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Effectiveness of mānuka and rosemary oils as natural and green antioxidants in wagyu and normal beef
Authors: Kaur Ramandeep , Kaur Lovedeep , Gupta Tanushree B. , Bronlund John 
Published: March 2023

SummaryEssential oils possessing antioxidant characteristics have acquired broad interest as an alternative to synthetic food antioxidants like butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). In this study, mānuka (with 5, 25 and 40% triketone content) (MO), rosemary (RO) and kānuka (KO) oils were characterised and screened through DPPH (2,2‐diphenyl‐1‐picrylhydrazyl) and FRAP (Ferric radical absorbing power) assays for their antioxidant efficacies. Different triketone levels were selected to examine their effect on the antioxidant activity of MO. All MOs showed higher phenolic content and antioxidant activities than KO and RO. Based on the obtained results, the MO with 25% triketone content and RO were chosen to study their antioxidant effects in pastes prepared from New Zealand normal (3% fat) and wagyu (12% fat) beef during refrigerated storage (7 days). No significant effect of the oils was observed on lipid oxidation in normal pastes during storage. However, MO and BHT significantly reduced lipid oxidation in wagyu pastes, showing the potential of mānuka oil as a natural antioxidant in high‐fat meat products.
Right‐Wing Eurosceptic Parties and the Strategic Use of Law
Authors: Castillo‐Ortiz Pablo 
Published: March 2023

AbstractEurosceptic actors often mobilize legal concepts and institutions against European integration. This article makes three contributions to the understanding of this phenomenon. First, it proposes a conceptual definition of the Eurosceptic use of law as part of political strategies, with the aim to make a theoretical contribution to literature in the field. Second, to anchor this idea in the empirical reality, the article exhaustively analyses instances of use of law in the manifestos of medium to large size Eurosceptic parties in national elections, focusing on right wing Eurosceptic parties in the period 2010 to 2021. Third, the article presents some core features of how law is used by the Eurosceptic parties covered by this research at the strategic, conceptual, empirical and political levels, evidencing its widespread utilization and discussing its risks for the process of European integration.
Self‐esteem and its relationship with depression and anxiety in adults with intellectual disabilities: a systematic literature review
Authors: Lee J. Y. , Patel M. , Scior K. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractBackgroundIn the general population, low self‐esteem has been linked with poorer mental and physical health. This systematic literature review aimed to summarise and evaluate the findings of studies that examined self‐esteem in adults with intellectual disabilities and links with mental health outcomes.MethodA systematic search of PsycINFO, Web of Science and CINAHL was conducted to identify studies published between 1990 and 2021. The studies were appraised using the QualSyst tool.ResultsTwenty‐six articles were identified of which two studies were removed from the review due to low quality. Studies reported mixed evidence regarding levels of self‐esteem compared with the general population. Engagement in activities appeared to be linked with positive self‐esteem, and perception of negative interpersonal life events as having a negative impact was associated with lower self‐esteem. There was evidence of co‐occurrence of low self‐esteem and depression, but no studies examined the relationship between self‐esteem and anxiety.ConclusionReviewed studies provided mixed evidence on levels of self‐esteem in this population, suggesting that factors such as engagement in life were related to higher self‐esteem and demonstrating the co‐occurrence of low self‐esteem and depression. However, clear causal links have yet to be identified, and more research is needed using longitudinal designs to answer questions about trajectory.
Theorizing racialized disaster patriarchal capitalism in the age of COVID‐19: A framework for feminist policy change
Authors: Foster Johanna E. , Foster‐Palmer Sophie 
Published: March 2023

AbstractIn this concluding article, the authors use a global, intersectional feminist political economy lens to reconceptualize disaster response policy and practices that center women's lives. They extend this issue's discussion of the COVID‐19 pandemic's impact on women's health and safety in ways that have exposed and expanded gender inequalities, and differently for different groups of women, to the discourse of how disaster responses have not only failed women, but have also been used opportunistically by elites to enhance racial and gendered capitalism. In the first half of the article, the authors discuss how the previous feminist literature on the gendering of disasters, with important exceptions, largely misses a critique of the ways the crisis of neoliberalism and the role of racial and gendered global capitalism sets the stage for women to be targets for disaster opportunism. At the same time, critical scholars who have taken on the analysis of disaster capitalism often ignore the well‐established feminist social science on disasters. In the second half of the article, the authors bridge these two literatures and provide an intersectional gendered analysis of what they call the political economy of “racialized patriarchal disaster capitalism” as applied to select cases from the COVID crisis as illustrations. Finally, the authors discuss the theoretical implications of their analysis for feminist conceptualizations of disaster opportunism, as well as practical implications for global public health advocates, policy makers, NGOs, and feminist health activists.
Cultivating critical global citizens through secondary EFL education: a case study of mainland China
Authors: Sun Lina 
Published: March 2023

AbstractThis paper examines the enactment of critical literacy pedagogy in secondary English language teaching in the face of globalisation. This qualitative case study signals that global citizenship education (GCE) and English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching can converge through offering equitable and globally contextualised learning opportunities. The overarching themes presented here challenge the dominance of instrumentalist orientations of EFL education in mainland China today while mobilising pedagogical choices that affirm students' local and lived experiences in relation to international socio‐political issues. Findings provide EFL educators nuanced insights into how critical global literacies are extended through critical understandings of literacies, interconnections from a personal to a global level, and opportunities for social actions on multicultural issues, thus fostering globally competent and bilingual learners who critically engage with the contested terrain of an increasingly globalised world.
The utility of non‐invasive tests to assess advanced fibrosis in Asian subjects with chronic hepatitis B and concomitant hepatic steatosis
Authors: Lin Kenneth W. , Kumar Rajneesh , Shen Feng , Chan Henry L.‐Y. , Wong Grace L.‐H. , Kumar Rahul , Chow Wan Cheng , Lin Su , Wong Vincent W.‐S. , Fan Jian‐Gao , Goh George B.‐B. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractBackgroundChronic hepatitis B (CHB) is endemic to Asia and is a leading cause of liver‐related morbidity. The prevalence of concomitant CHB and hepatic steatosis (HS) is increasing in Asia. Non‐invasive tests (NITs) including FIB‐4, NFS and APRI assess fibrosis in populations with a single aetiology, but not in subjects with concomitant CHB and HS.AimTo explore the accuracy of NITs in predicting advanced fibrosis in patients with concomitant CHB and HS.MethodologyThis multicentre study of CHB patients who underwent liver biopsy explored clinical characteristics of these subjects, stratified by presence of HS. Fibrosis scores from NITs were compared against histological fibrosis stage in CHB subjects with and without HS.Results2262 subjects were enrolled, 74.5% were males, and the mean age was 39.5 years ±11.8 SD. 984 (44.4%) had HS, 824 (36.4%) had advanced fibrosis. In the CHB group, the AUROC for advanced fibrosis were 0.65 (95% CI 0.62–0.69) for FIB‐4 and 0.63 (95% CI 0.60–0.66) for APRI. The specificities were 0.94 for FIB‐4 greater than 3.25 and 0.81 for APRI greater than 1.5. In the CHBHS group, the AUROC for advanced fibrosis were 0.67 (95% CI 0.63–0.71) for FIB‐4, 0.60 (95% CI 0.56–0.64) for APRI and 0.65 (95% CI 0.61–0.69) for NFS. The specificities were 0.95 for FIB‐4 greater than 3.25, 0.88 for APRI greater than 1.5 and 0.99 for NFS greater than 0.675.ConclusionThe performance of NITs to exclude advanced fibrosis did not differ greatly regardless of HS. FIB‐4 and NFS have the best negative predictive values of 0.80 and 0.78, respectively, to exclude advanced fibrosis in CHBHS subjects.
The nation in bronze and granite: Creating national monuments in post‐Soviet Bishkek
Authors: O'Shea Moira 
Published: March 2023

AbstractScholars of nationalism have long looked to material forms of symbolic power to understand the politics and cultures of nations, and national monuments specifically have been studied as reflections of ideological programmes of political regimes. However, these approaches have paid insufficient attention to processes of creation. Given the importance of material symbols as sites through which the nation is understood, I argue that analysing the dynamics of creation expands our understanding of symbolic nation making. Using the case of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and focusing on moments of creation and the actors involved in them, I build a conceptual framework for understanding the construction of national symbols on the ground based on three interconnected and co‐constituting dynamics: spatial, temporal and aesthetic/semiotic. Using this framework, I demonstrate how meaning and materiality are related to one another both as component and consequent in the creation of national monuments and how it is their very imperfection as material representations that provides the context for the nation to emerge as a category of discourse.
AggregateNet: A deep learning model for automated classification of cervical vertebrae maturation stages
Authors: Atici Salih Furkan , Ansari Rashid , Allareddy Veerasathpurush , Suhaym Omar , Cetin Ahmet Enis , Elnagar Mohammed H. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractObjectiveA study of supervised automated classification of the cervical vertebrae maturation (CVM) stages using deep learning (DL) network is presented. A parallel structured deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with a pre‐processing layer that takes X‐ray images and the age as the input is proposed.MethodsA total of 1018 cephalometric radiographs were labelled and classified according to the CVM stages. The images were separated according to gender for better model‐fitting. The images were cropped to extract the cervical vertebrae automatically using an object detector. The resulting images and the age inputs were used to train the proposed DL model: AggregateNet with a set of tunable directional edge enhancers. After the features of the images were extracted, the age input was concatenated to the output feature vector. To have the parallel network not overfit, data augmentation was used. The performance of our CNN model was compared with other DL models, ResNet20, Xception, MobileNetV2 and custom‐designed CNN model with the directional filters.ResultsThe proposed innovative model that uses a parallel structured network preceded with a pre‐processing layer of edge enhancement filters achieved a validation accuracy of 82.35% in CVM stage classification on female subjects, 75.0% in CVM stage classification on male subjects, exceeding the accuracy achieved with the other DL models investigated. The effectiveness of the directional filters is reflected in the improved performance attained in the results. If AggregateNet is used without directional filters, the test accuracy decreases to 80.0% on female subjects and to 74.03% on male subjects.ConclusionAggregateNet together with the tunable directional edge filters is observed to produce higher accuracy than the other models that we investigated in the fully automated determination of the CVM stages.
Global Cluster Analysis and Network Visualization in Prosthetic Joint Infection: A Scientometric Mapping
Authors: Dong Shengjie , Mei Fengyao , Li Jiao jiao , Xing Dan 
Published: March 2023

ObjectiveProsthetic joint infection (PJI) is the main reason of failure of total joint arthroplasty (TJA). This study aimed to investigate the global trends and network visualization in research of PJI.MethodsPublications in PJI search during 1980–2022 were extracted from the Science Citation Index‐Expanded of Web of Science Core Collection database (WoSCC). The source data was investigated and analyzed by bibliometric methodology. For network visualization, VOS viewer and R software was used to perform bibliographic coupling, co‐citation, co‐authorship and co‐occurrence analysis and to predict the publication trends in PJI research.ResultsThere were 7288 articles included. The number of publications and relative research interests increased gradually per year globally. The USA made the highest contributions in the world and with the highest H‐index and the most citations. Journal of Arthroplasty published the highest number of articles in this area. The Mayo Clinic, Thomas Jefferson University (Rothman Institute), Hospital Special Surgery and the Rush University were the most contributive institutions by network visualization. Included studies were divided into four clusters: bacterial pathogenic mechanism and antibacterial drugs study, TJA complications, risk factors and epidemiology of PJI, diagnosis of PJI, and revision surgical management. More articles in PJI could be published over the next few years.ConclusionThe number of publications about PJI will be increasing dramatically based on the global trends and network visualization. The USA made the highest contributions in PJI. Diagnosis and revision management may be the next hot spots in this field.
The emergence of complex adaptive response networks in China: A case study of four disasters
Authors: Tao Zhigang , Zhang Haibo 
Published: March 2023

AbstractThis study aims to identify the driving forces behind interorganizational networks in China following disasters. Using the theory of complex adaptive systems, we identified the self‐organization process of disaster response as the network formation process. We identified interorganizational networks that emerged in response to two natural hazards and two technical disasters by collecting data from multiple sources. The exponential random model analysis is performed to analyze the effects of structures and organizational attributes on network formation. In structuring networks for disaster response, findings demonstrate that bonding structures take precedence over bridging structures for organizations. Meanwhile, the sector and jurisdiction‐based homophily effects facilitate network formation in disaster response. On the basis of research findings, five propositions describing the network formation process in China's disaster response are proposed. Such a theoretical model is essential for advancing research and practice in complex disaster network management.
The long‐term impact of education on dietary diversity among women in Zimbabwe
Authors: Makate Marshall , Nyamuranga Chamunorwa 
Published: March 2023

AbstractEducation is perceived to have a positive impact on a variety of health outcomes. However, it is unclear how causal this association is or what could account for the observed relationship, especially in low‐income countries. This study examined the educational gradient in dietary diversity among young women using individual‐level survey data from Zimbabwe. A parametric fuzzy regression discontinuity design was used in the empirical analysis, with school reform exposure serving as an instrumental variable for educational attainment. The results show that increased schooling improves dietary diversity among women and that this effect is large and statistically significant. An examination of the potential mechanisms by which education improves dietary diversity revealed that women with more education are more likely to engage with print media by reading newspapers or magazines, to be literate, to access prenatal care when pregnant, to be wealthier, to have fewer children, and to live in metropolitan areas. These findings suggest that expanding educational opportunities, particularly for young girls in developing countries like Zimbabwe, could be a useful policy strategy to promote healthy eating among young women and, as a result, could enhance population health and nutrition outcomes.
Trend of changes in epidermal biophysical properties in the Chinese aged 1 month to 17‐year old
Authors: Ye Li , Lai Qingsong , Wang Xiaohua , Wen Si , Chen Aiqi , Lai Yulin , Yang Bin , Man Mao‐Qiang 
Published: March 2023

AbstractBackgroundAlthough it is known that epidermal biophysical properties vary with age and gender, the changes in epidermal biophysical properties over the time from baby to adolescence have not been elucidated yet. In the present study, we assessed the trend of changes in transepidermal water loss rates (TEWL), stratum corneum hydration, and skin surface pH in Chinese children.Participants and methodsA total of 780 boys and 610 girls, aged 1 month to 17‐year old, were enrolled in this study. TEWL and stratum corneum hydration on the forearm and the shin were measured with GPSkin Barrier, whereas skin surface pH was measured with portable skin pH meter.ResultsOverall, TEWL and stratum corneum hydration levels decreased, whereas skin surface pH increased in children from 1‐month old to 17‐year old. Significant decline in TEWL was observed on both the forearm and the shin of girls, and the shin of boys aged 13–17‐year old. Similarly, marked decline in stratum corneum hydration levels started at ages of 6–12‐year old. In contrast, decline in skin surface pH was observed in both girls and boys aged one to 12‐month old except on the forearm of boys. Afterward, skin surface pH remained either stable or slight increase except on the shin of boys aged >12 months to 3‐year old.ConclusionsThese results demonstrate that both TEWL and stratum corneum hydration levels decrease, whereas skin surface pH increases in children aged 1 month to 17‐year old. The changes in these biophysical properties vary with age, gender, and body site.
Productivity and wages of firms using COVID‐19‐related support policies
Authors: Morikawa Masayuki 
Published: March 2023

AbstractObjectiveThis study analyzes the performance over the past several years of firms that have taken advantage of various COVID‐19‐related support policies.MethodsThis study uses survey data on Japanese firms linked with official firm statistics to analyze the productivity and wages over the past several years of firms.ResultsThe results indicate that the firms that used support policies had lower productivity and wages long before the pandemic. Firms that used multiple policy measures and those that repeatedly used support policies tended to show additionally lower performance.ConclusionsFirm support policies may have the side effect of preserving inherently inefficient firms and such a problem may increase in severity as support policies become prolonged.
Incidence of breakthrough fungal infections on isavuconazole prophylaxis compared to posaconazole and voriconazole
Authors: Scott Sara A. , Perry Cory , Mahmoudjafari Zahra , Martin Grace A. , Boyd Samuel , Thompson Jeffrey , Thomas Beth 
Published: March 2023

AbstractBackgroundInvasive fungal infections (IFIs) are a common infectious complication during the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), high‐risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or post hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). For these patients, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network recommends posaconazole or voriconazole for IFI prophylaxis. In clinical practice, however, there has been increased use of isavuconazole due to favorable pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters despite limited data for this indication. The comparative prophylactic efficacy of antifungals in this patient population has not been reported, and an analysis is warranted.MethodsThis retrospective, matched cohort, single‐center study, included AML, MDS, or HCT patients who began treatment or underwent transplant between January 1, 2015 and July 31, 2021. Isavuconazole patients were matched 1:2 with patients receiving posaconazole or voriconazole prophylaxis.ResultsA total of 126 patients were included, 42 received isavuconazole, 81 received posaconazole, and three received voriconazole. The majority of patients were male receiving secondary IFI prophylaxis while receiving steroids for treatment of GVHD. The incidence of possible, probable or proven IFI was 16.7% in the isavuconazole group compared to 10.7% in the posaconazole and voriconazole group (OR 1.28, 95% CI −0.9–1.4; p = .67). Hepatotoxicity occurred in 16 total patients, 14 receiving posaconazole and two receiving isavuconazole.ConclusionPatients who received isavuconazole prophylaxis during AML induction therapy or post‐HCT experienced a similar incidence of breakthrough fungal infections compared to those who received posaconazole or voriconazole. These results suggest no difference in antifungal prophylactic efficacy; however larger prospective comparative studies are needed.
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