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Effects of the recycled coarse aggregate mixing ratio on the characteristics of concrete with different design strengths
Authors: Yoon Sanghyuck , Choi Wonyoung , Jeon Chansoo 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIn this study, the characteristics of recycled aggregate concrete according to the mixing ratio of recycled coarse aggregate(RCA) were analyzed for different design strengths to explore the use of recycled materials in the production of ready-mixed concrete. The results show that, depending on the ratio of recycled aggregate, the compressive strength is similar to that of normal concrete and does not deteriorate. Therefore, it is possible to achieve a target design strength. Furthermore, if the ratio of recycled coarse aggregate for concrete is up to 25% of the total aggregate amount (50% of the total coarse aggregate), slump does not cause problems. Our findings show that the higher the design standard strength, the greater the amount of powder, and the more stringent the management of slump reduction, unit quantity, and performance necessary. The obtained results show that recycled aggregate can be used to produce ready-mixed concrete after adjusting its mixing ratio and concrete mix proportions.
What Should Personalised Mental Health Support Involve? Views of Young People with Lived Experience and Professionals from Eight Countries
Authors: Sheikh Ayesha , Jacob Jenna , Vostanis Panos , Ruby Florence , Spuerck Inga , Stankovic Milos , Morgan Nicholas , Mota Catarina Pinheiro , Ferreira Rúben , Eruyar Şeyda , Yılmaz Elmas Aybike , Fatima Syeda Zeenat , Edbrooke-Childs Julian 
Published: June 2024

AbstractResearch demonstrates that young people value mental health support that is tailored to their needs and preferences, rather than a “one size fits all” offer, which is often not equitably accessible (National Children’s Bureau, 2021). Understanding young people’s lived experiences across different sociocultural contexts is important. The aim of this research was to conduct an international qualitative study on the views of young people with lived experience and professionals, on proposed aspects of personalised support for anxiety and/or depression. Participatory action focus groups were conducted with N = 120 young people with lived experience of anxiety and/or depression (14–24 years) and with N = 63 professionals in Brazil, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Data were analysed using the rigorous and accelerated data reduction (RADaR) technique. Overall, although some country-specific differences were found in terms of what aspects of support young people found to be most important, individual preferences were considered stronger, furthering the view that support should be personalised to the needs of the individual young person. Young people experiencing anxiety and/or depression should be able to choose for themselves which aspects of support they would prefer in their own care and support plans, with families and mental health professionals providing guidance where appropriate, rather than removing the young person from the decision-making process altogether. It should also be ensured that the aspects of personalised support can be understood by young people and professionals from different contexts, including marginalised and minoritised groups and communities.
PCSK9 and Lipid Metabolism: Genetic Variants, Current Therapies, and Cardiovascular Outcomes
Authors: Grejtakova Daniela , Boronova Iveta , Bernasovska Jarmila , Bellosta Stefano 
Published: June 2024

AbstractProprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) plays a crucial role in the modulation of lipid metabolism as a critical negative regulator of hepatic low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) levels and circulating low-density lipoprotein (LDL) clearance. Numerous gain-of-function (GOF) mutations in PCSK9 have been identified as causing familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) by reducing LDLR levels, and loss-of-function (LOF) mutations associated with a hypercholesterolemia phenotype protective against atherosclerosis. PCSK9 represents an example of successful translational research resulting in the identification of PCSK9 as a major drug target for a lipid-lowering therapy. To explore the genetic constitution of PCSK9 and its biologic role, in this review, we summarize the current evidence of clinically significant PCSK9 genetic variants involved in lipid metabolism as well as emphasize the importance of PCSK9 inhibition for the improvement of cardiovascular outcomes by conducting a meta-analysis of the available data on the incidence of cardiovascular disease events.
Effectiveness of artificial intelligence integration in design-based learning on design thinking mindset, creative and reflective thinking skills: An experimental study
Authors: Saritepeci Mustafa , Yildiz Durak Hatice 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIntegrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into learning activities is an essential opportunity to develop students' varied thinking skills. On the other hand, design-based learning (DBL) can more effectively foster creative design processes with AI technologies to overcome real-world challenges. In this context, AI-supported DBL activities have a significant potential for teaching and developing thinking skills. However, there is a lack of experimental interventions in the literature examining the effects of integrating AI into learner-centered methods on active engagement and thinking skills. The current study aims to explore the effectiveness of AI integration as a guidance and collaboration tool in a DBL process. In this context, the effect of the experimental application on the participants’ design thinking mindset, creative self-efficacy (CSE), and reflective thinking (RT) self-efficacy levels and the relationship between them were examined. The participants used ChatGPT and Midjourney in the digital story development process as part of the experimental treatment. The only difference between the control and experimental groups in the digital storytelling process is the AI applications used in the experimental treatment (ChatGPT and Midjourney). In this quasi-experimental method study, participants were randomly assigned to treatment, an AI integration intervention, at the departmental level. 87 participants (undergraduate students) in the experimental group and 99 (undergraduate students) in the control group. The implementation process lasted five weeks. Partial Least Squares (PLS), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and Multi-Group Analysis (MGA) were made according to the measurements made at the T0 point before the experiment and at the T1 point after the experiment. According to the research result, the intervention in both groups contributed to the creative self-efficacy, critical reflection, and reflection development of the participants. On the other hand, the design thinking mindset levels of both groups did not show a significant difference in the comparison of the T0 point and the T1 point.
On the value of booking data for upsell decision-making in revenue management
Authors: Rauhaus Davina , Gönsch Jochen , Steinhardt Claudius 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIn passenger aviation and many other areas of transportation, it is common practice to offer customers who have booked a ticket for a lower compartment free seats in higher compartments at a discount before departure, a practice known as upselling. For example, economy class customers are offered a seat in business class for a small surcharge a few days before take-off. Obviously, it matters to whom to offer an upsell and at what price. In this paper, we address this decision problem in a generic fashion for revenue management settings. We assume that the company has disaggregated booking data about the customer’s initial choice of a product from a provided offer set. This data contains information about individual customers’ preferences and may be leveraged to decide on upsell prices. To this end, we propose an optimization approach based on an expectation model, in which customers’ response probability is represented as a conditional probability formally consistent with their initial buying decision in a multinomial logit model. We present variants of the approach based on different levels of exploitable customer-specific booking data. In a numerical study, we investigate the value of this data usage and upselling in general to the company. Upselling in conjunction with knowledge of the customers’ original offer sets and customer segments, substantially increases revenues. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that the proposed approach can lead to larger revenue benefits than a naive benchmark approach which statistically decouples the customers’ upgrade acceptance decision from their original choice during the purchasing process.
Linking Vegetation Characteristics of Madagascar’s Spiny Forest to Habitat Occupancy of Lepilemur petteri
Authors: Ratovonamana Yedidya R. , Apel Celina , Hajanantenaina Davidson H. , Foley William J. , Kübler Daniel , Nevermann Stella , Rakotondranary S. Jacques , Stalenberg Eleanor M. , Ganzhorn Jörg U. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractClimatic changes with unpredictable weather conditions have negative effects on many primates. With several lemur species reaching their ecological limits in the dry and hypervariable spiny forest, Madagascar might provide an example for understanding adaptations of primates to unpredictable conditions. Here, we aimed to identify vegetation characteristics that allow Lepilemur petteri to persist in an environment at the limit of its ecological niche. For this, we linked the patchy distribution of the species to vegetation characteristics described on the ground and by remote sensing reflecting primary production (Enhanced Vegetation Index from MODIS) for 17 sites in nine regions, spread over 100 km along Tsimanampetsotse NP. We verified the results on a smaller scale by radio-tracking and vegetation analyses related to home ranges of 13 L. petteri. Remote sensing indicated that L. petteri is more likely to occur in forests where the variation of the annual primary production and the interannual variability of the month with the lowest primary production are low.Lepilemur petteri was more likely to occur with increasing densities of large trees, large food tree species (diameter ≥ 10 cm) and octopus trees (Alluaudia procera). Alluaudia procera provide food year-round and shelter in the spiny forest where large trees with holes are absent. High tree species diversity might buffer food availability against failure of certain tree species to produce food. These findings illustrate limiting constraints of climatic hypervariability for lemurs and indicate benefits of forest restoration with high numbers of tree species for biodiversity conservation.
A black-box attack on fixed-unitary quantum encryption schemes
Authors: Pilaszewicz Cezary , Muth Lea R. , Margraf Marian 
Published: June 2024

AbstractWe show how fixed-unitary quantum encryption schemes can be attacked in a black-box setting. We use an efficient technique to invert a unitary transformation on a quantum computer to retrieve an encrypted secret quantum state $${|{\psi }\rangle }$$

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. This attack has a success rate of 100% and can be executed in constant time. We name a vulnerable scheme which security is fully broken by our attack and suggest how to improve the scheme to invalidate this attack. The proposed attack highlights the importance of carefully designing quantum encryption schemes to ensure their security against quantum adversaries, even in a black-box setting. We point to the faulty assumption and name a criterion for future quantum cipher design to prevent similar vulnerabilities.
Relationship Between Obesity and Intellectual/Developmental Disability in an Ohio Telepsychiatry Clinic: A Retrospective Review
Authors: Shameem Sana , Luft Megan , Harrington Michael , Nahhas Ramzi W. , Hatesohl Michael , Gentile Julie , Gainer Danielle 
Published: June 2024

AbstractCo-occurring intellectual/developmental disability (IDD) and overweight/obesity (OW/OB) is an important consideration of IDD psychiatric care. The relationship between OW/OB and comorbid diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and/or IDD remains inadequately described in existing literature. The purpose of this study is to explore these co-occurring diagnoses. Improved understanding of associated comorbidities can guide clinicians toward interventions to minimize complications associated with OW/OB. We conducted a retrospective review of adult patients of a telepsychiatry clinic with IDD or ASD defined by DSM-5. ICD-10 diagnosis of IDD or ASD, demographics, BMI, comorbidities, and current medications were recorded. Binary logistic regression was used to estimate associations between each predictor and the outcomes overweight (body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25 kg/m2) and obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2). Prevalence of obesity in these 412 adults was 52.4% (95% CI 47.5, 57.3). There was a significant inverse relationship between IDD severity and the odds of each outcome (p < .001). 80.3% of patients were being actively treated with an antidepressant. Patients taking an antidepressant had twice the odds of obesity (adjusted OR 2.03, 95% CI 1.23, 3.41, p = .006). These findings provide a sense of urgency for prevention of OW/OB and its associated medical sequelae. Prevalence of obesity was higher in this sample compared to the general population. The inverse relationship between IDD severity and OW/OB warrants further research examining age, caregiver involvement, and access to care as potential modifiers.
Return to Work Trajectories of Swedish Employees on Sick-Leave Due to Common Mental Disorders
Authors: Toropova Anna , Björk Brämberg Elisabeth , Bergström Gunnar 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Objectives
Recent research has emphasized that return to work (RTW) is a dynamic, gradual and often uneven process with a great degree of individual variation. This study aimed to identify RTW trajectories of Swedish employees on sick-leave due to common mental disorders (CMDs). The second aim was to explore which demographic, employment, health-related and work environment characteristics predicted RTW trajectory membership.

Methods
Data comes from two 2-armed cluster-randomized controlled trials (RCT) with a 12-month follow-up. A participative problem-solving intervention aimed to reduce sick-leave was compared to care as usual (CAU) involving any kind of work-directed interventions. Participants on sick-leave due to CMDs at baseline (N = 197) formed the study sample. Latent growth mixture modeling and logistic regression were the main analytical approaches.

Results
Five distinct RTW trajectories of Swedish employees were identified: Early RTW (N = 65), Delayed RTW (N = 50), Late RTW (N = 39), Struggling RTW (N = 21) and No RTW (N = 22). RTW trajectories differed consistently with regard to previous sick-leave duration and social support at work. More unique predictors of RTW trajectories included gender, rewards at work, work performance impairment due to health problems, home-to-work interference and stress-related exhaustion disorder.

Conclusion
The study may have important clinical implications for identifying patients belonging to a particular RTW trajectory. Knowledge on the modifiable work environment factors that differentiated between the RTW trajectories could be useful for designing effective workplace interventions, tailored to particular needs of employees with CMDs. However, in a first step, the results need to be replicated.
Personalizing human avatars based on realistic 3D facial reconstruction
Authors: Ding Yueming , He Honghong , Mok P. Y. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractPersonalized 3D human avatars have aroused a great deal of interest because it is attractive to most people, particularly generation Z, to have the digital twins in their own appearance to live, work, interact, and shop in the metaverse. Nevertheless, personalized avatars are rarely used in practice because of the computational cost and hardware restrictions in the creation process. This has resulted in avatars of diverse topologies being used on different platforms/systems for various applications, which further hinders the utilization of personalized avatars. This paper reports on a new method for personalizing human avatars, which includes the reconstruction of personalized face models from single images and transferring the reconstructed 3D facial shape and appearance to avatars with varying topologies. This newly developed method is compared with state-of-the-art face reconstruction and personalized avatar reconstruction methods. Based upon the results obtained, it was concluded that the new method created more realistic and true-to-life avatars. This method has been applied in an augmented reality (AR) mobile application, enabling users to engage in virtual try-on experience of fashion. The code will be released once the paper is published.
Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective
Authors: Wurm Greg J. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractScholars theorize the effect of modernization on religious and familial institutions in a parallel way. Some argue that both are irreversibly in decline—as secularization and deinstitutionalization, respectively—while others argue that they have either merely changed or are in fact growing stronger. However, correctly interpreting institutional change depends not only on how one evaluates the empirical starts and endpoints but also on how one defines the domains under change themselves. In this paper, I examine these debates, detail the structural similarities in their arguments, and outline a new analytical approach informed by recent work in institutional logics to better answer the definitional questions. Theorizing both institutions together and their parallel trajectories in modernity reveals unique insights about the scholarly discourse on modernization and is especially important given the unique influence of religion and family on one another as (seemingly) privatized spheres of social life.
(Re)considering Nature of Science Education in the Face of Socio-scientific Challenges and Injustices
Authors: Gandolfi Haira E. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThroughout the past decades, challenges of socio-scientific nature such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate degradation and scientific racism have brought many relevant and pressing questions to the fore of the science education field, prompting science educators into (re)thinking the purposes and roles of science education within a landscape where the links between science and socio-political challenges, injustices, citizenship and democracy have become increasingly complex. In this theoretical paper, I seek to examine what Critical Pedagogies and Decolonial Studies can bring to science education in the face of these challenges and injustices of socio-scientific nature, with a focus on the area of Nature of Science (NOS). In particular, drawing on scholarship from across these fields and on some illustrative examples from common science education topics, I seek to propose ways in which an approach to NOS grounded on a critical-decolonial perspective may be used to support the learning of school students and science teachers’ own professional learning around science’s entanglements with social justice and socio-political issues.
Pandarus Leach, 1816 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pandaridae) species collected from elasmobranchs off South Africa with the description of Pandarus echinifer n. sp.
Authors: Dippenaar S. M. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractEight species ofPandarusLeach, 1816 collected from hosts caught off South Africa are reported. These species includeP.bicolorLeach, 1816,P.nigerKirtisinghe, 1950 andP.carcharhiniHo, 1963 belonging to the “bicolor” group andP.cranchiiLeach, 1819,P.satyrusDana, 1849,P.smithiiRathbun, 1886 andP.sinuatusSay, 1818 belonging to the “cranchii” group. Notes on previous and new distinguishing features are provided with illustrations, specifically the relative lengths of the dorsal plates and caudal rami as well as the structure of the distomedial spine on the second segment of leg 1 exopod. Additionally, illustrated re-descriptions are provided forP.satyrusandP.sinuatus. Furthermore, a new speciesPandarus echinifern. sp., also belonging to the “cranchii” group, collected from the snaggletooth sharkHemipristis elongata(Klunzinger) is described. This species is most similar toP.sinuatusbut can be distinguished from it by the heavily spinulated distomedial spine on the last segment of the first leg exopod. Molecular analysis of the cytochrome oxidase I partial gene is used to calculate sequence divergences amongst different individuals and species. According to the results (as well as based on morphological characters)P.rhincodonicusNorman, Newbound & Knott, 2000 is a synonym ofP.cranchii. New hosts and geographic localities from South Africa (and Ningaloo Park, Western Australia) are reported.
The Role of Dietary Intake in the Weight Loss Outcomes of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Authors: Qanaq Dalal , O’Keeffe Majella , Cremona Simone , Bernardo Wanderley Marques , McIntyre Robert D. , Papada Efstathia , Benkalkar Saumit , Rubino Francesco 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThe relationship between postoperative dietary intake and weight loss after bariatric surgery remains unclear. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies published between January 2000 and May 2023, reporting weight loss outcomes, and dietary intake before and after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy. A total of 42 studies were included. There was no detectable difference in dietary intake between the two procedures. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass induced an average decrease in energy intake of 886 kcal/day at 12-month post-surgery; however, there was no correlation between daily energy intake and weight loss. These findings show a substantial reduction of energy intake in the first year after bariatric surgery but do not support a link between lower energy intake and greater weight loss.
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