bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Interstitial lung disease related to occupational hard metal exposure: two case reports
Authors: Lin I-Fan , Shen Hsiao-Chin , Lin Shiou-Fu , Chang Ho-Chuen , Chen Tzu-Tao
Published: July 2023

Background

Hard metal lung disease (HMLD) is a relatively less known occupational interstitial lung disease, and instances of HMLD resulting from para-occupational exposure are rarely reported.

Case presentation

This paper presents two cases of interstitial lung disease caused by exposure to hard metal. The first case involves a 37-year-old Taiwanese man who had worked at a grinder station for hard metal materials for 12 years without respiratory protective equipment. He experienced a dry cough and exertional dyspnea, and his chest imaging and pathology findings were consistent with the features of usual interstitial pneumonia. Analysis of his lung tissue revealed the presence of tungsten and cobalt. The second case involves a 68-year-old Taiwanese woman, the mother of the first patient, who had hand-washed her son’s workwear. She experienced a dry cough and had similar imaging findings to her son. After her son left his job, they both exhibited improved symptoms and lung functions with nintedanib treatment. These findings suggest a diagnosis of HMLD and interstitial lung disease resulting from para-occupational exposure to hard metal dust.

Conclusions

The diagnosis of HMLD relies on obtaining a detailed occupational exposure history. If HMLD is diagnosed, discontinuing exposing to hard metal dusts can lead to improved lung function.
Fast large-scale gravity modeling using a high-order compact cascadic multigrid strategy
Authors: Hu Shuanggui , Pan Kejia , Ren Zhengyong , Tang Jingtian , Wang Jinxuan , Wang Pengde
Published: July 2023

A new high-order compact (HOC) cascadic multigrid (MG) strategy is developed for modeling large-scale complex gravity problems on nonuniform rectilinear grids. First, the governing 3D Poisson’s gravitational potential equation is discretized by a novel HOC difference scheme, which allows for Robin boundary conditions to further reduce the computational domain. Then, the resulting asymmetric linear system of equations is solved by a generalized extrapolation cascadic MG (gEXCMG) method augmented with a novel MG prolongation operator. The quartic interpolation and completed Richardson extrapolation assist this MG prolongation operator to produce a good initial guess for the biconjugate gradient stabilized smoother. Two synthetic and SEG/EAGE salt models are examined to verify the presented approach. Results indicate that our algorithm can efficiently and accurately produce the gravity signals for complex geologic models. Moreover, the comparisons with the state-of-the-art algebraic MG solvers demonstrate that our gEXCMG solver offers substantially better efficiency with significantly less memory consumption. Therefore, our newly developed method has the potential for serving as a forward engine in large-scale gravity inversions.
Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws
Authors: Gorman Emma
Published: July 2023

This study assesses whether an additional year of secondary schooling has lasting causal effects on cognitive function. I use data from Understanding Society, the largest longitudinal household study in the United Kingdom, and exploit quasi-experimental variation in schooling from the 1972 raising of the school-leaving age in England and Wales. This reform increased the minimum secondary school‒leaving age from 15 to 16 years. Cognitive function outcomes were measured when participants were aged 48 to 60. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, I show that remaining in school until age 16 improved working memory by one third to one half of a standard deviation. I find limited evidence for causal effects on verbal fluency and measures of numeric ability. Analyses of potential mechanisms showed statistically significant effects of remaining in school until age 16 on the type of occupation entered immediately after leaving school and at older ages. These patterns are consistent with basic education improving cognitive outcomes through occupation choice. The findings are robust to sensitivity analyses.
How Education Shapes Women's Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity
Authors: Pessin Léa , Damaske Sarah , Frech Adrianne
Published: July 2023

Drawing on life course and intersectional approaches, this study examines how education shapes the intertwined domains of work and family across race and ethnicity. By applying multichannel sequence analysis and cluster analysis to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we identify a typology of life course trajectories of work and family and test for the interactive associations of race and ethnicity with college education for different trajectory types. While our results show statistically significant and often sizable education effects across racial and ethnic groups for most of the work‒family clusters, they also suggest that the size and direction of the education effect vary widely across groups. Educational attainment plays an outsize role in shaping Black women's work‒family lives, increasing their access to steady work and partnerships, while educational attainment primarily works to increase White women's participation in part-time work. In contrast, Latina women's work‒family trajectories are less responsive to their educational attainment. In combination, the racialized role of education and persistent racial and ethnic gaps across the education distribution yield unequal patterns in work‒family strategies among Black, Latina, and White women.
Federalism in the Russian State Paradigm: Historical and Legal Research
Authors: Markov Roman , Zhukovskaya Nataliya
Published: July 2023

The monograph is devoted to the historical, legal and political aspects of the formation of the federal structure of Russia. The phenomenon of federalism in socio-political thought, the Soviet and modern experience of building a federal state are analyzed, the problems of the state structure are identified, a project of transformations corresponding to the traditions of national statehood is proposed.
It is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in Russian history, jurisprudence and political science.
Uncertainty and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brexit
Authors: Acosta Camilo , Marinoni Astrid
Published: July 2023

Immigrant entrepreneurs are a major driver of economic growth, and their decisions about where to locate can greatly affect the entrepreneurial ecosystem of a country. Meanwhile, increasingly uncertain immigration environments might discourage immigrants from establishing new ventures in host countries. This paper exploits the unexpected result of the Brexit referendum to investigate the relationship between immigration uncertainty and the entry of immigrant-founded ventures of different quality. We propose a model of immigrant entrepreneurial entry and introduce a new measure of venture quality at founding. We find that a surge in uncertainty decreases the growth rate of new immigrant-founded firms by 3.2%. The reliance on other immigrant actors exacerbates the negative effect that uncertainty has on entry. Moreover, low- and high-quality firms are the most affected, while the effect for medium-quality firms is negligible. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that Brexit discouraged the entry of around 620 low-quality and 250 high-quality firms. Our model suggests that whereas founders of low-quality ventures might decide to take up employment, founders of high-quality ventures might be better off establishing their companies in another country.

History: This paper has been accepted for the Organization Science Special Issue on Migration and Organizations.

Funding: C. Acosta thanks EAFIT’s internal funding for research projects.

Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.16011 .
Social Anxiety in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Case of Fragile X Syndrome
Authors: Crawford Hayley
Published: July 2023

Despite significant advances in understanding and treating social anxiety in the general population, progress in this area lags behind for individuals with intellectual disability. Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability and is associated with an elevated prevalence rate of social anxiety. The phenotype of fragile X syndrome encompasses multiple clinically significant characteristics that are posed as risk markers for social anxiety in other populations. Here, evidence is reviewed that points to physiological hyperarousal, sensory sensitivity, emotion dysregulation, cognitive inflexibility, and intolerance of uncertainty as primary candidates for underlying mechanisms of heightened social anxiety in fragile X syndrome. A multilevel model is presented that provides a framework for future research to test associations.
Decreasing the memory of the discontinuous Galerkin volume integral equation method for scattering from inhomogeneous dielectric objects
Authors: Deng A-Li , Zhu Qi-Gang , Ren Bing-Zhong , Zhang Li-Ming
Published: July 2023

A memory-efficient implementation scheme for the discontinuous Galerkin volume integral equation method (DGVIE) using Schaubert–Wilton–Glisson (SWG) basis functions is proposed to analyze electromagnetic scattering from inhomogeneous dielectric objects. For this proposed scheme, almost no half-SWG basis functions are needed for the elements separating nonconformal meshes, while these half-SWG basis functions are indispensable for the conventional DGVIE-SWG method. This is realized by applying the divergence-free condition of the electric displacement vector explicitly for nonconformal meshes separating neighboring subdomains of an inhomogeneous dielectric body. Therefore, the number of unknowns of the conventional DGVIE method can be further reduced. As a result, the memory of the proposed DGVIE method is only about half of the conventional one for inhomogeneous dielectric problems. Meanwhile, the total solution time has been reduced by the use of the proposed scheme. Particularly, the proposed DGVIE-SWG method is efficient in memory usage not only for inhomogeneous dielectric cases with high contrast ratio but also for cases with relatively low contrast ratio.
Recruitment and retention interventions in surgical and wound care trials: A systematic review
Authors: Arundel Catherine , Mott Andrew
Published: July 2023

Background

Recruitment and retention to surgical trials has previously been reported to be problematic, resulting in research waste. Surgery often results in wounds, meaning these trials are likely to have similar populations. There is currently no systematic assessment of effective strategies for these populations and hence, systematic assessment of these was deemed to be of importance.

Methods

A systematic review was conducted. Studies were eligible if they were randomised controlled trials undertaken to test an intervention to improve recruitment or retention within a surgical or wound based host randomised controlled trial. MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, ORRCA Database and the Northern Ireland Hub for Trials Methodology Research SWAT Repository Store were searched. Two independent reviewers screened the search results and extracted data for eligible studies using a piloted extraction form. A narrative synthesis was used due to a lack of heterogeneity between strategies which prevented meta-analysis.

Results

A total of 2133 records were identified which resulted in 13 ultimately being included in the review; seven on recruitment and six on retention. All included studies were based within surgical host trials. Four of the seven recruitment studies focussed on the provision of consent information to participants, one focussed on study set up and one on staff training, with only one relating to consent information finding any significant effect. A range of retention strategies were assessed by the included studies, however only two found (pen vs no pen, mailing strategies) found any significant effect.

Conclusion

The included studies within a trial were all conducted within surgical trials. There was significant variation in strategies used, and limited replications and therefore further assessment may be warranted. Given the lack of studies embedded within wound care trials, further studies in this area are recommended.

Trial registration

PROSPERO (CRD42020205475).
Acute nicotine abstinence amplifies subjective withdrawal symptoms and threat-evoked fear and anxiety, but not extended amygdala reactivity
Authors: Kim Hyung Cho , Kaplan Claire M. , Islam Samiha , Anderson Allegra S. , Piper Megan E. , Bradford Daniel E. , Curtin John J. , DeYoung Kathryn A. , Smith Jason F. , Fox Andrew S. , Shackman Alexander J.
Published: July 2023

Tobacco smoking imposes a staggering burden on public health, underscoring the urgency of developing a deeper understanding of the processes that maintain addiction. Clinical and experience-sampling data highlight the importance of anxious withdrawal symptoms, but the underlying neurobiology has remained elusive. Mechanistic work in animals implicates the central extended amygdala (EAc)—including the central nucleus of the amygdala and the neighboring bed nucleus of the stria terminalis—but the translational relevance of these discoveries remains unexplored. Here we leveraged a randomized trial design, well-established threat-anticipation paradigm, and multidimensional battery of assessments to understand the consequences of 24-hour nicotine abstinence. The threat-anticipation paradigm had the expected consequences, amplifying subjective distress and arousal, and recruiting the canonical threat-anticipation network. Abstinence increased smoking urges and withdrawal symptoms, and potentiated threat-evoked distress, but had negligible consequences for EAc threat reactivity, raising questions about the translational relevance of prominent animal and human models of addiction. These observations provide a framework for conceptualizing nicotine abstinence and withdrawal, with implications for basic, translational, and clinical science.
Contradiction or harmony? Spatial and temporal relationships between new urbanization and rural revitalization in the Yellow River Basin from a coupling perspective
Authors: Qiao Guorong , Wang Li , Du Peng
Published: July 2023

Integrating urban and rural areas is the only way to achieve sustainable regional development. To comprehensively build an evaluation index system for new urbanization and rural revitalization (NU-RR), taking the Yellow River Basin (YRB) as research object, and the coupled coordination degree (CCD) model, relative development degree (RDD) model and gravity model are used to quantitatively measure the spatial and temporal patterns, synchronous development status and spatial linkages of the coupled coordination of NU-RR from 2005 to 2020. The factors influencing the CCD are identified with the help of the geographic detector model. The findings indicate that: (1) From 2005 to 2020, the combined indexes of NU-RR in the YRB show an increasing trend, while rural revitalization is growing slower than new urbanization. (2) The CCD of NU-RR in the YRB shows spatial structure characterized by “high in the east and low in the west” and undergoes an evolutionary process of “low coupling-medium coupling-high coupling”. (3) The spatial disparities in the state of coupled and coordinated development of different cities are significant, mainly showing the spatial distribution characteristics dominated by the lagging new urbanization. (4) The spatial connection of CCD is networked and polarized, and the interprovincial barrier effect is weakened. (5) Total retail sales of consumer goods per capita and local general public budget expenditure as a share of GDP are the primary influencing elements affecting the CCD of NU-RR in the YRB. The interaction is manifested as bivariate enhance and nonlinear enhancement. The study’s findings can guide decisions to promote high-quality urban-rural integration development in the YRB.
Approximate solution of Newell-Whitehead-Segel model with time-fractional derivative
Authors: Liu Jinxing , Nadeem Muhammad , Alsayyad Yahya
Published: July 2023

In the current analysis, we developed a significant approach for deriving the approximate solution of the Newell-Whitehead-Segel model with Caputo derivatives. This scheme is developed based on Sumudu transform and the residual power series method (RPSM) that generates the solution in the form of a series. First, we apply the Sumudu transform to decompose the fractional order and obtain a recurrence relation. Secondly, we utilize the RPSM to the recalescence relation and then we can derive the series solution with successive iterations using the initial conditions. We observe that this approach demonstrates a high accuracy and validity to the proposed fractional model. In our developed scheme, we do not face any huge calculation and restriction of elements that diverse the significance of the results. In addition, we display 2D and 3D graphical visuals to show the physical nature of the fractional model.
Validation of a parent proxy-reported beverage screener compared to a 24-hour dietary recall for the measurement of sugar-containing beverage intake among young children
Authors: Sharpe Isobel , Kirkpatrick Sharon I. , Smith Brendan T. , Keown-Stoneman Charles D. G. , Omand Jessica A. , Vanderhout Shelley , Warren Christine , Maguire Jonathon L. , Birken Catherine S. , Anderson Laura N. ,   on behalf of the TARGet Kids! collaboration
Published: July 2023

Measures that can provide reasonably accurate estimates of sugar-containing beverage (SCB) intake among children are needed. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the relative validity of a short beverage screener (Nutrition and Health Questionnaire, NHQ) compared to a 24-hour recall (Automated Self-Administered 24-h (ASA24) Dietary Assessment Tool-Canada) for assessing parent proxy-reported daily SCB intake among children aged 4–14 years from the TARGet Kids! research network in Toronto, Canada. Children for whom a NHQ completed between March 2018 and June 2019 and an ASA24 completed within one year were included. A total of 471 parents who completed the NHQ beverage screener were also asked to complete the ASA24. One-hundred sixty-three completed the ASA24 and of this group, 109 were analyzed. Estimates of daily intake of 100% juices, sweetened drinks and soda, and total SCBs from the two measures were compared. The mean difference in beverage intake, Spearman correlations, and Bland-Altman plots were estimated for continuous measures. The kappa coefficient, sensitivity, and specificity were calculated for dichotomous measures of any daily intake versus none. The mean difference in total SCB intake between the NHQ and ASA24 was 0.14 cups/day (95% CI 0.01, 0.29) and the correlation was 0.43 (95% CI 0.26, 0.57). Sensitivity and specificity for any daily SCB intake were 0.63 and 0.76, respectively. Overall, parent proxy-reporting of children’s total SCB intake from a beverage screener can provide reasonable estimates of SCB intake when detailed dietary assessment is not feasible.
Monitoring the elasticity of travel demand with respect to changes in the transport network for better policy decisions during disasters
Authors: Safitri Nur Diana , Chikaraishi Makoto
Published: July 2023

When a disaster occurs, disaster management goes through a number of phases, namely normal, emergency response, adaptation, and recovery. Being able to identify the transition between these phases would be useful for policymakers, for example, in order to shift their focus from meeting the travel needs of affected people during the emergency response phase, to meeting travel needs for adaptation and recovery activities. This study proposes a data-driven method which may be useful for assessing phase transitions for transport management during a disaster. Specifically, we argue that changes in elasticities of travel demand with respect to changes in the transport network can be a useful indicator of phase transition, since they depict changes in consumers’ tastes, i.e., changes in the degree of travel necessity during disaster. Two hypotheses are formulated to investigate the changes in elasticity during a disaster: 1) the elasticity of travel demand is more elastic soon after a disaster as travel becomes a luxury good, and 2) it becomes less elastic afterwards as travel goes back to being a necessity good. To empirically confirm the hypotheses, we develop a multilevel log-log linear model, where the transport network service level information varying over time during a disaster is used as an explanatory variable, and tested mobile phone location and transport network data captured during the heavy rain disaster in Japan in July 2018. We also utilized a change point detection algorithm to identify a structural change that occurred in these elasticities. We confirm that our empirical results support our hypotheses, i.e., in the affected areas, the elasticity was more elastic soon after the disaster, while the elasticity tended to go back to normal around one month later. These results suggest that the proposed method can be useful to judge the phase transition for disaster management.
Los museos de ciencias: alcances y perspectivas en el campo educativo
Authors: Pineda Caro Diana Yicela , Torres Merchán Nidia Yaneth , Vargas Aguilar Edgar Eduardo
Published: July 2023

Objetivo: Reconocer los alcances y las perspectivas educativas en los museos de ciencia. Metodología: se realizó una revisión sistemática exploratoria bajo la metodología prisma, permitiendo analizar 105 artículos publicados en las bases de datos Web of Science, ebsco y Google Scholar entre los años 2010 al 2021. Resultados: se identificaron los avances tecnológicos, experiencias de formación docente e interacción discursiva, cambio de concepciones y actitudes, procesos de inclusión y divulgación de hechos científicos y experiencias pedagógicas en los museos. Conclusiones: Los museos de ciencia son espacios de aprendizaje que movilizan conceptos, experiencias y emociones para la educación científica y la formación cultural; sin embargo, aún se hace necesario vincular a toda la sociedad y explorar otras funciones propias de los museos, principalmente desde la perspectiva política, económica y simbólica.
Espectralismo visual en los trabajos de Anton Corbijn a partir de las fotografías de Joy Division en la estación de metro de Lancaster Gate, Londres, 1979
Authors: Aguirre Guillermo
Published: July 2023

La obra fotográfica de Anton Corbijn da forma a una estética saturada de fantasmales claroscuros. En su trabajo, protagonizado por grupos y compositores emblemáticos como Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave o Tom Waits, pervive un legado visual que se remonta a los orígenes de la fotografía y se rearticula en la contemporaneidad en la obra de artistas como Bill Brandt, Miron Zownir o Frank Machalowski conforme al concepto de lo espectral. En estas páginas proponemos vincular la semántica recogida en su imaginario fotográfico con el concepto de hauntología tal y como lo plantea, entre algunos otros autores, Mark Fisher en su libro Los fantasmas de mi vida. Realizaremos el recorrido, en este sentido, a modo de diálogo entre la expresión estética de Corbijn y la de Joy Division, a partir de una de las fotografías que Corbijn tomó de la banda de Manchester en la estación de metro de Lancaster Gate, Londres, en 1979.
Tax advisor as a profession of public trust
Authors: Münnich Monika
Published: July 2023

Doradca podatkowy jest jednym z najmłodszych zawodów zaufania publicznego, gdyż ten rodzaj usług pojawił się w polskim obrocie prawnym i gospodarczym dopiero na początku
lat 90. XX wieku wraz z przywróceniem w Polsce podatków bezpośrednich i pośrednich. Ustawa normująca wykonywanie zawodu doradcy podatkowego nie wskazuje wprost, że zawód doradcy podatkowego należy do katalogu zawodów zaufania publicznego, jednakże jej treść niewątpliwie wypełnia postulowane w literaturze przedmiotu przesłanki wskazujące
na to, że daną profesję można uznać za przykład zawodu zaufania publicznego. Celem niniejszego opracowania jest wskazanie najważniejszych, w ocenie autora, cech konstruujących, a zarazem wyróżniających zawód doradcy podatkowego jako zawodu stojącego jednocześnie na straży interesu publicznego i równego mu w świetle Konstytucji RP ważnego interesu
podatnika.
W toku prac nad opracowaniem niniejszego artykułu wykorzystano przede wszystkim metodę badawczą formalno-dogmatyczną opartą na analizie orzecznictwa Trybunału Konstytucyjnego oraz piśmiennictwa podatkowego
Clinical Profile of Patients with Primary Glaucoma in Tertiary Care Centre
Authors: Pawar Pranjali , Bandopadhyay Shweta , Balwir Dhiraj
Published: July 2023

Aim: To study the clinical profile of patients with primary glaucoma in a tertiary care hospital. Method: In a descriptive study of 130 patients, detailed family history, history of systemic illness and previous treatment in past was noted in detailed. Detail ophthalmic examination with visual acuity, anterior segment examination with slit lamp, intraocular pressure measurement with applanation tonometry, fundus examination and perimetry of every patient was done. Result: A total of 130 patients were examined the prevalence of glaucoma was 2.92%. The risk factors and their relevance to open angle glaucoma as compared to narrow angle glaucoma, taking recourse to multiple logistic regression. The Odds Ratio (OR) for age was obtained as 0.978 [95% CI: 0.937, 1.021], indicating that the odds are unchanged with the unit change in the age (p=0.304). For gender, with male as reference, OR for females was 1.676 [95% CI: 0.645, 4.355], indicating that the odds in favour of open angle decreases for females as compared to males (p=0.289). Further, the odds of open angle glaucoma with the presence of hypermetropia decreased with OR 0.098 [95% CI: 0.031, 0.311] (p=0.00). The presence of myopia increased the odds in favour of open angle glaucoma 4.785 [95% CI: 1.497, 15.295] times, which was statistically significant (p=0.008). The presence of systemic illness like hypertension and diabetes increased the risk of open angle glaucoma with OR of 1.694 [95% CI: 0.608, 4.719] and 1.017 [95% CI: 0.288, 3.592] respectively. The correlation of pretreatment IOP and visual field defect was statistically significant for PACG and not with POAG the correlation of VCDR and visual field defect was statistically significant for both POAG and PACG.9 eyes were blind in POAG and 17 eyes were blind in PACG. Conclusion: Patient with family history of glaucoma; history of DM, HTN, myopia, hypermetropia; and patient above 40 years of age should be screened for glaucoma for early detection and prompt treatment. Awareness of glaucoma is needed in the country as it is one of the leading causes of blindness.
Breeding of Kidney Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Cultivar Keyun1 and Exploration of Nitrogen Application and Planting Density
Authors: Yang G.D. , Hu Z.Y. , Hao Z.Y. , Li J.H. , Sun B.S. , Meng X.X. , Wang Q.
Published: July 2023

Background: Small white Kidney beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is popular in the international market, they are widely cultivated in the high and cold areas of China. However, these areas have relatively short growth period, resulting in the low yield and quality of kidney beans, which limits the development of kidney bean. Keyun1 has since played an important role in improving kidney bean production in the country since 2020 because of its high yields, good upright, and wide adaptability. Methods: Keyun1 is a small grain white kidney bean cultivar that was developed systematic selection of excellent mutants in China in 2020. Result: The average yield of Keyun1 was 2346.26 kg per hectare, 34.42% higher than that of the control cultivar (The British Red) in the national joint identification test of new kidney bean cultivars of China from 2016 to 2017. In 2018, Keyun1 was included in the national joint identification and production test of new kidney bean cultivars of China, the average yield per hectare was 2076.58 kg, which is 67.99% higher than that of the control cultivar(The British Red). and exploration of nitrogen application and planting density showed the best nitrogen application is 45 kg of active ingredient nitrogen per hectare and the best planting density is 15×104 - 20×104 plants/ha, the greatest yield was 3198.17 kg/ha.
A Simple Awareness For Women About (SAWA) stages of labor on women's childbirth experience using the childbirth roadmap tool: a quasi-experimental study
Authors: Fouly Howieda , Gaber Zaghloul Mervat , Alshiekh Intisar , Masoud Ayat
Published: July 2023

Introduction: Women's knowledge regarding childbirth progress can increase their comfort and satisfaction during labor. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the Simple Awareness for Women About (SAWA) labor stages program on their childbirth experience using the childbirth roadmap tool.
Methods: A pretest and posttest technique was employed and conducted at the Labor Department, Woman Health Hospital, affiliated to the Assiut University Hospitals, Egypt. Based on the eligibility criteria, a convenient sampling method was used to recruit all parturient women admitted between June 2017 and August 2017. The sample consisted of 172 participants. 
Results: A statistically significant difference was observed in the baseline information regarding the stages of childbirth subsequent to the SAWA program implementation. There was a significant relationship between the mode of delivery and the participant's satisfaction with the study tool.
Conclusion: This study highlighted the benefits of using a simple, attractively illustrated instrument, the childbirth roadmap, for achieving the meaning of support through the SAWA program during labor stages.
Evaluating the Sealing Performance of Plug and Abandonment Cement Systems Under Downhole Conditions
Authors: Roijmans Roel F. H. , Wolterbeek Timotheus K. T. , Cornelissen Erik K. , Keultjes Wout J. G.
Published: July 2023

Microannuli are an important cause of post-abandonment seepage along abandonment plugs set in wells. Autogenous cement shrinkage, occurring when the cement sets, is a contributing factor to the formation of such flaws. Cement shrinkage and its potentially deleterious effects can be mitigated by using a properly designed and placed expanding cement system.

Reliable evaluation of cement plugs’ sealing performance requires testing under elevated temperature and pressure conditions representative for downhole conditions. In this contribution, two laboratory setups designed for this purpose are described, namely (i) small-scale tests on 2-in. plugs and (ii) large-scale tests on 8-in. plugs. In both setups, plugs are cured and tested under downhole conditions inside sections of steel pipes. These pipes are equipped with lateral pressure-temperature sensors, which allow the recording of stresses that develop on the cement-steel interface when the hydrating cement plug expands. Using this bespoke cement testing equipment, a strong positive correlation was found between the amount of interface stress buildup and the sealing performance of the set cement plug against gas flow. This demonstrates that cement systems that expand effectively under downhole conditions can reduce post-plug and abandonmen (P&A) seepage risks.

While providing valuable insight, the 2-in. and 8-in. plug setups are labor intensive to operate and hence impractical to use in field laboratories for cement slurry verification. Unfortunately, standard industry methodologies to verify the effectiveness of the cement expansion additives (CEAs) do not take into account in-situ well conditions. To allow the industry to still evaluate cement plug sealing performance with low complexity while maintaining reliability, a conventional ultrasonic cement analyzer (UCA) was modified to enable simultaneous measurement of interface stress development. Similar to the 2-in. and 8-in. plug sealing evaluation setups, this modified UCA vessel was equipped with a lateral pressure-temperature sensor, to monitor interface stress between the cement and vessel wall with time.

For this contribution, multiple cement slurries were cured and evaluated in the 2-in. and 8-in. plug evaluation setups, as well as in this newly developed modified UCA vessel. Strong correlations were found among the stress buildups in all three setups. This enables the modified UCA test results to be used as a proxy for sealing performance of P&A cement plugs under downhole conditions.
Larger risk-taking by non-native than native shrimp: an advantage in a human-disturbed environment?
Authors: Gómez Alfredo Escanciano , Ipenburg Charlotte , Candolin Ulrika
Published: July 2023

The invasion of foreign species into ecosystems is a growing problem. To control their spread and population growth, knowledge is needed on the factors that facilitate or impede their invasion success. Traits often associated with invasion success are high activity, boldness, and aggression. However, these traits also make invaders more susceptible to predation, which could curb their population growth. We investigated if a recent invader into the Baltic Sea, the shrimpPalaemon elegans, differs in risk-taking from a native shrimp,P. adspersus, regarding activity, habitat choice, and response to perceived predation threat. We found the invading shrimp to take larger risks than the native shrimp; it did not adjust its behaviour – activity, aggression, and foraging – to habitat structure, while the native shrimp did, and it resumed normal activity after a perceived predation threat sooner than the native shrimp. Despite the greater risk taking, the non-native shrimp population has grown rapidly during the last two decades and is now larger than the native one. We discuss plausible explanations for the population growth, including the recent decline in predatory fishes that could have reduced the cost of risk-taking, and anthropogenic eutrophication that has increased the abundance of food and could have allowed the population growth. Thus, human-induced changes to the environment may have altered the costs and benefits of risk-taking and benefitted the non-native shrimp. These results stress the need to assess the impact of human-induced environmental changes on optimal behaviour when evaluating the factors that influence invasion success in disturbed environments.
Structural reconstruction of mouse acute aortic dissection by intravenously administrated human-Muse cells without immunosuppression
Authors: Takahashi Makoto , Saiki Yoshikatsu , Dezawa Mari , Kushida Yoshihiro , Kuroda Yasumasa , Wakao Shohei , Sugimoto Hiroyuki , Horibata Yasuhiro
Published: July 2023

Stanford type B acute aortic dissection (Stanford-B AAD) is often fatal. Endogenous pluripotent-like Muse cells selectively home to damaged tissue via sphingosine-1-phosphate, phagocytose damaged cells to differentiate into the damaged cell type and ultimately repair the tissue. Here we show the therapeutic efficacy of a single dose (50,000 cells) intravenous injection of human Muse cells in a Stanford-B AAD mouse model without immunosuppression. Homing to the AAD tissue, on-site differentiation into aorta constituent cells, elastin production, elastic fiber reorganization, alleviation of inflammatory cell migration, mitigation of aortic diameter expansion, aortic rupture avoidance, and survival rate improvement were superior in the Muse group when compared to the human mesenchymal stem cell (750,000 cells, containing 50,000 Muse cells) group. HLA-G expression was found to be integral for protecting Muse cells from immunorejection. Therefore, a small dose of purified Muse cells might be more effective than a large dose of MSCs for AAD.
Levitation by a dipole electric field
Authors: Hong Tzay-Ming , Tsai Ping-Rui , Huang Hong-Yue , Hsieh Jih-Kang , Cheng Yu-Ting , Lai Cheng-Wei , Kao Yu-Hsuan , Lin Po-Heng
Published: July 2023

The phenomenon of anti-gravity can be fascinating in any field, with its presence seen in art, films and scientific research. This phenomenon is a captivating and pertinent subject with practical applications, such as Penning traps for antimatter confinement and Ion traps as essential architectures for quantum computing models. In our project, we reproduced the 1893 water bridge experiment using glycerol and firstly observed that lump-like macroscopic dipole moments can undergo near-periodic oscillations that exhibit anti-gravity effects and do not need classical bridge form. By combining our experimental findings with dynamic analysis, artificial neural networks, and theory, we established the force acting on the antigravity mechanism. Our discovery challenges the conventional belief that antigravity necessitates a bridge structure and opens up a new perspective, leading to a deeper understanding of the new trap mechanism under strong electric fields with a single pair of electrodes.
Why and how social media addiction affects employee outcomes: role of sleep deprivation in the hospitality industry
Authors: Rasheed Muhammad Imran , Saba Shafique
Published: July 2023

Background
The purpose of this study was to investigate the outcomes of social media addiction, such as sleep deprivation, employee productivity, and engagement among hospitality industry workers.
Method
Using a time-lagged, three-waive survey, this study collected data from 298 employees at international food chain restaurants in Pakistan. Two-step path modelling tested the direct and indirect hypotheses using partial least squares (PLS).
Results
The results revealed that social media addiction negatively influences employee productivity in the hospitality industry. However, the relationship between social media addiction and employee engagement in the hospitality industry was insignificant. Nonetheless, concerning mediated relationships, sleep deprivation was found to be an underlying psychological mechanism in the association between social media addiction, employee productivity, and employee engagement.
Conclusion
Theoretically, this research draws the attention of scholars towards relatively rarely studied variables, such as social media addiction and sleep deprivation, in the hospitality literature. Our findings will also help managers address employee engagement and productivity issues, while understanding the impact of social media addiction and sleep deprivation among hospitality workers.
Synthesis of some Hydrazone derivatives via MgO nanoparticle as a promising and efficient heterogeneous catalyst under solvent-free and ultrasonic conditions
Authors: Moradi Hossein , Moradian Mohsen
Published: July 2023

A green protocol with high productivity for synthesizing hydrazone derivatives through condensation method between aromatic hydrazines and aldehydes and ketones is described. In this procedure, we used magnesium oxide nanoparticles as a green catalyst to access hydrazones under solvent-free and ultrasonic conditions. The present strategy provided essential improvements for the synthesis of hydrazones including clean reaction, non-acidic and solvent-free conditions. The MgO nanoparticle has acid-base bifunctional sites, which make it an appropriate candidate for the preparation of synthetically valuable hydrazone derivatives, and all desired compounds were synthesized with high yields under mild conditions.
Comparative study of reference evapotranspiration estimation models based on machine learning algorithm: a case study of Zhengzhou City
Authors: Niu Chaojie , Jian Shengqi , Liu Shanshan , Liu Chengshuai , Soomro Shan-e-hyder , Hu Caihong
Published: July 2023

Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is an important parameter to characterize the hydrological water cycle and energy balance. An extremely heavy rainstorm occurred in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province on 20 July 2021, causing heavy casualties and economic losses. One of the important reasons for this rainstorm was abnormal water circulation. The purpose of this study is to estimate ET0 accurately and avoid extreme disasters caused by abnormal water cycles. This study compared and analyzed the accuracy and robustness of ET0 prediction based on the improved Levenberg–Marquardt (L-M) model based on artificial neural network and the genetic algorithm-backward neural network (GA-BP) model. The model uses seven weather stations in Zhengzhou, including mountain climate and plain climate. By utilizing the Pearson correlation analysis technique, six distinct input scenarios were identified, and the efficacy of the model was assessed using evaluation metrics, including RMSE, MAE, NSE, and SI. The results show that the estimation accuracy of the L-M model is better than that of the GA-BP model; when the number of input meteorological parameters is the same, the combined simulation effect including wind speed is the best; the R2 of L-M3 and L-M4 are 0.9285 and 0.9675, respectively; models can accurately estimate ET0 with limited data.
Does each Component of Reactive Oxygen Species have a Dual Role in
the Tumor Microenvironment?
Authors: Hao Siyu , Cai Dan , Gou Shuang , Li Yan , Liu Lin , Tang Xiaolong , Chen Yu , Zhao Yueshui , Shen Jing , Wu Xu , Li Mingxing , Chen Meijuan , Li Xiaobing , Sun Yuhong , Gu Li , Li Wanping , Wang Fang , Cho Chi Hin , Xiao Zhangang , Du Fukuan
Published: July 2023

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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a class of highly reactive oxidizing
molecules, including superoxide anion (O2
•−) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), among
others. Moderate levels of ROS play a crucial role in regulating cellular signaling and
maintaining cellular functions. However, abnormal ROS levels or persistent oxidative
stress can lead to changes in the tumor microenvironment (TME) that favor cancer development.
This review provides an overview of ROS generation, structure, and properties,
as well as their effects on various components of the TME. Contrary to previous studies,
our findings reveal a dual effect of ROS on different components of the TME, whereby
ROS can either enhance or inhibit certain factors, ultimately leading to the promotion or
suppression of the TME. For example, H2O2 has dual effects on immune cells and non--
cellular components within the TME, while O2
•− has dual effects on T cells and fibroblasts.
Furthermore, each component demonstrates distinct mechanisms of action and
ranges of influence. In the final section of the article, we summarize the current clinical
applications of ROS in cancer treatment and identify certain limitations associated with
existing therapeutic approaches. Therefore, this review aims to provide a comprehensive
understanding of ROS, highlighting their dual effects on different components of the
TME, and exploring the potential clinical applications that may pave the way for future
treatment and prevention strategies.
Chromosome 12
Authors: Chandraprakash Yamini , Gor Ravi , Panicker Saurav , Ramalingam Satish
Published: July 2023

Chromosome 12 spans about 134 million DNA building blocks and represents approximately 4.5 percent of the total cellular DNA. Gene dysregulation from chromosome 12 has triggered a cell to transform into a cancerous cell. Different types of genes are present in chromosome 12 that cause colon cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, ampulla of Vater cancer (Vater cancer), etc. These genes play their role in the development and the progression of cancer into metastasis, Epithelial to mesenchymal transition, and overall cancer growth. In this chapter, we have enlisted the genes responsible for cancer and their short introduction.
MQT Bench: Benchmarking Software and Design Automation Tools for Quantum Computing
Authors: Quetschlich Nils , Burgholzer Lukas , Wille Robert
Published: July 2023

Quantum software tools for a wide variety of design tasks on and across different levels of abstraction are crucial in order to eventually realize useful quantum applications. This requires practical and relevant benchmarks for new software tools to be empirically evaluated and compared to the current state of the art. Although benchmarks for specific design tasks are commonly available, the demand for an overarching cross-level benchmark suite has not yet been fully met and there is no mutual consolidation in how quantum software tools are evaluated thus far. In this work, we propose the MQT Bench benchmark suite (as part of the Munich Quantum Toolkit, MQT) based on four core traits: (1) cross-level support for different abstraction levels, (2) accessibility via an easy-to-use web interface (https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/mqtbench/) and a Python package, (3) provision of a broad selection of benchmarks to facilitate generalizability, as well as (4) extendability to future algorithms, gate-sets, and hardware architectures. By comprising more than 70,000 benchmark circuits ranging from 2 to 130 qubits on four abstraction levels, MQT Bench presents a first step towards benchmarking different abstraction levels with a single benchmark suite to increase comparability, reproducibility, and transparency.
Performative gestures in Beethoven’s piano sonatas
Authors: Dinov Marija
Published: July 2023

The purpose of this study is to contribute to the discussion of how the character of physical body movements conveys expression and affects the creation of a musical work. The primary focus of this phenomenological study is on kinesthetic gestures or body movements which pianists use in their performances in order to create the musical-poetic content in a corporeal performing form. The main discussion is concentrated on the analysis of movements that emanate from the characteristics of the piano technique, particularly of technical elements in the piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Art and Its Obligations: Towards a Thematic Understanding of Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Authors: Banik Dr. Gobinda
Published: July 2023

This study attempts to make a thematic analyse of W.H. Auden’s poem “Musée des Beaux Arts”, which touches on a number of significant issues, including the human condition and its struggles, the significance of art and culture in society, the contrast between the splendour of art and the ordinary reality of life, the fact that pain and suffering are an essential part of the human experience, the concept of the artist as a witness to the world, and so on. The study emphasises how powerful and thought-provoking Auden’s poem is, reflecting on the human condition and the place of art in society. It implies that the poem inspires readers to consider their own tragedies, suffering, and the function of art in the face of such realities. Additionally, it clarifies that the poem is Not only about beauty and historical art, but also about humanity’s hardships and the role that art plays in understanding and recognising those challenges.
MS-PS: A Multi-Scale Network for Photometric Stereo With a New Comprehensive Training Dataset
Authors:   Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, GREYC, Caen, France, Hardy Clément , Quéau Yvain ,   Normandie Univ, CNRS, GREYC, Caen, France, Tschumperlé David ,   Normandie Univ, CNRS, GREYC, Caen, France
Published: July 2023

The photometric stereo (PS) problem consists in reconstructing the 3D-surface of an object, thanks to a set of photographs taken under different lighting directions. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale architecture for PS which, combined with a newly designed dataset, yields state-of-the-art results. Our proposed architecture is flexible: it permits to consider a variable number of images as well as variable image size without loss of performance. In addition, we define a set of constraints to allow the generation of a relevant synthetic dataset to train convolutional neural networks for the PS problem. Our proposed dataset is much larger than pre-existing ones, and contains many objects with challenging materials having anisotropic reflectance (e.g. metals, glass). We show on publicly available benchmarks that the combination of both these contributions drastically improves the accuracy of the resulting estimated normal fields, in comparison with previous state-of-the-art methods.