bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
TextSavvy: Exploring the Effectiveness of a Text Messaging Adjunct to a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training Intervention
Authors: Hodgins James P. , Mazzone Erica , Franklin Emma , Greenberg Shayna R. , Morrell Holly E. R. , Boustani Maya M. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment for adolescent mental health concerns with potential as a preventative approach for at-risk youth. Automated text messaging, a low-cost and widely accessible technology, may enhance treatment engagement and further support youth mental health outcomes. However, the effectiveness of automated text messaging as a delivery format for DBT-informed content has not been extensively studied. This quasi-experimental study evaluated a six-week DBT-based skills training program with one group receiving twice-daily psychoeducational and supportive text messages (n = 37) and a historical control group receiving the intervention only (n = 39). Psychoeducational messages included DBT skill explanations aligned with session content. Supportive messages provided reminders, connection to local resources, and encouragement. Measures of attendance, perceived learning, DBT skill usage, and clinical outcomes (e.g., anxiety, depression, emotion regulation) were collected. Text messaging was associated with improved session attendance (p < .01) and perceived learning mid-intervention (ps < .05), although no significant differences were observed in DBT skill use or clinical outcomes. Effect sizes for attendance and perceived learning were moderate (Cohen’s d = .57–.61). Qualitative feedback indicated that participants found the text messages helpful, particularly for enhancing attendance, reinforcing DBT skills, and boosting motivation and mood. While text messaging shows promise for increasing engagement in adolescent mental health interventions, its impact on clinical outcomes and skill use remains unclear. Further research is needed to optimize the use of text messaging as a supportive tool in youth DBT interventions, utilizing more rigorous experimental designs.
Semi-supervised self-training for COVID-19 misinformation detection: analyzing Twitter data and alternative news media on Norwegian Twitter
Authors: Frisli Siri 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This paper investigates the dissemination of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter within the context of the Norwegian media landscape, characterized by high levels of trust in the media, yet experiencing an increasing influence of alternative news sources. Using a semi-supervised self-training approach for text classification, a dataset of 426,262 tweets is analyzed, identifying approximately 5.11% as misinformation. The study reveals that misinformation tweets receive heightened engagement, particularly in retweets, and originate predominantly from a small group of users. Furthermore, while misinformation tweets are more likely to link to alternative news media sites, these sites represent only a minor fraction of the overall links shared. The analysis highlights distinct temporal patterns, with misinformation activity spiking during significant events such as the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in Norway and the emergence of the Omicron variant. This research underscores the complexity of misinformation dynamics in a high-trust media environment and emphasizes the need for effective strategies to combat misinformation, particularly from alternative news media that challenge conventional narratives while often propagating falsehoods. Overall, the findings contribute valuable insights into the interplay between social media, alternative news sources, and misinformation dissemination during a global pandemic.
The embira bark fiber: a sustainable Amazon tape
Authors: Tavares Sheron S. , de Mendonça Neuba Lucas , Lopera Henry Colorado , Monteiro Sergio Neves , Meyers Marc André 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The embira bark fiber is routinely used in Brazil to construct simple structures because of its ease of extraction, flexibility, and considerable strength. It plays an important role, somewhat similar to duct tape, and is commonly used for temporary repairs and tying objects. The flexible bark is removed from the tree by making two cuts into it and manually pulling off the fibrous structure. Three similar but distinct embira bark fibers are characterized structurally and mechanically: embira branca, embira capa bode, and embira chichá. The bark separates readily into strips with thicknesses between 0.3 and 1 mm, enabling it to be twisted and bent without damage. The structure consists of aligned cellulose fibers bound by lignin and hemicellulose. Thus, it is a natural composite. The tensile strength of the three fibers varies in the range of 25 to 100 MPa, with no clear difference between them. There is structural and strength consistency among them. The mechanical strength of embira branca is measured for different fiber bundle diameters and is found to increase with decreasing diameter. Thermogravimetric analysis showed that degradation of the fibers initiates at 250 °C, consistent with other lignocellulosic fibers. X-ray diffraction identifies two major components: the monoclinic crystalline structure of cellulose and an amorphous phase; the crystallinity index is approximately 50%. The tensile strength shows significant variation, a characteristic of biological materials; this can be significantly improved by selective growing of embira-bearing trees.
Advanced Hybrid Reasoning and Transfer Learning on Multimodal Data with Transformers
Authors: Barua Arnab , Uddin Ahmed Mobyen , Begum Shahina 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Reasoning is a vital process in machine learning (ML), involving making inferences and drawing conclusions based on data. This capability is important for developing intelligent systems which can understand and predict complex patterns. The study investigates reasoning through two distinct methodologies: multimodal reasoning and transfer learning based reasoning. In the first approach, multimodal reasoning is used with a semi-supervised method to label unlabelled datasets. In the second approach, transfer learning has been used to transfer knowledge of data from one model to another. Both approaches are demonstrated using unlabelled vehicular telemetry data. During processing, three sets of telemetry data are used to extract features separately through the autoencoder. These features are then clustered and aligned to create labelled and unlabelled datasets. The eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm achieved over 98% test accuracy when applied to the labelled datasets and was then used to predict labels for the unlabelled datasets, which were later added to the labelled dataset to form three datasets for further processing. In transfer learning, a transformer model specifically designed to handle continuous features is developed. Labelled datasets are applied to the transformer model, one after the other, resulting in three final models, with each model achieving over 80% accuracy. The model’s prediction confidence is also validated using conformal learning, where the final models achieved over 80% accuracy. The transformer model is also separately trained on the datasets and compared with traditional ML models, outperforming the others by achieving an accuracy of 98%. By building on the groundwork laid by this study, future research can push the boundaries of what is possible with reasoning approaches, opening up new paths for scientific exploration and practical applications in different fields.
Young People’s Hopes and Aspirations in a ‘Clever and Creative’ City During the Time of COVID-19
Authors: Goring James , Kelly Peter , Brown Seth , Noonan Meave 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
In this paper, we draw on the outcomes of a longitudinal, video-based study (2021–2023) of 40 + young people’s aspirations and their education, training and employment pathways in the regional centre of Geelong (Australia) — a ‘deindustrialising’ place being rebranded as ‘clever and creative’. In these contexts, there is much community, business and policy concern to develop the hopes and aspirations of disadvantaged young people for the jobs that will characterise ‘clever and creative’ futures. Many of these concerns focus on the production of an idealised, abstract ‘figure’ (Haraway 2008; Threadgold 2020) of the ‘aspirational young person’. Our aim, in part, is to unsettle these abstract ‘truths’ about young people and their hopes and aspirations by presenting a version of the stories of two young people, James and Emilie, who were interviewed in the first and second year of this project during 2021 and 2022. Drawing on posthumanist and feminist studies of techno-science, we will argue that young people’s hopes and aspirations are more productively understood as being shaped by a range of human and non-human others, in multispecies ‘entanglements’ (Haraway 2016), and as emerging from the embodied, affective dimensions of historical disadvantage and crisis that are reproduced in neo-liberal capitalist economies.
A review of implementation aspects and sustainability in the prevention of hospital onset bacteremia
Authors: Garcia Robert , Septimus Edward J. , LeDonne Jack , Sturm Lisa K. , Moureau Nancy , DeVries Michelle , DeBaun Barbara 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The emerging perspectives and implementation aspects presented in this review article outline infection prevention core components supported by recent research relevant to the mitigation of Hospital Onset Bacteremia and Fungemia in a surveillance setting that includes expanded efforts to all vascular access devices.
TENSOR PRODUCTS OF d-FOLD MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS
Authors: SHENG RICHIE , TRIBONE TIM 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Consider a pair of elements f and g in a commutative ring Q. Given a matrix factorization of f and another of g, the tensor product of matrix factorizations, which was first introduced by Knörrer and later generalized by Yoshino, produces a matrix factorization of the sum

$f+g$

. We will study the tensor product of d-fold matrix factorizations, with a particular emphasis on understanding when the construction has a non-trivial direct sum decomposition. As an application of our results, we construct indecomposable maximal Cohen–Macaulay and Ulrich modules over hypersurface domains of a certain form.
An elliptic operator with a nonlocal term: maximum principle, principal eigenvalue, and applications to a logistic equation with indefinite weight
Authors: Cintra Willian , dos Anjos Ismael Oliveira 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
In this work, we consider a class of uniformly elliptic operators with a nonlocal term and mixed boundary conditions in bounded domains. We establish the existence of a principal eigenvalue and provide a result that offers both sufficient and necessary conditions for the validity of the maximum principle. As a consequence of these findings, we conduct a detailed study of an eigenvalue problem with an indefinite weight, as well as establish existence and uniqueness results for a logistic-type equation and prove some blow-up results.
Two dynamical approaches to the notion of exponential separation for random systems of delay differential equations
Authors: Kryspin Marek , Mierczyński Janusz , Novo Sylvia , Obaya Rafael 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This paper deals with the exponential separation of type II, an important concept for random systems of differential equations with delay, introduced in Mierczyński et al. [18]. Two different approaches to its existence are presented. The state space X will be a separable ordered Banach space with

$\dim X\geq 2$

, dual space

$X^{*}$

, and positive cone

$X^+$

normal and reproducing. In both cases, appropriate cooperativity and irreducibility conditions are assumed to provide a family of generalized Floquet subspaces. If in addition

$X^*$

is also separable, one obtains an exponential separation of type II. When this is not the case, but there is an Oseledets decomposition for the continuous semiflow, the same result holds. Detailed examples are given for all the situations, including also a case where the cone is not normal.
Dancing for Snow: Tourism, Entrepreneurship, and Race in the American West
Authors: Denison Brandi 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Starting in 1960, ski resorts in the American West invited American Indian dancers to perform snow dances to address low snowfall. The first documented snow dance was associated with the 1960 Winter Olympics at Lake Tahoe, and snow dances have occurred throughout the twenty-first century, including a 2012 dance at the Vail Ski Resort. In most instances, ski resorts declare the dance successful when snow falls. These snow dances and the related rain dances are best understood in the context of white tourism to the American West and its settler-colonial legacy. I argue that these weather dances are the products of a dynamic relationship between white-owned businesses and American Indian performers in the arid American West, and they have produced racialized ideas of the “sacred”—specifically, an authentic experience that connects settler-colonists to the natural world, facilitated through American Indian spiritual practices. This connection often increases the profitability of businesses that exploit the natural world but also provides an opportunity to express Indigenous communicative agency. I situate the settler-colonial notion of the sacred alongside Indigenous ritual practice, entrepreneurship, and self-determination, using newspapers and anthropological reports.
Universal enough: the politics of nomenclature in seventeenth-century selenography
Authors: Pineda de Ávila Nydia 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Selenography was both a practice and a tool which developed through optical instrumentation in the seventeenth century. As a practice, it was the process of creating composite graphical depictions of the Moon through skill and sustained telescopic study. As a paper-based tool, the focus of this article, a selenography was a stabilized visualization and codified template for making, organizing and communicating lunar-based astronomical observations. The template's key observation and notation device was its system of named Moon spots, or lunar nomenclatures. Such systems varied significantly in different sites of knowledge making. Through the close study of two naming schemes produced and exchanged in Counter-Reformation contexts by Michael van Langren (1645) and Giovanni Battista Riccioli in collaboration with Maria Francesco Grimaldi (1651), this essay argues that selenographies were conceived with an eye to ideals of universal standardization for collective and even global observation. In practice, however, different forms of universality, revealing distinct local agendas tied to political and religious priorities, were materialized in each competing scheme.
Disparities in accelerated brain aging in recent-onset and chronic schizophrenia
Authors: Joo Sung Woo , Lee Junhyeok , Han Juhyuk , Kim Minjae , Kim Yeonwoo , Lee Howook , Jo Young Tak , Shin Jaewook , Lee Jungsun , Lee Won Hee 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background
Patients with schizophrenia experience accelerated aging, accompanied by abnormalities in biomarkers such as shorter telomere length. Brain age prediction using neuroimaging data has gained attention in schizophrenia research, with consistently reported increases in brain-predicted age difference (brain-PAD). However, its associations with clinical symptoms and illness duration remain unclear.

Methods
We developed brain age prediction models using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 10,938 healthy individuals. The models were validated on an independent test dataset comprising 79 healthy controls, 57 patients with recent-onset schizophrenia, and 71 patients with chronic schizophrenia. Group comparisons and the clinical associations of brain-PAD were analyzed using multiple linear regression. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values estimated feature contributions to the model, and between-group differences in SHAP values and group-by-SHAP value interactions were also examined.

Results
Patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and chronic schizophrenia exhibited increased brain-PAD values of 1.2 and 0.9 years, respectively. Between-group differences in SHAP values were identified in the right lateral prefrontal area (false discovery rate [FDR] p = 0.022), with group-by-SHAP value interactions observed in the left prefrontal area (FDR p = 0.049). A negative association between brain-PAD and Full-scale Intelligence Quotient scores in chronic schizophrenia was noted, which did not remain significant after correction for multiple comparisons.

Conclusions
Brain-PAD increases were pronounced in the early phase of schizophrenia. Regional brain abnormalities contributing to brain-PAD likely vary with illness duration. Future longitudinal studies are required to overcome limitations related to sample size, heterogeneity, and the cross-sectional design of this study.
Politics of the Imagination: Francesco Guicciardini and the Conditions of Effective Government
Authors: Rasmussen Esben Korsgaard 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This article explores Francesco Guicciardini’s concept of the imagination and argues that it plays a vital, yet hitherto unexplored, role in his political thought. What are called “imaginary conceptions” determine the effects that different governmental strategies have upon a given society. As these both affective and cognitive conceptions are tied to shared, symbolic representations, understanding informal aspects of political life becomes a crucial aspect of Guicciardini’s construal of effective government. To understand these aspects it is necessary to reconstruct the historical genesis of the communal representations as it determines the specificity of the society under consideration. The historical contingency of a society’s imaginary conceptions forces political theory to “imaginatively construct” the institutional forms it suggests, rather than “discover” them among the exempla of the past. The centrality of contingent, imaginary conceptions to political reality leads Guicciardini to break with former Renaissance conceptions of exemplarity.
Advertising, Piano Culture, and the Changing Middle Class in Urban Galicia, 1911–1921
Authors: Burks Drew P. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
In the years between the turn of the century and the outbreak of World War I, business directories listed four commercial piano storefronts in Kraków and an even more impressive nine in Lwów, though the actual number was even higher. Additionally, each of the cities boasted multiple local piano factories. The presence of these factories and storefronts indicates an established market for the buying and selling of pianos in the two major urban centers of Austrian Galicia in the years prior to the war. While piano advertising continued both during and after the war, this was not necessarily an indicator of a lack of change. The instability and increasing inflation of the period served as a catalyst, forcing some owners to sell their pianos, while other citizens may have had the opportunity to capitalize on the economic situation, buying these status symbols for their households. The persistence of private piano classified advertisements for those hoping to buy and sell pianos throughout the war years was a symptom of social and cultural change within the middle class in urban Galicia. This article situates the dynamics of the region’s persistent piano marketplace alongside contemporary socio-political and economic trends to highlight an important indicator of social mobility amidst the widespread impact of World War I.
Iron status and risk of iron disorders in neonates: A narrative review of recent studies in animal models
Authors: Wang Xiuying , Lipiński Paweł , Ogłuszka Magdalena , Starzyński Rafał Radosław 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The iron regulation mechanisms are not exactly the same between adulthood and the early postnatal period. Also, neonatal iron status is different in full-term versus preterm infants because the prenatal/gestational period, when hepatic iron accumulates, is shortened. Newborns, especially premature infants, are at high risk of iron deficiency due to inadequate iron stores, which constitute the primary source of iron to satisfy the neonate’s increasing iron requirements. In addition, frequent blood transfusions and congenital hemochromatosis may induce iron overload in the affected neonate. To understand the cause of neonatal iron deficiency/overload and to promote the development of effective therapeutic interventions in humans, different animal models have been generated by genetic engineering, low/high-iron diets, phlebotomy/transfusion, and surgical manipulation. These models use various laboratory and domestic animals to study iron imbalance. They serve as surrogate models for experiments that are ethically or practically unfeasible to conduct on human neonates. Although an animal model for studying neonatal iron disorders may not fully replicate the complexities of human diseases, it is designed to model specific aspects of these conditions. Combined data from multiple models can help offset the limitations inherent in each individual model. In this review, we outline approaches to induce neonatal iron disorders, current animal models of full-term and preterm neonates, and recommendations for diagnosis.
Interstage feeding and caregiver impact on single ventricle patients
Authors: Momin Nashifa H. , Nelson Jennifer L. , Steiden Camille , Coolidge Nicole , Aljiffry Alaa , Simione Meg 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background:
The interstage period is a critical phase for single ventricle infants due to their fragile cardiovascular state. Infants often experience medical and feeding challenges during this period, resulting in caregiver stress. We completed a quality improvement project at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to understand these challenges to inform targeted interventions.

Methods:
This single-center project included a medical chart review and a cross-sectional caregiver survey. Data were collected on patient and caregiver demographics and clinical variables. Feeding outcomes were assessed using the Pediatric Functional Oral Intake Scale. Caregiver impact was measured using the Feeding/Swallowing Impact Survey.

Results:
The project included 15 single ventricle patients with a mean (standard deviation) age of 151.73(25.92) days at the time of the second-stage palliation. Forty percent of patients experienced at least one readmission, primarily due to feeding intolerance (20%) and desaturations (26.7%). Milk protein allergy (26.9%) was the most common medical complication, followed by interstage unplanned reinterventions. Pediatric Functional Oral Intake Scale scores demonstrated that 33% consumed minimal volumes or no oral intake at the time of the bidirectional Glenn, and 93.3% of patients did not receive outpatient feeding services during the interstage. Caregiver stress scores resulted in mean scores (standard deviation) of 2.23(1.54), with the highest impact on daily activities. All caregivers affirmed the need for a dedicated multidisciplinary clinic.

Conclusion:
The interstage period for single ventricle patients poses significant medical and feeding challenges, resulting in caregiver stress. Comprehensive, multidisciplinary feeding support during the interstage period may improve patient outcomes and alleviate caregiver burden.