bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Waste audits in healthcare: A systematic review and description of best practices
Authors: Slutzman Jonathan E , Bockius Hannah , Gordon Ilyssa O , Greene Hannah C , Hsu Sarah , Huang Yiming , Lam Michelle H , Roberts Timothy , Thiel Cassandra L
Published: June 2022

Healthcare generates large amounts of waste, harming both environmental and human health. Waste audits are the standard method for measuring and characterizing waste. This is a systematic review of healthcare waste audits, describing their methods and informing more standardized auditing and reporting. Using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, we searched MEDLINE, Embase, Inspec, Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection databases for published studies involving direct measurement of waste in medical facilities. We screened 2398 studies, identifying 156 studies for inclusion from 37 countries. Most were conducted to improve local waste sorting policies or practices, with fewer to inform policy development, increase waste diversion or reduce costs. Measurement was quantified mostly by weighing waste, with many also counting items or using interviews or surveys to compile data. Studies spanned single procedures, departments and hospitals, and multiple hospitals or health systems. Waste categories varied, with most including municipal solid waste or biohazardous waste, and others including sharps, recycling and other wastes. There were significant differences in methods and results between high- and low-income countries. The number of healthcare waste audits published has been increasing, with variable quality and general methodologic inconsistency. A greater emphasis on consistent performance and reporting standards would improve the quality, comparability and usefulness of healthcare waste audits.
Childhood Maltreatment, Personality Pathology, and Intimate Partner Aggression
Authors: South Susan C. , Boudreaux Michael J. , Oltmanns Thomas F.
Published: June 2022

The goal of the current study was to examine the early childhood roots of adult personality pathology and intimate partner aggression in later life. Childhood maltreatment is associated with perpetration of intimate partner aggression (IPA) in adulthood, although the effect is generally only small to moderate in size. Childhood maltreatment is also linked with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) personality disorders (PDs) in adulthood, which in turn are correlated with IPA in adult romantic relationships. This suggests that one pathway by which childhood maltreatment leads to adult IPA is through maladaptive personality patterns. In the current analyses, data from 495 older, racially diverse adults and their romantic partners recruited from the St. Louis Personality and Aging Network (SPAN) study were used to examine whether childhood maltreatment may impact adult IPA through adult personality pathology. Findings from structural equation modeling demonstrated that for most of the 10 DSM-5 PD (Section II) constructs, there was a significant indirect effect from childhood maltreatment to IPA in later life through a latent variable of personality pathology. Our findings confirm that IPA does occur among romantic partners in later life, that it is robustly associated with personality pathology traits in later life, and that personality pathology in later life may have its roots in early neglect and maltreatment.
Academic Outcomes Among Children Who Experienced or Were Exposed to Physical Abuse
Authors: Renner Lynette M. , Piescher Kristine N. , Mickelson Nicole L.
Published: June 2022

All forms of family violence may negatively affect a child’s development. However, research on child maltreatment is primarily focused on the child who is directly maltreated and does not often account for how other children in the family experience the abuse. The central aim of our study was to better understand how children’s direct experience of physical abuse and exposure to physical abuse influence their academic outcomes. Data were taken from the Minnesota Departments of Education and Human Services. The sample was developed from a population-level cohort of 8–10 years old children ( N = 1740) from two groups: Child Protective Service (CPS)-involved (a child who allegedly experienced physical abuse or a child who was exposed to the alleged physical abuse of another child in their household) and the matched comparison. Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) was also measured for CPS-involved children. School attendance and academic achievement were examined over 4 years. Descriptive statistics and Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) were used to answer the three research questions. Over time, declines in attendance for children exposed to physical abuse were significantly greater than those of their matched peers. Exposure to IPV for CPS-involved children resulted in further declines in attendance. Math proficiency of children who experienced physical abuse declined at a significantly faster rate than their matched peers. The decline in reading proficiency of both children who experienced physical abuse and children exposed to physical abuse was more significantly pronounced than that of their matched peers. Differences in math and reading proficiency were eliminated when IPV exposure was taken into account. Child protection workers and school professionals should be aware of negative effects of experiences of and exposures to child maltreatment and work collaboratively to provide academic support, counseling, and other interventions to support children’s academic stability.
Does Gender Inclusive Language Affect Psychometric Properties of the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale-Short Form? A Two-Sample Validation Study
Authors: Canan Sasha N. , Cozzolino Lauren , Myers Jaime L. , Jozkowski Kristen N.
Published: June 2022

The Illinois-Rape Myth Acceptance-Short Form (IRMA-SF) is a widely used scale measuring people’s endorsement of rape myths. However, it uses heavily gendered wording and makes gender-based assumptions that may affect its generalizability to various subgroups of people, including sexual and gender minorities who may view gender constructs outside of the heteronormative gender binary. This study validates the psychometric properties of a modified form of the IRMA-SF that is gender inclusive. Participants were adults with a range of sexual orientations and gender identities. Two sets of data were merged and then the sample was randomly split with a 20/80 weight. Data in the 20% split were used for exploratory factor analyses. Data in the 80% split were used for confirmatory factor analyses. According to the exploratory factor analysis, we found a theoretically predicted one-factor model was best (41% variance explained). Further, we found acceptable absolute model fit according to the confirmatory factor analysis (RMSEA = .07, p < .001; SRMR = .06) but unsatisfactory incremental fit (CFI = .82). These model issues were likely due to a floor-effect of low item variability which may call into question the utility of this scale in determining differences in rape myth acceptance overall. Overwhelmingly, participants in this study rejected rape myths. Researchers should explore the use of gender inclusive wording with an updated rape myth scale for use with sexual and gender minorities and, perhaps the general population, as some of these statements may be lacking in cultural relevance.
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital
Authors: Siu Kaxton , Jin Shuheng
Published: June 2022

Mechanisms to control Hong Kong’s young workers are embedded in inadequate labour protections within the government’s social welfare system and in prevalent informalization workplace practices. This article maintains that these control mechanisms have their origins in Hong Kong’s colonial era. Following Harvey, we argue that these control mechanisms are expressions of contradictions of capital in production and reproduction spheres. We identify the foundational and moving contradictions of capital expressed in Hong Kong’s lack of social welfare and employment protections, commodification of education, speculation in the housing market, patterns of work casualization and technology-induced labour-saving strategies, leading to precarity and everyday distress among young workers. New control mechanisms and contradictions of capital notwithstanding, this article highlights experiments to create spaces of resistance by Hong Kong’s young working classes in the hope of resisting the increasing degradation of their everyday living standards.
A comfort performance improved anti-pitch hydraulically interconnected suspension system with switchable dual accumulators
Authors: Wang Bin , Zheng Minyi , Zhang Nong , Chen Tong , Luo Liang , Zhong Weimin , Yang Tianyu
Published: June 2022

This paper introduces a novel switchable dual accumulators hydraulically interconnected suspension (SDAHIS) system. The proposed SDAHIS system can improve the ride comfort and anti-pitch performances simultaneously compared with the existing anti-pitch hydraulically interconnected suspension (HIS) system. The SDAHIS system uses a two-way valve for accumulators switching. The developed SDAHIS system achieve the function by controlling the connection of the two switchable accumulators. To comprehensively study the proposed system, the SDAHIS system model and the seven-DOF vehicle model are established. The model of the SDAHIS system is validated by the bench test. The simulation results of the full vehicle with the proposed SDAHIS system show that the anti-pitch and ride comfort performances are simultaneously improved. This research further exploits the potential of the HIS system which can help to better design the suspension system.
A rare case of HIV encephalopathy presenting with an isolated cerebellar syndrome
Authors: Boardman Emily , Babu Chitra , McKee David
Published: June 2022

Cerebellar dysfunction is a well-recognised but an infrequent complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We present the case of a 44-year-old man living with HIV who presented with subacute cerebellar dysfunction and in whom a thorough diagnostic work-up did not identify any opportunistic infections. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed a high HIV viral load of 1160 copies/ml and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed multiple high signal abnormalities, disproportionately affecting the posterior fossa especially the cerebellum. This is a rare case of HIV encephalopathy presenting with an isolated cerebellar syndrome and highlights the importance of considering HIV as the aetiology in this clinical scenario.
The nexus of disaggregated energy sources and cement production carbon emission in China
Authors: Alola Andrew Adewale , Bekun Festus Victor , Adebayo Tomiwa Sunday , Uzuner Gizem
Published: June 2022

Cement production reportedly accounts for the largest global materials flow, thus achieving global environmental sustainability through responsible consumption and production is central to the sustainable development scenario. But even that China, the world's largest carbon emitter and largest cement producer, is under-studied. Thus, the current study employed the nonlinear ARDL and frequency domain causality methods to unearth the contributory or mitigating role of energy sources and economic progress in China's cement carbon emission (CCE) over the period 1971-2020. Overall, the study establishes long-run equilibrium relationship between the study variables of interest Subsequently, the baseline regression suggests that a positive shift in economic growth, energy from fossil fuel and primary energy consumption all increase emissions while a negative shift does not have a significant effect on emissions. Moreover, a positive (negative) shift in renewable energy decreases (increases) emissions in both the short and long-run. The result of the Frequency Domain causality analysis resonates with the results of NARDL regression. As a policy, this study infers energy development and economic-related measures are strategically important in achieving sustainable cement production and consumption.
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies
Authors: Bleicher Alena , Häßler Pauline , David Martin
Published: June 2022

Today, industrial-scale mining is a high-tech activity that transforms places and regions by creating massive technological infrastructures. “The public” and its relationship with this industry are seen as increasingly relevant for mining projects; however, the role technologies play in this regard is as yet under-researched. In this article, we use an example from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research program to examine how technoscientific actors build relationships with the public in the context of mining technology development. More precisely, we reveal how the public is conceptualized by technology developers and how such conceptions come into play in technology development projects. We argue that a central aspect of this is the assumption that certain characteristics of the public are variable or stable. While characteristics perceived as stable tend to lead to an adjustment of the technology to suit the attitudes of an imagined public, characteristics perceived as variable cause no technological modifications but do influence the selection of communication strategies.
Epoxy-based composites with enhanced thermal properties through collective effect of different particle size fillers
Authors: Zeng Xiaoyang , Zhang Zhengguo , Pan Yaoqi , Zhang Yongle , Hou Linxi
Published: June 2022

Taking advantages of excellent adhesion and insulating properties, polymer-based thermal interface materials have been widely used in electrical and electronic industry. However, applications was limited due to the existence of high interfacial resistance and poor mechanical properties resulted from poor dispersion and weak interfacial adhesion of thermal conductive fillers in the polymer matrix. Herein, different sizes of aluminum oxide microparticle was used as thermal conductive fillers to fabricate a series of high thermal conductive epoxy composites, and the effect of fillers loading ratio on the properties of thermal conductive, mechanical, thermal stability was further analyzed. The optimum composite exhibits a high thermal conductivity (1.91 ± 0.02 W·m−1·K−1) at a loading ratio of 1: 2 (20-μm: 70-μm, mass ratio), which is equivalent to a thermal conductivity enhancement of 950% in comparison with pure epoxy resin. The outstanding properties of the as-prepared composite is mainly attributed to the effective conductive network formed by different size fillers that the smaller particles act as a bridge to connect the larger one. This work has proved by Agari model that combining different sizes Al2O3 as fillers is a workable way to obtain composite with high thermal conductivity and it is expected to provide a reliable route for the preparation of thermally conductive composites with different particle sizes.
Exploring the Impact of Social Media Marketing Features on Purchase Intention in the Fast-Food Industry
Authors: Hanaysha Jalal Rajeh
Published: June 2022

This study was directed towards testing the effect of four social media marketing activities on purchase intention in the fast-food industry. The required data was obtained from several customers of different fast-food restaurants in the United Arab Emirates via a survey method. During data analysis, the partial least squares structural equation modelling was used for checking the reliability as well as validity of research instrument and then verify the proposed hypotheses. The results confirmed the significance of selected social media marketing activities in affecting purchase intention. Particularly, the results showed that interactivity, entertainment, informativeness, and perceived relevance have significant positive effects on consumer purchase intention. These outcomes suggest that marketing practitioners should be regularly engaged in social media advertising activities to create value for customers and influence their purchase behaviours. From a theoretical perspective, this study contributes to the existing literature by testing the role of selected social media marketing features and consumer purchase intention with new insights from a Middle East country owing to the lack of empirical studies on this topic in this region.
Fahm-ul-Halal Versus Taqwa Industries: Investigating Ethical (Mis-)Conduct in Pakistan’s Beverage Industry
Authors: Rauf Ateeq Abdul
Published: June 2022

This case looks into an incident that took place in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2017, when Masheer Rai from Fahm-ul-Halal (FUH) company found E120, a prohibited ingredient, on the label of a Sweeter strawberry juice drink bottle. He sent a WhatsApp message that quickly went viral. In response to the message, Rai received a phone call from Taqwa Industries, the juice manufacturer. Rai was told it was a labelling error, but the manufacturer did not have the documents to back the story. The management of both the companies met, but the FUH group was not satisfied with the outcome of the meeting and began contemplating their next move. The case can potentially be a benchmark for understanding the problems of adopting halal certification and ethical conduct in the food industry.
Schooling in the Margins of the State: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Violence
Authors: Anand Chetan , Dalal Jyoti
Published: June 2022

The present research attempts to examine the nature of violence and the manner in which it is experienced in schooling practices. By investigating the everydayness of schooling practices to capture the manifestation of violence, it aims to understand the experiences of marginality by locating it on the state-school continuum. The research has used an ethnographic approach for carrying out field work in a state-run primary school. The data are interpreted in the context of systemic violence in schooling and its interlinkages with marginality which is explored vis-à-vis the nature of state power. The relationship between the state and its margins is conceptualised through the writings of Veena Das and Giorgio Agamben, subsequently examining state’s role in exacerbating the violence. Experiences of the teachers and children in the everyday practices of the school would be studied to understand the indifference of the state. This indifference is then examined in terms of apathy and othering and finally analysed in their relationship to exclusion and violence. The relationship of exclusion to membership and belonging is studied, and it will be argued that the nature of violence that shapes the schooling practices is a product of the indifferent power of the modern state—violence that emerges from doing nothing when there is an urgent need to do something. It is this apathetic indifference of the state and its relationship to violence and exclusion that would be examined in this article.
Design and investigation on an ultrasonic-excited piezoelectric gas jet pump
Authors: Wang Jiantao , Dong Yawei , Gao Mingze , Deng Yingjie , Zhu Jian
Published: June 2022

To improve the gas driving performance of the piezoelectric gas driver, this paper proposes a piezoelectric gas jet pump that uses the ultrasonic near sound field of the piezoelectric transducer to excite the gas mass points to oscillate and form a gas jet. The working characteristics of the pump are studied theoretically and experimentally. The distribution law of the sound field excited by the transducer in the sixth-order vibration mode is obtained through simulation analysis. Then the prototypes are designed through calculating the Reynolds number and Stokes number of the gas jet excited by ultrasonic near sound field. And the calculation results show that there is a direct relationship between the gas driving ability of the jet pump and the radiated sound pressure of the transducer. On this basis, the experiments are conducted and the results show that the gas driving performance is significantly affected by the position of the jet hole. When the jet hole is arranged in the central area of the piezoelectric transducer, the gas driving performance of the jet pump is the best. When the driving voltage is 80 Vpp and the driving frequency is 20.4 kHz, the gas flow rate reaches 0.39 L/min.
Exhumed: Reckoning with the History of Eugenics in Marriage and Family Therapy
Authors: Charlot Leigh Ann , Washington Karen , Hall Cadmona
Published: June 2022

The purpose of this article is to educate Marriage and Family Therapists about the history of the profession and to call attention to the troubling history of eugenics as it pertains to current ethical practice. The eugenics movement sought to increase the marriage and reproduction of healthy, white people, while implementing a system of institutionalization and sterilization to deter the reproduction of people of color, people with disabilities, and anyone determined to be “undesirable” by eugenicists. The helping professions, including Marriage and Family Therapy arose during the years when this took place, and contributed to the implementation of eugenics in a variety of ways. Founders of the field of Marriage and Family Therapy, including eugenicist Paul Popenoe, also known as the father of marriage counseling, played a key role in linking eugenics ideals and practices with Marriage and Family Therapy. While other professions, and indeed other organizations of all types, have worked to understand their participation in the promotion of eugenics ideals, and have issued apologies along with commitments to function ethically in the future, Marriage and Family Therapy has yet to do so. This article is a call to reckon with our history, to understand it, to educate and to practice ethically in the future.
H2 and H∞ optimal designs of tuned inerter dampers for base motion excited structures with inherent damping
Authors: Xu Tiancheng , Li Yancheng , Lai Tao , Li Shaoqi
Published: June 2022

Tuned inerter damper (TID) has recently gained increasing attention as a new structural control mechanism for seismic protection of structures. Currently, theoretical investigations are undertaken by researchers to reveal its fundamentals and to understand its underline principles in altering the structural performances of structures against dynamic loadings. However, the comprehensive study of optimization design of TID for undamped structures is lacking and the majority of the research focuses on the optimization of TID for structures without any damping. This research evaluates the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] optimal designs of TIDs on the structures with damping. Using SDOF structure as an example, the frequency response function of the system equipped with TID underground motion excitation is obtained. The [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] designs of TID for structures without damping are derived considering various response parameters using analytical method. A numerical search method is utilized for the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] designs of TID for structures with damping; meanwhile, a set of explicit formulae are obtained by curve-fitting for convenience in the application. Finally, the relative motion response of the inerter is explored, and an optimal design formula of TID which can reduce the displacements of primary mass and inerter simultaneously, is proposed.
A study on the dynamic characteristics of the new type of prefabricated slab ballastless track structure for urban rail transit applications
Authors: Ye Mengxuan , Zeng Zhiping , Zeng Hualiang , Ruan Qingwu , Huang Zhibin , Shuaibu Abdulmumin Ahmed
Published: June 2022

In order to solve the thorny problem of maintenance and repair of cast-in-place monolithic track slab, a new type of prefabricated slab ballastless track structure is developed for ordinary sections and damping sections. This study uses dynamics software to establish a vehicle-ballastless track coupling dynamics model, to explore the dynamic properties of the new type of prefabricated ballastless track structure in ordinary and damping sections. The model is verified using field measurement to prove its reliability. Based on the results obtained in the study, the following conclusions are deduced: (1) The vertical displacement of the floating slab in the damping section is increased by 82.95 times compared with the ordinary section. However, the vertical acceleration of the tunnel wall is reduced by 90.48%, while the insertion loss of vertical vibration acceleration of the tunnel wall is 11.08 dB, which meets the requirements of the code (CJJ/T 191-2012). (2) As the stiffness of the damping cushion increases, the vertical displacements of the rail and track slab are reduced by 43.25% and 56.68%, respectively, while the insertion loss of the vertical vibration acceleration is reduced by 31.28%. (3) As the damping increases, the vertical acceleration of the tunnel wall increases by 75.96%, whereas the insertion loss of the vertical vibration decreases by 30.51%. When the damping or the stiffness of rubber cushion is greater than 0.132 MN·s/m3 or 0.0231 N/mm3, the damping does not meet requirements. (4) When the thickness of the floating slab is increased from 200 mm to 350 mm, the vertical accelerations of the floating slab and the tunnel wall are reduced by 35.79% and 41.35%, respectively, whereas the insertion loss of the vertical vibration acceleration is increased by 37.36%.
Traditional Medicare Episode-Related Spending on Postacute Care for Dual-Eligible and Medicare-Only Beneficiaries, 2009–2017
Authors: Keohane Laura M. , Kripalani Sunil , Stevenson David G. , Buntin Melinda B.
Published: June 2022

Dual-eligible beneficiaries with Medicare and Medicaid coverage generally have greater utilization and spending levels than Medicare-only beneficiaries on postacute services, raising questions about how strategies to curb postacute spending will affect dual-eligible beneficiaries. We compared trends in postacute spending and use related to inpatient episodes at a population and episode level for dual-eligible and Medicare-only beneficiaries over the years 2009–2017. Although dual-eligible beneficiaries had consistently higher inpatient and postacute service use and spending than Medicare-only populations, both populations experienced similar declines in inpatient and postacute measures over time. Conditional on having an inpatient stay, most types of postacute service use increased regardless of dual-eligible status. These consistent patterns in episode-related postacute spending for Medicare-only and dual-eligible beneficiaries—decreased episode-related spending and use on a per beneficiary basis and increased use and spending on a per episode basis—suggest that changing patterns of care affect both populations.
The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis
Authors: de Heer Coriena , Bi Shanshan , Finkenauer Catrin , Alink Lenneke , Maes Marlies
Published: June 2022

While there is evidence that child maltreatment is positively associated with loneliness, the strength of this association is not yet clear. It is also unclear whether the magnitude and statistical significance of this association varies across groups of individuals. Therefore, this meta-analysis examines whether there are differences in loneliness between individuals with and without maltreatment histories, and which factors may influence the association between child maltreatment and loneliness. A three-level meta-analysis was conducted on 52 studies reporting 116 effect sizes ( N = 1,705,493; M age = 30.93; 49.6% females). Results showed a medium overall effect ( g = 0.45, p < .001, 95% CI [0.36, 0.53]), indicating that individuals with maltreatment histories, on average, feel lonelier than individuals without maltreatment histories. Moderator analyses showed that effect sizes were larger for emotional abuse and emotional neglect as compared to other types of child maltreatment and decreased when participants were older at the time of loneliness assessment. These findings suggest that individuals with maltreatment histories, especially those who have been emotionally abused and/or emotionally neglected, are vulnerable to experiencing loneliness across the lifespan. The results also suggest that feelings of loneliness warrant attention in prevention and intervention programs for individuals with maltreatment histories.
‘You Always Need at Least Two Tones to Produce a Harmonious Sound’: The Value of Arendt’s Ideas on Friendship for Thinking in Social Psychology
Authors: Zadeh Sophie , Coultas Clare
Published: June 2022

In this article, we focus on Arendt’s ideas about the relationship between thinking, dialogue and friendship to make the argument that friendship, although undertheorised in its relationship to thinking in social psychology, is a productive concept that captures something important about the argumentative and dialogical character of thinking (both on one’s own, and with other people). We work through Arendt’s ideas and discuss them in relation to social psychological theorising to consider how the concept of friendship can deepen our understanding and analyses of the relationalities that underpin thinking. We specify that whilst thinking in existing social psychological accounts may be read as adversarial in nature (e.g. through a focus on its oppositional character), the relationship between thinking and friendship has been an important idea underlying the perspectives presented in such works. Distinguishing between thinking as friends and thinking in groups, we suggest that there may be something special about the role of friendship in thinking. We draw out this idea by turning to Arendt, and simultaneously use the work of social psychologists to reconsider aspects of The Life of the Mind, in which thinking is mostly conceptualised as a solitary activity.
Autism as a difference or a disorder? Exploring the views of individuals who use peer-led online support groups for autistic partners
Authors: Lewis Laura Foran
Published: June 2022

Approximately one-third of autistics report intimate relationship experience, but few studies have explored neuromixed relationships from the perspectives of non-autistic partners. Non-autistic partners increasingly use peer-led online groups to seek support. The purpose of this study was to capture a theory that reflects the basic social experience of individuals who use these support groups using classic Glaserian grounded theory methodology. Online interviews were conducted with 162 non-autistics who believed that they were in neuromixed relationships. Data were concurrently collected and analyzed using constant comparative analysis. Participants described varying views of autism, from a difference to a disorder, which defined the context of their relationships. Five relationship profiles emerged—mutual partnership: viewed partners as = companionship: viewed partners as friends but lacked a deeper connection; caregiving: viewed partners as dependents and compared relationships to parent–child dyads; detachment: viewed relationships as broken beyond repair and isolated selves from partners; and discriminatory: believed and circulated negative generalizations about autism. Many participants who were dissatisfied in their relationships shared that their partners were not formally evaluated and did not self-identify as autistic. Future research should explore ways that autism labels are (mis)applied by the general public based on negative stereotypes about autism.

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Individuals who use peer-led online support groups for partners of autistics describe diverse views of autism, with some describing autism as a difference and others describing it as a disorder. I conducted online interviews with 162 non-autistics who believed they were in relationships with autistics and who participated in online support groups on social media. I analyzed their responses by constantly comparing each interview to previous interviews to develop a theory about their social experiences. As many as one-third of autistics participate in romantic relationships, and many of their partners seek support through groups on social media. Few studies explore what it is like to be a non-autistic person who is in a relationship with an autistic person. The way that participants viewed autism influenced the way that they viewed themselves, their partners, and their relationships. Many participants who were dissatisfied in their relationships shared that they believed their partners were autistic, but their partners had never been formally evaluated and did not self-identify as autistic. Future research should explore ways that autism labels are (mis)applied by the general public based on negative stereotypes about autism.
Jo Cox, public feeling and British political culture: #MoreInCommon
Authors: Johnson Beth , Parry Katy
Published: June 2022

Five years after the murder of British MP, Jo Cox, during the European Union referendum campaign in 2016, this article examines the More In Common initiative through two sites of participatory practice: on Twitter via two related hashtags–#MoreInCommon and #LoveLikeJo–and the ‘More In Common’ exhibition (2021–2022) at the People’s History Museum in Manchester. We consider how both spaces help to organise public feeling and consider the ways in which these sites draw on Cox’s identity politics and values to curate her political legacy. We identify three emergent logics through our thematic analysis of the tweets posted with the hashtags in the month following her death: connected, visual and resistant. Considering the political legacy of ‘more in common’ 5 years later, we then trace the movement of the campaign from the digital to the physical and assess the ways in which Cox’s values are crystalized through co-created participatory artistic projects displayed in public gallery space.
‘Scatter my ashes at Saks Fifth Avenue’: Boundary work and intermediation in the fashion landscape
Authors: Foster Jordan
Published: June 2022

Past research shows that intermediaries exercise a significant amount of authority and power in cultural fields. In this article, I investigate the case of cultural intermediaries who might appear to have a deficit of power and authority. Stylists and visual merchandisers in luxury fashion cater to elite clients who possess high levels of cultural and economic capital. How do these cultural intermediaries mobilize their cultural capital and expertise to bridge the social boundaries between themselves and their elite clients? Drawing on 17 in-depth interviews and 30 site visits, I find that stylists and visual merchandisers rely on a set of place-based and affective techniques for mobilizing their capital. The case of luxury fashion highlights the role of place in cultural intermediary work and the variation in how intermediaries generate and deploy authority and expertise to bridge social boundaries with consumers of fashion.
A new type of aerodynamic measurement technology for vehicle model running on bridge under crosswind in wind tunnel test
Authors: Zou Yunfeng , Liu Zhipeng , Shi Kang , He Xuhui , Deng Honggui
Published: June 2022

The existing moving vehicle models generally require a long test-track to realize the acceleration and deceleration processes and the negative effect of data cables is inevitably for the wind pressure measurement using the traditional pressure scanning system. To address the technical obstacle for moving vehicle models in wind tunnel tests, a new type of aerodynamic measurement technology is presented in this study. Firstly, a piece of new kinetic equipment, a U-Shaped launching ramp, is proposed. The U-Shaped launching ramp can realize the acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle model by gravity and makes full use of the test section of the wind tunnel. Then, a wireless pressure acquisition system is developed to virtually eliminate the negative effects of the inertia and friction forces. By comparing with the conventional wind pressure test data, the proposed wireless pressure acquisition system presents a higher accuracy and fully satisfies the test requirement for the moving vehicle-bridge system. From the scaled test, it is confirmed that the aerodynamic forces of the moving vehicle model are larger than that of the static one, implying that the moving test is necessary for studying the aerodynamic characteristics of the vehicle-bridge coupling system.
Why the media gets it wrong when it comes to North Korea: Cases of ‘dead’ North Koreans in the Kim Jong-un era
Authors: Seo Soomin
Published: June 2022

Journalists are more capable than ever of covering places they cannot visit in person. The same news environment that makes such reporting possible, however, can also facilitate a global cascade of journalistic errors. This article zooms in on the opportunities provided by a unique cluster of journalistic errors to understand factors influencing journalistic errors in international stories. It focuses on erroneous death reports of seven prominent North Koreans between 2012 and 2019. Existing research shows that domestic interests and ideology greatly influence international reporting, with journalists routinely relying heavily on elite sources. However, this article finds limited impact of national interests and political leanings, with the journalistic errors occurring across the ideological spectrum. News outlets developed a habit of quoting other – particularly international – sources without additional verification, citing lack of direct access to North Korea as a major reason. The clicks and revenue generated by salacious North Korea-related stories make them especially susceptible to distortion. Even after such stories were proven erroneous, corrections were rarely issued, with journalists conceding they do not think of North Korea as a subject worthy of clarification. This article thus concludes that in addition to national interest and the Cold War-era commercialization of fear, a culture of negative exceptionalism contributed to erroneous coverage, an idea that existing journalistic standards on ethics and fact-checking do not apply in dictatorial regimes like North Korea.
Family Belonging and Internalizing Symptoms among Youth Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
Authors: Stone Katie J. , Poquiz Jonathan L. , Fite Paula J. , Pederson Casey A.
Published: June 2022

Detained youth are at an increased risk of developing internalizing symptoms. Belongingness theory suggests that youth’s perception of belonging within their family may further elucidate this risk. In addition, alexithymia may explicate symptoms, yet these constructs have yet to be evaluated in detained youth. The present study examined the interaction between alexithymia and family belonging on depression and anxiety symptoms of 94 youth in a juvenile detention facility. Results suggest that lack of family belonging and high alexithymia are independently associated with greater internalizing symptoms. Findings indicated a need for interventions targeting family belonging and emotion regulation to address internalizing problems for youth.
Science students’ post-bachelor’s choice narratives in different disciplinary settings
Authors: Madsen Lene Møller , Holmegaard Henriette Tolstrup
Published: June 2022

In this paper, we aim to understand the implications of the structural changes of the Bologna process from a student perspective. We investigate how bachelor’s degree students’ in a post-Bologna era with three-year bachelor’s degree and two-year master’s degree units construct their post-bachelor’s choice narratives in two different science degree programmes (chemistry and natural resources) at a Danish research-intensive university. We pay special attention to how science students’ narrative repertoires and imagined futures interact with and set the scene for their choice narratives in specific disciplinary settings. We draw on theoretical ideas of science identities including ‘narrative repertories’ and ‘imagined futures’, combined with disciplinary cultures and institutional capital. The analysis draws on small-scale rich qualitative material including 12 narrative interviews and focus groups with 44 students, including reflective essays, drawings and word-cloud brainstorms. Results show that the post-bachelor’s trajectory is a choice that students must relate themselves to in their identity negotiations. We document how students within the same faculty are presented with different narrative repertoires to construct and negotiate their choices from and as a result experience different choice processes and negotiations due to the different disciplinary settings they encounter. The implications for higher education institutions are given.
A change-point detection method for detecting and locating the abrupt changes in distributions of damage-sensitive features of SHM data, with application to structural condition assessment
Authors: Lei Xinyi , Chen Zhicheng , Li Hui , Wei Shiyin
Published: June 2022

Damage detection or structural condition assessment is an important objective of structural health monitoring (SHM). The damages or adverse changes in structural conditions can usually be manifested as pattern changes in damage-sensitive features (DSFs) extracted from SHM data; this enables us to shift damage detection to DSF change detection. Online monitoring can accumulate huge amounts of data, finding the changes from the massive DSF data through manual inspection is impractical; thus, automatic detection tools are required. If possible, relevant significance test is also desired to make a rational judgment on the existence of a change. In this sense, the change-point detection technique is an attractive choice, which is increasingly proved to be a powerful change detection tool in various SHM applications. However, existing change-point detection methods in SHM are mainly used for scalar or vector data, thus incapable of detecting changes in features represented by complex data, for example, the probability density functions (PDFs). Detecting abrupt changes in the distributions (represented by PDFs) of the DSF data is of crucial concern in structural condition assessment. However, relevant automatic diagnostic tools have not been well developed in the SHM community. To this end, a novel change-point detection method is developed in the functional data analytic framework for this task. The proposed approach has advantages in detecting changes for massive data and directly handling general PDFs. Considering that the major challenge in PDF-valued data analysis comes from the nonlinear constraints of PDFs, the PDFs are embedded into the Bayes space to develop the detection methodology by using the linear structure of the Bayes space. Comprehensive simulation studies are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method as well as demonstrate its superiority over the competing method. Finally, a case study involving cable condition assessment of a long-span bridge demonstrates its practical utility in SHM.
Why overseas? Vietnamese doctoral students’ motivations for a doctoral study abroad
Authors: Phan Anh Ngoc Quynh
Published: June 2022

This article reports a study that investigated Vietnamese doctoral students’ motivations to pursue their doctoral study outside their home country. Analyses of in-depth interviews with 19 participants revealed what made a PhD abroad imaginable to them, thus revealing the motivational factors for Vietnamese doctoral students to sojourn for their academic undertakings, including professional requirement and academic development, life enrichment and self-exploration, prior transnational experiences and funding availability. Using the conceptual tools of imagination and capacity to aspire, the study highlights not only the capacity to navigate the horizons of aspirations of Vietnamese doctoral students but also the unevenness of imaginative spaces among them. Going beyond the push-pull framework or the traditional binary of external-internal motivation, this study, with a particular focus on imagination and aspiration, emphasises the capacity of the doctoral students and the socio-cultural context that made a PhD abroad a possibility for them. It further illuminates how their capacity to aspire was different from one another, leading to dissimilarities in their imaginative space and maps of horizons.
Endovascular Repair of a Spontaneous Popliteal Arteriovenous Fistula Associated With a Venous Aneurysm
Authors: Gómez-Galán Sebastián , Velandia-Sánchez Alejandro , Sanabria-Arévalo Lina María , Polania-Sandoval Camilo Andrés , Gallo-Bernal Sebastian , Cabrales-Arévalo Jaime , Camacho-Mackenzie Jaime , Barrera-Carvajal Juan Guillermo
Published: June 2022

Popliteal arteriovenous fistulae (PAF) are anomalous communications between the arterial and venous systems of the lower extremity. They are usually secondary to trauma and are rarely associated with additional vascular defects. The coexistence of a PAF and a venous aneurysm is rare and usually occurs in patients with connective tissue disorders. Evidence regarding the management of this type of anomaly is scarce. However, both open and endovascular approaches seem feasible alternatives for treating this condition. Here, we describe a spontaneous popliteal arteriovenous fistula associated with a venous aneurysm in a 42-year-old male patient who presented with a popliteal mass. Satisfactory endovascular closure of the fistula and exclusion of the venous aneurysm were achieved using an Amplatzer™ Vascular Plug II.
No Ground: Disorientation as Prerequisite for Transformation
Authors: Green Larry
Published: June 2022

A central concern that TL theory approaches but does not fully address is the process whereby an individual generates a more adequate meaning perspective after shedding an outmoded one. This article complements TL theory’s account with a phenomenological description of the dangers and opportunities encountered on that quest. It employs the concept of liminality to articulate the transitional process that occurs when one has lost the familiar reference points that enabled one to feel at home. It begins to map the journey from disorientation to integration. Between those endpoints lies the liminal zone. Because there is little if any structure in that realm—hence the experience of groundlessness—agency is relatively unfettered in its search for new meaning perspectives. Originary thought that transcends the conventional ways of operating becomes possible. This is culturally significant as our current frameworks lack the potency to respond to the multiple challenges we are facing.
Vehicle state estimation based on extended Kalman filter and radial basis function neural networks
Authors: Zha Yunfei , Liu Xinye , Ma Fangwu , Liu CC
Published: June 2022

To improve the reliability of vehicle state parameter estimation, a vehicle state fusion estimation method based on dichotomy is proposed. An extended Kalman filter algorithm is designed based on the vehicle 3 degrees of freedom dynamic model. Meanwhile, considering the influence of dynamic model and sensor noise and its coefficient selection on the estimation results, a radial basis function neural network estimation algorithm is designed. To further improve the reliability of the estimation algorithm, a method of estimation algorithm fusion is proposed based on the idea of mutual compensation between model- and data-driven estimation algorithms. The weights of the estimation results of different algorithms are assigned through the dichotomy. The redundancy and fusion of estimation algorithms can improve estimation performance. The effectiveness of the fusion method is verified by the co-simulation of MATLAB/Simulink and CarSim, and the real vehicle test. The results show that the change trend of the estimation result is consistent with the actual state parameters change trend, and the estimation accuracy after algorithm fusion is significantly improved compared to a single extended Kalman filter or radial basis function.