bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The impact of serum copper on the risk of epilepsy: a mendelian randomization study
Authors: Chen Shihao , Huang Wenting , Xu Qi , He Tao , Zhang Mulan , Xu Huiqin 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Background
The relationship between serum copper and epilepsy has been elucidated in observational studies. In this study, we aimed to explore the causal relationship between serum copper and epilepsy using Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.

Methods
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with serum copper were used as instrumental variables for MR analysis to evaluate their causal effects on epilepsy. The main MR results were obtained by using the inverse variance weighting (IVW) method, supplemented by weighted median and MR-Egger regression. In addition, sensitivity analyses such as Cochran's Q test and pleiotropy test were used to assess these SNPs on epilepsy in terms of horizontal pleiotropy and heterogeneity.

Results
The IVW method revealed that the serum copper was associated with an increased risk of generalized epilepsy (OR= 1.07; 95% CI 1.01- 1.14; P = 0.032), and the sensitivity analysis further supports the robustness of the results.

Conclusions
The current study reveals a possible causal role for serum copper in increasing the risk of generalized epilepsy, which provide guidance for identifying potential risk factors for epilepsy.
Do capital inflows affect domestic bank credit? Empirical evidence from India
Authors: Ansari Zeeshan Nezami , Dar Muzffar Hussain , Zafar Shadman 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThis paper studies multivariate dynamic analysis of capital inflows in relation with domestic bank’s credit which has not been investigated earlier adequately in the context of Indian economy. Using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, we find the existence of co-integration over the period 1991 Q3 to 2022 Q1. The long-run ARDL regression model results show net equity inflows, i.e. net foreign direct investment, and net non-equity inflows, i.e. foreign loan, are significant to influence domestic bank credit. Result also reveals that depreciation of exchange rate and current account (trade) deficit increase bank credit. Outcome of this research contributes significantly to frame effective monetary policy in the Indian context.
Waiting times for elective surgery in an African paediatric surgery department
Authors: Ada Mahamoud Omid Ali , Moustapha Hellé , Habou Oumarou , Emaleu Inès Arlette Siewe , Idrissa Salahoudine , Abarchi Habibou 
Published: June 2023

AbstractBackgroundLong waiting time (WT) for elective surgery is a frequent and important issue in many countries. This study examined the factors affecting the WT for elective surgery in a paediatric surgery department in a tertiary healthcare hospital in Niger, Africa. This descriptive retrospective study examined patients aged 0–15 years who underwent elective surgery in the paediatric surgery department of National Hospital Amirou Boubacar Diallo in Niamey, Niger, between April 1, 2019 and March 30, 2020. Socio-demographic, diagnostic, and therapeutic data were collected from medical records, and the WT, defined as the number of days between when surgery was proposed and performed was analysed. Statistical analyses were performed with the Kruskal–Wallis test, and ap < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.ResultsThree hundred fifty-four patients were included in the study. The umbilical hernia was the most common surgical indication (n = 103, 29.1%). The mean WT was 69.2 days (range, 8 days–11.3 months), and the majority of patients had a WT of less than two months (n = 240, 67.8%). Depending on the surgical indication, the mean WT ranged from 13 days (posterior urethral valve) to 8.5 months (epispadias). WT was significantly longer among patients living in rural areas (p = 0.012), with comorbidities (p = 0.0034), and whose procedures were postponed (p = 0.0026).ConclusionPatient and institution-related factors influenced the WT. It can be reduced by addressing the supply and demand aspects of surgical care, as well as by prioritising patients who need more urgent care.
Reintroduction: “The Rorty Shrug”
Authors: Perl Jeffrey M. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractIn this brief introduction to part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” the journal’s editor asks why Rorty was dependent on Thomas Kuhn, rather than Paul Feyerabend or the then-rising stars of “science studies” (such as Bruno Latour), for science-centered arguments to support his own philosophical neopragmatism. The editor cites a letter from Rorty sent to him in the early 1990s, suggesting that the differences between Feyerabend and himself were temperamental more than philosophical. Rorty enjoyed referring to himself and others like him as “we atheists,” by which he seems to have meant “those of us repelled by extravagant or overheated claims and absolutes.” His tendency was thus to pull back in what might seem to be bored alarm from treatments of science as superior, perilous, or in any essential way different from other forms of intellectual discourse. Rorty’s understanding of these approaches to science as temperamentally religious appears lately to have been vindicated by the emergence of the primeval goddess “Gaia” in the rhetoric of science studies.
Inheriting Rorty
Authors: Blok Anders , Jensen Casper Bruun 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
This contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” argues that the field of science studies should be understood as a way of inheriting, rather than fundamentally breaking with, Rorty's antifoundationalism and postepistemology. Taken together, the work of Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway has been less about rebalancing the relative and the objective, and more about redrawing the checkerboard of knowledge into “in-disciplinary” styles of empirical philosophy. These styles rely on doubly held commitments to radical empirical curiosity about, on the one hand, events of science and culture, and, on the other hand, promises of conceptual speculation for collective learning. This work is highly important for the novel perplexities of the Anthropocene, but not quite in the way that Gaskill proposed.
Performance analysis of hospitals before and during the COVID-19 in Iran: A cross-sectional study
Authors: Jalilian Habib , Mohammad Riahi Seyed , Heydari Somayeh , Taji Masoomeh 
Published: June 2023

Background and objective
The COVID-19 pandemic placed considerable pressure on the health care systems and caused many disruptions to the care hospital system around the globe. This study aimed to analyze the performance of hospitals affiliated with the University of Medical Sciences and Health Services of South Khorasan Province before and during COVID-19.

Method
This cross-sectional study tracked the financial performance (FP) and service performance (SP) of 12 hospitals affiliated with South Khorasan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services using the Farabar system and Hospital Information System (HIS). Our study covered two time periods: from February 2018 to February 2020 (pre-COVID-19) and from February 2020 to February 2021 (during COVID-19). SP analysis of hospitals was performed by examining the trend of monthly changes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and analyzed using SPSS software version 22 and Paired Sample T-Test. FP of hospitals was analyzed through relevant ratios and analyzed using Microsoft Office Excel.

Results
Most SP indicators decreased considerably in all hospitals during COVID-19. FP ratios (e.g., activity and leverage ratios) increased during either or both pre-COVID or COVID periods. Compared to before COVID-19, the operating margin ratio and operating expenses coverage from operating income increased from -0.50 and 66.55 to -1.42 and 41.32, respectively, during COVID-19. Moreover, the net profit margin ratio and Return On Assets (ROA) ratio were increased during COVID-19.

Conclusion
COVID-19 has decreased the FP and SP of hospitals due to limitations in providing services to patients since the beginning of COVID-19. Measures such as providing various financing resources and improving the financial resilience of hospitals are essential. Funds should be disbursed to offset hospitals’ losses due to reduced elective and outpatient revenue. Policymakers should come up with holistic policies to tackle the adverse impact of such crises in the future, support hospitals financially, and consider allocating additional funding to them during emergencies.
Commuter Students and Psychological Sense of Community: How Ties to Home Relate to Academic Success
Authors: Smith Brian T. , Charlton Kelly , Allen Ashley Batts 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Universities spend significant time and energy establishing a sense of community for their students. University personnel strive to increase school community ties for commuter students who travel back and forth from home to campus under the assumption that these increased ties will predict academic success. In an effort to understand those variables related to commuter student success, 335 participants responded to questions regarding commuter status, psychological sense of community with one’s school, psychological sense of community with one’s hometown, and academic self-handicapping. Results indicated that those with a strong sense of community with their hometown were less likely to engage in academic self-handicapping. Moreover, this relationship was moderated by commuting status, such that the effect was stronger for commuter students than for non-commuter students. Implications for commuter student success and future research are discussed.
Assessment of Manning coefficient for Dujila Canal, Wasit/-Iraq
Authors: Shamkhi Mohammed S. , Auad Maryam Hussain 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Assessment of Manning’s unevenness factor is of critical significance in hydraulic readings of open channel stream. Manning’s (

n

n

) is obligatory for the computation of releases, water levels, and backwater curves, as well as plan curve additions. The correct value of Manning’s roughness coefficient (

n

n

), i. H. a value that accurately reflects the observed data, is selected by the calibration process. The current study aims to calculate the Manning coefficient of the Dujila Canal due to this factor helps in developing water management systems, the Dujila Canal (a branch of the Tigris River) was modeled using the Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis System steady-flow model to guess the rate of Manning’s factor. The information was reserved for seven cross sections for calibration, then another cross section is applied for the verification process. A statistical test on the recorded data must be used to verify the calibration process. It uses the Root Mean Square (RMS) test. The outcomes show that the appropriate Manning’s (

n

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) rate was (0.025), providing a reasonable arrangement amid the designed and perceived sketches
Discharge coefficient and energy dissipation on stepped weir
Authors: Hantoosh Samaa H. , Shamkhi Mohammed S. 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
High volumes of kinetic energy are generated as water is transported to the dam downstream. Stepped weir are some of the best in lowering the kinetic energy of a flow traveling downstream. In stepped weirs, the steps’ design can impact how much of the flow’s kinetic energy is transferred downstream. Because these weirs could dissipate more power, recently, pooled designs have been more common than smooth ones. Therefore, this work investigated the impact of sills at the ends-edge of the steps and discharge values on flow patterns, particularly energy dissipation. Seventy-five experiments were conducted and five models were used with a slope angle of 35° with different step dimensions, different numbers of steps (14, 10, 7, 5, and 3), and other discharges. Three-step configurations were used: flat, fully pooled, and zigzag pooled steps. The results indicated that increasing the number of steps increased the energy dissipation rate. In addition, an increase in the discharge leads to an increase in the discharge coefficient and thus decreases the energy dissipation rate. A coefficient of determination

R

2

{R}^{2}

gives a good agreement for the discharge coefficient (0.73).
Numerical study of the fluid flow and heat transfer in a finned heat sink using Ansys Icepak
Authors: Yaseen Sana J. 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
This research studies a three-dimensional fluid flow, and heat transfer in the heat sink numerically using air as a coolant. The numerical effects of the number of fins and their thickness on the performance of the heat sink are investigated using Ansys Icepak. Various fin numbers and fin thicknesses are used to check the heat sink’s optimal thermal performance. The results demonstrated that the maximum temperature, pressure drop, and thermal resistance decrease with the increase in the fin number and thickness. According to the results, the optimal thickness and number of fins for the current study are 15 and 0.25 mm, respectively. Also, it is observed that increasing the number of fins has a greater effect than increasing the thickness of the fins on the maximum temperature, pressure drop, and thermal resistance.
“They forget and forget all the time.” The complexity of teaching adult deaf emergent readers print literacy
Authors: Holmström Ingela , Schönström Krister 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
This article highlight and discuss the complex situation when deaf adults who are emergent readers learn Swedish Sign Language (STS) and Swedish in parallel. As Swedish appears primarily in its written form, they also have to develop reading and writing skills. Study data comes from ethnographically created video recordings of classroom interaction and interviews with teachers and participants. The analysis reveals that while the migrants successively learn basic STS for interacting with other deaf people, learning Swedish takes a different path. The migrants struggle with learning basic reading and writing skills, vocabulary, and grammar. Furthermore, the instruction is highly repetitive, but unstructured and sprawled, using STS to explain and connect signs with written equivalents. The teachers testify in interviews that it seems very difficult for the emergent readers to learn Swedish on a level good enough to cope in Swedish society, which, in turn, puts them in a vulnerable position.
Aspect-based sentiment analysis on multi-domain reviews through word embedding
Authors: Venu Gopalachari Mukkamula , Gupta Sangeeta , Rakesh Salakapuri , Jayaram Dharmana , Venkateswara Rao Pulipati 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
The finest resource for consumers to evaluate products is online product reviews, and finding such reviews that are accurate and helpful can be difficult. These reviews may sometimes be corrupted, biased, contradictory, or lacking in detail. This opens the door for customer-focused review analysis methods. A method called “Multi-Domain Keyword Extraction using Word Vectors” aims to streamline the customer experience by giving them reviews from several websites together with in-depth assessments of the evaluations. Using the specific model number of the product, inputs are continuously grabbed from different e-commerce websites. Aspects and key phrases in the reviews are properly identified using machine learning, and the average sentiment for each keyword is calculated using context-based sentiment analysis. To precisely discover the keywords in massive texts, word embedding data will be analyzed by machine learning techniques. A unique methodology developed to locate trustworthy reviews considers several criteria that determine what makes a review credible. The experiments on real-time data sets showed better results compared to the existing traditional models.
Recovering from cultural blindness: multimodal Positive Discourse Analysis of metaphors in hand-drawn sketches about Islam
Authors: El-Falaky May S. 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
This paper extends Nartey’s model of Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), examining the visual metaphors (VM) in the representations of Islamic identity. The paper highlights how hand-drawings operate as a positive discourse resisting negative accusations in hegemonic discourses about Islam. This PDA study is an intellectual proximity between semiotics, VMs and cultural studies. Through the constructed framework, I argue that PDA can utilize VMs to construct/construe homogeneity and inclusiveness. Through the findings of this study, we can construe the imageries as a reflection of the physical and cultural environments whose cognition is attained by examining how semiotic signs reflect and are reflected by conscious awareness and perception. A major criticism of PDA is its lack of contextual framing, that’s why this paper provides a contextual framing mixing semiotic visuality and the sociocultural construal of discursive representation of Muslim identity. The interpretation of the findings is contextualized after the adaptation of the philosophical view of Molyneux’s question, the issue of blindness from birth, and the capability of seeing things properly if someone, hypothetically, gains his sight again.
The crystal structure of tert-butyl (E)-3-(2-(benzylideneamino)phenyl)-1H-indole-1-carboxylate, C26H24N2O2
Authors: Da Weihao , Kong Haonan , Wang Ruiyao , Lin Yi 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
C26H24N2O2, monoclinic, P21/n (no. 14), a = 10.949(6) Å, b = 9.930(5) Å, c = 20.125(13) Å, β = 98.51(3)°, V = 2164(2) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt(F) = 0.0465, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1260, T = 296(2) K.
Influence of sodium silicate to precursor ratio on mechanical properties and durability of the metakaolin/fly ash alkali-activated sustainable mortar using manufactured sand
Authors: Zhang Peng , Wang Cong , Wang Fei , Yuan Peng 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
In recent years, manufactured sand produced from crushed rock has been used as fine aggregate instead of natural sand in construction and industrial fields to minimize the impact of natural sand depletion in nature and society. In this research, the mechanical properties and durability of alkali-activated sustainable mortar using manufactured sand and different sodium silicate (solution) to precursor ratios (SSPR; 0.60, 0.65, 0.70, 0.75, and 0.80) by weight were investigated. Metakaolin and fly ash were used as precursor, sodium silicate (solution) and sodium hydroxide were used as alkali-activator, and manufactured sand made from broken limestone was used to completely replace river sand as fine aggregate to prepare metakaolin/fly ash (MK/FA) alkali-activated sustainable mortar to ensure sustainable development. The compressive, tensile, and flexural strengths, anti-permeability, and crack resistance of MK/FA alkali-activated sustainable mortar were tested. The impact of different SSPRs on the mechanical properties and durability of alkali-activated sustainable mortar was analyzed. Quadratic function fitting models of tensile strength to compressive strength and flexural strength to compressive strength were proposed. Furthermore, the statistical effects of each parameter were explored using analysis of variance and F-test of statistical analysis. The experimental results indicate that the SSPR has a remarkable effect on the mechanical properties and durability of MK/FA alkali-activated sustainable mortar. When the SSPR is in the range of 0.6–0.8, the compressive, tensile, and flexural strength of the alkali-activated sustainable mortar initially increased and then decreased; however, there is an opposite trend in water penetration depth and crack index. MK/FA alkali-activated sustainable mortar exhibits best compressive strength, tensile strength, flexural strength, anti-permeability, and cracking resistance of 40.2 MPa, 3.38 MPa, 4.3 MPa, 41.3 mm, and 245 mm, respectively, at SSPR of 0.7. The experimental findings of this study can provide theoretical guidance for practical engineering of alkali-activated sustainable mortars using manufactured sand.
HPX filter: a hybrid of Hodrick–Prescott filter and multiple regression
Authors: Yamada Hiroshi 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
This paper considers an extension of Hodrick–Prescott (HP) filter. It is a hybrid of HP filter and multiple regression. We refer to the filter as “HPX filter”. It is well known that HP filter has a unique global minimizer and the solution can be represented in matrix notation explicitly. Does HPX filter also have a unique global minimizer? Is it accomplished without any additional assumptions? Can the solution be expressed in matrix notation explicitly? In this paper, we answer these questions. In addition, this paper (i) provides an alternative perspective on the filter by representing it as a generalized ridge regression and (ii) gives an extension of it, which is a hybrid of Whittaker–Henderson method of graduation and multiple regression.
Proteolytic activation of angiomotin by DDI2 promotes angiogenesis
Authors: Wang Yu , Zhu Yuwen , Wang Yebin , Chang Yue , Geng Fang , Ma Mingyue , Gu Yuan , Yu Aijuan , Zhu Rui , Yu Pengcheng , Sha Zhao , Qi Sixian , Li Jian , Zhao Wencao , Pan Weijun , Zhang Ruilin , Yu Fa‐Xing 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe scaffolding protein angiomotin (AMOT) is indispensable for vertebrate embryonic angiogenesis. Here, we report that AMOT undergoes cleavage in the presence of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a lipid growth factor also involved in angiogenesis. AMOT cleavage is mediated by aspartic protease DNA damage‐inducible 1 homolog 2 (DDI2), and the process is tightly regulated by a signaling axis including neurofibromin 2 (NF2), tankyrase 1/2 (TNKS1/2), and RING finger protein 146 (RNF146), which induce AMOT membrane localization, poly ADP ribosylation, and ubiquitination, respectively. In both zebrafish and mice, the genetic inactivation of AMOT cleavage regulators leads to defective angiogenesis, and the phenotype is rescued by the overexpression of AMOT‐CT, a C‐terminal AMOT cleavage product. In either physiological or pathological angiogenesis, AMOT‐CT is required for vascular expansion, whereas uncleavable AMOT represses this process. Thus, our work uncovers a signaling pathway that regulates angiogenesis by modulating a cleavage‐dependent activation of AMOT.
Dinamika Penjatuhan Talak Melalui Whatsapp dalam Paradigma Pembaharuan Hukum Keluarga Islam
Authors: Ropei Ahmad , Sururie Ramdani Wahyu 
Published: June 2023

This article aims to describe the paradigm of Islamic family law reform against the dynamics of the imposition of divorce through WhatsApp media, one of the problems often faced in various divorce cases. This paper is classified as a qualitative type, with the approach used being library research. Data analysis was carried out using descriptive-analytical techniques. The results of this article indicate that the adoption of divorce via WhatsApp according to most legal scholars is valid with the qiyas approach as the delivery of divorce through writing in the form of a letter. Meanwhile, in the paradigm of reforming Islamic family law in Indonesia, the imposition of divorce via WhatsApp is considered invalid, considering that the validity of the divorce is only recognized when it is sworn in before the court. This paradigm is based on various efforts to achieve the benefit, especially to avoid arbitrary actions by the husband against his wife unilaterally in terms of imposing divorce and obtaining legal legality.