bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effects of a 12-week supervised resistance training program, combined with home-based physical activity, on physical fitness and quality of life in female breast cancer survivors: the EFICAN randomized controlled trial
Authors: Soriano-Maldonado Alberto , Díez-Fernández David M. , Esteban-Simón Alba , Rodríguez-Pérez Manuel A. , Artés-Rodríguez Eva , Casimiro-Artés Miguel A. , Moreno-Martos Herminia , Toro-de-Federico Antonio , Hachem-Salas Nur , Bartholdy Cecilie , Henriksen Marius , Casimiro-Andújar Antonio J. 
Published: March 2022

Abstract

Purpose
This study assessed the effects of 12-week supervised resistance training combined with home-based physical activity on physical fitness, cancer-related fatigue, depressive symptoms, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and life satisfaction in female breast cancer survivors.

Methods
A parallel-group, outcome assessor-blinded, randomized controlled trial included 60 female breast cancer survivors who had completed their core treatments within the previous 10 years. Through computer-generated simple randomization, participants were assigned to resistance training (RTG; two sessions/week for 12 weeks plus instructions to undertake ≥ 10,000 steps/d) or control (CG; ≥ 10,000 steps/d only). Outcomes were evaluated at baseline and week 12. Muscular strength was assessed with electromechanical dynamometry. A standardized full-body muscular strength score was the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes included cardiorespiratory fitness, shoulder mobility, cancer-related fatigue, depressive symptoms, HRQoL, and life satisfaction.

Results
Thirty-two participants were assigned to RTG (29 achieved ≥ 75% attendance) and 28 to CG (all completed the trial). Intention-to-treat analyses revealed that the standardized full-body muscular strength score increased significantly in the RTG compared to the CG (0.718; 95% CI 0.361–1.074, P < 0.001, Cohen's d = 1.04). This increase was consistent for the standardized scores of upper-body (0.727; 95% CI 0.294–1.160, P = 0.001, d = 0.87) and lower-body (0.709; 95% CI 0.324–1.094, P = 0.001, d = 0.96) strength. There was no effect on cardiorespiratory fitness, shoulder flexion, cancer-related fatigue, depressive symptoms, HRQoL, or life satisfaction. The sensitivity analyses confirmed these results.

Conclusion
and implication for cancer survivors.
In female breast cancer survivors who had completed their core treatments within the past 10 years, adding two weekly sessions of supervised resistance training to a prescription of home-based physical activity for 12 weeks produced a large increase in upper-, lower-, and full-body muscular strength, while other fitness components and patient-reported outcomes did not improve.
Trial registration number.
ISRCTN14601208.
Dealing with the Resolubility of Evolution Algebras
Authors: Fernández-Ternero D. , Gómez-Sousa V. M. , Núñez-Valdés J. 
Published: March 2022

AbstractAlthough since their introduction by Tian in 2004, evolution algebras have been the subject of a very deep study in the last years due to their numerous applications to other disciplines, this study is not easy since these algebras lack an identity that characterizes them, such as the identity of Jacobi, for Lie algebras or those of Leibniz and Malcev for those corresponding algebras. In this paper we deal with the concepts of solvability and nilpotency of these evolution algebras. Some novel results on them obtained from using the evolution operator of these algebras are given and some examples illustrating these results are also shown. The main result obtained states that an evolution algebra is solvable if and only if its structure matrix is nilpotent, which implies, in turn, that the solvability and the nilpotency indices of that algebra coincide provided the corresponding evolution operator is an endomorphism of the algebra.
Is There Still a Role of Plasma Exchange in the Current Management of ANCA-Associated Vasculitides?
Authors: Toyoda Task , Yates Max , Watts Richard A. 
Published: March 2022

Abstract
Purpose of Review
Plasma exchange (PLEX) is often recommended as an adjunctive therapy for patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) in the setting of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis or diffuse alveolar haemorrhage. Since ANCAs are pathogenic, it seems a reasonable and justified approach to remove them through therapeutic PLEX, as despite advances in immunosuppressive therapy regimens, AAV is associated with significant morbidity and death. However, the association between ANCA levels and mortality or disease activity is uncertain. In addition, any treatment must be judged on the potential risks and benefits of its use. Here, we summarise the current data on PLEX usage in patients with AAV.

Recent Findings
The largest randomised trial to date the Plasma Exchange and Glucocorticoids in Severe ANCA-Associated Vasculitis (PEXIVAS) study failed to show added benefit for PLEX on the prevention of death or end-stage renal failure (ESRF) for the management of patients with severe AAV. However, there is a possibility that PLEX delays dialysis dependence and ESRF in the early stages of the disease. Regardless of whether this is only for 3 to 12 months, this could be of clinical significance and a substantial improvement in patient’s quality of life.

Summary
Cost utility analysis and trials including patient-centred outcomes are required to evaluate the use of PLEX. Furthermore, ascertaining those at high risk of developing ESRF could help identify those who may benefit from PLEX the most, and further insights are required in setting of diffuse alveolar haemorrhage.
Das Georg-v.-Rauch-Haus in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Authors: Kappeler Manfred , Liebel Manfred 
Published: March 2022

ZusammenfassungVor etwas mehr als 50 Jahren, am 8. Dezember 1971, besetzten Jugendliche ein größeres Gebäude in Berlin und nannten es Georg-von-Rauch-Haus. Die Autoren nehmen das Jubiläum zum Anlass, um über die Frage nachzudenken, was sich aus den im Haus gemachten Erfahrungen mit Selbstorganisation für die heutige Jugendhilfe lernen lässt. Sie untersuchen insbesondere die Konflikte zwischen den Jugendlichen und den staatlichen Jugendbehörden.
Autocratic heterogeneity in the provision of environmental protection
Authors: Eichhorn Kristin , Linhart Eric 
Published: March 2022

AbstractOnly few studies have investigated the link between the heterogeneity of non-democratic regime types and environmental protection. This study disaggregates authoritarian regimes and identifies four patterns of environmental performance. Using 16 indicators of environmental performance, autocratic subtypes such as royal dictatorships, military dictatorships, hegemonic autocracies, and competitive authoritarian regimes are compared and contrasted with democracies. The results demonstrate that a democracy advantage in the protection of the environment, as many former studies find it, typically cannot be confirmed for all autocratic subtypes. We rather detect a quite manifold picture when the variety of authoritarianism is taken into account.
The Acute Superficial Siderosis Syndrome — Clinical Entity, Imaging Findings, and Histopathology
Authors: Friedauer Lucie , Foerch Christian , Steinbach Joachim , Hattingen Elke , Harter Patrick N. , Armbrust Moritz , Urban Hans , Steidl Eike , Neuhaus Elisabeth , von Brauchitsch Sophie 
Published: March 2022

Abstract
Superficial siderosis is a consequence of repetitive bleeding into the subarachnoid space, leading to toxic iron and hemosiderin deposits on the surface of the brain and spine. The clinical and radiological phenotypes of superficial siderosis are known to manifest over long time intervals. In contrast, this study defines the “acute superficial siderosis syndrome” and illustrates typical imaging and histopathological findings of this entity. We describe the case of a 61-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with a melanoma metastasis in the right frontal cortex in February 2019. Within a few weeks he developed a progressive syndrome characterized by cerebellar ataxia, gait disturbance, signs of myelopathy, and radiculopathy. MRI revealed ongoing hemorrhage from the metastasis into the lateral ventricle and the subarachnoid space. A semiquantitative assessment of three subsequent MRI within an 8-week period documented the rapid development of superficial siderosis along the surface of the cerebellum, the brain stem, and the lower parts of the supratentorial regions on T2*-weighted sequences. The diagnosis of a superficial siderosis was histopathologically confirmed by identifying iron and hemosiderin deposits on the cortex along with astrogliosis. The recognition of this “acute superficial siderosis syndrome” triggered surgical removal of the hemorrhagic metastasis. Based on a single case presentation, we define the “acute superficial siderosis syndrome” as a clinical entity and describe the radiological and histopathological characteristics of this entity. Early recognition of this syndrome may allow timely elimination of the bleeding source, in order to prevent further clinical deterioration.
Placodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) dentaries from Winterswijk, The Netherlands (middle Anisian) and Hünfeld, Hesse, Germany (late Anisian) with comments on ontogenetic changes
Authors: Klein Nicole , Wintrich Tania , Hagdorn Hans , Spiller Dave , Winkelhorst Herman , Goris Gerard , Scheyer Torsten M. 
Published: March 2022

AbstractTwo recently found dentaries from the Lower Muschelkalk of Winterswijk (The Netherlands) and from the Upper Muschelkalk of an outcrop in the vicinity of Hünfeld (Hesse, Germany) are studied and compared to lower jaws of placodonts. As a result, the here described specimens can be assigned to Placodus cf. gigas. However, this assignment should be regarded as preliminary due to the isolated nature of the material. More diagnostic material is necessary to validate this affiliation. A certain morphological variability in P. gigas dentaries that had been pointed out before is also obvious among the new material. Placodus gigas has a wide paleogeography and stratigraphic range and a revision of the material assigned to P. gigas with new methods is overdue but beyond the scope of the current paper. The dentary from Hünfeld is with about 4 cm preserved length the smallest so far known dentary of a Placodus. It provides interesting insights in morphological changes during ontogeny and reveals differences in trajectories when compared to dentaries of different ontogenetic stages of Cyamodus hildegardis.
Inductive and combinatorial reasoning in international educational context: assessment, measurement invariance, and latent mean differences
Authors: Wu Hao , Saleh Andi Rahmat , Molnár Gyöngyvér 
Published: March 2022

AbstractIndonesian 15-year-old students’ educational achievement has proved to be significantly lower than the international average based on one of the most prominent international large-scale assessments, OECD PISA. This prompted our interest in Indonesian students’ cognitive development during secondary schooling in comparison with that of students who are more successful on the PISA scale. This study aims to describe the development of Indonesian students’ thinking skills, especially inductive and combinatorial reasoning, to map the influencing factors in the development of reasoning skills and make a cross-national comparison study with their Hungarian peers. The sample was drawn from 250 Indonesian and 864 Hungarian 8th and 11th graders. The reliabilities of the tests were acceptable, with Cronbach’s alpha varying between .70 and .86. Results mainly indicated that: (a) the measures of these two constructs were partially invariant across nationalities; (b) the Indonesian students’ reasoning skills did not sufficiently develop between the 8th and 11th grades; (c) the Indonesian students’ inductive and combinatorial reasoning achievement was significantly worse than that of the Hungarian students in 11th grade, but not in 8th grade; and (d) the students’ learning strategies proved to be predictive factors in students’ reasoning skills achievement in both Indonesian and Hungarian contexts, but the level of prediction varied. Overall, the results of the current study provide support for an understanding of Indonesian students’ cognitive development compared to an international benchmark. The findings have implications for revising educational methods in Indonesia and may form the basis for further studies.
Stories of change in nutrition in Burkina Faso 1992–2018: a micro-level perspective
Authors: Becquey Elodie , Sombié Issa , Touré Mariama , Turowska Zuzanna , Buttarelli Emilie , Nisbett Nicholas 
Published: March 2022

AbstractLooking back at what has effectively improved nutrition may inform policy makers on how to accelerate progress to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. As under-five stunting declined substantially in Burkina Faso, we analyzed its nutrition story at the micro-level. We conducted a regression-decomposition analysis to identify demographic and health drivers associated with change in height-for-age using longitudinal, secondary, nationally-representative data. We triangulated results with findings from semi-structured community interviews (n = 91) in two “model communities” with a history of large stunting reduction. We found that improvement in immunization coverage, assets accumulation and reduction in open defecation were associated with 23%, 10% and 6.1% of the improvement in height-for-age, respectively. Associations were also found with other education, family planning, health and WASH indicators. Model communities acknowledged progress in the coverage and quality of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive sectoral programs co-located at the community level, especially those delivered through the health and food security sectors, though delivery challenges remained in a context of systemic poverty and persistent food insecurity. Burkina Faso’s health sector’s success in improving coverage of nutrition and healthcare programs may have contributed to improvements in child nutrition alongside other programmatic improvements in the food security, WASH and education sectors. Burkina Faso should continue to operationalize sectoral nutrition-sensitive policies into higher-quality programs at scale, building on its success stories such as vaccination. Community leverage gaps and data gaps need to be filled urgently to pressure for and monitor high coverage, quality delivery, and nutrition impact of agriculture, education, and WASH interventions.
Modeling Analysis of Automated and Connected Cars in Signalized Intersections
Authors: Studer Luca , Ponti Marco , Agriesti Serio , Sala Marco , Gandini Paolo , Marchionni Giovanna , Gugiatti Elena 
Published: March 2022

AbstractIt is acknowledged that many of the problems related to urban congestion can be solved through the diffusion of automated vehicles capable not only of replacing drivers, but also of receiving information from the infrastructure. In this article, the effects of driverless cars (level 3–4 of automation) and of the Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) system, a particular kind of Cooperative – Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS), will be evaluated at an urban signalized intersection through a set of micro-simulations. The aim of the paper is to analyze the two system as stand-alone before evaluating their jointed implementation, so to obtain their impacts and to analyze if and how they synergize for different levels of market penetration. The results of these simulations demonstrate that automated and connected cars should bring global benefits at intersections and also result in a first set of recommendations and best practices for the implementation of the systems in the short-medium term. Particular focus is given to the interaction between the equipped vehicles and traditional traffic, to frame the negative effects on the overall crossing both in Traffic Efficiency and Environment. Finally, the evaluation of a real crossing in Milan is performed and the results of the overall node are provided for different scenarios and time horizon.
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France
Authors: Bouckaert Frederick Willem , Wei Yongping , Pittock James , Vasconcelos Vitor , Ison Ray 
Published: March 2022

AbstractSuccessful river basin governance is challenged by actor engagement in the various stages of planning and management. A governance approach for determining priorities for actors for sustainable management was developed, based on a river basin diagnostic framework consisting of four social-institutional and four biophysical indicators. It was applied in river basins in Australia, Brazil, China and France. Actors diagnosed current and target capacity for these indicators, and estimated synergistic influences of interacting indicators. The results reveal different priorities and transformative pathways to achieve basin plan outcomes, specific to each basin and actor groups. Priorities include biodiversity for the Murray-Darling, local water management needs for the São Francisco and Yellow rivers, and improved decision-making for the Adour-Garonne. This novel approach challenges entrenched views about key issues and actor engagement roles in co-implementation of the basin plan under existing prevailing governance models, with implications for engagement and international collaboration on basin governance.
A multistep in vitro hemocompatibility testing protocol recapitulating the foreign body reaction to nanocarriers
Authors: Perugini Valeria , Schmid Ruth , Mørch Ýrr , Texier Isabelle , Brodde Martin , Santin Matteo 
Published: March 2022

AbstractThe development of drug nanocarriers based on polymeric, lipid and ceramic biomaterials has been paving the way to precision medicine, where the delivery of poorly soluble active compounds and personalized doses are made possible. However, the nano-size character of these carriers has been demonstrated to have the potential to elicit pathways of the host response different from those of the same biomaterials when engineered as larger size implants and of the drugs when administered without a carrier. Therefore, a specific regulatory framework needs to be made available that can offer robust scientific insights and provide safety data by reliable tests of these novel nano-devices. In this context, the present work presents a multistep protocol for the in vitro assessment of the hemocompatibility of nanocarriers of different physicochemical properties. Poly (ethyl butyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles and lipid-based (LipImage™ 815) nanoparticles of comparable hydrodynamic diameter were tested through a battery of assays using human peripheral blood samples and recapitulating the main pathways of the host response upon systemic administration; i.e., protein interactions, fibrinogen-platelet binding, cytotoxicity, and inflammatory response. The data showed the sensitivity and reproducibility of the methods adopted that were also demonstrated to determine individual variability as well as to discriminate between activation of pathways of inflammation and unintended release of inflammatory signaling caused by loss of cell integrity. Therefore, this multistep testing is proposed as a reliable protocol for nanoparticle development and emerging regulatory frameworks.
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Joint uneven channel information network with blend metric loss for person re-identification
Authors: Yu Zhi , Huang Zhiyong , Qin Wencheng , Guan Tianhui , Zhong Yuanhong , Sun Daming 
Published: March 2022

AbstractPerson re-identification, one of the most challenging tasks in the field of computer vision, aims to recognize the same person cross different cameras. The local feature information has been proved that can improve performance efficiently. Image horizontal even division and pose estimation are two popular methods to extract the local feature. However, the former may cause misalignment, the latter needs much calculation. To fill this gap and improve performance, an efficient strategy is proposed in this work. First, a joint uneven channel information network consisting of an uneven channel information extraction network and a channel information fusion network is designed. Different from the traditional image division, the former can divide images horizontally and unevenly with strong alignment based on weak pose estimation, and extract multiple channel information. The latter can joint channel information based on channel validity and generate an efficient similarity descriptor. To optimize the joint uneven channel information network efficiently, this work proposes a blend metric loss. The extra image information is utilized to dynamically adjust the penalty for the sample distance and the distance margin based on the outlier of the hardest sample to construct i-TriHard loss. Besides, softmax loss and center loss are embedded in the blend metric loss, which can guide the network to learn more discriminative features. Our method achieves 89.6% mAP and 95.9% Rank-1 on Market-1501, 79.9% mAP and 89.4% Rank-1 on DukeMTMC. The proposed method also performs excellently on occluded datasets.
Religiosität, gesellschaftliche Einstellungen und politische Orientierungen in Deutschland
Authors: Müller Olaf , Pollack Detlef 
Published: March 2022

ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag fragt danach, wie sich die religiöse Landschaft in Deutschland heute gestaltet und in welcher Beziehung sie zu anderen Bereichen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens steht. Dabei richtet sich der Blick sowohl auf allgemeine und übergreifende Tendenzen und Muster als auch auf Aspekte, die unterschiedliche soziale Gruppen voneinander trennen. Nach einem kurzen geschichtlichen Abriss wird die aktuelle Situation und Entwicklung des religiösen Feldes anhand ausgewählter Befunde aus dem Religionsmonitor dargestellt. Neben der Differenzierung zwischen dem Gebiet der „alten“ Bundesrepublik und dem der ehemaligen DDR steht hierbei der Vergleich der gesellschaftlich bedeutendsten religiösen bzw. weltanschaulichen Gruppierungen im Mittelpunkt. Schließlich wird analysiert, inwieweit sich die Gruppen im Hinblick auf ausgewählte gesellschaftliche und politische Einstellungen und Orientierungen unterscheiden. Mit Blick auf die Rolle der Religion in der Gesellschaft und ihre Bedeutung für die Bevölkerung verläuft innerhalb Deutschlands nach wie vor eine entscheidende Trennlinie zwischen dem weitgehend säkularisierten „Osten“ und dem noch immer vergleichsweise stark konfessionell-religiös geprägten „Westen“. Innerreligiöse Differenzen lassen sich hauptsächlich zwischen den christlich geprägten Bevölkerungsteilen auf der einen und der muslimischen Minderheit auf der anderen Seite ausmachen. Hinsichtlich der Frage, inwieweit Religion auch in andere Wertebereiche hineinwirkt und welche Rolle sie in diesem Zusammenhang für Aspekte des sozialen Zusammenhalts spielt, fällt das Ergebnis ambivalent aus: In Bezug auf die Zustimmung zur Legitimität der Demokratie konnten wir kaum Differenzen zwischen den Religionen ausmachen, wohl aber zwischen verschiedenen Typen von Religiosität. Einstellungen zu Geschlechterrollen und zur gleichgeschlechtlichen Ehe differieren dagegen auch in Abhängigkeit von der religiösen Zugehörigkeit. Stärkere Vorbehalte gegenüber liberalen geschlechterspezifischen Haltungen lassen sich vor allem bei Befragten muslimischen Glaubens feststellen, wobei sich über die Generationen hinweg eine Annäherung an die anderen Gruppen feststellen lässt.
What Can Affective Science Contribute to Eradicating Structural Racism?
Authors: Harris Lasana T. 
Published: March 2022

AbstractThis introduction to the Special Issue in Affective Science on structural racism lays a challenge to affective science researchers: improve the inefficiency in our science. It describes how structural racism leads to inefficiencies in idea generation, technological development, training, and career progression in our science, limiting its ability to fully discover the role of affect in the human condition. It briefly describes the content of the special issue, and attempts to start a dialogue about best practices for inclusive science.