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Event‐based privacy‐preserving security consensus of multi‐agent systems with encryption–decryption mechanism
Authors: Liu Jinliang , Deng Ying , Zha Lijuan , Xie Xiangpeng , Tian Engang 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe article concentrates on exploring the issue of privacy‐preserving sliding mode consensus of multi‐agent systems (MASs) with disturbance. An encryption and decryption algorithm has been proposed to address data security and privacy issues during data transmission. To optimize network resource allocation, a dynamic event‐triggering mechanism has been introduced, which reduces the number of encrypted data while saving the computation cost. The consensus performance based on the sliding mode control strategy is achieved when the reachability of the slide‐mode surface is guaranteed, and then the slide‐mode controller is developed. Finally, an empirical demonstration through a numerical example validates the efficacy of the proposed strategy.
Latinx students embodying justice‐centered science: Agency through imagining via the performing arts
Authors: Kotler Rebecca , Rosario Maria , Varelas Maria , Phillips Nathan C. , Tsachor Rachelle P. , Woodard Rebecca 
Published: February 2024

AbstractChildren are often denied science education that engages their emotions and multiple identities. This study focused on ways in which embodied arts‐based experiences offer opportunities for such engagement in pedagogical efforts associated with justice‐centered science. The conceptual framework that informed the study considers the body as a site of learning, embraces social justice in science education and engages with the dialectical relationship between various structures and children's agency, and frames the transdisciplinarity of imagination. The instrumental case study centered on a fifth‐grade class of Latinx students in an urban public school, as they grappled with lead contamination and peoples' rights to clean water through an embodied, arts‐based pedagogy in their science class. Analysis of video clips, student work, and other artifacts pointed to three findings on how children engaged with justice‐centered science learning via arts‐based embodied activities. Through perspective‐taking in the dramatizing, children engaged with science ideas intertwined with sociopolitical understandings. Through centering emotions that drama afforded, children experienced empathy and solidarity with others affected by environmental injustices. Through imagined and enacted participation in struggles that the embodiments necessitated, children engaged in actions to resist injustices. These findings suggest that exploring children's arts‐based embodied meaning making in science is a robust area of inquiry. Furthermore, the findings compel researchers and practitioners to consider emotions in performing arts, and how they can deepen engagement in, and exploration of, justice‐centered science. Recommendations emerged for practitioners poised to explore justice‐centered science with children through the arts.
Connecting families, schools, and communities: A systems‐contextual approach to sustainable futures for children
Authors: Hoang April , Sanders Matthew R. , Turner Karen M. T. , Morawska Alina , Cobham Vanessa , Chainey Carys , Simmons Erik 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands an increased focus on investing in young children as a pivotal solution. Many of the SDGs' targeted solutions directly or indirectly address facets of children's living conditions, aiming to foster their social and emotional well‐being. However, the current approach, while successful in delivering some impacts, are often disjointed. In this article, we contend that nurturing socially and emotionally healthy citizens of the future requires a comprehensive, systems‐contextual approach, moving beyond one‐sided focused solutions. A multiple and cross‐sectional approach to the SDGs, targeting potentially modifiable determinants of human capability through families, schools, and communities will enable a nurturing and stable system to be developed and ensure the next generation of children is better prepared to lead lives that are safe, healthy, and responsible. We examine the theoretical and empirical basis for a direct focus on children and young people and explore the criteria that need to be met for such an approach to work. Barriers and enablers for change on a global scale and directions for future research are discussed.
Rethinking students' psychological need states: The unique role of need unfulfilment to understanding ill‐being in academic settings
Authors: Huyghebaert‐Zouaghi Tiphaine , Ntoumanis Nikos , Thomas Jérémy , Badré Simon , Berjot Sophie 
Published: February 2024

AbstractPrior research has shown that students face various stressors which can affect their psychological health. The present study examines the role of students' psychological need states in explaining their burnout and dropout intentions. More precisely, relying on recent findings from Self‐Determination Theory research, we examined whether students' psychological need unfulfilment could contribute to explain their ill‐being over and above need satisfaction and frustration. To this end, we also tested the validity of a tripartite instrument allowing to assess these need states in academic settings (Psychological Need States in Education‐Scale [PNSE‐S]). A study was conducted among two samples of high school (N = 473; Sample 1) and college (N = 1143; Sample 2) students. Results supported the construct validity of the 35‐item PNSE‐S in both samples by showing that students' relatedness, autonomy, and competence unfulfilment can be modelled as distinct need states alongside the frustration and satisfaction of those three needs. Moreover, these different need states displayed a well‐differentiated pattern of associations with various facets of student burnout and with dropout intentions. Results also showed the critical role of psychological need unfulfilment in explaining students' ill‐being.
Se‐p Orbitals Induced “Strong d–d Orbitals Interaction” Enable High Reversibility of Se‐Rich ZnSe/MnSe@C Electrode as Excellent Host for Sodium‐Ion Storage
Authors: Iqbal Sikandar , Chishti Aadil Nabi , Ali Muhammad , Ali Moazzam , Hao Youchan , Wu Xingxing , Huang Huiqin , Lu Wang , Gao Peng , Yousaf Muhammad , Jiang Yinzhu 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe heterostructure of transition‐metal chalcogenides is a promising approach to boost alkali ion storage due to fast charge kinetics and reduction of activation energy. However, cycling performance is a paramount challenge that is suffering from poor reversibility. Herein, it is reported that Se‐rich particles can chemically interact with local hexagonal ZnSe/MnSe@C heterostructure environment, leading to effective ions insertion/extraction, enabling high reversibility. Enlightened by theoretical understanding, Se‐rich particles endow high intrinsic conductivities in term of low energy barriers (1.32 eV) compared with those without Se‐rich particles (1.50 eV) toward the sodiation process. Moreover, p orbitals of Se‐rich particles may actively participate and further increase the electronegativity that pushes the Mn d orbitals (dxy and dx2‐y2) and donate their electrons to dxz and dyz orbitals, manifesting strong d–d orbitals interaction between ZnSe and MnSe. Such fundamental interaction will adopt a well‐stable conducive electronic bridge, eventually, charges are easily transferred from ZnSe to MnSe in the heterostructure during sodiation/desodiation. Therefore, the optimized Se‐rich ZnSe/MnSe@C electrode delivered high capacity of 576 mAh g−1 at 0.1 A g−1 after 100 cycles and 384 mAh g−1 at 1 A g−1 after 2500 cycles, respectively. In situ and ex situ measurements further indicate the integrity and reversibility of the electrode materials upon charging/discharging.
Study of Iron Complex Photosensitizer with Hollow Double‐Shell Nano Structure Used to Enhance Ferroptosis and Photodynamic Therapy
Authors: Cai Xinrui , Liu Weixing , Zhang Jiahao , Li Zhongrui , Liu Mengkang , Hu Shuo , Luo Jun , Peng Kai , Ye Baofen , Wang Yue , Yan Ran 
Published: February 2024

AbstractFerroptosis therapy, which uses ferroptosis inducers to produce lethal lipid peroxides and induce tumor cell death, is considered a promising cancer treatment strategy. However, challenges remain regarding how to increase the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) to enhance antitumor efficacy. In this study, a hyaluronic acid (HA) encapsulated hollow mesoporous manganese dioxide (H‐MnO2) with double‐shell nanostructure is designed to contain iron coordinated cyanine near‐infrared dye IR783 (IR783‐Fe) for synergistic ferroptosis photodynamic therapy against tumors. The nano photosensitizer IR783‐Fe@MnO2‐HA, in which HA actively targets the CD44 receptor, subsequently dissociates and releases Fe3+ and IR783 in acidic TME. First, Fe3+ consumes glutathione to produce Fe2+, which promotes the Fenton reaction in cells to produce hydroxyl free radicals (·OH) and induce ferroptosis of tumor cells. In addition, MnO2 catalyzes the production of O2 from H2O2 and enhances the production of singlet oxygen (1O2) by IR783 under laser irradiation, thus increasing the production and accumulation of ROS to provide photodynamic therapy. The highly biocompatible IR783‐Fe@MnO2‐HA nano‐photosensitizers have exhibited tumor‐targeting ability and efficient tumor inhibition in vivo due to the synergistic effect of photodynamic and ferroptosis antitumor therapies.
Cu2WS4‐PEG Nanozyme as Multifunctional Sensitizers for Enhancing Immuno‐Radiotherapy by Inducing Ferroptosis
Authors: Fu Shiyan , Li Yong , Shen Li , Chen Yonglai , Lu Jingxuan , Ran Yonghong , Zhao Yazhen , Tang Hong , Tan Longfei , Lin Qinyang , Hao Yuhui 
Published: February 2024

AbstractUnavoidable damage to normal tissues and tumor microenvironment (TME) resistance make it challenging to eradicate breast carcinoma through radiotherapy. Therefore, it is urgent to develop radiotherapy sensitizers that can effectively reduce radiation doses and reverse the suppressive TME. Here, a novel biomimetic PEGylated Cu2WS4 nanozyme (CWP) with multiple enzymatic activities is synthesized by the sacrificing template method to have physical radiosensitization and biocatalyzer‐responsive effects on the TME. Experiment results show that CWP can improve the damage efficiency of radiotherapy on breast cancer cell 4T1 through its large X‐ray attenuation coefficient of tungsten and nucleus‐penetrating capacity. CWP also exhibit strong Fenton‐like reactions that produced abundant ROS and GSH oxidase‐like activity decreasing GSH. This destruction of redox balance further promotes the effectiveness of radiotherapy. Transcriptome sequencing reveals that CWP induced ferroptosis by regulating the KEAP1/NRF2/HMOX1/GPX4 molecules. Therefore, owing to its multiple enzymatic activities, high‐atomic W elements, nucleus‐penetrating, and ferroptosis‐inducing capacities, CWP effectively improves the efficiency of radiotherapy for breast carcinoma in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, CWP‐mediated radiosensitization can trigger immunogenic cell death (ICD) to improve the anti‐PD‐L1 treatments to inhibit the growth of primary and distant tumors effectively. These results indicate that CWP is a multifunctional nano‐sensitizers for radiotherapy and immunotherapy.
Macrocyclic Diacetylene / Sulfonate Fluorophore Hierarchical Multifunctional Nanotoroids
Authors: Kadamannil Nila Nandha , Jang Daewoong , Lee Haksu , Kim Jong‐Man , Jelinek Raz 
Published: February 2024

AbstractFunctional supramolecular materials exhibit important features including structural versatility and versatile applications. Here, this study reports the construction of unique hierarchically organized nanotoroids exhibiting fluorescence, photocatalytic, and sensing properties. The nanotoroids comprise of macrocyclic diacetylenes (MCDA) and 8‐anilino‐1‐naphthalene sulfonate (ANS), a negatively charged aromatic fluorescent dye. This study shows that the hierarchical structure of the nanotoroids consist of MCDA nanofibers formed by stacked diacetylene monomers as the basic units, which are further bent and aligned into toroidal organization by electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions with the ANS molecules. The amine moieties on the nanotoroids surface are employed for deposition of gold nanostructures – Au nanoparticles or Au nanosheets – which constitute effective platforms for photocatalysis and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)‐based sensing.
Considerations of communication challenges facing sonographers in Australia beyond 2024: An ageing population, ageism and maintaining the focus on patient‐centred care
Authors: White Alison , Humphreys Linda , Oomens Donna 
Published: February 2024

AbstractIn the coming decades, the number of people in the Australian population over the age of 65 is predicted to increase to 23% by the year 2066. The process of physiological ageing is associated with an increase in the presentation of disease pathologies, an increased potential for physical and cognitive deficits and a decrease in health literacy. The ageing of the Australian population presents challenges for the sonography profession including an increasing age gap between the sonographer and their patient as well as increasing complexities in performing ultrasounds on older patients. The natural changes that accompany ageing can create barriers to effective communication between sonographers and their patients. Ageist beliefs can lead to conscious and unconscious bias and unfounded judgements by sonographers decreasing the quality of patient care. To combat the decline in the quality of healthcare that is reported for older patients, sonographers can endeavour to put into place deliberate practical tools and strategies to avoid ageism and improve communication with older patients. Conversely, institutional awareness, education and policies that address age related judgements and bias from older patients towards younger sonographers can foster respectful dialogue, promote understanding and stimulate positive communication across different age groups.
Nanostructured Composite of Starch/Silica Hybrid Decorated with Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic, Sonocatalytic, and Sonophotocatalytic
Authors: Tolba Emad , Hasanin Mohamed S. , Abdelhameed Reda M. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractNanocomposite‐based heterostructure plays an important role in both industrial and advanced applications. A series of TiO2 nanoparticles decorated on silica/starch hybrid material (TiO2(x)@SiO2(x)@Starch nanocomposites) is synthesized using a facile sol–gel method. The intrinsic characteristics of the as‐prepared nanocomposites are studied using a variety of techniques. In this study, the degradation of paracetamol (PCT) is investigated in the presence of TiO2(x)@SiO2(x)@Starch nanocomposites. Photocatalysis and sonocatalysis systems are used separately and simultaneously in presence of sunlight and low‐power ultrasound. The adsorption results are essential factor in the degradation process. The non‐linear transform of the kinetics is further used to determine the characteristic parameters of TiO2(x)@SiO2(x)@Starch nanocomposites. The obtained results confirm that the experimental kinetic data follow the pseudo‐first order model in photocatalytic, sonocatalytic, and sonophotocatalytic processes but the rate constant of sonophotocatalysis is higher than the sum of it at photocatalysis and sonocatalysis process. This work develops a new sono‐photo active hybrid process for potential application in wastewater treatment. Additionally, the prepared TiO2 nanoparticles with silica/starch hybrid material perform antimicrobial activity. The antimicrobial activity is increased parallel with the TiO2 percent. The broad‐spectrum antimicrobial activity of nanocomposites is noticed at the highest percentage of TiO2 in TiO2(0.8)@SiO2(0.2)@Starch.
Experimental study on protection of prestressed concrete box girder under vehicle explosion of bridge deck
Authors: Sun Qixin , Liu Chao 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThis paper presents a study on the explosion protection of prestressed concrete box girder, which is a commonly used in concrete bridges. The explosion protection tests of four prestressed box beams were designed with 1:5 scale. In order to evaluate the explosion performance of different protective layers, steel plate, ultra‐high‐performance concrete (UHPC) layer, and composite protective layer were used to protect the box girder. The experimental results revealed that under the effect of deck explosion, local penetrating failure occurred in the top plate of the box girder, which exhibited characteristics of punching failure. The web and bottom plate of the box girder as a whole exhibited bending characteristic. Compared with the unprotected box girder, the damage of the top plate of the protected box girder was less severe, whereas the damage of the bottom plate was greater. In working conditions 2–4, the UHPC protective box girder suffered less damage to the top plate, whereas the other protective box girders suffered more. The explosion dynamic responses of the box girder were compared, and the influences of different protective layers on the explosion dynamic response of box girder were studied. Based on the box girder damage, the protective efficiency of each protective layer under near‐explosion was studied. Based on the explosion tests, three‐dimensional numerical analysis model of box girder explosion was established. The accuracy of the numerical simulations of the box girder explosion were verified by comparing with the experimental failure data. Through the numerical results, the explosive energy dissipation capacity of different protective materials was compared and analyzed. Finally, based on the dynamic response of the box girder under different working conditions, the sensitivity of the protective layer to the dynamic responses of the box girder were studied. The analysis showed that the UHPC layer was sensitive to the change of prestress and explosion damage area of the box girder but had little influence on the rebars stress and the overall response of the box girder.
Analysis of Kampo case reports from the viewpoint of “Yasui Classification”
Authors: Motoo Yoshiharu , Yasui Hiromichi 
Published: February 2024

AbstractBackgroundThe “Yasui Classification” categorizes the indication for Kampo medicine into four main types in the medical field where standard treatment of Western medicine exists regardless of the school of Kampo medicine. We aimed to elucidate how Kampo case reports are presented from the viewpoint of the Yasui Classification.MethodsUsing the general presentations at the 69th Japan Society for Oriental Medicine (JSOM) Academic Meeting held in Osaka in June 2018, the contents of each abstract were analyzed with the Yasui Classification.ResultsThere were 289 abstracts. The numbers of included abstracts was 140 (48.4%), and their breakdown was as follows: Type 1: 97, Type 2: 27, Type 3: 12, and Type 4: 4. Therefore, Kampo monotherapy yielded the greatest number of presentations where Western medicine‐refractory cases were treated with Kampo medicine. In Type 2, which is the combination of Kampo and Western medicines, there were various applications of Kampo medicine in clinical fields such as pain control, respiratory, cardiovascular, and psychiatric subspecialties. Furthermore, in Type 3, which is also the combination of Kampo and Western medicines, 7 of 12 presentations were related to the alleviation of the side effects of cancer therapy.ConclusionsKampo monotherapy is most popularly reported at the Congress of JSOM in various fields of medicine, whereas the concurrent use of Kampo and Western medicines is also reported in a variety of clinical subspecialties. A new horizon of clinical significance for Kampo medicine will be opened with the Yasui Classification.
An analysis of the prognostic role of reactive oxygen species‐associated genes in breast cancer
Authors: Zhong Yangyan , Cao Hong , Li Wei , Deng Jian , Li Dan , Deng Junjie 
Published: February 2024

AbstractBackgroundThis study aimed to type breast cancer in relation to reactive oxygen species (ROS), clinical indicators, single nucleotide variant (SNV) mutations, functional differences, immune infiltration, and predictive responses to immunotherapy or chemotherapy, and constructing a prognostic model.MethodsWe used uniCox analysis, ConsensusClusterPlus, and the proportion of ambiguous clustering (PAC) to analyze The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data to determine optimal groupings and obtain differentially expressed ROS‐related genes. Clinical indicators were then combined with the classification results and the Chi‐square test was used to assess differences. We further examined SNV mutations, and functional differences using gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) analysis, the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database, immune cell infiltration, and response to immunotherapy and chemotherapy. A prognostic model for breast cancer was constructed using these differentially expressed genes, immunotherapy or chemotherapy responses, and survival curves. RT‐qPCR was used to detect the differences in the expression of LCE3D, CA1, PIRT and SMR3A in breast cancer cell lines and normal breast epithelial cell line.ResultsWe identified two distinct tumor types with significant differences in ROS‐related gene expression, clinical indicators, SNV mutations, functional pathways, and immune infiltration. The response to specific chemotherapy drugs and immunotherapy treatments also documented significant differences. The prognostic model constructed with 16 genes linked to survival could efficiently divide patients into high‐ and low‐risk groups. The high‐risk group showed a poorer prognosis, higher tumor purity, distinct immune microenvironment, and lower immunotherapy response. RT‐qPCR results showed that LCE3D, CA1, PIRT and SMR3A are highly expressed in breast cancer.ConclusionOur methodical examination presented an enhanced insight into the molecular and immunological heterogeneity of breast cancer. It can contribute to the understanding of prognosis and offer valuable insights for personalized treatment strategies. Further, the prognostic model can potentially serve as a powerful tool for risk stratification and therapeutic decision‐making in clinical settings.