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A hydrogenated amorphous silicon detector for Space Weather applications
Authors: Grimani Catia , Fabi Michele , Sabbatini Federico , Villani Mattia , Antognini Luca , Bashiri Aishah , Calcagnile Lucio , Caricato Anna Paola , Catalano Roberto , Chilà Deborah , Cirrone Giuseppe Antonio Pablo , Croci Tommaso , Cuttone Giacomo , Dunand Sylvain , Frontini Luca , Ionica Maria , Kanxheri Keida , Large Matthew , Liberali Valentino , Martino Maurizio , Maruccio Giuseppe , Mazza Giovanni , Menichelli Mauro , Monteduro Anna Grazia , Morozzi Arianna , Moscatelli Francesco , Pallotta Stefania , Passeri Daniele , Pedio Maddalena , Petasecca Marco , Petringa Giada , Peverini Francesca , Piccolo Lorenzo , Placidi Pisana , Quarta Gianluca , Rizzato Silvia , Stabile Alberto , Talamonti Cinzia , Thomet Jonathan , Tosti Luca , Wheadon Richard James , Wyrsch Nicolas , Zema Nicola , Servoli Leonello 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThe characteristics of a hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) detector are presented here for monitoring in space solar flares and the evolution of strong to extreme energetic proton events. The importance and the feasibility to extend the proton measurements up to hundreds of MeV is evaluated. The a-Si:H presents an excellent radiation hardness and finds application in harsh radiation environments for medical purposes, for particle beam characterization and, as we propose here, for space weather science applications. The critical flux detection limits for X rays, electrons and protons are discussed.
What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework
Authors: Suárez Javier 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis paper presents an account of the nature of stem cells based on the philosophical concept of disposition. It is argued that stem cells can be conceived as dispositional objects, and adopting this attitude allows overcoming some of the controversies surrounding the nature of stemness (most notably, the state vs. entity debate) because it offers a framework that accommodates the lessons from different theories. Additionally, the account is simultaneously useful for interpreting stem cell experiments and guiding potential interventions. The account shows how different levels, both molecular and emergent network-level, play the primary causal role in explaining some empirical results, and hence they suggest that the explanations can be mechanistic or topological, respectively. The realization that any of these levels may play a more prominent causal role than another allows suggesting interventions at the genetic, molecular and population levels.
Multiperiod Bankruptcy Prediction Models with Interpretable Single Models
Authors: Beade Ángel , Rodríguez Manuel , Santos José 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis study considers multiperiod bankruptcy prediction models, an aspect scarcely considered in research despite its importance, since creditors must assess the risk of loans over the entire life of the debt and not at a specific point in the future. Two possibilities for the implementation of multiperiod prediction models are considered: Multi-Model multiperiod Bankruptcy Prediction Models (MMBPM) and Single-Model multiperiod Bankruptcy Prediction Models (SMBPM). The former considers the conditional probabilities obtained by individual models predicting bankruptcy at specific times in the future, while the latter is a single model predicting bankruptcy at a specific time interval in the future. The results show that there are no significant differences between the two approaches when compared using data after the learning period. However, SMBPMs have the important advantage of interpretability for decision-making, which is discussed with examples. Moreover, a comparison of SMBPM performance with external references is performed.
Intraregional variability of exotic and native zooplankton in Basque coast estuaries (inner Bay of Biscay): effect of secondary dispersion, estuary features and regional environmental gradients
Authors: Barroeta Ziortza , Uriarte Ibon , Iriarte Arantza , Villate Fernando 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThe zooplankton of five estuaries of the Basque coast (southeast Bay of Biscay) was surveyed in summer 2019 to check the intraregional spread of exotic species and analyse the cross-estuary differences in brackish and neritic communities related to the arrival of exotic species and the summertime geographic gradient of water temperature. Results revealed that all the studied estuaries have been colonized by Oithona davisae but not by Acartia tonsa and Pseudodiaptomus marinus. Environmental constraints due to estuarine hydrological features partly explained such differences, and the role of secondary spread opportunities remained less clear. Cross-estuary differences in the brackish community mainly reflected changes in the dominance of the native species Acartia bifilosa relative to different exotic copepod species. The neritic holoplankton differed in the contribution of thermophilic species in agreement with the thermal west–east increase of surface water temperature in the inner Bay of Biscay in summer. The detection of large numbers of larvae of the exotic crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii only in one of the estuaries highlighted the role of exotic benthic species in enhancing intraregional differences in estuarine meroplankton. Differences in the dominance of neritic or brackish species as a function of salinity and distance from coastline were also explored.
Prisons of Poverty and Politics: How Russian Human Rights Workers Embed Themselves in Middle Class Social Movements
Authors: Zeveleva Olga 
Published: September 2023

AbstractHuman rights NGOs contribute to the formation of norms and policies around penality, and inform social understandings of what constitutes acceptable punishment. This article turns to the symbolic group-making work of human rights workers as agents who work with prisoners, and who also construct the image of the prisoner for the rest of society. I zoom in on the case of prison NGO work in Russia, a non-democratic country, and answer two questions: first, how do prison NGOs construct the image of the prisoner, and articulate their relationship with their social base and their networks of civic engagement? Second, what organizational behaviors do these articulations encourage? Drawing on 18 semi-structured interviews and observation at prison NGOs based in Moscow, the study shows that Russian NGO workers often view themselves and act as members of a middle class social movement in Russia. While NGOs tend to focus on the most economically disadvantaged and socially isolated groups in their work, the prisoners they depict when addressing the public and the press tend to represent more educated groups with higher levels of symbolic capital (political prisoners, those convicted of economic crimes, and former state employees), reflecting a desire to put prison on the middle class agenda. At the same time, prison NGO employees employ a class lens in their work with prisoners, and determine how to help prisoners based on their assessment of how the socio-economic background of the prisoner intersects with ethnicity, religion, ability/disability, region where they are serving their sentence, and region where they are from. In other words, prison NGO workers view prisoners through the resources they can accumulate using the simultaneous, intersecting dimensions of their status and their relation to other groups both in prison and outside.
Digital Humanitarian Mapping and the Limits of Imagination in International Law
Authors: Johns Fleur 
Published: September 2023

AbstractHumanitarian maps assembled using digital technology are indicative of transformations underway in how the world is made knowable, sensible, and actionable, including for international legal purposes. These transformations are exemplified by the Missing Maps Project (MMP), an initiative of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, a U.S.-registered non-profit, and three other non-governmental organisations operating internationally: American Red Cross; British Red Cross; and Médecins Sans Frontières. Projects such as the MMP make it harder for international lawyers to lay claim to, and seek to imaginatively reorient, shared repositories of common sense. Meanwhile, international legal scholars continue to propagate ideas that the world may be reimagined with their help, largely without regard to such transformations. In lieu of imagination’s standard evocation to the end of enhancing critical agency in international legal writing, this article contends that the idiosyncratic notion of imagination advanced in the writings of Walter Benjamin may be better attuned to ongoing shifts in sense-making apparent in international humanitarian mapping. Walter Benjamin’s atypical rendering of imagination as a ‘purely receptive, uncreative’ force in a field of technological reproduction offers international legal scholars another way of thinking about agency and prospects for re-forming their field in the face of its burgeoning digitalisation.
For the love of my child: How parents’ relative extrinsic aspirations for children and interdependent self-construal predict their relational well-being
Authors: Chen Kaiyuan , Kim Jinhyung , Zhang Hong , Clark D. Angus , Schlegel Rebecca J. 
Published: September 2023

AbstractSelf-determination theory suggests that holding extrinsic aspirations (e.g., getting rich) over and above other aspirations bears negative implications for one’s relational well-being. The present research examined whether this pattern generalizes to the aspirations people hold for significant others and more specifically whether parents’ extrinsic aspirations for children (AFC), relative to other AFC, predict their well-being in their relationships with children. We also examined whether this relationship varies depending on parents’ interdependent self-construal. Results of four correlational studies (N = 998 parents) revealed that, overall, relative extrinsic AFC predicted lower relational well-being. However, this relationship was attenuated among parents high (vs. low) in interdependent self-construal. This pattern of moderation was observed among U.S. parents at different stages of parenthood and partially replicated among a sample of Chinese parents. The findings suggest that interdependent self-construal could buffer against the negative implications of prioritizing extrinsic AFC for parental well-being.
Cross-sectional examination of the proficiency of year 1 and year 2 children’s alphabet-letter-writing skills
Authors: Mathwin Kathryn , Chapparo Christine , Challita Julianne , Hinitt Joanne 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThe objective for beginning writers is to learn how to generate alphabet-letters which are recognisable and easy to read. This study investigated the accuracy of Year 1 and 2 children’s alphabet-letter-writing by evaluating their alphabet and orthographic knowledge, following evidence which identifies these skills as important for correctly representing the Latin alphabet-letters in written form. 408 typical children from the first two years of formal schooling were recruited from eight Western Australian schools and asked to write the twenty-six-lowercase alphabet-letters under three different writing conditions: from memory; the initial sounds of words; and copying. Performance was measured using the Perceive, Recall, Plan and Perform (PRPP) System of Task Analysis (Stage One). Analyses revealed the mean average number of the 26- lowercase alphabet-letters correctly written from memory was 8.17 (Year 1) and 12.76 (Year 2). Mean averages were similar across the three writing conditions. Comparative analysis showed children in Year 2 were significantly better than Year 1 children at recalling the alphabet-sequence, sound-letter-translation, and retrieving the letter-shape, letter-case, and letter-orientation. No significant difference was found in name-to-letter translation, letter-formation, or letter-placement skills. The results highlighted that many typical Year 1 and 2 children have difficulty accurately generating all 26- lowercase alphabet-letters. The findings suggested that the way early writers learn to form and place an alphabet-letter, whether it is accurate or not, is how they continue to write the alphabet-letter through their early school journey. Considerations for evaluation and instruction of alphabet-letter-writing are discussed.
Mapping explanatory language in neuroscience
Authors: Kostić Daniel , Halffman Willem 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThe philosophical literature on scientific explanation in neuroscience has been dominated by the idea of mechanisms. The mechanist philosophers often claim that neuroscience is in the business of finding mechanisms. This view has been challenged in numerous ways by showing that there are other successful and widespread explanatory strategies in neuroscience. However, the empirical evidence for all these claims was hitherto lacking. Empirical evidence about the pervasiveness and uses of various explanatory strategies in neuroscience is particularly needed because examples and case studies that are used to illustrate philosophical claims so far tend to be hand-picked. The risk of confirmation bias is therefore considerable: when looking for white swans, all one finds is that swans are white. The more systematic quantitative and qualitative bibliometric study of a large body of relevant literature that we present in this paper can put such claims into perspective. Using text mining tools, we identify the typical linguistic patterns used in the alleged mechanistic, dynamical, and topological explanations in the literature, their preponderance and how they change over time. Our findings show abundant use of mechanistic language, but also the presence of a significant neuroscience literature using topological and dynamical explanatory language, which grows over time and increasingly differentiates from each other and from mechanistic explanations.
Investigating the Prevalence of Copper and Zinc Abnormalities in Patients Pre and Post bariatric Surgery—an Australian Experience
Authors: Zarshenas Nazy , Tapsell Linda C. , Batterham Marijka , Neale Elizabeth P. , Talbot Michael L. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Introduction
Bariatric surgery predisposes patients to nutritional deficiencies. There are limited studies on zinc and copper abnormalities in this cohort.

Purpose
The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of these abnormalities in a cohort of Australian bariatric patients. Inflammatory markers, adherence to multivitamin supplementation (MVS) and the presence of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms were also investigated.

Material and Methods
Data was collected on all patients who attended a single clinic in Sydney, Australia, from August 2020 to August 2021.

Results
The study cohort consisted of 231 patients (76.2% female; mean pre-operative body mass index of 43.4 ± 7.1 kg/m2), most of whom underwent sleeve gastrectomy (78.8%). Data were collected preoperatively and then at ≤ 6 months, 1 and > 2 years postoperatively. Prior to surgery, low levels of zinc (2.1%) and copper (0.7%) were rare, but elevated copper levels were common (16.7%) and potentially related to an elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) (47.7%). Following surgery at > 2 years, the mean total weight loss (TWL) was 33.5 ± 12.4. CRP levels improved over time. Post operatively, low zinc (2.7–3.6%) and copper (1.5%) levels were rare. Patients with low levels in zinc and copper were a higher-risk group and generally exhibited GI symptoms, despite taking MVS.

Conclusion
In the initial post-operative stages and with good adherence to MVS containing copper and zinc, abnormalities may not be a concern. Patients with GI symptoms appear to be at higher risk of abnormalities; increasing awareness, thorough screening, and more comprehensive supplementation are recommended.

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Mucosal Melanoma: Epidemiology, Clinical Features, and Treatment
Authors: Sergi Maria Chiara , Filoni Elisabetta , Triggiano Giacomo , Cazzato Gerardo , Internò Valeria , Porta Camillo , Tucci Marco 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Purpose of Review
Summarize the writings published in the last years on the management and novel therapies of mucosal melanoma (MM).

Recent Findings
New research has demonstrated a difference between MM and cutaneous melanoma (CM) in their genomic and molecular landscapes, explaining the response's heterogeneity. Immunotherapy and targeted therapy have limited benefit, but novel therapies are rapidly expanding.

Summary
MM is aggressive cancer occurring in gastrointestinal, respiratory, or urogenital mucosa; whose incidence is greater in the Asian population. The etiology and pathogenesis remain unclear since UV exposure is not a proven risk factor as in cutaneous melanoma. In contrast to CM, lesions on the mucosal surface are less likely to be recognized early; therefore, the disease is diagnosed in an advanced stage. Clinical manifestations, such as bleeding or pain, can help to detect this tumor, although the prognosis remains unfavorable with an overall 5-year survival rate of less than 20%. The mutational landscape of MM includes mutations of BRAF and NRAS, as well as mutations in the c-KIT/CD117 gene (in 50% of patients), thus limiting therapeutic interventions to immunotherapy. However, clinical studies show less responsiveness to immunotherapy compared to CM, therefore novel therapeutic strategies targeting new molecules are needed to improve the survival of patients with MM.
Visual analysis of interface deformation in multiphase flow
Authors: Straub Alexander , Karch Grzegorz K. , Steigerwald Jonas , Sadlo Filip , Weigand Bernhard , Ertl Thomas 
Published: September 2023

AbstractIn multiphase flows, the evolution of fluid-fluid interfaces is of interest in many applications. In addition to fluid dynamic forces governing the flow in the entire volume, surface tension determines droplet interfaces. Here, the analysis of interface kinematics can help in the investigation of interface deformation and the identification of potential breakups. To this end, we developed a visualization technique using metric and shape tensors to analyze interface stretching and bending. For interface stretching, we employ the eigenpairs of the metric tensor defined for the deformation rate of the fluid surface. For interface bending, we present a technique that locally captures the interface curvature change in terms of a shape tensor, extracting its principal directions and curvatures. We then visualize interface deformation by combining both representations into a novel glyph design. We apply our method to study multiphase flow simulations with particular emphasis on interface effects. These include the interplay between fluid dynamics and surface tension forces leading to breakup processes following droplet collisions, as well as droplet-droplet interactions of different fluids where Marangoni convection along the surface is explicitly taken into account.
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Multi-faceted approach to decreasing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for viral upper respiratory tract infections
Authors: Shubeilat Jamilah , Ilges Dan , Ton Angie , Huang Angela , Seville M. Teresa 
Published: September 2023

Background: Prescribing of antibiotics for viral upper respiratory infection (URI) remains a pressing public health problem. We sought to reduce inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics for viral URIs at primary-care practices at Mayo Clinic Arizona (MCA). Methods: Diagnostic codes for URIs commonly caused by viruses were categorized as tier 3 (ie, never prescribe). The inappropriate prescribing rate was defined as the number of tier 3 encounters resulting in a prescription for a URI antibiotic divided by the total number of tier 3 encounters. MCA primary-care departments, including family medicine, community internal medicine, emergency medicine, and women’s health internal medicine, were included in the intervention. Each department was briefed on the project, including baseline department prescribing data, and was provided education. Education topics included appropriate indications for antibiotics, patient-centered strategies for reducing antibiotic use, and a review of electronic resources developed specifically for the project. Resources included a syndromic ambulatory order panel (EZ ID Respiratory Order Panel) and a viral prescription pad, which contains simplified over-the-counter recommendations for symptomatic management of viral URIs and patient education. Quarterly peer comparison reports were provided to the department chairs and/or site leads. Our goal was to reduce inappropriate prescribing by 22% in 2022. An Epic dashboard (SlicerDicer model) was developed to track data on an ongoing basis. We used χ2 tests to compare categorical variables. Results: Department education was completed by June 2022 (Fig. 1). The annual antibiotic prescribing rate for tier 3 encounters decreased by 29% from a baseline rate 23.6% in 2021 to 16.4% in 2022 (P < .001). The posteducation prescribing rate (June 2022–December 2022) was 13.1%. Utilization of the EZ ID ambulatory order panel increased from an average of 1.5 uses per month in 2021 to 13.3 uses per month in 2022 (Fig. 2). Repeated healthcare contact for URIs within 14 days of tier 3 encounters did not differ among patients prescribed and not prescribed an antibiotic in all of 2022 (3.8% vs 3.9%; P = .91) or during the posteducation period (1.8% vs 4.2%; P = .14). There was no appreciable diagnostic shift over the course of 2022 (Fig. 3). Conclusions: A multifaceted intervention, which included baseline education, promotion of syndrome-specific order panels, dissemination of resources for symptomatic management, and distribution of peer comparison reports, resulted in significant reduction of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for URIs.Disclosure: None