bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning for Space Robot
Authors: Sun Yifei , Zhang Zikai , Li YiDong , Wu Jigang 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Space robots have a wide application prospect in the aerospace industry. Due to the limited fuel for the space robots, which cannot support the space robots to run for a long time. In addition, the special working environment makes it impossible to replenish the fuel for the robot at any time. Therefore, a proper path is crucial for the operation of space robots. In order to ensure the operation of space robots, we optimize the allocation of exploration tasks and the selection of space robot paths, jointly. We propose two combination algorithms named Parallel Search and Task Allocation (PS-TA) and Subbranch Insertion and Task Allocation (SI-TA) to optimize the path and the task allocation , intend to obtain the minimum completion latency. We also construct Random Path Planning and Task Allocation (RTA) as the baseline. At last, we provide extensive experiments to demonstrate that proposed algorithms can obtain lower completion latency compared with RTA. Furthermore, SI-TA is more energy-efficient than PS-TA.
Anti-corruption shocks, intra-factional competition, and economic growth in China
Authors: Shi Xiangyu 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This paper evaluates the consequences of the recent anti-corruption campaign for economic growth in China by answering how anti-corruption shocks are transmitted in city leaders’ social networks and affect their performance. The removal of corrupt officials creates job vacancies and increases the likelihood of promotion for their peers in the same social network; it also intensifies the intra-factional competition, which is a result of factional persistence. The GDP growth rate in a city registers a 2.5 percentage point increase following the investigation of the city leader’s connected politicians, while long-term issues, such as education and the environment, are compromised. The impact of anti-corruption shocks decays as the source is more distant in the network.JEL Classification: D72, D73, M51, P16, O12, O43, O47
SARS-CoV-2 infection in a Brazilian boarding school: the largest school community COVID-19 outbreak
Authors: Cherem José , de Castro Joseane , Pylro Victor , Alvarenga Ingrid , Souza Karla , Ferreira Sidney , Rocha Denise , Barçante Joziana 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
In this retrospective case series study of outbreak infections with SARS-CoV-2 in a boarding school, it was possible to verify the rapid viral spread circulating among the individuals. This study suggests that sentinel coronavirus environmental monitoring can contribute to detecting the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
“It’s Not What it Looks Like!” Early Attention is Captured by Attractive Faces
Authors: Owens Rebecca , Rafferty Shannon , Knight Helen C. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Objective: Despite the notion of extra pair mating interests being controversial in Western societies, it may be that attending to attractive others is an adaptive and automatic process which informs and maintains plasticity in mating strategies. Previous research has examined this though later attentional processes in relation to potential mates. The current study examines this potential adaptive process further by using early attentional capture, which is beyond conscious control, to examine attentional bias towards attractive faces.Methods: In addition to providing self-report measures relevant to extra-pair interests, participants completed two flicker tasks, each comprising a grid of faces of the gender participants indicated they were most attracted to. Half of the faces were rated as attractive and half as unattractive. In one task, an attractive face was substituted for another attractive face, and in the other an unattractive face was substituted for another unattractive face. Change detection latency differences for attractive vs unattractive faces was measured as an indication of attentional bias towards potential mates.Results: Sociosexual desires predicted a quicker response time to attractive faces relative to unattractive faces. Relationship status, sex of the participant, sociosexual attitudes, sociosexual behaviours, and self-reported sexual and romantic interests outside of the primary relationship did not predict response time on the flicker tasks.Conclusions: The results suggest early attentional processes are adaptively biased towards potential mates in a given environment, calibrating and maintaining plasticity in mating strategies. However, this does not necessarily indicate an inclination towards infidelity.
Stereotactic body radioablation therapy as an immediate and early term antiarrhythmic palliative therapeutic choice in patients with refractory ventricular tachycardia
Authors: Aras Dursun , Çetin Elif Hande Özcan , Ozturk Huseyin Furkan , Ozdemir Elif , Kara Meryem , Ekizler Firdevs Aysenur , Ozeke Ozcan , Ozcan Firat , Korkmaz Ahmet , Kervan Umit , Turhan Nesrin , Coskun Nazim , Tezcan Yilmaz , Huang Henry , Aksu Tolga , Topaloglu Serkan 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Background: Stereotactic body radioablation therapy (SBRT) has recently been introduced with the ability to provide ablative energy noninvasively to arrhythmogenic substrate while reducing damage to normal cardiac tissue nearby and minimizing patients' procedural risk. There is still debate regarding whether SBRT has a predominant effect in the early or late period after the procedure. We sought to assess the time course of SBRT's efficacy as well as the value of using a blanking period following a SBRT session.Methods: Eight patients (mean age 58 ±14 years) underwent eight SBRT sessions for refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT). SBRT was given using a linear accelerator device with a total dose of 25 Gy to the targeted area.Results: During a median follow-up of 8 months, all patients demonstrated VT recurrences, however, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapies were significantly reduced with SBRT (8.46 to 0.83/per month, p=0.047; 18.50 to 3.29/per month, p=0.036, respectively). While analyzing the temporal SBRT outcomes, the two weeks to 3 months period demonstrated the most favorable outcomes. After 6 months, one patient was ICD therapy-free and the remaining patients demonstrated VT episodes. Conclusions: Our findings showed that the SBRT was associated with a marked reduction in the burden of VT and ICD interventions especially during first 3 months. Although SBRT doesn’t seem to succeed complete termination of VT in long-term period, our findings support the strategy that SBRT can be utilized for immediate antiarrhythmic palliation in critically ill patients with otherwise untreatable refractory VT and electrical storm.
Preterm neonates show a “catch-up” pattern toward full-term in motor development during the neonatal period: a diffusion tensor imaging study
Authors: Feng Yuying , Cheng Yannan , Li Xianjun , Ge Yao , Liu Congcong , Wang Miaomiao , Wei Xiaocheng , Wang Xiaoyu , Sun Qinli , Yang Jian , Jin Chao 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Preterm infants show high risk for subsequent neurodevelopmental disability. Early developmental characterization of brain and neurobehavioral function is critical for identifying the high-risk infants, and thus guiding the necessary intervention. This paper aims to elaborate the early evolution of preterm sensorimotor function by exploring the postnatal age-related changes of brain white matter (WM) microstructure and neurobehavioral abilities during the neonatal stage. One hundred eighteen neonates without abnormality on MRI were included. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)-derived fractional anisotropy (FA) and neonatal neurobehavioral assessment were separately used to characterize the brain WM microstructure and neurobehavioral development levels. The scatterplot with linear fitting and Pearson correlation was used to investigate the relationships of WM FA and neurobehavioral scores (active tone and behavior) with postnatal age separately for preterm and term neonates. Here, OR (optical radiation), AR (auditory radiation), CST (corticospinal tract), PTR (posterior thalamic radiation) and thal-PSC (thalamus-primary somatosensory cortex) were selected as WMs of interest. Significant correlations of FA with postnatal age were found in preterm CST (P = 0.042), term OR (P = 0.018) and term PTR (P = 0.002). In contrast to term neonates, preterm showed an obviously higher correlation in CST (r = 0.29 vs 0.08), while lower correlations in visual, auditory and somatosensory-associated WMs. Similarly, relatively higher and lower correlations in preterm active tone (r = 0.48 vs 0.35) and behavioral scores (r = 0.36 vs 0.52) were respectively observed. Although being delayed, preterm neonates show a “catch-up” pattern toward term neonates in motor development in the newborn stage, suggesting early intervention may work well in motor function improvement.
Outdoor THz fading modeling by means of Gaussian Mixture Distribution
Authors: Papasotiriou Evangelos N. , Boulogeorgos Alexandros-Apostolos A. , Alexiou Angeliki 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Terahertz (THz) band offers a vast amount of bandwidth and is envisioned to become a key enabler for a number of nextgeneration wireless applications. In this direction, appropriate channel models, encapsulating the large and small-scale fadingphenomena, need to be developed for both indoor and outdoor communications environments. The THz large-scale fadingcharacteristics has been extensively investigated for both indoor and outdoor scenarios. The study of indoor THz small-scalefading has recently gained the momentum, while the small-scale fading of outdoor THz wireless channels has not yet beeninvestigated. Motivated by this, this contribution introduces Gaussian mixture (MG) distribution as a suitability small-scalefading model for outdoor THz wireless links. In more detail, multiple outdoor THz wireless measurements recorded at differenttransceiver separation distance are feed to an expectation-maximization (EM) fitting algorithm, which returns the parameters ofthe MG probability density function. The fitting accuracy of the analytical GMs is evaluated in terms of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov,Kullback-Leibler (KL) and root-mean-square-error (RMSE) tests. The results reveal that as the number of mixtures increasesthe resulting analytical GMs perform a better fit to the empirical distributions. In addition, the KL and RMSE metrics indicatethat the increase of mixtures beyond a particular number result to no significant improvement of the fitting accuracy.
Insecticide resistance intensity and efficacy of synergists with pyrethroids in Anopheles gambiae s.l. (Diptera: Culicidae) from Southern Togo
Authors: Apetogbo Yawo , Ahadji-Dabla Koffi M. , Soma Dieudonné Diloma , Amoudji Adjovi D. , Koffi Edoh , Akagankou Kossivi I. , Bamogo Rabila , Ngaffo Kelly Lionelle , Maiga Samina , Atcha‑Oubou Rachid T. , Dorkenoo Ameyo M. , Vizcaino Lucrecia , Lenhart Audrey , Diabaté Abdoulaye , Dabiré Roch Kounbobr , Ketoh Guillaume Koffivi 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Background: This study was designed to provide insecticide resistance data for decision making in terms of resistance management plans in Togo. Methods: The susceptibility status of Anopheles gambiae s.l. (Diptera: Culicidae) to insecticides used in public health was assessed using the WHO tube test protocol. Pyrethroid resistance intensity bioassays were performed following the CDC bottle test protocol. The activity of detoxification enzymes was tested using the synergists PBO, DEF, and EA. Species-specific identification of An. gambiae s.l. and kdr mutation genotyping were performed using PCR techniques. Results: Local populations of An. gambiae s.l. showed full susceptibility (i.e., mortality rates (MR) = 100%) to pirimiphos methyl at Lomé, Kovié, Anié, and Kpèlè Toutou. At Baguida, mortality was 90%, indicating possible resistance to pirimiphos methyl. Resistance was recorded to DDT (MR: 2-20.5%), bendiocarb (MR: 15-62.5%), and propoxur (MR: 19.25-51.75%) at all sites. A high intensity of pyrethroid resistance was recorded and the detoxification enzymes contributing to resistance were oxidases, esterases, and glutathione-s-transferases based on the synergist tests. An. gambiae s.s. and An. coluzzii were the main species identified. High kdr L1014F and low kdr L1014S allele frequencies were detected at all localities. Conclusion: This study suggests the need to reinforce current insecticide-based malaria control interventions (IRS and LLINs) with complementary tools.
WITHDRAWN: Mechanism of flame stabilization in millimeter-scale continuous-flow reactors
Authors: Chen Junjie 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Flame stabilization is an issue of considerable fundamental importance to combustor design. This importance is highlighted by the recent emphasis on low nitrogen oxides burners, where flame stability is often adversely affected by nitrogen oxides reduction strategies. Flame stabilization theories generally recognize the importance of local ignition, flame propagation, extinction, and reignition phenomena as factors controlling flame stability. Computations are performed to gain insights into the complexity of the combustion reaction mechanism in millimeter-scale continuous-flow reactors. The characteristics of physical processes that transfer mass and energy by diffusion or convection occur in gaseous combustion are investigated for millimeter-scale continuous-flow reactors. The results indicate that conditions must be such that the flame is fixed in the combustion chamber. This positioning is required in many practical uses of combustion, and recirculation methods are designed for this purpose. The combustion is stabilized by recirculation of hot combustion products induced by the cavity structure. The principal quantitative characteristic of the flame depends on the chemical and thermodynamic properties of the mixture and on temperature under given conditions of heat loss. The inlet velocity of the mixture is a critical factor in assuring flame stability within the cavity-stabilized burner. There is a narrow range of inlet velocities that permit sustained combustion within the cavity-stabilized burner. Fast flows can cause blowout and slow flows can cause extinction. There exists an optimum inlet velocity for greatest flame stability. The results would be useful for predicting combustion phenomena over wide temperature and concentration ranges.
The Water Relations of Weil-watered, Mycorrhizal, and Non-mycorrhizal Onion Plants1
Authors: Nelsen C.E. , Safir G. R. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
The water relations of mycorrhizal onions (Allium cepa L.) were compared with those of non-mycorrhizal controls grown under low and high soil phosphorus conditions. Mycorrhizal plants had higher leaf water potentials, higher transpiration rates, higher hydraulic conductivities and lower leaf resistances than did non-mycorrhizal plants grown in low soil phosphorus conditions. When controls were grown under high soil phosphorus conditions, all 4 parameters were not different from those of mycorrhizal plants. The magnitude of the effect of mycorrhizal fungi on the water relations of the host may, in part, be a function of phosphorus nutrition. The differences in leaf water potentials, transpiration rates and leaf resistances are considered to be the result of the differences found in hydraulic conductivities.
The Influence of Light on Lily (Lilium longiflorum Thunb.). I. Influence of Light Intensity on Plant Development1
Authors: Heins Royal D. , Pemberton H. Brent , Wilkins Harold F. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Lily plants were exposed to natural daylight (ND), 50% ND (50% saran), ND plus 16 hours of incandescent (Inc) or ND plus 16 hours of high pressure sodium discharge (HID) lamp light at both University of Minnesota and Michigan State University. Light intensity had no significant horticultural effect on plant development rate that could not be readily explained by temperature. The Inc or HID light source hastened flowering by 5 to 8 days over the ND plants when given from emergence to flower. However, the rate of development from visible bud to flower was not influenced by light intensity. Plant heights were increased by all light treatments when compared to the ND plants. These increases appeared due to photoperiod for the HID treated plants, photoperiod and light quality for the Inc treated plants, and light quantity for the 50% saran-treated plants. The number of flower buds initiated was not affected by light treatment but Inc lighting increased flower bud abortion. Final plant height was highly correlated with height at visible bud; final height being about double the height at visible bud when plants were grown continuously under ND, HID, or 50% saran.
Differential Responses of Dry Bean Genotypes to N and P Fertilization of a Central American Soil1
Authors: Haag W. L. , Adams M. W. , Wiersma J. V. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractIncorporation of nutrient use efficiency into existing cultivars may be necessary if advances in crop yields are to be maintained while supplies of fertilizer elements are decreasing. To do this we must have some knowledge of the amount of variability present in a species for nutrient‐use efficiency. The objective of this work is to report the diversity present among genotypes of dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) for nutrient use efficiency. For the purposes of this manuscript, nutrient use efficiency is defined as the ability of a genotype to produce above average yields under low soil fertility conditions and to possess the capacity to produce higher yields when additional nutrients are supplied.Differential responses of 124 genotypes of dry bean to two levels of soil fertility (N ‐f‐ P) were evaluated under greenhouse conditions. Significant differences among genotypes were observed at each level of fertility. Overall, the high fertility level significantly increased seed yield/plant (W), pods/plant (X), seeds/pod (Y), and single seed weight (Z), whereas genotypes responded differentially to added fertilizer for W, X, Y, and Z. The number of pods/plant (X) exerted a predominant influence on yields at both the low and high fertility levels. The main effect of the high fertility level was to enhance the role of X and Z in influencing seed yield/plant.Although the response of a genotype to an increased fertility level could not be predicted from knowledge of its performance at a lower fertility level, genotypic responses values realized under high fertility conditions could be predicted reasonably well from their corresponding high fertility means.Response was not specific to either improved or unimproved lines. We infer from our data that genotypes of beans have unique genetic properties that regulate their responses.
English Education Master Students’ Perceptions on Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Academic Writing
Authors: Wijaya Kristian 
Published: July 2022

One of the essential factors strongly supported university EFL learners’ academic writing skills development is critical thinking. With the supports of critical thinking skills, university EFL learners will be capable of synthesizing, analyze, and evaluate their ideas to be written effectively in their academic writing products. This present small-scale qualitative study was conducted with the support of qualitative content analysis to obtain clearer data based on the specific phenomenon told by the research participants. 10 items of the Likert-scale questionnaire as well as 5 open-ended written narrative inquiry questions were administered to 16 English Education Master Students batch 2019, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. Based on the obtained research results, the utilization of critical thinking skills progressively enabled graduate university EFL learners to be more strategic, analytical, and proficient academic writers. In addition, the participants also acknowledged that critical thinking skills should be practiced intensively in a long-lengthy process to foster their academic writing skills as well. It is expectantly hoped that these obtained results will shed more enlightenment on the further utilization of critical thinking skills for the betterment of academic writing learning activities in the future.

Keywords: Critical Thinking Skills, Academic Writing, English Education Master Students
Stress Predictors in Nursing Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic Confinement
Authors: Lourenço Tânia , Bettencourt Merícia , Reis Gorete , Andrade Carmen , Santos Maria-Luísa , Magalhães Dulce , Sim-Sim Margarida 
Published: July 2022

Background:
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely impacted nursing education. Owing to the element of confinement, emergency education fostered conflicts between problems and their solutions, leading to higher stress among students.

Objective:
The aim of the study was to identify the determinants of perceived stress in nursing students during confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods:
This multicentric, quantitative, and cross-sectional study employed the multiple linear regression model. The study was conducted at seven nursing graduate schools in the Iberian Peninsula, with 1,058 nursing graduate students in confinement. An online questionnaire was administered to nursing students between April 23

rd

and May 02

nd

, 2020. According to socio-demographic data, COVID-19 experience, satisfaction with learning strategies, and coping strategies (

Brief COPE scale

) of the nursing students, the model was developed with the

Perceived Stress Scale

as the explained variable.

Results:

Stress is predictable in the form of greater coping-avoidance (b = 2.415; p < .001) when a family member is infected (b = -2.354; p = .005) and in younger students (b = -.104; p = .002). It tends to be lower with higher coping-reflective (b = -2.365; p < .001) and when the students have a more favourable self-perceived life (b = -1.206; p < .001). Furthermore, the stress has been found to be higher in Portuguese students (b = -1.532; p < .001) and women (b = 2.276; p < .001) than their Spain and male counterparts, respectively. Among variables related to academics, perceived stress is higher when the students are dissatisfied with the time spent on the computer (b = 1.938) and with the evaluation methods (b = 1.448).

Conclusion:
Personal factors and the ease of mobilisation of the proposed training strategies affect the students’ ability to deal with stress. Emergency education should consider stress predictors so that the students can adapt to training better.
Analisis Keikutsertaan Petani dalam Mengikuti Program Asuransi Usahatani Padi (AUTP) di Kecamatan Lubuk Basung Kabupaten Agam
Authors: Ramdani Rizki , Ifdal Ifdal , Ifdal Ifdal , Khairati Rusda , Khairati Rusda 
Published: July 2022

<p align="center">Keikutsertaan petani awal pengembangan program asuransi usahatani padi masih tergolong rendah di Kecamatan Lubuk Basung Kabupaten Agam, hal ini diduga program Asuransi belum sesuai kebutuhan usahatani, skema AUTP rumit, dan waktu lama bagi petani untuk mengaplikasikannya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui karakteristik petani dan menganalisis faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi petani dalam mengikuti program Asuransi Usahatani Padi di Kecamatan Lubuk Basung Kabupaten Agam. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan bulan Juni – Agustus 2020. Populasi penelitian adalah petani yang ikut dan tidak ikut program AUTP berjumlah 60 orang dengan menggunakan analisa Deskriptif dan Regresi Logistik Biner. Hasil penelitian karakteristik petani mayoritas berusia produktif, pengalaman usahatani sedang, tingkat pendidikan rendah, status kepemilikan lahan mayoritas sebagai penyewa lahan, pendapatan relatif sedang, luas lahan mayoritas ± 0,5 ha, Faktor yang berpengaruh signifikan hanya dari faktor karakteristik inovasi AUTP, yaitu kerumitan dan dapat diujicoba, sedangkan faktor karakteristik sosial ekonomi tidak berpengaruh.</p>