bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Trust your guts: fostering embodied knowledge and sustainable practices through voice interaction
Authors: Esau Margarita , Lawo Dennis , Neifer Thomas , Stevens Gunnar , Boden Alexander 
Published: November 2022

AbstractDespite various attempts to prevent food waste and motivate conscious food handling, household members find it difficult to correctly assess the edibility of food. With the rise of ambient voice assistants, we did a design case study to support households’ in situ decision-making process in collaboration with our voice agent prototype, Fischer Fritz. Therefore, we conducted 15 contextual inquiries to understand food practices at home. Furthermore, we interviewed six fish experts to inform the design of our voice agent on how to guide consumers and teach food literacy. Finally, we created a prototype and discussed with 15 consumers its impact and capability to convey embodied knowledge to the human that is engaged as sensor. Our design research goes beyond current Human-Food Interaction automation approaches by emphasizing the human-food relationship in technology design and demonstrating future complementary human-agent collaboration with the aim to increase humans’ competence to sense, think, and act.
Herausforderungen der Regulierung von und der Aufsicht über den Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz in der Versicherungswirtschaft
Authors: Oletzky Torsten , Reinhardt Armin 
Published: November 2022

ZusammenfassungDer Einsatz von KI-Algorithmen wirft in der Versicherungswirtschaft eine große Anzahl interessanter aufsichtsrechtlicher Fragen auf, für die es heute noch keinen umfassenden aufsichtsrechtlichen Rahmen gibt. Wer trägt die Verantwortung für eine Entscheidung, wenn diese auf einen Algorithmus zurückgeht? Wie kann die Aufsicht einen Entscheidungsprozess überwachen, wenn dessen Grundlage ein neuronales Netz ist, das als eine Art Blackbox funktioniert? Versicherungsunternehmen setzten bereits heute erste KI-Algorithmen ein und die Aufsichtsbehörden haben erkannt, dass sie schnell Antworten auf die Frage finden müssen, unter welchen Voraussetzungen sie einen solchen Einsatz zulassen sollen. Dieser Beitrag stellt die Entwicklung von KI-Algorithmen für den Einsatz in der Versicherungswirtschaft dar, beleuchtet die Rechtlichen Herausforderungen ihres Einsatzes, setzt sich mit der Positionierung der Aufsichtsbehörden zu diesen rechtlichen Herausforderungen auseinander und gibt einen Ausblick auf potenzielle weitere Entwicklungen.
Management of Sarcoidosis: When to Treat, How to Treat and for How Long?
Authors: Fraser Emily , Weeratunga Praveen , Ho Ling-Pei 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
Purpose of Review
This review draws together recent publications, consensus statements on sarcoidosis and our 25-year collective experience in managing this disease. We focus on pulmonary sarcoidosis, highlighting recent and established concepts in disease mechanisms, the diversity of the clinical course, including possible ‘subtypes’ of sarcoidosis, and how to measure disease activity. We discuss the principles guiding therapeutic intervention and summarise the more recent clinical trials in sarcoidosis.

Recent Findings
These include recent progress in understanding the mechanisms of disease using new scientific tools, measurements of disease activity using CT and MRI scans, and the potential role of anti-fibrotic treatment for patients with progressive fibrotic sarcoidosis.

Summary
Sarcoidosis is a heterogeneous disease with variable organ involvement, disease course, and response to treatment. We offer an angle on when and how to treat, and provide an overall roadmap for managing sarcoidosis.
Does vertical integration increase product quality?
Authors: Li Sanxi , Li Xinyu , Qu Zhan 
Published: November 2022

AbstractNumerous product quality scandals are caused by low-quality inputs. When input quality is not perfectly observed by downstream firms, upstream firms often have moral hazard problems. If vertical integration does not directly eliminate the moral hazard problems, does vertical integration still improve product quality? If so, under which conditions? We find that given the precision of monitoring technology used by downstream firms, when the level of public monitoring is very high or very low, downstream firms have no incentive to integrate upstream firms; when the level is intermediate, downstream firms have incentives to integrate and vertical integration increases product quality.
Yager aggregation operators based on complex interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy information and their application in decision making
Authors: Dong Xin , Ali Zeeshan , Mahmood Tahir , Liu Peide 
Published: November 2022

AbstractAs a more massive feasible and prominent tool than the complex interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy (CIVPF) set and complex interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy (CIVIF) set, the complex interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy (CIVQROF) set has been usually used to represent ambiguity and vagueness for real-life decision-making problems. In this paper, we firstly proposed some distance measures, Yager operational laws, and their comparison method. Further, we developed CIVQROF Yager weighted averaging (CIVQROFYWA), CIVQROF Yager ordered weighted averaging (CIVQROFYOWA), CIVQROF Yager weighted geometric (CIVQROFYWG), CIVQROF Yager ordered weighted geometric (CIVQROFYOWG) operators with CIVQROF information, and some certain well-known and feasible properties and outstanding results are explored in detail. Moreover, we proposed a new and valuable technique for handling multi-attribute decision-making problems with CIVQROF information. Lastly, a practical evaluation regarding the high blood pressure diseases of the patient is evaluated to illustrate the feasibility and worth of the proposed approaches.
Evolutionary convolutional neural network for image classification based on multi-objective genetic programming with leader–follower mechanism
Authors: Liu Qingqing , Wang Xianpeng , Wang Yao , Song Xiangman 
Published: November 2022

AbstractAs a popular research in the field of artificial intelligence in the last 2 years, evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) compensates the disadvantage that the construction of convolutional neural network (CNN) relies heavily on the prior knowledge of designers. Since its inception, a great deal of researches have been devoted to improving its associated theories, giving rise to many related algorithms with pretty good results. Considering that there are still some limitations in the existing algorithms, such as the fixed depth or width of the network, the pursuit of accuracy at the expense of computational resources, and the tendency to fall into local optimization. In this article, a multi-objective genetic programming algorithm with a leader–follower evolution mechanism (LF-MOGP) is proposed, where a flexible encoding strategy with variable length and width based on Cartesian genetic programming is designed to represent the topology of CNNs. Furthermore, the leader–follower evolution mechanism is proposed to guide the evolution of the algorithm, with the external archive set composed of non-dominated solutions acting as the leader and an elite population updated followed by the external archive acting as the follower. Which increases the speed of population convergence, guarantees the diversity of individuals, and greatly reduces the computational resources. The proposed LF-MOGP algorithm is evaluated on eight widely used image classification tasks and a real industrial task. Experimental results show that the proposed LF-MOGP is comparative with or even superior to 35 existing algorithms (including some state-of-the-art algorithms) in terms of classification error and number of parameters.
Effect of Therapeutic Ultrasound on the Mechanical and Biological Properties of Fibroblasts
Authors: Cárdenas-Sandoval Rosy P. , Pastrana-Rendón Homero F. , Avila Alba , Ramírez-Martínez Angélica M. , Navarrete-Jimenez Myriam L. , Ondo-Mendez Alejandro O. , Garzón-Alvarado Diego A. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractPurposeThis paper explores the effect of therapeutic ultrasound on the mechanical and biological properties of ligament fibroblasts.Methods and ResultsWe assessed pulsed ultrasound doses of 1.0 and 2.0 W/cm2at 1 MHz frequency for five days on ligament fibroblasts using a multidisciplinary approach. Atomic force microscopy showed a decrease in cell elastic modulus for both doses, but the treated cells were still viable based on flow cytometry. Finite element method analysis exhibited visible cytoskeleton displacements and decreased harmonics in treated cells. Colorimetric assay revealed increased cell proliferation, while scratch assay showed increased migration at a low dose. Enzyme-linked immunoassay detected increased collagen and fibronectin at a high dose, and immunofluorescence imaging technique visualized β-actin expression for both treatments.ConclusionBoth doses of ultrasound altered the fibroblast mechanical properties due to cytoskeletal reorganization and enhanced the regenerative and remodeling stages of cell repair.Lay SummaryKnee ligament injuries are a lesion of the musculoskeletal system frequently diagnosed in active and sedentary lifestyles in young and older populations. Therapeutic ultrasound is a rehabilitation strategy that may lead to the regenerative and remodeling of ligament wound healing. This research demonstrated that pulsed therapeutic ultrasound applied for 5 days reorganized the ligament fibroblasts structure to increase the cell proliferation and migration at a low dose and to increase the releasing proteins that give the stiffness of the healed ligament at a high dose.Future WorksFuture research should further develop and confirm that therapeutic ultrasound may improve the regenerative and remodeling stages of the ligament healing process applied in clinical trials in active and sedentary lifestyles in young and older populations.Graphical abstract
Cerebral Activity in Female Baboons (Papio anubis) During the Perception of Conspecific and Heterospecific Agonistic Vocalizations: a Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study
Authors: Debracque Coralie , Gruber Thibaud , Lacoste Romain , Meguerditchian Adrien , Grandjean Didier 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
The “voice areas” in the superior temporal cortex have been identified in both humans and non-human primates as selective to conspecific vocalizations only (i.e., expressed by members of our own species), suggesting its old evolutionary roots across the primate lineage. With respect to non-human primate species, it remains unclear whether the listening of vocal emotions from conspecifics leads to similar or different cerebral activations when compared to heterospecific calls (i.e., expressed by another primate species) triggered by the same emotion. Using a neuroimaging technique rarely employed in monkeys so far, functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, the present study investigated in three lightly anesthetized female baboons (Papio anubis), temporal cortex activities during exposure to agonistic vocalizations from conspecifics and from other primates (chimpanzees—Pan troglodytes), and energy matched white noises in order to control for this low-level acoustic feature. Permutation test analyses on the extracted OxyHemoglobin signal revealed great inter-individual differences on how conspecific and heterospecific vocal stimuli were processed in baboon brains with a cortical response recorded either in the right or the left temporal cortex. No difference was found between emotional vocalizations and their energy-matched white noises. Despite the phylogenetic gap between Homo sapiens and African monkeys, modern humans and baboons both showed a highly heterogeneous brain process for the perception of vocal and emotional stimuli. The results of this study do not exclude that old evolutionary mechanisms for vocal emotional processing may be shared and inherited from our common ancestor.
Grenzgängerin zwischen den Disziplinen
Authors: Lau Dayana 
Published: November 2022

ZusammenfassungZwischen Ethnologie und Sozialer Arbeit finden sich in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts viele Gemeinsamkeiten. In beiden Disziplinen wird von grundlegenden Differenzen zwischen Forscher*innen und Beforschten ausgegangen, die häufig unter dem Begriff der Kultur gefasst werden. Mit den Schriften der ursprünglich als Sozialarbeiterin ausgebildeten Ethnologin Hilde Thurnwald (1890–1979) lassen sich Gemeinsamkeiten wie diese etwas besser verstehen. Ihre Texte machen greifbar, dass vielfältige Übergänge zwischen beiden Disziplinen bestanden haben, an denen die Autorin aktiv mitgewirkt hat. Insbesondere das Konzept des „Kulturwandels“ fungiert bei Hilde Thurnwald als ein Grenzobjekt, mit dem sie solche Übergänge – nicht nur zwischen diesen beiden Fächern, sondern auch zwischen politischen und sozialen Handlungssphären – gestaltet hat. Der Beitrag untersucht die Konstruktion und Verwendung des Begriffs „Kulturwandel“ in den Schriften Thurnwalds im größeren Zusammenhang kolonialer Wissensproduktion und fragt, wie dieser Begriff im Kontext von Ethnologie und Sozialer Arbeit konstruiert und verwendet wird, wie er für beide Welten und darüber hinaus anschlussfähig gemacht wird und welche Effekte dies für die gegenseitige Durchdringung zum Beispiel für den Blick auf die beforschten und behandelten Menschen hat.
Asymptotically holomorphic methods for infinitely renormalizable unimodal maps
Authors: CLARK TREVOR , DE FARIA EDSON , VAN STRIEN SEBASTIAN 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to initiate a theory concerning the dynamics of asymptotically holomorphic polynomial-like maps. Our maps arise naturally as deep renormalizations of asymptotically holomorphic extensions of
$C^r$
(
$r>3$
) unimodal maps that are infinitely renormalizable of bounded type. Here we prove a version of the Fatou–Julia–Sullivan theorem and a topological straightening theorem in this setting. In particular, these maps do not have wandering domains and their Julia sets are locally connected.
The role of large cavity sinus surgery in the management of chronic rhinosinusitis in non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug exacerbated respiratory disease: a single-centre experience and long-term outcomes
Authors: Pendolino A L , Bandino F , Navaratnam A , Ross T , Qureishi A , Randhawa P , Andrews P 
Published: November 2022

AbstractObjectiveThis study aimed to discuss the role of large cavity functional endoscopic sinus surgery in the management of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps in patients with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug exacerbated respiratory disease.MethodsThis was a retrospective review of patients undergoing large cavity functional endoscopic sinus surgery for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug exacerbated respiratory disease from January 2016 to March 2022. Population characteristics, pre- and post-operative number of functional endoscopic sinus surgical procedures, endoscopic polyp grade, Lund–Mackay score and nasal symptoms were recorded.ResultsThirteen consecutive patients with a median age of 47 years were included. They all failed maximal medical treatment and/or conservative functional endoscopic sinus surgery and underwent large cavity sinus surgery followed by post-operative maximal medical therapy. All patients showed an improvement in nasal symptoms with improved Lund–Mackay scores post-operatively. The median length of follow up was 1.5 years.ConclusionLarge cavity functional endoscopic sinus surgery seems to halt the progression of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps in non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug exacerbated respiratory disease. In this case series, large cavity functional endoscopic sinus surgery combined with optimal post-operative medical treatment appeared to switch off chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps in patients with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug exacerbated respiratory disease.
Canoparmelia texana (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) consists of two independent lineages
Authors: Kirika Paul M. , Lumbsch H. Thorsten , Huéscar Elisa Garrido , Quedensley Taylor S. , Divakar Pradeep K. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractRecent studies have demonstrated that species boundaries among the lichen-forming fungi are in need of revision with the discovery of cryptic species in numerous clades, especially in parmelioid lichens. Here we focus on addressing the species boundaries in Canoparmelia texana, a sorediate species with a pantropical distribution that extends into temperate regions. We extracted DNA sequences of the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), large subunit (nuLSU) and mitochondrial small subunit (mtSSU) from samples mostly collected in Kenya, and analyzed them in a phylogenetic framework. We illustrate that our samples of the species as currently circumscribed do not form a monophyletic group but fall into two distinct clades, with the apotheciate C. nairobiensis nested within. Both of the discovered lineages have a wide distributional range and are common in Kenya, and Parmelia albaniensis C. W. Dodge is resurrected to accommodate one of the clades; consequently a new combination, Canoparmelia albaniensis (C. W. Dodge) Divakar & Kirika comb. nov., is proposed.
Distribution of Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm. in Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru forests: altitudinal range and specificity to substratum tree species
Authors: Kitara Nuru N. , Munishi Panteleo K. T. , Scheidegger Christoph 
Published: November 2022

AbstractIn this study, we sampled L. pulmonaria thalli from Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru, Tanzania. Across all sampled tree species, a range of 1–35 thalli of L. pulmonaria were counted per trunk (up to 5 m above ground level), with sampling distributed across 13 (c. 1 ha) plots located in the sub-alpine to montane forest altitudinal gradients of Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru. Descriptive analyses were performed to determine the association of L. pulmonaria with particular host trees among the study sites and regions, and linear mixed effects models (LMM) were used to explore relationships with tree-level variables. The analyses showed that most thalli of L. pulmonaria were unevenly distributed among the tree species in the montane and sub-alpine forests of Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru. Host tree characteristics such as trunk circumference, height on trunk, bark texture and trunk shape appeared to have an effect on the local population size of L. pulmonaria and the frequency of occurrence. Also, the results indicated an effect of trunk circumference and tree bark on the development of L. pulmonaria thallus size among the study sites. Furthermore, host tree species, for example, Hypericum revolutum and Rapenea melanophloeos were important habitats for L. pulmonaria on both mountains, whereas Ilex mitis, Bersama abyssinica and Hagenia abyssinica were important only on one mountain. The wider literature on L. pulmonaria ecology is also reviewed and it is therefore recommended that for successful conservation of the threatened L. pulmonaria in tropical montane forests, strategies should consider the type of the forests, together with the host tree species and their size.
Diversification processes between monogenoids (Dactylogyridae) and their marine catfish (Siluriformes: Ariidae) from the Atlantic coast of South America
Authors: Soares Geusivam B. , Adriano Edson A. , Domingues Marcus V. , Balbuena Juan Antonio 
Published: November 2022

AbstractDue to their high specificity, monogenoids from fish provide an interesting model to study historical associations of hosts and parasites. High agreement between host and parasite phylogeny is often interpreted as evidence of cospeciation. However, cophylogenetic signal may also arise from other, either adaptive or non-adaptive, processes. We applied the recently developed Cophylospace Framework to better understand the evolutionary relationship between monogenoids and marine catfish from the Atlantic coast of South America. The associations between 12 marine catfish and 10 monogenoid species were assessed. Molecular data of host and parasite species were used for phylogenetic reconstruction. We used anchor morphology based on Procrustes coordinates to evaluate whether closely related hosts are associated with morphologically similar parasites. To assess the association between parasite phylogeny and host morphology, we produced a distance matrix based on morphological characters of catfishes. Agreement between phylogenies and between phylogeny and morphology was measured using Procrustes R2 computed with PACo. The parasite phylogeny obtained in this study represents the first complete phylogenetic hypothesis of monogenoids parasitizing ariids from South America. The Cophylospace analysis suggested that phylogenetic and morphological distance of monogenoids contributes similarly to explain the pattern of host–parasite associations, whereas parasite phylogeny is more strongly associated with the morphological traits of the hosts than with host phylogeny. This evidence suggests that cospeciation is not a major force accounting for diversification in the monogenoids studied. Rather host morphological traits seem to be a more important driver, which conforms with evidence from other host‒monogenoid systems.
Survey on helminths of bats in the Yucatan Peninsula: infection levels, molecular information and host–parasite networks
Authors: Moguel-Chin Wilson I. , Hernández-Mena David I. , Torres-Castro Marco , Barrientos-Medina Roberto C. , Hernández-Betancourt Silvia F. , MacSwiney G. M. Cristina , García-Prieto Luis , Vidal-Martínez Víctor M. , Selem-Salas Celia Isela , Panti-May Jesús Alonso 
Published: November 2022

AbstractHelminth species of Neotropical bats are poorly known. In Mexico, few studies have been conducted on helminths of bats, especially in regions such as the Yucatan Peninsula where Chiroptera is the mammalian order with the greatest number of species. In this study, we characterized morphologically and molecularly the helminth species of bats and explored their infection levels and parasite–host interactions in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. One hundred and sixty-three bats (representing 21 species) were captured between 2017 and 2022 in 15 sites throughout the Yucatan Peninsula. Conventional morphological techniques and molecular tools were used with the 28S gene to identify the collected helminths. Host–parasite network analyses were carried out to explore interactions by focusing on the level of host species. Helminths were found in 44 (26.9%) bats of 12 species. Twenty helminth taxa were recorded (7 trematodes, 3 cestodes and 10 nematodes), including 4 new host records for the Americas. Prevalence and mean intensity of infection values ranged from 7.1 to 100% and from 1 to 56, respectively. Molecular analyses confirmed the identity of some helminths at species and genus levels; however, some sequences did not correspond to any of the species available on GenBank. The parasite–host network suggests that most of the helminths recorded in bats were host-specific. The highest helminth richness was found in insectivorous bats. This study increases our knowledge of helminths parasitizing Neotropical bats, adding new records and nucleotide sequences.