bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Environmental Problems Due To The Production And Consumption And Possible Ways Of Migrating The Problems In Rivers State Of Nigeria
Authors: GRACE OPARA ONYINYECHI 
Published: February 2023

All of the activities of human being on earth , in the environment has so much to do with production and production, which means that the environmental problems due to the production and consumption are due to the anthropogenic effects of human beings. These activities of human beings are even much in states like Rivers Sate of Nigeria where we have a lot of companies that are into productions and industrialization, agricultural farming of both plants and animal.
Nigeria’s position as the largest oil producer in Africa and the sixth largest in the world is due to the oil and gas reserves of its Niger Delta region (Onyena and Sam 2020). The country’s entire economy is heavily dependent on the oil and gas reserves of this region, which make up 95% of foreign exchange earnings and up to 83% of the National revenue (Collins 2018; Onyena and Sam 2020).
The amount of materials used in production and consumption continues to rise at the global leveland the rate at which materials are being extracted globally is outpacing both population and economic growth,meaning we are using more materials and less efficiently, that means we need to implement the recycling and re-using methods to put the production and consumption levels in equilibrium.
Consumption can affect the environment in many ways: higher levels of consumption requires larger inputs of energy and materials and generate larger quantities of waste products. The wastes that are being produced have so much effects on the event as well. Increased extraction and exploitation of natural resources, accumulation of waste and concentration of pollutants can damage the environment.
This report focuses not only on the environmental effects of production and consumption in Rivers State , but also on the possible solutions to the problems that are originated during the processes of production and consumption in the state.
Enhancing SMEs Performance through Supply Chain Collaboration and moderation of Supply Chain Technology Implementation
Authors: Imtiaz Muhammad , Hamid Abu Bakar A. , Nadarajah Devika , Mehmood Sultan Adal , Ahmad Muhammad Khalique 
Published: February 2023

Goal: The minimal inter-firm resource sharing has raised problems for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). There has been little focus on a thorough understanding of supply chain collaboration in the context of SMEs in Pakistan. This research looks into the antecedent impact of governance mechanisms and collaborative culture on supply chain collaboration (SCC), as well as the direct influence of supply chain collaboration on SMEs' performance in developing countries.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The data was collected using a closed-ended questionnaire from randomly selected respondents from Pakistani SMEs. SMART PLS 3.0 software is utilized for statistical analysis.
Results: The findings showed a significant positive link between SCC and the performance of small businesses. Moderation was investigated between the variables. This means that supply chain technology Implementation (as moderator) is a process that provides SMEs to improve collaboration between partners through information and advanced manufacturing technology and provide suitable solutions to achieve performance.
Limitations of the investigation: It is a cross sectional study and front line managers are eliminated from the study, however they are also the key respondents of supply chain (SC) implementation.
Implications: The implications of this research for SC managers and researchers involved in supply chain collaboration adoption in SMEs are important.
Originality/ Value: Findings supported the concept that if the organization has a supportive culture towards supply chain collaboration adoption then SMEs will improve their performance.
SkinnerMT
Authors: Wei Ziyun , Trummer Immanuel 
Published: February 2023

SkinnerMT is an adaptive query processing engine, specialized for multi-core platforms. SkinnerMT features different strategies for parallel processing that allow users to trade between average run time and performance robustness.First, SkinnerMT supports execution strategies that execute multiple query plans in parallel, thereby reducing the risk to find near-optimal plans late and improving robustness. Second, SkinnerMT supports data-parallel processing strategies. Its parallel multi-way join algorithm is sensitive to the assignment from tuples to threads. Here, SkinnerMT uses a cost-based optimization strategy, based on runtime feedback. Finally, SkinnerMT supports hybrid processing methods, mixing parallel search with data-parallel processing.The experiments show that parallel search increases robustness while parallel processing increases average-case performance. The hybrid approach combines advantages from both. Compared to traditional database systems, SkinnerMT is preferable for benchmarks where query optimization is hard. Compared to prior adaptive processing baselines, SkinnerMT exploits parallelism better.
Diagnóstico genético prenatal de enfermedades monogénicas
Authors: Prior-de Castro Carmen , Gómez-González Clara , Rodríguez-López Raquel , Macher Hada C. 
Published: February 2023

Resumen
El diagnóstico genético prenatal de enfermedades monogénicas es un proceso que engloba el conjunto de técnicas moleculares dirigidas a caracterizar molecularmente una posible enfermedad monogénica en el feto durante el embarazo. Actualmente, el diagnóstico genético prenatal puede realizarse de manera invasiva o no invasiva. Debemos diferenciar “NIPD” (del inglés: non invasive prenatal diagnosis) que se considera diagnóstico de “NIPT” (del inglés: non invasive prenatal test) que se considera prueba de cribado y tendrá que confirmarse por técnicas invasivas. Las diferentes metodologías disponibles y empleadas pueden ir dirigidas a la detección de variante/s genética/s causal/es previamente caracterizada/s en la familia, la detección del haplotipo de riesgo asociado a la mutación familiar y/o la búsqueda de posibles variante/s patogénicas en un gen asociado a una sospecha diagnóstica. Se revisarán los aspectos relevantes del diagnóstico genético prenatal de las enfermedades monogénicas. El objetivo es la exposición de las principales técnicas moleculares disponibles y empleadas en la actualidad, detallando sus indicaciones, limitaciones y recomendaciones analíticas, así como la normativa que regula el asesoramiento genético. La evolución permanente y exponencial en la aplicación asistencial de las técnicas genómicas, facilita progresivamente el acceso a una caracterización molecular exhaustiva, obligando a una constante actualización homogénea de los laboratorios.
“Never Trump” Republicans and the 2022 Elections
Authors: Saldin Robert P. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
The 2022 elections further depleted the ranks of elected officials associated with “Never Trump,” the informal network of Republicans and conservatives opposed to Donald Trump and his movement. Never Trumpers retain a prominent presence in traditional media and some elite-level conservative institutions. And they can point to a notable minority among the voting public that shares its general outlook. However, the highly publicized defeats and hasty retirements of many of those who supported Trump’s impeachment have left the Never Trumpers with very few standard bearers among active Republican politicians. Many of those most closely associated with the network are happy to have left behind a party they now see as irredeemable. Yet one tension confronting the Never Trumpers is that, as they themselves often caution, a healthy two-party system requires that both parties abide by certain basic rules and norms. But if that is the case, and if the Never Trumpers are not going to lead the fight to restore a more responsible Republican party, who will?
Mutual coupling reduction with Peyton Turtle pattern nearfield surface for MIMO patch antenna
Authors: Omidvar Alireza , Rezaei Pejman , Atashpanjeh Elham 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In this paper, a Decoupling Nearfield Surface (DNS) is designed above the antenna, to reduce the mutual coupling of closely two or more patch array. In this way, the electrical and magnetic distributions are utilized to demonstrate the mechanism of isolation. The proposed DNS element creates the electric field distributions with an orthogonal mode and the magnetic field distributions with excitation in substrate such that the effective suppression of antenna mutual coupling is obtained. The DNS element can be easily applied to the Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas that having multiple patch elements. Moreover, the proposed structure is implemented practically and simulated for a patched antenna. The measurement and simulation results verifies that the isolation is more than 20 dB and the isolated impedance bandwidth is about 7%.
Accuracy and reliability of BeiDou clocks
Authors: Chwedczuk Katarzyna , Gioia Ciro , Skorupa Bogdan , Maciuk Kamil 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
The subject of this paper is the analysis of the stability of BeiDou system clocks; currently only signals from two blocks, BSD-2 and BDS-3, are available. For elaboration, 30 s clock corrections from the 2014 to 2020 period for 37 satellites were used (9 IGSO, 28 MEO). Four different Allan variances were used to determine stability, and additionally, the type of noise characteristic for each satellite was also determined. Based on the calculations, it was shown that the BDS-2 segment has a significantly lower stability than BDS-3. Moreover, it was possible to notice a difference in the course of the graphs of the same satellites using different variances. BDS-2 satellites were mostly characterised by the presence of WFM noise, while BDS-3 satellites were characterised by WFM noise for the shortest averaging times and RWFM for the other intervals. Accuracy varies between 10−10 s to 10−6 s for a rubidium clocks in general, in case of the hydrogen masers in is between 10−14 s to 10−10 s.
Robust inference for matching under rolling enrollment
Authors: Glazer Amanda K. , Pimentel Samuel D. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Matching in observational studies faces complications when units enroll in treatment on a rolling basis. While each treated unit has a specific time of entry into the study, control units each have many possible comparison, or “pseudo-treatment,” times. Valid inference must account for correlations between repeated measures for a single unit, and researchers must decide how flexibly to match across time and units. We provide three important innovations. First, we introduce a new matched design, GroupMatch with instance replacement, allowing maximum flexibility in control selection. This new design searches over all possible comparison times for each treated-control pairing and is more amenable to analysis than past methods. Second, we propose a block bootstrap approach for inference in matched designs with rolling enrollment and demonstrate that it accounts properly for complex correlations across matched sets in our new design and several other contexts. Third, we develop a falsification test to detect violations of the timepoint agnosticism assumption, which is needed to permit flexible matching across time. We demonstrate the practical value of these tools via simulations and a case study of the impact of short-term injuries on batting performance in major league baseball.
Events always take (place with) ser
Authors: Fábregas Antonio , Marín Rafael , Perpiñán Sílvia 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
The present study aims to throw light on the behavior of the Spanish copulas ser and estar in locative sentences, beyond their classical distinction in terms of Individual-Level (IL) versus Stage-Level (SL) predicates. The behavior of the Spanish copulas in locative contexts constitutes an oddity that we aim to probe here: events (concierto ‘concert’), despite their clear spatial and temporal anchorage, combine with ser (El concierto es en París ‘The concert is in Paris’), which is the copula typically associated with IL or permanent predicates. To do so, we discuss the behavior of copulas as locative verbs in a broader empirical context, where not just events and individuals are considered, but also other types of nominals, such as qualities and states. We argue that ser emerges with events because time and place constituents combine directly with events, without the intermediation of extra predicational structure. When carrying a marked value, that extra predicational structure triggers the insertion of estar; when there is no predication structure (such as with events) and when the predication structure is unmarked (IL predicates), ser appears as the default copula.
Dual-resonance sensing for environmental refractive index based on quasi-BIC states in all-dielectric metasurface
Authors: Chen Wenjie , Li Ming , Zhang Wenhao , Chen Yuhang 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Metasurface provides a novel way to modulate light energy at specific wavelengths, namely resonances, where there is a sharp drop in the transmission spectrum. Based on the relationship between the resonant position and the environmental condition, various refractive index detection methods have been developed. However, the resonance spectrum is strongly affected by the environmental and instrumental fluctuations, and current researches usually focus on the improvement of a single sensing performance metric, such as the Q factor, sensitivity, detection range, etc. In this work, we proposed an all-dielectric metasurface for environmental refractive index sensing based on quasi-BIC with an enhanced stability, simultaneously taken into account an enlarged detection range, a high Q factor and a relatively high sensitivity. With this designed metasurface, dual-resonance sensing is realized because the interval between the two resonance peaks in the transmission spectrum decreases near linearly with the environmental refractive index. We experimentally demonstrated that compared to traditional single-resonance sensing, the errors caused by environmental and instrumental fluctuations can be minimized, and the stability can be improved. This metasurface has great potential for applications such as refractive index sensing, concentration detection, biomacromolecule identification, and cancerous cell screening.
Critical review on experimental and theoretical studies of elastic properties of wurtzite-structured ZnO nanowires
Authors: Vlassov Sergei , Bocharov Dmitry , Polyakov Boris , Vahtrus Mikk , Šutka Andris , Oras Sven , Zadin Veronika , Kyritsakis Andreas 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In this critical review, we call attention to a widespread problem related to the vast disagreement in elastic moduli values reported by different authors for nanostructures made of the same material. As a particular example, we focus on ZnO nanowires (NWs), which are among the most intensively studied nanomaterials due to their remarkable physical properties and promising applications. Since ZnO NWs possess piezoelectric effects, many applications involve mechanical deformations. Therefore, there are plenty of works dedicated to the mechanical characterization of ZnO NWs using various experimental and computational techniques. Although the most of works consider exactly the same growth direction and wurtzite crystal structure, reported values of Young’s modulus vary drastically from author to author ranging from 20 to 800 GPa. Moreover, both – diameter dependent and independent – Young’s modulus values have been reported. In this work, we give a critical overview and perform a thorough analysis of the available experimental and theoretical works on the mechanical characterization of ZnO NWs in order to find out the most significant sources of errors and to bring out the most trustable results.
Sex-Specific Timelines for Adaptations of Prefrontal Parvalbumin Neurons in Response to Stress and Changes in Anxiety- and Depressive-Like Behaviors
Authors: Woodward Emma , Rangel-Barajas Claudia , Ringland Amanda , Logrip Marian L. , Coutellier Laurence 
Published: February 2023

AbstractWomen are twice as likely as men to experience emotional dysregulation after stress, resulting in substantially higher psychopathology for equivalent lifetime stress exposure, yet the mechanisms underlying this vulnerability remain unknown. Studies suggest changes in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) activity as a potential contributor. Whether maladaptive changes in inhibitory interneurons participate in this process, and whether adaptations in response to stress differ between men and women, producing sex-specific changes in emotional behaviors and mPFC activity, remained undetermined. This study examined whether unpredictable chronic mild stress (UCMS) in mice differentially alters behavior and mPFC parvalbumin (PV) interneuron activity by sex, and whether the activity of these neurons drives sex-specific behavioral changes. Four weeks of UCMS increased anxiety-like and depressive-like behaviors associated with FosB activation in mPFC PV neurons, particularly in females. After 8 weeks of UCMS, both sexes displayed these behavioral and neural changes. Chemogenetic activation of PV neurons in UCMS-exposed and nonstressed males induced significant changes in anxiety-like behaviors. Importantly, patch-clamp electrophysiology demonstrated altered excitability and basic neural properties on the same timeline as the emergence of behavioral effects: changes in females after 4 weeks and in males after 8 weeks of UCMS. These findings show, for the first time, that sex-specific changes in the excitability of prefrontal PV neurons parallel the emergence of anxiety-like behavior, revealing a potential novel mechanism underlying the enhanced vulnerability of females to stress-induced psychopathology and supporting further investigation of this neuronal population to identify new therapeutic targets for stress disorders.
Differential Recruitment of Inhibitory Control Processes by Directed Forgetting and Thought Substitution
Authors: Hubbard Ryan J. , Sahakyan Lili 
Published: February 2023

Humans have the ability to intentionally forget information via different strategies, included suppression of encoding (directed forgetting) and mental replacement of the item to encode (thought substitution). These strategies may rely on different neural mechanisms; namely, encoding suppression may induce prefrontally mediated inhibition, whereas thought substitution is potentially accomplished through modulating contextual representations. Yet, few studies have directly related inhibitory processing to encoding suppression, or tested its involvement in thought substitution. Here, we directly tested whether encoding suppression recruits inhibitory mechanisms with a cross-task design, relating the behavioral and neural data from male and female participants in a Stop Signal task (a task specifically testing inhibitory processing) to a directed forgetting task with both encoding suppression (Forget) and thought substitution (Imagine) cues. Behaviorally, Stop Signal task performance (stop signal reaction times) was related to the magnitude of encoding suppression, but not thought substitution. Two complementary neural analyses corroborated the behavioral result. Namely, brain-behavior analysis demonstrated that the magnitude of right-frontal beta activity following stop signals was related to stop signal reaction times and successful encoding suppression, but not thought substitution; and classifiers trained to discriminate successful and unsuccessful stopping in the Stop Signal task could also classify successful and unsuccessful forgetting following Forget cues, but not Imagine cues. Importantly, inhibitory neural mechanisms were engaged following Forget cues at a later time than motor stopping. These findings not only support an inhibitory account of directed forgetting, and that thought substitution engages separate mechanisms, but also potentially identify a specific time in which inhibition occurs when suppressing encoding.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTForgetting often seems like an unintended experience, but forgetting can be intentional, and can be accomplished with multiple strategies. These strategies, including encoding suppression and thought substitution, may rely on different neural mechanisms. Here, we test the hypothesis that encoding suppression engages domain-general prefrontally driven inhibitory control mechanisms, while thought substitution does not. Using cross-task analyses, we provide evidence that encoding suppression engages the same inhibitory mechanisms used for stopping motor actions, but these mechanisms are not engaged by thought substitution. These findings not only support the notion that mnemonic encoding processes can be directly inhibited, but also have broad relevance, as certain populations with disrupted inhibitory processing may be more successful accomplishing intentional forgetting through thought substitution strategies.
HIF: a master regulator of nutrient availability and metabolic cross‐talk in the tumor microenvironment
Authors: Missiaen Rindert , Lesner Nicholas P , Simon M Celeste 
Published: February 2023

AbstractA role for hypoxia‐inducible factors (HIFs) in hypoxia‐dependent regulation of tumor cell metabolism has been thoroughly investigated and covered in reviews. However, there is limited information available regarding HIF‐dependent regulation of nutrient fates in tumor and stromal cells. Tumor and stromal cells may generate nutrients necessary for function (metabolic symbiosis) or deplete nutrients resulting in possible competition between tumor cells and immune cells, a result of altered nutrient fates. HIF and nutrients in the tumor microenvironment (TME) affect stromal and immune cell metabolism in addition to intrinsic tumor cell metabolism. HIF‐dependent metabolic regulation will inevitably result in the accumulation or depletion of essential metabolites in the TME. In response, various cell types in the TME will respond to these hypoxia‐dependent alterations by activating HIF‐dependent transcription to alter nutrient import, export, and utilization. In recent years, the concept of metabolic competition has been proposed for critical substrates, including glucose, lactate, glutamine, arginine, and tryptophan. In this review, we discuss how HIF‐mediated mechanisms control nutrient sensing and availability in the TME, the competition for nutrients, and the metabolic cross‐talk between tumor and stromal cells.