bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Factors Related to Depression and Mental Health That Affect the Quality of Life of the Elderly
Authors: Park Ji Eun , Choi Ryoung
Published: November 2022

The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for the healthcare of the elderly by identifying the effects of depression and quality of sleep on the lives of the elderly. The subjects of this study were 120 elderly people who used the elderly welfare center and senior citizen center in one of the cities in South Korea, who understood the purpose of the study and signed the consent form for participation in the study. This study is a descriptive correlation study using a questionnaire to compare and analyze the effects of depression and quality of sleep on the quality of life of the elderly. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 25.0 program. According to general characteristics, the level of depression, quality of sleep, and quality of life were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The level of depression, quality of sleep, and quality of life, as measured by the general characteristics, were evaluated by the t‐test and ANOVA. The quality of life, depression, and quality of sleep were analyzed by Pearson’s correlation analysis. Linear regression analysis was performed to analyze the factors influencing sleep quality. As a result of this research, depression, psychological, and social domains had positive correlations, and depression and biological domains had negative correlations. As a result of this research, quality of sleep was found to have a negative correlation with the psychological domain and quality of sleep was found to have a positive correlation with the biological environment domain. Based on this research, this author proposes that research should be attempted later with the elderly who were classified as the elderly who are living alone, the elderly who are living at home, and the elderly at the facilities as the subjects. Therefore, depression and the quality of sleep have a big influence on the health condition of the elderly because they may be the important health problems that cannot be overlooked in terms of the quality of life. Furthermore, there is a need to develop a continuous, specific, and practical healthcare program that can manage depression and quality of sleep in old age.
An Evaluation Method of International Trade Growth Potential Based on Fuzzy Algorithm
Authors: Fan Feifei , Xu Weiling
Published: November 2022

The new development pattern is a strategic choice to reshape China’s new advantages in international cooperation and competition. It is based on China’s current development stage, changes in the environment, and other factors. Located deep within China’s interior, Xinjiang is a crucial region for the development of the western region and the Belt and Road Initiative. Its agricultural resources are exported to numerous foreign nations. In the context of the new development pattern, this paper first examines the foreign trade issues in Xinjiang. Second, this paper analyzes the current state of Sino-Kazakhstani trade, in particular the current state of trade in agricultural products. In addition, the growth potential of Xinjiang’s agricultural international trade is analyzed utilizing the gravity model and fuzzy algorithm. Finally, countermeasures for the mode of development of Xinjiang’s international trade are proposed.
A Variable-Clustering-Based Feature Selection to Improve Positive and Negative Discrimination of P53 Protein in Colorectal Cancer Patients
Authors: Wang Luqing , Feng Li , Wang Jiasi , Li Jie , Li Hongbin , Zeng Fanxin , Sun Liangli
Published: November 2022

P53 protein tumor suppressor gene plays a guiding role in the treatment and prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC). This paper aimed at proposing a feature selection method based on variable clustering to improve positive and negative discrimination of P53 protein in CRC patients. In this approach, we cluster the preprocessed dataset with variables, and then find the features with the largest information value (IV) for each cluster to form a feature subset. We call this method as IV_Cluster. In the actual medical data test, compared with the information value feature selection method, the accuracy of the 10-fold cross-validation logistic regression model increased by 4.4%, 2.0%, and 5.8%, and Kappa values increased by 21.8%, 8.6%, and 22.4%, respectively, under 5, 10, and 15 feature sets.
Effect of Modified Greenhouse Drying Technology on the Physicochemical Quality of Cameroonian Cocoa Beans
Authors: Frederick Banboye D. , Ngwabie Ngwa Martin , Bup Nde Divine
Published: November 2022

Several benefits give credence to the importance of maintaining the reference values of the physicochemical properties of cocoa beans at all stages along the cocoa chain. Every drying method confers significant effects on quality with implications on demand and prices. In this work, the modified greenhouse dryers were tested as potential equipment for the production of high quality cocoa beans. To ascertain their validity for use in the cocoa chain, moisture content, pH, free fatty acid, total polyphenol, peroxide value, total phenols, condensed tannins, and flavonoids were investigated. In relation to reference values, all the samples were of good quality. In terms of moisture content, pH, total acidity, free fatty acid, total polyphenol content, phenol content, flavonoids, and peroxide value, the samples fell within the acceptable values. Total phenols, flavonoids, and condensed tannins were within the recommended range. Samples dried in the open sun dryer and modified greenhouse dryer with fleece of cotton presented the highest amounts of total phenols, flavonoids, and condensed tannins. For total fat content, the samples dried in modified greenhouse dryers equipped with fleece of polyester and the conventional greenhouse dryer were distinctly of grade one quality.
Attention-Based Sentiment Region Importance and Relationship Analysis for Image Sentiment Recognition
Authors: Yang Shanliang , Xing Linlin , Chang Zheng , Li Yongming
Published: November 2022

Image sentiment recognition has attracted considerable attention from academia and industry due to the increasing tendency of expressing opinions via images and videos online. Previous studies focus on multilevel representation from global and local views to improve recognition performance. However, it is insufficient to research the importance and relationship of visual regions for image sentiment recognition. This paper proposes an attention-based sentiment region importance and relationship (ASRIR) analysis method, including important attention and relation attention for image sentiment recognition. First, we extract spatial region features using a multilevel pyramid network from the image. Second, we design important attention to exploring the sentiment semantic-related regions and relation attention to investigating the relationship between regions. In order to release the excessive concentration of attention, we employ a unimodal function as the objective function for regularization. Finally, the region features weighted by the attention mechanism are fused and input into a fully connected layer for classification. Extensive experiments on various commonly used image sentiment datasets demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.
M‐Polynomial and NM‐Polynomial of Used Drugs against Monkeypox
Authors: Çolakoğlu Özge , Kamran Muhammad , Bonyah Ebenezer
Published: November 2022

Monkeypox has recently re‐emerged. Since monkeypox has started to be seen in many countries without an epidemic, studies have started on new drugs used to treat this disease. Drug discovery is a challenging process. To alleviate this process, molecular descriptors used to predict the physical, chemical, and biological properties of chemical structures are studied. Molecular descriptors are numerical values of a chemical structure represented by a graph. In this study, M‐polynomial and neighborhood M‐polynomial molecular descriptors of drugs used and candidates for use in monkeypox are calculated and these descriptors are compared.
Cuidado en salud de la niñez ámbito cultural familiar en Girón, Santander
Authors: Laguado-Jaimes Elveny , Pereira-Moreno Lady Johana , Villamizar-Osorio Magda Liliana
Published: November 2022

(analytical)Early childhood care highlights challenges for families as young children are exposed to factors that influence their growth and development during this period. In addition, cultural practices in social and family environments also have an impact on the health and well-being of children. The objective of this research was to understand the meanings construyected by families regarding early childhood health care in the Families in Action social program. A qualitative study using an interpretative ethnographythat included ten families with children from the Municipality of Girón, Santander. The findings confirmed that early childhood care within families has a cultural component in accordance with transgenerational beliefs and customs. The female caregiver is dominant in these practices along with intrafamily agreements to improve coexistence and strengthen the social development of children.
Keywords: Child care; family health; culture.
A Practical Methodology for Reproducible Experimentation: An Application to the Double-Row Facility Layout Problem
Authors: Martín-Santamaría Raúl , Cavero Sergio , Herrán Alberto , Duarte Abraham , Colmenar J. Manuel
Published: November 2022

Reproducibility of experiments is a complex task in stochastic methods such as evolutionary algorithms or metaheuristics in general. Many works from the literature give general guidelines to favor reproducibility. However, none of them provide both a practical set of steps or software tools to help in this process. In this article, we propose a practical methodology to favor reproducibility in optimization problems tackled with stochastic methods. This methodology is divided into three main steps, where the researcher is assisted by software tools which implement state-of-the-art techniques related to this process. The methodology has been applied to study the double-row facility layout problem (DRFLP) where we propose a new algorithm able to obtain better results than the state-of-the-art methods. To this aim, we have also replicated the previous methods in order to complete the study with a new set of larger instances. All the produced artifacts related to the methodology and the study of the target problem are available in Zenodo.
From the ‘Nobleman’s Sword’ to the ‘Flag of the Fascist Ideals’
Authors: Bogiatzis Vassilios A.
Published: November 2022

This article examines the ideological trajectory of Ioannis Metaxas and his intellectual Weltanschauung. It argues that he was strongly influenced by several German developments, including the Kultur vs. Zivilisation debate. Furthermore, from the 1920s he explicitly transformed key fascist ideas and drew on those of the ‘Conservative Revolution’. It shows that Metaxas addressed all key historical developments, from the turn of the century, to the establishment of his dictatorship, to the Second World War, through his ideological and intellectual prism: national reconstruction and palingenesis and a new cultural orientation for the Greek nation. Metaxas’s thinking is examined from its formative period in Germany (1899–1903) to his dictatorship (1936–1941). The methodological framework draws on the work of Peter Wagner, who conceives the period from 1870 to 1940 as the heyday of the ‘first crisis of modernity’; the work of Roger Griffin, Aristotle Kallis, and António Costa Pinto centred around the palingenetic, modernist dynamic of fascism; and finally, the notion of ‘intellectual appropriation of technology’ developed by Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison.
Genuine Fascist Theory or Non-Systematic Conceptualisations of the New Authoritarian Order?
Authors: Souvlis George
Published: November 2022

This article analyses legal texts written by Nikolaos Koumaros that were foundational to the 4th of August regime in Greece. It demonstrates the regime possessed an ideology that did not differ substantially from other authoritarian regimes of the period. In particular, the choice of Koumaros as the central legal theorist of the regime can be explained by his familiarity with anti-liberal theories of the time. His engagement with these theories was linked with his studies in France and Italy during the interwar period, exposing him to fascist ideals. A detailed examination of the conceptual transfers that informed the main legal texts of the regime demonstrated their reasoning followed closely the theoretical developments of the time. Mussolini’s doctrine of fascism and a specific reading of Rousseau functioned as the basis for the legitimisation of a new, anti-liberal political order. These ideas became key analytical pillars of the legal texts that gave shape to the regime’s normative and political foundation, demonstrating that explicit fascist theories informed the political physiognomy of the regime.
What’s in a Name?
Authors: Stamos Yannis
Published: November 2022

The ‘Third Hellenic Civilisation’ was the principal propaganda innovation of the 4th of August regime and the core myth underpinning its ideological hegemony. Though regularly referred to as the central ideological slogan of the regime, there are no extensive discussions of its meaning and uses. This article attempts a comprehensive analysis of the term and the ways this futural discourse was employed as an instrument of legitimacy. By declaring the connection of the Third Hellenic Civilisation to art, literature, and culture in general, and granting the cultural field relative independence, Metaxas enabled intellectuals to assay their own interpretations of its meaning and proposals for its attainment. The article approaches the Third Hellenic Civilisation as a compound construct that was intended to act as a new ‘sacred canopy’, presenting the dialogue between official and intellectual discourses on its central aspects.
Description of a new subterranean breeding brown frog (Ranidae: Rana) from Japan
Authors: ETO KOSHIRO , MATSUI MASAFUMI , SUGAHARA TAKAHIRO
Published: November 2022

Taxonomic relationship of two forms of Rana tagoi, a brown frog endemic to Japan, is assessed. Based on morphological and bioacoustical comparisons, as well as molecular analysis, we consider the large-form-lineage as true R. tagoi, and describe the small-form-lineage as Rana kyoto sp. nov. The new species and R. tagoi occur sympatrically in many places around the Kinki District, although the former can be distinguished from the latter by smaller body size, more developed dark marking on ventral side of legs, less developed toe webs, and advertisement call with fewer notes and lower dominant frequency. Rana kyoto sp. nov. sympatric with R. tagoi show smaller body size than the allopatric ones, whereas R. tagoi sympatric with the new species show larger body size than the allopatric ones, suggesting that the character displacement of body size occurs between the two species around the type locality of Rana kyoto sp. nov.
Environmental Evolution of Supercell Thunderstorms Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
Authors: Purpura Sarah M. , Davenport Casey E. , Eastin Matthew D. , McKeown Katherine E. , Riggin Roger R.
Published: November 2022

The Appalachian Mountains have a considerable impact on daily weather, including severe convection, across the eastern United States. However, the impact of the Appalachians on supercells is not well understood, posing a short-term forecast challenge across the region. While case studies have been conducted, there has been no large multicase analysis of supercells interacting with complex terrain. To address this gap, we examined 62 isolated warm-season supercells that occurred within the central or southern Appalachians. Each supercell was broadly classified as “crossing” or “noncrossing” based on their maintenance of supercellular structure during interaction with significant terrain features. Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) and the Rapid Refresh (RAP) model analyses were used to identify key synoptic and mesoscale factors that distinguish between environments supportive of crossing versus noncrossing supercells. Roughly 40% of supercells were sustained crossing significant terrain. Pre-storm synoptic features common among crossing storms (relative to noncrossing storms) included a stronger polar jet, a deeper trough, a north–south-oriented cold front, a strong prefrontal low-level jet, and no wedge front leeward of the terrain. Mesoscale environmental differences were determined using near-storm model soundings collected for each supercell at three locations: upstream initiation, peak terrain, and downstream dissipation. The most significant mesoscale differences were present in the peak and downstream environments, whereby crossing storms encountered stronger low-level vertical shear, greater storm-relative helicity, and greater midlevel moisture than noncrossing storms. Such results reenforce the notion that sustained dynamical support for mesocyclones is critical to supercell maintenance when interacting with significant terrain.

Significance Statement

The ability of isolated storms with rotating updrafts to traverse complex terrain is not well understood and is a notable forecast problem in the eastern United States due to the Appalachian Mountains. This study represents the first systematic analysis of numerous warm-season supercells in the vicinity of the central and southern Appalachians. We focus on synoptic and near-storm mesoscale environmental differences between storms that maintain supercellular structure following terrain interaction (“crossing”) and those that do not (“noncrossing”). The results provide useful environmental metrics for forecasting supercell longevity in the vicinity of the Appalachian Mountains.
Humanistic Optimal Functioning Predicts Low Youth Violence
Authors: Tweed Roger G. , Bhatt Gira , Dooley Stephen , Viljoen Jodi L. , Douglas Kevin S. , Gagnon Nathalie
Published: November 2022

This study assessed whether indicators of humanistic optimal functioning were predictive of lower levels of violence among youth across a 6-month period. Youth ( N = 346) aged 12 to 14 years completed measures of authenticity and of positive regard for others (generalized trust, forgiveness, and gratitude). Approximately 6 months later, the youth reported violence, criminal offenses, and indicators of potential violence, and for some ( n = 266), a teacher provided ratings of aggression. Authentic living, some elements of generalized trust, forgiveness, and gratitude predicted lower levels on indicators of aggression or violence or readiness for violence 6 months later. The relation between humanistic predictors and violence-related outcomes was larger for youth at elevated risk for violence. Unexpectedly, a subtype of authenticity, “resisting external influence,” predicted higher violence, but other outcomes were in the expected direction. Thus, a humanistic lens may have value in examinations of societal violence.
Community Health Workers in Time of Crisis: A COVID-19 Case Study
Authors: Stevenson Michael C. , Norrbom Corina , Savela Mariana , Xiong Yee Leng , Lee Tou Fong , Garcia Cecilia , Winstead Otis , Northrop Margarita , Sandy Marie
Published: November 2022

This article focuses on the lived experiences of those implementing community health worker (CHW) programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based in an upper mid-west state, this qualitative case study is bounded by the state-level context and two distinct local case sites—one rural and one urban—and includes the experiences of five CHWs, two program directors, and a state-level administrator. The acute crisis response galvanized the ongoing need for CHWs, not only because they are trusted health messengers, but because they advocate for—and organize with—communities to address inequalities and inform public health institutions. Author-practitioners described personal and community identity as intertwined, a perspective in solidarity with decolonized approaches to humanistic psychology. Highlights discussed include: (a) Personal relationships motivated author-practitioners to join the pandemic response; (b) All pandemic response efforts were interconnected with social determinants of health; (c) The pandemic was as an opportunity to do things differently with more flexibility, personally and organizationally; and (d) Privately funded opportunities enabled local areas to implement quick responses, which influenced eventual state-level responses. All authors described structural racism as a constant context of this work. This article fills gaps in the literature related to the implementation of crisis responses and CHW programs.
Solitary plaque of borderline lepromatous leprosy clinically masquerading as paucibacillary leprosy
Authors: Gurjar Rinku , Khullar Geeti , Dewan Krati , Yadav Amit Kumar
Published: November 2022

Borderline lepromatous (BL) leprosy typically manifests as numerous asymmetric ill-defined macules or infiltrated plaques. Localized cutaneous involvement in BL leprosy is infrequently reported. Type 2 reaction (T2R), an immune complex syndrome, occurs in patients with BL and lepromatous leprosy, as crops of tender evanescent papules or nodules with constitutional symptoms. T2R can also present with various atypical morphologies and rarely as type 1 reaction (T1R), thereby creating a diagnostic dilemma.
Exploiting tweet sentiments in altmetrics large-scale data
Authors: Hassan Saeed-Ul , Aljohani Naif Radi , Tarar Usman Iqbal , Safder Iqra , Sarwar Raheem , Alelyani Salem , Nawaz Raheel
Published: November 2022

This article aims to exploit social exchanges on scientific literature, specifically tweets, to analyse social media users’ sentiments towards publications within a research field. First, we employ the SentiStrength tool, extended with newly created lexicon terms, to classify the sentiments of 6,482,260 tweets associated with 1,083,535 publications provided by Altmetric.com. Then, we propose harmonic means-based statistical measures to generate a specialised lexicon, using positive and negative sentiment scores and frequency metrics. Next, we adopt a novel article-level summarisation approach to domain-level sentiment analysis to gauge the opinion of social media users on Twitter about the scientific literature. Last, we propose and employ an aspect-based analytical approach to mine users’ expressions relating to various aspects of the article, such as tweets on its title, abstract, methodology, conclusion or results section. We show that research communities exhibit dissimilar sentiments towards their respective fields. The analysis of the field-wise distribution of article aspects shows that in Medicine, Economics, Business and Decision Sciences, tweet aspects are focused on the results section. In contrast, in Physics and Astronomy, Materials Sciences and Computer Science, these aspects are focused on the methodology section. Overall, the study helps us to understand the sentiments of online social exchanges of the scientific community on scientific literature. Specifically, such a fine-grained analysis may help research communities in improving their social media exchanges about the scientific articles to disseminate their scientific findings effectively and to further increase their societal impact.
Post-operative and early oncological results of simple and complex full thoracoscopic segmentectomies for non-small-cell lung cancer
Authors: Bongiolatti Stefano , Salvicchi Alberto , Indino Rossella , Vokrri Eduart , Gonfiotti Alessandro , Borgianni Sara , Viggiano Domenico , Voltolini Luca
Published: November 2022

Background

The role of video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy in the treatment of clinical IA non-small-cell lung cancer is not well established. The aim of our retrospective analysis was to evaluate the oncological results of complex and simple video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy.

Methods

From 2015 to June 2020, data of n = 163 consecutive patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy for solitary pulmonary nodule were analysed. The Kaplan–Meier method, log-rank test and Cox regression were used to estimate, compare survivals and identify risk factors of worse oncological outcomes.

Results

In this period, n = 123 patients underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer: we performed n = 65 simple and n = 58 complex video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy; n = 99 (80.5%) had a solid appearance on computed tomography scan and n = 78 (63.4%) a moderate-to-high [18F]-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG)-positron emission tomographic computed tomography scan avidity. Mortality was 0%, and complications occurred in n = 14 (21.5%) and 9 (15.5%) patients. The median follow-up was 24 (range: 6−60) months and the 5-year overall survival was 96% without difference between video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomies ( p = 0.16). Local recurrence developed in n = 2 (3.1%) and n = 3 (5.2%) patients; regional in n = 2 (3.1%) and 1 (1.8%) and distant in 8 (12.3%) and 2 (3.4%), without difference between video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomies ( p = 0.51). The overall 5-year disease-free survival rate was 78%. Pathological upstaging was observed in n = 13 patients (nodal in n = 6, tumour in n = 7) and it was the only significant factor for worse disease-free survival at the multivariable analysis (hazard ratio: 2.43, 95% CI: 1.04−8.68, p = 0.049), value confirmed also in the group of intended video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy ( p = 0.047).

Conclusions

Pathological upstaging after simple or complex video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy is a risk factor for recurrence and then video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy should be considered an appropriate therapeutic option for selected stage IA non-small-cell lung cancer patients.
Sociology of homosexuality in twenty-first-century China
Authors: Luo Muyuan , Li Tangmei , Shi Junpeng
Published: November 2022

This review provides a critical exploration of four key books in sociology of homosexuality published in mainland China since 2000, namely Wei Wei’s Going Public (2012), Queering Chinese Society (2015), Xiaoxing Fu’s Space, Culture and Performance (2012), and Qingfeng Wang’s Homosexuality Studies (2017). We identify three important themes from the books: space, family, and identity. Based on this, we demonstrate two characteristics of the sociology of homosexuality in twenty-first-century China, with its focus on the theoretical potentials of the Chinese case and its combination of sociological perspectives and multidisciplinary approaches.
Multi-Aircraft Flight Conflict Resolution and Trajectory Recovery Scheme Based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming and Geometric Rules
Authors: Liu Xiaoqin , Xiao Gang
Published: November 2022

A conflict resolution and trajectory recovery scheme based on heading angle change (HAC) is proposed to solve mid-term conflict between multi-aircraft cruising in a shared airspace. Flight conflict resolution has always been regarded as one of the most important responsibilities of air traffic controllers (ATCOs). The proposed conflict resolution scheme can be applied to decision support tools to assist ATCOs in making decisions. The goals of reducing the possibility of human error and increasing the efficiency of airspace operations can be achieved. Firstly, the flight conflict problem is modeled as a class of optimal control problem. Secondly, the optimal solution can be obtained by mixed integer linear programming (MILP) method based on HAC strategy. Thirdly, a trajectory recovery method based on geometric rules is proposed. It can be found through simulated experiment that the extra flight distance and delay adopting the designed scheme is smaller than the compared method.
Ranking Risk Factors in Financial Losses From Railroad Incidents: A Machine Learning Approach
Authors: Dhingra Neeraj , Bridgelall Raj , Lu Pan , Szmerekovsky Joseph , Bhardwaj Bhavana
Published: November 2022

The reported financial losses from railroad accidents since 2009 have been more than US$4.11 billion dollars. This considerable loss is a major concern for the industry, society, and the government. Therefore, identifying and ranking the factors that contribute to financial losses from railroad accidents would inform strategies to minimize them. To achieve that goal, this paper evaluates and compares the results of applying different non-parametric statistical and regression methods to 15 years of railroad Class I freight train accident data. The models compared are random forest, k-nearest neighbors, support vector machines, stochastic gradient boosting, extreme gradient boosting, and stepwise linear regression. The results indicate that these methods are all suitable for analyzing non-linear and heterogeneous railroad incident data. However, the extreme gradient boosting method provided the best performance. Therefore, the analysis used that model to identify and rank factors that contribute to financial losses, based on the gain percentage of the prediction accuracy. The number of derailed freight cars and the absence of territory signalization dominated as contributing factors in more than 57% and 20% of the accidents, respectively. Partial-dependence plots further explore the complex non-linear dependencies of each factor to better visualize and interpret the results.
Comparison of Cognitive and Physical Decline as Predictors of Depression Among Older Adults
Authors: Scher Clara , Nepomnyaschy Lenna , Amano Takashi
Published: November 2022

Activities of daily living (ADL) limitations and cognitive impairment have been identified as key risk factors for depression among older adults. However, little has been done to compare the strength of these relationships. The current study describes the prevalence and compares the independent and joint associations of ADL and cognitive limitations with depression among older adults in the US. Analyses are based on a sample of 30,923 observations on 13,545 unique respondents from three waves (2012, 2014, and 2016) of the Health and Retirement Study. Linear and logistic multivariate regression models with random and individual fixed effects were estimated. Findings indicate that both cognitive and ADL limitations are associated with depression; however, across all models, ADL limitations have a much stronger association. Further, in our most rigorous models, having both limitations is not significantly different from having just ADL, and not cognitive, limitations.
Supporting Indigenous Child Suicide Prevention Within Classrooms in Canada: Implications for School Psychologists and Educators
Authors: McVittie Jordan , Ansloos Jeffrey
Published: November 2022

Indigenous young people in Canada are disproportionately overrepresented in suicide rates and alarmingly, young children are accounted for in these disparities. Since children spend much of their day at school, schools are a vital context for suicide prevention, identification, and intervention. However, research indicates that educators often report that they feel unprepared to address mental health challenges within the classroom. Indigenous communities are developing community driven responses to suicide that are culturally relevant and strengths based. It is critical that these models are considered when developing such suicide prevention within schools as they diverge from medicalized focused approaches and attend to broader social dimensions. It is imperative that educators and the education system are properly equipped with the training and resources to provide suicide prevention within schools and communities servicing Indigenous children. School psychologists can play an important role in providing this prevention leadership. Through interviews with educators, we learned about the types of supports that are needed within schools to address Indigenous child suicide, and in what ways school psychologists could enhance prevention efforts. Using a reflexive approach to thematic analysis, we identified four main themes related to support needed. Findings are discussed in conversation with the current state of child specific suicide and suicide prevention literature. Applied implications for suicide prevention within schools for Indigenous children, as well as future research and community-based recommendations are considered.
Are Research-Practice Partnerships Responsive to Partners’ Needs? Exploring Research Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Arce-Trigatti Paula , Klein Kylie , Lee Jee Sun (Jasmin)
Published: November 2022

Despite everyone’s best intentions, RPP-produced research may still fall short of being responsive to the needs of practice partners. The COVID-19 pandemic arguably magnified the demand for research to help education leaders make informed decisions in unprecedented ways. Were RPPs able to be responsive to practice-side partners in their time of need? We draw upon data collected as part of the 2019, 2020, and 2021 National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships’ (NNERPP) annual reports to explore this question. Our findings suggest an increase in design-based projects, in addition to increases in quick-turnaround research syntheses in order to accommodate partner needs.
A novel reciprocating cluster magnetorheological polishing device: Design and investigation of removal model
Authors: Lu Mingming , Zhuang Xulong , Zhou Jiakang , Lin Jieqiong , Li Weixing
Published: November 2022

In the traditional magnetorheological polishing of flat planar elements, there have been problems like low efficiency and uneven surface. To improve the surface quality of optical glass and explore the material removal mechanism, a novel reciprocating cluster magnetorheological polishing (MRP) device was designed with a magnetic field consisting of six curved permanent magnets and one static magnetic finite element for analysis. By analyzing the forces and motion behaviors of single abrasive particles during the polishing process, a novel removal model was developed and the effects of the main parameters on the material removal mechanism were investigated. The experiments ware conducted on the K9 glass through the polishing process by this proposed device and traditional cold working separately. The results showed that reciprocating cluster MRP for 120 min was able to achieve a surface roughness of 2.7 nm, a Peak to Valley (PV) value of 0.689 fr (216 nm) and a Root Mean Square (RMS) value of 0.077 fr (24 nm), respectively, which made a significant improvement on the conventional cold working. Therefore, the proposed device and novel polishing process could effectively reduce the surface roughness value and the PV value of K9 glass, while improving both the polishing efficiency and accuracy of optical components.
A distribution-free smoothed combination method to improve discrimination accuracy in multi-category classification
Authors: Maiti Raju , Li Jialiang , Das Priyam , Liu Xueqing , Feng Lei , Hausenloy Derek J , Chakraborty Bibhas
Published: November 2022

Results from multiple diagnostic tests are combined in many ways to improve the overall diagnostic accuracy. For binary classification, maximization of the empirical estimate of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve has widely been used to produce an optimal linear combination of multiple biomarkers. However, in the presence of a large number of biomarkers, this method proves to be computationally expensive and difficult to implement since it involves maximization of a discontinuous, non-smooth function for which gradient-based methods cannot be used directly. The complexity of this problem further increases when the classification problem becomes multi-category. In this article, we develop a linear combination method that maximizes a smooth approximation of the empirical Hyper-volume Under Manifolds for the multi-category outcome. We approximate HUM by replacing the indicator function with the sigmoid function and normal cumulative distribution function. With such smooth approximations, efficient gradient-based algorithms are employed to obtain better solutions with less computing time. We show that under some regularity conditions, the proposed method yields consistent estimates of the coefficient parameters. We derive the asymptotic normality of the coefficient estimates. A simulation study is performed to study the effectiveness of our proposed method as compared to other existing methods. The method is illustrated using two real medical data sets.
Predictive Validity of Static-99R Among 8,207 Men Convicted of Sexual Crimes in South Korea: A Prospective Field Study
Authors: Lee Seung C. , Hanson R. Karl , Yoon Jeong Sook
Published: November 2022

The accuracy of risk assessment tools for Asian populations has received relatively little research attention. This study evaluated one of the most widely used static risk assessment tools - Static-99R - for assessing the likelihood of recidivism among men convicted of a sexual crime in South Korea. Overall, this South Korean sample ( N = 8207) appeared to have a higher risk (more paraphilic interests, more sexual/general criminality) than the Static-99R normative samples (who were mostly White individuals from Western countries). Despite the differences, Static-99R was able to discriminate recidivists from nonrecidivists in South Korea, with AUC values similar to that observed in the normative samples (e.g., 0.72 for sexual recidivism). In terms of calibration, the observed sexual recidivism rates of the current sample were higher than the international routine/complete normative samples but lower than the high-risk/high-need normative samples ( E/ O = 0.75 and 1.26, respectively). Consequently, evaluators in South Korea can have reasonable confidence in the ability of Static-99R to rank individuals according to their relative likelihood of sexual recidivism.
Tourism distribution at competing destinations: Mobility changes and relocation
Authors: Albaladejo Isabel P. , Arnaldos Fuensanta , Martínez-García María Pilar
Published: November 2022

We present a dynamic model of competing destinations to study the agglomeration and dispersion forces driving long-run geographical distribution of tourism. The relative strength of these forces determines whether tourism is agglomerated at one destination or is more disperse. Economies of scale in the tourism industry favour agglomeration while tourists’ preference for local tourist attractions and local services is conducive to dispersion. If returns to scale approach constant and tourists do not appreciate local goods, the interaction between the two destinations disappears and our model converges to the well-known Tourism Area Life Cycle model. By contrast, if destinations interact and the price sensitivity of tourists is low enough to offset the economies of scale that induce firms to agglomerate, the sharing of tourism between the two destinations is stable. Otherwise, tourism tends to agglomerate in one destination. Tourism policies interfere with the agglomeration and dispersion forces and could induce tourist relocation. We calibrate the model with real data before and after the restrictions in force during the pandemic in 2021 and those derived from the war in Ukraine.
“I wanted to be a bride, not a wife”: Accounts of child marriage in the Bedouin community in Israel
Authors: Binyamini Iris Manor , Shoshana Avihu
Published: November 2022

This article presents a qualitative study of the experience of child marriage among Bedouin in Israel. We conducted semi-structured interviews with a convenience sample of 17 young Bedouin women, aged 17–21, who were married between the ages of 12–17. The interviewees’ descriptions indicate that child marriage is a powerful cultural practice that has evolved into a “natural” and “obvious” tool for supervising girls and women. All the interviewees reported domestic violence, despair, and reported suicide attempts as a response to their existential suffering in their marriage and as an act of daily resistance to a powerful and oppressive cultural practice. These findings raise challenges in the case of global mental health interventions since these interventions not only require cultural sensitivity to avoid the constraint of Western psychiatric diagnoses and classifications, but also more critical thinking about the interactions between global and local, universalist and culturalist perspectives.
Indian intervention in ethnic movement of Nepal: Did Madheshi lose or gain?
Authors: Jnawali Hari Har
Published: November 2022

This paper examines the impact of Indian intervention on the Madheshi parties’ claim to self-determination in Nepal. In 2007, the Madheshi parties launched mass protests, demanding the recognition of their self-determination through an autonomous Madheshi province. Mainstream political parties became hesitant to incorporate this demand. The Nepalese government signed agreements with the agitating Madheshis but did not intend to implement its commitments. The Indian government was monitoring these developments; it stood on the Madheshi side and urged the Nepalese government to recognize self-determination and autonomy in the new Constitution. It increased pressure through press releases, parliamentary statements, bilateral visits, and an undeclared economic sanction. Against this background, this paper examines the following question: What is the impact of the Indian intervention on the Madheshi claims for self-determination in Nepal? It identifies that the Indian intervention obstructed the recognition of Madheshi self-determination as a constitutional right and the agenda of the nationalist movement. The mainstream political parties perceived the Indian intervention as unwanted interference in a sovereign state’s internal affairs and responded to this pressure by adopting the Constitution without including self-determination. The Indian government continued to pressure through economic sanctions, but the latter just increased anti-Indian sentiments in Nepal. As a result, the Nepalese government re-strengthened its ties with the Chinese government and concluded trade and transit agreements. The Indian government perceived that Nepal-China ties would affect its national interests in Nepal and stayed silent about the Madheshi parties. This silence constructed a permissive environment for the Nepalese government to ignore the nationalist demands and forced the Madheshi parties to concede their self-determination as the ethnonational agenda.
The Red Zone Risk for College Sexual Assault: A Critical Review of the Literature
Authors: Follingstad Diane R. , Barczak Rachel M. , Kistler Lisa C.
Published: November 2022

The term Red Zone refers to a period of time thought to be high risk for sexual victimization upon entering college in the United States, although empirical evidence for a defined Red Zone has not been established. This article critically reviews empirical research from the last 20 years that investigates the temporality of sexual assault reported by undergraduate women. A keyword search of three major sociopsychological databases was conducted, and articles were included if they reported original empirical results of the timing of sexual assault on campuses, if they directly compared different class years, or if they reported on sexual assault by class year. Ten articles meeting criteria were evaluated in light of methodological, definitional, and measurement issues to assess whether support for a Red Zone of risk exists. We posit that the current extant literature does not provide clear empirical support for the concept of a Red Zone at the beginning of a woman’s entry into college and lasting for the first month or two. However, extending the potential time frame for a Red Zone to include college women’s first and second years has some merit, although the usefulness of considering half of a woman’s college career as high risk for sexual violence is questioned. Importantly, investigations into the temporality of campus sexual assault (CSA) would benefit from the inclusion of multiple other risk factors as potential mediators/moderators to understand whether identifying a particular time frame is useful or whether social contexts and risk factors explain the significance of an identified time frame.
Exclusively Posterior Circulation Stroke Caused by Internal Carotid Artery Thrombosis
Authors: Ding Yunlong , Zhai Tingting , Gu Zhiqun , Liu Yan , Niu Jiali
Published: November 2022

A fetal posterior cerebral artery (FPCA) is an anatomic variant in which the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) is an embryological derivative of the internal carotid artery (ICA). Patients with FPCA may experience posterior circulation stroke (PCS) after a thrombotic event in the ICA system, while exclusively PCS caused by thrombosis of the ICA has rarely been reported. We report a patient with FPCA and summarize 3 types of exclusively PCS caused by FPCA due to thrombotic events in the ICA system. Type A: the thrombus involves the opening of the FPCA and obstructs the blood flow of the entire ICA. The contralateral ICA compensates the ipsilateral middle cerebral artery (MCA) and anterior cerebral artery (ACA) through the anterior communicating artery (ACOM). Type B: the thrombus involves the opening of the FPCA but does not block the blood flow of the entire ICA, which still perfuses the ipsilateral ACA and MCA. Type C: the thrombus only involves the FPCA and not the ipsilateral ICA. Patients with types A and B may obtain a good prognosis through endovascular treatment (EVT), while the benefits of this procedure in type C patients are unclear.
Mediatization and patterns of social interaction on social media
Authors: Barry Wail Ismail Abdel , Abdellatif Mamdouh Abdallah Mohamed , Moayad Haitham Gouda
Published: November 2022

There is a correlative relationship between mediatization and social interaction. Communication scholars have paid attention to this relationship. We argue that mediatization involves the incorporation of various patterns of interaction among users of social media platforms. We used two theoretical approaches, namely mediatization and symbolic interaction. We surveyed a purposive sample that we selected according to certain criteria. Regression analysis revealed the correlative relationship between the dimensions of mediatization over social media platforms and the patterns of symbolic interaction among users.
Microaggressions in Context: Linguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives
Authors: Holtgraves Thomas
Published: November 2022

In this commentary I provide a review of the microaggression construct within a linguistic-pragmatic framework. From this perspective, microaggressions can be viewed as nonconventional indirect speech acts, that is, utterances that, because of their aggressive meaning, require some type of inferential processing on the part of the hearer. This inferential process requires a consideration of the remark in the context within which it occurs, including the prior discourse, as well as the roles and statuses of the interactants. Because microaggressions are indirect, the speaker always has the option, especially if they are higher in power, of denying any aggressive meaning. Focusing on their linguistic/pragmatic features allows for the development of a more principled framework for specifying what constitutes a microaggression, as well as helping to identify the relevant features of the context and the processes involved in the recognition of microaggressions.