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Modification of chain extension and crosslinking structures of recycled polyester textile for 3D printing filament
Authors: Hu Lingquan , Sun Jianzhong , Zhang Meng , Liu Jun , Jiang Shouxiang 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThe increase in amount of polyester textile waste is contributing to the severity of environmental pollution because polyester cannot be easily recycled. To reduce the limits of its recyclability, a value‐added recycling approach should be explored. This work introduces an approach for recycling polyester textiles into 3D printable filaments. To increase recyclability of polyester textiles, the polyester materials are modified by ADR4468 additive. After the polyester is 3D printed, the sample with 1.0 wt% of ADR4468 shows the highest tensile and compressive strength properties compared with 1.5 and 2.0 wt%, owing to its fewer voids between the printed lines, a fish scale‐like morphology that spreads out, and a higher degree of crystallization. Moreover, the mechanism of modification suggests that ADR4468 extends and crosslinks the polyester chains by ring‐opening reactions of epoxy groups of ADR4468 and forms sea‐island structures. The sea‐island structures of bonded polyester branched cores with tangled polyester shell interface areas and unbonded polyester chain areas performed suitable rheological behaviors to recycle polyester textiles for 3D printable filaments production. The filaments can be used to replace commercially available filaments, offer a sustainable option for consumers, and impact both the polyester textile‐related recycling and 3D printing industries.Highlights
An approach is proposed to recycle polyester textiles for 3D printing filament
The approach uses a mechanical method to recycle polyester textiles
Recycled polyesters were modified by ADR4468 to form core‐shell structures
Core‐shell structures were separated by short polyesters(sea‐island structure)
The structures met rheological behaviors for 3D printing filament
Reduction in perforated appendicitis incidence between rural and urban populations after introducing social health insurance in Vietnam: A population‐based study
Authors: Nguyen Tran‐Nguyen , Chou Yiing‐Jenq , Huang Nicole 
Published: November 2024

AbstractBackgroundOver the years, Vietnam has expanded its social health insurance (SHI) coverage to reduce health disparities. In this population‐based study, we examined the differences in incidences of perforated appendix between rural and urban populations in Vietnam since the expansion of SHI coverage in 2015. We also identified risk factors for perforated appendix in these populations.MethodThe 2015–2019 SHI inpatient claims data from the Social Security Agency of Dong Thap Province were used to elaborate the final sample of 6863 patients aged 18 years or above who underwent an appendectomy. Multivariable probit and logistic regression model were employed to obtain adjusted estimates.ResultsAn overall rate of 22.9% for perforated appendix among adults in Dong Thap was revealed. After the expansion of SHI, rural residents consistently had lower rates of perforated appendix than urban residents, but the differences between rural and urban residents were small and decreased over time, that is from 4.4% in 2015 to 3.4% in 2019. Older, male, and poor residents were at a higher risk of perforated appendix in both urban and rural areas. In rural areas, patients with comorbidities, patients who resided in remote communes bordering Cambodia, and patients who had district hospitals or commune facilities as their primary assigned providers were significantly more likely to develop perforated appendix.ConclusionUnder the SHI in Vietnam, no significant difference was observed in perforated appendicitis incidence between urban and rural residents. Additional efforts are required to reduce poorer outcomes among other high‐risk residents.
SH‐waves in a complex fluid composite structure with spring membrane imperfect interfaces
Authors: Kundu Swarnava , Das Amrita , Mistri Kshitish Ch. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractComplex fluids are of nobleness due to their unique mechanical responses to applied stress, which are different from simple fluids. Therefore, the current study encapsulated the behavior of SH‐wave in a complex fluid layer overlying a fiber‐reinforced half‐space with six different cases considered at the common interface. These cases involve various interface conditions, including perfect bonding, a spring layer, an infinitely thin membrane layer, loose bonding, a combined spring‐membrane layer, and a membrane layer with loose bonding. Precisely, the effect of loose bonding, membrane strength, and spring stiffness at the common interface on the propagation of SH (Shear Horizontal) wave is studied in detail. The problem is mathematically formulated for all the aforementioned six models followed by their solution with the aid of appropriate boundary conditions. Numerical computations are performed with a view to study the effect of stiffness of spring and membrane, as well as loose bonding at the common interface of the media. It is demonstrated that membrane strength impedes wave propagation, while increased spring stiffness supports it. Notably, the combined spring‐membrane interface has a more pronounced effect than a spring layer alone. The findings of this study may be utilized in the development of membrane technology, including the study of fluid membranes and it has significant importance in seismic engineering and vibration isolation systems.
Stable homology isomorphisms for the partition and Jones annular algebras
Authors: Boyde Guy 
Published: November 2024

AbstractWe show that the homology of the Jones annular algebras is isomorphic to that of the cyclic groups below a line of gradient $$\frac{1}{2}$$

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. We also show that the homology of the partition algebras is isomorphic to that of the symmetric groups below a line of gradient 1, strengthening a result of Boyd–Hepworth–Patzt. Both isomorphisms hold in a range exceeding the stability range of the algebras in question. Along the way, we prove the usual odd-strand and invertible parameter results for the Jones annular algebras.
Long-Term Subjective Efficacy of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence with Tension-Free Vaginal Tape-Obturator Technique
Authors: Nian Songwen , Wang Xiaoqing , Lu Ye 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Introduction and Hypothesis
The objective was to evaluate the long-term subjective efficacy of the tension-free vaginal tape-obturator (TVT-O) technique in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Methods
A retrospective analysis was performed on 84 patients who underwent TVT-O surgery for SUI in a tertiary center between January 2007 and December 2013. All patients filled in the Urinary Incontinence Quality of Life Questionnaire (I-QOL), the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form (ICIQ-SF), and the Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Urinary Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire short form (PISQ-12). Subjective efficacy, including surgical efficacy, clinical severity of SUI, improvement in quality of life (QoL), and sexual activity with regard to TVT-O were compared before and after surgery (≥ 10 years).

Results
The average postoperative follow-up time was 12.6 ± 1.9 years, range, 10–16 years. The overall subjective effectiveness of the surgery was 94.0% (79 out of 84). The subjective clinical severity significantly improved more than 10 years after surgery compared with the preoperative value (p = 0.000). The median I-QOL score was 88.1 (84.1–92.0) preoperatively and 98.3 (94.3–99.7) postoperatively, and the long-term QoL of postoperative patients was significantly improved (p < 0.05). The median ICIQ-SF score was 10.5 (8–15) preoperatively, and 3 (0–5) postoperatively, and the ICIQ-SF score before and after surgery showed significant improvement in urinary incontinence symptoms (p < 0.05). No difference was observed in the PISQ-12 scores before and after surgery in the sexually active population.

Conclusions
The TVT-O technique still has good subjective efficacy in SUI more than 10 years after surgery and significantly improves the QoL of patients.
Toward robust decision-making under multiple evaluation scenarios with a novel fuzzy ranking approach: green supplier selection study case
Authors: Więckowski Jakub , Wątróbski Jarosław , Sałabun Wojciech 
Published: November 2024

AbstractIn the evolving field of decision-making, the continuous advancement of technologies and methodologies drives the pursuit of more reliable tools. Decision support systems (DSS) provide information to make informed choices and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods are an important component of defining decision models. Despite their usefulness, there are still challenges in making robust decisions in dynamic environments due to the varying performance of different MCDA methods. It creates space for the development of techniques to aggregate conflicting results. This paper introduces a fuzzy ranking approach for aggregating results from multi-criteria assessments, specifically addressing the limitations of current result aggregation techniques. Unlike conventional methods, the proposed approach represents rankings as fuzzy sets, providing detailed insights into the robustness of decision problems. The study uses green supplier selection as a case study, examining the performance of the introduced approach and the robustness of its recommendations within the sustainability field. This study offers a new methodology for aggregating results from multiple evaluation scenarios, thereby enhancing decision-maker awareness and robustness. Through comparative analysis with traditional compromise solution methods, this paper highlights the limitations of current approaches and indicates the advantages of adopting fuzzy ranking aggregation. This study significantly advances the field of decision-making by enhancing the understanding of the stability of decision outcomes.
Does Price Personalization Ethically Outperform Unitary Pricing? A Thought Experiment and a Simulation Study
Authors: Mazrekaj Deni , Verhagen Mark D. , Kumar Ajay , Muzio Daniel 
Published: November 2024

AbstractMerchants often use personalized pricing: they charge different consumers different prices for the same product. We assess the ethicality of personalized pricing by generalizing and extending an earlier model by Coker and Izaret (Journal of Business Ethics 173:387–398, 2021) who found that price personalization ethically outperforms unitary pricing. Using a simulation analysis, we show that these results crucially depend on the choice of parameters and do not hold universally. We further incorporate additional sources of marginal cost into the utility function that will likely arise from personalized pricing. These include the expectation that personalized pricing is widely considered unfair by consumers who prefer that all consumers are charged the same price (unitary pricing), and that firms often approximate the consumers’ willingness-to-pay in ways that may raise negative sentiments among consumers who feel that their privacy is breached. By extending our model with disutility from unfairness perception and disutility from surveillance aversion, we demonstrate that personalized pricing is quickly outperformed by unitary pricing under social welfare functions that tend to prioritize total utility (utilitarianism and prioritarianism), whereas personalized pricing can ethically outperform unitary pricing under social welfare functions that tend to prioritize equality (egalitarianism and leximin). Our findings illustrate various intricacies and dynamics regarding the circumstances under which personalized pricing can be considered ethical.
Self-Interest over Ethics: Firm Withdrawal from Russia After the Ukraine Invasion
Authors: Patel Pankaj C. , Richter Jack I. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractDrawing on contrasting theoretical perspectives of self-interest and utilitarian/ethical motivations, we examine the degree to which a company's pace of departure from Russia after the Ukraine invasion is driven by its exposure to the Russian market. Moreover, we investigate whether firm-level political and non-political risks influence the propensity to delay or expedite the exit/withdrawal process. Contrary to utilitarian expectations advocating for ethical exit decisions irrespective of exposure and risks, firms with higher Russian exposure were less likely to exit sooner, indicating a prioritization of business interests over ethical imperatives. This self-interest effect was further amplified by heightened political risks but attenuated by non-political risks. These findings remained consistent across various model specifications, with limited discernible variations based on firm characteristics such as ranking, COVID-19 exposure and risk, past idiosyncratic volatility, or family ownership and control. In addition, an examination of post-exit effects on profitability, risk, cost of capital, and liquidity revealed no statistically significant relationships. Our study highlights the prevalence of self-interest motivations over utilitarian principles, as firms with substantial Russian exposure prioritized safeguarding their business interests in the aftermath of the Ukraine invasion, even at the potential cost of ethical and social responsibility imperatives.
Monetary work-incentives within the Austrian tax and benefit system
Authors: Kucsera Dénes , Lorenz Hanno , Nagl Wolfgang 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This paper analyses incentives to take up work or to increase working hours within the Austrian tax and benefit system. We analyze the monetary work incentives for a variety of family constellations (singles, single parents, families with children) with different incomes from dependent employment, when receiving unemployment benefits, and in the system of means-tested minimum income. Moreover, the effect of different earning ceilings (childcare and unemployment) and childcare costs is additionally investigated. Insufficient and, therefore, privately provided childcare is viewed as a missing component of the benefit system. The Austrian tax and benefit system is designed to be incentive-compatible for singles. Only marginal employment without deductions in the event of unemployment creates a negative incentive to expand employment beyond this extent. However, raising children creates negative monetary incentives. On the one hand, through the upper limits on additional earnings during times of childcare allowance, but especially when childcare costs arise.
CNNCat: categorizing high-energy photons in a Compton/Pair telescope with convolutional neural networks
Authors: Lommler Jan Peter , Gerd Oberlack Uwe 
Published: November 2024

AbstractA Compton/Pair telescope, designed to provide spectral resolved images of cosmic photons from sub-MeV to GeV energies, records a wealth of data in a combination of tracking detector and calorimeter. Onboard event classification can be required to decide on which data to down-link with priority, given limited data-transfer bandwidth. Event classification is also the first and one of the most crucial steps in reconstructing data. Its outcome determines the further handling of the event, i.e., the type of reconstruction (Compton, pair) or, possibly, the decision to discard it. Errors at this stage result in misreconstruction and loss of source information. We present a classification algorithm driven by a Convolutional Neural Network. It provides classification of the type of electromagnetic interaction, based solely on low-level detector data. We introduce the task, describe the architecture and the dataset used, and present the performance of this method in the context of the proposed (e-)ASTROGAM and similar telescopes.
News dissemination: a semantic approach to barrier classification
Authors: Sittar Abdul , Mladenić Dunja , Grobelnik Marko 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThe dissemination of information worldwide is significantly facilitated by the news media, with many events having global relevance across various regions. However, certain news events receive limited coverage restricted to specific geographic areas, due to the barriers that hinder the spread of information. These barriers can be attributed to political, geographical, economic, cultural, or linguistic factors. In this research, we propose an approach for classifying these barriers by extracting semantic information from news articles using Wikipedia-concepts. Our methodology involves the collection of news articles, each annotated to indicate the specific barrier types, leveraging metadata from news publishers. Subsequently, we employ Wikipedia-concepts, in conjunction with the content of the news articles, as features to determine the barriers to news dissemination. Our approach is then compared with traditional text classification techniques, deep learning methods, and transformer-based models. We have performed experiments on news articles from ten categories of topics including health, sports, business, etc. The findings indicate that 1) Utilizing semantic knowledge yields distinct concepts across the ten categories, thereby enhancing the effectiveness and speed of the classification model. 2) The proposed approach, incorporating Wikipedia-concepts-based semantic knowledge, leads to improved performance in barrier classification when compared to using solely the body text of news articles. Specifically, there is an increase in the average F1-scores for four out of five barriers, with the economic barrier rising from 0.65 to 0.68, the linguistic barrier from 0.71 to 0.72, the political barrier from 0.68 to 0.70, and the geographical barrier from 0.63 to 0.68.
Why summing up bibliometric indicators does not justify a composite indicator
Authors: Forthmann Boris , Doebler Philipp , Mutz Rüdiger 
Published: November 2024

AbstractVarious bibliometric indicators have been used to assess the researchers’ impact, but composites of such indicators, namely a metric that combines various individual indicators to describe a complex construct, have received a strong critique thus far. We employ concepts from psychometrics to revisit a composite proposed by Ioannidis et al. (2020) that aimed to represent researcher impact. Based on a selected sample of highly cited researchers, our proof-of-concept study presents a psychometrically principled composite formation. Specifically, by relying on the congeneric measurement model (and related models) rooted in classical test theory, we found that one of the proposed indicators clearly violated the congeneric model’s fundamental assumption of unidimensionality, and two other indicators were excluded for redundancy. The resulting composite based on only three bibliometric indicators was found to display excellent reliability. Importantly, the reliability approached that of the composite based on five indicators, and it was clearly better than the original six-indicator composite. Further, we found rather homogeneous effective weights (i.e., relative contributions of each indicator to composite variance) for simple sum scores, and these weights were close to those calculated using an algorithm for equally effective weights. While the congeneric measurement model also showed strong measurement invariance across sexes, this model’s loadings and intercepts were not measurement invariant across scientific fields and academic age groups. Notably, we found that various derived composites correlate positively with academic age, hinting at a lack of fairness of the composites.
Playing the Game Differently: How Women Leaders in Academia Are Challenging Neopatriarchy
Authors: Gilbert Emilee , O’Shea Michelle , Duffy Sarah , Taylor Chloe 
Published: November 2024

AbstractDespite Australian and New Zealand Universities pledging to address gender inequities, the patriarchal history of universities continues to impact the careers of women in academia. Under-representation of women in senior leadership and a culture of masculinity can lead to a lack of resources for feminist leadership and a devaluing of women’s work. We investigate how women in academic leadership are playing the game differently, making strategic moves to navigate leadership in the neoliberal neopatriarchal academy. We explored the experiences of 22 women in academic leadership through online qualitative surveys and reflexive thematic analysis of the data, taking inspiration from Bourdieu’s work on habitus and doxa. Although women leaders were able to successfully make strategic moves to advance their careers, these were shaped by parenting status, race, culture, and age. The women’s leadership approaches were counter to the masculine doxa of the academic field, leading instead relationally. We do not suggest that there is a specific ‘female’ style of academic leadership, but that successful authentic leadership can be founded on a feminist ethics of care in contrast to neopatriarchy. Adoption of such approaches across the academy might unshackle academics across genders from their positioning in academic leadership hierarchies.
Existing Health Inequities in the Treatment of Advanced and Metastatic Cancers
Authors: Nair Navya , Schlumbrecht Matthew 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Purpose of Review
This study aims to identify health inequities related to the medical treatment and supportive care of patients with advanced/metastatic cancer and recommend solutions to promote health equity.

Recent findings
Despite robust strides in the development of therapeutic strategies for advanced and metastatic cancer, significant disparities in treatment access and implementation exist. Race, socioeconomic status, gender, and geography represent just a few of the individual-level factors which contribute to challenges in treatment administration, thorough evaluation of germline genetics and tumor genomics, and quality palliative and end-of-life care.

Summary
Given the increasing complexity of cancer treatments and our enhanced understanding of tumor biology, efforts to uniformly provide equitable and high-level care to all patients are needed. In this review we will discuss factors that contribute to health inequities in patients with advanced and metastatic cancer diagnoses, highlighting opportunities for intervention, ongoing challenges in change implementation, and national and international society recommendations to eliminate disparities. Acknowledging existing inequities and engaging in multilevel discourse with key stakeholders is needed to optimize care practices to the benefit of all patients.
Quantum Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Survey
Authors: Klusch Matthias , Lässig Jörg , Müssig Daniel , Macaluso Antonio , Wilhelm Frank K. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI) is the intersection of quantum computing and AI, a technological synergy with expected significant benefits for both. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of what has been achieved in QAI so far and point to some open questions for future research. In particular, we summarize some major key findings on the feasability and the potential of using quantum computing for solving computationally hard problems in various subfields of AI, and vice versa, the leveraging of AI methods for building and operating quantum computing devices.