bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The development of a task to study advice taking across nations and its application in a China-Germany comparison
Authors: Schultze Thomas , Chen Zhijun 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Advice taking is a crucial part of decision-making and has attracted the interest of scholars across the world. Laboratory research on advice taking has revealed several robust phenomena, such as sensitivity to advice quality or a tendency to underutilize advice. Despite extensive investigations in different countries, cultural differences in advice taking remain understudied. Knowing whether such cultural differences exist would not only be interesting from an academic standpoint but might also have consequences for multinational organizations and businesses. Here, we argue that prior laboratory research on cultural differences in advice taking is hindered by confounding factors, particularly the confound between participants’ cultural background and task difficulty. To draw a valid conclusion about cultural differences in advice taking, it is vital to develop a decision task devoid of this confound. Here, we develop such a judgment task and demonstrate that the core phenomena of advice taking manifest in a sample of German participants. We then use this task in a cross-national comparison of German and Chinese participants. While the core phenomena of advice taking consistently manifested in both samples, some differences emerged. Most notably, Chinese participants were more receptive of advice, even though they still underutilized it. This greater reliance on advice was driven by Chinese participants’ greater preference for averaging their own and the advisor’s judgments. We discuss how our findings extend current understanding of the nuanced interplay between cultural values and the dynamics of advice taking.
Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex
Authors: Heggie Vanessa 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Historians have written copiously about the shift to ‘germ theories’ of disease around the turn of the twentieth century, but in these accounts an entire continent has been left out: Antarctica. This article begins to rebalance our historiography by bringing cold climates back into the story of environmental medicine and germ theory. It suggests three periods of Antarctic (human) microbial research – heroic sampling, systematic studies, and viral space analogue – and examines underlying ideas about ‘purity’ and infection, the realities of fieldwork, and the use of models in biomedicine. It reveals Antarctica not as an isolated space but as a deeply complex, international, well-networked node in global science ranging from the first international consensus on pandemic-naming through to space flight.
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years
Authors: Eicher Sebastian 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
With the establishment of the treaty ports in 1842, contact between China and the Western world intensified. In Shanghai, the most extensive exchange of knowledge and ideas took place between the missionaries of the London Missionary Society and their Chinese assistants. By working and translating for the missionaries, these traditionally educated men gained intimate insights into the West and Western learning and established close personal relationships with the missionaries. But in the process, they also became outcasts, as working for Westerners was viewed critically by their contemporaries. This article sets out to analyse the way in which Jiang Dunfu 蔣敦復 (1808–1867) and Wang Tao 王韜 (1828–1897) processed and accommodated these cosmopolitan experiences in Shanghai in their prose autobiographies.
Cosmopolitanism and imperial women in the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties (304–581)
Authors: Han Soojung 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This article explores the roles imperial women played in the practices and systems of the northern states during the Sixteen Kingdoms (304–439) and Northern Dynasties periods (386–581), two of the most politically turbulent periods in Chinese history. The article will focus particularly on the absence of crown princesses and intermarriage practice in Northern Wei, and the appearance of coterminous empresses in Former Zhao and Northern Zhou. While a vast scholarship has viewed the rulership strategies and policies of the Northern Dynasties as a process of Sinicization, or one-sided acculturation, this article considers the perspective of the northern rulers who were aware of a multicultural populace. In an effort to shore up their power in court and rule effectively over a dispersed, heterogenous population, these northern rulers enforced agendas employing imperial women as the medium through which to engage elites of diverse backgrounds and tie these groups to their imperial families. Imperial women served in critical roles that brought to the court a delicate balance among various powerful factions, lending stability to the reigns of emperors and promoting cosmopolitanism in a period prior to Tang (618–907).
I can’t kill them, but I can throw them over the bridge: Does the emotionality of moral questions influence bilinguals’ moral judgements?
Authors: Kyriakou Andreas , Mavrou Irini 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Previous research suggests that emotion words elicit lower emotional reactivity in languages acquired later in life (LX), prompting bilinguals to make less emotional decisions when responding to emotionally charged moral dilemmas in the LX compared to their first language (L1). This study investigated the influence of word emotionality on bilinguals’ moral judgements by manipulating the degree of emotiveness of the moral questions (i.e., emotive versus neutral conditions) accompanying different types of moral dilemmas (i.e., personal/sacrificial versus impersonal/realistic). Mixed effects logistic regression models revealed that the use of the LX increased the number of utilitarian decisions in both the emotive and the neutral conditions but only in the sacrificial moral dilemmas. Moreover, the emotive questions led to more deontological moral judgements than the neutral questions but only in the L1. Taken together, these findings provide further insight into the impact of emotion on bilinguals’ moral decision-making.
Second language embodiment of action verbs: the impact of bilingual experience as a multidimensional spectrum
Authors: Lu Xiaojun , Yang Jing 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Embodiment theories postulate that language processing inherently engages the sensorimotor system. This study explores the embodiment of action verbs in the second language (L2) and the effects of various L2 experiences (L2 age of acquisition, exposure, dominance, and proficiency) on L2 embodiment. Sixty-one Chinese–English bilinguals participated in two experiments judging semantic relatedness: Experiment 1 involved verb–picture pairs, while Experiment 2 focused on verb–verb pairs. Both experiments were conducted in the participants’ first language (Chinese) and second language (English), with the stimuli depicting actions performed by specific effectors (e.g., mouth, hand, and foot). Results showed that participants took longer to reject mismatched verb–picture pairs and semantic-unrelated verb–verb pairs when the actions shared the same effector (e.g., walk–run) than those involving different effectors (e.g., eat–touch). Moreover, L2 age of acquisition, exposure, and dominance correlated with the L2 embodiment effect, with L2 age of acquisition and exposure modulating this effect. This study enhances our understanding of L2 embodied semantics and illuminates the impact of multidimensional L2 experiences on embodiment.
Discordance, accuracy and reproducibility study of pathologists’ diagnosis of melanoma and melanocytic tumors
Authors: Haggenmüller Sarah , Wies Christoph , Abels Julia , Winterstein Jana T. , Heinlein Lukas , Nogueira Garcia Carina , Utikal Jochen S. , Wohlfeil Sebastian A. , Meier Friedegund , Hobelsberger Sarah , Gellrich Frank F. , Sergon Mildred , Hauschild Axel , French Lars E. , Heinzerling Lucie , Schlager Justin G. , Ghoreschi Kamran , Schlaak Max , Hilke Franz J. , Poch Gabriela , Korsing Sören , Sarfert Cosimo , Berking Carola , Heppt Markus V. , Erdmann Michael , Haferkamp Sebastian , Drexler Konstantin , Schadendorf Dirk , Sondermann Wiebke , Goebeler Matthias , Schilling Bastian , Kather Jakob Nikolas , Fröhling Stefan , Llamas-Velasco Mar , Requena Luis C. , Ferrara Gerardo , Fernandez-Figueras Maite , Fraitag Sylvie , Müller Cornelia S. L. , Starz Hans , Kutzner Heinz , Barnhill Raymond , Carr Richard , Resnik Kenneth S. , Braun Stephan Alexander , Holland-Letz Tim , Brinker Titus J. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Accurate melanoma diagnosis is crucial for patient outcomes and reliability of AI diagnostic tools. We assess interrater variability among eight expert pathologists reviewing histopathological images and clinical metadata of 792 melanoma-suspicious lesions prospectively collected at eight German hospitals. Moreover, we provide access to the largest panel-validated dataset featuring dermoscopic and histopathological images with metadata. Complete agreement is achieved in 53.5% of cases (424/792), and a majority vote ( ≥ five pathologists) in 90.9% (720/792). Considerable discordance is observed for non-invasive melanomas (complete agreement in only 10/73 cases). The expert panel disagrees with the local pathologists’ and dermatologists’ diagnoses in 14.9% and 33.5% of cases, respectively. This variability highlights the diagnostic challenges of early-stage melanomas and the need to reconsider how ground truth is established in routine care and AI research. Including at least two pathologists or virtual panels may contribute to more consistent diagnostic results.
EMG Dataset for Gesture Recognition with Arm Translation
Authors: Kyranou Iris , Szymaniak Katarzyna , Nazarpour Kianoush 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Myoelectric control has emerged as a promising approach for a wide range of applications, including controlling limb prosthetics, teleoperating robots and enabling immersive interactions in the Metaverse. However, the accuracy and robustness of myoelectric control systems are often affected by various factors, including muscle fatigue, perspiration, drifts in electrode positions and changes in arm position. The latter has received less attention despite its significant impact on signal quality and decoding accuracy. To address this gap, we present a novel dataset of surface electromyographic (EMG) signals captured from multiple arm positions. This dataset, comprising EMG and hand kinematics data from 8 participants performing 6 different hand gestures, provides a comprehensive resource for investigating position-invariant myoelectric control decoding algorithms. We envision this dataset to serve as a valuable resource for both training and benchmark arm position-invariant myoelectric control algorithms. Additionally, to expand the publicly available data capturing the variability of EMG signals across diverse arm positions, we propose a novel data acquisition protocol that can be utilized for future data collection.
Remote sensing-derived time series of transient glacier snowline altitudes for High Mountain Asia, 1985–2021
Authors: Loibl David , Richter Niklas , Grünberg Inge 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This study presents a new dataset of remote sensing-derived Transient Snowline Altitude (TSLA) measurements for glaciers in High Mountain Asia. We use the Google Earth Engine to obtain TSLA data for approx. 2.8 · 104 glaciers larger than 0.5 km2. After filtering and postprocessing, the dataset comprises ca. 9.66 million TSLA measurements with an average of 341 ± 160 measurements per glacier, covering the time span 1985 to 2021.
Evaluation of ozonated and ultrasonically treated corn starch as an adsorbent for patulin in buffer solutions
Authors: El-desouky Tarek A. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This study evaluates the potential of ozonated corn starch (OCS) and ultrasonicated ozonated corn starch (USOCS) as adsorbents for patulin removal in buffer solutions. The results indicated that dual modification significantly altered the starch’s structure, introducing functional groups such as carbonyl and carboxyl groups, and increasing its surface area. These modifications led to enhanced patulin adsorption capacity. Adsorption efficiency was tested across different adsorbent doses (150 mg, 200 mg, 250 mg) and contact times (15, 30, 45, and 60 min). The highest removal efficiency of 92.5% was recorded for the 250 mg dose at 60 min, with USOCS showing superior performance compared to native corn starch and OCS. Kinetic studies revealed that the pseudo-second-order model provided the best fit for the adsorption process, indicating chemisorption as the dominant mechanism. The Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms were used to describe the adsorption behavior, with a maximum adsorption capacity (q

max
) of 15.19 µg/mg and a Langmuir constant (K

L
) of 54.00 L/µg for the 250 mg dose. Additionally, the modified starch demonstrated consistent adsorption performance at varying concentrations, with a favorable adsorption intensity (n > 1), supporting its potential for practical applications. These findings highlight the modified corn starch as an efficient, biodegradable, and low-cost adsorbent suitable for mitigating patulin contamination in food products, offering a sustainable alternative for improving food safety.
Video-based Informed Consent in Radiology – Acceptance, Satisfaction, and Effectiveness
Authors: Vogele Daniel , Nedelcu Andrea , Beer Meinrad , Kildal Daniela 
Published: January 2025

AbstractBefore any medical procedure, including computed tomography (CT), it is crucial to ensure patients are fully informed about the risks and alternative options. Video-based informed consent offers an increased transfer of information in less time.In a monocentric, prospective, questionnaire-based study, video-based informed consent, which included a digital medical history form, was compared to the traditional paper-based consent form. Two groups (doctors and patients) were divided into a control group (traditional informed consent) and one study group (video-based informed consent). Participants rated their satisfaction and acceptance on a scale of 1 to 6 (1: very good). Additionally, patients’ understanding of the information provided was evaluated, and the duration of informed consents process was measured.A total of 205 patients in the control group and 150 in the study group were surveyed. Satisfaction ratings of “very good” or “good” were similar for both methods (91% control group, 94% study group). The patients’ study group showed a higher recall of the information provided in all six areas, e.g. radiation exposure (73% control group; 86% study group).Among the doctors, 20 from the control group and 11 from the study group were interviewed. Satisfaction was significantly higher in the study group (30% control group, 72% study group).The duration of the traditional informed consent process averaged 270.2 seconds, compared to 228.7 seconds for the video-based informed consent.Satisfaction with video-based information is high among both patients and doctors. Patients retain the content more effectively with video-based informed consent, which also saves time.
A biodegradable polymer plug for liver tract embolization after percutaneous or surgical placement of transhepatic biliary drainage tubes: a feasibility study
Authors: Thurner Annette , Dalla Torre Giulia , Hartung Viktor , Kickuth Ralph 
Published: January 2025

AbstractTo evaluate the feasibility of liver tract embolization after transhepatic biliary drainage using a biodegradable polymer plug (IMPEDE-FX, Shape Memorial Medical, Santa Clara, CA, USA).In a retrospective observational study, 15 plug embolizations were performed in 13 patients at risk for tract-related adverse events (AEs). Risk factors included coagulopathy, cirrhosis, central bile duct puncture, previous drain-related bleeding, malignant obstruction, large tract diameter, or multilevel strictures. Clinical and imaging follow-up was performed at 24 hours, 3 months, and 6 months. Primary endpoints were technical and clinical success. Technical success was defined as plug deployment in the intended position. Clinical success was defined as the absence of biliary, infectious, or bleeding AEs. To assess clinically occult bleeding or biliary obstruction, periprocedural hemoglobin, hematocrit, and bilirubin levels were compared. Secondary endpoints were plug migration, plug oversizing, and plug visibility on imaging.The technical success rate was 100%. The clinical success rate was 84.6%. There were no infectious or bleeding AEs. In 2 cases where the persistence of biliary congestion was clinically underestimated prior to drain removal, 2 biliary AEs occurred (2 biliocutaneous fistulas including 1 plug migration within 24 hours; 15.4% SIR grade 3 AEs). The median plug oversizing relative to the diameter of the hepatic tract was substantially lower in unsuccessful cases than in successful cases (27% vs. 86%). The plug was visible on ultrasound and CT. On MRI, no plug-related artifacts occurred.The plug could be an option when a non-permanent, precisely deployable device is desired for tract embolization. Adequate plug-to-tract oversizing and biliary decongestion are essential to achieve durable tract closure. Therefore, the plug seems unsuitable for patients with multilevel strictures where complete drainage of the biliary system is not feasible.
Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse
Authors: Sang Zhonggang , Shi Tongtong 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Social media discourse is characterized by the post-truth phenomenon, in which feelings and personal beliefs
appear to exert greater influence on shaping public opinions than truth. In such cases, the truth of news may be blurred and
reported events are often reversed along revelations of the facts. Reverse news on social media is, in a sense, a typical instance
of post-truth discourse. This study attempts to provide a corpus-based description of attitude appraisal and illocutionary acts in
reverse news on social media, with the aim of investigating semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse. The corpora
for this study consist of social media posts in Chinese and English about a defamation lawsuit, which were collected from Weibo
and Facebook.
The results indicate that the English corpus emphasizes the use of appreciations and judgments with more complex
co-occurring relations among three attitudinal domains while the Chinese corpus contains more judgments than appreciations and
affects. Meanwhile, both corpora exhibit higher frequencies of assertives and expressives than the other acts, yet the Chinese
corpus presents more complicated illocutionary act sequences than the English corpus. After the verdict, the frequencies of both
attitude appraisal and illocutionary acts decrease in the Chinese corpus but increase in the English corpus. Based on this, we
propose that the development of post-truth discourse may go through three functional stages: starting with expression, progressing
to appeal, and ending with representation. The sequence of these stages may vary depending on sociocultural contexts.
Determining state space anomalies in mean field games
Authors: Liu Hongyu , Lo Catharine W K 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
In this paper, we are concerned with the inverse problem of determining anomalies in the state space associated with the stationary mean field game (MFG) system. We establish novel unique identifiability results for the intrinsic structure of these anomalies in MFGs systems, including their topological structure and parameter configurations, in several general scenarios of practical interest, including traffic flow, market economics and epidemics. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that considers anomalies in the state space for the nonlinear coupled MFG system.
False Strange Attractors as Sources of Pseudo Randomness
Authors: Moysis Lazaros , Lawnik Marcin , Maraslidis George S. , Fragulis George F. , Volos Christos 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
In this work, the use of false chaotic attractors in enhancing the security of chaos-based encryption applications will be explored. False attractors result by rearranging the solution trajectories of a nonlinear dynamical system, leading to novel shapes in the 3D space. This way, a single solution trajectory of a chaotic system can be used to generate numerous new false trajectories. Examples of such attractors are provided for the Lorenz system, and a system with line equilibrium from Moysis et al. (2019). By formalizing the method of constructing false attractors, and generalizing it by adding a series of elementary operations, the key parameters of this procedure can be used as part of the secret key in symmetric encryption applications, effectively increasing the key space. Specifically, the key space increases significantly with respect to the simulation time, and the system’s dimension. Moreover, due to its fast implementation, this technique can be used as a less complex, but much lighter alternative to full scale permutation. The usability of the false attractors as sources of randomness is showcased through the design of a chaotic pseudo-random bit generator. The generator can output 64 bits per iteration, and is equally effective under any false attractor of the chaotic system.
Periodic modulation of adiabatic dynamics in non-reciprocal Landau-Zener systems
Authors: Chang Rong , Li Sheng-Chang 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The control of adiabatic dynamics is essential for quantum manipulation. We investigate the effects of both periodic modulating field and linear sweeping field on adiabatic dynamics based on a non-reciprocal Landau-Zener model with periodic modulation. We obtain adiabatic phase diagrams in the (ω, δ) parameter space, where the adiabatic region is bounded by the modulating frequency ω greater than a critical value ω

c
and the non-reciprocal parameter δ less than one. The results show that the adiabaticity of the system is not sensitive to the modulating amplitude. We find that the critical modulating frequency can be expressed as a power function of the modulating period number or the sweeping rate. Our findings suggest that one can change the adiabatic region or improve the adiabaticity by adjusting the parameters of both the modulating and the sweeping fields, which provides an effective means to flexibly control the adiabatic dynamics of non-reciprocal systems.
Experimental Manipulation of Fine Structures on High Harmonic Spectrum of Aligned CO2 Molecules
Authors: Wang Ge-Wen , Zhao Yi-Wen , Wang Yi-Chen , Ma Jing , Liu Bo-Dun , Jiang Wei , Liang Hong-Jing , Ma Ri 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Molecular high-order harmonic spectroscopy is a significant advancement in ultrafast science, enabling the measurement multielectron dynamics with attosecond temporal resolution. The fine structures observed in the molecular harmonic spectrum provide crucial insights into the structural or multielectron dynamical effects induced by intense laser fields. In this study, we measure the high-order harmonic spectrum of aligned CO2 molecules contributed from short trajectories. Two distinct groups of minima are identified in the plateau region. Our findings indicate that the participation of deeper-lying molecular orbitals and two-center interference play a significant role in molecular harmonic generation. The results pave the way for advancing the understanding of multielectron dynamics in polyatomic molecules under intense laser fields.