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Sociomateriality in Action
Authors: Waizenegger Lena , Schaedlich Kai , Doolin Bill 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to an enforced ‘big bang’ adoption of working from home, involving the rapid implementation and diffusion of digital collaboration technologies. This radical shift to enforced working from home led to substantial changes in the practice of work. Using a qualitative research approach and drawing on the interview accounts of 29 knowledge workers required to work from home during the pandemic, the study identified five sociomaterial practices that were significantly disrupted and required reconfiguration of their constitutive social and material elements to renew them. The paper further shows evidence of the ongoing evolution of those sociomaterial practices among the participants, as temporary breakdowns in their performance led to further adjustments and fine-tuning. The study extends the body of knowledge on working from home and provides a fine-grained analysis of specific complexities of sociomaterial practice and change as actors utilize conceptual and contextual sensemaking to perceive and exploit possibilities for action in their unfolding practice of work. Against the backdrop of the increasing adoption of hybrid working in the aftermath of the pandemic, the paper offers four pillars derived from the findings that support the establishment of a conducive working from home environment.
A human cyber-physical system for human-centered computing in seafaring
Authors: Taylor Nicole Catherine , Kruger Karel , Bekker Anriëtte 
Published: April 2023

AbstractHuman cyber-physical systems present an appealing platform for facilitating human-centered computing, particularly in environments where humans are required to interact with systems comprised of cyber and physical layers. Universally accepted elements of a human cyber-physical system, and interactions among these elements, do not appear to emerge in literature. To address this, a human cyber-physical system architecture is offered, led by the seafaring focus of this study. A human cyber-physical system implementation, called Mariner 4.0, for monitoring motion sickness of seafarers is presented to demonstrate the operation of a human cyber-physical system as a platform for human-centered computing. The human cyber-physical system implementation enabled the digital representation of the state of motion sickness and location of a seafarer, and conveyance of related information through a state monitor display. Using data captured on board South Africa’s polar supply and research vessel, the SA Agulhas II, results showed that the human cyber-physical system incorporated location-specific variation in motion exposure experienced between two seafarers in motion sickness computations through facilitating individualized data acquisition and integration.
Does Spending More Always Ensure Higher Cooperation? An Analysis of Institutional Incentives on Heterogeneous Networks
Authors: Cimpeanu Theodor , Santos Francisco C. , Han The Anh 
Published: April 2023

AbstractHumans have developed considerable machinery used at scale to create policies and to distribute incentives, yet we are forever seeking ways in which to improve upon these, our institutions. Especially when funding is limited, it is imperative to optimise spending without sacrificing positive outcomes, a challenge which has often been approached within several areas of social, life and engineering sciences. These studies often neglect the availability of information, cost restraints or the underlying complex network structures, which define real-world populations. Here, we have extended these models, including the aforementioned concerns, but also tested the robustness of their findings to stochastic social learning paradigms. Akin to real-world decisions on how best to distribute endowments, we study several incentive schemes, which consider information about the overall population, local neighbourhoods or the level of influence which a cooperative node has in the network, selectively rewarding cooperative behaviour if certain criteria are met. Following a transition towards a more realistic network setting and stochastic behavioural update rule, we found that carelessly promoting cooperators can often lead to their downfall in socially diverse settings. These emergent cyclic patterns not only damage cooperation, but also decimate the budgets of external investors. Our findings highlight the complexity of designing effective and cogent investment policies in socially diverse populations.
Psychological therapies for anxiety in autistic individuals with co-occurring intellectual developmental disorder: A systematic review
Authors: Kazzi Christina , Campbell Linda , Porter Melanie 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThis systematic review aimed to evaluate the efficacy of psychological therapies for anxiety for people with autism and co-occurring intellectual developmental disorder (AUT + IDD). A systematic search identified 13 studies comprising 49 participants with AUT + IDD, aged between 5 and 41 years. Most studies were single-case experimental designs (n = 7) or case studies or case series (n = 4). Studies implemented cognitive behavioural therapy (n = 4) or exposure therapy techniques (n = 9). All studies reported a reduction in anxiety symptoms, as measured by either quantitative measures or defined as participants meeting end of treatment criterion. However, the conclusions are preliminary due to the methodological limitations of the current literature. The implications of these findings, as well as recommendations for future direction in the field, are discussed.
Delirium education and post-anaesthetics care unit nurses’ knowledge on recognising and managing delirium in older patients
Authors: Ormonde Callum , Igwe Ezinne O. , Nealon Jessica , O’Shaughnessy Pauline , Traynor Victoria 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Background
Postoperative delirium (POD) is a major complication following a surgical procedure. There is evidence that improving knowledge about POD could enhance POD care and patient outcomes.

Aim
The study aimed to evaluate whether the amount of delirium education among registered nurses working in post-anaesthetics care units (PACU) impacts on their self-reported confidence and competence in recognising and managing delirium as well as prior knowledge on factors that influence the risk of delirium onset for older people.

Method
The current study utilised an online survey on delirium care practice among registered nurses in PACUs. The survey consisted of 27 items. There were questions about confidence and competence in delirium care, knowledge about delirium risk factors, and ranked responses to two case scenario questions to evaluate the application of POD care. There were also demographic questions, including previous experience with delirium care education.

Results
A total of 336 responses were generated from registered nurses working in PACU. Our findings found substantial variability among the respondents about their delirium care education. The amount of delirium education did not influence the PACU registered nurses’ confidence or competence in delirium care. In addition, previous education did not have an impact on their knowledge about delirium risk factors.

Discussion and conclusion
These findings suggested that the quantity of prior education about delirium did not improve the confidence, competence, knowledge, or case scenario questions of PACU registered nurses. Thus, delirium care education needs to be transformed to ensure it has a positive effect on delirium care clinical practice by registered nurses in PACU.
Social System Historical Modeling of Western Economies and its Implications for Eastern Economies
Authors: Cohen S. I. 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThe two purposes of the research are (a) to develop an analytical model that views the economy/polity as a social system with interactive subsystems of actors: households, firms, government, political parties and other significant actors, and (b) apply the analytical model to construct and verify a timeline that figures major events in world development that shaped the evolution of the western economies, and the relative strength of their interacting subsystems. The timeline highlights the changing and evolving dominance of the major subsystems in the economic history of the western world. We differ from the convention of looking at history as the occurrence of exogenous consequential events and offer instead a system dynamics analysis that makes historical events endogenous and to be affected by the powerplay within the system. The current dominance of the firm subsystem in western countries is demonstrated to be the accumulated result of centuries of past events: wars, discoveries, colonies, trade, political enlightenments, and industrial revolutions that strengthened participation and interactions in the firm subsystem at the cost of weakened dominance of rival subsystems (those of traditional households, theocrats, manors, communes, royals, and the modern state subsystem). The behavioral orientation of a social system is explainable in terms of (a) interactive influence (which occurs during the participation and interaction of agents in multiple settings, with some settings having more interactive influence than others), and (b) regulative influence (where the conduct of the one subsystem overrules that of other subsystems). Western economic history suggests a positive conditional correlation and convergence between (a) and (b). Being conditional, the convergence between (a) and (b) may not hold in other world contexts, i.e., China, India, Arab and African countries.
A Longitudinal Study in Worrisome Sexual Behavior Following Sexual Abuse in Infancy or Early Childhood: The Amsterdam Sexual Abuse Case
Authors: Tsang Vionna M. W. , Verlinden Eva , Brilleslijper-Kater Sonja N. , van Duin Esther M. , Twisk Jos W. R. , Verhoeff Arnoud P. , Lindauer Ramón J. L. 
Published: April 2023

AbstractWorrisome sexual behavior (WSB) is often described as an outcome specific to child sexual abuse (CSA). Therefore, it is highly relevant to study WSB in relation to sexual abuse, especially in very young children, as it is hard to recognize sexual abuse in children who have limited verbal capacities of disclosing. Over time, literature describing WSB following CSA has gradually broadened. However, a gap remains regarding the long-term development of WSB in children who were sexually abused during infancy or very early childhood. To our knowledge, our study is the first to examine developmentally-related sexual behavior versus sexual abuse-specific behavior longitudinally in children who were sexually abused at a very young age. In total, we examined the sexual behavior, as reported by parents of 45 children who experienced early-age sexual abuse for a period of more than five years. Overall, we found that WSB is likely to be a CSA-specific and potentially long-term outcome for children who were sexually abused at a very young age. Despite the decrease in sexual abuse-specific behavior over time, the level of this behavior was still significantly high 8 years after the sexual abuse. This finding supports long-term monitoring and assessment and intervention for WSB over time. Despite these findings, it is important to note that WSB does not serve as proof of sexual abuse in children; likewise, when a child does not present with WSB, it does not indicate the absence of a substantiated history of sexual abuse.
Towards inclusive development through harnessing demographic dividend? Empirics for Africa
Authors: Mulugeta Woldegiorgis Mesfin 
Published: April 2023

AbstractAfrica is now at a historical moment of swift demographic transition, which has the potential to harness the demographic dividend and foster inclusive development. However, just like the abundant natural resources, the growing population can be either a blessing or a curse. For instance, the economic growth and swift demographic transition in the last two decades have been tripled by a drastic political movement led by the protruded youth cohort. This paper, therefore, explores an empirical elucidation for the paradox and its remedy. It presents the drivers and time span of the potential demographic dividend for selected African countries. The panel data regression encompasses 34 African countries. However, the time span of the first demographic dividend is revealed for 47 African countries. The ordinary least square regression for the clustered dataset shows that harnessing the demographic dividend requires investment in family planning, gender parity, digitalization, industrialization, and job creation. The unique contribution of the paper is that it extends the demographic dividend discourse into the emerging inclusive development approach and presents pertinent empirics.
Joining technology of additively manufactured components: effects on the bonding strength for the adhesive application through inner channels
Authors: Ascher Michael , Brenner Stefan , Pang Genny A. , Späth Ralf 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThe maximum size of additively manufactured (AM) components is restricted due to the confined building space of the manufacturing machines. Component separation and subsequent joining can be an effective way of manufacturing larger components using AM processes. For joining of AM components, adhesive bonding provides great potential for not constraining the adherend’s geometry, as long as the adhesive can still be applied to the adhesive surfaces of the adherends. This work investigates the effectiveness and applicability of additively manufactured inner channels to improve the adhesive application. A circular adhesive single lap joint between a laser-based powder bed fusion (PBF-LB) component made of AlSi10Mg and a cold drawn aluminum round bar was considered. The PBF-LB components were designed with varying geometric complexity to implement different adhesive application concepts. Subsequently, the bonded joints were subjected to static tensile tests. The fracture strength of joints where the adhesive was applied by injection into AM inner channels exceeds the fracture strength of joints where the adhesive was injected into geometries manufacturable by subtractive machining, and also exceeds the fracture strength of joints where the adhesive was pre-applied.
Cultured Human Meat Acceptability: From Inviolability of Human Body to Prevention of Induced Human Meat Craving
Authors: Locarno Marco 
Published: April 2023

AbstractCultured meat is a lab grown product that aims to tackle the cravings of omnivores who struggle to switch to a plant-based diet, while still being friendly to animals and the environment. Possibly, in time, the curiosity to apply this technology towards human meat production will emerge. However, when presented with the thought of eating cultured human meat potential consumers’ reaction greatly varies from pure disgust to indifference to excitement. This instinctive response indicates a lack of preformed judgements towards the topic. Without a clear vision on the possibility of cultured human meat, scattered and uncertain regulations will fail to uphold paramount moral values. The risk is that we would either dig into this option out of excitement, or ban it without convincing motivations. The ethical theories of deontology and consequentialism can be followed to investigate this divisive issue. With an evaluation based on disgust I argue that the deontological perspective is mostly concerned with values of identity and humanness, while with a chain-reaction reasoning I argue that consequentialism would be concerned with health safety, privacy and equality. I conclude that cultured human meat is not acceptable.
Experimental investigation of thermal swing piston insulation at single cylinder gasoline engine
Authors: Weßling Danny , Rottengruber Hermann , Achenbach Jens , Fischer Torsten 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThe reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and the corresponding increase in gasoline engine efficiency are crucial in engine development. Wall heat losses are a major cause of efficiency loss, accounting for 15–30% of the total fuel energy. One promising solution is the use of "thermal swing" coatings at the combustion chamber walls because of offering the possibility that the surface wall temperature following the working gas temperature, whereby the wall heat transfer can be reduced at any time during the engine cycle. This type of coating material is characterized by low thermal conductivity and, at the same time, low heat capacity. Based on the idea of the “thermal swing” coatings, yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) was selected as the coating material for the piston surface and its efficiency potential was experimentally investigated on a single-cylinder gasoline engine. The use of highly dynamic temperature probes in the piston allowed precise analysis of cycle-based temperature fluctuations, especially on the piston surface. The transmission of the piston temperatures was cable-based and accomplished through the use of a lever system in the engine. The measurement results confirmed the minimal impact on the efficiency that was determined in preliminary simulations. However, the effect of the coating could be established through the measurements.
Building an authentic African philosophy of education based on the African concept of personhood
Authors: Balogun Babalola Joseph 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThis paper’s central task is to demonstrate how the African concept of personhood provides a suitable grounding for an authentic African philosophy of education. An authentic African philosophy of education is one in which there is a constant search for underlying principles for reflecting on the foundation, nature, and justification for the need and desirability of education in Africa. Scholars have drawn diverse implications from the African concept of personhood, especially in the areas of normative ethics, social and political, and legal philosophies. However, sufficient attention has not yet been paid to how the African conception of personhood could drive fruitful theoretical engagements with the foundations, nature, and justification of the African philosophy of education. This paper attempts to fill this gap. With the combination of critical literature review and philosophical methods of conceptual and logical analyses (and argumentation), the paper argues for the centrality of an African concept of personhood to the questions of the foundation, form (nature), and justification of an authentic African philosophy of education. The paper concludes that a personhood-based African philosophy of education provides a plausible framework within which these questions can be fruitfully engaged.
Company Cost of Capital and Leverage: A Simplified Textbook Relationship Revisited
Authors: Haag Valentin , Koziol Christian 
Published: April 2023

AbstractIn this paper, we revisit a frequently employed simplification within the WACC approach that company cost of capital $$k_{V}$$

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V

is supposed to be invariant to the debt ratio and therefore equal to the unlevered cost $$k_{U}$$

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U

. Even though we know from Miles and Ezzell (1980) that $$k_{V}$$

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formally differs from $$k_{U}$$

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U

, treating both costs as equal strongly facilitates the practical firm valuation e.g. when companies strategically change their target debt ratios to a significantly different magnitude after a transaction. We provide both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis using 29 firms of the German stock market to quantify the economic significance between the company cost of a levered and an otherwise identical but unlevered firm. In particular, we can numerically support the usual simplification in the absence of default risk. In case that firms are default-risky, however, empirical findings indicate a clear difference between these costs equal to 1.88 percentage points on average even for moderate assumed bankruptcy costs which translates to a company mispricing of nearly 100%. As a result, the company cost of capital does practically not depend on the debt ratio if the firm is not subject to default risk or if bankruptcy costs are negligible. Otherwise, it does and a negligence of this relationship can cause significant mispricings.
Geochemical distribution in residual soils of Iberian Pyrite Belt (Spain)
Authors: Martín-Méndez Iván , Llamas Borrajo Juan , Bel-lan Alejandro , Locutura Juan 
Published: April 2023

AbstractThe Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is a volcanic- and shale-hosted massive sulfides world-class province of the Upper Paleozoic age that includes some supergiant ore deposits with a unique mining operations history. An extensive soil (multi-element) geochemical survey in the IPB has been performed to create a geochemical database to increase the knowledge of the studied area. Both univariate and multivariate treatments have been done to manage a large amount of new data. The studied area shows higher background concentrations of several elements (e.b. Cu, Pb, Zn, Cd, Sn, In, Bi, As, or Sb) than in other terrains in Spain due to the IPB volcano-sedimentary ore deposits and their associated mining wastes. Mapping chemical elements help understand their behavior, controls and associations in natural environments. According to this, the mono-elemental contour maps show single-element distributions with geological control (e.g., Na), ore deposit control (e.g., Cu) or a mixture of both. On the other hand, multivariate analysis has been applied to reduce the large geochemical database maintaining the same information. We have chosen Factorial Analysis (FA) and obtained six factors that explain approximately 70% of the variability. Four of these factors (F1, F2, F4 and F5) show an intense geological control that improves the geological information of the IPB, while the other two (F3 and F5) show an ore deposit control. These factors allow distinguishing between different types of deposits in the IPB and help discover new possible exploration targets for future studies.
Everyday life and Everyday Leisure
Authors: Veal A.J 
Published: April 2023

AbstractA substantial body of theory exists on the concept of everyday life, including the sociology of everyday life, but it has barely featured in the mainstream of the sociological study of leisure or leisure studies more broadly. This paper explores this theoretical work and considers the place of leisure in it, and how it might inform the further development of the study of leisure. It is argued that the time is right to broaden the scope of leisure research to incorporate consideration of the way in which all forms of everyday time-use interact.