bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
ANÁLISE DE FUSÕES MUNICIPAIS NO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL: AVALIAÇÃO DA EFICIÊNCIA ECONÔMICA DOS MUNICÍPIOS POR MEIO DA ANÁLISE POR ENVOLTÓRIA DE DADOS (DEA)
Authors: Harue Nakata Sabrina , Bianchi Márcia 
Published: July 2023

O estudo objetiva analisar como fusões municipais no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (RS) podem impactar positivamente no grau de eficiência econômica dos municípios. A pesquisa dispõe de abordagem quantitativa, descritiva e documental. Para tanto utilizou-se a Análise por Envoltória de Dados (DEA) para mensurar a eficiência econômica dos municípios por meio de variáveis de entrada e de saída extraídas do sítio eletrônico do Tribunal de Contas do Estado do RS, do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística e da Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional. Os dados coletados evidenciaram que os micros e pequenos municípios tendem a depender financeiramente da União e do Estado, possuindo receita própria irrisória. Após a primeira aplicação do modelo, foram selecionados os municípios com eficiência econômica abaixo da média do estado, os quais em sua maioria possuíam até 15 mil habitantes. Posteriormente foi realizada uma proposta de fusão municipal reduzindo os municípios selecionados de 208 para 45, novamente analisados através do modelo selecionado. Após nova aplicação do modelo, f
O estudo objetiva analisar como fusões municipais no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (RS) podem impactar positivamente no grau de eficiência econômica dos municípios. A pesquisa dispõe de abordagem quantitativa, descritiva e documental. Para tanto utilizou-se a Análise por Envoltória de Dados (DEA) para mensurar a eficiência econômica dos municípios por meio de variáveis de entrada e de saída extraídas do sítio eletrônico do Tribunal de Contas do Estado do RS, do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística e da Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional. Os dados coletados evidenciaram que os micros e pequenos municípios tendem a depender financeiramente da União e do Estado, possuindo receita própria irrisória. Após a primeira aplicação do modelo, foram selecionados os municípios com eficiência econômica abaixo da média do estado, os quais em sua maioria possuíam até 15 mil habitantes. Posteriormente foi realizada uma proposta de fusão municipal reduzindo os municípios selecionados de 208 para 45, novamente analisados através do modelo selecionado. Após nova aplicação do modelo, foi constatado o aumento do grau de eficiência dos municípios. Ademais, as fusões analisadas suprimiriam o número de micro e pequenos municípios em cerca de 52%, além de reduzir 1.377 vereadores, gerando uma economia de aproximadamente 58 milhões de reais aos cofres públicos. A partir da crise financeira dos municípios brasileiros que tem sido amplamente noticiada, o estudo contribui gerando discussões acerca de medidas como fusões municipais que visam aumentar a eficiência econômica dos municípios.
Physicochemical, sensory, and antioxidant characteristics of stirred‐type yogurt enriched with Lentinula edodes stipe powder
Authors: Zhu Hanyu , Chen Zheng , Li Geqing , Yao Xiaoqian , Hu Yujing , Zhao Wenxia 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThe Lentinula edodes stipe (LES), a by‐product of L. edodes fruiting body processing, is rich in dietary fiber, protein, and polysaccharides, which can be served as the functional ingredient in dairy products. In this study, stirred yogurts fortified with 1%, 2%, and 3% LES were prepared, and the effects of LES on the changes in color, pH, titratable acidity (TA), viable lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cells, syneresis, viscosity, texture, and antioxidant activity of the flavored yogurt were monitored at the beginning and the end of storage. The LES decreased the lightness, increased the red–green color values and yellow–blue color values, decreased the pH values, and increased the contents of TA, the viable LAB cells, and the antioxidant activity of yogurt samples in a dose‐dependent manner. The addition of LES showed double‐edged effects on the texture of yogurt, which significantly reduced firmness and viscosity but decreased the syneresis. Compared with plain yogurt, the 2% LES‐fortified yogurt exhibited similar index values of texture parameters and higher scores of the appearance, fermented odor, taste quality, and overall acceptance, suggesting that this might be the optimal dose for industrial production. After cold storage for 28 days, pH values of all yogurt samples further decreased with increasing of TA. Interestingly, syneresis of LES‐fortified yogurt decreased and the viable LAB cells and antioxidant activity of 3% LES‐fortified yogurt slightly decreased. Therefore, LES is beneficial to improve physicochemical, sensory, and antioxidant properties of yogurt, which has the potential to be used in functional dairy products.
Structure Influence of Amine‐Containing Additives on the Solution State and Out‐of‐Plane Conductivity of PEDOT:PSS for Efficient Organic Solar Cells
Authors: Jing Wenwen , Xu Xiaopeng , Yu Liyang , Peng Qiang 
Published: July 2023

AbstractAdditives are extensively explored for improving PEDOT:PSS performances mainly through the removal of excess PSS and as a secondary dopant. In this work, amine‐containing additives are introduced to PEDOT:PSS solutions as processing additives where the interactions to the PSS are anticipated through electrostatic interactions. Such interactions affected solution property where the increased viscosity is found to significantly increase the out‐of‐plane conductivity of the PEDOT:PSS thin films. Organic solar cells adopting these additive‐assisted processed PEDOT:PSS layers as hole transporting layers (HTL) showed the improved device performances that resulted from the reduced series resistance provided by the PEDOT:PSS HTL. A top power conversion efficiency of 18.28% is achieved with para‐phenylenediamine (PPD) additive in the PEDOT:PSS HTL, which is 3.5% higher compared to devices with neat PEDOT:PSS thin film as the HTL.
Investigation on how carbon markets and digital transformation affect green innovation: evidence from Chinese listed companies
Authors: Wang Di , Dou Wei 
Published: July 2023

AbstractCarbon markets and the digital economy are gaining popularity continuously. Under this context, corporate green innovation should be urgently guided, which is an important subject to be studied and solved with great urgency to achieve harmonious ecological and economic growth. In this study, the data of 836 Chinese A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2020 are selected, carbon market and digital transformation are integrated into a unified analysis framework, and the green innovation effect and mechanism of the two and their interaction terms are investigated, not showing consistency with the previous studies about the effect of carbon market or digital transformation on green innovation. The present study suggests that (i) both carbon market policy and digitalization level serve as vital factors in boosting green innovation among high-carbon companies, whereas the synthetic effect of carbon market policy and digital transformation inhibits corporate green innovation behavior. (ii) The influences exerted by carbon market policy, digital transformation, and the synthetic effect on green innovation are dependent on property rights, size, and industry of high-carbon companies. (iii) As revealed by the analysis of mediating effects, financing constraints are the main mechanism of action that leads to a negative correlation between the synthetic effect of the carbon market and digital transformation and green innovation. Besides, R&D investment and environmental information disclosure only affect the action mechanism about digital transformation and carbon market policy, whereas they do not affect the synthetic effect of carbon market and digital transformation. Therefore, to promote green innovation and green transformation of high carbon companies, the government needs to flexibly use market-based environmental regulation tools (e.g., carbon market), strengthen the influence exerted by digital technology in improving innovation quality, and flexibly formulate relevant policies in accordance with the heterogeneity of different objects.
Dharmakīrtian Inference
Authors: Bogacz Szymon , Tanaka Koji 
Published: July 2023

AbstractDharmakīrti argues that there is no pramāṇa (valid means of cognition or source of knowledge) for a thesis that is a self-contradiction (svavacanavirodha). That is, self-contradictions such as ‘everything said is false’ and ‘my mother is barren’ cannot be known to be true or false. The contemporary scholar Tillemans challenges Dharmakīrti by arguing that we can know that self-contradictions are false by means of a formal logical inference. The aims of the paper are to answer Tillemans’ challenge from what we take to be Dharmakīrti’s or Dharmakīrtian (someone who is like Dharmakīrti) perspective and to demonstrate the unique features of Dharmakīrti’s view of inference. By so doing, we show that the epistemology in relation to the formal conception of logic that underlies Tillemans’ challenge is problematic from Dharmakīrti’s or Dharmakīrtian perspective. The paper, thus, presents Dharmakīrti’s view of inference and logical reasoning as well as a Dharmakīrtian challenge to the formal conception of logic that is the dominant contemporary conception.
Feasibility of self-reported health related quality of life assessment with older people in residential care: insights from the application of eye tracking technology
Authors: Milte Rachel , Crocker Matthew , Lay Kiri , Ratcliffe Julie , Mulhern Brendan , Norman Richard , Viney Rosalie , Khadka Jyoti 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Purpose
Increasingly there are calls to routinely assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of older people receiving aged care services, however the high prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment remains a challenge to implementation. Eye-tracking technology facilitates detailed assessment of engagement and comprehension of visual stimuli, and may be useful in flagging individuals and populations who cannot reliably self-complete HRQoL instruments. The aim of this study was to apply eye-tracking technology to provide insights into self-reporting of HRQoL among older people in residential care with and without cognitive impairment.

Methods
Residents (n = 41), recruited based on one of three cognition subgroups (no, mild, or moderate cognitive impairment), completed the EQ-5D-5L on a computer with eye tracking technology embedded. Number and length of fixations (i.e., eye gaze in seconds) for key components of the EQ-5D-5L descriptive system were calculated.

Results
For all dimensions, participants with no cognitive impairment fixated for longer on the Area of Interest (AOI) for the response option they finally chose, relative to those with mild or moderate cognitive impairment. Participants with cognitive impairment followed similar fixation patterns to those without. There was some evidence that participants with cognitive impairment took longer to complete and spent relatively less time attending to the relevant AOIs, but these differences did not reach statistical significance generally.

Conclusions
This exploratory study applying eye tracking technology provides novel insights and evidence of the feasibility of self-reported HRQoL assessments in older people in aged care settings where cognitive impairment and dementia are highly prevalent.
Plant fruit extracts enhance the in vitro propagation of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) on Murashige and Skoog media
Authors: Markin Grace , Eleblu John S. Y. , Amissah Jacqueline N. , Reynolds Samuel , Soraru Charline , Craze Melanie S. , Wallington Emma J. , Bentley Alison R. , Danquah Eric Y. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractCowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is a versatile legume with diverse nutritional and nutraceutical properties that serve as a food security and medicinal crop for millions of households across Africa. An efficient protocol was developed to propagate shoot tip and cotyledonary node explants from six cowpea breeding accessions in vitro on Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal media supplemented with either banana extract, coconut water, orange or tomato juice. Micropropagation performance was compared to MS medium supplemented with B5 vitamins. A total of 500 plantlets were obtained in vitro across treatments and MS basal media supplemented with tomato juice had the highest micropropagation performance (154 plantlets), followed by banana extract (112 plantlets), orange juice (107 plantlets), and coconut water (82 plantlets). Three accessions (AGRAC 216, TA, and Asontem) were found to be the most amenable to in vitro propagation using plant-derived extracts. Overall, this study successfully established that plant-derived extracts can support in vitro cowpea propagation in the absence of synthetic plant growth regulators.
Motile microorganisms hybrid nanoliquid flow with the influence of activation energy and heat source over a rotating disc
Authors: Ali Usman , Khan Hamid , Bilal Muhammad , Usman M , Shuaib M , Gul Taza 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The present article examines the consequences of a magnetic field, Hall current, and thermal radiation on the spinning flow of hybrid nanofluid (HNF) across a revolving disc. The core objective of the study is to improve the energy transference rate through hybrid nano liquid for industrial and engineering operations. The HNFs have advanced thermophysical characteristics. Therefore, in the current study, a superior class of nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and Al2O3) are added to the base fluid. The modeled equations are demoted to a dimensionless set of Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) through similarity conversion and are analytically solved by engaging the homotopy analysis method. The physical constraints’ effect on energy, velocity, motile microorganism, and mass profiles have been drawn and discussed. For accuracy, the results are compared to the published studies, which ensures the accuracy and reliability of the technique and results. It is observed that the energy communication rate lessens with the flourishing values of thermal radiation and for Hall current. Furthermore, it is noted that due to its carbon–carbon bonding in CNTs, it has a greater tendency for energy propagation than Al2O3 nanoparticles.
When Specimen Choice Wags the Microscopy Education Dog
Authors: Armitage Mark 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The use of microscope technology has proved to be foundational in the global advancement of science and medicine. However, fewer women are entering science and microscopy as a career. Many factors have been suggested for this decades-old trend, yet intense mentoring of female students by successful women in academia and industry may be reversing the trend. Our team designed a STEM microscopy curriculum in a mobile laboratory format to test the idea that more female students might show an interest in STEM training if they have a chance to operate a microscope. The interest in dinosaur remains is very high among secondary students, thus we reasoned that choosing dinosaur tissue remains as a specimen might attract such students to hands-on labs. Here we describe our efforts to attract female students to microscopy-related STEM content by using dinosaur soft tissue from our dinosaur digs as specimens during our hands-on microscope labs. We conducted 33 such labs in six states across the US over a 16-month period. Female student participation was over 52%. We suggest that the specimen choice (particularly dinosaur cells, veins, and nerves) in microscopy education provides a powerful incentive to female students to consider a science as a career.
Dust attenuation, dust content, and geometry of star-forming galaxies
Authors: Zhang Junkai , Wuyts Stijn , Cutler Sam E , Mowla Lamiya A , Brammer Gabriel B , Momcheva Ivelina G , Whitaker Katherine E , van Dokkum Pieter , Förster Schreiber Natascha M , Nelson Erica J , Schady Patricia , Villforth Carolin , Wake David , van der Wel Arjen 
Published: July 2023

ABSTRACT
We analyse the joint distribution of dust attenuation and projected axis ratios, together with galaxy size and surface brightness profile information, to infer lessons on the dust content and star/dust geometry within star-forming galaxies at 0 &lt; z &lt; 2.5. To do so, we make use of large observational data sets from KiDS + VIKING + HSC-SSP and extend the analysis out to redshift z = 2.5 using the HST surveys CANDELS and 3D-DASH. We construct suites of SKIRT radiative transfer models for idealized galaxies observed under random viewing angles with the aim of reproducing the aforementioned distributions, including the level and inclination dependence of dust attenuation. We find that attenuation-based dust mass estimates are at odds with constraints from far-infrared observations, especially at higher redshifts, when assuming smooth star and dust geometries of equal extent. We demonstrate that UV-to-near-IR and far-infrared constraints can be reconciled by invoking clumpier dust geometries for galaxies at higher redshifts and/or very compact dust cores. We discuss implications for the significant wavelength- and redshift-dependent differences between half-light and half-mass radii that result from spatially varying dust columns within especially massive star-forming galaxies.
The MillenniumTNG Project: an improved two-halo model for the galaxy–halo connection of red and blue galaxies
Authors: Hadzhiyska Boryana , Eisenstein Daniel , Hernquist Lars , Pakmor Rüdiger , Bose Sownak , Delgado Ana Maria , Contreras Sergio , Kannan Rahul , White Simon D M , Springel Volker , Frenk Carlos , Hernández-Aguayo César , Barrera Fulvio Ferlito and Monica 
Published: July 2023

ABSTRACT
Approximate methods to populate dark-matter haloes with galaxies are of great utility to galaxy surveys. However, the limitations of simple halo occupation models (HODs) preclude a full use of small-scale galaxy clustering data and call for more sophisticated models. We study two galaxy populations, luminous red galaxies (LRGs) and star-forming emission-line galaxies (ELGs), at two epochs, z = 1 and z = 0, in the large-volume, high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation of the MillenniumTNG project. In a partner study we concentrated on the small-scale, one-halo regime down to r ∼ 0.1 h−1 Mpc, while here we focus on modelling galaxy assembly bias in the two-halo regime, r ≳ 1 h−1 Mpc. Interestingly, the ELG signal exhibits scale dependence out to relatively large scales (r ∼ 20 h−1 Mpc), implying that the linear bias approximation for this tracer is invalid on these scales, contrary to common assumptions. The 10–15 per cent discrepancy is only reconciled when we augment our halo occupation model with a dependence on extrinsic halo properties (‘shear’ being the best-performing one) rather than intrinsic ones (e.g. concentration, peak mass). We argue that this fact constitutes evidence for two-halo galaxy conformity. Including tertiary assembly bias (i.e. a property beyond mass and ‘shear’) is not an essential requirement for reconciling the galaxy assembly bias signal of LRGs, but the combination of external and internal properties is beneficial for recovering ELG the clustering. We find that centrals in low-mass haloes dominate the assembly bias signal of both populations. Finally, we explore the predictions of our model for higher order statistics such as nearest neighbour counts. The latter supplies additional information about galaxy assembly bias and can be used to break degeneracies between halo model parameters.
From Nevins and the Federal Writers’ Project to Terkel
Authors: Trower Shelley 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter traces an ongoing preoccupation with how to mediate voices in print, through US-based work ranging from the Federal Writers’ Project’s to Terkel’s. In contrast, key figures in Columbia University’s Oral History Research Office, which in the 1950s was among the earliest organizations to use open-reel recorders, treated spoken narratives as written documents with minimal acknowledgment of what can be lost in the process. The chapter traces an emerging recognition in and beyond the FWP that written texts should not necessarily aim to reproduce the sound of the voice—for example, with phonetic spellings—but could more effectively “transmediate” it. In doing so, authors can seek to evade racist stereotypes associated with certain vernaculars, for example, and can improve “readability.” Accompanying such recognition of the active role of authors in transmediating voices was a growing sense of how speakers also re-create their memories in narrative form.
Oral History Transcribed, Edited, and Published
Authors: Trower Shelley 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter brings historical concerns with transcribing voices into more recent debates about the extent to which writing should aim to reproduce the spoken interview, or to re-create it through more extensive editing. The ongoing concern about editing interviews to improve the experience of readers is paralleled by questions about authorship. The more extensively and creatively transcribers edit, the more they shift from being transcribers or editors to authors. But there is also the sense in which oral histories are coauthored both by interviewee-narrators and interview-editor-writers; a repeatedly debated question in oral history is who the author is, or who they are. The chapter proposes that it is usually the editor-writers who have authority in shaping oral histories into new kinds of literary and scholarly forms, but also introduces the concept of “shared authority.”
Auto/biographical Life Stories
Authors: Trower Shelley 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Autobiography is a genre that is traditionally understood to be single-authored, and this chapter focuses on how oral history challenges such a concept of authorship. After the mid-twentieth century, tape recorders contributed to a shift whereby autobiography became just one genre among other kinds of life stories, which tended to be far more inclusive. The chapter develops an understanding of oral histories as auto/biographical, as they involve both first-person self-narration and the presence of a facilitating interviewer and writer. The chapter develops some in-depth analysis of the co-creating relationship between speakers and authors through a series of auto/biographical works, especially The Autobiography of Malcolm X and All God’s Dangers, and more recent ghost-written memoirs, through which both parties negotiate and even battle for authority. Further, the chapter considers how the use of sound recording can allow such narratives to more fully incorporate orality.
Organizing around Precarity in China
Authors: Howell Jude 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter explores how labour legislation, the official union ACFTU, labour NGOs, and workers organize around precarity to improve labour conditions of migrant informal workers in a changing China. Historically, it traces the shift from employment and livelihood security during the Maoist decades to labour precarity in the post-Mao three key phases: (1) the phase from 1978 to the late 1990s when employment contracting and precarity are seeded, fertilized, and legitimized in law; (2) the phase from the late 1990s to 2011 when contracting and precarity deepen and new ways of protecting and organizing workers emerge, especially under the Hu-Wen administration; (3) the phase from 2012 onwards under Xi’s government, which marks the decline of labour NGOs, the stalling of trade union reforms, and the deepening of digital forms of labour precarity. In conclusion, the chapter considers the prospects for challenging precarity through organized resistance, particularly with respective to new challenges and opportunities arising from the rise of the gig economy