bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Applying metal coatings to dielectric materials by photochemical processes
Authors: Koshkarbaeva Shayzada , Janpaizova Vasilya , Amanbaeva Kalamkas , Sataev Malik , Abdurazova Perizat , Serikbaeva Bagdagul , Raiymbekov Yerkebulan 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Photochemical processes in thin surface layers of solutions of compounds of the copper subgroup elements leading to the formation of dispersed metal particles on the surface of dielectrics are investigated. It is shown that dispersed particles of elemental gold are formed on dielectrics moistened with AuCl3 solution and exposed to sunlight. At the same time, there is no need to use any chemical reducing agents. On cotton fabrics moistened with solutions of AgNO3, CuBr2, when exposed to sunlight, silver and copper monohalides are formed, respectively. These processes take place with the participation of terminal cellulose molecules and also do not require the use of chemical reducing agents. In addition, it was found that copper monohalides can be converted into elemental copper particles by a photochemical reaction involving ascorbic acid. Examples of metallization of a number of dielectrics using photochemical activation using sunlight are given.
Masking and noise reduction processing of music signals in reverberant music
Authors: Zhang Shenghuan , Cheng Ye 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Noise will be inevitably mixed with music signals in the recording process. To improve the quality of music signals, it is necessary to reduce noise as much as possible. This article briefly introduces noise, the masking effect, and the spectral subtraction method for reducing noise in reverberant music. The spectral subtraction method was improved by the human ear masking effect to enhance its noise reduction performance. Simulation experiments were carried out on the traditional and improved spectral subtraction methods. The results showed that the improved spectral subtraction method could reduce the noise in reverberant music more effectively; under an objective evaluation criterion, the signal-to-noise ratio, the de-reverberated music signal processed by the improved spectral subtraction method had a higher signal-to-noise ratio; under a subjective evaluation criterion, mean opinion score (MOS), the de-reverberated music signal processed by the improved spectral subtraction method also had a better evaluation.
How is laughter used to create and reinforce food attitudes in Japanese Dairy Taster Brunch conversations
Authors: Szatrowski Polly 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This paper investigates how participants use laughter to create and reinforce food attitudes in conversations over a Dairy Taster Brunch. Previous conversation analytic research on Japanese conversations about food has focused on food assessments, identification, and categorization. This research addresses the following questions: 1) How does food trigger humor and laughter in conversations over food? 2) What about the situation elicits laughter? 3) How is humor and laughter used to create and reinforce food attitudes in the conversational interaction? and 4) What kinds of food attitudes are created using humor and laughter in talk about food? Results show that food attitudes are not lodged in the individual but rather are created and reinforced moment-by-moment in temporally unfolding multimodal conversational interaction. This research contributes to the growing body of research on language and food, sheds light on the relation between laughter and food, and has implications for healthy eating, and cross-cultural communication.
Japanese L2 learners’ subjective construal: an analysis of expressions of emotion and evaluation in written storytelling found in I-JAS data
Authors: Yabuki-Soh Noriko , Okuno Yukiko 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Japanese is considered to be a language in which speakers tend to take a subjective stance by locating themselves within the situation they construe. Previous research indicates that in storytelling, Japanese L2 learners employ fewer expressions of viewpoint than L1 speakers do, and viewpoint tends to shift from character to character. Do Japanese L2 learners, then, typically take an objective stance, or do they use other devices to take a subjective stance? The present study compared Japanese L2 learners’ subjective construal with that of L1 speakers in two types of storytelling. The results indicated that while Japanese L1 speakers typically used passive voice to maintain a viewpoint, L2 learners employed a variety of expressions related to emotion and evaluation to subjectively describe the given events throughout each story. The study suggests the existence of interlanguage in that L2 learners use vocabulary-based devices instead of grammatical devices for subjective construal.
How an utterance is regarded as implying disagreement: an analysis of confirmation requests in Japanese decision-making meetings
Authors: Feng Jiayu 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This study describes how confirmation requests can be regarded as implying disagreement in Japanese decision-making meetings. By using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, I examined two specific sequential environments where participants in meetings are more likely to imply their disagreements through confirmation requests: (i) after a participant reports on his or her proposal and (ii) after a silence caused by a stalled discussion. The detailed analysis of the composition and sequential location of confirmation requests in these contexts revealed that linguistic items, vocal stress, or even conversational contexts can make a confirmation request heard as implying disagreement. In addition, choosing a confirmation request to imply disagreement is not a random decision but a thoughtful selection depending on the asymmetrical epistemic status or related to the management of topic progression in meetings.
Reexamining Japanese youth language
Authors: Cao Yuning 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This paper investigates Japanese youth language (abbreviated as “YL” thereafter) from a sociolinguistic approach and discusses whether the terminology itself is felicitous in capturing the group of words or the users it claims to be capturing by focusing on YL usage in real life and collected latest data featuring top-ranking YL words in 2018 and 2019. A closer examination of YL reveals that the usage not always matches users’ age, and that the terminology itself suggests an outsider view, creating a misconception that only young people use it. It is thus argued that age is not the correct label to define YL, and that various types of YL words exist under this umbrella notion that are used in different communities for various purposes. This article intends to promote a more comprehensive and objective understanding of YL.
‘Made the absence shout’: paradox as iconoclasm in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Authors: Vayo Brendon K. 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
In 1856, Margaret Garner murdered one child, and attempted to murder three others, rather than return them to slavery. Despite the impact traumas like Garner’s had on abolition, history largely forgets or ignores these gruesome details. In their place come racialist markers that obscure Garner’s likeness. Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s The Modern Medea, for example, depicts Garner with a head wrap and wild eyes. Visual cues such as these perpetuate an undifferentiating representation of Garner, categorized as something between asexual “mammy” and angry “slave.” I argue that Toni Morrison recovers Garner by reconfiguring what Hayden White terms the “historical account” with icons to connote paradoxical significations. Like paradoxes, these icons simultaneously embody complementary and yet oppositional significations without one privileged over the other. Morrison’s historiography thus produces in simultaneity a history told and repealed, which functions iconoclastically not only to engravings such as The Modern Medea but also to the linguistic system that structures an incomplete and surreptitious “historical account.”
Embodiment in the diversity of literary experience: a reply to Wolfgang Teubert (2021)
Authors: Gibbs Raymond W. , Rasse Carina 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This article offers our reply to Wolfgang Teubert. 2021. Embodiment is not the answer to meaning: A discussion of the theory underlying the article by Carina Rasse and Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. in JLS 50(1). Journey of Literary Semantics 50. 89–106. Teurbert’s article examined discussion of our earlier publication in this journal on metaphorical thinking in people’s literary experiences of J.D. Salinger’s novel “The Catcher in the Rye.” Teubert makes several points about our advocacy of an embodied perspective on literary meaning and interpretation. He argues that literary experience is best characterized in terms of people’s verbalized, reflective statements about the meanings of literary texts. Data from cognitive linguistic analyses and behavioral experiments are less compelling, in his view, because these studies examine embodied metaphors from a discourse-external perspective and mostly focus on people’s fast, mostly unconscious processing of verbal metaphors. Our reply highlights the importance of studying linguistic understanding, and literary experience, along varying time-dimensions, the fact that many linguistic and behavioral studies examine embodied metaphorical thinking in more reflective, social circumstances, exactly as Teubert recommends. Finally, we suggest that looking at literary experience from an embodied perspective is tightly associated with a discourse-analytic point of view. Scholars can never dismiss the reality of embodiment in literary experience because it provides a critical, but not exclusive, constraint on how we express ourselves and enable others to create specific patterns of meaning in the words they read.
Fetal growth regulation via insulin-like growth factor axis in normal and diabetic pregnancy
Authors: Alekseenkova Elena N. , Selkov Sergey A. , Kapustin Roman V. 
Published: April 2022

Abstract

Objectives
Diabetes mellitus (DM) in pregnancy and gestational diabetes remain a considerable cause of pregnancy complications, and fetal macrosomia is among them. Insulin, insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), and components of their signal-transduction axes belong to the predominant growth regulators and are implicated in glucose homeostasis. This study aimed to evaluate the available evidence on the association between the IGF axis and fetal anthropometric parameters in human diabetic pregnancy.

Methods
PubMed, Medline, Web of Science, and CNKI databases (1981–2021) were searched.

Results
Maternal and cord serum IGF-I levels are suggested to be positively associated with weight and length of neonates born to mothers with type 1 DM. The results concerning IGF-II and IGFBPs in type 1 DM or any of the IGF axis components in type 2 DM remain controversial. The alterations of maternal serum IGFs concentrations throughout diabetic and non-diabetic pregnancy do not appear to be the same. Maternal 1st trimester IGF-I level is positively associated with fetal birth weight in DM.

Conclusions
Research on the IGF axis should take gestational age of sampling, presence of DM, and insulin administration into account. Maternal 1st trimester IGF-I level might become a predictor for macrosomia development in diabetic pregnancy.
“Climate change” vs. “global warming”: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of two popular terms in The New York Times
Authors: Liu Ming , Huang Jingyi 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
“Climate change” and “global warming” are two popular terms that may be often used interchangeably in news media. This study proposes to give a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of climate change and global warming in The New York Times (2000–2019) in order to examine how they are actually used in the newspaper. The findings show both similarities and differences in their representations in terms of the associated topics/themes, the particular ways of framing, and the perspectivization strategy employed. It is argued that a corpus-assisted discourse study of a large sample of news articles presents a more accurate picture of the actual use of the two terms in news media.
The year’s work in ecolinguistics 2021
Authors: Zhang Ruijie 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
The year 2021 saw significant developments in ecolinguistic studies. Valuable theoretical additions to the position, aim, and scope of ecolinguistics have evinced the continuous evolution of the field beyond its provenance in linguistic studies. Publications on extended ecolinguistic methods drawing on various fields of knowledge have signified the field’s ongoing diversification as an increasingly nuanced (sub)discipline. This article reviews the research areas, communities, events, and publications representative of the year 2021 to demonstrate how ecological issues instigate ecolinguistic scholarship and activism and, conversely, how ecolinguistics contributes to understanding ecological issues. By looking back at the state-of-the-art, the review looks into the future and suggests promising trajectories for the unity and diversity of ecolinguistics.
On second-order fuzzy discrete population model
Authors: Zhang Qianhong , Ouyang Miao , Zhang Zhongni 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This work is concerned with dynamical behavior of a second-order fuzzy discrete population model:

x

n

=

A

x

n
−
1

1
+

x

n
−
1

+
B

x

n
−
2

,

n
=
1
,
2
,

…

,

{x}_{n}=\frac{A{x}_{n-1}}{1+{x}_{n-1}+B{x}_{n-2}},\hspace{1em}n=1,2,\ldots ,

where

A
,
B

A,B

are positive fuzzy numbers.

x

n

{x}_{n}

is a positive fuzzy number and represents the population size at the observation instant n. According to a generalization of division (

g

g

-division) of fuzzy number, we study the dynamical behaviors including boundedness, global asymptotical stability, and persistence of positive fuzzy solution. Finally, two examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the results obtained.
Tollip promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression via PI3K/AKT pathway
Authors: Huang Lu , Yang Qiong , Chen Huihong , Wang Zhenggeng , Liu Qi , Ai Shuhua 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
The activation of signaling pathways induced by Toll-like receptor (TLR) has been demonstrated to play essential roles in multiple liver diseases. Toll-interacting protein (Tollip) acts as an endogenous negative modulator of TLR signaling and is implicated in various cardio-metabolic diseases. However, the effect of Tollip in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains elusive. In the current study, enhanced Tollip expression was observed in HCC cells and tissues examined by RT-PCR, western blot, and immunohistochemistry staining. Moreover, the co-immunofluorescence staining demonstrated that increased Tollip expression was primarily located in hepatocytes. Functionally, Tollip overexpression significantly increased proliferation, migration, invasion, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of HCC cells, which ultimately accelerated tumorigenesis. Mechanistically, Tollip overexpression dramatically promoted the activation of PI3K/AKT signaling pathway in HCC cells which was attenuated by Tollip silencing. Importantly, the inhibition of PI3K/AKT axis can abolish the promoted effects of Tollip on proliferation and EMT of HCC cells. Our current study demonstrated that Tollip played an important role in the regulation of HCC development by engaging PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. These evidences suggested that the blockade of Tollip-PI3K/AKT axis was an ideal therapeutic treatment for management of HCC.
Angularly anisotropic tunability of upconversion luminescence by tuning plasmonic local-field responses in gold nanorods antennae with different configurations
Authors: Pan Chengda , Ma Qiang , Liu Shikang , Xue Yingxian , Fang Zhiyun , Zhang Shiyu , Qin Mengyao , Wu E , Wu Botao 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Optical polarization has attracted considerable research attention by extra detection dimension in angular space, flourishing modern optoelectronic applications. Nonetheless, purposive polarization controlling at nanoscales and even at the single-particle level constitutes a challenge. Plasmonic nanoantenna opens up new perspectives in polarization state modification. Herein, we report angular-dependent upconversion luminescence (UCL) of rare-earth ions doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) in both emission and excitation polarization via constructing angularly anisotropic plasmonic local-field distributions in gold nanorods (Au NRs) antennae with different configurations at a single-particle level. The UCL of UCNP tailored by plasmonic Au NRs nanoantennae is enhanced and exhibits linear polarization. The highest enhancement factor of 138 is obtained in the collinear Au NR-UCNP-Au NR configuration under parallel excitation. Simultaneously, the maximum degree of linear polarization (DOLP) of UCL with factors of 85% and 81% are achieved in the same structure in emission and excitation polarization measurements, respectively. The observed linear polarizations and UCL enhancements are due to varied resonant responses at 660 nm and the anisotropic near-field enhancement in different nanoantennae-load UCNP. The theoretical simulations reveal the periodic changing of near-field enhancement factors of nanoantennae in angular space with the incident light polarization angles and are well-matched with the experimental results.
Balanced-ternary-inspired reconfigurable vortex beams using cascaded metasurfaces
Authors: Liu Ji , Qi Jurui , Yao Jin , Hu Wenman , Zhang Dajun , Xu He-Xiu , Wang Xiong 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Electromagnetic vortex carries the orbital angular momentum, one of the most fundamental properties of waves. The order of such vortex can be unbounded in principle, thus facilitating high-capability wave technologies for optical communications, photonic integrated circuits and others. However, it remains a key challenge to generate the high-order vortex beams in a reconfigurable, broadband and cost-effective manner. Here, inspired by the balanced-ternary concept, we demonstrate the reconfigurable generation of order-controllable vortices via cascaded N-layer metasurfaces. We theoretically showed that

3
N

−
1

${3}^{N}-1$

different vortex modes can be generated by cascading N metasurfaces, each one serving as an individual vortex beam generator for the order of

3
k

${3}^{k}$

(k = 0,1,2 …,

N
−
1

$N-1$

). As a proof-of-concept demonstration, a reconfigurable generation of 26 different vortex beams, with orders from 1 to 13 and from −1 to −13, is showcased in a broad millimeter-wave region by a cascade of 3 metasurfaces. Our method can be easily extended to vortex beam generator of arbitrary orders in a reconfigurable and easily implementable manner, paving a new avenue towards tremendous practical applications.
Crystal structure of dimethyl 1,4,6,9-tetraphenylhexahydro-3H-2,7,3,5-(epimethanetriyliminomethanetriyl)cyclopenta[b]pyridine-3,7(2H)-dicarboxylate, C38H34N2O4
Authors: Wang Yin-Xin , Geng Si-Qi , Qin Jia-Rui , Zhang Wen-Li , Zhong Qi-Di 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
C38H34N2O4, triclinic,

P

1
‾

$P\overline{1}$

(no. 2), a = 11.1158(19) Å, b = 11.302(2) Å, c = 12.634(2) Å, α = 72.109(2)°, β = 77.410(2)°, γ = 82.648(3)°, V = 1362.4(5) Å3, Z = 2, R

gt
(F) = 0.0473, wR

ref
(F
2) = 0.1738, T = 296 K.
Dynamics and simulations of discretized Caputo-conformable fractional-order Lotka–Volterra models
Authors: Yousef Feras , Semmar Billel , Al Nasr Kamal 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
In this article, a prey–predator system is considered in Caputo-conformable fractional-order derivatives. First, a discretization process, making use of the piecewise-constant approximation, is performed to secure discrete-time versions of the two fractional-order systems. Local dynamic behaviors of the two discretized fractional-order systems are investigated. Numerical simulations are executed to assert the outcome of the current work. Finally, a discussion is conducted to compare the impacts of the Caputo and conformable fractional derivatives on the discretized model.
Launching a materials informatics initiative for industrial applications in materials science, chemistry, and engineering
Authors: Ting Jeffrey M. , Lipscomb Corinne E. 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
The advent of materials informatics (MI) with emerging global trends in digitalization, artificial intelligence, and automation has led to promising opportunities for transforming traditional scientific research workflows. However, new MI efforts rely critically on the establishment, management, and accessibility of high-quality thermophysical and chemical data, either by mining existing databases, labelling historical data in archives, or generating sufficient data sets as prerequisites to the creation of predictive machine learning models. For ambitious MI-driven projects, amassing systematic data can be a time-intensive and prohibitively costly endeavor in spaces where data is uncurated or scarce. Here, we describe a MI initiative that started in the 3M Corporate Research Laboratories (CRL), highlighting how we strategically applied MI tools and data-driven methodologies for industrial materials research and product development workflows. Robust web applications and cloud infrastructure were developed to structure, standardize, and aggregate materials data for specific CRL projects. This integrated approach leverages the diverse skills and deep technical expertise of subject-matter experts at 3M to build the foundations for MI through systematic data management in materials research and, ultimately, to advance core technology platforms with innovative, customer-driven product solutions. Key elements that have contributed to the ongoing implementation of this highly versatile MI program, as well as challenges encountered, are presented as lessons learned for the broader MI and cheminformatics communities.
Network structural hardening of polypropylene matrix using hybrid of 0D, 1D and 2D carbon-ceramic nanoparticles with enhanced mechanical and thermomechanical properties
Authors: Uyor Uwa O. , Popoola Patricia A. I. , Popoola Olawale M. 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Various dimensional structured inorganic nanoparticles have different ways of improving mechanical properties of polymeric materials. However, there are limited studies on hybridization of different nanoparticles with different dimensional structures for optimal enhancement of mechanical properties of polymer matrix. Therefore, this study combined nanoparticles with 0D (barium titanate [BT]), 1D (carbon nanotubes [C]), and 2D (graphene [G] and boron nitride [BN]) to significantly promote the hardness, elastic modulus, tensile strength/modulus, heat deflection and Vicat softening temperature of polypropylene (PP) nanocomposites. The nanoparticles were surface functionalized to take care of good interfacial interaction with the PP matrix. The nanocomposites were fabricated via melt compounding techniques. Although all the developed nanocomposites showed enhanced mechanical and thermomechanical properties, the ones containing hybrid of carbon and ceramic nanoparticles with different dimensional structures showed superior responses. For instance, optimal hardness, elastic modulus, heat deflection and Vicat softening temperature of about 269.5 MPa, 2.9 GPa, 100.7 °C, and 160 °C were measured for the hybrid PP/3 wt%BNG/3 wt%BTC nanocomposite, which are about 239.4%, 77.7%, 19 °C, and 11 °C higher than that of the pure PP, respectively. The significant enhancement in the measured properties is attributed to effective mechanical interlocking and network structural hardening of the PP matrix.