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A modified reliability acceptance sampling plan with warranty return rate consideration under Weibull‐distributed accelerated lifetime data
Authors: Wang To‐Cheng , Shu Ming‐Hung 
Published: January 2024

AbstractWarranty is a standard and essential policy for today's products. The period and cost of warranty are majorly affected by the reliability of products. Therefore, validation and verification of product reliability are required to control warranty costs and sustain the brand reputation. In this paper, we propose a modified reliability acceptance sampling plan (MRASP) for product reliability validation. The operating characteristic function of the MRASP is derived by considering the accelerated time‐to‐failure data with Type‐II censoring, which follows a Weibull distribution. To minimize the number of failures required for the accelerated life test and consider the sampling risk constraints, we constructed an optimization model to determine the optimal plan design of the proposed MRASP. Following the optimal plan design, practitioners can set the number of failures required in the accelerated life test to estimate the lifetime capability of the submitted lot and decide the lot disposition using the acceptance benchmark. In addition, the lifetime capability estimation can be used to infer the warranty return rate and warranty cost of the lot, which is valuable for practitioners to formulate the warranty budget. Finally, we illustrate a real‐world case to demonstrate the practicality and applicability of the proposed method.
Radial basis function neural network optimization algorithm based on dynamic inertial weight particle swarm optimization for separating overlapping peaks in ion mobility spectrometry
Authors: Shou Binxin , Yang Mingguang , Song Zihan , Li Junhui , Tang Keqi , Gao Wenqing , Feng Jiayong , Yu Jiancheng 
Published: January 2024

RationaleIon mobility spectrometry (IMS), as a promising analytical tool, has been widely employed in the structural characterization of biomolecules. Nevertheless, the inherent limitation in the structural resolution of IMS frequently results in peak overlap during the analysis of isomers exhibiting comparable structures.MethodsThe radial basis function (RBF) neural network optimization algorithm based on dynamic inertial weight particle swarm optimization (DIWPSO) was proposed for separating overlapping peaks in IMS. The RBF network structure and parameters were optimized using the DIWPSO algorithm. By extensively training using a large dataset, an adaptive model was developed to effectively separate overlapping peaks in IMS data. This approach successfully overcomes issues related to local optima, ensuring efficient and precise separation of overlapping peaks.ResultsThe method's performance was evaluated using experimental validation and analysis of overlapping peaks in the IMS spectra of two sets of isomers: 3′/6′‐sialyllactose; fructose‐6‐phosphate, glucose‐1‐phosphate, and glucose‐6‐phosphate. A comparative analysis was conducted using other algorithms, including the sparrow search algorithm, DIWPSO algorithm, and multi‐objective dynamic teaching‐learning‐based optimization algorithm. The comparison results show that the DIWPSO‐RBF algorithm achieved remarkably low maximum relative errors of only 0.42%, 0.092%, and 0.41% for ion height, mobility, and half peak width, respectively. These error rates are significantly lower than those obtained using the other three algorithms.ConclusionsThe experimental results convincingly demonstrate that this method can adaptively, rapidly, and accurately separate overlapping peaks of multiple components, improving the structural resolution of IMS.
Municipal risk communication challenges in the Nordic context: Organizing risk ownership
Authors: Sataøen Hogne L. , Skotnes Ruth Østgaard , Hansen Kåre , Eriksson Mats 
Published: January 2024

AbstractAt a time when disasters, pandemics, pollution, and other crises gain prominence, local governments bear a crucial responsibility for effective risk communication. Yet, there remains a gap in our understanding of how municipalities approach risk communication before a crisis occurs. This qualitative study, involving seven focus groups and 29 semistructured interviews across two Nordic countries, raises questions about ownership of municipal risk communication: What challenges do municipalities face in managing ownership in risk communication? How does the organization of communication influence municipal risk communication? The results underscore three key considerations: First, there is a critical need for municipalities to engage in definitional clarification of risk and crisis communication. Establishing a shared understanding is paramount for effective communication strategies. Second, reframing uncertainty in municipal risk communication ownership as an opportunity is suggested. Embracing the inherent uncertainties and dependencies can offer a valuable perspective. Lastly, recognizing the underappreciation of risk communication emphasizes the imperative for municipal decision makers to address resource allocation issues. This involves ensuring that communication professionals have the confidence and resources needed, vis‐à‐vis other functions involved in risk management.
Output consensus robustness and performance of first‐order agents
Authors: Peng Hui , Ding Yanling , Qi Tian , Chen Jie 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIn this article, we study consensus robustness and performance problems for continuous‐time multi‐agent systems. We consider first‐order unstable agents coordinated by an output feedback protocol over a network subject to an unknown, uncertain constant delay. Our objectives are twofold. First, we seek to determine the largest range of delay permissible so that the agents may achieve robustly consensus despite variation of the delay length, herein referred to as the delay consensus margin. Second, we attempt to determine consensus error performance quantified under an norm criterion, which measures the disruptive effect of random nodal noises on consensus. We consider both undirected and directed graphs. For undirected graphs, we obtain analytical results for the delay consensus margin and the consensus error performance, while for directed graphs, we develop computational results and analytical bounds. The results provide conceptual insights and exhibit how the agents' unstable pole, nonminimum phase zero, as well as the network topology and network delay may limit fundamentally the consensus robustness and performance of first‐order agents.
Effect of Histidine Behaviors on Structural Properties of Human Islet Amyloid Peptides
Authors: Shi Yaru , Sun Yue , Shi Hu 
Published: January 2024

AbstractHistidine behaviors (including tautomeric behaviors and protonation behaviors) have been considered as an origin factor in protein folding and misfolding. However, such effects on human islet amyloid peptide (hIAPP) is still unclear, which are the key points in understanding hIAPP misfolding mechanisms. In current study, to investigate the structural properties of hIAPP peptide with histidine in (δ), (ϵ), and (p) states, three independent replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations were performed. Our results show that β‐sheet structure contents are very low no matter histidine on which state, while high α‐helix contents are obtained in A8‐L16/H18 and G24‐L27/S28 regions. Cluster data suggested that three hIAPP systems are prone to flexible structural features. Further analysis confirmed that the histidine related H‐bonding networks were detected in hIAPP(δ) (N14‐H18) and hIAPP(p) (N14‐H18 and F15‐H18). Moreover, based on overall hIAPP(δ), hIAPP(ϵ), and hIAPP(p) equilibration trajectories, we discovered both sheet and helix structural features in basin of free energy landscape. Our current study contributes to the understanding on conformational changes of hIAPP due to histidine behaviors, which could lead to new insights into histidine behaviors mechanisms.
Preparation, Crystal Structure, Physico‐chemical and Nonlinear Optical Properties of a New D‐π‐A Centrosymmetric Stilbazolium Framework of 4‐[2‐(3hydroxy‐phenyl)‐vinyl]‐1‐methyl‐pyridinium iodide (HMPI)
Authors: Nandhini Krishnan , Kalainathan S. Sivaperuman 
Published: January 2024

AbstractNew organic Stilbazolium cation Salt of 4‐[2‐(3 hydroxy‐phenyl)‐vinyl]‐1‐methyl‐pyridinium iodide (HMPI), which was obtained through solvent evaporation solution growth. The crystal structure was proved via the SC‐XRD technique. Its outcome reveals that the HMPI crystallised in a centrosymmetric pattern (P121/n1) and monoclinic crystal system. The compositional analysis was performed via 1H NMR and 13C NMR. The FT‐IR spectrum was used to determine the vibrational mode of the different molecular groups present in the material. The intermolecular interactions in the crystal structure were studied using Hirshfeld surface analysis. The molecular orbital energies (HOMO‐LUMO) and molecular electrostatic potential (MESP) were estimated using the Gaussian program with the density functional theory (DFT) method. The linear optical study revealed the transmittance percentage, lower cut‐off wavelength, and energy band gap for HMPI crystal. In the photoluminescence study, a green colour broad emission peak is observed at 521 nm. TG and DTA measured the thermal behaviour of grown HMPI crystal. Chemical etching and atomic force microscopy (AFM) experiments were used to report the surface properties of grown HMPI crystal. The Z‐scan technique, a He−Ne continuous wave laser at 632.8 nm used to measure the third‐order nonlinear optical susceptibility of the HMPI crystal. The Z scan approach reveals a saturable absorption and self‐defocusing nature of the title crystal.
Comprehensive Study of Physicochemical Properties in Poly‐(Vinylidene Fluoride) Membranes Loaded with OPEFB's Lignin/ Lignosulfonate via Phase Inversion
Authors: Adi Nugroho Roshid , Widiyanto Galih , Karimah Qosrul , Venny Venny , Ridhwanul Mu'izzah Nala , Widyo Wartono Muhammad , Pramono Edi 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe development of membrane technology is rapidly advancing, such as hydrophilic PVDF membranes, which provide anti‐fouling properties to the membrane. Therefore, this research innovates the development of hydrophilic PVDF membranes by incorporating lignin‐lignosulfonate fillers from OPEFBs in situ. This study successfully prepared hybrid PVDF membranes using the phase inversion method. ATR‐FTIR, XRD, and TGA/DSC analyses confirmed that the addition of 2 % filler promoted the formation of the β‐phase in PVDF, which was more dominant than with the addition of 4 % filler, especially in the PLs2 % membrane. SEM images of the membranes showed an asymmetric structure with finger‐like and sponge‐like pores. Interactive 3D surface imaging demonstrated increased pore potential peaks when lignosulfonate was added compared to lignin. The addition of 4 % filler had a hydrophilic‐hydrophobic repelling effect, increasing the porosity and water absorption of the PL4 % and PLs4 % membranes. Phase inversion membranes were relatively hydrophilic with a water contact angle of 61°, and adding filler reduced the membrane‘s contact angle by 8°. Based on the obtained results, it can be concluded that PVDF hybrid membranes with lignin and lignosulfonate fillers have significant potential for development in membrane technology applications that require hydrophilic membranes, such as wastewater treatment and seawater desalination.
Hierarchically Assembled Nanofiber Scaffold Guides Long Bone Regeneration by Promoting Osteogenic/Chondrogenic Differentiation of Endogenous Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Authors: Pan Hao , Wei Yuxuan , Zeng Canjun , Yang Ganghua , Dong Chao , Wan Wenbing , Chen Shixuan 
Published: January 2024

AbstractCritical‐sized segmental long bone defects represent a challenging clinical dilemma in the management of battlefield and trauma‐related injuries. The residual bone marrow cavity of damaged long bones contains many bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs), which provide a substantial source of cells for bone repair. Thus, a three‐dimensional (3D) vertically aligned nanofiber scaffold (VAS) is developed with long channels and large pore size. The pore of VAS toward the bone marrow cavity after transplantation, enables the scaffolds to recruit BMSCs from the bone marrow cavity to the defect area. In vivo, it is found that VAS can significantly shorten gap distance and promote new bone formation compared to the control and collagen groups after 4 and 8 weeks of implantation. The single‐cell sequencing results discovered that the 3D nanotopography of VAS can promote BMSCs differentiation to chondrocytes and osteoblasts, and up‐regulate related gene expression, resulting in enhancing the activities of bone regeneration, endochondral ossification, bone trabecula formation, bone mineralization, maturation, and remodeling. The Alcian blue and bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP‐2) immunohistochemical staining verified significant cartilage formation and bone formation in the VAS group, corresponding to the single‐cell sequencing results. The study can inspire the design of next‐generation scaffolds for effective long‐bone regeneration is expected by the authors.
Professionalism in artificial intelligence: The link between technology and ethics
Authors: Klarin Anton , Ali Abadi Hossein , Sharmelly Rifat 
Published: January 2024

AbstractEthical conduct of artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly becoming an ever more pressing issue considering the inevitable integration of these technologies into our lives. The literature so far discussed the responsibility domains of AI; this study asks the question of how to instil ethicality into AI technologies. Through a three‐step review of the AI ethics literature, we find that (i) the literature is weak in identifying solutions in ensuring ethical conduct of AI, (ii) the role of professional conduct is underexplored, and (iii) based on the values extracted from studies about AI ethical breaches, we thus propose a conceptual framework that offers professionalism as a solution in ensuring ethical AI. The framework stipulates fairness, nonmaleficence, responsibility, freedom, and trust as values necessary for developers and operators, as well as transparency, privacy, fairness, trust, solidarity, and sustainability as organizational values to ensure sustainability in ethical development and operation of AI.
Multiscale analysis predicts native species presence based on habitat and nonnative species abundance
Authors: Hedden Crosby , Hedden Skyler , Gido Keith , Cameron Alexander C. , Propst David , Stewart William 
Published: January 2024

Abstract

Objective
The loss and degradation of aquatic habitat through fragmentation, water extraction, and climate warming contribute to declining native stream fish diversity. In response to these declines, a large-scale repatriation program was established in Arizona and New Mexico to expand the distribution and abundance of native fishes. This program has had variable success, with imperiled fish populations establishing and persisting in some streams, while other populations failed to establish.

Methods
To identify factors contributing to the success of repatriation, we conducted a study investigating how biotic and abiotic variables affect native fish presence or absence at differing spatial scales throughout the Gila River basin. We conducted fish and habitat surveys in 29 river reaches at three spatial scales: the 1-km, 0.1-km, and mesohabitat scale. We used generalized linear models to identify associations among species presence, habitat characteristics, and nonnative species abundance across spatial scales. Logistic regression models were also used to test associations with heterogeneity of habitat characteristics and species presence.

Result
Models indicated strong species- and scale-specific responses to these variables. Nonnative abundance was less influential than other habitat variables in predicting the presence of native fish, although the majority of associations that emerged were negative. Further, we were able to identify that water velocity, depth, and substrate size were the most common variables associated with species' presence across all scales and age-classes, with most species responding positively to elevated velocities and variable responses for depth and substrate size. Response to variation in habitat was species-specific, with some associations positive and others negative.

Conclusion
Collectively, the information from this study will help identify locations with a reasonably high likelihood of supporting native fishes and broaden our understanding of species responses to habitat and nonnative species across multiple scales.
Contradictions Linked to the Universalist Aim
Authors: Hofstetter Rita , Schneuwly Bernard 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe aspiration to have all the countries of the world join, regardless of their political and ideological orientations, contained the seeds of contradictions. In the troubled 1930s, the IBE and liberal and democratic tendencies did not predominate among the affiliated countries, and the IBE Secretariat assiduously courted republican regimes. The contradictions became more acute as nationalist tensions rose and also with the Cold War and its political and economic conflicts. An insert analysing the discussion of the financing of education illustrates these contradictions.
Achieving Intergovernmental Legitimacy
Authors: Hofstetter Rita , Schneuwly Bernard 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIn 1929, the IBE, under the leadership of Piaget, became an intergovernmental organisation. Founded by six states, it reoriented its activity toward the production and collection of knowledge about public school systems, on the basis of official sources. In order to gain legitimacy, the IBE created new organisational structures and expanded its staff. After a transition phase when it abandoned its mission of coordinating international associations, it invented a yearly event that structured its main activities: the International Conferences on Public Education, begun in 1934, with their Yearbook and several surveys on essential educational matters which were discussed during the conferences. An insert analyses the role of Switzerland in these processes.
Respecifying Fieldwork: Refused Knowledge Communities Explored Through the Reflexive Lens
Authors: Morsello Barbara 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis chapter offers a reflexive account of the overall fieldwork conducted by the research team into the four refused knowledge communities (RKCs). A reflexive account is particularly important here as refused knowledge followers share a widely held belief that academics in general act as spokespersons for epistemic regimes that they see as responsible for ostracising their knowledge within the public sphere. An additional element making a reflexive account even more urgent is that RKC followers may hold beliefs, values, assumptions and political views in sharp contrast to those of the researchers engaged in the fieldwork. Against this backdrop, by adopting a reflexive stance, this chapter explores the challenges that researchers engaged in studying the RKCs faced in their attempts to negotiate and conduct interviews with refused knowledge followers.
Us and Them: Martyrs, Prophets and Mythic Narratives of Refused Knowledge
Authors: Bory Paolo 
Published: January 2024

AbstractOn the basis of the literature on myths and narrative tropes in science and religion, this chapter enquires into RKC mythical narratives to highlight the relevance of certain key figures, events and objects that constitute the main characters around which these communities weave their common goals, visions and sense of belonging. Exploring the construction of, and the tropes surrounding, these mythical narratives—both scientific and religious—this analysis also emphasises the way such narratives stimulate everyday discussions, practices and even ritual forms within RKCs. In addition to martyrdom stories, a special focus on the myth surrounding the story of Ryke Geerd Hamer and the foundation of German New Medicine also serves to highlight an archetypal path in which the narrative tropes of mythic science and religious prophets converge. The chapter concludes by highlighting how compound martyrdom, mythical science and religious prophet stories, together with the ritual, social and cultural practices that they trigger, consolidate the demarcation between social worlds, contributing to the distinctions between an ‘us’–members of refused knowledge communities–and a ‘them’, i.e. the rest of society.
Tumor suppressor let-7 acts as a key regulator for pluripotency gene expression in Muse cells
Authors: Li Gen , Wakao Shohei , Kitada Masaaki , Dezawa Mari 
Published: January 2024

AbstractIn embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), the expression of an RNA-binding pluripotency-relevant protein, LIN28, and the absence of its antagonist, the tumor-suppressor microRNA (miRNA) let-7, play a key role in maintaining pluripotency. Muse cells are non-tumorigenic pluripotent-like stem cells residing in the bone marrow, peripheral blood, and organ connective tissues as pluripotent surface marker SSEA-3(+). They express pluripotency genes, differentiate into triploblastic-lineage cells, and self-renew at the single cell level. Muse cells do not express LIN28 but do express let-7 at higher levels than in iPSCs. In Muse cells, we demonstrated that let-7 inhibited the PI3K-AKT pathway, leading to sustainable expression of the key pluripotency regulator KLF4 as well as its downstream genes, POU5F1, SOX2, and NANOG. Let-7 also suppressed proliferation and glycolysis by inhibiting the PI3K-AKT pathway, suggesting its involvement in non-tumorigenicity. Furthermore, the MEK/ERK pathway is not controlled by let-7 and may have a pivotal role in maintaining self-renewal and suppression of senescence. The system found in Muse cells, in which the tumor suppressor let-7, but not LIN28, tunes the expression of pluripotency genes, might be a rational cell system conferring both pluripotency-like properties and a low risk for tumorigenicity.
Generalized Chain Rules and Applications to Stieltjes Differential and Integral Equations
Authors: Márquez Albés Ignacio , Slavík Antonín 
Published: January 2024

AbstractWe present new generalizations of the chain rule, which involve Stieltjes derivatives and integrals. The results are subsequently used to obtain the power rules for two generalizations of the exponential function, and to investigate Bernoulli-type equations with Stieltjes derivatives and integrals.