bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Analytical Models for the Prediction of Deformation in Laser Shock Bulging
Authors: Zhang Guofang , Zheng Chao , Lu Guoxin , Ji Zhong 
Published: February 2024

Abstract

Laser shock forming (LSF) is a novel plastic forming process which utilizes a laser-induced shock wave to deform sheet metals to 3D configurations. Quantitative evaluation of the deformation in LSF is of great importance to understand the forming mechanism and achieve the high precision. In this paper, considering parameters of material, geometry and processing, an analytical model was proposed to predict the deformation of plate in laser shock bulging. Models showed that the deformation is related to the impedances of the metal target and the confining overlay, the density, yield strength and thickness of the material, the radius of the die, and the energy, radius and pulse duration of the laser beam. The deformation profiles and the maximum deformation height calculated by the analytical model agree with those of the experiment, which validate the rationality of the constructed models. The maximum deformation height increases with an increase of laser energy, while it decreases with increasing plate thickness.
Unraveling the Role of MicroRNAs: Potential Biomarkers for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Revealed Through RNA Sequencing Analysis
Authors: Lin Huizhen , Chen Xiao , Wang Lisui , Zhu Tang , Feng Xiaohui , Liu Xiaomei , Chen Haiying , Pan Si 
Published: February 2024

Abstract

Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) poses significant health risks for both mothers and children, contributing to long-term complications such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. This study explores the potential of microRNAs (miRNAs) as biomarkers for GDM by analyzing peripheral blood samples from GDM patients.
Method Ten samples, including peripheral blood from 5 GDM patients and 5 controls, were collected to conduct the RNA sequencing analysis. Differentially expressed miRNAs were further validated by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction.
Results A total of 2287 miRNAs were identified, with 229 showing differential expression. Validation through qRT-PCR confirmed significant up-regulation of miR-5193, miR-5003-3p, miR-3127-5p, novel-miR-96, miR-6734-5p, and miR-122-5p, while miR-10395-3p was down-regulated. Bioinformatics analyses revealed the involvement of these miRNAs in pathways associated with herpes simplex virus 1 infection.
Conclusion This study provides insights into the differential expression of miRNAs in GDM patients and their potential roles in the disease pathogenesis. It suggests the differentially expressed miRNAs could serve as potential biomarkers for GDM, shedding light on the complex molecular mechanisms involved.
Immunohistochemical study of granulysin expression in vitiligo and halo nevus
Authors: Hlaca Nika , Vičić Marijana , kastelan marija , Dekanić Andrea , Prpić-Massari Larisa 
Published: February 2024

Abstract

Vitiligo and halo nevus are immune-mediated skin diseases that have a similar pathogenesis and involve cellular cytotoxicity mechanisms that are not yet fully understood. In this study, we investigated whether cytotoxic cells containing cytolytic molecules such as granulysin (GNLY) are present in lesions of vitiligo and halo nevus. We analysed the expression of GNLY by immunohistochemistry in different lymphocyte subsets in perilesional and lesional skin of ten vitiligo patients, eight patients with halo nevus and ten healthy controls. A significantly higher accumulation of GNLY+, CD8+ GNLY+ and fewer CD56+ GNLY+ cells was found in the lesional skin of vitiligo and halo nevus than in the healthy skin. These cells were localised in the basal epidermis and papillary dermis, suggesting that GNLY may be involved in the immune response against melanocytes. Similarly, but to a lesser extent, upregulation of GNLY+ and CD8+ GNLY+ cells was observed in the perilesional skin of vitiligo and halo nevus compared to healthy controls. In this study, we demonstrated, for the first time, increased expression of CD8+ GNLY+ T lymphocytes and CD56+ GNLY+ NK cells in lesions of vitiligo and halo nevus, indicating the role of GNLY-mediated cytotoxicity in the development of both diseases.
Improving the Water Absorption Properties of Bacterial Cellulose by In-Situ and Ex-Situ Modifications for Use in CMC-Graft-Sodium Acrylate Superabsorbent
Authors: Nasresfahani Maryam , Babaeipour Valiollah , Imani Mohammad 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Hydroxyl functional groups positioned along the bacterial cellulose (BC) chains provide the BC modification sites. This study reports BC in-situ and ex-situ modifications to increase its rehydration and equilibrium swelling ratio. BC in-situ modification was achieved by carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), sodium bicarbonate, and rapeseed oil addition to Acetobacter xylinum culture medium. Then, BC ex-situ modification by sodium bicarbonate (5, 10, and 15 wt. %) and glycerol (1, 2.5, and 5 v/v %) solutions were examined using the in-situ modified samples as starting materials. The final modified BC (called MBC) increased up to 2329.67% and 62.69%, respectively, in its equilibrium swelling ratio and rehydration compared to the unmodified sample. In the second phase of this study, two superabsorbents were synthesized through the polymerization of partially neutralized acrylic acid on the CMC backbone with and without MBC. These superabsorbents’ swelling ratio was investigated, and the amount of sodium acrylate, CMC, Aluminium hydroxide (Al(OH)3, as an inorganic cross-linker), and ammonium persulfate ((APS, as an initiator) was optimized using central composite design (CCD) method to achieve high swelling ratio. The resulting superabsorbents showed 306 and 326 (g water/g dry superabsorbent) as a swelling ratio, without and with MBC, respectively. Also, the MBC addition has increased the superabsorbents’ thermal stability. This study is one of the first attempts to investigate both BC in-situ and ex-situ modifications to rehydration and swelling ratio improvement for BC and its superabsorbent.
Bagging-based ensemble classifiers using multi-objective Genetic Programming
Authors: Zheng Yang , Zhang Fan , Gao Xiaoying , Ma Jianbin 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
As an effective evolutionary computation algorithm, Genetic Programming (GP) can be designed as effective classifiers due to its flexible representation method. However, the classification performance of GP classifiers can be degraded due to imbalanced data and weak generalization ability. In this paper, multi-objective GP (MOGP) is used to optimize three objectives including Recall, Precision and model complexity to imbalanced data. Moreover, a bagging-based ensemble classifier construction method is proposed to improve the generalization of GP classifiers, which uses non-repeated sampling to generate multiple training subsets and runs MOGP multiple times on these training subsets to construct ensembles. Experiments on ten datasets show that our MOGP classifier construction method can achieve better classification performance than single-objective GP classifier construction methods, and our bagging-based ensemble classifier construction methods can further improve the classification performance compared to only using MOGP. Comparisons with six state-of-the-art GP classifier construction methods and six traditional machine learning algorithms show that our proposed approach can achieve significantly better classification performance in most cases.
Symmetric Technique of Formant Transitions Generation for Using in Speech Synthesis of Arabic Language
Authors: Chegrani Lamari , Guerti Mhania , Boudraa Bachir 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The objective of this work is the elaboration of a vocal communication aid system for the blind in the Arab world, which is at the same time used as a system for learning Arabic for them or for non-native speakers. This system is a result of the development of a speech synthesizer for the Arabic language which is based on the concatenative synthesis method (end-to-end speech data collection (Eskenazi, Levow, Meng, Parent, & Suendermann, 2013)) of sub-syllable sound units typically stored in digital wave format (Vaseghi, 2008), obtained using software called PRAAT (Gold, Morgan, & Ellis, 2011; Pleva, Juhár, & Thiessen, 2015)) from a natural language corpus (Chou, Tseng, & Lee, 2002). The treatments in this study took place in different phases (العماري, 2021). Text analysis techniques are responsible for converting incoming text into a linguistic representation that encodes information about how the input text should be pronounced (Shiga, Ni, Tachibana, & Okamoto, 2020). The method used to produce missing phonetic units in syllable counts (CV) is to use mathematical symmetry from (VC), which as a result obtained the construction of a phonetic lexicon based on a reduced number of phonemes, which is 124 units; And improving the patterns resulting from inserting formula transitions into (VC) generated from their counterpart (CV) using this feature. Finally, the implications of this after including the linear smoothing stage (Dutoit, 1994) are to obtain speech outputs that resemble natural speech as much as possible without noise (Millstein, 2020), continuous, and intelligible at different levels of language that are able to be employed in synthesising intelligible speech, for blind individuals in the Arab community, noting that this method is for all languages of the world in terms of producing the quality of speech.
Occupational accidents in a high complexity Hospital in Bogota Colombia during 2023
Authors: Rivera-Penagos Daniel , Rojas-Ulloa Juan Gerardo , Castillo Juan José Patiño-Del , Rubio Laura Rodríguez- , Palencia-Sánchez Francisco 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Introduction:
An occupational accident according to the International Labour Organization is an unexpected and unplanned occurrence arising out of or in connection with work, which results in one or more workers incurring personal injury (1). The characterization of occupational accidents in a healthcare context is relevant for the implementation of preventive measures, follow-up measures, and protocols to reduce the incidence of these events, which represent an issue beyond the health and the economy of a healthcare entity and its employees. This work is the continuation of a three-year analysis of data on occupational accidents in a high complexity Hospital in Bogota, Colombia.
Methodology:
According to a provided database of occupational accidents in a high-complexity hospital in Bogota Colombia, a descriptive analysis was performed based on a retrospective cohort of 2023. The study variables presented in Table 1 were defined, then manually tabulated by months for analysis and graphed in the same way for interpretation.
Results
In 2023 the were a total of 204 occupational accidents. August has the highest incidence of accidents (16.67%), while Thursdays had the highest incident rate of the week (20.5%). The age group with the most accidents was 26–33 years old (34.2%). Female workers had the most occupational accidents (81%). The hour range with the most accidents was 09:00–13:00. Care workers had the most accidents (79.8%). Workers with seniority > 7 years presented the most accidents (34%). The hand was the body region most affected by accidents (29.9%). Luxation and sprains were the most common injuries (32.3%), caused mostly by exertion (29.9%). The most common unsafe practice was the adoption of an unsafe position (46.9%).
Conclusion
Results corresponded mostly to the previous research done with the same database in previous years. Female workers had the most accidents, which could be due to most female workers in the hospital. Nonetheless, measures should be taken to approach this specific population. Due to the high percentage of accidents caused by unsafe positioning, all workers should be advised to maintain safe practices while keeping a safe position. The high incidence of accidents in workers with seniority higher than 7 years should be investigated to determine if the cause is due to unsafe practices or higher procedure assumptions.
Effect of Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery on Patients with Diabetes Mellitus in Sana’a, Yemen, 2019
Authors: Almekhlafi Tofik Abdul Hameed , Awn Fares Sarhan , Ebrahim Ebrahim Mohammed , Al-Sumat Ameera Hussein , Jowah Haitham Mohammed 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Purpose
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of laparoscopic bariatric surgery on obesity and associated comorbidities in patients from Sana'a, Yemen, in 2019.
Patients and methods :
A prospective study followed 50 patients who underwent laparoscopic bariatric surgery between January and December 2019. The six-month follow-up assessed changes in body mass index (BMI), random blood sugar levels, glycated hemoglobin levels, joint pain, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Results
Among the 50 patients included, 22 were male and 28 were female, with a mean age of 37.4 ± 10.2 years. The patients underwent sleeve gastrectomy (SG), single anastomosis sleeve ileal bypass (SASI), or single anastomosis duodeno-ileal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy (SADI-S). The mean preoperative BMI was 45.4 ± 7.3 kg/m2, which decreased to 32.4 ± 4 kg/m2 at the six-month follow-up. In diabetic patients, preoperative glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) on medical therapy was 8.1 ± 2.3%. At six months postoperatively, HbA1c significantly decreased to 5.3 ± 1.2% (p < 0.001). Diabetic remission (HbA1c < 6% without medication) was achieved in 12 out of 15 diabetic patients (80%) at the six-month follow-up. Gastroesophageal reflux disease and joint pain significantly improved postoperatively.
Conclusion
Bariatric surgery demonstrates efficacy in treating patients who do not respond to conservative therapy. Clinicians should consider this intervention as an effective treatment option for obesity and related comorbidities.
THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF PERSONABLE VILLAINY AND WINSOME KNAVES: ENTER ANAKIN SKYWALKER AND CORIOLANUS SNOW
Authors: Muhić Emir Z. 
Published: February 2024

The multifaceted human personality apparatus tirelessly and somewhat incessantly keeps on giving rise to both surprising and equally dishearteningly bland revelations as regards to how the idiosyncratic denizens of this blue-hued marble encode and decipher various cultural phenomena. This is particularly pertinent in view of the relentless endeavours to peel off the deeper layers of the pseudo-proverbial human cognitive onion. It would doubtless come across as supremely hauteur-suffused should a paper harbour a latent claim to fame in terms of comprehensiveness and immaculate insight into what appears to be nothing short of a rabbit hole-like bottomless pit of hopeless scholarly efforts at inching ever so slightly more towards the neighbourhood of the metanarrative fount of all creativity and meaning. Therefore, the succeeding pages shall do away with that specific delusion and attempt to labour under merely one and relatively monotonous question: how do we go about explaining the impulse to root for the prototypical villain instead of bowing to the infinitely promulgated notion of archetypal goodness?
The conception of strength and weakness is attached to the discussion in order to substantiate the propositional mosaic herein stipulated. Bearing this in mind, a greater degree of free expression no longer obtains for our generation unless attained by dint of explicit, yet veiled of norm-dictated defiance.
This inflexibility dovetails neatly with the first assertion at the outset in the hope of shedding off a shroud of superfluous duplicity so successfully inculcated that it now, perhaps, gives the reader pause to learn that human cognition is deeply convoluted, leaning dangerously to the dark side of the mind and conceptualisation. Claims that linguistic adepts favour the through line of goodness over evil are handily belied, which, in itself, is not a bad thing necessarily. It might even be daring to think it a liberating and healing modicum of catharsis.
SELECTED ENGLISH IDIOMS AND SIMILES WITH FARM ANIMAL ZOONYMS AS THE SOURCE DOMAIN AND THEIR EQUIVALENTS IN SERBIAN
Authors: Milinović Dejan M. 
Published: February 2024

This paper presents an exploration of figurative comparison expressions featuring farm animal zoonyms in the English language and their possible equivalents in Serbian. Farm animal idioms are integral to linguistic discourse, contributing to the richness and diversity of language use. Their complexity often necessitates a deep understanding of cultural and contextual factors for their accurate interpretation, highlighting the potential for cross-cultural comparative studies to enrich our understanding of idiomatic expressions. These expressions transcend mere linguistic curiosities and play a vital role in meaning construction and imagery formation within discourse.
The paper provides an overview of expressions divided into five categories according to the type of farm animal used as the source domain: bovines (cows and their male counterparts, bulls and oxen), equi (horses and mules), pigs, sheep and poultry, and attempts to assign an equivalent phrase in Serbian, comparing the usage between the two languages, in order to shed some light on the intricate interplay between language, culture, and cognition in the realm of idiomatic figurative expressions involving farm animals.
CANON OR NOT CANON: THE CURIOUS CASE OF MICHAEL FIELD
Authors: Tica Dijana D. 
Published: February 2024

Although they wrote more than thirty plays, nine volumes of poetry, around thirty volumes of diaries, and thousands of letters, Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, an aunt-niece duo, incestuous lovers and poets, more famous under their joint male pseudonym Michael Field, were almost unknown to a wider literary audience until the 1970s, when these two ‘minor’ Victorian women poets were rediscovered mostly by feminist critics. What first drew critics’ attention to this poetic pair was their dual authorial persona and the nature of their relationship, culminating in Lilian Faderman’s groundbreaking book Surpassing the Love of Men (1981). In the 1990s, critics such as Isobel Armstrong, Virginia Blain, Joseph Bristow, Holly Laird, Angela Leighton, Yopie Prins, Martha Vicinus, and Chris White shifted focus to their work, first to poetry and then to dramas and diaries. Finally, the first two decades of the twenty-first century confirmed the resurgence of interest in Michael Field, with critics such as Marion Thain and Ana Parejo Vadillo exploring this poetic duo within the wider context of fin-de-siècle literature.
This paper will delve into various possible reasons why Bradley and Cooper, in spite of early positive reviews and the recognition of some literary greats of their age, were never granted a place among canonical British writers. Some of the avenues that will be explored are their fluid, queer identity and their refusal to define their gender; their tendency to write outdated literary genres such as verse historical dramas; the fact that they were female aesthetes, whose poetry was caught between paganism and Catholicism, homosexual and heterosexual love, femininity and masculinity, Victorian age and Modernism, tradition and modernity; their unwillingness to compromise their vision for popularity or commercial success; as well as their determination to create beautiful, well-designed books, published exclusively in rare and limited editions, which made them famous only among a small circle of connoisseurs.
Research Progress on the Antioxidant Activity of Natural Diarylheptanoids: Mechanisms and Structure–activity Relationships
Authors: Ma An-Na , Yao Tie , Guo Ya-Jing , Zhao Chong-Yan , Wang Bing-jie , Li Gen , Qiu Feng 
Published: February 2024

Abstract:
Antioxidant research has recently become a popular topic. Medicinal plants are
important sources of novel active compounds. Diarylheptanoids, a typical family of secondary
plant metabolites, are of great interest owing to their extensive spectrum of biological
activities. They possess a unique 1,7-diphenylmethane structural skeleton. Thus, this
review summarizes the natural linear or macrocyclic diarylheptanoids with antioxidant activity
in the last two decades. In addition, the relationships between the structural characteristics
of natural diarylheptanoids and their antioxidant capacity were also discussed. All
the available data highlight the potential of natural diarylheptanoids as novel antioxidants.
Roles of AFAP1-AS1 in Gynecology and Urogenital System
Authors: Qiu Xinyan , Huang Yulin , Jin Lin , Yang Canying , Wang Jiwei 
Published: February 2024

Background:
Human disease onset and progression are strongly associated with aberrant long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) expression, highlighting the functional regulatory role of lncRNA. Actin filament-associated protein 1-antisense RNA 1 (AFAP1-AS1), a member of lncRNAs, is located on the antisense strand of
Actin filament-associated protein 1 (AFAP1).

Methods:
We conducted a comprehensive review of AFAP1-AS1's functions in gynecology and urogenital systems using the “PubMed” database.

Results:
Our analysis reveals that AFAP1-AS1 is overexpressed and engages in the initiation and process of
gynecological and urogenital diseases. The regulatory mechanisms employed by AFAP1-AS1 involve four major strategies: gene-level effects, competition for microRNA (miRNA) repression, protein binding, participation in signaling networks that influence cellular processes such as proliferative phenotype, migration, invasiveness, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), cycle regulation, drug resistance, and more. Furthermore,
AFAP1-AS1 is implicated in guiding clinicopathological characteristics.

Conclusion:
AFAP1-AS1 holds promise as a potent diagnostics and treatment option for gynecological and
genitourinary systems in the future.
Naringenin Nanoformulations for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Authors: Sahoo Liza , Tripathy Nigam Sekhar , Dilnawaz Fahima 
Published: February 2024

:
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a grade-IV astrocytoma, which is the most common and aggressive type of brain tumor, spreads rapidly and has a life-threatening catastrophic effect. GBM
mostly occurs in adults with an average survival time of 15 to 18 months, and the overall mortality rate is 5%. Significant invasion and drug resistance activity cause the poor diagnosis of GBM.
Naringenin (NRG) is a plant secondary metabolite byproduct of the flavanone subgroup. NRG
can cross the blood-brain barrier and deliver drugs into the central nervous system when conjugated with appropriate nanocarriers and can overcome the challenges associated with gliomas
through naringenin-loaded nanoformulations. Here, we discuss several nanocarriers employed as
delivery systems, including polymeric nanoparticles, micelles, liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs), nanosuspensions, and nanoemulsions. These naringenin-loaded nanoformulations
have been tested in various in vitro and in vivo models and administration routes as a potential
treatment for brain disorders. The conclusion from this review is that proper nanoformulations of
NRG are a possible therapeutic alternative for the treatment of neurological diseases