pattern in organismal evolution. Since size varies both within and among species, allometry occurs at different variational levels. However, the variability of allometric patterns across levels is poorly known since its evaluation requires extensive comparative studies. Here, we implemented a 3D geometric morphometric approach to investigate cranial allometry at three main variational levels—static, ontogenetic, and evolutionary—and two anatomical scales—entire cranium and cranial subunits—based on a dense intra- and interspecific sampling of extant armadillo diversity. While allometric trajectories differ among distantly related species, they hardly do so among sister families. This suggests that phylogenetic distance plays an important role in explaining allometric divergences. Beyond trajectories, our analyses revealed pervasive allometric shape changes shared across variational levels and anatomical scales. At the entire cranial scale, craniofacial allometry (relative snout elongation and braincase reduction) is accompanied notably by variations of nuchal crests and postorbital constriction. Among cranial subunits, the distribution of allometry was highly heterogeneous, with the frontal and petrosal bones showing the most pervasive shape changes, some of which were undetected at a more global scale. Evidence of widespread and superimposed allometric variations raises questions on their determinants and anatomical correlates and demonstrates the critical role of allometry in morphological evolution.
Revisiting just energy transition in Indonesia energy transition policy
Authors: Yuniza Mailinda , Salim Daven , Triyana Heribertus , Triatmodjo Marsudi 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Leaving carbon-based energy will mean destruction for the players in the industry. As such, justice is an important factor in the transitioning process from a carbon-based energy to a green energy. However, what is considered ‘just’ remain a subject of debate in the existing literatures. This article aims to take a juridical normative approach to formulate ‘just’ concept in just energy transition in Indonesia energy transition policy, by scrutinizing the theory and practice and looking the status quo in Indonesia energy governance. This article proposes two practical solutions to the New and Renewable Energy Bill. Indonesia should include just transition concept and allow public participation in decision-making process to enable a ‘just’ energy transition.
The incidences and clinical outcomes of cryptococcosis in Taiwan: A nationwide, population-based study, 2002–2015
Authors: Guan Shang-Ting , Huang Yu-Shan , Huang Shih-Tsung , Hsiao Fei-Yuan , Chen Yee-Chun 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Large-scale epidemiological data on cryptococcosis other than cryptococcal meningitis (CM), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- or solid organ transplantation (SOT)-associated cryptococcosis are limited. This study investigated the disease burden of cryptococcosis in Taiwan over 14 years. Incident episodes of cryptococcosis, comorbidities, treatment, and outcomes were captured from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database and National Death Registry between 2002 and 2015. Of 6647 episodes analyzed, the crude incidence rate per 100 000 population increased from 1.48 in 2002 to 2.76 in 2015, which was driven by the growing trend in the non-CM group (0.86–2.12) but not in the CM group (0.62–0.64). The leading three comorbidities were diabetes mellitus (23.62%), malignancy (22.81%), and liver disease (17.42%). HIV accounted for 6.14% of all episodes and was associated with the highest disease-specific incidence rate (269/100 000 population), but the value dropped 16.20% biennially. Within 90 days prior to cohort entry, 30.22% of episodes had systemic corticosteroid use. The in-hospital mortality of all episodes was 10.80%, which varied from 32.64% for cirrhosis and 13.22% for HIV to 6.90% for SOT. CM was associated with a higher in-hospital mortality rate than non-CM (19.15% vs. 6.33%). At diagnosis, only 48.53% of CM episodes were prescribed an amphotericin-based regimen. The incidence rate of cryptococcosis was increasing, especially that other than meningitis and in the non-HIV population. A high index of clinical suspicion is paramount to promptly diagnose, treat, and improve cryptococcosis-related mortality in populations other than those with HIV infection or SOT.