bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A longitudinal evaluation of fatigue in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
Authors: Gable Karissa L. , Peric Stojan , Lutz Michael W. , Bozovic Ivo , Petrovic Milutin , Stojanov Aleksandar , Basta Ivana , Allen Jeffrey A. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractBackground and aimsFatigue is a common but poorly understood complaint in patients with immune‐mediated polyneuropathies. We sought to evaluate changes in fatigue over 1 year in a cohort of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) patients and to correlate changes in fatigue with changes in disability and quality of life. Investigation into other factors that may contribute to fatigue with a particular interest in the role other chronic disease states may play was also performed.MethodsFifty patients with CIDP who satisfied the 2010 EFNS/PNS diagnostic criteria were followed over the period of 1 year at three tertiary care centers in Serbia. Assessments of disability, quality of life, and patient perception of change and fatigue were collected at two time points 12 months apart. Comorbidities, treatment regimens, and sedating medication use was collected.ResultsDisability, quality of life, and patient perception of change showed statistically significant correlations with change in fatigue (p < .01). Increased levels of fatigue were noted in patients who used sedating medications (p = .05) and who had a comorbid chronic medical condition (p = .01).InterpretationWorsening fatigue correlates over time with increased disability and worse quality of life. Fatigue is not specific to CIDP, but is common in many chronic medical conditions and with the use of sedating medications. Our findings support the importance of identifying and supportively managing fatigue in patients with CIDP, but cautions against considering fatigue as a CIDP diagnostic symptom or using fatigue to justify immunotherapy utilization.
Organic Near‐Infrared Luminescent Materials Based on Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Process†
Authors: Che Zong‐Lu , Yan Chang‐Cun , Wang Xue‐Dong , Liao Liang‐Sheng 
Published: July 2022

Comprehensive SummaryOrganic near‐infrared (NIR) luminescent materials have captured intense research interest owing to their potential applications in optical communication, data storage, bioimaging, sensing and night vision. Excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) process with absorption in normal form while emission in tautomer form can lead to a distinct redshift emission, based on which, a lot of organic NIR luminescent materials were designed. Because of attractive features such as ultrahigh sensitivity to the surroundings, large Stokes shift, and inherent four level system, ESIPT based NIR luminescent materials are supposed to be ideal fluorescent probes and gain materials. In this review, first, organic near‐infrared luminescent materials based on ESIPT process are summarized according to the core structures. Second, recent advances of ESIPT‐based organic near‐infrared fluorescent probes and organic NIR lasers are reviewed. Finally, the current challenges and prospects of ESIPT‐based organic NIR luminescent materials are introduced.
Cascade Synthesis of Luminescent Difluoroboron Diketonate Compounds forRoom‐TemperatureOrganic Afterglow Materials
Authors: Li Junbo , Wang Xuepu , Zhao Xiaoya , Chen Xuefeng , Ding Shuhui , Wu Minjian , Zhang Kaka 
Published: July 2022

Comprehensive SummaryDifluoroboron β‐diketonate (BF2bdk) compounds represent an important class of luminescent materials, whereas their synthesis requires multiple steps, which restrict their application in diverse fields. Here we report a cascade reaction to prepare BF2bdk from aromatic ketones, carboxylic acids, trifluoroacetic anhydride and boron trifluoride diethyl etherate. The cascade reaction is very simple and straightforward to produce BF2bdk with desired functional groups in reasonable isolation yields. Further, when some specific BF2bdk compounds are used as luminescent dopants, organic room‐temperature phosphorescence with lifetimes >1.0 s and intense afterglow under ambient conditions can be achieved with the assistance by suitable organic matrices. The dopant‐matrix materials exhibit excellent processability into desired patterns and large‐area panels, and function as efficient donors of excited state energy transfer for the fabrication of red afterglow materials. The materials can be processed into aqueous afterglow dispersion that displays unique property of escaping the interference from strong fluorescence background.
Allergic multimorbidity is associated with self‐reported anaphylaxis in adults—A cross‐sectional questionnaire study
Authors: Thomander Tuuli , Toppila‐Salmi Sanna , Salimäki Johanna , Jantunen Juha , Huhtala Heini , Pallasaho Paula , Kauppi Paula 
Published: July 2022

AbstractBackgroundAnaphylaxis has increased over the last two decades in Europe, reaching an estimated prevalence of 0.3% and an incidence of 1.5–7.9 per 100,000 person‐years. Allergic multimorbidity is associated with asthma severity, yet its role in anaphylaxis is not fully understood. Our aim was to study association between allergic multimorbidity and anaphylaxis in adults.MethodsWe used population‐based data from the Finnish Allergy Barometer Study (n = 2070, age range: 5–75). Food allergy (FA), atopic dermatitis (AD), allergic rhinitis (AR) and allergic conjunctivitis (AC), were defined from a self‐completed questionnaire. A logistic regression adjusted on potential confounders (sex, age, smoking status) was applied to estimate the anaphylaxis risk associated with allergic multimorbidity.Results1319 adults with at least one allergic disease (FA, AD, AR, AC) with/without asthma (AS) were included. Of these, 164 had self‐reported anaphylaxis [mean (SD, min‐max) 54 (14, 22–75) years, 17% men]. AS, FA, AR, AC, or AD were reported by 86.0%, 62.2%, 82.3%, 43.3%, and 53.7% of subjects with anaphylaxis and respectively by 67.8%, 29.5%, 86.2%, 29.4%, and 34.4% of subjects without anaphylaxis. Compared with subjects exhibiting only one allergic disease, the risk of anaphylaxis increased with the number of allergic diseases; adjusted odds ratios (OR) [CI95%] for two, three, four and five coinciding allergic diseases were 1.80 [0.79–4.12], 3.35 [1.47–7.66], 7.50 [3.25–17.32], and 13.5 [5.12–33.09], respectively. The highest risk of anaphylaxis (6.47 [4.33–9.92]) was associated with FA + AS or their various variations with AR/AC/AD embodied, when compared with AR, AC, and AS separately or their combinations.ConclusionsAnaphylaxis was positively associated with the number of allergic diseases a subject exhibited and with subgroups including FA and/or AS. The results can be applied when estimating the risk of anaphylaxis for individual patients.
Edge preserving noise robust deep learning networks for vehicle classification
Authors: Kiran V. Keerthi , Dash Sonali , Parida Priyadarsan 
Published: July 2022

SummaryFor controlling and managing the traffic and to help traffic surveillance, the vehicles classification is a matter of great importance. In the last few decades, vehicle classification systems based on pattern recognition have been utilized to enhance the efficiency for traffic monitoring systems. In the literature many deep learning networks are suggested for vehicle classification. Even though deep learning algorithms are fascinating and growing research area. However, there are several barriers that slow down its progress. The greatest factor that reduces the progress of deep learning systems is the quality of the image. The available vehicle image datasets are affected by noise, weather, and illumination variations. To overcome these issues, we suggest a robust deep learning system by combining bilateral filter individually with three different networks for the improvement of the robustness of vehicle classification in real‐time application. For validation the suggested networks are assessed on CompCars dataset. The study of literature has reported many Suggested CNN models, some of are discussed here. Lee et al. have employed SqueezeNet model and achieved accuracy of 0.963. Wang et al. have achieved accuracy of 0.989 through H‐squeezeNet model. By employing Faster‐RCNN Inception and SSD MobileNet‐v2 Giron et al. have achieved accuracy of 0.864. Zhang et al. have used Inception‐v3 and attained an accuracy of 0.974. In this article, the proposed CNN bilateral integrated models have accomplished the accuracies as 0.999, 0.997, and 0.988 for Inception‐v3, MobileNet‐v2, SqueezeNet networks, respectively. The results demonstrate the recommended techniques outperform the traditional deep learning networks.
Assessment of vegetation conservation status in plateau areas based on multi‐view and difference identification
Authors: Song Xu , Zhou Hongyu , Liu Guoying 
Published: July 2022

SummaryVegetation is the center connecting the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, and it plays an irreplaceable and important role in maintaining the regional ecological balance and affecting the changes of the global ecological environment. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to deeply study the dynamic changes of regional vegetation, predict its future development trend, and comprehensively evaluate its ecological security status. Based on this, this paper combines the multi‐view and difference identification methods to carry out an evaluation study of the vegetation protection status in the plateau area. This paper takes the Huangshui watershed in Qinghai Province as the research area, uses HJ‐1 A star HSI hyperspectral remote sensing images, field measured vegetation canopy spectrum and other auxiliary classification data as data sources, and uses emerging hyperspectral remote sensing technology for analysis. After the above data is preprocessed, spectral data form transformation, hyperspectral data dimensionality reduction and image multi‐view classification feature selection, we use the CART decision tree to classify typical vegetation remote sensing. Finally, we use the landscape ecological security evaluation model to evaluate the vegetation ecological security of the basin. The simulation test verifies the applicability of the scheme in the classification of vegetation hyperspectral remote sensing in complex terrain areas.
Study on the variation rule of smoke back‐layering length of tunnel ceiling jet induced by strong fire plume
Authors: Chen Longfei , Zhou Shanxin , Li Xiaosong , Li Tao , Guo Hanwen , Wang Yanyao 
Published: July 2022

AbstractTunnel fire is a major research topic in tunnel safety. Because of the tunnel's narrow and enclosed structure, smoke movement plays an important role in the investigation of the tunnel fire. In this paper, the Froude similarity principle is used to study the variation rule of the smoke back‐layering length of tunnel ceiling jet induced by strong fire plume with different heat release rates, longitudinal ventilation velocities, and effective heights of fire source analyzed. It is found that the smoke back‐layering length of tunnel ceiling jet induced by strong fire plume increases with the increase of effective height of fire source and decreases with the increase of longitudinal ventilation velocity. When the heat release rate is relatively small (), the smoke back‐layering length of the tunnel ceiling jet induced by strong fire plume increases as the heat release rate increases. However, for the larger heat release rate (), the smoke back‐layering length of the tunnel ceiling jet induced by strong fire plume is mainly related to the longitudinal ventilation velocity. Based on Thomas's model and Li's model, by introducing the correction coefficient, correction formulas of the smoke back‐layering length of tunnel ceiling jet induced by strong fire plume changing with the effective height of fire source are proposed.
Serum human chorionic gonadotropin ratios for the detection of etoposide, methotrexate, dactinomycin, cyclophosphamide, and vincristine resistance in high‐risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia
Authors: Sirimusika Nathapol , Boonyapipat Sathana 
Published: July 2022

AbstractAimsThis study aimed to identify the optimal human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) ratio in predicting etoposide, methotrexate, dactinomycin, cyclophosphamide, and vincristine resistance in women diagnosed with high‐risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) and to compare the chemoresistant disease detection rate by using the optimal hCG ratio and traditional criteria.MethodsSeventy‐six women with primary high‐risk GTN treated with etoposide, methotrexate, dactinomycin, cyclophosphamide, and vincristine in a tertiary‐care center were included. The hCG ratio was determined by its serum pretreatment level divided by that before each cycle of chemotherapy. The traditional criteria for chemoresistance included plateau or rising of hCG or presence of new metastasis. The optimal hCG ratio was determined using receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis.ResultsAmong the specificities of 90%, 92.5%, and 95%, the 90% specificity yielded the best ROC curve. At 90% specificity, the best area under curve value was at the fourth cycle with 75% sensitivity. The hCG ratio at the fourth cycle was 31.92. Using the ratio at the fourth cycle, chemoresistant disease was detected in six out of eight patients, compared to one in the traditional criteria. When combining the two diagnostic tools, the cumulative detection rate in the fourth cycle was 10/12 (83.3%) of total drug resistance. Among patients who developed drug resistance at the fourth cycle or thereafter, the use of the ratio at the fourth cycle could diagnose chemoresistance approximately two cycles earlier than that with the traditional criteria.ConclusionsA hCG ratio of <31.9 at the fourth cycle should be considered a high‐risk for etoposide, methotrexate, dactinomycin, cyclophosphamide, and vincristine resistance and may need second‐line chemotherapy. The ratio increases the detection rate of resistance to these drugs more than the traditional criteria.
Supervised preoperative walking on increasing early postoperative stamina and mobility in older adults with frailty traits: A pilot and feasibility study
Authors: Rampam Sanjeev , Sadiq Hammad , Patel Jay , Meyer David , Uy Karl , Yates Jennifer , Schanzer Andres , Movahedi Babak , Lindberg James , Crawford Sybil , Gurwitz Jerry , Mazor Kathleen , Stefan Mihaela , White Daniel , Walz Matthias , Kapoor Alok 
Published: July 2022

AbstractBackground and AimsFrail older adults are more than twice as likely to experience postoperative complications. Preoperative exercise may better prepare these patients through improved stamina and mobility experienced in the days following surgery. We measured the impact of a walking intervention using an activity tracker and coaching on postoperative stamina, and mobility in older adults with frailty traits.MethodsWe included patients aged 60+ and scoring 4+ on the Edmonton Frailty Scale. We then randomized patients to intervention versus control stratified by anticipated hospital stay (1 night vs. 2+ night) and baseline stamina (i.e., 6‐min walk distance [6MWD]). Intervention patients received an activity tracker and linked smart phone. An athletic trainer (AT) prescribed a daily step count goal and titrated this up after checking in with patients during weekly telephone calls. Controls received general walking recommendations. We then measured postoperative 6MWD 1–3 days after surgery. We also assessed postoperative mobility by measuring steps walked the day after surgery using a thigh‐worn monitor. Because many patients could not walk postoperatively, we compared intervention‐control difference in both 6MWD and steps using Wilcoxon rank testing and Tobit and ordinal logistic regression adjusting for several patient characteristics.ResultsWe randomized 104 eligible patients; 80 patients remained for final analysis. There was no difference in intervention versus control postoperative 6MWD (median 72 vs. 74 m Wilcoxon p = 0.54) or postoperative steps taken (median 128 vs. 51 steps Wilcoxon p = 0.76). Analysis adjusting for patient characteristics was consistent with these findings.ConclusionOur intervention consisting of goal setting with an activity tracker and telephonic coaching by an AT did not appear to improve stamina or mobility measured in the days after surgery. Small sample size limited our ability to examine this impact in subsets defined by surgical specialty or baseline stamina.
Communications of sustainability practices in the banking sector: Evidence from cross‐country analysis
Authors: Moufty Souad , Al‐Najjar Basil , Ibrahim Abdulhadi 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThis paper aims to empirically explore the content and the extent of sustainability disclosure in the banking sector in the European Union (EU) and the United States. We empirically examine the implications of institutional theory within the banking sector context and provide classification of our sampled banks. In addition, a tailored sustainability index has been developed and content analysis has been employed to examine the current sustainability disclosure in the EU and the US banking sector. Using a sample of 483 report‐year observations, the results reveal that the EU banks have carried out more sustainability disclosure compared with US banks, and banks in both regions are mostly interested in how their operations influence the society that banks operate in (direct social impact), followed by the indirect environmental impact of their products and services. We find evidence of the applicability of institutional theory in sustainability communications within our sample. Therefore, our findings provide a clearer breakdown of sustainability disclosure in the banking sector using a cross‐country context. Finally, we update our sample to include 67 EU banks matched by 67 US banks for the period from 2013 to 2021 and use ESG scores to reflect the sustainability dimension and we report that EU banks outperform the US banks in three dimensions (the direct social, the direct environmental and the indirect social scores), while the US banks have the lead in the indirect environmental sustainability scores.
Peer sexual harassment, affect, and substance use: Daily level associations among adolescents
Authors: Livingston Jennifer A. , Wang Weijun , Testa Maria , Derrick Jaye L. , Nickerson Amanda B. , Miller Kathleen E. , Haas Jennifer L. , Espelage Dorothy L. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractIntroductionPeer sexual harassment is associated with adolescent substance use at the global level; however, it is unknown whether substance use occurs proximal in time to the sexual harassment experience. This study used daily reports to examine the proximal relations between sexual harassment victimization and affect and substance use. Based on theories of self‐medication, we hypothesized that negative affect and substance use (cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana) would be higher than typical on days when sexual harassment occurred relative to nonvictimization days.MethodA community sample of 13–16‐year‐old adolescents (N = 204, 55.4% female) from a metropolitan area in the northeastern United States completed 56 days of online reports assessing experiences with peer sexual harassment, substance use (cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana), and positive and negative affect.ResultsMultilevel modeling revealed that experiencing sexual harassment on a given day was associated with higher than typical negative affect on that day, relative to nonvictimization days. The likelihood of cigarette and alcohol use (but not electronic cigarettes, marijuana, or positive affect) was greater on days when sexual harassment occurred.ConclusionSexual harassment victimization is proximally associated with negative affect and alcohol and cigarette use, suggesting that adolescents may be using substances to cope with sexual harassment victimization. The co‐occurrence of sexual harassment with negative affect and substance use points to the need for prevention efforts that conjointly address sexual harassment victimization, coping, and substance use.
Barriers to emergency department clinicians' confidence in providing paediatric trauma‐informed care
Authors: Afzal Nimrah , Lyttle Mark D. , Alisic Eva , Trickey David , Hiller Rachel M. , Halligan Sarah L. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractBackgroundIt has been estimated that around 31% of children will experience a traumatic event during childhood, most commonly serious accidents that lead to hospitalisation. Around 15% of children who experience such events go onto develop post‐traumatic stress disorder. Emergency department (ED) clinicians have a unique opportunity to intervene during the early peri‐trauma period, which can involve incorporating a trauma‐informed approach within their care. The available evidence indicates that clinicians internationally need further education and training to enhance their knowledge and confidence in providing trauma‐informed psychosocial care. However, UK/Ireland specific knowledge is limited.MethodsThe current study analysed the UK and Irish subset of data (N = 434) that was collected as part of an international survey of ED clinicians. Questionnaires indexed clinician confidence in providing psychosocial care, and a range of potential barriers to providing that care. Hierarchical linear regression was used to identify predictors of clinician confidence.ResultsClinicians reported moderate levels of confidence in providing psychosocial care to injured children and families (M = 3.19, SD = 0.46). Regression analyses identified negative predictors of clinical confidence, including a lack of training, worrying about further upsetting children and parents, and low levels of perceived departmental performance in providing psychosocial care (R2 = 0.389).ConclusionsThe findings highlight the need for further training in psychosocial care for ED clinicians. Future research must identify nationally relevant pathways to implement training programmes for clinicians, in order to improve their skills in relation to paediatric traumatic stress and to reduce the perception of barriers identified in the present study.