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Commentary on Highly Successful Female Educational Psychologists: Equity and Intersectionality in Success Definitions
Authors: Kucirkova Natalia 
Published: January 2023

AbstractDespite the international focus on validation and success indicators of academic work across disciplines, examples of accomplished educational psychologists and their personal stories have been limited in the literature. Prinz et al. (2021) interviewed Five Highly Successful Female Educational Psychologists and offered a content analysis of their success stories, including the academics’ strategies and trademark characteristics. In this Commentary, I expand on their findings in light of equity and intersectionality perspectives on academic success. I problematise academic success indicators (publication records and impact) with reference to literature on gender disparities in publication metrics and lack of inclusivity in generic measures of academic success. I outline how individual success narratives intersect with our collective responsibility for higher wellbeing and professional recognition of all colleagues. I argue that the equity and intersectionality perspectives are fundamental to inclusive narratives of success and highlight the power structures that have historically impeded access of diverse and minority scholars to top academic positions. I conclude with four recommendations for addressing the persistent structures of inequities in academic career opportunities.
Differential gene expression analysis of the resprouting process in Pinus canariensis provides new insights into a rare trait in conifers
Authors: Chano Víctor , Gailing Oliver , Collada Carmen , Soto Álvaro 
Published: January 2023

AbstractResprouting is crucial in population dynamics in response to wildfires or herbivory. This trait, common in angiosperms, is considered rare in conifers, being Pinus canariensis one of the few species able to resprout. We analyzed gene expression during wound-induced resprouting in 5 years-old Canarian pines. RNA was extracted at three different stages, including control samples from remote branches, representing immediate response to wounding (R0), resprouting initiation (R1), and elongation (R2), and then hybridized to a microarray designed with 15,000 cDNAs from Pinus canariensis transcriptome of meristematic activity. We found 1164 Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs), of which 903 were significant in R0, 278 in R1, and 261 in R2. Genes related to defense- and stress-response were mainly found to be overexpressed at R0, while DEGs coding for transcription factors such as GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR (GRF), FLOWERING-PROMOTING FACTOR (FPF), and the HOMEODOMAIN LEUCINE ZIPPER Class IV (HD-ZIP IV), mainly related to outgrowth processes and lateral organogenesis in plants, showed overexpression at R1 and R2, when new shoots were emerging. This data was compared to differential gene expression during apical growth in P. canariensis, suggesting similarities between vegetative apical growth and regulation of lateral shoot development in response to mechanical wounding, but also yielding 32 DEGs exclusively overexpressed at some point during resprouting stages (R1 and/or R2). The implication of such transcription factor families, with important roles in leaf and inflorescence development also in flowering plants, suggests underlying homologies between common lateral organogenesis processes in angiosperms and resprouting in gymnosperms.
‘The unofficial curriculum is where the real teaching takes place’: faculty experiences of decolonising the curriculum in Africa
Authors: Laakso Liisa , Hallberg Adu Kajsa 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThis paper analyses faculty experiences tackling global knowledge asymmetries by examining the decolonisation of higher education in Africa in the aftermath of the 2015 ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ student uprising. An overview of the literature reveals a rich debate on defining ‘decolonisation’, starting from a critique of Eurocentrism to propositions of alternate epistemologies. These debates are dominated by the Global North and South Africa and their experiences of curriculum reform. Our focus is on the experiences of political scientists in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. These countries share the same Anglophone political science traditions but represent different political trajectories that constitute a significant condition for the discipline. The 26 political scientists we interviewed acted toward increasing local content and perspectives in their teaching, as promoted in the official strategies of the universities. They noted that what was happening in lecture halls was most important. The academic decolonisation debate appeared overambitious or even as patronising to them in their own political context. National politics affected the thematic focus of the discipline both as far as research topics and students’ employment opportunities were concerned. Although university bureaucracies were slow to respond to proposed curricula changes, new programmes were approved if there was a market-based demand for them. International programs tended to be approved fastest. Political economy of higher education plays a role: dependency on foreign funding, limited national resources to conduct research and produce publications vis-à-vis international competition, and national quality assurance standards appeared to be most critical constraints for decolonising the curriculum.
School-Age Child Routines: Adaptation and Validation Studies of the Portuguese Version of the Child Routines Questionnaire
Authors: Major Sofia O. , Alves Marta P. , Cunha Ana I. , Pereira Catarina F. , Jordan Sara Sytsma 
Published: January 2023

AbstractChild routines have been recognized as positive contributors to children’s development. However, in Portugal there is still a lack of instruments available to assess school-age child routines. The purpose of this study was to present the translation, adaptation, and validation studies of the Portuguese version of the Child Routines Questionnaire (CRQ), a parent self-report measure developed to assess school-age child routines. A total of 460 parents of children aged between 6 and 12 years-old participated in the study. Two studies were conducted to define the CRQ-PT factor structure. In Study 1 (n = 204 children from 6 to 12 years-old), findings from the exploratory factor analysis provided evidence for a four-factor structure (for 32 items), which explained 43.53% of the total variance. In Study 2 (n = 256 children from 6 to 9 years-old), results from confirmatory factor analysis showed good model fit indices (CFI = 0.84, RMSEA = 0.06). The total scale of the CRQ-PT (α = 0.89) and its subscales showed good internal consistency. Further evidence of construct validity was shown by weak to moderate correlations with measures of parental sense of competence and family mealtime routines. Relevant contributions of the study are underscored, namely the availability and usefulness of a reliable and valid assessment tool to evaluate the routines of Portuguese school-age children for clinical practice and research purposes.
Regularity and Continuity Properties of the Sub-Riemannian Exponential Map
Authors: Borza Samuël , Klingenberg Wilhelm 
Published: January 2023

AbstractWe prove a version of Warner’s regularity and continuity properties for the sub-Riemannian exponential map. The regularity property is established by considering sub-Riemannian Jacobi fields while the continuity property follows from studying the Maslov index of Jacobi curves. We finally show how this implies that the exponential map of the three-dimensional Heisenberg group is not injective in any neighbourhood of a conjugate vector.
Alternative states in the structure of mountain forests across the Alps and the role of disturbance and recovery
Authors: Stritih Ana , Seidl Rupert , Senf Cornelius 
Published: January 2023

AbstractContextStructure is a central dimension of forest ecosystems that is closely linked to their capacity to provide ecosystem services. Drivers such as changing disturbance regimes are increasingly altering forest structure, but large-scale characterizations of forest structure and disturbance-mediated structural dynamics remain rare.ObjectivesHere, we characterize large-scale patterns in the horizontal and vertical structure of mountain forests and test for the presence of alternative structural states. We investigate factors determining the occurrence of structural states and the role of disturbance and recovery in transitions between states.MethodsWe used spaceborne lidar (GEDI) to characterize forest structure across the European Alps. We combined GEDI-derived structural metrics with Landsat-based disturbance maps and related structure to topography, climate, landscape configuration, and past disturbances.ResultsWe found two alternative states of forest structure that emerged consistently across all forest types of the Alps: short, open-canopy forests (24%) and tall, closed-canopy forests (76%). In the absence of disturbance, open-canopy forests occurred at high elevations, forest edges, and warm, dry sites. Disturbances caused a transition to open-canopy conditions in approximately 50% of cases. Within 35 years after disturbance, 72% of forests recovered to a closed-canopy state, except in submediterranean forests, where recovery is slow and long-lasting transitions to open-canopy conditions are more likely.ConclusionsAs climate warming increases disturbances and causes thermophilization of vegetation, transitions to open-canopy conditions could become more likely in the future. Such restructuring could pose a challenge for forest management, as open-canopy forests have lower capacities for providing important ecosystem services.
Validity of Machine Learning in Assessing Large Texts Through Sustainability Indicators
Authors: García-Esparza Juan A. , Pardo Javier , Altaba Pablo , Alberich Mario 
Published: January 2023

AbstractAs machine learning becomes more widely used in policy and environmental impact settings, concerns about accuracy and fairness arise. These concerns have piqued the interest of researchers, who have advanced new approaches and theoretical insights to enhance data gathering, treatment and models’ training. Nonetheless, few works have looked at the trade-offs between appropriateness and accuracy in indicator evaluation to comprehend how these constraints and approaches may better redound into policymaking and have a more significant impact across culture and sustainability matters for urban governance. This empirical study fulfils this void by researching indicators’ accuracy and utilizing algorithmic models to test the benefits of large text-based analysis. Here we describe applied work in which we find affinity and occurrence in indicators trade-offs that result be significant in practice to evaluate large texts. In the study, objectivity and fairness are kept substantially without sacrificing accuracy, explicitly focusing on improving the processing of indicators to be truthfully assessed. This observation is robust when cross-referring indicators and unique words. The empirical results advance a novel form of large text analysis through machine intelligence and refute a widely held belief that artificial intelligence text processing necessitates either accepting a significant reduction in accuracy or fairness.
Growth performance, nutrient digestibility, antioxidant state, ileal histomorphometry, and cecal ecology of broilers fed on fermented canola meal with and without exogenous enzymes
Authors: Elbaz Ahmed M. , El-sheikh Said E. , Abdel‑Maksoud Ahmed 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThis study was conducted to evaluate the effects of supplementation of exogenous enzymes in broiler diets that includes fermented canola meal on performance, nutrient digestibility, biochemical indication, antioxidative capacity, digestive enzyme activity, immune responses, and gut health. Five hundred 1-day-old Ross 308 broiler chicks were randomly allocated into five experimental groups (5 replicate/group), the first group: a control (CON) contained a basal diet, and the second to the fifth groups were fed diets as follows: containing 20% canola meal (CM), contains 20% fermented canola meal (FCM), contains 20% canola meal and exogenous enzymes at 0.02%/kg feed (ECM), and contains 20% fermented canola meal and exogenous enzymes at 0.02%/kg feed (EFC), respectively. At the finisher phase, the best body weight gain, feed conversion ratio, and nutrient utilization were associated with chickens fed EFC compared to other groups (P < 0.05). Total protein, albumin, alanine aminotransferase, and superoxide dismutase levels increased (P < 0.05), while cholesterol and malondialdehyde levels decreased in chickens fed on EFC. Likewise, there was a significant increase in the relative weight of the bursa of Fabricius and antibody titer against Newcastle disease, whereas the weight of abdominal fat decreased in the EFC group compared to other groups. Furthermore, there was a significant improvement in the activity of lipase and amylase enzymes (P < 0.05) in the EFC group. Fermented canola meal addition improved gut health (decreased Escherichia coli, increased Lactobacillus, and the highest values of villus height). Overall, these results confirmed that supplementing a fermented canola meal diet with exogenous enzymes improved growth performance through enhancing nutrient digestibility, immunity, antioxidant capacity, and gut health. Thus, adding enzymes to a diet containing fermented canola meal can be recommended as an alternative protein source that could be safely used to replace up to 20% soybean meal in broiler diets.
Gastrojejunostomy Closure Technique and Risk of Leak: an Evaluation in Ex Vivo Porcine Models
Authors: Das Bibek , Ledesma Frances , Ashrafian Hutan , Reddy Marcus , Khan Omar A. , Fehervari Matyas 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Introduction
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is one of the most commonly performed bariatric operations worldwide. Leaks following RYGB are rare, but the consequences can be devastating. Although most leaks occur at the gastrojejunostomy (GJ) anastomosis, there is a lack of data on modifiable technical factors that can reduce the risk of leaks. Therefore, we evaluated whether the leak pressure of a GJ linear stapled anastomosis is dependent on the closure technique.

Methods
Two expert surgeons constructed gastric pouches and GJ anastomoses on ex vivo porcine models in a laparoscopic simulator using 30-mm and 45-mm endoscopic staplers. The GJ anastomosis was closed using either a single layer suture, double layer suture or stapler. The endpoints were leak pressure to air insufflation, measured by two independent observers, site of leak and internal circumference of the GJ anastomosis.

Results
In total, 30 GJ anastomoses were constructed (30 mm, n = 15; 45 mm, n = 15). The GJ anastomosis was closed using single layer (n = 9), double layer (n = 9) and stapled techniques (n = 12). Inter-observer agreement was high. Stapled and double layer closures were more resilient than a single layer closure, with 75% (9/12) stapled closures remaining intact at < 70 mmHg. GJ stoma circumference was lower using a 30-mm stapler (64.8 mm vs 80.2 mm; p < 0.05) but independent of closure technique. The most common leak site was the corner of the closure (67%).

Conclusion
In summary, the GJ anastomosis closure technique may be a modifiable factor to prevent anastomotic leak.
Apheresis: What Should a Clinician Know?
Authors: Parhofer Klaus G. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract

Purpose of Review
Apheresis is a treatment option for severe dyslipidemia which has been introduced approximately 40 years ago to clinical practice. This article reviews recent apheresis research progresses, including apheresis for elevated LDL-cholesterol and elevated lipoprotein(a).

Recent Findings
While the role of apheresis in treating more common forms of LDL-hypercholesterolemia has been reduced due to the development of new, very potent LDL-lowering drugs, it still plays an important role in treating patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and patients with severe lipoprotein(a) elevation. One apheresis session can decrease LDL-cholesterol, apoB, and lipoprotein(a) by approximately 65%, which results in a time averaged reduction of 30–50%. Although time-consuming, and expensive regular apheresis is very well tolerated and has been proven safe for decades.

Summary
Apheresis remains a treatment option for severe dyslipidemia, especially in homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and elevated lipoprotein(a), if other forms of therapy fail to achieve targets.
Experiences and impact of the UK lockdown amongst adults who have a facial visible difference
Authors: Tollow Philippa , Hamlet Claire , Zucchelli Fabio , Williamson Heidi , Harcourt Diana 
Published: January 2023

AbstractGlobally, COVID-19 has been shown to have had a wide ranging and significant impact on individuals’ daily living, and physical and mental health. However, there are some groups of individuals who may encounter unique challenges with regards to COVID-19 and whose experiences have not been investigated thus far. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the experiences of adults with a facial visible difference in relation to COVID-19 and lockdown. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 adults with a variety of facial visible differences (e.g., cleft lip/palate, facial scars, skin conditions) and analyzed using inductive reflexive thematic analysis. This analysis generated three themes (Escaping the external gaze; Existing feelings manifesting in new challenges; COVID-19 taking priority). The results of this study suggest that the first U.K. lockdown from the COVID-19 pandemic created significant challenges for some individuals with a facial visible difference, and ongoing restrictions and social distancing measures might be particularly challenging for those who experience anxiety around social encounters. These findings highlight the importance of providing appropriate and accessible support for people with facial differences during lockdown and as restrictions ease.
Dual-Use Technologies in the Context of Autonomous Driving: An Empirical Case Study From Germany
Authors: Guntrum Laura Gianna , Schwartz Sebastian , Reuter Christian 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThe article examines which technical aspects of autonomous driving are potentially transferable to the military sector. Through expert interviews the strong fragmentation of technologies in the field of autonomous driving becomes apparent. This hinders the clear identification of a specific dual-use technology. Environmental perception, artificial intelligence and sensors are considered to have the highest transferability rate from civil research to the military sector. Therefore, sensor development should receive special attention.
Pyroptosis in urinary malignancies: a literature review
Authors: Wang Sheng , Liao Xinyang , Xiong Xingyu , Feng Dechao , Zhu Weizhen , Zheng Bojue , Li Yifan , Yang Lu , Wei Qiang 
Published: January 2023

AbstractUrinary neoplasms refer to malignant tumours occurring in any part of the urinary system, including the kidney, renal pelvis, ureter, bladder, prostate, etc. The worldwide incidence of urinary system tumours has been increasing yearly. Available methods include surgical treatment, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, molecular targeted therapy, and immune therapy. In recent years, emerging evidence has demonstrated that cell pyroptosis plays an important role in the occurrence and progression of malignant urinary tumours. Pyroptosis is a new type of cell death that involves inflammatory processes regulated by gasdermins (GSDMs) and is characterized by membrane perforation, cell swelling and cell rupture. Recent studies have shown that pyroptosis can inhibit and promote the development of tumours. This manuscript reviews the role of pyroptosis in the development and progression of prostate cancer, kidney cancer and bladder cancer and introduces the latest research results in these fields to discuss the therapeutic potential of the pyroptosis pathway in urinary malignancies.
FiNCO farms for knowledge exchange: A Colombian seed for a good Anthropocene
Authors: Buendía Corina , Garces Erika , Aceros Juan C. 
Published: January 2023

AbstractReturning to Earth’s safe operating space requires driving social–ecological transformations toward a new human–nature configuration, while navigating changes and creatively dealing with crises. Family farms in the Colombian Andes have been navigating changes by using modalities of integrated management that recognize family interdependence with nature, which illustrates social–ecological resilience on a small scale. We potentiated family farming by creating FiNCO (Farms for knowledge exchange) as a strategy that renews the connection between disciplines, academia and farmers, and the rural and urban sectors, in order to promote knowledge co-production and landscape stewardship. In this sense, FiNCO is considered as a seed for a good Anthropocene. This paper is an invitation to plant FiNCO seeds in different social–ecological contexts and to share those experiences as an ideal way to create abilities to transform the upcoming humanity challenges into opportunities for humanity’s needed transformation.
Validity and Reliability of Cognitive Constructivism-Oriented Teaching Conception Questionnaire
Authors: Ngan Duong Thi Ngoc , Hercz Maria 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Background
As there is a paucity of instrument investigating a hybrid teaching conception, the current study is seen as part of attempt to fill this gap.

Methodology
The subjects in the study were 310 University participants–instructors in Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (Vietnam). The survey was implemented with the use of Cognitive Constructivism-oriented Teaching Conception Questionnaire (CCOTCQ), including two scales, namely, teachers’ beliefs and teachers’ intentions of actual practice. Each is inclusive of three factors: Teaching, Teacher, and Students.

Results
Exploratory factor analysis was applied to the data and identified three dimensions. The confirmatory factor analysis model was good for both scale of teachers’ beliefs and that of their intention of actual practice. The Pearson correlation analysis found a significant relationship in the results for the scale of teachers’ beliefs and that of their intentions of actual practice.