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Complete coverage path planning for wheeled agricultural robots
Authors: Pour Arab Danial , Spisser Matthias , Essert Caroline 
Published: May 2023

AbstractIn the agricultural industry, an evolutionary effort has been made over the last two decades to achieve precise autonomous systems to perform typical in‐field tasks, including harvesting, mowing, and spraying. One of the main objectives of an autonomous system in agriculture is to improve the efficiency while reducing the environmental impact and cost. Due to the nature of these operations, complete coverage path planning (CCPP) approaches play an essential role to find an optimal path which covers the entire field while taking into account land topography, operation requirements, and robot characteristics. The aim of this paper is to propose a CCPP approach defining the optimal movements of mobile robots over an agricultural field. First, a method based on tree exploration is proposed to find all potential solutions satisfying some predefined constraints. Second, a similarity check and selection of optimal solutions method is proposed to eliminate similar solutions and find the best solutions. The optimization goals are to maximize the coverage area and to minimize overlaps, nonworking path length, and overall travel time. To explore a wide range of possible solutions, our approach is able to consider multiple entrances for the robot. For fields with a complex shape, different dividing lines to split them into simple polygons are also considered. Our approach also computes the headland zones and covers them automatically which leads to a high coverage rate of the field.
BatNet: a deep learning‐based tool for automated bat species identification from camera trap images
Authors: Krivek Gabriella , Gillert Alexander , Harder Martin , Fritze Marcus , Frankowski Karina , Timm Luisa , Meyer‐Olbersleben Liska , von Lukas Uwe Freiherr , Kerth Gerald , van Schaik Jaap 
Published: May 2023

AbstractAutomated monitoring technologies can increase the efficiency of ecological data collection and support data‐driven conservation. Camera traps coupled with infrared light barriers can be used to monitor temperate‐zone bat assemblages at underground hibernacula, where thousands of individuals of multiple species can aggregate in winter. However, the broad‐scale adoption of such photo‐monitoring techniques is limited by the time‐consuming bottleneck of manual image processing. Here, we present BatNet, an open‐source, deep learning‐based tool for automated identification of 13 European bat species from camera trap images. BatNet includes a user‐friendly graphical interface, where it can be retrained to identify new bat species or to create site‐specific models to improve detection accuracy at new sites. Model accuracy was evaluated on images from both trained and untrained sites, and in an ecological context, where community‐ and species‐level metrics (species diversity, relative abundance, and species‐level activity patterns) were compared between human experts and BatNet. At trained sites, model performance was high across all species (F1‐score: 0.98–1). At untrained sites, overall classification accuracy remained high (96.7–98.2%), when camera placement was comparable to the training images (<3 m from the entrance; <45° angle relative to the opening). For atypical camera placements (>3 m or >45° angle), retraining the detector model with 500 site‐specific annotations achieved an accuracy of over 95% at all sites. In the ecological case study, all investigated metrics were nearly identical between human experts and BatNet. Finally, we exemplify the ability to retrain BatNet to identify a new bat species, achieving an F1‐score of 0.99 while maintaining high classification accuracy for all original species. BatNet can be implemented directly to scale up the deployment of camera traps in Europe and enhance bat population monitoring. Moreover, the pretrained model can serve as a baseline for transfer learning to automatize the image‐based identification of bat species worldwide.
Single Site Coordination Enabled Construction of Metal‐Diketimine‐Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Boosted Electrooxidation of Biomass Derivative
Authors: Zheng Chaoyang , Zhang Shun , Li Zhixi , Xiao Liyun , Song Meina , Du Jing , Guo Jun , Gao Xiaoqing , Peng Yongwu , Tang Zhiyong , Zhao Meiting 
Published: May 2023

AbstractAromatic aldehydes are widely used for the construction of covalent organic frameworks (COFs). However, due to the high flexibility, high steric hindrance, and low reactivity, it remains challenging to synthesize COFs using ketones as building units, especially the highly flexible aliphatic ones. Here, the single nickel site coordination strategy is reported to lock the configurations of the highly flexible diketimine to transform discrete oligomers or amorphous polymers into highly crystalline nickel‐diketimine‐linked COFs (named as Ni‐DKI‐COFs). The strategy has been successfully extended to the synthesis of a series of Ni‐DKI‐COFs by the condensation of three flexible diketones with two tridentate amines. Thanks to the ABC stacking model with high amount and easily accessible single nickel (II) sites on their 1D channels, Ni‐DKI‐COFs are exploited as well‐defined electrocatalyst platforms for efficiently electro‐upgrading biomass‐derived 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) into value‐added 2,5‐furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) with a 99.9% yield and a 99.5% faradaic efficiency as well as a high turnover frequency of 0.31 s−1.
Lactate‐Responsive Gene Editing to Synergistically Enhance Macrophage‐Mediated Cancer Immunotherapy
Authors: Li Yuwei , Wei Yue , Huang Ying , Qin Geng , Zhao Chuanqi , Ren Jinsong , Qu Xiaogang 
Published: May 2023

AbstractCombination therapies involving metabolic regulation and immune checkpoint blockade are considered an encouraging new strategy for cancer therapy. However, the effective utilization of combination therapies for activating tumor‐associated macrophages (TAMs) remains challenging. Herein, a lactate‐catalyzed chemodynamic approach to activate the therapeutic genome editing of signal‐regulatory protein α (SIRPα) to reprogram TAMs and improve cancer immunotherapy is proposed. This system is constructed by encapsulating lactate oxidase (LOx) and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat‐mediated SIRPα genome‐editing plasmids in a metal–organic framework (MOF). The genome‐editing system is released and activated by acidic pyruvate, which is produced by the LOx‐catalyzed oxidation of lactate. The synergy between lactate exhaustion and SIRPα signal blockade can enhance the phagocytic ability of TAMs and promote the repolarization of TAMs to the antitumorigenic M1 phenotype. Lactate exhaustion‐induced CD47‐SIRPα blockade efficiently improves macrophage antitumor immune responses and effectively reverses the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment to inhibit tumor growth, as demonstrated by in vitro and in vivo studies. This study provides a facile strategy for engineering TAMs in situ by combining CRISPR‐mediated SIRPα knockout with lactate exhaustion for effective immunotherapy.
Hierarchical Synergistic Structure for High Resolution Strain Sensor with Wide Working Range
Authors: Zhou Runhui , Zhang Yufei , Xu Fan , Song Zhuoyu , Huang Jiaoya , Li Zemin , Gao Chen , He Jiang , Gao Wenchao , Pan Caofeng 
Published: May 2023

AbstractStrain sensors have been attracting tremendous attention for the promising application of wearable devices in recent years. However, the trade‐off between high resolution, high sensitivity, and broad detection range is a great challenge for the application of strain sensors. Herein, a novel design of hierarchical synergistic structure (HSS) of Au micro cracks and carbon black (CB) nanoparticles is reported to overcome this challenge. The strain sensor based on the designed HSS exhibit high sensitivity (GF > 2400), high strain resolution (0.2%) even under large loading strain, broad detection range (>40%), outstanding stability (>12000 cycles), and fast response speed simultaneously. Further, the experiments and simulation results demonstrate that the carbon black layer greatly changed the morphology of Au micro‐cracks, forming a hierarchical structure of micro‐scale Au cracks and nano‐scale carbon black particles, thus enabling synergistic effect and the double conductive network of Au micro‐cracks and CB nanoparticles. Based on the excellent performance, the sensor is successfully applied to monitoring tiny signals of the carotid pulse during body movement, which illustrates the great potential in the application of health monitoring, human‐machine interface, human motion detection, and electronic skin.
Impacts of emerging and novel plastic waste variants on marine and coastal ecosystems: Challenges and implications on the circular economy
Authors: Roy Chowdhury Priyadarshi , Medhi Himani , Bhattacharyya Krishna G. , Hussain Chaudhery Mustansar 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe twenty‐first century is confronted with the consequences of enormous amounts of global emerging plastic waste resulting from an excessive use of plastic, which has been imparting several negative impacts on the environment and human health. Moreover, some novel variants have also been reported in some coastal environments, so far, as a result of mixing of plastic waste with various other matrices. As a result, the problem of various forms of plastic waste within the marine ecosystem has emerged as a major concern in recent years. The current review is focused on the detrimental implications of various emerging and novel plastic variants, with an emphasis on coastal and marine environments. This review highlights the fate and transportation patterns of plastic waste, along with the contemporary examples of its implications on marine biota. Additionally, this work also examines the impacts of marine plastic waste on the environment. The review further highlights the importance of circular economy of plastic waste for sustainability. Then in the end, the growing anxieties about the impacts of plastic waste on coastal as well as marine environment, along with the strategies for reducing its impacts on ecological sustainability are discussed.This article is categorized under:

Climate and Environment > Circular Economy
Fractal characteristics of artificially matured lacustrine shales from Ordos Basin, West China
Authors: Yang Fei , Wang Fang , Du Jiangmin , Yang Shuang , Wen Rongqin 
Published: May 2023

AbstractNanometer scaled pores are critical to studying gas shale reservoirs. In order to obtain the information of the evolution mechanism of nanoscale pore within lacustrine organic-rich shales, artificially matured shale samples from the Ordos Basin were treated using hydrous pyrolysis experiment. Low-temperature nitrogen adsorption, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES), and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) experiments were used to investigate the nanopore evolution with migration and precipitation of materials. The results show that the pore sizes were distributed from 1.1 to 500 nm, and the overall porosity tends to increase first and then decrease. The micropores and fine mesopores (< 10 nm) increased gradually from the 250 to the 350 °C, calcite appeared dissolution following a small peak of feldspar dissolution at this stage, and the CO2 reaches a partial pressure peak at 350 °C. The micropores, mesopores and macropores increased steeply from the 370 °C to the 450 °C. Organic pores were not developed until 350 °C, and well developed at 370 and 400 °C. Organic pores, intergranular pores of clay and intragranular pores of pyrite were well developed at 370 °C. The cumulative specific surface areas increased at 400 °C caused by the dehydration and transformation reaction of clay minerals. This study could provide a reference for the exploration of shale gas in lacustrine shales with different thermal maturities.
Oral Health Interventions in Natural Disasters: A Scoping Review
Authors: Suzuki-Barrera K. , Teramoto A. , Sáez-Chandía J. , Nakakuki K. , Bracchiglione J. 
Published: May 2023

Abstract

Objectives:
This work aimed to identify, appraise, and summarize existing knowledge about oral health interventions in the context of natural disasters and verify the main research gaps.

Methods:
We searched in PubMed (National Library of Medicine, Maryland, USA), EMBASE (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Epistemonikos (Epistemonikos Foundation, Santiago, Chile) until 2021 for primary studies and systematic reviews, assessing any oral health intervention in the context of natural disasters. The interventions were classified according to Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) categories, and the type of natural disaster was defined according to the classification by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).

Results:
We assessed a total of 19 studies (majorly in Japan, n = 8), all performed in the context of an earthquake or mixed natural disasters (earthquake and tsunami). Regarding interventions, 12 studies reported a promotional/ preventive intervention, with oral examination being the most frequent. 7 studies reported therapeutic interventions, mainly related to emergency management of fractures and injuries.

Conclusions:
The evidence accessed in our study was limited, highlighting the need for further research to focus on different oral health care interventions and outcomes in the context of different natural disasters, thus enhancing the formulation and implementation of recommendations and protocols worldwide.
A call to action: Taking the untenable out of women professors’ pregnancy, postpartum, and caregiving demands
Authors: Gabriel Allison S. , Allen Tammy D. , Devers Cynthia E. , Eby Lillian T. , Gilson Lucy L. , Hebl Mikki , Kehoe Rebecca R. , King Eden B. , Ladge Jamie J. , Little Laura M. , Ou Amy Yi , Schleicher Deidra J. , Shockley Kristen M. , Klotz Anthony C. , Rosen Christopher C. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractDespite becoming increasingly represented in academic departments, women scholars face a critical lack of support as they navigate demands pertaining to pregnancy, motherhood, and child caregiving. In addition, cultural norms surrounding how faculty and academic leaders discuss and talk about tenure, promotion, and career success have created pressure for women who wish to grow their family and care for their children, leading to questions about whether it is possible for these women to have a family and an academic career. This paper is a call to action for academia to build structures that support professors who are women as they navigate the complexities of pregnancy, the postpartum period, and the caregiving demands of their children. We specifically call on those of us in I-O psychology, management, and related departments to lead the way. In making this call, we first present the realistic, moral, and financial cases for why this issue needs to be at the forefront of discussions surrounding success in the academy. We then discuss how, in the U.S. and elsewhere, an absence of policies supporting women places two groups of academics—department heads (as the leaders of departments who have discretion outside of formal policies to make work better for women) and other faculty members (as potential allies both in the department and within our professional organizations)—in a critical position to enact support and change. We conclude with our boldest call—to make a cultural shift that shatters the assumption that having a family is not compatible with academic success. Combined, we seek to launch a discussion that leads directly to necessary and overdue changes in how women scholars are supported in academia.
Revisiting the design of selection systems in light of new findings regarding the validity of widely used predictors
Authors: Sackett Paul R. , Zhang Charlene , Berry Christopher M. , Lievens Filip 
Published: May 2023

AbstractSackett et al. (2022) identified previously unnoticed flaws in the way range restriction corrections have been applied in prior meta-analyses of personnel selection tools. They offered revised estimates of operational validity, which are often quite different from the prior estimates. The present paper attempts to draw out the applied implications of that work. We aim to a) present a conceptual overview of the critique of prior approaches to correction, b) outline the implications of this new perspective for the relative validity of different predictors and for the tradeoff between validity and diversity in selection system design, c) highlight the need to attend to variability in meta-analytic validity estimates, rather than just the mean, d) summarize reactions encountered to date to Sackett et al., and e) offer a series of recommendations regarding how to go about correcting validity estimates for unreliability in the criterion and for range restriction in applied work.
The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and Transformative Change: Promise, Power and Solidarity
Authors: O'Connell Rory , Ní Aoláin Fionnuala , Malagón Lina 
Published: May 2023

AbstractIn 2023 the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement marks its twenty-fifth anniversary. For many the Agreement projects a global image of a successfully concluded end to conflict. However, key aspects of the agreement remain under-enforced or simply undelivered: in particular, provisions related to significant and wide-ranging guarantees addressing human rights and equality of opportunity. As a result, socio-economic and cultural deficits persist, undermining the capacity to achieve a ‘positive peace’. In this article we address the question of how transformative the Agreement and associated reforms have been in addressing the root causes of the conflict and the structures that underpinned it. In doing so, we deploy Clara Sandoval's typology of different forms of societal change – ‘ordinary’, ‘structural’ and ‘fundamental’ – to guide our thinking and analysis, and tackle the most fundamental of questions in peace agreement literature and practice: whether, in fact, peace agreements can undo the fundamental causes that trigger and sustain violence. The article outlines the transformative promise of the Agreement, the multiple interlocking factors that have undermined that promise and the role of civil society in sustaining that transformative potential. Our conclusions point to a more nuanced understanding of what constitutes the ‘ordinary’ in transitional settings and a caution against the hyperbole of the transformative. We view transformative change as slothlike in its emergence, specifically grounded in progressive and cumulative re-orderings that can accompany peace processes. Rather than a moment of radical change, transformation follows from the cumulative impact of symbolic gesture, specific legal provision, procedural practice, mechanisms of accountability, and an engaged and vibrant civil society.
Diversity, phylogeny and intraspecific variability of Paradiplozoon species (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) parasitizing endemic cyprinoids in the Middle East
Authors: Nejat Farshad , Benovics Michal , Řehulková Eva , Vukić Jasna , Šanda Radek , Kaya Cüneyt , Tarkan Ali Serhan , Abdoli Asghar , Aksu Sadi , Šimková Andrea 
Published: May 2023

AbstractDiplozoidae are common monogenean ectoparasites of cyprinoid fish, with the genus Paradiplozoon being the most diversified. Despite recent studies on Diplozoidae from Europe, Africa and Asia, the diversity, distribution and phylogeny of this parasite group appears to be still underestimated in the Middle East. The objective of this study was to investigate the diversity, endemism and host specificity of diplozoids parasitizing cyprinoid fish from the Middle East, considering this region as an important historical interchange of fish fauna, and to elucidate the phylogenetic position of Middle Eastern Paradiplozoon species within Diplozoidae. Four Paradiplozoon species were collected from 48 out of 94 investigated cyprinoid species. Three known species, Paradiplozoon homoion, Paradiplozoon bliccae and Paradiplozoon bingolensis, were recorded on new cyprinoid host species, and a new species, Paradiplozoon koubkovae n. sp., was recorded on Luciobarbus capito and Capoeta capoeta from the Caspian Sea basin in Iran and Turkey. Paradiplozoon bliccae, exhibiting a wide host range in the Middle East, expressed both morphological and genetic intraspecific variabilities. The four Paradiplozoon species collected in the Middle East were placed in divergent clades, showing the rich evolutionary history of diplozoid parasites in the Middle East. Our study also revealed that two lineages of African diplozoids have a Middle Eastern origin. We stress the importance of applying an integrative approach combining morphological, ecological and molecular methods to reveal the real diversity of diplozoids.
American Museums and Colonial-Era Provenance: A Proposal
Authors: Reed Victoria S. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractAs European nations address their legacy of colonialism, many museums in France, Germany, Great Britain, and elsewhere in Western Europe are examining the provenance of objects in their collections that were removed during periods of colonial occupation and, in some cases, have developed plans for their restitution. As of 2022, few museums in the United States have announced similar objectives. This article offers specific suggestions for American art museums to proceed proactively and transparently with colonial-era provenance research projects. I propose that museums identify objects in their collections that were displaced in one of two ways: either looted during a post-Napoleonic military conflict or stolen or traded by force under a period of colonial occupation. These works of art should be prioritized for provenance research and listed or otherwise made discoverable online. By listing these objects on their websites, museums will acknowledge the contentious histories of works of art in their collections and signal an openness to engaging with source communities, whether about the return of an object, loans, storage, display, educational initiatives, or other matters of care.
Smells like animal spirits: the sensitivity of corporate investment to sentiment
Authors: La Cava Gianni 
Published: May 2023

AbstractEconomists have long been interested in the effect of business sentiment on economic activity. Using text analysis, I construct a new company-level indicator of sentiment based on the net balance of positive and negative words in Australian company disclosures. Company-level investment is very sensitive to changes in this corporate sentiment indicator, even controlling for fundamentals, such as Tobin’s Q, as well as controlling for measures of company-level uncertainty.The high sensitivity of investment to sentiment could be due to several mechanisms. It could be because of animal spirits among managers or because of sentiment proxies for private information held by managers about company prospects. Overall, I find mixed evidence of the underlying causal mechanism. The effect of sentiment on investment is relatively persistent, which is consistent with managers having private information about company fundamentals. But the sensitivity of investment to sentiment is not any stronger at opaque companies in which managers are likely to be better informed than investors. Further, investment is sensitive to sentiment even when investors have an information advantage over managers by lagging the sentiment indicator by a year. Overall, the sensitivity of investment to sentiment appears to reflect both animal spirits and fundamentals.Corporate investment has been weak since the global financial crisis (GFC) and demand-side factors, such as lower sales growth, explain more than half of this weakness. Low sentiment and heightened uncertainty weighed on investment during the GFC but have been less important factors since then.