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Tackling the Challenge of the Epidemic of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Ogola Elijah N. , Gachemba Yubrine M. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Africa bears a disproportionate burden of NCDs, including CVDs, having one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates globally. As the burden of CVDs such as stroke, heart failure, and coronary artery disease increase, endemic conditions, for example, rheumatic heart disease and endomyocardial fibrosis persist. NCD mortality is projected to surpass communicable disease mortality. This increase is driven by a rise in risk factors attributable to the epidemiological transition.
Control of communicable diseases has been prioritized leading to remarkable declines in communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional (CMNN) diseases. There hasn’t been commensurate attention to control of CVDs. In the context of poor, under resourced health care systems, geared towards communicable diseases, control of CVDs poses unique challenges.
A multipronged strategy is needed to tackle the challenges. These include a skilled workforce across all cadres; team-based care with appropriate task shifting, relevant practice guidelines with clear referral pathways; strengthening of primary health care; evidence-based prevention strategies and contextually relevant research. Specific attention is needed for sex- and gender-specific challenges. This requires the collaborative effort of all stakeholders, including governments, professional organizations, academia, civil societies, international organizations, and most importantly the community.
Viscoelasticity and accretive phase-change at finite strains
Authors: Chiesa Andrea , Stefanelli Ulisse 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
We investigate the evolution of a two-phase viscoelastic material at finite strains. The phase evolution is assumed to be irreversible: One phase accretes in time in its normal direction, at the expense of the other. Mechanical response depends on the phase. At the same time, growth is influenced by the mechanical state at the boundary of the accreting phase, making the model fully coupled. This setting is inspired by the early stage development of solid tumors, as well as by the swelling of polymer gels. We formulate the evolution problem by coupling the balance of momenta in weak form and the growth dynamics in the viscosity sense. Both a diffused- and a sharp-interface variant of the model are proved to admit solutions and the sharp-interface limit is investigated.
Safe access to laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with previous periumbilical incsions: new approach to avoid entry related bowel injury
Authors: Seif Mostafa , Mourad Mohamed , Elkeleny Mostafa Refaie , Wael Mohamed 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Background
Patients with prior abdominal surgeries are at higher risk of intra-peritoneal adhesions near the trocar entry site, increasing the likelihood of organ injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). This study evaluates a novel technique where the epigastric trocar is inserted first, after creating pneumoperitoneum, to allow safe dissection of adhesions under direct vision before placing the umbilical trocar.

Methods
This prospective study included 244 patients with symptomatic uncomplicated gallstone disease and a history of previous abdominal surgeries extending to the umbilicus. Patients were randomly assigned to two groups: Group I (n = 98) underwent traditional umbilical trocar-first LC using the Hasson technique, while Group II (n = 146) received LC using the epigastric trocar-first approach. Operative time, complications, and conversion rates were analyzed.

Results
There was no significant difference in the demographics between both groups. The epigastric trocar-first approach significantly reduced total operative time (41.6 ± 7.7 min vs. 46.8 ± 8.8 min, p = 0.031) and small bowel injury rates (p = 0.006). Otherwise, intraoperative complications were comparable. Conversion to open surgery was lower in Group II (2.1% vs. 8.2%, p = 0.012). Postoperative pain at 6 h was significantly lower in Group II (p = 0.001).

Conclusions
The epigastric trocar-first approach, offers a safer alternative for patients with prior abdominal surgeries when undergoing LC. This approach is safe; minimizes bowel injury risk, reduces conversion rates, and enhances patient recovery. This approach may also be beneficial in other laparoscopic procedures requiring safe entry in patients with prior abdominal surgeries. Further studies are recommended to validate its broader clinical application.
Development of a Screening Intervention for Dysphagia in Hospitalised Geriatric Patients
Authors: Schmidt Anne Mette , Kristensen Helene Nørgaard , Melgaard Dorte , Pedersen Asger Roer , Mark Lene , Appel Charlotte Weiling , Langergaard Sofie , Overgaard Charlotte 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Prevalence of dysphagia is high in hospitalised geriatric patients, posing risks of complications including malnutrition, dehydration, aspiration, and pneumonia. These complications may lead to reduced daily functioning, frailty, prolonged hospital stays, readmissions, and mortality. Diagnosing dysphagia in geriatric patients is often challenging due to the complex health conditions of this patient group, and overall these patients are at risk of lack of continuity in patient pathways and unnecessary hospitalisations. Recognising the critical importance of prompt diagnosis and treatment of dysphagia, we developed a dysphagia screening intervention aligned with clinical guidelines and the political focus to improve patient pathways and reduce preventable hospitalisations. This article outlines the development process of a dysphagia screening intervention to geriatric patients (≥ 65 years) admitted to medical inpatient wards. We applied a theory-, evidence- and implementation-based approach combined with stakeholder involvement in adherence to the IdentifyiNg and assessing different approaches to DEveloping compleX intervention (INDEX) guidance, encompassing eleven actions. We developed a dysphagia screening intervention comprising a screening procedure (the 4 Questionnaire Test (4QT), the 30 ml water swallowing test, and an action algorithm) targeting the patient level. Moreover, we developed an implementation strategy (activities necessary for adequate delivery of the dysphagia screening procedure and activities supporting the delivery of the screening procedure) targeting health professionals and the organisational level. The dysphagia screening intervention is now ready for feasibility testing, promising improved health and healthcare services for hospitalised geriatric patients.
Redacted text detection using neural image segmentation methods
Authors: van Heusden Ruben , Meijer Kaj , Marx Maarten 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The redaction of sensitive information in documents is common practice in specific types of organizations. This happens for example in court proceedings or in documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The ability to automatically detect when information has been redacted has several practical applications, such as the gathering of statistics on the amount of redaction present in documents, enabling a critical view on redaction practices. It can also be used to further investigate redactions, and whether or not the used techniques provide sufficient anonymization. The task is particularly challenging because of the large variety of redaction methods and techniques, from software for automatic redaction to manual redactions by pen. Any detection system must be robust to a large variety of inputs, as it will be run on many documents that might not even contain redactions. In this study, we evaluate two neural methods for the task, namely a Mask R-CNN model and a Mask2Former model, and compare them to a rule-based model based on optical character recognition and morphological operations. The best performing, the Mask R-CNN model, has a recall of .94 with a precision of .96 over a challenging data set containing several redaction types. Adding many pages without redaction barely lowers this score (precision drops to .90, recall drops to .92). The Mask2Former model is most robust to inputs without redactions, producing the least false positives of all models.
A multi-level explainability framework for engineering and understanding BDI agents
Authors: Yan Elena , Burattini Samuele , Hübner Jomi Fred , Ricci Alessandro 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
As the complexity of software systems rises, explainability - i.e. the ability of systems to provide explanations of their behaviour - becomes a crucial property. This is true for any AI-based systems, including autonomous systems that exhibit decisionmaking capabilities such as multi-agent systems. Although explainabil- ity is generally considered useful to increase the level of trust for end-users, we argue it is also an interesting property for software engineers, developers, and designers to debug and validate the system’s behaviour. In this paper, we propose a multi-level explainability framework for BDI agents to generate explanations of a running system from logs at different levels of abstraction, tailored to different users and their needs. We describe the mapping from logs to explanations, and present a prototype tool based on the JaCaMo platform which implements the framework.
Assessment of the nutritional and effluent properties of potential fish-meal-free diets for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss W.) in Iran
Authors: Salehi Hamed , Reiser Stefan , Focken Ulfert 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Research is needed on alternative ingredients for aquafeeds due to rising demand and limited fish meal availability. This study evaluated fish-meal–free diets for rainbow trout in two phases. The first phase focused on assessing the growth performance and nutrient digestibility of six cold-pelleted diets. Aside from the control diet, the test diets contained poultry protein concentrate, blood meal, low-ash poultry by-product meal, 20–40% canola meal, and feather meal (Goldmehl®). Juvenile fish, averaging 5.3 g, were fed the diets for 56 days in a random-block design with four replicates per feed. Feces were collected using the settling method to evaluate nutritional digestibility and phosphorus availability. The feed from the primary phase, which resulted in the least-cost feed conversion ratio, was extruded and fed to fingerlings (14.6 g) in the second phase. This trial added to the first run in measuring digestibility parameters over a 28-day period. In parallel, extruded feed was given to grow-out fish, averaging 172.5 g, for 55 days in triplicate completely randomized tanks to evaluate growth performance and nutrient effluents. Throughout all the experimental runs, a casein-based laboratory pelleted feed was used for the respective controls. Feeding rainbow trout with 35% canola meal in both pelleted and extruded forms showed comparable results (P > 0.05) to the control in terms of growth performance and apparent digestibility for lipid (> 91%), crude protein (> 87%), and organic matter (> 78%). The extruded feed in this study represents an eco-friendly option for the growing aquafeed sector.
Valuing pedagogy in implementing an affect-focused mathematics teaching with technology support: Valuing playful teaching vs. game technology
Authors: Chiu Mei-Shiu , Seah Wee Tiong , Chen Hsin-Min , Wan I-Ping 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This study aims to identify teachers’ selection/adoption of valuing pedagogy (VP) to implement an affect-focused mathematics teaching design with technological support. Valuing pedagogy is defined as teaching methods to address educational values and operationally defined as perceived, implemented, and received curricula, manifested by teacher perception, implementation, and assessment used to gain student responses to the teaching or learning outcomes. This study focused on two teachers. They were interviewed for their perceived curricula, interviewed and videotaped their teaching for implemented curricula, and students’ responses to teacher assessments for perceived curricula. Qualitative data analysis with quantitative data support found three teacher roles for VP (VP’s ABC): Affective human players, Behavioral socializing facilitators, and Cognitive knowledge guides. The analysis also identified two distinct valuing pedagogies. Valuing playful teaching mixes VP’s ABC, teachers viewing students as natural learners, supported by teacher playful emotions and intensive social interactions to help students gain cognitive knowledge. Valuing game technology focuses on letting students make sense of game technology and VP’s BC; thereby students become testers for technology. The VP of playful teaching generates a positive class atmosphere, while that of game technology generates a neutral one. A slight infusion of playful emotions into gamification technology may be the key to positivity in serious play for learning mathematics.
International Trade and the Transmission of Temperature Shocks
Authors: Schenker Oliver , Osberghaus Daniel 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A month with an average temperature above 30
$$^{\circ }\hbox {C}$$
implies export losses of around three percent. These effects are increasing in the labour-intensity of exports. Using our structural Gravity model, we assess the general equilibrium incidence of these temperature shocks. We find that equilibrium adjustments reduce the economic costs by around 20 percent, but significant costs arise also for countries not directly exposed to high temperatures.
Taxation and multi-sided platforms: a review
Authors: Kind Hans Jarle , Schjelderup Guttorm 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Many of the largest and most influential industries in the global economy operate digitally as multi-sided platforms, catering to different groups who are connected through intergroup network effects. This paper provides a survey of the literature on the effects of taxing these firms via indirect and corporate taxes. It seeks to establish an understanding of why traditional insights from taxation in one-sided markets may not apply to firms in multi-sided markets. Indeed, governments risk implementing counterproductive tax policies in multi-sided markets if they base their strategies on what constitutes efficient taxation in traditional markets.
On measuring the change in historical city centres: an attempt at comparing human perception and deep learning through visual quality of street space
Authors: Gönül Alper , Durak Selen 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The quality of street space serves as a pivotal factor in overseeing the preservation, development, and utilization of historic heritage sites by individuals. This study proposes a novel method for quantifying changes in historical environments by assessing visual space quality. The model integrates artificial intelligence (AI)-based image segmentation of street views, representing an indirect form of human perception, with diverse user opinions based on evocation of facade images, reflecting direct human perception. The aim of the study is to evaluate visual space quality by comparing artificial intelligence and human perception within the proposed model, thereby harnessing the strengths of both approaches. The Atatürk High Street of Bursa City, situated within the Khans region, which inscribed on the UNESCO heritage list, was utilized as the study area to validate the method. Workstations, 50 m far away each other were created on Atatürk Street, and 360-degree panoramic images were obtained from these stations with Google Street View and action camera shots for the years 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2023. The obtained images were analyzed with deep learning-based semantic segmentation technique to monitor the changes in the visual quality indicators of greenery, openness, enclosure, imageability, walkability and complexity. The facade images of the workstations were shown to the experts and stakeholders with a survey application, and subjective-semi subjective change was determined over the same parameters. In the assessment of visual space quality, indicators such as openness, greenery, and enclosure, which predominantly encompass physical components, tend to yield objective and subjective results that closely align with each other. Conversely, discrepancies between objective and subjective results emerge for indicators such as imageability and complexity, wherein human emotions and perception exert significant influence.
Crime Measures and Housing Prices: an Analysis Using Quantile Regression and Spatial Autocorrelation
Authors: Kallberg Jarl G. , Shimizu Yoshiki 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Crime is a disamenity, so buyers should be willing to pay more for a house (all else equal) in a low crime area, suggesting that high crime rates depress housing prices. Conversely, it is plausible that criminals prefer wealthier areas because of the higher expected returns from their transgressions. This study examines the link between measures of crime and prices of residential housing. Our data begin in 2008 and end in 2020 for Seattle, Washington, including all reported felonies (756,304); 911 calls (1,528,303); all recorded residential real estate transactions (61,902 after filtering), as well as the corresponding property characteristics; demographic data and the associated changes. The inherent endogeneity between crime rates and housing prices forces us to find an instrument for crime rates. After rejecting several plausible choices, based on the Wu-Hausman test, the key variable in our empirical analysis is the number of 911 calls (contemporaneous and lagged) in a given beat. Our results present somewhat mixed evidence on the impact of crime on housing prices. Without adjustment for spatial autocorrelation, a 1 percentage point increase in crime rates (instrumented by the number of 911 calls) leads to approximately a 0.55% decrease in house prices. However adjusting for spatial autocorrelation changes this figure to a 0.80% increase. We further show that distance to a crime hotspot is significantly negatively related to housing prices, suggesting that criminals choose to operate in wealthier areas, which is consistent with our findings incorporating spatial autocorrelation.
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China
Authors: Zhong Chensi , Wilkinson Jennifer 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The individualization thesis has been widely applied to explain women’s increasing autonomy in romantic relationships and marital decisions across both Western and non-Western contexts. In China, individualization is believed to have enhanced women’s freedom in love and marriage, supported by the 1950 Marriage Law, which abolished arranged marriages and granted women equal legal status to men. However, Chinese women still face notable constraints in exercising full autonomy over their choice of partners and the timing of marriage. Parental involvement in matchmaking, pressure from media discourses that stigmatize “leftover women”, and social expectations continue to define women’s happiness in relation to timely marriage and childbearing. Importantly, Confucian family and gender norms now appear to have a greater influence on women’s romantic choices than they did during the early reform era. With the “return” of Confucian marital values and increasing parental involvement in matchmaking, does the individualization thesis still sufficiently explain Chinese women’s marital freedom? By addressing the “nonlinear” aspect of second modernity, this article aims to deconstruct the concept of “traditions” within the marital sphere. It argues that traditions have re-emerged in an “evolved” form, blending both traditional and modern requirements within China’s unique context of individualization. The nonlinear nature of individualization offers a dynamic perspective for understanding the complex relationship between tradition and modernity in rapidly transforming societies like China.
Finnish teachers’ mindsets and conceptions of neuroplasticity
Authors: Jääskö-Santala Kati , Laine Sonja , Tirri Kirsi 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Teachers’ mindsets play a significant role in supporting and advancing students’ learning trajectories. While considerable research has focused on the impact of teacher mindsets on instructional practices and motivational factors, less attention has been paid to their understanding of neuroplasticity – one of the fundamental concepts behind a growth mindset – and its potential link with mindsets. The purpose of this study is to examine Finnish pre- and in-service elementary school and special education teachers’ (N = 312) mindsets and conceptions of neuroplasticity, which were measured using an online survey. Using exploratory factor analysis, we examined the factor structure of the instrument measuring conceptions of neuroplasticity. We identified one factor, “Scientific knowledge about the brain,” with an acceptable internal consistency. By contrast, the items of the other factor, “Neuromyths,” were examined individually because they lacked the necessary internal consistency. In line with previous Finnish studies, the teachers tended toward a growth mindset, and their mindsets were more growth-oriented regarding intelligence than giftedness. Moreover, we found that being a pre-service teacher explained stronger growth mindset tendency toward intelligence based on the results of regression analysis. Furthermore, teachers´ understanding of neuroplasticity was grounded in scientific knowledge. Regarding the connection between mindsets and conceptions of neuroplasticity, we found a relationship between mindsets about intelligence and giftedness, and certain neuromyth items. Further research is required to explore the extent to which mindsets play a potential role in either promoting or reducing misconceptions related to the brain and learning.
Perpetration of non-consensual sharing of sexual content among adolescents: socio-moral and emotional competencies, gender-based attitudes, and sexual behavior correlates
Authors: Durán-Guerrero Estrella , Sánchez-Jiménez Virginia 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Social networks allow adolescents new ways to interact and explore their sexuality, facilitating the development of sexual and personal identity. However, the online context also can contribute to the development of new forms of online sexual aggressions, such as non-consensual sharing of sexual content (NCS). NCS consists in the forwarding sexually explicit media of a person without their consent, violating the victim’s integrity and privacy. There is little knowledge about NCS in Spanish adolescents, so the present study aimed to explore the prevalence of this new form of online sexual violence and possible socio-moral, emotional and behavioral correlates, considering dating experiences and gender differences. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 1027 adolescents (47.3% girls) from Seville and Huelva (Spain). Prevalence results indicated that 14.4% of adolescents were engaged in NCS perpetration. Dating experience was not associated with the involvement in NCS. Boys reported higher prevalences of forwarding pictures (5.9% and 1.6%) and videos (3.1% and 0.6%) of other peers without their consent than girls. Linear regression analyses showed that moral identity was associated with less NCS perpetration. Moral disengagement, sexism, exploratory behaviors and anger regulation were associated with higher levels of NCS. These results describe NCS as an aggressive behavior with relevant moral and ethical implications but also sustained by sexism and inequality. Future prevention programs should incorporate moral development content and provide adolescents with the competencies to explore their sexuality in a healthy and safe way, respecting their own and other people’s boundaries.