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The Influence Mechanism of BIM on Green Building Engineering Project Management under the Background of Big Data
Authors: Feng Ning
Published: October 2022

The main framework of green construction management based on building information modeling (BIM) is constructed, and the related theories of BIM and green buildings are researched in more detail. The index of green construction is evaluated using the fuzzy evaluation method. The technical measures, management methods, field experience, and evaluation methods included in the green construction process are introduced in detail. Finally, effective measures to promote green construction management in China are proposed. This method is based on the specific technical measures and targeted management methods adopted in the green construction process. At the same time, the specific measures of construction project management in the era of big data are analyzed. It includes the collection and processing of data, the establishment of basic data models, the intelligent technology of big data clusters, and the application of blockchain big data. The purpose of the research is not only to effectively promote the development process of green construction in China, but also to reduce the waste of resources and environmental damage in the construction projects. At the same time, in the process of solving China’s environmental protection, building construction must follow the guiding suggestions put forward under the green construction. This has an important reference value for promoting China’s green construction work and has certain construction significance for realizing the sustainable development of the construction industry.
The Application of Genetic Algorithm in the Optimal Design of Landscape Space Environment
Authors: Liu Zhao
Published: October 2022

Garden landscape not only provides people with places of rest and entertainment, but also protects the natural environment and maintained ecological balance. Although the traditional garden architectural style could retain the classical landscape style, the modern garden facilities and conditions had been greatly improved, and people’s expectations for the construction level of garden landscape continued to improve. Therefore, the effect of traditional landscape design could no longer meet the requirements of social development. This article proposed an interactive genetic algorithm-based landscape space environment optimization design method, in order to provide a certain theoretical reference for landscape design. Firstly, by analyzing the relationship between landscape and buildings, the change in people’s demand for landscape space environment and the relevant characteristics of landscape, this article expounded on the basic principles and methods that landscape design should follow and gave the problems existing in landscape design. Secondly, the interactive genetic algorithm and its innovative design theory were summarized, and the optimization design method of garden landscape space environment based on interactive genetic algorithm was proposed. Finally, the evaluation index system of landscape spatial environment was constructed, and experimental analysis was carried out with a landscape design as a case. The results showed that compared with the traditional landscape design methods, the design scheme proposed in this article could achieve better evaluation results. The optimization design method of landscape space environment proposed in this article could provide some technical support and theoretical reference for landscape architecture and design.
Intelligent Piano Teaching Based on Internet of Things Technology and Multimedia Technology
Authors: Xu Yixiang
Published: October 2022

Intelligent piano teaching is based on traditional piano teaching, combined with relevant intelligent technology, to improve students’ teaching methods, or to change the traditional piano structure, so that students can change from learning piano to playing piano. This study aimed to select a more suitable specific algorithm by studying the Internet of things (LOT) technology and multimedia technology and conduct in-depth research on the piano intelligent teaching, so that it can better serve the current piano teaching intelligence. Based on the experiment of this study, it can be seen that among the 600 investigators in place O, there are 587 valid questionnaires, of which 265 are willing to accept both traditional teaching and intelligent piano teaching, accounting for 45.1% of the valid questionnaires; 136 people are more willing to accept intelligent piano teaching, accounting for 23.2% of the valid questionnaires; 186 people are more willing to accept traditional piano teaching, accounting for 31.7% of the valid questionnaires. The experimental results of this study show that the research process of intelligent piano teaching based on LOT and multimedia technology is more effective than other methods of analyzing experimental data, and it is of great reference significance for the development of intelligent piano teaching.
Study on Deep Learning Technology to Construct E-Commerce Industry Marketing Promotion Model
Authors: Gao Peng , Zhao Liang
Published: October 2022

In recent years, with the development of Internet, Internet technology has swept the world and become a new round of scientific and technological revolution in the world economy. Network marketing has become the “darling” of marketing, with a multidimensional and multilevel marketing layout, which provides a carrier platform for the promotion of enterprise marketing strategy. The traditional network marketing mode is mainly in the form of advertising push, with pop-ups, screen overlays, top search rankings, loading videos, texts, and pictures. Nowadays, Internet technology and social media have promoted the development of community e-commerce models. Live delivery is a new sales model, which has promoted economic development. It has many advantages, such as interactivity, real-time, and transparency. Compared with the traditional e-commerce model, it is more suitable for the development requirements of the new era. Live delivery is a new sales model, which promotes economic development. This paper starts with the AdaBoost algorithm and marketing mode of STP and 4P marketing theory, in order to reduce the execution cost of marketing. In this way, it proves that using online marketing can not only reduce the cost but also improve the marketing effect. Through the new network marketing promotion mode and algorithm described in this paper, the cost can be reduced by 17%, and the promotion effect is remarkable.
Calycosin Ameliorates Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis via Suppressing Oxidative Stress, Apoptosis, and Enhancing Autophagy
Authors: Liu Haoge , Bai Xiaoxu , Wei Wan , Li Zhipeng , Zhang Zhengju , Tan Weili , Wei Bin , Zhao Hantao , Jiao Yang
Published: October 2022

Calycosin (CA) is a flavonoid extracted from the root of Astragalus membranaceus and has antioxidant, anti-inflammation, and antiapoptosis properties. The objective of this study was to investigate the efficacy of CA in protecting against pulmonary fibrosis. CA (14 mg/kg) and SB216763 (20 mg/kg) were administrated to bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis mice for 3 weeks. The results concluded that CA alleviated the inflammation and collagen deposition in pulmonary fibrosis. In addition, CA reduced MDA level, enhanced SOD and TAC activities, and increased the activity of the Nrf2/HO-1 pathway. CA also regulated the expressions of apoptosis-related proteins. Moreover, CA enhanced autophagy via upregulating LC3, beclin1, PINK1, and reducing p62. CA also increased expression of LAMP1 and TFEB, and inhibited the release of lysosome enzymes from ruptured lysosomes. These results provide new evidence that CA protects against pulmonary fibrosis through inhibiting oxidative stress and apoptosis. In addition, autophagy abnormality and lysosome dysfunction are restored by CA.
Carvedilol Reduces the Neuronal Apoptosis after Ischemic Stroke by Modulating Activator of Transcription 3 Expression in vitro
Authors: Zheng Zhao , Hou Fei , He Guodong , Jiang Fengfeng , Bao Xiang , Tong Minfeng
Published: October 2022

Cerebral ischemia is divided into local cerebral ischemia and diffuse cerebral ischemia. The etiology of localized cerebral ischemia includes middle cerebral artery embolism; stenosis, occlusion, or thrombosis of extracranial internal carotid artery or vertebral artery; and cerebral artery spasm. The causes of diffuse cerebral ischemia include cardiac arrest, hypotension, anemia, and hypoglycemia. However, the underlying mechanism is still unclear. In this study, we demonstrated that activator of transcription 3 (ATF3) is a hubgene in IS by bioinformatics analysis. The expression of ATF3 was increased in PC12 cells with oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/R) treatment. ATF3 deficiency inhibited cell viability and induced cell apoptosis, whereas ATF3 overexpression showed the opposite role in cell viability and cell apoptosis. Moreover, Carvedilol as a compound targeting ATF3 also facilitated cell viability and reduced cell apoptosis. ATF3 deficiency retarded the increase in cell viability and inhibition of cell apoptosis in OGD/R-PC12 cells with Carvedilol treatment. Additionally, the decreased Bax and cleaved caspase-3 were released in OGD/R-PC12 cells with Carvedilol and siATF3 treatment, while Bcl-2 expression was inhibited in OGD/R-PC12 cells with Carvedilol and siATF3 treatment. In conclusion, Carvedilol may be a key compound targeting ATF3 in OGD/R-PC12 cells. Graphical Abstract: Carvedilol positively regulated cell viability and negatively regulated cell apoptosis in OGD/R-PC12 cells by inhibition of ATF3.
Global Labor Market Intermediaries: The Power of Leading Staffing Firms
Authors: Cárdenas Tomažič Ana
Published: October 2022

Since the 1970s, labor markets have been neoliberalized worldwide. In this context, labor market intermediation has been increasingly privatized and the temporary staffing industry (tsi) has undertaken a process of internationalization and diversification. This article seeks to discuss how and to what extent leading staffing firms have become powerful global labor market actors while diversifying their staffing services internationally. Building on the literature on the internationalization/globalization of the tsi in the 2000s, the article outlines a theoretical perspective for understanding current leading staffing firms as global labor market intermediaries (glmi) and discusses the key empirical results of two case studies conducted during 2020 on the international diversification of the two main glmi s: Randstad and the Adecco Group. The article suggests that glmi s have developed this strategy to expand and, consequently, secure their “classification power” in order to increase labor market flexibilization and the consequent informalization and precarization of work.
3. Still Life and Vital Matter in Gillian Clarke’s Poetry
Authors: Laniel-Musitelli Sophie
Published: October 2022

Gillian Clarke’s most recent collections of poems—Making the Beds for the Dead (2004), A Recipe for Water (2009), Ice (2012), and Zoology (2017)—draw on new developments in biological and physical sciences to explore the mutual convergences and constant metamorphoses between organic bodies and inorganic matter. In her recent works, living and non-living bodies evolve and morph into one another through moments of emergence and disappearance, such as embryogenesis, metamorphosis, fossilization, as well as the formation and dissolution of rock and ice. Clarke’s poetry endeavours to reveal the vitality of inorganic matter by registering its moments of change, “a difference in the pulse of things” (“Oestrus”, Z, 46). That renewed interest in science corresponds to an environmental turn. Attending to the energies of nonhuman bodies and non-living matter is part of Clarke’s commitment to environmental poetics. Because she was the national poet of Wales from 2008 to 2016, she is often categorized as a local poet. Yet, her recent poetry, inspired by climate science, rearticulates the local and the global, human temporality and geological times: poetic creation draws on the scientific imagination to alter the scales of space and time.
7. The Fiction of the Empty Pandemic City
Authors: Goyal Rishi
Published: October 2022

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed or reminded us of the biopolitical assemblage: biology and politics have grown ever increasingly intertwined in the last two centuries as populations become the site and raison d’etre of political power. Pandemic fictions, an increasingly popular genre, help mould and imagine this constellation. Unlike other dystopic or catastrophic imaginaries, pandemic fiction often portrays an emptied but intact city. While we see this in films like the 2007 I am Legend, the 2013 video game The Last of Us and the 2018 novel Severance by Ling Ma, we have also read about this in countless news reports during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But while the pandemic city is empty of some people, it is full of others. Because of racialized capitalism and uneven geospatial distribution, wealthy white urbanites were able to flee New York City during the height of the coronavirus pandemic escaping the most dire effects of the virus, while the poorer brown and black inhabitants remained to get infected and die. In NYC, certain downtown neighbourhoods like SoHo and the West village were relatively emptied and suffered few coronavirus casualties; while others, like Harlem and Washington Heights, remained full and experienced significantly higher mortality rates. So the emptying of the city is a pandemic fiction that masks the uneven class and race effects of biological catastrophes. Through a reading of Ling Ma’s Severance, I want to explore how the fiction of the empty pandemic city emerges out of racist immigration, housing and public health history, and how it is linked to immigrant identity formation in a globalized world.
9. Depopulating the Novel
Authors: Vermeulen Pieter
Published: October 2022

Contemporary post-catastrophe fiction typically focuses on a small group of survivors, conveniently getting rid of excess populations by environmental disasters or pandemics. This essay argues that the failure to address the issue of (over)population constitutes an important limitation of these fictions’ capacity to address contemporary social and environmental challenges, as they avoid the question of whether the life forms they imagine are scalable. By situating contemporary post-catastrophe fiction in the longer histories of utopian fiction (which traditionally brackets the problem of scalability), science fiction (where anxieties over over- or depopulation are confronted through the genre’s defining spatiotemporal displacements), and the Victorian novel (which negotiates the pressures that growing populations put on political and aesthetic forms), this essay shows how these fictions engage with the uncertain and contested place of population discourse in contemporary ecological thought.
10. The Everyday Pluriverse
Authors: De Bruyn Ben
Published: October 2022

This chapter examines Jon McGregor’s prize-winning novel Reservoir 13 against the background of debates on biodiversity loss and multiscalar fiction, paying special attention to its evocation of a particular rural mesocosm. After reviewing the text’s idiosyncratic participation in the traditions of rural and crime fiction, the analysis explains how the novel redirects the reader’s attention from human to environmental concerns and evokes a multiperspectival and more-than-human pluriverse. What is more, it clarifies that the

narrative’s rendering of polyrhythmic multispecies assemblages can be characterised as a textual form of ecosystem modelling – and that the novel is accordingly related to examples of nonhuman photography and animal-tracking visualisations that are indebted to population and movement ecology. In monitoring the overlapping lives of numerous human and nonhuman characters, Reservoir 13 ultimately offers a literary version of mindfulness exercises and citizen science projects, and responds to pressing concerns over habitat loss and ecological calamity by promoting quietly persistent endurance. As its animal subplots and modelling experiments suggest, even readers who are intrigued by nonhuman scale should not lose sight of everyday life, its multiple worlds, and more-than-human rhythms.
Recent Advance of Ni–Co–X (X = O, S, Se, Te) Bimetallic Compound Nanoarray Electrode Materials Applied in Supercapacitors
Authors: Cui Keying , Zhu Lin , Guo Wenshan , Shuang Peishuo , Yang Xiaoqing , Chai Xiao , Du Weimin
Published: October 2022

It is owing to the environmental friendly, low-cost and outstanding electrochemical properties that Ni–Co–X (X = O, S, Se, Te) bimetallic compound nanoarray electrode materials have shown remarkable potential applications in supercapacitors. In this review, the recent research
advance in the preparation methods, electrochemical properties and supercapacitor applications of Ni–Co–X (X = O, S, Se, Te) bimetallic compound nanoarray electrode materials are summarized. The impacts of different experimental parameters on the morphology and electrochemical
performance are mainly discussed. Finally, some insights into the prospects and challenges of the future development are proposed.
Association of e-Cigarette Exposure with Pediatric Otitis Media Recurrence
Authors: Lam Tina K. , Samuels Tina L. , Yan Ke , Zhang Liyun , Adams Jazzmyne , Stabenau Kaleigh A. , Kerschner Joseph E. , Johnston Nikki
Published: October 2022

Objective:

Otitis media (OM) is a common inflammatory disease spectrum in children and a leading cause of pediatric physician visits, antibiotic prescriptions and surgery. Tobacco exposure is associated with increased risk of OM recurrence, chronicity and surgeries. Tobacco products have changed dramatically in recent years with the advent of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). While users frequently perceive vape as less harmful than traditional cigarettes, burgeoning evidence supports its contribution to respiratory pathologies. The consequences of secondhand exposure, particularly among children, are understudied. The aim of this study was to examine the association of e-cigarette emissions (EE) with OM recurrence and surgeries in the US.

Methods:

Questionnaire data regarding ear infections and tobacco exposure was gathered for all pediatric respondents of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017 to 2018. Weighted analyzes and logistic regression models were used to assess associations.

Results:

Data was available for 2022 participants (aged 6-17); all were included for analyzes. Tobacco exposure was observed in 42%; 9% were exposed to EE. EE contributed to risk of ≥3 ear infections (OR = 1.61, 95% CI 1.01-2.58, P = .047). After adjustment for significant covariates (race and asthma), the association fell below significance ( P = .081). No other significant associations were observed between ear infections, or tympanostomy tube insertion and exposure variables (EE, gestational or other household exposure).

Conclusions:

Exposure to EE may confer greater risk of pediatric OM than previously identified factors such as household smoke, or gestational exposure. Further investigation of EE and its health implications in children is warranted.

Level of Evidence:

IV
Hyaline Fibromatosis Syndrome Presenting with Nasal Mass: A Case Report
Authors: Alkholaiwi Feras , Alsheikh Abdulmalik
Published: October 2022

Hyaline fibromatosis syndrome (HFS) is a rare, autosomally-recesfvsive disease characterized by papulonodular skin lesions, soft tissue masses, joint contractures, gingival overgrowth, and osteolytic bone lesions. Mutations in capillary morphogenesis gene 2 are responsible for both these conditions. Generally, an autosomal recessive pattern is assumed to be the most common mode of inheritance. Here, we report an unusual case of a twenty-three-year-old female patient with HFS who reported with a chief complaint of growing nasal mass for three months. There was no history of pain or bleeding associated with the nasal mass. Due to the growing mass, she experienced right nasal obstruction, which compromised her quality of life. There was an unremarkable family history. Her physical examination revealed multiple asymptomatic pinkish-white papulonodular lesions located at multiple sites. Intra orally, she had generalized gingival enlargement. Her nasal examination revealed a right sided nasal mass, bright red in color. The lesion was soft on palpation. All the results of hematological and biochemical tests were normal. However, skeletal radiographic examination showed the joint contractures on her knees and elbows without the presence of osteolytic bone lesions. The nasal lesion was surgically excised and histopathological examination revealed features suggestive of HFS.
An Unusual Cause of Hearing Loss: Incudal Osteoma
Authors: Gozgec Elif , Ogul Hayri , Sakat Muhammed S.
Published: October 2022

Osteoma is common in the temporal bone but extremely rare in the middle ear cavity and incus. Computed tomography plays an important role in the diagnosis of this slow growing benign osseous mass. The treatment of this lesion, which usually causes conductive type hearing loss, includes follow-up and surgery according to the patient's condition.
Toward a Typology of Technology-Using Teachers in the “New Digital Divide”: A Latent Class Analysis of the NCES Fast Response Survey System Teachers’ Use of Educational Technology in U.S. Public Schools, 2009 (FRSS 95)
Authors: Graves Kenneth E. , Bowers Alex J.
Published: October 2022

Background

Recently, policy makers and school leaders have heavily invested in the promise that educational technology could catalyze systemic school change. Yet some critics note that the conversation surrounding technology in schools is a red herring that has not produced char, definitive, and equitable results across different school settings. In order to address this concern, prior research has mainly focused on understanding how and why teachers use technology. Still, we argue that an understudied third perspective— examining what types of technology-using teachers exist— could provide innovative and impactful insights to shape research, policy, and practice in instructional technology.

Purpose of the Study

We investigate the extent to which there is a typology of teachers who use technology, as well as to what extent school- and teacher-level variables predict membership in the different subgroups in the typology, by analyzing a nationally generalizable sample (2, 764 teachers) from the Teachers’ Use of Educational Technology in U.S. Public Schools, 2009 Fast Response Survey System dataset, collected by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Research Design

We used a three-step, one-level latent class analysis (LCA) with nationally generalizable data that identify significantly different types of technology-using teachers, as well as what covariates predict membership in the identified subgroups.

Findings

We find that there are four statistically significant subgroups of technology-using teachers: Dexterous (24.4%), Evaders (22.2%), Assessors (28.4%), and Presenters (24.8%). We also find that several covariates, such as student socioeconomic status, school type, enrollment, years of teacher experience, and total number of school computers, predicted teachers’ membership in these four subgroups of technology-using teachers.

Conclusions

Our findings reiterate the notion that technology-using teachers are not a monolithic group or are randomly distributed across school settings, finding that low-income schools are more likely to have teachers who use technology in less meaningful ways. As a quantitative phenomenology, this study provides one of the first empirically based, nationally generalizable depictions of technology use in schools, which could inform school leaders and policy makers as they evaluate new digital tools, design professional learning for teachers, and tackle inequalities in technology access, teacher knowledge, and technology-mediated learning experiences and outcomes for students.
Systematic Review of the Content Validity of Patient Reported Outcome Measures of Transition to Parenthood
Authors: Beeck Elise van , Van den Branden Laura , Bramer Wichor M. , Kuipers Yvonne
Published: October 2022

This review aims to identify self-report instruments examining aspects of transition to parenthood for use in practice and research. After performing a literature search in Embase, Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane, PsycINFO and Google Scholar, the Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) measuring (aspects of) transition to parenthood during pregnancy or up to 1-year postpartum were identified. Following COSMIN guidelines for systematic reviews on PROMs, the quality of the PROM development and PROM content validity was evaluated. From the 129 included studies, 39 PROMs assessed aspects of transition to parenthood. A total of 32 PROMs were included in the evaluation. The development quality of 30/32 PROMS was mostly rated as inadequate and the quality of 15 content validity studies was mostly rated as doubtful. All PROMs received inadequate or doubtful ratings on content validity. Most of the PROMs measuring aspects of the transition to parenthood didn’t include parents’ points of view when developing them. Many PROMs are being used for a long time without reassessing relevance, comprehensiveness, and comprehensibility among parents and/or practitioners. It is recommended that researchers and healthcare professionals assess content validity of the PROM before use with the target population.
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council
Authors: Mielly Michelle , Islam Gazi , Gosen Dora
Published: October 2022

Recent organizational theorizing has noted the emergence of a new spirit of normative control; implicit, informal, and internalized, “neonormative” control emphasizes a positive affective disposition toward work, a happy, fun, and inclusive workplace where employees are encouraged to “be themselves”. This emphasis on positivity, however, is often accompanied by diffuse and persistent anxiety, fear, and other forms of subjective suffering often noted in studies of neo-normative control. The relation between purportedly positive neo-normative discourses of engagement and the persistent resurgence of subjective suffering remains under-theorized and holds wider implications for understanding the control regime represented by neo-normative control and its possible modes of contestation. Through a qualitative case study of a changing organizational safety program at a university facilities service, we examine how engagement and fear discourses worked together at different phases of the program to create both ambient anxiety and self-engagement solutions to manage that anxiety. Rather than conceptualizing suffering as the unintended consequence or ignored remainder of neo-normative “positive” messages, we describe how fear appeals explicitly invoke suffering to enrol employees into a self-shifting mode that leads them to be proactive. In our discussion, we theorize the co-constitutive aspects of positive and negative emotional discourses within a control-capturing process, developing the implications of this dual-affective orientation for understanding neo-normative control and its self-fulfilling properties at work in the neoliberal workplace.
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States
Authors: Williams-Butler Abigail
Published: October 2022

This critical review uses the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism to understand the racialized, gendered, and class-based oppression regarding the overrepresentation of poor Black women, children, and families within child protective services (CPS) in the United States. The review begins with a discussion of intersectionality and examines the origins of CPS, along with the potential causes for overrepresentation within the system. Finally, the article presents a detailed overview of how structural gendered racism is manifested within CPS practices and policies. It is imperative that practitioners, administrators, and policymakers acknowledge the utility of applying the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism in understanding the disproportionate contact of poor Black women, children, and families within the system. It is important to work toward practice and policy interventions to improve the overall well-being of this population. Implications for social work practice and policy are discussed.
Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes
Authors: Tornel Carlos
Published: October 2022

The purpose of the paper is to expand the concept of energy justice by considering the struggles over coloniality and cultural identity in the Global South and their interactions with the spatial and historical development of energy systems and the ongoing forms of energy transitions. The article argues that the current conceptualizations of energy justice cannot be separated from the politics of incumbency as, without a decolonial critique, they tend to reproduce rather than transform hegemonic power relations. To be transformative, energy justice must be articulated from the politics of actually existing unsustainability. In other words, the starting position for energy justice must be that energy injustices are already embedded in existing energy systems and energy policies. Drawing on Latin-American decolonial thought, and the work of political ecologists around energy, this article advocates looking beyond a universalized conception of justice towards an approach where justice is based on a sense of place and is informed by the community’s relationship with the land. Using the concept of energy landscapes, the article puts forth an alternative way of understanding energy systems and conceptualizations of justice in decolonial settings.
Comparative Analysis of AERMOD-Predicted Pollutant Concentrations by Input Source Type in Atlanta, GA
Authors: Lu Hongyu , Liu Haobing , Kim Daejin , Xia Tian , Dai Ziyi , Reichard William , Zhao Yingping , Guin Angshuman , Rodgers Michael O. , Guensler Randall
Published: October 2022

This research investigates the differences in AERMOD-predicted pollutant concentrations across input source types (AREAPOLY, VOLUME, LINE, RLINE, and RLINEXT without barriers). AERMOD (version 19191) microscale dispersion modeling is performed for the Atlanta I-75/I-575 Northwest Corridor (NWC) subarea in the U.S., including freeway corridors, managed lanes, connecting arterials, and intersections serving the NWC system. Modeling is performed for all link-receptor pairs, for each hour of the year, using the approved AERMET meteorological files (24 h × 365 days in 2019) from Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD), and emissions rates are estimated using MOVES-Matrix, based on predicted speed and volume by hour (output from ARC’s ABM2020 travel demand model). The AERMOD comparative analyses are performed for the same receptor sets, link-level volumes and speeds, and fleet compositions, across the five source types to generate comparative model results by input source type for the subarea. Results indicate concentrations from RLINEXT and RLINE were similar, with differences smaller than 0.05%, and their results were significantly higher than other source types. The results from AREAPOLY were similar to those from LINE (both smaller than RLINE and RLINEXT results). It is indicated that the results from VOLUME are systematically different from AREAPOLY and LINE for both downwind (much lower than AREAPOLY and LINE) and upwind (much higher than AREAPOLY and LINE) of the sources, and the sensitivity analysis indicates these predictions occur when wind speeds are low (less than approximately 2.5 m/s), which is because the enhanced wind meander approach employed with VOLUME is different from other source types.
Transplant Pharmacists’ Experience With Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Khalil Karen , Tsapepas Demetra , West-Thielke Patricia
Published: October 2022

Background: The adoption of telehealth became a necessity for healthcare organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Transplant pharmacists are integral members of the multi-disciplinary care team who quickly adapted application of these technologies to ensure continuity of care. Objective: To assess transplant pharmacists’ experience with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A 23-question online survey was developed to assess transplant pharmacists’ experience with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: Forty-five pharmacists responded to the survey from a broad range of transplant centers. The majority of respondents indicated infrequent use of telehealth (98%) before the COVID-19 pandemic, but this was significantly changed during the pandemic with only 9% reporting infrequent use. Pharmacists anticipated a decrease in future use, but 91% of respondents stated they would like to continue utilization of telehealth in their practice post-pandemic. Conclusions: The adoption of telehealth during COVID-19 was widespread and has the potential to facilitate continuity of care. Though pharmacists anticipated a decrease in future use, a majority favored continued utilization of telehealth in their practice.
Embodying cognitive ethology
Authors: Ma Helen L. , Dawson Michael R. W. , Prinsen Ruby S. , Hayward Dana A.
Published: October 2022

Cognitive psychology considers the environment as providing information, not affecting fundamental information processes. Thus, cognitive psychology’s traditional paradigms study responses to precisely timed stimuli in controlled environments. However, new research demonstrates the environment does influence cognitive processes and offers cognitive psychology new methods. The authors examine one such proposal: cognitive ethology. Cognitive ethology improves cognitive psychology’s ecological validity through first drawing inspiration from robust phenomena in the real world, then moving into the lab to test those phenomena. To support such methods, cognitive ethologists appeal to embodied cognition, or 4E cognition, for its rich relationships between agents and environments. However, the authors note while cognitive ethology focuses on new methods (epistemology) inspired by embodied cognition, it preserves most traditional assumptions about cognitive processes (ontology). But embodied cognition—particularly its radical variants—also provides strong ontological challenges to cognitive psychology, which work against cognitive ethology. The authors argue cognitive ethology should align with the ontology of less radical embodied cognition, which produces epistemological implications, offering alternative methodologies. For example, cognitive ethology can explore differences between real-world and lab studies to fully understand how cognition depends on environments.
Did the use of open invitations in place of timed appointment invitations reduce the uptake of breast screening in the London region during the COVID-19 recovery?
Authors: Hudson Sue M , Binysh Kathie , Duffy Stephen W
Published: October 2022

Objective

The Covid-19 pandemic created a backlog of women awaiting an invitation for breast screening in the UK. To recover in a timely fashion, the National Health Service programme opted to issue open invitations (OI) to women rather than the standard pre-booked timed appointments (TA). Historically, OIs have been shown to result in lower uptake. The aim of this study was to make use of a natural experiment to compare uptake in groups sent an OI with those sent a TA during a period when both invitation methods were in use.

Methods

Women invited for routine screening at one of the six London breast screening services from September 2020 to March 2021 were included and grouped according to the type of invitation they had received (TA or OI). The outcome was attendance within 6 months of opening the screening episode. Data were analysed by logistic regression.

Results

During the period of the study, 78,192 (32.5%) women received a TA and 162,680 (67.5%) received an OI. In the TA group, 47,391 (60.6%) attended within six months of offered appointment and in the OI group 86,430 (53.1%) attended. This difference was significant ( p < 0.001). The odds ratio (95% CI) for the attended outcome was 1.44 (1.33–1.55) adjusted for differences in deprivation and for invitation category (first invitation or subsequent invitation).

Conclusions

This study supports the view that TA delivers a higher uptake than OI. It suggests that during this period over 12,000 women in London, who would have been expected to attend if given the standard TA, did not attend their appointment having received an OI.
Performance of Third Party Administrators in Indian Healthcare
Authors: Shetty Sham Ranjan , Chatterjee Debmallya , Pai Yogesh P
Published: October 2022

Health insurance companies, healthcare service providers and third party administrators (TPAs) play an important role in health system performance. Our study develops performance metrics for TPAs in the Indian healthcare setting. Further, we examine the relative importance of these metrics among the market segments that TPAs service. Auditing of TPAs on performance measures is not prevalent practice in the industry. This evaluation will enable critical assessment of both efficiency and quality of health insurance claims processing and provide insights on required modifications thus resulting in better performance and enhanced customer satisfaction. This study’s motivation stems from the possible impact that the objective performance evaluation of TPAs has on healthcare delivery, control and costs. Analytical Hierarchy Process was used to formulate a hierarchy of factors to determine TPA performance and to assess their relative importance among the market segments serviced. The findings suggest that the relative importance of performance metrics for TPAs vary across market segments. This study is limited to TPA performance. Studies can be undertaken to understand the performance metrics of other members in the healthcare system, such as clinics, hospitals and insured members.
Competitiveness of Global Apparel Industry: A Study Based on Transaction Cost Theory
Authors: Kamal Yousuf , Yesmin Sultana
Published: October 2022

This article explores global competitiveness in the apparel industry and its implications on the competitive performance of China and Bangladesh through the lens of transaction cost theory (TCT). The study has been conducted based on qualitative method of social science research. The primary evidence for this study has been collected through semi-structured in-depth personal interviews with key resource persons in international trade. The study finds that rising competition in global apparel trade largely influences Bangladesh’s competitiveness in the apparel industry compared to China. However, China’s apparel industry faces challenges from rising production costs. It also finds that unrestricted trade flows among Asian competitors through bilateral and comprehensive trade agreements have severe implications on Bangladesh’s competitiveness in apparel sector, while trade protectionism remains the key barrier towards China’s share of exports in global apparel market. The findings of the study will be crucial for both Chinese and Bangladeshi policy makers and stakeholders to address existing impediments, including future challenges to gain a competitive advantage in their apparel exports. The study is among the first to compare the international competitiveness of apparel industries between the two major apparel exporting countries by using TCT.
Women Academics’ Learning as a Result of Being Bullied
Authors: Baumgartner Lisa , Zarestky Jill , Lechuga Vincente
Published: October 2022

Like other workplaces, bullying occurs in academia. Additionally, women report more frequent and severe forms of bullying than men. The purpose of this qualitative study was to unearth women academics’ learning because of being bullied. We discuss the learning context and explore the learning that occurred. Understanding these factors can augment the literature on bullying in academia. As a result of being bullied, women fundamentally changed their perceptions of themselves, others, their respective institutions, and their priorities. This study reveals how women can gain skills and have negative and positive changes in worldview. We offer practical suggestions for faculty, administrators, and institutions to promote learning from the experience of being bullied.
Measuring What Matters: Assessing How Executives Reference Firm Performance in Corporate Filings
Authors: Certo S. Trevis , Jeon Chunhu , Raney Kristen , Lee Wookyung
Published: October 2022

We know very little about the performance measures executives use to make decisions. To fill this void, we investigate the performance variables that executives reference in corporate filings with the SEC. Our analyses suggest that executives refer to monetary variables (i.e., revenue, profit, and cash flow) in over 98% of filings. In contrast, executives refer to the unitless performance measures scaled by size (i.e., return on assets, return on equity), which are favored by organizational scholars, in less than 15% of filings. We find that this preference for unscaled measures remains across market capitalization and actual firm performance. In other words, even observations with the highest levels of ROA and ROE are more likely to include monetary measures as opposed to ratios. In fact, we find that almost every observation that references ratios also includes monetary measures of firm performance. Stated differently, our findings suggest executives use ratios in addition to—and not instead of—monetary measures. We discuss research opportunities for scholars to further align with the practitioner perspective and to revisit conceptualizations of firm performance.
Heroes or traitors? Perception of whistleblowers depends on the self-relevance of the group being reported
Authors: Giuseppina Pacilli Maria , Giovannelli Ilaria , Spaccatini Federica , Pagliaro Stefano , Brambilla Marco , Barreto Manuela , Sacchi Simona
Published: October 2022

Whistleblowing is the action by which members of an organization report misconduct that occurs within their group to other persons inside or outside the organization. In the present research, we examined perception of whistleblowers in terms of global impressions, emotions, and behavioural intentions. Study 1 reveals negative reactions to whistleblowers, while Study 2 shows positive reactions to whistleblowers. To reconcile these findings, Study 3 varies the self-relevance of the context and reveals that whistleblowers are derogated when the context is highly self-relevant (as in Study 1) and positively evaluated when it is not (as in Study 2). Across the studies, we also show that emotions and the subjective importance of loyalty and fairness influence the evaluation of whistleblowers. Our findings help unveiling the conditions in which whistleblowers are alternatively regarded as heroes or traitors, depending on the perceivers’ point of view.
Prognostic Value of Preoperative Serum Carcinoembryonic Antigen for Overall Survival and Recurrence-Free Survival in Resectable Thymic Epithelial Tumors
Authors: Huang Yang-Yu , Liu Xuan , Liang Shen-Hua , Hu Yu , Ma Guo-Wei
Published: October 2022

Introduction: Tumor markers have been shown to be closely related to the long-term survival of patients with cancer and the recurrence of various malignant tumors. However, their role in thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) remains to be elucidated. We aimed to investigate whether the preoperative tumor biomarkers carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) could serve as independent predictors of postoperative prognosis in patients with TETs. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively included a total of 111 patients with TETs who underwent thymectomy at our hospital. Cox regression analysis was used to evaluate the statistical significance of CEA and NSE as independent predictors of overall survival (OS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS). Kaplan–Meier curves were used to present the results of our survival analyses. Results: Cox regression analysis showed that T stage, World Health Organization (WHO) histologic type, tumor size, and CEA levels served as independent prognostic factors for OS ( P < .05). Whereas for RFS, multivariate analysis showed that only T stage, WHO histologic type, and drinking history were independently associated with it ( P < .05). Conclusion: Our study found that preoperative serum CEA levels and tumor size may be strong predictors of postoperative OS in patients with TETs.
Assessing Quality Goal Rankings as a Method for Communicating Operator Intent
Authors: Schneider Michael F. , Miller Michael E. , McGuirl John
Published: October 2022

Effective teammates coordinate their actions to achieve shared goals. In current human-Artificial Intelligent Agent (AIA) Teams, humans explicitly communicate task-oriented goals and how the goals are to be achieved to the AIAs as the AIAs do not support implicit communication. This research develops a construct for applying quality goals to improve coordination among human-AIA teams. This construct assumes that trained operators will exhibit similar priorities in similar situations and provides a shorthand communication mechanism to convey intentions. A study was designed and performed to assess situated operator priorities to provide insight into “how” operators desire a task to be performed. This assessment was performed episodically by trained and experienced Remotely Piloted Aircraft operators as they controlled an aircraft in a synthetic task environment through three challenging tactical scenarios. The results indicate that operator priorities change dynamically with situation changes. Further, the results are suitably cohesive across most trained operators to apply the data collected from the proposed method as training data to bootstrap development of an intent estimation agent. However, the data differed sufficiently among individual operators to justify the development of operator specific models, necessary for robust estimation of operator priorities to indicate “how” task-oriented goals should be pursued.
Blackboxing leadership: Methodological practices leading to manager-centrism
Authors: Larsson Magnus , Alvehus Johan
Published: October 2022

The scholarly literature on leadership has long been characterized by leader-centrism, in the sense of a focus on individual leaders, their characteristics and actions. This tendency has been strongly criticized, not least by scholars with a critical perspective. However, we still see a strong emphasis on leaders and managers in empirical studies of leadership. In this article, we suggest that this tendency is at least in part a consequence of common methodological blackboxing practices within leadership studies. We identify two such blackboxing practices: delegation, where identification of the core phenomenon is left to informants, and proxying, when more easily defined phenomena are taken to stand for leadership. We suggest that a consequence of such practices is an unintended focus on managers, and attempts to avoid leader-centrism that rely on these blackboxing practices therefore paradoxically might result in manager-centrism.