bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Normal ordering associated with λ-Stirling numbers in λ-shift algebra
Authors: Kim Taekyun , Kim Dae San , Kim Hye Kyung 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
It is known that the Stirling numbers of the second kind are related to normal ordering in the Weyl algebra, while the unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind are related to normal ordering in the shift algebra. Recently, Kim-Kim introduced a

λ

\lambda

-analogue of the unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind and that of the

r

r

-Stirling numbers of the first kind. In this article, we introduce a

λ

\lambda

-analogue of the shift algebra (called

λ

\lambda

-shift algebra) and investigate normal ordering in the

λ

\lambda

-shift algebra. From the normal ordering in the

λ

\lambda

-shift algebra, we derive some identities about the

λ

\lambda

-analogue of the unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind.
Per una spiegazione causale delle differenze tra gli animali: Aristotele, Historia animalium I 1
Authors: Mingucci Giulia 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
It is now a widespread opinion among interpreters that Aristotle’s History of Animals is not a mere collection of empirical data but has its own theoretical framework; however, there is still disagreement as to exactly what this framework is. To address the problem, the article analyzes in detail the diairetic schemes of HA I 1, attempting to overturn the common opinion that this chapter is a mere expository introduction to the study of animals’ differences. On the contrary, it will be shown that in this chapter Aristotle not only applies the method of ‘multiple division’ theorized in Parts of Animals I 2–4, but also uses dividing criteria that are informed by his causal theory and his hylomorphist ontology. This analysis will therefore lead to the more controversial conclusion that HA is not an ‘early’ work by Aristotle but a mature treatise with its own specific theoretical aim: the aitiological explanation of the anatomical, eco-physiological and ethological differences among animals.
Une citation littérale de Mélissos dans le Sophiste de Platon
Authors: Cordero Nestor-Luis 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Even if Plato never claimed to be a ‘historian of philosophy’, there are in his dialogues many references to previous philosophers. Apart from his works on the Sophists, which do not claim to faithfully expose the ‘philosophy’ of their authors, we find in Plato’s dialogues comments and sometimes quotations from the Presocratics, from Thales to Philolaos. In some cases, Plato adds the name of the quoted philosopher, but sometimes he leaves to the reader the task of finding out who the commented or quoted author is. This is the case with Melissos in a passage of the Sophist (244b), where his name is not quoted, but an anonymous monistic philosopher expounds a literal quotation of the philosopher: ἓν μόνον ἔστιν (fr. B 8.1 DK).
Characterization and corrosion behaviour of a phosphate-based plasma electrolytic oxidation coating on extruded EV31 magnesium alloy
Authors: Knap Vidžaja , Štrbák Milan , Hadzima Branislav , Florková Zuzana , Kajánek Daniel , Jacková Martina 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
This paper is focused on evaluating the surface properties of protective coating prepared by plasma electrolytic oxidation on magnesium alloy EV31. Plasma electrolytic oxidation was performed in DC mode with a constant current density of 0.05 A cm−2 for 14 min. Evolution of voltage was measured and depicted graphically in order to describe the growth of the plasma electrolytic oxidation coating. Morphology and thickness of the plasma electrolytic oxidation coating were examined together with corrosion resistance of the coating by measurements of electrochemical characteristics using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and potentiodynamic polarization after 1 h in 0.1 M NaCl. Results from potentiodynamic polarization showed decrease in corrosion current density i
corr from 10.50 μA cm−2 (substrate) to 1.02 μA cm−2 (plasma electrolytic oxidation coated) and results from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy showed increase in R
p by one order of magnitude for plasma electrolytic oxidation coated sample after both 1 h and 168 h exposure times.
An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online
Authors: Paul Jing , Nuesser Michaela , Zheng Dongping 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
In this paper, we first introduce three ecological principles for designing Chinese language online teaching and learning activities drawing from ecological psychology. The first principle – perception and action cycles in an ecosystem, advocates for situating online learning in a physical environment and creates activities with potentials to engage perception-action cycles. With the second principle – intention and attention merge in an ecosystem, we advocate for designing complex, flexible and dynamic activities and providing scaffolding for attunement. The third – meaning-making and values-realizing coincide in an ecosystem, calls for designing activities that allow for care-taking of oneself, each other, and the environment and cultivate curiosity and mindfulness for values-realizing and individual meaning-making. To highlight ways to tap into learners’ interest and connect to people and places, we then share two example activities with both low-technology and high-technology options.
From Nurturing the Successor to Attracting New Founders: How Firm Platforms Organize a Market for Selling Businesses
Authors: Stamm Isabell K. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractFirm platforms organize a market for selling Mittelstand firms in Germany. In doing so they face a challenge: to instill a market frame in a segment of the German economy that is known for its family embedding. This study examines the strategies firm platforms use to reframe ownership transfer from a gift passed on within the family to a commodity traded on a market. Building on a content analysis of the seven largest and most innovative firm platforms in Germany, this study reveals how firm platforms argue from within a gift exchange frame and shift its parameters in social, object, and time dimensions. This study makes a more general point by arguing that digital platforms function as cultural trailblazers in marketization. This study contributes to succession, digital platform, and marketization debates.
Digital tildes (“∼”) may convey more: analyzing innovative uses of tildes in Chinese WeChat messages
Authors: Xu Huan , Xia Dengshan 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Innovative uses of punctuation in online communication have become increasingly visible in research and public awareness since the 2000s, whereas studies on the innovative use of tildes (“∼”) in digital use remain scarce. Drawing on a data set of 543 Chinese WeChat messages with sentence-final tildes, this article investigates the uses and functions of innovative tildes in online communication using quantitative data and follow-up interviews. The findings suggest that: (1) The innovative tildes are deployed in messages implying sounds and performing speech acts in online communication, and they are more frequently used in speech acts (e.g., expressives and directives in particular). (2) The innovative tildes convey sound extension, i.e., to compensate for the loss of audio information in online communication and reproduce elongated sounds; pragmatic function, i.e., to enhance or mitigate the illocutionary forces of speech acts; and entertaining function, i.e., to make messages informal, vivid, joyful, and interesting. (3) The innovative tildes are pragmalicalized as a result of their semiotic features and politeness motivation of messengers for maintaining rapport and achieving successful online communication.
Dispersion engineering of infrared epsilon-near-zero modes by strong coupling to optical cavities
Authors: Johns Ben 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have recently emerged as a promising platform for infrared nanophotonics. A significant challenge in the design of ENZ-based optics is to control the dispersion of ENZ modes that otherwise have a flat profile near the ENZ frequency. Strong coupling with an optical cavity is a promising approach to ENZ dispersion engineering, which however has limitations due to the lack of tunability or nanofabrication demands of the cavity employed. Here, we theoretically and numerically show that much of the limitations of previous approaches can be overcome by strongly coupling the ENZ mode to an unpatterned Fabry–Perot cavity. We demonstrate this unprecedented ENZ dispersion control in coupled cavities by designing tunable infrared polarizers that can absorb s and reflect p-polarized components, or vice versa, for almost any oblique angle of incidence, i.e. omnidirectional polarizers. The feasibility of active control is also demonstrated using a phase change material within the cavity, which predicts dynamic switchability of polariton dispersions across multiple resonant levels at mid-infrared wavelengths. These results are expected to advance the current understanding of strongly coupled ENZ interactions and demonstrate their potential in tailoring dispersions for active and passive control of light.
Controlling the physical field using the shape function technique
Authors: Trang ThanhTrung , Pham ThanhLong , Hu Yueming , Li Weiguang , Lin Shoujin 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
A field is described as a region under the influence of some physical force, such as electricity, magnetism, or heat. It is a continuous distribution in the space of continuous quantities. The characteristics of the field are that the values vary continuously between neighboring points. However, because of the continuous nature of the field, it is possible to approximate a physical field of interpolation operations to reduce the cost of sampling and simplify the calculation. This article introduces the modeling of the parametric intensity of physical fields in a general form based on the interpolation shape function technique. Besides the node points with sample data, there are interpolation points, whose accuracy depends significantly on the type of interpolation function and the number of node points sampled. Therefore, a comparative analysis of theoretical shape functions (TSFs) and experimental shape functions (ESFs) is carried out to choose a more suitable type of shape function when interpolating. Specifically, the temperature field is the quantity selected to apply, analyze, and conduct experiments. Theoretical computations, experiments, and comparisons of results have been obtained for each type of shape function in the same physical model under the same experimental conditions. The results show that ESF has an accuracy (error of 0.66%) much better than TSF (error of 10.34%). Moreover, the field model surveyed by a generalized reduced gradient algorithm allows for identifying points with the required parameter values presented in detail. The illustrated calculations on temperature field control in the article show that the solution for both forward and reverse problems can be determined very quickly with high accuracy and stability. Therefore, this technique is expected to be entirely feasible when applied to thermal control processes such as drying in paint technology, kilns, and heat dissipation in practice.
Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) and Semantic Faceted Search and Browsing (SFB) of the Wittgenstein Nachlass
Authors: Pichler Alois 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
In 2000 the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) published the CD-ROM edition of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition (BEE). Moreover, since then WAB has worked towards complementing the static CD-ROM edition with an interactive web platform that additionally allows more user-specific and more user-tailored utilizations of WAB’s Nachlass resources. The paper describes two specific web service tools of this platform: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of the Wittgenstein Nachlass and Semantic Faceted Search and Browsing (SFB) of Wittgenstein domain metadata. The paper argues that it is only when these two tools are fully implemented and functional that WAB can adequately serve the scholarly needs of the Wittgenstein Nachlass user community. The paper discusses some selected features and functionalities of the two tools in detail.
An earlier version of this paper was published as „Complementing Static Scholarly Editions with Dynamic Research Platforms: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) and Semantic Faceted Search and Browsing (SFB) for the Wittgenstein Nachlass“ in Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2020, ed. by C. Navarretta & M. Eskevich (Utrecht: CLARIN ERIC). In writing this paper I have benefitted from comments by K. De Smedt, N. Gangopadhyay, Ø. Gjesdal, J. Hendrickson, C. Huitfeldt, H. Al Ruweh, the Clarin 2020 conference reviewers and editors as well as Jasmin Trächtler.
Toripalimab-associated diabetes mellitus: a case report from the community of Southern China
Authors: Zhang Wenxin , Xu Wenqiong 
Published: June 2023

Summary
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICPis) are novel immunotherapy drugs for a variety of cancers. Toripalimab is one of the ICPis that selectively blocks programmed death 1 (PD-1) and has been used for the treatment of malignant cancers in the hospitals of China. But with the widespread use of ICPis, some of the adverse reactions have gradually appeared. One of the most serious side effects is diabetes mellitus which is a relatively rare immune-related adverse event (irAEs) with life-threatening complications. We report a case of diabetes after the administration of toripalimab for the treatment of melanoma in southern China. To our knowledge, this is a rare case of diabetes occurring during toripalimab therapy, there is only one similar case reported in China so far. As China has a high morbidity of malignant cancer, a significant number of patients could be affected by the adverse reactions of using ICPis. Therefore, when ICPis are administrated, it is very important for clinicians to pay attention to one of the serious side effects – diabetes mellitus. Insulin therapy is often necessary after the diagnosis of ICPis-related diabetes, which has been proved as an effective method to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and other life-threatening complications in these patients.

Learning points

Toripalimab can cause the diabetes mellitus.

ICPis-related diabetes is treated primarily with insulin.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors cause diabetes by primarily destroying islet β cells.

There is not enough evidence to demonstrate that diabetic autoantibodies are related to diabetes caused by ICPis.

In addition to focusing on the efficacy of PD-1 inhibitor therapy, it is also necessary to pay attention to its adverse reactions, such as ICPis-related diabetes mellitus.
Efficacy of Online Training of the Elected Representatives of Local Rural Government: A Focus Group Study
Authors: Mukherjee Debarshi , Chakraborty Subhayan , Jena Lokesh Kumar , Hasan Khandakar Kamrul , Debnath Ranjit , Mitra Sudakshina 
Published: June 2023

Aim. Before COVID-19, training institutions rarely used eLearning to improve Elected Representatives' (ERs) skills in rural development who come from vernacular social and academic backgrounds. Online education has numerous upsides, but there is always some controversy about whether or not every learner will benefit from the same approach. The study was conducted in Tripura, a North-Eastern state of India, examine the efficacy of online training among the ERs responsible for extending the rural local government services to the common people.
Methods. This study utilised the qualitative technique of focus group discussion to acquire a comprehensive grasp of the positive and negative opinions of ERs regarding their experiences with online training. Samples were collected from all the districts and all three tiers of rural government.
Results. The study is a pioneering work to evaluate views of ERs on e-learning. Lack of technical support, boredom in training sessions, and lack of allowances for internet use, transportation to headquarters for training, and refreshments contributed the trainees' negative experiences. Further, training materials were poorly presented and failed to convey the intended message.
Conclusions. This study will enable trainers, administrators, and policymakers to reengineer their andragogic structures of future grassroots online training programmes for higher efficacy. ERs dislike e-learning, and government regulations that favour classroom instruction worsen this issue. Policy initiatives to reconcile demand and supply, such as high-quality capacity building for Rural Local Bodies (RLBs) ERs with vernacular academics, are needed to achieve practical results.
Performances of selected European economies in achieving their inflation targets: The non-stationary discrete choice model approach
Authors: Ješić Milutin , Mladenović Zorica , Jakšić Miomir 
Published: June 2023

AbstractMeasurement of the performances of inflation targeting (IT) frameworks has been of interest to researchers ever since IT began to be implemented as a monetary policy strategy. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of domestic and international determinants on success in achieving inflation targets of the selected European economies. Our methodological framework is based on the application of a non-stationary discrete choice model. For this research, four European economies are considered: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Serbia. Their results regarding IT policy can provide a useful benchmark for similar economies that are either planning to adopt the same monetary policy framework or have begun to apply it recently. Our findings indicate that IT success is primarily under the control of monetary policymakers by key policy rate mechanism, but that the impact of additional domestic and international factors that are not easily managed by the central bank like budget balance, exchange rate, growth rate, current account balance, labor cost growth, loans, Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, inflation, and GDP gap of the Eurozone, can be also significant. Consequently, monetary policymakers need to take into account a wide range of inflation factors, including foreign spillover effects, so that tools for their neutralization can be helpful in achieving the targeted goals.
Periodical measurement of multidimensional phenomena
Authors: Müller-Frączek Iwona 
Published: June 2023

AbstractSynthesizing multidimensional phenomena such as well-being in the form of composite indicators has been gaining popularity in recent years. The Mazziotta-Pareto Index is one of the methods of constructing non-compensatory composite indices. The paper proposes a modification of this method, which (unlike the original) enables periodical measurements and can be used to compare countries in research on East European transition. The essence of this modification is the use of anti-pattern normalization, during which only current data is used, and yet after normalization, the indicators are in a certain way comparable over time. The Anti-Pattern Normalized Mazziotta-Pareto Index (APMPI), unlike the original, does not change the previously determined values after the inclusion of new data. Both the imperfection of the original approach and the new proposal are illustrated by an empirical example. Indices of well-being for the OECD countries are constructed. The example shows that although AMPI and APMPI values are not comparable, the rankings based on them are not very different.
Experience of helmet usage among hearing aid users: a cross sectional study
Authors: Yuvaraj Pradeep , E. Sinu , Parambath Keerthana , Abubacker Rahina , Rajasekaran Aravind K. 
Published: June 2023

Background: In India, persons with hearing impairment who benefit from hearing aids can acquire a driving license. The law mandates helmet use while driving two-wheelers. Using a hearing aid with a helmet on may be a challenge, but it is paramount to understand the difficulties the hearing aid users face.
Methods: A cross-sectional research design was used to study the experience of hearing aid users who ride two-wheelers. A checklist was developed and administered to 15 individuals with hearing impairment who ride two-wheelers. The checklist had 11 questions under three domains; 'helmet related,' 'comfort related', and 'driving/ listening related. The study was carried out in and around Bangalore. The data was collected through the interview method.
Results: The subjects reported difficulties in the comfort-related and driving/listening-related domains. Many participants felt the need to modify the helmet design to suit hearing aid users. They also felt a need for a special program for driving mode in the hearing aids.
Conclusions: Hearing-impaired two-wheeler riders face problems in localization, fear of hearing aid falling, and sweating using hearing aids while driving. It affects them on two fronts. One, it may pose a risk to others or the hearing impaired themselves on the road. Second, avoiding riding two-wheelers may limit their rights and mobility.
Undergraduate Rehabilitation Education and Clinical Practice: Stakeholder Perspectives on Areas of Research Need
Authors: Huck Garrett E. , Horton Christan , Oswald Gina , Scafella Erin , Fredricey Dylan 
Published: June 2023

BackgroundThere remains some uncertainty on the role and nature of undergraduate-level rehabilitation education (URE) programs and service providers The existing research remains wide-ranging and limited.ObjectivesThis study evaluated perspectives from URE program stakeholders on key areas of research need relating to (a) undergraduate rehabilitation education, (b) URE graduate professional identity, and (c) professional issues relevant to URE.MethodsSurveys of URE perspectives on areas of research need were completed by thirty-nine URE stakeholders. A qualitative content analysis was utilized to identify themes within the data.FindingsParticipants identified a variety of areas of research need within the three broad content categories. Frequently cited topics included URE graduate outcomes, the place of URE programs and service providers in the greater field of rehabilitation, program accreditation, and areas of best practice in URE.ConclusionsThe findings of the current study highlight multiple areas of research need. To best prepare URE graduates for success and to bolster the current status of the field of rehabilitation, a better understanding of the role and nature of URE will be valuable.
A Selective Review of Rehabilitation Services and Disabilities Studies Syllabi
Authors: Herbert James T. 
Published: June 2023

Background:This investigation examined what information is typically included in an undergraduate rehabilitation syllabus and how this information is presented in written form to students.Method:Syllabi (n= 117) from six undergraduate programs, each of which reflected a different program emphasis, were reviewed in terms of their framework (traditional, instructor-centered, student-centered, and enhanced) as well as categorical information contained in their narratives.Findings:An analysis of stylistic features indicate that undergraduate faculty tend to produce syllabi that are instructor-centered and support a pedagogical rather than an andragogical way of learning. The “typical” undergraduate course is a 3-credit offering with an enrollment of about 30 students that meets once or twice per week and is more likely taught by an adjunct faculty (nontenure track) member. While most faculty post information regarding instructor contact information, course description, learning objectives, grading system, and support services, greater variation was noted regarding posting office hours, expected student behavior (e.g., attendance, missing class, and participation), class policies (e.g., late/missing assignments and extra credit), and a description of teaching methods.Conclusion:Given the importance of how syllabi serve as an outline of course content and class policies, it is recommended that rehabilitation educators develop syllabi that are more student-centered and support adult learners.