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What women want if they were to have another baby: the Australian Birth Experience Study (BESt) cross-sectional national survey
Authors: Keedle Hazel , Lockwood Risharda , Keedle Warren , Susic Daniella , Dahlen Hannah G 
Published: September 2023

ObjectivesTo explore if Australian women would do anything differently if they were to have another baby.Design and settingThe Birth Experience Study (BESt) online survey explored pregnancy, birth and postnatal experiences for women who had given birth during 2016–2021 in Australia.ParticipantsIn 2021, 8804 women responded to the BESt survey and 6101 responses to the open text responses to the survey question ‘Would you do anything different if you were to have another baby?’ were analysed using inductive content analysis.ResultsA total of 6101 women provided comments in response to the open text question, resulting in 10 089 items of coding. Six categories were found: ‘Next time I'll be ready’ (3958, 39.2%) described how women reflected on their previous experience, feeling the need to better advocate for themselves in the future to receive the care or experience they wanted; ‘I want a specific birth experience’ (2872, 28.5%) and ‘I want a specific model of care’ (1796, 17.8%) highlighted the types of birth and health provider women would choose for their next pregnancy. ‘I want better access’ (294, 2.9%) identified financial and/or geographical constraints women experience trying to make choices for birth. Two categories included comments from women who said ‘I don’t want to change anything’ (1027, 10.2%) and ‘I don’t want another pregnancy’ (142, 1.4%). Most women birthed in hospital (82.9%) and had a vaginal birth (59.2%) and 26.7% had a caesarean.ConclusionOver 85% of comments left by women in Australia were related to making different decisions regarding their next birth choices. Most concerningly women often blamed themselves for not being more informed. Women realised the benefits of continuity of care with a midwife. Many women also desired a vaginal birth as well as better access to birthing at home.
Search for tri-nucleon decays of $$^{76}$$Ge in GERDA
Authors: Agostini M. , Alexander A. , Araujo G. , Bakalyarov A. M. , Balata M. , Barabanov I. , Baudis L. , Bauer C. , Belogurov S. , Bettini A. , Bezrukov L. , Biancacci V. , Bossio E. , Bothe V. , Brugnera R. , Caldwell A. , Calgaro S. , Cattadori C. , Chernogorov A. , Chiu P.-J. , Comellato T. , D’Andrea V. , Demidova E. V. , Di Giacinto A. , Di Marco N. , Doroshkevich E. , Fischer F. , Fomina M. , Gangapshev A. , Garfagnini A. , Gooch C. , Grabmayr P. , Gurentsov V. , Gusev K. , Hakenmüller J. , Hemmer S. , Hofmann W. , Hult M. , Inzhechik L. V. , Janicskó Csáthy J. , Jochum J. , Junker M. , Kazalov V. , Kermaïdic Y. , Khushbakht H. , Kihm T. , Kilgus K. , Kirpichnikov I. V. , Klimenko A. , Knöpfle K. T. , Kochetov O. , Kornoukhov V. N. , Krause P. , Kuzminov V. V. , Laubenstein M. , Lindner M. , Lippi I. , Lubashevskiy A. , Lubsandorzhiev B. , Lutter G. , Macolino C. , Majorovits B. , Maneschg W. , Manzanillas L. , Marshall G. , Misiaszek M. , Morella M. , Müller Y. , Nemchenok I. , Neuberger M. , Pandola L. , Pelczar K. , Pertoldi L. , Piseri P. , Pullia A. , Rauscher L. , Redchuk M. , Riboldi S. , Rumyantseva N. , Sada C. , Sailer S. , Salamida F. , Schönert S. , Schreiner J. , Schütt M. , Schütz A.-K. , Schulz O. , Schwarz M. , Schwingenheuer B. , Selivanenko O. , Shevchik E. , Shirchenko M. , Shtembari L. , Simgen H. , Smolnikov A. , Stukov D. , Sullivan S. , Vasenko A. A. , Veresnikova A. , Vignoli C. , von Sturm K. , Wester T. , Wiesinger C. , Wojcik M. , Yanovich E. , Zatschler B. , Zhitnikov I. , Zhukov S. V. , Zinatulina D. , Zschocke A. , Zsigmond A. J. , Zuber K. , Zuzel G. ,    GERDA collaboration
Published: September 2023

AbstractWe search for tri-nucleon decays of $$^{76}$$

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Ge in the dataset from the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment. Decays that populate excited levels of the daughter nucleus above the threshold for particle emission lead to disintegration and are not considered. The ppp-, ppn-, and pnn-decays lead to $$^{73}$$

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Cu, $$^{73}$$

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Zn, and $$^{73}$$

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Ga nuclei, respectively. These nuclei are unstable and eventually proceed by the beta decay of $$^{73}$$

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Ga to $$^{73}$$

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Ge (stable). We search for the $$^{73}$$

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Ga decay exploiting the fact that it dominantly populates the 66.7 keV $$^{73m}$$

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Ga state with half-life of 0.5 s. The nnn-decays of $$^{76}$$

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Ge that proceed via $$^{73m}$$

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Ge are also included in our analysis. We find no signal candidate and place a limit on the sum of the decay widths of the inclusive tri-nucleon decays that corresponds to a lower lifetime limit of 1.2$$\times $$
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10$$^{26}$$

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yr (90% credible interval). This result improves previous limits for tri-nucleon decays by one to three orders of magnitude.
Excited-state dynamics of deuterated indigo
Authors: Cohen Trevor , Svadlenak Nathan , Smith Charles , Vo Krystal , Lee Si-Young , Parejo-Vidal Ana , Kincaid Joseph R. A. , Sobolewski Andrzej L. , Rode Michal F. , de Vries Mattanjah S. 
Published: September 2023

AbstractIndigo, a rich blue dye, is an incredibly photostable molecule that has survived in ancient art for centuries. It is also unique in that it can undergo both an excited-state hydrogen and proton transfer on the picosecond timescale followed by a ground-state back transfer. Previously, we performed gas phase excited-state lifetime studies on indigo to study these processes in a solvent-free environment, combined with excited-state calculations. We found two decay pathways, a fast sub-nanosecond decay and a slow decay on the order of 10 ns. Calculations of the excited-state potential energy surface found that both hydrogen and proton transfer are nearly isoenergetic separated by a 0.1 eV barrier. To further elucidate these dynamics, we now report a study with deuterated indigo, using resonance-enhanced multi-photon ionization and pump-probe spectroscopy with mass spectrometric isotopomer selection. From new calculations of the excited-state potential energy surface, we find sequential double-proton or hydrogen transfer, whereby the trajectory to the second transfer passes a second barrier and then encounters a conical intersection that leads back to the ground state. We find that deuteration only increases the excited-state lifetimes of the fast decay channel, suggesting tunneling through the first barrier, while the slower channel is not affected and may involve a different intermediate state.
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Bifurcations of Mode-Locked Periodic Orbits in Three-Dimensional Maps
Authors: Muni Sishu Shankar , Banerjee Soumitro 
Published: September 2023

In this paper, we report the bifurcations of mode-locked periodic orbits occurring in maps of three or higher dimensions. The “torus” is represented by a closed loop in discrete time, which contains stable and unstable cycles of the same periodicity, and the unstable manifolds of the saddle. We investigate two types of “doubling” of such loops: (a) two disjoint loops are created and the iterates toggle between them, and (b) the length of the closed invariant curve is doubled. Our work supports the conjecture of Gardini and Sushko, which says that the type of bifurcation depends on the sign of the third eigenvalue. We also report the situation arising out of Neimark–Sacker bifurcation of the stable and saddle cycles, which creates cyclic closed invariant curves. We show interesting types of saddle-node connection structures, which emerge for parameter values where the stable fixed point has bifurcated but the saddle has not, and vice versa.
Convergence of Discrete-Time Cellular Neural Networks with Application to Image Processing
Authors: Di Marco Mauro , Forti Mauro , Pancioni Luca , Tesi Alberto 
Published: September 2023

The paper considers a class of discrete-time cellular neural networks (DT-CNNs) obtained by applying Euler’s discretization scheme to standard CNNs. Let [Formula: see text] be the DT-CNN interconnection matrix which is defined by the feedback cloning template. The paper shows that a DT-CNN is convergent, i.e. each solution tends to an equilibrium point, when [Formula: see text] is symmetric and, in the case where [Formula: see text] is not positive-semidefinite, the step size of Euler’s discretization scheme does not exceed a given bound ([Formula: see text] is the [Formula: see text] unit matrix). It is shown that two relevant properties hold as a consequence of the local and space-invariant interconnecting structure of a DT-CNN, namely: (1) the bound on the step size can be easily estimated via the elements of the DT-CNN feedback cloning template only; (2) the bound is independent of the DT-CNN dimension. These two properties make DT-CNNs very effective in view of computer simulations and for the practical applications to high-dimensional processing tasks. The obtained results are proved via Lyapunov approach and LaSalle’s Invariance Principle in combination with some fundamental inequalities enjoyed by the projection operator on a convex set. The results are compared with previous ones in the literature on the convergence of DT-CNNs and also with those obtained for different neural network models as the Brain-State-in-a-Box model. Finally, the results on convergence are illustrated via the application to some relevant 2D and 1D DT-CNNs for image processing tasks.
Crossing Limit Cycles Bifurcating from Two or Three Period Annuli in Discontinuous Planar Piecewise Linear Hamiltonian Differential Systems with Three Zones
Authors: Braga Denis de Carvalho , Fonseca Alexander Fernandes da , Mello Luis Fernando , Ribeiro Ronisio Moises , Pessoa Claudio Gomes 
Published: September 2023

The main topic studied in this article is the number of crossing limit cycles bifurcating from two or three period annuli in discontinuous planar piecewise linear Hamiltonian differential systems with three zones. With regard to the studies already published in the literature on this subject, we highlight the following five aspects of our work: (1) the expressions of the first order Melnikov functions for suitable perturbations of a piecewise Hamiltonian system with three zones separated by two parallel lines are obtained explicitly; (2) the way the Melnikov functions are obtained is different from what has already been done for similar studies; (3) the expressions of the Melnikov functions are used to estimate the number of crossing limit cycles that bifurcate simultaneously from period annuli under suitable polynomial perturbations; (4) since the piecewise Hamiltonian system studied here has no symmetry, the number of crossing limit cycles bifurcating from the period annuli is greater than or equal to those obtained in systems already studied; (5) unlike other similar studies, we present a concrete example of a piecewise linear near-Hamiltonian differential system in which the lower bound of the number of limit cycles that bifurcate from the period annuli is reached.
Generating symmetric and alternating groups
Authors: Catoiu Stefan , Diaconescu Răzvan 
Published: September 2023

We provide three generalizations of all best known generating sets for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]: (1) [Formula: see text]-cycles with consecutive entries; (2) [Formula: see text]-cycles with fixed first [Formula: see text] entries; (3) two cycles, either [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. Our work on (3) fills a gap in the history of the problem, going back to a 1939 paper by S. Piccard [Sur les bases du groupe symétrique et du groupe alternant, Math. Ann. 116(1) (1939) 752–767].
Fast and Selective Adsorption of Au (III) from the Waste Printed Circuit Boards Using a Low-Cost Adsorbent: Optimization by Central Composite Design Based on Response Surface Methodology
Authors: Zandi-Darehgharibi Farideh , Haddadi Hedayat , Asfaram Arash 
Published: September 2023

A low-cost new green adsorbent (GA) was synthesized by tannin-rich pomegranate peel powder and formaldehyde for the fast and selective recovery of Au (III). It was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), elemental analysis (CHN), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) (FE-SEM-EDS-mapping). The optimal values of influential factors were defined using a central composite design based on the response surface methodology (CCD-RSM). Adsorption properties were investigated by the kinetic, isotherm, thermodynamic, and interference of coexisting metal ions at optimum conditions. The experimental adsorption percentage with three repetitions under the optimized conditions such as pH = 2, adsorbent mass = 23 mg, Au (III) concentration = 32

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L

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, and contact time = 30 min was 97% and the highest adsorption capacity of the GA was 315.450

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g

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. The adsorption isotherm and kinetic were clarified by the Freundlich (R2 = 0.952) and pseudo-second-order (R2 = 0.998) models. The thermodynamic study (∆S° > 0, ∆H° > 0, and ∆G° < 0) revealed that Au (III) adsorption via GA was a facile, endothermic, and spontaneous process. The adsorption mechanism could be an electrostatic interaction and reductive adsorption. A small amount of GA (23 mg) adsorbed gold selectively and rapidly (30 min) from coexisting metals present in the waste printed circuit board (PCB) such as Ag, Al, Si, Zn, Pb, Ba, Ni, Ca, Mo, Co, Cr, Mn, Cu, Mg, Fe, and W. These results confirm the use of low-cost and high-efficiency GA to fast and selectively recover gold from waste PCBs.
Mastering medical terminology with ChatGPT and Termbot
Authors: Hsu Mei-Hua 
Published: September 2023

Objective: This study intended to examine whether the utilization of ChatGPT and Termbot enhances students’ understanding of medical terminology. Method: ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is an AI chatbot designed to generate human-like text responses. Termbot is a chatbot-based learning model focused on improving the acquisition of medical terminology through gamified learning methods. A total of 60 participants participated in this exploratory study, with 40 nursing students assigned to the experimental group and 20 nursing students assigned to the control group. In the experimental group, participants were further divided into two groups of 20, one of which was trained with ChatGPT and the other with Termbot. The participants in the experimental group engaged with the assigned tools for a minimum of 2 hours per week following classroom instruction. The control group used a traditional textbook as their primary learning resource. The study lasted 2 months, after which participants’ learning outcomes were evaluated using an online medical terminology exam post-test. Results: The study found that participants in the experimental group had significantly improved learning outcomes compared to participants in the control group. The results showed a substantial increase in post-test scores for both ChatGPT and Termbot groups, indicating that using these tools as learning assistants can assist students in the learning process. Conclusion: The study has important implications for educators and educational institutions, as it provides evidence for the potential benefits of using ChatGPT and Termbot as tools to improve students’ learning outcomes. The findings intensifyt the importance of embracing new technologies in education and using them to supplement traditional teaching methods.
Cancer-Related Symptom Frameworks Using a Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Perspective: A Scoping Review
Authors: Miller Megan , Vachon Eric , Kwekkeboom Kristine 
Published: September 2023

Background: Research to understand and manage cancer-related symptoms continues to advance, yet work that more fully adopts a biopsychosocial-spiritual view of symptoms is needed. Objective: The purpose of this article is to review existing frameworks that have the potential to guide research on cancer-related symptoms, to explore the characteristics of each framework, and to appraise each using a biopsychosocial-spiritual lens. Methods: A scoping review was conducted to identify available frameworks that could be applied to guide cancer-related symptom research and to assess their characteristics. Research questions and criteria were formulated at the outset, followed by identifying relevant publications detailing novel frameworks, charting data, and collating results. Upon identification of available frameworks, each was appraised for alignment with a standard definition of “biopsychosocial-spiritual.” Results: Eleven frameworks were identified to guide cancer-related symptom research. All were developed in the United States, led by nurse scientists, including symptom experiences as well as their antecedents and outcomes, and could be applied to one or more concurrent cancer-related symptoms. While all 11 frameworks included biopsychosocial dimensions, only 4 included spirituality. Conclusions: Four biopsychosocial-spiritual frameworks offer unique insight to support advancement of cancer-related symptom research and practice from a holistic perspective. This foundational work could lead to development and validation of new frameworks and modification of existing frameworks to more closely align with a biopsychosocial-spiritual view of cancer-related symptoms. This review offers a starting point to carefully and explicitly adopt frameworks in research and practice with increased emphasis on considering spiritual dimensions of symptoms.
Prognostic value of computed tomography associated body composition measurement changes in metastatic colorectal cancer patients
Authors: Sevgilioglu Zekai Emre , Evrimler Sehnaz , Iscan Gokce , Kayikcioglu Erkan , Sengul Sevim Sureyya , Cetin Bulent 
Published: September 2023

Background Sarcopenia is associated with poor prognosis in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients. Purpose To investigate the prognostic value of body composition measurement changes measured by computed tomography (CT) in mCRC patients. Material and Methods The abdominal skeletal muscle density (SMD) and skeletal muscle (SMI) indices, as well as the visceral (VATI) and subcutaneous fat tissue (SATI) indices, were calculated by automatic segmentation method on the abdominal CT images obtained before (n = 71) and after chemotherapy (n = 52). Skeletal muscle gauge (SMG = SMD × SMI) was calculated. We calculated the percentage change of body composition measurements with respect to the first measurements. The cutoff value for the change in SMG was calculated by receiver operating characteristic analysis. Kaplan–Meier and Cox regression analyses were performed to calculate the prognostic value of age, gender, tumor location, metastasis site and carcinoembriogenic antigen (CEA) elevation, hypoalbuminemia, body mass index classification, presence of sarcopenia and SMG changes in terms of overall survival. Results There was a significant association between SMG change and mortality ( P = 0.037). According to survival analyses, highly decreased SMG, hypoalbuminemia and CEA variables of the patients were the significant factors ( P < 0.001, P = 0.015 and P = 0.019, respectively). According to multivariate regression analysis, hypoalbuminemia ( P = 0.004, hazard ratio = 3.60) and highly decreased SMG ( P < 0.001, hazard ratio = 14.98) were found to be significant prognostic factors together. Conclusion In mCRC patients, hypoalbuminemia and highly decreased SMG are significant prognostic factors for overall survival. Therefore, we suggest that the change in SMG calculated in follow-up images should also be evaluated in the prognosis estimation of this patient group.
TLR4/ MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway involved in the protective effect of diacerein against lung fibrosis in rats
Authors: Abdel-Aziz Asmaa Mohamed , Fathy Eman Mahmoud , Hafez Heba M. , Ahmed Amira F. , Mohamed Mervat Z. 
Published: September 2023

Purpose Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is an inescapable problem. Diacerein, a chondro-protective drug, has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. Its effect on PF injury has not yet been fully clarified. Therefore, the current study aimed to detect its protective effect on lung tissue with the explanation of possible underlying mechanisms. Methods Adult male albino rats were assigned to four groups: control group, diacerein control group, PF non-treated group, and PF diacerein pretreated group. Lung tissue oxidative stress parameters, inflammatory biomarkers mainly Toll-like receptors-4 (TLR4), and myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) levels were determined. Histopathological examination of lung tissue and immunohistochemical studies of nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB), and transforming growth factor- β (TGF-β) were also done. Results Diacerein pretreatment has the ability to restore the PF damaging effect, proved by the reduction of the oxidative stress and lung tissue inflammation via downregulation of TLR4/NF-κB signaling pathway together with the restoration of TGF-β level and improvement of the histopathological and immunohistochemical study findings in the lung tissue. Conclusion These results suggested the protective effect of diacerein on PF relies on its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects reducing TLR4/NF-κB signaling pathway.
Ultrasound Detection of Fetal Palate Development in the Early Stages of the Second Trimester and Its Clinical Application
Authors: Liao Ruibi , Liu Danyi , Zhang Yuxia , Chen Rongsen , Su Mingsong , Lin Yuanfeng , Lyu Guorong 
Published: September 2023

Objective To establish normal values of palatal bone growth in fetuses at different gestational weeks in the early stages of the second trimester and to explore the clinical application value of the four-step ultrasound screening method for fetal cleft lip and palate. Design A prospective study of prenatal ultrasound screening. Setting Secondary maternal and child health institutions. Patients 300 fetuses of 12 to 20 +6 weeks gestation without cleft lip and/or palate; 8538 fetuses at high risk of cleft lip and palate with malformations or karyotypic abnormalities. Interventions None. Main Outcome Measures palatomandibular diameter (PMD) and transverse palatal diameter was measured and establish their typical values. Results (1) There is a typical “superimposed line” sign in the median sagittal section of the typically developing fetal face from 12 to 20+6 weeks of gestation. (2) The PMD and hard palate transverse diameter of fetuses from 12 to 20+6 weeks of gestation increased linearly with time. (3) Among 8538 high-risk fetuses, 21 cases of cleft lip and palate were diagnosed by the four-step ultrasound screening method in the early stages of the second trimester. Conclusions The median sagittal section of the typically developing fetal face in the early stages of the second trimester presents a typical “superimposed line” sign, and the PMD and transverse palatal diameter increase with time. The four-step ultrasound screening method for fetal cleft lip and palate in the early stages of the second trimester has high clinical application value.
Structural Change, Services Sector and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India: Some Exploratory Evidence
Authors: Ganguly Suparna , Roy Saikat Sinha 
Published: September 2023

This study investigates into intergenerational occupational mobility of Indian workers towards and within service sectors during globalization. In particular, such mobility of workers is observed in the presence of structural shift of the economy towards service industry, especially towards service trade, and explores whether there is intergenerational mobility towards services and more ­skill-oriented occupations in India during 1999–2011. The Altham measure of relative mobility is applied on the National Sample Survey Organization employment–unemployment survey database to measure the degree of association between occupational choice of fathers and co-resident sons in urban India. An upward mobility among sons is observed between 1999–2000 and 2011–2012. JEL Codes: F14, F16, J62, L80, C46