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Influence of different surface conditions on mechanical properties during ultrasonic welding of aluminum wire strands and copper terminals
Authors: Pöthig Pascal , Grätzel Michael , Bergmann Jean Pierre 
Published: February 2023

AbstractUltrasonic metal welding (USMW) has become considerable attention in terms of its suitable applications compared to conventional fusion welding techniques. The main advantage of USMW results from the comparatively low process times and joining temperatures below the melting point. Thus, USMW is particularly used for the joining of dissimilar material combinations, e.g., aluminum and copper (Al/Cu), in battery cell production or wiring harness applications. However, process fluctuations in USMW of Al/Cu joints can occur due to varying surface conditions of the joining materials. Therefore, this study investigated different surface conditions of copper terminals and their effects on mechanical properties. At first, three different surface conditions were generated, respectively: surface cleaning (sulfuric acid and ethanol), structuring process by laser, and structuring process by milling. These modifications are compared with the terminals in the initial state (contaminated). The characterization of the terminal surfaces was carried out with 3-D laser scanning microscopy as well as light microscopy. The mechanical conditions were examined with shear tensile tests. The tensile tests showed a significant influence of the surface condition on the resulting failure loads compared to the initial state. The highest failure loads could be achieved with the structured terminals (+ 48%), whereas contaminated terminals and terminals with notches exhibited comparatively poor failure loads (− 28%). This can be explained by varying interface formations between the terminal and the wire, which was detected by metallography and SEM analysis. Furthermore, it was figured out that the interface between aluminum and copper exhibits a firm and formed closure bond and hence increased failure loads for laser-structured terminals. Additional investigations by SEM revealed no detectable occurrence of intermetallic phases.
Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on weight, eating behaviours and psychological outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Chew Han Shi Jocelyn , Chng Samuel , Rajasegaran Nagadarshini Nicole , Choy Khun Hean , Chong Yuen Yu 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Purpose
To examine the effectiveness of ACT on weight (body mass index and body mass), eating behaviours (binge eating, emotional eating, external eating and restraint eating), and psychological outcomes (quality of life [QoL], depression, psychological flexibility, and weight stigma) among adults with overweight and obesity.

Methods
Seven electronic databases (CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed, PsycInfo Scopus, The Cochrane Library, and Web of Science) were searched from inception through 17 June 2022. 13 studies and 48 unique effect sizes were analyzed using random-effects models. Pooled effect estimates were calculated using weighted mean differences (WMD) and standardized mean differences expressed in Hedges’ g (g). Heterogeneity was assessed using Q-statistics and interpreted using I2.

Results
ACT was found to be effective in improving weight loss in terms of BMI (k = 6, WMD = − .50, 95% CI = − .90; − .11, t = − 3.25, p = .20, I2 = .0%), psychological flexibility and weight-related stigma. However, non-significant changes were found for body mass (k = 4, WMD = − 0.33 95% CI = − 1.53; 0.87, t = − .88, p = .44, I2 = .0%), binge eating (k = 4, g = − .34, 95% CI = − 1.31; 0.62, t = − 1.13, p = .34, I2 = 71.1%), emotional eating (k = 6, g = − .20, 95% CI = − 0.54; 0.15, t = − 1.47, p = .20, I2 = 45.0%), external eating (k = 5, g = − .40, 95% CI = 0.96; 0.16, t = − 1.99, p = .12, I2 = 81.8%), restraint eating (k = 3, g = .22 95% CI = − 0.57; 1.01, t = 1.19, p = .36, I2 = 69.1%), QoL (k = 3, g = .01, 95% CI = − 1.51; 1.52, t = .02, p = .99, I2 = 90.2%) and depression (k = 3, g = − .55, 95% CI = − 1.78; 0.67, t = − 1.94, p = .19, I2 = 79.9%).

Conclusion
ACT could be effective in improving weight loss but more studies are needed to ascertain its effectiveness and the underlying mechanism by which the various components influence weight-related outcomes.

Level of evidence
Evidence obtained from a systematic review and meta-analysis of existing empirical studies.
A numerical study on tread wear and fatigue damage of railway wheels subjected to anti-slip control
Authors: Yang Yunfan , Ling Liang , Wang Jiacheng , Zhai Wanming 
Published: February 2023

AbstractTread wear and rolling contact fatigue (RCF) damage propagated on railway wheels are the two extremely important focal points as they can tremendously deteriorate wheel/rail interactions and hunting stability and destroy wheel surface materials, and subsequently, cut down the lifetime of the wheels. The on-board anti-slip controllers are of essence aiming to hold back the striking slipping of the powered wheelsets under low-adhesion wheel/rail conditions. This paper intends to investigate the impact of anti-slip control on wheel tread wear and fatigue damage under diverse wheel/rail friction conditions. To this end, a prediction model for wheel wear and fatigue damage evolution on account of a comprehensive vehicle-track interaction model is extended, where the wheel/rail non-Hertzian contact algorithm is used. Furthermore, the effect of frictional wear on the fatigue damage at wheel surface is considered. The simulation results indicate that the wheel/rail contact is full-slip under the low-adhesion conditions with braking effort. The wear amount under the low-adhesion conditions is observably higher than that under the dry condition. It is further suggested that the wheel tread is prone to suffering more serious wear and fatigue damage issues with a higher anti-slip control threshold compared to that with a lower one.
Exploring Academic Performance of Medical Students in an Integrated Hybrid Curriculum by Gender
Authors: Hesse DeLoris Wenzel , Ramsey Lynn M. , Bruner Lia Pierson , Vega-Castillo Claudia S. , Teshager Dina , Hill Janette R. , Bond Mary T. , Sperr Edwin V. , Baldwin Amy , Medlock Amy E. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractGender gaps in academic performance have been reported at a variety of educational levels including several national standardized exams for medical education, with men scoring higher than women. These gaps potentially impact medical school acceptance and residency matching and may be influenced by curricular design. Performance data for our 4-year integrated hybrid curriculum, which features a large proportion of active learning, revealed a gender gap with men performing better early in the curriculum and on the first national standardized exam. This gap in performance almost entirely disappeared for years 2–4 of the curriculum and the second national standardized exam.
Modelling spatial–temporal expansion of Lilongwe City using Shannon’s entropy model through semi-dynamic environmental mapping and analysis
Authors: Ngalande Chifuniro , Odera Patroba Achola 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis study involves analysis of the urban spatial–temporal expansion of Lilongwe City from 1973 to 2020 using Shannon’s entropy model through time-series satellite mapping. Landsat images from 1973 to 2020 in a nearly 10-year interval are used to determine spatial–temporal land use/cover changes. The city is zoned into 1 km concentric rings and four pie sections to determine both directional and spatial urban expansion trends while Shannon’s entropy model is employed to determine the degree of dispersity of the city’s sprawl. A linear regression model incorporating population as an explanatory variable is then applied to predict the spatial expansion trends for Lilongwe City. Results show that the built-up area in Lilongwe City expanded by 465.4% (9.9% per year) from 1973 to 2020, making it the second-largest land use/cover type in the city, after vegetation. Consequently, vegetation cover decreased by − 32.7% (− 0.7% per year) during the same period. High relative entropy indices (> 0.9) obtained from Shannon’s entropy model indicate a dispersed urban development for the city during the entire period of study. The North-West quadrant of the city has the highest proportion of urban expansion while the North-East quadrant has the lowest proportion, in a relative sense. Regression model predictions show that the city will most likely continue to expand by the year 2023 and then increase exponentially by the year 2033, due to high population growth. The results of this study will assist city authorities to control the expansion of the city and anticipate patterns for future urban sprawl.
Inducing Fe 3d Electron Delocalization and Spin-State Transition of FeN4 Species Boosts Oxygen Reduction Reaction for Wearable Zinc–Air Battery
Authors: Chen Shengmei , Liang Xiongyi , Hu Sixia , Li Xinliang , Zhang Guobin , Wang Shuyun , Ma Longtao , Wu Chi-Man Lawrence , Zhi Chunyi , Zapien Juan Antonio 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Transition metal–nitrogen–carbon materials (M–N–Cs), particularly Fe–N–Cs, have been found to be electroactive for accelerating oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics. Although substantial efforts have been devoted to design Fe–N–Cs with increased active species content, surface area, and electronic conductivity, their performance is still far from satisfactory. Hitherto, there is limited research about regulation on the electronic spin states of Fe centers for Fe–N–Cs electrocatalysts to improve their catalytic performance. Here, we introduce Ti3C2 MXene with sulfur terminals to regulate the electronic configuration of FeN4 species and dramatically enhance catalytic activity toward ORR. The MXene with sulfur terminals induce the spin-state transition of FeN4 species and Fe 3d electron delocalization with d band center upshift, enabling the Fe(II) ions to bind oxygen in the end-on adsorption mode favorable to initiate the reduction of oxygen and boosting oxygen-containing groups adsorption on FeN4 species and ORR kinetics. The resulting FeN4–Ti3C2Sx exhibits comparable catalytic performance to those of commercial Pt-C. The developed wearable ZABs using FeN4–Ti3C2Sx also exhibit fast kinetics and excellent stability. This study confirms that regulation of the electronic structure of active species via coupling with their support can be a major contributor to enhance their catalytic activity.
A Real-Time Planning and Control Framework for Robust and Dynamic Quadrupedal Locomotion
Authors: Li Jun , Gao Haibo , Wan Yuhui , Yu Haitao , Zhou Chengxu 
Published: February 2023

AbstractLegged locomotion poses significant challenges due to its nonlinear, underactuated and hybrid dynamic properties. These challenges are exacerbated by the high-speed motion and presence of aerial phases in dynamic legged locomotion, which highlights the requirement for online planning based on current states to cope with uncertainty and disturbances. This article proposes a real-time planning and control framework integrating motion planning and whole-body control. In the framework, the designed motion planner allows a wider body rotation range and fast reactive behaviors based on the 3-D single rigid body model. In addition, the combination of a Bézier curve based trajectory interpolator and a heuristic-based foothold planner helps generate continuous and smooth foot trajectories. The developed whole-body controller uses hierarchical quadratic optimization coupled with the full system dynamics, which ensures tasks are prioritized based on importance and joint commands are physically feasible. The performance of the framework is successfully validated in experiments with a torque-controlled quadrupedal robot for generating dynamic motions.
Ecological Validation and Practical Challenges of Conducting Dietary Analysis in Athletic Individuals Using a Novel Remote Food Photography Method Mobile Phone Application
Authors: Roberts Charlie J. , Gill Nicholas D. , Baxter Brett A. , Sims Stacy T. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Purpose
Dietary analysis is an important part of the sports nutrition practitioners’ role, however the ability to accurately collect and analyze dietary intake data is questionable. The remote food photography method (RFPM) has been proposed as a low-burden and potentially valid approach to collecting and interpreting dietary intake data. Preliminary research suggests that this is valid in some athletic populations, however the ecological validation in real-life settings warrants further investigation.

Methods
Twenty athletic individuals completed simultaneous three-day RFPM diaries and weighed food diaries for the analysis of energy, protein, carbohydrate, and fat. Participants were required to provide details alongside provided photographs that did not include food weights to allow for the estimation of nutrient intake from minimally invasive photographs and descriptions.

Results
RFPM demonstrated non-significant random and systematic error against the weighed food diary for energy, protein, carbohydrate, and fat at − 20.0 ± 455.5 kcal, − 2.9 ± 34.6 g, − 12.4 ± 49.3 g and 2.3 ± 26.8 g, respectively. Coefficient of variation suggest acceptable agreement between RFPM and weighed food diary for energy and poor agreement for protein, carbohydrate, and fat. Considerable variability is observed in the individual calculated values, with the least and greatest difference being 0% and − 83.0%, respectively.

Conclusion
The results indicate that the RFPM may be an ecologically valid tool for the collection and analysis of dietary intake data on a group level; on an individual basis, data and subsequent recommendations based on this method must be applied with caution.
A deep learning-based approach to time-coordination entry guidance for multiple hypersonic vehicles
Authors: Li Z. , Guo J. , Tang S. , Ji S. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractA multiple-vehicles time-coordination guidance technique based on deep learning is suggested to address the cooperative guiding problem of hypersonic gliding vehicle entry phase. A dual-parameter bank angle profile is used in longitudinal guiding to meet the requirements of time coordination. A vehicle trajectory database is constructed along with a deep neural network (DNN) structure devised to fulfill the error criteria, and a trained network is used to replace the conventional prediction approach. Moreover, an extended Kalman filter is constructed to detect changes in aerodynamic parameters in real time, and the aerodynamic parameters are fed into a DNN. The lateral guiding employs a logic for reversing the sign of bank angle, which is based on the segmented heading angle error corridor. The final simulation results demonstrate that the built DNN is capable of addressing the cooperative guiding requirements. The algorithm is highly accurate in terms of guiding, has a fast response time, and does not need inter-munition communication, and it is capable of solving guidance orders that satisfy flight requirements even when aerodynamic parameter disruptions occur.
The Translation of Greek Philosophical Terminology in Marius Victorinus’ Opera Theologica: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study
Authors: Dowson Christopher J. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe article collects and analyses philosophical terms formed in Latin by fourth-century rhetorician and philosopher Marius Victorinus (c. 285–360s C.E.) as a result of his translation from Greek sources. The study examines primarily his theological treatises: the Ad Candidum Arianum (De Generatione Divini Verbi) and the Adversus Arium. It undertakes a quantitative and qualitative examination of these terms by studying two linguistic mechanisms which constitute ‘term-formation’ in Latin: lexical innovation and lexical augmentation. Both functioned as important linguistic and conceptual devices in Victorinus’ translations. The article also examines the theological contexts of certain metaphysical terms to understand further their similarities and differences, not only in Victorinus’ translations, but also in earlier uses of central Latin philosophical terms, e.g., essentia and substantia. The article concludes that Victorinus was more didactic than his philosophical predecessors such as M. Tullius Cicero, Seneca the Younger or Apuleius of Madaura, preferring literal translation (particularly morphological calquing) rather than semantic extensions or metaphorical usages (lexical augmentation). By using neologisms formed using derivational word-formation processes and, on rare occasions, loan-words from Greek, Victorinus adopted an approach of adapting Greek terminology with a high degree of precision in Latin, from a range of sources including Christian, Neo-Platonist, and Gnostic authors. He thereby introduced a new Christological vocabulary in the Latin tradition, making him a significant intellectual figure of the fourth and fifth centuries. Although by no means as dominant as others, such as Augustine or Boethius, Victorinus would nonetheless come to exert influence over later Christian philosophers in the Latin West, particularly during the Scholastic period of the Middle Ages.
Easier Than Saying No: Domination, Interpellation, and the Puzzle of Acquiescence
Authors: Kogl Alexandra 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis article treats ambiguous heterosexual experiences—not quite rape, but not quite “just sex” either—as a form of domination, distinct from both coercion and productive power. It argues that if we wish to make sense of the power dynamics involved in these experiences, it may be useful to view the domination that takes place as a kind of interpellation, understood in the Althusserian sense as a mutually constitutive dynamic in which ideologies create “good subjects,” and subjects reproduce ideology. Considering heterosexual domination as a form of Althusserian interpellation enables us to see the power in question as an embodied, intersubjective relation that demands the complicity of dominated persons, with lasting effects on their subjectivity. This approach avoids positing the dominated as helpless victims or passive objects, while bearing witness to and shedding light on their experiences.
Creolizing Place, Origin, and Difference: The Opaque Waters between Glissant and Irigaray
Authors: Crapo Kim Ruthanne 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis article brings Édouard Glissant's theory of creolization into critical conversation with Luce Irigaray's sexuate difference theory and suggests creolization as a process capable of reconfiguring place and origin. Such a creolized conception, the article suggests, fissures narratives of legitimacy, possession, and lawful order, pseudo-claims utilized to dismiss antiracist protests. The article traces Irigaray's critique of woman as place and origin with her conception of the interval. It examines how Glissant's analysis of the womb-abyss clarifies and strategically obscures racialization as an ongoing lacuna in Western thought. By deploying a rhizomatic network of relayed traces, the essay examines Glissantian notions of chaos, trembling, and detour to articulate sociopolitical movements that reveal and undermine the sexual economy of the neo-Plantation. Both thinkers, the author suggests, bring together place, origin, and movement to construct two radically different but strategically valuable theories that have yet to be put in a sustained, critical conversation. By positioning each theorist within their own framework, discourse, and socio-ethical concerns, the author offers ways that creolization and sexuate difference theory clarify issues contemporary American feminism tends to gesture toward as “intersectional” issues of gender, sex, and race.
The Politics of Relevant Alternatives
Authors: Tuckwell William 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe main aim of this article is to use the resources of relevant-alternatives contextualism to provide an account of an unrecognized form of epistemic injustice that I call irrelevance-injustice. Irrelevance-injustice occurs either when a speaker raises an alternative that is not taken seriously when it should be, or when a speaker raises an alternative that is taken seriously when it should not be. Irrelevance-injustice influences what alternatives are perceived to be relevant and patterns of knowledge ascriptions in ways that are unfair. Asymmetries in whose alternatives are taken seriously affect how many alternatives members of different groups must rule out prior to being ascribed knowledge. Because knowledge ascriptions have socially valuable functions, asymmetries in whose alternatives are taken seriously mean asymmetries in who gets to do socially valuable things with knowledge ascriptions.
Distorted Thinking or Distorted Realities? The Social Construction of Anxiety for Women in Neoliberal Late-Stage Capitalism
Authors: Timler Kelsey 
Published: February 2023

AbstractAnxiety disorders are one of the most prevalent mental disorders globally, and 63% of those diagnoses are of women. Although widely acknowledged across health disciplines and news and social media outlets, the majority of attention has left assumptions underlying women's anxiety in the twenty-first century unquestioned. Drawing on my own experiences of anxiety, I will the explore both concept and diagnosis in the Western world. Reflecting on my own experiences through a critical feminist lens, I will investigate the construction of anxiety as mental disorder in the context of neoliberal late-stage capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and biomedical psychiatry. Tracing the postpositivistic foundations of anxiety, as well as the historical and ongoing medicalization and pathologization of women, I will critically consider the sociopolitical implications of constructing anxiety as biomedical disorder. Assumptions underlying mental health will be explored within the context of the construction, experience, and operationalization of gender and the way gender intersects with diverse positionalities, power, knowledge, and neoliberal governance. Weaving the voices of women poets with the biomedical language of disorder, this critical-realist inquiry will explore my anxiety as it relates to the epidemic levels of anxiety among other women, and the late-stage capitalist world within which anxiety flourishes.
A Soviet View on the Assassination of the Iranian Prime Minister, Haj ʻAli Razmara, in the Context of the Early Years of the Cold War
Authors: Shahvar Soli 
Published: February 2023

AbstractUsing Soviet foreign ministry documents found in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, this article seeks to shed a new light on the identity of those behind the assassination of Haj ʻAli Razmara in 1951, and the reasons for it. In seeking a power to back his aspirations to become the ruler of Iran, Razmara hopped between the USSR and the United States, finally gambling on USSR. In spite of this, the United States was not in a hurry to get rid of him; instead, they preferred to use the Shah's fear of Razmara to secure the former's cooperation and to extract from him what they wanted, especially oil concessions in Iran. However, by then Iran was already marching rapidly toward oil nationalization, which Razmara opposed on the grounds that the USSR should be the power that produced the oil for the Iranians. This was unacceptable to the Americans, who, according to Soviet sources, decided to get rid of Razmara during the early stages of the Cold War.