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Bearing capacity of UHPC‐NC connection structure in negative moment zone of PC beam bridges
Authors: Li Xiao , Li Rui , Hu Zhijian 
Published: November 2023

AbstractA new type of UHPC‐NC (normal concrete) structure in the negative moment zone was proposed to improve the bearing capacity of the connection structure in the negative moment zone of prefabricated prestressed concrete (PC) beam bridges. First, the distribution characteristics of the crack, cracking load, ultimate moment, and ductility coefficient of the new structure were obtained by the 1:4 scale model tests. The feasibility of the connection structure is verified. Then, the value ranges of critical structural parameters affecting the bearing capacity of the connection structure based on the plane section assumption analysis, including the reasonable thickness of the UHPC layer, the reinforcement ratio of the longitudinal tensile reinforcement, and the diameter of the reinforcement, are obtained. At the same time, based on the verification of the finite element model, the influence of crucial research parameters on the bending capacity of the connection structure is obtained by using the finite element method. Finally, a theoretical method for the bending moment capacity of the connection structure of the UHPC‐NC structure is proposed, considering the high ductility characteristics of UHPC materials. The average relative error between the calculation results and the finite element method is within 7.2%, which verifies the reliability of the calculation method in this paper and provides a reference for its design and engineering application.
Street Cred and Locker Room Glances
Authors: Amico Stephen 
Published: November 2023

AbstractForegrounding the fetishization of textually represented ‘of-color Others’, the indissoluble links among sex, gender, sexuality, and race are exposed as responsible for the injunction against same-sex desire within the discipline. Surveying the history of whites’ fantastic constructions of these Others’ imagined inherent masculinity and heterosexuality, as well as the exploitation of their cultural production (including music) for the construction of the ethnomusicologist’s own gendered identity, homophobia is shown as concomitant with an unspeakable homoerotic/homophilic desire. Moreover, recent calls within anthropological research to abandon theory-driven distancing between researcher and subject—to instead share in experiential/sensual space—render any acknowledgment of same-sex desire highly dangerous, capable of exposing the precarity of gendered identities as well as the asymmetrical power relationships structuring ethnographic research.
No Conclusion: ‘Such People Do Not Exist’
Authors: Amico Stephen 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe final chapter cautions against an unreflective propensity to view the current Western sociocultural sphere as marked by comforting ‘post-’s, each suggesting an evolution beyond a vanquished, barbaric past. Understanding the extent to which even the most ‘enlightened’ eras of the Global North’s history were founded upon brutalities and exploitations, as well as the continuation of masculinity as a driving, consolidating, metaepistemic force, the countless examples of ongoing depredation in contemporary society (from Wall Street to Chechnya) are argued as warranting heightened vigilance in order to prevent silence and silencing from equating with and engendering symbolic and material death.
Introduction
Authors: Ratschiller Nasim Linda Maria 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe introduction explores the books’ main themes, protagonists and goals. The aim is to extend the history of hygiene in two ways: firstly, beyond scientific and secular narratives by showing that religious stakeholders crucially participated in producing and promoting hygienic knowledge between 1885 and 1914; and secondly, by analysing how hygiene was shaped by colonial entanglements. The introduction offers a brief research review highlighting the connected histories on which this history of hygiene is built: mission history, particularly mission medicine; the history of science, with a focus on tropical medicine; and colonial history, specifically the knowledge produced in colonial entanglements. To do so, it introduces the concept of “spaces of knowledge” as an analytical lens to demonstrate how different discourses and practices of hygiene overlapped, differed and influenced each other. These spaces of knowledge are examined through an extensive body of sources, including archival material, publications, images and commodities, which are briefly presented and critically discussed with regard to their limitations and challenges.
Locating Filth: Sin, Syphilis and the Path to Purity
Authors: Ratschiller Nasim Linda Maria 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThis chapter explores how the Basel Mission doctors tried to spread new knowledge of hygiene in their West African mission areas by combining religious notions of purity with scientific approaches to health and colonial concepts of cleanliness. The longstanding Pietist interpretation of disease as a distorted relationship with God still held true for the Basel medical missionaries, who frequently explained physical suffering with reference to a sinful way of life. The diagnosis of syphilis, in particular, unequivocally linked disease to sin, and proved to be an effective advertising tool to promote the necessity and benefit of the medical mission beyond evangelical circles. Although there were clear indications that the prevalent condition was not syphilis, the diagnosis prevailed for twenty-five years until the young Basel Mission doctor Theodor Müller identified the illness in 1910 as yaws, which was not in fact a venereal disease like syphilis.
Subverting Purity: Magic, Medical Pluralism and Tenacious Syncretism
Authors: Ratschiller Nasim Linda Maria 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThis chapter shows that the beginning of the Basel medical mission in West Africa in 1885 marked a turning point, changing knowledge of hygiene in a number of ways and exposing the fragility and inconsistencies within the missionary project. The arrival of scientifically trained mission doctors led to a campaign to devalue African medicine, practitioners and bodily knowledge, which transformed the existing relationship between the Basel missionaries and African healers. But the Basel Mission doctors also emerged as a permanent source of hazard for their own organisation by disregarding and shifting existing boundaries of purity. For the population on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon, the medical mission proved less of a turning point than an extension of their existing healing and belief systems. They incorporated new norms of hygiene into their existing concepts of purity, health and cleanliness. Confronted with this tenacious syncretism, the Basel medical missionaries had no choice but to accommodate African ways of thinking and acting if they wanted to gain them for their cause.
Shaping Colonial Science: Missionary Challenges, Racial Segregation and the Locality of Science
Authors: Ratschiller Nasim Linda Maria 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThis chapter examines what impact the Basel Mission doctors had on scientific debates in the field of tropical medicine. Their studies served as trials from the periphery in a period when the discipline was undergoing processes of consolidation and professionalisation in European metropoles. Tropical medicine practised abroad, however, remained an amalgam combining germ theory with environmental disease theories and laboratory medicine with field surveys. In West Africa, the theory of human germ carriers culminated in the segregation of whole cities around 1900. The Basel medical missionaries advocated for the segregation of European and African housing areas, which was met with fierce resistance by their fellow missionaries. Their conflicting views on whether preventative measures to protect European lives should take precedence over the proclamation of the gospel in physical proximity to Africans indicate that scientific guidelines of hygiene, colonial notions of cleanliness and religious purity ideals also presented fundamental tensions that proved difficult to reconcile.
Non-factorisable effects in the decays $$ {\overline{B}}_s^0\to {D}_s^{+}{\pi}^{-} $$ and $$ {\overline{B}}^0\to {D}^{+}{K}^{-} $$ from LCSR
Authors: Piscopo Maria Laura , Rusov Aleksey V. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In light of the current discrepancies between the recent predictions based on QCD factorisation (QCDF) and the experimental data for several non-leptonic colour-allowed two-body B-meson decays, we obtain new determinations of the non-factorisable soft-gluon contribution to the decays $$ {\overline{B}}_s^0\to {D}_s^{+}{\pi}^{-} $$

B
¯

s
0

→

D
s
+

π
−

and $$ {\overline{B}}^0\to {D}^{+}{K}^{-} $$

B
¯

0

→

D
+

K
−

, using the framework of light-cone sum rule (LCSR), with a suitable three-point correlation function and B-meson light-cone distribution amplitudes. In particular, we discuss the problem associated with a double light-cone (LC) expansion of the correlator, and motivate future determinations of the three-particle B-meson matrix element with the gluon and the spectator quark aligned along different light-cone directions. Performing a LC-local operator product expansion of the correlation function, we find, for both modes considered, the non-factorisable part of the amplitude to be sizeable and positive, however, with very large systematic uncertainties. Furthermore, we also determine for the first time, using LCSR, the factorisable amplitudes at LO-QCD, and thus the corresponding branching fractions. Our predictions are in agreement with the experimental data and consistent with the results based on QCDF, although again within very large uncertainties. In this respect, we provide a rich outlook for future improvements and investigations.
Renormalons in the energy-energy correlator
Authors: Schindler Stella T. , Stewart Iain W. , Sun Zhiquan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The energy-energy correlator (EEC) is an observable of wide interest for collider physics and Standard Model measurements, due to both its simple theoretical description in terms of the energy-momentum tensor and its novel features for experimental studies. Significant progress has been made in both applications and higher-order perturbative predictions for the EEC. Here, we analyze the nature of the asymptotic perturbative series for the EEC by determining its analytic form in Borel space under the bubble-sum approximation. This result provides information on the leading and subleading nonperturbative power corrections through renormalon poles. We improve the perturbative convergence of the $$ \overline{\textrm{MS}} $$

MS
¯

series for the EEC by removing its leading renormalon using an MSR scheme, which is independent of the bubble-sum approximation. Using the leading MSR scheme power correction determined by fits to thrust, we find good agreement with EEC OPAL data already at $$ \mathcal{O} $$
O
($$ {\alpha}_s^2 $$

α
s
2

).
Population genetics of the endangered Clanwilliam sandfish Labeo seeberi: considerations for conservation management
Authors: Rhode Clint , Lesch Shaun F. , Hull Kelvin L. , Slabbert Ruhan , Jordaan Martine S. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe Cape Fold Ecoregion (CFE) is one of southern Africa’s unique aquatic ecoregions and its freshwater fish fauna is characterized by high levels of endemism. As with many other Mediterranean-type ecosystems, the region is also a hotspot for threatened and range-restricted freshwater fish. Many of the CFE’s endemic species are at risk for extinction, with declines in population sizes and distribution ranges. The Clanwilliam sandfish Labeo seeberi is an example of such a species and is considered one of South Africa’s most endangered large migratory cyprinids. This species is endemic to the Olifants/Doring river system in the CFE and has been subject to a major population decline, mainly as a result of invasive alien fish and adverse climate events. Little is known of the genetics of the Clanwilliam sandfish, thus this study aimed to provide basic population genetic parameters to inform future conservation interventions. Both microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers were used to assess populations from three sites within the Olifants/Doring river system. Genetic diversity was moderate to low and did not reflect the drastic decline expected on the basis of previous relative abundance data. This is likely due to a lag effect between ecological/life history demographics (due to juvenile recruitment failures) and population genetic composition. Furthermore, there was limited genetic differentiation between the sampling locations, suggesting a single breeding population, but mtDNA haplotype distribution and slight divergence of the smaller populations does suggest that the population might have become recently fragmented. The results show that the effective population size of the current breeding population might still be sufficient to maintain evolutionary potential in the short term, which could act as a buffer until conservation strategies focusing on protecting breeding animals and maximizing juvenile survival can restore population numbers.
HOMA-IR and the Matsuda Index as predictors of progression to type 1 diabetes in autoantibody-positive relatives
Authors: Petrelli Alessandra , Cugnata Federica , Carnovale Debora , Bosi Emanuele , Libman Ingrid M. , Piemonti Lorenzo , Cuthbertson David , Sosenko Jay M. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Aim/hypothesis
We assessed whether HOMA-IR and the Matsuda Index are associated with transitions through stages of type 1 diabetes.

Methods
Autoantibody (AAb)-positive relatives of individuals with type 1 diabetes (n=6256) from the TrialNet Pathway to Prevention were studied. Associations of indicators of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and insulin sensitivity (Matsuda Index) with BMI percentile (BMIp) and age were assessed with adjustments for measures of insulin secretion, Index60 and insulinogenic index (IGI). Cox regression was used to determine if tertiles of HOMA-IR and Matsuda Index predicted transitions from Not Staged (<2 AAbs) to Stage 1 (≥2 AAbs and normoglycaemia), from Stage 1 to Stage 2 (≥2 AAbs with dysglycaemia), and progression to Stage 3 (diabetes as defined by WHO/ADA criteria).

Results
There were strong associations of HOMA-IR (positive) and Matsuda Index (inverse) with baseline age and BMIp (p<0.0001). After adjustments for Index60, transitioning from Stage 1 to Stage 2 was associated with higher HOMA-IR and lower Matsuda Index (HOMA-IR: HR=1.71, p<0.0001; Matsuda Index, HR=0.40, p<0.0001), as with progressing from Stages 1 or 2 to Stage 3 (HOMA-IR: HR=1.98, p<0.0001; Matsuda Index: HR=0.46, p<0.0001). Without adjustments, associations of progression to Stage 3 were inverse for HOMA-IR and positive for Matsuda Index, opposite in directionality with adjustments. When IGI was used in place of Index60, the findings were similar.

Conclusions/interpretation
Progression to Stages 2 and 3 of type 1 diabetes increases with HOMA-IR and decreases with the Matsuda Index after adjustments for insulin secretion. Indicators of insulin secretion appear helpful for interpreting associations of progression to type 1 diabetes with HOMA-IR or the Matsuda Index in AAb-positive relatives.

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Incidence of non-affective psychotic disorders in refugees and peers growing up in Denmark and Sweden: a registry linkage study
Authors: de Montgomery Christopher J. , Cullen Alexis E. , Taipale Heidi , Krasnik Allan , Norredam Marie , Mittendorfer-Rutz Ellenor 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Purpose
Higher rates of non-affective psychotic disorders (NAPD) in minority groups have been reported in many countries. However, few studies have explored how rates differ between refugees and other minority groups and none with an international comparative angle. A comparative perspective makes it possible to relate group differences to aspects national context that underpin the social determinants of disease.

Methods
We compared the incidence of treated NAPD among youth born in or who immigrated to Denmark/Sweden before turning 18. Youth aged 18–35 during 2006–2018 were included (NDenmark/NSweden = 1,606,423/2,614,721) and were followed until first NAPD treatment (cases [Denmark/Sweden] = 12,193/9,641), 36th birthday, emigration or death. Incidence rates (IR) and ratios (IRR) comparing refugees, non-refugee migrants, descendants of non-refugee migrants and majority youth were obtained through Poisson regression on data aggregated by country, sex and age, contrasted by sex and country. Complementary analyses on individual-level data adjusting for further socio-demographic factors were conducted in each country separately.

Results
Incidence rates were higher in all groups compared with the majority group (IRRrange = 1.4–2.9, 95% CI[min, max] = 1.2–3.1). Relative differences between the three minority groups were smaller (IRRrange = 0.7–1.0, 95% CI[min, max] = 0.5–1.2). Although incidence rates were higher in Denmark than Sweden, relative group differences were similar.

Conclusion
Exposures shared between young refugees and other minority groups growing up in Denmark and Sweden may be especially important for their excess risk of NAPD. Further studies should investigate the mechanisms behind the elevated rates in minority groups with special paid attention to factors such as discrimination, social exclusion and acculturation stress.
Influence of depressive disorders, stress, and personality traits on quality of life after cochlear implantation
Authors: Lailach Susen , Stephan Paula , Martin Johanna , Zahnert Thomas , Neudert Marcus 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Purpose
This study aimed to determine whether preoperative depressiveness, stress, and personality influence quality of life (QOL) after cochlear implant (CI) surgery.

Methods
In this prospective study, 79 patients undergoing CI surgery were evaluated preoperatively and 12 months postoperatively. Disease-specific QOL was assessed with the Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire (NCIQ) and general QOL with the WHOQOL-BREF. Depressiveness and stress were assessed with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-D). The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) was used to classify comorbidities. The Big Five Personality Test (B5T) was used to assess the basic personality dimensions. Speech comprehension was evaluated in quiet with the Freiburg monosyllable test and in noise with the Oldenburg sentence test.

Results
After CI surgery, the total NCIQ score improved significantly (Δ 17.1 ± 14.7, p < 0.001). General QOL (WHOQOL-BREF, Δ 0.4 ± 9.9, p = 0.357), stress (Δ 0.25 ± 3.21, p = 0.486), and depressiveness (Δ 0.52 ± 3.21, p = 0.121) were unaffected by CI surgery. Patients without elevated depressiveness (p < 0.01) or stress (p < 0.001) had significantly better total NCIQ scores. The results of the multiple regression analyses show that, after adjusting for the CCI, personality, age, and mental health stress (ß = − 0.495, p < 0.001) was significantly associated with postoperative NCIQ outcome scores. Depressiveness and neuroticism had the strongest influence on the generic QOL (ß = − 0.286 and ß = − 0.277, p < 0.05).

Conclusion
Stress symptoms and personality traits are significant predictive factors for disease-specific QOL, as well as hearing status. This should be considered in the preoperative consultation and in optimizing the rehabilitation process.
Clinical outcomes and periodontal conditions of dental implants placed in free fibula flaps (FFF): a retrospective study with a mean follow-up of 6 years
Authors: Lombardo Giorgio , D’Agostino Antonio , Nocini Pier Francesco , Signoriello Annarita , Zangani Alessandro , Pardo Alessia , Lonardi Fabio , Trevisiol Lorenzo 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Objectives
Up-to-date literature regarding long-term success of implant rehabilitations after microvascular reconstructions with free fibula flap (FFF) is still very scarce. This study aimed to evaluate clinical outcomes, especially related to oral hygiene conditions, of patients rehabilitated with this technique.

Materials and methods
A total of 25 patients who underwent maxillofacial reconstructive surgery with FFF were retrospectively evaluated for soft tissues conditions, oral hygiene habits, and implant survival and success, assessed with a mean follow-up of 6 (range 2–15) years after loading.

Results
Fourteen patients received full-arch fixed prostheses and 11 removable bar-supported overdentures. At the follow-up evaluation, 52% of prostheses did not allow proper accessibility for oral hygiene. Overall prosthetic survival was 100%, and implant survival and success were respectively 93.6% and 72%. Prevalence of peri-implantitis was 29% at implant level and that at patient level 96%.

Conclusions
Six-year clinical outcomes of this study reveal that poor oral hygiene practices and compliance by patients who underwent maxillofacial reconstruction with FFF are significantly associated with peri-implant disease.

Clinical relevance
Findings of the present study underline the need by clinicians for a careful assessment, in reference to a specific implant therapy, of patient’s prosthetic accessibility for oral hygiene procedures.
Language support for verifying reconfigurable interacting systems
Authors: Alrahman Yehia Abd , Azzopardi Shaun , Di Stefano Luca , Piterman Nir 
Published: November 2023

AbstractReconfigurable interacting systems consist of a set of autonomous agents, with integrated interaction capabilities that feature opportunistic interaction. Agents seemingly reconfigure their interaction interfaces by forming collectives and interact based on mutual interests. Finding ways to design and analyse the behaviour of these systems is a vigorously pursued research goal. In this article, we provide a modelling and analysis environment for the design of such system. Our tool offers simulation and verification to facilitate native reasoning about the domain concepts of such systems. We present our tool named R-CHECK (please find the associated toolkit repository here:https://github.com/dsynma/recipe). R-CHECK supports a high-level input language with matching enumerative and symbolic semantics and provides modelling convenience for features such as reconfiguration, coalition formation, and self-organisation. For analysis, users can simulate the designed system and explore arising traces. Our included model checker permits reasoning about interaction protocols and joint missions.