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The simulation experiment description markup language (SED-ML): language specification for level 1 version 5
Authors: Smith Lucian P. , Bergmann Frank T. , Garny Alan , Helikar Tomáš , Karr Jonathan , Nickerson David , Sauro Herbert , Waltemath Dagmar , König Matthias 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Modern biological research is increasingly informed by computational simulation experiments, which necessitate the development of methods for annotating, archiving, sharing, and reproducing the conducted experiments. These simulations increasingly require extensive collaboration among modelers, experimentalists, and engineers. The Minimum Information About a Simulation Experiment (MIASE) guidelines outline the information needed to share simulation experiments. SED-ML is a computer-readable format for the information outlined by MIASE, created as a community project and supported by many investigators and software tools. Level 1 Version 5 of SED-ML expands the ability of modelers to define simulations in SED-ML using the Kinetic Simulation Algorithm Onotoloy (KiSAO). While it was possible in Version 4 to define a simulation entirely using KiSAO, Version 5 now allows users to define tasks, model changes, ranges, and outputs using the ontology as well. SED-ML is supported by a growing ecosystem of investigators, model languages, and software tools, including various languages for constraint-based, kinetic, qualitative, rule-based, and spatial models, and many simulation tools, visual editors, model repositories, and validators. Additional information about SED-ML is available at https://sed-ml.org/.
Epidemiology of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children with acute respiratory infections in Hangzhou during January 2021 to June 2023
Authors: Chen Lin , Huang Shuangshuang , Wang Hao , Cai Fengqing , Peng Zhaoyang , Wang Shanshan 
Published: April 2024

Abstract

Objectives

Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) is known to be a common pathogen causing human respiratory infections. On December 7, 2022, the Chinese government announced 10 new measures of Prevention and Control of COVID-19, marking the onset of the post-COVID-19 era. This study aimed to investigate the epidemiological characteristics of MP infections among children from January 2021 to June 2023.

Methods
Children with respiratory tract infection were enrolled in the study with fever and one or more respiratory symptoms. A serological diagnosis was confirmed with MP IgM antibodies.

Results
A total of 18,763 patients were enrolled, of whom 4,867 cases were MP-positive, resulting in a positivity rate of 25.9 %. The MP positivity rate increased annually, with 18.6 , 26.7, and 33.2 % in 2021, 2022, and 2023, respectively. The main disease type of MP infection was Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP), with 74.0 , 87.8, and 86.4 % in 2021, 2022, and 2023, respectively. Higher positivity rates were concentrated in children aged 6 years and older, and the positivity rate in children under 1 year of age in 2023 is the largest increase among all age groups.

Conclusions
The positivity rate of MP increased significantly after the adjustment of COVID-19 prevention and control in China, and the most significant increase was seen in the infant group. Effective prevention and control measures should be implemented to reduce the prevalence of MP infection among children aged 6 years older and the infant group (<1 year).
Nanolasers
Authors: Ellis Thomas Charles , Eslami Sahand , Palomba Stefano 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAs the demand for smaller and more compact lasers increases, the physical dimensions of laser diodes are already at the diffraction limit, which impairs this miniaturization trend and limits direct laser integration into photonic and especially nanophotonic circuits. However, plasmonics has allowed the development of a novel class of lasers that can be manufactured without being limited by diffraction, exhibiting ultralow energy consumption, small volumes, and high modulation speeds that could someday compete with their modern macroscale counterparts. Nevertheless, a wide variety of issues create roadblocks for further development and commercial adoption. Here we conduct a monolithic review in which we formulate the definition of a nanolaser, categorize nanolasers, and examine their properties and applications to determine if nanolasers do present a potential technological revolution as they seem to exhibit or are too restricted by the issues that plague them to ever succeed.
Anti-control of Hopf bifurcation for a chaotic system
Authors: Zhang Liang , Han Qin 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
The anti-control of Hopf bifurcation is a method used for bifurcation control. It can be used to realize the occurrence or delay of bifurcation at the specified position to meet the needs of engineering applications. In this study, a 4D chaotic system is studied, and a dynamic state feedback control method is proposed to realize the anti-control of Hopf bifurcation for the system. By adjusting the control parameters of the controller, the system Hopf bifurcation can be generated or delayed at the specified position to realize the anti-control of Hopf bifurcation. This control method avoids complicated calculation processes and has remarkable control effects. Through numerical simulation analysis, the correctness of this control method is verified.
Influence of variable fluid properties on mixed convective Darcy–Forchheimer flow relation over a surface with Soret and Dufour spectacle
Authors: Li Shuguang , Khan Muhammad Ijaz , Ali Shahid , Ullah Khan Sami , Althobaiti Saja Abdulrahman , Khan Ilyas , Alqurashi Faris , Kchaou Mohamed 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
The thermo-diffusion applications of nanofluid subject to variable thermal sources have been presented. The significance of Darcy–Forchheimer effects is attributed. The flow comprises the mixed convection and viscous dissipation effects. Furthermore, the variable influence of viscosity, thermal conductivity, and mass diffusivity is treated to analyze the flow. The analysis of problem is referred to convective mass and thermal constraints. The analytical simulations are proceeded with homotopy analysis method. The convergence region is highlighted. Novel physical contribution of parameters is visualized and treated graphically. It is noted that larger Brinkman number leads to improvement in heat transfer. The concentration pattern boosted due to Soret number. The wall shear force enhances with Hartmann number and variable thermal conductivity coefficient.
Analysis of electrical resistance tomography measurements for fast force localization
Authors: Affortunati Sabrina , Zagar Bernhard G. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Safe human-robot collaboration requires the robot to monitor the location and intensity of a potential contact force. This is necessary to avoid a possible risk of injury to humans. The goal of this work is to develop a distributed sensor system that enables spatially resolved force measurement. By covering the entire robot’s surface with an elastic coating with a sufficiently pressure-dependent conductivity, electrical resistance tomography can be used for this purpose. The measurement of the transimpedance makes it possible to localize a force applied between the electrodes and thus increase the spatial resolution of the measuring system. By analyzing the obtained measurements, a fast method, compared to classical electrical resistance tomography, for force localization is proposed. This method is compared to the classical method of electrical resistance tomography. A reduction in the processing time to less than one tenth has been attained with the presented method for the case of force localization only.
Quantification of Gypsum in Soils via Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
Authors: Basham Michelle R. , Cerato Amy B. , Miller Gerald A. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
This study explores the potential of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) as a rapid, nondestructive, and cost-effective technique for in situ sulfate quantification. Gypsum, the main source of sulfate in soils, reacts with calcium-based stabilizers to form expansive minerals, which reduces the long-term strength of the treated soil. Therefore, accurate detection of sulfate content prior to employing calcium-based chemical stabilization is important to mitigate the possibility of expansive mineral formation and ensure acceptable engineering behavior of the stabilized soil. Portable handheld XRF (PXRF) has shown the ability to estimate gypsum content accurately, utilizing calcium as a proxy. However, detecting sulfur, in the form of sulfite or sulfate remains challenging due to device sensitivity limitations. This research aims to address this limitation and develop a method for direct sulfur detection, enhancing the utility of PXRF for in situ sulfate quantification. Laboratory standards were created with known amounts of gypsum and portions were sent to a commercial laboratory for whole rock analysis. The remainder of the reference standards were used to calibrate several soil library standards within the PXRF. The calibrated PXRF was able to accurately detect the anhydrous form of gypsum, anhydrite (CaSO4), in these reference standards for contents ranging from 0 to 8 %. The proposed XRF-based approach offers the potential to revolutionize sulfate detection in soils, providing a rapid and reliable tool for assessing soil stability and optimizing chemical stabilization efforts. By enabling real-time, on-site analysis, this method holds promise for improving construction practices and reducing the risk of structural damage associated with soils containing sulfate-bearing minerals.
Research on the State-Dependent Hyperbolic Model of the Interface between Spoil Mixture and Concrete
Authors: Wang Xuan , Zhang Lei , Jia Yu , Zhang Jia-sheng , Zhu Wu-jun 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
A series of large-scale direct shear tests were carried out to study the stress-strain relationship of the interface between the spoil mixture and concrete under different roughness conditions. The results showed that roughness significantly affects the shear strength properties and dilatancy characteristics of the interface. Under different roughness conditions, the shear stress ratio and the normal deformation of the interface tend to be stable after larger shear strain, and the interface presents the characteristics of a critical state. With the increase of shear strain, the void ratio of the interface shows the law of transformation from the initial void ratio to a certain stable void ratio. Based on the void ratio prediction formula of the interface, the relationship between roughness and critical state parameters was established, and the interface state parameters were introduced into the hyperbolic model. Finally, a state-dependent hyperbolic model of the interface considering the roughness was established. Importantly, the model can well reflect the shear stress-strain relationship of the interface under different roughness conditions.
DMAIC-v2: A Novel Guide to the Improvement of Industrial Processes
Authors: Nsekuye Jean Bosco , Erramli Othmane , Elouadi Abdelmajid , Gretete Driss , Mushirabwoba Bernard 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
This paper introduces DMAIC-v2, an enhanced approach based on the Six Sigma Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) methodology aimed at facilitating the improvement of industrial processes in a more efficient and effective manner. DMAIC-v2 expands upon the capabilities of the classic DMAIC to address a wider range of applications effectively and efficiently, including modern equipment and processes. This updated version introduces an innovative methodology for evaluating improvement options by leveraging modeling and simulation techniques. It also incorporates a real-time quality control model for optimizing the effectiveness of quality control in production processes and output products. Furthermore, it introduces an innovative approach for programming and controlling industrial processes using augmented reality, virtual reality, and digital twin technologies. To showcase the effectiveness of DMAIC-v2, this paper presents a case study focusing on the improvement of a twisting system for automotive cables. The case study demonstrates how DMAIC-v2 is effective in reducing variability, minimizing the waste of raw materials, and enhancing the characteristics of the product. This paper serves as a practical guide for improving industrial equipment and production processes to achieve higher-quality products. It provides a roadmap and effective methods for addressing challenges related to industrial processes, including equipment variability, lack of flexibility and smartness, budget constraints, waste of raw materials, and product quality. By following the recommendations presented in this paper, firms can overcome these challenges and enhance their overall performance.
Behold, the Global Translated Bible(s)! Research and Pedagogical Implications
Authors: Dube Musa W. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Mother Earth is home to an unprecedented number of translations of the Bible, making it the most widely translated book in the world. The pages of this book have traversed a variety of physical and metaphorical borders, navigating diverse geographical, political, economic, cultural, linguistic, and religious intersections. Across space, time, and cultures, millions of readers have found various reasons to read it through diverse lenses. The Bible was frequently translated and brought to the colonized territories with colonial movements. Regrettably, it was often utilized as a tool for subjugation and dominance. However, the colonized people also used this resource for their own goals. Do contemporary biblical studies have the courage to look upon the tomes and tons of translated Bibles lying upon the surface of Mother Earth? What responsibilities and opportunities does the Global Translated Bible(s) lay upon academic biblical studies? What research questions, challenges, and opportunities for collaboration does it open? What are the pedagogical obligations and implications of acknowledging the Global Translated Bible(s)? In other words, what does faithfulness and unfaithfulness to the translated biblical corpus entail, imply, and demand? This lecture proposes and emphasizes the imperative of mainstreaming the Global Translated Bible(s) into academic biblical studies.
Returning the King and the Women to the Beginning of the Song of Songs
Authors: Fernandes Gavin 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
The male lover portrayed in Song 1:2–4 was once ubiquitously considered to be a king. Recent interpreters, however, have understood the word “king” to be either a hypocorism (a nickname of affection) or an epithet for a “bridegroom.” Earlier interpretation also recognized a group of women in the opening scene, but this too is disappearing today. To address these exclusions, I present a close analysis of the grammar and offer an alternative perspective to what is identified as enallage (a substitution of one grammatical form for another) but which also inadvertently suppresses the women’s presence. Next, I investigate how the Song’s “king” became denuded of his royal meaning, including through a reliance on some dubious interpretations of Akkadian poetry. I also explore literary themes in the Hebrew Bible—women’s celebratory praise and a hitherto undiscovered case of subtle soundplay called “hidden paronomasia”—to show why the Song’s “king” should be understood as a royal personage. Finally, by comparing this scene in the Song to the Sumerian love poem Dumuzi-Inanna G, I show how the Song opens with a prominent ancient Near Eastern motif of love literature—the entrance or bringing of the royal consort into the palace, lauded by a group of rejoicing women.
Enoch the Explorer: 1 Enoch 17–36 in Its Hellenistic Context
Authors: Kosmin Paul J. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
The journeys undertaken by the antediluvian patriarch Enoch, in 1 Enoch 17–36, engage closely with a well-known contemporary practice of Hellenistic courts: the dispatching of expeditions of exploration. Such reframing can situate this early Jewish apocalypse more fully within its third-century BCE intellectual, cultural, and political ecosystem and also make space for Judean thought in the history of ancient geography.
Demons Seeking Identity? The Psychic Life of New Testament Exorcisms
Authors: Kimmel Joseph L. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
An important but largely unrecognized feature of well-known New Testament exorcistic pericopes is the eagerness with which demons and spirits engage their respective exorcists. Why might narratives like Mark 1:21–26 and 5:1–13, or Acts 16:16–18, depict spirits as intensely keen to engage—and even to provoke—exorcists like Jesus and Paul? By reading these stories through Judith Butler’s nuancing of Louis Althusser’s interpellation theory, I argue that the demons seek and gain recognition of their identity through their interaction with Jesus. At the same time, I contend that ancient exorcism stories themselves (in concert with the work of Saba Mahmood) helpfully nuance Butler’s application of interpellation. In so doing, I illustrate a way of reading these pericopes in a manner that moves beyond simplistic, binary accounts (e.g., Jesus vs. Legion) to reveal the much more complex processes of identity and agency, negotiation and collaboration woven throughout the narrative action. Such interspecies collaboration, moreover, underscores the overlooked relevance of these texts for contemporary posthumanist philosophies, in how the motives, goals, and choices of humans and nonhumans—made in light of one another—dominate the action of these exorcism stories.
The Souring of the Ways: Anti-Jewish Readings of Psalm 69 and the Wine Offerings to Jesus
Authors: Dunne John Anthony 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
This essay traces one particular way that the passion tradition of mixed/sour wine offered to Jesus developed in extracanonical gospels, broader New Testament Apocrypha, Tatian’s Diatessaron, and other early Christian writings. Notably, the divergent details of these offerings in the passion narratives of the four canonical gospels were often simplified out of a growing awareness of an allusion to Ps 69:22 (68:22 LXX) with its reference to gall and sour wine. The early Christian tradition comes to be stabilized as a single offering of sour wine and gall, even though that pairing does not appear in the canonical gospels. Further evidence that early Christians used Ps 69 to simplify the various traditions is seen from the way they also drew upon the imprecations from the broader context of the psalm for polemical leverage against the Jews. This hermeneutical and apologetic trajectory developed despite the fact that (a) the gospels show varying degrees of awareness of the psalm in their respective passion accounts, and (b) the gospels do not indict anyone making the offer, except for Luke (implicitly), when the Roman soldiers do so mockingly.
Is the Gospel of Mark Distinctly Pauline? A Critical Evaluation
Authors: Van Maaren John 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
The renewed interest in the relationship between the Gospel of Mark and the apostle Paul has led to more nuanced arguments for Paul’s influence on Mark based on refined methodologies. In this article, I critically evaluate the current state of the argument, concluding that it depends on too many variables and expects too much of our sparse evidence to make a convincing argument that Mark is distinctly Pauline. Therefore, the Gospel of Mark should be read independently of Paul so that its unique features might be first understood within its own narrative world, rather than interpreted through a Pauline lens.
The Rupture of an Association: Social Conflict and Its Management in the Thessalonian Christ Assembly
Authors: Longenecker Bruce W. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
The Christ group in Thessalonica was established when members of an association abandoned their deity and adopted Christ devotion. This interpretation has been advanced by others. While adopting this interpretation in general, I suggest modifications to it. In particular, I propose that the association experienced a split in its membership, with some members staying with the parent association and others breaking off to form a new assembly with a new deity. This scenario offers us a context for understanding the “persecution” experienced by the Thessalonian Christ group, as social conflict was played out in the public arena between the parent association and the Christ assembly. The authors of 1 Thessalonians sought to reduce the social conflict while still maintaining the distinctive identity of the Christ assembly and its theological commitments. This article (1) suggests several ways in which the new Christ assembly underwent adjustments in its associational character, (2) offers comparanda from the database of Greco-Roman associations, and (3) proposes that the authors’ comments in 5:15 are best interpreted in relation to this situation of social conflict between the parent association and its deviant offspring assembly.
Effects of the geometric characteristics of graphene nanoplatelets on the physico-rheological properties of asphalt binder
Authors: Almashaqbeh Hashem Khaled , Rushing Grace , Doyle Jesse , Sengottuvelu Dineshkumar , Majdoub Mohammed , Al-Ostaz Ahmed , Alkhateb Hunain , Nouranian Sasan , Ucak-Astarlioglu Mine G. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractWhile graphene nanoplatelets (GnPs) have emerged as promising nano-modifiers of asphalt binder in recent years, much is still unknown in terms of the existing correlations between the physical, chemical, and geometric characteristics of this nanofiller and observed asphalt binder properties. In this work, we investigate the important correlation between the geometric characteristics of GnPs and the rheological properties of the GnP-modified asphalt binder at high temperatures. Our results indicate that, in general, incorporating GnPs with large mean particle diameters (> 14 μm) and thicknesses (> 8 nm) enhances the high-temperature performance of the asphalt binder. The results of the multiple stress creep and recovery tests confirm that including GnPs in asphalt binder can decrease its permanent deformation by 33.2% and enhance its elastic recovery by 53.9%. Phase contrast images obtained by atomic force microscopy further indicate that the presence of GnPs with large mean particle diameters alters the morphology of the asphalt binder, leading to improved temperature stability and less susceptibility to permanent deformation.