bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Instance selection using one‐versus‐all and one‐versus‐one decomposition approaches in multiclass classification datasets
Authors: Fang Ching‐Lin , Wang Ming‐Chang , Tsai Chih‐Fong , Lin Wei‐Chao , Liao Pei‐Qi 
Published: January 2023

AbstractInstance is important in data analysis and mining; it filters out unrepresentative, redundant, or noisy data from a given training set to obtain effective model learning. Various instance selection algorithms are proposed in the literature, and their potential and applicability in data cleaning and preprocessing steps are demonstrated. For multiclass classification datasets, the existing instance selection algorithms must deal with all the instances across the different classes simultaneously to produce a reduced training set. Generally, every multiclass classification dataset can be regarded as a complex domain problem, which can be effectively solved using the divide‐and‐conquer principle. In this study, the one‐versus‐all (OVA) and one‐versus‐one (OVO) decomposition approaches were used to decompose a multiclass dataset into multiple binary class datasets. These approaches have been widely employed when constructing the classifier but have never been considered in instance selection. The results of instance selection performance obtained with the OVA, OVO, and baseline approaches were assessed and compared for 20 different domain multiclass datasets as the first study and five medical domain datasets as the validation study. Furthermore, three instance selection algorithms were compared, including IB3, DROP3, and GA. The results demonstrate that using the OVO approach to perform instance selection can make the support vector machine (SVM) and k‐nearest neighbour (k‐NN) classifiers perform significantly better than the OVA and baseline approaches in terms of the area under the ROC curve (AUC) rate, regardless of the instance selection algorithm used. Moreover, the OVO approach can provide reasonably good data reduction rates and processing times, which are all better than those of the OVA approach.
An updated review of the biological activities, production and safety of meat‐derived peptides
Authors: Ashaolu Tolulope Joshua , Le Thanh‐Do , Suttikhana Itthanan 
Published: January 2023

SummaryMeat‐derived peptides (MDPs) through enzymatic hydrolysis possess an excellent potential for functional foods development except that their safety has always been a major concern. In this review, diligent efforts were made to provide the most updated perspectives on MDPs from multifarious sources, their biological activities and safety issues. In addition to these parameters, their production and market challenges were discussed. High costs involved, poor sensorial qualities, instability, and limited toxicologic and clinical data pose significant challenges to developing functional foods based on MDPs. To ensure the safety of these bioactive peptides and their commercial applications, digestibility, absorbability, metabolism, bioavailability and excretory studies should be considered in preclinical and clinical settings. Further studies in this line of research are of great importance.
Infrared‐assisted hydrodistillation as an efficient, promising approach to the extraction of essential oil from Rosmarinus officinalis
Authors: Taheri Afsaneh , Asadiamirabadi Alireza , Seyedabadi Mohammad Mahdi , Kashaninejad Mahdi 
Published: January 2023

SummaryHerbs and raw plant materials usually contain essential oils that are extractable by a variety of methods. The quality and quantity of essential oils are largely influenced by the method of extraction, some of which have remained unexplored. Demands for environmentally‐friendly extractions are increasingly becoming common. The present study used infrared‐assisted hydrodistillation (IAHD) as a new extraction method that performs faster than the classical hydrodistillation (HD) method. Here, the essential oil of Rosmarinus officinalis L. (common rosemary) was extracted from the leaves by each of the two methods separately. The essential oils were evaluated in terms of extraction kinetics, antioxidant activity, and chemical composition. Compared with the HD (2.15 ± 0.01 mL/100 g, 210 min), the IAHD generated higher yields (2.17 ± 0.02–2.51 ± 0.04 mL/100 g) over shorter periods (60–120 min), depending on the power of radiation (150–375 W). The IAHD method offered important advantages over HD, such as better maintenance of antioxidant activity in the oil and higher oil quality, e.g. enhanced levels of oxygenated compounds. Thus, it can be introduced as a promising method because of its higher extraction output and simple extraction procedure. Infrared radiation extraction can be used as a valuable substitute for classical hydrodistillation when aiming to extract essential oil from R. officinalis and other aromatic plants.
What do indebted employees do? Financialisation and the decline of industrial action
Authors: Gouzoulis Giorgos 
Published: January 2023

AbstractWhile isolated episodes of work stoppages keep occurring, aggregate industrial action rates have been on the decline over the last five decades. Attempts to explain this trend centre on the short‐term effects of the business cycle and the long‐term impacts of labour market liberalisation, deindustrialisation and globalisation. This paper argues that household indebtedness is a missing piece of the puzzle. Since indebted employees tend to become self‐disciplined at the workplace on the fear of losing their job and defaulting, this paper argues that the post‐1970 rise of household financialisation is associated with the decline of strike activity. The econometric evidence reported provides strong support to this argument for the cases of Japan, Korea, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom over the period 1970–2018.
An IT projects’ conceptual model to facilitate upstream decision‐making: project management method selection
Authors: Sakka Amir , Kourjieh Mounira , Kraiem Ines Ben 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThe selection of the most adapted project management method (PMM) can contribute to the success of information technology (IT) projects and hence the company's optimized profitability and operability. Due to many PMMs known for their operational advantages, and with the variety of companies’ strategies and policies, the decision‐making process of selecting the best‐suited PMM can get cumbersome, and some unfounded practices could, consequently, mislead its involved leaders. We propose in this work a methodological approach of decision analysis that allows a structured, reproducible, and group decision support system‐assisted execution. The methodology was fully executed and evaluated with three real case studies of IT projects, and further improvements and research perspectives were identified.
Schedule robustness in the periodic supply vessels planning problem with stochastic demand and travel time
Authors: Cruz Roberto , Mendes Andre Bergsten , Bahiense Laura 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThe periodic supply vessel planning problem (PSVPP) consists in determining a periodic schedule and the respective fleet composition for servicing offshore units on a regular basis. One of the challenges for the PSVPP is determining reliable schedules with a good compromise between reliability and cost. This work extends the PSVPP by including stochastic demand and travel time. We also introduce a novel methodology based on a voyage‐based model to deal with the schedule robustness. Basically, key statistical parameters related to the routes' demand and execution time are generated. They are used together with a set of probability combinations to incorporate the schedule reliability into the optimization model. Therefore, schedule reliability is an input parameter in the optimization model. The instances used in the study are based on real data from Brazil. A comparison of the new methodology to conventional approaches is presented, and a Monte Carlo simulation is used to evaluate the quality of the solutions. The proposed methodology is able to generate robust schedules at a lower cost compared to the conventional approaches. The proposed methodology might be applied to other stochastic problems, where schedule reliability is a key parameter for the problem.
A two‐stage method for the shipper lane selection problem with time windows in transportation service procurement
Authors: Yang Fang , Hwang F.J. , Huang Yao‐Huei 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThe shipper lane selection problem (SLSP) is determining which lanes are to be served by the shipper's vehicle fleet or outsourced to the carriers through auction. While the SLSP in previous studies assumes that each lane is associated with a set of discrete times at which it can be served, this study considers a generalized version assuming a lane service time window for each lane, which is named the SLSP with time windows (SLSPTW). The SLSPTW is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model that minimizes the sum of the transportation and the service/setup costs incurred by the shipper to auction off the lanes served by the carriers. In the proposed two‐stage solution approach, the first stage is designed to generate quickly a set of possible solutions, the best of which is then verified by a decomposed model of the SLSPTW at the second stage. Besides, an iterative‐improvement mechanism for the proposed algorithm is adopted to achieve the efficiency of the solution quality improvement. The effectiveness and efficiency of the developed solution method is demonstrated by the conducted numerical experiments.
Newsvendor model with voucher sales: a distributionally robust approach
Authors: Zhong Yuanguang , Jiang Xinhong , Zhang Xiong , Min Jie , Cheng T.C. Edwin 
Published: January 2023

AbstractVouchers as a popular short‐term marketing tool are widely used by many firms, through which retailers can lock in customers and obtain working capital in advance. Consumers can use the voucher to reduce the product purchase price to an equal face value or purchase the product at a discount. We apply the classical newsvendor model to study the merits of vouchers for the retailer's ordering decision in the face of uncertainties in both the market demand and voucher redemption rate. We propose a distributionally robust approach to solve this newsvendor problem. The approach only requires the first and second moments of the demand and redemption rate distributions and yields a lower bound on the expected profit. Specifically, we derive the optimal ordering decision in closed form and obtain the optimal expected profit based on the limited distribution information. We find that a higher redemption rate does not necessarily increase the retailer's profit and the voucher quantity, but always increases the retailer's order quantity. Interestingly, we show that when the buyback price of the voucher is relatively high, increasing the voucher redemption rate is more profitable for the retailer. In addition, the retailer's profit, and the quantities of the product and the voucher decrease with the buyback price of the voucher.
Effects of negative pressure wound therapy with instillation and dwell time (NPWTi‐d) versus NPWT or standard of care in orthoplastic surgery: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Authors: De Pellegrin Laura , Feltri Pietro , Filardo Giuseppe , Candrian Christian , Harder Yves , Galetti Ken , De Monti Marco 
Published: January 2023

AbstractNegative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a wound‐dressing system that applies sub‐atmospheric pressure on the surface of a wound to promote healing. An evolution of this technology, NPWT with solution instillation and dwell time (NPWTi‐d), is increasingly being used to maximise wound closure and reduce failure rates. However, there is still a lack of evidence concerning its use in orthoplastic surgery. Therefore, the aim of this study is to compare NPWTi‐d with NPWT and standard of care for wound management in orthoplastic surgery. A comprehensive literature search using PubMed, Web of Science, and Cochrane databases up to 15 March 2022 was performed, including studies describing the outcomes of NPWTi‐d for traumatic/orthopaedic injuries. A meta‐analysis on the number of surgical debridements, as well as the rate of complete wound closure and complications was carried out, although for other outcomes, a descriptive statistic was applied. Risk of bias and quality of evidence were assessed using the Downs& Black's Checklist for Measuring Quality. Thirteen studies with a total number of 871 patients were included, in which NPWTi‐d demonstrated significantly higher primary wound closure and lower complication rates (P < .05). No difference in the number of surgical procedures required for final wound healing was observed. Moreover, five out of six studies showed better results for NPWTi‐d when the change of the bioburden and bacterial count of the wound were analysed. A singular study investigating the length of the hospital stay of patients treated with NPWTi‐d showed a reduction in the latter. The present meta‐analysis proves that NPWTi‐d is superior to NPTW or conventional dressings in orthoplastic wound care management, in terms of complete wound closure rate and the reduced number of complications. Still, the limited quality of the studies analysed shows that future randomised studies are needed to confirm the benefits and to identify the most appropriate recommendations for using NPWTi‐d in orthoplastic surgery, as well as to investigate the cost‐effectiveness of this wound‐dressing system.
Environmental orientation on the frontline: A boundary‐spanning perspective for supply chain management
Authors: Gabler Colin B. , Landers V. Myles , Agnihotri Raj , Morgan Tyler R. 
Published: January 2023

AbstractFrontline employees (FLEs) are the face of every organization in the supply chain, and therefore, supply chain partners understand each other's environmental values through these interactions. An environmental orientation conveys a firm's commitment to the natural environment to both internal and external stakeholders along the supply chain. Building upon social identity theory within a boundary‐spanning perspective, we estimate a model which examines how this firm‐level orientation leads to FLE's environmental identification. These FLEs work harder and are more satisfied at higher levels of identification, which ultimately translates to perceptions of higher‐quality products and prosocial impact. FLE's perceptions of ethical leadership and trust in their organization moderate this serial mediation model. Together, we provide insights into the benefits of frontline employees who identify with an environmental organization.
Improving adolescent mental health and protection in humanitarian settings: longitudinal findings from a multi‐arm randomized controlled trial of child‐friendly spaces among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
Authors: Metzler Janna , Saw Terry , Nono Denis , Kadondi Agatha , Zhang Yuan , Leu Cheng‐Shiun , Gabriel Aimyleen , Savage Kevin , Landers Cassie 
Published: January 2023

BackgroundThe effects of conflict and displacement on adolescent mental health and protection are profound and can have lasting consequences. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of two group‐based psychosocial interventions on mental health and protection of South Sudanese refugee adolescents.MethodsA randomized controlled trial was done in four villages within the Omugo extension of Rhino Camp refugee settlement in the West Nile region of Uganda. Male and female adolescents (aged 9–14 years) were randomly assigned to attend 12 weeks of either a Standard psychosocial intervention delivered in a child‐friendly space (CFS) or a more structured sequential delivery of psychosocial sessions guided by a newly developed Toolkit for Child‐Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings. The primary outcomes were psychological distress and resilience 12 months after baseline assessment. The trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03897894.ResultsBetween May 28, 2019, and February 20, 2020, 1,280 eligible adolescents were recruited. With 70.2% retention at follow‐up, 214 assigned to the Standard, 211 assigned to the Toolkit, and 370 assigned to the waitlist control were included in the intention‐to‐treat and as‐treated analysis. Both the Toolkit and Standard approaches were more effective in reducing psychological distress and perceived protection risks reported by adolescents compared to no intervention. Differential intervention impacts are indicated in subgroup analyses.ConclusionsThe trial found that both psychosocial interventions when implemented in a CFS are well suited as a first‐line mental health and violence prevention intervention for adolescent populations exposed to conflict and forced displacement. Where feasible, CFS should be implemented as a primary response strategy soon after displacement to improve psychological health and reduce the risk environment for adolescents.
Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on spontaneous abortion and induced abortion: A population‐based cross‐sectional and longitudinal study in the Fukushima Prefecture based on the census survey of the Fukushima maternity care facility and vital statistics
Authors: Inoue Yuta , Ohno Yuko , Sobue Tomotaka , Fujimaki Takako , Zha Ling , Nomura Yasuhisa , Kyozuka Hyo , Yasuda Shun , Yamaguchi Akiko , Kurasawa Kentaro , Fujimori Keiya 
Published: January 2023

AbstractAimThe 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) was a disaster leading to radiation exposure and psychological distress, particularly among pregnant women. However, it is not known how this affected the seasonal changes of pregnancy and childbirth. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of the GEJE in the Fukushima Prefecture on spontaneous and induced abortions with regard to seasonal variability.MethodsWe used the data of vital statistics of live birth and stillbirth registry and the census survey of the Fukushima Maternity Care Facility. We calculated the spontaneous and induced abortion rate for 2011–2016 using two different methods (cross‐sectional and longitudinal). We calculated the quartiles and outliers to determine the impact and duration of the GEJE. Periodicity was investigated using spectral density analysis. The data were analyzed for the entire Fukushima Prefecture and by region.ResultsThe spontaneous abortion rate did not show specific changes after the GEJE. Contrarily, the monthly analysis in the cross‐sectional method, revealed specific increases in induced abortion rate during the year after the GEJE; in the longitudinal method, induced abortions increased among women who became pregnant within 1 year after the GEJE. Spontaneous abortion showed no specific periodicity, while induced abortion showed cycles of 6 and 12 months, with a particular increase in May each year.ConclusionsThe spontaneous abortion rate was not affected by the GEJE. The changes in the induced abortion rate after the disaster may have overlapped with the timing of the increased periodicity, and cannot be attributed solely to the GEJE.
Importance of complete response for outcomes of pregnancy in patients with autoimmune hepatitis
Authors: Fischer Susan E. , de Vries Elsemieke S. , Tushuizen Maarten E. , de Boer Ynto S. , van der Meer Adriaan J. P. , de Man Robert A. , Brouwer Johannes T. , Kuyvenhoven Johan P. , Klemt‐Kropp Michael , Gevers Tom J. G. , Tjwa Eric T. T. L. , Kuiper Edith M. M. , Verhagen Marc A. M. T. , Friederich Philip W. , van Hoek Bart 
Published: January 2023

AbstractBackground and AimsWhile some articles describe outcome of pregnancy in autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), there are less data evaluating influence of AIH control on maternal and perinatal outcomes. This study analysed outcomes of pregnancy and related possible risk factors in AIH.MethodA retrospective multicentre cohort study on pregnancy in AIH was performed in 11 hospitals in the Netherlands. Maternal and neonatal outcomes were collected from records and completed by interview. Risk factors—including incomplete response, relapse and cirrhosis—for adverse outcomes were identified using logistic regression analysis.ResultsNinety‐seven pregnancies in 50 women resulted in 70 deliveries (72%) with a live birth rate of 98.5%. AIH relapse occurred in 6% during pregnancy, and in 27% of post‐partum episodes. Absence of complete biochemical response at conception was identified as risk factor for the occurrence of gestational and post‐partum relapses. Relapse of AIH in the year before conception was a risk factor for the occurrence of both gestational relapses and post‐partum relapses. No complete biochemical response increased the risk for hypertensive disorders during pregnancy and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). Cirrhosis was found to be a risk factor for miscarriages, but not for other outcomes.ConclusionPregnancy in AIH is related to an increased incidence of maternal and fetal/neonatal complications; in most cases, outcome is good. Incomplete biochemical response at conception or relapse in the year before conception are risk factors for gestational and post‐partum relapses, for hypertensive disorders and for ICP. Cirrhosis was a risk factor for miscarriages.
Ontogenetic shifts in feeding habits of orangemouth weakfish (Cynoscion xanthulus): From estuarine benthic feeder to marine nektivore top predator
Authors: Muro‐Torres Víctor M. , Amezcua Felipe , Green Lucinda , Payan Jorge , Balart‐Páez Eduardo F. , Amezcua‐Linares Felipe 
Published: January 2023

AbstractOrangemouth weakfish is a highly important commercial and game fish species in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. However, studies assessing changes in its trophic ecology relevant to size, habitat (estuarine or marine), sex, and season are non‐existent. We assessed its feeding habits and trophic position (TP) according to the aforementioned factors. Its dietary breadth was composed of 33 types of prey. The feeding habits and isotopic values (δ15N and δ13C) registered differences between sizes and habitat, indicating ontogenetic changes in habitat as well as TP, as small organisms (TP 3.1) inhabited the estuarine area, feeding on benthic and demersal organisms, whilst large individuals (TP 4.1) were found in the marine environment, preying on nektonic fauna. No differences were found according to sex or season. The isotopic niche showed that the different sizes of this species are generalist consumers with a clear separation between them and between habitats, as estuarine juvenile and preadult organisms have a larger isotopic niche than adult marine organisms, being an opportunist tertiary estuarine consumers during their early stages, and a top marine predator during the adult phase.