bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Assessment of variations in productive performance of two different plumage color varieties of Japanese quail and their reciprocal crosses
Authors: Elkhaiat Ibrahim , El-Kassas Seham , Eid Yahya , Ghobish Magda , EL-Komy Esteftah , Alagawany Mahmoud , Ragab Mohamed 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThis study aimed to detect the phenotypic differences between the brown (BB) and white (WW) feathered quails and their reciprocal crosses (BW and WB) over two successive generations. The WW and cross quails, especially the BW, had the heaviest body weights, throughout the studied period, with significant variations between the two studied generations (P<0.05). Moreover, the WW and BW possessed the largest egg production during the F1, while in the F2, the BB had superiority among the studied quails with a prominent superiority of the F2 over the F1 (P<0.05). However, the F1 had higher egg weights than F2 with superiority of WW quails compared to the others (P<0.05). Also, the WW quails had the lowest lipid contents of the eggs. These phenotypic variations among the studied quails might be preliminarily explained by the results of the analyzed microsatellite markers despite the few markers used. The high variability among the BW and WB quails might be due to the larger number of alleles (NA and Ne) and the lower values of FIS with low heterozygosity levels (HO and He). Moreover, the BW and BB were the closest, while WB and WW were the farthest because of the high and low genetic identities and the high and low genetic distance between them, respectively. So the obtained results might introduce an initial scientific basis for evaluating and employing the genetic properties of BB, WW, BW, and WB quails in further genetic improvement program, and more microsatellite markers are recommended.
Multi-dimensional interest game between reservoir and city stakeholders in the Yellow River Basin: a case study of the lower reaches
Authors: Hu Hao , Tian Guiliang , Dai Zhiqing 
Published: May 2023

AbstractReservoirs in sediment-laden rivers can bring multiple benefits, and the calculation and redistribution of these considerable benefits are the premises to ensure the efficient operation of reservoirs. Firstly, the benefits of social economy, ecological environment, flood discharge, and sediment transport under the joint operation of reservoirs are uniformly measured based on the emergy theory. Secondly, the stakeholders are divided into reservoir and city groups. A two-tier gains allocation model is established based on the Nash bargaining model and multi-attribute decision making theory. Finally, taking the lower reaches of the Yellow River, Sanmenxia Reservoir, and Xiaolangdi Reservoir as cases, the multi-dimensional benefits of reservoirs under the two operation modes in the face of typical floods are calculated, and the gains are distributed among stakeholders. The results show that: (1) Although the overall benefit of the system is optimal under one scheduling mode, 7/17 of the stakeholders prefer another mode. (2) Comparing the two operation modes of the reservoir group, it is found that XLD and SMX can improve the overall benefit of 4.12E + 09yuan at the cost of their sediment discharge benefits of 3.08E + 09yuan and 2.82E + 06yuan. (3) After gains distribution, the profit of all stakeholders can be optimized to varying degrees. This study broadens the dimension of benefit accounting under the joint operation of cascade reservoirs and the category of stakeholders in the gain allocation, which is conducive to promoting the ecological protection and sustainable development of sediment-laden rivers.
Structure and functions of a multireplicon genome of Antarctic Psychrobacter sp. ANT_H3: characterization of the genetic modules suitable for the construction of the plasmid-vectors for cold-active bacteria
Authors: Decewicz Przemyslaw , Romaniuk Krzysztof , Gorecki Adrian , Radlinska Monika , Dabrowska Maria , Wyszynska Agnieszka , Dziewit Lukasz 
Published: May 2023

AbstractAmong Psychrobacter spp., there are several multireplicon strains, carrying more than two plasmids. Psychrobacter sp. ANT_H3 carries as many as 11 extrachromosomal replicons, which is the highest number in Psychrobacter spp. Plasmids of this strain were subjected to detailed genomic analysis, which enables an insight into the structure and functioning of this multireplicon genome. The replication and conjugal transfer modules of ANT_H3 plasmids were analyzed functionally to discover their potential for being used as building blocks for the construction of novel plasmid-vectors for cold-active bacteria. It was shown that two plasmids have a narrow host range as they were not able to replicate in species other than Psychrobacter, while remaining plasmids had a wider host range and were functional in various Alpha- and Gammaproteobacteria. Moreover, it was confirmed that mobilization modules of seven plasmids were functional, i.e., could be mobilized for conjugal transfer by the RK2 conjugation system. Auxiliary genes were also distinguished in ANT_H3 plasmids, including these encoding putative DNA-protecting protein DprA, multidrug efflux SMR transporter of EmrE family, glycine cleavage system T protein, MscS small-conductance mechanosensitive channel protein, and two type II restriction-modification systems. Finally, all genome-retrieved plasmids of Psychrobacter spp. were subjected to complex genome- and proteome-based comparative analyses showing that Antarctic replicons are significantly different from plasmids from other locations.
Sewage sludge and digestate gasification in an atmospheric fluidized bed gasifier
Authors: Elbl Patrik , Baláš Marek , Lisý Martin , Lisá Hana 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe gasification of sewage sludge (SS) and digestate was investigated in a pilot-scale fluidized bed gasifier with an output of 100 kWt. The treatment of these by-products is an ongoing challenge for sustainable development. SS and digestate are most commonly used as fertilizers. However, regulations restrict their use, mainly because of the content of heavy metals, pathogens and bacteria. Gasification of these by-products instead of application to agricultural land seems to be more efficient, as the syngas can subsequently be used for combined heat and power (CHP) generation. A series of measurements were carried out to get a better understanding of the gasification process of these fuels and to study the effects of gasifying agent on the syngas composition, particulate matter (PM) and tar. The produced syngas and tar were analyzed using a gas chromatograph with mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The results showed that no ash slagging was observed and therefore it is feasible to operate digestate and SS gasification at 750°C. The lower heating value (LHV) of the syngas from digestate and SS with air as the gasifying agent is comparable, 4.06 MJ·Nm−3 for digestate and 4.11 MJ·Nm−3 for SS. The addition of steam had a positive effect on the amount of tar and the tar dew point, which was below 150°C. Tar reduction in digestate was 5037.3 mg·Nm−3 to 3566.3 mg·Nm−3 and in SS 7447.7 mg·Nm−3 to 3390.3 mg·Nm−3. Furthermore, the concentrations of the individual tar compounds were determined and subsequently divided into tar classes.
A review of recent advances in the effects of surface and interface properties on marine propellers
Authors: Zhu Manfu , Ma Liran 
Published: May 2023

AbstractMarine propellers are important propulsion devices for both surface ships and underwater vehicles. Increasingly severe environmental problems have required further performance enhancement for propellers. Nowadays, traditional methods to improve propeller performances through geometrical and structural optimizations have been extensively investigated, while the underlying mechanisms of the effects of surface and interface properties on marine propellers are still far from being fully understood. This paper presented a comprehensive review of recent advances in the effects of surface and interface properties, such as surface roughness and surface wettability, on marine propellers with an emphasis on the significant improvements in both hydrodynamic and cavitation performances, hoping to arouse more in-depth investigations in the field of surface/interface science and technologies on marine propellers, and also promote the state-of-the-art technologies, such as superlubricity technology, into practical applications.
La performance dell’ecografia nella diagnosi di carcinoma midollare della tiroide è subottimale. Nuovi dati evidence-based
Authors: Caironi Verdiana , Ferrarazzo Giulia , Trimboli Pierpaolo 
Published: May 2023

SommarioIl carcinoma midollare della tiroide (CMT) si presenta clinicamente come un nodulo tiroideo ma la sua corretta diagnosi è complicata da alcune controversie, prima tra tutte il fatto che il dosaggio routinario della calcitonina in tutti i pazienti con noduli tiroidei non è universalmente accettato. L’ecografia rappresenta l’indagine di scelta per la caratterizzazione dei noduli tiroidei e di recente, per stratificare il loro rischio di malignità, si sono diffusi diversi sistemi classificativi (risk stratification system, RSS), spesso denominati Thyroid Imaging Reporting And Data System (TIRADS). Mentre i RSS/TIRADS sono molto affidabili nell’identificazione del carcinoma papillare, fino a poco tempo fa non erano disponibili dati concreti sulla loro performance nell’identificazione del CMT. Di recente è stata pubblicata una revisione sistematica che ha valutato proprio questo aspetto. Questa review ritrovava 25 studi di cui 14 (con 1968 CMT) erano inclusi nella metanalisi. I risultati della revisione mostravano una ridotta efficacia dei RSS/TIRADS con una proporzione di 54,8% di CMT classificato come high risk o high suspicion. Considerando la scarsa sensibilità dell’esame citologico nella diagnosi del CMT, questi nuovi dati evidence-based suggeriscono che le future linee guida diano chiare informazioni su come ridurre il rischio di non identificare il CMT.
Do sleep disruptions promote social fragmentation?
Authors: Holbein John , Crabtree Charles 
Published: May 2023

AbstractSleep changes predate shifts in mood/affect, thought processing, mental and physical health, civic engagement, and contextual circumstances, among other things. Theory predicts that these changes may lead to shifts in political and social beliefs. Do sleep disruptions shape how individuals see the world, the people around them, and themselves in relation to others? In this article, we use daily survey data from the 77 waves (N$ \approx $ 460,000) of the University of California, Los Angeles’s 2019–2021 Nationscape Survey—a nationally representative political survey—to examine the effect of an exogenous short-term sleep disruption on measures of political views, polarization, and discriminatory beliefs. Using this data set, we leverage the modest sleep disruption that occurs at the start (and end) of Daylight Saving Time (DST) and employ a regression discontinuity in time design around the precise DST cutoff (which we supplement with event study models). Despite strong theoretical expectations and correlational connection between measures of sleep and many outcomes related to social fragmentation, we find that the DST change has little to no causal effect on citizens’ levels of polarization or their discriminatory attitudes. These effects are precise enough to rule out small effects, robust to a host of specification checks, and consistent across potential subgroups of interest. Our work adds to a small but growing body of research on the social and political effects of sleep disruptions.
Higher-order evolution inequalities involving convection and Hardy-Leray potential terms in a bounded domain
Authors: Chen Huyuan , Jleli Mohamed , Samet Bessem 
Published: May 2023

AbstractWe consider a class of nonlinear higher-order evolution inequalities posed in $(0,\infty)\times B_1\backslash\{0\}$, subject to inhomogeneous Dirichlet-type boundary conditions, where B1 is the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$. The considered class involves differential operators of the form
\begin{equation*}
\mathcal{L}_{\mu_1,\mu_2}=-\Delta +\frac{\mu_1}{|x|^2}x\cdot \nabla +\frac{\mu_2}{|x|^2},\qquad x\in \mathbb{R}^N\backslash\{0\},
\end{equation*}where $\mu_1\in \mathbb{R}$ and $\mu_2\geq -\left(\frac{\mu_1-N+2}{2}\right)^2$. Optimal criteria for the nonexistence of weak solutions are established. Our study yields naturally optimal nonexistence results for the corresponding class of elliptic inequalities. Notice that no restriction on the sign of solutions is imposed.
Latent profiles of substance use, early life stress, and attention/externalizing problems and their association with neural correlates of reinforcement learning in adolescents
Authors: Crum Kathleen I. , Aloi Joseph , Blair Karina S. , Bashford-Largo Johannah , Bajaj Sahil , Zhang Ru , Hwang Soonjo , Schwartz Amanda , Elowsky Jaimie , Filbey Francesca M. , Dobbertin Matthew , Blair R. James 
Published: May 2023

AbstractBackgroundAdolescent substance use, externalizing and attention problems, and early life stress (ELS) commonly co-occur. These psychopathologies show overlapping neural dysfunction in the form of reduced recruitment of reward processing neuro-circuitries. However, it is unclear to what extent these psychopathologies show common v. different neural dysfunctions as a function of symptom profiles, as no studies have directly compared neural dysfunctions associated with each of these psychopathologies to each other.MethodsIn study 1, a latent profile analysis (LPA) was conducted in a sample of 266 adolescents (aged 13–18, 41.7% female, 58.3% male) from a residential youth care facility and the surrounding community to investigate substance use, externalizing and attention problems, and ELS psychopathologies and their co-presentation. In study 2, we examined a subsample of 174 participants who completed the Passive Avoidance learning task during functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine differential and/or common reward processing neuro-circuitry dysfunctions associated with symptom profiles based on these co-presentations.ResultsIn study 1, LPA identified profiles of substance use plus rule-breaking behaviors, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and ELS. In study 2, the substance use/rule-breaking profile was associated with reduced recruitment of reward processing and attentional neuro-circuitries during the Passive Avoidance task (p < 0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons).ConclusionsFindings indicate that there is reduced responsivity of striato-cortical regions when receiving outcomes on an instrumental learning task within a profile of adolescents with substance use and rule-breaking behaviors. Mitigating reward processing dysfunction specifically may represent a potential intervention target for substance-use psychopathologies accompanied by rule-breaking behaviors.
Neurophysiological changes associated with vibroacoustically-augmented breath-focused mindfulness for dissociation: targeting interoception and attention
Authors: Fani Negar , Guelfo Alfonsina , La Barrie Dominique L. , Teer Andrew P. , Clendinen Cherita , Karimzadeh Leyla , Jain Jahnvi , Ely Timothy D. , Powers Abigail , Kaslow Nadine J. , Bradley Bekh , Siegle Greg J. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractBackgroundDissociative symptoms can emerge after trauma and interfere with attentional control and interoception; disruptions to these processes are barriers to mind-body interventions such as breath-focused mindfulness (BFM). To overcome these barriers, we tested the use of an exteroceptive augmentation to BFM, using vibrations equivalent to the amplitude of the auditory waveform of the actual breath, delivered via a wearable subwoofer in real time (VBFM). We tested whether this device enhanced interoceptive processes, attentional control and autonomic regulation in trauma-exposed women with dissociative symptoms.Methods65 women, majority (82%) Black American, aged 18–65 completed self-report measures of interoception and 6 BFM sessions, during which electrocardiographic recordings were taken to derive high-frequency heart rate variability (HRV) estimates. A subset (n = 31) of participants completed functional MRI at pre- and post-intervention, during which they were administered an affective attentional control task.ResultsCompared to those who received BFM only, women who received VBFM demonstrated greater increases in interoception, particularly their ability to trust body signals, increased sustained attention, as well as increased connectivity between nodes of emotion processing and interoceptive networks. Intervention condition moderated the relationship between interoception change and dissociation change, as well as the relationship between dissociation and HRV change.ConclusionsVibration feedback during breath focus yielded greater improvements in interoception, sustained attention and increased connectivity of emotion processing and interoceptive networks. Augmenting BFM with vibration appears to have considerable effects on interoception, attention and autonomic regulation; it could be used as a monotherapy or to address trauma treatment barriers.
bcan pos who were notkhri: Royal titulature and the succession to the throne in the Tibetan Empire
Authors: Bialek Joanna 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe paper surveys the distribution of the titlesbcan poandkhriin historical and non-historical documents of the Tibetan Empire. Their patterns of usage suggest the existence of strict rules that governed the bestowal of the titles within the royal family. In the second part of the paper a new chronology of succession to the throne in the Tibetan imperial dynasty is put forward, based not only on Tibetan imperial documents and post-imperial historiographical works but also on Chinese written sources.
Subjective total comparative evaluations
Authors: Hausman Daniel M. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractIn Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare, I argued, among other things, that preferences in economics are and ought to be total subjective comparative evaluations, that the theory of rational choice is a reformulation of everyday folk-psychological explanations and predictions of behaviour, and that revealed preference theory is completely untenable. All three of these theses have been challenged in essays by Erik Angner (2018), Francesco Guala (2019) and Johanna Thoma (2021a, 2021b). This essay responds to these criticisms and defends these three theses.
Property and the Will: Kant and Achenwall on Ownership Rights
Authors: Tomassini Fiorella 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThis article examines Kant’s theory of property through a comparative analysis of Gottfried Achenwall’s justification of ownership rights. I argue that at the core of Achenwall’s and Kant’s understanding of ownership rights lies the idea that rights are to be acquired through a juridical act (factum iuridicum,rechtlichen Act) of the will. However, while Achenwall thinks of this act as emerging from aprivatewill, Kant holds that rights and obligations can only be brought about by an act of thegeneralwill. By contrasting these two views, I aim to illuminate one of the main features of Kant’s theory of property, namely, that ownership rights are only possible in a rightfully constituted state. I conclude with a suggestion regarding Kant’s view of the notion of ‘provisional’ possession in the state of nature.
Perceived Caregiving Trajectories and their Relationship with Caregivers’ Burdens and Gains
Authors: Fabà Josep , Villar Feliciano , Westerhof Gerben 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The study explores the meanings that family caregivers of people with dementia ascribe to the past, present, and future of their role as a caregiver, and how their integration into caregiving trajectories is related to caregivers’ burdens and gains. The sample was made up of 197 family caregivers (Mage = 62.1, SD = 12.3, 70.1% females). They completed three incomplete sentences regarding their past, present, and future caring role, the Zarit Burden Interview and the Gains Associated with Caregiving scale. Sentence completions were content analyzed, and the associations between the resulting trajectories and burdens and gains were studied by means of a one-way ANOVA. Caregivers differed in the meanings ascribed to past, present, and future of their role. Stable-negative (M = 43.6, SD = 13.3), regressive (M = 43.3, SD = 12.7), and present-enhancing (M = 37.4, SD = 13.7) trajectories showed higher levels of burdens than progressive (M = 31.3, SD = 12.3) and/or stable-positive trajectories (M = 26.1, SD = 13.7). Progressive trajectories (M = 38.9, SD = 15.7) were related to more gains than regressive trajectories (M = 28.6, SD = 12.7). Family caregivers’ evaluations of their past, present, and future are not only important separately, but their combination into caregiving trajectories is also relevant. Such trajectories might be relevant when designing interventions to help caregivers reduce their burden levels and increase the benefits ascribed to their experience. The most adaptive trajectory identified was the progressive one, whereas the regressive trajectory was the most dysfunctional.
What Does Equitable Co‐Production Entail? Three Perspectives
Authors: Akerlof K. L. , Timm K. M. F. , Chase A. , Cloyd E. T. , Heath E. , McGhghy B. A. , Bamzai‐Dodson A. , Bogard G. , Carter S. , Garron J. , Gavazzi M. , Kettle N. , Labriole M. , Littell J. S. , Madajewicz M. , Reyes J. , Rivers L. , Sheats J. L. , Simpson C. F. , Toohey R. C. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractCo‐production practices are increasingly being adopted in research conducted for the purpose of societal impact. However, the ways in which co‐production is conducted can perpetuate long‐standing inequity and inequality. This study investigates which principles of co‐production design are perceived to advance more equitable processes and outcomes based on the experiences of participants in three projects funded by U.S. federal programs that support decision‐relevant climate science, along with others engaged in co‐production efforts. We found three distinct perspectives: (a) Ways of Knowing and Power; (b) Participants and Interactions; and (c) Science as Capacity Building. Each viewpoint differentially weights the salience of statements associated with five dimensions of co‐production practices: (a) outcomes; (b) power; (c) place‐based, community rights and respect; (d) audiences and participation; and (e) interactions. In the final stage of the study, we hosted a workshop of participants representing various roles in co‐production efforts to vet and discuss each perspective. We found that the perspectives remained distinct after each of the groups selected core statements that reflect their views. The degree of variation across the three perspectives suggests that co‐production processes would benefit from an initial discussion of, and decisions about, rules of engagement to ensure that participants view the process as equitable.