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Employee and Customer Information Privacy Concerns in Supply Chain Management
Authors: Scott Marc A. , Waller Matthew A. , Fugate Brian S. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractRetail order fulfillment is a major supply chain management process. The process is complex to manage because of increases in e-commerce activity, which compels retailers to respond by developing omnichannel retailing strategies to serve both online and in-store retail in an integrated manner. Retailers and the logistics service providers that serve them must effectively manage this increased complexity to gain a competitive advantage in retail markets. Market leaders have done so by leveraging advanced technologies and data analytics in the order fulfillment operations of their supply chains. The adoption of these technologies has led to both an increase in customer service levels and operating efficiency gains for retailers. Because of their data gathering and dissemination capabilities, however, the implementation of these technologies has conjured concern amongst retail fulfillment operations employees and retail customers alike. Given this reality, we organized this chapter around three objectives. First, we provide an overview of supply chain management, and the logistics management and order fulfillment processes within it. Second, we detail why retail fulfillment operations represent a context replete with potential privacy-related issues resulting from the pervasive use of highly advanced technologies capable of collecting data on both human subjects and operational processes. Third, we discuss two highly salient forms of privacy in retail fulfillment operations, workplace privacy and information privacy, from the perspective of two stakeholder groups, employees and customers. We identify and survey the concepts, factors, and variables drawn from extant research that explain, describe, and challenge aspects of both employee and customer privacy concerns during order fulfillment operations in omnichannel retailing.
Exploring Privacy from a Philosophical Perspective: Conceptual and Normative Dimensions
Authors: Mason Sharon 
Published: May 2024

AbstractPhilosophical approaches to privacy focus on clarifying its many dimensions, providing a conceptual foundation for thinking about privacy in deep and fruitful ways. Philosophical inquiry also explores the normative and ethical dimensions of privacy, including the sources and nature of moral obligations; the interaction between privacy and other values such as security, transparency, democratic society, and justice; the relation between privacy and related concepts such as personal property and self-ownership; and the role of privacy in cultivating the self, intimacy, trust, and flourishing communities.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Privacy: A Technical Look at Privacy
Authors: Garimella Kiran K. , Conway Daniel 
Published: May 2024

AbstractBuilding trust in modern business and in social interactions is a critical need as our networks continue to grow and as we engage deeply with unknown people and companies from various parts of the planet. Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technology is a powerful enabler of this trust. It allows a person to demonstrate they know something, have something, or can do something without revealing the actual information or process. We describe the fundamental concepts of cryptography and ZK, their use and limitations, and discuss how ZK technology can be used from a personal as well as a business perspective.
Visuals as a Catalyst for Climate Science Communication
Authors: Monoyios Kalliopi , Carlson Kirsten , Litwak Taina , Marien Tania , Martin Fiona 
Published: May 2024

AbstractVisual science communicators (aka science illustrators) are an underutilized resource in the collaborative effort underway to foment changes in policy and behavior necessary to address the unfolding climate crisis. While science illustrations have a robust history in textbooks and picture books, they are quickly replaced with stock imagery outside those realms, particularly when describing climate change topics. Visual science communicators are practitioners who have a mastery of graphic design principles and various art forms, but are also, importantly, fluent in scientific concepts. With this unique combination of skills, the visuals they produce can deliver complex information in concise, easy-to-understand ways and make climate information more culturally accessible, ultimately resulting in broader community engagement. In order to bring the benefits of illustration into the climate education effort effectively, climate advocates must budget for visuals and bring professional visual science communicators into the fold.
Mapping Out Our Future: Using Geospatial Tools and Visual Aids to Achieve Climate Empowerment in the United States
Authors: Wolf-Jacobs Aviva , Glock-Grueneich Nancy , Uchtmann Nathan 
Published: May 2024

AbstractUrgent climate action is now impeded less by doubt that the climate crisis exists than doubt that we can do anything meaningful about it. Vivid stories of climate successes and geospatial maps showing the impact of such successes are the best way to meet this challenge. Accelerating climate solutions in the United States thus now turns on stories, maps, and other analytic and visualization tools to help achieve what the United Nations has termed climate empowerment, the “all-society” effort to mobilize all people of all nations to understand, gain the capacities for, and take the actions needed to save our planet and each other. In this chapter, we look at two types of narratives—those in the form of geospatial tools and images that help nonspecialists see and understand climate dynamics and distributional impacts of the climate crisis, and interpersonal solution stories that act as resources to help motivate collective climate action. Illustrative and analytical geospatial tools support community members in shaping climate action and environmental planning efforts, and help to ground climate adaptation processes in geographically specific data. In combination, these storytelling tools carry people over the entire arc of climate empowerment.
Judicial Institutions and Institutional Corruption: Some Lessons of Operation Car Wash for a Further Research Agenda
Authors: Mendes Conrado Hubner , de Oliveira Vanessa Elias 
Published: May 2024

ZusammenfassungThe issue of corruption, which has always been present in Brazilian politics, has taken on a new centrality since Car Wash Operation (Lava Jato). But the operation didn't just shed light on that issue. It itself adopted shady methods to deal with the cases it was investigating.
Systemic Corruption—How to Analyze and Measure It
Authors: Pohlmann Markus 
Published: May 2024

AbstractToo often, the catchphrase “systemic corruption” leads to political and normative statements usually expressing its strict rejection and blaming the actors engaging in it. But despite decades of fighting systemic corruption, the world map of corruption is still red to dark red in many countries. We can keep complaining how bad this is. Scientists, and activists are telling us a lot about the negative consequences of systemic corruption. And we do not deny the negative consequences. But aren’t there any positive consequences, and not only for those who enrich themselves personally in a criminal way? As sociologists, however, we are used to ask ourselves also the other way around. If systemic corruption is so long lasting, what is the productivity, indeed functionality, of systemic corruption for a given society?
A Pragmatic Giant: The Logic Behind Odebrecht’s Campaign Donations in the 2014 Elections
Authors: Mancuso Wagner Pralon , Horochovski Rodrigo Rossi , Speck Bruno Wilhelm 
Published: May 2024

AbstractIn this chapter we discuss the Odebrecht Organization as a source of resources for the 2014 election campaigns in Brazil. The intent is to analyze the strategy of this business group in view of the national and international political science literature. To analyze this case, we conducted a quantitative research, using descriptive statistics, social network analysis (SNA), and logistic and linear regression analysis. In the first section, we present an overview of the political science literature addressing the decision of private corporations to invest in political campaigns. We then analyze, in the second section, the official donations by the Odebrecht group in the 2014 elections, both to candidates and political parties.﻿ The concluding section summarizes our findings and offers some ideas for future investigations.
Enantioselective Total Syntheses of (−)-Cochlearol B and (+)-Ganocin A
Authors: Mashiko Tomoya , Shingai Yuta , Sakai Jun , Adachi Shinya , Matsuzawa Akinobu , Kamo Shogo , Sugita Kazuyuki 
Published: May 2024

AbstractHerein, we describe the first total synthesis of (±)-cochlearol B and the enantioselective total syntheses of (−)-cochlearol and (+)-ganocin A. The key steps include Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction, oxidative phenolic cyclization, intramolecular [2+2] photocycloaddition, and intramolecular radical cyclization-benzylic oxidative cyclization, enabling efficient access to 4/5/6/6/6 and 5/5/6/6/6-fused pentacyclic frameworks of these natural products.
Construction of Quinoline N-Oxides and Synthesis of Aurachins A and B: Discovery, Application, and Mechanistic Insight
Authors: Yokoshima Satoshi 
Published: May 2024

AbstractA method to synthesize 3-hydroxyquinoline N-oxides from ketones having a 2-nitrophenyl group at the α-position relative to the carbonyl group was developed. The substrates were easily prepared via a SNAr reaction or a Sonogashira coupling, and treatment with sodium tert-butoxide in dimethyl sulfoxide produced the corresponding quinoline N-oxides. The method was successfully applied to the total synthesis of aurachins A and B. On the basis of the quinoline N-oxide synthesis, related reactions of α-(2-nitrophenyl)ketones, including nitrone formation and photoinduced rearrangement, were also investigated. These investigations provided clues about the reaction mechanism, and the following mechanism for the quinoline N-oxide synthesis is proposed: Deprotonation of the α-position of α-(2-nitrophenyl)ketone with tert-butoxide generates an enolate, which reacts with a nitro group via single-electron transfer to form an α-hydroxyketone having a nitroso group. An intramolecular alkoxide-mediated hydride shift reduces the nitroso group, and condensation of the resultant hydroxylamine and diketone moieties produces a 3-hydroxyquinoline N-oxide.
Total Synthesis of Avenaol
Authors: Tsukano Chihiro , Yasui Motohiro , Takemoto Yoshiji 
Published: May 2024

AbstractAvenaol is a terpene with a unique all-cis cyclopropane in which all bulky substituents are oriented in the same direction. It is categorized into a non-canonical strigolactone. We have synthesized alkylidenecyclopropanes by Rh-catalyzed intramolecular cyclopropanation of allenes, followed by iridium-catalyzed diastereoselective double bond isomerization to construct all-cis cyclopropanes. Subsequently, distinction of the two hydroxymethyl groups of 1,3-diol by an intramolecular SN1-type reaction, followed by cleavage of the tetrahydropyranyl ring by regioselective C–H oxidation, led to the desired stereochemistry at the C-ring lactone. Using these key steps, the first racemic total synthesis of avenaol was achieved, and the proposed relative configuration of avenaol was proved synthetically. Furthermore, we developed a stereoselective introduction of D-ring butenolide via chiral thiourea-quaternary ammonium salt-catalyzed dynamic kinetic optical resolution. Then, by applying this method to synthetic intermediates, (+)-avenaol was successfully synthesized. This chapter details the total synthesis of avenaol, including failed attempts.
A Long Journey Toward Structure Revision and Total Synthesis of Amphidinol 3
Authors: Oishi Tohru 
Published: May 2024

AbstractAmphidinol 3 (AM3) is a super-carbon-chain compound isolated from the dinoflagellate Amphidinium klebsii. Although the absolute configuration of AM3 was determined in 1999 by instrumental analysis in combination with degradation of the natural product, it was a daunting task because of its limited availability from natural sources and presence of around 70% of chiral centers on the acyclic carbon chain. During the course of our synthetic studies of AM3, the originally proposed structure was revised, which was confirmed by the first total synthesis of AM3 in 2020, more than 20 years since its first discovery. A highly convergent strategy via the fragment assembly using Suzuki–Miyaura coupling and Julia–Kocienski olefination led to the successful total synthesis; however, it was not an easy task to assemble large segments by the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling. A number of experiments optimizing the reaction conditions including model systems revealed that the concentration of the aqueous cesium carbonate is crucial for the key step Suzuki–Miyaura coupling to proceed effectively.
Forbidden Love, Forgetting Gender
Authors: Chow Yiu Fai , de Kloet Jeroen , Schmidt Leonie 
Published: May 2024

AbstractSince their inception, Tat Ming Pair has been famous, or in some circles, notorious, for their gender and sexuality politics. It is of an advantage that when spoken, the Chinese language makes no distinction between “he” or “she,” thus allowing for more gender ambivalence. This ambivalence extents to sexuality; in their campy, extravagant performances, the duo exudes a queer aesthetics, without ever coming out as such—what Helen Leung calls Hong Kong’s “queer undercurrent” (2008). But then, as an unexpected blast that cracks open the undercurrents of queer invisibility and unrepresentability, reality overtook theory, and surprised and challenged it, in the year 2012. The coming out of Anthony Wong during a Tat Ming Pair live performance marked the turning point. This act was soon followed by similar acts of coming out of other pop stars. Chapter 4 investigates the articulation between sexuality and popular music, in particular Tat Ming, in the context of Hong Kong and mainland China. In doing so, we will trace the emergence of a Chinese movement to find indigenous ways of understanding sexual diversity. Interwoven with such resistance against dominant Western theories and practices, particularly the politics of visibility, is a local cultivation of ambivalence and invisibility, itself a complex manifestation of the ongoing interaction between queer identity and Hong Kong identity. Reflecting upon the events in 2012, we will come back to—and try to make sense of—the disruptive surprise of public figures coming out, apparently in accordance with Western models and in contrast to earlier local sexual politics of ambivalence and invisibility. However, as we will finally show, in the years following 2012, the potentiality of this disruptive surprise has shifted and has been, sadly, pushed back. First, by national policies against effeminate masculinities and sexuality- and gender-related activism at large. Second, by increasingly strict policies towards NGOs and social movements. Paradoxically, and again sadly, the political activities of Anthony Wong in and after the Umbrella Movement may have further jeopardised the potentialities of queer politics. Ironically, these political developments may well inspire a strategic move back towards a politics of invisibility and ambivalence.
We Think We Should Stop Now
Authors: Chow Yiu Fai , de Kloet Jeroen , Schmidt Leonie 
Published: May 2024

AbstractWe borrow the last line of Tat Ming Pair’s hit song “High-flown 天花亂墜” (1989) as the title of our final chapter, or more accurately, our coda to the book. We think we should withdraw our voice now—in the previous six chapters, we have been speaking. We have also, of course, made an attempt to let Tat Ming speak, as well as their works—their songs, their MVs, their concerts. We have invited the voices of those who, more or less intensely or immediately, were inspired by Tat Ming in creating their own cultural products. Occasionally, we have included the voices of fans. It dawns on us that perhaps we should dedicate this coda to this purpose. In 2022, Tat Ming staged their second series of REPLAY concerts in Hong Kong. In addition, they organised an online event, especially for fans who could not be there—it was still in the midst of pandemic and the stringent travel regime. Using the song “High-flown” as prompt, they asked fans to send in how Tat Ming’s music has felt for them. Fans would be selected, upon their submissions, to converse directly with Tats and Anthony during the online session. We have secured a copy, with courtesy of Tat Ming, and made our own selection to be included here. We have decided to complement the fans’ responses with images we deem befitting, conversing, resonating. It is perhaps also our manner to pay tribute to the affective, evocative, and future-making potentials of cultural productions we discussed when we started this book.
TIMING Analysis of the Multiple Passages of the Pressure Wave Generated by the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai and Comparison with the 1883 Krakatoa Pressure Wave
Authors: Le Bras Ronan , Bittner Paulina , Kuśmierczyk-Michulec Jolanta , Mialle Pierrick , Rambolamanana Gérard 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) eruption of 15 January 2022 was an exceptional event by the period, magnitude, and duration of propagation of the atmospheric waves it generated, which circled the Earth multiple times. This event, taking into account the magnitude of the atmospheric pressure waves, is comparable only to the Krakatoa eruption of 1883. To compare both eruptive sequences, a method similar to the analysis of the timing of the arrival of multiple phases at barometric stations, as reported in (Strachey, R., Stokes G.G., Scott, R.H. (1888). On the air waves and sound caused by the Krakatoa eruption of August 1883, in “The eruption of Krakatoa and subsequent phenomena,” Symons, G. J. (ed.). Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society (Trübner and Co., London)) for Krakatoa, was used. Since the HTHH volcanic event gave rise to the only volcanic pressure wave known to have circled within the Earth’s atmosphere multiple times in the last 139 years, it is of interest to perform similar timing statistics on the multiple passages of the waves at stations that recorded them. A review of the Krakatoa analysis and a comparison with the HTHH are presented, with possible implications on the physical parameters affecting its speed of propagation. Changes in the global state of the atmosphere during the interval between the two events may also explain some of the differences observed.
Identification of consistent QTL and candidate genes associated with seed traits in common bean by combining GWAS and RNA-Seq
Authors: Jurado Maria , García-Fernández Carmen , Campa Ana , Ferreira Juan Jose 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Key message
Association analysis, colocation study with previously reported QTL, and differential expression analyses allowed the identification of the consistent QTLs and main candidate genes controlling seed traits.

Abstract
Common beans show wide seed variations in shape, size, water uptake, and coat proportion. This study aimed to identify consistent genomic regions and candidate genes involved in the genetic control of seed traits by combining association and differential expression analyses. In total, 298 lines from the Spanish Diversity Panel were genotyped with 4,658 SNP and phenotyped for seven seed traits in three seasons. Thirty-eight significant SNP-trait associations were detected, which were grouped into 23 QTL genomic regions with 1,605 predicted genes. The positions of the five QTL regions associated with seed weight were consistent with previously reported QTL. HCPC analysis using the SNP that tagged these five QTL regions revealed three main clusters with significantly different seed weights. This analysis also separated groups that corresponded well with the two gene pools described: Andean and Mesoamerican. Expression analysis was performed on the seeds of the cultivar ‘Xana’ in three seed development stages, and 1,992 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were detected, mainly when comparing the early and late seed development stages (1,934 DEGs). Overall, 91 DEGs related to cell growth, signaling pathways, and transcriptomic factors underlying these 23 QTL were identified. Twenty-two DEGs were located in the five QTL regions associated with seed weight, suggesting that they are the main set of candidate genes controlling this character. The results confirmed that seed weight is the sum of the effects of a complex network of loci, and contributed to the understanding of seed phenotype control.
Partial discharge characteristics of peek utilized in press-pack IGBT under DC voltage
Authors: Yang Peng , Liu Haoyu , Liu Chenshuo , Gao Shuguo 
Published: May 2024

AbstractModular multilevel converters (MMCs) have been utilized in solid-state transformers (SSTs). With the increasing demand in high-voltage power module in MMC-SST, press-pack IGBTs are very promising. The poly-ether-ether-ketone (PEEK) frame is utilized in the submodules of press-pack IGBT to withstand the high voltage. The electric field simulation in this paper reveals that electric field concentrates on the surface of the PEEK frame. Thus, the surface partial discharge characteristics under direct current (DC) voltage is investigated by the developed test bench. The results show that surface partial discharge model of PEEK sample has polarity effect. Under positive and negative polarity voltage, the average discharge quantity, maximum discharge quantity and discharge repetition rate of the PEEK sample all increase with the voltage amplitude. Moreover, the front time of the surface partial discharge waveform reaches 20 ns, and its frequency spectrum is concentrated in range of 10–20 MHz.
Development and evaluation of rapid and accurate one-tube RPA-CRISPR-Cas12b-based detection of mcr-1 and tet(X4)
Authors: Wang Yu , Chen Huan , Pan Qingyun , Wang Jing , Jiao Xin’an , Zhang Yunzeng 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The emergence and quick spread of the plasmid-mediated tigecycline resistance gene tet(X4) and colistin resistance gene mcr-1 have posed a great threat to public health and raised global concerns. It is imperative to develop rapid and accurate detection systems for the onsite surveillance of mcr-1 and tet(X4). In this study, we developed one-tube recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) and CRISPR-Cas12b integrated mcr-1 and tet(X4) detection systems. We identified mcr-1- and tet(X4)-conserved and -specific protospacers through a comprehensive BLAST search based on the NCBI nt database and used them for assembling the detection systems. Our developed one-tube RPA-CRISPR-Cas12b-based detection systems enabled the specific detection of mcr-1 and tet(X4) with a sensitivity of 6.25 and 9 copies within a detection time of ~ 55 and ~ 40 min, respectively. The detection results using pork and associated environmental samples collected from retail markets demonstrated that our developed mcr-1 and tet(X4) detection systems could successfully monitor mcr-1 and tet(X4), respectively. Notably, mcr-1- and tet(X4)-positive strains were isolated from the positive samples, as revealed using the developed detection systems. Whole-genome sequencing of representative strains identified an mcr-1-carrying IncI2 plasmid and a tet(X4)-carrying IncFII plasmid, which are known as important vectors for mcr-1 and tet(X4) transmission, respectively. Taken together, our developed one-tube RPA-CRISPR-Cas12b-based mcr-1 and tet(X4) detection systems show promising potential for the onsite detection of mcr-1 and tet(X4).

Key points
• One-tube RPA-CRISPR-Cas12b-based mcr-1 and tet(X4) detection systems were developed based on identified novel protospacers.
• Both detection systems exhibited high sensitivity and specification with a sample-to-answer time of less than 1 h.
• The detection systems show promising potential for onsite detection of mcr-1 and tet(X4).