bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Characteristics and Outcomes in Pediatric Versus Adult Craniopharyngiomas: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Authors: Pang Jonathan C. , Chung Dean D. , Wang Jenny , Abiri Arash , Lien Brian V. , Himstead Alexander S. , Ovakimyan Andrew , Kim Michael G. , Hsu Frank P. K. , Kuan Edward C. 
Published: January 2023

BACKGROUND:
Craniopharyngiomas account for 1.2% to 4.6% of all intracranial tumors. Although age at presentation is distributed bimodally, with a pediatric peak occurring between 5 and 15 years and an adult peak between 50 and 70 years, presentation, treatment, and outcome differences between these two craniopharyngioma populations have not been thoroughly characterized.

OBJECTIVE:
To compare treatments and outcomes between adult and pediatric craniopharyngiomas.

METHODS:
This is a systematic review and meta-analysis. Web of Science, MEDLINE, and Scopus databases were searched for primary studies reporting postoperative complications, functional outcomes, recurrence, and overall survival in patients with craniopharyngioma undergoing surgery.

RESULTS:
The search yielded 1,202 unique articles, of which 106 (n=4,202 patients) met criteria for qualitative synthesis and 23 (n=735 patients) met criteria for meta-analysis. Compared with adult, pediatric craniopharyngiomas were less likely to present with visual defects (odds ratio [OR] 0.54, 95% CI 0.36-0.80) or cognitive impairment (OR 0.29, 95% CI 0.12-0.71) and more likely with headaches (OR 2.08, 95% CI 1.16-3.73). Children presented with significantly larger tumors compared with adults (standardized mean difference 0.68, 95% CI 0.38-0.97). Comparing functional outcomes, pediatric patients sustained higher rates of permanent diabetes insipidus (OR 1.70, 95% CI 1.13-2.56), obesity (OR 3.15, 95% CI 1.19-8.31), and cranial nerve and/or neurological defects (OR 4.87, 95% CI 1.78-13.31) than adults. No significant differences were found in rates of postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leak, overall or progression-free survival, or recurrence.

CONCLUSION:
Adult and pediatric craniopharyngiomas seem to have fundamental differences in clinical presentation and functional outcomes. These patients frequently require multimodality treatment and are best managed with a multidisciplinary team and an individualized approach.
A novel technique to quantify bone-to-implant contact of zygomatic implants: a radiographic analysis based on three-dimensional image registration and segmentation
Authors: Gu Yuwei , Zhang Dingzhong , Tao Baoxin , Wang Feng , Chen Xiaojun , Wu Yiqun 
Published: January 2023

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to establish a novel, reproducible technique to obtain the BIC area (BICA) between zygomatic implants and zygomatic bone based on post-operative cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images. Three-dimensional (3D) image registration and segmentation were used to eliminate the effect of metal-induced artifacts of zygomatic implants. Methods: An ex-vivo study was included to verify the feasibility of the new method. Then, the radiographic bone-to-implant contact (rBIC) of 143 implants was measured in a total of 50 patients. To obtain the BICA of zygomatic implants and the zygomatic bone, several steps were necessary, including image preprocessing of CBCT scans, identification of the position of zygomatic implants, registration, and segmentation of pre- and post-operative CBCT images, and 3D reconstruction of models. The conventional two-dimensional (2D) linear rBIC (rBICc) measurement method with post-operative CBCT images was chosen as a comparison. Results: The mean values of rBIC and rBICc were 15.08 ± 5.92 mm and 14.77 ± 5.14 mm, respectively. A statistically significant correlation was observed between rBIC and rBICc values ([Formula: see text]=0.86, p < 0.0001). Conclusions: This study proposed a standardized, repeatable, noninvasive technique to quantify the rBIC of post-operative zygomatic implants in 3D terms. This technique is comparable to conventional 2D linear measurements and seems to be more reliable than these conventional measurements; thus, this method could serve as a valuable tool in the performance of clinical research protocols.
INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS PROCESSES THROUGH OPTIMIZATION OF VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS
Authors: Konovalova Tatyana V. , Shevtsov Yury D. , Nadiryan Sofia L. , Mironova Maria P. , Zhuravlev Mikhail M. 
Published: January 2023

With the growth of production volumes of transport products, the effective management of the logistics costs of the enterprise forces us to look for new approaches in the management of enterprise resources. Logistics costs are directly dependent on logistics operations in the supply chain. Optimizing the logistics costs of an enterprise in the new competitive environment involves the search and implementation of innovative solutions in the field of transport technologies. The article discusses the development of methods for improving the efficiency of transport and logistics processes by optimizing the logistics costs of the enterprise, through the optimization of vehicle control systems.
Purpose – development of a methodology for assessing the effectiveness of ISAS.
Method or methodology of the work. The article used mathematical and statistical methods of analysis.
Results. The most informative parameters for evaluating the functioning of ISAS were determined, which should include a calculated assessment of power, economic, environmental and reliability indicators for various control modes or their combinations, as well as for various operating modes.
Scope of the results. Applied research in the field of evaluating the effectiveness of transport and logistics processes; carrying out research work aimed at creating new science-intensive technologies for optimizing transport and technological systems.
Model-Free Assortment Pricing with Transaction Data
Authors: Chen Ningyuan , Cire Andre A. , Hu Ming , Lagzi Saman 
Published: January 2023

We study the problem when a firm sets prices for products based on the transaction data, that is, which product past customers chose from an assortment and what were the historical prices that they observed. Our approach does not impose a model on the distribution of the customers’ valuations and only assumes, instead, that purchase choices satisfy incentive-compatible constraints. The uncertainty set of potential valuations of each past customer can then be encoded as a polyhedral set, and our approach maximizes the worst case revenue, assuming that new customers’ valuations are drawn from the empirical distribution implied by the collection of such polyhedra. We study the single-product case analytically and relate it to the traditional model-based approach. Then, we show that the optimal prices in the general case can be approximated at any arbitrary precision by solving a compact mixed-integer linear program. We further design three approximation strategies that are of low computational complexity and interpretable. In particular, the cutoff pricing heuristic has a competent provable performance guarantee. Comprehensive numerical studies based on synthetic and real data suggest that our pricing approach is uniquely beneficial when the historical data has a limited size or is susceptible to model misspecification. This paper was accepted by Omar Besbes, revenue management and market analytics. Funding: This work was supported by the Rotman School of Management (TD-MDAL Research Grant) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [Grants RGPIN-2015-06757, RGPIN-2020-04038, RGPIN-2020-06054, RGPIN-2021-04295]. Supplemental Material: The e-companion and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4651 .
LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE LITERATURE OF FICTION. THE TRANSLATION OF IDIOLECT AND ITS EFFECTS IN LITERARY CHARACTERISATION IN TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES’ MALE CHARACTERS
Authors: López-Narváez Julia 
Published: January 2023

This paper focuses on the intrinsic relation between language and identity in literature. Characters in all fictional worlds have their own language and way of speaking. Their linguistic features shape their identity and characterisation and help the reader identify all characters in a literary work. Hence, this project aims at analysing the resulting identity of fictional characters with a focus on linguistic variation and the use of language. The study has two main objectives: to analyse the male characters’ speech and its evolution in the novel, and to analyse the extent to which their translation may have an impact on the characters’ literary identity.

In order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, this paper analyses the language of the main male characters of the Victorian novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and its translations into Spanish. The male characters seem to function as opposition to the characterisation of the novel’s main character, Tess Durbeyfield. In addition, they use a very distinct language, which will contrast with the rest of the characters. Thus, this paper aims at verifying whether this contrast as well as their distinguishable characterisations are maintained in the target texts. As will be seen, translating distinct language is essential in fictional characteri-sation as well as in the reception of foreign literature, in this case, English literature in
the Spanish context.
EL DIÁLOGO RENACENTISTA A LA LUZ DE LA CENSURA EN ESPAÑA: DE LEÓN HEBREO A SPERONE SPERONI
Authors: Valencia María Dolores 
Published: January 2023

El género dialogístico, connatural con el Renacimiento desde los humanistas del siglo XV, conoce un gran éxito editorial debido, al parecer, a que no son obras exclusivamente de ficción que tan solo procuran el delectare del lector, sino que su carácter didáctico las convierte también en obras muy provechosas. El carácter cosmopolita de la época de Carlos V se refleja en los diálogos editados a partir de 1525 en los que aumenta de manera considerable la influencia de Erasmo y de los autores italianos. Así mismo, en la década de 1550 se dieron ya una serie de indicios que anunciaban un cambio radical en el incremento de la actividad censoria respecto a las tres décadas anteriores. Esta presión inquisitorial fue mayor sobre los géneros que tendían a la divulgación del pensamiento, entre los que se encuentra el diálogo. En el presente estudio, escueto por necesidad, nos centraremos en tres casos concretos del abundante corpus de prestigiosos diálogos italianos renacentistas censurados, que van desde la traducción de los Dialoghi d’amore (1593) de León Hebreo, que tratan de la naturaleza y esencia del amor, de su universalidad y de su origen a los seis diálogos sobre cultura política que componen los Discorsi de’ principii della nobiltà de Marco de la Frata Montalbani (1551), que apuestan por que la política es un medio de perfección individual y colectivo, para terminar con los Dialoghi de Sperone Speroni (1546), testimonio de su concepción filosófica del mundo y cuyos contenidos de estética y filosofía eran de común conocimiento entre los círculos letrados de la época y aludidos con relativa frecuencia en la literatura.
HUBUNGAN DUKUNGAN SOSIAL, KESEIMBANGAN KERJA-KELUARGA, DAN LAMA PERNIKAHAN DENGAN KEPUASAN PERNIKAHAN ISTRI PASANGAN BEKERJA (DUAL-EARNER COUPLE)
Authors: Husna Dias Rahmanti , Karyani Usmi 
Published: January 2023

In working couples, the wife’s responsibility looks heavier because she has several roles. Women who have had children face role tension which can eventually lead to marital dissatisfaction. Factors such as social support from husband, family, and children; also work-family balance are important. The length of marriages is one of determinants to the length of adaptation that carried out marital satisfaction. The sampling technique was purposive random sampling. The were working women aged 20-50 years, had a working husband. The data were analyzed by using multiple linear regression analysis method. The result, there is a significant relationship between social support, work-family balance, and length of marriage with marital satisfaction with a sig value 0.000 and F value 39.970. The major hypothesis in this study is acceptable. Social support and work-family balance have a positive and significant relationship with marital satisfaction; while length of marriage has no relationship with marital satisfaction (has a negative relationship direction). Marital satisfaction can be explained by social support and work-family balance by 36%, both of these factors have the same contribution 18%. Pada pada pasangan bekerja, tanggung jawab istri lebih berat karena memiliki beberapa peran. Faktor seperti dukungan sosial dan keseimbangan kerja-keluarga menjadi penting. Lama pernikahan merupakan salah satu penentu lamanya adaptasi yang dilakukan untuk mencapai kepuasan pernikahan. Penelitian ini mengungkap hubungan dukungan sosial, keseimbangan kerja-keluarga, dan lama pernikahan dengan kepuasan pernikahan. Teknik sampling yang digunakan adalah purposive sampling, subjek wanita bekerja (20-50 tahun), telah menikah, dan memiliki suami bekerja. Metode analisis regresi linear berganda yang digunakan mendapatkan hasil hubungan yang signifikan antara dukungan sosial, keseimbangan kerja-keluarga, dan lama pernikahan dengan kepuasan pernikahan dengan sig. 0,000 dan nilai F 39,970. Hipotesis mayor dalam penelitian ini dapat diterima. Dukungan sosial dengan kepuasan pernikahan r 0,447 dan sig. 0,000<0,05, keseimbangan kerja-keluarga r 0,454 dan sig. 0,000<0,05 keduanya memiliki hubungan positif yang signifikan dengan kepuasan pernikahan, sedangkan lama pernikahan tidak memiliki hubungan dengan kepuasan pernikahan, r 0,142 dan sig. 0,863>0,05) dengan arah hubungan negatif. Kontribusi variabel dukungan sosial dan keseimbangan kerja-keluarga sebesar 36%.
Digital Education and Future Skills of Public Servants
Authors: Gervacio Juvy Lizette 
Published: January 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic is a game changer in capacity development. It has enabled governments to recognize that aside from shifting to digital processes and procedures, digital technology can also contribute to the development of capacities as well as future skills of public servants.
This paper discusses digital education and its role in developing the capacities and future skills of public servants in the context of the Master of Public Management Program of the University of the Philippines Open University. It also presents how activities can be re-designed to develop future skills.
pH prediction for a semi-batch cream cheese fermentation using a grey-box model
Authors: Guo Shiying , Yu Wei , Wilson David I. , Young Brent R. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Cream cheese, a popular condiment, is widely used in people’s daily diet and in dessert making. To ensure high-quality cream cheese production, the pH value is generally used as the indicator to determine the end point of cream cheese fermentation. The inoculation time and time-dependent concentrations of biomass, lactose, lactic acid are all crucial for pH prediction. However, the inoculation time could vary for industrial applications with multiple fermenters. Moreover, the inoculation time impact on fermentation has not been investigated. This paper aims to build a cream cheese fermentation model predicting pH. The model includes a semi-batch kinetic model and an artificial neural network (ANN) model. The outcome of the model will help the cream cheese industries understand the inoculation time impact on fermentation time and organise better fermenter scheduling.
Cancer made me a shallower person: A minoritarian story in comics
Authors: Tzouva Pinelopi 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThe most widely circulated breast cancer narratives today have the structure of a Bildungsroman. They market personal growth, overcoming, and self-improvement, and reflect a strikingly neoliberal stance, even towards a potentially fatal illness as breast cancer. This is not the case with Miriam Engelberg’s graphic novelCancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics(2006), which resists this dominant tendency. Engelberg’s book, does manifest some of the typical Bildungsroman traits (e. g. introspective hero, need for belonging). Mostly, however, it is torn between opposing tendencies: Engelberg oscillates between vulnerability and detachment, irony and expectation, the urge to withdraw from a frightening situation and the desire to speak up against all the injustice and bad practices she witnesses. Engelberg never gives in to “the pressure to become someone different – someone nobler and more courageous than (she) was” (Engelberg 2006: xiii), but mocks and denounces all oppressive cultural attitudes. Instead of becoming “deeper” and more spiritual, in the socially prescribed ways, she chooses “the path of shallowness” (xiii), and remains a witty and critical outsider. These attributes, together with the episodic fragmentation of Engelberg’s book, bring it closer to a picaresque, the protagonist of which, like her, occupies a marginal position, moves from situation to situation, and makes the reader aware of the social norms while she simultaneously challenges and destabilizes them (Moenandar 2017: 5). The goal of my article is to examine Engelberg’s memoir as a minoritarian, hybrid form of writing between Bildungsroman and picaresque, pointing to alternatives to the dominant stories of overcoming and neoliberal survivorship.
Three-dimensional simulation of capillary rheometry for an estimation of extensional viscosity
Authors: Tseng Huan-Chang 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
It is difficult to directly measure the steady extensional viscosity of thermoplastic composite materials, especially at high extension rates. The famous Cogswell method was derived analytically from the pressure drop of entrance flow in commercial capillary rheometers for estimating the extensional viscosity. However, using Cogswell´s extensional viscosity has always resulted in over-predictions of pressure drop. Recently, the GNF-X (eXtended Generalized Newtonian Fluid) model with a weighted shear/extensional viscosity was proposed to show the typical extension-induced vortex growth in entrance flow simulations. Under given various values of Trouton’s ratio for extensional viscosity, the GNF-X model is introduced to perform three-dimensional flow simulations of capillary rheometry over a range of apparent shear rates. The difference between the predicted pressure drops and the relevant experimental data is minimized such that the estimation of extensional viscosity is optimized herein.
The average character degree of finite groups and Gluck’s conjecture
Authors: Moretó Alexander 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
We prove that the order of a finite group 𝐺 with trivial solvable radical is bounded above in terms of

acd
⁡

(
G
)

\operatorname{acd}(G)

, the average degree of the irreducible characters.
It is not true that the index of the Fitting subgroup is bounded above in terms of

acd
⁡

(
G
)

\operatorname{acd}(G)

, but we show that, in certain cases, it is bounded in terms of the degrees of the irreducible characters of 𝐺 that lie over a linear character of the Fitting subgroup.
This leads us to propose a refined version of Gluck’s conjecture.
Spanish as a heritage language in Europe: a demolinguistic perspective
Authors: Loureda Lamas Óscar , Moreno-Fernández Francisco , Álvarez Mella Héctor 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This paper offers an estimation of the number of Spanish speakers in Europe in order to analyze the demographic dynamics according to their migratory backgrounds. This demolinguistic approach allows us to quantify this group of Spanish heritage speakers and outline their demographic and linguistic profiles. Through analyzing specific family, social, educational, and geographic settings, this paper identifies a heterogeneous group of 1.7 million Spanish heritage speakers. Moreover, we discuss the social dynamics involved in the intergenerational transmission of the Spanish language in different contexts: spaces in which Spanish is an official language and in which different geographic varieties coexist, and spaces beyond the national borders of predominantly Spanish-speaking countries. In the latter, the demolinguistic analysis suggests that barely a third have been linguistically socialized in environments favorable to the intergenerational transmission of the Spanish language.
λ/20 surface nanostructuring of ZnO by mask-less ultrafast laser processing
Authors: Bai Shi , Li Zhaoxu , Obata Kotaro , Kawabata Shota , Sugioka Koji 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Fabrication of nanostructures with a feature size much smaller than the laser wavelength is challenging due to the optical diffraction limit. It’s well known that the irradiation of polarized ultrafast laser generates periodic nanostructures, so called laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS). Owing to the modulated field, the surface is periodically ablated to form specific patterns, which can be used for some photonic applications including surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). In this paper, we investigate the morphologies of LIPSS on ZnO substrates by mask-less ultrafast laser processing. By adjusting the laser processing parameters, including fluence, pulse number, polarization, and pulse duration, the homogenous nanostrip array and nanopillar array are created. Furthermore, by adjusting the laser fluence, a single nanogroove with a width of ∼20 nm and a single nanocavity with a diameter of ∼24 nm are created. The gold nanoparticles are then coated on the ZnO nanopillar array for SERS application. We found that the concentration of defects in ZnO substrate is increased by the laser irradiation, which is beneficial for SERS performances to achieve an enhancement factor of SERS as high as 2.28 × 107.
Mineral Clays for Cleaning Tidelines on Paper-Based Artworks
Authors: Desbrière Alimatou , Dupont Anne-Laurence , Bajon-Bouzid Thalia , Drieu la Rochelle Isabelle 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Clay minerals possess several properties such as ion exchange capability, alkaline pH, adsorptive, swelling, and plastic behaviour, most of which are governed by their interactions with water. They have the capacity to interact with soluble molecules, which is particularly interesting for art conservation treatments. For all these reasons clays deserve to be considered for green and sustainable paper conservation interventions. In this work two phyllosilicates with different properties, namely montmorillonite and sepiolite, were investigated for the removal of tidelines on artificially aged paper samples. Water exchange, cleaning efficiency, and pH were evaluated comparing the clays to gellan gum, a benchmark cleaning hydrogel. A pouch made with regenerated cellulose was used to avoid direct contact of the minerals with the paper. The water sorption capacity of the clays combined with the specific permeability of the cellulosic membrane allowed for a homogeneous and easy to control cleaning. The formation of new tidelines, an inherent risk to any local conservation treatment of paper, was avoided. As an example, sepiolite was used for the local cleaning of a paper-based artwork’s multiple tidelines.
Einen „neuen-alten Bosniaken“ bilden. Religiöse Bildung in der Postkriegsphase in Bosnien und Herzegowina
Authors: Topalović Said 
Published: January 2023

Zusammenfassung
Der Fokus des vorliegenden Beitrags liegt auf der religiösen Bildung in Bosnien-Herzegowina (BH) in der Postkriegsphase aus muslimischer Perspektive. Gerade der religiösen Bildung kommt in dieser Zeit eine bedeutende Rolle zu: Sie soll neben der Vermittlung und Reflexion islamischer Glaubens- und Handlungspraxis u. a. die Bildung einer bosniakischen Identität und aufgrund verheerender Ereignisse in den 1990er Jahren die Friedensprozesse unterstützen. In diesem Zusammenhang erfolgt eine religionspädagogische Reflexion, die sich auf folgende Bildungsinstitutionen fokussiert: 1. Traditionell-religiöse Bildung im Kontext der Gemeinden; 2. Religionsunterricht in der Schule; 3. Masterstudiengang „Interreligiöse Studien und Friedensförderung“ an der Universität Sarajevo.