bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Living well or not? Quality of life of parental living liver donors: A cross‐sectional study
Authors: Wu Xiaxin , Chen Jing , Fan Yaru , Shi Yuexian , Gao Wei 
Published: May 2023

AbstractAimThe aim of this study was to gain comprehensive insight into the quality of life of parental living liver donors after liver donation.BackgroundSeveral studies reported good quality of life of living liver donors with the SF‐36 scale. Care demand from the recipient and responsibility of being parent might make a difference in parental donors' personal experienced quality of life after transplantation surgery.MethodsIt is a cross‐sectional study. The parental donors' demographics, clinical data and post‐donation complications were obtained. Quality of life was assessed using the Medical Outcomes Study SF‐36 and the Quality of Life Scale of Living Organ Donors‐Common Module.Patient or Public ContributionThe enrolled participants were contacted by electronic questionnaires and telephonic interview.ResultsA total of 345 parental donors were included, with recruited period ranging from 3 to 85 months post‐donation. 8.1% of donors had post‐operative complications, mostly classified as Clavien grade II. Donors' general quality of life was higher than the Chinese general norm. Issues related to surgical incision, fatigue, worries about income and personal health, effects on work capability, increased medical expenses and difficult reimbursement and suspected donation decision were the prominent problems among donors. Mother–son relationship (OR = 1.87) and equal or less than 2 years after donation (OR = 3.08) were the influencing factors for poor physical quality of life, while unmarried status (e.g. divorced or widowed) was found negatively associated with mental quality of life (adjusted OR = 3.61).ConclusionsGeneral health among parental donors is good but those female, unmarried and near post‐donation might in low life quality. Incision, fatigue, finance, reimbursement and donation decision are prominent problems.Relevance to Clinical PracticePost‐donation care of living donors should cover social and financial domain besides physical and mental dimension. Providing follow‐up care and counselling is necessary to ensure their life quality.
Using dinoprostone slow release vaginal insert for cervical ripening in term‐pregnancy with oligohydramnios
Authors: Nguyen To Nhu Thi Ngo , Vuong Anh Dinh Bao , Nguyen Phuc Nhon , Nguyen Ngoc Tran Thi , Ho Quang Nhat , Le Quang Thanh 
Published: May 2023

AbstractAimsThe study purposed to evaluate the success rate of cervical ripening using dinoprostone controlled‐release vaginal insert and reveal some factors relating to successful cervical ripening.MethodsThis cross‐sectional study was conducted at Tu Du Hospital in Vietnam from December 2021 to August 2022. The study enrolled 200 pregnant women with gestational age ≥37 weeks diagnosed with oligohydramnios. These candidates underwent dinoprostone cervical ripening (DCR) according to the local protocol. The Bishop score ≥7 after 24 h was determined for the successful cervical ripening (SCR).ResultsIn total, the success rate of DCR achieved at 57.5% and the cesarean delivery rate was 46.5%. None of the severe side‐effects and complications was present. Using multivariable logistic regression, the study found that the body mass index ≥25 kg/m2 and oxytocin infusion drip related to SCR with adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 3.67 (95% confidence intervals [CI]: 1.78–7.57) and aOR: 4.68 (95% CI: 1.84–11.93), p < 0.001. Using the Kaplan–Meier curve, the present study revealed a significant difference between Bishop <3 and ≥3 following the duration time of cervical ripening, with hazard ratio: 1.38 (95% CI: 1.19–1.59), p < 0.001. The time duration of cervical ripening was not significantly different following amniotic fluid index from 3 to 5 cm.ConclusionsCervical ripening using a dinoprostone vaginal insert is a potentially acceptable method in term pregnancy accompanying with oligohydramnios. The probability of SCR can be predicted on a careful assessment of relative factors by obstetricians. Further studies are required to strengthen these findings.
How do grand challenges determine, drive and influence the innovation efforts of for‐profit firms? A multidimensional analysis
Authors: Pereira Vijay , Temouri Yama , Wood Geoffrey , Bamel Umesh , Budhwar Pawan 
Published: May 2023

AbstractWhile raising concerns, the recent proliferation of grand challenges has sparked interest in the role played by innovation in causing them, and in how the attempts made to fix them may cause even greater challenges that present themselves down the line. This article provides an analysis of the bibliographic metadata, published between 2002 and 2020, focusing explicitly on the private‐for‐profit sector. By identifying common themes from 66 documents, a framework highlighting the shared concerns and research trajectories was derived. Our results are illustrated and discussed along 11 research themes. We contribute theoretically by identifying the innovation efforts of for‐profit firms that directly relate to grand challenges, through two cases of carbon capture and storage and deep‐sea mining. We conclude that a more holistic understanding of innovation and its many possible consequences needs to be developed. We highlight the limitations of perspectives that do not always take full account of the potential divergence of interests between stakeholders, and, how fuller input by a greater cross‐section of stakeholders may help identify any negative effects of innovations at an earlier stage. Informed by recent extensions of social innovation theory, we explore the potential for synthesis around a pragmatic understanding of institutions, stakeholders, and the nature and quality of ties that bind them.
Hidden in plain sight: unveiling the distributions of green‐winged grasshoppers (Aiolopus spp.) with citizen‐science data
Authors: Pélissié M. , Nabholz B. , Labadessa R. , Ancillotto L. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractUnderstanding the geographical distribution of phenotypically highly similar species (i.e. cryptic species) represents a challenge to biogeographers, due to the obvious difficulties in identifying such taxa without specific expertise. Besides, citizen science is increasingly emerging as a key approach for supporting biodiversity data collection, but remains hard to apply in the case of cryptic species. Here we aim to test the combination of community records and photography‐based quantitative methods, for assessing the distribution of cryptic taxa, by using two grasshopper species of the genus Aiolopus as models. To achieve these objectives, we first assess the reliability of photography‐based diagnostic criteria to differentiate between A. thalassinus and A. puissanti without ambiguity from correctly identified records, and then apply such criteria to geographical regions of potential range overlap between the two species, in order to clarify their respective distributions. By applying a multivariate classification approach based on ratio measurements taken from photographs, we provide a quantitative tool to successfully identify the two species, and disclose that A. puissanti widely occurs outside of its currently known range, and outline potential research avenues on the biogeography of these poorly studied species. Our results also point at how some types of cryptic species may be effectively identified by adopting a quantitative photography‐based approach, with applicability for clarifying species' distributions at wide scales by exploiting publicly available citizen‐science records. Our study thus, besides shedding light onto the biogeography and distributions of Aiolopus grasshoppers across the Mediterranean, represents an effective and repeatable framework to disentangle the distributions of poorly studied cryptic species.
Meso‐habitat distribution patterns and ecological requirements of two Mediterranean vipers depict weak competition in a contact zone
Authors: Scaramuzzi A. , Freitas I. , Sillero N. , Martínez‐Freiría F. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractDisentangling the multiple factors that shape the ecological niche of a species is often difficult, especially when in contact with other similar and potentially competing species. Ecological niche models (ENMs), albeit originally developed for environmental factors only, can help in assessing competition by comparing the niches of ecologically similar species. Here, we use ENMs and niche overlap tests to compare the ecological niches of the Western Mediterranean vipers, Vipera aspis and V. latastei, in the secondary contact zone of the High Ebro (Northern Spain), partitioning the species occurrences in sympatric and allopatric subsets. We considered nine geomorphological and landcover variables, obtained from remote sensing, and gathered at the meso‐habitat scale (100 × 100 m). Our ENMs showed partial interspecific divergence in habitat requirements between these two closely related species, with V. aspis selecting more canopied areas and V. latastei preferring more open habitats. No intraspecific differences in ecological requirements were found when sympatric and allopatric subsets were compared, that is, the two species are not experiencing ecological shift when in contact, which suggests weak competition in habitat use. Our findings, therefore, suggest that species distributions in this contact zone are mainly determined by the environmental conditions, with almost no contribution of competitive pressure. Still, a localized competition might exist due to minor differences in the ecological niches and a marked and unequal reduction of suitable areas for the sympatric populations, which could be favouring V. aspis in small regions of the contact zone.
Report of the Science Community Workshop on the proposed First Sample Depot for the Mars Sample Return Campaign
Authors:   Prepared by the MSR Campaign Science Group (MCSG), Czaja A. D. , Zorzano M.‐P. ,   the rest of the MCSG team, with Chairs, Kminek G. , Meyer M. A. ,   Members, Beaty D. W. , Sefton‐Nash E. , Carrier B. L. , Thiessen F. , Haltigin T. , Bouvier A. , Dauphas N. , French K. L. , Hallis L. J. , Harris R. L. , Hauber E. , Rodriguez L. E. , Schwenzer S. P. , Steele A. , Tait K. T. , Thorpe M. T. , Usui T. , Vanhomwegen J. , Velbel M. A. , Edwin S. , Farley K. A. , Glavin D. P. , Harrington A. D. , Hays L. E. , Hutzler A. , Wadhwa M. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe Mars 2020/Mars Sample Return (MSR) Sample Depot Science Community Workshop was held on September 28 and 30, 2022, to assess the Scientifically‐Return Worthy (SRW) value of the full collection of samples acquired by the rover Perseverance at Jezero Crater, and of a proposed subset of samples to be left as a First Depot at a location within Jezero Crater called Three Forks. The primary outcome of the workshop was that the community is in consensus on the following statement: The proposed set of ten sample tubes that includes seven rock samples, one regolith sample, one atmospheric sample, and one witness tube constitutes a SRW collection that: (1) represents the diversity of the explored region around the landing site, (2) covers partially or fully, in a balanced way, all of the International MSR Objectives and Samples Team scientific objectives that are applicable to Jezero Crater, and (3) the analyses of samples in this First Depot on Earth would be of fundamental importance, providing a substantial improvement in our understanding of Mars. At the conclusion of the meeting, there was overall community support for forming the First Depot as described at the workshop and placing it at the Three Forks site. The community also recognized that the diversity of the Rover Cache (the sample collection that remains on the rover after placing the First Depot) will significantly improve with the samples that are planned to be obtained in the future by the Perseverance rover and that the Rover Cache is the primary target for MSR to return to Earth.
Delivery of icy planetesimals to inner planets in the Proxima Centauri planetary system
Authors: Ipatov Sergei I. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe estimates of the delivery of icy planetesimals from the feeding zone of Proxima Centauri c (with mass equal to 7mE, mE is the mass of the Earth) to inner planets b and d were made. They included the studies of the total mass of planetesimals in the feeding zone of planet c and the probabilities of collisions of such planetesimals with inner planets. This total mass could be about 10–15mE. It was estimated based on studies of the ratio of the mass of planetesimals ejected into hyperbolic orbits to the mass of planetesimals collided with forming planet c. At integration of the motion of planetesimals, the gravitational influence of planets c and b and the star was taken into account. In most series of calculations, planetesimals collided with planets were excluded from integrations. Based on estimates of the mass of planetesimals ejected into hyperbolic orbits, it was concluded that during the growth of the mass of planet c the semi‐major axis of its orbit could decrease by at least a factor of 1.5. Depending on possible gravitational scattering due to mutual encounters of planetesimals, the total mass of material delivered by planetesimals from the feeding zone of planet c to planet b was estimated to be between 0.002mE and 0.015mE. Probably, the amount of water delivered to Proxima Centauri b exceeded the mass of water in Earth's oceans. The amount of material delivered to planet d could be a little less than that delivered to planet b.
Effects of an integrated poultry value chain, nutrition, gender and WASH intervention (SELEVER) on hygiene and child morbidity and anthropometry in Burkina Faso: A secondary outcome analysis of a cluster randomised trial
Authors: Gelli Aulo , Collishaw Anissa , Awonon Josue , Becquey Elodie , Diatta Ampa , Diop Loty , Ganaba Rasmane , Headey Derek , Hien Alain , Ngure Francis , Pedehombga Abdoulaye , Santacroce Marco , Toe Laeticia C. , Verhoef Hans , Alderman Harold , Ruel Marie T. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractNutrition‐sensitive agriculture programmes have the potential to improve child nutrition outcomes, but livestock intensification may pose risks related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions. We assessed the impact of SELEVER, a nutrition‐ and gender‐sensitive poultry intervention, with and without added WASH focus, on hygiene practices, morbidity and anthropometric indices of nutrition in children aged 2−4 years in Burkina Faso. A 3‐year cluster randomised controlled trial was implemented in 120 villages in 60 communes (districts) supported by the SELEVER project. Communes were randomly assigned using restricted randomisation to one of three groups: (1) SELEVER intervention (n = 446 households); (2) SELEVER plus WASH intervention (n = 432 households); and (3) control without intervention (n = 899 households). The study population included women aged 15−49 years with an index child aged 2−4 years. We assessed the effects 1.5‐years (WASH substudy) and 3‐years (endline) post‐intervention on child morbidity and child anthropometry secondary trial outcomes using mixed effects regression models. Participation in intervention activities was low in the SELEVER groups, ranging from 25% at 1.5 years and 10% at endline. At endline, households in the SELEVER groups had higher caregiver knowledge of WASH‐livestock risks (∆ = 0.10, 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.04−0.16]) and were more likely to keep children separated from poultry (∆ = 0.09, 95% CI [0.03−0.15]) than in the control group. No differences were found for other hygiene practices, child morbidity symptoms or anthropometry indicators. Integrating livestock WASH interventions alongside poultry and nutrition interventions can increase knowledge of livestock‐related risks and improve livestock‐hygiene‐related practices, yet may not be sufficient to improve the morbidity and nutritional status of young children.
Influence of the Suchana intervention on exclusive breastfeeding and stunting among children aged under 6 months in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh
Authors: Haque Md Ahshanul , Zaman Wahid Barbie , Farzana Fahmida D. , Tanvir Ahmed S. M. , Ali Mohammad , Naz Farina , Rahman Sheikh S. , Siddiqua Towfida J. , Faruque A. S. G. , Choudhury Nuzhat , Ahmed Tahmeed 
Published: May 2023

AbstractExclusive breastfeeding (EBF) provides significant health benefits to children. However, mothers may find it difficult to continue EBF for 6 months. The present analysis aimed to examine the influence of the Suchana intervention—a large‐scale programme implemented with the aim of improving the health and nutritional status of mothers and children from poor households in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh—on EBF and stunting among children under 6 months. Baseline and endline data were obtained from the Suchana evaluation. EBF was defined as an infant (<6 months) only receiving breast milk in the previous 24 h. Childhood stunting was defined as a length‐for‐age z‐score of less than −2 among children of the same age. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to assess the associations of the Suchana intervention with EBF and stunting. EBF prevalence improved from 64% at baseline to 85% at the endline in the intervention area, with the intervention group having 2.25 times higher odds of EBF compared to the control group. Stunting prevalence reduced from 28% at baseline to 24% at the endline in the intervention group, but after controlling for covariates, the association between stunting and the intervention was not significant. However, the interaction analysis showed significantly lower stunting prevalence among EBF children in both intervention and control areas. The Suchana intervention had a positive impact on the EBF practice of rural children in a vulnerable region of Bangladesh, and EBF was identified as a significant factor associated with stunting. The findings suggest that the continuation of the EBF intervention has the potential to have an impact on reducing stunting in the region, highlighting the importance of promoting EBF to improve child health and development.
Biocidal products: Opportunities in risk assessment, management, and communication
Authors: Lee Byung‐Mu , Bearth Angela , Tighe Robert M. , Kim Manho , Tan Simon , Kwon Seok 
Published: May 2023

AbstractIn the coronavirus disease 2019 era, biocidal products are increasingly used for controlling harmful organisms, including microorganisms. However, assuring safety against adverse health effects is a critical issue from a public health standpoint. This study aimed to provide an overview of key aspects of risk assessment, management, and communication that ensure the safety of biocidal active ingredients and products. The inherent characteristics of biocidal products make them effective against pests and pathogens; however, they also possess potential toxicities. Therefore, public awareness regarding both the beneficial and potential adverse effects of biocidal products needs to be increased. Biocidal active ingredients and products are regulated under specific laws: the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act for the United States; the European Union (EU) Biocidal Products Regulation for the EU; and the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocide Safety Management Act for the Republic of Korea. Risk management also needs to consider the evidence of enhanced sensitivity to toxicities in individuals with chronic diseases, given the increased prevalence of these conditions in the population. This is particularly important for post‐marketing safety assessments of biocidal products. Risk communication conveys information, including potential risks and risk‐reduction measures, aimed at managing or controlling health or environmental risks. Taken together, the collaborative effort of stakeholders in risk assessment, management, and communication strategies is critical to ensuring the safety of biocidal products sold in the market as these strategies are constantly evolving.
Discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English: A corpus‐based comparative analysis
Authors: Chapwanya Faith Chiedza , Nel Joanine Hester 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThis analysis of discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English (ZE) and British English was carried out to determine possible statistically significant variations in their occurrence and function frequencies in spoken and written registers, and in different genres to ascertain if they are used in the same manner in both languages and in different language use contexts. The ZE corpus and the International Corpus of English‐Great Britain (ICE‐GB) were compared to reveal statistically significant variations in some registers and genres. Regarding so, the marking implied result and the sequential so functions were more frequent in the ICE‐GB compared to the ZE corpus. Well occurred more in the ICE‐GB compared to the ZE corpus. Searching for the right phrase, rephrasing or correcting, move to main story, indirect answer, contributing an opinion, direct answer, continuing an opinion, and evaluating a previous statement occurred more in the ICE‐GB compared to the ZE corpus.
Uniform simplicity for subgroups of piecewise continuous bijections of the unit interval
Authors: Guelman Nancy , Liousse Isabelle 
Published: May 2023

AbstractLet and (resp. ) be the quotient group of the group of all piecewise continuous (resp. piecewise continuous and orientation preserving) bijections of by its normal subgroup consisting in elements with finite support (i.e., which are trivial except at possibly finitely many points). Arnoux's thesis states that and certain groups of interval exchanges are simple, and the proofs of these results are the purpose of the Appendix. We prove the simplicity of the group of locally orientation preserving, piecewise continuous, piecewise affine maps of the unit interval. These results can be improved. Indeed, a group is uniformly simple if there exists a positive integer such that for any , the element can be written as a product of at most conjugates of or . We provide conditions, which guarantee that a subgroup of is uniformly simple. As corollaries, we obtain that , , , , , and some Thompson‐like groups included that the Thompson group are uniformly simple.
Minimal Ws,ns$W^{s,\frac{n}{s}}$‐harmonic maps in homotopy classes
Authors: Mazowiecka Katarzyna , Schikorra Armin 
Published: May 2023

AbstractLet a closed ‐dimensional manifold, be a closed manifold, and let for . We extend the monumental work of Sacks and Uhlenbeck by proving that if , then there exists a minimizing ‐harmonic map homotopic to . If , then we prove that there exists a ‐harmonic map from to in a generating set of . Since several techniques, especially Pohozaev‐type arguments, are unknown in the fractional framework (in particular, when , one cannot argue via an extension method), we develop crucial new tools that are interesting on their own: such as a removability result for point singularities and a balanced energy estimate for nonscaling invariant energies. Moreover, we prove the regularity theory for minimizing ‐maps into manifolds.