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Naturerfahrung und seelische Gesundheit bei Kindern – theoretische Ansätze und ausgewählte empirische Befunde
Authors: Gebhard Ulrich 
Published: June 2023

ZusammenfassungDie vielfach belegten günstigen Effekte von Naturerfahrungen bei Kindern machen die Annahme plausibel, dass sich eine naturnahe Umgebung auch positiv auf die Gesundheit im Kindesalter auswirkt, also auch ein Beitrag zur Gesundheitserhaltung und -prävention sein kann. Die Befunde zu gesundheitsfördernden Wirkungen von Natur sind bemerkenswert und werden hier mit dem Fokus auf seelische Gesundheit akzentuiert und theoretisch fundiert.Grundlage ist ein sogenanntes dreidimensionales Persönlichkeitsmodell, demzufolge die seelische Entwicklung nicht nur eine Funktion der Beziehung des Subjekts zu anderen Menschen, sondern auch zur Welt der Dinge, also auch der Natur ist. Es werden zudem 3 Erklärungsansätze für die gesundheitlichen Wirkungen von Naturerfahrungen skizziert: 1. die anthropologisch fundierte „Stress Recovery Theory“, 2. die „Attention Restoration Theory“ und 3. die Annahme, dass Natur als ein Symbolvorrat für Selbst- und Weltdeutungen die Sinnkonstituierung der Subjekte begleiten kann („therapeutische Landschaften“).Es wird v. a. auf die gesundheitlichen Wirkungen von erreichbaren naturnahen Freiräumen eingegangen, wobei der Forschungsstand für Erwachsene weitaus reichhaltiger ist als für Kinder. Im Hinblick auf die seelische Gesundheit bzw. auf deren Einflussgrößen werden die folgenden Dimensionen mit empirischen Ergebnissen ausgeführt: Stressreduktion, antidepressive und stimmungsaufhellende Wirkung, prosoziales Verhalten, Aufmerksamkeit und ADHS (Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung), kognitive Entwicklung, Selbstwert und Selbstregulation, Naturerfahrung und Bewegung. Aus salutogenetischer Sicht wirkt Natur nicht deterministisch auf die Gesundheit, sondern gewissermaßen beiläufig, wenn naturnahe Freiräume erreichbar sind und genutzt werden. Diese Beiläufigkeit der Wirkung von Naturerfahrungen ist bei möglichen therapeutischen oder pädagogischen Interventionen zu bedenken.
Distal femoral osteotomy for the valgus knee: indications, complications, clinical and radiological outcome
Authors: Ismailidis Petros , Schmid Corinna , Werner Julika , Nüesch Corina , Mündermann Annegret , Pagenstert Geert , Egloff Christian 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Introduction
The aim of this study was to describe the indications and technical aspects of medial closing and lateral opening distal femoral osteotomy (MCDFO and LODFO) for patients with a valgus knee and to report clinical and radiological outcomes and complications.

Methods
Over 6 years, 28 DFOs (22 MCDFO, 6 LODFO) were performed in 22 Patients. In this cohort study, we retrospectively analyzed clinical and radiological outcome measures as well as complications.

Results
The median (range) age was 47 (17–63) years, height 1.68 (1.56–1.98) m, body mass 80 (49–105) kg, and body mass index (BMI) 27.4 (18.6–37.0) kg/m2. The clinical follow-up was 21 (7–81) months, the need for total or unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (TKA/UKA) and hardware removal was followed up for 59 (7–108) months postoperatively. Preoperatively, hip-knee-ankle angle (HKA, negative values denote varus) was 7.0 (2.0–13.0)°, mechanical lateral distal femoral angle (mLDFA) was 83.7 (79.9–88.2)°, and mechanical proximal tibial angle (MPTA) was 89.0 (86.6–94.5)°. Postoperatively, HKA was −1.3 (−9.0–1.2)° and mLDFA was 90.8 (87.3–97.3)°. The incidence of minor and major complications was 25% and 14%, the incidence of delayed and nonunion was 18% and 4%, respectively. At the last follow-up, 18% of the patients had pain at rest, 25% during activities of daily living, and 39% during physical activity, and 71% were satisfied with the outcome. 7% of the cases received a TKA/UKA, 71% received a hardware removal.

Conclusion
DFO is a reasonable treatment for lateral osteoarthritis in younger patients to avoid disease progression and the need for an UKA/TKA. However, there is a long rehabilitation time, a considerable risk for complications, and a high need for hardware removal. While many patients experienced symptoms at the long-term follow-up, most were satisfied with the outcome. Appropriate patient information is essential.
Level of evidence Level IV, Case Series.
Trial registration number NCT04382118, clinicaltrials.gov, May 11, 2020.
On the interplay of curiosity, confidence, and importance in knowing information
Authors: Spitzer Markus Wolfgang Hermann , Janz Janina , Nie Maohua , Kiesel Andrea 
Published: June 2023

AbstractCuriosity appears to be the driving force for humans to find new information, but despite its general relevance, only a few studies investigated the underlying mechanisms of curiosity. Kang et al. (Psychol Sci 20(8):963–973, 2009) and Dubey and Griffiths (Psychol Rev 127(3):455–476, 2020) reported a relation between curiosity and confidence such that curiosity follows an inverted U-shaped function of confidence, with the highest curiosity on moderate confidence levels of knowing information. Given that replications of findings on curiosity are rare, this study sought to replicate these previous findings in two experiments, with the same stimulus material (Experiment 1) and new stimulus material using COVID-19-related information (Experiment 2). Based on theoretical predictions by Dubey and Griffiths (2020), we extended previous findings assessing the effect of the importance of information for the participant on the relationship between curiosity and confidence. Our findings replicated previous results in both experiments with the highest curiosity regarding information about which participants were moderately confident in knowing. Our extended analyses suggest that if information can be considered as important, then people are most curious about information when having very low-to-moderate confidence in knowing this information. However, if information is rated as rather not important, then curiosity is highest for information with moderate confidence in knowing the information. Together, these results emphasize the modulatory effect of perceived importance on the interplay between curiosity and confidence in knowing information.
Desmin mutations impact the autophagy flux in C2C12 cell in mutation-specific manner
Authors: Sukhareva K. S. , Smolina N. A. , Churkina A. I. , Kalugina K. K. , Zhuk S. V. , Khudiakov A. A. , Khodot A. A. , Faggian G. , Luciani G. B. , Sejersen T. , Kostareva A. A. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractDesmin is the main intermediate filament of striated and smooth muscle cells and plays a crucial role in maintaining the stability of muscle fiber during contraction and relaxation cycles. Being a component of Z-disk area, desmin integrates autophagic pathways, and the disturbance of Z-disk proteins’ structure negatively affects chaperone-assisted selective autophagy (CASA). In the present study, we focused on alteration of autophagy flux in myoblasts expressing various Des mutations. We applied Western blotting, immunocytochemistry, RNA sequencing, and shRNA approach to demonstrate that DesS12F, DesA357P, DesL345P, DesL370P, and DesD399Y mutations. Mutation-specific effect on autophagy flux being most severe in aggregate-prone Des mutations such as DesL345P, DesL370P, and DesD399Y. RNA sequencing data confirmed the most prominent effect of these mutations on expression profile and, in particular, on autophagy-related genes. To verify CASA contribution to desmin aggregate formation, we suppressed CASA by knocking down Bag3 and demonstrated that it promoted aggregate formation and lead to downregulation of Vdac2 and Vps4a and upregulation of Lamp, Pink1, and Prkn. In conclusion, Des mutations showed a mutation-specific effect on autophagy flux in C2C12 cells with either a predominant impact on autophagosome maturation or on degradation and recycling processes. Aggregate-prone desmin mutations lead to the activation of basal autophagy level while suppressing the CASA pathway by knocking down Bag3 can promote desmin aggregate formation.
Emotionale Kompetenzen bei Menschen mit chronifizierten Schmerzen
Authors: Körner Anne Juliane , Sabatowski Rainer , Burdic Lisa , Beyer Linn , Gärtner Anne , Schönbach Benjamin , Kaiser Ulrike 
Published: June 2023

Zusammenfassung
Fragestellung
Ziel der Studie ist es, den Status quo der emotionalen Kompetenz (EK) von Menschen mit chronifizierten Schmerzen zu erfassen. Wie erleben sich Patient*innen selbst hinsichtlich ihrer Fähigkeiten, Emotionen wahrzunehmen, auszudrücken und zu regulieren? Und deckt sich diese Einschätzung mit der Beurteilung der EK durch psychologisches Fachpersonal?

Methoden
Die Studie fand im Rahmen einer tagesklinischen interdisziplinären multimodalen Schmerztherapie an N = 184 erwachsenen deutschsprachigen Personen mit nichttumorbedingten, chronifizierten Schmerzen statt. EK wurde zum Therapieende mittels der Selbst- und Fremdbeurteilungsskalen (SB/FB) des Emotionale-Kompetenz-Fragebogens ermittelt. Die Fremdbeurteilung erfolgte durch das psychologische Team. Mithilfe der für den Fragebogen zur Verfügung gestellten Normstichprobe wurden Standardwerte erstellt. Diese wurden deskriptiv und inferenzstatistisch ausgewertet.

Ergebnisse
Die EK wurde von den Patient*innen selbst als durchschnittlich wahrgenommen (MSB_Gesamt = 99,31; SD = 7,78). Die Psycholog*innen schätzten die EK der Patient*innen überwiegend statistisch signifikant niedriger ein (MFB_Gesamt = 94,70; SD = 7,81; F(1,179) = 35,73; p < 0,001; η2 = 0,17). Die emotionale Expressivität, als eine Komponente der EK, wurde als unterdurchschnittlich fremdbeurteilt (MFB_Expressivität = 89,14; SD = 10,33).

Schlussfolgerung
Die Patient*innen mit chronifizierten Schmerzen bewerten sich selbst als nicht eingeschränkt hinsichtlich ihrer alltäglichen Fähigkeiten zur emotionalen Wahrnehmung, Expression und Regulation. Gleichzeitig schätzt das psychologische Fachpersonal dieselben Menschen als deutlich weniger emotional kompetent ein. Offen bleibt die Frage, inwiefern die divergierenden Einschätzungen mit Beurteilungsverzerrungen erklärt werden können.
3D reconstruction system and multiobject local tracking algorithm designed for billiards
Authors: Rodriguez-Lozano Francisco J. , Gámez-Granados Juan C. , Martínez Héctor , Palomares Jose M. , Olivares Joaquín 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe use of virtual reality or augmented reality systems in billiards sports are useful tools for pure entertainment or improving the player’s skills. Depending on the purpose of these systems, tracking algorithms based on computer vision must be used. These algorithms are especially useful in systems aiming to reconstruct the trajectories followed by the balls after a strike. However, depending on the billiard modality, the problem of tracking multiple small identical objects, such as balls, is a complex task. In addition, when an amateur or nontop professional player uses low-frame-rate and low-resolution devices, problems such as blurred balls, blurred contours, or fuzzy edges, among others, arise. These effects have a negative impact on ball-tracking accuracy and reconstruction quality. Thus, this work proposes two contributions. The first contribution is a new tracking algorithm called“multiobject local tracking (MOLT)”. This algorithm can track balls with high precision and accuracy even with motion blur caused by low-resolution and low-frame-rate devices. Moreover, the proposed MOLT algorithm is compared with nine tracking methods and four different metrics, outperforming the rest of the methods in the majority of the cases and providing a robust solution. The second contribution is a whole system to track (using the MOLT algorithm) and reconstruct the movements of the balls on a billiard table in a 3D virtual world using computer vision. The proposed system covers all steps from image capture to 3D reconstruction. The 3D reconstruction results have been qualitatively evaluated by different users through a series of questionnaires, obtaining an overall score of 7.6 (out of 10), which indicates that the system is a promising and useful tool for training. Finally, both the MOLT algorithm and the reconstruction system are tested in three billiard modalities: blackball, carom billiards, and snooker.
Electrospun manuka honey@PVP nanofibers enclosing chitosan-titanate for highly effective wound healing
Authors: Kassem Lamyaa M. , El-Deen Ahmed G. , Zaki A. H. , El-Dek S. I. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe major challenge in skin tissue engineering is the creation of physically and functionally suitable extracellular matrix (ECM) scaffolds. A manuka honey-treated polyvinyl pyrrolidine (Mh@PVP) composite was successfully electrospun to produce nanofibrous scaffold that aids in the rapid growth of ECM and serves as a vehicle for drug delivery. Different characterizations namely SEM, XRD, and FTIR were utilized to elucidate the fabricated electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds (ENS). By increasing the concentration of manuka honey (Mh) in the formula, the mechanical, tensile, and conductivity properties of the polyvinyl pyrrolidine (PVP) solutions were significantly improved. As the concentration of honey rose, the width and direction of the ENS produced altered. For wound healing, honey’s ability to heal wounds faster may be boosted by a higher PVP concentration, which makes honey more easily incorporated. Because of its burst-and-continuous methylglyoxal release patterns, which may last for up to seven days, Mh is an excellent choice for helping the body’s healing process. The in vivo assessment of the Mh@PVP nanocomposite nanofiber mat demonstrated a rapid and substantial increase in keratinocyte expression, reflecting great ability for high regenerative wound healing. Most significantly, there is no scarring associated with hair regrowth. This scaffold can mimic skin characteristics and stimulate keratinocyte development.
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An efficient multi-objective scheduling algorithm based on spider monkey and ant colony optimization in cloud computing
Authors: Amer Dina A. , Attiya Gamal , Ziedan Ibrahim 
Published: June 2023

AbstractDue to easier access, improved performance, and lower costs, the use of cloud services has increased dramatically. However, cloud service providers are still looking for ways to complete users’ jobs at a high speed to increase profits and reduce energy consumption costs. To achieve such a goal, many algorithms for scheduling problem have been introduced. However, most techniques consider an objective in the scheduling process. This paper presents a new hybrid multi-objective algorithm, called SMO_ACO, for addressing the scheduling problem. The proposed SMO_ACO algorithm combines Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm. Additionally, a fitness function is formulated to tackle 4 objectives of the scheduling problem. The proposed fitness function considers parameters like schedule length, execution cost, consumed energy, and resource utilization. The proposed algorithm is implemented using the Cloud Sim toolkit and evaluated for different workloads. The performance of the proposed technique is verified using several performance metrics and the results are compared with the most recent existing algorithms. The results prove that the proposed SMO_ACO approach allocates resources efficiently while maintaining cloud performance that increases profits.
A review of seagrass ecosystem services: providing nature-based solutions for a changing world
Authors: do Amaral Camara Lima Mariana , Bergamo Thaisa F. , Ward Raymond D. , Joyce Chris B. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractSeagrasses are marine flowering plants, which form extensive meadows in intertidal and shallow water marine environments. They provide a wide range of ecosystem services, which directly or indirectly benefit humans and can be grouped into four broad categories: provisioning (e.g. food production); regulating (e.g. carbon sequestration); supporting (e.g. primary production); and cultural (e.g. recreational, and eco-tourism). This study provides a review of publications focusing on seagrass ecosystem services provision to identify knowledge gaps and improve our understanding of the use of these habitats as nature-based solutions to societal challenges, such as climate change. Results showed that some ecosystem services, namely food provision, carbon sequestration, and maintenance of biodiversity/nursery habitats receive a higher level of focus and attention than others, such as regulation of diseases and social relations, which are rarely, if ever, included in studies. It is clear that in order to fully comprehend the nature-based solution potential held by seagrass ecosystems, studies need to consider ecosystem services as a whole, and also combine and share results across global regions, to better understand the potential impacts of degradation and loss of these ecosystems worldwide. Suggestions include applying novel technologies such as remote sensing and ecological niche modelling to address some of the main gaps in seagrass research, like meadow extent and connectivity within landscapes, to better incorporate preservation of seagrass ecosystems in marine management plans.
Lived Experience Performance to Reduce Stigma, Enhance Understanding of Gambling Harm and Change Attitudes and Behaviours of Professionals and Community Members
Authors: Thomas Anna C. , Portogallo Hannah , Read Fiona , Avisar Judy , Merkouris Stephanie S. , Dowling Nicki A. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractGamblers and their family members or friends (affected others) can experience stigma and shame due to gambling which can result in a reluctance to seek timely support. However, gamblers and affected others access intersecting health services and talk to friends or family, thereby providing opportunities for early intervention. Three sides of the coin is a group of storytellers with lived experience of gambling harm who use dramatic performance to share personal stories to enhance the understanding of gambling-related harm in allied professions and the broader community. They do this to encourage attitude and behaviour change so that gamblers and affected others receive empathy and support during encounters with these groups. A mixed-methods study was used to explore whether these performances were successful in increasing understanding and changing attitudes and behaviour of allied professionals and the community in the short and longer-term. Data collected immediately post-performance revealed that performances increased understanding of gambling, and improved attitudes and behavioural intent of audience members in relation to gamblers and affected others. Professionals also reported an increased willingness and confidence to discuss gambling harm with clients. Follow-up data demonstrated potential longer-term impact, with respondents continuing to report more positive attitudes towards those affected by gambling harm and professionals being confident to explore gambling issues in their clients and provide appropriate referrals. These finding demonstrate that performance based on lived experience can be a powerful education tool, encouraging deep connection to the issue, resulting in a nuanced understanding and sustained attitudinal and behavioural change.
The fertility of moral ambiguity in precision medicine
Authors: Knox Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard , Svendsen Mette Nordahl 
Published: June 2023

AbstractAlthough precision medicine cuts across a large spectrum of professions, interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial moral deliberation has yet to be widely enacted, let alone formalized in this field. In a recent research project on precision medicine, we designed a dialogical forum (i.e. ‘the Ethics Laboratory’) giving interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial stakeholders an opportunity to discuss their moral conundrums in concert. We organized and carried out four Ethics Laboratories. In this article, we use Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of moral ambiguity as a lens to frame the participants’ experience with fluid moral boundaries. By framing our approach through this concept we are able to elucidate irremediable moral issues that are collectively underexplored in the practice of precision medicine. Moral ambiguity accentuates an open and free space where different types of perspectives converge and can inform each other. Based on our study, we identified two dilemmas, or thematic interfaces, in the interdisciplinary moral deliberations which unfolded in the Ethics Laboratories: (1) the dilemma between the individual and the collective good; and (2) the dilemma between care and choice. Through our investigation of these dilemmas, we show how Beauvoir’s concept of moral ambiquity not only serves as a fertile catalyst for greater moral awareness but, furthermore, how the concept can become an indispensable part of the practices of and the discourse about precision medicine.
High-speed impact performance of a high-performance concrete with functionally gradient structure designs
Authors: Lv Junlin , Ren Zhiliang , Huang Junhong 
Published: June 2023

AbstractUltra-high performance concrete is characterized by its high strength and high toughness, and ceramsite concrete can absorb energy and function as a buffer. Based on the mechanical properties of both, the two kinds of concrete materials are combined in the spatial structure, and three structural models, namely, gradient structure group target, double stacked structure group target, and single material structure group target, are designed and prepared. Then, the dynamic characteristics and protection performance of the three targets are compared and analyzed via experiments and numerical simulations under different projectile penetration velocities. The results show that because the two transition layers and the fiber layer between the interfaces are set in the gradient structure group target, which largely improves the resistance in the process of projectile penetration, the cratering area, cratering depth, and penetration depth of the gradient structure group target are the smallest under the same projectile penetration velocity. The larger the projectile penetration velocity is, the more outstanding the penetration resistance of the gradient structure group target is.
Naïve realism, imagination and hallucination
Authors: Niikawa Takuya 
Published: June 2023

AbstractNaïve realists hold that the phenomenology of veridical perceptual experience is in part constituted by environmental objects that the subject is perceiving. Although naïve realism is well-motivated by considering the cognitive and epistemic roles of the phenomenology of veridical perceptual experience, it is considered difficult to explain hallucinatory and imaginative experiences. This paper provides three arguments to address these explanatory problems systematically on behalf of naïve realism. First, I argue that the imagination view of hallucination (IH), which states that hallucinations are involuntary sensory imagination, can be applied to total and neutrally matching hallucinations. Second, I argue for the conjunction of IH and the representational view of imagination (RI), according to which sensory imagination (including hallucination) is representational (shortly RIH). Third, I argue that naïve realism can coherently be integrated with RIH. I finally present an integrative model of perception, imagination and hallucination from the perspective of the combination of naïve realism and RIH.