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A platform sandbox for the assessment of municipal sustainable development goals
Authors: Ferreira Filipe , Briga Pedro , Ramos Teixeira Sérgio , Almeida Fernando 
Published: August 2023

Purpose
This study aims to present an innovative sandbox platform that implements a decision support system (DSS) to assess the sustainable development goals (SDGs) addressed at the municipal level. It intends to determine the relative importance of each SDG in municipalities and explore the synergies that can be discovered among them.

Design/methodology/approach
Participatory action research is used to develop a DSS and an algorithm designated as discrete heavy fuzzy was also developed, which extends the Apriori algorithm to include discrete quantitative assessments of the level of SDG compliance by each project. A scenario consisting of three municipalities in Portugal (i.e. Porto, Loulé and Castelo de Vide) was chosen to demonstrate the implementation of the sandbox platform and to interpret the observed results.

Findings
The results reveal significant differences in the typology of SDGs addressed by each municipality. It was found that municipal sustainable projects are strongly influenced by the contextual factors of each municipality. Porto has projects that address the first five SDGs. Loulé appears projects that promote innovation, the fight against climate change and the development of sustainable cities. Castelo de Vida has initiatives related to innovation and infrastructure and decent work and economic growth.

Research limitations/implications
This study provides knowledge about the relative importance of the SDGs in Portuguese municipalities and explores the synergies among them. The proposed sandbox platform fills the gaps of the ODSlocal Webtool by proposing a dynamic and interactive approach for the exploration of quantitative indicators regarding the implementation status of the SDGs established in the 2030 Agenda.

Originality/value
This study provides knowledge about the relative importance of the SDGs and the various synergies that exist between them considering the Portuguese municipalities. The sandbox platform presented and developed within this study allows filling the gaps of the ODSlocal Webtool that gathers essentially qualitative information about each project and offers a dynamic and interactive exploration with quantitative indicators of the implementation status of the SDGs established in the 2030 Agenda.
Shariah governance and takaful financial performance: the case of listed takaful insurances
Authors: BenSaid Yosra Ridha 
Published: August 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the Shariah governance mechanisms of takaful insurance and their impact on its financial performance.

Design/methodology/approach
The effect of Shariah governance mechanisms on financial performance is analyzed over 2012–2018 on a sample of 11 takaful listed insurances in the Middle East region. Using multiple regression models, four hypotheses addressing Shariah governance mechanisms are tested.

Findings
The findings generally reveal that Shariah governance has an impact on the financial performance of takaful insurance. The Shariah Supervisory Board (SSB) size, the members’ reputation and their qualifications are the main determinants of financial performance for listed takaful insurance.

Research limitations/implications
This paper includes two main limitations that may affect the accuracy of the finding. First, the results are restricted to the Middle East region and may not be generalized to other regions. Second, the sample is dominated by UAE, i.e. 4 takaful insurances out of 11.

Practical implications
Both Shariah governance and regular governance have an impact on the financial performance of takaful insurance. Yet, the effect of Shariah governance is more robust. To improve its financial performance, takaful insurance should expand the size of the SSB, hiring reputable scholars and recruit doctors in Islamic economics.

Originality/value
This research studies takaful insurance, unlike the majority of other works that have focused on Islamic banks.
As cute as a button: the effect of size on online product cuteness perception
Authors: Li Yuan , Eastman Jacqueline 
Published: August 2023

Purpose
Cute products have found market success. The literature has identified various factors of cuteness, but the effect of size is under-addressed. This study aims to investigate whether and how size perception influences consumers’ cuteness perception.

Design/methodology/approach
In three experiments, size was manipulated in terms of visual cue, product description and product name to determine its impact on cuteness perception.

Findings
The results of the three experiments demonstrate that a size cue of smallness can heighten consumers’ perception of product cuteness. The first two studies provided converging evidence for the main hypothesis that smaller objects are evaluated as cuter. Study 3 not only replicated the findings of the first two studies but also revealed that vulnerability acts as the underlying process for the smallness-cuteness relationship. Study 3 also showed that the purchase likelihood for an extended product warranty is higher in the small condition compared to the control condition.

Research limitations/implications
While the findings were robust across product types and size manipulations, possible boundary conditions related to product types or individual characteristics were not tested.

Practical implications
The findings suggest how brand managers can use size perceptions to influence consumers’ perceptions of the cuteness of their products and brands.

Originality/value
The findings inform brand managers about the nuances of size cues that may affect how customers perceive their products and identify a more generally applicable cuteness factor that may have downstream implications for marketing practitioners.
Sentiment and economic activity in Brazil
Authors: Marschner Paulo Fernando , Ceretta Paulo Sergio 
Published: August 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyze how sentiment affects economic activity in Brazil.Design/methodology/approachBased on a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model, this study examines in detail the short-term and long-term asymmetric impacts between the variables during the period from January 2007 to December 2020.FindingsThere are three main results of this study. First, sentiment is an important factor for economic activity in Brazil, and its effect possibly occurs through the channels of consumption and investment, which are the two main components of economic growth. Second, sentiment affects economic activity in different ways in the short and the long term: in Brazil, although in the short-term, immediate shocks of sentiment may be confusing, the negative shocks from previous periods have a negative impact on economic activity. Third, the effect of shocks of optimism and pessimism on economic activity is asymmetric, and in the long run, only shocks of optimism have a significant and positive impact.Originality/valueThe relationship between sentiment and economic activity is still a controversial issue in the literature and this study seeks to advance its understanding in Brazil.
Multi-robot raster map fusion without initial relative position
Authors: Wang Minghao , Cong Ming , Du Yu , Liu Dong , Tian Xiaojing 
Published: August 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to solve the problem of an unknown initial position in a multi-robot raster map fusion. The method includes two-dimensional (2D) raster maps and three-dimensional (3D) point cloud maps.

Design/methodology/approach
A fusion method using multiple algorithms was proposed. For 2D raster maps, this method uses accelerated robust feature detection to extract feature points of multi-raster maps, and then feature points are matched using a two-step algorithm of minimum Euclidean distance and adjacent feature relation. Finally, the random sample consensus algorithm was used for redundant feature fusion. On the basis of 2D raster map fusion, the method of coordinate alignment is used for 3D point cloud map fusion.

Findings
To verify the effectiveness of the algorithm, the segmentation mapping method (2D raster map) and the actual robot mapping method (2D raster map and 3D point cloud map) were used for experimental verification. The experiments demonstrated the stability and reliability of the proposed algorithm.

Originality/value
This algorithm uses a new visual method with coordinate alignment to process the raster map, which can effectively solve the problem of the demand for the initial relative position of robots in traditional methods and be more adaptable to the fusion of 3D maps. In addition, the original data of the map can come from different types of robots, which greatly improves the universality of the algorithm.
Infection detection in faces: Children's development of pathogen avoidance
Authors: Leung Tiffany S. , Zeng Guangyu , Maylott Sarah E. , Martinez Shantalle N. , Jakobsen Krisztina V. , Simpson Elizabeth A. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis study examined the development of children's avoidance and recognition of sickness using face photos from people with natural, acute, contagious illness. In a U.S. sample of fifty‐seven 4‐ to 5‐year‐olds (46% male, 70% White), fifty‐two 8‐ to 9‐year‐olds (26% male, 62% White), and 51 adults (59% male, 61% White), children and adults avoided and recognized sick faces (ds ranged from 0.38 to 2.26). Both avoidance and recognition improved with age. Interestingly, 4‐ to 5‐year‐olds' avoidance of sick faces positively correlated with their recognition, suggesting stable individual differences in these emerging skills. Together, these findings are consistent with a hypothesized immature but functioning and flexible behavioral immune system emerging early in development. Characterizing children's sickness perception may help design interventions to improve health.
Moral reasoning about gang violence in context: A comparative study with children and adolescents exposed tomarasin Honduras and not exposed in Nicaragua
Authors: Moreno Franklin 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis study examined how youth morally deliberate about conditions of gang violence shaping their communities. Participants (N = 80; 10–11 and 14–15 years; 50% female) exposed to gangs (maras) in Honduras and not exposed to maras in Nicaragua evaluated hypothetical situations of physical harm in contexts of chronic gang violence. Results indicated that mara‐exposed youth were more likely to endorse harming a rival gang member in some contexts, but not others. Moreover, in some contexts, males were more likely to endorse harming others as necessary. Few age differences emerged, suggesting comparability among children and adolescents. Discussion focuses on how children and adolescents coordinate different moral and social concepts and concerns pertaining to acts of physical harm in situations involving gangs.
American sign language level 1 assessment: What is out there?
Authors: Buchanan Beverly J. , Pirone John S. , Pudans‐Smith Kimberly K. , Leffler Brian W. , Cohen Brad S. , Simmons Paul K. , Ballentine Pauline M. , Venable Tabitha , Soza Karen 
Published: August 2023

AbstractAmerican Sign Language (ASL) education is a relatively new field. Thus, further research is necessary, especially regarding developing assessment tools. The goal of this study was to determine the types of assessment tools ASL level 1 teachers use in the classroom and how those teachers measure students' language progression. This study is critical because no standard ASL level 1 assessment tool measures students' skill levels to advance to the next level. The survey was created to build a better understanding of what tools ASL instructors use to assess their students' language performance. Data were collected from 93 ASL level 1 teachers. The results demonstrated a need for additional training for ASL teachers to improve their knowledge of language assessments and skills in using assessment tools, especially to support ASL students' language progress and proficiency. The results of this study provide suggestions for future assessment tools to increase the effectiveness of ASL programs across the United States.
Toward humanizing SFL praxis: Coconstructing language teachers' understandings of their intersectional identities via language use
Authors: Troyan Francis John , Fernández Loretta , Weng Zhenjie , Ferguson Daniel Scott , Iswandari Yuseva Ariyani , Avdakov Sarah 
Published: August 2023

AbstractContextualized within our Projects in Humanization in language teacher education and part of our on‐going collaborative self‐study of our language teacher educator practices, we used multiple case study to examine multimodal representations of cultural and linguistic identities curated by three language teachers—Daniel, Yuseva, and Sarah—and humanizing dialog to engage them in reflection on those identities. The central task, the Language Use Profile—part of the foundations course in our language teacher education programs—guided language teachers in developing their understandings of their bi‐/multilingual language use, language ideologies, and systemic functional linguistics (SFL). In all three cases, examination of language use served as a window for the language teachers to observe their intersectionality or, in some cases, to become aware of it. Each language teacher took up the assignment in different ways, with the task as the context for reflection on language use and identities journeys such as translanguaging to survive, negotiating my identity and being a white woman who learned Spanish. SFL metalanguage served as a tool for the language teachers to make sense of their multidimensional language use. Our findings point to the potential of the Language Use Profile as a means for guiding language teachers in the identity work that is central in humanizing language teacher education.
THE DISCREPANCIES OF THE ‘ANTHROPOZOIC AGE’ IN ERNST HAECKEL'S INDISCHE REISEBRIEFE (1882)
Authors: Engberg Isabella Maria 
Published: August 2023

ABSTRACTIn Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866), Ernst Haeckel systematised the biological study of morphology along evolutionary lines and proposed that the ‘Anthropozoic Age’ should be considered the most recent paleontological time period. This article first examines Haeckelʼs early concept of the Anthropozoic Age in relation to his ambiguous use of the words ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture’ in his life's work. It then illustrates how his later travel narrative, Indische Reisebriefe (1882), projects notions of the Anthropozoic Age onto landscapes from his journey to British‐governed Ceylon. Haeckel presents two diverging paleontological timescales: a deep and interconnected past of the island's organisms and the currently escalating consequences of human cultivation of the land. Lending different scientific and aesthetic attention to the depiction of the two environmental developments, discrepant images are fused in his hopes and visions of a new and better ‘Age of Culture’. The travel report is thus a very early literary response to the scientific concept of living during a time in which humanity dominates the world's environments. From today's perspective, the text raises familiar questions regarding how humans should conceive their own agency in the Anthropocene. At the same time, it highlights the concept's entanglement with contemporary philosophical and socio‐political discourses.
Low‐intensity pulsed ultrasound at ST36 improves the gastric motility by TNF‐α/IKKβ/NF‐κB signaling pathway in diabetic rats
Authors: Han Nie , Jiang Weijun , Li Guanheng , Lu Lingling , Shan Jiali , Feng Lan , Jin Lin 
Published: August 2023

AbstractBackground and AimLow‐intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) can effectively regulate the central and peripheral nervous system. However, whether LIPUS could act on acupuncture points to modulate the activity of peripheral nervous has rarely been studied. Our study aimed to investigate whether LIPUS at ST36 could improve gastric emptying in diabetic gastroparesis rats.MethodsSprague–Dawley male rats were divided into three groups: control group (CON), diabetic gastroparesis group (DM), and diabetic gastroparesis LIPUS treated group (LIPUS). The body weight and blood glucose were recorded every week. Glucose tolerance, gastric emptying rate, and gastric motility were measured before and after treatment. Gastric motility was assessed by ultrasonic examination and Muscle strip experiment. The expression level of c‐Kit was assessed by immunohistochemistry staining. Levels of TNF‐α, p‐NF‐κB p‐65, NF‐κB p‐65, and p‐IKKβ, IKKβ were measured by western blot.ResultsWe reported LIPUS at an intensity of 0.88 W/cm2 exhibited significant differences in functional recovery of gastric delayed emptying in diabetic rats. Through ultrasound gastric motility functional testing and analysis of gastric antral smooth muscle strips indirectly and directly proved the effectiveness of LIPUS for the recovery of gastric delayed emptying. Pathological analysis and western blot indicated that the mechanism by which LIPUS applied to ST36 improved gastric motility may be partially attributed to the inhibition of the TNF‐α/IKKβ/NF‐κB signaling pathway, thereby rescuing the damaged interstitial cells of Cajal network.ConclusionLIPUS at ST36 improved the gastric motility and rescued the damaged networks of interstitial cells of Cajal. LIPUS may have a promising therapeutic potential for diabetic gastroparesis.
A statistical shape model for estimating missing soft tissues of the face in a black South African population
Authors: Swanepoel Helene Francia , Matthews Harold S. , Claes Peter , Vandermeulen Dirk , Oettlé Anna C. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractPurposeFacial disfigurement may affect the quality of life of many patients. Facial prostheses are often used as an adjuvant to surgical intervention and may sometimes be the only viable treatment option. Traditional methods for designing soft‐tissue facial prostheses are time‐consuming and subjective, while existing digital techniques are based on mirroring of contralateral features of the patient, or the use of existing feature templates/models that may not be readily available. We aim to support the objective and semi‐automated design of facial prostheses with primary application to midline or bilateral defect restoration where no contralateral features are present. Specifically, we developed and validated a statistical shape model (SSM) for estimating the shape of missing facial soft tissue segments, from any intact parts of the face.Materials and MethodsAn SSM of 3D facial variations was built from meshes extracted from computed tomography and cone beam computed tomography images of a black South African sample (n = 235) without facial disfigurement. Various types of facial defects were simulated, and the missing parts were estimated automatically by a weighted fit of each mesh to the SSM. The estimated regions were compared to the original regions using color maps and root‐mean‐square (RMS) distances.ResultsRoot mean square errors (RMSE) for defect estimations of one orbit, partial nose, cheek, and lip were all below 1.71 mm. Errors for the full nose, bi‐orbital defects, as well as small and large composite defects were between 2.10 and 2.58 mm. Statistically significant associations of age and type of defect with RMSE were observed, but not with sex or imaging modality.ConclusionThis method can support the objective and semi‐automated design of facial prostheses, specifically for defects in the midline, crossing the midline or bilateral defects, by facilitating time‐consuming and skill‐dependent aspects of prosthesis design.
Eight‐ to 12‐year‐old US children's emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes
Authors: Ackerman Amanda , Elenbaas Laura 
Published: August 2023

AbstractDrawing on social identity development theory, this study investigated a socioeconomically diverse sample of 8‐ to 12‐year‐old US children's (N = 93) subjective social status (SSS), how they determined and identified with their SSS, and whether their own SSS related to their social preferences for individuals from other SSS groups. Children primarily referenced material resources, lifestyles, money, and relative comparisons when explaining how they determined their SSS. Although all children identified with their SSS ingroup and viewed it positively, higher‐SSS children reported stronger identification with their SSS ingroup than did middle‐SSS children. Finally, regardless of their own SSS, children liked higher‐SSS individuals less, on average, than middle‐ or lower‐SSS individuals. Overall, this study provides novel evidence for the emergence of SSS identity in late childhood and its early relations to SSS intergroup preferences.
Trade‐induced reduction in unemployment of a high‐wage economy
Authors: Brecher Richard A. , Yu Zhihao 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis paper shows that a high‐wage country might reduce its unemployment by trading with a low‐wage economy, despite popular predictions to the contrary. We demonstrate this possibility in a Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson type of model with two countries, which differ only because one of them has a binding minimum‐wage constraint and a technological improvement that (despite the heightened wage) creates a comparative advantage in the labour‐intensive good. Under these circumstances, the minimum‐wage economy will experience an unemployment reduction when it trades with a low‐wage counterpart. This theoretical result is consistent with some recent empirical estimates.
Melanophoroma in a Lichtenstein's green racer snake
Authors: Beanes Alan S. , dos Passos Marina C. , Cavalcanti Eduarda A. N. L. D. , Zani Gabriel da S. , Bandinelli Marcele B. , Bandarra Paulo da M. , Fernandes Cristina G. , França Raqueli T. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractMelanophoroma is a neoplasm of reptilian pigment cells, considered uncommon and part of a group of neoplasms called chromatophoromas. The objective of this work was to describe a case of melanophoroma in a free‐living Lichtenstein's green racer snake (Philodryas olfersii), presenting with an ulcerative nodular neoformation in the integument of the head region. In the neurologic evaluation, a proprioceptive deficit was observed. Ultrasound, X‐ray, and mass cytology examinations were performed. Radiographic and ultrasound findings of the tumor indicated infiltrative behavior, and cytology indicated a presumptive diagnosis of a melanocytic neoplasm. Based on the results of the examinations and the patient's clinical condition, euthanasia was chosen. At necropsy, there was a nodule measuring 4.5 × 2.5 × 2.0 cm, with a blackish‐colored cut surface, mottled by gray areas, which infiltrated soft tissue and bone, and extended dorsally from the mouth to the cervical musculature. On microscopy, a non‐delimited, non‐encapsulated, and invasive neoplastic proliferation was observed, with moderate cellularity, which was predominantly composed of fusiform cells with distinct borders and foci of epithelioid cells. The cells had ample cytoplasm, which had a brown to black (melanocytic) granular pigment compatible with a melanophoroma. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is a unique description of a melanophoroma in P. olfersii.
Complete genome sequence of marine filamentous bacterium,
Saprospira grandis
strain WH
T
Authors: Heng Wooi Liang , Lau Nyok-Sean , Furusawa Go 
Published: August 2023

ABSTRACT

Here, we report the complete genome sequence of a type strain of the genus
Saprospira
,
Saprospira grandis
strain WH
T
. The genome consists of one circular chromosome and plasmid comprising 4,250,550 bp and 53,161 bp with GC content of 46.6% and 46.8%, respectively.