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Utility of endoscopic pressure study integrated system for gastroesophageal reflux disease after endoscopic antireflux therapy
Authors: Yamamoto Kazuki , Inoue Haruhiro , Tanaka Ippei , Ushikubo Kei , Iwasaki Miyuki , Nishikawa Yohei , Tanaka Hidenori , Tanabe Mayo , Abiko Satoshi , Gantuya Boldbaatar , Onimaru Manabu , Shimamura Yuto 
Published: January 2025

ObjectivesThe endoscopic pressure study integrated system (EPSIS) measures intragastric pressure (IGP) during esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Previous research demonstrated that EPSIS correlates with the 24‐h impedance‐pH (MII‐pH) test and shows lower maximum IGP (IGP‐Max) and a flatter waveform gradient in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) patients, attributed to lower esophageal sphincter dysfunction. Although endoscopic antireflux therapy (EARTh) is effective for GERD, the MII‐pH monitoring, the gold standard for assessing treatment outcomes, requires hospitalization and can be a burden. EPSIS offers a noninvasive alternative for evaluating post‐EARTh outcomes. This study aimed to assess EPSIS as an additional diagnostic tool in this context.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective analysis of GERD patients who underwent EARTh and were subsequently assessed using EPSIS within 6 months, from May 2018 to April 2024. Changes in IGP parameters, including IGP‐Max and waveform gradient, were analyzed pre‐ and post‐EARTh. Additionally, the study examined Hill's Classification following EARTh.ResultsOut of 39 patients assessed with EPSIS before and after EARTh, the average age was 55 years (standard deviation [SD] 16.7), with 64.1% male. Postoperative IGP‐Max increased from 15.2 mmHg to 18.0 mmHg (P = 0.004), and the pressure gradient improved from 0.16 mmHg/s to 0.28 mmHg/s (P < 0.001). Hill's Classification improved significantly from a mean of 2.2 (SD 0.7) to 1.1 (SD 0.3) (P < 0.001).ConclusionThis study indicates that EPSIS is a reliable diagnostic tool for evaluating the effects of EARTh and holds potential as a supplementary tool for assessing GERD treatment outcomes.
Sulfur Regulation on Microbial Biodiversity in a Montane Peatland
Authors: Carroll Rani , Jeffries Thomas C. , Reynolds Jason K. 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTPeatlands occur globally, and peat's microbial biodiversity is dominated by nutrient cycling. Peat soils derive acidity through carbon cycling, and the role of sulfur‐utilising bacteria is less understood. A montane peatland within the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in New South Wales, Australia, was investigated to understand microbial controls on sulfide acidity. Peat soils were mildly acidic, with sulfides present in the transition and reduced zones. Sulfur‐reducing bacteria, including from the Desulfobaccaceae and Syntrophobacteraceae families, were present in the transition and reduced zones of the soil profile. The key drivers of the microbial biodiversity were acid extractable sulfate in the oxidised zone (0–20 cm) and chromium reducible sulfur potential acidity in the transition to reduced (60–150 cm) zones. This peatland is unique as it reflects a montane, freshwater landscape with sulfides at depth, which exert a distinct control on soil microbial biodiversity. The formation and presence of sulfides place the site at risk for acidity generation, where landscape dehydration may occur.
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community
Authors: Buche Lisa , Shoemaker Lauren G. , Hallett Lauren M. , Bartomeus Ignasi , Vesk Peter , Weiss‐Lehman Christopher , Mayfield Margaret , Godoy Oscar 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTWith many species interacting in nature, determining which interactions describe community dynamics is nontrivial. By applying a computational modeling approach to an extensive field survey, we assessed the importance of interactions from plants (both inter‐ and intra‐specific), pollinators and insect herbivores on plant performance (i.e., viable seed production). We compared the inclusion of interaction effects as aggregate guild‐level terms versus terms specific to taxonomic groups. We found that a continuum from positive to negative interactions, containing mostly guild‐level effects and a few strong taxonomic‐specific effects, was sufficient to describe plant performance. While interactions with herbivores and intraspecific plants varied from weakly negative to weakly positive, heterospecific plants mainly promoted competition and pollinators facilitated plants. The consistency of these empirical findings over 3 years suggests that including the guild‐level effects and a few taxonomic‐specific groups rather than all pairwise and high‐order interactions, can be sufficient for accurately describing species variation in plant performance across natural communities.
Everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse in the Mass Observation Archive
Authors: Jackman Anna 
Published: January 2025

AbstractDrones are a growing feature of everyday airspace, with more‐than‐military drones deployed across diverse civil, commercial, and recreational applications. Yet, from reports of drones flying in proximity to manned aircraft and transporting contraband into prisons to drones used to spy on ex‐partners, so too have concerns grown around drone incidents and misuse. Drawing on the testimony of Mass Observation Archive (MOA) correspondents, this article explores everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse, while bringing drone geographies into novel dialogue with feminist geographical and geopolitical work on the everyday, storytelling, and (digital) technology. An established UK archival project, the MOA seeks the views of ‘ordinary’ people to inform an understanding of everyday life in Britain through issuing questionnaire‐style ‘directives’ on wide‐ranging themes, from current events to articles of interest, to its panel of volunteer correspondents. Drawing on the author's development of a drone‐themed directive, this article examines everyday understandings of growing and anticipated drone presence, while reflecting on the geopolitical implications of increasingly diffuse airpower as access to drones widens. In so doing, it responds to calls from drone geographies to diversify the methodologies deployed in the drone's critical accounting, while bringing the MOA dataset into dialogue with feminist work to deepen understandings of ‘everyday droning’.
Political Judgment Above Transparency? Results From a Mixed Method Study About Politicians' Close Cooperation With Interest Organizations
Authors: Martinsson Joel 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTIn what ways, if at all, does transparency influence how politicians cooperate with interest organizations? While there are convincing normative arguments stressing the importance of transparency in politics, empirical evidence for how transparency in practice affects how politicians reason regarding cooperating with interest organizations is scarce. In this article, I address this gap by conducting a mixed method survey experiment with 1659 Swedish politicians. The findings indicate that a lack of transparency, as explored in this study, diminishes politicians' willingness to closely cooperate with interest organizations by submitting policy proposals drafted by these organizations. However, the central concern for most politicians, in both the transparent and untransparent conditions, was whether they had exercised independent political judgment rather than blindly accepted the interest organization's suggestion. These results contribute to the literature by showing how a specific form of transparency influences cooperation between politicians and interest groups, while also offering theoretical insights into the critical role of political judgment in this cooperation.
Taxing emissions and privatizing a state‐owned enterprise under endogenous price‐quantity competition
Authors: Xu Lili , Zhao Qinghong , Lee Sang‐Ho 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis study considers an endogenous competition mode between price and quantity and explores policy interaction between emission tax and privatization when a vertically integrated state‐owned enterprise competes with a downstream firm that purchases inputs from an upstream supplier in its supply chain. We find that when the product substitutability is low (high), firms choose Bertrand (price‐quantity) competition under a nationalization regime, whereas they choose quantity‐price (Cournot) competition under a privatization regime. We demonstrate that an institutional change with privatization and emission tax could switch market competition mode from aggressive Bertrand (price‐quantity) to conservative Cournot competition if (unless) the product substitutability is intermediate, which leads to improved (reduced) welfare. Our findings suggest that appropriate coordination between privatization and environmental policies in a vertical relation can enhance welfare in an era of environmental transition.
Comparison between minimally invasive surgery and open surgery in managing localized adrenocortical carcinoma treatment: A retrospective propensity‐matched study
Authors: Zhao Xin , Zhou Jiaquan , Lyu Xiaohong , Li Yanan , Liu Yihong , Zhang Yushi 
Published: January 2025

AbstractBackgroundIt was controversial to use open surgery or minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC). This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the impact on prognosis between MIS and open surgery in patients with clinical stage I–II ACC.MethodsPatients with stage I–II ACC from December 2000 to October 2022 were retrospectively studied. The primary endpoint was recurrence‐free survival time calculated by the Kaplan–Meier curves.ResultsIn total, 95 patients were enrolled in this study (50 open surgery and 45 MIS). Propensity score matching identified 32 matched pairs of patients. Compared with the open surgery group, the MIS group had a shorter median operative time (150.0 vs. 120.0 min, p = 0.014), the lesser median volume of intraoperative blood loss (200.0 vs. 60.0 mL, p = 0.006), lower incidence of postoperative complications (59.4% vs. 28.1%, p = 0.023), and shorter median postoperative length of hospital stay (8.0 vs. 7.0 days, p = 0.001). After a median follow‐up time of 20.5 months, no significant differences were observed in the local recurrence rate (62.5% vs. 78.1%), distant metastasis rate (15.6% vs. 6.3%), and median time to recurrence (15.0 vs. 20.0 months) between the two groups. The median recurrence‐free survival time between the open surgery and MIS groups did not significantly differ (16.0 vs. 21.0 months).ConclusionMIS might be a feasible option for treating localized ACC at a high patient's volume center with experienced surgeons.
The effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on survival outcomes in patients with variant histologies who underwent radical cystectomy with precystectomy diagnostic accuracy: A multicenter study of the Turkish Urooncology Association
Authors: Akpinar Cagri , Suer Evren , Akdogan Bülent , Izol Volkan , Celik Serdar , Aslan Guven , Akgul Hacı Murat , Bolat Deniz , Sozen Sinan , Deger Mutlu , Baltaci Sumer 
Published: January 2025

ObjectivesTo evaluate the role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the final treatment plan and its impact on survival in bladder cancer patients who were diagnosed with variant histology in the radical cystectomy specimen and whose diagnostic accuracy was achieved with the previous transurethral resection of the bladder specimen.MethodsIn this retrospective multicenter study, data from 221 patients across 9 centers were analyzed between January 2012 and January 2022. The primary endpoint was overall, cancer‐specific, recurrence‐free, and metastasis‐free survival rates among patients with and without neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and the secondary endpoint was to identify independent predictors of survival. The Kaplan–Meier method was used to estimate overall survival, cancer‐specific survival, recurrence‐free survival, and metastasis‐free survival, and multivariate analyses were performed using the Cox‐regression model.ResultsKaplan–Meier estimates of overall, cancer‐specific, recurrence‐free, and metastasis‐free survival demonstrated no significant difference between two groups. Cox multifactorial analysis revealed that the age (HR 1.030, 95% CI 1.003–1.057, p = 0.027), presence of pT4 tumor stage (HR 3.861, 95% CI 1.303–11.494, p = 0.015), and pN+ (HR 2.288, 95% CI 1.475–3.550, p < 0.001) at radical cystectomy histopathology were independent predictors of overall survival; presence of pT4 tumor stage and pN+ at radical cystectomy histopathology were independent predictors of cancer‐specific survival (HR 8.245, 95% CI 1.873–36.292, p = 0.005 and HR 1.792, 95% CI 1.049–3.061, p = 0.033) and metastasis‐free survival (HR 9.957, 95% CI 1.286–77.073, p = 0.028 and HR 2.949, 95% CI 1.674–5.197, p < 0.001); and the age (HR 1.047, 95% CI 1.006–1.090, p = 0.025) and pN+ at radical cystectomy histopathology (HR 4.150, 95% CI 1.917–8.981, p < 0.001) were independent predictors of recurrence‐free survival.ConclusionNeoadjuvant chemotherapy does not provide any survival advantage in variant histology; therefore, considering the disadvantages, such as delaying radical cystectomy, which can lead to inadvertent disease progression and chemotherapy‐related toxicities, cautious should be exercised when administering neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Exploring the Use of Sea Swimming as an Intervention With Young People With Mental Health Challenges: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Authors: Taylor Alice , O'Malley Maria , O'Callaghan Rachael , Goodwin John 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTThere is emerging evidence that sea swimming can have a positive impact on the mental health of adults. Less is known about how this intervention can impact young people's mental health. The aim of this study was to explore young service users and staff's perspectives on sea swimming in the child and adolescent mental health services. Fourteen participants were interviewed (eight young people and six staff members). Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis and five themes were identified. A preference for sea swimming was demonstrated by young people in comparison to other therapies. Young people reported an enhanced (and sustained) sense of well‐being after sea swimming. They were able to relate the act of entering cold water to their recovery journey, acknowledging the importance of leaving their comfort zone. A sense of social cohesion was also described. Staff members acknowledged the risks of open sea swimming but highlighted the importance of positive risk taking, given the benefits of this novel intervention. Owing to the positive impact sea swimming can have on the physical and psychological health of young people, there is potential for this novel intervention to be used more frequently within the services.
Bi‐objective minimization of energy consumption and cycle time for the robotic assembly line balancing problem: pseudo‐polynomial case and reduced search space metaheuristic
Authors: Lahrichi Youssef , Gamoura Samia Chehbi , Damand David , Barth Marc 
Published: January 2025

AbstractEnergy consumption and cycle time are two contradictory optimization objectives for the robotic assembly line balancing problem (RALBP). Indeed, minimizing the cycle time leads to choosing the fastest robots, while minimizing the energy consumption leads to choosing the robots with the smallest powers. In the context of RALBP, cycle time minimization has been extensively studied while energy minimization has been much less considered. Studies dealing with simultaneous minimization of the two later are even scarcer. A bi‐objective RALBP considering simultaneous minimization of cycle time and energy consumption is studied in this paper. The energy consumption is calculated based on recent papers from the literature. It includes energy consumed during both operation time and idle time. In this paper, a pseudo‐polynomial case is solved thanks to an exact algorithm called split. This latter enumerates all Pareto‐optimal solutions corresponding to a given giant sequence of operations. Split is then used as a decoder in a metaheuristic operating in a reduced search space where giant sequences encode solutions. An experimental study is performed on instances taken from the literature to test the suggested encoding–decoding scheme. It shows that the suggested approach yields competitive results compared to the literature.
3D printed GO‐g‐C3N4‐geopolymer components with acid treatment for the removal of methylene blue from wastewater
Authors: Liu Xuehui , Zhao Shengjian , Li Quanhong , He Peigang , Duan Xiaoming , Jia Dechang , Zhou Yu 
Published: January 2025

AbstractIn this work, the synthesized geopolymer was prepared using metakaolin and alkali activator, and during the geopolymerization process, g‐C3N4 and different contents of GO were added to the geopolymer, and GO‐g‐C3N4‐GP was finally obtained. These samples can remove methylene blue (MB) utilizing the synergistic effect of adsorption and photocatalysis. 10% GO‐g‐C3N4‐GP had the best removal rate of 93.28% within 30 min, under visible light. The results confirmed that geopolymers can provide a reusable carrier for g‐C3N4, and the presence of GO can hinder the recombination of charges and promote the migration of photogenerated electrons, further improving the photocatalytic performance. 10% GO‐g‐C3N4‐GP was also used to 3D print a scaffold by using the direct ink writing technology. To improve the efficiency of MB removal, 3D printed samples were treated with acid, and the sample of the 3D printed 10% GO‐g‐C3N4‐GP acid treatment was also effective in removing MB and facilitates the recovery of the active material. This work can provide a simple way for synthesizing green materials for removing organic dyes.
Interaction effects of anisotropic roughness interface and component shape characteristics on fatigue life of thermal barrier coatings
Authors: Yao Yudong , Ai Yanting , Guan Peng , Bao Tiannan , Tian Jing , Hu Xiao 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThe objective of this study is to investigate the interaction effects of anisotropic roughness interface (ARI) and component shape characteristics on the thermal fatigue life of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). In this study, an ARI characterization method for 3D TBCs interfaces of circular tubes is established. Then, TBCs finite element model and TBCs thermal fatigue life prediction model based on particle swarm optimization are conducted. Finally, the effect of ARI on the interface stress state and thermal fatigue life of the TBCs is discussed. The results show that the maximum error in the fatigue life prediction model of TBCs is only 45.3%, and the fatigue life prediction error for TBCs under similar operating conditions is only 30.8%. When the axial interface wavelength is 0.060 mm and the circumferential wavelength interface is 0.057 mm, the maximum equivalent stress at the interface is the smallest, with a value of 241.4 MPa. The thermal fatigue life is maximum when the axial wavelength interface is 0.060 mm and the circumferential wavelength interface is 0.049 mm, with the value of 639 cycles, which is the 47.6% increase in fatigue life compared with the initial roughness TBCs model (The interface wavelengths are all 0.040 mm). The above findings demonstrate the effectiveness of ARI in enhancing the fatigue life of TBCs, which provides a new idea for the preparation of high fatigue life TBCs.
Enhancing flexural strength of ceramics by quenching
Authors: Gu Junfeng , Zhang Fan , Wang Hao , Wang Weimin , Fu Zhengyi 
Published: January 2025

AbstractQuenching has been widely used as a strengthening strategy in metals and glass; however, it is rarely applied to ceramics due to the thermal shock effect. In this work, several types of ceramic rods including commercial corundum, Al2O3, ZrO2, TiB2, and B4C were quenched in silicon oil for investigation. The flexural strength of all these ceramic rods showed an increase of 5.1%‒23.6% after quenched at 500°C. The strengthening mechanism was likely related to the transient stress at initial quenching stage. This work demonstrates that the quenching treatment is a potential method to strengthen ceramics.
Association Between SHBG Levels and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
Authors: Malvi Ajay , Shabil Muhammed , Khatib Mahalaqua Nazli , R Roopashree , Kaur Mandeep , Srivastava Manish , Barwal Amit , Prasad G. V. Siva , Rajput Pranchal , Syed Rukshar , Kundra Kamal , Mittal Vinamra , Kumar Amit , Cajla Pancham , Bushi Ganesh , Mehta Rachana , Khan Zaid , Satapathy Prakasini , Gaidhane Shilpa , Sah Renu 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTSex hormone‐binding globulin (SHBG) regulates sex hormone availability and is influenced by metabolic factors. Variations in SHBG levels during pregnancy may affect the development of hypertensive disorders such as gestational hypertension (GH) and preeclampsia (PE). This systematic review and meta‐analysis explores the potential of SHBG as a biomarker for predicting GH and PE. A search of PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science was conducted to identify studies evaluating the association between SHBG levels and the risk of HDP, including GH and PE. Inclusion criteria encompassed observational studies reporting quantitative risk estimates (risk ratios, odds ratios, or hazard ratios) for SHBG levels. Results were pooled using a random‐effects meta‐analysis in R software (V 4.4), with the I2 statistic assessing heterogeneity. Eight studies were included in the systematic review from a total of 592 screened records. The association between SHBG levels and the risk of any HDP showed a pooled OR of 0.875 (95% CI: 0.772–0.993), for PE 0.890 (95% CI: 0.767–1.032), and for GH 0.729 (95% CI: 0.442–1.205), suggesting significant association between SHBG and HDP. Sensitivity analysis validated the robustness of the findings. This meta‐analysis found potential significant association between higher SHBG levels and risk of HDP. Further high‐quality research is required to better understand the role of SHBG in pregnancy‐related hypertensive disorders. Future studies should consider larger sample sizes, more precise measurement techniques, and explore potential confounding factors to clarify the potential utility of SHBG as a biomarker for predicting GH and PE.