bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Facts, faith and Facebook: science communication during the 2020–21 La Soufrière, St Vincent volcanic eruption
Authors: Graham Omari , Thomas Thalia , Hicks Anna , Edwards Stacey , Juman Alia , Ramroop Arti , Robertson Richard 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Social media has become an effective bidirectional communication tool used by risk management agencies during crises. Its interactive format can provide near real-time insight into public attitudes toward hazard and risk. While there is a growing body of research on risk communication and risk perception in developing countries, there is limited understanding of real-time public response to low-frequency, high-impact phenomenon like volcanic eruptions. Facebook, the social media platform, was one of the primary mass communication tools used by The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre during the 2020–21 eruption of La Soufrière volcano in St Vincent. This study analyses public response to hazard and risk information shared via Facebook. A thematic analysis of user comments and iconographic reactions during the eruption revealed a complex social response to the event and information on the event shared by scientists. Direct access to scientific information was widely appreciated, as was the scientific team, with whom the public developed a familiar relationship. The interplay of faith and science remains a key feature of risk perception in Caribbean society. Findings also highlight the utility of combining old and new broadcast technologies to engage diverse audiences.
SO
2
emissions during the 2021 eruption of La Soufrière, St Vincent, revealed with back-trajectory analysis of TROPOMI imagery
Authors: Esse Ben , Burton Mike , Hayer Catherine , Contreras-Arratia Rodrigo , Christopher Thomas , Joseph Erouscilla P. , Varnam Matthew , Johnson Chris 
Published: March 2023

Abstract

Determining SO
2
emission time-series from explosive eruptions can provide important insights into the driving magmatic processes, however accurate measurements are difficult to collect. Satellite-based platforms provide SO
2
imagery, however translating this to the altitude- and time-resolved emission history required to unravel volcanic processes is a major challenge. This means SO
2
emission time-series are rarely quantified for major eruptions, producing a gap in our understanding of explosive volcanism.

Here, we combine SO
2
imagery collected by the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) with PlumeTraj, a back-trajectory analysis toolkit, to reconstruct the SO
2
emission prior to, and during, the explosive eruption of La Soufrière volcano, St Vincent, in April 2021. Precursory SO
2
emissions were quantified the day before the eruption, with emission rates in agreement with ground-based measurements. We estimate initial magma sulfur contents by comparing the measured SO
2
emissions with erupted magma volumes, finding that the initial explosion was sulfur poor (730 ppm S) compared to the main eruption phase (up to 3400 ppm S). This suggests that the initial explosion cleared old, previously degassed magma resident in the shallow plumbing system, followed by the eruption of the main, mostly un-degassed magma source.
Trend in Cervical Cancer Incidence and Mortality Rates in China, 2006–2030: A Bayesian Age-Period-Cohort Modeling Study
Authors: Yuan Meiwen , Zhao Xuelian , Wang Honghao , Hu Shangying , Zhao Fanghui 
Published: March 2023

Abstract

Background:
There are no studies extrapolating the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in China by comparing incidence and deaths pattern between geographic and age groups.

Methods:
We applied age-period-cohort models to assess region-level trends in incidence and mortality from 2006 to 2016, with piecewise linear regression in a Bayesian framework to predict these trends to 2030.

Results:
Between 2006 and 2016, age-standardized incidence rates (ASIR) for females aged 15 to 84 years increased by 3.7% (95% confidence interval, 3.1%–4.3%) annually from 11.01 to 16.41 per 100,000 females in China. In the 25 to 39 age groups, the incidence rates decreased in urban regions and inversely increased in rural regions. The age-standardized mortality rates (ASMR) increased from 3.18 to 4.83, with annual increases of about 3.6% (1.5%–5.8%). From 2017 to 2030, the ASIR is expected to increase from 17.13 (15.91–18.46) to 23.22 (20.02–27.01) by 2.5% per year (P &lt; 0.05). Meanwhile, the average age at diagnosis is predicted to grow from 53.1 to 60.5 years. In the 15 to 54 age groups, the incidence rates decreased in urban regions but increased in rural regions. The ASMR is expected to increase consistently from 4.82 (4.38–5.31) to 9.13 (7.35–11.39) by 5.0% per year (P &lt; 0.05).

Conclusions:
Cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates are projected to increase in China. In addition, the urban–rural incidence gap is estimated to widen further among young women.

Impact:
Cervical cancer prevention should consider the trend and diversity in incidence patterns between urban and rural regions.
Infarct‐Related Artery as a Donor of Collaterals in ST‐Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction With Concomitant Chronic Total Occlusion: Challenge of the Double‐Jeopardy Thesis
Authors: Scholz Matthias , Meyer Thomas , Maier Lars S. , Scholz Karl Heinrich 
Published: March 2023

BACKGROUND
In ST‐segment–elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a concomitant chronic total occlusion (CTO) in a non–infarct‐related artery (NIRA) is associated with adverse outcome. In the case of the infarct‐related artery (IRA) as a donor vessel for collaterals to the CTO, the IRA occlusion may lead to an acute threat to both the immediate IRA and the collaterally supplied CTO area, which has been described as a double‐jeopardy effect.

METHODS AND RESULTS

We investigated the role of preformed intercoronary collaterals to the CTO originating from either the IRA or NIRA. Data were obtained from 2 hospitals participating in the prospective FITT‐STEMI (Feedback Intervention and Treatment Times in ST‐Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction) study. From a total cohort of 2102 patients with acute STEMI, 93 patients had single‐vessel CTO in an NIRA and well‐developed intercoronary collaterals to the CTO. In‐hospital mortality differed significantly with respect to the origin of the collaterals. Mortality was 15.2% with collaterals originating from the NIRA, 29.4% with a collateral origin from the IRA proximal to the acute STEMI occlusion, and 3.3% with a collateral origin from the IRA distal to the acute occlusion (
P
=0.044). A multivariate regression model confirmed that a proximal collateral origin had a significant higher mortality compared with a branching in the distal position from the acute STEMI occlusion (
P
=0.027; odds ratio = 20.8 [95% CI, 1.4–304.1]).

CONCLUSIONS
In STEMI with CTO in an NIRA, a CTO collateralization from the IRA distal to the acute occlusion is associated with a better prognosis. This finding challenges the double‐jeopardy assumption as the main cause of adverse outcome in STEMI with CTO in an NIRA.

REGISTRATION

URL:
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov
; Unique identifier: NCT00794001.
Echo-Enhanced Embodied Visual Navigation
Authors: Yu Yinfeng , Cao Lele , Sun Fuchun , Yang Chao , Lai Huicheng , Huang Wenbing 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Visual navigation involves a movable robotic agent striving to reach a point goal (target location) using vision sensory input. While navigation with ideal visibility has seen plenty of success, it becomes challenging in suboptimal visual conditions like poor illumination, where traditional approaches suffer from severe performance degradation. We propose E3VN (echo-enhanced embodied visual navigation) to effectively perceive the surroundings even under poor visibility to mitigate this problem. This is made possible by adopting an echoer that actively perceives the environment via auditory signals. E3VN models the robot agent as playing a cooperative Markov game with that echoer. The action policies of robot and echoer are jointly optimized to maximize the reward in a two-stream actor-critic architecture. During optimization, the reward is also adaptively decomposed into the robot and echoer parts. Our experiments and ablation studies show that E3VN is consistently effective and robust in point goal navigation tasks, especially under nonideal visibility.
Animals in Fashion: Portrayal of Animal Biodiversity on Children’s Clothing
Authors: Hooykaas Michiel Jan Dirk , Aalders Antonia Katharina , Schilthuizen Menno , Smeets Ionica 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
While cultural products such as clothes are usually not designed with an educational goal in mind, they may still raise biodiversity awareness. This study explored the portrayal of animal biodiversity on children’s clothing marketed by three major clothing retailers in the Netherlands. Findings showed that although nonhuman animals were a common theme, diversity was quite low. The portrayal was centered on mammals, in particular exotic and domestic species, and a gender binary was uncovered, restricting animals such as dinosaurs to boys’ clothes and butterflies to girls’ clothes. Moreover, portrayals were often highly simplified and anthropomorphic, which reduced recognizability. The results show that children’s clothes currently do not offer the balanced and iconic depiction of animal biodiversity needed for broadening people’s perceptions. To achieve a more extensive representation that can help connect people with biodiversity, a shift in ideas will be required of what animals are suitable to portray.
Growing Divides between Establishment and Climate Justice Proponents: A View from the Extremes of South Africa
Authors: Bond Patrick 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
The failure of elites negotiating global public goods – e.g., ending COVID-19 “vaccine apartheid,” forging geopolitical stability, reducing inequality, regulating international financial flows, and avoiding world recession – is nowhere more dangerous than the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s refusal to cut greenhouse gas emissions deeply and fairly. “Climate Justice” principles are ignored, so divisions grow between what ruling elites consider possible, and what activists demand. This is evident in a South Africa suffering among the world’s highest emissions levels, extreme weather events, the worst inequality, and a neoliberal, carbon-addicted corporate power bloc determining most of the policy terrain. But activists are forcefully resisting.
Integrating Degrowth and World-Systems Theory: Toward a Research Agenda
Authors: Frame Mariko Lin 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
This short conceptual article seeks to integrate world-systems theory and degrowth. It suggests that an ecological rendering of world-systems theory can clarify some of the most important quandaries of the degrowth movement in regards to global justice, decolonialism, the excessive material throughput of the Global North, and globalization. The article reframes these concerns from a world-systems framework that recognizes global hierarchies, imperialism, and dependencies, issues that the degrowth movement as a whole has failed to sufficiently address. It argues that while degrowth has made some progress in conceptualizing the kinds of changes that would be necessary for a more sustainable and just global economy, further proposals and research into deeper, world-systemic changes are necessary.
Cinema as Volcano: Thinking Cinema Through the Volcano with Malena Szlam, Werner Herzog and Jean Epstein
Authors: Mulvogue Jessica 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
In “Cinema Seen from Etna”, Jean Epstein makes an enigmatic comparison between cinema and the volcano. In witnessing the exploding Etna, Epstein proclaims that he saw cinema itself. This essay examines this connection between cinema and the volcano through an exploration of Werner Herzog’s documentary Into the Inferno (2016) and Malena Szlam’s geological films ALTIPLANO (2018) and MERAPI (2021). Drawing on literature in environmental humanities – especially those on the lithic and the elemental – I think the cinema through the volcano to arrive at the proposition that cinema, at least a certain kind of ‘volcanic cinema’, is a means of approaching something we might call ‘volcanic thinking’. This is a thinking alongside the elements, one that bears particular affinity with the sometimes explosive churning of rock and fire, a thinking that is necessary and critical for our volatile age.
Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies
Authors: Smith Patrick Brian 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
This article examines the interconnections between fire and Indigenous politics, geographies and epistemologies. More precisely, the article focuses on how different modes of emergent nonfiction media practice are engaging with the pyrological and interrogating its entanglements with Indigenous forms of existence and ecological-political struggle in a moment of escalating climate catastrophe and capitalist settler-colonial exploitation and extraction. The article explores how the pyrological and the ecological are framed and taken up in markedly contrasting discursive, visual and formal ways across these modes of nonfiction media practice. At a broader conceptual level, I examine these divergent engagements with pyro-ecologies to map out how countervailing currents in contemporary documentary practice differently approach conceptualisations of both the evidentiary and the epistemological in relation to Indigenous politics and ontologies. I argue that these engagements manifest differently across these works depending upon the degree to which they remain attentive to – and engaged with – Indigenous modes of ecologically-conscious land-based knowledge, pedagogy and evidence.
Earth After Death: Posthumous Cinematic Ecologies in Holocaust Documentary Film
Authors: Mroz Matilda 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Recent environmental turns in research on the Holocaust and the moving images produced in its aftermath have suggested the potential of earth to bear “eco-witness” to atrocity and signal sites of mass burial through alterations to the topsoil and vegetation. However, the conjunction between the elemental and the human that occurs when a violated body decomposes in the earth to become ‘humus’ indicates a particularly distressing point of “trouble” for non-anthropocentric frameworks that focus on the material agencies involved in composting processes (Haraway) and trans-corporealities (Alaimo). This article examines how three documentaries (Shtetl, Neighbours and Birthplace) frame sections of Polish earth that have been re-shaped by Holocaust atrocity and human decomposition. While indicating a vaster posthumous network in which humus becomes entangled in rural soil-based activities such as cattle grazing, the article argues that human decomposition triggers attempts to cinematically recompose active earth as readable archive and fixed landscape.
Abbas Kiarostami, Global Art Cinema and the Material Imagination of Earth
Authors: Uhlin Graig 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
This article examines the multiform appearance of elemental earth in the 1990s films of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, including Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Taste of Cherry, and The Wind Will Carry Us. Its aim is to consider the elemental aspects of global art cinema, arguing that art cinema treats elements intermedially. Art cinema’s alliance with the elemental has been comparatively overlooked given its associations with the cosmopolitan sites of global modernity, but this essay asserts that modernism is as much geophysical as geopolitical. I read Kiarostami’s films as staging encounters between human action and elemental agency; they set their characters in agonistic relation to the seismic movements and obdurate resistance of the earth. Drawing on elemental philosophy, this article demonstrates that the existential questions regarding life and death in Kiarostami’s filmmaking are oriented toward the earth (as ground, stone, and dust).
Geoblocking the Sun: Solar Eclipses in Transnational Artists’ Film
Authors: Solomon Stefan 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
The basis for works by such filmmakers as James Benning and Kevin Jerome Everson, the “Great American Eclipse” of August 2017 demonstrated the desire of artists’ film to capture the unique phenomenon of totality, when the moon completely obscures the sun for a period of several minutes. Beyond the borders of the United States, the transnational efforts of Lukas Marxt’s Double Dawn (2014) in Australia and J.P. Sniadecki’s The Yellow Bank (2010) in China also render the solar eclipse as a phenomenon of great cultural and ecological scope. While the astronomical event in each of these films itself provides a singular and contingent spectacle for the camera, this article argues that the eclipse’s mythical conjugation of the elemental forces of fire and earth also resonates unexpectedly with the diverse environments that fall under the moon’s shadow.
Parliaments and their Evolution
Authors: Patzelt Werner J. 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
This paper aims to open a new path for the comparative cross-historical and cross-cultural analysis of deliberating or deciding assemblies. For this purpose, it makes use of a wide concept of parliament, in contrast to the conventional narrow one which focuses on democratic elections and a free mandate. The essay starts with an overview of the large variety of “parliamentarianisms” across history and culture, and then points out the shortcomings of the “historically flat” legislative research conducted to date. It goes on to show how the use of non-biological evolutionary theory can enhance comparative historical research on institutions. Finally, it is demonstrated how “institutional morphology”, which draws a distinction between no fewer than five different forms of similarity, can be fruitfully used for empirical research into parliaments in particular, and institutions in general.
Public Engagement in the Welsh Parliament
Authors: Prior Alex , Stirbu Diana 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
This article provides an analysis of public engagement as it is practised and conceptualised by the Welsh Parliament. It does so by applying an interpretive framework to elite interviews and parliamentary committee report forewords, in order to identify institutional narratives of public engagement. These narratives are identified and discussed at three different levels of decision-making (and in ascending levels of ‘abstraction’): practice, strategy, and concept. The chosen framework and methodology show the usefulness of narrative at a conceptual and analytical level. The conclusions drawn – regarding 1) the need for a shift from public-facing to public-engaging committee work, 2) a lack of clarity on desired outcomes, and 3) continued tensions around sources of evidence and knowledge – are relevant and applicable to parliaments across a range of contexts.
Epidemiology of the use of inferior vena cava filters in Brazil between 2008 and 2019
Authors: Louzada Andressa Cristina Sposato , Diamante Leiderman Dafne Braga , Alexandrino da Silva Marcelo Fiorelli , Cassino Portugal Maria Fernanda , Carlos de Campos Guerra João , Teivelis Marcelo Passos , Wolosker Nelson 
Published: March 2023

Objectives The primary objective was to study the totality of inferior vena cava filter placements and their temporal and geographic distribution in the Brazilian Public Health System, which insures more than 160 million Brazilians. The secondary objective was to analyze in-hospital mortality after filter placement and deaths due to pulmonary embolism. Methods Public and open data on in-hospital mortality due to pulmonary embolism and on rates of inferior vena cava filters placement, its associated diagnosis, and in-hospital mortality in Brazilian public hospitals between January 2008 and December 2019 were extracted from Ministry of Health databases. Results A total of 9108 inferior vena cava filters were placed, 98.18% of which was therapeutic. We observed a significant increase in the use of these devices over the years, from 508 inferior vena cava filters placed in 2008 to 965 in 2019. In-hospital mortality rate in patients who received inferior vena cava filters was 6.21%, stable over time, and 96.64% of causes of these causes were attributed to venous thromboembolism. The in-hospital mortality rate due to pulmonary embolism, regardless of the placement of vena cava filters, has increased significantly. Conclusion We observed a low but increasing rate of inferior vena cava filter placements in Brazil between 2008 and 2019, most indications were therapeutic. Our findings were heterogeneous across Brazilian regions and contrasted to those observed in the USA, which is likely due to cultural and socioeconomic factors.
Pattern and variation in simple sequence repeat (SSR) at different genomic regions and its implications to maize evolution and breeding
Authors: Zhao Meiqi , Shu Guoping , Hu Yanhong , Cao Gangqiang , Wang Yibo 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Background
Repetitive DNA sequences accounts for over 80% of maize genome. Although simple sequence repeats (SSRs) account for only 0.03% of the genome, they have been widely used in maize genetic research and breeding as highly informative codominant DNA markers. The genome-wide distribution and polymorphism of SSRs are not well studied due to the lack of high-quality genome DNA sequence data.

Results
In this study, using data from high-quality de novo-sequenced maize genomes of five representative maize inbred lines, we revealed that SSRs were more densely present in telomeric region than centromeric region, and were more abundant in genic sequences than intergenic sequences. On genic sequences, tri- and hexanucleotide motifs were more abundant in CDS sequence and some mono- and dinucleotide motifs were more abundant in UTR sequences. Median length and chromosomal density of SSRs were both narrowly range-bound, with median length of 14-18 bp and genome-wide average density of 3355.77 bp/Mbp. LTR-RTs of < 0.4 Mya had higher SSR density (4498-4992 bp/Mbp). The genome-specific and motif-specific SSR polymorphism were studied. Their potential breeding applications were discussed.

Conclusions
We found that the median length of SSR sequences of different SSR motifs was nearly constant. SSR density in genic regions was much higher than intergenic regions. In addition, SSR density at LTR-RTs of different evolutionary ages varied in a narrow range. The SSRs and their LTR-RT carriers evolved at an equal rate. All these observations indicated that SSR length and density were under control of yet unknown evolutionary forces. The chromosome region-specific and motif-specific SSR polymorphisms we observed supported the notion that SSR polymorphism was invaluable genome resource for developing highly informative genome and gene markers in maize genetic research and molecular breeding.