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Mobile resonance frequency breathing smartphone application to support recovery among people with opioid use disorder: Study protocol for feasibility study
Authors: Conway Fiona N. , Kane Heather , Dorsainvil Michele , Kennedy Patrick , Cance Jessica D. 
Published: January 2024

Background
Experiencing drug cravings is an aspect of substance use disorders that frequently compromises the recovery efforts of people who use drugs. Most treatment approaches that address drug cravings either involve cognitive strategies or medication. Few interventions directly address the physiological aspects of craving, such as increased heart rate. Previous research has demonstrated that slow-paced breathing may be effective in managing drug cravings by manipulating an individual’s heart rate. The purpose of this paper is to describe a study protocol for an intervention that offers resonance frequency breathing training for managing cravings via a smartphone application (app).

Methods
This trial is registered in ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier: NCT05830773). The intervention focuses on persons in recovery from opioid use disorder who receive services from the Texas Health and Human Service Commission Recovery Support Services division. Participants will be trained to use Camera Heart Rate Variability (CHRV), a resonance frequency breathing app. The CHRV app measures heart rate and the volumetric variations of blood circulation. When experiencing stress, anxiety, or cravings, participants will use the app to practice breathing exercises. Participants (N = 60) will also complete surveys at baseline, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks; the survey questions, covers demographic characteristics, personal trauma history, substance use experience, and utilization of substance use treatment services. The surveys will also include psychosocial measures of craving, stress, and anxiety to allow the study team to assess changes between baseline and study completion. Participants who complete the full 8-week intervention will be invited to participate in a 30-minute interview about their experience with the app. Interviews will provide details on implementation outcomes, including acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility.

Conclusion
Many evidence-based interventions for opioid use require interpersonal communication with individuals in one’s recovery network. However, individuals may be unable to engage others in their recovery network in the moments when they are experiencing cravings or stress- and anxiety-related triggers. Therefore, recovery support interventions that emphasize individual self-management of cravings, stress, and anxiety when they occur can empower individuals in recovery and enhance existing interventions.
Preference of cesarean delivery and its associated factors among pregnant women attending ante natal care at public health facilities of Debrebrehan City, Ethiopia: Cross-sectional study
Authors: Zewudu Lemlem , Keshaun Fetene , Silesh Mulualem , Tefera Mitiku , Ketema Bogale Eyob , Demis Aberham , Tekle Zewedie Yeshaw 
Published: January 2024

Background
A Caesarean section is a surgical procedure used to prevent or treat life-threatening maternal or fetal complications. Women’s delivery preferences have become a global issue of interest to many researchers and clinicians, especially given the ever-increasing rate of cesarean sections. There is limited data on the preference for cesarean delivery and its associated factors for Ethiopian women, particularly in the study area. The aim of the study is to assess the preference for cesarean delivery and its associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in Debre Berhan, Ethiopia, in 2023.

Methods
An institution-based cross-sectional study design was done from May 5–20, 2023, among 512 participants, and a multi-stage sampling technique was used. The data were collected by using interviewer-administered semi-structured questionnaires. The data were entered by Epi Data version 4.6 and then transferred to SPSS version 25 for analysis. With logistic regression, those variables with a p-value <0.25 in the bivariate analysis were candidates for multivariate logistic regression, and variables with a p-value <0.05 were considered statistically significant.

Result
The preference for a cesarean section was 26%, with a CI of 22.3% to 29.9%. Pregnant mothers who were not satisfied with their previous intrapartum care (AOR; 6.3 CI = (3.5–11), P = 0.01), had no knowledge about cesarean delivery (AOR; 2.9; 95% CI = 1.6–5.3), P = 0.01), had a previous history of spontaneous abortion (AOR; 3.1; 95% CI = (1.5–6.3), P = 0.001), lived in an urban area (AOR; 1.9; 95% CI = (1.0–3.5), P = 0.038), and had a current pregnancy-related problem (AOR; 4.8; 95% CI = 1.9–10), P = 0.001) were significantly associated with the preference for cesarean delivery.

Conclusion
In this study, the preference for cesarean delivery was high as compared to the World Health Organization recommendation. Pregnant mothers who were not satisfied with their previous intrapartum care, had no knowledge about cesarean delivery, had a previous history of spontaneous abortion, had an urban residence, and had a current pregnancy-related problem were significantly associated with a preference for caesarean delivery. Clinicians who are working in the delivery room should improve their service provision by using patient-centered care to increase patient satisfaction.
Non-invasive cumulus cell analysis can be applied for oocyte ranking and is useful for countries with legal restrictions on embryo generation or freezing
Authors: Adriaenssens Tom , Van Vaerenbergh Inge , Van Landuyt Lisbet , Verheyen Greta , De Brucker Michaël , Camus Michel , Platteau Peter , De Vos Michel , Reis Maria , Van Hecke Elien , Rosenthal André , Smitz Johan 
Published: January 2024

Research question
Can a strategy for scoring oocyte quality, based on cumulus cell (CC) gene expression, prioritize oocytes with the highest implantation potential, while limiting the number of embryos to be processed in culture and the number of supernumerary embryos to be vitrified?

Design
An interventional, blinded, prospective cohort study was retrospectively analyzed. In the original study, patients underwent a fresh Day3 single embryo transfer with embryos ranked based on morphology and CC gene expression (Aurora Test). The additional ranking of the embryos with the Aurora Test resulted in significant higher clinical pregnancy and live birth rates. Now it is investigated if the Aurora Test ranking could be applied to select oocytes. The effect of an Aurora Test based restriction to 2 and 3 2PN or MII oocytes on clinical pregnancy and other outcomes, was analyzed in two subsets of patients with all 2PN (n = 83) or all MII oocytes (n = 45) ranked.

Results
Considering only the top three ranked 2PN oocytes, 95% of the patients would have received a fresh SET on Day3 resulting in 65% clinical pregnancies. This was not different from the pregnancy rate obtained in a strategy using all oocytes but significantly reduced the need for vitrification of supernumerary embryos by 3-fold. Considering only top-ranked MII oocytes gave similar results.

Conclusions
In countries with legal restrictions on freezing of embryos, gene expression of CC can be used for the selective processing of oocytes and would thus decrease the twin pregnancy rate and workload, especially for embryo morphology scoring and transfers as the handling and processing of lower competence oocytes is prevented, while improving the ART outcome.
Relationship between rumination, self-compassion, and psychological health among Japanese university students: A cross-sectional study
Authors: Yamasaki Kaho , Sampei Ayaka , Miyata Hiromitsu 
Published: January 2024

Objectives
Rumination is suggested to exacerbate psychological health, but there is room for investigating the potential protecting factors for individuals with high ruminative tendencies against psychological symptoms. The present cross-sectional study aimed to uncover the associations between rumination as a maladaptive dimension of self-focus, self-compassion, and psychological health, and whether and how components of self-compassion may moderate the associations between rumination and psychological health in Japanese undergraduate students.

Methods
A questionnaire survey was conducted by using both an online platform and a paper-based questionnaire. The survey included established Japanese versions of psychological scales on rumination, self-compassion, perceived stress, trait anxiety, and depression.

Results
The results revealed statistically significant positive correlations between rumination and negative dimensions of self-compassion, and rumination and psychological symptoms. Positive dimensions of self-compassion were significantly negatively correlated with both rumination and psychological symptoms. Reflection as a positive dimension of self-focus did not show significant correlations with most psychological variables. Furthermore, hierarchical multiple regression analyses involving subscales of self-compassion and their interactions with rumination as predictors revealed that the interactions between rumination and components of self-compassion, i.e., over-identification and mindfulness, significantly predicted trait anxiety. Higher rumination predicted higher anxiety when over-identification was high, but not when over-identification was low. Also, lower rumination predicted lower anxiety when mindfulness was high, but not when mindfulness was low.

Conclusions
The results suggest significant associations between rumination, components of self-compassion, and psychological health in a population of Japanese undergraduate students. The data also suggest that components of self-compassion play moderating roles in the relationship between rumination and psychological health, potentially serving as aggravating/protective factors for psychological health. Longitudinal studies and comparisons between different cultures should be conducted in the future quest.
Nonparametric methods of statistical inference for double-censored data with applications
Authors: Al Luhayb Asamh Saleh M. 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
This article introduces new nonparametric statistical methods for prediction in case of data containing right-censored observations and left-censored observations simultaneously. The methods can be considered as new versions of Hill’s

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Once known, always known. Turn-final sai in North-East regional Italian
Authors: Biasio Marco , Del Fante Dario 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
This paper focuses on the structural and functional properties of a positionally flexible verb-based discourse marker, sai (lit. ‘you know’), which in its turn-final position is a conversational hallmark of the regional variety of Standard Italian spoken in and around Padova, in the north-eastern region of Veneto. Drawing from a series of distributional and scopal constraints (including the interaction with other turn-initial and turn-final verb-based discourse markers, vocative phrases, verum focus, and the negative polarity item mica), it is claimed that both turn-initial and turn-final sai are best analyzed as intersubjectively-oriented Common Ground management operators (Repp, Sophie. 2013. Common ground management: Modal particles, illocutionary negation and verum. In Daniel Gutzmann & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.), Beyond expressives: explorations in use-conditional meaning (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 28), 231–274. Leiden & Boston: Brill) activated by Speaker’s salient presuppositional biases of opposite polarity. Syntactically, within Interactional Spine Hypothesis (Wiltschko, Martina. 2021. The grammar of interactional language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), it is shown how both turn-initial and turn-final sai are base-generated above the C system, in the specifier position of the lower (Speaker-oriented) field of the so-called GroundP, and then moved up to the specifier position of the higher (Addressee-oriented) GroundP; additionally, the mild-rising intonational contour associated with turn-final sai is claimed to perform a call on the Addressee, which activates the corresponding Resp(onse)P above GroundP. These results contribute to the available literature on the micropragmatic process of construction and negotiation of context-bound evidential meanings, also as a tool to foster manipulative processes.
Verschuldete Bauern, Pächter oder Erntearbeiter? Noch einmal zur Frage: Wer waren die „hektḗmoroi“?
Authors: Schmitz Winfried 
Published: January 2024

Zusammenfassung
In vorsolonischer Zeit war nach Angaben Plutarchs und der aristotelischen „Athenaion politeia“ ein großer Teil der Bevölkerung Attikas von reichen Landbesitzern abhängig. Darlehensgeber konnten Schuldner, die ihre Schulden nicht zurückzahlen konnten, ergreifen und mit sich führen. Sie ließen sie auf ihren Feldern arbeiten oder verkauften sie in die Sklaverei. Solon selbst beklagte in seinen Elegien diese Konsequenzen, die rechtens waren, da sie dem archaischen Schuldrecht entsprachen. Der Vergleich mit der römischen Noxalhaftung zeigt, dass so wie in Rom auch im archaischen Athen eine Person, die einen Vertrag gebrochen oder eine Schädigung verursacht hatte, dem Geschädigten zu übergeben war. Durch den Vergleich mit der römischen Noxalhaftung lässt sich die Form der Schuldknechtschaft und der Schuldsklaverei im frühen Athen besser verstehen. Von diesen Personen zu unterscheiden sind aber die hektḗmoroi, die frei blieben; als Angehörige der unterbäuerlichen Schicht waren sie auf einen Zuverdienst angewiesen. Für Erntearbeiten erhielten sie ein Sechstel der geernteten Produkte, einen hekteús pro geerntetem médimnos. Da sie lediglich „Erntepächter“ waren, auf dem Feld also nicht das ganze Jahr über wirtschafteten, war ein Sechstel angemessen und reichte, um die eigenen Erträge so weit zu steigern, dass sie sich und ihre Familien ernähren konnten. Die Annahme, Solon habe ein Exportverbot aller landwirtschaftlichen Produkte gesetzlich festgeschrieben, beruht wahrscheinlich auf einem falschen Textverständnis; tatsächlich bezog sich das Gesetz auf Kontrakte über Erntearbeiten auf heiligem Land und kann als Beleg dafür gewertet werden, dass solche Ernteverträge in archaischer Zeit verbreitet waren.
Determination of the time-dependent effective ion collision frequency from an integral observation
Authors: Cao Kai , Lesnic Daniel 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Identification of physical properties of materials is very important because they are in general unknown.
Furthermore, their direct experimental measurement could be costly and inaccurate. In such a situation, a cheap and efficient alternative is to mathematically formulate an inverse, but difficult, problem that can be solved, in general, numerically; the challenge being that the problem is, in general, nonlinear and ill-posed. In this paper, the reconstruction of a lower-order unknown time-dependent coefficient in a Cahn–Hilliard-type fourth-order equation from an additional integral observation, which has application to characterizing the nonlinear saturation of the collisional trapped-ion mode in a tokamak, is investigated. The local existence and uniqueness of the solution to such inverse problem is established by utilizing the Rothe method. Moreover, the continuous dependence of the unknown coefficient upon the measured data is derived. Next, the Tikhonov regularization method is applied to recover the unknown coefficient from noisy measurements.
The stability estimate of the minimizer is derived by investigating an auxiliary linear fourth-order inverse source problem. Henceforth, the variational source condition can be verified.
Then the convergence rate is obtained under such source condition.
Predictors of planned home birth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Crockett Allison K. , Laden Bethany F. , Tumin Dmitry , Whiteside James L. 
Published: January 2024

Abstract

Objectives
To determine how demographic and clinical predictors of home birth have changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US.

Methods
Using National Vital Statistics birth certificate data, a retrospective population-based cohort study was performed with planned home births and hospital births among women age ≥18 years during calendar years 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2021 (pandemic-era). Birth location (planned home birth vs. hospital birth) was analyzed using univariate and multivariable logistic regression, systematically examining the interaction of each demographic and clinical covariate with study year.

Results
After exclusions, a total of 6,087,768 birth records were retained for analysis, with the proportion of home births increasing from 0.82 % in 2019 to 1.24 % in 2021 (p<0.001). In the final multivariable logistic regression model of planned home birth, five demographic variables retained a statistically significant interaction with year: race and ethnicity, age, educational attainment, parity, and WIC participation. In each case, demographic differences between those having planned home births and hospital births became smaller (odds ratios closer to 1) in 2021 compared to 2019.

Conclusions
Planned home births increased by more than 50 % during the pandemic, with greater socioeconomic diversity in the pandemic-era home birth cohort. The presence of clinical risk factors remained a strong predictor of hospital birth, with no evidence that pandemic-era home births had a higher clinical risk profile as compared to the pre-pandemic period.
Anti-Criterialism Does Not Result in an Unacceptable Consequence
Authors: Zhan Xinyi 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Anti-criterialists argue that there are no criteria that ensure personal persistence. However, this perspective is criticized for resulting in an unacceptable consequence that undermines our intuitions, daily beliefs, and direct introspective awareness of personal persistence. I defend anti-criterialism by responding to this objection and arguing that none of these aspects are undermined by anti-criterialism. The flawed objection against anti-criterialism reveals the excessive ambition of criterialism in seeking criteria for personal persistence with metaphysical necessity, which goes beyond our abilities and needs. As beings living in the actual world, we are not able to consider what happens to personal persistence in remote possible worlds. Moreover, to judge whether a person persists or not in daily life, we do not need a criterion that ensures personal persistence in all situations. Anti-criterialism acknowledges the complexity and variability of personal persistence and offers a more realistic and practical approach to understanding personal identity.
Comprehensive Examination of Version Number Attacks in IoT Networks: Nodes Hyperactivity as Specific Criterion
Authors: Belkhira Hichem Sid Ahmed , Belkheir Mohammed , Rouissat Mehdi , Mokaddem Allel , Lorenz Pascal , Boukhobza Mohamed Achraf , Salmi Abdelhamid , Kouar Ahmed 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
The security landscape of Internet of Things (IoT) networks continues to draw significant attention from recent networks; the Version Number Attack (VNA) stands out as a prominent threat to IoT network resources. Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Network structures low-power and lossy networks through one or more Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graphs (DODAGs). Each DODAG is assigned a version number, serving the purpose of ensuring the existence of loop-free paths to the root node. In the event of any inconsistency detected by the root node, the version number is incremented, triggering a global repair process and the reconstruction of the Directed Acyclic Graph. A potential security concern arises when a malicious node advertises a false version number in its control message, compelling the initiation of a global repair process. This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of the VNA’s impact, considering various parameters that have not been explored in previous research articles. These parameters include an examination of the additional forwarding tasks introduced by the attack and an exploration of factors contributing to node hyperactivity (such as loops, local and global repairs, etc.). The article delves into the specific control messages that result in the detrimental effects of the attack, offering a detailed analysis of control overhead, energy consumption, Packet Delivery Ratio, and latency. The obtained results show that the DAO (Destination Advertisement Object) messages dominate the total control overhead and are the main contributor to the total consumer energy, where the closest the malicious node to the sink the more damaging is the attack.
The influences of proficiency and gender on Uyghur-Mandarin children’s advice-giving
Authors: Peng Yuchen , Ren Wei , Wu Ruilin 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Mandarin Chinese, as the national lingua franca in China, has gained increasing importance in bilingual education in ethnic minority areas in the country. However, little research has explored ethnic minority children’s pragmatic competence. Therefore, this study investigates ethnic Uyghur children’s written pragmatic performance of advice-giving through a brief note in Mandarin and the possible effects of proficiency and gender on their advice-giving. Data were collected from 300 ethnic Uyghur children across three proficiency levels with a balanced gender split. In addition, 100 Han children were also recruited as a comparison group. The advice produced by the children was coded in terms of speech act strategies and supportive moves. The findings showed that the Uyghur children with higher proficiency provided more reasons and fewer affective expressions when giving advice than the two lower proficiency groups, reflecting the performance of the Han children. On the other hand, the results also revealed gender differences in certain advice-giving strategies and supportive moves. The study discusses the findings in relation to national lingua franca and second language pragmatics. Some pedagogical implications for multilingual education in ethnic minority areas are also provided.