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‘Two countries-two labs’: the transnational gamete donation (TGD) programme to support egg donation
Authors: Coccia Maria Elisabetta , Rizzello Francesca , Wakunga Savio , Badolato Laura , Evangelisti Paolo , Bertocci Francesco , Giachini Claudia , Criscuoli Luciana , Micelli Elisabetta , Picone Rita 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Purpose
To evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of a transnational gamete donation (TGD) programme based on the shipping of vitrified donor oocytes.

Methods
A retro-prospective observational study was conducted in the Assisted Reproductive Technology Center of the University Hospital of Florence, Italy. The study population included 622 consecutive donor oocyte cycles. A mean number of 6 vitrified oocytes per couple were shipped from two Spanish biobanks. In the receiving centre, gametes were warmed and inseminated and the subsequent embryo transfer (ET) was performed. The main outcome measurement was LBR. Secondary outcomes included oocyte survival rate, ICSI damage rate, normal fertilization, cleavage, and implantation rate (IR) in both ‘fresh’ and cryotransfer cycles.

Results
A total number of 3536 mature oocytes were warmed with 81.4% surviving oocytes. 2PN oocytes were 1941 with an ICSI normal fertilization rate of 70.4% and a cleavage rate of 93.4%; 857 day-3 embryos were transferred in 498 women, 63 blastocysts in 44. Couples with at least one vitrified embryo were 181 (32.3%). IR was 25.1% and 33.1% for day-3 ET and blastocyst stage respectively. Crude pregnancy rate and LBR after the first ET were 35.5% and 27% correspondingly with a conservative cumulative LBR of 34% and an optimal LBR of 51.4%.

Conclusion
Imported vitrified donor oocytes retain their competence and are capable of resulting in ongoing pregnancies and healthy babies in a proportion comparable to other existing systems as egg donation with vitrification/warming in the same laboratory and transnational fresh oocyte donation.
Electro-discharge sintering of nanocrystalline NdFeB magnets: process parameters, microstructure, and the resulting magnetic properties
Authors: Leich Lennart , Röttger Arne , Kuchenbecker Rene , Theisen Werner 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThis study investigates the compaction of nanocrystalline NdFeB magnet powder by electro-discharge sintering (EDS). On this account, process parameters, microstructure, and the associated magnetic properties of the EDS-densified nanocrystalline NdFeB specimens were investigated by varying the discharge energy EEDS and compression load pEDS. Although optimized process parameters could be evaluated, three different microstructures (fully densified zone, insufficiently densified zone, and melted zone) are present in the EDS-compacted specimens. Thereby, volume fractions of these formed three different microstructures determine the resulting mechanical and magnetic properties of the specimens. For all specimens, the intrinsic coercivity Hc,J deteriorates with increasing discharge energy, as the generated Joule heat leads to microstructural changes (grain growth, dissolution of magnetic phases), which reduces the magnetic properties. The compression load has less influence on the coercivity Hc,J, as it only affects the initial resistance of the pre-compacted powder loose. The residual induction Br deteriorates with increasing the discharge energy due to microstructural changes. An increase in the compression load pEDS results in an increase in the specimens’ density and thus promotes the residual induction Br.
Adaptive Reuse of Religious Heritage and Its Impact on House Prices
Authors: Liu Caixia , Liu Xiaolong 
Published: October 2020

AbstractDue to social demographic change and secularization, religious heritage sites in Europe are on the verge of losing their original functions. While the adaptive reuse seems to be a proactive strategy to preserve the historical and cultural value embedded in religious heritage sites, little is known concerning its external impact. This paper aims to fill this gap by investigating the external effect of reusing religious heritage on surrounding house prices. Employing both the parametric and non-parametric difference-in-differences hedonic model on a sample of 42 projects of reusing religious heritage and a rich dataset of housing transactions in the Netherlands, we find significant positive externality of reusing religious heritage on local house prices. The external effects are heterogeneous across differentiated project size and monumental status. Larger religious heritage reuse projects and those listed as national monuments exert greater influence on surrounding house prices.
Le droit et ses limites: le juridique et le non-juridique
Authors: Moor Pierre 
Published: October 2020

Sommaire1. Tout système juridique est production d’une histoire et d’une culture politiques déterminée, qui lui ont donné une organisation spécifique. Parler des limites de telles organisations peut s’entendre en deux sens, qui interagissent: premièrement, elles peuvent servir à différencier ces systèmes par rapport à d’autres ordres normatifs. Secondement, elles désignent ce que, par sa texture, le droit est hors d’état de réussir. 2. On comprend le concept de système comme une organisation aux structures différenciées de textes, de normes, d’acteurs. Ce qui caractérise un système est son autoréférentialité et ses modes de clôture (qui lui permettent de rester identique à lui-même) et ses modes d’ouverture (qui permettent les échanges avec son environnement). 3. Concernant la limite dans le second sens, on observera que la normativité comme mode d’action propre au droit le met souvent dans l’incapacité d’assumer pleinement les tâches de régulation qui lui sont confiées. Il s’agit d’une part d’une limite factuelle: celle de la technicité et du volume de ces tâches. D’autre part, la nécessité de plus en plus fréquente de prendre en compte les circonstances individuelles concrètes de l’application entraîne une légistique de diminution de la densité normative et, par conséquent, de déplacer une épistémologie fondée sur la répétition en direction de l’innovation. 4. Ces deux facteurs notamment font du droit un univers qui ne peut plus prétendre à une complétude cohérente: c’est un univers en constante évolution, qui exige pour sa mise en œuvre, de manière continue, l’apport d’informations provenant de son environnement. Ces apports circulent dans les modes d’ouverture du droit—la diminution de la densité normative et le recours à des expertises, des savoirs, des déontologies extérieures. Cependant, en vertu de l’autoréférentialité du droit, ces apports doivent être sélectionnés et juridicisés pour être intégrés dans le système juridique et préserver ainsi sa clôture. Il y a là une double programmation à respecter: la sélection doit d’une part respecter le cadre normatif du droit et de l’autre porter sur un choix correspondant aux attentes sociales qu’il s’agit de convaincre de son bien-fondé. Les limites du droit par rapport à d’autres ordres normatifs est ainsi définie par l’ordre juridique lui-même, dans le respect de cette double programmation. 5. Ce système a des présupposés politiques, culturels et historiques qui empêchent d’élaborer sans autre une essence du droit, valable urbi et orbi: notamment séparation des pouvoirs et liberté d’expression. Il n’est même pas certain qu’il puisse perdurer. En particulier, l’internalisation croissante du droit n’est guère conciliable avec son organisation telle que l’Occident l’a conçue. En outre, de plus en plus le droit devient l’objet d’une normativité supérieure, au nom de laquelle il est lui-même jugé: c’est le phénomène de l’économisation du droit.
Hunger as a Constitutive Property of a Culinary Work
Authors: Bacchini Fabio 
Published: October 2020

AbstractIn this paper I attempt to show that a certain degree of hunger, intended as a material and psychological condition of the diner, can become a constitutive property of a culinary work. One may believe that the best possible argument supporting this thesis is one relying on the general assertion that an author’s stipulative authority over the features of his or her work, if adequately exercised, is absolute. Quite the contrary, I show that we should prefer a different and more specific argumentative strategy based on the twofold fact that the conventions ruling over culinary works are peculiarly less stringent than in many other art fields, and that hunger has a very special status with regard to culinary works, in the sense that fixing the degree of hunger of the diner may serve to fix the appropriate conditions for any minimally acceptable perceptual experience of a culinary work to take place.
Water Values: Participatory Water Ecosystem Services Assessment in the Arno River Basin, Italy
Authors: Pacetti T. , Castelli G. , Bresci E. , Caporali E. 
Published: October 2020

AbstractWater-related Ecosystem Services (WES), namely the multiple benefits that humans can obtain from water or water-related functions of an ecosystem, constitute a useful perspective to look at the overlap between biosphere and anthroposphere and to explore their sustainable coupling. On one hand, society acts as a driver of landscapes transformation, influencing the ecohydrological processes that underpin a large set of potential WES. On the other hand, society is the recipient of the WES provided by ecosystems, determining the actual production of services. Aiming at exploring the ecosystem-water-society nexus, this study develops a 4-tiered methodology for the participatory evaluation of WES as a basis to facilitate a shared watershed planning process in the Arno river basin (Central Italy), carried out within the framework of the Tuscany Regional Law for participation. Starting from the biophysical assessment of the study area and the analysis of the population, multiple focus groups were organized to allow the participatory evaluation of WES, mainly targeting low impact stakeholders. The proposed approach allowed the WES mapping and the identification of valuable WES characterised by a critical status. These results served as the basis for the analysis of multiple scenarios and the co-definition of a shared management strategy, jointly with decision makers. The analysis highlights the potential of WES concept as a suitable common language for developing participatory processes that support integrated water resources management. The proposed participatory WES assessment approach can sustain the active involvement of all interested parties in Water Framework Directive implementation (Art.14) and foster a wider policy objective of sustainability through the management plans.
Evolution of Non-metallic Inclusions Through Processing in Ti-V Microalloyed 316L and Al-V Microalloyed 17-4PH Stainless Steels for Hipping Applications
Authors: Balart MarÍa J. , Hao Xinjiang , Marks Samuel , West Geoff D. , Walker Marc , Davis Claire L. 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Powders produced by air-melted gas atomization (AMGA) and vacuum induction gas atomization (VIGA) from Ti-V microalloyed 316L and Al-V microalloyed 17-4PH stainless steels along with their feedstock material and Hot Isostatically Pressed (HIP’d) products have been examined. Inclusion characteristics and development through process along with changes in grain size have been characterized. The main findings are that a thin oxide film forms on the powder surface, thicker for the 316L powder than the 17-4PH powder as indicated by XPS analysis of selected powder precursors, and large inclusions (predominantly oxides) are also observed on the 316L powder. This results in a high number of inclusions, including more complex two-phase inclusions, on the prior particle boundaries in the HIP’d material. Grain growth occurs during HIPping of the 316L powders with some evidence of inclusions locally pinning boundaries. In the vacuum-melted powder, smaller Ti-rich inclusions are present which give more grain boundary pinning than in the air-melted powder where Ti was lost from the material during melting. Consideration has also been made to determine the variation of Ti and V microalloying elements and residual Cu through processing. It was found that Ti was lost during air melting but partly retained after vacuum melting leading to the presence of fine and complex Ti-containing precipitates which provided grain boundary pinning during HIPping and heat treatment. V was retained in the melt by the use of both AMGA and VIGA processes, and therefore available for precipitation during HIPping. Residual Cu was retained during both air and vacuum melting and was associated with Mn S and Mn O S inclusions overwhelmingly outweighing that of Mn O inclusions in the two HIP’d 316L samples.
Learning about noticing, by, and through, noticing
Authors: Mason John 
Published: October 2020

AbstractAspects of noticing which are often overlooked are brought to the surface and illustrated by accounting-for three accounts-of specific phenomena, two of which readers are invited to experience for themselves. These are used as a springboard for both illustrating the Discipline of Noticing as a method of sensitising oneself to notice possibilities for action, and reporting insights achieved through its use. This includes augmenting the discourse of Dual Systems Theory to include S1.5 (emotion) and S3 (creative insight) and linking it to a six-fold structure of the human psyche (enaction, affect, cognition, attention, will and witness). The aim is to enrich the discourse in which to account-for incidents as experienced by teachers themselves, and incidents observed by teachers and other researchers. The paper ends by distinguishing between measurement-based research validation, and phenomenologically-based validation which is part of the discipline of noticing.
Effects of Ultrasonic and Microwave Pretreatment on Lipid Extraction of Microalgae and Methane Production from the Residual Extracted Biomass
Authors: Rokicka Magdalena , Zieliński Marcin , Dudek Magda , Dębowski Marcin 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThe extraction of lipids from microalgae cells of Botryococcus braunii and Chlorella vulgaris after ultrasonic and microwave pretreatment was evaluated. Cell disruption increased the lipid extraction efficiency, and microwave pretreatment was more effective compared with ultrasonic pretreatment. The maximum lipid yield from B. braunii was 56.42% using microwave radiation and 39.61% for ultrasonication, while from C. vulgaris, it was respectively 41.31% and 35.28%. The fatty acid composition in the lipid extracts was also analyzed. The methane yield from the residual extracted biomass pretreated by microwaves ranged from 148 to 185 NmL CH4/g VS for C. vulgaris and from 128 to 142 NmL CH4/g VS for B. braunii. In the case of ultrasonic pretreatment, the methane production was between 168 and 208 NmL CH4/g VS for C. vulgaris, while for B. braunii ranging from 150 to 174 NmL CH4/g VS. Anaerobic digestion showed that lipid-extracted biomass presented lower methane yield than non-lipid-extracted feedstock, and higher amount of lipid obtained in the extraction contributed less methane production. Anyway, anaerobic digestion of the residual extracted biomass can be a suitable method to increase economic viability of energy recovery from microalgae.
A rare case of metachronous neuroendocrine tumor after a colorectal adenocarcinoma: qualitative critical review of synchronous and metachronous gastrointestinal NET
Authors: Lancellotti Francesco , Solinas Luigi , Telesco Davide , Sagnotta Andrea , Belardi Augusto , Balsamo Giuseppina , Mancini Stefano 
Published: October 2020

AbstractGastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumor (NET) associated with a metachronous intestinal adenocarcinoma is rare. We report the case of a 71-year-old man with an ileal NET. Patient has previously undergone a left colectomy for sigmoid cancer. We report a complete review both of the metachronous and synchronous NET. A comprehensive systematic literature search in PubMed, EMBASE, and MEDLINE identified a total of 35 relevant studies. This study includes an analysis of review articles, case reports, case series, retrospective studies and population-based studies. In the English literature to date, there are 21 case reports (19 synchronous cases and 2 metachronous cases), 3 case series and 3 review articles, and less than 10 retrospective studies or population-based studies. A total of 31 patients in 24 articles were included in the study: 28 patients with a synchronous gastrointestinal NET and colorectal adenocarcinoma and 3 patients with metachronous gastrointestinal NET and colorectal adenocarcinoma. The incidence of synchronous cancer (particularly for colorectal and gastric cancer) with a gastrointestinal NET ranges from 10 to 50%, while for the metachronous ones it is still unclear. This is the third metachronous case report and the first descriptive case of gastrointestinal NET diagnosed 2 years after a colorectal adenocarcinoma. An endoscopic follow-up program for gastrointestinal NET patients and/or for first-degree relatives of NET patients appears recommendable.
Correlation of microbiota in the gut of fish species and water
Authors: Zeng Ao , Tan Kai , Gong Ping , Lei Ping , Guo Zhaohui , Wang Shengping , Gao Shufeng , Zhou Yinghua , Shu Yan , Zhou Xiaoling , Miao Dong , Zeng Fajiao , Liu Huizhi 
Published: October 2020

AbstractTo analyze the intestinal microbiota diversity of several important economic fishes in the Loudi area and its correlation with the microbiota of water environment, the high-throughput sequencing based on the bacteria 16S rRNA was used to analyze the intestinal microbiota diversity in fish intestines and water. The results revealed that half of the OTUs in the water sample could be detected in the fish intestine, the proportion of shared OTUs in the intestines of Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and water samples was only 22%, and the unique OTU in the LC group was relatively the highest in the fish intestinal group. It can be seen from the analysis in NMDS analysis, the distance between Hypophthalmichthys molitrix group and water group is relatively farthest. Ctenopharyngodon idellus has the highest microbiota richness and diversity (P < 0.05), while the water samples have the lowest microbiota richness (P < 0.05). Firmicutes, Methylocaldum and Bacillus are the prevalent taxonomic unit in the Aristichthys nobilis and Carassius auratus groups, Anaerospora is the prevalent genera in the Hypophthalmichthys molitrix group, Proteobacteria and Cyanobacteria have a high relative abundance ratio in the Ctenopharyngodon idellus group, and the prevalent taxonomic unit in the water sample group are Phenylobacterium, Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria. In conclusion, fish species have different prevalent microbiota. There are a strong correlation between fish intestinal microbiota and the water environment, and the fish with a weak correlation is Hypophthalmichthys molitrix. Results of this study will contribute to the prevention and treatment of fish diseases and the fish ecological culturing in Loudi area.
Growing Non-native Trees in European Forests Brings Benefits and Opportunities but Also Has Its Risks and Limits
Authors: Pötzelsberger Elisabeth , Spiecker Heinrich , Neophytou Charalambos , Mohren Frits , Gazda Anna , Hasenauer Hubert 
Published: October 2020

AbstractPurpose of ReviewNon-native tree species (NNT) raise a range of different associations and emotions—to many citizens they are just an exotic curiosity in parks, to many conservationists they are an evil to native ecosystems that should be eradicated, to a rising group of foresters they are part of the solution to climate change and an increasing timber demand, and to others they are already daily forestry business. In this review, where we also summarise the findings of the recent COST Action FP1403 (NNEXT) ‘Non-native tree species for European forests: experiences, risks and opportunities’, we highlight opportunities and challenges in the light of climate change, ecological risks and legislative limits of growing non-native tree species in Europe.Recent FindingsFew NNT in Europe show invasive behaviour and are listed as prohibited species or as species to be monitored. A larger number of NNT is utilised in productive forestry and forest restoration due to their superior growth, valuable timber properties and good performance under harsh growing conditions. Current species distribution, experiences with success and failures and environmental concerns differ profoundly across Europe, with Western Europe overall revealing higher shares in NNT and showing a stronger interest of forestry related stakeholder groups to continue planting NNT.SummaryMany more NNT are already used in forestry than previously thought, but relatively few species have major importance in terms of area, mainly in western European countries. Diversification, mixing and avoidance of invasion in relation to NNT are necessities that are relatively new on the agenda. In contrast, provenance research of major NNT has been going on for many decades and now provides important information for climate change adaptation. Despite the limitations to the use of NNT either through legal restrictions or forest certification that differ considerably across Europe, the careful integration of a range of tested NNT also into future forest management planning shows a high potential for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Evaluating ‘Life Steeped in Power’: Non-Domination, the Rule of Law and Spatial Restrictions for Irregular Migrants
Authors: Slingenberg Lieneke 
Published: October 2020

AbstractIrregular migrants in Europe are increasingly subjected to state coercion, surveillance and spatial restrictions, such as containment, dispersal and forced transfers. Lawyers usually evaluate such practices in the light of human rights law, which only provides limited protection. For this reason, I propose an alternative normative framework to evaluate and assess coercive state practices towards irregular migrants: the concept of freedom as non-domination. In this article, I conceptualize non-domination from a rule of law perspective. To this end, I start from Lovett’s procedural account of arbitrariness; and complement this with Benton’s focus on unaccountable power and Palombella’s argument for ‘duality of law’. In the second part of this article, I apply this normative framework to coercive practices in shelters for irregular migrants in the Netherlands. This allows me to demonstrate the practical relevance and consequences of the theory. It discloses how the protection of freedom as non-domination, conceptualized from a rule of law perspective, sets more demanding criteria for the (courts of) law than the protection of human rights. At the same time, it does not require non-interference or elaborate positive obligations from the state. For irregular migrants, who do not have the right to reside in the territory, but who are entirely under the control of state power, non-domination as conceptualized in this paper provides, in my view, a necessary framework of review that ensures a kind of protection that is currently lacking.
Cartographic Scale in Immersive Virtual Environments
Authors: Hruby Florian , Castellanos Irma , Ressl Rainer 
Published: October 2020

AbstractScale has been a defining criterion of mapmaking for centuries. However, this criterion is fundamentally questioned by highly immersive virtual reality (VR) systems able to represent geographic environments at a high level of detail and, thus, providing the user with a feeling of being present in VR space. In this paper, we will use the concept of scale as a vehicle for discussing some of the main differences between immersive VR and non-immersive geovisualization products. Based on a short review of diverging meanings of scale we will propose possible approaches to the issue of both spatial and temporal scale in immersive VR. Our considerations shall encourage a more detailed treatment of the specific characteristics of immersive geovisualization to facilitate deeper conceptual integration of immersive and non-immersive visualization in the realm of cartography.