bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Technical and economic analysis, and benchmarking associated with dairy farms in Minas Geraiz, Brazil
Authors: Pinheiro Jardeson de Souza , Matias Lucas Henrique de Souza , Sampaio Claudia Batista , Marcondes Marcos Inácio 
Published: September 2022

Context Dairy operations have adopted benchmarking as a methodology to rank farms and establish target indexes; however, a connection between benchmarking and farms in the tropics is still warranted. Aims To evaluate the technical and economic quartiles based on farm return on assets (ROA) of three regions (Centre, South and Triangle) of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, and use them to establish benchmarks for dairy farms. Methods We collected data from 128 dairy farms (from January to December of 2019). All properties were part of the Educampo® project/Sebrae-MG. Farms were grouped into the Centre, South and Triangle regions, and subdivided into three groups within each region according to their ROA, where 25% of the farms that presented the lowest ROA were classified as the first quartile, 50% of farms were classified as interquartile and the 25% remaining farms were classified as the fourth quartile. Data were analysed as a randomised block design in a split-plot scheme, where the production systems were blocks, the regions were the main plots and the groups were the split plots. Differences were declared when P ≤ 0.10. Key results Total operating cost ($/L; $ – this currency is in US dollars and it applies throughout the paper); accrual operating cost ($/L); production costs, such as roughage ($/L), hired labour ($/L), percentage of concentrate and hired labour in accrual operating cost (%), were affected by regions and groups. The South and fourth quartile had the greatest total operating cost (0.24 $/L; 0.26 $/L) and accrual operating cost (0.27 $/L; 0.30 $/L), respectively. The majority of economic indexes were higher for Triangle than South and Centre, respectively. The fourth quartile had the greatest net margin (0.09 $/L), profit (0.07 $/L), return on assets (2%) and assets turnover rate (24%). Conclusions We suggest that benchmarks should be established by region, as there were too many variations among regions. In addition, this study demonstrated the importance of understanding the behaviour of the technical and economic indicators to stratify farms based on their return on assets. Implications We evaluated technical and economic indexes from three regions and stratified by ROA. Then, we established benchmarks by regions to better guide the producer in decision-making in dairy operations.
Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations
Authors: de Dear Caroline , Blythe Joe , Possemato Francesco , Stirling Lesley , Gardner Rod , Mushin Ilana , Kofod Frances 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages like Guugu
Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent topographic features is a consequence of absolute frame of reference
being dominant in these languages; and that the lackadaisical points produced by North American English speakers is an outcome of
relative frame being dominant in English. We test this claim by comparing locational pointing in contexts of place reference in
conversations conducted in two Australian Aboriginal languages, Murrinhpatha and Gija, and in Australian English spoken by
non-Aboriginal residents of a small town in north Western Australia. Pointing behaviour is remarkably similar across the three
groups and all participants display a capacity to point accurately regardless of linguistic frame of reference options. We suggest
that these speakers’ intimate knowledge of the surrounding countryside better explains their capacity to accurately point to
distant locations.
Corpus-based analysis of honorifics in Korean and its pedagogical implication
Authors: Kim HwanHee 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
This study explores the speech level shifts from non-honorific to honorific situation by analyzing Korean spoken
corpora of conversations between native speakers of Korean through a discourse-analytic framework. Although non-honorific styles
(e.g., panmal) are used as frequently as honorific ones (e.g., contaysmal), little
attention has been paid to non-honorific expressions in Korean, let alone to the speech level shift between
non-honorific and honorific. Analyzing interactions between native speakers of Korean revealed that, depending on the change of their stance in response to the interlocutor’s utterance, speakers dynamically switched their speech levels not only within the boundary of non-honorifics or
honorifics, but also across the dichotomous categories, that is, they changed from non-honorific to honorific speech styles. In
general, speakers employed the speech level elevation from non-honorific to honorific when indexing a confrontational stance
toward a topic and an object, or when upgrading an epistemic stance in naturally occurring interactions. The findings of this
study encourage researchers to actively construct and use corpora of authentic/naturalistic conversations to explore the
dynamicity of the speech level shift and its functions, which in turn contributes to developing instruction materials that reflect
the dynamicity of the Korean honorific system.
A Low Cost Material for Treatment Wastewater Contained Petroleum Pollution
Authors: Mokif Layla Abdulkareem , Abdulhusain Noor Alaa 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
One of the major problems facing the water environment is the pollution resulting from petroleum, refineries and oil industries which resulting a great danger to humans, aquatic organisms and water resources in the world. In this study, Conocarpus plant was employed as natural adsorbent substance which performed to reduce the concentration of contaminates exiting in the petroleum wastewater. The pollutants that have been removed are phenol, grease and oil. The laboratory experiments using Bach technique. Maximum efficacy of phenols removal was (83.694 %) at pH of (3.7). The highest efficacy of oil and grease removal (99.861 %) achieved at adsorbent mass of (15g), pH (9.77) and time of (120 min.). The Conocarpus plant has been shown to be effective in removing of pollutants (phenols, oil and grease) from wastewater. Efficacy of phenol removing progressed in increasing with adsorbent mass. The acidic pH value contributes greatly to increasing the efficiency of removal for both phenols, oils and grease. Maximum. amount of oil and grease adsorbed in solid phase was (17.369 mg/g). The results demonstrated that Conocarpus plant as natural adsorbent can be efficiently applied in refiners, grease and petroleum industry for eliminating pollution.
Applicability of Chlorpromazine.HCl- lyotropic nanosystems into photogalvanic cells
Authors: Alhasan Huda S. 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
This paper reports on the development of liquid crystal for the electrochemical study of photo-induced electron transfer. This study covers the following studies: the description of the laminar liquid crystals (LLCs) system by using CPZ.HCl material, examining the lyotropic liquid crystal system of CPZ.HCl compound and its application in the photogalvanic cell. Chlorpromazine hydrochloride (CPZ.HCl) was first shown to form a lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) when the concentrations reached > 10 M in an aqueous solution. This self-assembly was revealed through the birefringence observed through cross-polarisers and the characteristic X-ray scattering. The electrochemistry of the CPZ.HCl- LLC system was probed through the use of cyclic voltammetry using different micro-electrode materials, diameters and CPZ.HCl concentrations. Following this, this system was fabricated into a photogalvanic cell that produced a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 0.58 %.
Okinawa: Territory as Monument
Authors: Dudden Alexis , Inthavong Kim 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Our contribution to the AHR’s Monuments series consists of three interwoven sections spotlighting Japan’s southwestern Okinawa Island chain. We premise the islands themselves as monument to the present as well as their place in contemporary Japanese history. Annexed to the nascent Japanese empire in 1879, fast-forward to 1945, and Okinawa would be sacrificed by Japan’s wartime leaders in a desperate and violent effort to stave off America’s invasion of Japan’s main islands. What Okinawans know as the Typhoon of Steel, the Americans code-named Operation Iceberg. It was the final Allied assault in the Pacific theater of World War II and considered by many its bloodiest: one in four Okinawans died.
Initial detachment of the mouse oocyte from the zona pellucida is mediated by metallopeptidase activity
Authors: Macaulay Angus D , Ortman Chyna S , Moore Kevin R J , Baltz Jay M 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
The fully grown mammalian oocyte is tightly attached to its extracellular matrix shell, the zona pellucida (ZP), but the oocyte detaches from the ZP shortly after ovulation is signaled. The mechanism by which the oocyte detaches from the ZP is unknown. Because ZP proteins are initially secreted as transmembrane proteins, we hypothesized that attachment of the oocyte to the ZP is mediated by transmembrane ZP proteins and that detachment occurs when these proteins are cleaved by peptidases. To identify potential candidates for the type of peptidase, we used mouse oocyte transcriptome data sets to identify candidate peptidases localized to the exterior of the oocyte. Screening with a set of small molecule inhibitors that broadly target the families of peptidases represented by the candidates, we found that only inhibitors of the M10 and M12 families of metallopeptidases prevented detachment. Using more selective inhibitors indicated that detachment was prevented by an inhibitor, GI254023X, developed to be selective for ADAM10 in the M12 family but not by those considered selective for the M10 family or for other M12 metallopeptidases expressed in oocytes. Using an antibody that binds to an epitope just distal to the likely cleavage site of murine ZP3 showed that this site was gradually lost from the oocyte surface during the period when detachment occurs, and that inhibiting metallopeptidase activity prevented the loss of this epitope. Taken together, these results indicate that detachment of the oocyte from the ZP is mediated by a metallopeptidase.
Meta-Theatrical Comedy: Pirandello’s Existential Humour and the Italian Avant-Garde
Authors: Subialka Michael 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
This article examines modernist meta-theatre as a reconfiguration of classical tragedy. While many critics have rejected modernist aesthetics for emptying out the content of artistic representation, and accounts of modernist comedy frequently focus on its negative (even nihilistic) dimensions, this article argues that Luigi Pirandello’s theory of humour provides an alternative vision of how modernist theatre can transform comedy in a way that aligns with an ethics of compassion. This sets Pirandello apart from more reactionary contemporaries like the teatro grottesco and the Futurists as well as revolutionary contemporaries like Brecht. Pirandello’s compassionate humour is tied to modernist meta-representation, which for him, as for contemporaries like Edward Gordon Craig, is typified in the figure of the marionette; the marionette epitomizes the tragicomic situation of the modern subject. For Pirandello, modernist humour allows the self-aware subject to be decentred in a way that nevertheless maintains the value of the human being and human experience, opening to a shared understanding of suffering and an ethics of compassion.
Cut-free sequent-style systems for a logic associated to involutive Stone algebras
Authors: Cantú Liliana M , Figallo Martín 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
In [4, 5], it was introduced a logic (called Six) associated to a class of algebraic structures known as involutive Stone algebras. This class of algebras, denoted by S, was considered by the first time in [6] as a tool for the study of certain problems connected to the theory of finite-valued Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebras. In fact, Six is the logic that preserves degrees of truth with respect to the class S. Among other things, it was proved that Six is a 6-valued logic that is a Logic of Formal Inconsistency (LFI ); moreover, it is possible to define a consistency operator in terms of the original set of connectives. A Gentzen-style system (which does not enjoy the cut-elimination property) for Six was given. Besides, in [5], it was shown that Six is matrix logic that is determined by a finite number of matrices; more precisely, four matrices. However, this result was further sharpened in [17], proving that just one of these four matrices determine Six, i.e. Six can be determined by a single 6-element logic matrix. In this work, taking advantage of this last result, we apply a method due to Avron, Ben-Naim and Konikowska [3] to present different Gentzen systems for Six enjoying the cut-elimination property. This allows us to draw some conclusions about the method as well as to propose additional tools for the streamlining process. Finally, we present a decision procedure for Six based in one of these systems.
Tourism and Transport
Authors: Pearson Jessica Lynne 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Transportation for tourists is inextricably linked to broader power structures in modern global society. Histories of empire building, nationalism, and decolonization overlap with histories of sea, highway, rail, and air travel, demonstrating the roles that transport has played in building and dismantling systems of inequality on a global scale. Tourism plays a key role in forging collective identities, but leisure travel, historically, was beyond the reach of all but the most privileged groups. Revolutions in transportation—in step with broader political and social shifts—have contributed to the slow but ongoing democratization of travel. Tourist transport in the second half of the twentieth century became a key site in the battle for desegregation and served as a platform for recently decolonized nations to pursue political independence and economic autonomy from their former colonizers.
Equitable ownership, butter and donkeys: Setting out a vision for the future of the Hague Trust Convention
Authors: Noseda Filippo 
Published: September 2022

ABSTRACT
This article builds on the author’s closing remarks at a symposium organised by the Hague Conference on Private International Law on the future of the Hague Trust Convention (HCCH) and other issues of Digital, Commercial and Financial Law (CODIFI Conference).1 The author was asked to ‘set out a vision for the future of the Hague Trust Convention, with particular focus on how the Convention has impacted non-Contracting Parties and how their interest in the Convention can be developed’. To do this, the author dusted off the dictionary and has come up with a few action points.
Effects of Preconditioning on RBC Deformability in Critically Ill Patients
Authors: Moreau Anthony , Zouaoui Boudjeltia Karim , Biston Patrick , Piagnerelli Michael 
Published: September 2022

OBJECTIVES:
RBCs from critically ill patients have depressed deformability, especially in sepsis. Prolonged exposure of RBCs from healthy volunteers to physiologic shear stress (the preconditioning technique) has been associated with improved deformability, but the effect of preconditioning on RBCs from critically ill patients with or without sepsis has never been studied.

DESIGN:
Prospective study.

SETTING:
A 32-bed medico-surgical ICU and a university-affiliated cell biology laboratory.

SUBJECTS:
RBCs from 26 healthy volunteers and 40 critically ill patients (20 with and 20 without sepsis).

INTERVENTIONS:
RBC deformability was measured using the elongation index (EI) with an ektacytometer, at shear stress levels ranging from 0.3 to 50 Pa. To assess the effects of preconditioning in the three groups, we measured EI after first applying a shear stress of 5 Pa for 300 seconds. To study the potential mechanisms involved in preconditioning, we looked at deformability after incubation of an RBC solution from the healthy volunteers with glutaraldehyde, a membrane-stabilizing protein, and neuraminidase, an enzyme that releases membrane sialic acid.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:
Baseline RBC deformability was significantly depressed in the septic patients compared with the volunteers at all shear stress levels greater than or equal to 4.89 Pa. Preconditioning improved deformability only in the volunteers (at shear stress levels of 0.48 and 0.76 Pa). Among the critically ill patients, preconditioning worsened RBC deformability at higher shear stress levels. After incubation (with glutaraldehyde or neuraminidase) of RBCs from five volunteers in whom preconditioning had significantly improved deformability, the positive effect of preconditioning was lost with glutaraldehyde.

CONCLUSIONS:
RBC deformability is depressed in septic patients. There was a deleterious effect of preconditioning on RBC deformability in septic patients, unlike the positive effect on RBCs from healthy volunteers. The effect of preconditioning may be associated with elasticity of the cell membrane.
Enhanced platelet NLRP3 inflammasome expression in patients with acute coronary syndrome and stable coronary artery disease: A prospective observational study
Authors: Qi Zhiyong , Liu Xin , Zhao Gang , Ge Junbo 
Published: September 2022

Background and purpose:
Nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat containing protein (NLRP3) inflammasome contributes to the development and progression of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. Enhanced expression of NLRP3 in monocytes has been reported in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, NLRP3 expression in platelets, an important link between inflammation and atherosclerosis/thrombosis in CAD patients has not been evaluated. The purpose of this study was to explore the expression of NLRP3 in platelets with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and stable CAD.

Methods:
This prospective observational study included 60 treatment-naïve patients with newly diagnosed ACS, 60 patients with stable CAD, and 60 age- and sex-matched healthy individuals with normal coronary arteries (NCA). Platelet NLRP3 expression was evaluated by flow cytometry in venous blood samples, and compared among the 3 groups. Multivariate regression analysis was conducted to identify the risk of ACS.

Results:
Platelet NLRP3 expression was highest in the ACS group, followed by the stable CAD, and lowest in the NCA group (P < 0.001 for ACS vs. stable CAD, 44.7 ± 21.3 vs. 25.9 ± 15.9, as well as for stable CAD, vs. NCA, 25.9 ± 15.9 vs. 12.4 ± 7.2). Higher platelet NLRP3 correlated with higher plasma interleukin-1β and interleukin-18 (r = 0.662 and 0.324, respectively; P < 0.001 for both). In multivariate regression analysis, higher platelet NLRP3 was independently associated with ACS (odds ratio 1.06, 95% CI: 1.02–1.10 vs. stable CAD; odds ratio 1.23, 95% CI: 1.06–1.42 vs. NCA).

Conclusion:
Platelet NLRP3 expression was highest in the ACS group, followed by the stable CAD group, and lowest in the NCA group. Also, higher platelet NLRP3 expression was independently associated the ACS.
Evaluation of Fat Excision versus Sparing in Lower Blepharoplasty Using Orbital Gray Scale Analysis
Authors: Etman Adnan Gamal , Badawy Mohamed Samir , Setta Hany Saad , Magdy Amr , EL-badawy Ahmed 
Published: September 2022

Background:
Orbital septum plication provides various benefits, including eliminating the necessity for a septal incision and the ability to relocate infraorbital fat in a more anatomically suitable manner. This study aimed to compare the results of traditional lower blepharoplasty with fat excision and the orbital septal plication method using orbital grey scale analysis as a new objective method for assessment.

Methods:
We conducted a prospective cohort study on patients with bilateral baggy lower eyelids who underwent traditional lower blepharoplasty with fat excision or fat-sparing technique using orbital septal plication. All patients were followed up closely for 1 week and then after 1, 3, and 6 months postoperatively to evaluate the study’s outcomes.

Results:
The study was conducted using 40 patients (20 patients per group). The total (medial, central, and lateral) orbital grey scale analysis showed a significant reduction in the fat-sparing and traditional groups (P < 0.001, each). However, the percentage of reduction was significantly higher in the fat-sparing group (34.6 ± 2.9 versus 15.5 ± 3.3 in the traditional groups; P < 0.001).

Conclusions:
The application of the fat-sparing technique is associated with favorable cosmetic outcomes and a lower complication rate than those of the traditional technique with fat excision. Further studies with a longer duration of follow-up and a larger sample size are required to estimate the risk of recurrence and the need for a revision procedure.
Thinking Out of the Box: Use of the Radial Artery Distally to the Snuffbox as Recipient Vessel
Authors: Troisi Luigi , Zanchetta Francesco , Vizcay Macarena , Stucchi Sara , Baez Antonio , Pajardi Eugenio 
Published: September 2022

Background:
The use of the radial artery (RA) as a recipient vessel in the hand is mainly described in the snuffbox. However, we believe that employing the RA distally to the extensor pollicis longus (EPL) tendon may provide remarkable advantages.

Methods:
We conducted a prospective study from June 2019 until December 2021, which included all patients who underwent reconstructive procedures with the RA distally to the snuffbox as the recipient vessel. We reviewed patients’ medical records: demographics, type of trauma, defect characteristics, microsurgical procedure, reoperations, and short- and long-term complications.

Results:
We found 23 patients eligible for this study; 22 patients required a reconstructive procedure due to a trauma and one for a congenital malformation. RA distal to snuffbox was always identified and judged reliable and apt as a recipient vessel. There were no issues with the anastomosis and no total flap failure in all cases. The morbidity in the recipient area was also minimal, with no mobility deficits, loss of sensation, or neuroma development.

Conclusions:
The RA is the primary vessel in the dorsum of the distal upper limb; performing the anastomosis distally to the EPL tendon may offer various advantages, making the surgery safer and less invasive.