bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Bottom Line
Authors: Blake Thomas 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Considering the recent erasure of LGBTQ+ representation in school curricula in states like Texas, this article explores the benefits of pairing medieval flytings (verbal battles with homophobic insults) in “Loki's Quarrel” from The Poetic Edda with recent homophobic discourse over rapper Lil Nas X's controversial music video “Montero.” It suggests that teaching such pairings of past and present queer texts and utilizing a range of inclusive practices and activities in the college classroom can highlight queer experiences and foster inclusion through representation. Through comparing insults that the trickster god Loki is ergi (a bottom) with Lil Nas X's Twitter defense reclaiming his agency as a “power bottom,” the article shows as well how homophobia and misogyny intersect in practices of medieval and modern bottom shaming. Moreover, it demonstrates how queer figures, whether in Viking culture or American pop culture, have always drawn power from queerness to challenge heteronormative masculinity.
Translating the Past and Imagining the Future(s)
Authors: Shields Rachel Linn 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Middle English literature has not traditionally been a focus for ecocriticism, with the exception of a few texts — such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — that lend themselves to this conversation due to their wilderness settings and the contrasts they make between nature and human culture. Nonetheless, ecocritical readings of Middle English texts have the potential to provide undergraduate students with new perspectives and tools for their own environmental ethics — and even activism. This article suggests assigning medieval readings alongside more accessible twentieth-century science fiction that shares some of the former's formal traits, specifically concatenation (interlinked series) and adubbement (abundant ornamentation). This alignment of new and old texts, combined with a teaching strategy that incorporates close reading, translation, and adaptation, helps students read difficult Middle English texts ecocritically and then employ similar strategies in their own thinking about the environment. Studying a literary text is not entirely different from “reading” the material environment — and thus one is good practice for the other. Medieval poetic structures can teach students about reading and navigating complex ecological spaces and human entanglements with them.
Trans*ient Worlds
Authors: Simha Anita , Subramaniam Banu 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
How should we tell the story of ecology? In this essay, the authors draw from a long and deep history of ecology, in which more affective approaches to nature become visible, ones that are attuned to both plants and their contexts and aligned with trans* studies. The authors offer the many synergistic possibilities and shared ideas between plant community ecology and trans* ecologies and propose a vegetal trans* ecology that can bridge trans* studies with plant ecological studies. The article raises inconvenient phenomena in community ecology for trans* ecologies to play with, including alternative stable states, mutualisms, and coexistence. The authors believe that trans* studies, with highly developed conceptual languages for indeterminacy, contingency, and change, can support reconfiguration in ecology. Their confidence emerges from a growing group of ecologists who seek interdisciplinary collaboration, and they encourage cross-pollinations through a lens of vegetal trans* ecology. Finally, this article reflects on the importance of affective engagement for ecologists, which relocating the field within a natural history tradition can account for, and suggest again that trans* studies can influence place-based, contingent, and situated ecological knowledge.
Against Conservation of the Norm
Authors: Whitworth Lauran 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
How do we voice legitimate concerns about pollution and toxic exposure without resorting to gender panic? This article analyzes several examples of trans ecologies that are alternatives to the eco-heteronormativity and purity logic found in much environmentalism. In Eli Clare's “Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Politics, and a Politics of Cure,” the author elucidates parallels and divergences between environmental restoration and health restoration/cure culture. In Land (2011), an animated film created by Puerto Rican artist Lares Feliciano, genderqueer and trans characters inherit a postapocalyptic world brought about by imperialism, environmental degradation, and queer- and transphobia. Lastly, Francesca Lia Block's young adult novel Love in the Time of Global Warming (2013) follows a band of queer and trans teens as they navigate a dystopian wasteland. These examples of trans ecologies illuminate links between queer, trans, and disabled flourishing and environmental regeneration that challenge the normative and curative tendencies in contemporary environmental discourse. They are also models of world building amid contamination, ruin, and transition.
Toward Crip Ecologies
Authors: Schmidt Jenne 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
There are many overlaps between crip and trans ecologies, such that human and more-than-human corporeal difference, like trans existence, is often constituted as unnatural and undesired within dominant scientific discourses. Yet in the context of environmental futurities, the notion of desiring disability, as a central framework within critical disability studies, prompts distinct questions. Disability and corporeal differences are often positioned as incommensurable with environmental futures, in that disability and corporeal difference are constituted as evidence, or even the cause, of environmental destruction leading to impending doom. This project turns toward these questions to consider how we might foster a crip ecologies approach that enables the possibility of crip futures, while also attending to the conditions of debility. Such an approach to crip ecologies necessitates an anti-colonial politic that refuses Western science and its method of conservation through eradication and instead looks toward the connections and assemblages between crip politics and Indigenous knowledges and practices.
Holes on Holes, What Is What?
Authors: Chen Mel Y. , Murphy M. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
A ranging conversation between M. Murphy and Mel Y. Chen on birds, science, gender, chemicality, and the politics and means of knowing, held at the Queer and Trans Ecologies conference in March 2023. This conversation was hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study as part of the Queer and Trans* Ecologies Symposium at the University of Minnesota on March 23, 2023.
Talin, a Rap1 effector for integrin activation at the plasma membrane, also promotes Rap1 activity by disrupting sequestration of Rap1 by SHANK3
Authors: Liao Zhongji , Shattil Sanford J. 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACT
Talin regulates the adhesion and migration of cells in part by promoting the affinity of integrins for extracellular matrix proteins, a process that in cells such as endothelial cells and platelets requires the direct interaction of talin with both the small GTPase Rap1 bound to GTP (Rap1–GTP) and the integrin β3 cytoplasmic tail. To study this process in more detail, we employed an optogenetic approach in living, immortalized endothelial cells to be able to regulate the interaction of talin with the plasma membrane. Previous studies identified talin as the Rap1–GTP effector for β3 integrin activation. Surprisingly, optogenetic recruitment of talin-1 (TLN1; herein referred to as talin) to the plasma membrane also led to the localized activation of Rap1 itself, apparently by talin competing for Rap1–GTP with SHANK3, a protein known to sequester Rap1–GTP and to block integrin activation. Rap1 activation by talin was localized to the cell periphery in suspension cells and within lamellipodia and pseudopodia in cells adherent to fibronectin. Thus, membrane-associated talin can play a dual role in regulating integrin function in endothelial cells: first, by releasing Rap1–GTP from its sequestration by SHANK3, and second, by serving as the relevant Rap1 effector for integrin activation.
Sharing the Fame but Taking the Blame: When Declaring a Single Person Responsible Solves a Free Rider Problem
Authors: Li Xinyu , Schnedler Wendelin 
Published: January 2025

Teams are formed because input from different people is needed. Providing incentives to team members, however, can be difficult. According to received wisdom, declaring all members responsible fails because real responsibility for team output “diffuses.” But why? Also, why and when does formally declaring one member “responsible” mean that this member can be attributed real responsibility? We offer a model that answers these questions. We identify when jointly declaring a team responsible results in reputation free riding. We show that declaring one person responsible can overcome this problem but only if all other team members are protected from being sanctioned. This paper was accepted by Dorothea Kübler, behavioral economics and decision analysis.
Retrospective Analysis of the Correlation between Umbilical Blood Flow Index and Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Pregnant Women with Gestational Diabetes
Authors: Liu Qiong , Shu Sinan , Zhao Xiuping , Yu Huiling 
Published: January 2025

Aims/Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common complication during pregnancy. This retrospective study investigates the correlation between umbilical blood flow index and maternal-fetal outcomes in pregnant women with GDM, aiming to contribute to evidence-based risk assessment and management strategy in this high-risk obstetric population. Methods This retrospective study recruited 119 pregnant women with GDM who were admitted to the Yichang Central People’s Hospital, between January 2022 and January 2024. Based on the umbilical blood flow index, the study participants were divided into a normal umbilical blood flow (UBF) index group (n = 56) and a high UBF index group (n = 63). Colour Doppler ultrasound was used to assess umbilical blood flow, and relevant data on maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes were obtained from the hospital’s electronic medical records. Results We observed that, compared to the normal UBF index group, the high UBF index group exhibited significantly higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including the cesarean section (p = 0.022), preterm delivery (p = 0.020), gestational hypertension (p = 0.019), neonatal hypoglycemia (p = 0.015), as well as increased incidence of neonatal complications such as respiratory distress syndrome (p = 0.009), neonatal jaundice (p = 0.022), neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission (p = 0.015), lower 5-minute Apgar scores (p = 0.013), and neonatal sepsis (p = 0.005). Furthermore, significant differences were observed in fetal biometric parameters and placental morphology between the two groups (fetal weight: p = 0.003; estimated fetal weight percentile: p = 0.017; femur length: p = 0.018; placental weight: p = 0.019; placental volume: p = 0.021). Additionally, correlation analyses indicated significant associations between umbilical blood flow index and maternal and fetal outcomes (p < 0.05). Conclusion We observed a significant correlation between umbilical blood flow indices and maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus, implying its utility as a non-invasive parameter for risk stratification and personalized management in this high-risk obstetric population.
Creative pathways to comfort: the transformative role of art therapy in palliative and hospice care
Authors: Alvarez Maria Catherine I , Clemente Whindie , Rillo Ronald Joseph A , Narvaez Roison Andro 
Published: January 2025

Background: Art therapy offers a creative outlet for patients in palliative and hospice care to express emotions, manage distress and enhance wellbeing by addressing physical, emotional and spiritual challenges. Aims: This review evaluates the effectiveness, challenges and outcomes of art therapy in improving the quality of life for patients in palliative and hospice care. Methods: An integrative review. Findings: The review of 27 studies identified four key themes: (1) the effects of art therapy on the quality of life of patients, (2) intervention and patient outcomes, (3) improved wellbeing through self-expression, and (4) challenges in care delivery. Art therapy significantly reduced emotional distress, including anxiety, depression and psychological fatigue, while alleviating physical symptoms, like pain and exhaustion. It fostered emotional expression, personal growth and coping skills, helping patients manage their conditions more effectively. Participants also reported enhanced self-awareness, stronger interpersonal connection and a greater sense of control over their lives, leading to improved emotional and physical wellbeing. Conclusion: Art therapy provides significant benefits by alleviating emotional and physical distress and enhancing wellbeing. Integrating art therapy into palliative and hospice care supports holistic, patient-centered care, though further research is needed to address access barriers and ensure consistent delivery.
Statistical method to describe the electromagnetic field on the surface of spherical particle of a 2D array
Authors: Loiko Valery A. , Miskevich Alexander A. , Hubarevich Aliaksandr , Loiko Natalia A. 
Published: January 2025

A semi-analytical statistical method has been developed for investigating the near electromagnetic field of a two-dimensional (2D) array of spherical nano- and microparticles. It takes into account multiple scattering of waves in the framework of the quasicrystalline approximation (QCA). Equations are derived to describe (i) ensemble-averaged and (ii) ensemble- and surface-averaged energy densities of electric and magnetic fields on the surface of spherical particles embedded in a light-absorbing medium. The method allows one to directly analyze the averaged fields at a known radial distribution function of the array particles. The calculation results are presented for local field enhancement at the wavelengths of the plasmon resonance of silver nanoparticles and the lattice-induced resonance of an ordered array of wavelength-sized silver particles at normal incidence of a plane wave. There is excellent agreement of the results obtained for the highly ordered arrays with small and moderate filling factors and the data of the numerical finite element method (FEM) for perfect arrays of nano- and microparticles. The developed method realization is significantly faster than the used realization of the FEM (up to 250 times).
‘‘Mitigating cancer pain: What else matters?”—A qualitative study into the needs and concerns of cancer patients in Sri Lanka
Authors: Edirisinghe N. P. , Makuloluwa P. T. R. , Amarasekara A. A. T. D. , Goonewardena C. S. E. 
Published: January 2025

Objectives
In Sri Lanka, cancer is a significant contributor to both morbidity and mortality rates. In 2022, 33,243 new cancer cases were reported, resulting in an age- standardized incidence rate of 106.9 per 100,000 individuals. The overall experience of cancer pain reflects patients’ needs and concerns. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the patient’s needs and concerns is crucial to implementing satisfactory pain outcomes. This study aims to explore the needs and concerns of patients with cancer pain in Sri Lanka.

Methods
This study employed a descriptive qualitative approach among purposively selected patients with cancer and registered at the pain management unit. Participants recruited were 18 years or older with cancer-related pain. Noncancerous pain and those with psychological disorders, and brain metastases were excluded. Twenty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted until data saturation using a semi-structured interview guide, each lasting 30–60 minutes. Data were analyzed by Graneheim and Lundman’s content analysis method.

Results
The study primarily involved participants aged 51–60 Sinhalese Buddhists. It highlighted two main themes: ’Changes in normal lifestyle’ and ’Needs and expectations’. The ’Changes in normal lifestyle’ theme included subthemes like ’Functional limitations’, ’Emotional reactions’, ’altered interpersonal relationships’, and ’Socio-financial problems’. The ’Needs and expectations’ theme covered desires for a ’Pain-free life’, a return to a ’Normal lifestyle’, and the ’Need for a caregiver’. The findings emphasize that the most significant issue for cancer patients is the disruption to their normal lifestyle due to various challenges, while their primary need is to live without pain.

Conclusions
‘Life without pain’ is a cancer sufferer’s greatest need while ’changes in normal lifestyle’ owing to bio-psycho-social-spiritual problems is their primary concern.
Prevalence and associated factors of postpartum anemia after cesarean delivery in public hospitals of Awi zone, North West Ethiopia, 2023; a cross-sectional study
Authors: Habtamu Gebretsadek , Talie Asmare , Kassa Tinsae , Belay Dawit Misganaw 
Published: January 2025

Background
Anemia is a serious global public health problem, especially in developing nations. Anemia during pregnancy is appropriately recognized, whereas postpartum anemia especially after cesarean delivery in Ethiopia has received very little attention. Due to this it leads to poor quality of life, palpitations, an increase in maternal infections, exhaustion, diminished cognitive function and postpartum depression. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of postpartum anemia after cesarean delivery in public hospitals of Awi zone, North West Ethiopia, 2023.

Method
A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 395 mothers who gave birth by cesarean delivery from May 1–30, 2023. Data were collected using a pretested checklist. A simple random sampling technique was used to select study participants. Then the data were entered into EPI-data version 4.6 and exported to the SPSS version 25 for analysis. A logistic regression model was fitted to assess the association between outcome and explanatory variables. Variables with a p-value of 0.25 or less in bivariable analysis were candidates for multivariable analysis and P-value < 0.05 in multivariable analysis was considered to declare a result as statistically significant in this study.

Result
The prevalence of postpartum anemia after cesarean delivery was 18.9% (95% CI (15.1, 23.1)) with a response rate of 97.97%. Being primipara (AOR = 0.47,95%CI = 0.24,0.92), indication for current C/S (malpresentation) (AOR = 0.29,95%CI = 0.09,0.90), having pre-operation hemoglobin level <11g/dl (AOR = 14.5;95% CI = 4.11,51.16) and having medical complication during current pregnancy (AOR = 5.95,95%CI = 1.88,18.83) were significantly associated with postpartum anemia after cesarean delivery.

Conclusion
The findings of the study show that the prevalence of postpartum anemia after cesarean delivery is a mild public health problem. Therefore, promoting the benefits of early detection and management of pregnancy complications such as predelivery anemia and medical complications is crucial.
The impact of a commercial lower extremity exoskeleton on metabolic load, perceived exertion, and physiological response to a challenging military relevant task: A randomized cross-over design pilot study
Authors: Sefton JoEllen M. , Neal Frances K. , Agostinelli Philip J. , Bordonie Nicholas C. , Whitley Phillip E. , Pickle Nathan T. , Roos Paulien E. 
Published: January 2025

Purpose
To assess physiological metrics during the use of a commercially available bilateral active ankle exoskeleton during a challenging military-relevant task and if use of the exoskeleton during this task influences: metabolic load, physiological measures or rate of perceived exertion.

Methods
Nine healthy volunteers (5M, 4F) completed this randomized cross-over design trial, with a baseline visit and two randomized test sessions (with/without the exoskeleton). Variables included impact on time to exhaustion during walking on a treadmill at varying speeds and gradients (0–15%) at 26.7°C, 50% humidity with a loaded rucksack (30% body weight). The primary outcome measure was change in metabolic cost with/without the exoskeleton (O2 consumption, metabolic equivalents); secondary outcomes were change in heart rate and perceived exertion between conditions.

Results
Participants averaged 22.4 ± 4.5 years old, 173.7 ± 7.4 cm tall, weighed 80.9 ± 13.9 kg, and VO2max of 43.8 ± 10.6 mL/kg/min. Total kcals did not differ between conditions (with/without exoskeleton; t = 0.98; p = 0.357). Kcals/min were significantly lower (1.06 kcals/min) with the exoskeleton (t = 3.94; p = 0.004). Average oxygen consumption (VO2) was significantly lower (2.36 mL/kg/min) with the exoskeleton (t = 2.81; p = 0.023), and peak VO2 was 3.33 mL/kg/min lower with the exoskeleton (t = 2.37; p = 0.045). Peak and Average METS were also lower with the exoskeleton by 0.98 (t = 2.61; p = 0.031) and 1.23 (t = 2.39; p = 0.044) respectively.

Conclusions
Results suggest a powered ankle exoskeleton may decrease energy consumption during military relevant tasks when conducted in a laboratory environment. There may also be physiological benefits such as reduced core temperate and heart rate. Replication of this work in the field environment is warranted.
Surgical Site Infection after Craniotomy in Neuro-Oncology (SINO): A protocol for an international prospective multicentre service evaluation across the United Kingdom and Ireland
Authors: Lee Keng Siang , Borbas Balint , Chaudhry Daoud , Kuri Ashvin , Best Lawrence , Gillespie Conor S. , Dehbi Hakim-Moulay , Aquilina Kristian , Brennan Paul , Plaha Puneet , Ashkan Keyoumars , Jenkinson Michael D. , Price Stephen J. ,   British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative (BNTRC),   Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS),   Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG)
Published: January 2025

Introduction
Given its proximity to the central nervous system, surgical site infections (SSIs) after craniotomy (SSI-CRAN) represent a serious adverse event. SSI-CRAN are associated with substantial patient morbidity and mortality. Despite the recognition of SSI in other surgical fields, there is a paucity of evidence in the neurosurgical literature devoted to skin closure, specifically in patients with brain tumors. The primary objective of this service evaluation is to ascertain the incidence and the risk factors associated with SSI-CRAN. The secondary objectives would be a) to ascertain the incidence of SSI-CRAN in sutured versus stapled wounds, after accounting for patient, surgical and hospital confounders of SSI-CRAN and b) to determine the percentage of patients with gliomas that begin adjuvant oncological treatment in patients with infection versus those without infection.

Methods
Surgical Site Infection after Craniotomy in Neuro-Oncology (SINO) is a international prospective multicentre service evaluation that will include patients with an intracranial neoplasm, both primary and secondary neoplasms, treated with cranial surgery (including biopsy). Consecutive paediatric (<18 years) and adult (≥18 years) patients diagnosed with a brain tumour, undergoing cranial surgery between 1st October 2024 and 1st December 2024 will be included. Prospective data will be collected with a follow-up of 90 days.