bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Cervical Chondrocutaneous Branchial Remnants: A Rare Congenital Anomaly of the Neck. A Case Series, Literature Review, and Associated Anomalies
Authors: Şimşekcan Efe , Sarıay Büşra , Turcan Didem 
Published: August 2023

AbstractCervical chondrocutaneous branchial remnants (CCBRs) are rare anomalies found in the neck. These remnants can be easily misdiagnosed due to their low incidence, and they are often associated with other anomalies. Previous studies have reported an association with other anomalies in up to 76% of cases. In this article, the authors present a case series of two patients with bilateral CCBRs and investigate the associated anomalies through a literature review. Patients diagnosed with CCBRs who presented with cervical masses were included. Records were reviewed to investigate factors such as sex, location of the CCBRs, associated anomalies, timing of operations, and cartilage pathology. A surgical excision technique was employed, and the study also included a literature review focusing on reports related to CCBRs and associated anomalies. Two patients, a 3-year-old boy and a 17-year-old adolescent girl, with bilateral CCBRs underwent surgical excision. Patient demographics, prevalence, and characteristics of associated anomalies in CCBR cases were documented in the literature review. This case series presented two successful surgical excisions of CCBRs without complications or recurrence at 1 year of follow-up. The study emphasized the importance of thorough evaluation and assessment for associated anomalies in various body systems due to the potential co-occurrence of CCBRs with other anomalies.
Multidisciplinary Management of Lateral Skull Base Paragangliomas: A 20-Year Experience
Authors: Cleere Eoin F. , Mc Loughlin Laura , McArdle Orla , Fitzpatrick David , Looby Seamus , Rawluk D. , Javadpour Mohsen , McConn-Walsh Rory 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
Objectives Paragangliomas of the lateral skull base are rare, largely benign, neuroendocrine tumors. Little evidence exists to support clinicians in the management of these tumors. The present study evaluates considerations in the multidisciplinary workup and management of paragangliomas affecting the lateral skull base.
Methods A STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) checklist compliant retrospective review of adult patients with lateral skull base paragangliomas over 20 years (2002–2021) was performed. Patient and tumor data were collected from patient health care records.
Results Seventy patients were identified including 21 (30.0%) males and 49 (70.0%) females. The mean length of follow-up was 87.3 months (range: 12–239 months). Twenty-nine (41.4%) patients had Fisch A or B tumors. Overall, 57 patients (81.4%) were offered treatment upfront, with 13 patients (18.6%) initially undergoing active surveillance. Younger age and reduced American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade was significantly associated with a decision to offer treatment at presentation (both p = 0.03), while all patients with succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) mutations (n = 10) and tumor secretion (n = 4) were offered treatment. Patients with Fisch A/B tumors (p = 0.01), cranial neuropathies (p = 0.01), and smaller tumors (p = 0.01) were more likely to undergo surgical resection. At the time of the last follow-up, the proportion of patients with a cranial neuropathy was notably lower in the observation (3/12, 25.0%) and radiotherapy (1/6, 16.7%) groups.
Conclusion In our series, younger, fitter patients with SDH mutations, cranial neuropathies, or tumor secretion were more likely to be offered upfront treatment. There was a low incidence of new cranial neuropathy in the patients selected for observation during long-term follow-up.
Endoscopic Multiportal Approaches to Meckel's Cave: A Cadaveric Study and a Three-Dimensional Anatomical Video
Authors: Salem Eman H. , Abd El-Fattah Ahmed Musaad , Ebada Hisham Atef , Koevering Kyle van , Hardesty Douglas A. , Prevedello Daniel M. , Al-Saddeik Mohamed Abd El-halem , Carrau Ricardo L. 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
Objective This cadaveric study aims to illustrate the lateral transorbital (LTO), transantral transpterygoid (TATP), and endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEA) to Meckel's cave (MC), defining their surgical freedom, area of exposure, and advantages and limitations; thus, refining their respective indications.
Design Cadaveric study.
Setting The Anatomical Laboratory for Visuospatial Innovations in Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery (ALT-VISION) at the Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center.
Participants Bilateral dissections of five injected cadavers (10 sides).
Main Outcome Measures Distance to targets, surgical freedom, and area of exposure provided by the EEA, TATP, and LTO approaches.
Results The TATP approach provides superior surgical freedom to foramen rotundum (167.70 ± 29.762 mm). However, surgical freedom to foramen ovale was best when using the LTO approach (75.01 ± 15.773 mm). The EEA provides a superior exposure of the medial MC (mean area of 587.69 ± 38.59 mm2). The LTO and TATP approaches provide equivalent access to the lateral MC (ranging from 468.90 ± 26.98 mm2 for TATP to 650.11 ± 35.76 mm2 for the LTO approach). Combining approaches increases the area of exposure significantly (1,237.79 ± 48.41 mm2 and 1,056.59 ± 48.12 mm2 for EEA and LTO vs. EEA and TATP).
Conclusion This study thoroughly emphasizes the pros and cons of the aforementioned approaches. Each approach may be applied in selected cases as a single or as part of a combined technique. However, conventional approaches are still indicated according to extent and pathology.
Level of Evidence: V.
Functional and Radiographic Outcomes of Cavernous Meningiomas Based on Treatment Modality
Authors: Laing Brandon , Feller Christina , Treffy Randall , Montoure Andrew , Best Benjamin , Zwagerman Nathan T. 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
Introduction Cavernous sinus meningiomas (CSMs) are challenging given their proximity to neurovascular structures. Treatments include surgery, radiation, or observation. There are little data comparing outcomes based on treatment. This study presents the radiographic and functional outcomes of patients with CSMs treated with either radiation, surgical resection ± radiation, or radiographic surveillance.
Methods This is a retrospective review of adults diagnosed with CSMs between 2009 and 2016. Patient and tumor characteristics and outcomes were obtained from chart review. Categorical and continuous variables were compared via nonparametric tests.
Results Sixty-four patients were diagnosed with CSMs between 2009 and 2016. Thirty-four had radiation. Thirteen had surgical resection with adjuvant radiation and 14 underwent observation.Fifty-four patients had a pretreatment deficit (84.4%). Radiographic control rates were 100% in the surgery group, 97.1% in the radiation group, 69.2% in the surgery + adjuvant radiation, and 90.9% in the observation group (p = 0.035). The radiotherapy group had complete improvement of symptoms in 32.4% and partial improvement in 23.1% (p = 0.022). In the surgery group, one patient had complete resolution of symptoms (6.3%), eight had partial improvement (50.0%), and seven patients had no improvement (p = 0.002). Surgery was more likely to lead to progression of symptoms posttreatment (odds ratio: 5.16, confidence interval: 1.309–20.34) (p = 0.019).
Conclusion Radiation has an excellent rate of radiographic control. Surgery is an option for large or symptomatic lesions. The role of surgery is primarily for vision preservation, decompression of cranial nerves, and tumor debulking and patients should be counseled extensively regarding treatment goals and expectations prior to surgery.
Group norms and policy norms trigger different autonomous motivations for Chinese investors in cryptocurrency investment
Authors: Gong Yongzhi , Tang Xiaofei , Chang En-Chung 
Published: August 2023

AbstractCryptocurrency has become a hot area of global investment. Despite the increasing regulation of cryptocurrencies, some investors are still obsessed with investing in cryptocurrencies, and the reasons behind this are worth exploring. Emerging studies from a cryptocurrency behavioural perspective demonstrate that investments in cryptocurrency are influenced by a variety of factors, but ignore the objective factor of the political environment. Based on social norms theory, this article explores the impact of group norms and policy norms on Chinese investors’ autonomous motivation to invest in cryptocurrencies. This article adopts a questionnaire and investigates 727 Chinese investors. Research has found that: (1) Cryptocurrency investment is influenced by group norms and policy norms, and autonomous motivation serves as a mediator in the process. Group norms promote autonomous motivation among investors, thereby increasing cryptocurrency investment. Conversely, policy norms inhibit investors’ autonomous motivation and reduce cryptocurrency investment. (2) Cryptocurrency knowledge plays a moderating role between social norms and autonomous motivation. The moderating effects of investors’ subjective and objective knowledge of cryptocurrency in the model have no significant differences, showing a consistent suppressing effect on autonomous motivation. The findings suggest governments should focus on both regulations and public opinion. On the one hand, the government needs to strengthen and improve the laws and regulations related to cryptocurrencies. On the other hand, the government also needs to strengthen social supervision and exercise necessary control in the dissemination of cryptocurrency information.
Phenotypic and genetic relationships for feed intake, feed efficiency, body composition and cow milk yield measured postweaning and in mature beef cows
Authors: Archer J. A. , Reverter A. , Herd R. M. , Arthur P. F. 
Published: August 2023

Context Providing feed is the largest cost in beef production. Genetic variation exists in feed efficiency traits in young cattle but the genetic associations with feed efficiency traits in cows are poorly understood, but if strong and favourable, they might be used to improve feed efficiency of cows. Aim To examine the phenotypic and genetic relationships among feed intake, feed efficiency, body composition and cow milk yield measured in young cattle and in cows. Methods Data on 1783 young Angus, Hereford, Polled Hereford and Shorthorn bulls and heifers, and for 751 of the females as cows, were used to calculate the phenotypic and genetic relationships among feed efficiency traits, body composition and cow milk yield measured postweaning and in mature cows. The young cattle were tested for feed intake and feed efficiency at approximately 9 months of age and the females, after two calvings, were tested again as non-pregnant, non-lactating cows at approximately 4 years of age. Key results At the postweaning test, the heritability estimates for feed intake, average daily gain, test weight, residual feed intake (RFI), feed conversion ratio, rump fat depth and eye-muscle area were 0.47, 0.32, 0.46, 0.42, 0.28, 0.47 and 0.20 respectively. Corresponding heritability estimates in the cow test were 0.27, 0.35, 0.74, 0.22, 0.30, 0.47 and 0.12. Heritability estimates for 400-day weight, cow 4-year weight and cow milk yield were 0.47, 0.62 and 0.15 respectively. Genetic correlations between traits measured postweaning and the same traits measured in the cow were moderate to high, and for the feed efficiency trait, RFI, was very high (0.95), close to unity. Conclusions Inclusion of postweaning RFI as a selection criterion in beef cattle breeding can be expected to lead to improvement in cow feed efficiency. Implications Most breeding decisions in beef cattle are based on traits measured early in life and for replacement heifers are made with an aim to improve their productivity and profitability as cows. The strong and favourable associations measured between postweaning RFI and cow RFI mean that feed efficiency measured in young cattle can be used as a selection trait to improve cow feed efficiency.
Bilingualism and language control
Authors: Calabria Marco 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
The field of neuropsychology can contribute to
bilingualism research from a multidisciplinary perspective that
ranges from psycholinguistics and brain imaging studies. While the
psycholinguistic approach provides the outlook on linguistic
processes in experimental study of patients with brain damage,
neural models define the underlying brain areas of such processes
and help to predict language deficits in said patients. Current
neural models of bilingualism do not provide accurate predictions of
deficits in bilinguals with brain damage since they have not been
tested in a systematic way. However, they do offer a roadmap for the
underlying cognitive and linguistic processes of bilingual language
control and speech production. In this chapter, I propose how a
neurolinguistic approach to bilingualism might be implemented in
neuropsychology by including: (a) the application of traditional
methods of cognitive (neuro)psychology to the field of bilingualism,
such as dissociations, (b) the use of psycholinguistic methods, and
(c) how neurodegenerative diseases may be a neuropsychological
paradigm in which one can study bilingual language processes.
England and Wales
Authors: Koller Veronika 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
This chapter analyses the discourse of supporters of the
populist Brexit Party, as it manifested itself on Instagram during the
campaign for the 2019 European elections. Based on eleven posts with high
numbers of comments and replies, it shows how supporters use social actor
representation, evaluation and violence metaphors to create a scenario in
which the EU and its representatives oppress the British people, mainstream
parties betray the interests of the people and the Brexit Party and its
leader saves them from both. Original posts are recontextualised by
intensifying their message, by negatively evaluating EU officials and rival
parties, or by answering rhetorical questions in the original post. During
the EU election campaign, Brexit Party supporters shed their victim status
and reclaim agency through voting. Both support and voting decisions become
an expression of British identity where the perceived oppression and treason
are extended to the homeland as a whole, metonymically conflating Leave
voters with Britain, and are linked to historical narratives.
Spain
Authors: Filardo-Llamas Laura 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
This chapter explores how populist traits permeate
Vox’s supporters’ discursive construction of this
political party, of the nation, and of other political and social actors.
The analysis is based on a corpus of 400 tweets produced during the 2019
European and general elections. The qualitative analysis uses tools from
cognitive linguistics, mostly related to positioning and framing, and
multimodality. Findings show a nativist trait in the discursive blend
established between the political party, its supporters and the nation. The
construction of the Other is varied, comprising other political parties and
social groups. The existence of Vox is legitimised by
supporters as a means for maintaining a Spanish identity both within Spain
and Europe. The centrality of the nation is seen both in the textual and
visual mode of the tweets, where emojis abound.
France
Authors: Stopfner Maria 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
This chapter aims to uncover possible motives of the
French electorate to support the right-wing populist Rassemblement
National (National Rally) in the 2019 elections to the European
Parliament analysing public discourse on Twitter with a view to identity
construction and recontextualisation. Assuming that supporters respond
differently to long-time party leader Marine Le Pen than to “France’s
far-right boy wonder” (Momtaz
2019) Jordan Bardella, the lead candidate in the 2019 European
elections, the qualitative analysis examines the extent to which populist
supporters adapt their line of argumentation to the respective political
champion based on 801 tweets that were published on Marine Le Pen’s and
Jordan Bardella’s official Twitter accounts. The results for France show
that even though Marine Le Pen has turned the formerly right-extremist
Front National into a “modern” populist party that is
also appealing to a broader electorate, the basic premisses of far-right
ideology stay the same for both, populist leaders as well as supporters:
There is a difference between the French and others, and the French people
need to come first. What is most striking in terms of identity construction
and recontextualisation is the fact that populist argumentation and rhetoric
are taken up by supporters in such a way that they are no longer seen as
belonging to far-right ideology, but are recontextualised as common
sense.
Disability as dialogue
Authors: Christensen-Strynø Maria Bee , Phillips Louise , Frølunde Lisbeth 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
This chapter takes a view of disability as embodied
knowing. This knowing formed the basis for a collaborative research process
between dancers with Parkinson’s disease, dance practitioners and university
researchers. Drawing on dialogic communication theory and critical
disability studies, we develop a dialogic and discursive theorization of
embodied knowing by centering on the productive particularities of disabled
embodiment in and about Parkinson’s dance as important forms and sites of
knowledge production. The analysis focuses on data from dance sessions and
discussion panels in a dance and research symposium in which disability is
examined and thematized in terms of productive ways of knowing. By
displaying critical insights into dialogic enactments and articulations of
embodied knowing, the analysis shows how a framing of disability
as dialogue enriches our understanding of particular
marginalized forms of embodiment in and about dance.
Current fluctuations in an interacting active lattice gas
Authors: Jose Stephy , Dandekar Rahul , Ramola Kabir 
Published: August 2023

AbstractWe study the fluctuations of the integrated density current across the origin up to timeTin a lattice model of active particles with hard-core interactions. This model is amenable to an exact description within a fluctuating hydrodynamics framework. We focus on quenched initial conditions for both the density and the magnetization fields and derive expressions for the cumulants of the density current, which can be matched with direct numerical simulations of the microscopic lattice model. For the case of uniform initial profiles, we show that the variance of the integrated current displays three regimes: an initialTrise with a coefficient given by the symmetric simple exclusion process, a cross-over regime where the effects of activity increase the fluctuations, and a large-timeTbehavior with a prefactor that depends on the initial conditions, the Péclet number, and the mean density of particles. Additionally, we study the limit of zero diffusion, where the fluctuations intriguingly exhibit aT2behavior at short times. However, at large times, the fluctuations still grow asT, with a coefficient that can be calculated explicitly. For low densities, we show that this coefficient can be expressed in terms of the effective diffusion constantDefffor non-interacting active particles.
Factorization of density matrices in the critical RSOS models
Authors: Westerfeld Daniel , Großpietsch Maxime , Kakuschke Hannes , Frahm Holger 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
We study reduced density matrices of the integrable critical restricted solid-on-solid (RSOS) model in a particular topological sector containing the ground state. Similar as in the spin-

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Combined Effects of Ultraviolet Irradiation and Magnetic Field on the Properties of Dip-coated ZnO thin films
Authors: Chalabi Lougen M , Loucif Aicha , Alarfaj Esam A 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
In this study, four ZnO thin films were deposited on FTO substrates using the sol–gel dip coating method to examine their microstructural, morphological, and optical properties through various techniques. Three of them were subjected to ultraviolet (UV) light, magnetic field (MF), and a combination of UV and MF during deposition, referred as ZnO: UV, ZnO: MF, and ZnO: (UV+MF), respectively. The results obtained showed that the simultaneous UV and MF exposure improved the crystallinity and surface homogeneity of the as-deposited film. Moreover, ZnO: (UV+MF) film exhibited an average transparency of 80% in the visible region and a high optical bandgap (3.67 eV). Room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectra revealed a weak UV emission and a strong violet emission peaks for all films. However, the violet emission intensity being lower in ZnO: UV and ZnO: MF films due to a reduction in zinc interstitials (Zni) defects, The simultaneous UV and MF exposure did not reduce Zni defects, and the violet emission intensity was almost identical to that of the untreated film. These findings suggest that the ZnO: (UV+MF) film can be a promising candidate for the development of ultraviolet and violet lasers and light-emitting diodes.
Infernal and exceptional edge modes: non-Hermitian topology beyond the skin effect
Authors: Denner M Michael , Neupert Titus , Schindler Frank 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
The classification of point gap topology in all local non-Hermitian (NH) symmetry classes has been recently established. However, many entries in the resulting periodic table have only been discussed in a formal setting and still lack a physical interpretation in terms of their bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we derive the edge signatures of all two-dimensional phases with intrinsic point gap topology. While in one dimension point gap topology invariably leads to the NH skin effect, NH boundary physics is significantly richer in two dimensions. We find two broad classes of non-Hermitian edge states: (1) infernal points, where a skin effect occurs only at a single edge momentum, while all other edge momenta are devoid of edge states. Under semi-infinite boundary conditions, the point gap thereby closes completely, but only at a single edge momentum. (2) NH exceptional point dispersions, where edge states persist at all edge momenta and furnish an anomalous number of symmetry-protected exceptional points. Surprisingly, the latter class of systems allows for a finite, non-extensive number of edge states with a well defined dispersion along all generic edge terminations. Concomitantly, the point gap only closes along the real and imaginary eigenvalue axes, realizing a novel form of NH spectral flow.