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Mechanistic progression of acrylamide neurotoxicity linked to neurodegeneration and mitigation strategies
Authors: Rajeh Nisreen Abdullah 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAcrylamide (AA) is a potential neurotoxic chemical used widely in numerous large-scale industries and molecular research labs. It is a common toxic contaminant in potato and grain-based food products prepared at high temperatures. AA has received serious attention due to the cumulative toxic level exposure to the human population regularly through dietary, environmental, and cosmetics routes other than just occupational exposure. AA is a well-characterized neurotoxin in many rodents and human studies; however mechanistic pathway lacks detailed characterization. Putatively, AA exerts its neurotoxic effects primarily mediated by terminal nerve damage due to inhibition of neurotransmission upon formation of irreversible AA-neuronal protein adducts. Other potential contributors to the AA-induced neuropathological alterations involve an imbalance in redox potential in neuronal cells, inhibition of kinesin-based axonal transport, increased neuronal apoptosis, degenerative changes in cholinergic and dopaminergic neurons, and hyperphosphorylation of Tau. These neurological alterations substantiate the prognosis of the pathological development of severe neurodegenerative diseases. This review summarizes the possible advances in understanding the neuropathological mechanisms of AA-induced neurotoxicity and its clinical implications. Furthermore, we also discuss the potential therapeutic and mitigation strategies to counter the severe toxic health implications of AA.
Green supercapacitor patterned by synthesizing MnO/laser-induced-graphene hetero-nanostructures on wood via femtosecond laser pulses
Authors: Kim Young-Ryeul , Nam Han Ku , Lee Younggeun , Yang Dongwook , Le Truong-Son Dinh , Kim Seung-Woo , Park Sangbaek , Kim Young-Jin 
Published: April 2024

AbstractEco-friendly next-generation energy storage devices with high energy density are required to meet the increasing demand for sustainable and green electronics. However, their manufacturing requires a lot of chemical precursors and is usually accompanied by chemical waste; it also involves laborious and time-consuming processes such as mixing, heat treating, casting, and drying. Here, we proposed that mass production of microsupercapacitors (MSCs) for green electronics can be achieved by embedding manganese monoxide (MnO) on wood-derived laser-induced-graphene (LIG) via femtosecond laser direct writing (FsLDW) technique. The direct synthesis of MnO/LIG hetero-nanostructures on wood was realized by drop-casting a small amount of precursor between the first and second FsLDW. The preceding FsLDW thermochemically converted wood into LIG while the following FsLDW converted the precursor into MnO, resulting in MnO/LIG hetero-nanostructures. As-fabricated MnO/LIG MSC exhibited enhanced areal capacitance (35.54 mF cm−2 at 10 mV s−1) and capacitance retention (approximately 82.31% after 10,000 cycles) with only a small inclusion of Mn sources (0.66 mg cm−2) and short production time (10 min cm−2), which attributes to operate light-emitting diodes, digital clocks, and electronic paper as well. This approach enables the green, facile, fast, and cost-effective fabrication of future sustainable energy storage devices from biomass for next-generation green electronics.
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Using ChatGPT-3 as a writing tool: an educational assistant or a moral hazard? Current ChatGPT-3 media representations compared to Plato’s critical stance on writing in Phaedrus
Authors: Loos Eugène , Radicke Jan 
Published: April 2024

AbstractChatGPT-3, based on a large language model created by OpenAI, capable of generating human-like text, has been open to the public since November 2022. Since 2023, ChatGPT-3 has become a much-discussed educational writing tool. We elaborate on what we mean by referring to ChatGPT-3 as an educational assistant and define moral hazard. Then, we put this writing tool, as an extension of human capabilities, in a historical perspective with an analysis of Plato’s critical stance on writing in Phaedrus. After having analysed ChatGPT-3’s current representations in the media and academia, we ask ChatGPT-3 whether its writing tool should be considered an educational assistant or a moral hazard and if it could reflect on the similarity, if any, between Plato’s critical stance and ChatGPT-3 as a writing tool and comment on ChatGPT-3’s answers. Finally, we compare these to Plato’s main arguments with regard to writing and draw a number of conclusions.
A Novel Hybrid Model Combining BPNN Neural Network and Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition
Authors: Li Huiling , Wang Qi , Wei Daijun 
Published: April 2024

AbstractNeural network models have been successfully used to predict stock prices, weather, and traffic patterns. Due to the sensitivity of the data, it is very effective in identifying and maintaining long-term dependencies in time series. The back propagation neural network (BPNN) model works well in regression and classification applications, such as predicting stock prices and sales volumes. BPNN needs to sort out the mapping between inputs and outputs before continuous values. BPNN neural network model is integrated with ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), and a new hybrid neural network prediction model is constructed. Integrating ensemble empirical mode decomposition, collecting and preprocessing sequence features, reducing noise, improving robustness, and then training neural networks with returned feature vectors instead. In the international gold price series forecasting, the $$R^2$$

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better than the independent BPNN and long short-term memory network (LSTM) neural network models, respectively. Compared with LSTM, the BPNN plays the performance of EEMD better, reduces the error to a certain extent, and improves the prediction accuracy.
A Sequential Recommendation Model for Balancing Long- and Short-Term Benefits
Authors: Wang Hongbo , Wang Yizhe , Liu Yu 
Published: April 2024

AbstractTypically, user behaviour occurs continuously, and considering this dynamic sequence correlation can lead to more accurate recommendations. Sequential recommendation systems have, therefore, become an important means of solving the problem of network information overload. However, existing attention mechanisms are still insufficient for modelling users’ dynamic and diverse preferences. This paper presents a recommendation model based on a multiheaded self-attention mechanism and multitemporal embeddings of long- and short-term interests (MSMT-LSI). MSMT-LSI balances users’ long- and short-term benefits through two multihead self-attention networks and finally forms a hybrid representation for recommendation. After finding the most suitable parameter combinations for the MSMT-LSI model through parameter sensitivity analysis and verifying the advantages of the long- and short-term fusion strategy, related experiments on five well-known datasets and their analysis shows that the performance of MSMT-LSI is better than that of the classical model on the same benchmark dataset.
Climate change impacts on agricultural trade and food security in emerging economies: case of Southern Africa
Authors: Sabola Gift Andrew 
Published: April 2024

AbstractClimate change has been a significant threat to sustainable agriculture impacting trade and food security. This research investigates the impacts of climate change on agricultural trade and food security in emerging economies focusing on Southern Africa. The research employed the dynamic panel Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) using panel data for the period 2012 to 2021 obtained from a sample of 12 Southern African countries selected based on data availability. The main independent variables to the research were climate change variables (temperature and precipitation). Other control variables included were population growth, food inflation and agricultural growth. The study found significant negative effects of climate change on agriculture trade. Whilst temperature changes were found to have insignificant effects, precipitation changes were found to have significant positive effects. The research recommends concerted efforts towards climate change adaptation and mitigation for sustainable agriculture. Based on the Findings, sustainable food security and agricultural trade Southern African emerging economies may be attained through effective climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches particularly promoting climate-smart agriculture (CSA).
Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica
Authors: Urban Patricia A. , Schortman Edward M. 
Published: April 2024

Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica explores the distinctive development and political history of the region from its earliest inhabitants up to the Spanish conquest. It was composed of a matrix of social networks rather than divided by distinct cultures and domains. Making use of the area's rich archaeological data, Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban provide a social network analysis of southeast Mesoamerica. They demonstrate how inhabitants from different locales were organized within such networks, and how they mobilized the assets that they needed to define and achieve their own goals. The also provide evidence for the actions of other groups, who sought to promote their importance at local and regional scales, and often opposed those efforts. Schortman and Urban's study demonstrates the fresh insights gained from study of socio-political structures via a social network perspective. It also challenges models that privilege the influence of powerful leaders in shaping those structures.
How enforcement shapes compliance with legal rules: the case of long-term care homes in Ontario
Authors: Lai Poland 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis paper contributes to the legal and socio-legal literature on long-term care (LTC) facilities (also known as nursing homes) by drawing from the responsive regulation literature and empirical research conducted in 2021 and 2022. Enforcement is an under-explored aspect in the legal and socio-legal literature on LTC. This research asks how the regulator’s enforcement activities shape compliance of LTC homes in Ontario. This paper reports the results from eleven semi-structured key informant interviews with associations that represent LTC facilities, advocacy organizations, unions, and professionals, such as lawyers. The current enforcement activities do not appear to evoke responsiveness in at least some of the LTC homes because the regulator’s approach is not dynamic: the regulator does not change its mix of “persuasion” and “coercion” in order to respond to the motivations and behaviours of homes. Inspection and enforcement activities have had little impact on how homes respond to rules.
THE XIA SHANG ZHOU DUANDAI GONGCHENG BAOGAO 夏商周斷代工程報告 AND ITS CHRONOLOGY OF THE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
Authors: Shaughnessy Edward L. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project was a five-year state-sponsored project, carried out between 1995–2000, to determine an absolute chronology of the Western Zhou dynasty and approximate chronologies of the Xia and Shang dynasties. At the end of the five years, the Project issued a provisional report entitled Report on the 1996–2000 Provisional Results of the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project: Brief Edition detailing its results. A promised full report was finally published in 2022: Report on the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project. Although numerous discoveries in the more than twenty years between the publications of the Brief Edition and the Report have revealed that the Project's absolute chronology of the Western Zhou is fundamentally flawed, and some of the problems are acknowledged by the Report, still the Report maintains the Project's chronology without any correction. In the review, I present four of these discoveries, from four different periods of the Western Zhou, discussing their implications for the Project's chronology. I conclude with a call for some sort of authoritative statement acknowledging the errors in the report.
Is there a religious bias? Attitudes towards military humanitarian intervention in Germany
Authors: Daßler Benjamin , Zangl Bernhard , van Meegdenburg Hilde 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIs individual support for internationally agreed military humanitarian interventions (MHIs) subject to a religious bias? Conducting a vignette-based survey experiment, the paper provides micro-level evidence for such a bias within a highly unlikely sample: German university students. Participants in our survey experiment were more compassionate and indeed more supportive of an MHI when the victims of war-related violence were Christians rather than Muslims. The paper thus contributes to the literature on support for MHIs in two important ways: first, whereas the existing literature has a strong focus on the United States, this paper studies individuals’ support in another Western country that regularly contributes to MHIs, namely Germany. Second, while the existing literature has mainly examined how other social factors, such as the race or gender of the victims, affect individuals’ support for MHIs, drawing on social identity theory, this paper claims that religious identification also has an impact. Moreover, by showing that the religion of the victims of war-related violence shapes individuals’ attitudes towards MHIs through compassion, the paper also speaks to more recent literature that demonstrates that individuals’ attitudes towards refugees depend on – among other things – their religion. Against the background of a general rise of identitarian politics in many Western societies, our findings seem to be of particular relevance.
How Female Intellectuals Stopped Being Philosophers: On Anna Maria van Schurman in the Catalogues of Learned Women
Authors: Wandall Anne-Sophie Sørup 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
This article examines the figure of the female intellectual exemplified in Anna Maria van Schurman, as she is portrayed in the catalogues of learned women. The aim is to demonstrate the dramatic and unexpected changes that this persona undergoes during the eighteenth century. The article challenges the common misconception that gender roles progress throughout history towards an ideal of freedom and equality. Instead, I argue that we see a regression in the eighteenth century where the ideal of female intellectuality transforms from focusing on gender-neutral virtues such as academic skill and learnedness to emphasizing traditionally feminine traits like modesty, piety, and domesticity. The first part of the article introduces the genre of catalogues of learned women, focusing on the German context. The main part presents an in-depth analysis of the biographical entries on van Schurman, juxtaposing the early eighteenth-century portrayals with entries from the turn of the nineteenth century. The purpose of this analysis is to illustrate the radical discursive changes concerning women intellectuals by using van Schurman as case study. Finally, the last part of the article will be dedicated to a discussion of historical conceptualizations of womanhood, exploring why the gender narrative changed in the early modern period.
You're Free to Choose, But do You have Time to Choose? Structural Injustice and the Epistemic Burdens of Market Societies
Authors: Herzog Lisa 
Published: April 2024

AbstractMarkets are often seen as beneficial epistemic institutions because they can transmit information via the price mechanism. But real-life markets often create various epistemic pitfalls for participants. In market societies, individuals, qua consumers, must make numerous difficult decisions for which they need to find relevant information. Depending on their positions in society—which tends to disadvantage women, non-white individuals, and working-class individuals—their opportunities for doing so can be very different. Mechanisms such as time poverty, lack of relevant skills, lack of networks, inability to pay for advice, a scarcity mindset, or lack of knowledge about how to fight back when one's rights have been violated, mean that structurally disadvantaged individuals often end up making “bad” decisions that threaten their welfare and their ability to lead an autonomous life. Moreover, some market actors target individuals in difficult situations and make profit by exploiting their vulnerabilities. I discuss these epistemic mechanisms, which are intertwined with various other forms of harm, and also mechanisms that can help address the problem by public policy: strategies for empowering individuals, and ways of regulating or replacing markets in order to prevent the exploitation of epistemically vulnerable groups.
An evaluation of outcomes and hospital readmissions among individuals with candidemia using statewide surveillance
Authors: Suschana Elizabeth , Correa Maria A. , Meek James , Banach David B. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractUsing statewide surveillance, we describe candidemia in Connecticut during 2019–2020. Mortality was high among individuals with candidemia, and the readmission rate was high among survivors. Mortality and readmission were associated with hospital-onset candidemia. Understanding risk factors for mortality and readmission can optimize prevention strategies to reduce mortality and readmissions.
Arte rupestre del primer y segundo milenio dC en las sierras de Velasco y de La Punta (La Rioja, Argentina)
Authors: Iniesta M. Lourdes , Tissera Luis , Sabatini Gabriela , Pastor Sebastián , Cahiza Pablo 
Published: April 2024

Resumen
En este trabajo se presenta el estudio de los sitios con arte rupestre del faldeo oriental de la Sierra de Velasco y occidental de la Sierra de La Punta (norte de la provincia de La Rioja, Argentina). Los objetivos son definir la diversidad de representaciones a nivel local, evaluar la circulación de información a escala regional y examinar su rol en la conformación de paisajes sociales, durante los últimos 2.000 años. Para ello se realiza un análisis de los repertorios iconográficos y de los vínculos entre imágenes y contextos de emplazamiento. Los resultados sugieren que los sitios rupestres distribuidos en altitudes contrastantes implicaron diferentes prácticas sociales. Los emplazamientos pedemontanos, integrados a los espacios residenciales y productivos, se habrían conformado en torno a prácticas domésticas y simbólicas recurrentes, mientras que aquellos situados en las serranías de La Punta estarían vinculados con el uso de vías naturales de circulación. Esta segregación espacial involucra, a su vez, distintas temporalidades para la producción y el consumo de arte rupestre.
THE ‘HIGHEST POSSIBLE AMBITION’ ON CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AS A LEGAL STANDARD
Authors: Mayer Benoit 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe Parties to the Paris Agreement have committed to communicate successive ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs) to the global response to climate change. Each NDC is expected to reflect the Party's ‘highest possible ambition’ (HPA) on the mitigation of climate change. This article envisages the possibility of taking HPA seriously: that is, of approaching it as an effective legal standard. It shows that, in some circumstances, the HPA standard can help to assess whether a State has complied with due diligence obligations on climate change mitigation.
Length–weight relationships for seven fish species caught off Northwest Africa
Authors: Jurado-Ruzafa Alba , Hernández-González Carlos 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Length–weight relationships (LWR) were determined for Deania calceus, Deania profundorum, Merluccius polli, Merluccius senegalensis, Mora moro, Trachyscorpia echinata, and Zenopsis conchifer. Specimens were collected during scientific trawl surveys conducted along the edge of the continental shelf of Morocco and Western Sahara in November–December 2005 and 2006. Fish were measured in relation to total length (TL, to 0.1 cm) and total weight (TW, to 1 g), and sexed when possible. All LWRs obtained for the pooled sexes gave close linear regressions (r2 ≥ 0.93), and LWR parameter b ranged from 2.638 (Z. conchifer) to 3.172 (D. calceus). Data presented herein expand the knowledge base for these species in Northwest Africa, as they have limited or no LWR data publicly available.
Clinical illness course and family-related outcomes among parents with a first episode of schizophrenia spectrum disorder: a 20-year follow-up of the OPUS trial
Authors: Hansen Helene Gjervig , Gjøde Ida Christine Tholstrup , Starzer Marie , Ranning Anne , Hjorthøj Carsten , Albert Nikolai , Nordentoft Merete , Thorup Anne Amalie Elgaard 
Published: April 2024

AbstractBackgroundStudies investigating parenthood and how it affects long-term outcomes are lacking among individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. This study aimed to examine the life of participants 20 years after their first diagnosis with a special focus on parenthood, clinical illness course, and family-related outcomes.MethodsAmong 578 individuals diagnosed with first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorder between 1998 and 2000, a sample of 174 participants was reassessed at the 20-year follow-up. We compared symptom severity, remission, clinical recovery, and global functioning between 75 parents and 99 non-parents. Also, family functioning scored on the family assessment device, and the children's mental health was reported. We collected longitudinal data on psychiatric admission, supported housing, and work status via the Danish registers.ResultsParticipants with offspring had significantly lower psychotic (mean (s.d.) of 0.89 (1.46) v. 1.37 (1.44), p = 0.031) negative (mean [s.d.] of 1.13 [1.16] v. 1.91 [1.07], p < 0.001) and disorganized symptom scores (mean [s.d.] of 0.46 [0.80] v. 0.85 [0.95], p = 0.005) and more were in remission (59.5% v. 22.4%, p < 0.001) and in clinical recovery (29.7% v. 11.1%, p = 0.002) compared to non-parents. When investigating global functioning over 20 years, individuals becoming parents after their first diagnosis scored higher than individuals becoming parents before their first diagnosis and non-parents. Regarding family-related outcomes, 28.6% reported unhealthy family functioning, and 10% of the children experienced daily life difficulties.ConclusionsOverall, parents have more favorable long-term outcomes than non-parents. Still, parents experience possible challenges regarding family functioning, and a minority of their children face difficulties in daily life.
Making manifestos for urban history: creative collaboration in a conference workshop
Authors: Faire Lucy , McHugh Denise , Williams Chris A. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
This survey reflects on a creative workshop which the authors ran for the ‘The State of Urban History: Past, Present, Future’ conference (July 2023). ‘Making manifestos for urban history’ was an experiment to encourage small group work and co-operative outputs in a conference setting, allowing for an atypical ‘many-to-many’ model of participation. During the session, five groups each produced a manifesto poster addressing issues that they thought were important for the future of urban history. The survey sets out the form the workshop followed, considers those who were involved and comments on how successful the workshop was in fostering conference community and active learning. Feedback recorded at the end of the session indicated that it was indeed successful in both these areas. Overall, the workshop demonstrated that when urban historians work together across generations and continents, they produce work of real value, which is resilient and sustainable.