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Assessing Elevated Blood Glucose Levels Through Blood Glucose Evaluation and Monitoring Using Machine Learning and Wearable Photoplethysmography Sensors: Algorithm Development and Validation
Authors: Shi Bohan , Dhaliwal Satvinder Singh , Soo Marcus , Chan Cheri , Wong Jocelin , Lam Natalie W C , Zhou Entong , Paitimusa Vivien , Loke Kum Yin , Chin Joel , Chua Mei Tuan , Liaw Kathy Chiew Suan , Lim Amos W H , Insyirah Fadil Fatin , Yen Shih-Cheng , Tay Arthur , Ang Seng Bin 
Published: September 2023

Background
Diabetes mellitus is the most challenging and fastest-growing global public health concern. Approximately 10.5% of the global adult population is affected by diabetes, and almost half of them are undiagnosed. The growing at-risk population exacerbates the shortage of health resources, with an estimated 10.6% and 6.2% of adults worldwide having impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glycemia, respectively. All current diabetes screening methods are invasive and opportunistic and must be conducted in a hospital or laboratory by trained professionals. At-risk participants might remain undetected for years and miss the precious time window for early intervention to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes and its complications.

Objective
We aimed to develop an artificial intelligence solution to recognize elevated blood glucose levels (≥7.8 mmol/L) noninvasively and evaluate diabetic risk based on repeated measurements.

Methods
This study was conducted at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Singapore, and 500 participants were recruited (mean age 38.73, SD 10.61 years; mean BMI 24.4, SD 5.1 kg/m2). The blood glucose levels for most participants were measured before and after consuming 75 g of sugary drinks using both a conventional glucometer (Accu-Chek Performa) and a wrist-worn wearable. The results obtained from the glucometer were used as ground-truth measurements. We performed extensive feature engineering on photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor data and identified features that were sensitive to glucose changes. These selected features were further analyzed using an explainable artificial intelligence approach to understand their contribution to our predictions.

Results
Multiple machine learning models were trained and assessed with 10-fold cross-validation, using participant demographic data and critical features extracted from PPG measurements as predictors. A support vector machine with a radial basis function kernel had the best detection performance, with an average accuracy of 84.7%, a sensitivity of 81.05%, a specificity of 88.3%, a precision of 87.51%, a geometric mean of 84.54%, and F score of 84.03%.

Conclusions
Our findings suggest that PPG measurements can be used to identify participants with elevated blood glucose measurements and assist in the screening of participants for diabetes risk.
The Status of Data Management Practices Across German Medical Data Integration Centers: Mixed Methods Study
Authors: Gierend Kerstin , Freiesleben Sherry , Kadioglu Dennis , Siegel Fabian , Ganslandt Thomas , Waltemath Dagmar 
Published: September 2023

Background
In the context of the Medical Informatics Initiative, medical data integration centers (DICs) have implemented complex data flows to transfer routine health care data into research data repositories for secondary use. Data management practices are of importance throughout these processes, and special attention should be given to provenance aspects. Insufficient knowledge can lead to validity risks and reduce the confidence and quality of the processed data. The need to implement maintainable data management practices is undisputed, but there is a great lack of clarity on the status.

Objective
Our study examines the current data management practices throughout the data life cycle within the Medical Informatics in Research and Care in University Medicine (MIRACUM) consortium. We present a framework for the maturity status of data management practices and present recommendations to enable a trustful dissemination and reuse of routine health care data.

Methods
In this mixed methods study, we conducted semistructured interviews with stakeholders from 10 DICs between July and September 2021. We used a self-designed questionnaire that we tailored to the MIRACUM DICs, to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Our study method is compliant with the Good Reporting of a Mixed Methods Study (GRAMMS) checklist.

Results
Our study provides insights into the data management practices at the MIRACUM DICs. We identify several traceability issues that can be partially explained with a lack of contextual information within nonharmonized workflow steps, unclear responsibilities, missing or incomplete data elements, and incomplete information about the computational environment information. Based on the identified shortcomings, we suggest a data management maturity framework to reach more clarity and to help define enhanced data management strategies.

Conclusions
The data management maturity framework supports the production and dissemination of accurate and provenance-enriched data for secondary use. Our work serves as a catalyst for the derivation of an overarching data management strategy, abiding data integrity and provenance characteristics as key factors. We envision that this work will lead to the generation of fairer and maintained health research data of high quality.
Digital Health Reimbursement Strategies of 8 European Countries and Israel: Scoping Review and Policy Mapping
Authors: van Kessel Robin , Srivastava Divya , Kyriopoulos Ilias , Monti Giovanni , Novillo-Ortiz David , Milman Ran , Zhang-Czabanowski Wojciech Wilhelm , Nasi Greta , Stern Ariel Dora , Wharton George , Mossialos Elias 
Published: September 2023

Background
The adoption of digital health care within health systems is determined by various factors, including pricing and reimbursement. The reimbursement landscape for digital health in Europe remains underresearched. Although various emergency reimbursement decisions were made during the COVID-19 pandemic to enable health care delivery through videoconferencing and asynchronous care (eg, digital apps), research so far has primarily focused on the policy innovations that facilitated this outside of Europe.

Objective
This study examines the digital health reimbursement strategies in 8 European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) and Israel.

Methods
We mapped available digital health reimbursement strategies using a scoping review and policy mapping framework. We reviewed the literature on the MEDLINE, Embase, Global Health, and Web of Science databases. Supplementary records were identified through Google Scholar and country experts.

Results
Our search strategy yielded a total of 1559 records, of which 40 (2.57%) were ultimately included in this study. As of August 2023, digital health solutions are reimbursable to some extent in all studied countries except Poland, although the mechanism of reimbursement differs significantly across countries. At the time of writing, the pricing of digital health solutions was mostly determined through discussions between national or regional committees and the manufacturers of digital health solutions in the absence of value-based assessment mechanisms. Financing digital health solutions outside traditional reimbursement schemes was possible in all studied countries except Poland and typically occurs via health innovation or digital health–specific funding schemes. European countries have value-based pricing frameworks that range from nonexistent to embryonic.

Conclusions
Studied countries show divergent approaches to the reimbursement of digital health solutions. These differences may complicate the ability of patients to seek cross-country health care in another country, even if a digital health app is available in both countries. Furthermore, the fragmented environment will present challenges for developers of such solutions, as they look to expand their impact across countries and health systems. An increased emphasis on developing a clear conceptualization of digital health, as well as value-based pricing and reimbursement mechanisms, is needed for the sustainable integration of digital health. This study can therein serve as a basis for further, more detailed research as the field of digital health reimbursement evolves.
INFLACIÓN Y CRECIMIENTO ECONÓMICO EN AMÉRICA LATINA, UNA RELACIÓN NO LINEAL
Authors: Aceves Mejía Mario , Absalón Copete Carlos 
Published: September 2023

RESUMEN
El artículo revisa y reformula teórica y empíricamente la relación no lineal entre la inflación y el crecimiento económico planteada por Thirlwall (1974) para el conjunto de economías de América Latina que han seguido stricto sensu el régimen de metas de inflación durante el periodo 2003-2020. La hipótesis de esta investigación reside en la existencia de un nivel de inflación óptimo en el que la tasa de crecimiento económico logra un nivel máximo, horizonte de inflación distinto al objetivo de política monetaria actual. Por consiguiente, el argumento que se desarrolla en este artículo trata sobre la existencia de una relación positiva entre el crecimiento y la inflación a niveles moderados, pero el grado de preferencia de los bancos centrales ha sido tal que ha sacrificado crecimiento y empleo en aras de la estabilidad de los precios.

INFLATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN LATIN AMERICA, A NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIP
ABSTRACT
The article reviews and reformulates theoretically and empirically the non-linear relationship between inflation and economic growth proposed by Thirlwall (1974) for the set of Latin American economies that strictly use the inflation targeting regime during the period 2003-2020. The hypothesis of this research resides in the existence of an optimal inflation level for which the economic growth rate reaches a maximum level, an inflation rate which differs from the current monetary policy target. Consequently, the argument developed in this article deals with the existence of a positive relationship between growth and inflation at low levels, while the degree of preference of central banks has been such that they have given up growth and employment opportunities to price stability.
Management Accounting Research Opportunities in Climate Change Reporting
Authors: Jona Jonathan , Soderstrom Naomi S. 
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT
Climate risk is a critically important challenge for society. Current accounting-related efforts include initiatives by regulators to promulgate climate risk disclosure standards, focusing on disclosure of nonfinancial and forward-looking information. These proposals are certain to evolve over time. With management accounting research’s focus on decision-making and performance evaluation using nonfinancial performance measures and effective management control systems, management accounting researchers are in a strong position to provide unique input into the ongoing development of these reporting standards. In this commentary, we discuss topics where management accounting researchers can contribute to the standard-setting efforts. Contributing to these efforts requires a change in mindset for management accounting researchers from primarily focusing on internal and potentially idiosyncratic decision-makers to a broader audience that includes external providers of capital. However, the reward to doing so is participation in interesting and important research avenues that can have a real impact on society.
JEL Classifications: M49; M48; M14.
An Examination of the Listing of Analyst Coverage on Corporate Websites
Authors: Bradshaw Mark T. , Lee Lian Fen , Peterson Kyle 
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT
We examine firm decisions to provide listings of sell-side analyst coverage on corporate investor relations (IR) websites. These listings are related to three major areas of financial research—voluntary disclosure, investor relations, and analysts. Our hand-collected data permit cross-sectional and time-series analyses. Firms are more likely to have such listings when analysts are more important information intermediaries and when firms are directly involved in managing their IR websites. For firms with listings, the probability of an analyst being included on the listing is increasing in firm awareness of and familiarity with the analyst, how active and favorable the analyst is, and the analyst’s reputation. Additional analysis indicates similar results across self-hosting versus third-party hosting IR websites, with a notable exception that self-hosting firms exhibit a stronger preference for analysts who issue more favorable research about the firm. Decisions to add or drop analysts from listings reinforce the main results.
Data Availability: Data are available from public sources identified in the text.
JEL Classifications: G17; G24; M41.
Preparation of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus for elective percutaneous coronary intervention
Authors: Kochergina A. M. , Khorlampenko A. A. , Karetnikova V. N. , Barbarash O. L. 
Published: September 2023

Aim. To assess the quality of preparation of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus for elective percutaneous coronary intervention, which is aimed to achieving the target values of the modifiable cardiovascular risk factors.Materials and Methods. We retrospectively analysed 100 electronic medical records of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who were admitted for elective percutaneous coronary intervention at Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases from 2021 to 2022. We analysed clinicopathological data, the data from clinical laboratory tests, and pharmacological anamnesis.Results. The average age was 65.19 ± 8.69 years, and the proportion of women was 59%. Smoking history and obesity were reported in 22% and 55% of patients, respectively, with average body mass index of 30.38 [27.66; 34.87] kg/m2. All patients suffered from arterial hypertension, 55% had past medical history of myocardial infarction, and 15% had atrial fibrillation. The duration of type 2 diabetes mellitus was 10 [3; 12] years. Target blood pressure at the admission was achieved in 40% patients. Average total cholesterol and blood glucose were 4.15 [3.50; 5.10] mmol/L and 7.85 [6.15; 11.00] mmol/L, respectively. Beta blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers, and statics were received by 90%, 89%, and 97% of patients. Maximum statin dose was registered in 27% patients, combined therapy (statin + ezetimibe) was documented in 4% patients. 14% of patients did not take hypoglycemic drugs. Oral hypoglycemic agents were received in 65% (in most cases biguanides and sulphonylureas, in 7% patients they were combined with insulin). Sodium-dependent glucose cotransporter (SGLT2) inhibitors have been taken by 19% of patients.Conclusion. Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus recommended for elective percutaneous coronary intervention typically suffer from arterial hypertension and frequently had increased body mass index, total cholesterol, and blood glucose. The prevalence of using antihypertensive drugs, oral hypoglycemic agents, and lipid-lowering drugs should be increased.
Blending Hydrogen With Natural Gas/Biomethane and Transportation in Existing Gas Networks
Authors: Zemite L. , Jansons L. , Zeltins N. , Lappuke S. , Bode I. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
The existing European Union (EU) natural gas network provides large capacity to integrate renewable (RGs) and low-carbon gases. Today, hydrogen contributes only a few percent to Europe’s energy consumption and is almost exclusively produced from fossil fuels and used in the industry. Nevertheless, hydrogen has a significant role to play in emission reduction in hard-to-decarbonize sectors, in particular, as a fuel in transport applications and as a fuel or feedstock in certain industrial processes (steel, refining or chemical industries, the production of “green fertilizers”). Carbon dioxide (CO2) in reaction with hydrogen can also be further processed into synthetic fuels, such as synthetic kerosene in aviation. In addition, hydrogen brings other environmental co-benefits when used as fuel, such as the lack of air pollutant emissions.
However, in transitional phase from fossil to RG, namely, renewable or green hydrogen, natural gas/biomethane and hydrogen blends, are needed to gradually replace natural in existing gas transmission and distribution networks. The gas networks are believed to be able to use natural gas/biomethane and hydrogen blends with 5–20 % of hydrogen by volume. Most systems and applications are able to handle it without a need for major infrastructure upgrades or end-use appliance retrofits or replacements. The promotion of hydrogen network such as European Hydrogen backbone (EHB) is gaining momentum in Europe. To decarbonize the natural gas grids, the threshold of hydrogen in the existing grid systems must be increased, which can be done by means of wider natural gas/biomethane and hydrogen blending and simultaneous transportation in currently operational gas networks.
Analysis and Implementation of Energy Efficiency Measures in Multi-Apartment Buildings in Latvia
Authors: Cimbale A. , Amolina I. , Geipele I. , Zeltins N. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
A simplified life cycle of any product or service consists of three main stages – manufacturing, including obtaining, transformation, combination of raw materials; transportation, as well as packaging; consumption from purchase up to actual use. Energy is not an exception, it is also an item offered by the market in different forms, and everyone in need of it has the right to buy it in case the price is acceptable. Heat power is one of the energy types required by households and important for proper maintenance. Without heating, as well as electricity, modern houses cannot function appropriately, are not attractive to their inhabitants, do not provide comfort and safety. Nevertheless, heat power often is considered as a by-product of electricity production, nowadays a swift price increase for both types of energy is inevitable.
Energy efficiency is the level of appropriate usage of energy resources, which can be determined as the relation between final product type, quality, quantity and consumption of energy necessary to create this product [1].
Indirectly energy efficiency impacts health of the society in general and each individual in particular. Renovated energy efficient apartment buildings have a better ventilation system and microclimate. The problem of moisture and mold is at least partly solved, comfort is reached by consuming less energy, especially, heat power [2].
The aim of the paper is to research the impact of different energy efficiency increasing measures on heat consumption in multi-apartment buildings.
Development of a Conceptual Snow Sub-Model: Application in Meteorological Stations, Slovakia
Authors: Kandera Miroslav , Výleta Roman 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
A semi-distributed rainfall-runoff Approximate Redistributive Balance (ARB) model is currently in development as a tool for the assessment and analysis of the water management balance at the level of micro-basins on the territory of Slovakia. For the winter season, it is necessary to supplement the model with a sub-model for calculating the snow water equivalent (SWE) with a comparatively low amount of the input data necessary. Since SWE models generally operate in a daily time step, a new sub-model was developed and tested in monthly and weekly time steps in 30 meteorological stations in the north of Slovakia. When compared in a weekly time step with the snow sub-model of the HBV rainfall-runoff model and when the impact of switching from a monthly to weekly time step on the quality of the runoff simulation was evaluated, the results showed that the snow sub-model does react to sudden snowmelt better when compared to the modified version of the HBV snow sub-model used. Using a weekly time step for the snow sub-model in a monthly ARB model runoff simulation showed an increase of accuracy (NSE change from 0.89 to 0.92) in one case, while maintaining the same level of accuracy in the second one.
In Vitro Coinoculation Between Actinobacteria and Diazotrophic Nodulating Bacteria from the Semiarid
Authors: De Sousa Juliani Barbosa , Bandeira Leonardo Lima , Dos Santos Franciandro Dantas , Silva Valéria Maria Araújo , Cavalcante Fernando Gouveia , Martins Suzana Cláudia Silveira , Martins Claudia Miranda 
Published: September 2023

Purpose: To evaluate the potential of actinobacterial strains from the Brazilian semiarid to establish facilitation relationships with native rhizobia from the same region.

Theoretical framework: The study is based on the ecological and biotechnological importance of soil actinobacteria, producers of biosurfactants and enzymes, and of nitrogen-fixing rhizobia in legumes.

Method: 50 strains of actinobacteria were isolated from soils from Ceará with different levels of anthropization and 19 strains of rhizobia using cowpea. The morphological, cultural and micromorphological characterization of the strains was performed, as well as the evaluation of their enzymatic profiles. In vitro facilitation tests were conducted between cellulolytic actinobacteria and non-cellulolytic rhizobia.

Results: The soil areas presented a similar composition of actinobacteria, but strains from the anthropized area showed higher enzymatic activity. Two Streptomyces strains promoted the growth of non-cellulolytic rhizobia in vitro, indicating potential application as bioinoculants in microbial consortia.

Conclusions: The study contributes to the knowledge of the interaction between beneficial microbial groups from the semiarid region and their possible biotechnological use in agriculture.

Originality/value: Works on coinoculation between actinobacteria and rhizobia from semiarid soils are scarce.
Unequal Territories and Water Access Policies in the Brazilian Northeast
Authors: Santana Mario Rubem Costa , Rocha Altemar Amaral , Santos Mateus Costa , De Alcantara Fernanda Viana , Lisboa Acssuel de Sousa , Oliveira Crislane da Silva 
Published: September 2023

Objective: The present work aims to analyze the territorial inequalities of public policies for access to water through the territorial approach.

Theoretical framework: This study is conducted based on theoretical reflections about geographic knowledge about space and territory, the latter as primordial in the analysis of power relations in the management, access and use of water. The theoretical framework uses the contributions of some of the authors who discuss the territory, among them: Haesbaert (2004), Folcault (1989) Saquet (2010) and Araújo (2000).

Method: It is based on the use of data collection with mapping and theoretical discussion. It seeks to analyze the inequalities and diversities of territorialities in the territory(ies), inquiries are made about territorial development through public policies mediated with the contributions of geographic science, data collection on the construction of cisterns is used in the northeast of Brazil, as well as the mapping of areas most affected by droughts in the northeast.

Results and conclusion: As a result, the theoretical analysis of approaches to territorial development and public policies allied to geographic knowledge permeates the production of space and the phenomena caused in rural areas.

Research implications: We understand that the territory is historically built by power relations, the territorial approach to development arises from the proposition of working on intra-regional inequalities with a view to generating social participation and, in parallel, governance of social subjects with power public.

Originality/value: This research has social, economic and scientific value due to the originality of the discussions presented.