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Sitwe 23, a Complex ESA/MSA Locality in the Northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia
Authors: Bisson Michael S. , Burke Ariane , Schilt Flora , Aleman Julie , Peros Matthew C. , Drapeau Michelle , Katongo Maggie , Kayuni Martha Nchimunya , Museba Joseph Mutale , Tolan Steve 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThis paper describes the lithic aggregates from Sitwe 23 (SW23), a Stone Age locality in a previously unstudied region of the northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia. This area yielded two surface lithic scatters containing abundant artifacts derived from Pleistocene sediments on uplifted terrain and exposed by recent erosion on two adjacent terraces. The scatters are time-averaged palimpsests formed by deflation, but most of the lithics lack evidence of significant fluvial transport or post-depositional damage, indicating minimal horizontal displacement. Typological and attribute analyses of samples from both spurs reveal predominantly simple and expedient core and flake technologies, as well as sophisticated biface manufacture and Levallois technique producing flakes and points that are differentially distributed between the terraces. The artifacts identified in this analysis include types conventionally considered diagnostic of the Acheulean, Sangoan, and Middle Stone Age, suggesting that the collections may document one or more temporal windows during the Chibanian age (770–126 ka). Whether artifacts in these samples were originally deposited sequentially or concurrently is not yet known and alternative hypotheses are presented and discussed. The collections are compared to sites in Zambia and the northern Lake Malawi basin and found to be similar technologically but typologically different. Given the paucity of previously known Ston Age archaeological sites in the region, our work now demonstrates that northern Luangwa has significant archaeological potential and deserves further study.
Comparative study and characterization of water-treated bacterial cellulose produced by solid or liquid inoculum of Komagateibacter sucrofermentans
Authors: Drosos Athanasios , Kordopati Golfo G. , Anastasopoulos Charalampos , Zafeiropoulos John , Koutinas Athanasios A. , Kanellaki Maria 
Published: May 2024

AbstractStructural and physicochemical properties of two types of bacterial cellulose (BC) produced by Komagateibacter sucrofermentans strain DSM 15973T after 7 days through either immobilized bacteria (solid inoculum) forming BCS7 or free bacteria (liquid inoculum) forming BCL7, followed by a water-based purification as a chem-free alternative treatment, were investigated in this study. SEM verifies the effectiveness of the water-based purification on BC network and reveals the insufficient interfibrillar space of BCS7 compared to BCL7. BCL7 was generally proved to be superior to BCS7 regarding degree of purification, BC yield, overall higher porosity, water swell ability, and water holding capacity (WHC), exhibiting higher hydrophilicity. However, thermally resistant BCS7 reveals a 35% residual up to 800 ºC compared to BCL7 (15%) and prevailed in terms of water retention rate. Both water-treated BC7 were proved to be Iα-rich cellulose type and exhibited a typical type IV(a) isotherm with an H3 type of hysteresis loop, a similar pore distribution, crystallinity index (~77%), crystallite size (~7.5 cm), same levels of moisture content (~98%) and the same poor levels of rehydration after the freeze-drying process. During BCL kinetics in 20 mL of HS medium over 7 days, K. sucrofermentans, 2D pellicle formation was observed until day 3 and then 3D. The highest WHC was obtained on day 4 (116 g water/g cellulose), while the lowest on day 1 (19 g water/g cellulose). Overall, we discussed the preparation and characterization of two different BCs water-treated for purification as an eco-friendly alternative method towards functional, and sustainable application.
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Place-Based FACT: Treatment Outcomes and Patients’ Experience with Integrated Neighborhood-Based Care
Authors: van Ens Welmoed , Sanches Sarita , Beverloo Leonieke , Swildens Wilma E. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractLocating specialized mental healthcare services in the neighborhood of people with severe mental illnesses (SMI) has been suggested as a way of improving treatment outcomes by increasing patient engagement and integration with the local care landscape. The current mixed methods study aimed to examine patient experience and treatment outcomes in three Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) teams that relocated to the neighborhood they served, compared to seven teams that continued to provide FACT as usual from a central office. Routine Outcome Measurement (ROM) and care use data were analyzed to compare change in treatment outcomes for patients in place-based FACT (n = 255) and FACT as usual (n = 833). Additionally, retrospective in-depth interviews were conducted with twenty patients about their experience with place-based FACT. Quantitative analysis showed mental health admission days decreased more in place-based than FACT as usual, although this difference was small. Both groups showed improved quality of life, psychosocial functioning, and symptomatic remission rates, and decreased unmet and overall needs for care. There was no change over time in met needs for care, employment, and daily activities. Qualitative analysis showed that patients experienced place-based FACT as more accessible, a better safety net, a more personal approach, better integrated with other forms of care, involving their social network, and embedded in their neighborhood and daily environment. This study showed that location and integration matter to patients, and the long term impact of place-based FACT on treatment outcomes should be explored.
Graph-based dynamic attribute clipping for conversational recommendation
Authors: Zhang Li , Zhang Yiwen , Cao Xiaolan , Liu Shuying 
Published: May 2024

AbstractConversational recommender systems (CRS) enable traditional recommender systems to interact with users by asking questions about their preferences and recommending items. Conversation recommendation has made significant progress, however, studies on attribute-aware conversational recommendation have overlooked the problem that after obtaining the candidate attribute set, the relevance of the attributes in the candidate attribute set to the user’s current preferred attributes is not further considered, resulting in the existence of many user-uninterested attributes in the candidate attribute set. This seriously affects the dialogue quality and reduces the user’s patience, decreasing recommendation accuracy. To address this problem, this paper proposes a new framework called Attribute Clipping based on Dynamic Graph (ACDG). In ACDG, firstly, the reasoning module uses the restriction property of graph structure to obtain a large set of candidate attributes, and then the attribute clipping module filters out the attributes with high relevance to the current user’s preferred attributes. Thus, ACDG can obtain a better-quality set of candidate attributes. Through extensive experiments on four benchmark CRS datasets, we validate the effectiveness of the method.
Deliberate and Self-Conscious Adaptation of Eye-Contact by Autistic Adults
Authors: Garvey Alison , Ryan Christian , Murphy Mike 
Published: May 2024

AbstractEye gaze is widely recognised as an important element in managing social interactions, receiving information from others and communicating information about ourselves. Atypical eye gaze is one of the characteristic hallmarks of autism. Experimental research has contributed significantly to our knowledge of eye-gaze in autism, however, there is a lack of research exploring how autistic individuals describe and understand the phenomenological experience of eye-gaze and eye-contact. The current study explores the subjective experience of deliberate and self-conscious adaptation of eye-contact by autistic adults. Nine autistic adults were interviewed individually about their experiences of eye-contact. Audio recordings were transcribed, and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Themes included gaining awareness of eye contact differences through feedback from others, the interaction of motivation to make eye-contact with a sense of autistic identity, difficulties listening when making eye contact, the importance of familiarity of conversational partners, and strategies to make eye-contact. This study makes an important and novel contribution to understanding the experience of eye-contact differences from the perspective of autistic adults themselves, highlighting the phenomenology of eye-contact as potentially aversive and the social pressure to engage in it, and exploring factors influencing effective eye-contact, with implications for psychological intervention.
HYSTERESIS OF IMPLICIT EQUATIONS IN HYPOPLASTICITY FOR SOIL MATERIALS WITH GRANULAR HARDNESS DEGRADATION
Authors: Kovtunenko Victor A. , Krejčí Pavel , Monteiro Giselle A. , Runcziková Judita 
Published: May 2024

AbstractWe study a hypoplastic model for soil and granular materials stemming from geomechanical engineering which further incorporates effects of degradation of the granular hardness, therefore allowing for the description of environmental weathering. The governing system is described by a nonlinear system of transcendental-differential equations for stress and strain rate, which is investigated with respect to its long-time dynamic. Under deviatoric stress control, two different solutions of the underlying, implicit differential equations are constructed analytically. The spherical components of stress and strain rate converge asymptotically to an attractor and lead to the sparsification of material states. Whereas under cyclic loading-unloading carried out in a numerical simulation, finite ratcheting of the deviatoric strain rate is observed in the form of a square spiral.
Liberty, Secrecy, and the Right of Assessment
Authors: Santoro Daniele , Kumar Manohar 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
In this article we argue that governmental practices of secrecy threaten the epistemic dimension of rights. We defend the view that possessing a right entitles its holder to the largest extent of available knowledge of the circumstances that may impede the enjoyment of that right. We call this the ‘epistemic entitlement’ of rights. Such an entitlement holds in ideal conditions once full transparency is assumed. However, under non-ideal conditions secrecy is a fact that should be accounted for. We argue that, under such conditions, interference due to secrecy is legitimate when the circumstances under which it occurs are open to assessment by the right-holder. We call this the ‘right of assessment’. It ensures the ex-post fulfillment of the epistemic entitlement under non-ideal conditions of partial compliance where full transparency is unattainable due to the fact of secrecy. The right of assessment shields against arbitrary interference by imposing an obligation on the government to provide justification for any interference in the sphere of fundamental rights.
Traditional agencies on bridges: How is digital transformation changing business models?
Authors: Ceccotti Federica , Vernuccio Maria , Mattiacci Alberto , Pastore Alberto 
Published: May 2024

AbstractDigital technologies produce new strategic and organizational challenges for incumbent firms that require major digital transformation (DT) processes, leading to the evolution of business models (BMs). Contributing to the research stream on DT and BM evolution, this study explores which technologies have the most relevant effect on core BM dimensions, i.e., value proposition, value creation, and value capture, by investigating both the consequent themes and intensities of change in these dimensions. A valuable context for analysis was chosen: the advertising industry and traditional communication agencies, namely, creative and media agencies. Based on 38 in-depth interviews with senior communication professionals and qualitative content analysis, we propose a comprehensive reading of (1) the impact of specific technologies on different BM dimensions and components and (2) the themes and intensities of change in creative and media agencies’ BM dimensions. Finally, we outline an interpretative framework, identifying two different paths for incumbents: outside-in BM adaptation and inside-out BM innovation. This study therefore offers two academic contributions. First, it overcomes the vagueness of previous investigations that considered the effects of digital technologies in general terms, and it also resolves the narrow scope of research that focused only on the impact of one specific technology. Second, by deepening the understanding of the joint evolutions and intensities of change across all three BM dimensions, this study has widened the limited scope of previous contributions on one BM dimension. By doing so, it offers a comprehensive reading of BM dynamics due to DT.
The perceived object in media-based empathy: applying Edith Stein’s concept of Wortleib
Authors: Kekki Minna-Kerttu 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe question of how other consciousnesses appear via media has forced us to re-think the classical phenomenological accounts of sociality. However, as the phenomenological account of empathy is very much centred around the perception of the other’s living body, it has faced challenges in discussing the empathic experience in media-based contexts, where we cannot perceive the other’s body, but something else, such as a screen or a text. In this article, I provide the concept for describing the perceived object in media-based empathy: a living textual body, based on Edith Stein’s concept of Wortleib (a living word body) referring to words as “living,” as bearers of meaning in her early work On the Problem of Empathy [Zum Problem der Einfühlung]. I divide the term Wortleib in two different cases—the empathic and non-empathic object—and thereby argue that, while the object of media-based empathic experience cannot be the other’s body, it is an empathic Wortleib, a communicative empathic object. While Stein herself discussed media-based empathy merely in paper media, I demonstrate the unique usefulness of these concepts in analysing any media-based communication and thus the timeliness of her work in this respect.
When should one be open-minded?
Authors: Duijf Hein 
Published: May 2024

AbstractIt is widely believed among philosophers and educated people that it is virtuous to be open-minded. Instead of thinking of open-mindedness as universally or unconditionally epistemically valuable, I argue that it is vital to explicate the conditions that must obtain if open-mindedness is to be epistemically valuable. This paper critically evaluates open-mindedness given certain realistic cognitive limitations. I present and analyse a simple mathematical model of open-minded decision-making that incorporates these limitations. The results are mixed. The bad news is that the circumstances where open-mindedness is epistemically valuable may be more restricted than previously thought especially if individuals are incapable of properly evaluating the trustworthiness of sources or the content of received information. The good news is that, if individuals are mildly competent in evaluating the trustworthiness of sources and the content of received information, then there are many circumstances where open-mindedness is epistemically valuable.
Cadmium oxide nanoparticles from new organometallic Cd(II)-Schiff base complex and in vitro biological potentials: dual S. aureus and E. coli DNA gyrase inhibition by the precursors via in silico binding modes’ study
Authors: Ejidike Ikechukwu P. , Direm Amani , Parlak Cemal , Bamigboye Mercy O. , Oluade Olajumoke , Adetunji Juliana B. , Ata Athar , Eze Michael O. , Hollett Joshua W. , Clayton Hadley S. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractAt the nanoscale level, several biological processes take place, owing to the potential that engineered nanomaterials might interrelate with bio-molecules and cellular procedures. This study aimed to synthesize cadmium oxide nanoparticles via a one-step calcination process of tetradentate Schiff base-Cd(II) complex at different temperature ranges. The as-synthesized compounds were carried out via a viz UV–visible, elemental analysis, 1H NMR, molar conductivity, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), FT-IR spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction (PXRD). The band gap energy and average particle sizes of the CdO particles are respectively (2.69 eV, 3.54 eV), 26.88 nm for CdO@250, and (3.20 eV, 3.57 eV), 25.67 nm for CdO@300, while CdO@350 exhibited the 3.78 eV and 28.42 nm values. The antioxidant accomplishments of the test samples through the scavenging activity of DPPH radicals showed CdO@300 to possess (IC50 = 5.18 ± 0.56 µg/mL). Similarly, the as-synthesized CdO nanoparticles exhibited higher antibacterial activities against S. aureus and E. coli as compared to the corresponding Cd-HMB and ligand (HMB), while ciprofloxacin acted as a standard antibiotic. Furthermore, HMB and its complex Cd-HMB were docked against the DNA gyrase enzymes of S. aureus (PDB IDs: 5CDQ) and E. coli (PDB IDs: 6F86) as receptors. The binding sites docking results showed that the binding energies of HMB and Cd-HMB to 5CDQ ranged from − 3.44 to − 4.99 kcal/mol and from − 6.45 to − 6.64 kcal/mol, while the binding energies related to the target 6F86 are in the ranges of (− 3.64, − 4.76) kcal/mol and (− 6.08, − 6.09) kcal/mol respectively. Therefore, the significant antioxidant and antibacterial activities of the ligand (HMB), Cd-HMB, and CdO NPs review the broad application prospects of these compounds as therapeutic agents for wide-ranging biomedical applications.
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan
Authors: Errabo Denis Dyvee , Fujinami Keigo , Isozaki Tetsuo 
Published: May 2024

AbstractDespite cultural differences, the Philippines–Japan partnership is developing an intentional teaching curriculum with parallel standards. However, disparities among their respective educational systems have prompted inequalities. As education plays a critical role in collaboration, we explored the Epistemic Goals (EGs) and Epistemic Practices (EPs) in the biology curriculum, with the research question: How do the epistemic goals and practices of the biology curriculum transmit knowledge and skills in the Philippines and Japan? Using an ethnographic design, we conducted two iterative explorations of EGs and EPs. First, we examined the curriculum policy to determine its EGs. Using the A-B-C-D protocol, we employed discourse analysis to evaluate knowledge and skills in the biology grade-level standards. Second, we examined the articulation of goals in classroom teaching practices. We conducted classroom immersion and observed classes to determine EPs and supported our observations through interviews, synthesizing the data using inductive content analysis. Our findings revealed that the Philippines’ EGs were to transmit factual knowledge enhanced by basic science skills, and their EPs were audio-visual materials, gamified instructions, guided inquiry, posing questions, and learning-by-doing. In comparison, Japan’s EGs were to provide a solid foundation of theoretical and metacognitive knowledge, integrated science skills, and positive attitudes. Its EPs involved cultivating lasting learning, observation, investigation, experimentation, collaborative discussion, and reflective thinking. Our study makes a meaningful contribution by shedding light on crucial ideologies and cultural identities embedded in Biology curricula and teaching traditions.
Recombinant Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-BB (rhPDGF-BB) Augmented Collagen Grafting for Oral Mucosal Defect Reconstruction
Authors: Kudlu Kshithi , Domah Haneesh Amit , Anwar Fayis Mohammed , Shenoy Vijendra S. , Kamboj Vikrant , Zuturu Neehal 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Objective
To assess the suitability of collagen grafting and compare the outcomes between rhPDGF-BB (recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor-BB) augmented collagen grafting and collagen alone grafting for oral mucosal defect reconstruction.

Method
A total of 30 patients, who were planned for surgical excision of various intraoral lesions, participated in the study. These participants were then randomly assigned into two groups. Group I underwent reconstruction with collagen sheet with rhPDGF-BB, while group II underwent reconstruction with collagen sheet alone. Post-operatively, haemostasis, pain, granulation, epithelialisation and healing contracture were assessed.

Results
The lesions that were treated included leucoplakia, erythroplakia, oral submucous fibrosis and verrucous carcinoma. Use of collagen was associated with good haemostasis, pain relief, granulation tissue formation and epithelialisation. Group I was found to develop slightly better granulation tissue, epithelisation and lesser degree of tissue contracture compared to group II, although these results were not significant statistically (p value = 0.464, 0.705 and 1.000 respectively).

Conclusion
This study shows that use of collagen graft augmented with rhPDGF-BB could be beneficial in oral cavity reconstruction following resection of small lesions, although further research with larger sample size is proposed to confirm the benefit.
VR-EX — An immersive virtual reality serious game for science communication about the electrical resistivity tomography measurements in the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory, Switzerland
Authors: Graebling Nico , Ziefle Gesa , Furche Markus , Nicol Romain , Schefer Senecio , Ziegler Martin , Jaeggi David , Nussbaum Christophe , Annanias Yves , Goldstein Susann , Rink Karsten 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThis paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of VR-EX, a combination of a virtual field trip and a serious game in immersive virtual reality. The application’s purpose is the communication of research conducted in the Mont Terri underground research laboratory in Switzerland. VR-EX enables users to actively attend electrical resistivity tomography measurements within a geological experiment, from planning to execution to analysis of the results, and in this way implements an active and playful learning approach. The work conducted in underground research laboratories has a high relevance for society as it contributes to research on the final disposal of nuclear waste. Therefore, the active communication of research methodology and results is crucial to increase understanding of scientific processes and boost interest. VR-EX was evaluated in a user study with 35 participants to measure its overall quality and its effectiveness of the knowledge transfer. Taking the evaluation’s qualitative results into account, the application was improved in an iterative process. Overall, the results prove the good quality of the application and its high effectiveness in terms of knowledge transfer. The reported high engagement, joy, and immersion indicate the benefits of employing immersive virtual reality for vivid science communication.