bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A systematic review of the epidemiology of epilepsy in Mexico during 1970 to 2020
Authors: Pesqueira Gerardo Quiñones , San-Juan Daniel , Albarrán Rosana Huerta , Vazquez Maximo Leon , Canales Gerardo Quiñones , Pesqueira Jorge Gonzalez 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Background Epilepsy is the most common major neurological disorder that affects people of all ages. The prevalence varies from one country to another and even between different areas, due to a lack of access to medical care for reasons related to limited resources.
Objective Epilepsy is a worldwide public health problem that affects more deeply populations living in developing countries such as Mexico, where more aggressive health policies based on epidemiological data are needed; however, this information is scarce and the evolution of this data over time remains unclear. The aim of the present study is to provide an overview of the epidemiology of epilepsy in Mexico from 1970 to 2020.
Methods We searched descriptive epidemiological studies on epilepsy in rural and urban regions of Mexico from 1970 to 2020. Available data on the sociodemographic characteristics, prevalence, and incidence data were extracted. Finally, the abstract, full-text review, and data abstraction were conducted in duplicate and reported using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Descriptive statistics was also used.
Results Overall, 11 underrepresented and heterogeneous epidemiological studies were included. In total, the prevalence of epilepsy in Mexico is 3.9 to 41:1,000 inhabitants; 3.9 to 41 per 1,000 persons in rural regions, and 3.49 to 44.3 per 1,000 persons in urban regions. None of these studies addressed the incidence of epilepsy. The prevalence of epilepsy in Mexico has remained unchanged during the last 5 decades.
Conclusions Our results confirm a high prevalence of epilepsy in both urban and rural settings in Mexico that remain unchanged during the last 5 decades. All studies included in the present review showed multiple methodological limitations. New and robust epidemiological studies are needed to delineate the epidemiological profile of epilepsy in Mexico.
Cultural adaptation and reliability assessment of the Hammersmith neonatal neurological examination for Brazilian newborns at risk of cerebral palsy
Authors: Correr Mayara Thais , Pfeifer Luzia Iara 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Background Reliable instruments that lead to early diagnosis for CP are extremely important so that these children are referred for early stimulation, benefiting their development.
Objective To perform a cross-cultural adaptation and reliability assessment of a Brazilian version of the Hammersmith Neonatal Neurological Examination (HNNE), expanded and summarized.
Methods A methodological, cross-sectional, nonexperimental quantitative analysis was conducted in two phases as follows: cultural adaptation of the HNNE, expanded and summarized, and reliability assessment of the Brazilian version of the HNNE. Phase one was developed in five stages (initial translation, synthesis of the translation, a committee of experts, backtranslation, and submission to the author), with the semantic questions, content, and face validity being evaluated. Phase two included 143 newborns and we analyzed the internal consistency, stability, and equivalence (intra- and interexaminer) of the instrument. Internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach's alpha, and intra- and interexaminer reliability and reproducibility assessed through test-retest were calculated using the intraclass correlation coefficient
Results Although internal consistency, assessed using Cronbach's alpha, showed unsatisfactory results, the results of inter-and intraexaminer equivalence showed a high agreement between the evaluations in all domains. The test-retest also showed excellent agreement between the domains.
Conclusions The Brazilian HNNE expanded and summarized versions can be considered to be adapted and reliable for the neurological assessment of Brazilian newborns to identify changes in neurological development and early referral to the stimulation or early rehabilitation units and as a promising option to be used in the context of primary care in Brazil.
The Rise and Fall of Aural Acoustic Immittance Assessment Tools
Authors: Shahnaz Navid , AlMakadma Hammam , Sanford Chris A. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractClinical assessment of middle ear function has undergone multiple transformations and developments since the first acoustic impedance measurements were made in human ears nearly a century ago. The decades following the development of the first acoustic impedance bridge by Metz in 1946 witnessed a series of technological advancements leading to the widespread use of single-frequency admittance tympanometry in the 1960s. In the 1970s, multi-frequency and multi-component tympanometry (MFT) emerged for clinical use, allowing for a better understanding of the middle ear acoustic-mechanical response at frequencies between 200 and 2,000 Hz. MFT has not gained widespread clinical adoption despite its advantages over single-frequency tympanometry. More recent technological developments enabled assessment for frequencies greater than 2,000 Hz, leading to the advent of wideband acoustic immittance measures with capabilities for comprehensive assessment of middle ear acoustic mechanics, and a great potential for use of acoustic immittance testing in various diagnostic practices. This article reviews important historical markers in the development and operation of middle ear assessment tools and analysis methods. Technical and clinical factors underlying the emergence and adoption of different acoustic immittance tests as a standard of clinical practice are described. In addition, we discuss the likelihood for widespread adoption of wideband acoustic immittance and wideband tympanometry in future clinical practice.
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Authors: Ramadurai Ranjith , Bhattacharyya Saswata 
Published: March 2023

Strain Engineering in Functional Materials and Devices provides a comprehensive overview of fundamentals, applications, and recent developments in the field of strain tuning of multifunctional materials. It collates and summarizes interrelations between strain and various functional properties, characterization techniques, theoretical understanding of strain effects, and how the application strain can lead to novel functional properties. The book addresses the role of strain at multiple length scales and summarizes theoretical analysis of the same. Verification of theoretical analysis are supported by the chapters pertaining to thin film fabrication and nanocomposites.
Strain Engineering in Functional Materials and Devices:Provides extensive coverage of multifaceted aspects of strain engineering in functional materialsDelivers fundamental understanding of strain tuning of functional properties of materialsSummarizes recent developments and applications including first-principles/atomistic modeling, phase-field modeling, and state-of-the-art characterization techniques
Researchers, graduate students working in relevant areas of materials science and nanotechnology, and professionals working on smart materials and their applications will find this a relevant and useful resource.
Asymbiotic germination of Prasophyllum (Orchidaceae) requires low mineral concentration
Authors: Freestone Marc , Linde Celeste , Swarts Nigel , Reiter Noushka 
Published: March 2023

Context Asymbiotic germination is used for propagation of orchids and to assess seed viability. However, asymbiotic germination media remain undeveloped for Prasophyllum (Orchidaceae), a genus with 39 threatened species in southern Australia. Aims To develop asymbiotic germination and replate media for Prasophyllum, and determine whether survival of asymbiotically grown seedlings under nursery conditions is enhanced through the addition of a mycorrhizal fungus to potting media. Methods Using Prasophyllum frenchii as a model, we tested 81 asymbiotic germination medium combinations. The three best-performing media were then compared against four untested commercial media, with and without added coconut water and/or banana. The best-performing medium was trialled on 18 additional Prasophyllum species. Twenty-four replate media were then tested for their ability to support seedling development. We measured the survival of seedlings under nursery conditions with and without the addition of mycorrhizal Ceratobasidium fungus to potting media. Key results Low concentrations of minerals, auxins and cytokinins were necessary for asymbiotic germination of P. frenchii, although germination was highest overall on the commercial medium W9.5 with 5% coconut water. The most effective replate medium was W9 with 5% banana. However, survival of seedlings was 1.7%, 2 years after transferral to potting media in the nursery, regardless of the addition or absence of a mycorrhizal fungus. Conclusions Asymbiotic media can effectively germinate Prasophyllum seed, although deflasked seedlings have low survival rates. Implications Our media are broadly applicable to assess seed viability in Prasophyllum. However, poor survival of asymbiotically grown seedlings contrasts with recently published evidence of high seedling survival using symbiotic propagation methods, indicating that plants should be propagated symbiotically for conservation programs.
Species-specific CD4
+
T cells enable prediction of mucosal immune phenotypes from microbiota composition
Authors: Spindler Matthew P. , Mogno Ilaria , Suri Prerna , Britton Graham J. , Faith Jeremiah J. 
Published: March 2023

How bacterial strains within a complex human microbiota collectively shape intestinal T cell homeostasis is not well understood. Methods that quickly identify effector strains or species that drive specific mucosal T cell phenotypes are needed to define general principles for how the microbiota modulates host immunity. We colonize germ-free mice with defined communities of cultured strains and profile antigen-specific responses directed toward individual strains ex vivo. We find that lamina propria T cells are specific to bacterial strains at the species level and can discriminate between strains of the same species. Ex vivo restimulations consistently identify the strains within complex communities that induce Th17 responses in vivo, providing the potential to shape baseline immune tone via community composition. Using an adoptive transfer model of colitis, we find that lamina propria T cells respond to different bacterial strains in conditions of inflammation versus homeostasis. Collectively, our approach represents a unique method for efficiently predicting the relative impact of individual bacterial strains within a complex community and for parsing microbiota-dependent phenotypes into component fractions.
Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements
Authors: Mohamadi Khadijeh , Weisi Hiwa 
Published: March 2023

AbstractCommercial advertisements are considered informative discourse, whereas the manipulative effects of their verbal and visual strategies have been ignored. According tovan Dijk (2006), manipulation in mass media is performed by drawing the audience’s attention to information A rather than to B, by providing irrelevant or incomplete information, and by playing emotional games. Since the analysis of manipulative effects of semiotic features used in advertisements is scarce, the present research project investigates the potential manipulative effects of semiotic aspects used in Persian printed advertisements, and the influence of the Iranian sociocultural context on designing these visual messages. A corpus of 160 Persian printed advertisements was analyzed; the results revealed that their semiotic features, especially those which are meaningful based on the sociocultural context of Iran, tend to inculcate relevant information and meaning in consumers, in order to control their minds and subsequently their purchases. The findings of this study include six theme-based categories of semiotic manipulation strategies:Celebrity images, Creative images, Punctuation marks, Natural images, Seasonal images, and Cultural images. The results are discussed along the lines of research methodology in discourse and semiotic analysis.
Separation events in Mandarin, Russian and Korean
Authors: Du Jing , Li Fuyin Thomas , Ge Yanlei , Zhang Jinkai 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Crosslinguistic studies on motion events have revealed that S-languages demonstrate finer-grained lexical
categories than V-languages in representing motion manners/gaits. But these studies were restricted to the semantic domain of
motion events and confined to a limited number of S- or V- languages. In this paper, we further investigate whether the
association between lexical diversity and language typology is manifest in a similar way in the semantic domain of separation
events by focusing on Mandarin, Russian and Korean. Our results suggest that: (1) Separation expressions support the
diversity-typology correlation proved in motion expressions because the two S-languages Mandarin and Russian demonstrate richer
lexical diversity than the V-language Korean; (2) It is further pointed out that apart from language typology, lexical diversity
is influenced by multiple factors including lexical resources, conceptual salience, event construal, and event type; (3) Though
typologically different, these three languages, in their lexical naming of separation events, are constrained by the biomechanical
structure and follow the principle of prototypicality. Overall, this study opens up a new crosslinguistic perspective by showing
how lexical diversity is typologically and linguistically driven.
Second-harmonic signature of chiral spin structures in W/Pt/Co heterostructures with tunable magnetic anisotropy
Authors: Wang Yang , Chan Ying-Ting , Wang Xiao , Wang Tao , Cheng Xuemei M , Wu Weida , Xiao John Q 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Second-harmonic Hall voltage (SHV) measurement method has been widely used to characterize the strengths of spin–orbit torques (SOTs) in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin films saturated in the single-domain regime. Here, we show that the magnetic anisotropy of a W/Pt/Co trilayer can be robustly tuned from in-plane to out-of-plane by varying W, Pt, or Co thicknesses. Moreover, in samples with easy-cone anisotropy, SHV measurements exhibit anomalous ‘humps’ in the multidomain regime accessed by applying a nearly out-of-plane external magnetic field. These hump features can only be explained as a result of the formation of Néel-type domain walls, efficiently driven by nevertheless small SOTs in this double heavy metal heterostructure with canceling spin Hall angles.
On the ignition kernel formation and propagation: an experimental and modeling approach
Authors: Shaffer James , Luna Steven , Wang Weiye , Egolfopoulos Fokion N , Askari Omid 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
The next generation of advanced combustion devices is being developed to operate under ultra-high-pressure conditions. However, under such extreme conditions, flame tends to become unstable and measurement of fundamental properties such as the laminar flame speed becomes challenging. One potential method to resolve this issue is measuring the ignition-affected region during spherically expanding flame experiments. The flame in this region is more resistant to perturbations and remains smooth due to the high stretch rates (i.e. small radii). Stable flame propagation allows for improved flame measurement, however, the experimentally observed kernel propagation is a function of both inflammation and ignition plasma. Therefore, the goal of the present study is to better understand the plasma formation and propagation during the ignition process, which would allow for reliable laminar flame speed measurements. To accomplish this goal, thermal plasma operating at high pressures is studied with emphasis on the spark energy effects on the formation of the ignition kernel. The thermal effect of the plasma is experimentally observed using a high-speed Schlieren imaging system. The energy dissipated within the plasma is measured with the use of voltage and current probes with a measurement of plasma sheath voltage drop as an input to numerical modeling. The measured kernel propagation rate is used to assess the accuracy of the model. The experiments and modeling are conducted in dry air at 1, 3, and 5 atm as well as in CH4-N2 mixtures at 1 atm, and kernel radius, temperature, and mass are reported. The voltage-drop (as a non-thermal loss) is measured to be approximately 330

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5 V (dry air at 1 atm) for glow plasma with a large dependency on pressure, gas composition, electrode surface quality, electrode geometry, electrode shape, and current density. The same loss within the arc plasma is measured to be 15

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5 V, however the arc phase loss which agrees with arc propagation is significantly higher (∼45 V) which suggest additional unaccounted for phenomena occurring during the arc phase. With these losses, the modeling results are shown to predict the final kernel radius within 10%–20% of the observed kernel size. The difference found between the modeling and experimental results is determined to be a result of assuming that the primary loss mechanism (voltage drop across sheath formation) remains constant for the duration of glow discharge. The discrepancy for arc discharge is discussed with several potential sources, however, additional studies are required to better understand how the arc formation affects the kernel propagation.
Fluence dependent dynamics of excitons in monolayer MoSi2Z4 (Z = pnictogen)
Authors: Yadav Pushpendra , Khamari Bramhachari , Singh Bahadur , Adarsh K V , Agarwal Amit 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Reduced dielectric screening in two-dimensional materials enables bound excitons, which modifies their optical absorption and optoelectronic response. Here, we demonstrate the existence of excitons in the bandgap of the monolayer family of the newly discovered synthetic

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(Z=N, P, and As) series of materials. All three monolayers support several bright and strongly bound excitons with binding energies varying from 1 eV to 1.35 eV for the lowest energy exciton resonances. We show that on increasing the pump fluence or photo-excited carrier density, the lowest energy exciton first undergoes a redshift followed by a blueshift, due to the renormalized exciton binding energies. The exciton binding energy varies as a Lennard-Jones-like potential as a function of the inter-exciton spacing. This establishes an atom-like attractive and repulsive interaction between excitons depending on the inter-exciton separation. Our study shows that the

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series of monolayers offer an exciting test-bed for exploring the physics of strongly bound excitons and their non-equilibrium dynamics.
Collective effect of nonthermal and suprathermal particles on electrostatic waves and instabilities in Vasyliunas-Cairns distributed plasmas
Authors: Sarkar Susmita , Paul Samit , Parvin Sabana 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
The combined effects of nonthermal and suprathermal particles on electrostatic modes of waves propagating in an electron-ion plasma are investigated. Vasyliunas-Cairns distribution with nonthermal and suprathermal spectral indices is used to describe the electron-ion plasma under consideration. The dispersion relation of Langmuir and ion-acoustic waves are examined using the kinetic theory approach. The population of nonthermal and suprathermal particles is found to have a considerable influence on the real wave frequency and damping rate of both Langmuir and ion-acoustic waves. The suprathermal particle population stabilizes the wave whereas the nonthermal particle population destabilizes the wave.
Impact of half-wave plate systematics on the measurement of cosmic birefringence from CMB polarization
Authors: Monelli Marta , Komatsu Eiichiro , Adler Alexandre E. , Billi Matteo , Campeti Paolo , Dachlythra Nadia , Duivenvoorden Adriaan J. , Gudmundsson Jon E. , Reinecke Martin 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can probe new parity-violating
physics such as cosmic birefringence (CB), which requires exquisite control over instrumental
systematics. The non-idealities of the half-wave plate (HWP) represent a source of systematics
when used as a polarization modulator. We study their impact on the CMB angular power spectra,
which is partially degenerate with CB and miscalibration of the polarization angle. We use
full-sky beam convolution simulations including HWP to generate mock noiseless time-ordered data,
process them through a bin averaging map-maker, and calculate the power spectra including TB and
EB correlations. We also derive analytical formulae which accurately model the observed
spectra. For our choice of HWP parameters, the HWP-induced angle amounts to a few degrees, which
could be misinterpreted as CB. Accurate knowledge of the HWP is required to mitigate this. Our
simulation and analytical formulae will be useful for deriving requirements for the accuracy of
HWP calibration.
A hybrid map-Cℓ
component separation method for primordial CMB B-mode searches
Authors: Azzoni S. , Alonso D. , Abitbol M.H. , Errard J. , Krachmalnicoff N. 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
The observation of the polarised emission from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from
future ground-based and satellite-borne experiments holds the promise of indirectly detecting the
elusive signal from primordial tensor fluctuations in the form of large-scale B-mode
polarisation. Doing so, however, requires an accurate and robust separation of the signal from
polarised Galactic foregrounds. We present a component separation method for multi-frequency CMB
observations that combines some of the advantages of map-based and power-spectrum-based
techniques, and which is direcly applicable to data in the presence of realistic foregrounds and
instrumental noise. We demonstrate that the method is able to reduce the contamination from
Galactic foregrounds below an equivalent tensor-to-scalar ratio r
FG ≲ 5 × 10-4, as required for next-generation observatories, for a wide range of
foreground models with varying degrees of complexity. This bias reduction is associated with a
mild ∼20–30% increase in the final statistical uncertainties, and holds for large
sky areas, and for experiments targeting both the reionisation and recombination bumps in the
B-mode power spectrum.
Exciton radiative lifetime in CdSe quantum dots
Authors: Ji Zhimin , Song Zhigang 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Colloidal CdSe quantum dots (QDs) are promising materials for solar cells because of their simple preparation process and compatibility with flexible substrates. The QD radiative recombination lifetime has attracted enormous attention as it affects the probability of photogenerated charges leaving the QDs and being collected at the battery electrodes. However, the scaling law for the exciton radiative lifetime in CdSe QDs is still a puzzle. This article presents a novel explanation that reconciles this controversy. Our calculations agree with the experimental measurements of all three divergent trends in a broadened energy window. Further, we proved that the exciton radiative lifetime is a consequence of the thermal average of decays for all thermally accessible exciton states. Each of the contradictory size-dependent patterns reflects this trend in a specific size range. As the optical band gap increases, the radiative lifetime decreases in larger QDs, increases in smaller QDs, and is weakly dependent on size in the intermediate energy region. This study addresses the inconsistencies in the scaling law of the exciton lifetime and gives a unified interpretation over a widened framework. Moreover, it provides valuable guidance for carrier separation in the thin film solar cell of CdSe QDs.