bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Risk and resilience correlates of reading among adolescents with language-based learning disabilities during COVID-19
Authors: Marks Rebecca A. , Norton Rachel T. , Mesite Laura , Fox Annie B. , Christodoulou Joanna A. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractStudents with language-based learning disabilities (LBLD) can face elevated socio-emotional well-being challenges in addition to literacy challenges. We examined the prevalence of risk and resilience factors among adolescents with LBLD (N = 93), ages 16–18, and the association with reading performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected at the start and end of the first fully remote academic year of COVID-19 (2020–2021). Participants completed standardized word and text reading measures, as well as self-report surveys of executive functions (EF), and socio-emotional skills associated with resilience (grit, growth mindset, self-management, self-efficacy, and social awareness) or risk (anxiety, depression, COVID-19 related PTSD, and perceived COVID-19 impact). Survey data at the start of the school year (Time 1) captured three underlying factors associated with socioemotional risk, socioemotional resilience, and regulation (i.e., EF). Path analyses revealed that students’ Time 2 oral reading scores were significantly and uniquely predicted by socioemotional resilience, even when controlling for word-level reading at Time 1. Socioemotional risk, EF, and perceived COVID-19 impact were not directly related to Time 2 oral reading scores; however, students’ resilience mediated the associations between risk and reading outcomes. These results demonstrate that adolescents’ mental health concerns, self-regulatory ability, and socioemotional resilience were all associated with their experiences of the COVID-19-related stress. However, despite the high-risk context of the pandemic, and socio-emotional challenges faced by students with LBLD, our findings indicate that resilience directly predicts end-of-year reading outcomes and mediates the impact of socioemotional risk on achievement.
A systematic review of sensory deterrents for bycatch mitigation of marine megafauna
Authors: Lucas Sol , Berggren Per 
Published: November 2022

AbstractMarine megafauna are critical for marine ecosystem health and their removal can cause food webs to collapse. Methods to reduce marine megafauna mortality can result in conflict between scientists, conservationists, fishers and fisheries management due to real or perceived effects on target catch, income and food security. Sensory deterrents have been used in attempts to mitigate bycatch and retain target catch quantity and quality. Here, we completed a systematic review of 116 papers, plus 25 literature reviews published between 1991 and 2022, to investigate potential for sensory deterrents to mitigate bycatch across four marine megafauna taxonomic groups (marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds and elasmobranchs). Lights on gillnets are the only technology so far to result in significant bycatch reductions across all four taxonomic groups. It is difficult to make generalisations about the efficacy of sensory deterrents and their ability to deliver consistent bycatch reductions. The efficacy of each method is context dependent, varying with species, fishery and environmental characteristics. Further research is recommended for field studies assessing bycatch mitigation in all sensory deterrents, including combinations of deterrents, to assess effects on target and non-target species. The associated issues of habituation, habitat exclusion and foraging around fishing gear are important, although reducing mortality of vulnerable species should remain the highest priority for conservation and preserving ecosystems that fishers depend on. Multiple complementary measures will be required to achieve consistent bycatch reduction targets in many fisheries, of which sensory deterrents could play some part if implemented appropriately.
Respecting evidence: belief functions not imprecise probabilities
Authors: Smith Nicholas J. J. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe received model of degrees of belief represents them as probabilities. Over the last half century, many philosophers have been convinced that this model fails because it cannot make room for the idea that an agent’s degrees of belief should respect the available evidence. In its place they have advocated a model that represents degrees of belief using imprecise probabilities (sets of probability functions). This paper presents a model of degrees of belief based on Dempster–Shafer belief functions and then presents arguments for belief functions over imprecise probabilities as a model of evidence-respecting degrees of belief. The arguments cover three kinds of issue: theoretical virtues (simplicity, interpretability and flexibility); motivations; and problem cases (dilation and belief inertia).
A new perspective on criteria of identity
Authors: Garbacz Paweł 
Published: November 2022

AbstractAre identity criteria grounding principles? The recent debate over this issue seems to indicate a definitively negative answer. Recognising various objections to identity criteria as grounds for identity facts, one may wonder whether the former are capable of playing any salient role in ontology. I argue in this paper that they are, provided that one interprets them not as ontological explanations of identity facts but as ontological specifications thereof. I attempt to elaborate this view in terms of the well-establish distinction between determinables and their determinates, where identity criteria are to play the role of the determinates and the relation of identity is to be their determinable.
Use of convalescent plasma therapy in hospitalised adult patients with non-critical COVID-19: a focus on the elderly from Hungary
Authors: Kiss-Dala Noemi , Szabo Balint Gergely , Lakatos Botond , Reti Marienn , Szlavik Janos , Valyi-Nagy Istvan 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
Convalescent plasma therapy might be a feasible option for treatment of novel infections. During the early phases of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, several promising results were published with convalescent plasma therapy, followed by more disappointing findings of randomised controlled trials. In our single-centre, open-label, prospective, cohort study, we assessed the findings of 180 patients treated with convalescent plasma during the first four waves of the pandemic in Hungary. The primary outcome was all-cause mortality; secondary outcomes were clinical improvement and need for intensive care unit admission by day 28. Subgroup analysis comparing elderly and non-elderly (less than 65 years of age) was performed. Twenty (11.4%) patients died by day 28, at significantly higher rates in the elderly subgroup (3 vs. 17, p < 0.01). One hundred twenty-eight (72.7%) patients showed clinical improvement, and 15 (8.5%) were transferred to the intensive care unit until day 28. Non-elderly patients showed clinical improvement by day 28 in significantly higher rates (improvement 74 vs. 54, no improvement 15 vs. 11, worsening or death 4 vs. 18 patients, p < 0.01). In conclusion, we found similar clinical outcome results as randomised controlled trials, and the impact of risk factors for unfavourable clinical outcomes among patients in the elderly population.
Förderung organisationaler Gesundheitskompetenz aus Sicht von Pflegefachpersonen. Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Studie
Authors: Messer Melanie , Murau Tatjana 
Published: November 2022

Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
Gesundheitseinrichtungen sind gefordert, Patient*innen in ihrer Gesundheitskompetenz zu unterstützen und zu fördern. Dabei kommt Pflegefachpersonen eine bedeutsame Rolle zu, auf die Informationsfähigkeiten und -bedarfe von Patient*innen einzugehen. Bislang ist jedoch kaum untersucht, inwieweit die Pflegepraxis auf diese Aufgabe vorbereitet ist.

Ziel
Ziel der Studie ist es, die Ausgangslage in pflegerischen Informations- und Beratungssituationen zu beschreiben, auf die die Bestrebungen der Förderung der organisationalen Gesundheitskompetenz treffen.

Methode
Es wurden 21 leitfadengestützte Interviews mit Pflegefachpersonen durchgeführt. Die Auswertung erfolgte thematisch kodierend.

Ergebnisse
Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich Pflegefachpersonen auf eine Ad-hoc-Informationsvermittlung spezialisiert haben, in der Aufklärung und Wissensvermittlung im Vordergrund stehen. Beratende und schulende Ansätze finden sich kaum. Adressiert wird ein breites Feld an Informationsthemen, das von Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention bis zu Fragen der Behandlung, Koordination und des Selbstmanagements reicht. Hier zeigt sich eine direkte Passfähigkeit an Konzepte der organisationalen Gesundheitskompetenz. Deutlich wird jedoch, dass es nach dem Berufseinstieg an strukturierten Qualifikationsmöglichkeiten für Pflegefachpersonen zum Thema Kommunikation mangelt. Informationstechniken erarbeiten sie sich durch Erfahrungslernen mit zunehmender Berufserfahrung überwiegend selbst.

Schlussfolgerungen
Die Ergebnisse liefern Hinweise auf die aktuelle Praxis der Vermittlung von gesundheitskompetenzfördernden Informationen durch Pflegefachpersonen. Sie bieten Ansatzpunkte für die zukünftige Konzeptentwicklung, etwa Pflegefachpersonen gezielter in ihrem Qualifikationsbedarf zu unterstützen.
Polyhedral results and stronger Lagrangean bounds for stable spanning trees
Authors: Samer Phillippe , Haugland Dag 
Published: November 2022

AbstractGiven a graph $$G=(V,E)$$

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and a set C of unordered pairs of edges regarded as being in conflict, a stable spanning tree in G is a set of edges T inducing a spanning tree in G, such that for each $$\left\{ e_i, e_j \right\} \in C$$

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, at most one of the edges $$e_i$$

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and $$e_j$$

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is in T. The existing work on Lagrangean algorithms to the -hard problem of finding minimum weight stable spanning trees is limited to relaxations with the integrality property. We exploit a new relaxation of this problem: fixed cardinality stable sets in the underlying conflict graph $$H =(E,C)$$

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. We find interesting properties of the corresponding polytope, and determine stronger dual bounds in a Lagrangean decomposition framework, optimizing over the spanning tree polytope of G and the fixed cardinality stable set polytope of H in the subproblems. This is equivalent to dualizing exponentially many subtour elimination constraints, while limiting the number of multipliers in the dual problem to |E|. It is also a proof of concept for combining Lagrangean relaxation with the power of integer programming solvers over strongly NP-hard subproblems. We present encouraging computational results using a dual method that comprises the Volume Algorithm, initialized with multipliers determined by Lagrangean dual-ascent. In particular, the bound is within 5.5% of the optimum in 146 out of 200 benchmark instances; it actually matches the optimum in 75 cases. All of the implementation is made available in a free, open-source repository.
Abnormal Chromatin Folding in the Molecular Pathogenesis of Epilepsy and Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Meta-synthesis with Systematic Searching
Authors: Davis Oliver 
Published: November 2022

AbstractHow DNA is folded and packaged in nucleosomes is an essential regulator of gene expression. Abnormal patterns of chromatin folding are implicated in a wide range of diseases and disorders, including epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These disorders are thought to have a shared pathogenesis involving an imbalance in the number of excitatory-inhibitory neurons formed during neurodevelopment; however, the underlying pathological mechanism behind this imbalance is poorly understood. Studies are increasingly implicating abnormal chromatin folding in neural stem cells as one of the candidate pathological mechanisms, but no review has yet attempted to summarise the knowledge in this field. This meta-synthesis is a systematic search of all the articles on epilepsy, ASD, and chromatin folding. Its two main objectives were to determine to what extent abnormal chromatin folding is implicated in the pathogenesis of epilepsy and ASD, and secondly how abnormal chromatin folding leads to pathological disease processes. This search produced 22 relevant articles, which together strongly implicate abnormal chromatin folding in the pathogenesis of epilepsy and ASD. A range of mutations and chromosomal structural abnormalities lead to this effect, including single nucleotide polymorphisms, copy number variants, translocations and mutations in chromatin modifying. However, knowledge is much more limited into how abnormal chromatin organisation subsequently causes pathological disease processes, not yet showing, for example, whether it leads to abnormal excitation-inhibitory neuron imbalance in human brain organoids.
Expression levels of NONO, a nuclear protein primarily involved in paraspeckles function, are associated with several deregulated molecular pathways and poor clinical outcome in multiple myeloma
Authors: Ronchetti Domenica , Favasuli Vanessa Katia , Silvestris Ilaria , Todoerti Katia , Torricelli Federica , Bolli Niccolò , Ciarrocchi Alessia , Taiana Elisa , Neri Antonino 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
Purpose
The NONO protein belongs to the multifunctional family of proteins that can bind DNA, RNA and proteins. It is located in the nucleus of most mammalian cells and can affect almost every step of gene regulation. Dysregulation of NONO has been found in many types of cancer; however, data regarding its expression and relevance in Multiple Myeloma (MM) are virtually absent.

Methods
We took advantage of a large cohort of MM patients enrolled in the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation CoMMpass study to elucidate better the clinical and biological relevance of NONO expression in the context of the MM genomic landscape and transcriptome.

Results
NONO is overexpressed in pathological samples compared to normal controls. In addition, higher NONO expression levels are significant independent prognostic markers of worse clinical outcome in MM. Our results indicate that NONO deregulation may play a pathogenetic role in MM by affecting cell cycle, DNA repair mechanisms, and influencing translation by regulating ribosome biogenesis and assembly. Furthermore, our data suggest NONO involvement in the metabolic reprogramming of glucose metabolism from respiration to aerobic glycolysis, a phenomenon known as the ‘Warburg Effect’ that supports rapid cancer cell growth, survival, and invasion.

Conclusion
These findings strongly support the need of future investigations for the understanding of the mechanisms of deregulation and the biological role and activity of NONO in MM.
Dynamic study on particle throwing motion of pulsating negative pressure shale shaker
Authors: Yin Peng , Hou Yongjun 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThis research is based on a new drilling fluids circulation treatment device, which belongs to solid control system, namely pulsating negative pressure shale shaker. The purpose of this article is to better understand the operating principle and provide basis for setting working parameters and optimizing design. The above content depends on the dynamic analysis of the throwing motion of particles. To be specific, the motion equation of particle is established from the viewpoint of force state, and the influence of various parameters on particle conveyance velocity is discussed. Factors influencing the throwing index are also analyzed. Higher solid conveyance speed means higher handling capacity, but it also reduces the efficiency of particle dehydration; therefore, a trade-off should be considered among high removal efficiency, low energy consumption, and high handling capacity. The results show that negative pressure in pulsating form can effectively improve the disadvantage of low conveyance velocity of particles in constant negative pressure shale shaker.
Multifunctional properties of silver and gold nanoparticles synthesis by Fusarium pseudonygamai
Authors: Soliman Mohamed K. Y. , Abu-Elghait Mohammed , Salem Salem S. , Azab Mohamed Salah 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe goal of the current work was to investigate the antibacterial, antibiofilm, anticancer, and antioxidant opportunities of silver and gold nanoparticles (AgNPs and AuNPs) synthesized utilizing a new fungus strain called Fusarium pseudonygamai TB-13c. With the aid of UV, HR-TEM, FTIR, SEM, and XRD, the NPs’ creation was examined. For AgNPs and AuNPs, the mycosynthesized NPs’ highest peak plasmon band was seen at around 420 and 540 nm, respectively. AgNPs ranged in size from 5 to 20 nm, whereas AuNPs ranged in size from 8 to 60 nm. AgNPs and AuNPs were spherical in form. For AgNPs, the angles were 38.42°, 44.56°, 64.66°, and 77.75°; for AuNPs, the angles were 38.56°, 44.74°, 64.87°, and 77.85°. The antibacterial efficiency of AgNPs and AuNPs was evaluated against Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). In particular, AgNPs outperformed AuNPs in their ability to combat pathogenic microorganisms. Furthermore, antibiofilm study that shown AuNPs had activity more than AgNPs. Interestingly, applying the DPPH procedure these noble metallic NPs had antioxidant activity, which the IC50 for AgNPs was 38.2 μg/ mL and 180 μg/ mL for AuNPs. The modification in the cells was evident in the cytotoxicity evaluation findings as change of their usual shape, partially or completely loss of monolayer, granulation, and shrinkage, or cell rounding with IC50 for normal vero cell were 695.34 μg/mL and 631.66 μg/mL for AgNPs and AuNPs, respectively, whilst IC50 for cancer cell (Mcf7) was 204.07 μg/mL for AgNPs and 206.95 μg/mL for AuNPs. The combined results show that there is a clear and flexible biological use for less toxic chemotherapeutic agents.
Criterion-Related Validity of Field-Based Methods and Equations for Body Composition Estimation in Adults: A Systematic Review
Authors: Marin-Jimenez Nuria , Cruz-Leon Carolina , Sanchez-Oliva David , Jimenez-Iglesias José , Caraballo Israel , Padilla-Moledo Carmen , Cadenas-Sanchez Cristina , Cuenca-Garcia Magdalena , Castro-Piñero José 
Published: November 2022

AbstractPurpose of ReviewOverweight and obesity are associated to health prognosis. Therefore, body composition assessment is an important health outcome, especially in adult population. We analyzed the criterion-related validity of existing field-based methods and equations for body composition estimation in adults aged 19–64 years.Recent FindingsOne hundred studies met inclusion criteria. The field-based methods, waist circumference (WC), body adiposity index (BAI), and body mass index (BMI) are valid to indicate body adiposity. Likewise, several equations, including the classical Durnin/Womersley equation, Jackson/Pollock equation (males), and Jackson, Pollock, and Ward equation (females), are valid to estimate total body fat mass or body fat percentage.SummaryAnthropometric field methods can provide a simple, quick, and easy informative indicators of adiposity in adults. Classical equations, such as Durnin/Womersley equation, Jackson/Pollock equation, and Jackson, Pollock, and Ward equation, are still valid to estimate total body fat mass or body fat percentage in adult population. When choosing estimation equations, specific population characteristics, such as age, weight status, or race ethnicity, should be taken into account. (Trial Registration: Registered on PROSPERO (CRD42020194272)).Graphical abstract
Rapid adsorption of sulfamethazine on mesoporous graphene produced from plastic waste: optimization, mechanism, isotherms, kinetics, and thermodynamics
Authors: Mensah K. , Samy M. , Mahmoud H. , Fujii M. , Shokry H. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractSulfonamide antibiotics like sulfamethazine (SMZ) can threaten aquatic and terrestrial life even in small concentrations (≤ 1 mg/L); hence, their removal from wastewater is indispensable. However, the need to explore new promising adsorbents that are cheap, effective, and reusable also remains crucial to developing adsorption technology. This work presents a one-pot solvent-free conversion of the current most ubiquitous anthropogenic bio-resistant solid waste (plastics) into valuable carbon materials to remove SMZ from aqueous solution. High-density polyethylene waste was pyrolyzed at 500–1000 °C in an enclosed stainless-steel reactor to produce mesoporous graphene. The graphene products were characterized via microscopic and spectroscopic analyses. The effect of temperature on the graphene yield and properties was investigated. The optimum sulfamethazine (SMZ) adsorption was achieved with 600 °C carbon product (CP-600) due to its high porosity and aromatic structure. The adsorption parameters (pH, catalyst dose, and SMZ concentration) were optimized by response surface methodology (RSM) with a central composite design. 99.99% SMZ removal was achieved at 0.9 g/L adsorbent dose, 12.4 mg/L SMZ concentration, and pH 3 at 25 °C. FTIR analysis revealed that the SMZ adsorption occurred mainly via π–π/π+–π electron interactions between the aromatic and pyrimidine rings of SMZ and the benzene ring of graphitic CP-600. The SMZ adsorption followed the pseudo-second-order kinetics, Langmuir, and Freundlich isotherm models. The adsorption was controlled by film and intraparticle diffusion and was spontaneous and endothermic. The carbon synthesized in this work is reusable and can rapidly remove more SMZ than other SMZ adsorbents.
Modulation to favorable surface adsorption energy for oxygen evolution reaction intermediates over carbon-tunable alloys towards sustainable hydrogen production
Authors: Adamu Haruna , Yamani Zain Hassan , Qamar Mohammad 
Published: November 2022

AbstractBecause of the value of hydrogen as the future energy in no distant time, demand for efficient and scalable hydrogen production via electrochemical water splitting process has recently attracted considerable attention from industrial and scientific communities. Yet, several challenges associated with production remain to be addressed. One of the overriding challenges is the sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which can have significant impact on the H2 production due to overpotential. To overcome this limitation, developing low-cost, robust and stable electrocatalysts very close to the same electrode activity as seen for iridium metal is crucial to solving the efficiency issue in the process. Therefore, timely review of progress in the field is vital to identify the electrocatalytic systems with the highest potential and, more importantly, to understand the factors which have positive contribution towards the electrocatalysts performance. We reviewed the progress made in the direction of designing binary and ternary alloys of transition metal-based electrocatalysts tuned with carbon materials. The review focuses more on the modulation of structural design and electronic conductivity that have been carried out by manipulating chemical compositions to moderate the surface adsorption free energies of the reaction intermediates, targeted to reduce overpotential. The strategic routes are discussed thoroughly with respect to the OER mechanisms and their derived-descriptors. However, numerous opportunities still remain open for exploration, particularly on the key challenge to obtain a route to unify electronic structure-activity and activity-multi-descriptor relationships for rational design of efficient electrocatalysts.