bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of the Behavior of Some Native Dogs in Vietnam to Determine Their Suitability as Detector Dogs
Authors: Ganitskaya Yu. V. , Dinh The Dung  , Coi Tran Huu , Khasanov B. F. , Feoktistova N. Yu. , Surov A. V. 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
In dogs of native breeds (“Hmong,” “Phu Quoc,” and “Zang Soi”), the features of behavior pre-adapted to interaction with humans and formed in the process of directional selection have been revealed. Behavioral characteristics (contactiveness, activity, playfulness, reaction to the unexpected appearance of an unfamiliar object, and abrupt sounds) were used to evaluate the dogs’ suitability for training for use as service detector dogs. It was shown that native dogs even without directional selection can show high indices of activity and contact with a human, similar to those found by the authors earlier for European breeds. Indicators of playfulness and reaction to unfamiliar objects and sharp sounds are formed only in the process of directional selection. The “Zang Soi” dog recommended for breeding and use as detection dogs turned out to be the closest to the European breeds in terms of activity and contactiveness indices.
Intraocular methotrexate for epithelial downgrowth: long-term outcomes in a multicentre case series
Authors: Hébert Mélanie , Kyrillos Ralph , Snyder Michael E , Mackool Richard J , Francis Jasmine H , Wu Helen K , Riemann Christopher D , Légaré Marie Eve 
Published: June 2022

Background/AimsSheet-like type of epithelial downgrowth (EDG) is not easily amenable to surgical excision. We describe long-term outcomes in patients with EDG treated with intraocular methotrexate (MTX).MethodsThis is a retrospective, multicentric case series including 10 eyes (nine patients) treated with intraocular MTX for sheet-like EDG. Relevant ocular history, previous EDG treatments, MTX injection regimen, long-term outcomes and complications are reported.ResultsAll cases were associated with intraocular surgery. Most patients were treated with 400 µm/0.1 mL MTX injections with a starting frequency of two times per week or weekly injections. Mean and SD number of injections per eye was 16±13 injections and duration of follow-up was 54±36 months (range: 7–120 months). Eradication of EDG was achieved in seven eyes of which one required a second MTX treatment course to achieve eradication, while clinical resolution with recurrence was observed in two. One treatment failure occurred despite eight weekly injections which slowed but did not halt EDG progression; the patient later requested that treatments be stopped given difficulty to come to follow-ups. Surface epitheliopathy developed in eight patients and was used to titrate MTX treatment. Six patients also developed endothelial failure.ConclusionWe report the largest case series of diffuse, sheet-like EDG treated with intraocular MTX with follow-ups up to 10 years. Intraocular MTX may be used effectively to achieve eradication of EDG in cases where surgery is not amenable. However, further recommendations to guide treatment remain warranted.
Decreasing driveline infections in patients supported on ventricular assist devices: a care pathway approach
Authors: Seretny Julia , Pidborochynski Tara , Buchholz Holger , Freed Darren H , MacArthur Roderick , Dubyk Nicole , Cunliffe Laura , Zelaya Osiris , Conway Jennifer 
Published: June 2022

BackgroundDriveline infections (DLIs) are a common adverse event in patients on ventricular assist devices (VADs) with incidence ranging from 14% to 59%. DLIs have an impact on patients and the healthcare system with efforts to prevent DLIs being essential. Prior to our intervention, our program had no standard driveline management presurgery and postsurgery. The purpose of this Quality Improvement (QI) initiative was to reduce DLIs and related admissions among patients with VAD within the first year post implant.MethodsIn anticipation of the QI project, we undertook a review of the programs’ current driveline management procedures and completed a survey with patients with VAD to identify current barriers to proper driveline management. Retrospective data were collected for a pre-QI intervention baseline comparison group, which included adult patients implanted with a durable VAD between 1 January 2017 and 31 July 2018. A three-pronged care pathway (CP) was initiated among patients implanted during August 2018 to July 2019. The CP included standardised intraoperative, postoperative and predischarge teaching initiatives and tracking. Using statistical process control methods, DLIs and readmissions in the first year post implant were compared between patients in the CP group and non-CP patients. P-charts were used to detect special cause variation.ResultsA higher proportion of CP group patients developed a DLI in the first year after implant (52% vs 32%). None developed a DLI during the index admission, which differed from the non-CP group and met criteria for special cause variation. There was a downward trend in cumulative DLI-related readmissions among CP group patients (55% vs 67%). There was no association between CP compliance and development of DLIs within 1 year post implant.ConclusionThe CP did not lead to a reduction in the incidence of DLIs but there was a decrease in the proportion of patients with DLIs during their index admission and those readmitted for DLIs within 1 year post implant. This suggests that the CP played a role in decreasing the impact of DLIs in this patient population. However, given the short time period of follow-up longer follow-up will be required to look for sustained effects.
Resting heart rate and risk of left and right heart failure in 0.5 million Chinese adults
Authors: Agbor Valirie Ndip , Chen Yiping , Clarke Robert , Guo Yu , Pei Pei , Lv Jun , Yu Canqing , Li Liming , Chen Zhengming , Bennett Derrick 
Published: June 2022

ObjectivesTo compare the shape and strength of the associations of resting heart rate (RHR) with incident heart failure (HF) and pulmonary heart disease (PHD) in Chinese adults.MethodsThe prospective China Kadoorie Biobank recruited >0.5 million adults from 10 geographically diverse regions (5 urban, 5 rural) of China during 2004–2008. After an 11-year follow-up, 6082 incident cases of HF and 5572 cases of PHD, were recorded among 491 785 participants with no prior history of heart disease or use of beta-blockers at baseline. Cox regression yielded HRs for each disease associated with usual RHR after adjustment for confounding factors.ResultsThe mean (SD) baseline RHR was 79 (12) (men 78 (12); women 80 (11)) bpm, and these decreased with increasing age (by about 1 bpm per 10 years). Usual RHR showed J-shaped associations with HF and log-linear associations PHD. For HF, each 10 bpm higher usual RHR was associated with an adjusted HR of 1.25 (95% CI 1.17 to 1.34) for RHR>75 bpm. For PHD, each 10 bpm higher RHR was associated with HR of 1.74 (1.67–1.81) across the full range of usual RHR. For HF at RHR>75 bpm but not PHD, the HRs per 10 bpm higher RHR were approximately halved by further adjustment for diabetes and hypertension.ConclusionsRHR was strongly positively associated with PHD throughout the range studied, but was only associated with HF at RHR>75 bpm, and the strength of the associations with HF were only one-third of those with PHD.
Modeling site index of selected poplar clones using airborne laser scanning data
Authors: Tompalski Piotr , Coops Nicholas C. , Achim Alexis , Cosgrove Cameron F. , Lapointe Eric , Brochu-Marier Felix 
Published: June 2022

Accurate growth and yield projection for plantations is critical for evaluating management decisions and anticipating future yields. Development of site index (SI) models is often costly and can be problematic when new, short-rotation species are introduced, for example, hybrid poplar plantations, which are increasingly common due to their very fast growth and high productivity. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) allows accurate measurement of tree and stand height and is increasingly being used to develop top height models. In this paper, we demonstrate an approach to develop SI models from ALS data across hybrid poplar plantations in Quebec, Canada. We exploit a single time step ALS acquisition to generate top height estimates at 10 m grid level. Using existing information on planting date and management practices, we developed top height models for unique classes of fertilization treatment and clone. The generic models for unfertilized and fertilized stands showed good fit statistics, with R2 of 0.71 and 0.82, respectively. Clone-specific models showed similar goodness of fit, with the best model resulting in an R2 of 0.89 and relative root mean square error (RMSE) of 16.6%. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) results showed that clone, fertilization status, and the interaction term between clone and fertilization were significant. Our results confirm the development of top height models from a chronosequence of ALS data was successful and offers a new approach to derive SI models in single-species plantation sites.
Insights into Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) movement ecology in the terminal reaches of the upper Yukon River during the spawning migration
Authors: Twardek W.M. , Knight K.L. , Reid C.H. , Lennox R.J. , Cooke S.J. , Lapointe N.W.R. 
Published: June 2022

Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum, 1792)) from the upper Yukon River are highly unique, with some populations migrating nearly 3000 km to spawning habitat near the northern range limit for the species. We conducted a 4-year study to understand the behaviour of Chinook salmon in the terminal reaches of their migration by tagging salmon with acoustic and radio transmitters in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, ∼2800 km from the ocean. Various migration characteristics were quantified for Chinook salmon, including en route mortality, diel behaviour, migration rates, and homing patterns, and associations with salmon origin (wild vs. hatchery), sex, size, and migration timing were explored. Salmon had high survival to spawning grounds (>98%) and migrated throughout all hours of the day, with higher proportions of nighttime movements in a smaller spawning tributary than in the Yukon River mainstem. Migration rates were faster for larger salmon as well as late-arriving salmon, which was likely necessary to ensure they had sufficient time and suitable conditions on spawning grounds to reproduce. Non-direct homing movements (e.g., tributary exploration) were more common in male salmon and considerably increased migration distance through the study area. Findings from this study may help to inform the complex international and inter-nation management of these increasingly threatened Chinook salmon populations.
Risk Factors of Early Liver Metastasis for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma after Radical Resection
Authors: Tong Jingshu , Wu Shengdong , Lu Changjiang , Yang Yong , Mao Shuqi , Lu Caide 
Published: June 2022

Background. Liver metastasis arises in many postoperative patients with PDAC, occurring in the early stage appears to lead to a very poor prognosis. Objective. We aimed to analyze the risk factors for early liver metastasis after radical resection for patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and to indicate the poor prognosis of early liver metastasis. Methods. Patients who underwent pancreatectomy for PDAC at the Ningbo Medical Centre Lihuili Hospital between January 2015 and June 2021 were included. The exclusion criteria were death within 30 days after the operation, complications with other malignancies, and a positive final resection margin (R1). Liver metastasis and its occurrence time were recorded, and risk factors for early (≤6 months) liver metastasis were analyzed by logistic regression models. The prognosis of patients with early liver metastasis and different recurrence patterns was analyzed by Kaplan–Meier curves and the log-rank test. Results. From the identified cohort of 184 patients, 172 patients were included for further analysis. 55 patients developed early liver metastasis within 6 months after the operation. Univariate analysis showed that

CA
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, poor tumor differentiation, and portal vein/superior mesenteric vein (PV/SMV) reconstruction were risk factors, and multivariate analysis showed that poor tumor differentiation and PV/SMV reconstruction were independent risk factors for early liver metastasis. The prognosis of liver metastasis was the worst among the different recurrence patterns. Early liver metastasis indicates a poor prognosis in patients with PDAC. Conclusions. Poor differentiation and PV/SMV reconstruction are independent risk factors for early liver metastasis in patients with PDAC, and early liver metastasis indicates a poor prognosis.
Relaxing the

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Constraint on Compact Extradimension
Authors: Arun Mathew Thomas 
Published: June 2022

In this paper, we study the constraint on brane tension and compactification scale for models with brane fluctuations using the results from the direct search of

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, in the case for which branon forms the entire cold dark matter. The inclusion of these brane fluctuations suppresses the KK-mode couplings to brane localised matter fields. Unlike the rigid brane scenario, where the compactification scale gets constrained to

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TeV, here we show that compactification scales as small as

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TeV are allowed for brane tensions of similar strength.
A Physically Inspired Implementation of Xenakis's Stochastic Synthesis: Diffusion Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis
Authors: Rojas Emilio L. , Cádiz Rodrigo F. 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
This article presents an extension of Iannis Xenakis's Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis (DSS) called Diffusion Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis (DDSS). This extension solves a diffusion equation whose solutions can be used to map particle positions to amplitude values of several breakpoints in a waveform, following traditional concepts of DSS by directly shaping the waveform of a sound. One significant difference between DSS and DDSS is that the latter includes a drift in the Brownian trajectories that each breakpoint experiences through time. Diffusion Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis can also be used in other ways, such as to control the amplitude values of an oscillator bank using additive synthesis, shaping in this case the spectrum, not the waveform. This second modality goes against Xenakis's original desire to depart from classical Fourier synthesis. The results of spectral analyses of the DDSS waveform approach, implemented using the software environment Max, are discussed and compared with the results of a simplified version of DSS to which, despite the similarity in the overall form of the frequency spectrum, noticeable differences are found. In addition to the Max implementation of the basic DDSS algorithm, a MIDI-controlled synthesizer is also presented here. With DDSS we introduce a real physical process, in this case diffusion, into traditional stochastic synthesis. This sort of sonification can suggest models of sound synthesis that are more complex and grounded in physical concepts.
Children as Human Rights Activists?
Authors: Rosenberg Anette Ringen 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
This article focuses on human rights education (hre) situated in early childhood education and care (ecec). hre intends for children to become rights conscious subjects grounded in situations familiar to the child. Using critical discourse analysis of hre learning materials, I show how non-and intergovernmental organisations (ngo/igo s) include specific understandings of children as rights-subjects into their hre. I investigate what subject positions learning materials from three ngo/igo s offer children and how these positions inform hre for ecec. The findings demonstrate that the materials present a dichotomous image where societies are either compliant or non-compliant with human rights. This notion leads to the positioning of the activist and actionist rights subjects. The latter further positions some children as goals of the actionist´s actions. This has implications for the theory and practice of hre in ecec, as the positions of rights subjects guide hre in certain directions and legitimises these over other practices.
Review of Australian Cylapinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) with key to genera and descriptions of new species
Authors: Namyatova Anna A. , Cassis Gerasimos 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
We summarize the knowledge on Australian Cylapinae and review all recorded genera. Two species, Lygaeoscytus carnarvon sp. nov. and Phyllofulvius tarkine sp. nov., are described as new to science. Schizopteromiris Schuh, S. lordhowensis Schuh, S. montheithi Schuh, S. queenslandensis Schuh, Howefulvius Schmitz & Stys, H. elytratus Schmitz & Stys, Lygaeoscytus Reuter, Lygaeoscytus cimicoides Reuter, Phyllofulvius Carvalho and Phyllofulvius australianus Carvalho are redescribed. Rhinomiriella Gorczyca is synonymised with Ceratofulvius Reuter. Cylapofulvius listeri Izzard is transferred to Micanitropis Namyatova & Cassis. Peritropisca Carvalho & Lorenzato is recorded from Australia for the first time. The identification key to Australian genera, images of some holotypes, diagnoses, digital habitus images, scanning electron micrographs, illustration of genitalia and distribution maps are provided for new species and some other taxa. Considering the results of this work, 23 genera and 48 species of Cylapinae are currently recorded from Australia. The distribution and collection techniques are discussed.
The Rise of Wedding Churches
Authors: LeFebvre Jesse R. 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
The popularity of Christian weddings represents the new widespread acceptance and popularity of a religious ceremony that sits at the intersection the familial, social, commercial, political, and religious. These rites challenge established preconceptions concerning both Christianity and Japanese identity. The postwar history of Christian wedding ceremonies is best understood in light of the efforts made by traditional Christian churches and the bridal industry to meet the religious demands of Japan’s largely “nonreligious” constituency. In responding to the needs and desires of nonreligious Japanese, commercial and religious institutions not only cooperate to produce and provide Christian weddings, but also compete to satisfy expectations for religious authenticity. There are no better examples of this than the efforts made by Christian churches to open their doors to individuals with no espoused Christian faith and the production of the bridal industry’s fleet of “wedding churches.” As such, Japan’s massive nonreligious constituency has contributed to the creation of a unique form of Christianity particular to Japan.
Introduction
Authors: Whitt Jacqueline E. 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
While lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people have always served in militaries, military organizations and leaders have managed the presence of sexual gender minorities in the ranks in complicated ways that were influenced by regulation, military culture, social and cultural norms, and perceptions of military effectiveness. The history of lgbt soldiers in modern western military history reveals important ways that various military organizations have addressed the question and challenges of open service by lgbt people. While many states have incorporated lgbt people into their organizations, it is not the case globally, and policies continue to change. The five essays in this collection explore various aspects of lgbt military history in West Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, the United States, and Israel and explore themes including the importance of comparative history; the differences between de jure and de facto integration; the effects of both regulation and culture on lgbtq inclusion; and the experience of lgbt people in uniform.
The Royal Australian Navy and Courts Martial for Homosexuality
Authors: Riseman Noah 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
Until November 1992 the Australian military had longstanding rules against the presence of lesbian, gay and bisexual (lgb) service members. The policies and practices for dealing with lgb people varied across time and services, but one commonality is that rarely did cases go to court martial and were generally dealt with through administrative and other disciplinary processes. Yet, the rare cases which did go to court martial leave a hitherto overlooked archival trail that provides insight into how the Australian armed forces conceptualised and policed homosexuality within its ranks. This article examines data from courts martial in the Royal Australian Navy (ran), focusing especially on cases from the period after the Second World War. Exploring three case studies, it shows how courts martial were not so much about policing homosexuality, but rather prosecuting unsolicited advances and incidents which breached the unspoken bounds of discretion.
Multidecadal Changes in Zonal Displacement of Tropical Pacific MJO Variability Modulated by North Atlantic SST
Authors: Fu Zhen , Hsu Pang-Chi , Li Juan , Cao Jian , Yang Young-Min , Liu Fei 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
The Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) exhibits the most vigorous activity over the Indo-Pacific warm pool during the boreal winter. In this study, we find the interbasin connection between the tropical Pacific MJO activity and North Atlantic sea surface temperature at the interdecadal time scale. Accompanied with the negative phase of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO), the enhanced MJO variability (i.e., larger amplitude of 20–90-day convection) tends to extend eastward into the central tropical Pacific (20°S–0°, 170°E–150°W), while the vigorous MJO variability is confined to the Indo-Pacific warm pool during the positive phase of AMO. The eastward displacement of MJO convection into the central tropical Pacific during the negative AMO phase is supported by the increased moist static energy and low-level moisture tendencies there when the low-frequency background (>90 days) westerly transports the moisture perturbation [] and the MJO-associated easterly perturbation transports the background moisture [] toward the central tropical Pacific. This suggests that the interdecadal changes in zonal displacement of MJO activity over the tropical Pacific are closely linked with the impacts of AMO on the background flow and moisture condition over the central tropical Pacific. The results of coupled model sensitivity experiments and preindustrial simulations of phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) support the observational findings.