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The Role of Sleep in Memory Consolidation and Reading in Dyslexia
Authors: Solbi Ali , Earle F. Sayako 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by reading difficulty, which has long been attributed to a phonological processing deficit. However, recent research suggests that general difficulties with learning and memory, but also in memory consolidation, may underlie disordered reading. This review article provides an overview of the relationship between learning and memory, memory consolidation during sleep, and reading and explores the emerging literature on consolidation during sleep in individuals with dyslexia. We consider evidence that sleep appears to be less effective for memory consolidation in children with dyslexia and how this may be related to their deficits in reading. This discussion highlights the need for further research to determine the extent to which atypical sleep patterns may contribute to learning deficits associated with disordered reading.
A Survey on Model Compression for Large Language
Models
Authors: Zhu Xunyu , Li Jian , Liu Yong , Ma Can , Wang Weiping 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing tasks successfully. Yet, their large size and high computational needs pose challenges for practical use, especially in resource-limited settings. Model compression has emerged as a key research area to address these challenges. This paper presents a survey of model compression techniques for LLMs. We cover methods like quantization, pruning, and knowledge distillation, highlighting recent advancements. We also discuss benchmarking strategies and evaluation metrics crucial for assessing compressed LLMs. This survey offers valuable insights for researchers and practitioners, aiming to enhance efficiency and real-world applicability of LLMs while laying a foundation for future advancements.
Assessing Executive Functions: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Yellow-Red Test in Bosnian Elementary School Students
Authors: Bukva Ajla , Memisevic Haris 
Published: December 2024

Executive functions (EF) have been significantly correlated with many important participant characteristics, including education, behavior, and overall health. Assessing EF in children is particularly important, as doing so can help clinicians develop programs for EF remediation. However, there is a limited understanding of comprehensive performance-based EF assessment tools for children. Our goal in the present paper was to conduct a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) of the Yellow-Red test, a performance-based EF measure, in a Bosnian sample of early elementary school students. Specifically, our participants were 180 children aged 8–11 years ( M age = 9.6 years, SD = 1), including 83 girls and 97 boys. The CFA showed that the data fit well with both a unidimensional model (global EF) and a two-dimensional EF model, comprised of (i) working memory and (ii) inhibition plus cognitive flexibility. A comparison of these two models showed that the two-factor model was a statistically better fit to this sample’s performance than the unidimensional model. These results suggest that EF in this age group can be viewed as both a single construct and a multi-factor construct (with at least two-factors). The Yellow-Red Test, with its engaging and cross-cultural research base, is a useful instrument for detecting EF dysfunction, and it can provide valuable insights for informing tailored interventions.
Establishing an interhospital ECMO-transport program during a pandemic: Key lessons learned
Authors: Ozgur Mustafa Mert , Altınay Ece , Ogus Halide , Hançer Hakan , Koksal Hakan Yusuf , Yılmaz Uzeyir , Ozer Tanıl , Aksut Mehmet , Altas Ozge , Yerli İsmail , Simsek Mine , Erkilic Atakan , Sarıkaya Sabit , Kırali Kaan 
Published: December 2024

Background: The emergence of COVID-19 has amplified the importance of efficient patient transfer, leading to the idea of inter-hospital ECMO transport programs. However, there are limited studies on ECMO transfer protocols and experiences during COVID pandemic. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness our transport program and provide insights into establishing and maintaining ECMO programs. Methods: Over the period from April 2020 to December 2021, 76 patients with severe hypoxic COVID-19 ARDS were transferred to our center under a veno-venous ECMO support. The transfers were performed by the experienced transport ECMO-team, covering both intracity and intercity transports from various hospitals in Istanbul and the Marmara Region. Results: Mean age was 44 (34–54) years. Time until ECMO initiation was 6 (3–11.2) days. The average transport distance was 36.6 ± 58.7 km. Average intracity and intercity transport distance were 17.5 ± 15.7 and 121 ± 96.6 km, respectively. ECMO wean rate was 40.7% and survival to discharge (home) was 38.1%. No major adverse events occurred during the transfer process. In one transport, the oxygen tank was instantly replenished on the road due to the decrease in the oxygen level in the tank. Conclusion: In conclusion, this study contributed to the knowledge surrounding ECMO transport programs during pandemics, emphasized the importance of expert coordination and careful patient management with demonstrating feasibility of mobile ECMO program .
Mechanical analysis of fiber-reinforced composite running-specific prosthesis using a matrix of TPU or PLA
Authors: Davalos Jose , Garcia Juan Carlos , Clemente Christian 
Published: December 2024

Running-specific prostheses (RSPs) allow amputees to run competitively and recreationally, offering stability, flexibility, and energy return. Despite advancements, RSP can still improve in materials and manufacturing. This study investigated the mechanical behavior of running-specific prosthesis (RSP) manufactured with a composite of carbon fiber and matrices of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) or polylactic acid (PLA). The research objectives were to experimentally determine the most suitable matrix (TPU or PLA) according to mechanical behavior and for the selected matrix to compute the mechanical response for using 8, 10, and 12 carbon fiber layers and a 6, 8, and 10 mm matrix thickness. The matrices were 3D printed and the carbon fiber layers were incorporated by a hand lay-up process. The applied load corresponded to a 60 kg user. Experimental measurements identified that the TPU matrix presents low stiffness compared to the PLA matrix. Numerical analysis indicated a delamination failure in the RSP with 8 layers, whereas with 10 and 12 layers, no failure was observed. No evidence of failure was exhibited for the TPU matrix. Because of its compression capacity, load resistance, and the absence of damage, the TPU is suitable for its use in the manufacturing of RSP.
RANZCP Position Statement 46: A missed opportunity to provide sophisticated guidance on asylum seeker and refugee policy
Authors: Spencer Jillian 
Published: December 2024

Objective To stimulate discussion on how the RANZCP can contribute more constructively to the debate over Australia’s immigration policies. Conclusions Updated in March 2024, RANZCP Position Statement 46, titled: ‘The provision of mental health services for asylum seekers and refugees’, continues the College’s advocacy for a compassionate stance towards asylum seekers and refugees on the grounds of preventing or improving their mental health. College statements over the last decade have raised concerns about policies that are designed to deter boat arrivals; and recently, have endorsed the High Court’s NZYQ decision to mandate community release of detained non-Australian citizens deemed to have failed ‘the character test’ under the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). The College appears to have avoided addressing public concern about how a high asylum seeker and refugee inflow may impact community cohesion and prosperity. RANZCP’s reputation will be enhanced by ensuring more extensive explication of reasoning and rebuttal of counter arguments for the position it has taken on this complex political issue.
Investigation on coupling vibration characteristics of asymmetric rails with variable cross-sections based on modal separation
Authors: Zheng Zhaoguang , Xu Jingmang , Huang Ziyi , Xiang Kailai , Liao Tao , Lai Jun , Wang Ping 
Published: December 2024

In railway turnouts, asymmetric switch rails with variable cross-sections are designed for wheel load transitions. However, the dynamic characteristics of these specially shaped switch rails are not yet fully understood. This paper investigates the vibration characteristics of switch rails through theoretical simulations, on-site admittance tests, and operational deflection shape (ODS) measurements. The study reveals that the modes of the switch rail involve multi-directional coupling vibrations, making the mode types indiscernible through direct observation. To address this, a modal separation method is proposed, based on the calculation of modal mass. The vertical vibration of the switch rail can be categorized into three types: torsional mode, vertical bending mode, and reverse torsion mode of the rail head and base above 600 Hz. As the position approaches the switch rail point, the degree of cross-sectional asymmetry increases, which consequently intensifies torsional vibration. Cross-sectional asymmetry is identified as the primary factor causing the coupling of bending-torsional vibrations, while variable cross-sections contribute to mode shape asymmetry and the gradual alteration of natural frequency along the rail.
International experts consensus on optimal central vascular access device selection and management for patients with cancer
Authors: Jahanzeb Mohammad , Wu Ching-Yang , Lim Howard , Muro Kei , Xu Lichao , Somashekhar Manjiri , Sampige Prasannakumar Somashekhar S P , Zhang Xiaotao , Qiu Xiaoxia , Fu Ying , Pittiruti Mauro 
Published: December 2024

Background: In patients with cancer, the choice of an appropriate venous access device is crucial for effective treatment, minimizing complications, and reducing healthcare costs. Key management decisions, such as the timing of device removal post-therapy, can impact clinical outcomes. As current international guidelines lack specific directives for these issues, a global consensus of experts, representing different countries, was deemed appropriate. Methods: A panel of 11 experts from three continents, including oncologists and healthcare professionals, was chosen. After a comprehensive review of clinical trials and guidelines on central venous access devices (CVAD) in oncology published between January 2013 and December 2023, the panel developed and voted on specific recommendations for the selection and management of CVADs in patients with cancer, during a 2-day meeting. Results: The panel reached consensus on 10 issues concerning (a) indications for a CVAD, (b) available options for CVADs, (c) role of the staff and patients in the choice of CVAD, (d) factors influencing the selection of a port over an external catheter, (e) logistical requirements for port and external catheter insertion, (f) stakeholders responsible for port and external catheter insertion, (g) factors determining the removal of a port after completing the definitive therapy, and (h) recommended frequency of flushing when the CVAD is not in use. Conclusions: The results of the consensus may offer healthcare professionals a global view of some critical issues concerning CVADs for cancer therapy, helping to establish recommendations for local clinical practice.
Analysis of eye movement features in patients with Alzheimer's disease based on intelligent eye movement analysis and evaluation system
Authors: Tao Meichun , Cui Lei , Du Yuanyuan , Liu Xiaotang , Wang Can , Zhao Jing , Qiao Huimin , Li Zhenzhong , Dong Mei 
Published: December 2024

Background The early identification of Alzheimer's disease (AD) benefits patients, so creating a simple and convenient method is crucial for diagnosing early symptoms. Objective To offer a potential approach for the early detection of both AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods Eye movement data from 66 patients were divided into three groups, including healthy control group (HC), MCI group, and AD group. We searched for parameters that can detect MCI at an early stage and drew receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. The correlation between eye movement parameters and cognitive scores was analyzed. Results The MCI group differed from the HC group in error correction rate of antisaccade ( p = 0.008) and total offset degrees (>4°) ( p = 0.011) of lateral fixation. The AD group had different overlap prosaccade accuracy ( p = 0.025), latency ( p = 0.009) and average completion time ( p = 0.015), gap prosaccade latency ( p = 0.005) and average completion time ( p = 0.005), antisaccade accuracy ( p = 0.006), error correction rate ( p  < 0.001) and average saccade velocity ( p = 0.035), and lateral fixation accuracy ( p = 0.018), total offset degrees (>4°) ( p = 0.041) compared to the HC group. The AD group differed significantly from the MCI group in accuracy ( p = 0.001) and error correction rate ( p = 0.044) of antisaccades, the latency ( p = 0.009) and average completion time ( p = 0.025) of overlap prosaccade and the latency ( p = 0.038) of gap prosaccade, these parameters can serve as indicators to monitor the progress of the disease. Lateral fixation combined with antisaccade was more conducive to identifying MCI patients with the area under the ROC curve of 0.837. Most eye movement parameters had a light to moderate correlation with cognitive scores. Conclusions Eye movements can be used for early identification of MCI/AD patients and to monitor disease progression.
Strontioborite: revalidation as a mineral species and new data
Authors: Pekov Igor V. , Zubkova Natalia V. , Chukanov Nikita V. , Yapaskurt Vasiliy O. , Britvin Sergey N. , Ksenofontov Dmitry A. , Pushcharovsky Dmitry Yu. 
Published: December 2024

AbstractStrontioborite, which was first described in 1960 and later discredited by the then named Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA CNMMN), has been re-investigated (electron microprobe, single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, crystal structure determination and IR spectroscopy) on two specimens, including the holotype, and revalidated by the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC). Strontioborite is known only at the Chelkar salt dome (North Caspian Region, Western Kazakhstan), in halite rocks with bischofite, magnesite, anhydrite, halurgite, boracite, ginorite and celestine. It forms colourless lamellar, scaly or tabular crystals up to 2 mm across. The chemical composition (wt.%, H2O is calculated for (OH)4 = 4 H apfu, according to structural data; holotype/neotype) is: CaO 1.42/0.27, SrO 23.10/23.79, B2O3 67.37/67.57, H2O 8.73/8.72, total 100.62/100.37. The empirical formulae [calculated based on 15 O apfu = O11(OH)4 pfu] of the holotype and neotype specimens are Sr0.92Ca0.10B7.98O11(OH)4 and Sr0.95Ca0.02B8.02O11(OH)4, respectively. The idealised formula is Sr[B8O11(OH)4]. Strontioborite is monoclinic, space group P21, a = 7.6192(3), b = 8.1867(2), c = 9.9164(3) Å, β = 108.357(4)°, V = 587.07(3) Å3 and Z = 2. The strongest reflections of the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [d,Å(I)(hkl)] are: 7.22(100)(100), 5.409(61)(110), 4.090(64)(020), 3.300(48)(210), 2.121(30)($\bar{1}$24) and 2.043(37)(040, 024, $\bar{2}$24). The crystal structure, solved from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data (R = 0.0372), is based upon the (100) layers of polymerised B–O–OH polyanions [B8O11(OH)4]2– and Sr-centred nine-fold polyhedra SrO6(OH)3. The B–O–OH polyanion is the cluster of three tetrahedra and three triangles; these clusters are decorated by the [B2O2(OH)3] pyro-group consisting of two triangles. The layers are linked via vertices of Sr-centred polyhedra, which share seven vertices with B-centred polyhedra of one layer and two vertices with B-centred polyhedra of the adjacent layer, and by the system of H bonds. The crystal chemistry of strontioborite is discussed in comparison with other natural and synthetic borates.
Single-character insertion–deletion model preserves long indels in ancestral sequence reconstruction
Authors: Jowkar Gholamhossein , Pečerska Jūlija , Gil Manuel , Anisimova Maria 
Published: December 2024

AbstractInsertions and deletions (indels) play a significant role in genome evolution across species. Realistic modelling of indel evolution is challenging and is still an open research question. Several attempts have been made to explicitly model multi-character (long) indels, such as TKF92, by relaxing the site independence assumption and introducing fragments. However, these methods are computationally expensive. On the other hand, the Poisson Indel Process (PIP) assumes site independence but allows one to infer single-character indels on the phylogenetic tree, distinguishing insertions from deletions. PIP’s marginal likelihood computation has linear time complexity, enabling ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) with indels in linear time. Recently, we developed ARPIP, an ASR method using PIP, capable of inferring indel events with explicit evolutionary interpretations. Here, we investigate the effect of the single-character indel assumption on reconstructed ancestral sequences on mammalian protein orthologs and on simulated data. We show that ARPIP’s ancestral estimates preserve the gap length distribution observed in the input alignment. In mammalian proteins the lengths of inserted segments appear to be substantially longer compared to deleted segments. Further, we confirm the well-established deletion bias observed in real data. To date, ARPIP is the only ancestral reconstruction method that explicitly models insertion and deletion events over time. Given a good quality input alignment, it can capture ancestral long indel events on the phylogeny.
The emergence of citizen collectives for care: the role of social cohesion
Authors: Wittenberg Kevin , Corten Rense , van der Lippe Tanja , de Moor Tine 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Background
Ageing populations and the ability to cure an increasing number of ailments put pressure on the health care sector. Meanwhile, care institutions retreat from rural areas and some governments emphasizes the need for citizens to find informal care primarily in their own social network. In The Netherlands, citizens increasingly respond by coming together to organize (in)formal care among themselves in ‘care collectives’. However, little is known about the conditions that need to be met for such collective action to develop, and explanations that go beyond an individualist perspective are particularly lacking. In this study, we aim to fill this gap, and specifically argue for the potential role of social cohesion to facilitate collective action among citizens through fostering a social identity, and through the prevalence of social relations that facilitate reciprocity and mutual trust among citizens. We further test whether these relations vary between municipalities, and whether they depend on the necessity for care services.

Methods
We obtain data on the location of care collectives from an extensive Dutch inventory and match it to register data from Statistics Netherlands from 2020. We create measures for neighborhood attachment and contact using the ‘ecometric approach’. We test our hypotheses with multilevel logistic regression models and multilevel event history analysis for a subset of the data that can be analyzed longitudinally.

Results
We find evidence for a positive association between neighborhood attachment and the emergence of a care collective, which is stronger if the necessity for care is higher. We do not find a relation between neighborhood contact and care collectives, nor do we find evidence that these relations vary between municipalities. We cannot replicate our positive associations in the longitudinal model, and thus remain reserved about their causal interpretation.

Conclusions
There is considerable variability in the extent to which neighborhoods organize care services collectively. Partly, this may be attributable to differences in the prevalence of neighborhood identity, which would imply that an increasing reliance on citizen collectives may increase inequality in access to healthcare. Further research should emphasize combining community-level information with data on individual participation in care collectives to delve deeper into the dynamics of invitation, representation and embeddedness than current data allows.
The central role of housing key workers in supporting healthcare interactions for people experiencing homelessness and implications for palliative care: a qualitative study
Authors: Gott Merryn , Williams Lisa , Wiles Janine , Black Stella , Moeke-Maxwell Tess , Robinson Jackie ,   Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Background
People experiencing homelessness access specialist palliative care late in their illness trajectory, if at all. There is also little evidence they receive generalist palliative care or are given opportunities to engage in Advance Care Planning. This qualitative study describes the central role of key workers in supporting access to healthcare in homeless communities and identifies implications for improving palliative care provision.

Methods
Qualitative data were collected via focus groups and individual interviews with staff working for a key provider of support and housing/accommodation for people experiencing homelessness in an urban area of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Results
The ability to provide palliative care for people experiencing homelessness is dependent upon supporting engagement with mainstream health services. It is here that we identified the key worker role as central due to the complex and expert work they undertake to facilitate healthcare access for their clients. As a result of the high burden of chronic conditions this community experiences, most of this work related to support managing serious conditions, as well as death and dying. Key workers often went ‘above and beyond’ to support their clients in engaging with mainstream health services, during outpatient appointments, hospital admissions and in emergency department settings. They felt clinicians in these settings did not recognise the knowledge they held about the person, or their skills in terms of providing trauma informed care. The inflexibility of current care provision, as well as people experiencing homelessness feeling stigmatised, and neither valued nor respected in these settings, also created barriers to receiving care.

Conclusions
New models of palliative care are required which recognise the central role of non-health care key support staff and engage them more actively in supporting people experiencing homelessness when they interact with mainstream health services. Such models will need to be responsive to the nature and complexity of palliative care need in this population and facilitate support for people who typically do not see healthcare spaces as safe. The trusted relationships key workers have developed over time are crucial resources for identifying palliative care need and supporting access to palliative care for people experiencing homelessness.