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γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)-enriched Hemp Milk by Solid-state Co-fermentation and Germination Bioprocesses
Authors: Karabulut Gulsah , Nemzer Boris V. , Feng Hao 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThis study introduces the concept of developing a functional hemp drink enriched with γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) to enhance its nutritional value and functional properties utilizing Solid-State (SSF) co-Fermentation by Lactobacillus casei and Bacillus subtilis and germination bioprocesses. Bioprocesses may offer an alternative solution to challenges in hemp milk, such as product instability and the use of additives. Notably, the hemp milk produced through the germination for three days or co-fermentation processes yielded the highest GABA content of 79.84 and 102.45 mg/100 mL, respectively, compared to the untreated milk. These bioactive milk samples exhibited higher zeta potential and soluble protein content and also reduced solid particle sedimentation and droplet sizes (D4,3 and D3,2) compared to the untreated milk. Furthermore, the peptide, total phenolic content, and antioxidant activity of the produced GABA-enriched kinds of milk surpassed those of the untreated milk. Overall, the SSF and germination processes present a promising alternative for producing stable milk analogs with enhanced health-boosting properties.
Comparative Analysis of Atherogenic Lipoproteins L5 and Lp(a) in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
Authors: Akyol Omer , Yang Chao-Yuh , Woodside Darren G. , Chiang Huan-Hsing , Chen Chu-Huang , Gotto Antonio M. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Purpose of Review
Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) poses a risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). As LDL comprises various subtypes differing in charge, density, and size, understanding their specific impact on ASCVD is crucial. Two highly atherogenic LDL subtypes—electronegative LDL (L5) and Lp(a)—induce vascular cell apoptosis and atherosclerotic changes independent of plasma cholesterol levels, and their mechanisms warrant further investigation. Here, we have compared the roles of L5 and Lp(a) in the development of ASCVD.

Recent Findings
Lp(a) tends to accumulate in artery walls, promoting plaque formation and potentially triggering atherosclerosis progression through prothrombotic or antifibrinolytic effects. High Lp(a) levels correlate with calcific aortic stenosis and atherothrombosis risk. L5 can induce endothelial cell apoptosis and increase vascular permeability, inflammation, and atherogenesis, playing a key role in initiating atherosclerosis. Elevated L5 levels in certain high-risk populations may serve as a distinctive predictor of ASCVD.

Summary
L5 and Lp(a) are both atherogenic lipoproteins contributing to ASCVD through distinct mechanisms. Lp(a) has garnered attention, but equal consideration should be given to L5.
Weaknesses of Positive Psychology might be Overgeneralized: Forgiveness Studies as a Counter to the Critiques
Authors: Worthington Everett L. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractCritiques of positive psychology, as summarized by Van Zyl et al. in J Posit Psychol, 2023, have claimed that positive psychology (1) lacks proper theorizing; (2) over-relies on quantitative designs; (3) is poorly supported empirically with non-replicated studies; (4) lacks novelty and is isolated from mainstream psychology; (5) represents de-contextualized neo-liberal philosophy that causes harm; and (6) is a capitalistic means of furthering individualism, consumerism, and medicalization of positive experiences. Forgiveness studies is taken as a well-established subfield of positive psychology. Considering the critiques individually, I show that the field of forgiveness studies resists many of the critiques of the field of positive psychology as a whole. However, I acknowledge the validity and usefulness of some critiques, concluding that if some aspects of the field resist the critiques, that may imply overgeneralization of the critiques.
Subsistence Strategies in the Lower Magdalenian at El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain)
Authors: Portero R. , Cueto M. , Elorza M. , Marchán-Fernández A. , Jordá Pardo J. F. , Álvarez-Fernández E. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain) possesses one of the most complete Upper Palaeolithic stratigraphic sequences in northern Spain. Magdalenian occupations, particularly the lower Magdalenian, are well represented in its full sequence. This article presents the zooarchaeological analysis of the levels Cierro G1, Cierro G and Cierro F, dated by 14C to between 20,000 and 17,000 cal BP. The remains correspond to vertebrates (mainly large mammals and to a lesser extent fish and birds) and invertebrates (almost exclusively marine molluscs). The taphonomic analysis of the bones and shells has determined the role that the different animal resources played in the diet of the Magdalenian hunter-gatherers at El Cierro. The results obtained in each level of the sequence are compared and included in their regional context. This study also considers the way in which the Magdalenian groups at El Cierro processed the meat and fat of the different animal species and establishes the operational chain in the strategies of procurement, preparation and consumption of the prey.
The Value Proposition of Campus High Performance Computing Facilities to Institutional Productivity: A Production Function Model
Authors: Smith Preston 
Published: May 2024

AbstractHigh-performance computing (HPC) is used by higher education institutions, industry, and research labs around the world for modeling, simulation, and data analysis to enable scientific discovery. However, the operation of a high-performance computing center comes with significant operating and capital costs. While some previous attempts have been made to explore the return on investment (ROI) of investment in HPC, the academic cyberinfrastructure community lacks a quantitative model with which an institution of higher education may analyze its own investments in HPC facilities and measure if it is meeting its own stated goals. To create such a model, this study seeks to answer the question if investment in campus HPC facilities leads to measurable impact on institutional outputs. To do so, an analysis of a set of value metrics collected from Purdue University are performed to measure the ROI of the institution’s investment in HPC facilities, and create a model based upon an application of a production function that will measure the HPC facility investment’s impact on the financial, academic, and reputational outputs of the institution. The resulting models demonstrate a strong relationship between institutional outputs and the investments of labor and capital supporting the campus cyberinfrastructure. By itself, investment in either computing resources or staff expertise pays dividends in terms of multiple institutional outputs. While investment in human resources accounts for the largest relative importance in models for all prospective outputs, a coordinated strategy that invests in computing resources and staff to support them together will yield the highest returns.
Use of face masks for COVID-19 prevention: a qualitative study on barriers and motivators in Zimbabwe
Authors: Mutsaka-Makuvaza Masceline Jenipher , Midzi Nicholas , Charimari Lincoln Sunganai , Mangwiro Priscilla , Manengureni Tonderai , Mugadza Gladys 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Introduction
To mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, face mask use has been a key component of public health measures. Research in most settings has focused on understanding the effectiveness of this intervention in reducing COVID-19 transmission. This study aimed to identify the barriers and motivators of face mask use in the Zimbabwean population.

Methods
Thirty key informant interviews (KIIs) and 10 focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with homogenous study groups of health workers, village health workers, church leaders, traditional healers, teachers, women leaders, transporters, youth leaders and the general population selected in 10 districts across the country from September–October 2022. Each study group consisted of key informants and FGD participants. Interviews and FGDs were captured using digital recording devices, transcribed verbatim, and translated into English. The data were analysed manually via thematic analysis.

Findings
Six themes were generated in this study. The four themes identified as barriers were individual factors (low risk perception in rural areas and as the number of cases declined due to vaccination, lack of conviction and lack of knowledge on the importance of face masking resulting in practices such as sharing and improper wearing of masks), access challenges (due to scarcity and affordability resulting in reusing dirty masks or washing surgical masks), concern about side effects (breathing difficulties and other respiratory complications), and sociocultural and religious beliefs (resulting in removal of masks by traditional healers during consultations, removal of masks in church). Two themes that were identified as motivators included perceived benefits (confidence in the effectiveness of facemasks for the prevention of COVID-19 transmission) and environmental factors (fear of law enforcement agents and village health workers).

Conclusions
The study findings underscore the need of awareness campaigns, improvement of accessibility and affordability of masks, sensitivity to religious and cultural beliefs to increase the usage and effectiveness of face mask during pandemics of respiratory diseases.
Damage detection in space truss structures using a third-level approach
Authors: Frans Richard , Arfiadi Yoyong 
Published: May 2024

AbstractMonitoring civil engineering infrastructure is crucial to ensuring that the structures can continue to function properly. An important aspect of this assessment is detecting structural damage. This study proposed a method that combined static loading techniques and modal parameters to establish a third level of damage detection. Specifically, the damage locating vector (DLV) was used as the static technique, and mode shapes, along with Modal Assurance Criteria (MAC), were integrated with the Firefly Algorithm (FA) to define the damage percentage. The objective of this method is to determine the location of the damaged members in space truss structures and accurately estimate the reduction in stiffness of the damaged members. DLV was used to show the location of damaged members, while the Modal Assurance Criteria – Firefly Algorithm (MAC-FA) was used to predict the stiffness loss in structural elements. This combined approach improved the DLV method, which could only identify potentially damaged parts. The fundamental concept behind MAC-FA was the relationship between the predicted mode shape and the mode shape of the structure, represented by the MAC value. This method was used to investigate damage detection in two space truss structures. The results demonstrated that the proposed method could identify damaged elements and quantify the loss of stiffness in space truss structures.
Characterizing healthcare personnel attitudes toward receipt of a voluntary bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine during a COVID-19 outbreak at a behavioral health hospital in Connecticut
Authors: Roberts Scott C. , Willebrand Kathryn , Fredrick Jacqueline , Pischel Lauren , Patel Kavin , Murray Thomas S. , Martinello Richard A. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
COVID-19 vaccine uptake in healthcare personnel (HCP) is poor. A cross-sectional survey study of behavioral health HCP was performed. Commonly identified reasons for vaccination were protecting others and oneself. Reasons against were a lack of perceived protection, dosing intervals, and side effects. Assessing vaccination attitudes can assist in uptake strategy.
Saliu Salvador Ramos das Neves, a Nineteenth-Century Yoruba Muslim in the Black Atlantic
Authors: Earl Castillo Lisa , Mann Kristin 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The literature on freed Africans who returned from Brazil to West Africa in the nineteenth century has emphasized the centrality of Catholicism in Aguda identity, treating Islam as a marginal consideration despite its role in catalyzing the returnee movement. This article argues that Muslims formed an important component of the returnee population throughout the century. Taking as a case history the life of Saliu Salvador Ramos das Neves, a returnee who founded one of Lagos’s oldest mosques, the paper reconstructs his trajectory on both sides of the Atlantic. The analysis begins with the political context of his enslavement, moving on to his life in Bahia, Brazil, where he witnessed an important Muslim uprising, purchased his freedom, and formed a family with whom he emigrated to Lagos in 1857. In Lagos, he acquired land, expanded his family and household, and became an important leader among Muslim returnees. The article’s final section presents evidence that even after returning to Lagos, Saliu Salvador maintained commercial and affective ties to Brazil, as did many other Aguda Muslims. Some of those who engaged in trade were religious leaders, a fact that demonstrates Islam’s importance in the dynamics of the Black Atlantic.
Latent and explicit mnemonic communities on social media: studying digital memory formation through hashtag co-occurrence analysis
Authors: Adriaansen Robbert-Jan 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
This article explores the nature and dynamics of mnemonic communities within the context of social media platforms and proposes to identify mnemonic communities using hashtag co-occurrence analysis. The article distinguishes between ‘explicit’ and ‘latent’ mnemonic communities, arguing that while some digital mnemonic communities may exhibit characteristics of offline communities, others exist latently as discursive spaces or semiospheres without direct awareness. On platforms like Instagram, hashtags function as semiotic markers, but also as user-chosen indexes to the content. As hashtags link the social and semantic aspects of community formation, hashtag co-occurrence analysis offers a robust framework for understanding and mapping these communities. This method allows to detect and analyse patterns of hashtag use that suggest the presence of networked community structures that may not be apparent or conscious to the social media users themselves. Additionally, a metric is introduced for determining the degree of ‘latentness’ of communities that quantifies the cohesion within communities compared to their external connections. The article demonstrates this approach by applying hashtag co-occurrence analysis to a dataset of Instagram posts tagged with #Juneteenth, a popular hashtag used to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. It identifies 87 mnemonic communities that reflect the diversity and complexity of how platforms facilitate memory-sharing practices and the role of semiotic markers in forming (latent) mnemonic networks.
Effects of front-of-package nutrition labelling systems on objective understanding and purchase intention in Panama: results from a multi-arm parallel-group randomised controlled trial
Authors: Gomes Fabio S , Ríos-Castillo Israel , Correa Leon Ramon Leal , Cruzado Bethy , Rojas Carlos Felipe Urquizar , Ares Devincenzi Gastón , González-Madden Elka , Victoria Jorge 
Published: May 2024

Abstract

Objective:
To assess the effect of different front-of-package labelling (FOPL) schemes on the objective understanding of the nutritional content and intention to purchase products, in Panama.

Design:
Single-blinded multi-arm parallel-group randomised controlled trial.

Setting:
Supermarkets across Panama. Participants were exposed to two-dimensional images of fifteen mock-up products presented at random and balanced orders. Participants assigned to the intervention groups were exposed to mock-ups featuring one FOPL scheme: black octagonal warning labels (OWL), traffic-light labelling (TFL) or guideline daily amounts (GDA). The control group was not exposed to any FOPL scheme.

Participants:
Adult supermarket shoppers (n 1200). Participants were blinded to group assignment.

Results:
A similar number of participants were randomised and analysed in each group: OWL (n 300), TFL (n 300), GDA (n 300) and control (n 300). The odds of choosing to purchase the least harmful or none of the options more often was the highest in the OWL group. Compared with the control group, these odds were two times higher in the OWL group (OR 2·13, 95 % CI 1·60, 2·84) and 57 % higher in the TFL (1·57, 1·40–2·56), with no changes in the GDA (0·97, 0·73–1·29). OWL also resulted in the highest odds for correctly identifying the least harmful option and for correctly identifying a product with excessive amounts of sugars, sodium and/or saturated fats.

Conclusions:
OWL performed best in helping shoppers to correctly identify when a product contained excessive amounts of nutrients of concern, to correctly identify the least harmful option and to decide to purchase the least harmful or none of the options, more often.
Dietary diversity moderates household economic inequalities in the double burden of malnutrition in Tanzania
Authors: Chen Sanmei , Shimpuku Yoko , Honda Takanori , Mwakawanga Dorkasi L , Mwilike Beatrice 
Published: May 2024

Abstract

Objective:
Improved food availability and a growing economy in Tanzania may insufficiently decrease pre-existing nutritional deficiencies and simultaneously increase overweight within the same individual, household or population, causing a double burden of malnutrition (DBM). We investigated economic inequalities in DBM at the household level, expressed as a stunted child with a mother with overweight/obesity, and the moderating role of dietary diversity in these inequalities.

Design:
We used cross-sectional data from the 2015–2016 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey.

Setting:
A nationally representative survey.

Participants:
Totally, 2867 children (aged 6–23 months) and their mothers (aged 15–49 years). The mother–child pairs were categorised into two groups based on dietary diversity score: achieving and not achieving minimum dietary diversity.

Results:
The prevalence of DBM was 5·6 % (sd = 0·6) and significantly varied by region (ranging from 0·6 % to 12·2 %). Significant interaction was observed between dietary diversity and household wealth index (Pfor interaction < 0·001). The prevalence of DBM monotonically increased with greater household wealth among mother–child pairs who did not achieve minimum dietary diversity (Pfor trend < 0·001; however, this association was attenuated in those who achieved minimum dietary diversity (Pfor trend = 0·16), particularly for the richest households (P = 0·44). Analysing household wealth index score as a continuous variable yielded similar results (OR (95 % CI): 2·10 (1·36, 3·25) for non-achievers of minimum dietary diversity, 1·38 (0·76, 2·54) for achievers).

Conclusions:
Greater household wealth was associated with higher odds of DBM in Tanzania; however, the negative impact of household economic status on DBM was mitigated by minimum dietary diversity.
Life, death, and statins: association of statin prescriptions and survival in older general practice patients
Authors: Hodgkins Adam J , Mullan Judy , Mayne Darren J , Bonney Andrew 
Published: May 2024

Abstract

Aims:
This study serves as an exemplar to demonstrate the scalability of a research approach using survival analysis applied to general practice electronic health record data from multiple sites. Collection of these data, the subsequent analysis, and the preparation of practice-specific reports were performed using a bespoke distributed data collection and analysis software tool.

Background:
Statins are a very commonly prescribed medication, yet there is a paucity of evidence for their benefits in older patients. We examine the relationship between statin prescriptions for general practice patients over 75 and all-cause mortality.

Methods:
We carried out a retrospective cohort study using survival analysis applied to data extracted from the electronic health records of five Australian general practices.

Findings:
The data from 8025 patients were analysed. The median duration of follow-up was 6.48 years. Overall, 52 015 patient-years of data were examined, and the outcome of death from any cause was measured in 1657 patients (21%), with the remainder being censored. Adjusted all-cause mortality was similar for participants not prescribed statins versus those who were (HR 1.05, 95% CI 0.92–1.20, P = 0.46), except for patients with diabetes for whom all-cause mortality was increased (HR = 1.29, 95% CI: 1.00–1.68, P = 0.05). In contrast, adjusted all-cause mortality was significantly lower for patients deprescribed statins compared to those who were prescribed statins (HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.70–0.93, P < 0.001), including among females (HR = 0.75, 95% CI: 0.61–0.91, P < 0.001) and participants treated for secondary prevention (HR = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.60–0.86, P < 0.001). This study demonstrated the scalability of a research approach using survival analysis applied to general practice electronic health record data from multiple sites. We found no evidence of increased mortality due to statin-deprescribing decisions in primary care.
Mantle Flow Induced by the Interplay of Downgoing Slabs Revealed by Seismic Anisotropy Beneath the Sula Block in Eastern Indonesia
Authors: Cao Lingmin , Lü ChuanChuan , He Xiaobo , Rawlinson Nicholas , Hao Tianyao , Widiyantoro Sri , Supendi Pepen , Zhao Liang , Yuan Huaiyu , Zhao Minghui , Qiu Xuelin , Rafie Muhammad Taufiq , Alfian Alfian , Sahara David Prambudi 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe North Sulawesi subduction zone is characterized by southward subduction of the Celebes Sea slab to a depth of ∼250 km, mainly overlying the Sangihe slab that subducts west from the Molucca Sea and penetrates the mantle transition zone. The palaeo‐subducted Sula slab dips northward and partially underlies both the Sangihe and Celebes Sea slabs. Adjacent subduction zones with horizontal overlapping subducting slabs in the upper mantle have unclear dynamic interactions. An extensive strike‐slip fault forms the western boundary of the active North Sulawesi subduction zone, providing an ideal setting to study mantle flow between overlapping slabs. We use local S‐wave and teleseismic S and SK(K)S waveform splitting analysis to measure seismic anisotropy in the northern Sulawesi region. Our observations reveal typical mantle wedge corner flow within the Sangihe subduction system. In the Gulf of Tomini, the observed trench‐oblique fast‐axis orientations above the Celebes Sea slab are likely a consequence of the interaction between two subducting slabs. The southernmost measurement with an E–W‐trending fast direction in the mantle wedge might be related to the subduction of the Sula slab. Furthermore, fault‐parallel fast‐axis orientations of anisotropy near the southern segment of the Palu‐Koro fault are attributed to large‐scale shearing across this lithospheric‐scale strike‐slip fault system. Overall, our observations suggest that the strain caused by lithospheric and asthenospheric deformation is mainly confined within the microplate, displaying a restricted flow pattern and localized effects due to the size of the plate boundaries, such as the Palu‐Koro fault.