bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Guidance to develop a multidisciplinary, international, pediatric registry: a systematic review
Authors: Ombashi S. , van der Goes P. A. J. , Versnel S. L. , Khonsari R. H. , van der Molen A. E. Mink 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Aim
The European Reference Network for craniofacial anomalies and ear, nose and throat disorders (ERN-CRANIO) aims to improve craniofacial care on a European scale. Within ERN-CRANIO, the cleft lip and palate (CL/P) work stream seeks to ameliorate health outcomes for patients with CL/P. This work stream acknowledged the need for a European wide registry for comparable outcome measures and therapy endpoints to achieve this goal. This review aimed to provide a scientific basis for the conceptualization of this registry by studying previous registry initiatives.

Methods
This review performed thematic analysis on twenty-four articles through narrative synthesis. An iterative process was used to identify key-themes required for prolonged registry success.

Results
Analysis of the literature resulted in twenty-one distinct headings including quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative data including registry characteristics were visualized in a table. The analysis of qualitative data resulted in the identification of fourteen key-themes, which have been summarized and visualized in a guidance.

Conclusion
This review has successfully identified key-themes required for the development of an international, multidisciplinary, pediatric registry for pan-European cleft care. The guidance provided by this review applies to the goals of ERN-CRANIO, but can be used by any initiative developing a registry.
Comparison of video laryngoscope, video stylet, and flexible videoscope for transoral endotracheal intubation in patients with difficult airways: a randomized, parallel-group study
Authors: Zhang Tao , Zhao Kai-Yuan , Zhang Ping , Li Ren-Hu 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Background
The 2022 ASA guidelines recommend the video laryngoscope, video stylet, and flexible videoscope as airway management tools. This study aims to compare the efficacy of three airway devices in intubating patients with difficult airways.

Methods
A total of 177 patients were selected and randomized into the following three groups: the video laryngoscope group (Group VL, n = 59), video stylet group (Group VS, n = 59), and flexible videoscope group (Group FV, n = 59). The success rate of the first-pass intubation, time of tracheal intubation, level of glottic exposure, and occurrence of intubation-related adverse events were recorded and analyzed.

Results
All patients were successfully intubated with three devices. The first-pass intubation success rate was significantly higher in Groups VS and FV than in Group VL (96.61% vs. 93.22% vs. 83.05%, P < 0.01), but it was similar in the first-pass intubation success rate between Groups VS and FV(P > 0.05). The number of patients categorized as Wilson-Cormack-Lehane grade I-II was fewer in Group VL than in Groups VS and FV (77.97% vs. 98.30% vs. 100%, P = 0.0281). The time to tracheal intubation was significantly longer in Group FV(95.20 ± 4.01) than in Groups VL(44.56 ± 4.42) and VS(26.88 ± 4.51) (P < 0.01). No significant differences were found among the three groups in terms of adverse intubation reactions (P > 0.05).

Conclusions
In patients with difficult airways requiring intubation, use of the video stylet has the advantage of a relatively shorter intubation time, and the flexible videoscope and video stylet yield a higher first-pass intubation success rate and clearer glottic exposure than the use of the video laryngoscope.

Trial registration
Chinese Clinical Trial Registry. No: ChiCTR2200061560, June 29, 2022.
Cascade algorithms for combined acoustic feedback cancelation and noise reduction
Authors: Ruiz Santiago , van Waterschoot Toon , Moonen Marc 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis paper presents three cascade algorithms for combined acoustic feedback cancelation (AFC) and noise reduction (NR) in speech applications. A prediction error method (PEM)-based adaptive feedback cancelation (PEM-based AFC) algorithm is used for the AFC stage, while a multichannel Wiener filter (MWF) is applied for the NR stage. A scenario with M microphones and 1 loudspeaker is considered, without loss of generality. The first algorithm is the baseline algorithm, namely the cascade M-channel rank-1 MWF and PEM-AFC, where a NR stage is performed first using a rank-1 MWF followed by a single-channel AFC stage using a PEM-based AFC algorithm. The second algorithm is the cascade $$(M+1)$$

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-channel rank-2 MWF and PEM-AFC, where again a NR stage is applied first followed by a single-channel AFC stage. The novelty of this algorithm is to consider an ($$M+1$$

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)-channel data model in the MWF formulation with two different desired signals, i.e., the speech component in the reference microphone signal and in the loudspeaker signal, both defined by the speech source signal but not equal to each other. The two desired signal estimates are later used in a single-channel PEM-based AFC stage. The third algorithm is the cascade M-channel PEM-AFC and rank-1 MWF where an M-channel AFC stage is performed first followed by an M-channel NR stage. Although in cascade algorithms where NR is performed first and then AFC the estimation of the feedback path is usually affected by the NR stage, it is shown here that by performing a rank-2 approximation of the speech correlation matrix this issue can be avoided and the feedback path can be correctly estimated. The performance of the algorithms is assessed by means of closed-loop simulations where it is shown that for the considered input signal-to-noise ratios (iSNRs) the cascade $$(M+1)$$

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-channel rank-2 MWF and PEM-AFC and the cascade M-channel PEM-AFC and rank-1 MWF algorithms outperform the cascade M-channel rank-1 MWF and PEM-AFC algorithm in terms of the added stable gain (ASG) and misadjustment (Mis) as well as in terms of perceptual metrics such as the short-time objective intelligibility (STOI), perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), and signal distortion (SD).
Divergent roles of the Hippo pathway in the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: tissue homeostasis and fibrosis
Authors: Kizawa Ryusuke , Araya Jun , Fujita Yu 
Published: September 2023

AbstractIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive aging-related lung disease with a poor prognosis. Despite extensive research, the cause of IPF remains largely unknown and treatment strategies are limited. Proposed mechanisms of the pathogenesis of IPF are a combination of excessive accumulation of the extracellular matrix and dysfunctional lung tissue regeneration. Epithelial cell dysfunction, in addition to fibroblast activation, is considered a key process in the progression of IPF. Epithelial cells normally maintain homeostasis of the lung tissue through regulated proliferation, differentiation, cell death, and cellular senescence. However, various stresses can cause repetitive damage to lung epithelial cells, leading to dysfunctional regeneration and acquisition of profibrotic functions. The Hippo pathway is a central signaling pathway that maintains tissue homeostasis and plays an essential role in fundamental biological processes. Dysregulation of the Hippo pathway has been implicated in various diseases, including IPF. However, the role of the Hippo pathway in the pathogenesis of IPF remains unclear, particularly given the pathway’s opposing effects on the 2 key pathogenic mechanisms of IPF: epithelial cell dysfunction and fibroblast activation. A deeper understanding of the relationship between the Hippo pathway and the pathogenesis of IPF will pave the way for novel Hippo-targeted therapies.
Facial nerve neurographies in intensive care unit-acquired weakness
Authors: Lochter Maximilian , Sommer Martin , Moerer Onnen , Stephani Caspar 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Background
Patients with an intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) often present clinically with severe paresis of the limb and trunk muscles while facial muscles appear less affected. To investigate whether the facial nerves are partially spared from this condition, we performed both peripheral and cranial nerve conduction studies in critically ill patients.

Methods
In patients requiring prolonged ICU therapy, the motor and sensory nerve conduction velocities of the peroneal, ulnar and facial nerves and the muscle action potentials of the associated muscles, as well as the orbicularis oculi reflexes were assessed shortly after admission, and on ICU days 7 and 14.

Results
Eighteen patients were included in the final data analysis (average age 54.2 ± 16.8 years, 8 females). The amplitudes of the peroneal nerve compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) were reduced in all patients at ICU days 7 and 14 (F(1.39; 23.63) = 13.85; p < 0.001). There was no similar decrease in the CMAP amplitudes of the ulnar or facial nerve. Other parameters of nerve function (latencies, sensory and motor nerve conduction velocities, sensory nerve action potentials) remained unchanged. The reproducibility of the orbicularis oculi reflex was reduced during the disease course, while its latencies did not change significantly during the disease course.

Conclusions
There is a relative preservation of CMAPs in facial and hand as opposed to foot muscles. This is compatible with the clinical observation that the facial muscles in patients with ICU-AW are less severely affected. This may be primarily a function of the nerve length, and consequently more robust trophic factors in shorter nerves.
Trial registration This study was prospectively registered in the German Clinical Trial Register on April 20th 2020 (DRKS00021467).
Enhancing Efficiency and Reach Using Facebook to Recruit Breast Cancer Survivors for a Telephone-Based Supportive Care Randomized Trial During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Ejem Deborah B. , Wechsler Stephen , Gallups Sarah , Khalidi Sarah , Coffee-Dunning Jazmine , Montgomery Aoyjay P. , Stevens Courtney J. , Keene Kimberly , Rocque Gabrielle B. , Chamberlin Mary , Hegel Mark T. , Azuero Andres , Pisu Maria , Ellis Daphne , Ingram Stacey A. , Lawhon Valerie M. , Gilbert Tiffany , Morrissette Kali , Morency Jamme , Thorp Karen , Codini Megan , Newman Robin , Echols Jennifer , Cloyd Danielle , dos Anjos Sarah , Muse Colleen , Goedeken Susan , Laws Kristen Elizabeth , Herbert Jennae , Bakitas Marie , Lyons Kathleen D. 
Published: September 2023

PURPOSE Evidence supporting social media–based recruitment of cancer survivors is limited. This paper describes how we used Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic to augment our recruitment of breast cancer survivors for our two-site telephone-based randomized clinical trial (RCT) at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. METHODS Originally a two-site RCT of a telephone-delivered breast cancer survivorship intervention, we extended our clinic-based recruitment to Facebook. Participant characteristics, geographic reach, and baseline outcomes were compared across recruitment sources (ie, two clinics and Facebook) using descriptive statistics and effect sizes. RESULTS Enrollment rates (20%-29%) were comparable across recruitment sources. The 21-month Facebook marketing campaign accounted for 59% (n = 179/303) of our total sample and had the greatest geographic reach, recruiting women from 24 states. The Facebook campaign reached a total of 51,787 unique individuals and cost $88.44 in US dollars (USD) per enrolled participant. Clinic samples had a greater proportion of women who were widowed (8% v 1%; P = .03) and Facebook had a higher proportion of women with a household income over $40,000 USD (83% v 71%; P = .02). There were no statistically significant differences between Facebook and the two clinics on baseline survey scores. CONCLUSION Augmenting traditional recruitment with Facebook increased our RCT's geographic and sociodemographic reach and supported meeting recruitment goals in a timely way. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, cancer survivorship researchers should consider using social media as a recruitment strategy while weighing the advantages and potential biases introduced through such strategies.
“Enter Ghost of Goethe”: Comparison and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Pacific
Authors: Te Punga Somerville Alice 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Māori writer Pei Te Hurinui Jones’s biography of a famous nineteenth-century composer was published serially in the government magazine Te Ao Hou and then in 1961 as Puhiwahine: Māori poetess. The final section of the biography is written in dramatic form: the author is interrupted at his desk by the “ghost of Goethe,” who, it had been rumored, was the father of Puhiwahine’s husband. Following other genealogies—especially those connected to the origins of comparative literature—we might say Goethe’s ghost had already “enter[ed]” this place. In 1886, Irish scholar Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett arrived in Auckland with his freshly printed book Comparative Literature, drawing on work by, among others, Goethe. Responding to Pacific studies scholar Teresia Teaiwa’s argument that “more often than not … the Pacific is not brought to the table as an equal partner in any conversation about the nature of humanity or society,” the article considers how, and on what terms, Te Hurinui’s reckonings with Goethe might be held alongside Posnett’s. Ultimately, drawing attention to these two very different “entries” of Goethe provides an opportunity to reckon with the current and potential relationship between comparative literature, Indigenous literary studies, and the Pacific.
The Trans-Indigenous Lens: A Re-recognition
Authors: Allen Chadwick 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Originally part of the 2022 Presidential Roundtable “Comparative Literature and Indigeneity,” this essay meditates on the ACLA president’s call to “decolonize” the field of comparative literature. Beyond providing a catchy slogan, what might “decolonization” mean for the practice of our scholarship and teaching? As a beginning of an answer, the essay revisits the author’s 2012 Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies and considers what has—and, importantly, what has not—changed within literary studies marked as “comparative,” “world,” and/or “global” in the decade since the book’s publication. How have provocations to center the Indigenous as an optics and as a mode of analysis been taken up, extended, critiqued, or reimagined by others? To illustrate the potential limitations of calls to “decolonize” dominant academic institutions, including the field of comparative literature, the essay offers a preliminary analysis of how a specific example of Indigenous self-representation produces meaning within two related but contrasting venues for display and interpretation: a conventional museum space implicitly coded as “colonial” and an avant-garde museum space explicitly labeled as “decolonizing.” The results are suggestive of the difficulty for dominant academic institutions to transcend colonial foundations and ongoing colonial habits.
A Loose Yet Effective Link: Some Creative Aspects of Comparative Literature
Authors: Danapan Paelabang 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
As a promoter of the literature of Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples, our most important task is to foster a relatively open and relaxed environment to encourage our people to continue and perpetuate their interest and vitality in “creative writing.” The purpose of this essay, by focusing on the aspect of “creative writing” and based on actual practice, is to raise several controversial issues that can influence writing for consideration. First, we deal with the strategic question of the choice of “language” that Indigenous literary creation must face; second, we examine the problem of “literariness” and “realness” in Indigenous literary creation; finally, we clearly pinpoint the distance between tribal and national imagination, in order to prevent Indigenous literature from being kidnapped by the so-called “national identity” in contemporary Taiwan.
Pleasure’s Swerve: Philology among Lucretius, Derrida, and Deleuze
Authors: Hock Jessie 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
In the 1983 article “My Chances/Mes chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies,” Jacques Derrida gives philological questions massive philosophical significance by reading the long âgon between idealist and materialist philosophy through a philological crux in the text of Lucretius’s De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things). Tracing philological debates that have surrounded Lucretius from the Renaissance onward, this article argues that Lucretius’s poetic theory of interlinked atomic and textual swerves and the philological history that has mediated them were important touchstones for both Derrida and the other major twentieth-century philosopher of difference, Gilles Deleuze. Additionally, the article argues that for both Derrida and Deleuze, the clinamen offers a theory not only of how atoms or alphabetical letters swerve or even split, but also of how a philosophical tradition such as materialism refuses to run in a straight, unitary line. This is a question of how to understand reception history: either as an unbroken tradition of faithful imitation and replication (a family genealogy, grouped under the name of the father, “Lucretius” for example), or else as something less patriarchal, less heteronormative, less faithful. Read this way, the swerve offers a rethinking of the methods of reception history itself.
Improved Decision Rule Approximations for Multistage Robust Optimization via Copositive Programming
Authors: Xu Guanglin , Hanasusanto Grani A. 
Published: September 2023

Improved decision rule approximations for multistage robust optimization via copositive programming Previous research in the field has proposed several approaches to tackle multistage robust optimization problems, but they are often limited in their applicability. These existing methods either fail to handle cases where recourse matrices are uncertain or struggle to handle large-scale problems effectively. In their paper titled “Improved decision rule approximations for multistage robust optimization via copositive programming,” Guanglin Xu and Grani A. Hanasusanto contribute to the robust optimization literature by presenting a novel solution method. Their approach utilizes convex conic techniques and aims to address the general case of multistage robust optimization, where uncertainty exists in the recourse matrices. One significant advantage of their proposed method is its ability to scale well with large-sized instances, overcoming a common limitation faced by previous methods. Through numerical experiments on various simulated applications, Xu and Hanasusanto demonstrate the superiority of their algorithm over existing state-of-the-art methods.
TWINS: improved spatial and angular phase calibration for holography
Authors: Supikov Alexey , Mefenza Nentedem Michael , Grunnet-Jepsen Anders , Azuma Ronald T. 
Published: September 2023

We present TWINS (TWo INclining Slits), a method for characterizing phase spatial light modulators (SLMs), inspired by Young interferometry. TWINS is an elegant and versatile approach, using minimal equipment and alignment. It measures phase response locally rather than globally, both horizontally and vertically, with high resolution and at wide angles. It can also measure beam intensity profiles as directly seen by the SLM. TWINS characterizes the anisotropic aberrations in the mainstream models of liquid crystal phase SLMs, which is crucial to improve hologram quality. Compensating for anisotropic aberrations measured by TWINS improved the image quality of planar holograms by 10 dB.
Analytical solutions for electromagnetic surface states at the interface between metal and gyromagnetic media
Authors: Zheng Yidong , Chen Jianfeng , Ji Zitao , Lin Hao , Li Zhi-Yuan 
Published: September 2023

We systematically study the surface states at the interface between semi-infinite metal and gyromagnetic media, considering three orthogonal magnetization directions. By solving a full vectorial polarization-complete evanescent wave equation derived from Maxwell’s equations and all four boundary conditions, we obtain rigorous analytical solutions for the surface states. All analytical dispersion equations and field equations under the three configurations are solved. Simultaneously, the solutions also reveal the intriguing features of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) under the gyromagnetic effect. In the polar configuration (where the magnetization is perpendicular to the interface), the gyromagnetic effect uniquely results in candlelight-like field patterns in SPP. In the transversal configuration (where the magnetization is parallel to the interface and perpendicular to propagation), the unidirectional magnetic surface state is found. In the longitudinal configuration (where the magnetization is parallel to propagation), the SPP also exhibits candlelight-like field patterns but manifests a different polarization from the polar configuration. Our results reveal peculiar behaviors of SPPs under the gyromagnetic effect and would deepen the understanding of the magneto-optical effect on interfaces.
FIFA football nurse – A task sharing approach in sports and exercise medicine practice in grassroots women’s football in low- and middle- income settings. A study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Authors: Mkumbuzi Nonhlanhla Sharon , Massey Andrew , Lubega Samuel Kiwanuka , Sorowen Ben , Chisati Enock Madalitso 
Published: September 2023

Football (soccer) is a very popular team sport among African women and girls, with player numbers continuing to rise at all levels of the sport. Whereas the participation in football and associated injuries are on the rise, there are not enough sports and exercise medicine (SEM) personnel to attend to these women football players. While Africa may not currently have enough SEM trained medical doctors and/or physiotherapists, it has relatively higher numbers of other healthcare workers; for example, nurses, who lead healthcare services provision from community to tertiary levels. The primary objective of this study will be to compare sports medicine practices; injury prevention behaviours; injury risk parameters; incidence and prevalence of injuries and illnesses in teams with and without a Football Nurse during one competitive season in Malawi’s Women’s football league. This study will be a cluster randomised control trial will recruit 24 teams from the Women’s Football League in Malawi, which will be randomised to either the intervention group or the control group. A cohort of 12 nurses will receive training in basic football medicine; after which they will be attached to a total of 12 women’s football teams (intervention group) during one competitive season. The Football Nurses will be directly report to a physiotherapist or doctor in their district to whom they will refer serious injuries for investigations, or further management. The teams with Football Nurses will be compared to other teams that will not have Football Nurses. We expect to develop a low cost, sustainable and context relevant solution to manage the treatment gap of football injuries/illnesses in underserved communities such as women’s football.
Trial registration number: Pan African Clinical Trial Registry (PACTR202205481965514).