bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Polymorphism rs143384 GDF5 reduces the risk of knee osteoarthritis development in obese individuals and increases the disease risk in non-obese population
Authors: Novakov Vitaly , Novakova Olga , Churnosova Maria , Aristova Inna , Ponomarenko Marina , Reshetnikova Yuliya , Churnosov Vladimir , Sorokina Inna , Ponomarenko Irina , Efremova Olga , Orlova Valentina , Batlutskaya Irina , Polonikov Alexey , Reshetnikov Evgeny , Churnosov Mikhail
Published: March 2024

Background

We investigated the effect of obesity on the association of genome-wide associative studies (GWAS)-significant genes with the risk of knee osteoarthritis (KOA).

Methods

All study participants (n = 1,100) were divided into 2 groups in terms of body mass index (BMI): BMI ≥ 30 (255 KOA patients and 167 controls) and BMI < 30 (245 KOA and 433 controls). The eight GWAS-significant KOA single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of six candidate genes, such as LYPLAL1 (rs2820436, rs2820443), SBNO1 (rs1060105, rs56116847), WWP2 (rs34195470), NFAT5 (rs6499244), TGFA (rs3771501), GDF5 (rs143384), were genotyped. Logistic regression analysis (gPLINK online program) was used for SNPs associations study with the risk of developing KOA into 2 groups (BMI ≥ 30 and BMI < 30) separately. The functional effects of KOA risk loci were evaluated using in silico bioinformatic analysis.

Results

Multidirectional relationships of the rs143384 GDF5 with KOA in BMI-different groups were found: This SNP was KOA protective locus among individuals with BMI ≥ 30 (OR 0.41 [95%CI 0.20–0.94] recessive model) and was disorder risk locus among individuals with BMI < 30 (OR 1.32 [95%CI 1.05–1.65] allele model, OR 1.44 [95%CI 1.10–1.86] additive model, OR 1.67 [95%CI 1.10–2.52] dominant model). Polymorphism rs143384 GDF5 manifested its regulatory effects in relation to nine genes (GDF5, CPNE1, EDEM2, ERGIC3, GDF5OS, PROCR, RBM39, RPL36P4, UQCC1) in adipose tissue, which were involved in the regulation of pathways of apoptosis of striated muscle cells.

Conclusions

In summary, the effect of obesity on the association of the rs143384 GDF5 with KOA was shown: the “protective” value of this polymorphism in the BMI ≥ 30 group and the “risk” meaning in BMI < 30 cohort.
Three-dimensional boundary layer flow and heat/mass transfer through stagnation point flow of hybrid nanofluid
Authors: Ferdows Mohammad , Shamshuddin MD. , Rashad Ahmed Mohammed , Murtaza Md Gulum , Salawu Sulyman Olakunle
Published: March 2024

This project covers the investigation of the boundary layer flow of a hybrid nanofluid past a biaxial stretching/shrinking sheet. The hybrid nanofluid consists of copper (Cu) and alumina ($${Al}_{2}{O}_{3}$$

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water hybrid nanofluid. The governing partial differential equations (PDEs) are derived from Navier-Stokes equations. The system of PDEs is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations using an appropriate similarity transformation. MATLAB’s bvp4c function is used to numerically solve the resulting system of governing ordinary differential equations. The aim of this study is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the intricate behavior displayed by hybrid nanofluids on the stagnant directed flow of extended/shrunk flat surfaces, considering the effects of Brownian motion, thermophoresis, and various nanoparticles. The generated numerical results of flow profiles, skin friction coefficient, and Nusselt number have been presented graphically and discussed in the relevance of the governing parameters contributing to the flow. The outcomes reveal that the velocity components are reduced with increasing $${Al}_{2}{O}_{3}-$$

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water nanofluid volume fraction. A monotonical increase in the parameters stretching/shrinking and suction/injection with a corresponding rise in both nanoparticles volume fraction propels heat gradient rate. An increase in the Schmidt numbers encourages a mass transfer field due to an enhanced boundary viscosity. The validation of numerical results is done with previously published results. Through our results, we have found that the performance of a hybrid nanofluid is more significant than other fluids. In addition, this study enhances the progress of theoretical comprehension by endeavoring to resolve the intricate interplay between fluid dynamics and thermal characteristics through the utilization of numerical approaches.
Application of a novel geometric seismic attribute for enhancing fault visualization in areas of potential carbon capture and storage
Authors: Florez Diana K. Salazar , Bedle Heather
Published: March 2024

Seismic fault interpretation is a critical task for any type of energy industry. Correct fault mapping can be crucial for the success of a project. Common geometric seismic attributes, such as coherence and curvature, are routinely employed to enhance fault visualization in seismic data. However, they can show limitations for subseismic faulting. In this study, we highlight the usefulness of including novel aberrancy attributes for fault identification in multiattribute analysis and unsupervised machine learning (ML) techniques. We compare broadband coherence, curvature, multispectral coherence, and aberrancy when trying to map faults in a potential CO2 storage location. We also compare self-organizing maps and generative topographic mapping techniques when including and excluding aberrancy attributes. Our results show that integrating aberrancy attributes during multiattribute analysis and ML steps considerably enhanced the visualization of lineaments with strikes similar to those of fracture sets seen only with well-log data and that were not clearly captured by the conventional seismic attributes and ML scenarios excluding aberrancy attributes. We demonstrate the potential of these novel geometric seismic attributes to map subseismic faults. We also provide an example that can encourage interpreters to include them in their interpretation workflows.
Geoscientists Around the Globe
Authors:   The SEG Jedi Committee
Published: March 2024

Manika Prasad of SEG's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee interviews Ravi Sharma, associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
Seismic Soundoff: Thinking like an algorithm: Utilizing machine learning in seismic data
Authors: Geary Andrew
Published: March 2024

Heather Bedle, principal investigator at the research consortium Attribute Assisted Seismic Processing and Interpretation (AASPI), shares how AASPI reveals hidden patterns in seismic data, pushes the boundaries of geologic interpretation, and reshapes our understanding of the earth through cutting-edge research and technology.
Prenatal maternal PTSD as a risk factor for offspring ADHD: A register-based Swedish cohort study of 553 766 children and their mothers
Authors: Borgert Michael , Melin Amandah , Hollander Anna-Clara , Rahman Syed
Published: March 2024

Background

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly heritable, though environmental factors also play a role. Prenatal maternal stress is suggested to be one such factor, including exposure to highly distressing events that could lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The aim of this study is to investigate whether prenatal maternal PTSD is associated with offspring ADHD.

Method

A register-based retrospective cohort study linking 553 766 children born in Sweden during 2006–2010 with their biological parents. Exposure: Prenatal PTSD. Outcome: Offspring ADHD. Logistic regression determined odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for ADHD in the offspring. Adjustments were made for potential covariates, including single parenthood and possible indicators of heredity measured as parental ADHD and maternal mental disorders other than PTSD. Subpopulations, excluding children with indicators of heredity, were investigated separately.

Results

In the crude results, including all children, prenatal PTSD was associated with offspring ADHD (OR: 1.79, 95% CI: 1.37–2.34). In children with indicators of heredity, the likelihood was partly explained by it. Among children without indicators of heredity, PTSD was associated with offspring ADHD (OR: 2.32, 95% CI: 1.30–4.14), adjusted for confounders.

Conclusions

Prenatal maternal PTSD is associated with offspring ADHD regardless of indicators of heredity, such as parental ADHD or maternal mental disorder other than PTSD. The association is partly explained by heredity and socioeconomic factors. If replicated in other populations, preferably using a sibling design, maternal PTSD could be identified as a risk factor for ADHD.
Politicizing Disaster
Authors: Millington Chris
Published: March 2024

The deadliest peacetime railway accident in French history occurred at 7:52 p.m. on December 23, 1933, at Pomponne on the outskirts of Paris. Over two hundred people died as a result of the tragedy. This article explores the responses to the disaster. These drew on long-standing fears over the power of modern technology, not to mention its potential destructiveness as witnessed over a decade previously during the Great War. Yet understandings of the accident and its causes also spoke to anxieties over the contemporary French sense of political crisis, a crisis that the crash at Pomponne helped nurture. The Right and extreme Right came to subsume the accident into its broader campaign against the Third Republic that would end in the violence of February 6, 1934. Study of the Pomponne disaster thus sheds new light both on French anxieties about “modernity” and on the emergence of right-wing antiparliamentarianism in 1930s France.
Introduction
Authors: Fickle Tara , Patterson Christopher B.
Published: March 2024

The introduction conceptualizes video games as a media terrain that blends Asia and America in ways that invoke racial anxieties of yellow peril, racial mixture, miscegenation, and fetish, and the economic unfreedoms of those who manufacture and program such technology in Asia. To understand these racial anxieties, the authors provide a brief history of the entanglements of video games with Asia and Asian American racializations, tracing the ways Asian immigrants have been seen within gamelike (or “ludo-orientalist”) terms, and how studies of video games have often reiterated techno-orientalist discourses. The authors then discuss “interaction” as the editorial method they employ in order to avoid universalist definitions of games or play, to instead encourage ambiguity and ambivalence in how contributors engage with each other, and to seek out what differences (and divergences) games make for how we understand race, Asia/America, and ourselves.
Playable Deniability
Authors: Moore Keita
Published: March 2024

Chapter 4 considers the Metal Gear Solid series (Konami, 1998–2015), which follows several covert agents as they infiltrate terrorist bases and active war zones. It analyzes the player character Solid Snake as half-Japanese and half-white, locating Snake’s biraciality in the context of Japanese racial formations. The chapter argues that Snake’s racialization premediates the games’ antiwar and antinuclear message in ways that absent Japan itself from the series’ overall critique of global militarism. In so doing, it develops the concept of “playable deniability” to describe the formal processes that allow play to appear free from the historical politics around militaristic violence in Japan. In the end, this research speaks to the ways that specific representations of biraciality preserve the primacy of play—the political inconsequentiality of action—via a racial logic that mediates play.
The Trophy Called “Asian Hands”
Authors: Tripathy Prabhash Ranjan
Published: March 2024

Chapter 6 offers a critical engagement with the notion of “Asian hands” and explores how this myth produces meaning for/in the fighting game community (FGC). Through a sociohistorical analysis, the chapter explores, first, how the mythic establishes the ontology of the Asian player as incompatible with and even destructive to the ludic structure of the game and the idea of fairness embedded in it; second, why the form of play embodied by the Asian hand is perceived as a challenge to the codified, rule-bound ludic structure of the game; and, third, how and why “Asian hands” within the meritocratic structure of the game and the FGC work as trophies, something to be possessed only by defeating.
Colonial Moments in Japanese Video Games
Authors: Hutchinson Rachael
Published: March 2024

Games from Japan carry a double colonial legacy—that of the oppressor in the Asia-Pacific, and that of the oppressed under Western imperialism in Asia and the Allied Occupation. This double coloniality is explored through the SoulCalibur (1995–), Final Fantasy (1987–), and Metal Gear (1987–) series to see how colonial complexities function across different genres. Colonial legacies coalesce in the visual and narrative representations of player-characters and non-player-characters alike, illuminating their diegetic motivation and extradiegetic reasoning for their character design, pointing to specific ideologies of identity, belonging, and ownership of place. Through close reading, certain themes, motifs, and imagery in the games come into focus as key points of negotiation with the past. Colonial power dynamics emerge not only between Japan and Asia or Japan and the West but also between Japan and its own Indigenous populations.
Romancing the Night Away
Authors: Conley Miyoko
Published: March 2024

Chapter 11 examines the queering of animate hierarchies in Hatoful Boyfriend (2013) and Tusks: The Orc Dating Sim (2017), two independent dating games with nonhuman love interests that deal with the intersection of nonhuman animals, Asian popular culture, and biopolitics. Through an analysis of their datable characters and mechanics, the author argues that the games illustrate how tightly woven race, nationality, sexuality, and animality are in determining which lives are considered more valuable. Specifically, they expand on notions of contamination and toxicity in relation to Asianness, particularly around the weaponization of so-called Asian diseases and imperial logics that view Asians as invading hordes. While Hatoful Boyfriend and Tusks highlight different ways Asianness traverses animate hierarchies, including to reinforce them, they ultimately destabilize them and take pleasure in reforming non-normative intimacies to resist imperial legacies and imagine future worlds.
Coda
Authors: Patterson Christopher B. , Fickle Tara
Published: March 2024

The coda speculates on the world-making potentials of games in providing new ways of understanding race—both race in games and race in the everyday. The authors make a case for the study of games based not merely on the massive economic potential of the industry or the similarly boundless potential of the medium but also on games as an inherently political site where race, alongside other configurations of difference and power, is made and remade through play. The coda does so by examining several genres of role-playing games in terms of their procedural logics of racial management, thereby asking how game logics can express varying and often contentious ways of imagining race, particularly from an institutional (as well as an editorial and curatorial) standpoint. Specifically, the authors examine the racial logics structuring the Mass Effect series, Genshin Impact, and Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Secularism, Hypocrisy, and the Afterlives of Thomas Paine
Authors: Murison Justine S.
Published: March 2024

The wager of this chapter is that Thomas Paine’s cultural afterlife, especially in antebellum evangelical circles, as both an open atheist and, however contradictorily, a sneaking moral hypocrite can generatively recalibrate how scholars of the Early Republic define “religion” and help us to explain more precisely why one’s private morality came to be a public question in the United States despite the disestablishment of state churches. As this chapter argues, the rise of hypocrisy as a moral value is not so much a question of the persistence of religion in the public sphere but one of how secular society structures—and disciplines—morality. As such, hypocrisy—which signals a disconnection between public persona and private self—came to operate, this essay suggests, as a potent language of morality in our secular age, a language that becomes particularly pervasive in and through the novels of the period.
Queering Abolition
Authors: Stein Jordan Alexander
Published: March 2024

In ways that have not been significantly explored, abolitionist media is animated by ideological presuppositions about the inevitability of domestic familial life and the naturalness of gender roles. This chapter argues that abolitionist media is a significant agent for the nineteenth-century in the development of what comes to be called heteronormativity in the twentieth century. By focusing queer critique on a domain like abolition, whose established historiography has been little focused queer sexuality, this chapter wagers that we can rethink and reimagine the stakes of even our most familiar archives in critical terms.
Νεοελληνικές διαλεκτικές ποικιλίες και η διδακτική τους αξιοποίηση
Authors: Τσόκα Όλγα
Published: March 2024

Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή μελετά αφενός τα βασικά χαρακτηριστικά της γλωσσικής ποικιλίας (περιοχών) των Ιωαννίνων και αφετέρου τη θέση των γλωσσικών ποικιλιών (‘διαλέκτων’/‘ιδιωμάτων’) στο ελληνικό εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα. Εισηγείται τη διδακτική αξιοποίηση των γλωσσικών ποικιλιών στην εκπαίδευση, στο πλαίσιο των γλωσσικών μαθημάτων. Με βάση τις αρχές του διδιαλεκτισμού καταρτίστηκε διδακτικό σενάριο βασισμένο σε αυθεντικά κείμενα γραμμένα στη γλωσσική ποικιλία των Ιωαννίνων και του Ρεθύμνου (Κρήτης), το οποίο παρουσιάστηκε στους/στις μαθητές/-τριες της Α ́ Λυκείου Πρότυπων/Πειραματικών Σχολείων των νομών Ιωαννίνων, Ρεθύμνου, Αττικής. Σκοπός ήταν να διαπιστωθεί, μέσω ανώνυμων δομημένων ερωτηματολογίων, η αντίδραση των μαθητών/τριών των συγκεκριμένων γεωγραφικών περιοχών στη διδακτική μας πρόταση και κατ’ επέκταση να διερευνηθούν οι στάσεις τους απέναντι στο ενδεχόμενο αξιοποίησης των γλωσσικών ποικιλιών στην εκπαίδευση, τις (γεωγραφικές) γλωσσικές ποικιλίες που θα προτιμούσαν να διδαχθούν, αλλά και να προτείνουν οι ίδιοι/ίδιες τον τρόπο που θα ήθελαν να γίνει αυτό. Επιπλέον, διενεργήθηκε δειγματοληπτική έρευνα μέσω ανώνυμου ηλεκτρονικού ερωτηματολογίου (Google Form) σε εκπαιδευτικούς/φιλολόγους της Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης (Γυμνασίων/Λυκείων) των παραπάνω περιοχών με στόχο να διαπιστωθούν οι στάσεις τους απένταντι στους/στις διαλεκτόφωνους/-ες μαθητές/-τριες, όπου τυχόν υπάρχουν, και γενικότερα τη χρήση και τη διδασκαλία των γλωσσικών ποικιλιών στο σχολείο. Σημαντικά ευρήματα προέκυψαν από τη συγκριτική αποτίμηση των απαντήσεων των μαθητών/- τριών και των εκπαιδευτικών/φιλολόγων σε σχέση με τη μεταβλητή του νομού όπου υλοποιήθηκε η έρευνα. Ιδιαίτερη έμφαση, κατά την επεξεργασία των απαντήσεων, αποδόθηκε στις στάσεις/θέσεις των μαθητών/-τριών και των εκπαιδευτικών του νομού Ιωαννίνων καθώς η γλωσσική ποικιλία της περιοχής αποτελεί το επίκεντρο της παρούσας διατριβής. Τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας αποτιμώνται ως θετικά σε σχέση με τη στάση μαθητών/-τριών και εκπαιδευτικών προς τις ΝΕ διαλέκτους. Στις απαντήσεις των δύο ομάδων-στόχων παρατηρούνται αποκλίσεις ανά γεωγραφική περιοχή, γεγονός που αναδεικνύει, μεταξύ άλλων, το ζήτημα της ταυτότητας των διαλεκτόφωνων ομιλητών/-τριών. Η παρούσα έρευνα επαληθεύει βέβαια πορίσματα προγενέστερων ερευνών, παρόλα αυτά βρίσκει την εκπαιδευτική κοινότητα πιο ώριμη και δεκτική στην προοπτική της ένταξης των γλωσσικών ποικιλιών στη Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση. Ιδιαίτερης ερευνητικής αξίας θεωρούνται οι προτάσεις που διατύπωσαν οι ίδιοι/ίδιες οι μαθητές/τριες και οι εκπαιδευτικοί στην προοπτική της ενσωμάτωσης των γλωσσικών ποικιλιών στο σχολείο.
Pamięci Profesora Mieczysława Wojciechowskiego
Authors: Chrzanowski Bogdan
Published: March 2024

"W 2022 r. ponieśliśmy też inną bolesną stratę – dokładnie 30 XII 2022 r. odszedł prof. dr hab. Mieczysław Wojciechowski. Urodził się 6 X 1934 r. w Starogardzie. Po ukończeniu studiów w 1957 r. na Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu rozpoczął pracę w Instytucie Historii i Archiwistyki, gdzie pracował do 2008 r. W 1962 r. uzyskał tytuł doktora historii, a w 1979 r. – doktora habilitowanego. Od 1988 r. profesor nadzwyczajny nauk humanistycznych. Po trzech latach w 1991 r. – profesor zwyczajny. Na Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika pełnił różne funkcje: m.in. prodziekana Wydziału Humanistycznego, dyrektora Instytutu Historii i Archiwistyki, kierownika Zakładu Historii Polski i Powszechnej 1918–1944/45. W latach 1990–1994 sprawował funkcję prezesa Polskiego Towarzystwa Historycznego w Toruniu. Był też przewodniczącym Komisji Historii Stosunków Międzynarodowych przy Komitecie Nauk Historycznych PAN. Członek wielu komisji, komitetów i towarzystw naukowych zarówno w kraju, jak i za granicą [...]. Odznaczony Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (1986), Medalem za zasługi dla rozwoju UMK (1999), Krzyżem Oficerskim Odrodzenia Polski (1999). Wielokrotnie wyróżniany."
Bernadeta Schmidt z d. Gałecka, ps. Hanka Mieczkowska
Authors: Skerska Elżbieta
Published: March 2024

11 III 2022 r. zmarła w Bydgoszczy Bernadeta Schmidt z d. Gałecka, ps. Hanka Mieczkowska, członkini Polskiej Tajnej Organizacji – Związek Białej Tarczy; więźniarka polityczna Fordonu i Bojanowa. [...] Od 15 IV 1950 r. do aresztowania 8 XI 1952 r. działała w Bydgoszczy i Toruniu w nielegalnej organizacji młodzieżowej, powstałej w lipcu 1949 r. Założycielem i dowódcą był Lech Zakrzewski ps. Karkołomny, członek rozwiązanej w 1948 r. nielegalnej „Krucjaty Eucharystycznej”, organizacji młodzieży przy kościele pw. św. Ducha w Bydgoszczy. Po złożeniu przysięgi organizacyjnej na ręce L. Zakrzewskiego przyjęła pseudonim „Hanka Mieczkowska”. Objęła funkcję sanitariuszki dysponującej lekami dostarczonymi przez członków organizacji, od 1951 r. także rolę skarbniczki. [...]"
Refleksje na temat książki Olgi Wiechnik, Platerówki? Boże broń! Kobiety, wojna i powojnie
Authors: Rojewska Anna
Published: March 2024

Refleksje na temat książki Olgi Wiechnik, "Platerówki? Boże broń! Kobiety, wojna i powojnie", wydanej przez Wydawnictwo Poznańskie w styczniu 2023 roku.
The Al Khudairah Necropolis (Sharjah, UAE): Reflections from the 2023 Field Season
Authors: del Cerro Linares Carmen , Fernández Rodríguez Carlos , Gómez Sanz Paula , Alonso García Alicia , González Martín Armando
Published: March 2024

The necropolis from Jebel al Khudairah, located in the Central Region of the Emirate of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) witnessed excavations in 2020 and 2023 from members of the Spanish Archaeological and Archaeobiological Mission at Sharjah, drawn from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In this paper we present a preliminary overview of the results from these two field seasons after completing excavations of five tombs of very diverse types, located in several sectors of the jebel. Only one of them provided remains of burials of at least two individuals accompanied by a metal arrowhead. Nevertheless, the preliminary comparative analysis of the architecture of the structures as well as of the only datable find, allows one to make some suggestions concerning the chronological span of the necropolis.
A Note on the Architectural Layout of the Early Islamic Church on Sir Bani Yas Island, UAE
Authors: Lic Agnieszka , Lichtenberger Achim , Daher Rami Farouk , Zureikat Rana
Published: March 2024

It has been suggested that the church on Sir Bani Yas island, dated to the seventh–eighth century, originally had a tower rising over its south-eastern room. This would be a unique feature as other hitherto known churches in the Gulf dated to the early Islamic period did not have towers. One of the arguments for the existence of the tower has been the increased thickness of the northern wall of the south-eastern room. However, close examination of the remains reveals that the increased thickness of this wall is in fact related to the rectangular apse of the chancel. Other arguments used previously to support the claim that the church had a tower are critically assessed in this paper, which concludes that the Sir Bani Yas church had no tower and that its chancel had a rectangular apse, yet another architectural feature it shares with other early Islamic Gulf churches.
Resorts as multifunctional recreation and tourism centers
Authors: Yavorska V. , Molodetskyi A. , Shashero A. , Prykhodko Z. , Nefedova N.
Published: March 2024

The article deals with the functioning of modern resorts as multifunctional recreation and tourism centers. Today, maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become a trend all over the world. As a result, traditional resort establishments are being modernized and provide the latest innovative wellness and spa services. Ukraine has a rich recreational potential to support existing and develop new resorts that can offer a variety of wellness treatments and leisure activities for various market segments.
Tożsamość pedagogiki chrześcijańskiej i pedagoga w świetle tekstów Jana Pawła II
Authors: Olbrycht Katarzyna
Published: March 2024

Współczesna trudna i dynamiczna sytuacja społeczno-kulturowa, a równocześnie zmiany w postrzeganiu kultury chrześcijańskiej wymagają wnikliwego rozważenia tożsamości pedagogiki chrześcijańskiej, jej specyfiki i najważniejszych funkcji. Autorka przyjmuje, że ważną inspiracją mogą być teksty Jana Pawła II, którego pontyfikat przypadał również na czas trudny dla świata i Kościoła. Właśnie wtedy wiele środowisk zwracało się do Niego, jako jednego z powszechnie uznawanych autorytetów, o wskazania i pomoc. W analizie zostały wykorzystane dwie koncepcje tożsamości: psychospołeczna i koncepcja horyzontu moralnego Charlesa Taylora. Pedagogika chrześcijańska stanowi subdyscyplinę pedagogiki jako nauki, ale także chrześcijańskie pedagogie (działania pedagogiczne i ich programy) oraz refleksję przednaukową dotyczącą tego obszaru problematyki. Zdaniem autorki, analizując tożsamość tej dziedziny, należy dziś skupić uwagę nie tylko na jej przedmiocie – wychowaniu chrześcijańskim – ale także na jej specyfice jako nauce, nauce humanistyczno-społecznej, nauce związanej z chrześcijaństwem i uprawianej przez badaczy chrześcijan. Taka perspektywa pojawia się w rozważaniach nad pedagogiką chrześcijańską stosunkowo rzadziej, a wydaje się uświadamiać ważny jej potencjał i powinności, co wyraźnie wynika z nauczania Jana Pawła II. Zgodnie z tym założeniem prowadzona jest analiza Jego tekstów (wypowiedzi, listów, dokumentów).
Miłość odkrywaniem tajemnicy życia człowieka
Authors: Bałandynowicz Andrzej , Michalski Jarosław , Wolińska Monika
Published: March 2024

Artykuł zgłębia ideę integracji osobowej jako ciągłego, dynamicznego procesu pozytywnej dezintegracji i integracji wtórnej, który obejmuje harmonijny i holistyczny rozwój fizycznych, psychicznych, duchowych i wspólnotowych aspektów ludzkiej natury. Podkreśla się rolę miłości jako najwyższej wartości w aktywizowaniu doświadczeń świata wewnętrznego. Autorzy przekonują, że pokochanie siebie na poziomie zintegrowanej osobowości pozwala na zrewidowanie świata potrzeb, który osiąga swoją najwyższą aktualność w uznaniu prawa do wolności i prawdy. Akceptacja drugiego i afirmacja drugiego są zachowaniami wyrastającymi z miłości, która jest postrzegana jako materialny i duchowy dynamizm człowieka. Osiągnięcie poziomu doświadczeń duchowych warunkujących pojawienie się miłości jako tworzywa kształtującego ontyczny stan miłości oblubieńczej wymaga wyboru priorytetu drugiej osoby jako normy personalistycznej oraz doświadczenia pełnej odpowiedzialności za jej życie.
Przeciw zniewoleniu człowieka i narodów. Aksjologiczny aspekt posłannictwa Sługi Bożego księdza Franciszka Blachnickiego
Authors: Żywczok Alicja
Published: March 2024

Artykuł stanowi rekonstrukcję biograficzną oraz propozycję interpretacji tej części dziedzictwa ks. Franciszka Blachnickiego, która dotyczy problematyki wolności i wyzwolenia, mieszczących się w specyfice aksjologii. Zaprezentowaniu wyników badań służy odpowiednia struktura artykułu. W jego części początkowej sprecyzowano zasadnicze pojęcia, podano założenia metodologiczne, a także nakreślono wizerunek ks. Franciszka Blachnickiego jako człowieka wolnego po to, by fakty biograficzne usytuować w szerszym kontekście. Następnie dokonano uściśleń, w wyniku których ukazano jego pojmowanie wolności indywidualnej i procesu wyzwolenia. Wyodrębniono oraz opisano ich przeciwieństwa (z genealogią), takie jak swawola, niewola i zniewolenie, odnalezione w dorobku Blachnickiego. Przekaz ten wzbogacono wskazówkami, które można uznać za sugestie etyczne, społeczne i wychowawcze Blachnickiego skierowane do współczesnych ludzi. Spuścizna ta stanowi oryginalne, inspirujące studium duchowe, dlatego warto zadbać o odpowiednie odczytywanie przez kolejne pokolenia zawartego w nim pouczenia oraz przesłania.
The Patronage of Literary Criticism
Authors: Mangraviti Fabio
Published: March 2024

The present work is inspired by previous contributions to the development of the Hindi public and print spheres in the 19th century (Dalmia 1997; Orsini 2002; Stark 2007). It aims at extending and integrating previously elaborated presentations by focusing on the patronage provided by colonial institutions to the development of Hindi literary studies in the 1870s and 1880s. The study also considers the role played by Indian sampradāys in enacting the religious and intellectual processes underwriting the expansion of this field. By moving in this direction, the article mainly builds on the investigation of some biographies (jīvnī) of the North Indian devotional poets penned by Bhārtendu Hariścandra in the 1870s. Further, it explores the relationship between these biographies and the anthologies published in the mid-1870s by the Naval Kishor Press. The final section of the contribution provides an introductory analysis of the type of patronage extended to Hariścandra and his works by the Khadgavilas Press in the 1880s. The aim is to draw a comparison between the policies of some earlier private publishing enterprises and those pursued by the new, Hindu-oriented publishing enterprises.
Unified Framework for Choice-Based Facility Location Problem
Authors: Lin Yun Hui , Tian Qingyun , Zhao Yanlu
Published: March 2024

The choice-based facility location (CBFL) problem arises in various industrial and business contexts. The problem stands on a decentralized perspective: Companies set up chains of facilities, and customers determine from which chain or facility to seek service according to their own preferences. Essentially, customer preferences or choices play a key role in characterizing various CBFL problems, which differ mainly in the models or rules used to characterize the choice. Consequently, a large number of formulations appear and are often solved by dedicatedly designed approaches in the literature. Such a situation significantly complicates practitioners’ decision-making process when they are facing practical problems but are unsure which ad hoc model is suitable for their cases. In this article, we address this dilemma by providing a unified modeling framework based on the concept of preference dominance. Specifically, we conceptualize the choice behavior as a sequential two-step procedure: Given a set of open facilities, each customer first forms a nondominated consideration set and then splits the buying power within the set. Such an interpretation renders practitioners high modeling flexibility as they can tailor how preference dominance is constructed according to their specific contexts. In particular, we show that our model can represent several streams of CBFL problems. To support our model’s applicability, we design an efficient exact decomposition algorithm. Extensive computational studies reveal that although the algorithm is designed for a general purpose, it outperforms most approaches that are tailored for ad hoc problems by a large margin, which justifies both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the unified framework.

History: Accepted by Pascal Van Hentenryck, Area Editor for Computational Modeling: Methods & Analysis.

Supplemental Material: The software that supports the findings of this study is available within the paper and its Supplemental Information ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/suppl/10.1287/ijoc.2022.0366 ) as well as from the IJOC GitHub software repository ( https://github.com/INFORMSJoC/2022.0366 ). The complete IJOC Software and Data Repository is available at https://informsjoc.github.io/ .
The Real Effects of Shadow Banking: Evidence from China
Authors: Tian Xuan , Tu Guoqian , Wang Yichu
Published: March 2024

We provide firm-level evidence on the real effects of shadow banking in terms of technological innovation. Firm-to-firm entrusted loans, the largest part of the shadow banking sector in China, enhance the borrowers’ innovation output. The effects are more prominent when the borrowers are subject to severer financial constraints, information asymmetry, and takeover exposures. A plausible underlying channel is capital reallocations from less productive but easily financed lender firms to more innovative but financially less privileged borrower firms. Our paper suggests that shadow banking helps correct bank credit misallocations and thus, serves as a second-best market design in financing the real economy.

This paper was accepted by Kay Giesecke, finance.

Funding: X. Tian and Y. Wang acknowledge financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant 71825002] and the Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Program [Grant BJJWZYJH012019100003014]. G. Tu acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant 72010107001].

Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.00953 .
The Prediction Order Effect: People Are More Likely to Choose Improbable Outcomes in Later Predictions
Authors: Silverman Jackie , Barnea Uri
Published: March 2024

People often need to predict the outcomes of future events. We investigate the influence of order on such forecasts. Six preregistered studies (n = 7,955) show that people are more likely to forecast improbable outcomes (e.g., that an “underdog” will win a game) for predictions they make later versus earlier within a sequence of multiple predictions. This effect generalizes across several contexts and persists when participants are able to revise their predictions as well as when they are incentivized to make correct predictions. We propose that this effect is driven by people’s assumption that improbable outcomes are bound to occur at some point within small sets of independent events (i.e., “belief in the law of small numbers”). Accordingly, we find that the effect is attenuated when the statistical independence of events is made salient to forecasters both through the nature of the predictions themselves (i.e., when the events are from distinct domains) and through directly informing them about statistical independence. These findings have notable practical implications, as policy makers and businesses have the ability to control the order in which people evaluate and predict future events.

This paper was accepted by Yuval Rottenstreich, behavioral economics and decision analysis.

Supplemental Material: The data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.01175 .
Awareness of Chicken Slaughterhouse Business Actors Towards Halal Products
Authors: Nafisaha Basmah , Fajriati Imelda
Published: March 2024

This study aims to provide an empirical picture of halal awareness of chicken slaughterhouse business actors towards halal certification in Indonesia by understanding halal perceptions and the extent of halal risks, critical points, and critical processes in their chicken slaughterhouses. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach with field research methods. The research informants were two chicken slaughterhouse business actors: Mr. Wafir from RPA Semerak and Mr. Isa from RPA Master Chick. Data were obtained through interviews and documentation, with qualitative analysis using deductive methods. Planning Behavior Theory (SDG) is used to understand business actors' perceptions of halal certification, focusing on actual behavior, intentions, attitudes, and knowledge. The results showed that RPA Semerak already has awareness of halal production but does not have awareness of the obligation of halal certification, which is caused by the lack of public and business actors' understanding of the critical point and urgency of halal certification. In addition, tipping point activity related to chicken slicing after slaughter has not yet been considered. As for the RPA Master Chick, despite having awareness about halal certification, it still lacks a thorough understanding of knowledge. The results of this research are expected to contribute to increasing the understanding and awareness of chicken slaughterhouse business actors towards halal certification, as well as assisting related parties in designing education and training programs that are in accordance with the needs of the industry.
Inequalities in waiting times for elective hospital care: what can routine health data and standard analytical methods tell us?
Authors: Howlett Nicholas C , Wood Richard M
Published: March 2024

Background/Aims

Identifying health inequalities can require substantial data and analytical resources. A healthcare setting that may be particularly exposed to inequality is elective care, where hospital waiting times have substantially lengthened since the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate how routine health data and standard analytical methods could be used to identify inequalities in waiting times relating to age, sex, ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation.

Methods

Decision trees were fitted to data on waiting times for 78 510 completed elective treatments from a large NHS organisation in England for the calendar year of 2021. Data were sourced from the Waiting List Minimum Dataset and combined with a local dataset on patient attributes. Analysis was stratified by treatment specialty and whether the treatment was delivered in an outpatient or inpatient setting. A decision tree was fitted to the data at each stratum to assess three questions: To what extent can variation in waiting times be explained by age, sex, ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation? Which variables are most explanatory? In what ‘direction’ is this explanation (eg for sex, did male or female patients wait longer?).

Results

Across the elective hospital specialties assessed, a maximum of 12% of variation in waiting times could be explained by age, sex, ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation. For all decision trees, age appeared as the most important explanative ‘branching’ variable in 54% of cases, followed by socioeconomic deprivation (2%) and sex (1%). Ethnicity was not a statistically significant explanatory variable. Where variation did exist, waiting times were longer for younger patients, female patients and those from areas with greater socioeconomic deprivation.

Conclusions

According to the approach taken in this study, there is little evidence of significant waiting time inequality dependent on sex, socioeconomic deprivation and ethnicity. Analysis of this nature does not confirm a causal association between younger age and longer waiting time, but instead highlights the need for further explorative analysis. Healthcare managers should be cautious about the use of routine health data and standard analytical methods in efforts to identify health inequalities.
The role of digital mental health programs in improving mental healthcare provision
Authors: Harwood Nick , Skinner Stephen
Published: March 2024

With the pressures of long waiting times and limited resources making it hard to deliver timely mental health provision, there is increased interest in using digital mental health programs to support patients and clinicians.
Reducing waits in diagnostics and downstream care
Authors: Clough Isobel
Published: March 2024

The editor explores some of the challenges in NHS diagnostics and the limitations of current waiting list data.
Looking to the future
Authors: Hatchard Joan
Published: March 2024

Joan Hatchard asks: can the NHS recover without dental nurses?
What's your role?
Authors: Waters Rebecca
Published: March 2024

Rebecca Waters discusses your professional involvement in pharmaceutical dentistry.
Advancing your career
Authors: Williams Sam
Published: March 2024

Sam Williams busts some common myths holding people back this National Apprenticeship Week.
A supportive solution
Authors: Wiseman Georgia
Published: March 2024

Georgia Wiseman highlights why supporting dental nurses is more important than ever.
Carving out your career path
Authors: Wilson Emma
Published: March 2024

Emma Wilson offers some tips for a successful start in dentistry.
Game changers in dentistry
Authors: Sorsa Timo
Published: March 2024

Timo Sorsa discusses the leaps forward in dentistry from quick diagnosis to efficient treatment of gum diseases.
Unique challenges
Authors: Hudson Susan
Published: March 2024

Susan Hudson discusses effective care for the LGBTQ+ community.
New ways ahead?
Authors: Sultan Michael
Published: March 2024

Micheal Sultan discusses the innovations happening around treating dental pain.
Study on Effect of Nickel Molybdenum Coated Filler in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
Authors:   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mahendra Institute of Technology, Mallasamudram,India, Ramaoorthy Kannan Pattinam , Madesh Soundarrajan ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Muthayammal Engineering College (Autonomous), Rasipuram-637408, Namakkal (Dt), India, Ganeshan Arul Thayammal ,   St Mary’s Engineering College, Nalgonda District, Hyderabad,Telangana-508284, India, Prasannakumari Rajesh Selvarajan ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Pappanamcode,Thiruvanathapuram, India
Published: March 2024

T he current study focuses on the use the gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) with nickel- molybdenum (Ni-Mo) coated filler materials to weld 304L and 202L stainless steel (SS) joints. The improvement of welding strength heavily depends on the characteristics of the filler metal. The GTAW filler materials are coated with Ni and Mo to facilitate the welding process. The results of the filler metals Ni Mo-304, Ni Mo -202, Ni Mo -316, Ni Mo -308 are contrasted with the normal-304 and normal-202 filler metal. The surface structure of weldment produced by Ni and Mo 308 coated filler metal shows uniform distribution of filler material. Also, significant improvement is noted in tensile strength and Ni-Mo coated 316 has more % of elongation than other filler metals. The impact toughness of Ni-Mo 308 is 98 J which is 76 % higher than normal uncoated 304 filler metal. The average micro hardness of the Ni Mo -308 show improvement about 12 % than normal 304. Furthermore, Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images are taken over the weldment to analyse the heat affected zone (HAZ) of Ni and Mo combination weldment structures.
Structural validation of the Manchester-Oxford Foot Questionnaire for use in foot and ankle surgery
Authors: Goodall Richard , Borsky Kim , Harrison Conrad J. , Welck Matt , Malhotra Karan , Rodrigues Jeremy N.
Published: March 2024

Aims

The Manchester-Oxford Foot Questionnaire (MOxFQ) is an anatomically specific patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) currently used to assess a wide variety of foot and ankle pathology. It consists of 16 items across three subscales measuring distinct but related traits: walking/standing ability, pain, and social interaction. It is the most used foot and ankle PROM in the UK. Initial MOxFQ validation involved analysis of 100 individuals undergoing hallux valgus surgery. This project aimed to establish whether an individual’s response to the MOxFQ varies with anatomical region of disease (measurement invariance), and to explore structural validity of the factor structure (subscale items) of the MOxFQ.

Methods

This was a single-centre, prospective cohort study involving 6,637 patients (mean age 52 years (SD 17.79)) presenting with a wide range of foot and ankle pathologies between January 2013 and December 2021. To assess whether the MOxFQ responses vary by anatomical region of foot and ankle disease, we performed multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. To assess the structural validity of the subscale items, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed.

Results

Measurement invariance by pathology was confirmed, suggesting the same model can be used across all foot and ankle anatomical regions. Exploratory factor analysis demonstrated a two- to three-factor model, and suggested that item 13 (inability to carry out work/everyday activities) and item 14 (inability to undertake social/recreational activities) loaded more positively onto the “walking/standing” subscale than their original “social interaction” subscale.

Conclusion

This large cohort study supports the current widespread use of the MOxFQ across a broad range of foot and ankle pathologies. Our analyses found indications that could support alterations to the original factor structure (items 13 and 14 might be moved from the “social interaction” to the “walking/standing” subscale). However, this requires further work to confirm.

Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2024;106-B(3):256–261.
Optimal hip capsular release for joint exposure in hip resurfacing via the direct anterior approach
Authors: Karunaseelan Kabelan J. , Nasser Rima , Jeffers Jonathan R. T. , Cobb Justin P.
Published: March 2024

Aims

Surgical approaches that claim to be minimally invasive, such as the direct anterior approach (DAA), are reported to have a clinical advantage, but are technically challenging and may create more injury to the soft-tissues during joint exposure. Our aim was to quantify the effect of soft-tissue releases on the joint torque and femoral mobility during joint exposure for hip resurfacing performed via the DAA.

Methods

Nine fresh-frozen hip joints from five pelvis to mid-tibia cadaveric specimens were approached using the DAA. A custom fixture consisting of a six-axis force/torque sensor and motion sensor was attached to tibial diaphysis to measure manually applied torques and joint angles by the surgeon. Following dislocation, the torques generated to visualize the acetabulum and proximal femur were assessed after sequential release of the joint capsule and short external rotators.

Results

Following initial exposure, the ischiofemoral ligament (7 to 8 o’clock) was the largest restrictor of exposure of the acetabulum, contributing to a mean 25% of overall external rotational restraint. The ischiofemoral ligament (10 to 12 o’clock) was the largest restrictor of exposure of the proximal femur, contributing to 25% of overall extension restraint. Releasing the short external rotators had minimal contribution in torque generated during joint exposure (≤ 5%).

Conclusion

Adequate exposure of both proximal femur and acetabulum may be achieved with minimal torque by performing a full proximal circumferential capsulotomy while preserving short external rotators. The joint torque generated and exposure achieved is dependent on patient factors; therefore, some cases may necessitate further releases.

Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2024;106-B(3 Supple A):59–66.