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Survival Kits for Babies: Baby Box Books and Infant Temporality in Finnish Maternity Packages
Authors: Lassén-Seger Maria , Österlund Mia 
Published: November 2023

AbstractMaternity packages, introduced in 1938 by the Finnish state to counteract declining birth rates and infant mortality, have reached all newborns regardless of income or social status from 1949 onwards. The box is a unique phenomenon internationally and a significant part of the Finnish history of childhood as its contents mirror contemporaneous views on childhood. In 1982, a baby book was added to the box. Research has, however, kept focusing on the social aspects of the box, ignoring the baby books. In this article, we make up for the lack of scholarly interest in the baby box books by studying how they depict temporal normativity. Drawing on queer temporal studies (Halberstam 2005; Freeman 2010), we introduce the terms infant temporality/ baby time to discuss the interplay of aesthetics and normative timelines. We claim that these books use bodily tempo, rhythm, movement, as well as sensory and tactile aspects to depict non-normative timelines, understood as infant temporality. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa (2019), we argue that the interplay between adult caregiver and infant encouraged by these books aims to achieve resonance, understood as presence and connection. In contrast to adult acceleration, we claim that these books, as part of their unique hybrid aesthetics, present infant temporality as deceleration. Reaching a vast number of Finnish families yearly, the baby box books provide a strong temporal discourse while promoting a resonant reproductive time. However, we find that while the books studied deviate from adult temporal normativity, infant temporality is still included in a normative reproductive timeline, sanctioned by the Finnish state. Hereby, the baby box books expose temporal complexities of our era.
Understanding the Design Values of Baby Books: Materiality, Co-presence, and Remediation
Authors: Walsh Jacqueline Reid , Rouse Rebecca 
Published: November 2023

AbstractIn this article we analyze the design values of selected baby books published in England, the United States and Italy across 100 years. The examples we focus on are What is This? What is That? (1905) of the Dean’s Rag books series, Pat the Bunny (1940), I PRELIBRI (1980), and Wiggle! March! (2009) of the Indestructibles series. We group these books into two pairs of simple or complex designs, based on either a drive for durability or the aim to provide a multisensory experience: the Dean’s Rag books and the Indestructibles form one set, and Pat the Bunny and I PRELIBRI the second. We approach the books by examining the relationships among the materiality, narrative and formal design elements, the implied co-presence of a young child and adult care, issues of context and gender, and how the later examples remediate or rework the materials and beliefs of the earlier ones in a contemporary manner.
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States
Authors: Kyriopoulos Ilias , Vandoros Sotiris , Kawachi Ichiro 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe relationship between economic recessions and cardiovascular mortality has been widely explored. However, there is limited evidence on whether economic uncertainty alone is linked to cardiovascular disease deaths. This study examines the association between economic uncertainty and mortality from diseases of the circulatory system in the United States. We obtained monthly state-level mortality data from 2008 to 2017 and used indices capturing economic uncertainty from national/international sources and local sources. Panel data modelling was used to account for unobserved time-invariant differences between the states. Our findings suggest that economic uncertainty is independently linked to cardiovascular mortality. Uncertainty arising from national/international sources is associated with cardiovascular deaths, whereas the respective index capturing uncertainty from state/local sources is not. Deaths respond asymmetrically with respect to uncertainty fluctuations – with high levels of uncertainty driving the association. One- and two-month lagged uncertainty levels are also associated with mortality. Several robustness checks further validate the baseline findings. Overall, economic uncertainty is an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality which appears to act as a psychosocial stressor and a short-term trigger. Public health strategies for cardiovascular disease need to consider factors driving economic uncertainty. Preventive measures and raising awareness can intensify in periods of economic uncertainty.
Electrical stimulation via repeated biphasic conducting materials for peripheral nerve regeneration
Authors: Rosenbalm Tabitha N. , Levi Nicole H. , Morykwas Michael J. , Wagner William D. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractImproved materials for peripheral nerve repair are needed for the advancement of new surgical techniques in fields spanning from oncology to trauma. In this study, we developed bioresorbable materials capable of producing repeated electric field gradients spaced 600 μm apart to assess the impact on neuronal cell growth, and migration. Electrically conductive, biphasic composites comprised of poly (glycerol) sebacate acrylate (PGSA) alone, and doped with poly (pyrrole) (PPy), were prepared to create alternating segments with high and low electrically conductivity. Conductivity measurements demonstrated that 0.05% PPy added to PSA achieved an optimal value of 1.25 × 10−4 S/cm, for subsequent electrical stimulation. Tensile testing and degradation of PPy doped and undoped PGSA determined that 35–40% acrylation of PGSA matched nerve mechanical properties. Both fibroblast and neuronal cells thrived when cultured upon the composite. Biphasic PGSA/PPy sheets seeded with neuronal cells stimulated for with 3 V, 20 Hz demonstrated a 5x cell increase with 1 day of stimulation and up to a 10x cell increase with 3 days stimulation compared to non-stimulated composites. Tubular conduits composed of repeated high and low conductivity materials suitable for implantation in the rat sciatic nerve model for nerve repair were evaluated in vivo and were superior to silicone conduits. These results suggest that biphasic conducting conduits capable of maintaining mechanical properties without inducing compression injuries while generating repeated electric fields are a promising tool for acceleration of peripheral nerve repair to previously untreatable patients.
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Part of the Family: Children’s Experiences with Their Companion Animals in the Context of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Authors: Callaghan Jane E M , Fellin Lisa C , Mavrou Stavroula , Alexander Joanne H. , Deligianni-Kouimtzi Vasiliki , Papathanassiou Maria , Sixsmith Judith 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Purpose
Children who experience Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) draw on a range of strategies to manage the complex dynamics of family life. This article explored children’s experiences of their relationships with pets and other animals, considering how children understood these relationships.

Methods
This qualitative study is based on semi-structured interviews and visual methods-based research with 22 children (aged 9–17), drawn from a larger study on how children cope with DVA. The data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.

Findings
Five themes are discussed: Part of the family explores how children positioned animals as relational beings who occupied an important place in their lives; caring for animals considers the reciprocal caring relationship children described; listening and support details how children interacted with animals to allow themselves to feel more heard and supported; in the theme control and abuse, we consider children’s experiences of perpetrators’ use of companion animals as part of a pattern of abuse and control; and in disruption, uncertainty and loss, we discuss how children feel and relate to their animals when leaving situations of domestic abuse.

Conclusions
The implications of our analysis are considered in relation to providing support for children impacted by domestic abuse, and the importance of ensuring companion animals are provided for in housing policy and planning for domestic abuse survivors.
The post-memory of the Armenian genocide and the myth of origins in Antonia Arslan’s works
Authors: Sinopoli Franca 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThis contribution aims to analyse the postmemory of the origins through the work of an Italian author of Armenian descent, Antonia Arslan, and stems from an ongoing research project about “Narrating the Trauma in European Literatures and Cultures” based at La Sapienza University of Rome. I will therefore focus on the link between this research project, which serves as a theoretical framework, and the specific case study concerning Antonia Arslan. The project originates from two concerns: the first one being the awareness of the loss of poets and writers’ long-lived faith in the creative power of the artistic gesture, a widespread belief before the two world wars, and the second one consisting in a reflection on a general change of the theoretic framework of literature, especially in the case of the narration of traumatic experiences such as wars, genocides, migrations and displacements of people, which have taken place in Europe during the 20th Century [Neohelicon, 2004(1), Migratio et litterae].
“Monasteri neri”: letteratura ungherese e italiana e scrittura popolare nella Prima Guerra Mondiale
Authors: Franchi Cinzia 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe paper “Black Monasteries”: Hungarian and Italian Literature and Popular Writing in the First World War analyzes War literature and the directly related literature about internment camps, both relating to the First World War, which had a different development in Hungary and Italy; however, similar features can be found in them. Regarding these aspects, this essay examines some works, starting from the Black Monastery [Fekete kolostor] by Aladár Kuncz and other novels and “reportage novels” (Siberian garrison [Szibériai garnizon], by Rodion Markovits) of the same period. Their characteristic traits are peculiar and common with Italian works (i.e. Un anno sull’altipiano, by Emilio Lussu, Taccuino di Caporetto, by Carlo Emilio Gadda), while the final part of the essay concerns popular writing and its role in the literature, based on the experience in internment camps and war literature through studies and research that focus on the correspondence with families and friends of soldiers and internees from many European countries.
Sexual Assault Among Young Adolescents in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: Findings from the IMPower and SOS Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Sarnquist Clea , Friedberg Rina , Rosenman Evan T. R. , Amuyunzu-Nyamongo Mary , Nyairo Gavin , Baiocchi Michael 
Published: November 2023

AbstractSexual assault is a global threat to adolescent health, but empowerment self-defense (ESD) interventions have shown promise for prevention. This study evaluated the joint implementation of a girls’ ESD program and a concurrent boys’ program, implemented via a cluster-randomized controlled trial in informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya, from January 2016 to October 2018. Schools were randomized to the 12-h intervention or 2-h standard of care. Students were randomly sampled to complete surveys at baseline and again at 24 months post-intervention. A total of 3263 girls, ages 10–14, who completed both baseline and follow-up surveys were analyzed; weights were adjusted for dropout. At follow-up, 5.9% (n = 194/3263) of girls reported having been raped in the prior 12 months. Odds of reporting rape were not significantly different in the intervention versus SOC group (OR: 1.21; 95% CI (0.40, 5.21), p = 0.63). Secondary outcomes, social self-efficacy (OR: 1.08; 95% CI (0.95, 1.22), p = 0.22), emotional self-efficacy (OR 1.07; 95% CI (0.89, 1.29), p = 0.49), and academic self-efficacy (OR: 0.90; 95% CI (0.82, 1.00), p = 0.06) were not significantly different. Exploratory analyses of boys’ victimization and perpetration are reported. This study improved on previous ESD studies in this setting with longitudinal follow-up of individuals and independent data collection. This study did not show an effect of the intervention on self-reported rape; findings should be interpreted cautiously due to limitations. Sexual assault rates are high in this young population, underscoring a dire need to implement and rigorously test sexual assault prevention interventions in this setting. The trial was registered with Clinical Trials.gov # NCT02771132. Version 3.1 registered on May 2017, first participant enrolled January 2017.
Laboratory Study of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
Authors: Ji H. , Yoo J. , Fox W. , Yamada M. , Argall M. , Egedal J. , Liu Y.-H. , Wilder R. , Eriksson S. , Daughton W. , Bergstedt K. , Bose S. , Burch J. , Torbert R. , Ng J. , Chen L.-J. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractA concise review is given on the past two decades’ results from laboratory experiments on collisionless magnetic reconnection in direct relation with space measurements, especially by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. Highlights include spatial structures of electromagnetic fields in ion and electron diffusion regions as a function of upstream symmetry and guide field strength, energy conversion and partitioning from magnetic field to ions and electrons including particle acceleration, electrostatic and electromagnetic kinetic plasma waves with various wavelengths, and plasmoid-mediated multiscale reconnection. Combined with the progress in theoretical, numerical, and observational studies, the physics foundation of fast reconnection in collisionless plasmas has been largely established, at least within the parameter ranges and spatial scales that were studied. Immediate and long-term future opportunities based on multiscale experiments and space missions supported by exascale computation are discussed, including dissipation by kinetic plasma waves, particle heating and acceleration, and multiscale physics across fluid and kinetic scales.
Identity and influence
Authors: Dover Daniela 
Published: November 2023

AbstractHow worried should we be about how impressionable we are—how susceptible we are to being influenced and even transformed by our encounters with one another? Some moral philosophers think we should be quite worried indeed: they hold that interpersonal influence is an especially morally dangerous way to change. It calls for additional moral scrutiny as compared with vectors of change that come from within the influencee’s own psyche—their antecedent values, desires, commitments, and so forth—just because it has an external source. I argue that this heightened scrutiny of exogenous sources of change is unwarranted. Dramatic psychic changes do call for reflection and critical scrutiny, especially when they are sudden. But this scrutiny need not be concerned with the procedural issue of whether the impetus for the change came from inside or outside the changing person’s antecedent psychology. We can just evaluate the substantive changes themselves.
Scaling effects on arsenic release from excavated hydrothermally altered rocks in column experiments
Authors: Du Xun , Inui Toru , Ogata Sho 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe excavation of hydrothermally altered rocks from construction sites in Japan has raised concerns over environmental pollution due to the arsenic (As) release beyond the regulatory limit. An accurate assessment of As leaching from these rocks is imperative to understanding potential environmental implications and formulating efficient containment measures. However, the conduction of column leaching experiments to evaluate As leaching from these rocks encounters a lack of well-established protocols primarily due to the ambiguity surrounding scaling effects resulting from alterations in particle sizes and the corresponding column dimensions. Our study aimed to address this critical issue by conducting column percolation experiments on hydrothermally altered rocks of two distinct particle size ranges and rock layer thicknesses. The pH value was found to be proportional to the specific surface area (SSA) of rocks and the rock layer thickness in terms of H+ concentrations. Furthermore, the concentration and leachability of As showed a similar proportionality with the SSA. In contrast, the concentration of As remained relatively unaffected by the increased rock layer thickness, while the leachability of As was noticeably diminished in the column with a thicker rock layer. The absence of elevated As concentration and the decrease in leachability can be attributed to the enhanced As onto Fe/Al oxyhydroxides/oxides within the half-bottom part of the column with a thicker rock layer. Our findings underscore the importance of considering the SSA of rocks and rock layer thickness in the column experiments and help in the design of effective strategies to mitigate environmental contamination.
The nexus between circular economy innovation, market competitiveness, and triple bottom lines efficiencies among SMEs: evidence from emerging economies
Authors: Rehman Fazal Ur , Gyamfi Solomon , Rasool Samma Faiz , Akbar Fazal , Hussain Khawar , Prokop Viktor 
Published: November 2023

AbstractRecently, the trend of circular economy innovation (CEI) drive SMEs to initiate more sustainable practices to attain market competitiveness but rare attention has been paid in emerging economies. Hence, this study plans to explore the impacts of CEI on the triple bottom lines (TBL) efficiencies in the light of market competitiveness among the production SMEs in emerging economies. The study complied data by using a survey-based technique in Pakistan, Malaysia, and China. With a sample of 306 for each segment, data were evaluated with PLS-SEM to clarify results. The findings reveal that CEI has positive significant effects on the market competitiveness and TBL efficiencies among the production SMEs in emerging economies. The findings also clarify that market competitiveness mediates the relationship between CEI and the TBL efficiencies. The findings elaborate the theoretical foundations for environmental-based production SMEs to formulate more sustainable strategies in the light of CEI to gain market competitiveness. It also clarifies the understandings of policy makers and environmental regulators by providing a novel precursor to frame the environment-based TBL guidelines for SMEs. It adds to the UN sustainability agenda by elevating the role of CEI as a novel domain among emerging economies grounded on the resource-based view theory.
ℤ/pr-hyperbolicity via homology
Authors: Boyde Guy 
Published: November 2023

AbstractWe show that the homotopy groups of a Moore space Pn(pr), where pr ≠ 2, are ℤ/ps-hyperbolic for s ≤ r. Combined with work of Huang–Wu, Neisendorfer, and Theriault, this completely resolves the question of when such a Moore space is ℤ/ps-hyperbolic for p ≥ 5, or when p = 2 and r ≥ 6. We also give a criterion in ordinary homology for a space to be ℤ/pr-hyperbolic, and deduce some examples.
Short-Term Memory Deficit Associates with miR-153-3p Upregulation in the Hippocampus of Middle-Aged Mice
Authors: Stabile Francesca , Torromino G. , Rajendran S. , Del Vecchio G. , Presutti C. , Mannironi C. , De Leonibus E. , Mele A. , Rinaldi A. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe early stages of ageing are a critical time window in which the ability to detect and identify precocious molecular and cognitive markers can make the difference in determining a healthy vs unhealthy course of ageing. Using the 6-different object task (6-DOT), a highly demanding hippocampal-dependent recognition memory task, we classified a population of middle-aged (12-month-old) CD1 male mice in Impaired and Unimpaired based on their short-term memory. This approach led us to identify a different microRNAs expression profile in the hippocampus of Impaired mice compared to Unimpaired ones. Among the dysregulated microRNAs, miR-153-3p was upregulated in the hippocampus of Impaired mice and appeared of high interest for its putative target genes and their possible implication in memory-related synaptic plasticity. We showed that intra-hippocampal injection of the miR-153-3p mimic in adult (3-month-old) mice is sufficient to induce a short-term memory deficit similar to that observed in middle-aged Impaired mice. Overall, these findings unravel a novel role for hippocampal miR-153-3p in modulating short-term memory that could be exploited to prevent early cognitive deficits in ageing.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review
Authors: Hoeboer C. M. , Kitselaar W. M. , Henrich J. F. , Miedzobrodzka E. J. , Wohlstetter B. , Giebels E. , Meynen G. , Kruisbergen E. W. , Kempes M. , Olff M. , de Kogel C. H. 
Published: November 2023

AbstractCOVID-19 caused a great burden on the healthcare system and led to lockdown measures across the globe. These measures are likely to influence crime rates, but a comprehensive overview on the impact of COVID-19 on crime rates is lacking. The aim of the current study was to systematically review evidence on the impact of COVID-19 measures on crime rates across the globe. We conducted a systematic search in several databases to identify eligible studies up until 6–12-2021. A total of 46 studies were identified, reporting on 99 crime rates about robberies (n = 12), property crime (n = 15), drug crime (n = 5), fraud (n = 5), physical violence (n = 15), sexual violence (n = 11), homicides (n = 12), cybercrime (n = 3), domestic violence (n = 3), intimate partner violence (n = 14), and other crimes (n = 4). Overall, studies showed that most types of crime temporarily declined during COVID-19 measures. Homicides and cybercrime were an exception to this rule and did not show significant changes following COVID-19 restrictions. Studies on domestic violence often found increased crime rates, and this was particularly true for studies based on call data rather than crime records. Studies on intimate partner violence reported mixed results. We found an immediate impact of COVID-19 restrictions on almost all crime rates except for homicides, cybercrimes and intimate partner violence.