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Avoiding Fields on Fire: Information Dissemination Policies for Environmentally Safe Crop-Residue Management
Authors: Farahani Mehdi H. , Dawande Milind , Janakiraman Ganesh , Wang Shouqiang 
Published: November 2024

Agricultural open burning, that is, the practice of burning crop residue in harvested fields to prepare land for sowing a new crop, is well recognized as a significant contributor to CO2 and black-carbon emissions, and long-term climate change. Low-soil-tillage practices using an agricultural machine called the Happy Seeder, which can sow the new seed without removing the previous crop residue, have emerged as the most effective alternative to open burning. However, given the limited supply of Happy Seeders from the government, and the fact that farmers incur a significant yield loss if they delay sowing the new crop, farmers are often unwilling to wait to be processed by the Happy Seeder and, instead, burn their crop residue. We study how the government can use effective information-disclosure policies in the operation of Happy Seeders to minimize open burning. A Happy Seeder is assigned to process a group of farms. The government knows, but does not necessarily disclose, the Happy Seeder’s schedule at the start of the sowing season. We propose a class of information-disclosure policies, called dilatory policies, that provide no information to the farmers about the schedule until a prespecified switch period and then reveal the entire schedule afterward. We show that an optimal dilatory policy can significantly lower the number of farms burnt compared with that under the full-disclosure and the no-disclosure policies. Using data from the rice-wheat crop system in northwestern India, we demonstrate that the optimal dilatory policy can reduce CO2 and black-carbon emissions by 17% on average. We also examine the impact of the government’s policy on the trade-off between environmental damage and farmers’ welfare. This paper was accepted by Jayashankar Swaminathan, operations management. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.03030 .
Rural-urban disparities in full antenatal care utilization among women in Ethiopia: A further analysis of Mini-EDHS, 2019
Authors: Addisu Elsabeth , Cherie Niguss , Birhane Tesfaye , Abegaz Zinet , Endawkie Abel , Mohammed Anissa , Melak Dagnachew , Bayou Fekade Demeke , Asfaw Ahmed Hussien , Yasin Husniya , Zerga Aregash Abebayehu , Wagaye Birhanu , Ayele Fanos Yeshanew , Kebede Natnael , Mekonen Asnakew Molla , Mihiretu Mengistu Mera , Muche Amare , Tsega Yawkal 
Published: November 2024

Background
Full antenatal care utilization is a key intervention that creates the opportunity to provide all the necessary health services during pregnancy that aims to reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. However, there is still a gap in utilizing this service between rural and urban women. So, this study aimed to identify the sources of variations in full antenatal care utilization between the rural and urban areas of Ethiopia.

Methods
The study used the data on a nationwide representative sample of the Mini- Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia. The data were collected from March 21, 2019, to June 28, 2019, in all regions of Ethiopia. Two stage cluster sampling techniques were used to select the study participants. This study included about 3,927 (weighted samples) of women aged from 15 to 49 years. A multivariate decomposition analysis technique was performed to observe the rural-urban disparities in full antenatal care utilization explained by residence difference in components of endowments and coefficients.

Results
The prevalence of full antenatal care utilization was 43.25% (95% CI: 41.7%, 44.8%). The difference in the prevalence of full antenatal care utilization between rural and urban women was (rural prevalence was 27.73%, while in urban areas it was 15.52%). These results showed a statistically significant full antenatal care utilization gap in rural urban resident women (-0.21807, 95% CI:(-0.27397, -0.16217)). The majority of the gap was explained by the covariate distribution, which accounted for 76.84%, and the rest, 23.16%, was due to the effect of covariate differences. Educational status, wealth status, religion, region, birth order, and parity differences between urban and rural women explain most of the full antenatal care utilization disparities.

Conclusion and recommendations
There is a significant full antenatal care utilization disparity between rural and urban women in Ethiopia. This variation in the rural-urban full antenatal care utilization was explained by differences in characteristics (endowment). So to decrease this gap, emphasis should be given to resource distribution targeting rural households, improvement of maternal education and creating a platform to access information about the service and its relevance.
Medium-term survival of patients with mechanical and biological aortic prosthesis at the 6th decade of life
Authors: Dayan Victor , Montero Juan Andres , Freemantle Nick 
Published: November 2024

Objective
The best aortic prosthesis type in 60–70 year old patients is not established. Our aim was to evaluate the survival in a National cohort of patients between 60–70 years old who required surgical aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis (SAVR) with either a mechanical (MP) or bioprosthesis (BP) valve.

Methods
This is a retrospective study using national data from the Ministry of Health. We included all patients between 60 to 70 years old who underwent SAVR for aortic stenosis in Uruguay from 2011 to 2021. The primary outcome was overall survival according to type of prosthesis used stratified by effect modifiers. The independent effects of gender and use of statins were evaluated.

Results
We included 1196 patients (66±3.0 years old; 39.1% female). Mortality was higher for BP (296, 29.9%%) than MP (36, 17.1%; p<0.001). Median follow-up time was 4.5 years (Interquartile range [IQR] 3.4–6.5). The unadjusted incidence rate ratio was higher for BP (Incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 1.43;95%CI: 0.99, 2.14, p = 0.045). The effect of BP on mortality rate was greater in males (IRR = 1.82;95%CI:1.14,2.92. p interaction = 0.08) and patients who were not taking statins (IRR = 1.97;95%CI:1.14,3.41. p interaction = 0.06). The use of BP was an independent predictor of overall survival in male patients (Hazard ratio [HR] = 1.32;95%CI: 1.68, 1.04. p = 0.021) and in patients who were not taking statins (HR = 2.07;95%CI: 1.17, 3.67. p = 0.013).

Conclusion
The use of BP was associated with worse survival in male patients and patients not taking statins. Gender and statins use should contribute to type of prosthesis decision in the 60–69 age group.
Structural and social determinants of health: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
Authors: Besser Lilah M. , Forrester Sarah N. , Arabadjian Milla , Bancks Michael P. , Culkin Margaret , Hayden Kathleen M. , Le Elaine T. , Pierre-Louis Isabelle , Hirsch Jana A. 
Published: November 2024

Background
Researchers have increasingly recognized the importance of structural and social determinants of health (SSDOH) as key drivers of a multitude of diseases and health outcomes. The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) is an ongoing, longitudinal cohort study of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) that has followed geographically and racially/ethnically diverse participants starting in 2000. Since its inception, MESA has incorporated numerous SSDOH assessments and instruments to study in relation to CVD and aging outcomes. In this paper, we describe the SSDOH data available in MESA, systematically review published papers using MESA that were focused on SSDOH and provide a roadmap for future SSDOH-related studies.

Methods and findings
The study team reviewed all published papers using MESA data (n = 2,125) through January 23, 2023. Two individuals systematically reviewed titles, abstracts, and full text to determine the final number of papers (n = 431) that focused on at least one SSDOH variable as an exposure, outcome, or stratifying/effect modifier variable of main interest (discrepancies resolved by a third individual). Fifty-seven percent of the papers focused on racialized/ethnic groups or other macrosocial/structural factors (e.g., segregation), 16% focused on individual-level inequalities (e.g. income), 14% focused on the built environment (e.g., walking destinations), 10% focused on social context (e.g., neighborhood socioeconomic status), 34% focused on stressors (e.g., discrimination, air pollution), and 4% focused on social support/integration (e.g., social participation). Forty-seven (11%) of the papers combined MESA with other cohorts for cross-cohort comparisons and replication/validation (e.g., validating algorithms).

Conclusions
Overall, MESA has made significant contributions to the field and the published literature, with 20% of its published papers focused on SSDOH. Future SSDOH studies using MESA would benefit by using recently added instruments/data (e.g., early life educational quality), linking SSDOH to biomarkers to determine underlying causal mechanisms linking SSDOH to CVD and aging outcomes, and by focusing on intersectionality, understudied SSDOH (i.e., social support, social context), and understudied outcomes in relation to SSDOH (i.e., sleep, respiratory health, cognition/dementia).
The impact of tinnitus on Dutch general practices: A retrospective study using routine healthcare data
Authors: Bes Julia M. , Verheij Robert A. , Knottnerus Bart J. , Hek Karin 
Published: November 2024

Purpose
Global prevalence of tinnitus (15%) is rising, indicating an increase in patients seeking help for this common symptom and potentially affecting the accessibility of care. The aim of this retrospective study is twofold; describing the morbidity trends and healthcare utilization among patients with recorded tinnitus at Dutch general practices (GP), and comparing overall healthcare utilization before and after tinnitus to similar patients without recorded tinnitus.

Patients and methods
Routine electronic health records data from general practices participating in Nivel Primary Care Database were used to describe trends in age- and sex-specific incidence, contact prevalence and healthcare utilization (contacts, prescriptions, and referrals to secondary care) for tinnitus from 2012 to 2021. Patients with tinnitus were matched (on sex, age, general practice) to patients without tinnitus (1:2). Healthcare use one year before and after a first GP contact for tinnitus (period) was analyzed with negative binominal (number of contacts) and logistic regression (prescriptions or referrals).

Results
Between 2012 and 2021, tinnitus incidence increased by 33% (3.3 to 4.4 per 1000 person-years). The largest increase was observed among 20-44-years (2.6 to 3.8 per 1000 person-years). One year after the first GP contact for tinnitus, patients with tinnitus utilized healthcare more frequently than patients without tinnitus. The referral rate increased the most (OR 1.99, 95%CI 1.83–2.16). The year before tinnitus at the GP, patients with tinnitus had more often GP consultations (IRR 1.16, 95%CI 1.12–1.19) and referrals (OR 1.09, 95%CI 1.01–1.18) than patients without tinnitus.

Conclusion
Although GPs saw an increased number of patients with tinnitus, absolute numbers of patients remained low. Patients’ healthcare use increased after the first tinnitus complaint at the GP, mainly for secondary care. Yet, they already used healthcare services more frequently than similar patients without tinnitus. Insight into possible explanations for these health disparities could contribute to targeted prevention.
I-Spring Suite as an Alternative Media for Algebraic Expression
Authors: Safira Fatimah Gita , Priwantoro Soffi Widyanesti , Nur Hidayah  , Syariful Fahmi  
Published: November 2024

A The limitation of technology-based learning media available at SMP Muhammdiyah 1 Godean motivate researcher to develop learning media that can supplement alternative media and also assist the difficulty faced by the students, especially in algebraic expression material. This research uses the Analysis, Design, development, Implemnetation and Evaluation (ADDIE) model. The subjects of this research is students of VII grade of SMP Muhammdiyah 1 Godean. Before being trialled into small and large classes, learning media will be validated by material and media experts. The result of the research obtained that the assessment of the material expert obtained 84% and from media expert get 95% with the predicate very feasible. Meanwhile the result of smaal and large trials obtained 83% and 82% who said the mdia was very feasible. So from these result it can be concluded that th learning media developed by researchers are feasible for use.
Follow-Up Report of Patients With Moderate Aortic Valve Regurgitation After Cardiac Surgery
Authors: Zoroufian Arezou , Afrooghe Arya , Ziafat Manouchehr , Jalali Arash , Babaei Mohammadreza , Ahmadi Pooria , Sadeghian Hakimeh 
Published: November 2024

Abstract

Background:
The appropriateness of aortic valve surgery for patients with moderate aortic valve regurgitation undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), mitral valve replacement (MVR), or both is uncertain. This study aimed to investigate the outcomes of moderate aortic valve regurgitation following these procedures.

Methods:
This retrospective cohort study included 113 eligible participants with moderate aortic valve regurgitation who underwent CABG, MVR, or both procedures between January 2014 and January 2015 at Tehran Heart Center. Echocardiographic index data were extracted from the Tehran Heart Center data center after a 2-year follow-up to examine changes in the patients’ conditions.

Results:
A total of 113 patients (mean [SD] age, 64.7 [9.9] years; 78 [69.0%] female patients) were included in the study and followed up for a mean (SD) of 24 (6) months. Among those patients, 38 (33.6%) experienced improvement, with their aortic valve regurgitation downgraded to mild, while the remaining 75 (66.4%) patients maintained a moderate aortic valve regurgitation level. Notably, combined CABG and MVR procedures were associated with statistically significant improvement, with all cases downgraded to mild aortic valve regurgitation. Baseline characteristics, including diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, family history of aortic valve regurgitation, and a history of drug use, did not differ statistically significantly between patients with improved aortic valve regurgitation and patients with no changes. Echocardiographic indices related to the aorta, such as aortic valve pressure gradient, showed improvement (P < .001), and ejection fractions before and after surgery remained comparable. Changes in aortic valve regurgitation severity were found to differ statistically significantly between the various procedures (P = .001).

Conclusion:
These findings suggest that it is not likely that moderate aortic valve regurgitation will progress after CABG or MVR. Hence, no support was found for concurrent aortic valve replacement during these procedures.
Perbandingan Produktivitas Alat Tangkap Sodo (Push Net) dan Wangkong (Trap Net) Terhadap Hasil Tangkapan Udang Putih (Penaeus merguiensis) di Perairan Wedung, Kabupaten Demak
Authors: Griselda Adinda Putri Khairunnisa , Saputra Suradi Wijaya , Purnomo Pujiono Wahyu 
Published: November 2024

Perairan Wedung merupakan wilayah potensial sumber daya udang di Kabupaten Demak. Sodo dan wangkong merupakan alat tangkap yang memanfaatkan udang putih (P. merguiensis) sebagai hasil tangkapan utamanya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu mengetahui produktivitas dari kedua alat tangkap tersebut terhadap hasil tangkapan udang putih. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan ukuran panjang karapas dominan udang putih yaitu 30,66-35,66 mm pada sodo dan 22,56-27,56 mm pada wangkong dengan nilai Lc50% pada sodo yaitu 34,5 mm lebih besar dibandingkan wangkong yaitu 25,8 mm. Perbandingan rasio kelamin udang putih jantan dan betina pada sodo dan wangkong masing-masing 1:0,80 dan 1:0,89. Pola pertumbuhan udang putih oleh sodo yaitu b=3,1116 pada jantan dan b=2,952 pada betina. Sedangkan, pola pertumbuhan udang putih oleh wangkong yaitu b=2,9974 pada jantan dan b=2,8754 pada betina. Uji-t pada nilai b tersebut menunjukkan t hitung<t tabel sehingga pola pertumbuhan dari kedua alat tangkap bersifat isometrik. Nilai CPUE udang putih kedua alat tangkap menunjukkan pada bulan Februari-April 2024 cenderung meningkat, namun menurun pada bulan Mei 2024. Nilai CPUE tertinggi yaitu 9 kg/trip pada sodo dan 4,87 kg/trip pada wangkong. Sedangkan nilai CPUE terendah yaitu 2,69 kg/trip pada sodo dan 2,8 kg/trip pada wangkong.
Enhanced performance and robustness in anti-lock brake systems using barrier function-based integral sliding mode control
Authors: Hamzah Mohsin N. , Flayyih Mujtaba A. , Al-Gadery Taha A. , Al-Nadawi Yasir K. , Al-Samarraie Shibly A. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
In anti-lock brake systems (ABS), the primary goal of the controller is to maximize vehicle deceleration by maintaining the slip ratio at an optimal level. This work presents a fresh approach that enhances ABS performance by integrating a sliding mode controller with a barrier function. This method combines integral sliding mode control with adaptive laws informed by barrier functions, effectively managing external disturbances and uncertainties in inertia. A significant benefit of this approach is that it does not require prior knowledge of the upper limits of these uncertainties and disturbances, thanks to the barrier function-based sliding mode control. The system state is initially aligned with the switching manifold, ensuring robust compensation for any uncertainties and disturbances right from the start of braking. During the sliding mode phase, dynamic properties are finely tuned to ensure that the system’s performance remains consistent. The effectiveness and reliability of the proposed controller have been demonstrated through numerical simulations conducted in MATLAB/Simulink, proving its capability across a range of road conditions.
Integrating sponge city elements in Pécs' green gate project
Authors: Khadra Lujain Ben , Pál-Schreiner Judit , Gyergyák János 
Published: November 2024

AbstractCities worldwide are undergoing sustainable transformations driven by environmental, societal, and economic concerns. This includes improving living standards and addressing global challenges such as climate change and pollution. Urban planning strategies are being re-evaluated, emphasizing the expansion of green spaces. Pécs, Hungary, exemplify this trend through projects like the “Green Gate,” focusing on new pedestrian walkways and increased green areas. To optimize the project's impact, emphasis is placed on integrated water management and considering elements inspired by the “sponge city” concept for flood mitigation. The goal is to assess potential outcomes and feasibility in a real-world setting.
Investigation of NALCO® EC1005A corrosion inhibitor on internal corrosion of pipelines
Authors: Razaq Esraa , Abdulsada Shaymaa Abbas 
Published: November 2024

AbstractThe oil and gas industry relies mainly on pipelines to transport crude and refined petroleum, so crude oil is mostly transported via pipelines. The work presented the study of light naphtha solution collected at the Al-Diwaniyah Refinery in southern Iraq, along with four different pipeline materials (Ductile Iron, Carbon Steel X60, Carbon Steel X80, A105), in which NALCO® EC1005A (neutralizing amine) was used to inhibit corrosion at three concentrations: 0.03, 0.04, and 0.05%, respectively. Analysis of acidity content and immersion method were used to test all samples. This study examined the effects of temperature 45 and 55 °C and light naphtha content. The corrosion resistance of A 105 for pipe samples is highest; ductile iron has the lowest value, and X80 steel and X60 steel is moderately valued.
Study of the extraction kinetics of flavonoids from the fruits of Sophora japonica L. with sunflower oil
Authors: Pelekhova Liubov , Usatiuk Svitlana , Tyshchenko Olena , Honcharov Viacheslav 
Published: November 2024

Among the large number of biologically active substances contained in the fruits of Sophora japonica L., the extraction of flavonoids, substances of medium polarity, is particularly important. The process of extracting them with vegetable oil from fruits is quite complicated. The object of research is the kinetics of the process of extracting flavonoids from Sophora japonica L. fruits with sunflower oil. The influence of temperature, duration, and hydraulic modulus on the extraction process, as well as on the derivation of the equation of the mathematical model, is studied.
Mathematical modeling methods are used in the research. Processing of experimental data for the study of extraction kinetics in the vegetable oil:vegetable raw material system is carried out using the Statistica statistical package. In order to derive the equation of the mathematical model of the process of extracting flavonoids from Sophora japonica L. with sunflower oil, the influence of temperature, duration and hydromodulus on the process of transition of the target component – flavonoids to the extract – is investigated. A mathematical model of the dependence of flavonoids on the hydromodulus (H=10–25), temperature (t=25–45 °С) and the duration of the extraction process of Sophora japonica L. (τ=2–10 h) is obtained, which makes it possible to calculate the content of flavonoids with an average relative with an error within 5 %.
On the basis of the conducted experimental studies, basic technological schemes for obtaining unrefined sunflower oil of increased biological value are developed, which includes the following stages: preparation of raw materials, treatment of prepared raw materials with sunflower oil during dilution and mixing, separation of oil from raw materials by filtering. The proposed technology is promising, as its implementation is possible not only in food industry enterprises, but also in restaurant establishments, as it does not require expensive equipment, additional production premises and special training of personnel.
The mathematical models of the extraction process of Sophora japonica L. with unrefined sunflower oil proposed in the work allow to select the extraction parameters with a high degree of probability and offer the consumer flavonoid-enriched sunflower oil of increased biological value.