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Medieval-ish Worlds in Pop Culture
Authors: Mayrhofer Sonja
Published: January 2025

This article discusses the development and design of a ten-week first-year seminar course, which has been offered in various modalities (online synchronous as well as in person) at the University of Iowa. The course specifically focuses on teaching first-year university students with limited background information about neo- and pseudo-medieval concepts based on popular medieval story clusters (e.g., Arthurian lore, Robin Hood tales, Norse sagas), as evidenced in literature of the Middle Ages which has been (re)adapted in popular culture (visual media, literary adaptations, video games, etc.). First-year students gain access to historical and scholarly contexts surrounding the stories and discuss how the Middle Ages (and its fandom) have inspired fantasy epics rooted in medieval-ish universes (e.g., The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones), as well as video games and cosplaying events. Students review pop culture items, explore archival repositories, and complete a multimodal assignment based on course readings and individual research.
Creating a Modern Bestiary
Authors: Grinnell Natalie
Published: January 2025

This essay demonstrates the ways in which one assignment, the creation of a class bestiary, fulfills the course outcomes of a first-year seminar course introducing students to reading and writing in the humanities. Evolving from the critical field of monster theory, the assignment crumples the timeline between the medieval and the modern in four distinct ways: it responds to the anxieties of identity and definitions of the human by exploring questions of hybridity; it centers concerns about nature and the environment; it opens conversations about race and stereotypes through animal imagery; and it considers the role of technology and classification in shaping the future. The assignment reveals that student fears for the future, not merely of the individual, but of the human species and even the planet itself need to be addressed more deliberately in first-year courses and suggests methods for revising the course to help students articulate and respond to the anxieties of the twenty-first century, even as they look back and contemplate their connections with the past.
The Bottom Line
Authors: Blake Thomas
Published: January 2025

Considering the recent erasure of LGBTQ+ representation in school curricula in states like Texas, this article explores the benefits of pairing medieval flytings (verbal battles with homophobic insults) in “Loki's Quarrel” from The Poetic Edda with recent homophobic discourse over rapper Lil Nas X's controversial music video “Montero.” It suggests that teaching such pairings of past and present queer texts and utilizing a range of inclusive practices and activities in the college classroom can highlight queer experiences and foster inclusion through representation. Through comparing insults that the trickster god Loki is ergi (a bottom) with Lil Nas X's Twitter defense reclaiming his agency as a “power bottom,” the article shows as well how homophobia and misogyny intersect in practices of medieval and modern bottom shaming. Moreover, it demonstrates how queer figures, whether in Viking culture or American pop culture, have always drawn power from queerness to challenge heteronormative masculinity.
Translating the Past and Imagining the Future(s)
Authors: Shields Rachel Linn
Published: January 2025

Middle English literature has not traditionally been a focus for ecocriticism, with the exception of a few texts — such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — that lend themselves to this conversation due to their wilderness settings and the contrasts they make between nature and human culture. Nonetheless, ecocritical readings of Middle English texts have the potential to provide undergraduate students with new perspectives and tools for their own environmental ethics — and even activism. This article suggests assigning medieval readings alongside more accessible twentieth-century science fiction that shares some of the former's formal traits, specifically concatenation (interlinked series) and adubbement (abundant ornamentation). This alignment of new and old texts, combined with a teaching strategy that incorporates close reading, translation, and adaptation, helps students read difficult Middle English texts ecocritically and then employ similar strategies in their own thinking about the environment. Studying a literary text is not entirely different from “reading” the material environment — and thus one is good practice for the other. Medieval poetic structures can teach students about reading and navigating complex ecological spaces and human entanglements with them.
Trans*ient Worlds
Authors: Simha Anita , Subramaniam Banu
Published: January 2025

How should we tell the story of ecology? In this essay, the authors draw from a long and deep history of ecology, in which more affective approaches to nature become visible, ones that are attuned to both plants and their contexts and aligned with trans* studies. The authors offer the many synergistic possibilities and shared ideas between plant community ecology and trans* ecologies and propose a vegetal trans* ecology that can bridge trans* studies with plant ecological studies. The article raises inconvenient phenomena in community ecology for trans* ecologies to play with, including alternative stable states, mutualisms, and coexistence. The authors believe that trans* studies, with highly developed conceptual languages for indeterminacy, contingency, and change, can support reconfiguration in ecology. Their confidence emerges from a growing group of ecologists who seek interdisciplinary collaboration, and they encourage cross-pollinations through a lens of vegetal trans* ecology. Finally, this article reflects on the importance of affective engagement for ecologists, which relocating the field within a natural history tradition can account for, and suggest again that trans* studies can influence place-based, contingent, and situated ecological knowledge.
The Trans Bath
Authors: Wölfle Hazard Cleo
Published: January 2025

Using text, autohistoria, and photo collage, the author traces trans possibilities for connecting with the water cycle through bathing.
Against Conservation of the Norm
Authors: Whitworth Lauran
Published: January 2025

How do we voice legitimate concerns about pollution and toxic exposure without resorting to gender panic? This article analyzes several examples of trans ecologies that are alternatives to the eco-heteronormativity and purity logic found in much environmentalism. In Eli Clare's “Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Politics, and a Politics of Cure,” the author elucidates parallels and divergences between environmental restoration and health restoration/cure culture. In Land (2011), an animated film created by Puerto Rican artist Lares Feliciano, genderqueer and trans characters inherit a postapocalyptic world brought about by imperialism, environmental degradation, and queer- and transphobia. Lastly, Francesca Lia Block's young adult novel Love in the Time of Global Warming (2013) follows a band of queer and trans teens as they navigate a dystopian wasteland. These examples of trans ecologies illuminate links between queer, trans, and disabled flourishing and environmental regeneration that challenge the normative and curative tendencies in contemporary environmental discourse. They are also models of world building amid contamination, ruin, and transition.
Toward Crip Ecologies
Authors: Schmidt Jenne
Published: January 2025

There are many overlaps between crip and trans ecologies, such that human and more-than-human corporeal difference, like trans existence, is often constituted as unnatural and undesired within dominant scientific discourses. Yet in the context of environmental futurities, the notion of desiring disability, as a central framework within critical disability studies, prompts distinct questions. Disability and corporeal differences are often positioned as incommensurable with environmental futures, in that disability and corporeal difference are constituted as evidence, or even the cause, of environmental destruction leading to impending doom. This project turns toward these questions to consider how we might foster a crip ecologies approach that enables the possibility of crip futures, while also attending to the conditions of debility. Such an approach to crip ecologies necessitates an anti-colonial politic that refuses Western science and its method of conservation through eradication and instead looks toward the connections and assemblages between crip politics and Indigenous knowledges and practices.
Holes on Holes, What Is What?
Authors: Chen Mel Y. , Murphy M.
Published: January 2025

A ranging conversation between M. Murphy and Mel Y. Chen on birds, science, gender, chemicality, and the politics and means of knowing, held at the Queer and Trans Ecologies conference in March 2023. This conversation was hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study as part of the Queer and Trans* Ecologies Symposium at the University of Minnesota on March 23, 2023.
Talin, a Rap1 effector for integrin activation at the plasma membrane, also promotes Rap1 activity by disrupting sequestration of Rap1 by SHANK3
Authors: Liao Zhongji , Shattil Sanford J.
Published: January 2025

Talin regulates the adhesion and migration of cells in part by promoting the affinity of integrins for extracellular matrix proteins, a process that in cells such as endothelial cells and platelets requires the direct interaction of talin with both the small GTPase Rap1 bound to GTP (Rap1–GTP) and the integrin β3 cytoplasmic tail. To study this process in more detail, we employed an optogenetic approach in living, immortalized endothelial cells to be able to regulate the interaction of talin with the plasma membrane. Previous studies identified talin as the Rap1–GTP effector for β3 integrin activation. Surprisingly, optogenetic recruitment of talin-1 (TLN1; herein referred to as talin) to the plasma membrane also led to the localized activation of Rap1 itself, apparently by talin competing for Rap1–GTP with SHANK3, a protein known to sequester Rap1–GTP and to block integrin activation. Rap1 activation by talin was localized to the cell periphery in suspension cells and within lamellipodia and pseudopodia in cells adherent to fibronectin. Thus, membrane-associated talin can play a dual role in regulating integrin function in endothelial cells: first, by releasing Rap1–GTP from its sequestration by SHANK3, and second, by serving as the relevant Rap1 effector for integrin activation.
Evaluation of Positive Cases for Dense Fine Speckled (DFS) Immunofluorescence Pattern and Anti-DFS70 Antibodies
Authors: Gürbüz Melahat , Yıldırım Betül Fatmanur , Çetinkol Yeliz
Published: January 2025

Objective: The detection of anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) is crucial in diagnosing systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs). The Dense Fine Speckled (DFS) nuclear pattern is one of the most common indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) patterns detected during routine ANA screening in patients with various clinical conditions. The aim of this study was to analyze the data of patients who were positive for DFS/antiDFS in our patient population and to show the possible clinical relationship.
Methods: In this retrospective study, 7406 patient serum samples sent to our laboratory for routine ANA screening between May 2022-2023 were evaluated for the presence of anti-DFS.
Results: In a group of patients referred for routine ANA screening using the indirect immunofluorescence method, the frequency of DFS pattern was found to be 4.55% (337/7406), with ANA positivity detected at a rate of 25.68% (1902/7406). Out of 221 patients with DFS pattern, 181 tested positive for anti-DFS antibodies in both the IIF-ANA and immunoblot (IB) tests. Additionally, 11 of these patients tested positive for other antibodies against different extractable nuclear antigens (anti-ENAs). Conversely, only seven out of the 40 patients who tested negative for anti-DFS antibodies showed positive results for other anti-ENAs.
Conclusion: The DFS pattern is often positive in individuals. In patients exhibiting this pattern, anti-DFS70 antibody may be detected alone or in combination with SARD-associated autoantibodies. Therefore, we propose that in this patient cohort, it would be more prudent to screen for additional concomitant autoantibodies with anti-ENA rather than confirming isolated anti-DFS.
doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.41.2.10336
How to cite this: Gurbuz M, Yıldırım BF, Cetinkol Y. Evaluation of Positive Cases for Dense Fine Speckled (DFS) Immunofluorescence Pattern and Anti-DFS70 Antibodies. Pak J Med Sci. 2025;41(2):580-584. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.41.2.10336
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Exploring the potential benefits and challenges of artificial intelligence for research funding organisations: a scoping review
Authors: Blatch-Jones Amanda , Church Hazel , Crane Ksenia
Published: January 2025

Background Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of today’s technological revolution, enhancing efficiency in many organisations and sectors. However, in some research environments, its adoption is tempered by the risks AI poses to data protection, ethics, and research integrity. For research funding organisations (RFOs), although there is interest in the application of AI to boost productivity, there is also uncertainty around AI’s utility and its safe integration into organisational systems and processes. The scoping review explored: ‘What does the evidence say about the current and emerging use of AI?’; ‘What are the potential benefits of AI for RFOs?’ and ‘What are the considerations and risks of AI for RFOs?’ Methods A scoping review was undertaken with no study, language, or field limits. Due to the rapidly evolving AI field, searches were limited to the last three years (2022-2024). Four databases were searched for academic and grey literature in February 2024 (including 13 funding and professional research organisation websites). A classification framework captured the utility and potential, and considerations and risks of AI for RFOs. Results 122 eligible articles revealed that current and emerging AI solutions could potentially benefit RFOs by enhancing data processes, administration, research insights, operational management, and strategic decision-making. These solutions ranged from AI algorithms to data management platforms, frameworks, guidelines, and business models. However, several considerations and risks need to be addressed before RFOs can successfully integrate AI (e.g., improving data quality, regulating ethical use, data science training). Conclusion While RFOs could potentially benefit from a breadth of AI-driven solutions to improve operations, decision-making and data management, there is a need to assess organisational ‘AI readiness’. Although technological advances could be the solution there is a need to address AI accountability, governance and ethics, address societal impact, and the risks to the research funding landscape.
Protocol for a Realist Review of mHealth in Lung Cancer Screening: Understanding Mechanisms, Contexts, and Intervention Characteristics for Enhanced Participation
Authors: Gong Selena , Jacob Benjamin , Harris Áine , Raval Kanishka , Clarke Nick , Doyle Frank , Smith Alan , Cotter Seamus , Walsh Killian , Redmond Patrick
Published: January 2025

Introduction Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, is often diagnosed at advanced stages leading to a poorer prognosis. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions, which are healthcare technology utilizing mobile or other wireless technology, promise enhanced early detection by optimising lung cancer screening (LCS) implementation. However, their efficacy across various patient demographics and the underlying mechanisms that influence LCS success remain unclear and underexplored. Aim To explore the efficacy of mHealth interventions in promoting LCS uptake, focusing on patient demographics, intervention characteristics, and the underlying mechanisms and contexts influencing their effectiveness. Methods This realist review will employ an iterative literature search in databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Embase. Selected studies will be assessed for relevance and rigour, extracting data on mHealth features, patient demographics, and intervention outcomes. Data will be analysed thematically to describe relationships between intervention mechanisms, contexts, and outcomes. Additionally, engagement from key stakeholders, including health experts and patients, will be sought during the synthesis phase. Conclusion This review aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of how and why mHealth interventions can influence LCS uptake and be effective across different patient demographics. These findings will provide insights into optimising mHealth interventions for LCS, potentially leading to earlier detections and improved patient outcomes.
Prevalence, aetiology, and service mapping of dementia in rural Uganda. Part of DEPEND Uganda (Dementia Epidemiology, unmet Need and co-Developing Solutions in Uganda).
Authors: Prynn Josephine , Alinaitwe Racheal , Kimono Beatrice , Peto Tunde , Ashton Nicholas J , Steves Claire J , Mugisha Joseph , Prince Martin
Published: January 2025

Background Dementia prevalence in low- and middle-income countries is increasing, yet epidemiological data from African populations remain scarce. Crucial risk factors differ in Africa from more intensively studied global areas, including a higher burden of cerebrovascular disease and HIV, but lower rates of other risk factors like physical inactivity. Understanding dementia aetiology in African settings has been limited by the expensive and invasive nature of biomarker testing. This study leverages developments in blood-based and retinal imaging biomarker technology to examine the drivers of dementia in older Ugandans. People with dementia have complex needs benefiting from multi-dimensional support. Understanding current services will allow identification of barriers and opportunities to strengthen support available to people with dementia and their families. Methods The study is nested within the General Population Cohort run by the Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Research Unit. All adults aged 60+ (around 1400) are undergoing brief cognitive screening. In Part 1, cohort participants are selected based on screening scores to undergo detailed cognitive assessment, using methods developed by the 10/66 Dementia Research Group. Part 2 is a case control study of people with and without dementia using antecedent data, questionnaires, physical assessment, retinal imaging, and Alzheimer’s blood-based biomarkers. We will also compare disability, frailty, quality of life, and social engagement in people with and without dementia. Part 3 assesses current formal support structures for people with dementia through review of publicly available literature and expert interviews. Conclusions This is the first study in Africa using blood-based and retinal imaging biomarkers to examine pathological processes underlying dementia, and systematically map services available for people with dementia. This paves the way for effective policy strategies and further focused research regarding both dementia prevention and support for affected people and their families.
Audit and Tax Monitoring: Common Ground in the Context of Modern Reporting Development (part 2)
Authors: Nargizian Aik , Pakkar Aleksandr
Published: January 2025

This article discusses current issues of the development and transformation of modern forms of reporting, their impact on the rethinking of audit procedures in conjunction with the development of tools for tax authorities in terms of assessing and confirming the effects created by companies through tax incentives in the economy, the problem of developing a unified approach to disclosure and audit of integrated reporting is formulated. The authors conclude that the future of audit procedures should be in the nature of a risk-based audit of business processes. The authors propose a conceptual framework for the joint application of standards for the preparation of an integrated report and an integrated audit with the transition to tax monitoring, which will allow stakeholders to receive complete and comprehensive information about the company’s activities, and the state, represented by the tax authority, to analyze and identify additional ways to stimulate the activities of organizations.
Determination of Scenarios for the Development of the Territories of the Goryachy Klyuch Resort City, Taking into Account the Impact of the Agglomeration Factor on Them
Authors: Ilyasova E. , Krylova E.
Published: January 2025

The formation of the Krasnodar agglomeration severely limits the territories included in it in the possibilities of strategic choice of their development. However, on the other hand, the assignment of the territory to the agglomeration provides new opportunities for its development. The last two circumstances should be reflected and disclosed in the development
CLASSIFICATION OF PRINCIPLES FOR ASSESSING THE SECURITY OF BUSINESS PROCESSES DURING THEIR DIGITALIZATION
Authors: Okrestina O. , Denisenko G.
Published: January 2025

Four main approaches are proposed for use in assessing and further ensuring the security of business processes during their digitalization. The most popular types of threats and methods of combating them have been identified. The authors pay attention to strategic digital management and priority goals to achieve the maximum level of protection for the company.
DOCUMENT-ORIENTED DATABASES
Authors: Volegova A.
Published: January 2025

The document-oriented database, the main features of the Document-oriented database are considered, a comparative analysis of the relational approach with the NoSQL approach is carried out.
McDonald’s China Adopts Operations Research for Network Design
Authors: Tang Shouwei , Wang Lei , Shi Yun , Li Andy , Lin Kevin , Xiang Chen , Niu Sophia , Zhou Shaofeng , Liu Ming , Tang Hank
Published: January 2025

The supply chain network design (SCND) problem is a typical optimization problem that determines the structure of a supply chain and affects its costs and operational performance. SCND deals with various decisions, such as determining the number, size, and location of facilities and the optimal material and product flows of the entire supply chain network. Therefore, SCND is one of the most crucial planning problems in supply chain management. In this paper, we present a practical approach in which we adopt a mixed-integer programming (MIP) mathematical model to solve a real industry SCND problem for McDonald’s China. As a result of this project, McDonald’s China has saved millions of dollars in logistics costs and reduced CO2 emissions by more than 10%. In our approach, size-reduction techniques were successfully applied to deal with a large-scale model, making it possible to analyze hundreds of scenarios before coming to a consensus.
Optimization of Continuous Steel Annealing Operations Using Model Predictive Control at Tata Steel, India
Authors: Jagnade Sujit A. , Patwardhan Sachin C. , Kumar Kunal , Dey Arup K. , Gudimetla Sai K. , Singh Manish K. , Jha Ajay K. , Prakash Gyan , Korath Jose M.
Published: January 2025

In steel manufacturing, continuous annealing is a crucial heat treatment applied to cold-rolled steel strips to achieve a prescribed temperature, which will ensure quality in terms of mechanical properties. However, controlling this process is challenging because of slow furnace temperature dynamics, significant time delays, frequent changes in the steel mass flow rate, target annealing temperature changes induced by steel grade transitions, and multivariable interactions within the furnace zones. To address these challenges, Tata Steel, India, with consultancy support from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, developed a novel model predictive control (MPC) technology-based solution for a continuous annealing furnace, which produces automotive grade steels. The dynamic model was developed using data from both perturbation trials and scraping historical processes. We then converted the model to a discrete-time state-space form and used it to formulate an optimal control problem over a moving time window. The solution generates optimal furnace setpoints by solving this finite-horizon optimal control problem each minute, ensuring smooth temperature transitions during steel grade changes while avoiding operational constraint violations. Tata Steel successfully implemented an MPC-based real-time supervisory optimal control solution, which became fully operational in January 2023. The implementation of the solution has led to a significant improvement in the proportion of annealed products meeting the premium quality band (±5°C of the target temperature), increasing from 30% (manually operated) to 50% (MPC operated), thereby ensuring better uniformity of properties. Furthermore, an 8% reduction in products outside the widest band (±15°C) has prevented the reprocessing of 13,000 tons of material from one line alone, annually. We have seen a consistent 8% reduction in specific fuel consumption per ton of steel. When considering Tata Steel’s current installations and those under commissioning, these improvements translate to savings of US$2.5 million and a reduction of 10,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually.
Introduction: 2024 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science
Authors: Tyagi Rajesh , Pekgün Pelin
Published: January 2025

This special issue of the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (formerly Interfaces) is devoted to the finalists of the 2024 annual competition for the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science, the profession’s most prestigious award for deployed work. As in previous years, the finalists this year cover a wide range of industries and functions.
Sharing the Fame but Taking the Blame: When Declaring a Single Person Responsible Solves a Free Rider Problem
Authors: Li Xinyu , Schnedler Wendelin
Published: January 2025

Teams are formed because input from different people is needed. Providing incentives to team members, however, can be difficult. According to received wisdom, declaring all members responsible fails because real responsibility for team output “diffuses.” But why? Also, why and when does formally declaring one member “responsible” mean that this member can be attributed real responsibility? We offer a model that answers these questions. We identify when jointly declaring a team responsible results in reputation free riding. We show that declaring one person responsible can overcome this problem but only if all other team members are protected from being sanctioned.

This paper was accepted by Dorothea Kübler, behavioral economics and decision analysis.
Examining the role of friendship quality in enhancing university students' learning motivation
Authors: Rupawan Muhammad Rayhan Rajja Mujahidin , Febriani Adelia Putri Semi
Published: January 2025

This study aims to examine the impact of the quality of the friendship environment on the learning motivation of students in several public universities in Indonesia. A qualitative research design with a case study approach was employed for this investigation. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with six students, selected using a purposive sampling technique. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. The findings indicate that a high-quality friendship environment characterized by emotional support, collaborative group work, and mutual reminders about assignments positively influences students' learning motivation. Increased motivation is evident in students' habits of completing assignments on time and their enthusiasm in attending lectures. Additional factors influencing learning motivation include self-encouragement, family support, and encouragement from peers. This study concludes that the quality of the friendship environment is a crucial factor in fostering students' academic success.
The effect of transformational leadership on employee creativity: The mediating role of intrinsic motivation
Authors: De Jesus Isac da Costa
Published: January 2025

Purpose-Global business progress creates intense competition. Many factors can be used as a foundation in winning the competition, one of which is the role of human resources or employees in the organization. Therefore, employees must continue to be paid attention to and improve their ability to work, so that they can reach a certain level of creativity. This study analyzes employee creativity measured based on the role of transformational leadership with intrinsic motivation as a mediator.
Design/Methodology/Approach-This study analyzes the level of creativity in employees of Bank Syariah Indonesia Sudirman Branch Office Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The number of research samples was 46 respondents. The sample was selected using the saturation method or using the entire population as a sample. Then the research data was obtained using a questionnaire. The analytical tool used in this research is Smart PLS version 4.
Findings-The findings showed that employee creativity was positively impacted partially by transformational leadership and intrinsic motivation. It has also been proved that transformational leadership improves intrinsic motivation. This research also proves how motivation plays a mediating role in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creativity.
Research limitations/implications-This research is only limited to employees of Bank Syariah Indonesia Sudirman Branch Office Yogyakarta, Indonesia, so it can be said that it cannot be used as a foundation for assessing the creativity of other branch employees. In addition, this study uses the object of Islamic banks, so it cannot be used as a description of conventional employees in Yogyakarta.
Originality/value-This research is still very minimal and conducted by previous researchers who used the object of Bank Syariah Indonesia Sudirman Yogyakarta Branch Office employees. Generally, previous studies used the object of different branch offices or used conventional banks.
Attitude, subjective norms, and environment friendly as antecedents of customer purchase behavior
Authors: Hafidzah Fitri Nur
Published: January 2025

Purpose-Consumer purchasing behavior towards a product is certainly influenced by various factors, both internal and external. This study aims to determine the effect of attitudes, subjective norms, and environment friendly on consumer purchasing behavior. These factors have a positive impact on consumer purchasing behavior.
Design/Methodology/Approach-This research focuses on Tokopedia e-commerce users in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The total research sample consists of 96 respondents, who were surveyed using a purposive sampling technique. The research data is primary data obtained through questionnaire distribution. Data analysis was carried out using SPSS version 25.
Findings-The results of this study prove that attitude has a positive but insignificant effect on consumer purchasing behavior. Subjective norms and a friendly environment have a partial positive impact on consumer purchasing behavior. The subjective norms adopted by consumers and their concern for the environment influence consumers when purchasing a product. However, this attitude has proven insignificant in influencing consumer purchasing behavior because other factors, such as the other two variables, are more significant in influencing consumer purchasing behavior.
Research limitations/implications-The research is limited to a small number of respondents and only examines users of the Tokopedia e-commerce application in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Therefore, the results of this study cannot be used as a reference to describe consumer purchasing behavior among e-commerce users in general and in various regions of Indonesia.
Originality/value-Previous research has not analyzed the factors that influence consumer purchasing behavior as in this study, especially for Tokopedia e-commerce users in Yogyakarta. Previous research analyzes different aspects and uses different research objects as well.
The effect of customer experience, place attachment, customer satisfaction, and word-of-mouth on revisit intention
Authors: Rahmatullah Arwin Yafi
Published: January 2025

Purpose-E-commerce companies need to pay attention to the level of revisit intention on the services they provide. This ensures that their services can pay attention to consumer loyalty to continue making transactions on the service. This study aims to analyze the effect of customer experience, place attachment, customer satisfaction, and word-of-mouth on revisit intention for active users of Shopee e-commerce in Indonesia.
Design/Methodology/Approach-This study analyzes revisit intention in active users of Shopee e-commerce in Indonesia. The sample of this study consisted of 130 respondents. Research data was collected using an online questionnaire with a Likert scale. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 25 to test validity, reliability, and research hypothesis testing.
Findings-This study proves that all four hypotheses were accepted or supported. Customer experience, place attachment, customer satisfaction, and word-of-mouth are each partially proven to affect revisit intention positively. These four factors can increase consumers’ intention to revisit Shopee e-commerce sites in online buying and selling transactions.
Research limitations/implications-The results of this study can be used as a reference for e-commerce companies to improve consumers’ revisit intentions. Revisit intention is essential for e-commerce companies to maintain consumer loyalty and attract new consumers to buy and sell transactions through e-commerce.
Originality/value-There is no research on revisit intention that uses similar variables as in this study. Previous research analyzed factors that were different from those in this study. In addition, previous studies used objects in e-commerce that differed from this study.
Long-term health conditions: epilepsy
Authors: Barber Chris
Published: January 2025

This new series of articles will explore a number of long-term health conditions and disabilities in terms of the characteristics of the conditions, how it presents itself, management strategies and the role of the healthcare assistant and nursing associate. This article, the second in the series, will discuss epilepsy and key issues associated with it.
The care certificate: fluid and nutrition
Authors: Ellis Peter
Published: January 2025

This article provides an overview of what healthcare assistants need to understand about fluid and nutrition, the eighth standard in the care certificate.
Retrospective Analysis of the Correlation between Umbilical Blood Flow Index and Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Pregnant Women with Gestational Diabetes
Authors: Liu Qiong , Shu Sinan , Zhao Xiuping , Yu Huiling
Published: January 2025

Aims/Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common complication during pregnancy. This retrospective study investigates the correlation between umbilical blood flow index and maternal-fetal outcomes in pregnant women with GDM, aiming to contribute to evidence-based risk assessment and management strategy in this high-risk obstetric population.

Methods This retrospective study recruited 119 pregnant women with GDM who were admitted to the Yichang Central People’s Hospital, between January 2022 and January 2024. Based on the umbilical blood flow index, the study participants were divided into a normal umbilical blood flow (UBF) index group (n = 56) and a high UBF index group (n = 63). Colour Doppler ultrasound was used to assess umbilical blood flow, and relevant data on maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes were obtained from the hospital’s electronic medical records.

Results We observed that, compared to the normal UBF index group, the high UBF index group exhibited significantly higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including the cesarean section (p = 0.022), preterm delivery (p = 0.020), gestational hypertension (p = 0.019), neonatal hypoglycemia (p = 0.015), as well as increased incidence of neonatal complications such as respiratory distress syndrome (p = 0.009), neonatal jaundice (p = 0.022), neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission (p = 0.015), lower 5-minute Apgar scores (p = 0.013), and neonatal sepsis (p = 0.005). Furthermore, significant differences were observed in fetal biometric parameters and placental morphology between the two groups (fetal weight: p = 0.003; estimated fetal weight percentile: p = 0.017; femur length: p = 0.018; placental weight: p = 0.019; placental volume: p = 0.021). Additionally, correlation analyses indicated significant associations between umbilical blood flow index and maternal and fetal outcomes (p < 0.05).

Conclusion We observed a significant correlation between umbilical blood flow indices and maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus, implying its utility as a non-invasive parameter for risk stratification and personalized management in this high-risk obstetric population.
Creative pathways to comfort: the transformative role of art therapy in palliative and hospice care
Authors: Alvarez Maria Catherine I , Clemente Whindie , Rillo Ronald Joseph A , Narvaez Roison Andro
Published: January 2025

Background:

Art therapy offers a creative outlet for patients in palliative and hospice care to express emotions, manage distress and enhance wellbeing by addressing physical, emotional and spiritual challenges.

Aims:

This review evaluates the effectiveness, challenges and outcomes of art therapy in improving the quality of life for patients in palliative and hospice care.

Methods:

An integrative review.

Findings:

The review of 27 studies identified four key themes: (1) the effects of art therapy on the quality of life of patients, (2) intervention and patient outcomes, (3) improved wellbeing through self-expression, and (4) challenges in care delivery. Art therapy significantly reduced emotional distress, including anxiety, depression and psychological fatigue, while alleviating physical symptoms, like pain and exhaustion. It fostered emotional expression, personal growth and coping skills, helping patients manage their conditions more effectively. Participants also reported enhanced self-awareness, stronger interpersonal connection and a greater sense of control over their lives, leading to improved emotional and physical wellbeing.

Conclusion:

Art therapy provides significant benefits by alleviating emotional and physical distress and enhancing wellbeing. Integrating art therapy into palliative and hospice care supports holistic, patient-centered care, though further research is needed to address access barriers and ensure consistent delivery.
The Future of Fusion
Authors: McCann Ellie
Published: January 2025

Fiona Harden, a Technical Lead Engineer for the UK Atomic Energy Authority, shares her experience of working on STEP, the UK's prototype fusion energy plant.
Adaptive Meter-out Control of Pneumatic Drives by Using Novel Multi-stable Solenoids
Authors: Kramer Thomas , Weber Jürgen
Published: January 2025

Multi-stable solenoids are novel energy-efficient actuators, which combine the continuous adjustability of proportional solenoids with the energy efficiency of polarised magnetic circuits. They can hold any armature position without power supply. Thus, they are well suited for an automation of pneumatic throttle check valves, in order to set the throttle cross-section and thus the cylinder piston velocity to a specific value and hold it for a certain time. This is useful in the context of industry 4.0 to produce on demand with customised piston velocities or to gradually compensate for the increasing frictional forces during cylinder lifetime.
This paper deals with the application of novel multi-stable solenoids to actuate a throttle check valve for an adaptive meter-out control of pneumatic cylinder drives. Therefore, the design of a multi-stable solenoid for a given throttle valve is presented. The functionality of the combination is verified by measurements. The automated throttle is integrated in a simple pneumatic cylinder drive to investigate the adjustability of and disturbance influences to the piston velocity. On that basis, a feed forward and a closed loop control are presented for setting of specific piston velocities.
Statistical method to describe the electromagnetic field on the surface of spherical particle of a 2D array
Authors: Loiko Valery A. , Miskevich Alexander A. , Hubarevich Aliaksandr , Loiko Natalia A.
Published: January 2025

A semi-analytical statistical method has been developed for investigating the near electromagnetic field of a two-dimensional (2D) array of spherical nano- and microparticles. It takes into account multiple scattering of waves in the framework of the quasicrystalline approximation (QCA). Equations are derived to describe (i) ensemble-averaged and (ii) ensemble- and surface-averaged energy densities of electric and magnetic fields on the surface of spherical particles embedded in a light-absorbing medium. The method allows one to directly analyze the averaged fields at a known radial distribution function of the array particles. The calculation results are presented for local field enhancement at the wavelengths of the plasmon resonance of silver nanoparticles and the lattice-induced resonance of an ordered array of wavelength-sized silver particles at normal incidence of a plane wave. There is excellent agreement of the results obtained for the highly ordered arrays with small and moderate filling factors and the data of the numerical finite element method (FEM) for perfect arrays of nano- and microparticles. The developed method realization is significantly faster than the used realization of the FEM (up to 250 times).
A scoping review on climate change education
Authors: Muccione Veruska , Ewen Tracy , Vaghefi Saeid Ashraf
Published: January 2025

The growing urgency of the climate crisis necessitates innovative educational approaches to equip people with the knowledge and skills to address climate challenges and be able to influence policy effectively. Education can be a central asset to promoting climate action, yet the importance of climate change education has been underexposed in large and influential assessment reports such as those from the IPCC. This study provides a comprehensive mapping of the literature on climate change education with a particular focus on the time period 2008-2023. By combining human coding and natural language processing (NLP) techniques, we examined a diverse corpus of over 6’000 publications from the peer reviewed literature. The findings highlight the pivotal role of climate education across various disciplines and its alignment with critical climate research themes such as adaptation, mitigation, disaster risk management, and sustainability. Our analysis reveals three predominant topics within the literature which are related to effective learning methodologies, sustainable development education, and the importance of education in adaptation and resilience. Additionally, we identified emerging themes emphasizing the role of youth as change agents, the necessity of transformative educational practices and the importance of energy literacy. Through geoparsing, it was possible to infer country mentions and case studies. These appeared to be largely skewed towards the English speaking countries and in particular the United States and United Kingdom, underpinning the urgency of diversifying research funding and fostering an open data culture. The insights gained from this scoping review underscore the potential of climate education to not only enhance knowledge but also to drive community engagement and policy initiatives, thus contributing to broader climate action efforts. In essence, it suggests fostering innovative educational practices for cultivating an active and informed society capable of addressing the pressing challenges posed by climate change. Importantly, this study calls for the integration of climate change education themes into climate policy-relevant assessment reports.
Heart rate variability versus visual analog scale for objective and subjective mental fatigue detection: A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Yoshikawa Hiroaki , Adachi Yumi , Baba Ayako , Takikawa Chiaki , Yamaguchi Yuya , Nakai Wakana , Sudo Daiki
Published: January 2025

Fatigue is a multidimensional phenomenon. Although psychological tests can be used to evaluate subjective fatigue, an objective measurement of fatigue is needed to evaluate mental, physical, and occupational health and inform appropriate interventions. Heart rate variability (HRV) has emerged as a potential candidate for assessing objective mental fatigue; however, its effectiveness and safety remain inconclusive. To address these, we conducted a single-center, randomized trial to compare the efficacy and safety of HRV with subjective psychological tests for evaluating mental fatigue. Participants aged 20 to 65 years who had received annual health check-ups and had been found to have no health concerns were included in this study. We compared HRV indexes after performing a calculation task with a control group that rested. The primary outcomes were HRV indexes as recorded by wearable electrocardiography after an intervention consisting of a calculation task. Subjective measures (visual analog scale [VAS] for fatigue and Profile of Mood States 2nd Edition [POMS2]) were evaluated as secondary outcomes. One hundred forty participants were randomized into a calculation task and control groups. Participants who performed the calculation task had a lower square root of the mean squared differences between successive RR intervals (RMSSD), absolute power in the high-frequency band, and standard deviation of Poincaré plot. In psychological tests, participants who performed the calculation task demonstrated significantly higher scores on the VAS for fatigue and POMS2. Multiple comparisons of RMSSD from HRV indexes, VAS for fatigue, and total mood disturbance from POMS2 revealed that RMSSD and VAS for fatigue were significant indicators associated with the calculation task. On the other hand, the vectors of HRV indexes and psychological tests differed based on primary component analysis. We identified RMSSD, an objective index, and VAS for fatigue, a subjective index, as significantly related to mental fatigue.