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Ethical reflections on groundwater in contaminated areas
Authors: Bento Sofia , Melo M. Teresa Condesso de , Gramaglia Christelle 
Published: December 2023

AbstractGroundwater science has a well-known relationship with social issues when dealing with risk assessment, yet there is a lack of case studies on the topic. Here, we present reflections for dealing with two ethical challenges: (i) the access and use of public domain monitoring data and (ii) the dissemination of scientific research data and its controversial character. The case study is a long-term collaborative research project aiming to bridge the social and natural sciences to tackle ethical questions and their implications for technical reporting and scientific production in a highly contaminated area situated in Portugal. The method included comprehensive interviews with hydrogeologists within the common project, the consulting of documents and the collaborative analysis of situations in online meetings between sociologists and hydrogeologists. The interviews and formal discussions were recorded, transcribed and analysed. In the two cases related to groundwater assessment in contaminated areas we found that researchers refer to emotions and moral dilemmas when they come into regular contact with social actors. Results also show that a different kind of knowledge is produced in these cases and point to three types of researchers’ positionality. The significance of this paper is to encourage reflection and action on ethical issues in the scientific community and specifically in geoethics. Bringing researchers together to share their practice will help to disentangle some of the negative emotions and moral dilemmas of scientific practice and increase the attention researchers pay to other people’s points of view and interests so as to improve the robustness of scientific data.
Investigation of graded channel effect on analog/linearity parameter analysis of junctionless surrounded gate graded channel MOSFET
Authors: Misra Sarita , Biswal Sudhansu Mohan , Baral Biswajit , Pati Sudhansu Kumar 
Published: December 2023

AbstractLinearity analysis of nanoscale devices is a vital issue as nonlinearity behavior is exhibited by them when employed in circuits for microwave and RF applications. In this work, a junctionless surrounded gate-graded channel MOSFET (JLSGGC MOSFET) is investigated thoroughly to analyze its linearity performance with the help of ATLAS tool of technology computer-aided design. The proposed device is compared systematically with the conventional junstionless surrounded gate MOSFET(JLSG MOSFET) to investigate their linearity. To evaluate the linearity, the figure of merits such as higher-order transconductance (Gm1, Gm2), intercept points(VIP2, VIP3, IIP3), IMD3 and 1 dB—compression point(P1 dB) are considered. The linearity of our proposed device improves by 35.5% in view of the compression point in comparison to JLSG MOSFET before the threshold voltage region of operation. The simulation results reveal a substantial enhancement in the linearity performance of the JLSGGC MOSFET. The improved linearity behavior of JLSGGC MOSFET makes it suitable for wireless RF and system-on-chip applications.Analog/RF performance is studied in terms of intrinsic gain (Gm/Gds), cut-off frequency (fT),maximum frequency of oscillation (fmax).Improved analog/RF performances of JLSGGC MOSFET suggests its applications in high frequency operating range.
Some lessons learned and still to be learned about the role of forests and urban green areas during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Bonanno Giuseppe , Veneziano Vincenzo 
Published: December 2023

AbstractForests and green areas proved to be crucial and unexpected allies in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, urban and suburban green areas acted as propelling centers of public health during the most severe periods of lockdown. The exploitation of forested areas also contributed to mitigating the economic impact of job losses during the pandemic. This study specifically focused on the lessons that still need to be learned and suggested possible strategies for strengthening the lessons learned from COVID-19. Based on our investigation, we found that the use of urban green areas is significantly dependent on cultural and socioeconomic factors, and the increased interest in suburban green areas suggests a generally insufficient level of urban green spaces. Moreover, the exploitation of forests favored greater illegal deforestation in economically depressed countries, which led to biodiversity disruption and the further impoverishment of natural wood resources. First, as many citizens as possible, across different age, gender, cultural and socioeconomic conditions, should be encouraged to maintain the healthy habits that they developed during the pandemic. This may be accomplished by making cities more inclusive through the promotion of societal values, social cohesion and awareness campaigns. People should be encouraged to benefit from suburban green areas through increased connectivity between cities and their surrounding natural zones. Moreover, the promotion of the sustainable use of forested lands will contribute to not only ecological but also economic recovery through the creation of green jobs. Therefore, the greatest lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic is something that we have always known: equity is the guiding principle for a more resilient world.
Reporting or marketing? The discourse on technology in educational landscape reports
Authors: Heinsfeld Bruna Damiana , Marone Vittorio 
Published: December 2023

AbstractEducational landscape reports have historically contributed to advocating for changes that would benefit learners, including recommendations for digital technologies and their use. The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected education, pushing institutions to quickly adapt to the emergency through the use of technology. This scenario has impacted the discourse on educational technologies and their implementation. Seeking to better understand this discourse and its potential impact on education, drawing from a range of scholarly literature—including discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, and studies on educational technology and change—this study focuses on how technology has been presented in a major yearly publication in 2020, 2021, and 2022. This study adds to the literature by presenting findings that show that technology corporations can play a crucial role in shaping educational technology discourses in landscape reports, including how technology should be adopted and the very future of higher education. Additionally, it reinforces the need for critical awareness of how different publications may push corporate agendas disguised as impartial expert guidance.
Roundtable discussion: progress of urban informatics in urban planning
Authors: Liu Chao , Ye Xinyue , Yuan Xiaoru , Long Ying , Zhang Wenwen , Guan Chenghe , Zhang Fan 
Published: December 2023

AbstractWith the rapid development of computer technology, urban informatics, as a new discipline in the field of urban planning, has gradually attracted academic attention. The rise of urban informatics puts new pressures on urban planning, but it also provides a new perspective of analysis. This paper is a summary of a panel discussion among scholars in urban informatics held at the 2020 International Association for China Planning(IACP).In this context, the panel outlines the definition of urban informatics, and the difference between urban informatics and urban analytic and computing, and found that urban informatics pays more attention to end user. This indicates that urban informatics has been more than a supporting role in urban planning or design, and is increasingly integrated with urban planning. The panel also discusses the connotation of urban informatics and its wide application in practice, and illustrates with examples. At the same time, the team identifies the difficulties of its development mainly reflected in the two aspects of resources and talents, and the learners of urban planning discipline have natural advantage in learning urban informatics. Finally, the panel discusses how to improve teaching, and concludes that the promotion of good cases, discipline integration, training data thinking rather than focusing too much on methods and other concepts. All in all, this panel's report contributes to the wider discussion about the role of urban informatics plays in urban planning.
Shoutings, Scoldings, Gossip, and Whispers: Mothers’ Responses to Armed Actors and Militarization in Two Caracas Barrios
Authors: Zubillaga Verónica , Hanson Rebecca 
Published: December 2023

AbstractHow do mothers deal with chronic violence and the constant presence of guns in their neighborhoods? How do they build situated meaning and discursive practices out of their experiences and relationships with armed actors? We compare the experiences of women in two poor and working-class neighborhoods in Caracas. Through this comparative ethnographic project, we aim to show how, in the midst of state-sponsored depredation and with an overwhelming presence of guns in their lives, women use their cultural roles as mothers to perform everyday forms of resistance vis-à-vis the different armed actors that impose their presence in the barrios. In the mothers’ daily struggles, dramatic discursive actions—from more openly oppositional ones, such as shouting, scolding, and talking, to more hidden ones, such as both “circulating gossip” and “captive gossip,” to more vulnerable ones, such as whispering—are main resources in the micropolitics of their neighborhoods. Our findings suggest that strategies are context dependent and most likely vary according to numerous factors, including the history of civic organizing, policing practices, and the type of armed actor with whom they cohabitate in their neighborhood.
The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey V: Cataloguing the sky at 1 367.5 MHz and the second data release of RACS-mid
Authors: Duchesne S. W. , Grundy J. A. , Heald George H. , Lenc Emil , Leung James K. , McConnell David , Murphy Tara , Pritchard Joshua , Rose Kovi , Thomson Alec J. M. , Wang Yuanming , Wang Ziteng , Whiting Matthew T. 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has surveyed the sky at multiple frequencies as part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). The first two RACS observing epochs, at 887.5 (RACS-low) and 1 367.5 (RACS-mid) MHz, have been released (McConnell, et al. 2020, PASA, 37, e048; Duchesne, et al. 2023, PASA, 40, e034). A catalogue of radio sources from RACS-low has also been released, covering the sky south of declination

$+30^{\circ}$

(Hale, et al., 2021, PASA, 38, e058). With this paper, we describe and release the first set of catalogues from RACS-mid, covering the sky below declination

$+49^{\circ}$

. The catalogues are created in a similar manner to the RACS-low catalogue, and we discuss this process and highlight additional changes. The general purpose primary catalogue covering 36 200 deg

$^2$

features a variable angular resolution to maximise sensitivity and sky coverage across the catalogued area, with a median angular resolution of

$11.2^{\prime\prime} \times 9.3^{\prime\prime}$

. The primary catalogue comprises 3 105 668 radio sources, including those in the Galactic Plane (2 861 923 excluding Galactic latitudes of

$|b|<5^{\circ}$

), and we estimate the catalogue to be 95% complete for sources above 2 mJy. With the primary catalogue, we also provide two auxiliary catalogues. The first is a fixed-resolution, 25-arcsec catalogue approximately matching the sky coverage of the RACS-low catalogue. This 25-arcsec catalogue is constructed identically to the primary catalogue, except images are convolved to a less-sensitive 25-arcsec angular resolution. The second auxiliary catalogue is designed for time-domain science and is the concatenation of source lists from the original RACS-mid images with no additional convolution, mosaicking, or de-duplication of source entries to avoid losing time-variable signals. All three RACS-mid catalogues, and all RACS data products, are available through the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (https://research.csiro.au/casda/).
Dietary inclusion of Clostridium butyricum cultures alleviated impacts of high-carbohydrate diets in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Authors: Tao Jiajie , Gong Ye , Chen Shiwen , Li Wenfei , Xie Ruitao , Zhang Haitao , Chen Naisong , Huang Xuxiong , Li Songlin 
Published: December 2023

AbstractA 60-d feeding trial was conducted to explore the potential regulatory effects of dietary Clostridium butyricum cultures (CBC) supplementation in high-carbohydrate diet (HCD) on carbohydrate utilisation, antioxidant capacity and intestinal microbiota of largemouth bass. Triplicate groups of largemouth bass (average weight 35·03 ± 0·04 g), with a destiny of twenty-eight individuals per tank, were fed low-carbohydrate diet and HCD supplemented with different concentration of CBC (0 %, 0·25 %, 0·50 % and 1·00 %). The results showed that dietary CBC inclusion alleviated the hepatic glycogen accumulation induced by HCD intake. Additionally, the expression of hepatic ampkα1 and insulin signaling pathway-related genes (ira, irb, irs, p13kr1 and akt1) increased linearly with dietary CBC inclusion, which might be associated with the activation of glycolysis-related genes (gk, pfkl and pk). Meanwhile, the expression of intestinal SCFA transport-related genes (ffar3 and mct1) was significantly increased with dietary CBC inclusion. In addition, the hepatic antioxidant capacity was improved with dietary CBC supplementation, as evidenced by linear decrease in malondialdehyde concentration and expression of keap1, and linear increase in antioxidant enzyme activities (total antioxidative capacity, total superoxide dismutase and catalase) and expression of antioxidant enzyme-related genes (nrf2, sod1, sod2 and cat). The analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA V3–4 region indicated that dietary CBC inclusion significantly reduced the enrichment of Firmicutes and potential pathogenic bacteria genus Mycoplasma but significantly elevated the relative abundance of Fusobacteria and Cetobacterium. In summary, dietary CBC inclusion improved carbohydrate utilization, antioxidant capacity and intestinal microbiota of largemouth bass fed HCD.
Medieval Meaning Makers: Addressing Historical Challenges and Rejuvenating Ritual through Allegorical Interpretation of the Liturgy
Authors: Even-Ezra Ayelet 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis article studies the act of suggesting symbolic meanings for Christian divine office in medieval Europe. Twentieth-century anthropology placed great emphasis on the anthropologist as an interpreter of symbolic meanings of ritual, but while using indigenous explanations, it did not address explication as a social practice. The phenomenon of systematic symbolical explanation in medieval Europe, I propose, invites a shift in research questions from “what does ritual signify?” to “who proposes symbolic values for ritual, from which position, to whom, when, and why?” The first part of the article analyzes the ninth-century pioneering work of Amalar of Metz, while the second part turns to the heyday of the allegorical enterprise in the twelfth century, in the work of authors such as Rupert of Deutz and Honorius Augustudinensis. Applied to liturgy, the allegorical practice is shown to function as a sophisticated tool to address diversity and historical change, and as a contemplative means to rejuvenate ritual and afford delight in light of contemporary challenges.
Guess Who's Coming to Church: The Chicago Defender, the Federal Council of Churches, and Rethinking Shared Faith in Interracial Religious Practice
Authors: Stell William 
Published: December 2023

AbstractOn the cover page of the September 23, 1922, issue of the Chicago Defender, editor Robert S. Abbott announced Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday. Less than a month later, the Federal Council of Churches announced its inaugural Race Relations Sunday. Through a comparative analysis of these two events, this article reconsiders historians’ tendency to assume and emphasize a shared faith across racial lines when discussing interracial religious practice in various historical contexts. Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday was intended both to introduce white churchgoers to black respectability and to provide moral guidance to white churchgoers, whose racism rendered their faith something other than true Christianity. Notwithstanding ceremonial nods to interracial religious brotherhood, Abbott's campaign hinged more so on shared understandings of respectability than on shared Christian faith. While the FCC's Race Relations Sunday differed in its valorization of white Christianity, with proclamations that interracial religious brotherhood was sufficient to solve “the race problem,” both events displayed a shared faith in the power of interracial proximity in itself to accomplish their respective ends. Historians have replicated this problematic faith in interracial proximity by using language of racial transcendence and writing as if interracial religious practice is egalitarian unless proven otherwise. This article calls for more critical, contextually mindful approaches.
CYBER OPERATIONS AND THE STATUS OF DUE DILIGENCE OBLIGATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
Authors: Kenny Jack 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThis article adopts a critical approach towards scholarship seeking to identify binding due diligence obligations for States in cyberspace. The article demonstrates that due diligence obligations are anchored in specific primary rules and are not a universal standalone source from which it is possible to derive binding obligations for all areas of activity. The consensus position of States in United Nations fora clearly determines that due diligence in cyberspace is a voluntary, non-binding norm of responsible State behaviour, and there is currently insufficient State practice and opinio juris to support the development of a customary rule containing binding due diligence obligations in cyberspace. Consequently, the article concludes that attempts to establish binding due diligence obligations in cyberspace constitute lex ferenda that may be understood as an interventionist attempt by scholars to fill what they perceive to be dangerous legal gaps.
Overcoming hybridisation in global welfare regime classifications: lessons from a single case study
Authors: Mumtaz Zahid , Roumpakis Antonios , Sumarto Mulyadi 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The hybridisation of welfare regimes is a critical issue in social policy literature due to the lack of a uniform dependent variable and the comparative, international scope of social policy analysis, and data availability. We argue that what is presented in the global welfare regime literature as an analytical problem of classification or transitioning could also, in fact, be treated as a methodological issue. Based on this, we aim to establish a criterion for determining the membership of a welfare regime by capturing the presence of hybridisation of welfare regimes in a given country at a particular time. We present a novel methodological approach based on multistage sampling to capture the hybridisation of distinct welfare regimes and determine the most populous cluster in Pakistan. Establishing criteria for capturing and determining welfare regime membership can improve the understanding of welfare regime dynamics and factors that contribute to hybridisation. Ultimately, this knowledge can inform policy decisions and contribute to the development of more effective welfare systems for diverse populations.
Circular RNA hsa_circ_0001846 facilitates the malignant behaviors of pancreatic cancer by sponging miR-204-3p and upregulating KRAS expression
Authors: Ma Xiaolei , Zhang Haocheng , Wang Luning , Cheng Mengxing , Jia Yanxin , Feng Di , Lei Yating , Li Xinyu , Ba Lina , Song Na , Yang Xinxia , Bai Lidan , Zhang Ruipu , Xu Wenxiao , Qiao Guofen 
Published: December 2023

AbstractPancreatic cancer (PC) is mainly derived from the exocrine pancreatic ductal epithelial cells, and it is strongly aggressive malignant tumor. Due to its insidious onset and the lack of effective diagnostic biomarkers, PC currently remains one of the main causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Recent studies have found that hsa_circ_0001846 is involved in the progression of multiple cancers and has the potential to become biomarkers, but its function and mechanism in PC remains unclear. We found by qRT-PCR experiments that hsa_circ_0001846 was upregulated in PC cells and tissues, while circBase, Sanger sequencing, agarose gel electrophoresis and FISH experiments identified the splicing site, ring structure and cellular localization of hsa_circ_0001846. Various functional experiments by using the construction of small interfering RNA targeting hsa_circ_0001846 and overexpression plasmid demonstrated that hsa_circ_0001846 promoted the proliferation, migration and invasion of PC cells. Moreover, the tumor weight and volume of nude mice were significantly reduced after the stable knockdown of hsa_circ_0001846. In the mechanism exploration, RNA pull-down experiments and dual-luciferase experiments helped us to determine that hsa_circ_0001846 regulated the KRAS expression by sponging miR-204-3p in PC, thus playing a pro-cancer role. In this study, the effect of miR-204-3p on PC was also explored for the first time, and we found that knockdown of miR-204-3p reversed the tumor suppressive effect caused by silencing hsa_circ_0001846, and silencing KRAS also rescued the pro-cancer effect caused by overexpression of hsa_circ_0001846. In conclusion, our study revealed the pro-cancer role of hsa_circ_0001846 in PC, and for the first time identified the mechanism that hsa_circ_0001846 regulated KRAS by sponging miR-204-3p to promote PC progression and had the potential to become a cancer biomarker.
Dynamical flexible inference of nonlinear latent factors and structures in neural population activity
Authors: Abbaspourazad Hamidreza , Erturk Eray , Pesaran Bijan , Shanechi Maryam M. 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Modelling the spatiotemporal dynamics in the activity of neural populations while also enabling their flexible inference is hindered by the complexity and noisiness of neural observations. Here we show that the lower-dimensional nonlinear latent factors and latent structures can be computationally modelled in a manner that allows for flexible inference causally, non-causally and in the presence of missing neural observations. To enable flexible inference, we developed a neural network that separates the model into jointly trained manifold and dynamic latent factors such that nonlinearity is captured through the manifold factors and the dynamics can be modelled in tractable linear form on this nonlinear manifold. We show that the model, which we named ‘DFINE’ (for ‘dynamical flexible inference for nonlinear embeddings’) achieves flexible inference in simulations of nonlinear dynamics and across neural datasets representing a diversity of brain regions and behaviours. Compared with earlier neural-network models, DFINE enables flexible inference, better predicts neural activity and behaviour, and better captures the latent neural manifold structure. DFINE may advance the development of neurotechnology and investigations in neuroscience.