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Intercultural adjustment of internationally mobile academics working in Thailand
Authors: Schartner Alina , Young Tony Johnstone , Snodin Navaporn 
Published: April 2022

AbstractNon-nationals constitute up to a quarter of the academic staff workforce of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide. Their motivations to ‘work abroad’, and their experiences of doing so, are, however, under-researched, especially where migration is to or within the global South. We report a study conducted among internationally mobile academics from a variety of countries working in Thailand. At policy level, Thailand aspires to increase the numbers of international staff and students in its HEIs, but with mixed success in terms of recruitment levels and the reported quality of the experience among these migrants. Conceptually, our study drew on a framework of intercultural adjustment defined as a multidimensional construct comprising psychological, sociocultural and professional/work aspects of the experience. Semi-structured focus groups were conducted to explore experiences of working in Thailand. Thematic analysis of findings showed that reported experiences mainly fell under the category of professional/work aspects of intercultural adjustment, although sociocultural issues were also important. The reported quality of experiences was mixed and generally more negative than positive in the key areas of professional and work adjustment. Specific challenges highlighted by participants related to issues with the work environment, most especially lingual-cultural problems and, crucially, a lack of secure status. We detail and discuss these findings and present recommendations for policy makers and HEIs, aspirant academic migrants, and for future research into global academic migration, particular as it relates to Thailand and other destinations for academic migration.
Uncovering potential barriers of using initial coin offerings to finance artistic projects
Authors: Knott Manuel , Strich Franz , Strunk Kim , Mayer Anne-Sophie 
Published: April 2022

AbstractArtists make vital contributions to our society and lay the foundations for billion-dollar industries. However, these artists consistently struggle to acquire sufficient funding for their projects and their livelihood. New technology-supported possibilities for funding artists and their projects have emerged in recent years. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a novel form of reward-based tokenized crowdfunding. Although ICOs are promising as a way to fund artistic projects, they lack widespread adoption in the creative and cultural industry (CCI). Based on 35 qualitative in-depth interviews, we identify four barriers that hinder the funding of artistic projects through ICOs: legal shortcomings, investment restrictions, lack of consumer interest, and intermediaries’ resistance. Our research contributes to cultural finance and funding literature by disclosing barriers that impede a promising form of financing artistic projects. Further, we outline possible solutions to overcome them. We also contribute to the research about ICOs by showing that rather than reducing investment risks, these offerings merely shift them.
Evaluation of a wrist-worn photoplethysmography monitor for heart rate variability estimation in patients recovering from laparoscopic colon resection
Authors: Rinne Juha K. A. , Miri Seyedsadra , Oksala Niku , Vehkaoja Antti , Kössi Jyrki 
Published: April 2022

AbstractTo evaluate the accuracy of heart rate variability (HRV) parameters obtained with a wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) monitor in patients recovering from minimally invasive colon resection to investigate whether PPG has potential in postoperative patient monitoring. 31 patients were monitored for three days or until discharge or reoperation using a wrist-worn PPG monitor (PulseOn, Finland) with a Holter monitor (Faros 360, Bittium Biosignals, Finland) as a reference measurement device. Beat-to-beat intervals (BBI) and HRV information collected by PPG were compared with RR intervals (RRI) and HRV obtained from the ECG reference after removing artefacts and ectopic beats. The beat-to-beat mean error (ME) and mean absolute error (MAE) of good quality heartbeat intervals obtained by wrist PPG were estimated as − 1.34 ms and 10.4 ms respectively. A significant variation in the accuracy of the HRV parameters was found. In the time domain, SDNN (9.11%), TRI (11.4%) and TINN (11.1%) were estimated with low relative MAE, while RMSSD (34.3%), pNN50 (139%) and NN50 (188%) had higher errors. The logarithmic parameters in the frequency domain (VLF Log, LF Log and HF Log) exhibited the lowest relative error, and for non-linear parameters, SD2 (7.5%), DFA α1 (8.25%) and DFA α2 (4.71%) were calculated much more accurately than SD1 (34.3%). The wrist PPG shows some potential for use in a clinical setting. The accuracy of several HRV parameters analyzed post hoc was found sufficient to be used in further studies concerning postoperative recovery of patients undergoing laparoscopic colon resection, although there were large errors in many common HRV parameters such as RMSSD, pNN50 and NN50, rendering them unusable.ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04996511, August 9, 2021, retrospectively registered
Co-designing in Australia housing for people with intellectual disability: an integrative literature review
Authors: Tucker Richard , Frawley Patsie , Lozanovska Mirjana , Prain Meredith 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Background
This paper provides an evidence base for practice in Australia from an integrative literature review of research on co-designing housing with people with an intellectual disability. The study asks: what methods and outcomes have been reported from including people with an intellectual disability in the co-design of their housing?

Method
The integrative review framework described by Whitemore and Knafl (2005) was used to analyse the literature.

Results
The literature searches yielded 16 articles after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. Important gaps in the literature were found relating to: co-designing with people with an intellectual disability; the co-designing of housing with people with an intellectual disability; specific frameworks or benchmarks for co-designing with people with an intellectual disability; processes on use of proxies; and on design outcomes.

Conclusions
Considerable work is required to explore and evaluate co-design processes in the design of housing with adults with intellectual disabilities, as well as how the outcomes of these processes are evaluated.
Does Strengths Use Mean Better Focus? Well-being and Attentional Performance at the Episodic Level
Authors: Liu Wei , van der Linden Dimitri , Bakker Arnold B. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractPositive psychology postulates that using one’s strengths can facilitate employee well-being and performance at work. However, whether strengths use is associated with attentional performance has remained unanswered in the literature. Attention plays a role in job performance, and previous literature has suggested a contrasting link between well-being (i.e., positive affect) and attentional performance. We hypothesize that, within work episodes, strength use is positively associated with eudaimonic (i.e., meaningfulness and personal growth) and hedonic well-being (i.e., positive affect). Further, we test the episodic process model by arguing that strengths use and well-being during one work episode are negatively related to subsequent attentional performance. In total, 115 participants registered for the current study, and 86 participants filled out the daily questionnaire once per day across five working days (a total of 365 daily reports). Multilevel analyses showed that episodic strengths use was not directly related to subsequent attentional performance. Episodic strengths use was positively related to a higher level of meaningfulness, personal growth, and positive affect. In turn, experienced meaningfulness was negatively related to subsequent attentional performance. However, personal growth and positive affect did not explain variance in attentional performance. These findings suggest that strength use may be accompanied with higher experienced meaningfulness, although the latter may be detrimental for subsequent attentional performance. Theoretical implications and contributions are discussed.
Visual classification of dumpsters with capsule networks
Authors: Garcia-Espinosa Francisco J. , Concha David , Pantrigo Juan J. , Cuesta-Infante Alfredo 
Published: April 2022

AbstractGarbage management is an essential task in the everyday life of a city. In many countries, dumpsters are owned and deployed by the public administration. An updated what-and-where list is in the core of the decision making process when it comes to remove or renew them. Moreover, it may give extra information to other analytics in a smart city context. In this paper, we present a capsule network-based architecture to automate the visual classification of dumpsters. We propose different network hyperparameter settings, such as reducing convolutional kernel size and increasing convolution layers. We also try several data augmentation strategies, as crop and flip image transformations. We succeed in reducing the number of network parameters by 85% with respect to the best previous method, thus decreasing the required training time and making the whole process suitable for low cost and embedded software architectures. In addition, the paper provides an extensive experimental analysis including an ablation study that illustrates the contribution of each component in the proposed method. Our proposal is compared with the state-of-the-art method, which is based on a Google Inception V3 architecture pretrained with Imagenet. Experimental results show that our proposal achieves a 95.35% accuracy, 2.35% over the previous best method.
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal
Authors: Blomkvist Andrea 
Published: April 2022

AbstractIn recent works, Kind (2020a, b) has argued that imagination is a skill, since it possesses the two hallmarks of skill: (i)improvability by practice, and (ii)control. I agree with Kind that (i) and (ii) are indeed hallmarks of skill, and I also endorse her claim that imagination is a skill in virtue of possessing these two features. However, in this paper, I argue that Kind’s case for imagination’s being a skill is unsatisfactory, since it lacks robust empirical evidence. Here, I will provide evidence for (i) by considering data from mental rotation experiments and for (ii) by considering data from developmental experiments. I conclude that imagination is a skill, but there is a further pressing question of how the cognitive architecture of imagination has to be structured to make this possible. I begin by considering how (ii) can be implemented sub-personally. I argue that this can be accounted for by positing a selection mechanism which selects content from memory representations to be recombined into imaginings, using Bayesian generation. I then show that such an account can also explain (i). On this basis, I hold that not only is imagination a skill, but that it is also plausibly implemented sub-personally by a Bayesian selection mechanism.
An adaptive message return strategy for same direction multilane in vehicular networks
Authors: Zhang Yuexia , Zhou Ying 
Published: April 2022

AbstractDue to the roadside unit can not fully achieve seamless coverage and the dynamic change of network topology in vehicular networks, problems such as the interruption of vehicle service, poor stability of communication link, and high network delay will be caused. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a codirectional multilane adaptive message return (CMAMR) strategy based on edge computing. Firstly, we establish a CMAMR communication model. Then, according to the movement trajectory of the receiving node, we propose a single-hop and a multi-hop message return link strategy. The former combines the single-hop link quality and node location information to construct a node selection function to assist the head node in selecting an optimal forwarding node to form a single-hop message return link. The latter assists the RSU to select the optimal multi-hop message return link in the same lane by establishing a link adaptive quality evaluation function, thus improving the user’s quality of server. The simulation results show that the link network delay of the CMAMR strategy is 14.6%, 42.86%, and 38.47% lower than those of the random with forwarding progress (RFP), most forward with fixed radius (MFR), and traditional vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle cooperative communication (TVCC) message return strategies, respectively; correspondingly, the link reliability is at least 9.13% higher for the CMAMR strategy.
Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on Resting State Brain Network Connectivity in Older Adults
Authors: Bittencourt Mayra , van der Horn Harm-Jan , Balart-Sánchez Sebastián A. , Marsman Jan-Bernard C. , van der Naalt Joukje , Maurits Natasha M. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractOlder age is associated with worsened outcome after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and a higher risk of developing persistent post-traumatic complaints. However, the effects of mTBI sequelae on brain connectivity at older age and their association with post-traumatic complaints remain understudied.We analyzed multi-echo resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 25 older adults with mTBI (mean age: 68 years, SD: 5 years) in the subacute phase (mean injury to scan interval: 38 days, SD: 9 days) and 20 age-matched controls. Severity of complaints (e.g. fatigue, dizziness) was assessed using self-reported questionnaires. Group independent component analysis was used to identify intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs). The effects of group and severity of complaints on ICNs were assessed using spatial maps intensity (SMI) as a measure of within-network connectivity, and (static) functional network connectivity (FNC) as a measure of between-network connectivity.Patients indicated a higher total severity of complaints than controls. Regarding SMI measures, we observed hyperconnectivity in left-mid temporal gyrus (cognitive-language network) and hypoconnectivity in the right-fusiform gyrus (visual-cerebellar network) that were associated with group. Additionally, we found interaction effects for SMI between severity of complaints and group in the visual(-cerebellar) domain. Regarding FNC measures, no significant effects were found.In older adults, changes in cognitive-language and visual(-cerebellar) networks are related to mTBI. Additionally, group-dependent associations between connectivity within visual(-cerebellar) networks and severity of complaints might indicate post-injury (mal)adaptive mechanisms, which could partly explain post-traumatic complaints (such as dizziness and balance disorders) that are common in older adults during the subacute phase.
Can third-party observers detect attraction in others based on subtle nonverbal cues?
Authors: Samara Iliana , Roth Tom S. , Nikolic Milica , Prochazkova Eliska , Kret Mariska E. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractIn a series of three studies, we examined whether third-party observers can detect attraction in others based on subtle nonverbal cues. We employed video segments of dates collected from a speed-dating experiment, in which daters went on a brief (approx. 4 min) blind-date and indicated whether they would like to go on another date with their brief interaction partner or not. We asked participants to view these stimuli and indicate whether or not each couple member is attracted to their partner. Our results show that participants could not reliably detect attraction, and this ability was not influenced by the age of the observer, video segment location (beginning or middle of the date), video duration, or general emotion recognition capacity. Contrary to previous research findings, our findings suggest that third-party observers cannot reliably detect attraction in others. However, there was one exception: Recognition rose above chance level when the daters were both interested in their partners compared to when they were not interested.
Development of analytical methods to study the effect of malting on levels of free and modified forms of Alternaria mycotoxins in barley
Authors: Scheibenzuber Sophie , Dick Fabian , Bretträger Marina , Gastl Martina , Asam Stefan , Rychlik Michael 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
A liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) multi-mycotoxin method was developed for the analysis of the Alternaria toxins alternariol (AOH), alternariol monomethyl ether (AME), tentoxin (TEN), altertoxin I (ATX I), altertoxin II (ATX II), alterperylenol (ALTP), and altenuene (ALT), as well as the modified toxins AOH-3-glucoside (AOH-3-G), AOH-9-glucoside (AOH-9-G), AME-3-glucoside (AME-3-G), AOH-3-sulfate (AOH-3-S), and AME-3-sulfate (AME-3-S) in barley and malt. The toxin tenuazonic acid (TeA) was analyzed separately as it could not be included into the multi-mycotoxin method. Quantitation was conducted by using a combination of stable isotope dilution analysis (SIDA) for AOH, AME, and TeA, and matrix-matched calibration for all other toxins. Limits of detection were between 0.05 µg/kg (AME) and 2.45 µg/kg (ALT), whereas limits of quantitation ranged from 0.16 µg/kg (AME) to 8.75 µg/kg (ALT). Recoveries between 96 and 107% were obtained for the analytes when SIDA was applied, while recoveries between 84 and 112% were found for analytes quantified by matrix-matched calibration. The method was applied for the analysis of 50 barley samples and their respective malts from the harvest years 2016–2020 for their mycotoxin content, showing the overall potential of toxin formation during the malting process. The toxins ALTP and ATX I were mainly found in the malt samples, but not in barley.
Aging modifies receptor expression but not muscular contractile response to angiotensin II in rat jejunum
Authors: Zizzo Maria Grazia , Cicio Adele , Corrao Federica , Lentini Laura , Serio Rosa 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThe involvement of renin-angiotensin system in the modulation of gut motility and age-related changes in mRNA expression of angiotensin (Ang II) receptors (ATR) are well accepted. We aimed to characterize, in vitro, the contractile responses induced by Ang II, in jejunum from young (3–6 weeks old) and old rats (≥ 1 year old), to evaluate possible functional differences associated to changes in receptor expression. Mechanical responses to Ang II were examined in vitro as changes in isometric tension. ATR expression was assessed by qRT-PCR. Ang II induced a contractile effect, antagonized by losartan, AT1R antagonist, and increased by PD123319, AT2R antagonist, as well by neural blocker ω-conotoxin and by nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor. No difference in the response was observed between young and old groups. AT1 receptor-mediated contractile response was decreased by U-73122, phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitor; or 2-aminoethoxy-diphenylborate (2-APB), inositol triphosphate (IP3) receptor inhibitor; or nifedipine, l-type calcium channel blocker. Age-related changes in the expression of both AT1 receptor subtypes, AT1a and AT1b, and of AT2 receptors were detected. In conclusion, Ang II modulates the spontaneous contractility of rat jejunum via postjunctional AT1 receptors, involving Ca2+ mobilization from intracellular stores, via PLC/IP3 pathway, and Ca2+ influx from extracellular space, via l-type channels. Prejunctional AT2 receptors would counteract AT1 receptor effects, via NO synthesis. The observed age-related differences in the expression of all AT receptor subtypes are not reflected in the muscular contractile response to Ang II.
Women on a Corporate Board of Directors and Consumer Satisfaction
Authors: Korenkiewicz Dorota , Maennig Wolfgang 
Published: April 2022

AbstractConsumer satisfaction is a widespread measure of company success, and it shows positive interdependence with several key performance indicators of an enterprise. Although many researchers emphasize that women directors have a positive influence on the economic success of a firm, little research has focused on the impact that females on a board of directors have on customer satisfaction. This paper resumes previous insights on determinants of customer satisfaction and shows that a more balanced gender representation in corporate governance bodies can positively affect customer satisfaction with a company.
The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution
Authors: Salazar Carles 
Published: April 2022

AbstractNobody doubts that culture plays a decisive role in understanding human forms of life. But it is unclear how this decisive role should be integrated into a comprehensive explanatory model of human behaviour that brings together naturalistic and social-scientific perspectives. Cultural difference, cultural learning, cultural determination do not mix well with the factors that are normally given full explanatory value in the more naturalistic approaches to the study of human behaviour. My purpose in this paper is to alert to some of the theoretical vulnerabilities or concerns that the cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour might entail. I classify these theoretical concerns into three, loosely defined, categories: epistemological, ontological and ethical. The first have to do with what in anthropology was once labelled as ‘butterfly collecting’. What kind of supplementary, or additional, general theoretical knowledge do we produce when we add to the research different, particularistic, culturally determined, ways of knowing? Ontological concerns refer to the underlying reality that those ways of knowing are meant to disclose. If there are so many ways of knowing the world, where is the reality to be known? Ethical concerns are those entailed in the forms of ‘othering’ that unqualified cross-cultural research is likely to produce in research participants.
Numerical simulation of dam-breach flood waves
Authors: Hosseinzadeh-Tabrizi Seyed Alireza , Ghaeini-Hessaroeyeh Mahnaz , Ziaadini-Dashtekhaki Maryam 
Published: April 2022

AbstractDam breach due to the earthquake, Land sliding inside the dam reservoir, dam overtopping as a result of intense precipitation in a watershed are examples of dangerous risks which flood caused by any of them should be predicted by suitable hydraulic or numerical models in the framework of a risk management plan. In the present research, 2DHec-Ras model has been applied in order to flood modeling of Sattarkhan dam. This dam is in the North West of Iran, located 15 km from the west of Ahar city, in the East Azerbaijan province, Iran. The downstream part of the dam to Ahar city has been studied considering the population and infrastructures in this district according to two different scenarios of dam failure. The first scenario includes piping of flow and dam failure profile with steep side walls while the second scenario consists of inclined sidewalls in the dam breach profile and overtopping of flow as the main cause of breaching. The population centers have been selected in the downstream area of dam according to the field facts. The maximum flood depth reaches up to 9.1 m for the first scenario and 7.1 m for the second scenario at the Islamic Azad University and Tabriz-Ahar road, respectively. The results show the notable risk for some of the population centers in the downstream of the dam. Furthermore, the arrival time of flood, recession time, and maximum velocities in the targeted areas for preparing emergency action plans has been calculated.