bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Association between health and safety perceptions of COVID‐19 vaccine and its uptake in Ghana
Authors: Aram Simon Appah , Hagan John Elvis , Mansoh George Kweku Afriyie , Saalidong Benjamin M. , Lartey Patrick Osei , Ahinkorah Bright Opoku , Seidu Abdul‐Aziz , Ameyaw Edward Kwabena , Appiah Augustine , Hotor Divine Worlanyor , Gyimah Justice
Published: October 2022

Background

Attitudes towards vaccines have affected COVID‐19 vaccination programs in many countries. This study sought to evaluate the effects of general perceptions on the safety and health concerns and the confidence in COVID‐19 vaccines on its uptake in Ghana.

Methods

A cross‐sectional online survey was conducted between January and March 2021. The outcome variables for this study were “Taking mandatory COVID‐19 vaccine” and “Taking voluntary COVID‐19 vaccine”. The data were subjected to both descriptive (frequency, percentages, and chi‐square tests) and inferential (complementary log‐log logistic regression) analyses.

Results

Out of 620 Ghanians who participated in the survey, about 80% of the participants believed that vaccines were good for one’s health and 73% had confidence on COVID‐19 vaccine safety; although 81% of the respondents were particularly concerned about the source of the vaccine. 79% and 71% of respondents indicated their willingness for mandatory and voluntary COVID‐19 vaccination, respectively. In all operationalized regression models, Ghanaians who believed that vaccines are healthy (OR = 1.998, Cl = 1.345–2.968; OR = 1.652, Cl = 1.050–2.601) and those who had confidence in a COVID‐19 vaccine safety (OR = 4.405, Cl = 3.136–6.188; OR = 8.340, Cl = 5.471–12.713) were more likely to take a mandatory or voluntary COVID‐19 vaccine compared to those who thought and believed otherwise. Individual preferences and/or intentions towards COVID‐19 vaccine uptake and uptake route (i.e., mandatory, voluntary) were influenced by multifaceted determinants: biosocial (age, marital status, education), socio‐cultural (religion, source of vaccine as a concern), and location (geographical zone) factors.

Conclusion

To consolidate and possibly increase vaccine uptake in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ghana, health education and promotion programs should aim at creating awareness on the benefits of vaccine uptake while addressing the health and safety concerns on the potential side effects through evidence‐based community messaging from credible sources. It is important to show specific commitment to transparency and reliable information to build public trust by decision‐makers.
Experimental Realization of Optimal Time‐Reversal on an Atom Chip for Quantum Undo Operations
Authors: Mastroserio Ivana , Gherardini Stefano , Lovecchio Cosimo , Calarco Tommaso , Montangero Simone , Cataliotti Francesco S. , Caruso Filippo
Published: October 2022

The authors report
the use of the dressed chopped random basis optimal control algorithm to realize time‐reversal procedures. The latter are aimed for the implementation of quantum undo operations in quantum technology contexts as quantum computing and quantum communications. The last performed operation can be time‐reversed via the undo command so as to perfectly restore a condition in which any new operation, chosen by the external user, can be applied. By generalizing this concept, the undo command can also allow for the reversing of a quantum operation in a generic time instant of the past. Here, thanks to optimal time‐reversal routines, all these functionalities are experimentally implemented on the fivefold Hilbert space of a Bose–Einstein condensate of non‐interacting 87Rb atoms in the ground state, realized with an atom chip. Each time‐reversal transformation is attained by designing an optimal modulated radio frequency field, achieving on average an accuracy of around 92% in any performed test. The experimental results are accompanied by a thermodynamic interpretation based on the Loschmidt echo. These findings are expected to promote the implementation of time‐reversal operations in a real scenario of gate‐based quantum computing with a more complex structure than the five‐level system considered here.
Optimal Temperature Estimation in Polariton Bose‐Einstein Condensate
Authors: Xie Dong , Xu Chunling
Published: October 2022

Improving the measurement precision of temperature is very important and challenging, especially at low temperatures. Based on the existence of invariant subspaces during the polariton thermalization, a new way to enhance the measurement precision of low temperature is proposed and the Landau bound is obtained to avoid that the measurement uncertainty of the temperature diverges as the temperature approaches zero. The measurement precision of low temperature increases significantly with the number of polariton states. In order to resist the dissipation, the incoherent pumping is necessary for obtaining the information of the temperature encoded in the steady state. It should be noted that too strong incoherent pumping is wasteful due to that the quantum Fisher information of the temperature becomes less and less dependent on the total number of the polaritons.
Numerical study of the effect of a V‐shaped weir on turbulence characteristics and velocity in V‐weir fishways
Authors: Shahabi Maryam , Ahadiyan Javad , Ghomeshi Mehdi , Narimousa Marjan , Katopodis Christos , Azizi Nadian Hossein
Published: October 2022

Fishways are used to allow fish to migrate around water infrastructure, whether movements are in the upstream or downstream direction. Hydrodynamic conditions within various fishways, including turbulence levels, are important for successful fish passage. A numerical hydrodynamic study was conducted for V‐weir fishways, which assist species migrating upstream. The variables investigated included, fishway slopes of 4%, 7%, and 10%, relative spacing between weirs of 1.3, 2.6, and 4 (D/L, ratio of distance between weirs to pool width), and weir angles of 22.5°, 40°, and 60°. Turbulence characteristics, including turbulent kinetic energy (TKE), Reynolds shear stress (RSS), turbulent intensity (TI), turbulent dissipation (TD), as well as maximum water velocity, were examined by CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation using a re‐normalized group or RNG turbulence model. The CFD was calibrated with flow measurements made in a physical model of the V‐weir fishway in laboratory control experiments. Based on inferences from fish passage literature, the results showed that, in the range of parameters studied, a weir angle of 22.5°, a slope of 10% and relative spacing between weirs of 1.3 and 2.6 were assessed as offering the best potential performance for several species and sizes of fish, while the latter has lower cost as it requires fewer weirs. The V‐weir fishway may be adaptable for smaller fish.
Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion: An Introduction
Authors: Norén Fredrik , Stjernholm Emil , Thomson C. Claire
Published: October 2022

The introduction to the edited collection maps the overarching aims of the book, discusses the time frame and the geographical focus, and situates the book in a media historical research tradition on propaganda and persuasion. A key ambition with this volume is to advance a transnational approach to media history, highlighting how actors and institutions, ideas and practices, have been shaped by transnational entanglements within the Nordic region and beyond. Further, the introduction lays out the rationale for focusing on the entanglement of things, ideas and actors rather than media representations, cross-border connections rather than national comparisons, as well as the importance of a broad media concept in the study of propaganda and persuasion. Lastly, the introduction provides a short overview of chapters included in the book.
Creating Information Infrastructure for Transnational Co-operation in Television: Nordvision in the 1960s–1970s
Authors: Pajala Mari
Published: October 2022

Nordic public service television organizations launched Nordvision in 1959 to organize television programme exchange and co-productions, and the network remains active today. This chapter concentrates on a period at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s when Nordvision reorganized its working practices, to trace how Nordvision developed information infrastructure that would support transnational collaboration in television. A key problem for Nordvision was how to ensure the efficient exchange of information necessary for transnational co-operation. This chapter discusses Nordvision’s efforts to develop its information infrastructure consisting of an active meeting culture, paper documents and media technologies such as telephone and video, to understand how Nordvision defined challenges relating to Nordic co-operation and attempted to solve them. Through this lens, this chapter considers how television has contributed to constructing the Nordic region, not by analysing how Nordicness was represented on television screens, but by focusing on the behind-the-scenes work of developing Nordic co-operation networks.
The Nordic Mobilization of Public Opinion on Foreign Aid in the UN’s Second Development Decade
Authors: Diurlin Lars
Published: October 2022

This chapter contributes to the understudied research areas of Nordic foreign aid media history and Nordic co-operations concerning the mobilization of public opinion on foreign aid. The study asks: What exchanges of ideas regarding information strategies took place between the Nordic aid agencies during the launch of the Second Development Decade (1970s)? Utilizing governmental archive documents the study demonstrates that Nordic co-operations shifted from embracing “Nordicness” in field projects to using Nordic connections as a backstage think-tank for mutual, but domestic, goals of public persuasion, focusing on film as an information device. It is revealed that cooperative efforts were hampered by the agencies’ lack of experience in audio-visual co-production, by different discursive understandings of “development” and by the difficulty to transnationally co-operate around nationally grounded information regimes.
“It All Comes from Beer”: Tuborg, Carlsberg, and the Role of Film in Danish Cultural Diplomacy
Authors: Thomson C. Claire
Published: October 2022

It All Comes from Beer is the title of a 1952 short film, commissioned by Carlsberg to showcase its philanthropic contributions to science and art in Denmark to anglophone viewers. But Carlsberg and its rival brewery, Tuborg, used film at least a quarter-century earlier as “propaganda”, not just for their beer but also for the culture, industry, and landscape of their home country. The case studies in this chapter show how inter-war film genres such as tourist films, promotional footage, educational films, and even science films tended to overlap and merge, depending on where they travelled and to which audiences they were screened. The movement of films and of the material culture (from beer glasses to science equipment) that accompanied them facilitated an entrepreneurial form of cultural diplomacy on Denmark’s behalf.
Norwegian Defence and Security Policy: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in the 1950s
Authors: Pedersen Dahlen Øystein , Werenskjold Rolf
Published: October 2022

Even though the Scandinavian countries had failed to create a common defence union at the end of the 1940s, their governments soon managed to create a confidential propaganda collaboration. This Scandinavian propaganda model was based on social democratic politicians’ use of the media and civil society to gain support for defence policy and to counter Soviet propaganda. In this chapter, we analyse how the Norwegian People and Defence (Folk og Forsvar) and the Norwegian Atlantic Committee (Den norske Atlanterhavskomité) were established, how they influenced public opinion on defence and security policy issues, and how they influenced support for the Norwegian NATO membership in the 1950s. The analysis is contextualized with the corresponding organizations in Sweden and Denmark, in which there was close cooperation, confidential exchange of information on propaganda activities, and the fight against communist espionage and sabotage.
Andrological Aspects of Penile and Testicular Cancer
Authors: Carrieri Giuseppe , Falagario Ugo , Recchia Marco , Finati Marco
Published: October 2022

The aims of the treatment of penile and testicular cancer are complete tumor removal with as much organ preservation as possible, without compromising oncological control. Surgical treatment can be mutilating and devastating for the patient’s psychological well-being; however, organ preserving strategies must be weighted on the impact of cancer recurrence on long-term survival. Herein, we present epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and oncological outcomes of these urological cancer as well as andrological and functional consideration on organ preserving strategies for penile cancer, fertility, and sexual disfunction after treatment for testicular cancer.
Therapy in Oligozoospermia (Varicocele, Cryptorchidism, Inflammation, and Seminal Tract Infections)
Authors: Busetto Gian Maria , Saleh Ramadan , Gül Murat , Agarwal Ashok
Published: October 2022

The management of infertile men with varicocele is highly debated. Varicocele repair (VR) can be either surgical (varicolectomy) or through angiographic embolization. Surgical repair of varicocele includes open non-microsurgical techniques whether inguinal (Ivanissevich) or high retroperitoneal ligation (Palomo), open microsurgical techniques (inguinal or sub-inguinal) or laparoscopic. The accumulating evidence suggests that VR can improve conventional sperm parameters (sperm concentration, motility, and morphology), seminal oxidative stress, sperm DNA fragmentation, and serum testosterone concentrations.

Treatment of cryptorchism is based on surgical correction. The surgical approach for palpable undescended testis is inguinal orchidopexy with eventual repair of concomitant hernia. Scrotal surgical approach is a viable alternative. For nonpalpable undescended testis, surgical approach can be open or laparoscopic, in one or two stages and possibly with spermatic vessel transection. In some cases, orchiectomy is required (testis abdominal localization, impossibility of mobilization or high neoplastic risk).

Male accessory gland infections, including infection and/or inflammation of accessory glands (prostate, seminal vesicles, and Cowper’s glands), and male genital tract infections are characterized by the presence of an elevated number of leukocytes and/or pathogens in semen, together with inflammatory signs. Management is based on different antibiotic therapies.
Assisted Reproductive Technology
Authors: Matteo Maria
Published: October 2022

The human species is biologically distinguished by low fertility. In fact, with each menstrual cycle, a couple at the peak of their reproductive capacity has only about a 30% chance of conceiving. The WHO states infertility as “a disease of the reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected intercourse.”

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) consists of all treatments or procedures that include the in vitro handling of both human oocytes and sperm or of embryos, for the purpose of establishing a pregnancy.

The techniques are usually divided into three broad categories:

First level techniques: Intrauterine and Intracervical Insemination (IUI/ICI), the simpler and less invasive ones, such as intrauterine insemination (IUI) with or without Intracervical Insemination (ICI) ovarian stimulation.

Second level techniques: the more complex and more invasive ones that can be performed under local anesthesia or deep sedation, which differ from the basic techniques as they involve manipulation of female and male gametes and because they require in vitro fertilization. Among these techniques the IVF (In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer), ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection), and the possible cryopreservation of male and female gametes and embryos.

Third level techniques procedures that require general anesthesia with intubation, including:

laparoscopic egg retrieval, intra-tubal transfer of male and female gametes (GIFT), zygotes (ZIFT) and /or embryos (TET) laparoscopically;

microsurgical sampling of gametes from the testicle: Testicular Sperm Extraction (TESE), Microsurgical Testicular Sperm Extraction (microTESE), Testicular Sperm Aspiration (TESA);

microsurgical sampling of gametes from the epididymides: Percutaneous Epididymal Sperm Aspiration (PESA) and Microsurgical Epididymal Sperm Aspiration (MESA). In all assisted reproduction techniques, the seminal fluid receives a treatment able to induce capacitation “in vitro” so that the activated spermatozoa, at the threshold of the acrosomal reaction, can interact with the mature oocytes. Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) are highly specialized procedures which involve removing three to four cells from a 5–6 day old blastocyst and testing them for chromosomal abnormalities prior to transferring the embryo into a woman’s uterus. According to data reported from the European IVF-Monitoring Consortium (EIM) for the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), the clinical pregnancy rates (PR) per aspiration and per transfer are 28.0% and 34.8%, respectively. After ICSI, the corresponding rates are 24% and 33.5%. ART can alleviate the burden of infertility on individuals and families, but it can also present challenges to public health as evidenced by the high rates of multiple delivery, preterm delivery, and low birth-weight delivery experienced with ART.
MtF Sex Reassignment Surgery: Trombetta Technique
Authors: Trombetta Carlo
Published: October 2022

Gender affirming surgery should provide satisfying results in terms of aesthetic and functional outcomes, therefore, no standard procedure could fit for every subject. Penoscrotal flap technique with neoclitoral-neourethral complex confreres acceptable outcomes, is reproducible in different anatomical scenarios and not involves major abdominal surgery.
Neutron star heating in dark matter models for the muon g − 2 discrepancy
Authors: Hamaguchi Koichi , Nagata Natsumi , Ramirez-Quezada Maura E.
Published: October 2022

Abstract

The observed value of the muon magnetic dipole moment, which deviates from the Standard Model prediction by 4.2σ, can be explained in models with weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) coupled to muons. However, a considerable range of parameter space of such models will remain unexplored in the future LHC experiments and dark matter (DM) direct searches. In this work we discuss the temperature observation of neutron stars (NSs) as a promising way to probe such models given that WIMPs are efficiently captured by NSs through DM-muon or spin-dependent DM-nucleon scattering. The captured WIMPs eventually annihilate in the star core and heat the NS. This effect can be observed in old NSs as it keeps the NS surface temperature at a few thousand K at most, which is much higher than the predicted values of the standard NS cooling theory for NSs older than ∼ 107 years. We consider two classes of representative models, where the DM couples or does not couple to the Higgs field at tree level, and show that the maximal DM heating is realized in both scenarios.
Population games with instantaneous behavior and the Rosenzweig–MacArthur model
Authors: Frølich Emil F. , Thygesen Uffe H.
Published: October 2022

How to determine the spatial distribution and population dynamics of animals are some of the key questions in ecology. These two have been coupled before, but there is no general method for determining spatial distributions based on instantanous behavior coupled with population dynamics. We propose modeling interacting populations with instantaneous habitat choice through mean-field games. By using the framework of variational inequalities, we are able to determine existence and uniqueness for habitat distributions of interacting populations, in both continuous and discrete habitats. With some additional restrictions, we are also able to show existence and uniqueness of fixed-points of the population dynamics along with spatial distributions. We illustrate our theoretical results by studying a Rosenzweig–MacArthur model where predators and consumers inhabit a continuous habitat. This study is conducted both theoretically and numerically. Analyzing the emergent dynamics is possible as viewing the system from the vantage point of variational inequalities allows for applying efficient numerical methods. The generality of our theoretical approach opens up for studying complex ecosystems, e.g. the impact of enrichment on spatial distributions in marine ecosystems.
Heterogeneity of dose distribution in normal tissues in case of radiopharmaceutical therapy with alpha-emitting radionuclides
Authors: Li Wei Bo , Bouvier-Capely Céline , Saldarriaga Vargas Clarita , Andersson Michelle , Madas Balázs
Published: October 2022

Heterogeneity of dose distribution has been shown at different spatial scales in diagnostic nuclear medicine. In cancer treatment using new radiopharmaceuticals with alpha-particle emitters, it has shown an extensive degree of dose heterogeneity affecting both tumour control and toxicity of organs at risk. This review aims to provide an overview of generalized internal dosimetry in nuclear medicine and highlight the need of consideration of the dose heterogeneity within organs at risk. The current methods used for patient dosimetry in radiopharmaceutical therapy are summarized. Bio-distribution and dose heterogeneities of alpha-particle emitting pharmaceutical 223Ra (Xofigo) within bone tissues are presented as an example. In line with the strategical research agendas of the Multidisciplinary European Low Dose Initiative (MELODI) and the European Radiation Dosimetry Group (EURADOS), future research direction of pharmacokinetic modelling and dosimetry in patient radiopharmaceutical therapy are recommended.
Erreichbarkeitspotenziale als Wachstumsimpuls von Mittelzentren zwischen Metropolregionskernen
Authors: Ramms T. , Wedemeier J.
Published: October 2022

Die Entwicklung der Teilräume von Metropolregionen fällt heterogen aus. Während die Kernstädte, ihr engerer Verflechtungsraum mit weiteren Bevölkerungszuwächsen rechnen können, müssen sich vor allem die Zwischenlagen auf weitere Wachstumsveränderungen einstellen. Der Artikel beschreibt diese Lage von Mittelzentren zwischen Metropolregionen und deren Bedeutung als Impulsgeber für das demografische und wirtschaftliche Wachstum. Anhand von Standorten der norddeutschen Metropolregionen Hamburg, Nordwest (Bremen-Oldenburg) sowie Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg werden Erreichbarkeitspotenziale berechnet, um die relative Zentralität von Mittelzentren zu beschreiben. Die Mittelzentren weisen dabei teilweise eine höhere Zentralität auf als die Metropolregionen selbst und tragen zur Stabilisierung der regionalen Entwicklung in den Zwischenräumen bei. Aus dieser Beobachtung lassen sich drei Schlussfolgerungen ableiten: Erstens, dass es teilweise zu Konzentrationsprozessen innerhalb der ländlich-liegenden Gemeinden und Städte kommen kann. Zweitens, dass es eine Notwendigkeit für die Flexibilisierung des Zentrale-Orte-Konzepts gibt und drittens, dass der räumlichen Planung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Regionalpolitik eine wichtige Rolle zukommt, um diese Zentren zu stärken.
A distributed task orchestration scheme in collaborative vehicular cloud edge networks
Authors: Mittal Shilpi , Dudeja Rajan Kumar , Bali Rasmeet Singh , Aujla Gagangeet Singh
Published: October 2022

The next generation vehicular networks would be expected to support a wide array of cutting edge applications concerning intelligent transportation system (ITS). Due to this reason, the scale and complexity of ITS-based compute-intensive tasks has exhibited a phenomenal increase and will continue to grow in future. Thus, a large quantity of data requiring different levels of processing is generated, that necessities the need of in-vehicle computational resources as well as collaboration from technologies like, cloud and edge computing. This has led to the development of paradigms such as vewehicular cloud computing (VCC) and vehicular edge computing (VEC). Although VCC provides rich computing resources of the cloud servers to process tasks but it is affected due to long latency and instability of connections. In contrast, VEC provides compute resources closer to the data source to offset the relatively higher latency but the task requester should be able to perceive the computing and communication environment so as to allocate tasks effectively. Thus, it is essential to utilize both edge and cloud capabilities to create a collaborative cloud edge network that can cater to the demand of vehicular networks. A distributed task orchestration framework (DTOF) supporting a Vehicle-to-Vehicle based task orchestration scheme has been proposed that utilizes the vehicular movements along urban roads for creation of vehicular edges. The edge creation process utilizes an innovative light weight string processing algorithm based on hashing technique. The performance of DTOF has been evaluated based on extensive simulation by considering Chandigarh city road maps and the obtained results exhibit the satisfactory performance of DTOF for task orchestration.
Serre Functors and Graded Categories
Authors: Grant Joseph
Published: October 2022

We study Serre structures on categories enriched in pivotal monoidal categories, and apply this to study Serre structures on two types of graded k-linear categories: categories with group actions and categories with graded hom spaces. We check that Serre structures are preserved by taking orbit categories and skew group categories, and describe the relationship with graded Frobenius algebras. Using a formal version of Auslander-Reiten translations, we show that the derived category of a d-representation finite algebra is fractionally Calabi-Yau if and only if its preprojective algebra has a graded Nakayama automorphism of finite order. This connects various results in the literature and gives new examples of fractional Calabi-Yau algebras.
Supporting Vulnerable People During Challenging Transitions: A Systematic Review of Critical Time Intervention
Authors: Manuel Jennifer I. , Nizza Megan , Herman Daniel B. , Conover Sarah , Esquivel Laura , Yuan Yeqing , Susser Ezra
Published: October 2022

Critical Time Intervention (CTI) is designed to reduce the risk of homelessness and other adverse outcomes by providing support to individuals during challenging life course transitions. While several narrative reviews suggest the benefit of CTI, the evidence on the model’s effectiveness has not been systematically reviewed. This article systematically reviews studies of CTI applied to a variety of populations and transition types. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for protocols (PRISMA-P) guidelines, we reviewed 13 eligible experimental and quasi-experimental studies. Findings were summarized by individual outcome domains, including housing, service engagement use, hospitalization or emergency services, mental health, substance use, family and social support, and quality of life. CTI had a consistent positive impact on two primary outcomes—reduced homelessness and increased service engagement use—among different populations and contexts. Despite the effectiveness of CTI, the specific mechanisms of the model’s positive impacts remain unclear. Implications for practice, policy and research are addressed.
TRIM64 promotes ox-LDL-induced foam cell formation, pyroptosis, and inflammation in THP-1-derived macrophages by activating a feedback loop with NF-κB via IκBα ubiquitination
Authors: Zhu Chao , Chen Wei , Cui Haiming , Huang Zhigang , Ding Ru , Li Na , Wang Qinqin , Wu Feng , Zhao Yanmin , Cong Xiaoliang
Published: October 2022

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease and the main pathology behind most cardiovascular diseases and the overactivation of macrophages initiates the development of atherosclerosis. However, the specific functions of oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) in macrophages remain elusive. Macrophages derived from monocyte (THP-1) were treated with ox-LDL and were used to generate atherosclerosis in an in vitro model. NLRP3 inflammasome markers were examined using quantitative RT-PCR and Western blotting. Cytokines were measured using ELISA. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) was utilized to detect nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) and TRIM64 interactions. A fat-rich diet was applied to ApoE-/- mice for in vivo studies. ox-LDL promoted TRIM64 expression in a time-dependent manner. According to loss- and gain-of-function analyses, TRIM64 enhanced the activation of NLRP3 inflammasomes and the expression of downstream molecules. TRIM64 directly interacted with IκBα and promoted IκBα ubiquitination at K67 to activate NF-κB signaling. We detected direct binding between NF-κB and the TRIM64 promoter, as well as enhanced TRIM64 expression. Our study revealed an interaction between TRIM64 and NF-κB in the development of atherosclerosis. TRIM64 and NF-κB formed a positive feedback to activate NF-κB pathway.

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ox-LDL induces foam cell formation and TRIM64 expression

TRIM64 regulates ox-LDL-induced foam cell formation, pyroptosis and inflammation via the NF-κB signaling

TRIM64 activates NF-κB signaling by ubiquitination of IκBα

NF-κB inhibition attenuates atherosclerosis in HFD-induced ApoE (-/-) mice
Temporal–spatial analysis of drought and wet periods: case study of a wet region in Northwestern Iran (East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Ardebil and Zanjan provinces)
Authors: Razmi Robab , Sotoudeh Fatemeh , Ghane Mohsen , Ostad-Ali-Askari Kaveh
Published: October 2022

Northwest of Iran has plant, animal and environmental varieties because of its geographical location. Therefore, alternate weather may have irreparable outcomes in numerous environmental sectors. In the prevailing research, it was turned into consideration to investigate the droughts that with inside the northwestern vicinity of Iran all through a 30-yr statistical period (1987–2016) that occurred, the usage of the records of fifty-five synoptic, climatology and rain gauge stations was evaluated with inside the positioned area. Using the SPI in a 12-month period, 360 maps had been produced for drought severity and month-to-month droughts. Then, the maps had been transformed into records, and the calculations associated with its descriptive information consisting of the common center, well-known circle and ellipse had been calculated on 4236 cells. The consequences of the month-to-month evaluation of droughts and moist duration intensities all through 360 months confirmed that the chance of susceptible moist durations with inside the important elements and extreme droughts with inside the southern half of the vicinity is better than different situations. More extreme droughts arise on this vicinity.
Hydroxyzine removal from the polluted aqueous solution using the hybrid treatment process of electrocoagulation and adsorption; optimization, and modeling
Authors: Dolatabadi Maryam , Kheirieh Amiremad , Yoosefian Mehdi , Ahmadzadeh Saeid
Published: October 2022

The current work investigated the efficacy of the hybrid treatment process of electrocoagulation and adsorption in removing hydroxyzine (HDZ) from polluted aqueous solutions. Response surface methodology (RSM) was used to optimize the operating parameters based on the sub-category of central composite design (CCD). The significance of variables, interactions, and quadratic effects was investigated through analysis of variance (ANOVA). The value of determination coefficient (R2), Adjusted R2 (Adj.R2) and predicted R2 (Pred.R2) were 0.9855, 0.9791, and 0.9743, respectively; also, p-value of P < 0.0001, and F-value of 65.91 were obtained. The obtained results revealed that the removal efficiency of 99.3% and electrical energy consumption of 0.438 kWh m−3 were achieved at the optimum treatment condition of initial HDZ concentration of 25.0 mg L−1, pH solution of 8.0, the current density of 12.0 mA cm−2, reaction time of 15.0 min, and chitosan dosage of 0.03 g L−1. According to the Pareto analysis, the initial HDZ concentration, solution pH, current density, and reaction time’s contribution to the HDZ removal were 22.61%, 38.99%, 19.36%, and 9.43, respectively. Furthermore, the contributions of solution pH and reaction time with the quadratic effects were 3.43% and 6.19%, respectively. Thus, the pH solution revealed the highest contribution to the removal process. Overall, HDZ removal by the hybrid treatment process of EC and AD revealed a good efficiency; also, it can be potentially presented as a promising process for treating polluted water.
On weighted norm inequalities for oscillatory integral operators
Authors: Bergfeldt Aksel , Rodríguez-López Salvador , Staubach Wolfgang
Published: October 2022

We prove weighted norm inequalities with Muckenhoupt’s $$A_p$$

A
p

-weights, for a wide class of oscillatory integral operators. As a consequence, one also obtains the boundedness of commutators of the aforementioned operators with functions in BMO.
Creative industries careers: shifting aspirations and pathways from high school to university—a NSW case study
Authors: Kerrigan Susan , Grushka Kathryn , Chand Ari , Street Kristi , Shadbolt Jane , Lawry Miranda
Published: October 2022

Creative careers are responding rapidly to new creative practices, new audiences, emerging digital platforms and technologies. These careers are well paid, resistant to automation and permeate all aspects of society. Yet students’ and teachers’ perceptions and attitudes are not in alignment with the reality of a job in Australia’s Creative Industries. Research exploring the perceptions of a creative career in high schools showed there was a significant disconnect between perceived jobs and actual jobs, impacting on student aspirations to work in the creative industries. Current narratives in schools need to shift beyond an outdated idea of traditional “Arts” towards the realities of a contemporary creative workforce which combines digital, entrepreneurial and creative skills. A mixed method Australian state case study, was conducted in regional school communities, collecting data from across creative classroom practice, surveys and interviews. The findings point to a limited understanding of creative careers held by specialist teachers, careers advisors and students. This resulted in severely limited advice being provided to high school students in terms of choices of secondary curriculum and educational pathways for a creative career.
Does seasonality of feedstock affect anaerobic digestion?
Authors: Trujillo-Reyes Ángeles , Serrano Antonio , Cubero-Cardoso Juan , Fernández-Prior África , Fermoso Fernando G.
Published: October 2022

The feedstock seasonality has been poorly studied in the anaerobic digestion process. The seasonality could disturb the digestion process stability, mainly for fruit and vegetable waste. In this study, three seasonal waste mixtures generated in wholesale markets were reduced to 10, 6, and 4 mm to assess the influence of seasonality and particle size reduction on anaerobic biodegradability. The methane yield ranged between 298 and 465 mL CH4 g VS−1 (volatile solids). Waste mixtures produced in spring at 10-mm particle size presented higher methane production than in autumn/winter and summer, i.e., 32% and 61%, respectively. Methane production decreased with reducing particle size for waste produced in spring from 482 ± 12 to 310 ± 1 mL CH4 g VS−1. In contrast, waste produced in autumn/winter and summer did not show high differences among different sizes. Despite these differences, mixtures with the smallest particle size presented the highest methane production rate.

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The British Library’s collections of African-language publishing
Authors: Wallace Marion
Published: October 2022

The British Library (BL) holds over 20,000 printed books, serials and newspapers in well over 100 languages of Africa south of the Sahara. These collections date from the seventeenth century, and continue to grow. Although not comprehensive, they reflect all the major developments in African-language publishing across the continent. This article analyses these collections in the context of the broader history of publishing in African languages, and discusses how they have been acquired. Through further analysis of the extent and composition of the collections, and how they compare to those of other UK institutions, I go on to show that the BL’s holdings are among the most extensive such collections in the UK, possibly the most extensive. At the same time, I reveal the difficulties that various cataloguing limitations create for such analysis. The article closes with brief practical guidance on accessing the collections.
Popular Poesis: Language and the Pleasures of Everyday Creation
Authors: Barber Karin
Published: October 2022

Pleasure in language arises from the creativity of everyday life. Africa’s historical and ethnographic record is full of striking examples of linguistic play. Three scenes of Yorùbá linguistic creativity illustrate this: praise poetry in a small town, a traveling popular theater, and early Yorùbá newspapers. Each yields distinctive pleasures, but central to all of these is the act of mutual recognition of forms of words and attunement to the linguistic production of others. Barber suggests that verbal arts bring to consciousness the fundamental processes by which sociality is constituted and may thus provide a potential starting point for social theory from “within.”
A Mosaic of Yorùbá Ontology and Materiality of Pleasure Since AD 1000
Authors: Ogundiran Akinwumi
Published: October 2022

What have been the meanings and meaningfulness of pleasure in Yorùbá thought, practice, and history over the past eight hundred years? Ogundiran draws from literary, archaeological, myth-historical, and ethnographic sources to answer this question in two parts. First, he examines the ontologies, materiality, and sociality of pleasure at the levels of ordinary experience and institutional culture. Second, he demonstrates how pleasurable experiences and things were used to construct social order, define social difference, and build community. Ogundiran concludes that pleasure is not an autonomous experience. Rather, it is embedded in other domains of social life.
“Awa ndi macheza aamai (This is women’s play)”: Examining Pleasure in Urban Malawian Women’s Social Spaces
Authors: Mtenje Asante Lucy
Published: October 2022

Women’s social groups and gatherings in Malawi, whether physical or virtual, are often dismissed as something not to be taken seriously, as they are imagined to be places where nothing useful but chitchat and gossip will emerge. Nevertheless, these spaces, as sites of leisure where women can engage in macheza (play), continue to play an important role in how urban women variously experience pleasure. Mtenje considers social media groups for women and bridal showers not only as spaces where women are free from male interference, which, in itself, invokes pleasure, but also as spaces where patriarchal norms can be and often are reinforced.
A qualitative evaluation of an exercise practitioner in an outpatient child and adolescent mental health service
Authors: Matthews Evan , Cowman Mary , Mulhare Brian , Banville Elaine , Kissane Sheila , Lederman Oscar , Lowney Paula , Ronan Fran , Denieffe Suzanne
Published: October 2022

Background:

Physical activity interventions can confer a range of physical and mental health benefits among young people with mental disorders. In some contexts, such as Ireland, integrated physical activity is not easily available within child and adolescent mental health services. Therefore, an interagency pilot intervention was established in a child and adolescent mental health service in Ireland with the integration of a novel exercise practitioner into the multidisciplinary mental health team.

Objective:

A qualitative evaluation was conducted to understand the impact of the pilot intervention and to understand issues of implementation that arose throughout.

Methods:

In-depth qualitative interviews with service users’ parents/guardians (N = 3) and a single focus group with existing service providers (N = 3), framed by the RE-AIM framework were conducted to evaluate the pilot intervention. Data were analysed using thematic analysis to explore themes.

Results:

Three overarching themes were identified. These were as follows: (i) Making changes toward healthier physical activity behaviours; (ii) An intervention of therapeutic holism; and (iii) The integrated service delivery.

Conclusions:

This research provides insight on the value of a novel integrated exercise practitioner in outpatient young persons’ mental health services in Ireland, indicating an enhanced and complimentary therapeutic service. These findings will be helpful for integrating Exercise Practitioners in this setting going forward.
What are the full capabilities of relativistic quantum cryptography?
Authors: Miller Carl A.
Published: October 2022

Quantum cryptography bases its security proofs on physical assumptions. A longstanding observation in the field is that we may be able to do more cryptographic tasks when we assume not only the laws of quantum mechanics but also the impossibility of superluminal signaling (i.e., that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light). Relativistic quantum cryptography takes into account the spatial locations of the parties involved and uses the impossibility of superluminal signaling as a basis for security. Previous efforts in this field have been fruitful, both theoretically and experimentally.
Evolutionary ecology of the bark beetlesIps typographusandPityogenes chalcographus
Authors: Schebeck Martin , Schopf Axel , Ragland Gregory J. , Stauffer Christian , Biedermann Peter H. W.
Published: October 2022

Ips typographus(L.) andPityogenes chalcographus(L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) are two common bark beetle species on Norway spruce in Eurasia. Multiple biotic and abiotic factors affect the life cycles of these two beetles, shaping their ecology and evolution. In this article, we provide a comprehensive and comparative summary of selected life-history traits. We highlight similarities and differences in biotic factors, like host range, interspecific competition, host colonization, reproductive behaviour and fungal symbioses. Moreover, we focus on the species' responses to abiotic factors and compare their temperature-dependent development and flight behaviour, cold adaptations and diapause strategies. Differences in biotic and abiotic traits might be the result of recent, species-specific evolutionary histories, particularly during the Pleistocene, with differences in glacial survival and postglacial recolonization. Finally, we discuss future research directions to understand ecological and evolutionary pathways of the two bark beetle species, for both basic research and applied forest management.
Gossip on Main Street: Visualizing Oral Exchange in Mid-Twentieth-Century Small-Town Photography and Art
Authors: CARROLL WILL
Published: October 2022

This article explores the visual representation of gossip, rumourmongering, storytelling, and other analogues of oral exchange in mid twentieth-century small-town American visual narrative. I herein examine two key visual artists of the interwar period – photographer Ben Shahn and painter Norman Rockwell – and their place within the small-town narrative form, as well as Life magazine and its institutional small-town preoccupations. Considering Shahn's photographic work conducted as part of the Farm Security Administration to Rockwell's culturally dominant scenes of idyllic small-town life, I argue that both emphasize gossip's narratability despite their drastically different provenance. Opposing Shahn's scenes of Depression-era poverty with Rockwell's homogeneous vignettes of rural life, it will be concluded that gossip and oral exchange remained a vital narrative constituent for artists of the small town during the mid-twentieth century, and that its narrative significance cannot be overstated.
Karl Barth on election and nationhood: Christological reflections from 1936
Authors: Tseng Shao Kai
Published: October 2022

This article probes into Karl Barth's theology of nationhood set forth in Gottes Gnadenwahl, a volume on the doctrine of election published in November 1936. I will attend to his use of Hegelian terms and concepts to demonstrate his refutation of secularist and immanentist reinterpretations of the Christian doctrines of election and providence under the Enlightenment principle of historical progress by modern German thinkers, most notably Hegel. As Barth sees it, Hegel was largely at fault for having provided theological and philosophical justifications for the rise of Germany's mystical nationalism in the name of German Christianity. Using Hegelian language, Barth insists against Hegel that election is God's predetermination of human existence in Christo. Rather than negating nationhood altogether, Barth's repudiation of nationalism is intended to stress that nationhood is an external basis of the communion of the elect, and that the election of the community is the internal basis of nationhood.
Parents’ depressive symptoms and reflective functioning predict parents’ proficiency in relational savoring and children’s physiological regulation
Authors: Borelli Jessica L. , Hong Kajung , Kazmierski Kelly F. M. , Smiley Patricia A. , Sohn Lucas , Guo Yuqing
Published: October 2022

This study examined parental depression and parental reflective functioning (PRF) as predictors of parental proficiency in relational savoring (RS), the association between RS proficiency and a marker of children’s physiological self-regulation, respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), during a stressor, and indirect effects of parental depression and PRF on children’s RSA via parents’ RS. At Time 1 (T1), parents of 8- to 12-year-old children (N = 139) reported on their depressive symptoms and completed a parenting interview, coded for PRF. After 1.5 years (Time 2; T2), parents savored a positive relational memory that involved their children, which was coded for savoring proficiency. Children’s RSA was measured during a stressful task (a series of impossible puzzles). Depressive symptoms (inversely) and PRF (positively) were associated with RS proficiency. Higher parental RS proficiency was associated with children’s higher mean levels of RSA during the stressor. Indirect effects models supported that T2 RS proficiency mediated the negative association between parental T1 depressive symptoms and children’s T2 RSA, and between T1 PRF and children’s T2 RSA. We discuss these findings in terms of implications for parents’ emotion regulation, children’s emotion regulation, children’s mental health, and intervention.