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Exposure to hand-held vibrating tools and biomarkers of nerve injury in plasma: a population-based, observational study
Authors: Zimmerman Malin , Nilsson Peter , Dahlin Lars B. 
Published: July 2023

ObjectivesTo analyse potential biomarkers for vibration-induced nerve damage in a population-based, observational study.DesignProspective cohort study.SettingMalmö Diet Cancer Study (MDCS), Malmö, Sweden.ParticipantsIn a subcohort of 3898 individuals (recruited 1991–1996) from MDCS (baseline examination in 28 449 individuals; collection of fasting blood samples in a cardiovascular subcohort of MDCS of 5540 subjects), neuropathy-relevant plasma biomarkers were analysed during follow-up after filling out questionnaires, including a question whether work involved hand-held vibrating tools, graded as ‘not at all’, ‘some’ or ‘much’.Primary outcome measuresThe neuropathy-relevant plasma biomarkers vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A, VEGF-D, VEGF receptor 2, galanin, galectin-3, HSP27, ß-nerve growth factor, caspase-3, caspase-8, transforming growth factor-α and tumour necrosis factor were analysed. Data were analysed by conventional statistics (Kruskal-Wallis test; post hoc test Mann-Whitney U test; Bonferroni correction for multiple testing) and in a subanalysis for galanin using two linear regression models (unadjusted and adjusted).ResultsAmong participants, 3361 of 3898 (86%) reported no work with hand-held vibrating tools, 351 of 3898 (9%) reported some and 186 of 3898 (5%) much work. There were more men and smokers in vibration-exposed groups. Galanin levels were higher after much vibration exposure (arbitrary units 5.16±0.71) compared with no vibration exposure (5.01±0.76; p=0.015) with no other observed differences.ConclusionsHigher plasma levels of galanin, possibly related to magnitude, frequency, acceleration and duration, as well as to severity of symptoms of vibration exposure, may be found in individuals working with hand-held vibrating tools.
Baryonic states in $$\mathbf {{\mathcal {N}}=1}$$ supersymmetric SU(2) Yang–Mills theory on the lattice
Authors: Ali Sajid , Bergner Georg , López Camilo , Montvay Istvan , Münster Gernot , Piemonte Stefano 
Published: July 2023

AbstractWe extend our analysis of bound states in$${\mathcal {N}}=1$$N=1supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory by the consideration of baryonic operators, which are composed of three gluino fields. The corresponding states are similar to the baryons in QCD, but due to the difference between gluino and quark fields, their properties and the fermion line contractions involved in their correlation functions are different from QCD. In this work, we first explain the derivation of these operators and the contractions needed in numerical calculations of their correlators. In contrast to QCD the correlators contain a spectacle piece, which requires methods for all-to-all propagators. We provide a first estimate of the two-point function and the mass of the lightest baryonic state in$${\mathcal {N}}=1$$N=1supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory.
A viable form of teleparallel F(T) theory of gravity
Authors: Chakrabortty Manas , SK Nayem , Sanyal Abhik Kumar 
Published: July 2023

AbstractUnlike F(R) gravity, pure F(T) gravity in the vacuum dominated era does not produce any form, viable to study cosmological evolution. Factually, it does not even produce any dynamics. This eerie situation may be circumvented by associating a scalar field, which can also drive inflation in the very early universe. Here, we particularly show that, despite diverse claims, F(T) theory admits Noether symmetry only in the pressure-less dust era in the form $$F(T) \propto T^n, ~n$$

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Religion and Attitude towards Sustainability
Authors: Riegel Ulrich 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Climate change and sustainable lifestyles are discussed intensely in civil society, again. Unlike in the the 1970s and 1980s, however, religious communities seem to play a minor role in this discussion. This raises the question of the importance of religion in regard to an ecological attitude. Based on a sample of N = 4131 (former) church members (age: 14 to 89 years – 47% females – 60% with Bachelor-degree of better), this paper analyzes the effect of centrality of religion (as personal indicator in regard of religion) and membership status (as institutional indicator in regard of religion) on values addressing ecology. The findings indicate that church members and religious individuals show a more positive ecological attitude than individuals that did have disaffiliated from church or are not religious. Highly religious respondents, however, are less concerned with ecology than religious ones. Moreover, the effect of membership status is not significant anymore when socio-demographic variables are added as well as when lifestyle is added. The paper will discuss these findings within the framework of the theoretical distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ style of political participation.
Could the East Asian Way of Peacekeeping Be a Recipe for Global Peace?
Authors: Kivimäki Timo 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This paper offers new evidence in support of an argument that suggests that East Asian way of keeping peace is developmentalist, anti-interventionist and anti-hegemonic and thus even more different from the existing Western prescriptions for peace than realized before. This argument is based on some new data on organized violence, conflict termination and discourses of protection and security and a comparison of current East Asia with other regions, and with its performance three decades before 1980.
The article also investigates whether the East Asian recipes for peace and prosperity could offer global prescriptions. Again, based on data on global fatalities of organized violence, the conclusion is clear. The world could learn from East Asia: the recipes the long peace of East Asia is based on, as defined in this article, can be found useful also to the entire world.
Structural Elements in East Asian Peace: Deterrence and Economic Interdependence
Authors: Choi Jong Kun 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This article is a response to Timo Kivimaki’s important article about peace in East Asia. The article focuses on Northeast Asia’s structural configurations (i.e., economic interdependence and deterrence systems) contributing to peace in East Asia. This article essentially argues when it comes down to peace in East Asia, two subregions of East Asia, namely Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, must be analyzed to recognize different subregions’ structural orders affecting East Asia as a whole.
Institutional Innovation in University-based Experimental Spaces: the Case of Oulu Game Lab
Authors: Pokidina Valeriia , Tuunainen Juha , Mainela Tuija 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This article explores preconditions and developmental dynamics of institutional innovation in higher education organizations as an outcome of a collaborative educational initiative – a university-based experimental space. Such collaborative learning configurations are often designed to stimulate local economic development after a downturn in regional industrial landscapes. The experimental space studied here had a twofold mission: providing re-skilling and re-education opportunities for unemployed ICT professionals and equipping them with business and employment bonds with regional game industry companies. To imbue a static outcome of institutional innovation with dynamic features, and to further develop the concept of Triple Helix spaces, we incorporated three sequential forms of institutional work in our analysis: boundary work, distancing work, and anchoring work.
University-industry Collaboration and Innovation in Low-tech Industries: the Case of Brazil
Authors: Mikhailov Andrei , Puffal Daniel Pedro 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Despite the importance of low-tech manufacturing sectors for national economies, previous studies on UIC benefits for the firms were conducted mostly in high-tech sectors, making the knowledge on the impact of UIC on innovation in low-tech sectors unexplored. The present research aims to identify combinations of UIC s that may lead the low-tech firms to high innovation performance. By using the csQCA technique applied to secondary data from the BR Survey, which is the largest UIC databank in Brazil, the researchers identified that the most intense collaborations in terms of knowledge and resource exchange, such as development-oriented and research-oriented, are among the most beneficial for firms’ innovativeness. Diffusion-oriented UIC does not contribute to innovation, unless it is combined with both research-oriented and development-oriented UIC s. Finally, the csQCA suggests that in most cases the firms should focus on engaging in one specific UIC type rather than split its effort and resources among a mix of UIC. The findings amplify comprehension of the range of impacts that entrepreneurial universities promote in low-tech sector, creating both theory and policy implications.
Love, Zeal and Patriotism towards the Construction of the Political Subject: Emotional Politics during the Chilean Revolution of Independence, 1808–23
Authors: Sadarangani Javier 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Although Chilean independence has been the focus of much historiographical attention, the study of political emotions is still a pending issue. This essay aims to understand the experience and the role of love, zeal and patriotism during the Chilean independence process between 1808 and 1823. By studying these expressions and their associated practices, the essay argues that love, zeal and patriotism were used to imagine and design the characteristics of the desired political subject, which was conceived as playing a fundamental role in the success of the political project aimed to be established. To this end, the essay will make use of a variety of documentation from the period, but taking as a core document the epistolary of Bernardo O’Higgins, one of the most important figures of the Chilean emancipation process, and of the Southern Cone.
Accessible Participation in Academic Conferences if You Are Visually Impaired
Authors: Van Havermaet Jentel , van de Merbel Leendert , Van Hove Geert , De Schauwer Elisabeth 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Participating in academic events of knowledge exchange is primordial for researchers. The experiential experiences of people with visual impairments with accessibility differences in such scientific practices are reflected. The theoretical concept of ‘accessible participation’ is linked with the exchange of lived experiences of the first two authors—both PhD researchers who are visually impaired—who take part in academic conferences in the domain of Disability Studies. Boundary conditions, intensive preparation, connecting with colleagues and making scientific contributions are analysed as accessibility issues that are necessary to enable participation in an academic context.
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the UK SEND Review Green Paper
Authors: Pluquailec Jill , O’Connor Gill 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
In this paper we carry out a Critical Discourse Analysis (cda) of the UK Government’s 2022 Green Paper ‘Right Support, Right Place, Right Time’, known as ‘the SEND Review’. Our analysis is informed both by Hyatt’s (2013) Critical Higher Education Policy Discourse Analysis (chepda) framework and by our cognizance of how the term ‘special educational needs’ is constructed in the context of the state’s active and passive enactment of policies that continue to diminish the quality of disabled people’s lives. Our analysis focuses principally on deconstruction of the Green Paper with close attention to modes of legitimation, interdiscursivity, intertextuality, presupposition/implication, and lexico-grammatical construction. We present three main areas of interest: the (mis)use of and omission of ‘need’, the ubiquitous and ambiguous use of ‘we’, and the presentation of ‘newness’ in the SEND Review.
Ambiguity, Contingency, and Dominance: Decolonizing Theories of Modernity
Authors: Linkenbach Antje 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Focusing on the work of Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wagner, this article examines in its first part recent sociological, non-linear and contingency-sensitive ways of engagement with modernity, which refer to different levels of socio-historical configuration (civilization analysis vs. world sociology) and attribute different significance to normative questions. While both authors acknowledge the entanglement of European and non-European cultural worlds as well as its power dynamics, they still fail to fully grasp and theorize the devastating role of colonialism, which today is still felt in the marginalisation and even erasure of knowledge, perspectives, ideas and experiences from the ‘non-West’. Their approaches also lack a serious engagement with post- and decolonial scholarship. The second part of this contribution presents decolonial thinking as a theoretical and normative-political project. Theorising modernity from ‘beyond’ invites us to ‘break the Western code’ (Mignolo) and engage with modernity from a perspective that is grounded in different epistemologies, philosophies and social imaginaries, ultimately questioning autonomy and mastery (over humans and nature) as basic premises or axioms of Western modernity. As a normative-political project decoloniality is future-oriented and, focusing on the temporally, spatially and socially contextualized acting subjects and collectives, aims to rebuild a polycentric world and establishes ‘pluriversality as a universal project’ (Mignolo). The Zapatista movement in Chiapas (Mexico), representing a new understanding of the revolutionary subject and the revolutionary praxis, illustrates how indigenous groups and (urban) Marxists can come together as equals, learn from each other and negotiate how to change the world in discourse and practice.
Standardising the biochemical confirmation of adult male hypogonadism; a joint position statement by the Society for Endocrinology and Association of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine*
Authors: Jayasena Channa N , de Silva Nipun Lakshitha , O’Reilly Michael W , MacKenzie Finlay , Marrington Rachel , Jones Hugh , Livingston Mark , Downie Paul , Hackett Geoff , Ramachandran Sud , Tomlinson Jeremy , David Janine , Boot Christopher , Patel Mayur , Tarling Julie , Wu Fredrick , Quinton Richard 
Published: July 2023

Background: Inter-assay variation between different immunoassays and different mass spectrometry methods hampers the biochemical confirmation of male hypogonadism. Furthermore, some laboratories utilis eassay manufacturer reference ranges that do not necessarily mirror assay performance characteristics, with the lower limit of normality ranging from 4.9 nmol/L to 11 nmol/L. The quality of the normative data underlying commercial immunoassay reference ranges is uncertain. Design: A working group reviewed published evidence and agreed upon standardised reporting guidance to augment total testosterone reports. Results: Evidence-based guidance on appropriate blood sampling, clinical action limits, and other major factors likely to affect the interpretation of results are provided. Conclusions: This article aims to improve the quality of the interpretation of testosterone results by non-specialist clinicians. It also discusses approaches for assay harmonisation which have been successful in some but not all healthcare systems.
Psychometric Analysis of a Measure of Spiritual Experiences in Peruvian Adults
Authors: Morales-García Wilter C. , Romero Jeysson , Huancahuire-Vega Salomón , Ruiz Mamani Percy G. , Sairitupa-Sanchez Liset Z. , Saintila Jacksaint 
Published: July 2023

Research on spirituality has increased considerably in the last decade. This study analyzes the psychometric properties of the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES) in a Peruvian sample. The study had a cross-sectional design. The population was Peruvian adults with ages ranging between 18 and 70 years ( M = 30.60, SD = 11.22) recruited through nonprobabilistic sampling. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed. Internal consistency was assessed by Cronbach’s alpha (α), McDonalds’ omega (ω), and H-coefficient ( H). The structure of 16 items was not confirmed. A 13-item DSES unidimensional model was suggested (χ2 = 184.78, df = 65; confirmatory fit index [CFI] = 0.92, Tucker–Lewis index [TLI] = 0.91, root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA] = 0.08, standardized root mean square residuals [SRMR] = 0.04) and the DSES-6 model (χ2 = 9.570, df = 9; CFI = 1.00, TLI = 1.00, RMSEA = 0.02, SRMR = 0.02) and its reliability had excellent values. Concurrent validity with measures of anxiety and depression were evidenced. The DSES-13 and DSES-6 versions are valid and reliable instruments to evaluate spiritual experiences in the Peruvian context.
Sub-acute effects of psilocybin on EEG correlates of neural plasticity in major depression: Relationship to symptoms
Authors: Skosnik Patrick D , Sloshower Jordan , Safi-Aghdam Hamideh , Pathania Surbhi , Syed Shariful , Pittman Brian , D’Souza Deepak C 
Published: July 2023

Background: Evidence suggests that serotonergic psychedelics (e.g. psilocybin), have rapid-acting and long-lasting antidepressant effects after a single dose. However, the mechanism underlying these effects remain unclear. One proposed mechanism is that these drugs promote neuroplasticity. However, this has not been conclusively demonstrated in humans. Aims: We hypothesized that relative to placebo, psilocybin would: (1) increase electroencephalographic (EEG) correlates of neuroplasticity, (2) reduce depression symptoms, and (3) changes in EEG would correlate with improvements in depression. Methods: In this double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject study, individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD; n = 19) were administered placebo followed by psilocybin (0.3 mg/kg) in a fixed order (placebo, followed by psilocybin 4 weeks later). EEG indices of neuroplasticity (tetanus-induced long-term potentiation) as assessed via auditory evoked theta (4–8 Hz) power and measures of depression (GRID Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression-17 (GRID-HAM-D-17)) were measured at several time-points after placebo and psilocybin (24 h and 2 weeks after each session). Results: EEG theta power doubled in amplitude 2 weeks after a single psychedelic dose of psilocybin but not after placebo. Further, improvements in depression symptoms 2 weeks after psilocybin were correlated with increases in theta power. Conclusions: The increased theta power observed represents evidence of sustained changes in the brain following psilocybin. Given the correlation with enhancement in depressive symptoms, changes in theta may represent an EEG biomarker of the sustained effects of psilocybin, and may shed light on potential mechanisms of psilocybin’s antidepressant effect. Taken together, these results complement the emerging notion that psilocybin, and perhaps other psychedelics, can produce long-term alterations in neuroplasticity.
A propensity to thrive: Understanding individual difference, resilience and entrepreneurship in developing competence and professional identity
Authors: Cade Liz 
Published: July 2023

Introduction: This paper draws on a study and its findings that set out to explore why some students appear to thrive, turning placement experiences into positive empowering opportunities despite the challenges, where others may not. Findings established a broader application beyond placements to inform curriculum design and delivery that nurtures professionalism, competence and identity from pre-admission to transition into practice as a journey of growth and development. Method: A mixed-methods approach was adopted. Questionnaires and interviews gathered data from two cohorts in traditional ( n = 25) or role-emerging placements ( n = 13). An interpretive approach was employed for the qualitative data. The quantitative data underwent statistical analysis. Findings: Students in role-emerging placements scored higher in resilience prior to and developed greater resilience as a consequence. These students scored higher in traits of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness and were more emotionally stable compared with students in traditional placements. Agreeableness was positively correlated with greater resilience in these students. Conclusion: Curricula design and delivery should embed opportunities throughout programmes of study enabling students to nurture an openness to new experiences, with positive risk taking, building an ability to thrive. Understanding individual differences in students informs the development of competence and identity pivotal for transition into practice.
The Role of First Tarsometatarsal Joint Morphology and Instability in the Etiology of Hallux Valgus: A Case-Control Study
Authors: Ji Linfeng , Ding Shenglong , Zhang Mingzhu , Colon Reyes Katherine , Zhu Mingjie , Sun Chengyi 
Published: July 2023

Background: The morphology of foot joints is widely accepted as a significant factor in the development of various foot disorders. Nevertheless, the role of the first tarsometatarsal joint (TMT1) morphology in hallux valgus (HV) remains unclear, and its impact on TMT1 instability has not been fully explored. This study aimed to investigate the TMT1 morphology and its potential correlation with HV and TMT1 instability. Methods: Weightbearing computed tomography (WBCT) scans of 82 consecutive feet with HV and 79 controls were reviewed in this case-control study. Three-dimensional (3D) models of TMT1 were constructed using Mimics software and WBCT scans. The height of the TMT1 facet (FH) and the superior, middle, and inferior facet width (SFW, MFW, and IFW) were measured on anteroposterior view of the first metatarsal base. On the lateral view, the inferior lateral facet height and angle (ILFH and ILFA) were measured. TMT1 instability was evaluated using the TMT1 angle. Results: Compared with the control group, the HV group had a significantly wider MFW (9.9 mm in HV, 8.7 mm in control), lower ILFH (1.7 mm in HV, 2.5 mm in control), smaller ILFA (16.3 degrees in HV, 24.5 degrees in control), and larger TMT1 angle (1.9 degrees in HV, 0.9 degrees in control) (all P < .05). No significant differences were found between the 2 groups in FH, SFW, and IFW (all P > .05). The study identified 4 types of TMT1 morphology: continuous-flat, separated-flat, continuous-protruded, and separated-protruded. The continuous-flat type possessed significantly larger HVA, IMA, and TMT1 angles compared with other types (all P < .001). Conclusion: This study indicates a potential association between TMT1 morphology and the severity of HV and identifies 4 TMT1 types. Notably, the continuous-flat type is found to be associated with more severe HV and TMT1 instability. Level of Evidence: Level III, retrospective comparative study.