bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Exploring the gender care experiences and perspectives of individuals who discontinued their transition or detransitioned in Canada
Authors: MacKinnon Kinnon R. , Gould Wren Ariel , Enxuga Gabriel , Kia Hannah , Abramovich Alex , Lam June S. H. , Ross Lori E. 
Published: November 2023

Background
Those who detransition have received increased public and scholarly attention and their narratives are often presented as evidence of limitations with contemporary gender-affirming care practices. However, there are scant empirical studies about how this population experienced their own process of gaining access to gender-affirming medical/surgical interventions, or their recommendations for care practice.

Aims
To qualitatively explore the care experiences and perspectives of individuals who discontinued or reversed their gender transitions (referred to as detransition).

Methods
Between October 2021-January 2022, Canadian residents aged 18 and older with experience of stopping, shifting, or reversing a gender transition were invited to participate in semi-structured, one-on-one, virtual interviews. A purposive sample of 28 was recruited by circulating study adverts over social media, to clinicians in six urban centres, and within participants’ social networks. Interviews ranged between 50–90 minutes, were audio-recorded, and transcribed verbatim. Following constructivist grounded theory methodology, interview data were analyzed inductively and thematically following a two-phase coding process to interpret participants’ experiences of, and recommendations for, gender care.

Results
Participants were between the ages of 20–53 (71% were between 20–29). All participants identified along the LGBTQ2S+ spectrum. Twenty-seven out of 28 of the participants received medical/surgical interventions (60% were ages 24 and younger). A majority (57%) reported three or more past gender identities, with 60% shifting from a binary transgender identity at the time of initiating transition to a nonbinary identity later in their transition journey. To access medical/surgical interventions, most participants were assessed via the gender-affirming care model pathway and also engaged in talk therapy with a mental healthcare provider such as a psychologist or psychiatrist. Some participants experienced their care as lacking the opportunity to clarify their individual treatment needs prior to undergoing medical/surgical transition. Decisional regret emerged as a theme alongside dissatisfaction with providers’ “informed consent” procedures, such that participants felt they would have benefitted from a more robust discussion of risks/benefits of interventions prior to treatment decision-making. Overall, participants recommended an individualized approach to care that is inclusive of mental healthcare supports.

Conclusions
To optimize the experiences of people seeking and receiving gender care, a thorough informed consent process inclusive of individualized care options is recommended, as outlined by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, standards of care, version 8.
Pooled prevalence and its determinants of stunting among children during their critical period in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Kassaw Amare , Kassie Yohannes Tesfahun , Kefale Demewoz , Azmeraw Molla , Arage Getachew , Asferi Worku Necho , Munye Tigabu , Demis Solomon , simegn Amare , Agimas Muluken Chanie , Zeleke Shegaw 
Published: November 2023

Background
Stunting is a major public health concern, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Globally, nearly 149 million under-five children are suffering from stunting. Despite it can occur in all age groups, the impact is more severe among children age less than 24 months as this period is critical time of very rapid growth and development. Therefore, this review aimed to determine the pooled prevalence and determinants of stunting among children during this critical period in Ethiopia.

Methods
The literature search was conducted using international electronic data bases (pumed, Google scholar, CINHAL, Hinari, open Google) and the hand search of reference lists of eligible articles. The presence of heterogeneity between studies was evaluated using Cochrane Q-test and I2 test statistics and sensitivity analysis was also checked. Small study effect was checked through graphical and statistical test. Sub-group analysis was performed to handle heterogeneity.

Results
This study included 14 studies with a total sample size of 8,056 children. The overall pooled estimate of stunting was 35.01(95% CI: 24.73–45.28, I2 = 98.98%) in the country with the highest prevalence in Amhara region. Increased Child’s age (OR = 3.83; 95% CI: 2.47–5.18, I2 = 97.76%), no maternal education (OR = 2.90; 95%CI: 1.59–4.20, I2 = 89.73%), no maternal postnatal follow up (OR = 1.81; 95% CI:1.51–2.10) less than four food diversity of the child (OR = 2.24;95%CI; 1.94–2.55,I2 = 21.55%), low maternal body mass index, failure to colostrum and exclusive breast feeding, two and more under five children in the household and poor wealth index of the family were significant factors of stunting.

Conclusion and recommendations
The pooled prevalence of stunting among children during their critical time is high. Increased Child’s age, no maternal education and no maternal postnatal follow up, less than four food diversity of the child, low maternal body mass index, failure to colostrum and exclusive breast feeding, two and more under five children in the household and poor wealth index of the family were determinants of stunting. Therefore, providing continuous maternal postnatal follow up, increase awareness of mothers on importance of colostrum and exclusive breast feeding, feeding of children the recommended variety of foods and at large to improve the wealth status of the households are crucial interventions to meet national and international targets of zero stunting in children less than 2 years.
The genes significantly associated with an improved prognosis and long-term survival of glioblastoma
Authors: Yoon Hong Gyu , Cheong Jin Hwan , Ryu Je Il , Won Yu Deok , Min Kyueng-Whan , Han Myung-Hoon 
Published: November 2023

Background and purpose
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most devastating brain tumor with less than 5% of patients surviving 5 years following diagnosis. Many studies have focused on the genetics of GBM with the aim of improving the prognosis of GBM patients. We investigated specific genes whose expressions are significantly related to both the length of the overall survival and the progression-free survival in patients with GBM.

Methods
We obtained data for 12,042 gene mRNA expressions in 525 GBM tissues from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Among those genes, we identified independent genes significantly associated with the prognosis of GBM. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was performed to determine the genes significant for predicting the long-term survival of patients with GBM. Bioinformatics analysis was also performed for the significant genes.

Results
We identified 33 independent genes whose expressions were significantly associated with the prognosis of 525 patients with GBM. Among them, the expressions of five genes were independently associated with an improved prognosis of GBM, and the expressions of 28 genes were independently related to a poorer prognosis of GBM. The expressions of the ADAM22, ATP5C1, RAC3, SHANK1, AEBP1, C1RL, CHL1, CHST2, EFEMP2, and PGCP genes were either positively or negatively related to the long-term survival of GBM patients.

Conclusions
Using a large-scale and open database, we found genes significantly associated with both the prognosis and long-term survival of patients with GBM. We believe that our findings may contribute to improving the understanding of the mechanisms underlying GBM.
DETERMINATION OF FREE AMINO ACIDS IN UNDERGROUND ORGANS OF ELEUTHEROCOCCUS SENTICOSUS RUPR. ET MAXIM
Authors: Komarova Aitalyyna Kuo Aleksandrovna , Stepanova Tatyana Alekseevna , Prokopyev Ilya Andreevich 
Published: November 2023

A study of free amino acids in the underground organs of Eleutherococcus senticosus (Eleutherococcus senticosus Rupr. et Maxim, family Araliaceae) was carried out. The material for the study was samples of rhizomes and roots of Eleutherococcus collected in the Amur Region, Jewish Autonomous Region, Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories.
Amino acids were determined by GC-MS. According to the results of studies, from two to nine amino acids were found in the rhizomes and roots of Eleutherococcus senticosus, of which 6 are nonessential (alanine, proline, serine, glutamine, pyroglutamic acid, aspartic acid) and 3 are essential (valine, leucine, threonine). The total content of amino acids in the studied samples averaged 20.1 mg/100 g. It was revealed that the dominant group is heterocyclic amino acids, the representatives of which include proline and pyroglutamic acid. The average content of proline and pyroglutamic acid was 4.9 and 7.1 mg/100 g, respectively. Based on a comparative analysis of the amino acid composition of ten samples, it was shown that the amino acid composition of the rhizomes and roots of Eleutherococcus from different populations varies. As a result of a cluster analysis based on the content of amino acids in the studied samples, two groups are distinguished: samples from the Khabarovsk Territory - Amur Region, samples from the Primorsky Territory - Jewish Autonomous Region (Leninsky District).
PAPER AND THIN-LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF HYDROXYCINNAMIC ACIDS IN PLANT RAW MATERIALS (REVIEW). MESSAGE 1
Authors: Kompantseva Evgenia Vladimirovna , Saushkina Anna Stepanovna 
Published: November 2023

Hydroxycinnamic acids (HCC) are one of the types of biologically active compounds (BAC) synthesized by plants. Along with carbohydrates and proteins, HCCs are the most common compounds in the plant world and are found in almost all higher plants in free form, as part of esters and glycosides. Although the pharmacological activity of most HCCs has not been studied enough yet, however, its spectrum is quite wide.
Many wild plants, which are currently used mainly in ethnoscience and traditional medicine, are cheap, affordable raw materials that are promising for introduction into the medical and pharmaceutical practice of our country as potential medicines. Therefore, the search for new plant species that are interesting for detailed study and the creation of modern medicines containing HCC on their basis is an scientific research area of current interest.
The review is devoted to the study and systematization of paper and thin-layer chromatography methods used to determine the composition of HCC in plant raw materials growing on the territory of the Russian Federation as a potential raw material base of polyphenolic compounds.
The review uses 80 sources of domestic scientific literature for the period from 2007 to 2022 inclusive, which show the results of the use of thin-layer (TLC) and paper (PC) chromatography for the study, identification and standardization of plant raw materials by the content of hydroxycinnamic acids (HCC).
The research method used was a retrospective information and analytical analysis of the of Russian scientific literature sources.
Symmetry and monotonicity of singular solutions to p-Laplacian systems involving a first order term
Authors: Biagi Stefano , Esposito Francesco , Montoro Luigi , Vecchi Eugenio 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
We consider positive singular solutions (i.e. with a non-removable singularity) of a system of PDEs driven by p-Laplacian
operators and with the
additional presence of a nonlinear first order term. By a careful use of a rather new version of the moving
plane method, we prove the symmetry of the solutions. The result is already new in the scalar case.
»Ein Bild von ihm … wird immer belehrend und erquickend bleiben.

Sein Leben lehrte.« David Friedländers biographische Fragmente über Moses Mendelssohn
Authors: Lohmann Uta 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
A few years after Moses Mendelssohn’s death (1786) David Friedländer wrote life-history descriptions in which he took a fragmentary look at Mendelssohn’s personality and emphasized that he had succeeded in approaching moral perfection as a human being and as a merchant to a high degree. With the virtuous perfection pattern Moses Mendelssohn (Vollkommenheitsmuster Moses Mendelssohn) designed by him, Friedländer initially pursued two intentions: on the one hand, he established a modern Jewish educational ideal, and on the other hand, his image of Mendelssohn served him to combat prejudice among non-Jews. Three decades later, Friedländer published further biographical fragments about Mendelssohn, this time appearing in a distinctly educational context, and again presenting Mendelssohn as an educational ideal. The article analyzes Friedländer’s ›Platonic‹ mode of presenting Mendelssohn and questions the significance of his parallelization of Mendelssohn with Socrates. In addition, it examines Friedländer’s choice of the fragment as a descriptive category and form of biographical representation, with which he functionalizes Mendelssohn for his pedagogical aims.
»Es ist viel Liebenswürdiges darin«. Max Brods Schreiben über Kafka
Authors: Ludewig Anna-Dorothea 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Max Brod’s writing about Franz Kafka is one of the much-debated biographical undertakings of the 20th century, whose impacts still occupy literary scholars. Max Brod himself as well as his own extensive literary and journalistic-essayistic oeuvre is hardly known anymore, and this is also true for the numerous Kafka editions and contributions. Yet Brod’s interpretation of his friend has a life of its own and continues to have a subcutaneous effect. Until his own death in December 1968, Brod attended to his friend’s work with both devotion and appropriation, creating a Kafka cosmos in which he had assigned himself a key position. This constellation thus suggests a particularly close interweaving of autobiographical and biographical writing, which is the focus of this article.
Vom vergeblichen und vergänglichen Leben. Es sei denn, andere schreiben darüber. Was Hinko Gottlieb über Lavoslav Schick (und sich selbst) 1934 schrieb
Authors: Vulesica Marija 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In his poem »Memento«, Hinko Gottlieb (1886–1948) – a lawyer and a poet – portrayed a trait of his contemporary and companion Lavoslav Schick (1881–1941) – a historian and a lawyer too – with wit and humor. His approach is biographically, at the same time he uses irony to make fun of Schick’s own biographical approaches to other Croatian Jews. As a result of the analysis of this commemorative poem, published in 1934, questions are raised about the source value of a satirical poem. Likewise, about the meaning, form and about (political) intentions of biographical depictions in general. For the contemporaries, but also for today’s researches.
Leben schreiben. Auto/biographische Familienerzählungen in der deutschsprachigen jüdischen Gegenwartsliteratur
Authors: Banki Luisa 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Within German Jewish contemporary literature’s engagement with the Shoah and Second World War, a new approach has gained traction: auto/biography. This article examines characteristics of recent German Jewish auto/biographical family narratives and discusses newer genre poetics of auto/biography. If every biography is also autobiography, these contemporary auto/biographical family narratives showcase the other side of that poetological coin: preoccupied with self-definition and self-assurance, these first-person narrators seek to position themselves in the generational chain of their families through a reconstruction of their family histories. By way of example, the article offers a reading of Marina Frenk’s auto-fictional debut novel »ewig her und gar nicht wahr« (2020) as an innovative, radically fictionalized, and polyphonous family biography.
Peirce’s philosophy of notations and the trade-offs in comparing numeral symbol systems
Authors: Stjernfelt Frederik , Pantsar Markus 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this paper, we connect two research directions concerning numeral symbol systems and their epistemological significance. The first direction concerns the cognitive processes involved in acquiring and applying different numeral symbols, e.g. the Indo-Arabic or Roman numeral systems. The second direction is a semiotic one, with focus on Charles Peirce’s Philosophy of Notation. Peirce’s work on logical formalism is well known, but he also wrote extensively on numeral systems. Here we take Peirce’s considerations on central notions like iconicity and simplicity and examine their relevance for comparing different numeral symbol systems. We argue that simplicity and iconicity, for example, cannot be understood as single notions. Instead, they should be connected to different aims of numeral symbols that different systems fulfill to different degrees. Consequently, we focus on the kind of trade-offs that different symbol systems imply in acquiring and applying numeral symbol systems.
Abel-Gontcharoff polynomials, parking trajectories and ruin probabilities
Authors: Lefèvre Claude , Picard Philippe 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The central mathematical tool discussed is a non-standard family of polynomials, univariate and bivariate, called Abel-Goncharoff polynomials. First, we briefly summarize the main properties of this family of polynomials obtained in the previous work. Then, we extend the remarkable links existing between these polynomials and the parking functions which are a classic object in combinatorics and computer science. Finally, we use the polynomials to determine the non-ruin probabilities over a finite horizon for a bivariate risk process, in discrete and continuous time, assuming that claim amounts are dependent via a partial Schur-constancy property.
Solar assisted CaCl2 desiccant wheel rotor system for simultaneous cooling and dehumidification operation: experimental and modelling approach
Authors: Prasad Amarjeet Kumar , Singh Dhirendra Kumar , Shankar Ravi , Thakur Amit K. , Singh Dheerandra 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
High temperature and humidity of many reason of India in the summer season is the major challenge for human comfort also in the drying. In the present work, experiments have been performed to examine the cooling and dehumidification process in the summer season for human comfort and industrial application with the help of calcium chloride (CaCl2) based desiccant material solid desiccant wheel integrated with solar heating arrangements. In this study experimental findings are also evaluated by the mathematical model. During the dehumidification of air in the process unit humidity changes from 17.75 to 29.03 g H2O/kg dry air to 2.8–3.9, 6.8–8.15, 8.92–10.9 & 9.79–11.87 g H2O/kg dry air for flow rate at 1, 2, 3 & 4 m/s, respectively. The process air outlet temperature is increased in the range of 2.58–3.53 K for all air flow rates. After humidification of process outlet air, human comfort condition (HCC) is produced with temperature and humidity in the range of 30–33 °C and 7.77–12.47 g H2O/kg dry air for different air flow rates. Overall airflow for velocity 2–4 m/s can be recommended for the HCC condition. The proposed modelled expression indicates less than 10 % error between the actual and modelled value for different sections.
The concentration booth and the handshaking lane: ideologies of the phatic
Authors: Nozawa Shunsuke 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Scholars of language and culture have effectively used the language ideology concept to critique the referentialist assumption in the post-Enlightenment conceptualization of language and society. Continuing with this critical project, this article attempts a further reorientation of our analytic metalanguage to explore the ideology of the phatic, the way in which salient emphasis is placed on problems regarding communicative channels of contact. The article identifies this ideology in the increasingly visible role played by phatic labor and its concrete manifestations in scenes of service and affective labor in contemporary Japan. Two separate instances are analyzed to reveal their common engagement with channels of contact as a metapragmatic concern. First, I analyze one Japanese restaurant chain’s attempt to design and control the material zone of contact in dining experience, as indicative of the larger tendency in the contemporary economy to standardize consumer desire at the level of the phatic. Second, I look to the culture of celebrity, especially popular idols, and examine the institutionalization of fan-idol contact that has become a hegemonic marketing strategy. These cases witness rituals of public encounter that either work to hybridize human speech acts with nonhuman speech-actants inhabiting the material environment of contact, or to regulate forms of interaction deemed detrimental to the channel of affect through monitoring, interruption, and other forms of phatic policing. I use this analysis to draw attention to the necessity of taking the phatic function seriously in the scholarly exploration of language ideology. While scholars in various fields have frequently spoken of the centrality of communicative labor in postindustrial societies, the analytic focus on ideologization of the phatic offers a more precise theoretical and empirical framework for examining how communication is fetishized as the central site of political and economic intervention.
The Wolof argument-focus constructions as copulaless clefts
Authors: Bourdeau Corentin 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In Wolof (Niger-Congo), focus is expressed morphosyntactically via specific focus constructions. This article deals with two of them, namely the subject-focus and the complement-focus constructions. I propose to analyse them as copulaless cleft constructions of the form focus | topic, that is, constructions in which the focus and the topic are juxtaposed. In such clefts, the topic of the sentence is expressed by means of a noun phrase which is headed by the definite article la when the focus corresponds to the syntactic object, and by the morpheme a when the focus corresponds to the syntactic subject of the sentence.
An exact sequence for the graded Picent
Authors: Marcus Andrei , Minuță Virgilius-Aurelian 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
To a strongly 𝐺-graded algebra 𝐴 with 1-component 𝐵, we associate the group

Picent
gr

⁢

(
A
)

\mathrm{Picent}^{\mathrm{gr}}(A)

of isomorphism classes of invertible 𝐺-graded

(
A
,
A
)

(A,A)

-bimodules over the centralizer of 𝐵 in 𝐴.
Our main result is a

Picent

\mathrm{Picent}

version of the Beattie–del Río exact sequence, involving Dade’s group

G
⁢

[
B
]

G[B]

, which relates

Picent
gr

⁢

(
A
)

\mathrm{Picent}^{\mathrm{gr}}(A)

,

Picent
⁢

(
B
)

\mathrm{Picent}(B)

, and group cohomology.
Generalized Abel equations and applications to translation invariant Radon transforms
Authors: Webber James W. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Generalized Abel equations have been employed in the recent literature to invert Radon transforms which arise in a number of important imaging applications, including Compton Scatter Tomography (CST), Ultrasound Reflection Tomography (URT), and X-ray CT.
In this paper, we present novel injectivity results and inversion methods for generalized Abel operators.
We apply our theory to a new Radon transform,

R
j

\mathcal{R}_{j}

, of interest in URT, which integrates a square integrable function of compact support, 𝑓, over ellipsoid and hyperboloid surfaces with centers on a plane.
Using our newly established theory on generalized Abel equations, we show that

R
j

\mathcal{R}_{j}

is injective and provide an inversion method based on Neumann series.
In addition, using algebraic methods, we present image phantom reconstructions from

R
j

⁢
f

\mathcal{R}_{j}f

data with added pseudo-random noise.