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Molecular dynamics of epoxy nanocomposites filled with core–shell and hollow nanosilica architectures
Authors: Chaudhary Sunny , Vryonis Orestis , Vaughan Alun , Andritsch Thomas 
Published: November 2022

AbstractHere we contrast the molecular dynamics of epoxy nanocomposites filled with three different types of silica-based nanoparticles with different architectures, namely solid core, core–shell and hollow and with varying degree of crystallinity. The samples are characterised by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, broadband dielectric spectroscopy and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). Widely known relaxations such as α, β, γ, normal mode and interfacial polarisation are observed and discussed. An additional relaxation named omega (ω) is also observed, whose dielectric strength is inversely correlated to the crystallinity of the nanoparticles. We suggest that this may be attributed to the polarizing interaction of the hydroxyl groups of silanols with the hydroxy ether groups of the polymer chain. The ω is absent in DMA confirming it as a polarisation phenomenon. At lower concentration of silanols, the ω largely overlaps with β, effectively becoming an integral part of it. Finally, two interfacial polarisation relaxations are observed in the case of core–shell structures, originating from the core–shell and shell–polymer interface but, due to the similar real permittivity values of the core, shell and the polymer, their dielectric strength is weak.
Swedish public and private housing companies’ access to the capital market for financing energy renovation
Authors: Mangold Mikael , Mjörnell Kristina 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe financing of energy efficiency measures and renovations is key to reaching energy efficiency targets for the housing sector. The purpose of this article is to add the Swedish case of how capital market funds have become accessible and used by public and private housing companies, in particular for energy efficiency measures. The core of this article are interviews with representatives of Swedish housing companies made during the spring of 2021 with the purpose of mapping how public and larger private housing companies finance renovation and energy efficiency measures, and to what extent funds from the capital market are used for these purposes. In this article, we have found that capital market funds are commonly used by the Swedish public and the largest private housing companies. Bonds are less costly compared to bank loans, and green bonds are 0.02–0.03 percentage points less costly than conventional bonds. Furthermore, control systems that investigate the values of building portfolios as security for bonds are poor. A conclusion is that governmental control systems over the capital market issuing bonds for the housing market could be needed to avert future housing bubbles.
The moral permissibility of banishment
Authors: Sheng E. E. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThis essay defends the moral permissibility, as a form of punishment, of banishment, namely the exclusion by a state of a citizen from its territory. I begin by outlining the prima facie case for banishment, consider for whom it may be appropriate, and acknowledge constraints on its permissibility. I then defend banishment against the main objections in the literature to banishment or the related measure of denationalization (stripping citizens of their citizenship): impermissible permanency; excessive severity; ineffectiveness; unfairness to those who are punished and the creation of two classes of citizens; unfairness among states; and that banishment without denationalization is incompatible with the nature of citizenship. I adopt a ‘cantilever strategy’: if incarceration is permissible notwithstanding a certain objection, so is banishment. In concluding, I sympathetically discuss the view that, despite the moral permissibility of banishment, the power to banish should not be instituted because of the risk of abuse.
An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design to establish thresholds of within-individual meaningful change on a sleep disturbance numerical rating scale score in atopic dermatitis
Authors: Dias-Barbosa Carla , Puelles Jorge , Fofana Fatoumata , Gabriel Sylvie , Rodriguez Danielle , Chavda Rajeev , Piketty Christophe 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
Purpose
Establishing a meaningful within-individual change (MWIC) threshold is a key aspect for interpreting scores used as endpoints for evaluating treatment benefit. A new patient-reported outcome (PRO), a sleep disturbance numerical rating scale (SD NRS), was developed in adults and adolescents with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD). This research aims to establish a MWIC threshold of the SD NRS score in the context of a drug development program.

Methods
An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was used to address the research objective. This mixed-methods design used phase IIb data and a stand-alone qualitative study. Quantitative anchor-based and distribution-based approaches supported by qualitative-based approaches were conducted, and results were triangulated to determine preliminary MWIC thresholds of the SD NRS score.

Results
Triangulation of results from both quantitative and qualitative approaches suggested that a 2- to 6-point decrease in the SD NRS score change constitutes a preliminary range of MWIC threshold estimates.

Conclusion
This research determined MWIC threshold estimates for the SD NRS score in both adolescents and adults with moderate-to-severe AD using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. This mixed-methods design provides interesting insights for establishing MWIC thresholds of a PRO score in the context of a drug development program.
Special Issue Introduction
Authors: Bucher Hannah , Stroppe Anne-Kathrin , Burger Axel M. , Faas Thorsten , Schoen Harald , Debus Marc , Roßteutscher Sigrid 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe GLES Open Science Challenge 2021 was a pioneering initiative in quantitative political science. Aimed at increasing the adoption of replicable and transparent research practices, it led to this special issue. The project combined the rigor of registered reports—a new publication format in which studies are evaluated prior to data collection/access and analysis—with quantitative political science research in the context of the 2021 German federal election. This special issue, which features the registered reports that resulted from the project, shows that transparent research following open science principles benefits our discipline and substantially contributes to quantitative political science. In this introduction to the special issue, we first elaborate on why more transparent research practices are necessary to guarantee the cumulative progress of scientific knowledge. We then show how registered reports can contribute to increasing the transparency of scientific practices. Next, we discuss the application of open science practices in quantitative political science to date. And finally, we present the process and schedule of the GLES Open Science Challenge and give an overview of the contributions included in this special issue.
Evolution of γ′ Precipitation During the Early Stages of Industrial Forging of a Nickel-Based Superalloy
Authors: Coyne-Grell A. , Blaizot J. , Rahimi S. , Violatos I. , Nouveau S. , Dumont C. , Nicolaÿ A. , Bozzolo N. 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
A sample of the Ni-based superalloy AD730 was heat treated at a supersolvus temperature (1160 °C) then slowly cooled through the solvus temperature (1110 °C) at 10 °C/hr down to 1080 °C, i.e., a rate representative of the cooling conditions of an industrial-scale billet undergoing controlled cooling. The γ′ precipitate distribution which forms during this cooling was investigated, and a mix of continuous and discontinuous precipitation was found. The discontinuous γ′ precipitates were imaged using 3D tomography, and were shown to present very different sizes, morphologies, and aspect ratios when observed in different 2D imaging planes. The interaction between different populations of γ′ precipitate and recrystallization was investigated, and it was found that the discontinuous precipitates present more of a barrier to recrystallization than the continuous ones. This has been explained based on the different inter-precipitate spacings observed for the two populations. In addition to these γ′ precipitates which form during slow cooling, a fine and dense distribution of approximately spherical γ′ precipitates was found to form dynamically, during subsequent subsolvus forging, within unrecrystallized grains.
Importance of Measurement and Evaluation Procedure of Particle State in Atmospheric Plasma Spraying
Authors: Hudomalj Uroš , Fallahi Sichani Ehsan , Weiss Lukas , Nabavi Majid , Wegener Konrad 
Published: November 2022

AbstractIn-flight particle state parameters (PSPs) have been shown to play a crucial role in determining the properties of atmospheric plasma-sprayed coatings. Therefore, PSPs are frequently measured before starting a coating run as part of process control. This paper shows the importance of the measurement procedure used and subsequent data processing applied for the evaluation of PSPs, with the focus on process control applications. The paper demonstrates this on the example of coating of yttria-stabilized zirconia, using a commercially available sensor system Accuraspray-G3C for measuring the ensemble particle temperatures and velocities as descriptors of the PSPs. Experimental results show a longer stabilization time of the particle jet than what is practically considered, revealing the need for an appropriate choice of the measurement procedure. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that information about PSPs can be acquired also during the coating run by periodically moving the coating gun to a stationary sensor system only for a short measurement duration. Lastly, it is shown how different data processing methods affect the evaluation of the acquired PSPs.
Proteomics and photosynthetic apparatus response to vermicompost attenuation of salinity stress Vicia faba leaves
Authors: Tammam Amel , El-Aggan Weam , Helaly Amira , Badr Ghadah , El-Dakak Rehab 
Published: November 2022

AbstractCrop production and growth are severely affected by salt stress. Nevertheless, the bio-fertilizer vermicompost (VC) can be participated as a potent inhibitor of salinity on plant growth and crop production by regulating photosynthetic efficiency. We investigated the effect of VC on photosynthetic performance of salt-stressed broad bean (Vicia faba L. Aspani cultivar). Seeds were grown in soil mixture; clay and sand in ratio 1:2 by volume with five different volumetric ratios of VC; 0, 2.5, 5, 10 and 15% irrigated with either water and/or 200 mM NaCl. Leaf area, Na and K contents, chlorophylls, photosystem II efficiency, Rubisco content, soluble sugars, chloroplasts’ organization and proteomics were analyzed. The imposed stress decrease leaf area, chlorophyll contents, maximum quantum efficiency (Fv/Fm), Rubisco content, increase soluble sugars and damage chloroplasts organization. Salinity upregulated glucose-1-phosphate adenylyl transferase, ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase large subunit and chloroplastic peptidyl-prolyl cis–trans isomerase. The increased leaf area, chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids, maximum quantum efficiency of photosystem II, Rubisco content, improving the degeneration of thylakoid lamellae and lessening plastoglobuli number in thylakoid membranes are the major benefits attained with vermicompost treatments under salt stress.Analysis of proteomic revealed that VC upregulated chloroplastic ferredoxin–NADP reductase, plastocyanin, polyphenol oxidase, peptidyl-prolyl cis–trans isomerase, alpha-glucan phosphorylase H isozyme and maturase expression under salt stress. The results suggest that VC controls protein expression at the level of transcriptional and translational which may conserve photosynthetic components and prevent salt-induced harmful effects in broad bean plants.
An older patient with active ulcerative colitis and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia successfully treated with the combination of anti-TNFα therapy and azathioprine
Authors: Yamakawa Tsukasa , Ishigami Keisuke , Ohwada Sae , Kazama Tomoe , Hirayama Daisuke , Yoshii Shinji , Yamano Hiro-o , Nakase Hiroshi 
Published: November 2022

AbstractA 77-year-old patient with ulcerative colitis (UC) was transferred to our department because of worsening bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain, which was consistent with a UC flare. Two days after admission, she complained of cough and high fever. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was positive, and a computed tomography showed pneumonia in the left lobe, consistent with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. However, frequent bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain due to the UC flare persisted; therefore, an additional immunosuppressive agent needed to be considered. We initiated infliximab biosimilar (IFX-BS), and her abdominal symptoms improved. However, they deteriorated after the second IFX-BS infusion. After confirming that the patient was negative for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR, we administered a combination of azathioprine and IFX-BS. The combination treatment improved her intestinal symptoms without worsening COVID-19 pneumonia. She has remained in remission for over a year since her discharge.
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research
Authors: Lowe James W. E. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractBiologists who work on the pig (Sus scrofa) take advantage of its similarity to humans by constructing the inferential and material means to traffic data, information and knowledge across the species barrier. Their research has been funded due to its perceived value for agriculture and medicine. Improving selective breeding practices, for instance, has been a driver of genomics research. The pig is also an animal model for biomedical research and practice, and is proposed as a source of organs for cross-species transplantation: xenotransplantation. Genomics research has informed transplantation biology, which has itself motivated developments in genomics. Both have generated models of correspondences between the genomes of pigs and humans. Concerning genomics, I detail how researchers traverse species boundaries to develop representations of the pig genome, alongside ensuring that such representations are sufficiently porcine. In transplantation biology, the representations of the genomes of humans and pigs are used to detect and investigate immunologically-pertinent differences between the two species. These key differences can then be removed, to ‘humanise’ donor pigs so that they can become a safe and effective source of organs. In both of these endeavours, there is a tension between practices that ‘humanise’ the pig (or representations thereof) through using resources from human genomics, and the need to ‘dehumanise’ the pig to maintain distinctions for legal, ethical and scientific reasons. This paper assesses the ways in which this tension has been managed, observing the differences between its realisations across comparative pig genomics and transplantation biology, and considering the consequences of this.
A Constitutional Ethnography of Monarchy: Buddhist Kingship, “Granted Constitutionalism,” and Royal State Ceremonies in Thailand
Authors: Mérieau Eugénie 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThis paper defines constitutional ethnography as the cultural study of constitutionalism through its symbolic representations. By focusing on the materiality of constitutionalism as embodied in various state ceremonies such as ceremonies of “royal octroy” (constitution-granting ceremonies) as well as in state monuments honouring the Constitution, it strives to offer an ethnography of a polity’s constitutional identity. In this paper, I argue that in Thailand, Westernized Hindu-Buddhist state ceremonies and monuments using Westernized Hindu-Buddhist symbolism represent the Thai monarch as the ultimate law-giver holding permanent “constituent power” and therefore yielding extra-constitutional customary powers pre-existing the Constitution. This representation, in turn, informs Thai constitutional identity as defined incrementally by courts and jurists since the early twentieth century, which in turn informs present Thai constitutional interpretation. Therefore, this paper argues that the study of state ceremonies can be a useful entry point into the analysis of a “constitutional culture” shaping modes of constitutional interpretation.
Communication politique et symbolique vestimentaire au Cameroun : cas de l’élection présidentielle de 2018
Authors: Bombela Bombela Jean Daniel 
Published: November 2022

RésuméLa communication politique conventionnelle occulte l’usage des symboles culturels de l’apparence que sont les vêtements lors des campagnes électorales. Or le vêtement est incorporé à l’œuvre de conquête et de conservation du pouvoir politique du fait de son potentiel de séduction. En prenant pour site d’observation la campagne pour l’élection présidentielle camerounaise d’octobre 2018, cet article entreprend de rendre intelligible le comportement vestimentaire des candidats. Les données de cette étude sont issues d’une observation participante lors de meetings et de l’analyse des affiches de campagnes de cette élection. Il en ressort que le vêtement est un média de l’expression de la personnalité et des stratégies de séduction des candidats qui agit davantage comme unstimulide la mobilisation que comme un déterminant du vote.
COHOMOLOGY OF THE BRUHAT–TITS STRATA IN THE UNRAMIFIED UNITARY RAPOPORT–ZINK SPACE OF SIGNATURE
Authors: MULLER JOSEPH 
Published: November 2022

AbstractIn their renowned paper (2011,Inventiones Mathematicae184, 591–627), I. Vollaard and T. Wedhorn defined a stratification on the special fiber of the unitary unramified PEL Rapoport–Zink space with signature$(1,n-1)$. They constructed an isomorphism between the closure of a stratum, called a closed Bruhat–Tits stratum, and a Deligne–Lusztig variety which is not of classical type. In this paper, we describe the$\ell $-adic cohomology groups over$\overline {{\mathbb Q}_{\ell }}$of these Deligne–Lusztig varieties, where$\ell \not = p$. The computations involve the spectral sequence associated with the Ekedahl–Oort stratification of a closed Bruhat–Tits stratum, which translates into a stratification by Coxeter varieties whose cohomology is known. Eventually, we find out that the irreducible representations of the finite unitary group which appear inside the cohomology contribute to only two different unipotent Harish-Chandra series, one of them belonging to the principal series.
Detecting the Laramide event in southern Mexico by means of apatite fission-track thermochronology
Authors: Florez-Amaya Sandra Lorena , Abdullin Fanis , Bedoya Alejandra , Maldonado Roberto , Milián de la Cruz Ricardo Enrique , Solari Luigi , Solé Jesús , Ortega-Obregón Carlos 
Published: November 2022

AbstractIn this study, we present apatite fission-track results obtained for ten rock samples collected from three different areas across the Sierra Madre del Sur, southern Mexico. The central objective of our study is the timing of the exhumation event that took place in southern Mexico during Late Cretaceous–Palaeogene time. The thermochronometric data obtained during this work indicate that a Late Cretaceous–Eocene cooling is recorded within the Sierra Madre del Sur, and this is interpreted as resulting from exhumation, an orogenic event that is contemporaneous with the Laramide sensu lato (or the Mexican Orogeny). The fission-track ages become younger from west to east across the Sierra Madre del Sur, whereas the cooling rates also increased in the same direction approximately during Campanian–middle Eocene time. Here, we suggest that the activity of the major fault systems of southern Mexico, such as the Caltepec and the Oaxaca faults, played a primary role in the development of geological structures and the exhumation of the Sierra Madre del Sur. Active magmatism during the evolution of the Mexican Orogen implicates the subducted Farallon slab as the main driver of crustal thickening. Moreover, the possible influence of the eastward movement of the Chortis Block on the deformation of the Sierra Madre del Sur cannot be ruled out.
Trans-fat labelling information on prepackaged foods and beverages sold in Hong Kong in 2019
Authors: Cheng Christopher Chi Wai , Wu Jason HY , Louie Jimmy Chun Yu 
Published: November 2022

AbstractObjective:To examine the labelling status of trans-fat of pre-packaged foods sold in Hong Kong.Design:Data from 19 027 items in the 2019 FoodSwitch Hong Kong database were used. Ingredient lists were screened to identify specific (e.g. partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, PHVO) and non-specific trans-fat ingredient indicators (e.g. hydrogenated oil). Trans-fat content was obtained from the on-pack nutrition labels, which was converted into proportion of total fat (%total fat). Descriptive statistics were calculated for trans-fat content and the number of specific, non-specific and total trans-fat ingredients indicators found on the ingredients lists. Comparisons were made between regions using one-way ANOVA and χ2 for continuous and categorical variables, respectively.Setting:Cross-sectional audit.Participants:Not applicable.Results:A total of 729 items (3·8 % of all products) reported to contain industrially produced trans-fat, with a median of 0·4 g/100 g or 100 ml (interquartile range (IQR): 0·1–0·6) and 1·2 %totalfat (IQR: 0·6–2·9). ‘Bread and bakery products’ had the highest proportion of items with industrially produced trans-fat (18·9 %). ‘Non-alcoholic beverages’ had the highest proportion of products of ‘false negatives’ labelling (e.g. labelled as 0 trans-fat but contains PHVO; 59·3 %). The majority of products with trans-fat indicator originated from Asia (70 %).Conclusions:According to the labelling ∼4 % of pre-packaged food and beverages sold in Hong Kong in 2019 contained industrially produced trans-fat, and a third of these had trans-fat >2 %total fat. The ambiguous trans-fat labelling in Hong Kong may not effectively assist consumers in identifying products free from industrially produced trans-fat.
Transversal Harm, Regulation, and the Tolerance of Oil Disasters
Authors: Kotsakis Andreas , Boukli Avi 
Published: November 2022

AbstractLaw – through regulation, criminalization and litigation – provides key mechanisms for mitigating the harmful effects of oil disasters. At the same time, these mechanisms also enable the perpetuation of oil disasters under an extractivist imperative. This disaster tolerance is the point of departure for this article's examination of the legal response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster over the last decade. Based on a methodology that combines a social harm approach with the political ecology of Felix Guattari, we firstly present a reconceptualization of harm inflicted by oil corporations across three registers: environment, society, and subjectivity. We subsequently introduce the concept of transversal harm, which allows us to move beyond the criminal and civil damage of corporate crime and negligence and to capture the collective and continuous impact of oil extractivism, as opposed to the exceptional impact of oil disasters. Transversal harm opens new avenues for assigning corporate responsibility and reducing disaster tolerance as the by-product of environmental law.