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Healthcare-seeking behaviour of marginalised older people in urban slums: a cross-sectional survey study in Khulna City, Bangladesh
Authors: Jahan Nusrat , Akter Shahinur , Heme Morsheda Akter , Chandra Dipika , Polly Afsana , Siddiqua Laila , Rahman Rumana , Mohsin Kaniz Fatima , Hossain Md Tanvir 
Published: November 2022

ObjectivesThis study aimed to measure healthcare-seeking behaviour and determine its associated factors among older people in the slums of the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) areas of Bangladesh.DesignCross-sectional survey.SettingsFour slums in the KCC areas of Bangladesh.ParticipantsThe participants were selected following a two-stage area probability sampling with the following specifications: they must be aged ≥60 years and must have lived in the slums of KCC for at least 5 consecutive years.Outcome measuresA semistructured interview schedule was administered to determine participants’ healthcare-seeking behaviour, with healthcare-seeking behaviour measured through a dichotomous response of ‘yes’ or ‘no’.Results636 participants were included in the study. Gastrointestinal problems (75.3%) and aches and pains (71.5%) were the two most common health problems among older people in the slums of KCC. Older adults in their 80s had higher adjusted odds of attaining healthcare services (adjusted OR (AOR)=2.028; 95% CI: 1.140 to 3.609; p<0.05) than other older people, while educated older people (AOR=0.664; 95% CI: 0.441 to 1.000; p<0.05) and those with greater satisfaction with domains of life (SDL index; AOR=0.860; 95% CI: 0.811 to 0.912; p<0.01) were less inclined to seek healthcare services than their counterparts. Additionally, widows/widowers (AOR=2.218; 95% CI: 1.080 to 4.556; p<0.05) and married people (AOR=2.750; 95% CI: 1.329 to 5.689; p<0.01) had higher adjusted odds of seeking healthcare services than those who were divorced/separated.ConclusionAge, education, marital status and SDL index were significant predictors for the healthcare-seeking behaviour of older people in KCC slums. Effective strategies need to be implemented to reduce existing access barriers to healthcare services for older people in the slum areas of urban Bangladesh.
Effectiveness of two doses of Euvichol-plus oral cholera vaccine in response to the 2017/2018 outbreak: a matched case–control study in Lusaka, Zambia
Authors: Sialubanje Cephas , Kapina Muzala , Chewe Orbrie , Matapo Belem Blamwell , Ngomah Albertina Moraes , Gianetti Brittany , Ngosa William , Kasonde Mpanga , Musonda Kunda , Mulenga Modest , Michelo C , Sinyange Nyambe , Bobo Patricia , Zyambo Khozya , Mazyanga Lucy , Bakyaita Nathan , Mukonka Victor M 
Published: November 2022

IntroductionZambia experienced a major cholera outbreak in 2017–2018, with more than 5905 cases reported countrywide, predominantly from the peri-urban slums of Lusaka city. The WHO recommends the use of oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) together with traditional control measures, including health promotion, provision of safe water and improving sanitation, in cholera endemic areas and during cholera outbreaks. In response to this outbreak, the Zambian government implemented the OVC campaign and administered the Euvichol-plus vaccine in the high-risk subdistricts of Lusaka. Although OCVs have been shown to be effective in preventing cholera infection in cholera endemic and outbreak settings, the effectiveness of the Euvichol-plus vaccine has not yet been evaluated in Zambia. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of two doses of OCV administered during the 2017/2018 vaccination campaign.MethodsWe conducted a matched case–control study involving 79 cases and 316 controls following the mass vaccination campaign in the four subdistricts of Lusaka (Chawama, Chipata, Kanyama and Matero). Matching of controls was based on the place of residence, age and sex. Conditional logistic regression was used for analysis. Adjusted OR (AOR), 95% CI and vaccine effectiveness (1-AOR) for two doses of Euvichol-plus vaccine and any dose were estimated (p<0.05).ResultsThe AOR vaccine effectiveness for two doses of Euvichol-plus OCV was 81.0% (95% CI 66.0% to 78.0%; p<0.01). Secondary analysis showed that vaccine effectiveness for any dose was 74.0% (95% CI 50.0% to 86.0%; p<0.01).ConclusionThese findings show that two doses of Euvichol-plus OCV are effective in a cholera outbreak setting in Lusaka, Zambia. The findings also indicate that two doses are more effective than a single dose and thus support the use of two doses of the vaccine as part of an integrated intervention to cholera control during outbreaks.
Exploring stakeholders’ experiences and perceptions regarding barriers to effective surveillance of communicable diseases in a rural district of Pakistan: a qualitative study
Authors: Naeem Imran , Siddiqi Sameen , Siddiqui Amna Rehana , Hasan Rumina 
Published: November 2022

ObjectiveTo explore the experiences and perceptions of health system stakeholders of a rural district of Sindh, Pakistan regarding the barriers to effective surveillance of communicable diseases.DesignThis qualitative descriptive exploratory design comprised in-depth interviews. Both inductive and deductive thematic analysis was applied to identify key themes from the data.SettingsThe study was conducted in public sector healthcare facilities and the district health office of the rural district of Thatta, in Sindh province, Pakistan.ParticipantsFifteen healthcare managers and healthcare providers working in the eight public sector primary and secondary healthcare facilities were interviewed using an open-ended in-depth interview guide.ResultsKey themes that emerged from the data were: poor governance and absence of surveillance policy framework; fragmentation in the health system leading to lack of uniform reporting; inadequate (human) resources that weakened the infrastructure for disease surveillance; hospital-based reporting of cases that led to a predominantly passive surveillance system; paper-based surveillance system as the key determinant of delayed reporting; non-utilisation of surveillance data for decision making; absence of local laboratory capacity to complement the detection of disease outbreaks and lack of private sector integration in disease surveillance.ConclusionsPoor governance and lack of policy framework were perceived to be responsible for weak surveillance infrastructure. Resource deficiencies including inadequate human resource, paper-based reporting and the absence of local laboratory capacity were considered to result in delayed, poor quality and incomplete reporting. The lack of private sector engagement was identified as a major gap.
Prognostic significance of radiological pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis inMycobacterium aviumcomplex lung disease: a multicentre retrospective cohort study
Authors: Aono Yuya , Hozumi Hironao , Kono Masato , Hashimoto Dai , Nakamura Hidenori , Yokomura Koshi , Imokawa Shiro , Shirai Masahiro , Akahori Daisuke , Inoue Yusuke , Mori Kazutaka , Karayama Masato , Suzuki Yuzo , Furuhashi Kazuki , Enomoto Noriyuki , Fujisawa Tomoyuki , Nakamura Yutaro , Inui Naoki , Suda Takafumi 
Published: November 2022

BackgroundMycobacterium aviumcomplex (MAC) causes chronic respiratory infectious diseases with diverse clinical features and prognoses. Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare disease characterised by pleural fibrosis with subjacent intra-alveolar fibrosis and alveolar septal elastosis, with unique chest high-resolution CT (HRCT) features (radiological PPFE). An association between recurrent respiratory infections and PPFE formation has been hypothesised; however, the clinical significance of PPFE in MAC lung disease remains unclear.MethodsThis retrospective, multicentre study investigated the prevalence of radiological PPFE in patients with MAC lung disease and its association with clinical features and outcomes. Radiological PPFE was diagnosed on the basis of HRCT findings. Prognostic factors were identified using Cox proportional hazards and Fine-Gray models.ResultsOf 850 consecutive patients with definite MAC lung disease, 101 (11.9%) exhibited radiological PPFE. Patients with radiological PPFE had unique characteristics, such as lower body mass index, lower survival rate (5-year cumulative survival rate, 63.1% vs 91.7%; p<0.001) and a higher incidence of respiratory-related death (5-year cumulative incidence, 31.1% vs 3.6%; p<0.001), than those without radiological PPFE. In the multivariable analysis, the presence of radiological PPFE was independently associated with all-cause mortality (adjusted HR, 4.78; 95% CI, 2.87 to 7.95; p<0.001) and respiratory-related death (adjusted HR, 3.88; 95% CI, 2.14 to 7.01; p<0.001).InterpretationThis large-scale study demonstrated that in patients with MAC lung disease, radiological PPFE was common, a phenotype associated with unique clinical features and poor prognosis, particularly respiratory-related death. The specific management of this subgroup should be established.
A wavelet-based study on phase and magnitude relationships of the Stockwell transform
Authors: Singh Km. Neeraj , Kumar Sanjeev 
Published: November 2022

This paper establishes a relationship between the phase and log-magnitude of the Stockwell transform (S-transform). The proposed relationship is derived by defining the S-Transform in terms of wavelet functions. The proposed work is an extension of the study [Holighaus N., Koliander G., Průša Z., Abreu L. D., Characterization of analytic wavelet transforms and a new phaseless reconstruction algorithm, IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 67(15):3894–3908, 2019] carried out to establish a relationship between the phase and magnitude of the continuous wavelet transform. Our methodology exploits the relationship between partial derivatives of the real and imaginary parts of the wavelet and S-transform for a couple of window functions (Gaussian and bi-Gaussian). Apart from the continuous case, these relationships are explicitly shown for the discrete version of the S-transform.
Robust and Efficient Sorting with Offset-value Coding
Authors: Do Thanh , Graefe Goetz 
Published: November 2022

Sorting and searching are large parts of database query processing, e.g., in the forms of index creation, index maintenance, and index lookup, and comparing pairs of keys is a substantial part of the effort in sorting and searching. We have worked on simple, efficient implementations of decades-old, neglected, effective techniques for fast comparisons and fast sorting, in particular offset-value coding. In the process, we happened upon its mutually beneficial relationship with prefix truncation in run files as well as the duality of compression techniques in row- and column-format storage structures, namely prefix truncation and run-length encoding of leading key columns. We also found a beneficial relationship with consumers of sorted streams, e.g., merging parallel streams, in-stream aggregation, and merge join. We report on our implementation in the context of Google’s Napa and F1 Query systems as well as an experimental evaluation of performance and scalability.
Effect of Dietary Lipid Level on Growth Performance, Body Composition, and Physiometabolic Responses of Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) Juveniles Reared in Inland Ground Saline Water
Authors: Paul Mritunjoy , Sardar Parimal , Sahu Narottam Prasad , Jana Prasanta , Deo Ashutosh Dharmendra , Harikrishna Vungurala , Varghese Tincy , Shamna Nazeema , Kumar Pankaj , Krishna Gopal 
Published: November 2022

A 60-day feeding trial was carried out to determine the effect of dietary lipid levels on growth and physiometabolic responses to optimize the dietary lipid requirement for maximizing the growth of Genetically Improved FarmedTilapia (GIFT) juveniles reared in inland ground saline water (IGSW) of medium salinity (15 ppt). Formulation and preparation of seven heterocaloric (389.56-449.02 Kcal digestible energy/100 g), heterolipidic (40-160 g/kg), and isonitrogenous (410 g/kg crude protein) purified diets were done for conducting the feeding trial. Random distribution of 315 acclimatized fish (mean weight

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g) was made in seven experimental groups such as CL4 (40 g/kg lipid), CL6 (60 g/kg lipid), CL8 (80 g/kg lipid), CL10 (100 g/kg lipid), CL12 (120 g/kg lipid), CP14 (140 g/kg lipid), and CL16 (160 g/kg lipid) with 15 fish per triplicate tank (fish density, 0.21 kg/m3). Respective diets were used for feeding the fish at satiation level three times daily. Results indicated that weight gain percentage (WG%), specific growth rate (SGR), protein efficiency ratio, and protease activity significantly increased up to 100 g lipid/kg fed group, and then the values significantly decreased. Muscle ribonucleic acid (RNA) content and lipase activity were highest in 120 g/kg lipid-fed group. RNA/DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and serum high-density lipoproteins levels of 100 g/kg lipid-fed group were significantly higher than 140, and 160 g/kg lipid-fed groups. The lowest feed conversion ratio was found in the 100 g/kg lipid-fed group. The amylase activity was significantly higher in 40 and 60 g lipid/kg fed groups. The whole-body lipid level was increased with increasing the dietary lipid levels, whereas, there was no significant difference in whole-body moisture, crude protein, and crude ash contents of all groups. Highest serum glucose, total protein and albumin, and albumin to globulin ratio and lowest low-density lipoproteins level were found in 140 and 160 g/kg lipid-fed groups. Serum osmolality and osmoregulatory capacity did not vary significantly, whereas carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase showed an increased and decreased trend, respectively, with the increasing dietary lipid levels. According to second-order polynomial regression analysis based on WG% and SGR, the optimum dietary lipid for GIFT juveniles in IGSW of 15 ppt salinity was found to be 99.1 and 100.1 g/kg, respectively.
Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil
Authors: Delgado Marlon , Freire Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais , Meirelles Carlos Augusto Oliveira de , D’Oliveira Rosângela Gondim , Padula Vinicius , Bahia Juliana , Brandão Simone Nunes 
Published: November 2022

Heterobranch sea slugs (Gastropoda) present reduction, internalization, or absence of shell, and include more than 6,000 described species. Approximately 250 species are recorded from Brazil but only 14 had been previously recorded from Rio Grande do Norte, on the Brazilian northeastern coast. As a result of different expeditions conducted between 2008 and 2020, species were collected and identified. Among them, five species were recorded for the first time from the South Atlantic Ocean: Chelidonura hirundinina (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833); Sclerodoris prea (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967); Thuridilla malaquita Ortea & Buske, 2014; Berthella nebula Ghanimi, Schrödl, Goddard, Ballesteros, Gosliner & Valdés, 2020 and Berthella vialactea Ghanimi, Schrödl, Goddard, Ballesteros, Gosliner & Valdés, 2020. Thirty-six species are recorded for the first time from Rio Grande do Norte. The present survey expands the knowledge of the diversity of sea slugs from Brazil and supports the hypothesis of similarity between the heterobranch sea slug fauna from the northeastern Brazil and the Caribbean Sea.
First record of Eumops glaucinus (Wager, 1843) (Chiroptera, Molossidae) to the Brazilian state of Maranhão
Authors: Cardoso Fábio Henrique de Souza , Lima Amanda Cristiny da Silva , Costa Cleison Luis da Silva , Mendes Samira Brito , Olímpio Ana Priscila Medeiros , Fraga Elmary da Costa , Barros Maria Claudene 
Published: November 2022

The study provides the first record of Eumops glaucinus in the Maranhão state, located in the northern region of Brazil. The collected specimen was a non-lactating adult female, with grayish pelage, broad ears, smooth face, a well-developed and squarish tragus, and elongated snout. The combined analysis of the morphological and molecular data (COI, Cyt b, and rRNA 16S genes) confirmed the occurrence of E. glaucinus in the state of Maranhão. This record extends the known species range area by 660 km easternward from the closest locality, Belém, Pará.
Jews for ʿ⁠Alī: Rabbinic Support for the Waṣiyy in Majlisī’s Biḥār al-Anwār
Authors: Rubinstein-Shemer Nesya , Maghen Zeʾev 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
What is a creature within a creature, with no consanguinity or kinship between them? Upon what place did the sunshine once, but then never again? These and host of other Judeo-ʿ⁠Alīd brain-teasers are adduced by the seventeenth-century Shiʿite encyclopedist Muḥammad Bāqir al-Majlisī in order to shore up the most pristine and essential of Shiʿite claims: that ʿ⁠Alī should have been the successor to the Prophet Muḥammad. The material examined in this essay sheds light both upon aspects of the Sunni-Shiʿī polemic and on Shiʿism’s outlook on the previous monotheistic dispensations. This article analyzes the series of interlocutions adduced by Majlisī (and his sources) as part of the campaign to retroactively unseat the caliphs enshrined by Sunnism. As with Islamic tradition in general, Shiʿism displays in this material a penchant for drafting the exponents of surrounding creeds to shore up its political and religious claims.
Amish Ecclesiology: Plural-Elder Congregationalism, Governing Lines of Fellowship, and Envisioning the Church
Authors: Petrovich Christopher G. 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
Amish ecclesiology is a plural-elder model of congregationalism that exhibits significant variation across the six non-communing affiliations that constitute the present Amish tradition in North America. The first section describes the ordination customs and structure of the ministry, the authority of tradition, the role of church leaders with strong personality types, and the egalitarian tendencies that present themselves in some Amish groups. Following an introduction to the six Amish affiliations, the article explains how each group defines its lines of fellowship, how these practices are organically linked to divergent understandings of the nature and shape of the Christian church, and how the Amish harness the strength of distinction-making to protect and grow their church communities from the inside out. Finally, the article questions the way that some Amish gloss the baptismal covenant as a vow, and explains why it problematizes the catholicity of the Christian church.
Resisting Internationalism?
Authors: Pearson Natali 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
This article reviews historical legislation relating to the management of shipwrecks in Indonesia, examining issues relating to terminology, division of authority, and implementation. It focuses on the evolution of Indonesia’s commercial salvage legislation, from its introduction in 1989 to its abrupt cessation in 2010, when a moratorium was introduced. While the moratorium was interpreted as a sign that Indonesia was moving closer to internationally accepted principles regarding the management of underwater cultural heritage, the introduction of a new law unrelated to maritime heritage has instead disturbed this anticipated trajectory. Designed to stimulate job opportunities, Law No. 11/2020 on Job Creation has, perversely, raised the prospect that the moratorium will be repealed. As this article demonstrates, the changing conceptualization of the value of shipwrecks and their cargoes remains a live issue in Indonesia, reflecting unresolved tensions about its identity as a maritime nation.
Outsider Insiders
Authors: Carey Peter B.R. 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
The present article considers the importance of sources written by witnesses who interacted with Indonesia’s national hero, Prince Diponegoro (1785–1855), in the aftermath of his arrest at the end of the Java War (1825–1830). It focuses on the reports written by the three officers, two Dutch and one Prussian, who accompanied the prince on his 11-week journey into exile (28 March–12 June 1830). During this period, Diponegoro’s every conversation and every move were recorded for intelligence purposes. A further hour-long recorded meeting occurred on 7 March 1837, when the prince met with the youngest son of the future Dutch king, Willem II (r. 1840–1849), Prins Hendrik ‘De Zeevaarder’. The character, motivations, and perspectives of these four writers are considered along with their assessments of the prince and their different relationships with the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia. These in turn are set in the context of the ‘outsider insider’ paradigm in which those with acknowledged status within Dutch society—all four were commissioned officers and one was also a prince of the realm—had the ability to step outside their positions of rank and privilege and engage with Diponegoro on the basis of a shared humanity. This position of empathy and mutual respect was made possible by their respective life experiences and upbringing.
Rethinking Diasporic Returns
Authors: Alatas Ismail Fajrie , Slama Martin 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
This article calls for a rethinking of the concept of diasporic return in light of contemporary religious and political developments in Indonesia. It does so by exploring two modalities of diasporic returns, namely, re-embedding and re-encountering, neither of which necessarily involve transnational travel or any notion of an ancestral homeland, but both of which are nevertheless important to the process of diasporization. Based on ethnographic observation among the Ḥaḍramī diaspora in Indonesia, the article follows the biographical becoming of two nationally prominent figures who had been estranged from their diasporic community. The article traces how these two figures have returned, whether inadvertently or by choice, to the Ḥaḍramī diasporic identity and community. The two cases point to the porosity and contingency of diaspora as both a subjective position and a social formation that enables its members to exit and enter in various ways. They also exemplify forms of diasporic return that unfold in and through, but are not reducible to, national politics. Comparing the two cases and tracing their connections reveal the possible entanglements between diasporic and national politics in Indonesia’s religio-political field that have hardly been recognized by observers of Indonesian politics and religion. By developing the notion of diasporic re-embedding and re-encountering to complicate diasporic return, the article unravels the more complex, politically grounded and ambivalent relations that dynamically form and transform an Indian Ocean diaspora and its relationship to the Indonesian nation.
Useless Mouths
Authors: van Leeuwen Anne 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
This article defends the ethical importance and contemporary relevance of Beauvoir’s 1945 play, Useless Mouths. While the core of Beauvoir’s moral philosophy is already present in this play, she develops it not as a universal maxim but in terms of a historically grounded struggle against exploitation. A Marxist-feminist reading of Beauvoir’s play reveals the moral problem immanent to capitalist modernity: despite the ideals of liberal morality, human life is ontologically worthless.
Le « ménage des Tolstoï » vu par Henry de Montherlant et Simone de Beauvoir
Authors: Damamme Pierre 
Published: November 2022

Résumé
Malgré le réquisitoire de Simone de Beauvoir contre Henry de Montherlant, qu’elle taxe de misogynie, le dialogue entre les deux écrivains n’a pas eu lieu. Il est toutefois possible de mieux comprendre ce qui les oppose en s’intéressant au regard respectif qu’ils jettent sur le mariage de Tolstoï, notamment sur les journaux intimes du couple. Les perspectives différentes qu’ils adoptent sur ce « ménage » permettent de mieux mesurer le fossé qui les sépare, et ce, en dépit parfois de conclusions similaires.