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Characterization of the road profile and the rotational stiffness of supports in a bridge based on axle accelerations of a crossing vehicle
Authors: Feng Kun , Casero Miguel , González Arturo 
Published: January 2023

AbstractIn an effort to find more cost‐effective and proactive ways to keep bridges in good condition, the use of instrumented vehicles has gained great interest in the last decade. Two bridge components that can wear rapidly are the bearings and the road surface. However, past research on drive‐by monitoring has placed focus mostly on detecting losses of bending stiffness in the bridge deck, while assuming ideal support conditions that may differ from real cases significantly, and ignoring the characterization of the road profile. Even further, the need for specialized vehicles equipped with high‐tech instrumentation, low speeds, or very good road profiles has been a major obstacle preventing its practical implementation. This paper investigates the use of axle accelerations from an ordinary two‐axle vehicle crossing the bridge to quantify the rotational stiffness of the supports and the height of the road irregularities while overcoming the limitations exposed above. In contrast to previous research where the response of the contact point has been derived from other vehicular locations based on complex differential equations of motion, transfer functions are employed here. The key advantage of transfer functions is their simple algebraic form that can be easily calibrated on the field. The road profile is then obtained by subtracting the displacement of the bridge under each axle from the displacement of the contact point. There is one prediction of the road profile per axle but only a unique value of rotational stiffness at each support that will yield the same prediction by both axles. The algorithm is successfully tested with a half‐car traveling at 5, 10, 15, and 20 m/s, over a 15‐m bridge beam model with ISO road classes “A,” “B,” and “C,” for boundary conditions ranging from simply supported to fixed. The solution's robustness to modeling inaccuracies and noisy data is also investigated.
Molecular membrane separation: plants inspire new technologies
Authors: De Rosa Annamaria , McGaughey Samantha , Magrath Isobel , Byrt Caitlin 
Published: January 2023

SummaryPlants draw up their surrounding soil solution to gain water and nutrients required for growth, development and reproduction. Obtaining adequate water and nutrients involves taking up both desired and undesired elements from the soil solution and separating resources from waste. Desirable and undesirable elements in the soil solution can share similar chemical properties, such as size and charge. Plants use membrane separation mechanisms to distinguish between different molecules that have similar chemical properties. Membrane separation enables distribution or retention of resources and efflux or compartmentation of waste. Plants use specialised membrane separation mechanisms to adapt to challenging soil solution compositions and distinguish between resources and waste. Coordination and regulation of these mechanisms between different tissues, cell types and subcellular membranes supports plant nutrition, environmental stress tolerance and energy management. This review considers membrane separation mechanisms in plants that contribute to specialised separation processes and highlights mechanisms of interest for engineering plants with enhanced performance in challenging conditions and for inspiring the development of novel industrial membrane separation technologies. Knowledge gained from studying plant membrane separation mechanisms can be applied to developing precision separation technologies. Separation technologies are needed for harvesting resources from industrial wastes and transitioning to a circular green economy.
Suppression of cuticular wax biosynthesis mediated by rice LOV KELCH REPEAT PROTEIN 2 supports a negative role in drought stress tolerance
Authors: Shim Yejin , Seong Gayeong , Choi Yumin , Lim Chaemyeong , Baek Seung‐A , Park Young Jin , Kim Jae Kwang , An Gynheung , Kang Kiyoon , Paek Nam‐Chon 
Published: January 2023

AbstractDrought tolerance is important for grain crops, including rice (Oryza sativa); for example, rice cultivated under intermittent irrigation produces less methane gas compared to rice grown in anaerobic paddy field conditions, but these plants require greater drought tolerance. Moreover, the roles of rice circadian‐clock genes in drought tolerance remain largely unknown. Here, we show that the mutation of LOV KELCH REPEAT PROTEIN 2 (OsLKP2) enhanced drought tolerance by increasing cuticular wax biosynthesis. Among ZEITLUPE family genes, OsLKP2 expression specifically increased under dehydration stress. OsLKP2 knockdown (oslkp2‐1) and knockout (oslkp2‐2) mutants exhibited enhanced drought tolerance. Cuticular waxes inhibit non‐stomatal water loss. Under drought conditions, total wax loads on the leaf surface increased by approximately 10% in oslkp2‐1 and oslkp2‐2 compared to the wild type, and the transcript levels of cuticular wax biosynthesis genes were upregulated in the oslkp2 mutants. Yeast two‐hybrid, bimolecular fluorescence complementation, and coimmunoprecipitation assays revealed that OsLKP2 interacts with GIGANTEA (OsGI) in the nucleus. The osgi mutants also showed enhanced tolerance to drought stress, with a high density of wax crystals on their leaf surface. These results demonstrate that the OsLKP2‐OsGI interaction negatively regulates wax accumulation on leaf surfaces, thereby decreasing rice resilience to drought stress.
Systemic herpes simplex virus infection in a child with eczema herpeticum
Authors: Akamatsu Mami , Kawamura Yoshiki , Miura Hiroki , Sugimoto Erina , Okamoto Kaoru , Nakajima Yoichi , Kozawa Kei , Furukawa Gen , Tanaka Makito , Kudo Kazuko , Yoshikawa Tetsushi 
Published: January 2023

AbstractEczema herpeticum (EH) is a disseminated cutaneous infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV) that develops in patients with atopic dermatitis. The kinetics and clinical significance of HSV viremia in EH are poorly understood. Herein, we report HSV DNAemia in a child with EH 12 months after the completion of chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma.
Third‐personal evidence for perceptual confidence
Authors: Morrison John 
Published: January 2023

AbstractPerceptual Confidence is the view that our conscious perceptual experiences assign confidence. In previous papers, I motivated it using first‐personal evidence (Morrison, 2016), and Jessie Munton motivated it using normative evidence (Munton, 2016). In this paper, I will consider the extent to which it is motivated by third‐personal evidence. I will argue that the current evidence is supportive but not decisive. I will then describe experiments that might provide stronger evidence. I hope to thereby provide a roadmap for future research.
Setting wait time targets in a multi‐priority patient setting
Authors: Babashov Vusal , Sauré Antoine , Ozturk Onur , Patrick Jonathan 
Published: January 2023

In current clinical practice, priority‐specific wait time targets are usually determined based on the consensus of medical specialists and health care administrators. The rationale behind this approach considers clinical urgency but it does not consider the efficient use of clinical resources and the patient volume associated with each priority class. The approach we present here aims to determine wait time targets in a systematic fashion that both respects clinically acceptable maximum recommended wait times and considers clinic size and demand distribution across patient classes. First, we discuss the performance of several advance patient scheduling policies in the literature in terms of average wait times and overtime and select one for illustrative purposes. Second, we simulate the chosen policy given a demand distribution and a fixed system capacity and approximate (using regression and neural networks) the average wait time for each priority class and the use of overtime as a function of potential wait time targets. Finally, using a parameterized cost function, we formulate forward and inverse mathematical problems to determine when the implicit unit wait time costs drop to zero as wait time target values increase. Using illustrative examples with two patient classes, and a practical application with four patient classes, we demonstrate the potential managerial benefits of the proposed approach in terms of improved clinic efficiency and reduced wait times. This approach ensures that wait times are set to the minimum value that still achieves the maximal resource efficiency ensuring that patients wait for service is not extended unnecessarily.
Drought‐induced CsMYB6 interacts with CsbHLH111 to regulate anthocyanin biosynthesis in Chaenomeles speciosa
Authors: Zhang Shuangyu , Ren Yanshen , Zhao Qianyi , Wu Yang , Zhuo Yue , Li Houhua 
Published: January 2023

AbstractChaenomeles speciosa is a plant with high ornamental value, and the color of its petals deepens obviously under drought stress. To understand the mechanism of drought‐induced reddening of C. speciosa petal color, the metabolites and transcriptomics of petals from 4% PEG‐8000‐treated and control cuttings were analyzed. In this study, the analysis of metabolites revealed the accumulation of anthocyanins in petals of PEG‐treated cuttings, indicating anthocyanins might be the reason for the deepening of petal color. By using transcriptomics, we identified CsMYB6 as an overexpressed transcription factor in PEG‐treated samples. Transient overexpression and suppression of CsMYB6 revealed that it is a key transcription factor for anthocyanin synthesis. We identified genes related to anthocyanin biosynthesis and constructed a network of drought‐ and anthocyanin‐related genes (such as CsMYB6, CsbHLH111, CsANS, CsDFR, and CsUFGT). Further experiments indicated that CsMYB6 directly interacted with CsbHLH111, and this interaction increased the binding ability of CsMYB6 to the promoter regions of three structural genes of anthocyanin biosynthesis: CsANS, CsDFR, and CsUFGT. Our findings provide a molecular basis and new insight into drought‐induced anthocyanin biosynthesis in C. speciosa.
Complications and treatment errors in implant positioning in the aesthetic zone: Diagnosis and possible solutions
Authors: Chen Stephen T. , Buser Daniel , Sculean Anton , Belser Urs C. 
Published: January 2023

AbstractIncorrect implant positioning can lead to functional and aesthetic compromise. Implant positioning errors can occur in three dimensions: mesiodistal, corono‐apical, and orofacial. Treatment solutions to manage adverse outcomes through positioning errors require an understanding of the underlying conditions and of those factors that may have led to the error being committed in the first place. These types of complications usually occur because of human factors. If errors do occur with adverse aesthetic outcomes, they are difficult and sometimes impossible to correct. Connective tissue grafts to reverse recession defects are only feasible in defined situations. The option to remove and replace the implant may be the only recourse, provided the removal process does not further compromise the site. Error in judgment by the clinician.
Building blocks of polycentric governance
Authors: Morrison Tiffany H. , Bodin Örjan , Cumming Graeme S. , Lubell Mark , Seppelt Ralf , Seppelt Tim , Weible Christopher M. 
Published: January 2023

AbstractSuccess or failure of a polycentric system is a function of complex political and social processes, such as coordination between actors and venues to solve specialized policy problems. Yet there is currently no accepted method for isolating distinct processes of coordination, nor to understand how their variance affects polycentric governance performance. We develop and test a building‐blocks approach that uses different patterns or “motifs” for measuring and comparing coordination longitudinally on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Our approach confirms that polycentric governance comprises an evolving substrate of interdependent venues and actors over time. However, while issue specialization and actor participation can be improved through the mobilization of venues, such a strategy can also fragment overall polycentric capacity to resolve conflict and adapt to new problems. A building‐blocks approach advances understanding and practice of polycentric governance by enabling sharper diagnosis of internal dynamics in complex environmental governance systems.
Textual data transformations using natural language processing for risk assessment
Authors: Kamil Mohammad Zaid , Taleb‐Berrouane Mohammed , Khan Faisal , Amyotte Paul , Ahmed Salim 
Published: January 2023

AbstractUnderlying information about failure, including observations made in free text, can be a good source for understanding, analyzing, and extracting meaningful information for determining causation. The unstructured nature of natural language expression demands advanced methodology to identify its underlying features. There is no available solution to utilize unstructured data for risk assessment purposes. Due to the scarcity of relevant data, textual data can be a vital learning source for developing a risk assessment methodology. This work addresses the knowledge gap in extracting relevant features from textual data to develop cause–effect scenarios with minimal manual interpretation. This study applies natural language processing and text‐mining techniques to extract features from past accident reports. The extracted features are transformed into parametric form with the help of fuzzy set theory and utilized in Bayesian networks as prior probabilities for risk assessment. An application of the proposed methodology is shown in microbiologically influenced corrosion‐related incident reports available from the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration database. In addition, the trained named entity recognition (NER) model is verified on eight incidents, showing a promising preliminary result for identifying all relevant features from textual data and demonstrating the robustness and applicability of the NER method. The proposed methodology can be used in domain‐specific risk assessment to analyze, predict, and prevent future mishaps, ameliorating overall process safety.
Methodological quality assessment should move beyond design specificity
Authors: Stone Jennifer C. , Glass Kathryn , Ritskes-Hoitinga Merel , Munn Zachary , Tugwell Peter , Doi Suhail A.R. 
Published: January 2023

Objective:
This study aimed to assess the utility of a unified tool (MASTER) for bias assessment against design-specific tools in terms of content and coverage.

Methods:
Each of the safeguards in the design-specific tools was compared and matched to safeguards in the unified MASTER scale. The design-specific tools were the JBI, Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), and the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) tools for analytic study designs. Duplicates, safeguards that could not be mapped to the MASTER scale, and items not applicable as safeguards against bias were flagged and described.

Results:
Many safeguards across the JBI, SIGN, and NOS tools were common, with a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 23 unique safeguards across various tools. These 3 design-specific toolsets were missing 14 to 26 safeguards from the MASTER scale. The MASTER scale had complete coverage of safeguards within the 3 toolsets for analytic designs.

Conclusions:
The MASTER scale provides a unified framework for bias assessment of analytic study designs, has good coverage, avoids duplication, has less redundancy, and is more convenient when used for methodological quality assessment in evidence synthesis. It also allows assessment across designs that cannot be done using a design-specific tool.
Influence of Overburden Pressure on Imbibition Behavior in Tight Sandstones Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Technique
Authors: Meng Mianmo , Li Longlong , Yuan Bao , Wang Qianyou , Sun Xiaohui , Zhang Ye , Li Dahua 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Imbibition under overburden pressure can simulate the imbibition behavior in reservoir conditions during hydraulic fracturing, about which the mechanism is still unclear. This study investigated the imbibition with overburden pressure using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) displacement design. The main contribution of this study is that the initial imbibition rate under confining pressure can reflect the pore connectivity of reservoirs under overburden pressure and a method for appraising the pore connectivity under confining pressure was established. The tight sandstone samples were collected from the Upper Paleozoic Taiyuan and Shihezi Formations in Ordos Basin. The Taiyuan Formation presents the apparent double-peak structure from NMR spectra, and liquid fills into small pore preferentially as a whole. When the imbibition time is on a square root scale, the cumulative imbibition height at the initial imbibition period is not stable, which deviates from the linear principle, and the initial imbibition rate ranges from 0.077 to 0.1145. The Shihezi Formation shows a dominant peak structure from NMR spectra, and the liquid has no obvious filling order as a whole. When the imbibition time is on a square root scale, the cumulative imbibition height at the initial imbibition period also deviates from the linear principle, and the initial imbibition rate ranges from 0.0641 to 0.1619.
An Explanation for a Paradox in a Fluid-Discharging Cantilevered Pipe Attached With an End-Mass
Authors: Guixin Zhao , Shuai Meng , Zhaolong Han , Shixiao Fu 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
For a fluid-discharging cantilevered pipe attached with an end-mass, there are two methods to account for the end-mass effect. The first is that the end-mass is considered in the boundary conditions. The second is that the end-mass is included in the equation of motion via a Dirac delta function. As the analytical solution of the linear free vibration model is not available due to the presence of Coriolis force, the eigenfunctions of a beam, which satisfy the same boundary conditions, are commonly employed in the Galerkin method. It has been found the first method is incorrect for natural frequency calculation when the internal flow velocity is nonzero. However, the intrinsic mechanism remains to be clarified. This study has demonstrated the eigenfunctions in the first method depend on the end-mass and the orthogonality relations are quite different from that of typical simple beams, based on which a new model is proposed and the prediction compares well with that in the second method. For further validation, the critical internal flow velocity, the onset flutter frequency, and the dynamic responses of suspended pipes under gravity are computed, which compare well with experimental observations. This study can provide a workbench for fluid-conveying pipes with various boundary conditions.
The Effects of COVID-19 School Closures on Physical Fitness in Adolescents
Authors: Wolfe Alex M. , Pessman Maria A. , Laurson Kelly R. , Brown Dale D. , Brown Ryan A. 
Published: January 2023

Purpose: This study examined differences in measures of health-related physical fitness in adolescents before and after extended school closures due to COVID-19. Method: The sample consisted of 298 students (135 males and 163 females) from a laboratory high school. Data were collected through FITNESSGRAM assessments. A repeated-measures multivariate analysis of covariance was calculated to analyze differences in fitness before and after COVID-19 closures, including McNemar–Bowker and McNemar tests. Results: Statistically significant differences were identified for Progressive Aerobic Capacity Endurance Run (−4.2%; 1.8 ml·kg−1·min−1) and curl-up (−12.5%; 7.9 repetitions). In addition, 18.8% fewer students were classified within the Healthy Fitness Zone for Progressive Aerobic Capacity Endurance Run, 4% for curl-up, 10.8% for push-up, and 6.4% for sit and reach. Conclusion: Results of this study demonstrate that there was a significant decline in physical fitness for secondary students during extended school closures and social isolation as a result of COVID-19.
From Imaginative Experiments to Inventive Performances: On the Role of Creativity in the Developmental Experiences of Professional Ice Hockey Players
Authors: Rasmussen Ludvig Johan Torp , Dalsgaard Simon Hovesen 
Published: January 2023

Despite an increasing interest in studying creativity in sport, previous research has primarily focused on in-game creative performance and employed research designs neglecting sport participants’ perspectives. Hence, this study explored professional athletes’ developmental experiences involving creativity. Semistructured retrospective interviews were conducted with eight ice hockey players performing in or retired from the National Hockey League, Kontinental Hockey League, or Swedish Hockey League. Players described 15 modalities of creative actions emerging when playing, practicing, and performing. Based on the players’ experiences, creativity led to augmented levels of enjoyment (i.e., elicited passion), development (i.e., enhanced potential), achievement (i.e., enriched in-game qualification), and fulfillment (i.e., extended career progression). Findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of creativity in sport and provide novel insights on the role of creativity in the development and maintenance of expertise in sport and the nature and role of deliberate play and deliberate practice in developing creativity.
Is daytime napping an effective strategy to improve sport-related cognitive and physical performance and reduce fatigue? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Authors: Mesas Arthur Eumann , Núñez de Arenas-Arroyo Sergio , Martinez-Vizcaino Vicente , Garrido-Miguel Miriam , Fernández-Rodríguez Ruben , Bizzozero-Peroni Bruno , Torres-Costoso Ana I 
Published: January 2023

ObjectiveTo estimate the association between daytime napping and cognitive and physical sport performance and fatigue after normal sleep and partial sleep deprivation (less sleep duration than necessary).DesignSystematic review and meta-analysis.Data sourcesThe PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Central, SportDiscus and PsycINFO databases.Eligibility criteria for selecting studiesRandomised controlled trials on the effect of daytime napping on sport performance and fatigue available from inception to 2 December 2022. Standardised mean differences (SMD) and their 95% compatibility intervals (CI) were estimated with the DerSimonian-Laird method through random effect models.ResultsIn the 22 included trials, 291 male participants (164 trained athletes and 127 physically active adults) aged between 18 and 35 years were studied. When performed after a normal night of sleep, napping from 12:30 hours to 16:50 hours (with 14:00 hours being the most frequent time) improved cognitive (SMD=0.69, 95% CI: 0.37 to 1.00; I2=71.5%) and physical performance (SMD=0.99, 95% CI: 0.67 to 1.31; I2=89.1%) and reduced the perception of fatigue (SMD=−0.76, 95% CI: −1.24 to –0.28; I2=89.5%). The positive effects of napping were also confirmed after partial sleep deprivation. Overall, the benefits were higher with a nap duration between 30 and <60 min and when the time from nap awakening to test was greater than 1 hour.ConclusionsAfter a night of normal sleep or partial sleep deprivation, a daytime nap between 30 and <60 min has a moderate-to-high effect on the improvement of cognitive performance and physical performance and on the reduction of perceived fatigue.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42020212272.