bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Secular‐religious self‐improvement
Authors: RANA JASMIJN 
Published: March 2022

ABSTRACTIn the Netherlands young Muslim women have increasingly begun to join women‐only kickboxing gyms. Dutch public discourse has taken notice, treating this phenomenon as a surprising development. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment; Muslim women's participation thus exemplifies the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation‐state. Contesting this view, I show that young Muslim women who kickbox establish agentive selves by playing with gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities. Moreover, they disrupt western European parameters of secularity and religiosity. Their cloistered athletic activity is liberating, but not as expected and understood by mainstream public opinion. They approach their sport not as a quest for cultural integration or emancipation from their Muslim communities, but as a way of intertwining religious and secular forms of self‐improvement. [sport,embodiment,gender grouping,secularism,Islam,the Netherlands]
Systematic review with meta‐analysis: risk factors for Barrett's oesophagus in individuals with gastro‐oesophageal reflux symptoms
Authors: Eusebi Leonardo H. , Telese Andrea , Cirota Giovanna G. , Haidry Rehan , Zagari Rocco M. , Bazzoli Franco , Ford Alexander C. 
Published: March 2022

SummaryBackgroundGastro‐oesophageal reflux is considered the main risk factor for Barrett's oesophagus. The role of other potential risk factors for the development of Barrett's oesophagus in patients with gastro‐oesophageal reflux symptoms is controversial.AimsTo perform a systematic review and meta‐analysis examining risk factors in development of Barrett's oesophagus.MethodsMedline, Embase and Embase Classic were searched (until December 2020) to identify cross‐sectional studies reporting prevalence of Barrett's oesophagus based on presence of one or more proposed risk factors in individuals with gastro‐oesophageal reflux symptoms. Prevalence of Barrett's oesophagus was compared according to presence or absence of each risk factor in individuals with gastro‐oesophageal reflux symptoms.ResultsOf 7164 citations evaluated, 13 studies reported prevalence of Barrett's oesophagus in 11 856 subjects. Pooled prevalence of histologically confirmed Barrett's oesophagus in individuals with gastro‐oesophageal reflux symptoms in all studies was 7.0% (95% CI 4.8% to 9.6%). Prevalence was higher in subjects with hiatal hernia (OR 2.74; 95% CI 1.58 to 4.75) and in those who drank alcohol (OR 1.51; 95% CI 1.17 to 1.95). Other features including non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs and/or aspirin use (OR 1.19; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.42), smoking (OR 1.14; 95% CI 0.96 to 1.35) or obesity (OR 1.10; 95% CI 0.92 to 1.33) were not significantly associated with Barrett's oesophagus.ConclusionsThe prevalence of Barrett's oesophagus in individuals with gastro‐oesophageal reflux symptoms was higher in those who drank alcohol, although this association was modest. The strongest association found was between hiatal hernia and Barrett's oesophagus. Other potential risk factors assessed in this study did not appear to be associated with presence of Barrett's oesophagus among individuals with gastro‐oesophageal symptoms.
Experiences of peer victimization and teacher support in secondary school predict university enrolment 5 years later: Role of school engagement
Authors: Grew Eva , Baysu Gülseli , Turner Rhiannon N. 
Published: March 2022

AbstractBackgroundPeer victimization has an adverse effect on academic outcomes. However, longitudinal research on how peer victimization affects access to higher education is lacking.AimsIn this study, we investigated the mechanisms through which peer victimization and teacher support affect aspirations for and enrolment at university 5 years later through engagement in secondary school. We also examined whether these effects were moderated by ethnicity, and whether teacher support may compensate for the effects of peer victimization.SampleThe sample (N = 15,110, 51% male, 68% White, 12% Black and 20% Asian) was drawn from a nationally representative study of young people in England. We used data from four waves, following adolescents over 3 years of secondary education (T1–T2–T3, age 13 to 15 years) until university (T4, age 18 years).MethodData were analysed in a longitudinal structural equation model in Mplus 8.ResultsAdolescents subjected to more peer victimization at T1 had lower university aspirations 2 years later and were less likely to attend university 5 years later. These effects were mediated via secondary school engagement. Teacher support at T1 was related to higher school engagement, leading to higher aspirations (T3) and higher likelihood of university enrolment (T4) over time. We also found evidence that teacher support may lessen the effect of peer victimization on school engagement, and that ethnic background may moderate the effect of teacher support.ConclusionsPeer victimization had a small long‐lasting negative effect on university choices via school engagement, while teacher support had a positive effect. In summary, relationships in secondary school have long‐lasting implications for university aspirations and enrolment.
Proprotein convertase furin is a driver and potential therapeutic target in proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Authors: Abu El‐Asrar Ahmed M. , Nawaz Mohd I. , Ahmad Ajmal , Siddiquei Mohammad M. , Allegaert Eef , Gikandi Priscilla W. , De Hertogh Gert , Opdenakker Ghislain 
Published: March 2022

AbstractBackgroundFurin converts inactive proproteins into bioactive forms. By activating proinflammatory and proangiogenic factors, furin might play a role in pathophysiology of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).MethodsWe studied vitreous samples from PDR and nondiabetic patients, epiretinal membranes from PDR patients, retinal microvascular endothelial cells (HRMECs), retinal Müller cells and rat retinas by ELISA, Western blot analysis, immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence microscopy. We performed in vitro angiogenesis assays and assessed adherence of monocytes to HRMECs.ResultsFurin levels were significantly increased in PDR vitreous samples. In epiretinal membranes, immunohistochemistry analysis revealed furin expression in monocytes/macrophages, vascular endothelial cells and myofibroblasts. Furin was significantly upregulated in diabetic rat retinas. Hypoxia and TNF‐α induced significant upregulation of furin in Müller cells and HRMECs. Furin induced upregulation of phospho‐ERK1/2, p65 subunit of NF‐κB, ADAM17 and MCP‐1 in cultured Müller cells and phospho‐ERK1/2 in cultured HRMECs and induced HRMECs migration. Treatment of monocytes with furin significantly increased their adhesion to HRMECs. Intravitreal administration of furin in normal rats induced significant upregulation of p65 subunit of NF‐κB, phospho‐ERK1/2 and ICAM‐1 in the retina. Inhibition of furin with dec‐CMK significantly decreased levels of MCP‐1 in culture medium of Müller cells and HRMECs and significantly attenuated TNF‐α‐induced upregulation of p65 subunit of NF‐κB, ICAM‐1 and VCAM‐1 in HRMECs. Dec‐CMK significantly decreased adherence of monocytes to HRMECs and TNF‐α‐induced upregulation of adherence of monocytes to HRMECs. Treatment of HRMECs with dec‐CMK significantly attenuated migration of HRMECs.ConclusionsFurin is a potential driver molecule of PDR‐associated inflammation and angiogenesis.
The link between wildlife trade and the global donkey skin product network
Authors: Su Shan , Macdonald Ewan A. , Beseng Maurice , Thomaz Felipe , Macdonald David W. 
Published: March 2022

AbstractUnsustainable global wildlife trade impacts biodiversity and threatens national and global security, but many aspects of this trade remain opaque. Our study is a novel investigation of the alleged links between the trade in wildlife products and in donkey skins. The global donkey skin trade is a newly prevalent and lucrative business, largely driven by Chinese demand for E‐Jiao, a traditional medicine derived from donkey skins. Records of donkey skins being seized alongside other wildlife products lead us to hypothesize that there is a link between these two trades. We identified all donkey skin dealers on seven business‐to‐business e‐commerce websites and obtained 14,949 data points. These were used in a network analysis to demonstrate the structure of the network and reveal the connection between the products, including wild animal and plant products offered alongside donkey skins. We identified at least 13 groups of CITES‐listed species in the densely connected donkey skin product network, demonstrated an association between the online trade in wildlife products and donkey skins, and discuss the implications of this overlap—including the potential to shed light on potential novel trade pathways in legal and illegal domestic animal and wildlife trade.
Data‐limited approach to the management and conservation of the pelagic thresher shark in the Northwest Pacific
Authors: Tsai Wen‐Pei , Huang Chia‐Han 
Published: March 2022

AbstractThe pelagic thresher shark is among the most heavily exploited shark species in the commercial fisheries of the tropical Indo‐Pacific oceans. Despite this severe exploitation, little is known about pelagic thresher population dynamics, particularly the species' life history traits, and overall stock status. The pelagic thresher exhibits slow growth and extremely low fecundity, indicating the need for reassessment of the population status of this globally threatened shark. Because information on catch and effort of this bycatch species is scarce, several data‐limited methods—quantitative demographic methods, per‐recruit analysis, and risk assessment—were employed in this study to provide an accurate measurement of the status of pelagic thresher shark stocks. For each sex, the composite risk assessments indicated that the probability of the current fishing mortality increasing beyond any level of yield‐per‐recruit (YPR) was approximately zero given the biological reference points (BRPs). Moreover, the current spawning potential ratio (SPR) was found to be significantly below the target reference point of SPR60%, but slightly above the limit reference point of SPR40%. However, because SPR‐based BRPs are much less sensitive to input parameter uncertainties than YPR‐based BRPs, results derived from the SPR model are more suitable for species management. Management strategy simulations based on demographic two‐sex models indicated that without mortality from fishing, female pelagic threshers have a higher population growth rate than males. However, the stock status of female pelagic thresher shark is poorer than that of males under current conditions. The findings suggest that sex‐specific management decisions must be made to achieve the sustainable utilization of this species. Overall, both the sex‐specific per‐recruit and demographic models determined that recruitment overfishing has occurred in the female pelagic thresher population of the Northwest Pacific Ocean, indicating that close monitoring of female sharks is urgent and necessary to ensure that stocks remain sustainable.
Assisted reproduction technologies and reproductive justice in the production of parenthood and origin: Uses and meanings of the co‐produced gestation and the surrogacy in Brazil
Authors: da Silva Junior Aureliano Lopes , Fortuna Pontes Mônica , Uziel Anna Paula 
Published: March 2022

AbstractThis article examines the construction of parenthood, drawing on Brazilian cisgender, heterosexual, and homosexual couples' experiences in using assisted reproduction technologies (ART), particularly the surrogacy. For that purpose, we interviewed: 1) a lesbian woman who had her daughter through her partner's pregnancy, using ART with anonymous donor semen; 2) a gay man who, together with his partner, used a surrogacy service under contract via a specialised offshore agency; 3) a woman who was a surrogate, in Brazil, for her sister‐in‐law and brother who lived abroad and, from abroad, sent an embryo fertilised for surrogacy; 4) a woman who resorted to her sister‐in‐law in order to be a mother by surrogacy, with ovules from the woman herself fertilised with semen from her husband; and 5) the sister‐in‐law mentioned in 4), who acted as surrogate for her brother and his wife. These interviews made it possible to think about the discursive construction of the legitimacy of such parenthoods, as it is produced by access to, and manipulation and circulation of, reproductive technologies and persons. This biomedical management of bodies sets up a material and discursive circuit that, in turn, produces a complex web of personal, normative, legal, professional and market relationships, particularly with a view to construction of a parenthood anchored in a notion of biologically‐constituted origin. In this respect, biological, affective and social bonds merge to produce a precise placement of who is the father and/or who is the mother, as well as who are the important others and how they are linked to the child in a broader web of parenthood.
Thyroid hormone shapes craniofacial bones during postembryonic zebrafish development
Authors: Keer Stephanie , Storch Joshua D. , Nguyen Stacy , Prado Mia , Singh Rajendra , Hernandez Luz Patricia , McMenamin Sarah K. 
Published: March 2022

AbstractChanging the shape of craniofacial bones can profoundly alter ecological function, and understanding how developmental conditions sculpt skeletal phenotypes can provide insight into evolutionary adaptations. Thyroid hormone (TH) stimulates metamorphosis and regulates skeletal morphogenesis across vertebrates. To assess the roles of this hormone in sculpting the craniofacial skeleton of a non‐metamorphic vertebrate, we tested zebrafish for developmental periods of TH‐induced craniofacial shape change. We analyzed shapes of specific bones that function in prey detection, capture and processing. We quantified these elements from late‐larval through adult stages under three developmental TH profiles. Under wild‐type conditions, each bone progressively grows allometrically into a mature morphology over the course of postembryonic development. In three of the four bones, TH was required to sculpt an adult shape: hypothyroidism inhibited aspects of shape change, and allowed some components of immature shape to be retained into adulthood. Excess developmental TH stimulated aspects of precocious shape change leading to abnormal morphologies in some bones. Skeletal features with functional importance showed high sensitivities to TH, including the transformator process of the tripus, the mandibular symphysis of the lower jaw, the scutiform lamina of the hyomandibula, and the anterior arm of the pharyngeal jaw. In all, we found that TH is necessary for shaping mature morphology of several essential skeletal elements; this requirement is particularly pronounced during larval development. Altered TH titer leads to abnormal morphologies with likely functional consequences, highlighting the potential of TH and downstream pathways as targets for evolutionary change.
The relationship between sleep, dissociation and psychotic‐like experiences
Authors: Creatura Gina M. , Ered Arielle , Murty Vishnu P. , Ellman Lauren M. 
Published: March 2022

AbstractBackgroundSleep disturbances have frequently been associated with the full spectrum of psychosis, from psychotic‐like experiences (PLEs) to individuals who meet diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. Similarly, dissociative experiences have been linked to both sleep disturbances and PLEs.AimThe aim of this study was to examine the role of dissociation in the relationship between sleep quality and PLEs.MethodsPLEs, dissociative symptoms, and sleep quality were examined in 1677 young adults using self‐report measures. A mediation analysis was performed to examine whether dissociative experiences account for some of the relationship between sleep quality and PLEs.ResultsDissociative symptoms significantly mediated the relationship between sleep quality and PLEs, with both age and gender used as covariates.ConclusionThese findings suggest that dissociation may be a key contributor to the relationship between disrupted sleep and PLEs, which could have treatment and identification implications.
Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience
Authors: Capdevila Pol , Stott Iain , Cant James , Beger Maria , Rowlands Gwilym , Grace Molly , Salguero‐Gómez Roberto 
Published: March 2022

AbstractAccelerating rates of biodiversity loss underscore the need to understand how species achieve resilience—the ability to resist and recover from a/biotic disturbances. Yet, the factors determining the resilience of species remain poorly understood, due to disagreements on its definition and the lack of large‐scale analyses. Here, we investigate how the life history of 910 natural populations of animals and plants predicts their intrinsic ability to be resilient. We show that demographic resilience can be achieved through different combinations of compensation, resistance and recovery after a disturbance. We demonstrate that these resilience components are highly correlated with life history traits related to the species’ pace of life and reproductive strategy. Species with longer generation times require longer recovery times post‐disturbance, whilst those with greater reproductive capacity have greater resistance and compensation. Our findings highlight the key role of life history traits to understand species resilience, improving our ability to predict how natural populations cope with disturbance regimes.
Automatic individual recognition of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) from sequential images
Authors: Ueno Masataka , Kabata Ryosuke , Hayashi Hidetaka , Terada Kazunori , Yamada Kazunori 
Published: March 2022

AbstractAutomatic individual recognition techniques can support data collection in the field of ethology. Recent studies have contributed to development of automatic individual recognition techniques using machine learning and deep learning. However, varied conditions in the wild, such as the presence of occlusions and head rotations of individuals, can lower the accuracy of automatic recognition techniques. Thus, there is requirement for improvement in the accuracy and robustness of these techniques. In this study, we have used previously observed information updated with given current observation by Bayesian inference to improve the automatic individual recognition of free‐ranging Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) at Katsuyama, Japan. We collected static images and video footage of 51 adult individuals. Using the static images, we created eight individual recognition systems (classifiers), using GoogLeNet and ResNet‐18 as convolutional neural network models. Additionally, sequential data of the faces of the macaques were obtained from 86 video recordings of the 51 individuals to evaluate the classifiers. We were able to successfully recognize 90% or more individuals with each classifier through the combination of the sequential Bayesian filter and the classifier. Eighty‐five percent or more of the individuals had posterior probabilities of 90% or above when conducting recognition tests using the sequential Bayesian filter with 10 images. The best classifier recognized 98% of individuals using 10 images and all individuals using 50 images. Recognition was also successful when the sequential Bayesian filter was applied to cases in which the recognition rate was <50% with test data when the filter was not applied. Based on the above results, we posit that the accuracy of individual recognition systems can be improved using a sequential Bayesian filter that considers past information for individuals.
Downward educational mobility and the life satisfaction of adolescents and parents
Authors: Pollmann‐Schult Matthias 
Published: March 2022

AbstractObjectiveThis study examines whether parental and adolescent life satisfaction is lower when adolescents are on a lower educational trajectory than their parents, and whether this association is mediated by the quality of the parent–adolescent relationship.BackgroundExisting literature shows that families seek to ensure status maintenance and to avoid downward educational mobility in their children. Little is known, however, about whether downward educational mobility has negative consequences for adolescents' and their parents' well‐being.MethodUsing data on 3781 16‐year‐old adolescents and their parents from the German Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examined associations between downward educational mobility, parent–adolescent relationship quality, and the life satisfaction of adolescents and their parents.ResultsIn families with two college‐educated parents, risks of downward educational mobility were associated with increased parent–child conflicts and quarrels over school issues as well as with lower life satisfaction in parents and adolescents.ConclusionAdolescents and parents report reduced levels of life satisfaction when adolescents are on a lower educational trajectory than their parents, probably because the risk of declining status across generations negatively affects the psychological well‐being of parents and adolescents.ImplicationsProviders of family services should consider that the psychological effects of low educational achievement in adolescents vary depending on parental levels of education.
Validation of a generic impact survey for use by health library services indicates the reliability of the questionnaire
Authors: Urquhart Christine , Brettle Alison 
Published: March 2022

AbstractBackgroundA validated generic impact questionnaire can demonstrate how individual and groups of health libraries contribute to continuing education and patient care outcomes.ObjectivesTo validate an existing generic questionnaire for Knowledge for Healthcare, England by examining: (1) internal reliability; (2) content validity; and (3) suggest revisions.MethodsMethods used included Cronbach's alpha test, simple data mining of patterns among a data set of 187 questionnaire responses and checking respondents' interpretation of questions.ResultsCronbach's alpha was 0.776 (acceptable internal reliability). The patterns of responses indicated that respondents' interpretations of the questions were highly plausible, and consistent. The meaning of ‘research’ varied among different occupational groups, but overall, respondents could identify relevant personal and service impacts. However, users were confused about the terms that libraries use to describe some services.DiscussionThe analysis indicated that the questionnaire worked well for the two types of personal services (literature/evidence searches and training/e‐learning) frequently cited on the responses. Further research may be required for library assessment of the impact of other services such as digital resource services.ConclusionsThe generic questionnaire is a reliable way of assessing the impact of health library and knowledge services, both individually and collectively.