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A new look at angiogenesis inhibition of geniposide in experimental arthritis by blocking angiopoietin‐2 exocytosis
Authors: Gan Peirong , Wu Hong , Zhu Yulong , Shu Yin , Wei Yi 
Published: January 2024

AbstractAngiogenesis is a key player in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. Exocytosis from Weibel–Palade bodies is a prerequisite for angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) to activate endothelial cells and initiate angiogenesis. Geniposide (GE) was previously reported to exert anti‐angiogenic effects. The aim of this study was to shed light on whether and how GE regulates Ang‐2 exocytosis. A rat model of adjuvant arthritis (AA) was established to evaluate the therapeutic effect of GE (60 and 120 mg/kg) especially in synovial angiogenesis. In addition, the Matrigel plug assay was used to detect the effect of GE (120 and 240 mg/kg) on angiogenesis in AA mice. In vitro, sphingosine‐1‐phosphate (S1P)‐stimulated human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were used to investigate the effect and mechanism of GE on Ang‐2 exocytosis. It was found that GE improved the symptoms of AA rats and inhibited angiogenesis in AA, which may be related to the down‐regulation of S1P receptors 1, 3 (S1PR1, S1PR3), phospholipase Cβ3 (PLCβ3), inositol 1,4,5‐trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) and Ang‐2 expression. The results of in vitro experiments showed that S1P induced rapid release of Ang‐2 from HUVECs with multigranular exocytosis. Suppression of the S1P/S1PR1/3/PLCβ3/Ca2+ signal axis by the S1PR1/3 inhibitor VPC23019 and the IP3R inhibitor 2‐APB blocked Ang‐2 exocytosis, accompanied by diminished angiogenesis in vitro. GE dose‐dependently weakened S1P/S1PR1/3/PLCβ3/Ca2+ signal axis activation, Ang‐2 exocytosis and angiogenesis in HUVECs (p < 0.05, p < 0.01). Overall, these findings revealed that angiogenesis inhibition of GE was partly attributed to the intervention of Ang‐2 exocytosis through negatively modulating the S1P/S1PR1/3/PLCβ3/Ca2+ signal axis, providing a novel strategy for rheumatoid arthritis anti‐angiogenic therapy.
Efficacy of plant‐derived dietary supplements in improving overall menopausal symptoms in women: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis
Authors: Oh Mi Ra , Park Jae Ho , Park Seon Kyeong , Park Soo Hyun 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis updated systematic review and meta‐analysis aims to confirm the effectiveness of plant‐based supplements in improving overall menopausal symptoms and vasomotor symptoms. A systematic review of the literature was conducted by searching the PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, EMBASE, and CENTRAL databases up to June 2022. Randomized placebo‐controlled clinical trials that evaluated the effects of dietary supplements on menopausal symptoms were included. Outcome measures included daily hot flash frequency, Kupperman's index, Menopause Rating Scale, and Greene Climacteric Scale. Pooled data were analyzed using a fixed‐effects model and expressed as a weighted mean difference with a 95% confidence interval for continuous outcomes. For qualitative assessment, 67 studies were selected. For quantitative assessment, 54 reports were obtained from 61 studies. The study participants were peri‐ or postmenopausal women aged 38–85, most of whom experienced hot flashes as a menopausal symptom. The investigational products included 28 soy‐derived, 6 red clover‐derived, and 28 other plant‐derived supplements. Qualitative assessment revealed that approximately 76% of the studies were generally of fair or good quality, whereas 24% were of low quality. Meta‐analysis results indicated significant improvements in all questionnaire scores, including hot flash frequency, in the dietary supplement group compared with the placebo group. Comprehensive evaluation using different questionnaire tools showed that the various plant‐derived dietary supplements can significantly alleviate menopausal symptoms. However, further rigorous studies are needed to determine the association of plant‐derived dietary supplements with menopausal health because of the general suboptimal quality and heterogeneous nature of current evidence.
Semi‐Quantum Secure Multiparty Summation and its Applications to Anonymous Auction and Ranking
Authors: Ye Chong‐Qiang , Li Jian , Chen Xiu‐Bo , Dong Mianxiong , Ota Kaoru , Khalique Aeysha , Durad M. Hanif 
Published: January 2024

AbstractSemi‐quantum secure summation allows multiple parties with limited quantum capabilities to perform collective calculations under the premise of protecting privacy. However, current approaches are confined to low‐dimensional quantum states as information carriers and are restricted to scenarios involving two or three parties. This limitation hinders their universality and ability to fulfill the requirements of practical secure multiparty computations. To address these challenges, a novel semi‐quantum secure multiparty summation (SQSMS) protocol is proposed based on high‐dimensional entangled states and single‐particle states. The protocol leverages the entanglement correlation to guarantee the security of the transmission, enabling resistance against various potential attacks. Then, by utilizing the IBM Qiskit platform, corresponding quantum circuits and simulation results are presented to validate the feasibility and correctness of the protocol. Furthermore, building upon the foundation of the SQSMS protocol, semi‐quantum anonymous auction and anonymous ranking protocols are further constructed. Compared with previous approaches, the designed protocols cater to the requirements of their respective counterparts. Consequently, the approach may have broad applications in semi‐quantum secure multiparty computation scenarios.
A Two‐Step Entanglement Concentration for the Less‐Entangled Four‐Photon Cluster States
Authors: Yang Zi‐Long , Xiu Xiao‐Ming , Lv Liu , Mo Xiao‐Cheng , Liu Si‐Tong , Wang Xin‐Ying , Zhao Zi‐Lin , Yuan Zi‐Qing , Chen Si‐Ge , Zhang Xin‐Yi , Dong Hai‐Kuan , Ji Yan‐Qiang , Dong Li 
Published: January 2024

AbstractEntanglement concentration serves as an essential tool to obtain the maximally entangled states from the less‐entangled states in quantum information processing tasks. An efficient two‐step entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) is proposed to concentrate the less‐entangled four‐photon cluster states with four unknown coefficients into the maximally entangled states in this paper. The protocol utilizes parity‐check gate and photon‐polarized controlled‐Z gate, constructed with a single semiconductor quantum dot in a single optical microcavity (quantum dot‐cavity coupled system) and several linear optical elements. The discarded quantum states can be recycled in the next round concentration to achieve a higher success probability. Under conditions of strong coupling and weak side leakage rate, the ECP can tend toward ideal fidelity and efficiency. Compared to the previously proposed ECPs that utilize various auxiliary tools such as additional entangled states and complex quantum logic gates, the ECP significantly simplifies the analysis process and enables efficient implementation. Thus, the ECP is more economical and feasible in future optical systems.
Implications of target signal choice in passive acoustic monitoring: an example of age‐ and sex‐dependent vocal repertoire use in African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis)
Authors: Swider Colin R. , Hedwig Daniela , Wrege Peter H. , Parks Susan E. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractPassive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an effective remote sensing approach for sampling acoustically active animal species and is particularly useful for elusive, visually cryptic species inhabiting remote or inaccessible habitats. Key advantages of PAM are large spatial coverage and continuous, long‐term monitoring. In most cases, a signal detection algorithm is utilized to locate sounds of interest within long sequences of audio data. It is important to understand the demographic/contextual usage of call types when choosing a particular signal to use for detection. Sampling biases may result if sampling is restricted to subsets of the population, for example, when detectable vocalizations are produced only by a certain demographic class. Using the African forest elephant repertoire as a case study, we test for differences in call type usage among different age‐sex classes. We identified disproportionate usage by age‐sex class of four call types—roars, trumpets, rumbles, and combination calls. This differential usage of signals by demographic class has implications for the use of particular call types in PAM for this species. Our results highlight that forest elephant PAM studies that have used rumbles as target signals may have under‐sampled adult males. The addition of other call types to PAM frameworks may be useful to leverage additional population demographic information from these surveys. Our research exemplifies how an examination of a species' acoustic behavior can be used to better contextualize the data and results from PAM and to strengthen the resulting inference.
Trifunctional L‐Cysteine Assisted Construction of MoO2/MoS2/C Nanoarchitecture Toward High‐Rate Sodium Storage
Authors: Gong Feilong , Chen Zhilin , Zhao Yang , Zhang Hongge , Zeng Guang , Yao Cuijie , Gong Lihua , Zhang Yonghui , Liu Jian , Wei Shizhong 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe volume collapse and slow kinetics reaction of anode materials are two key issues for sodium ion batteries (SIBs). Herein, an “embryo” strategy is proposed for synthesis of nanorod–embedded MoO2/MoS2/C network nanoarchitecture as anode for SIBs with high‐rate performance. Interestingly, L‐cysteine which plays triple roles including sulfur source, reductant, and carbon source can be utilized to produce the sulfur vacancy–enriched heterostructure. Specifically, L‐cysteine can combine with metastable monoclinic MoO3 nanorods at room temperature to encapsulate the “nutrient” of MoOx analogues (MoO2.5(OH)0.5 and MoO3·0.5H2O) and hydrogen‐deficient L‐cysteine in the “embryo” precursor affording for subsequent in situ multistep heating treatment. The resultant MoO2/MoS2/C presents a high‐rate capability of 875 and 420 mAh g−1 at 0.5 and 10 A g−1, respectively, which are much better than the MoS2‐based anode materials reported by far. Finite element simulation and analysis results verify that the volume expansion can be reduced to 42.8% from 88.8% when building nanorod–embedded porous network structure. Theoretical calculations reveal that the sulfur vacancies and heterointerface engineering can promote the adsorption and migration of Na+ leading to highly enhanced thermodynamic and kinetic reaction. The work provides an efficient approach to develop advanced electrode materials for energy storage.
Engineering Non‐precious Trifunctional Cobalt‐Based Electrocatalysts for Industrial Water Splitting and Ultra‐High‐Temperature Flexible Zinc‐Air Battery
Authors: Gu Tengteng , Shen Jiadong , Sun Zhaoyu , Li Fangkun , Zhi Chunyi , Zhu Min , Liu Jun 
Published: January 2024

AbstractDeveloping efficient, robust, and cost‐effective trifunctional catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at high current density and high temperature is crucial for water splitting at industry‐level conditions and ultra‐high‐temperature Zinc‐air battery (ZAB). Herein, cobalt nanoparticles well‐integrated with nitrogen‐doped porous carbon leaves (Co@NPCL) by direct annealing of core‐shell bimetallic zeolite imidazolate frameworks is synthesized. Benefiting from the homogeneous distribution of metallic Co nanoparticles, the conductive porous carbon, and the doped N species, the as‐fabricated Co@NPCL catalysts exhibit outstanding trifunctional performances with low overpotentials at 10 mA cm−2 for HER (87 mV) and OER (276 mV), long‐lasting lifetime of over 2000 h, and a high half‐wave potential of 0.86 V versus RHE for ORR. Meanwhile, the Co@NPCL catalyst can serve as both cathode and anode for water splitting at industrial conduction, and exhibit a stable cell voltage of 1.87 V to deliver a constant catalytic current of 500 mA cm−2 over 60 h. Moreover, the excellent trifunctional activity of Co@NPCL enables the flexible ZAB to operate efficiently at ultra‐high temperature of 70 °C, delivering 162 mW cm−2 peaks power density and an impressive stability for 4500 min at 2 mA cm−2.
A Reversible MnO2 Deposition‐Enabled Multicolor Electrochromic Device with Efficient Tunability of Ultraviolet–Visible Light
Authors: Wang Jinhui , Zhou Yiping , Lv Ying , Feng Ji‐fei , Wang Zhuanpei , Cai Guofa 
Published: January 2024

AbstractElectrochromic technology offers exciting opportunities for smart applications such as energy‐saving and interactive systems. However, achieving dual‐band regulation together with the multicolor function is still an unmet challenge for electrochromic devices. Herein, an ingenious electrochromic strategy based on reversible manganese oxide (MnO2) electrodeposition, different from traditional ion intercalation/deintercalation‐type electrochromic materials is proposed. Such a deposition/dissolution‐based MnO2 brings an intriguing electrochromic feature of dual‐band regulation for the ultraviolet (UV) and visible lights with high optical modulation (93.2% and 93.6% at 400 and 550 nm, respectively) and remarkable optical memory. Moreover, a demonstrative smart window assembled by MnO2 and Cu electrodes delivers the electrochromic properties of effective dual‐band regulation accompanied by multicolor changes (transparent, yellow, and brown). The robust redox deposition/dissolution process endows the MnO2‐based electrochromic device with excellent rate capability and an areal capacity of 570 mAh m−2 at 0.1 mA cm−2. It is believed that the metal oxide‐based reversible electrodeposition strategy would be an attractive and promising electrochromic technology and provide a train of thought for the development of multifunctional electrochromic devices and applications.
Porous Flower‐Like Nanoarchitectures Derived from Nickel Phosphide Nanocrystals Anchored on Amorphous Vanadium Phosphate Nanosheet Nanohybrids for Superior Overall Water Splitting
Authors: Fan Jiayao , Wang Lei , Xiang Xing , Liu Ying , Shi Naien , Lin Yue , Xu Dongdong , Jiang Jiadong , Lai Yu , Bao Jianchun , Han Min 
Published: January 2024

AbstractTransition metal phosphides (TMPs) and phosphates (TM‐Pis) nanostructures are promising functional materials for energy storage and conversion. Nonetheless, controllable synthesis of crystalline/amorphous heterogeneous TMPs/TM‐Pis nanohybrids or related nanoarchitectures remains challenging, and their electrocatalytic applications toward overall water splitting (OWS) are not fully explored. Herein, the Ni2P nanocrystals anchored on amorphous V‐Pi nanosheet based porous flower‐like nanohybrid architectures that are self‐supported on carbon cloth (CC) substrate (Ni2P/V‐Pi/CC) are fabricated by conformal oxidation and phosphorization of pre‐synthesized NiV‐LDH/CC. Due to the unique microstructures and strong synergistic effects of crystalline Ni2P and amorphous V‐Pi components, the obtained Ni2P/V‐Pi/CC owns abundant active sites, suitable surface/interface electronic structure and optimized adsorption‐desorption of reaction intermediates, resulting in outstanding electrocatalytic performances toward hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions in alkaline media. Correspondingly, the assembled Ni2P/V‐Pi/CC||Ni2P/V‐Pi/CC electrolyzer only needs an ultralow cell voltage (1.44 V) to deliver 10 mA cm−2 water‐splitting currents, exceeding its counterparts, recently reported bifunctional catalysts‐based devices, and Pt/C/CC||IrO2/CC pairs. Moreover, the Ni2P/V‐Pi/CC||Ni2P/V‐Pi/CC manifests remarkable stability. Also, such device shows a certain prospect for OWS in acidic media. This work may spur the development of TMPs/TMPis‐based nanohybrid architectures by combining structure and phase engineering, and push their applications in OWS or other clean energy options.
Inequalities in public funding: Are hospital‐based dental services funding models in Australia logical?
Authors: Sundaresan Pritam Daniel , Kruger Estie , Mc Geachie John , Tennant Marc 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe availability of hospital‐based dental services across Australia varies with a number of hospitals disestablishing dental departments due to rising costs. However, the perceived costs are difficult to quantify as funding models used to capture activity are not uniform across health facilities. To investigate this the predicted funding generated using current models of activity‐based funding in the provision of specialist dentistry in Australian public hospitals was examined. Using data from Fiona Stanley Hospital regarding the dental treatment for head and neck cancer patients as part of their work‐up for cancer management, expected funding was estimated using the existing fee‐for‐service and capped‐fee models currently in use. Funding estimates were based on the Department of Veterans' Affairs Fee Schedule of Dental Services and the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority's Australian Non‐Admitted Care Classification. A total of 127 patients received dental treatment over 209 appointments including 17 patients who had all their remaining teeth removed. Analysis revealed the fee‐for‐service model generated more expected funding than the current capped‐fee model, or an average of AUD$458 (USD$356) per patient. Differences in how activity was recorded resulted in 81.7% uncaptured funding between the two models. This study shows that fee‐for‐service models capture activity more accurately. However, this model is not used in public hospitals despite it being standard practice in stand‐alone public dental clinics. As a result, hospital‐based dental clinics appear to be unproductive. Further research can include developing a model that better captures both the activity undertaken as well as patient complexity.
Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief
Authors: Hannemann Tilman 
Published: January 2024

AbstractVölkisch, racist, and essentialist constructions of religious belief flourished in the first half of the twentieth century. After 1933, debates on Germanness in the German Youth Movement, and among intellectuals, artists, and state functionaries helped shape the politics of national socialist (NS) institutions. Discussions that sought to ground religious experience in scientific and historical evidence, drew on a combination of the phenomenology of religion, speculations about the nature of primordial belief, biological and historical evolutionism, and race theory. The author examines the formation of a discourse in which knowledge about India was selected from the academic discipline of Indology and relocated to suit the positions of the contributors to the debate. Essentially, the field reproduced aspects of religion that emphasized confessionalism, rationality, nationalism, the arts, science, and ritual in relation to modernity.
Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India
Authors: Roy Baijayanti 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis chapter examines, on the basis of under-utilized archival materials, the uses of different religions in Nazi cultural politics aimed at India between 1933 and 1939. The goal of such politics was to generate respect for Nazi Germany and project it as sympathetic to the aspirations of various groups of Indians. Nazi propaganda used different tropes for the diverse politico-religious organizations it addressed. Aryanism was an effective vehicle of propaganda for Hindu nationalists and Hindu revivalists, as well as some Buddhists, whereas purported parallels between Islam and Nazism formed the core of the overtures towards Islamists. The chapter traces the dissemination of such propaganda through a cobweb-like Nazi network that existed in the Indian subcontinent, comprising Germans as well as Indians. The chapter demonstrates how Nazi cultural politics in India, which was inconsistent in the beginning, gradually became more coherent as it began to follow the dictates of Nazi foreign policy. As the war approached, religion-based propaganda gave way to strategic support for the secular anti-colonial movement led by the Indian National Congress.
Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research
Authors: Schlaffke Markus , Schwaderer Isabella , Kanhai Parveen 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe Menaka Archive contains a motley of scattered documents pertaining to the performances of Leila Roy-Sokhey’s Indian ballet in Europe and South Asia between 1931 and 1938. Because the contents of the archive are of varying provenance and quality, some stored under precarious conditions, they can be made accessible and assembled in ways that bring the events together in a multi-layered whole. The authors of this chapter critically reflect on the usefulness of the archive, highlight and question its limitations and link these to the global events of the time. Apart from the composition of the archive, the authors also delve into corresponding research fields to produce a surprising cross-cultural encounter that presents the disparate archival materials in a new light.
In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833–1939)
Authors: Hauser Julia 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIn this chapter (Based on the author’s forthcoming book, A Taste of Purity), Julia Hauser argues that India played a crucial role in the German vegetarian discourse. While contacts were less direct than in Britain, references to India served to buttress the idea of Aryanism, which in the eyes of some German vegetarians assigned a prominent role to the German ‘race’ in uplifting humankind through vegetarianism. While some German vegetarians were obsessed with Aryanism, others, believing that Germany needed a strong ascetic leader, were inspired by the figure of Gandhi and his idea of non-violence. This sometimes led to a general assumption that the entire Indian subcontinent was non-violent, which of course ignored the violent aspects of Hindu nationalism.
The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf’s Forgotten Opera Mahadeva
Authors: Schlaffke Markus 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIn this chapter, Markus Schlaffke describes a listening experiment designed to re-access the music of Felix Gotthelf’s Indian opera Mahadeva and to analyse the sounds of what had clearly been a significant cultural phenomenon. He approaches the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) as a listening space in which differing experiences of the modern world were brought into harmony at the turn of the twentieth century and clarifies how, in 1910, the success and failure of an Indian opera depended not only on whether it produced an aesthetic innovation but also on whether it succeeded to bring the sphere of the religious, the experience of alterity, and colonial knowledge into play.
Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period
Authors: Jonker Gerdien 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis chapter is about the lives of Germans seeking to escape the wrath of a society in revolt through the help of religious ecstasy in the aftermath of the First World War. The Lahore-Ahmadiyya Mosque in Berlin provided the venue in which these happenings occurred. The chapter starts with the thought that a religious experience needs to find expression in words, actions, and physical deeds before it can form part of a social reality. To grasp what the seekers did to achieve their goal, the experiences of one, Irma Safiya Gohl (1906–64), are described in detail and compared with the narratives of her peers. The focus then shifts to the Lahore missionaries who enabled these religious experiments and how they steered their way towards fulfilling their truly global aim of combining Western rationality with the ‘wisdom of the East’, a quest that led the Lahoris to introduce a reform of the Islamic tradition in India. The chapter ends with a comparison between the German and Indian perspectives.