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Perinatal Outcomes in Appropriately Grown Monochorionic Diamniotic Twins With Intermittent Absent and Reversed End‐Diastolic Umbilical Artery Flow Compared to Selective Fetal Growth Restriction Type III
Authors: Schlant Elizabeth , Birk Abby , Baschat Ahmet , Kush Michelle , Goodman Lindsey , Olson Sarah , Voegtline Kristin , Miller Jena , Rosner Mara 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTObjectivesUmbilical artery Doppler intermittent absent and reversed end‐diastolic flow (iAREDF) is associated with increased perinatal morbidity and mortality in monochorionic twins with selective fetal growth restriction. The clinical significance of umbilical artery iAREDF in appropriately grown monochorionic twins is not well described.MethodsThis is a single‐institution retrospective cohort study describing characteristics and outcomes of monochorionic diamniotic twins with appropriate for gestational age growth and umbilical artery iAREDF in comparison to monochorionic diamniotic twins with selective fetal growth restriction and iAREDF, or sFGR type III. The cohorts were compared for antenatal resolution of iAREDF, estimated gestational age at delivery, fetal and maternal complications, delivery characteristics, and survival outcomes.ResultsTen appropriately grown monochorionic diamniotic twin pairs with umbilical artery iAREDF and 23 with sFGR Type III delivered at a mean gestational age of 30.4 (± 5) weeks and 30.7 (± 4) weeks, respectively (p = 0.93). No significant differences were observed in the Doppler course (deterioration or improvement) prior to delivery, fetal or maternal complications, delivery characteristics (with the exception of the persistence of the growth differences), or survival outcomes between groups.ConclusionsMonochorionic diamniotic twins with intermittent absent and reversed end‐diastolic umbilical artery velocity may be at increased risk for adverse perinatal outcomes even if criteria for selective fetal growth restriction are not met.
Mechanical and antimicrobial properties of green and photoactive AgTiO2/poly(3hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) electrospun membranes
Authors: Ladhari Safa , Vu Nhu‐Nang , Saidi Alireza , Assadi Amine Aymen , Nguyen‐Tri Phuong 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe rise of antibiotic‐resistant microbes and concerns over non‐biodegradable waste highlight the need for innovative materials with integrated functionalities that address these critical issues. In this study, we synthesized poly(3hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) electrospun nanofibers blended with gelatin (Ge) and loaded with photoactive AgTiO2 nanoparticles with improved mechanical and biological properties. Biological tests revealed excellent antibacterial activity of the prepared membrane, with efficiency exceeding 99% against Escherichia coli and 95% against Staphylococcus epidermidis after 90 and 60 min of exposure to low‐power commercial LED lights, respectively. Filtration studies using a dead‐end stainless‐steel cell reveal that both bacteria are eliminated (>99% after one filtration cycle). Results of the viability test showed that blending PHB with Ge improves the membrane's anti‐biofouling properties. The membranes were also characterized using SEM and EDX mapping techniques for morphological and elemental analysis, DSC and TGA to evaluate thermal properties and crystallinity, and FTIR to confirm chemical structure. Moreover, the electrospun membranes exhibited enhanced mechanical properties with the addition of Ge. PHB/Ge/3 wt% AgTiO2 sample showed 2.2 times better tensile strength and 1.89 times improved Young's modulus compared to PHB membranes. Finally, the breakdown of PHB/Ge/AgTiO2 membranes occurred progressively over only 8 weeks, showing the membranes' green and sustainable nature.Highlights
Antibacterial efficacy of 99% against E. coli and 95% against S. epidermidis.
Microfiltration efficiency >99% achieved in one filtration cycle.
Mechanical strength is enhanced by 2.2 times with the addition of gelatin.
Effective anti‐biofouling is confirmed by CLSM and SEM tests.
Membranes degraded within 8 weeks in natural soil.
Intergenerational Transmission and Age Differences of Education Anxiety Among Children and Adolescents
Authors: Zhang Ke , Ding Kezhu , Yu Zhanyu 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTThis study examined 1337 children or adolescents from various educational stages (primary, junior, and senior high school levels) along with their parents. First, we examined the effects of parental education anxiety, children's academic anxiety, children's self‐academic achievement expectation, and parental self‐blame on the progression of children and adolescents. Moreover, we investigated the interactions between parental education anxiety and children's academic anxiety. Additionally, the potential mediating influences exerted by children's self‐academic achievement expectation and parental self‐blame were explored within distinct phases of childhood and adolescence. The results showed that: (1) As children and adolescents grow older, their academic anxiety levels tend to rise. In comparison to primary school students, junior high school students exhibited higher self‐academic achievement expectation, whereas senior high school students showed diminished ones; (2) Parental education anxiety was a significant predictor of their children's academic anxiety; (3) The transmission of education anxiety across generations was influenced by the mediating role of children's self‐academic achievement expectation; (4) The mediating impact of children's self‐academic achievement expectation was significant in junior and senior high school, while its significance was not observed in primary school; (5) The intergenerational transmission of education anxiety was mediated through parental self‐blame; (6) The mediating effect of parental self‐blame was noteworthy in primary and junior high school, but the latter half path of parental self‐blame did not attain significance in senior high school. This results verified the intergenerational transmission of education anxiety, affirming the substantial positive predictive link between parental education anxiety and children's academic anxiety. Notably, children's self‐academic achievement expectation emerged as mediators during junior and senior high school, whereas parental self‐blame played a mediating role during primary and junior high school.
Study on the Crystallization Behavior of Polyether Ether Ketone Thin Films Under Thermal Annealing
Authors: Bai Yun , Wang Min , Shen Zhibang , Xu Chunwei , Liu Changhui , Yang Yunyun , Zhou Hao , Chen Yu 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTDue to its excellent biocompatibility, high‐temperature resistance, chemical corrosion resistance, radiation resistance, and ease of processing and shaping, polyether ether ketone (PEEK) has been widely used in the field of oral medicine. In this study, we conducted an in‐depth investigation of the thermal annealing process of PEEK films at different temperatures. The grazing incidence wide‐angle x‐ray scattering (GIWAXS) results indicate that the PEEK molecular chains tend to align in an edge‐on orientation in the film, and annealing at different temperatures leads to the formation of two crystalline phases, A and B, with a spacing of 4.46 Å for (200) A and 4.69 Å for (200) B. The crystallization behavior during the annealing process was characterized using in situ GIWAXS, revealing an increase in the film's crystallinity in the early stages of annealing. Due to enhanced polymer chains mobility, the B phase is formed. However, during annealing at 200°C, the intensity of the (200) B peak initially increases and then decreases, indicating the instability of the B phase, which can be disrupted by excessive molecular mobility. Mechanical property characterization results demonstrate that as the annealing temperature increases, the film's elongation at break and modulus decrease.
Nasal High‐Flow Therapy Versus Low‐Flow Oxygen Therapy Post‐Discharge in Infants With Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Retrospective Observational Study
Authors: Mariani Alessia , Ghezzi Elisabetta , Pesenti Nicola , Ophorst Marijike , Polimeni Valentina , Gangi Silvana , Colnaghi Mariarosa , Mosca Fabio , Lavizzari Anna 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTIntroductionLow‐flow oxygen therapy (LFOT) has been the only option for infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) requiring supplemental oxygen after discharge for years. Nasal high‐flow therapy (NHFT) has more recently become available as a home device. We compared the impact of NHFT and LFOT on respiratory morbidity and lung function over the first 4 years in infants with BPD requiring respiratory support post‐discharge.MethodWe retrospectively analyzed data on respiratory morbidity and lung function assessed by tidal breathing flow‐volume loop (TBFVL) analysis available from follow‐up visits of infants with BPD discharged home with LFOT or NHFT up to 4 years. We compared long‐term respiratory outcomes by applying a mixed model, adjusting for mechanical ventilation, overall respiratory support duration, pulmonary hypertension, oxygen therapy, caffeine therapy, and smoking exposure.ResultsWe included 26 infants discharged with LFOT and 47 with NHFT. The two groups were homogeneous for baseline demographics and BPD severity. Infants in the NHFT group were weaned from respiratory support earlier compared to the LFOT group (median [IQR] 8.0 [4.0; 12.0] vs 14.5 [6.0; 21.5] months, p 0.046). After applying a mixed model, the NHFT group showed a lower incidence of upper (p = 0.025) and lower respiratory tract infections (p = 0.003), wheezing (p: 0.001), and need for bronchodilator (p = 0.028) and systemic steroids (p < 0.001) during the initial 4 years. Lung function testing did not highlight between‐group differences.ConclusionsNHFT as an alternative to LFOT may positively impact long‐term clinical outcomes of infants with BPD requiring noninvasive respiratory support post‐discharge.
Environmental Performance and SDGs: How Do Income Disparity, Urbanization, Resource Consumption, and Female Employers Affect the Ecological Footprint in Emerging Economies?
Authors: Zheng Li , Zaman Shah , Zaman Qamar Uz , Zhao Yuhuan , Iqbal Shahid 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTThe significance of environmental deterioration as a pressing issue has led to its prominence in global discussions on strategies for prevention. It can be asserted that there exists a universal agreement that the enhancement of environmental quality is imperative for the promotion of sustainable development and societal well‐being, especially in emerging economies. In this perspective, the present research uses panel data of the E7 economies from 1992 to 2021 to assess the effects of income disparity, urbanization, resources consumption (nonrenewable and renewable energy consumption), and women employers on ecological footprint. This study employs second‐generation empirical techniques such as CIPS and CADF unit root tests, Westerlund bootstrap cointegration, and DFE/MG/PMG‐ARDL models to check the relationships between the studied variables. The empirical findings of this study reveal that in the E7 countries, the ecological footprint is increased with an increased income disparity and nonrenewable energy consumption. On the other hand, urbanization, renewable energy consumption, and female employers help reduce the ecological footprint. Additionally, the results of the causality measure under the Dumitrescu and Hurlin test unveil bidirectional causality between all the independent variables except nonrenewable energy and ecological footprint. From the policy perspective, the selected countries must implement policies that promote equitable income distribution, planned urbanization to promote compact cities, efficient transportation systems, and green infrastructure, and provide opportunities for women to attain higher positions in organizations, particularly at the managerial and decision‐making levels in order to address the adverse environmental consequences in emerging economies.
Edge‐Induced Synergy of Ni‐Ni Defects in NiFe Layered‐Double‐Hydroxide for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation Reaction
Authors: Zhang Rongrong , Wu Qilong , Han Yun , Zhang Yaowen , Wu Xiaofeng , Zeng Jianrong , Huang Keke , Du Aijun , Chen Jun , Zhou Dong , Yao Xiangdong 
Published: December 2024

AbstractDefect engineering is widely regarded as a promising strategy to enhance the performance of electrocatalysts for water splitting. In this work, defective NiFe layered double hydroxide (NiFe LDH) with a high density of edge sites (edge‐rich NiFe LDH) is synthesized via a simple reduction process during the early stages of nucleation. The introduction of edges into oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts modulates the electronic structure of the active sites. X‐ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) analyses revealed that the edges facilitated the formation of unsaturated Ni‐Ni coordination, which is crucial for promoting the deprotonation of the OH* intermediate. Consequently, the edge‐rich NiFe LDH exhibited a significantly lower overpotential of 228 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA cm⁻2, compared to 275 mV for pristine NiFe LDH. The assembled membrane electrode can reach a current density of 1000 mA cm⁻2 at a cell voltage of 2.5 V. This study highlights the role of edge effects in defect engineering to enhance OER activity and provides valuable theoretical insights for the design of efficient electrocatalysts.
Explaining Microservices' Cascading Failures From Their Logs
Authors: Soldani Jacopo , Forti Stefano , Roveroni Luca , Brogi Antonio 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTContextIdentifying the possible root causes of observed failures is crucial in microservice applications, as much as explaining how such possible root failures propagated across the microservices forming an application. This can indeed help pick countermeasures avoiding observed failures to happen again, e.g., by introducing circuit breakers or bulkheads avoiding the root failures to propagate and cause those observed.ObjectiveThis paper aims at enabling to explain observed failures in microservice applications, either searching for all possible cascading failures or focusing only on those starting in a known root cause.MethodWe propose a log‐based root cause analysis technique, which declaratively determines the cascading failures that possibly caused an observed failure. We also enable exploiting our proposed technique in practice, by introducing a logging methodology to instrument applications to log their failures and service interactions, and by enabling to analyse such logs through yRCA, a prototype implementation of our proposed root cause analysis technique.ResultsThe practical usability of our proposed technique is assessed by means of a case study and controlled experiments. The case study shows the low effort for instrumenting a third‐party application to produce the logs needed by our technique and its effectiveness in explaining injected failures. The controlled experiments further assess our technique's effectiveness and performances in explaining failures obtained with an existing chaos testbed.ConclusionOur proposed technique can help to identify the cascading failures that possibly caused an observed failure in a microservice application. It can be used to determine all possible cascading failures, or to explain how cascading failures propagated from a known root cause (e.g., identified with some other existing root cause analyser).
A Comprehensive Review of Analytical Methods on Everolimus: A Basis for Cleaning Residue Quantitation
Authors: Gohel Jagdish , Kotadiya Rajendra 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTThe development and validation of analytical methods for assessing cleaning residues are essential for pharmaceutical manufacturing, particularly to meet the maximum allowable carryover limits through precise detection and quantification of residues. This review explores various analytical techniques for quantifying Everolimus residues, including spectrophotometric, chromatographic hyphenated, and advanced miscellaneous methods, each evaluated for sensitivity, specificity, and applicability. The hyphenated techniques, accounting for 65% of reported methods, are favored for their superior trace‐level sensitivity, while chromatographic methods (25%) are valued for robustness and precision. By providing a comparative analysis of each technique's strengths and limitations, this review serves as a practical guide for selecting the most appropriate analytical approach to cleaning validation. The insights offered support the establishment of acceptance criteria, guide sampling method selection, and contribute to optimizing cleaning processes, ultimately helping manufacturers ensure regulatory compliance and reduce cross‐contamination risks. This review thus acts as a foundational resource for improving cleaning validation practices and aligning analytical method selection with industry standards to safeguard product integrity and patient safety.
Introduction
Authors: Beaumont Caitríona , Colpus Eve , Davidson Ruth 
Published: December 2024

AbstractEveryday Welfare in Modern British History addresses forms of action and activism used by individuals and groups who undertake the work of experiential expertise in relation to welfare cultures. In this Introduction we conceive of “experiential experts” as individuals whose action and activism have been catalysed by their personal experiences and knowledge. These individuals have asserted an expert witness status in welfare practice and sought out new forums to expand the scope, inclusivity and applicability of welfare services. We utilise Robert Pinker’s idea of “a state of welfare” as the springboard to re-conceptualise the history of everyday welfare in twentieth-century Britain. In doing so, we engage anew with what Pinker argued was the need to consider welfare through the lens of people “faring well”. Building on this intervention the chapters in the book offer routes into examining ways people identified with how to live a life where they “far[ed] well”, contested models of “faring well” that were applied to them through formal welfare provision and protested perceived injustices around what it meant to “fare well”.
Communities of Care: Working-Class Women’s Welfare Activism, 1920–1970s
Authors: Davidson Ruth 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter examines working-class women’s relationship to welfare and how their ongoing experiences of poverty and dependency have led them to challenge welfare regimes through activism underpinned by claims to experiential expertise. Drawing on the concept of “communities of experience” it will explore how the situated reality of care can build shared social knowledge across working-class women which creates a specific type of community of experience, a community of care. It will draw on three distinct case studies which each exemplify the consequences for working-class women of the inadequacy of social supports at different chronological moments. They will explore the lived experience of how the classed and gendered nature of caregiving undercut women’s citizenship. But will argue that this lived experience allowed women, often marginal to the political and policy processes, some measure of experiential expertise. It will trace how working-class women used this to challenge vested interests, whilst also assessing the limitations of this form of expertise. Overall, this chapter seeks to evidence empirically these complicated, messy, but also important, new ways of exploring histories of experience by recounting the history of working-class women and welfare in twentieth-century Britain.
The “Housewife as Expert”: Re-thinking the Experiential Expertise and Welfare Activism of Housewives’ Associations in England, 1960–1980
Authors: Beaumont Caitríona 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter contests long-held assumptions that housewives lost status as experiential experts in the wake of the Second World War and with the coming of the British welfare state. It has been argued that from the 1960s housewives no longer influenced policy debates or engaged in effective activism. Indeed, by the 1970s housewives were more likely to be portrayed as beleaguered and subservient than as experts and activists. Drawing on the idea that experiential expertise emerges from “communities of experience”, which in turn enables activism, this chapter offers an original and alternative viewpoint. Instead of fading into the background during the 1960s and 1970s housewives’ associations became even more outspoken about the right of wives and mothers to “fare well”. The chapter highlights the success of their activism but also considers its limitations by asking whose experience and expertise were foregrounded. Re-conceptualising the expertise and activism of housewives’ associations during these years challenges the demise of the “housewife as expert” construct. It reveals for the first time the impact housewives’ associations had on welfare policy and offers a new analysis of the women’s movement during these two transformative decades.
Justifying Experience, Changing Expertise: From Protest to Authenticity in Anglophone “Mad Voices” in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Authors: Millard Chris 
Published: December 2024

AbstractBetween the 1960s and 1980s, many accounts written in English by people who had been inmates in asylums and psychiatric hospitals were republished, or newly commented-upon, creating a canon of English-speaking historical “mad voices”. Insofar as this canon was limited to those who had been institutionalised, it stretched back to the end of the eighteenth century. From at least the 1830s, changes emerged in the justifications given by the authors for writing and publishing these accounts. Before this time they are predominantly published by those who never accept that they are mad and focus on the injustice of their confinement. By the 1960s, there is an established sense that the authenticity of the madness narrated is a key (although ambivalent) part of the value of publication. This chapter focuses on the “paratextual” elements of the various accounts—principally the “acknowledgements”, “preface” and “foreword”—as writing positioned outside the main story, but central to justifying it. The aim is to bring these different justifications to the fore and to argue that we should maintain distance between accounts that are justified in radically different ways, and contain radically different authorial assumptions about their content and potential value.
Intersphinktäre Resektion zum Schließmuskelerhalt beim ultratiefen Rektumkarzinom – Ein Update
Authors: Kneist Werner 
Published: December 2024

Zusammenfassung
Die Indikation zum Sphinktererhalt bei Patienten mit einem sehr tief sitzenden Rektumkarzinom ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Herausforderung und auch an die Beherrschung der intersphinktären Resektion gebunden. In dieser Arbeit sollen die zunehmend definierten Operationstechniken kurz vorgestellt und aktuell eingeordnet werden.