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Local ecological knowledge and wise use of ephemeral wetlands: the case of the Cowal system, Australia
Authors: Liu Xiaoying , Watts Robyn J. , Allan Catherine 
Published: September 2023

AbstractEphemeral wetlands are important ecologically but are often jurisdictionally complex and under-studied. Forms of local knowledge, including local ecological knowledge (LEK) and farmer knowledge, are increasingly recognised as able to complement other scientific knowledge for planning and management. This paper contributes to the discussion on the value and potential use of local knowledge by considering the Cowal system, an ephemeral wetland in dryland Australia. The Cowal system’s hydrological regime is highly variable, with drying and wetting cycles influenced by distant rainfall events. There is limited historical scientific data available for the system. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with local landholders who privately own the land within the Cowal system. The aggregated results showcase their knowledge and understanding of the ecological functions of the Cowal system, highlight some current ephemeral wetland management activities and indicate their concerns for the future. LEK is shown to be a valuable source of historical and planning data. For example, their combined memories and family records of the Cowal system provide the only historical record of the timeline of the wetland’s filling and drying, and support their concerns about the alteration of the natural hydrological regime because of developments in the catchment area. The research suggests that LEK should be actively sought by scientists, managers, and planners of wetlands, especially where baseline and systems information is scant.
An Investigation into the Free Vibration of Intact and Cracked FGM Plates
Authors: Shehab Mohamed B. , Taima Moustafa S. , Sayed Hussein , El-Sayed Tamer A. 
Published: September 2023

AbstractIn this study, the linear free vibration of intact and cracked functionally graded material plates is investigated numerically and experimentally. The experimental work is limited to the isotropic materials. The numerical work is based on finite element, where a code is developed to obtain the natural frequencies of intact plates based on the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) using MATLAB software. Also, a model of through-cracked FGM plate is developed using ANSYS Workbench with the help of APDL coding. The material properties of the plates under study are graded in one, two, and three directions. The novelty of this study emerges through its examination of the synergistic impacts resulting from variations in FGM material properties, crack length, crack orientation, and crack location. These effects are comprehensively discussed in the results section. The result of the present model shows that the use of three-directional FGM reduces the natural frequency compared with the other cases of two-directional and unidirectional FGM. Also, the results show that the effect of FGM gradient on the frequency of intact and cracked plate is high when the gradient index$$n < 3 .$$n<3.The present paper results are useful for the design of FGM plates especially when cracks exist.
Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service
Authors: Essex Ryan , Dillard-Wright Jess , Aitchison Guy , Aked Hil 
Published: September 2023

AbstractResistance is a concept understudied in the context of health and healthcare. This is in part because visible forms of social protest are sometimes understood as incongruent with professional identity, leading healthcare workers to separate their visible actions from their working life. Resistance takes many forms, however, and focusing exclusively on the visible means more subtle forms of everyday resistance are likely to be missed. The overarching aim of this study was to explore how resistance was enacted within the workplace amongst a sample of twelve healthcare workers, based in the United Kingdom; exploring the forms that such action took and how this intersected with health and healthcare. In depth-interviews were conducted and results were analysed utilizing Lilja’s framework (2022). Our findings suggest that resistance took a number of forms, from more direct confrontational acts, to those which sought to avoid power or which sought to create alternative or prefigurative practices or norms. These findings speak to the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions of resistance, as carried out by healthcare workers in the workplace. While many acts had clear political motives, with issues like climate change in mind for example, participants also described how the act of providing care itself could be an act of resistance. While saying something about our participants, this also said something about the healthcare systems in which they worked. These findings also raise a range of normative issues. Perhaps needless to say, there appears to be substantial scope to expand and interrogate our findings and apply the idea of resistance to health and healthcare.
Exercise and Sports Participation in Children with Cardiomyopathy: A Review
Authors: Masood Imran R. , Edelson Jonathan B. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Purpose of review
There are numerous health benefits to exercise, including improved cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental health. Despite these many benefits, children with cardiomyopathy have been traditionally restricted from engaging in exercise or participating in organized sports. The purpose of this review is to summarize the current literature regarding the utility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing, discuss the safety and benefits of exercise and sports participation in children with cardiomyopathy, and to identify research gaps in the field.

Recent findings
We highlight relevant literature discussing exercise and sports participation in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy, and those with ventricular assist device support. We discuss recent literature describing methods for risk stratification.

Summary
The current literature globally favors promoting exercise and sports participation after appropriate risk stratification. Additionally, we offer guidance for how to safely promote exercise in children with cardiomyopathy.
Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic in Raw Milk Produced in the Vicinity of a Mini Mineral Concentrator in the Central Andes and Health Risk
Authors: Chirinos-Peinado Doris , Castro-Bedriñana Jorge , Ríos-Ríos Elva , Castro-Chirinos Gianfranco , Quispe-Poma Yubaly 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
The bovine milk quality, safety, and security are of great concern mainly due to the dispersion of toxic substances from various anthropogenic activities and poor practices for organophosphates in agriculture use. This study evaluated the potential risk to human health from lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and arsenic (As) from the consumption of milk produced in an area of the Central Andes valley near a mini mineral concentrator by estimating the weekly intake (WI), dietary risk quotient (DRC), hazard quotient (THQ), and hazard index (HI) for the Peruvian population aged 2 to 85 years, in three scenarios of milk consumption by age (minimum, average, and maximum). Toxic element quantification was performed by flame atomic absorption spectrometry following standardized procedures. The mean amount ± standard deviation of Pb, Cd, and As in soils was 292±60.90, 3.54±1.58, and 5.60±2.20 mg/kg, the order of importance being Pb>As>Cd. The contents of Pb, Cd, and As in pastures were 23.17±10.02, 0.25±0.57, and 0.06±0.09 mg/kg, being from highest to lowest Pb>Cd>As. The means of Pb, Cd, and As content in 19 milk samples were 0.029±0.022, 0.007±0.006, and 0.010±0.004 mg/kg. Pb and Cd exceeded the maximum permissible limits (MPL), and the As was below the MPL. At all ages and milk consumption levels, the WI for Pb and Cd were below the estimated tolerable intake (TWI). The WI for As in < 19 years was higher than the TWI. The DRC for Pb and Cd at all three milk intake levels and all ages was < 1, and for As, it was > 1 in < 19 years, being the risk group. The TQH and HI for Pb and Cd were also > 1, signifying no health risk, and for As, the values were > 1 in < 11 years. Our results are valuable for preventing adverse health impacts from safe and innocuous milk consumption.
Can industry 5.0 technologies overcome supply chain disruptions?—a perspective study on pandemics, war, and climate change issues
Authors: Agrawal Shruti , Agrawal Rohit , Kumar Anil , Luthra Sunil , Garza-Reyes Jose Arturo 
Published: September 2023

AbstractIndustry 5.0 (I5.0) is the next industrial revolution that will leverage human intervention in collaboration with intelligent, logical, and smart machines to attain even more user-preferred and resource-efficient manufacturing and supply chain solutions. The main aim of this article is to study I5.0 technologies in supply chains when these are affected by disruptive phenomena such as those created by wars, climate change or pandemics. A systematic literature review methodology was conducted to understand the present knowledge connected with this theme. This study summarises 194 research articles from the period 2009 to 2022 to understand the present knowledge connected with this theme. The research findings show a significant gap related to the adoption of I5.0 technologies to prevent or overcome supply chain disruptions. 194 articles, including journal and review articles, were identified in the literature. The study provides a novel and insightful concept related to I5.0 within the context of supply chain disruptions. The potential applications of I5.0 and Industry 4.0 are elaborately discussed in three areas, namely: (1) disruptions in supply chains due to pandemics; (2) disruptions in supply chains due to war; and (3) disruptions in supply chains due to climate change. Finally, this study highlights research implications and proposes future research avenues that will contribute to further exploring the adoption of I5.0 technologies to prevent, manage and overcome disruptions in supply chains.
“If you know from the start ‘how long’, then you can always adjust to it better”: a qualitative study of adults’ experiences and coping with two years COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Authors: Schneider Verena , Duden Gesa , Landmann Helen , Rohmann Anette 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis study aimed to identify positive and negative experiences of adults in Germany, coping strategies, contexts and wellbeing trajectories across two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews (n = 14 adults) were conducted during spring 2022 and thematically analysed. Experiences and wellbeing trajectories corresponded to different phases of the pandemic, individuals’ contexts, and coping strategies. Many of the negative and positive experiences were perceived long-term changes, including deteriorated health behaviours, physical and mental health, social withdrawal for some, and improved health behaviours, personal growth, improved working life for others. Experiences, coping and consequently wellbeing were strongly affected by individuals’ contexts. Cognitive adaptation to a long duration of the pandemic and sufficient support appeared key to effective coping. We recommend more structural support for those most affected, preparing the public for long-term disruptions of their lives and addressing social inequalities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Four new species of Matelea (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) endemic to Mexico
Authors: González-Martínez César Adrián , Lozada-Pérez Lucio , Alvarado-Cárdenas Leonardo O. 
Published: September 2023

SummaryFour new species of Matelea, endemic to Mexico, are proposed and described: M. balrog, M. cornuta, M. jaimesiae and M. lokii. These taxa differ from each other and M. gonoloboides, M. medusae and M. porphyrantha (the Matelea gonoloboides species complex) in their corolla shapes and gynostegial corona ornamentation. Descriptions, illustrations, morphological comparisons and geographic distributions of these species, as well as their conservation status, are provided. A lectotypification for the name M. gonoloboides is also included. These discoveries highlight Mexico as a centre of diversity and endemism for the genus, with 69 species currently known from the country, of which 66% are restricted to it.
Reproductive Responses to Increased Shoot Density and Global Change Drivers in a Widespread Clonal Wetland Species, Schoenoplectus americanus
Authors: Kudoh Aoi , Megonigal J. Patrick , Langley J. Adam , Noyce Genevieve L. , Sakai Toshiyuki , Whigham Dennis F. 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThe expansion of many wetland species is a function of both clonal propagation and sexual reproduction. The production of ramets through clonal propagation enables plants to move and occupy space near parent ramets, while seeds produced by sexual reproduction enable species to disperse and colonize open or disturbed sites both near and far from parents. The balance between clonal propagation and sexual reproduction is known to vary with plant density but few studies have focused on reproductive allocation with density changes in response to global climate change. Schoenoplectus americanus is a widespread clonal wetland species in North America and a dominant species in Chesapeake Bay brackish tidal wetlands. Long-term experiments on responses of S. americanus to global change provided the opportunity to compare the two modes of propagation under different treatments. Seed production increased with increasing shoot density, supporting the hypothesis that factors causing increased clonal reproduction (e.g., higher shoot density) stimulate sexual reproduction and dispersal of genets. The increase in allocation to sexual reproduction was mainly the result of an increase in the number of ramets that flowered and not an increase in the number of seeds per reproductive shoot, or the ratio between the number of flowers produced per inflorescence and the number of flowers that developed into seeds. Seed production increased in response to increasing temperatures and decreased or did not change in response to increased CO2 or nitrogen. Results from this comparative study demonstrate that plant responses to global change treatments affect resource allocation and can alter the ability of species to produce seeds.
Online Signature Recognition: A Biologically Inspired Feature Vector Splitting Approach
Authors: Faundez-Zanuy Marcos , Diaz Moises , Ferrer Miguel Angel 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis research introduces an innovative approach to explore the cognitive and biologically inspired underpinnings of feature vector splitting for analyzing the significance of different attributes in e-security biometric signature recognition applications. Departing from traditional methods of concatenating features into an extended set, we employ multiple splitting strategies, aligning with cognitive principles, to preserve control over the relative importance of each feature subset. Our methodology is applied to three diverse databases (MCYT100, MCYT300, and SVC) using two classifiers (vector quantization and dynamic time warping with one and five training samples). Experimentation demonstrates that the fusion of pressure data with spatial coordinates (x and y) consistently enhances performance. However, the inclusion of pen-tip angles in the same feature set yields mixed results, with performance improvements observed in select cases. This work delves into the cognitive aspects of feature fusion, shedding light on the cognitive relevance of feature vector splitting in e-security biometric applications.
An Efficient and Cost- Effective Pretreatment of Rice Straw Using Steam Explosion: A Pilot Scale Experience
Authors: Semwal Surbhi , Sivagurunathan Periyasamy , Satlewal Alok , Kumar Rahul , Gupta Ravi P. , Christopher Jayaraj , Kumar Ravindra 
Published: September 2023

AbstractSurplus availability of rice straw (RS) presents it as a potential feedstock for ethanol production. Steam explosion (SE) is considered as a green approach to extract fermentable sugars at lower cost. The present study deals with the reaction condition optimization for water and dilute acid assisted steam explosion of rice straw at different temperatures and explores the effect of structural properties of solid residue on enzymatic hydrolysis along with mass balance. SE conditions were optimized at pilot scale, raising the temperature from 170 to 200 °C in water assisted SE resulting in an increased glucan conversion from 21.4 to 42.5% at 15% solid loading using 1.5 FPU of cellulases g–1 biomass. Further, it was improved up to 58.7% by increasing the enzyme dosage to 5 FPU, although it might lead to enhanced enzyme cost by threefold. To reduce costs, small amount of dilute acid (DA) was added during SE and lowering of enzyme consumption i.e. 1.5 FPU/g cellulose has been used to achieve 65.5% glucan conversion. Varying temperature and incorporate dilute acid during pretreatment induced structural alterations in biomass evident by compositional analysis, FT-IR and mass balance. Mass balance study revealed that the overall sugar recovery i.e. 58.7 and 38.8% and theoretical yield of ethanol shall be 222 and 186 L ton–1 RS respectively, with and without DA addition.
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Investigations of the effects of two typical jet crushing methods on the atomization and dust reduction performance of nozzles
Authors: Han Han , Wang Hetang , Zhang Qi , Du Yunhe , Wang Haojie , Wang Hui 
Published: September 2023

AbstractSingle-fluid nozzles and dual-fluid nozzles are the two typical jet crushing methods used in spray dust reduction. To distinguish the atomization mechanism of single-fluid and dual-fluid nozzles and improve dust control efficiency at the coal mining faces, the atomization characteristics and dust reduction performance of the two nozzles were quantitatively compared. Results of experiments show that, as water supply pressure increased, the atomization angle of the swirl pressure nozzle reaches a maximum of 62° at 6 MPa and then decreases, but its droplet size shows an opposite trend with a minimum of 41.7 μm. The water supply pressure helps to improve the droplet size and the atomization angle of the internal mixing air–liquid nozzle, while the air supply pressure has a suppressive effect for them. When the water supply pressure is 0.2 MPa and the air supply pressure reaches 0.4 MPa, the nozzle obtains the smallest droplet size which is 10% smaller than the swirl pressure nozzle. Combined with the dust reduction experimental results, when the water consumption at the working surface is not limited, using the swirl pressure nozzle will achieve a better dust reduction effect. However, the internal mixing air–liquid nozzle can achieve better and more economical dust reduction performance in working environments where water consumption is limited.
Pore structure of low-permeability coal and its deformation characteristics during the adsorption–desorption of CH4/N2
Authors: Ji Pengfei , Lin Haifei , Kong Xiangguo , Li Shugang , Hu Biao , Wang Pei , He Di , Yang Songrui 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThe pore structure of coal plays a key role in controlling the storage and migration of CH4/N2. The pore structure of coal is an important indicator to measure the gas extraction capability and the gas displacement effect of N2 injection. The deformation characteristic of coal during adsorption–desorption of CH4/N2 is an important factor affecting CH4 pumpability and N2 injectability. The pore structure characteristics of low-permeability coal were obtained by fluid intrusion method and photoelectric radiation technology. The multistage and connectivity of coal pores were analyzed. Subsequently, a simultaneous test experiment of CH4/N2 adsorption–desorption and coal deformation was carried out. The deformation characteristics of coal were clarified and a coal strain model was constructed. Finally, the applicability of low-permeability coal to N2 injection for CH4 displacement technology was investigated. The results show that the micropores and transition pores of coal samples are relatively developed. The pore morphology of coal is dominated by semi-open pores. The pore structure of coal is highly complex and heterogeneous. Transition pores, mesopores and macropores of coal have good connectivity, while micropores have poor connectivity. Under constant triaxial stress, the adsorption capacity of the coal for CH4 is greater than that for N2, and the deformation capacity of the coal for CH4 adsorption is greater than that for N2 adsorption. The axial strain, circumferential strain, and volumetric strain during the entire process of CH4 and N2 adsorption/desorption in the coal can be divided into three stages. Coal adsorption–desorption deformation has the characteristics of anisotropy and gas-difference. A strain model for the adsorption–desorption of CH4/N2 from coal was established by considering the expansion stress of adsorbed gas on the coal matrix, the compression stress of free gas on the coal matrix, and the expansion stress of free gas on micropore fractures. N2 has good injectability in low-permeability coal seams and has the dual functions of improving coal seam permeability and enhancing gas flow, which can significantly improve the effectiveness of low-permeability coal seam gas control and promote the efficient utilization of gas resources.
Fracture propagation laws of staged hydraulic fracture in fractured geothermal reservoir based on phase field model
Authors: Peng Genbo 
Published: September 2023

AbstractHydraulic fracturing is widely used in geothermal resource exploitation, and many natural fractures exist in hot dry rock reservoirs due to in-situ stress and faults. However, the influence of natural fractures on hydraulic fracture propagation is not considered in the current study. In this paper, based on the phase field model, a thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled hydraulic fracture propagation model was established to reveal the influence of injection time, fracturing method, injection flow rate, and natural fracture distribution on the fracture propagation mechanism. The results show that fracture complexity increases with an increase in injection time. The stress disturbance causes the fracture initiation pressure of the second cluster significantly higher than that of the first and third clusters. The zipper-type fracturing method can reduce the degree of stress disturbance and increase fracture complexity by 7.2% compared to simultaneous hydraulic fracturing. Both low and high injection flow rate lead to a decrease in fracture propagation time, which is not conducive to an increase in fracture complexity. An increase in the natural fracture angle leads to hydraulic fracture crossing natural fracture, but has a lesser effect on fracture complexity. In this paper, we analyzed the influence of different factors on initiation pressure and fracture complexity, providing valuable guidance for the exploitation of geothermal resources.