bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Influence of donor complement component allotype on renal transplantation outcome
Authors: Elshair Heba S. , Naga Salah S. , Ahmed Mohammad A. , Hanno Ahmed Y. 
Published: January 2023

Background
Improvements in clinical care and immunosuppressive medications have provided positive outcomes following kidney transplantation such as reducing acute rejection rates. Activation of the complement cascade is inevitable in kidney transplantation because of both the specific and nonspecific immunologic responses of the recipient. This study provides insights on the influence of the donor C3 allotype on renal transplant outcome (graft function).

Patients and methods
The present study was conducted on 50 pairs of donors and recipients of renal transplantation who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. C3 allotypes of donor–recipient pairs were determined and divided into four genotypic groups according to the C3F allotype of the donor and the recipient. The four genotypic groups were analyzed for association with graft function and assessed by serum creatinine, blood urea, and glomerular filtration rate.

Results
There was a positive statistically significant difference for the group FF/FS donor into SS recipient in comparison with other genotype groups of C3 among recipients, as shown by improvement in glomerular filtration rate, serum creatinine, and blood urea.

Conclusion
The presence of C3 (F) allele either homozygous or heterozygous in the donor and the absence of this allele in the recipient give a better renal allograft function.
Single stage maxillofacial reconstruction combined radical surgery for managing juvenile ossifying fibroma: A case report
Authors: Adham Marlinda , Dewi Dwi J. , Reksodiputro Mirta Hediyati , Ranakusuma Respati 
Published: January 2023

ABSTRACT
Ossifying fibroma (OF) in craniofacial is a rare disease, benign, locally aggressive fibro-osseous tumor. The 2017 World Health Organization classifications divided OF into two types: OF of odontogenic origin and juvenile ossifying fibroma (JOF). Determining the right surgical treatment to reduce the postoperative recurrence rate is incredibly challenging. The author reports two cases of paranasal sinuses with disease onset progressed from pre-pubertal age. The first case is an example of a recurrent case after undergoing conservative surgery, and the second is a new one. All cases underwent radical surgery with subtotal maxillectomy and reconstructive surgery in one stage. After observing all patients until one year, there was no sign of recurrence through clinical and endoscopic examination. There are two types of surgery that compare in this case report: conservative surgery and radical surgery. Conservative surgical procedures include curettage, enucleation, or peripheral osteotomies. Several studies have shown high recurrence levels in OF patients when curettage or enucleation is performed; residue caused by incomplete excision is the most common reason that is easily caused by conservative surgery. Radical surgery such as open maxillectomy is a promising approach for degrading the level of recurrence. JOF, especially trabecular juvenile ossifying fibroma, shows a high recurrence percentage comparing other types. The first-choice management for treating OF was the surgical approach. Types of surgery depend on the disease’s aggressiveness and morbidity. Radical surgery was proven better at decreasing recurrence level than conservative surgery.
Variational autoencoder for prosody‐based speaker recognition
Authors: Alex Starlet Ben , Mary Leena 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThis paper describes a novel end‐to‐end deep generative model‐based speaker recognition system using prosodic features. The usefulness of variational autoencoders (VAE) in learning the speaker‐specific prosody representations for the speaker recognition task is examined herein for the first time. The speech signal is first automatically segmented into syllable‐like units using vowel onset points (VOP) and energy valleys. Prosodic features, such as the dynamics of duration, energy, and fundamental frequency ( ), are then extracted at the syllable level and used to train/adapt a speaker‐dependent VAE from a universal VAE. The initial comparative studies on VAEs and traditional autoencoders (AE) suggest that the former can efficiently learn speaker representations. Investigations on the impact of gender information in speaker recognition also point out that gender‐dependent impostor banks lead to higher accuracies. Finally, the evaluation on the NIST SRE 2010 dataset demonstrates the usefulness of the proposed approach for speaker recognition.
Залучення військовослужбовців, хворих на ішемічну хворобу серця, до партнерської участі в процесі лікування
Authors: Tkachuk І. М. , Sokolyuk А. К. 
Published: January 2023

Мета дослідження. Обґрунтувати необхідність запровадження інформаційного листа для залучення військовослужбовців, хворих на ішемічну хворобу серця, до партнерської участі в процесі лікування та оцінити думку військовослужбовців щодо змісту інформаційного листа та власного ставлення до лікування і виконання рекомендацій лікаря після ознайомлення з інформаційним листом.
Матеріали дослідження. Узагальнено сучасні дані доказової медицини щодо профілактики та лікування ішемічної хвороби серця та розроблено інформаційний лист «Партнерська участь в процесі лікування ішемічної хвороби серця та самоконтроль стану здоров’я». За спеціально розробленою анкетою-відгуком на даний інформаційний лист проведено соціологічне опитування 50 військовослужбовців, чоловічої статі, середній вік 46,2±8,9 років, які лікувались в Вінницькій міській клінічній лікарні № 1 з проводу ІХС та коморбідної патології. Статистична обробка проводилась з використанням програми Microsoft Excel 2007 та стандартного статистичного пакета STATISTICA 6,0.
Методи дослідження. У дослідженні застосовано методи бібліографічний, статистичний, системного підходу та аналізу.
Результати. Для підвищення поінформованості пацієнтів з ішемічною хворобою серця та залучення їх до процесу ухвалення спільного рішеня щодо лікування, узагальнюючи дані сучасної наукової літератури, ми розробили інформаційний лист для пацієнтів «Партнерська участь в процесі лікування ішемічної хвороби серця та самоконтроль стану здоров’я» та з’ясували думку військовослужбовців, за даними соціологічного опитування, щодо змісту інформаційного листа та власного ставлення до лікування і виконання рекомендацій лікаря після ознайомлення з інформаційним листом. При апробації інформаційного листа отримано позитивну оцінку від військовослужбовців з ІХС, а саме: більшість респондентів (74%) отримали нову та корисну інформацію, яка зрозуміла для сприйняття (98%); 60 % опитаних відзначили зміну ставлення до лікування та виконання рекомендацій лікаря з готовністю до більш активної участі у самоконтролі стану власного здоров’я та у процесі прийняття рішень щодо лікування (72%). Слід зауважити, що 56% респондентів планують запровадити запропоновані рекомендації у життя.
Висновки. Обґрунтовано необхідність запровадження інформаційного листа «Партнерська участь в процесі лікування ішемічної хвороби серця та самоконтроль стану здоров’я» в практику первинної медичної допомоги. Інформаційний лист «Партнерська участь в процесі лікування ішемічної хвороби серця та самоконтроль стану здоров’я» може бути впроваджено в практику військової первинної медичної допомоги для залучення військовослужбовців, хворих на ІХС, до партнерської участі в процесі лікування та більш активної участі у самоконтролі стану здоров’я.
Theatre Spaces 1920–2020
Authors: Mackintosh Iain , Howard Pamela , Morgan Robert Mark , Tabacˇki Nebojša , Leacroft Richard , Drábek Pavel 
Published: January 2023

In this lavishly illustrated hands-on account of the creation of new theatre spaces spanning a century, Iain Mackintosh offers a compelling history that is part memoir, part impassioned call to rethink the design of our theatre spaces and the future of live theatre. As the originator of theatre designs as diverse as the Cottesloe in 1977, Glyndebourne in 1994, the Orange Tree Theatre in 1991, the Martha Cohen Theatre in 1985 and the Tina Packer Playhouse in 2001, he discovered why the same show worked in some theatres but not in others.
It is this unique blend of experience that informs this account of many of the best-known theatre spaces in Britain, besides many international examples including the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis and the Oslo Opera House. Running throughout is a consideration of factors which have shaped design thinking during this time and which demand attention today. After the long theatre closures driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, Mackintosh argues that now is the time to discover the routes travelled over the last century.
Published in partnership with the Society of Theatre Research, the book features a foreword by Sir Richard Eyre, Director of the National Theatre, 1987–1997.
Universities in Crisis
Authors: Lybeck Eric , O’Connell Catherine 
Published: January 2023

This book goes beyond now-familiar analyses of ‘neoliberal governmentality’ which tend to characterise academics as passive subjects or as ‘strategic actors’, drawing on and cynically exploiting metrics as a form of capital exchangeable across different fields. Instead, Universities in Crisis draws on newer paradigms by drawing on processual, post-critical and phenomenological approaches that leave room for new spaces of negotiation – discursive and practical – for understanding and advancing academic professionalism in this rapidly changing context.
Contributors reflect various manifestations of the changing political and public climate, as well as the unease that surrounds contemporary debates which position the academy in troubling ways. Unifying concepts such as academic work, jurisdiction and transdisciplinarity are deployed to transcend functional divisions within and between academics, administrators, managers and students. Drawing on these theoretical and conceptual resources, contributors engage in critical consideration of whether the potential for ‘push back’ lies both in re-emphasising the specialness of academic professionalism and in defining the commonalities with other professional groups of knowledge workers.
The book offers an unflinching analysis on the conditions which frame the darker side of professionalism and which are associated with increased precarity and reduced autonomy. The contributors explore the dilemmas, challenges and possibilities of professionalism for both early career academics and senior academic leaders.
Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze
Authors: Stam Robert 
Published: January 2023

Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy.
Focusing on Brazil but spanning national and transnational media in countries including the US, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy, Stam orchestrates a dialogue between the western mediated gaze on the 'Indian' and the indigenous gaze itself, especially as incarnated in the burgeoning movement of “indigenous media,” that is, the use of audio-visual-digital media for the social and cultural purposes of indigenous peoples themselves. Drawing on examples from cinema, literature, music, video, painting and stand-up comedy, Stam shows how indigenous artists, intellectuals and activists are responding to the multiple crises – climatological, economic, political, racial, and cultural – confronting the world.
Setting up in Independent Practice
Authors: Bor Robert , Stokes Anne 
Published: January 2023

Working in private, independent practice is not an easy option when compared to regular paid employment. The challenges and risks are in fact arguably greater, and the skills required to be successful are considerably broader and are not taught as part of one’s training. This compact textbook offers the trainee and beginning practitioner all the hands-on advice and support they could wish for in successfully planning, setting up and running their own practice.
Whether setting up your own independent practice, or an experienced practitioner reflecting on what is required to maintain a professional and ethical independent practice, this is the perfect guide to embarking on this extraordinary and rewarding journey. An in-depth and practical guide to working independently, this is an indispensable tool for both counselling and psychotherapy trainees considering their career options post-qualification, and established practitioners looking to refine their practice and revisit their skills in light of changing ambitions and circumstances.
Spain, Portugal and the Great Powers, 1931–1941
Authors: Stone Glyn A. 
Published: January 2023

The Spanish Civil War and its significance in the foreign relations of the Great Powers - Britain, France, the United States, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia - has attracted the attention of numerous historians and readers. This new study re-evaluates the economic, ideological, political, diplomatic, military and strategic reasons for the involvement or non-involvement of the Great Powers in the Spanish conflict. It also examines civil war diplomacy through the London based Non-Intervention Committee.
In addition, Spain, Portugal and the Great Powers, 1931-1941 explores:
- the foreign relations of the Great Powers during the Second Spanish Republic between its inception in 1931 and the outbreak of civil war in July 1936
- the conflicting policies and interests of the Great Powers concerning Portugal following the establishment of the Estado Novo in 1933 and, in particular, the outbreak of the civil war in Spain in 1936
- the economic, strategic and military concerns and ambitions of the Axis and Allied Powers with regard to Spain and Portugal after the civil war and during the early Second World War.
Here, for the first time, with the inclusion of Portugal, the Great Power relations are set in the wider context of the Iberian Peninsula, making this an essential guide to a turbulent period in World history.
Mushroom
Authors: Rich Sara 
Published: January 2023

‍Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
They are the things we step on without noticing and also the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. They are grouped with plants, but they behave more like animals. In their inscrutability, mushrooms are wondrous organisms.
The mushroom is an ordinary object whose encounters with humans are usually limited to a couple of species prepackaged at the grocery store. This book offers mushrooms as much more than a pasta ingredient or trendy coffee alternative. It presents these objects as the firmament for life as we know it, enablers of mystical traditions, menders of lives lost to depression. But it acknowledges, too, that this firmament only exists because of death and rot.
Rummaging through philosophical, literary, medical, (paleo)ecological, and anthropological texts only serves to confirm what the average forager already knows: that mushrooms are to be regarded with a reverence deserving of only the most powerful entities: those who create and destroy, and who thrive on both processes.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Memories of Underdevelopment
Authors: Sadlier Darlene J. 
Published: January 2023

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) is a classic of Cuban revolutionary culture, and is hailed as a prime example of a radical style of 1960s political filmmaking that became known worldwide as Latin American “new cinema.”
Darlene J. Sadlier's detailed study approaches this much-written-about film from a new perspective. Her analysis situates the film in its historical context, considering how Cuban political history affected and informed the production of the film, particularly its use of archival footage. She discusses the film as an adaptation of Edmundo Desnoes's novel Memorias del subdesarrollo (1965), exploring how the novel itself is “re-written” in significant ways by the film.
Sadlier goes on to analyse the curious opening of the film on an outdoor scene of Afro-Cubans dancing to the “new” music of Pello del Afrokán, arguing that this opening scene prefaces the film’s exploration of both class and race. She focuses on the unique style of the film, particularly the use of voiceover, music and documentary footage to show how the themes of ennui, isolation, writing, and remembering are depicted. In doing so, she highlights the film’s lasting impact and its role in defining Latin American “new cinema”.
Bioderecho y la resistencia a los antimicrobianos en Costa Rica
Authors: Chacón-Cordero Arturo 
Published: January 2023

La resistencia a los antimicrobianos representa un peligro para la salud humana ya que pone en riesgo el valor clínico de estos medicamentos para el tratamiento y prevención de enfermedades infecciosas. Este fenómeno es multisectorial y requiere de acciones inmediatas; por ello, la Organización Mundial de la Salud ha instado a los países miembros a adoptar planes de acción al respecto. Sin embargo, es necesario implementar un marco jurídico vinculante para la regulación del uso de antimicrobianos, especialmente en los sectores de mayor consumo. El establecimiento de una legislación que asegure el uso prudente de estos medicamentos en la industria de producción animal es posible desde el bioderecho. Con este artículo se procura proponer algunas recomendaciones para la regulación de los antimicrobianos en el sector pecuario fundamentadas en el derecho internacional. Se encontró que la efectividad de estos fármacos es un bien común intrínseco en el derecho a la salud humana, cuya protección, junto con declaraciones internacionales, respalda su regulación. En el sector pecuario resulta urgente implementar medidas vinculantes para reducir su uso, especialmente de aquellos categorizados como de importancia crítica para la salud humana.
Estimation of biomass burning emission of NO2 and CO from 2019–2020 Australia fires based on satellite observations
Authors: Wan Nenghan , Xiong Xiaozhen , Kluitenberg Gerard J. , Hutchinson J. M. Shawn , Aiken Robert , Zhao Haidong , Lin Xiaomao 
Published: January 2023

Abstract. The bushfires that occurred in Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 were unprecedented in terms of their scale, intensity, and impacts. Using
nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) data measured by the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), together with fire counts
and fire radiative power (FRP) from MODIS, we analyzed the temporal and spatial variation of NO2 and CO column densities over three
selected areas covering savanna and temperate forest vegetation. The ΔNO2/ΔCO emission ratio and emission factor were
also estimated. The ΔNO2/ΔCO emission ratio was found to be 1.57 ± 1.71 for temperate forest fire and ranged
from 2.0 ± 2.36 to 2.6 ± 1.92 for savanna fire. For savanna and temperate forest fires, satellite-derived NOx emission
factors were found to be 1.48 and 2.39 g kg−1, respectively, whereas the CO emission factors are 107.39 and
126.32 g kg−1, respectively. This study demonstrates that the large-scale emission ratio from the TROPOMI satellite for different
biomass burnings can help identify the relative contribution of smoldering and flaming activities in a large region and their impacts on the
regional atmospheric composition and air quality. This method can be applied to study the emissions from other large fires, or even the burning of
fossil fuel in megacities, and their impact on air quality.
Reconciling the bottom-up and top-down estimates of the methane chemical sink using multiple observations
Authors: Zhao Yuanhong , Saunois Marielle , Bousquet Philippe , Lin Xin , Hegglin Michaela I. , Canadell Josep G. , Jackson Robert B. , Zheng Bo 
Published: January 2023

Abstract. The methane chemical sink estimated by atmospheric chemistry models (bottom-up method) is significantly larger than estimates based on
methyl chloroform (MCF) inversions (top-down method). The difference is
partly attributable to large uncertainties in hydroxyl radical (OH)
concentrations simulated by the atmospheric chemistry models used to derive
the bottom-up estimates. In this study, we propose a new approach based on
OH precursor observations and a chemical box model. This approach
contributes to improving the 3D distributions of tropospheric OH radicals obtained from atmospheric chemistry models and reconciling
bottom-up and top-down estimates of the chemical loss of atmospheric
methane. By constraining simulated OH precursors with observations, the
global mean tropospheric column-averaged air-mass-weighted OH concentration
([OH]trop-M) is ∼10×105 molec. cm−3 (which is 2×105 molec. cm−3 lower than the original model-simulated global [OH]trop-M) and agrees with that
obtained by the top-down method based on MCF inversions. With OH constrained by precursor observations, the methane chemical loss is 471–508 Tg yr−1, averaged from 2000 to 2009. The new adjusted estimate is in the range of the latest top-down estimate of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) (459–516 Tg yr−1), contrary to the bottom-up estimates that use the original model-simulated OH fields (577–612 Tg yr−1). The overestimation of global [OH]trop-M and methane chemical loss simulated by the atmospheric chemistry models is caused primarily by the models' underestimation of carbon monoxide and total ozone column, and
overestimation of nitrogen dioxide. Our results highlight that constraining
the model-simulated OH fields with available OH precursor observations can
help improve bottom-up estimates of the global methane sink.
Improved global sea surface height and current maps from remote sensing and in situ observations
Authors: Ballarotta Maxime , Ubelmann Clément , Veillard Pierre , Prandi Pierre , Etienne Hélène , Mulet Sandrine , Faugère Yannice , Dibarboure Gérald , Morrow Rosemary , Picot Nicolas 
Published: January 2023

Abstract. We present a new gridded sea surface height and current dataset
produced by combining observations from nadir altimeters and drifting buoys.
This product is based on a multiscale and multivariate mapping approach
that offers the possibility to improve the physical content of gridded
products by combining the data from various platforms and resolving a
broader spectrum of ocean surface dynamic than in the current operational
mapping system. The dataset covers the entire global ocean and spans from
1 July 2016 to 30 June 2020. The multiscale approach
decomposes the observed signal into different physical contributions. In the
present study, we simultaneously estimate the mesoscale ocean circulations
as well as part of the equatorial wave dynamics (e.g. tropical instability
and Poincaré waves). The multivariate approach is able to exploit the
geostrophic signature resulting from the synergy of altimetry and drifter
observations. Sea-level observations in Arctic leads are also used in the
merging to improve the surface circulation in this poorly mapped region. A
quality assessment of this new product is proposed with regard to an
operational product distributed in the Copernicus Marine Service. We show
that the multiscale and multivariate mapping approach offers promising
perspectives for reconstructing the ocean surface circulation:
observations of leads contribute to improvement of the coverage in delivering gap-free maps
in the Arctic and observations of drifters help to refine the mapping in regions
of intense dynamics where the temporal sampling must be accurate enough to
properly map the rapid mesoscale dynamics. Overall, the geostrophic
circulation is better mapped in the new product, with mapping errors
significantly reduced in regions of high variability and in the equatorial
band. The resolved scales of this new product are therefore between 5 %
and 10 % finer than the Copernicus product (https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00148, Pujol et al., 2022b).