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Linear extensions and shelling orders
Authors: Bolognini Davide , Sentinelli Paolo 
Published: July 2023

AbstractWe prove that linear extensions of the Bruhat order of a matroid are shelling orders and that the barycentric subdivision of a matroid is a Coxeter matroid, viewing barycentric subdivisions as subsets of a parabolic quotient of a symmetric group. A similar result holds for order ideals in minuscule quotients of symmetric groups and in their barycentric subdivisions. Moreover, we apply promotion and evacuation for labeled graphs of Malvenuto and Reutenauer to dual graphs of simplicial complexes, introducing promotion and evacuation of shelling orders.
Multidomain Synthesis of Optimal Vibration Suppression Systems
Authors: Li Yuan , Zheng Jiang Jason , Neild Simon A. , Titurus Branislav 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
There are numerous design possibilities for vibration–suppression systems considering components from multiple domains (e.g., mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical). Traditional vibration absorber design approach could only explore limited possibilities, of which the performance is away from optimal. Since the 2000s, network synthesis-based approach has been applied. It allows identification of optimal absorber properties represented by networks consisting of modeling elements (stiffness, damping, inertance), providing significant theoretical performance improvements. However, such improvements have not yet been realized in industry. This is because the following questions have not been answered: (1) What are the network-represented properties of the conventional absorber? (2) How can the optimal network-represented properties be realized considering multidomain physical components? This article provides a method for answering these questions by proposing a novel multidomain synthesis technique, allowing bidirectional transformation between networks and multidomain components. Building on this technique, a vibration–absorber design methodology is proposed, which can construct physical realizations of optimal absorbers considering multidomain components. Another contribution of this work is to propose a novel component, providing a hydraulic realization of compliance ‘embedded’ in a hydraulic network. This methodology is demonstrated using an automotive case study, where the constructed optimal hydraulic suspension provides 23% ride comfort enhancement over the conventional one.
Development of and adherence to an ERAS® and prehabilitation protocol for patients undergoing pancreatic surgery: An observational study
Authors: Olsén Monika Fagevik , Andersson Thomas , Nouh Micheline Al , Johnson Erik , Block Linda , Vakk My , Wennerblom Johanna 
Published: July 2023

Background and objective: There are still gaps in knowledge concerning the adherence to different multimodal pathways in pancreatic surgery. The aim of this trial was to explore and evaluate an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) and prehabilitation protocol in patients undergoing open pancreatic surgery. Methods: Three groups of patients were included: two prospective series of 75 patients undergoing open pancreatic surgery following an ERAS® protocol with or without prehabilitation, and one group of 55 historical controls. Variables regarding adherence to, and effects of the protocols, were collected from the local database and the patients’ hospital records. Patients’ adherence to advice given pre-operatively was followed up using a study-specific questionnaire. Results: The patients reported high adherence to remembered advice given. The health care professionals’ adherence to the various parts of the concepts varied. ERAS® implementation resulted in more frequent gut motility stimulation ( p < 0.001) and shorter duration of epidural anesthesia, site drains, and urinary catheter ( p = 0.001). With prehabilitation, more patients were screened concerning nutritional status and prescribed preoperative training ( p < 001). There was a significant change in weight before surgery, a shorter time to first flatus and a shorter length of stay after implementation of the concepts ( p < 0.05). Complications were rare in all three groups and there were no significant differences between the groups. Conclusion: The implementation of an ERAS® and a prehabilitation protocol increased adherence to the protocols by both patients and healthcare professionals. An implementation of an ERAS® protocol with and without prehabilitation decreases length of stay and may decrease preoperative weight loss and time to bowel movement.
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics Associated With Familiarity, Interest, and Use of Integrative Therapies Among Patients With Breast Cancer
Authors: Freeman Jincong Q. , Sheade Jori , Zhao Fangyuan , Olopade Olufunmilayo I. , Nanda Rita , Huo Dezheng 
Published: July 2023

Background: Integrative therapies reduce side effects from cancer treatment, though remain underutilized. There is a paucity of data on factors associated with familiarity, interest, and use of these therapies among breast cancer patients. Methods: A survey on familiarity, interest, and use of acupuncture, massage, meditation, music therapy, and yoga was conducted in patients enrolled in the Chicago Multiethnic Epidemiologic Breast Cancer Cohort. Familiarity and interest were assessed using a five-point Likert scale, and modeled using proportional odds regression. Use was per self-report, modeled using logistic regression. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated. Results: Of 1300 study participants, 59.6% were familiar with massage, 47.2% acupuncture, 46.9% meditation, 46.5% yoga, and 34.5% music therapy; 63.3% were interested in massage, 50.2% yoga, 47.9% meditation, 44.2% acupuncture, and 41.4% music therapy. Only 41.3% had used massage, 25.8% acupuncture, 18.7% yoga, 18.5% meditation, and 7.4% music therapy. Older age and lower education level were associated with lower familiarity and interest. Black patients were more likely than White patients to be interested. Patients’ interest increased significantly when certain symptoms were treated. In the adjusted models, patients ages 40 to 65 were less likely than those ages <40 to have used massage (aOR 0.55, 95% CI: 0.31-0.98), yoga (aOR 0.52, 95% CI: 0.27-0.99), or meditation (aOR 0.47, 95% CI: 0.25-0.90). Patients with high school education were less likely than those with a graduate degree to have used acupuncture (aOR 0.42, 95% CI: 0.24-0.72), massage (aOR 0.39, 95% CI: 0.25-0.62), or meditation (aOR 0.26, 95% CI: 0.12-0.58). Having received chemotherapy was associated with increased interest in yoga (aOR 1.36, 95% CI: 1.07-1.73), massage (aOR 1.27, 95% CI: 1.01-1.59), or meditation (aOR 1.26, 95% CI: 1.01-1.57). Receipt of hormone therapy was not associated with interest or use. Conclusion: In this racially diverse cohort of patients, familiarity and interest of integrative therapies were high, while use was low. Older age and lower education level were associated with lack of interest and use. Chemotherapy was associated with interest, but hormone therapy was not. Strategies to promote the benefits and use of integrative therapies among breast cancer patients are needed.
Reconstructing self from the illness: a constructivist grounded theory study of posttraumatic growth in patients with Crohn’s disease
Authors: Wang Ying , Zhang Chen , Zhou Yunxian 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Background
Some patients with Crohn’s disease report posttraumatic growth, which can promote reductions in anxiety and depression, and improve the patient’s quality of life. However, the process of posttraumatic growth remains unclear. The objectives of this study were to explore the social-psychological process of posttraumatic growth in patients with Crohn’s disease in the context of Chinese culture and construct an interpretive understanding based on the perspectives of patients.

Methods
This research adopted Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory. Nineteen participants with Crohn’s disease were selected by purposive and theoretical sampling from three hospitals in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, as well as from the China Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. In-depth interviews were conducted. Data analysis was based on initial, focused and theoretical coding strategies, and methods such as constant comparison and memo writing were adopted. The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research, a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups, was utilised.

Results
An interpretive understanding of posttraumatic growth in patients with Crohn’s disease was constructed. The core category was “reconstructing self from the illness”, which included the following four categories: “suffering from the illness”, “accepting the illness”, “dancing with the illness” and “enriching life beyond the illness”. However, not every patient reached the last phase. Before patients enter the next stage, they might begin a new cycle by experiencing new suffering or discovering new unacceptable facts about the illness.

Conclusions
This interpretive understanding reveals a growth process centred on “reconstructing self from the illness”. These findings provide knowledge on the process of posttraumatic growth in patients with Crohn’s disease within the wider sociocultural context.
An application of artificial neural networks for solving fractional higher-order linear integro-differential equations
Authors: Allahviranloo T. , Jafarian A. , Saneifard R. , Ghalami N. , Measoomy Nia S. , Kiani F. , Fernandez-Gamiz U. , Noeiaghdam S. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThis ongoing work is vehemently dedicated to the investigation of a class of ordinary linear Volterra type integro-differential equations with fractional order in numerical mode. By replacing the unknown function by an appropriate multilayered feed-forward type neural structure, the fractional problem of such initial value is changed into a course of non-linear minimization equations, to some extent. Put differently, interest was sparked in structuring an optimized iterative first-order algorithm to estimate solutions for the origin fractional problem. On top of that, some computer simulation models exemplify the preciseness and well-functioning of the indicated iterative technique. The outstanding accomplished numerical outcomes conveniently reflect the productivity and competency of artificial neural network methods compared to customary approaches.
Interpretable Policies and the Price of Interpretability in Hypertension Treatment Planning
Authors: Garcia Gian-Gabriel P. , Steimle Lauren N. , Marrero Wesley J. , Sussman Jeremy B. 
Published: July 2023

Problem definition: Effective hypertension management is critical to reducing the consequences of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of death in the United States. Clinical guidelines for hypertension can be enhanced using decision-analytic approaches capable of capturing complexities in treatment planning. However, model-generated recommendations may be uninterpretable/unintuitive, limiting their clinical acceptability. We address this challenge by investigating interpretable treatment plans. Methodology/results: We formulate interpretable treatment plans as Markov decision processes (MDPs) and analyze the problems of optimizing monotone policies, which prohibit decreasing treatment intensity for sicker patients, and class-ordered monotone policies, which generalize monotone policies. We establish that both policies depend on initial state distributions and that optimal monotone policies can be generated tractably for many treatment planning problems. Next, we propose exact formulations for optimizing interpretable policies broadly. Then, we analyze the price of interpretability, proving that the class-ordered monotone policy’s price of interpretability does not exceed the monotone policy’s price of interpretability. Finally, we formulate and evaluate MDPs for hypertension treatment planning using a large nationally representative data set of the U.S. population. We compare the structure and performance of optimal monotone policies and class-ordered monotone policies with optimal MDP-based policies and current clinical guidelines. At the patient level, optimal MDP-based policies may be unintuitive, recommending more aggressive treatment for healthier patients than sicker patients. Conversely, monotone policies and class-ordered monotone policies never deescalate treatment, reflecting clinical intuition. Across 66.5 million patients, optimized monotone policies and class-ordered monotone policies outperform clinical guidelines, saving over 3,246 quality-adjusted life years per 100,000 patients, with both policies paying a low price of interpretability. Sensitivity analysis illustrates that monotone policies and class-ordered monotone policies are robust to various definitions of “interpretability.” Managerial implications: Interpretable policies can be tractably optimized, drastically outperform existing guidelines, and perform near optimally—potentially increasing the acceptability of decision-analytic approaches in practice. Funding: L. N. Steimle and W. J. Marrero received support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [Grant DGE 1256260]. J. B. Sussman received support from the National Institutes of Health [Grants R01NS102715 and RF1AG068410], the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs [Grants 1I01-HX003304 and 1I50-HX003251], and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Supplemental Material: The e-companion is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2021.0373 .
Granulomatous polyangiitis involving the fourth ventricle: Report of a rare case and a literature review
Authors: Yuan Dan , Ji Qing , Xia Jin-Hua , Wang Jin-Jing , Liang Na 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Granulomatous polyangiitis (GPA) is a rare systemic autoimmune vasculitis disease that is highly correlated with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs). It was formerly called as “Wegener’s granulomatosis.” The clinical manifestations are diverse, mainly involving the upper respiratory tract, lungs, and kidneys, and this disease can involve the brain parenchyma as an isolated solid mass. Only one case has been reported thus far. To provide further information on this rare case, we report a case of GPA involving the fourth ventricle and review the relevant literature. A 32-year-old Chinese female developed fever, cough, and shortness of breath for 20 days. An 80 mm × 80 mm skin ulcer was seen on the right lower limb. CT showed multiple large patches of increased density in both lungs. The patient’s serological ANCA was positive. Later, the patient developed dizziness and headache. Magnetic resonance imaging of the head showed a mass of approximately 21 mm × 24 mm in the fourth ventricle. The patient had a craniotomy for mass resection, and macroscopically, the mass was gray–red and measured 25 mm × 20 mm × 20 mm, was soft, had local hemorrhage and necrosis, and had no capsule. The main microscopic features included necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis, the patient’s immunohistochemistry was positive for CD68 and negative for glial fibrillary acidic protein, and the acid-fast staining and hexaamine silver staining were negative. Combined with the clinical history, serology, and imaging, the pathological diagnosis was GPA in the fourth ventricle. The patient was switched to rituximab combined with steroid therapy because she did not tolerate cyclophosphamide. After 5 months of follow-up, the patient’s lung lesions and skin ulcers had completely improved, but the brain lesions had further progressed. When a patient has multiple system diseases, abnormal clinical manifestations, and positive serological ANCAs, a diagnosis of GPA should be carefully considered, and biopsies of easy-to-access sites should be performed. If the patient’s histopathological manifestations include vasculitis, granuloma, and necrosis, a diagnosis of GPA is more likely. If a patient subsequently develops an intraventricular mass, the clinicians should consider a diagnosis of GPA, which can rarely involve the cerebral ventricle to avoid an unnecessary biopsy or surgical treatment of intracranial lesions. When a patient is intolerant to the traditional treatment drug cyclophosphamide and needs to be switched to rituximab, the treatment effect of intracerebral lesions is not ideal; therefore, the treatment of lesions involving GPA in the ventricle is worthy of further exploration.
La regionalización en Marruecos: un proceso estancado
Authors: Ojeda García Raquel 
Published: July 2023

ResumenLa última propuesta de la regionalización avanzada ha sido incluida en la última reforma constitucional de 2011 de Marruecos prácticamente en su totalidad, a pesar que tras la llegada del PJD al gobierno muchas voces pensasen que era posible que se abriese un proceso de regionalización en Marruecos. Sin embargo, el proyecto de regionalización ha quedado fuera de la agenda política gubernamental y del monarca. Este artículo analiza las trabas históricas que sufre este proceso de regionalización y lo pone en relación con la modernización administrativa de Marruecos y los avances en el proceso de democratización.Palabras clave: Marruecos, regionalización, autonomía regional, descentralización, administración territorial AbstractThe latest proposal advanced regionalization has been included in the last constitutional reform of 2011 in Morocco almost totally, but many voices thought, that after the arrival of the PJD to the government, a new process of regionalization in Morocco could have been opened. However, the regionalization project was left out of the political agenda of the govermen and the monarchy. This article discusses the historical obstacles experienced in the regionalization process in Morocco and puts it in relation to administrative modernization and the advances in democratisation process. Key words: Morocco, regionalisation, regional autonomy, decentralisation, territorial administration.
State and Terror
Authors: Buldakov V.P. 
Published: July 2023

Post-revolutionary terror in Russia is usually associated with the personality of Stalin. In fact, the intensity of terror was dictated by the logic of the survival of power, constrained on the one hand by Marxist doctrine, on the other by authoritarian tradition. So, the return to mass terror at the end of the 1920s was facilitated by the transition from the psychology of the world revolution to the psychosis of a besieged fortress. Hence the horrors of collectivization caused mainly by actions of the local authorities. The latter were helped in their own way by the townsfolk, who explained the food troubles by the actions of the rural “bourgeoisie”. The government, striving to become absolute according to the “only true” theory, needed enemies of an infernal scale – especially when it itself was in an economic impasse. In this sense, the terror of 1937 became inevitable. Subsequent waves of terror were also associated with the political maneuvering of the authorities.
Late Quaternary fluvial environments at Abo Arroyo, New Mexico, U.S.A.: response to millennial-scale climate change
Authors: Hall Stephen A. 
Published: July 2023

ABSTRACTAbo Arroyo is a tributary of the Rio Grande in central New Mexico. Its alluvial sequence is made up of four informal units, their age defined by 44 AMS radiocarbon dates from 12.8 ka to 0.85 ka. The earliest, unit 1, is terminal Pleistocene to early Holocene (12.8 ka to 9.0 ka), including the Scholle wet meadow (12.3 ka to 11.1 ka) related to the Younger Dryas. After an erosional gap in the record from 9 ka to 6 ka, coarse gravel (unit 2) was deposited in the channel (5.8 ka and 4.3 ka) during the middle Holocene period of aridity. Subsequently, the late Holocene wet period is characterized by fine-textured alluvium (unit 3) (3.5 ka to 0.945 ka) with shells of an aquatic snail, indicating persistent stream flow. An upper 2-m zone of dark-colored clayey silt beds with high amounts of organic carbon and carbonate accumulated from 1.7 ka to 0.945 ka. A record of C4 signatures, previously interpreted to indicate dry conditions 1.4 ka to 0.945 ka, is reinterpreted as an interval of exceptionally wet floodplain conditions with C4 grasses and sedges. Abo Arroyo and other studies indicate three major episodes of late-Quaternary channel entrenchment: 1) from the full-glacial to late glacial-Bølling/Allerød (6.1 ky), 2) during the middle Holocene (2.5 ky), and 3) during the late Holocene Medieval Warm Period (0.4 ky), each erosional event less severe and shorter duration than the preceding one, and all three represent a significant change from wet to dry climate. During the Medieval Warm Period (A.D. 900 to 1300), a shallow channel formed in unit 3 alluvium, bracketed by AMS dates A.D. 1005 in unit 3 alluvium and A. D. 1100 in unit 4 channel fill. The channel cutting occurred with the shift from wet to dry climate, although the downcutting event was preceded by 100 years of landscape adjustment to the long drought. The canyon fill was entrenched again, deep and wide, by arroyo cutting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The regional 83-year second-century drought (A.D. 100 to A.D. 182), documented by tree rings, shows up in the stable-carbon-isotope record from Abo Arroyo alluvium. The drought was more severe than the 400-year warm period but had little effect on the preserved alluvial record. The less severe but longer-duration Medieval Warm Period resulted in channel cutting at Abo Arroyo and elsewhere in the broad region at that time, but the second-century drought did not. Finally, the similarity of Abo Arroyo and Rio Grande late Holocene alluvial records with parallel stratigraphy, sedimentology, and geochronology illustrates that tributaries and main valleys respond alike and in concert to climate and climate change.
Innovative low-cost engineered adsorbents based on waste eggshell for nickel removal from aqueous solutions
Authors: SEGNEANU Adina-Elena , TRUSCA Roxana , CEPAN Claudiu , MIHAILESCU Maria , GROZESCU Ioan , MUNTEAN Cornelia , HEREA Daniel Dumitru , SALIFOGLOU Athanasios 
Published: July 2023

Abstract

In contemporary sustainable economy, innovation is prerequisite to waste recycling into new efficient materials, designed to minimize pollution and conserve non-renewable natural resources. Water pollution is a global problem with health, quality of life, and food safety concerns. Thus, waste conversion into cheap, efficient adsorbent materials with high reusability is a challengein wastewater recycling. In that context, starting from eggshell waste in this study, two new low-cost engineered adsorbents were prepared for the retrieval of nickel from aqueous solutions. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) results show that, in the first eggshell-zeolite (EZ) adsorbent, the zeolite nanoparticles were loaded in the eggshell pores. The preparation for the second (iron(III) oxide-hydroxide)-eggshell-zeolite (FEZ) adsorbent led to double functionalization of the eggshell base with the zeolite nanoparticles, upon simultaneous loading of the pores of the eggshell and zeolite surface with FeOOH particles. Structural modification of the eggshell led to a significant increase of the specific surface, as confirmed by BET analysis. These features enabled the proposed adsorbents (EZ and FEZ) to remove nickel from aqueous solutions with high performance and adsorption capacities 321.1 mg/g and 287.9 mg/g, respectively. The results indicate that nickel adsorption on EZ and FEZ is a multi-molecular layer, spontaneous, and endothermic process. Concomitantly, desorption results reflect high reusability of these two adsorbents, collectively suggesting the use of waste in the design of new, low-cost, and highly efficient engineered adsorbents for environmental bioremediation