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Towards a Stable Layered Vanadium Oxide Cathode for High‐Capacity Calcium Batteries
Authors: Zhang Xiao , Xu Xiaoming , Song Bo , Duan Manyi , Meng Jiashen , Wang Xuanpeng , Xiao Zhitong , Xu Lin , Mai Liqiang 
Published: July 2022

AbstractCalcium‐based batteries have promising advantages over multivalent ion batteries. However, the fabrication of highly efficient calcium batteries is limited by the quality of available cathode materials, which motivates the exploration of electrodes that can enable reversible, stable Ca2+ intercalation. Herein, layered vanadium oxide MgxV2O5·nH2O is used as a calcium battery cathode, and it exhibits a high capacity of 195.5 mA h g−1 at 20 mA g−1 and an outstanding cycling life (93.6% capacity retention after 2500 cycles at 1 A g−1). Combining theoretical analysis and experimental design, a series of layered oxides (MxV2O5·nH2O, M = Mg, Ca, Sr) is selected as a model system to identify the Ca storage mechanism. It is found that the hydrated alkaline earth metal ions in the vanadium‐based layered oxide interlayers play a critical role as pillared stabilizers to facilitate Ca2+ insertion/extraction. Compared with Ca2+ and Sr2+, the presence of Mg2+ provides vanadium oxides with a rigid framework that allows for minimized volume fluctuation (a tiny variation of ≈0.15 Å of the interlayer spacing). Such an understanding of the Ca storage mechanism is a key step in the rational design and selection of materials for calcium batteries to achieve a high capacity and long cycle life.
Versatile Protein Coronation Approach with Multiple Depleted Serum for Creating Biocompatible, Precision Nanomedicine
Authors: Wang Chan , Xue Mengdie , Liu Xiao , Chen Jingjing , Jiang Mengdie , Zheng Liuting , Ma Ruxuan , Ding Chengjin , Tao Yaping , Zhang Hao , Liu Qin , Huo Da 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThe protein corona effect has long been treated as the evil source behind delivery efficacy issues. In this study, this concept is challenged by showcasing that the protein corona can serve as a versatile functionalization approach to improve the delivery efficacy or mitigate nanocytotoxicity. To this end, the depleted serum is introduced to create nanomaterials carrying functionally distinct protein corona, referred to as PCylated nanomaterials. It is confirmed that the passivation with depleted serum helps reduce the toxicity and pro‐inflammatory response. Furthermore, the same method can be leveraged to enhance the capacity of nanomaterials to undergo endocytosis as well as their potential as an agonist for the NF‐κB pathways. The comparable stability of protein corona created by late and early‐stage serum reveals that the chanceless interaction with nanomaterials, rather than an inadequate binding strength, may be behind the failure of enriching certain components. The PCylation strategy is extended to cancer patient‐derived fluid, creating a set of T1 and T3‐stage cancer‐specific nanotherapeutics to retard the metastasis of cancer cells, while leaving normal endothelial negligibly affected. It is hoped the novel PCylation approach validated here can shed light on the future development of precision nanomedicine with improved delivery efficacy.
TiVCTx MXene/Chalcogenide Heterostructure‐Based High‐Performance Magnesium‐Ion Battery as Flexible Integrated Units
Authors: Zhang Yuming , Cao Jun‐Ming , Yuan Zeyu , Xu Hao , Li Dongdong , Li Yilin , Han Wei , Wang Lili 
Published: July 2022

AbstractMagnesium‐ion batteries (MIB) have gradually attracted attention owing to their high theoretical capacity, high safety, and low cost. A bimetallic metal–organic framework self‐sacrificing template and a co‐assembly strategy are used to prepare a high‐performance, stable cycling NiSe2‐CoSe2@TiVCTx (NCSe@TiVC) heterostructure MIB cathode that can be used as a flexible integrated unit to power future self‐powered systems. Benefiting from the synergistic effect of TiVCTx MXene and NCSe, the NCSe@TiVC heterostructure electrode has a discharge‐specific capacity of 136 mAh g−1 at 0.05 A g−1 and high cycling stability of over 500 cycles; the assembled pouch‐cell device as flexible integrated unit exhibits good practicability. The magnesium ion storage mechanism is also validated using quantitative kinetic analysis, ex situ XRD, and XPS techniques. Density functional theory analysis indicates the most stable Mg‐atom adsorption sites in the heterostructure. This study broadens the possibilities for applying the TiVCTx MXene heterostructure to energy storage materials and future self‐powered flexible systems.
Carbonate‐Hydroxide Induced Metal‐Organic Framework Transformation Strategy for Honeycomb‐Like NiCoP Nanoplates to Drive Enhanced pH‐Universal Hydrogen Evolution
Authors: Zhang Lin , Ye Fei , Wu Zeyi , Jiang Le , Liu Qiang , Pang Ruilvjing , Liu Yang , Hu Linfeng 
Published: July 2022

AbstractDeveloping a low‐cost, pH‐universal electrocatalyst is desirable for electrochemical water splitting but remains a challenge. NiCoP is a promising non‐noble hydrogen‐evolving electrocatalyst due to its high intrinsic electrical conductivity, fast mass transfer effects, and tunable electronic structure. Nevertheless, its hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity in full pH‐range has been rarely developed. Herein, a Ni–Co carbonate‐hydroxide induced metal‐organic framework transformation strategy is proposed to in situ grow porous, honeycomb‐like NiCoP nanoplates on Ni foam for high‐performance, pH‐universal hydrogen evolution reaction. The resultant NiCoP catalyst exhibits a highly 2D nanoporous network in which 20–50 nm, well‐crystalline nanoparticles are interconnected with each other closely, and delivers versatile HER electroactivity with η10 of 98, 105, and 97 mV in 1 m KOH, 0.5 m H2SO4, and 1 m phosphate buffer solution electrolytes, respectively. This overpotential remarkably surpasses the one of commercial Pt/Cs in both neutral and alkaline media at a large current density (>100 mA cm−2). The corresponding full water‐splitting electrolyzer constructed from the 2D porous NiCoP cathode requires only a cell voltage of 1.43 V at 10 mA cm−2, superior to most recently reported electrocatalysts. This work may open up a new avenue on the rational design of nonprecious, pH‐universal electrocatalyst.
A resilience systemic model for assessing critical supply chain disruptions
Authors: Oliver Everett , Mazzuchi Thomas , Sarkani Shahram 
Published: July 2022

AbstractAssessing the impact of natural disasters and manmade incidents against critical infrastructure systems is important and challenging. As critical infrastructure sectors become more interdependent, a method is needed to assess how disruptions to one sector affect other sectors. This need is particularly significant in the case of critical national supply chains which have not received the same attention as other critical infrastructure systems. This research develops a methodology for performing supply chain impact assessments by integrating model‐based systems engineering (MBSE) with discrete event simulation (DES). SysML models capture the supply chain structure and critical infrastructure interdependencies. Simulation of the supply chain model subjected to external constraints identifies the impacts from critical infrastructure disruptions. This approach enables researchers and public policy planners to assess critical supply chain risks associated with current infrastructure implementations, and to conduct what‐if analyses on alternative solutions. Application of this methodology to assess the natural disaster impacts on an urban food supply system demonstrates the effectiveness of modeling and simulation for evaluating the impacts of critical infrastructure disruptions on a wide range of critical supply chains. Future research should apply this methodology to different national supply chains and investigate additional critical infrastructure interdependency linkage mechanisms.
Life in the Fast Lane: Feeding and Growth of Juvenile Steelhead and Chinook Salmon in Main‐Stem Habitats of the Columbia River Estuary
Authors: Weitkamp Laurie A. , Beckman Brian R. , Van Doornik Donald M. , Munguia Angelica , Hunsicker Mary , Journey Meredith 
Published: July 2022

AbstractVery little is known about the ecology of juvenile Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. that rapidly traverse estuaries. For these species and life history types, main‐stem habitats are thought to largely function as migratory corridors rather than as productive habitats that support feeding or growth, although little research has focused on this issue. This is especially true in the highly modified Columbia River estuary, where it is unclear whether fast‐migrating salmon benefit from extensive tidal marsh restoration. To address this deficit, we sampled migratory juvenile steelhead O. mykiss and Chinook Salmon O. tshawytscha at locations spread across nearly 200 km of the Columbia River estuary. Our results demonstrated that these juvenile salmon were actively feeding and growing as they moved downstream; dominant prey included chironomids, other insects, and corophiid and gammarid amphipods. We also observed variation in diet composition and quantity between years, which was likely associated with the highly contrasting river conditions. Insulin‐like growth factor 1 hormone levels and the size of juvenile salmon increased as the fish moved downstream, suggesting that prey quality and quantity were sufficient to fuel rapid growth, which may increase survival in marine waters. Our results have direct management implications for habitat restoration and suggest the potential for competition between hatchery and wild salmon. Overall, our results support a fundamental shift in the view of main‐channel estuarine habitats from serving primarily as a migration corridor to serving as productive habitat where rapidly moving salmon actively feed and grow.
The Child’s Body and Bone Marrow Transplantation: Introduction
Authors: Schües Christina , Rehmann-Sutter Christoph , Jürgensen Martina , Herzog Madeleine 
Published: July 2022

AbstractQuestions concerning the ethical status of children, and their position and their relationships within families, have been widely debated in recent moral philosophy and biomedical ethics, as well as in pedagogic sciences and sociology. This volume is intended to contribute to these interdisciplinary debates from a very specific angle. Combining philosophical, ethical and qualitative empirical research, it focuses on a medical practice that brings out a particularly challenging and complex social and familial situation, thus illuminating family responsibilities and their conflicts, children’s dependency, the child’s body with all its meanings, and the specific roles of family members in a transformative situation. The practice concerned is the transplantation of bone marrow between siblings who are children at the time of transplant. These renewable haematopoietic stem cells, derived from the marrow of the hip bone, can serve as a medical therapy for the sick brother or sister.
A Decision-Making Approach for Children to Ethically Serve as Stem Cell Donors
Authors: Ross Lainie Friedman 
Published: July 2022

AbstractIn this chapter, I explore the limits of the best interest standard and the role of third-party oversight for some medical decisions even when the parents’ decision is not abusive or neglectful. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement, “Children as Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) Donors” proposes a role for a living donor advocacy team (third-party oversight) for paediatric HSC donation between siblings. The AAP recommendations are supported by data from the medical literature and from the qualitative empirical study on HSC transplantation between siblings that was conducted from 2016 to 2019 by members of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies (University of Lübeck).
Stem Cell Transplantation, Microchimerism and Assemblages
Authors: Shildrick Margrit 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThe exploration of stem cell transplantation (SCT), especially as a socially situated phenomenon, demands a combination of empirical, biological and bioethical insights. Questions of identity, of gifting, and of mortality abound, and in kin SCT where the whole process happens within the complex relationships of a single unit, the intertwined impact on lived experience is highly concentrated. In looking at everything involved in the understanding of SCT – the biomedical procedure, the individual and collective experiences of the family, the data collected, the expertise and expectations of the researchers, and the varying analyses applied – what emerges, building on a Deleuzian framework, is a knowledge assemblage.
Intercorporeality: Giving Life from One Body to Another
Authors: Schües Christina 
Published: July 2022

AbstractWhen a transplant is given to another person, the body material and its importance are at the centre of attention. Yet the meanings of the body, the body material, and the bodily relationship between the donor and recipient are unclear. This essay tackles the understanding of the body with regard to the practice of stem cell transplantation between siblings. The concept of intercorporeality embraces the “family body” and a singular body, the sense of bodily belonging and bodily ownership, and a relationship that inheres within a transplant. The intercorporeal relationship is basic and primary. Thematizing it may show a reality of body transformation that is more than just the distribution of body parts. It is a material approach to the human who has a body in the sense of a living substance that can be defined biotechnologically and made available. This essay shows that even though the transplant is body material, it is always more than that: a ground for personal traits, symbols, and a particular bond between the siblings.
Dimensions and Tensions of the Child’s Well-Being and Stem Cell Transplantation: A Conceptual Analysis
Authors: Schües Christina 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThe concepts of the child’s well-being and the child’s best interests are both central to medical practice concerning children. Such concepts become particularly crucial when a healthy child becomes a stem cell donor for her sick sibling. The concept of the child’s well-being inheres a tension between her well-being and her will, her present and future well-being, and the child’s individual well-being and that of the family as a whole. In this essay, I first unfold some key juridical, ethical and philosophical aspects of the concept of the child’s well-being; second, I discuss decision making in the medical realm, asking about the characteristics of the child’s will, the tension generated between the child’s will and well-being, and the stages of decision-making; and third, I refer to the perspective of temporality, which shifts the tragic problem to an open field that can keep those affected (i.e. the donor child, the recipient, and last but not least the whole family) in communication with one another. The internal relationships of the child’s well-being need to be seen in the context of the whole family’s well-being.
Experiences in Times of Illness: Report from the Qualitative Interview Study
Authors: Jürgensen Martina , Herzog Madeleine 
Published: July 2022

AbstractHow did the families we interviewed after a bone marrow transplant experience the illness for which the donation from a sibling child was a cure? Some families first responded by denial of the fatal diagnosis, hoping that it was a mistake. Many families suffered from the severe loss of control in several areas of their lives. The illness changed family roles and also raised the question of how long a child should be seen as “ill”. We found four different patterns of coping: toughening up, resignation, ignoring, and acceptance. Families also found different things helpful in dealing with the situation and in making sense of the events around the illness: keeping or regaining control, maintaining routines, hoping that it will be all right, or making the best of bad things. In hindsight, many families felt that the experience of the disease also had a positive impact on the family as a whole, and that individual family members could learn from it.
Illness and Family Decision-Making
Authors: Mullin Amy 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThis chapter discusses how philosophy can help us understand family responses and decision-making when one child serves as a donor of bodily tissue to a seriously ill sibling. Drawing on interviews conducted with families in which one child served as the donor, I explore how a relational understanding of autonomy might help map initial decision-making, how an ethics of care can contribute to understanding the balancing of personal needs against what is wanted for a seriously ill child, and how gratitude, rather than indebtedness, is the appropriate response to sacrifices aimed at saving a sibling.
Case Study, Phase III: Reaching a State of Reflective Equilibrium?
Authors: Rechnitzer Tanja 
Published: July 2022

AbstractIn this chapter, the process of adjustments comes to a preliminary endpoint. A rights-based precautionary principle is developed as part of the resulting position. Through assessing the resulting position with the reflective equilibrium criteria, I argue that—given some assumptions—a position in reflective equilibrium was reached.
The Role of the State in Agricultural Development
Authors: Rohne Till Emelie 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThis chapter discusses the potential role that the state can play in agricultural development. It does so in three main parts. First, it discusses the role of the state in agricultural development from a theoretical perspective. Second, it explores how the state can use agricultural policies to play this role. Third and lastly, it specifically explores the role that policies on agricultural public spending can play in agricultural development.
Sustained Growth and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Rohne Till Emelie 
Published: July 2022

AbstractEthiopia is one of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that has experienced rapid economic growth in the twenty-first century. This chapter explores the underpinnings of the economic transformation that many countries in SSA have experienced, focusing on the aspects of structural transformation, poverty reduction, and the nature of agricultural growth.
Buddy - A Personal Companion to Match People with Cognitive Disabilities and AT
Authors: Heumader Peter , Murillo-Morales Tomas , Miesenberger Klaus 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThis paper presents a novel web-based repository and recommender system to match the requirements of users with cognitive disabilities with available AT solutions when working on the web. Based on personal data from users (questionnaire, simple games) stored in a profile and tool data provided by AT solution providers and AT vendors, Buddy recommends tools supporting particular cognitive needs of target users. Buddy intends to bridge the gap between the growing amount of AT solutions and the actual low level of uptake by involving all stakeholder groups in the value chain on the Buddy platform.
How to Ensure Continuity of AT Assessment Services for Frail People in Times of Pandemics: An Italian Experience
Authors: Salatino Claudia , Gower Valerio , Malisano Lia , Folini Chiara , Saruggia Maurizio , Converti Rosa Maria , Zava Francesco , Ramella Marina 
Published: July 2022

AbstractAfter an initial lock-down phase in 2020, the measures subsequently adopted in Italy to limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus made it impossible for people residing in nursing homes to have contacts with the outside world. Here we want to report how the DAT (Home automation, Assistive Technology and Occupational Therapy) service of Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi in Milan, Italy, was able to give continuity to the provision of assistive technology assessment services for older adults with disability who were not able to reach the DAT premises due to social restrictions. In the period 2020–2021, remote AT assessments were organized using a Tele-rehabilitation platform so that the physiatrist in charge of prescribing the assistive devices, supported by a therapist specialized in AT, could connect remotely from the DAT service to nursing homes in the Milan area. There, a rehabilitation professional would participate to the visit. 94 older adults with disability in 2020 and 2021 were able to take advantage of mobility assistive technology assessments provided remotely by DAT service AT professionals. The assistive devices prescribed were found to be appropriate, only a small percentage needed to be revised or were refused. High levels of satisfaction with the service provided were measured through KWAZO questionnaire among users of the service. 80% of the interviewees declared that it might be useful to keep the possibility of carrying out remote AT assessments in the future, even when the state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic will be finished.
Mixed Reality as Assistive Technology: Guidelines Based on an Assessment of Residual Functional Vision in Persons with Low Vision
Authors: Lang Florian , Schmidt Albrecht , Machulla Tonja 
Published: July 2022

AbstractResidual visual capabilities and the associated phenomenological experience can differ significantly between persons with similar visual acuity and similar diagnosis. There is a substantial variance in situations and tasks that persons with low vision find challenging. Smartglasses provide the opportunity of presenting individualized visual feedback targeted to each user’s requirements. Here, we interviewed nine persons with low vision to obtain insight into their subjective perceptual experience associated with factors such as illumination, color, contrast, and movement, as well as context factors. Further, we contribute a collection of everyday activities that rely on visual perception as well as strategies participants employ in their everyday lives. We find that our participants rely on their residual vision as the dominant sense in many different everyday activities. They prefer vision to other modalities if they can perceive the information visually, which highlights the need for assistive devices with visual feedback.
An Efficient Method to Produce Accessible Contents for Online STEM Education
Authors: Komada Toshihiko , Yamaguchi Katsuhito , Suzuki Masakazu 
Published: July 2022

AbstractMany online educational materials for STEM are now produced with
Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT); however, many of them are not necessarily accessible for print-disabled students. By making use of Infty software, our new add-on allows users to add easily alt text/aloud reading with a TTS voice to any technical part such as math expressions included in PPT slides. An accessible MP4 video for STEM education also can be produced efficiently. The video contents produced in this manner are preliminarily evaluated by comparison with another accessible content: “ChattyBook" (audio-embedded HTML5).
Effective Non-visual Access to Diagrams via an Augmented Natural Language Interface
Authors: Murillo-Morales Tomas , Miesenberger Klaus 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThis paper describes the design and validation of a number of HCI techniques that enable more effective non-visual access to diagrammatically displayed data through an adapted Natural Language Interface (NLI). These techniques have been incorporated into an accessible web-based NLI to diagrams prototype and qualitatively evaluated with blind persons for solving disparate analytical and navigational tasks supported by diagrams. Each technique is described and validation results discussed.