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A systematic literature review of the relationship between the rule of law and environmental sustainability
Authors: Atta Nausheen , Sharifi Ayyoob 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis study aims to synthesize knowledge on the interconnections between the rule of law and environmental sustainability by reviewing existing literature across various contexts. The topic is timely and highly relevant, particularly in the context of climate change, global environmental challenges, and ongoing discourse about the role of the rule of law in promoting sustainable development. We utilized the PRISMA framework for literature search and selection, organizing it into two main themes: one investigating the direct effects of the rule of law on environmental policies and regulations, while another examining its mediated role related to financial development, foreign direct investment, trade openness, equitable resource distribution, human development, and innovation's influence on environmental quality. This review underscores the significance of clear frameworks, fair accountability mechanisms, and stakeholder engagement in preventing institutional collapse and ensuring effective environmental sustainability. A major gap identified in the existing literature is the limited exploration of specific components of both concepts, such as fundamental rights, the justice system, biodiversity, and waste management. These areas present avenues for future research. This review offers insights for policymakers to advance global environmental objectives through a better understanding of the role played by the rule of law in promoting environmental sustainability.
Logics of reciprocity in Denmark: Longing and belonging in a virtuous cycle of welfare
Authors: Spalletta Olivia 
Published: June 2024

AbstractNordic welfare states are characterized by universal access to generous welfare services, including education, health care, and developmental support. These benefits are maintained through a shared commitment to economic reciprocity. While the centrality of reciprocity to moral and social life in Scandinavian welfare states is well established, it is less clear how citizens evaluate their own and others' reciprocity in daily life. How do everyday Danes come to know that they are reciprocating properly? What does it mean to ask “too much” of the welfare state? What are the consequences for those seen as unable to reciprocate? In this article, I examine how understandings of reciprocity emerge through welfare access and use. I argue that my Danish interlocutors approach reciprocity as an obligation to use welfare resources for the mutual benefit of citizen and society. This is a lifelong project that involves properly positioning oneself within a virtuous cycle of welfare beginning in childhood. Taking the experiences of parents raising children with Down syndrome in Denmark as an empirical point of departure, I argue that this logic of reciprocity is employed not only to justify one's own welfare use but also as an explanatory model for excluding others from benefits.
Green Synthesis of CuO/ZnO Nanocomposites using Ficus Drupacea: In‐Vitro Antibacterial and Cytotoxicity Analysis
Authors: Fathima Fasna P. H. , Sasi Sreesha , Julie Chandra C. S. , Bindu Sharmila T. K. , Mini Minsa , Kumar Praveen , Ramanathan Hareesh N. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractWith the increasing demand for environmentally friendly and effective biomedical solutions, the synthesis of nanoparticles with enhanced properties has become imperative. This study addresses this demand by employing a green method that utilizes Ficus Drupacea fruit extract to produce ZnO/CuO nanostructures, offering versatile biomedical applications. While several reports exist on the synthesis of nanostructures using plant extracts, this is the primary report on the utilization of Ficus Drupacea fruit extract for creating ZnO/CuO nanostructures. A series of five ZnO/CuO nanostructures (ZC0, ZC25, ZC50, ZC75, and ZC100) were synthesized by varying the proportion of CuO and ZnO. Through comprehensive characterization techniques including XRD (X‐Ray Diffraction), HR‐TEM (High‐Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy), and UV‐Vis spectroscopy, the successful synthesis and tunable properties of the nanostructures were confirmed, with average crystal sizes ranging from 14.32 nm to 38.61 nm. The study unveils the significant cytotoxicity of the synthesized nanostructures against MCF‐7 breast cancer cells, with ZC25 demonstrating the highest activity and an LC50 (Lethal Concentration 50) value below 50 μg/mL. Antimicrobial assays underscore the potent activity of ZC100 against Streptococcus mutans and Acinetobacter baumannii, with MIC (Minimum Inhibitory Concentration) values below 1.5 mg/mL. These findings emphasize the potential of these nanostructures for advanced biomedical applications.
Imination of Sterically Unshielded o‐Quinones in the Coordination Sphere of Zinc (II)
Authors: Kocherova Tatiana N. , Martyanov Konstantin A. , Rumyantcev Roman V. , Druzhkov Nikolay O. , Kuropatov Viacheslav A. 
Published: June 2024

Abstracto‐Iminoquinones bearing unshielded chelating OCCN(R) site were synthesized in high yields in the zinc coordination sphere as the neutral complexes. The stability of one‐electron‐reduced forms of these o‐iminoquinones and the distribution of the unpaired electron density in the corresponding radical anion species were studied using cyclic voltammetry and EPR spectroscopy methods
Hierarchical Self‐Assembly of Water‐Soluble Fullerene Derivatives into Supramolecular Hydrogels
Authors: Rašović Ilija , Piacenti Alba R. , Contera Sonia , Porfyrakis Kyriakos 
Published: June 2024

AbstractControlling the self‐assembly of nanoparticle building blocks into macroscale soft matter structures is an open question and of fundamental importance to fields as diverse as nanomedicine and next‐generation energy storage. Within the vast library of nanoparticles, the fullerenes—a family of quasi‐spherical carbon allotropes—are not explored beyond the most common, C60. Herein, a facile one‐pot method is demonstrated for functionalizing fullerenes of different sizes (C60, C70, C84, and C90–92), yielding derivatives that self‐assemble in aqueous solution into supramolecular hydrogels with distinct hierarchical structures. It is shown that the mechanical properties of these resultant structures vary drastically depending on the starting material. This work opens new avenues in the search for control of macroscale soft matter structures through tuning of nanoscale building blocks.
Colloidal Synthesis of Carbon Dot‐ZnSe Nanoplatelet Van der Waals Heterostructures for Boosting Photocatalytic Generation of Methanol‐Storable Hydrogen
Authors: Chen Dechao , Hudson Rohan J. , Tang Cheng , Sun Qiang , Harmer Jeffery R. , Liu Miaomiao , Ghasemi Mehri , Wen Xiaomin , Liu Zixuan , Peng Wei , Yan Xuecheng , Cowie Bruce , Gao Yongsheng , Raston Colin L. , Du Aijun , Smith Trevor A. , Li Qin 
Published: June 2024

AbstractMethanol is not only a promising liquid hydrogen carrier but also an important feedstock chemical for chemical synthesis. Catalyst design is vital for enabling the reactions to occur under ambient conditions. This study reports a new class of van der Waals heterojunction photocatalyst, which is synthesized by hot‐injection method, whereby carbon dots (CDs) are grown in situ on ZnSe nanoplatelets (NPLs), i.e., metal chalcogenide quantum wells. The resultant organic‐inorganic hybrid nanoparticles, CD‐NPLs, are able to perform methanol dehydrogenation through CH splitting. The heterostructure has enabled light‐induced charge transfer from the CDs into the NPLs occurring on a sub‐nanosecond timescale, with charges remaining separated across the CD‐NPLs heterostructure for longer than 500 ns. This resulted in significantly heightened H2 production rate of 107 µmole·g−1·h−1 and enhanced photocurrent density up to 34 µA cm−2 at 1 V bias potential. EPR and NMR analyses confirmed the occurrence of α‐CH splitting and CC coupling. The novel CD‐based organic‐inorganic semiconductor heterojunction is poised to enable the discovery of a host of new nano‐hybrid photocatalysts with full tunability in the band structure, charge transfer, and divergent surface chemistry for guiding photoredox pathways and accelerating reaction rates.
Interface‐Engineered Atomic Layer Deposition of 3D Li4Ti5O12 for High‐Capacity Lithium‐Ion 3D Thin‐Film Batteries
Authors: Speulmanns Jan , Bönhardt Sascha , Weinreich Wenke , Adelhelm Philipp 
Published: June 2024

AbstractUpcoming energy‐autonomous mm‐scale Internet‐of‐things devices require high‐energy and high‐power microbatteries. On‐chip 3D thin‐film batteries (TFBs) are the most promising option but lack high‐rate anode materials. Here, Li4Ti5O12 thin films fabricated by atomic layer deposition (ALD) are electrochemically evaluated on 3D substrates for the first time. The 3D Li4Ti5O12 reveals an excellent footprint capacity of 20.23 µAh cm−2 at 1 C. The outstanding high‐rate capability is demonstrated with 7.75 µAh cm−2 at 5 mA cm−2 (250 C) while preserving a remarkable capacity retention of 97.4% after 500 cycles. Planar films with various thicknesses exhibit electrochemical nanoscale effects and are tuned to maximize performance. The developed ALD process enables conformal high‐quality spinel (111)‐textured Li4Ti5O12 films on Si substrates with an area enhancement of 9. Interface engineering by employing ultrathin AlOx on the current collector facilitates a required crystallization time reduction which ensures high film and interface quality and prospective on‐chip integration. This work demonstrates that 3D Li4Ti5O12 by ALD can be an attractive solution for the microelectronics‐compatible fabrication of scalable high‐energy and high‐power Li‐ion 3D TFBs.
Designing efficient patient‐centric smart contracts for healthcare ecosystems with access control capabilities
Authors: Kalita Kausthav Pratim , Boro Debojit , Kumar Bhattacharyya Dhruba 
Published: June 2024

AbstractElectronic medical records are a patient's digital asset that enhances the information available to doctors for tracking their patients' health. When this information is stored in a secure environment, health examination reports can serve as a dependable repository for thorough observation of a patient's well‐being. However, it is crucial for the owner to have control over access to these repositories. In this scenario, a blockchain ecosystem with appropriate access control mechanisms can help create a distributed and decentralized storage platform to ensure the safety and security of data. Developing cost‐effective smart contracts and creating clear design diagrams to represent them are essential for establishing such an ecosystem. This paper introduces a smart contract for the Ethereum blockchain that allows an owner to maintain control over their data. The paper presents a diagram for visually representing the modules within our smart contract, providing readers with a clearer understanding of the access control techniques utilized in implementing our strategies. Our smart contract offers clinicians a valuable means of accessing historical data to promptly evaluate a patient's health in emergency situations. We showcase its efficacy by illustrating how it streamlines insurance claims, where it verifies the patient's coverage and automatically authorizes medical expense payments. Lastly, a study is presented to showcase an effective method of storing the ingested data within the Ethereum network. The suggested approach allows restrictions on data visibility based on the viewer's accessibility through identity‐based access control achieved using additional structures in smart contracts. These structures store filtered records accessible to users based on their viewing privileges. The simulated test bed results support the efficiency of using smart contracts with additional structures in terms of gas consumption when compared to those that use a single structure for read and write operations.
Effect of Chufa (Cyperus esculentus L.) Flour Added at Different Concentrations on the Bioactive Compounds, Fatty Acid Composition, and Mineral Contents of Flour Cookies
Authors: AlJuhaimi Fahad , Kandil Merve , Mohamed Ahmed Isam Ali , Albakry Zainab , Özcan Mehmet Musa 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIn this study, the antioxidant activity, total phenol, total flavonoid, phenolic component, fatty acid composition, and mineral quantities of cookies produced from cookie dough prepared with a mixture of chufa tubers and wheat flour in different proportions are investigated. The total phenolic quantities of the cookie samples are assessed to be between 28.77 (0% chufa flour) and 110.20 (mg GAE/100 g) (100% chufa flour). The total flavonoid amounts of flour cookies are assigned to be between 34.52 (mg QE/100 g) and 76.43 (mg QE/100 g). The highest antioxidant activity in cookie samples is established as 0.74 (mmol kg−1). The main phenolic components of the cookies with chufa flour added are kaempferol, gallic acid, cinnamic acid, and 3,4‐dihydroxybenzoic acids. While the gallic acid quantities of the samples are depicted between 5.02 mg/100 g (0%) and 0.86 mg/100 g, the 3,4‐dihydroxybenzoic acid amounts of the cookies range from 1.79 mg/100 g (75% chufa flour) to 0.95 mg/100 g (100% chufa flour). The phosphorus quantities of the cookie samples are found to be between 2493 and 3196 mg kg−1, while the magnesium amounts are displayed between 578 and 3210 mg kg−1. The potassium quantities of the cookies are established to be between 599 and 2182 mg kg−1. The predominant fatty acids of the oil extracted from the cookie sample are oleic, linoleic, and palmitic acid. While the oleic acid quantities of cookie oils vary between 32.08% (0% chufa flour) and 42.33% (100% chufa flour), the linolenic acid quantities of cookie oils are determined between 26.78% (100% chufa flour) and 32.94% (0% chufa flour). In the sensory analysis results of flour cookies, 0% and 25% chufa concentrations receive the highest overall approval rating of 4.75.
Determinants of Thoroughbred yearling sales price in the UK
Authors: Mouncey Rebecca R. , Alarcon Pablo , Verheyen Kristien L. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractBackgroundIndustry‐level figures suggest that up to two‐thirds of Thoroughbred breeding operations in the UK are unprofitable and that around half of sales transactions of Thoroughbred yearlings, commercial breeders’ predominant income source, return a loss. The industry strategy currently endorses investment in stallion covering fee; however, to date, a comprehensive evaluation of sales price determinants in the UK setting is lacking and could better inform economic decision making to improve profitability.MethodsSales catalogue and Weatherbys’ stud book data from all Thoroughbred yearlings sold at the 2020 Tattersalls October yearling sale in the UK were used to build a hedonic sales price model. Explanatory variables representing sire, dam, yearling and sales attributes were evaluated. The final model's accuracy was assessed using out‐of‐sample data from all yearlings sold in the equivalent 2021 sale.ResultsIn 2020, a total of 1506 catalogued yearlings, representing around 30% of the UK Thoroughbred foal crop, were sold, with a median price of £42,575 (interquartile range 15,750‒105,000; range 840‒3,570,000). The sires’ covering fee, maternal siblings’ race performance attributes, whether the yearling was the dams’ first foal, consignment size, catalogue book and day of sale within book significantly influenced auction price; however, relationships were complex with significant interaction and confounding observed. The mean model forecasting error was £2074. The use of data from only one sale could affect generalisability.ConclusionsThese novel findings can inform breeding decisions to maximise profitability, give context for current industry strategies and can inform valuations of breeding stock.
A Transnational Feminist Approach to Anti-Gender Politics
Authors: Ojeda Tomás , Holzberg Billy , Holvikivi Aiko 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThe introduction to this edited volume outlines a transnational approach to the study of anti-gender politics. It locates anti-gender politics in the structures of coloniality, racial capitalism, and resurgent nationalisms by highlighting connections and convergences in anti-gender politics in Argentina, Chile, China, Germany, the Persian Gulf, Hungary, India, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, the UK, and the US. In doing so, the chapter challenges and further develops taken-for-granted frameworks developed in anti-gender research. Firstly, the focus on transnational anti-gender politics unsettles singular ‘origin stories’ that are in danger of obscuring non-Western locations from scholarly consideration. Secondly, a transnational approach contests the notion that anti-gender politics derive solely from right-wing nationalist and/or conservative religious actors, highlighting instead how anti-gender mobilisations derive from a variety of positions including more centrist, secular, liberal, leftist, and even presumably feminist perspectives. Thirdly, this approach sharpens the conceptual tools available for studying and understanding anti-gender politics by pushing for a more materialist conceptualisation that goes beyond dominant understandings of anti-gender politics as ‘backlash’ or ‘symbolic glue’. Taken together, these challenges open new avenues for building knowledges and solidarities across national contexts to contest the multi-headed hydra that is transnational anti-gender politics.
‘They Put You in a False Dichotomy’: In Search of Conceptual Diversity Through the Spanish ‘Anti-Gender’ Landscape
Authors: Obst Marcel , Ablett Liz 
Published: June 2024

AbstractWhat concepts help us to understand ‘anti-gender’ movements that are characterised by contradictory dynamics, varying organisational structures, and often manifest as highly localised yet with fluctuating issues-based alliances and transnational links? Existing concepts like ‘anti-gender’ and ‘antifeminist’ enable productive theorisations about these rapidly evolving phenomena. But there is also a tendency for the people who constitute these movements to disappear from processes of theorisation, with the risk of conflating disparate lived experiences and complex issues for the purpose of neatly fitting an argument. In this chapter, we look at the case of Spain and draw on participant observation and in-depth interviews to suggest that more inductive approaches are needed to make sense of the varied mobilisations and contestations around gender and sexuality. We argue for situated knowledges that emerge from empirical investigations, foregrounding and embracing the messiness of the field. Forms of in-depth qualitative research are particularly useful as they allow us to deepen our understanding of localised complexities, whilst identifying how transnational links operate and are integrated with everyday lives. We are particularly interested in sustained and situated studies which can take a variety of forms, including life stories, ethnography, in-depth interviews, and action research.
Landslide Prediction Model Based Upon Intelligent Processing of Multi-Point Monitoring Information: A Review
Authors: Li Changdong , Long Jingjing , Liu Yong , Huang Dewei 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThe construction of landslide displacement prediction model is crucial and effective in landslide prevention and mitigation. Intelligent processing methods are deeply required owing to the boost of monitoring datasets. Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods are widely applied in landslide prediction. In this paper, aiming at the hydrodynamic pressure-driven landslides with step-like features in China Three Gorges Reservoir (CTGR) area, the improved ensemble learning models integrating the advantages of multifarious algorithms as well as considering the time series are proposed for prediction. Due to the limitations of monitoring sites and data missing, the multi-feature fusing transfer learning (MFTL) method is proposed for landslide prediction. It transfers the knowledge learned form a landslide with enough data to the other landslides with insufficient data. The successful applications in landslide prediction based on intelligent processing of monitoring information provide the efficient ways for further studies.
Stringy evidence for a universal pattern at infinite distance
Authors: Castellano Alberto , Ruiz Ignacio , Valenzuela Irene 
Published: June 2024

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Infinite distance limits in the moduli space of a quantum gravity theory are characterized by having infinite towers of states becoming light, as dictated by the Distance Conjecture in the Swampland program. These towers imply a drastic breakdown in the perturbative regimes of the effective field theory at a quantum gravity cut-off scale known as the species scale. In this work, we find a universal pattern satisfied in all known infinite distance limits of string theory compactifications, which relates the variation in field space of the mass of the tower and the species scale: $$ \frac{\overrightarrow{\nabla}m}{m}\cdotp \frac{\overrightarrow{\nabla}{\Lambda}_{\textrm{sp}}}{\Lambda_{\textrm{sp}}}=\frac{1}{d-2} $$

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The Morse Index for Manifolds with Constant Sectional Curvature
Authors: Şirikçi Nil İpek 
Published: June 2024

AbstractWe compute the Morse index of a critical submanifold of the energy functional on the loop space of a manifold with constant sectional curvature. The case of constant non-positive sectional curvature is a known result and the case of a sphere has been proved by Klingenberg. We adapt Klingenberg’s proof of the case of a sphere to the case of constant sectional curvature, to obtain the possible Morse indices of critical submanifolds of the energy functional.