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Preliminary Results From a Multicenter, Randomized Trial Using Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Induce Remission in Patients With Mild-to-Moderate Crohn's Disease
Authors: Kao Dina , Wong Karen , Jijon Humberto , Moayyedi Paul , Franz Rose , McDougall Chelsea , Hotte Naomi , Panaccione Remo , Semlacher Eric , Kroeker Karen I. , Peerani Farhad , MacDonald Karen V. , Xu Huiping , Narula Neeraj , Turbide Christian , Marshall Deborah A. , Madsen Karen L. 
Published: November 2024

INTRODUCTION:
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has shown promise at inducing remission in ulcerative colitis. This study is the first of its kind to evaluate the efficacy and safety of FMT at inducing remission in Crohn's disease (CD).

METHODS:
This double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted in 3 Canadian academic centers; randomized patients with mild-to-moderate CD received FMT or placebo. The first treatment was administered by colonoscopy followed by weekly oral capsules for 7 weeks. Primary end point was clinical and endoscopic remission at week 8. Secondary outcomes included clinical and endoscopic response, adverse events, and health-related quality of life using generic and disease-specific instruments.

RESULTS:
From July 2017 to June 2021, 21 and 13 patients were randomized to FMT and placebo groups, respectively. The trial terminated early due to futility. At week 8, 0% (0/15) of patients in the FMT group versus 8.3% (1/11) in the placebo group reached the primary end point of combined clinical and endoscopic remission as per protocol analysis. There were no differences between the groups in clinical or endoscopic responses. One patient in each group had worsening of CD. Although both groups experienced statistically significant improvements in health-related quality of life, only the FMT group had a significant decrease in activity impairment. Although there were no significant changes in microbial diversity or composition, patients who achieved clinical response became more similar to their donors in stool microbial composition.

DISCUSSION:
FMT was not effective at inducing clinical and endoscopic remission in CD using the FMT regimen in this study. Future studies may use other strategies to enhance treatment response, including longer intervention, antibiotic pretreatment, optimized donor-recipient pairing, and concomitant anti-inflammatory diet, and biologic or small molecule therapies.
Advances in understanding biofilm-based marine microbial corrosion
Authors: Zuo Zeyu , Zhang Jie , Mathivanan Krishnamurthy , Wang Fayuan , Duan Jizhou , Hou Baorong 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Microbially influenced corrosion and biofouling emerge as formidable challenges to the sustainable management and exploitation of marine resources. The primary instigator for these challenges lies in the insidious development of biofilm. Hence, the most direct and pivotal approach to counteracting microbial corrosion and biofouling resides in the advancement of anti-biofilm technologies. Conventional methodologies for combatting biofilm are efficient but have certain drawbacks, particularly environmental contamination and inefficacy. Research into innovative anti-biofilm technologies is imperative for more efficient use of marine resources and protection of the ecological equilibrium of the oceans. This paper offers a detailed examination of biofilm constituents, the complex processes involved in biofilm development, the various factors that affect biofilm formation, and the mechanisms underlying microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC). Furthermore, the article summarizes emerging, eco-friendly anti-biofilm technologies, while providing the evolving landscape of anti-biofilm strategies and promising prospects.
Gaps and Fiscal Adjustment for Debt Stability in Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries: How Large and by How Much?
Authors: Monsod Toby Melissa , Muyot Justin Matibag , Gochoco-Bautista Maria Socorro 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
We explore the extent of the fiscal resource gap described by climate-vulnerable developing countries which have called for debt flexibility. We compute indices of fiscal sustainability, defined as the difference between an economy’s current tax rate and the “sustainable” tax rate, or the rate which, if constant, would enable the debt-to-GDP ratio at time n to be equal to the debt-to-GDP ratio at time 0, given current policy rules. We estimate short- and medium-term gap indices for 2010 to 2020, and a “climate change gap” (CCG) which incorporates countries’ reported climate change needs for the period 2021–2030. Estimated short- and medium-term gaps capture the 2020 disruption to fiscal sustainability, while CCGs indicate a highly diverse picture: one-third of the sample have CCGs ranging from 10 to 99 % of GDP, another third have CCGs from −8.6 to −0.3 %. Negative CCGs, which imply that immediate adjustments in taxes or spending are not required for fiscal policy sustainability, are surprising but come with a crucial caveat: CCGs are likely to be significantly understated because of data gaps, especially regarding adaptation requirements. This highlights the urgent need for finance and technical assistance dedicated to building national capacities for determining and costing climate change needs.
Imagining just futures through interdisciplinary pedagogies: cultivating communities of practice across the sciences and humanities
Authors: York Emily , May Christine , Breneman Daisy L. , Yanacek Holly , Klevickis Cindy , Conley Shannon N. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This case study describes an experimental initiative at James Madison University funded by a National Science Foundation grant in Fall 2021 that aimed to support interdisciplinary collaborative pedagogical development related to Science, Technology, and Society (STS) with a particular focus on ethics and justice. The case study argues that creating infrastructure to cultivate and sustain small teaching communities of practice that include faculty from humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields, can support the challenging and necessary work of developing integrated STS-informed pedagogies across the curriculum. A flexible framework is examined through multiple lenses, including perspectives from each faculty participant, representing teaching departments of Biology, World Languages & Cultures, Integrated Science and Technology/Biotechnology, Justice Studies/Disability Studies, and Integrated Science and Technology/Public Interest Technology and Science. Authors provide key insights about what enables and sustains an interdisciplinary community of practice.
Bending moment calibration for rotational bending fatigue testing machine based on strain measurement
Authors: Zhu Lin-mao , Hong Gang , Wang Gui-yong , Jia Yun-hai , Wu Dong-xiao 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Rotational bending fatigue testing is an important method to evaluate the fatigue of metal materials under cyclic loading. Specifically, the fatigue strength is evaluated through repeated rotational bending under complex loads with the accuracy affected by the bending moment. Here, a method based on strain measurements is proposed for calibrating the bending moment of rotational bending fatigue testing machines. Specifically, the strain of a metal sample under loading with resistance strain gauges was recorded using a strain acquisition system to measure the bending moment. The positions of strain gauges were designed according to the principle of strain measurements to establish a calibration program. Three metal samples of different sizes were tested on two types of rotational bending fatigue testing machines, and the measurement uncertainty was evaluated and verified. The experimental results showed that the proposed method measured and calibrated the bending moment of rotational bending fatigue testing machines rapidly, conveniently, and accurately. The results also provide a practical reference for research and application in related fields.
A review of graphene biopolymer composite in piezoelectric sensor applications
Authors: Muhammad Firdaus Abdul Halim , Sapuan Salit Mohd , Mohd Afdzaluddin Atiqah , AL-Oqla Faris M. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
The amazing electrical, optical, mechanical and thermal properties combined with high specific surface area of graphene making it as an appealing integrant for stimuli responsive high performance smart materials. Typical graphene-based smart materials encompass mechanically exfoliated perfect graphene, chemical vapor deposited first-class graphene, chemically moded graphene including graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide and their macroscopic assemblies or composites. The ability of these graphene-based materials ending up interacting with biopolymers to come up with quite fascinating electrical, mechanical, optical, thermal and sensing characteristics has have attracted a considerable number of attentions. The biggest advantage of using biopolymer-based materials is non-corrosiveness, ease in coloration, good tensile strength, and biodegradability but are abided by drawback of the poor mechanical strength, lack of response, and unstable environmental stability. However, graphene incorporated biopolymers provided beneficent attributes for example ability to detect various forms of stimuli such as gaseous molecules include biomolecules, pH value, mechanical flexibility, electrical and thermal conductivity to enable ongoing promising advancement of the piezoelectric sensor applications. This review explores the piezoelectric development based on several graphene fabricated biopolymer composite and it is use in healthcare monitoring, structural health monitoring, industrial process monitoring, consumer electronics applications. Furthermore, we enlighten the challenges and future perspectives of graphene biopolymer piezoelectric sensors.
Role-Playing, Reconciliation, and Repetition: Parodies of Peacemaking on the Petronian Ship of State
Authors: Slater Niall W. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
The action on board Lichas’s ship in Petronius’s Satyrica presents a rich, repetitive, and multilayered parody of mediation, treaty-making, and the role of emotion in conflict and its aftermath, played out on the most personal level. When Encolpius and Giton are discovered, having accidentally taken passage with Lichas and Tryphaena whom they have egregiously betrayed, the poet Eumolpus seizes the role of mediator and attempts to defend them with an entirely fictitious account of their actions and motivations. His rhetoric only enrages Lichas and produces open warfare on shipboard. Ingenious role-playing by Giton (staging an attempted self-castration) drives Tryphaena to desperate pity and epic parody in appealing for peace, allowing Eumolpus to dictate and conclude a formal treaty among the parties.
Initial performances of the actions and emotions of peacemaking amidst a halcyon calm at sea seem successful, but jealousies quickly reemerge, requiring further efforts by Eumolpus to restore harmony. His poetic efforts during the banquet failing, Eumolpus then narrates the story of the Widow of Ephesus, whose misogynistic comedy elicits laughter from all – except for Lichas and Tryphaena. Crosscurrents of jealousy reemerge, and Eumolpus seems to resort to new diplomacy and oaths (iurat Eumolpus verbis conceptissimis, 113) as the text becomes more fragmentary – and the ship is suddenly overwhelmed and wrecked by storm.
Prospects for reconciliation founder with the ship (of state?) and its captain, while the perpetually inventive manipulators of language survive to perform again.
Messunsicherheit geometrischer Prüfmerkmale – Automatisiert und praxisgerecht mit Koordinatenmessgeräten ermitteln
Authors: Hageney Theo 
Published: November 2024

Zusammenfasung
Richtige und zuverlässige Messungen sind eine wichtige Voraussetzung für eine qualitativ hochwertige Industrieproduktion. Ein wichtiges Qualitätsmerkmal einer Messung ist deren Messunsicherheit. Erst mit der Angabe der Messunsicherheit kann die Qualität eines Messwertes beurteilt werden, was eine wesentliche Voraussetzung bei vielen Entscheidungen im Produktionsprozess und in der Kunden – Lieferanten Beziehung ist. Die Ermittlung von prüfmerkmalbezogenen Messunsicherheiten ist sehr aufwendig und bedarf meist einer großen firmeninternen Expertise oder muss durch extern beauftragte Dienstleister durchgeführt werden. In diesem Beitrag wird eine neu entwickelte Methode vorgestellt, mit der Anwender von Koordinatenmessgeräten (KMG) ohne besondere Vorkenntnisse die Messunsicherheit der Prüfmerkmale ihrer Messprozesse ermitteln können. Nach einer kurzen Beschreibung der notwendigen Grundlagen wird ein Einblick in die neuartige Methode der Unsicherheitsermittlung in der Koordinatenmesstechnik gegeben, die jetzt automatisiert und damit praxisgerecht erfolgt. Sie basiert auf der Verwendung von Grenzwerten der Gerätespezifikation unter Nutzung von Expertenwissen aus zahlreichen durch ein Kalibrierlaboratorium, das von der Deutschen Akkreditierungsstelle (DAkkS) für die Berechnung der Messunsicherheit von Koordinatenmessungen akkreditiert ist, durchgeführten Kalibriermessungen an KMG. Hiermit ist die Grundlage dafür gelegt, dass die eigentlich notwendige Angabe von Messunsicherheiten auch bei komplexen Anwendungen mit Koordinatenmessungen Eingang in die industrielle Qualitätssicherung findet.
Visible light sensitive BiVO4–TiO2 nanocomposites for photocatalytic dye degradation
Authors: Padinjare Veetil Salija , Koodali Edam Jayendu , Thavarool Puthiyadath Anusree , Kizhakke Veedu Sujith , Kizhakkekilikoodayil Vijayan Baiju 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
The hydrothermal approach was used to prepare visible light active BiVO4–TiO2 nanosheet composites in varying molar ratios. The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), UV-Visible Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS), Transmission electroscopy (TEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), were used to analyze the photocatalysts and composites. Photocatalytic activity of BiVO4–TiO2 composites was investigated by decolorizing methylene blue. Out of four different molar ratio BiVO4–TiO2 composites with a molar ratio of 3:1 BiVO4 TiO2 composite showed enhanced photocatalytic activity which is further proved by photoluminescence investigation of coumarin and Scavenger test. The DRS of BiVO4 TiO2 composite showed red shift in optical absorption. The enhanced photocatalytic activity is due to minimizing electron hole recombination by making composite with TiO2.
High-coverage targeted lipidomics revealed a novel serum lipid dysregulation profile in adult growth hormone deficiency
Authors: Yang Hongbo , Chen Meiping , Jiang Lingjuan , Wang Linjie , Duan Lian , Gong Fengying , Zhu Huijuan , Pan Hui 
Published: November 2024

PurposePatients with adult growth hormone deficiency (AGHD) are at an increased risk of metabolic syndrome. Despite extensive research efforts in recent decades, the lipid metabolism pattern of AGHD has yet to be thoroughly characterized.MethodsIn this study, we used lipidomics analysis of fasting serum samples from 30 AGHD patients with intracranial germ cell tumors (iGCTs) and 30 age-, gender- and body mass index (BMI)-matched healthy controls to investigate the serum lipidomic pattern of AGHD patients with iGCTs. We meticulously quantified 534 serum lipids from 29 classes using high-coverage targeted lipidomics technology in conjunction with a robust bioinformatics pipeline.ResultsOur results revealed an AGHD-specific dynamic change in the serum lipidomic profile, manifested by higher overall levels of many lipid subclasses, including triacylglycerols (TAGs), diacylglycerols (DAGs), phosphatidylglycerols, phosphatidylethanolamines (PE), phosphatidylcholines (PC), phosphatidylinositols, ceramides and bis(monoacylglycerol)phosphates, than in healthy controls and a distinct lower level for alkyl PE (PE-O) and alkyl PC (PC-O). AGHD individuals with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease showed specific changes in higher TAG and DAG subclass levels. Alterations in lipid profiles may contribute to metabolic dysregulation in AGHD patients. TAGs, PCs and PE fatty acids positively correlated with BMI, fasting insulin, insulin resistance index and adverse lipid parameters. In contrast, ether-linked PE-O, PC-O and LysoPE-O showed a negative correlation.ConclusionsThis study has significantly expanded the current understanding of lipid dysregulation in AGHD patients with iGCT. These findings can potentially guide future research and development of monitoring and intervention strategies.
ПРИРОДНІ АЛЮМОСИЛІКАТИ МОДИФІКОВАНІ ФРАГМЕНТАМИ АРЕНСУЛЬФОНОВОЇ КИСЛОТИ ЯК КАТАЛІЗАТОРИ АЦЕТАЛІЗАЦІЇ ГЛІЦЕРИНУ ЦИКЛОГЕКСАНОНОМ
Authors: Давтян Аракся С. , Левченко Ольга О. , Камалов Герберт Л. , Яремов Павло С. , Курмач Михайло М. 
Published: November 2024

Досліджено кінетику реакції гліцерину з циклогексаноном у присутності модифікованих фрагментами аренсульфонової кислоти природних алюмосилікатів вітчизняного походження (бентоніт, кліноптилоліт і трепел). З’ясовано вплив масової частки каталізатора, температури реакції та мольного співвідношення реагентів на конверсію гліцерину. Виявлено, що у присутності бентоніту і трепелу, на відміну від кліноптилоліту, незалежно від зміни зазначених факторів, конверсія гліцерину досягає ~100 %. Основним продуктом реакції є п’ятичленний циклічний кеталь 1.4-діоксаспіро[4,5]декан-2-метанол з селективністю 99 % (визначали на газовому хроматографі Shimadzu GC-2030, Японія). Вивчено структурно-адсорбційні та кислотні характеристики каталізаторів (розмір пор, площа поверхні, Бренстедовські та Льюїсівські кислотні центри) і співставлено вплив цих характеристик на їх каталітичні властивості. Встановлено, що активність каталізатора обумовлена більшою площею поверхні та структурою пор. З використанням методу «подвійних зворотних величин» (метод Лайнуівера-Берка) досліджено особливості реакції, визначено константи Міхаеліса і максимальні швидкості реакції та концентраційний порядок за гліцерином. Запропоновано можливий механізм реакції в умовах гетерогенного кислотного каталізу. Показано, що спільним для трьох зразків каталізаторів є утворення з однаковою швидкістю комплексу циклогексанон-каталізатор, а подальший «маршрут» реакції відрізняється в залежності від концентраційного порядку за гліцерином.
„Abdicato episcopatu, uxorem duxi“ Der Fall Dudith (1567) und die Wahrnehmung der Interkulturalität auf Mikroebene
Authors: Majorossy Imre Gábor 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThis paper reinterprets the famous letter of abdication of Andreas Dudith (1533–1589) from the perspective of interculturality. The paper examines the circumstances that led Bishop and Imperial Envoy Andreas Dudith to relinquish his prestigious office and influential political position as a result of doctrinal conflicts within Christianity. He remained a Christian, yet his life was centered elsewhere. He proceeded to construct a novel, academically engaged lifestyle, characterized by a comprehensive outlook. In the interval between two markedly disparate life phases, the resigning bishop interrogates the motives underlying his erstwhile clerical status, as well as the establishment and mission of the Church.
An exploration of undergraduate health science students’ experiences of blended learning andragogy: A rapid review
Authors: Abbas Iesrafeel , Sayed Zarina , Lujabe Khanya , Mdleleni Zintle , Mokoto Mapule , Pama Bridget , Somdaka Baby Sinelizwi 
Published: November 2024

Introduction:
Blended learning is defined as the combined use of in-person and online learning, through interactive multimedia and face-to-face engagement with curriculum content. Recently, higher education institutions have experienced major inevitable changes in teaching and learning approaches, sparking interest in the exploration of these approaches- including blended learning.
Aim:
To explore undergraduate health sciences students’ experiences of blended learning.
Method:
A rapid review of articles published in English was conducted between 18th-22nd February 2022 using the following databases: Pubmed, Ebscohost, Web of Science, Scopus, Africawide Information and CINAHL. Articles found were exported to Endnote, version 20.2.1. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis flow chart was used to document the search. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme was used to appraise the articles, which were analysed using thematic analysis.
Findings:
Eight quantitative articles were analysed and categorised on the hierarchy of evidence. Three themes emerged: 1. Student engagement and perceptions of blended learning, 2. Student academic performance, and 3. Challenges of blended learning.
Conclusion: Positive experiences of blended learning were reported, including: significant improvement of student academic performance, higher levels of satisfaction and an increased student engagement. Ineffective online learning platforms and/or technological devices resulted in students experiencing anxiety and frustration.

Implications for practice

Blended learning may be a feasible option to maintain and enhance students learning experience.
Students’ academic performance could improve with blended learning
Blended learning could increase students’ engagement within the andragogical field.