Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative performance of the different orthotopic urinary diversions

Purpose of review Majority of patients undergoing radical cystectomy are suitable for orthotopic urinary diversion. The effect of different techniques of neobladder reconstruction on early and long-term postoperative complications is still being determined. Additionally, it is unclear which type of neobladder provides the best patient satisfaction. The purpose of this article is to review the outcomes of different orthotopic urinary diversions following radical cystectomy. Recent findings Ileal neobladder is the preferred type of orthotopic urinary diversion following radical cystectomy. Hautmann and Studer, which are the most common orthotopic diversion techniques, provide daytime continence rate up to 87% and 92%, respectively. However, nighttime continence is achieved in about 50% of patients. High-level evidence supports the long-term safety of orthotopic neobladder in terms of renal function, even in patients with a glomerular filtration rate <60 ml/min. Sexual dysfunction is the only independent factor associated with poorer quality of life in these patients. Summary The best type of neobladder is still uncertain. However, Studer and Hautmann are the most commonly performed techniques that provide favorable short- and long-term outcomes.
Does the Environmental Regulation Intensity and ESG Performance Have a Substitution Effect on the Impact of Enterprise Green Innovation: Evidence from China

Against the background of green and sustainable development strategy, it is an effective way to carry out green innovation to cope with the increasing intensity of government environmental regulation for enterprises. Nevertheless, the regulatory role of ESG performance has been ignored. Based on panel data from Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2019, this paper mainly studies whether the environmental regulation intensity and ESG performance have a substitution effect on the impact of green innovation by constructing a double fixed effect model. The empirical results showed that first, positive ESG performance is conducive to promoting green innovation. Second, there is a U-shaped relationship between the intensity of environmental regulation and high-quality green innovation, which reflects the effect of “offset before compensation”. With the increasing intensity of environmental regulation, high-quality green innovation tends to crowd out low-quality green innovation, which further improves the practical test of the “Porter Hypothesis”. Third, the positive ESG performance showed a negative regulatory effect between environmental regulation intensity and enterprise green innovation, which means that environmental regulation intensity and ESG performance have a substitution effect, and the effect is heterogeneous in different enterprises. This paper makes a beneficial exploration on how environmental regulation intensity and ESG performance affect enterprise green innovation, and demonstrates the regulatory role of ESG performance between environmental regulation intensity and green innovation, which reveals the impact of macro environmental policies on the green innovation behavior of micro subjects, and contributes to the further improvement of ESG concept and green innovation theory.
Comparison of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) immunohistochemical expression and outcomes in canine nasal carcinomas treated with radiation therapy

The expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) has been reported in human nasopharyngeal and canine nasal carcinomas. The present study measured EGFR and COX-2 expression and calculated correlations between these proteins and clinical variables and outcomes in dogs with nasal carcinoma treated with radiation therapy. Before treatment, the immunohistochemistry of EGFR and COX-2 was performed in 67 biopsied tissues from canine nasal carcinomas. The correlations between these protein levels, clinical variables, and outcomes were evaluated. EGFR and COX-2 were detected in 88.1% and 82.1% of our samples, respectively. Neither EGFR nor COX-2 was associated with T stage and cribriform plate destruction. Dogs with low EGFR levels had a significantly longer survival time than dogs with high EGFR expression (P=0.043). The COX-2 expression level was not significantly associated with survival times after radiation therapy (P=0.653). Overexpression of EGFR is negatively correlated with survival in dogs with nasal carcinoma. Future studies should identify tumor biomarkers to develop therapeutic targets for effective treatments for canine nasal carcinomas.
Chest Tube Placement in Mechanically Ventilated Trauma Patients: Differences between Computed Tomography-Based Indication and Clinical Decision

The rate of occult pneumothorax in intubated and mechanically ventilated trauma patients until initial computed tomography (CT) remains undetermined. The primary aims of this study were to analyze initial chest CTs with respect to the thoracic pathology of trauma, the clinical injury severity, and chest tube placement (CTP) before and after CT. In a single-center retrospective analysis of 616 intubated and mechanically ventilated adult patients admitted directly from the scene to the emergency department (ED), 224 underwent CTP (36%). Of these, 142 patients (62%) underwent CTP before CT, of which, 125 (88%) had significant chest injury on CT. Seventeen patients had minor or absent chest injuries, most of which were associated with transient or unrecognized tracheal tube malposition. After CT, CTP was performed in another 82 patients, of which, 56 (68.3%) had relevant pneumothorax and 26 had minor findings on CT. Sixty patients who had already undergone CTP before CT received another CTP after CT, of which, 15 (25%) had relevant pneumothorax and 45 (75%) had functionality issues or malposition requiring replacement. Nine patients showed small pneumothorax on CT, and did not undergo CTP (including four patients with CTP before CT). The physiological variables were unspecific, and the trauma scores were dependent on the CT findings for identifying patients at risk for CTP. In conclusion, the clinical decisions for CTP before CT are associated with relevant false-negative and false-positive cases. Clinical assessment and CT imaging, together, are important indicators for CTP decisions that cannot be achieved by using clinical assessment or CT alone.
Phosphorylated Curdlan Gel/Polyvinyl Alcohol Electrospun Nanofibres Loaded with Clove Oil with Antibacterial Activity

Fibrous membranes based on natural polymers obtained by the electrospinning technique are a great choice for wound dressings. In order to promote an efficient wound repair, and to avoid antibiotics, antibacterial plant extracts can be incorporated. In the present work, the new electrospun nanofibre membranes based on monobasic phosphate curdlan (PCurd) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) were obtained for the first time. To establish the adequate mixing ratio for electrospinning, the behaviour of the PCurd and PVA mixture was studied by viscometry and rheology. In order to confer antimicrobial activity with the nanofibre membrane, clove essential oil (CEO) was incorporated into the electrospun solution. Well-defined and drop-free nanofibres with a diameter between 157 nm and 110 nm were obtained. The presence of CEO in the obtained nanofibres was confirmed by ATR–FTIR spectroscopy, by the phenolic and flavonoid contents, and by the antioxidant activity of the membranes. In physiological conditions, CEO was released from the membrane after 24 h. The in vivo antimicrobial tests showed a good inhibitory activity against E. coli and higher activity against S. aureus. Furthermore, the viability cell test showed the lack of cytotoxicity of the nanofibre membrane with and without CEO, confirming its potential use in wound treatment.
Risk aversion impacts on need for transparency and traceability pre- and post-pandemic

ABSTRACT The need for transparency and traceability of product information has increased due to the increased attention towards food contamination in both the United States and China. Examining this need is vital to companies considering business decisions involving product development, supply chain management, and marketing tactics. To address this need, companies must understand the underlying motivators. Through MANOVA analysis, this paper studies how risk aversion impacts consumers’ need for transparency and traceability concerning product information both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Results obtained pre-COVID-19 indicate that high-risk-averse individuals have an increased need for transparency and traceability. Post-COVID-19, results indicate no difference between high- and low-risk-averse individuals. Study 1 (pre-pandemic) results suggest that firms need to consider risk related to their product when increasing transparency and traceability. Study 2 (post-pandemic) results indicate that firms should create a generalised approach to improve transparency and traceability. The pandemic minimised the impact of risk aversion on the need for transparency and traceability.
Perceived Information Distortion about COVID-19 Vaccination and Addictive Social Media Use among Social Media Users in Hong Kong: The Moderating Roles of Functional Literacy and Critical Literacy

During the COVID-19 pandemic, distorted information about the COVID-19 vaccination is widely disseminated through social media. The present study examined the association between perceived information distortion about COVID-19 vaccination on social media, individuals’ functional and critical literacy, and addictive social media use (SMU), as well as the moderating roles of functional and critical literacy in the association between perceived information distortion and addictive SMU among social media users in Hong Kong. A web-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted among 411 Chinese citizens from June to August 2021. Findings showed that after adjusting for significant background variables, including age, gender, marital status, education, occupation, and income, functional literacy was negatively associated with addictive SMU. In addition, significant moderation effects of functional literacy and critical literacy were also observed, such that a positive association between perceived information distortion on social media and addictive SMU was significant among participants with lower functional literacy or higher critical literacy. Findings highlight the importance of improving functional literacy in addictive SMU prevention for social media users. Special attention should also be paid to the potential influence of critical literacy on addictive SMUs.
Spectral Collocation Algorithm for Solving Fractional Volterra-Fredholm Integro-Differential Equations via Generalized Fibonacci Polynomials

In this research article, we build and implement an efficient spectral algorithm for handling linear/nonlinear mixed Volterra-Fredholm integro-differential equations. First, we expand the exact solution as a truncated series of the generalized Fibonacci polynomials, and then we discretize the equation via Simpson's quadrature formula. Finally, we collocate the resulted residual at the roots of the shifted first-kind Chebyshev polynomials. Also, the rate of convergence is studied and the truncation error estimate is reported. Some numerical examples are exhibited to prove the applicability and accuracy of the algorithm.
In-phase Variations of Spring and Summer Droughts over Northeast China and Their Relationship with the North Atlantic Oscillation

Analyses of the standardized precipitation evaporation index (SPEI), using the season-reliant empirical orthogonal function (S-EOF) method, indicate that the second leading mode of drought over Northeast China features an in-phase variation from spring to summer. Such an in-phase change is closely connected to the persistence of geopotential height anomalies around Lake Baikal. The positive height anomalies around Lake Baikal, with an equivalent barotropic structure in the troposphere, can decrease water vapor transport into Northeast China and induce anomalous descending over Northeast China during both seasons, favoring precipitation deficit and high temperature in situ and hence resulting in the synchronous variations of spring and summer droughts. Further investigation reveals that the spring North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) plays a notable role in the in-phase change of spring-summer droughts over Northeast China. The positive phase of spring NAO could induce spring drought over Northeast China directly through its influence on the above atmospheric circulations via a zonal wave train emanating from the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, it can also increase the soil moisture in Central Siberia by enhancing the local snow depth. The wetter soil moisture in the following summer, in turn, increases the meridional temperature gradient between the middle and high latitudes and then forces westerly anomalies around 60°N, consequently yielding positive height anomalies around Lake Baikal which favor the occurrence of summer drought over Northeast China. Therefore, the spring NAO is hypothesized to contribute to the in-phase variations of spring-summer droughts over Northeast China through the combined roles of zonal wave train and Central Siberian soil moisture.
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education

My argument addresses a significant history of philosophical racism–a term borrowed from Mogobe Ramose. The argument is: philosophical racism makes the racist philosophically poor, too. I propose that two philosophical keystones, i.e., ontological simultaneity and mutual causation need to be further developed by engaging non-Western contributions. I conclude by emphasising that childhood studies could level the playing field by paying attention to the intersections of racism and adultism. In turn contribute to inseparable fields like the philosophy of education.
Microencapsulation of a Commercial Food-Grade Protease by Spray Drying in Cross-Linked Chitosan Particles

In this study, the use of spray-drying technology for encapsulating Flavourzyme® (protease–peptidase complex) was evaluated to overcome the limitations (low encapsulation efficiency and no large-scale production) of other encapsulation processes. To the best of our knowledge, spray drying has not been applied previously for the immobilization of this enzyme. Firstly, bovine serum albumin (BSA), as a model protein, was encapsulated by spray drying in chitosan and tripolyphoshate (TPP) cross-linked-chitosan shell matrices. The results showed that the chitosan–TPP microcapsules provided a high encapsulation efficiency and better protein stability compared to the non-crosslinked chitosan microcapsules. The effect of enzyme concentration and drying temperature were tested during the spray drying of Flavourzyme®. In this regard, an activity yield of 88.0% and encapsulation efficiency of 78.6% were obtained with a concentration of 0.1% (v/v) and an inlet temperature of 130 °C. Flavourzyme®-loaded chitosan microcapsules were also characterized in terms of their size and morphology using scanning electron microscopy and laser diffractometry.
Measuring Misperceptions?

Abstract Survey data are commonly cited as evidence of widespread misperceptions and misinformed beliefs. This paper shows that surveys generally fail to identify the firm, deep, steadfast, confidently held beliefs described in leading accounts. Instead, even those who report 100% certain belief in falsehoods about well-studied topics like climate change, vaccine side effects, and the COVID-19 death toll exhibit substantial response instability over time. Similar levels of response stability are observed among those who report 100% certain belief in benign, politically uncontested falsehoods—for example, that electrons are larger than atoms and that lasers work by focusing sound waves. As opposed to firmly held misperceptions, claims to be highly certain of incorrect answers are best interpreted as “miseducated” guesses based on mistaken inferential reasoning. Those reporting middling and low levels of certainty are best viewed as making close-to-blind guesses. These findings recast existing evidence as to the prevalence, predictors, correction, and consequences of misperceptions and misinformed beliefs.
Effect of Prenatal Perineal Massage on Postpartum Perineal Injury and Postpartum Complications: A Meta-Analysis

Background The efficacy of perineal massage is controversial. The study was aimed at comparing the effects of perineal massage on perineal injury and complications. Methods PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and ISI Web of Science were searched for literature on the relationship between prenatal perineal massage and postpartum perineal injury and complications until April 2022. Indicators included postpartum perineal tears, perineotomy, postpartum perineal pain, natural labour, and postpartum incontinence. Finally, RevMan5.4 software was used to analyze the extracted data. Results A total of 6487 subjects in 16 studies were included, with 3211 who received perineal massage and 3276 did not. There was no significant difference in 1-2 degree perineal tearing between the intervention group and the control group (RR = 0.96, 95% CI [0.90, 1.03], P = 0.30), and there was no heterogeneity between studies (P = 0.62, I2 = 0%), indicating publication bias. Compared with the control group, prenatal perineal massage significantly reduced the incidence of 3-4 degree perineal tears (RR = 0.56, 95% CI [0.47, 0.67], P < 0.00001), and there was no heterogeneity between studies (P = 0.16, I2 = 30%), indicating publication bias. Compared with the control group, prenatal perineal massage reduced the risk of lateral perineal resection (RR = 0.87, 95% CI [0.80, 0.95], P = 0.001), and there was no heterogeneity between studies (P = 0.14, I2 = 31%), and there was no publication bias. Compared with the control group, prenatal perineal massage reduced the risk of postpartum pain at 3 months (RR = 0.64, 95% CI [0.51, 0.81], P = 0.0002). There was no significant heterogeneity among studies (P = 0.23, I2 = 31%). Conclusion Compared with no prenatal perineal massage, prenatal perineal massage can reduce the risk of perineal injury, the incidence of lateral perineal resection, and the incidence of long-term pain.
A proactive framework within a virtual engineering environment for assembly system energy optimisation

The concept of sustainable manufacturing is increasingly becoming a new trend in the today’s industry, induced by the environmental issues such as global warming and scarcity of natural resources, and subsequently customer and government interactions. This leads to introduce the impacts of the industrial activities to the environment as crucial requirements, side by side to traditional ones such as production cost, product quality and quick response to market demands. Comparing to other sectors among the industry field, the manufacturing sector is a key player in this eco-friendly transformation because of its massive impacts contribution. Energy optimisation is one of the most important features of the developing sustainable manufacturing system; since it has very strong influence on limiting these bad impacts, which often cause increase in the operational cost. This research describes a framework, and its software, which proactively predicts and then optimises the energy consumption of an assembly machine throughout its lifecycle, in particular at the design phase where alternative machine designs and configurations can be examined and evaluated based on their potential energy consumption. The proposed framework benefits from the component-based approach as the modular component is the basic entity to be (re)used and (re)configured throughout machine development process, and virtual engineering technology which facilitates investigating component and machine behaviours virtually with high degree of reliability and robustness throughout its lifecycle. The aim of this research is to link assembly machine process parameters to energy prediction and optimisation requirements in a virtual environment to enable different alternatives to be examined and investigated before the physical build of the machine. For proof of concept demonstration, a case study of a pick-and-place automatic workstation is presented. The energy consumption optimisation is achieved by optimising components motion control and station sequence of operation. In the case study, a number of experiments has been conducted to compare alternative designs and configurations against the original design. The results showed energy saving up to 27%, in spite of number of limitations, comparing to the original design by redefining 1) the component motion profile, 2) mode of operations, 3) start time, and 4) machine trajectory.
Who knows what? Reconfiguring the governance and the capabilities of the supply chain between physical and digital processes in the fashion industry

Abstract On the basis of an exploratory multiple-case qualitative longitudinal study in the fashion industry, this article describes how digital technologies enabled choices among different types of supply chain governance. In doing so, this study responds to calls for governance-oriented longitudinal explorations and suggests an alternative path of governance choices in which the digital technologies become the platform that allows a dynamic discourse between outsourcer and outsourcee. Our results show that, when firms decide to leverage their performances through the adoption of information technology, they need to define their knowledge transfer capacities in order to adopt the appropriate type of governance model. With this article, we contribute to the global value chain literature adding to the knowledge transfer dimension.
Mixture of Sludge and Chicken Manure in Membrane-Less Microbial Fuel Cell for Simultaneous Waste Treatment and Energy Recovery

In addition to disposal issues, the abundance of sludge and chicken manure has been a rising issue in Malaysia. Membrane-less microbial fuel cell (ML-MFC) technology can be considered as one of the potential solutions to the issues of disposal and electricity generation. However, there is still a lack of information on the performance of an ML-MFC powered by sludge and chicken manure. Hence, with this project, we studied the performance of an ML-MFC supplemented with sludge and chicken manure, and its operating parameters were optimized using response surface methodology (RSM) through central composite design (CCD). The optimum operating parameters were determined to be 35 °C, 75% moisture content, and an electrode distance of 3 cm. Correspondingly, the highest power density, COD removal efficiency, and biomass acquired through this study were 47.2064 mW/m2, 98.0636%, and 19.6730 mg/L, respectively. The obtained COD values for dewatered sludge and chicken manure were 708 mg/L and 571 mg/L, respectively. COD values were utilized as a standard value for the substrate degradation by Bacillus subtilis in the ML-MFC. Through proximate analyses conducted by elemental analysis and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), the composition of carbon and magnesium for sludge and chicken manure was23.75% and 34.20% and 78.1575 mg/L and 71.6098 mg/L, respectively. The proposed optimal RSM parameters were assessed and validated to determine the ML-MFC operating parameters to be optimized by RSM (CCD).