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Trends in colorectal cancer screening compliance and incidence among 60‐ to 74‐year‐olds in China
Authors: Zhang Mingqing , Zhang Yongdan , Guo Lu , Zhao Lizhong , Jing Haoren , Yang Xiao , Zhang Wen , Zhang Yong , Nie Zhenguo , Zhu Siwei , Zhang Shiwu , Zhang Xipeng 
Published: April 2024

AbstractBackgroundCompliance with colonoscopy among elderly individuals participating in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programs is unsatisfactory, despite a high detection rate of bowel‐related diseases. In this study, our aim was to analyze the impact of risk factors on the trends of compliance and detection rates in colonoscopy among high‐risk individuals aged 60–74.MethodsA retrospective study was conducted on the high‐risk individuals aged 60–74 participating in the 2021 CRC screening program in Tianjin, China. Logistic regression analyses, including both univariate and multivariate analyses, were performed to explore the impact of different risk factors on colonoscopy compliance among the high‐risk individuals. Besides, the study investigated the influence of various risk factors on the detection rates of bowel‐related diseases among the high‐risk individuals who underwent colonoscopy.ResultsA total of 24,064 high‐risk individuals were included, and 5478 individuals received a free colonoscopy, with an overall compliance of 22.76%. Among them, the adenoma detection rate was 55.46%. Males and individuals with a positive FIT had high compliance and detection rates for CRC, advanced adenomas (AA), advanced colorectal neoplasia (ACN), and colorectal neoplasm (CN). Individuals aged 70–74 were associated with low compliance but high CRC, ACN, and CN detection rates. Individuals who reported a history of chronic constipation, bloody mucous, and CRC in first‐degree relative showed high compliance but no significantwere associated with the detection rates of CRC, AA, and CN.ConclusionThis study reported several risk factors associated with the screening behaviors for CRC. Patterns and trends in CRC, AA, ACN, and CN compliance and detection rates correlate with risk factors.
Users, AI, or professional designers? The impacts of inspiration stimuli on customers' willingness to participate in user design
Authors: Qi Chenyue , Wang Xiaojing , Zhang Hao 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis study aims to explore how different sources of inspiration (namely, users, artificial intelligence (AI), and professional designers) as external stimuli influence customers' willingness to participate in user design. Results from four experiments show that inspiration from users, AI, and professional designers all positively influence customers' willingness to participate in user design. Self‐competence is found to mediate such effects. Moreover, we further identify that the effects of inspiration stimuli on customers' willingness to participate in user design is moderated by customer knowledge and product type (hedonic vs. utilitarian). Customers with low level of knowledge are more likely to be inspired by user designs and AI‐generated designs than professional designer counterparts. For utilitarian products, customers are more likely to be inspired by user designs and AI‐generated designs. In contrast, for hedonic products, customers are more likely to draw inspiration from professional designers. Our finding suggests that open innovation communities should offer a variety of designs from users and AI to inspire their users, thus encouraging their participation in user design.
Expression and localization of apelin and apelin receptor protein in the oviduct of letrozole‐induced hyperandrogenized mice
Authors: Dutta Ayushmita , Anima Borgohain , Riba Preethi , Gurusubramanian Guruswami , Roy Vikas Kumar 
Published: April 2024

AbstractApelin and its receptor (APJ) are expressed in the reproductive organs of some mammalian females. The function of oviduct has also been suggested to be compromised in the hyperandrogenism condition. However, expression of apelin and APJ has not been shown in the oviduct of hyperandrogenized mice. Thus, the present study has investigated the localization and expression of apelin and APJ in the letrozole‐induced hyperandrogenized mice oviduct. Histomorphometric analysis showed decreased lumen of oviduct in the hyperandrogenized mice. Our results showed elevated expression of APJ and decreased abundance of apelin in the hyperandrogenized mice oviduct. This finding suggests impaired apelin signaling in the oviduct of hyperandrogenized mice. The expression of androgen receptor was upregulated while estrogen receptors were downregulated in the hyperandrogenized mice. The expression of HSP70 was also downregulated along with increased expression of active caspase 3 and BAX and decreased expression of BCL2 in hyperandrogenized mice. Furthermore, the phosphorylation of phospho‐Ser473‐Akt and phospho‐Thr308‐Akt also showed differential levels in the oviduct of hyperandrogenized mice. Whether this differential phosphorylation of Akt was solely due to impaired apelin signaling in the oviduct, remains unclear. Moreover, increased androgen signaling and suppressed estrogen signaling coincides with elevated apoptosis. In conclusion, hyperandrogenized conditions could also impair the gamete transport and fertilization process due to apoptosis in the oviduct. However, further study would be required to unravel the exact role of apelin signaling in the oviduct in relation to apoptosis.
Metal Phosphide Nanoparticles Generated via a Molecular Precursor Route for Hydrotreatment of Methyl Laurate
Authors: García‐Pérez Diana , Álvarez‐Galván M. Consuelo , Capel‐Sánchez M. Carmen , Campos‐Martín José M. , Habas Susan E. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractTransition metal phosphide nanoparticles supported on silica were used as catalysts to investigate the hydrodeoxygenation of methyl laurate (used as a model compound for vegetable oils). Ni2P, Ni1Mo1P, and Ni1.6Mo0.4P were synthesized using a molecular precursor route. The nanoparticles were added to the silica support without any changes in their structure or particle size. As a reference and for comparison, MoP/SiO2 was also prepared by the phosphite method. The prepared catalysts were characterized by X‐ray diffraction, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and chemical analysis. A higher conversion is reached with the MoP/SiO2 monometallic catalyst, close to that with Ni1Mo1P/SiO2. However, this observation is misleading because the differences in dispersion obscure the result that the intrinsic activity (turnover frequency) of the bimetallic catalyst, prepared by a molecular precursor route, is significantly higher than that of the monometallic catalyst, prepared by the phosphite route, revealing a synergistic effect on the catalytic activity due to the formation of the bimetallic phosphide.
LaNi0.2Cu0.8O3‐δ Perovskites as Electrocatalysts for Electro‐synthesis of Ammonia from Nitrogen Oxyanion
Authors: Zhang Wenhao , Gao Chenchen , Zhang Peng , Feng Qiuxia , Zhang Liming , Zhang Xinjing , Zhu Xuefeng , Yang Weishen 
Published: April 2024

AbstractElectrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia (NO3RR) has become an attractive alternative way for sustainable ammonia synthesis. The development of electrocatalysts with high activity, stability and Faradaic efficiency is important but challenge due to the complex eight‐electron process. Herein, LaNi0.2Cu0.8O2.77 (LNC) and LaNi0.2Cu0.8O2.53 (LNC−Ar) are demonstrated as electrocatalysts towards NO3RR and the surface reconstruction of the two catalysts was found to have strong effect on the catalytic performance. LNC−Ar shows a superior performance than LNC, with a maximum NH4+ yield of 11.49±1.20 mg h−1 cm−2 and a Faradaic efficiency of 87.10±1.34 % in 0.5 M NO3−, besides, the LNC−Ar remains functionally stable along the long‐time electrolysis. DFT results reveals the reconstructed LaNi0.2Cu0.8O2 (LNCO2) has the best ability to adsorb *NO3, resulting in a better performance towards NO3RR. Further, the better performance on LNC−Ar with more LNCO2 can be well explained. This work opens a new sight on perovskites towards NO3RR and provides an option of active and stable electrocatalyst for sustainable ammonia synthesis.
Depolymerization of PET Fibers from Textile Blends and Recovery of Terephthalic Acid
Authors: Both Leonard , Paschetag Mandy , Eichert Carsten , Scholl Stephan 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe hydrolytic depolymerization of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) fibers with solid sodium hydroxide was investigated. The study presents an innovative recycling approach for the recovery of virgin‐quality terephthalic acid (TA) from textile blends consisting of PET and elastane fibers. PET fibers were depolymerized for 5 min at 140 °C. An internal mixer served as an investigation platform for the experiments. The quality of TA is quantified based on its color value. Both the hydrolytic depolymerization of polyester fibers and the quality of the recovered TA are not impaired by the presence of up to 15 % elastane fibers in textile blends.
From Research directly into School: Green Steel – direct Reduction with Ammonia
Authors: Heinzerling Peter 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIm Zusammenhang mit der Diskussion um die Decarbonisierung stehen Industriesektoren mit hoher Kohlenstoffdioxid‐Emission im Focus der Forderungen der Politik und Teilen der Zivilgesellschaft. Die Industrie hat die Herausforderungen angenommen und bereitet im großen Stil den technologischen Wandel vor. In Schulbüchern steht beim Thema Stahl der mit Eisenerz und Koks betriebene Hochofen im Mittelpunkt. Diese Reaktoren wird es innerhalb der nächsten zwanzig Jahre vermutlich nicht mehr geben. Sie werden ersetzt durch Reaktoren vom MIDREX®‐Typ, die langfristig mit Wasserstoff als Reduktionsmittel betrieben werden. In dieser Publikation wird der kostengünstigere Weg über Ammoniak vorgestellt. Dazu wird ein einfaches Schulexperiment zur Herstellung von Ammoniak und zur Reduktion von Eisenoxid vorgestellt.
Towards a robust scale‐free network in internet of health things against multiple attacks using an inter‐core based reconnection strategy
Authors: Abbas Syed Minhal , Javaid Nadeem , Alrajeh Nabil , Bouk Safdar Hussain , Alhudaithy Soliman 
Published: April 2024

SummaryWireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attained a great attraction of researchers in the recent years. In these networks, many structures are considered that have different properties. This article offers a unique approach, the inter‐core based reconnection strategy (ICRS), which is intended to improve the robustness of Scale‐Free Networks (SFNs) in the setting of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), with a special emphasis on the Internet of Health Things (IoHT) network. SFNs' vulnerabilities to malicious assaults while remaining resilient to random attacks. The proposed ICRS overcomes this issue by offering a novel reconnection approach that employs separate edges between network centers. Destructive assaults that have a significant impact on network connectivity, emphasizing the importance of a robust network that can resist a variety of attacks. ICRS is positioned as a solution that optimizes the network via reconnection techniques, changing it into an onion‐like structure with increased robustness. The simulation results depict that ICRS outperforms the existing algorithms in terms of robustness enhancement. The results show that ICRS performs 48%, 29%, 22%, and 16% better than Barabasi Albert (BA), Hill Climbing (HC), Simulated Annealing (SA), Random Edge Swap Mechanism (RESM), and Robustness Strategy (ROSE), respectively.
Swarm Intelligence with a Chaotic Leader and a Salp algorithm: HDFS optimization for reduced latency and enhanced availability
Authors: Jagadish Kumar N. , Dhinakaran D. , Naresh Kumar A. , Kalpana A. V. 
Published: April 2024

SummaryThe Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) effectively manages data by segmenting it into blocks distributed across DataNodes in its cluster. While default block sizes in Hadoop 2.x and 1.x are 128 and 64 MB, respectively, they can be customized for larger files. HDFS ensures data reliability by replicating blocks across multiple DataNodes, but this can introduce high latency in cloud storage during heavy network traffic, particularly in big data processing. To address this, we introduce swarm intelligence with a chaotic leader and a salp (SI‐CLS) optimization algorithm. This algorithm reduces network traffic between racks in HDFS by optimizing block distribution. The SI‐CLS algorithm calculates a fitness value for each block, aiming to increase data availability and reduce latency. Performance metrics, including latency, data availability, and load balancing, indicate the effectiveness of SI‐CLS. Adopting this algorithm enhances HDFS performance, ensuring better data availability and lower latency, resulting in improved system reliability.
Recreational marijuana: Ethical positions and consumption status in explaining attitudes, perceived law ethicalness, and perceived corporate social responsibility
Authors: Souiden Nizar 
Published: April 2024

AbstractDrawing from the Ethics Position theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study was conducted with a comprehensive four‐part goal. It seeks to explore the moderating influences of the consumption status and ethical positions in elucidating (i) individuals' attitude toward recreational marijuana consumption, (ii) individuals' perceived ethical stance regarding recreational marijuana legalization, (iii) individuals' CSR perception of firms operating within the marijuana industry often deemed as morally contentious, and (iv) the interrelationships among the aforementioned variables. Based on a sample of 411 Canadians and two grouping variables, ANOVA tests and a structural Equation Modeling were used to test the research hypotheses. The results show that individuals' attitudes toward the consumption of marijuana, perceived ethicalness of legalizing it, and perceived CSR significantly vary across the three groups of consumption status (i.e., non‐consumer, occasional, and regular) and the four groups of ethical positions (i.e., absolutism, exceptionism, situationism, and subjectivism). The SEM results, however, show that, except for a few cases, there were no notable variations in the model's path coefficients among the identified groups. This study has intriguing implications for academicians, practitioners, politicians, managers, social welfare activists, and other stakeholders.
High‐precision screening and sorting of double emulsion droplets
Authors: Zhuang Siyuan , Semenec Lucie , Nagy Stephanie S. , Cain Amy K. , Inglis David W. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractMounting evidence suggests that cell populations are extremely heterogeneous, with individual cells fulfilling different roles within the population. Flow cytometry (FC) is a high‐throughput tool for single‐cell analysis that works at high optical resolution. Sub‐populations with unique properties can be screened, isolated and sorted through fluorescence‐activated cell sorting (FACS), using intracellular fluorescent products or surface‐tagged fluorescent products of interest. However, traditional FC and FACS methods cannot identify or isolate cells that secrete extracellular products of interest. Double emulsion (DE) droplets are an innovative approach to retaining these extracellular products so cells producing them can be identified and isolated with FC and FACS. The water‐in‐oil‐in‐water structure makes DE droplets compatible with the sheath flow of flow cytometry. Single cells can be encapsulated with other reagents into DEs, which act as pico‐reactors. These droplets allow biological activities to take place while allowing for cell cultivation monitoring, rare mutant identification, and cellular events characterization. However, using DEs in FACS presents technical challenges, including rupture of DEs, poor accuracy and low sorting efficiency. This study presents high‐performance sorting using fluorescent beads (as simulants for cells). This study aims to guide researchers in the use of DE‐based flow cytometry, offering insights into how to resolve the technical difficulties associated with DE‐based screening and sorting using FC.
Reversal of the concreteness effect can be detected in the natural speech of older adults with amnestic, but not non‐amnestic, mild cognitive impairment
Authors: Cao Luwen , Han Kunmei , Lin Li , Hing Jiawen , Ooi Vincent , Huang Nick , Yu Junhong , Ng Ted Kheng Siang , Feng Lei , Mahendran Rathi , Kua Ee Heok , Bao Zhiming 
Published: April 2024

AbstractINTRODUCTIONPatients with Alzheimer's disease present with difficulty in lexical retrieval and reversal of the concreteness effect in nouns. Little is known about the phenomena before the onset of symptoms. We anticipate early linguistic signs in the speech of people who suffer from amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Here, we report the results of a corpus‐linguistic approach to the early detection of cognitive impairment.METHODSOne hundred forty‐eight English‐speaking Singaporeans provided natural speech data, on topics of their choice; 74 were diagnosed with single‐domain MCI (38 amnestic, 36 non‐amnestic), 74 cognitively healthy. The recordings yield 267,310 words, which are tagged for parts of speech. We calculate the per‐minute word counts and concreteness scores of all tagged words, nouns, and verbs in the dataset.RESULTSCompared to controls, subjects with amnestic MCI produce fewer but more abstract nouns. Verbs are not affected.DISCUSSIONSlower retrieval of nouns and the reversal of the concreteness effect in nouns are manifested in natural speech and can be detected early through corpus‐based analysis.Highlights
Reversal of the concreteness effect is manifested in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and semantic dementia.
The paper reports a corpus‐based analysis of natural speech by people with amnestic and non‐amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and cognitively healthy controls.
People with amnestic MCI produce fewer and more abstract nouns than people with non‐amnestic MCI and healthy controls. Verbs appear to be unaffected.
The imageability problem can be detected in natural everyday speech by people with amnestic MCI, which carries a higher risk of conversion to AD.
Incorporation of substrate blocks into mass transport deposits: Insights from subsurface and outcrop studies
Authors: Valdez Buso Victoria , Kneller Ben , da Silva Reis Assis Vanessa , Farias Vesely Fernando , Milana Juan Pablo 
Published: April 2024

AbstractMass movements are common on the continental slope, affecting not only the subsequent sea floor morphology but often substantially modifying the underlying deposits. Various styles of substrate interaction have been recognised, representing the various degrees of involvement of the underlying material and its incorporation into the mass movement. This work presents a new style of basal interaction not previously described. Based on the morphology of the basal surface of a mass transport deposit, this can be recognised both in seismic data and in an outcrop analogue. A subsurface example, from an ca 100 m thick mass transport deposit located in Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, displays a basal surface with spoon‐shaped scours or scoops. These scoops are of the order of tens up to 400 m in maximum dimension, where masses of underlying sediment have been removed and incorporated into the mass movement. Outcrops used for this work are located in La Rioja Province, Western Argentina, where the study involves a well‐exposed ca 200 m thick mass transport deposit that crops out continuously over 7 km. Its basal surface is incised irregularly into the underlying sandstones, incorporating the blocks of sandstone into the mass movement. The striking similarities observed between outcrop examples and the northern Santos Basin suggest that they can be effective analogues, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of mass transport deposit dynamics across diverse basin environments.
Is the diet cyclic phase‐dependent in boreal vole populations?
Authors: Neby Magne , Ims Rolf A. , Kamenova Stefaniya , Devineau Olivier , Soininen Eeva M. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractHerbivorous rodents in boreal, alpine and arctic ecosystems are renowned for their multi‐annual population cycles. Researchers have hypothesised that these cycles may result from herbivore–plant interactions in various ways. For instance, if the biomass of preferred food plants is reduced after a peak phase of a cycle, rodent diets can be expected to become dominated by less preferred food plants, leading the population to a crash. It could also be expected that the taxonomic diversity of rodent diets increases from the peak to the crash phase of a cycle. The present study is the first to use DNA metabarcoding to quantify the diets of two functionally important boreal rodent species (bank vole and tundra vole) to assess whether their diet changed systematically in the expected cyclic phase‐dependent manner. We found the taxonomic diet spectrum broad in both vole species but with little interspecific overlap. There was no evidence of systematic shifts in diet diversity metrics between the phases of the population cycle in either species. While both species' diet composition changed moderately between cycle phases and seasons, these changes were small compared to other sources of diet variation—especially differences between individuals. Thus, the variation in diet that could be attributed to cyclic phases is marginal relative to the overall diet flexibility. Based on general consumer‐resource theory, we suggest that the broad diets with little interspecific overlap render it unlikely that herbivore–plant interactions generate their synchronous population cycles. We propose that determining dietary niche width should be the first step in scientific inquiries about the role of herbivore–plant interactions in cyclic vole populations.
Deep‐pelagic fishes: Demographic instability in a stable environment
Authors: Weber Max D. , Richards Travis M. , Sutton Tracey T. , Carter Joshua E. , Eytan Ron I. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractDemographic histories are frequently a product of the environment, as populations expand or contract in response to major environmental changes, often driven by changes in climate. Meso‐ and bathy‐pelagic fishes inhabit some of the most temporally and spatially stable habitats on the planet. The stability of the deep‐pelagic could make deep‐pelagic fishes resistant to the demographic instability commonly reported in fish species inhabiting other marine habitats, however the demographic histories of deep‐pelagic fishes are unknown. We reconstructed the historical demography of 11 species of deep‐pelagic fishes using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. We uncovered widespread evidence of population expansions in our study species, a counterintuitive result based on the nature of deep‐pelagic ecosystems. Frequency‐based methods detected potential demographic changes in nine species of fishes, while extended Bayesian skyline plots identified population expansions in four species. These results suggest that despite the relatively stable nature of the deep‐pelagic environment, the fishes that reside here have likely been impacted by past changes in climate. Further investigation is necessary to better understand how deep‐pelagic fishes, by far Earth's most abundant vertebrates, will respond to future climatic changes.