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Hydrological regimes in different slope environments and implications on rainfall thresholds triggering shallow landslides
Authors: Fusco Francesco , Bordoni Massimiliano , Tufano Rita , Vivaldi Valerio , Meisina Claudia , Valentino Roberto , Bittelli Marco , De Vita Pantaleone 
Published: June 2022

AbstractAssessing hazard of rainfall-induced shallow landslides represents a challenge for the risk management of urbanized areas for which the setting up of early warning systems, based on the reconstruction of reliable rainfall thresholds and rainfall monitoring, is a solution more practicable than the delocalization of settlements and infrastructures. Consequently, the reduction in uncertainties affecting the estimation of rainfall thresholds conditions, leading to the triggering of slope instabilities, is a fundament task to be tackled. In such a view, coupled soil hydrological monitoring and physics-based modeling approaches are presented for estimating rainfall thresholds in two different geomorphological environments prone to shallow landsliding. Based on the comparison of results achieved for silty–clayey soils characterizing Oltrepò Pavese area (northern Italy) and ash-fall pyroclastic soils mantling slopes of Sarno Mountains ridge (southern Italy), this research advances the understanding of the slope hydrological response in triggering shallow landslides. Among the principal results is the comprehension that, mainly depending on geological and geomorphological settings, geotechnical and hydrological properties of soil coverings have a fundamental control on the timing and intensity of hydrological processes leading to landslide initiation. Moreover, results obtained show how the characteristics of the soil coverings control the slope hydrological response at different time scales, making the antecedent soil hydrological conditions a not negligible factor for estimating landslide rainfall thresholds. The approaches proposed can be conceived as an adaptable tool to assess hazard to initiation of shallow rainfall-induced landslides and to implement early-warning systems from site-specific to distributed (catchment or larger) scales.
Entity linking systems for literature reviews
Authors: Marrone Mauricio , Lemke Sascha , Kolbe Lutz M. 
Published: June 2022

AbstractComputer-assisted methods and tools can help researchers automate the coding process of literature reviews and accelerate the literature review process. However, existing approaches for coding textual data do not account for lexical ambiguity; that is, instances in which individual words have multiple meanings. To counter this, we developed a method to conduct rapid and comprehensive analyses of diverse literature types. Our method uses entity linking and keyword analysis and is embedded into a literature review framework. Next, we apply the framework to review the literature on digital disruption and digital transformation. We outline the method’s advantages and its applicability to any research topic.
Fabry–Pérot Interferometer-Based Tunable Narrow-Band Imager for Solar Chromospheric Observation: First Results
Authors: Hu Xingcheng , Yang Jinsheng , Rao Xuejun , Rao Changhui 
Published: June 2022

AbstractRecently, we have developed a tunable narrow-band imager (NBI) with high spectral resolution based on a Fabry–Pérot (FP) interferometer to observe the solar chromosphere. The NBI system is designed for imaging the Sun at the H$\alpha $
α
wavelength (6563 Å). The FP interferometer has a bandpass (FWHM) of 0.09 Å and a free spectral range (FSR) of 3.85 Å at $\lambda = 628$
λ
=
628
nm, working in combination with a prefilter with a bandpass of 1.6 Å and a center wavelength at 656.3 nm to achieve narrow-band imaging. We have successfully tested the NBI system on the 65-cm Educational Adaptive-optics Solar Telescope (EAST) in the Shanghai Astronomy Museum, and observed the sunspots in active region (AR) 12880 of the Sun on October 2 and 3, 2021. In this paper, we briefly present a description of the instrument, experimental observations, data processing, and the first observational results.
Parental evaluation of teachers’ competences and characteristics during COVID-19 pandemic homeschooling
Authors: Letzel Verena , Pozas Marcela , Besa Kris-Stephen 
Published: June 2022

AbstractWith the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, school-related closures and the hasty transition into homeschooling, parents were required to take a more active and positive role than ever before in collaboration with their children’s educators. Thus, with this unprecedented situation, parents became an important source of information during the pandemic. Considering this unique event, the study at hand aims to explore parents’ perspectives regarding primary and upper secondary school teachers’ digital competence, digital differentiated instruction, and feedback during the first SARS-CoV-2 school shutdown in Germany. Additionally, the study examined parents’ evaluation of teachers’ characteristics. Results reveal that parental ratings were generally positive. Moreover, parents with children attending primary schools perceived and evaluated teachers’ digital competence and digital differentiated teaching highly, and perceived significantly more teacher feedback than parents whose children attend upper secondary school. In addition, positive correlations were found between parents’ evaluations of teachers’ feedback and how motivated, appreciative, and devoted teachers are perceived to be. Practical implications and further research areas are discussed.
Causality, determination and free will: towards an anscombean account of free action
Authors: van Miltenburg Niels 
Published: June 2022

AbstractAnscombe’s “Causality and Determination” is often cited in the contemporary free will debate, but rarely discussed in much detail. It’s main contribution, it is thought, is the defense of an alternative to deterministic causation, thus clearing the way for an incompatibilist analysis of free actions in terms of probabilistic causation. However, in this paper I will show that the contemporary probabilistic analysis of free action actually stands in direct conflict with Anscombe’s lecture. Instead, I will argue, its true value for incompatibilist accounts of free will lies in Anscombe’s thought that there are various fundamentally different kinds of causality. This variety, I argue, allows for a revised conception indeterminism and an understanding of free will as the manifestation of a particular sort of agent-causal power.
The heterologous expression of conserved Glycine max (soybean) mitogen activated protein kinase 3 (MAPK3) paralogs suppresses Meloidogyne incognita parasitism in Gossypium hirsutum (upland cotton)
Authors: Klink Vincent P. , Alkharouf Nadim W. , Lawrence Kathy S. , Lawaju Bisho R. , Sharma Keshav , Niraula Prakash M. , McNeece Brant T. 
Published: June 2022

AbstractTwo conserved Glycine max (soybean) mitogen activated protein kinase 3 (MAPK3) paralogs function in defense to the parasitic soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines. Gene Ontology analyses of RNA seq data obtained from MAPK3-1-overexpressing (OE) and MAPK3-2-OE roots compared to their control, as well as MAPK3-1-RNA interference (RNAi) and MAPK3-2-RNAi compared to their control, hierarchically orders the induced and suppressed genes, strengthening the hypothesis that their heterologous expression in Gossypium hirsutum (upland cotton) would impair parasitism by the root knot nematode (RKN) Meloidogyne incognita. MAPK3-1 expression (E) in G. hirsutum suppresses the production of M. incognita root galls, egg masses, and second stage juveniles (J2s) by 80.32%, 82.37%, and 88.21%, respectfully. Unexpectedly, egg number increases by 28.99% but J2s are inviable. MAPK3-2-E effects are identical, statistically. MAPK3-1-E and MAPK3-2-E decreases root mass 1.49-fold and 1.55-fold, respectively, as compared to the pRAP15-ccdB-E control. The reproductive factor (RF) of M. incognita for G. hirsutum roots expressing MAPK3-1-E or MAPK3-2-E decreases 60.39% and 50.46%, respectively, compared to controls. The results are consistent with upstream pathogen activated molecular pattern (PAMP) triggered immunity (PTI) and effector triggered immunity (ETI) functioning in defense to H. glycines. The experiments showcase the feasibility of employing MAPK3, through heterologous expression, to combat M. incognita parasitism, possibly overcoming impediments otherwise making G. hirsutum’s defense platform deficient. MAPK homologs are identified in other important crop species for future functional analyses.
Application of micro-computed X-ray tomography for improving the hole erosion test analysis on high plastic clay
Authors: Zaid Bahaeldeen , Vollert Florian , Gibmeier Jens , Mengel Lena , Stelzer Oliver , Schneider Achim 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThe hole erosion test (HET) was developed to simulate piping erosion and to study the erosion parameters of cohesive soils. The erosion rate in the HET is evaluated by the enlargement of a pre-performed hole in the axis of the specimen with time. The hole diameter during the test is estimated using the pipe flow theory with an assumption that the friction factor varies linearly with time. To investigate this assumption, measurements of the hole diameter during the test are needed. So far, there have been no measurements of the hole diameter during the HET and the hole diameter is measured only at the end of the test after cutting the specimen. In this study, a novel approach to measure the hole diameter at different time steps during the HET using micro-computed X-ray tomography (µCT) is presented. Combining the HET and µCT data, the assumption regarding the friction factor was investigated. Moreover, a linear relation between the flow rate and the hole diameter was found in the range of the tested diameters. This relation was confirmed with HETs using non-erodible PVC specimens with different hole diameters. Accordingly, a new method to interpret the HET for high plastic clay was proposed, in which the hole diameter is calculated based on the flow rate, given that the initial and the final hole diameters are known. A comparison between the analysis of the HET using the proposed and the previous analysis methods is presented.
Study protocol and preliminary results from a mono-centric cohort within a trial testing stereotactic body radiotherapy and abiraterone (ARTO-NCT03449719)
Authors: Francolini Giulio , Detti Beatrice , Di Cataldo Vanessa , Garlatti Pietro , Aquilano Michele , Allegra Andrea , Lucidi Sara , Cerbai Cecilia , Ciccone Lucia Pia , Salvestrini Viola , Stocchi Giulia , Guerrieri Barbara , Visani Luca , Loi Mauro , Desideri Isacco , Mangoni Monica , Meattini Icro , Livi Lorenzo 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
Background
ARTO trial was designed to evaluate the difference in terms of outcomes between patients affected by oligo metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) treated with Abiraterone acetate and randomized to receive or not SBRT on all sites of disease. Here, we present a preliminary analysis conducted on patients enrolled at promoting institution.

Objective
To present a preliminary overview about population features, clinical outcomes, adverse events, quality of life and explorative translational research.

Design, setting, and participants
ARTO (NCT03449719) is a phase II trial including patients affected by oligo mCRPC, randomized to receive standard of care (GnRH agonist or antagonist plus abiraterone acetate 1000 mg and oral prednisone 10 mg daily) with or without SBRT on all metastatic sites of disease. All subjects have < 3 bone or nodal metastases. All patients are treated in I line mCRPC setting, no previous lines of treatment for mCRPC are allowed.

Outcome measurements and statistical analysis
Data about a mono-centric cohort of 42 patients enrolled are presented in the current analysis, with focus on baseline population features, PSA drop at 3 months, biochemical response, and quality of life outcomes. Descriptive statistics regarding translational research are also presented.

Results and limitation
Significant difference in terms of PSA drop at three months was not detected (p = 0.68). Biochemical response (PSA reduction > 50%) was reported in 73.7 versus 76.5% of patients in control vs SBRT arm, respectively (p = 0.84). All patients are alive. Progression occurred in 1 versus 0 patients in the control versus SBRT arm, respectively. After 3 months, an average decrease of 13 points in terms of Global Health Score was reported for the overall population. However, complete recovery was noticed at 6 months. Circulating tumor cells detection rate was 40%.

Conclusions
SBRT + Abiraterone treatment was safe and well tolerated, non-significant trend in terms of PSA drop and biochemical response at 3 months was detected in SBRT arm. Interestingly, CTCs detection in this selected cohort of oligo-mCRPC was lower if compared to historical data of unselected mCRPC patients.
Ein Schimmer von Fortschritt: Die Soziogenese menschlicher Rationalität von Mead über Habermas zu Brandom
Authors: Anicker Fabian 
Published: June 2022

ZusammenfassungWie werden aus menschlichen Körpern begründungssensible, zurechnungsfähige und insofern rationale Personen? Ein wichtiger Strang der soziologischen Theorietradition bearbeitet dieses Problem über die Rekonstruktion des Prozesses der Ontogenese als Internalisierung kommunikativer sozialer Strukturen. Der Artikel erzählt innerhalb dieser Theorielinie eine dreiteilige sozialtheoretische Fortschrittsgeschichte, die von Mead über Habermas zu Brandom führt. Die klassischen Einsichten von George Herbert Mead in die Soziogenese des Individuums wurden durch Jürgen Habermas’ Einführung pragmatistischer Sprachtheorie erweitert, welche wiederum mit der Theorie diskursiver Praktiken von Robert Brandom auf eine neue Basis gestellt werden könnte. Im Übergang von Mead über Habermas zu Brandom gelingt es immer genauer, den Zusammenhang von Sprache und menschlicher Rationalität begrifflich zu präzisieren und dabei gleichzeitig den Voraussetzungsreichtum der theoretischen Vorannahmen zu senken.
Synthesis of Fe3O4 Nanoparticles with Different Shapes Through a Co-Precipitation Method and Their Application
Authors: Ba-Abbad Muneer M. , Benamour Abdelbaki , Ewis Dina , Mohammad Abdul Wahab , Mahmoudi Ebrahim 
Published: June 2022

AbstractMagnetic Fe3O4nanoparticles (NPs) were successfully synthesized via co-precipitation method using ferric chloride and ferrous sulphate as the starting materials. The shape and the size of Fe3O4NPs were controlled by using different types of additive including ammonium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide. The results revealed that by adding ammonium hydroxide, the particles attained a spherical shape with a uniform size. On the other hand, the shape of the particles turned from spherical to cubic using sodium hydroxide. The magnetic results showed that both samples attained hysteresis loop, which indicated that both samples have ferromagnetic behavior. In addition, Fe3O4NPs with cubic shape showed higher adsorptive behaviour towards Congo red compared to spherical Fe3O4NPs, which is attributed to the enhancement of their magnetic properties. The adsorption of Congo red onto cubic Fe3O4NPs was best described by Langmuir isotherm model, while spherical Fe3O4NPs followed Freundlich isotherm model.
Unusual perfusion patterns on perfusion-only SPECT/CT scans in COVID-19 patients
Authors: Farkas Bence , Képes Zita , Barna Sándor Kristóf , Szugyiczki Viktória , Bakos Magdolna , Forgács Attila , Garai Ildikó 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
Purpose
We aimed at examining both the incidence and extent of different lung perfusion abnormalities as well as the relationship between them on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin (MAA) perfusion-only SPECT/CT scans in COVID-19 patients.

Methods
Ninety-one patients (71.4 ± 13.9 years; range: 29–98 years, median age: 74 years; 45 female and 46 male) with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 virus infection were included in this retrospective study. After performing perfusion-only Tc-99m MAA SPECT/CT scans, visual, semi-quantitative assessment of the subsequent perfusion abnormalities was carried out: mismatch lesions (MM; activity defects on SPECT images identical to apparently healthy parenchyma on CT images), matched lesions (MA; activity defects with corresponding parenchymal lesions on CT scans), and reverse mismatch lesions (RM; parenchymal lesions with preserved or increased tracer uptake). Lesion-based and patient-based analysis were performed to evaluate the extent, severity, and incidence of each perfusion abnormality. Statistical tests were applied to investigate the association between the experienced perfusion impairments.

Results
Moderately severe parenchymal lesions were detected in 87 (95.6%) patients. Although, 50 (54.95%) patients were depicted to have MM lesions, the whole patient cohort was mildly affected by this abnormality. MA lesions of average moderate severity were seen in most of the patients (89.01%). In 65 (71.43%) patients RM lesions were found with mild severity on average. Positive association was detected between total CT score and total RM score and between total CT score and total MA score. Significantly higher total CT scores were experienced in the subgroup, where RM lesions were present.

Conclusions
Heterogeneous perfusion abnormalities were found in most of COVID-19 patients: parenchymal lesions with normal, decreased or increased perfusion and perfusion defects in healthy lung areas. These phenomena may be explained by the failure of the hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction mechanism and presence of pulmonary thrombosis and embolism.
The Impossibility of a Moral Right to Privacy
Authors: Persson Ingmar , Savulescu Julian 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
This paper clarifies and defends against criticism our argument in Unfit for the Future that there is no moral right to privacy. A right to privacy is conceived as a right that others do not acquire information about us that we reserve for ourselves and selected others. Information acquisition itself is distinguished from the means used to acquire it and the uses to which the information is put. To acquire information is not an action; it is to be caused to be in an internal state. By contrast, means of acquisition and uses of information are actions that can be voluntarily controlled. We can therefore have rights against others that they stay away from certain means and uses but not from information acquisition in itself. An omniscient, omnipotent and omnibeneficient being is not thought to violate a right to privacy because its means and uses of information are morally acceptable.
Modeling crop suitability under micro irrigation using a hybrid AHP-GIS approach
Authors: Abuzaid Ahmed S. , El-Husseiny Ahmed M. 
Published: June 2022

Abstract
Crop suitability analysis using novel models is a pillar for sustainable land-use planning. In this work, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was integrated with GIS to produce suitability maps for wheat and maize under sprinkler irrigation and broad bean under drip irrigation. The study was conducted in an arid area, west Nile Delta of Egypt. The characteristics of local climate, landscape, and groundwater quality were matched with crop requirements and assigned scores. A GIS-based model was implemented to integrate scores and AHP weights and generate crop suitability maps. The climate conditions fitted optimum crop requirements; however, slight slope limitations affected wheat and maize. The electrical conductivity (EC), exchangeable sodium percentage, and CaCO3 were the most important soil factors affecting broad bean, and these factors besides coarse fragments affected wheat and maize. The EC, Na+, and Cl– were the most influential factors for wheat and maize irrigation, while EC and sodium adsorption ratio had the greatest priority for broad bean irrigation. Irrigation water quality had the highest specific weight (0.38) followed by soil (0.36), slope (0.15), and climate (0.10). The final suitability maps showed that 97 and 3% of the total area were suitable (S2) and moderately suitable (S3) for wheat, respectively. Moreover, 85 and 15% of the total area fitted the S2 and S3 classes for broad bean. For maize, 36 and 64% of the total area fitted the S2 and S3 classes. Integrating AHP and GIS would provide effective land-use planning and also suggest proper management practices in arid areas.
Energy Practices and Mindfulness Meditation
Authors: Anālayo Bhikkhu , Steffens-Dhaussy Christiane , Gallo Fred , Scott Dawn 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThe article explores the potential impact of insight meditation and mindfulness practices on the body’s energy system. Basic principles of energy psychology, whose efficacy has been corroborated in current research, are surveyed from the viewpoint of their potential to help in dealing with hypersensitivity resulting from mindfulness practices, combined with presenting a set of specific techniques relevant to hindrances in meditation.
The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law
Authors: Pech Laurent 
Published: June 2022

AbstractAgainst increasing rule of law backsliding within the EU, the European Commission has presented the rule of law as a well-established and well-defined principle whose core meaning is furthermore shared as a common value among all Member States. In refute, the national governments of the two EU countries, which are both subject to special EU procedures on account of the systemic threat to the rule of law their repeated actions have caused, have claimed that the rule of law is neither defined in EU law, nor could it be defined in EU law. This article’s primary aim is to assess these conflicting assertions. It does so by first offering an overview of the EU legal framework on the basis of which it is shown that the rule of law, as asserted by the Commission, is a well-established constitutional principle of EU law. It furthermore shows that it is well-defined, not least because of the Court of Justice’s extensive case law, the European Commission’s definitional codification of it and most recently, the adoption of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation 2020/2092 which provides the first comprehensive allen compassing internal-oriented definition of the rule of law adopted by the EU co-legislators. This article furthermore contends that the EU’s understanding of the rule of law reflects what may be presented as a broad consensus in the European legal space on its core meaning and components; its legal use as a primary principle of judicial interpretation and a source from which standards of judicial review may be derived; and how the rule of law relates to other fundamental values. Finally, this article concludes by examining the reality of a potentially emerging East-West dissensus as regards the rule of law. In light of evidence of strong and widespread support for the rule of law in every single EU Member State in the face of top-down attempts to systemically undermine it, it is however submitted that there is no meaningful East-West divide but an authoritarian-liberal divide at elite level.