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Experiences and lessons learned from a patient‐engagement service established by a national research consortium in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration
Authors: Sides Tracy L. , Jensen Agnes C. , Argust Malloree M. , Amundson Erin C. , Thomas Gay R. , Keller Rebecca , Mahaffey Mallory , Krebs Erin E. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIntroductionMeaningful engagement of patients in the research process has increased over the past 20 years. Few accounts are available of engagement infrastructure and processes used by large research organizations. The Pain/Opioid Consortium of Research (Consortium) is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research network that provides infrastructure to accelerate health research and implementation of evidence‐based health care. The Consortium's key activities include facilitating Veteran‐engaged research and building community between Veterans and VA researchers. This report sought to describe experiences and lessons learned from the first 3 years of a national research engagement service, featuring a Veteran Engagement (VE) Panel, established by the Consortium.MethodsWe gathered authors' experiences to describe development and operation of the Consortium's VE Panel. Engagement staff collected program evaluation data about partners (Veterans and researchers), projects about which the VE Panel consulted, and meeting attendance during operation of the engagement service.ResultsWe created a 12‐member VE Panel; all of whom had lived experience with chronic pain, prescription opioid medication use, or opioid use disorder. Engagement staff and VE Panel members implemented an engagement service operational model designed to continuously learn and adapt. The panel consulted on 48 projects spanning the research process. Seventy‐eight percent of panel members, on average, attended each monthly meeting. VE Panel members and participating researchers reported high satisfaction with the quality, ease, and outcomes of their engagement service experiences.ConclusionsThis work provides an illustrative example of how a national research consortium facilitated Veteran‐engaged research and built community between Veterans and VA researchers by developing and operating an ongoing engagement consulting service, featuring a VE Panel. The service, designed as a learning community, relied on skilled engagement staff to cultivate high quality experiences and outcomes for all partners.
Electrochemical characterization of surfaces of galvanized steels under different exposure conditions using gel electrolytes
Authors: Heyn Andreas , Meist Moritz , Michael Oliver , Babutzka Martin , Valet Svenja , Ebell Gino 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe corrosion behavior of galvanized steels and zinc components under atmospheric exposure depends mostly on the corrosion product‐based cover layer formation under the prevailing conditions. The use of agar‐based gel electrolytes makes it possible to use electrochemical methods to obtain a characteristic value from these cover layers that describe their current and future protective capacity. It is shown here that different states of galvanized steel can be distinguished very well under laboratory conditions and that this method is also suitable for use under practical conditions. Based on the characteristic values and assuming future time of wetness, it is very easy to draw up a forecast for the future corrosion rate, which provides plausible values.
Molecular Characterization of the Allergenic Arginine Kinase from the Edible Insect Hermetia illucens (Black Soldier Fly)
Authors: Delfino Danila , Prandi Barbara , Calcinai Luisa , Ridolo Erminia , Dellafiora Luca , Pedroni Lorenzo , Nicoletta Francesca , Cavazzini Davide , Tedeschi Tullia , Folli Claudia 
Published: April 2024

ScopeArginine kinase (AK) is an important enzyme for energy metabolism of invertebrate cells by participating in the maintenance of constant levels of ATP. However, AK is also recognized as a major allergen in insects and crustaceans capable of cross‐reactivity with sera of patients sensitized to orthologous proteins. In the perspective of introducing insects or their derivatives in the human diet in Western world, it is of primary importance to evaluate possible risks for allergic consumers.Methods and resultsThis work reports the identification and characterization of AK from Hermetia illucens commonly known as the black soldier fly, a promising insect for human consumption. To evaluate allergenicity of AK from H. illucens, putative linear and conformational epitopes are identified by bioinformatics analyses, and Dot‐Blot assays are carried out by using sera of patients allergic to shrimp or mites to validate the cross‐reactivity. Gastrointestinal digestion reduces significantly the linear epitopes resulting in lower allergenicity, while the secondary structure is altered at increasing temperatures supporting the possible loss or reduction of conformational epitopes.ConclusionThe results indicate that the possible allergenicity of AK should be taken in consideration when dealing with novel foods containing H. illucens or its derivatives.
High‐resolution 3T to 7T ADC map synthesis with a hybrid CNN‐transformer model
Authors: Eidex Zach , Wang Jing , Safari Mojtaba , Elder Eric , Wynne Jacob , Wang Tonghe , Shu Hui‐Kuo , Mao Hui , Yang Xiaofeng 
Published: April 2024

AbstractBackground7 Tesla (7T) apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps derived from diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) demonstrate improved image quality and spatial resolution over 3 Tesla (3T) ADC maps. However, 7T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) currently suffers from limited clinical unavailability, higher cost, and increased susceptibility to artifacts.PurposeTo address these issues, we propose a hybrid CNN‐transformer model to synthesize high‐resolution 7T ADC maps from multimodal 3T MRI.MethodsThe Vision CNN‐Transformer (VCT), composed of both Vision Transformer (ViT) blocks and convolutional layers, is proposed to produce high‐resolution synthetic 7T ADC maps from 3T ADC maps and 3T T1‐weighted (T1w) MRI. ViT blocks enabled global image context while convolutional layers efficiently captured fine detail. The VCT model was validated on the publicly available Human Connectome Project Young Adult dataset, comprising 3T T1w, 3T DWI, and 7T DWI brain scans. The Diffusion Imaging in Python library was used to compute ADC maps from the DWI scans. A total of 171 patient cases were randomly divided into 130 training cases, 20 validation cases, and 21 test cases. The synthetic ADC maps were evaluated by comparing their similarity to the ground truth volumes with the following metrics: peak signal‐to‐noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index measure (SSIM), and mean squared error (MSE). In addition,ResultsThe results are as follows: PSNR: 27.0 ± 0.9 dB, SSIM: 0.945 ± 0.010, and MSE: 2.0E‐3 ± 0.4E‐3. Both qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that VCT performs favorably against other state‐of‐the‐art methods. We have introduced various efficiency improvements, including the implementation of flash attention and training on 176×208 resolution images. These enhancements have resulted in the reduction of parameters and training time per epoch by 50% in comparison to ResViT. Specifically, the training time per epoch has been shortened from 7.67 min to 3.86 min.ConclusionWe propose a novel method to predict high‐resolution 7T ADC maps from low‐resolution 3T ADC maps and T1w MRI. Our predicted images demonstrate better spatial resolution and contrast compared to 3T MRI and prediction results made by ResViT and pix2pix. These high‐quality synthetic 7T MR images could be beneficial for disease diagnosis and intervention, producing higher resolution and conformal contours, and as an intermediate step in generating synthetic CT for radiation therapy, especially when 7T MRI scanners are unavailable.
Forecast of the number of nursing beds per 1000 older people from 2023 to 2025: Empirical quantitative research
Authors: Luo Ping , Chen Lan , Liu Yangwu , Weng Sheng 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAimThis research aims to offer a reference point for relevant departments to enhance the allocation of ageing resources and formulate policies accordingly.DesignThis study is designed as empirical quantitative research.MethodsData from the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Civil Affairs regarding older adults (aged≥60) from 2000 to 2022 and nursing beds from 1978 to 2022 were analysed. The differential autoregressive integrated moving averages model and Monte Carlo simulation were used to predict the growth of nursing beds per 1000 older people in China for the Years 2023–2025.ResultsIt is projected that from 2023 to 2025, China will experience a further increase in its ageing population, with an average annual growth rate of 3.1%. By 2025, the number of older people in China is expected to surpass 300 million. Additionally, there will be a rise in the number of nursing beds, with an average annual growth rate of 1.9%, leading to a total of 8.79 million nursing beds by 2025. However, due to the rapid growth of the older population, there will be a slight decline in the number of nursing beds per 1000 older people in China, with an average annual growth rate of −1.00%.
Better or different? Self‐differentiating appeals interact with self‐theories to predict volunteer intentions
Authors: Montford William J. , Mesler Rhiannon MacDonnell , Chernishenko Jennifer , Leary R. Bret 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis research explores how charities can harness individuals' desire for self‐enhancement in their advertisements to boost volunteerism. Two studies examine the effects of advertising which promote either horizontal differentiation (appeals to uniqueness, existing skills) or vertical differentiation (appeals to status, skill acquisition) and how these interact with consumers' self‐theories (incremental—belief in changeable attributes through effort, or entity—belief in unchangeable attributes). Study 1 (n = 183, 56% female) shows entity theorists are more inclined to volunteer following horizontally framed appeals, while incremental theorists respond similarly to both types of appeals. Study 2 (n = 107, 58% female) builds on this, revealing that self‐theory influences the type of individuation (horizontal or vertical) sought by individuals, in turn enhancing volunteer intentions. These findings highlight the complex relationship between self‐theory and advertising appeals in motivating volunteerism, offering valuable insights for creating effective charitable ads and understanding volunteer motivations.
Discovering needs for palliative care in children with cancer in Indonesia
Authors: Pangarso Alexandra Widita Swipratami , Mulatsih Sri , Sitaresmi Mei Neni , Verhulst Susanne , Kaspers Gertjan , Mostert Saskia 
Published: April 2024

AbstractBackgroundAlthough most children with cancer die in low‐ and middle‐income countries, palliative care receives limited attention in these settings. This study explores parents’ perspectives on experiences and needs of children dying from cancer.MethodsHome visits were conducted to interview parents of children, who were treated for cancer at an Indonesian academic hospital and died between 2019 and 2020, using semi‐structured questionnaires.ResultsParents of 49 children (response rate 74%) were interviewed. While all children died in hospital, 37% of parents stated their child preferred to die at home. The most common symptoms during final illness were breathing difficulties (82%), pain (80%), and appetite loss (80%). Psychological symptoms received the least support from the medical team. No intervention was given to 46% of children with depression, 45% of children with anxiety, and 33% with sadness. Boys suffered more often from anxiety (68%) than girls (37%; p = .030). Parents (57%) were not always informed about their child's condition, and doctors gave confusing information (43%). The families’ choice of treatment while dying was relieving pain or discomfort (39%) and extending life (33%), while for 29% it was unknown. However, many parents (51%) did not discuss these treatment wishes with doctors. Many children (45%) felt lonely wanting more interactions with school (71%), friends (63%), and family (57%).ConclusionRelieving suffering of children with cancer requires regular physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs assessment. Families should actively participate in deciding whether to extend life or relieve pain and discomfort. This can importantly improve the quality of life of children and families.
Effect of fish scale powder addition on the mechanical and free vibration properties of jute/carbon fibers reinforced hybrid polyester composites
Authors: Saravanakumar S. , Kapilan S. , Ravikumar P. , Rajeshkumar G. , Janarthanan P. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe present study involves a comprehensive study on the mechanical and free vibration properties of jute and carbon fibers reinforced polyester composite laminates, concentrating on the effect of addition of secondary reinforcement material (fish scale powder [FSP]). The composite laminates were prepared by using compression molding technique by varying the content of FSP (0, 1, 3, 5, and 7 wt%). The outcomes highlight the complex interaction between composite design and their characteristics. Particularly, the addition of FSP to the polyester matrix caused decrease in tensile properties due to nonuniformity in filler dispersion. Conversely, the results obtained from flexural, impact, and free vibration tests exhibited a positive correlation with the addition of FSP content. This can be attributed to the enhanced stiffness of the composites, owing to the constrained chain mobility and intricate intermolecular interactions. The hardness test results highlighted the importance of adding FSP in increasing hardness values. Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) analysis was also performed to explore the fractured morphology of the hybrid composite samples. Based on the outcomes, it is recommended to use the FSP as secondary reinforcements for fabricating composites for lightweight structural components.Highlights
Various properties of jute/carbon hybrid composites were investigated.
Addition of fish scale powder to hybrid composites enhanced their properties.
Vibration properties of hybrid composites are improved due to their higher stiffness.
Hybrid composites offer a compromise between cost, environmental impact, and performance.
Gummy‐inspired natural eutectogels with high adhesiveness, toughness and humidity response
Authors: Li Zhiyang , Ge Zhaolin , Chen Qize , He Yifei , Wu Jin , Xie Zhuang 
Published: April 2024

AbstractBiogel‐based ionic devices have emerged as versatile platforms for broad applications in wearable electronics, healthcare monitoring and bioelectronic interfaces. Electronic functions derived from fully edible natural soft materials are particularly attractive to allow low cost, green, biocompatible and biodegradable devices in biomedical areas as well as smart food package. This work presents a gummy‐inspired protein eutectogel by simply soaking gelatin hydrogels into solutions of natural deep eutectic solvent (NADES) consisting of sorbitol and citric acid to allow solvent exchange. Compared with the gelatin hydrogel, this natural eutectogel (NEG) exhibited anti‐drying and anti‐freezing performance, remarkably improved adhesiveness, room temperature degradability, as well as high mechanical toughness. The soaking conditions were investigated to tune the softness and ionic conductivity of the NEG, which revealed that the water content and acid ratio could significantly impact on the gel properties. Additionally, the eutectogel thin film exhibited good humidity sensing capability with a wide linear detection range (22%–98% RH), in which a soft patch was further demonstrated for breath test to detect various respiration frequencies. Thus, we believe the concept of NEG combining biopolymers and NADES can be explored in a broad range of soft devices for sensing, bio‐adhesives, energy supply or drug delivery.
Enhanced extended state observer based prescribed time tracking control of wheeled mobile robot with slipping and skidding
Authors: Qin Bo , Yan Huaicheng , Hu Xiao , Tian Yongxiao , Yang Simon X. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis article focuses on the trajectory tracking control for a perturbed wheeled mobile robot (WMR) with slipping and skidding. The external disturbances and uncertainties caused by the slipping and skidding compose the “total” disturbance. By analyzing the stable state of the controlled system, the WMR reference model driven by a favorable disturbance is constructed. This article proposes an enhanced extended state observer (EESO) to reckon the difference between the “total” disturbance and the favorable disturbance. Then, a practical prescribed time tracking method is developed. By introducing a time‐dependent scaling function, the initial value restriction can be relaxed, and the peaking phenomenon caused by the EESO can be tolerated. With the proposed EESO and the prescribed time tracking controller, the estimation error is input‐to‐state stable, and the tracking control of WMR with global prescribed performance is achieved. Simulation results show the advantages.
High salinity prolongs water processes required for soil structure stability during drying–wetting cycles
Authors: Chang Kai , Feng Haoxuan , Xing Jiahao , Wang Xiangping , Yao Rongjiang , Xing Xuguang 
Published: April 2024

AbstractClimate events, such as drought and rainfall, can lead to a cycle of drying and wetting that may cause changes in soil structure, leading to deteriorations in the health of saline soils. However, little is known about the extent and behavior of soil structure degradation under the combined influences of salinity and drying–wetting (D‐W) cycles. Thus, we systematically investigated the effects of salinity (0, 5, 30, and 100 g/L, labeled as CK, T5, T30, and T100) and D‐W cycles on soil structure by determining soil volume, shrinkage, and swelling potentials along with soil pore character obtained from soil shrinkage characteristics curve, intending to explore how D‐W cycles and salinity affect soil structure. The results showed that soil deformation behaviors in saline and non‐saline soils varied with the number of D‐W cycles. Irreversible deformation of the soil was observed during continual D‐W cycles. The soil volume increased by 3.75%–15.73% after three D‐W cycles. In vertical direction, the maximum expansion magnitude for each treatment was reached with the value of 29.03%, 23.42%, 34.23%, and 35.87% in CK, T5, T30, and T100, respectively. The magnitudes of shrinkage and expansion were equal in the horizontal direction since the soil samples consistently returned to their original dimensions. Furthermore, the decrease was observed in the micropores and capillary pores affected by salinity, with values of 50%, 58.6%, and 70.4% in CK, T5, T30, and T100, respectively. However, the D‐W cycles primarily affected large pores. High salinity levels enhanced swelling potential and inhabit shrinkage potential, prolonging the water processes required for the soil structure to achieve stability. The results of this study underscore the necessity of understanding the hysteresis of soil volume change and elucidate the mechanisms of soil structure deterioration driven by salinity and D‐W cycles. These findings provide a valuable reference for healthier soil management.
Synergies and trade‐offs quantification from regional waste policy to sustainable development goals: The case of Kyoto City
Authors: Basu Soumya , Usher Khadija , Tamiya Hiroyuki , Akasegawa Rei , Hui Yang , Chen Qu , Cravioto Jordi , Ohgaki Hideaki 
Published: April 2024

AbstractWaste management policies introduced at regional levels can have a bearing effect on sustainable development goal (SDG) achievement at such levels, promoting certain SDG targets, while hindering other SDG targets. This work introduces an empirical methodology for estimating the synergies and trade‐offs for a city‐level waste management policy with SDG achievements, taking the case of Kyoto City's extensive waste management policy package and its interactions with renewable energy (RE) development (SDG 7), decent economic growth (SDG 9), reduced inequalities (SDG 10), and sustainable consumption (SDG 12). Similar interactions at the national‐level are also enumerated with the justified indicators at the city‐level being extended to the national‐level. Through pairwise correlation, multiple correlation, and regression, four hypotheses for circular economy compatibility with SDG achievement were tested. It was found that manufacturing value and small business growth is stunted by circular economy‐based waste policies, while resource efficiency is promoted. Cultural and social structures have trade‐offs with stringent waste management at city‐levels, but is neutral at aggregated levels. RE development is also synergetic with circular economy‐based waste management. This methodology shows a pathway as to how national‐ and city‐level policies can be integrated with each other in order to optimize waste management and overall sustainability.
The effects of knowledge of tourist civility and Taoist values on tourist civility intentions based on an extended theory of planned behavior
Authors: Zheng Wei , Qiu Hongliang , Morrison Alastair M. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractTourist civility is attracting growing attention from practitioners and scholars. However, the research on the effects of knowledge of tourist civility and Taoist values on tourist civility intentions (TCI) is incomplete. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), an expanded and integrated framework was developed to explore TCI with data from 358 domestic tourists in China. Structural equation modeling was adopted and mediation and moderation models were tested through the bootstrapping approach. The findings suggested that attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, knowledge, and Taoist values directly affected TCI. It was also found that attitudes positively mediated the connections between subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, knowledge, and Taoist values with TCI; and subjective norms negatively moderated not only the association between knowledge and attitudes but also the mediating effect of attitudes on the link between knowledge and TCI. The results confirmed that the extended TPB exerted greater explanatory power than the original model. This research provides a clearer understanding of TCI by integrating the knowledge‐attitude‐behavior and value‐attitude‐behavior models within TPB, which advances the knowledge of the underlying factors that motivate tourists toward civility, and offers a practical perspective to cultivate TCI with targeted strategies.
One–Pot Three–Component Synthesis of 2,4,5–Triaryl Imidazoles using Fe3O4@BisImid−CuBr Nanocomposite as an Ecofriendly and Efficient Magnetically Reusable Catalyst
Authors: Al‐Dolaimy F. , Alsalamy Ali H. , Abdullah Abbas Hussein , Rasen Fadhil A. , Abdulhussein Zaid , Ramadan Montather F. , Abbas Ahmed Hussien R. , Mustafa Hesham S. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractImidazoles are one of the keys of N‐heterocycle molecules that exist in the structure of many biomolecules. In this research project, we reported that Fe3O4@BisImid−CuBr nanocomposite is an attractive and efficient nanomagnetic catalyst to afford 2,4,5–triaryl imidazoles through reactions of 1,2–diketones and aldehydes in the presence of NH4OAc under ecofriendly conditions. The Fe3O4@BisImid−CuBr nanocomposite was readily fabricated by a simple method from available reagents and its structure was analyzed by spectroscopic techniques. SEM and TEM images affirmed the formation of particles in spherical shape and nanometer–size. Under this methodology, a diverse library of triaryl imidazoles were afforded with high yields in water. This synthetic methodology has significant features such as (a) high yields and high purity of the products (b) suitable reaction time (c) use of magnetic reusable nanocatalyst (d) high reusability of Fe3O4@BisImid−CuBr nanocatalyst and the performance of reactions in aqueous medium.