cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of RM-based-passivator for the remediation of two kinds of Cd polluted paddy soils and mechanism of Cd(II) adsorption
Creators: name: Li, Hui
name: Liu, Yan
name: Luo, Zirui
name: Zhou, Yaoyu
name: Hou, Dongmei
name: Mao, Qiming
name: Zhi, Dan
name: Zhang, Jiachao
name: Yang, Yuan
name: Luo, Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study aimed to investigate the effects of red mud-based-passivator (RM-based-passivator) on rice yield, cadmium (Cd) in brown rice, pH and available Cd in Cd-polluted soil by pot experiments, and to explore the adsorption mechanism of the passivator by scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. The results showed that this passivator obviously improved the pH, reduced the available Cd in soil and the Cd content in brown rice in Changsha Cd polluted soil (CS soil), while had little effect on Hengyang Cd polluted soil (HY soil). Compared with the control, the soil pH increased in the range from 0.31 to 1.37, the available Cd in soil decreased in the range from 13.25% to 52.34%, and the total Cd in brown rice decreased in the range from 46.44% to 84.98% in CS soil. Considering the impacts of RM-based-passivator on the growth of rice, the Cd content in brown rice, and the pH and available Cd in soil, 0.10–0.30% (w/w) of the passivator is recommended to apply in CS soil but not in HY soil. Based on the analysis of SEM, EDX, FTIR and XRD, the mechanism of Cd(II) adsorption by RM-based-passivator included physical adsorption, surface complexation and ion exchange. The present results indicated that the appropriate addition of RM-based-passivator could be an effective strategy for the remediation of acidic Cd-polluted soils.
Cu2O/Cs2CO3/DMF: An efficient catalytic system for N-arylation of imidazole with aryl halides under ligand-free conditions
Creators: name: Xiaochuang Wang
name: Meiji Wang
name: Jianwei Xie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A ligand-free Cu-catalyzed protocol for the Ullmann-type N-arylation of N-containing heterocycles with aryl or heteroaryl iodides and bromides has been established. A broad range of functional groups is well tolerated on both of the cross-coupling partners, producing the desired products in good to excellent yields.
The efficacy and safety of adding either vildagliptin or glimepiride to ongoing metformin therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Kim, Gyuri
name: Sewon Oh
name: Sang-Man Jin
name: Hur, Kyu Yeon
name: Kim, Jae Hyeon
name: Moon-Kyu Lee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: To compare the effects of either vildagliptin or glimepiride on glycemic variability, oxidative stress, and endothelial parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) inadequately controlled with metformin alone. Methods: In this randomized, open-label, parallel study, 34 patients with T2DM being treated with metformin having an HbA1c of 7.0–10.0% were allocated into either the vildagliptin or glimepiride group. A mixed-meal tolerance test and 72-hour continuous glucose monitoring were conducted, and urinary 8-iso-prostaglandinF2α (PGF2α) and endothelial-dependent flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) were evaluated at baseline and after 12 weeks of treatment. Results: Similar significant improvements in HbA1c level were shown in both vildagliptin (−0.8%) and glimepiride (−0.9%) groups after treatment (Ps<0.001). The mean amplitude of glycemic excursions (MAGE) and the mean of daily differences (MODD) were significantly decreased by vildagliptin (P = 0.044 and P = 0.031, respectively) but not by glimepiride. Glimepiride was significantly associated with a higher incidence of hypoglycemia than vildagliptin (P = 0.005). There were no significant differences in urinary 8-iso-PGF2α or FMD between the two groups. Conclusions: Vildagliptin effectively improved glucose level with a significantly greater reduction in glycemic variability and hypoglycemia than glimepiride in patients with T2DM ongoing metformin therapy. The two drugs showed no significant differences in urinary 8-iso-PGF2α and FMD. Trial registration: NCT01404676
No adverse lung effects of 7- and 28-day inhalation exposure of rats to emissions from petrodiesel fuel containing 20% rapeseed methyl esters (B20) with and without particulate filter – the FuelHealth project
Creators: name: Magnusson, Pål
name: Michał Oczkowski
name: Øvrevik, Johan
name: Malgorzata Gajewska
name: Wilczak, Jacek
name: Biedrzycki, Jacek
name: Dziendzikowska, Katarzyna
name: Kamola, Dariusz
name: Królikowski, Tomasz
name: Kruszewski, Marcin
name: Lankoff, Anna
name: Mruk, Remigiusz
name: Brunborg, Gunnar
name: Instanes, Christine
name: Gromadzka-Ostrowska, Joanna
name: Myhre, Oddvar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Increased use of biofuels raises concerns about health effects of new emissions. We analyzed relative lung health effects, on Fisher 344 rats, of diesel engine exhausts emissions (DEE) from a Euro 5-classified diesel engine running on petrodiesel fuel containing 20% rapeseed methyl esters (B20) with and without diesel particulate filter (DPF). One group of animals was exposed to DEE for 7 days (6 h/day), and another group for 28 days (6 h/day, 5 days/week), both with and without DPF. The animals (n = 7/treatment) were exposed in whole body exposure chambers. Animals breathing clean air were used as controls. Genotoxic effects of the lungs by the Comet assay, histological examination of lung tissue, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) markers of pulmonary injury, and mRNA markers of inflammation and oxidative stress were analyzed. Our results showed that a minor number of genes related to inflammation were slightly differently expressed in the exposed animals compared to control. Histological analysis also revealed only minor effects on inflammatory tissue markers in the lungs, and this was supported by flow cytometry and ELISA analysis of cytokines in BALF. No exposure-related indications of genotoxicity were observed. Overall, exposure to DEE with or without DPF technology produced no adverse effects in the endpoints analyzed in the rat lung tissue or the BALF. Overall, exposure to DEE from a modern Euro 5 light vehicle engine run on B20 fuel with or without DPF technology produced no adverse effects in the endpoints analyzed in the rat lung tissue or the BALF.
Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment in Critical Zone of Luan River Catchment in the North China Plain
Creators: name: R. Ma
name: X. Zhou
name: J. Shi
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: These graphs quantitatively characterize the important of thirteen parameters for manganese, iron and lead contents in maize for ten drills using the Gini index of random forest method.
Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment in Critical Zone of Luan River Catchment in the North China Plain
Creators: name: R. Ma
name: X. Zhou
name: J. Shi
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: These graphs quantitatively describe importance of thirteen parameters for manganese, iron and lead content in maize for P1 and P2 profiles using the Gini index of random forest method.
[Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment in Critical Zone of Luan River Catchment in the North China Plain]
Creators: name: R. Ma
name: X. Zhou
name: J. Shi
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: These graphs quantitatively describe importance of thirteen parameters for manganese, iron and lead content in maize for P1 and P2 profiles using the Gini index of random forest method.
Effect of RM based-passivator for the remediation of two kinds of Cd polluted paddy soils and mechanism of Cd(II) adsorption
Creators: name: Li, Hui
name: Liu, Yan
name: Luo, Zirui
name: Zhou, Yaoyu
name: Hou, Dongmei
name: Mao, Qiming
name: Zhi, Dan
name: Zhang, Jiachao
name: Yang, Yuan
name: Luo, Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study aimed to investigate the effects of red mud based-passivator (RM based-passivator) on rice yield, cadmium (Cd) in brown rice, pH and available Cd in Cd-polluted soil by pot experiments, and to explore the adsorption mechanism of the passivator by scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. The results showed that this passivator obviously improved the pH, reduced the available Cd in soil and the Cd content in brown rice in Changsha Cd polluted soil (CS soil), while had little effect on Hengyang Cd polluted soil (HY soil). Compared with the control, the soil pH increased in the range from 0.31 to 1.37, the available Cd in soil decreased in the range from 13.25% to 52.34%, and the total Cd in brown rice decreased in the range from 46.44% to 84.98 % in CS soil. Considering the impacts of RM based-passivator on the growth of rice, the Cd content in brown rice, and the pH and available Cd in soil, 0.10-0.30% (w/w) of the passivator is recommended to apply in CS soil but not in HY soil. Based on the analysis of SEM, EDX, FTIR, XRD, the mechanism of Cd(II) adsorption by RM based-passivator included physical adsorption, surface complexation, and ion exchange. The present results indicated that the appropriate addition of RM based-passivator could be an effective strategy for the remediation of acidic Cd-polluted soils.
Scheduling Shared Passenger and Freight Transport on a Fixed Infrastructure
Creators: name: Hörsting, Lena
name: Cleophas, Catherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Contents: - Code (source-code.zip)
 - Instance files (instances.zip)
 - Result logs (results.zip)
 - Popular times data extracted from Google maps (Google-Popular-2021-12-17.zip)
 - Licence information (LICENSE.lic)
Development of a multiplex qPCR in real time for quantification and differential diagnosis of Salmonella Gallinarum and Salmonella Pullorum
Creators: name: Rubio, Marcela Da Silva
name: Filho, Rafael Antonio Casarin Penha
name: Almeida, Adriana Maria De
name: Junior, Angelo Berchieri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Currently there are 2659 Salmonella serovars. The host-specific biovars Salmonella Pullorum and Salmonella Gallinarum cause systemic infections in food-producing and wild birds. Fast diagnosis is crucial to control the dissemination in avian environments. The present work describes the development of a multiplex qPCR in real time using a low-cost DNA dye (SYBr Green) to identify and quantify these biovars. Primers were chosen based on genomic regions of difference (RoD) and optimized to control dimers. Primers pSGP detect both host-specific biovars but not other serovars and pSG and pSP differentiate biovars. Three amplicons showed different melting temperatures (Tm), allowing differentiation. The pSGP amplicon (97 bp) showed Tm of 78°C for both biovars. The pSG amplicon (273 bp) showed a Tm of 86.2°C for S. Gallinarum and pSP amplicon (260 bp) dissociated at 84.8°C for S. Pullorum identification. The multiplex qPCR in real time showed high sensitivity and was capable of quantifying 108–101 CFU of these biovars.
Multi-locus phylogenetic analyses support the monophyly and the Miocene diversification of Iksookimia (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae)
Creators: name: Ye-Seul Kwan
name: Daemin Kim
name: Myeong-Hun Ko
name: Wan-Ok Lee
name: Won, Yong-Jin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The genus Iksookimia contains six species of primary freshwater fishes that are endemic to South Korea. Previous phylogenetic studies, based on DNA sequence data from three or fewer loci, have suggested non-monophyly of the genus, providing inconsistent resolutions of the relationships of Iksookimia. Our coalescent and concatenation-based phylogenetic analyses, utilizing seven unlinked nuclear-encoded genes, strongly supported Iksookimia as a monophyletic group, emphasizing the importance of multi-locus data in investigating complicated phylogenetic relationships. A relaxed molecular clock analysis using fossil calibrations, indicated that the origin of the major lineages of Iksookimia occurred between ∼12 to 5 Ma, which is consistent with the Miocene uplift of the Taebaek and Sobaek Mountains and the Miocene activation of the major south-eastern faults. These palaeogeographic events may have served as vicariant events in the diversification of Iksookimia.
Wild, stray and care: Exploring mul7ple ways people co-­‐exist with urban nature
Creators: name: Edwards, Ferne
name: Hahs, Amy
name: Hwang, Yun Hye
name: Sloan, Kevin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: To reconceptualise the different types of natures that live in cities to strategise how existing, new and recombinant natures can be governed in innovative ways. A cross-disciplinary event with people attending from cities around the world.
生物多様性に関わる様々な政策課題を俯瞰する
Creators: name: Osawa, Takeshi
name: Amano, Tatsuya
name: Ohsawa, Takafumi
name: Sakurai,
name: Nishida, Takaaki
name: Enari, Hiroto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity

description: 2017年3月に開催された第64回日本生態学会全国大会において実施されたシンポジウム「生物多様性に関わる様々な政策課題を広く俯瞰する」における発表をもとにした論文のプレプリント
Contacts With Negative Work of “Adhesion” and Superlubricity
Creators: name: Popov, Valentin L.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 621 Angewandte Physik
subject: negative work of adhesion
subject: electrohaptics
subject: superlubricity
subject: van der Waals forces
subject: Hertzian contact

description: Van der Waals forces between solids in vacuum are always attractive and are considered as the main source of adhesion. However, in the presence of an intermediate medium, they can also be repelling (Dzyaloshinskii et al., 1961) which means that the “work of adhesion” becomes negative. Similarly to the case of adhesion, the interaction range of these forces can be either comparable (or larger) than the minimum characteristic length scale of the contact problem or it can be negligible compared with all characteristic length scales. We call this latter case the “JKR-approximation,” as the JKR theory of adhesion (Johnson et al., 1971) is also valid in this limit. The repelling interaction can also be due to the presence (and squeezing out) of a thin fluid layer between solids as considered in Müser (2014). In the papers Popov and Hess (2018) and Heß and Popov (2019), it was shown that the contact of two oppositely charged surfaces at a constant voltage is equivalent to the adhesive contact with an effective van der Waals interaction. Similarly, the contact of the bodies with the same charge would be equivalent to repelling van der Waals forces with a negative work of adhesion. Further kinds of repelling forces may be solvation, structural, and hydration forces (Israelachvili, 2011). In the following, we speak about van der Waals forces, but they are thought as representative for a larger class of long range repelling forces. We argue that in the JKR approximation, the Hertz' solution of the contact problem with a repelling van der Waals interaction, remains practically unchanged. However, the contact area falls apart into the area of “weak (van der Waals) interaction” and “strong (rigid wall) interaction.” It is speculated that if the normal force is smaller than a critical value at which the core region of strong interaction disappears, a macroscopic superlubricity state of the contact may be observed.
title: Computationally Directed Discovery of MoBi2
Creators: name: Altman, Alison B.
name: Tamerius, Alexandra D.
name: Koocher, Nathan Z.
name: Meng, Yue
name: Pickard, Chris J.
name: Walsh, James P. S.
name: Rondinelli, James M.
name: Jacobsen, Steven D.
name: Freedman, Danna E.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Incorporating bismuth, the heaviest element stable to radioactive decay, into new materials enables the creation of emergent properties such as permanent magnetism, superconductivity, and nontrivial topology. Understanding the factors that drive Bi reactivity is critical for the realization of these properties. Using pressure as a tunable synthetic vector, we can access unexplored regions of phase space to foster reactivity between elements that do not react under ambient conditions. Furthermore, combining computational and experimental methods for materials discovery at high-pressures provides broader insight into the thermodynamic landscape than can be achieved through experiment alone, informing our understanding of the dominant chemical factors governing structure formation. Herein, we report our combined computational and experimental exploration of the Mo–Bi system, for which no binary intermetallic structures were previously known. Using the ab initio random structure searching (AIRSS) approach, we identified multiple synthetic targets between 0–50 GPa. High-pressure in situ powder X-ray diffraction experiments performed in diamond anvil cells confirmed that Mo–Bi mixtures exhibit rich chemistry upon the application of pressure, including experimental realization of the computationally predicted CuAl2-type MoBi2 structure at 35.8(5) GPa. Electronic structure and phonon dispersion calculations on MoBi2 revealed a correlation between valence electron count and bonding in high-pressure transition metal–Bi structures as well as identified two dynamically stable ambient pressure polymorphs. Our study demonstrates the power of the combined computational–experimental approach in capturing high-pressure reactivity for efficient materials discovery.
Personality correlates of the self-rated frequency of erotic dreams
Creators: name: Schredl, Michael
name: Göritz, Anja S.
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: Erotic dreams have been of interest for researchers and the public alike. Although, the gender difference in the frequency of erotic dreams is well documented with men reporting erotic dreams more often than women, studying other factors, for example, personality traits, in relationship with erotic dreaming is scarce. Overall, 1711 participant estimated the percentage of erotic dreams with regard to all their remembered dreams and also completed a Big Five Personality inventory. The findings indicate that four of the Big Five personality factors were related to the frequency of erotic dreams; although the effects sizes of these associations were small. As expected, openness to experience correlated with a higher frequency of sexual dreams, as this personality trait is related to more frequent positive sexual cognitions and pornography consumption. Whereas extraversion and neuroticism were also positively related to erotic dream frequency, agreeableness showed a negative relationship. These kinds of studies help to understand how waking life sexuality affect erotic dreams, and in more general terms, how waking life is reflected in dreams.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Dreams as an engine for producing artistic scenes: A self-empirical study
Creators: name: Chegini, Hossein
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: Dreams are complex phenomenons that inspire researchers and scientists to think of their origins and operations. They reflect thoughts, inner affairs, desires, and intentions in the form of a story. Although studies have been conducted to realize the intentions and forms of dreams, there are many questions around dream’s operations and processes; the questions such as how the power of psychology generates dreams, and what are the main operations that shape and form the content of a dream? This study is a self-empirical analysis of dreams contents based on the montage, a primary artistic operation people use for creating artworks. For dream’s content analysis, they have been compared against the dreamer’s real facts of awakening state. This study is an innovative way of analyzing dreams’ contents. The study also provides a quantified result based on primary montages helping to understand how a dreamer generates his/her dreams.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
The essential dreaminess of "Twin Peaks: The Return"
Creators: name: Bulkeley, Kelly
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: This article reviews and analyzes the multiplicity of roles that dreams and dreaming play across the television series “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017), a follow-up to the original “Twin Peaks” series (1992), directed by David Lynch. Dreaming is at least as important in the new series as in the original. Elements of dreaming appear in all aspects of the story, in ways both small and large, clear and obscure, hopeful and terrifying. The present article has three aims: 1) to highlight the most prominent dream elements in “Twin Peaks: The Return” and discuss their relevance to the overall story; 2) to examine the creative methods and techniques used to represent various qualities of dreaming; and 3) to reflect on the many philosophical issues that arise regarding the metaphysics, and meta-ethics, of dreaming. Considered as an aesthetic whole, “Twin Peaks: The Return” sets a very high artistic standard for dream-infused creativity in the 21st century.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Combining Results from the HELCATS and FLARECAST Projects
Creators: name: Murray, Sophie
name: Guerra, Jordan
name: Sung-Hong Park
name: Zucca, Pietro
name: Carley, Eoin
name: Gallagher, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation, Techniques, and Astronomical Observations
subject: Solar System, Solar Physics, Planets and Exoplanets
subject: 20109 Space and Solar Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Space Science

description: Presentation for International Astronomical Union Symposium 335 in Exeter, UK on 2017 July 17.
Social network in the 2015 dreams of a male dreamer
Creators: name: Schredl, Michael
name: Schweickert, Richard
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: Social interactions play an important role in dreams and, thus, the question arises whether the characteristics of the dream social network based on co-occurrence of persons within dreams is comparable with the characteristics of waking-life social networks. The present analysis included 696 dreams reported by a male dreamer in the course of one year. Overall, the findings support the notion that a dream social network shows the characteristics of a small world network (small average distances, high clustering), and the power low distribution of co-occurrences – similar to waking-life social networks. The clustering was most obvious for the core family members of the dreamer; they are more likely to co-occur than occur with persons of other social areas. More studies are needed to link inter-individual differences within the properties of the dream social network to differences in the current and former waking-life social networks of the dreamer.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Illness attitudes, mood, and dreams during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: An international study
Creators: name: Sommantico, Massimiliano
name: DeCicco, Teresa L.
name: Osorio Guzmán, Maricela
name: Prado Romero, Carlos
name: Le Bel, Serena
name: Parrello, Santa
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has strongly impacted the world. Recent research on the pandemic has found a significant impact on sleep habits, dreaming, and psychological well-being. We investigated sociodemographic and COVID-19 related variables, attitudes toward illness (using the Illness Attitude Scale, or IAS), mood (using the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale, or DASS-21), and oneiric activity (using participant’s Most Recent Dream) during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of 620 Italian, Canadian and Mexican adult subjects (79.9% women; ages 18-73 years, M = 27, SD = 11.5). Results indicated that: a) participants presented problematic scores of worries about illness and health habits, as well as moderate levels of depression, anxiety, and stress; b) female participants reported higher levels of negative illness attitudes, as well as higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress; c) participants knowing a person who had the COVID-19 disease reported higher levels of stress, while participants knowing a COVID-19-related death reported higher levels of negative illness attitudes and higher levels of anxiety; d) participants reporting negative emotional tone in their dreams also reported higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress; finally, e) the most represented emotional dream tone was negative, the most represented emotions in participants’ dreams were anxiety and being scared, while the most represented actions were life or death situations. In sum, the findings of this study indicate that the COVID-19 lockdown measures, categorized as a catastrophic and traumatic event, significantly affect people’s oneiric imagery, and they indicate that dream interpretation may be an effective approach to alleviate COVID-19-related psychological distress.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Growth, not digestibility, in chickens receiving reduced-protein diets is independent of non-specific amino-nitrogen sources when the essential-to-total-nitrogen ratio is constant and lower than 50%
Creators: name: Olukosi, O. A.
name: Lin, Y.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: 1. A 21 d experiment was conducted to investigate whether growth performance and coefficients of amino acids digestibility (cAID) in broilers receiving reduced-protein diets supplemented with different non-essential amino acids (NEAA) were dependent on supplemented NEAA in diets with the same essential-to-total N (eN-to-tN) ratio kept at <50%. 2. The experiment used 240 male broiler chicks, allocated to eight treatments with six replicate pens per treatment, and five chicks per replicate. The diets were either adequate in protein diet (PC), reduced protein (NC) diet or the NC diet supplemented with Gly, Gln, Ser, Ala, Gly + Ser or Ala + Ser. Digesta from the distal half of the ileum were collected on d 21. Tissue samples were collected for analysis for gene expression of protein synthesis and degradation (pectoralis major and liver) and peptide and AA transporters (jejunum). 3. The treatments had no effects on growth performance. Generally, cAID was greater (P < 0.05) in NC compared to the PC diet. Individual supplementation of the NC diet with Gly, Gln, Ser, Ala or Ala+Ser increased (P < 0.01) cAID of Cys compared to the PC diet. There were no treatment effects on mRNA levels for the AA or peptide transporters in the jejunum. Supplementation of the NC diet with Gln, Ser, Ala, or Gly + Ser produced an upward expression (P < 0.05) of S6 kinase in the liver compared to PC and NC. In addition, there was greater (P < 0.05) expression of TRIM36 in the pectoralis major of broiler chickens receiving the NC diet supplemented with Gly. 4. When reduced-protein diets have an eN-to-tN ratio of <50% and the ratio is kept constant in all the diets, growth performance response was independent of the source of non-specific amino-N, but the treatments may influence ileal digestibility of individual AA.
I dreamt that I walked, slipped and fell. What is this “I”?
Creators: name: Ruyneau De Saint George, Pierre
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: On the basis of observations collected by the method involving the superposition of the underlying fabric of affects and oneiric sensations on a framework of real impressions, the author attempts to identify those characteristics of the “I” of the previous day that resurface in the “I” that is the hero of the dream. We propose that this be considered as a psychological excitability that is specific, autonomous and sensitive to deeply seated issues that appear, more or less, furtively in an introspective form residing outside of one's mental control.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Music topics in a long dream series
Creators: name: Schredl, Michael
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: Music is a very important part of human life in all known cultures. Within a series of 2,025 dreams recorded over more than 30 years by a female dreamer, the frequency and content of music dreams were analyzed. About 6% of her dreams included references to music, the high percentage of singing dreams compared to dreams with playing and instrument reflecting the dreamer’s daytime musical activities as she sang very often in church choirs but never learned to play an instrument. Moreover, about 9% of her music dreams were creative, that is, included genuinely new melodies the dreamer had never experienced before in her waking life. It would be very interesting to study whether dream incubation techniques (visualizing prior to sleep onset the intent of dreaming about new melodies/lyrics) can increase the frequency of creative music dreams.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Dreams with animals in psychotherapeutic process
Creators: name: Fabik, Dusan
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: The study focuses on dreams in which images of animals occur. It contains a detailed analysis of three dreams coming from patients in long-term therapy. The platform for understanding of the dreams was formed by the current theory of dreaming, which defines the dream as a function serving to consolidate and integrate the emotions from waking life. The analysis of dreams itself was not biased by any psychotherapeutic school, but resulted from objective research data. It consisted of three steps. In the first step of the analysis, dream emotions were defined in accordance with the theory of continuity as real dreamers' emotions originating from waking life. In the second step, the animals in the dream were analysed on the basis of research evidence as the dreamers' own tendencies. In the third step, the preliminary interpretations were further verified in the psychotherapeutic interview itself. The synthesis of the obtained data showed that the animals in dreams can be interpreted as instinctive impulses of dreamers. It has also been suggested that the theory of continuity in the context of dream content and the symbolic function of dreams can merge into one and the same process.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Dream-sharing and human self-domestication
Creators: name: Blagrove, Mark
name: Lockheart, Julia
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: There are many theories of the function of dreams, such as memory consolidation, emotion processing, threat simulation and social simulation. In general, such theories hold that the function of dreams occurs within sleep; occurs for unrecalled dreams as well as for dream that are recalled on awakening; and that conscious recall of dreams is not necessary for their function to occur. In contrast, we propose that dreams have an effect of enhancing empathy and group bonding when dreams are shared and discussed with others. We propose also that this effect would have occurred in history and pre-history and, as it would have enhanced the cohesiveness and mutual understanding of group members, the fictional and engaging characteristics of dream content would have been selected for during human social evolution, interacting with cultural practices of dream-sharing. Such dream-sharing may have taken advantage of the long REM periods that occur for biological reasons near the end of the night. Dream-production and dream-sharing may have developed alongside story-telling, utilising common neural mechanisms. Dream-sharing hence would have contributed to Human Self-Domestication, held by many researchers to be the primary driver of the evolution of human prosociality, tolerance and reduced intragroup emotional reactivity. We note that within-sleep theories of dream function rely on correlational rather than experimental findings, and have as yet untested and speculative mechanisms, whereas post-sleep effects of dream-sharing are easily testable and have mechanisms congruent with the social processes proposed by the theory of Human Self-Domestication.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
A moderated mediation analysis of lucid nightmares and emotion regulation
Creators: name: Siu Sing Sam, Wong
name: Yu, Calvin
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: This study tested whether the mediation effect of nightmare lucidity and volitional control on the association between nightmares and lucid dreams was moderated by dispositional emotion regulation. A total of 238 Chinese young adults were invited to complete the modified Dream Intensity Scale and Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory. The PROCESS Marco analysis supported the mediation effect of nightmare lucidity and volitional control, which was moderated by dispositional emotion regulation. Specifically, the difficulty of regulating positive emotions might paradoxically increase the dreamer’s experience of becoming lucid and having volitional control in a nightmare; on the other hand, the competence of regulating negative emotions could enhance the prediction of lucid dreams with nightmare lucidity and volitional control. This suggests that the inclinations toward downregulating negative emotions and losing control over positive emotions in waking life play a part in a transitional state leading from a nightmare to a lucid dream.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Additional file 1 of On-treatment blood TMB as predictors for camrelizumab plus chemotherapy in advanced lung squamous cell carcinoma: biomarker analysis of a phase III trial
Creators: name: Jiang, Tao
name: Chen, Jianhua
name: Xu, Xingxiang
name: Cheng, Ying
name: Chen, Gongyan
name: Pan, Yueyin
name: Fang, Yong
name: Wang, Qiming
name: Huang, Yunchao
name: Yao, Wenxiu
name: Wang, Rui
name: Li, Xingya
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Zhang, Yanjun
name: Hu, Sheng
name: Guo, Renhua
name: Shi, Jianhua
name: Wang, Zhiwu
name: Cao, Peiguo
name: Wang, Donglin
name: Fang, Jian
name: Luo, Hui
name: Geng, Yi
name: Xing, Chunyan
name: Lv, Dongqing
name: Zhang, Yiping
name: Yu, Junyan
name: Cang, Shundong
name: Zhang, Yaxi
name: Zhang, Jiao
name: Yang, Zeyu
name: Shi, Wei
name: Zou, Jianjun
name: Zhou, Caicun
name: Ren, Shengxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Dreaming as a virtual reality delusion simulator: Gaining empathy whilst we sleep
Creators: name: Rosen, Melanie
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: The conscious experiences we have during sleep have the potential to improve our empathetic response to those who experience delusions and psychosis by supplying a virtual reality simulation of mental illness. Empathy for those with mental illness is lacking and there has been little improvement in the last decades despite efforts made to increase awareness. Our lack of empathy, in this case, may be due to an inability to accurately mentally simulate what it’s like to have a particular cognitive disorder. Dreaming can help mitigate these deficits by placing the dreamer directly into a realistic virtual simulation and thus increase their capacity for empathy. Increasing empathy would go some way towards reducing the stigma and discrimination faced by people in this group. Recent work suggests that virtual reality can increase empathy towards a variety of marginalised groups, however, this technology is limited in its ability to simulate mental illnesses such as delusions. Dreams, however, are at times virtual reality delusion simulators. They can replicate, to a reasonable degree, delusions and psychosis, and through these experiences, we can learn ‘what it’s like’ to have these conditions. It is essential that we recognise these experiences for what they are, attempt to remember and reflect on them. Instead of disregarding dreams due to their unusualness and bizarreness, we can learn from these experiences and expand our understanding of the human condition and its many forms.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Supplementary Materials from Oceanic protists with different forms of acquired phototrophy display contrasting biogeographies and abundance
Creators: name: S. G. Leles
name: A. Mitra
name: K. J. Flynn
name: D. K. Stoecker
name: P. J. Hansen
name: A. Calbet
name: G. B. McManus
name: R. W. Sanders
name: D. A. Caron
name: F. Not
name: G. M. Hallegraeff
name: P. Pitta
name: J. A. Raven
name: M. D. Johnson
name: P. M. Glibert
name: S. Våge
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Methods, Results and Discussions (including figures and tables)
Viewing the dream as process: A key to effective dreamwork
Creators: name: Sparrow, Gregory Scott
name: Thurston, Mark
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: The Co-creative dream paradigm posits that dreams are indeterminate from the outset and unfold in real time according to the dream ego’s moment-to-moment responses to the emergent content. This interactive dynamic can illuminate process parallels between the dream and waking relationships, even if content parallels cannot be easily discerned. If generic process can be unambiguously observed in the dream report, and maps onto waking relational process, then one might argue that the best initial approach to dream analysis should be to analyze the dream process as a prelude to further analysis, especially in cases where the visual content may seem unrelated to, or discontinuous with waking life concerns.We contend that the analysis of generic process establishes a context or framework that focuses, and meaningfully constrains the range of dreamer associations in subsequent steps of the dreamwork, and may reap considerable insights apart from those derived from a consideration of the dream imagery alone. As for research implications, we propose that the continuity hypothesis can be tested in a novel way by analyzing dreaming-waking process parallels rather than content parallels. We also suggest that the process narrative may represent an underlying “conceptual” (Lakoff and Johnson, 1986) or “major” metaphor (Ullman, 1969) that functions as a continuous plot (Hartman, 1999) onto which the visual imagery is mapped.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
A comparison of attitudes towards dreams in Germany and Tunisia
Creators: name: Musiol, Alina
name: Mathes, Jonas
name: Pietrowsky, Reinhard
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: Former studies have shown that in many Islamic cultures people view dreams as a product of external sources and therefore have a high appreciation towards dreams in their waking-life. In contrast, people in Western cultures in general do not value their dreams strongly in their waking-life and mostly view them as a product from their inner reality. This study, which was carried out online, compared attitudes towards dreams in a country of the Islamic culture (Tunisia) with attitudes towards dreams in a country of the Western culture (Germany). Participants (N = 483) answered questions about their attitudes and mindsets towards dreaming. The findings are consistent with the hypotheses that people in Islamic cultures have a higher appreciation towards dreaming, and that dreams have a direct effect on their waking-life. In addition, the findings confirm that people from Germany appreciate their dreams less than people from Tunisia, even though the findings showed that the German sample had more intense dreams than the Tunisian sample. The findings confirm a tendency towards patriarchy in the Tunisian sample, and the Islamic religion itself was correlated with a higher appreciation towards dreams.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Host fruit images, and survivorship and development rate data from Novel host plant leads to the loss of sexual dimorphism in a sexually selected male weapon
Creators: name: Allen, Pablo E.
name: Miller, Christine W.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Structural Biology

description: Host fruit size comparison, and life history traits comparison across hosts
The dream poet’s pen: Archetypal psychology and collective dream groups
Creators: name: Bennett, Kim
name: Lefdahl-Davis, Erin
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: Poet David Ray imagines, “The poem is the altar for the dream” (1998, p. 176). This research study used a phenomenological approach to amplify dreams with poetry from a collective perspective through the lens of archetypal psychology. The research was a collaborative effort of psychopoesis nested in a dream group used to explore the archetypal value of poetry created with dream images portraying the collective psyche and current cultural surround. This study reimagined the conversation between depth psychology, poetics, and dreaming beyond the personal or day-world ego’s interpretations. The focus on collective dreamwork with a dream group attends to the dream poet’s pen and, by doing so, revivifies the imaginal ego, rejuvenates the poetic basis of mind, and refreshes psychopoesis as a meaning-making agent in depth psychology. Through the lens of archetypal psychology, the current research examined the phenomenon of using dreams images to create poetry and applied the process to a group setting in service of the sensus communis
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)
Motor-mouth theory: The case for a REM dream type as probes for motor maintenance of articulation
Creators: name: Arenson, Ken
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2022

description: The origin of a common type of dream, here named the “Holophrastic Linguistic Dream type” (HLD-type), is considered. In the Motor-mouth theory presented, these dreams are run by the brainstem for motor maintenance of articulation, a motor activity required for efficacious speech, to give each tested word a stable phonology in use. The theory rests on a proposal that motor maintenance (mm) functions have always been the physiological purpose of REM-state sleep (RSS). Did HLD-type dreams begin when speech began? Our written record of HLD-type dreams extends back only to the beginning of writing. The idea of this role for them arose out of the two fundamental observables in every collection of HLD-type dreams, including mine: 1. Holophrastic is best used in the report of the HLD-type dream. 2. Using holophrasis, the dream report puns a true context. (The true context refers to puns among the words or speech sounds in the report, which relate to the dreamer’s concerns at the time.) The RSS function occurs very broadly among biota on earth. It is very old, perhaps hundreds of millions of years old. In H. sapiens, specific Brainstem Region Circuits (BRC) will run this form of sleep, the RSS. The BRC will include the medulla oblongata, which apparently controls Cranial Nerve XII, the hypoglossal nerve that innervates the crucial tongue muscles needed for speech. When meaningful calls and words originate in any species using RSS, a new motor function also must begin – articulation, and it must be maintained by a new mm function. For a narrative hook to hang my theory on, the essay imagines the beginning of word-use in an archaic Homo species, some 2 million years ago. That new mm function was quickly implemented for nightly testing by the BRC, which adapted a test by initiating dreams: the HLD-type.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 15, No 1 (April 2022)