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Advancing Zn-ion Battery Electrodes: Exploring the Potential of Graphene-Polythiophene Nanocomposites through First-Principles Analysis
Authors: Adedoja Oluwaseye Samson , Adekoya Gbolahan Joseph , Sadiku Emmanuel Rotimi , Hamam Yskandar 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis research investigates the electronic and electrochemical properties of graphene-polythiophene (G/Pth) nanocomposites, as potential anode materials for Zn-ion batteries. By capitalizing on the distinctive attributes of these constituent materials, the research aims to unravel critical aspects, such as: interaction studies, electronic structure, charge transfer, charge density difference, the density of states (DOS), theoretical specific capacity, open circuit voltage, Zn-ion diffusion, and the structural stability of G/Pth. The findings present compelling insights into the adsorption process, revealing an exothermic adsorption energy of -2.79 eV and an adsorption height of 3.51 Å for the polythiophene onto the graphene nanosheets. The loading of Zn atoms onto the G/Pth nanocomposite, yields a noteworthy maximum specific capacity of 585 mAh/g. The nanocomposite exhibits an exceptionally low Zn diffusion barrier of 6 meV, thereby, facilitating a swift Zn diffusion across its surface. These results suggest the promising potential of G/Pth nanocomposites as anode materials for Zn-ion batteries, and hence, providing valuable insights into their electronic and structural properties. It is believed that this study, has significantly, contributed to the advancement of the comprehension of polymer substrate-based energy storage materials. Also, it establishes a foundation for further research to develop more effective and efficient solutions for energy storage in Zn-ion batteries.
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Solving Two-stage Quadratic Multiobjective Problems via Optimality and Relaxations
Authors: Chuong Thai Doan , Yu Xinghuo , Liu Chen , Eberhard Andrew , Li Chaojie 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis paper focuses on the study of robust two-stage quadratic multiobjective optimization problems. We formulate new necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for a robust two-stage multiobjective optimization problem. The obtained optimality conditions are presented by means of linear matrix inequalities and thus they can be numerically validated by using a semidefinite programming problem. The proposed optimality conditions can be elaborated further as second-order conic expressions for robust two-stage quadratic multiobjective optimization problems with separable functions and ellipsoidal uncertainty sets. We also propose relaxation schemes for finding a (weak) efficient solution of the robust two-stage multiobjective problem by employing associated semidefinite programming or second-order cone programming relaxations. Moreover, numerical examples are given to demonstrate the solution variety of our flexible models and the numerical verifiability of the proposed schemes.
Continuation of nonlinear normal modes using reduced-order models based on generalized characteristic value decomposition
Authors: Stein Dalton L. , Chelidze David 
Published: September 2024

AbstractOver the past two decades, data-driven reduced-order modeling (ROM) strategies have gained significant traction in the nonlinear dynamics community. Currently, several challenges in physical interpretation and data availability remain overlooked in current methodologies. This work proposes a novel ROM methodology based on a newly proposed generalized characteristic value decomposition (GCVD) to address these obstacles. The GCVD-ROM approach proposes a new perspective toward data-driven ROMs via characterization of the dynamics before any ROM considerations are made. In doing so, a significant degree of versatility is inherited in the GCVD-ROM strategy, allowing our models to reproduce the full-scale dynamics in different regions of the parameter space at the cost of a single training data set. Our approach utilizes computationally efficient free-decay data sets alongside a windowed-decomposition scheme, allowing us to extract energy-dependent modal structures for use in model-order reduction. This is accomplished using the physically insightful characteristic values provided by the GCVD, which are shown to be directly related to the system poles at a particular response amplitude. This natural metric, paired with a resonance tracking scheme, allows us to address the difficulties associated with physical interpretation and data availability without sacrificing the convenient aspects of linear projection-based model order reduction. A computational framework for the continuation and bifurcation analysis using linear projection-based ROMs is also presented, permitting us to deploy rigorous analysis and bifurcation studies to verify that our ROMs reproduce the intrinsic complexity of full-scale systems. A detailed walk-through of the GCVD-ROM approach is demonstrated on a simple system where important practical considerations and implementation details are discussed using a concrete example. The discretized von Kármán beam and shallow arch partial differential equations are also used to explore complicated scenarios involving modal coupling across disparate time scales and internal resonances.
The dramaturgy of listening
Authors: Grygierczyk Artur Tomas 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThe literature on listening and daily discourse often describes an overly romanticized conception of listening, meaning what it should be in its ideal form. However, at most, this ideal is realized through the ‘masks’ that listeners ‘carry’ during their performance of listening. The ideal version that is being projected through the performance of listening is not cognruent with what actually happens behind the mask and performance. Individuals do not have the cognitive capacities to realize this unrealistic and unattainable ideal, but they have the capacity to act as if they do. Using Goffman’s (1959) dramaturgical account this paper reveals the psychological and social world that hides behind the mask and performance of listening in order to ground the theorizing of listening in a more realistic perspective. This account gives rise to novel and indispensable listening concepts: the definition of the situation, the sincere and cynical listener, undercurrent listening, and misrepresentations of listening. These concepts demonstrate that the study of interpersonal listening cannot be isolated from the dramaturgy of listening as (expressed) manners of listening are intricately and inherently embedded in social structure. This account also strongly contests the psychocentric and simplistic definition of listening as proposed by Kluger, A. N., & Mizrahi, M. (2023). Defining Listening: Can We Get Rid of the Adjectives? Current Opinion in Psychology, 101639.).
Secondary Students’ Perceptions of Teaching Quality and Teacher-Family Interaction: A Structural Equation Model
Authors: Hong Meiyang , Brown Gavin T. L. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractStudents’ perceptions of teaching quality and teachers’ interaction with their families, along with student self-efficacy and interest in a subject matter to performance. However, little is known about how student perceptions of teaching quality and teacher-family interactions in the subject of English relate to performance in reading comprehension. The current study explores how the teacher-related perceptions of New Zealand senior secondary students relate to their reading attitudes and tested reading comprehension. Partially mediated structural equation modelling revealed that students’ perceptions of teaching quality directly and positively influenced student self-efficacy, interest, and performance and indirectly through self-efficacy. However, perceptions of teacher-family interactions negatively influenced student self-efficacy and performance and were not related to interest. Although the model was statistically invariant across demographic variables, there were large latent mean differences across school decile bands for reading performance. These findings reinforce the importance of student perceptions of good teaching and raise challenges about how teachers interact with families.
Polyjuralism Meets Polyglotism: An LL.B. in Chinese Law and Global Legal Studies in the English Language
Authors: Tong Io Cheng , Neuwirth Rostam J. , Li Ke 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThe omnipresence of change has been singled out as posing an important challenge to law, both in theory and in practice, throughout its history. Arguably, the most efficient method of adapting the law to constant changes is legal education. Recent changes in the global arena have added to the complexity of the expected role of future legal talents, requiring them to acquire not only a profound knowledge of local and global laws but also a variety of legal as well as non-legal skills. This article presents some of the principal challenges faced by law schools and legal education in the world of today. These challenges are then explored using the example of a new Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree programme in Chinese Law and Global Legal Studies in the English Language that will be offered by the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau in Macao, China.
A pandemic of COVID-19 mis- and disinformation: manual and automatic topic analysis of the literature
Authors: Wakene Abdi D. , Cooper Lauren N. , Hanna John J. , Perl Trish M. , Lehmann Christoph U. , Medford Richard J. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract

Objective:
Social media’s arrival eased the sharing of mis- and disinformation. False information proved challenging throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with many clinicians and researchers analyzing the “infodemic.” We systemically reviewed and synthesized COVID-19 mis- and disinformation literature, identifying the prevalence and content of false information and exploring mitigation and prevention strategies.

Design:
We identified and analyzed publications on COVID-19-related mis- and disinformation published from March 1, 2020, to December 31, 2022, in PubMed. We performed a manual topic review of the abstracts along with automated topic modeling to organize and compare the different themes. We also conducted sentiment (ranked −3 to +3) and emotion analysis (rated as predominately happy, sad, angry, surprised, or fearful) of the abstracts.

Results:
We reviewed 868 peer-reviewed scientific publications of which 639 (74%) had abstracts available for automatic topic modeling and sentiment analysis. More than a third of publications described mitigation and prevention-related issues. The mean sentiment score for the publications was 0.685, and 56% of studies had a negative sentiment (fear and sadness as the most common emotions).

Conclusions:
Our comprehensive analysis reveals a significant proliferation of dis- and misinformation research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study illustrates the pivotal role of social media in amplifying false information. Research into the infodemic was characterized by negative sentiments. Combining manual and automated topic modeling provided a nuanced understanding of the complexities of COVID-19-related misinformation, highlighting themes such as the source and effect of misinformation, and strategies for mitigation and prevention.
Development and implementation of a clinical decision support system-based quality initiative to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections
Authors: Spiegel Michelle C. , Goodwin Andrew J. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractBackground:Central venous lines (CVLs) are frequently utilized in critically ill patients and confer a risk of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs). CLABSIs are associated with increased mortality, extended hospitalization, and increased costs. Unnecessary CVL utilization contributes to CLABSIs. This initiative sought to implement a clinical decision support system (CDSS) within an electronic health record (EHR) to quantify the prevalence of potentially unnecessary CVLs and improve their timely removal in six adult intensive care units (ICUs).Methods:Intervention components included: (1) evaluating existing CDSS’ effectiveness, (2) clinician education, (3) developing/implementing an EHR-based CDSS to identify potentially unnecessary CVLs, (4) audit/feedback, and (5) reviewing EHR/institutional data to compare rates of removal of potentially unnecessary CVLs, device utilization, and CLABSIs pre- and postimplementation. Data was evaluated with statistical process control charts, chi-square analyses, and incidence rate ratios.Results:Preimplementation, 25.2% of CVLs were potentially removable, and the mean weekly proportion of these CVLs that were removed within 24 hours was 20.0%. Postimplementation, a greater proportion of potentially unnecessary CVLs were removed (29%,p< 0.0001), CVL utilization decreased, and days between CLABSIs increased. The intervention was most effective in ICUs staffed by pulmonary/critical care physicians, who received monthly audit/feedback, where timely CVL removal increased from a mean of 18.0% to 30.5% (p< 0.0001) and days between CLABSIs increased from 17.3 to 25.7.Conclusions:A significant proportion of active CVLs were potentially unnecessary. CDSS implementation, in conjunction with audit and feedback, correlated with a sustained increase in timely CVL removal and an increase in days between CLABSIs.
A populist desecuritisation? Mélenchon, left-wing populism, and the fight against Islamophobia in France
Authors: Gaudino Ugo 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
While there is literature on ‘populist securitisation’ and on the ‘securitisation of Islam’, the possibility that some populists may desecuritise Islam is not sufficiently explored. Left-wing populist parties have demonstrated solidarity towards Muslim minorities in Europe through a discourse based on inclusionary rhetoric and deconstruction of the securitising narratives promoted by mainstream and populist right-wing parties. However, their attitude towards Islam can be ambiguous. This paper argues that left-wing populists tend to desecuritise Islam. However, desecuritisation happens in ways that do not always accommodate Muslims’ religious freedoms. This happens because the driver of the left-wing populist desecuritisation of Islam lies in the left-wing thick ideology surrounding populism and not in the populist thin core. I illustrate this argument through the case study of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing populist party La France Insoumise. Through a discourse analysis of texts from 2009 to 2022, I show that Mélenchon has predominantly desecuritised Islam. While his desecuritisation is populist, it has not been truly emancipatory for Muslims. Although a more committed fight against Islamophobia has emerged since 2019, Mélenchon’s ideological attachment to laïcité hinders a full rearticulation of French political community based on genuine recognition of Muslims’ religious freedoms.
Flow and coherent structures generated by a circular array of rigid, emerged cylinders in a shallow channel
Authors: Chang Kyoungsik , Jiang Chenyu , Constantinescu George , Jung Yeong-Ki 
Published: September 2024

The study investigates the flow structure, dynamics of the large-scale coherent structures, drag forces and sediment entrainment mechanisms generated by a circular array of diameter D containing rigid emerged circular cylinders of diameter d placed in a smooth-bed channel of depth h under strong shallow flow conditions (D/h = 20, d/D = 0.0125 and 0.025). Eddy resolving simulations are conducted with different values of the solid volume fraction 0.025 ≤ SVF ≤ 0.1 and non-dimensional frontal area per unit volume (2.56 ≤ aD ≤ 10.2, where for the present configuration, a = SVF(1/d)4/

${\rm \pi}$

) and a fixed channel Reynolds number (Reh = 10 000). The flow conditions are such that a vortex street (VS)-type of shallow wake is expected to form for a solid cylinder of diameter D. Findings are compared with previous results obtained for cases with moderately shallow conditions 2.5 ≤ D/h ≤ 3.5 and with the limiting case of flow past a solid cylinder with D/h = 20. For moderately shallow conditions, the core of the main horseshoe vortex (HV) forming around the array occupies a small fraction of the water column and its coherence is the largest in front of the array. By contrast, for very shallow conditions, multiple HVs form around the array and their cores occupy a large fraction of the water column. Moreover, the coherence of most of these HVs peaks close to the sides of the array. Only for relatively large aD values, the main HV extends over the whole upstream face of the array, similar to the limiting case of a solid cylinder. For sufficiently high aD, a secondary instability is present inside the near wake that leads to the formation of parallel horizontal vortices in the vicinity of the wake roller vortices. The changes in the wake structure with decreasing SVF and aD are qualitatively similar to those observed for cases with moderately shallow flow conditions, with the antisymmetric wake shedding mode being suppressed for aD ≤ 2.5. However, the Strouhal number associated with the shedding of wake rollers, which is still close to 0.2 for a solid cylinder with D/h = 20, can be as high as 0.4 for aD = 2.5. The paper also discusses how the steady wake and total wake lengths and the strength of the bleeding flow vary with the SVF. Simulation results show that the capacity of the flow to entrain sediment inside and around the array peaks for SVF = 0.05 and aD = 5.2, with sediment entrainment monotonically increasing with the SVF outside the array and monotonically decreasing inside the array. Despite the differences in the flow structure next to and inside the array, the variation of the mean, time-averaged streamwise drag coefficient of the solid cylinders

${\bar{C}_d}$

with aD is close to that observed for arrays with moderately shallow flow conditions. The combined drag coefficient for the array decreases with increasing flow shallowness, with the decay being stronger for relatively large values of aD.
Family firms’ equity entry modes: Bridging family business and international business
Authors: D’Allura Giorgia M. , Calabrò Andrea , Bannò Mariasole , Pisano Vincenzo 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
In the global economy, the international strategies of family firms, influenced by family ownership and management, remain underexplored. Bridging the family business and international business fields, we use the socioemotional wealth lens to examine 1,236 international expansions from 2007 to 2013. Categorizing firms into pure family, nearly pure family, borderline family, and non-family typologies, we assess the influence of internal (experience, knowledge) and external (country risk) factors on their entry modes. Results indicate that higher family involvement in ownership/management increases the preference for greenfield investments over acquisitions or equity alliances, a relationship further moderated by international experience and country risk. This study provides nuanced insights into the international behaviors of family firms.
Government formation in presidentialism: Disentangling the combined effects of pre-electoral coalitions and legislative polarization
Authors: Couto Lucas 
Published: September 2024

AbstractRecent research has shed light on the impact of pre-electoral coalitions on government formation in presidential democracies. However, the fact that pre-electoral coalitions are not automatically transformed into coalition cabinets has often gone under the radar. In this article, I argue that the importance of pre-electoral pacts for government formation depends on the degree of legislative polarization. When parties are distant from one another in the ideological spectrum, presidents face more difficulties in breaking away from the pre-electoral pact and rearranging their multiparty alliances. Conversely, when polarization is not pervasive, presidents have more leeway to build coalition cabinets different from the ones prescribed by pre-electoral coalitions. Drawing on a dataset of 13 Latin American countries, the results support my claim and suggest that the relationship between government formation and the concession of office benefits for pre-electoral coalition members is more nuanced than previously assumed.
Between Contestation and Support: Explaining Elites’ Confidence in the International Criminal Court
Authors: Stappert Nora , Verhaegen Soetkin 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has come under challenge in recent years as some countries have decided, or considered, to withdraw from it. Against this backdrop, an emerging literature has begun to examine attitudes toward the court among the general public as a key court constituency. However, little is known about how domestic elites perceive the court. This research gap is particularly surprising given that domestic elites have a considerable impact on both public and state support of the court. This article explains why political and societal elites across world regions have confidence or lack confidence in the ICC. We present the results from a unique survey of 722 elite respondents conducted from 2017 to 2019 across six countries: Brazil, Germany, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, and the United States. We furthermore enrich our analysis by using public opinion data to draw comparisons between elites and the general public. The analyses reveal that the views of elites are most consistently related to their perceptions of other, more well-known international organizations and their country’s relationship with the ICC. Our findings indicate both similarities and differences between how elite and public opinion about the ICC are formed, demonstrating the value of further research on elite opinion on international courts.
Converting the ANU 2.3 telescope to fully automated operation
Authors: Price Ian , Nielsen Jon , Lidman Chris , Soon Jamie , Travouillon Tony , Sharp Rob 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The operation of the ANU 2.3 m telescope transitioned from classically scheduled remote observing to fully autonomous queue scheduled observing in March 2023. The instrument currently supported is WiFeS, a visible-light low-resolution image-slicing integral field spectrograph with a

$25^{\prime\prime}\,\times38^{\prime\prime}$

field of view (offering precision spectrophotometry free from aperture effects). It is highly suitable for rapid spectroscopic follow-up of astronomical transient events and regular cadence observations. The new control system implements flexible queue scheduling and supports rapid response override for target-of-opportunity observations. The ANU 2.3 m is the largest optical telescope to have been retro-fitted for autonomous operation to date, and it remains a national facility servicing a broad range of science cases. We present an overview of the automated control system and report on the first six months of continuous operation.