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Responses of ‘Burlat’ Sweet Cherry Trees to Selenium Fertilisation under Low Soil Selenium Conditions
Authors: Wójcik Paweł 
Published: November 2024

AbstractSelenium (Se) malnutrition in humans primarily results from low soil Se availability. In this study, we examined the effects of soil application and preharvest Se sprays on the vegetative growth, yield response, Se nutrition, and fruit quality of ‘Burlat’ sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) trees. Selenium was applied through (i) soil application at a rate of 250 g ha− 1 or 500 g ha− 1 in each season and in the first year of the study, respectively, and (ii) four preharvest sprays per season at a rate of 15 g ha− 1 spray− 1. Se sprays were applied with or without calcium chloride (CaCl2). Leaves from Se-fertilised trees contained more Se and had enhanced SPAD readings. However, the Se treatments did not affect tree growth and fruit yield. Compared to the control fruit, Se concentrations in fruit from trees sprayed with Se and CaCl2, trees sprayed with Se alone, and trees supplied with Se to the soil were increased 15-, 12-, and 8-fold, respectively. None of the Se treatments affected fruit size, and acidity and the soluble solids concentration (SSC) of the fruit. Only the combined sprays of Se and CaCl2 decreased the incidence of rain-induced fruit cracking. None of the tested Se treatments resulted in leaf injuries. In sweet cherry orchards, at least for the ‘Burlat’ variety, grown in low Se soils, preharvest Se sprays with or without CaCl2 can be recommended to biofortify the fruit with Se and increase SSC in the fruit.
Neuroimmune-mediated neuropsychiatric syndromes: perspectives for standardised diagnostics and personalised care
Authors: Scott Elizabeth M. , Shin Mirim , Banati Richard B. , Brown David A. , Koethe Dagmar , Leweke F. Markus , Rohleder Cathrin , Hickie Ian B. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
There is considerable interest in the role of neuroimmune processes in neuropsychiatric presentations among young people seeking mental health, neurological, paediatric and rheumatological services. The increasing availability of new immunotherapies, particularly monoclonal antibodies, introduces challenges in effectively and appropriately selecting candidates for immunotherapies. Neuroimmune-mediated neuropsychiatric syndromes (NIMNPS) typically include two broad types: i) ‘autoimmune encephalitis’, characterised by acute or subacute onset, neurological signs such as seizures, delirium or motor features and severe psychotic or major mood phenomena. Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis was a pioneering clinical example, but various other autoantibodies have since been associated with this phenotype; and ii) atypical mood or psychotic syndromes with sub-acute or insidious onset, moderately severe atypical mood or psychotic symptoms, autonomic dysregulation, narcolepsy-like features, poor response to conventional treatments and adverse (notably motor) effects from psychotropic medications. Diagnosis of NIMNPS requires clinical or laboratory evidence of direct brain involvement, though autoantibodies are not always detectable. Given the broad and controversial diagnostic criteria for NIMNPS, we propose standardised clinical criteria for identifying ‘possible cases’, followed by laboratory, neuropsychological and brain imaging tests to confirm ‘probable’ cases suitable for immunotherapy. We emphasise rapid clinical and informed co-decision-making with young people and their families and loved ones. While immunotherapy holds promise for symptom alleviation, highly-personalised approaches and long-term management are essential. Future research should validate our proposed criteria, establish optimal, standardised yet personalised immunotherapy strategies that balance between clinical benefit and risks, and identify predictive markers of treatment response.
Antimicrobial-resistant central line-associated bloodstream infections in adult intensive care units: findings from an Australian surveillance network, 2011–2022
Authors: Lim Lyn-li , Lim Kang Wei Esther , Malloy Michael J. , Bull Ann , Brett Judith , Worth Leon J. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractObjective:We aimed to describe the incidence, pathogens, and antimicrobial susceptibility of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in adult intensive care units (ICU).Design:State surveillance data from 2011 to 2022 were analyzed to identify patient and device days and CLABSI events. Pathogen data were analyzed to determine the most common organisms and patterns of antimicrobial resistance grouped into 3-year time epochs.Setting:Adult ICU in Victoria, Australia.Participants:Healthcare organizations participating in CLABSI state surveillance.Results:608 events were reported over 751,350 device days. Overall, CLABSI incidence was 0.81 per 1,000 central-line days, with a 49.3% rate reduction from 2011 to 2022 (1.39 to 0.70 per 1,000 central-line days). Overall device utilization ratio was 0.57, with a 15.4% reduction from 2011 to 2022 (0.67 vs 0.56). Of 690 pathogens, the most common by rank order were coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS), Candida species, Staphylococcus aureus, and Enterococcus faecalis. The proportion of CNS-causing events increased by 69.0% from 2011 to 2022; this trend was not observed for other organisms. For every increase in epoch, a 33% decrease in methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), 4% increase in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium, and 12% increase in ceftriaxone-resistant Escherichia coli pathogens were observed.Conclusions:We demonstrate a decreasing incidence of CLABSI in Victorian adult ICU and an increasing burden of infections due to CNS. No significant time trend increases in antimicrobial-resistant organisms, including MRSA, vancomycin-resistant E. faecium, and ceftriaxone-resistant E. coli were observed. These findings are relevant for identifying priorities for CLABSI prevention in Victorian adult ICU.
Co-creation and recovery in mental health services: a lived experience perspective
Authors: Elwan Michael 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This article explores the shift in mental health recovery from mere symptom management to a holistic approach via the CHIME framework. It delves into the author’s experience, beginning with the loss of his father, a war veteran with mental health struggles, at 16, thrusting him into the role of primary caregiver for his mother, who also battled mental health issues and eventually took her own life. These events spotlight the shortcomings of traditional mental health care and the urgent need for empathetic, multifaceted services. Advocating for co-creation in mental health services, the article outlines a transition towards a system that integrates recovery principles through stages from co-ideation to co-evaluation, emphasising holistic, person-centred care. It calls for a reimagined mental healthcare system that respects individual journeys and is rooted in co-creation, signalling a critical move towards systemic change.
Medicalization of Sufism: the discourse of psychiatry, psychopathology, and secularity in Karay’s Kadınlar Tekkesi
Authors: Buğdaycı Çiğdem 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This article examines the complex relationship between Sufism, secularity, and psychiatry through Refik Halid Karay’s 1956 novel, Kadınlar Tekkesi (Women’s Lodge). The article argues that Kadınlar Tekkesi recontextualizes Sufism by medicalizing and pathologizing it through psychiatry and psychopathology. This analysis draws upon discourse analysis and Michel Foucault’s exploration of abnormality and power dynamics. The article contends that this approach diverges from previous anti-Sufi agendas of Turkish novels, which were primarily motivated by religious and moralistic criticisms. The article argues that the application of psychiatric terminology to Sufism suggests a shift in Turkish secularism’s attitude toward Sufism, which transitions from dismissing Sufism as obsolete to engaging with it systematically through scientific study. Informed by modern scientific rationality, this shift signifies a redefined interaction between knowledge and power and the gendered aspects of the medicalization process. The article underscores that interactions between the discourses of secularism, Sufism, and psychopathology suggest a new regime of truth based on secular and scientific thought, while implicitly supported by orthodox Islamic principles.
Multilayer network games: A cooperative approach
Authors: Boruah Parishmita , Borkotokey Surajit , Kumar Rajnish 
Published: November 2024

AbstractIn this paper, we introduce the concept of a multilayer network game in a cooperative setup. We consider the notion of simultaneous contribution of individual players or links to two different networks (say, X and Z). Our model nests both classical network games and bi-cooperative network games. The calculation of the utility of players within a specific network in the presence of an additional/alternative network provides a broader spectrum of real-world decision dynamics. The subsequent challenge involves achieving an optimal distribution of payoffs among the players forming the networks. The link-based rule best fits to our model as it delves into the influence of the alternative links in the network. We have designed an extended Position value to address the complexities arising from scenarios where networks overlap. Further, it is shown that the Position value is uniquely characterized by the Efficiency and Balanced Link Contribution axioms.
Bioturbation increases time averaging despite promoting shell disintegration: a test using anthropogenic gradients in sediment accumulation and burrowing on the southern California shelf
Authors: Tomašových Adam , Kidwell Susan M. , Dai Ran , Alexander Clark R. , Kaufman Darrell S. , Edie Stewart , Leonard-Pingel Jill S. , McNinch Jesse E. , Parker Thomas , Wadman Heidi M. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractBioturbation can increase time averaging by downward and upward movements of young and old shells within the entire mixed layer and by accelerating the burial of shells into a sequestration zone (SZ), allowing them to bypass the uppermost taphonomically active zone (TAZ). However, bioturbation can increase shell disintegration concurrently, neutralizing the positive effects of mixing on time averaging. Bioirrigation by oxygenated pore-water promotes carbonate dissolution in the TAZ, and biomixing itself can mill shells weakened by dissolution or microbial maceration, and/or expose them to damage at the sediment–water interface. Here, we fit transition rate matrices to bivalve age–frequency distributions from four sediment cores from the southern California middle shelf (50–75 m) to assess the competing effects of bioturbation on disintegration and time averaging, exploiting a strong gradient in rates of sediment accumulation and bioturbation created by historic wastewater pollution. We find that disintegration covaries positively with mixing at all four sites, in accord with the scenario where bioturbation ultimately fuels carbonate disintegration. Both mixing and disintegration rates decline abruptly at the base of the 20- to 40-cm-thick, age-homogenized surface mixed layer at the three well-bioturbated sites, despite different rates of sediment accumulation. In contrast, mixing and disintegration rates are very low in the upper 25 cm at an effluent site with legacy sediment toxicity, despite recolonization by bioirrigating lucinid bivalves. Assemblages that formed during maximum wastewater emissions vary strongly in time averaging, with millennial scales at the low-sediment accumulation non-effluent sites, a centennial scale at the effluent site where sediment accumulation was high but bioturbation recovered quickly, and a decadal scale at the second high-sedimentation effluent site where bioturbation remained low for decades. Thus, even though disintegration rates covary positively with mixing rates, reducing postmortem shell survival, bioturbation has the net effect of increasing the time averaging of skeletal remains on this warm-temperate siliciclastic shelf.
Why Study the Humanities When People Are Dying?
Authors: McWilliams Barndt Susan 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Lately, my students have been asking: “Why should we be here, when there are people suffering out there?” Evidently, they are asking about the public value of higher education. But they are also asking old questions, some of the oldest that human beings have seen fit to ask. Versions of these questions appear in all scriptural traditions, in ancient and modern philosophical works, in stories and novels and songs. They are questions at the core of what we call “the humanities.” Part of why we study the humanities – and why we must – is to get help in asking, articulating, and trying to answer such questions. There aren’t single right answers to any of those questions. Each of us must work answers out for ourselves. But we can work out better answers for ourselves if we spend time in the company of others who take those questions seriously. This is not just an individual task; it’s a collective task of great public import. In this short piece, I defend the idea of the public humanities on these terms.
ON THE CODEGREES OF STRONGLY MONOLITHIC CHARACTERS OF FINITE GROUPS
Authors: ERKOÇ TEMHA , YIlMAZTÜRK UTKU 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Let G be a finite group and let

$\chi $

be an irreducible character of G. The number

$|G:\mathrm {ker}\chi |/\chi (1)$

is called the codegree of the character

$\chi $

. We provide several relations between the structure of G and the codegrees of the characters in a given subset of

$\mathrm {Irr}(G)$

, where

$\mathrm {Irr}(G)$

is the set of all complex irreducible characters of G. For example, we show that if the codegrees of all strongly monolithic characters of G are odd, then G is solvable, analogous to the well-known fact that if all irreducible character degrees of a finite group are odd, then that group is solvable.
Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy has no impact on postpartum transient longitudinal changes in hip geometry in adolescent mothers: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial
Authors: Rached Verônica , Diogenes Maria Eduarda L. , Crivelli Marise , Donangelo Carmen M. , Bezerra Flávia F. 
Published: November 2024

AbstractWe have previously demonstrated that calcium plus vitamin D supplementation during adolescent pregnancy reduces the magnitude of transient postpartum bone mass loss. In the present post hoc analysis, we further investigated the effect of calcium plus vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy in hip geometry throughout one year postpartum in Brazilian adolescents with low daily calcium intake (∼600 mg/d). Pregnant adolescents (14–19 years) were randomly assigned to receive calcium (600 mg/d) plus vitamin D3 (200 μg/d) or a placebo from 26 weeks of gestation until parturition. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry images were obtained at 5 (n 30 and 26 for calcium plus vitamin D and placebo, respectively), 20 (n 26 and 21) and 56 (n 18 and 12) weeks postpartum, and hip geometry parameters were analysed by Advanced Hip Assessment software. The effects of the intervention, time point and their interaction were assessed using repeated-measures mixed-effects models. No significant intervention effects or intervention × time interactions were observed on hip geometry parameters (P > 0·05). Time effects were observed in cross-sectional area, cross-sectional moment of inertia and section modulus parameters with decreases from the 5th to the 20th week postpartum followed by recovery from the 20th to the 56th week (P < 0·05). Our findings indicate that the postpartum period is associated with transient changes in the hip geometry of lactating adolescent mothers, regardless of the low calcium intake and the supplementation offered during pregnancy, suggesting that a physiological adaptation of these adolescents to low calcium intake is at play.
Perceiving God like an angel
Authors: Chen Wen , Zhang Xiaoxing 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Mystical experiences are often regarded as potential sources of epistemic justification for religious beliefs. However, the ‘disanalogy objection’ maintains that, in contrast to sense perceptions, mystical experiences lack social verifiability and are thus merely subjective states that cannot substantiate objective truths. This article explores a novel externalist response that involves the concept of angels. As spiritual beings, angels can directly perceive God and verify these perceptions in their celestial community. Thus, the ‘direct perception of God’ is not inherently incapable of social verification. While invoking angels might appear contentious, it coheres with the externalist approach of conceptualising cognitive states under hypothetical settings. Despite the differences between humans and angels and their lack of interaction for verification purposes, our approach remains valid because mystics not only exemplify the same general type of ‘direct perception of God’ as angels but can also be preliminary members of a wider celestial community.
Word of mouth: Mouthing patterns in a bimodal multilingual deaf community
Authors: Jaraisy Marah , Stamp Rose 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Deaf signers are typically multilingual, often exposed to a signed language and a spoken and/or written language. One outcome of this type of contact is ‘mouthing’—the silent articulation of spoken/written words with the simultaneous production of a sign. This article focuses on mouthing patterns in the Kufr Qassem deaf community, in which there is contact between Kufr Qassem Sign Language (KQSL), Israeli Sign Language (ISL), as well as Hebrew, and Arabic, which exists as a diglossia. The findings show that mouthing is constrained by the interlocutor and sign language used, with more mouthing with an ISL interlocutor than KQSL interlocutor, and when using ISL signs than KQSL signs. Contact with a diglossic spoken language shows that signers mouth in Palestinian Arabic rather than in Modern Standard Arabic. Furthermore, evidence of diachronic changes in mouthing was found, reflecting changes in education and mobility. (Mouthing, sign language, language contact, Kufr Qassem Sign Language, Israeli Sign Language, Arabic, diglossia)*
Global left ventricular relaxation index in predicting cardiac cellular rejection in paediatric heart transplant patients
Authors: Raja Kishore R. , Bokl Amr El , Karim Farida , Rodgers Nathan , Aggarwal Varun , Langworthy Benjamin W. , Wolf Jack M. , Peck Daniel 
Published: November 2024

AbstractBackground:Endomyocardial biopsy remains the gold standard for cardiac cellular rejection surveillance after heart transplantation. We studied a novel non-invasive index of left ventricular relaxation to detect cardiac cellular rejection in paediatric heart transplant patients.Methods:This is a single-centre retrospective study of paediatric heart transplant patients who underwent endomyocardial biopsy from June 2014 to September 2021. Left ventricular relaxation index was calculated as the sum of diastolic tissue Doppler imaging velocities (E) of the left ventricular lateral, septal, and posterior walls divided by the percentage of the left ventricular posterior wall thinning by M-mode. Statistical analysis included t-tests and Mann-Whitney tests to compare means and medians between treatment and non-treatment groups. We used the cut-off with the maximum Youden index to compare the sensitivity and specificity of left ventricular relaxation index to detect rejection.Results:The study included 65 patients who underwent 246 cardiac catheterizations and endomyocardial biopsies. Out of 246, 192 procedures were included and 54 were excluded due to recent transplants or lack of echocardiographic data. A total of 114 demonstrated Grade 0R, 68 Grade 1R, 8 Grade 2R, and 2 Grade 3R allograft rejection. The difference in mean left ventricular relaxation index between treatment versus non-treatment groups (2R, 3R vs. 0R, 1R) was not statistically significant (p = 0.917). A left ventricular relaxation index cut-off of 0.73 had the highest Youden index with good sensitivity (100%) and poor specificity (23%) for detecting rejections with grades 2R and 3R.Conclusion:Left ventricular relaxation index, a novel index of left ventricular relaxation, was not a sensitive or specific predictor of cardiac cellular rejection in paediatric heart transplants.
Private equity involvement in primary care: the case of Ireland
Authors: Mercille Julien 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Private equity (PE) firms play an increasingly important role in healthcare. Yet, existing research remains uneven, mostly focused on the United States and on certain sectors such as nursing homes. Some geographical areas and health specialties remain under-explored. This brief paper outlines a research agenda focusing on three key issues: (1) PE's significance and (2) business strategies in healthcare, and (3) PE's impacts on health and healthcare. The paper uses primary care in Ireland as an example. The proposed research agenda should improve our understanding of the nature of PE in healthcare and serve as a basis for policy-makers to explore appropriate and effective regulation of PE to reduce its negative impacts if and when they exist.
Gender disparity and post-traumatic stress disorder and elevated psychological distress in humanitarian migrants resettled in Australia: the moderating role of socioeconomic factors
Authors: Handiso Demelash Woldeyohannes , Boyle Jacqueline A , Paul Eldho , Shawyer Frances , Enticott Joanne C 
Published: November 2024

Abstract

Aims
Humanitarian migrants are at increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and elevated psychological distress. However, men and women often report varying degrees of stress and experience different challenges during migration. While studies have explored PTSD, psychological distress, gender, and resettlement stressors, they have not explored the interplay between these factors. This study aims to address that gap by investigating gender disparities in PTSD and psychological distress among humanitarian migrants in Australia, with a focus on the moderating role of socioeconomic factors.

Methods
This study used data from five waves of the Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA) survey, a longitudinal study of 2,399 humanitarian migrants who arrived in Australia in 2013. PTSD and psychological distress were measured using the PTSD-8 and Kessler-6 (K6) scales, respectively. We conducted generalised linear mixed-effect logistic regression analyses stratified by gender.

Results
Female humanitarian migrants exhibited a significantly higher prevalence of PTSD and psychological distress than males over five years of resettlement in Australia. Women facing financial hardship, unemployment, or residing in short-term housing reported greater levels of PTSD and distress compared to men.

Conclusions
Women facing financial hardship, inadequate housing, and unemployment exhibit higher rates of PTSD and psychological distress, underscoring the significant impact of socioeconomic factors. Addressing these challenges at both individual and systemic levels is essential for promoting well-being and managing mental health among female humanitarian migrants.