bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Longstanding auditory sensory and semantic differences in preterm born children
Authors: Retsa Chrysa , Turpin Hélène , Geiser Eveline , Ansermet François , Müller-Nix Carole , Murray Micah M. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractMore than 10% of births are preterm, and the long-term consequences on sensory and semantic processing of non-linguistic information remain poorly understood. 17 very preterm-born children (born at <33 weeks gestational age) and 15 full-term controls were tested at 10 years old with an auditory object recognition task, while 64-channel auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) were recorded. Sounds consisted of living (animal and human vocalizations) and manmade objects (e.g. household objects, instruments, and tools). Despite similar recognition behavior, AEPs strikingly differed between full-term and preterm children. Starting at 50ms post-stimulus onset, AEPs from preterm children differed topographically from their full-term counterparts. Over the 108-224ms post-stimulus period, full-term children showed stronger AEPs in response to living objects, whereas preterm born children showed the reverse pattern; i.e. stronger AEPs in response to manmade objects. Differential brain activity between semantic categories could reliably classify children according to their preterm status. Moreover, this opposing pattern of differential responses to semantic categories of sounds was also observed in source estimations within a network of occipital, temporal and frontal regions. This study highlights how early life experience in terms of preterm birth shapes sensory and object processing later on in life.HighlightsHow very preterm birth affects nonlinguistic auditory processes in school-age is unknownWe measured auditory evoked potentials to environmental soundsSensory processing differences manifested from 50ms post-stimulus onwardsSemantic processing differences manifested at 108-224ms post-stimulusClassification of preterm status was possible from semantic processing differences
Does managerial training increase SME managers' effectiveness? A capability development approach
Authors: Atiase Victor , Wang Yong , Mahmood Samia 
Published: July 2023

PurposeTraining remains an important factor in developing the managerial effectiveness and capability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), yet there are concerns regarding the quality of training provided to SME managers in Ghana, hence the weak managerial capabilities observed in SME management. This study, therefore, examines the impact of managerial training on the effectiveness of SME managers in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the human capital theory (Becker, 1962; Rosen, 1977), this study employs the variance-based estimating technique, partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) in estimating the effects of training on the managerial effectiveness of SME managers. Adopting a stratified random sampling technique, the study uses primary data collected from 506 SMEs in Ghana to test 4 hypothesised paths.FindingsFirst, the model result indicates that training accessibility and training content are statistically significant in explaining managerial effectiveness at a 1% level. However, both training efficiency and training frequency are statistically insignificant in explaining managerial effectiveness in Ghana. Second, while the industry category is found to influence the relationship between training and managerial effectiveness, gender, manager's age and education are insignificant in explaining any effects.Research limitations/implicationsThough the sample size is large, the findings from this study could not be generalised to the whole of Ghana since it is regionally based. The study could benefit immensely from a triangulated method where a qualitative dimension could provide deeper insight into some of the findings in this study.Originality/valueStudies of this nature focussing on the managerial effectiveness of SME managers in the Ghanaian context is rare. This is one of the few studies in the Ghanaian research context which focuses on the capability development approach in the delivery of managerial training to SMEs.
Frequency and specificity of health issues in local political campaigns
Authors: Ridlo Ilham Akhsanu 
Published: July 2023

PurposeThis study investigates the frequency and specificity of health-related issues discussed during the East Java Indonesia Gubernatorial Election Campaign 2018.Design/methodology/approachThe research utilized a mixed-methods approach, combining topic modeling and qualitative thematic analysis, to analyze 4,023 online news articles from March to June 2018. From the data sources obtained in terms of time frame, this research can be categorized as a retrospective study because it examines origins from events that have already occurred.FindingsThe study found that health issues accounted for only 6% of all gubernatorial election news in each selected online media portal. The health issues identified were categorised into eight groups: health financing and facilities, health workforce, malnutrition and stunting, leprosy, cigarettes and tobacco, healthy lifestyles, pregnancy and breastfeeding, and disability. The study also reveals a need for increased attention to health-related issues in political campaigns and media. By focusing on the health-related issues raised during the campaign, the study provides valuable insights into the gaps and priorities in addressing the health needs of the East Java population. The research framework used in this study offers a valuable approach for analyzing online data sources using qualitative analysis capacity. The study can improve health policies and outcomes in the local election campaign by raising awareness of health issues and promoting informed decision-making among voters.Research limitations/implicationsThis research limitation is a local political campaign case in Indonesia. The research indicates that health issues receive limited coverage during election campaigns, suggesting a lack of emphasis on health as a critical issue among East Java's electorate.Originality/valueThe study can improve health policies and outcomes in the local election campaign by raising awareness of health issues and promoting informed decision-making among voters.
Firm performance in digitally integrated supply chains: a combined perspective of transaction cost economics and relational exchange theory
Authors: Patil Kiran , Garg Vipul , Gabaldon Janeth , Patil Himali , Niranjan Suman , Hawkins Timothy 
Published: July 2023

PurposeThis paper aims to examine how interfirm transactional and relational assets drive firm performance (FP) in digitally integrated supply chains.Design/methodology/approachThe authors combine the Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Relational Exchange Theory (RET) frameworks to hypothesize that FP will be a function of Asset Specificity (AS), Digital Technology Usage (DTU) and Collaborative Information Sharing (CIS). In addition, the authors hypothesize that Supply Chain Integration (SCI) will partially mediate the effect of DTU and fully mediate the impact of AS and CIS on FP. A cross-sectional survey of supply chain managers is used to test the hypotheses.FindingsFindings indicate that specific investments in digitally integrated supply chains would increase FP. In addition, SCI fully mediates the relationships between AS and FP and CIS and FP, while SCI partially mediates the influence of DTU on FP.Practical implicationsManagers could strategically engage in the technologies that effectively fit within the firm’s supply chain strategies and seek to develop a pragmatic expertise that enables the effective use of technology in a comprehensive setting.Originality/valueThe study enriches the extant literature by incorporating TCE and RET as contradictory viewpoints on AS and investigating how transactional and relational assets affect FP in digitally integrated supply chains.
Facing the flames
Authors: Jobson Ryan Cecil 
Published: July 2023

AbstractIn June 1939, Melville Herskovits arrived in Trinidad. Already committed to his eponymous thesis of African cultural survivals, he identified the rural municipality of Toco as a site to observe “African ways of life … in greatest purity.” The oil field strikes that gripped the island just two years earlier received only a passing mention in his monograph, Trinidad Village. This essay meditates on Herskovits's field notes to consider how a Boasian cultural paradigm compelled Herskovits to exclude the oil field labor from his study. Still, he is aggravated throughout by oil troubles of his own. Vexed by a faulty gasoline generator, Herskovits used his field diary to document his frustrated efforts to record audio of Shango songs in Toco. Engaging in a counterfactual thought experiment in which Herskovits pursued the aftermath of the oil field strikes as his object of study, this essay considers how Herskovits could have charted a distinct ontological ground for discipline of anthropology.
A single priming event prevents oral tolerance to peanut
Authors: Smeekens Johanna M. , Immormino Robert M. , Kesselring Janelle R. , Turner Andrew V. , Kulis Michael D. , Moran Timothy P. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractBackgroundIndoor dust (ID) is a source of peanut proteins and immunostimulatory adjuvants (e.g. LPS) that can promote airway sensitization to peanut. We aimed to determine whether a single airway exposure to peanut plus adjuvant is sufficient to prevent oral tolerance.MethodsTo determine the effect of a single priming event, C57BL/6J mice were exposed once to peanut plus adjuvant through the airway, followed by either airway or low‐dose oral exposure to peanut, and assessed for peanut allergy. Oral tolerance was investigated by feeding high‐dose peanut followed by airway sensitization. To determine whether a single priming could prevent oral tolerance, the high‐dose peanut regimen was applied after a single airway exposure to peanut plus adjuvant. Peanut‐specific IgE and IgG1 were quantified, and mice were challenged to peanut to assess allergy. Peanut‐specific CD4+ memory T cells (CD4+TCRβ+CD44hiCD154+) were quantified in mediastinal lymph nodes following airway priming.ResultsMice co‐exposed to peanut with LPS or ID through the airway were primed to develop peanut allergy after subsequent low‐dose oral or airway exposures to peanut. Oral tolerance was induced in mice fed high‐dose peanut prior to airway sensitization. In contrast, mice fed high‐dose peanut following a single airway exposure to peanut plus adjuvant led to allergy. Peanut‐specific CD4+ memory T cells were detected as early as 7 days after the single airway priming with peanut plus adjuvant, however, delaying peanut feeding even 1 day following priming led to allergy, whereas peanut feeding the same day as priming led to tolerance.ConclusionsA single airway exposure to peanut plus adjuvant is sufficient to prime the immune system to develop allergy following subsequent high‐dose oral exposure. These results highlight the importance of introducing peanut as early as possible to prevent sensitization through a non‐oral priming event.
The Geographical Rotation of Local Officials and Enterprise Cross‐city Mergers and Acquisitions in China
Authors: Huang Liangxiong , Li Peilun , Wang Xianbin , Yang Caiting 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThe economic impact of the geographical rotation of local officials is important in China's official management system. This study used a zero‐inflated Poisson regression model and found that the geographical rotation of local officials significantly increased cross‐city mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of enterprises. The impact of local officials' geographical rotation on M&As was more pronounced under certain conditions. These conditions included: (i) when officials were transferred from cities with a higher development level to cities with a lower development level; (ii) when the outflow cities were municipalities directly governed by the central government, provincial capitals, or separately listed cities; (iii) when the transfers of officials occurred within the same province; (iv) when the transfers took place before 2012; and (v) when the transfers happened in the years following significant central government conferences, which provided strong political incentives for M&As.
Crystal growth and phase formation of high‐entropy rare‐earth monoclinic aluminates
Authors: Pianassola Matheus , Loveday Madeline , Lalk Rebecca , Pestovich Kimberly , Melcher Charles L. , Zhuravleva Mariya 
Published: July 2023

AbstractFor the first time, high‐entropy rare‐earth monoclinic aluminate crystals were grown via directional solidification using the micro‐pulling‐down method. Five high‐entropy compositions were formulated with a general formula RE4Al2O9, where RE is an equiatomic mixture of five rare‐earth elements. The rare‐earth elements included were Lu, Yb, Er, Y, Ho, Dy, Tb, Gd, Eu, Sm, Nd, and La. High‐temperature powder X‐ray diffraction and Rietveld structure refinement indicated that all crystals were a single monoclinic phase and that rare‐earth average ionic radius did not affect phase purity. At room temperature, the refined lattice parameters increased consistently with increasing average ionic radii of the five compositions. One of the crystals had a typical high‐temperature phase transition of single‐RE RE4Al2O9 in the range of 1100–1150°C, which consisted of a lattice contraction upon heating. Differential scanning calorimetry indicated a thermal event corresponding to that phase transition. Electron probe microanalysis revealed Al‐rich inclusions on the surface of the crystals. Crystals containing Tb had dark surface features that became lighter after annealing in a reducing atmosphere, which indicated that Tb4+ may be responsible for the dark features.
Point‐of‐care platelet function testing results in a dog with Bernard–Soulier syndrome
Authors: Kornya Matthew , Abrams‐Ogg Anthony , St‐Jean Camille , Phillips Erin , Dickinson Melanie , Collier Allison , Barry Maureen , Durzi Tiffany , Khan Omar , Blois Shauna 
Published: July 2023

AbstractBernard–Soulier syndrome (BSS), also known as hemorrhagiparous thrombocytic dystrophy (OMIA 002207–9615), is a rare defect in platelet function recognized in both dogs and humans. It is caused by a deficiency in glycoprotein 1b‐IX‐V, the platelet surface protein which acts as a receptor for the von Willebrand factor. The characteristic features of BSS in humans and dogs include macrothrombocytes and mild‐to‐moderate thrombocytopenia with a bleeding tendency. This condition has previously been reported in European Cocker Spaniel dogs; however, the results of platelet function tests in these animals have not been reported. This case report describes a European Cocker Spaniel dog with spontaneously occurring Bernard–Soulier syndrome and the results of point‐of‐care platelet function tests, including a prolonged buccal mucosal bleeding time (>8 min), prolongation (>300 s) of PFA‐200 COL/ADP, COL/EPI, and P2Y closure times, and reduced aggregation (15%–48%) with Plateletworks ADP, but with normal aggregation (92%) with Plateletworks AA. This is the first description of the results of platelet function tests in canine Bernard–Soulier syndrome.
Shear wave velocity values measured by 2D‐shear wave elastography are not different between awake and anesthetized cats without clinically significant hepatic fibrosis
Authors: Van Victoria , Rademacher Nathalie , Liu Chin‐Chi , Keeton Sarah , Johnston Andrea N. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractTwo‐dimensional shear wave elastography (2D‐SWE) is widely used as a noninvasive method to quantify liver stiffness. In humans, liver stiffness approximates histologic hepatic fibrosis. While histology is the gold standard for diagnosing liver disease, 2D‐SWE may be a minimally invasive alternative to biopsy in feline patients. The objectives of this prospective, observational, crossover study were trifold: (1) to assess the feasibility of performing 2D‐SWE in awake cats, (2) to determine whether anesthesia altered shear wave velocity (SWV) measurements, and (3) to correlate hepatic stiffness with histologically quantified hepatic fibrosis. Eleven healthy, purpose‐bred cats underwent 2D‐SWE in awake and anesthetized states. SWV measurements were compared with histologic fibrosis measurements obtained from liver biopsies during the anesthetic period. The mean velocities were not significantly different between awake (1.47 ± 0.18 m/s) and anesthetized (1.47 ± 0.24 m/s) cats. Premedication and anesthetic drugs did not impact mean SWV. There was a higher variability in the SWV values in the awake group. The data points were reliably replicated, with an interquartile range of 0.24 and 0.32 in anesthetized and awake groups, respectively. There was moderate agreement between observers (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.66). All cats had clinically insignificant fibrosis. There was no correlation between the SWV measurements and the histological fibrosis values. This study demonstrates that 2D‐SWE is feasible in awake cats and that the anesthetic protocol employed did not significantly alter mean SWV. This work is the first to histologically validate normal SWV values in cats and show that 2D‐SWE cannot differentiate minimal differences in feline hepatic fibrosis.
Increasing the Frequency Resolution when Measuring Vibrations of Rotating Bodies with Fixed Beam Laser Vibrometry
Authors: Artelnyi V. V. , Rodionov A. A. , Stulenkov A. V. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractLaser Doppler vibrometry is actively used in experimental studies because of its noncontact measurement technique. When using a stationary laser to measure the vibrations of rotating bodies and Fourier transform to process the results of such measurements, a problem arises, associated with a decrease in the frequency resolution of the spectra with increasing rotation rate of the body. As a result, at sufficiently high rotation rates, closely spaced discrete components may cease to be resolved. This paper proposes a method for solving such a problem using the least squares method. The operability of this processing method has been demonstrated on experimental data.
Evaluating Transformer Models and Human Behaviors on Chinese Character Naming
Authors: Ma Xiaomeng , Gao Lingyu 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Neural network models have been proposed to explain the grapheme-phoneme mapping process in humans for many alphabet languages. These models not only successfully learned the correspondence of the letter strings and their pronunciation, but also captured human behavior in nonce word naming tasks. How would the neural models perform for a non-alphabet language (e.g., Chinese) unknown character task? How well would the model capture human behavior? In this study, we first collect human speakers’ answers on unknown Character naming tasks and then evaluate a set of transformer models by comparing their performance with human behaviors on an unknown Chinese character naming task. We found that the models and humans behaved very similarly, that they had similar accuracy distribution for each character, and had a substantial overlap in answers. In addition, the models’ answers are highly correlated with humans’ answers. These results suggested that the transformer models can capture humans’ character naming behavior well.1
Hopefulness among individuals living with schizophrenia and their caregivers in Tanzania: an actor-partner interdependence model
Authors: Martinez Alyssa , Baumgartner Joy Noel , Kaaya Sylvia , Swai Praxeda , Lawala Paul S. , Thedai Beatrice , Minja Anna , Headley Jennifer , Egger Joseph R. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Background
Hopefulness is a positive orientation or state of mind that can aid in the recovery and treatment of mental illness, as it can have significant impacts on clinical and psychosocial outcomes. As resource-constrained settings work to implement recovery-oriented care, there is a need to better understand hopefulness among people living with schizophrenia (PLWS) and caregivers in their extended family networks. This study seeks to examine the dyadic relationship of hopefulness and its associated correlates among PLWS attending outpatient psychiatric clinics and their caregivers in Tanzania.

Methods
This study utilized baseline and immediate post-intervention data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial testing a culturally tailored model of Family Psychoeducation, KUPAA, in Tanzania. The Herth Hope Index was used to measure hopefulness among PLWS (n = 33) and their caregivers (n = 33) at baseline and immediate post-intervention. Univariable and multivariable regression models were conducted to determine correlates of hopefulness at baseline, while the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) was employed to examine the longitudinal, dyadic relationship of hopefulness among and between PLWS and their caregivers.

Results
Better family functioning was associated with higher levels of hopefulness in PLWS and their caregivers. Lower levels of stigma, lower symptom severity, and lower disability were associated with higher levels of hopefulness in PLWS. For PLWS and their caregivers, actor effects from the APIM model were less than one (PLWS, $$\beta=0.261$$

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0.261

; caregivers, $$\beta=0.318$$

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), indicating stability (within each person) in hopefulness over time. Regarding partner effects, a caregiver’s baseline hopefulness had a positive effect on the hopefulness of their PLWS at follow-up ($$\beta=0.100$$

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0.100

). This indicates that higher caregiver hope at time 0 is associated with higher levels of hope in PLWS at time 1. Baseline hopefulness levels for PLWS had a negative effect on caregivers’ hopefulness at follow-up ($$\beta=-0.106$$

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0.106

). This suggests that higher hopefulness among PLWS at baseline is associated with lower levels of hope in caregivers at follow-up.

Conclusion
Hopefulness is important to consider in family or caregiver-based treatments for PLWS because caregiver hopefulness may influence improvements in hopefulness among PLWS over time. Future studies should further explore the longitudinal dyadic relationship of hopefulness for these populations, as hope is a non-pharmacological and modifiable mechanism of change that is underutilized in care and treatment plans for PLWS globally.

Trial registration
Clinical Trials #NCT04013932, July 10, 2019.