bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Behavioral problems in psychotic, clinically high-risk, and non-psychotic adolescent patients
Authors: Rogantini Chiara , Provenzi Livio , Borgatti Renato , Mensi Martina ,   Clinical High Risk State For Psychosis Research Group, Iorio Melanie , Orlandi Marika , Vecchio Arianna
Published: November 2022

Background

A growing body of research provides evidence for social and behavioral problems observed among adolescents with psychosis and also as precursors of vulnerability to psychosis, long before the illness onset, especially in females patients. As such, the main aim of the current study was to investigate from a patient perspective the presence of differences in the behavioral problems self-disclosed by psychotic, clinically high-risk, and non-psychotic adolescents. Moreover, since adolescent girls may present higher risk of internalizing problems, we explored the additional role of sex in interaction with psychotic risk or clinical condition in altering the self-disclosed severity of behavioral problems among the three groups of adolescents.

Methods

One-hundred and fifty-eight adolescent patients were interviewed by a trained child neuropsychiatrist applying the Comprehensive Assessment of At Risk Mental States in order to identify a quantitative index of risk for full-blown and attenuated psychosis. All patients self-reported on their behavioral problems filing in the well-validated Italian version of the Youth Self-Report, which quantifies internalizing, externalizing, and total behavioral problems.

Results

Regarding Youth Self-Report’s scores, non-psychotic adolescents had reported lower total and internalizing scores compared to clinically high-risk and psychotic counterparts. Additionally, in our sample a significant group × sex interaction effect emerged for total and internalizing scores: females reported greater risk of total and internalizing behavioral problems, only in the clinically high-risk group.

Conclusions

Higher variability should be expected in the behavioral profile of high-risk adolescents in comparison to psychotic ones. Elevations of internalizing behavioral symptoms, thus, might be considered as a much more relevant risk factor in girls during adolescence.
Ecological apparency, ethnobotanical importance and perceptions of population status of wild-growing medicinal plants in a reserve of south-central Mexico
Authors: López-Patiño Elinor Josefina , Vibrans Heike , Moctezuma-Pérez Sergio , Chávez-Mejía María Cristina
Published: November 2022

Background

The apparency hypothesis in ethnobotany (common plants are used more than less frequent ones) has been studied mostly by comparing usefulness with woody plant density, or large plants (trees) with herbs, with uneven results. Here, we explore the hypothesis for wild-growing medicinal plants, separately for different life forms. Two methodological subjects relevant for testing the hypothesis are also treated: We compare various importance indicators, including recent use, and evaluate active healers’ knowledge of plant population size. The study area was the Tenancingo-Malinalco-Zumpahuacán Protected Natural Area in central Mexico in the upper part of the Balsas River Basin, a biogeographic region with a long tradition of using wild medicinal species.

Methods

Previous work on the vegetation of the protected area contributed information from 100 survey plots and a species list, which included preliminary data on the medicinal plants. Then, in 2019–2020, we held in-depth and repeated interviews with 13 traditional healers in three rural communities. They were interviewed on uses and population size of a selection of 52 medicinal species of different life forms and abundance (number of individuals in survey plots). The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, use values and linear regression models.

Results

For all species, use value correlated significantly with abundance. When separated by life forms, only herbs and shrubs/lianas showed this association, though with statistical limitations. Trees did not, perhaps because some of the most useful trees have been overcollected. We found a good correlation of recent use with frequency of mention and most other importance indicators; the correlation was weakest for number of uses. Also, active healers had a good estimation of population of their collected species.

Conclusions

The apparency hypothesis should be studied separating life forms to reduce the influence of this variable. To measure importance for the study of this hypothesis, the data show that frequency of mention is a good indicator and correlated with actual use. Also, local plant users’ appreciations of population size are quite accurate in the aggregate and may be more efficient than costly vegetation surveys.
How structural and symbolic violence during resettlement impacts the social and mental wellbeing of forced migrant women: the lived experiences of Arabic speaking survivors of IPV resettled in Melbourne, Australia
Authors: Hourani Jeanine , Jarallah Yara , Block Karen , Murray Linda , Chen Jasmin , Hach Maria , Vaughan Cathy
Published: November 2022

Forced migrant women experience high levels of violence across their journeys and violence can be characterised as having three overarching forms: structural, symbolic, and interpersonal. It is important to understand the intersecting nature of gendered forms of symbolic, structural and interpersonal violence, and their impact on the mental health of forced migrant women in order to develop holistic IPV and resettlement programs and interventions. This article adopts an ecological framework of violence and qualitative methods with mental health service providers and survivors of IPV to understand the intersections of different forms of violence and their impact on mental health as they relate to the lived experiences of Arabic-speaking forced migrant survivors currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. Our research has three key findings: (1) that forced migrant women living in Melbourne, Australia experience intersecting forms of violence during resettlement (2) Structural and symbolic violence against forced migrant women persists regardless of marital status (3) Autonomy and independence plays a vital role in the mental health and wellbeing of forced migrant women. Our findings reveal that structural and symbolic violence increase the risk of IPV for forced migrant women during resettlement and that even when forced migrant women leave IPV situations, structural and symbolic violence persist and exacerbate mental ill-health. This article also reveals the importance autonomy and independence in both the perpetration of violence and in healing and recovery.
Waswad the Reanimator
Authors: Boram-Hays Carol
Published: November 2022

Wasswa Donald Augustine a.k.a., Waswad (b. 1984), is a reanimator—taking materials derived from once living organisms and breathing new life into them through the creation of sculptures, installations, and two-dimensional works. He is among a number of artists working around the globe to consider a future where humans are transformed through technology and/or evolution into “transhumans.” Exploring Waswad’s practice, this article will situate his work within the context of transhumanist theories and their application within Africa. It will examine how the artist, inspired by current social, political, and economic events, is using his work to respond to the historical and contemporary impacts, both positive and negative, of technology to the lives and bodies of those on the African continent as well as the wider environment. The works of art that he creates refer directly to his experiences in Uganda and, more broadly, the hybrid technological and natural quality of his forms resonant with many global anxieties about the current changes going on in the world. This article examines how Waswad’s exploration of new avenues for evolution asks us to consider the wider impacts of the Anthropocene age in which we are now living.
The Passbook, Deconstructed
Authors: Schoen Quinn
Published: November 2022

The catalyst of millions of arrests, fervent protests, and a police-led massacre, the passbook is a haunting relic of apartheid South Africa. Operating as a colonial appendage to be carried, tucked away, and presented to police on demand, these pocket-sized identification books radically constrained the mobility and selfhood of Black South Africans. They also gesture toward a perhaps unanticipated symptom of South Africa’s democratic turn: the issue of confronting the stuff of apartheid, the archival debris left over from a system reliant on exhaustive administrative documentation to surveil and compel its subjects. This article contends with the material status of the passbook, examining legacies of haptic contestation enacted upon it in protest alongside a close study of Apartheid Scrolls (1995), a series of intaglio photo-etchings by South African artist Rudzani Nemasetoni, derived from the pages of his father’s thirty-year-old passbook. Tearing, collaging, flattening, printing, Xeroxing, and reconfiguring the document, Nemasetoni signals the fundamental instability of the passbook and the potential to upheave its function, composition, and materiality, and in doing so, joins a lineage of actions that deconstruct and delegitimize the object. Passbooks did not disappear with the abolition of pass laws nor at the end of apartheid. Preserved in institutional and personal archives, thrown in trash heaps, stored in drawers and closets, or configured anew in art, they survive as objects to be faced and contended with. Nemasetoni’s Apartheid Scrolls offers one such way.
The Mourning of My Birth in the Wake of Grandma’s One Hundredth Year
Authors: Quick Hall K. Melchor
Published: November 2022

In this essay the author describes how she orchestrates her own death for her mother’s survival and begins to travel with her dying grandmother. She shares lessons from her grandmother’s elongated, memory-less, graceless dying through a series of vignettes. While her mother accepts the author’s proclamation of her own death, the mother mourns the simultaneous loss of her daughter and mother. In the midst of her mother’s suffering, the author shares the joyous mourning of her travels with Grandma.
A Light for a Light
Authors: Ruiz Sandra
Published: November 2022

How does loss tear a hole in the world and produce a collective remaking of a new social order in which grief-work is not contained singularly but is a process done in feminist, queer, and Black and Brown ensemble? Interested in how we deliberately incorporate loss into collective grief-work, this article pulls from feminist and queer theorists of color who move across social and psychical constructions of sorrow. Highlighting contemporary art by minoritarian artists such as Eva Margarita Reyes and Pedro Lopez, who embrace loss, the author argues that grief-work is a communal labor we undergo together in acts of intimate meditation, suffering, spillage, and transformation. Happening in feminist and queer ensemble, grief-work is a deliberate decision to assemble in nonlinear feelings and attachments; it is an intention to work together to defend not only the dead but also the living, tending to immaterial energies that shift the fecund terrain of both life and death.
Synthesis, Structures, and Properties of Tropone-Fused Coumarin Dyes
Authors: Amishiro Sae , Ueda Masafumi , Mazaki Yasuhiro
Published: November 2022

A nonbenzenoid aromatic ring, tropone-fused 7-methoxycoumarin dye (1a) and its chlorinated product (1b) were designed and successfully synthesized via transannulation of a coumarin derivative and dehydrobromination of the dibromo- and tribromoprecursors. X-ray crystallography revealed that 1a and 1b are distorted at the annulated tropone skeleton with bond alternation, unlike typical 3,4-annulated π-extended coumarin dyes. These tropone-fused coumarin dyes exhibited redshifted absorption and emission bands compared with that of planar 3,4-benzo-7-methoxycoumarin. These compounds demonstrated relatively efficient fluorescence emission (ΦF = 2–10%) despite their curved skeletons, and solvent dependency owing to the intramolecular charge transfer in the excited state. A computational study clarified that compound 1 changes to a flat structure including the tropylium unit in the excited state. Furthermore, in the fluorescence spectra of 1a with trifluoroacetic acid, the emission intensity increased dramatically to ΦF = 19% owing to the formation of a charge-separated structure with the tropylium cation.
Προσαρμοστικά περιβάλλοντα επαυξημένης ηχητικής πραγματικότητας με χρήση δυναμικά μεταβαλλόμενης ηχητικής μείξης
Authors: Μουστάκας Νικόλαος
Published: November 2022

Το πεδίο της Επαυξημένης Πραγματικότητας Ήχου, έχει εισάγει τον μείκτη Επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας ήχου ως μια μέθοδο για τη μείξη πραγματικού με εικονικό περιβάλλον. Σκοπός της παρούσας διατριβής είναι η αναβάθμιση της λειτουργίας του παραδοσιακού μοντέλου επαυξημένης μείξης ήχου με την ενσωμάτωση προσαρμοστικότητας για τον έλεγχο του απρόβλεπτου και μεταβλητού πραγματικού περιβάλλοντος σε τυπικές εφαρμογές επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας ήχου. Προτείνεται ένα νέο αντιληπτικό μοντέλο επαυξημένης μείξης ήχου το οποίο αναμιγνύει τα ακουστικά περιβάλλοντα με όρους αμφιωτικής ακουστότητας. Επιπλέον, μια νέα τεχνική πρόβλεψης αμφιωτικής ακουστότητας σε πραγματικό χρόνο για την εξόρυξη χαρακτηριστικών ακουστικής αντίληψης ενσωματώνεται στο νέο μοντέλο μείξης. Το προτεινόμενο μοντέλο δοκιμάστηκε και αξιολογήθηκε για την αποδοτικότητά του μέσα από ποιοτικές και ποσοτικές μεθόδους καθώς και με τη χρήση σε ένα ηχητικό παιχνίδι Επαυξημένης Πραγματικότητας Ήχου. Τα αποτελέσματα της ποιοτική αξιολόγησης δείχνουν μια προτίμησης των υποκειμένων στο μοντέλο προσαρμοστικής μείξης. Η ανάλυση της απόδοσης των παικτών του ηχητικού παιχνιδιού στη διάρκεια της αξιολόγησης έδειξε μεγαλύτερα ποσοστά επιτυχίας για το μοντέλο προσαρμοστικής μείξης σε σύγκριση με το παραδοσιακό μοντέλο μείξης επαυξη- μένης πραγματικότητας ήχου. Συνεπώς, φαίνεται πως η νέα προσέγγιση της προσαρμοστικής επαυξημένης μείξης ήχου, είναι αποδοτικότερη για τους παίκτες του ηχητικού παιχνιδιού καθώς βελτιώνεται η εμπειρία διάδρασης μέσα σε μια τυπική εφαρμογή επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας ήχου όπως είναι το ηχητικό παιχνίδι επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας.
A review of the technology standards for enabling digital twin
Authors: Wang Kai , Wang Yamin , Li Yizheng , Fan Xiaohui , Xiao Shanpeng , Hu Lin
Published: November 2022

In the process of developing digital twin enabling applications, a lack of reference to standards related to digital twin terms, architecture and models leads to differences between users' understanding of digital twin, and it is difficult to realize the interconnection of data, models, and services between different enterprises or fields. Therefore, digital twin, by its nature of interoperability between multiple domains, requires standardization as a pilot tool for implementation. This paper provides the background and introduction of digital twin technology based on the digital twin five-dimension model, then refers to the latest developments of digital twin standardization. We further analyze the challenges and provide suggestions of future digital twin standardization. The analysis of the standards landscape for digital twin consolidates information from governing bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Characterization of longitudinal nasopharyngeal microbiome patterns in maternally HIV-exposed Zambian infants
Authors: Odom Aubrey R. , Gill Christopher J. , Pieciak Rachel , Ismail Arshad , Thea Donald , MacLeod William B. , Johnson W. Evan , Lapidot Rotem
Published: November 2022

Background: Previous studies of infants born to HIV-positive mothers have linked HIV exposure to poor outcomes from gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses, and to overall increased mortality rates. The mechanism behind this is unknown, but it is possible that differences in the nasopharyngeal (NP) microbiome between HIV-unexposed and HIV-exposed infants could play a role in perpetuating some outcomes.

Methods: We conducted a longitudinal analysis of 170 NP swabs of healthy HIV-exposed, uninfected (HEU; n=10) infants and their HIV(+) mothers and HIV-unexposed, uninfected (HUU; n=10) infants and their HIV(-) mothers. These swabs were identified from a sample library collected in Lusaka, Zambia between 2015 and 2016. Using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we characterized the maturation of the microbiome over the first 14 weeks of life to determine what quantifiable differences exist between HEU and HUU infants, and what patterns are reflected in the mothers' NP microbiomes.

Results: In both HEU and HUU infants, Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium began as primary colonizers of the NP microbiome but were in time replaced by Dolosigranulum, Streptococcus, Moraxella and Haemophilus. When studying differences between infants, the microbe Staphylococcus haemolyticus indicated a distinctive high association with HIV exposure at birth, even when accounting for the interaction between HIV exposure status and time of sampling. When comparing infants to their mothers with paired analyses, HEU infants’ NP microbiome composition was only slightly different from their HIV(+) mothers at birth or 14 weeks, including in their carriage of S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, and S. haemolyticus.

Conclusions: Our analyses indicate that the HEU infants in our study exhibit subtle differences in the NP microbial composition throughout the sampling interval. Given our results and the sampling limitations of our study, we believe that further research must be conducted in order to confidently understand the relationship between HIV exposure and infants’ NP microbiomes.
Vaginal atrophy: what is it and how can it be treated?
Authors: Holloway Debra
Published: November 2022

Vaginal atrophy is common and can impact on quality of life for many women. Debra Holloway explores how the condition can be managed in primary care

Vaginal atrophy is a common, chronic and progressive condition that occurs due to oestrogen deficiency. It is an under-recognised condition that can have a negative impact on quality of life. Vaginal atrophy can be treated and the aims of treatment are to promote comfort and ensure that symptoms are reduced. Practice nurses need to be comfortable asking sensitive questions and be able to give advice and signpost women to relevant and up to date information.
Preparation and characterisation of glass fibre–fumed silica composite core material VIP
Authors:   Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Yu Qianhua , Chen Zhaofeng , Yang Lixia , Mukhopadhyaya Phalguni , Zhang Liangliang , Wu Qiong , Ni Lei , Mi Qiang ,   University of Victoria,   Jiangsu Sanyou Dior Energy-saving New Materials Co., LTD
Published: November 2022

Novel fibre/powder (glass fibre (GF)–fumed silica (FS)) composite core materials with different fibre to powder ratios were prepared by wet papermaking process. The composite core materials and corresponding vacuum insulation panel (VIP) samples were characterised to obtain an insight into their microstructure, tensile strength, uniformity and thermal conductivity. The results show that the addition of fumed silica will alter the pore structure of the glass fibre core material, and reduce the average pore size, pore volume and porosity of the core material. Moreover, addition of fumed silica can increase the tensile strength of the core material to a certain extent, but it will diminish the uniformity. Further investigation conclusively shows that the addition of fumed silica has little effect on the thermal conductivity of VIP in low vacuum, but the thermal conductivity of VIP is significantly reduced with the increase of fumed silica content in high vacuum. Compared to glass fibre core VIP, the thermal conductivity of fiber/powder composite core VIP is more stable and the service life would be longer.
Critical Perspectives on Race and Revolution:
Authors: de Laforcade Geoffroy
Published: November 2022

Ethnographer, choreographer and poet Rogelio Martínez Furé (August 1937- October 2022), whose written and performed excavations of the idiosyncracies and fugitivities of interwoven African and Cuban cultural and spiritual tapestries is as timeless in acumen as unbounded in fecundity, leaves a legacy of emancipatory erudition. Zanj honors his memory by giving voice to those who, from the pulpits of scholarship to the archives of orality and the credos of everyday struggle, forage Cuban history for clues to the mysteries and palimpsests of identity. We are indebted to his patient disavowal of the shackles of epistemic colonialism, linguistic and disciplinary silos, and to his knowledge of sacred and profane Afro-diasporic storytelling. 2012 was the year of the bicentennial of the Yoruba-descended carpenter José Aponte’s planned rebellion for freedom against slavery, the centennial of the uprising and repression of the Independent Party of Color led by mambi veterans Evaristo Estenoz and Pedro Ivonnet, and the founding of the community-based Red Barrial Afrodescendiente (Afro-Descendant Neighborhood Network) in Cuba.
Poly-drug use among female and male commercial sex workers visiting a drop in centre in Mombasa County, Kenya
Authors: Phyllys Kemunto , Ziro Onesmus Wanje , Kissinger George , Ngari Moses , Budambula Nancy L. M. , Budambula Valentine
Published: November 2022

The relationship between commercial sex work and drug use is complex and the two exacerbate each other. In Kenya, Mombasa County has one of the highest populations of drug users and commercial sex workers. Despite documentation of drug use among sex workers, most of the studies are based on self-reported history which is prone to social desirability and memory recall biases. It is in this context that we sought to establish actual drug use is this sub-population. A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine self-reported and confirmed drug use among 224 commercial sex workers accessing services at Mvita Drop-in. Actual drug use was determined qualitatively using 6 panel plus alcohol Saliva Test kit. The overall prevalence of self-reported and confirmed current use for at least one drug was 98% and 99% respectively. Regardless of the technique used, alcohol and tobacco products were the most consumed substances. Alcohol use increased significantly with age (P = 0.03). Risk of cigarette use and testing positive for cotinine was higher among those age 18 to 35 years compared to >35years at P = 0.001 and P = 0.002 respectively. Poly-drug use was common with 98% testing positive for more than one drug. The reason for drug use was sex work related pressure (88%) with 60% of the respondents reporting they cannot transact this business without drugs. Almost every commercial sex worker is a poly-drug user. We recommend targeted interventions for commercial sex workers.
Showcasing the multifaceted aspects of agricultural transformation: The example of mountain oases in Oman
Authors: Schlecht Eva , Dickhoefer Uta , Aloufi Shadha , Alqaisi Othman , Buerkert Andreas
Published: November 2022

In the Anthropocene the consequences of land-use transformation on ecosystem services are of growing concern, particularly in fragile areas of mountain agriculture that often represent high nature-value farmland. This study uses a decadal repeated survey approach to analyse the effects of modernisation on oasis systems in the Jabal Al Akhdar region of northern Oman. This rugged mountain region at the north-eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula experiences a growing influx of regional and international tourists since the opening of a modern highway 15 years ago. In 2007, at the onset of transformation processes, a survey was conducted with all households (HH) located in three major settlements along the 1000-m-altitude gradient of the Wadi Muaydin watershed. The survey was repeated in 2018, including all remaining HH of the three settlements. This longitudinal approach allowed studying the consequences of social-ecological transformation processes on crop and livestock husbandry, agricultural labour use, product marketing, and perception of the region’s future by its local residents. Though the village inhabitants are aging and declining in numbers, they still adhere to agriculture, largely because of tradition and identity. Fallowing and abandoning farmland increased over the investigated time span but was paralleled by increased application of agrochemicals and animal manure on fields, purchase of roughage and concentrate feeds for small ruminants, concentration on cash crop and meat production for sale, and increased employment of migrant workers. These indicators of modernisation of oasis agriculture are accompanied by predominantly pessimistic views on future prospects of oasis farming. Commonly perceived problems are shortage of irrigation water and profound societal change. Against these challenges, value chain generation and direct marketing opportunities for local agricultural produce are seen as prerequisites to keep the high nature-value farmland of these mountain oases alive.
Probabilistic mathematical modelling to predict the red cell phenotyped donor panel size
Authors: Best Denisse , Burrage Kevin , Burrage Pamela , Donovan Diane , Ginige Shamila , Powley Tanya , Thompson Bevan , Daly James
Published: November 2022

In the last decade, Australia has experienced an overall decline in red cell demand, but there has been an increased need for phenotyped matched red cells. Lifeblood and mathematicians from Queensland universities have developed a probabilistic model to determine the percentage of the donor panel that would need extended antigen typing to meet this increasing demand, and an estimated timeline to achieve the optimum required phenotyped (genotyped) panel. Mathematical modelling, based on Multinomial distributions, was used to provide guidance on the percentage of typed donor panel needed, based on recent historical blood request data and the current donor panel size. Only antigen combinations determined to be uncommon, but not rare, were considered. Simulations were run to attain at least 95% success percentage. Modelling predicted a target of 38% of the donor panel, or 205,000 donors, would need to be genotyped to meet the current demand. If 5% of weekly returning donors were genotyped, this target would be reached within 12 years. For phenotyping, 35% or 188,000 donors would need to be phenotyped to meet Lifeblood’s demand. With the current level of testing, this would take eight years but could be performed within three years if testing was increased to 9% of weekly returning donors. An additional 26,140 returning donors need to be phenotyped annually to maintain this panel. This mathematical model will inform business decisions and assist Lifeblood in determining the level of investment required to meet the desired timeline to achieve the optimum donor panel size.
Induced inactivation of Wnt16 in young adult mice has no impact on osteoarthritis development
Authors: Törnqvist Anna E. , Nilsson Karin H. , Li Lei , Ohlsson Claes , Movérare-Skrtic Sofia
Published: November 2022

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disorder and a major cause of disability in the elderly population. WNT16 has been suggested to play important roles in joint formation, bone homeostasis and OA development, but the mechanism of action is not clear. Transgenic mice lackingWnt16expression (Wnt16-/-) have a more severe experimental OA than control mice. In addition,Wnt16-/-mice have a reduced cortical thickness and develop spontaneous fractures. Herein, we have usedCre-Wnt16flox/floxmice in whichWnt16can be conditionally ablated at any age through tamoxifen-inducible Cre-mediated recombination.Wnt16deletion was induced in 7-week-old mice to study if theCre-Wnt16flox/floxmice have a more severe OA phenotype after destabilizing the medial meniscus (DMM surgery) than littermate controls with normalWnt16expression (Wnt16flox/flox). WNT16 deletion was confirmed in articular cartilage and cortical bone inCre-Wnt16flox/floxmice, shown by immunohistochemistry and reduced cortical bone area compared toWnt16flox/floxmice. After DMM surgery, there was no difference in OA severity in the articular cartilage in the knee joint between theCre-Wnt16flox/floxandWnt16flox/floxmice in neither female nor male mice. In addition, there was no difference in osteophyte size in the DMM-operated tibia between the genotypes. In conclusion, inactivation ofWnt16in adult mice do not result in a more severe OA phenotype after DMM surgery. Thus, presence of WNT16 in adult mice does not have an impact on experimental OA development. Taken together, our results fromCre-Wnt16flox/floxmice and previous results fromWnt16-/-mice suggest that WNT16 is crucial during synovial joint establishment leading to limited joint degradation also later in life, after onset of OA. This may be important when developing new therapeutics for OA treatment.
Public perceptions About Foreign Investment, A PLS-SEM Analysis toward republic sustainable infrastructure
Authors: Sohail Muhammad Tayyab , Chen Shaoming
Published: November 2022

Over the years, Pakistan and China have developed strong bilateral trade and economic linkages. China Pakistan economic corridors (CPEC) is a multidimensional development plan, encircling several diverse projects and the Chinese government is going to invest a huge amount in China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on several different projects. CPEC is an approach toward economic stability for both countries in the globalized world and is known as a game changer in this region. In the present study China-Pakistan economics door has been discussed, to check the CPEC implementations situation, its restraints, challenges, and benefits. An empirical process was adopted to check public opinion about it with aimed public perceptions About Foreign Investment, A PLS-SEM Analysis toward republic sustainable infrastructure. PLS-SEM direct path analysis revealed that there is direct relationship among IV and DV, these results offer support to hypotheses H1-H6 accepted. We have also looked at the levels of education and gender of the respondents as control variables, gender and education showed insignificant relationships with CPEC. It means there is no direct relationship between gender and education to DV. Age significantly moderates the relationship of CPEC associated with IV, depicts the moderation role of age on the relationship, under this research H2a and H3a have significant relationships with age as a moderator while other moderators did not show any relationship. In the current study, there is a significant relationship among all parameters, and there is a medium to strong correlation between diverse variables. The study showed that CPEC will have positive and strong impacts on the economic development of both countries and public of Pakistan consider it can open many doors for them for education, jobs and tourism. This study can help policy makers to make policy to make more effective policy in this are for sustainable development.
Climate Change Awareness and Risk Perceptions in the Coastal Marine Ecosystem of Palawan, Philippines
Authors: Alcantara Lutgardo , Creencia Lota , Madarcos Karen , Madarcos John Roderick , Jontila Jean Beth , Culhane Fiona
Published: November 2022

Understanding the coastal communities’ awareness and risk perceptions of climate change impact is essential in developing effective risk communication tools and mitigation strategies to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities. In this study, we examined the coastal community’s climate change awareness and risk perceptions of climate change impact on the coastal marine ecosystem, sea level rise impact on the mangrove ecosystem, and as a factor affecting coral reefs and seagrass beds. The data were gathered by conducting face-to-face surveys with 291 respondents from the coastal areas of Taytay, Aborlan, and Puerto Princesa in Palawan, Philippines. Results showed that most participants (82%) perceived that climate change is happening and a great majority (75%) perceived it as a risk to the coastal marine ecosystem. Local temperature rise and excessive rainfall were found as significant predictors of climate change awareness. Sea level rise was perceived by most participants (60%) to cause coastal erosion and affect the mangrove ecosystem. On coral reefs and seagrass ecosystems, anthropogenic drivers and climate change were perceived to have a high impact, while marine livelihoods had a low impact. In addition, we found that climate change risk perceptions were influenced by direct experiences of extreme weather events (i.e., temperature rise and excessive rainfall), and climate-related livelihood damages (i.e., declining income). Climate change risk perceptions were also found to vary with household income, education, age group, and geographical location. The results suggest that addressing poverty, and effectively communicating climate change risks can improve climate change awareness and risk perceptions.
Los chicos suenan y sienten. Afectividad y modelos de masculinidad en el cuarteto de Chébere
Authors: Montes María de los Ángeles , Andreis Ana Carolina
Published: November 2022

Hacia mediados de los años 70 se formó una banda que produjo importantes modificaciones en el campo del cuarteto cordobés (R. Argentina), introduciendo nuevas sonoridades y narrativas. En este trabajo analizamos un corpus compuesto por las 249 canciones que Chébere produjo entre 1976 y 1991, rastreando las recurrencias en los dispositivos de enunciación. Lo hacemos con especial foco en la relación entre las narraciones que ofrecen esas canciones sobre los sentimientos -y las emociones que los constituyen-, y la dimensión afectiva de los dispositivos sonoros en los que se insertan. A partir de allí, observamos que Chébere construyó al menos dos modelos de enunciador que convivieron en tensión permanente: un varón sensible y afectado por la pasión amorosa, y otro orgulloso e indiferente ante el desamor de la mujer. Y en ese gesto introdujo, en el campo del cuarteto, nuevas axiologías afectivas y nuevos modelos de masculinidad.
Polygons as maximizers of Dirichlet energy or first eigenvalue of Dirichlet-Laplacian among convex planar domains
Authors: Lamboley Jimmy , Novruzi Arian , Pierre Michel
Published: November 2022

We prove that solutions to several shape optimization problems in the
plane, with a convexity constraint on the admissible domains, are polygons. The main
terms of the shape functionals we consider are either the Dirichlet energy

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{\lambda_{1}(\Omega)}

of the Dirichlet-Laplacian.
Usually, one considers minimization of such functionals (often with measure constraint),
as for example for the famous Saint-Venant and Faber-Krahn inequalities. By adding
the convexity constraint (and possibly other natural constraints), we instead consider the rather unusual and difficult question of maximizing these functionals. This paper follows a series of papers by the authors, where the leading idea is that a certain concavity property of the shape functional that is minimized leads optimal shapes
to locally saturate their convexity constraint, which geometrically means that they are
polygonal. In these previous papers, the leading term in the shape functional
was usually the opposite of the perimeter, for which the aforementioned concavity property was
rather easy to obtain through computations of its second order shape derivative.
By carrying classical shape calculus, a similar concavity property can be observed for
the opposite of

E
f

⁢

(
Ω
)

{E_{f}(\Omega)}

or

λ
1

⁢

(
Ω
)

{\lambda_{1}(\Omega)}

when shapes are smooth and convex. The main novelty in
the present paper is the proof of a weak convexity property of

E
f

⁢

(
Ω
)

{E_{f}(\Omega)}

and

λ
1

⁢

(
Ω
)

{\lambda_{1}(\Omega)}

among planar convex shapes, namely rather nonsmooth shapes. This involves new computations and estimates of the
second order shape derivatives of

E
f

⁢

(
Ω
)

{E_{f}(\Omega)}

and

λ
1

⁢

(
Ω
)

{\lambda_{1}(\Omega)}

interesting for themselves.
Moderne Genisaforschung in Deutschland
Authors: Singer-Brehm Elisabeth
Published: November 2022

Hidden in the attics of old synagogues in Germany, the very last remnants of former Genizot survived unnoticed not only the NS period, but also the following years of secular use of these buildings. Since the 1950s Genizot have been found mostly in the course of renovation work on the synagogues. After ages of storage in the attics, Genizah findings are usually in very bad condition. The finders standing before dirty »shambles out of paper« often considered Genizot to be rubbish. Only after some time researchers began to study the material, soon realizing that these findings were much more than »sacred trash«, since they could provide insight into the life of Jewish rural communities from the 17th to 19th century. Till today, dozens of Genizot have been saved in Germany. The Genisaprojekt Veitshöchheim and other researchers are dealing with the inventory, the digitization and the publication of the finds. However, there are still hardly any studies drawing concrete conclusions about Jewish community life based on the Genizah findings.
Stercus Abrahe: Binäre Codes in Antijudaismus und Antisemitismus
Authors: Cluse Christoph
Published: November 2022

The common distinction between the concepts of »Anti-Judaism« and »Antisemitism« has recently been challenged by medievalists. The present study investigates how the concepts are related, taking its starting point from the widespread association of »Jews« with »money«. Based on two case studies – the Liber floridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer (c.1121) and the Viennese scholars Henry of Langenstein and Henry Totting of Oyta (both d. 1397) – it argues that the patristic distinction between Jewish ›carnality‹ and Christian ›spirituality‹ provided the binary code used to distinguish between good and bad in the economic world.
»Linker Antisemitismus« oder »Antisemitismus unter Linken«?
Authors: Pfahl-Traughber Armin
Published: November 2022

Actually, there is no potential for anti-Semitism in leftist ideology, since ethnic or religious identity characteristics are not supposed to play a role there. Nevertheless, there were and are anti-Semitic attitudes among leftists. A look at the German left in the past and present makes this clear: As early as in Marxʼs writings, anti-Semitic stereotypes can be detected. The Communist Party in the Weimar Republic also instrumentalized such stereotypes. And in the Communist organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany, anti-Israel views often had an anti-Semitic background. This also applies to the autonomous movement or the left-wing terrorism of the 1970s to 1980s. Nowadays, such attitudes can be observed in protest movements critical of capitalism, but also among the supporters of the BDS boycott movement. However, it is necessary to differentiate: A one-sided hostility towards Israel can, but does not have to be an expression of an anti-Semitic position.
Study on essential oil, antioxidant activity, anti-human prostate cancer effects, and induction of apoptosis by Equisetum arvense
Authors: Gu Hongyong , Yi Ting , Lin Pengxiu , Hu Jin
Published: November 2022

In this study, we have reported the chemical composition of Equisetum arvense essential oil and the anti-cancer activity of the plant against the prostate cancer cell line. The essential oil was obtained using the hydro-distillation assay. The chemical composition was identified using the gas chromatographic methods including gas chromatography/flame ionization detector and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The antioxidant activity of the essential oil and extract was evaluated using classical methods. The 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay was run to evaluate the cytotoxic effect of the essential oil and extract on the prostate cancer cell line of lymph node carcinoma of the prostate. The induction apoptosis of the extract was analyzed by a flow cytometer. Thymol acetate (14.7%), trans-carveol (12.5%), thymol (11.8%), and δ-elemene (9.4%) were identified as the main compounds for the essential oil. The extract scavenged the free radical of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl with a half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 15.2 ± 1.4 μg/mL for the plant extract. In the MTT assay, the IC50 of the extract and essential oil were 25.2 ± 0.3 and 218.9 ± 10.7 μg/mL after 72 h. The highest apoptosis was 31.6% for the plant extract. The obtained results of the present study revealed that E. arvense can be introduced as a potent agent to prevent the growth of prostate tumors.
Comparing linguistic and cultural explanations for visual search strategies
Authors: Wolter Brent , Leung Chi Yui , Wang Shaoxin , Chen Shifa , Yamashita Junko
Published: November 2022

Visual search studies have shown that East Asians rely more on information gathered through their extrafoveal (i.e., peripheral) vision than do Western Caucasians, who tend to rely more on information gathered using their foveal (i.e., central) vision. However, the reasons for this remain unclear. Cognitive linguists suggest that the difference is attributable linguistic variation, while cultural psychologists contend it is due to cultural factors. The current study used eye-tracking data collected during a visual search task to compare these explanations by leveraging a semantic difference against a cultural difference to determine which view best explained strategies used on the task. The task was administered to Chinese, American, and Japanese participants with a primary focus on the Chinese participants’ behaviors since the semantic difference aligned the Chinese participants with the Americans, while their cultural affiliation aligned them with the Japanese participants. The results indicated that the Chinese group aligned more closely with the American group on most measures, suggesting that semantic differences were more important than cultural affiliation on this particular task. However, there were some results that could not be accounted for by the semantic differences, suggesting that linguistic and cultural factors might affect visual search strategies concurrently.
Furries, freestylers, and the engine of social change: The struggle for recognition in a mediatized world
Authors: Hemming Pedersen Leif
Published: November 2022

This article merges the ‘terminologies of social change’ from recognition theory and mediatization research to argue that the mediatization of society has eased and accelerated processes of what recognition theorist Axel Honneth calls individualization and social inclusion. This, however, cannot be understood unambiguously as moral progress. Thus, the first part of the article outlines the conceptualization of social change in Honneth’s recognition-theoretical framework, including the critique of recognition theory’s account of power, which problematizes Honneth’s inherent idea of moral progress. Considering this critique, the article follows Douglas Giles’ suggestion that we must distinguish between affirmational and transformational struggles for recognition. The discussion is subsequently related to the conceptualization of social change in mediatization research, which shows that the closely interrelated phenomena of a social relocation of media and a re-orientation of the self help facilitate and constitute the individual’s increased possibilities, but also dependence, with respect to intersubjective recognition from peer groups in many contemporary societies. This provides the starting point for exemplifying how the conditions for affirmational and transformational recognition struggles, and thus individualization and social inclusion, have changed in a mediatized world. This exemplification draws primarily on an in-depth case study of mediated recognition in the lives of four young Danes aged 15 to 30 years with different subcultural identity positions. The main empirical illustrations involve the experiences of the 22-year-old hijabi football freestyler Maarika, who uses her Muslim identity actively on her social media channels to be a role model and to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims and female footballers.
Research progress on the corrosion behavior of titanium alloys
Authors: Yang Jiayu , Song Yingwei , Dong Kaihui , Han En-Hou
Published: November 2022

Titanium and its alloys show outstanding application prospects in many industrial fields due to their high specific strength, good corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance, etc. However, at present the corrosion failure of Ti alloys is attracted great attention with gradual increasing applications. The different localized corrosion forms are introduced in this review, including galvanic corrosion, crevice corrosion, pitting corrosion, hydrogen-induced cracking, stress corrosion crack, microbiological corrosion, corrosion fatigue, and corrosion wear. Among them, the corrosion failure caused by stress corrosion crack and hydrogen-induced cracking is the most serious, accounting for about 40–60% of the actual failure accidents. The effects of temperature, pressure, corrosive media and microstructure on the failure of titanium alloys are discussed. Particularly noteworthy, F− is extremely aggressive to the passive film of titanium alloys. The corrosion behavior of titanium alloys applied in aerospace, marine, petrochemical industries and biomedical environments are introduced. In the above environments, the passive film is most easily damaged and difficult to passive in high temperature and oxygen-deficient environments. The current controversies in the corrosion mechanism have also been proposed, especially the stress corrosion that has the most serious impact on titanium alloys, and its mechanism will be the focus of future research.
Computation of solution of integral equations via fixed point results
Authors: Alqudah Manar A. , Garodia Chanchal , Uddin Izhar , J. Nieto Juan
Published: November 2022

The motive of this article is to study a modified iteration scheme for monotone nonexpansive mappings in the class of uniformly convex Banach space and establish some convergence results. We obtain weak and strong convergence results. In addition, we present a nontrivial numerical example to show the convergence of our iteration scheme. To demonstrate the utility of our scheme, we discuss the solution of nonlinear integral equations as an application, which is again supported by a nontrivial example.
Tameness of Margulis space-times with parabolics
Authors: Choi Suhyoung , Drumm Todd , Goldman William
Published: November 2022

Let

𝖤

{\mathsf{E}}

be a flat Lorentzian space of signature

(
2
,
1
)

{(2,1)}

.
A Margulis space-time is a noncompact complete Lorentz flat 3-manifold

𝖤
/
Γ

{\mathsf{E}/\Gamma}

with a free holonomy group Γ of rank

𝗀

{\mathsf{g}}

,

𝗀
≥
2

{\mathsf{g}\geq 2}

.
We consider the case when Γ contains a parabolic element.
We obtain a characterization of proper Γ-actions in terms of Margulis and Charette–Drumm invariants.
We show that

𝖤
/
Γ

{\mathsf{E}/\Gamma}

is homeomorphic to the interior of a compact handlebody of genus

𝗀

{\mathsf{g}}

generalizing our earlier result.
Also, we obtain a bordification of the Margulis space-time with parabolics
by adding a real projective surface at infinity
giving us a compactification as a manifold
relative to parabolic end neighborhoods.
Our method is to estimate the translational parts of the affine transformation group and use some 3-manifold topology.