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The long road to a sustainable banana trade
Authors: Bebber Daniel P. 
Published: September 2022

Societal Impact StatementBananas are the world's most popular dessert fruit and a staple starch crop for millions in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The banana export trade that supplies North America, Europe, and other wealthy nations has a history fraught with exploitation and conflict. The price of cheap bananas has been environmental degradation, violence, and poverty. Only recently have efforts to address the power imbalances in this trade been made. Voluntary certification schemes aim to address multiple sustainability issues, while research into biological control, accelerated plant breeding, and efficient irrigation will help prepare the industry for emerging threats from pests, diseases, and climate change.SummaryBananas are the world's favorite dessert fruit, a staple starch crop for millions, and an important source of income for producers across the tropics and subtropics. Bananas evolved and diversified as giant perennial herbs of open habitats within the humid forests of Southeast Asia and West Oceania and were domesticated around 7000 years BP through a series of hybridization events. This review considers the journey from rainforest riversides to intensively managed monoculture plantations, focussing on the Cavendish banana that comprises nearly the entire global export trade. Climate change increasingly threatens economic sustainability in several major producer regions, requiring responses such as efficient irrigation systems to maintain productivity and water security. Pests and diseases are spreading globally and have severe direct impacts on production as well as indirect impacts via harm to ecological and human health caused by pesticides. New pest and disease management methods employing biological controls and enhancing soil health and new plant breeding techniques must be developed and implemented. The banana production and trade system has been characterized by power imbalances between international firms that own plantations and supply the market and the local agricultural workers who cultivate and harvest the fruit. Voluntary certification schemes have been developed to address the numerous environmental, social, and economic sustainability issues faced by the industry. There are indications, from research on biological disease control to new deals on wages and benefits for banana workers, that change is slowly coming to the global banana trade.
A pilot study to examine association of BMI with functional class and 6 min walk distance in idiopathic and heritable PAH: Possible association with estrogen metabolism
Authors: MacLean Margaret R. , Pandya Divya , Swietlik Emilia M. , Denver Nina , Mair Kirsty , Morrell Nicholas W. , Gräf Stefan ,   National Cohort Study for Idiopathic and Heritable Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Consortium
Published: September 2022

AbstractThe hypothesis that a relationship exists between body mass index (BMI), functional class, and 6 min walk distance (6MWD) in Group 1‐pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) was examined. Analysis of data from the UK National Cohort Study for heritable pulmonary arterial/idiopathic PAH suggests increased BMI is a predictor of worse functional class and shorter 6MWD; increased body‐weight in mice and man may be associated with increased estrogen metabolism.
Overcoming non‐convexity of the robust nonlinear output feedback problem: An adaptive linear matrix inequality solution
Authors: Quintana Daniel , Estrada‐Manzo Victor , Bernal Miguel 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThis article presents a novel solution for adaptive output feedback of uncertain nonlinear systems; it uses nonlinear controller and observer structures to drive a time‐varying function as a Lyapunov one, thus guaranteeing asymptotic stability of the system states and observation error. Exact convex modeling of available terms and polytopic embedding of unavailable ones in the Lyapunov function dynamics, allow linear matrix inequalities to be used, thus overcoming former difficulties over the non‐convex nature of the problem. Moreover, the proposal incorporates a recently appeared factorization to get rid of approximate solutions based on Lipschitz bounds and persistence of excitation. The methodology is successfully put at test against related works in a variety of examples.
Growth, emissions, and climate finance nexus for sustainable development: Revisiting the environmental Kuznets curve
Authors: Han Songhee , Jun Hannah 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThis article examines the relationship between growth, emissions, population density, renewable energy consumption, urban population, and climate finance using a panel data for 141 countries between 1990 and 2015. The study revisits the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis by focusing specifically on the developing country context. In the first analysis, the growth‐emissions nexus is explained with three panel regression models. The second part investigates whether international support for developing countries, particularly climate finance on mitigation, is effective for a subpanel of 103 countries between 2002 and 2015. The EKC hypothesis is generally valid in quadratic specification, while the EKC is largely not found with clustered data and cubic polynomial functions. The effects of mitigation aid vary by dataset, implying that simply increasing mitigation aid may not be enough to reduce emissions in developing countries.
Synthesis of Co(II), Ni(II) and Zn(II) Metal Complexes Derived from a Hydrazone Schiff Base: Electrochemical Behavior and Comprehensive Biological Studies
Authors: Patil Priyanka R. , Javarappa Rangaswamy , Kumar A. C. , Naik Nagaraja 
Published: September 2022

AbstractThe present study deals with the synthesis of (E)‐N’‐(2,5‐dimethoxybenzylidene)‐2‐hydroxybenzohydrazide, a hydrazone Schiff base ligand (HY) and its metal complexes [Co(HY)2, Ni(HY)2, Zn(HY)2].2H2O. The structure of the synthesized ligand was characterized by physico‐chemical analytical and spectral techniques. The electrochemical behavior of HY and its complexes were investigated by cyclic voltammetry. Infrared spectral data suggested that HY acts as a tridentate ligand with ONO as the donor atoms. Molar conductivity data showed that all the complexes were non‐electrolytic in nature and octahedral geometry of the complexes was confirmed by UV‐visible spectrum. TGA studies of the complexes gave a clear idea about the coordination sphere and the process of degradation. Further, HY and its complexes were screened for their in vitro antioxidant, antibacterial and anticancer activities. Among the synthesized complexes, Ni(II) and Zn(II) metal complexes showed prominent antioxidant activity investigated through their scavenging effect on DPPH radical, anticancer activity against MCF‐7 and HeLa cancer cells. The molecular docking into P53 cancer mutant protein (PDB ID: 5AB9) was done for the optimization of the investigated compounds as potential cancer cell inhibitors. The observed data infer that all the complexes show promising antimicrobial activity against all of the tested bacterial and fungal species compared to the parent ligand HY.
Design of g‐C3N4/BaBiO3 Heterojunction Nanocomposites for Photodegradation of an Organic Dye and Diclofenac Sodium under Visible Light via Interfacial Charge Transfer
Authors: Kulhary Dinesh , Singh Satyendra 
Published: September 2022

AbstractA novel series of the heterojunctions g‐CN/BBO(x) of g‐C3N4 (g‐CN) nanosheets decorated with spherical particles of BaBiO3 (BBO) were designed to enhance photocatalysis through interfacial charge transfer. The synthesized g‐CN/BBO(x) nanocomposites were characterized by various techniques such as XRD, FTIR, TEM, and SEM. Rhodamine B (RhB) dye and diclofenac sodium drug were taken as the model pollutants for the degradation under visible light. BBO facilitates the photocatalytic reaction after accepting electrons from the g‐CN. The g‐CN/BBO(30%) nanocomposite exhibits the best photocatalytic activity, which is 6.5 and 5 times higher than BBO and g‐CN, respectively. The enrichment in photodegradation is attributed to the combined effects of improved dye adsorption, visible light absorption, mobility of photogenerated carriers, and facial separation of electrons and holes (e−, h+) as supported by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). This study provides new insight into the engineering, design, and stability of the g‐CN/BBO(x) heterojunction nanocomposite, as well as on its application and plausible mechanism for removal of harmful and detrimental pollutants such as RhB dye and diclofenac sodium drug under visible light.
“Security Gap” as a metric for enterprise business processes
Authors: Mukherjee Preetam , Sengupta Anirban , Mazumdar Chandan 
Published: September 2022

AbstractSecurity is becoming an indispensable factor for the well‐being of an enterprise. Enterprises are making huge investments to fulfill the demand for security. A big challenge faced by an enterprise while securing itself is to find the gap between the demand for security and the actual security status. Finding out a consistent metric for measuring this gap can enable security administrators to utilize the allocated funds more appropriately. Popular control gap analysis methods practiced in enterprises are mostly subjective in nature and results in imprecise measurements. To address this issue, a novel security metric “Security Gap” is introduced in this paper. This metric finds out the business process‐level insecurity from the security requirements and the estimated security. The methodology uses business process modeling, attack graph modeling, and relevant base metrics to compute Security Gap.
Alterations in Heart Rate Variability and Electroencephalogram during20‐MinuteExtremely Low Frequency Electric Field Treatment in Healthy Men during theEyes‐OpenCondition
Authors: Shinba Toshikazu , Nedachi Takaki , Harakawa Shinji 
Published: September 2022

AbstractOur previous study examined the neural effects of extremely low frequency electric field (ELF‐EF) using electroencephalogram (EEG) and heart rate variability (HRV) measurement and revealed that the theta power of EEG increases during 1‐min EF treatment (30 kV and 50 Hz). In the present study, the effects of a longer treatment duration were assessed. EF was applied between two electrodes, one above the head and the other under the feet, for 20 min to 10 healthy men sitting on a chair. Occipital EEG and HRV were measured in the eyes‐open condition. Power spectrum analysis showed that during the EF treatment, the power of alpha and theta rhythms as well as the low frequency component of HRV increased, and the heart rate decreased. These effects did not persist after the end of EF treatment. It is suggested that ELF‐EF treatment alters not only the brain activity but also the autonomic activity reflected in HRV. © 2022 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
Vision Zero in Workplaces
Authors: Zwetsloot Gerard I. J. M. , Kines Pete 
Published: September 2022

AbstractUnsafe and unhealthy working conditions contribute to more than 2.3 million deaths globally each year. Vision Zero (VZ) in workplaces presents the challenge to prevent all serious accidents and work-related sickness and disease. Companies and other organizations play a key role, in the development and implementation of VZ, and are supported by international organizations such as the International Labour Organization and the International Social Security Association (ISSA). VZ in workplaces has a long history and several roots, which explain the variety in its application. It is both conceptually and practically closely associated with the development of a broad prevention culture, focusing on the safety, health, and well-being of the workforce as an integrated part of business. VZ in workplaces has developed quickly since the Seoul Declaration (2008), whereby global occupational safety and health leaders and representatives of national governments expressed their will to create a worldwide culture of prevention. In particular, the ISSA launched a global VZ strategy and campaign in 2017, which now (in 2021) runs in more than 80 countries. VZ policies and strategies for both road traffic and workplaces are overlapping and can strengthen each other, as roads are an important place of work in many jobs. The implementation of VZ in workplaces should be regarded as a commitment strategy, based on genuine commitment of both top leaders and all personnel. It is important that VZ in workplaces is understood as a vision and a long-term ambition, not as a target. Proactive leading indicators are therefore more important for VZ than lagging indicators, such as accident frequencies.
Incompatibility of Frequency Splitting and Spatial Localization: A Quantitative Analysis of Hegerfeldt’s Theorem
Authors: Finster Felix , Paganini Claudio F. 
Published: September 2022

AbstractWe prove quantitative versions of the following statement: If a solution of the $$1+1$$

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-dimensional wave equation has spatially compact support and consists mainly of positive frequencies, then it must have a significant high-frequency component. Similar results are proven for the $$3+1$$

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-dimensional wave equation.
Laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy versus abdominal sacrocolpopexy for vaginal vault prolapse: long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial
Authors: van Oudheusden Anique M. J. , Eissing Josephine , Terink Ivon M. , Vink Maarten D. H. , van Kuijk Sander M. J. , Bongers Marlies Y. , Coolen Anne-Lotte W. M. 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Introduction and hypothesis
The objective of this study was to evaluate long-term outcomes of laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (LSC) versus abdominal sacrocolpopexy (ASC) for vaginal vault prolapse (VVP).

Methods
Long-term follow-up of a multicenter randomized controlled trial (SALTO trial). A total of 74 women were randomly assigned to LSC (n=37) or ASC (n=37). Primary outcome was disease-specific quality of life, measured with validated questionnaires. Secondary outcomes included anatomical outcome, composite outcome of success, complications, and retreatment.

Results
We analyzed 22 patients in the LSC group and 19 patients in the ASC group for long-term follow-up, with a median follow-up of 109 months (9.1 years). Disease-specific quality of life did not differ after long-term follow-up with median scores of 0.0 (LSC: IQR 0–17; ASC: IQR 0–0) on the “genital prolapse” domain of the Urogenital Distress Inventory in both groups (p = 0.175). Anatomical outcomes were the same for both groups on all points of the POP-Q. The composite outcome of success for the apical compartment is 78.6% (n = 11) in the LSC group and 84.6% (n = 11) in the ASC group (p = 0.686). Mesh exposures occurred in 2 patients (12.5%) in the LSC group and 1 patient (7.7%) in the ASC group. There were 5 surgical reinterventions in both groups (LSC: 22.7%; ASC: 26.3%, p = 0.729).

Conclusions
At long-term follow-up no substantial differences in quality of life, anatomical results, complications, or reinterventions between LSC and ASC were observed. Therefore, the laparoscopic approach is preferable, considering the short-term advantages.

Trial registration
Dutch Trial Register NTR6330, 18 January 2017, https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/5964
Buckwheat hull, a valuable bakery product ingredient: assessment of bioaccessible phenolics and antioxidant capacity
Authors: Bączek Natalia , Haros Claudia Monika , Wronkowska Małgorzata 
Published: September 2022

AbstractIn this study, the bioaccessible total phenolic compounds (TPC) and antioxidant capacity (AC) of commonly consumed bakery products enriched with raw (BH) or roasted (RBH) buckwheat hull were evaluated. The soluble and insoluble fractions obtained after in vitro enzymatic digestion of mixed rye/wheat bread with 4% of RBH (BRBH), wheat bread with 3% of BH (BBH), and their control counterparts were separated (C-BRBH and C-BBH, respectively). The addition of buckwheat hull, raw and roasted, significantly increased the values of analyzed parameters compared to control samples. Before the digestion, the highest values of TPC and AC were found for bread with 4% of RBH. After in vitro digestion of the bakery products, the content of TPC and AC in the soluble fraction was 75–90% higher compared to the values found in the undigested fraction. Generally, a decrease in the bioaccessibility index of enriched bakery products compared to control samples was observed. The obtained results indicate that buckwheat by-products may be used as a valuable ingredient for commonly used bakery products. Also, it was shown that the in vitro digestion model may be of relevance in assessing the bioaccessibility of bioactive compounds in commonly used bakery products.
Alignment philosophy influences trochlea recreation in total knee arthroplasty: a comparative study using image-based robotic technology
Authors: Shatrov Jobe , Coulin Benoit , Batailler Cécile , Servien Elvire , Walter Bill , Lustig Sebastien 
Published: September 2022

Abstract
Purpose
The ability of kinematic alignment (KA) to consistently restore trochlea anatomy in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is unknown despite recreation of constitutional anatomy being its rationale for use. The purpose of this study was to assess if alignment choice in TKA effects the ability to restore the native trochlea groove.

Methods
One hundred and twenty-two consecutive patients undergoing robotic-assisted TKA using the MAKO image-based robotic platform had simulated femoral components placed according to kinematic, mechanical and functional alignment principals. Implant position and trochlea restoration between groups were compared. Restoration was assessed by shift (medial–lateral) and depth relative to the native groove from three consistent points; full extension (0°), mid-flexion (30°–40°) and deep flexion (70°–80°).

Results
Three hundred and sixty-six alignment options were analysed. Femoral alignment was significantly different between groups. Of KA, 13.1% compared to 3.3% of FA plans were outside safe coronal boundaries. The trochlear groove was translated the most by MA compared to KA and FA (full extension, MA 7.84 ± 1.99 mm lateral to the native groove, KA 6.40 ± 2.43 mm and FA 6.88 ± 1.74 mm, p ≤ 0.001). In full extension, FA most closely restored the trochlear groove depth in all three positions of flexion.

Conclusion
Alignment philosophy led to significant differences in trochlea groove recreation. A kinematically placed femoral component led to positioning considered unsafe in over 13% of cases. A functionally placed femoral component most closely restored trochlea depth in all three positions of flexion.
The hybrid number of a ploidy profile
Authors: Huber K. T. , Maher L. J. 
Published: September 2022

AbstractPolyploidization, whereby an organism inherits multiple copies of the genome of their parents, is an important evolutionary event that has been observed in plants and animals. One way to study such events is in terms of the ploidy number of the species that make up a dataset of interest. It is therefore natural to ask: How much information about the evolutionary past of the set of species that form a dataset can be gleaned from the ploidy numbers of the species? To help answer this question, we introduce and study the novel concept of a ploidy profile which allows us to formalize it in terms of a multiplicity vector indexed by the species the dataset is comprised of. Using the framework of a phylogenetic network, we present a closed formula for computing thehybrid number(i.e. the minimal number of polyploidization events required to explain a ploidy profile) of a large class of ploidy profiles. This formula relies on the construction of a certain phylogenetic network from the simplification sequence of a ploidy profile and the hybrid number of the ploidy profile with which this construction is initialized. Both of them can be computed easily in case the ploidy numbers that make up the ploidy profile are not too large. To help illustrate the applicability of our approach, we apply it to a simplified version of a publicly available Viola dataset.
Distinct coral reef habitat communities characterized by environmental DNA metabarcoding
Authors: Dugal Laurence , Thomas Luke , Meenakshisundaram Abinaya , Simpson Tiffany , Lines Rose , Colquhoun Jamie , Jarman Simon , Meekan Mark 
Published: September 2022

AbstractCoral reefs are biodiversity hotspots, places of high endemicity and provide essential services to billions of people globally. With increasing threats to these reefs worldwide, there is a need to implement faster, more efficient ways to monitor spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding offers a promising tool to address this issue, as it has revolutionized our ability to monitor biodiversity from complex environmental samples such as seawater. However, the capacity for eDNA to resolve fine scale shifts in community composition across habitats in seascapes is yet to be fully explored. Here, we applied eDNA metabarcoding using the rRNA 18S Universal eukaryote assay to explore differences in community profiles between samples collected from the lagoon and reef slope habitats across more than 170 km of the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area in Western Australia. We recovered 2061 amplicon sequence variants that comprised of 401 taxa spanning 14 different metazoan phyla such as cnidarians, poriferans, molluscs, algae, worms, and echinoderms. Our results revealed strong clustering of samples by habitat type across the length of the reef. Community dissimilarity (beta diversity) between samples collected from the reef slope and lagoon habitats was high and was driven largely by a strong rate of spatial turnover, indicating a distinct set of taxa representing each reef zone community. We also detected a strong pattern of isolation by distance within our slope samples, suggesting that communities are spatially stratified across the length of the reef. Despite high connectivity due to regular flushing of the lagoon environment, our results demonstrate that metabarcoding of seawater eDNA from different habitats can resolve fine scale community structure. By generating multi-trophic biodiversity data, our study also provided baseline data for Ningaloo from which future changes can be assessed.