bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Fetal MRI of the supratentorial brain abnormalities: what we should know about ventriculomegaly?
Authors: Kuwashima Shigeko 
Published: July 2023

AbstractFetal MRI is performed to evaluate the brain in cases where an abnormality is detected by ultrasonography (US). Fetal MRI has higher contrast resolution than US. Because the fetal brain is dynamic structure, it is important to know the normal appearance of the brain at different gestational age to be better able to identify abnormalities using MRI. Fast imaging sequences to minimize artifact from fetal motion are required. The main sequences used are ultrafast T2 weighted imaging. Similar to pediatric neuroimaging, images are acquired in the axial, sagittal, and coronal planes. T1 weighted image and Gradient echo-planar T2 weighted images are performed to detect hemorrhage. Ventriculomegaly is the most common central nervous system abnormality identified on US. The causes of ventriculomegaly are very heterogeneous and include developmental, destructive, and obstructive processes, or a combination thereof. MRI improves diagnostic accuracy and can be used to evaluate the etiology of the ventriculomegaly. Moreover, MRI can play an important role in detecting additional findings, which may help to focus on patient counseling and management. This review summarizes and illustrates common pattern of ventriculomegaly due to mainly supratentorial abnormalities.
Cardio-oncology: Shared Genetic, Metabolic, and Pharmacologic Mechanism
Authors: Zhao Yiqi , Jia Hao , Hua Xiumeng , An Tao , Song Jiangping 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Purpose of Review
The article aims to investigate the complex relationship between cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD), with a focus on the effects of cancer treatment on cardiac health.

Recent Findings
Advances in cancer treatment have improved long-term survival rates, but CVD has emerged as a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. The interplay between cancer itself, treatment methods, homeostatic changes, and lifestyle modifications contributes to this comorbidity. Recent research in the field of cardio-oncology has revealed common genetic mutations, risk factors, and metabolic features associated with the co-occurrence of cancer and CVD.

Summary
This article provides a comprehensive review of the latest research in cardio-oncology, including common genetic mutations, risk factors, and metabolic features, and explores the interactions between cancer treatment and CVD drugs, proposing novel approaches for the management of cancer and CVD.
Oxidative stress-related markers as prognostic factors for patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis in Japan
Authors: Oyama Atsushi , Takaki Akinobu , Adachi Takuya , Wada Nozomu , Takeuchi Yasuto , Onishi Hideki , Shiraha Hidenori , Okada Hiroyuki , Otsuka Motoyuki 
Published: July 2023

AbstractBackground/purposePrimary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare chronic liver disease. The mechanisms and prediction of PSC progression are unclear. Recent investigations have shown that general conditions, such as oxidative stress, affect the course of chronic diseases. We investigated the clinical course and oxidative stress-related condition of PSC to determine prognostic factors.MethodsWe recruited 58 patients with PSC (mean age; 37.4 years, mean observation period; 1382 days) who visited our department from 2003 to 2021. Clinical characteristics were investigated to define prognostic factors. Oxidative stress status was evaluated using two types of markers: an oxidative stress marker (serum reactive oxygen metabolite; dROM) and an antioxidant marker (serum OXY adsorbent test; OXY).ResultsThe revised Mayo risk, Child–Pugh, model for end-stage liver disease-sodium (MELD-Na) scores or fibrosis-related FIB-4 index significantly predicted poor overall survival. High intestinal immunoglobulin A (IgA) levels predicted poor survival. Among patients with high and intermediate revised Mayo risk scores, those with physiologically high dROM levels showed better survival than those with lower dROM levels. In this population, dROM was negatively correlated with AST and IgA, which are both correlated with survival.ConclusionsHigh and intermediate revised Mayo risk score group predicted a poor clinical course in PSC. Additionally, the Child–Pugh score, MELD-Na score, FIB-4 index, and serum IgA were significantly correlated with survival. In patients with high and intermediate revised Mayo risk scores, physiologically high oxidative stress status correlated with low IgA levels and a good prognosis.
Assessing the Readability of Online Health Information for Colonoscopy — Analysis of Articles in 22 European Languages
Authors: Skrzypczak Tomasz , Mamak Michał 
Published: July 2023

AbstractPatients often search on the Internet information about different medical conditions and procedures. This study aimed to evaluate online health information on colonoscopy, focusing on quantity and comprehensibility of internet resources dedicated to the colonoscopy. This information could be used by European Union (EU) colorectal cancer (CRC) screening providers to address patient’s unfilled educational needs, fear of colonoscopy, and other barriers that deter from CRC screening. The term “colonoscopy” translated into 22 official EU languages was searched using the Google search engine. For each translation, generated list of websites was assessed with Google Translate. The first 50 websites in each language were assessed for suitability. Records in other languages were excluded. Included websites were free, focused on patient education, and did not have password. Readability assessments were performed with Lix score. A total of 588 websites in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish were evaluated. The overall mean Lix score was 56 ± 8 and was classified as very hard to comprehend. There were significant differences in mean Lix scores across the included languages (P<.001). There was not significant correlation (R2 = 0.1, P = 0.142) between Lix score and number of search hits. Although there was a wealth of online patient information on colonoscopy, the comprehensibility of the available information is low. Physician guidance to reliable resources could increase patient’s willingness to undergo a screening colonoscopy.
Simulation of passive exotendon assistive device for agricultural harvesting task
Authors: Chan Yon Sin , Teo Yu Xuan , Gouwanda Darwin , Nurzaman Surya Girinatha , Gopalai Alpha Agape 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThis study proposes and investigates the feasibility of the passive assistive device to assist agricultural harvesting task and reduce the Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD) risk of harvesters using computational musculoskeletal modelling and simulations. Several passive assistive devices comprised of elastic exotendon, which acts in parallel with different back muscles (rectus abdominis, longissimus, and iliocostalis), were designed and modelled. These passive assistive devices were integrated individually into the musculoskeletal model to provide passive support for the harvesting task. The muscle activation, muscle force, and joint moment were computed with biomechanical simulations for unassisted and assisted motions. The simulation results demonstrated that passive assistive devices reduced muscle activation, muscle force, and joint moment, particularly when the devices were attached to the iliocostalis and rectus abdominis. It was also discovered that assisting the longissimus muscle can alleviate the workload by distributing a portion of it to the rectus abdominis. The findings in this study support the feasibility of adopting passive assistive devices to reduce the MSD risk of the harvesters during agricultural harvesting. These findings can provide valuable insights to the engineers and designers of physical assistive devices on which muscle(s) to assist during agricultural harvesting.
Biosynthesis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles using probiotic bacterial strain, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, and evaluate of their biocompatibility and antifungal activity
Authors: Abdel-Maksoud Gomaa , Abdel-Nasser Mahmoud , Hassan Saad El-Din , Eid Ahmed M. , Abdel-Nasser Aya , Fouda Amr 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The main goal of the current study is to biosynthesize titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2-NPs) using green approach to biocontrol of different fungal strains isolated from historical Description of Egypt book. Nineteen fungal strains were isolated from deteriorated parts and identified by the traditional and molecular methods as Aspergillus flavus (8-isolates), Aspergillus versicolor (2-isolates), Aspergillus ustus (4-isolates), Aspergillus chinensis (2-isolates), Penicillium citrinum (2-isolates), and Penicillium chrysogenum (1-isolate). These fungal strains showed high cellulase, amylase, pectinase, and gelatinase activities which have a significant role in biodeterioration. The biomass filtrate of probiotic strain, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, was used to fabricate TiO2-NPs which characterized by UV-Vis, FT-IR, XRD, TEM, SEM, EDX, DLS, and zeta potential. The obtained data showed the successful formation of spherical and anatase phase NPs with sizes of 3–7 nm and zeta potential values of – 19.9 and – 36.8 mV. The main components of as-formed nanomaterial were Ti and O with weight percentages of 55.91 and 46.25, respectively. The biocompatibility of synthesized TiO2-NPs was investigated toward two normal cell lines, WI38 and HFB4, which reveal the low toxicity at high concentrations (IC50 > 300 μg mL–1). Therefore, concentrations ≤ 300 μg mL–1 were used to biocontrol of isolated fungi. Data showed the promising activity of various concentrations (300, 200, and 100 μg mL–1) of TiO2-NPs to inhibit the growth of fungal strains with varied inhibition zones and dose-dependent manner. This study exhibited the efficacy of probiotic bacterial strains in the synthesis of TiO2-NPs that can be used to preserve historical books from fungal deterioration.

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Functional Traits in Bees: the Role of Body Size and Hairs in the Pollination of a Passiflora Crop
Authors: Cortés-Gómez Angela M. , González-Chaves Adrián , Urbina-Cardona Nicolás , Garibaldi Lucas A. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractPollination is a vitally important function in nature and becomes an ecosystem service because it influences the food and nutritional security for people. However, the contribution of different functional traits of insects for pollen transport of plants is still poorly known. We explore the relationship between pollinator insect functional traits and the transport of pollen of sweet granadilla (Passiflora ligularis Juss) in eight crops. We sampled flower-visiting insects of this crop and recorded 10 functional traits (five by direct measurements and five from the literature) that were related to the amount of pollen carried by each insect. Bees (Apidae) were not only the most abundant insects but also the ones that loaded the highest amounts of pollen. Within these, the most abundant species was the exotic common honeybee (Apis mellifera (Linnaeus)) making up almost half of the specimens collected; however, this bee carried less pollen grains than other native bees. Bombus hortulanus (Smith) was one of the large-bodied native bees that carried more sweet granadilla pollen, despite not being an abundant species in the community. Body size was the most important trait determining the transport of sweet granadilla pollen, while the traits related to body hairs were not significant for the body’s pollen load. None of the functional traits evaluated was influenced by taxonomy at species-level. Our results suggest that large body sizes in bees are the most important traits in granadilla pollen transport, regardless of other changes in composition and structure of pollinating insect assemblages in the crop.
Dynamic modelling of price expectations and judgments
Authors: Simone Rosaria , Corduas Marcella , Piccolo Domenico 
Published: July 2023

AbstractOfficial data about consumers’ qualitative expectation and perception of inflation are derived from repeated surveys conducted by national statistical institutes. In EU, these data are published in aggregate form, and cannot be described by means of classical methods based on cumulative models for ordinal data. This article illustrates an integrated approach that locates CUB mixture models for ratings in a time series perspective in order to investigate the joint evolution of inflation judgments and expectations in Italy. In order to measure the common sentiment of interviewees through the feeling component of the model, net of possible uncertainty and nuisance effects, its estimation is pursued through profile likelihood methods given the empirical frequency distributions of consumers’ opinions observed over time. Then, the relationship between the time series of the estimated feeling parameters is modelled using a dynamic regression model and the results are compared in three periods marked by different economic conditions. Results indicate that each series has a substantial inertial component, and thus it is characterized by a slow variation over time, and that both judgments about past price levels and previous expectations affect current expectations about the future in fairly different ways for the three time periods.
Extended plant cognition: a critical consideration of the concept
Authors: Parise André Geremia , Marder Michael 
Published: July 2023

AbstractWithin the framework of studies of plants as cognitive organisms, there is a hypothesis that plant cognitive processes are not enclosed within their bodies but extend to the environment. The extended plant cognition (EPC) hypothesis suggests that when plants modify the environment around them through the release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), root exudates, and the sustenance of mycorrhizal networks, they extend their sensorial apparatus and externalize a part of their information-processing system. As a result, a plant can no longer be seen as an isolated organism easily distinguishable from its milieu. In this article, we discuss the implications of understanding plants as extended cognitive organisms and assess four test cases that corroborate the EPC hypothesis, one for each possible channel of extended plant cognition discussed here. We conclude that this new approach can redefine how we understand plants and their environment. EPC may also be a fruitful source of inspiration to develop new techniques in agriculture by enhancing the external elements of plant cognition.
An integrated differential evolution of multi-population based on contribution degree
Authors: Wang Yufeng , Yang Hao , Xu Chunyu , Zeng Yunjie , Xu Guoqing 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The differential evolution algorithm based on multi-population mainly improves its performance through mutation strategy and grouping mechanism. However, each sub-population plays a different role in different periods of iterative evolution. If each sub-population is assigned the same computing resources, it will waste a lot of computing resources. In order to rationally distribute computational resources, an integrated differential evolution of multi-population based on contribution degree (MDE-ctd) is put forth in this work. In MDE-ctd, the whole population is divided into three sub-populations according to different update strategies: archival, exploratory, and integrated sub-populations. MDE-ctd dynamically adjusts computing resources according to the contribution degree of each sub-population. It can effectively use computing resources and speed up convergence. In the updating process of integrated sub-populations, a mutation strategy pool and two-parameter value pools are used to maintain population diversity. The experimental results of CEC2005 and CEC2014 benchmark functions show that MDE-ctd outperforms other state-of-art differential evolution algorithms based on multi-population, especially when it deals with highly complex optimization problems.

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An integrated differential evolution of multi-population based on contribution degree
Hermite–Hadamard-type Inequalities for $$\hbar$$-preinvex Interval-Valued Functions via Fractional Integral
Authors: Tan Yun , Zhao Dafang , Sarikaya Mehmet Zeki 
Published: July 2023

AbstractWe present a comprehensive study on Hermite–Hadamard-type inequalities for interval-valued functions that are $$\hbar$$
ħ
-preinvex, using the Riemann–Liouville fractional integral. Our research extends and generalizes some existing results found in the literature. In addition, we provide accurate proofs for the main theorems originally derived by Srivastava et al. in their publication titled “Hermite–Hadamard Type Inequalities for Interval-Valued Preinvex Functions via Fractional Integral Operators" (Int. J. Comput. Int. Sys. 15(1):8, 2022). Finally, we illustrate our findings through a practical example to demonstrate the validity of our results.
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Research on Feature Extraction and Diagnosis Method of Gearbox Vibration Signal Based on VMD and ResNeXt
Authors: Dou Shuihai , Liu Yanlin , Du Yanping , Wang Zhaohua , Jia Xiaomei 
Published: July 2023

AbstractAiming at the nonlinear and non-stationarity of gearbox fault signals and the confusion among different fault categories, a gear fault diagnosis method combining variational mode decomposition, reconstruction and ResNeXt is proposed in this paper. In this paper, parameter K of VMD is determined according to the changing trend of sample entropy (SE), K modal components are obtained after decomposition, and the effective modal components are extracted and reconstructed according to Pearson autocorrelation coefficient, so as to remove redundant information from the original signal. Then the reconstructed signal is transformed by time–frequency and output two-dimensional time–frequency information, which is used as the input of ResNeXt model to extract the characteristics of different faults. Moreover, the model performance is improved by changing the learning rate decline rate, and a fault diagnosis model with high precision and good stability is established.
Novelty and the demand for private regulation: Evidence from data privacy governance
Authors: Beaumier Guillaume 
Published: July 2023

AbstractPrivate regulations are often presented as low-cost and flexible institutions that can act as policy incubators. In this article, I question under which conditions they go beyond legal compliance and experiment with new rules. Based on a content analysis of 126 data privacy regulations adopted between 1995 and 2016 in the European Union and the United States and thirty-five semistructured interviews, I show that most private regulations include no regulatory novelties. By disaggregating the temporal and spatial distribution of the few novelties, I add nuance to this overall finding and show that private regulations adopted in the United States before 2000 experimented more than others. I argue that this variation reflects the different demands for private regulation in the two jurisdictions and their evolution over time. In the European Union, the early adoption of privacy laws led public regulators and businesses to look for private regulations to reduce transaction costs and thus limited their interest in experimenting with new requirements. In the United States, businesses hoped to gain a first-mover advantage by including new data privacy rules in their private regulations. However, the growing use of private regulations to ease transnational data flows also led to their use as tools to reduce transaction costs.
“Where the Aura of a Tyrant Remains”: Absent Presence and Mnemonic Remains of Socialist-Era Monuments
Authors: Andrejevs Dmitrijs 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThis article is dedicated to the absent presence and mnemonic remains of the socialist-era monuments in eastern Europe. Mnemonic remains is a metaphor I employ in this paper to direct our attention to the physical absence of monuments after their removal. But it also speaks of a monument’s role in absentia, its continued existence in and its effects on the collective memory beyond its physical presence. The phenomenon, sporadically acknowledged but rarely subject of investigation in academic literature, is explored and illustrated through the lens of the removed V.I. Lenin monument in Riga. The absent monument, I contend, performs the function of a phantom monument, exerting mnemonic agency beyond its physical presence through its representational value for other memory projects. This is highlighted through the study of the proposed and completed, but never unveiled, monument to Konstantīns Čakste on the site of the former Lenin monument in Riga.
Elite Nationalism and the Crumbling of Multi-Ethnic Coexistence: Habsburg Dalmatia and the Language Question in the Wake of Italian Unification
Authors: Maritan Mario 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThe emergence of Italian nationalism in general, and in Habsburg Dalmatia in particular, has escaped any systematic theorizing in the field of nationalism studies. In the 1860s, changing geopolitical scenarios, resulting from the process of Italian unification, triggered a heated debate among Italian- and Slavic-speaking Dalmatian politicians and intellectuals over the introduction of equal status for the Italian language and Slavic-Dalmatian. Although Italian-speaking Dalmatians constituted a very tiny minority of the population of the Austrian province, the Italian language had a dominant role in public life as a legacy of previous Venetian colonial rule. While the majority of the Slavic-Dalmatian intelligentsia and political elites sought rights for the local Slavic language in public life without undermining the existence of Italian, Italian-speaking elites opposed measures aimed at language equality in their attempt to maintain their privileged position within Dalmatian society. In the same period, Niccolò Tommaseo emerged as the leading figure against any concessions to Slavs, thus distancing himself from his previous “multinational” ideas and igniting anti-Slavic Italian nationalism in the region. And the nationalist tropes used by Italian-speaking Dalmatians, Tommaseo included, mirrored the very same primordialist rhetoric of modern-day nationalist leaders, from Russia to China.
Dilatation Eustachian tuboplasty with a Eustachian tube video endoscope and supporting balloon
Authors: Zhang Huasong , Zhang Qing , He Kunwu , Chen Minqi , Chen Yucheng , Su Dongliang , Tang Haobin , Lin Weifen , Chen Shuhua 
Published: July 2023

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the feasibility and safety of employing a Eustachian tube video endoscope with a supporting balloon as a viable treatment and examination option for patients with Eustachian tube dysfunction.MethodsA study involving nine fresh human cadaver heads was conducted to investigate the potential of balloon dilatation Eustachian tuboplasty using a Eustachian tube video endoscope and a supporting balloon catheter. The Eustachian tube cavity was examined with the Eustachian tube video endoscope during the procedure, which involved the dilatation of the cartilaginous portion of the Eustachian tube with the supporting balloon catheter.ResultsThe utilisation of the Eustachian tube video endoscope in conjunction with the supporting balloon catheter demonstrated technical ease during the procedure, with no observed damage to essential structures, particularly the Eustachian tube cavity.ConclusionThis newly introduced method of dilatation and examination of the Eustachian tube cavity using a Eustachian tube video endoscope and the supporting balloon is a feasible, safe procedure.