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Change within the change: pregnancy, liminality and adventure tourism in Mexico

Abstract Despite the growing number of pregnant women engaging in outdoor adventure activities, very few studies have explored pregnancy or the specific needs and challenges of pregnant women in tourism research. To fill this gap in the literature, we examine the participation of pregnant women in adventure tourism through the theoretical lens of liminality. Conceptualising pregnancy as a liminal stage in which women are ‘suspended’ between two statuses, opens diverse possibilities to delve into women’s experiences of embodiment, bodily image and control. In this sense, pregnancy is understood as an ‘internal change’, which adds specific challenges to women’s practice of adventure tourism, including bodily changes and different perceptions of risk-taking. Similarly, the context of adventure tourism provides an ideal space to reflect on liminal transitions and the ‘outside changes’ that pregnant women go through in the predominantly masculinised spaces that characterise this tourism segment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 35 Mexican women who actively pursue adventure tourism and who had engaged in these activities during at least one pregnancy. The analysis indicates the importance of norms and social expectations experienced by pregnant women when doing adventure tourism. The concept of the ‘rhizomatic body’ proved to be a valuable tool when looking at the social taboos, prohibitions and rules that apply to pregnant women in specific sociocultural contexts (in this case, Mexico). By reframing and reconceptualising pregnant women and their practice of adventure activities, the social construction of pregnancy is elucidated. Finally, the study contributes to the understanding of alternative models and experiences of being a woman in gendered spaces, while shedding light on relevant behavioural patterns among pregnant tourists and the sociocultural impacts of these patterns.
Experimental analyses on local diagnoses through additional poles extracted by R-FRFs

Abstract Within the area of structural dynamics, as for example damage detection and model updating, modal data are extensively used throughout diagnosing of structures. Such diagnoses are generally based on the variations of poles and modes caused by damage and structural modification. In this work, we show the existence of additional poles which can enrich the intrinsic modal database and allow as well to carry out local diagnoses on the system. The possibility to extract such poles from certain response-based frequency response functions (i.e. R-FRFs achieved regardless of knowing exciting forces) is also illustrated. The present is a mainly experimental-based investigation that, aimed at confirming certain previously illustrated theoretical findings, will let the analyst identify the location of structural modifications by measurement procedures in situ not requiring the usage of numerical models.
The complete mitochondrial genome of Orthonychiurus folsomi (Collembola: Onychiuridae)

Abstract The complete mitochondrial genome of Orthonychiurus folsomi (Schäffer 1900) was sequenced, assembled, and annotated. The mitochondrial genome of O. folsomi has a length of 15,283bp and comprises 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes. Two tRNA genes trnS(uga) and trnQ have changed position. A phylogenetic tree of Onychiuridae species showed the polyphyly of this family.
Direct Limit of Krasner (m, n)-Hyperrings

The purpose of this paper is the study of direct limits in category of Krasner (m, n)-hyperrings. In this regards we introduce and study direct limit of a direct system in category (m, n)-hyperrings. Also, we consider fundamental relation , as the smallest equivalence relation on an (m, n)-hyperring R such that the quotient space is an (m, n)-ring, to introduce the fundamental functor from category of Krasner (m, n)-hyperrings to the category of (m, n)-rings. Finally, we study the relationship between fundamental functor and direct limit on Krasner (m, n)-hyperrings. In particular, we prove that the fundamental functor is exact and obtain some its basic properties.
Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Treatment: Facts and Future Trends

Pollution provoked by antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria must be placed as a worldwide health and ecological worry. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are viewed as a greatly reasonable technique concerning water treatments for eliminating organic contaminants categorized as bio-recalcitrant and for the demobilization of pathogens, which are not touchable via traditional methods. This work discusses briefly the main recent facts and future trends in the field of applying AOPs in wastewater treatment. There is an urgent need for strengthening the studies on eliminating pollutants and microorganisms for wastewater reuse utilizing various AOPs. In-depth investigation about their reduction pathways employing AOPs is needed. Coupling AOPs with membrane processes should be kept in mind for better safety and pollutant removal.
Development of a systematic mapping review protocol for the most recent evidence on ruminant infectious disease frequency and disease-associated mortality: Ethiopia as a case study

Abstract Almost 19% of the GDP of Ethiopia results from livestock production. Ruminants, in particular, form the majority of the national herd and are a critical source of income for smallholder farmers. Infectious diseases have been identified as a major cause of reduced livestock productivity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); therefore, a sound and comprehensive understanding of the relevant evidence would be beneficial in order to enable decision making on disease control policies. However, livestock disease data from sub-Saharan Africa is variable and disparate, which poses a challenge for evidence synthesis. This paper describes a protocol for a systematic mapping review of the recent available evidence on ruminant disease prevalence and associated mortality in Ethiopia. Literature sources will be identified using database search strategies. The titles, abstracts and, subsequently, full texts will be screened for inclusion based on predefined eligibility criteria. Specific data will be extracted and a preliminary qualitative assessment of the evidence will be performed using predefined indicators. The planned systematic map will be the first to provide a large-scale overview of the available ruminant disease evidence in Ethiopia; the final output will be an interactive dashboard tool to inform critical stakeholders in policy and research.
Spatial and temporal variability of radium in the Wisconsin Cambrian–Ordovician aquifer system

Compliance monitoring of contaminants in public drinking water supplies results in publicly available data sets that are maintained by state agencies and useful for investigating changes in water quality. In this study, spatial and temporal trends in naturally occurring radium (combined 226Ra + 228Ra) concentrations in groundwater from the Midwestern Cambrian–Ordovician aquifer system were evaluated with a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources compliance data set. Average combined Ra from 2000 to 2018 in the Midwestern Cambrian–Ordovician aquifer system increased from 5.5 to 7.9 pCi/L in the confined region and from 4.8 to 6.6 pCi/L in the unconfined region. On a local scale, the data demonstrate increasing radium in the communities of Sussex (n = 98) and Brookfield (n = 35), and a decreasing trend in nearby Waukesha (n = 176). This study demonstrates the utility of compliance data sets for investigating water quality trends and the importance of geographic scale in examining such data.
Spatial–Spectral Feature Extraction via Deep ConvLSTM Neural Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification

In recent years, deep learning has presented a great advance in the hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Particularly, long short-term memory (LSTM), as a special deep learning structure, has shown great ability in modeling long-term dependencies in the time dimension of video or the spectral dimension of HSIs. However, the loss of spatial information makes it quite difficult to obtain better performance. In order to address this problem, two novel deep models are proposed to extract more discriminative spatial–spectral features by exploiting the convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM). By taking the data patch in a local sliding window as the input of each memory cell band by band, the 2-D extended architecture of LSTM is considered for building the spatial–spectral ConvLSTM 2-D neural network (SSCL2DNN) to model long-range dependencies in the spectral domain. To better preserve the intrinsic structure information of the hyperspectral data, the spatial–spectral ConvLSTM 3-D neural network (SSCL3DNN) is proposed by extending LSTM to the 3-D version for further improving the classification performance. The experiments, conducted on three commonly used HSI data sets, demonstrate that the proposed deep models have certain competitive advantages and can provide better classification performance than the other state-of-the-art approaches.
Spatial hedonic models for environmental hazards and health outcomes

ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between the total cost of services for radioprotection and the health outcomes in Greece with a spatial hedonic model using data from the period 2010 to 2016. We employ spatial analysis in a hedonic price framework to examine the impact of total service cost Nuts 1 level in Greece. We incorporate geographical as well as economic and health personnel effects in order to test for the existence and magnitude of interregional externalities including health-care expenditure, medical capital investment and examinations magnetic resonance imaging. Our findings robustly demonstrate that interregional externalities do matter for the regions of economic linkages implying strong cross-regional spillovers than geographical ones. Furthermore, we isolate the imprint of each service for radioprotection, provided by Greek Atomic Energy Commission, in order to detect the impact of each one in the total cost services. The results support that services for non-ionizing radiation have the strongest impact.
Event-driven adaptive fault-tolerant tracking control for uncertain mechanical systems with application to flexible spacecraft

An event-driven neural network–based fault-tolerant tracking control scheme is investigated for uncertain mechanical systems with performance guaranteed in the presence of unknown actuator faults and external disturbances. Compared with the existing works, the primary advantage is that the detections and identifications of actuator faults are not required, whereas the convergence rate and tracking accuracy can be guaranteed a priori by constructing an adaptive tracking controller with a few aperiodic updates. Moreover, by using the norm-bounding skill, only two adaptive parameters are needed to update online, which dramatically decreases the complexity of the corresponding adaptive schemes. Finally, applications to the attitude stabilization and tracking control of the flexible spacecraft are used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
Solving Knights-and-Knaves with One Equation

Francesco Ciraulo (ciraulo@math.unipd.it, MR ID 807435), ORCID: 0000-0002-4957-4799) is an associate professor of mathematical logic at the University of Padova. He received is Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Palermo in 2007. His research topics include pointfree topology and constructive mathematics. He is also interested in mathematics education and is actively involved in the training of perspective teachers.
Horizontal Inequality in Urban India: A Human Development Perspective

In the current global scenario, India stands at the 130th position in the human development ranking for 2018, wherein the major challenge highlighted is that 26% of this human development remains lost due to inequality (UNDP 2018). Even though the notion of â€˜verticalâ€™ inequality remains a pertinent issue across the globe, the issue of inequality across social groups in India, arising from a historical discrimination and segregation, continues to remain a deep-seated worry for Indiaâ€™s overall development. The level of well-being of the individuals remains directly linked to the groupsâ€™ standard of living. The statements mentioned are also supported by evidence on social group inequalities, wherein the India Exclusion Report 2014-15 states that 59% of the Dalits are employed as labourers in Rural India, 46.5% of the Adivasis are falling in the same category, as against the overall rural population in which only 40% of the individuals are labourers. It is also important to note that, urban inequality remains the major driver for rising inequality in India, thereby requiring an in-depth understanding of inequality (India Inequality Report 2018). This paper focuses on understanding horizontal inequalities across the major social groups in India, Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and the unreserved/ general category in the urban spaces for India. The evidence for horizontal inequalities is scattered, and there remains a lack of quantification and consolidation of evidence for inequalities across social groups. This paper aims to measure horizontal inequalities with a human development perspective, for urban spaces in India utilizing the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) (Round 2), and therefore create actionable evidence for matters of gaps and linkages that remain in the capabilityâ€™s achievement for all the social groups in India.
‘What are you doing for your kids?’ Exploring messages and Canadian parents’ Decisions and perspectives in children’s sport and free play

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore messages, formal (e.g. campaigns) and informal (e.g. parenting networks), heard by Canadian parents within children’s sport and free play and to understand their perceived role in parents’ experiences and decision making in these leisure contexts. Guided by interpretive description, twelve interviews were conducted with sport parents of children in middle childhood. The transcribed interviews were analysed and interpreted using a sociological lens. Our findings, which included three themes: 1) The ‘best’, 2) ‘That’ parent, and 3) Message confusion, suggested that messages from various levels of influence affect parents’ decision making within children’s sport and free play. Informal messages from parenting networks, community norms, and popular parenting labels (e.g. helicopter, over-protective) were influential. Formal messages were found to play less of a direct role. Parents’ perspectives of ‘good parenting’, current parenting ideologies, and the impact of messages are discussed.
Spatial diffusion of economic growth and externalities in Mexico

Economic growth and externalities are rooted in spatial dynamics, however, their spread over space is not unlimited. In this document it is estimated the strength spatial externalities from capital on output and the spatial spillover of the economic growth for Mexican municipalities at different distances. The estimation is carried out implementing a Spatial Durbin Model with distance-based spatial weight matrices in a panel data structure from 1988 to 2013. The results show evidence of weak spatial externalities from capital on output at short distances, say 20 or 60 km. Additionally, it is found that the diffusion of economic growth is directly related to distance, moreover, there is evidence in favor about the convergence hypotheses, finding out that distance between stationary states is insufficient to explain differences among municipalities’ growth rates, but geographical distance matters as well.
Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Should Otoacoustic Emissions Be Added to the Monitoring Protocol? A Systematic Review

Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) refers to a loss of hearing, most commonly unilateral, that occurs suddenly (≤72 h) with no identifiable cause or etiology. To date, there is no standard protocol to predict prognosis (hearing recovery) for patients with ISSNHL. However, studies have shown that changes in otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) often occur prior to changes in audiometric hearing thresholds. OAEs originate from the electrochemical motility of the outer hair cells (OHC) and reflect the integrity of the inner ear, specifically the cochlear amplifier. Therefore, OAEs may be useful as a prognostic predictive factor in patients with ISSNHL from the initial onset of symptoms through recovery. A systematic review of the literature was undertaken to assess the relationship between pure tone thresholds, OAEs, and subjective hearing improvement and/or recovery. Fourteen studies were identified for inclusion, and they overwhelmingly support the inclusion of OAEs in the protocol to monitor ISSNHL recovery. This finding supports the development of a standard diagnostic protocol that includes OAEs to predict patient hearing outcomes.
Cyberbullying in the workplace- an invisible fist “hits” the hardest

Cyberbullying is a very serious and pressing recent phenomenon, however very little research covers the scope of cyberbullying amongst employees. The purpose of this study has been to determine the extent to which workplace cyberbullying is prevalent in South-African organisations, some risk factor associated with it, whether it has a negative psychological effect and performance effect on employees, and whether coping mechanisms help to alleviate the negative effects. A descriptive, diagnostic and quantitative research design was followed and a sample of employees (N = 152) was drawn from a big public utility provider, where they completed an online survey. It was found cyberbullying is prevalent, where it co-occurs with traditional bullying. This study found that there were differences in the psychological characteristics of (a) perceived stress, (b) ICT demands, and (c) the extent of behavioural experiences of bullying when considering the psychological effects of cyberbullying on the individual. Additional emotional reactions to cyberbullying were lowered trust levels, anger, humiliation and emotional exhaustion. In terms of the effects on performance, the overall experience of bullying, rather than specific cyberbullying events, was found to likely to decrease an individual's performance, whereas no support for the effects on organisational outcomes was found. Possible coping mechanisms were found to have varying degrees of effectiveness for alleviating the effects of bullying on perceived stress. Interestingly, coping mechanisms used specifically for cyberbullying increased the adverse effects on ICT demands. This finding indicates that additional coping mechanisms to deal with ICT demands should also be considered. From these results, one can see that cyberbullying is prevalent in the workplace and that it poses a problem in addition to that of traditional bullying. Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za
Beta Katsayılarındaki Değişimin Açıklanmasında İşlem Hacminin Etkisinin İncelenmesi: Banka Hisselerine Dayalı Bir Analiz

Bu calismada guncel bir yaklasim olarak BIST'te islem goren 10 mevduat bankasi icin beta katsayilarinda meydana gelen degisimin aciklanmasinda islem hacminin etkisi incelenmistir. Bankalarin zamanla degisen beta katsayilari Engle (2002) tarafindan gelistirilen AR(p)-DCC-GARCH (p,q) modeli ile modellenmistir. Degiskenler arasindaki es-zamanli iliski analizinde kantil regresyon (Quantile regression) yonteminden yararlanilmistir. Boylece degisen piyasa kosullarinda ilgili degiskenler arasindaki iliski incelenebilmistir. Nedensellik analizinde ise Hatemi-J (2012) tarafindan gelistirilen asimetrik nedensellik testinden yararlanilmistir.Bulgular islem hacmindeki degisimlerin bankalarin beta katsayilarindaki degisimlerin aciklanmasinda kullanilabilecek bir degisken olabilecegine isaret etmektedir.
Effects of Multimodal Intervention Program Among Elite Weightlifters with Knee Pain

Background: There are no previously reported studies on the health care intervention programs to manage knee pain among elite weightlifters. Objectives: The current study investigated the effects of an eight week multimodal knee care intervention (MKCI) program on the intensity of knee pain (IKP), knee functional ability (KFA), pain free knee extension strength (P-KES), pain free single leg functional strength (P-SLS), pain free double leg functional strength (PDLS) and the quality of professional weightlifting (QOPL) among elite weightlifters. Methods: A total of eleven national Olympic weightlifters with knee pain (age: 21.55 ± 3.91 years, height: 161.09 ± 11.14 cm, and weight: 69.18 ± 15.99 kg) participated in a within subject, repeated measures, single blinded, self-controlled comparative study for a total period of 16 weeks. The first four weeks of the study was set as a self-controlled phase whereas the MKCI was started at the fourth week and continued over for a period of another eight weeks until 12th week. The IKP, KFA, P-KES, P-SLS and P-DLS and QOPL were measured repeatedly at first week (pre-baseline), fourth week (pre-intervention), 12th week (post-intervention) and 16th week (follow-up). Wilcoxon signed rank test and Friedman test were used to analyze the study measures. Results: The IKP, KFA, P-KES, P-SLS and P-DLS significantly improved by 16th week when compared to fourth week (P < 0.05). The KSC improved significantly by 12th week and 16th week (P < 0.05). The QOPL showed a trend of improvement over the study period. Conclusions: MKCI was a feasible program which showed positive effects in improving IKP, KFA, P-KES, P-SLS, P-DLS and KSC among elite weightlifters with knee pain.
RMB Exchange Rate: Moving Towards a Floating Regime

The major challenge is that the exchange rate does not respond adequately to changes in market supply and demand. When the exchange rate deviates from economic fundamentals, expectation for one-way currency fluctuation and large-scale capital flow follow. Authorities are then forced to intervene in the foreign exchange market. This affects the independence and effectiveness of monetary policy and also jeopardises domestic economic stability. Additionally, regular intervention in the foreign exchange market has negative effects on economic upgrading, RMB internationalisation and outbound investment.
Crustal nature and lithospheric structure of the Okinawa Trough

The Okinawa Trough (OT) is a back‐arc basin located in the eastern edge of the Eurasian Plate. The stage of back‐arc spreading and the exact crustal thickness of the OT are still controversial. To determine the crustal nature and lithospheric structure of the OT, the Moho discontinuity depth of the OT is calculated through the Parker–Oldenburg iterative inversion method based on the Bouguer gravity anomaly data in this article. The result shows that the crustal thickness of the OT is 15–27 km, thinner than those of the typical continental crust, and thicker than those of the normal oceanic crust. In this study, the formation and evolution of marginal basins or back‐arc basins is divided into four stages based on the crustal thickness of the basin. By comparing crustal thickness and heat flow of typical marginal basins located in global passive continental margins and continental rift, it can be inferred that the OT is at a stage later than continental drift. We suggest that the southern and middle OT are at the early stage of back‐arc spreading, while the northern OT is still at the ocean–continent transitional stage. There may have been initial oceanic crust developed at the spreading center in the southern OT. The tomographic images of the OT show that there is low‐velocity anomalous mantle beneath the OT, providing deep geophysical evidence for back‐arc spreading of the OT.