bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Transnational fishers’ movements: emergence, evolution, and contestation
Authors: Mills Elyse N. 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Global transformations in fisheries have contributed to the expansion of transnational movements, as they continuously seek out new ways to strengthen their global linkages and find spaces and platforms for engagement. As more platforms emerge for addressing international concerns, intergovernmental bodies have become increasingly implicated in navigating the political integration of diverse global actors, such as transnational fishers’ movements. Focusing on the World Forum of Fisher Peoples and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers, this article tracks their engagement in the politics of global fisheries. It explores the history of these movements, beginning with the first steps that were taken toward building an international fishers’ network between 1984 and 1997, and follows their evolution into the movements they are today. It also examines their political agendas and strategies, and their representation of small-scale fishers in international spaces over the last two decades. The article argues that three pivotal developments offer important insights into the politics of transnational fishers’ movements. First, they are internalizing overlapping fisheries, food and climate crises, and are aligning their activities and demands accordingly. Second, fishers’ and agrarian movements and platforms are increasingly converging around common struggles. Third, international intergovernmental bodies have broadened their attention to fisheries issues in their analysis and activities. These developments have been crucial in shaping the movements’ political agendas, and for building alliances in order to scale up and strengthen their advocacy work.
Interdialytic weight gain and educational/cognitive, counseling/behavioral and psychological/affective interventions in patients on chronic hemodialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Bossola Maurizio , Pepe Gilda , Antocicco Manuela , Severino Altea , Di Stasio Enrico 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Background
This work aimed to shed light on the notorious debate over the role of an educational/cognitive/behavioral or psychological approach in the reduction of interdialytic weight gain (IDWG) in patients on chronic hemodialysis.

Methods
Searches were run from 1975 to January 2022 on Medline, PubMed, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library. The search terms included “hemodialysis/haemodialysis” AND “adherence” AND (“fluid intake” OR “water intake”) AND (“weight gain” OR “interdialytic weight gain” OR “IDWG”) AND “patient-level interventions. Randomized controlled studies were eligible if they were in English, published in a peer-reviewed journal and regarded adults patients with on chronic hemodialysis for at least 6 months; compared educational/cognitive and/or counseling/behavioral or psychological interventions to no intervention on interdialytic weight gain. Outcome of interest was interdialytic weight gain. The review was registered on the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews in Health and Social Care (PROSPERO, ID number CRD42022332401).

Results
Eighteen studies (1759 patients) were included in the analysis. Compared to the untreated group, educational/cognitive and/or counseling/behavioral interventions significantly reduced interdialytic weight gain with a pooled mean difference of − 0.15 kg (95% CI − 0.26, 30–0.05; P = 0.004). On the other hand, psychological/affective interventions reduced interdialytic weight gain with a pooled mean difference of − 0.26 kg (95% CI − 0.48, − 0.04; P = 0.020).

Conclusions
Educational/cognitive, counseling/behavioral or psychological/affective interventions significantly reduced the interdialytic weight gain in patients on chronic hemodialysis, although such reduction did not appear to be clinically relevant on hard outcomes.

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Nuclear cataract classification in anterior segment OCT based on clinical global–local features
Authors: Zhang Xiaoqing , Xiao Zunjie , Wu Xiao , Chen Yu , Higashita Risa , Chen Wan , Yuan Jin , Liu Jiang 
Published: September 2022

AbstractNuclear cataract (NC) is a priority ocular disease of blindness and vision impairment globally. Early intervention and cataract surgery can improve the vision and life quality of NC patients. Anterior segment coherence tomography (AS-OCT) imaging is a non-invasive way to capture the NC opacity objectively and quantitatively. Recent clinical research has shown that there exists a strong opacity correlation relationship between NC severity levels and the mean density on AS-OCT images. In this paper, we present an effective NC classification framework on AS-OCT images, based on feature extraction and feature importance analysis. Motivated by previous clinical knowledge, our method extracts the clinical global–local features, and then applies Pearson’s correlation coefficient and recursive feature elimination methods to analyze the feature importance. Finally, an ensemble logistic regression is employed to distinguish NC, which considers different optimization methods’ characteristics. A dataset with 11,442 AS-OCT images is collected to evaluate the method. The results show that the proposed method achieves 86.96% accuracy and 88.70% macro-sensitivity, respectively. The performance comparison analysis also demonstrates that the global–local feature extraction method improves about 2% accuracy than the single region-based feature extraction method.
Using word embedding models to capture changing media discourses: a study on the role of legitimacy, gender and genre in 24,000 music reviews, 1999–2021
Authors: Daenekindt Stijn , Schaap Julian 
Published: September 2022

AbstractStudies suggest that popular music genres are increasingly discussed by cultural intermediaries in ‘legitimate’ or ‘highbrow’ terms, rather than merely ‘lowbrow’ commercial entertainment. In addition, popular music discourse as produced by such intermediaries has historically been decidedly masculine—a trait which tends to increase on par with legitimation. However, seeing that women are gradually gaining symbolic and numerical representation in popular music production, this may have been changing over the last decade(s). In this article, we assess how popular music discourse within a key music media outlet (Pitchfork) changed between 1999 and 2021. We use word embedding models—a novel technique in computational social science—to assess legitimacy and gender in the discourses used in 23,992 reviews, and how this varies between genres. We find four notable patterns. First, reviews increasingly use a discourse that legitimates popular music, while, second, also increasingly using more feminine terms. This does not, third, occur simultaneously; however, discourse is either legitimate or feminine. Finally, these patterns also differ based on which popular music genres are discussed. The overall pattern is consistently found in pop, electronic and experimental, but not in historically masculine genres rap/hip-hop, metal and jazz which seem rather resistant to discursive change.
Experimental confirmation of high-temperature phase boundaries in the nickel-rich part of Ni-Al-Cr system
Authors: Maciąg T. , Migas D. , Płachta A. 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Precise determination of the course of phase boundaries is particularly important for alloys operating at elevated temperatures. In the case of multi-component materials such as nickel superalloys, computational methods are often used for this purpose. They are based on binary and ternary systems and require reliable experimental data. Commonly used research methods for determining phase boundaries at elevated temperature have a number of limitations and it is difficult to interpret their results without the support of other studies. This work presents a series of experiments to confirm the course of phase boundaries γ′/(γ′ + γ) and (γ′ + γ)/γ in Ni-Al-Cr system, particularly at 600 °C. For this purpose, a series of alloys from Ni-rich part of Ni–Al-Cr ternary system was prepared by vacuum induction melting (VIM) and casting into graphite mold under an argon protective atmosphere. Samples after machining were subjected to compression tests using the Gleeble 3800 thermomechanical simulator at room temperature as well as directly at 600 °C after pre-heating at 1100 °C. Stress–strain curves of various character were obtained and were associated with the appropriate phase structure confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. The relationship between the phase structure of the studied alloys and their mechanical properties has been proven. Compression results were compared with the results of hardness measurements, high-temperature calorimetric solution method and differential thermal analysis (DTA). The obtained results showed a very good agreement in terms of the course of the γ′/(γ′ + γ) and (γ′ + γ)/γ phase boundary in Ni-Al-Cr system.
Assessing Environmentally Effective Post-COVID Green Recovery Plans for Reducing Social and Economic Inequality
Authors: Sokolnicki James R. , Woodhatch Annabel L. , Stafford Richard 
Published: September 2022

AbstractGiven the current environmental crisis there have been multiple calls for a green recovery from COVID-19 which address environmental concerns and provide jobs in industries and communities economically damaged by the pandemic. Here, we holistically evaluate a range of recovery scenarios, evaluated on environmental and socio-economic equity metrics. Using a modified version of a Bayesian belief network, we show that economic stimuli across green sectors, including jobs in renewable energy, waste management, retrofitting of buildings, heat-pump installation and public transport can help economic growth, but will have limited environmental benefits. The inclusion of carbon taxes and ending fossil fuel subsidies, alongside investment in nature-based solutions and jobs in ecological conservation, can greatly increase the environmental gains as well as socio-economic equality. Additionally, jobs not associated with green industries, but with low carbon footprints, such as those in social care can further improve social equality with minimal negative environmental effects. However, in these latter scenarios involving taxation and ending fossil fuel subsidies, economic growth is reduced. We suggest a comprehensive green recovery and green new deal are needed, and we should reimagine economies, without the focus on economic growth.
A Proposed Biometric Technique for Improving Iris Recognition
Authors: Farouk Rahmatallah Hossam , Mohsen Heba , El-Latif Yasser M. Abd 
Published: September 2022

AbstractRecently, the Iris Recognition system has been considered an effective biometric model for recognizing humans. This paper introduces an effective hybrid technique combining edge detection and segmentation, in addition to the convolutional neural network (CNN) and Hamming Distance (HD), for extracting features and classification. The proposed model is applied to different datasets, which are CASIA-Iris-Interval V4, IITD, and MMU. For validating the results of the proposed models, detailed modeling and simulation procedures took place using the mentioned three datasets. A comparison between the obtained results from the current work and published results from open literature was carried out as well. The Proposed Biometric Technique showed desirable recognition accuracies of 94.88% based on applying HD on CASIA, 96.56% based on applying CNN on IITD, and 98.01% based on applying CNN on MMU. The obtained accuracies illustrated the superiority of such a classifier compared to other classifiers used in the published literature.
Greenhouse-temperature induced manure driven low carbon footprint in aquaculture mesocosm
Authors: Dutta Deblina , Kundu Debajyoti , Jana Bana Bihari , Lahiri Susmita , Bhakta Jatindra Nath 
Published: September 2022

AbstractIn an aquaculture system, estimates were made of soil organic carbon content, carbon burial rate, soil structure and algal productivity with the intention of examining the synergistic effects of both greenhouse gas (GHG) induced temperature and manure-driven carbon reduction potentials in sediments that depend on productivity as well as tilapia spawning responses under greenhouse mimicking conditions during winter. Different manure treatments such as cattle manure and saw dust (T1); poultry droppings and saw dust (T2); vermi-compost and saw dust (T3); mixture of cattle manure, poultry droppings, vermi-compost and saw dust (T4); iso-carbonic states maintained with vermi-compost (T5); and with poultry droppings (T6) were applied three times (frequency of application) in the tank during the course of investigation. Different parameters like soil organic carbon, carbon burial rate, algal productivity and water quality were examined in aquaculture system. GHG effect impacted on the enhanced carbon reduction potential (44.36-62.36%) which was directly related with soil organic carbon (38.16-56.40 mg C/g) dependent carbon burial rate (0.0033-0.0118 g/cm2 per 100 days). Average carbon burial rates for different manure treatments at GHG impacted temperature (0.0071 g/cm2 per 100 days) was as high as 27.90% than at ambient air temperature (0.0054 g/cm2 per 100 days). Residual carbon or sink in soils has been increased by 8.49 to 43.11% in different treatments or 23%, on an average attributed to almost 6 °C rise in GHG mediated atmospheric temperature. The low carbon footprint potential in different treatments was conspicuous inside the polyhouse (maximum 62.36%) due to greenhouse driven temperature compared. As a positive impact of the study, breeding of tilapia occurred where in T3 100% survival occurred in close polyhouse and also exhibited maximum carbon burial rate. In this study it has been observed that one degree rise in atmospheric temperature resulted in a ~ 4% rise in residual carbon in the experimental tank. However, future work can be conducted on other different treatments and large scale application.
Graphical Abstract
Graphical representation of greenhouse-temperature induced manure driven carbon accumulation in aquaculture mesocosm.
Transplanting English Law in Special Economic Zones in Asia: Law As Commodity
Authors: Bantekas Ilias 
Published: September 2022

AbstractEnglish law has become a commodity for developing, resource-rich economies desirous of diversifying their economies. A small number of special economic zones, chiefly in the Gulf, but also elsewhere, have set up entire legal systems predicated to a large or smaller degree on English law. This transplantation is based on three distinct models, namely: (a) wholesale incorporation of statutes; (b) general reference to English law as residual law and; (c) implicitly, on the basis of the common law origin of judges appointed to the courts of special economic zones. The expectation in all these models is that the specialised courts and other stakeholders (eg, legal professionals) will apply English statutory and common law in conformity with other laws applicable in the special economic zones. Ultimately, the practice of the courts and other participants will give rise to a sui generis common law jurisdiction that is in dialogue with the courts and institutions of England and Wales. The article argues that this has already been achieved in the majority of the special economic zones examined here.
All that glitters is not gold: Relational events models with spurious events
Authors: Fritz Cornelius , Mehrl Marius , Thurner Paul W. , Kauermann Göran 
Published: September 2022

AbstractAs relational event models are an increasingly popular model for studying relational structures, the reliability of large-scale event data collection becomes more and more important. Automated or human-coded events often suffer from non-negligible false-discovery rates in event identification. And most sensor data are primarily based on actors’ spatial proximity for predefined time windows; hence, the observed events could relate either to a social relationship or random co-location. Both examples imply spurious events that may bias estimates and inference. We propose the Relational Event Model for Spurious Events (REMSE), an extension to existing approaches for interaction data. The model provides a flexible solution for modeling data while controlling for spurious events. Estimation of our model is carried out in an empirical Bayesian approach via data augmentation. Based on a simulation study, we investigate the properties of the estimation procedure. To demonstrate its usefulness in two distinct applications, we employ this model to combat events from the Syrian civil war and student co-location data. Results from the simulation and the applications identify the REMSE as a suitable approach to modeling relational event data in the presence of spurious events.
Honey bees are not attracted to multiple new ant bait matrices containing sugar
Authors: Hoffmann Benjamin D. 
Published: September 2022

AbstractMultiple new ant treatment products containing high volumes of sugar have recently been developed specifically for use in ant management programs. The presence of sugar in these products could potentially attract bees, and any such attractancy would likely be fatal given that these products typically contain general insecticides. To determine the risk of such products to bees I present four studies assessing bee attractancy to multiple matrices that are used to make these products. The trials were conducted across multiple years, seasons, and locations, containing various concentrations of sugar in multiple forms, using various experimental setups with many different bee hives, and multiple observers. Not a single bee was attracted to any matrix, nor were bees observed inspecting any matrix, and no bees fed on any matrix, irrespective of whether the matrices were placed close to hives and directly under bee flight paths, or out in areas where bees were feeding. This is in stark contrast to large numbers of bees that were feeding on flowers within the immediate vicinity of all of the matrices in the first two experiments, or flying over the arrays in experiments 3 and 4 travelling to and from other food sources. I present five suggestions for the discrepancy between the trials presented here and the general perception that bees are attracted to sugar. These matrices appear to be acceptable as a basis to make treatment products for broadscale use within ant management programs. However, it should be recognized that bees, and other non-target species, are indeed capable of feeding on these matrices. Therefore vigilance should still be maintained to identify special circumstances where bees may be killed when constituents are added to these matrices that do attract bees, or usage methods can adversely affect bees.
Interpretation of the Mental Stress Taxonomy under Nigeria's Employees’ Compensation Act 2010
Authors: Obi-Ochiabutor Clara C , Ogbuabor Chukwunweike A , Nwabachili Chioma O , Nwoke Uchechukwu 
Published: September 2022

AbstractPrior to the inception of the Employees’ Compensation Act 2010 (“ECA”), the workers’ compensation system in Nigeria was governed by the Workmen's Compensation Act 1987 (Cap W6 LFN 2004) (“WCA”). The WCA failed to provide an adequate compensation regime for employees, notwithstanding the fact that payment of compensation stems from the employer's duty of care to the employee. Though an employer may be liable for injury, whether physical or mental, sustained by an employee, the WCA, among other things, had no provision for mental stress claims. Neither was the mental health of employees contemplated under its regime. The ECA has sought to close this gap by the provisions of its section 8. Using a comparative perspective, this article examines the dynamics as well as the challenges of applying section 8 of the ECA in the overall interest of the legal system and the labour environment.
Contribution of between region and neighborhood variation of socioeconomic factors on the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting: a multilevel analysis of Tanzanian national surveys
Authors: Bintabara Deogratius 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThis study aimed to assess to what extent differences in socioeconomic factors between regions correlate to dramatic disparities in the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) across Tanzania. The data from the 2004, 2010, and 2016 Tanzania Demographic Health Surveys were used in this analysis. The estimates from multilevel variance components for FGM/C were compared before and after adjusting for socioeconomic variables (residence, marital status, education, and wealth quintile) and age. The three-level structure of the sample sorted women into individual (level-1), neighborhood (level-2), and regional (level-3) categories. The pooled data included a total of 27587 women of reproductive age with a median age (IQR) of 29 (21–36) years. The random-effects results revealed that of the total age-adjusted variance in FGM/C, 76.7% was attributed to the between region and neighborhood differences. Despite the large between region variations, only 3.7% was explained by socioeconomic factors. Despite the large contribution of between region and neighborhood differences to variance in FGM/C prevalence, less of this variation was explained by socioeconomic factors. Therefore, it is possible that maternal and reproductive educational programs tailored to such neighborhood differences, beyond socioeconomic factors alone, could contribute to a radical shift in perspective for regions with high prevalence.
Noncooperative Oligopoly in Markets with a Cobb-Douglas Continuum of Traders
Authors: Codognato Giulio , A. Julien Ludovic 
Published: September 2022

SummaryIn this paper, we reconsider two models of noncooperative oligopoly in general equilibrium proposed by Busetto et al. ((2008), (2011)): a version of the Shapley's window model for mixed exchange economies a la Shitovitz and its reformulation a la Cournot-Walras. We introduce the assumption that preferences of the traders belonging to the atomless part are represented by Cobb-Douglas utility functions. This assumption permits us to prove the existence of a Cournot-Nash equilibrium of the Shapley's window model - called Cobb-Douglas-Cournot-Nash equilibrium - without introducing further assumptions on atoms' endowments and preferences previously used by Busetto et al. (2011). Then, we show that the set of the Cobb-Douglas-Cournot-Nash equilibrium allocations coincides with the set of the Cournot-Walras equilibrium allocations.