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Swarm Intelligence in Action: Particle Swarm Optimization and Rendezvous Algorithms for Swarm Robotics
Authors: Ganduri Krishna Vamshi , Pathri Bhargav Prajwal 
Published: November 2024

ABSTRACTSwarm technology is evolving quickly in the new era in the domains of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). Swarm technology takes its cues from nature, particularly from the behaviors of ants, bees, schools of fish, and birds. The rapid growth of swarm technologies can be attributed to this organic inspiration. It is utilized in a variety of applications, such as pick‐and‐place robotics and drone swarms for laser shows. To mimic the behavior of swarm robots or microbots, this research work explores the use of swarm algorithms, namely particle swarm optimization (PSO) and rendezvous algorithms (RA). The emphasis will be on applying these algorithms to situations that require swarm robots to navigate around obstacles while planning their paths and forming patterns. This study shows how successful these algorithms are by using MATLAB as a useful tool. The outcomes demonstrate that the algorithms are capable of producing intricate patterns and facilitating effective path planning for swarms of robots. The robots' ability to avoid obstacles and travel around them at a high speed is noteworthy. This study covers a wide range of industries, such as space exploration, military/defense applications, storage, surveillance, and search and rescue. The application of swarm technology demonstrates how it may transform practical situations and provides information about how flexible and efficient swarm algorithms are in a variety of settings. By offering useful insights for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in utilizing the combined potential of swarm intelligence (SI) for a variety of applications, this investigation advances the field of swarm robotics.
Assessing the long‐term effect of different organic amendments on the quality of acidic sandy soil
Authors: Aranyos József Tibor 
Published: November 2024

AbstractSandy soils are susceptible to the adverse effects of intensive land use and climate change, which can cause a decline in soil quality. As agricultural practices have an important role in soil processes, the objective of this research was to monitor the soil parameters determining the soil quality by studying the long‐term effects of different organic amendments on soil. The research was done in long‐term soil improvement experiments on Dystric Lamellic Arenosol. In addition to conventional organic fertilizers (farmyard manure with or without chemical fertilizers, green manure), alternative fertilizers such as sewage sludge compost were also applied. For the complex evaluation, we have been carrying out soil physical, chemical, and enzyme activity tests and field soil respiration measurements for 3 years. The beneficial effect of sewage sludge compost on the parameters determining the soil quality was more pronounced compared to the effect of conventional fertilization methods. The long‐term incorporation of sewage sludge compost into the soil significantly increased the soil organic matter content and pH, and improved the physico‐chemical parameters of the soil. The positive changes in soil parameters as a result of compost application contributed to the stimulation of soil life, which resulted in more intensive soil respiration and enzyme activities. The research confirmed the significance of the long‐term supply of organic matter on sandy soil that can be implemented sustainably through the agricultural utilization of sewage sludge compost and contributes to the enhancement of soil organic carbon storage and the improvement of soil quality in acidic sandy soil.
Insights on Prussian Blue Analogue Cathode Material Engineered with Polypyrrole Surface Protection Layer for Aqueous Rechargeable Zinc Metal Battery
Authors: Puthiyaveetil Priyanka Pandinhare , Nair Aathira , Dilwale Swati , Kurian Maria , Joshi Kavita , Kurungot Sreekumar 
Published: November 2024

AbstractOne of the key intricacies against using Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) in aqueous batteries is their gradual dissolution in aqueous electrolytes, resulting in inadequate cycling stability. Besides, the rate capability of PBAs is limited due to their poor electrical conductivity. To overcome these challenges, it is essential to tune the physical and chemical properties of PBAs at the nano regime without affecting the inherent charge storage properties, especially at high‐voltage operating conditions. Through this work, a strategy is demonstrated to enhance the electrochemical performance of vanadium‐based PBA (V‐PBA) by surface engineering using a conducting polymer nano‐skin (V‐PBA/PPy) for aqueous zinc metal batteries. The polypyrrole (PPy) nano‐skin over the V‐PBA nanoparticles acts as an electron percolation path to ameliorate the poor electronic conductivity of the otherwise pristine V‐PBA. Interestingly, the V‐PBA with an optimized polypyrrole coating (V‐PBA/PPy‐2) exhibits an enhanced specific capacity (173 mAh g−1 at 0.10 A g−1) than the pristine V‐PBA counterpart (80 mAh g−1) and 85% capacity retention up to 500 cycles. The DFT calculation confirms the synergistic interaction between PPy and V‐PBA and the presence of PPy favors the adsorption of Zn.
Design guidelines for SHS thin‐walled columns with large holes at their extremities
Authors: Bezas Marios‐Zois , Vermeylen Maxime , Morch Helene , Ginckels Koenraad , Demonceau Jean‐François 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThin‐walled cold‐formed hollow columns are widely used in steel structure construction due to their advantages such as high strength, ductility and lightweight. When bolted connections are used, long bolts passing through the entire hollow cross‐section are required. An alternative solution could be that large holes are made in one of the column faces, at the level of the connections, allowing thus the hand tightening of ‘short’ classical bolts. This paper investigates the influence of these holes on the resistance and stability of the column and aims at determining a safe way to compute the resistance of cross‐sections and the stability of members in the presence of handholes. More specifically, square hollow sections (SHS) with large holes have been considered and their behaviour has been studied numerically using shell finite elements, accounting for local and distortional effects as well as material and geometrical non‐linearities. Then, the obtained results have been compared with the predictions obtained through the code provisions for cross‐section resistance and member buckling, in order to check their adequacy.
Getting to the ‘Heart’ of Climate Change
Authors: Stewart Simon 
Published: November 2024

AbstractHaving briefly introduced this topic from the perspective of the United Nation Development Programme Goals, this introductory chapter provides a personal to scientific perspective on climate change in the modern era. As such, it will specifically describe how it (climate change) has the potential to adversely influence the heart health of the global population. In making this case, a cruel irony will be highlighted—that is, while most of the world’s poorest people barely contribute(d) to the reasons why climate change occurred, unlike high-polluting countries, they still suffer the same and even worse consequences. Moreover, they have limited resources and capacity to address the difficult challenges arising from climate change. In this context, while clinicians are mostly focussed on the individuals they care for, this chapter further explores why having a “climatic conscience” or at least awareness of climatic conditions on health, is the pathway to better health outcomes. Specifically, it provides a rationale why health services and clinicians alike, need to acknowledge and understand the link between external conditions and the physiological status of any individual—thereby thinking beyond the four walls of an environmentally controlled hospital or GP clinic.
From Climatic Resilience to Vulnerability
Authors: Stewart Simon 
Published: November 2024

AbstractIn the last chapter, the biological limits of human adaptation in the face of climatic conditions outside of our mandated physiological and personal comfort zones were explored—with a major focus on what happens to the heart and cardiovascular system when confronted with cold to hot extremes. It also introduced the concept of non-modifiable versus modifiable factors that modulate the biological impact of climatic provocations to an individual. As an extension of this concept, this chapter now presents a holistic, interdisciplinary framework/model that helps to explain why certain people (with consideration of sex-based differences) are ‘climatically vulnerable’, while others are more ‘climatically resilient’—identifying the key characteristics and attributes that might be altered to prevent climatically provoked cardiac events and premature mortality at the individual level.
Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) – Version 2.0
Authors: J. Pandit Harshvardhan , Esteves Beatriz , P. Krog Georg , Ryan Paul , Golpayegani Delaram , Flake Julian 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
The Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV), developed by the W3C Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group (DPVCG), enables the creation of machine-readable, interoperable, and standards-based representations for describing the processing of personal data. The group has also published extensions to the DPV to describe specific applications to support legislative requirements such as the EU’s GDPR. The DPV fills a crucial niche in the state of the art by providing a vocabulary that can be embedded and used alongside other existing standards such as W3C ODRL, and which can be customised and extended for adapting to specifics of use-cases or domains. This article describes the version 2 iteration of the DPV in terms of its contents, methodology, current adoptions and uses, and future potential. It also describes the relevance and role of DPV in acting as a common vocabulary to support various regulatory (e.g., EU’s DGA and AI Act) and community initiatives (e.g., Solid) emerging across the globe.
Photon self-energy at all temperatures and densities in all of phase space
Authors: Schérer Hugo , Schutz Katelin 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
In an isotropic background comprised of free charges, the transverse and longitudinal modes of the photon acquire large corrections to their dispersion relations, described by the in-medium photon self-energy. Previous work has developed simple approximations that describe the propagation of on-shell photons in plasmas of varying temperatures and densities. However, off-shell excitations can also receive large medium-induced corrections, and the on-shell approximations have often been used in an effort to capture these effects. In this work we show that the off-shell self-energy can be qualitatively very different than the on-shell case. We develop analytic approximations that are accurate everywhere in phase space, especially in classical and degenerate plasmas. From these, we recover the on-shell expressions in the appropriate limit. Our expressions also reproduce the well-known Lindhard response function from solid-state physics for the longitudinal mode.
Holographic energy correlators for confining theories
Authors: Csáki Csaba , Ismail Ameen 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
We present a holographic calculation of energy correlators in a simple model of confinement based on a warped extra dimension with an IR brane. For small distances we reproduce the constant correlators of a strongly-coupled conformal field theory, while for large distances the effects of confinement dominate and the correlators decay exponentially. We find exact shockwave solutions to the Einstein equations in the presence of the IR brane, hence avoiding the need for a perturbative expansion in terms of Witten diagrams. While some of the expected qualitative features of energy correlators in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) are reproduced, our crude model of confinement does not capture the effects of asymptotic freedom nor exhibit jetty behavior. We expect that our method can also be applied to more realistic models of confinement incorporating asymptotic freedom, which should fix some of the deviations from QCD.
The role of the mucosal barrier system in maintaining gut symbiosis to prevent intestinal inflammation
Authors: Okumura Ryu , Takeda Kiyoshi 
Published: November 2024

AbstractIn the intestinal tract, where numerous intestinal bacteria reside, intestinal epithelial cells produce and release various antimicrobial molecules that form a complex barrier on the mucosal surface. These barrier molecules can be classified into two groups based on their functions: those that exhibit bactericidal activity through chemical reactions, such as antimicrobial peptides, and those that physically hinder bacterial invasion, like mucins, which lack bactericidal properties. In the small intestine, where Paneth cells specialize in producing antimicrobial peptides, the chemical barrier molecules primarily inhibit bacterial growth. In contrast, in the large intestine, where Paneth cells are absent, allowing bacterial growth, the primary defense mechanism is the physical barrier, mainly composed of mucus, which controls bacterial movement and prevents their invasion of intestinal tissues. The expression of these barrier molecules is regulated by metabolites produced by bacteria in the intestinal lumen and cytokines produced by immune cells in the lamina propria. This regulation establishes a defense mechanism that adapts to changes in the intestinal environment, such as alterations in gut microbial composition and the presence of pathogenic bacterial infections. Consequently, when the integrity of the gut mucosal barrier is compromised, commensal bacteria and pathogenic microorganisms from outside the body can invade intestinal tissues, leading to conditions such as intestinal inflammation, as observed in cases of inflammatory bowel disease.
Lipid storage myopathy associated with sertraline treatment is an acquired mitochondrial disorder with respiratory chain deficiency
Authors: Hedberg-Oldfors Carola , Lindgren Ulrika , Visuttijai Kittichate , Shen Yan , Ilinca Andreea , Nordström Sara , Lindberg Christopher , Oldfors Anders 
Published: November 2024

AbstractLipid storage myopathies are considered inborn errors of metabolism affecting the fatty acid metabolism and leading to accumulation of lipid droplets in the cytoplasm of muscle fibers. Specific diagnosis is based on investigation of organic aids in urine, acylcarnitines in blood and genetic testing. An acquired lipid storage myopathy in patients treated with the antidepressant drug sertraline, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, has recently emerged as a new tentative differential diagnosis. We analyzed the muscle biopsy tissue in a group of 11 adult patients with muscle weakness and lipid storage myopathy which developed at a time when they were on sertraline treatment. This group comprise most patients with lipid storage myopathies in western Sweden during the recent nine-year period. By enzyme histochemistry, electron microscopy, quantitative proteomics, immunofluorescence of the respiratory chain subunits, western blot and genetic analyses we demonstrate that muscle tissue in this group of patients exhibit a characteristic morphological and proteomic profile. The patients also showed an acylcarnitine profile in blood suggestive of multiple acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency, but no genetic explanation was found by whole genome or exome sequencing. By proteomic analysis the muscle tissue revealed a profound loss of Complex I subunits from the respiratory chain and to some extent also deficiency of Complex II and IV. Most other components of the respiratory chain as well as the fatty acid oxidation and citric acid cycle were upregulated in accordance with the massive mitochondrial proliferation. The respiratory chain deficiency was verified by immunofluorescence analysis, western blot analysis and enzyme histochemistry. The typical ultrastructural changes of the mitochondria included pleomorphism, dark matrix and frequent round osmiophilic inclusions. Our results show that lipid storage myopathy associated with sertraline treatment is a mitochondrial disorder with respiratory chain deficiency and is an important differential diagnosis with characteristic features.
A drama-based intervention to improve emotional intelligence in early childhood education
Authors: Armesto Arias Marta , Neira-Piñeiro M. del Rosario , Pasarín-Lavín Tania , Rodríguez Celestino 
Published: November 2024

AbstractEmotional intelligence and drama-based intervention open up an innovative field in education. The current study describes the effectiveness of an innovative project based on the development of emotional intelligence through dramatization in Early Childhood Education. A total of 82 children range from 4 to 5 years old were divided into two groups: group A (N = 40) and group B (N = 42). The study was designed as a pre-post-follow-up experimental study and all children participated at different times. The evaluation of behavior and expression of emotions is carried out using three instruments, i.e., Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales-Second Edition (PKBS-2), and two multimedia tests, i.e., Facially Expressed Emotion Labeling (FEEL test) and e-Motion 1.0. The results showed that the program met its objective and the children improved their inter- and intra-subject relationship problems, especially when it comes to reducing negative behaviors related to social skills. The program’s design and effectiveness make it suitable for improving emotional education in children aged 3 to 6.
Hodgkin lymphoma: the role of EBV plasma viral load testing in an HIV-endemic setting
Authors: Opie J. , Mohamed Z. , Chetty D. , Bailey J. , Brown K. , Verburgh E. , Hardie D. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractSouth Africa has a high burden of human immune deficiency virus (HIV)-associated Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) which is typically Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infected, detected by histological stains. Circulating plasma EBV derived from apoptotic EBV infected tumour cells is a potential biomarker. This study aimed to evaluate the role of plasma EBV load testing in newly diagnosed HL patients and correlate pretreatment plasma EBV levels, HIV status and EBV tumour status with overall survival (OS). Untreated HL patients were prospectively included. Polymerase chain reaction measured EBV plasma viral loads. Kaplan–Meier curves with log-rank tests estimated the impact of HIV, EBV tumour status and plasma EBV viral loads on OS. Multivariable analysis was performed using a Cox proportional hazards model. Receiver operative characteristic curve analysis determined cutoff plasma EBV DNA levels with optimal sensitivity, specificity and concordance with tumour EBV status. The 68 patients included 21 (31%) HIV +ve and 33 (49%) EBV tumour +ve. EBV plasma ≥ 10 000 IU/ml (P = 0.008), EBV +ve tumour (P = 0.014), HIV +ve status (P = 0.009) and age ≥ 45 years (P = 0.018) predicted poorer OS on univariate analysis. Plasma EBV levels > 762 IU/ml had 89.29% sensitivity and 96.77% specificity for detecting EBV +ve HL. High plasma EBV levels ≥ 10 000 IU/ml, HIV +ve status and EBV tumour +ve status predicted poorer OS. Plasma EBV levels > 762 IU/ml predicted EBV +ve tumour status with high sensitivity and specificity. Plasma EBV viral DNA testing is a promising biomarker for EBV +ve HL.
A closer look at activity relationships to improve business process redesign
Authors: Andree Kerstin , Bano Dorina , Weske Mathias 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Business process models serve as visual representations of the structured sequence of activities, or activity relationships, aimed at achieving specific organizational objectives. These models explicitly depict only a portion of the activity relationships, leaving other, so-called hidden relationships to be inferred through transitivity and domain knowledge. Because designers lack visibility into these hidden relationships, tasks associated with process redesign (BPR) are more challenging. BPR is a specialized area within business process management focused on modifying process behavior at the model level. While best practices have been introduced, explicit guidance for implementing them is currently lacking. This paper introduces an approach to delineate all possible relationships between any two activities within a BPMN diagram by considering a combination of existential and temporal dependencies. Furthermore, the proposed approach facilitates a detailed specification of change operations related to BPR and their consequential effects on activity relationships. We illustrate this by applying BPR strategies such as resequencing and parallelism to the use case of an order management system.
The green marine waste collector routing optimization with puma selection-based neighborhood search algorithm
Authors: Abdollahzadeh Benyamin , Javadi Hatef , Torağay Oğuz , Epicoco Nicola , Khodadadi Nima 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Improper waste disposal by humans has created significant environmental issues in the marine ecosystem, including endangering aquatic life and accelerating the extinction of certain marine species. Due to the floating nature of the marine debris, the coordinates for collecting activities must be estimated in advance. In this article, GNOME software is used to estimate the coordinates of debris, and then a fleet of several ships is used to collect them. Also, a mixed integer linear programming model is presented for the routing optimization of debris collection fleets. The proposed optimization model formulates the objective function based on numerous factors, including labor cost, rent, and ship insurance, and considers constraints on fuel tank capacity, the time window, and the ship’s cargo capacity. A new hybrid algorithm combining the Puma algorithm and neighborhood search is proposed to address the problem. Metropolis acceptance is used in the simulated annealing algorithm to avoid the local optima and greedy selection. Numerical examples of the marine survey and the port of Rotterdam are used to test the proposed approach, which has been proven effective in several scenarios. Results achieved from the proposed hybrid method demonstrate considerable performance improvement in solving the problem. This approach has decreased total fuel and labor costs by 10–15% compared to conventional methods, with minimized time window violation reaching 25%. These results show a significant reduction in total operational costs with proper scheduling and route planning.