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Pathways of scientific input into intergovernmental negotiations: a new agreement on marine biodiversity
Authors: Tessnow-von Wysocki Ina , Vadrot Alice B. M. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractA new legally binding agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) was adopted by consensus on 19th June, 2023. Setting new regulations and filling regulatory gaps of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are expected to be informed by “best available science”. It is critical to understand how science entered the negotiations, which defined the global scientific knowledge base of decision-makers. This paper presents various pathways over which scientific input entered the BBNJ negotiations, using empirical data, collected through collaborative event ethnography, including participant observation and semi-structured interviews at the BBNJ negotiation site. Results show that scientific input in the BBNJ negotiations was not systematic and transparent but dependent on (a) available national scientific capacity, (b) financial resources, (c) established contacts and (d) active involvement of actors. Results of the study call for formalised science-policy interfaces, initiated by the UN Secretariat to guarantee a global knowledge base for decision-making. Keywords: international negotiations; United Nations; marine biodiversity; BBNJ; ocean protection; science-policy interfaces.
Exploring the Unique and Interactive Effects Between Callous-Unemotional and Autistic Traits with Parental Practices, Care, and Distress in a Community Sample
Authors: Georgiou Giorgos , Demetriou Chara A. , Fanti Kostas A. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractParental practices and stress are associated with both CU and autistic traits, with parents of children with these traits facing challenges that other parents do not encounter. However, the majority of available studies focused mainly on the unique effects of CU and autistic traits with parental stress and practices without exploring their interaction. The current study examines the distinct associations and interactions between CU and autistic traits with parental practices (parental involvement, poor monitoring, inconsistent discipline, and corporal punishment), care, and distress after considering the effect of conduct problems (CPs), age and sex in a Greek-Cypriot sample (N = 146, Mage = 7.30, SD = 1.43). Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that children with CU traits were more likely to experience negative parenting, while parents showed heightened levels of distress. Notably, the study found no association between CU traits and positive parental practices. Further analysis indicated no significant relation between autistic traits and interactions with the target variables, signifying that these traits are not associated with difficulties in parenting and distress. No sex differences were found in all analyses. Age was negatively significant only in relation to parental distress These findings provide valuable insights into the impact of CU traits and underscore the need for additional studies investigating the impact of autistic traits, possibly within clinical samples.
A Brief Report on Empowering Children and Young People through Participation: Giving Space and Voice to Childhood Experiences of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Authors: Costello Áine , Holt Stephanie 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Purpose
Understanding children’s experiences of living with domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is central to a child-centered, rights-based approach to working with children and young people. However, the tension between children’s right to be heard and their need to be protected from harm can often mean that those opportunities are experienced as tokenistic. In response to this concern about the reality of children’s participation in the context of DVA, the Empower Kids Project (EKP) was initiated by Barnardos [Ireland] in 2020. The EKP collaborates with partner agencies who collectively come together to provide children with a supported environment to give voice to their experiences of domestic violence and abuse. The children participate in this work within the safe and trusted relationship of their keyworker, through one to one or group work or through their support group in their local area service.

Methods
Located primarily within Lundy’s (British Educ Res J 33:927–942, 2007) model of participation, this brief report charts the journey of the EKP over the last four years across Lundy’s four quadrants of Voice, Space, Audience and Influence.

Results
Beginning with just 12 children in 2020, the EKP has to date included the voices of 74 children in its work. Analysis of the children’s journey of participation illustrates poignantly how meaningful participation is possible when scaffolded space is provided to elevate the voices of young survivors of childhood DVA. Employing child friendly multi-modal methodologies resulted in a potent sense of ownership and impact, encapsulated by one child articulating that she felt she was part of a ‘movement’.

Conclusions
The testimonies of the children and young people participating in the EKP challenge any concern that children who have experienced an adversity such as DVA may be too vulnerable to participate. Rather, the EKP participants felt part of a ‘movement’ that was influencing and creating change. Importantly, participating in the EKP has provided an otherwise marginalized and silenced group, a platform to share their experiences of living with such abuse.
Healthy, family-friendly apartment kitchen design: a study of practice in Melbourne, Australia
Authors: Kreutz A. , Sal Moslehian A. , Bower I. S. , Warner E. , Andrews F. J. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis study explored constraints and opportunities in apartment kitchen design for family home cooking and dining. An online audit of 115 two-bedroom apartments in three Melbourne suburbs of Australia was conducted, with images collected from the audit guiding photo-elicitation interviews on the kitchen designs, with architects from firms involved in apartment complex design. Affordance theory provided a conceptual lens to thematically analyse the design process and outcome in relation to architectural practice. Based on previously developed criteria, results from the audit revealed that only 18 (16%) had adequate kitchen design for families with children across five features assessed, with four themes emerging from interviews that identified constraints and facilitators to kitchen design practice: “Limited policy standards”; Architect assumptions align with market-led preferences”; “Built environment and apartment typology constraints”; and “Small scale design opportunities”. Findings provide unique insights into architects’ perspectives on apartment design, deepening understandings of how to support healthy family home food preparation and dining.
Microcalorimeter Absorber Optimization for ATHENA and LEM
Authors: Wassell Edward , Adams Joseph , Bandler Simon , Chervenak James , Cumbee Renata , Finkbeiner Fred , Fuhrman Joshua , Hull Samuel , Kelley Richard , Kilbourne Caroline , Mateo Jennette , Muramatsu Haruka , Porter Frederick , Rani Asha , Sakai Kazuhiro , Smith Stephen , Wakeham Nicholas , Yoon Sang 
Published: June 2024

AbstractHigh quantum efficiency (QE) X-ray absorbers are needed for future X-ray astrophysics telescopes. The Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics (ATHENA) mission requirements for the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) instrument dictate, at their most stringent, that the absorber achieve vertical QE > 90.6% at 7 keV and low total heat capacity, 0.731 pJ/K. The absorber we have designed is 313 µm square composed of 1.05 μm Au and 5.51 μm electroplated Bi films (Barret et al. in Exp Astron 55:373–426, 2023). Overhanging the TES, the absorber is mechanically supported by 6 small legs whose 5 μm diameter is tuned to the target thermal conductance for the device. Further requirements for the absorber for X-IFU include a > 40% reflectance at wavelengths from 1 to 20 μm to reduce shot noise from infrared radiation from higher temperature stages in the cryostat. We meet this requirement by capping our absorbers with an evaporated Ti/Au thin film. Additionally, narrow gaps between absorbers are required for high fill fraction, as well as low levels of fine particulate remaining on the substrate and zero shorts between absorbers that may cause thermal crosstalk. The Light Element Mapper (LEM) is an X-ray probe concept optimized to explore the soft X-ray emission from 0.2 to 2.0 keV. These pixels for LEM require high residual resistance ratio (RRR) thin 0.5 µm Au absorbers to thermalize uniformly and narrow < 2 μm gaps between pixels for high areal fill fraction. This paper reports upon technology developments required to successfully yield arrays of pixels for both mission concepts and presents first testing results of devices with these new absorber recipes.
Automated radiosynthesis of pharmaceutical grade [68Ga]Ga-NODAGA-Lys40-Exendin-4 and demonstration of its efficacy for use in patients
Authors: Menon Sreeja Raj , Mitra Arpit , Chakraborty Avik , Kamaldeep  , Sahu Sudeep , Tawate Megha , Lad Sangita , Rakshit Sutapa , Upadhye Trupti , Ray Mukti Kanta , Banerjee Sharmila 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThe radiosynthesis of pharmaceutical grade [68Ga]Ga-NODAGA-Lys40-Exendin-4 was accomplished in a fixed tubing-based module, EZ Modular-Lab Standard. Purification of the product via hydrophilic-lipophilic balance cartridge, yielded satisfactory results with radiochemical purity  > 98%. The decay-corrected radiochemical yield (RCY) with 50 µg of Exendin-4[Lys40(NODAGA)] was (78.7 ± 0.8)%, which, by far, to the best of our knowledge, is the highest RCY reported till date, using an automated synthesizer. The quality control parameters were in accordance with that of gallium (68Ga) Edotreotide® Injections, featuring in the European Pharmacopoeia. Pre-clinical dosimetry studies in animal models, with co-administration of kidney protectant, demonstrates promising potential of the product towards clinical translation to insulinoma patients.
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68Ge/68Ga composite CeO2-PAN generator: preparation, testing and use
Authors: Ondrák Fialová Kateřina , Adámek Kryštof , Kroftová Kristýna , Vlk Martin , Šebesta Ferdinand , Kozempel Ján 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis work is focused on the testing of a new 68Ge/68Ga radionuclide generator based on cerium dioxide in polyacrylonitrile beads. During an 18-month period, parameters of elution were monitored, and basic radiolabelling studies were carried out. As current commercial solutions deal with high elution volume and low long-term stability, the constructed system offers several improvements. The composite sorbent provides uniformity of active component dispersion and high capacity for 68Ge. It enables minimal elution volume without fractionation (up to 1.8 mL) and stability of 68Ge breakthrough (under 0.001%) after initial period of wash-out and low cerium leakage (under 5 ppm).
Ice regimes, ice jams, and a changing hydroclimate, Saint John (Wolastoq) River, New Brunswick, Canada
Authors: Newton Brent , Beltaos Spyros , Burrell Brian C. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIce formation, growth, and breakup along the Saint John River (SJR) affects its hydraulic and ecological regimes and leads to the potential for ice jamming that has caused severe flooding and ice runs resulting in loss of life, property damage, and loss of, or damage to, infrastructure. A synopsis of ice regimes and ice jamming along the SJR from Dickey, Maine, USA to Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada is summarized in this paper. Trends in relevant hydroclimatic variables such as monthly mean air temperature (December to April), total winter snow (December to March), length of the ice season, rainfall, and monthly mean and peak winter and spring flows are discussed. Projections of future ice regimes under a changing climate are provided, with anticipated changes in the ice regime of the SJR explained in the wider context of changes to the cryosphere.
A Strategy for Designing a Research Project Using Critical Systems Heuristics: A Research Design Addressing Data Analytics Students’ Employability
Authors: Coetzee Wilma , Goede Roelien 
Published: June 2024

AbstractToday’s complex problems require exceptional problem-solvers. Examples include global warming that devastates the climate and food production, and government incompetence and corruption that affect crime, service delivery, and inflation. These issues involve intricate systems where changes to one element can impact others. People with outstanding skills are needed to solve such problems. They have to consider the complications and relationships among the constituent parts and the likely outcomes of planned modifications. These problem-solvers need to be curious, courageous, strategic, big-picture thinkers. They are naturally in high demand by the industry, but how can they be developed? The objective of the study reported here is to propose and demonstrate a flexible framework for the purpose, which can be used by both industry and academia. The framework combines critical systems thinking – in particular, critical systems heuristics – and action research in a cyclical manner. It facilitates the inclusion of multiple perspectives, consideration of subsystems’ mutual effects and the critical reflection of normative assumptions made. The problem-solver is guided to “zoom out” to see the big picture and then “zoom in” to understand the details. This cycle is repeated to generate creative solutions. The framework is demonstrated by showing how to plan research to improve the employability of data analytics students. The framework is a versatile tool. It aids research planning and industry problem-solving and can be used to teach problem-solving skills and critical thinking. It places a valuable tool in the hands of researchers, educators and industry to take on the numerous challenges of our century.
Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse?
Authors: Goff Philip 
Published: June 2024

AbstractOur best current science seems to suggest the laws of physics and the initial conditions of our universe are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. A significant number of scientists and philosophers believe that the fine-tuning is evidence for the multiverse hypothesis. This paper will focus on a much-discussed objection to the inference from the fine-tuning to the multiverse: the charge that this line of reasoning commits the inverse gambler’s fallacy. Despite the existence of a literature going back decades, this philosophical debate has made little contact with scientific discussion of fine-tuning and the multiverse, which mainly revolves around a specific form of the multiverse hypothesis rooted in eternal inflation combined with string theory. Because of this, potentially important implications from science to philosophy, and vice versa, have been left underexplored. In this paper, I will take a first step at joining up these two discussions, by arguing that attention to the eternal inflation + string theory conception of the multiverse supports the inverse gambler’s fallacy charge. It does this by supporting the idea that our universe is contingently fine-tuned, thus addressing the concern that proponents of the inverse gambler’s fallacy charge have assumed this without argument.
Stated patient preferences for overnight at-home diagnostic assessment of sleep disorders
Authors: Braun Marcel , Dietz-Terjung S , Sommer U , Schoebel C , Heiser C 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Purpose
The diagnostic workup for assessment of sleep disorders commonly involves overnight testing to assess sleep patterns and pathological events. So far, little is known about preferences for provision of home sleep tests to patients with sleep disorders. This study aims to close this gap by eliciting preferences for home sleep testing using a discrete choice experiment (DCE).

Methods
A DCE with seven attributes of at-home sleep testing and three levels per attribute was developed using a fractional factorial design. Patients with and without previous sleep testing experience were recruited from two large sleep centers in Germany. Coefficients for attribute levels were calculated using a conditional logit model to estimate their influence on choice decisions and calculate the relative importance of each attribute.

Results
305 patients (54.5 ± 13,1 years, 65.3% male) were enrolled, and 288 surveys with complete data included for analysis. Attributes with greatest relevance were Waiting time to discuss sleep study results; Waiting time to conduct sleep study, and Sleep quality during measurement. Of lowest importance was Diagnostic accuracy of sleep study, followed by Effort to apply sleep study device. Significant heterogeneity in choice behavior was found, including differences by gender, willingness-to-pay for sleep studies, and previous experience with sleep studies. Preferred location for conducting sleep testing was at-home in 50.7% and in-lab in 46.9%.

Conclusions
Preferences and relative importance of home sleep test attributes vary among different subgroups. Considering those preferences can be important for clinicians and policymakers when designing care pathways and planning of testing policies for sleep disorders.
Gate-to-grave assessment of plastic from recycling to manufacturing of TENG: a comparison between India and Singapore
Authors: Sharma Shreya , Lai Wei Liang , Roy Sunanda , Maji Pradip Kumar , Ramakrishna Seeram , Goh Kheng Lim 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis study assesses the viability of recycled plastic-based triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) for sustainable energy harvesting in India and Singapore, concurrently examining plastic waste management. Using material flow analysis and life cycle assessment, the findings revealed that in Singapore, waste-to-energy incineration has a lower environmental impact than landfilling and mechanical recycling, attributed to natural gas usage. In India, recycling offsets impacts from incineration and landfilling, contributing to a lower net environmental impact. Economic performance of a TENG module from PET recyclates showed a 20% carbon footprint reduction when scaling up from lab to industrial “freeze-drying” processes. Key challenges in TENG manufacturing processes are also assessed for future development. This research highlights the potential of recycled plastic-based TENGs in sustainable energy and waste management.
The neurovascular unit and its correlation with cognitive performance in patients with cerebral small vessel disease: a canonical correlation analysis approach
Authors: van Dinther Maud , Voorter Paulien H. M. , Zhang Eleana , van Kuijk Sander M. J. , Jansen Jacobus F. A. , van Oostenbrugge Robert J. , Backes Walter H. , Staals Julie 
Published: June 2024

AbstractGrowing evidence indicates an important role of neurovascular unit (NVU) dysfunction in the pathophysiology of cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD). Individually measurable functions of the NVU have been correlated with cognitive function, but a combined analysis is lacking. We aimed to perform a unified analysis of NVU function and its relation with cognitive performance. The relationship between NVU function in the white matter and cognitive performance (both latent variables composed of multiple measurable variables) was investigated in 73 patients with cSVD (mean age 70 ± 10 years, 41% women) using canonical correlation analysis. MRI-based NVU function measures included (1) the intravoxel incoherent motion derived perfusion volume fraction (f) and microvascular diffusivity (D*), reflecting cerebral microvascular flow; (2) the IVIM derived intermediate volume fraction (fint), indicative of the perivascular clearance system; and (3) the dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI derived blood–brain barrier (BBB) leakage rate (Ki) and leakage volume fraction (VL), reflecting BBB integrity. Cognitive performance was composed of 13 cognitive test scores. Canonical correlation analysis revealed a strong correlation between the latent variables NVU function and cognitive performance (r 0.73; p = 0.02). For the NVU, the dominating variables were D*, fint, and Ki. Cognitive performance was driven by multiple cognitive tests comprising different cognitive domains. The functionality of the NVU is correlated with cognitive performance in cSVD. Instead of focusing on individual pathophysiological mechanisms, future studies should target NVU dysfunction as a whole to acquire a coherent understanding of the complex disease mechanisms that occur in the NVU in cSVD.Trial registration: NTR3786 (Dutch Trial Register).
Primary Versus Revisional Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery in Patients with a Body Mass Index ≥ 50 kg/m2—90-Day Outcomes and Risk of Perioperative Mortality
Authors: Abu-Abeid Adam , Dvir Nadav , Lessing Yonatan , Eldar Shai Meron , Lahat Guy , Keidar Andrei , Yuval Jonathan Benjamin 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Background
Bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) is an effective treatment for patients with severe obesity. Patients with higher body mass index (BMI) and patients undergoing revisional surgery have a higher rate of major complications. This study purpose is to evaluate perioperative outcomes of patients with BMI ≥ 50 kg/m2.

Materials and Methods
A retrospective analysis of patients with a BMI ≥ 50 kg/m2 undergoing BMS between 2015 and 2023 was conducted. A comparative analysis was performed between patients undergoing primary versus revisional surgery.

Results
A total of 263 patients were included in the study. Primary procedures were performed in 220 patients (83.7%) and revisional procedures in 43 patients (16.3%). BMS included one anastomosis gastric bypass (n = 183), sleeve gastrectomy (n = 63), and other procedures (n = 17). Mean BMI was 54.6 with no difference between groups. There was no difference in baseline characteristics except the revisional group was older (44.8 ± 9.6 versus 39 ± 13 years; p = 0.006), had higher rates of gastroesophageal reflux disease (21% vs 7.3%; p = 0.005), and fatty liver disease (74% vs 55%; p = 0.02). There was perioperative mortality in three cases (1.1%) with no significant difference between groups. Leak rates were higher, and length of stay (LOS) was longer in the revisional group (4.6% vs 0.45%; p = 0.018 and 2.9 vs 3.7; p = 0.006, respectively).

Conclusion
Revisional BMS in patients with a BMI ≥ 50 kg/m2 is associated with increased leak rates and LOS. Mortality rate is 1.1% and is insignificantly different between groups. Further prospective and large-scale studies are needed to clarify the optimal surgical approach to patients with extreme BMI including revisional surgery.

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Dyslexia in the twenty-first century: a commentary on the IDA definition of dyslexia
Authors: Elliott Julian G. , Grigorenko Elena L. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIn offering a commentary upon the IDA definition, we address its main components in turn. While each is technically accurate, we argue that, when taken together, the definition, or more accurately, the use to which it is often put, becomes problematic. We outline different current conceptions of dyslexia and conclude that the operationalisation of the definition for diagnostic purposes often results in scientifically questionable diagnoses and inadvertently leads to significant educational inequity. We propose a simpler definition that describes the primary difficulty, avoids reference to causal explanation, unexpectedness, and secondary outcomes, and redirects practitioner and policymaker focus to the importance of addressing and meeting the needs of all struggling readers.