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Ventricular strain patterns in multivalvular heart disease: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Prathiksha Prabhu K. , Nayak Krishnananda , Nayak Vidya , Prabhu Sridevi , Rekha V. , Ashwal A. J. , Sudhakar Rao M. 
Published: October 2022

AbstractMultivalvular heart disease (MVD) is an aggregate of regurgitant and/or stenotic lesions of at least two cardiac valves. Ventricular tissue deformation imaging is a powerful predictor of subclinical myocardial dysfunction in patients with MVD.The aim of this study was to examine the left and right ventricular strain patterns in MVD as well as observe any association between right–sided valvular involvement (tricuspid or pulmonary valve lesion) with that of aortic and/or mitral valve lesion. Patients with at least moderate forms of MVD were included in the present study. 72 patients with mean age of 56.69 ± 14.59 years and various presentations of MVD were finally enrolled in this study. The commonest cause for MVD was rheumatic heart disease in these patients. Conventional 2-dimensional parameters as well as tissue deformation imaging parameters were assessed in offline mode for these patients. The Mean ± SD values for various quantitative 2D echocardiographic conventional and tissue deformation imaging were assessed. It was observed that LV strain parameters including the global longitudinal strain (GLS) were preserved whereas the RV strain parameters were mildly reduced (RV GLS total is − 19.49 ± 6.08%). Also, when conventional echocardiographic parameters were assessed to see any association between aortic and/or mitral valve disease with that of right-sided valvular lesions (tricuspid or pulmonary); 2D conventional echocardiographic parameters like left atrial dimension (p = 0.034), TAPSE (tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion) (p < 0.001), RVSP (right ventricular systolic pressure) (p < 0.001) and IVC (inferior vena cava) dimensions (p < 0.001) showed a statistically significant result; whereas, when strain parameters for LV and RV were assessed, they did not show any statistical difference for the same. In this series of patients with significant MVD, our findings suggest that ventricular strain parameters may be reliable markers of myocardial dysfunction, but may alter depending on the underlying combination of MVD, and right ventricular strain should also be an important parameter while assessing different combinations of MVD.
Parenting Behaviors as Mediators of the Association Between Parental Internalizing Symptoms and Child Externalizing Symptoms
Authors: Klemp Marie-Theres , Dose Christina , Hautmann Christopher , Jendreizik Lea T. , Mühlenmeister Judith , Plück Julia , Wähnke Laura , Döpfner Manfred 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThis study analyzes whether the association between parental internalizing symptoms (depression, anxiety, stress) and child symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is mediated by positive and negative parenting behaviors. Cross-sectional data of 420 parents of children (age 6–12 years) with elevated levels of externalizing symptoms were collected in a randomized controlled trial. Measures included parent ratings of their internalizing symptoms and parenting behaviors and of their child’s externalizing symptoms. Two mediation models were examined, one including ADHD symptoms and one including ODD symptoms as the dependent variable. Parental internalizing symptoms were modeled as the independent variable and positive and negative parenting behaviors were modeled as parallel mediators. Regression analyses support negative parenting behavior as a mediator of the association between parental internalizing symptoms and child ODD symptoms. For the ADHD model, no significant mediator could be found. Future studies should use prospective designs and consider reciprocal associations.
Leveraging global recombinant capabilities for green technologies: the role of ethnic diversity in MNEs’ dynamics
Authors: Marino Alba , Quatraro Francesco 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThe growing environmental pressure and the parallel policy push on eco-innovations are making the generation of green technologies more and more profitable, given the expansion of existing markets and the creation of new ones. MNEs may show a competitive advantage in this context because of their global knowledge sourcing strategies that increase heterogeneity and variety in firms’ innovation processes. We accordingly argue that the inventors’ teams involving higher ethnic diversity are more likely to successfully generate green inventions due to their idiosyncratic experiences and diversified knowledge bases. We rely on USPTO data from an ethnic patenting database covering US-based MNEs from 1980–2009. We find that R&D teams featured by higher levels of ethnic diversity among the US-based inventors correlate with a higher probability of green patenting, but the relationship follows a non-linear pattern. Also, ethnic diversity is found to moderate the effect of recombinant capabilities on the generation of new green technologies. Our results bring implications for the strategic management of inventors’ teams by multinationals willing to run the green patent race and policymakers facing the climate change challenges.
Corporate social irresponsibility and stakeholders’ support: evidence from a case study
Authors: Mocciaro Li Destri Arabella , Minà Anna , Picone Pasquale Massimo 
Published: October 2022

AbstractStakeholders’ decisions regarding whether to continue to support a firm after it has been perceived as culpable for socially irresponsible behaviour is “coin of the realm” in selecting which firms (or which parts of a firm) will be able to survive a corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) scandal. Our empirical setting is an embedded polar case of audience support, the Parmalat case, following a severe CSI scandal. The scandal represented a “trigger event” that ignited an active reevaluation of the firm on behalf of its stakeholders. We show that, while the firm’s cognitive legitimacy was not harmed by the CSI scandal, two dimensions of legitimacy played a key role in stakeholder evaluations: moral and pragmatic legitimacy. The capacity to manage the interplay between these two dimensions emerged as a key factor underlying stakeholders' support. Finally, we argue that if pragmatic legitimacy is feeble it is unlikely that the firm is able to maintain stakeholders' support. Our study suggests that possessing a sound source of competitive advantage in one (or more) of the businesses in which the firm operates is decisive to maintain the support of independent stakeholders following CSI scandal.
Plumbing metaphysical explanatory depth
Authors: Emmerson Nicholas 
Published: October 2022

AbstractRecent years have seen increasing interest in interventionist analyses of metaphysical explanation. One area where interventionism traditionally shines, is in providing an account of explanatory depth; the sense in which explanation comes in degrees. However, the literature on metaphysical explanation has left the notion depth almost entirely unexplored. In this paper I shall attempt to rectify this oversight by motivating an interventionist analysis of metaphysical explanatory depth (MED), in terms of the range of interventions under which a metaphysically explanatory generalization remains invariant. After elucidating the notion through a toy-example, I demonstrate the important work which MED can perform in characterizing debate within contemporary metaphysics. Focusing upon rival approaches to explaining the identity and distinctness of concrete objects, I argue that the progress achieved in this debate can be characterized in terms of increasing explanatory depth. Having made an initial case for the utility of MED, I then turn this analysis to the metaphysics of explanation itself. By adopting an interventionist framework with respect to MED, I will show that we can assess the depth of competing theories of explanation. This application has two interesting results: first, it suggests that an interventionist analysis of explanation provides deeper explanations of the connection between explanans and explanandum than rival accounts; and second, it suggests that explanations provided by interventionism become deeper still, if one accepts that this methodology ranges over metaphysical, as well as causal, instances.
Knowledge structures of scientific production on COVID-19 in the sphere of education: the case of publications indexed in the Web of Science during 2020
Authors: Rodríguez-Sabiote Clemente , Úbeda-Sánchez Álvaro Manuel , Lorenzo-Quiles Oswaldo , Álvarez-Rodríguez José 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThis study seeks to explore the different knowledge structures in the sphere of educational research into COVID-19 during 2020. Using bibliometric methods, analysis was performed of a sample of 308 scientific articles retrieved from the Web of Science database. Using different data analysis techniques combining co-occurrence analysis, co-citation analysis and factorial analysis, All Keywords and Keywords Plus were used to achieve the main research objective: identification of the main themes and trends of production in the sphere of educational research into COVID-19. The main findings of this study in terms of the conceptual structure show that analysis of the centrality and density of the thematic trends points to a generalised structural change in the entire educational system towards methodological teaching–learning procedures oriented towards distance education. As for the intellectual structure, among the host of authors and sources of information involved only a select few have a greater influence on the scientific community. Finally, in terms of social structure, there is limited collaboration between authors and institutions from different countries. However, this collaboration is more intense within countries themselves and in terms of their own production, with the USA being the country with the strongest links.
Transfer of metacognitive skills in self-regulated learning: effects on strategy application and content knowledge acquisition
Authors: Stebner Ferdinand , Schuster Corinna , Weber Xenia-Lea , Greiff Samuel , Leutner Detlev , Wirth Joachim 
Published: October 2022

AbstractMetacognitive skills are often considered domain-general, therefore they have the potential to transfer across domains, subjects, and tasks. However, transfer of metacognitive skills seldomly occurs spontaneously. Schuster et al., (2020) showed that training can have beneficial effects on spontaneous near and far transfer of metacognitive skills. However, evidence of metacognitive skill transfer resulting in superior acquisition of content knowledge is pending. In the present study we set out to extend prior findings by investigating whether students benefit from training metacognitive skills not only regarding metacognitive skill application but also regarding content knowledge acquisition in learning tasks of different transfer distances. 243 fifth-grade students were randomly assigned to three different conditions for the first 15 weeks of a school year: two hybrid metacognitive skill training conditions (metacognitive skills and one out of two cognitive strategies) and one non-hybrid training condition (cognitive strategies or motivation regulation only). For the second 15 weeks of the school year, all students received non-hybrid training involving a new cognitive strategy. Spontaneous metacognitive skill transfer of different transfer distances (near and far) was tested after the first and after the second 15 weeks of training. The effect of hybrid metacognitive skill training on the acquisition of content knowledge was measured once directly after the first 15 weeks. Results show that hybrid metacognitive skill training supported spontaneous transfer of metacognitive skills to learning scenarios of both near and far transfer distance. However, hybrid metacognitive skill training only had a positive effect on content knowledge acquisition if metacognitive skill transfer was near.
‘Identified as gay’—Making up queer communities and sexual selves in Mumbai
Authors: Strauss Annika 
Published: October 2022

AbstractQueer persons’ narratives tend to be silenced, ignored or overheard in clinical everyday life and medical education. This article takes the narrative and story of Ajay, a psychiatric in-patient, as a pathway into learning about Mumbai’s queer landscape and about how local identity categories are socially constructed. Ajay seems to embody a contradictory sexual orientation and gender identity from a Western psychological perspective: He loves to ‘have gay sex’ but also ‘feels female’ and adopted a feminine habitus and female roles in certain social contexts. Because of the latter, he was diagnosed with ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ by the ward psychiatrist. Psychiatric diagnosis contributes to sickness identity, individual and collective, and at the same time it fuels identities that move and rebel against biomedical categories. The article takes up Ian Hackings’ concept of ‘making up people’, which depicts how the humanities create new classifications and knowledge, how people embody and perform these categories as social meanings and thereby manage issues of a vulnerable self and identity. By diverse examples from South Asia and beyond the author illustrates that ‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ are not self-evident experiences but rather socio-cultural tools that extract certain information and feelings from the everyday stream of life before the purposes of making meaning about, and representing, ourselves and others.
Grain size and sintering temperatures effects on the mechanical properties of ZnO nanoparticle-based varistor ceramics
Authors: Sendi Rabab 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThe grain size impact on the behavior of ZnO–Bi2O3–Mn2O3 varistors was determined in this study. Samples with different sintering temperatures and times were prepared via traditional ceramic methodology, and their properties were described. Results exhibited that various temperatures and times of the sintering process had considerable effects on the varistors. In particular, the growth of ZnO grains was improved at a minimal-temperature sintering process of 900 °C for 1 h. Significant solid-state reaction even at lower sintering temperatures perhaps caused the surface characteristics of ZnO nanoparticles. Vickers indentation analyses were applied to define the fracture toughness and hardness of the samples. Hardness diminished with the growth of ZnO grain. Fracture toughness did not exhibit any change with the increase in grain size (~ 5.1 MPam0.5) up to 1.6 μm for WZ-V and 3.5 μm 20Z-V. Above these grain sizes, a spontaneous conversion from hexagonal to monoclinic phase occurred. WZ-V and 20Z-V samples were used to investigate the analogous bending strength at 1152 and 1148 MPa, respectively. The structural coarsening desired for realizing significant grain size led to increased scattering strength values, as evidenced by lesser Weibull modulus (9.23 vs. 5.10). Variations in the mechanical behavior of the investigated varistors with different grain sizes were demonstrated, and their probable reasons were discussed in brief.
County-level jail incarceration, community economic distress, rurality, and preterm birth among women in the US South
Authors: Montgomery Brooke E. E. , Pro George C. , Willis Don E. , Zaller Nick D. 
Published: October 2022

Abstract

Introduction:
The USA has higher rates of preterm birth and incarceration than any other developed nation, with rates of both being highest in Southern states and among Black Americans, potentially due to rurality and socioeconomic factors. To test our hypothesis that prior-year county-level rates of jail admission, economic distress, and rurality were positively associated with premature birth rates in the county of delivery in 2019 and that the strength of these associations is greater for Black women than for White or Hispanic women, we merged five datasets to perform multivariable analysis of data from 766 counties across 12 Southern/rural states.

Methods:
We used multivariable linear regression to model the percentage of babies born premature, stratified by Black (Model 1), Hispanic (Model 2), and White (Model 3) mothers. Each model included all three independent variables of interest measured using data from the Vera Institute, Distressed Communities Index, and Index of Relative Rurality.

Results:
In fully fitted stratified models, economic distress was positively associated with premature births among Black (F = 33.81, p < 0.0001) and White (F = 26.50, p < 0.0001) mothers. Rurality was associated with premature births among White mothers (F = 20.02, p < 0.0001). Jail admission rate was not associated with premature births among any racial group, and none of the study variables were associated with premature births among Hispanic mothers.

Conclusions:
Understanding the connections between preterm birth and enduring structural inequities is a necessary scientific endeavor to advance to later translational stages in health-disparities research
Smooth hypersurfaces in abelian varieties over arithmetic rings
Authors: Javanpeykar Ariyan , Mathur Siddharth 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Let A be an abelian scheme of dimension at least four over a

$\mathbb {Z}$

-finitely generated integral domain R of characteristic zero, and let L be an ample line bundle on A. We prove that the set of smooth hypersurfaces D in A representing L is finite by showing that the moduli stack of such hypersurfaces has only finitely many R-points. We accomplish this by using level structures to interpolate finiteness results between this moduli stack and the stack of canonically polarized varieties.
“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness
Authors: Rigg Joshua E. 
Published: October 2022

AbstractRecent transitional justice scholarship has explored the role of emotions during periods of political transition. Scholars have taken negative emotions as both legitimate responses to past crimes and as supports to the pursuit of justice in the present. This paper argues that feelings circulate across a wide array of individuals, things, and processes that often sit apart from the formal, judicial spaces of transitional justice. To make this argument, I consider the Tunisian campaign Manich Msamah (I Do Not Forgive) and its articulation of an affect of unforgiveness in resistance to the proposed Economic and Financial Reconciliation Law. Formed in 2015, the campaign came about in response to the law and efforts, under the pretext of “reconciliation,” to return to public life figures from the repressive regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Drawing on affect theory, I argue that unforgiveness was stuck to particular individuals (figures from the old regime and circulated between a community of unforgiving activists), things (public spaces, posters, T-shirts and the ephemera of protest) and processes (accountability and substantive forms of justice). I argue that an affect of unforgiveness thus aided activists not only in their resistance to state-led reconciliation but also helped imagine alternative paths to justice in Tunisia.
Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia
Authors: Suni Anoush Tamar 
Published: October 2022

AbstractBefore the 1915 Genocide of Ottoman Armenians, the region of Van, in contemporary southeastern Turkey, held hundreds of active Armenian churches and monasteries. After the destruction of the Armenian community, these ruined structures took on new afterlives as they became part of the evolving environments and communities around them. These ruined spaces play a role in the everyday lives of the people who live among them and shape their historical understandings and relationships with the local history and geography. I interrogate the afterlives of one abandoned monastery and examine how local Kurds imagine, narrate, and enact the politics of the past and the present through that space of material ruin. I demonstrate how the history of the Armenian Genocide and ongoing state violence against the Kurdish community are intricately linked, highlight the continuation of violence over the past century, and deconstruct notions of ahistorical victims and perpetrators. This article builds on a critical approach to ruins as it traces how histories of destruction and spaces of material ruin are revisited and reinterpreted by those whose lives continue to be shaped by processes of ruination. It demonstrates how ruins created through violent histories become spaces for articulating alternative senses of history and crafting possible futures.
Endoparasite community structure of an anuran assemblage in the Caatinga, Northeastern Neotropical Region
Authors: Sampaio N. K. S. , Teixeira A. A. M. , Do Nascimento J. M. , Ribeiro S. C. , Almeida W. O. , Brito S. V. 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Amphibians are a widespread Chordata taxon and are important for maintaining the balance of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Brazil has a rich amphibian fauna; however, little is known about the role of their ecology and phylogenetic relationships during the assembly processes of associated endoparasite communities. Herein, we describe an endoparasite community in an anuran assemblage in the Caatinga, a unique biome of dry forests in north-eastern Brazil. We studied endoparasite diversity, as well as the effects of body length, body mass, body volume and sex on parasite abundance. We also investigated the influence of ecological and historical factors and anuran microhabitat use on endoparasite composition. We analysed individuals from 13 anuran species distributed across five families: Odontophrynidae (Proceratophrys cristiceps); Leptodactylidae (Leptodactylus fuscus, Leptodactylus vastus, Leptodactylus macrosternum, Leptodactylus troglodytes and Physalaemus cuvieri); Hylidae (Pithecopus gonzagai, Scinax x-signatus, Boana raniceps and Dendropsophus nanus); Bufonidae (Rhinella diptycha and Rhinella granulosa); and Microhylidae (Dermatonotus muelleri). We found nine species of endoparasites, including seven nematodes (Aplectana membranosa, Cosmocerca sp., Oswaldocruzia mazzai, Raillietnema spectans, Rhabdias fuelleborni, Schrankiana sp. and Physaloptera sp.), one species of Trematoda (Glypthelmins pseudium) and one non-identified cestode. There was no significant relationship between endoparasite abundance and host body length, body mass, body volume and sex. A phylogenetic principal component analysis showed that ecological factors had a greater influence on endoparasite assemblage than historical factors. Similarly, our results showed that ecological factors had a greater influence on anuran microhabitat use compared to historical factors, which contributed to the generalist characteristics presented by most of the sampled endoparasite species.