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Performance analysis of a blockchain enabled domestic power consumption monitoring and forecasting system
Authors: Fowdur Tulsi Pawan , Sanghan Ashven 
Published: April 2024

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a blockchain-based data capture and transmission system that will collect real-time power consumption data from a household electrical appliance and transfer it securely to a local server for energy analytics such as forecasting.

Design/methodology/approach
The data capture system is composed of two current transformer (CT) sensors connected to two different electrical appliances. The CT sensors send the power readings to two Arduino microcontrollers which in turn connect to a Raspberry-Pi for aggregating the data. Blockchain is then enabled onto the Raspberry-Pi through a Java API so that the data are transmitted securely to a server. The server provides real-time visualization of the data as well as prediction using the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and long short term memory (LSTM) algorithms.

Findings
The results for the blockchain analysis demonstrate that when the data readings are transmitted in smaller blocks, the security is much greater as compared with blocks of larger size. To assess the accuracy of the prediction algorithms data were collected for a 20 min interval to train the model and the algorithms were evaluated using the sliding window approach. The mean average percentage error (MAPE) was used to assess the accuracy of the algorithms and a MAPE of 1.62% and 1.99% was obtained for the LSTM and MLP algorithms, respectively.

Originality/value
A detailed performance analysis of the blockchain-based transmission model using time complexity, throughput and latency as well as energy forecasting has been performed.
Participant diversity in ACER: 2010–2022
Authors: Kissel Heather A. , Lee Ga Hee , McFarland Sara , Berger Dexton , Enneking Elizabeth , Dunham Jenna , Brumback Ty 
Published: April 2024

AbstractBackgroundIncreasing diversity has become a priority for all fields working with human subjects due to historic exclusions and misrepresentations of participants with minoritized identities. To create a more representative and generalizable science of alcohol use, the Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) and its official journal, Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research (ACER), have increasingly incorporated diversity and inclusion into their posted values and programming.MethodsWe analyzed the content of articles published in ACER from 2010 through 2022 (6 years before and after the formation of RSA's Diversity Committee) to assess the reporting of participants' demographic information and whether there has been increased inclusion of diverse samples in alcohol research over time. Our team screened 3292 abstracts for data extraction; studies were included if they were primary analyses of data collected from human subjects (n = 1043).ResultsReporting of all demographic variables increased over time, with significant increases in reporting for race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status (SES), income, and educational attainment. Demographic variables were also increasingly used in analyses. However, representation of research outside the United States diminished significantly over time.ConclusionsWe provide recommended journal article reporting standards for ACER to continue the positive progress in reporting demographics in alcohol research and facilitate meta‐analyses examining demographic modulation and the impact of social determinants of health.
Effects of intraoperative low‐dose esketamine on postoperative pain after vestibular schwannoma resection: A prospective randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study
Authors: Chen Kaizheng , Xie Yaming , Chi Songyuan , Chen Dandan , Ran Guo , Shen Xia 
Published: April 2024

AimsEsketamine may reduce acute postoperative pain in several settings. However, the effects of low‐dose esketamine on postoperative pain after vestibular schwannoma (VS) resection with propofol/remifentanil total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) are unclear. The aim of this study is to observe the effects of intraoperative low‐dose esketamine on postoperative pain after vestibular schwannoma resection.MethodsThis single‐centre, randomized, placebo‐controlled, double‐blind trial included 90 adults undergoing VS resection via the retrosigmoid approach with TIVA. The patients were randomly allocated to two groups: esketamine or control (n = 45 in each group). Patients received low‐dose esketamine (0.2 mg/kg) or a similar volume of normal saline after dural closure. The primary outcome was the pain score during movement (gentle head movement) at 24 h postoperatively. Secondary outcomes included recovery time, bispectral index (BIS) values and haemodynamic profiles during the first 30 min after esketamine administration, and adverse effects.ResultsLow‐dose esketamine did not reduce pain scores at rest (P > .05) or with movement (P > .05) within the first 24 h after surgery. Esketamine moderately increased BIS values for at least 30 min after administration (P < .0001) but did not affect heart rate (P = .992) or mean arterial blood pressure (P = .994). Esketamine prolonged extubation time (P = .042, 95% confidence interval: 0.08 to 4.42) and decreased the effect‐site concentration of remifentanil at extubation (P = .001, 95% confidence interval: −0.53 to −0.15) but did not affect the time to resumption of spatial orientation. Postoperative nausea and vomiting rates did not differ between groups, and no hallucinations or excessive sedation was observed.ConclusionIntraoperative low‐dose esketamine did not significantly reduce acute pain after VS resection with propofol/remifentanil TIVA. However, BIS values increased for at least 30 min after esketamine administration.
Tobacco aquaporin NtAQP1 and human aquaporin hAQP1 contribute to single cell photosynthesis in Synechococcus
Authors: Joseph Franziska M. , Kaldenhoff Ralf 
Published: April 2024

AbstractBackground InformationAquaporins are H2O‐permeable membrane protein pores. However, some aquaporins are also permeable to other substances such as CO2. In higher plants, overexpression of such aquaporins has already led to an enhanced photosynthetic performance due to improved CO2 mesophyll conductance. In this work, we investigated the effects of such aquaporins on unicellular photosynthetically active organisms, specifically cyanobacteria.ResultsOverexpression of aquaporins NtAQP1 or hAQP1 that might have a function to improve CO2 membrane permeability lead to increased photosynthesis rates in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7002 as concluded by the rate of evolved O2. A shift in the Plastoquinone pool state of the cells supports our findings. Water permeable aquaporins without CO2 permeability, such as NtPIP2;1, do not have this effect.Conclusions and SignificanceWe conclude that also in single cell organisms like cyanobacteria, membrane CO2 conductivity could be rate limiting and CO2‐porins reduce the respective membrane resistance. We could show that besides the tobacco aquaporin NtAQP1 also the human hAQP1 most likely functions as CO2 diffusion facilitator in the photosynthesis assay.
The Impulse Particle‐In‐Cell Method
Authors: Sancho Sergio , Tang Jingwei , Batty Christopher , Azevedo Vinicius C. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAn ongoing challenge in fluid animation is the faithful preservation of vortical details, which impacts the visual depiction of flows. We propose the Impulse Particle‐In‐Cell (IPIC) method, a novel extension of the popular Affine Particle‐In‐Cell (APIC) method that makes use of the impulse gauge formulation of the fluid equations. Our approach performs a coupled advection‐stretching during particle‐based advection to better preserve circulation and vortical details. The associated algorithmic changes are simple and straightforward to implement, and our results demonstrate that the proposed method is able to achieve more energetic and visually appealing smoke and liquid flows than APIC.
ShellNeRF: Learning a Controllable High‐resolution Model of the Eye and Periocular Region
Authors: Li G. , Sarkar K. , Meka A. , Buehler M. , Mueller F. , Gotardo P. , Hilliges O. , Beeler T. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractEye gaze and expressions are crucial non‐verbal signals in face‐to‐face communication. Visual effects and telepresence demand significant improvements in personalized tracking, animation, and synthesis of the eye region to achieve true immersion. Morphable face models, in combination with coordinate‐based neural volumetric representations, show promise in solving the difficult problem of reconstructing intricate geometry (eyelashes) and synthesizing photorealistic appearance variations (wrinkles and specularities) of eye performances. We propose a novel hybrid representation ‐ ShellNeRF ‐ that builds a discretized volume around a 3DMM face mesh using concentric surfaces to model the deformable ‘periocular’ region. We define a canonical space using the UV layout of the shells that constrains the space of dense correspondence search. Combined with an explicit eyeball mesh for modeling corneal light‐transport, our model allows for animatable photorealistic 3D synthesis of the whole eye region. Using multi‐view video input, we demonstrate significant improvements over state‐of‐the‐art in expression re‐enactment and transfer for high‐resolution close‐up views of the eye region.
A service evaluation of more than 1 million self‐funding adults attending a community weight management programme
Authors: Toon Josef , Bennett Sarah‐Elizabeth , Lavin Jacquie , Pallister Carolyn , Avery Amanda 
Published: April 2024

SummaryScaled interventions are required to address levels of overweight and obesity and reduce health inequalities. Little data is available on the effectiveness of community weight management programmes for participants self‐selecting to attend across different socio‐economic backgrounds. This analysis investigates 3, 6, and 12‐month outcomes of adults joining a real‐life community weight management programme. Weight, attendance and Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) data from all fee‐paying adults joining Slimming World in 2016 were collated. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics to determine predictors of weight loss. Mean BMI of 1 094 676 adults (7.6% male) was 33.0 ± 6.4 kg/m2. Mean % weight change at 3, 6, and 12 months was −5.0% ± 3.6%, −5.9% ± 5.2%, and −6.0% ± 5.8%. Those attending 75% sessions achieved greater weight loss with mean weight losses at 3, 6, and 12‐months of 7.7% ± 3.3%, 11.3% ± 5.2%, and 14.1% ± 7.5%, respectively. Effect sizes from comparison of weight change between deprivation deciles were negligible, with similar outcomes in the most and least deprived deciles at 12‐months (−5.7% ± 5.9% vs. −6.2% ± 5.9%). This service evaluation of more than 1 million adults attending a community weight management programme found they were able to achieve and/or maintain an average 6% weight loss at 12 months, with high attenders achieving >14% loss. Men and those with higher levels of deprivation were accessing the support and achieving significant weight losses. Slimming World as a real‐life, scalable weight management programme is well placed to help adults manage their weight and address health inequalities.
Raising the Roof: Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing
Authors: Hollander John , Olney Andrew 
Published: April 2024

AbstractRecent investigations on how people derive meaning from language have focused on task‐dependent shifts between two cognitive systems. The symbolic (amodal) system represents meaning as the statistical relationships between words. The embodied (modal) system represents meaning through neurocognitive simulation of perceptual or sensorimotor systems associated with a word's referent. A primary finding of literature in this field is that the embodied system is only dominant when a task necessitates it, but in certain paradigms, this has only been demonstrated using nouns and adjectives. The purpose of this paper is to study whether similar effects hold with verbs. Experiment 1 evaluated a novel task in which participants rated a selection of verbs on their implied vertical movement. Ratings correlated well with distributional semantic models, establishing convergent validity, though some variance was unexplained by language statistics alone. Experiment 2 replicated previous noun‐based location‐cue congruency experimental paradigms with verbs and showed that the ratings obtained in Experiment 1 predicted reaction times more strongly than language statistics. Experiment 3 modified the location‐cue paradigm by adding movement to create an animated, temporally decoupled, movement‐verb judgment task designed to examine the relative influence of symbolic and embodied processing for verbs. Results were generally consistent with linguistic shortcut hypotheses of symbolic‐embodied integrated language processing; location‐cue congruence elicited processing facilitation in some conditions, and perceptual information accounted for reaction times and accuracy better than language statistics alone. These studies demonstrate novel ways in which embodied and linguistic information can be examined while using verbs as stimuli.
Pupils Dilate More to Harder Vocabulary Words than Easier Ones
Authors: Gangopadhyay Ishanti , Fulford Daniel , Corriveau Kathleen , Mow Jessica , Li Pearl Han , Arunachalam Sudha 
Published: April 2024

AbstractUnderstanding cognitive effort expended during assessments is essential to improving efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility within these assessments. Pupil dilation is commonly used as a psychophysiological measure of cognitive effort, yet research on its relationship with effort expended specifically during language processing is limited. The present study adds to and expands on this literature by investigating the relationships among pupil dilation, trial difficulty, and accuracy during a vocabulary test. Participants (n = 63, Mage = 19.25) completed a subset of trials from the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test while seated at an eye‐tracker monitor. During each trial, four colored images were presented on the monitor while a word was presented via audio recording. Participants verbally indicated which image they thought represented the target word. Words were categorized into Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty. Pupil dilation during the Medium and Hard trials was significantly greater than during the Easy trials, though the Medium and Hard trials did not significantly differ from each other. Pupil dilation in comparison to trial accuracy presented a more complex pattern, with comparisons between accurate and inaccurate trials differing depending on the timing of the stimulus presentation. These results present further evidence that pupil dilation increases with cognitive effort associated with vocabulary tests, providing insights that could help refine vocabulary assessments and other related tests of language processing.
A qualitative study of using nicotine products for smoking cessation after discharge from residential drug and alcohol treatment in Australia
Authors: Trigg Joshua , Rich Jane , Williams Edwina , Baker Amanda , Bauld Linda , Borland Ron , Bullen Chris , Daglish Mark , Dunlop Adrian , Gartner Coral , Jacka David , Lubman Dan , Manning Victoria , McCrohan Rose , Segan Cathy , Walker Natalie , Bonevski Billie 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIntroductionTobacco smoking is highly prevalent among alcohol and other drugs (AOD) service clients and, despite interest in quitting, abstinence is rarely sustained. Nicotine products may assist after discharge from residential treatment services, but little is known about client receptivity to them. This study examined AOD withdrawal service clients' experiences of two types of nicotine products for smoking cessation post‐discharge, combination nicotine replacement therapy (cNRT) and nicotine vaping products (NVP).MethodsWe held semi‐structured telephone interviews with 31 Australian AOD service clients in a clinical trial of a 12‐week smoking cessation intervention using Quitline support plus cNRT or NVP delivered post‐discharge from a smoke‐free residential service. We asked about health and social factors, nicotine cravings, Quitline experience, and barriers and facilitators to cNRT or NVP, then thematically analysed data.ResultscNRT and NVP were described by participants as feasible and acceptable for smoking cessation. For most participants, cost limited cNRT access post study, as did difficulty navigating NVP prescription access. Quitline support was valued, but not consistently used, with participants noting low assistance with NVP‐facilitated cessation. Participants considered both cessation methods acceptable and socially supported, and sought information on decreasing nicotine use via NVP.Discussion and ConclusionsAOD service clients highly valued receiving cNRT or NVP with behavioural support for smoking reduction or abstinence. Both interventions were acceptable to service clients. Findings suggest a potential need to examine both whether NVP use should be permitted in this context, and guidance on the individual suitability of cNRT or NVP.
Differentiating non‐epileptic seizures from epileptic seizures in Glut1 deficiency syndrome
Authors: Ito Yasushi , Nakatsukasa Hidetsugu , Toyoma Yuriko , Nagata Satoru , Oguni Hirokazu 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAimTo investigate the clinical characteristics of non‐epileptic seizures due to transient brain dysfunction caused by energy deficiency after prolonged fasting or exercise in individuals with glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome (Glut1DS), and then elucidate further the seizure features to distinguish non‐epileptic seizures from epileptic seizures.MethodThis retrospective case–control study included 57 non‐epileptic seizures and 23 epileptic seizures (control group) in 14 individuals (11 males, three females; aged 5–44 years, median = 20 years) with Glut1DS, all with a heterozygous pathogenic SLC2A1 mutation.ResultsNon‐epileptic seizures were classified as paroxysmal altered consciousness (n = 8), movement disorders (n = 35) (eye‐head movements, ataxia, spasticity, weakness, involuntary movement), dysaesthesia (n = 8), and vomiting (n = 6) at the peak ages at onset of 5 to 10 years. Ketogenic diet therapy was effective in 33 of 43 (77%) non‐epileptic seizures. Providing supplementary food before high‐impact exercise or during attacks prevented or mitigated non‐epileptic seizures in some individuals. Glut1DS‐associated non‐epileptic seizures are fundamentally situation‐related seizures with specific provoking and ameliorating factors. Non‐epileptic seizures can be distinguished from epileptic seizures by the absence of complete consciousness loss and rapid postictal recovery despite prolonged seizures.InterpretationNon‐epileptic seizures are not well recognized but require different therapeutic approaches compared to epileptic seizures. Awareness of the differentiation of non‐epileptic seizures from epileptic seizures is essential when performing preventive or therapeutic decision‐making for acute exacerbation seizures.What this paper adds

Non‐epileptic seizures are invariably situation‐related seizures.
Non‐epileptic seizures were classified as altered consciousness, movement disorders, dysaesthesia, and vomiting.
Non‐epileptic seizures were characterized by the absence of complete consciousness loss and were accompanied by rapid recovery.
Non‐epileptic seizures can occur simultaneously or consecutively with another.
Supplementary food can be effective in preventing the development of sustained exercise‐induced movement disorders.
It's not about the money: New evidence on U.S. reconstruction aid in Italy, 1947–68
Authors: Martinez Marco 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis paper studies the economic impact of foreign aid on Italian firms. In particular, I study the different effects of three main forms of aid: Export–Import Bank loans, Marshall Plan European Recovery Program (ERP) ‘dollars’ loans and the Marshall Plan ERP ‘lire’ loans. In all programmes, the United States sent technologically advanced machinery to allow for a modernization of the technology of Italian firms, but the conditions of such loans differed. This paper tests how crucial such different features have been for the effectiveness of firm reconstruction aid. By creating a new dataset on recipient firms and linking it to a large comprehensive firm‐level dataset (Imita.db), I compare the effects on the performance of firms. I find that the Export–Import Bank loan raised the long‐run profitability of firms, but that firms which received more flexible forms of Marshall Plan aid (‘ERP‐lire’) raised their performance much more than Export–Import Bank recipients. Recipients who only received funds provided with long delays (‘ERP‐dollars’) did not benefit from them. This evidence suggests that rather than receiving foreign aid per se, the most crucial features of reconstruction aid in Italy have been obtaining the requested goods on time and adjusting requests to receive the most needed productive goods.
Continuing professional development in general dentistry—experiences of an online flipped classroom
Authors: Stenberg Emelie , Milosavljevic Aleksandar , Götrick Bengt , Lundegren Nina 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIntroductionContinuing professional development is a lifelong learning process. One pedagogical approach that can be used is active learning. Flipped classroom is a method that has been shown to improve deeper conceptual understanding. In an online setting, the method saves travel, time, and costs. To our knowledge, flipped classroom is rarely used in continuing professional education. This study in general dentistry explored experiences of an online flipped classroom course in continuing professional development.Materials and MethodsFifteen dental hygienists, clinically active in general dental care, were interviewed. They were recruited from an online course on the latest classification system for periodontal diseases. The course had been conducted using an active learning and flipped classroom model. The interviews were semi‐structured. Data were extracted using qualitative content analysis.ResultsThe experiences of the dental hygienists could be summarized in three themes: Stimulation of knowledge gain through self‐paced studies, The ease of virtual networking among colleagues, and Fostering of direct practical application through collaboration.ConclusionNew and emerging communication technology seems to open new possibilities for continuing professional development in general dentistry. Study participants felt that, in an online environment, mixing asynchronous and synchronous communication in a flipped classroom model facilitated learning in continuing professional development. Online active learning seems to work well in continuous professional development in general dentistry. After the course, the participating dental hygienists stated that they were able to use their new knowledge clinically and felt confident doing so.