bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Experts’ perspectives on the impact of visual impairment and comorbid mental disorders on functioning in essential life domains
Authors: Onnink Marjolein LA , Teunissen Lisanne BA , Verstraten Peter FJ , Nispen Ruth MA , Aa Hilde PA 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Background
Visual impairment (VI) with comorbid mental disorders (MDs) are expected to have a major impact on people’s daily functioning, for which tailored support is needed. However, this has been barely investigated. Therefore, this study aimed to (1) determine the impact of VI and comorbid MDs on functioning in essential life domains, (2) gain insight into best-practices to support this target group, and (3) determine strategies to optimize care.
Methods
A four-step qualitative Delphi method was used to obtain input from 31 Dutch professionals who work with this target group (84% female, mean age 46 years, on average 11 years of experience in working with the target group). The Self-Sufficiency Matrices were used to determine the impact on various aspects of daily living, for people with VI and 1) autism spectrum disorder, 2) psychotic disorders, 3) obsessive-compulsive disorder, 4) antisocial personality disorder, 5) borderline personality disorder, 6) dependent personality disorder.
Results
Experts describe a frail and vulnerable population, in which the VI and MD often have a cumulative negative impact on people’s physical and mental health. People frequently experience anxiety, depression, fatigue and sleep disturbances. Also, many tend to neglect self-care and substance abuse is common. They often experience difficulty in trusting others while at the same time being dependent on them. Social interaction and relationships are complicated because of communication restrictions (e.g. no facial recognition) and social incompetence or withdrawal. Experts advise taking transdiagnostic factors into account, using evidence-based psychological treatment options based on an intermittent approach, and offering multidisciplinary care. They stress the importance of building trust, showing patience and empathy, stimulating empowerment, involving the informal network and building on positive experiences.
Conclusion
VI and comorbid MD have a major impact on people’s daily functioning on a mental, physical, social and environmental level. This study provides insight into best-practices to support this target group. Due to experts, more research is needed which could be aimed at investigating tailored diagnostic approaches and treatment options and include clients’ perspectives.
Using Haddon matrix to identify prevention opportunities for nonfatal commercial fishing injuries in the Pacific Northwest
Authors: Doza Solaiman , Bovbjerg Viktor , Case Samantha , Vaughan Amelia , Kincl Laurel 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Background
Commercial fishing is a precarious industry with high fatal and nonfatal injury rates. The Risk Information System of Commercial [RISC] Fishing project at Oregon State University has been tracking both fatal and nonfatal injuries among Pacific Northwest commercial fishermen. We conducted a hazard analysis to identify injury-associated factors to highlight prevention opportunities.
Method
We identified 245 nonfatal commercial fishing injuries in the Pacific Northwest (2000-2018) and assessed the top three injury events (contact with objects or equipment, transportation incidents, and slips-trips-falls). We generated a Haddon matrix for each event type and populated the matrices with injury-associated factors following our a-priori matrix.
Results
We observed 108 nonfatal injuries due to contact with objects. Fishing gear (40%) was the dominant injury source. The top work process was hauling the fishing gear (22%). Handling heavy loads (32%) and contact with unsecured objects (27%) often resulted in contact injuries. Of the 58 transportation injuries most occurred in the catcher-vessels (93%) and smaller vessels (< 5 crew) (74%). Vessel casualties (91%) were common as several vessels struck rocks/bottom (29%) or experienced fire and explosion (19%). The crew was abandoned to water (38%) due to no raft or raft malfunctions. Slip, trip, and fall injuries (n = 43) typically happened during onboard traffic (49%). Such events were largely experienced by the catcher-processors (44%) including large vessels with >100 crew (28%).
Conclusion
The Haddon matrix demonstrated the injury-event timeline and helped to identify potential injury-associated factors. Our injury-specific risk matrices will let commercial fishing stakeholders determine priorities and work with the experts on prevention efforts.
The comparison of Serum and Follicular Fluid Levels of Soluble Receptor for Advanced Glycation End- Product (sRAGE) between Women with/without PCOS referred for IVF
Authors: Emami Neda , Alizadeh AliReza , Maleki-Hajiagha Arezoo , Dizavi Alireza , vesali Samira , Moini Ashraf 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Background:
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are known to associate with the pathogenesis of several chronic diseases via interaction with their corresponding receptor (RAGE). The soluble form of this receptor (sRAGE) with anti-inflammatory effects plays a crucial role in the women suffering from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).
Objective:
This study aimed to compare sRAGE levels in the follicular fluid (FF) and serum of Iranian women with or without PCOS who underwent controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) for in vitro fertilisation (IVF). We also analysed the correlation between FF and serum sRAGE with age, body mass index (BMI), and AGEs consumption.
Method and Material:
Forty-five reproductive aged-women were entered the study: 26 non-PCOS cases with infertile husbands were assigned to control group and 19 patients with PCOS were considered as case group. Both groups underwent Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation (COH) followed by oocyte retrieval for IVF. The samples of fluid from the first large aspirated follicle and whole human peripheral blood were collected before IVF procedure. Serum and FF sRAGEs were measured using a commercially available ELISA kits.
RESULT:
No statistically significant differences were found in concentrations of FF and serum sRAGE between the two groups. Correlation analysis showed a significant and positive relationship between serum levels of sRAGE and FF sRAGE in PCOS group (r=0.639; p=0.004), in control participants (r=0.481; p=0.017), and in total participants (r=0.552; p=0.000). Data also revealed a statistically significant difference in sRAGE FF concentration among all participants by BMI categories (p=0.01) and in controls (p=0.022). Significant differences were found for all the nutrients details and AGEs content according to FFQ (Food Frequency Questionnaire) in both groups (p=0.0001).Also, a significant reverse relationship was found between FF levels of sRAGE and AGE in PCOS group (r=-0.513; p=0.025).
COCLUSION:
The concentration of sRAGE in serum and FF is the same in PCOS and control groups. It has been suggested that among all other role players, the most important determinant and most independent predictive of sRAGE levels in adolescents is BMI. Our result shows that the AGEs contents and BMI factor are more vital than foods quantity for dramatic changes in sRAGE in women with and without PCOS which warrants further studies.
Innovative design of an art teaching quality evaluation system based on big data and an association rule algorithm from the perspective of sustainable development
Authors: Zhou Gang , Zhan Rui 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Online art courses still suffer from poor course production, limited sustainable use and development, and a significant degree of course similarity today. It is really important to figure out how to create an efficient system for evaluating art instruction. The current institutions of higher art education are how to apply data mining approaches to the teaching quality evaluation system is studied in this article. Data mining effectively dig out the indicators of the institutions of higher art education teaching quality evaluation system using association rule algorithm to solve the current teaching quality evaluation of rationality and subjectivity, and a teaching quality evaluation algorithm based on association were some of the solutions used. The widely used development tools, SQL Server and ASP.NET were used to build and implement the teaching quality assessment system through a variety of indications of teaching quality evaluation in a school. The administrators of higher art education institutions will receive analytical materials for making decisions from this study that are based on science and objectivity.
A new measure of node centrality on schedule-based space-time networks for the designation of spread potential
Authors: Pitoski Dino , Babić Karlo , Meštrović Ana 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Node centrality is one of the most frequently revisited network theoretical concepts, which got many calculation method alternatives, each of them being conceived on different empirical or theoretical network abstractions. The vast majority of centrality measures produced up to date were conceived on static network abstractions (the so-called "snapshot" networks), which arguably are less realistic than dynamic (temporal) network abstractions. The new, temporal node centrality measure that we offer with this article, is based on an uncommon abstraction, of a space-time network derived from service schedules (timetables). The proposed measure was designed to rank nodes of a space-time network based on their spread or transmission potential, and was subsequently implemented on the network of sea ferry transportation derived from the aggregated schedules for sea ferry liner shipping services in Europe, as they occurred in the month of August, 2015. The main feature of our measure, named "the Spread Potential", is the evaluation of the potential of a node in the network for transmitting disease, information (e.g. rumours or false news), as well as other phenomena, whichever support a space-time network abstraction from regular and scheduled services with some known carrying capacities. Such abstractions are, for instance, of the transportation networks (e.g. of airline or maritime shipping or the wider logistics (delivery) networks), networks of medical (hospital) services, educational (teaching) services, and virtually, of any other scheduled networked phenomenon. The article also offers the perspectives of the measure's applicability on the non-scheduled space-time network abstractions.
Association between a single nucleotide polymorphism of the IL23R gene and severe tuberculosis: a case‒control study
Authors: Zhang Juan , Wang Ming-Gui , Xiang Xi , He Jian-Qing 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Background. Severe tuberculosis has a high mortality rate and poses a great threat to human safety. Host gene single nucleotide polymorphisms can influence the severity of tuberculosis.
Methods. A case‒control study was conducted in 1137 patients with tuberculosis and 581 healthy controls with ages ranging from fifteen to forty-five years old.
Among the tuberculosis patients, there were 558 severe and 579 mild cases.Whole blood DNA was extracted from all patients. Three tag polymorphisms (rs18844444, rs7518660, rs7539625) of the IL23R gene were selected and genotyped.
Results. No significant association was found between rs18844444, rs7518660, and rs7539625 of the IL23R gene and tuberculosis infection. Even through the comparison of the tuberculosis group and healthy control group, mild tuberculosis group and healthy control group, and severe tuberculosis and healthy control group, we found that the P values were > 0.05 . However, in the comparison between severe tuberculosis and mild tuberculosis, rs18844444 G alleles showed a significantly increased risk of severe tuberculosis infection after adjusting for age and sex (ORa: 1.199, 95% CI: 1.009-1.424; Pa=0.039, respectively). In the subgroup analysis, rs18844444 of the IL23R gene showed a significant association with the risk of severe tuberculosis infection in the comparison between severe pulmonary tuberculosis and mild tuberculosis after adjusting for age and sex (ORa: 1.301, 95% CI: 1.030-1.643; Pa=0.027, respectively). The rs18844444 G allele also showed a significantly increased risk of severe tuberculosis infection after adjusting for age and sex in a comparison between tuberculous meningitis and mild tuberculosis (ORa: 1.646, 95% CI: 1.100-2.461; Pa=0.015, respectively).
Conclusions. IL23R gene polymorphism is not associated with tuberculosis susceptibility in the Chinese Han population but may be associated with an increased risk of severe tuberculosis infection.
Nutrition and growth of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fed diets supplemented with a synbiotic preparation
Authors: Zahra Zeinalpour , Aberoumand Ali , Ziaei-nejad Saeed 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This study was carried out in order to assess the effect of inulin and Bacillus on nutrition and growth indices of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). For this purpose, 525 of fish rainbow trout with an average weight of 56.84g ± 4.32 were purchased from fish breeding farm and transferred to the aquaculture department of Shiraz University. After initial adaptation and one week of quarantine, 25 fish were stored in each 500 L polyethylene tank. The duration of the experiment was 60 days. Triplicates were used for each treatment experimental groups included a control (C) without any supplement, treatment (A) with a level of 0.5% inulin, treatment (B) with a level of 1.5% inulin, treatment (D) with a concentration of 103 CFU/g Bacillus, treatment (E) with 106 CFU/g Bacillus, treatment (F) with 103 CFU/g Bacillus and 0.5% inulin and treatment (H) with 106 CFU/g Bacillus and 1.5% inulin. The ratio of feed conversion on 15th, 30th and 60th days in F treatment showed a significant increase compared to other treatments, but on 45th day, the highest rate of this index was observed in treatment H. At the end of the experimental period, treatment D had the highest percentage of specific growth rate with a significant difference compared with other treatments. The highest level of protein efficiency coefficient was observed on 15th, 30th and 60th day of the experiments for the group F and on 45th day in the group containing 103 CFU/g Bacillus. The highest level of fat efficiency ratio was observed in the mentioned days in F treatment. On 45th and 60th day of the experiment, the fat efficiency ratio in treatment D was higher than other treatments. It can be concluded that the simultaneous use of Bacillus and inulin can have the highest positive effects in rainbow trout growth.
A Highly Penetrant ACTA2 Mutation Variant of Thoracic Aortic Disease
Authors: Bobba Christopher M. , Azarrafiy Ryan , Spratt John R. , Hendrickson Jill , Martin Tomas D. , Arnaoutakis George J. , Jeng Eric I. , Beaver Thomas M. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Background: ACTA2 mutation for Familial Aortic Disease has been increasingly recognized. We describe a highly penetrant variant (R118Q) in a family with aortic disease.
Case Report: A patient presented to us for elective repair of an ascending aneurysm with a family history of his mother expiring after aortic dissection. Genetic testing revealed he was a heterozygous carrier of the ACTA2 missense mutation R118Q. Subsequently, all living family members were tested for this variant and a full medical history was obtained to compile a family tree for the variant and penetrance of an aortic event (defined as lifetime occurrence of aortic surgery / dissection). In total 9 family members were identified and underwent genetic testing with 7/9 showing presence of the ACTA2 R118Q mutation or an aortic event. All patients over the age of 50 (n=4) had an aortic event. Those events occurred at ages 54, 55, 60, and 62 (mean event at 57.8±3.9 years). 3 family members with the variant under the age of 40 have not had an aortic event and most are undergoing regular aortic surveillance via CT scan.
Conclusions: Existing studies of known ACTA2 mutations describe a 76% aortic event rate by 85 years old. The R118Q missense mutation is a less common ACTA2 variant, estimated to comprise about 5% of known mutations. Prior studies have predicted the R118Q mutation to have a slightly decreased risk of aortic events compared to other ACTA2 mutations. In this family, however, we demonstrate 100% penetrance of aortic disease above age 50. In today’s era of excellent outcomes in elective aortic surgery, our team aggressively offers elective repair. We advocate for strict aortic surveillance for patients with this variant and would consider elective aortic replacement at 4.5cm, or at an even smaller diameter in patients with a strong family history of dissection who are identified with this mutation.
Investigation of the Impact of Power Consumption, Surface Roughness, and Part Complexity in Stereolithography and Fused Filament Fabrication
Authors: Ali Mohammad Alshaikh , Fidan Ismail 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Today, Additive Manufacturing (AM) is being utilized in a plethora of fields and applications. This study investigates two of the most commonly used AM technologies, Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and Stereolithography (SLA) under the different part complexities and their effects to finished part quality. The process parameters investigated are infill density (ID), infill pattern (IP), and layer height (LH). The output variables observed are power consumption (PC), surface roughness (SR), and mass. Statistical analysis of experimental data indicates that LH is the most influential parameter for all output variables except mass. A validation study is later performed using three specimens with more diversely complex geometries. The model complexity is then evaluated and analyzed using three different ratios. Normalizing PC with respect to volume indicates a lower PC per unit volume for FFF. Experimental data also indicates SLA has a better surface finish and uses less power. This paper reports the state-of-the-art FFF and SLA process knowledge blocks created through this research study.
Sparse accelerated limited memory BFGS algorithm for feature selection and classification
Authors: Chen Zhirui , Zhang Zhiwang , Li Shuqing , Cao Jie 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Training accurate and explainable models in limited time has been a longstanding challenge for classification problems. One of the most popular techniques to cope with this challenge is support vector machine (SVM). Compared with SVM, least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) is smooth and more robust. However, LSSVM suffers from poor predictive performance and high time complexity when training large-scale and high-dimensional datasets. In this paper, we introduce a sparse accelerated limited memory Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (SAL-BFGS) algorithm which tackles this problem in two aspects: (1) We reformulate the LSSVM as a new classifier model with objective function with respect to $\ell_{0}$-norm function. (2) We propose a Nesterov's accelerated limited memory BFGS to train the classifier. Both improvements can remarkably enhance predictive accuracy and reduce computational cost of the classifier. Compared with L2SAAG, L1VRSGD, SL-BFGS, SAL-BFGS improves meidian values of TCA by an average of 6.32\%, 5.63\%, 5.44\% on twelve real-world datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm.
Secure Clock Synchronization Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Kara Mostefa , Laouid Abdelkader , Bounceur Ahcene , Hammoudeh Mohammad 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Cryptography helps solve many computer and communication problems, including clock synchronization, where a group of nodes wants to agree on a theoretically unique clock in the system with the presence of malicious nodes trying to prevent the process of convergence; so we will need a set of mechanisms, including encryption. Many synchronization techniques suffer from high power consumption or vulnerability to attack or difficulty of implementation. In this article, we propose a synchronization protocol that contains two parts. The first part uses a lightweight linear scheme to encrypt clock messages to fend off certain types of attacks such as message manipulation. This scheme is suitable for Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with negligible encryption and decryption time. The second part is the process of calculating the clock based on a very simple consensus algorithm. The study of the proposed protocol has shown very satisfactory results.
Ecological risk analysis of future land use/cover: A case study of Xinjiang
Authors: Zhang Yue 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Taking Xinjiang as the research area, this paper constructed an ecological risk model based on data of Land use/cover Quality Index (LQI), Climate Quality Index (CQI), and Soil Quality Index (SQI) to simulate the ecological risk of Xinjiang and predict it under different scenarios (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways SSPs) at 2100. There are five conclusions drawn: (1) In 2100, after reviewing different scenarios in Xinjiang, it can be seen that the LULCC risk level is dominated by the medium-quality risk level. The areas with medium-quality risk level account for about 70% of the total area of Xinjiang. The low-quality risk areas are mainly distributed in the Ili Valley in northern Xinjiang, the Keketuohai in the Altay region, and the northern Junggar Basin. Relatively high- and high-quality risk areas are mainly concentrated in residential areas on the northern and southern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang. (2) In 2100, the high-quality climatic and ecological risk areas of different SSPs in Xinjiang are mainly distributed in mountains, Gobi, desert, and other regions. The medium-quality climatic and ecological risk areas are mainly distributed in the central and eastern regions of Xinjiang. (3) Under different scenarios in 2100, the spatial distribution of soil quality in Xinjiang is roughly the same, which is mainly low-quality. (4) Under different scenarios in 2100, the spatial distribution of ecological risk levels in Xinjiang is mainly dominated by areas with low and medium ecological risk levels, accounting for nearly 70% of the total area. (5) From 2020 to 2100, the ecological risk levels of different scenarios show a decreasing trend in sequence. Typically, from 2020 to SSP370 (2100), most areas change from being at a previous medium ecological risk level to being at a relatively high/high ecological risk level. Under the SSP585 scenario, a large area of areas has changed from the original low ecological risk level to the current high ecological risk level. Only a small area of areas is showing an opposite area change.