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How Should a Social Mediator Robot Convey Messages About the Self-Disclosures of Elderly People to Recipients?
Authors: Noguchi Yohei , Kamide Hiroko , Tanaka Fumihide 
Published: May 2023

AbstractEncouraging the self-disclosure of the elderly is important for preventing their social isolation. In this article, we discuss a use case in which social robots are employed to mediate remote communication between elderly individuals and their family members or friends. This research aims to elaborate design guidelines for social mediator robots concerning how robots should convey messages from elderly individuals to their recipients. We particularly considered human–robot interactions in which elderly individuals can choose the robot’s behavior (i.e., messaging options) based on their preference. If the robot is implemented with effective messaging options, the elderly’s anxiety about self-disclosing information they usually feel reluctant to share with others (e.g., loss experiences) may be mitigated. An online survey of 589 elderly participants showed that the messaging options for the mediator robot should be designed in three types: requesting-support, concealing, and recording. The study results also suggest that each of the messaging options should be chosen according to the relationships between the factors of recipients, disclosers’ personal characteristics, and dialog topics. Furthermore, an empirical human–robot interaction study conducted with 36 elderly participants suggested that the anxiety of elderly disclosers was significantly lower when they could apply their preferable messaging options to self-disclosure than the case when the robot did not provide any messaging options to them. Thus, the effectiveness of the messaging options designed through this study was demonstrated.
A Comprehensive Review of Tandem Solar Cells Integrated on Silicon Substrate: III/V vs Perovskite
Authors: Saif Omar M. , Zekry Abdel Halim , Abouelatta Mohamed , Shaker Ahmed 
Published: May 2023

AbstractHigh-efficiency solar cells with low manufacturing costs have been recently accomplished utilizing different technologies. III-V-based tandem solar cells have exhibited performance enhancement with a recent efficiency of greater than 39% under AM1.5G and 47% under concentration. Integration of such III-V materials on a relatively cheap Silicon (Si) substrate is a potential pathway to fabricate high-efficient low-cost tandem solar cells. Besides, perovskite solar cells, as third-generation thin film photovoltaics (PV), have been meteorically developed at a reasonable cost. At present, there are still questions for cost reduction of perovskite materials and solar cell modules because of their limited commercialization. In this review, stacking Si solar cells with III-V material to form Si-based III-V tandem solar cells is presented with different integration technological routes. Also, perovskite/Si tandem solar cells have been reviewed alongside their main engineering challenges introduced through the fabrication of perovskite-based tandem solar cells. Finally, a comparison between III-V tandem solar cells, Si-based III-V tandem solar cells, and perovskite-based tandem solar cells is introduced so that the best technology for a specific application could be determined. The review provides a comprehensive study of two different technologies (III/V and Perovskite) to demonstrate the most valuable cost reduction availability for each.
A Rapid Estimation Method for Post-earthquake Building Losses
Authors: Zhao Dengke , Wang Zifa , Wang Jianming , Wei Dongliang , Zhou Yang , Li Zhaoyan 
Published: May 2023

AbstractRapid estimation of post-earthquake building damage and loss is very important in urgent response efforts. The current approach leaves much room for improvement in estimating ground motion and correctly incorporating the uncertainty and spatial correlation of the loss. This study proposed a new approach for rapidly estimating post-earthquake building loss with reasonable accuracy. The proposed method interpolates ground motion based on the observed ground motion using the Ground Motion Prediction Equation (GMPE) as the weight. It samples the building seismic loss quantile considering the spatial loss correlation that is expressed by Gaussian copula, and kriging is applied to reduce the dimension of direct sampling for estimation speed. The proposed approach was validated using three historical earthquake events in Japan with actual loss reports, and was then applied to predict the building loss amount for the March 2022 Fukushima Mw7.3 earthquake. The proposed method has high potential in future emergency efforts such as search, rescue, and evacuation planning.
The Application of Model-Based Systems Engineering to Rural Healthcare System Disaster Planning: A Scoping Review
Authors: Berg Thomas A. , Marino Kelsi N. , Kintziger Kristina W. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractDisasters and other emergency events have complex effects on human systems, particularly if the events are severe or prolonged. When these types of events happen in rural communities, the resources of the local public health, healthcare, and emergency response organizations can be quickly depleted or overwhelmed. Planning for emergencies can help to mitigate their impact. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methods, including computer simulations, can provide insight on how best to prepare for these events and to explore the effects of varying approaches and resource utilization. To best apply these methods for improving disaster management in rural settings, a synthesis of the current body of evidence in this field is needed. The objective of this scoping review was to provide a descriptive overview of the application of computer simulation based on MBSE approaches to disaster preparedness and response for rural healthcare systems. Six studies met inclusion criteria, and varied in terms of MBSE method used, healthcare setting, and disaster type and context considered. We identified a gap in the research regarding the application of MBSE approaches to support rural healthcare disaster preparedness planning efforts. Model-based systems engineering and systems thinking, therefore, represent novel methods for developing tools and computational simulations that could assist rural communities better prepare for disasters.
Transferable adversarial masked self-distillation for unsupervised domain adaptation
Authors: Xia Yuelong , Yun Li-Jun , Yang Chengfu 
Published: May 2023

AbstractUnsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to a related unlabeled target domain. Most existing works focus on minimizing the domain discrepancy to learn global domain-invariant representation using CNN-based architecture while ignoring both transferable and discriminative local representation, e.g, pixel-level and patch-level representation. In this paper, we propose the Transferable Adversarial Masked Self-distillation based on Vision Transformer architecture to enhance the transferability of UDA, named TAMS. Specifically, TAMS jointly optimizes three objectives to learn both task-specific class-level global representation and domain-specific local representation. First, we introduce adversarial masked self-distillation objective to distill representation from a full image to the representation predicted from a masked image, which aims to learn task-specific global class-level representation. Second, we introduce masked image modeling objectives to learn local pixel-level representation. Third, we introduce an adversarial weighted cross-domain adaptation objective to capture discriminative potentials of patch tokens, which aims to learn both transferable and discriminative domain-specific patch-level representation. Extensive studies on four benchmarks and the experimental results show that our proposed method can achieve remarkable improvements compared to previous state-of-the-art UDA methods.
Organic Optoelectronic Synapses for Sound Perception
Authors: Wei Yanan , Liu Youxing , Lin Qijie , Liu Tianhua , Wang Song , Chen Hao , Li Congqi , Gu Xiaobin , Zhang Xin , Huang Hui 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe neuromorphic systems for sound perception is under highly demanding for the future bioinspired electronics and humanoid robots. However, the sound perception based on volume, tone and timbre remains unknown. Herein, organic optoelectronic synapses (OOSs) are constructed for unprecedented sound recognition. The volume, tone and timbre of sound can be regulated appropriately by the input signal of voltages, frequencies and light intensities of OOSs, according to the amplitude, frequency, and waveform of the sound. The quantitative relation between recognition factor (ζ) and postsynaptic current (I = Ilight − Idark) is established to achieve sound perception. Interestingly, the bell sound for University of Chinese Academy of Sciences is recognized with an accuracy of 99.8%. The mechanism studies reveal that the impedance of the interfacial layers play a critical role in the synaptic performances. This contribution presents unprecedented artificial synapses for sound perception at hardware levels.
On the French Road. Der späte Marx und der relationale Egalitarismus
Authors: Lindner Urs 
Published: May 2023

ZusammenfassungDie Beschäftigung mit der russischen Dorfgemeinde hat Marx in seinem Spätwerk dazu gebracht, frühere geschichtsteleologische Annahmen zu revidieren. Der vorliegende Text macht deutlich, dass diese „Russian Road“ (Theodor Shanin) von einer „French Road“ gekreuzt wird, auf der sich der späte Marx mit der Theorie und Praxis des französischen Sozialismus auseinandersetzt. Gezeigt wird, dass die „French Road“ mit normativen Gehalten gepflastert ist, die in der heutigen politischen Philosophie als relationaler Egalitarismus verhandelt werden. Der Text geht in drei Schritten vor. Zunächst wird die gerechtigkeitstheoretische Debatte um Marx rekapituliert und herausgearbeitet, dass ihr missing link in einer nicht-distributiven Gleichheitskonzeption besteht. Darüber hinaus werden Gründe angeführt, inwiefern der relationale Egalitarismus einen philosophischen Zugang auch zum übrigen marxschen Werk eröffnet. In einem zweiten Schritt wird nachgezeichnet, wie Marx die relationale Gleichheitskonzeption in seiner Schrift über die Pariser Commune demokratie- und politiktheoretisch entwickelt. Drittens und letztens wird das Verhältnis von Produktion und Distribution, das die Kritik des Gothaer Programms behauptet, moralphilosophisch als Primat relationaler Gleichheit über Prinzipien der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit rekonstruiert. Die These lautet: Gerade weil Marx auf der relationalen Ebene kontextübergreifende, egalitär-perfektionistische Standards verwendet, kann er auf der distributiven Ebene kontextualistisch vorgehen und die Gerechtigkeitsprinzipien von rechtmäßiger Aneignung, Leistung und Bedürfnis historisieren.
Advancement in research on genes associated with fetal congenital heart disease (CHD) and diagnostic testing methods
Authors: Xie Junshu , Zhang Kexin , Zhang Xiaohong 
Published: May 2023

AbstractIntroductionCongenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common congenital malformations, and is a polygenic disease related to some major genes and involved in environmental factors. With the progress of science and technology, the progress was both in the studies of genetic patterns and testing methods. Understanding how each gene participates in normal and pathological anatomy is an important goal of CHD research. We reviewed the development of testing methods and CHD-related genes, to provide some enlightenment for the CHD prenatal diagnosis and hope to realize the intervention and treatment on the gene level of CHD in the future.
Towards erasure studies: Excavating the material conditions of memory and forgetting
Authors: Fredrikzon Johan , Haffenden Chris 
Published: May 2023

AbstractWhile the history and practices of collecting have received considerable attention over the past few decades, the notion of erasure – of the deleting, removal or destruction of material, whether deliberate or otherwise – has remained largely in the shadows. We challenge this neglect by placing erasure centre stage and treating it as a productive phenomenon in its own right. Indeed, we suggest that it forms a significant precondition for the very possibility of memory and collections. This article draws upon a recent turn to consider questions of forgetting, ignorance and ending to lay out the grounds for analysing the various roles played by erasure in making and unmaking our world. Inspired by Paul Connerton's discussion of different types of forgetting, we present five distinct forms of erasure that we regard as principally important: (i) repressive erasure, (ii) protective erasure, (iii) operative erasure, (iv) amending erasure and (v) calamitous and neglectful erasure. In each case, we discuss the characteristic logic of the erasure at hand and provide examples of the historical and media-specific forms in which it has been enacted. Our aim in doing so is to provide future researchers with some of the analytical tools and perspectives necessary to engage in furthererasure studies. For if we are interested in making sense of the shifting and complex world we inhabit, then the interdisciplinary study of the compelling yet elusive phenomenon of erasure is an excellent place to start.
Local leaders and the pursuit of growth in US cities: the role of managerial skill
Authors: Carreri Maria , Payson Julia 
Published: May 2023

AbstractDo the choices of city leaders matter for local economic conditions? While existing literature focuses on how the preferences of local officials influence city policy, we argue that the managerial skill of local leaders should condition their ability to achieve their goals. We conduct an original phone survey of over 300 mayors and city managers across the USA to learn about their management practices. Using a two-way fixed effects design that holds fixed a rich battery of individual and city-level characteristics, we examine how changes in leadership affect economic growth, a common goal for local officials. We find that when local leaders employ the “best practices” of organizational management, their cities grow across a range of indicators. These results are strongest for the subset of leaders who mention a growth-related goal for their time in office, suggesting that managerial skill allows local leaders to more effectively achieve their objectives.
Clinically important estimates of improvement after septoplasty
Authors: Haye Rolf , Døsen Liv Kari , TarAngen Magnus , Gay Caryl , Pripp Are Hugo , Shiryaeva Olga 
Published: May 2023

AbstractObjectiveA statistically significant improvement in nasal obstruction ratings following septoplasty is not necessarily clinically important. This study aimed to establish useful measures of septoplasty success, namely the minimal clinically important difference and the desirable clinically important difference.MethodsPatients rated nasal obstruction on a 0–100 visual analogue scale pre-operatively and at 5.5 months post-operatively. Global outcome rating (completely, much, or somewhat improved, unchanged or worse) served as the anchor post-operatively. Minimal clinically important difference is the visual analogue scale value between ‘somewhat improved’ and ‘unchanged’, and the desirable clinically important difference is that between ‘much’ and ‘somewhat improved’.ResultsStatistically significant improvement in visual analogue scale scores was not clinically important. The minimal clinically important difference (daytime value of 9.5) represented 15.1 per cent improvement and the desirable clinically important difference (daytime value of 28.5) represented 45.2 per cent, without gender or age differences.ConclusionClinical success can be defined using a minimal clinically important difference of 15 per cent improvement over a patient's baseline value. Other studies’ ratings of ‘satisfactory’ outcome coincided with a desirable clinically important difference of 45 per cent over baseline. These values are suggested as relevant indicators of septoplasty success.
Westward range expansion of the eastern rock lobster (Sagmariasus verreauxi) in Australia
Authors: Linnane Adrian , McLeay Lachlan , Doubell Mark 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The eastern rock lobster (Sagmariasus verreauxi) inhabits the east coast of Australia from southern Queensland to the South Australian border including Tasmania, with the highest abundances found in New South Wales. Changes in strength, duration, and intensity of the eastern Australian current have expanded the species range southward but until recently, records of the species in western regions of south-eastern Australia were rare. Here, we report the first ever verified records of S. verreauxi in the northern zone rock lobster fishery of South Australia, which are the most westerly records ever documented in terms of overall distribution for this species. We hypothesise that two westward flowing systems, the offshore Flinders current and the inshore coastal current may be possible mechanisms for larval transport.
Early successional habitat supports unique avian communities dominated by wintering migrants in a premontane tropical forest
Authors: Carello Christy A. , Yanco Scott W. 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Forest succession drives concomitant changes in associated faunal communities. Thus, maintaining landscapes with high successional diversity can be an important consideration in habitat management. We sought to describe avian community characteristics across a successional gradient created by reforestation efforts in a tropical premontane wet forest in Costa Rica. Specifically, we examined the effects of successional stage on overall abundance, species richness, diet niche, migratory status, and community composition. We hypothesised that these metrics of bird abundance, diversity and community composition would differ across successional stages. Using data from transects conducted in 2018, we found that several metrics of avian abundance, diversity and community composition varied as a function of successional stage. Surprisingly, the earliest successional stage exhibited the greatest abundance, species richness and proportion of migrant species. We suggest that an ephemeral vegetation structure present for only a short period (early in succession) creates a unique habitat that results in a distinct avian community. This highlights the potential importance of early successional forests for avian communities, especially neotropical migrants.
Potential long consequences from internal and external ecology: loss of gut microbiota antifragility in children from an industrialized population compared with an indigenous rural lifestyle
Authors: G-Santoyo Isaac , Ramírez-Carrillo Elvia , Sanchez Jonathan Dominguez , López-Corona Oliver 
Published: May 2023

AbstractHuman health is strongly mediated by the gut microbiota ecosystem, which, in turn, depends not only on its state but also on its dynamics and how it responds to perturbations. Healthy microbiota ecosystems tend to be in criticality and antifragile dynamics corresponding to a maximum complexity configuration, which may be assessed with information and network theory analysis. Under this complex system perspective, we used a new analysis of published data to show that a children’s population with an industrialized urban lifestyle from Mexico City exhibits informational and network characteristics similar to parasitized children from a rural indigenous population in the remote mountainous region of Guerrero, México. We propose then, that in this critical age for gut microbiota maturation, the industrialized urban lifestyle could be thought of as an external perturbation to the gut microbiota ecosystem, and we show that it produces a similar loss in criticality/antifragility as the one observed by internal perturbation due to parasitosis by the helminthA. lumbricoides.Finally, several general complexity-based guidelines to prevent or restore gut ecosystem antifragility are discussed.
Activation of HIF-1α C-terminal transactivation domain protects against hypoxia-induced kidney injury through hexokinase 2-mediated mitophagy
Authors: Li Zuo-Lin , Ding Lin , Ma Rui-Xia , Zhang Yue , Zhang Yi-Lin , Ni Wei-Jie , Tang Tao-Tao , Wang Gui-Hua , Wang Bin , Lv Lin-Li , Wu Qiu-Li , Wen Yi , Liu Bi-Cheng 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), as a master regulator of adaptive responses to hypoxia, possesses two transcriptional activation domains [TAD, N-terminal (NTAD), and C-terminal (CTAD)]. Although the roles of HIF-1α NTAD in kidney diseases have been recognized, the exact effects of HIF-1α CTAD in kidney diseases are poorly understood. Here, two independent mouse models of hypoxia-induced kidney injury were established using HIF-1α CTAD knockout (HIF-1α CTAD−/−) mice. Furthermore, hexokinase 2 (HK2) and mitophagy pathway are modulated using genetic and pharmacological methods, respectively. We demonstrated that HIF-1α CTAD−/− aggravated kidney injury in two independent mouse models of hypoxia-induced kidney injury, including ischemia/reperfusion-induced kidney injury and unilateral ureteral obstruction-induced nephropathy. Mechanistically, we found that HIF-1α CTAD could transcriptionally regulate HK2 and subsequently ameliorate hypoxia-induced tubule injury. Furthermore, it was found that HK2 deficiency contributed to severe renal injury through mitophagy inhibition, while mitophagy activation using urolithin A could significantly protect against hypoxia-induced kidney injury in HIF-1α C-TAD−/− mice. Our findings suggested that the HIF-1α CTAD-HK2 pathway represents a novel mechanism of kidney response to hypoxia, which provides a promising therapeutic strategy for hypoxia-induced kidney injury.
Rotational and dilational reconstruction in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré bilayers
Authors: Van Winkle Madeline , Craig Isaac M. , Carr Stephen , Dandu Medha , Bustillo Karen C. , Ciston Jim , Ophus Colin , Taniguchi Takashi , Watanabe Kenji , Raja Archana , Griffin Sinéad M. , Bediako D. Kwabena 
Published: May 2023

AbstractLattice reconstruction and corresponding strain accumulation plays a key role in defining the electronic structure of two-dimensional moiré superlattices, including those of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Imaging of TMD moirés has so far provided a qualitative understanding of this relaxation process in terms of interlayer stacking energy, while models of the underlying deformation mechanisms have relied on simulations. Here, we use interferometric four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy to quantitatively map the mechanical deformations through which reconstruction occurs in small-angle twisted bilayer MoS2 and WSe2/MoS2 heterobilayers. We provide direct evidence that local rotations govern relaxation for twisted homobilayers, while local dilations are prominent in heterobilayers possessing a sufficiently large lattice mismatch. Encapsulation of the moiré layers in hBN further localizes and enhances these in-plane reconstruction pathways by suppressing out-of-plane corrugation. We also find that extrinsic uniaxial heterostrain, which introduces a lattice constant difference in twisted homobilayers, leads to accumulation and redistribution of reconstruction strain, demonstrating another route to modify the moiré potential.