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Study Burnout and Engagement During COVID-19 Among University Students: The Role of Demands, Resources, and Psychological Needs
Authors: Salmela-Aro Katariina , Upadyaya Katja , Ronkainen Inka , Hietajärvi Lauri 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic forced most universities to switch from in-person to remote teaching from May 2020 to May 2021. This period covered three semesters of studies, and due to these changes students experienced fundamental changes in their learning. The present research was carried out 3 times during the pandemic (e.g., May 2020, December 2020, and April 2021) to investigate study engagement and burnout, and their associations with various demands, resources, and psychological needs among university students. Self-reports were collected from 1501, 1526, and 1685 university students in Helsinki. The results showed that study burnout increased across the time points, being the highest in April 2021, whereas study engagement was the lowest in December 2020. Further, at the beginning of the pandemic the explanatory power of study-related demands and resources on study burnout and engagement was stronger, whereas in April 2021 the role of psychological needs increased. These results inform strategies to promote students’ engagement through distance-learning, mitigating negative effects of the situation.
L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon
Authors: Klassen Rachel , Lundquist Björn , Westergaard Marit 
Published: April 2022

AbstractIn most studies on gender processing, native speakers of the same language are treated as a homogeneous group. The current study investigates to what extent an ongoing change in the gender system of Norwegian (a development from three to two genders, involving the loss of feminine) may be reflected in processing. We carried out a gender decision task in which speakers were presented with 32 nouns of each gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and asked to select the corresponding indefinite article. Based on these results, we identified three different groups: three-gender speakers, two-gender speakers, and an unstable gender use group that used feminine gender to varying degrees. This division corresponded with clear differences in RTs, the two-gender speakers being faster overall with no difference across conditions, the three-gender group being slower with masculine, and the unstable group being slower with both masculine and feminine. Thus, our results indicate that native speakers of the same language can in fact have different underlying representations of gender in the lexicon.
Bioinspired silica-based sol–gel micropatterns on aluminium for humid air condensation
Authors: Basso Maria , Colusso Elena , Sacco Alessandro , Tancon Marco , Bortolin Stefano , Mirafiori Matteo , Guglielmi Massimo , Martucci Alessandro 
Published: April 2022

AbstractSeveral patterned coatings with a hybrid organic-inorganic nature were deposited on metallic substrates by exploiting the dewetting of a sol–gel bilayer. The hybrid coatings, inspired by the exoskeleton of a desert beetle, consisted of hydrophilic silica droplets on a hydrophobic CH3-silica bottom layer. The patterned morphology was tuned by changing the initial solution concentration, which resulted in substantial changes in the size and the density of distribution of the hydrophilic droplets. The reproducibility of the dewetting process on metallic substrates was confirmed, together with its scalability over large area substrates. The real-life application of the patterned coating for atmospheric water harvesting was tested in a custom-made apparatus, which demonstrated that the patterned coating led to a higher collected mass during condensation from humid air compared to the bare aluminium substrate. The patterned coating was proven to maintain its structure after the humid air exposure, confirming the robustness of the sol–gel-based materials.
Acromegaly and male sexual health
Authors: Salvio Gianmaria , Martino Marianna , Balercia Giancarlo , Arnaldi Giorgio 
Published: April 2022

AbstractAcromegaly is a rare pathology characterized by chronic hypersecretion of Growth Hormone (GH) and Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) that causes somatic, metabolic, and systemic changes. The somatotropic axis acts physiologically favoring gonadal function, but when GH is produced in excess it has deleterious effects on many aspects of male sexuality. It is widely demonstrated, in fact, that acromegaly induces hypogonadism through different mechanisms, both through direct mass effect on gonadotropic cells and through increased plasma levels of prolactin. Moreover, hypogonadism is also one of the factors linking acromegaly to erectile dysfunction (ED), but also metabolic complications of acromegaly and, probably, GH itself contribute to the genesis of this disorder. There are few data in the literature on the impact of the disease on fertility and testicular volume. Finally, knowledge of the role of GH hypersecretion on the occurrence of prostatic diseases such as benign prostatic hypertrophy and prostatic cancer appears to be of fundamental clinical importance in the long-term management of these patients.
Climate refugia for Pinus spp. in topographic and bioclimatic environments of the Madrean sky islands of México and the United States
Authors: Haire Sandra L. , Villarreal Miguel L. , Cortés-Montaño Citlali , Flesch Aaron D. , Iniguez José M. , Romo-Leon Jose Raul , Sanderlin Jamie S. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractClimate refugia, or places where habitats are expected to remain relatively buffered from regional climate extremes, provide an important focus for science and conservation planning. Within high-priority, multi-jurisdictional landscapes like the Madrean sky islands of the United States and México, efforts to identify and manage climate refugia are hindered by the lack of high-quality and consistent transboundary datasets. To fill these data gaps, we assembled a bi-national field dataset (n = 1416) for five pine species (Pinusspp.) and used generalized boosted regression to model pine habitats in relation to topographic variability as a basis for identifying potential microrefugia at local scales in the context of current species’ distribution patterns. We developed additional models to quantify climatic refugial attributes using coarse scale bioclimatic variables and finer scale seasonal remote sensing indices. Terrain metrics including ruggedness, slope position, and aspect defined microrefugia for pines within elevation ranges preferred by each species. Response to bioclimatic variables indicated that small shifts in climate were important to some species (e.g.,P. chihuahuana, P. strobiformis), but others exhibited a broader tolerance (e.g.,P. arizonica). Response to seasonal climate was particularly important in modeling microrefugia for species with open canopy structure and where regular fires occur (e.g.,P. engelmanniiandP. chihuahuana). Hotspots of microrefugia differed among species and were either limited to northern islands or occurred across central or southern latitudes. Mapping and validation of refugia and their ecological functions are necessary steps in developing regional conservation strategies that cross jurisdictional boundaries. A salient application will be incorporation of climate refugia in management of fire to restore and maintain pine ecology. Una versión en español de este artículo está disponible como descarga.
Semi-Supervised Discovery of DNN-Based Outcome Predictors from Scarcely-Labeled Process Logs
Authors: Folino Francesco , Folino Gianluigi , Guarascio Massimo , Pontieri Luigi 
Published: April 2022

AbstractPredicting the final outcome of an ongoing process instance is a key problem in many real-life contexts. This problem has been addressed mainly by discovering a prediction model by using traditional machine learning methods and, more recently, deep learning methods, exploiting the supervision coming from outcome-class labels associated with historical log traces. However, a supervised learning strategy is unsuitable for important application scenarios where the outcome labels are known only for a small fraction of log traces. In order to address these challenging scenarios, a semi-supervised learning approach is proposed here, which leverages a multi-target DNN model supporting both outcome prediction and the additional auxiliary task of next-activity prediction. The latter task helps the DNN model avoid spurious trace embeddings and overfitting behaviors. In extensive experimentation, this approach is shown to outperform both fully-supervised and semi-supervised discovery methods using similar DNN architectures across different real-life datasets and label-scarce settings.
Risk Assessment of Tsunamis Along the Chinese Coast Due to Earthquakes
Authors: Hui Chun , Ning Lixin , Cheng Changxiu 
Published: April 2022

AbstractChina’s coastal areas are densely populated, economically developed, and located in close proximity to several potential tsunami sources; therefore, tsunami risk cannot be ignored. This study assessed tsunami risk in coastal areas of China by developing a framework for tsunami risk assessment from the perspectives of hazards, vulnerability, and exposure. First, a probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment (PTHA) model was applied to estimate the potential tsunami sources in both local crustal faults and circum-Pacific subduction zones based on numerical simulations. The output of the PTHA includes tsunami wave height distributions along the coast. Then, an indicator system reflecting exposure and vulnerability to tsunamis in the coastal areas of China was established by using the entropy method and analytic hierarchy process. The PTHA findings show that the tsunami wave height is close to 3 m on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea, the Pearl River Estuary, and the Yangtze River Delta and exceeds 2 m near the Taiwan Strait for the 2000-year return period. The results of the tsunami risk assessment show that the cities at the highest risk level (level I) include Tangshan, Yantai, and Hong Kong, while cities at the high risk level (level II) include Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Quanzhou near the Taiwan Strait and many cities on the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Estuary, and the southern coast of the Bohai Sea. Our findings can provide an understanding of differences in tsunami risk between Chinese coastal cities that may be affected by tsunamis in the future.
Time-sequential hesitant fuzzy set and its application to multi-attribute decision making
Authors: Meng Lingyu , Li Liangqun 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThe hesitant fuzzy set has been an important tool to address problems of decision making. There are several various improved hesitant fuzzy sets, such as dual hesitant fuzzy set, hesitant interval-valued fuzzy set, and intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy set, however, no one kind of improved fuzzy sets could reflect attitude characteristics of decision makers on time-sequences. In reality, time-sequence is one important sector to reflect hesitant situations as decision makers might have different knowledges of the same alternative at different moments. To perfect the description of such hesitant situations and obtain more reasonable results of decision making, we define a new kind of hesitant fuzzy set, namely, time-sequential hesitant fuzzy set. Meanwhile, its corresponding basic operators, score function and distance measures are proposed. We also propose the concept of fluctuated hesitant information to describe hesitant degrees of decision makers on time-sequences. By comprehensively utilizing the score function, fluctuated hesitant information and distance measures under time-sequential hesitant fuzzy set, a synthetic decision model is proposed. Two illustrated examples and one real-application are utilized to illustrate the effectiveness and advantage of the synthetic decision model under time-sequential hesitant fuzzy set.
A Perspective for Developing Polymer-Based Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Composites
Authors: Zhang Yali , Gu Junwei 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThe rapid development of aerospace weapons and equipment, wireless base stations and 5G communication technologies has put forward newer and higher requirements for the comprehensive performances of polymer-based electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding composites. However, most of currently prepared polymer-based EMI shielding composites are still difficult to combine high performance and multi-functionality. In response to this, based on the research works of relevant researchers as well as our research group, three possible directions to break through the above bottlenecks are proposed, including construction of efficient conductive networks, optimization of multi-interfaces for lightweight and multifunction compatibility design. The future development trends in three directions are prospected, and it is hoped to provide certain theoretical basis and technical guidance for the preparation, research and development of polymer-based EMI shielding composites.
Usability of alloys with different composition as electrode for electrochemical reduction of ferricyanide ion
Authors: Altay İlhan , Yapici Sinan , Demirkiran Nizamettin 
Published: April 2022

AbstractAn experimental work was performed to investigate the usability of 8 metallic alloys with different composition in electrochemical limiting diffusion current technique employing the cathodic reduction of ferricyanide. All the alloys exhibited a limiting current plateau region in their voltage–current behaviour, but not all gave a wide and smooth plateau, except one with almost pure Ni. With the alloys of including more than 50% Ni, as Ni ratio of the metal increased, smoother and wider plateau was attained, and the electrode containing 99% Ni gave the smoothest plateau. The other alloys tested can only be used as electrode in the limiting diffusion current technique in low flow velocities in which the transfer of the active ion to the electrode surface is as slow as that the mass transfer controls the rate of system.
Robust model reference adaptive controller for atmospheric plasma spray process
Authors: Guduri B. , Batra R. C. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractWe add the σ-modification and the low-frequency learning to the model reference adaptive controller (MRAC) (Guduri et al. in SN Appl Sci 3:1–21, 2021) to make it robust in the presence of two simultaneous bounded disturbances and maintain consistent mean particles’ temperature and velocity collectively called mean particles’ states (MPSs) when they impact the substrate to be coated. The MPSs affect the coating quality. Even though results are applicable to several coating processes, we consider an atmospheric plasma spray process (APSP). It is shown that the proposed controller can quickly adopt to disturbances in the average injection velocity of powder particles and in the arc voltage to change the input current, and the argon and the hydrogen flow rates to maintain constant values of the MPSs. The effects of the parameter values in the MRAC, the MRAC with $$\sigma$$
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-modification (R-MRAC), and the R-MRAC with low-frequency learning (MR-MRAC) schemes on tracking error convergence, steady-state tracking error, disturbance rejection and the presence of overshoot have been studied. The numerical experiments suggest that $$2 \le \gamma \le 20,$$

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suppresses high-frequency oscillations in the closed-loop control system, and $$\gamma$$
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Sexual Dysfunction in Women With Multiple Sclerosis: Expectations Regarding Treatment and Information, and Utility of the SEA-MS-F Questionnaire
Authors: Audrey Schreiber-Bontemps , Marion Roquet , Béatrice Médée , Stéphane Verdun , Katelyne Hubeaux 
Published: April 2022

Abstract

Introduction
Sexual dysfunction is a common complaint in female with multiple sclerosis (MS), however this problem is not often considered in the medical and psychological care.

Aim
To evaluate expectations regarding treatment and information for sexual dysfunction in women with multiple sclerosis using the SEA-MS-F (Sexual Dysfunction Management and Expectations Assessment in Multiple sclerosis - Female) questionnaire, and to gain an understanding of the relationship between their expectations, demographic factors and medical factors known to promote sexual dysfunction.

Methods
A prospective epidemiological, descriptive, analytical, multicentre study was carried out over 15 months on adult women suffering from MS. The SEA-MS-F was used to evaluate expectations regarding their sexuality and sexual activity.

Main Outcome
Measure 87 women were included. Mean age was 47 years and the mean time since MS diagnosis was 14 years.

Results
59.8% reported sexual dysfunction, but only 22.4% of the participants had raised the subject with a professional. With regards to expectations, 68% of the women wanted information about sexual dysfunction and 80% of women with sexual difficulties wanted treatment. High expectations correlated with the presence of sexual dysfunction, a regular sexual partner and with milder ambulatory handicap. There were no correlations between expectations and age, time since MS diagnosis, fatigue or being postmenopausal. The SEA-MS-F questionnaire was perceived as useful by 63.4% of the women and 90% felt that it could help doctors to treat sexual dysfunction.

Conclusion
To date, the SEA-MS-F is the only questionnaire validated in women with MS for the evaluation of sexual expectations and in the present study the women felt strongly that it represented a useful way for them to introduce and then discuss the subject of their sexual dysfunction with their doctor.
Is There a Relationship Between Overactive Bladder and Sexual Dysfunction in Women with Multiple Sclerosis?
Authors: Le Breton Frédérique , Chesnel Camille , Lagnau Philippe , Haddad Rebecca , Lacroix Pascal , Miget Gabriel , Amarenco Gerard , Hentzen Claire 
Published: April 2022

ABSTRACTBackgroundLower urinary tract Symptoms (LUTS) and Sexual dysfunction (SD) are common in women with MS and affect quality of life.AimThe aim of this study was to determine the relationship between sexual dysfunction (SD) and overactive bladder in women with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).MethodsFrom January 2019 to January 2021, we evaluated 89 female MS patients admitted for LUTS in a Neuro-Urology Department. SD was investigated using the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). All subjects completed the Urinary Symptom Profile scale (USP) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD A/HAD D). Neurological impairment was assessed using the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). All patients underwent neurological examination and urodynamic studies. Univariate analysis and Multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to identify predictors of SD in women with MS (FSFI &lt;26.55).OutcomesPrimary outcome was to determine the association between sexual dysfunction in women with MS and LUTS (overactive bladder, stress incontinence or voiding dysfunction).ResultsSexual dysfunction (FSFI&lt;26,55) affected 74% of women with MS, even with low physical disabilities (EDSS&lt;5). Univariate analysis showed that overactive bladder was more frequent in SD group, but no statistical difference was found (P &lt; .12). No relationship was found between sexual dysfunction and stress incontinence (P = ,47), voiding dysfunction (P= 0.79) or urinary retention (P= .96). Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified overactive bladder to be an independent predictor of sexual dysfunction [aOR 0.03 (CI 0,0.98)]. Sexual dysfunction was not associated with detrusor overactivity on urodynamic studies or with impairment mobility but was strongly associated with the presence of depression (P &lt; .01).Clinical implicationsSexual disorders in women with MS should be assessed as much as urinary disorder.Strengths and limitationsthis study included the largest cohort of women with MS. But the sample was obtained in an outpatient setting with low neurological impairment.ConclusionIn our study, SD was frequent affecting young women with no anticholinergic treatment and low physical impairment. Overactive bladder seemed to be independent predictor of sexual dysfunction. Conversely, SD was not associated with detrusor overactivity, neurological impairment, or duration of disease but was strongly associated with depression.
The Efficacy of Suspensory Ligament Release and Pubic Lipectomy Via Penopubic Z Plasty During Penile Prosthesis Implantation in Improving Sexual Satisfaction: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Aboul Fotouh El Gharably Mohamed , Ghoneima Waleed , Lotfi Mohamed Amr , AbdelWahab Mohamed , Elkady Amr , Abdel-Rassoul Mohammed A. 
Published: April 2022

ABSTRACTBackgroundThe utility of penile suspensory ligament release (SLR) in the setting of penile prosthesis implantation (PPI) has received limited attention in the literature.AimTo assess the efficacy and safety of penile SLR release, pubic lipectomy (PL), and the utility of penopubic Z-plasty (ZP) during malleable PPI in improving sexual satisfaction compared to that achieved with the conventional method.MethodsBetween August 2018 and April 2020, 61 patients with refractory erectile dysfunction were prospectively randomized into 2 groups; group A included 31 patients who underwent PPI with SLR and PL via ZP, and group B included 30 patients who underwent conventional PPI via a penoscrotal incision.OutcomesPenile length was assessed at 3 months, and sexual satisfaction was assessed up to 1 year after PPI using both validated and non-validated tools.ResultsThe median operative time was higher in group A than in group B (170 min; interquartile range [IQR] [160–190] vs 97.5 min; IQR [90–110] P &lt; .001).The median pre- to postoperative differences in functional and visible penile lengths for group A were 1.5 cm; IQR [0–2] and 2.5 cm; IQR [1–3.5], respectively, while those in group B were both 0 cm; IQR [-1 to 0] P &lt; .001). Group A patients reported higher scores in the International Index of Erectile Function satisfaction domains than the group B patients did (13; IQR [12–14] and 9; IQR [8–10] vs 11; IQR [9.5–12] and 8; IQR [6.5–8.5], respectively, P &lt; .001). Moreover, the postoperative Erectile Dysfunction Inventory of Treatment Satisfaction score was higher in group A than that in group B (95.40; IQR [91–97.7] vs 85.20; IQR [72.7–91], respectively, P &lt; .001). Common complications in group A were penile edema (77.4%), penile instability (9.7%) and glans numbness (9.7%).Clinical ImplicationsThe benefit in patient satisfaction following SLR and PL via ZP during PPI may outweigh the incremental increase in complications.Strength & LimitationsTo our knowledge, this is the first prospective randomized controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of SLR, PL, and ZP during PPI. However, because an optimal tool for assessing sexual satisfaction after PPI is lacking at this time, we alternatively adopted the most used assessment tools. Further, our data applies only to malleable penile prosthesis.ConclusionSLR and PL via ZP during PPI resulted in a substantial improvement of the patients’ sexual satisfaction without serious complications.