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Behind the Huawei sanction: national security, ideological prejudices or something else?
Authors: Bu Qingxiu 
Published: March 2024

AbstractDigital supremacy is fundamental to national security and global economic competitiveness. An imperative of protecting critical information infrastructure (CII) is the theoretical basis for cybersecurity policies. The cyber competition has the potential to reshape global tech supply chains and international economic governance. The winner will make standards and rules that can take the most advantage of a first mover. The assumption that governments across jurisdictions embrace similar policies, regardless of their ideologies, is not a paradoxical proposition any more in the time of globalisation 2.0. Both the US and China use law enforcement power to advance their national strategic interests. The imposition of sanctions against Huawei is an epitome of the current US–China cyber competition game far beyond the mere economic scenario. This study seeks to explore whether the unilateral approaches would be well justified in a new normal of the decoupling era and how to establish a viable global cyber governance regime.
Clinical and laboratory characterization of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Chinese migrant workers returned from Iraq
Authors: Bi Kuo , Li Xiaoli , Zhang Rui , Zheng Xiaoyan , Wang Fei , Zou Yang , Wang Lei 
Published: March 2024

Background
Imported cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a growing problem with increasing global travel to endemic areas. Returned travelers with CL are easy to be misdiagnosed and mistreated due to the lack of awareness for the disease to the physicians in non-endemic region that may lead to unfavorable outcome. Our study intends to summarize the characteristics of Leishmania infection imported from Iraq, so as to help Chinese physicians diagnose and treat the disease. All CL patients were treated with intralesional injection of antimony.

Methods
The definitive diagnosis of CL is based on the parasite identification by microscopic examination directly on lesion smear or parasite culture, PCR amplification of Leishmania-specific internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS-1). The phylogenetic analysis, the immunopathological examination and the cytokine detection were proceeded after the diagnosis.

Results
We have identified 25 CL cases in migrant Chinese workers returned from Iraq for the first time with L. major as the major species of infected Leishmania parasite. Clinical features of the Iraq-imported CL include the history of skin exposure to sandflies bite and the lesions mostly on the exposed limbs. More ulcerative wet lesion was observed than nodular dry lesion. PCR is not only used to detect Leishmania parasite with high sensitivity, but also to identify the species of infected parasite through sequencing the amplified Leishmania-specific ITS-1 gene. The phylogenetic analysis based on the amplified ITS-1 sequences revealed that the infected Leishmania was closed related to the species and strains endemic in Iraq. The immunopathological examination revealed the T-cell filtrated cellular immune response with less B cells and NK cells involved. The cytokine profile measured in the skin lesion also confirmed the Th1 cellular response with higher expression levels of IFN-γ, IL-6 and IL-8. The skin lesions in CL patients were healed after being treated locally with antimony.

Conclusions
The clinical and parasitological features of these Chinese CL cases imported from Iraq provide useful information for the diagnosis and treatment of CL that is not commonly seen in Chinese local population.
Don’t judge a book or health app by its cover: User ratings and downloads are not linked to quality
Authors: Hyzy Maciej , Bond Raymond , Mulvenna Maurice , Bai Lu , Frey Anna-Lena , Carracedo Jorge Martinez , Daly Robert , Leigh Simon 
Published: March 2024

Objective
To analyse the relationship between health app quality with user ratings and the number of downloads of corresponding health apps.

Materials and methods
Utilising a dataset of 881 Android-based health apps, assessed via the 300-point objective Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications (ORCHA) assessment tool, we explored whether subjective user-level indicators of quality (user ratings and downloads) correlate with objective quality scores in the domains of user experience, data privacy and professional/clinical assurance. For this purpose, we applied spearman correlation and multiple linear regression models.

Results
For user experience, professional/clinical assurance and data privacy scores, all models had very low adjusted R squared values (< .02). Suggesting that there is no meaningful link between subjective user ratings or the number of health app downloads and objective quality measures. Spearman correlations suggested that prior downloads only had a very weak positive correlation with user experience scores (Spearman = .084, p = .012) and data privacy scores (Spearman = .088, p = .009). There was a very weak negative correlation between downloads and professional/clinical assurance score (Spearman = -.081, p = .016). Additionally, user ratings demonstrated a very weak correlation with no statistically significant correlations observed between user ratings and the scores (all p > 0.05). For ORCHA scores multiple linear regression had adjusted R-squared = -.002.

Conclusion
This study highlights that widely available proxies which users may perceive to signify the quality of health apps, namely user ratings and downloads, are inaccurate predictors for estimating quality. This indicates the need for wider use of quality assurance methodologies which can accurately determine the quality, safety, and compliance of health apps. Findings suggest more should be done to enable users to recognise high-quality health apps, including digital health literacy training and the provision of nationally endorsed “libraries”.
Sharing reference intervals and monitoring patients across laboratories – findings from a likely commutable external quality assurance program
Authors: Farrell Christopher J.L. , Jones Graham R.D. , Sikaris Kenneth A. , Badrick Tony , Graham Peter , Bush Jonathan 
Published: March 2024

Abstract

Objectives
Laboratory results are increasingly interpreted against common reference intervals (CRIs), published clinical decision limits, or previous results for the same patient performed at different laboratories. However, there are no established systems to determine whether current analytical performance justifies these interpretations. We analysed data from a likely commutable external quality assurance program (EQA) to assess these interpretations.

Methods
The use of CRIs was assessed by evaluating instrument group medians against minimum specifications for bias. The use of clinical decision limits was assessed using specifications from professional bodies, and the monitoring of patients by testing at different laboratories was assessed by comparing all-laboratory imprecision to within-subject biological variation.

Results
Five of the 18 analytes with Australasian CRIs did not meet specification for all instrument groups. Among these, calcium and magnesium failed for one instrument group out of seven, while bicarbonate, chloride, and lipase failed for two instrument groups. Of the 18 analytes reviewed currently without CRIs in Australasia, 10 candidates were identified. Among analytes with clinical decision limits, i.e. lipids, glucose, and vitamin D, only triglycerides met both bias and imprecision specifications, while vitamin D met the imprecision specification. Monitoring patients by testing at different laboratories was supported for 15 of the 46 (33 %) analyte-method principles groups that met minimum imprecision specifications.

Conclusions
Analysis of data from commutable EQA programs can provide a mechanism for monitoring whether analytical performance justifies the interpretations made in contemporary laboratory practice. EQA providers should establish systems for routinely providing this information to the laboratory community.
Evaluation of the operational performance of Karbala waste water treatment plant under variable flow using GPS-X model
Authors: Khudhair Noor Abdulhussein , Nile Basim K. , Al-Baidani Jabbar Hammoud 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
As Karbala City is a religious tourism destination, millions of tourists visit the city annually, so there is a high fluctuation of flow in the wastewater between the plants during the year. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Karbala, Iraq, in removing pollutants for different flow rates in five scenarios using the GPS-X model. The most important phase in modeling, which greatly impacts simulation accuracy, is characterizing the influent composition to meet the mass balance. As a result, the influent wastewater was initially described and thoroughly examined. The model has been calibrated, followed by the collected data’s validation. The sensitivity of different stoichiometric and kinetic factors in the GPS-X was examined and screened to calibrate the model. To demonstrate the consistency between the simulated and measured data, the route mean square error was used in this instance. The result showed that the Karbala WWTP complies with Iraqi environmental regulations for water discharged to surface water or water for other uses and has an appropriate efficiency of wastewater treatment even if the flow entering the plant reaches the peak flow rate of 180,000/day. An improvement in orthophosphate removal efficiency was observed as the flow rate increased because of the contact time in the anaerobic basins, which gradually decreased as the flow increased until it reached the appropriate time for

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removal. The outcomes of the present study provide an impression to the operators of the treatment plant of the impact of fluctuating flow on the treatment plant. The developed model can also be used for future studies.
Antipodal vivaldi array MIMO antenna for 5G FR2 applications at 28 GHz with improved isolation
Authors: Golla Ramysree , Nelaturi Suman 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
This paper proposed a two port antipodal vivaldi antenna (AVA) for 5G FR2 (frequency range 2) applications at 28 GHz with improved bandwidth,gain and isolation. Each antenna consists of two array elements. The proposed antenna has dimensions 23.8 × 54 × 0.79 mm3 and is fabricated on Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 material. This material has a 2.2 low dielectric constant and mainly suitable for broadband high frequency applications. Proposed antenna covers −10 dB below from 25.51 to 33 GHz band, which having 7.49 GHz bandwidth. Gain for the presented MIMO (Multiple input multiple output) AVA array is varying from 8.50 to 12.44 dBi. A better isolation −34.56 dB is obtained between two antenna elements. MIMO characteristics like ECC (Envelope correlation coefficient), CCL (Channel capacity loss), DG (Diversity Gain), TARC (Total active reflection coefficient), and MEG (Mean effective gain) are satisfied with good results for presented antenna. The proposed antenna is designed using ansys HFSS simulation tool.
Fabrication of magnetically separable Ag–ZnFe2O4 hollow nanospheres with efficient photocatalytic activity
Authors: Liu Zhenxing 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Environmental pollution seriously affects the survival of human beings. Semiconductor photocatalysis technology is considered to be one of the most effective ways to solve environmental pollution and energy shortage. The high degradation efficiency of nanometric photocatalysts has attracted extensive attention, but the photocatalysts are difficult to recycle and reuse, which limits their application. ZnFe2O4 hollow nano-photocatalysts loaded with different contents of Ag were successfully prepared by template-assisted calcination and photoreduction, and can be conveniently separated from water in a magnetic environment. The results indicate that Ag–ZnFe2O4 possess a hollow nano-shell structure with a particle size distribution of about 280 nm and a shell thickness of about 24 nm. Ag–ZnFe2O4 shows the strongest photocurrent intensity and photocatalytic performance compared to bulk ZnFe2O4 and nano ZnFe2O4. When the concentration of AgNO3 solution is 0.2 mmol, Ag–ZnFe2O4 has the strongest photodegradation efficiency to degrade RhB under visible light irradiation. After several photodegradation experiments, the photodegradation efficiency is only decreased by 2.8 %, further proving that Ag–ZnFe2O4 possess good application value in wastewater treatment.
Image schemas in gestural metaphorical scenarios of swearing
Authors: Dyrmo Tomasz 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
The following study integrates the concept of image schema with the idea of gestural metaphorical scenario, showing how image schematic properties of gestures feed into a pragmatically-oriented gestural metaphorical scenario distributed across different speakers. The study shows that a gestural metaphorical scenario of swearing is based on several image schemas: the cognitively primary object image schema, the source-path-goal image schema, showing the trajectory of movement of an imaginary object, and the blockage image schema, enacting the meaning of not being willing to accept an imaginary object into the speaker’s personal space, effectively leading to blocking its way. The proposed integration also lends more credence to the idea of a multilevel metaphor, where a single metaphor is treated as consisting of various elements at different levels of schematicity. Apart from that, the study shows that the straight image schema, visible in pointing gestures, is a scenario-independent conceptual element surfacing when people use gestures while swearing, projecting a way out of the speaker’s personal space.
Ökumenischer Lagebericht 2023: Orthodoxie
Authors: Heller Dagmar 
Published: March 2024

Zusammenfassung
Dieser Artikel beinhaltet in seinem ersten Teil einen Lagebericht über die Orthodoxie der byzantinischen Tradition. Dabei stehen die Umwälzungen im Mittelpunkt, die durch den Krieg in der Ukraine hervorgerufen wurden. Der zweite Teil berichtet aus dem Bereich der orientalisch-orthodoxen Kirchen und greift die Entwicklungen in Berg-Karabach und Armenien heraus, die den Hintergrund für die ökumenischen Beziehungen zur Armenischen Apostolischen Kirche bilden.
Ökumenischer Lagebericht 2023: Freikirchen in der Ökumene
Authors: Triebel Lothar 
Published: March 2024

Zusammenfassung
Der diesjährige Lagebericht zu den Freikirchen beleuchtet einige ökumenisch bedeutsame Ereignisse des Jahres 2023, an denen Freikirchen beteiligt waren, und zeichnet sie in längerfristige Entwicklungen ein. Dabei geht es sowohl um Anlässe in Deutschland als auch auf europäischer und Weltebene. Beispielhaft genannt seien als Größen, deren freikirchenspezifische Vorgänge erläutert werden: VEF; VEF und EKD; DEKT; GEKE; KEK; LWB und MWK; VELKD und BEFG.
Ökumenischer Lagebericht 2023: Konfessionsübergreifende Themen
Authors: Koy Dominik 
Published: March 2024

Zusammenfassung
Der ökumenische Lagebericht für konfessionsübergreifende Fragen behandelt Themen, die zeitgleich in unterschiedlichen Konfessionen aufgetaucht sind. Wie bereits im letzten Jahr wird die Frage der Friedensethik und ihrer Entwicklung in Anbetracht einer zunehmenden Zahl kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen betrachtet, dieses Mal mit einem Fokus auf den ökumenischen Entwicklungen im Heiligen Land. Des Weiteren wird die im Oktober aufgekommene Kontroverse um kirchliche Stellungnahmen zum Schwangerschaftsabbruch und ihre ökumenischen Auswirkungen thematisiert. Zuallererst soll aber die zu Anfang des Jahres entstandene Debatte um die Frauenordination im Mittelpunkt stehen. Den Anlass dafür gaben die Einführung der Ordination von Frauen in der Neuapostolischen Kirche und erneut aufkeimende Diskussionen in den Kirchen des Internationalen Lutherischen Rates sowie Einlassungen von prominenten Gegnern der Frauenordination.
Usage of an improved YOLOv5 for steel surface defect detection
Authors: Wen Huihui , Li Ying , Wang Yu , Wang Haoyang , Li Haolin , Zhang Hongye , Liu Zhanwei 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
The one-stage YOLOv5 steel surface defect detection has issues such as slow operation speed, loss of defect location and semantic information of small targets, and inadequate extraction of defect features. This study proposed a defect detection algorithm with improved YOLOv5 to solve these issues. The proposed algorithm used the slim-neck layer built by three new modules instead of the neck layer in YOLOv5s to achieve a lightweight network model. In addition, the spatial perception self-attention mechanism was introduced to enhance the feature extraction capability of the initial convolutional layer without limiting the input size. The improved Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling was added to expand the perceptual field and capture multiscale contextual information while preventing local information loss and enhancing the relevance of long-range information. The experimental results showed that the improved YOLOv5 algorithm has a reduced model volume, significantly higher detection accuracy and speed than the traditional algorithm, and the ability to detect steel surface defects quickly and accurately.
Kansas City-Style Upscale Dining
Authors: Broomfield Andrea 
Published: March 2024

This article is an excerpt from Andrea Broomfield’s book, Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City, part of the American Palate series published by the History Press that focuses on iconic eateries that played a significant role in building city-wide and national culinary identities. The excerpt below comes from Chapter Five and explores the tension that medium-sized Midwestern cities experience when restaurateurs open establishments that stretch diners’ wallets and challenge their palates.
‘Mother of Happy Endings’ and the Indian Mirror
Authors: Nasrallah Nawal 
Published: March 2024

The paper explores a thirteenth-century Andalusi text containing a recipe in which ultra-thin sheets of pastry are intriguingly baked on a gadget the recipe called mir'at Hindiyya (Indian mirror). These sheets of bread, called ruqaq, were required for making an extraordinarily exquisite and elaborate sweet-savoury chicken pie, which the recipe nicknamed Umm al-Faraj (Mother of Happy Endings) and tries to uncover if a mirror was actually used, what type, why Indian and what it might have been made of.
MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, 2nd Ed.
Authors: Brookbank Elizabeth , Christenberry H. Faye 
Published: March 2024

What makes a good research topic in a literature class? What does your professor mean by “peer-reviewed” sources? What should you do if you can't find enough material? This approachable guide walks students through the process of research in literary studies, providing them with tools for responding successfully to course assignments.
Written by two experienced librarians, the guide introduces the resources available through college and university libraries and explains how to access the ones a student needs. It focuses on research in literature, identifying relevant databases and research guides and explaining different types of sources and the role each plays in researching and writing about a literary text. But it also contains helpful information for any student researcher, describing strategies for searching the web to find the most useful material and offering guidance on organizing research and documenting sources with MLA style.
Extensively updated and revised, the second edition emphasizes digital resources that can be accessed remotely, offers critical thinking strategies for evaluating sources, and includes more information on writing about audiovisual as well as written works.
Ali Smith’s <em>Companion Piece</em> and the Value of Close Reading
Authors: Amiel Houser Tammy 
Published: March 2024

Ali Smith’s Companion Piece (2022) expands on the exploration of apathy and anomie undertaken in the Seasonal Quartet, further connecting these experiences to a pervasive sense of despair in contemporary society. Once again, Smith reflects on the role of the arts, seeing in them a vehicle for hope and change. In an interesting twist, Companion Piece focuses specifically on the effects of close reading, pointing to the way it opens opportunities for unexpected connections that can escape the divisive competitiveness of contemporary neoliberalism. I suggest that the novel’s preoccupation with close reading responds to the intense debates in literary studies about post-critical methods of reading, while entering a dialogue with I. A. Richards’s notion of practical criticism. Yet Companion Piece revises Richards's framework, extending the target of close reading to include a variety of artworks, material objects and natural phenomena. It also widens the focus from individuals to the relationships between them, depicting close reading as a catalyst for intersubjective bonding. The transposition of Richards’s argument to a contemporary neoliberal context broadens the role of close reading, granting it greater relevance and urgency. For Smith, the aimless attentiveness of close reading becomes an act of rebellion against the market imperatives of speed and efficiency. As it highlights the anomaly of close reading in the neoliberal milieu, Companion Piece implies that it can unsettle the neoliberal profit-maximizing paradigm, boost the imagination, and enable new ways of connecting with people, animals, and even the environment.
DA TRANSGRESSÃO À REDENÇÃO: O MONSTRO EM CONTO DE FADA
Authors: Azambuja Patrícia , Brito Ísis Morais Furtado 
Published: March 2024

Utilizando como referencial teórico Stuart Hall (2016; 2006; 2003) e Michel Foucault (1996; 2001), sob a mediação discursiva do filme de animação A pequena sereia (1989), este trabalho busca compreender a relação entre a imagem midiática e a construção de valores representados culturalmente, em especial, a vilania associada à figura estigmatizada do monstro. Trata-se portanto de estudo sobre a construção dos sujeitos contemporâneos, por meio do discurso, da identidade, dos estereótipos, bem como, suas conexões com as estruturas antropológicas do imaginário e os arquétipos; sob a ótica de Gilbert Durand (2012) e Gustav Jung (2002, 1995, 1976), para enfim compreender as formas que algumas políticas de representação institucionalizadas fazem a manutenção das práticas de hierarquização e poder nos contextos identitários.
Analisis Kebutuhan Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Sex Education untuk Anak Tunagrahita
Authors: Sambira Sambira , Rusminati Susi Hermin , Rafikayati Ana 
Published: March 2024

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganilisis kebutuhan dari pengembangan media pembelajaran sex education untuk anak tunagrahita. Subjek penelitian dalam penelitian ini adalah 14 guru, 25 orangtua, dan 4 ahli pendidikan khusus. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian deskripstif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan datanya menggunakan angket. Sedangkan analisis datanya menggunakan analisis data kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) untuk saat ini belum banyak media pembelajaran sex education yang sesuai dengan karakteristik tunagrahita, (2) sangat penting untik dilakukan pengembangan media pembelajaran sex education untuk anak tunagrahita, (3) karakteristik media pembelajaran untuk anak tunagrahita diantaranya (a) menggunakan bahasa yang sederhana, dan (b) menggunakan bantuan gambar lebih optimal lagi dengan gambar bergerak atau video.