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Development of morphological awareness in Arabic: the role of morphological system and morphological distance
Authors: Shahbari-Kassem Abeer , Schiff Rachel , Saiegh-Haddad Elinor 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThis study is a cross-sectional developmental investigation of inflectional and derivational morphological awareness (MA) in Arabic diglossia. It examines the impact of the morphological distance between Spoken Arabic (SpA) and Standard Arabic (StA) on inflectional morphological awareness and derivational morphological awareness in a sample of 200 speakers of Palestinian Arabic (PA) in 2nd through 10th grade from mid-high and low SES backgrounds (N = 40 per grade, 20 per SES group). Eight MA tasks using morphological analogies and sentence completion were used that tested inflectional MA and derivational MA in SpA and in StA. Results showed a growth in inflectional and in derivational awareness across grades in both SES groups despite generally higher scores in the mid-high SES group. More interestingly, the results showed a consistent effect of morphological distance on morphological awareness in both morphological systems and in both SES groups, with MA for unique StA morphological structures lower than that for structures available in SpA. Moreover, the impact of morphological distance was more prominent in younger than in older children and in low than in mid-high SES. Finally, when morphological awareness in SpA was tested, inflectional awareness was higher than derivational awareness and showed a shorter cross-sectional developmental trajectory, reflecting universal linguistic and distributional properties of inflections. In contrast, when morphological awareness in StA was analyzed, inflectional awareness was lower than derivational awareness and showed a longer trajectory reflecting the wider linguistic distance between SpA and StA in inflectional morphology. The results underscore the significance of morphological system characteristics and morphological distance in understanding morphological awareness development in Arabic.
Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia
Authors: Yang Puyu , Shoaib Ahad , West Robert , Colavizza Giovanni 
Published: October 2024

AbstractWikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access movement aims to make scientific knowledge openly available, and we might intuitively expect open access to help further Wikipedia’s mission. However, the extent of this relationship remains largely unknown. To fill this gap, we analyse a large dataset of citations from the English Wikipedia and model the role of open access in Wikipedia’s citation patterns. Our findings reveal that Wikipedia relies on open access articles at a higher overall rate (44.1%) compared to their availability in the Web of Science (23.6%) and OpenAlex (22.6%). Furthermore, both the accessibility (open access status) and academic impact (citation count) significantly increase the probability of an article being cited on Wikipedia. Specifically, open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia, as they show an approximately 64.7% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to paywalled articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with high citation counts or published in recent years. Our findings highlight the pivotal role of open access in facilitating the dissemination of scientific knowledge, thereby increasing the likelihood of open access articles reaching a more diverse audience through platforms such as Wikipedia. Simultaneously, open access articles contribute to the reliability of Wikipedia as a source by affording editors timely access to novel results.
Novel combined pharmacological strategy to alleviate acute phase response following zoledronic acid treatment
Authors: Chen Chung-Hwan , Yeap En Kee , Hsu Chia-Hao , Lu Yen-Mou , Cheng Tsung-Lin , Lee Tien-Ching , Ho Cheng-Jung , Li Jhong-You , Shen Hsin-Yi , Huang Hsuan-Ti , Lu Cheng-Chang , Lin Sung-Yen 
Published: October 2024

Abstract

Summary

Brief rationale: Zoledronic acid treatment against osteoporosis is limited by APR. Main result: Combination therapy (hydrocortisone plus non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, acetaminophen, and prednisolone) reduced intolerable APR levels and provided complete symptom relief in most patients. Significance of the paper: Combination therapy can enhance patient outcomes in osteoporosis management.

Purpose
Osteoporosis is a common condition associated with high morbidity rates, often requiring treatment with bisphosphonates such as zoledronic acid. However, the persistence to zoledronic acid infusion is commonly limited by acute phase response (APR). This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a novel combination therapy in preventing APR symptoms.

Methods
A retrospective case–control study was conducted on 931 patients who received their first zoledronic acid infusion between 2011 and 2021. We evaluated the efficacy of combination therapy comprising a single dose of hydrocortisone prior to the infusion and a 3-d oral regimen of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, acetaminophen, and prednisolone following the infusion. Patients were divided into protocol (receiving combination therapy) and control groups (without treatment). Baseline characteristics, APR incidence, and the efficacy of symptom control were compared between groups using Fisher’s exact test and Student’s t-test.

Results
There was no difference in APR incidence between the protocol (n = 507) and control group (n = 407; p = 0.1442). However, the protocol group exhibited lower intolerable APR levels (3.72% vs. 16.71%; p < 0.0001) and complete symptom relief in 96.28% of cases.

Conclusion
The combination therapy protocol effectively reduced intolerable APR and relieved symptoms in most patients following zoledronic acid infusion. This study highlights the importance of proactive management strategies for APR and emphasizes the potential of combination therapy in alleviating APR symptoms and reducing the occurrence of severe APR in patients undergoing osteoporosis management.
Low-Temperature Sintering of Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles by Salt Addition
Authors: Catanzaro L. , Scardaci V. , Scuderi M. , Condorelli M. , D’Urso L. , Compagnini G. 
Published: October 2024

AbstractGold nanoparticles synthetized by pulsed laser ablation in liquid with a mean diameter of 4 nm were joined together by adding potassium bromide solution at various concentrations. By increasing the salt concentration, there is a significant increase of the particle size up to a mean diameter of 18 nm. We have studied the nanoparticle merging by using atomic force and electron microscopy characterizations, also demonstrating that it is possible to deposit sintered nanoparticles on silanized substrates in a fast, simple, cost-effective, energy-saving method with relevance in industrial manufacturing.
South! Phylogeography of the Antarctic fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini and its closest Patagonian congener Branchinecta granulosa reveals a long-term association of freshwater fauna with the southern continent
Authors: Pokorný Matěj , Cohen Rosa Graciela , Nedbalová Linda , Lirio Juan Manuel , Sacherová Veronika 
Published: October 2024

Abstract

Branchinecta gaini Daday, 1910 is the southernmost extant Anostracan species occurring in various localities across Maritime Antarctica. Since this region was almost completely glaciated during the Last Glacial Maximum, the identification of potential glacial refugia and the colonization sequence of freshwater habitats within Maritime Antarctica remains primary biogeographic objective for understanding the evolution of the Antarctic environment. To evaluate the history of B. gaini in Maritime Antarctica, we performed phylogeographic analyses of B. gaini and its closest Patagonian congener Branchinecta granulosa Daday, 1902. We sampled 47 populations from all three Antarctic bioregions where B. gaini occurs – South Orkney Islands, North-west and North-east Antarctic Peninsula. B. granulosa was represented by 8 populations from Patagonia. Molecular analyses of two mitochondrial (16S, COI) and one nuclear (ITS2) marker showed low overall mitochondrial variability and the ambiguous nature of ITS2 variability. The species assessment revealed insufficient genetic differentiation between B. gaini and B. granulosa to consider them two separate species. Therefore, the widely accepted idea that there is a species of Branchinecta endemic to Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands should be omitted, and B. gaini should be synonymized with B. granulosa. Molecular clock analysis of COI for two substitution rates dated the separation of B. gaini from B. granulosa to the Pleistocene (170 – 502 ka BP and 17 – 50 ka BP, respectively). Therefore, Antarctic populations of B. gaini separated from Patagonian B. granulosa before or during the Last Glacial Maximum, indicating an older association with the southern continent than previously anticipated. The geographic distribution of haplotypes further suggests that B. gaini most likely survived at least the last glacial period in an as-yet unknown refugium in Antarctica.
Coercive public health policies need context-specific ethical justifications
Authors: Johnson Tess , Ndlovu Lerato , Baiyegunhi Omolara O. , Lora Wezzie S. , Desmond Nicola 
Published: October 2024

AbstractPublic health policies designed to improve individual and population health may involve coercion. These coercive policies require ethical justification, and yet it is unclear in the public health ethics literature which ethical concepts might justify coercion, and what their limitations are in applying across contexts. In this paper, we analyse a number of concepts from Western bioethics, including the harm principle, paternalism, the public interest, and a duty of easy rescue. We find them plausible justifications for coercion in theory, but when applied to case studies, including HIV testing in Malawi, vaccine mandates in South Africa, and prohibitions of antibiotic use in livestock in the EU, their limitations become clear. We argue that the context-specificity of ethical justifications for coercion has been overlooked, and there is more work needed to identify context-relevant ethical justifications for coercive policies in various settings and for various populations, rather than relying on universalising Western bioethical justifications across all contexts.
Is that SMART? Leveraging Collaboration and Peer Feedback to Enable Practice in Appraising and Presenting Journal Articles
Authors: Worden Mary Kate 
Published: October 2024

AbstractIn an innovative journal club exercise, groups of students collaboratively appraise and present a journal article and then provide SMART narrative feedback to a peer group on their presentation. Feedback is exchanged between groups that presented the same journal article, increasing the likelihood that feedback will be meaningful and high-quality.
Porous Organic Cage-Based Quasi-Solid-State Electrolyte with Cavity-Induced Anion-Trapping Effect for Long-Life Lithium Metal Batteries
Authors: Qin Wei-Min , Li Zhongliang , Su Wen-Xia , Hu Jia-Min , Zou Hanqin , Wu Zhixuan , Ruan Zhiqin , Cai Yue-Peng , Li Kang , Zheng Qifeng 
Published: October 2024

AbstractPorous organic cages (POCs) with permanent porosity and excellent host–guest property hold great potentials in regulating ion transport behavior, yet their feasibility as solid-state electrolytes has never been testified in a practical battery. Herein, we design and fabricate a quasi-solid-state electrolyte (QSSE) based on a POC to enable the stable operation of Li-metal batteries (LMBs). Benefiting from the ordered channels and cavity-induced anion-trapping effect of POC, the resulting POC-based QSSE exhibits a high Li+ transference number of 0.67 and a high ionic conductivity of 1.25 × 10−4 S cm−1 with a low activation energy of 0.17 eV. These allow for homogeneous Li deposition and highly reversible Li plating/stripping for over 2000 h. As a proof of concept, the LMB assembled with POC-based QSSE demonstrates extremely stable cycling performance with 85% capacity retention after 1000 cycles. Therefore, our work demonstrates the practical applicability of POC as SSEs for LMBs and could be extended to other energy-storage systems, such as Na and K batteries.
Weak Convergence of Probability Measures on Hyperspaces with the Upper Fell-Topology
Authors: Ferger Dietmar 
Published: October 2024

AbstractLet E be a locally compact second countable Hausdorff space and $$\mathcal {F}$$
F
the pertaining family of all closed sets. We endow $$\mathcal {F}$$
F
respectively with the Fell-topology, the upper Fell topology or the upper Vietoris-topology and investigate weak convergence of probability measures on the corresponding hyperspaces with a focus on the upper Fell topology. The results can be transferred to distributional convergence of random closed sets in E with applications to the asymptotic behavior of measurable selections.
Non-exchange bias hysteresis loop shifts in dense composites of soft-hard magnetic nanoparticles: New possibilities for simple reference layers in magnetic devices
Authors: Maltoni Pierfrancesco , López-Martín Raúl , Sánchez Elena H. , Normile Peter S. , Vasilakaki Marianna , Lee Su Seong , Burgos Benito Santos , del Castillo Eloy A. López , Peddis Davide , Binns Chris , Trohidou Kalliopi , Mathieu Roland , Nogués Josep , De Toro José A. 
Published: October 2024

AbstractExchange bias has been extensively studied in both exchange-coupled thin films and nanoparticle composite systems. However, the role of non-exchange mechanisms in the overall hysteresis loop bias is far from being understood. Here, dense soft-hard binary nanoparticle composites are used not only as a novel tool to unravel the effect of dipolar interactions on the hysteresis loop shift but also as a new strategy to enhance the bias of any magnet exhibiting an asymmetric magnetization reversal. Mixtures of equally sized, 6.8 nm, soft maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) nanoparticles (no bias—symmetric reversal) and hard cobalt doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles (large exchange bias—asymmetric reversal) reveal that, for certain fractions of soft particles, the loop shift of the composite can be significantly larger than the exchange-bias field of the hard particles in the mixture. Simple calculations indicate how this emerging phenomenon can be further enhanced by optimizing the parameters of the hard particles (coercivity and loop asymmetry). In addition, the existence of a dipolar-induced loop shift (“dipolar bias”) is demonstrated both experimentally and theoretically, where, for example, a bias is induced in the initially unbiased γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles due to the dipolar interaction with the exchange-biased hard nanoparticles. These results open a new paradigm in the large field of hysteresis bias and pave the way for novel approaches to tune loop shifts in magnetic hybrid systems beyond interface exchange coupling.
Student-created videos in online STEM education: a large, interdisciplinary, randomized control study
Authors: Atkinson Alvina , Bell Patrice , De La Rosa Indhira , DeGeorge Tonya , Jonassen Lorraine , Kokil Vinavtee , Lee Seungjin , Malloy Mia , Pinzon Katherine , Robertson Cindy , Savage Jamye Curry , Shahbaz Rabia , Villanueva Omar , Wludyga Joshua , Morris Joshua 
Published: October 2024

AbstractStudent-created videos engage students’ interests, creativity, and content knowledge and enrich collaborative learning in STEM education. These videos enhance critical thinking and analytical skills, which are essential tools in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This study presents the results of such an assignment across several STEM areas (biology, chemistry, exercise science, information technology, and mathematics) at a minority-serving, liberal arts higher education institution in the southeast region of the United States. Undergraduate students (n = 557) across varied, online course modalities (synchronous and asynchronous) were required to create four problem-solving videos 3–8 min in duration. Assessment tools included a self-assessment of learning gains survey given to control and experimental groups and a post-video creation survey given only to experimental groups. Grade data was also collected from all sections. Comparing the experimental and control groups, students showed a statistically significant gain in their ability to give oral presentations, create videos, and edit videos. Qualitative data from free-response questions corroborate these gains and suggest that students also grew in content knowledge and conceptual understanding through these assignments. Our study implements a multimedia theoretical framework which suggests students learn more effectively from consuming presentations with both auditory and visual components. Our results suggest students see similar gains from producing presentations with both auditory and visual components. Further our results suggest that multimedia production enhances students’ presentation skills. From a practical perspective, this study suggests that faculty should incorporate student-created videos in online classes, which typically require oral presentations in person. Faculty are also advised to require oral and visual components within these videos to maximize learning gains from the perspective of a multimedia theoretical framework.
Investigating Heritage and Climate Change in the Coastal and Maritime Environments of Wales and Ireland: A Guide to the CHERISH Toolkit
Authors: Barker Louise , Corns Anthony 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
In March 2023 the EU-funded CHERISH project published its free user-guide and methodology for investigating heritage and climate change in the coastal and maritime environment (Barker and Corns 2023). This paper provides an overview of the publication, specifically the CHERISH toolkit – the 15 approaches employed by the multi-disciplinary project to investigate at-risk heritage sites in Wales and Ireland. Using the eroding coastal hillfort of Dinas Dinlle in Wales as a case study, the toolkit which combines air, land and sea-based investigation techniques is highlighted. This article will assist users going forward in identifying relevant approaches to the study of their own at-risk sites. It is relevant to a wide-ranging audience anywhere in the world, taking into consideration a variety of requirements such as the environment, budget, and outputs.
Impact of operator characteristics on landing gear ground manoeuvre occurrences
Authors: Hoole J. , Booker J.D. , Cooper J.E. 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThe variability in ground manoeuvre occurrences for aircraft landing gear is intrinsically linked to the airport geometries served by aircraft in-service and consequently, the cyclic loads that landing gear carry are driven by the route network and characteristics of aircraft operators. Currently, assumptions must be made when deriving fatigue load spectra for aircraft landing gear, which may fail to capture the operator characteristics, potentially leading to design conservatism. This paper presents the enhanced characterisation of ground turning manoeuvres within the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) trajectories for six narrow-body aircraft across a full-service carrier (FSC) and a low-cost carrier (LCC) fleet. The methodology presented within this paper employs ADS-B latitude and longitude information to overcome limitations of previous approaches, increasing the rate of correct manoeuvre identification within ADS-B trajectories to 77% of flights from the 50% rate achieved previously. When characterising the ground manoeuvres across 3,000 flights, significant differences in manoeuvre occurrences were observed between individual aircraft within the LCC fleet and between the FSC and LCC fleets. The occurrence of tight and pivot turns were shown to vary across the six aircraft with six and eight fatigue-critical turns being performed by the FSC and LCC fleet for every 10 flights performed. In addition, it was observed that the direction of fatigue critical turns is biased in specific directions, suggesting that individual main landing gear assemblies will accumulate fatigue damage at an increased rate, leading to greater justification for operator-specific spectra and structural health monitoring of aircraft landing gear.
Contract labour in mining and occupational health and safety: A critical review
Authors: Jackson Heather , Quinlan Michael 
Published: October 2024

AbstractIn recent decades, there has been a global growth of the use of contract labour in the mining industry, primarily driven by cost/flexibility considerations. At the same time, contracting has been associated with poorer occupational health and safety (OHS) outcomes across a range of industries. Drawing on published research, theses, and government reports, this paper critically reviews the available evidence on the OHS effects of contract labour in mining and the likely implications of further growth in this trend. This evidence confirms that the use of contract labour is associated with worse OHS outcomes, and that the Ten Pathways and Pressure, Disorganisation, and Regulatory failure (PDR) models are both valuable in explaining this. The latter point is confirmed by a more detailed examination of four serious mine incidents in NSW and Queensland. The paper identifies some gaps and areas for further research as well as the actions that mining companies, regulators, and unions could take to improve contractor safety. Notwithstanding the latter, the paper argues that the most effective way of improving contractor safety in mines is reducing the use of contractors overall and concentrating their activities in areas such as major shutdowns/repairs, where contractors have specialised expertise to undertake non-routine tasks. Despite oft-repeated phrases such as zero-harm and management systems, the corporate shift to using contractors is primarily driven by cost-cutting and highlights how OHS is compromised by such priorities.
A qualitative study exploring mental health professionals’ perspectives, opinions, and attitudes on the state of service users’ rights
Authors: Eiroa-Orosa Francisco José , Pradillo-Caimari Cristina 
Published: October 2024

Abstract

Background:
The rights of mental health service users are a subject of profound debate. In this article, we aim to examine mental health professionals’ perspectives, opinions, and attitudes on the state of service users’ rights.

Methods:
We conducted a thematic analysis of eleven focus groups involving mental health professionals.

Results:
Through this process, we identified two main meta-themes that shed light on the challenges faced by mental health service users: ‘Transforming the therapeutic relationship’ and ‘Societal determinants of service users’ rights’. Within the former meta-theme, we identified the following themes: ‘Diversifying mental health knowledge’, ‘Risk-protection tensions’, and ‘Being (ir)responsible’. Within the latter meta-theme we identified ‘Determinants inside the clinics’ and ‘Determinants outside the clinics.’

Conclusions:
Reflecting on these themes could potentially encourage new strategies to support professionals in overcoming the subjective barriers that prevent their adherence to rights-based mental health care models.