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A review of the knowledge base for the development of natural ingredients value chains for a sustainable biobased economy in Colombia
Authors: Vargas-Carpintero Ricardo , Romero-Perdomo Felipe , Martínez Juan F. , Lewandowski Iris 
Published: August 2023

AbstractNatural ingredients (NIs) from plant biodiversity represent a value creation strategy in the transition to a sustainable biobased economy, especially in biodiversity rich countries. A necessary action to achieve this purpose is to orientate research and strengthen the knowledge base of NIs following a value chain (VC) approach. Although the promotion of NIVCs has gained increasing attention in the bioeconomy, a description of the scientific progress, research advances and gaps towards their development is necessary. This review aimed to scrutinize the existing literature on NIVCs to determine its state of progress. Firstly, we explored the global diffusion of research on natural plant ingredients. Secondly, we examined the research landscape in Colombia, focusing on the cooperation between countries, economic sectors impacted, and plant species reported. Lastly, we selected the most reported plant species as a promising NI source in Colombia to assess the literature that constitute the knowledge base of this plant in relation to the VC building blocks: biomass production, biomass processing, product development, and transversal aspects such as sustainability and governance. We show that research on NIs has risen worldwide, with notable scientific output from China, India, and the United States. In Colombia, the interest in NIs from plant biodiversity has also gained importance in the research agenda. Its progress is based on extensive collaboration between institutions, mainly from Spain, the United States, and Brazil. Its research prospects include diverse applications in the pharmaceutical and food sectors. We identify Lippia origanoides as the most reported native plant in scientific literature in Colombia. Using this plant as case study, we provide an overview of the knowledge base of L. origanoides in relation to the VC. Our results indicate that most publications focus on product development, suggesting a lack of comprehensive coverage of the VC and potentially neglected aspects. Based on this, we describe the current and desired scenario of L. origanoides VCs, as well as needs and opportunities for their sustainable implementation in Colombia. This contributes to build research and development roadmaps of sustainable NIVCs from plant diversity supported by multi-stakeholder collaboration.
Local ancestry and selection in admixed Sanjiang cattle
Authors: Lyu Yang , Ren Yaxuan , Qu Kaixing , Quji Suolang , Zhuzha Basang , Lei Chuzhao , Chen Ningbo 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe majority of native cattle are taurine × indicine cattle of diverse phenotypes in the central region of China. Sanjiang cattle, a typical breed in the central region, play a central role in human livelihood and have good adaptability, including resistance to dampness, heat, roughage, and disease, and are thus regarded as an important genetic resource. However, the genetic history of the successful breed remains unknown. Here, we sequenced 10 Sanjiang cattle genomes and compared them to the 70 genomes of 5 representative populations worldwide. We characterized the genomic diversity and breed formation process of Sanjiang cattle and found that Sanjiang cattle have a mixed ancestry of indicine (55.6%) and taurine (33.2%) dating to approximately 30 generations ago, which has shaped the genome of Sanjiang cattle. Through ancestral fragment inference, selective sweep and transcriptomic analysis, we identified several genes linked to lipid metabolism, immune regulation, and stress reactions across the mosaic genome of Sanjiang cattle showing an excess of taurine or indicine ancestry. Taurine ancestry might contribute to meat quality, and indicine ancestry is more conducive to adaptation to hot climate conditions, making Sanjiang cattle a valuable genetic resource for the central region of China. Our results will help us understand the evolutionary history and ancestry components of Sanjiang cattle, which will provide a reference for resource conservation and selective breeding of Chinese native cattle.
Measurements of traffic-related air pollution at a U.S.–Mexico port of entry and its impacts on nearby community
Authors: Li Wen-Whai , Chavez Mayra , Williams Evan , Vazquez Leonardo 
Published: August 2023

AbstractTraffic-related air pollutants are especially prevalent in border cities with multiple ports of entry (POEs). Excessive emissions due to long delays of idling commercial and passenger vehicles at the POEs could exacerbate various types of respiratory health conditions for the POE users and workers. We conducted a 1-month in-traffic air monitoring campaign at a POE in El Paso, Texas using three continuous FEM instruments for three criteria pollutants (PM, O3, and NO2). Concurrent monitoring of PM in the nearby community was performed using a number of low-cost PM sensors. The 1-month average PM2.5 concentration at the POE was found below 11.6 µg/m3, while the 5-min average of in-traffic PM2.5 concentration could be as high as 450 µg/m3. The in-traffic PM2.5 concentrations were comparable to the data concurrently measured in a state-operated community monitoring site approximately 0.4 km away from the POE. Ozone (O3) concentrations remained low in the region. The in-traffic 1-h NO2 concentrations were below the 1-h NAAQS of 100 ppb, except for only two 5-min intervals. Our results suggest that traffic emissions do not result in elevated levels of pollutant concentrations at this POE compared to the concentration levels observed in the nearby community. In addition, the performance and accuracy of the low-cost sensors appear to be less reliable during our study, although the devices were capable of detecting the trends and variability in pollutant concentrations in real time.
Outbreaks Following Natural Disasters: A Review of the Literature
Authors: Walika Miran , Moitinho De Almeida Maria , Castro Delgado Rafael , Arcos González Pedro 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
Understanding the relationship between infectious disease outbreaks and natural disasters is important in developing response and disaster risk reduction strategies. The aim of this study was to identify outbreaks associated with natural disasters during the past 20 y, and outline risk factors and mechanisms for postdisaster outbreaks. Review of the international disaster database (EM-DAT) and systematic review of the literature were conducted. The records of disaster events in EM-DAT during the past 20 y were screened. A literature search was carried out in the databases PubMed and Embase. Articles in English language published between 2000 and 2020 were searched. Data were extracted from articles and Narrative synthesis was used to summarize the findings. We found 108 events associated with epidemics, the majority being floods. We found 36 articles, most of them focused on outbreaks after floods. Risk factors and mechanisms that contributed to the outbreaks were mainly related to the consequences of disaster and its impact on the environment and living conditions of population. Infrastructure readiness and postdisaster measures play important roles in controlling the spread of epidemics after natural disasters. More evidence and research are required for better understanding of the association between natural disasters and infectious diseases outbreaks.
Preserving Consumer Autonomy through European Union Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: A Long-Term Approach
Authors: Fassiaux Sébastien 
Published: August 2023

AbstractPersonal autonomy is at the core of liberal societies, and its preservation has been a focus of European Union (EU) consumer and data protection law. Professionals increasingly use artificial intelligence in consumer markets to shape user preferences and influence their behaviours. This paper focuses on the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on consumer autonomy by studying three specific commercial practices: (1) dark patterns in user interfaces; (2) behavioural advertising; and (3) personalisation through recommender systems. It explores whether and to what extent EU regulation addresses the risks to consumer autonomy of using artificial intelligence in markets in the long term. It finds that new EU regulation does bring novelties to protect consumer autonomy in this context but fails to sufficiently consider the long-term consequences of autonomy capture by professionals. Finally, the paper makes several proposals to integrate the long-term risks affecting consumer autonomy in EU consumer and data protection regulation. It does so through an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from legal research and findings in the study of long-term thinking, philosophy and ethics and computer science.
Virtuous opinion change in structured groups
Authors: Bolger Fergus , Rowe Gene , Hamlin Ian , Belton Ian , Crawford Megan , Sissons Aileen , Taylor Browne Lūka Courtney , Vasilichi Alexandrina , Wright George 
Published: August 2023

AbstractAlthough the individual has been the focus of most research into judgment and decision-making (JDM), important decisions in the real world are often made collectively rather than individually, a tendency that has increased in recent times with the opportunities for easy information exchange through the Internet. From this perspective, JDM research that factors in this social context has increased generalizability and mundane realism relative to that which ignores it. We delineate a problem-space for research within which we locate protocols that are used to study or support collective JDM, identify a common research question posed by all of these protocols—‘What are the factors leading to opinion change for the better (‘virtuous opinion change’) in individual JDM agents?’—and propose a modeling approach and research paradigm using structured groups (i.e., groups with some constraints on their interaction), for answering this question. This paradigm, based on that used in studies of judge-adviser systems, avoids the need for real interacting groups and their attendant logistical problems, lack of power, and poor experimental control. We report an experiment using our paradigm on the effects of group size and opinion diversity on judgmental forecasting performance to illustrate our approach. The study found a U-shaped effect of group size on the probability of opinion change, but no effect on the amount of virtuous opinion change. Implications of our approach for development of more externally valid empirical studies and theories of JDM, and for the design of structured-group techniques to support collective JDM, are discussed.
Poor Relief as ‘Improvement’: Moral and Spatial Economies of Care in Scotland, c.1720s–1790s
Authors: Bujokova Eliska , Desportes Juliette 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis article takes as a point of departure the paucity of scholarship on Scottish poor relief, which has been predominantly depicted as an inferior and underdeveloped version of its southern counterpart. We adopt a case study approach looking at two examples of Lowland and Highland urban infrastructures of poor relief to illustrate the application of the ideology of ‘improvement’ philosophy onto the treatment of the poor between c.1720 and 1790. Situating the study within the context of Scottish ‘improvement’, we explore the ways theoretical and practical approaches towards the poor were shaped by the combination of commercial and evangelical attitudes to human capital investment and long-term reform, echoing similar developments across Europe. At the close of the eighteenth century, the Scottish system transitioned from a community based, localised system of reciprocal hierarchy operated by the parish and kirk structures to a system increasingly rooted in legalism and the concept of rights based social provision.
SSL-GAN-RoBERTa: A robust semi-supervised model for detecting Anti-Asian COVID-19 hate speech on social media
Authors: Su Xuanyu , Li Yansong , Branco Paula , Inkpen Diana 
Published: August 2023

AbstractAnti-Asian speech during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a serious problem with severe consequences. A hate speech wave swept social media platforms. The timely detection of Anti-Asian COVID-19-related hate speech is of utmost importance, not only to allow the application of preventive mechanisms but also to anticipate and possibly prevent other similar discriminatory situations. In this paper, we address the problem of detecting Anti-Asian COVID-19-related hate speech from social media data. Previous approaches that tackled this problem used a transformer-based model, BERT/RoBERTa, trained on the homologous annotated dataset and achieved good performance on this task. However, this requires extensive and annotated datasets with a strong connection to the topic. Both goals are difficult to meet without employing reliable, vast, and costly resources. In this paper, we propose a robust semi-supervised model, SSL-GAN-RoBERTa, that learns from a limited heterogeneous dataset and whose performance is further enhanced by using vast amounts of unlabeled data from another related domain. Compared with the RoBERTa baseline model, the experimental results show that the model has substantial performance gains in terms of Accuracy and Macro-F1 score in different scenarios that use data from different domains. Our proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance results while efficiently using unlabeled data, showing promising applicability to other complex classification tasks where large amounts of labeled examples are difficult to obtain.
Sorry for what? Asking the right questions about the Bangladeshi liberation war and Pakistan's military operation in 1971
Authors: Qasmi Ali Usman 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThree aspects of the historical memory of 1971 remain highly contentious. The first concerns the (il)legitimacy of the military operation and the description of Bengali resistance against it as ‘national liberation’. The second centres on the accusation of the Pakistani military's genocidal violence, the use of rape as a weapon, and the counter-allegation of a Bihari genocide. The third focuses on the way forward: whether this should be by forgetting the past or seeking an apology for war crimes.This article will focus on all three aspects of the debate about the violent events of the 1971 war. Instead of writing a history of 1971 as such, I will propose a methodological framework for writing a history of the war: that of asking the right kind of questions. I invoke this method not for a correct answer, or even a different kind of history, but mainly for its interruptive power to sabotage the dominant discourse, force a moment of introspection, and open up a reflective space for the possibility of reparative justice through an intimate historical narrativisation.
The Introduction of Modern Western Philosophy in the Ottoman Empire: Armenian Thinkers
Authors: Karademir Aret 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
The literature on the introduction of modern Western philosophy in the late Ottoman Empire is predominantly ethnocentric. This is because it reduces the Ottoman version of modern Western philosophy to the philosophical discourses of Muslim/Turkish intellectuals at the expense of non-Muslim Ottomans’ philosophical activities in languages other than Turkish. This article challenges such ethnocentrism and offers an alternative narrative from the perspective of Ottoman Armenian thinkers in the late nineteenth century. With this aim, it analyzes the philosophical thoughts of Madatia Karakashian, Nahabed Rusinian, Kalusd Gosdantian, and Yeghia Demirjibashian.
New old ways of financing the party: exploring the commercial activities of modern political parties
Authors: Miragliotta Narelle , Manwaring Rob , Holloway Josh 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe party–money nexus has long excited concerns about corruption and undue influence. However, much of the scholarship in this area has focused on the funding parties receive from external donors or the state. One area of party financing that is underexplored is that of party-controlled commercial enterprises. We examine the nature and scale of the commercial activities engaged in by the two major governing Australian parties: Labor and the Liberals. We find that while commercial activities are long-standing practices, they have diversified over time, becoming more sophisticated and professionalized. Importantly, some of these activities have become decoupled from the proper purposes of parties. The upscaling of party fundraising practices introduces new tensions for parties – both normatively and practically.
Mantle Wavespeed and Discontinuity Structure Below East Africa: Implications for Cenozoic Hotspot Tectonism and the Development of the Turkana Depression
Authors: Boyce A. , Kounoudis R. , Bastow I. D. , Cottaar S. , Ebinger C. J. , Ogden C. S. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractEthiopia's Cenozoic flood basalt magmatism, uplift, and rifting have been attributed to one or more mantle plumes. The Nubian plate, however, has drifted 500–1,000 km north since initial magmatism at ∼45 Ma, having developed above mantle that now underlies the northern Tanzania craton and the low‐lying Turkana Depression. Unfortunately, our knowledge of mantle wavespeed structure and mantle transition zone (MTZ) topography below these regions is poorest, due to a historical lack of seismograph stations. The same data gap means we lack constraints on lithospheric structure in and around the NW–SE trending Mesozoic Anza rift. We exploit data from new seismograph networks in the Turkana Depression and neighboring northern Uganda to develop AFRP22, a new African absolute P‐wavespeed tomographic model that resolves whole mantle structure along the entire East African rift system. We also map MTZ thickness using Ps receiver functions. East Africa's thinnest MTZ (∼25 km thinning) underlies the northwest Turkana Depression. AFRP22 reveals a co‐located, previously unrecognized, slow wavespeed plume tail, extending from the MTZ, deep into the lower mantle. This plume may thus have contributed, along with the African Superplume, to the development of the 45–30 Ma flood basalt province that preceded extension. Pervasive sub‐lithospheric slow wavespeeds imply that Turkana's present‐day low elevation is explained best by Mesozoic and Cenozoic‐age crustal thinning. At ∼100 km depth, AFRP22 illuminates a fast wavespeed SE Ethiopian plateau. In addition to governing the northernmost limit of Mesozoic Anza rifting, the refractory nature of this lithospheric block likely minimized Cenozoic flood basalt magmatism there.
Effects of Urban Expansion and Anthropogenic Heat Enhancement on Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in the Greater Bay Area of China
Authors: He Lunkai , Li Qinglan , Wang Yuqing , Lee Joseph H. W. , Xu Yinglong , Li Guangxin 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe impact of urban expansion and anthropogenic heat (AH) enhancement on tropical cyclone precipitation (TCP) in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China is investigated by using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Sensitivity experiments are conducted during the landfall periods of two tropical cyclones, Hato (2017) and Mangkhut (2018), by artificially varying the surface AH flux from 0 to 600 W/m2 and the urban land surface from 1985 to 2017, respectively. Results show that the TCP in the GBA's urban region increases with both urban expansion and AH enhancement. However, in the urban downstream region, only AH enhancement causes an increase in TCP, whereas urban expansion has no significant influence on TCP. AH enhancement and urban expansion affect surface temperature, surface sensible heat flux, and surface latent heat flux, leading to changes in atmospheric instability and surface water evaporation, resulting in changes in low‐level moisture convergence. The change patterns of the vertically integrated moisture flux divergence between 850 and 910 hPa in the urban and urban downstream regions of the GBA are consistent with those of the TCP changes in this area, indicating that low‐level moisture convergence is the key factor determining the TCP changes in the region.
Implementing an Integrated Psychology Preventative Care Model in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant
Authors: Lyons Emma R. , Monnin Kara S. , Ruzicka Elizabeth B. , Arcona Zachary , Naclerio Catherine , Christofferson Elizabeth Steinberg 
Published: August 2023

Objective: The initial posttransplant period is high-risk in terms of susceptibility to rejection episodes and poor medical outcomes for pediatric solid organ transplant (SOT) patients. Psychologists play an important role on transplant medical teams to support patients and families in improving adherence and graft outcomes. This article describes a new psychology-integrated preventative care model implemented in 2019 and examines trends in service delivery pre- and postimplementation. Method: Universal health and behavior assessment and intervention were delivered to SOT (heart, liver, and kidney) patients according to a structured method of service delivery that identified distinct time points for follow-up within the first 3-year posttransplantation. Results: Preimplementation, the SOT psychology service delivered intervention and assessment services to 44% of patients who were transplanted during the preimplementation period; postimplementation, 97% of this patient population were seen by SOT psychology. Mean psychology contacts increased significantly postimplementation ( M = 2.55) of this new preventative care model, compared to preimplementation ( M = 1.59). Conclusions: Psychology support is an essential component of comprehensive pediatric SOT care. Increased psychology services posttransplantation can effectively identify and target psychosocial needs for patients and families. Implications for Impact Statement This article describes a new integrated preventative care model of psychology service delivery within pediatric solid organ transplant that greatly increased assessments and interventions during the vulnerable first 3-year posttransplant. This preventative care model allows pediatric psychologists to address adherence, behavioral and emotional concerns, and coping with illness to support optimal posttransplant psychological and medical outcomes.
Transcriptomic risk scores for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Authors: Cabana-Domínguez Judit , Llonga Natalia , Arribas Lorena , Alemany Silvia , Vilar-Ribó Laura , Demontis Ditte , Fadeuilhe Christian , Corrales Montse , Richarte Vanesa , Børglum Anders D. , Ramos-Quiroga Josep Antoni , Soler Artigas María , Ribasés Marta 
Published: August 2023

AbstractAttention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder. We performed a transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) using the latest genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis, in 38,691 individuals with ADHD and 186,843 controls, and 14 gene-expression reference panels across multiple brain tissues and whole blood. Based on TWAS results, we selected subsets of genes and constructed transcriptomic risk scores (TRSs) for the disorder in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of individuals with ADHD and controls. We found evidence of association between ADHD and TRSs constructed using expression profiles from multiple brain areas, with individuals with ADHD carrying a higher burden of TRSs than controls. TRSs were uncorrelated with the polygenic risk score (PRS) for ADHD and, in combination with PRS, improved significantly the proportion of variance explained over the PRS-only model. These results support the complementary predictive potential of genetic and transcriptomic profiles in blood and underscore the potential utility of gene expression for risk prediction and deeper insight in molecular mechanisms underlying ADHD.