bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Driver Steering Behaviour Modelling Based on Neuromuscular Dynamics and Multi-Task Time-Series Transformer
Authors: Xing Yang , Hu Zhongxu , Mo Xiaoyu , Hang Peng , Li Shujing , Liu Yahui , Zhao Yifan , Lv Chen 
Published: January 2024

AbstractDriver steering intention prediction provides an augmented solution to the design of an onboard collaboration mechanism between human driver and intelligent vehicle. In this study, a multi-task sequential learning framework is developed to predict future steering torques and steering postures based on upper limb neuromuscular electromyography signals. The joint representation learning for driving postures and steering intention provides an in-depth understanding and accurate modelling of driving steering behaviours. Regarding different testing scenarios, two driving modes, namely, both-hand and single-right-hand modes, are studied. For each driving mode, three different driving postures are further evaluated. Next, a multi-task time-series transformer network (MTS-Trans) is developed to predict the future steering torques and driving postures based on the multi-variate sequential input and the self-attention mechanism. To evaluate the multi-task learning performance and information-sharing characteristics within the network, four distinct two-branch network architectures are evaluated. Empirical validation is conducted through a driving simulator-based experiment, encompassing 21 participants. The proposed model achieves accurate prediction results on future steering torque prediction as well as driving posture recognition for both two-hand and single-hand driving modes. These findings hold significant promise for the advancement of driver steering assistance systems, fostering mutual comprehension and synergy between human drivers and intelligent vehicles.
On the Use of Monotonicity-Preserving Interpolatory Techniques in Multilevel Schemes for Balance Laws
Authors: Baeza Antonio , Donat Rosa , Martínez-Gavara Anna 
Published: January 2024

AbstractCost-effective multilevel techniques for homogeneous hyperbolic conservation laws are very successful in reducing the computational cost associated to high resolution shock capturing numerical schemes. Because they do not involve any special data structure, and do not induce savings in memory requirements, they are easily implemented on existing codes and are recommended for 1D and 2D simulations when intensive testing is required. The multilevel technique can also be applied to balance laws, but in this case, numerical errors may be induced by the technique. We present a series of numerical tests that point out that the use of monotonicity-preserving interpolatory techniques eliminates the numerical errors observed when using the usual 4-point centered Lagrange interpolation, and leads to a more robust multilevel code for balance laws, while maintaining the efficiency rates observed for hyperbolic conservation laws.
Up-to-date studies regarding the determination of sertraline by different analytical methods
Authors: Alessa Hussain , Algethami Nasser 
Published: January 2024

AbstractSertraline (SER), aka Zoloft, is one of modern antidepressant, it belongs to the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor class, which functions to raise serotonin levels in the nervous system. SER has both mood-boosting and depressive effects but has bad influence on the gastrointestinal system. The monitor of SER and its major metabolites, desmethyl-SER (DSER) provides useful information that may assist treatments, particularly during adverse reactions or lack of response to the applied therapy. The determination of SER and its metabolites in different samples, like blood, urine, deceased people and water requires various selective, sensitive and reliable analytical methods. These methods would determine and quantify of the whole drug level, as in blood, or unbound form level, as in urine or saliva. The purpose of the current review is to provide a summary of the outcomes of the methods that have been used for the extraction of SER from different sample's types as well as some of the analytical methods that were used for its quantitative analysis. The work targeted the studies of the last decade.
Wanet: weight and attention network for video summarization
Authors: Basu Arpan , Pramanik Rishav , Sarkar Ram 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIn this paper, we propose a deep learning-based model, called Weight and Attention Network (WANet), for video summarization. The network comprises a simple multi-head attention mechanism, followed by a feed-forward network to obtain the frame importance scores. Summary keyshots are obtained from the scores using a combination of kernel temporal segmentation and the knapsack algorithm. Contrary to past methods, we first enrich the input frames with similar information as opposed to letting the model learn all the features by itself. A novel weight assignment mechanism is introduced to assign weights to the input frames based on their similarity before passing the same to the model. Experimental results on the SumMe and TVSum datasets indicate the effectiveness of the present method when compared to state-of-the-art methods applied to the same datasets.
Exploring the impact of acute physical activity on creative thinking: a comprehensive narrative review with a focus on activity type and intensity
Authors: Chen Chong 
Published: January 2024

AbstractRecent studies have increasingly focused on the cognitive benefits of acute physical activity, particularly in enhancing creative thinking. Despite extensive research linking physical activity and creative cognition, significant gaps remain in understanding how specific types and intensities of physical activities influence this relationship. This review aims to synthesize the current findings, highlighting the notable impact of various physical activities on creative thinking. One key finding is the enhancement of divergent thinking, a critical component of creativity, through activities like walking at a natural pace. Moderate intensity aerobic exercise and dance, though based on limited studies, also appear to facilitate divergent thinking. Additionally, vigorous intensity aerobic exercise may enhance secondary aspects of divergent thinking, including the quantity and flexibility of idea generation. However, the review also identifies multiple research gaps, especially on the effects of resistance exercise and structured moderate to vigorous intensity aerobic exercise on creative thinking, pointing to an area ripe for future exploration. Recognizing the critical importance of creative thinking, it becomes essential to understand how different physical activities, and their intensity levels, affect creative cognition. This knowledge can guide both academic research and practical applications, offering valuable insights for targeted strategies aimed at enhancing cognitive function and creativity through physical activity in real-world settings such as classrooms and workplaces. The review underscores the need for a more comprehensive exploration of this topic, which could have significant implications for the fields of cognitive and exercise psychology.
The liminal state of academic freedom: navigating corporatization in higher education
Authors: Alibašić Haris , L. Atkinson Christopher , Pelcher Jamee 
Published: January 2024

AbstractFor decades, academic freedom and shared governance have stood as cornerstones of higher education in the United States, but these principles face unprecedented challenges. Recent developments point to a disturbing decline in these critical values, stirring debates on the future viability of the higher education system. This study delves into the problematic trajectory of modern higher education, spotlighting the rise of corporate practices within academic institutions, the swelling ranks of university administration, and the disproportionate weight given to student evaluations in assessing faculty. These factors have converged to push academia into an unstable transition, a liminal phase fueled by external and internal forces. This study examines the evolving landscape of academic freedom within the corporatized university model. Utilizing the concept of liminality, it explores the transitional challenges faced by academia in balancing traditional scholarly values with emerging market-driven paradigms, arguing that the corporatization of universities represents a liminal phase, wherein the identity and purpose of academic institutions are in flux, significantly impacting the notion of academic freedom. The shift toward a consumer-oriented ethos endangers the foundational principles of higher education, risking substituting educational substance with the mere transaction of educational services. The study concludes by issuing a call to action for all stakeholders in higher education to acknowledge and confront these detrimental trends, thereby safeguarding the principles of academic freedom, shared governance, and the educational system's overall integrity and dynamism.
Low-cycle fatigue testing and microstructure of high strength-ductility structural steel materials
Authors: Bai Yongtao , Gong Qingyu , Zhou Xuhong , Babacan Nazim , Guan Shaoyu 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe well-known tradeoff between strength and ductility is a key issue in the large-scale engineering application of steel materials to resist fatigue due to earthquakes and other vibrational excitations. The steel production industry provides a vast range of technologies to achieve the desired performances. Through experimental research, it was found that FeCrNi-based high-ductility steel (HD-S) can demonstrate remarkable hysteresis behavior due to extensive deformation capacity of strain-hardening until the ultimate fracture, compared to industrially manufactured high-strength steel (HS-S) with the level of 1 GPa in yield strength. The balance between strength and ductility can be realized by slightly adding the percentage of Ni by 5% to achieve a ductile hysteresis behavior. Moreover, the HD-S specimens exhibit greater resistance to low-cycle fatigue with large plastic amplitude. By developing a new damage evolution law based on instantaneous damage differential during nonstationary fatigue history, the fatigue life of materials is extended into the inelastic hinges of flexural beams/origami components. The proposed approach enables the fatigue design of steel structural components with desirable disaster-prevention capacities for complex steel structures.
A NOTE CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN “BUTCHER DING” AND “NOURISHING LIFE” IN THE TRADITIONAL ZHUANGZI COMMENTARIES
Authors: Williams John 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe present discussion aims to help corroborate recent claims that the link between nourishing life 養生 and the Butcher Ding 庖丁 vignette from chapter 3 of the Zhuangzi 莊子 (c. fourth to third century bce) might be taken seriously, while at the same time falsifying recent claims that it is nonetheless uncommon for the connection to be taken seriously. This is achieved by supplying several pieces of textual evidence from leading figures from throughout the history of Zhuangzi studies who all explicitly make the connection and take it seriously. Beyond corroborating one claim and falsifying the other, the present discussion provides renderings of much hitherto untranslated work so as to prevent future scholars from underestimating just how common it is to take the link between the Butcher Ding story and nourishing life seriously.
Diagnostic stewardship to improve patient outcomes and healthcare-associated infection (HAI) metrics
Authors: Singh Harjot K. , Claeys Kimberly C. , Advani Sonali D. , Ballam Yolanda J. , Penney Jessica , Schutte Kirsten M. , Baliga Christopher , Milstone Aaron M. , Hayden Mary K. , Morgan Daniel J. , Diekema Daniel J. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractDiagnostic stewardship seeks to improve ordering, collection, performance, and reporting of tests. Test results play an important role in reportable HAIs. The inclusion of HAIs in public reporting and pay for performance programs has highlighted the value of diagnostic stewardship as part of infection prevention initiatives. Inappropriate testing should be discouraged, and approaches that seek to alter testing solely to impact a reportable metric should be avoided. HAI definitions should be further adapted to new testing technologies, with focus on actionable and clinically relevant test results that will improve patient care.
House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents
Authors: Huber Gregory A. , Tucker Patrick D. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe accountability relationship between voters and elected members of Congress (MCs) hinges on the potential for citizens to learn about legislator behaviour. In an era of declining local newspapers, local television coverage of MCs potentially fulfils this important role. However, few studies have comprehensively examined the determinants of contemporary MC coverage by local television news broadcasts. In this paper, we leverage a vast database of local television news broadcast transcripts spanning two years to identify which factors explain MC coverage. We find that MCs receive little coverage outside the general election campaign season. Media market and campaign-specific factors are associated with more exposure when coverage occurs. Finally, we find that within competitive elections, incumbents receive only a marginal advantage in coverage. These findings provide a springboard to explore further questions regarding Congress, local media, and political accountability.
Multidimensional Frank–Laptev–Weidl improvement of the hardy inequality
Authors: Roychowdhury Prasun , Ruzhansky Michael , Suragan Durvudkhan 
Published: January 2024

AbstractWe establish a new improvement of the classical Lp-Hardy inequality on the multidimensional Euclidean space in the supercritical case. Recently, in [14], there has been a new kind of development of the one-dimensional Hardy inequality. Using some radialisation techniques of functions and then exploiting symmetric decreasing rearrangement arguments on the real line, the new multidimensional version of the Hardy inequality is given. Some consequences are also discussed.
Dehn functions of mapping tori of right-angled Artin groups
Authors: Pueschel Kristen , Riley Timothy 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe algebraic mapping torus
$M_{\Phi }$
of a group
$G$
with an automorphism
$\Phi$
is the HNN-extension of
$G$
in which conjugation by the stable letter performs
$\Phi$
. We classify the Dehn functions of
$M_{\Phi }$
in terms of
$\Phi$
for a number of right-angled Artin groups (RAAGs)
$G$
, including all
$3$
-generator RAAGs and
$F_k \times F_l$
for all
$k,l \geq 2$
.
Newly Discovered Pieces of an Old English Glossed Psalter: The Alkmaar Fragments of the N-Psalter
Authors: Porck Thijs 
Published: January 2024

ABSTRACTThis article provides an analysis and edition of newly discovered fragments of an Old English glossed psalter in the Regional Archive of Alkmaar, the Netherlands. These fragments once belonged to the same ‘N-Psalter’ as fragments earlier found in Cambridge (Dietz 1968), Haarlem (Derolez 1972), Sondershausen (Pilch 1997; Gneuss 1998) and Elbląg (Opalińskaet al.2023). The article provides analyses of the language and textual affiliations of the Old English gloss and aims to reconstruct the provenance of the fragments and the N-Psalter as a whole. The annotated edition includes appendices with collations of the Latin and Old English texts of other extant glossed psalters.
On the dynamic residual measure of inaccuracy based on extropy in order statistics
Authors: Mohammadi M. , Hashempour M. , Kamari O. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIn this paper, we introduce a novel way to quantify the remaining inaccuracy of order statistics by utilizing the concept of extropy. We explore various properties and characteristics of this new measure. Additionally, we expand the notion of inaccuracy for ordered random variables to a dynamic version and demonstrate that this dynamic information measure provides a unique determination of the distribution function. Moreover, we investigate specific lifetime distributions by analyzing the residual inaccuracy of the first-order statistics. Nonparametric kernel estimation of the proposed measure is suggested. Simulation results show that the kernel estimator with bandwidth selection using the cross-validation method has the best performance. Finally, an application of the proposed measure on the model selection is provided.
More Graduates, Fewer Skills? Vocational Education Expansion and Skilled Labour Shortages in China
Authors: Song Xinmiao , Xu Duoduo 
Published: January 2024

AbstractChina's need for skilled workers to upgrade its industrial system is increasingly urgent due to global economic competition. Despite massive expansion of its Vocational Education and Training system over the past two decades, a significant skilled labour deficit remains. Current debates on the inefficacy of vocational education focuses on the lack of institutional synergies between education and industry but often overlooks the inherent conflicts within the vocational education system and micro-level skill formation processes. Our ethnographic research in two upper-secondary vocational schools unveils a disturbing trend: the rapid massification of vocational education, which prioritizes student enrolment numbers over educational quality, fails to address the demand for skill formation and skilled labour. It inadvertently generates adverse consequences for both administrative management and classroom instruction. Skill development frequently falls to after-school professional associations and an exclusive group of elite students. Meanwhile, reform initiatives, such as the craftsmanship campaign and skill competitions, benefit only a few without improving the employment prospects for the wider student population. These findings call for greater attention to the inherent tensions within China's Vocational Education and Training system. Only when there is a deeper understanding of the underlying causes of ineffective skill formation in vocational schools can China achieve its national goal of industrial upgrades.
Estimating the burden of illness caused by domestic waterborne Legionnaires’ disease in Canada: 2015–2019
Authors: McMullen Carrie K. M. , Dougherty Brendan , Medeiros Diane T. , Yasvinski Gordon , Sharma Deepak , Thomas M. Kate 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Legionellosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Legionella that most commonly presents as Legionnaires’ disease (LD), a severe form of pneumonia. From 2015 to 2019, an average of 438 LD cases per year were reported in Canada. However, it is believed that the actual number of cases is much higher, since LD may be underdiagnosed and underreported. The purpose of this study was to develop an estimate of the true incidence of illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths associated with LD in Canada. Values were derived using a stochastic model, based on Canadian surveillance data from 2015 to 2019, which were scaled up to account for underdiagnosis and underreporting. Overall, there were an estimated 1,113 (90% CrI: 737–1,730) illnesses, 1,008 (90% CrI: 271–2,244) hospitalizations, and 34 (90% CrI: 4–86) deaths due to domestically acquired waterborne LD annually in Canada from 2015 to 2019. It was further estimated that only 36% of illnesses and 39% of hospitalizations and deaths were captured in surveillance, and that 22% of illnesses were caused by Legionella serogroups and species other than Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (non-Lp1). This study highlights the true burden and areas for improvement in Canada’s surveillance and detection of LD.
Wobbling nature of gamma passing rate as a function of calibration field sizes in patient-specific quality assurance
Authors: Raj Sathiya , Sundaram Venugopal , Godson Henry Finlay , John Retna 
Published: January 2024

Abstract

Purpose:
This study aimed to investigate the influence of calibration field size on the gamma passing rate (GPR) in patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA).

Methods:
Two independent detectors, PTW OCTAVIUS 4D (4DOCT) and Arc Check, were utilised in volumetric modulated arc therapy plans for 26 patients (14 with Arc Check and 12 with 4DOCT). Plans were administered using Varian Unique machine (with 4DOCT) and Varian TrueBeam (with Arc Check), each employing different calibration factors (CFs): 4 × 4, 6 × 6, 8 × 8, 10 × 10, 12 × 12 and 15 × 15 cm2 field sizes. Gamma analysis was conducted with 2%2mm, 2%3mm and 3%3mm gamma criteria.

Results:
GPR exhibited variations across different CFs. GPR demonstrated an increasing trend below 10 × 10 cm² CFs, while it displayed a decreasing trend above 10 × 10 cm². Both detectors exhibited similar GPR patterns. The correlation between 4DOCT and Arc Check was strong in tighter criteria (2%2mm) with an R² value of 0·9957, moderate criteria (2%3mm) with an R² value of 0·9868, but reduced in liberal criteria (3%3mm) with an R² value of 0·4226.

Conclusion:
This study demonstrates that calibration field sizes significantly influence GPR in PSQA. This study recommends the plan specific calibration field must obtain to calibrate the QA devices for modulated plans.
Influence of the Neutralization Degree on the Ice Nucleation Ability of Ammoniated Sulfate Particles
Authors: Bertozzi Barbara , Wagner Robert , Höhler Kristina , Saathoff Harald , Möhler Ottmar , Leisner Thomas 
Published: January 2024

AbstractPrevious laboratory measurements suggest that ammonium sulfate crystals (AS, (NH4)2SO4) are efficient ice‐nucleating particles under cirrus conditions. Sulfate particles not completely neutralized by ammonium are less well studied and include two other solids, ammonium bisulfate (AHS, NH4HSO4) and letovicite (LET, (NH4)3H(SO4)2). In this work, we have obtained the first comprehensive data set for the heterogeneous ice nucleation ability of crystallized particles in the AS–LET–AHS system as a function of their degree of neutralization at a temperature of about 220 K. Quantitative data on nucleation onsets, ice‐active fractions, and ice nucleation active surface site densities were derived from expansion cooling experiments in a large cloud chamber and measurements with two continuous flow diffusion chambers. We found a strong dependence of the efficiency and the mode of heterogenous ice nucleation on the degree of neutralization. Ice formation for AS, mixed AS/LET, and LET crystals occurred by the deposition nucleation or pore condensation and freezing mode. The lowest nucleation onset was observed for AS, where 0.1% of the particles became ice‐active at an ice saturation ratio of 1.25. This threshold gradually increased to 1.35 for LET, and abruptly further to 1.45 for mixed LET/AHS crystals, which partially deliquesced and induced ice formation via immersion freezing. Pure AHS crystals did not form due to the inhibition of efflorescence. Our data allow for a more sophisticated treatment of ice formation in the AS–LET–AHS system in future model simulations, which have so far only considered the available data for AS alone.