bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Cerebrospinal Fluid Leakage from Scrotum Secondary to Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Migration
Authors: Topp Gregory , Entezami Pouya , Ambati Shashikanth , Szewczyk Benjamin , Adamo Matthew A. 
Published: April 2023

AbstractVentriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts are a common neurosurgical procedure used to treat hydrocephalus. Despite their efficacy, many shunts fail and require revisions. The most common causes of shunt failure include obstruction, infection, migration, and perforation. Extraperitoneal migrations require urgent attention. We present a case of migration to the scrotum, a unique complication that may be present in young patients due to the presence of a patent processus vaginalis. Here, we discuss a case of a 16-month-old male patient with a VP shunt presenting with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage from his scrotum after an indirect hernia repair. This case represents an important reminder for physicians about the sequelae associated with VP shunt complications, particularly extraperitoneal migration, and brings awareness to the underlying factors that may increase this risk.
Influence of motivation on teachers’ job performance
Authors: kumari Joti , Kumar Jai 
Published: April 2023

AbstractMotivation is the key to success in educational institutions, and it empowers a teacher to work with an affection that contributes to the accomplishment of hierarchical objectives. Yet, what drives school teachers to be pleased or motivated to achieve exceptional performance? This contemplation must be considered thoroughly in different regions with different predictors. Therefore, this study aims to identify the factors influencing teachers’ motivation and evaluate the influence of motivation on teachers’ job performance in private schools in Mirpurkhas, Pakistan. We use quantitative statistics and a partial least-squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM analysis) design; the data was collected through a survey questionnaire. We found that motivation significantly influences teachers’ job performance. The study revealed that self-determined and non-self-determined motivation and factors influencing teachers’ motivation significantly impact teachers’ job performance. The administration must formulate teachers’ motivational policies and practices to meet their needs. Furthermore, school administrations should provide adequate resources like bonuses, rewards, good communication, moral support, emotional support, and an increment in salaries to ensure quality learning and yield high performance from their teaching staff to improve the relevant education system.
Is linguistic decision-making constrained by the same cognitive factors in student and in professional
translation?
Authors: De Sutter Gert , Lefer Marie-Aude , Vanroy Bram 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This article analyses the extent to which four well-known general cognitive constraints – syntactic priming,
cognitive routinisation, markedness of coding and structural integration – impact the linguistic output of translation students
and professional translators similarly. It takes subject placement variation in Dutch as a test case to gauge the effect of the
four constraints and relies on a controlled corpus of student and professional French-to-Dutch L1 news translations, from which
all declarative main clauses with either a preverbal or a postverbal subject were extracted. All corpus instances were annotated
for four random variables, the fixed variable expertise and ten other fixed variables, which were considered good proxies
for the cognitive constraints. A mixed-effects regression analysis reveals that by and large the cognitive constraints have an
identical effect on student and professional translators’ output, with priming and structural integration having the strongest
impact on subject placement. However, students diverge from professionals when translating French clauses with a left-dislocated
adjunct into Dutch, which is interpreted as an indication of a difference in automatisation when dealing with specific
French-Dutch cross-linguistic differences.
La construction < DÉT poss. 1re pers. sing. + N évoquant le divin
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Authors: Dostie Gaétane 
Published: April 2023

Résumé
Cet article porte sur quatre locutions, à savoir mon dieu, mon doux, ma foi et my
god. Leur similarité de forme et leur appartenance à un même paradigme sémantique amènent à se questionner sur leur
éventuelle équivalence sémantique et fonctionnelle dans les interactions verbales à l’oral. Pour répondre à cette question, un
examen attentif des collocations propres aux locutions à l’étude est entrepris. Deux propositions sont formulées. D’une part, il y
aurait une opposition claire entre les sens exprimés et les fonctions assumées par les locutions selon leur visée (rétrospective
avec mon dieu, mon doux et my god et prospective avec ma foi). D’autre part,
il y aurait une symétrie sémantique et fonctionnelle parfaite entre deux des locutions qui ont une visée rétrospective, à savoir
mon dieu et mon doux en français québécois, et un rapprochement net entre ces deux
dernières et my god.
Les proverbes français et italiens dans la communication orale
Authors: Lambertini Vincenzo 
Published: April 2023

Résumé
Cet article se propose d’étudier les proverbes italiens et français les plus fréquents dans les discours des
séances plénières du Parlement européen (PE) de 2014 à 2022. Après avoir présenté une méthodologie de repérage
corpus-driven des proverbes appliquée à deux corpus de référence français et italien (frWaC et itWaC) et aux
séances plénières du PE, nous analysons quelques exemples de proverbes énoncés dans les discours des plénières. Nous examinons
ainsi leur gestion en interprétation simultanée (IS) de l’italien vers le français et prenons en compte un exemple de
multimodalité liée à l’énonciation des proverbes, pour nous interroger sur son traitement en IS.
Analyse phraséologique du marqueur discursifce m’est aviset de ses variantes dans un corpus d’ancien français
Authors: Denoyelle Corinne , Sorba Julie 
Published: April 2023

RésuméL’article montre que la construction parenthétiquece m’est avisfonctionne comme un marqueur discursif dans un corpus outillé inédit de romans français en prose du 13esiècle. Nous adoptons une double approche, phraséologique et stylistique, pour étudier le fonctionnement discursif de ce marqueur dans les séquences représentant de l’oral (dialogue des personnages ou paroles du narrateur). La comparaison avec la construction enque P (il/ce) m’est avis quepermet de noter leur origine commune puis leur spécialisation progressive dans la langue. Enfin, un aperçu de l’évolution diachronique du marqueur discursifce m’est avispermet de constater son déclin et son remplacement parà mon avis.
Les phrases préfabriquées des interactions
Authors: Sardier Anne 
Published: April 2023

RésuméDepuis quelques années, les recherches en phraséologie se développent autour de grands corpus oraux et proposent par exemple d’examiner les phrases préfabriquées des interactions. Ces études explorent la préfabrication dans le cadre des interactions orales. Les recherches en phraséologie ont en outre permis le récent développement de la phraséodidactique en langue seconde. Cependant, il existe peu d’investigation de corpus et peu de propositions didactiques relatives aux apprentissages des unités préformées en langue première.La présente contribution entend dès lors s’intéresser aux usages des phrases préfabriquées des interactions par de jeunes locuteurs natifs, afin de contribuer au développement d’une réflexion quant à l’acquisition des phraséologismes en langue première. Le corpus oral sur lequel s’appuient les propositions de l’article est constitué d’interactions de 20 élèves de grande section de l’école maternelle (5–6 ans) dans deux types de situations discursives, pour explorer les emplois des phrases préfabriquées typiques de chacune de ces situations.
Donc« et cie »
Authors: Leray Maï 
Published: April 2023

RésuméLe but de cet article est d’étudier les usages oraux dedoncchez des enfants de français L1 ou L2. La principale hypothèse est que l’association dedoncavec d’autres formes (notammenteuh/hum, aprèset/ouvoilà) entraîne des usages différents de ceux oùdoncest employé seul. Si les résultats montrent que l’expression de la consécution est plus propre àdonc« seul », la distribution des cooccurrents dedoncpermet d’en classer les usages moins (ou non) consécutifs dans trois grandes catégories d’emplois : « introducteurs », « joncteurs » et « clôtureurs ». Finalement, l’article propose des pistes nouvelles pour l’enseignement/apprentissage des emplois dedoncà l’oral en français langue étrangère (FLE) et en français langue maternelle (FLM).
Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria
Authors: Okolie Aloysius-Michaels , Nnamani Kelechi Elijah , Nwangwu Chikodiri , Agbo Humphrey Nwobodo , Cyril Ike Chinedu 
Published: April 2023

ABSTRACT
This study challenges the argument that the non-enforceability of the procurement law is the bane of infrastructural development in Nigeria. Focusing on the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, the article argues that various attempts at procurement regulation were in fact moves to expand capital accumulation in the service delivery sector. Highly placed individuals leverage the lowest responsive bidding mechanism to engage in sharp practices which undermine the development of the WASH sector in the country. Given the prevailing scenario which presents the state, its institutions and laws – including the procurement legislation – as instruments in the hands of the dominant social forces, any investments in and attempts at rule enforcement tend to produce only minimal outcomes.
Noise dynamics of quantum annealers: estimating the effective noise using idle qubits
Authors: Pelofske Elijah , Hahn Georg , Djidjev Hristo N 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Quantum annealing is a type of analog computation that aims to use quantum mechanical fluctuations in search of optimal solutions of QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) or, equivalently, Ising problems. Since NP-hard problems can in general be mapped to Ising and QUBO formulations, the quantum annealing paradigm has the potential to help solve various NP-hard problems. Current quantum annealers, such as those manufactured by D-Wave Systems, Inc. have various practical limitations including the size (number of qubits) of the problem that can be solved, the qubit connectivity, and error due to the environment or system calibration, which can reduce the quality of the solutions. Typically, for an arbitrary problem instance, the corresponding QUBO (or Ising) structure will not natively embed onto the available qubit architecture on the quantum chip. Thus, in these cases, a minor embedding of the problem structure onto the device is necessary. However, minor embeddings on these devices do not always make use of the full sparse chip hardware graph, and a large portion of the available qubits stay unused during quantum annealing. In this work, we embed a disjoint random QUBO on the unused parts of the chip alongside the QUBO to be solved, which acts as an indicator of the solution quality of the device over time. Using experiments on three different D-Wave quantum annealers, we demonstrate that (i) long term trends in solution quality exist on the D-Wave device, and (ii) the unused qubits can be used to measure the current level of noise of the quantum system.
Water isotopes, climate variability, and the hydrological cycle: recent advances and new frontiers
Authors: Dee Sylvia , Bailey Adriana , Conroy Jessica L , Atwood Alyssa , Stevenson Samantha , Nusbaumer Jesse , Noone David 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
The hydrologic cycle is a fundamental component of the climate system with critical societal and ecological relevance. Yet gaps persist in our understanding of water fluxes and their response to increased greenhouse gas forcing. The stable isotope ratios of oxygen and hydrogen in water provide a unique opportunity to evaluate hydrological processes and investigate their role in the variability of the climate system and its sensitivity to change. Water isotopes also form the basis of many paleoclimate proxies in a variety of archives, including ice cores, lake and marine sediments, corals, and speleothems. These records hold most of the available information about past hydrologic variability prior to instrumental observations. Water isotopes thus provide a ‘common currency’ that links paleoclimate archives to modern observations, allowing us to evaluate hydrologic processes and their effects on climate variability on a wide range of time and length scales. Building on previous literature summarizing advancements in water isotopic measurements and modeling and describe water isotopic applications for understanding hydrological processes, this topical review reflects on new insights about climate variability from isotopic studies. We highlight new work and opportunities to enhance our understanding and predictive skill and offer a set of recommendations to advance observational and model-based tools for climate research. Finally, we highlight opportunities to better constrain climate sensitivity and identify anthropogenically-driven hydrologic changes within the inherently noisy background of natural climate variability.
Improving biome and climate modelling for a set of past climate conditions: evaluating bias correction using the CDF-t approach
Authors: Zapolska Anhelina , Vrac Mathieu , Quiquet Aurélien , Extier Thomas , Arthur Frank , Renssen Hans , Roche Didier M 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Climate model simulations are inherently biased. It is a notably difficult problem when dealing with climate impact assessments and model-data integration. This is especially true when looking at derived quantities such as biomes, where not only climate but also vegetation dynamics biases come into play. To overcome such difficulties, we evaluate the performance of an existing methodology to correct climate model outputs, applied here for the first time to long past climate conditions. The proposed methodology relies on the ‘Cumulative Distribution Function-transform’ (CDF-t) technique, which allows to account for climate change within the bias-correction procedure. The results are evaluated in two independent ways: (i) using forward modelling, so that model results are directly comparable to reconstructed vegetation distribution; (ii) using climatic reconstructions based on an inverse modelling approach. The modelling is performed using the intermediate complexity model iLOVECLIM in the standard global and interactively downscaled over the Europe version. The combined effects of dynamical downscaling and bias correction resulted in significantly stronger agreement between the simulated results and pollen-based biome reconstructions (BIOME6000) for the pre-industrial (0.18 versus 0.44) and mid-Holocene (MH) (0.31 versus 0.40). Higher correlation is also observed between statistically modelled global gridded potential natural distribution and modelled biomes (0.36 versus 0.41). Similarly, we find higher correlation between the reconstructed and the modelled temperatures for the MH (0.02 versus 0.21). No significant difference is found for the Last Glacial Maximum when using temperature reconstructions, due to the low number of data points available. Our findings show that the application of the CDF-t method on simulated climate variables enables us to simulate palaeoclimate and vegetation distribution in better agreement with independent reconstructions.
Defining Emotions
Authors: Eidinow Esther 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThis chapter examines some of the current academic theories about what emotions are and how they ‘work’, within and across cultures. It establishes a view of emotions as dynamics developed within networks of relationships, socially conceptualized and enacted within familiar schemas or cultural models. Focusing on the role of discourse, as playing a key role in storing and negotiating the meaning and expression of emotions, it suggests that the ‘emotion talk’ of a society offers crucial insights into the nature of both the shared cultural schemas and the individual experiences of an emotion, and the ways in which they interrelate.
methylR: a graphical interface for comprehensive DNA methylation array data analysis
Authors: Volpe Massimiliano , Das Jyotirmoy 
Published: April 2023

Abstract

Motivation
DNA methylation analysis using arrays is a widely used method in research and clinical studies to study Epigenetics. Although several packages have been published to incur the results, most of them require a deep computational knowledge to perform the analysis. To resolve the limitation and to offer an easily accessible solution for researchers, we developed methylR a graphical tool that can analyze not only the raw data but also performs different downstream analyses with a few mouse clicks.

Results
We used standard and established open-source published packages or pipelines in methylR. We evaluated a publicly available dataset and compared the published results with those obtained with our tool. We implemented eight downstream analysis modules that can perform multidimensional analyses to pathway enrichment. Although the main application is designed for Illumina DNA methylation array data analysis, we made the accessory modules suitable for other kinds of data analysis as well.

Availability and implementation
Freely available at Github: https://github.com/JD2112/methylr; Webserver: https://methylr.research.liu.se.
Decomposing mosaic tandem repeats accurately from long reads
Authors: Masutani Bansho , Kawahara Riki , Morishita Shinichi 
Published: April 2023

Abstract

Motivation
Over the past 30 years, extended tandem repeats (TRs) have been correlated with ∼60 diseases with high odds ratios, and most known TRs consist of single repeat units. However, in the last few years, mosaic TRs composed of different units have been found to be associated with several brain disorders by long-read sequencing techniques. Mosaic TRs are difficult-to-characterize sequence configurations that are usually confirmed by manual inspection. Widely used tools are not designed to solve the mosaic TR problem and often fail to properly decompose mosaic TRs.

Results
We propose an efficient algorithm that can decompose mosaic TRs in the input string with high sensitivity. Using synthetic benchmark data, we demonstrate that our program named uTR outperforms TRF and RepeatMasker in terms of prediction accuracy, this is especially true when mosaic TRs are more complex, and uTR is faster than TRF and RepeatMasker in most cases.

Availability and implementation
The software program uTR that implements the proposed algorithm is available at https://github.com/morisUtokyo/uTR.
Diverging patterns of plasticity in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in early- and late-onset blindness
Authors: Bang Ji Won , Chan Russell W , Parra Carlos , Murphy Matthew C , Schuman Joel S , Nau Amy C , Chan Kevin C 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Plasticity in the brain is impacted by an individual’s age at the onset of the blindness. However, what drives the varying degrees of plasticity remains largely unclear. One possible explanation attributes the mechanisms for the differing levels of plasticity to the cholinergic signals originating in the nucleus basalis of Meynert. This explanation is based on the fact that the nucleus basalis of Meynert can modulate cortical processes such as plasticity and sensory encoding through its widespread cholinergic projections. Nevertheless, there is no direct evidence indicating that the nucleus basalis of Meynert undergoes plastic changes following blindness. Therefore, using multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging, we examined if the structural and functional properties of the nucleus basalis of Meynert differ between early blind, late blind and sighted individuals. We observed that early and late blind individuals had a preserved volumetric size and cerebrovascular reactivity in the nucleus basalis of Meynert. However, we observed a reduction in the directionality of water diffusion in both early and late blind individuals compared to sighted individuals. Notably, the nucleus basalis of Meynert presented diverging patterns of functional connectivity between early and late blind individuals. This functional connectivity was enhanced at both global and local (visual, language and default-mode networks) levels in the early blind individuals, but there were little-to-no changes in the late blind individuals when compared to sighted controls. Furthermore, the age at onset of blindness predicted both global and local functional connectivity. These results suggest that upon reduced directionality of water diffusion in the nucleus basalis of Meynert, cholinergic influence may be stronger for the early blind compared to the late blind individuals. Our findings are important to unravelling why early blind individuals present stronger and more widespread cross-modal plasticity compared to late blind individuals.
A right ventricular diverticulum with a very special cardiac anomaly
Authors: Song Lingyun , Ling Yunfei , Lin Ke 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Cardiac diverticula are rare congenital anomalies. Among them, right ventricular diverticula are far fewer than left ventricular diverticula. Herein, we write to share an exceedingly rare case of a special right ventricular diverticulum connecting to left ventricle through a tunnel-like structure originating from the membranous ventricular septum. Surgical closure of the origin of the connecting tunnel was performed, while the right ventricular diverticulum was preserved. Postoperative recovering was uneventful.
clevRvis: visualization techniques for clonal evolution
Authors: Sandmann Sarah , Inserte Clara , Varghese Julian 
Published: April 2023

Abstract

Background
A thorough analysis of clonal evolution commonly requires integration of diverse sources of data (e.g., karyotyping, next-generation sequencing, and clinical information). Subsequent to actual reconstruction of clonal evolution, detailed analysis and interpretation of the results are essential. Often, however, only few tumor samples per patient are available. Thus, information on clonal development and therapy effect may be incomplete. Furthermore, analysis of biallelic events—considered of high relevance with respect to disease course—can commonly only be realized by time-consuming analysis of the raw results and even raw sequencing data.

Results
We developed clevRvis, an R/Bioconductor package providing an extensive set of visualization techniques for clonal evolution. In addition to common approaches for visualization, clevRvis offers a unique option for allele-aware representation: plaice plots. Biallelic events may be visualized and inspected at a glance. Analyzing 4 public datasets, we show that plaice plots help to gain new insights into tumor development and investigate hypotheses on disease progression and therapy resistance. In addition to a graphical user interface, automatic phylogeny-aware color coding of the plots, and an approach to explore alternative trees, clevRvis provides 2 algorithms for fully automatic time point interpolation and therapy effect estimation. Analyzing 2 public datasets, we show that both approaches allow for valid approximation of a tumor’s development in between measured time points.

Conclusions
clevRvis represents a novel option for user-friendly analysis of clonal evolution, contributing to gaining new insights into tumor development.