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Rock Art, Modes of Existence, and Cosmopolitics: A View from the Southern Andes
Authors: Troncoso Meléndez Andrés 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe ontological turn has opened multiples avenues of inquiry in archaeology and rock art research. Goals of this theoretical approach include unfolding and describing other worlds, understanding the differences between modern worldviews and past ontologies, and defining the ontologies materialized in rock images. This paper discusses the relationship(s) between rock art and ontology with reference to the idea of cosmopolitics and the political role of other-than-humans in social life. We suggest that rock art is grounded on historical modes of existence or, in other words, that rock images unfold particular fields of relations, affections, and political agencies through time and space. To illustrate this point, we focus on two Northern Chilean rock art examples: the El Medano hunter-gatherer-fisher rock paintings on the Pacific coast of the Atacama Desert; and carved Incan outcrops of the Atacama Desert. These examples allow us to discuss how rock art images produce historical cosmopolitics that disclose specific relationships between humans, other-than-humans, and politics. A discussion about the relationships between rock art and cosmopolitics is not only relevant to understand past ontologies, but it can also be a useful tool to think about the future, our current relationships with other-than-humans and ‘nature,’ and the need to create new models of development based on a new way of understanding the relationships between humans, landscape, and other-than-humans.
Regional Reponses to Global Climate Change: Exploring Anthropomorphic Depictions in Rock and Mobiliary Art Expressions from the Kimberley and Europe During the Late and Terminal Pleistocene
Authors: Veth Peter , Harper Sam , Porr Martin 
Published: May 2024

AbstractNorthern Australia and particularly the Kimberley and Arnhem Land regions are well known for the intensive production of figurative anthropomorphs as a dominant theme by the terminal Pleistocene. Ongoing analysis and dating places the archaeological efflorescence of individual human figures and grouped scenes, often with extraordinary detail in the depictions of accoutrements, weaponry, and personal ornamentation, subsequent to the LGM (MIS 2) and across the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. In this chapter, we argue that the intensive production of human figures – in contrast to preceding millennia of predominantly figurative animal motifs – was a cultural response to ongoing loss of territory with sea level rise (and especially on the shallow continental shelves of the north), greater identity marking and emerging regionalism in northern Australia starting between 18–12 ka. While the impacts and climate details of MIS 3 and 2 were clearly different in the northern hemisphere, we believe there are complementary trajectories in Western Eurasian art bodies, which equally display regional and interregional patterns during approximately the same time period in both parietal and mobiliary art. We explore whether global drivers associated with glacio-eustatic trends, the loss of land through inundation and the emergence and subsequent relaxation of glacial refugia, might be implicated in the enhancement of anthropomorphic assemblages located on opposite sides of the world.
Transformation of Work in the Textile Industry: Perspectives of Sustainable Innovation Processes
Authors: Altepost Andrea , Hansen-Ampah Adjan , Merx Wolfgang , Schiffer Stefan , Schmenk Bernhard , Gries Thomas 
Published: May 2024

AbstractWhat makes innovation processes in industry succeed? The basic assumption of this paper is that not only technological, but also social—especially work-related—factors have a decisive impact. While processes of sociotechnical system design are established interdisciplinarily and have arrived at least in many large companies, to the best of our knowledge it still is a novelty in industrial contexts to also add the concept of sustainability to this perspective. Energy and circular economy as well as a shortage of skilled workers dominate the concerns of companies. At the same time, technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are traded as a beacon of hope to strengthen competitiveness and contribute to more efficient, resource-conserving economic activity (e.g., Lukic et al., BCG 10.01.2023, 2023).). With the design of AI-supported work systems in the textile and related industries, the WIRKsam Competence Center for Work Research wants to show how the use of artificial intelligence, with appropriate work design, can promote both innovative, human-centered work and economic competitiveness, so that the two benefit from each other. The project aims to strengthen the industrial backbone of the Rhenish mining area and to create attractive conditions and opportunities for skilled workers. In this way, a sustainable result of the various transformation levels in the area of structural change, digitalization and the future of work can be achieved, which lays the foundation for shaping further future transformation processes in an innovative way. In this paper, we develop central questions originating from this claim that need to be considered in the aforementioned transformation processes in the areas of people, technology and organization, because they can be decisive for success.
Academia as a Key Factor in Fostering Responsible Research and Innovation with and for Society: The Case of the RRI Hub at RWTH Aachen University
Authors: Berg-Postweiler Julia , Decker Marie , Leicht-Scholten Carmen 
Published: May 2024

AbstractNowadays, society faces challenges like climate change and inequality that are addressed by the Sustainable Development Goals. Academia plays a central role as a driver for innovation through research, teaching, and transfer to develop answers to these challenges. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) provides a framework for aligning research and innovation with societal needs. The technical university RWTH Aachen University considers RRI to be one of its main principles and established the RRI Hub as part of its excellence strategy in 2019. The RRI Hub is supposed to strengthen RRI in research, teaching, and transfer, with a focus on sustainable and responsible development, social innovation, and sustainable and inclusive artificial intelligence. This article describes the importance of academia to foster RRI and to structurally integrate it into universities using the example of the RRI Hub at the technical university RWTH Aachen. As a case, a participatory research project in the area of RRI is presented additionally.
Toward Antifragile Manufacturing: Concepts from Nature and Complex Human-Made Systems to Gain from Stressors and Volatility
Authors: Becker Marco , Kasprowicz Dawid , Kurkina Tetiana , Davari Mehdi D. , Gipperich Marius , Gramelsberger Gabriele , Bergs Thomas , Schwaneberg Ulrich , Trauth Daniel 
Published: May 2024

AbstractTaleb coined the term “antifragility” to describe systems that benefit from stressors and volatility. While nature provides several examples of systems with antifragile behavior, manufacturing has so far only aimed to avoid or absorb stressors and volatility. This article surveys existing examples of antifragile system behavior in biology, biotechnology, software engineering, risk management, and manufacturing. From these examples, components of antifragile systems and principles to implement these components are derived and organized in a framework. The framework intends to serve as guidance for practitioners as well as starting point for future research on the design of antifragile systems in manufacturing.
Infrastructures and Transformation: Between Path Dependency and Opening-Up for Experimental Change
Authors: Böschen Stefan , Hermens Sarah , Jakobs Eva-Maria , Lohrberg Frank , Madlener Reinhard , Mütze-Niewöhner Susanne , Reicher Christa , Schöpper Yannick 
Published: May 2024

AbstractInfrastructure development faces multiple challenges in the present. These are generated by digitalization, ecological orientation, transformation, and the emergence of a multipolar de-colonial world order. Under these conditions, infrastructure development faces the problem that, although designed for stability and continuity, it requires a new flexibility. To address these issues more precisely, this article first proposes a heuristic for studying infrastructures in times of transformation and tests it with two examples. In it, it is shown that the qualification of future infrastructure development lies in the characteristics of scalability, inclusivity, and updateability.
Dynamic-Nonlinear Socio-technical Change: Transformation as a Sociological Theory Problem and a Possible Solution
Authors: Schmitt Marco , Häußling Roger , Böschen Stefan 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThere are calls for transformation in all places, but the starting point for a sociology of transformation is anything but simple. A sociology of transformation must be thought and designed in the triad of transformation research, transformative research, and research transformation. This means the provision of knowledge on how transformations take place, social science research that uses this knowledge to intervene in social and societal processes in a targeted way, and reflection on how sociology itself changes as a discipline due to such action and socio-political expectations. Against this background, the article starts from the assumption that a sociological perspective (combining the relational approaches of network and field theory) specifically tailored to the current transformation conditions and challenges (exemplified in a case study) can make a significant contribution to understanding as well as shaping transformation processes based on a joint reflection of possibilities.
Labor Market Aspects of Transformation: The Case of Different R-Concepts of the Circular Economy
Authors: Balleer Almut , Hagedorn Wiebke , Bayram Berfin , Greiff Kathrin , Gramlich Alexander 
Published: May 2024

AbstractSustainability transformation is a multi-dimensional and comprehensive approach covering various aspects, environmental, economic, and social, and transformation itself. To give direction to sustainability action, sustainable development goals (SDGs) play an essential role. Even though SDGs are comprehensive and give orientation for sustainability actions, they neither cover the solutions to be implemented nor quantify the transformation. In this regard, circular economy (CE) is a useful approach when it comes to finding possible solutions. Within the context of CE, life cycle thinking plays an essential role, and tools, such as environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle costing (LCC), and social LCA (sLCA), are widely used. Another important aspect that should be considered within CE is the labor market effects. The labor market will strongly be shaped by CE and the implementation of CE depends on labor market conditions. Yet, means to meaningfully measure the labor market needs and impact of CE are still missing. This chapter takes a closer look into how labor market assessment and life cycle thinking can be combined in order to implement sustainable industrial transformation.
Ecosystem Services as a Framework for Transformation of the Rhenish Mining Area
Authors: Leuchner Michael , Hinrichs Finja , Roß-Nickoll Martina , Letmathe Peter 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThis book chapter discusses the concept of ecosystem services as a potential framework for socio-ecological transformation processes in mining areas toward resilient and sustainable post-mining landscapes. As mining landscapes all around the world are undergoing enormous transformation processes, finding the best balance between economic interests, social implications, and ecological and climate services is of utmost importance. Those mining landscapes provide indispensable regulating, provisioning, and cultural services while preserving or fostering stable ecosystems with high and regional typical biodiversity. Despite their crucial contributions to human well-being, the services in these landscapes are only rarely considered in spatial and landscape planning decisions. With accelerated global changes, those ecosystem services, however, become increasingly important. Thus, the authors propose the concept of ecosystem services and inclusion of biodiversity and discuss mechanisms of qualitative and quantitative evaluation, budgeting, and pathways for decision making. For this purpose, a first basic qualitative assessment of ecosystem service potentials for the transformation of the landscape of the Rhenish Mining Area was performed exemplarily.
Tonga: Enabling Coastal Communities to Protect Marine Resources and Secure the Livelihoods of Small-Scale Fishers
Authors: D’Andrea Ariella , Von Rotz Margaret , Devez Solène , Hupka Brandon D. , Tauati Mele Ikatonga , Malimali Siola’a 
Published: May 2024

AbstractCoastal fisheries are the food basket of Pacific Islanders, and fishing is deeply rooted in Pacific Islands’ cultures and traditions. In Tonga, during the past century, marine resource management has been the sole responsibility of the government under the law. Although management measures aim to ensure the sustainability of small-scale fisheries, compliance is often a challenge. In 2002 and 2009, Tonga passed new fishery legislation that reformed access to marine resources for local fishers (particularly in lagoons and reef areas) with the introduction of its own community-based fishery management approach, known as the Special Management Area (SMA) program. The SMA program and supporting legislation allow coastal communities and local fishers, with assistance from the Ministry of Fisheries, to regulate adjacent marine areas through local fishery management plans that grant preferential access and assign stewardship duties to community members. Tonga has made a commitment to following the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), with the SMA program representing an important step forward. This chapter explores the main venues and opportunities for Tonga to implement the SSF Guidelines while completing the SMA scaling-up process, in line with recent policy commitments made at a Pacific regional level, (In 2021, the members of the Pacific Community (SPC) adopted the Pacific Framework for Action on Scaling up Community-based Fisheries Management: 2021–2025.) to ultimately provide sustainable access for small-scale fishers to marine resources and markets (SDG 14b).
Phenomenology of a Deconstructed Electroweak Force
Authors: Davighi Joe , Gosnay Alastair , Miller David J. , Renner Sophie 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
We study an effective theory of flavour in which the SU(2)L interaction is ‘flavour-deconstructed’ near the TeV scale. This arises, for example, in UV models that unify all three generations of left-handed fermions via an Sp(6)L symmetry. Flavour-universality of the electroweak force emerges accidentally (but naturally) from breaking the $$ {\prod}_{i=1}^3\textrm{SU}{(2)}_{L,i} $$

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gauge group to its diagonal subgroup, delivering hierarchical fermion masses and left-handed mixing angles in the process. The heavy gauge bosons transform as two SU(2)L triplets that mediate new flavour non-universal forces. The lighter of these couples universally to the light generations, allowing consistency with flavour bounds even for a TeV scale mass. Constraints from flavour, high mass LHC searches, and electroweak precision are then highly complementary, excluding masses below 9 TeV. The heavier triplet must instead be hundreds of TeV to be consistent with meson mixing constraints. Because only the lighter triplet couples to the Higgs, we find radiative Higgs mass corrections of a few hundred GeV, meaning this model of flavour is arguably natural. The natural region will, however, be almost completely covered by the planned electroweak programme at FCC-ee. On shorter timescales, significant parameter space will be explored by the High-Luminosity LHC measurements at high-pT, and upcoming lepton flavour violation experiments, principally Mu3e.
Collinear fragmentation at NNLL: generating functionals, groomed correlators and angularities
Authors: van Beekveld Melissa , Dasgupta Mrinal , El-Menoufi Basem Kamal , Helliwell Jack , Monni Pier Francesco 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Jet calculus offers a unique mathematical technique to bridge the area of QCD resummation with Monte Carlo parton showers. With the ultimate goal of constructing next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) parton showers we study, using the language of generating functionals, the collinear fragmentation of final-state partons. In particular, we focus on the definition and calculation of the Sudakov form factor, which physically describes the no-emission probability in an ordered branching process. We review recent results for quark jets and compute the Sudakov form factor for the collinear fragmentation of gluon jets at NNLL. The NNLL corrections are encoded in a z dependent two-loop anomalous dimension $$ \mathcal{B} $$
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2(z), with z being a suitably defined longitudinal momentum fraction. This is obtained from the integration of the relevant 1 → 3 collinear splitting kernels combined with the one-loop corrections to the 1 → 2 counterpart. This work provides the missing ingredients to extend the methods of jet calculus in the collinear limit to NNLL and gives an important element of the next generation of NNLL parton shower algorithms. As an application we derive new NNLL results for both the fractional moments of energy-energy correlation FCx and the angularities λx measured on mMDT/Soft-Drop (β = 0) groomed jets.
Numerical simulations of dam-break flows of viscoplastic fluids via shallow water equations
Authors: Muchiri David Kibe , Hewett James N. , Sellier Mathieu , Moyers-Gonzalez Miguel , Monnier Jerome 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
This paper presents simulations of dam-break flows of Herschel–Bulkley viscoplastic fluids over complex topographies using the shallow water equations (SWE). In particular, this study aims to assess the effects of rheological parameters: power-law index (n), consistency index (K), and yield stress ($$\tau _{c}$$

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), on flow height and velocity over different topographies. Three practical examples of dam-break flow cases are considered: a dam-break on an inclined flat surface, a dam-break over a non-flat topography, and a dam-break over a wet bed (downstream containing an initial fluid level). The effects of bed slope and depth ratios (the ratio between upstream and downstream fluid levels) on flow behaviour are also analyzed. The numerical results are compared with experimental data from the literature and are found to be in good agreement. Results show that for both dry and wet bed conditions, the fluid front position, peak height, and mean velocity decrease when any of the three rheological parameters are increased. However, based on a parametric sensitivity analysis, the power-law index appears to be the dominant factor in dictating fluid behaviour. Moreover, by increasing the bed slope and/or depth ratio, the wave-frontal position moves further downstream. Furthermore, the presence of an obstacle is observed to cause the formation of an upsurge that moves in the upstream direction, which increases by increasing any of the three rheological parameters. This study is useful for an in-depth understanding of the effects of rheology on catastrophic gravity-driven flows of non-Newtonian fluids (like lava or mud flows) for risk assessment and mitigation.

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Biomechanical Integrity Score of the Female Pelvic Floor for Stress Urinary Incontinence
Authors: Takacs Peter , Rátonyi Dávid , Koroknai Erzsébet , van Raalte Heather , Lucente Vincent , Egorov Vladimir , Krasznai Zoard Tibor , Kozma Bence 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Introduction and hypothesis
This study is aimed at developing and validating a new integral parameter, the Biomechanical Integrity score (BI-score) of the female pelvic floor for stress urinary incontinence conditions.

Methods
A total of 130 subjects were included in the observational cohort study; 70 subjects had normal pelvic floor conditions, and 60 subjects had stress urinary incontinence (SUI). A Vaginal Tactile Imager (VTI) was used to acquire and automatically calculate 52 biomechanical parameters for eight VTI test procedures (probe insertion, elevation, rotation, Valsalva maneuver, voluntary muscle contractions in two planes, relaxation, and reflex contraction). Statistical methods were applied (t test, correlation) to identify the VTI parameters sensitive to the pelvic SUI conditions.

Results
Twenty-seven parameters were identified as statistically sensitive to SUI development. They were subdivided into five groups to characterize tissue elasticity (group 1), pelvic support (group 2), pelvic muscle contraction (group 3), involuntary muscle relaxation (group 4), and pelvic muscle mobility (group 5). Every parameter was transformed to its standard deviation units using the dataset for normal pelvic conditions, similar to the T-score for bone density. Linear combinations with specified weights led to the composition of five component parameters for groups 1–5 and to the BI-score in standard deviation units. The p value for the BI-score has p = 4.0 × 10–28 for SUI versus normal conditions.

Conclusions
Quantitative transformations of the pelvic tissues, support structures, and functions under diseased conditions may be studied with the SUI BI-score in future research and clinical applications.
Optimal labor income taxation with the dividend effect
Authors: Kushnir Alexey , Zubrickas Robertas 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe unequal distribution of dividends implies the unequal distribution of the profit share of workers’ product of labor. In a Mirrleesian framework when dividends cannot be expropriated, we show that a progressive distribution of dividends creates a positive dividend effect on labor income taxes. Our numerical simulations show the dividend effect to be approximately four percentage points. We analyze the dividend effect under different market structures and its interplay with other forms of taxation.
Carbon nanotubes conjugated with cisplatin activate different apoptosis signaling pathways in 2D and 3D-spheroid triple-negative breast cancer cell cultures: a comparative study
Authors: Badea Madalina Andreea , Balas Mihaela , Ionita Daniela , Dinischiotu Anca 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe type of experimental model for the in vitro testing of drug formulations efficiency represents an important tool in cancer biology, with great attention being granted to three-dimensional (3D) cultures as these offer a closer approximation of the clinical sensitivity of drugs. In this study, the effects induced by carboxyl-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes complexed with cisplatin (SWCNT–COOH–CDDP) and free components (SWCNT–COOH and CDDP) were compared between conventional 2D- and 3D-spheroid cultures of human breast cancer cells. The 2D and 3D breast cancer cultures were exposed to various doses of SWCNT–COOH (0.25–2 μg/mL), CDDP (0.158–1.26 μg/mL) and the same doses of SWNCT–COOH–CDDP complex for 24 and 48 h. The anti-tumor activity, including modulation of cell viability, oxidative stress, proliferation, apoptosis, and invasion potential, was explored by spectrophotometric and fluorometric methods, immunoblotting, optical and fluorescence microscopy. The SWCNT–COOH–CDDP complex proved to have high anti-cancer efficiency on 2D and 3D cultures by inhibiting cell proliferation and activating cell death. A dose of 0.632 μg/mL complex triggered different pathways of apoptosis in 2D and 3D cultures, by intrinsic, extrinsic, and reticulum endoplasmic pathways. Overall, the 2D cultures showed higher susceptibility to the action of complex compared to 3D cultures and SWCNT–COOH–CDDP proved enhanced anti-tumoral activity compared to free CDDP.