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Modeling Soil Water Retention Under Different Pressures Using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System
Authors: Elbeltagi Ahmed , Jaiswal R. K. , Galkate R. V. , Kumar Manish , Lohani A. K. , Tyagi Jaiveer 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Soil Water Retention (SWR) is an important process in drainage, surface, and groundwater partitioning, hydrological modeling, water supply for irrigation, etc. Assessment of SWR characteristics is complex and difficult to conduct spatially in varied locations. Therefore, Pedotransfer Functions (PTF) which are empirical relations with easily available physical properties are commonly used. In the present study, the evaluation of soil moisture at different suction pressure using the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) approach based on soil texture (percentage of gravel, sand, silt, and clay) and compare with the PTF approach. The analysis was conducted for a total of eleven sites of two adjoining commands in India. The pressure plate apparatus along with coarse and fine sieve analysis, titration, and other tests were carried out to determine SWR, texture, organic carbon, and bulk density. The comparative analysis of Nash–Sutcliffe efficiencies of the best-fitted PTF models and ANFIS model confirmed that the ANFIS model can capture all variations of soil texture across all sites with Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency of nearly 1.0 indicative of an exact match, while no single PTF-based model can be used for all the sites. Therefore, the ANFIS model can be used to model soil water retention for the central India region using easily available texture properties of soils.
Climate Change Impacts on Irish River Flows: High Resolution Scenarios and Comparison with CORDEX and CMIP6 Ensembles
Authors: Murphy Conor , Kettle Anthony , Meresa Hadush , Golian Saeed , Bruen Michael , O’Loughlin Fiachra , Mellander Per-Erik 
Published: February 2023

AbstractClimate change is likely to impact water quality, resource availability and riverine ecosystems. While large ensembles are available to assess future impacts (e.g., the Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects (CMIP) and/or CORDEX) many countries have developed their own high-resolution ensembles. This poses a selection problem with robust adaptation dependent on plausible ranges of change being adequately quantified. Therefore, it is important to compare projected changes from available ensembles. Here we assess future climate change impacts for 26 Irish catchments. Using a high-resolution national ensemble of climate models projected impacts in mean, low and high flows are assessed and uncertainties in future projections related to catchment size. We then compare future impacts from CORDEX and CMIP6 ensembles for a subset of catchments. Results suggest increases in winter flows (-3.29 to 59.63%), with wide ranges of change simulated for summer (-59.18 to 31.23%), low (-49.30 to 22.37%) and flood (-19.31 to 116.34%) flows across catchments under RCP8.5 by the 2080s. These changes would challenge water management without adaptation. Smaller catchments tend to show the most extreme impacts and widest ranges of change in summer, low and flood flow changes. Both the ensemble mean and range of changes from the national ensemble were more modest and narrower than the CMIP6 and CORDEX ensembles, especially for summer mean and low flows, highlighting the importance of evaluating impacts across ensembles to ensure adaptation decisions are informed by plausible ranges of change.
Performance of traditional and machine learning-based transformation models for undrained shear strength
Authors: Länsivaara Tim Tapani , Farhadi Mohammad Sadegh , Samui Pijush 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In geotechnical engineering, transformation models are often used as first estimates of parameters and to verify the order of magnitude of field and laboratory tests, which reliability might be constrained by many uncertainties. The undrained shear strength has been for long of particular interest for such models. The traditional transformation models for undrained shear strength are often rather simple. Still, the geotechnical community does not seem to have agreed upon which models to use. In particular, the question of including index properties to the models seems to be open. In the paper, the performance of traditional transformation models is compared to that of machine learning (ML)-based models. In addition, the influence of data coherence is studied by using two datasets of different quality. The ML-based transformation models proved to perform better than traditional ones for both datasets. Clearly, most dominant variables in the transformation model are the preconsolidation pressure and the effective vertical stress. Although including additional variable often may well improve the performance of the training set, the prediction of the testing sets generally tends to worsen, indicating overtraining. The risks for overtraining increase with incoherent data.
Inertial projected gradient method for large-scale topology optimization
Authors: Nishioka Akatsuki , Kanno Yoshihiro 
Published: February 2023

AbstractWe present an inertial projected gradient method for solving large-scale topology optimization problems. We consider the compliance minimization problem, the heat conduction problem and the compliant mechanism problem of continua. We use the projected gradient method to efficiently treat the linear constraints of these problems. Also, inertial techniques are used to accelerate the convergence of the method. We consider an adaptive step size policy to further reduce the computational cost. The proposed method has a global convergence property. By numerical experiments, we show that the proposed method converges fast to a point satisfying the first-order optimality condition with high accuracy compared with the existing methods. The proposed method has a low computational cost per iteration, and is thus effective in a large-scale problem.
Sensitivity analysis on blast design parameters to improve bench blasting outcomes using the Taguchi method
Authors: Hosseini Mostafa , Khandelwal Manoj , Lotfi Rahman , Eslahi Mohsen 
Published: February 2023

AbstractIn surface mines, bench blasting is a typical way of excavating hard rock mass. Although a significant development has taken place in explosive technology but still only a part of the energy is used to excavate and a large proportion of energy is wasted away and creates a number of nuisances. Backbreak, massive rock fragmentation, and high-intensity ground vibration are all symptoms of improper blasting. As a result, production costs increase significantly while productivity decreases. The blasting outcomes are affected by a variety of factors, which may be classified into three categories: rock properties, explosive properties, and blast geometry. Consequently, it is necessary to examine the effect of these parameters on bench blasting. So, in this study, a sensitivity analysis has been performed on various blast design parameters using the Taguchi method to study the influence of blast design parameters on blast vibration, backbreak, and rock fragmentation. A total of 32 experiments have been designed and numerical modeling was also carried out, using LS DYNA software to simulate the blast results. It was found that the blast hole diameter is the most important factor influencing the blasting outcomes. However, the number of rows in a blast affects backbreak almost slightly more than the hole diameter, but blast vibrations and the surrounding rock damage strongly depend on the hole diameter. Furthermore, rock blast geometry significantly affected rock blast vibration and damage compared to explosive properties. However, both blast geometry parameters and explosive properties play a significant role in backbreaking.
MicroRNAs in Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury: New Advances in Diagnostics and Therapeutic
Authors: Liang Guibin , He Zhihui 
Published: February 2023

AbstractIn this commentary, we explored the advances made in miRNA and sepsis-induced acute lung injury (ALI) from the perspective of diagnosis and treatment. miRNAs play an important role in sepsis-induced ALI, including the regulation of inflammation, apoptosis, and oxidative stress, thereby participating in the progression of sepsis-induced ALI. miRNAs can act as therapeutic or diagnostic targets of sepsis-induced ALI. Also, the development of alternative or inhibitory drugs targeting specific miRNAs may be of great significance in treating sepsis-induced ALI and improving the prognosis of sepsis patients.
Distributionally robust reinsurance with expectile
Authors: Xie Xinqiao , Liu Haiyan , Mao Tiantian , Zhu Xiao Bai 
Published: February 2023

AbstractWe study a distributionally robust reinsurance problem with the risk measure being an expectile and under expected value premium principle. The mean and variance of the ground-up loss are known, but the loss distribution is otherwise unspecified. A minimax problem is formulated with its inner problem being a maximization problem over all distributions with known mean and variance. We show that the inner problem is equivalent to maximizing the problem over three-point distributions, reducing the infinite-dimensional optimization problem to a finite-dimensional optimization problem. The finite-dimensional optimization problem can be solved numerically. Numerical examples are given to study the impacts of the parameters involved.
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice
Authors: Dresow Max 
Published: February 2023

AbstractIn “The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism,” Meghan Page makes a number of important points about the sciences of geohistory. Yet the force of her arguments is blunted by her decision to explicate concepts like “actualism” and “uniformitarianism” as abstract methodological commitments. In this discussion note, I illustrate the difficulties that arise from this decision, and suggest a way of avoiding them that preserves Page’s main conclusions.
Soil quality assessment based on hybrid computational approach with spatial multi-criteria analysis and geographical information system for sustainable tea cultivation
Authors: Saygın F. , Şavşatlı Y. , Dengiz O. , Yazıcı K. , Namlı A. , Karataş A. , Şenol N. D. , Akça M. O. , Pacci S. , Karapıçak B. , Ay A. , Demirkaya S. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractLong-term intensive tea cultivation is suspected of deteriorating soil quality status and degrading land sustainability. This study aimed to determine the soil quality index of soils in a micro-catchment in Rize Province, Turkey, used for long-term intensive tea cultivation, by means of spatial multi-criteria analysis (SMCA) and standard scoring function (SSF) integrated with geographical information system (GIS) and geostatistics, considering bio-physical-chemical properties of a detailed soil dataset. Soil samples (102) were collected from the surface layer (0–20 cm). In the soil quality index for tea-cultivated soils (TSQI), soil indicators were weighted by an analytical hierarchy. Various indicator units were normalized with the SSF. The TSQI model was divided into five main criteria: (i) physical properties, (ii) chemical properties, (iii) fertility, (iv) biological indicators and (v) soil erosion susceptibility parameters. Principal components analysis (PCA) was applied and minimum dataset (MDS) created to determine the most effective indicators. The spatial distribution pattern of the tea total dataset soil quality index (TSQITDS) and tea minimum dataset soil quality index (TSQIMDS) values were statistically similar. TSQITDSlow and very low-class areas accounted for 34.1% of the total area, while TSQIMDSlow and very low-class areas constituted 33.6%. These areas, especially those with low soil quality properties, were in the northern and north-western parts of the micro-catchment. TSQITDSvery high and high-class areas accounted for 56.2% of the total area, while TSQIMDSvery high and high-class areas were found in 55.3% of the total area. These areas are located in the south of the micro-catchment.
Blood tests as biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of sudden sensorineural hearing loss in adults: a systematic review
Authors: Al-Azzawi A , Stapleton E 
Published: February 2023

AbstractObjectiveSudden sensorineural hearing loss is considered idiopathic in up to 90 per cent of cases. This study explored the role of blood tests as biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of sudden sensorineural hearing loss.MethodTwo researchers filtered 34 papers into the final review. This review was pre-registered on the Prospero database and conducted according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 2020 guidelines.ResultsRaised inflammatory markers are almost universal in sudden sensorineural hearing loss, suggesting an inflammatory or autoimmune process. The most useful biomarkers are neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-lymphocyte ratio and fibrinogen level. Focused investigations should be deployed on a case-by-case basis to identify underlying metabolic, infective and autoimmune conditions.ConclusionA full blood count and coagulation screen (fibrinogen) is recommended in all cases of sudden sensorineural hearing loss. These are inexpensive, accessible and offer as much diagnostic and prognostic information as any other biomarker. There is emerging evidence regarding specific biomarkers for sudden sensorineural hearing loss prognosis, with heat shock protein-70, anti-endothelial cell antibody and prestin demonstrating potential; investigation of their validity through prospective, controlled research is recommended.
Delinking ‘the two rupees’: The devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonized subcontinent, September 1949–February 1951
Authors: Ankit Rakesh 
Published: February 2023

AbstractBy looking at the September 1949 devaluation dilemma faced by the governments of Pakistan and India, this article argues that it was an early episode of divergence between them following partition. The reasons why Pakistan did not devalue when India did so have remained largely obscured in the historiography. Deeply contested, the decision was a determining event through which the state staked its claim for economic sovereignty, internally and externally. It led to a 17-month-long official trade deadlock, especially in the eastern region of partitioned Bengal. It ended when the two governments established an exchange ratio for the two rupees, no longer at par with each other. This interactive delinking of currencies was symptomatic of the improvisational decoupling of the colonial subcontinent’s post-colonial states. In tracing its trajectory, this article contributes to the inconsiderable literature on why devaluation did not happen in Pakistan, revises the rationale offered, and presents the event as a contingent exercise in economic decolonization, generative of a post-colonial sovereign difference.
God as an asset and some paradoxical implications
Authors: Smilansky Saul 
Published: February 2023

AbstractConventional monotheist religious believers commonly believe that God will sometimes assist them, will be on their side. God, in other words, they believe, is an asset. Conceptually an asset is anything (such as a person or an object) that can assist one, something that is prima facie good to possess or to have on one's side, that is likely to or can assist one to make one's life go better, overall. Having assets can have weighty implications, including moral ones. I argue that here the implications are quite surprising, and indeed paradoxical. In particular, the religious will have in certain circumstances good reasons, and sometimes even moral obligations, to give up their interests for those who lack such assets, namely secular non-believers. The claim is not that religious people actually see things in this way but that, normatively, given their beliefs, many of them should, in the sense of the subjective ‘ought’. This can be relevant both in this world and concerning the next. Moreover, in many situations plausible religious replies are not sufficient to block the move. This topic has not, to the best of my knowledge, ever been seriously analysed philosophically.
Individual differences in self-regulated learning profiles of Chinese EFL readers: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study
Authors: Chen Jiangping , Lin Chin-Hsi , Chen Gaowei , Fu Huafang 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis study explored the latent profiles of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies (cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational regulation) endorsed by Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) readers in a high-stakes testing environment, and also their associations with individual factors (gender, grade, reading proficiency, and motivational beliefs). With a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, students in grades 11 and 12 (n = 1,113) completed a reading comprehension test and a questionnaire regarding their strategy use and individual factors, and some (n = 16) were randomly selected for follow-up semi-structured interviews. Findings revealed three SRL profiles, characterized by high, medium, and low levels of SRL-strategy use. Self-efficacy and extrinsic motivation most powerfully predicted an individual’s profile membership; all the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation variables were significantly higher for learners from the higher strategy-use profile. Moreover, reading proficiency did not significantly predict profile membership, but more self-regulated students still achieved higher reading scores as a group tendency.
Coping, (mal)adaptive personality and identity in young adults: A network analysis
Authors: Van der Hallen Ruth , De Pauw Sarah S. W. , Prinzie Peter 
Published: February 2023

AbstractCoping, personality, and identity are three well-known constructs within the field of psychology. Yet, findings regarding how these constructs relate to each other have been inconsistent. The present study employs network analysis to investigate coping, adaptive and maladaptive personality, and identity and how they are related, using data from the Flemish Study on Parenting, Personality, and Development (FSPPD; Prinzie et al., 2003; 1999–current). Young adults (N = 457; 47% male), aged between 17–23 years old, completed a survey on coping, adaptive and maladaptive personality, and identity. Results indicate clear associations between coping and both adaptive and maladaptive personality within the network, suggesting coping and personality are distinct, yet highly related constructs whereas identity proved largely unrelated. Potential implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
A prospective longitudinal study of multidomain resilience among youths with and without maltreatment histories
Authors: Wang Sharon S. , Walsh Kate , Li James J. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe majority of children with maltreatment histories do not go on to develop depression in their adolescent and adult years. These individuals are often identified as being “resilient”, but this characterization may conceal difficulties that individuals with maltreatment histories might face in their interpersonal relationships, substance use, physical health, and/or socioeconomic outcomes in their later lives. This study examined how adolescents with maltreatment histories who exhibit low levels of depression function in other domains during their adult years. Longitudinal trajectories of depression (across ages 13–32) in individuals with (n = 3,809) and without (n = 8,249) maltreatment histories were modeled in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The same “Low,” “increasing,” and “declining” depression trajectories in both individuals with and without maltreatment histories were identified. Youths with maltreatment histories in the “low” depression trajectory reported lower romantic relationship satisfaction, more exposure to intimate partner and sexual violence, more alcohol abuse/dependency, and poorer general physical health compared to individuals without maltreatment histories in the same “low” depression trajectory in adulthood. Findings add further caution against labeling individuals as “resilient” based on a just single domain of functioning (low depression), as childhood maltreatment has harmful effects on a broad spectrum of functional domains.
In the pandemic from the womb. Prenatal exposure, maternal psychological stress and mental health in association with infant negative affect at 6 months of life
Authors: Sacchi Chiara , De Carli Pietro , Gregorini Camilla , Monk Catherine , Simonelli Alessandra 
Published: February 2023

AbstractFor mother-infant health especially, the pandemic has brought multiple stressors inside a susceptible psychobiological system. We study the longitudinal associations between maternal prenatal and postpartum: (a) COVID-19 stressful events exposure, (b) pandemic psychological stress, and (c) mental health and infants’ negative affect. A sample of 643 Italian pregnant women completed a web-based survey from April 8th to May 4th, 2020 and a follow-up at 6 months after delivery. Maternal assessment covered prenatal and postpartum measures for: COVID-19 stressful events exposure, pandemic psychological stress, mental health symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder) and postpartum, social support and report of infants’ negative affect. Maternal mental health symptoms during pregnancy, at the peak of pandemic, is longitudinally associated with infant negative affect, with postpartum mental health mediating this association. Also, maternal COVID-19 stressful events exposure in postpartum is associated with negative affect at 6 months mediated by postpartum mental health symptoms. Maternal pandemic psychological stress during pregnancy predicted mental health symptoms in postpartum. The study supports the association between pandemic-related maternal health across pregnancy and postpartum and offspring’s development (i.e., negative affect). It also puts the spotlight on mental health risk in women experiencing lockdown during pregnancy, especially when feeling high psychological stress in pregnancy or when directly exposed to COVID-19 stressful events postpartum.
The Dialectics of Nationalism: Jaromír Weinberger'sSchwanda the Bagpiperand Anti-Semitism in Interwar Europe
Authors: Frühauf Tina 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis article examines the conception and subsequent reception of Jaromír Weinberger's 1927 operaSchwanda the Bagpiperin the context of various expressions of nationalism, anti-Semitism and Jewish identity politics throughout the interwar period. It takes into consideration the many historical, political and musical junctures before and during the opera's trajectory. While remaining rooted in nineteenth-century Czech nationalism, Weinberger sought to blend a plurality of cultural expressions, thus responding to the transitory state of nationalism during the interwar period. This is evident in the dialectics of the work – including its music, its libretto by Miloš Kareš and the first production. In this way,Schwandaand its divergent reception represents young Czechoslovakia's liminalities in relation to nationalism and the complexities of the new multi-ethnic state, especially with regard to its minorities. The article thus offers insights into the phenomenon of nationalism, which at the time of the opera's conception was inescapably co-constructed with anti-Semitism, and demonstratesSchwanda's importance as part of larger histories of European music and opera.