bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Improving clogging predictions at managed aquifer recharge sites: a quantitative assessment on the vertical distribution of intrusive fines
Authors: Lippera Maria Chiara , Werban Ulrike , Vienken Thomas 
Published: December 2022

AbstractManaged aquifer recharge (MAR) is an emerging approach to enhancing water storage capacity, improving water supply security and countering groundwater overexploitation. However, physical clogging, i.e. accumulation of suspended organic and inorganic solids within a sediment matrix, can lead to a significant reduction of infiltration rates and present difficulties in the functioning of MAR infrastructure. Clogging and subsequent reduction in infiltration capacity are often quantified based on monitoring data or field investigations, rather than on forecasts. Existing predictive models require specific parameterisation, making an application to heterogeneous sites, or under changing conditions, difficult. Hence, a generalised understanding of how intrusive fine particles distribute over depth during water recharge cycles for typical MAR infiltration basin sediments is needed to predict clogging susceptibility and clogging patterns already in the planning phase and before operation of MAR schemes. The study will contribute to operational reliability, deduce optimised management practices, and, ideally, reduce maintenance efforts. To achieve this goal, data from different soil-column clogging experiments are reviewed and complemented with experiments to establish a generally valid relationship for the vertical distribution of intrusive fines under consideration of the primary porous media’s and intruding particles’ characteristics. Obtained results allow for quantification of the amount of particles retained at the surface of the porous media, i.e. formation of a filter cake, a description of the distribution of fines over depth, and total clogging depth. Finally, the findings are applied to a real MAR case study site to showcase the quantification of clogging effects on recharge rates.
Characterization of land cover-specific fire regimes in the Brazilian Amazon
Authors: Cano-Crespo Ana , Traxl Dominik , Prat-Ortega Genís , Rolinski Susanne , Thonicke Kirsten 
Published: December 2022

AbstractHumans profoundly alter fire regimes both directly, by introducing changes in fuel dynamics and ignitions, and indirectly, by increasing the release of greenhouse gases and aerosols from fires, which can alter regional climate and, as a consequence, modify fuel moisture and availability. Interactions between vegetation dynamics, regional climate change and anthropogenic pressure lead to high heterogeneity in the spatio-temporal fire distribution. We use the new FireTracks Scientific Dataset that tracks the spatio-temporal development of individual fires to analyse fire regimes in the Brazilian Legal Amazon over the period 2002–2020. We analyse fire size, duration, intensity and rate of spread in six different land-cover classes. Particular combinations of fire features determine the dominant and characteristic fire regime in each of them. We find that fires in savannas and evergreen forests burn the largest areas and are the most long lasting. Forest fires have the potential for burning at the highest intensities, whereas higher rates of spread are found in savannas. Woody savanna and grassland fires are usually affected by smaller, shorter, less-intense fires compared with fires in evergreen forest and savanna. However, fires in grasslands can burn at rates of spread as high as savanna fires as a result of the easily flammable fuel. We observe that fires in deciduous forests and croplands are generally small, short and low intense, although the latter can sustain high rates of spread due to the dry post-harvest residuals. The reconstructed fire regimes for each land cover can be used to improve the simulated fire characteristics by models and, thus, future projections.
A preliminary study on home range and daily travel distance of François’ langur in a high-altitude area
Authors: Deng Huaiqing , Hong Wenqing , Zhou Jiang , Li Jixiang 
Published: December 2022

AbstractFrançois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi) is an indicator species living in Karst rocky habitats. To understand the François’ langurs ecological adaptation to high-altitude habitat, we used the field tracking method to collect home-range data and daily travel distance of François’ langur at high-altitude (800–1400 m) areas of Kuankuoshui National Nature Reserve between April 2008 and March 2009. The results revealed the following: (1) according to the grid cell method, the home range of François’ langurs was estimated to be 50.7 ha. The area in the winter-spring season was larger than in the summer-autumn season (37.7 vs. 27.7 ha). According to the minimum convex polygon method by GIS, the home range of François’ langurs in the winter-spring season and the summer-autumn season was 123.5 and 68.8 ha, respectively. The whole-year home range of François’ was clearly larger than the grid cell method (140.4 vs. 50.7 ha). (2) The home range of François’ langurs had clear superposition. Langur's core areas were concentrated in three small areas, which only occupied 18.2% of the home range. (3) The langur had a short daily travel distance (230–1115 m) and significant seasonal differences. The summer-autumn season moving distances being obviously shorter than the winter-spring season (517 vs. 785 m). (4) With the decrease in the availability of food resource in winter-spring season, the home range and daily travel distance of François’ langurs significantly increased. (5) Living in the high altitudes, François' langurs tended to form a larger group (≥ 8 individuals), which is larger than other groups at lower altitude, had the larger home range, and had shorter daily travel distance. Our results indicate that colobines’ survival strategies tend to form a larger home range and shorter day-traveling distance to adapt to high-altitude and low-temperature habitat.
Proteolysis of vaginally administered bovine lactoferrin: clearance, inter-subject variability, and implications for clinical dosing
Authors: Hopp Thomas P. , Matthews Maura-Ann H. , Spiewak Klaudyna , Athanasiou Zafeiria , Blackmore Richard S. , Gelbfish Gary A. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThis report describes proteolytic fragmentation and clearance of bovine lactoferrin (bLF) upon intravaginal administration in premenopausal women. Tablet formulations (MTbLF) containing 300 mg of bLF progressed through three phases: Pre-Dissolution, Dissolution, and Washout, over a 30-h time course. Tablets dissolved slowly, replenishing intact 80 kDa bLF in vaginal fluid (VF) as proteolysis occurred. bLF was initially cleaved approximately in half between its N- and C-lobes, then degraded into sub-fragments and small peptides. The extent of proteolysis was less than 10–20% across multiple subjects. Concentrations of both intact 80 kDa bLF and smaller fragments decreased in VF with a similar time course suggesting washout not proteolysis was the main clearance mechanism. Concentrations of intact and/or nicked 80 kDa bLF peaked between 4 and 8 h after administration and remained above 5 mg/mL for approximately 24 h. Experiments with protease inhibitors in ex vivo VF digests suggested an aspartyl protease was at least partially responsible for bLF cleavage. However, digestion with commercial pepsin or in vivo in the human stomach, demonstrated distinctly different patterns of fragments compared to vaginal proteolysis. Furthermore, the 3.1 kDa antimicrobial peptide lactoferricin B was not detected in VF. This suggests pepsin-like aspartyl proteases are not responsible for vaginal proteolysis of bLF.
Increasing 3D elongation potential in fixed blank forming via fiber curlation
Authors: Laukala Teija , Tanninen Panu , Aghamohammadi Golnoosh , Leminen Ville 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWood-fiber-based packaging materials offer only limited formability in 3D, which is an obstacle to their usability for complex 3D shapes. Although the requirements of good formability differ for the different forming processes, paperboard with a high elongation capability in 3D forming processes is often desirable. In this study, paperboard elongation in 3D tray forming (fixed blank process) was succesfully increased by curlation treatment of bleached birch kraft pulp and bleached pine kraft pulp fibers, and by the use of a dry strength agent (starch) which was used to produce a high level of bonding. The clearest correlations observed with the 3D elongation were for fiber curl and in plane elongation of paperboard. Instead, the correlation with tensile strength and tensile index was poor. These key correlations agreed with the elongation potential of fiber concept, previously presented for in plane elongation situation and suggested to apply for 3D elongation situation as well.
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Maliciously circuit-private multi-key FHE and MPC based on LWE
Authors: Attrapadung Nuttapong , Hanaoka Goichiro , Hiromasa Ryo , Matsuda Takahiro , Schuldt Jacob C. N. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractIn this paper, we construct multi-key homomorphic and fully homomorphic encryption (resp. MKHE and MKFHE) schemes with malicious circuit privacy. Our schemes are based on learning with errors (LWE) besides appropriate circular security assumptions. In contrast, the previous maliciously circuit-private MKFHE scheme by Chongchitmate and Ostrovsky (PKC, 2017) is based on the non-standard decisional small polynomial ratio (DSPR) assumption with a super-polynomial modulus, besides ring learning with errors and circular security assumptions. We note that it was shown by Albrecht et al. (CRYPTO, 2016) that there exists a sub-exponential time attack against this type of DSPR assumption. The main building block of our maliciously circuit-private MKFHE scheme is a (plain) MKFHE scheme by Brakerski et al. (TCC, 2017), and the security of our schemes is proven under the hardness of LWE with sub-exponential modulus-to-noise ratio and circular security assumptions related to the Brakerski et al. scheme. Furthermore, based on our MKFHE schemes, we construct four-round multi-party computation (MPC) protocols with circuit privacy against a semi-honest server and malicious clients in the plain model. The protocols are obtained by combining our schemes with a maliciously sender-private oblivious transfer protocol and a circuit garbling scheme, all of which can be instantiated only assuming LWE.
States vs. Changes of States: A Reformulation of the Ontic vs. Epistemic Distinction in Quantum Mechanics
Authors: Luc Joanna 
Published: December 2022

AbstractIn this paper, I challenge the distinction between “epistemic” and “ontic” states propounded by Harrigan and Spekkens (Found Phys 40:125–157, 2010) by pointing out that because knowledge is factive, any state that represents someone’s knowledge about a physical system thereby also represents something about the physical system itself, so there is no such thing as “mere knowledge”. This criticism leads to the reformulation of the main question of the debate: instead of asking whether a given state is ontic or epistemic, we should instead ask whether a given change of a state is ontic or epistemic. In particular, in the context of quantum mechanics, one can ask whether the collapse of the quantum state could be understood as an epistemically successful change of the observer’s beliefs about the complete state of the system that is not associated with any change in the physical reality. I argue that the answer to this question should be in the negative because it is possible that, in a series of measurements, the collapse rule tells us to update a certain state to a different one and then back to the same state; if both of these updates are merely changes of our beliefs, then they could not both be epistemically successful.
Deformations of cluster mutations and invariant presymplectic forms
Authors: Hone Andrew N. W. , Kouloukas Theodoros E. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWe consider deformations of sequences of cluster mutations in finite type cluster algebras, which destroy the Laurent property but preserve the presymplectic structure defined by the exchange matrix. The simplest example is the Lyness 5-cycle, arising from the cluster algebra of type $$A_2$$

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2

: this deforms to the Lyness family of integrable symplectic maps in the plane. For types $$A_3$$

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and $$A_4$$

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, we find suitable conditions such that the deformation produces a two-parameter family of Liouville integrable maps (in dimensions two and four, respectively). We also perform Laurentification for these maps, by lifting them to a higher-dimensional space of tau functions with a cluster algebra structure, where the Laurent property is restored. More general types of deformed mutations associated with affine Dynkin quivers are shown to correspond to four-dimensional symplectic maps arising as reductions in the discrete sine-Gordon equation.
The Invisibility of the Soul and the Rhetoric of Dissent: Conscience and the Wycliffite Heresy
Authors: Plimmer Liam Michael 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThis essay argues that the use of conscience as a justification for dissent has an even longer history than has often been assumed by intellectual historians of the Reformation. Through a close examination of the English Wycliffite Sermons (c.1380s–1390s) and the Testimony of William Thorpe (1407), it offers the first extended consideration of the use of the word “conscience” in Wycliffite texts, using this as the point of departure for an assessment of Lollard characterisations of human interiority more generally. Wycliffite writers repeatedly emphasise the opacity of the inner life and its consequent authority, a rhetorical tendency inherited and adapted from Wyclif’s own writings and other Latinate discourses. This not only provides Lollards with a helpful strategy in their attempts to avoid prosecution for heresy, but also provides the somewhat shaky ground upon which a number of their doctrinal convictions rest—especially those pertaining to oral confession and membership of the Church. Conscience also provides an obvious connection between religious dissent and political rebellion, which is why it must be central to any future account of Lollardy’s relationship to class struggle or sedition more generally conceived. When writers like Thorpe refer to the soul as invisible, or to God as their only judge, they invoke a fundamental, if unstable, aspect of Wycliffite belief: an incipient but dynamic account of the relationship between individual conscience, interiority, and authority that was to find even greater expression in figures such as Martin Luther, Jan Huss, and Henry VIII.
An asymptotic expansion of the hyberbolic umbilic catastrophe integral
Authors: Ferreira Chelo , López José L. , Pérez Sinusía Ester 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWe obtain an asymptotic expansion of the hyperbolic umbilic catastrophe integral $$\Psi ^{(H)}(x,y,z):= \int _{-\infty }^{\infty }\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }\exp (i(s^3+t^3+zst$$

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. We use the modified saddle point method introduced in (López et al. J Math Anal Appl 354(1):347–359, 2009). The accuracy and the asymptotic character of the approximations are illustrated with numerical experiments.
Hybrid Marketplaces with Free Entry of Sellers
Authors: Etro Federico 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWe study a hybrid marketplace such as Amazon that sells its own products and sets commissions on third-party sellers that engage in monopolistic competition with free entry. For a large class of microfoundations based on a representative agent, the introduction of its own products by the marketplace is neutral for consumer welfare for a given commission; but this product introduction exerts an ambiguous impact through changes of the commission. A “demand substitution mechanism” pushes for a higher commission; but an “extensive margin mechanism” pushes for a lower commission that is aimed at attracting new sellers and more purchases on the marketplace. For instance, with constant demand elasticities, a hybrid marketplace sets a lower (higher) commission rate and increases (decreases) consumer welfare compared to a pure marketplace if its products face a less (more) elastic demand.
From Maximal Intersubjectivity to Objectivity: An Argument from the Development of Arithmetical Cognition
Authors: Pantsar Markus 
Published: December 2022

AbstractOne main challenge of non-platonist philosophy of mathematics is to account for the apparent objectivity of mathematical knowledge. Cole and Feferman have proposed accounts that aim to explain objectivity through the intersubjectivity of mathematical knowledge. In this paper, focusing on arithmetic, I will argue that these accounts as such cannot explain the apparent objectivity of mathematical knowledge. However, with support from recent progress in the empirical study of the development of arithmetical cognition, a stronger argument can be provided. I will show that since the development of arithmetic is (partly) determined by biologically evolved proto-arithmetical abilities, arithmetical knowledge can be understood as maximally intersubjective. This maximal intersubjectivity, I argue, can lead to the experience of objectivity, thus providing a solution to the problem of reconciling non-platonist philosophy of mathematics with the (apparent) objectivity of mathematical knowledge.
Lead, cadmium, and other trace elements in the liver of golden eagles and white-tailed eagles: recent data from Poland and a systematic review of previous studies
Authors: Durkalec Maciej Marcin , Nawrocka Agnieszka , Kitowski Ignacy , Filipek Aleksandra , Sell Bartosz , Kmiecik Mirosława , Jedziniak Piotr 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThe golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) and the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), being apex predators and facultative scavengers, can bioaccumulate different environmental contaminants, including toxic elements that may adversely affect their health. We analyzed the levels of cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and other metals and metalloids, including arsenic (As), barium (Ba), beryllium (Be), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), selenium (Se), thorium (Th), thallium (Tl), uranium (U), vanadium (V), and zinc (Zn) in liver samples taken from three golden eagles and 36 white-tailed eagles that were found dead across Poland to verify their exposure. We also used a systematic review to summarize the available literature data on Cd, Pb, and other studied elements in the liver of both eagle species. Analyses of trace elements in the liver samples of the Polish eagles revealed interspecific differences in Cd, Cu, and Mn and differences in Co, Mn, Tl, and Zn among study regions. All elements tested except Pb were below the suggested thresholds linked with adverse health effects in birds. The hepatic Pb found in almost half of all the tested individuals suggests environmental exposure to this toxic element. One of the tested white-tailed eagles had hepatic Pb above the threshold of sublethal poisoning. Although our results seem optimistic, as previous Polish studies showed a higher prevalence of birds with hepatic Pb exceeding the toxicity threshold, they indicate that exposure to this toxic metal could still pose an additional threat to the health of Polish eagles.

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Geschlechtersensible Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung für Kinder: Chancen und Herausforderungen bei der Umsetzbarkeit
Authors: Kreffter Katharina , Wessely Stefanie , Nguyen Thuy Ha , Lisak-Wahl Stefanie , Joisten Christine , Weyers Simone 
Published: December 2022

Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
Bei Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung sollten Geschlechterunterschiede bereits im Kindesalter berücksichtigt werden. Allerdings fehlen hierzu sowohl theoretisch fundierte Konzepte als auch insbesondere praktische Handlungsempfehlungen.

Ziel der Arbeit
Daher sollte ermittelt werden, was Wissenschaftler/innen und Praktiker/innen empfehlen, um Anbietende bei der Entwicklung geschlechtersensibler präventiver und gesundheitsförderlicher Maßnahmen für Kinder zu unterstützen.

Material und Methoden
Es wurde ein mehrschrittiges qualitatives Vorgehen gewählt, um die Erfahrungs- und Wissensbestände aus Wissenschaft und Praxis zu erfassen. Das Vorgehen bestand aus einem Expertenworkshop mit Wissenschaftler/innen (n = 12) angelehnt an die nominale Gruppentechnik, sechs Fokusgruppen mit Fachkräften (n = 7; 6; 8; 6; 8; 4) und einem abschließenden Online-Workshop mit beiden Gruppen (n = 12).

Ergebnisse
Die resultierenden Handlungsempfehlungen beinhalten die folgenden Punkte: Geschlecht und Lebenslage adressieren, Geschlechterrollen und Lebensweisen kennenlernen, Partizipation und Qualitätssicherung, Dokumentation von Praxisprojekten, Diversität in professionellen Teams, Geschlechtersensibilität in Qualifikationsmaßnahmen, Austausch und Vernetzung.

Schlussfolgerung
Bei der Umsetzung von geschlechtersensibler Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung bei Kindern sind sowohl politische als auch gesellschaftliche und individuelle Ebenen zu berücksichtigen. Während das Thema in der praktischen Arbeit schon Beachtung findet und umgesetzt wird, besteht Forschungsbedarf insbesondere hinsichtlich konzeptioneller Entwicklung und Evaluationen.
Copy Number Variations and Schizophrenia
Authors: Szecówka Kamila , Misiak Błażej , Łaczmańska Izabela , Frydecka Dorota , Moustafa Ahmed A. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder with genetic and environmental factors involved in its aetiology. Genetic liability contributing to the development of schizophrenia is a subject of extensive research activity, as reliable data regarding its aetiology would enable the improvement of its therapy and the development of new methods of treatment. A multitude of studies in this field focus on genetic variants, such as copy number variations (CNVs) or single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). Certain genetic disorders caused by CNVs including 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome, Burnside-Butler syndrome (15q11.2 BP1-BP2 microdeletion) or 1q21.1 microduplication/microdeletion syndrome are associated with a higher risk of developing schizophrenia. In this article, we provide a unifying framework linking these CNVs and their associated genetic disorders with schizophrenia and its various neural and behavioural abnormalities.