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Effect of Mind-Body Approaches on Menopausal Symptoms among Women: A Community-Based Pilot Study
Authors: Thomas Timi , Kamath Neetha , Kumar Ajay , D’Silva Fatima 
Published: January 2021

Abstract
Introduction The process of women aging is characterized by a gradual transition from reproductive to nonreproductive life period. These changes in aging during menopause are accompanied by a wide range of physiological as well as psychological disturbing symptoms. The traditional therapeutic approach toward menopause management is hormone replacement therapy, which increases the risk of breast cancer, stroke, and coronary heart disease. However, the efficacy of complementary and alternative therapies like mind-body approach to troublesome hot flashes, anxiety, and depression is widely proven and it is used by many women. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the mind-body approach on menopausal symptoms among women.
Methods A quantitative research approach with quasi-experimental pretest–post-test design was adopted in the study. A total of 20 samples between the ages of 48 to 55 years with menopausal symptoms were the participants. The intervention of mind body approach (Mindfulness meditation) was performed for 8 weeks, which includes 35 minutes of session per day.
Results The majority (80%) of the participants were in the age group of 51 to 53 years and 50% of the participants attained menopause between 49 and 50 years. The results showed that the mean post-test menopausal symptom score was 15.60 ± 2.633 which was lower than the mean pretest score 28.420 ± 1.476 and the calculated t-value, t = 10.157 is greater than the table value (p < 0.001) at 0.001 level of significance. Hence, it is evident that the practice of mind-body approach was effective in reducing the intensity of menopausal symptoms among women.
Conclusion The study concludes that the practice of mind-body approach helped in reducing the menopausal symptoms on the domain of psychological and Somato vegetative scale like anxiety, depression, reduction in the intensity of hot flushes, and improved the sleeping pattern. Overall, the practice of Mindfulness meditation helped the participants to have a better quality of life. The study was found to be cost-effective and feasible to be made as a routine intervention for women to manage menopausal symptoms.
Transdisciplinary participatory-action-research from questions to actionable knowledge for sustainable viticulture development
Authors: Masson Jean E. , Soustre-Gacougnolle Isabelle , Perrin Mireille , Schmitt Carine , Henaux Mélanie , Jaugey Caroline , Teillet Emma , Lollier Marc , Lallemand Jean-François , Schermesser Frederic ,   GIEE Westhalten, Isner P. , Schaeffer P. , Koehler C. , Rominger C. , Boesch M. , Rué P. , Miclo Y. , Bursin A. , Dauer E. , Hetsch J. M. , Burgenath M. , Bauer J. , Breuzard M. , Muré V. , Cousin F. , Lassablière R. 
Published: January 2021

AbstractViticulture negatively impacts the environment, biodiversity, and human health; however, despite the widely acknowledged challenges that this intensive agricultural activity poses to sustainable development, measures to reduce its invasiveness are constantly being deferred or rebuffed. Constraints to change are linked to vine cultivation methods, the impacts of climate change on vine resilience and disease sensitivity, and socio-economic models, as well as growing criticisms from society. Research and training have thus far failed to provide solutions or mobilise stakeholders on a large scale. Such resistance to sustainable practices development calls into question the effectiveness of knowledge production systems and relations between scientists, winegrowers, and society: Have scientific disciplines overly isolated themselves from each other and from the wider society to the point of losing the capacity to incorporate alternative forms of knowledge and reasoning and achieve collaborative action? Herein, we describe our findings from a participatory action research project that began in Westhalten, France, in 2013 and ultimately spread to Switzerland and Germany over the next 6 years. We show that participatory action research can mobilise long-term collaborations between winegrowers, NGOs, advisers, elected officials, members of civil society, and researchers, despite differing visions of viticulture and the environment. The epistemological framework of this research promotes consensus-building by valuing complexity and dissensus in knowledge and reasoning such that all actors are involved in experimentation and the production of results. From these findings, consensus statements were collectively elaborated in qualitative and quantitative registers. Once acknowledged by the scientific community, these consensus statements became shareable knowledge. We propose that this renewed interdisciplinarity associating the human and social sciences with agronomic and biological sciences in collaboration with stakeholders produces actionable knowledge that mobilises and engages winegrowers to conceive and implement sustainable viticulture on a transnational scale.
AI-assisted peer review
Authors: Checco Alessandro , Bracciale Lorenzo , Loreti Pierpaolo , Pinfield Stephen , Bianchi Giuseppe 
Published: January 2021

AbstractThe scientific literature peer review workflow is under strain because of the constant growth of submission volume. One response to this is to make initial screening of submissions less time intensive. Reducing screening and review time would save millions of working hours and potentially boost academic productivity. Many platforms have already started to use automated screening tools, to prevent plagiarism and failure to respect format requirements. Some tools even attempt to flag the quality of a study or summarise its content, to reduce reviewers’ load. The recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) create the potential for (semi) automated peer review systems, where potentially low-quality or controversial studies could be flagged, and reviewer-document matching could be performed in an automated manner. However, there are ethical concerns, which arise from such approaches, particularly associated with bias and the extent to which AI systems may replicate bias. Our main goal in this study is to discuss the potential, pitfalls, and uncertainties of the use of AI to approximate or assist human decisions in the quality assurance and peer-review process associated with research outputs. We design an AI tool and train it with 3300 papers from three conferences, together with their reviews evaluations. We then test the ability of the AI in predicting the review score of a new, unobserved manuscript, only using its textual content. We show that such techniques can reveal correlations between the decision process and other quality proxy measures, uncovering potential biases of the review process. Finally, we discuss the opportunities, but also the potential unintended consequences of these techniques in terms of algorithmic bias and ethical concerns.
An approach to integrate population mobility patterns and sociocultural factors in communicable disease preparedness and response
Authors: Merrill Rebecca D. , Chabi Ali Imorou Bah , McIntyre Elvira , Kouassi Jules Venance , Alleby Martial Monney , Codja Corrine , Tante Ouyi , Martial Godjedo Togbemabou Primous , Kone Idriss , Ward Sarah , Agbeko Tamekloe Tsidi , Kakaı Clement Glèlè 
Published: January 2021

AbstractComplex human movement patterns driven by a range of economic, health, social, and environmental factors influence communicable disease spread. Further, cross-border movement impacts disparate public health systems of neighboring countries, making an effective response to disease importation or exportation more challenging. Despite the array of quantitative techniques and social science approaches available to analyze movement patterns, there continues to be a dearth of methods within the applied public health setting to gather and use information about community-level mobility dynamics. Population Connectivity Across Borders (PopCAB) is a rapidly-deployable toolkit to characterize multisectoral movement patterns through community engagement using focus group discussions or key informant interviews, each with participatory mapping, and apply the results to tailor preparedness and response strategies. The Togo and Benin Ministries of Health (MOH), in collaboration with the Abidjan Lagos Corridor Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adapted and applied PopCAB to inform cross-border preparedness and response strategies for multinational Lassa fever outbreaks. Initially, the team implemented binational, national-level PopCAB activities in March 2017, highlighting details about a circular migration pathway across northern Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. After applying those results to respond to a cross-border Lassa fever outbreak in February 2018, the team designed an expanded PopCAB initiative in April 2018. In eight days, they trained 54 MOH staff who implemented 21 PopCAB focus group discussions in 14 cities with 224 community-level participants representing six stakeholder groups. Using the newly-identified 167 points of interest and 176 routes associated with a circular migration pathway across Togo, Benin, and Nigeria, the Togo and Benin MOH refined their cross-border information sharing and collaboration processes for Lassa fever and other communicable diseases, selected health facilities with increased community connectivity for enhanced training, and identified techniques to better integrate traditional healers in surveillance and community education strategies. They also integrated the final toolkit in national- and district-level public health preparedness plans. Integrating PopCAB in public health practice to better understand and accommodate population movement patterns can help countries mitigate the international spread of disease in support of improved global health security and International Health Regulations requirements.
Frequency properties of a flexible printed circuit coil and inductive measurement of conductivity
Authors: Cheng Weiying , Hashizume Hidetoshi 
Published: January 2021

This study investigated the frequency properties of a flexible printed circuit (FPC) coil and applied it to detect conductivity change of non-ferromagnetic metal materials. Theoretical analysis and measurements showed that the coil’s resistance and inductance are almost frequency-invariant in a particular frequency range; the coil circuit resonates at its self-resonant frequency. With no concern for its thickness, the conductivity of a test object can be measured with high sensitivity and accuracy by using the coil in its frequency-invariant range, based on the “same ωσ, same impedance” principle. In the case that the influence of thickness has to be eliminated, the variation of conductivity can be sensitively detected by using the coil’s resonant properties. The proposed methods have been verified with measurement of standard test pieces whose conductivities were given in advance, and applied to detect conductivity change of deteriorated tube.
Thickness dependence of spin torque effect in Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junction: Implementation of divide-and-conquer with first-principles calculation
Authors: Huang Bao-Huei , Chao Chia-Chia , Tang Yu-Hui 
Published: January 2021

In this study, we develop a divide-and-conquer (DC) method under the framework of first-principles calculation to prevent directly solving Hamiltonian of a large device with time-consuming self-consistent process. The DC implementation combined with JunPy package reveals the oscillatory decay of layer-resolved spin torques away from the MgO/Fe interface, and suggests a very thin Fe layer thickness below 2 nm to preserve the efficient current-driven magnetization switch. This newly developed JunPy-DC calculation may efficiently resolve current self-consistent difficulties in noncollinear spin torque effects for novel spintronic applications with complex magnetic heterostructures.
Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts
Authors: Kubin Emily , Puryear Curtis , Schein Chelsea , Gray Kurt 
Published: January 2021

Significance
All Americans are affected by rising political polarization, whether because of a gridlocked Congress or antagonistic holiday dinners. People believe that facts are essential for earning the respect of political adversaries, but our research shows that this belief is wrong. We find that sharing personal experiences about a political issue—especially experiences involving harm—help to foster respect via increased perceptions of rationality. This research provides a straightforward pathway for increasing moral understanding and decreasing political intolerance. These findings also raise questions about how science and society should understand the nature of truth in the era of “fake news.” In moral and political disagreements, everyday people treat subjective experiences as truer than objective facts.
Anomalous influenza seasonality in the United States and the emergence of novel influenza B viruses
Authors: Borchering Rebecca K. , Gunning Christian E. , Gokhale Deven V. , Weedop K. Bodie , Saeidpour Arash , Brett Tobias S. , Rohani Pejman 
Published: January 2021

Significance
Influenza A viruses are known for persistent change that allows them to reinfect individuals. Recently, influenza B viruses have shown accelerated rates of evolutionary change, but their epidemiological consequences are not understood. We use quantitative methods to explore whether the unusually early start of the US 2019/2020 influenza B season relates to changes in the structure of influenza B/Victoria viruses. A combination of simulation studies and model-fitting exercises demonstrate that atypical 2019 influenza dynamics are better explained by changes in virus transmissibility and population susceptibility than by a competitive interaction between influenza A and B. Anticipating the timing of influenza A and influenza B epidemics could improve vaccination schedules, so that individuals have protection throughout the influenza season.
Soils.
Authors: Whalen Joann 
Published: January 2021

Abstract

Field-grown horticultural crops are rooted in the soil, a layer of fragmented rocks and decomposing organic matter that provides the physical support as well as most of the water and essential nutrients for crop growth. The soil's ability to buffer chemical reactions controls the supply of nutrients to crops and binds inorganic salts, trace metals and organic compounds that could prove potentially toxic to crops. Soil is also home to a myriad of microorganisms and soil fauna, many of which prove beneficial to the growth of horticultural crops.
The Costs of Going Global
Authors: Stobb Maureen 
Published: January 2021

AbstractSupreme Court influence depends greatly on the responses of lower court judges to its precedent. Justices employ numerous strategies to obtain lower court deference to their decisions, including the provocative practice of relying upon foreign law. Referred to as “constitutional cross-fertilization” when used in constitutional interpretation, this practice is labeled by critics as a threat to American democracy. Research suggests that the Court uses such references strategically to prop up controversial and ideologically charged decisions, and that they obtain a benefit in the form of increased citations. These studies do not tell us if the Court gains lower court deference. I contend that, in constitutional cases, lower court judges will not find reliance upon such sources persuasive; rather, they will regard these references with disdain. My findings support my argument. Contrary to the justices’ intentions, reliance upon foreign law in constitutional cases is associated with an increased probability of negative, as opposed to positive, treatment. Justices incur significant costs from participating in the global rights dialogue.
Agenda Setting and Attention to Precedent in the US Federal Courts
Authors: Duck-Mayr JBrandon , Hansford Thomas G. , Spriggs James F. 
Published: January 2021

AbstractTo what degree is judicial agenda setting top-down or bottom-up? Existing studies lack evidence of the frequency or magnitude of these two processes. We conceptualize the judicial agenda as the legal questions/rules receiving judicial attention, measure it using citations to Supreme Court opinions, and estimate vector autoregression models to identify how each level of court initiates or responds to variation in attention to precedent at other levels of the judiciary. The Supreme Court exerts some top-down control, but agenda setting is more often bottom-up, revealing lower courts are more integral to setting the federal judicial agenda than previously understood.
Non-perturbative quantum corrections to a Born–Infeld black hole and its information geometry
Authors: Pourhassan Behnam , Dehghani Mohsen , Faizal Mir , Dey Sanjib 
Published: January 2021

Abstract
We study the non-perturbative quantum corrections to a Born–Infeld black hole in a spherical cavity. These quantum corrections produce a non-trivial short distances modification to the relation between the entropy and area of this black hole. The non-perturbative quantum correction appears as an exponential term in the black hole entropy. This in turn modifies the thermodynamics of a given system, for example reduced value of the Helmholtz free energy. Moreover, the first law of black hole thermodynamics modified due to quantum corrections. We also investigate the effect of such non-perturbative corrections on the information geometry of this system. This is done using some famous information metrics.
Neutrino invisible decay at DUNE: a multi-channel analysis
Authors: Ghoshal Anish , Giarnetti Alessio , Meloni Davide 
Published: January 2021

Abstract
The hypothesis of the decay of neutrino mass eigenstates leads to a substantial modification of the appearance and disappearance probabilities of flavor eigenstates. We investigate the impact on the standard oscillation scenario caused by the decay of the heaviest mass eigenstate ν
3 (with a mass m
3 and a mean life τ
3) to a sterile state in deep underground neutrino experiment. We find that the lower bound of 5.1 × 10−11 s eV−1 at 90% confidence level on the decay parameter τ
3/m
3 can be set if the neutral current data are included in the analysis, thus providing the best long-baseline expected limit so far. We also show that the ν

τ
appearance channel would give only a negligible contribution to the decay parameter constraints. Our numerical results are corroborated by analytical formulae for the appearance and disappearance probabilities in vacuum (which is a useful approximation for the study of the invisible decay model) that we have developed up to the second order in the solar mass splitting and to all orders in the decay factor t/τ
3.
Nano-sized composite improving the insulating performance of insulating paper using low-temperature plasmas
Authors: Wu Shilin , Zhang Cheng , Zhang Chuansheng , Yu Weixin , Yang Qing , Shao Tao 
Published: January 2021

Abstract
Nanostructured dielectric composite has been considered as a promising manner in improving the flashover performance of oil-paper which has been widely used in power systems. In this paper, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is used to deposit SiO2 on the ceramic fiber-reinforced insulating paper. Scanning electron microscope images show a large number of SiO2 nanoparticles with diameters of 100 nm–250 nm uniformly attached to the fiber surface after the plasma deposition. The surface flashover voltage of the insulating paper was tested in the air and the transformer oil, respectively. Results show that the corresponding DC surface flashover voltages increased by 15.1% in the air and breakdown between liquid and solid interface increased by 24.6% after the PECVD. It is believed that nanoparticles constructed in ceramic fibers change the electron injection barrier which inhibits the injection of negative charges and hinders the accumulation of charges in the dielectric. Nanoparticles can capture electric charges formed in the transformer oil which affects the generation and development of streamers, resulting in an increased dielectric strength. This study provides a new method to comprehensively improve the surface insulating property which has the prospect of promoting other dielectric materials.
Ice-templated hybrid graphene oxide—graphene nanoplatelet lamellar architectures: tuning mechanical and electrical properties
Authors: Yang Pei , Tontini Gustavo , Wang Jiacheng , Kinloch Ian A , Barg Suelen 
Published: January 2021

Abstract
The traditional freeze-casting route for processing graphene-based aerogels is generally restricted to aqueously dispersed flakes of graphene oxide (GO) and post-processing reduction treatments, which brings restrictions to the aerogels electrical properties. In this work, we report a versatile aqueous processing route that uses the ability of GO todisperse graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) to produce rGO-GNP lamellar aerogels via unidirectional freeze-casting. In order to optimise the properties of the aerogel, GO-GNP dispersions were partially reduced by L-ascorbic acid prior to freeze-casting to tune the carbon and oxygen (C/O) ratio. The aerogels were then heat treated after casting to fully reduce the GO. The chemical reduction time was found to control the microstructure of the resulting aeorgels and thus to tune their electrical and mechanical properties. An rGO-GNP lamellar aerogel with density of 20.8 ± 0.8 mg cm−3 reducing using a reduction of 60 min achieved an electrical conductivity of 42.3 S m−1. On the other hand, an optimal reduction time of 35 min led to an aerogel with compressive modulus of 0.51 ±0.06 MPa at a density of 23.2 ± 0.7 mg cm−3, revealing a compromise between the tuning of electrical and mechanical properties. We show the present processing route can also be easily applied to produce lamellar aerogels on other graphene-based materials such as electrochemically exfoliated graphene.
Loschmidt echo singularities as dynamical signatures of strongly localized phases
Authors: Benini Leonardo , Naldesi Piero , Römer Rudolf A , Roscilde Tommaso 
Published: January 2021

Abstract
Quantum localization (single-body or many-body) comes with the emergence of local conserved quantities—whose conservation is precisely at the heart of the absence of transport through the system. In the case of fermionic systems and S = 1/2 spin models, such conserved quantities take the form of effective two-level systems, called l-bits. While their existence is the defining feature of localized phases, their direct experimental observation remains elusive. Here we show that strongly localized l-bits bear a dramatic universal signature, accessible to state-of-the-art quantum simulators, in the form of periodic cusp singularities in the Loschmidt echo following a quantum quench from a Néel/charge-density-wave state. Such singularities are perfectly captured by a simple model of Rabi oscillations of an ensemble of independent two-level systems, which also reproduces the short-time behavior of the entanglement entropy and the imbalance dynamics. In the case of interacting localized phases, the dynamics at longer times shows a sharp crossover to a faster decay of the Loschmidt echo singularities, offering an experimentally accessible signature of the interactions between l-bits.