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Experimental investigation of yaw-angle effects on drag reduction rate for trapezoidal riblets
Authors: Inasawa Ayumu , Taniguchi Ryo , Asai Masahito , Sasamori Monami , Kurita Mitsuru 
Published: February 2024

AbstractEffects of the yaw angle on the drag reduction rate of riblets were investigated experimentally for trapezoidal riblets with ridge angle of $$30^\circ$$

30
∘

and height-to-spacing ratio of 0.5 in a turbulent wind channel at Reynolds numbers (based on the friction velocity and channel half depth) $$\textrm{Re}_\tau = 520 - 2100$$

Re
τ

=
520
-
2100

. Drag reduction rates were estimated carefully by comparing the streamwise pressure gradients between turbulent channel flows with and without riblets. The maximum drag reduction rate which was about 7% for the streamwise riblets was maintained without any attenuation for the yaw angle $$\phi$$
ϕ
below $$10^\circ$$

10
∘

. When $$\phi$$
ϕ
exceeded $$10^\circ$$

10
∘

, the drag reduction rate was attenuated steeply and the performance of riblets was almost lost at $$\phi = 15^\circ$$

ϕ
=

15
∘

. The yaw angle at which the drag turned to increase was by 10º smaller than the value reported for the saw-tooth riblets. The yaw angle effect on the riblet performance was further examined by detailed comparisons of mean velocity profiles and turbulent structures near the ribbed surfaces for $$\phi = 10^\circ$$

ϕ
=

10
∘

and $$15^\circ$$

15
∘

. Although no appreciable difference in the turbulent intensity and pre-multiplied spectrum of near-wall turbulence was found between these cases ($$\phi = 10^\circ$$

ϕ
=

10
∘

and $$15^\circ$$

15
∘

), the mean velocity profile for the case of $$\phi = 15^\circ$$

ϕ
=

15
∘

indicated an evidence of flow separation at the ridges of riblets, leading to the attenuation of drag-reduction rate due to increase in the pressure drag.
Outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy in the management and diagnosis of patients with infectious, non-infectious, and unidentified uveitis
Authors: Celiker Hande , Çam Furkan , Özkoçak Berru Yargı 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Purpose
To present the outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in patients with infectious, non-infectious, and unidentified uveitis, focusing on visual and clinical outcomes, diagnostic yield, and surgery-related complications.

Methods
This retrospective, single-center study included patients who underwent 23-gauge PPV for the management of uveitis and had at least 6 months of follow-up. Patients were divided into infectious, non-infectious, and unidentified uveitis groups based on definitive diagnosis after surgery. Etiologies of uveitis, indications for surgery, diagnostic yield, visual outcomes, presence of cystoid macular edema (CME), immunosuppressive drugs, intraoperative and postoperative complications, and repeated vitrectomies were reviewed.

Results
This study included 62 eyes of 54 patients. Twenty eyes were diagnosed with infectious uveitis, 24 eyes with non-infectious uveitis, and 18 eyes with unidentified uveitis. The diagnostic yield of vitrectomy was 41.7%. Mean BCVA significantly improved at postoperative 1 month compared to baseline and remained stable at following time-points in all groups. The most common early postoperative complication was increased intraocular pressure (17%), and late complication was cataract (36%). Nine eyes underwent re-vitrectomy and the most common cause was retinal detachment with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR).

Conclusion
PPV seems to be effective in diagnosing cases of unknown origin, improving visual acuity, and reducing the need for systemic immunosuppressive drugs. PVR is the most serious complication with poor prognosis that requires repeated surgery in patients with uveitis.
Researchers' sex/gender identity influences how sex/gender question is investigated in neuroscience: an example from an OHBM meeting
Authors: Picó-Pérez Maria , Marco Elena Abalos , Thurston Lindsey T. , Ambrosi Valerie , Genon Sarah , Bryant Katherine L. , Martínez Ana Belén , Ciccia Lu , Kaiser Trujillo Anelis 
Published: February 2024

AbstractGender inequality and diversity in STEM is a challenging field of research. Although the relation between the sex/gender of the researcher and the scientific research practices has been previously examined, less interest has been demonstrated towards the relation between sex/gender of the researcher and the way sex/gender as a variable is explored. Here, we examine, from a neurofeminist perspective, both questions: whether sex/gender identity is related to the examination of sex/gender as a variable and whether different approaches towards examining sex/gender are being used in different topics of study within neuroscience. Using the database of submitted posters to the Organization of Human Brain Mapping 2022 annual conference, we identified abstracts examining a sex/gender-related research question. Among these target abstracts, we identified four analytical categories, varying in their degree of content-related complexity: (1) sex/gender as a covariate, (2) sex/gender as a binary variable for the study of sex/gender differences, (3) sex/gender with additional biological information, and (4) sex/gender with additional social information. Statistical comparisons between sex/gender of researcher and the target abstract showed that the proportion of abstracts from Non-binary or Other first authors compared to both Women and Men was lower for all submitted abstracts than for the target abstracts; that more researchers with sex/gender-identity other than man implemented analytical category of sex/gender with additional social information; and, for instance, that research involving cognitive, affective, and behavioural neuroscience more frequently fit into the sex/gender with additional social information-category. Word cloud analysis confirmed the validity of the four exploratorily identified analytical categories. We conclude by discussing how raising awareness about contemporary neurofeminist approaches, including perspectives from the global south, is critical to neuroscientific and societal progress.
Heterotopic ossification, osteolysis and implant failure following cervical total disc replacement with the M6-C™ artificial disc
Authors: Häckel Sonja , Gaff Jessica , Pabbruwe Moreica , Celenza Alana , Kern Michael , Taylor Paul , Miles Andrew , Cunningham Greg 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Introduction
A recent study reported a 34% mid-term revision rate after M6-C™ cervical total disc replacement (CTDR) for wear-related osteolysis. Here, we aim to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and radiographic characteristics of periprosthetic bony changes and implant failure of the M6-C™ artificial disc.

Methods
We retrospectively analysed radiographic (conventional X-ray, CT scan) and clinical outcomes (EQ-5D-5L, Neck Disability Index (NDI), and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for neck and arm pain) data collected during routine follow-up of patients who underwent CTDR with the M6-C™ between 2011 and 2015.

Results
In total, 85 patients underwent CTDR with the M6-C™. Follow-up data were available for 43 patients (54% female, mean age 44 years) with 50 implants and a mean follow-up of 8.1 years (6.5–11 years). Implant failure with the presence of severe osteolysis was identified in 5 (12%) patients who were all male (p = 0.016) and implanted at the C5/6 level (p = 0.11). All failed implants required revision surgery. The overall prevalence of osteolysis was 44% (22/50 implants) and 34% (17/50 implants) for significant heterotopic ossification. Patients with high-grade osteolysis showed higher VAS arm pain (p = 0.05) and lower EQ-5D-VAS health VAS (p = 0.03).

Conclusion
We report a lower reoperation rate for failed M6-C™ implants than previously published, but confirmed that osteolysis and heterotopic ossification are common following CTDR with the M6-C™ and may be asymptomatic. Therefore, we strongly recommend ongoing clinical and radiographic monitoring after CTDR with the M6-C™, particularly for male patients implanted at the C5/6 level.
Ontology-based security modeling in ArchiMate
Authors: Oliveira Ítalo , Sales Tiago Prince , Almeida João Paulo A. , Baratella Riccardo , Fumagalli Mattia , Guizzardi Giancarlo 
Published: February 2024

AbstractEnterprise Risk Management involves the process of identification, evaluation, treatment, and communication regarding risks throughout the enterprise. To support the tasks associated with this process, several frameworks and modeling languages have been proposed, such as theRisk and Security Overlay(RSO) of ArchiMate. An ontological investigation of this artifact would reveal its adequacy, capabilities, and limitations w.r.t. the domain of risk and security. Based on that, a language redesign can be proposed as a refinement. Such analysis and redesign have been executed for the risk elements of the RSO grounded in theCommon Ontology of Value and Risk. The next step along this line of research is to address the following research problems: What would be the outcome of an ontological analysis of security-related elements of the RSO? That is, can we identify other semantic deficiencies in the RSO through an ontological analysis? Once such an analysis is provided, can we redesign the security elements of the RSO accordingly, in order to produce an improved artifact? Here, with the aid of theReference Ontology for Security Engineering(ROSE) and the ontological theory of prevention behind it, we address the remaining gap by proceeding with anontological analysisof the security-related constructs of the RSO. The outcome of this assessment is an ontology-based redesign of the ArchiMate language regarding security modeling. In a nutshell, we report the following contributions: (1) an ontological analysis of the RSO that identifies six limitations concerning security modeling; (2) because of the key role of the notion of prevention in security modeling, the introduction of the ontological theory of prevention in ArchiMate; (3) a well-founded redesign of security elements of ArchiMate; and (4) ontology-based security modeling patterns that are logical consequences of our proposal of redesign due to its underlying ontology of security. As a form of evaluation, we show that our proposal can describe risk treatment options, according to ISO 31000. Finally, besides presenting multiple examples, we proceed with a real-world illustrative application taken from the cybersecurity domain.
Patient Re-Identification Based on Deep Metric Learning in Trunk Computed Tomography Images Acquired from Devices from Different Vendors
Authors: Ueda Yasuyuki , Ogawa Daiki , Ishida Takayuki 
Published: February 2024

AbstractDuring radiologic interpretation, radiologists read patient identifiers from the metadata of medical images to recognize the patient being examined. However, it is challenging for radiologists to identify “incorrect” metadata and patient identification errors. We propose a method that uses a patient re-identification technique to link correct metadata to an image set of computed tomography images of a trunk with lost or wrongly assigned metadata. This method is based on a feature vector matching technique that uses a deep feature extractor to adapt to the cross-vendor domain contained in the scout computed tomography image dataset. To identify “incorrect” metadata, we calculated the highest similarity score between a follow-up image and a stored baseline image linked to the correct metadata. The re-identification performance tests whether the image with the highest similarity score belongs to the same patient, i.e., whether the metadata attached to the image are correct. The similarity scores between the follow-up and baseline images for the same “correct” patients were generally greater than those for “incorrect” patients. The proposed feature extractor was sufficiently robust to extract individual distinguishable features without additional training, even for unknown scout computed tomography images. Furthermore, the proposed augmentation technique further improved the re-identification performance of the subset for different vendors by incorporating changes in width magnification due to changes in patient table height during each examination. We believe that metadata checking using the proposed method would help detect the metadata with an “incorrect” patient identifier assigned due to unavoidable errors such as human error.
Mature oocyte dysmorphisms may be associated with progesterone levels, mitochondrial DNA content, and vitality in luteal granulosa cells
Authors: Raad Georges , Tanios Judy , Serdarogullari Munevver , Bazzi Marwa , Mourad Youmna , Azoury Joseph , Yarkiner Zalihe , Liperis Georgios , Fakih Fadi , Fakih Chadi 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Purpose
To identify whether follicular environment parameters are associated with mature oocyte quality, embryological and clinical outcomes.

Methods
This retrospective study examined 303 mature oocytes from 51 infertile women undergoing ICSI cycles between May 2018 and June 2021. Exclusion criteria consisted of advanced maternal age (> 36 years old), premature ovarian failure, obesity in women, or use of frozen gametes. Luteal granulosa cells (LGCs) were analyzed for mitochondrial DNA/genomic (g) DNA ratio and vitality. The relationships between hormone levels in the follicular fluid and oocyte features were assessed. Quantitative morphometric measurements of mature oocytes were assessed, and the association of LGC parameters and oocyte features on live birth rate after single embryo transfer was examined.

Results
Results indicated an inverse correlation between the mtDNA/gDNA ratio of LGCs and the size of polar body I (PBI). A 4.0% decrease in PBI size was observed with each one-unit increase in the ratio (p = 0.04). Furthermore, a 1% increase in LGC vitality was linked to a 1.3% decrease in fragmented PBI (p = 0.03), and a 1 ng/mL increase in progesterone levels was associated with a 0.1% rise in oocytes with small inclusions (p = 0.015). Associations were drawn among LGC characteristics, perivitelline space (PVS) debris, cytoplasmic inclusions, PBI integrity, and progesterone levels. Certain dysmorphisms in mature oocytes were associated with embryo morphokinetics; however, live birth rates were not associated with follicular parameters and oocyte quality characteristics.

Conclusion
Follicular markers may be associated with mature oocyte quality features.
Motion-aware object tracking for aerial images with deep features and discriminative correlation filter
Authors: Delibaşoğlu İbrahim 
Published: February 2024

AbstractObject tracking is a challenging task which is required for different problems such as surveillance, traffic analysis and human-computer interaction. The problem of tracking an object can be considered in different categories such as single object tracking, multiple object tracking, short-term tracking, long-term tracking, tracking by detection and detection-free tracking. This study focuses on detection-free tracking for ground targets on aerial images. The studies in the literature show that correlation filter and deep learning based object trackers perform well recently. This paper proposes a new correlation filter-based tracker containing a strategy for re-detection issue. We improve the performance of correlation filter-based tracker by adding a lightweight re-detection ability to the correlation filter tracker in case of a long occlusion or complete loss of target. We use deep features to train Discriminative Correlation Filter(DCF) by integrating sub-networks from pre-trained ResNet and SAND models. The experimental results on the popular UAV123L dataset show that the proposed method(MADCF) improves the performance of DCF tracker and have a reasonable performance for long-term tracking problem. Moreover, we prepare a new tracking dataset (PESMOD tracking) consisting of UAV images, and we evaluate the proposed method and state-of-the-art method in this dataset. We observed that the proposed method performs much better in ground target tracking from VIVID and PESMOD aerial datasets. The proposed MADCF tracker performs better for small targets tracked by UAVs compared to the deep learning-based trackers. The source code and prepared dataset are available at http://github.com/mribrahim/MADCF
Fixed-Time Pinning Synchronization of Intermittently Coupled Complex Network via Economical Controller
Authors: Wang Jian-An , Cai Ruirui , Zhang Junru , Zhang Jie , Li Mingjie , Zhao Zhicheng 
Published: February 2024

AbstractIn this paper, the fixed-time pinning synchronization problem of an intermittently coupled complex network is investigated. An intermittently coupled complex network with delay is presented for the first time. A new fixed-time stability lemma is developed, which is less conservative than the existing results. A more economical controller is designed under intermittent pinning control strategy. Sufficient conditions are developed to realize fixed-time synchronization. Numerical simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the obtained results.
A Sparse Self-Attention Enhanced Model for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification
Authors: Dhanith P. R. Joe , Surendiran B. , Rohith G. , Kanmani Sujithra R. , Devi K. Valli 
Published: February 2024

AbstractAspect based sentiment analysis (ABSA) manifests the well refined work as Aspect-level sentiment classification (ASC) due to recent high attention and profound outcomes. This paper reveals the exorbitant relation of concerned aspect in determining the sentiment polarity of a sentence in addition to their content. Considering an instance, “The food is tasty but restaurant is untidy”, aspect food reveals the polarity as positive, while in case of restaurant, the polarity seems negative. Hence to scout relation between an $$aspect$$

aspect

and $$context$$

context

words present in sentence is much vital. In spite of the exceptional progress, the ASC experiences certain pitfalls as (1) The current attention based methods makes the given aspect to falsely relate syntactically unrelated words as related ones. (2) Single context-independent representation is only achieved by traditional Word2Vec or GloVe based embedding vectors. (3) Sentiments for multiple words that are inconsecutive remain insufficient for CNN based models. A Sparse-Self-Attention-based Gated Recurrent Unit with Aspect Embedding (SSA-GRU-AE) implementing BERT for ASC is proposed to solve these issues. The proposed SSA-GRU-AE mechanism is centralized on various portions of sentence as multiple aspects are taken as input. The experimental analysis on ASC datasets has proved that proposed model enhanced performance on ASC.
Medicinal Polypharmacology in the Clinic – Translating the Polypharmacolome into Therapeutic Benefit
Authors: Rafehi Muhammad , Möller Marius , Ismail Al-Khalil Wouroud , Stefan Sven Marcel 
Published: February 2024

AbstractDrugs with multiple targets, often annotated as ‘unselective’, ‘promiscuous’, ‘multitarget’, or ‘polypharmacological’, are widely considered in both academic and industrial research as a high risk due to the likelihood of adverse effects. However, retrospective analyses have shown that particularly approved drugs bear rich polypharmacological profiles. This raises the question whether our perception of the specificity paradigm (‘one drug-one target concept’) is correct – and if specifically multitarget drugs should be developed instead of being rejected. These questions provoke a paradigm shift – regarding the development of polypharmacological drugs not as a ‘waste of investment’, but acknowledging the existence of a ‘lack of investment’. This perspective provides an insight into modern drug development highlighting latest drug candidates that have not been assessed in a broader polypharmacology-based context elsewhere embedded in a historic framework of classical and modern approved multitarget drugs. The article shall be an inspiration to the scientific community to re-consider current standards, and more, to evolve to a better understanding of polypharmacology from a challenge to an opportunity.
Williams’s Integrity Objection as a Psychological Problem
Authors: Venkatesh Nikhil 
Published: February 2024

AbstractUtilitarianism is the view that as far as morality goes, one ought to choose the option which will result in the most overall well-being—that is, that maximises the sum of whatever makes life worth living, with each person’s life equally weighted. The promise of utilitarianism is to reduce morality to one simple principle, easily incorporated into policy analysis, economics and decision theory. However, utilitarianism is not popular amongst moral philosophers today. This is in large part due to the influence of Williams’s ‘Integrity Objection’ (1973). Though the Integrity Objection has been influential in turning philosophers against utilitarianism, it is also difficult to make precise, evidenced by the myriad interpretations in the literature. In this paper I interpret the objection as holding that agents who accept utilitarianism cannot, as a matter of psychology, be committed to their projects. I explore other interpretations, finding some to be inconsistent with Williams’s approach, and others to be relatively easily answerable by the utilitarian. The psychological problem I identify is harder for utilitarians to avoid, though I have begun to offer a response in other work.
Zukunft auf Leinwand. Methoden der Visualisierung und ihre Funktionen für Organisationen
Authors: Wendt Thomas , Freis Tamara , Schröer Andreas , Schütz Friederike 
Published: February 2024

ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag der Zeitschrift „Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation (GIO)“ analysiert die Funktion von Visualisierungen als methodisches Gestaltungsprinzip der Zusammenarbeit in Organisationen. Visualisierungen werden gegenwärtig eingesetzt, um ko-kreative Prozesse zu unterstützen und zu systematisieren. So soll im Design Thinking die Arbeit an und vor Leinwänden die Internalisierung organisationaler Umwelten ermöglichen, realisiert sie im Business Modelling anspruchsweise die Demokratisierung von Unternehmertum oder soll sie in der Anwendung des Operating System Canvas die ko-kreative Aushandlung von Leitlinien der Zusammenarbeit unterstützen. Durch dieses Vorgehen wird ein erneuter Visual Turn der Managementlehre und damit eine Verschiebung beim Einsatz von Visualisierungen sichtbar: Mithilfe einer theoriesystematischen Analyse zeigt der Beitrag, dass sich die Verwendung von Visualisierungen von einem steuerungsaffinen Modus struktureller Handlungsvorgaben zu einem methodischen Prinzip wandelt, das ko-kreative, ergebnisoffene Aushandlungsprozesse zum Mittel der organisationalen Zukunft macht. Organisationsprozesse sollen auf Leinwänden sichtbar und dadurch als Gegenstand gemeinsamer Aushandlung verfüg- und veränderbar werden.