bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Age-related self-DNA accumulation may accelerate arthritis in rats and in human rheumatoid arthritis
Authors: Luo Wei-Dan , Wang Yu-Ping , Lv Jun , Liu Yong , Qu Yuan-Qing , Xu Xiong-Fei , Yang Li-Jun , Lin Zi-Cong , Wang Lin-Na , Chen Rui-Hong , Yang Jiu-Jie , Zeng Ya-Ling , Zhang Rui-Long , Huang Bai-Xiong , Yun Xiao-Yun , Wang Xuan-Ying , Song Lin-Lin , Wu Jian-Hui , Wang Xing-Xia , Chen Xi , Zhang Wei , Wang Hui-Miao , Qu Li-Qun , Liu Meng-Han , Liu Liang , Law Betty Yuen Kwan , Wong Vincent Kam Wai 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThe incidence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is increasing with age. DNA fragments is known to accumulate in certain autoimmune diseases, but the mechanistic relationship among ageing, DNA fragments and RA pathogenesis remain unexplored. Here we show that the accumulation of DNA fragments, increasing with age and regulated by the exonuclease TREX1, promotes abnormal activation of the immune system in an adjuvant‐induced arthritis (AIA) rat model. Local overexpression of TREX1 suppresses synovial inflammation in rats, while conditional genomic deletion of TREX1 in AIA rats result in higher levels of circulating free (cf) DNA and hence abnormal immune activation, leading to more severe symptoms. The dysregulation of the heterodimeric transcription factor AP-1, formed by c-Jun and c-Fos, appear to regulate both TREX1 expression and SASP induction. Thus, our results confirm that DNA fragments are inflammatory mediators, and TREX1, downstream of AP-1, may serve as regulator of cellular immunity in health and in RA.
Topological properties and organizing principles of semantic networks
Authors: Budel Gabriel , Jin Ying , Van Mieghem Piet , Kitsak Maksim 
Published: July 2023

AbstractInterpreting natural language is an increasingly important task in computer algorithms due to the growing availability of unstructured textual data. Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications rely on semantic networks for structured knowledge representation. The fundamental properties of semantic networks must be taken into account when designing NLP algorithms, yet they remain to be structurally investigated. We study the properties of semantic networks from ConceptNet, defined by 7 semantic relations from 11 different languages. We find that semantic networks have universal basic properties: they are sparse, highly clustered, and many exhibit power-law degree distributions. Our findings show that the majority of the considered networks are scale-free. Some networks exhibit language-specific properties determined by grammatical rules, for example networks from highly inflected languages, such as e.g. Latin, German, French and Spanish, show peaks in the degree distribution that deviate from a power law. We find that depending on the semantic relation type and the language, the link formation in semantic networks is guided by different principles. In some networks the connections are similarity-based, while in others the connections are more complementarity-based. Finally, we demonstrate how knowledge of similarity and complementarity in semantic networks can improve NLP algorithms in missing link inference.
On the equivalence between squeezing and entanglement potential for two-mode Gaussian states
Authors: Li Bohan , Das Aritra , Tserkis Spyros , Narang Prineha , Lam Ping Koy , Assad Syed M. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThe maximum amount of entanglement achievable under passive transformations by continuous-variable states is called the entanglement potential. Recent work has demonstrated that the entanglement potential is upper-bounded by a simple function of the squeezing of formation, and that certain classes of two-mode Gaussian states can indeed saturate this bound, though saturability in the general case remains an open problem. In this study, we introduce a larger class of states that we prove saturates the bound, and we conjecture that all two-mode Gaussian states can be passively transformed into this class, meaning that for all two-mode Gaussian states, entanglement potential is equivalent to squeezing of formation. We provide an explicit algorithm for the passive transformations and perform extensive numerical testing of our claim, which seeks to unite the resource theories of two characteristic quantum properties of continuous-variable systems.
Evaluation of in-service smartphone battery drainage profile for video calling feature in major apps
Authors: Ali Hayder , Khan Hassan Abbas , Pecht Michael 
Published: July 2023

AbstractVideo calling is one of the most energy-intensive features in apps requiring the simultaneous operation of the mobile camera, display screen, audio speaker, and internet services. This feature impacts a smartphone battery's runtime and lifetime. This paper is the first of its kind experimental study, which quantifies the operating profile (discharge current, temperature, and terminal voltage) of video call feature in multiple widely used social media apps, which include WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Zoom, Skype, WeChat, Google Hangouts, Imo and Viber. One smartphone each of Vivo and Motorola has been evaluated as the manufacturer-provided application programming interface (API) allowed real-time measurement of the operating profile. Results indicate that the video calling feature for Facebook Messenger and Imo is the most energy efficient. In contrast, Google Hangouts is up to 35% more energy-intensive for video calling than other apps. Measurements also show that Vivo's in-service battery temperature is lower than Motorola due to its efficient chipset. For instance, during active Google Hangouts operation for 1 h, Vivo temperature is limited to 46 °C, whereas Motorola temperature rises to 52 °C. Finally, the influence of app algorithms and codecs on energy efficiency is also discussed with regard to operating performance.
The prevalence of peripheral neuropathy among the patients with diabetes in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Akhtar Sohail , Hassan Fazal , Saqlain Seda Rakhshanda , Ali Aqsa , Hussain Sardar 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThe most frequent complication of diabetes is peripheral neuropathy. The estimated prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in people with diabetes varies substantially between published studies in Pakistan. We conducted this meta-analysis to summarize the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in people with diabetes. Different electronic databases were systematically searched using keywords and MeSH terms. Random-effects meta-analysis was conducted to pool the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in people with diabetes in Pakistan. Heterogeneity was investigated by random-effects meta-regression and stratification. Two independent authors reviewed studies, extracted data, and conducted the risk of bias analysis. Nineteen studies with a total of 8487 diabetic patients were included. The overall pooled prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy was 43.16% (95% CI 32.93–53.69%), with significant heterogeneity between estimates. The prevalence of peripheral neuropathy among those newly diagnosed with diabetes was 26.52% (95% CI 14.97–39.96%, n = 5). According to the subgroup meta-analysis, the pooled prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy was highest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (55.29%; 95% CI 23.91–84.50%), followed by Sindh (40.04%; 95% CI 24.00–57.25%), and the lowest was found in Punjab (34.90%; 95% CI 15.05–57.95%). A significant association was found between the pooled prevalence estimate and the duration of diabetes. The results of this meta-analysis indicate a relatively high prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in people with diabetes in Pakistan. The study protocol has been registered in the PROSPERO, with the registration number CRD42022371617.
Spin measurement of 4U 1543–47 with Insight-HXMT and NICER from its 2021 outburst
Authors: Yorgancioglu E. S. , Bu Q. C. , Santangelo A. , Tao L. , Davis S. W. , Vahdat A. , Kong L. D. , Piraino S. , Zhou M. , Zhang S. N. 
Published: July 2023

Context. 4U 1543–47 is one of a handful of known black hole candidates located in the Milky Way galaxy. It underwent a very luminous outburst in 2021, reaching a peak intensity of ~9 Crab, as observed by the Monitor of All-sky Image (MAXI), and exceeding twice its Eddington luminosity.
Aims. The unprecedented bright outburst of 4U 1543–47 provides a unique opportunity to test the behavior of accretion disk models at high luminosities and accretion rates. In addition, we explore the possibility of constraining the spin of the source at high accretion rates, given that the previous spin measurements of 4U 1543–47 are largely inconsistent with each other.
Methods. We measure the spectral evolution of the source throughout its outburst as observed by Insight-HXMT, and compare the behavior of both the thin-disk model kerrbb2 and the slim disk model slimbh up to the Eddington limit for two different values of disk α-viscosity. In addition, given the behavior of these two models, we identify two “golden” epochs in which it is most suitable to measure the spin with the continuum fitting method.
Results. We find evidence of a disk state transition from a thicker slim disk to a thin disk occurring around 1 LEdd from fits to the luminosity-temperature relation. We obtain consistent and constant spin measurements from both slimbh and kerrbb2 as the luminosity varies towards the Eddington limit, implying the recovery of thin-disk solutions above the traditional thin-disk criterion of 30% LEdd. We constrain the spin to a* = 0.65−0.24+0.14, assuming an α-viscosity = 0.01 from both Insight-HXMT and NICER observations from the above-mentioned “golden” epochs where the condition of the disk being truncated at the innermost stable circular orbit is most closely met.
Formation of Hεin the solar atmosphere
Authors: Krikova K. , Pereira T. M. D. , Rouppe van der Voort L. H. M. 
Published: July 2023

Context.In the solar spectrum, the Balmer series line Hεis a weak blend on the wing of Ca IIH. Recent high-resolution Hεspectroheliograms reveal a reversed granulation pattern and in some cases, even unique structures. It is apparent that Hεcould potentially be a useful diagnostic tool for the lower solar atmosphere.Aims.Our aim is to understand how Hεis formed in the quiet Sun. In particular, we consider the particular physical mechanism that sets its source function and extinction, how it is formed in different solar structures, and why it is sometimes observed in emission.Methods.We used a 3D radiative magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation that accounts for non-equilibrium hydrogen ionization, run with the Bifrost code. To synthesize Hεand Ca IIH spectra, we made use of the RH code, which was modified to take into account the non-equilibrium hydrogen ionization. To determine the dominant terms in the Hεsource function, we adopted a multi-level description of the source function. Making use of the synthetic spectra and simulation, we studied the contribution function to the relative line absorption or emission and compared it with atmospheric quantities at different locations.Results.Our multi-level source function description suggests that the Hεsource function is dominated by interlocking, with the dominant interlocking transition being through the ground level, populating the upper level of Hεvia the Lyman series. This makes the Hεsource function partly sensitive to temperature. The Hεextinction is set by Lyman-α. In some cases, this temperature dependence gives rise to Hεemission, indicating heating. The typical absorption profiles show reversed granulation and the Hεline core reflects mostly the Ca IIH background radiation.Conclusions.Synthetic Hεspectra can reproduce quiet Sun observations quite well. High-resolution observations reveal that Hεis not just a weak absorption line. Regions with Hεin emission are especially interesting to detect small-scale heating events in the lower solar atmosphere, such as Ellerman bombs. Thus, Hεcan be an important new diagnostic tool for studies of heating in the solar atmosphere, augmenting the diagnostic potential of Ca IIH when observed simultaneously.
Spreading the words
Authors: Grenby M. O. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
From the sixteenth century on, a vast amount of
cheap print offering instruction in the basics of literacy and
religion was published, much of it intended primarily for the use of
children. Alphabets, primers, catechisms, and other similar texts
circulated widely in Europe, but this chapter considers their
distribution around the globe via emerging mercantilist and
missionary networks. Ranging from 1500 to 1850, and taking examples
from Mexico, Tranquebar, and New England, and from
nineteenth-century Bengal, Malacca, and the United States’ “Indian
Territory”, an overarching (though inevitably incomplete) history of
the global circulation of cheap children’s print is attempted. The
chapter concludes that, even though these texts must be understood
as contributing to processes of colonization, coercive evangelism,
and cultural and linguistic loss, they also produced many
fascinating hybrid formats, fusing indigenous, colonialist, and
missionary practices.
Comenius in New York
Authors: Crain Patricia 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
While the seventeenth-century humanist and
educator John Amos Comenius (1592–1670) never travelled to New York,
his 1658 Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Visible World in
Pictures) did, as a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London
import and as an 1810 New York imprint. Editions and expressively
annotated individual copies of this image-rich, encyclopaedic,
bilingual English-Latin book for children chart the social life of
the Orbis Pictus in the United States. The first US
facsimile (1887,
Syracuse, New York) echoes the Orbis Sensualium
Pictus’s diasporic roots, as a reader’s marks in the
sole copy in the New York Public Library situate it amid the early
twentieth century’s migrations of Eastern and Southern Europeans to
New York.
Translating, transforming, and targeting books for
children
Authors: Appel Charlotte 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter investigates the work of Morten
Hallager (1740–1803), one of the most productive figures in the
emerging market for children’s books in Denmark. With strong
language skills in German and French, know-how as a former printer,
and a career as a schoolmaster, he had important qualifications and
experiences for transmitting books and transforming them for a
Danish audience. Based on analyses of 38 publications for children
by Hallager, mostly from the 1790s, the chapter demonstrates the
importance of analysing different variables and dimensions, when
mapping translation practices, not least the number of source texts
and the degree of “localization”. Being shaped by, and taking
advantage of, specific developments in Denmark, Hallager needs also
to be seen as one of many European transnational agents dealing with
children’s books during the late Enlightenment.1
Girlhood as a transnational creation
Authors: Dietz Feike 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Although the late-eighteenth-century Dutch
market for children’s books was reliant on international examples,
it was also a space for the development and dissemination of
innovative forms of education by Dutch authors in the Dutch Republic
and beyond. Focusing on girls’ books as one segment of the market,
this chapter demonstrates that many progressive girls’ books from
abroad were translated into Dutch, serving as manifestations of a
hierarchically organized educational process involving girls and
adult women. The Dutch, however, also reshaped these examples by
developing an innovative epistolary model that enabled girls to find
their own voices and to educate one another. This model, in turn,
exerted an impact on international book production. The chapter
argues that Dutch girls’ books fostered the development of peer
education among girls through continuous and sophisticated
transnational interactions with international markets.
Childhood and its afterlives
Authors: Pryce Stella Miriam 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
There is an opening in the study of children’s literature in the form of spectralities. By way of revealing this lacuna, this chapter diffractively reads J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan through Avery Gordon’s seminal spectral project Ghostly Matters. Reading these texts through one another shows that if we are to begin thinking after childhood, we must shift our conception of childhood away from a binary ontology governed by generational orderings. The argument presented herein is twofold: characters within children’s literature and the children’s book itself exist in dialogue with the past and the future, simultaneously before and after individual and subjective childhoods. Thus, a wider haunting occurs in children’s literature belonging to the so-called spectral turn that scholars have suggested exists across literature and culture.
Dynamics of age and power in a children’s literature research assemblage
Authors: Duthoy Leander 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The link between age and power in children’s literature has been explored through various lenses in recent years, with some scholars emphasizing the adult’s power and others focusing on the child’s power. To add to the current debate, this chapter analyses empirical qualitative data from readers’ reflections on their own age and the age of characters in the Dutch children’s book Iep!, written by Joke van Leeuwen. The chapter aims to adopt a “post-age” (Haynes & Murris 2017) perspective, with the participants’ individual experiences of Iep! becoming entwined and changed through encounters with human beings and matter.
Down the back of a chair
Authors: Rijke Victoria de , Osgood Jayne , Laura-Rosa  
Published: July 2023

Abstract
In this chapter, the authors work with Ursula Le Guin’s (1986) Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction to offer a reconfiguration of “the book” in childhood contexts. Attending to the relational agencies generated from messy entanglements of (hence hyphenated) reader-book-child-chair-cat-lice-mites, they feel their way around to arrive at other ideas about what books are, what books do, and what else they might potentiate in contemporary imaginations of “the child”. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural “carrier bag” rather than a weapon of domination. The authors offer a scrabbling methodology of “research-creation”: a method of scrabbling “down the back of the chair” (both literally and metaphorically). This feminist methodology attunes to assemblages of odds and ends, hair and dust mites, children’s literature and child readers and facilitates an exploration of the intersectional, relational meanings that might tell us something else about childhood in the Anthropocene.
Oscillatory banded Hessenberg matrices, multiple orthogonal polynomials and Markov chains
Authors: Branquinho Amílcar , FoulquiéMoreno Ana , Mañas Manuel 
Published: July 2023

AbstractA spectral Favard theorem is derived for bounded banded lower Hessenberg matrices that possess a positive bidiagonal factorization. The rich knowledge concerning the spectral and factorization properties of oscillatory matrices forms the basis of this theorem, which is formulated in terms of sequences of multiple orthogonal polynomials of types I and II, associated with a set of positive Lebesgue-Stieltjes measures. Additionally, a multiple Gauss quadrature is established, and the corresponding degrees of precision are determined. The spectral Favard theorem finds application in the context of Markov chains with transition matrices having (p+ 2) diagonals, extending beyond the birth and death scenario, while still maintaining a positive stochastic bidiagonal factorization. In the finite case, the Karlin–McGregor spectral representation is provided, along with the demonstration of recurrent behavior and explicit expressions for the stationary distributions in terms of the orthogonal polynomials. Analogous results are obtained for countably infinite Markov chains. In this case, the Markov chain may not be recurrent, and its characterization is expressed in relation to the first measure. The ergodicity of the Markov chain is explored, taking into consideration the presence of a mass at 1, which corresponds to eigenvalues associated with the right and left eigenvectors.
Neutral Hydrogen Content of Dwarf Galaxies in Different Environments
Authors: Hu Hui-Jie , Guo Qi , Renard Pablo , Yang Hang , Zheng Zheng , Jing Yingjie , Chen Hao , Li Hui 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Environments play an important role in galaxy formation and evolution, particularly in regulating the content of neutral gas. However, current H i surveys have limitations in their depth, which prevents them from adequately studying low H i content galaxies in high-density regions. In this study, we address this issue by employing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope with extensive integration times to complement the relatively shallow Arecibo Legacy Fast Arecibo L-band Feed Array H i survey. This approach allows us to explore the gas content of dwarf galaxies across various environments. We observe a positive relationship between H i mass and stellar mass in dwarf galaxies, with a well-defined upper boundary for H i mass that holds true in both observations and simulations. Furthermore, we find a decrease in the H i-to-stellar mass ratio (M
H I/M
*) as the density of the environment increases, irrespective of whether it is determined by the proximity to the nearest group or the projected number density. Comparing our observations to simulations, we note a steeper slope in the relationship, indicating a gradual gas-stripping process in the observational data. Additionally, we find that the scaling relation between the M
H I/M
* and optical properties can be improved by incorporating galaxy environments.
Fuzzy Inference System in Assessing the Improved Wastewater Quality for Irrigation through Sedimentation, Dilution, and Biochar Filtration in Sulaymaniyah City, Iraq
Authors: Hamabor Nabaz Omer , Fattah Mohammed Abdulrazzaq , Khwakaram Ahmed Ibrahim 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The study aims to improve the quality of wastewater in Sulaymaniyah city, Iraq, which has been facing drought problems, by using sedimentation, dilution (1:1), and biochar filtration. It provides an alternative source of water for agriculture, addressing the water shortage problem in the region. The irrigation water quality is evaluated based on the Water Quality Index (WQI) using a fuzzy inference system, a mathematical tool that converts complex statements into mathematical terms and simplifies them into outputs. The centroid defuzzification technique is applied to convert the fuzzy results into crisp numbers. The output of the FIS score is used to determine the suitability of water for irrigation. The study utilized six different samples: groundwater (GW), wastewater (WW), sedimented wastewater (SW), filtered sedimented wastewater (FSW), diluted sedimented wastewater (DSW), and filtered diluted sedimented wastewater (FDSW). The samples were analyzed for their physical and chemical properties, including pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total suspended solids (TSS), turbidity (TUR), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphate (TP), cations (Ca, Na), anions (Cl and SO4), and heavy metals (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Cu). The study found that the WQI FIS-I values for wastewater increased with each treatment step, with the final step of passing the DSW through a biochar filter resulting in an FIS WQI-I value of 61.59, indicating good water quality. The deterministic method also showed improved levels for TP, TN, TSS, and turbidity. Mean TN and TP values decreased to 8.9 mg L-1 and 3.62 mg L-1, respectively, in the FDSW, with turbidity and TSS also decreasing to 0.37 NTU and 21 mg L-1. The resulting FDSW was of the best quality among the treated waters, making it suitable for drip irrigation.