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Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Demographic Composition on Disaster Mortality: Community-Level Analysis for the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami
Authors: Miyazaki Takeshi 
Published: December 2022

AbstractOn 11 March 2011, the Tohoku tsunami hit the northeastern region of Japan, causing massive damage to people and property. The tsunami was bigger than any other in Japan’s recorded history, but the damage varied by community. This research addressed the effects of socioeconomic status and demographic composition on mortality in the 2011 Tohoku tsunami using community-level data. These effects were estimated using regression analysis, taking into account a variety of potential contributing aspects at the community level, including strength of the tsunami, population characteristics, gender, age, education, household composition, evacuation methods, and occupation. It was found that the height of the tsunami and the shares of three-generation households and employees in the manufacturing industry are all positively correlated with tsunami mortality. The impacts of these factors on mortality are particularly large for the older adults.
Social norms in digital spaces: Conflict reports and implications for technology design in the teleworking context
Authors: Diefenbach Sarah 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWith the increase of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic, employees’ interactions with colleagues have shifted almost exclusively to digital channels. Hence, it is critical to understand the underpinnings of successful collaboration and individual wellbeing in digital working structures. Combining qualitative experience reports and quantitative surveys from 145 teleworkers, this study sheds light on teleworking from a psychological perspective, taking social norms as a conceptual frame. The qualitative reports revealed five types of typical conflicts related to communication in the telework context, including both (1) technical problems (e.g., a bad connection) and psychological aspects such as (2) uncertainty or a lack of social feedback, (3) norm violations, (4) a lack of rules or meta-communication about appropriate behavior, and (5) digital communication barriers. Respondents’ quantitative ratings of qualities of telework versus working on-site revealed benefits of telework regarding task fulfillment and efficiency, but lower levels of motivation, conflict management, leadership, team spirit, inspiration and creativity. Participants qualitative reports on perceived challenges in remote work conditions included feelings of loneliness and increased demands related to self-management, creating boundaries between private and working life, motivation and self-regulation. This paper connects these findings with theoretical concepts from psychology and human-computer interaction and discusses implications for leadership and technology design.Practical Relevance: This article discusses practical implications for leadership and technology design, e.g., interventions against conflicts in the context of digital work.
Editorial Introduction: Migration und Religion
Authors: Müssig Stefanie , Pickel Gert 
Published: December 2022

ZusammenfassungTrotz starker Säkularisierungsbewegungen behält das Thema Religion seit Jahren auch in Europa eine hohe Anziehungskraft und Öffentlichkeit. Diese resultiert vor allem aus dem Blick auf religiöse Pluralisierung und die Zunahme von Muslim:innen im Zusammenhang mit Migration. Dabei wird schnell deutlich, dass die Forschung zum Verhältnis von Migration und Religion noch genauso Lücken aufweist, wie die Bestimmung des Verhältnisses von Religion und Integration. Speziell die Reaktionen auf Migrationsprozesse, gesellschaftliche und politische, besitzen eine beachtliche Bedeutung für die Offenheit von Gesellschaften. Dieses näher zu erforschen hat sich die vorgelegte Special Section Religion und Migration vorgenommen, für die dieser Beitrag eine Einführung darstellt.
Approximation of rigid obstacle by highly viscous fluid
Authors: Malikova Sadokat 
Published: December 2022

AbstractIn this paper, we study the problem concerning the approximation of a rigid obstacle for flows governed by the stationary Navier–Stokes equations in the two-dimensional case. The idea is to consider a highly viscous fluid in the place of the obstacle. Formally, as the fluid viscosity goes to infinity inside the region occupied by the obstacle, we obtain the original problem in the limit. The main goal is to establish a better regularity of approximate solutions. In particular, the pointwise estimate for the gradient of the velocity is proved. We give numerical evidence that the penalized solution can reasonably approximate the problem, even for relatively small values of the penalty parameter.
How can Quality of Life be Achieved in a Sustainable Way? Perceptions of Swiss Rural Inhabitants
Authors: Wiesli Thea Xenia , Hammer Thomas 
Published: December 2022

AbstractRural regions in Europe are often structurally weaker than urban areas and are subject to strong socio-economic development. At the same time, they offer opportunities for a high quality of life and sustainability. The key question of this article is how quality of life in high-income countries can be achieved more sustainably. Little is known about the perception of the rural population itself on the reconciling of high quality of life with sustainability. Thus, based on a concept of sustainable quality of life, qualitative interviews with 90 rural residents were conducted to ask them which factors benefit sustainable quality of life. In the perception of the interview participants, a change in attitudes and values would be a starting point for shaping many other areas to enhance sustainable quality of life; social and legal norms should provide reference points for individuals and economic actors; infrastructure should support individuals in their ecological behaviour; and the economy should serve the common good. We derive four strands of recommendations for decision-makers from these results: the enhancement of education on applicable environmental behaviours, equal access to renewable energies and local productions and services.
Periostin promotes EMT via inhibition of RIN1-mediated endocytosis of EGFR in gliomas
Authors: Zhou Fengqi , Yu Tianfu , Xiao Fan , Wang Binbin , Tian Wei , Xu Ran , Zhao Xiaochun , Zeng Ailiang , Liu Ning , Wang Yingyi , You Yongping , Zhang Junxia 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Purpose
Approximately 1/3 of brain tumors are gliomas. Previous glioma-related studies have reported increased expression of periostin (POSTN) in these cancerous tissues, but the role and mechanism of POSTN in glioma development remain unclear.

Methods
Nanoscale liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (nano LC–MS/MS) and RNA sequencing were used to identify differential protein and mRNA expression in clinical glioma samples. Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT–PCR) was used to measure the expression of POSTN in tissues and cells. The effects of POSTN on glioma cell migration and invasion were examined using wound healing, Transwell, and three-dimensional spheroid assays in vitro and a nude mouse xenograft model in vivo. The effects of POSTN on the stability, endocytosis, and degradation of EGFR were examined by immunoblotting and immunofluorescence staining. Truncation mutation analysis was performed to investigate direct interactions between POSTN and EGFR. Immunohistochemical staining was carried out to confirm the clinical significance of POSTN.

Results
Overexpression of POSTN induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in glioma cells in vivo and in vitro. Mechanistically, POSTN downregulation inhibited EGFR signaling by promoting EGFR endocytosis and degradation. In addition, POSTN was found to bind to EGFR and RIN1, inhibiting EGFR endocytosis and degradation and thus activating the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway.

Conclusion
These findings indicate the mechanism by which the POSTN/EGFR/RIN1 axis inhibits EGFR endocytosis and degradation, resulting in glioma cell EMT through the PI3K-AKT signaling pathway. Targeting POSTN/EGFR/RIN1 interactions may guarantee beneficial outcomes of glioma treatment.
Decreased Heart Rate Variability in COVID-19
Authors: Yin Chengfen , Li Jianguo , Wang Zhiyong , Zhi Yongle , Xu Lei 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Purpose
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which primarily infects the lower airways and binds to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) on alveolar epithelial cells. ACE2 is widely expressed not only in the lungs but also in the cardiovascular system. Therefore, SARS-CoV-2 can also damage the myocardium. This report aimed to highlight decreased heart rate variability (HRV) and cardiac injury caused by SARS-CoV-2.

Materials and Methods
We evaluated three COVID-19 patients who died. Patients’ data were collected from electronic medical records. We collected patient’s information, including baseline information, lab results, body temperature, heart rate (HR), clinical outcome and other related data. We calculated the HRV and the difference between the expected and actual heart rate changes as the body temperature increased.

Results
As of March 14, 2020, 3 (2.2%) of 136 patients with COVID-19 in Tianjin died in the early stage of the COVID-19 epidemic. The immediate cause of death for Case 1, Case 2, and Case 3 was cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest and cardiac arrest, respectively. The HRV were substantially decreased in the whole course of all three cases. The actual increases in heart rate were 5 beats/min, 13 beats/min, and 4 beats/min, respectively, less than expected as their temperature increased. Troponin I and Creatine Kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) were substantially increased only in Case 3, for whom the diagnosis of virus-related cardiac injury could not be made until day 7. In all three cases, decreased in HRV and HR changes occurred earlier than increases in cardiac biomarkers (e.g., troponin I and CK-MB).

Conclusions
In conclusion, COVID-19 could affect HRV and counteract tachycardia in response to increases in body temperature. The decreases of HRV and HR changes happened earlier than the increases of myocardial markers (troponin I and CK-MB). It suggested the decreases of HRV and HR changes might help predict cardiac injury earlier than myocardial markers in COVID-19, thus its early identification might help improve patient prognosis.
A defined benefit pension plan model with stochastic salary and heterogeneous discounting
Authors: Josa-Fombellida Ricardo , López-Casado Paula , Navas Jorge 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWe study the time-consistent investment and contribution policies in a defined benefit stochastic pension fund where the manager discounts the instantaneous utility over a finite planning horizon and the final function at constant but different instantaneous rates of time preference. This difference, which can be motivated for some uncertainties affecting payoffs at the end of the planning horizon, will induce a variable bias between the relative valuation of the final function and the previous payoffs and will lead the manager to show time-inconsistent preferences. Both the benefits and the contribution rate are proportional to the total wage of the workers that we suppose is stochastic. The aim is to maximize a CRRA utility function of the net benefit relative to salary in a bounded horizon and to maximize a CRRA final utility of the fund level relative to the salary. The problem is solved by means of dynamic programming techniques, and main results are illustrated numerically.
Comparison of bibliometrics for predoctoral Translational Science Training (TST) TL1 Program participants and nonparticipants, male and female participants, and participants from underrepresented and well-represented backgrounds
Authors: Frei Christopher R. , Chun Yong-Hee P. , McManus Linda M. , Barker Julie , Moore Amanda M. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Research education and training in Translational Science develops and sustains a workforce to efficiently advance studies designed to improve human health. We evaluated the effectiveness of a Translational Science Training (TST) TL1 Program. Participants had significantly better publications/year, citations/year, h-index, and m-quotient than nonparticipants. Female and male participants, and participants from underrepresented and well-represented backgrounds, performed similarly on all bibliometric assessments. Finally, TST/TL1 Program participants outperformed students from other PhD programs at our institution. This analysis suggests that the TST/TL1 Program has been effective for participants, including those who are female and from underrepresented backgrounds.
Modeling the relationship between vertical temperature profiles and acute surface-level ozone events in the US Southwest by spatially smoothing a functional quantile regression estimator
Authors: Russell Brook T. , Porter William C. 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
With the proliferation of gridded data products, modeling the relationship between a scalar response and a functional covariate over the points on a regular lattice is becoming increasingly important. In this work, our overall aim is to better understand the relationship between high quantiles of surface-level ozone and the vertical temperature profile (VTP), a functional covariate, over the US Southwest in the summer. We develop our penalized functional quantile regression based approach within the framework provided by functional data analysis. As we assume that coefficient functions at points on the lattice exhibit spatial similarity, we obtain improved estimates by penalizing dissimilarity between nearby coefficient function estimates. In order to better account for the high degree of diversity of this region, we more strongly weight differences between coefficient function estimates at cells that exhibit a higher degree of geographical and climatological similarity. Our analysis suggests that the VTP is associated with acute surface-level ozone events during the summertime over this region, and the nature of this relationship differs spatially.
Mixing and rigidity along asymptotically linearly independent sequences
Authors: ZELADA RIGOBERTO 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWe use Gaussian measure-preserving systems to prove the existence and genericity of Lebesgue measure-preserving transformations
$T:[0,1]\rightarrow [0,1]$
which exhibit both mixing and rigidity behavior along families of asymptotically linearly independent sequences. Let
$\unicode{x3bb} _1,\ldots ,\unicode{x3bb} _N\in [0,1]$
and let
$\phi _1,\ldots ,\phi _N:\mathbb N\rightarrow \mathbb Z$
be asymptotically linearly independent (that is, for any
$(a_1,\ldots ,a_N)\in \mathbb Z^N\setminus \{\vec 0\}$
,
$\lim _{k\rightarrow \infty }|\sum _{j=1}^Na_j\phi _j(k)|=\infty $
). Then the class of invertible Lebesgue measure-preserving transformations
$T:[0,1]\rightarrow [0,1]$
for which there exists a sequence
$(n_k)_{k\in \mathbb {N}}$
in
$\mathbb {N}$
with for any measurable
$A,B\subseteq [0,1]$
and any
$j\in \{1,\ldots ,N\}$
, is generic. This result is a refinement of a result due to Stëpin (Theorem 2 in [Spectral properties of generic dynamical systems. Math. USSR-Izv.29(1) (1987), 159–192]) and a generalization of a result due to Bergelson, Kasjan, and Lemańczyk (Corollary F in [Polynomial actions of unitary operators and idempotent ultrafilters. Preprint, 2014, arXiv:1401.7869]).
ON THE MILNOR FIBRATION OF CERTAIN NEWTON DEGENERATE FUNCTIONS
Authors: EYRAL CHRISTOPHE , OKA MUTSUO 
Published: December 2022

AbstractIt is well known that the diffeomorphism type of the Milnor fibration of a (Newton) nondegenerate polynomial function f is uniquely determined by the Newton boundary of f. In the present paper, we generalize this result to certain degenerate functions, namely we show that the diffeomorphism type of the Milnor fibration of a (possibly degenerate) polynomial function of the form
$f=f^1\cdots f^{k_0}$
is uniquely determined by the Newton boundaries of
$f^1,\ldots , f^{k_0}$
if
$\{f^{k_1}=\cdots =f^{k_m}=0\}$
is a nondegenerate complete intersection variety for any
$k_1,\ldots ,k_m\in \{1,\ldots , k_0\}$
.
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani
Authors: Dhavan Purnima , Pauwels Heidi 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThe emergence in eighteenth-century India of literary compositions that used the elite registers of what was, at the time, called ‘Rekhtah’, and later defined as Urdu, is poorly understood. Conventionally, after an initial infatuation in Delhi with the works of Vali Dakhani,1 a mid-century break is assumed, exemplified by the revision of Zuhur ud-Din Hatim’s Divan as Divanzadah in the 1750s. Scholars have viewed this as a radical intervention in the creation of Urdu, which excised old vernacular models and embraced further Persianization. This article re-examines the evidence, combining methodologies from literary and historical studies. It points to the continuities present in Hatim’s revision, including sustained engagement with Vali, even as Hatim attempted to appeal to new audiences, incorporating new trends alongside older literary models. Foregrounding literary networks and arenas of poetic practice shows the limited impact of the proscriptions and literary criticisms voiced by Hatim’s critics. In studying the contested space of literary aesthetics and linguistic shifts against self-fashioning within changing networks, this article demonstrates that the relationship between the Persianate and vernacular sphere continued to be generative, rather than oppositional or hierarchical.
Mobile animals and immobile protected areas: improving the coverage of nature reserves for Asian elephant conservation in China
Authors: Li Li-Li , Wang Qiao-Yan , Yang Hong-Pei , Tao Yong-Xiang , Wang Lan-Xin , Yang Zheng-Bin , Campos-Arceiz Ahimsa , Quan Rui-Chang 
Published: December 2022

AbstractMany protected areas worldwide have been established to protect the last natural refuges of flagship animal species. However, long-established protected areas do not always match the current distributions of target species under changing environmental conditions. Here we present a case study of the Asian elephant Elephas maximus in Xishuangbanna, south-west China, to evaluate whether the established protected areas match the species’ current distribution and to identify key habitat patches for Asian elephant conservation. Our results show that currently only 24.5% of the predicted Asian elephant distribution in Xishuangbanna is located within Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, which was established for elephant conservation. Based on the predicted Asian elephant distribution, we identified the most important habitat patches for elephant conservation in Xishuangbanna. The three most important patches were outside Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve and together they contained 43.3% of the estimated food resources for Asian elephants in all patches in Xishuangbanna. Thus, we identified a spatial mismatch between immobile protected areas and mobile animals. We recommend the inclusion of the three identified key habitat patches in a new national park currently being planned by the Chinese authorities for the conservation of the Asian elephant.
Food insufficiency, adverse childhood experiences and mental health: results of the Singapore Mental Health Study 2016
Authors: Subramaniam Mythily , Koh Yen Sin , Vaingankar Janhavi Ajit , Abdin Edimansyah , Shafie Saleha , Chang Sherilyn , Kwok Kian Woon , Chow Wai Leng , Chong Siow Ann 
Published: December 2022

AbstractObjective:This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and correlates of food insufficiency and its association with mental disorders and adverse childhood experiences (ACE) in Singapore.Design:This analysis utilised data from the Singapore Mental Health Study (SMHS 2016).Setting:SMHS 2016 was a population-based, psychiatric epidemiological study conducted among Singapore residents.Participants:Interviews were conducted with 6126 respondents. Respondents were included if they were aged 18 years and above, Singapore citizens or permanent residents and able to speak in English, Chinese or Malay.Results:The prevalence of food insufficiency was 2·0 % (95 % CI (1·6, 2·5)) among adult Singapore residents. Relative to respondents who did not endorse any ACE, those with ACE (OR: 2·9, 95 % CI (1·2, 6·6)) had higher odds of food insufficiency. In addition, there were significant associations between lifetime mental disorders and food insufficiency. Bipolar disorder (OR: 2·7, 95 % CI (1·2, 6·0)), generalised anxiety disorder (OR: 4·5, 95 % CI (1·5, 13·5)) and suicidal behaviour (OR: 2·37, 95 % CI (1·04, 5·41)) were shown to be significantly associated with higher odds of food insufficiency.Conclusions:The prevalence of food insufficiency is low in Singapore. However, this study identifies a vulnerable group of food-insufficient adults that is significantly associated with mental disorders, including suicidality. Government-funded food assistance programmes and multi-agency efforts to deal with the social determinants of food insufficiency, such as income sufficiency and early detection and intervention of mental distress, are key to ensuring a sustainable and equitable food system.
Radiation-induced reactions in comet analogues
Authors: López-Islas A. , Negrón-Mendoza A. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractComets are a source of prebiotic molecules that likely enriched the early Earth during the Late Heavy Bombardment period. Laboratory experiments that replicate cometary conditions may facilitate understanding of the chemical reactions and supplement observational studies of these icy bodies. Prebiotic compounds, such as formic acid and formaldehyde, have been observed in comets. Furthermore, these compounds can easily be formed in experimental models using a variety of gas combinations and energy sources. We conducted experimental cometary simulations using radiation chemistry tools to obtain insight into the possible fate of formic acid and formaldehyde. The main results suggest a redundant system, signifying that the irradiation of formic acid forms formaldehyde molecules and vice versa. This phenomenon ensures the permanence of prebiotic molecules in high-radiation environments. Additionally, the potential role of forsterite and graphite was explored in cometary simulations. Our experimental results show the differential formation of aldehydes and other carbonyl-containing compounds dependent on the mineral phase present.