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A systematic review of the association between environmental risk factors and the development of irritable bowel syndrome
Authors: Ng Qin Xiang , Yaow Clyve Yu Leon , Moo Jia Rong , Koo Shaun Wei Kang , Loo Evelyn Xiu Ling , Siah Kewin Tien Ho 
Published: May 2024

AbstractBackground and AimIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common gastrointestinal disorder with roots in genetic, immune, psychological, and dietary factors. Recently, the potential correlation between environmental exposures, such as air pollution, and IBS has gained attention. This review aimed to systematically examine existing studies on environmental factors associated with IBS, elucidating this interplay and guiding future research.MethodsA literature search was conducted in Medline, EMBASE, Scopus, and Cochrane databases from database inception to October 10, 2023, using the keywords “Irritable Bowel” or IBS or “Irritable Colon” or “Mucous Colitis” or “Spastic Colitis” or “Spastic Colon” AND “environment* exposure*”. Studies were included if they were original, published in English, described defined environmental exposure(s), and had documented diagnosis of IBS. For the purposes of this review, articles reporting physical (e.g. radiation and climate change), biological (e.g. bacteria and viruses), and chemical (e.g. harmful gases) exposures were included while psychological and dietary factors, which have been reviewed in detail elsewhere, are outside of the scope.ResultsA total of seven studies focusing on air quality, microbial exposure, and other environmental factors were reviewed. Studies highlighted a potential association between air pollutants and increased IBS incidence. Microbial exposure, post‐natural disaster or due to poor sanitation, was linked to IBS development and gut dysbiosis. Other exposures, such as early pet ownership, were also associated with IBS risk.ConclusionExisting research demonstrates an epidemiologic relationship between environmental exposures and the development of IBS. Further research is needed to understand these associations.
Can Strategy Address the Climate Crisis Without Losing its Essence?
Authors: Davis Gerald F. , DeWitt Theodore 
Published: May 2024

AbstractHow should academic fields take on the existential risks created by the climate crisis? What can business schools do to accelerate the decarbonization of business required to save our species? In their Point, Bansal et al. argue that the field of strategic management is complicit in bringing about our current crisis, and they propose to reformulate the field's very foundations to help get us out. In our Counterpoint, we show why we agree with the diagnosis but argue why we are sceptical of the cure. Strategic management incubated in business schools devoted to creating shareholder value, and its central frameworks commit it to this mission, making it fundamentally impossible to reform. The adjustments suggested by Bansal et al. might nudge what is published in journals but will not solve the bigger challenge. If we are to turn back from the climate disaster and begin the process of mitigation and remediation, we need to equip firms to decarbonize their operations as quickly as possible, and to create new kinds of enterprise to bring about the clean energy transition. Given its history and methods, organization theory may be better equipped to take on this role.
The use of decodable texts in the teaching of reading in children without reading disabilities: a meta‐analysis
Authors: Murphy Odo Dennis 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe purpose of this meta‐analysis is to synthesise the research evidence on the use of decodable texts in the teaching of word reading and pseudoword decoding to determine their effectiveness in facilitating the development of reading skills in children without reading disabilities. A total of 821 articles were identified in the initial search. The search resulted in 16 articles that met the inclusion criteria and were included in the meta‐analyses. The results of the risk of bias assessment revealed that the majority of the studies had a moderate to serious bias. The average standardised mean difference for word reading was small g = 0.20 and moderate g = 0.30 for pseudoword decoding. This finding highlights how using decodable texts can facilitate word reading and decoding to some degree, but they need to be used in combination with other reading instructional materials.
A meta‐analysis of the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on tropical mammal functional diversity
Authors: Resende Paloma Silva , Viana‐Junior Arleu Barbosa , Bovendorp Ricardo S. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract

Understanding the processes that shape biological communities under a variety of perturbations is a central challenge in ecology and conservation. Mammals contribute to critical functional processes of an ecosystem, such as seed dispersal to maintain forest carbon stocks.
The analysis of functional diversity, which measures the range and value of the ecological traits of organisms, provides critical information to understanding the link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
A growing number of studies have investigated the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on mammalian functional diversity; however, their results are very heterogeneous.
Here, we conduct a comprehensive meta‐analysis of the effects of such anthropogenic disturbances on mammalian functional diversity in the tropics. We highlight major trends and analyse the influence of the type of anthropogenic disturbance, subgroups, and the functional diversity index used/applied.
Our results indicate a negative effect of anthropogenic disturbances on mammalian functional diversity, particularly on functional richness (FRic) and functional dispersion (FDis). Habitat isolation was the stressor with the strongest effect, while agriculture and urbanisation showed a positive link with functional diversity.
These results indicate that anthropogenic disturbances not only affect taxonomic diversity, but also reduce the functional diversity of mammals, which is likely to affect ecosystem functioning and possibly ecosystem service provision.
Effect of a preoperative evidence‐based care education on postoperative recovery of cardiac surgery patients: A quasi‐experimental study
Authors: Ongun Pinar , Oztekin Seher Deniz , Bugra Onursal , Dolapoglu Ahmet 
Published: May 2024

AbstractBackgroundPreoperative nursing care affects many factors such as reducing the length of hospital stay of the patients in the perioperative period, the rate of postoperative complications, the duration of the operation, decrease of postoperative pain level and early mobilization.AimWe aimed to determine the effect of preoperative evidence‐based care education that given to cardiac surgery clinical nurses on the postoperative recovery of patients.Study DesignThe research was planned as quasi‐experimental. Eighty‐six patients who underwent cardiovascular surgery were divided into control and intervention groups. First, the ongoing preoperative care practices and patient recovery outcomes of the clinic were recorded for the control group data. Second, education was provided for the clinical nurses about the preoperative evidence‐based care list, and a pilot application was implemented. Finally, the evidence‐based care list was applied by the nurses to the intervention group, and its effects on patient outcomes were evaluated. The data were collected using the preoperative evidence‐based care list, descriptive information form, intraoperative information form and postoperative patient evaluation form.ResultsThe evidence‐based care list was applied to the patients in the intervention group, with 100% adherence by the nurses. All pain level measurements in the intervention group were significantly lower in all measurements (p = .00). The body temperature measurements (two measurements) of the intervention group were higher (p = .00). The postoperative hospital stays of the control group and the intervention group were 11.21 ± 8.41 and 9.50 ± 3.61 days.ConclusionThe presented preoperative evidence‐based care list can be used safely in nursing practices for patients. It provides effective normothermia, reduces the level of pain, shortens the hospital stay and reduces the number of postoperative complications.Relevance to Clinical PracticeBy applying a preoperative evidence‐based care to patients undergoing cardiac surgery, pain levels, hospital stays and the number of complications decrease, and it is possible to maintain normothermia. An evidence‐based care can be used to ensure rapid postoperative recovery for patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
How to be a perspectival pluralist
Authors: Solomyak Olla 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe temporal, first‐personal, and modal domains in metaphysics involve a range of perspectives on reality: the perspective of the present as opposed to those of other times, the perspective of one's own self as opposed to those of other subjects, and the perspective of the actual world as opposed to those of other possible worlds. In each case, we can ask about the metaphysical standing of these various perspectives with respect to one another: Is one perspective privileged above the rest? There is a tension at the heart of our intuitive conception of the phenomena in these domains, motivating (at least in some of these cases) a pluralist conception of reality — a stance which attempts to take seriously the absoluteness of the present‐tensed, first‐personal, or actual‐worldly facts, while also embracing the equal standing in reality of all perspectives of the relevant kind. My purpose in this paper is, first, to present an overview of recently popular forms of pluralism — or, what Fine (2005) calls non‐standard realism — with a particular focus on fragmentalism. I'll then raise a worry for fragmentalist views, and finally, present an alternative form of pluralism about the perspectival. We'll see that, while in some ways more radical, the alternative form of pluralism I present has some conceptual advantages over more familiar non‐standard realist views, and — more generally — can help illuminate the space of possible pluralist views about the perspectival.
Co‐localization and analysis of miR477b with fiber length quantitative trait loci in cotton
Authors: Song Jikun , Liu Guoyuan , Jin Changyin , Pei Wenfeng , Zhang Bingbing , Jia Bing , Wu Man , Ma Jianjiang , Liu Ji , Zhang Jinfa , Yu Jiwen 
Published: May 2024

AbstractCotton is an important cash crop for the textile industry. However, the understanding of natural genetic variation of fiber elongation in relation to miRNA is lacking. A miRNA gene (miR477b) was found to co‐localize with a previously mapped fiber length (FL) quantitative trait locus (QTL). The miR477b was differentially expressed during fiber elongation between two backcross inbred lines (BILs) differing in FL and its precursor sequences. Bioinformatics and qRT‐PCR analysis were further used to analyse the miRNA genes, which could produce mature miR477b. Cotton plants with virus‐induced gene silencing (VIGS) constructs to over‐express the allele of miR477b from the BIL with longer fibers had significantly longer fibers as compared with negative control plants, while the VIGS plants with suppressed miRNA expression had significantly shorter fibers. The expression level of the target gene (DELLA) and related genes (RDL1 and EXPA1 for DELLA through HOX3 protein) in the two BILs and/or the VIGS plants were generally congruent, as expected. This report represents one of the first comprehensive studies to integrate QTL linkage mapping and physical mapping of small RNAs with both small and mRNA transcriptome analysis, followed by VIGS, to identify candidate small RNA genes affecting the natural variation of fiber elongation in cotton.
Effects of different extenders on epigenetic patterns and functional parameters of bull sperm during cryopreservation process
Authors: Fouladvandi Razieh , Masoudi Ali Akbar , Totonchi Mehdi , Hezavehei Maryam , Sharafi Mohsen 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe cryopreservation process induces alterations in cellular parameters and epigenetic patterns in bull sperm, which can be prevented by adding cryoprotectants in the freezing extenders. The purpose of this study was to compare the protective effects of two extenders based on soybean lecithin (SLE) and egg yolk (EYE) on epigenetic patterns and quality parameters of sperm such as motility parameters, mitochondrial membrane integrity, DNA fragmentation, viability, and apoptotic‐like changes of bull sperm after cryopreservation. Results demonstrated that cryopreservation significantly (p < .05) reduced the level of DNA global methylation, H3K9 histone acetylation, and H3K4 histone methylation in both frozen groups compared to the fresh sperm. Also, the level of H3K9 acetylation was lower in the frozen SLE group (21.2 ± 1.86) compared to EYE group (15.2 ± 1.86). In addition, the SLE frozen group had a higher percentage of viability, progressive motility, and linearity (LIN) in SLE frozen group compared to EYE frozen group. However, no difference was observed in mitochondrial membrane integrity and DNA fragmentation between SLE and EYE frozen groups. While soybean‐lecithin‐based extender showed some initial positive impacts of epigenetics and semen parameters, further investigations can provide useful information for better freezing.
Effect of exogenous oestrogen treatment frequency on induction of artificial lactation in pseudopregnant sows
Authors: Noguchi Michiko , Suzuki Takehito , Sasaki Yosuke 
Published: May 2024

AbstractIn this study, we examined whether the frequency of exogenous oestrogen treatment affects the induction of artificial lactation and milk production. Furthermore, we analysed changes in milk components obtained from artificially lactating sows. Pseudopregnant induced by treatment with 30 mg of estradiol dipropionate (EDP) on Day 10 (Day 0 = the last day of estrus) were divided into three groups: those administered 5 mg of EDP once on Day 39 (n = 5), twice on Days 32 and 39 (n = 5) and three times on Days 25, 32 and 39 (n = 6). All animals were treated with prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) on Day 46 for induced lactation. Artificial lactation was induced in 66.7%–80.0% of sows, and the EDP treatment frequency before PGF2α administration had no significant effect on either the induction rate of artificial lactation or the milk yield during the experimental period. The milk composition (levels of crude protein, crude fat, crude ash, lactose and immunoglobulin) did not differ among the groups. In conclusion, the number of EDP treatments prior to PGF2α administration had no effect on either the efficiency of artificial lactation induction or milk production.
Potential role of oxidative stress in pathogenesis of benign prostatic hyperplasia in male dogs
Authors: Domosławska‐Wyderska Anna , Zduńczyk Sławomir , Rafalska Agata 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe pathogenesis of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in dogs is still not fully understood. Some studies suggest that oxidative stress may have a potential role in the pathogenesis of BPH in dogs. Age‐related hormonal changes may activate a chronic inflammatory response in the prostate. This causes the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and results in oxidative stress. Excessive production of ROS results in DNA damage and hyperplastic transformation of prostatic cells. The use of antioxidants for improvement of treatment outcomes for canine PBH has been discussed. Further research is needed on the importance of oxidative stress in the development of BPH in dogs and the usefulness of antioxidants in the supportive treatment of this condition.
Touching the wounds of colonial duration: Fanon's anticolonial critical phenomenology
Authors: Al‐Saji Alia 
Published: May 2024

AbstractI counter a tendency in critical phenomenology to read Frantz Fanon as derivative upon, indeed reducible to, other (European) phenomenologies, eliding the originality and contemporaneity of his method. I propose it is time to read phenomenology through Fanon, instead of centering analysis on his assumed debt to Maurice Merleau‐Ponty's body schema. Fanon reconfigures and ungrounds phenomenology in Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks). I show how he creates his own method through an anticolonial phenomenology of touch and affect that breaks with the perceptual spectacle at the center of most phenomenologies before him. I read Fanon's “toucher du doigt”—in contrastive relation to Edmund Husserl's touch‐sensings—to define a phenomenology that dwells with colonial wounding and holds the memory of a “burning” colonial duration. This is to say that Fanon's phenomenology is not mere description; rather, Fanon invents a critical, distinctly temporal, and anticolonial method from the affective territory in which he has had to dwell. This method addresses the conditions of possibility for doing (critical) phenomenology. Fanonian phenomenology makes tangible the (de)structuring violence through which colonialism ontologizes itself, while providing tools to dwell with the wounding and critically mine it—to create possibilities for living otherwise than what colonialism makes of us.
Prevalence of anterior uveitis in cases of systemic inflammatory response syndrome in dogs and cats
Authors: Fortuny‐Clanchet Marc , Anaya Cristina , Cairó Martí , Fenollosa‐Romero Elena , González Alicia , Costa Daniel 
Published: May 2024

AbstractObjectiveTo determine the prevalence of anterior uveitis in dogs and cats hospitalized with a diagnosis of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).Animals studiedDogs and cats hospitalized between May 2020 and January 2021 were prospectively included.ProceduresPatients were categorized into two different groups: The first group included patients diagnosed with SIRS, and the second group included patients hospitalized without SIRS as a control group. Daily physical and ophthalmological examinations were conducted during hospitalization. Diagnosis of anterior uveitis was made based on the presence of aqueous flare, low intraocular pressure, and other associated ocular signs such as episcleral injection and miosis. A multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to investigate factors associated with SIRS and anterior uveitis development.ResultsThe study comprised 42 patients with SIRS and 26 patients without SIRS. Among those with SIRS, 38% developed anterior uveitis, whereas only 7.7% of patients without SIRS showed signs of anterior uveitis. The prevalence of uveitis was significantly higher in animals with SIRS compared to those without SIRS (p < .05).ConclusionAnterior uveitis is more prevalent in patients with SIRS than patients without SIRS. Therefore, complete ophthalmic examination is recommended in all patients presenting with this syndrome.
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Power Batteries: A Temporal Convolution Autoencoder Framework
Authors: Wang Juan , Ye Yonggang , Wu Minghu , Zhang Fan , Cao Ye , Zhang Zetao , Chen Ming , Tang Jing 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
To prevent potential abnormalities from escalating into critical faults, a rapid and precise algorithm should be employed for detecting power battery anomalies. An unsupervised model based on a temporal convolutional autoencoder was proposed. It can quickly and accurately identify abnormal power battery data. Its encoder utilized a temporal convolutional network (TCN) structure with residuals to parallelly process data while capturing time dependencies. A novel TCN structure with an effect–cause relationship was developed for the decoder. The same-timescale connection was established between the encoder and decoder to improve the model performance. The validity of the proposed model was confirmed using a real-world car dataset. Compared with the GRU-AE model, the proposed approach reduced the parameter count and mean square error by 19.5% and 71.9%, respectively. This study provides insights into the intelligent battery pack abnormality detection technology.
Surface Roughness Model of Ground 4H-SiC Considering Ductile and Brittle Removal
Authors: Xiang Hongyi , Wang Haoxiang , Kang Renke , Gao Shang 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Surface roughness is a critical indicator to evaluate the quality of 4H-SiC grinding surfaces. Determining surface roughness experimentally is a time-consuming and laborious process, and developing a reliable model for predicting surface roughness is a key challenge in 4H-SiC grinding. However, the existing models for surface roughness in wafer rotational grinding fail to yield reasonable results because they do not adequately consider the processing parameters and material characteristics. In this study, we proposed a new analytical model for predicting surface roughness in 4H-SiC wafer rotational grinding, which comprehensively incorporates the grinding conditions and material characteristics of brittle substrate. This model derives and calculates the material's elastic recovery coefficient based on contact mechanics and elastic contact theory. Subsequently, we modified the grain depth-of-cut model by incorporating elastic recovery coefficient. Additionally, we analyze the distribution of the failure mode (ductile or brittle) on the surface of a material when the depth at which the material is cut instead follows a random distribution known as the Rayleigh distribution. To validate the accuracy of the established model, a series of grinding experiments are conducted using various grain depth-of-cut to produce 4H-SiC wafers with different surface roughness values. These results are then compared with those predicted by both this model and the traditional model. The findings demonstrate that the calculated data obtained from the proposed model exhibit better agreement with the measured data. This research addresses the need for an improved surface roughness model in 4H-SiC wafer rotational grinding.
Numerical Study on the Local Aggregation of Helium Bubbles in Liquid Lithium and Its Thermal Analysis
Authors: Liu Yongfu , He Yi , Tan Peng 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Liquid lithium is widely regarded as an optimal cooling medium for space nuclear reactors due to its exceptional heat transfer properties and low density. However, the helium bubbles generated by liquid lithium under space irradiation pose significant hazards to the safe and stable operation of nuclear reactions. This study employs the COMSOL finite element software to construct the level-set two-phase flow models and bubble stream model separately to investigate the local accumulation of helium bubbles and the overall flow of low-concentration gas–liquid mixtures. The main focus is on examining the different distributions of multiple helium bubbles randomly generated in local liquid lithium and the influence of boundary conditions on their accumulation morphology, as well as the impact of low-concentration bubble stream on their overall heat transfer performance. Agglomerated bubbles with radii between 5 μm and 150 μm are classified into three categories based on local concentrations: circular (≤20.37%), irregular elongated (up to 30.44%), and banded (up to 36.31%).The interconnected banded bubbles can be up to 8 times larger than irregularly elongated ones, and they have a positive effect on the distribution of physical quantities and wall temperature perturbations in the pipeline. The increase in inlet velocity triggers bubble impacts and fragmentation, further reducing thermal resistance and enhancing heat transfer performance. When the bubble diameter is less than 15 μm and the bubble concentration is within 1%, the influence of the mixed flow on overall heat transfer is not significant. This study provides insights for manipulating bubble structure and guiding localized and comprehensive thermal analyses.