bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Advanced materials foresight: research and innovation indicators related to advanced and smart nanomaterials
Authors: Farcal Lucian , Munoz Pineiro Amalia , Riego Sintes Juan , Rauscher Hubert , Rasmussen Kirsten 
Published: December 2022

Background: Advanced materials are most likely to bring future economic, environmental and social benefits. At the same time, they may pose challenges regarding their safety and sustainability along the entire lifecycle. This needs to be timely addressed by the stakeholders (industry, research, policy, funding and regulatory bodies). As part of a larger foresight project, this study aimed to identify areas of scientific research and technological development related to advanced materials, in particular advanced nanomaterials and the sub-group of smart nanomaterials. The study identified and collected data to build relevant research and innovation indicators and analyse trends, impact and other implications. Methods: This study consisted of an iterative process including a documentation phase followed by the identification, description and development of a set of core research and innovation indicators regarding scientific publications, EU projects and patents. The data was extracted mainly from SCOPUS, CORDIS and PATSTAT databases using a predefined search string that included representative keywords. The trends, distributions and other aspects reflected in the final version of the indicators were analysed, e.g. the number of items in a period of time, geographical distribution, organisations involved, categories of journals, funding programmes, costs and technology areas. Results: Generally, for smart nanomaterials the data used represent around 3.5% of the advanced nanomaterials data, while for each field analysed, they represent 4.4% for publications, 13% for projects and 1.1% for patents. The study shows current trends for advanced nanomaterials at a top-level information that can be further extended with sub-indicators. Generally, the results indicated a significant growth in research into advanced nanomaterials, including smart nanomaterials, in the last decade, leading to an increased availability of information. Conclusion: These indicators identify trends regarding scientific and technological achievements and represent an important element when examining possible impacts on society and policy implications associated to these areas.
How adjusting elicited health utilities after the fact can adversely affect shared decision making
Authors: Kujawski Edouard 
Published: December 2022

Background: The elicitation of inconsistent health-state utility values (HSUVs) is a prevalent problem. There are two approaches to address this problem: (1) intervention during the elicitation process to ensure that patients estimate consistent HSUVs; (2) no intervention during the elicitation process and inconsistent HSUVs are adjusted after the fact. This paper studies three models recently proposed for adjusting inconsistent HSUVs and consistent HSUVs that some may consider unrealistic. Analysis: The three models are analyzed using a sound theoretical framework: the mathematical equivalence of HSUVs elicited using the standard gamble and probabilities, the Fréchet bounds, and preference theory. It is proven that none of these models accounts for the Fréchet lower bound and health conditions that are preference substitutes. Results: A clinical vignette proves these models may recommend treatments that result in premature death over treatments that cause acceptable adverse effects. Conclusions: The three models are incorrect and may mislead patients and physicians to poor medical decisions. In the spirit of shared decision making, patients should be given the opportunity to reassess inconsistent HSUVs and confirm that the revised HSUVs reflect their preferences.
Cationic biopolymer decorated Asiatic Acid and Centella asiatica extract incorporated liposomes for treating early-stage Alzheimer’s disease: An In-vitro and In-vivo investigation
Authors: Dubey Akhilesh , Dhas Namdev , Naha Anup , Rani Usha , GS Ravi , Shetty Amitha , R Shetty Chaithra , Hebbar Srinivas 
Published: December 2022

Background: Asiatic acid (AA) is a naturally occurring triterpenoid derivative of Centella asiatica (CA) with neuroprotective effect. The study aimed to design an ideal oral drug delivery system to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) and develop chitosan-embedded liposomes comprising an extract of CA (CLCAE) and compare them with the chitosan-coated liposomes of asiatic acid (CLAA) for oral delivery to treat the initial phases of AD. Methods: The solvent evaporation technique was used to develop CLCAE and CLAA, optimised with the experiment's design, and was further evaluated. Results: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies confirmed coating with chitosan. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) indicated the successful formation of CLCAE and CLAA. Differential scanning colorimetry (DSC) confirmed the drug-phospholipid complex. Furthermore, the rate of in vitro release of CLCAE and CLAA was found to be 69.43±0.3 % and 85.3±0.3 %, respectively, in 24 h. Ex vivo permeation of CLCAE and CLAA was found to be 48±0.3 % and 78±0.3 %, respectively. In the Alcl3-induced AD model in rats, disease progression was confirmed by Y-maze, the preliminary histopathology evaluation showed significantly higher efficacy of the prepared liposomes (CLCAE and CLAA) compared to the Centella asiatica extract (CAE) and they were found to have equivalent efficacy to the standard drug (rivastigmine tartrate). The considerable increase in pharmacodynamic parameters in terms of neuronal count in the CLAA group indicated the protective role against Alcl3 toxicity and was also confirmed by assessing acetylcholine (Ach) levels. The pharmacokinetic study, such as Cmax, Tmax, and area under curve (AUC) parameters, proved an increase in AA bioavailability in the form of CLAA compared to the pure AA and CLCAE forms. Conclusion: The preclinical study suggested that CLAA was found to have better stability and an ideal oral drug delivery system to treat AD.
Prediction of self-efficacy in recognizing deepfakes based on personality traits
Authors: Abraham Juneman , Putra Heru Alamsyah , Prayoga Tommy , Warnars Harco Leslie Hendric Spits , Manurung Rudi Hartono , Nainggolan Togiaratua 
Published: December 2022

Background: While deepfake technology is still relatively new, concerns are increasing as they are getting harder to spot. The first question we need to ask is how good humans are at recognizing deepfakes - realistic-looking videos or images that show people doing or saying things that they never actually did or said generated by an artificial intelligence-based technology. Research has shown that an individual’s self-efficacy correlates with their ability to detect deepfakes. Previous studies suggest that one of the most fundamental predictors of self-efficacy are personality traits. In this study, we ask the question: how can people’s personality traits influence their efficacy in recognizing deepfakes? Methods: Predictive correlational design with a multiple linear regression data analysis technique was used in this study. The participants of this study were 200 Indonesian young adults. Results: The results showed that only traits of Honesty-humility and Agreeableness were able to predict the efficacy, in the negative and positive directions, respectively. Meanwhile, traits of Emotionality, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Openness cannot predict it. Conclusion: Self-efficacy in spotting deepfakes can be predicted by certain personality traits.
Implementasi Waypoint Menggunakan GPS pada UAV untuk Mendapatkan Akurasi Terbaik dengan Pengontrol PID
Authors: Ansyori Ade Firli , Yudhana Anton 
Published: December 2022

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is an unmanned aerial vehicle from a technical point of view, a UAV can be defined as an aircraft equipped with the necessary data processing units, sensors, automatic control, and communication systems, and capable of performing autonomous flight missions without manual intervention. This research is a research development and testing of the capabilities of fixed-wing aircraft, on flight missions, fixed-wing aircraft are often less precise so the accuracy of UAV flights is very influential in the intended coordinate mission in determining flight accuracy by following the coordinate point data provided obtained via GPS (Global Positioning System) can be minimized by setting the value of the PID manually on the Mission Planner so that the fixed-wing aircraft vehicle can go to its destination with precision at a predetermined coordination point. tracking can follow the desired coordinate point. With a PID value of P:0.65 I:0.3, D:6. The error distance generated by the fixed-wing aircraft from each coordinate point destination that has been given to the mission planner gets an error distance value of ± 3 m, with a level of precision in the Good category or the medium category.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) merupakan salah satu wahana tanpa awak di udara dari sudut pandang teknis, UAV dapat didefinisikan sebagai pesawat yang dilengkapi dengan unit pengolah data yang diperlukan, sensor, sistem kontrol dan komunikasi otomatis, dan mampu melakukan misi penerbangan otonomus tanpa intervensi manual. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan dan menguji kemampuan wahana pesawat fixed-wings, pada misi penerbangan wahana pesawat fixed-wing sering kali kurang presisi sehingga keakuratan pada penerbangan UAV sangat berpengaruh dalam suatu misi koordinat yang dituju, sehingga dalam menentukan keakurasian penerbangan dengan mengikuti data titik koordinasi yang di dapatkan melalui GPS (Global Positioning System) dapat diminimalisi dengan mengatur nilai dari PID-nya secara manual pada Mission Planner, sehingga wahana pesawat fixed-wing dapat menuju lokasi tujuannya dengan presisi pada titik koordinasi yang telah di tentukan., Dari simulasi penelitian diperoleh proses tracking dapat mengikuti titik koordinat yang diinginkan. Dengan nilai PID sebesar P:0.65 I:0.3, D:6. Jarak error yang dihasilkan dari wahana pesawat fixed-wings dari setiap tujuan titik koordinat yang telah diberikan pada mission planner mendapatkan nilai jarak error ± 3 m, dengan tingkatan presisi pada katagori Good atau katagori yang sedang.
Research on calibration of a binocular stereo-vision imaging system based on the artificial neural network
Authors: Han FangFang , Bian YongXin , Liu Bin , Zeng Qi , Tian YiFan 
Published: December 2022

Camera calibration is a key problem for 3D reconstruction in computer vision. Existing calibration methods, such as traditional, active, and self-calibration, all need to solve the internal and external parameters of the imaging system to clarify the image-object mapping relationship. The artificial neural network, which is based on connectionist architecture, provides a novel idea for the calibration of nonlinear mapping vision systems. It can learn the image-object mapping relationship from some sample points without considering too many uncertain factors in the middle. This paper discusses the learning ability. A binocular stereo-vision mapping model is used as the learning model to explore the ability of image-object mapping for artificial neural networks. This paper constructs sample libraries by pixel and world coordinates of checkerboard corners, builds the artificial neural network, and, through the training samples and test samples prediction, verifies the learning performance of the network. Furthermore, by the laser scanning binocular vision device constructed in the authors’ laboratory and trained-well network, the 3D point cloud reconstruction of a physical target is performed. The experimental results show that the artificial neural network can learn the image-object mapping relationship well and more effectively avoid the impact of lens distortion and achieve more accurate nonlinear mapping at the edge of the image. When the

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and

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coordinates are in the range of 100 mm and the

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coordinates are in the range of a 1000 mm, the absolute error rarely exceeds 2.5 mm, and the relative error is in the level of

10

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; for 1000 mm distance measurement, the standard deviation does not exceed 1.5 mm. Network parameter selection experiments show that, for image-object mapping, a three-layer network and increasing the number of hidden layer’s nodes can improve the training time more significantly.
Long-term cardiology outcomes in children after early treatment for Chagas disease, an observational study
Authors: González Nicolás Leonel , Moscatelli Guillermo , Moroni Samanta , Ballering Griselda , Jurado Laura , Falk Nicolás , Bochoeyer Andrés , Goldsman Alejandro , Grippo María , Freilij Héctor , Garcia Bournissen Facundo , Chatelain Eric , Altcheh Jaime 
Published: December 2022

Background
Parasite persistence after acute infection with Trypanosoma cruzi is an important factor in the development of Chagas disease (CD) cardiomyopathy. Few studies have investigated the clinical effectiveness of CD treatment through the evaluation of cardiological events by long term follow-up of treated children. Cardiological evaluation in children is challenging since features that would be diagnosed as abnormal in an adult’s ECG may be normal, age-related findings in a pediatric ECG trace. The objective was to evaluate cardiac involvement in patients with Chagas disease with a minimum follow-up of 6 years post-treatment.

Methodology
A descriptive study of a cohort of pediatric patients with CD treated with benznidazole (Bz) or nifurtimox (Nf) was conducted. Children (N = 234) with at least 6 years post CD treatment followed at the Parasitology and Chagas Service, Buenos Aires Children’s Hospital (Argentina) were enrolled. By convenience sampling, children who attended a clinical visit between August 2015 and November 2019 were also invited to participate for additional cardiovascular studies like 24-hour Holter monitoring and speckle-tracking 2D echocardiogram (STE). Benznidazole was prescribed in 171 patients and nifurtimox in 63 patients. Baseline parasitemia data was available for 168/234 patients.
During the follow-up period, alterations in routine ECG were observed in 11/234 (4.7%, 95% CI [2–7.4%]) patients. In only four patients, with complete right bundle branch block (cRBBB) and left anterior fascicular block (LAFB), ECG alterations were considered probably related to CD.
During follow-up, 129/130 (99%) treated patients achieved persistent negative parasitemia by qPCR. Also decrease in T.cruzi antibodies titers was observed in all patients and negative seroconversion occurred in 123/234 (52%) patients.

Conclusions
A low incidence of cardiological lesions related to CD was observed in patients treated early for pediatric CD. This suggests a protective effect of parasiticidal treatment on the development of cardiological lesions and highlights the importance of early treatment of infected children.

Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04090489.
Two Streptococcus pyogenes emm types and several anaerobic bacterial species are associated with idiopathic cutaneous ulcers in children after community-based mass treatment with azithromycin
Authors: Griesenauer Brad , Xing Yue , Fortney Katherine R. , Gao Xiang , González-Beiras Camila , Nelson David E. , Ren Jie , Mitjà Oriol , Dong Qunfeng , Spinola Stanley M. 
Published: December 2022

Background
In yaws-endemic areas, two-thirds of exudative cutaneous ulcers (CU) are associated with Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue (TP) and Haemophilus ducreyi (HD); one-third are classified as idiopathic ulcers (IU). A yaws eradication campaign on Lihir Island in Papua New Guinea utilizing mass drug administration (MDA) of azithromycin initially reduced but failed to eradicate yaws; IU rates remained constant throughout the study. Using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we previously determined that Streptococcus pyogenes was associated with some cases of IU. Here, we applied shotgun metagenomics to the same samples we analyzed previously by 16S rRNA sequencing to verify this result, identify additional IU-associated microorganisms, and determine why S. pyogenes-associated IU might have persisted after MDA of azithromycin.

Methodology/Principal findings
We sequenced DNA extracted from 244 CU specimens separated into four groups based upon microorganism-specific PCR results (HD+, TP+, TP+HD+, and TP-HD- or IU). S. pyogenes was enriched in IU (24.71% relative abundance [RA]) specimens compared to other ulcer sub-groups, confirming our prior results. We bioinformatically identified the emm (M protein gene) types found in the S. pyogenes IU specimens and found matches to emm156 and emm166. Only ~39% of IU specimens contained detectable S. pyogenes, suggesting that additional organisms could be associated with IU. In the sub-set of S. pyogenes-negative IU specimens, Criibacterium bergeronii, a member of the Peptostreptococcaceae, and Fusobacterium necrophorum (7.07% versus 0.00% RA and 2.18% versus 0.00% RA, respectively), were enriched compared to the S. pyogenes-positive sub-set. Although a broad range of viruses were detected in the CU specimens, none were specifically associated with IU.

Conclusions/Significance
Our observations confirm the association of S. pyogenes with IU in yaws-endemic areas, and suggest that additional anaerobic bacteria, but not other microorganisms, may be associated with this syndrome. Our results should aid in the design of diagnostic tests and selective therapies for CU.
Black Designers in American Fashion, Elizabeth Way (ed.) (2021)
Authors: Romano Alexis 
Published: December 2022

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Research on the optimisation of the temperature field distribution of a multi microwave source agent system based on group consistency
Authors: Yang Biao , Wu Zhaogang , Gao Hao , Zhou Liexing , Sun Jun 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Aiming at the problem of optimising the temperature field distribution of a multi microwave source agent system, in this work, group consistency is used to explore the multi microwave source agent collaborative tracking strategy to improve both the uniformity of the temperature distribution and the heating efficiency. First, to coordinate the inputting power state information of the multi microwave source agents, a consistency algorithm of non-fully connected communication topology is adopted. Second, according to the efficiency state information of the microwave source agents in different distribution positions of the cavity, the agent group consistency strategy and the group consistency strategy with expected power deviation are used to adjust the power distribution of each agent. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed strategy are verified by using heating materials with different specifications. The experimental results show that compared with the traditional multisource heating method the proposed temperature distribution optimization strategy based on group consistency can improve the temperature uniformity and heating efficiency.
Anaphoric reference in a German-Polish bilingual child
Authors: Jachimek Anna , Köpcke Klaus-Michael , Dimroth Christine 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
The study examines the use of referring expressions in anaphoric contexts in a German-Polish bilingual child between age 2;0 to 4;0. The longitudinal corpus consists of 160 video recordings of spontaneous speech in both languages. There are fundamental differences in the way anaphoric reference is expressed in German and Polish. Speakers of German refer to discourse-given referents either with a definite NP, a personal or a demonstrative pronoun. Speakers of Polish – a pro drop language without articles – mostly use bare nouns or null pronouns. Overt pronouns and demonstrative determiners are restricted to specific information structure conditions. We found an overuse of overt pronouns and demonstrative determiners in Polish in comparison to a monolingual Polish child of the same age and also qualitative differences in the use of the relevant expressions. Despite the fact that the earliest child grammar in both languages rather resembles the Polish target (no articles, no pronouns), the reliable markers of discourse-givenness encountered in the German input are rapidly acquired and overextended to Polish, before the more implicit Polish system is in place.
Effects of nano-ZrSi2 on thermal stability of phenolic resin and thermal reusability of quartz–phenolic composites
Authors: Ding Jie , Zhuang Yingluo , Shi Minxian , Huang Zhixiong , Qin Yan , Li Yan , Wang Cunku 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
In this article, nano-ZrSi2-modified phenolic (Ph) resin and nano-ZrSi2-modified quartz–phenolic (Q–Ph) composites are, respectively, prepared by resin casting and compression molding. The effect of nano-ZrSi2 on the thermal stability of Ph resin and the role of nano-ZrSi2 on the thermal reusability of Q–Ph composites are investigated by multiple thermal gravimetric analyses and mechanical tests. The strengthening mechanism of nano-ZrSi2 modification is investigated by the evolution of microstructure. The results show that the addition of nano-ZrSi2 enhances the thermal stability of Ph resin under repeated heating at 1,200°C in air. The enhancement in thermal stability of resin exhibits a positive effect on improving the thermal reusability of composites. Within the range of 20 repeated heating times, the flexural strength of nano-ZrSi2-modified composites is above 16.01 MPa, which is 163.8% higher than that of unmodified composites. The strengthening mechanism of nano-ZrSi2 is mainly in the inhibition of thermal oxidation and the reduction of microstructural defects during the repeated thermal environment.