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Urinary Biomarkers Of Kidney Function As Predictors Of Cardiovascular Health: A Systematic Review
Authors: Degenaar A. , Kruger R. , Jacobs A. , Mels C. M. C. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Purpose of Review
The growing burden of cardiovascular diseases has become a significant concern in both adult and youth populations. Urinary biomarkers of kidney function could provide useful insights that may aid in the early identification of individuals at higher risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. This systematic review aimed to assess associations between urinary biomarkers of kidney function and different measures of cardiovascular health.

Recent Findings
PubMed, Scopus, and EBSCOhost were searched for articles published between January 2018 and December 2023. Studies exploring associations between urinary kidney biomarkers (alpha-1 microglobulin (uA1M), neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL), uromodulin (uUMOD) and CKD273 classifier) and measures of cardiovascular health (blood pressure and markers of target organ damage) were included. We identified 1186 articles, with 22 studies eligible for inclusion. Among 12 studies reporting associations between uA1M and measures of cardiovascular health, six studies indicated positive associations with office blood pressure and three studies observed associations with different markers of target organ damage. Out of the nine studies that explored the link between uUMOD and cardiovascular health parameters, four found negative associations between uUMOD and blood pressure. With regard to uNGAL, only two out of the seven studies analysed reported varying associations with blood pressure, while neither of the two studies focusing on CKD273 observed any statistically significant results.

Summary
Biomarkers of kidney tubule function, represented by uA1M and uUMOD, are relevant in the setting of cardiovascular health and should be assessed for utilisation in clinical practice to identify adverse cardiovascular outcomes at an early stage allowing for timely intervention.

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A systematic literature review on the use of metaheuristics for the optimisation of multimodal transportation
Authors: Chau Matina L. Y. , Gkiotsalitis Konstantinos 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The optimisation of multimodal transportation is constantly evolving, striving to provide commuters with seamless mobility and sustainable networks. Multimodal transportation problems often, however, present optimisation challenges because of their high dimensionality, compounded by network size, modelling criteria, and modes. Among these challenges is computational complexity, which can be reduced with the use of metaheuristic solution approaches that strive to find an acceptable solution within a reasonable timeframe. In addition, as machine learning finds integration within real-world applications, the demand for parallel computing and robust computational infrastructure is on the rise. Given these rapid shifts, this paper is motivated to present a comprehensive systematic literature review on the optimisation of multimodal transportation, focusing on the urban mobility of passengers, using metaheuristics. After conducting a systematic bibliographic search, a thorough classification of studies based on their problem scope, mathematical formulation, methodology, temporal- and network settings is conducted. Overall, findings provide insights into tackling the challenges of multimodal urban transport optimisation for future investigation, addressing concerns over scalability and efficiency for real-time deployment.
Corynebacterium glutamicum: vom Umami-Geschmack zur Bioökonomie
Authors: Bott Michael , Wendisch Volker F. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Corynebacterium glutamicum was isolated in 1956 in Japan because of its remarkable property to secrete large quantities of L-glutamate under specific conditions. This was the start of industrial fermentative amino acid production and of intensive research on this actinobacterium, by which it became a model organism in microbial biotechnology. Nowadays, the spectrum of products that are synthesized with Corynebacterium glutamicum from renewable carbon sources goes far beyond amino acids and includes, e. g., organic acids, amines, isoprenoids, or proteins.
Mit Hochdurchsatzsequenzierung das Biodiversitätsmonitoring ausbauen
Authors: Buchner Dominik , Leese Florian 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Biodiversity monitoring is urgently needed in times of global change. Traditional methods reach their limits, especially when it comes to monitoring the huge diversity of small organisms. Genetic methods, especially DNA metabarcoding, enable analyses of large sample sizes and can support monitoring. So far metabarcoding has been limited by high costs, a lack of standards, and incomplete reference databases. Methodological advancements make it now possible to integrate metabarcoding into biodiversity monitoring. We demonstrate the scalability of this approach based on results from large-scale insect monitoring in Germany.
Slicing of radial functions: a dimension walk in the Fourier space
Authors: Rux Nicolaj , Quellmalz Michael , Steidl Gabriele 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Computations in high-dimensional spaces can often be realized only approximately, using a certain number of projections onto lower dimensional subspaces or sampling from distributions. In this paper, we are interested in pairs of real-valued functions (F, f) on

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Count on Me: Moral Language in Social Media and Policy Discourse during the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Authors: Amjadi Eimon , John Richard S. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
We apply moral foundations theory (MFT) to explore how the public conceptualizes the first eight months of the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation (Russia). Our analysis includes over 1.1 million English tweets related to the conflict over the first 36 weeks. We used linguistic inquiry word count (LIWC) and a moral foundations dictionary to identify tweets’ moral components (care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and sanctity) from the United States, pre- and post-Cold War NATO countries, Ukraine, and Russia. Following an initial spike at the beginning of the conflict, tweet volume declined and stabilized by week 10. The level of moral content varied significantly across the five regions and the five moral components. Tweets from the different regions included significantly different moral foundations to conceptualize the conflict. Across all regions, tweets were dominated by loyalty content, while fairness content was infrequent. Moral content over time was relatively stable, and variations were linked to reported conflict events.
Active learning for regression in engineering populations: a risk-informed approach
Authors: Clarkson Daniel R. , Bull Lawrence A. , Dardeno Tina A. , Wickramarachchi Chandula T. , Cross Elizabeth J. , Rogers Timothy J. , Worden Keith , Dervilis Nikolaos , Hughes Aidan J. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Regression is a fundamental prediction task common in data-centric engineering applications that involves learning mappings between continuous variables. In many engineering applications (e.g., structural health monitoring), feature-label pairs used to learn such mappings are of limited availability, which hinders the effectiveness of traditional supervised machine learning approaches. This paper proposes a methodology for overcoming the issue of data scarcity by combining active learning (AL) for regression with hierarchical Bayesian modeling. AL is an approach for preferentially acquiring feature-label pairs in a resource-efficient manner. In particular, the current work adopts a risk-informed approach that leverages contextual information associated with regression-based engineering decision-making tasks (e.g., inspection and maintenance). Hierarchical Bayesian modeling allow multiple related regression tasks to be learned over a population, capturing local and global effects. The information sharing facilitated by this modeling approach means that information acquired for one engineering system can improve predictive performance across the population. The proposed methodology is demonstrated using an experimental case study. Specifically, multiple regressions are performed over a population of machining tools, where the quantity of interest is the surface roughness of the workpieces. An inspection and maintenance decision process is defined using these regression tasks, which is in turn used to construct the active-learning algorithm. The novel methodology proposed is benchmarked against an uninformed approach to label acquisition and independent modeling of the regression tasks. It is shown that the proposed approach has superior performance in terms of expected cost—maintaining predictive performance while reducing the number of inspections required.
AUTOMATED DETECTION OF EMOTION IN CENTRAL BANK COMMUNICATION: A WARNING
Authors: Baerg Nicole , Binder Carola 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Central banks have increased their official communications. Previous literature measures complexity, clarity, tone and sentiment. Less explored is the use of fact versus emotion in central bank communication. We test a new method for classifying factual versus emotional language, applying a pretrained transfer learning model, fine-tuned with manually coded, task-specific and domain-specific data sets. We find that the large language models outperform traditional models on some occasions; however, the results depend on a number of choices. We therefore caution researchers from depending solely on such models even for tasks that appear similar. Our findings suggest that central bank communications are not only technically but also subjectively difficult to understand.
Addressing Measurement Errors in Ranking Questions for the Social Sciences
Authors: Atsusaka Yuki , Kim Seo-young Silvia 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Social scientists often use ranking questions to study people’s opinions and preferences. However, little is understood about the general nature of measurement errors in such questions, let alone their statistical consequences and what researchers can do about them. We introduce a statistical framework to improve ranking data analysis by addressing measurement errors in ranking questions. First, we characterize measurement errors from random responses—arbitrary and meaningless responses based on a wide range of random patterns. We then quantify bias due to random responses, show that the bias may change our conclusion in any direction, and clarify why item order randomization alone does not solve the statistical issue. Next, we introduce our methodology based on two key design-based considerations: item order randomization and the addition of an “anchor” ranking question with known correct answers. They allow researchers to (1) learn about the direction of the bias and (2) estimate the proportion of random responses, enabling our bias-corrected estimators. We illustrate our methods by studying the relative importance of people’s partisan identity compared to their racial, gender, and religious identities in American politics. We find that about 30% of respondents offered random responses and that these responses may affect our substantive conclusions.
TRAJAN’S NOSE: ANTHOLOGIA PALATINA 11.418 AND PLUTARCH’S REGVM ET IMPERATORVM APOPHTHEGMATA 172E
Authors: van der Wiel Laurens 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Anth. Pal. 11.418 is traditionally attributed to Trajan. The distich mocks a man’s large nose and is a typical example of a scoptic epigram. Even though the attribution to Trajan looks suspicious, scholarship has been inclined to accept his authorship. However, it is possible that the poem was written about the emperor instead, which would also explain the misattribution. This hypothesis, if correct, sheds light on the surprising opening anecdote of Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (172E), which is dedicated to Trajan.
Emotion and Ethics: The Conjoined Twins of Early Modern English Culture
Authors: Pollock Linda A. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Passions and affections, notwithstanding their potential and capacity for disorder, were fundamental to the workings of the early modern world and lay at the centre of ethical life. Yet, most scholarship ignores the inseparability of emotion and ethics for early modern society. This article reviews the current state of scholarship in three fields: history of philosophy, history of emotions, and English society and governance, highlighting the assumptions and arguments which have led to the mistaken severance of affect from morality, the exclusion of ethics from histories of emotion, and the omission of emotion from studies of English power and authority. It argues that this separation is anachronistic and impairs our ability to understand governance in early modern England. This was a world of fused affect and morality which underpinned particular notions of power and authority. That governance was located within an ethical/emotive paradigm has been given insufficient attention.
John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate
Authors: Quibell Adam 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The English protectorate began in 1653 with a conspiracy of politicians, army officers, and religious leaders against a theocratic strain of puritanism. Among the plotters was John Owen (1616–83), the leading religious authority of the Interregnum, vice-chancellor of Oxford University, and the ‘Cajoler of Cromwell’. When amid a military and republican coup parliament was dissolved and Richard Cromwell removed in 1659, Owen was again at the heart of events. But the narrative became that this time he had used his influence to oppose the Cromwells. As minister of a congregation at the centre of the nation’s halls of power composed of the military and political elite, Owen became seen as Richard Cromwell’s ‘instrument of ruine’. This article challenges that narrative and its appearance in histories of early 1659 and of Owen’s biography by utilizing new sources and re-evaluating known evidence within the broader context of religious and political divisions at the end of the protectorate. Owen supported whatever political form could best preserve the long-term safety of the English commonwealth and godly rule against the Stuarts. Yet Owen’s legacy became contested among the godly after the Restoration, as the agent of the protectorate’s fall and the failure of puritan politics.
Generational Memory Loss within Imperial Systems: An Archaeological Case Study from the Roman Empire
Authors: Matthews Boehmer Thomas 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Forgetting, and having recourse to unremembering the past, is useful for different populations. The modern world has provided a range of examples, but the effectiveness of short-term amnesia has not always been highlighted in archaeological scholarship. In this article, a case study from the Roman-period Netherlands highlights that the significance of memory-making in the past may have been overstated. Especially among those societies living under imperial rule, forgetting played an important role, one that calls for more critical focus and understanding. The utilization of cross-cultural and historical examples provides the background for a close analysis of the remains from a single graveyard. The study brings out the repeated amnesiac changes that indigenous groups underwent to adapt themselves to the continuing fact of occupation.
Healthcare professionals’ discussion of loss and grief with parents of children with life-limiting severe neurological impairment: Findings from a scoping review
Authors: Brennan Elaine , Clarke Marian (Mya) , Guerin Suzanne 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Objectives
Parents’ experiences of loss and grief in the context of caring for a child with life-limiting severe neurological conditions are complex. Supportive interventions delivered by multidisciplinary teams have the potential to mitigate illness-related and anticipatory grief before and after bereavement. To date, the literature on professionals’ discussion of loss and grief with parents has not been synthesized. This systematic review aims to synthesize the evidence to establish what is known about professionals’ experience of these discussions with this population, with particular emphasis on timing, frequency, and the setting in which discussions occur.

Methods
A scoping review was developed, informed by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta analyses – Scoping Extension guidelines and the PCC (Population, Concept, Context) framework. Three electronic databases (PsycINFO, CINAHL, and PubMED) were searched using medical subject heading (MeSH) terms and keywords search strings in January 2023. The search was not limited to year of publication. Overall, 35 articles were analyzed using a combination of descriptive analysis and thematic synthesis.

Results
Two overarching themes were identified, “loss and grief are part of this context” and “lack of recognition of loss and grief,” illustrating that despite the lack of evidence of explicit discussion of these issues, some aspects of loss and grief appeared to guide or implicitly influence healthcare professionals’ practice. Failure to acknowledge loss and grief was associated with an increase in parental distress and had implications for future care planning.

Significance of results
Healthcare professionals are well placed to discuss loss and grief with parents of children with life-limiting severe neurological conditions. However, these discussions are only implicitly reported in the literature. Findings suggest that some professionals avoided discussing loss and grief. Bereavement outcomes are not typically considered in findings of the papers reviewed. Based on these findings, future research should focus on what this means for understanding professionals’ capacity to engage with loss and grief.
Iliad Translations in the Undergraduate Classroom
Authors: Hardwick Alexandra 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Teaching ancient literature in translation is increasingly common across schools and universities; however, there has been limited discussion of pedagogical approaches towards, specifically, translated literature. I discuss the findings of a study conducted on first-year undergraduates at Oxford University, who analysed translations of the Iliad as part of a taught course. The publication of Wilson (2023) offers an opportunity to see how students respond to very recent translations. I explore the pitfalls students encounter when analysing poetry in translation and the ways educators, whether in high schools or universities, can help students negotiate these pitfalls and develop a more sophisticated understanding of literary translation. In particular, I discuss how a student’s level of familiarity with the Greek language affects the ways they analyse translations, and how educators can encourage students with little or no Greek to engage with translations successfully.
Effect of buckwheat and silage tarps on sweetpotato between-row weed control
Authors: Cooper Emmanuel , Meyers Stephen L. , Jennings Katherine , Adair Ashley , Gibson Kevin D. , Johnson William G. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Field studies were conducted on certified organic land in Lafayette and Vincennes, IN, in 2023 to determine the impact of different between-row weed control methods on weed suppression and sweetpotato yield. Between-row treatments consisted of organic buckwheat (108 kg ha−1) broadcast seeded immediately after sweetpotato transplanting followed by silage tarping from 3 wk after transplanting (WATr) through harvest, organic buckwheat (108 kg ha−1) broadcast seeded 3 WATr and terminated 7 WATr, and cultivation as a grower standard. Weed density at 6 WATr was 0, 184, and 162 plants m−2 for the silage tarping, living mulch buckwheat, and cultivation treatments, respectively. Total yield was 11,048 kg ha−1 for the living mulch buckwheat, 19,792 kg ha−1 for the cultivation, and 17,814 kg ha−1 for the tarping treatments. Tarping effectively suppressed weeds and produced sweetpotato yields comparable to cultivation, indicating the potential for use by organic growers. When buckwheat was grown between rows 3 to 7 WATr, sweetpotato yield was lower than it was with tarping and cultivation. These results suggest that researchers should be evaluating tarps for small-acreage farmers as a weed management strategy.
Crustal Structure and Tectonic Origin of Late Cretaceous Oceanic Crust and Adjacent Caribbean Large Igneous Province in the Colombian Basin
Authors: Ramos Juan Pablo , Mann Paul , Carvajal‐Arenas Luis Carlos 
Published: February 2025

AbstractThe tectonic origin of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP) and its adjacent oceanic crust in the Colombian Basin are examined using 3D seismic reflection mapping, regional gravity and magnetic data mapping, and a compilation of CLIP radiometric ages. Using these data, we show how the CLIP and its adjacent oceanic crust formed by extensive and prolonged volcanism linked to a regional, east‐west trending, extinct spreading ridge. Our 3D seismic mapping of the crustal structure in the Colombian Basin shows a northeast‐striking transform fault separating two extinct ridge segments based on the abrupt shallowing (>10 km) of the Moho, and the changes in crustal thickness from 16 km to <4 km. Additional 3D mapping combined with mapping of regional gravity anomalies reveals other northeast‐trending transform faults that offset the east‐west‐trending spreading ridge system. Integration of previously studied magnetic anomalies suggests that seafloor spreading in the Colombian and Venezuelan basins occurred during the primary period of CLIP formation from the Albian to Campanian (108–73 Ma). The presence of seaward dipping reflectors mapped using the 3D seismic reflection data further supports our hypothesis that the thickened crust of the CLIP accompanied seafloor spreading along the newly identified spreading ridge. The ages of CLIP basalts recovered from outcrops and offshore samples support our conclusions that the CLIP is largely the product of volcanic eruptions along a spreading ridge system over a period of 30 My and that the areas of normal oceanic crust adjacent to the spreading ridge records a gradual reduction in the magma supply to the spreading ridge.