bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A dyadic approach to depression, resilience and quality of life on marital adjustment among infertile couples in Karachi, Pakistan: A cross‐sectional study
Authors: Bhamani Shireen Shehzad , Zahid Nida , Rizvi Arjumand , Shaheen Fariha , Shah Nasim Zahid , Sachwani Saima , Farooq Salima , Azam Syed Iqbal , Asad Nargis 
Published: August 2022

AbstractBackgroundInfertility is a major reproductive health problem in Pakistan. It has the potential to cause serious negative impact on a couple's marital life and psychological health.AimThis study aimed to assess the factors associated with maladjustment among infertile couples.MethodAn analytical cross‐sectional design was employed. Validated scales were used to assess marital adjustment, depression, resilience and quality of life among infertile couples. Purposive sampling was employed to enrol 334 infertile couples from a private infertility medical centre, of Karachi, Pakistan.ResultsAmong couples, marital adjustment scores were comparable, but resilience and quality of life were significantly low among wives whereas depression was significantly high among wives compared with husbands. Wives' marital adjustment was positively correlated with husband's resilience and quality of life and negatively related with his depression. After employing adjusted actor–partner interdependence modelling, wives' own depression and resilience had significant effect on their marital adjustment and their partner's resilience, depression and quality of life did not have any impact on their outcome. On the contrary, wives' resilience had a significant effect in increasing the marital adjustment of their husband.ConclusionThis study highlights the need to promote psychological support (resilience building skills) or couples' therapy to all those couples undergoing infertility treatment.
Neuroimmune signaling at the brain borders
Authors: Frederick Natalie M. , Tavares Gabriel A. , Louveau Antoine 
Published: August 2022

SummaryThe central nervous system (CNS) has been viewed as an immunologically privileged site, but emerging works are uncovering a large array of neuroimmune interactions primarily occurring at its borders. CNS barriers sites host diverse population of both innate and adaptive immune cells capable of, directly and indirectly, influence the function of the residing cells of the brain parenchyma. These structures are only starting to reveal their role in controlling brain function under normal and pathological conditions and represent an underexplored therapeutic target for the treatment of brain disorders. This review will highlight the development of the CNS barriers to host neuro‐immune interactions and emphasize their newly described roles in neurodevelopmental, neurological, and neurodegenerative disorders, particularly for the meninges.
A Computational Perspective on Projection Pursuit in High Dimensions: Feasible or Infeasible Feature Extraction
Authors: Zhang Chunming , Ye Jimin , Wang Xiaomei 
Published: August 2022

SummaryFinding a suitable representation of multivariate data is fundamental in many scientific disciplines. Projection pursuit (
) aims to extract interesting ‘non‐Gaussian’ features from multivariate data, and tends to be computationally intensive even when applied to data of low dimension. In high‐dimensional settings, a recent work (Bickel et al., 2018) on
addresses asymptotic characterization and conjectures of the feasible projections as the dimension grows with sample size. To gain practical utility of and learn theoretical insights into
in an integral way, data analytic tools needed to evaluate the behaviour of
in high dimensions become increasingly desirable but are less explored in the literature. This paper focuses on developing computationally fast and effective approaches central to finite sample studies for (i) visualizing the feasibility of
in extracting features from high‐dimensional data, as compared with alternative methods like
and
, and (ii) assessing the plausibility of
in cases where asymptotic studies are lacking or unavailable, with the goal of better understanding the practicality, limitation and challenge of
in the analysis of large data sets.
Modeling and solving an economies‐of‐scale service system design problem
Authors: Hoseinpour Pooya 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThis paper studies the design of a service system in the presence of economies of scale (EoS). The goal is to decide on the number, location, service capacities of facilities, and the allocation of customers to the opened facilities to minimize the total cost of the system. The total cost includes the opening and serving costs of facilities as well as customers' transportation and waiting costs. To reflect the EoS in the modeling, a general opening cost function is assumed for each service facility with the characteristic of being concave and nondecreasing in its service capacity. A Lagrangian relaxation algorithm is developed for solving the problem in its general form. The algorithm decomposes the relaxed model into homogeneous subproblems where each one can be optimally solved in polynomial time with no need for an optimization solver. Furthermore, the optimal service capacity of each open facility is determined as a closed‐form function. Our computational experiment shows that the developed algorithm is both efficient and effective in solving the proposed problem.
Assessment of nitrogen interaction with temperature on the growth and toxin production of mat-forming toxin-producing Anagnostidinema carotinosum
Authors: Anam Giridhar Babu , Muthusamy Govarthanan , Ahn Young-Ho 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

Aims
Global warming and eutrophication contribute to the severity of cyanobacteria blooms. However, it is unclear how these factors influence the growth and toxin production of Anagnostidinema carotinosum.

Methods and Results
Based on morphological and molecular analysis, this is the first time A. carotinosum was identified in South Korea. The interactive effect of temperature (25, 30 or 34°C) and nitrogen (2.5, 3.5 or 4.5 mg NO3-N l−1) on A. carotinosum growth and toxin production was studied. Increasing nitrogen limitation reflects reduced growth and chlorophyll-a content at all temperatures. However, the growth was effective under nitrogen limitation when temperatures exceeded 25°C. The maximum growth was found at 30°C, followed by 34°C under higher nitrate levels (3.5 and 4.5 mg l−1). In addition, the cell microcystin and anatoxin-a quota increased significantly at 25°C with increasing nitrate limitation, decreasing considerably at 30°C in the same nitrate gradient.

Conclusion
These results suggested temperatures stimulate A. carotinosum growth at 30 and 34°C and cellular toxin quota at 25 and 34°C with increasing NO3-N levels.

Significance and Impact of the Study
These findings imply that limiting nitrogen input alone can effectively reduce biomass; however, controlling A. carotinosum and its toxins at higher temperatures under nitrate limitation is necessary for water quality.
Identification of enigmatic Mediterranean fish Gobius ater Bellotti, 1888 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) based on morphology from underwater photographs
Authors: Kovačić Marcelo , Pillon Roberto , Renoult Julien P. 
Published: August 2022

AbstractGobius ater Bellotti, 1888 is the Mediterranean gobiid species whose live appearance has remained unknown the longest since its description. A goby observed in southern France in 2021 is here identified as G. ater based on a diagnosis of morphological characters visible on high‐quality underwater photographs. Then, the authors provide the first description of colouration in live G. ater and a species diagnosis based on colouration. This diagnosis allows the authors to validate a previous photographic record, also from France. Reviewing all claims of G. ater, they argue that only seven records are unambiguously valid, including the two photographic records presented here.
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being
Authors: Peterson Fronczek Lane , Mende Martin , Scott Maura L. 
Published: August 2022

AbstractMeasuring, recording, and visualizing a consumer's physiological, behavioral, and psychological features with the use of technologies is a growing phenomenon. Within academic literature and popular press, this phenomenon has been termed self‐quantification, lifelogging, self‐tracking, personal informatics, among others. This research conceptualizes consumer psycho‐physiological quantification and explores the unique consumer journey with quantification practices. This research introduces a conceptual framework that accounts for distinct stages and aspects of consumer quantification at the acquisition/adoption, usage, and disposal stages of consumption. Adopting a novel theoretical perspective, the authors draw on objectification theory to examine the consequences of consumer psycho‐physiological quantification and develop propositions that link it to self‐objectification and consumer well‐being. Finally, the authors outline evolving issues around the consumer quantification framework and identify a research agenda. Taken together, this research provides a foundation for future research into the unique facets of consumer psycho‐physiological quantification and consequences for consumer well‐being.
Identification of association fibers using ex vivo diffusion tractography in Alexander disease brains
Authors: Shiohama Tadashi , Stewart Natalie , Nangaku Masahito , van der Kouwe Andre J. W. , Takahashi Emi 
Published: August 2022

AbstractBackground and PurposeAlexander disease (AxD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by heterozygous Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein mutation. The characteristic structural findings of AxD, such as leukodystrophic features, are well known, while association fibers of AxD remain uninvestigated. The aim of this study was to explore global and subcortical fibers in four brains with AxD using ex vivo diffusion tractographyMethodsHigh‐angular‐resolution diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (HARDI) tractography and diffusion‐tensor imaging (DTI) tractography were used to evaluate long and short association fibers and compared to histological findings in brain specimens obtained from four donors with AxD and two donors without neurological disordersResultsAxD brains showed impairment of long association fibers, except for the arcuate fasciculus and cingulum bundle, and abnormal trajectories of the inferior longitudinal and fronto‐occipital fasciculi on HARDI tractography and loss of multidirectionality in subcortical fibers on DTI tractography. In histological studies, AxD brains showed diffuse low density on Klüver‐Barrera and neurofilament staining and sporadic Rosenthal fibers on hematoxylin and eosin stainingConclusionsThis study describes the spatial distribution of degenerations of short and long association fibers in AxD brains using combined tractography and pathological findings.
Spinal epidural arteriovenous fistula in 3 cats
Authors: Yayoshi Naoko , Yoshida Karin , Terao Masashi , Ozawa Tsuyoshi , Kamishina Hiroaki , Takahashi Fumitaka , Hara Yasushi , Yu Yoshihiko , Hasegawa Daisuke 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThree young adult cats with intermittent spinal hyperesthesia and paraparesis and diagnosed with spinal epidural arteriovenous fistula are described. In all 3 cases, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed focal dilatation of the veins in the epidural space of the thoracic spinal cord, whereas computed tomography angiography (CTA) showed dilatation and enhancement from the intercostal vein to the azygos vein at the same site in the arterial phase. Dorsal laminectomy and occlusion of the interarcuate branches running across the dorsal aspect of the spinal cord were performed in all 3 cats to decompress the spinal cord, which resulted in a remission of clinical signs and no recurrence during 14 to 40 months of follow‐up after surgery in all cases.
Revolutionary Greece in Victorian popular literature
Authors: Mitsi Efterpi , Despotopoulou Anna 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThis article examines the proliferation of popular literary texts about Modern Greece in nineteenth‐century British periodicals from the 1860s to the 1890s, texts that reveal the country's appeal to the Victorians, inviting them to imagine the birth and development of the new nation after the War of Independence (1821–1828). Short stories published in popular magazines, such as theNew Monthly Magazine,Bow BellsandSunday at Home, revisit the Greek Revolution and return to the popular allegory of Greece as an enslaved or endangered woman to reflect on the “Eastern question” and British colonial politics of protectionism in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the same time, women authors like Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds and Isabella Fyvie Mayo, publishing in women's magazines, write stories and articles about the role of women in the Greek War of Independence, relating the feats of these historical or fictional figures to the “woman question” and to Victorian debates on femininity and gender, as well as national and imperial politics. In the late Victorians' re‐imagining of revolutionary history, Modern Greece is not enslaved to its classical past, as in traditional philhellenist representations, but must discover its modernity through its powerful nationalist agents. Revolutionary Greece re‐emerges as a symbolic event through a variety of publications, which often highlight the country's cultural hybridity and construct a transnational network of literary affiliations, creating parallelisms between Greece and Britain.
Inappropriate shocks due to air entrapment in patients with subcutaneous implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator: A meta‐summary of case reports
Authors: Iavarone Michele , Rago Anna , Nigro Gerardo , Golino Paolo , Russo Vincenzo 
Published: August 2022

AbstractBackgroundAir entrapment has been recently described as a cause of inappropriate shock (IAS) among patients who underwent subcutaneous implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator (S‐ICD) implantation. Data about this complication are lacking in the literature.MethodsIn this meta‐summary 14 case reports describing IAS due to air entrapment were included. Patients' characteristics, S‐ICD implant technique and air entrapment properties were collected.ResultsAll patients experienced IAS within 4 days following S‐ICD implant. The subcutaneous air was demonstrated by chest x‐ray in 11 cases (73.3%). The sensing vector was reprogrammed in 11 cases (73.3%), and ICD was switched off in 2 cases (1.3%).ConclusionsIAS due to air entrapment is an early complication of S‐ICD implant. No association was observed between the implant technique and air retention. Diagnosis is confirmed by chest x‐ray and device interrogation. Management includes switching off the device or, preferably, changing the sensing vector.
Universal Prediction Band via Semi-Definite Programming
Authors: Liang Tengyuan 
Published: August 2022

AbstractWe propose a computationally efficient method to construct nonparametric, heteroscedastic prediction bands for uncertainty quantification, with or without any user-specified predictive model. Our approach provides an alternative to the now-standard conformal prediction for uncertainty quantification, with novel theoretical insights and computational advantages. The data-adaptive prediction band is universally applicable with minimal distributional assumptions, has strong non-asymptotic coverage properties, and is easy to implement using standard convex programs. Our approach can be viewed as a novel variance interpolation with confidence and further leverages techniques from semi-definite programming and sum-of-squares optimization. Theoretical and numerical performances for the proposed approach for uncertainty quantification are analysed.
Generalized gingival necrosis in a patient under methimazole use
Authors: Gomes Rita Fabiane Teixeira , Klein Mariana , Castelo Edilson Fernando , Carrard Vinícius Coelho 
Published: August 2022

AbstractHyperthyroidism is a common disease, with a prevalence between 0.2% and 0.5%, characterized by an increase in the synthesis and release of thyroid hormones. Management of this condition requires medical intervention to correct the hormonal imbalance and control its clinical manifestations. Methimazole is a thionamide derivative considered among the first‐choice treatment options for hyperthyroidism. However, it may cause serious side effects such as neutropenia or agranulocytosis, which, although rare, can lead to death. The clinical manifestations of this complication range from fever, ulcerations in the oral and pharyngeal mucosa, tonsillitis, and lymphadenopathy to hemorrhagic necrosis and septicemia. This report describes the case of a patient with generalized gingival necrosis that was related to the use of methimazole for the treatment of hyperthyroidism.
Large‐scale covariate‐assisted two‐sample inference under dependence
Authors: Wang Pengfei , Zhu Wensheng 
Published: August 2022

ABSTRACTThe problems of large‐scale two‐sample inference often arise from the statistical analysis of “high throughput" data. Conventional multiple testing procedures usually suffer from loss of testing efficiency when conducting two‐sample ‐tests directly. To some extent, this is because of the ignorance of sparsity information. Moreover, the two‐sample tests commonly have local correlations, and neglecting the dependence structure may decrease the statistical accuracy. Therefore, it is imperative to develop a procedure that considers both sparsity information and dependence structure among the tests. We start by introducing a novel dependence model to allow for sparsity information and dependence structure. Based on the dependence model, we propose a covariate‐assisted local index of significance procedure and show that it is valid and optimal. Then a data‐driven procedure is developed to mimic the oracle procedure. Both simulations and real data analysis show that theCOALISprocedure outperforms its competitors.
Within-Person Associations Between Physical and Social Contexts With Movement Behavior Compositions in Adolescents: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Using a Compositional Data Analysis Approach
Authors: Bourke Matthew , Patten Rhiannon K. , Hilland Toni A. , Craike Melinda 
Published: August 2022

Background: External contexts, including the social and physical contexts, are independent predictors of momentary physical activity and sedentary behaviors. However, no studies to date have examined how external contexts are related to overall momentary movement behavior compositions using compositional data analysis. Therefore, this study aimed to determine differences in momentary movement behavior compositions between different social and physical contexts in adolescents. Methods: Overall, 119 adolescents (mean age 14.7 y, SD = 1.44) provided details about their momentary physical and social contexts over 4 days using ecological momentary assessment. Sedentary behaviors, light-intensity physical activity, and moderate to vigorous physical activity were assessed using ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometers. Compositional multivariate multilevel models were estimated to determine if movement behavior compositions differed between contexts. Results: Participants engaged in significantly less sedentary behaviors when outdoors compared with indoors and replaced it with moderate to vigorous physical activity. Participants also engaged in significantly less sedentary behaviors when with friends or friends and family and replaced it with light-intensity physical activity. Conclusion: These results highlight the potential of targeting external contexts to increase physical activity and to reduce sedentary behavior in adolescents’ daily lives. These factors could be targeted in mobile health and just-in-time adaptive interventions to improve young people’s movement behavior compositions.
Chemostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic framework of the Eocene Kreyenhagen Formation, Kettleman area, central San Joaquin Basin, California
Authors: Giannetta Leo G. , Behl Richard J. 
Published: August 2022

ABSTRACTThe Eocene Kreyenhagen Formation is a widespread siliceous, organic-rich mudstone within the San Joaquin Basin, but it is less studied than the Monterey Formation. This study characterizes the Kreyenhagen Formation in the Kettleman area to define its vertical and lateral variability on the basis redox conditions (Mo, U, Cr), paleoproductivity (biogenic SiO2, P, Ba), and detrital input (Al2O3, TiO2) to determine the dominant environmental conditions during deposition.The Kreyenhagen Formation was correlated across 72 wells over a 4600 km2 (1776 mi2) area, which revealed an eastward thinning from 335 m (1100 ft) to less than 183 m (600 ft). We identified three informal members on the basis of log response and bulk/trace geochemistry: a lower calcareous silty mudstone, a middle organic-rich clayey mudstone, and an upper siliceous silty mudstone. Spatially, the greatest enrichment of total organic carbon, redox proxies, and biogenic silica occurs along Kettleman North Dome. These properties decrease eastward as clay volume, titanium, and aluminum increase.We interpret the Kreyenhagen Formation to record one transgressive-regressive cycle with contemporaneous climatic cooling: a transgression with initial suboxia and calcareous plankton productivity, a highstand with anoxic-euxinic benthic conditions and clastic starvation, and regression with elevated biogenic silica input. The upward transition from a calcareous to siliceous composition may reflect known cooling and upwelling intensification on the middle Eocene California margin. Mo/U and Th/U patterns suggest variable redox conditions across space and time. Lateral compositional trends indicate that eastern areas were proximal to a Sierran clastic sediment source, while western areas were distal and more anoxic.
Gamma-ray attenuation bulk density as an indicator of diatom valve abundance and fragmentation in Pleistocene biosiliceous sediments of the Bering Sea
Authors: Drake* Michelle K. , Aiello* Ivano W. , Ravelo A. Christina 
Published: August 2022

ABSTRACT
Multisensor track measurements are a nondestructive method to produce continuously measured high-resolution physical property data sets that are a great asset to a wide range of research, including geotechnical studies and paleoceanography. Interpretation of these physical property data can be challenging because they are typically influenced by multiple variables. This paper specifically focuses on the interpretation of gamma-ray attenuation (GRA) data (a proxy for sediment bulk density) in biosiliceous sediments. The Bering Sea is a basin dominated by biosiliceous sediment, and the late Pleistocene to present core record of Sites U1340 and U1339, drilled during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 323, has subtle meter-scale changes in the concentration of fine-grained siliciclastic sediment that produce lithologic alternations between diatom ooze and diatom mud. We produced a detailed sedimentologic data set that combined smear slide petrography, scanning electron microscopy, and grain-size analysis for both Sites U1340 and U1339 and correlated it to shipboard GRA bulk density measurements. Results show that bulk density is negatively correlated with diatom abundance and positively correlated with the fragmentation of diatom valves. This study argues that diatom abundance and fragmentation influence sediment packing and drive down-core variability in GRA bulk density. Therefore, denser diatom mud is a result of tightly packed, highly fragmented diatom valves, and diatom ooze is a less dense sediment dominated by whole and less fragmented diatom valves. We suggest that GRA data can be used as a proxy for diatom abundance and an indicator of diatom fragmentation. We include a discussion of how these results may impact the interpretation of ancient bedded siliceous rocks.