bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Dropout from psychological treatment for borderline personality disorder: a multilevel survival meta-analysis
Authors: Arntz Arnoud , Mensink Kyra , Cox Wouter R. , Verhoef Rogier E. J. , van Emmerik Arnold A. P. , Rameckers Sophie A. , Badenbach Theresa , Grasman Raoul P. P. P. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractBackgroundDropout from psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a notorious problem. We investigated whether treatment, treatment format, treatment setting, substance use exclusion criteria, proportion males, mean age, country, and other variables influenced dropout.MethodsFrom Pubmed, Embase, Cochrane, Psycinfo and other sources, 111 studies (159 treatment arms, N = 9100) of psychotherapy for non-forensic adult patients with BPD were included. Dropout per quarter during one year of treatment was analyzed on participant level with multilevel survival analysis, to deal with multiple predictors, nonconstant dropout chance over time, and censored data. Multiple imputation was used to estimate quarter of drop-out if unreported. Sensitivity analyses were done by excluding DBT-arms with deviating push-out rules.ResultsDropout was highest in the first quarter of treatment. Schema therapy had the lowest dropout overall, and mentalization-based treatment in the first two quarters. Community treatment by experts had the highest dropout. Moreover, individual therapy had lowest dropout, group therapy highest, with combined formats in-between. Other variables such as age or substance-use exclusion criteria were not associated with dropout.ConclusionThe findings do not support claims that all treatments are equal, and indicate that efforts to reduce dropout should focus on early stages of treatment and on group treatment.
Presently in Beds
Authors: Telleria Nahuel 
Published: December 2022

How can we be present yet not physically in person? Three bed performances in Argentina suggest such a possibility. In a country marked by the disappearance of 30,000 citizens, artists and activists have sought to make the absent present. These bed performances reveal that by mediating presence and expanding it beyond the here and now, what was thought to have disappeared, remains.Pastoral associates stand in front of huge screens to pray for hundreds of people at the same time. Emmanuel TV Studios, Lagos, Nigeria, 1 June 2021. See “The Healing of Maseko: Live and A-live Presences in the Theatre of the Spiritual” by Abimbola A. Adelakun. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1vRT6imV4o; screenshot by TDR)
Salt intake reduction using umami substance-incorporated food: a secondary analysis of NHANES 2017–2018 data
Authors: Nomura Shuhei , Tanaka Shiori , Eguchi Akifumi , Kawashima Takayuki , Nakamura Haruyo , Lwin Kaung Suu , Yamasaki Lisa , Yoneoka Daisuke , Tanoe Yuta , Adachi Megumi , Hayabuchi Hitomi , Koganemaru Shosei , Nishimura Toshihide , Sigel Byron , Uneyama Hisayuki , Shibuya Kenji 
Published: December 2022

AbstractObjective:Excessive salt intake raises blood pressure and increases the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCD), such as CVD, chronic kidney disease and stomach cancer. Reducing the Na content of food is an important public health measure to control the NCD. This study quantifies the amount of salt reduced by using umami substances, i.e. glutamate, inosinate and guanylate, for adults in the USA.Design:The secondary data analysis was performed using data of the US nationally representative cross-sectional dietary survey, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017–2018. Per capita daily salt intake corresponding to the NHANES food groups was calculated in the four hypothetical scenarios of 0 %, 30 %, 60 % and 90 % market share of low-Na foods in the country. The salt reduction rates by using umami substances were estimated based on the previous study results.Setting:The USAParticipants:4139 individuals aged 20 years and older in the USAResults:Replacing salt with umami substances could help the US adults reduce salt intake by 7·31–13·53 % (7·50–13·61 % for women and 7·18–13·53 % for men), which is equivalent to 0·61–1·13 g/d (0·54–0·98 g/d for women and 0·69–1·30 g/d for men) without compromising the taste. Approximately, 21·21–26·04 % of the US adults could keep their salt intake below 5 g/d, the WHO’s recommendation in the scenario where there is no low-Na product on the market.Conclusions:This study provides essential information that the use of umami substances as a substitute for salt may help reduce the US adults’ salt intake.
Kant on Moral Feeling and Respect
Authors: Kolomý Vojtěch 
Published: December 2022

AbstractAlthough in his earlier ethical writings Kant explains the concept of moral feeling, inherited from the British sentimentalists, as a peculiar feeling of respect for the moral law that functions as an incentive for moral actions, the Doctrine of Virtue seems to add complexity to the issue. There, Kant discusses two similar aesthetic predispositions, moral feeling and respect, whose relationship to the feeling of respect is far from clear. This article offers a much needed elucidation of the relationship between these three concepts. In the first part, I show that Kant, in the writings before the Doctrine of Virtue, transforms the British sentimentalists’ construal of moral feeling into that of the feeling of respect as the sole moral incentive. In the second part, I argue that, although in the Doctrine of Virtue Kant distinguishes, for a specific reason, between the aesthetic predisposition of moral feeling and that of respect, they are both ultimately identical to the feeling of respect. The conclusion is that nothing of substance changes between Kant’s earlier thinking and his views in the Doctrine of Virtue; for Kant there is just one feeling that properly deserves the name of moral feeling, the feeling of respect.
Baseline cardiac risk profile determines radiation-induced cardiac toxicity in patients with mid-lower esophageal cancer
Authors: Ghaznavi Hamid , Allaveisi Farzaneh , Taghizadeh-Hesary Farzad 
Published: December 2022

Abstract

Background:
The radiotherapy techniques are evolving. Besides optimal tumour coverage, considering organs at risk (OAR) is pertinent to radiation oncologists. In mid-lower esophageal cancer (MLEC) radiotherapy, heart is the main OAR. Studies on excess absolute risk (EAR) of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in MLEC radiotherapy are limited in the main literature. Therefore, this study was conducted to estimate the EAR of CVD in patients with MLEC treated with the intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) technique.

Results:
Family history of heart disease and smoking increased the EAR of CVD significantly compared to the cholesterol and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein. The 10-year EAR of the high-risk group was more than four times of the low-risk group at all ages. In the low-risk group, EAR of CVD after radiotherapy of esophageal cancer can increase by up to 9·1%, while in the high-risk group, EAR increased by 34·89%.

Conclusions:
Adding the baseline CVD risk factors improved the estimation of EAR of heart disease after MLEC radiotherapy with the IMRT technique.
Communicating extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) interaction models based on the Drake equation
Authors: Smith Reginald D. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThe Drake equation has proven fertile ground for speculation about the abundance, or lack thereof, of communicating extraterrestrial intelligences (CETIs) for decades. It has been augmented by subsequent authors to include random variables in order to understand its probabilistic behaviour. However, in most cases, the emergence and lifetime of CETIs are assumed to be independent of each other. In this paper, we will derive several expressions that can demonstrate how CETIs may relate to each other in technological age as well as how the dynamics of the concurrent CETI population change under basic models of interaction, such as the Allee effect. By defining interaction as the change in the expected communication lifetime with respect to the density of CETI in a region of space, we can use models and simulation to understand how the CETI density can promote or inhibit the longevity and overall population of interstellar technological civilizations.
Performance analysis of TSA array with elliptical patch
Authors: Kumari Chanchala , Chattoraj Neela 
Published: December 2022

AbstractA compact microstrip to substrate integrated waveguide transition feed tapered slot antenna array (1 × 4) with the elliptical patch is proposed and analyzed. The new approach is presented, employing a parasitic patch in the flared aperture to generate more radiation in the end-fire direction and improve field coupling between the arms. It boosts gain while maintaining overall size and low-frequency performance without using electrically thin dielectric substrates. To validate the designed approach, the proposed structure is fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the array provides impedance bandwidth of 40%, peak measured gain of 9.14 dBi, and radiation efficiency is 90% over the 8.5–12.5 GHz frequency band. A four-way feed network is also fabricated with the insertion loss of −6 ± 0.9 dB; the reflection coefficient is below −15 dB over the desired frequency range and only ±4° phase imbalance. The overall dimension of antenna array is 50 × 54 × 0.813 mm3 or ~1.6λ × 1.8λ × 0.027λ at 10 GHz.
Three-dimensional non-Abelian quantum holonomy
Authors: Neef Vera , Pinske Julien , Klauck Friederike , Teuber Lucas , Kremer Mark , Ehrhardt Max , Heinrich Matthias , Scheel Stefan , Szameit Alexander 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWhen a quantum system undergoes slow changes, the evolution of its state depends only on the corresponding trajectory in Hilbert space. This phenomenon, known as quantum holonomy, brings to light the geometric aspects of quantum theory. Depending on the number of degrees of freedom involved, these purely geometric entities can be scalar or belong to a matrix-valued symmetry group. In their various forms, holonomies are vital elements in the description of the fundamental forces in particle physics as well as theories beyond the standard model such as loop quantum gravity or topological quantum field theory. Yet, implementing matrix-valued holonomies thus far has proven challenging, being further complicated by the difficulties involved in identifying suitable dark states for their construction in bosonic systems. Here we develop a representation of holonomic theory founded on the Heisenberg picture and leverage these insights for the experimental realization of a three-dimensional quantum holonomy. Its non-Abelian geometric phase is implemented via the judicious manipulation of bosonic modes constructed from indistinguishable photons and obeys the U(3) symmetry relevant to the strong interaction. Our findings could enable the experimental study of higher-dimensional non-Abelian gauge symmetries and the exploration of exotic physics on a photonic chip.
The HA4M dataset: Multi-Modal Monitoring of an assembly task for Human Action recognition in Manufacturing
Authors: Cicirelli Grazia , Marani Roberto , Romeo Laura , Domínguez Manuel García , Heras Jónathan , Perri Anna G. , D’Orazio Tiziana 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThis paper introduces the Human Action Multi-Modal Monitoring in Manufacturing (HA4M) dataset, a collection of multi-modal data relative to actions performed by different subjects building an Epicyclic Gear Train (EGT). In particular, 41 subjects executed several trials of the assembly task, which consists of 12 actions. Data were collected in a laboratory scenario using a Microsoft® Azure Kinect which integrates a depth camera, an RGB camera, and InfraRed (IR) emitters. To the best of authors’ knowledge, the HA4M dataset is the first multi-modal dataset about an assembly task containing six types of data: RGB images, Depth maps, IR images, RGB-to-Depth-Aligned images, Point Clouds and Skeleton data. These data represent a good foundation to develop and test advanced action recognition systems in several fields, including Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and application domains such as smart manufacturing and human-robot collaboration.
N-Omniglot, a large-scale neuromorphic dataset for spatio-temporal sparse few-shot learning
Authors: Li Yang , Dong Yiting , Zhao Dongcheng , Zeng Yi 
Published: December 2022

AbstractFew-shot learning (learning with a few samples) is one of the most important cognitive abilities of the human brain. However, the current artificial intelligence systems meet difficulties in achieving this ability. Similar challenges also exist for biologically plausible spiking neural networks (SNNs). Datasets for traditional few-shot learning domains provide few amounts of temporal information. And the absence of neuromorphic datasets has hindered the development of few-shot learning for SNNs. Here, to the best of our knowledge, we provide the first neuromorphic dataset for few-shot learning using SNNs: N-Omniglot, based on the Dynamic Vision Sensor. It contains 1,623 categories of handwritten characters, with only 20 samples per class. N-Omniglot eliminates the need for a neuromorphic dataset for SNNs with high spareness and tremendous temporal coherence. Additionally, the dataset provides a powerful challenge and a suitable benchmark for developing SNNs algorithms in the few-shot learning domain due to the chronological information of strokes. We also provide the improved nearest neighbor, convolutional network, SiameseNet, and meta-learning algorithm in the spiking version for verification.
The maize Ga1-s allele confers protection against ga1 pollen in popcorn and dent corn
Authors: Moran Lauter Adrienne N. , Edwards Jode W. , Scott M. Paul 
Published: December 2022

AbstractBecause corn pollen can be carried great distances by wind, maintaining genetic purity of corn grain is challenging. The challenge is substantially reduced in popcorn, which carries the Ga1-s allele preventing pollination by ga1 plants, which include the vast majority of non-popcorn commercial maize varieties in the U.S.. Ga1-s can be transferred into dent corn but the effectiveness of the Ga1-s allele in popcorn and dent corn has never been compared, which is important because each are regulated differently regarding GMO contamination. We compared pollen exclusion of commercial popcorn hybrids, Ga1-s dent corn hybrids and normal dent corn hybrids for their ability to exclude ga1 pollen using a sensitive field-based assay. While both popcorn and Ga1-s dent corn had significantly better pollen exclusion than normal dent corn, popcorn was significantly better than Ga1-s dent corn on average. Some Ga1-s dent hybrids excluded as well or better than some popcorn lines suggesting that identification of hybrids comparable to popcorn is possible. The information in this study will support revised gene purity regulations potentially decreasing costs and increasing genetic purity of organic corn.
Developing erythromycin resistance gene by heavy metals, Pb, Zn, and Co, in aquatic ecosystems
Authors: Komijani Majid , Eghbalpour Farnaz , Lari Ebrahim , Shaykh-Baygloo Nima 
Published: December 2022

AbstractIndustrial development is the main cause of environmental pollution with various substances such as antibiotics and heavy metals. Many heavy metals with antimicrobial properties could contribute to antibiotic resistance and the emergence of antibiotic resistance genes due to the co-selection phenomenon. The aim of this study was to investigate the concurrent presence and correlation between several heavy metals and the erythromycin resistance genes in six aquatic ecosystems of Iran. Distribution and assessment of 11 erythromycin resistance genes were investigated using specific primers and online enrichment and triple-quadrupole LC–MS/MS. The concentration of heavy metals was measured using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy by Thermo electron corporation. Principal component analysis was performed to globally compare and to determine the similarities and differences among different aquatic ecosystems in different parts of the world in terms of the concentration of zinc and lead in their water. The results of the simple logistic regression analysis for the correlation between erythromycin resistance genes and heavy metals concentrations revealed the most significant correlation between erythromycin resistance genes and Pb concentration, followed by Co and Zn concentrations.
Aging and the detection of moving objects defined by common fate
Authors: Norman J. Farley , Baig Maheen , Graham Jiali D. , Lewis Jessica L. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractGrouping by common fate plays an important role in how human observers perceive environmental objects. In this study, the effect of aging upon the ability to utilize common fate was evaluated. Twenty-two younger and older adults (mean ages were 23.4 and 74.7 years, respectively) participated in two experiments. On any given trial, the participants sequentially viewed two apparent motion sequences and were required to indicate which temporal interval contained a coherently moving dotted line embedded in noisy random background motion. In Experiment 1, the number of dots defining the target was varied, while in Experiment 2, the target interpoint spacing was varied. The younger adults outperformed the older adults by 19.4 percent in Experiment 1 and 50.5 percent in Experiment 2. The older and younger adults were similarly affected by variations in the number of target dots and the target interpoint spacing. The individual older participants’ object detection accuracies were highly correlated with their individual chronological ages, such that the performance of the younger old participants was much higher than that exhibited by the older old. Increases in age systematically affect the ability of older adults to detect and visually perceive objects defined by common fate.
A computational approach to measure the linguistic characteristics of psychotherapy timing, responsiveness, and consistency
Authors: Miner Adam S. , Fleming Scott L. , Haque Albert , Fries Jason A. , Althoff Tim , Wilfley Denise E. , Agras W. Stewart , Milstein Arnold , Hancock Jeff , Asch Steven M. , Stirman Shannon Wiltsey , Arnow Bruce A. , Shah Nigam H. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractAlthough individual psychotherapy is generally effective for a range of mental health conditions, little is known about the moment-to-moment language use of effective therapists. Increased access to computational power, coupled with a rise in computer-mediated communication (telehealth), makes feasible the large-scale analyses of language use during psychotherapy. Transparent methodological approaches are lacking, however. Here we present novel methods to increase the efficiency of efforts to examine language use in psychotherapy. We evaluate three important aspects of therapist language use - timing, responsiveness, and consistency - across five clinically relevant language domains: pronouns, time orientation, emotional polarity, therapist tactics, and paralinguistic style. We find therapist language is dynamic within sessions, responds to patient language, and relates to patient symptom diagnosis but not symptom severity. Our results demonstrate that analyzing therapist language at scale is feasible and may help answer longstanding questions about specific behaviors of effective therapists.
Unveiling the past evolution of the progenitor of the Helmi streams
Authors: Ruiz-Lara T. , Helmi A. , Gallart C. , Surot F. , Cassisi S. 
Published: December 2022

Aims. We aim to determine unique features that characterise the past evolution of the progenitor of the Helmi streams through the analysis of star formation histories (SFHs).
Methods. From the 5D Gaia EDR3 dataset, we extracted local samples of stars dominated by the Helmi streams, the Galactic (thick and thin) disc, and the local retrograde halo. We did this by identifying regions in a pseudo-Cartesian velocity space (obtained by setting line-of-sight velocities to zero), where stars belonging to these components, as identified in samples with 6D phase-space information, are predominantly found. We made use of an updated absolute colour–magnitude diagram (CMD) fitting methodology to contrast the SFHs of these samples to unveil distinct signatures of the past evolution of a disrupted accreted system: the Helmi streams. To this end, special attention was given to the correct characterisation of Gaia completeness effects and observational errors on the CMD. We further investigated alternative sample selections to improve the purity of our 5D Helmi stream catalogues.
Results. We find that the progenitor of the Helmi streams experienced an early star formation that was sustained for longer (until 7–9 Gyr ago) than for the Milky Way halo (10–11 Gyr ago). As a consequence, half of its stellar mass was in place ∼0.7 Gyr later. The quenching of star formation in the Helmi stream progenitor ∼8 Gyr ago suggests it was accreted by the Milky Way around this time, in concert with previous estimates based on the dynamics of the streams.
PET und SPECT bei Epilepsie
Authors: la Fougère Christian , Bartenstein Peter 
Published: December 2022

ZusammenfassungMolekulare Bildgebung mit SPECT und PET ermöglicht sowohl in der klinischen Routine als auch in der neurologischen Forschung eine metabolische Charakterisierung der Epilepsie, welche zum einem zu einer Verbesserung der diagnostischen Sicherheit und zum anderen zu einem besseren Verständnis über pathophysiologische und pathobiochemische Veränderungen führt. Im Rahmen dieser aktualisierten Arbeit soll der Einsatz von SPECT und PET dargestellt werden und deren Stellenwert im klinischen Einsatz neu bewertet werden.