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Tolerance of Muslim minority identity enactment: The roles of social context, type of action and cultural continuity concern
Authors: Velthuis Evi , Van der Noll Jolanda , Verkuyten Maykel 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThere have been strong debates in many European countries about religious identity enactment of Muslims, with the wearing of the headscarf in public places being a central symbolic topic. This study investigated the importance of the context (private versus three public contexts) for tolerance of Muslim identity enactment (e.g., the wearing of headscarves) among a national sample of Dutch majority group members. Using an experimental design, it was found that tolerance was highest in the private context, followed by the street context and then the contexts of work. Furthermore and in all contexts, tolerance of Muslims persuading others to start enacting their religious identity in a similar way was lower than tolerance of identity enactment itself. Moreover, both types of tolerance were found to differ by context only for majority members who were highly concerned about the continuity of their ingroup's cultural identity (i.e., cultural continuity). It is concluded that context‐related and action‐related variance, as well as cultural continuity, are important for majority members' tolerance of Muslim minority identity enactment.
Navigating privacy concerns through societal benefits: A case of digital contact tracing applications
Authors: Jahari Siti Aqilah , Hass Ashley , Hass Danielle , Joseph Mathew 
Published: February 2022

AbstractDigital contact tracing (DCT) applications, as a type of location‐based application, have been employed in many countries to help mitigate the spread of the COVID‐19 virus. However, the emergence of DCTs has amplified concerns over privacy issues as consumers are confronted with the ethical dilemma that arises regarding serving public and private interests. In other words, to what extent are consumers willing to negotiate their privacy concerns to gain perceived social benefits? Drawing on Social Exchange Theory as the theoretical lens to examine interpersonal relations between the government and consumers, this study investigates the extent to which consumers' perceived social benefits (e.g., reciprocity, trust, and reputation) mediate the relationship between privacy concerns and the intention to use DCT applications. Based on 269 usable responses, the results revealed that government trust was insignificant in mediating the relationship between privacy concerns and intention to use the DCT application. Rather, the expected reciprocal benefits and reputation enhancement were found to have significant mediating effects. Perceived government regulation was also found to moderate the relationship between privacy concerns and government trust. The paper concludes with suggestions for practitioners and policymakers on the plausible strategies to encourage the adoption of DCT applications.
Simulation of Morphology Evolution in Spray Drying of Suspensions by a Meshfree Approach
Authors: Säckel Winfried , Nieken Ulrich 
Published: February 2022

AbstractSpray drying is a widely used process to obtain solid porous products from a liquid feed. Whereas the product's morphology is important for its further processing, established one‐dimensional single droplet models are limited in predicting the final structure depending on drying conditions and functional additives as binders. A novel approach based on a meshfree method is employed to calculate the final morphology from first principles by accounting for physical effects like surface tension and wetting. Generation of dense porous products and buildup of hollow particles with a porous crust can be modelled, depending on the model parameters.
Adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with invasive lobular carcinoma and use of the 21‐gene recurrence score: A National Cancer Database analysis
Authors: Weiser Roi , Polychronopoulou Efstathia , Hatch Sandra S. , Haque Waqar , Ghani Hafiz A. , He Jing , Kuo Yong‐fang , Gradishar William J. , Klimberg V. Suzanne 
Published: February 2022

BackgroundInvasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is traditionally considered less responsive to chemotherapy. Although the Oncotype recurrence score (RS) has been validated to identify high‐risk patients who benefit from chemotherapy, some studies have questioned its relevance in patients with ILC. The objective of this study was to better characterize potential use of the RS in these patients.MethodsThe National Cancer Database was used to identify women with stage I through III, T1 through T3, N0 or N1, hormone receptor‐positive, HER2‐negative ILC or invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) who had an available RS between 2010 and 2016. Multivariable Cox regression was used to model the effect of variables on 5‐year overall survival (OS). The Kaplan‐Meier method was used to estimate OS according to the RS, nodal status, and chemotherapy.ResultsIn total, 15,763 patients with ILC and 100,070 with IDC were identified. The mean age of patients with ILC and IDC was 59.2 ± 9.1 and 57.2 ± 9.8, respectively. A lower percentage of patients with ILC versus those with IDC had a high RS, defined as >25 (6.6% vs 16.0%; P < .0001). ILC patients with a high RS who had N0 or N1 disease received approximately 10% less chemotherapy compared with similar patients who had IDC. The results indicated that the RS had statistically significant prognostic value for patients with ILC. In addition, an absolute OS advantage was correlated with the receipt of chemotherapy by patients with ILC who had a high RS with N0 or N1 disease.ConclusionsPatients with ILC who have a high RS are treated less often with chemotherapy compared with similar patients who have IDC. Nevertheless, the RS has a prognostic as well as a predictive value in ILC, with an association between OS benefit and chemotherapy receipt in patients who have ILC with a high RS, especially if they have N1 disease.Lay Summary

Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is a subtype of breast cancer comprising about 15% of cases.

The Oncotype recurrence score (RS) is a genetic test of breast tumors that helps predict which patients might benefit from chemotherapy.

Some have doubted the relevance of the RS for patients with ILC.

In this study, the authors show that the RS is relevant for patients who have ILC.

The RS has the potential of predicting the risk of recurrence and identifying patients with ILC who might benefit from chemotherapy.
Non‐invasive monitoring of multiple wildlife health factors by fecal microbiome analysis
Authors: Pannoni Samuel B. , Proffitt Kelly M. , Holben William E. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractFecal microbial biomarkers represent a less invasive alternative for acquiring information on wildlife populations than many traditional sampling methodologies. Our goal was to evaluate linkages between fecal microbiome communities in Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis) and four host factors including sex, age, population, and physical condition (body‐fat). We paired a feature‐selection algorithm with an LDA‐classifier trained on elk differential bacterial abundance (16S‐rRNA amplicon survey) to predict host health factors from 104 elk microbiomes across four elk populations. We validated the accuracy of the various classifier predictions with leave‐one‐out cross‐validation using known measurements. We demonstrate that the elk fecal microbiome can predict the four host factors tested. Our results show that elk microbiomes respond to both the strong extrinsic factor of biogeography and simultaneously occurring, but more subtle, intrinsic forces of individual body‐fat, sex, and age‐class. Thus, we have developed and described herein a generalizable approach to disentangle microbiome responses attributed to multiple host factors of varying strength from the same bacterial sequence data set. Wildlife conservation and management presents many challenges, but we demonstrate that non‐invasive microbiome surveys from scat samples can provide alternative options for wildlife population monitoring. We believe that, with further validation, this method could be broadly applicable in other species and potentially predict other measurements. Our study can help guide the future development of microbiome‐based monitoring of wildlife populations and supports hypothetical expectations found in host‐microbiome theory.
Favorable spring conditions can buffer the impact of winter carryover effects on a key breeding decision in an Arctic‐breeding seabird
Authors: Steenweg Rolanda J. , Crossin Glenn T. , Hennin Holly L. , Gilchrist H. Grant , Love Oliver P. 
Published: February 2022

Abstract

The availability and investment of energy among successive life‐history stages is a key feature of carryover effects. In migratory organisms, examining how both winter and spring experiences carryover to affect breeding activity is difficult due to the challenges in tracking individuals through these periods without impacting their behavior, thereby biasing results.

Using common eiders Somateria mollissima, we examined whether spring conditions at an Arctic breeding colony (East Bay Island, Nunavut, Canada) can buffer the impacts of winter temperatures on body mass and breeding decisions in birds that winter at different locations (Nuuk and Disko Bay, Greenland, and Newfoundland, Canada; assessed by analyzing stable isotopes of 13‐carbon in winter‐grown claw samples). Specifically, we used path analysis to examine how wintering and spring environmental conditions interact to affect breeding propensity (a key reproductive decision influencing lifetime fitness in female eiders) within the contexts of the timing of colony arrival, pre‐breeding body mass (body condition), and a physiological proxy for foraging effort (baseline corticosterone).

We demonstrate that warmer winter temperatures predicted lower body mass at arrival to the nesting colony, whereas warmer spring temperatures predicted earlier arrival dates and higher arrival body mass. Both higher body mass and earlier arrival dates of eider hens increased the probability that birds would initiate laying (i.e., higher breeding propensity). However, variation in baseline corticosterone was not linked to either winter or spring temperatures, and it had no additional downstream effects on breeding propensity.

Overall, we demonstrate that favorable pre‐breeding conditions in Arctic‐breeding common eiders can compensate for the impact that unfavorable wintering conditions can have on breeding investment, perhaps due to greater access to foraging areas prior to laying.
Influence of seascape spatial pattern on the trophic niche of an omnivorous fish
Authors: Santos Rolando O. , James W. Ryan , Nelson James A. , Rehage Jennifer S. , Serafy Joseph , Pittman Simon J. , Lirman Diego 
Published: February 2022

AbstractHabitat fragmentation of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) transforms the spatial pattern of seascapes by changing both the total area and spatial configuration of the habitat patches. The ecological effects of SAV seascapes are most often assessed using metrics of biological community composition (e.g., species and assemblage changes). We know considerably less about the effects of seascape structure on ecological processes such as food web function and energy flow. Here, we assess the difference in the trophic niche of Pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides, a generalist omnivore) across a spatial gradient of SAV from continuous to highly fragmented seascapes in Biscayne Bay (Miami, Florida, USA). The Bay seascapes are influenced by freshwater management practices that alter the distribution of SAV habitat and fish species abundance, diversity, and community assemblage. We combined SAV seascape maps with stable isotope and hypervolume analyses to determine how trophic niche size and overlap varied with changes in the seascape. We observed similar resource use across the seascape, but trophic niche size increased in more fragmented SAV seascapes, suggesting diversification of trophic roles and energy flow pathways. Pinfish collected from more continuous SAV habitats had smaller trophic niche size and higher trophic levels. Both trophic response metrics manifested a threshold response that depended on distinct SAV spatial characteristics (amount vs. spatial configuration) and environmental conditions. Our results suggest that habitat fragmentation of SAV seascape structure has ecological implications that could affect energy flow with cascading consequences for food web stability and ecosystem functioning.
Prognostic significance of serum chloride level in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction
Authors: Seo Masahiro , Watanabe Tetsuya , Yamada Takahisa , Yano Masamichi , Hayashi Takaharu , Nakagawa Akito , Nakagawa Yusuke , Tamaki Shunsuke , Yasumura Yoshio , Sotomi Yohei , Hikoso Shungo , Nakatani Daisaku , Fukunami Masatake , Sakata Yasushi ,   Osaka CardioVascular Conference (OCVC)‐Heart Failure investigators
Published: February 2022

AbstractAimsThe prognostic value of serum chloride level has been reported primarily in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, and hence, there is limited evidence in patients of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This study was conducted to clarify the relationship between serum chloride level and clinical outcomes in patients with HFpEF with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).Methods and resultsPatient data were extracted from The Prospective mUlticenteR obServational stUdy of patIenTs with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (PURSUIT HFpEF) study, a prospective multicentre observational registry for ADHF‐HFpEF in Osaka. The data of 870 patients were analysed after excluding patients with in‐hospital death, missing follow‐up data, missing data of serum chloride level, or on chronic dialysis therapy. The primary endpoint of this study was all‐cause mortality. At discharge, right ventricular systolic dysfunction was significantly associated with the lowest tertile of serum chloride level after multivariable adjustment (P = 0.0257). During a mean follow‐up period of 1.8 ± 1.0 years, 186 patients died. Cox multivariable analysis showed that serum chloride level at discharge (P = 0.0017) was independently associated with all‐cause mortality after multivariable adjustment of major confounders, whereas serum sodium level was no longer significant (P = 0.6761). Kaplan–Meier survival curve analysis revealed a significantly increased risk of mortality stratified by the tertile of serum chloride level [29% vs. 19% vs. 16%, P = 0.0002; hazard ratio (HR): 2.09 (95% confidence interval, CI: 1.31 to 3.34), HR: 1.03 (95% CI: 0.65 to 1.64)].ConclusionsSerum chloride level was useful for the prediction of poor outcome in ADHF patients with preserved ejection fraction.
Seismic surface wave attenuation by resonant metasurfaces on stratified soil
Authors: Zeng Chao , Zhao Chunfeng , Zeighami Farhad 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThis study aims to theoretically and numerically investigate the dispersion relations of Rayleigh waves propagating through vertical oscillators periodically distributed on stratified media. The classical elastodynamics theory and an effective medium approximation method are adopted to describe the dynamic behavior of metasurfaces and hybridization between the local oscillators and the foundational surface wave modes. The Abo‐zena algorithm and delta‐matrix method are combined to simplify the Eigen equation to overcome the accuracy problem in solving the closed‐form dispersion laws and improve the computational efficiency. Subsequently, plane‐strain finite element (FE) models with three configurations are developed to confirm the analytical predictions and obtain further insight into the resonator‐Rayleigh wave coupling mechanism. The numerical results are in good agreement with the analytical solutions, revealing that only the foundational mode is strongly coupled with the vertical resonators at resonance, while the surface wave band gap reported in homogeneous media is crossed by the remaining higher‐order surface modes. The attenuation performance and mechanical behavior of a finite‐length metasurface are investigated, and it is demonstrated that the output surface ground motion can be significantly reduced in a narrow frequency band near resonance. Moreover, a graded resonant metasurface with decreasing frequency is simulated to assess the feasibility of broadband attenuation. In summary, the aforementioned analytical framework and numerical simulation results show that the vertical oscillators placed atop a stratified soil system can be designed as resonant metasurfaces for shielding seismic surface waves to protect multiple large infrastructures or special structures from earthquake hazards.
Exploring changes in alexithymia throughout intensive dialectical behavior therapy for eating disorders
Authors: Reilly Erin E. , Brown Tiffany A. , Arunagiri Vinushini , Kaye Walter H. , Wierenga Christina E. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractObjectiveAlexithymia is proposed as a prominent clinical feature of eating disorders (EDs). However, despite theoretical reason to believe that alexithymia could interfere with the success of treatments, few studies have tested whether alexithymia changes over the course of treatment. The goals of the current study were to evaluate (a) changes in alexithymia over the course of intensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for EDs, and (b) associations between alexithymia and ED symptoms over time.MethodA mixed‐diagnostic group of patients with EDs (N = 894) completed the Eating Disorders Examination—Questionnaire (EDE‐Q) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS‐20) throughout intensive treatment and at various lengths of follow‐up (6, 12, 24 months).ResultsResults suggested that even after controlling for relevant covariates, there were significant decreases in alexithymia from intake to discharge and discharge to follow‐up. Models exploring changes in self‐reported ED symptoms indicated that TAS‐20 scores significantly related to ED symptoms across timepoints, such that greater alexithymia was associated with greater severity of symptoms.ConclusionsAltogether, findings support an association between alexithymia and ED symptoms over treatment and suggest that emotion‐focussed therapies like DBT may result in decreases in alexithymia. Future research should explore whether this effect is consistent across therapies without an emotional focus.
Integrating healthcare for follow‐up of adult COVID‐19 patients in an outpatient clinic: A matter of cooperation
Authors: Klinkert Aryan F. , Baptista Lopes Vania , van Baar Janwillem M. , Broeders Mariëlle E. A. C. , van Rijswijk H. N. A. J. (Rein) , Cornegé‐Blokland Esther , Siegers‐Siebelink Corrie , Kerckhoffs Angèle P. M. , Keijsers Carolina J. P. W. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractRationale, aims, and objectivesA large number of patients infected with SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19) need outpatient follow‐up after hospitalization. As these patients may experience a broad range of symptoms, as do patients infected with the related SARS‐CoV‐1 virus, we set up a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic involving pulmonologists, internists, and geriatricians. Patients were allocated to a specialist based on symptoms reported on a self‐developed questionnaire of expected symptoms of COVID‐19. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of this outpatient clinic.MethodsIn this retrospective study, the medical records of patients who presented to the outpatient clinic for follow‐up after hospitalization for COVID‐19 up to 31 August 2020, were reviewed.ResultsIn total, 266 patients were seen at the outpatient clinic at least once. Overall, 100 patients were seen by a pulmonologist, 97 by an internist, and 65 by a geriatrician. A referral between these 3 medical specialists was needed for only 14 patients (5.3%). Fifty patients were seen by a psychologist, mostly those with a HADS score >10. Only 5 (2.2%) of the 221 patients who were not directly referred to a psychologist based on triage needed psychological support. Forty‐eight patients (18%) were also seen by a physiatrist.ConclusionIdentifying which medical specialist (pulmonologist, internist, and/or geriatrician) should see patients attending a post‐COVID outpatient clinic based on patient‐reported symptoms proved an effective approach to managing the flow of post‐COVID patients.
Physical fitness in patients with bipolar disorder compared with a population‐based sample
Authors: Kheradmand Ali , AbediYekta Amir Hossein , Safarzadeh Hannaneh , Ganjalikhani Maryam 
Published: February 2022

AbstractBackgroundThis study aimed to evaluate physical fitness and body composition in a sample including hospitalized patients with bipolar disorder and to compare them with a population‐based sample.MethodsIn this comparative observational study, 40 bipolar patients and 40 healthy subjects in Taleghani Hospital, Tehran, Iran, in 2019 were assessed. The physical fitness items such as body mass index (BMI), body fat, push‐up test, curl‐up test, VO2 peak, and sit and reach test were compared across the groups. Young Mania Rating Scale for assessing the severity of bipolar disease and WHODAS2.0 for the estimation of global performance were done in the case group.ResultsThe results of this study demonstrate that sit and reach test, body mass index (BMI), and body fat percent were similar across the studied groups. The push‐up test, curl‐up test, and VO2 peak (P = .001) were significantly lower in the case group. In the case group, only the push‐up test was associated with the severity of bipolar disorder and decreased performance.ConclusionLower push‐up and curl‐up can indicate an increase in both back and neck pains in these patients. Low VO2 peak in these patients increases the risk of heart disease and mortality rates in bipolar patients. The push‐up test can be used as a screen test to estimate the severity of the bipolar disorder.
Behavior of counterpoise correction in many‐body molecular clusters of organic compounds: Hartree–Fock interaction energy perspective
Authors: Nguyen Anh L. P. , Izgorodina Ekaterina I. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractThe counterpoise (CP) correction by Boys and Bernardi has been well accepted as a reliable strategy to account for basis set superposition error (BSSE) in intermolecular complexes. The behavior of the CP correction was thoroughly studied in individual molecules of molecular complexes. This work studies the performance of the CP correction in many‐body clusters including three‐body clusters of organic compounds in the 3B‐69 dataset. Additionally, we used crystal structures of polymorphs of benzene, aspirin, and oxalyl dihydrazide (ODH) to construct a many‐body cluster dataset, abbreviated as the MBC‐36 dataset, consisting of two, four and eight molecules, and 16 molecules in the case of benzene. A series of Dunning's basis sets—cc‐pXZ and aug‐cc‐pXZ (X = D and T)—were used to predict CP‐corrected Hartree–Fock (HF) interaction energies of the 3B‐69 and MBC‐36 datasets. The CP‐corrected interaction energies were found to be basis‐set independent, whereas the non‐CP corrected interaction energies were found not to a follow a smooth exponential fitting as previously found for electronic energies of individual molecules. This observation was attributed to the presence of non‐additive induction forces in some clusters. Two 2 × 2 × 2 supercells of benzene polymorphs were constructed to explore the local nature of BSSE effects. A cut‐off radius of 10 Å was demonstrated to be sufficient to fully recover these effects. Although the behavior of CP correction was found to be non‐conventional in many‐body clusters of organic compounds, the use of a small basis set such as cc‐pVDZ showed excellent performance in the prediction of HF interaction energies.