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Design of a Novel α-Shaped Flue Gas Route Flame Incinerator for the Treatment of Municipal Waste Materials
Authors: Liu Xiaozhou , Zhu Guangyu , Asim Taimoor , Mishra Rakesh 
Published: October 2023

AbstractIn order to improve the combustion characteristics of municipal waste materials and reduce excess pollutants generated during the incineration process, this study develops a novel waste incinerator with an α-shaped flue gas route. This has been achieved through the application of momentum vector synthesis theory in order to modify the secondary air structure in a conventional incinerator, resulting in enhanced combustion efficiency of the incinerator. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based cold state test results demonstrate that with appropriate modifications to the design of the incinerator, the flue gas propagates through a longer α-shaped route rather than conventional L-shaped route. Hot state tests have been carried out on a full scale 750 tons/day waste incinerator. Test rests show that the temperature of the flue gas increases by 138% under the front arch when secondary air supply is being incorporated into the design of the incinerator, resulting in better combustion of the municipal waste materials, lower emissions and higher thermal efficiency of the incinerator. The results obtained in this study confirm the rationality and feasibility of momentum flow rate method for better design of waste incinerators.
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Tracking circulating PD-L1-positive cells to monitor the outcome of patients with gastric cancer receiving anti-HER2 plus anti-PD-1 therapy
Authors: Chong Xiaoyi , Li Yanyan , Lu Jialin , Feng Xujiao , Li Yilin , Zhang Xiaotian 
Published: October 2023

AbstractDual blockade of HER2 and PD-1/PD-L1 is the most promising regimen for HER2-positive patients with gastric cancer (GC); PD-L1 combined positive score, rather than HER2 status, indicates potential benefit. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating endothelial cells (CECs) derived from the tumor microenvironment provide platforms for the dynamic evaluation of PD-L1 expression. Whether PD-L1 positive CTCs/CECs (PD-L1+CTCs/CECs) can serve as biomarkers for evaluating the efficacy of combination therapy remains unknown. Therefore, this study investigated PD-L1 expression and heterogeneous karyotypic features of CTCs/CECs and their involvement in the clinical response to treatment in 72 patients with advanced GC by applying a pre-established surface molecule-independent subtraction enrichment (SE)-iFISH strategy. In the captured PD-L1 positive cells, there were 42.80% and 57.20% of CTCs and CECs, respectively. PD-L1+ CTCs were pre-therapeutically detected in 0% (0/11) of HER2-negative patients and 14.75% (9/61) of HER2-positive patients. The presence of baseline PD-L1+CTCs was relevant to inferior prognosis (mPFS: 14.40 months vs 5.00 months, P = 0.065); post-treatment PD-L1+ CECs were associated with longer irPFS (immunotherapeutic-related PFS) (mPFS: 15.57 months vs 6.73 months, P = 0.053). Further dynamic karyotype-based profiling of PD-L1+ CTCs/CECs indicated that multiploidy and triploidy were the dominant subtypes of baseline PD-L1+ CTCs, and that triploidy was specifically associated with therapeutic resistance. Intratherapeutically detected multiploid PD-L1+ CECs demonstrated a superior clinical response; triploidy and tetraploidy contributed to acquired resistance. The karyotypic features of PD-L1+CTCs/CECs should be dynamically profiled in patients with GC treated with anti-HER2 plus anti-PD-1 therapy. Triploid-PD-L1+ CTCs and multiploid-PD-L1+ CECs are potential indicators of therapeutic response.
Systematic Review of Intervention and Prevention Programs to Tackle Homophobic Bullying at School: a Socio-emotional Learning Skills Perspective
Authors: Amadori A. , Intra F. Sangiuliano , Taverna L. , Brighi A. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractHomophobia is a persisting and changing phenomenon globally affecting the educational system. Data clearly shows that school is not perceived as a safe environment for sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY). This work aims to systematically review the intervention and prevention programs designed to specifically address bullying behaviors at school towards SGMY, providing an analysis of the socio-emotional learning (SEL) components included in the interventions, to understand which socio-emotional skills can enhance students’ capabilities to prevent homophobic behaviors and promote safe environments for all students. The literature research was completed in February 2023 on NCBI PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and PsycINFO databases according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist and diagram. A total of 408 studies were evaluated. 24 studies were selected as eligible for the final review. Each study was coded according to the targeted population: students, teachers, or to a whole school; moreover, the SEL model components were used as further classification criteria. The majority of interventions were targeted to students and to enhance social awareness. The literature review reported the lack of whole-school approaches, and most programs were not explicitly designed according to a SEL taxonomy despite the importance of socio-emotional skills in preventing prejudicial bullying. The review highlights the relevance of a socio-ecological approach to universal and targeted interventions.
City of Intellect
Authors: Dirks Nicholas B. 
Published: October 2023

During his four years as the tenth Chancellor of Berkeley (2013–17), Nicholas B. Dirks was confronted by crises arguably more challenging than those faced by any other college administrator in the contemporary period. This thoughtfully candid book, emerging from deep reflection on his turbulent time in office, offers not just a gripping insider's account of the febrile politics of his time as Berkeley's leader, but also decades of nuanced reflection on the university's true meaning (at its best, to be an aspirational 'city of intellect'). Dirks wrestles with some of the most urgent questions with which educational leaders are presently having to engage: including topics such as free speech and campus safe spaces, the humanities' contested future, and the real cost and value of liberal arts learning. His visionary intervention – part autobiography, part practical manifesto – is a passionate cri de cœur for structural changes in higher education that are both significant and profound.
Stratifying nursing home care to further explore a locally validated risk factor for community-acquired pneumonia (SNAP-CAP Study)
Authors: Kutsar Dennis , Awad Nirvana , Rastogi Rupangi 
Published: October 2023

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We observed that patients admitted to our hospital from a prestratified group of congregated living facilities had a numerically higher percentage of study-defined resistant organisms in sputum cultures compared to facilities without these characteristics [89.4% vs 78.3%, odds ratio [OR] = 2.34 (95% CI, 0.73–7.58)].
Characterizing the personality and gray matter volume of chimpanzees that exhibit autism-related socio-communicative phenotypes
Authors: Hopkins William D. , Mulholland Michele , Latzman Robert D. 
Published: October 2023

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by stereotypies or repetitive behaviors and impairments in social behavior and socio-communicative skills. One hallmark phenotype of ASD is poor joint attention skills compared to neurotypical controls. In addition, individuals with ASD have lower scores on several of the Big 5 personality dimensions, including Extraversion. Here, we examine these traits in a nonhuman primate model (chimpanzees; Pan troglodytes) to further understand the relationship between personality and joint attention skills, as well as the genetic and neural systems that contribute to these phenotypes. We used archival data including receptive joint attention (RJA) performance, personality based on caretaker ratings, and magnetic resonance images from 189 chimpanzees. We found that, like humans, chimpanzees who performed worse on the RJA task had lower Extraversion scores. We also found that joint attention skills and several personality dimensions, including Extraversion, were significantly heritable. There was also a borderline significant genetic correlation between RJA and Extraversion. A conjunction analysis examining gray matter volume showed that there were five main brain regions associated with both higher levels of Extraversion and social cognition. These regions included the right posterior middle and superior temporal gyrus, bilateral inferior frontal gyrus, left inferior frontal sulcus, and left superior frontal sulcus, all regions within the social brain network. Altogether, these findings provide further evidence that chimpanzees serve as an excellent model for understanding the mechanisms underlying social impairment related to ASD. Future research should further examine the relationship between social cognition, personality, genetics, and neuroanatomy and function in nonhuman primate models.
Taylorism, Worker Resistance, and Industrial Relations in Sweden
Authors: Mirsafian Arvand 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis article explores the influence of worker resistance to Taylorism on industrial relations in Sweden. By analysing archival material from workers at the Separator Corporate Group, the Metal Workers’ Union, and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, this article highlights the interplay between shop floor activism, discussions within trade unions, and central labour market relations. It demonstrates how rank-and-file activism compelled union leadership and the central labour market organizations to adopt a series of agreements in the 1940s aimed at addressing worker resistance to Taylorism.Despite worker discontent, scientific management spread during the 1930s and 1940s. This eventually contributed to the Metal Strike of 1945, which had significant impact on labour–capital relations. According to the metal workers, scientific management, particularly time-motion studies, reduced their bargaining power by concealing labour processes and methods for wage determination, thereby allowing management a monopoly on knowledge.Following the strike, negotiations between the Trade Union Confederation and the Swedish Employers’ Association resulted in the 1948 Work Studies Agreement. This agreement provided a platform for resolving conflicts and encouraging workers’ support of rationalization via the Work Studies Council. Worker resistance consequently drove Swedish labour market centralization, inadvertently promoting closer labour–capital cooperation.This article argues, among other things, that although worker resistance failed to upend scientific management, it resulted in it being regulated within a corporatist framework. This highlights the important historical role local trade union activism has played in shaping labour market institutions and the broader political economy.
Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities
Authors: Awayed-Bishara Muzna 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This linguistic ethnographic study offers a nuanced pedagogical account of the Arabic term sumud, or ‘steadfastness’, through a sociolinguistic analysis of decolonial modes of expression among Palestinian youth in Israel. I reflect on events during the 2021 uprisings in East Jerusalem, when Palestinian youth within Israel took to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem and Gaza. Considering the Israeli education system's denationalization of the Palestinian community within its borders, I examine how Palestinian political ideals cultivated outside the formal educational system open new possibilities for political organizing and expression. I reflect upon interviews with members of the Haifa Youth Movement and a Palestinian hip-hop artist and his lyrics. Engaging with Stroud's theorization of linguistic citizenship, I show how pedagogy of sumud as a linguistic citizenship practice opens new semiotic spaces for Palestinian youth in Israel to resist the erasure of their identity. (Linguistic citizenship, sumud pedagogy, Palestinian youth, colonized education)*
COVID-19 epidemiology and rural healthcare: a survey in a Spanish village
Authors: Rodríguez-del-Río Francisco J. , Barroso Patricia , Fernández-de-Mera Isabel G. , de la Fuente José , Gortázar Christian 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
We used primary care data to retrospectively describe the entry, spread, and impact of COVID-19 in a remote rural community and the associated risk factors and challenges faced by the healthcare team. Generalized linear models were fitted to assess the relationship between age, sex, period, risk group status, symptom duration, post-COVID illness, and disease severity. Social network and cluster analyses were also used. The first six cases, including travel events and a social event in town, contributed to early infection spread. About 351 positive cases were recorded and 6% of patients experienced two COVID-19 episodes in the 2.5-year study period. Five space–time case clusters were identified. One case, linked with the social event, was particularly central in its contact network. The duration of disease symptoms was driven by gender, age, and risk factors. The probability of suffering severe disease increased with symptom duration and decreased over time. About 27% and 23% of individuals presented with residual symptoms and post-COVID illness, respectively. The probability of developing a post-COVID illness increased with age and the duration of COVID-associated symptoms. Carefully registered primary care data may help optimize infection prevention and control efforts and upscale local healthcare capacities in vulnerable rural communities.
The therapeutic effect of acupuncture on neurocognitive disorders under the concept of outcome based education
Authors: Song Manping , Song Yilin , Geng Yining , Cai Yan , Xian Donglian 
Published: October 2023

BackgroundThe neurocognitive disorder is a common neuropsychological disease characterized by impaired cognitive function, attention deficit, and memory loss. With the aging of the population and lifestyle changes, the prevalence of neurocognitive disorders is on the rise, seriously affecting patients’ quality of life. Acupuncture therapy, an essential part of traditional Chinese medicine, has shown potential therapeutic effects in treating neurocognitive disorders.Subjects and MethodsThe outcome based education concept was incorporated into acupuncture therapy to explore its therapeutic effect on neurocognitive disorders. The study included 50 neurocognitive-impaired patients, 25 of whom received acupuncture therapy under the outcome based education concept as an experimental group. The other 25 served as a control group and received traditional Chinese acupuncture treatment. The experiment lasted three months, and the 3-minute Delirium Diagnostic Scale (3D-CAM) was used to measure the level of consciousness, mental clarity, attention, and delirium characteristics.ResultsAfter receiving acupuncture therapy under the outcome based education concept, most of the patients in the experimental group had a lower risk of delirium, and their attention, thinking, and consciousness levels were significantly improved. Patients in the control group generally had a higher risk of delirium, difficulty concentrating, and memory loss.ConclusionsThe study proposed that the outcome based education concept in acupuncture therapy has a more noticeable effect on treating neurocognitive disorders. At the same time, this study’s results will help reveal the mechanism of acupuncture therapy in treating neurocognitive disorders and provide guidance for clinical practice.AcknowledgementThe research is supported by the Key R&D project of Hainan Province (No.zdyf2019191).
Criminal law protection on juvenile crimes with bipolar disorders
Authors: Tan Junhua 
Published: October 2023

BackgroundBipolar disorder refers to a type of mood disorder that includes both manic or mild manic episodes and depressive episodes in clinical practice. Compared with a single disease, comorbidities typically have characteristics such as severe symptoms, long course of disease, severe social function impairment, high risk of suicide, and poor prognosis. Minors are prone to engage in criminal behavior under the influence of bipolar disorder. This study will use group psychological counseling combined with criminal law protection education to intervene and treat underage patients.Subjects and Methods80 underage bipolar disorder patients were selected and divided into two groups according to a random number table method: the control group received group psychological counseling for intervention, while the research group received group psychological counseling combined with communication training and nursing. The improvement of the condition, self-care ability, depression, mania, quality of life, medication compliance, and social adaptability scores of the two groups of patients were compared.ResultsThe results showed that before the intervention, there was no statistically significant difference in the improvement of the condition, self-care ability, depression, mania, quality of life, medication compliance, and social adaptation scores between the two groups. After 12 weeks of intervention, the improvement score of the study group’s condition and self-care ability score were higher than that of the control group.ConclusionsThe combination of group psychological counseling and criminal law protection education can enhance the treatment effect of underage bipolar disorder patients, improve their quality of life, alleviate negative emotions, and achieve better nursing outcomes.
Cross-cultural tourism on tourists’ generalized anxiety disorder in the context of internationalization
Authors: Fang Xianzhai 
Published: October 2023

BackgroundWith the continuous development of globalization, the internationalization of tourism has become an important trend in today’s society. More and more people are choosing to travel abroad to experience the diversity of different countries and cultures. However, when most tourists travel, they will inevitably have anxiety due to a variety of factors such as worrying about the quality of the tour, whether the plane is delayed, whether the diet is customary, and so on.Subjects and Methods
This paper is to further understand and study the influence of cross-cultural tourism on tourists’ generalized anxiety disorder, and improve tourists’ travel experience and mental health. In this study, 50 tourists with generalized anxiety disorder were selected as experimental subjects. Among them, 25 tourists were in the experimental group who received cross-cultural tourism treatment, and 25 tourists were in the control group that received traditional psychological treatment. The treatment period was 3 months for both groups.ResultsThe results were measured using anxiety items from the Stanford Acute Stress Response Questionnaire (SASRQ). The higher the score, the more severe the anxiety. The experimental results showed that the anxiety symptoms of tourists in the experimental group were generally reduced, and their mental health was greatly improved, with a comprehensive evaluation score of 9 points, while some tourists in the control group had poor treatment effects, with a comprehensive score of 15 points.ConclusionsCross-cultural tourism in the context of internationalization has a positive therapeutic effect on tourists’ generalized anxiety disorder.
Psychological effect of entertainment of vlog news communication on anxiety of audience under life pressure
Authors: He Jingfan , Mohammad Razi Siti Aishah , Ahmad Ghazali Akmar Hayati 
Published: October 2023

BackgroundMental anxiety disorder, also known as anxiety disorder, can be basically divided into acute anxiety and chronic generalized anxiety. With the development of society and economy, the number of patients with anxiety disorder is also gradually increasing. The entertainment of video blog (vlog) news dissemination can reduce the seriousness of news.Subjects and MethodsIn order to investigate the therapeutic effect of vlog news dissemination entertainment on mental anxiety disorder, 80 patients with mental anxiety were selected and randomly divided into a research group and a control group, with 40 patients in each group. The control group only received medication with paroxetine, while the research group received psychological intervention using vlog news dissemination and entertainment based on medication. The treatment period for both groups was 4 weeks. In addition, the analysis tools used in the study include the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A), and SPSS23.0.ResultsThe results showed that the scores on the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and Hamilton Anxiety Scale of the two groups of patients were lower than the pre-treatment levels (P<0.05), and the difference was statistically significant. The scores on the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and Hamilton Anxiety Scale in the research group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.05), and the difference was also statistically significant.ConclusionsIn summary, psychological intervention through the entertainment of vlog news dissemination has a certain alleviating effect on excessive mental anxiety.
Correlation between the quality of public service in stadiums and acute stress disorder among athletes
Authors: Zhang Huijun , Sun Xiaoli 
Published: October 2023

BackgroundAcute stress disorder, also known as acute stress response, refers to a transient mental disorder that occurs immediately after an individual experiences a sharp and severe traumatic event. Athletes are prone to encountering acute stress disorder during exercise, and failure to receive timely treatment can easily lead to the end of their sports career.Subjects and MethodsIn order to analyze the correlation between the quality of public service in large sports venues and acute emergency disorders among sports personnel, the study used tools such as the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90), Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA), Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD), and SPSS23.0. In addition, the study selected 70 athletes who had experienced sports injuries and divided them into a treatment group and a control group. Among them, the control group received medication with estazolam, while the public service quality of large sports venues was improved based on medication treatment in the treatment group. In addition, the treatment period for both groups of athletes was 4 weeks.ResultsThe results showed that the factors such as depression, terror, and anxiety in the treatment group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.05), indicating that this indicator has statistical significance. In addition, there was a significant improvement in individual support utilization (P<0.05), which also indicates that this indicator has statistical significance.ConclusionsTherefore, by improving the quality of public services in large sports venues, acute emergency barriers for sports personnel can be reduced.AcknowledgementPhilosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province (No. 2021SJA1923).