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A Biopsychosocial Framework for Apathy Following Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Authors: Quang Halle , Wearne Travis , Filipcikova Michaela , Pham Nhi , Nguyen Nhi , McDonald Skye 
Published: December 2023

AbstractApathy, the deficit of goal-directed behaviour, is well recognised as one of the most debilitating syndromes after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, mechanisms underlying apathy, or at least factors associated with apathy, are sporadically reported. Based on a biopsychosocial framework, this systematic review and meta-analysis synthesised evidence regarding neurobiological, socio-environmental and individual factors associated with apathy. Our searches identified 21 studies satisfying inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results showed that the majority of work has focused on cognitive dysfunction, TBI-related factors, demographic variables and psychological correlates of apathy, while evidence for neural substrates and socio-cultural and premorbid aspects is scant. Overall, the current literature suggests that TBI-related and patient demographic factors did not contribute to apathy after TBI, whereas complex neurocognitive alterations, socio-environmental and cultural factors as well as patients’ self-related factors may be important components. The evidence points to the multifaceted interplay of certain biopsychosocial contributors to apathy and suggests future investigations of more complex behavioural traits, cultural elements and pre-injury levels to better characterise the aetiology of this detrimental impairment after TBI.
A double-zero bifurcation in a Lorenz-like system
Authors: Algaba Antonio , Domínguez-Moreno M. Cinta , Merino Manuel , Rodríguez-Luis Alejandro J. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe Lorenz system presents a double-zero bifurcation (a double-zero eigenvalue with geometric multiplicity two). However, its study by means of standard techniques is not possible because it occurs for a non-isolated equilibrium. To circumvent this difficulty, we add in the third equation a new term, $$Dz^2$$

D

z
2

. In this Lorenz-like system, the analysis of the double-zero bifurcation of the equilibrium at the origin guarantees, for certain values of the parameters, the existence of a heteroclinic cycle between the two equilibria located on the z-axis. The numerical continuation in parameter space of the locus of heteroclinic connections allows to detect various degeneracies of codimension two and three, some of which have not been previously studied in the literature. These bifurcations are organizing centers of the complicated dynamics exhibited by this system. Furthermore, studying how the bifurcation sets evolve when D tends to zero, we are able to explain, in the Lorenz system, the origin of several global connections which are related to T-point heteroclinic loops.
Hearing God speak? Debunking arguments and everyday religious experiences
Authors: Launonen Lari 
Published: December 2023

AbstractAgainst claims that cognitive science of religion undercuts belief in God, many defenders of theistic belief have invoked the Religious Reasons Reply: science cannot undercut belief in God if one has good independent reasons to believe. However, it is unclear whether this response helps salvage the god beliefs of most people. This paper considers four questions: (1) What reasons do Christians have for believing in God? (2) What kinds of beliefs about God can the reasons support? (3) Are the reasons rationalizations? (4) Can cognitive science undercut the reasons? Many Christians invoke everyday religious experiences (EREs)—such as experiences of divine presence, guidance, and communication—as reasons to believe. Unlike another popular reason to believe in God (the appearance of design and beauty in nature), EREs can support beliefs about a relational God who is present to me, who guides my life, and who speaks to me. EREs are not rationalizations since they seem to cause and sustain such beliefs. Nonetheless, EREs like experiences of hearing God speak are problematic reasons to believe. ‘Soft’ voice-hearing experiences are easily undercut. ‘Hard’ experiences of an external, audible voice are probably underpinned by similar cognitive processes as audio-verbal hallucinations.
Water Microturbines for Sustainable Applications: Optimization Analysis and Experimental Validation
Authors: Rodríguez-Pérez A. M. , Rodríguez-Gonzalez C. A. , López R. , Hernández-Torres J. A. , Caparrós-Mancera J. J. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe use of microturbines in irrigation applications represents a great opportunity for increasing sustainable energy generation. Irrigation systems have water flow that can be used to generate electricity based on microturbines that are acceptably configure such, that efficiency in crop irrigation is not affected. This research validates this use of microturbines through a system designed specifically for the characterization of microturbine generation technology. This system includes a closed water pumping circuit capable of working under, different water flow settings, as well as flow, pressure, and electricity generation sensors. For this system, the production range of the microturbines and the pressure loss associated with the various proposed configurations are characterized and specifically quantified for the best performance. After design and characterization of a scalable microturbine system, the feasibility and benefits of this application to supporting most relevant crops supplied by localized irrigation are analysed. The experiments demonstrate the greatest benefit with the implementation of 15 series microturbines each at 80 V, alongside non-Citrus fruit, where a favourable balance is achieved for the amortization period in vineyards and citrus fruit. The results validate a profitable and sustainable design for electricity generation, with return on investment rates of up to 53%. Therefore, this research offers real and extensive applications, while being scalable to rural, residential, urban and industrial settings.
FLT3 targeting in the modern era: from clonal selection to combination therapies
Authors: Kennedy Vanessa E. , Smith Catherine C. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractFms-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) is the most frequently mutated gene in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Modern targeting of FLT3 with inhibitors has improved clinical outcomes and FLT3 inhibitors have been incorporated into the treatment of AML in all phases of the disease, including the upfront, relapsed/refractory and maintenance settings. This review will discuss the current understanding of FLT3 biology, the clinical use of FLT3 inhibitors, resistance mechanisms and emerging combination treatment strategies.
Effects and acceptability of virtual reality to facilitate mindfulness practice in university students
Authors: Modrego-Alarcón Marta , Morillo Héctor , Campos Daniel , Navarro-Gil María Teresa , Montero-Marín Jesús , Monreal-Bartolomé Alicia , García-Campayo Javier , López-Del-Hoyo Yolanda 
Published: December 2023

AbstractMindfulness practices have proven to be effective for improving the mental health of many populations, including university students. However, these practices can be challenging for naive meditators. Virtual reality (VR) can create virtual scenarios that facilitate the practice of mindfulness. This study presents secondary data from a randomized controlled trial on the effects and acceptability of mindfulness-based VR environments conducted with a sample of university students. Specifically, it involved a single condition (n = 93) receiving an intervention that comprised six short mindfulness sessions in VR. Measurements were taken of participants’ state mindfulness and emotional state immediately before and after the implementation of each VR environment. Sense of presence was measured subsequent to each VR environment. Furthermore, participants were asked to rate their expectations for at baseline and satisfaction with the experience after the intervention. Participants significantly improved both state mindfulness and emotional states, and they reported a moderate-to-strong sense of presence in each of the VR environments. Moreover, participants reported high expectation and satisfaction scores for the intervention. This study shows the potential of VR in mindfulness, although there is a need for more research in this area and, in particular, more sophisticated trial designs.
Comparing the Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention and Progressive Muscle Relaxation in a Military Context
Authors: Krick Annika , Felfe Jörg 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Objectives
While stressors of military deployment are known to have profound effects on health, less is known about effective methods for promoting health. A few studies have examined the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in this context; however, fewer have used an active control group and objective health indicators. Therefore, this study examined the effects of an MBI in comparison to a similarly structured traditional stress management intervention (progressive muscle relaxation, PMR) on health indicators among military personnel.

Method
Using a 2 (pre vs. post) × 3 (group: MBI, PMR vs. inactive control group, ICG) experimental mixed design, participants (MBI, n = 118; PMR, n = 55; ICG, n = 156) answered baseline and post-intervention self-reported measures. Physiological parameters were assessed before and after each session.

Results
Results showed that MBI is superior to PMR and ICG, leading to higher increases in mindfulness, positive affect, and self-care, and greater decreases in physical complaints. This is also confirmed by objective data. Participants in the MBI demonstrated improved heart rate variability and reduced heart rate, while no change was evident for PMR and ICG. However, both MBI and PMR were equally effective in reducing strain.

Conclusions
This study provides further evidence for the effectiveness of MBIs in this specific professional group based on rigorous methodology (comparing to a competing intervention, self-reported and objective measures). MBI is even more effective than PMR as a traditional health intervention in terms of promoting mindfulness, positive affect, and health behavior, as well as reducing complaints.

Preregistration
This study is not preregistered.
A New Approach to Measure Absorptive Capacity and Appropriability: a Case of Study in Emerging Markets
Authors: Cuéllar Sergio , Fernandez-Bajón Maria Teresa , de Moya Anegón Felix 
Published: December 2023

AbstractAbsorptive capacity (AC) and appropriability (KA) are crucial elements in generating competitive advantages and improving innovation performance in different countries and organizations. Moreover, the relationship between AC and KA has not been sufficiently studied, and there is still not a clear understanding of the impact they have on in the generation of rents and value. This research proposes a methodology to analyze AC and KA at a country level using the scientific capabilities of a country as base. We identified the Colombian scientific literature SKL (1680 record) from the Patents Lens database, which have been cited at least once or more per patent (3066 records), and we identified the papers that were cited by this SKL (50,697) in order identify the flows between forward citations (FC) and backward citations (BC) at a country level. We associated BC to the AC acquisition stage, SKL to assimilation, and FC to transformation and exploitation AC phases. The patents were also associated with KA. In addition, we focused on the KA process, analyzing the organizations involved in the SKL and KA process by studying when KA was done by local organizations, by international organizations in the SKL development, or when knowledge was leaked -knowledge spillovers- KS. Finally, we identified when the SKL organization was the corresponding author to analyze whether KA changes in these situations. Our main conclusion was that KA and the last stages of AC of native scientific development rarely happen in Colombia. The primary outcome of this absorption is a KS.
Committing to reproducibility and explainability: using Git as a research journal
Authors: Huskey Samuel J. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractTraditional critical editions in print offer a model for creating a culture of reproducible and explainable research in Digital Humanities. In addition to explaining their editorial methods and practices in a preface, editors provide a critical apparatus to allow readers to evaluate the evidence and decide for themselves whether the editor’s judgment is sound. This paper will argue for viewing distributed, version-controlled data repositories (e.g., Git) in the same way, to empower users to follow the choices and methods of DH researchers and to reproduce their work. Using examples from a current project, this paper will propose some guidelines for using Git to promote reproducibility and explainability in the publication of DH research of all kinds.
Do air pollution levels influence enforcement by regulators? Evidence from China
Authors: Li Chaofan , Zhou Pin 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship between air pollution levels and regulators’ enforcement levels and observes that air pollution levels in firms’ locations reduce enforcement from regulators. Moreover, regulators are more likely to suffer from type II errors when air pollution levels in firms’ locations are higher, verifying the effect of regulators’ unwillingness to travel due to air pollution. The cross-sectional analysis suggests that enforcement from regulatory authorities in areas with lower air pollution levels than in firms’ locations, positioned at great distances from firms’ locations, and with greater workloads is less strict when air pollution levels in firms’ locations are higher. We further test whether air pollution levels reduce the efficiency of regulators and find that firms with lower earnings quality and weaker corporate governance are less likely to be subjected to enforcement by regulators when air pollution levels in the firms’ locations are higher.
Abortion education: teaching the next generation of clinicians
Authors: Ishii Megan , Albrecht Sarah , Raidoo Shandhini , Stowers Paris 
Published: December 2023

AbstractAbortion is a safe and common part of essential healthcare. To ensure patients have access to comprehensive reproductive care, clinical educators are tasked with training the next generation of clinicians in abortion care in the setting of growing restrictions. Medical schools and residency program programs must adopt purposeful strategies to optimize abortion education and increase educational efficacy. Abortion training should ideally combine hands-on clinical skills such as ultrasound imaging and procedural abortion techniques, as well as discussions of medical ethics, advocacy, and strategies to emotionally support patients.
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach
Authors: Doré Natalia Izelli , Teixeira Aurora A. C. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis paper assesses Brazil's real convergence (1822–2019) through unit root tests and Markov Regime-Switching (MS) models in three different scenarios: towards (i) other six Latin American countries (LA6); (ii) Portugal; and (iii) the technological frontier country, the US. The extended unit root test results favour Brazil's very long-run real convergence towards LA6 and Portugal, but not the US. The estimated MS models, involving two different regimes, real convergence and real non-convergence/divergence, capture institutional quality's positive effect in promoting Brazil's real convergence.
Grassland Greening and Water Resource Availability May Coexist in a Warming Climate in Northern China and the Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Zhang Caijin , Long Di , Liu Tingxi , Slater Louise J. , Wang Guoqiang , Zuo Depeng , Duan Limin , Cui Yanhong , Cui Yingjie 
Published: December 2023

AbstractGreening of Northern China and the Tibetan Plateau (NCTP) has been observed by increases in the remotely sensed leaf area index (LAI), driven primarily by CO2 fertilization effects, anthropogenic warming, and the implementation of ecological restoration programs. Continued growth of LAI throughout the 21st century is also projected by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) scenarios. However, the question of whether local water resources can sustain ongoing grassland greening has not been adequately investigated. Here we assessed the sustainability of water resources under grassland greening across NCTP under various climate scenarios using water yield (WY, defined as precipitation minus actual evapotranspiration) as the key metric. Unexpectedly, we observe the coexistence of increases in LAI and WY in most of NCTP. In a warming climate with increasing precipitation and CO2, we find that grasses maintain high water use efficiency to sustain their growth, contributing to continued local water resource availability. Thus, livestock production may also continue to increase under the simultaneous growth of LAI and WY in the future.
A Statistics‐Based Analytical Framework for Intratidal and Tidally Averaged Salinity Distribution in Estuaries
Authors: Laurel‐Castillo Jorge Armando , Valle‐Levinson Arnoldo 
Published: December 2023

AbstractNear year‐long time series of salinity at five stations were used to depict the intratidal and subtidal salinity structure along an estuary: the Suwannee River in West Florida. The salinity field was described with statistical and analytical methods. Along‐estuary salinity distributions were first characterized with Hilbert Empirical Orthogonal Functions (HEOFs). Then, an analytical function, based on advection‐diffusion processes, was fitted to the amplitude and phase of the HEOFs to understand the direction of salinity transport due to riverine and oceanic pulses. The statistical and analytical approach proposed here, showed how the salinity distribution varied throughout the year depending on the subtidal water level and the river discharge. Also, the approach identified the dominance of oceanic or riverine pulses in molding the salinity field.
A Lagrangian Perspective on the Atlantic and Pacific Precipitation‐Evaporation Asymmetry
Authors: Craig P. M. , Ferreira D. , Methven J. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractTotal precipitation minus evaporation (P − E) for the Atlantic is negative while it is approximately neutral for the Pacific. This has frequently been attributed to westward Atlantic‐to‐Pacific moisture flux across Central America. However, this Eulerian perspective has limited scope as it does not consider the origins of the water crossing ocean drainage basin boundaries and the possibility that it has remote sources. By using an airmass trajectory model, we take a Lagrangian approach to investigate the origin of the moisture contributing to fluxes, Qn, across these boundaries. Qn is partitioned into contributions from each basin, the stratosphere and trajectories not assigned an origin. The total Qn across each basin boundary are mainly composed of contributions from the two adjacent basins while remote or stratospheric origins make small contributions. Partitioning Qn shows that the atmosphere exports ∼1 Sv water vapor from the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins with a similar quantity imported to the Pacific. However, Atlantic and Indian atmospheric imports are ∼0.5–0.6 Sv. Normalizing by drainage basin perimeters reveals that the import to these basins is half as efficient as Pacific import. Partitioning P − E into contributions from other basins shows that Pacific moisture import is dominated by trajectories with Indian basin origin (∼38%, or 0.43 Sv, of total Pacific import). The import is greatest in boreal summer due to the Asian monsoon flow and stronger westward flux across Central America. These anomalies dominate the difference in annual imports between the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian basins.
Summer Extreme Rainfall Over the Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River: Role of Synoptic Patterns in Historical Changes and Future Projections
Authors: Hu Yang , Lin Yanluan , Deng Yi , Bao Jiawei 
Published: December 2023

AbstractIt is one of the major challenges in climate science to project future changes in extreme rainfall. To overcome this challenge, in this study, four typical synoptic patterns (SPs) triggering summer extreme rainfall over the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River (MLYR) are identified through hierarchical clustering. These typical SPs share common characteristics of intensified Mei‐yu trough and Western Pacific Subtropical High but differ in terms of mid‐latitudes disturbances, such as an intensified ridge (Cluster 1, Cluster 2) or trough (Cluster 3, Cluster 4) near Lake Baikal (Cluster 1, Cluster 3) or Northeast China (Cluster 2, Cluster 4). The linkage between extreme rainfall and typical SPs is verified at various time scales. The typical SPs associated with extreme rainfall are substantially different from the circulation patterns found on ordinary days, and their frequency is significantly correlated with that of extreme rainfall across the interannual scales. Furthermore, the distinct changes in different typical SPs serve as a “bridge” for understanding the long‐term impact of circulation changes on local extreme rainfall, even though the two do not appear to be connected at first sight. Specifically, the circulation changes imply more (less) frequent SP‐Cluster 1 (SP‐Cluster 3), which tends to produce more extreme rainfall to the south (north) of the Yangtze River within MLYR. To project future changes in extreme rainfall, we utilize a weighting method for the multi‐model ensemble based on each model's capability to capture the observed typical SPs. This method effectively narrows the inter‐model spread.
The human neuropsychiatric risk gene Drd2 is necessary for social functioning across evolutionary distant species
Authors: Ike Kevin G. O. , Lamers Sanne J. C. , Kaim Soumya , de Boer Sietse F. , Buwalda Bauke , Billeter Jean-Christophe , Kas Martien J. H. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe Drd2 gene, encoding the dopamine D2 receptor (D2R), was recently indicated as a potential target in the etiology of lowered sociability (i.e., social withdrawal), a symptom of several neuropsychiatric disorders such as Schizophrenia and Major Depression. Many animal species show social withdrawal in response to stimuli, including the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster and mice, which also share most human disease-related genes. Here we will test for causality between Drd2 and sociability and for its evolutionary conserved function in these two distant species, as well as assess its mechanism as a potential therapeutic target. During behavioral observations in groups of freely interacting D. melanogaster, Drd2 homologue mutant showed decreased social interactions and locomotor activity. After confirming Drd2’s social effects in flies, conditional transgenic mice lacking Drd2 in dopaminergic cells (autoreceptor KO) or in serotonergic cells (heteroreceptor KO) were studied in semi-natural environments, where they could freely interact. Autoreceptor KOs showed increased sociability, but reduced activity, while no overall effect of Drd2 deletion was observed in heteroreceptor KOs. To determine acute effects of D2R signaling on sociability, we also showed that a direct intervention with the D2R agonist Sumanirole decreased sociability in wild type mice, while the antagonist showed no effects. Using a computational ethological approach, this study demonstrates that Drd2 regulates sociability across evolutionary distant species, and that activation of the mammalian D2R autoreceptor, in particular, is necessary for social functioning.