bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Tree(s) of Hope and Ambition: An arts‐based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID‐19
Authors: Williams Sara , McEwen Lindsey Jo , Gorell Barnes Luci , Deave Toity , Webber Amanda , Jones Verity , Fogg‐Rogers Laura , Gopinath Deepak , Hobbs Laura 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThis paper offers a new child‐centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self‐reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longitudinal, arts‐based, social science‐informed project was delivered by partnering with schools in socially disadvantaged areas of Bristol, a UK city. Our two‐phase activity used a Tree metaphor to explore children's hopes, ambitions and support, looking forward to recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The analysis combined multi‐disciplinary thematic and visual‐narrative analysis, and revealed diversity, intersection and individuality in themes that scaled out from the child and their family over different timescales. Themes included emotion (concerns; empathy), experiences (happenings, resources skills; aspirations) and relationships, linked to their recent experiences of COVID‐19 mitigation. The paper reflects critically on children's and researchers' positionality, and the complexities involved in developing research methods that encourage children's autonomy, agency and authenticity.
Accounting for the role of investment frictions in recessions
Authors: del Río Fernando , Lores Francisco‐Xavier 
Published: June 2023

AbstractOur business cycle accounting exercise reveals that both capital and investment efficiency declines played a prominent role in accounting for the output downturn during the US Great Recession. The evidence indicates that an increase in firms' investment costs may have played a substantial role during the US Great Recession, consistent with business cycle models in which firms face financial frictions. The negligible role played by the total factor productivity decline in accounting for the output downturn during the US Great Recession found by previous works can be explained by the movement in opposite directions of both labour and capital efficiency. However, we find that labour efficiency falling was the main force driving output downturn in the 1982 recession and the euro area Great Recession.
Conceptualizing a Practical Discourse Survey Instrument for Assessing Communicative Agency and Rational Trust in Educational Policymaking
Authors: Kelly Darron 
Published: June 2023

AbstractHow might a theory of communicative rationality be applied to policymaking to secure the morally justifiable administration of public education? In answer, Darron Kelly uses conceptual resources found in Habermasian practical discourse to outline development of a survey instrument. The survey is designed to measure constituent satisfaction with actual conditions of educational policymaking. To do this, the survey operationalizes and quantifies the epistemic conditions of inclusion, participation, truthfulness, and noncoercion. Once captured, analysis of these conditions in actual cases of policymaking further provides for assessment of the degree of communicative agency and rational trust experienced by educational constituents. The instrument, as such, offers a standard gauge of the higher‐level intersubjectivity of institutional communication in education — a necessary measure for constructing morally justifiable policies.
Basal ganglia ischaemic infarction after thrombectomy: cognitive impairment at acute stage
Authors: Guglielmi Valeria , Quaranta Davide , Masone Iacobucci Giovanna , Citro Salvatore , Scala Irene , Genovese Danilo , Brunetti Valerio , Marra Camillo , Calabresi Paolo , Della Marca Giacomo 
Published: June 2023

AbstractBackground and purposeAfter successful mechanical thrombectomy for middle cerebral artery occlusion, basal ganglia infarction is commonly detectable. Whilst the functional outcome of these patients is often good, less knowledge is available about the cognitive outcome. The aim of our study was to assess the presence of cognitive impairment within 1 week after thrombectomy.MethodsIn all, 43 subjects underwent a general cognitive assessment using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and an extensive battery of tests. Patients were classified as cognitively impaired (CImp) or not (noCImp) according to a Montreal Cognitive Assessment score below 18.ResultsCognitively impaired and noCImp subjects did not differ either in their National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and modified Rankin Scale (mRS) at admittance, or in their Fazekas score and Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score. At discharge, CImp subjects showed higher scores than noCImp subjects on NIHSS (p = 0.002) and mRS (p < 0.001). The percentage of pathological performances on each neuropsychological test in the whole sample and in CImp and noCImp patients shows a similar cognitive profile between the groups.ConclusionsSome patients who underwent thrombectomy experienced a detectable cognitive impairment that probably led to worse NIHSS and mRS. The neuropsychological profile of such cognitive impairment at the acute stage consists of wide deficits in numerous cognitive domains, suggesting that basal ganglia damage may lead to complex functional impairments.
A CRISPR/Cas9‐based multicopy integration system for protein production in Aspergillus niger
Authors: Arentshorst Mark , Kooloth Valappil Prajeesh , Mózsik László , Regensburg‐Tuïnk Tonny J. G. , Seekles Sjoerd J. , Tjallinks Gwen , Fraaije Marco W. , Visser Jaap , Ram Arthur F. J. 
Published: June 2023

The filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger is well known for its high protein secretion capacity and a preferred host for homologous and heterologous protein production. To improve the protein production capacity of A. niger even further, a set of dedicated protein production strains was made containing up to 10 glucoamylase landing sites (GLSs) at predetermined sites in the genome. These GLSs replace genes encoding enzymes abundantly present or encoding unwanted functions. Each GLS contains the promotor and terminator region of the glucoamylase gene (glaA), one of the highest expressed genes in A. niger. Integrating multiple gene copies, often realized by random integration, is known to boost protein production yields. In our approach the GLSs allow for rapid targeted gene replacement using CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated genome editing. By introducing the same or different unique DNA sequences (dubbed KORE sequences) in each GLS and designing Cas9‐compatible single guide RNAs, one is able to select at which GLS integration of a target gene occurs. In this way a set of identical strains with different copy numbers of the gene of interest can be easily and rapidly made to compare protein production levels. As an illustration of its potential, we successfully used the expression platform to generate multicopy A. niger strains producing the Penicillium expansum PatE::6xHis protein catalysing the final step in patulin biosynthesis. The A. niger strain expressing 10 copies of the patE::6xHis expression cassette produced about 70 μg·mL−1 PatE protein in the culture medium with a purity just under 90%.
Permafrost thaw induces short‐term increase in vegetation productivity in northwestern Canada
Authors: Ogden Emily L. , Cumming Steven G. , Smith Sharon L. , Turetsky Merritt R. , Baltzer Jennifer L. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractOver the past several decades, various trends in vegetation productivity, from increases to decreases, have been observed throughout Arctic–Boreal ecosystems. While some of this variation can be explained by recent climate warming and increased disturbance, very little is known about the impacts of permafrost thaw on productivity across diverse vegetation communities. Active layer thickness data from 135 permafrost monitoring sites along a 10° latitudinal transect of the Northwest Territories, Canada, paired with a Landsat time series of normalized difference vegetation index from 1984 to 2019, were used to quantify the impacts of changing permafrost conditions on vegetation productivity. We found that active layer thickness contributed to the observed variation in vegetation productivity in recent decades in the northwestern Arctic–Boreal, with the highest rates of greening occurring at sites where the near‐surface permafrost recently had thawed. However, the greening associated with permafrost thaw was not sustained after prolonged periods of thaw and appeared to diminish after the thaw front extended outside the plants' rooting zone. Highest rates of greening were found at the mid‐transect sites, between 62.4° N and 65.2° N, suggesting that more southernly sites may have already surpassed the period of beneficial permafrost thaw, while more northern sites may have yet to reach a level of thaw that supports enhanced vegetation productivity. These results indicate that the response of vegetation productivity to permafrost thaw is highly dependent on the extent of active layer thickening and that increases in productivity may not continue in the coming decades.
Increasing riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from China
Authors: Yan Yanzi , Lauerwald Ronny , Wang Xuhui , Regnier Pierre , Ciais Philippe , Ran Lishan , Gao Yuanyi , Huang Ling , Zhang Yao , Duan Zheng , Papa Fabrice , Yu Bing , Piao Shilong 
Published: June 2023

AbstractRiver transport of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to the ocean is a crucial but poorly quantified regional carbon cycle component. Large uncertainties remaining on the riverine DOC export from China, as well as its trend and drivers of change, have challenged the reconciliation between atmosphere‐based and land‐based estimates of China's land carbon sink. Here, we harmonized a large database of riverine in‐situ measurements and applied a random forest model, to quantify riverine DOC fluxes (FDOC) and DOC concentrations (CDOC) in rivers across China. This study proposes the first DOC modeling effort capable of reproducing well the magnitude of riverine CDOC and FDOC, as well as its trends, on a monthly scale and with a much wider spatial distribution over China compared to previous studies that mainly focused on annual‐scale estimates and large rivers. Results show that over the period 2001–2015, the average CDOC was 2.25 ± 0.45 mg/L and average FDOC was 4.04 ± 1.02 Tg/year. Simultaneously, we found a significant increase in FDOC (+0.044 Tg/year2, p = .01), but little change in CDOC (−0.001 mg/L/year, p > .10). Although the trend in CDOC is not significant at the country scale, it is significantly increasing in the Yangtze River Basin and Huaihe River Basin (0.005 and 0.013 mg/L/year, p < .05) while significantly decreasing in the Yellow River Basin and Southwest Rivers Basin (−0.043 and −0.014 mg/L/year, p = .01). Changes in hydrology, play a stronger role than direct impacts of anthropogenic activities in determining the spatio‐temporal variability of FDOC and CDOC across China. However, and in contrast with other basins, the significant increase in CDOC in the Yangtze River Basin and Huaihe River Basin is attributable to direct anthropogenic activities. Given the dominance of hydrology in driving FDOC, the increase in FDOC is likely to continue under the projected increase in river discharge over China resulting from a future wetter climate.
Haemophilia joint health score (HJHS) usage, patterns and outcome data in patients with haemophilia A and haemophilia B in Australia: A descriptive study using the Australian Bleeding Disorders Registry (ABDR)
Authors: George Carly , Parikh Sumit , Carter Tina , Morris Alison , Cramey Cameron , Mcelroy Kymberley , Tran Huyen 
Published: June 2023

AbstractIntroductionAssessment of joint health is an essential component of haemophilia management. A variety of clinical tools have been developed to standardise this assessment process. One such tool, the Haemophilia Joint Health Score (HJHS), is embedded for use within the Australian Bleeding Disorders Registry (ABDR). This provides a unique opportunity to analyse patterns of tool usage as well as associations between scores, demographics and clinical outcome factors.AimsTo characterise clinician practices regarding use of HJHS in routine clinical assessment of persons with haemophilia (PWH), to examine relationships between HJHS, and age, inhibitor status and body mass index (BMI), and to identify potential barriers to HJHS tool usage.MethodsA national, retrospective study was conducted using data extracted from the ABDR between 2014 and 2020, complemented by a qualitative questionnaire exploring haemophilia treatment centre (HTC) structure, resourcing and clinician perspectives about HJHS.Results28.1% (622/2220) of PWH had at least one HJHS recorded in the ABDR during the defined study period (546 haemophilia A, 76 haemophilia B). HJHS were recorded more in children than adults and performed more in severe than non‐severe haemophilia. Multivariate analysis demonstrated significant association of age, severity and inhibitor status with HJHS. No association was identified between BMI and HJHS. Qualitative surveys revealed significant variation in physiotherapy funding, availability and methods of tool use between HTCs.ConclusionThis study provides valuable insights into joint health assessment in Australia. It improved our understanding of factors influencing long‐term joint outcomes. Practical limitations of HJHS tool were also discussed.
The experiences of psychiatric patients, their caregivers and companions in upholding patient dignity during hospitalization: A qualitative study
Authors: Shojaei Amirahmad , Raziani Yosra , Bernstein Colleen , Asgari Ali , Alazmani‐Noodeh Farshid , Arab Mohammadreza , Ranjbar Hadi 
Published: June 2023

AbstractIntroductionThe quality of care and patient satisfaction is closely linked with dignity, which is a crucial component of therapy and care. However, there is very little study on dignity in the context of mental health care. Planning for ongoing patient care might benefit from an understanding of the notion of dignity by exploring the experiences of patients, caregivers and companions of patients who have a history of hospitalization in mental health institutions. To retain patients' dignity while they were being treated in mental wards, this study sought to understand the experiences of patients, caregivers and companions of patients.Materials and MethodsThis investigation was qualitative. Semistructured interviews and focus groups were utilized to collect the data. The purposeful sampling method was employed for participant recruitment, which continued until data saturation. Two focus group discussions and 27 interviews were conducted. Participants included 8 patients, 2 patients' family members (companions), 3 psychologists, 4 nurses and 11 psychiatrists. Two focus group discussions were held with seven family members or companions of patients. Thematic analysis was used for data analysis.ResultsThe primary theme that emerged was the infringement of patients' dignity, through negative guardianship, dehumanization and violations of their rights. Subthemes included dehumanization, worthlessness and namelessness, patient rights violations and stripping patients of authority.ConclusionOur results suggest that, regardless of the severity of the illness, the nature of psychiatric illness significantly compromises patients' dignity. Mental health practitioners, due to their sense of guardianship, may unintentionally treat patients with mental health disorders, thus compromising the patient's dignity.Patient or Public ContributionThe research team's experiences as a psychiatrist, doctor and nurse informed the study's objectives. Nurses and psychiatrists who work in the healthcare industry designed and conducted the study. The primary authors, who are healthcare providers, collected and analysed the required data. Furthermore, the entire study team contributed to the writing of the manuscript. Study participants were involved in the data collection and analysis.
ON FUTURES AND ENDINGS: NARRATOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF CRISES*
Authors: FUCHS ANNE 
Published: June 2023

ABSTRACTThe article examines the changing relationship of the present to the future from a narratological perspective. It argues that three dominant narrative schemas structure the contemporary experiences of temporality in the Western social imaginary: the modern crisis narrative, the apocalyptic narrative, and the chronic crisis narrative. In its first part, the article shows how the modern sense of crisis, which emerged in the late eighteenth century, sedimented into a powerful narrative template by knitting together the past, the present, and the future into a unified plot. The second part focuses on the resurgence of apocalyptic stories in the Western social imaginary and humanities discourse. The final part highlights the special contribution of aesthetics of precariousness to the Western imaginary of time and temporality. It argues that the “chronic crisis narrative” deflates the teleological narrative arc of the modern crisis paradigm while also shunning the end‐time discourse of the apocalyptic narrative.
Asymmetric responses by bees and aculeate wasps to dune stabilisation across the southern Canadian prairies
Authors: Onuferko Thomas M. , Buck Matthias , Gibbs Jason , Sokoloff Paul C. 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Inland sand dunes in the Great Plains of North America provide refuge for a variety of psammophilous (i.e., sand‐loving) organisms but are threatened by vegetative stabilisation. In a cross‐sectional study, we analysed the effects of dune stabilisation on wild bees and stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata)—which comprise some of the most diverse assemblages of dune‐dwelling arthropods—at 13 sites across the southern Canadian prairies.
We did not detect changes in overall taxonomic richness with increased stabilisation, with comparable numbers of bee and aculeate wasp species/morphospecies observed among dunes at different stages of stabilisation. However, abundances of species of wasps identified as dune specialists decreased with increased stabilisation.
Bees and aculeate wasps responded nonlinearly to the percent of plant cover on dunes dominated by grasses (Poales: Poaceae), whereas abundance and richness were generally high on dunes where the dominant plant was dune scurfpea (Fabales: Fabaceae). Thus, the extent to which these plants cover a particular dune can be indicative of the numbers of individuals and types of aculeate species it can sustain.
Overall, differences in aculeate community composition between dune sites were better explained by proximity of sites to one another than stabilisation level, reflecting the large spatial scale at which the dunes were surveyed (i.e., within a 50,350 km2 area).
Bees and aculeate wasps, especially open sand specialist species, serve as a promising tool for monitoring the effects of dune stabilisation. This study provides a crucial reference point and methodology for future assessments of dune‐inhabiting aculeates in these unique inland dune systems.
A multidimensional study on population size, deadwood relationship and allometric variation of Lucanus cervus through citizen science
Authors: Giannetti Daniele , Schifani Enrico , Leonardi Stefano , Fior Emanuele , Sangiorgi Silvia , Castracani Cristina , Bardiani Marco , Campanaro Alessandro , Grasso Donato A. 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
The European stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, is the largest saproxylic beetle and a flagship species whose populations should be monitored according to the EU Habitats Directive. Different studies have addressed its abundance and phenology, its relationship with deadwood, or the allometry of males related to different reproductive strategies. While monitoring efforts are complicated by the limited phenological window of adults (active at dusk during a few weeks), different innovative strategies have been tested in the last few years, with a promising role of citizen science.
We tested the possibility of characterising key dimensions of a L. cervus population of an Italian Natural Park by involving a network of citizen scientists in a two‐week sampling campaign along standardised sampling transects, using a capture‐mark‐recapture (CMR) approach. We investigated its relationship with deadwood at different sites, estimated population size with a Bayesian analysis and characterised the allometric variation by assembling a dataset of morphological traits.
With the participation of 41 volunteers, we collected and measured 651 individuals along four sampling transects. Our analyses uncovered a large L. cervus population (estimated to consist of almost 3400 individuals), characterising its relationship with deadwood availability in different areas, and the absence of the expected male allometry.
Our results suggest that even a woodland composed by relatively young trees can host a large L. cervus populations if cut deadwood of suitable size is available. The engagement of volunteers, to which the results were presented, proved crucial to cost‐efficiently study different key ecological aspects of an insect species with a short phenology.
Preparation of PET‐EG‐β‐CD mat for the preservation of chilled pork
Authors: Huang Huan , Fan Liyan , Wu Lingling , Du Juan , Sun Wenxiu 
Published: June 2023

SummaryThis study aimed to prolong the shelf life of chilled pork by simply preparing antimicrobial packaging. β‐cyclodextrin (β‐CD) cross‐linked polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with citric acid, and then embedded eugenol (EG) into β‐CD to make the antimicrobial mat. Release tests showed that the EG in the mat can be slowly released in a 50% ethanol solution. Continuous release of EG could significantly inhibit the growth of S. aureus and E. coli. Compared to the control group, the pH, TBARS, TVB‐N and TVC decreased significantly in the treatment group with increasing storage time, especially from 5 to 7 days (P < 0.05). The sensory evaluation results also showed that PET‐EG‐β‐CD mat increased overall acceptance of chilled pork. PET‐EG‐β‐CD mat prolonged the shelf life of chilled pork for 2–4 days. These results suggested that PET‐EG‐β‐CD mat effectively protected the quality of chilled pork, and had certain application value as an active packaging.
Identification and characterisation of antimicrobial resistance of Enterococcus spp. isolated from pork and poultry meat
Authors: Martinez‐Laorden Alba , Arraiz‐Fernandez Celia , Gonzalez‐Fandos Elena 
Published: June 2023

SummaryThere is a great concern on the presence of antimicrobial‐resistant bacteria in meat, since they can cause adverse effects in the consumers' health. The purpose of this work was to identify and characterise the antimicrobial resistance of Enterococcus spp. isolated from meat. A total of 209 meat samples (forty pork, fifty chicken, fifty‐one turkey, thirty‐one duck, and thirty‐seven quail) were collected at retail level. E. faecalis was the dominant enterococci isolated from all the types of meat evaluated, followed by E. faecium, E. gallinarum, and E. hirae, among others which were also isolated. Of the 317 strains evaluated for antimicrobial resistance 48 (15.14%) were multi‐resistant. Most of the multi‐resistant strains were E. faecium and E. faecalis, and in lesser extent E. gallinarum and E. hirae. Multi‐resistant strains were isolated from all the types of meat studied, mainly from turkey (sixteen strains), chicken (fifteen strains), and quail (fourteen strains). Two multi‐resistant strains showed resistance to vancomycin (E. faecium isolated from turkey meat, and E. faecalis isolated from quail meat). Resistance to tigecycline, teicoplanin, linezolid and quinolones was found among enterococci isolates. Special measures should be taken to avoid faecal contamination of carcasses in order to reduce enterococci prevalence in meat.