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Thermodynamic analysis of solar assisted steam distillation system for peppermint oil extraction
Authors: Kant Ravi , Kumar Anil 
Published: December 2022

AbstractScheffler reflector (10 m2) integrated peppermint oil (PO) extraction distillation system is developed. Optical loss in reflector and thermal loss in solar still, steam line, and condenser are determined. A solar distillation system of peppermint plants is also subjected to thermal energetic and exergetic study. Exergy and optical efficiencies are 27.58% and 52.25%, respectively, with an average irradiance of 970.5 W/m2 and 6 kg of peppermint for 4 h. Thermal efficiency of solar still, steam line, and condenser are 95.90%, 95.68%, and 87.96%, respectively. Efficiency of system and oil yield per unit of energy consumed is 41.98% and 6.24 ml/kWh, respectively, without insulating steam line. System's efficiency is 46.36%, with an improvement of 2.67% in energy gain by insulating the steam line. Thermodynamic analysis of developed solar steam distillation system (SSDS) for PO extraction will help in finding out energy saving potential at various parts of distillation unit and in improving the performance of distillation unit. This research would provide energy conservation opportunities in various parts of PO extraction SSDS. Exergy analysis and detailed investigation of condenser and steam line are also performed. As a result, incorporating solar energy into PO extraction technology improves opportunities for the source of income in rural areas and increases both income and level of food security for farmers.Practical applicationsThis research would provide energy conservation opportunities in various parts of peppermint oil (PO) extraction solar steam distillation system. Exergy analysis and detailed investigation of condenser and steam line are also performed. As a result, incorporating solar energy into PO extraction technology improves opportunities for the source of income in rural areas and increases both income and level of food security for farmers.Novelty StatementMentioned literature includes thermodynamic analysis of oil extraction system available for crops such as rosemary leaves, basil leaves, etc. Thermodynamic analysis of such a system is limited to these crops and applied to other crops like peppermint, eucalyptus, lavender, etc. As these crops possess different chemical properties and have large potential in essential oil market, a comprehensive thermal analysis is needed to identify various thermodynamic parameters to extract peppermint oil (PO) using solar‐assisted steam distillation system. Present work aims to identify energy and power loss due to convection and radiation at different parts of a solar distillation unit. Exergy analysis and detailed investigation of condenser and steam line are also performed. This research would provide energy conservation opportunities in PO extraction solar steam distillation system. Furthermore, the outcomes of present study have been compared with previously published studies.
The effect of phone and video counselling given to participants living with obesity on weight loss and quality of life during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a randomised controlled trial
Authors: Yücel Ümüş Özbey , Yücel Murat 
Published: December 2022

AbstractBackgroundAlthough remote dietary counselling practices have increased in the COVID‐19 pandemic, it is not known which method is more effective. This study aimed to determine the effect of diet counselling by phone or video on weight loss and to compare it with the traditional follow‐up method.MethodsForty‐six participants living with obesity were randomised into the phone counselling (n = 15), video counselling (n = 15), and traditional follow‐up groups (n = 16), and were followed for 10 weeks. The anthropometric measurements, quality‐of‐life questionnaire (SF‐36) scores and total calorie/macronutrient intakes were recorded and compared at baseline and at the end of the study.ResultsIn the phone counselling, video counselling and traditional follow‐up groups body weight (−4.8 ± 0.9, −5.7 ± 1.8 and −3.3 ± 0.8 kg, respectively) and SF‐36 general health scores (14.2 ± 4.2, 15.9 ± 3.6 and 10.2 ± 3.7, respectively) of the participants changed significantly compared to baseline (group × time interaction, p < 0.05). The change in the body weight and SF‐36 general health score was more in the phone counselling and video counselling groups relative to the traditional follow‐up group (group × time interaction, p < 0.01). The highest decrease in total calorie (−301.4 ± 112.2 kcal) and carbohydrate (−26.6 ± 11.2 g) intake was in the video counselling group compared to the other groups (group × time interaction, p < 0.01).ConclusionVideo counselling and phone counselling were effective in weight loss in the COVID‐19 pandemic. It is important to maintain remote dietary counselling practices to support weight management when face‐to‐face meetings are not possible.
The effectiveness of psychological interventions for anxiety in the perinatal period: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Authors: Clinkscales Natalie , Golds Lisa , Berlouis Katherine , MacBeth Angus 
Published: December 2022

AbstractPurposeAnxiety disorders are relatively common during pregnancy and the postnatal period. Despite their potential acceptability to users, psychological interventions research for this population is still in its infancy. The meta‐analysis aimed to comprehensively evaluate the evidence of the effectiveness of psychological interventions for reducing perinatal anxiety.MethodThe review followed PRISMA guidelines. A total of 26 studies published between 2004 and 2022 fulfilled inclusion criteria of which 22 were included in the meta‐analysis.ResultsResults indicated that psychological interventions were more effective than control conditions in reducing symptoms of perinatal anxiety (equivalent to a medium post treatment effect size). Effect sizes were robust for cognitive, behavioural and mindfulness‐based interventions. Targeting anxiety also appeared to impact on depression symptoms. There was substantial evidence of methodological heterogeneity.ConclusionsThis review demonstrates that psychological interventions are effective in reducing symptoms of both anxiety and comorbid anxiety and depression in both the antenatal and postnatal periods. Further research on longer‐term effects, infant outcomes, treatment approach and modality are required.
A Study on Choices and the Profile of the Brazilian Investor in the Decision-Making Process
Authors: Silva Alves Cravo José Carlos , Santos Daiane Rodrigues , Villagrán Campo Elías Suárez , Matos Márcia Monteiro 
Published: December 2022

The objective of this work was to show, through Prospect Theory (PT), a broader approach to finance and economics, which includes concepts of psychology and sociology, how agents, and particularly investors, are susceptible to deviations from rationality that directly impact their choices, making their decisions not always by the pillars that support classical theories of finance. The research was 382 Brazilian investors. Through the questionnaire, it is observed how much a behavioral effect dramatically influences the choices of economic agents who are mostly men and ill-prepared academically. One of the important verifications found evaluating the answers of the 382 interviewees was about the investors' reaction; in case of a loss, we have that the interviewees prefer probable losses to the detriment of certain losses, even if smaller, and this fact helps to eliminate any explanation that can be given to the certainty effect in the sense that the aversion to volatility. More than 68% when answering some of the questions violated the precepts of the Expected Utility Theory. People opted for the answer with a positive and more significant standard deviation, demonstrating that they are not risk averse. When the certainty of the result increases, the choice for assets with smaller standard deviation increases; in this case, we have evidence of a reduction in risk aversion.
Analysis of the characteristics and effects of soiling natural accumulation on 2 photovoltaic systems: a systematic review of the literature
Authors: Souza Jose J S , Carvalho Paulo C M , Barroso Giovanni Cordeiro 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
We present a literature review of experimental studies aiming to characterize soiling and its effects on the generation performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems. The methodology is based on a Systematic Review of the Literature (SRL) through the elaboration and implementation of a conduction protocol, with selection criteria, search strategies and extraction and summarization procedures. In the search and identification, 3,018 Primary Studies (PSs) are initially obtained, with 151 PSs being admitted for extraction and summarization. The bibliometric analysis identifies the annual distribution of publications, main researchers, means of scientific dissemination and most used terms as keywords. The short-circuit current (Isc) is usually the parameter most affected by dirt; considering other parameters, different behaviors are identified, depending on the PV technology. The chemical elements most reported are Ca, Si, Al, O, Fe and Mg; the main mineral compounds are quartz, calcite, hematite, gypsum, and orthoclase.
Can I go home now? The safety and efficacy of a new UK paediatric febrile neutropenia protocol for risk-stratified early discharge on oral antibiotics
Authors: Jackson Thomas John , Napper Rachel , Haeusler Gabrielle M , Pizer Barry , Bate Jessica , Grundy Richard G , Samarasinghe Sujith , Angelini Paola , Ball-Gamble Ashley , Phillips Bob , Morgan Jessica Elizabeth 
Published: December 2022

ObjectiveTo evaluate a new protocol of risk stratification and early discharge for children with febrile neutropenia (FN).DesignProspective service evaluation from 17 April 2020 to 16 April 2021.Setting13 specialist centres in the UK.Patients405 children presenting with FN.InterventionAll children received intravenous antibiotics at presentation. Risk stratification was determined using the Australian-UK-Swiss (AUS) rule and eligibility for homecare assessed using criteria including disease, chemotherapy, presenting features and social factors. Those eligible for homecare could be discharged on oral antibiotics after a period of observation proportional to their risk group.Main outcome measuresMedian duration of admission and of intravenous antibiotics, and percentage of patients with positive blood cultures, significant infection, readmission within 7 days of initial presentation, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, death from infection and death from other causes.Results13 centres contributed 729 initial presentations of 405 patients. AUS rule scores were positively correlated with positive blood cultures, significant infection, ICU admission and death. 20% of children were eligible for homecare with oral antibiotics, of which 55% were low risk (AUS 0–1). 46% low-risk homecare eligible patients were discharged by 24 hours vs 2% homecare ineligible. Homecare readmission rates were 14% overall and 16% for low-risk cases (similar to a meta-analysis of previous studies). No child eligible for homecare was admitted to ICU or died.ConclusionsUse of the AUS rule and homecare criteria allow for safe early outpatient management of children with FN.
Evidence for empagliflozin in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
Authors: Adeyeye Elizabeth , Khong Teck K 
Published: December 2022

AbstractCommentary on:Anker SD, Butler J, Filippatos G,et al. Empagliflozin in heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction.New England Journal of Medicine, 2021; 385:1451–61.
Energy redistribution analysis of multi-scale turbulence in centrifugal pump
Authors: Zhang Zhengchuan , Zhang Shuwei , Ma Zheng , Wang Dezhong , Yin Junlian 
Published: December 2022

HIGHLIGHTS • Effectiveness of vice blades flow control method. • Improvement mechanism of flow control method on centrifugal pump. • Energy redistribution of multi-scale turbulence by flow control method. • Design strategy for high-performance centrifugal pump. The demand for the high-performance centrifugal pumps has grown considerably in order to address various working conditions and application scenarios. Here, a high-performance centrifugal pump capable of great hydraulic and anti-cavitation performance, and low-pressure pulsation and vibration, is realized by adding drainage vice blade to the conventional blade type. The multi-scale turbulence in centrifugal pumps is characterized by the Hybrid RANS/LES method, then the energy distributions are obtained by the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method. The experimental methods are employed to study the pressure pulsation and vibration characteristics. The new-type of blades can reconstruct the energy of multi-scale turbulence in centrifugal pump by concentrating the energy on low-frequency large-scale flow structures, while reducing the energy of high-frequency small-scale flow structures. A higher energy of large-scale flow structures can enhance the energy transportation and hydraulic performance in centrifugal pump. The small-scale flow structures with lower energy can suppress high-frequency excitation in flow to avoid the hydraulic resonance, which is essential to improve the dynamic characteristics of the centrifugal pumps. We propose a flow control method that can reconstruct the energy distribution of multi-scale turbulence which can greatly improve its overall performance, suggesting a broad range of promising applications.
SLC2A9 rs1014290 Polymorphism is Associated with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
Authors: Zhang Xuemei , Hou Guangsen , Li Fang , Zheng Xiao , Nie Qian , Song Guangyao 
Published: December 2022

Purpose. To investigate the association of the A/G rs1014290 polymorphism in SLC2A9 with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and prediabetes mellitus (pre-DM). Patients and Methods. We enrolled 1058 patients who attended the Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China. The patients underwent general testing and oral glucose tolerance tests and were divided into three groups: 352 patients newly diagnosed with T2DM, 358 patients with pre-DM, and 348 healthy controls. The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was detected by ligase detection reactions. The χ2 test, one-way ANOVA, and binary logistic regression analysis were used to analyze the results. Results. In the T2DM group, the GG genotype frequency at the rs1014290 locus was significantly lower (14.8%) than it was in the healthy controls. Furthermore, the GG genotype group was associated with a reduced risk of T2DM in unadjusted and confounder-adjusted models compared with the risk in the AA genotype group. The G allele in the SLC2A9 rs1014290 locus decreased susceptibility to T2DM. In the pre-DM group, the GG and AG genotype groups had no significant correlation with the risk of pre-DM in any of the models. In the T2DM group, the uric acid level was significantly lower in the GG genotype group. In the T2DM and pre-DM groups, the HOMA-β levels were significantly higher in the GA (

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A Linguística Contrastiva Português/Alemão e seus Mecanismos de Comunicação Científica
Authors: Nascimento Jhessyca Castro do , Pereira Rogéria Costa 
Published: December 2022

Construir possibilidades de circulação das informações é essencial para qualquer área do conhecimento e quando se trata de uma área específica da Linguística, como a Linguística Contrastiva, par de língua Português e Alemão, torna-se imprescindível para o reconhecimento ea consolidação da área. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa se propõe a buscar a literatura produzida na área, ampliando levantamento anterior (SIPRIANO, SOUZA e PEREIRA 2021) para áreas intra- e extralinguísticas (TEKIN 2012). O intento é concentrar os dados bibliográficos em locus acessível a toda comunidade científica. A partir das produções encontradas, traçamos análise quantiqualitativa no que diz respeito ao número de produções, à concentração de trabalhos por área e por periódico científico. Os dados encontrados possibilitaram, ainda, uma reflexão a respeito da política de classificação dos periódicos científicos e seus impactos na comunidade científica e na sociedade.
Biologically Informed Clot Histomics Are Predictive of Acute Ischemic Stroke Etiology
Authors: Patel Tatsat R. , Santo Briana A. , Jenkins TaJania D. , Waqas Muhammad , Monteiro Andre , Baig Ammad , Levy Elad I. , Davies Jason M. , Snyder Kenneth V. , Siddiqui Adnan H. , Kolega John , Tomaszewski John , Tutino Vincent M. 
Published: December 2022

Background
Toward development of diagnostics for cryptogenic stroke, we hypothesize that histomic features of stroke blood clots retrieved by mechanical thrombectomy could be used to delineate stroke etiology.

Methods
Clots were retrieved from patients undergoing thrombectomy, and etiology was determined by the trial of TOAST (Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment) score. After sectioning and hematoxylin and eosin staining, clot components (red blood cells [RBCs], fibrin–platelet aggregates [FPs], and white blood cells [WBCs]) were segmented on whole slide images. Histomic features were engineered to capture structural distribution of RBC/FP regions, including radiomics, radial composition, and RBC/FP object features. To locally characterize WBCs, textural features derived from nuclear and extranuclear regions were computed from each WBC to define classes, which we summarized into class frequency distributions. Univariate and multivariate statistics were used to identify significant differences in engineered features between large artery atherosclerosis (LAA) and cardioembolic cases. The top 3 significant RBC/FP and WBC features were used to train a complement Naïve Bayes model, which was then used to predict the etiology of cryptogenic cases.

Results
In our data (n=53), 31 clots were cardioembolic, 8 were LAA, 4 were of strokes of other determined etiology, and 10 were cryptogenic. We identified 17 significant RBC/FP features and 3 significant WBC class frequency distributions that were different between cardioembolic and LAA. A complement Naïve Bayes model accurately classified cardioembolic versus LAA with a validation area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.87±0.03, a performance substantially higher to using clot component percent composition (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve=0.69±0.16) that is the current state‐of‐the‐art. Further, cryptogenic cases were reliably classified as cardioembolic or LAA in cross‐validation analysis.

Conclusion
We present a first‐of‐its‐kind histomics pipeline to robustly quantify the complex structure and WBC heterogeneity in acute ischemic stroke clots and classify cryptogenic cases. We hope this work begins to pave the way for histopathology biomarkers for stroke etiology diagnosis.
Morphological and molecular differences in two closely related&nbsp;Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae) with the first record of&nbsp;Calotes medogensis&nbsp;Zhao &amp; Li, 1984 from India
Authors: BORUAH BITUPAN , NARAYANAN SURYA , DEEPAK V. , DAS ABHIJIT 
Published: December 2022

We studied the morphological and genetic differences within Calotes jerdoni, a widespread species across northeast India. Our results suggest the presence of two distinct species in this region, one being Calotes jerdoni and the other being Calotes medogensis, which we report for the first time from India. We designate a lectotype for Calotes jerdoni and provided extended description based on freshly collected materials. Previously undetermined diagnostic characters were identified and are discussed here in detail. The aforementioned species show an interspecific pairwise genetic divergence of 13–14% in the ND2 mitochondrial gene.
Global and Regional Discrepancies between Early-Twentieth-Century Coastal Air and Sea Surface Temperature Detected by a Coupled Energy-Balance Analysis
Authors: Chan Duo , Gebbie Geoffrey , Huybers Peter 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
A major uncertainty in reconstructing historical sea surface temperature (SST) before the 1990s involves correcting for systematic offsets associated with bucket and engine-room intake temperature measurements. A recent study used a linear scaling of coastal station-based air temperatures (SATs) to infer nearby SSTs, but the physics in the coupling between SATs and SSTs generally gives rise to more complex regional air–sea temperature differences. In this study, an energy-balance model (EBM) of air–sea thermal coupling is adapted for predicting near-coast SSTs from coastal SATs. The model is shown to be more skillful than linear-scaling approaches through cross-validation analyses using instrumental records after the 1960s and CMIP6 simulations between 1880 and 2020. Improved skill primarily comes from capturing features reflecting air–sea heat fluxes dominating temperature variability at high latitudes, including damping high-frequency wintertime SAT variability and reproducing the phase lag between SSTs and SATs. Inferred near-coast SSTs allow for intercalibrating coastal SAT and SST measurements at a variety of spatial scales. The 1900–40 mean offset between the latest SST estimates available from the Met Office (HadSST4) and SAT-inferred SSTs range between −1.6°C (95% confidence interval: [−1.7°, −1.4°C]) and 1.2°C ([0.8°, 1.6°C]) across 10° × 10° grids. When further averaged along the global coastline, HadSST4 is significantly colder than SAT-inferred SSTs by 0.20°C ([0.07°, 0.35°C]) over 1900–40. These results indicate that historical SATs and SSTs involve substantial inconsistencies at both regional and global scales. Major outstanding questions involve the distribution of errors between our intercalibration model and instrumental records of SAT and SST as well as the degree to which coastal intercalibrations are informative of global trends.

Significance Statement
To evaluate the consistency of instrumental surface temperature estimates before the 1990s, we develop a coupled energy-balance model to intercalibrate measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) and station-based air temperature (SAT) near global coasts. Our model captures geographically varying physical regimes of air–sea coupling and outperforms existing methods in inferring regional SSTs from SAT measurements. When applied to historical temperature records, the model indicates significant discrepancies between inferred and observed SSTs at both global and regional scales before the 1960s. Our findings suggest remaining data issues in historical temperature archives and opportunities for further improvements.