bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
RoadSegNet: a deep learning framework for autonomous urban road detection
Authors: Pal Kushagra , Yadav Piyush , Katal Nitish 
Published: December 2022

AbstractGround detection is an essential part of the perception system in self-driving cars. The ground can be imagined as a fairly smooth, drivable area that is even textured and easily distinguished from the surrounding area. It can have some common imperfections, like shadows and differing light intensities. In this paper, a comparative study of several deep neural network architectures has been reported that can deduce surface normal information on the classic KITTI road dataset in various challenging scenarios. Our goal is to simplify the task of how the recent methods perceive the ground-related information and propose a solution by testing it on three state-of-the-art deep learning models, which are “Resnet-50,” “Xception,” and “MobileNet-V2” to understand and exploit the capabilities of these models. The main significance of this comparative study has been to evaluate the performance of these networks for edge deployment. So, the tiny DNN model of MobileNet-V2 has been considered, which has approximately 80% fewer tunable parameters as compared to the others. The obtained results show that the proposed networks are able to achieve a segmentation accuracy of more than ~ 96% and that too in various challenging scenarios.
Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of Austropeplea tomentosa from environmental water samples
Authors: Tran Lily , Rathinasamy Vignesh A. , Beddoe Travis 
Published: December 2022

AbstractLymnaeid snails are key intermediate hosts for the development and survival of Fasciola spp., the causative agent of Fascioliasis which are economically important parasites infecting humans and livestock globally. The current control method for treating Fascioliasis is heavily reliant on anthelmintic drugs, particularly Triclabendazole (TCBZ) which has resulted in drug-resistant parasites and poses significant risk as there are no long-term efficacious alternatives available. Sustainable control measures at the farm level could include both parasite and snail control will play an important role in Fasciola spp. control and reduce the reliance on anthelmintic drugs. Implementation of such sustainable control measures requires effective identification of snails on the property however Lymnaeid snails are small and difficult to physically locate. Snail identification using an environmental DNA approach is a recent approach in which physically locating snails are not required. Austropeplea tomentosa, is the primary intermediate snail host for F. hepatica transmission in South-East Australia and we present an in-field loop-mediated isothermal amplification and water filtering method for the detection of A. tomentosa eDNA from water samples to improve current surveillance methods. This methodology is highly sensitive with a detection limit of 5 × 10− 6 ng/μL, detected in < 20 minutes, with cumulative sample preparation and amplification time under 1 hour. This proposed workflow could assist in monitoring areas to determine the risk of Fascioliasis infection and implement strategies to manage snail populations to ultimately reduce the risk of infection for humans and livestock.
Classification and well-log identification of lithofacies of continental shale oil reservoirs in Chang 7-3 submember of the Triassic Yanchang Formation in the Longdong area of the Ordos Basin, China
Authors: Zeng Xu , Dong Jin , Zhao Peiqiang , Liu Wei , Bian Congsheng , Zhang Chunlin 
Published: December 2022

The division and identification of lithology and lithofacies are very important in exploration and development of oil and gas reservoirs. Information on lithofacies determines the development modes and provides the favorable “sweet spot” intervals of shales. The Chang 7-3 submember of the Triassic Yanchang Formation in the Longdong area of the Ordos Basin is an important shale formation in China. Core photos, cast thin sections, and log response characteristics were used to clarify the development and distribution characteristics of the various lithofacies in this formation. The lithofacies of target intervals are classified into fine-grained sandy debrite, silty to fine-grained sandy turbidite, fine-grained sandy slump, semideep to deep lacustrine mudstone, and deep lacustrine shale. Furthermore, the conventional and microresistivity imaging log response characteristics of different lithofacies are analyzed. Compared with other lithofacies, deep lacustrine shale facies are characterized by high gamma ray (GR), high compensated neutron log (CNL), high acoustic log (AC), and low-density (DEN) log values. Crossplots of GR-AC, DEN-CNL, and DEN-AC are proposed to identify most of the lithofacies, and a criterion was established for use of well logs to characterize the lithofacies. Finally, a method joining conventional logs and microresistivity imaging log data was applied to field wells, achieving the very high accuracy rate of 88%. The distribution maps of different lithofacies thickness in the study area are obtained. Deep lacustrine shale facies have the widest development area and many thickness centers. Accurate and effective identification of lithofacies indicates that within the Ordos Basin, there is an area of approximately 20,000 km2 with shale thickness of greater than 6 m, providing an important basis for shale oil exploration in the study area.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of Leptospirosis in HIV uninfected and in people living with HIV from the Southern African Development Community
Authors: Comia Isac Rodrigues , Miambo Regina Daniel , Noormahomed Emília Virgínia , Mahoche Manuel , Pondja Alberto , Schooley Robert Turner , Benson Constance , Sacarlal Jahit 
Published: December 2022

BackgroundLeptospirosis is an occupational, neglected febrile disease of bacterial origin transmitted between humans and animals. In this manuscript we summarize available data onLeptospirainfection in HIV uninfected and in people living with HIV from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, identifying gaps in knowledge and recommend future research priorities.MethodologyArticles published between 1990 and 2021 were accessed by an online search of Google Scholar and Medline/PubMed performed between February 2020 and July 2022. The STATA program was used for the Meta-analysis. Pooled prevalence values with 95% confidence intervals and heterogeneity were determined.ResultsThirty studies from eight SADC countries, reporting the prevalence onLeptospirawere reviewed. A pooled prevalence of 19% (CI: 13–25%), a heterogeneity level of 96% and index score ranging from 2 to 9 was determined. Only four (4) studies reported HIV co-infection status. Three species ofLeptospira(Leptospira interrogans(4),L.kirschneri(3),Leptospira borgpetersenii(1) and 23 serogroups were identified. The most frequently reported serogroups were Icterohaemorrhagiae (13), Grippotyphosa and Australis (10) followed by Sejroe (8).ConclusionStudies on human leptospirosis in the SADC region are scarce, especially in people living with HIV. Additional studies aimed at determining the prevalence and the role of the pathogen in people living with HIV, including detailed clinical, molecular and demographic data are recommended.
Comparing antigenaemia- and microfilaraemia as criteria for stopping decisions in lymphatic filariasis elimination programmes in Africa
Authors: Stolk Wilma A. , Coffeng Luc E. , Bolay Fatorma K. , Eneanya Obiora A. , Fischer Peter U. , Hollingsworth T. Déirdre , Koudou Benjamin G. , Méité Aboulaye , Michael Edwin , Prada Joaquin M. , Caja Rivera Rocio M. , Sharma Swarnali , Touloupou Panayiota , Weil Gary J. , de Vlas Sake J. 
Published: December 2022

Background
Mass drug administration (MDA) is the main strategy towards lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination. Progress is monitored by assessing microfilaraemia (Mf) or circulating filarial antigenaemia (CFA) prevalence, the latter being more practical for field surveys. The current criterion for stopping MDA requires <2% CFA prevalence in 6- to 7-year olds, but this criterion is not evidence-based. We used mathematical modelling to investigate the validity of different thresholds regarding testing method and age group for African MDA programmes using ivermectin plus albendazole.

Methodolgy/Principal findings
We verified that our model captures observed patterns in Mf and CFA prevalence during annual MDA, assuming that CFA tests are positive if at least one adult worm is present. We then assessed how well elimination can be predicted from CFA prevalence in 6-7-year-old children or from Mf or CFA prevalence in the 5+ or 15+ population, and determined safe (>95% positive predictive value) thresholds for stopping MDA. The model captured trends in Mf and CFA prevalences reasonably well. Elimination cannot be predicted with sufficient certainty from CFA prevalence in 6-7-year olds. Resurgence may still occur if all children are antigen-negative, irrespective of the number tested. Mf-based criteria also show unfavourable results (PPV <95% or unpractically low threshold). CFA prevalences in the 5+ or 15+ population are the best predictors, and post-MDA threshold values for stopping MDA can be as high as 10% for 15+. These thresholds are robust for various alternative assumptions regarding baseline endemicity, biological parameters and sampling strategies.

Conclusions/Significance
For African areas with moderate to high pre-treatment Mf prevalence that have had 6 or more rounds of annual ivermectin/albendazole MDA with adequate coverage, we recommend to adopt a CFA threshold prevalence of 10% in adults (15+) for stopping MDA. This could be combined with Mf testing of CFA positives to ensure absence of a significant Mf reservoir for transmission.
The Bland-Altman method should not be used when one of the two measurement methods has negligible measurement errors
Authors: Taffé Patrick , Zuppinger Claire , Burger Gerrit Marwin , Nusslé Semira Gonseth 
Published: December 2022

Background
The Bland-Altman limits of agreement (LoA) method is almost universally used to compare two measurement methods when the outcome is continuous, despite warnings regarding the often-violated strong underlying statistical assumptions. In settings where only a single measurement per individual has been performed and one of the two measurement methods is exempt (or almost) from any measurement error, the LoA method provides biased results, whereas this is not the case for linear regression.

Methods
Thus, our goal is to explain why this happens and illustrate the advantage of linear regression in this particular setting. For our illustration, we used two data sets: a sample of simulated data, where the truth is known, and data from a validation study on the accuracy of a smartphone image-based dietary intake assessment tool.

Results
Our results show that when one of the two measurement methods is exempt (or almost) from any measurement errors, the LoA method should not be used as it provides biased results. In contrast, linear regression of the differences on the precise method was unbiased.

Conclusions
The LoA method should be abandoned in favor of linear regression when one of the two measurement methods is exempt (or almost) from measurement errors.
DIFICULDADES ECONÔMICAS E ECOLÓGICAS DE PROGRAMAS DE FOMENTO FLORESTAL E A IMPORTÂNCIA DE COOPERATIVAS
Authors: Alves Arlete Maria da Silva 
Published: December 2022

O uso de florestas plantadas tem sido proposto nos últimos anos como uma forma de contribuir
para o desenvolvimento econômico e conservação do meio ambiente. Este artigo discute o
tema "Out grower Schemes", um tipo de parceria que tem se desenvolvido entre empresas do
setor florestal e pequenos e médios produtores rurais ou comunidades, em diferentes partes do
mundo. Um termo comumente usado em português para se referir a tais esquemas é "Fomento
Florestal'. O artigo se baseia em pesquisa feita em programas de fomento florestal de cinco
empresas florestais no Brasil, localizadas nos estados da Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais,
Paraná e Santa Catarina. O estudo que fornece os dados para a análise do tema neste texto é
parte de um programa de pesquisa mais amplo da FAO (Organização para a Agricultura e
Alimentação) das Nações Unidas sobre"Out grower Schemes" no mundo. Um dos resultados
desta pesquisa se refere à constituição de Cooperativas pelos produtores participantes dos
programas de fomento florestal. O artigo apresenta as opiniões dos funcionários das empresas
entrevistados sobre as principais dificuldades econômicas e ecológicas enfrentadas pelos
programas, e as opiniões destes e de alguns dos produtores participantes do fomento florestal
sobre os fatores que dificultam e que facilitam a obtenção dos benefícios econômicos esperados
e sobre a constituição de Cooperativas pelos fomentados.
Home Movie as a Text of Cultural Memory
Authors: Dikavičiūtė Ona Kotryna 
Published: December 2022

The aim of this article is to define home movie as a text of cultural memory and reveal the dynamics of its meanings in culture. The personal and the collective maintenance and transmission of memory is a complex mechanism that operates within a dynamic cultural model. The analysis of this mechanism considers the way in which something that first appears to be culturally irrelevant – a private home movie of a family – is brought into the public space and circulates as a cultural text contributing to the preservation and formation of cultural memory. The analysis describes home movie in the framework of semiotics and reveals the meaning shifts that occur when private memory texts begin to circulate in a more general cultural context. The mechanism of the dynamics of cultural texts and the problematics of memory are explored using Yuri Lotman’s cultural semiotics approach. The example of Lithuanian director’s Dovilė Šarutytė’s debut feature film A Feature Film About Life (2021) is used to describe in more detail the transformations of meaning that home movies undergo after becoming a cultural text.
A proof-of-concept meaning discrimination experiment to compile a word-in-context dataset for adjectives – A graph-based distributional approach
Authors: Héja Enikő , Ligeti-Nagy Noémi 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThe Word-in-Context corpus, which forms part of the SuperGLUE benchmark dataset, focuses on a specific sense disambiguation task: it has to be decided whether two occurrences of a given target word in two different contexts convey the same meaning or not. Unfortunately, the WiC database exhibits a relatively low consistency in terms of inter-annotator agreement, which implies that the meaning discrimination task is not well defined even for humans. The present paper aims at tackling this problem through anchoring semantic information to observable surface data. For doing so, we have experimented with a graph-based distributional approach, where both sparse and dense adjectival vector representations served as input. According to our expectations the algorithm is able to anchor the semantic information to contextual data, and therefore it is able to provide clear and explicit criteria as to when the same meaning should be assigned to the occurrences. Moreover, since this method does not rely on any external knowledge base, it should be suitable for any low- or medium-resourced language.
Some technical properties of dried Terminalia chebula (kara halile) for use in harvest and post-harvest processing
Authors: Yeşiloğlu Cevher Elçin 
Published: December 2022

Depending on humidity, some technical properties of T. chebula (black halile) dried fruit were investigated. It was observed that various properties, such as dimension, geometric mean diameter, and arithmetic mean diameter, increased linearly with increasing moisture content. With the increase in moisture content, sphericity increased from 57.2% to 67.7%, surface area increased from 487.65 mm2 to 805.03 mm2, porosity increased from 0.49 to 0.59, and the angle of repose increased from 22.77° to 27.86°. However, moisture content, true density, and bulk density decreased from 1.85% to 3.27%, 1469.54 kg/m3 to 1740.22 kg/m3, and 735.64 kg/m3 to 705.99 kg/m3, respectively. When the moisture content increased from 1.85% to 3.27%, the static and dynamic friction coefficient increased from 0.231 to 0.495 and 0.311 to 0.637, respectively. The lowest static and dynamic friction force values were obtained for stainless steel and the highest for rubber surface. When moisture content increased from 1.85% to 3.27%, tensile strength decreased from 446.46 N to 257.59 N. Rupture energy and deformation increased with an increase in the moisture content of the fruit. When the moisture content increased from 1.85% to 3.27%, the rupture energy and deformation increased from 0.09 J to 0.27 J and 0.83 mm to 1.76 mm, respectively.
Kajian Teori Pluralisme Hukum terhadap Sistem Hukum di Aceh
Authors: Wahyuni Sagala Hairun Tri 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Legal pluralism is not a new concept that has emerged in the modern legal system, but an approach to analyzing the operation of various legal systems side by side in the system of government of a nation-state. Aceh is one of the provinces in Indonesia which has several legal systems. The province of Aceh is viewed as a province that has special autonomy status with a multicultural pattern, because of the plurality of regulatory systems in its society. The pluralism (pluralism) of the legal system in Aceh arises because of ethnic diversity and the application of Islamic religious values ​​to every aspect of Acehnese life, especially in the field of upholding the legal system itself. The diversity (Pluralism) of the legal system that lives and applies in Aceh has the power of law and recognition from the Indonesian government with the passing of Law number 11 of 2006 concerning the Governance of Aceh, so in addition to the enactment of the state legal system (state law), de facto in Aceh to the legal system of procedures (adat law) applies, and the system of religious rules / Islamic law (religious law / Islamic law). The research method used is juridical sociology. The data were analyzed using a qualitative descriptive approach.
Keywords: Legal Pluralism, Legal System of Aceh, Islamic Law
The Effect of Decyl Glucoside on Stability and Irritability of Nanostructured Lipid Carriers-Green Tea Extract as Topical Preparations
Authors: Azzahrah Rufaidah , Rosita Noorma , Purwanto Djoko Agus , Soeratri Widji 
Published: December 2022

Background: Green Tea Extract (GTE) is a natural antioxidant compound that can protect the skin from photocarcinogenesis (DNA damage due to ultraviolet exposure). GTE has low stability, which needs a delivery system such as Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (NLC) with decyl glucoside (DG) as a natural surfactant that at the right concentration can produce a significantly small particle size which can improve the stability of the NLC. Objective: To determine the effect of DG usage on the characteristics, physical stability, and irritability of NLC-GTE preparation. Methods: NLC-GTE preparation used the High Shear Homogenization (HSH) method with three formulas, which contained DG 2%, 2.5%, and 3% consecutively. Afterwards, the characteristic and physical stability tests were conducted using the thermal cycling method for three cycles with two different temperatures (48 hours/cycle, 2 - 8°C and 40°C). The irritability test used Hen's Egg Test on the Chorioallantoic Membrane (HET-CAM) method. Results: Characteristic test of organoleptic showed that all formulas were white, odorless, and had a semi-solid consistency. However, the pH, particle size, and polydispersity index values from all formulas were within the normal range of values. The physical stability test result showed that 3% DG was the most stable formula. This formula was within the non-irritating range of values in HET-CAM. Conclusion: NLC-GTE with an increased concentration of DG as a surfactant can improve the characteristics and physical stability of the preparation. F3 (3% DG) is the best formula compared to other formulas and indicates non-irritating in the HET-CAM test.
Mannitol Production from Fructose by Using Resting Cells of Methylotrophic Yeasts
Authors: Suprahman Nisa Yulianti , Basyar Khairul , Suryadi Herman 
Published: December 2022

Background: Mannitol is a polyol sugar widely used in pharmaceutical and food industries which can be produced by bioconversion. Using of resting cells and methanol as a carbon source are strategies to increase the efficiency of mannitol production by increasing NAD(P)H needed in the reduction process. Objectives: This research aimed to optimize bioconversion condition by using resting cells of methylotrophic yeasts with methanol and fructose as carbon source and substrate, respectively. Methods: Several isolates were used including Candida sp, Debaryomyces nepalensis and Debaryomyces hansenii and three species suspected to be yeast isolated from a local paddy field. The methylotrophic characteristic of the yeasts was screened by turbidometry. The optimization of fermentation condition was conducted by varying cultivation time (24-96 hours), resting cell concentration (30-140 mg/mL), fructose concentration (7.5-15%), ammonium sulphate concentration (0.25-0.75%) and aeration condition (50-80%). Quantitative analysis of the mannitol was conducted by HPLC with NH2 column and Refractive Index Detector. Results: D. hansenii showed the highest yield value in mannitol production (23.17%), followed by D. nepalensis, Isolate A and Candida sp. (6.52%, 6.50% and 4.38%, respectively). Variation of bioconversion condition using D. hansenii showed that the highest resting cell concentration (140 mg/mL) incubated for 72 hours, moderate fructose concentration (10%), the highest ammonium sulphate concentration (0.75%) and moderate aeration condition (70%) would result in the highest yield value of mannitol (60%). Conclusion: This finding showed the potency of D. hansenii in mannitol production and gave preliminary information of its optimum fermentation condition.