bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Compressed Smooth Sparse Decomposition
Authors: Mou Shancong , Shi Jianjun 
Published: November 2022

Image-based anomaly detection systems are of vital importance in various manufacturing applications. The resolution and acquisition rate of such systems are increasing significant in recent years under the fast development of image sensing technology. This enables the detection of tiny anomalies in real time. However, such a high resolution and a high acquisition rate of image data not only slow down the speed of image processing algorithms but also, increase data storage and transmission cost. To tackle this problem, we propose a fast and data-efficient method with theoretical performance guarantee that is suitable for sparse anomaly detection in images with a smooth background (smooth plus sparse signal). The proposed method, named compressed smooth sparse decomposition (CSSD), is a one-step method that unifies the compressive image acquisition- and decomposition-based image processing techniques. To further enhance its performance in a high-dimensional scenario, a Kronecker compressed smooth sparse decomposition (KronCSSD) method is proposed. Compared with traditional smooth and sparse decomposition algorithms, significant transmission cost reduction and computational speed boost can be achieved with negligible performance loss. Simulation examples and several case studies in various applications illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. History: Kwok-Leung Tsui served as the senior editor for this article. Funding: This work is partially support by the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers [Grant 2052714]. Data Ethics & Reproducibility Note: The code capsule is available on Code Ocean at https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.6352310.v2 and in the e-Companion to this article (available at https://doi.org/10.1287/ijds.2022.0023 ).
Respiratory Function, Physical Capacity, and Metabolic Syndrome Components in Combustible Cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products Users: A Four-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study
Authors: Sharman Almaz , Yermakova Irina , Erenchina Elmira , Tyulebekova Gulnara , Bekzhanova Aisulu 
Published: November 2022

Purpose: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and is the fourth leading cause of death in Kazakhstan. Cigarette smoking is a prevalent risk factor for COPD. While quitting smoking is the preferred way to reduce COPD risk, literature suggests that heated tobacco products (HTP) might be a better option for people who cannot quit smoking. The aim of this paper was to analyze the long-term effects of shifting to HTP use in long-term smokers compared to continued combustible cigarettes (CC) use.
Patients and methods: A cohort of 1200 participants (400 HTP and 800 CC) aged 40-59 years with a minimum of 10 pack-year smoking history were recruited and followed for four years. The functional outcomes compared between HTP and CC users included: (1) COPD Assessment Test (CAT); (2) post-bronchodilator lung function; (3) 6-minute walking distance (6MWD) test; and (4) metabolic syndrome components. One way ANOVA was used to compare functional outcomes between visits, while multivariable linear mixed models were used to test associations between health outcomes and smoking type (HTP vs. CC) over time.
Results: Out of 1200 participants 893 (609 CC users and 284 HTP users) remained in the study by the fourth year of follow up. Comparison between functional outcomes showed that most of them have improved between visits, while lung function and fasting blood glucose levels got worse. Linear mixed models showed HTP use was associated with better functional outcomes over time compared to CC users. Lung function decrease was significantly less in HTP users, while improvements in CAT scores, waist circumference, and systolic blood pressure were significantly better compared to CC users.
Conclusion: This study demonstrated that HTP users experienced it to a significantly lesser decrease in lung function compared to CC users, while demonstrating better improvements in other functional outcomes. The results of this study suggest that HTP might be a less deleterious alternative compared to CC in people with long history of CC use and who cannot quit smoking.
Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Gene Xpert-MTB/RIF assay among tuberculosis suspected patients at Mizan-Tepi university teaching hospital, southwest Ethiopia: An institution based cross-sectional study
Authors: Abayneh Mengistu , Teressa Murtii 
Published: November 2022

Background
Consistently deciding its current extent and chance elements of tuberculosis (TB) in all levels of clinical settings contributes to the anticipation and control exertion of the disease. In Ethiopia, updated information is still needed at every healthcare level and in different risk groups to monitor the national program’s performance, which aims to attain the 2035 goal. Hence, this study aimed to generate additional evidence data on the magnitude of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the Gene Xpert assay among TB-suspected patients at Mizan-Tepi university teaching hospital, southwest Ethiopia.

Methods
A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from June to September 30, 2021. The required socio-demographic and other risk factor data were collected from a total of 422 suspected TB patients using a structured questionnaire. Approximately 392 pulmonary and 30 extra-pulmonary samples were collected and examined using the Gene Xpert-MTB/RIF assay. The statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 25 software was used to analyze the data.

Results
In this study, Mycobacterium tuberculosis was detected in 12.5% (49/392) of pulmonary samples and 13.3% (4/30) of extra-pulmonary samples, giving an overall TB positivity of 12.6% (53/422). Rifampicin-resistant M. tuberculosis was detected in 3/53 (5.7%). Male sex (AOR: 2.54; 95% CI: 1.210, 5.354), previous contact (AOR: 4.25; 95% CI: 1.790, 10.092), smoking cigarette (AOR: 4.708; 95% CI: 1.004, 22.081), being HIV-positive (AOR: 4.27; 95% CI: 1.606, 11.344), and malnutrition (AOR: 3.55; 95% CI: 1.175, 10.747) were all significantly associated with M. tuberculosis detection using the GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay.

Conclusion
The overall frequency of M. tuberculosis in this study was still significant in different risk groups, despite the proposed strategies, which aimed to reduce TB prevalence to as low as 10 per 100,000 populations by 2035. Early case detection with better diagnostic tools and public health measures are important prevention and control strategies to meet the proposed target and reduce the burden of TB in the country.
Should We Rethink the Purposes of the Law School? A Case for Decolonial Thought in Legal Pedagogy
Authors: Adebisi Foluke 
Published: November 2022

This article argues that there is a need for more transdisciplinary and decolonial approaches to knowledge production in law. These approaches need to go beyond a focus on diversity which only seeks ways for marginal voices and experiences to be absorbed into a hierarchized structure of knowledge production that in turn [re]produces a hierarchized world. New ways must be sought to ensure that, in reconsidering the purposes of law and law schools, legal education does not reproduce inequalities but unravels them. Thereby legal education may do more than just add to and diversify the profession but may aspire to transform the world.
Keywords: decolonization; legal education; decolonial thought.
UM BREVE DIAGNÓSTICO AMBIENTAL DO PARQUE ESTADUAL DE GRÃO MOGOL (MG) E SEU CONTEXTO ESPACIAL
Authors: Fonseca Diego de Sousa Ribeiro , Lessa Simone Narciso 
Published: November 2022

O propósito deste trabalho é fazer uma breve discussão acerca do entorno espacial e da área do Parque Estadual de Grão Mogol (MG), localizado no Norte de Minas Gerais. Este espaço foi criado com a importante missão de conservar cursos hídricos, espécies animais e vegetais ameaçadas -, incluindo algumas espécies vegetais que são endêmicas Ã quele local. Com esse intuito, a metodologia empregada consistiu no mapeamento da área com manuseio de SIG (Sistemas de Informações Geográficas) e Processamento Digital de Imagens Órbitais (PDI), houve a consulta bibliográfica entre outras fontes, e a discussão dos resultados. O Parque Estadual de Grão Mogol além de ser um importante meio de preservação do meio ambiente, pode ser uma importante fonte de renda para a cidade de Grão Mogol, desde que bem administrado sob o ponto de vista da gestão ambiental.
TURISMO, PATRIMONIO CULTURAL Y DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE
Authors: Fernández Guillermina , Ramos Aldo Guzmán 
Published: November 2022

The heritage can be considered like everything what the man has and who has been bequeathed him by its ancestors. All this wealth has extreme importance for the development of the tourism. But as well as the heritage allows the development of the
tourism also can be seen negatively affected by this activity. Therefore it is necessary that a sustainable development of the tourism considers; a development model that obtains economic benefits of the heritage but that it allows that this it is revitalized and it revalues as well.

Key Words: Tourism, Heritage, Sustainable development
ARBORIZAÇÃO E CONFORTO TÉRMICO NO ESPAÇO URBANO: ESTUDO DE CASO NAS PRAÇAS PÚBLICAS DE PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE (SP)
Authors: Gomes Marcos Antônio Silvestre , Amorim Margarete Cristiane de Costa Trindade 
Published: November 2022

Presidente Prudente is a city in the State of Sao Paulo with considerable number of green areas (147) but a few numbers of public squares (56). In this city, with 189.000 inhabitants, the lack of recreation space (as green areas and publics squares) is a
problem that has been increasing. The existing green areas and publics squares have not substructure or arborization. The paper presented analyzes how arborization process is responsible on the generation of thermic comfort. It is understood that arborization is very important to make better the recreation places in Presidente Prudente, a tropical city that presents high temperatures all year long. The methodology was theoretical reference; research on public organizations, field research and data collect of temperature, relative humidity in the Meteorological Station. It was collected too, temperature and relative humidity in two publics squares selected by botany, altitude and topography characteristics. Readings of temperature and humidity was realized on January 2001 at 10h, 16h, 21h and 22h. The Effective Temperature register (TE) used to analyze thermic comfort was Thom's (1959).

Key words: thermic comfort, squares publics, urban vegetation, Presidente Prudente
CARROCEIROS E EQUÍDEOS DE TRAÇÃO: UM PROBLEMA SÓCIO-AMBIENTAL
Authors: De Oliveira Liliane Martins , Marques Renata Leal , Nunes Carlos Henrique , Cunha Ana Maria de Oliveira 
Published: November 2022

Neste artigo apresentamos resultados de uma pesquisa envolvendo os carroceiros em atividade na cidade de Uberlândia e a forma com que tratam e exploram seus equídeos (equinos, asininos e mulas) de tração. Apresentamos e analisamos dados que incluem: o perfil sócio-econômico dos carroceiros; o tratamento dispensado aos equídeos; o número de acidentes envolvendo equídeos e as principais enfermidades desses animais de tração, levados ao Hospital Veterinário da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. Para o levantamento de dados, realizamos uma pesquisa diagnóstico-avaliativa que embora se insira nos domínios da pesquisa qualitativa, alguns dados foram coletados na forma quantitativa, ainda que analisados de forma descritiva. A obtenção dos dados foi viabilizada a partir de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com 30 carroceiros, uma pesquisa documental feita nos relatórios obtidos junto à Polícia Militar entre 2003 e 2006 e aos arquivos do Hospital Veterinário da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia relativos ao período de 2002 a 2005 acrescidos de observações in loco com registros fotográficos.
Online schema evolution is (almost) free for snapshot databases
Authors: Hu Tianxun , Wang Tianzheng , Zhou Qingqing 
Published: November 2022

Modern database applications often change their schemas to keep up with the changing requirements. However, support for online and transactional schema evolution remains challenging in existing database systems. Specifically, prior work often takes ad hoc approaches to schema evolution with "patches" applied to existing systems, leading to many corner cases and often incomplete functionality. Applications therefore often have to carefully schedule downtimes for schema changes, sacrificing availability.
This paper presents Tesseract, a new approach to online and transactional schema evolution without the aforementioned drawbacks. We design Tesseract based on a key observation: in widely used multi-versioned database systems, schema evolution can be modeled as data modification operations that change the entire table, i.e., data-definition-as-modification (DDaM). This allows us to support schema almost "for free" by leveraging the concurrency control protocol. By simple tweaks to existing snapshot isolation protocols, on a 40-core server we show that under a variety of workloads, Tesseract is able to provide online, transactional schema evolution without service downtime, and retain high application performance when schema evolution is in progress.
Die ganze Breite architekturgeschichtlicher Forschung
Authors: Schwarting Andreas 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
In 1976, Wulf Schirmer, professor of architectural history at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), followed Heinrich Klotz as editor of the architectura and headed the editorial team until 2002. During this time, the journal developed into an open forum for the most diverse forms of research in architectural history – chronologically from the ruins of the 4th millennium BC to the architecture of the late 20th century, topographically from Europe, the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, Asia and Russia to North and South America, and methodologically from architectural research to art history, architectural theory and the preservation of historical monuments.
»Learning from Las Vegas« Tianjin!
Authors: Falser Michael 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
From the perspective of architectural research, globalization is often reduced to a merely recent phenomenon of construction firms and star architects operating worldwide today. This article argues for a global architectural history that examines the globally effective processes of exchange and circulation of capital, labor, and the increasingly unified standards of form, style, and material in building practice from a historical perspective as well: architectural globalization, therefore, can also be traced back, among other constellations, to a phase of an entanglement of the world that coincided with the height of European imperialism and colonialism around 1900. As a case-study serves in this essay the International Concession (Settlement) of Tientsin in China, where between ca. 1860 and 1945 altogether nine imperial powers from Japan, Europe (also the German Empire) and the USA developed their trading posts as veritable city quarters with representative architectures. Irony of history back-translated into present times: Today, these urban and architectural fragments from imperial pasts are being appropriated as an integral part of a veritable cultural heritage industry in which China itself, with the megacity of Tianjin, is now presenting itself as a global player, not least in the means of architecture and urban planning.
Caffeine impairs anticonvulsant effects of levetiracetam in the maximal electroshock seizure threshold test in mice
Authors: Chwedorowicz Roman , Łukawski Krzysztof , Raszewski Grzegorz , Czuczwar Stanisław J. 
Published: November 2022

Abstract

Objectives
Caffeine is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world. Animal studies indicate that acute caffeine exposure at high doses may induce seizures and diminish the anticonvulsant activity of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) at much lower doses. The aim of the current study was to assess the effect of caffeine on the anticonvulsant action of levetiracetam (LEV) and vigabatrin (VGB).

Methods
The anticonvulsant activity of LEV and VGB was examined in the maximal electroshock seizure threshold test in mice (MEST test). All drugs were administered intraperitoneally by single injections, and caffeine was applied at doses capable of interfering with AEDs. Effects of caffeine exposure on AEDs were also investigated in tests of memory and motor performance.

Results
Caffeine reduced the protective effect of LEV against electroconvulsions. Total brain concentration of LEV was unaffected by caffeine as well as inversely; LEV had no significant impact on the brain caffeine concentration, suggesting a pharmacodynamic nature of the interaction between LEV and caffeine in the MEST test. VGB at applied doses did not affect the convulsive threshold. Administration of VGB, but not LEV, alone or in combination with caffeine, impaired memory retention. In the chimney test, the combined treatment with AEDs and caffeine did not cause motor coordination impairment.

Conclusions
It is suggested that caffeine may negatively affect the anticonvulsant action of LEV in patients with epilepsy.
Interictal Gamma Event Connectivity Differentiates the Seizure Network and Outcome in Patients after Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery
Authors: Shamas Mohamad , Yeh Hsiang J. , Fried Itzhak , Engel Jerome , Staba Richard 
Published: November 2022

AbstractStudies of interictal EEG functional connectivity in the epileptic brain seek to identify abnormal interactions between brain regions involved in generating seizures, which clinically often is defined by the seizure onset zone (SOZ). However, there is evidence for abnormal connectivity outside the SOZ (NSOZ), and removal of the SOZ does not always result in seizure control, suggesting, in some cases, that the extent of abnormal connectivity indicates a larger seizure network than the SOZ. To better understand the potential differences in interictal functional connectivity in relation to the seizure network and outcome, we computed event connectivity in the theta (4–8 Hz, ThEC), low-gamma (30–55 Hz, LGEC), and high-gamma (65–95 Hz, HGEC) bands from interictal depth EEG recorded in surgical patients with medication-resistant seizures suspected to begin in the temporal lobe. Analysis finds stronger LGEC and HGEC in SOZ than NSOZ of seizure-free (SF) patients (p = 1.10e-9, 0.0217), but no difference in not seizure-free (NSF) patients. There were stronger LGEC and HGEC between mesial and lateral temporal SOZ of SF than NSF patients (p = 0.00114, 0.00205), and stronger LGEC and ThEC in NSOZ of NSF than SF patients (p = 0.0089, 0.0111). These results show that event connectivity is sensitive to differences in the interactions between regions in SOZ and NSOZ and SF and NSF patients. Patients with differential strengths in event connectivity could represent a well-localized seizure network, whereas an absence of differences could indicate a larger seizure network than the one localized by the SOZ and higher likelihood for seizure recurrence.
Deletion ofNotch1during Cochlear Maturation Leads to Rapid Supporting Cell Death and Profound Deafness
Authors: Heffer Alison , Gilels Felicia A. , Kiernan Amy E. 
Published: November 2022

The sensory region of the mammalian hearing organ contains two main cell types—hair cells and supporting cells. During development, Notch signaling plays an important role in whether a cell becomes either a hair cell or supporting cell by mediating lateral inhibition. However, once the cell fate decisions have been determined, little is understood about the role Notch plays in cochlear maturation. Here, we report that deletion ofNotch1from the early postnatal mouse cochlea in both male and female animals resulted in profound deafness at 6 weeks of age. Histologic analyses at 6 weeks revealed significant hair cell and supporting cell loss throughout theNotch1-deficient cochlea. Early analyses revealed a reduction in supporting cells in the outer hair cell region between postnatal day (P) 2 and P6, without a comparable increase in outer hair cell number, suggesting a mechanism other than lateral inhibition. Consistent with this, we found apoptotic cells in the outer supporting cell region of the cochlea at P1 and P2, indicating thatNotch1is required for outer supporting cell survival during early cochlear maturation. Interestingly, inner supporting cell types were not lost afterNotch1deletion. Surprisingly, we do not detect outer hair cell loss inNotch1mutants until after the onset of hearing, around P14, suggesting that hair cell loss is caused by loss of the supporting cells. Together, these results demonstrate thatNotch1is required for supporting cell survival during early maturation and that loss of these cells causes later loss of the hair cells and cochlear dysfunction.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTDuring development, Notch signaling has been shown to be critical in regulating the cell fate choices between hair cells and supporting cells. However, little is known about how Notch functions after those cell fate choices are made. Here, we examine the role ofNotch1in the maturing cochlea. We demonstrate that deletion ofNotch1results in profound deafness by 6 weeks of age. Histologic analyses revealed rapid supporting cell death shortly afterNotch1deletion, followed by eventual loss of the hair cells. These results reveal an unexpected role for Notch in supporting cell survival during cochlear maturation.
Dialect Grapholects at the Beginning of the 21st Century as a Manifestation of the Vitality and Continuity of Dialectal Codes
Authors: Aliūkaitė Daiva , Meiliūnaitė Violeta 
Published: November 2022

The paper presents a case study on written dialectality. The material used for the research is the Eastern Aukštaitian (EA) texts published in the almanacs titled “A Waking Spring” (“Bundanti versmė”) (2013, 2014). The paper develops an approach for “reading” written dialectality, provides theoretical insights about the concept of a dialect grapholect, presents a dialectological analysis of the EA texts, assessing the vitality of the distinctive features, and also includes commentary on the non-standard spelling choices applied to reflect these features through the grapholect. In the given paper written dialectality is considered to be an indication of the vitality and continuity of dialectal codes because, unlike in oral dialectality, the informants-authors put effort into demonstrating dialect. The distinctive features of the EA and of its subdialects represented in the grapholects suggest the idea of their vitality in apparent time. The orthographic choices of the informants-authors are considered as dialect respelling. The EA grapholect is found to be fluctuating, while the orthographic choices for conveying the features of the subdialects are somewhat more stable, however, still in a stage of development as well. Therefore, it is more accurate to discuss the grapholects (plural), rather than a grapholect (singular) of the EA or the subdialect.