bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
High-resolution vibroacoustic characterization of DLR’s Falcon 2000LX ISTAR aircraft
Authors: Winter René , Norambuena Marco , Sinske Julian , Zettel Sebastian
Published: August 2023

In the framework of CleanSky2’s Airframe project DA9, engine tonal noise is a cooperation between Dassault Aviation and DLR. The project aims to enhance the understanding and mitigation of engine-related tonal noise in the aircraft cabin. The presented work was done to get an in-depth understanding of the vibroacoustic behavior of DLR’s Falcon 2000LX ISTAR aircraft. A two and a half weeks long vibroacoustic ground test was conducted utilizing artificial shaker excitation and operational engine excitation. The responses were measured using a roving grid of accelerometers at more than 1200 positions, meaning a subset of about 250 sensors were installed at every given time and then moved along the fuselage in a predetermined way to get a high-resolution measurement of aircrafts fuselage. The accelerometer data were than processed to show operational deflections shapes and calculate experimental structural intensity vector fields to analyze the energy transfer through the structure for optimized placement of active or passive counter measures. Specifically, the transport of tonal frequencies generated by the engines was analyzed.
Towards an Indigenous literature re-view methodology: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boarding school literature
Authors: Rogers Jessa
Published: August 2023

This paper outlines the development of a new Indigenous research methodology: Indigenous Literature Re-view Methodology (ILRM). In the rejection of the idea that Western, dominant forms of research ‘about’ Indigenous peoples are most valid, ILRM was developed with aims to research in ways that give greater emphasis to Indigenous voices and knowledges, foregrounding Indigenous ways of being, doing and knowing. The advantages of ILRM include identifying themes as ‘relevant’ as opposed to ‘common’. This method is based on relatedness, which is framed by Aboriginal ontology, axiology and epistemology, or ways of being, ways of doing and ways of knowing. Describing and employing ILRM to re-view Indigenous Australian boarding school literature, it was found there is a modest but robust body of research that has emerged in the past 20 years. Sixty-six written sources (i.e. journal articles, reports, theses and books) which were published in 2000 onwards and focussed on a topic of contemporary Indigenous boarding schooling were analysed. Sources that included a chapter or section on boarding as part of a publication focussed on other topics were not included in this re-view. Seven major themes emerged, including home, student experience, transitions, access, staff, health and evaluation. This paper focusses on the development and use of ILRM as an Indigenous methodology for researchers in Indigenous fields of study.
Uniform instruction set extensions for multiplications in contemporary and post-quantum cryptography
Authors: Oberhansl Felix , Fritzmann Tim , Pöppelmann Thomas , Basu Roy Debapriya , Sigl Georg
Published: August 2023

Hybrid key encapsulation is in the process of becoming the de-facto standard for integration of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Supporting two cryptographic primitives is a challenging task for constrained embedded systems. Both contemporary cryptography based on elliptic curves or RSA and PQC based on lattices require costly multiplications. Recent works have shown how to implement lattice-based cryptography on big-integer coprocessors. We propose a novel hardware design that natively supports the multiplication of polynomials and big integers, integrate it into a RISC-V core, and extend the RISC-V ISA accordingly. We provide an implementation of Saber and X25519 to demonstrate that both lattice- and elliptic-curve-based cryptography benefits from our extension. Our implementation requires only intermediate logic overhead, while significantly outperforming optimized ARM Cortex M4 implementations, other hardware/software codesigns, and designs that rely on contemporary accelerators.
A new Rothamsted long-term field experiment for the twenty-first century: principles and practice
Authors: Li Xiaoxi , Storkey Jonathan , Mead Andrew , Shield Ian , Clark Ian , Ostler Richard , Roberts Beth , Dobermann Achim
Published: August 2023

Agriculture faces potentially competing societal demands to produce food, fiber and fuel while reducing negative environmental impacts and delivering regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services. This necessitates a new generation of long-term agricultural field experiments designed to study the behavior of contrasting cropping systems in terms of multiple outcomes. We document the principles and practices of a new long-term experiment of this type at Rothamsted, established at two contrasting sites in 2017 and 2018, and report initial yield data at the crop and system level. The objective of the Large-Scale Rotation Experiment was to establish gradients of system properties and outcomes to improve our fundamental understanding of UK cropping systems. It is composed of four management factors—phased rotations, cultivation (conventional vs reduced tillage), nutrition (additional organic amendment vs standard mineral fertilization) and crop protection (conventional vs smart crop protection). These factors were combined in a balanced design resulting in 24 emergent cropping systems at each site and can be analyzed at the level of the system or component management factors. We observed interactions between management factors and with the environment on crop yields, justifying the systems level, multi-site approach. Reduced tillage resulted in lower wheat yields but the effect varied with rotation, previous-crop and site. Organic amendments significantly increased spring barley yield by 8% on average though the effect again varied with site. The plowed cropping systems tended to produce higher caloric yield overall than systems under reduced tillage. Additional response variables are being monitored to study synergies and trade-offs with outcomes other than yield at the cropping system level. The experiment has been established as a long-term resource for inter-disciplinary research. By documenting the design process, we aim to facilitate the adoption of similar approaches to system-scale agricultural experimentation to inform the transition to more sustainable cropping systems.
Fertiliteitcounseling, semencryopreservatie en oncoTESE bij zaadbalkankerpatiënten: wanneer, waarom en hoe; praktische tips
Authors: Dinkelman-Smit Marij , de Vringer Tahnee
Published: August 2023

Samenvatting

In dit artikel worden praktische aspecten van semencryopreservatie, chirurgische zaadcelwinning door middel van oncoTESE bij azoöspermie en fertiliteitcounseling bij zaadbalkankerpatiënten besproken.
Potential of Multi-temporal InSAR for Detecting Retrogressive Thaw Slumps: A Case of the Beiluhe Region of the Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Jiao Zhiping , Xu Zhida , Guo Rui , Zhou Zhiwei , Jiang Liming
Published: August 2023

Permafrost degradation due to climate warming is severely reducing slope stability by increasing soil pore water pressure and decreasing shear strength. Retrogressive thaw slumps (RTSs) are among the most dynamic landforms in permafrost areas, which can result in the instability of landscape and ecosystem. However, the spatiotemporal characteristics of surface deformation of RTSs are still unclear, and the potentials of deformation properties in mapping large-scale RTSs need to be further assessed. In this study, we applied a multi-temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (MT-InSAR) method to map the spatiotemporal variations in surface deformation of RTSs in the Beiluhe region of the Tibetan Plateau by using 112 scenes of Sentinel-1 SAR data acquired from 2017 to 2021. The deformation rates of RTSs ranged from − 35 to 20 mm/year, and three typical motion stages were inferred by analyzing the deformation variation trend of the headwall of RTSs: stable, abrupt thaw, and linear subsidence. A total of 375 RTSs were identified in the Mati Hill region by combining InSAR-based deformation results with visual interpretation of optical remote sensing images. Among them, 76 RTSs were newly developed, and 26% more than the inventory derived from the optical images alone. This study demonstrated that the combination of InSAR-derived deformation with optical images has significant potential for detecting RTSs with high accuracy and efficiency at the regional scale.
Observations of an Evolving Grid: Resilience and Equity Performance Metrics
Authors: Parker Kendall M , Barlow Jay , Eisdorfer Jason , Kazimierczuk Kamila
Published: August 2023

Purpose of Review

Traditionally, electric grid planning aims to maintain safe, reliable, efficient, and affordable service. As policies, societal goals, and technologies evolve, new objectives for power system planners emerge, creating a need for system performance benchmarking of these objectives.

Recent Findings

With a focus on resilience and energy equity as emerging grid objectives, this review provides an overview of emerging trends in resilience and energy equity metrics, current examples of their coupling in grid planning, and observations on both metric trajectories.

The simultaneous development of resilience and energy equity metrics reveals common themes relating to the scale of measurement, the use of socioeconomic inputs, a departure from utility-controlled metrics, and the need for broader stakeholder inclusion in decision-making processes. This work presents a timely discussion of the essential nature of metrics for grid planners as equity and resilience policies and goal transition from abstract objectives to accountability mechanisms and real dollar investments.
Investigation of electrostatically tunable adhesion and instability of flying head slider
Authors: Zhang Fan , Wang Yu , Hu Yueqiang , Zhang Mingquan , Li Baotong
Published: August 2023

The interfacial adhesion between microstructures is inevitable in a micro-electro-mechanical system (e.g., hard disk drive (HDD)), which may lead to complicated microtribodynamics problems. This research has investigated the effect of surface potential on the interfacial adhesion and microtribodynamics of the head–disk interface (HDI) in an HDD. A dynamic continuum surface force model, where the electrowetting is considered, is proposed to evaluate the interfacial interaction, and then employed into a two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) model to theoretically analyze the potential influence mechanism on the microtribodynamics. The results confirm that the elimination of potential can effectively repress the adhesion retention, which is further proved by the measured slider response with a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV). Moreover, the effect of the potential on the adhesion-induced instability is also analyzed through the phase portrait. It tells that the critical stable flying height can be lowered with the elimination of potential.
Cybersecurity knowledge graphs construction and quality assessment
Authors: Li Hongyi , Shi Ze , Pan Chengwei , Zhao Di , Sun Nan
Published: August 2023

Cyber-attack activities are complex and ever-changing, posing severe challenges to cybersecurity personnel. Introducing knowledge graphs into the field of cybersecurity helps depict the intricate cybersecurity landscape and provides technical support for threat identification and situational awareness. However, during the process of constructing knowledge graphs, inevitable noise and conflicts may be introduced, leading to misleading inferences and decisions. This paper aims to address the issues of constructing and assessing the quality of cybersecurity knowledge graphs. We manually constructed a dataset of cybersecurity knowledge graphs (CS13K) and expanded the existing cybersecurity ontology, building a more versatile ontology applicable to existing data features. Building upon this, we utilized Neo4j to construct the cybersecurity knowledge graph. Furthermore, we propose an AttTucker model, based on Transformer, for assessing the quality of knowledge graphs. By employing numerous self-attention heads, this model captures latent information among entities and relations. While reducing the dimensionality of knowledge embeddings, the model achieves evaluation results comparable to high-dimensional embeddings. Finally, we incorporate the path-level information between entities in the knowledge graph into the evaluation of knowledge graph quality based on the AttTucker model. Experimental analysis on both generic datasets and cybersecurity datasets demonstrates that our model significantly improves F1 value and accuracy in knowledge graph quality assessment tasks, outperforming other models.
Social Networking Site Use, Self-Compassion, and Attitudes Towards Cosmetic Surgery in Young Australian Women
Authors: Conboy Lauren , Mingoia John
Published: August 2023

This study aimed to explore the relationship of total social networking site (SNS) use and attitudes towards cosmetic surgery in young Australian women through the moderating role of self-compassion. Recent research has identified the potentially protective factor of self-compassion in body image concerns; however, few researchers have further explored the components of self-compassion in relation to SNS use. As such, the positive (self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness) and negative (self-judgement, isolation, and over-identification) components of self-compassion were further investigated. The present study utilised a cross-sectional correlational design with self-reported data to determine if self-compassion moderated the relationship between SNS use and attitudes towards cosmetic surgery. A sample of 238 young Australian women, aged 18 to 29 (M = 22.1, SD = 2.9), were recruited. Participants completed an online questionnaire measuring total daily SNS use, self-compassion, and attitudes towards cosmetic surgery. SNS use was significantly negatively correlated with self-compassion and positively correlated with cosmetic surgery. Self-compassion was significantly negatively correlated with attitudes towards cosmetic surgery; however, contrary to expected, self-compassion was not a significant moderator of SNS use and attitudes towards cosmetic surgery. The components of self-compassion were further explored to better understand this relationship, with over-identification significantly predicting more positive attitudes towards cosmetic surgery. The present study highlights the relationship between SNS use and attitudes towards cosmetic surgery. As over-identification relates to ruminating in feelings of discomfort, the results may suggest that SNS users who are more likely to fixate on their appearance dissatisfaction are more likely to have positive attitudes towards cosmetic surgery. Given the popularity of SNS use, this media may pose as an opportune platform to disseminate appearance modification interventions for young adult women. Future research that is causational in nature may be able to confirm these suggested implications.
Is the Only Rational Personality that of the Psychopath? Homo Economicus as The Most Serious Threat to Business Ethics Globally
Authors: Boddy Clive R.
Published: August 2023

The current paper explores the rationality and associated non-emotionality of the psychopathic mind. This was undertaken because psychopaths in the corporate sphere (corporate psychopaths) have been identified as possessing the ability to rise to senior leadership positions within organisations from where they can wield enormous power over their colleagues, organisation and society. When in leadership, the psychopathic create emotional turbulence among their colleagues and subordinates, resulting in an extreme workplace environment. Nonetheless, findings as to the rationality of the psychopathic, include that psychopaths do embody the characteristics of economic rationality and may be the only rational human or ‘homo economicus’ that exists. Taken together with their total immorality and lack of all integrity this makes them the most serious threat to business ethics globally and a threat to the coherence of human society. These findings are important because such people care nothing for the future of humanity and their rationality is dedicated towards personal, short-term gratification. Potentially dire implications for humanity, organisations and society are drawn from this.
An Historical Archaeology of Labor in Convict Australia: A Framework for Engagement
Authors: Gibbs Martin , Tuffin Richard , Roe David
Published: August 2023

Between 1788 and 1868 Britain transported some 171,000 male and female convicted felons to Australia, in the process establishing the foundation European population and instituting a process of invasion and colonization. The convict “system” remains a signature theme in Australian historical and archaeological research, contributing to a multitude of areas of investigation: punishment and reform, colonialism, and colonization process, as well as social aspiration and cultural transformation. This article provides an overview of the history, organization, and physical structure of the system. It then describes recent efforts to reunify the trajectories of archaeology, history, and historical criminology through cross-disciplinary projects, questions, and themes. It includes a description of the authors’ Landscapes of Production and Punishment research framework, which views the organization and administration of the convict system, as well as the shifting balances between punishment and reform, through a labor-systems analysis. This line of inquiry broadens the scope of archaeological interest away from its focus on prisons and institutional sites. It embraces a wider range of labor settings and products, including the dispersal of convicts across urban and frontier areas, and the operational logic behind the system. It also views the convicts both as individuals and a labor force, and the raw materials, roads, buildings, and other items they extracted, constructed, or manufactured equally as “products” of the regime.
Weakly Separated Spaces and Pixley–Roy Hyperspaces
Authors: Ríos-Herrejón Alejandro
Published: August 2023

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Exploring Primary School Staff Responses to Student Reports of Bullying in Australia: A Qualitative Study
Authors: Gizzarelli Emily , Burns Sharyn , Francis Jacinta
Published: August 2023

Bullying behaviour often increases in late childhood and peaks in early adolescence. While interventions to address bullying behaviour typically encourage students to report bullying incidents to school staff, students are often reluctant to report incidents for fear it will worsen their situation or because they lack confidence in a staff members’ ability to intervene effectively. This study explores school staff responses to student reports of bullying behaviour. School staff were recruited from Catholic and Independent schools in Perth, Western Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with school staff (n = 19) working with students in grades four to six (approximately 8–12 years). A thematic analysis of the data was undertaken with the assistance of qualitative data analysis software NVivo. Staff reported a variety of responses to student reports of bullying incidents. Responses involved bullying targets, bullying perpetrators and the school community. School and individual factors found to influence staff responses included life experiences, adequate time to deal with bullying and the influence of colleagues. Suggested strategies to improve staff responses were clear school policies and procedures, scheduled times to deal with student reports, databases to record bullying incidents and professional development for school staff.
[Re]Imagining Indigenous Educational Design: A Conceptual Manifesto to Grow Disruptive Indigenous Digital Activists
Authors: Meston Troy
Published: August 2023

The ubiquity of digital technologies and the harvesting of individual data has modified global societies, reinforcing systems of oppression. While a contemporary phenomenon, the convergence of technology and human subjugation is historical, with links to the racialised reproduction of settler-colonialism. Australia, a settler-colonial state, has escalated the prioritisation of digital competitiveness with a recent policy directed at stimulating infrastructure and research-industry-government partnerships. Strategically, Indigenous communities remain constrained, where the ubiquity of technology and the escalation of digital competitiveness compounds the socio-economic impacts of continuing colonisation. Offline, Indigenous communities continue to face rigid political constraint that limits online access and denies opportunities for their people to live anchored to ancestral lands, seas, languages, and knowledge systems. Given the rapid advance of digital disruption, the inability to limit racialised socio-technical systems, or compete at parity in cyberspace, suppresses Indigenous digital activism, governance, and entrepreneurialism. This conceptual paper (part manifesto, part vision statement) offers initial thoughts intended to stimulate further research on twenty-first-century Indigenous educational design. Central to future design considerations is the search for pragmatic solutions capable of overcoming the racialised challenges limiting the collective development of digital activists essential for Indigenous nation-building. In [re]imagining an alternate digital educational agenda, Indigenous communities must collectively advance strategies that deliberately shift away from Australian schools toward local community digital learning hubs.
Investigation on the mechanism of structural reconstruction of biochars derived from lignin and cellulose during graphitization under high temperature
Authors: Chen Chao , Sun Kang , Huang Chen , Yang Mengmei , Fan Mengmeng , Wang Ao , Zhang Gaoyue , Li Bei , Jiang Jianchun , Xu Wei , Liu Junli
Published: August 2023

The structural reconstruction mechanism of lignin and cellulose-derived biochars during direct graphitization under ultra-high temperatures was intensively investigated. It was demonstrated that cellulose-derived char was almost composed of carbon microcrystallites, whereas lignin-derived char reserved some of its skeleton structures, and such structural difference played a vital role in the morphology of formed graphitic layers. The results illustrated that the graphitized lignin-derived sample under 2800 ℃ had graphitic degree of 89.53%, interlayer spacing of 0.3363 nm and electronic conductivity of 104.6 S cm−1, while cellulose-derived sample had graphitic degree of 76.74%, layer distance of 0.3374 nm, and electronic conductivity of only 48.8 S cm−1. Combined with the results of structural analysis of the chars derived from lignin and cellulose, it was inferred that the stable and aromatic ring containing skeleton structure in lignin was beneficial to the ring-enlarging reconstruction and the formation of large areas of continuous graphitic layers during graphitizing process, leading to high electronic conductivity. Meanwhile, the interwoven microcrystallites in cellulose-derived char strongly restricted the expanding of continuous lamellar graphitic areas even at such ultra-high temperature, causing the formation of turbostratic structure with numerous structural defects as well, and finally resulting in relatively lower electronic conductivity. This work is expected to provide theoretical guidance for preparing high-performance functional carbon materials from lignocellulosic biomass.

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Assessing the identity of rare historical museum specimens of the extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) using an ancient DNA approach
Authors: Plaxton Lucy , Hempel Elisabeth , Marsh William A. , Portela Miguez Roberto , Waurick Isabelle , Kitchener Andrew C. , Hofreiter Michael , Lister Adrian M. , Zachos Frank E. , Brace Selina
Published: August 2023

The blue antelope or bluebuck (Hippotragus leucophaeus) is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Africa until ca. 1799–1800. Disappearing only 34 years after it was described, it was the first large African mammal species to have become extinct in recent times. Therefore, current scientific knowledge of the blue antelope is limited to museum specimens. However, these are extremely rare and further complicated by uncertainties surrounding their taxonomic status due to morphological similarity with the closely related extant roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) and sable antelope (Hippotragus niger). A previous study found that only four (out of ten) genetically analysed historical museum specimens could be confirmed as Hippotragus leucophaeus. Here, we analyse a further five potential blue antelope specimens, two of which had been morphologically identified as blue antelope (one from the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London and one from National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh), plus an additional three specimens identified here as candidate blue antelope specimens (from the NHM). We find that only one of the five specimens can be genetically validated as Hippotragus leucophaeus, whereas the other four specimens were identified as H. equinus. Furthermore, using hybridisation capture, we generated two complete mitochondrial genomes for blue antelope specimens that were formerly known only from partial mitochondrial genomes. The diversity analyses including all newly generated genomes further confirm that the mitochondrial nucleotide diversity across this species was low.
Towards the global zero poverty agenda: examining the multidimensional poverty situation in South Africa
Authors: Adetoro A. A. , Ngidi M. S. C. , Danso-Abbeam Gideon
Published: August 2023

The vulnerability of smallholder farmers to multidimensional poverty in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa was assessed, using the Alkire Foster multidimensional poverty index developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The findings show that the deprivation indicator ranges from 5 to 90%, revealing that access to a flush toilet facility is an imperative factor towards the households’ standard of living (SDG11). Also, 66% and 55% were deprived of food security (SDG2) and education (SDG4), respectively. The probit analysis result revealed that gender, remittances, crop diversification (CDV), education, seasonal farming and market outlets significantly influence the multidimensional poverty and vulnerability poverty of rural households in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. For instance, factors such as household size showed that an additional unit increase in the size of a household would result in a 5% increase in the chances of the household’s vulnerability to multidimensional poverty. Likewise the extension contact, a unit increase resulted in 49% in the households’ vulnerability to multidimensional poverty. The study suggests that policies related to improving education, increasing CDV, promoting farmer groups and the effectiveness of extension contact, and increasing market stability for sales of farm products could contribute to reducing the multidimensional poverty level and the vulnerability of households.
Sourcing third party logistics service providers based on environmental, social and corporate governance: a case study
Authors: Moreira Otacilio Jose , Rodrigues Maria Carolina Martins
Published: August 2023

The acronym ESG, environmental, social and governance, emerges as a strong trend in the era of the circular economy and stands out as a need for companies to respond to the segment in which they operate. Although most studies have been done in the past, they did not address ESG criteria to ensure operator exemption for logistics providers. Further research on the application of realistic circular economy techniques is recommended. Therefore, strategic sourcing, based on multicriteria decision analysis (MDA), considering parameters such as economic, technical, and environmental factors, has created a perfect methodology that considers all these essential requirements, revealing an excellent way to outsource logistics service providers (LSPs). The article aims to prove MDA’s effectiveness awarding the best LSP through predefined dimensions involving human resources, risk management, environmental and other social aspects, indicating dedication and commitment to social environmental issues and corporate governance during a procurement’s strategic sourcing in a Brazilian pharmaceutical company process. A Literature review supported by a real case study where a multifunctional team from Pharmaceutical and Consultants proved the objective was valid. A secondary objective was demonstrated on how current sustainability challenges can be overcome by the organization and generate value for its stakeholders and society, showing responsibility and commitment to environmental, social, and corporate governance issues. After reviewing all the concepts involved using the literature review, the results were achieved indicating that sourcing process’ case study through MDA validated the effectiveness choosing the 3PL with the best results in ESG. The article deals with a current, relevant, and not very explored topic and may contribute to enhancing the investments of logistics service providers (LSPs) in ESG, mainly those that weren’t awarded at end of the project.
Portable multiscale form measurement technique for structured specular surfaces based on phase measuring deflectometry
Authors: Xu Yongjia , Gao Feng , Yu Yang , Wang Jian , Jiang Xiangqian
Published: August 2023

Propelled by the rapidly growing demand for function incorporation and performance improvement, various specular components with complex structured surfaces are broadly applied in numerous optical engineering arenas. Form accuracy of the structured surfaces directly impacts the functioning of the specular components. Because the scales of these structures and/or the importance of their functions are usually designed differently, the structures require different measurement demands in scale, lateral resolution, and accuracy. In this paper, a multiscale form measurement technique is proposed based on triple-sensor phase measuring deflectometry for measuring structured specular surfaces. The proposed technique contains two sub-phase measuring deflectometry(PMD)-systems. Each sub-system works as a single segmentation PMD (SPMD) system and is designed to have different measurement scales, lateral resolutions, and accuracies to meet the measurement demands of the targeted surfaces. Two imaging sensors in the proposed technique cover the measured full-scale surface. The specular surface is separated into several continuous segments through algorithms and the spatial relationship of the continuous segments is established based on absolute depth data calculated through the triangular relationship between the two imaging sensors. The third imaging sensor with a long working distance only captures the field of the small-scale structures and reconstructs the structures based on gradient data to improve the structures’ reconstruction resolution and accuracy. In order to make it suitable for portable and embedded measurement, a compact configuration is explored to reduce system volume. Data fusion techniques are also studied to combine the measurement data of the two sub-systems. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of a portable prototype developed based on the proposed technique by measuring a concave mirror with small-scale structures.
Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion
Authors: Otmar Renée
Published: August 2023

Editors should approach their work with an informed worldview, ensuring that harmful stereotypes, cultural insensitivities and inaccurate information are avoided. Knowing how to do so – and what to replace them with – can be tricky. Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion is a guide for professional editors, providing evidence-based definitions, recommendations and support for emerging and experienced editors working with fiction and non-fiction genres. Part One introduces the foundations of professional editing and what editors need to know to conduct themselves well in professional contexts. Part Two applies this knowledge to professional practice, covering topics such as plagiarism, literary and cultural appropriation, critical appraisal, and developing a workplace policy and style guide. Part Three explores an extensive range of topics relevant to editing for sensitivity, diversity and inclusion, including addiction, dependence and recovery; class and socio-economic status; indigeneity; religious, spiritual and other belief systems; sex and gender identity; and trauma and torture.
Planetary Pynchon
Authors: Andersen Tore Rye
Published: August 2023

While Thomas Pynchon is usually described as an American author who primarily writes about American reality, Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene argues that his major novels, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day, can profitably be read as a global trilogy that presents a coherent historical account of how the emergence and spread of European modernity across the world have had devastating consequences for the planet and its inhabitants. This book sets a new agenda in Pynchon studies, charting his early anticipation of anthropocenic and planetary ideas, including globalization's demand for constant growth. It combines close textual readings with broad perspectives on large thematic arcs and stylistic developments across Pynchon's entire career as well as an extensive dialogue with the rich reception of his work.
The Economics of Construction
Authors: Gruneberg Stephen , Francis Noble
Published: August 2023

The construction of housing, commercial property and infrastructure projects - roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, airports - for both the private and public sectors is one of the biggest industries in the world. It contributes around 10 per cent of world GDP, employs 7 per cent of the global workforce, and consumes around 20 per cent of the world's energy. It is also a highly fragmented industry with very low profit margins and a high risk of failure for the many firms operating in its complex supply chain.

Stephen Gruneberg and Noble Francis present an up-to-date analysis of how construction markets operate, how firms collaborate on projects, and how their business models work. They explore the many distinctive features of the economics of the industry, such as the use of cost-reduction rather than profit-maximizing behaviour, the processes of tendering and procurement, and the often cyclical nature of demand. Particular challenges for the industry, such as the frequency of disputes between firms and the low productivity of the sector, are shown to be the outcomes of a business model that tends to focus on the volatility of demand and managing risk at the expense of improving efficiency. As well as discussing industry-wide issues, the authors also examine how individual projects are costed.

The book offers authoritative analysis and expert insight into the economics of a much misunderstood industry and is suitable for a range of courses in business schools and departments of architecture and the built environment.
Front-end design prototyping strategies during remote stakeholder engagement
Authors: Moses Nick D. , Wojciechowski Lauren R. , Daly Shanna R. , Sienko Kathleen H.
Published: August 2023

Engineers must engage project stakeholders effectively if stakeholder needs are to be met, and prototypes are key tools for communicating design form and function. Quality stakeholder engagement in the front end of design processes, in particular, is critical in the success or failure of design projects. As remote stakeholder engagement has become increasingly common as industry trends toward distributed design, there is a need to develop the theory and practices behind effective remote design processes, which have not yet been as well-studied as in-person design. This study explored the prototyping strategies for remote stakeholder engagement during front-end design used by 10 engineering practitioners and 10 senior engineering students through semi-structured interviews. Prototyping strategies were found to overlap with many of the strategies described by prior literature that are not specific to remote engagement modes, though several of these strategies were adapted to the remote context, and three emergent strategies for prototyping in remote engagements were identified. Designers’ perceptions of remote versus in-person prototyping strategies for stakeholder engagement in front-end design, including perceived advantages and limitations, were also explored, and recommendations for educators to better prepare engineering students for hybrid and remote work are provided.
Tiny insects, big troubles: a review of BOLD's COI database for Thysanoptera (Insecta)
Authors: Lindner Mariana F. , Gonçalves Leonardo T. , Bianchi Filipe M. , Ferrari Augusto , Cavalleri Adriano
Published: August 2023

DNA Barcoding is an important tool for disciplines such as taxonomy, phylogenetics and phylogeography, with Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) being the largest database of partial cytochromecoxidase subunit I (COI) sequences. We provide the first extensive revision of the information available in this database for the insect order Thysanoptera, to assess: how many COI sequences are available; how representative these sequences are for the order; and the current potential of BOLD as a reference library for specimen identification and species delimitation. The COI database at BOLD currently represents only about 5% of the over 6400 valid thrips species, with a heavy bias towards a few species of economic importance. Clear Barcode gaps were observed for 24 out of 33 genera evaluated, but many outliers were also observed. We suggest that the COI sequences available in BOLD as a reference would not allow for accurate identifications in about 30% of Thysanoptera species in this database, which rises to 40% of taxa within Thripidae, the most sampled family within the order. Thus, we call for caution and a critical evaluation in using BOLD as a reference library for thrips Barcodes, and future efforts should focus on improving the data quality of this database.
The relationship between feed efficiency and behaviour differs between lactating Holstein and Jersey cows
Authors: Thorup Vivi M. , Munksgaard Lene , Terré Marta , Henriksen Julie C. S. , Weisbjerg Martin R. , Løvendahl Peter
Published: August 2023

In dairy production, high feed efficiency (FE) is important to reduce feed costs and negative impacts of milk production on the climate and environment, yet little is known about the relationship between FE, eating behaviour and activity. This research communication describes how cows differing in FE, expressed as daily energy corrected milk production per unit of feed intake, differed in eating behaviour and activity. We used data from a study of 253 lactations obtained from 97 Holstein and 91 Jersey cows milked in an automatic milking system. Automated feed troughs recorded feed intake behaviour and cows wore a sensor that recorded activity from 5 to 200 d in milk (DIM). We used a mixed linear model to estimate random solutions for individual cows for traits of steps, lying and eating behaviour and calculated their correlation with FE during four periods (5–35, 36–75, 76–120 and 121–200 DIM). Separate analyses were performed for each breed and period. We found that individual level correlations between FE and behaviour traits were stronger in Jersey than in Holstein cows. Eating rate correlated weakly negatively to FE in Holstein cows and more strongly so in Jersey cows, such that efficient Jerseys were slower eaters. The physical activity of Jersey cows was weakly and negatively correlated to FE, but this was not the case in Holstein cows. We conclude that eating rate was consistently negatively associated with FE throughout lactation for Jersey cows, but not for Holstein cows.
Genomic advances in the study of the mosquito vector during avian malaria infection
Authors: Hernandez-Caballero Irene , Hellgren Olof , Garcia-Longoria Batanete Luz
Published: August 2023

Invertebrate host–parasite associations are one of the keystones in order to understand vector-borne diseases. The study of these specific interactions provides information not only about how the vector is affected by the parasite at the gene-expression level, but might also reveal mosquito strategies for blocking the transmission of the parasites. A very well-known vector for human malaria is Anopheles gambiae. This mosquito species has been the main focus for genomics studies determining essential key genes and pathways over the course of a malaria infection. However, to-date there is an important knowledge gap concerning other non-mammophilic mosquito species, for example some species from the Culex genera which may transmit avian malaria but also zoonotic pathogens such as West Nile virus. From an evolutionary perspective, these 2 mosquito genera diverged 170 million years ago, hence allowing studies in both species determining evolutionary conserved genes essential during malaria infections, which in turn might help to find key genes for blocking malaria cycle inside the mosquito. Here, we extensively review the current knowledge on key genes and pathways expressed in Anopheles over the course of malaria infections and highlight the importance of conducting genomic investigations for detecting pathways in Culex mosquitoes linked to infection of avian malaria. By pooling this information, we underline the need to increase genomic studies in mosquito–parasite associations, such as the one in Culex–Plasmodium, that can provide a better understanding of the infection dynamics in wildlife and reduce the negative impact on ecosystems.
Distribution of large lungworms (Nematoda: Dictyocaulidae) in free-roaming populations of red deer Cervus elaphus (L.) with the description of Dictyocaulus skrjabini n. sp.
Authors: Pyziel Anna Maria , Laskowski Zdzisław , Klich Daniel , Demiaszkiewicz Aleksander Wiaczesław , Kaczor Stanisław , Merta Dorota , Kobielski Janusz , Nowakowska Julita , Anusz Krzysztof , Höglund Johan
Published: August 2023

Lungworms of the genus Dictyocaulus are causative agents of parasitic bronchitis in domestic and wild ungulates. This study investigates the distribution, morphology and genetic diversity of D. cervi and a new lungworm species, Dictyocaulus skrjabini n. sp. infecting red deer Cervus elaphus, fallow deer Dama dama and moose Alces alces in Poland and Sweden. The study was conducted on 167 red deer from Poland and on the DNA of lungworms derived from 7 fallow deer, 4 red deer and 2 moose collected in Sweden. The prevalence of D. cervi and D. skrjabini n. sp. in dissected red deer in Poland was 31.1% and 7.2%, respectively. Moreover, D. skrjabini n. sp. was confirmed molecularly in 7 isolates of fallow deer lungworms and 1 isolate of red deer lungworms from Sweden. Dictyocaulus skrjabini n. sp. was established based on combination of their distinct molecular and morphological features; these included the length of cephalic vesicle, buccal capsule (BC), buccal capsule wall (BCW), distance from anterior extremity to the nerve ring, the width of head, oesophagus, cephalic vesicle, BC and BCW, as well as the dimensions of reproductive organs of male and female. Additionally, molecular analyses revealed 0.9% nucleotide sequence divergence for 1,605 bp SSU rDNA, and 16.5–17.3% nucleotide sequence divergence for 642 bp mitochondrial cytB between D. skrjabini n. sp. and D. cervi, respectively, and 18.7–19% between D. skrjabini n. sp. and D. eckerti, which translates into 18.2–18.7% amino acid sequence divergence between D. skrjabini n. sp. and both lungworms.
Adam Smith revisited: the relationship between the English woollen manufacture and the availability of coal before the use of steam power
Authors: Sugden Keith , Keibek Sebastian , Wells James , Shaw-Taylor Leigh
Published: August 2023

The timing of textile de-industrialisation in eastern, southern, and western England and the concomitant shift of the woollen manufacture to the West Riding of Yorkshire is examined in temporal detail. The study shows that the manufacture was moving to settlements with cheap coal, low cost of living and running water as early as the sixteenth century. These settlements became key woollen manufacture centres and remained so until the nineteenth century. The industry was located on the West Riding of Yorkshire coal field long before the industrial revolution and the demand for coal to generate steam power.
Transdiagnostic indicators predict developmental changes in cognitive control resting-state networks
Authors: Picci Giorgia , Petro Nathan M. , Son Jake J. , Agcaoglu Oktay , Eastman Jacob A. , Wang Yu-Ping , Stephen Julia M. , Calhoun Vince D. , Taylor Brittany K. , Wilson Tony W.
Published: August 2023

Over the past decade, transdiagnostic indicators in relation to neurobiological processes have provided extensive insight into youth’s risk for psychopathology. During development, exposure to childhood trauma and dysregulation (i.e., so-called AAA symptomology: anxiety, aggression, and attention problems) puts individuals at a disproportionate risk for developing psychopathology and altered network-level neural functioning. Evidence for the latter has emerged from resting-state fMRI studies linking mental health symptoms and aberrations in functional networks (e.g., cognitive control (CCN), default mode networks (DMN)) in youth, although few of these investigations have used longitudinal designs. Herein, we leveraged a three-year longitudinal study to identify whether traumatic exposures and concomitant dysregulation trigger changes in the developmental trajectories of resting-state functional networks involved in cognitive control (N = 190; 91 females; time 1 Mage = 11.81). Findings from latent growth curve analyses revealed that greater trauma exposure predicted increasing connectivity between the CCN and DMN across time. Greater levels of dysregulation predicted reductions in within-network connectivity in the CCN. These findings presented in typically developing youth corroborate connectivity patterns reported in clinical populations, suggesting there is predictive utility in using transdiagnostic indicators to forecast alterations in resting-state networks implicated in psychopathology.
Out of the blue: inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour identified during repair of tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve
Authors: McKinney Lauren M. , Escalera Robert B. , Downs Emily A.
Published: August 2023

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of the heart is an exceedingly rare benign neoplasm. While benign, without prompt management its impact can be devastating. Tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve is a rare form of CHD. We present the first documented case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of the heart in the presence of tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve.