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Growing Your Own Food and Dietary Quality: Results from a Survey
Authors: Drescher Larissa , Grebitus Carola 
Published: November 2024

SummaryCommunity and home gardens offer citizens the opportunity to grow their own food. Growing your own food has many benefits for personal, community, and environmental health. Our study tests whether the common assumption that improved access to food and nutrition through growing one's own food is in fact linked to better diets. Our study tests how growing food at home, at community gardens or in both locations changes growers’ dietary quality applying different indexes. The Healthy Food Diversity Index and the Berry‐Index are used as proxies to measure dietary quality, while a consumption of produce indicator is used as a straightforward measure of a healthy diet. We find that growing your own food at home and at community gardens is associated with the highest fruit and vegetable consumption while not growing any food is associated with the lowest amount of produce consumption. Overall, results show that growing food is associated with higher dietary quality values which could indicate that home and community gardens would be beneficial for individuals’ health. The identified negative association between not growing any food and diet quality might highlight the need to foster food‐growing programmes at community gardens, at home gardens, or even at both locations.
Greenwashing: A systematic literature review
Authors: Huang Zhen , Shi Yanxuan , Jia Ming 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThis systematic review provides a comprehensive overview of greenwashing through an analysis of 180 academic articles published in 58 journals from 1997 to 2023. The review examines the fragmented definitions, measurements, and manifestations of greenwashing. Furthermore, a framework of greenwashing was developed by systematically reviewing the motivations and outcomes of greenwashing and its mediators and moderators at both the firm level and the external level. Finally, the review highlights three directions for future research on greenwashing, offering useful guidance for future academic studies, government policy, and corporate practice.
Competitive or crowding‐out? Estimating spillover effects from large‐scale farms on smallholders in China
Authors: Qian Wenrong , Li Dandan , Shi Xinjie 
Published: November 2024

AbstractDrawing on data from the Chinese Family Database for 2015, 2017, and 2019, this study employed the difference‐in‐differences method to examine the spillover effects of large‐scale farms (LSFs) on smallholders. The findings confirmed that LSFs positively affect smallholder household income and nonfarm income. The mechanisms verified that LSFs increase the nonfarm income of smallholders, primarily through the transfer out of their land. Additionally, we found that vulnerable groups—such as households with a lower proportion of the labor force, a lower proportion of members in good health, and lower total education years of the labor force—are more likely to be crowded out. Additionally, the study confirmed that LSFs steal the market from smallholders, precipitating a slightly negative competitive effect. These findings have important policy implications for developing countries implementing the LSF policy and for countries where smallholders suffer from livelihood issues.
Does agricultural cooperative membership improve farm productive performance? A meta‐regression analysis
Authors: Ayouba Kassoum , Duvivier Chloé , Bussière Claire 
Published: November 2024

AbstractIn this article, we provide a quantitative review of the literature on the effect of cooperative membership on farms productive performance. Based on a dataset composed of 332 estimates from 80 studies, our meta‐regression analysis suggests that the current literature suffers from a severe positive publication bias. After correcting this bias, the overall average effect of cooperative membership on farms' productive performance is positive and statistically significant, but its magnitude is small to negligible. Interestingly, we find that cooperative membership has a stronger effect on yield than on technical efficiency. We also explore how contextual variables and methodological choices affect the reported estimates in the literature.
Bigger versus smaller: Children's understanding of size comparison words becomes more precise with age
Authors: Ferry Alissa L. , Corcoran Mia G. , Williams Emily , Curtis Sheila M. , Gale Cathryn J. , Twomey Katherine E. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThe ability to compare plays a key role in how humans learn, but words that describe relations between objects, like comparisons, are difficult to learn. We examined how children learn size comparison words, and how their interpretations of these change across development. One‐hundred‐and‐forty children in England (36–107 months; 68 girls; majority White) were asked to build block structures that were bigger, longer, smaller, shorter, or taller than an experimenter's. Children were most successful with words that refer to size increases. Younger children were less accurate with smaller and shorter, often building bigger structures. The dimensional aspect of taller emerged gradually. These findings suggest that children's interpretation of the meaning of size comparison words changes and becomes more precise across development.
Distribution of Australian dental practices in relation to residential aged care facilities: A geographic analysis
Authors: Kamil Wisam , Kruger Estie , Jean Gillian , Tennant Marc 
Published: November 2024

ObjectivesLimited access to oral health services contributes to poor oral health in institutionalised older adults. The objective of this study was to map and analyse the distribution of residential age‐care facilities (RACFs) in relation to dental practices across Australia.MethodsAge‐care data were sourced from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The data were categorised according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics remoteness index in each state and territory, defined by a geographic coordinate system. The structure of remoteness area data was integrated into RACF data using a geographic information system. Buffer analysis in QGIS was employed to calculate the buffer distance surrounding RACFs by identifying dental practices relative to a measuring distance.ResultsIn total, Australia had 2718 RACFs and 7379 dental practices (both private 95.5% and public 4.5%). In all States, more than a third of metropolitan RACFs were within accessible reach of a private practice (ranging from 37% of RACFs in NSW to 55% in WA). However, proximity to public clinics was low, ranging from only 4% (WA) to 9% (QLD). More than one‐fifth of metropolitan RACFs in NSW, QLD, WA and ACT (ranging from 20% to 24%) were not within accessible proximity of either a public or private dental clinic/practice. While more than 70% of RACFs in regional and remote Australia are reasonably close to dental practices, areas with inadequate access exist, with the highest percentage recorded in WA (6%).ConclusionEnsuring an equitable distribution of dental practices relative to RACFs is crucial in bridging the service access gap in underserved areas.
Role of TRPV channels in texture discrimination during Bactrocera dorsalis egg‐laying behaviour
Authors: Huang Zhong‐nian , Guo Feng‐yi , Li Zi‐yuan , Lu Yong‐yue , Qi Yi‐xiang 
Published: November 2024

AbstractDeciding where to lay an egg is critical for the survival of insects' offspring. Compared with our understanding of the chemosensory assessment of egg‐laying sites, the mechanisms of texture detection are largely unknown. Here, we show that Bactrocera dorsalis, a notoriously agricultural pest laying its eggs within ripening fruits, can discriminate substrate texture during the egg‐laying process. Exposure to drugs targeting transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV) mechanosensory channels abolished their oviposition preference for hard textures. BdorNan and BdorIav are two members of the TRPV subfamily, and their transcripts were detected in the labellum, the foreleg tarsi and the ovipositor. Then, we successfully obtained knockout strains of each gene using the CRISPR/Cas9 technique. The results showed that BdorNan is required for the discrimination of stiffness difference. BdorIav knockout had no significant effect on the ability of B. dorsalis to choose harder substrates. Our study thus reveals that BdorNan plays a substantial role in the texture assessment of egg‐laying behaviour in B. dorsalis.
Are SNPs Linked to Somatic Cell Score Suitable Markers for the Susceptibility to Specific Mastitis Pathogens in Holstein Cows?
Authors: Müller U. , Strucken E. M. , Gao J. , Rahmatalla S. , Korkuć P. , Reissmann M. , Brockmann G. A. 
Published: November 2024

ABSTRACTMastitis in cattle is often caused by microorganism infections in the udder. The three most common pathogens are esculin‐positive streptococci (SC+), coagulase‐negative staphylococci (CNS), and Escherichia coli (E. coli). In a previous study, 10 SNPs were associated with somatic cell score and mastitis in diverse Holstein populations. We tested these SNPs for their effects on individual pathogen presence. Milk and pathogen samples of 3076 Holstein cows were collected from four farms. Samples were excluded if multiple pathogens were present at the same time. Records of the same pathogen within 14 days of each other were counted as one infection. This resulted in 1129 pathogen‐positive samples. Cases and controls were in ratios of 20:80 for SC+, 8:92 for CNS, and 11:89 for E. coli. The lasso, backward, and forward methods were used to narrow down SNPs associated with pathogen presence. The suitability of the SNPs to separate the samples into cases or controls for each pathogen was indicated using ROC curves. The Cochran‐Armitage (CAT) and the Jonckheere‐Terpstra (JTT) tests evaluated the influence of the SNPs on pathogen presence. Finally, a generalised linear mixed model (GLMM) including fixed environmental effects and a random sire effect was fitted to the binary trait of pathogen presence to test for association. In total, six out of the 10 investigated SNPs showed associations with pathogen presence based on the forward method: Two SNPs each for SC+ (rs41588957, rs41257403) and CNS (rs109934030, rs109441194), and three for E. coli (rs109934030, rs41634110, rs41636878). The CAT and GTT tests linked four SNPs (rs41588957, rs41634110, rs109441194, rs41636878) to pathogen presence, two of which were confirmed with the GLMM (rs41634110, rs109441194), with effects on CNS and E. coli. The SNPs linked to CNS and those linked to E. coli explained 13.2% and 13.8% of the variance, compared to 19% and 18.4%, respectively, of the full model with all 10 SNPs. Half of the SNP genotypes previously linked to lower SCS also decreased the probability for pathogen presence and might therefore be targets not just for lower SCS but for a better pathogen resistance.Trial Registration: Not applicable, no new data were collected for this study.
Gut microbiome‐targeted therapies as adjuvant treatments in inflammatory bowel diseases: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis
Authors: Zhang Tao , Li Xiaoang , Li Jun , Sun Feng , Duan Liping 
Published: November 2024

AbstractBackground and AimGut microbiome‐targeted therapies (MTTs), including prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), have been widely used in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), but the best MTTs has not yet been confirmed. We performed a network meta‐analysis (NMA) to examine this in ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD).MethodsWe searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the efficacy and safety of MTTs as adjuvant therapies for IBD until December 10, 2023. Data were pooled using a random effects model, with efficacy reported as pooled relative risks with 95% CIs, and interventions ranked according to means of surfaces under cumulative ranking values.ResultsThirty‐eight RCTs met the inclusion criteria. Firstly, we compared the efficacy of MTTs in IBD patients. Only FMT and probiotics were superior to placebo in all outcomes, but FMT ranked best in improving clinical response rate and clinical and endoscopic remission rate, and probiotics ranked second in reducing clinical relapse rate showed significant efficacy, while prebiotics ranked first showed nonsignificant efficacy. Subsequently, we conducted NMA for specific MTT formulations in UC and CD separately, which revealed that FMT, especially combined FMT via colonoscopy and enema, showed significant efficacy and was superior in improving clinical response and remission rate of active UC patients. As for endoscopic remission and clinical relapse, multistrain probiotics based on specific genera of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium showed significant efficacy and ranked best in UC. In CD, we found that no MTTs were significantly better than placebo, but synbiotics comprising Bifidobacterium and fructo‐oligosaccharide/inulin mix and Saccharomyces ranked best in improving clinical remission and reducing clinical relapse, respectively. Moreover, FMT was safe in both UC and CD.ConclusionsFMT and multistrain probiotics showed superior efficacy in UC. However, the efficacy of MTTs varies among different IBD subtypes and disease stages; thus, the personalized treatment strategies of MTTs are necessary.
Correlation of serum chloride concentrations with components of the renin‐angiotensin‐aldosterone system in a dog with congestive heart failure
Authors: Banken Cailey , Harris Autumn N. , Conway Rachel , Benjamin Eduardo J. , Shoemaker Robin , Adin Darcy 
Published: November 2024

AbstractA 7‐year‐old male castrated Cavalier King Charles Spaniel was hospitalized for 12 days for treatment of severe congestive heart failure secondary to myxomatous mitral valve disease. During that time, 6 serum samples from different days were analyzed for serum biochemical and renin‐angiotensin‐aldosterone system components. Serum chloride concentrations (ranging from 71.6 to 103.1 mmol/L) were inversely related to angiotensin I concentrations, aldosterone concentrations, a surrogate marker of renin activity, and a surrogate marker of adrenal responsiveness to angiotensin II. In light of recent studies showing that hypochloremia is associated with advanced heart failure in dogs and is associated with poor outcomes in people, the information from the dog in this report supports exploration of RAAS dysregulation as an underlying mechanism.
Long‐run Effects of Austerity: An Analysis of Size Dependence and Persistence in Fiscal Multipliers
Authors: Klein Martins Guilherme 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThis paper provides evidence that austerity shocks have long‐run negative effects on GDP. Our baseline results show that contractionary fiscal shocks larger than 3% of GDP generate a negative effect of more than 5.5% on GDP even after 15 years. Evidence is also found linking austerity to smaller capital stock and total hours worked in the long‐run. The results are robust to different fiscal shock datasets, the exclusion of particular shocks, and the use of cleaner controls. The paper also engages with the emerging discussion regarding fiscal multipliers heterogeneity, presenting evidence that the effects of exogenous fiscal measures are nonlinear on the shock size. The results also contribute to the broader discussion on the long‐run effects of demand by suggesting that such shocks might permanently affect the economy.
Assessment of parental self‐efficacy in managing child food‐induced anaphylaxis and using adrenaline autoinjectors
Authors: Polloni Laura , Baldi Ileana , Bianconi Sara , Amadi Margherita , Tonazzo Valentina , Bonaguro Roberta , Lazzarotto Francesca , Toniolo Alice , Morandini Laura , Schiavo Rossana , Muraro Antonella 
Published: November 2024

AbstractBackgroundAnaphylaxis is a life‐threatening allergic reaction, associated with mental health burden in patients and caregivers. Intramuscular adrenaline via autoinjector (AAI) is the recommended treatment for the management of anaphylaxis in non‐hospital settings; however, AAIs are underused. This study aimed to assess parental self‐efficacy in managing child's anaphylaxis and administering AAI to understand how to effectively support families.MethodsSeventy‐five parents of children with severe food allergy completed a questionnaire to measure parental self‐efficacy in managing child food‐induced anaphylaxis (PSEMA). We conducted an exploratory factor analysis with 12 items, using principal axis factoring as the extraction method. We used Cronbach's alpha to assess the internal consistency of the factors. We used the Anderson–Rubin approach to estimate the factors' scores and provide a kernel density estimate of their distributions. An assessment through linear regression between the total factors' score and total score was performed.ResultsA five‐factor model was identified. The factors that emerged were conceptually related to “F1. Manage Injection,” “F2. Manage AAI Device,” “F3. Manage Anaphylaxis,” “F4. Manage Emergency,” and “F5. Manage Emotions.” The questionnaire demonstrated high internal consistency, with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.91 (95% CI: 0.87–0.94) The variation in the total score explained 90% of the variation in the factor score.ConclusionsThe PSEMA questionnaire promises to be an easy and effective tool for measuring parents' self‐efficacy in managing anaphylaxis and AAI, allowing clinicians to identify gaps in education and provide effective training.
Age‐related differences of the time‐varying features in the brain functional connectivity and cognitive aging
Authors: Yao Furong , Zhao Ziyang , Wang Yin , Li Tongtong , Chen Miao , Yao Zhijun , Jiao Jin , Hu Bin 
Published: November 2024

AbstractBrain functional modular organization changes with age. Considering the brain as a dynamic system, recent studies have suggested that time‐varying connectivity provides more information on brain functions. However, the spontaneous reconfiguration of modular brain structures over time during aging remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the age‐related dynamic modular reconfiguration using resting‐state functional MRI data (615 participants, aged 18–88 years) from Cam‐CAN. We employed a graph‐based modularity analysis to investigate modular variability and the transition of nodes from one module to another in modular brain networks across the adult lifespan. Results showed that modular structure exhibits both linear and nonlinear age‐related trends. The modular variability is higher in early and late adulthood, with higher modular variability in the association networks and lower modular variability in the primary networks. In addition, the whole‐brain transition matrix showed that the times of transition from other networks to the dorsal attention network were the largest. Furthermore, the modular structure was closely related to the number of cognitive components and memory‐related cognitive performance, suggesting a potential contribution to flexibility cognitive function. Our findings highlighted the notable dynamic characteristics in large‐scale brain networks across the adult lifespan, which enhanced our understanding of the neural substrate in various cognitions during aging. These findings also provided further evidence that dedifferentiation and compensation are the outcomes of functional brain interactions.
Presumed calcific band keratopathy in a 10‐month‐old domestic shorthair cat
Authors: Ferruz‐Fernandez Marta , Ripolles‐Garcia Ana , Caro‐Suarez Miriam , Latre‐Moreno Almudena , Jimenez‐Ramos Laura , Rodriguez‐Gavilan Maria Paloma , Naranjo Carolina , Laguna Fernando , Villagrasa Manuel 
Published: November 2024

AbstractObjectiveTo describe a case of presumed band keratopathy in a young cat with no known history of corneal disease who was not receiving topical phosphate‐based steroids.Animal StudiedA 10‐month‐old domestic shorthair cat was evaluated for severe ocular discomfort that did not improve despite the initiation of topical antibiotic treatment.MethodsA complete ophthalmic examination and ancillary tests such as biomicroscopy and corneal cytology were performed at the time of presentation. A superficial lamellar keratectomy was excised, and the corneal button was sent for histopathology. In addition to routine hematoxylin–eosin staining, sections were stained with Gram, PAS, von Kossa, and trichrome stains.ResultsBiomicroscopic examination revealed an extensive corneal epithelial ulcer with a hard white plaque in the central area of the right cornea with associated superficial neovascularization. Ultrasound biomicroscopy showed a 0.63 mm, slightly hyperechoic band in the anterior corneal stroma. Corneal cytology evidenced numerous neutrophils with toxic changes and few macrophages. Histopathologic analysis excluded corneal sequestration as a differential diagnosis and confirmed superficial corneal mineralization. At the last follow‐up, 16 months after surgery, corneal transparency had returned, and visual acuity was good with some corneal conjunctivalization.ConclusionsIn this case report, the presumptive diagnosis is calcific band keratopathy. To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the first presumed case in a cat not receiving topical phosphate‐based steroids and without previous corneal damage. Lamellar keratectomy represents a curative approach that successfully resolved the clinical signs, with no reported recurrence.
The novel use of a sub‐palpebral lavage line as an indwelling stent to manage unilateral nasolacrimal duct obstruction in a cat
Authors: Bowden Anna Catherine , Allbaugh Rachel A. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractObjectiveTo describe a novel surgical approach to conjunctivorhinostomy for feline nasolacrimal duct obstruction.Animal StudiedA client‐owned 4‐year‐old female spayed domestic shorthair cat presented with chronic unilateral nasolacrimal duct obstruction of the right eye.MethodsFollowing obstruction confirmation via complete ophthalmic examination and dacryocystorhinography, conjunctivorhinostomy was performed under general anesthesia, and an indwelling sub‐palpebral lavage (SPL) line was placed to facilitate the formation of a new pathway for tear drainage. Specifically, the SPL footplate was sutured to the ventral conjunctival fornix with 5‐0 nylon and 6‐0 vicryl while the tubing was passed through the new pathway and the distal end of the tubing trimmed and tucked into a perinasal subcutaneous pocket. Two skin sutures closed the perinasal pocket and were removed 2 weeks postoperatively.ResultsNo immediate postoperative complications occurred. At 6 weeks and 6 months postoperatively, the distal SPL tubing was dislodged and visible out of the right nostril. This was uneventfully trimmed shorter, and no further complications occurred. The SPL component was easily removed 11 months postoperatively without complication. The patient's clinical signs dramatically improved; she was comfortable over 2 years after surgery.ConclusionTo the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of using an SPL as an indwelling catheter for nasolacrimal duct surgery via conjunctivorhinostomy in a cat. This technique eliminated external stent sites for the patient, which was associated with a short use of an e‐collar, and utilized materials readily available in a specialty hospital.