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Triboelectric multilayered electrospun co-polyamide-based wound dressings with inherent antibacterial properties
Authors: Bhagyaraj Sneha , Ninan Neethu , Bright Richard , Alemie Markos Negash , Popelka Anton , Vasilev Krasimir , Krupa Igor 
Published: December 2024

AbstractWound healing is a challenging problem to healthcare and society, requiring the development of advanced materials that can enhance tissue rejuvenation and prevent infection. This article presents the design and synthesis of a multilayered copolyamide based electrospun membrane for wound healing applications. The dressing is engineered using a combination of copolymerisation and electrospinning techniques. The unique porous architecture, hydrophilicity, and adequate mechanical and thermal stability make the developed materials ideal candidates for skin regeneration. The inherent antibacterial effectiveness of the membrane was investigated on a range of pathogens that cause wound infections. The cytocompatibility of the membrane was studied on human monocyte cell lines, which play a vital role in immune response and skin regeneration. This multilayered membrane embodies a promising strategy for promoting wound care consequences through its combination of biocompatibility, structural integrity, and inherent antibacterial properties. The potential impact of this research on the field of wound healing is significant and inspiring.
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pSpMv: precision-based sparse matrix partition and SpMV optimization
Authors: Liu Jie , Wang Yizhuo , Gao Jianhua , Ji Weixing 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The new generation of computing devices tends to support multiple floating-point formats and different computing precision. Besides single and double precision, half precision is embraced and widely supported by new computing devices. Low-precision representations have compact memory size and lightweight computing strength, and they also bring opportunities to the optimization of BLAS routines. This paper proposes a new sparse matrix partition approach based on IEEE 754 standard floating-point format. An input sparse matrix in double precision is partitioned and transformed into several sub-matrices in different precision without loss of accuracy. Most non-zero elements can be stored in half or single precision, if the most significant bits of exponent and the least significant bits of mantissa are zeros in double-precision representation. Based on this mixed-precision representation of sparse matrix, we also present a new SpMV algorithm pSpMV for GPU devices. pSpMV not only reduces the memory access overhead, but also reduces the computing strength of floating-point numbers. Experimental results on two GPU devices show that pSpMV achieves a geometric mean speedup of 1.39x on Tesla V100 and 1.45x on Tesla P100 over double-precision SpMV for 2,554 sparse matrices.
Parsimonious Cumulative Odds-Symmetry Model and its Decomposition for Square Tables with Ordered Categories
Authors: Ando Shuji , Kikuchi Tatsuro 
Published: December 2024

AbstractFor analyzing contingency tables to estimate a probability distribution from presented data, we often use a parsimonious model fitting the presented data. The cumulative odds-symmetry (COS) model indicates that the log odds based on cumulative probability depend only on the column category. Considering that the COS model has many parameters, this study considers a more parsimonious model. This study provides another expression for the COS model whereby the log odds have polynomial patterns depending only on the column category. This study also proposes the cumulative polynomial columns-parameter symmetry (CPCPS) model as a more parsimonious than the COS model. The CPCPS model bridges the gap between the symmetry and COS models. The COS model always holds true when the CPCPS model is true. However, the opposite does not necessarily hold true. This study identifies an additional model that must be satisfied in order to achieve equivalence with the CPCPS model. This detection is useful for explaining why CPCPS does not fit the presented data. The CPCPS model provides a better fit for application to a single occupational dataset from Japan.
Applying conventional and cell-type-specific CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in legume plants
Authors: Gao Jin-Peng , Su Yangyang , Jiang Suyu , Liang Wenjie , Lou Zhijun , Frugier Florian , Xu Ping , Murray Jeremy D. 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe advent of genome editing technologies, particularly CRISPR/Cas9, has significantly advanced the generation of legume mutants for reverse genetic studies and understanding the mechanics of the rhizobial symbiosis. The legume–rhizobia symbiosis is crucial for sustainable agriculture, enhancing nitrogen fixation and improving soil fertility. Numerous genes with a symbiosis-specific expression have been identified, sometimes exclusively expressed in cells forming infection threads or in nitrogen-fixing nodule cells. Typically, mutations in these genes do not affect plant growth. However, in some instances, germline homozygous mutations can be lethal or result in complex pleiotropic phenotypes that are challenging to interpret. To address this issue, a rhizobia-inducible and cell-type-specific CRISPR/Cas9 strategy was developed to knock-out genes in specific legume transgenic root tissues. In this review, we discuss recent advancements in legume genome editing, highlighting the cell-type-specific CRISPR system and its crucial applications in symbiotic nitrogen fixation and beyond.
Plasma Exchange and Sepsis: An Opportunity to Transition from “All or Nothing” Medicine to Individualized Patient Centered Care
Authors: Keith Philip , Scott L. Keith 
Published: December 2024

AbstractSepsis remains the bread and butter of critical care medicine, but despite detailed knowledge of the pathophysiology, prospective clinical trials continue to yield disappointing results and the mortality for sepsis remains unacceptably high. Current definitions and inclusion criteria from current clinical care standards make studies very unlikely to be “positive” despite the likelihood that the studied therapies may indeed be clinically efficacious. The Society of Critical Care medicine has acknowledged these limitations and has proposed a focus on individualized management of sepsis research. Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) has an extensive body of literature to support its role in sepsis, but the current standards of care do not often include TPE in the management algorithm. These findings highlight current flaws in research and bedside care, while offering the opportunity to apply the recommendations of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and improved patient care- both now and in the future.
Four SINS in behavioural public policy
Authors: Varazzani Chiara , Hubble Cale 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Viewed from the perspective of public policy, behavioural public policy (BPP) faces challenges in four main areas: Systems, Impatience, Nudging, and Scaling. To address these challenges, several suggestions are proposed. First, understanding how BPP interventions unfold in complex systems requires better diagnostics and the development of predictive and generative models of human behaviour. Second, the rapid pace of policy processes necessitates a shift towards generating timely and fit-for-purpose evidence. Third, maximising the opportunities presented by BPP, beyond merely ‘nudging’, demands the early and proactive application of behavioural science in the policy cycle. Fourth, achieving widespread impact in BPP initiatives means considering scale-up from the start. Lastly, the consistent and comprehensive integration of behavioural science into standard policymaking practices would support sustainable progress in addressing these challenges.
Co-design of “Baatcheet,” a peer-supported, web-based storytelling intervention for young people with common mental health problems in India
Authors: Gonsalves Pattie P. , Mittal Dhriti , Aluria Shruti , Khan Aarushi , Razdan Eshita , Kashyap Priyambada , Rahate Navvya , D’Silva Manek , Iyengar Sonaksha , Gonsalves Faith , Pal Sweta , Ansari Salik , Berry Clio , Michelson Daniel 
Published: December 2024

Abstract

Background
Engaging with personal mental health stories has the potential to help people with mental health difficulties by normalizing distressing experiences, imparting coping strategies and building hope. However, evidence-based mental health storytelling platforms are scarce, especially for young people in low-resource settings.

Objective
This paper presents an account of the co-design of ‘Baatcheet’ (‘conversation’ in Hindi), a peer-supported, web-based storytelling intervention aimed at 16–24-year-olds with depression and anxiety in New Delhi, India.

Methods
Development comprised three stages: (1) establishing a logic model through consultations with a Young People’s Advisory Group (N = 11) and a stakeholder reference group (N = 20); (2) elaborating intervention guiding principles and components through focus group discussions and co-design workshops (N = 42); and (3) user-testing of prototypes.

Results
The developmental process identified key stakeholder preferences for an online, youth-focused mental health storytelling intervention. Baatcheet uses an interactive storytelling website containing a repository of personal stories about young people’s experiences of depression and anxiety. This is offered alongside brief support from a peer.

Conclusions
There are few story-based interventions addressing depression and anxiety for young people, especially in low-resource settings. Baatcheet has the potential to deliver engaging, accessible and timely mental health support to young people. A pilot evaluation is underway.
Kilowatt-level spectrum-programmable multi-wavelength fiber laser
Authors: Ke Yanzhao , Xu Jiangming , Ye Jun , He Junhong , Liang Junrui , Zhang Yang , Guo Yidong , Du Lei , Leng Jinyong , Zhou Pu , Si Lei 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This study demonstrates a kilowatt-level, spectrum-programmable, multi-wavelength fiber laser (MWFL) with wavelength, interval and intensity tunability. The central wavelength tuning range is 1060–1095 nm and the tunable number is controllable from 1 to 5. The wavelength interval can be tuned from 6 to 32 nm and the intensity of each channel can be adjusted independently. Maximum output power up to approximately 1100 W has been achieved by master oscillator power amplifier structures. We also investigate the wavelength evolution experimentally considering the difference of gain competition, which may give a primary reference for kW-level high-power MWFL spectral manipulation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest output power ever reported for a programmable MWFL. Benefiting from its high power and flexible spectral manipulability, the proposed MWFL has great potential in versatile applications such as nonlinear frequency conversion and spectroscopy.
Associations of renal sinus fat with metabolic parameters, abdominal visceral adipose tissue, metabolic syndrome, fructose intake, and blood pressure control in obese individuals with hypertension: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Anvarifard Paniz , Anbari Maryam , Naemi Kermanshahi Mohammad , Ostadrahimi Alireza , Aliasgharzadeh Soghra , Ardalan Mohammadreza 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Renal sinus fat (RSF) crucially influences metabolic regulation, inflammation, and vascular function. We investigated the association between RSF accumulation, metabolic disorders, and nutritional status in obese individuals with hypertension. A cross-sectional study involved 51 obese hypertensive patients from Salamat Specialized Community Clinic (February–September 2022). Basic and clinical information were collected through interviews. Data included anthropometrics, blood pressure, number of antihypertensive medications, body composition (bioelectrical impedance analysis), dietary intake (semi-quantitative 147-item food frequency questionnaire), and blood samples. Renal sinus fat was measured via ultrasonography. Statistical analyses included Pearson correlation, binary logistic regression, and linear regression. RSF positively correlated with abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) area (P = 0.016), systolic blood pressure (SBP) (P = 0.004), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) (P = 0.005). A strong trend toward a positive association was observed between antihypertensive medications and RSF (P = 0.062). In linear regression, RSF was independently associated with abdominal VAT area, SBP, and DBP after adjusting for confounders. After considering other risk factors, RSF volume relates to prescribed antihypertensive medications, hypertension, and central fat accumulation in obese hypertensive subjects. These findings suggest the need for further investigations into whether RSF promotes metabolic disorders.
A fast radio burst monitor with a compact all-sky phased array (CASPA)
Authors: Luo Rui , Ekers Ron , Hobbs George , Dunning Alex , James Clancy , Lower Marcus , Gupta Vivek , Zic Andrew , Sokolowski Marcin , Phillips Chris , Deller Adam , Staveley-Smith Lister 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio transients that occur at random times in host galaxies distributed all over the sky. Large field of view instruments can play a critical role in the blind search for rare FRBs. We present a concept for an all-sky FRB monitor using a compact all-sky phased array (CASPA), which can efficiently achieve an extremely large field of view of

$\sim10^4$

square degrees. Such a system would allow us to conduct a continuous, blind FRB search covering the entire southern sky. Using the measured FRB luminosity function, we investigate the detection rate for this all-sky phased array and compare the result to a number of other proposed large field-of-view instruments. We predict a rate of a few FRB detections per week and determine the dispersion measure and redshift distributions of these detectable FRBs. This instrument is optimal for detecting FRBs in the nearby Universe and for extending the high-end of the FRB luminosity function through finding ultraluminous events. Additionally, this instrument can be used to shadow the new gravitational-wave observing runs, detect high-energy events triggered from Galactic magnetars and search for other bright, but currently unknown transient signals.
Selecting variable sources with median colours using a self-organising map
Authors: Venville Thomas , Capak Peter L. , Faisst Andreas L. , Lee Bomee , Thanjavur Karun G. , Flynn Chris 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
A key objective for upcoming surveys, and when re-analysing archival data, is the identification of variable stellar sources. However, the selection of these sources is often complicated by the unavailability of light curve data. Utilising a self-organising map (SOM), we demonstrate the selection of diverse variable source types from a catalogue of variable and non-variable SDSS Stripe 82 sources whilst employing only the median

$u-g$

,

$g-r$

,

$r-i$

, and

$i-z$

photometric colours for each source as input, without using source magnitudes. This includes the separation of main sequence variable stars that are otherwise degenerate with non-variable sources (

$u-g$

,

$g-r$

) and (

$r-i$

,

$i-z$

) colour-spaces. We separate variable sources on the main sequence from all other variable and non-variable sources with a purity of

$80.0\%$

and completeness of

$25.1\%$

, figures which can be modified depending on the application. We also explore the varying ability of the same method to simultaneously select other types of variable sources from the heterogeneous sample, including variable quasars and RR-Lyrae stars. The demonstrated ability of this method to select variable main sequence stars in colour-space holds promise for application in future survey reduction pipelines and for the analysis of archival data, where light curves may not be available or may be prohibitively expensive to obtain.
Cold War aviation: American technology transfer and the construction of Turkey's first international civilian airport in Yeşilköy, Istanbul, 1944–1953
Authors: Tunc Tanfer Emin , Tunc Gokhan 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
With the economic and political support of the United States, in July 1947, Turkey signed contracts with the Westinghouse Electric International Company and J.G. White Engineering Corporation to construct its first international civilian airport, Istanbul's Yeşilköy Airport. As this article will argue, the building of Yeşilköy (1949–53), through a partnership with two American engineering firms, is essentially an early Cold War narrative of transnational exchange involving the multidirectional flow of technical knowledge, expertise and resources between the United States and Turkey; the circulation of geopolitically significant (and frequently competing) military, civilian and government actors; and the local and global implications of these transmissions. Yet the Yeşilköy construction narrative also illustrates how post-war technology transfer was a highly political process of constant adaptation, modification and negotiation. Fraught with unforeseen friction and thorny challenges, Yeşilköy exemplifies the complicated American Cold War strategy of creating and maintaining alliances through engineering knowledge, personnel and practices, often with unintended consequences. Moreover, as a case study, Yeşilköy opens a new window into the cautious science diplomacy that occurred along the Iron Curtain, while filling a notable historiographic gap with respect to aviation in early Cold War Turkey.
Reconsidering Arnold J. Toynbee’s World History in Mid-Twentieth-Century Japan
Authors: Mizuno Ryoya 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Arnold J. Toynbee is considered one of the most crucial figures in the historiography of twentieth-century world history. Although Toynbee’s reputation has significantly waned since the 1950s among many professional historians in the English-speaking world, especially in Britain, some renowned world historians, such as William H. McNeill and Jürgen Osterhammel, have reassessed Toynbee as a pioneering European historian who envisaged world history beyond Eurocentrism since the emergence of the field of global and world history in the 1980s. This article reconsiders the global meaning of Toynbee’s world history beyond this historiographical narrative on Toynbee in the anglophone context by revealing that influential Japanese historians had already found significant potential in his world history in the mid-twentieth century, almost three decades before his reassessment in English-speaking academia. In particular, the article demonstrates how Japanese historians, such as Suzuki Shigetaka, Eguchi Bokurō, and Uehara Senroku, received Toynbee’s idea of world history with various motivations and historical contexts. The research also argues that, despite the differences in their receptive intentions and backgrounds, they interpreted Toynbee as a significant European intellectual who made a self-critique of conventional historical studies in Europe and demonstrated the possibility of rewriting world history beyond Eurocentric assumptions.
Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation
Authors: Ku Minseon , Finch Brian 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
How can we understand the audience agency and securitisation processes that can induce anxiety? The Copenhagen School of security studies conceptualises an audience as possessing political agency which is contingent on their capabilities to respond to securitising moves. Drawing on Anthony Giddens’s approach to ontological security, we argue that there is another type of agency supplementing political agency. Ontological agency refers to exercising control over the stability and continuity of one’s everyday routines and practices to minimise disruption to these routines caused by securitisation. Because routines of day-to-day life are central to bracketing sources of anxiety, people may choose to overlook and not react to securitising moves designating threats and implementing emergency measures that can undermine ontological security. We illustrate the analytical purchase of ontological agency by using unstructured observations of South Korean people’s responses to military practices that securitise North Korea. Our observations reveal that there is latent anxiety regarding North Korea that manifests in varying degrees ranging from inaction when routines are not disrupted by securitisation to outward bursts of emotional reactions and breakdown when securitisation practices disrupt people’s basic routines. This raises implications about the importance of ontological security driving the success or failure of securitisation and the politics of existentialism.
Poverty and Richness of Arguments in Lorenzo Valla
Authors: Mariani Zini Fosca 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
At first glance, in Valla’s thinking, his ‘poor’ conception of metaphysics seems to contrast with his appreciation of the ‘richness’ of rhetoric, as opposed to the indigence of dialectic. However, poverty can be understood in two senses: on the one hand, it designates a lack, even an insufficiency; on the other, it expresses the search for something simple, even essential. So, poverty, like nakedness (Séris 2021)1, is a concept with an opposite polarity. What is elementary can therefore be fundamental. Consequently, how can we understand, in Valla’s thought, the link between the ontological reduction of all transcendentals to the res and the opulence of rhetoric? To try to answer this question, this paper seeks to analyze the ambivalent nature of the opposition between poverty and wealth in order to reinterpret it in the opposition between simplicity and complexity. It is not certain that gain will be found on the side that we would expect to find it.
Insects and mycorrhizal fungi influence maternal seed provisioning in Senecio vulgaris
Authors: Chitty Ruth P. , Gange Alan C. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The performance of plants in any one generation can be influenced not just by the prevailing biotic and abiotic factors, but also by those factors experienced by the parental generation. These maternal effects have been recorded in an array of plant species, but most studies tend to focus on abiotic factors over two generations. Here we show that maternal effects in the annual forb Senecio vulgaris may be influenced by beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and insect herbivory over four successive generations. These effects were very much determined by seed provisioning, wherein C:N:P ratios were altered by both fungi and aphids. There was little evidence of epigenetic changes induced by the fungi or insects, instead the driving forces seemed to be allocation of N and P to the seeds. However, changes in seed chemistry were not cumulative over generations, often decreases in seed nutrient content were followed by recovery in subsequent generations. The changes in seed stoichiometry can have important consequences for viability, germination and subsequent seedling growth rates. We conclude that studies of maternal effects need to be conducted over multiple generations, and also need to be multifactorial, involving variation in abiotic factors such as water and nutrients, combined with biotic factors.
Essential covers of the hypercube require many hyperplanes
Authors: Sauermann Lisa , Xu Zixuan 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
We prove a new lower bound for the almost 20-year-old problem of determining the smallest possible size of an essential cover of the

$n$

-dimensional hypercube

$\{\pm 1\}^n$

, that is, the smallest possible size of a collection of hyperplanes that forms a minimal cover of

$\{\pm 1\}^n$

and such that, furthermore, every variable appears with a non-zero coefficient in at least one of the hyperplane equations. We show that such an essential cover must consist of at least

$10^{-2}\cdot n^{2/3}/(\log n)^{2/3}$

hyperplanes, improving previous lower bounds of Linial–Radhakrishnan, of Yehuda–Yehudayoff, and of Araujo–Balogh–Mattos.