bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Discovery of a novel FLT3 agonist for the treatment of thrombocytopenia using AI-based virtual screening
Authors: Wang Long , Zhang Ting , Yang Xin , Mo Qi , Ran Mei , Li Rong , Yang Bo , Shen Hongping , Jiang Nan , Zeng Jing , Li Qinyao , Li Zhichao , Xie Xiang , He Siyu , Huang Feihong , Zhang Chunxiang , Luo Jiesi , Wu Jianming 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Background
Radiation-induced thrombocytopenia (RIT) poses a significant risk to cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy, leading to hemorrhage and mortality. Unfortunately, effective treatment options for RIT are currently limited.
Methods
We assessed the effectiveness of Fructus Psoraleae, a popular traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) known for its hemostatic properties, in treating thrombocytopenia through the application of network pharmacology. Utilizing a naive Bayes algorithm, we built a drug screening model to determine the effective compounds present in Fructus Psoraleae. Giemsa staining and flow cytometry were employed to evaluate the effects of the potential active compound, Bavachinin A, on the differentiation of megakaryocytes (MK) in K562 and Meg-01 cells. Furthermore, we conducted experiments using RIT mice and c-MPL knock-out (c-MPL−/−) mice to assess the therapeutic efficacy of Bavachinin A in mitigating thrombocytopenia. Additionally, Tg (cd41:eGFP) transgenic zebrafish were utilized to investigate the impact of Bavachinin A on thrombopoiesis. To elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms of Bavachinin A against thrombocytopenia, we employed RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq), network pharmacology analysis, molecular docking simulations, molecular dynamics simulations, drug affinity responsive target stability assay (DARTS), and biolayer interferometry (BLI).
Results
Bavachinin A emerged as the most promising candidate from our investigations. In vitro experiments demonstrated the significant ability of Bavachinin A to induce MK differentiation. In vivo experiments revealed that Bavachinin A had the capacity to augment platelet levels and improve coagulation in RIT mice, facilitated megakaryopoiesis and platelet level in c-MPL−/− mice, and accelerated thrombopoiesis in zebrafish. Furthermore, RNA-seq analysis revealed that the core signaling pathway regulated by Bavachinin A was PI3K/Akt. Molecular docking simulation, molecular dynamics simulation, DARTS and BLI demonstrated that Bavachinin A directly bound to FLT3. Notably, blocking FLT3 or PI3K/Akt hindered Bavachinin A-induced MK differentiation, but repressing TPO/c-MPL signaling pathway had no significant effect.
Conclusions
Our findings suggest that Bavachinin A promotes MK differentiation and thrombopoiesis by binding directly to FLT3 and activating the PI3K/Akt signaling. Importantly, this effect is not contingent upon the conventional TPO/c-MPL signaling pathway. Our study highlights translational potential of Bavachinin A as a novel therapeutic agent for thrombocytopenia, and presents a novel strategy for drug discovery using multimodal and multiscale methods.
The Determinants of the Financial Distress of Italian Municipalities: How Much Is It Due to Inadequate Resources?
Authors: Padovani Emanuele , Porcelli Francesco , Zanardi Alberto 
Published: September 2023

Abstract

The key question of this paper is whether the conditions of financial distress recently experienced by Italian municipalities can be at least partially imputed to the inadequacy of financial resources some municipalities suffer compared to the needs of their populations and territories. Starting from a multidimensional definition of financial distress, we investigate this issue by exploiting the new mechanism of equalization transfers recently implemented in Italy at municipal level which provides an exogenous measure of the resource gap possibly suffered by each municipality compared to their needs assessed on a standardized basis. The estimation results show that the Italian municipalities suffering from a level of resources below what is necessary to provide public services at standard levels are, ceteris paribus, more prone to run into financial difficulties. By the same token, large cuts in central government transfers have a statistically significant effect on financial vulnerability at municipal level. JEL: H70, H72, H77
Pharmacoinformatics-based investigation of phytochemicals against HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase
Authors: Tabani Usmangani 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Purpose
The goal of this study was to examine some anti-HIV phytochemicals that were found in the database and determine how they work. Because some phytochemicals can inhibit more than one target, two reverse transcriptases with PDB IDs 1REV and 1RT1 were used.
Methods
The Dr. Duke Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database was used to obtain phytochemicals. ADMET lab 2.0 is used to study in-silico analysis of druglike characteristics and toxicity, to study molecular docking, PyRx virtual screening software, and Biovia Discovery Studio were employed. SiBioLead is an online tool that was used to study molecular dynamics simulation.
Result
23 Phytochemicals with anti-HIV activity were chosen for the current study from Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. Using the ADMET lab2.0 in-silico method, 23 phytochemicals were studied for their druglike properties and toxicity. The six phytochemicals with druglike properties and low toxicity chosen for further research were Chlorogenic acid, Colchicine, Curcumin, Ellagic acid, Myricetin, and Papaverine. These six phytochemicals were docked with two HIV-1 reverse transcriptase proteins with PDB ID: 1REV and 1RT1, using PyRx, and the docking results were analyzed using Biovia Discovery Studio. The docking results of these six phytochemicals were compared to FDA-approved drugs Zidovudine and Nevirapine and found to have better anti-HIV activity. All six phytochemicals had stable interactions with HIV proteins when studied using the online molecular dynamics simulation tool SiBioLead.
Conclusion
According to the findings, the above six chemicals could be promising lead molecules for the treatment of HIV infection.
Tracing two decades of carbon emissions using a network approach
Authors: Mastrandrea Rossana , Guidi Gianluca , Facchini Angelo , Squartini Tiziano , Kennedy Christopher 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Carbon emissions are currently attributed to producers although a consumption-aware accounting is advocated. After constructing the Carbon Trade Network, we trace the flow of emissions over the past two decades. Our analysis reveals the presence of an unexpected, positive feedback: despite individual exchanges have become less carbon-intensive, the increase in trading activity has ultimately risen the amount of emissions directed from 'net exporters' towards 'net importers'. Adopting a consumption-aware accounting would re-distribute responsibility between the two groups, possibly reducing disparities.
Modification of the Traditional Half Schlumberger Arrays and its Efficiency for Subsurface Exploration
Authors: Abdullahi Diya’ulhaq , Nagoda Nura Muhammad , Jaiyeoba Emmanuel , Musa Salisu , Muhammad Abubakar , Mahamood Muhammad Ridwan , Musa Aliyu Usman 
Published: September 2023

Abstract

Geophysical investigation of the earth’s subsurface is vital for engineering and environmental surveys. Application of the basic methods of geophysics to detect and study subsurface anomalies for engineering and environmental problems. This study modified the existing Half Schlumberger arrays after evaluating the efficiency of the existing Half Schlumberger array. The Modified Half Schlumberger (SMH) relatively produces a better result for a deeper geophysical investigation where there is a limited space than the existing Half Schlumberger (SH). The results of the investigated nine (9) VES stations were presented in tables and graphs, which shows that the two arrays are nearly the same (about 94% in similarity). The SMH array shows an interesting result. It was noted that the S_MH probes were deeper than the usual SF arrays with an average extension of about 2.4 m depth in terms of overburden thickness. In addition, the two arrays produce identical curve types, subsurface parameters, and soil depth section sequences across all the VES stations. The identical results confirmed the efficiency and reliability of the SMH array. Consequently, SMH can be adopted as a practicable alternative array to the traditional SH and the conventional Full Schlumberger (SF) array for any geophysical survey, where the usual SF array is applicable, most especially when deeper subsurface information is required and the available space is highly limited.
Machine Learning Prediction Of Organic Moieties From The IR Spectra, Enhanced By Additionally Using The Derivative IR Data
Authors: Krzyżanowski Maurycy , Matyszczak Grzegorz 
Published: September 2023

Abstract

Infrared spectroscopy is a crucial analytical tool in organic chemistry, but interpreting IR data can be challenging. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of five machine learning models: Logistic Regression, KNN (k-nearest neighbors), SVM (support vector machine), Random Forest, and MLP (multilayer perceptron), and their effectiveness in interpreting IR spectra. The simple KNN model outperformed the more complex SVM model in execution time and F1 score, proving the potential of simpler models in interpreting the IR data. The combination of original spectra with its corresponding derivatives, improved the performance of all models with a minimal increase in execution time. Denoising of the IR data was investigated but did not significantly improve performance. Although the MLP model showed better performance than the KNN model, its longer execution time is substantial. Ultimately, KNN is recommended for rapid results with minimal performance compromise, while MLP is suggested for projects prioritizing accuracy despite longer execution time.
Diminished Adolescent Social Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Furlong Michael J. , Chan Meiki , Dowdy Erin , Gibson Karen Nylund 
Published: September 2023

Abstract

Managing the COVID-19 pandemic involved implementing public health policies that disrupted students’ lives, creating conditions that substantially influenced their mental health and well-being. Subsequently, research focused on the mental health sequelae of increased depression and anxiety, but the possible impacts on adolescents’ social well-being have been largely unexamined. Social well-being is essential to youth’s overall mental health and can be diminished even without symptoms of depression and anxiety. This study explored heterogeneities in changes in adolescents’ social well-being from pre-COVID-19 to post-restrictions using longitudinal data from adolescents attending middle and high schools in California (N = 1,299; 49.9% female). Data collection involved four observations. Participants completed a school-based mental health wellness check-in survey annually from 2019 to 2022. A latent profile analysis identified five profiles demonstrating distinctive social well-being trajectories. Two ordered profiles included Stable-High (28%) and Stable-Low (26%) patterns. The other three groups represented nonordered profiles labeled as Succumbing (20%), Languishing (14%), and Recovering (12%). Pervasive decreases in social well-being among adolescents were observed, and a significant portion did not recover to their pre-COVID-19 level in 2022. Adolescents in the Stable-High and Recovering profiles showed better psychological well-being, optimism, and school connectedness, and less distress than their counterparts in other profiles. Mental health professionals should be aware of the effects that the pandemic has had on adolescents’ social well-being. Lower levels of social well-being may be a risk factor for adolescents developing generally jaded attitudes about their social networks and diminishing their potential engagement with sources of social support.
Case study of hydrogen sulfide release in the sulfate-rich sewage drop structure
Authors: Hamad Namran F. , Nile Basim K. , Alamir Hassan Thoulfikar A. , Faris Ahmed M. , Ismail Hani K. , Hassan Waqed H. , Ahmed Luma M. , Alesary Hasan F. , Barton Stephen 
Published: September 2023

Abstract

H2S is one of the principal odor gases released from sewer networks and understanding the rate of H2S release into sewer air space and ventilation to the atmosphere is crucial for preventing or minimizing odor and corrosion issues in sewer systems. TOXCHEM model was used to simulate the fate of H2S gas in roads for this study. The model was calibrated for the spring and summer seasons and validated for the remainder of the seasons. The predicted behavior showed good correlation to measurements on real samples following statistical analysis, with R2, R, and RMSE results between (0.93–0.97), (0.8–0.82), and (0.000438–0.000838), respectively. A sensitivity study was performed to assess the effect of various pH values, drop heights, tailwater depths, stream widths, and sewer ventilation rate levels. The results showed that the emissions concentrations for winter, spring, summer, and autumn reached 3500, 5044, 6425, and 4045 ppm respectively. All the emissions levels from this DS can be considered hazardous, and this was particularly evident during the summer months. This study has helped to clarify the fate and emission of hydrogen sulfide gas at the DS by simulation using a TOXCHEM model.
Drivers and Barriers to Implementing the Internet of Things in the Health Care Supply Chain: Mixed Methods Multicase Study
Authors: Heeres Tjitske J. , Tran Tri Mikael , Noort Bart A.C. 
Published: September 2023

Background
Over the past 2 years, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed enormous pressure on the health care industry. There has been an increase in demand and, at the same time, a shortage of supplies. This has shown that supply chain management in the health care industry cannot be taken for granted. Furthermore, the health care industry is also facing other major challenges, such as the current labor market shortage. In the literature, the Internet of Things (IoT) is highlighted as an effective tool to build a more resilient and efficient supply chain that can manage these challenges. Although using IoT in supply chain management has been extensively examined in other types of supply chains, its use in the health care supply chain has largely been overlooked. Given that the health care supply chain, compared to others, is more complex and is under growing pressure, a more in-depth understanding of the opportunities brought by IoT is necessary.

Objective
This study aims to address this research gap by identifying and ranking the drivers of and barriers to implementing IoT in the health care supply chain.

Methods
We conducted a 2-stage study. In the first, exploratory stage, a total of 12 semistructured interviews were conducted to identify drivers and barriers. In the second, confirmatory stage, a total of 26 health care supply chain professionals were asked in a survey to rank the drivers and barriers.

Results
The results show that there are multiple financial, operational, strategy-related, and supply chain-related drivers for implementing IoT. Similarly, there are various financial, strategy-related, supply chain-related, technology-related, and user-related barriers. The findings also show that supply chain-related drivers (eg, increased transparency, traceability, and collaboration with suppliers) are the strongest drivers, while financial barriers (eg, high implementation costs and difficulties in building a business case) are the biggest barriers to overcome.

Conclusions
The findings of this study add to the limited literature regarding IoT in the health care supply chain by empirically identifying the most important drivers and barriers to IoT implementation. The ranking of drivers and barriers provides guidance for practitioners and health care provider leaders intending to implement IoT in the health care supply chain.
Elections to the Fourth State Duma of the Russian Empire as Assessed by the Newspaper Arkhangelsk
Authors: Сорокин А.А. 
Published: September 2023

В статье рассматриваются вопросы освещения избирательной кампании в IV Государственную думу Российской империи в Архангельской губернии. Впервые в историографии на базе публикаций кадетской газеты «Архангельск» автор реконструирует процесс выборов 1912 г. на территории Архангельской губернии. Показывается отношение редакции газеты к действующему избирательному законодательству и инициативам по его развитию (лишение духовенства избирательных прав, женское избирательное право). Дается сравнительный анализ количества избирателей по уездам губернии на выборах в III и IV Государственные думы, показывается представительство от каждой из групп избирателей в губернском избирательном собрании. В повестке газеты «Архангельск» автором выделяются следующие ключевые вопросы при освещении выборов: участие в выборах духовенства, влияние властей на ход избирательной кампании, ход выборов в уездах, предвыборная агитация, прогнозирование итогов выборов. Показывается специфика отношения редакции газеты к итогам выборов в IV Государственную думу.
The article deals with the issues of coverage of the election campaign to the Fourth State Duma of the Russian Empire in Arkhangelsk Governorate. For the first time in historiography, the author reconstructs the process of the 1912 elections in the territory of Arkhangelsk Governorate on the basis of the publications in the Kadet newspaper Arkhangelsk. The author shows the attitude of the newspaper editors to the current electoral legislation and the initiatives for its development (disenfranchisement of the clergy, women’s suffrage). The author provides a comparative analysis of the number of voters in the elections to the Third and Fourth State Dumas by uyezd and considers representation of each group of voters in the governorate electoral assembly. In the agenda of the newspaper Arkhangelsk, the author highlights the following key issues in the coverage of the elections: participation of the clergy in the elections, influence of the authorities on the course of the election campaign, of the elections in uyezds, election campaigning, and forecasting the election results. Specific attitude of the newspaper editors to the results of the elections to the Fourth State Duma is shown.
Prospects for Comparative Studies of Legal Change in Late Tsarist Russia: Judicial Reform of 1864 in the Crimea and the Volga Region
Authors: Каменецкий Е.Л. 
Published: September 2023

Рецензируемая монография являет собой попытку представить новые методологические траектории в исследовании сложной правовой реальности Российской империи второй половины XIX в. Автор монографии уделяет особое внимание проблемам правовых изменений в условиях культурного разнообразия, избирая объектом своего исследования пореформенные Крым и Поволжье. В рецензии основной акцент сделан на ключевой концептуальной установке книги – использовании содержания понятия правового плюрализма для описания сложности правового взаимодействия общества и государства. Кроме этого, подчеркиваются трудности использования материалов судебных ведомств в рамках историко-антропологического подхода. Методология автора универсальна, а потому может быть с успехом использована историками в рамках региональных и сравнительных исследований других регионов империи.
The monograph under review makes an attempt to present new methodological trajectories in the study of the complex legal reality in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. The author of the monograph pays special attention to the problems of legal change in the conditions of cultural diversity, choosing the post-reform Crimea and Volga Region as the object of his research. The review focuses on the key conceptual principle of the book, namely the use of the content of legal pluralism to describe the complexity of the legal interaction between society and the state. In addition to this, the difficulties of using the materials of the judicial departments within the framework of the historical anthropological approach are emphasized. The author’s methodology is universal, and therefore it can be further successfully used by historians in the framework of regional and comparative studies of other regions of the empire.
Acupuncture has potential in managing axial stiffness in steeplechase racehorses: a blinded prospective randomized preliminary study
Authors: Terlinden Antoinette , Szymkowiak Manon , Jonville Eva , Hatrisse Chloé , De Azevedo Emeline , Coudry Virginie , Denoix Jean-Marie , Pilot-Storck Fanny , Desquilbet Loïc , Bertoni Lélia 
Published: September 2023

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
Evaluate the short-term effects of acupuncture on the dynamic manifestations of axial stiffness in steeplechase racehorses.

ANIMALS
12 steeplechase racehorses presenting signs of axial stiffness during training.

METHODS
Horses were randomly assigned to either an acupuncture treatment by an experienced certified acupuncturist (n = 6) or no treatment as negative controls (6). The horses’ locomotion was evaluated during training before treatment (D0) and 7 (D7) and 14 (D14) days after by their rider and trainer through a questionnaire. Additionally, the improvement of their dorsal flexibility 2 days after treatment was evaluated subjectively at the trot, free jumping at the canter was evaluated by expert clinicians, and free jumping at the trot was evaluated objectively via inertial measurement units.

RESULTS
Significantly more horses were improved on D7 and D14 in the acupuncture group (6/6) compared with the control group (1/5; P =.01) according to the scores set by the trainer and riders. Subjective evaluation of the dorsal flexibility also revealed a significant improvement (P = .04) for horses receiving the acupuncture treatment (median improvement score, 0.50 [reference range, 0.5 to 0.9]) compared with control horses (–0.25 [reference range, –0.5 to 0]).

CLINICAL RELEVANCE
Acupuncture may be an interesting nondoping strategy to improve clinical signs of axial stiffness and performance on steeplechase racehorses.