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Impact investment deal flow and Sustainable Development Goals: “Mind the gap?”
Authors: Islam Syrus M. , Rahman Asheq 
Published: February 2023

AbstractWe examine the linkage between the available impact investment deals and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ascertain to what extent those deals are likely to achieve the aims of the SDGs, that of a sustainable and prosperous world. Drawing on 292 available deals, we find that most deals are directly or indirectly linked to only four of the 17 SDGs and are concentrated in two regions of the world. Accordingly, we conclude that impact investing has a significant imbalance in the SDG–deal flow–region nexus. Without addressing such an imbalance, impact investing will have only a limited impact on overall SDG attainment. Therefore, we also share some thoughts on addressing the imbalance.
Casino accessibility and suicide: A county‐level study of 50 US states, 2000 to 2016
Authors: Markham Francis , Gobaud Ariana N. , Mehranbod Christina A. , Morrison Christopher N. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractBackground and AimsSuicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States (US). Research over many decades identifies that its etiology is complex, with risk factors operating in multiple domains. One such risk factor is gambling. Over the past three decades, exposure to gambling has increased dramatically in the United States. The aim of this study was to measure the magnitude of the association between casino density and absolute risk of suicide in US counties.Design, Setting, CasesThis spatial panel analysis used data for 3131 counties from 50 US states from 2000 to 2016, for an overall sample of 53 227 county‐year units. Using Bayesian conditional autoregressive Poisson models, we measured incidence rate ratios and credible intervals for the association between the density per population of casinos and other gambling outlets and the incidence of suicide.MeasurementsThe outcome of interest was counts of suicides. The main exposures of interest were casinos and other gambling outlets.FindingsA total of 527 401 suicides occurred during the study period. On average, there was a mean of 1.3 casinos (SD = 9.1) and 1.4 other gambling venues (SD = 5.9) in each county‐year. After controlling for confounding, the incidence rate ratio for casinos was 1.016, and the credible interval was between 1.010 and 1.023.ConclusionsThe density of casinos and other gambling venues is positively associated with suicide mortality in the United States.
The efficacy of an internet‐based cognitive behavioral program added to treatment‐as‐usual for alcohol‐dependent patients in primary care: a randomized controlled trial
Authors: Hyland Karin , Hammarberg Anders , Hedman‐Lagerlöf Erik , Johansson Magnus , Lindner Philip , Andreasson Sven 
Published: February 2023

AbstractBackground and AimsMost alcohol‐dependent people have a moderate level of dependence. General practitioners (GPs) hesitate to engage in this area, and need to have access to treatment they find applicable and feasible to use. The aim of this present study was to test if an open‐ended internet‐based cognitive–behavioral therapy (iCBT) program added to treatment‐as‐usual (TAU) is more effective than TAU‐only for alcohol‐dependent patients in primary care.Design, Setting and ParticipantsThe present study was a two‐group, parallel, randomized controlled superiority trial comparing iCBT+TAU versus TAU‐only at 3‐ and 12‐month follow‐ups. TAU was delivered at 14 primary care centers in Stockholm, Sweden. A total of 264 patients (mean age 51 years, of whom 148 were female and 116 were male) with alcohol dependence and hazardous alcohol consumption were enrolled between September 2017 and November 2019.MeasurementsParticipants were randomized at a ratio of 1:1 to iCBT, as a self‐help intervention added to TAU (n = 132) or to TAU‐only (n = 132). The GPs gave participants in both treatment arms feedback on the assessments and biomarkers and offered TAU at the primary care center. Primary outcome was weekly alcohol consumption in g/week at 12‐month follow‐up, analyzed according to intention‐to‐treat (n = 132 + 132). The per‐protocol analysis included participants who completed at least one module of iCBT (n = 102 + 132).FindingsThere was no significant difference in weekly alcohol consumption between iCBT+TAU and TAU in the intention‐to‐treat (ITT) analysis at 12‐month follow‐up [iCBT+TAU = 133.56 (95% confidence interval, CI = 100.94–166.19) and TAU = 176.20 (95% CI = 144.04–208.35), P = 0.068, d = 0.23]. In the per‐protocol analysis, including only those who initiated iCBT, the iCBT+TAU group showed lower mean weekly alcohol consumption compared with TAU [iCBT+TAU = 107.46 (95% CI = 71.17–143.74), TAU = 176.00 (95% CI = 144.21–207.80), P = 0.010, d = 0.42].ConclusionsIn Sweden, an internet‐based cognitive–behavioral program added to treatment‐as‐usual to reduce alcohol consumption showed weak evidence of a benefit at 12 months in the intention‐to‐treat analysis and good evidence of a benefit in the per‐protocol analysis.
Media Coverage and Labor Investment Efficiency: Evidence from China*
Authors: Liu Jin , Li Tingwei , Wang Lei 
Published: February 2023

AbstractUsing 2.09 million pieces of media coverage associated with Chinese firms during 2006–2019, we find a significantly positive relationship between media coverage and labor investment efficiency. Both newspaper and online media coverage can effectively reduce firms' labor over‐investment and under‐investment. Our results are robust after addressing a range of endogeneity concerns. Further analyses show that the positive relationship between media coverage and labor investment efficiency is more pronounced for firms with higher labor cost stickiness or when human capital is more important to the firm's business model. Mechanism analyses reveal that media coverage improves labor investment efficiency through the compensation incentive mechanism, supervision mechanism, and information disclosure mechanism.
Born of fire: The pursuit of the ‘white gold’
Authors: Heimann Robert B. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractFor more than 300 years, scores of historians and researchers have vigorously argued about the question who might have been the genuine inventor of European porcelain of Meissen fame: Johann Friedrich Böttger or Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. Although the story of the invention of porcelain has been told countless times, the exact circumstances of its discovery are still shrouded in mystery. For a very long time the palm has been awarded to Böttger, but today, the scale is increasingly tilting toward Tschirnhaus. In this contribution, ancient letters and laboratory notes, and modern phase diagrams and microstructural investigation are being used to paint a picture of royal desire, efficient research organization, arduous labor, ingenious reasoning, but also treason, camouflage, bald lies, and perfidy.
First results of metallographic analysis and absolute dating of iron finds from Nowe Brzesko, site 26, Proszowice District
Authors: Hüls C. Matthias , Bulas Jan , Kasiński Michał , Okońska‐Bulas Magdalena 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis paper presents the results of analyses of metal artefacts discovered at a multiphase site in Nowe Brzesko, Małopolskie Voivodeship, Poland. Fieldwalking prospection led to the discovery of steely iron objects, ploughed out on the site among other numerous archeological finds. A prospecting sondage yielded more corroded metal artefacts, identified mainly as agricultural tools (e.g. sickles, scythes). These chronologically nondistinctive artefacts could be assigned to the third to fourth century AD using radiocarbon dating, complemented by metallurgical analysis. The results open up new research perspectives on the economy and society of the Przeworsk culture in the Late Roman period.
A Multi‐layered Approach to Patient Agency: Applying the Listening Guide to a Patient's Narratives
Authors: Acke Emma , Dulsster Dries , Taels Liesbeth , Notaerts Liza , Meganck Reitkse 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe current study empirically investigates patient agency as a multi‐layered and dynamic construct. We explored how agency appears before, during and after 20 sessions of psychodynamic therapy. Building on the Listening Guide, we examined interviews with a woman who had depressive complaints, paying attention to the main plot lines, associative logic and musicality in speech. As a result, we constructed four voices (i.e., ‘the caregiver's voice’, ‘the silent dictator’, ‘the inexplicable’, and ‘encouragement and doubt, fright and relief’) that shifted dynamically throughout the interviews. Each voice follows an idiosyncratic logic when it comes to agency. We interpreted the results building on psychoanalytic theory and the postmodern story notion and nuanced the concept of agency as implying both a subjective component that creates room for change and an egoic component that has a certain inertia and sustains the illusion of mastery.
Impact of international trade under dual labor markets
Authors: Zhou Haiwen 
Published: February 2023

AbstractA country's unemployment rate can be affected by technology choice and the opening of international trade. This general equilibrium model examines the impact of international trade with the presence of dual labor markets in which manufacturing firms engage in oligopolistic competition and choose technologies with different marginal and fixed costs to maximize profits. In a closed economy, it is shown that an increase in labor market efficiency or a population increase induces manufacturing firms to adopt more advanced technologies and the wage rate in the manufacturing sector increases. With the existence of a continuum of technologies, technology choice is not a source of firm heterogeneity. The opening of international trade leads to an increase in the wage rate in the manufacturing sector and the price of the agricultural good. When countries are identical, international trade always increases national welfare.
Cloud forests of the Orinoco River Basin (Colombia): Variation in vegetation and soil macrofauna composition along the hydrometeorological gradient
Authors: Ramírez Beatriz H. , Cortés‐B Rocío , Pinzón Olga Patricia , Gómez Laura , Jacquin Santiago , Hernández Eduardo , Quimbayo Luz Angélica , Bogotá‐A Raúl Giovanni 
Published: February 2023

AbstractTropical montane cloud forests (TMCF) in the Orinoco River Basin are vulnerable to climate and regional land‐use changes. These changes will force TMCF to migrate upwards, affecting biodiversity conservation and water flow regulation. Here, we evaluate how vegetation and soil macrofauna composition vary along the hydrometeorological gradient driven by an increase in fog incidence with elevation. Vegetation data were collected for all individuals with a diameter at breast height (DBH) > 5 cm in four vegetation plots (5 × 50 m; total: 0.1 ha) every 100 m in altitude between 1700 and 2200 m a.s.l. From each plot, we obtained three soil monoliths from the organic layer and three from the mineral horizon, and manually extracted their soil macrofauna. For these groups, we describe: (1) their compositional changes along the hydrometeorological gradient employing ordination analyses techniques and (2) the relation of the composition changes between vegetation and soil macrofauna communities using a symmetrical co‐correspondence analysis. Our results show that the vegetation morphospecies composition and soil macrofauna‐order composition vary significantly with the hydrometeorological gradient along elevation. The co‐correspondence between vegetation and soil macrofauna reveals a shared breakpoint above the 2000 m a.s.l., where fog is more persistent. Furthermore, we identified eight indicator vegetation species and two soil macrofauna orders associated with specific elevations. These results suggest that under a climate‐change‐driven fog lift, the TMCF of the Orinoco River Basin will be displaced. Moreover, this study provides a baseline to monitor such displacement.Abstract in Spanish is available with online material.
Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives
Authors: Zhang Zheng , Bergen Leon , Paunov Alexander , Ryskin Rachel , Gibson Edward 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe quantifier “some” often elicits a scalar implicature during comprehension: “Some of today's letters have checks inside” is often interpreted to mean that not all of today's letters have checks inside. In previous work, Goodman and Stuhlmüller (G&S) proposed a model that predicts that this implicature should depend on the speaker's knowledgeability: If the speaker has only examined some of the available letters (e.g., two of three letters), people are less likely to infer that “some” implies “not all” than if the speaker has examined all of the available letters. G&S also provided behavioral evidence in support of their model. In this paper, we first show that a simple extension of G&S's model (1) predicts G&S's knowledgeability effects, and in addition, (2) predicts that the knowledgeability effect will be reduced when the speaker's usage indicates numeral alternatives are available. We tested the new model's predictions in four preregistered experiments. All experiments supported the first model prediction, replicating G&S's finding of a main effect of the speaker's knowledge. Further, Experiments 2 and 4 supported the second model prediction showing that the words that a speaker tends to use affect the strength of scalar implicature that comprehenders make. In particular, when the speaker has partial knowledge (e.g., has only examined two of three letters), comprehenders think that “some” is more likely to mean “not all” when the speaker also tends to produce number words in similar sentences (e.g., “2 of today's rooms have working smoke detectors.”). These results have important ramifications for theories of meaning: the context beyond the sentence (e.g., the speaker's tendency to use particular words) affects the set of alternatives that comprehenders consider when inferring meaning.
Semantic Adaptation to the Interpretation of Gradable Adjectives via Active Linguistic Interaction
Authors: Pezzelle Sandro , Fernández Raquel 
Published: February 2023

AbstractWhen communicating, people adapt their linguistic representations to those of their interlocutors. Previous studies have shown that this also occurs at the semantic level for vague and context‐dependent terms such as quantifiers and uncertainty expressions. However, work to date has mostly focused on passive exposure to a given speaker's interpretation, without considering the possible role of active linguistic interaction. In this study, we focus on gradable adjectives big and small and develop a novel experimental paradigm that allows participants to ask clarification questions to figure out their interlocutor's interpretation. We find that, when in doubt, speakers do resort to this strategy, despite its inherent cognitive cost, and that doing so results in higher semantic alignment measured in terms of communicative success. While not all question–answer pairs are equally informative, we show that speakers become better questioners as the interaction progresses. Yet, the higher semantic alignment observed when speakers are able to ask questions does not increase over time. This suggests that conversational interaction's key advantage may be to boost coordination without committing to long‐term semantic updates. Our findings shed new light on the mechanisms used by speakers to achieve semantic alignment and on how language is shaped by communication.
Copredication and Complexity Revisited: Reply to Murphy's Reply
Authors: Michel Christian , Löhr Guido 
Published: February 2023

AbstractIn Löhr and Michel (2022), we proposed a neurocognitive model within the predictive processing paradigm for acceptability intuitions about copredication sentences. We also addressed “predicate order effects,” the phenomenon that the acceptability of copredication sentences can vary with the order in which the predicates occur. We discussed Murphy's interpretation of order preferences based on a hierarchy of semantic complexity and tried to motivate that other interpretations are worthwhile pursuing. In a reply letter, Murphy (2022) takes issue with our approach, putting forward several purported methodological and conceptual issues with our paper. In this reply, we first clarify where exactly we agree and disagree. Second, we focus on a crucial equivocation and some misrepresentations of our proposal by Murphy.
Origins of Hierarchical Logical Reasoning
Authors: Dedhe Abhishek M. , Clatterbuck Hayley , Piantadosi Steven T. , Cantlon Jessica F. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractHierarchical cognitive mechanisms underlie sophisticated behaviors, including language, music, mathematics, tool‐use, and theory of mind. The origins of hierarchical logical reasoning have long been, and continue to be, an important puzzle for cognitive science. Prior approaches to hierarchical logical reasoning have often failed to distinguish between observable hierarchical behavior and unobservable hierarchical cognitive mechanisms. Furthermore, past research has been largely methodologically restricted to passive recognition tasks as compared to active generation tasks that are stronger tests of hierarchical rules. We argue that it is necessary to implement learning studies in humans, non‐human species, and machines that are analyzed with formal models comparing the contribution of different cognitive mechanisms implicated in the generation of hierarchical behavior. These studies are critical to advance theories in the domains of recursion, rule‐learning, symbolic reasoning, and the potentially uniquely human cognitive origins of hierarchical logical reasoning.
Fatigue failure investigation of thick plate butt‐welded joints with incomplete penetration effect
Authors: Song Wei , Xia Xiaolei , Wei Shoupan , Shi Xiaojian , Cui Muchun , Li Zhutie , Berto Filippo 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe objective of this paper was to investigate the fatigue performance of the thick plate structural steel butt‐welded joints influenced by its geometrical factors, such as the notch angles, incomplete penetration length, and plate thickness. Utilizing experimental tests, finite element calculations, and analytical models, the fatigue behavior of various weld joint shapes and dimensions was analyzed, and the discrepancy of fatigue strength for different incomplete penetration lengths was evaluated using the nominal stress method. Meanwhile, the local approaches, including notch stress intensity factor (NSIF), averaged strain energy density (SED), effective notch stress (ENS) method, peak stress method (PSM), and implicit gradient effective stress (IGES) method, are employed to assess the fatigue life of thick plate welded joints. According to the results, incomplete penetration ratios in butt‐welded joints led to a decrease in fatigue strength. The analytical solutions of butt‐welded joints in high cycle regime based on SED results were obtained to estimate the fatigue characteristic values for different plate thickness and incomplete penetration ratios. The proposed equations could illustrate the relationship between the nominal stress and local SED dealing with the variations of incomplete penetration length and geometrical dimensions. Moreover, the results obtained by the analysis of ENS, PSM, and IGES could be deduced by the analytical models to determine the fatigue life of welded joints.
Electrical and conductivity performances of secondary phase in 0–3 type bismuth ferrate–based composite ceramics
Authors: Kang Wenshuo , Guo Xiaojie , Hao Yanshuang , Zhou Zhiyong , Liang Ruihong 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe composite design strategy for ferro‐piezoelectric ceramics has been successfully used to get excellent performances, whereas few studies focus on the electrochemical characteristics of the second phase in the composite. In this work, MgO, due to its high resistance insulation and high breakdown strength, was selected to be compounded with 0.7BiFeO3–0.3BaTiO3 (BFBT) ceramics. Intriguingly, an unreported second phase was derived from the solid‐state reaction and identifying its chemical composition as about Mg13Ti3Fe24O55. AC impedance technique was applied to clarify the electrical contribution of the second phase in composites. The results show that it has higher resistivity at the high‐temperature stage and more stable capacitance with temperature. Moreover, the second phase can improve the overall dielectric‐temperature stability. Ultimately, it indicates composite strategy can bring some beneficial effects on BFBT ceramics, and this present work may provide an alternative route for separating the electrical contribution of different regions for composite ceramics.
Metabolomic markers mediate erythrocyte anisocytosis in older adults: Results from three independent aging cohorts
Authors: Tian Qu , Mitchell Brendan A. , Moaddel Ruin , Zoccali Carmine , Bandinelli Stefania , Ferrucci Luigi 
Published: February 2023

AbstractBackgroundAnisocytosis reflects unequal‐sized red blood cells and is quantified using red blood cell distribution width (RDW). RDW increases with age and has been consistently associated with adverse health outcomes, such as cardiovascular disease and mortality. Why RDW increases with age is not understood. We aimed to identify plasma metabolomic markers mediating anisocytosis with aging.MethodsWe performed mediation analyses of plasma metabolomics on the association between age and RDW using resampling techniques after covariate adjustment. We analyzed data from adults aged 70 or older from the main discovery cohort of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA, n = 477, 46% women) and validation cohorts of the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study (Health ABC, n = 620, 52% women) and Invecchiare in Chianti, Aging in the Chianti Area (InCHIANTI) study (n = 735, 57% women). Plasma metabolomics was assayed using the Biocrates MxP Quant 500 kit in BLSA and Health ABC and liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry in InCHIANTI.ResultsIn all three cohorts, symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) significantly mediated the association between age and RDW. Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and 1‐methylhistidine were also significant mediators in the discovery cohort and one validation cohort. In the discovery cohort, we also found choline, homoarginine, and several long‐chain triglycerides significantly mediated the association between age and RDW.Conclusions and relevanceThis metabolomics study of three independent aging cohorts identified a specific set of metabolites mediating anisocytosis with aging. Whether SDMA, ADMA, and 1‐methylhistidine are released by the damaged erythrocytes with high RDW or they affect the physiology of erythrocytes causing high RDW should be further investigated.