bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Pipeline embolization device versus Atlas stent assisted coiling for intracranial aneurysm treatment: a retrospective, propensity score matched study with a focus on midterm outcomes and hospital costs
Authors: Wang Chao , Dong Linggen , Liu Jian , Zhang Yisen , Wang Kun , Liu Peng , Yang Xinjian , Lv Ming , Zhang Ying 
Published: May 2023

BackgroundStent assisted coiling (SAC) and flow diverters (FDs) are common endovascular treatments for wide necked cerebral aneurysms, but studies comparing the new generation Atlas SAC and FDs are scarce. We performed a propensity score matched (PSM) cohort study to compare the Atlas SAC and the pipeline embolization device (PED) for proximal internal carotid artery (ICA) aneurysms.MethodsConsecutive ICA aneurysms treated at our institution with either the Atlas SAC or PED were studied. PSM was used to control for age, sex, smoking, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, and the rupture status, maximal diameter, and neck size of the aneurysm (aneurysms >15 mm and non-saccular aneurysms were excluded). Midterm outcomes and hospital costs were compared between these two devices.ResultsA total of 309 patients with 316 ICA aneurysms were included. Following PSM, 178 aneurysms treated with the Atlas SAC and PED were matched (n=89 in each group). Aneurysms treated with the Atlas SAC required a slightly longer procedure time, but had lower hospital costs than those treated with the PED (115.2±24.6 vs 102.4±40.8 min, P=0.012; $27 650.2±$6961.4 vs $34 107.0±$3707.2, P<0.001). Atlas SAC and PED treatments showed equivalent aneurysm occlusion rates (89.9% vs 86.5%, P=0.486), complication rates (5.6% vs 11.2%, P=0.177), and a favorable functional outcome (96.6% vs 97.8%, P=1.0) at follow-up (8.2±3.0 vs 8.4±4.2 months, P=0.652).ConclusionIn this PSM study, midterm outcomes of the PED and Atlas SAC in the treatment of ICA aneurysms were similar. However, SAC required a longer operation time, and the PED may increase the economic cost of inpatients in Beijing, China.
Testicular germ cell tumour risk by occupation and industry: a French case–control study – TESTIS
Authors: Guth Margot , Coste Astrid , Lefevre Marie , Deygas Floriane , Danjou Aurélie , Ahmadi Shukrullah , Dananché Brigitte , Pérol Olivia , Boyle Helen , Schüz Joachim , Bujan Louis , Metzler-Guillemain Catherine , Giscard d’Estaing Sandrine , Teletin Marius , Ducrocq Berengere , Frapsauce Cynthia , Olsson Ann , Charbotel Barbara , Fervers Béatrice 
Published: May 2023

ObjectiveTesticular germ cell tumours (TGCT) are the most common cancer in men of working age and its incidence has increased notably over the past 40 years. Several occupations have been identified as potentially associated with TGCT risk. The aim of this study was to further explore the relationship between occupations, industries and TGCT risk in men aged 18–45 years.MethodsThe TESTIS study is a multicenter case–control study conducted between January 2015 and April 2018 in 20 of 23 university hospital centers in metropolitan France. A total of 454 TGCT cases and 670 controls were included. Full job histories were collected. Occupations were coded according to the International Standard Classification of Occupation 1968 version (ISCO-1968) and industry according to the 1999 version of Nomenclature d’Activités Française (NAF-1999). For each job held, ORs and 95% CIs were estimated using conditional logistic regression.ResultsA positive association was observed between TGCT and occupation as agricultural, animal husbandry worker (ISCO: 6–2; OR 1.71; 95% CI (1.02 to 2.82)), as well as salesman (ISCO: 4–51; OR 1.84; 95% CI (1.20 to 2.82)). An increased risk was further observed among electrical fitters and related, electrical and electronics workers employed for 2 years or more (ISCO: 8–5; OR≥2 years1.83; 95% CI (1.01 to 3.32)). Analyses by industry supported these findings.ConclusionsOur findings suggest that agricultural, electrical and electronics workers, and salesmen workers experience an increased risk of TGCT. Further research is needed to identify the agents or chemicals in these high-risk occupations which are relevant in the TGCT development.Trial registration numberNCT02109926.
Impact of asthma on working life: an analysis of the French CONSTANCES cohort
Authors: Provost Dorothée , Delmas Marie-Christine , Bénézet Laetitia , Ribet Céline , Chesneau Julie , Raherison Chantal , Goldberg Marcel , Dumas Orianne , Le Moual Nicole , Iwatsubo Yuriko 
Published: May 2023

ObjectivesAsthma has significant occupational consequences. The objective of our study was to investigate the links between asthma and the career path, taking into account gender and age at asthma onset.MethodsUsing cross-sectional data collected at inclusion in the French CONSTANCES cohort in 2013–2014, we studied the links between each career path indicator (number of job periods, total duration of employment, numbers of part-time jobs and work interruptions due to unemployment or health issues, employment status at inclusion) on the one hand, and current asthma and asthma symptom score in the last 12 months on the other hand, as reported by the participants. Multivariate analyses were performed separately for men and women using logistic and negative binomial regression models adjusted for age, smoking status, body mass index and educational level.ResultsWhen the asthma symptom score was used, significant associations were observed with all of the career path indicators studied: a high symptom score was associated with a shorter total duration of employment as well as a greater number of job periods, part-time jobs and work interruptions due to unemployment or health issues. These associations were of similar magnitude in men and women. When current asthma was used, the associations were more pronounced in women for some career path indicators.ConclusionThe career path of asthmatic adults is more often unfavourable than that of those without asthma. Efforts should be made to support people with asthma in the workplace, in order to maintain employment and facilitate the return to work.
Electroweak phase transition in a dark sector with CP violation
Authors: Biermann Lisa , Mühlleitner Margarete , Müller Jonas 
Published: May 2023

AbstractIn this paper, we investigate the possibility of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT) in the model ‘CP in the Dark’. The Higgs sector of the model consists of two scalar doublets and one scalar singlet with a specific discrete symmetry. After spontaneous symmetry breaking the model has a Standard-Model-like phenomenology and a hidden scalar sector with a viable Dark Matter candidate supplemented by explicit CP violation that solely occurs in the hidden sector. The model ‘CP in the Dark’ has been implemented in the C++ code which performs a global minimisation of the finite-temperature one-loop corrected effective potential and searches for SFOEWPTs. An SFOEWPT is found to be allowed in a broad range of the parameter space. Furthermore, there are parameter scenarios where spontaneous CP violation is generated at finite temperature. The in addition spontaneously broken $${\mathbb {Z}}_2$$

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symmetry then leads to mixing between the dark and the visible sector so that CP violation in the dark is promoted at finite temperature to the visible sector and thereby provides additional sources of CP violation that are not restricted by the electric dipole moment measurements at zero temperature. Thus, ‘CP in the Dark’ provides a promising candidate for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe through electroweak baryogenesis.
New chemical and mineralogical data on mosaics from the South aisle wall of Monreale Cathedral (Italy)
Authors: Coccato Alessia , Caggiani Maria Cristina , Finocchiaro Claudio , Fugazzotto Maura , Lanzafame Gabriele , Mazzoleni Paolo , Nucatolo Girolamo , Occhipinti Roberta , Starinieri Silvia , Stroscio Antonio , Barone Germana 
Published: May 2023

AbstractDue to the surprising lack of knowledge concerning raw materials and production technology employed to make mosaics after the twelfth century, an archaeometric investigation was carried out on the materials constituting the mosaic decoration of the South aisle wall of Monreale Cathedral (Italy), taking advantage of a conservation intervention. In this work, fallen coloured or gilded glass tesserae to be repositioned were studied by means of a combination of a molecular technique (Raman spectroscopy) and an elemental one (portable X-ray Fluorescence, pXRF); also, efflorescences affecting the general conservation state and samples of the respective bedding mortar were analysed with the former technique and with X-ray diffraction (XRD). The raw materials used and, consequently, the different compositions characterizing gilded vs. coloured glass tesserae were highlighted with the vibrational spectroscopy; chromophores and trace elements were detected by pXRF. This complementary approach allowed to disclose clues about glass-manufacturing technique and raw materials. The nature of the salts was also ascertained through Raman spectroscopy and XRD, for the benefit of the conservation procedure, and connected to the mortars’ composition.
A quantum circuit to generate random numbers within a specific interval
Authors: Orts Francisco , Filatovas Ernestas , Garzón Ester M. , Ortega Gloria 
Published: May 2023

AbstractRandom numbers are of vital importance in fields such as cyptography and scientific simulations. However, it is well known how difficult it is for classical computers to generate random numbers. This is not the case for quantum computers, which are able to genuinely generate random numbers thanks to the property of superposition and their counter-intuitive concept of measurement. However, despite the simplicity of designing a circuit that generates a random number between 0 and$2^{N}-1$2N−1(beingNthe number of available qubits), designing a quantum circuit to generate a number within a specific interval is far from trivial. This paper proposes a customizable circuit design to generate random numbers. The circuit is non- hardware dependent, it allows fault-tolerance, and it can be used by current quantum devices. Therefore, it is a valuable tool for all those quantum applications and algorithms that need to work with random numbers. Moreover, a comparator circuit has also been designed as part of this work. This comparator is the best currently available in the literature in terms of qubits, T-count, and T-depth. It is therefore a useful tool for any other circuit or algorithm where this operation is needed.
The Impact of Maternal Age and Educational Level on Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip Diagnosis and Screening: A Descriptive Comparative Study
Authors: Dawod Moh’d S. , Alswerki Mohammad N. , Abuqudiri Amr Z. , Albadaineh Ashraf A. , Mahmoud Leena M. , Altarawneh Dania J. , Rbeihat Nour H. , Alkhanazreh Rogayah M. 
Published: May 2023

Background. Early and proper screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is very critical to prevent catastrophic complication on the developing hip joint. Many factors (either maternal or child-related) that hinder timely DDH screening have been previously investigated. Methods. A cross-sectional descriptive study design was adopted. 175 babies presented for DDH screening coming with their mothers were investigated. Maternal age, age group, and educational level were recorded. In addition, multiple child-related variables such as age of screening, gender, positive family history, preterm delivery, and mode of delivery were recorded as well. Analysis for association between delayed vs. early screening was made against the maternal and the child-related variables. Results. A total number of 175 children with their mothers were investigated. The mean maternal age was 27.9 years, about one third of the mothers had a graduate level of education (36.3%), while 41.1% had high school education, and 22.3% had middle school education. On the other hand, 40.0% of the investigated babies were first born and two thirds of our sample babies were females (66.9%). Of the included babies, 100 (57.1%) were screened at the appropriate 4-month age, while 75 (42.9%) missed the 4-month screening. Chi-square analysis showed that delayed DDH screening was associated with a lower maternal educational level (

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≤ 0.001), younger maternal age (

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≤ 0.001), and first born baby (

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≤ 0.001). Positive family history was protective against delayed DDH screening (

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= 0.032). Conclusion. The lower maternal educational level, younger maternal age group, and first born babies are risk factors for delayed DDH screening.
“Dancing with Atoms”: A Tribute to Sheila Tinney
Authors: Knight Silvin P. , Refojo José , Newman Louise , Rizzo Rossella , Tinney Hugh , Romero-Ortuno Roman 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The authors present a short dynamic visualization titled “Dancing with Atoms,” produced in honor of the late Irish mathematical physicist Sheila Tinney (1918–2010), the first Irish-born and -raised woman to receive a doctorate in the mathematical sciences. The visualization is inspired by Tinney’s groundbreaking work on crystal lattice vibrations and consists of an animation showing an atomic lattice structure vibrating based on data derived from a musical piece performed by her son, award-winning pianist Hugh Tinney. The acoustic signal processing and visualization were conducted using the new Science Foundation Ireland–funded “Tinney” high-performance computing cluster in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Capturing the Beauty of Bubble Shadows and Exploring Their
Regularity
Authors: Miller Brad , Rosso Diego 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
An artist (Brad Miller) and an engineering researcher (Diego Rosso) met at a common point: their interest in bubbles. Miller is a visua artist whose interest in bubbles has evolved over several decades. He has developed unique ways of capturing bubbles’ mesmerizing and mysterious patterns both photographically and, more uniquely by making the high-resolution photograms of bubbles shown in this paper, allowing for detailed observation of their geometry, etc Rosso has observed the physical laws at work in these bubble patterns and distills the essence of these laws in this manuscript. This paper highlights some of their shared thoughts about what is revealed through these images.
Creative Futuring for More-Than-Human Worlds: Exhibitions as Sites to
Ponder Environmental Governance
Authors: Sheikh Hira , Deary Isabella , Davies Lowana-Skye , Davies Merinda , Foth Marcus , Mitchell Peta 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The article presents the Smart Urban Governance for More-than-Human Future(s) anthology, comprising six speculative creative works. It draws on techniques of futuring as a methodology to explore how creative practice as an act of futuring and exhibitions as sites to ponder environmenta governance can empower more-than-human futures. Reporting on participatory observations and semistructured interviews with the exhibition audience the article posits that creative futuring can empower futures by developing awareness that environmental governance can facilitate nonhuman agencies that conserve and repair the ecological world.
Eight-Month-Old Infants Meta-Learn by Downweighting Irrelevant Evidence
Authors: Poli Francesco , Ghilardi Tommaso , Mars Rogier B. , Hinne Max , Hunnius Sabine 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Infants learn to navigate the complexity of the physical and social world at an outstanding pace, but how they accomplish this learning is still largely unknown. Recent advances in human and artificial intelligence research propose that a key feature to achieving quick and efficient learning is meta-learning, the ability to make use of prior experiences to learn how to learn better in the future. Here we show that 8-month-old infants successfully engage in meta-learning within very short timespans after being exposed to a new learning environment. We developed a Bayesian model that captures how infants attribute informativity to incoming events, and how this process is optimized by the meta-parameters of their hierarchical models over the task structure. We fitted the model with infants’ gaze behavior during a learning task. Our results reveal how infants actively use past experiences to generate new inductive biases that allow future learning to proceed faster.
The Bayesian Mutation Sampler Explains Distributions of Causal Judgments
Authors: Kolvoort Ivar R. , Temme Nina , van Maanen Leendert 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
One consistent finding in the causal reasoning literature is that causal judgments are rather variable. In particular, distributions of probabilistic causal judgments tend not to be normal and are often not centered on the normative response. As an explanation for these response distributions, we propose that people engage in ‘mutation sampling’ when confronted with a causal query and integrate this information with prior information about that query. The Mutation Sampler model (Davis & Rehder, 2020) posits that we approximate probabilities using a sampling process, explaining the average responses of participants on a wide variety of tasks. Careful analysis, however, shows that its predicted response distributions do not match empirical distributions. We develop the Bayesian Mutation Sampler (BMS) which extends the original model by incorporating the use of generic prior distributions. We fit the BMS to experimental data and find that, in addition to average responses, the BMS explains multiple distributional phenomena including the moderate conservatism of the bulk of responses, the lack of extreme responses, and spikes of responses at 50%.
Digital Celebrity Diplomacy in the UN Security Council Elections: Canada, Ireland and Kenya
Authors: Bergman Rosamond Annika , Wright Katharine A. M. 
Published: May 2023

Summary
The 2020 UN Security Council (SC) elections concluded during a historical period defined by the global COVID-19 pandemic. As officials scrambled to organise a socially distanced election, the final stage of the campaigns was forced into the digital realm. To bolster candidate states’ chances of being elected to the SC, digital diplomacy became the primary mode of communication. Here we focus on the SC campaigns of Canada, Ireland and Kenya, which were defined by ‘digital celebrity diplomacy’. U2 and Celine Dion supported the national campaigns of Ireland and Canada, while Kenya drew on the recognition of a number of celebrity athletes to bolster its campaign’s national brand. Thus, we explore the convergence of celebrity and digital diplomacy in these SC campaigns, contributing to new understandings of the use of celebrity in transforming the projection and reception of strategic narratives when integrated with digital diplomacy during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Documenting Multilingualism and Contact
Authors: Grenoble Lenore A. , Martin Jack B. 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
In order to understand why languages become endangered, linguists must shift from documenting the last fluent speakers to documenting the larger ecology of language use in an area. The papers in this special issue all address different aspects of documenting language multilingualism. They address three related topics: (1) consideration of the state of multilingualism in endangered language ecologies; (2) tools and methods for transcribing, annotating, analyzing and presenting multilingual corpora; and (3) methods in documenting and studying language contact in process.
A Micro-Typology of Contact Effects in Four Tibeto-Burman Languages
Authors: Hildebrandt Kristine A. , Bond Oliver , Dhakal Dubi Nanda 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
When minority languages with similar typological profiles are in long-term contact with a genealogically unrelated socioeconomically dominant language, the perfect context is provided for investigating which observed contact effects are demonstrably allied to sociolinguistic dynamics rather than purely structural ones. This paper investigates the factors determining the different extent of contact effects in four Tibeto-Burman languages (Gurung, Gyalsumdo, Nar-Phu, and Manange) spoken in a geo-politically defined and multilingual region of Nepal. Using corpus data and sociolinguistic interviews collected in the field, we demonstrate that a range of social, economic and geo-spatial factors contribute to asymmetries where contact effects are observed in the four speech communities. These notably include factors specifically relevant in mountasin-based communities, including proximity to transport and trekking routes, outward migration effects on small settlements, and the primary economies of the different parts of the Manang District.
Documenting Multilingual Language Practices and the Erasure of Language Boundaries
Authors: Léglise Isabelle 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Although we know multilingualism is the norm, most previous work has focused on languages as self-contained entities. Research on language contact mostly assumes bounded languages or repertoires: most studies presuppose contact between stable “communities” and the identifiability of specific languages in bilingual (sometimes plurilingual) corpora. Similarly, language annotation in corpus linguistics is based on the principle of univocity of items belonging to specific languages. In this paper, I address the notion of language boundaries, constructed both by linguists and by language users, and consider heterogeneity as a linguistic resource for speakers in their everyday multilingual language practices. First, there is a need for a shift in focus from linguistic systems toward language users. Second, there is a need for a solid methodology to reveal the heterogeneity of language practices through the annotation of plurilingual corpora. Ambivalence or play on boundaries is a common characteristic of communication in multilingual contexts that we can document.
Collaboration in Innovation Systems: A Study in India
Authors: Pacheco Carla , Paul Bino 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The increased complexity in the current business environment connected with the globalisation of economies and rapid technological developments makes firms depend on innovation and, in the process, develop dense networks of relationships, making collaboration an essential requisite for innovation. Thus, collaboration develops based on complex social networks from which innovation emerges. From this perspective, collaboration takes a systematic approach, where social relationships are crucial. This article describes the innovation behaviour of firms operating in India and introduces collaboration as a system drawing from the systems theory and triple helix innovation model. The results of the mixed methods study conducted pointed toward a fragile collaboration framework. Triangulation was employed to provide a deeper understanding. Furthermore, limited understanding of collaboration as a social system has constrained social interactions, leading to limited knowledge production, application, and knowledge sharing, with technological development and innovation delays. The article lists crucial factors from the perspectives of industry and academia to foster a collaboration framework.