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Evolving routing policies for electric vehicles by means of genetic programming
Authors: Gil-Gala Francisco J. , Đurasević Marko , Jakobović Domagoj 
Published: September 2024

AbstractIn recent years, the growing interest in environmental sustainability has led to Electric Vehicle Routing Problems (EVRPs) attracting more and more attention. EVRPs involve the use of electric vehicles, which have additional constraints, such as range and recharging time, compared to conventional Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs). The complexity and dynamic nature of solving VRPs often lead to the introduction of Routing Policies (RPs), simple heuristics that incrementally build routes. However, manually designing efficient RPs proves to be a challenging and time-consuming task. Therefore, there is a pressing need to explore the application of hyper-heuristics, in particular Genetic Programming (GP), to automatically generate new RPs. Since this method has not yet been investigated in the literature in the context of EVRPs, this study explores the applicability of GP to automatically generate new RPs for EVRP. To this end, three RP variants (serial, semiparallel, and parallel) are introduced in this study, along with a set of domain-specific terminal nodes to optimise three criteria: the number of vehicles, energy consumption, and total tardiness. The experimental analysis shows that the serial variant performs best in terms of energy consumption and number of vehicles, while the parallel variant is most effective in minimising the total tardiness. A comprehensive analysis of the proposed method is conducted to determine its convergence properties and the impact of the proposed terminal nodes on performance and to describe several generated RPs. The results show that the automatically generated RPs perform commendably compared to traditional methods such as metaheuristics and exact methods, which usually require significantly more runtime. More specifically, depending on the scenario in which they are used, the generated RPs achieve results that are about 20%-37% worse compared to the best known results for the number of vehicles in almost negligible time, in just some milliseconds.
Integration of AHP and fuzzy inference systems for empowering transformative journeys in organizations: Assessing the implementation of Industry 4.0 in SMEs
Authors: Fernández Isabel , Puente Javier , Ponte Borja , Gómez Alberto 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThe combined use of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Inference Systems (FISs) can significantly enhance the effectiveness of transformative projects in organizations by better managing their complexities and uncertainties. This work develops a novel multicriteria model that integrates both methodologies to assist organizations in these projects. To demonstrate the value of the proposed approach, we present an illustrative example focused on the implementation of Industry 4.0 in SMEs. First, through a review of relevant literature, we identify the key barriers to improving SMEs' capability to implement Industry 4.0 effectively. Subsequently, the AHP, enhanced through Dong and Saaty’s methodology, establishes a consensus-based assessment of the importance of these barriers, using the judgments of five experts. Next, a FIS is utilized, with rule bases automatically derived from the preceding weights, eliminating the need for another round of expert input. This paper shows and discusses how SMEs can use this model to self-assess their adaptability to the Industry 4.0 landscape and formulate improvement strategies to achieve deeper alignment with this transformative paradigm.
Virtual Service Delivery in Mental Health and Substance Use Care: A Systematic Review of Preference Elicitation Studies
Authors: Mallise Carly , Wall Laura , Paolucci Francesco , Davies Kate , La Hera Fuentes Gina , Wilson Jessica , Tickner Campbell , Kay-Lambkin Frances , Heinsch Milena 
Published: September 2024

AbstractMental health and substance use disorders affect the lives of many people worldwide. Prevention and treatment of these conditions is important for optimal health and wellbeing, yet service access barriers are common. Virtual models of care may help to reduce barriers to receiving care. However, to facilitate uptake and use of virtual services, they need to appeal to patients and clinicians. This systematic review aimed to synthesise preference elicitation studies to determine what features of virtual mental health and substance use care are preferred by service users and service providers. Following the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews, we searched PubMed, PsycINFO, EconLit, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Academic Search Ultimate, and ProQuest Central for all available studies from database inception until May 2023. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool was used to assess the methodological quality of included studies. Nineteen studies met the eligibility criteria. However, none examined preferences for elements of different models of virtual care. Across the included studies, we identified 41 unique features that mapped to four themes of mental health and substance use care (‘service’, ‘treatment’, ‘clinician’ and ‘additional supports’). Participant preferences were for individual, in-person, effective, flexible, and low-cost treatment. These preferences varied based on demographic factors, such as culture, gender, and participant type (e.g., patients, clinicians, general population). A user-centred approach should be adopted when designing and implementing mental health and substance use services. While preferences for features of mental health and substance use services more broadly are known, preferences for different models of virtual care remain unexplored. Future research should examine what features of virtual services would lead to optimal uptake and use across different users and stakeholders.
Service Providers’ Perspectives of an Integrated Community Mental Health Service in the UK
Authors: Silvonen Taru 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This qualitative service evaluation aims to provide in-depth insights of service providers’ perspectives of a new integrated community mental health service piloted in one NHS Integrated Care Board locality in South West England, UK, considering to what extent the service is meeting the mental health support needs of adults who are in between primary and secondary care services. In total, 21 semi-structured remote interviews were carried out in June-August 2023 with service providers and lived experience representatives. The evaluation was carried out through a researcher in residence -placement. Qualitative analysis drew on framework and thematic analysis, which was completed using Nvivo 20. Thematic analysis drew on a framework of context, mechanisms and intended or unintended consequences. These showed that service providers’ positive expectations of the service were undermined by insufficient integration, which was evident from the imbalances in information flow and presence of pre-existing provider specific practices. The evaluation found several improvement opportunities: a need for deepening integration beyond the initial service development phase; aligning working practices with service delivery aims and ensuring that new services are not rolled out prematurely before service delivery practices have been fully developed.
Do Different Bank-Level Securitization Variables Measure The Same Thing? A Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Authors: van der Plaat Mark T. , Spierdijk Laura 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThe banking literature has used a wide range of securitization variables to measure banks’ securitization activities. This study analyzes to what extent different securitization variables measure the same dimensions of the securitization process. We consider large U.S. commercial banks during the 2011–2017 period and focus on eleven securitization variables that are available in the Call Reports and the HMDA LAR database. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) shows that eight out of eleven securitization variables share a single common securitization dimension. Two of the three remaining measures are excluded from the analysis in a specification search. The third remaining measure captures the common securitization factor to a lesser extent, resulting in relatively low correlations with the other variables. Each of the eight securitization variables is found to be a reliable measure of the underlying securitization factor according to the CFA. Our results provide a statistical rationale for using either of the eight variables as a measure of securitization. More generally, we recommend CFA to make a grounded choice among the available securitization measures.
Tropical Race 4 and Race 1 strains causing Fusarium wilt of banana infect and survive in Heliconia species and ornamental bananas
Authors: Martínez-de la Parte Einar , Meijer Harold J. G. , Guzmán-Quesada Mauricio , Carr-Rodríguez Claudiana , Masis-Jiménez Silvia , Pérez-Vicente Luis , Kema Gert H. J. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by soilborne Fusarium lineages, is a major global threat to the cultivation of bananas. In addition to persistent chlamydospores, weeds are a reservoir of the causal agents. However, it remains unclear whether other Zingiberales species, which are grown in the same geographic regions, also can serve as hosts for strains that cause FWB. Greenhouse assays were conducted to investigate whether a Race 1 strain (pathogenic to Gros Michel banana) or Tropical Race 4 (TR4) (pathogenic to a plethora of banana varieties, including Cavendish bananas) can infect three Heliconia species, two ornamental banana species or Musa textilis (abacá). Heliconia latispatha, Musa balbisiana, and Musa coccinea displayed external symptoms after inoculation with TR4, while inoculation with Race 1 caused symptoms in H. latispatha, H. psittacorum, M. coccinea, and M. velutina. Isolates were recovered from symptomatic and asymptomatic plants and were subsequently characterized and used to inoculate Gros Michel and Cavendish banana plants. They caused the typical FWB symptoms in these varieties, and the scores for discolored rhizome area were similar to those caused by the Race 1 and TR4 reference strains. These data call for a revision of the race nomenclature of FWB pathogens and adjustment of the current containment protocols.
Rational inattention in games: experimental evidence
Authors: Almog David , Martin Daniel 
Published: September 2024

AbstractTo investigate whether attention responds rationally to strategic incentives, we experimentally implement a buyer-seller game in which a fully informed seller makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer to a buyer who faces cognitive costs to process information about the offer’s value. We isolate the impact of seller strategies on buyer attention by exogenously varying the seller’s outside option, which leads sellers to price high more often. We find that buyers respond by making fewer mistakes conditional on value, which suggests that buyers exert higher attentional effort in response to the increased strategic incentives for paying attention. We show that a standard model of rational inattention based on Shannon mutual information cannot fully explain this change in buyer behavior. However, we identify another class of rational inattention models consistent with this behavioral pattern.
Mathematics Apps Under the Magnifying Glass – An Analysis of the Inventory of Math Apps for Primary Schools Using German-Language Apps as A Case Study
Authors: Walter Daniel , Schwätzer Ulrich 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThe usage of digital media, especially tablet apps, is currently a major concern in educational settings. A controversial discussion is also taking place in relation to mathematics education at primary schools. While on the one hand there are empirical findings on helpful isolated examples and related subject-didactic potentials of digital media, on the other hand numerous apps are criticized. Systematic analyses of the app stores inventory are rare, however. This article therefore deals with the analysis of the app store’s inventory of mathematics apps available for primary school use. Using the German app market as an example, 227 apps were analyzed. The results show that those apps are mainly located in the content-related area of numbers and operations, while process-related competencies and subject-didactic potentials of digital media are largely neglected. Moreover, apps focus on unstructured forms of practising fluent calculation. All in all, only a fragment of mathematics learning at primary schools is addressed, with frequently no consideration of subject-didactic potentials in mathematics apps, making the need for development of subject-didactically based mathematics apps obvious.
Publishing mathematics education research in English: amplifying voices from the field
Authors: Darragh Lisa , Brodie Karin , Halai Anjum , Planas Núria , Potari Despina , Santos-Trigo Manuel , Scheiner Thorsten , Walkoe Janet 
Published: September 2024

AbstractIn this paper we investigate the issue of representation within the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (JMTE) and the broader academic publishing landscape, particularly focusing on the underrepresentation of authors from various world regions. A questionnaire, distributed globally, aimed to amplify the voices of the underrepresented, exploring the constraints and affordances of publishing in English-medium mathematics education research journals. The question that guided our investigation was: What do voices from the mathematics education community raise in their responses to questions about publishing in English-medium research journals like JMTE? We used qualitative methods to review the responses and identify common themes. The findings revealed significant barriers and challenges related to language, research location, and institutional support, highlighting the complexities of navigating the global academic community and the academic publishing culture. We propose actionable suggestions to foster a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive publishing environment.
Mapping Segregation Patterns of Hospital Care among Patients with Limited English Proficiency
Authors: Sliwinski Kathy , Ancheta April J. , Muir K. Jane , Lasater Karen B. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractIndividuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) are disproportionately more likely to experience suboptimal care outcomes compared to English-proficient individuals, attributed to multi-level social determinants of health, including the quality of the hospital where LEP patients are more likely to receive care. Evidence demonstrates that racial minority patients are more often admitted to lower-quality hospitals serving high proportions of minority patients, despite living closer to higher-quality hospitals. Less is known about where individuals with LEP reside, where they seek hospital care, and the quality of care in these hospitals. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) methods, we developed a density map characterizing residential patterns of the LEP population across zip code tabulation areas in New Jersey and designated hospitals as high, middle, or low-LEP volume. We described differences in 30-day hospital wide readmission rates for hospitals across varying LEP volume status using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Care Compare Data. Most hospitals in ZCTAs with higher LEP populations serve a high proportion of LEP patients (i.e. their patients’ demographics are reflective of the community in which they are located). However, our results also show instances in which LEP patients may be forgoing receiving care at closer hospitals to instead receive care at further-distanced, high-LEP volume hospitals. significant. High-LEP volume hospitals have higher 30-day hospital wide readmission rates (20.1%) compared to middle (15%) and low (11.3%)-LEP volume hospitals (p < .001), indicating lower quality of care within high-LEP volume hospitals.
Countering Authoritarian Behavior in Democracies
Authors: Hobolt Sara B. , Osnabrügge Moritz 
Published: September 2024

AbstractDemocratic stability hinges on voters’ commitment to democratic norms, yet there are many examples of voters’ willingness to tolerate politicians who violate such principles. This article examines whether critical responses by other politicians can effectively counter the appeal of political candidates who have engaged in authoritarian behavior. We argue that costly action by fellow partisan politicians can reduce the electoral popularity of authoritarian politicians. We test this in a preregistered conjoint experiment embedded in a nationally representative survey in the United Kingdom. The results show that voters are less likely to choose politicians displaying authoritarian behavior, when they are criticized by other legislators, and that such counteractions are particularly effective when they are costly. These findings have important implications, as they show that politicians, especially co-partisans, can play an important role in reducing the appeal of authoritarian politicians.
The Quest for the Sli Locus
Authors: Eggers Ernst-Jan , Su Ying , van Heusden Sjaak A. W. , de Vries Michiel E. , Bachem Christian W. B. , Visser Richard G. F. , Lindhout Pim 
Published: September 2024

AbstractGenetic gain in potato breeding is limited by the heterozygous tetraploid genome of cultivated potato. Recent efforts to breed potato at the diploid level promise to improve genetic gain and allow more straightforward genetics and introgression breeding. Diploid F1 hybrid potato breeding relies on the ability to create diploid inbred lines via repeated self-fertilization. However, self-fertilization of diploid potato is hampered by a gametophytic self-incompatibility system encoded by the S-locus that prevents fertilization by self-pollen. Nonetheless, self-compatible diploid potato genotypes exist and have been used to create inbred lines. The S-locus inhibitor (Sli) gene is a dominant gene that provides strong self-compatibility in diploid potato and was previously mapped to Chromosome 12. While the Sli gene has already been identified and characterized, the most tedious challenge was to develop the optimal phenotyping methods and genetic populations preceding the cloning of this gene. To this end, we developed an effective phenotyping protocol to identify suitable parents and create diploid populations segregating for Sli. We show that an accurate phenotyping method is crucial to discriminate between confounding fertility factors and self-compatibility. In addition, we found that the Sli locus shows extreme segregation distortion on Chromosome 12. Finally, we used these insights to develop three F1 populations that segregate for Sli, which we later used for the identification of the Sli gene.
How histopathological diagnosis interacts with kidney ultrasound parameters and glomerular filtration rate
Authors: Andrulli Simeone , Gigante Antonietta , Rossini Michele , D’Angio’ Pierluigi , Vischini Gisella , Luchetta Franca , Aucella Filippo , Valsecchi Giovanni , Infante Barbara , Vario Maria Giovanna , Giannese Domenico , Granata Antonio , Moggia Elisabetta , Gembillo Guido , Cianci Rosario , Bonomini Mario , Manenti Flavia , Lazzarin Roberta , Renzo Brigida Di , Zanchelli Fulvia , Garozzo Maurizio , Manes Massimo , Battaglia Yuri , Sciri Raffaela , Fabritiis Marco De , Quaglia Marco , Cavoli Gioacchino Li , Gintoli Enrica , Conte Maria Maddalena , Borzumati Maurizio , Benozzi Luisa , Pasquariello Giovanna , Andrulli Giovanni , Leoni Marco , Seminara Giuseppe , Corbani Valentina , Sabiu Gianmarco , Maggio Arcangelo Di , Pollastro Rosa Maria , Gesualdo Loreto ,   ITA-KID-BIOPSY Group
Published: September 2024

AbstractThe evaluation of estimated GFR (eGFR) is a pivotal staging step in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and renal ultrasound plays an important role in diagnosis, prognosis and progression of CKD. The interaction between histopathological diagnosis and ultrasound parameters in eGFR determination has not been fully investigated yet. The study examined the results of native kidney biopsies performed in 48 Italian centers between 2012 and 2020. The primary goal was if and how the histopathological diagnosis influences the relationship between ultrasound parameters and eGFR. After exclusion of children, patients with acute kidney injury and patients without measure of kidney length or parenchymal thickness, 2795 patients have been selected for analysis. The median values were 52 years for patient age, 11 cm for bipolar kidney diameter, 16 mm for parenchymal thickness, 2.5 g/day for proteinuria and 70 ml/min/1.73 m2 for eGFR. The bipolar kidney diameter and the parenchymal thickness were directly related with eGFR values (R square 0.064). Diabetes and proteinuria were associated with a consistent reduction of eGFR, improving the adjusted R square up to 0.100. Addition of histopathological diagnosis in the model increased the adjusted R square to 0.216. There is a significant interaction between histopathological diagnosis and longitudinal kidney diameter (P 0.006). Renal bipolar length and parenchymal thickness are directly related with eGFR. The magnitude of proteinuria and histopathological kidney diagnosis are associated with eGFR. The relationship between kidney length and the level of eGFR depends on the nature of the kidney disease.
Yoga as Potential Therapy for Burnout: Health Technology Assessment Report on Efficacy, Safety, Economic, Social, Ethical, Legal and Organizational Aspects
Authors: Schröter Marleen , Cramer Holger , Haller Heidemarie , Huster Stefan , Lampert Ulrike , Schaefer Martin , Janssen-Schauer Gesa , Meier Friedhelm , Neumann Anja , Neusser Silke , Koch Anna K. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Purpose of Review
This health technology assessment aimed to systematically assess the efficacy and safety of yoga as therapy for burnout. Economic, ethical, legal, social and organizational aspects were considered as well.

Recent Findings
Yoga as a therapy has been shown to have positive effects on a range of symptoms, including stress, anxiety and depression. Regarding work-related stress and burnout, the effects of yoga have mainly been examined in a preventative context.

Summary
Meta-analyses revealed no effects on burnout severity comparing yoga with passive controls in general. Compared with passive controls, yoga had a positive effect on subjective stress. Compared to active control, yoga had an effect on the burnout subscale depersonalization on individual study level. Yoga may have positive effects on burnout, but the results are mixed. Common definitions and standardized diagnostic tools are necessary to improve research and further assess yoga as therapy for burnout.

Trial Registration
The HTA is registered with PROSPERO, CRD42022299405, on 6th February 2022.