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Collaborative governance platforms and outcomes: An analysis of Clean Cities coalitions
Authors: Lee Heewon 
Published: May 2022

AbstractCollaborative efforts across sectors, scales, and government levels have been effective in addressing the goals to reduce petroleum use and mitigate environmental issues in the U.S. While community contexts shape local collaborative governance, diverse local interests do not necessarily translate into collaborations without proper facilitating efforts. This study expands the theoretical discussion on the concept of collaborative platforms, which is understudied despite their wide use as a governance instrument to catalyze local collaboration. Specifically, the way platforms mediate to create local collaborations among diverse local‐level interests and improve outcomes has not been studied much to date. Using data on the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Cities program to promote local collaborative governance related to alternative fuels, this paper examines the way collaborative platforms create, scale, and affect the outcome of supplying alternative fueling infrastructure. The results of multi‐level mixed‐effects models indicate that the collaborative platform integrates local interests to create and scale local collaboration, and achieves better outcomes leveraging local interests.
A revised Red List of British butterflies
Authors: Fox Richard , Dennis Emily B. , Brown Andrew F. , Curson Jon 
Published: May 2022

Abstract
Regular reassessment of extinction risk is critical to prioritise conservation action during the current period of rapid, anthropogenic biodiversity change.
Butterflies are a flagship group for insect monitoring and conservation, as they are highly visible, well studied and exhibit rapid responses to environmental change. Here, we use systematic population monitoring data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme and citizen‐science derived occurrence records to provide an updated assessment of extinction risk in Great Britain (GB) by applying current International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criteria to 62 butterfly species.
The resulting regional Red List categorises four species as Regionally Extinct, 24 (41% of the remaining, extant species) as threatened (8 Endangered and 16 Vulnerable), 5 (9%) as Near Threatened and 29 (50%) as Least Concern. Recent reduction in population size (Criterion A) based on smoothed, long‐term time series of abundance and occurrence data, was responsible for most of the threatened or Near Threatened categorisations.
While the status of some species improved, likely due to conservation efforts, the revised Red List demonstrates an ongoing deterioration in the status of GB butterflies, with a 26% increase in threatened species since the previous assessment.
A greater proportion of butterflies was classed as threatened than for most other GB taxa. While this may stem from greater data availability for butterflies than most other groups (thus allowing tests of extinction risk against more criteria), it highlights the need to reinvigorate conservation efforts for these charismatic insects.
Impacts of yeast β‐glucan on thermal aggregation and flavour adsorption capacity of Spanish mackerel myosin
Authors: Xu Yongxia , Lv Yanan , Yin Yiming , Zhao Honglei , Yi Shumin , Li Xuepeng , Li Jianrong 
Published: May 2022

SummaryThe effects of yeast β‐glucan (YG) on the aggregation and flavour adsorption capacity of Spanish mackerel myosin under two‐step heat treatments were investigated. The surface hydrophobicity and active sulfhydryl content of heat‐induced myosin was increased by the addition of YG, reaching the maximum values of 81.46 and 17.49 mol per 105 g after heating at 90 °C for 10 min. YG incorporation significantly decreased the α‐helix content of myosin to the minimum value of 48.27%, whereas the β‐sheet was increased. The addition of YG promoted the unfolding of myosin, exposing more hydrophobic bonding sites, thus enhancing the flavour‐binding capacity of myosin. Lengthy heating at 90 °C combined with YG addition accelerated the cross‐linking and aggregation of myosin, leading to the re‐embedding of the exposed hydrophobic groups as much as the reduction of flavour‐binding sites. However, YG's unique porous structure could also boost the flavour adsorption ability of myosin containing YG.
The effects of high‐pressure homogenization, drying pH and propylene glycol on the emulsifying properties of pea protein powder
Authors: Burger Travis G. , Mayfield Caleb , Baumert Joseph L. , Zhang Yue 
Published: May 2022

SummaryPea protein is a promising option for plant protein‐based emulsification, but commercial proteins have limited functional properties related to their poor physicochemical properties such as solubility. To address this issue, this research investigated the effects of high‐pressure homogenisation and extraction conditions on the solubility and emulsification properties of pea protein. Heating during extraction can denature pea protein and simulate the reduced functional properties of commercial proteins. Homogenising at 10 000 psi combined with the heating process during extraction significantly improved the solubility and emulsification properties of pea protein. Freeze drying at pH 9.0 improved the solubility of pea protein and lowered the droplet size of resultant emulsions compared to pH 7.0. Extracting the protein in propylene glycol to inhibit hydrophobic interactions slightly improved solubility but decreased the emulsification properties. The combination of homogenisation during heating and freeze drying at an elevated pH produced the optimum solubility and emulsification properties. These results suggest that high‐pressure homogenisation and drying at elevated pH levels can be effective tools to limit the functionality‐reducing effects of denaturation that occurs during the commercial extraction of pea protein. This information can be used to design better production methods for pea protein and improve its functional properties.
The Devil's Envy: On Christ as Angelic Justifier and Demonic Stumbling Block
Authors: Case Brendan 
Published: May 2022

AbstractAt least since Augustine, Christian theology, especially but not only in the Latin West, has been dominated by an account of angelic origins in which the Incarnation was a response to humanity’s fall, itself occasioned by the prior angelic fall, whose cause in turn was the proud desire to be like God. (We’ll call this the ‘pride‐account’). Nonetheless, that Augustinian view has been balanced from the beginning by an ‘envy‐account’, which stresses instead Wisdom’s claim, ‘Through the Devil’s envy, death entered the world’ (Wisd. 2:24). The earliest extra‐biblical versions of the envy‐account – developed in the Latin, Syriac, and Arabic ‘Life of Adam and Eve’ traditions – take the object of Satan’s envy to have been Adam in particular. In the thirteenth century, however, Robert Grosseteste, as part of his extended defense of the idea that the Son would have been incarnate even without sin, argued instead that the Devil and his angels fell in rejecting the to‐be‐incarnate Christ, whose merits serve to ‘justify’ not only unfallen humanity, but even the holy angels. On this view, which arguably has biblical roots in Hebrews 1 and Revelation 12, and which reached its apogee in Milton’s Paradise Lost, ‘the Devil’s envy’ was directed at the God‐man in particular.
Does venture capital investment enhance corporate innovation? Evidence from Korea
Authors: Lee Kyounghun , Oh Frederick Dongchuhl , Shin Donglim , Yoon Heejin 
Published: May 2022

AbstractWe examine whether venture capital (VC) investment enhances corporate innovation in Korea. Using a matched sample of 802 firms from 1998 to 2012, we find that after the first round of VC investment, VC‐backed firms are more innovative than non‐VC‐backed firms. Our results suggest that the positive influence of VC investment largely comes from the ability of VC firms to reduce information asymmetry between investors and ventures: VC funds managed by independent venture capitalists significantly enhance corporate innovation, whereas those managed by governmental venture capitalists do not. Furthermore, this positive influence becomes more pronounced where there is greater information asymmetry. Finally, we show that funds with profit‐based compensation structures are more likely to encourage corporate innovation than those with fee‐based compensation structures.
The costs and benefits of larger brains in fishes
Authors: Fischer Stefan , Jungwirth Arne 
Published: May 2022

AbstractThe astonishing diversity of brain sizes observed across the animal kingdom is typically explained in the context of trade‐offs: the benefits of a larger brain, such as enhanced cognitive ability, are balanced against potential costs, such as increased energetic demands. Several hypotheses have been formulated in this framework, placing different emphasis on ecological, behavioural, or physiological aspects of trade‐offs in brain size evolution. Within this body of work, there exists considerable taxonomic bias towards studies of birds and mammals, leaving some uncertainty about the generality of the respective arguments. Here, we test three of the most prominent such hypotheses, the ‘expensive tissue’, ‘social brain’ and ‘cognitive buffer’ hypotheses, in a large dataset of fishes, derived from a publicly available resource (FishBase). In accordance with predictions from the ‘expensive tissue’ and the ‘social brain’ hypothesis, larger brains co‐occur with reduced fecundity and increased sociality in at least some Classes of fish. Contrary to expectations, however, lifespan is reduced in large‐brained fishes, and there is a tendency for species that perform parental care to have smaller brains. As such, it appears that some potential costs (reduced fecundity) and benefits (increased sociality) of large brains are near universal to vertebrates, whereas others have more lineage‐specific effects. We discuss our findings in the context of fundamental differences between the classically studied birds and mammals and the fishes we analyse here, namely divergent patterns of growth, parenting and neurogenesis. As such, our work highlights the need for a taxonomically diverse approach to any fundamental question in evolutionary biology.
Full‐scale, near real‐time multi‐regional input–output table for the global emerging economies (EMERGING)
Authors: Huo Jingwen , Chen Peipei , Hubacek Klaus , Zheng Heran , Meng Jing , Guan Dabo 
Published: May 2022

AbstractMulti‐regional input–output (MRIO) models are widely used to analyze the economic interdependencies between regions in the context of global trade and environmental research. MRIO tables enable us to teleconnect the sectors in different regions along the supply chain and track both direct and indirect impacts of global production. Yet emerging economies—despite reshaping international trade patterns and playing an increasingly important role in the world economy—are not adequately represented in existing MRIO databases, which lack key detail on countries and sectors. To bridge this gap, our study presents EMERGING: Up‐to‐date and full‐scale MRIO tables covering 135 sectors in 245 economies over the period from 2015 to 2019. We describe in detail the steps in the development of the database and reconciliation and validation of bilateral trade data and national statistics. The EMERGING database is also designed to incorporate more official and publicly available data from national statistical institutes to ensure a high level of data quality, especially for these economies. We compare both national production‐based and consumption‐based value added generated from the EMERGING MRIO with the results from four major MRIO databases. Although global value‐added accounts are similar across databases, we find significant discrepancies at the level of individual countries and sectors concerning conflicting benchmark data.
Life cycle assessment of Indonesian canned crab (Portunus pelagicus)
Authors: Wiloso Edi Iswanto , Romli Muhammad , Nugraha Bambang Arif , Wiloso Adisa Ramadhan , Setiawan Arief Ameir Rahman , Henriksson Patrik J. G. 
Published: May 2022

AbstractIndonesia is an archipelagic country with abundant marine wealth that makes it the world's second largest producer of fish after China. While most of Indonesia's capture marine fisheries (80%) are consumed domestically, around 90% of blue swimming crab (BSC) products are exported, mainly in cans. This makes up almost half of all BSC products on the global market, with the United States and the European Union being the main importers. We carried out a life cycle assessment (LCA) of canned BSC products from Indonesia. Our LCA evaluated the production of “one tonne of canned BSC” at market as a functional unit (FU), with a cradle‐to‐market system boundary, encompassing wild capture, preprocessing, processing, and distribution to the port of destination at home and abroad. The processing stage was found to be the highest contributor (hotspot) for most of the impact categories considered, mainly due to the use of tin cans for packaging. Despite producing less by‐catch, BSC caught with traps resulted in around threefold greater global warming impact per FU than those caught using nets. We also concluded that BSC meat produced in Java is environmentally preferable to that from Sumatra, as most of the shells were sold as coproducts. In addition to recycling and substitution of packaging materials, environmental improvements can also be obtained by increasing the number of shell‐processing facilities outside Java. The results of this study can be used by the Indonesian government to develop more sustainable practices to avoid overexploitation of BSC and limit its environmental impacts.
Associations of age at menarche and age at menopause with diabetes among postmenopausal women in Chongqing, China
Authors: Yuan Yun , Bu Xiaoqing , Xiao Meng , Chen Liling , Tang Wenge , Yuan Xinyu , Ding Xianbin , Tang Xiaojun 
Published: May 2022

AbstractBackgroundExisting studies on the association of age at menarche and age at natural menopause with diabetes are conflicting.ObjectiveTo explore the associations of age at menarche and age at natural menopause with diabetes, and to estimate whether body mass index, abdominal obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidemia would influence the relationships.MethodsIn this cross‐sectional study, 5090 postmenopausal women were included from the China Multi‐Ethnic Cohort Study (CMEC) baseline in Chongqing province. Questionnaires, physical examinations, and biological samples testing were conducted. Logistic regression was used to generate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). And restricted cubic splines were performed to evaluate the pattern of association between ages at menarche and menopause with diabetes.ResultsThe adjusted ORs for diabetes grouped by age at menarche (<12, 12–17, >17 years) were 0.76 (95%CI: 0.42–1.40), 1.00 (reference), and 0.73 (95%CI: 0.57–0.94). Similarly, the adjusted ORs for diabetes grouped by age at menopause (<44, 44–52, >52 years) were 1.38 (95%CI: 1.04–1.82), 1.00 (reference), and 1.11 (95%CI: 0.89–1.39). No significant interaction of age at menarche and menopause with body mass index, abdominal obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidemia in odds of diabetes was observed.ConclusionLate menarche is associated with a lower prevalence of diabetes, while early natural menopause is associated with a higher prevalence of diabetes. No significant effect modification was observed by body mass index, abdominal obesity, hypertension, or dyslipidemia.
The use of self‐report questionnaires in an analysis of the multidimensional aspects of pain and a correlation with the psychological profile and quality of life in patients with burning mouth syndrome: A case‐control study
Authors: Canfora Federica , Calabria Elena , Pecoraro Giuseppe , D′Aniello Luca , Aria Massimo , Marenzi Gaetano , Sammartino Pasquale , Mignogna Michele Davide , Adamo Daniela 
Published: May 2022

AbstractBackgroundThe symptomatology in Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is complex and it should be considered in accordance with a biopsychosocial model.ObjectivesTo evaluate the multidimensional aspects of pain with a complete battery of tests and to analyse its relationship with potential predictors such as mood disorders, sleep and quality of life.MethodsForty patients with BMS versus an equal number of age and sex‐matched healthy controls were enrolled. The VAS, SF‐MPQ, BPI, PD‐Q, BDI‐II, STAI, PSQI, ESS, SF‐36 and OHIP‐14 were administered.ResultsThe scores of the VAS, SF‐MPQ, BPI, PD‐Q, BDI‐II, STAI, PSQI, SF‐36 and OHIP‐14 were statistically significantly higher in the BMS patients than the controls (p < .001**). A strongly linear correlation between pain (VAS, SF‐MPQ, BPI and PD‐Q) and disease onset (STAI, BDI‐II, PSQI and sub‐items of SF‐36 and OHIP‐14) was found. In the multiple regression analysis, the contributions of the BDI‐II and OHIP‐14 were found to be statistically significant with the SF‐MPQ, PD‐Q and BPI in terms of severity and interference, while the contributions of the STAI and sleep were found to be statistically significant with the SF‐MPQ and BPI in terms of severity and interference, respectively.ConclusionsPain tests are differently correlated with mood and quality of life. Therefore, a complete analysis of the patient requires several tools to better understand the multidimensional aspects of pain in BMS.
Changes in transmucosal buprenorphine utilization for opioid use disorder treatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Kentucky
Authors: Lei Feitong , Lofwall Michelle R. , Freeman Patricia R. , Slade Emily , Vickers‐Smith Rachel , Slavova Svetla 
Published: May 2022

AbstractPurposeWith surging opioid‐involved overdoses, maintaining access to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment is critical during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We examined changes in transmucosal buprenorphine prescribing for OUD treatment in Kentucky after the national COVID‐19 emergency declaration, with a focus on rural‐urban differences.MethodsUsing 2019‐2020 prescription monitoring data, we performed segmented regression analysis for an interrupted time series design to evaluate changes in weekly rates (per 100,000 residents) of dispensed prescriptions, unique individuals with dispensed prescriptions, and average days’ supply for dispensed prescriptions of transmucosal buprenorphine.FindingsThe weekly rates of dispensed prescriptions and unique individuals with dispensed prescriptions were higher for rural residents than urban residents. After the national COVID‐19 emergency declaration, rural and urban residents experienced similar immediate drops in the rate of dispensed prescriptions (rural –33.4; urban –24.3) and unique patients with dispensed prescriptions (rural –25.0; urban –17.1), followed by similar sustained increases. Both measures surpassed the prepandemic levels in mid‐June 2020. Patients residing in urban areas received averagely longer prescriptions at baseline (urban: 11.0 days; rural: 10.5 days). The average weekly days’ supply increased in the week after the national emergency declaration, but the estimated increase was higher (P = .004) for urban (0.8 days) versus rural (0.5 days) residents.ConclusionsTransmucosal buprenorphine utilization increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic after experiencing interruption during the initial weeks of the pandemic. Future studies should evaluate the contribution of the relaxed telemedicine buprenorphine prescribing regulations during the COVID‐19 national emergency on initiation and maintenance of buprenorphine treatment.
Nail fold microangiopathy in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: Relation to diabetic vascular complications
Authors: Abdelmaksoud Abeer Ahmed , Daifallah Shaymaa Maher , Salah Nouran Yousef , Saber Ahmed Salah 
Published: May 2022

AbstractObjectivesMicroangiopathy is implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetic vascular complications. Nail fold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) is an easy non‐invasive tool of microvasculature assessment. This study compares the NVC changes in adolescents with Type1 diabetes (T1D) to healthy controls and correlates them to diabetic vascular complications.MethodsHundred thirty‐five adolescents with T1D (disease duration 5 years) were compared to 135 matched controls. Diabetes duration, insulin therapy, fundus, and Toronto clinical scoring system (TCSS) were assessed. Fasting lipids, fraction‐C of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C), urinary albumin creatinine ratio (UACR), nerve conduction velocity, and NVC were performed.ResultsNVC changes were found in 120 adolescents with T1D (88.8%). These changes were significantly higher in adolescents with T1D than controls (p < .001). Significant positive relation was found between NVC changes and TCSS (p = .006), diabetes duration (p = .001), HbA1C (0.008), cholesterol (p = .011), LDL (0.016), UACR (p < .001), and nerve conduction velocity (p < .001). Multivariate logistic regression study revealed that diabetic nephropathy and neuropathy were independently associated with NVC changes (p < .001 and p = .007, respectively).ConclusionAdolescents with T1D have significantly higher NVC changes than controls. These changes were more evident in those having vascular complications than those without. Thus, NVC can be a potential non‐invasive tool for early assessment and follow‐up of the microvasculature among adolescents with T1D.
A newly evolved chimeric lysin motif receptor‐like kinase in Medicago truncatula spp. tricycla R108 extends its Rhizobia symbiotic partnership
Authors: Luu Thi‐Bich , Ourth Anna , Pouzet Cécile , Pauly Nicolas , Cullimore Julie 
Published: May 2022

Summary

Rhizobial lipochitooligosaccharidic Nod factors (NFs), specified by nod genes, are the primary determinants of host specificity in the legume–Rhizobia symbiosis.

We examined the nodulation ability of Medicago truncatula cv Jemalong A17 and M. truncatula ssp. tricycla R108 with the Sinorhizobium meliloti nodF/nodL mutant, which produces modified NFs. We then applied genetic and functional approaches to study the genetic basis and mechanism of nodulation of R108 by this mutant.

We show that the nodF/nodL mutant can nodulate R108 but not A17. Using genomics and reverse genetics, we identified a newly evolved, chimeric LysM receptor‐like kinase gene in R108, LYK2bis, which is responsible for the phenotype and can allow A17 to gain nodulation with the nodF/nodL mutant. We found that LYK2bis is involved in nodulation by mutants producing nonO‐acetylated NFs and interacts with the key receptor protein NFP. Many, but not all, natural S. meliloti and S. medicae strains tested require LYK2bis for efficient nodulation of R108.

Our findings reveal that a newly evolved gene in R108, LYK2bis, extends nodulation specificity to mutants producing nonO‐acetylated NFs and is important for nodulation by many natural Sinorhizobia. Evolution of this gene may present an adaptive advantage to allow nodulation by a greater variety of strains.