bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Working futures in Australia’s renewable industries?
Authors: Rainnie Al , Snell Darryn , Dean Mark 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
In this article, we consider the future of work in Australia’s renewable energy industry sectors through a consideration of the evolving political and economic context that will continue to shape it in years to come. We are particularly concerned about the quantity and quality of jobs, how these jobs will be realised, who secures them, and who will provide them. Further complicating matters, the debate is being carried out in the context of generalised skill shortages and recruitment difficulties. This article draws on and develops arguments we have put forward recently. Our focus in this article has been on the political economy of work and employment in Australia, especially implications of the polycrisis and associated geopolitics, the militarisation of industrial policy, renewable industries, regional development, just transitions, and the future of work and workers. In developing our argument, we consider Australia’s focus on ‘Renewable Energy Industrial Zones’ in an era of the ‘new state capitalism’, the impact of the US Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act particularly and new geopolitics generally, and the dominance of multinational corporations in renewable industries.
Misunderstanding Aquinas on Law
Authors: Riordan SJ Patrick 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This article investigates how two eminent scholars, the French cultural historian Rémi Brague and the American professor of Government J.Budziszewski misunderstand Aquinas on law. It explores the possible reasons for their misunderstandings. In both cases there is a failure to appreciate the theological context and content of what St Thomas has to say about law. Their lack of appreciation for the theological content explains also their individual specific distortions of the account of law. Brague confuses eternal law and divine law, which Aquinas explicitly distinguishes, and applies an abstract notion of the divine which heapplies not only to medieval Christian texts, but also to Greek, Egyptian, Jewish, and Islamic ideas on law. Budziszewski imposes on St Thomas’s classification of types of law the logical structure of genus and species, despite acknowledging that Aquinas avoids this language. The result is that he fails to appreciate the significance of eternal law. Both scholars misapprehend eternal law, and this is due to their ignoring theology. They exemplify a characteristic mistake of treating St Thomas as a philosopher, and his theology as something added on to the philosophical account.
Radiocarbon dating of the end of the latest Caspian Sea overflow through the Manych Depression (southeastern European Plain)
Authors: Semikolennykh Daria , Panin Andrei , Zazovskaya Elya 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The Manych Depression is a relatively narrow elongated depression of tectonic origin, connecting the Caspian and Azov-Black Sea basins. The Caspian Sea repeatedly discharged its waters through this depression into the Black Sea and further into the Mediterranean Sea during the Quaternary period. The last discharge occurred in MIS 2 when the Khvalynian transgression waters exceeded the drainage divide between those two basins. The geochronology of the last flow of Caspian waters into the Black Sea was established recently based on 14C dating of Khvalynian shells, carried out mainly by liquid scintillation counting, and the end of this event was dated to 12.5–12.8 ka cal BP. Recently obtained OSL dates for one of the most complete sections of the Khvalynian deposits of the Manych Depression indicate an older time for the end of the flow. This study aimed to clarify the timing of the Khvalynian transgression discharge by examining two sections containing the Khvalynian mollusk fauna in layers that, according to their stratigraphic and geomorphological position, belong to the final phase of the flow of the Caspian waters. Four 14C AMS dates were obtained from single shells of Didacna ebersini and Hypanis plicata, which agree with the OSL dating results. The results indicate that the last overflow of Caspian waters through the Manych Depression had ceased at around 14.5 ka cal BP.
Associations between diet quality indices and psoriasis severity: results from the Asking People with Psoriasis about Lifestyle and Eating (APPLE) cross-sectional study
Authors: Zanesco Sylvia , Maruthappu Thiviyani , Griffiths Christopher E.M. , Dalrymple Kathryn V. , Gibson Rachel , Hall Wendy L. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Psoriasis is a chronic immune-inflammatory skin disease. Cross-sectional research examining diet quality indices (DQIs) in psoriasis has focused on the Mediterranean diet and is confined to Mediterranean populations, thereby lacking generalisability to other populations. We explored associations between DQIs and the likelihood of reporting a higher psoriasis severity. This was an online cross-sectional study recruiting adult volunteers with psoriasis (n=257). A 147-item food frequency questionnaire evaluated adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS), the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) score, and the Plant-based Diet Index (PDI); original (oPDI), healthy (hPDI), and unhealthy (uPDI) subtypes. Psoriasis severity was determined with the self-assessed Simplified Psoriasis Index. When adjusted for age, sex, smoking, alcohol over-consumption, energy intake, and psychological morbidity, multinomial logistic regression analyses revealed an increased likelihood of reporting a higher psoriasis severity in participants with a very low adherence to DASH OR = 3.75, 95% CI 1.313 – 10.700, P = 0.01), and hPDI (OR = 4.04, 95% CI 1.251 – 13.064, P = 0.02) patterns. A reduced likelihood of reporting a higher psoriasis severity was shown in participants with low adherence to the uPDI (OR = 0.25, 95% CI 0.085 – 0.716, P = 0.01). With further adjustment for body mass index (BMI), a very low adherence to the oPDI was significantly associated with an increased likelihood of reporting a higher psoriasis severity (OR = 3.46, 95% CI 1.029 – 11.656, P = 0.05). Dietary interventions and assessment should be introduced in the care-pathway for psoriasis management.
Modelling sugarcane root elongation in response to mechanical stress as an indicator of soil physical quality
Authors: Grande Luiz Henrique Quecine , Santos John Kennedy dos , Pereira Matheus Batista Néri , Silva Lucas Henrique Amaro da , Muniz Larissa Fernanda , Bolonhezi Denizart , Umburanas Renan Caldas , Moraes Moacir Tuzzin de 
Published: February 2025

Summary
The root elongation rate represents a biophysical process that can be directly affected by mechanical, water, thermal, and gaseous stresses in the soil to be used as a soil physical quality indicator. The objective of this study was to determine sugarcane root growth parameters under soil physical stress for different root diameter classes in an Oxisol from the Southeast of Brazil. The experimental design was entirely randomized in a factorial scheme 5 × 2 (mechanical × water stress) with three replications. The factor mechanical stress was composed of five compaction levels (1.04; 1.12; 1.19; 1.28; 1.36 Mg m–3). The factor water stress was composed of two matric potentials (–6 kPa and –33 kPa). Soil samples were collected from the 0.0–0.2 m layer of an Oxisol with a clayey texture. Pre-sprouted sugarcane seedlings were transplanted and conditioned in a growth chamber. Root length, volume, surface area, and diameter were quantified to generate root growth models as a function of physical stresses in the soil. Soil penetration resistance increases from 1.4 to 5 MPa reduced root elongation rate from 3.5 to 1.35 cm day–1 (–59%) and the average number of roots from 11 to 6 segments (–45%), respectively. The root volume, surface area, and length were reduced because of the increase in the compaction level. Coarse root diameter (1–2 mm) was weakly impacted by mechanical stress, whereas fine root diameter (0.5–1 mm) was more growth limited in compacted soils. The root elongation rate of sugarcane was modelled as a function of mechanical and water stress. Mechanical stress mainly affects the growth of sugarcane roots with small diameter.
Spilling Millet: The East African Post and Studied Bureaucratic Knowledge
Authors: Robinson Morgan 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This essay is a study in bureaucratic knowledge production using the example of the postal system in German East Africa. There is a great deal of historical literature that focuses on bureaucratic-knowledge-as-power: bureaucracies produced information that was used to quantify and, ultimately, to control populations both in the metropole and the colony. In this piece I want to emphasize another kind of bureaucratic knowledge production: namely, information about the bureaucratic system that was created through bureaucratic practice — what I call “studied bureaucratic knowledge.” Beyond understanding German attempts to translate (linguistically, administratively, and culturally) one understanding of bureaucracy, the historian who pays attention to the users of colonial bureaucratic structures can uncover bureaucratic knowledge created by those who encountered those structures in their daily lives — and how that information in turned shaped their use of the bureaucratic system.
System size and system complexity: A case study in Pamean nouns and verbs
Authors: Herce Borja , Baerman Matthew , Parker Jeff 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Inflectional systems vary along multiple dimensions (number of members, size of paradigms, word class, integrative complexity, accidents of history, etc.). This makes it difficult to find significant correlations and causality relations between different properties, as attested systems usually differ in multiple ways at the same time, thus obscuring possible relations between individual variables. Here we analyze the relation between a system’s size by number of members and its morphological complexity. We do so by exploring in detail, via quantitative methods, the cognate inflectional systems of Central Pame and Chichimec (Otomanguean, Mexico), whose inflecting nominal classes differ precisely mostly with regard to their size (i.e. number of members).
Zero-full law for well approximable sets in missing digit sets
Authors: LI BING , LI RUOFAN , WU YUFENG 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Let

$b \geqslant 3$

be an integer and C(b, D) be the set of real numbers in [0,1] whose base b expansion only consists of digits in a set

$D {\subseteq} \{0,...,b-1\}$

. We study how close can numbers in C(b, D) be approximated by rational numbers with denominators being powers of some integer t and obtain a zero-full law for its Hausdorff measure in several circumstances. When b and t are multiplicatively dependent, our results correct an error of Levesley, Salp and Velani (Math. Ann.338 (2007), 97–118) and generalise their theorem. When b and t are multiplicatively independent but have the same prime divisors, we obtain a partial result on the Hausdorff measure and bounds for the Hausdorff dimension, which are close to the multiplicatively dependent case. Based on these results, several conjectures are proposed.
Constitutional Panic in British India: How the Ilbert Bill Controversy of 1883 Revealed the Constitutive Character of Racial Discrimination in the British Empire
Authors: Machona Gwinyai 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Until today, not only the general public but also scholars of colonialism and imperialism debate about the extent to which Europeans were aware of the centrality of racial discrimination for colonialism and empires. Those who stress that racism was the foundation of European colonialism appear to be anachronistic. However, as this essay demonstrates, at least the British of the late nineteenth century were well-aware of the constitutive character of racial discrimination for their Empire. During the “constitutional panic” which the proposal of the Ilbert Bill in 1883 caused, the arguments exchanged in newspapers, town hall meetings and parliamentary debates revealed the racist foundation of British India. One contemporary observed “the unhappy tendency of this controversy to bring into broad daylight everything which a wise and prudent administrator should seek to hide.” This essay seeks to bring into broad daylight once again what has been widely forgotten or ignored. Statements in Parliament expressing that it was “perfectly impossible and ridiculous, so long as we retained our hold on India, to give Native races full equality” testify for explicitness of the debate. Analyzing the arguments against the Ilbert Bill, which sought to introduce full racial equality in the judiciary, serves for better understanding the foundation of British India.
AVICENNA AND THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUATION VALORIZING THE INDIVIDUALS
Authors: Pournamdar Amir Hossein 
Published: February 2025

AbstractThis study tries to shed further light on Avicenna’s (d. 1037) philosophical and linguistic innovations as suggested in his various accounts of the problem of individuation. To better contextualize his discussions, a background is given from both Porphyry’s (d. 305) Isagoge and Fārābī’s (d. 950) remarks in his Isāġūǧī. I have also enumerated all the candidates for the principle of individuation in Avicenna’s œuvre. It is argued in this paper that the pre-Avicennian Peripatetic tradition hardly engaged, both epistemologically and ontologically, with individual per se as having its own unique identity. Instead, individual was ontologically treated as instantiation of universals and epistemologically it was inquired about to the extent that it could be only told apart. Introducing the notion of individuation as tašaḫḫuṣ, instead of the traditional individuation as tamayyuz, Avicenna offers a new way of looking at intra-species differences for a more complex understanding of the individual per se. According to this view, individual with its unique šaḫṣiyya must be understood on its own through sense perception. This approach appears to propose that the individual should not be deemed as subordinate to Aristotelian universals whose assemblage, in Peripatetic thought, was vainly expected to lead to the knowledge and definition of the individual.
Determine emotion-label words: Quantifying emotional prototypicality of 1,122 second-language English words
Authors: Wu Chenggang , Zhang Juan , Meng Yaxuan 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
A comprehensive database of emotional prototypicality (EmoPro) scores for 1,122 words in second-language (L2) English was provided and aided in selecting L2 English emotion-label words. EmoPro refers to the degree to which a word clearly represents or conveys an emotion. The results showed that EmoPro was influenced by various factors, including valence, arousal, socialness, age of acquisition (AoA) and concreteness. EmoPro in the L2 context demonstrated its ability to predict naming and lexical decision performance. The similarities observed between EmoPro in the L2 and in the first language (L1) exhibited comparable correlations with other emotional and semantic factors and shared associations with predictors in the L1. This study also serves as a valuable tool for research on L2 emotion words, especially in the selection of prototypical emotion-label words in L2 English.
An evaluation of a pilot high-intensity treatment pathway for prolonged grief reactions in a Devon NHS Talking Therapies service
Authors: Goff Sarah , Carson James , Ladwa Asha , Colletta Megan , Topicu Raluca , Shear Katherine , Dunn Barnaby D. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Effective, evidence-based psychological therapies for prolonged grief reactions exist but are not routinely available in United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) services. This audit evaluated the feasibility and clinical effectiveness of a high-intensity prolonged grief disorder therapy (PGDT) treatment pathway in an NHS Talking Therapies (NHS-TT) context for clients with a prolonged grief reaction alongside depression, anxiety and/or post-traumatic stress disorder. Seventeen experienced high-intensity therapists were trained to deliver PGDT. Ninety-one clients were treated between April 2022 and April 2024, 80 of whom met criteria and were included in this audit; 83% of clients completed at least four treatment sessions (a liberal estimate of minimum adequate dose), the mean number of sessions attended was 10.29 (SD=5.81) and rates of drop-out were low (16%). Data completeness rates were 100% depression, anxiety and functioning measures and 61% for the grief outcome (Brief Grief Questionnaire; BGQ). There was no evidence of treatment-related harms. There were statistically significant, large pre–post treatment effect size improvements across outcomes from intake to last treatment session (p<.001; Cohen’s d>1.05). According to NHS-TT outcome metrics for combined changes in anxiety and depression, 82% of clients exhibited reliable improvement, 72% showed recovery, and 68% of clients achieved reliable recovery. On the BGQ, rates of reliable improvement were 77% and rates of recovery were 63%. Effects held when focusing on the subgroup with more severe grief symptoms (intake BGQ≥8; n=40). These findings suggest it is feasible and probably effective to implement a PGDT pathway in an NHS-TT context.

Key learning aims

(1)
To become familiar with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) as a diagnostic construct.

(2)
To gain insight into using prolonged grief disorder therapy (PGDT) to treat PGD.

(3)
To understand ways to train and supervise National Health Service Talking Therapies (NHS-TT) high-intensity therapists to implement PGDT.

(4)
To evaluate the potential feasibility and effectiveness of implementing PGDT in an NHS-TT context.
Constraining Future Antarctic Warming Under Five Different Emissions Scenarios in the CMIP6 Multi‐Models
Authors: Sun Yuqi , Zhang Yulun , Wang Yetang , Heil Petra , Hou Shugui , Zhai Zhaosheng 
Published: February 2025

AbstractThe Coupled Model Inter‐comparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) multi‐models predict future warming over Antarctica under five different scenarios, but their uncertainties remain high and have not been well constrained. Here we find that the projected Antarctic warming robustly correlates with simulated averaged temperature trends during 1958–2012 across the CMIP6 multi‐models under each scenario, which is thereby used to refine future air temperature projections using observation‐based temperature reconstruction. The median of future warming projections under the five scenarios reduces by 24%, 19%, 18%, 21%, and 21%, respectively. The constrained uncertainty ranges are narrowed down, with the likely range by the end of the century relative to 1850–1900 baseline declining from 4.2°C–6.8°C to 3.2°C–6.1°C under the highest emission scenario. The application of ERA5 for the same constraint shows an increase in future warming and constrained uncertainty ranges. This suggests a key role of observational data set uncertainties in the performance of emergent constraints.
Comparison of Methods to Derive the Height‐Area Relationship of Shallow Lakes in West Africa Using Remote Sensing
Authors: Girard F. , Kergoat L. , Nikiema H. , Wubda M. , Yonaba R. , Fowé T. , Touré A. Abdourhamane , Mainassara I. , de Fleury M. , Grippa M. 
Published: February 2025

AbstractIn West Africa, lakes and reservoirs play a vital role as they are critical resources for drinking water, livestock, irrigation, and fisheries. Given the scarcity of in‐situ data, satellite remote sensing is an important tool for monitoring lake volume changes in this region. Several methods have been developed to do this using water height‐area‐volume relationships, but few publications have compared their performances over small and medium‐sized shallow lakes. In this work we compare four methods based on recent data from high‐resolution optical imagery and radar and lidar altimetry over 16 lakes in the Central Sahel, with areas between 0.22 and 21 . All methods show consistent results and are generally in good agreement with in‐situ data in terms of accuracy (Root Mean Squared Error below 0.42 m for heights and Normalized Root Mean Squared Error below 13% for volumes). The precision of the estimated water height is about 0.20 m for Pleiades Digital Surface Models (DSMs) and less than 0.13 m for the other methods. Inherent limitations such as DSM quality, temporal coverage of DSM and lidar data, and spatial coverage of radar altimetry data are identified. Overall, fine shape patterns are consistently observed over small height amplitudes, highlighting the ability to monitor shallow lakes with non‐linear height‐area relationship. Finally, we show that combining lidar and radar altimetry‐based methods provides estimates of volume changes over the different water bodies of the study region accurate enough to monitor seasonal, interannual, and long‐term variability.
Dispersive optical activity for spectro-polarimetric imaging
Authors: Cao Zhijie , Sun Siwei , Wei Jingxuan , Liu Yong 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
A spectro-polarimetric imaging approach leverages optical rotatory dispersion in natural crystals to encode spectral information into polarization states. The system demonstrates effectiveness in laboratory and outdoor field experiments, showing potential for biological microscopy, machine vision, and remote sensing applications.
Risk prediction score and equation for progression of arterial stiffness using Japanese longitudinal health examination data
Authors: Inadome Naoko , Kawasoe Shin , Miyata Masaaki , Kubozono Takuro , Ojima Satoko , Mori Ryuko , Miyahara Hironori , Tokushige Koichi , Ohishi Mitsuru 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) is useful for evaluating arterial stiffness. No longitudinal studies have examined the association between multiple arterial stiffness risk factors and increased baPWV. We sought to identify factors associated with baPWV ≥1400 cm/s within 5 years and create an equation and simple risk score to predict its occurrence, using data from a large-scale Japanese health examination database. Of 10,284 participants aged 30–69 years for whom follow-up data were available over a 5-year period, 3394 men and 2710 women with baseline baPWV<1400 cm/s were analyzed. We used age, body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate (HR), fasting blood sugar (FBS), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), triglyceride (TG), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), habitual exercise, habitual drinking, and smoking history as variables. In the multivariate logistic regression analysis, baPWV≥1400 cm/s was associated significantly with age, BMI, SBP, DBP, HR, FBS, and TG in men and age, SBP, DBP, HR, and smoking history in women. A prediction score based on these factors yielded an area under the curve (AUC) for the 5-year incidence of baPWV≥1400 cm/s of 0.68 for men and 0.71 for women. Furthermore, a risk prediction equation for the 5-year incidence of baPWV≥1400 cm/s showed an AUC = 0.71 for men and 0.77 for women. The prediction equation and a simple prediction score are easy to implement clinically. The predictive ability of these scores and equations for arterial stiffness should be validated in prospective studies.