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Does the use of a uterine manipulator in robotic surgery for early‐stage endometrial cancer affect oncological outcomes?
Authors: Ito Hiroe , Moritake Tetsuya , Isaka Keiichi 
Published: July 2022

AbstractBackgroundTo investigate the impact of the use of a uterine manipulator in robot‐assisted surgery for early‐stage endometrial cancer on oncological outcome.MethodsEighty six robotic surgeries and sixty seven open surgeries were performed for early‐stage endometrial cancer. Disease‐free survival and overall survival at 5 years, and surgical results and postoperative complications were compared between surgeries. In robotic surgery, a uterine manipulator was used in all cases.ResultsThere was no significant difference in oncological outcome between surgeries. Robotic surgery showed significantly longer operative time, less blood loss, and shorter hospital stay compared to open surgery. In robotic surgery, complications occurred significantly less frequently, and no patients required conversion to laparotomy. There were no clear correlations of positive lavage cytology with The International Federation of Gynecology nd Obstetrics stage, recurrence, and site of recurrence in either surgery.ConclusionsThe use of a uterine manipulator during robotic surgery for early‐stage endometrial cancer did not influence recurrence or survival.
Dynamic event‐triggered decentralized control of interconnected systems
Authors: Shi Lei , Wang Xuesong , Huang Longyang , Cheng Yuhu 
Published: July 2022

AbstractIn this article, the dynamic event‐triggered decentralized control (DETDC) problem is investigated for a class of interconnected systems. In order to reduce the communication frequency between the interconnected subsystem and local controller, we first design a dynamic event‐triggered mechanism (ETM) for each interconnected subsystem, which can effectively reduce the communication frequency compared with static ETM. Hereafter, under the proposed dynamic event‐triggered strategy, the local dynamic event‐triggered controller is developed, which only uses the state information of the corresponding interconnected subsystem. Furthermore, it is proven that the interconnected system is asymptotically stable under the proposed DETDC scheme. Moreover, the trigger interval is proven to be strictly positive, which means that Zeno behavior is avoided. Finally, a multi‐machine power system is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed DETDC scheme.
Composition and optical properties of chromium oxynitride films
Authors: Wang Jin , Tu Yuchun , Yuan Yanyan , Qian Han , Jonnard Philippe , Lan Rui 
Published: July 2022

The films with various components were prepared by using the reaction gases N2 and O2 combined with the Cr2O3 and CrN targets. The focus of this study is at the composition, optical, and bandgap properties of the CrOxNy thin films. X‐ray diffraction, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and ultraviolet–visible–near‐infrared (UV‐vis‐NIR) spectroscopy were used to investigate the phase structure, chemical composition, and optical properties of the films, respectively. The results show that the films mainly consisted of CrO2 phases. The (O + N)/Cr atomic ratio deduced from X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) in the films prepared with the Cr2O3 target increased with the increase of nitrogen flow, whereas the nitrogen concentration in samples prepared with the CrN target was greatly affected by O2 gases flow. When the oxygen flow was as low as 1.0 sccm, the sample is mainly composed of oxides. The thin films prepared with the oxide target presented a good transmittance of 60%–80% in the visible range. The bandgap, as obtained using the absorption value, spanned a range of 1.3–2.6 eV. These results provide an excellent suggestion for the preparation of the chromium oxynitrides films applied in the aspect of mechanical, optical and electrical properties.
Synthesis of (E)‐1‐(phenyldiazenyl)cyclohexyl Benzoate from N‐(cyclohexylideneamino)aniline and Benzoyl Peroxide
Authors: Zhu Wenjing , Chen Yu , Yu Xiao , Liu Hongyan , Zhang Zheng , Wen Fuqiang , Liu Yi , Zhang Pengfei , Xia Chengcai , Li Furong 
Published: July 2022

AbstractA method of synthesis (E)‐1‐(phenyldiazenyl)cyclohexyl benzoate from N‐(cyclohexylideneamino)aniline has been developed. The reaction could proceed smoothly under N2 atmosphere at 80 °C in CH2Cl2 and 22 examples of products were obtained.
Antiproliferative Effect and Autophagy Inhibition of Dihydropyrimidinone‐Cinnamic Acid Hybrids
Authors: Barbosa Flavio Augusto Rocha , Rode Michele Patrícia , Santos Canto Rômulo Faria , Silva Adny Henrique , Creczynski‐Pasa Tânia Beatriz , Braga Antonio Luiz 
Published: July 2022

AbstractHere we report the design, synthesis and evaluation of dihydropyrimidinones (DHPMs)‐cinnamic acids hybrids as potential anti‐cancer compounds. The synthetic route was successfully performed and the products obtained in good to excellent yields. These compounds were tested against LNCaP and PC‐3 metastatic prostate cancer cells and RWPE‐1 prostate cells. The results indicate that hybridization was effective, since the hybrids were much more cytotoxic than DHPMs and cinnamic acids evaluated separately. Compound 3 a was the most potent hybrid against PC‐3 cells (IC50 of 15.7 μM) and LNCaP cells (IC50 of 11.5 μM) and was further optimized by bioisosterism and molecular simplification strategies leading to three new analogues (5, 7 and 8). Compounds 3 a, 7 and 8 showed an antiproliferative effect against PC‐3 cells without inducing cell death nor cell cycle arrest. The mechanism of action of compound 8 was further investigated. The results indicated that compound 8 inhibits autophagic flux, and this effect could be linked to the antiproliferative activity. Moreover, in silico prediction of some molecular properties related to pharmacokinetics showed that all the hybrids meet the criteria for a drug prototype to have a good absorption and permeation for oral administration. These results highlight the potential use of DHPMs‐cinnamic acids hybrids as antiproliferative agents for further evaluation of the antitumor activity in vivo.
Visible‐Light Aided C−H activation: Metal/Base‐Free Generation of C−C bonds using Porphyrin Photocatalyst
Authors: Bhuse Darpan Vijaykumar , Raut Subodh Uttamrao , Deshmukh Shubham Avinash , Balinge Kamlesh Rudreshwar , Barange Shital Haribhau , Mataghare Bhairav Chandroday , Muskawar Prashant Narayan , Bhagat Pundlik Rambhau 
Published: July 2022

AbstractHerein, we report the application of a meso‐substituted porphyrin dyad entangled with carboxyl functionalized benzimidazolium moieties (CPDCFBM) as a heterogeneous photocatalyst for C−H activation of various electron‐donating and withdrawing aromatic compounds with highly inactivated aryl fluoride, chlorides, and other aryl bromides. A simple methodology adopted to synthesize the corresponding product has received an outstanding yield from (69–88 %) under 5 W illumination using a homemade photoreactor assembly. CPDCFBM tolerated various functional groups with recyclability up to five runs without much decline in photocatalytic activity. Photogenerated excitons vitality in the reaction was analyzed using K2S2O8 and KI. CPDCFBM was shown a Hammett acidity value of 0.77. The reaction conditions were optimized as; time (18 h), catalyst (15 mg), and light illumination (5 W) from an LED source using ethanol as an eco‐friendly solvent. The products obtained were crystalline and therefore need no further purification. The electroanalytical study revealed HOMO and LUMO energy of −5.841 and −4.066 respectively accounting for an energy gap of, 1.7 eV.
Stereo Selective Total Synthesis of 4‐(S)‐Hydroxy‐5‐(R)‐octyldihydrofuran‐2‐one: Harvestmen Lactone
Authors: Desireddi Janardana Reddi , Rao Mora Mallikarjuna , Murahari Kiran Kumar , Nimmareddy Rajashekar Reddy , Mothe Thirupathi , Lingala Arun Kumar , Maiti Bhimcharan , Manchal Ravinder 
Published: July 2022

AbstractA facile and stereoselective synthesis of Harvestmen lactone 1 was accomplished in a linear synthetic approach over 14 steps with an overall yield of 10.1 %. This total synthesis was carried out using a chiral pool approach from commercially available D‐glucose. The key reactions employed in this synthetic approach were Wittig reaction, Barton‐McCombie Deoxygenation and 2,2,6,6‐Tetramethylpiperidin‐1‐yl)oxyl (TEMPO) mediated radical oxidation.
Novel Bimetallic Activated Center Alloying Mechanism Positive Electrodes for Aluminum Storage
Authors: Liu Yongshuai , Li Yuhao , Zuo Fengkai , Liu Jie , Xu Yifei , Yang Li , Zhang Hao , Wang Huaizhi , Zhang Xiaoyu , Liu Chunyang , Li Qiang , Li Hongsen 
Published: July 2022

AbstractAluminum is the most abundant metal element in the Earth's crust, thus developing the rechargeable aluminum‐ion batteries (AIBs) provides an ideal opportunity to realize cells with pleasing energy‐to‐price ratios. However, the further development of AIBs is plagued by the scarcity of suitable positive electrode materials. Here, for the first time, a tin‐based alloy positive electrode material for AIBs, Co3Sn2 wrapped with graphene oxide (Co3Sn2@GO composite) is well‐designed and investigated to understand the aluminum storage behavior. A series of experimental measurements and theoretical calculations results reveal that a novel “bimetallic activated center alloying reaction” aluminum storage mechanism is occurred on the prepared Co3Sn2 positive electrode. The reversible alloying/de‐alloying process in AlCl3/[EMIm]Cl ionic liquid, where both Co and Sn in Co3Sn2 alloys react electrochemically with Al3+ to form AlxSn and AlyCo is first put forward. This study delineates new insights on the aluminum storage mechanism, which may guide to ultimately exploit the energy benefits of “bimetallic activated center alloying redox”.
How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study
Authors: Klünder Jil , Trommer Felix , Prenner Nils 
Published: July 2022

AbstractSince the publication of the agile manifesto in 2001, many companies implement an agile—or at least more agile—software development process. However, only including agile methods or practices in the overall process does not guarantee being agile. The mindset of the people involved in the process, including the development team, the customers, and the management, is of particular importance. As such an agile mindset cannot be enforced, the process of creating a suitable mindset needs to be handled with care. In an interview study with nine agile coaches, we analyzed which aspects they perceive being of particular importance during an agile transformation. One of these aspects is the agile mindset. We figure out how they support the creation of such a mindset. We identify 12 categories related to the process of creating an agile mindset. These categories include the collaboration between the coach and the management as well as the necessity to internalize the agile values. The main factor for succeeding with the creation of an agile mindset, however, can be hardly influenced: The success strongly depends on the personal prerequisites and attitudes of the individuals involved in the process, mainly the development team. We synthesize the results of our study into a timeline describing the process of how an agile coach can support the development team creating an agile mindset as part of the transformation towards an agile development process.
Mechanical performance, microstructure, and damage model of concrete containing steel slag aggregate
Authors: Fu Qian , Xue Gang , Xu Sheng , Li Jingjun , Dong Wei 
Published: July 2022

AbstractReusing industrial solid waste in cement‐based products is an economical and environmentally friendly solution. This study investigated the effect of steel slag on the mechanical properties of concrete mixtures, and development of damage constitutive relationship of steel slag concrete (SSC). Two steel slag aggregates, including fine steel slag aggregate (SSAF) and coarse steel slag aggregate (SSAC) were incorporated into the concrete mixtures to SSC. The portions of natural sand and coarse aggregate each were replaced with SSAF and SSAC at 10%–100% (interval of 20%) by weight. Therefore, effects of SSAF and SSAC on the mechanical properties of SSC mixtures were evaluated separately. Moreover, damage model of SSC mixtures was developed based on Lemaitre's equivalent strain principle and Weibull probability density function. The damage constitutive model was revised using the functional relationship between the toughness index, brittleness index, and distribution parameters. The results indicate that SSC's mechanical properties, crack resistance, and toughness have been significantly improved with increased steel slag content. However, reduction in strength was observed in the SSC specimens containing steel slag above 50% replacement. Nevertheless, these strengths are higher than that of normal concrete. The modified damage constitutive relationship fits better with the experimental results.
Commitment based human resources practices and knowledge creation in ambidextrous organizations: A moderated mediation study on expatriates working in India
Authors: Nayak Sunanda , Bhatnagar Jyotsna , Budhwar Pawan , Mukherjee Jaydeep 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThrough the lens of organizational learning theory, we develop and test a moderated mediation model of commitment‐based HR practices (CBHRP), absorptive capacity, organization structure and routines, and knowledge creation in ambidextrous organizations. We test two new individual‐level dimensions of absorptive capacity (AC) in ambidextrous organizations: ambidexterity and flow experience. This empirical investigation is based on 377 expatriates who responded to our survey over two time periods working in various multinational organizations' R&D centers in India. Our findings suggest that CBHRP is critical in predicting knowledge creation and AC in an ambidextrous organizational context. Furthermore, we find that AC mediates the linkage between CBHRP and knowledge creation, and organization structure and routines (OSR) act as a moderator. Focusing on expatriates in ambidextrous organizations, our study extends contextual understanding of ambidextrous organizations and integrates organizational learning and knowledge creation theory into strategic human resources management (SHRM) research.
Occurrence, identification, and discharge of microplastics from effluent and sludge of the largest WWTP in Iran—South of Tehran
Authors: Oveisy Niousha , Rafiee Mohammad , Rahmatpour Ali , Nejad Ali Shahidi , Hashemi Marjan , Eslami Akbar 
Published: July 2022

AbstractMicroplastic pollution is a serious threat to the biota and humans, and wastewater treatment plants act as a pathway for entering microplastics into the environment. This study discusses the identification and quantification of microplastics in the south of Tehran municipal WWTP. The sampling was repeated three times in a month, overall, nine times for water samples and once a month in total, three times for digested sludge samples by steel bucket with the WPO method. The microplastics from water and digested sludge samples were identified using the micro‐Raman microscope. According to this study, 98.9% of microplastic particles in effluent and 99.2% of microplastics particles in the sludge were fibers. The influent contained an average of 180 ± 4.3 MP/L and was reduced to 5.3 ± 0.31 MP/L in the final effluent. Despite this significant reduction, we calculate that this WWTP releases 2.3 × 109 microplastics per day through final effluent and 1.61 × 1010 particles per day through dried sludge into the environment. We performed micro‐Raman analyses and ICP mass to measure the amount of heavy metal absorption of MPs. In addition, SEM analyses were used to study the surface morphology of microplastic particles.Practitioner Points

Fourteen different polymers were identified in the influent, effluent, and digested sludge.
The main collected shapes obtained were fiber, film, and fragment, which fiber was the predominant polymer in this WWTP.
The plant releases 2.3 * 109 MPs per day to its downstream environment.
This WWTP has average removal with an efficiency of 99.06%.
Introduction: Beyond Global Supply Chains
Authors: Hinkson Melinda , Stead Victoria 
Published: July 2022

AbstractGlobal food supply chains, we have been told often in recent years, are in crisis. How much, though, does this language of crisis—as particular, contextual, temporally bound—suffice to describe the conditions of the present? This chapter, and the book it introduces, take the COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. In a context in which disruptions to the production, distribution and consumption of food are figured as exceptions to the smooth, just-in-time efficiencies of global supply chains, we examine the pandemic not simply as a particular and acute moment of disruption but rather as a lens on a deeper, longer set of structural processes within which disruption is endemic. At a time when it is more likely to be grasped in terms of speculative investment than as a common good, food offers a vital prism for grappling with the logics by which power circulates in the world. Attending to this constellation of forces calls for attention to supply chains as key mechanisms in the organization of the capitalist food system but also demands that we extend our thinking beyond the bounded linearities of supply chain models.
Disruption as Reprieve?
Authors: Altman Jon , Markham Francis 
Published: July 2022

AbstractIt is a truism that the impacts of any crisis always fall unevenly. In this chapter, we focus on the experience of COVID-19 by a particular population group, Indigenous Australians living in extremely remote circumstances. Here key responses to the disruption wrought by the pandemic have paradoxically registered as reprieve. In Australia, remote-living Indigenous peoples live in deep poverty and were anticipated to be highly vulnerable to food insecurity and supply chain disruption. Surprisingly, the pandemic served to disrupt in other ways. The hegemonic characterization of welfare-dependent Indigenous peoples as morally deficient subjects in need of discipline and control could not be sustained as the country “locked down” and over a million others became “welfare dependent” overnight. Unemployment benefits were temporarily doubled, and onerous work-for-the-dole mutual obligations eased. This essay explores potential positive changes to systems of food provisioning caused by government responses to COVID-19. The remote food security “crisis” is shown to be mainly an artefact of government policies designed to punish the poor and push unemployed remote-community residents into jobs. We propose permanent reform to the social security system that will enhance food security and liberate Indigenous peoples to more effectively self-provision and exercise “food sovereignty”.
The Pandemic Supermarket
Authors: Giles David Boarder 
Published: July 2022

AbstractDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, this chapter argues, the supermarket became one of the most important sites in which the conditions and contradictions of capitalist food chains, laid bare by the crisis, were worked through, normalized and sustained. If supermarkets and grocery stores represent the archetypal endpoint of the value chain for commercial food systems—the interface between customer and commodity, where its value is realized—the social reproduction of this cultural logic in the face of unsettled circuits of production and consumption is indeed “essential” labour. But it is essential for deeper reasons than those highlighted in public discourse. This chapter describes the labours of employees and owners in a single independent grocery store in the Melbourne Central Business District over 18 months of lockdown, recession, and personal and economic uncertainty. It captures some of the innovations, improvisations and expressions of solidarity made both possible and necessary in the anticipation of an eventual return to “business as usual”. These experiences throw into relief the supermarket’s function as a definitive node that articulates the supply chains, consumer publics and regimes of precarious migrant labour that constitute the urban food system as a domain for the expropriation, circulation and accumulation of surplus value.
Subsystem distances between quasiparticle excited states
Authors: Zhang Jiaju , Rajabpour M. A. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractWe investigate the subsystem Schatten distance, trace distance and fidelity between the quasiparticle excited states of the free and the nearest-neighbor coupled fermionic and bosonic chains and the ferromagnetic phase of the spin-1/2 XXX chain. The results support the scenario that in the scaling limit when one excited quasiparticle has a large energy it decouples from the ground state and when two excited quasiparticles have a large momentum difference they decouple from each other. From the quasiparticle picture, we get the universal subsystem distances that are valid when both the large energy condition and the large momentum difference condition are satisfied, by which we mean each of the excited quasiparticles has a large energy and the momentum difference of each pair of the excited quasiparticles is large. In the free fermionic and bosonic chains, we use the subsystem mode method and get efficiently the subsystem distances, which are also valid in the coupled fermionic and bosonic chains if the large energy condition is satisfied. Moreover, under certain limit the subsystem distances from the subsystem mode method are even valid in the XXX chain. We expect that the results can be also generalized for other integrable models.
The ALPs from the top: searching for long lived axion-like particles from exotic top decays
Authors: Carmona Adrian , Elahi Fatemeh , Scherb Christiane , Schwaller Pedro 
Published: July 2022

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We propose a search for long lived axion-like particles (ALPs) in exotic top decays. Flavour-violating ALPs appear as low energy effective theories for various new physics scenarios such as t-channel dark sectors or Froggatt-Nielsen models. In this case the top quark may decay to an ALP and an up- or charm-quark. For masses in the few GeV range, the ALP is long lived across most of the viable parameter space, suggesting a dedicated search. We propose to search for these long lived ALPs in $$ t\overline{t} $$
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events, using one top quark as a trigger. We focus on ALPs decaying in the hadronic calorimeter, and show that the ratio of energy deposits in the electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters as well as track vetoes can efficiently suppress Standard Model backgrounds. Our proposed search can probe exotic top branching ratios smaller than 10−4 with a conservative strategy at the upcoming LHC run, and potentially below the 10−7 level with more advanced methods. Finally we also show that measurements of single top production probe these branching ratios in the very short and very long lifetime limit at the 10−3 level.