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Environmentally sustainable mining in quarries to reduce waste production and loss of resources using the developed optimization algorithm
Authors: Jalalian Mohammad Hossein , Bagherpour Raheb , Khoshouei Mehrbod 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe study of natural resources in the earth sciences focuses on the sustainable management of valuable materials like dimension stones. the quarrying of dimension stones is associated with environmental challenges such as significant amounts of waste production, and resource loss, mainly caused by discontinuities and fractures in the rock mass. Quarry optimization requires an optimal cutting pattern to increase the production of larger blocks while minimizing parameters that affect operational costs such as energy consumption. The algorithms used in the quarrying only focus on the number of blocks extracted, ignoring other factors such as energy consumption in the cutting of blocks. To address this issue, a new algorithm was developed in this study. The algorithm aims to optimize the quarrying process by analyzing the impact of discontinuities on waste production and cutting surfaces. It then provides an optimal cutting pattern for the quarry face based on the optimal value of these parameters. As a result, the use of this algorithm can serve as an efficient and valuable tool in dimension stone quarries. By implementing this algorithm, production costs, energy, and water consumption, cutting tools consumption, and waste production can be significantly reduced, leading to increased quarry profitability and decreased environmental problems.
Fasting mimicking diet cycles versus a Mediterranean diet and cardiometabolic risk in overweight and obese hypertensive subjects: a randomized clinical trial
Authors: Mishra Amrendra , Fanti Maura , Ge Xinzhou , Vaughn Don , Brandhorst Sebastian , Wei Min , Hong Kurt M. , Pellegrini Matteo , Pijl Hanno , Houston Mark C. , Longo Valter D. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractAbnormalities in the vascular endothelium such as impaired vasodilation can contribute to atherosclerosis and hypertension. Here we have performed a single-center randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of 4 months of a continuous Mediterranean diet (MD) regimen as compared to 4 cycles of fasting mimicking diet (FMD) administered for only 5 days/month on endothelial function, measured as reactive hyperemia index (RHI) and large/small-resistance artery compliance (AC1/AC2), and on other cardiometabolic risk factors, in hypertensive patients with obesity/excess weight [both sexes, body mass index (BMI) ≥ 28, RHI ≤ 2.0, and/or small-resistance artery compliance (AC2) ≤ 5.0]. At the end of the intervention period, FMD but not MD decreased RHI (p = 0.0023) compared to baseline with no increase in the portion of patients with abnormal RHI. Both FMD and MD improved PULS cardiac test score; evaluating the risk of cardiovascular events. FMD and MD did not show any significant change in either AC1 or AC2 compared to baseline. Both FMD and MD led to comparable decreases in weight, waist circumference, BMI, body fat mass and % body fat, total cholesterol, and leptin. FMD decreased HbA1c (p = 0.0059) and IGF-1 (p = 0.0427), while MD decreased glucose (p = 0.0488), HOMA-IR (p = 0.0476), and HDL-C (p = 0.0419). None of the parameters were significantly different between the FMD vs. MD group at the end of the intervention period. During the 3-month follow-up period, the FMD and MD groups continued to display weight and BMI reduction; however, the MD group also lost fat free mass (FMD vs. MD, p = 0.0498). In summary, both MD and FMD reduced a range of cardiometabolic risk factors, but FMD also decreased RHI, a change associated with either impaired functional integrity of vascular endothelial cells but also with vascular rejuvenation, with the latter being more likely considering the improved cardiometabolic profile, reduced PULS cardiac score and calculated heart age, and unaltered arterial compliance in the FMD group. MD but not FMD cycles caused loss of lean body mass.
Berufliche Sozialisation wider Willen!?
Authors: Rüegg Sebastian 
Published: December 2023

ZUSAMMENFASSUNGGewaltanteile psychiatrischer Arbeit sind, gänzlich werteneutral betrachtet, eine Tatsache. Nichtsdestotrotz scheint ein Tabuisierungsprozess eine eingehende Bearbeitung dieser zu verhindern, was verschiedene negative Konsequenzen für alle am Behandlungsprozess beteiligten Personen haben kann. Eine besondere Beachtung sollte dahingehend der Verletzlichkeit und Suggestibilität angehender Fachpersonen geschenkt werden. Eine systematische und frühzeitige Sensibilisierung und Bearbeitung in der schulischen und betrieblichen Ausbildung kann ein wichtiger Beitrag an eine zukünftig möglichst gewaltvermindernde psychiatrische Versorgung, ein positiv konnotiertes berufliches Selbstbild und eine erhöhte Arbeitszufriedenheit von angehenden Fachpersonen sein. Schulungen in Aggressions- und Deeskalationsmanagement könnten hierbei zukünftig eine noch gewichtigere Rolle einnehmen.
Handlungsspielräume, Teamkohärenz und Einstellungen zu prozeduralen Handlungsregeln in psychiatrischen Gefährdungssituationen
Authors: Debus Stephan , Meyer Hendrik 
Published: December 2023

ZUSAMMENFASSUNGHandlungsregeln organisieren und synchronisieren die Abläufe aller Situationen in psychiatrischen Akutstationen. Das Forschungsprojekt „Simulation und Reduktion von Zwangsmaßnahmen in der Psychiatrie“ (SRZP) fokussiert sich auf die Analyse von psychiatrischen Gefährdungssituationen (PGS), d. h. auf jene wenigen Minuten, bevor und während Zwangsmaßnahmen angewendet werden. Die vorgestellte Methode der konstitutiven und regulativen Regeln vollzieht einen Perspektivwechsel von der personenzentrierten zur situationsbezogenen Analyse der Gewalt- und Zwangsvorkommnisse. Durch eine Informantenbefragung zur Einstellung (Zustimmung, Ablehnung) und zum Realitätsstatus (Geltung, keine Geltung) der Regeln wird gezeigt, wie verschiedene Handlungsspielräume (Orientierungsraum, Obligationsraum, Alternativraum und Ausschlussraum) in der Behandlungspraxis voneinander abgegrenzt werden können. Im Ergebnis dieser Studie: von allen interklinisch in PGS identifizierten Handlungsregeln (ni = 918) zeigen sich intraklinisch 61,4 % als gültig, aber 71,8 % finden Zustimmung. Die Diskrepanz wird durch ein ungeregeltes Entscheidungsvakuum erklärt, das die Teamkohärenz bedrohen könnte, wenn im Team die Einstellung vorherrscht, dass dieses Vakuum besser geregelt werden sollte. Die Studienlage, die einen gegenläufigen Zusammenhang zwischen steigender Teamkohärenz und Gewaltreduktion herstellt, bestätigt die vorgestellten Ergebnisse. Eine Anwendung der Ergebnisse besteht darin, die Diskrepanz gezielt für Deeskalationstraining und Teamsupervision zu nutzen, um den Reformstau in Richtung einer gewaltärmeren Psychiatrie abzubauen.
Mechanism of Yixishu lotion in the treatment of vaginitis based on network pharmacology combined with experimental validation: an experimental research study
Authors: Huo Weimin , Jing Zeng , Wang Ran , Tao Sumei , Li Qiaohong , Gao Shuli , Feng Meimei 
Published: December 2023

Objective:
Yixishu lotion (YXSL) originates from the summary of traditional Chinese medicine clinical experience and constantly improves in practice in clinical validation of the exact efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine prescription. To explore the mechanism of YXSL in treating vaginitis and the potential mechanisms based on network pharmacology and experimental verification.

Methods:
The active components and drug-related targets of YXSL were retrieved from the TCMSP (Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform) database, and the target was predicted by the UniProt database. Searching for genes related to ‘vaginitis’ disease in the GeneCards database, a total of 2581 drug targets were obtained. The interaction between proteins (PPI – protein–protein interaction) relationship was obtained by STRING database and visualized by Cytoscape software. Finally, the ‘Bioconductor’ installation package in R software was used to analyze the GO (Gene Ontology) and KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) pathways of the target.

Results:
In this study, by the method of network pharmacology, the key active components of YXSL were flavonoids such as quercetin, apigenin, kaempferol, luteolin, β-sitosterol; the main core proteins included MAPK14, TP53, FGF2, ESR1, MAPK3, MAPK1, VEGFA, JUN, IL-6, and the KEGG pathway was mainly involved in MAPK pathway, Th17 pathway, Malaria, TNF pathway, and other signaling pathways. Animal experiments showed that the clinical symptoms and vaginal tissue lesions of the YXSL group and the fluconazole group were improved, and the levels of TNF-α (tumor necrosis factor alpha), IL-6 (interleukin-6), MDA (malondialdehyde), SOD (superoxide dismutase), IL-4, and IFN-γ (interferon-γ) in vaginal tissue and serum were better than the model group.

Conclusion:
YXSL may achieve its therapeutic effect on vaginitis by reducing the inflammatory response, improving oxidative stress response, and improving body immunity, and it provides a theoretical basis for further research on its pharmacodynamic material basis and mechanism of action.
Facilitating conditions and institutional repository sustainability by librarians in public university libraries in Nigeria
Authors: Esse Ugwunwa , Haliso Yacob- 
Published: December 2023

Purpose
This study aims to investigate the facilitating conditions (FCs) and how these FC affect institutional repository (IR) sustainability practices in public universities in Nigeria.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey research design was adopted in this study. The study population comprised 542 librarians from public universities that have IRs across Nigeria. A sample size of 230 librarians was determined using Taro Yamane’s formula. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select the respondents in three stages, which were purposive, stratified and purposive sampling. A structured, validated questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential (simple and multiple regression) statistics at a 5% level of significance.

Findings
The result revealed that the availability of FCs (ßeta = 0.459, t(211) = 7.719, p = 0.000) has a positive and significant influence on IR sustainability in public university libraries in Nigeria. The F-test (1, 223) value of 59.582 shows that there is sufficient evidence to substantiate the model’s usefulness in explaining IR sustainability. The R2 (0.211) indicates that 21.1% of the variation in IR sustainability is explained by the availability of FCs in public university libraries in Nigeria. The finding suggests that the availability of FCs is a vital predictor of IR sustainability in public university libraries in Nigeria. The result also depicts that out of the eight parameters that measure the availability of FCs, it was current awareness of IR that had a positive and significant influence on IR sustainability.

Originality/value
This study concluded that ICT skills and FCs are contributory factors to IR sustainability practices by librarians in public university libraries in Nigeria. It was recommended that university administrators formulate policies that promote the sustainability of IR and provide adequate funds to support IR sustainability. Furthermore, the library management in public university libraries in Nigeria should drive content recruitment and create awareness of the IRs among students and faculty to ensure continued use.
Shariah-compliant firms and earnings management: do continuation and ethnicity matter?
Authors: Khaw Karren Lee-Hwei , Al-Jaifi Hamdan Amer Ali , Zainudin Rozaimah 
Published: December 2023

Purpose
This study aims to revisit the relationship between Shariah-compliant firms and earnings management. Specifically, the authors examine whether Shariah-certified firms have lower earnings management than non-Shariah-certified firms and how often a firm must hold its certification to observe considerably reduced earnings management. This study also explores how senior management ethnic dualism affects the association of Shariah certification and earnings management.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors analyze the hypothesized association between Shariah certification and earnings management using a panel regression model and several robustness tests, including the Heckman selection model. The sample consists of 547 nonfinancial firms listed on the Bursa Malaysia stock exchange, with 5,478 firm-year observations over the 2001–2016 sample period.

Findings
Shariah certification is found to mitigate earnings management, particularly for firms that consistently retain their Shariah status. The longer firms retain their Shariah certification continually, the lower the earnings management. Additionally, the results indicate that the negative impact of Shariah certification on earnings management is driven by ethnic duality when a specific ethnic group dominates the top management.

Research limitations/implications
Firms’ commitment to religious-based screening and continuation of certification plays a significant role in improving earnings quality. Firms are committed to abiding by the Shariah code of conduct instead of using the Shariah status for reputation purposes to attract investors.

Practical implications
For investors, the continuous compliance status is a crucial indicator of a firm’s commitment to comply with Shariah principles and to mitigate earnings management. Regarding policy implications, Shariah-compliance guidelines can constrain earnings manipulation, especially among firms lacking ethnic diversity.

Originality/value
The study shows that Shariah certification must be maintained consecutively to reduce earnings management. Shariah certification’s governance function is crucial in ethnically homogeneous firms, primarily when one ethnic group dominates the senior management.
Advancing tourism demand forecasting in Sri Lanka: evaluating the performance of machine learning models and the impact of social media data integration
Authors: Hewapathirana Isuru Udayangani 
Published: December 2023

PurposeThis study explores the pioneering approach of utilising machine learning (ML) models and integrating social media data for predicting tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka.Design/methodology/approachTwo sets of experiments are performed in this research. First, the predictive accuracy of three ML models, support vector regression (SVR), random forest (RF) and artificial neural network (ANN), is compared against the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model using historical tourist arrivals as features. Subsequently, the impact of incorporating social media data from TripAdvisor and Google Trends as additional features is investigated.FindingsThe findings reveal that the ML models generally outperform the SARIMA model, particularly from 2019 to 2021, when several unexpected events occurred in Sri Lanka. When integrating social media data, the RF model performs significantly better during most years, whereas the SVR model does not exhibit significant improvement. Although adding social media data to the ANN model does not yield superior forecasts, it exhibits proficiency in capturing data trends.Practical implicationsThe findings offer substantial implications for the industry's growth and resilience, allowing stakeholders to make accurate data-driven decisions to navigate the unpredictable dynamics of Sri Lanka's tourism sector.Originality/valueThis study presents the first exploration of ML models and the integration of social media data for forecasting Sri Lankan tourist arrivals, contributing to the advancement of research in this domain.
The authentic experiences of tourists in Chinese traditional villages based on constructivism: a case study of Chengkan village
Authors: Yuan Chao , Kong Xiang , Chen Pinyu 
Published: December 2023

Purpose
This study aims to examine the role of authenticity in tourists’ destination selection, analyze the factors that influence tourists to form their initial opinions and explore how tourists construct the authenticity of traditional villages. The authors selected Chengkan village in Huizhou district, Huangshan city, as a case. In the study, the authors constructed an attribute-hardware-software research framework and analyzed tourists’ authentic emic experiences from the perspective of constructivism. The findings of this study suggest that tourists’ destination selection is influenced by authenticity. The destination culture brokers who interact with tourists play an essential role in forming authentic experiences. According to differences in how tourists construct authenticity, the study divided tourists into three types: primitive imagination, aesthetic reality and rational cognition. The results of this study provide a deeper understanding of various viewpoints about authenticity research and contribute to the academic discussion on how to understand the authenticity of unique cultural heritage sites such as traditional villages in the context of tourism development.
Family conflict as ontological (in)security for young people with experiences of homelessness
Authors: Roche Steven , Barker Justin , Noble‐Carr Debbie 
Published: December 2023

AbstractExperiences of family conflict are common in young people's accounts of homelessness, yet in‐depth explorations and conceptualisations of these experiences remain sparse. Drawing on focus group discussions with 29 participants, this article explores the accounts of young people and carers and parents about the dynamics, interactions and characteristics of family conflict. Findings highlight the primacy of verbal insults, criticisms or threats, as well as acts of aggression and violence in young people's and parent's understandings of family conflict. Feelings of mistrust, instability and a lack of safety also pervade family conflict and are considered its most impactful elements. We contend that these impacts are best understood via the concept of ontological (in)security, whereby young people's sense of self, belonging and stability are undermined by family conflict. This provides important insights for developing practice in this space, where working to remove long‐term patterns of family conflict, restoring young people's sense of self and belonging within their family, and supporting the stability and trust within a family may prove beneficial.
WITH OR AGAINST HAYDEN WHITE? REFLECTIONS ON THEORY OF HISTORY AND SUBJECT FORMATION
Authors: La Greca María Inés 
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACTThis article reflects on Hayden White's understanding of the subject and explores how best to move forward discussions in theory of history after his arguments about narrativity. To do so, I reconsider his arguments in light of more recent feminist and queer theorizations. Through a reconstruction of the current international new wave of feminism and LGBTQ+ activism as a rich and complex social movement that involves a narration of its own (practical) past, I will recontextualize and revaluate White's insight from the perspective of Judith Butler's theory of subject formation. The argument will unfold in four parts. First, I will recall White's ironic and existential stance on language and narrativity in the representation of reality and in relation to social beliefs. Second, I will again raise the question of the value of narrativity, as framed by White, in the context of the publication of a recent feminist manifesto. It is here that another issue will emerge as crucial: the relationship between the limits of linguistic self‐consciousness and the question of the subject. In the third part, my argument will take a partial turn “against White” and toward Butler's subject formation theory. My claim will be that there is a residue of the belief in the sovereign individual in White's insistence on self‐consciousness. However, I will also show that his suspicion regarding the psychological impulse toward narrative closure can be re‐elaborated as the challenge Butler is facing with their theory of subject formation: that of critically resisting the belief in our being coherent and self‐sufficient individuals. In the fourth part, I will present Butler's refiguration of the thesis of the subject's opacity in terms of the primary relationality that binds human beings to one another, and I will offer a new understanding of the individual, norms, agency, infancy, and ethics. Finally, I will conclude that we are bodies in history and that theory of history can find a promising line of research through this conception of the subject, a conception that reframes how we understand the intimate links between political consciousness, historicity, and embodiment. I also claim that this line of research constitutes an ethics for our historical undoing.
Food protein–induced enterocolitis syndrome is an important differential diagnosis of vomiting in pediatric emergency
Authors: Ohnishi Shima , Yamamoto‐Hanada Kiwako , Sato Miori , Uematsu Satoko , Ohya Yukihiro 
Published: December 2023

AbstractBackgroundThe aim of this study was to clarify the clinical characteristics and management of infants with suspected acute food protein–induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) who presented to the pediatric emergency department (ED) before and after the guidelines were published.MethodsThis was a retrospective cohort study. We classified the infants as “acute FPIES‐like symptoms” who were younger than 12 months of age and visited the pediatric ED of the National Center for Child Health and Development due to vomiting 1–4 h after food ingestion without any causative disease, such as infection. The medical records of those infants in 2015 and 2021 were reviewed. We used the nonparametric Mann–Whitney U test to compare two groups for continuous variables, whereas chi‐squared or Fisher's exact tests were used for nominal variables.ResultsThe number of infants with acute FPIES‐like symptoms was 15 (13%) in 2015 and 14 (15%) in 2021. The trigger foods were cow's milk or dairy products in half of the infants, and five as a result of ingestion of hen's eggs in 2021, compared to zero cases in 2015. Five in 2015 and 12 in 2021 required examination at the ED. Three in 2015 and six in 2021 met the diagnostic criteria for acute FPIES in the international consensus guidelines. The emergency physicians did not record at least four minor criteria for acute FPIES in seven in 2015 and five in 2021. No infants (0%) in 2015 and two (14%) in 2021 were referred to the allergy department by an emergency physician.ConclusionsAcute FPIES should be considered one of the differential diagnoses of vomiting, and pediatric medical staff should be aware of FPIES diagnostic criteria and appropriately refer suspected cases to a specialist.
Examining the influence of information‐related factors on vaccination intentions via confidence: Insights from adult samples in Italy and Serbia during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Authors: Di Napoli Francesca , Mari Silvia , Đorđević Jasna Milošević , Kljajić Duško 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe research investigates the antecedents of immunisation intentions during the COVID‐19 pandemic, including information‐related factors (conspiracy beliefs, immunisation knowledge and health communication perception) and confidence‐related factors (trust in healthcare institutions and vaccine risk perception). Data were collected online from two samples of Italian (N = 324) and Serbian (N = 486) participants. Path analyses confirmed a mediation mechanism: trust in health institutions and vaccine risk perception mediate the relationship between information‐related factors and vaccination intentions, both towards COVID‐19 and other diseases, with a few exceptions and differences between the samples. Findings show a glimpse into the inner psychological mechanisms of vaccination intentions. During times of crisis, such as pandemics, compliance toward vaccination can be fostered through the quality of information and the promotion of citizens' trust towards health institutions and vaccines.