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An Empirical Study on the Impact of Prior Information Provision Methods on Participants’ Perceptions in Tasting Marketing
Authors: Masuda Hisashi , Matsumura Kengo 
Published: January 2022

AbstractTasting events are a typical example of a tourism experience that utilizes alcohol. However, it has not been sufficiently demonstrated how the prior information given to customers at tasting events affects their perception of the tasting and its marketing effects. In this study, we conducted a tasting experiment of a new Japanese sake product in California, the USA to clarify how information given to participants in advance can affect their perception of the tasting, satisfaction, and word-of-mouth intention related to the new sake product, and compared the effects of the following types of prior information: 1) no information, 2) written information, 3) video explained by a man, and 4) video explained by a woman. The results show that presenting information makes a difference in its impact as opposed to providing no information. When prior information was presented in written form, various perspectives significantly influenced the satisfaction and recommended intention more than in the cases of video. On the other hand, in the cases of video, the number of significant paths was reduced, but the influence on word-of-mouth intention was greater than in the case of written information. This study contributes to the development of a theory and empirical evidence that takes into account prior information in tasting marketing in tourism.
Escaping Loneliness Through Tourist-Chatbot Interactions
Authors: Wang Peng , Shao Jun 
Published: January 2022

AbstractSocial robots such as chatbots are regarded as a practical approach to alleviate loneliness. Few studies in the tourism field have focused on loneliness and its impact on the acceptance of chatbots used by the tourism industry. This paper explores the factors influencing tourists’ willingness to use chatbots from the perspective of loneliness by combining theories related to anthropomorphism and the uncanny valley effect. This paper adopts a qualitative research method by taking a semi-structured interview with 15 tourists who have used travel chatbots before. The results show that in addition to perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, there are three factors (tourist loneliness, perceived anthropomorphism, and user anxiety) that directly influence tourists’ acceptance of travel chatbots. Moreover, tourist loneliness positively influences user anxiety through perceived anthropomorphism. User anxiety has a negative effect on perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. This research then proposed an extended TAM model from the perspective of tourist loneliness. This paper enriches the research on loneliness as well as chatbots in the tourism field. The results provide suggestions for the practical application of travel chatbots.
Monitoring Human-Wildlife Interactions in National Parks with Crowdsourced Data and Deep Learning
Authors: Pan Bing , Savanapelli Virinchi , Shukla Abhishek , Yin Junjun 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThis short paper summarizes the first research stage for applying deep learning techniques to capture human-wildlife interactions in national parks from crowd-sourced data. The results from objection detection, image captioning, and distance calculation are reported. We were able to categorize animal types, summarize visitor behaviors in the pictures, and calculate distances between visitors and animals with different levels of accuracy. Future development will focus on getting more training data and field experiments to collect ground truth on animal types and distances to animals. More in-depth manual coding is needed to categorize visitor behavior into acceptable and unacceptable ones.
Users Versus Non-users: The Impact of Experience on Hotel Guests’ Attitudes Towards Service Robots in Hotels
Authors: Brylska Patrycja , Cobanoglu Cihan , Dogan Seden 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThe use of robotics and artificial intelligence have created a shift in the ways the service-based hospitality and tourism industry can fulfill the needs and wants of consumers that were earlier fulfilled only by humans. Robots have added the automation and self-service experience that play a vital role in the improvements of efficiency, speed, and the overall experience for the guests using technology. While there are many benefits of using robots in the industry, there are also risks associated with the excessive usage of robots on guest experience. As a result of the pros and cons on the topic, it is very important to gather data and analyze the results to further investigate and understand what the outcomes will be for the industry, its employees, and its customers. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of the use of robots in the hotels as perceived by hotel guests who used a service robot and who did not. A self-administered survey was developed, and 939 usable responses were collected from hotel guests. Factor analysis showed that five factors emerged in the study: Advantages, Attitudes, Disadvantages, Pandemic Related, and Fear. Guests recognize the opportunities that service robots are bringing to their experience while voicing their concerns and fears about the use of them. Findings also showed that there are significant differences between users and non-users.
Shift of radiotherapy use during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic? An analysis of German inpatient data
Authors: Medenwald Daniel , Brunner Thomas , Christiansen Hans , Kisser Ulrich , Mansoorian Sina , Vordermark Dirk , Prokosch Hans-Ulrich , Seuchter Susanne A. , Kapsner Lorenz A. ,   our MII research group, Balig Julien , Bienzeisler Jonas , Buergy Daniel , Fischer Patrick , Fortmann Jonas , Fuchs Timo , Ganslandt Thomas , Gietzelt Matthias , Haverkamp Christian , Marquardt Kurt , Kadioglu Dennis , Lutz Irina , Mayer Gerhard , Michel-Backofen Achim , Renz Harald , Seidemann Christian , Stenzhorn Holger , Stolnicu Ana , Storf Holger , Kamdje Wabo Gaetan , Zohner Jochen 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Objective
To assess the change in inpatient radiotherapy related to COVID-19 lockdown measures during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020.

Methods
We included cases hospitalized between January 1 and August 31, 2018–2020, with a primary ICD-10 diagnosis of C00–C13, C32 (head and neck cancer, HNC) and C53 (cervical cancer, CC). Data collection was conducted within the Medical Informatics Initiative. Outcomes were fractions and admissions. Controlling for decreasing hospital admissions during holidays, calendar weeks of 2018/2019 were aligned to Easter 2020. A lockdown period (LP; 16/03/2020–02/08/2020) and a return-to-normal period (RNP; 04/05/2020–02/08/2020) were defined. The study sample comprised a control (admission 2018/19) and study cohort (admission 2020). We computed weekly incidence and IR ratios from generalized linear mixed models.

Results
We included 9365 (CC: 2040, HNC: 7325) inpatient hospital admissions from 14 German university hospitals. For CC, fractions decreased by 19.97% in 2020 compared to 2018/19 in the LP. In the RNP the reduction was 28.57% (p < 0.001 for both periods). LP fractions for HNC increased by 10.38% (RNP: 9.27%; p < 0.001 for both periods). Admissions for CC decreased in both periods (LP: 10.2%, RNP: 22.14%), whereas for HNC, admissions increased (LP: 2.25%, RNP: 1.96%) in 2020. Within LP, for CC, radiotherapy admissions without brachytherapy were reduced by 23.92%, whereas surgery-related admissions increased by 20.48%. For HNC, admissions with radiotherapy increased by 13.84%, while surgery-related admissions decreased by 11.28% in the same period.

Conclusion
Related to the COVID-19 lockdown in an inpatient setting, radiotherapy for HNC treatment became a more frequently applied modality, while admissions of CC cases decreased.
Artificial neural network tools for predicting the functional response of ultrafast laser textured/structured surfaces
Authors: Baronti Luca , Michalek Aleksandra , Castellani Marco , Penchev Pavel , See Tian Long , Dimov Stefan 
Published: January 2022

AbstractArtificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are well-established knowledge acquisition systems with proven capacity for learning and generalisation. Therefore, ANNs are widely applied to solve engineering problems and are often used in laser-based manufacturing applications. There are different pattern recognition and control problems where ANNs can be effectively applied, and one of them is laser structuring/texturing for surface functionalisation, e.g. in generating Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures (LIPSS). They are a particular type of sub-micron structures that are very sensitive to changes in laser processing conditions due to processing disturbances like varying Focal Offset Distance (FOD) and/or Beam Incident Angle (BIA) during the laser processing of 3D surfaces. As a result, the functional response of LIPSS-treated surfaces might be affected, too, and typically needs to be analysed with time-consuming experimental tests. Also, there is a lack of sufficient process monitoring and quality control tools available for LIPSS-treated surfaces that could identify processing patterns and interdependences. These tools are needed to determine whether the LIPSS generation process is in control and consequently whether the surface’s functional performance is still retained. In this research, an ANN-based approach is proposed for predicting the functional response of ultrafast laser structured/textured surfaces. It was demonstrated that the processing disturbances affecting the LIPSS treatments can be classified, and then, the surface response, namely wettability, of processed surfaces can be predicted with a very high accuracy using the developed ANN tools for pre- and post-processing of LIPSS topography data, i.e. their areal surface roughness parameters. A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) was applied as a pre-processing tool to significantly reduce the number of required experimental data. The number of areal surface roughness parameters needed to fully characterise the functional response of a surface was minimised using a combination of feature selection methods. Based on statistical analysis and evolutionary optimisation, these methods narrowed down the initial set of 21 elements to a group of 10 and 6 elements, according to redundancy and relevance criteria, respectively. The validation of ANN tools, using the salient surface parameters, yielded accuracy close to 85% when applied for identification of processing disturbances, while the wettability was predicted within an r.m.s. error of 11 degrees, equivalent to the static water contact angle (CA) measurement uncertainty.
Mucosal Congestion on the First Day Following Endoscopy Predicts Anastomotic Stricture After Esophagectomy
Authors: Ito Sono , Fujiwara Naoto , Kume Yuichiro , Tsukamoto Fumio , Saito Katsumasa , Hoshino Akihiro , Kawada Kenro , Okada Takuya , Okuno Keisuke , Sato Yuya , Matsuyama Takatoshi , Tokunaga Masanori , Kinugasa Yusuke 
Published: January 2022

AbstractBackgroundAnastomotic stricture is a relatively common postoperative complication after esophagectomy. Previous studies have indicated that impaired perioperative blood perfusion at the anastomosis is associated with the occurrence of stricture. Therefore, we analyzed the association between endoscopically assessed blood perfusion during the early postoperative period and anastomotic stricture.MethodsThis retrospective study evaluated patients who underwent esophagectomy at Tokyo Medical and Dental University between 2010 and 2015. The patients had undergone nasal endoscopy on the 1st and 8th postoperative days. The findings were used to evaluate blood perfusion at the anastomosis and gastric tube, which was classified based on mucosal color as ischemia (white) or congestion (blue or black). Univariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to identify risk factors for anastomotic stricture.ResultsThe study included 197 patients and anastomotic stricture was observed in 60 patients (30.4%). The multivariable analysis revealed that postoperative gastric tube congestion was a risk factor for stricture (odds ratio [OR]: 6.440, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.660–15.600; p < 0.001). Lower risks of anastomotic stricture were associated with pathological stage III–IV disease (OR: 0.325, 95% CI: 0.161–0.656; p = 0.002).ConclusionThis study revealed that endoscopically detected congestion at the anastomosis on the first postoperative day was a risk factor for anastomotic stricture.
Ambulante Gesundheitsversorgung von Patienten mit Anorexia nervosa und Bulimia nervosa in Sachsen
Authors: Murr Julia , Neumann Anne 
Published: January 2022

Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
Anorexia nervosa (AN) und Bulimia nervosa (BN) sind schwere Erkrankungen, die vorwiegend junge Frauen betreffen und häufig mit gravierenden psychischen, somatischen und sozialen Folgen einhergehen. Behandlungsstandard beider Erkrankungen ist eine Richtlinienpsychotherapie.

Ziel der Arbeit
Zielsetzung dieser Studie ist es, die Behandlungsprävalenzen und Versorgungssituation von Patienten mit AN oder BN in Sachsen abzubilden sowie aufzuzeigen, welche Fachrichtungen die Erstdiagnose dieser Krankheiten stellen, und welche Faktoren die Vermittlung in eine psychotherapeutische Behandlung beeinflussen.

Material und Methoden
Basierend auf Routinedaten der gesetzlichen Krankenkasse AOK PLUS wurde unter allen Versicherten in Sachsen die Prävalenz von ambulant behandelten Patienten mit AN und BN im Zeitraum von 2009 bis 2014 ermittelt sowie nach Alter, Geschlecht und Wohnort des Patienten untersucht. Weiterhin wurden die Fachärzte, die die Diagnosen erstmalig kodierten, sowie die Inanspruchnahme einer ambulanten Psychotherapie nach ambulanter Erstdiagnose betrachtet.

Ergebnisse und Diskussion
Die Behandlungsprävalenzen der AN und BN zeigen für Patientinnen von 2009 bis 2014 einen signifikanten Anstieg, während die deutlich niedrigeren Behandlungsprävalenzen für Patienten stabil blieben. In den Großstädten waren die Behandlungsprävalenzen für beide Diagnosen signifikant höher als in den übrigen Regionen. Fast die Hälfte der Essstörungen wurde von Fachärzten für Allgemeinmedizin diagnostiziert, weitere 20–25 % von Fachärzten für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie. Lediglich 25 % der AN-Patienten und 33 % der BN-Patienten nahmen im ersten Jahr nach der Diagnosestellung eine Richtlinienpsychotherapie wahr.
Synergism between feremycorrhizal symbiosis and free-living diazotrophs leads to improved growth and nutrition of wheat under nitrogen deficiency conditions
Authors: Kariman Khalil , Moreira-Grez Benjamin , Scanlan Craig , Rahimlou Saleh , Boitt Gustavo , Rengel Zed 
Published: January 2022

AbstractA controlled-environment study was conducted to explore possible synergistic interactions between the feremycorrhizal (FM) fungusAustroboletus occidentalisand soil free-living N2-fixing bacteria (diazotrophs). Wheat (Triticum aestivum) plants were grown under N deficiency conditions in a field soil without adding microbial inoculum (control: only containing soil indigenous microbes), or inoculated with a consortium containing four free-living diazotroph isolates (diazotrophs treatment),A. occidentalisinoculum (FM treatment), or both diazotrophs andA. occidentalisinoculums (dual treatment). After 7 weeks of growth, significantly greater shoot biomass was observed in plants inoculated with diazotrophs (by 25%),A. occidentalis(by 101%), and combined inoculums (by 106%), compared to the non-inoculated control treatment. All inoculated plants also had higher shoot nutrient contents (including N, P, K, Mg, Zn, Cu, and Mn) than the control treatment. Compared to the control and diazotrophs treatments, significantly greater shoot N content was observed in the FM treatment (i.e., synergism between the FM fungus and soil indigenous diazotrophs). Dually inoculated plants had the highest content of nutrients in shoots (e.g., N, P, K, S, Mg, Zn, Cu, and Mn) and soil total N (13–24% higher than the other treatments), i.e., synergism between the FM fungus and added diazotrophs. Root colonization by soil indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi declined in all inoculated plants compared to control. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplicons revealed that the FM fungus modified the soil microbiome. Our in vitro study indicated thatA. occidentaliscould not grow on substrates containing lignocellulosic materials or sucrose, but grew on media supplemented with hexoses such as glucose and fructose, indicating that the FM fungus has limited saprotrophic capacity similar to ectomycorrhizal fungi. The results revealed synergistic interactions betweenA. occidentalisand soil free-living diazotrophs, indicating a potential to boost microbial N2fixation for non-legume crops.
A Survey of Statistical Relationships between Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Rossby Waves
Authors: Wang Shuguang , Fang Juan , Tang Xiaodong , Tan Zhe-Min 
Published: January 2022

AbstractConvectively coupled equatorial Rossby waves (ERW) modulate tropical cyclone activities over tropical oceans. This study presents a survey of the statistical relationship between intraseasonal ERWs and tropical cyclone genesis (TCG) over major global TC basins using four-decade-long outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and TC best-track datasets. Intraseasonal ERWs are identified from the OLR anomalies using an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis method without imposing equatorial symmetry. We find that westward-propagating ERWs are most significant in four tropical ocean basins over the summer hemisphere and that ERWs exhibit similar northeast-southwest (southeast-northwest) tilted phase lines in the northern (southern) hemisphere, with an appreciable poleward advance of wave energy in most TC basins. The EOF-based ERW indices quantitatively show that ERWs significantly modulate TC genesis. The convectively active (suppressed) phases of ERWs coincide with increased (reduced) TCG occurrences. The TCG modulation by ERWs achieves the maximum where the ERWs propagate through the climatological TCG hotspots. As a result, the total number of TCG occurrences in the TC basins varies significantly according to the ERW phase. The ERW-TCG relationship is significant over the northwestern Pacific Ocean, northeastern Pacific Ocean, and the northern Indian Ocean during the northern summer seasons. In the southern summer season, the ERW-TCG relationship is significant over the southern Indian Ocean, Indonesian-Australia basin, and the southwestern Pacific Ocean. However, ERW activities are weak in the main TC development region of the Atlantic Ocean; and the impact on Atlantic TCG appears to be insignificant.
Quality of work community and workers’ intention to retire
Authors: Neupane Subas , Kyrönlahti Saila , Kosonen Hanna , Prakash K. C. , Siukola Anna , Lumme-Sandt Kirsi , Nikander Pirjo , Nygård Clas-Håkan 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Purpose
To study the workers’ perception of the quality of work community and its association with intention to retire early, separately among women and men working in Finnish postal service.

Methods
A questionnaire survey was sent to all Finnish postal services employees aged ≥ 50 years in 2016 and 44% (n = 2096) replied to the survey (mean age 56.3, 40% women). Employee’s intention to retire before statutory retirement was measured on a scale of 1–5 and dichotomized. The quality of work community was defined by four composite variables: equality at work, flexibility at work, supportive work environment and health or other reason and trichotomized by their tercile values. Odds ratio (ORs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations of quality of work community with intention to retire were calculated separately for men and women using log binomial regression models adjusted for potential confounders.

Results
About one-third of respondents intended to retire early with no significant gender difference in retirement intention. Low equality at work (women OR 2.77, 95% CI 1.60–4.81; men 2.84, 1.80–4.48) and low flexibility at work (women 3.30, 1.94–5.60; men 2.91, 1.88–4.50) was associated with higher likelihood of intention to retire. Among women intention to retire was found less likely due to low supportive work environment (0.52, 0.31–0.89) and among men due to intermediate health or other reason (0.65, 043–0.98).

Conclusion
The results highlight the importance of the quality of work community as well as the promotion of work-related health in order to encourage employees to remain at workforce for longer.
Comparative anatomy of the rostrosoma of Solifugae, Pseudoscorpiones and Acari
Authors: Starck J. Matthias , Belojević Jelena , Brozio Jason , Mehnert Lisa 
Published: January 2022

AbstractWe compare the microscopic anatomy of the mouthparts of representative species of Solifugae, Pseudoscorpiones and Parasitiformes (Acari). Specifically, we focus on the epistome, the labrum, the lateral lips (= endites of the pedipalpal coxae) and the musculature of the pharyngeal suction pump. We provide evidence that the labrum is reduced in Solifugae, but present and functional in Pseudoscorpiones and Acari. The epistome constitutes the entire dorsal face of the rostrosoma in Solifugae, but is internalized into the prosoma in Pseudoscorpiones. In Acari, the epistome shows an ancestral morphology, probably close to the ground pattern of chelicerates. The lateral lips of Solifugae contribute to the ventral face of the rostrosoma and the two lips of the mouth opening. In Solifugae, the ventral rostrosoma also includes a sclerite that might derive from a tritosternum. In Pseudoscorpiones, the lateral lips remain independent of the rostrosoma, they interlock ventral to the rostrosoma forming a perioral space. Here, the rostrosoma has an unpaired ventral lip of unresolved morphological origin, which is, however, clearly distinct from the lateral lips of Solifugae. The pharyngeal suction pump differs in all three clades in attachment, number of muscles and origin of muscles. We interpret the data as evidence for independent, parallel evolution of elements of the ground pattern of the (eu)chelicerate mouth parts. Based on the morphological elements of a common euchelicerate ground plan, the rostrosoma evolved independently in the three clades. We reject earlier hypotheses that consider the rostrosoma a character to support a phylogenetic relationship of the three clades.