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Incorporation of Bifidobacterium breve in sodium caseinate‐edible film: Physicochemical properties, viability, and antibacterial activity
Authors: Lam Britney , How Yu‐Hsuan , Pui Liew‐Phing 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe addition of probiotic bacteria creates added value to food products wrapped with edible film. Hence, this study aimed to develop sodium caseinate (NaCas) edible film containing Bifidobacterium breve. The edible film was prepared by using different NaCas concentrations (2%–6% wt/vol), glycerol, and B. breve suspension (1% vol/vol). The edible film without probiotics was used as a control film. The optimized 3% (wt/vol) NaCas‐B. breve edible film had a viable cell count of 7.07 log10 CFU/g, thickness of 0.16 mm, 63.50% water solubility, 14.04% moisture content, the color difference (ΔE) <2.59, 3.31 mPa tensile strength, 35.73% elongation at break, and 0.10 mPa Young's modulus. Furthermore, the NaCas‐B. breve edible film had also shown inhibition against Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Salmonella enterica. The desirable physicochemical properties, high viability, and antibacterial properties of 3% (wt/vol) NaCas‐B. breve edible films may enable their future use as bioactive packaging for food products.
Help anyone, if helped by some: Understanding generalized reciprocity through the lens of interaction ritual chain theory
Authors: Wang Bin , Liu Yukun , Qian Jing , Parker Sharon K. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe phenomenon ‘help anyone, if helped by some’ is known as generalized reciprocity. Most research has considered generalized reciprocity from the perspective of social exchange theory, focusing on an obligated to process. In this study, we apply the interaction ritual chain (IRC) theory to theorize that individuals can pay it forward based on their previous emotional experiences. Specifically, we developed and examined a theoretical model to address why and when receiving social support could promote employees' helping others. In Study 1, a between‐person three‐wave time‐lagged study of 627 employees, we found that emotional energy (EE) mediated the relationship between receiving social support at work and recipients' subsequent helping behaviours. In Study 2, a 10‐day experience sampling study among 144 employees, we replicated the indirect effect of receiving social support on helping behaviour via EE at the within‐person level. We also identified, consistent with IRC theory, a cross‐level moderating effect of workplace status that differed depending on whom individuals received support from. Specifically, received supervisor support led to more EE for employees with higher workplace status than for those lower in status. With respect to received coworker support, the effect of support on EE was stronger for those lower in status than for those higher in status. Overall, our results shed light on the emotional experiences involved in workplace social interactions and suggested energized to as an alternative mechanism for interpreting generalized reciprocity beyond the obligated to process.
Do Religious Politicians Take Risks Differently? Evidence From Pakistan
Authors: Yadav Vineeta 
Published: May 2023

AbstractGiven popular religiosity, the presence of religious parties, and the politicization of religious issues, it is highly likely that politicians with varying levels of personal religiosity are active in politics. Yet, our knowledge of how politicians’ religiosity influences their political choices is still limited, particularly for developing countries. In this paper, I use data from a survey experiment fielded to Pakistani politicians in 2018 to study whether and how politicians’ personal religiosity influences their political risk preferences. Scholars debate whether religiosity is correlated with higher or lower risk aversion among citizens; however, no study has examined this relationship among politicians. I find that higher religiosity systematically predicts which politicians are more risk‐averse and highly religious politicians’ decisions under uncertainty are inconsistent with expected utility maximization and prospect theory. These findings suggest that in contrast to existing assumptions of elite decision‐making, politicians’ religiosity systematically influences their risk preferences and choices.
Meaning making about performance: A comparison of two specialty feedback cultures
Authors: Bearman Margaret , Ajjawi Rola , Castanelli Damian , Denniston Charlotte , Molloy Elizabeth , Ward Natalie , Watling Chris 
Published: May 2023

AbstractIntroductionSpecialty trainees often struggle to understand how well they are performing, and feedback is commonly seen as a solution to this problem. However, medical education tends to approach feedback as acontextual rather than located in a specialty‐specific cultural world. This study therefore compares how specialty trainees in surgery and intensive care medicine (ICM) make meaning about the quality of their performance and the role of feedback conversations in this process.MethodsWe conducted a qualitative interview study in the constructivist grounded theory tradition. We interviewed 17 trainees from across Australia in 2020, eight from ICM and nine from surgery, and iterated between data collection and analytic discussions. We employed open, focused, axial and theoretical coding.FindingsThere were significant divergences between specialties. Surgical trainees had more opportunity to work directly with supervisors, and there was a strong link between patient outcome and quality of care, with a focus on performance information about operative skills. ICM was a highly uncertain practice environment, where patient outcome could not be relied upon as a source of performance information; valued performance information was diffuse and included tacit emotional support. These different ‘specialty feedback cultures’ strongly influenced how trainees orchestrated opportunities for feedback, made meaning of their performance in their day‐to‐day patient care tasks and ‘patched together’ experiences and inputs into an evolving sense of overall progress.DiscussionWe identified two types of meaning‐making about performance: first, trainees' understanding of an immediate performance in a patient‐care task and, second, a ‘patched together’ sense of overall progress from incomplete performance information. This study suggests approaches to feedback should attend to both, but also take account of the cultural worlds of specialty practice, with their attendant complexities. In particular, feedback conversations could better acknowledge the variable quality of performance information and specialty specific levels of uncertainty.
The devastating oomycete phytopathogen Phytophthora cactorum: Insights into its biology and molecular features
Authors: Chen Xiao‐Ren , Wen Ke , Zhou Xue , Zhu Ming‐Yue , Liu Yang , Jin Jing‐Hao , Nellist Charlotte F. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractPhytophthora cactorum is one of the most economically important soilborne oomycete pathogens in the world. It infects more than 200 plant species spanning 54 families, most of which are herbaceous and woody species. Although traditionally considered to be a generalist, marked differences of P. cactorum isolates occur in degree of pathogenicity to different hosts. As the impact of crop loss caused by this species has increased recently, there has been a tremendous increase in the development of new tools, resources, and management strategies to study and combat this devastating pathogen. This review aims to integrate recent molecular biology analyses of P. cactorum with the current knowledge of the cellular and genetic basis of its growth, development, and host infection. The goal is to provide a framework for further studies of P. cactorum by highlighting important biological and molecular features, shedding light on the functions of pathogenicity factors, and developing effective control measures.TaxonomyP. cactorum (Leb. & Cohn) Schröeter: kingdom Chromista; phylum Oomycota; class Oomycetes; order Peronosporales; family Peronosporaceae; genus Phytophthora.Host rangeInfects about 200 plant species in 154 genera representing 54 families. Economically important host plants include strawberry, apple, pear, Panax spp., and walnut.Disease symptomsThe soilborne pathogen often causes root, stem, collar, crown, and fruit rots, as well as foliar infection, stem canker, and seedling damping off.
Fanny Bré in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): The meaning of nursing care in the international brigades
Authors: Sadurní‐Bassols Cinta , Gallego‐Caminero Gloria , Galbany‐Estragués Paola 
Published: May 2023

AbstractFanny Bré was a volunteer nurse in the International Brigades, who fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) on the side of the democratically elected Republican government. The objective of this study is to understand the relationship between Bré's antifascist ideas, her conception of care and the activities she carried out in the Spanish hospitals of Casa Roja (Murcia), Villa Paz (Selices, Cuenca) and Vic (Barcelona). We use narrative biography to describe Bré's personal, political and professional trajectory. To do so, we conducted a content analysis of primary sources archived in Spain, Russia and France and secondary sources that emerged from a thorough literature review. We identified three thematic axes: (1) a concept of nursing in the service of the antifascist struggle, (2) nursing activity for high‐quality care and (3) political action for improving hospital organisation and care. The interest of Bré's texts transcends the war in Spain because, in them, Bré questions the neutrality of care by revealing that care can itself be a political act.
Herman Bang als Dichter
Authors: Fürholzer Katharina 
Published: May 2023

ZusammenfassungHerman Bang (1857–1912) zählt zu den bekanntesten und angesehensten Autoren der dänischen Literaturgeschichte. Das anhaltende Interesse an seinem Werk begründet sich dabei insbesondere auf seine (impressionistischen) Romane, Geschichten und Novellen. Dass Bang auch einen Gedichtband veröffentlichte (Digte, 1889; Gedichte) ist jedoch weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten. Vor diesem Hintergrund möchte der folgende Artikel Bangs poetisches Werk wieder in den Vordergrund rücken und prüfen, inwieweit die in Forschung und Feuilleton feststellbare weitgehende Abwertung des Gedichtbands tatsächlich gerechtfertigt ist. Eingeleitet durch einen kurzen Überblick über die Rezeption des Buches ist mein Zugang zu „Digte“ primär geleitet durch ein übergreifendes Interesse an den in den Gedichten erkennbaren Beziehungsformen. In diesem Zusammenhang werden im Artikel – angelehnt an Bangs eigene, durch ein dem Buch vorangestelltes Motto hervorgehobene Gewichtung – insbesondere die Topoi von Liebe und Tod anhand einzelner, besonders repräsentativ erscheinender Analysen eingehender Betrachtung unterzogen. Nicht zuletzt mit Blick auf die Fülle der über diesen Fokus hinausgehenden, vom Gedichtband aufgeworfenen Themen und Fragestellungen wird abschließend für eine (wissenschaftliche) Neuevaluation von Bangs poetischem Schaffen argumentiert.
Error traps in Pediatric Patient Blood Management in the Perioperative Period
Authors: Tan Gee Mei , Murto Kimmo , Downey Laura A. , Wilder Matthew S. , Goobie Susan M. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractPatient blood management is a patient‐centered evidence‐based approach to improve patient outcomes by harnessing the patient's own hematopoietic system to optimize blood health while promoting patient safety and empowerment. Perioperative patient blood management is a standard of care in adult medicine, yet it is not commonly accepted in pediatrics. Raising awareness may be the first step in improving perioperative care for the anemic and/or bleeding child. This article highlights five preventable perioperative blood conservation error traps for children. The goal is to provide practical clinical guidance to improve preoperative diagnosis and treatment of anemia, facilitate recognition and treatment of massive hemorrhage, reduce unnecessary allogeneic blood transfusions, and decrease associated complications of anemia and blood component transfusions utilizing a patient/family‐centered informed consent and shared decision‐making approach.
Soliton interactions and Yang–Baxter maps for the complex coupled short‐pulse equation
Authors: Caudrelier Vincent , Gkogkou Aikaterini , Prinari Barbara 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThe complex coupled short‐pulse equation (ccSPE) describes the propagation of ultrashort optical pulses in nonlinear birefringent fibers. The system admits a variety of vector soliton solutions: fundamental solitons, fundamental breathers, composite breathers (generic or nongeneric), as well as so‐called self‐symmetric composite solitons. In this work, we use the dressing method and the Darboux matrices corresponding to the various types of solitons to investigate soliton interactions in the focusing ccSPE. The study combines refactorization problems on generators of certain rational loop groups, and long‐time asymptotics of these generators, as well as the main refactorization theorem for the dressing factors that leads to the Yang–Baxter property for the refactorization map and the vector soliton interactions. Among the results obtained in this paper, we derive explicit formulas for the polarization shift of fundamental solitons that are the analog of the well‐known formulas for the interaction of vector solitons in the Manakov system. Our study also reveals that upon interacting with a fundamental breather, a fundamental soliton becomes a fundamental breather and, conversely, that the interaction of two fundamental breathers generically yields two fundamental breathers with a polarization shifts, but may also result into a fundamental soliton and a fundamental breather. Explicit formulas for the coefficients that characterize the fundamental breathers, as well as for their polarization vectors are obtained. The interactions of other types of solitons are also derived and discussed in detail and illustrated with plots. New Yang–Baxter maps are obtained in the process.
Association between antinuclear antibody and female infertility: A meta‐analysis
Authors: Chen Shiju , Li Xiaodong , Guo Qiwei , Wang Bin , Lan Jingying , Qian Hongyan , Liu Yuan , Shi Guixiu 
Published: May 2023

AbstractAutoimmunity is reported involving in reproductive failures, and antinuclear antibody (ANA) positivity has been regarded as a typical feature of autoimmunity. Published studies on the association of ANA with reproductive failures including infertility are controversial. The aim of this meta‐analysis was to analyse whether the presence of ANA positivity increases the risk of infertility in women. We searched the PubMed and Embase databases for relevant literature without any restrictions prior to April 28, 2021. All analyses were performed using the RevMan 5.3 software. Twelve studies with 2734 participants, including 1482 patients with infertility, met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The total positivity rate of ANA was 23.8% (353/1482) in all infertile patients and 8.5% (107/1252) in the control group. Infertile females had a significantly higher ANA positivity rate than the control group (odds ratio [OR] = 2.90, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.72–4.87, I2 = 65%, P < .0001). Several subgroup analyses were performed to reduce the heterogeneity. ANA positivity was associated with female infertility in studies either performed by indirect immunofluorescence (OR = 2.26, 95% CI:1.67–3.06, P < .00001) or by ELISA (OR = 10.76, 95% CI:1.82–63.64, P < .00001). ANA was significantly associated with increased risk of women infertility either after the definite exclusion of individuals with autoimmune diseases (AID) or without exclusion [(OR = 1.99, 95% CI:1.29–3.06, P = .002), (OR = 2.76, 95% CI:1.56–4.88, P = .0005), respectively]. This meta‐analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the prevalence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in infertile women and suggests that ANA positivity increases the risk of infertility.
Epidemiology of canine cutaneous round cell tumours on the canary archipelago in Spain
Authors: Rodríguez José , Santana Ángelo , Borzollino Marisa Andrada , Herráez Pedro , Killick David R. , de los Monteros Antonio Espinosa 
Published: May 2023

AbstractIn this study we undertook a comprehensive analysis of a Pet Tumour Registry of the Canary Archipelago (PTR‐CA) in Spain to investigate the epidemiology of canine cutaneous round cell tumours. From a database of 2526 tumours collected from 2003 to 2020, we conducted a longitudinal analysis of the main trends in diagnosis, age, multiplicity and anatomical distribution as well as a case–control study comparing these cases with the contemporaneous canine population of the Canary Archipelago to analyse breed distribution. In line with former studies, we found histiocytomas mostly affect young dogs (2, IQR 1–5) and mast cell tumours affect middle‐to‐old dogs (8, IQR 6–10) with grade 1 affecting at younger ages (6.5, IQR 6–8) than both grade 2 (8, IQR 6–10 years) and grade 3 (9, IQR 7–11). Histiocytomas and plasmacytomas showed a similar anatomical distribution appearing mainly on the face, head and neck regions while mast cell tumours occur mainly on limbs and trunk. Higher risk for mast cell tumours and histiocytomas were found for Bulldog‐related breeds such as Boxer (ORMCT = 23.61, CI95%: 19.12–29.15, ORHCT = 10.17, CI95%: 6.60–15.67), Boston Terrier (ORMCT 19.47, CI95%: 7.73–49.05, ORHCT 32.61, CI95%: 11.81–90.07) and Pug (ORMCT 8.10, CI95%: 5.92–11.07, ORHCT 7.87, CI95%: 4.66–13.28) while Chihuahua dogs showed significantly less risk (ORMCT 0.18, CI95%: 0.09–0.33, ORHCT 0.41, CI95%: 0.21–0.78). Notably, the Canarian Mastiff, a local breed, had a low risk of suffering from a mast cell tumour which raises the question of whether this relates to a genetic peculiarity of this breed or some husbandry and environmental factor.
The use of shotgun label‐free quantitative proteomic mass spectrometry to evaluate the inflammatory response in aqueous humor from horses with uveitis compared to ophthalmologically healthy horses
Authors: Terhaar Hannah M. , Henriksen Michala de Linde , Mehaffy Carolina , Hess Ann , McMullen Richard J. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractObjectiveThe objective of this study was to use shotgun label‐free tandem mass spectrometry (LF‐MS/MS) to evaluate aqueous humor (AH) from horses with uveitis (UH) compared to ophthalmologically healthy horses (HH).Animals StudiedTwelve horses diagnosed with uveitis based on ophthalmic examination and six ophthalmologically healthy horses (postmortem) purchased for teaching purposes.ProceduresAll horses received a complete ophthalmic examination and physical exam. Aqueous paracentesis was performed on all horses and AH total protein concentrations were measured with nanodrop (TPn) and refractometry (TPr). AH samples were analyzed with shotgun LF‐MS/MS and proteomic data were compared between groups using Wilcoxon rank‐sum test.ResultsA total of 147 proteins were detected, 11 proteins had higher abundance in UH, and 38 proteins had lower abundance in UH. Proteins with higher abundance included apolipoprotein E, alpha‐2‐macroglobulin (A2M), alpha‐2‐HS‐glycoprotein, prothrombin, fibrinogen, complement component 4 (C4), joining chain for IgA and IgM, afamin, and amine oxidase. There were positive correlations between TPn (p = .003) and TPr (p = .0001) compared to flare scores.ConclusionDifferential abundance of A2M, prothrombin, fibrinogen, and C4 indicate upregulation of the complement and coagulation cascade in equine uveitis. Proinflammatory cytokines and the complement cascade have potential as therapeutic targets for equine uveitis.
Is It Feasible to Reconstruct Aortic Pressure Waveform Based on a One-Dimensional Uniform Model of the Arterial Tree?
Authors: Hao Zhili 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Based on a one-dimensional (1D) uniform model of the arterial tree, various machine-learning techniques have been explored to reconstruct aortic pressure waveform (APW) from peripheral pressure waveform (PPW). This study aims to examine the feasibility of such reconstruction. Based on a 1D uniform vibrating-string model, transfer function (TF) of PPW to APW contains four harmonics-dependent parameters: value and phase of reflection coefficient (i.e., load impedance) at periphery and transmission parameter and transmission loss in the aorta-periphery section. Pressure waveforms and blood velocity waveforms at the ascending aorta (AA), the carotid artery (CA), and the radial artery (RA) of virtual health subjects at different ages in a prevalidated database are analyzed to calculate (1) reflection coefficient at the CA and the RA as two peripheries, (2) TF for the AA-CA and AA-RA sections, and (3) transmission parameter and transmission loss in the two sections. Harmonics-dependence of the four parameters varies with aging in both sections, and arterial nonuniformity makes it unpractical to configure any mathematical model for their harmonics-dependence. Instead of fluid-loading, arterial nonuniformity greatly affects transmission loss. Compared with higher harmonics, transmission loss dramatically alters reconstructed APW. A 1D uniform model allows accurate reconstruction of APW from PPW, with a caveat that baseline values of the four parameters at different harmonics under different cardiovascular (CV) conditions need to be established a priori. Alternatively, based on the baseline values, PPW can be directly utilized for inferring CV conditions.
Discrete-Time Constrained Controller for Proportional Directional Control Valve-Based Electrohydraulic System With Parametric Uncertainty and Disturbances
Authors: Kumawat Ashok Kumar , Rout Raja , Kumawat Renu , Rawat Manish 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
This paper develops a discrete constrained controller for electrohydraulic system (EHS) controlled by proportional directional control (PDC) valve while taking parametric uncertainties into account. The proposed controller solves the discrete barrier Lyapunov function via convex optimization while taking into consideration the system constraints such as state and actuator constraints. The proposed control law successfully tracks the reference trajectory while satisfying the state and actuator constraints. It is proven that the tracking error always converges to an arbitrary small neighborhood which is validated using Lyapunov stability analysis. The effectiveness of the proposed discrete barrier Lyapunov function based constrained controller was verified in a simulation environment and also through experimentation. From the simulation and experimental results, it is clear that the proposed controller drives the load to accurately track the reference trajectory in the presence of uncertainty and unknown disturbances.