bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The influence of animal ownership on mental health for people with severe mental illness: Findings from a UK population cohort study
Authors: Shoesmith Emily , Lorimer Ben , Peckham Emily , Walker Lauren , Ratschen Elena 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Background and aims: There is increasing evidence to suggest companion animal ownership may positively impact mental health and wellbeing. However, there is limited research related to the role of companion animal ownership for mental health that focuses on people living with severe mental illness (SMI). We aimed to explore the connection among loneliness, mental health, wellbeing, animal ownership, and the perceived strength of the human-animal bond in this population.
Methods: We conducted a survey in an existing UK cohort of people living with SMI. The survey questionnaire included standardized measures to collect information related to mental health, loneliness, and the perceived strength of the human-animal bond.
Results: Of 286 participants who had previously consented to participate in the follow-up survey, 170 participants (59.4%) completed the survey. Of these, 81 (47.6%) owned at least one animal, and most perceived to have a strong human-animal bond with their companion animal as indicated by the Comfort from Companion Animals Scale (M = 39.80 of a maximum score of 44). However, regression analyses showed that owning an animal was not significantly associated with wellbeing, depression, anxiety, or loneliness scores. Likewise, the perceived strength of the human-animal bond was not significantly associated with animal species owned or wellbeing, depression, and anxiety scores.
Conclusion: The findings provide a counterpoint to the commonly held assumption that companion animals are beneficial for all owners’ mental health. Further exploration of the role of human-animal relationships, including challenges and support needs related to animal ownership, in people living with SMI is required.
Solar diffraction of LIGO-band gravitational waves
Authors: Jung Sunghoon , Kim Sungjung 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
We show that chirping gravitational waves in the LIGO frequency band f = 1–5000 Hz can be gravitationally diffracted by the Sun, due to the coincidence of its Fresnel length rF
∝ √1 AU/f and the solar radius r
⊙. This solar diffraction is potentially detectable through its frequency-dependent amplification of the wave. The detection rate with Einstein Telescope is estimated to be ∼ 1/1000 per year, with the optical depth ∝ (solar angular area on the sky)/4π. High-frequency regimes of merger and ringdown phases are found to be crucial. In addition to the discovery, we advocate that solar diffraction allows probing the inner solar density profile, as rF
sweeps a range of solar radius during the chirping. These physics are captured by a formalism in terms of convergence and shear, which allows much easier estimation and more intuitive understanding. Solar diffraction can be a new opportunity with ongoing and future LIGO-band missions.
The synthesis of high-temperature resistant SiC fiber membrane by centrifugal spinning
Authors: Chen Tianxie , Zhang Qingyu , Kang Weifeng , Gou Yanzi 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
SiC fibers have urgent application requirements under extreme conditions due to their excellent properties such as thermal stability, radiation resistance and high modulus. In this work, SiC fiber membranes with two-dimensional micro-nano fiber interwoven structures were synthesized by centrifugal spinning. TG results show that SiC fiber has good high-temperature resistance and oxidation resistance. There is no obvious damage to the SiC fiber membrane under the oxyacetylene flame heating at about 1450 °C. At heat treatment temperatures up to 2000 °C, the SiC fiber membrane still exhibits structural stability. The minimum diameter of SiC fibers is 0.7 μm. SiC fiber membranes exhibit superior mechanical and chemical stability under extreme temperature conditions. This work will help to prepare high-performance ceramic fiber membranes with different material systems.
Single Stretch Wire and vibrating wire measurement system for characterization of multipole accelerator magnets
Authors: Teotia Vikas , Malhotra Sanjay 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
A stretch wire magnetometer is a versatile instrument and
can be treated as the primary standard of magnetic qualification of
accelerator magnets. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has developed a
Stretch wire magnetic measurement system to cater to the
requirements of magnetic measurements on accelerator magnets. This
bench also includes a vibrating wire system. The scheme used in this
instrument for measurements of magnetic flux ensures drift
compensations after each scan. This feature along with post-signal
processing gives an accuracy of homogeneity measurements comparable
to that of a rotating coil magnetometer. Unlike conventional stretch
wire systems, wire moves in the r-z plane (along r-axis) at
different azimuthal angles. This provides the opportunity for drift
compensation at each scan. This has immensely enhanced the
measurement accuracy of non-homogeneity of integral fields to less
than 3 units. The same is cross-verified with a rotating coil
system. The comparison between rotating coil and stretch wire is
presented. The Paper gives the step-wise procedure for the
measurement of key performance indicators of an accelerator
magnet. This paper brings out salient features of the system along
with design and calibration results.
The procreation asymmetry, improvable-life avoidance and impairable-life acceptance
Authors: Thornley Elliott 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Many philosophers are attracted to a complaints-based theory of the procreation asymmetry, according to which creating a person with a bad life is wrong (all else equal) because that person can complain about your act, whereas declining to create a person who would have a good life is not wrong (all else equal) because that person never exists and so cannot complain about your act. In this paper, I present two problems for such theories: the problem of impairable-life acceptance and an especially acute version of the problem of improvable-life avoidance. I explain how these problems afflict two recent complaints-based theories of the procreation asymmetry, from Joe Horton and Abelard Podgorski.
Wheat germ agglutinin affinity chromatography enrichment and glyco-proteomic characterization of tetrodotoxin-binding proteins from the plasma of cultured tiger pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes)
Authors: Zhang Yafei , Minami Ryoma , Tatsuno Ryohei , Gao Wei , Ueno Mikinori , Yamada Akinori , Yoshida Asami , Sedanza Mary Grace , Arima Kazunari , Takatani Tomohiro , Yamaguchi Kenichi , Oshima Yuji , Arakawa Osamu 
Published: July 2023

ABSTRACT
Efficient enrichment of tetrodotoxin (TTX)-binding proteins from the plasma of cultured tiger pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes) was achieved by ammonium sulfate fractionation and wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) affinity chromatography. The enrichment efficiency was validated by ultrafiltration-LC/MS-based TTX-binding assay and proteomics. Major proteins in the WGA-bound fraction were identified as isoform X1 (125 kDa) and X2 variants (88 and 79 kDa) derived from pufferfish saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin-binding protein (PSTBP) 1-like gene (LOC101075943). The 125-kDa X1 protein was found to be a novel member of the lipocalin family, having three tandemly repeated domains. X2 variants, X2α and X2β, were estimated to have two domains, and X2β is structurally related to Takifugu pardalis PSTBP2 in their domain type and arrangement. Among 11 potential N-glycosylation sites in the X2 precursor, 5 N-glycosylated Asn residues (N55, N89, N244, N308, and N449) were empirically determined. Structural relationships among PSTBP homologs and complexity of their proteoforms are discussed.
Neoclassical Realism: Methodological Critiques and Remedies
Authors: Tang Shiping 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The debate on how neoclassical realism (NCR) has fared as a new brand of realism and supposedly a more rigorous approach towards foreign policy has become increasingly acerbic. Most NCR critics have challenged NCR’s epistemological positions, and few have scrutinised NCR’s methodological practice. This essay seeks to fill the void and focuses on the latter. My aim is both critical and constructive. Because NCR’s mainstay method is comparative case studies (CCSs), I first examine how NCR has practiced this method. I argue that NCR has been saddled with several key shortcomings when doing CCSs. Drawing from the extensive new qualitative methodology literature, I propose several remedies corresponding to the shortcomings. Fixing these shortcomings will allow NCR to advance more valid theories and move towards better theoretical synthesis. I then highlight qualitative comparative analysis as a very useful tool for NCR. Finally, I address a common criticism against NCR, that is, with numerous variables, NCR lacks theoretical synthesis and hence a theoretical core. I accordingly advance a preliminary framework for possible theoretical synthesis.
Comfort Eating: Food, Drink and Emotional Health in Early Modern England
Authors: Winchcombe Rachel 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This article explores early modern practices of ‘comfort eating’, arguing that they represent a crucial dimension of early modern preventative healthcare. The article argues that ideas of comfort eating were shaped not only by medical understandings of the composition of foods and their impact on the body, particularly on the levels of the four humours, but also by the cultural and social significance of certain foods, along with when, where, and with whom they were eaten. For early modern people, whether a food could provide comfort depended on its perceived medical properties, the quantities in which it was eaten, its social capital, and its use in other areas of daily life that were known to promote cheerfulness such as sharing meals and gift-giving. Focusing on this more holistic approach to emotional healthcare reveals how practices that have normally been defined as largely social in nature, such as gift-giving and hospitality, were viewed and performed through a medical lens, while also demonstrating how techniques for managing the passions seeped into everyday experiences of food consumption and culture. Practices of comfort eating represented a critical tool with which early modern people could manage their emotional health and the health of their wider communities, empowering them to adapt their diets where necessary, create medicines that could cure diseases of the passions, and consider how everyday social codes of hospitality and commensality could have medical implications for the health of their passions.
Tree-related microhabitat diversity as a proxy for the conservation of beetle communities in managed forests of Fagus sylvatica
Authors: Spina Pierdomenico , Parisi Francesco , Antonucci Serena , Garfì Vittorio , Marchetti Marco , Santopuoli Giovanni 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Integrating the conservation of biodiversity into silvicultural practices is one of the main challenges facing forest owners in the promotion of an emergent approach to sustainable forest management across European forests. The Mediterranean forests are among the richest biodiverse forest ecosystems due to their environmental heterogeneity, but climate change is threatening their integrity, with critical implications for the availability of ecosystem services. Forests managed for commercial purposes are under increasing pressure to provide timber while supporting biodiversity. This study aims to analyse the relationship between tree-related microhabitats (TreMs), which are structures occurring on living or standing dead trees that constitute an essential substrate for several living species, and beetles, an important indicator species group for forest biodiversity monitoring. Four generalized linear models were fitted to assess the influence of environmental factors, forest structure, and biodiversity-related parameters on the abundance and richness of beetles, mainly on saproxylic beetles. The study highlights significant associations between the abundance and richness of individual groups and types of TreMs and the Italian Red List of saproxylic species. Therefore, TreMs can serve as a tool to map, monitor, and enhance forest biodiversity in managed forests.
Impacts of human forest management on seed dispersal patterns by scatter-hoarding rodents
Authors: Nóbrega Eva K , Vidal-Cardos Roger , Muñoz Alberto , Ferrandiz-Rovira Mariona 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Scatter-hoarding rodents play a central role in seed dispersal, predating and dispersing seeds that affect many plant species’ population dynamics and influence forest regeneration. Anthropogenic changes in forest structure, such as clear-cutting in dense forests, may alter the ecological interactions between seeds and dispersers. This study compared predation and dispersal patterns of holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) acorns by wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus L.) in original dense forest [less managed forest (MF)] vs open MF (more MF) in north-eastern Spain. Results showed variations in the patterns of acorn predation and dispersal by wood mouse between forest types. In the MF, a greater fraction of acorns was harvested, and the acorns were being dispersed further than in the original forest. Despite the greater fraction of acorns dispersed in the MF, the proportion of acorns that survived and had the potential to grow was reduced in the MF because of increased predation. This shows that forest management has a significant influence on seed dispersal by rodents and thereby influences the natural regeneration potential of forests.
Is lifestyle modification with individual face-to-face education and counseling more effective than usual care for controlling hypertension? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Authors: Soltani Danesh , Azizi Bayan , Behnoush Amir Hossein , Meysamie Alipasha , Aein Afsaneh , Nayebirad Sepehr , Vasheghani-Farahani Ali , Akbari Sari Ali 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Hypertension (HTN) management continues to be a concern due to challenges with behavioral risk factors. Patient education to modify unhealthy behaviors appears to be effective in managing HTN. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to determine whether individualized face-to-face education and counseling have a beneficial effect on systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) in hypertensive patients. Studies were extracted from PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases. Nine studies, comprising 2627 participants, were included. Random effects models were used to pool estimates of mean differences (MDs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) in SBP and DBP between the intervention and usual care groups. SBP and DBP were significantly reduced at the 6-month (MD = −4.38 mmHg, 95% CI: −6.95 to −1.81; MD = −2.09 mmHg, 95% CI: −3.69 to −0.50, respectively) and 12-month time points (MD = −2.48 mmHg, 95% CI: −3.96 to −1.01; MD = −1.71 mmHg, 95% CI: −2.88 to −0.55, respectively) with intervention. At the 24-month time point, there was a significant change in SBP (MD = −2.13 mmHg, 95% CI: −3.94 to −0.32) with intervention compared with the usual care group. This study showed that individualized face-to-face education and counseling add significant benefits to usual care for lowering blood pressure in hypertensive patients.
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Saturated Orbit Closures in the Hodge Bundle
Authors: Winsor Karl 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
We give a new proof of the classification of $\operatorname {GL}^{+}(2,{\mathbb {R}})$-orbit closures that are saturated for the absolute period foliation of the Hodge bundle. As a consequence, we obtain a short proof of the classification of closures of leaves of the absolute period foliation of the Hodge bundle. Our approach is based on a method for classifying $\operatorname {GL}^{+}(2,{\mathbb {R}})$-orbit closures using deformations of flat pairs of pants.
Prevalence of hypertension among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Zhang Xin , Yang Xiao-Lin , Liu Shan , Ye Yan-Sheng , Yang Qing-Tang , Xia Li-Na 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of hypertension in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) using the results of a regional study. The studies were reviewed using PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, China Biology Medicine, Wan Fang Data and Chinese Science Citation Database. After screening articles and data extraction, Stata V.16 was used for statistical analysis. This study was registered in the Prospective Register Systematic Reviews (CRD42020170649). A total of 2126 articles were identified, and nine papers were finally included. Random-effects modelling showed that the pooled prevalence of hypertension among Chinese patients with T2DM was 54% (95% CI 47 to 61%). Subgroup analysis showed that the prevalence in men (59.8%; 95% CI 49.0 to 70.7%) was higher than that in women (40.2%; 95% CI 29.3 to 59.2%). The prevalence in North China was higher than that in East China. The prevalence in institution-based settings (56%; 95% CI 48 to 64%) was higher than that in community-based settings (51%; 95% CI 34 to 69%). Appropriate preventive measures should be undertaken, such as health education, to control and reduce the risk of hypertension in diabetic patients and reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.
Sampling Lasioderma serricorne (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) in 2 coffee bean warehouses in New Jersey
Authors: Pan Xiaodan , Wang Changlu 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne (F.), is one of the most common stored-product pests. We monitored their population dynamics and distribution in two coffee bean warehouses in New Jersey, USA, using pheromone traps and sticky traps during September 2018–October 2020, and light traps in 2020. The two warehouses only implemented treatment procedures for controlling Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)) during the study period. The first L. serricorne adult appeared on pheromone traps from late May to early June when temperature reached 21–22 °C, and the last L. serricorne adult appeared on pheromone traps from late October to mid-November when temperature dropped to 10–14 °C. The majority of L. serricorne was caught during July−October. Light traps caught 5.5- and 2.2-times more L. serricorne per trap than pheromone traps in Warehouse 1 and 2, respectively. Warehouse 1 had a significantly higher density of L. serricorne than Warehouse 2. The L. serricorne activity peaks were not always clear and varied between year and the two warehouses. Zero to 3 hot spots, where had the largest numbers of L. serricorne, were identified from July to October in each warehouse based on pheromone traps, and their locations were similar through the months both in 2019 and 2020. The L. serricorne counts from pheromone traps placed inside warehouse were at least 2.3-times more than those placed outside. Also, the L. serricorne active period outside of the warehouses was shorter than that from inside of the warehouses.
Plasmablastic transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a review of literature and report on 2 cases
Authors: Khanna Anurag , Drumheller Bradley R , Deeb George , Tolbert Ethan Wade , Asakrah Saja 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) is the most common leukemia in adults in Western countries. Transformation of CLL/SLL to plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is exceedingly rare and often has an extremely poor response to treatment. A thorough molecular workup may help in determining clonality-relatedness and prognosis. We describe two cases of CLL/SLL that transformed into PBL, with an extensive molecular workup in one case, and a review of the literature.
Physical properties of circumnuclear ionizing clusters – I. NGC 7742
Authors: Zamora S , Díaz Ángeles I 
Published: July 2023

ABSTRACT
This work aims to derive the physical properties of the circumnuclear star-forming region in the ring of the face-on spiral NGC 7742 using integral field spectroscopy observations. We have selected 88 individual ionizing clusters that power H ii regions populating the ring of the galaxy that may have originated in a minor-merger event. For the H ii regions, the rate of Lyman continuum photon emission is between 0.025 and 1.5 × 1051, which points to these regions being ionized by star clusters. Their electron density, ionization parameter, filling factor, and ionized hydrogen mass show values consistent with those found in other studies of similar regions and their metal abundances, as traced by sulphur have been found to be between 0.25 and 2.4 times solar, with most regions showing values slightly below solar. The equivalent temperature of the ionizing clusters is relatively low, below 40 000 K, which is consistent with the high elemental abundances derived. The young stellar population of the clusters has contributions of ionizing and non-ionizing populations with ages around 5 and 300 Ma, respectively. The masses of ionizing clusters once corrected for the contribution of underlying non-ionizing populations were found to have a mean value of 3.5 × 104 M⊙, comparable to the mass of ionized gas and about 20 per cent of the corrected photometric mass.
T Tauri stars in the SuperWASP and NSVS surveys II. Spectral modelling
Authors: Hambálek L’ , Krushevska V , Pribulla T , Vaňko M , Budaj J , Fiorucci M , Garai Z , Guenther E , Komžík R , Kundra E , Munari U , Smalley B 
Published: July 2023

ABSTRACT
We present results from long-term spectroscopic monitoring of 21 T-Tauri stars located in the Taurus–Auriga star-forming region (SFR). We combine medium and high-dispersion Echelle spectroscopy obtained at the Stará Lesná, Skalnaté Pleso (both in Slovakia), and Tautenburg (Germany) observatories with low-resolution flux-calibrated spectra from Asiago (Italy) observatory all taken between 2015 and 2018. We extend the coverage by additional medium-resolution spectra from Stará Lesná obtained in 2022. In the previous paper, we measured photometric periods of these targets in a range of 0.7–3.1 d, which could be due to the rotation of a spotted surface or binarity. Here, we use the broadening-function technique to determine the radial and projected rotational velocities to reveal any close binary companion. Our analysis concludes that no such companion is present with an orbital period equal to the photometric period. We focus our analysis primarily on determining atmospheric parameters such as surface gravity log g, effective temperature Teff, and metallicity [Fe/H]. Additionally, we measure the equivalent width of H α, Li i, and interstellar Na i lines. We also investigate the effect of possible reddening on individual targets and construct the HR diagram of our sample. Using pre-main-sequence evolutionary models, we determine the age of our targets. This analysis hints at ages younger than 50 Myr with mean age 5 ± 3 Myr, masses between 0.75 and 2.10 M⊙, and minimum radii in the range 0.60–3.17 R⊙. Altogether, the results are consistent with expected young stars with larger radii than those of main-sequence stars.