bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Italian investments for soil defence: retrieving and visualizing data by the PublicWorksFinanceIT R Package
Authors: Ricciotti Lorena , Pollice Alessio 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The PublicWorksFinanceIT R package enables users to retrieve and analyze financial data related to public works in Italy. Specifically, it focuses on soil defence investments. The data are sourced from three distinct platforms: the OpenCoesione website, which draws its information from the Cohesion Policy, the OpenBDAP website, the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s open data platform, and the ReNDiS database, provided by ISPRA, which exclusively gathers information about interventions in soil defence. This package offers a user-friendly tool that eliminates the need for direct access to the aforementioned institutional platforms and ensures real-time updates. Additionally, all measurements, metadata, and accompanying analytical tools are provided in English, enhancing accessibility for both international and domestic users. The data records from these three sources are linked using the unique project code (CUP), ensuring that there is no duplication. Moreover, the data is geographically referenced, meaning that each financial investment is associated with a specific municipality within a particular Italian region. This allows to provide information on the region, province, and municipality of each dataset entry. Users can select to geo-reference the data by either the coordinates of the municipality’s centroid or by the polygon representing the municipality’s administrative boundaries. In addition to functions for data retrieval, the package includes functions for visualizing the collected data on maps. After providing a detailed explanation of the purpose and operation of the main commands, the paper presents two case studies illustrating the software’s application. These examples serve as a step-by-step guide to using the PublicWorksFinanceIT package.
Find the apartment’s flaws! the impact of virtual reality on vocational students’ performance in general education classes and the roles of flow experience, motivation, and sense of presence
Authors: Keller Christopher , Walker Gaby , Amenduni Francesca , Tela Alice , Cattaneo Alberto 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Technological advancements are rapidly transforming education, particularly immersive technologies, such as virtual reality (VR). Despite extensive research on VR’s potential to enhance learning, its effectiveness in vocational education and training (VET) remains underexplored. This study evaluates the performance of VET students using a VR environment compared with a desktop computer-based approach. In 2023, a quasi-experimental study with a randomized controlled trial design was conducted with 81 participants from a Swiss vocational school. Following an instruction of how to identify housing defects, the participants were required to identify the defects in a virtual apartment and communicate them verbally by thinking aloud. Various statistical tests were employed to specifically analyze the collected data and evaluate the effects of VR on the students’ performance in addition to the roles of sense of presence, motivation, and flow experience. The findings indicated that using VR with head-mounted displays led to a notable enhancement in performance when compared with the desktop approach. Motivation and sense of presence were identified as critical factors for improving outcomes. The study also revealed a complex relationship between sense of presence and performance, with neither motivation nor flow experience acting as direct mediators. These findings contribute to our understanding of the impact of VR on VET learning outcomes and provide insights for future research and practice. However, further investigation is needed to elucidate the advantages and intricacies of incorporating immersive technologies into educational settings.
The Family Context and the Use of Media for Emotion Regulation During Early Childhood: Testing the Tripartite Model of Children’s Emotion Regulation and Adjustment
Authors: Snyder Allyson L. , Taylor Lauren B. , Cingel Drew P. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Media use for emotion regulation, such as occupying children when they are bored or distracting them from negative emotions, is a common practice for parents in the United States, but it has been linked with weaker emotion regulation skills among young children. This association has not been examined in the presence of other family context variables, such as parent reactions to children’s emotional expressions or quality of the child-parent relationship, however. This survey study (N = 449, 53% fathers) examines parents’ use of media for child emotion regulation within a tripartite model of adjustment. Media use for emotion regulation associated with greater emotion regulation skills for children (ages 4–7). There was not a significant relation between media use for emotion regulation and children’s emotional maladjustment, however. Greater frequency of parents’ negative reactions to their children’s emotions was significantly associated with more internalizing and externalizing issues for children but also with better emotion regulation skills. Further, better parent-child relationship was associated with fewer internalizing and externalizing issues and better emotion regulation skills. We outline theoretical and practical implications and discuss future directions to further assess the effects of family context on children’s emotion regulation.
Synthesis, characterization, crystallization kinetics of amorphous Fe74.5Zr8.5B17 magnetic nanoparticles, and magnetoelectric properties of Fe74.5Zr8.5B17/BaTiO3 composite
Authors: Dik Gamze , Kaplan Emine Busra , Ulu Ahmet , Bayri Nevzat , Ates Burhan , Atalay Selcuk 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This work reports the facile synthesis of
amorphous Fe74.5 Zr8.5 B17 magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) through a simple NaBH4-assisted chemical reduction method. The obtained MNPs were characterized in terms of amorphous/crystal structure, morphology, magnetic properties, composition, and crystallization kinetics. The saturation magnetization value was determined as 57.83 emu/g. The crystallization peak temperatures (Tp) and activation energy were determined to be 467.18 °C and 294 kJ/mol, respectively. Additionally, the FeZrB MNPs were combined with the BaTiO3 NPs via ball milling at low speed, using a mass ratio of 30/70%, respectively and the magnetoelectric coefficient value for FeZrB/BaTiO3 composite measured at a 1 kHz AC magnetic field is approximately 8.9 mV/Oe/cm. The study outcomes may provide a platform of nanotechnology for the preparation of MNPs with adjustable properties, which will be promising for practical applications.
Public provision of healthcare and basic research: What are the joint effects on economic growth and welfare?
Authors: Parui Pintu , Prettner Klaus 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
We propose a generalized R&D-based economic growth model that incorporates endogenous human capital accumulation in terms of education and health and the public provision of healthcare and basic science. The government taxes households to pay for healthcare personnel and basic researchers. These employees are not anymore available for applied research and for final goods production. Thus, important tradeoffs emerge for economic growth and welfare with respect to government spending policies. While increasing public spending on health and basic research may decrease economic growth and welfare in the short run, we show that they foster economic growth in the medium run and tend to raise long-run welfare when compared to actual levels of spending in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. In addition, since public funding for healthcare tends to be rather high in most rich countries, the overall public spending shortfall is lower than previous research has shown. Our results highlight the importance of understanding the tradeoffs involved when deciding adequate public funding for healthcare and basic research.
Differences between Recidivists and Non-recidivists Attending a community-based Domestic Violence Perpetrator Program in the Dominican Republic: A Brief Report
Authors: Ribera Olga Sanchez de , Trajtenberg Nicholas , Vergés Luis , Robinson Amanda L. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Purpose
Previous research in Western samples has found differences between recidivists and non- recidivists among individuals who attended intervention programs designed to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) offending. However, the extent to which similar characteristics differentiate these groups in a non-Western sample is unknown.

Methods
This brief report includes data collected by psychologists from men referred to a cognitive behavioral program (n = 1,380) in the Dominican Republic. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted on the data.

Results
Although specific IPV-related factors such as attitudes towards women and jealousy were significantly associated with recidivism at the bivariate level, these effects disappeared when they were controlled by other relevant predictors in the multivariate model. Instead, general criminogenic factors such as employment status, alcohol consumption, relationships with parents and violent offending towards others were the key factors explaining IPV recidivism.

Conclusions
IPV recidivism is best explained by accounting for those factors which are common to violent re-offending in general. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of theory and program intervention practices.
Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics
Authors: Underman Kelly 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The perspectives of skilled experts who help learners develop and improve bodily skills has not often been examined in sociology. In this paper, I focus on the role of selective sensory engagement with moving bodies as an important way of knowing through which skilled experts assess and intervene upon the skill acquisition of learners. I bring together literature on body pedagogics with literature on sociology of the senses to understand how embodied, sensorial knowledge is an inter-corporeal and intersubjective resource for the transmission of bodily skills. I use interviews with barbell coaches and yoga teachers in the United States to understand the processes by which these skilled experts construct ‘good form’ and its normative limits and I outline three interrelated processes of sensorial knowing through which barbell coaches and yoga teachers help their paying clients achieve ‘good form’ when learning to engage in these fitness cultures. I argue that that the use and training of the senses in body pedagogics is an understudied but essential way of knowing to understand the transmission and embodiment of culture.
Resveratrol as a BCL6 natural inhibitor suppresses germinal center derived Non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells growth
Authors: Xing Yajing , Tan Chunbin , Liu Zhoujiang , Liu Yanqi , Liu Simei , Wang Guixue , Zhong Yadong 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL), including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), Burkitt lymphoma (BL), and follicular lymphoma (FL), predominantly arise from B cells undergoing germinal center (GC) reactions. The transcriptional repressor B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) is indispensable for GC formation and contributes to lymphomagenesis via its BTB domain-mediated suppression of target genes. Dysregulation of BCL6 underpins the pathogenesis of GC-derived NHL. While pharmacological targeting the BCL6-BTB domain has shown therapeutic promise, natural product-based inhibitors remain underexplored. In this study, resveratrol, a polyphenolic compound derived from grapes, was identified as a potent BCL6 inhibitor through a comprehensive screen of traditional Chinese medicine monomers using Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence (HTRF) assay. As a BCL6 natural inhibitor, resveratrol effectively disrupted the BCL6/SMRT interaction, reactivated suppressed gene expression, and inhibited the proliferation of GC-derived NHL cells. It also exhibited synergistic efficacy when combined with EZH2 and PRMT5 inhibitors. In vivo, resveratrol suppressed GC formation, reduced follicular helper T-cell frequencies, impaired class-switch recombination, and disrupted immunoglobulin affinity maturation. Furthermore, it markedly inhibited the progression of GC-derived NHL in animal models. Our findings demonstrate that resveratrol functions as a natural BCL6 inhibitor with significant therapeutic potential for the treatment of GC-derived NHL.

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Cross-Lagged Analysis of Gender Differences in the Motivation-Cognition-Behavior Model of Gaming Disorder in Primary School Students
Authors: Chow Cheuk Him , Zhang Hao , Cheng Cecilia 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The motivation-cognition-behavior model elucidates the intricate psychological mechanisms that contribute to gaming disorder (GD). To test this new model, the present study employed cross-lagged analysis to investigate the reciprocal relationships among academic stress, gaming flow, maladaptive gaming cognition (MGC), and GD symptoms at two time points, 3 months apart. The participants were 600 Chinese students (52% male; M
age = 9.95) from four primary schools in Hong Kong. The multi-group analysis showed significant gender differences. For girls, there were one linear relationship (MGC to academic stress) and two reciprocal relationships (MGC and GD symptoms, MGC and gaming flow). For boys, there were four linear relationships (MGC to gaming flow, GD symptoms to MGC, gaming flow to academic stress, and academic stress to MGC) but no reciprocal relationships. These findings highlight the complex mechanisms underlying GD development among children, and the importance of considering gender-specific factors in intervention design for this age group.
Foot tissue stress in chronic ankle instability during the stance phase of cutting
Authors: Yu Peimin , Cen Xuanzhen , Xiang Liangliang , Wang Alan , Gu Yaodong , Fernandez Justin 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Lower limb biomechanics of chronic ankle instability (CAI) individuals has been widely investigated, but few have evaluated the internal foot mechanics in CAI. This study evaluated bone and soft tissue stress in CAI contrasted with copers and non-injured participants during a cutting task. Integrating scanned 3D foot shapes and free-form deformation, sixty-six personalized finite element foot models were developed. Computed Achilles tendon forces and measured regional plantar pressure were applied as boundary loading conditions for simulation. It was observed that the primary group differences in foot stress occurred during midstance and heel-off phases of the cutting task. Specifically, healthy individuals had significantly higher stress in the talus and soft tissue around the talus compared to CAI participants. In contrast, CAI participants had significantly higher stress in the cuneiforms and lateral forefoot bones during mid-stance and push-off phases. CAI participants appeared to adopt a protective strategy by transferring greater force to the lateral forefoot at the heel-off phase while lowering stress around the talus, which may be associated with pain relief near the ankle. These findings suggest further attention should be placed on internal stress in CAI at the push-off phase with implications for long-term foot adaptation.

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13C-metabolic flux analysis of respiratory chain disrupted strain ΔndhF1 of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Authors: Wada Keisuke , Toya Yoshihiro , Matsuda Fumio , Shimizu Hiroshi 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Cyanobacteria are advantageous hosts for industrial applications toward achieving sustainable society due to their unique and superior properties such as atmospheric CO2 fixation via photosynthesis. However, cyanobacterial productivities tend to be weak compared to heterotrophic microbes. To enhance them, it is necessary to understand the fundamental metabolic mechanisms unique to cyanobacteria. In cyanobacteria, NADPH and ATP regenerated by linear and cyclic electron transfers using light energy are consumed by CO2 fixation in a central metabolic pathway. The previous study demonstrated that the strain deleted a part of respiratory chain complex (ΔndhF1) perturbed NADPH levels and photosynthetic activity in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. It is expected that disruption of ndhF1 would result in a decrease in the function of cyclic electron transfer, which controls the ATP/NAD(P)H production ratio properly. In this study, we evaluated the effects of ndhF1 deletion on central metabolism and photosynthesis by 13C-metabolic flux analysis. As results of culturing the control and ΔndhF1 strains in a medium containing [1,2-13C] glucose and estimating the flux distribution, CO2 fixation rate by RuBisCO was decreased to be less than half in the ΔndhF1 strain. In addition, the regeneration rate of NAD(P)H and ATP by the photosystem, which can be estimated from the flux distribution, also decreased to be less than half in the ΔndhF1 strain, whereas no significant difference was observed in ATP/NAD(P)H production ratio between the control and the ΔndhF1 strains. Our result suggests that the ratio of utilization of cyclic electron transfer is not reduced in the ΔndhF1 strain unexpectedly.
A Neuron-Like Cellular Model for Severe Tinnitus Associated with Rare Variations in the ANK2 Gene
Authors: Lamolda Mar , Frejo Lidia , Martin-Lagos Juan , Cara Francisca E. , Gallego-Martinez Alvaro , Lopez-Escamez Jose A. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Tinnitus is the perception of sound without an external source, often associated with changes in the auditory pathway and different brain regions. Recent research revealed an overload of missense variants in the ANK2 gene in individuals with severe tinnitus. ANK2, encoding ankyrin-B, regulates axon branching and inhibits microtubule invasion. Missense mutations in ANK2 may promote excessive axonal branching and the formation of excitatory synapses. This study aims to generate a patient-derived iPSC model from an individual with severe tinnitus and to differentiate these cells into otic-neural progenitors and inner ear neurons. We successfully generated a severe tinnitus cellular model through cell reprogramming. Using a two-stage neural differentiation protocol, we differentiated these cells into otic-neural progenitors and neuron-like cells. We confirmed the expression of genes, proteins, and cellular markers, including ANK2, otic-neural progenitors, and neuron-like cells through qPCR and immunostaining. Our analysis revealed higher ANK2 expression in the control cell line compared to the patient cell line. Although both lines formed multipolar neurons, the patient cell line displayed a unique pattern of closely grouped neurons with increased neuronal projections and dendrites compared to the control. This cellular model provides a valuable tool for studying the cellular and molecular changes associated with the ANK2 gene. It holds great promise for the development of novel drug and gene-based therapies for severe tinnitus.
HBSS: (Simple) hash-based stateless signatures – hash all the way to the rescue!
Authors: Dolev Shlomi , Yagudaev Avraam , Yung Moti 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Recent advancements in post-Quantum secure signing have revitalized interest in one-time signatures, such as Lamport’s, and their many signature extensions. Predominantly based on standard hash functions, these signatures avoid reliance on number theoretic assumptions. Existing methods utilize a commitment array, with de-commitment contingent on the hashed message’s representation bits. State-of-the-art variants incorporate pseudorandom functions. This study introduces a novel method utilizing a probabilistic “set membership data structure" derived from hash functions. It involves accessing a long array with k independent hash functions for each message, analogous to Bloom filters. This stateless signature scheme is adjustable to accommodate any pre-set maximum number of signatures by modulating the array’s length. The key concept is the partial loading of the de-committed array, ensuring validation of signed messages, non-validation of unsigned messages, and signature unforgeability (forgery equates to decommitment without the private key). This approach extends to improving one-time or bounded-message Constructions, like the Naor-Yung extension, for regular signature applications in the new Hash-Based Stateless Signature (HBSS) scheme.
SymmPi: Exploiting Symmetry Removal for Fast Subgraph Matching
Authors: Wang Yujiang , Cao Ying , Zhang Zhaobo , Yuan Pingpeng , Jin Hai 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Symmetry, a phenomenon of self-similarity, is common in many networks, which often incurs a lot of redundant accesses and computations, even duplicate results when executing graph matching tasks. Many approaches (e.g. symmetry-breaking methods) try to disrupt symmetry by translating symmetry into restrictions and then imposing restrictions on the exploration order. However, the restrictions are finer-grained. If the pattern graph is complex, more restrictions are generated from symmetry breaking methods, thus complicating the exploration process and degrading the performance. Here, we present novel SymmPi, which exploits symmetry removal for fast graph matching. SymmPi first identifies the coarse-grained axisymmetric subgraphs of the given pattern graphs instead of finer relationships. If a pattern graph is not axisymmetric, SymmPi will remove some of its edges until axisymmetric subgraphs are found. Thus, the original pattern graph is transformed to a set of axisymmetric subgraphs plus some edges. Then, SymmPi finds the matches of the axisymmetric subgraph and extends these matches to the original pattern graphs by permuting the matches with additional checks. Our experiments on both directed and undirected graphs, demonstrate that SymmPi achieves a significant performance improvement over the state-of-the-art undirected and directed graph matching methods and systems.