bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Kickboxing Kloof Frogs: Territoriality, Female Parental Care and Other Reproductive Behaviours of Natalobatrachus bonebergi
Authors: van Niekerk Arno , Tarrant Jeanne , Armstrong Adrian J. , du Preez Louis H. 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTThe Kloof Frog (Natalobatrachus bonebergi) is an Endangered South African endemic, demonstrating complex reproductive behaviours. This study, conducted in Vernon Crookes Nature Reserve, South Africa between April 2023 and April 2024, recorded acoustic and visual communication, male–male aggression, parental care and predation. In situ observations underscore the species' strategies of multimodal communication in male territoriality, mate attraction and female parental care of eggs in a structured habitat. This study provides perspective on the reproductive ecology of N. bonebergi. This species could serve as an important ecological model through which conservation management and actions could be improved upon.
Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities
Authors: Linn Sarah , Lee Jina , Zorba Mariam , Nunn Caitlin , Cromwell Jennifer 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis paper examines how creative counter‐maps can be a valuable participatory historical geography tool in their capacity to render visible multiple pasts, presents, and futures, and offer new possibilities for representation and belonging through visual and creative aesthetics. Emerging from the Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging project, the paper explores the co‐creation of a participatory counter‐map, Unprovenanced Map, displayed in Manchester Museum (2023–2025), which represents the entangled mobilities of ancient objects and contemporary migrants. Co‐designed by a creative map‐making artist in dialogue with Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging project researchers and youth researchers from Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Palestinian, and Kurdish backgrounds, the map integrates young people's personal ‘journey maps’ with archival research on ancient objects from their region of origin, drawn from collections in Manchester Museum. Reflecting the complexities and ambiguities of migration, the map represents places, borders, and movements as fractured, partial, and mutable, and embedded with the messiness of embodied and material migratory realities. In doing so, it confronts the (neo)colonial forces that shape maps and mobilities, engaging museum audiences with contextualised complexities of global movement through a migratory aesthetic. Simultaneously, this creative representation serves the practical‐political purpose of safeguarding youth researchers from the risks of challenging fixed imaginaries of spatial–temporal borders within a heritage institution – and city – grappling with their own colonial legacies, while also imagining new futures and possibilities of representation.
Gut decontamination in the poisoned patient
Authors: Gosselin Sophie , Hoegberg Lotte C. G. , Hoffman Robert S. 
Published: January 2025

Poisoning management includes gastrointestinal decontamination strategies to decrease the burden of poison entering the body and change the expected severe toxicity expected to a less toxic, more favourable outcome. Common modalities are orogastric lavage, oral‐activated charcoal and whole‐bowel irrigation. Endoscopic retrieval and laparotomy are rare options reserved for severe ingestions and body packers. Although supporting data are generally of low quality, gastrointestinal decontamination is likely to improve patient outcome in many situations. Unfortunately, technical limitations and contraindications can explain their infrequent use. Orogastric lavage can be useful for early lethal ingestions, albeit with significant complications such as aspiration and perforation. Activated charcoal cannot adsorb every substance. Usual dosing is 1 g/kg per dose. Whole‐bowel irrigation is reserved for charged molecules or substances not adsorbed to activated charcoal but requires intact gut motility. Indications depend on several factors inherent to the ingestion (dose, time, poison) and patient's characteristics. During recent decades, studies of newer pharmaceuticals or modified‐release formulations showed that significant amounts of poison, especially pharmacobezoars, persist in the gut hours postingestion, thus are amenable to gastrointestinal decontamination. Improved understanding of gut motility in volunteer studies and overdose showed clinically significant reduction in drug exposure with activated charcoal. The 1‐h dogma for gastrointestinal decontamination, especially activated charcoal, is now obsolete. Clinicians must perform a risk assessment for each ingestion to determine the expected benefit at the time of decision‐making, choosing the modality to achieve reduction in the toxicity burden while planning for complications or contraindications.
Determination of Time Required for 5 Log Reduction of Foodborne Pathogens by High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing in Foods
Authors: Buzrul Sencer , Cam Mehmet Furkan 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTHigh hydrostatic pressure (HHP) is a nonthermal preservation technology for inactivating foodborne pathogens and spoilage organisms. The commercial use of HHP is generally performed at pressures of 400–600 MPa, at ambient initial temperature for less than 6 min. Moreover, at least 5 log10 reduction of target pathogen is required for safe HHP‐treated foods. Literature data of foodborne pathogens (Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp., etc.) were collected based on these ranges and information (P: 400–600 MPa, T: 4°C–25°C, t ≤ 6 min) and were described by the reparameterized Weibull model to find times required for 5 log10 of target pathogens together with their confidence limits. Results indicated that pressure values of even 400–450 MPa were sufficient to obtain 5 log10 reduction for times ≤ 6 min for high acid foods. Furthermore, 600 MPa treatment, which is generally used by the industry, is a robust and efficient application as holding times less than 5 min were generally enough to obtain 5 log10 reduction for most of the pathogens. Nevertheless, for some pathogens in milk, such as E. coli and Stapylococcus aureus, higher holding times of > 10 min were necessary which was not practical for a commercial HHP application. Conditions for microbial HHP studies generally do not match with industrial HHP applications. However, data selection criteria in this study were based on commercial applications. Information provided in this study would be beneficial for researchers as well as for HHP food processors for designing future studies and HHP treatments.
A Framework for Behavioral Health Integration in the Program of All‐Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
Authors: Fleet Alexa , Simoun Alya , Shalev Daniel , Spaeth‐Rublee Brigitta , Patterson Taryn , Wardlow Liane , Roth Tessa , Pincus Harold Alan 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTBackgroundThe Program of All‐inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a comprehensive care model that aims to promote aging in the home and community for older adults who are nursing‐home eligible needs‐wise. Older adults experience age‐related barriers to accessing behavioral health (BH) services. PACE programs play an important role in providing all‐inclusive health care for individuals over 55 who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare. This article investigates behavioral health integration (BHI) within PACE Organizations (POs), produces a conceptual framework for BHI within PACE, and reports on current BH practices and programmatic needs to support the growing BH needs of participants.MethodsThe team adapted the BH–Serious Illness Care (BH‐SIC) Model, to produce a conceptual framework for BHI within PACE (BHI‐PACE Model). The model informed a mixed‐methods sequential approach to assess BHI at POs that include (i) a survey, (ii) use‐case interviews of POs, and (iii) qualitative analyses of interviews.ResultsWe present the domains and subdomains for the BHI‐PACE Model. With respect to the national BH in PACE assessment, 38 POs representing 119 sites and 25,806 participants participated in the survey and 15 POs representing 58 sites and 10,029 participants participated in interviews. Survey results revealed a high rate of BH comorbidities among PACE participants (60% median rate, IQR: 70–44). The most common reasons for referral to BH specialists were depression and mood disorders 92.1%, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) 57.9%, and anxiety disorders 55.3%.ConclusionPOs' current BH practices and challenges can guide other POs to better integrate BH. Integrating BH into the PACE model requires policy‐level action, though quality measurement and value‐based care efforts can support this endeavor.
Beyond motherhood: Childless Black women and compulsory mothering
Authors: Lee Austin Colby Guy 
Published: January 2025

AbstractObjectiveThe current study asks how race, class, and the social pressure to care for children who are not one's own impact how childless Black women experience and make meaning of their parental status.BackgroundWhile much of the existing qualitative research on childlessness has asked how white, middle‐class women experience social pressure to have children, this study shifts this focus to ask how Black women experience social pressure to care for children who are not their own.MethodThe study relied on virtual interviews with 40 class‐diverse childless Black women between 40 and 55. The recruitment strategy utilized a mixed‐method approach, including snowball sampling, online and physical advertising, and targeted outreach within online communities for Black women. Interviews were transcribed and iteratively analyzed to identify thematic codes and categories.ResultsThe study identifies and terms “compulsory mothering” as a significant social pressure that leads childless Black women to assume caregiving roles within their kin networks, regardless of their parental status. This pressure is more pronounced among working‐class women, who engage more extensively in these roles compared to their middle‐class counterparts, highlighting how race and class intersect to shape their experiences of childlessness.ConclusionThe study concludes that race and class influence women's experiences of childlessness. It also finds that childless Black women's relationships with their kin networks shape their experiences of childlessness and their reproductive preferences.
Biosafety and Withdrawal Period of In‐Feed Administered Antiparasitic Drug Emamectin Benzoate in Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton, 1822)
Authors: Solanki H. G. , Verma A. , Solanki H. K. , Raja R. A. , Avunje S. , Trangadia B. J. , Panda S. K. , Patil P. K. 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTParasitic infestations are one of the most economically important disease conditions in the Indian major carps including mrigal, Cirrhinus mrigala. This study reported the biosafety and tissue withdrawal of in‐feed administered antiparasitic drug, emamectin benzoate (EMB). To evaluate the biosafety of the drug, behaviour, growth and tissue changes in Cirrhinus mrigala was recorded the following in‐feed administration of EMB up to 10 times (T1–50 μg kg−1 fish day−1 (1×), T2–125 μg kg−1 fish day−1 (2.5×), T3–250 μg kg−1 fish day−1 (5×), T4–375 μg kg−1 fish day−1 (7.5×) and T5–500 μg kg−1 fish day−1 (10×)) for the period of three times the recommended duration (7 days). The withdrawal period was calculated by feeding EMB at 50 μg kg−1 fish day−1 for consecutive 10 days followed by EMB‐free feed. The results revealed that the drug is safe to mrigal up to ten times the recommended dose, while the fish fed with the highest dose (500 μg kg−1 fish day−1) showed transient histological alterations. The feeding behaviour is affected with poor acceptability beyond 5× dosages. The drug residue at the concentration below the MRL (1.0 μg g−1) in the muscle tissue on the day of cessation of medicated feed administration indicates no requirement of the withdrawal period. The study suggests that EMB can be safely used at 50 μg kg−1 fish day−1 for 7 consecutive days, and no withdrawal period is required without affecting the feeding behaviour and tissue histological alterations.
Biochemical, photosynthetic and metabolomics insights of single and combined effects of salinity, heat, cold and drought in Arabidopsis
Authors: Secomandi Elena , De Gregorio Marco Armando , Castro‐Cegrí Alejandro , Lucini Luigi 
Published: January 2025

AbstractEnsuring food security is one of the main challenges related to a growing global population under climate change conditions. The increasing soil salinity levels, drought, heatwaves, and late chilling severely threaten crops and often co‐occur in field conditions. This work aims to provide deeper insight into the impact of single vs. combined abiotic stresses at the growth, biochemical and photosynthetic levels in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.). Reduced QY max was recorded in salinity‐stressed plants, NPQ increased in heat and salinity single and combined stresses, and qP decreased in combined stresses. MDA and H2O2 content were consistently altered under all stress conditions, but higher values were recorded under salinity alone and in combination. Salinity alone and in stress combinations (especially with cold) provided a stronger hierarchical effect. Despite glycine and GABA osmolytes not significantly changing, proline highlighted the hierarchically stronger impact of salinity, while glycine‐betaine was decreased under drought combinations. Untargeted metabolomics pointed out distinct metabolic reprogramming triggered by the different stress conditions, alone or in combination. Pathway analysis revealed that abiotic stresses significantly affected hormones, amino acids and derivates, and secondary metabolites. Flavonoids accumulated under drought (alone and combined with heat and cold stresses), while N‐containing compounds decreased under all combined stresses. Looking at the interactions across the parameters investigated, antagonistic, additive, or synergistic effects could be observed depending on the biochemical process considered. Notwithstanding, these results contribute to delving into the impact of various stress combinations, hierarchically highlighting the stress‐specific effects and pointing out different combinations.
Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
Authors: Jowitt David , Ugwuanyi Kingsley O. 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key concerns. The article makes the case that, despite the claim that Nigerian English is under‐researched, Nigerian English has been the subject of a substantial body of research, even if much of it is unknown outside Nigeria. Following the qualitative‐oriented synthetic approach to literature review involving a synthesis of common themes across studies, research preoccupations, developments and directions in all the various language areas are examined, with opportunities for further research highlighted. Finally, prognostications are offered concerning the future directions of Nigerian English research.
Mouse models for metabolic health research: molecular mechanism of exercise effects on health improvement through adipose tissue remodelling
Authors: Kim Hye Jin , Kim Youn Ju , Seong Je Kyung 
Published: January 2025

AbstractExercise provides health benefits to multiple metabolic tissues through complex biological pathways and interactions between organs. However, investigating these complex mechanisms in humans is still limited, making mouse models extremely useful for exploring exercise‐induced changes in whole‐body metabolism and health. In this review, we focus on gaining a broader understanding of the metabolic phenotypes and molecular mechanisms induced by exercise in mouse models. We first discuss the differences in adaptations induced by aerobic and resistance exercise, and compare voluntary wheel running and forced treadmill exercise, the two main methods of aerobic exercise research in mice, to show the similarities and differences between the same aerobic exercise but different methods, and their impact on experimental outcomes. The effects of exercise on metabolic phenotypes, including alleviation of obesity and metabolic disorders, and the mechanisms involved in adipose tissue remodelling and browning are explored, as well as the role of the gut microbiota in mediating the physiological responses and metabolic effects of exercise. Understanding these molecular mechanisms and methodological aspects of exercise experiments in mouse models can serve as a valuable template for the design of future basic research in exercise physiology and will provide a strong scientific evidence base for optimizing the design of exercise intervention programmes for metabolic health.
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Application of Shear-Thickening Nanofluids in Enhanced Geothermal Systems: A Comprehensive Review
Authors: Konate Nabe , Reza Foudazi , Salehi Saeed , Hamid Karami 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Shear-thickening fluids (STFs), especially nanofluids, are one of the key research areas in the world at the present time because of their ability to increase viscosity in response to specific shear conditions. This transition in viscosity is of great interest in various fields, including mechanical platforms and smart structures to advanced protective fabrics and armor. This increase in viscosity under applied shear conditions can be of great interest in the development of enhanced geothermal systems (EGSs). However, there is currently less research on the potential application of these shear-thickening nanofluids in EGS reservoirs. In this comprehensive review, the basic mechanisms of shear-thickening behavior in nanofluids are explained, while the effects of nanoparticle concentration, size, and temperature on this mechanism have been discussed in detail. This comprehensive review highlights how such factors can be optimized to adjust the rheological properties of nanofluids in order to improve their performance in fluid flow in highly fractured EGS reservoirs. An in-depth review of existing literature indicated that the combination of hydrolusters formation and the thermal properties of the shear-thickening nanofluids can be optimized to provide a potential solution to some of the EGS challenges such as thermal short-circuiting and low thermal energy extraction efficiency. Despite the huge potential of STF nanofluids in EGS development, extensive experimental and numerical investigations are needed to realize the effectiveness of these fluids further.
16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of organic and conventional chickens
Authors: Punchihewage-Don Anuradha J. , Hasan Nur A. , Parveen Salina 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACT

We report 16S rRNA sequencing of microbiomes associated with organic and conventional retail chickens (
n
=31), processed via whole-carcass enrichment and rinse methodologies. Amplicon sequencing was performed targeting the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene, which resulted with Good’s coverage exceeding 99.7% of the libraries.
Timing of and pressure-temperature constraints on deformation in the Toxaway dome, eastern Blue Ridge: Evidence for continuous deformation from the Neoacadian orogeny to the Alleghanian orogeny
Authors: Levine Jamie S.F. , Powell Nicholas E. , Casale Gabriele , Martin Claire P. 
Published: January 2025

Many mountain belts are built through repeated collision, and in the case of orogenies closely spaced in time, determining when one orogeny ends and another begins can be challenging. The southern Appalachian mountains were formed by three mountain-building events closely spaced in time, including the Taconic (ca. 480−440 Ma), Neoacadian (ca. 375−340 Ma), and Alleghanian (ca. 330−265 Ma) orogenies. Notably, the end of the Neoacadian and the beginning of the Alleghanian are only separated by ∼10 m.y., and some published dates record deformation and metamorphism in the eastern Blue Ridge during this interval, blurring the boundary between these two discrete events.
The Toxaway dome, located along the North Carolina−South Carolina, USA, border at the eastern edge of the eastern Blue Ridge, is a structural dome cored by Mesoproterozoic Toxaway Gneiss and surrounded by the younger Tallulah Falls Formation. Previous ages constraints from the Toxaway dome (343 and 338 Ma U-Pb zircon ages) make it an ideal location to explore whether there was continuous deformation during this period of supposed quiescence between the Neoacadian and Alleghanian orogenies. We used optical microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction in quartz to determine deformation temperatures, thermobarometry to determine metamorphic pressure-temperature conditions, and monazite petrochronology to determine the timing of deformation. Quartz and feldspar recrystallization fabrics parallel to dome-defining fabrics indicate deformation occurred at amphibolite-facies conditions, which is corroborated by our pressure-temperature estimates of 0.67−0.8 ± 0.12 GPa and 661−689 ± 25 °C. Monazite grains that record the timing of reactions of garnet growth and breakdown range from 342 ± 4.8 Ma to 296 ± 10.8 Ma, bridging the interval between the Neoacadian and Alleghanian orogenies. Three samples from the nearby Tallulah Falls dome, which occupies a similar structural position along the edge of the eastern Blue Ridge in Georgia, record monazite dates of 334 ± 4.2 Ma to 304 ± 4.8 Ma, indicating there was tectonic activity in this region before the commonly defined beginning of the Alleghanian orogeny. We propose (1) there was no period of quiescence between the Neoacadian and Alleghanian orogenies in the eastern Blue Ridge, and (2) deformation during this time was at higher temperatures and pressures than previously reported.