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An integrated approach for understanding global earthquake patterns and enhancing seismic risk assessment
Authors: Ibrahim Mariam , Al-Bander Baidaa 
Published: March 2024

AbstractEarthquakes, as intricate natural phenomena, profoundly impact lives, infrastructure, and the environment. While previous research has explored earthquake patterns through data analysis methods, there has been a gap in examining the time intervals between consecutive earthquakes across various magnitude categories. Given the complexity and vastness of seismic data, this study aims to provide comprehensive insights into global seismic activity by employing sophisticated data analysis methodologies on a century-long dataset of seismic events. The four-phase methodology encompasses exploratory data analysis (EDA), temporal dynamics exploration, spatial pattern analysis, and cluster analysis. The EDA serves as the foundational step, providing fundamental insights into the dataset's attributes and laying the groundwork for subsequent analyses. Temporal dynamics exploration focuses on discerning variations in earthquake occurrences over time. Spatial analysis identifies geographic regions with heightened earthquake activity and uncovers patterns of seismic clustering. K-means clustering is employed to delineate distinct earthquake occurrence clusters or hotspots based on geographical coordinates. The study's findings reveal a notable increase in recorded earthquakes since the 1960s, peaking in 2018. Distinct patterns in seismic activity are linked to factors such as time, human activities, and plate boundaries. The integrated approach enriches understanding of global earthquake trends and patterns, contributing to improved seismic hazard assessments, early warning systems, and risk mitigation efforts.
Task-Level Checkpointing and Localized Recovery to Tolerate Permanent Node Failures for Nested Fork–Join Programs in Clusters
Authors: Reitz Lukas , Fohry Claudia 
Published: March 2024

AbstractExascale supercomputers consist of millions of processing units, and this number is still growing. Therefore, hardware failures, such as permanent node failures, become increasingly frequent. They can be tolerated with system-level Checkpoint/Restart, which saves the whole application state transparently and, if needed, restarts the application from the saved state; or with application-level checkpointing, which saves only relevant data via explicit calls in the program. The former approach requires no additional programming expense, whereas the latter is more efficient and allows to continue program execution after failures on the intact resources (localized shrinking recovery). An increasingly popular programming paradigm is asynchronous many-task (AMT) programming. Here, programmers identify parallel tasks, and a runtime system assigns the tasks to worker threads. Since tasks have clearly defined interfaces, the runtime system can automatically extract and save their interface data. This approach, called task-level checkpointing (TC), combines the respective strengths of system-level and application-level checkpointing. AMTs come in many variants, and so far, TC has only been applied to a few, rather simple variants. This paper considers TC for a different AMT variant: nested fork–join (NFJ) programs that run on clusters of multicore nodes under work stealing. We present the first TC scheme for this setting. It performs a localized shrinking recovery and can handle multiple node failures. In experiments with four benchmarks, we observed execution time overheads of around 44 % at 1536 workers, and negligible recovery costs. Additionally, we developed and experimentally validated a prediction model for the running times of the scheme.
Reliable and Accurate Implicit Neural Representation of Multiple Swept Volumes with Application to Safe Human–Robot Interaction
Authors: Lee Ming-Hsiu , Liu Jing-Sin 
Published: March 2024

AbstractIn automated production using collaborative robots in a manufacturing cell, a crucial aspect is to avoid collisions to ensure the safety of workers and robots in human–robot interaction. One approach for detecting collisions is using the swept volume (SV) to identify safe protective space for operation. We learn an accurate and reliable signed distance function (SDF) network from raw point clouds of a pre-computed SV to represent a class of linear joint motion trajectories. The network requires only a set of parameters and constant execution time, thus reducing the computational time and memory of collision checking due to the complexity of explicit geometry during task execution. The distance of collision danger foresaw by the learned SDF is exploited to reduce the frequency of collision detection calls in the dynamic environment and reduce the computational cost further. We assess the relative merits of the implicit neural representation of multiple SVs in terms ofF1-score, error distance from the surface of the truth geometry, and 3D visualization by comparing favorably with a binary voxel network for learning a single SV with similar inference time. All the predicted errors of the geometry lie within a distance of 4 voxels from the surface of the truth geometry, and most reconstruction errors are within 3 voxels. A simulation of pick-and-place task execution in the human–robot interaction scenarios by leveraging the learned SDF as an efficient continuous collision detector is performed. The improvement in execution time and collision detection number is validated in the simulation.
Secretomes from Conventional Insemination and Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection Derived Embryos Differentially Modulate Endometrial Cells In Vitro
Authors: Jijo Ameya , Munshi Itti , Uppangala Shubhashree , Rajendran Rithika , LakshmiKumar R. Vani Pratap , Kalthur Guruprasad , Kovacic Borut , Sachdeva Geetanjali , Adiga Satish Kumar 
Published: March 2024

AbstractConventional Insemination (CI) and Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) are routinely used insemination methods in clinical Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) settings. However, the existing data on the developmental competence and implantation potential of CI and ICSI derived embryos are not unequivocal. This prospective study on 23 patients undergoing ART treatment explored whether the secretomes of CI- and ICSI-derived embryo differentially alter the expression of integrins (αv and β3 integrin) and MUCIN-1 (MUC-1) in a human endometrial epithelial cell line (Ishikawa). Immunocytochemical data demonstrated that the secretome of CI-derived top quality (GI) embryos induced higher (p < 0.05) expression of ɑv β3 compared to sibling ICSI derived G1 embryos in Ishikawa cells. Though, relative levels of the transcript for MUC-1, anti-adhesion molecule did not show a significant difference between the study groups, immunocytochemical analysis demonstrated significantly (p < 0.0001) higher expression of MUC-1 in cells treated with ICSI-derived embryo secretome, compared to that treated with CI -derived embryo secretome. These results suggest that secretomes from CI and ICSI embryos differentially modulate the endometrial cells in vitro. This hints at differences in the ability of CI- and ICSI- derived embryos to alter endometrial profile.
Ethical implications of AI in the Metaverse
Authors: Zhuk Alesia 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThis paper delves into the ethical implications of AI in the Metaverse through the analysis of real-world case studies, including Horizon Worlds, Decentraland, Roblox, Sansar, and Rec Room. The examination reveals recurring concerns related to content moderation, emphasising the need for a human-AI hybrid approach to strike a balance between creative freedom and user safety. Privacy and data protection emerge as crucial considerations, highlighting the importance of transparent communication and user data control for responsible AI implementation. Additionally, promoting inclusivity and diversity is emphasised, calling for transparent governance, diverse representation, and collaboration with ethics experts to ensure equitable AI practices. By addressing these specific ethical challenges, we can pave the way towards a responsible and user-centric Metaverse, maximising its potential while safeguarding user well-being and rights.
Syntheses and determination of activities of some metal(II) complexes with derivatives of a novel vanillin–tryptophan Schiff base ligand
Authors: Abubakar Salisu , Shallangwa G. A. , Ibrahim Abdulkadir 
Published: March 2024

AbstractIn this research, a novel L-tryptophan-vanillin Schiff base and three complexes were synthesised, characterization, and their biological activities were also determined. The physicochemical parameters of the compounds investigated revealed that, Schiff base ligand (SL) melting point = 84–85 °C, Schiff base ligand–Fe2+ complex = 245–246 °C, Schiff base ligand–Co2+complex = 271–272 °C, and Schiff base ligand–Ni2+complex > 350 °C. Molar conductivities was found to be 10,300, 5000, 17,300, and 52,900 Sm2 mol−1 for the Schiff base and the complexes, respectively. It indicates that the complexes are non-electrolytic in nature. The magnetic susceptibilities of the complexes were found to be higher than the spin-only values due to unpaired electrons (Fe2+ complex = 5.73 BM, Co2+ complex = 4.52 BM, and Ni2+ complex = 3.46 BM), suggesting octahedral geometries. Electronic absorption (max) for Fe2+  = 480, Co2+  = 520 nm, while Ni2+ shows two bands at 480 and 570 nm, which signifies the n → π* and π → π* transitions, respectively. Their crystallinity index was also assessed using the PXRD and it revealed that complexes are purely crystalline. Antimicrobial test results revealed that Co2+ and Fe2+ complexes have excellent activities against gram-negative bacteria (E. coli, F. Shigella, and S. Typhi). They are all effective against MRSA, K. Pneumoniae., and S. Pneumoniae, as well as A. niger and C. albicans. Therefore, based on the findings from the study, it was concluded that the Schiff base is a bidentate ligand, and octahedral geometries and paramagnetic were suggested for the complexes.
Looking across languages: Anglocentrism, cross-linguistic experimental philosophy, and the future of inquiry about truth
Authors: Wyatt Jeremy , Ulatowski Joseph 
Published: March 2024

AbstractAnalytic debates about truth are wide-ranging, but certain key themes tend to crop up time and again. The three themes that we will examine in this paper are (i) the nature and behaviour of the ordinary concept of truth, (ii) the meaning of discourse about truth, and (iii) the nature of the property truth. We will start by offering a brief overview of the debates centring on these themes. We will then argue that cross-linguistic experimental philosophy has an indispensable yet underappreciated role to play in all of these debates. Recognising the indispensability of cross-linguistic experimental philosophy should compel philosophers to significantly revise the ways in which they inquire about truth. It should also prompt analytic philosophers more generally to consider whether similar revisions might be necessary elsewhere in the field.
Assessment of 2% vs 3% Peripheral Hypertonic Sodium Chloride Administration and Its Impact on Safe and Timely Treatment
Authors: Dumont Olivia , Davis Nicole , Radparvar Sara 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Objectives
Evaluate if peripheral administration of 3% hypertonic saline (HTS) provides timely treatment with a rate of infusion-related adverse events at or below what is reported in the literature.

Methods
This was a single-center, retrospective study conducted in a large academic medical center in New York City. Eligible patients were inpatients receiving either 2% or 3% HTS for severe hyponatremia, elevated intracranial pressure, or cerebral edema. The primary outcome was incidence of infusion-related adverse events. Secondary endpoints included achievement of appropriate sodium correction, incidence of over-correction, length of time from ordering to medication administration, and incidence of osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS).

Main Results
A total of 199 patients were included in analysis (85 in the 3% HTS group and 114 in the 2% HTS group). No difference was found between groups for rate of infusion related adverse events or incidence of sodium overcorrection groups (0 vs 1 [0.9%]; p = 0.39). Significantly more patients in the 3% HTS group received intermittent administration (p < 0.001), whereas more patients in the 2% HTS group received a continuous infusion (p < 0.001). There were no reports of ODS in either group. No difference in length of time to administration was found between groups.

Conclusion
Our study, one of the largest to evaluate peripheral administration of 3% HTS, found that it is not associated with an increase in infusion related adverse events or sodium overcorrection versus 2% HTS. Peripheral administration should be recommended to provide timely treatment for patients requiring HTS.
Impact of a syndrome-based stewardship intervention on antipseudomonal beta-lactam use, antimicrobial resistance, C. difficile rates, and cost in a safety-net community hospital
Authors: Mena Lora Alfredo J. , Burgos Rodrigo , Hunt Aaron E , Wang Yifan , Huber Dylan , Sanchez Lawrence , Ali Mirza , Krill Candice , Takhsh Eden , Bleasdale Susan C. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Broad-spectrum antimicrobials are commonly used without indication and contribute to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We implemented a syndrome-based stewardship intervention in a community hospital that targeted common infectious syndromes and antipseudomonal beta-lactam (APBL) use. Our intervention successfully reduced AMR, C. difficile rates, use of APBLs, and cost.
Keynes’ Finance Circuit model on banks in Africa
Authors: Tche Jacob 
Published: March 2024

AbstractSince the publication of Keynes General Theory in 1936 when Keynes developed an original Finance Circuit model which was subsequently enriched by the post-Keynesian theory of endogenous money supply, no study has undertaken Keynes Finance Circuit model complete causality tests. The present paper breaks new ground and aims at filling the above lacuna by employing Granger non-causality test for heterogeneous panel data models to investigate the above model based on a sample of 32 African countries, for the period from 1990 to 2021. Our results lend support to the complete Keynes Finance Circuit model in the short run. In the long run, all causalities are vindicated except the causal relationship running from economic growth to savings which appears insignificant. In terms of policy implication, we are encouraging policymakers to design policies that will stimulate economic growth within a post-Keynesian endogenous money supply framework.
Where Did Hegel Go Wrong on Race?
Authors: Hardimon Michael O. 
Published: March 2024

AbstractWhere exactly did Hegel go wrong on race? Moellendorf helpfully tells us that Hegel's treatment of race begins systematically in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit and that he went wrong philosophically in the use of the biological category of race. This is basically correct but requires precisification. This article considers why Hegel's category of race is not unambiguously biological. Race's biological status can be problematized from the standpoint of contemporary biology and from the standpoint of Hegel's system. The textual placement of Hegel's systematic discussion of race in the philosophy of spirit makes clear that Hegel conceived of race in spiritual terms. Hegel took race to be a biospiritual category. Hegel was clearly committed to the now-controversial proposition that there is such a thing as human biological race, that there is a plurality of biological human races. He regarded race as a robust natural kind. His preferred list of races includes Caucasians, Negros, Mongolian, Malaysians and Americans. One noteworthy feature of his understanding of race's physical aspect was his focus on the formation of the skull and the face. At the same time, he clearly held that there were other deeper physical differences that accounted for the spiritual differences of race. Hegel was perfectly clear that race has a spiritual as well as physical aspect. He held that that the members of racial groups essentially shared certain fundamental, heritable, moral, intellectual and cultural characteristics with one another that they did not share with members of any other race and that these differences were such as to support an objective ranking. This shows that Hegel took the category of race to be the sort of category we today would characterize as ‘racialist’. Hegel's concept of race was the racialist concept of race.
Asymptotic results for sums and extremes
Authors: Giuliano Rita , Macci Claudio , Pacchiarotti Barbara 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThe term moderate deviations is often used in the literature to mean a class of large deviation principles that, in some sense, fills the gap between a convergence in probability of some random variables to a constant, and a weak convergence to a centered Gaussian distribution (when such random variables are properly centered and rescaled). We talk about noncentral moderate deviations when the weak convergence is towards a non-Gaussian distribution. In this paper we prove a noncentral moderate deviation result for the bivariate sequence of sums and maxima of independent and identically distributed random variables bounded from above. We also prove a result where the random variables are not bounded from above, and the maxima are suitably normalized. Finally, we prove a moderate deviation result for sums of partial minima of independent and identically distributed exponential random variables.
Willingness to pay for female-made wine: Evidence from an online experiment
Authors: Gallais Alicia , Livat Florine 
Published: March 2024

AbstractThe wine industry, considered to be male-dominated, has seen a growing share of women winemakers. Using a randomized online experiment, we investigate how the producer’s gender influences consumers’ willingness to pay for the wine. Gender can be identified either from the first name of the producer or from a gendered group of wine producers. Using a Tobit and a double-hurdle model, our results suggest that consumers’ willingness to pay is lower for wine produced by female winemaker groups. This reduction appears to be particularly pronounced when the consumer is male.
Sites and Ways of Belonging to Diaspora Networks: The Case of the Greek Second Generation in Italy
Authors: Pelliccia Andrea 
Published: March 2024

AbstractTo survive over time, a diaspora must create sites of belonging and micro places in which to concentrate the main elements of its “iconography” that can consolidate social networks. This article analyzes how second-generation Greeks in Italy fit into diaspora networks by investigating the ways in which they define their sense of Greekness and use their ethnic resources. The findings of field research show a weakness of (formal and informal) social network ties and the pre-eminence of the family’s role in the process of sociocultural identification and ethnic identity construction. In fact, the second generation’s “ways of belonging” and the sense of attachment to Greece have an autonomous significance and are expressed more at a familial level and less collectively. Familial socialization plays a mediating role in the process of identification and transmission of Greekness, as well as in guiding ways of employing ethnic resources, contributing to the maintenance of the diaspora.
Programme d’été sur le vieillissement de l’Institut du vieillissement des Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada : trois pistes de réflexion de participants du Québec
Authors: Campeau Calfat Alexandre , Roger Élise , Sirois Caroline 
Published: March 2024

RésuméChaque année, les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC) subventionnent le Programme d’été sur le vieillissement (PEV). Cette année, la semaine de formation qui rassemblait des étudiants canadiens de tous les cycles supérieurs avait pour thème la recherche multidisciplinaire au quatrième âge. Cette note de recherche présente trois éléments de réflexion de deux participants de l’édition 2023 du PEV : 1) les enjeux liés au vieillissement sont des occasions de transformer les paradigmes de la recherche; 2) la recherche collaborative doit être sociétale, et s’étendre au-delà du cercle restreint des milieux universitaires; 3) les critères d’équité, de diversité et d’inclusion intégrés aux projets de recherche doivent se refléter au sein des organisations qui mènent la recherche.
Social anxiety moderates the association between adolescent irritability and bully perpetration
Authors: Perino Michael T. , Harper-Lednicky Jennifer C. , Vogel Alecia C. , Sylvester Chad M. , Barch Deanna M. , Luby Joan L. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

Background:
Preliminary work suggests anxiety moderates the relationship between irritability and bullying. As anxiety increases, the link between irritability and perpetration decreases. We hypothesize that any moderation effect of anxiety is driven by social anxiety symptoms. We sought to explicate the moderating effect of anxiety, while clarifying relations to other aggressive behaviors.

Methods:
A sample of adolescents (n = 169, mean = 12.42 years of age) were assessed using clinician rated assessments of anxiety, parent reports of irritability and bullying behaviors (perpetration, generalized aggression, and victimization). Correlations assessed zero-order relations between variables, and regression-based moderation analyses were used to test interactions. Johnson–Neyman methods were used to represent significant interactions.

Results:
Irritability was significantly related to bullying (r = .403, p < .001). Social, but not generalized, anxiety symptoms significantly moderated the effect of irritability on bully perpetration (t(160) = −2.94, b = −.01, p = .0038, ΔR2 = .0229, F(1, 160) = 8.635). As social anxiety symptoms increase, the link between irritability and perpetration decreases.

Conclusions:
Understanding how psychopathology interacts with social behaviors is of great importance. Higher social anxiety is linked to reduced relations between irritability and bullying; however, the link between irritability and other aggression remains positive. Comprehensively assessing how treatment of psychopathology impacts social behaviors may improve future intervention.
El Coyote, macroregional exchange, and Early Postclassic Mesoamerica
Authors: McFarlane William J. 
Published: March 2024

AbstractRelative to the centuries preceding and following it, the tenth century a.d. in Mesoamerica is poorly understood by scholars. Although there is some regional variation in the timing of these events, archaeologists commonly ascribe a pattern of political decline, dynastic collapse, or social reorganization to this period. Paradoxically, increasing interregional interactions and emergent market exchange networks are also characteristics of macroregional patterns during the tenth century. These contradictory phenomena contribute to confusion surrounding interpretations of this transitional time. This article contributes a comparative dataset from systematic archaeological investigations of El Coyote, a monumental center in the lower Cacaulapa valley, Department of Santa Barbara, Honduras. The late occupational phase contains evidence for Early Postclassic chronological markers, including Tohil Plumbate pottery; obsidian from Pachuca, Hidalgo; and copper metallurgy. Calibrated radiocarbon assays with a 2σ error place these contexts between a.d. 710 and 1040, with a clustering of intercepts circa a.d. 900. These results are consistent with a pattern described throughout Mesoamerica and demonstrate that despite variation in the use of cultural terminology—Epiclassic, Terminal Classic, or Early Postclassic—there is uniformity in the timing of this macroregional interaction.