bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Chemerin – exploring a versatile adipokine
Authors: Fischer Tobias F. , Beck-Sickinger Annette G. 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Chemerin is a small chemotactic protein and a key player in initiating the early immune response. As an adipokine, chemerin is also involved in energy homeostasis and the regulation of reproductive functions. Secreted as inactive prochemerin, it relies on proteolytic activation by serine proteases to exert biological activity. Chemerin binds to three distinct G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), namely chemokine-like receptor 1 (CMKLR1, recently named chemerin1), G protein-coupled receptor 1 (GPR1, recently named chemerin2), and CC-motif chemokine receptor-like 2 (CCRL2). Only CMKLR1 displays conventional G protein signaling, while GPR1 only recruits arrestin in response to ligand stimulation, and no CCRL2-mediated signaling events have been described to date. However, GPR1 undergoes constitutive endocytosis, making this receptor perfectly adapted as decoy receptor. Here, we discuss expression pattern, activation, and receptor binding of chemerin. Moreover, we review the current literature regarding the involvement of chemerin in cancer and several obesity-related diseases, as well as recent developments in therapeutic targeting of the chemerin system.
Carleman framework filtering of nonlinear noisy phase-locked loop system
Authors: Medewar Prashant G. , Sharma Shambhu N. , Patel Hirenkumar G. 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
In control and communications, the phase-locked loop (PLL) is regarded as the demodulator. Under the presence of small noise, the PLL system fails to accomplish the locking condition resulting in the stochastic phase difference. As a result of this, the PLL becomes a nontrivial nonlinear stochastic system. To circumvent the curse of dimensionality and nonlinearity, we exploit the method of linearization in the Carleman framework in combination with the finite closure for the stochastic system considered here. We show that the Carleman linearization has proven useful to preserve the nonlinearity via bilinearization. The Carleman setup of the nonlinear stochastic differential system has the Markov property and the terms are manageable. Then, we filter the states of the PLL using the filtering theory of the homogeneous Markov process. Finally, the numerical simulations reveal the superiority of the proposed filtering in Carleman setting in contrasts with the celebrated extended Kalman filtering framework.
QAM receiver based on light amplifiers measured with effective role of optical coherent duobinary transmitter
Authors: Eid Mahmoud M. A. , Arunachalam Rajesh , Sorathiya Vishal , Lavadiya Sunil , Patel Shobhit K. , Parmar Juveriya , Delwar Tahesin Samira , Ryu Jee Youl , Nyangaresi Vincent Omollo , Zaki Rashed Ahmed Nabih 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Effective role of optical duobinary transmitter with optical coherent quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) receiver based on light amplifiers measured is stimulated by using optisystem simulation software version 13. Signal, noise power levels are stimulated after long haul fiber optic range up to 350 km distance. Measured light amplifiers, optical duobinary transmitters and optical QAM receiver are employed to measure the peak signal amplitude power (SAP) and noise signal power for bit rate transmission with 100 Gb/s based 350 km length. Maximum signal power level margin is enhanced with high data rates transmission.
Placental characteristics of selective intrauterine growth restriction with changing patterns in umbilical artery Doppler flow in monochorionic diamniotic twins
Authors: Wang Xueju , Li Luyao , Yuan Pengbo , Zhao Yangyu , Wei Yuan 
Published: January 2022

Abstract

Objectives
To compare the placental features between selective intrauterine growth restriction (sIUGR) patients, with dynamic classification (DC) and stable classifications (SC).

Methods
A cohort study was conducted from 1st April 2013 to 1st April 2020, we recruited sIUGR patients who had delivered at our center and examined placental characteristics with dye injection. The primary outcome was placental characteristics.

Results
The prevalence of large artery-artery anastomosis (AAA) was significantly higher in sIUGR with DC than sIUGR with SC (88.2 vs. 46.6%, p=0.001). The total diameter of AAA was significantly larger in sIUGR with DC than sIUGR with SC [2.9 (1.4, 7.0) vs. 2.4 (0.3, 7.1) mm, p=0.032]. The total number of artery-vein anastomosis was significantly smaller in sIUGR with DC than sIUGR with SC [3 (1, 12) vs. 5 (1, 15), p=0.023]. The incidence of neonatal asphyxias of growth-restricted fetuses were higher in sIUGR with DC than sIUGR with SC (23.5 vs. 5.9%, p=0.033).

Conclusions
Large AAA is probably associated to sIUGR with dynamic classification.
Resonant mixed fractional-order p-Laplacian boundary value problem on the half-line
Authors: Imaga O. F. , Iyase S. A. , Odekina O. G. 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
This study aims at establishing the solvability of a fractional-order p-Laplacian boundary value problem involving both the left Caputo and right Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives on the half-line. In order to overcome the nonlinearity of the fractional differential operator, we apply the Ge and Ren coincidence degree theorem to obtain existence results for the boundary value problem at resonance. An example is given to demonstrate the established results.
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reflection of the Human Adventure in the Anthropocene
Authors: Hétier Renaud , Wallenhorst Nathanaël 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
The Covid-19 crisis is testing human societies. It is obviously first and foremost a health problem – it causes deaths and numerous diseases – but it is also an economic problem – it is expensive, it weighs on the usual economic functioning – and finally, it is a hindrance to freedom – circulation, sociality, vaccination, etc. – and to the development of the human condition. This crisis highlights the interdependence between the environment, the economy and freedom, and reveals our condition and its future.
Pandemic and the Consequences of Social Vulnerability for the Transformation into a Syndemic in Brazil
Authors: Vieira Karina Limonta 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Pandemics are faced with uncertain scenarios, environmental, economic and/or social crises, generating negative impacts on society, which are further aggravated in a context of social vulnerability. This text aims to present and reflect on the transformation of a pandemic into a syndemic in Brazil due to the consequences of social vulnerability. How and why can a pandemic turn into a syndemic given the consequences of social vulnerability that plague Brazil? Understanding the factors and effects of social vulnerability, as well as the consequences of social vulnerability in Brazil, lead to the search for new sustainable dynamics in the face of crises and uncertainties through global action and an education aimed at dealing with the challenges of vulnerability.
China: Corona, „das landesweit einheitliche System“ und „der doppelte Wirtschaftskreislauf“
Authors: Qin Mingrui 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Nachdem China das Coronavirus weitgehend eingedämmt hat, ist es dabei, das Post-Pandemie-Zeitalter in Erwägung der internationalen Lage für sich zu gestalten. Sowohl diese Gestaltung als auch die Bewältigung der Epidemie basieren auf dem sogenannten „landesweit einheitlichen System“, das deswegen in diesem Aufsatz mit Blick auf seine historische Entwicklung genau betrachtet wird. Für die Zukunft sieht China vor, das Konzept des doppelten Wirtschaftskreislaufs anzuwenden, wobei der innere Kreislauf die tragende Säule der chinesischen Wirtschaft sein wird, obwohl China weiterhin den äußeren, internationalen Kreislauf für wichtig hält. Die strukturellen Dispositionen und Probleme des Landes – vor allem die Lage und Probleme der Landbevölkerung – als Ausgangs- und Grundlage für diese Strategie werden ebenfalls dargestellt und analysiert.
Viral Mimesis: The Patho(-) Logies of the Coronavirus
Authors: Lawtoo Nidesh 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
This chapter argues that the human, all too human vulnerability to mimesis (imitation) is a central and so far underdiagnosed element internal to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Supplementing medical accounts of viral contagion, the chapter develops a genealogy of the concept of mimesis – from antiquity to modernity to the present – that is attentive to both its pathological and therapeutic properties. If an awareness of the pathological side of mimetic contagion is constitutive of the origins of philosophy, in Plato’s Republic, and crowd psychology called attention to the mirroring dynamic of affective contagion among crowds and publics in the modern period, the Covid-19 pandemic crisis highlights the pathological implications of hypermimetic conspiracies reloaded by new media, while also revealing the human ability to develop therapeutic patho-logies – that is, critical discourses (or logoi), on the contagious dynamic of mimetic pathos. Like a Janus-faced mirror, then, this genealogy of homo mimeticus calls attention to both the contemporary dangers of affective contagion and to the urgency of transformations or metamorphosis to counter future pandemic and environmental threats that loom large in the Anthropocene.
Doing Philosophy Virtually and the Amphibolic Body
Authors: Theodoropoulou Elena 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThe persisting usage of virtual means for the completion of activities usually or traditionally held in person stimulates the reflection about the possible effect that doing philosophy online could have on the philosophical integrity of the process. The body question seems to be pivotal in this context not only as far as concerning virtuality issues but also philosophy’s care to integrate the body into its routines – when it is practiced physically – especially in the frame of an education still hesitating to embrace embodied experience. The body deficiency, its vanishing, is first of all a question for philosophy and its ways to be practiced today – on that basis, passing through virtuality’s discourses can enlighten the relevant reflection.
Critical trends in synthetic organic chemistry in terms of organocatalysis
Authors: Kerru Nagaraju , Katari Naresh Kumar , Jonnalagadda Sreekantha B. 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
The utilization of small organic compounds as catalysts has advanced rapidly, and organocatalysis has emerged as a dominant technique complementary to metal-catalyzed organic conversions. The organocatalysis field has enhanced the progression of innovative approaches to make varied chiral molecules. Researchers have placed enormous effort towards designing and blending simpler organocatalysts to synthesize enantioselective molecules in good yields. This work emphasized the impact of enamine, iminium, hydrogen bonding, and phase transfer organocatalysts in organic synthesis. The monograph focused on the crucial methods to construct valuable molecules with high enantiomeric purity.
A holistic environmental investigation of complementary energy in Alberta
Authors: Hakstol Rhys 
Published: January 2022

AbstractAs Canada progresses toward its pledge of net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050, it is worthwhile to thoughtfully examine the current energy landscape and how one might hope to achieve decarbonization within this timeframe. This examination is of particular importance in a fossil fuel producing region such as Alberta. Through an analysis of renewable energy strategies as well as the potential difficulties in this transition, an appropriate strategy may be devised. A combinatorial approach of wind, solar, and geothermal energy sources in the residential, commercial, and industrial spheres may serve as a transition measure, and eventually supplant fossil fuels as the dominant source of energy produced in Alberta with appropriate incentivization. Decarbonization is a pressing need given the imminent climate crisis the world is encountering, and these technologies are capable of serving as a step toward lower carbon emissions and ultimately curbing human-accelerated climate change.
Mitgliederförderung und Partizipation – Herausforderungen und Chancen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung
Authors: Wrede Matthias 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Mitgliederförderung durch wirtschaftliches Handeln ist das Wesen einer Genossenschaft. Oder wie es das Gesetz formuliert: „der Zweck (ist) darauf gerichtet (...), den Erwerb oder die Wirtschaft ihrer Mitglieder oder deren soziale oder kulturelle Belange durch gemeinschaftlichen Geschäftsbetrieb zu fördern“. Was diese Belange sind und wie die Zwecke erreicht werden sollen, müssen und können die Mitglieder, die der Genossenschaft als Lieferanten, als Produzenten und/oder als Konsumenten verbunden sind und durch die Stimmrechtsbegrenzung einander gleichgestellt sind, selbst bestimmen.
Emotional content analysis among psychopathic individuals during emotional induction by IAPS pictures
Authors: Pham Thierry H. , Gwicz Justine , Scohier Anne-Sophie , Rousseau Dorothée , Douven Nele , Lavallée Audrey , Saloppé Xavier 
Published: January 2022

Background Emotional processes among psychopathic individuals have been consistently investigated. Although content analysis is interesting for evaluating emotional characteristics, few data exist concerning Psychopath’s speech content following affective and neutral images.
Method Population included male forensic inpatients (n=47) from Security Hospital. The inpatients were divided into: “Psychopaths” (n=24, PCL-R total score >25), “Intermediates” (n=12, score from 15 to 24.9) and “Non-psychopaths” (n=11, score <14.9). TROPES analyses and EMOTAIX scenario tools examined the narrative’s emotional characteristics. We tested the hypothesis that psychopaths report fewer emotional words on all images, particularly on negative-valence images.
Results Our results on the whole do not support this hypothesis but suggested rather a specific discordance in the verbal emotional treatment (exclusively PCL-R interpersonal factor) but not in terms of the subjective evaluation. Moreover, this factor was positively correlated with the number of the self-referring pronouns (“I”, me) setting whereas PCL-R Social Deviance factor was positively correlated with action verbs.
Conclusion Speech outputs of psychopaths present specificities in terms of emotional content and verbal setting. The results are congruent with the notion that psychopathy combines both functionality and subtle impairment.
Impact of the Illusory Truth Effect and Location of Testimony in Juror Deliberations
Authors: Johnston Alexandrea , Ambrosini Daniel , Losier Bruno 
Published: January 2022

The illusory truth effect (ITE) is the tendency to believe false information as being accurate after it has been presented repeatedly over time. ITE has been shown to hold true in many different contexts; however, there have been no studies that examine the influence of ITE in jurors’ deliberation. Given the importance of weighing legally relevant facts in the decision-making process, and the potential influence of ITE, this study examined whether the repetition of key evidence in testimony matters in this context. This study also examined whether critical information would be influenced by the location of ITE. In that context, jurors may process critical information differently when introducing ITE early (i.e., primacy effect) or later (i.e., recency effect) in the vignette of a murder case. To examine this effect, 100 participants were recruited and asked to read a vignette where pertinent evidence related to a murder was strategically repeated throughout the case narrative. Participants were assigned to one of four groups: control; ITE throughout vignette; ITE at the beginning of vignette; and ITE at the end of vignette. After reading the vignette, participants were asked to complete a short questionnaire and provide a final decision about various aspects of the case. Results revealed that repetition of pertinent evidence matters. The placement of evidence also has the potential to influence jurors’ perceptions of certain case relevant details. These findings suggest that within a sensitive legal context, such as jurors weighing evidence of an accused’s culpability, ITE could alter one’s perception of the facts.
The Anonymous Catechism of 1605: Slavic Loanwords and Hybrids
Authors: Smetonienė Anželika 
Published: January 2022

The Anonymous Catechism of 1605 (hereinafter - AC) is one of the first catechisms in the Lithuanian language in GDL. However, it has been under-researched so far. In 1890 this catechism was published by J. Bystroń with comments. Z. Zinkevičius and A. Judžentis have conducted some research on the AC and S. Temčinas has also discussed it in his research works. However, in more recent works this catechism has not received sufficient focus and, even more, its loan lexicon has not been attentively investigated. Namely the loan lexicon, i.e., Slavic loanwords and hybrids that derive from them, is the focus of this article. Slavic loanwords and hybrids were selected from the AC and the dictionaries of Slavic languages were analysed searching for possible sources of loanwords. Following various criteria (availability of source, morphological, phonetic criteria), Slavic loanwords were grouped into Slavic borrowings of unclear origin, loanwords from the East Slavic languages (Old Russian or Ruthenian languages) and Polish loanwords.
Fifty six Slavic loanwords were identified in the AC: 52 % out of them are of unclear origin, i.e., their possible sources were identified in the East Slavic and Polish languages and etymological dictionaries provide for different sources of their origin. 38 % of Slavic loanwords were borrowed into the Lithuanian language from the East Slavic language – the Polish language does not possess possible equivalents of Slavic loanwords or the meaning of Polish word does not coincide with semantics of a loanword, phonetics of borrowing also indicates such origin. Polish loanwords comprise only 10 % of all the loanwords in the AC.
Lexical Retrieval Difficulties in the L1 of Lithuanians in Ireland
Authors: Vaisėtaitė Eglė 
Published: January 2022

The article describes the study of the Irish Lithuanian (IL) L1 lexical attrition. Several indications can show lexical attrition: vocabulary reduction, use of hypernyms instead of hyponyms, code switching, and hesitation markers. These signs indicate that the person is having difficulty retrieving words from memory. The article analyzes 30 IL speech examples (recordings of picture description) while focusing on the hesitation markers (pauses, corrections, repetitions, etc.) and the units of lexical expression. The study involves first-generation emigrants who left Lithuania at the age of 12 or older and have lived in Ireland for 5 years or more. The data of the target group are compared with the data of the control group – Lithuanians living in Lithuania (LL). The significance of the results is confirmed by applying T test.
During the study, informants were asked to describe two pictures. The results show that there were more hesitation markers in IL speech rather than in LL speech (p = 0.000). In addition, less relevant units of lexical expression were used in IL rather than in LL speech (p = 0.002). Such results suggest that the target group experience difficulties retrieving words from memory and this could mean that their L1 lexicon is facing attrition. It also turned out that the picture related to private life situations was described more fluently than the picture related to public life situations.
Worldview in Memoirs «Die Kavaliere von Illuxt» by Alexis von Engelhardt
Authors: Talerko Valentina 
Published: January 2022

The paper is based on the book of memoirs by Alexis von Engelhardt Die Kavaliere von Illuxt, published in 1949. In the territory of Latgale, which is discussed in the book, the Baltic Germans lived in small numbers, therefore the book is of historical, culturological and literary interest. The text of the literary work is understood as an object of scientific reflection; all its components are connected into a single whole by the author’s creative thought. The methodology of the research is based on the interpretation of the literary text, as well as the synthesis of statistical, cultural-historical, semantic and intertextual analysis in the critical perception of the text. The aim of the research is to reveal the worldview presented in the literary work, which consists of the artistic space, representation of time, characters with their functions and objectives, as well as moral and ethical values. The particular objectives of the research include establishing the relationship between the text of the memoirs and jokes and entertaining stories of the Baltic Germans (Pratchen), the features of which have been identified in the author’s previous research, but which still represent a scientific lacuna.
On the basis of the life realities described in the book Die Kavaliere von Illuxt it is possible to reconstruct the organization of life of the people that has disappeared from the map of today’s Latvia. The artistic space constructed in this book shows a closed and stagnant world, a lack of impulses for internal development and an appeal to the past. Historical and event-driven artistic time, the inclusiveness of individual stories into the canvas of historical events brings the narrative closer to Pratchen, i.e. jokes and entertaining stories of the Baltic Germans. Alexis von Engelhardt’s book Die Kavaliere von Illuxt is currently the only source of jokes and entertaining stories (Pratchen) of the Baltic Germans about Latgale.
The research is funded by the Latvian Council of Science, project The Baltic Germans of Latgale in the context of socio-ethnic relations from the 17th till the beginning of the 20th century, project No.lzp-2020/2-0136.
Must the Social be Reassembled? Broken Dispute between B. Latour and P. Bourdieu
Authors: Poviliūnas Arūnas 
Published: January 2022

The article analyses the conflict between two prominent French sociologists P. Bourdieu and B. Latour. It attempts to answer a question to what extent this conflict reflects the paradigmatic break of sociology. The study of the conflict concludes with the statement that the attempts of B. Latour and his allies to “reassemble the social” and institutionalize Actor-Network-Theory resulted in the critical movement of the Science Technology Studies (STS). However, STS does not succeed to become the paradigmatic break of the path of sociology.