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Angiographic profile among patients with acute coronary syndrome in tertiary care centre: A retrospective cross-sectional study
Authors: Regmi Shyam Raj , Kurmi Ram Narayan , Hussain Asraf , Shah Dhiranjan Kumar 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBackgroundAcute coronary syndrome (ACS) is characterized by a variable presentation of vessel involvement, which significantly impacts morbidity and mortality rates. In this study, we aimed to investigate the angiographic findings in patients diagnosed with ACS.Materials and methodsWe conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study in the Cardiology Unit of the Department of Internal Medicine from January 1, 2022, to December 30, 2022, following ethical approval from the Institutional Review Committee (reference number: 079/080-161). We employed convenience sampling and calculated point estimates along with 95% confidence intervals.ResultsAmong the 192 patients included in the study, 129 (67.18%) were male, with an average age of 61.29 ± 12.50 years. The most prevalent angiographic findings were triple vessel disease (TVD) in 77 (40.10%) cases and involvement of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) in 157 (81.77%) cases. ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) was present in 134 (89.23%) cases. Diabetes mellitus was the most common risk factor, present in 122 (63.54%) patients. Complications arose in 44 (22.91%) patients, with arrhythmia occurring in 18 (40.90%) cases. The mean hospital stay was 4.42 ± 1.87 days, and 10 (5.20%) patients unfortunately passed away during their hospitalizationConclusionOur study revealed that triple vessel disease and involvement of the left anterior descending artery were the most frequent angiographic findings in patients with ACS. Additionally, diabetes mellitus emerged as the predominant modifiable risk factor, potentially contributing to the prevalence of multiple vessel involvement.
Engineering Material Properties of Transcription Factor Condensates to Control Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells and Mice
Authors: Fischer Alexandra A.M. , Robertson Hanah B. , Kong Deqiang , Grimm Merlin M. , Grether Jakob , Groth Johanna , Baltes Carsten , Fliegauf Manfred , Lautenschläger Franziska , Grimbacher Bodo , Ye Haifeng , Helms Volkhard , Weber Wilfried 
Published: October 2023

AbstractPhase separation of biomolecules into condensates is a key mechanism in the spatiotemporal organization of biochemical processes in cells. However, the impact of the material properties of biomolecular condensates on important processes, such as the control of gene expression, remains largely elusive. Here, we systematically tune the material properties of optogenetically induced transcription factor condensates and probe their impact on the activation of target promoters. We demonstrate that transcription factors in rather liquid condensates correlate with increased gene expression levels, whereas stiffer transcription factor condensates correlate with the opposite effect, a reduced activation of gene expression.We demonstrate the broad nature of these findings in mammalian cells and mice, as well as by using different synthetic and natural transcription factors. We observe these effects for both transgenic and cell-endogenous promoters. Our findings provide a novel materials-based layer in the control of gene expression, which opens novel opportunities in optogenetic engineering and synthetic biology.
Corporate governance meets corporate social responsibility: evidence from Latin America
Authors: Pinheiro Alan Bandeira , dos Santos Joina Ijuniclair Arruda Silva , da Silva Danielle Mantovani Lucena , Segatto Andréa Paula , Korelo Jose Carlos 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThis study aims to examine the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on social responsibility in Latin America.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses were tested using a sample of 371 companies based in eight Latin American countries, resulting in 4,823 observations.FindingsThe results show that more independent boards, with greater female representation and the presence of a sustainability committee lead companies to behave more ethically. The findings indicate that corporate governance mechanisms play an important role for companies to engage in social responsibility actions.Practical implicationsGovernments can use these findings to draft regulations that encourage Latin American companies to disclose more non-financial information and to support a more diverse board composition. The evidence shows that the quality of national governance plays a key role in times of crisis by encouraging more responsible behavior by companies.Originality/valueThis study broadens the scope of application of agency theory and the resource-based view by demonstrating that the board of directors is a unique composition and that organizations must understand how to balance external and internal members on their boards in order to achieve higher social and environmental performance.
Factors influencing micro-entrepreneurship among women SHG members of Sikkim: a propensity score matching approach
Authors: Prasad Smriti , Choubey Manesh 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThe paper identifies the influence of socio-economic factors and livelihood training in stimulating micro-entrepreneurship among women self-help group (SHG) members.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on a sample of 416 women SHG members drawn from all the four districts of Sikkim using cluster sampling procedure. A multivariate binary logistic model is used to find the impact of socio-economic factors, and a Poisson regression has been used to find the impact of training on fostering micro-entrepreneurship. The result is validated using a propensity score matching approach which corrects for the potential self-selection bias in the sample. Subsequently, a covariate adjustment estimator verifies the robustness of the approach.FindingsThe study finds that “size of landownership”, “amount of loan borrowed”, “member's age”, “number of earning and dependent members”, “number of years of SHG enrolment” as well as the “district to which the member belongs to” have a statistically significant influence on the graduation of SHG members to micro-entrepreneurs. Furthermore, it is found that members attending the livelihood training programmes had a significantly higher number of microenterprises.Originality/valueThe study differentiates itself by providing empirical evidence on how socio-economic factors and livelihood training stimulate micro-entrepreneurship among SHG women of Sikkim, which has so far remained unexplored. Moreover, advanced econometric method has been used to eliminate the possible self-selection bias involved with training participation and thereby provides reliable and robust results.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-01-2023-0070
Fraud analytics practices in public-sector transactions: a systematic review
Authors: Alfian Adhi , Ritchi Hamzah , Adrianto Zaldy 
Published: October 2023

PurposeIncreased fraudulent practices have heightened the need for innovation in anti-fraud programs, necessitating the development of analytics techniques for detecting and preventing fraud. The subject of fraud analytics will continue to expand in the future for public-sector organizations; therefore, this research examined the progress of fraud analytics in public-sector transactions and offers suggestions for its future development.Design/methodology/approachThis study systematically reviewed research on fraud analytics development in public-sector transactions. The review was conducted from June 2021 to June 2023 by identifying research objectives and questions, performing literature quality assessment and extraction, data synthesis and research reporting. The research mainly identified 43 relevant articles that were used as references.FindingsThis research examined fraud analytics development related to public-sector financial transactions. The results revealed that fraud analytics expansion has not spread equally, as most programs have been implemented by governments and healthcare organizations in developed countries. This research also exposed that the analytics optimization in fraud prevention is higher than for fraud detection. Such analytics help organizations detect fraud, improve business effectiveness and efficiency, and refine administrative systems and work standards.Research limitations/implicationsThis research offers comprehensive insights for researchers and public-sector professionals regarding current fraud analytics development in public-sector financial transactions and future trends.Originality/valueThis study presents the first systematic literature review to investigate the development of fraud analytics in public-sector transactions. The findings can aid scholars' and practitioners' future fraud analytics development.
Listening to diverse voices: inclusive pedagogy and culturally responsive teaching for library interactions
Authors: Gupta Aditi , Liu Ying , Lin Tsung-Cheng , Zhong Qichen , Suzuki Tad 
Published: October 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to summarize the findings from focus group interviews conducted with librarians and library staff, faculty and students. It highlights the significance of implementing inclusive teaching and culturally responsive strategies in instructional settings and interactions with library patrons and seeks to emphasize the importance of developing guidelines, best practices and effective strategies.Design/methodology/approachUsing focus groups, this study interviewed librarians and library staff, faculty and students. This research approach identified, reviewed and assessed existing programs and practices in instruction and library interactions.FindingsThe findings from this paper indicate that while faculty and librarians are making individual efforts to promote inclusivity in teaching and interacting with patrons, many participants expressed the necessity for institutional-level training, guidelines and good practices on how to achieve and implement culturally responsive and inclusive teaching strategies.Originality/valueThe methodology utilized in this study can be adapted by other libraries or institutions aiming to explore the practice of inclusive pedagogy and culturally responsive teaching within their own context. The insights from the study inform the development of strategies that librarians, faculty and staff can employ to integrate inclusive and culturally responsive teaching into their instruction and services for the wider academic community.
Does religion influence the household finance? Evidence from Europe
Authors: Ashqar Rashed Isam , Lobão Júlio 
Published: October 2023

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the influence of religious backgrounds and religiosity on three dimensions of household finance (the decision to hold secured debt, the likelihood of being in a state of financial distress and the likelihood of being in a state of financial well-being) across a large sample of European countries.

Design/methodology/approach
The study uses data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data set, spanning from 2004 to 2018. The authors conduct regression analysis to examine the relationship between religion and household financial choices.

Findings
The study finds that belonging to a predominantly Catholic or Orthodox (Protestant) country is negatively (positively) associated with the likelihood of holding a mortgage. Belonging to a mostly Catholic (Protestant) country is negatively (positively) associated with the likelihood of being in a state of financial distress. Belonging to a predominantly Catholic (Protestant) country is positively (negatively) associated with the likelihood of being in a state of financial well-being. These relationships remain robust after controlling for a large number of demographic and economic variables.

Originality/value
In this paper, the authors analyze for the first time the impact of religion on household finance in a wide range of European countries. It is also the first time that the EU-SILC database, which aggregates data on more than three million European households, is used for the study of this topic.
Ambient particulate matter air pollution exposure and ovarian cancer incidence in the USA: An ecological study
Authors: Kentros Peter A. , Huang Yongmei , Wylie Blair J. , Khoury‐Collado Fady , Hou June Y. , de Meritens Alexandre Buckley , St. Clair Caryn M. , Hershman Dawn L. , Wright Jason D. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate associations between air particulate matter of ≤2.5 μm in diameter (PM2.5) and ovarian cancer.DesignCounty‐level ecological study.SettingSurveillance, epidemiology, and end results from a collection of state‐level cancer registries across 744 counties. Data from the Environmental Protection Agency's network for PM2.5 monitoring was used to calculate trailing 5‐ and 10‐year PM2.5 county‐level values. County‐level data on demographic characteristics were obtained from the American Community Survey.PopulationA total of 98 751 patients with histologically confirmed ovarian cancer as a primary malignancy from 2000 to 2016.MethodsGeneralised linear regression models were developed to estimate the association between PM2.5 and PM10 levels, over 5‐ and 10‐year periods of exposure, and ovarian cancer risk, after accounting for county‐level covariates.Main outcome measuresRisk ratios for associations between ovarian cancer (both overall and specifically epithelial ovarian cancer) and PM2.5 levels.ResultsFor the 744 counties included, the average PM2.5 level from 1990 through 2018 was 11.75 μg/m3 (SD = 3.7) and the average PM10 level was 22.7 μg/m3 (SD = 5.7). After adjusting for county‐level covariates, the overall annualised ovarian cancer incidence was significantly associated with increases in 5‐year PM2.5 (RR = 1.11 per 10 units (μg/m3) increase, 95% CI 1.06–1.16). Similarly, when the analysis was limited to epithelial cell tumours and adjusted for county‐level covariates there was a significant association with trailing 5‐year PM2.5 exposure models (RR = 1.12 per 10 units increase, 95% CI 1.08–1.17). Likewise, 10‐year PM2.5 exposure was associated with ovarian cancer overall and with epithelial ovarian cancer.ConclusionsHigher county‐level ambient PM2.5 levels are associated with 5‐ and 10‐year incidences of ovarian cancer, as measurable in an ecological study.
Fossil image identification using deep learning ensembles of data augmented multiviews
Authors: Hou Chengbin , Lin Xinyu , Huang Hanhui , Xu Sheng , Fan Junxuan , Shi Yukun , Lv Hairong 
Published: October 2023

Abstract

Identification of fossil species is crucial to evolutionary studies. Recent advances from deep learning have shown promising prospects in fossil image identification. However, the quantity and quality of labelled fossil images are often limited due to fossil preservation, conditioned sampling and expensive and inconsistent label annotation by domain experts, which pose great challenges to training deep learning‐based image classification models.

To address these challenges, we follow the idea of the wisdom of crowds and propose a multiview ensemble framework, which collects Original (O), Grey (G) and Skeleton (S) views of each fossil image reflecting its different characteristics to train multiple base models, and then makes the final decision via soft voting.

Experiments on the largest fusulinid dataset with 2400 images show that the proposed OGS consistently outperforms baselines (using a single model for each view), and obtains superior or comparable performance compared to OOO (using three base models for three the same Original views). Besides, as the training data decreases, the proposed framework achieves more gains. While considering the identification consistency estimation with respect to human experts, OGS receives the highest agreement with the original labels of dataset and with the re‐identifications of two human experts. The validation performance provides a quantitative estimation of consistency across different experts and genera.

We conclude that the proposed framework can present state‐of‐the‐art performance in the fusulinid fossil identification case study. This framework is designed for general fossil identification and it is expected to see applications to other fossil datasets in future work. Notably, the result, which shows more performance gains as train set size decreases or over a smaller imbalance fossil dataset, suggests the potential application to identify rare fossil images. The proposed framework also demonstrates its potential for assessing and resolving inconsistencies in fossil identification.
Associations of religious and existential variables with psychosocial factors and biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in bereavement
Authors: Palitsky Roman , Chen Zhuo Job , Rentscher Kelly E. , Friedman Sydney E. , Wilson Da' Mere T. , Ruiz John M. , Sullivan Daniel , Grant George H. , O'Connor Mary‐Frances 
Published: October 2023

AbstractBereavement increases in prevalence as people age and is associated with multiple psychological and health risks, including cardiovascular risk. Religious and existential variables may play an important role in the health impacts of bereavement. Theorized pathways linking religious and existential variables with health have suggested these associations are due to intermediary psychosocial variables, but have not been tested in bereavement. This research empirically tested these pathways in a bereaved population. In N = 73 adults within 1 year of bereavement (mean age = 64.36), this study examined associations between (1) religious and existential characteristics (religious and spiritual struggles, intrinsic religiosity, and existential quest) and intermediary psychosocial variables (depression, loneliness, and difficulties in emotion regulation), and between (2) intermediary psychosocial variables and bereavement‐relevant health outcomes (self‐reported health, change in health since last year, grief severity, and cardiovascular biomarkers). Cardiovascular biomarkers (heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood pressure) were collected before, during, and after a laboratory grief recall emotion elicitation. Anticipated associations between self‐reported religious and existential characteristics and intermediary variables, and between intermediary variables and self‐reported bereavement‐relevant outcomes, were consistently observed. However, associations between intermediary variables and cardiovascular biomarkers were largely unobserved. This study examined the role of religious and existential variables in whole‐person health after bereavement and is among the first to include biomarkers of cardiovascular risk. Results suggest that although religious and existential variables are associated with important bereavement‐related outcomes, these associations may be “skin‐deep,” and extensions to cardiovascular functioning should be re‐examined.
‘Know when to fold 'em’: Policy uncertainty and acquisition abandonment
Authors: Ferguson Andrew , Hu Cecilia Wei , Lam Peter 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis study investigates how policy uncertainty affects the acquisition process during the post‐announcement period. Utilising a sample of Australian mining project acquisitions over 1998–2017, we find that rising policy uncertainty after initial acquisition announcements is associated with delays in deal completion. In addition, prolonged high policy uncertainty plays an important role in triggering acquisition abandonment. Further, the stock market reacts less negatively to deal abandonment decisions made amid protracted policy uncertainty, and such reactions are associated with managers' explanations for terminating the deals. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of policy uncertainty as a ‘deal‐breaker’ in acquisitions.
How well do we truly understand clitoral anatomy? An Irish maternity hospital's perspective
Authors: White Maeve , Byrne Hollie , Molphy Zara , Flood Karen 
Published: October 2023

BackgroundThe clitoris has long been ignored in medical literature and teaching, with the first paper describing its anatomy only published in 1993. It is essential that those working in women's health understand the anatomy of this important female sexual organ.AimsThe aim of this study was to assess the level of knowledge of the anatomy of the clitoris across five cohorts in a busy teaching maternity hospital in Ireland.Materials and MethodsA questionnaire was devised, asking ten consultants, ten non‐consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs), ten midwives, ten midwifery students and ten medical students to name the anatomical parts of a 3D model of the clitoris.ResultsNone of the 50 respondents could name all five labelled parts of the clitoris, and 38 of respondents could not correctly name one anatomical part.ConclusionsIt is evident that there is a lack of knowledge of the anatomical parts of the clitoris among the medical staff included in this study. This reflects a lack of adequate teaching in this area in both past and recent years. Despite this, we acknowledge that women's health and sexual health awareness is improving all of the time, and we hope that this study can highlight the need for reformed teaching in this area.
Is it a vicious circle and for whom? The reciprocal association between rumination and somatic symptoms and moderation by stress: A daily diary study among Chinese college students
Authors: Chen Bowen , Xie Mingjun , Zhang Yanjia , Zhang Hongfeng , Yu Nancy Xiaonan , Lin Danhua 
Published: October 2023

AbstractCollege students who experienced somatic symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic may engage in rumination, but their bidirectional nature remains underexplored. Symptom perception theory suggests a reciprocal relationship between rumination and somatic symptoms, and the multiple‐stressor perspective and the perseverative cognition hypothesis assume that the reciprocal association might be exacerbated by high stress. In this study, we examined temporal associations between rumination and somatic symptoms and variations by patterns of stress related to COVID‐19 and daily hassles. A total of 582 Chinese college students provided daily reports on rumination, somatic symptoms, COVID‐related stress, and daily hassles for seven consecutive days in November 2020. A cross‐lagged panel model showed a positive reciprocal association between rumination and somatic symptoms. Greater rumination predicted more next‐day somatic symptoms, and more somatic symptoms increased next‐day rumination. Dual trajectory analysis identified four stress patterns of COVID‐related stress and daily hassles (i.e. low‐low, low‐high, high‐low, and high‐high), and multi‐group analysis found the reciprocal association only presented in the high‐high group. Our findings indicate a vicious circle between rumination and somatic symptoms that is dependent on heterogeneous stress patterns. Attention should be paid to the high‐risk group with both high levels of COVID‐related stress and daily hassles.