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Translingual Practices for EAL Writing Education in Non‐EMI Contexts
Authors: Sun Yachao , Feng Huan 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis study explored the impacts of translingual practices on English as an additional language (EAL) writing education in a non‐English as a medium of instruction (non‐EMI) context at a Chinese university. The findings highlighted the benefits of translingual practices in enhancing students' comprehension, easing cognitive challenges, and fostering metalinguistic awareness. Students with limited English proficiency often turned to translingual practices for clearer content understanding. However, there was a growing concern among some EAL students that the heavy reliance on their mother tongue could limit their capability to connect with a wider, primarily English‐speaking audience. The findings also revealed that students' desire to achieve “native‐like” fluency led some students to adopt a deficit approach to other language resources in their EAL writing. To address these issues, this study suggests implementing strategic translingual practices, which can be achieved by leveraging students' full linguistic repertoire, teaching critical language awareness (CLA), and adopting a rhetorical approach to EAL writing education. This integrated approach can validate diverse linguistic backgrounds while ensuring effective communication tailored for various audiences. This study, thus, endorses an EAL writing pedagogy that embraces linguistic diversity and arms students with English norms and writing conventions to harness this diversity for more effective global communication.
(Re)designing leadership engagement to center learners
Authors: Allen Johnnie L. , Juarez Freddy 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThis article highlights the importance of leadership engagement throughout the leadership learning process, adding to the leadership learning framework literature. We include a brief overview of leadership engagement as it relates to user‐centered design (UCD), commonly utilized in information technology companies. The authors offer how UCD can assist in critically designing leadership engagement opportunities with a learner‐centered approach. The authors also describe the intersections of leadership engagement and UCD to (re)imagine leadership experiences and provide recommendations and best practices based on existing and current practices. The article concludes with a detailed overview of how the Florida State University Fraternity and Sorority Life Department promotes leadership engagement through its initiatives and programs while centering the learner.
Continuous Gravity Observations at Campi Flegrei Caldera: An Accurate Assessment of Tidal and Non-Tidal Signals and Implications for Volcano Monitoring
Authors: Riccardi U. , Pivetta T. , Fedele A. , Ricciardi G. , Carlino S. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractWe present the results of nearly one year of gravity recording acquired at the active caldera of Campi Flegrei (CFc). CFc is one of the three active volcanoes in the Neapolitan area (southern Italy) and is currently the most active one. In fact, the CFc is undergoing a period of unrest characterised by slow uplift of the ground, a peculiar phenomenon known worldwide as bradyseism, accompanied by seismicity and intense fumarolic emissions. Due to the increased intensity of the volcano dynamics, a permanent gravity station equipped with a gPhoneX spring gravimeter was installed to enhance the geodetic monitoring programmes. The purpose of the continuous recordings is to complement the time-lapse observations carried out periodically on networks of benchmarks, in order to continuously monitor the short-term gravity signals. We report on the various processing steps and analyses performed to obtain reliable parameters of the Earth's tides, non-tidal corrections and gravity residuals. The various methodologies employed to investigate the instrumental drift are also elucidated in depth, because it may masquerade the elusive gravity changes resulting from mass fluctuations within the volcanic and geothermal systems. Residual gravity signals, retrieved from the recordings, after reduction of body and ocean tides, polynomial drift, atmospheric, tilt and change of the Earth Orientation Parameters (EOP) effects, appear to be uncorrelated with hydrology, while they show a clear correlation with the most energetic earthquakes, that strongly characterise the current bradyseismic crisis. The residual gravity signals display peculiar trends characterized by steps or offsets (up to about 600 nm/s2) and transients in coincidence of the most energetic volcano-tectonic events (Magnitude > 2.5) and seismic swarms. The steps in the gravity residuals are likely to be of instrumental origin, while the amplitudes of the observed transients are not consistent with co-seismic or volcanological phenomena, for which there is no evidence from other monitoring techniques. Unfortunately, the lack of repeated absolute gravity measurements severely limits our ability to attribute the observed gravity variations to geological sources. From the analysis of the gravity records, reliable tidal gravity models have been derived, which will improve the accuracy of volcano monitoring by allowing a precise reduction of tidal effects for both relative and absolute gravity measurements taken in these volcanic areas.
Image-based mesh generation for constructing a virtual representation of engineered wood product samples
Authors: Grant Patrick , Psaltis Steven , Shirmohammadi Maryam , Turner Ian 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThe complex structure of timber has traditionally been difficult to model as it is a highly heterogeneous material. The density and material properties for structural species such as Pinus radiata (radiata pine) can vary greatly across the growth rings. Numerical simulation methods are becoming more prevalent as a method of predicting moisture migration, stress and strain distributions, and fungal/rot intrusion in engineered wood products (EWPs). All these applications require a computational mesh that captures the growth ring structure to facilitate an accurate assessment of the performance of EWPs. In this work, a low-cost image-based algorithm is developed for generating a virtual representation of a small cross laminated timber panel sample. Specifically, the proposed method results in a virtual description of an EWP sample comprised of a triangular prismatic mesh where the nodes are aligned on the growth rings of each individual timber component of the EWP, with specific wood material properties allocated to each mesh element. Each small component is treated individually and we assume there is no longitudinal variation in the density, pith location, and pith angle within the mesh structure. The initial step involves analysing an image of the end grain pattern of a single clear wood sample to identify the growth rings using a spectral clustering algorithm. Next, the centre of the tree (pith) is located through an iterative constrained least-squares algorithm to determine the pith angle. Image analysis of an anatomical image combined with the pith location allows for a constant density value to be assigned to each mesh element. The capability of this framework is then demonstrated by simulating the moisture migration and heat transfer throughout a CLT sample under atmospheric and saturating boundary conditions. Furthermore, the virtual representation provides the basis for simulating additional physical and biological phenomena, such as moisture-induced swelling, decay and fungal growth.
Multimodal creativity assessments following acute and sustained microdosing of lysergic acid diethylamide
Authors: Murphy Robin J. , Sumner Rachael L. , Godfrey Kate , Mabidikama Acima , Roberts Reece P. , Sundram Frederick , Muthukumaraswamy Suresh 
Published: September 2024

Abstract

Introduction
Enhanced creativity is often cited as an effect of microdosing (taking repeated low doses of a psychedelic drug). There have been recent efforts to validate the reported effects of microdosing, however creativity remains a difficult construct to quantify.

Objectives
The current study aimed to assess microdosing’s effects on creativity using a multimodal battery of tests as part of a randomised controlled trial of microdosing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

Methods
Eighty healthy adult males were given 10 µg doses of LSD or placebo every third day for six weeks (14 total doses). Creativity tasks were administered at a drug-free baseline session, at a first dosing session during the acute phase of the drug’s effects, and in a drug-free final session following the six-week microdosing regimen. Creativity tasks were the Alternate Uses Test (AUT), Remote Associates Task (RAT), Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT), and an Everyday Problem-Solving Questionnaire (EPSQ).

Results
No effect of drug by time was found on the AUT, RAT, CAT, or EPSQ. Baseline vocabulary skill had a significant effect on AUT and RAT scores.

Conclusions
Despite participants reporting feeling more creative on dose days, objective measurement found no acute or durable effects of the microdosing protocol on creativity. Possible explanations of these null findings are that laboratory testing conditions may negatively affect ability to detect naturalistic differences in creative performance, the tests available do not capture the facets of creativity that are anecdotally affected by microdosing, or that reported enhancements of creativity are placebo effects.
Abusive spinal injury: imaging and updates
Authors: Derinkuyu Betul E. , Caré Marguerite M. , Makoroff Kathi L. , Choi J. John 
Published: September 2024

AbstractChild physical abuse has significant morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population. There is growing evidence that abusive spinal injury has been under-recognized, changing historical perceptions that these injuries are relatively uncommon. Increased utilization of MRI has been pivotal in recognizing that most abusive spinal injuries involve the soft tissues and ligaments or manifest as intrathecal blood products, which are often undetectable by radiography or CT. Detecting spinal injury in the work-up of non-accidental trauma improves management for abused children and their siblings (defined as siblings or other household members). This review highlights key points in the imaging literature of abusive spinal injury, describes typical patterns of injury, and addresses appropriate imaging practice for work-up.
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Molecular substratification of endometrial carcinomas with no special molecular profile (NSMP) by using a limited NGS custom panel may facilitate effective patient selection for the PIK3CA-targeted therapy
Authors: Ondič Ondrej , Michalová Květoslava , Švajdler Marián , Presl Jiří , Kosťun Jan , Hájková Veronika , Martínek Petr , Michal Michal 
Published: September 2024

AbstractEndometrial carcinomas (EC) of no special molecular profile (NSMP) represent the largest molecular category of EC, comprising a mixture of tumors with different histology and molecular profiles. These facts likely point to different tumor biology, clinical outcomes, and targeted therapy responses within this molecular category. The PIK3CA is currently the only targetable kinase oncoprotein directly implicated in EC carcinogenesis. Investigating a unique single-institution cohort, we attempted to stratify NSMP ECs based on the presence of the PIK3CA pathogenic mutation. Those cases were further analyzed for other well-established-associated oncogenic driver gene mutations. Histological and clinical variables were also correlated in each case. Altogether, 175 ECs were prospectively tested by a limited custom NGS panel containing ARID1A, BCOR, BRCA1, BRCA2, CTNNB1, KRAS, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, NRAS, PIK3CA, PMS2, POLD1, POLE, PTEN,and TP53 genes. We identified 24 PIK3CA mutated cases in the group of 80 NSMP ECs, with another co-occurring mutation in at least one oncogenic driver gene (CTNNB1, PTEN, ARID1A, KRAS, BCOR, PMS2) in 19 cases. In conclusion, a limited NGS panel can effectively test EC tissue for specific pathogenetically relevant oncogene mutations. The NSMP EC category contains 30% of the PIK3CA mutated cases. Of those, 21% contain the PIK3CA mutation as a sole EC-associated oncogene mutation, while 79% harbor at least one more mutated gene. These findings may inform future healthcare planning and improve the effectiveness of EC patient selection for the PIK3CA-targeted therapy.
‘Making a connection’: a qualitative study of experiences from a cancer telerehabilitation program
Authors: Dennett Amy M. , Shields Nora , Barton Christian , Ezzat Allison , Physiother Germaine Tan B. , Taylor Nicholas F. , Harding Katherine E. , Peiris Casey L. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Purpose
Specialised group-based exercise rehabilitation is beneficial for cancer survivors but access to these services is limited. Telerehabilitation provides an opportunity to expand reach, but we do not know about the experiences of those who participate in this way. This study explored participant experiences of an exercise-based telerehabilitation program for people with cancer.

Method
A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was completed. Twenty-two cancer survivors were purposively sampled from the experimental group of a randomised controlled trial evaluating exercise-based cancer telerehabilitation delivered in groups using synchronous videoconferencing. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were coded independently by two reviewers and analysed inductively by thematic analysis.

Results
‘A feeling of connection’ was the overarching theme. Participants perceived they connected with the health service, expert health professionals, and peers through participating in the telerehabilitation program. These connections provided a personalised rehabilitation experience and improved perceptions of physical and emotional well-being. Two subthemes suggested connection was facilitated by (1) the acceptability of telerehabilitation and (2) enhanced accountability to exercise. Participants felt disconnected when they were unable to participate in the program due to cancer treatment and side effects (e.g. fatigue), feeling unwell, and co-morbidities.

Conclusion
We identified that telerehabilitation facilitated connections that enhanced the reach of exercise to cancer survivors. Our findings support using telerehabilitation to deliver specialised group-based exercise programs alongside more traditional models of care to increase participation in exercise among people with cancer.
IDegLira improves time in range in a cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes: TiREX study
Authors: Malighetti Maria Elena , Molteni Laura , Orsi Emanuela , Serra Roberta , Gaglio Alessia , Mazzoleni Federica , Russo Filomena , Bossi Antonio Carlo 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Aims
To assess the effects of IDegLira on glucometric indices deriving from intermittently scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring (isCGM) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Methods
Retrospective, observational, cohort, multi-center, “pre – post” study. All adults consecutively identified in the medical records who started treatment with IDegLira, and for whom an isCGM report before and after the initiation of IDegLira was available were included in the study. Time in range (TIR) represented the primary endpoint. Additional glucometric indices, insulin doses and body weight were also assessed.

Results
Overall, 87 patients were included by 5 diabetes centers [mean age 70.2 ± 11.0 years, mean duration of T2D 15.5 ± 9.6 years; BMI 29.4 ± 5.4 kg/m2, baseline HbA1c 9.1 ± 2.1%, 33% insulin naïve, 20.7% treated with basal-oral therapy (BOT), and 46% treated with multiple daily injections of insulin (MDI)]. After an average of 1.7 weeks from IDegLira initiation, TIR significantly increased from 56.8 ± 23.5% to 81.3 ± 13.5% (p < 0.0001), TAR decreased from 42.3 ± 24.2% to 17.1 ± 13.6% (p < 0.0001), while TBR remained steadily low (from 1.3 ± 2.3% to 1.4 ± 2.6%; p = 0.62). Estimated HbA1c decreased from 9.1 ± 2.1% to 6.7 ± 0.6% (p < 0.0001) and percentage of patients with a blood glucose coefficient of variation ≥ 36% dropped from 33.2 to 13.8% (p = 0.0005). In patients on MDI, the reduction in the total insulin dose was substantial (from 55.8 ± 31.2 IU to 27.2 ± 12.3 U).

Conclusions
In T2D patients with poor metabolic control, either insulin naïve or treated with BOT or MDI, the introduction of IDegLira produces a significant increase in the time spent in good metabolic control and a marked reduction in glycemic fluctuations.
A 561-yr (1461-2022 CE) summer temperature reconstruction for Mid-Atlantic-Northeast USA shows connections to volcanic forcing and atmospheric circulation
Authors: Harley Grant L. , Maxwell Justin T. , King Karen E. , Rayback Shelly A. , Cook Edward R. , Hansen Christopher , Maxwell R. Stockton , Reinig Frederick , Esper Jan , Au Tsun Fung , Bergan Ellen V. , Brings Katherine E. , Koenig Nick , Lockwood Benjamin , Thaxton Richard D. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractContextualizing current increases in Northern Hemisphere temperatures is precluded by the short instrumental record of the past ca. 120 years and the dearth of temperature-sensitive proxy records, particularly at lower latitudes south of <50 °N. We develop a network of 29 blue intensity chronologies derived from tree rings of Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carrière and Picea rubens Sarg. trees distributed across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast USA (MANE)—a region underrepresented by multi-centennial temperature records. We use this network to reconstruct mean March-September air temperatures back to 1461 CE based on a model that explains 62% of the instrumental temperature variance from 1901−1976 CE. Since 1998 CE, MANE summer temperatures are consistently the warmest within the context of the past 561 years exceeding the 1951−1980 mean of +1.3 °C. Cool summers across MANE were frequently volcanically forced, with significant (p<0.05) temperature departures associated with 80% of the largest tropical (n=13) and extratropical (n=15) eruptions since 1461 CE. Yet, we find that more of the identified cool events in the record were likely unforced by volcanism and either related to stochastic variability or atmospheric circulation via significant associations (p<0.05) to regional, coastal sea-surface temperatures, 500-hpa geopotential height, and 300-hpa meridional and zonal wind vectors. Expanding the MANE network to the west and south and combining it with existing temperature-sensitive proxies across North America is an important next step toward producing a gridded temperature reconstruction field for North America.
Generation of Rule-Based Explanations of CNN Classifiers Using Regional Features
Authors: Philipp William , Yashwanthika R. , Sikha O. K. , Benitez Raul 
Published: September 2024

AbstractAlthough Deep Learning networks generally outperform traditional machine learning approaches based on tailored features, they often lack explainability. To address this issue, numerous methods have been proposed, particularly for image-related tasks such as image classification or object segmentation. These methods generate a heatmap that visually explains the classification problem by identifying the most important regions for the classifier. However, these explanations remain purely visual. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a novel CNN explainability method that identifies the most relevant regions in an image and generates a decision tree based on meaningful regional features, providing a rule-based explanation of the classification model. We evaluated the proposed method on a synthetic blob’s dataset and subsequently applied it to two cell image classification datasets with healthy and pathological patterns.
Comparison of the ability of different quantitative indices in 123I-FP-CIT single-photon emission computed tomography to differentiate dopaminergic neurodegenerative disease
Authors: Sato Tomohiro , Sawai Setsu , Shimada Naokazu 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Purpose
By imaging dopamine transporter (DAT) uptake in the striatum, 123I-FP-CIT SPECT can differentiate dopaminergic neurodegenerative disease (dNDD) and non-dNDD, which differ in pathophysiology and clinical management. Our aim was to compare and validate the diagnostic abilities of various 123I-FP-CIT SPECT quantitative indices for dNDD.

Materials and methods
Distribution volume ratio (DVR) and binding ratio (BR), measures of DAT uptake capacity, were measured by analyzing clinical 123I-FP-CIT SPECT images of 29 patients with dNDD, including dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease, and 18 patients with non-dNDD, using Montreal Neurological Institute space-based anatomical standardization and an atlas template, which utilizes statistical parametric mapping. Additionally, we computed the specific binding ratio (SBR) based on Bolt’s method and the maximum and mean standardized uptake values (SUVmax and SUVmean, respectively).

Results
The caudate-to-occipital lobe, putamen-to-occipital lobe, and striatum-to-occipital lobe ratios (COR, POR, and SOR, respectively) on DVR and POR and SOR on BR were significantly lower in dNDD than in non-dNDD, with areas under the ROC curve (AUCs) of 0.941–0.960, showing high diagnostic accuracy for dNDD. However, the AUC of COR on BR was 0.839, indicating lower diagnostic performance. SBR had an AUC of 0.921, while SUVmax and SUVmean had AUCs of 0.906 and 0.900, respectively. Although striatal asymmetry on both DVR and BR exhibited AUCs of 0.728 and 0.734 and asymmetry on SBR showed an AUC of 0.757, the ratio-based DAT quantitative indices were superior. There were strong positive correlations of DVR with BR, DVR with SBR or SUVmax, BR with SBR or SUVmax, and SBR with SUVmax.

Conclusion
COR, POR, and SOR on DVR and POR and SOR on BR were the most useful DAT quantitative indices. These indices can be compared with SBR and SUV, suggesting that comprehensive evaluation improves the diagnostic accuracy of dNDD.
Room temperature AC properties and impedance analysis of Mg ferrite/polypyrrole (PPy) and Mg ferrite/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composites
Authors: Ibrahim Bilal , Saafan Samia A. , Shater R. E. El , Omar Maha K. 
Published: September 2024

AbstractThe auto-combustion sol–gel method has been used to synthesize a powder sample of MgFe2O4 nanoparticles. Nanocomposites of Mg-ferrite/PPy and Mg-ferrite/rGO have been prepared by thorough physical mixing, with weight ratios of 20% PPy and 20% rGO, respectively. To have a full insight into the materials, their structural properties have been investigated by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). DC conductivity has been investigated too, and by comparing the results, it has been observed a significant increase in the DC conductivity of the Mg-ferrite/PPy composite sample compared to the corresponding Mg-ferrite/rGO sample, a finding that would potentially impact the composite’s applications. The discussion of the frequency dependence of ε′, σac, and tan(δ) in these composite samples revolves around the concept of Maxwell–Wagner interfacial polarization. The sample Cole–Cole plots show distinct areas where incomplete semicircles overlap, each representing a different conduction process. These semicircles correspond to two equivalent circuits of parallel resistor–capacitor (R–C) combinations connected in series. Finally, it could be concluded that the new nanocomposite samples of MgFe2O4/20% rGO and MgFe2O4/20% PPy show dielectric properties that may be a stimulus for more studies in future work, where they are expected to be promising candidates for supercapacitor applications.