bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Impact of social networks and norms on e-cigarette use among adolescents in Southern California: a prospective cohort study
Authors: Piombo Sarah Elizabeth , Barrington-Trimis Jessica , Valente Thomas W 
Published: November 2023

ObjectiveUsing social network analysis, we assessed the mechanisms of social influence that promote e-cigarette use in adolescent networks.MethodsData on health behaviours and friendship networks from a cohort of 10 high schools in Southern California (N=1599) were collected in grade 9 Spring 2021 (W1), grade 10 Fall 2021 (W2) and Spring 2022 (W3). Two mixed effects logistic regression models were estimated (full sample and subsample of non-vapers only) to evaluate the associations of W1 and W2 pro-vaping norms, peer e-cigarette use exposure and prior e-cigarette use (full sample) on past 6-month vaping at W3, adjusting for demographic covariates and school clustering.ResultsPrevious vaping was the strongest predictor of past 6-month vaping at W3 among the full sample. Greater exposure to friend e-cigarette use at W2 (adjusted OR (AOR)=12.2, 95% CI 4.04 to 36.5) and greater pro-vaping norms at W2 (AOR=2.63, 95% CI 1.24 to 5.55) were significantly and positively associated with increased odds of initiating e-cigarette use at W3 among students with no lifetime e-cigarette use.ConclusionPeer network exposure and pro-vaping norms are significant predictors of vaping initiation even when network vaping prevalence is low.
Relationship of cardiorenal risk factors with albuminuria based on age, smoking, glycaemic status and BMI: a retrospective cohort study of the UK Biobank data
Authors: Kar Debasish , El-Wazir Aya , Nath Mintu , Breeze Penny , Jetha Karim , Strong Mark , Chilcott Jim , Davies Melanie Jane , Lee Andrew , Lusignan Simon de , Khunti Kamlesh , Adler Amanda , Goyder Elizabeth 
Published: November 2023

IntroductionSmoking is harmful, and its cessation is recommended to prevent chronic kidney disease, which often begins with abnormal leakage of albumin in the urine, called albuminuria. Smoking cessation’s effect on albuminuria depends on the pack-years smoked, length of abstinence, body mass index (BMI) and glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c). Using the UK Biobank data, we examined the relationship between these cardiorenal variables and albuminuria.MethodsFor this study, we selected a UK Biobank cohort with urinary albumin concentration (UAC) in the first and second visits. Participants were divided into progressor and regressor groups, where progressors were defined as those with increased UAC value, and regressors were those with decreased UAC value. Three different logistic regression models were fitted. In model 1, with a cohort design, we explored the impact of a change in age, HbA1c and BMI between the first and second visits and the UAC. In model 2 and 3, in a cross-sectional design, we explored which cardiorenal risk factors were associated with a rise or fall of UAC at the time point of the second visit. Results are expressed in OR and 95% CI.ResultsThe prevalence of albuminuria was highest in ex-smokers who started smoking between the ages of 13 and 18. With a mean duration of 51 months, there was no statistically significant relationship between smoking status and BMI with albuminuria. Each year of ageing and each unit of increase in HbA1c (mmol/mol) increased the odds of progression of albuminuria by 20% and 3%, respectively. In ex-smokers, at the time point of the second visit, each year of smoking increased, and each year of abstinence decreased the odds by 4% and 6%, respectively.ConclusionSmokers should be supported to stop smoking and remain abstinent despite short-term weight gain. Childhood smoking should be actively discouraged.
Efficacy and safety of telitacicept in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a multicentre, retrospective, real-world study
Authors: Jin Hui-Zhi , Li Yu-jing , Wang Xin , Li Zhijun , Ma Bin , Niu Lin , Wang Peng , Pan Hai-feng , Li Si-dong , Bao Wei , Wang Guosheng , Li Xiao-mei , Chen Zhu 
Published: November 2023

ObjectiveTo examine the efficacy and safety of telitacicept in the treatment of patients with SLE in everyday clinical practice.MethodsSeventy-two patients with active SLE who received telitacicept for more than 24 weeks at multiple centres in China between 2019 and 2022 were retrospectively identified. Twenty-one of these patients received 52 continuous weeks of treatment with telitacicept. Treatment outcomes were analysed separately according to whether patients had renal or haematological abnormalities. Trajectory analysis was performed to identify patients with a limited response. Factors contributing to a limited response were explored by multivariable logistic regression analysis.ResultsAfter treatment with telitacicept for 4, 12, 24 and 52 weeks, 22.22%, 54.17%, 72.22% and 80.95% of patients, respectively, achieved an SLE Responder Index 4; 8.33%, 26.39%, 34.72% and 47.62% achieved a Lupus Low Disease Activity State; and 0%, 4.17%, 8.33% and 23.81% achieved remission. Significant decreases in serum IgA, IgG and IgM levels were observed at 4 weeks and showed a downward trend at 12, 24 and 52 weeks. The median 24-hour urinary protein declined from 1323.5 mg to 224.0 mg in patients with lupus nephritis after treatment with telitacicept for 52 weeks. Furthermore, a large proportion of patients (10 of 13) with haematological abnormalities recovered after 52 weeks of treatment with telitacicept. No severe adverse events were reported during the observation period. Age appeared to have a negative impact on treatment efficacy.ConclusionsTelitacicept demonstrated favourable efficacy and safety in patients with active SLE and improved the renal and haematological manifestations of the disease.
Lead isotopes in New England (USA) volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: implications for metal sources and pre-accretionary tectonostratigraphic terranes
Authors: Slack John F. , Swinden H. Scott , Piercey Stephen J. , Ayuso Robert A. , van Staal Cees R. , LeHuray Anne P. 
Published: November 2023

Lead isotope values for volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits provide important insights into metal sources and the nature of pre-accretionary tectonostratigraphic terranes and underlying basements. Deposits of this type in New England formed in diverse tectonic settings including volcanic arcs and backarcs, a supra–subduction zone arc, a rifted forearc foreland basin, and a rifted continental margin. Following VMS mineralization on or near the seafloor, components of the tectonostratigraphic assemblages—volcanic ± sedimentary rocks, coeval intrusions, sulfide deposits, and underlying basements—were diachronously accreted to the Laurentian margin during the Paleozoic. Lead isotope data for galena show relatively large ranges for206Pb/204Pb,207Pb/204Pb, and208Pb/204Pb. Evaluation of potential lead sources, using for comparison Pb-isotope data from modern and ancient settings, suggests that principal sources include the mantle, volcanic ± sedimentary rocks, and deeper basement rocks. Integration of the Pb-isotope values with published data such as Nd isotopes for the volcanic rocks and from deep seismic reflection profiles points to the involvement of several basements, including those of Grenvillian, Ganderian, Avalonian, and West African (and (or) Amazonian) affinity. Clustering of Pb-isotope data for VMS deposits within individual Cambrian and Ordovician volcanic and volcanosedimentary settings, delineated by differences in206Pb/204Pb and µ (238U/204Pb) values, are consistent with lead derivation from at least four and possibly five different tectonostratigraphic assemblages with isotopically distinct basements. Collectively, our Pb-isotope data for New England VMS deposits provide a novel window into the nature of subarc basement rocks during pre-accretionary sulfide mineralization outboard of Laurentia during early Paleozoic time.
Lucanian Pragmatism and the Manilian Cosmos
Authors: Sanderson Elaine C. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Lucan’s invocation to Nero (1.33-66) is notorious for its seemingly contradictory praise and condemnation of the emperor. While analyses of this passage often turn to Virgil’s Georgics (1.24-28, 489-497, 500-515) to begin to explain this inherent paradox, Grimal (2010) has demonstrated the importance of Manilius’ Astronomica as a cosmological framework for these lines which invites a more positive reading of Nero’s presentation here. By examining the presence of two Manilian models in Lucan’s invocation to Nero, their contributions to the Lucanian cosmos, and their consequences for our understanding of the options laid out for the emperor’s heavenly future, this study argues for a more pragmatic—even hopeful—reading of Nero’s apotheosis and the implications of this for Lucan’s commentary on the Neronian present.
Did Fully Fledged humanitas Exist before the Ciceronian Age?
Authors: Mollea Simon 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This article investigates the relationship between the noun humanitas and the adjective humanus. In particular, it argues that literary evidence suggests that the comparative and the superlative of humanus are far more suitable than its positive grade to render the Greek ideas of παιδεία and/or φιλανθρωπία which are usually subsumed in the word humanitas. One of the main consequences of this is therefore that it might be hazardous to speak about the humanitas of authors who wrote before the comparative and the superlative of humanus, if not the word humanitas itself, were first attested. Crucial to this discussion are passages by Aulus Gellius, Terence, Cicero, Valerius Maximus and Ammianus, as well as some occurrences of the expressions studia humanitatis and studia humaniora we find in some Renaissance Humanists.
The Hymn to Delos and Callimachus’ Blame of Thebes
Authors: Boychenko Leanna 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This article seeks to explain Callimachus’ blame of Thebes in the Hymn to Delos, arguing that Callimachus uses Apollo as a mouthpiece to voice the goals of his poetic project, signaling not only the influence of earlier Greek works—particularly Pindar’s Isthmian 1—but also his departure from these models. Moreover, Callimachus’ relationship with Pindar is more than simply literary, as shown through an intertextual reference that reveals a perceived familial tie, which helps explain Callimachus’ use of Pindar as a source. Callimachus’ blame of Thebes is a programmatic statement, demonstrating how Callimachus views his sources, his poetry, and himself.
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel
Authors: Arthur David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Although functioning primarily as a priest and a prophet, Ezekiel frequently utilized literary devices drawn from the wisdom tradition. The end to which he applied the tools of the wise was, however, far from typical. Where the counsel of the sages generally emphasized prudence and conformity, Ezekiel deployed sapiential speech forms within a disruptive rhetorical strategy designed to subvert debased institutions, delusional cult ideology, and aggrandizing historical narrative. This essay examines two examples from the prophet’s extensive repertoire, highlighting his idiosyncratic but devastatingly effective use of satire.
The Philosophical Implications and Enlightenment of Xi Jinping’s View of Learning
Authors: Gao Yuan , Lin Yingna 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
With the rapid development of economic globalization, the world situation is ever-changing, and new things, new knowledge and new ideas are emerging all the time. Xi Jinping believes that learning is the way to pass on civilization, the ladder to grow in life, the foundation to consolidate political parties and the key to national prosperity. The Chinese nation is a nation that loves learning and is good at learning. The Communist Party of China is a political party that attaches great importance to learning and is good at learning. To create in learning, to develop in practice, the Communist Party of China regards learning as the inherent gene of its own development and the eternal subject of its own construction. It is significant for promoting cultural exchange and mutual appreciation.
Re-structuring Curriculum in Tertiary Institutions to Drive Sustainable Eco-civilization in China
Authors: Qiu Rongji , Zhu Xiaobin , Wang Songliang 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In the strategic context of building a comprehensive ecologically civilized society as envisaged by the Communist Party and State Government of China, Eco-civilization education would become a mandatory new mission of the higher educational institutions in China. Linking the constructive postmodernism and ecological Marxism theories to eco-civilization, the purpose of the present essay is to restructure the higher education system for realizing the eco-civilized society in China via the literature integration methodology, the findings are as follows: (1) the goal of instituting the educational system of Eco-civilization in Chinese universities and colleges is to facilitate the culturing ecological literacy of the graduates; (2) the implementation of Eco-civilization education will create the graduates’ awareness, impart their requisite knowledge, and motivate them to adopt practices that promote Eco-civilization; and (3) the triple transitions of the higher education institutions in China to deliver on their missions as implementers of Eco-civilization education. Firstly, they must roll-out pragmatic programs to enhance students’ Eco-civilization conscious through the teaching Eco-civilization concepts as part of ideological and political courses. Secondly, they could also deepen students’ Eco-civilization knowledge by adjusting the teaching content and pedagogy of ecology courses. Finally, they could facilitate the Eco-civilization process by reinforcing behavioral reforms required to drive sustainable Eco-civilization and help positions these students as devoted ambassadors of Eco-civilization after graduation.
Are Algorithms Value-Free?
Authors: Johnson Gabbrielle M. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
As inductive decision-making procedures, the inferences made by machine learning programs are subject to underdetermination by evidence and bear inductive risk. One strategy for overcoming these challenges is guided by a presumption in philosophy of science that inductive inferences can and should be value-free. Applied to machine learning programs, the strategy assumes that the influence of values is restricted to data and decision outcomes, thereby omitting internal value-laden design choice points. In this paper, I apply arguments from feminist philosophy of science to machine learning programs to make the case that the resources required to respond to these inductive challenges render critical aspects of their design constitutively value-laden. I demonstrate these points specifically in the case of recidivism algorithms, arguing that contemporary debates concerning fairness in criminal justice risk-assessment programs are best understood as iterations of traditional arguments from inductive risk and demarcation, and thereby establish the value-laden nature of automated decision-making programs. Finally, in light of these points, I address opportunities for relocating the value-free ideal in machine learning and the limitations that accompany them.
Objects of Pleasure
Authors: Campani Francesca 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
By exploring the connections between sexual science, anthropology, and material culture, this article sheds light on the role that the sexually-themed collection of the Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza had in the development of scientific discourses on sexual behaviour between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. First, it shows that, far from being an oddity, the collection was created with precise scientific intents and represents a central element in Mantegazza’s research. Second, it explains why the collection should be considered as the empirical transposition of Mantegazza’s sexual science. Third, it demonstrates how Mantegazza used material culture to reveal connections between the ways in which individuals across the globe experienced sexuality and sexual pleasure. Finally, it brings attention to how Mantegazza influenced the so-called “anthropological turn”—particularly on Iwan Bloch’s sexual science—by providing examples of non-pathologised perversions and claiming that the pursuit of pleasure was a fundamental human feature.
“Other than as illustration”
Authors: Pogliano Claudio 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This article investigates the genesis and significance of the book published in 1967 by John Collier, Jr. (1913–1992), who proposed a new visual approach to anthropology. After an initiation into painting in the 1930s, he had switched to photography and was soon involved in undertakings that brought him into contact with other cultures. So he began to understand and use the camera as an eminently research technique. In a period of rampant modernization, he identified his mission in defending them from assimilation to the Western life model, and in enhancing their peculiar “energy.” The first section shows how the book was laboriously written and which reactions it aroused. Since Visual Anthropology resembles a travel report about visited places, the second section briefly recounts the experiences that led to its drafting. The third section follows Collier’s subsequent activity and outlines how the American anthropological community has since taken up his proposal.
International Perspectives on the Florentine Edition of Apollonius’ Conics
Authors: Tripepi Alessandro 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1661 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli published his edition of the three hitherto lost books belonging to the treatise on Conics by the Hellenistic mathematician Apollonius of Perga. The long and complex editorial operation is here reconstructed drawing on an unpublished document which had not been redacted within the Florentine circles that promoted the editorial initiative, but rather in the Roman circles which provided indispensable support to the venture. The examined letter, written by the Roman intellectual Michelangelo Ricci to prince Leopoldo de’ Medici, allows us to assess the significance of the effort made by a large a team involving numerous scholars experts in geometry and philology; and it allows us also to emphasise the important international dimension of a work that—from its genesis to its dissemination—has been able to connect the whole Continent.
Bifidobacterium adolescentis – a beneficial microbe
Authors: Leser T. , Baker A. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Bifidobacterium adolescentis is one of the most abundant bifidobacterial species in the human large intestine, and is prevalent in 60-80% of healthy human adults with cell densities ranging from 109-1010 cells/g of faeces. Lower abundance is found in children and in elderly individuals. The species is evolutionary adapted to fermenting plant-derived glycans and is equipped with an extensive sugar transporter and degradation enzymes repertoire. Consequently, the species is strongly affected by dietary carbohydrates and is able to utilize a wide range of prebiotic molecules. B. adolescentis is specialized in metabolizing resistant starch and is considered a primary starch degrader enabling growth of other beneficial bacteria by cross-feeding. The major metabolic output is acetate and lactate in a ratio of 3:2. Several health-beneficial properties have been demonstrated in certain strains of B. adolescentis in vitro and in rodent models, including enhancement of the intestinal barrier function, anti-inflammatory and immune-regulatory effects, and the production of neurotransmitters (GABA), and vitamins. Although causalities have not been established, reduced abundance of B. adolescentis as part of a dysbiotic colonic microbiota in human observational studies has been associated with inflammatory bowel diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, coeliac disease, cystic fibrosis, Helicobacter pylori infection, type 1 and 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and certain allergies. It is therefore reasonable to conceive B. adolescentis as a health-associated, or even health-promoting bacterial species in humans.
La régulation des naissances dans la Pologne des années 1930. Une providence (ou la nature) raisonnée
Authors: Labbé Morgane 
Published: November 2023

Résumé
Durant l’entre-deux-guerres, la Pologne est décrite dans les travaux démographiques et les congrès internationaux comme un pays surpeuplé, où, selon des raisonnements malthusiens, la « loi de la nature » voue l’accroissement de la population à des issues fatales. Cet article décrit comment, dans les années 1930, deux nouveaux courants vont lever la trappe malthusienne. L’un au sein de la démographie, suivant une nouvelle approche biologique de la reproduction, lance une enquête sur la natalité qui saisit la diffusion des pratiques anticonceptionnelles. L’autre porté par des militants réunissant des activistes pour l’émancipation des femmes, la liberté sexuelle, et contre la pénalisation de l’avortement, revendique le contrôle des naissances. Dans les deux cas, les termes malthusiens sont remplacés : la biologie est substituée à la nature, la régulation « consciente » des naissances à la fécondité naturelle non contrôlée. Les milieux catholiques qui opposent méthodes naturelle et artificielle, défendent l’adoption par les femmes de la nouvelle méthode Ogino, avec celle-ci s’entre-ouvre la possibilité d’une nature régulée.
Précis of Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment
Authors: Pittard John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This paper summarizes Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment. The book’s central question is whether confident (ir)religious commitment can be rationally maintained in the face of systematic religious disagreement. Part i develops an account of the epistemic significance of disagreement and considers the implications of this account for religious belief. This part argues against the commitment of “strong conciliationists” to a rigorous form of epistemic impartiality, a commitment that underlies the strongest argument for disagreement-motivated religious skepticism. Part ii considers the implications for religious commitment if the impartiality constraint favored by strong conciliationists is correct. It is argued that the commitment to epistemic impartiality does not clearly support religious skepticism. However, such a commitment does induce a thoroughgoing normative uncertainty that arguably prevents one from rationally pursuing a religious (or explicitly irreligious) way of life.
The Cypriot Mountain Fortresses and the Protection of the Rural Inhabitants of Venice’s Sixteenth-Century Colonies
Authors: Arbel Benjamin 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
After the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1571, the contemporary Cypriot writer Étienne de Lusignan asserted that Venice had destroyed the three mountain fortresses of St Hilarion, Buffavento, and Kantara located in northern Cyprus, a claim that has often been repeated since then. The present article reinforces the author’s earlier argument that this claim was and still is part of an anti-Venetian “black legend.” The absence of any reference to such a destruction in Venetian government papers and the description of these fortresses in contemporary writings as still erect confirm this argument. The article also presents the recurrent appearance in Venetian government circles of the use of these fortresses as protected sites aimed at accommodating a great number of non-belligerent inhabitants of the island’s rural areas during a potential invasion. In particular, in 1561 a senior patrician, Marchiò Michiel, argued for the Republic’s obligation towards the non-belligerent Cypriots, a preoccupation he had already expressed for Corfu in 1559 at the end of his service as governor of that island. There are indications that Michiel’s Cypriot project was put into effect, at least to some extent, during the War of Cyprus (1570-1571). Four Appendices contain transcriptions of pertinent Venetian texts.