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Maintenance capability creation for buildings – concurrent process with design and construction
Authors: Annunen Petteri , Tella Juho , Pekki Sini , Haapasalo Harri 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
This study describes how maintenance capability should be created during the design and construction phases of construction projects. Purpose of the abstract to define the elements for creating the maintenance capability and the process to be used in construction life cycle projects for buildings.

Design/methodology/approach
An inductive and qualitative research method was used to construct the proposed process based on the literature and 18 interviews in two large construction companies.

Findings
The results indicate that the maintenance phase is usually overlooked during the design and construction phases, and capabilities are not systematically built. In particular, processes are lacking in data management, causing severe problems in maintenance.

Originality/value
This study presents a process including key requirements and activities for creating maintenance capability in conjunction with the design and construction phases, which is novel to the literature. The validated process can be adapted based on the needs of the construction company.
Association between the benefits and barriers perceived by the users in smart home services implementation
Authors: Nascimento Débora Rosa , Tortorella Guilherme Luz , Fettermann Diego 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThe article aims to identify the association between each smart home service category's benefits and barriers to their adoption. The results seek to identify efficient approaches that motivate users to adopt smart homes services and support suppliers to establish strategies to expand and optimize smart home technologies.Design/methodology/approachThe research used the chi-square test of independence to reveal the association between the benefits and barriers perceived by the users during smart home services implementation. Furthermore, the statistical analysis using reliable evidence based on 122 articles reported in the literature provides valuable knowledge for smart home implementation.FindingsThe results reveal which barriers and benefits in the smart home are essential for implementing each type of service. Therefore, the association between barriers and benefits with smart home services implementation can support the dissemination of smart home technologies.Practical implicationsThe article provides evidence to develop strategies for implementing smart home services, supporting companies with guidelines to be more assertive in disseminating smart homes technologies.Originality/valueUsing the literature as a data source and raising the associations through the chi-square test of independence, the methodology provides a high level of generalization and strong evidence regarding the association of smart home benefits or barriers associated with every smart home service.
Prediction and validation of composite mechanical properties resulting from voxel-based microstructural design in material jetting
Authors: Kaweesa Dorcas , Bobbio Lourdes , Beese Allison M. , Meisel Nicholas Alexander 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the tensile strength and elastic modulus of custom-designed polymer composites developed using voxel-based design. This study also evaluates theoretical models, such as the rule of mixtures, Halpin–Tsai model, Cox–Krenchel model and the Young–Beaumont model and the ability to predict the mechanical properties of particle-reinforced composites based on changes in the design of rigid particles at the microscale within a flexible polymer matrix.Design/methodology/approachThis study leverages the PolyJet process for voxel-printing capabilities and a design of experiments approach to define the microstructural design elements (i.e. aspect ratio, orientation, size and volume fraction) used to create custom-designed composites.FindingsThe comparison between the predictions and experimental results helps identify appropriate methods for determining the mechanical properties of custom-designed composites ensuring informed design decisions for improved mechanical properties.Originality/valueThis work centers on multimaterial additive manufacturing leveraging design freedom and material complexity to create a wide range of composite materials. This study highlights the importance of identifying the process, structure and property relationships in material design.
The Impact of Supplier Instability on Corporate Social Responsibility Performance over the Firm Lifecycle: A Social Systems Theory Perspective
Authors: Yang Yang , Jiang Yan , Jia Fu , Chen Lujie 
Published: August 2022

AbstractManaging corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the supply chain context requires companies to consider complex issues embedded in their supply chains, one of which is the complexity caused by unstable suppliers. However, prior studies have focused primarily on how supplier instability affects a firm's operational or financial performance. Grounded in social systems theory, we aim to enrich this body of literature by investigating the impact of supplier instability on CSR performance throughout the firm lifecycle. Using a large panel dataset of Chinese manufacturing firms from 2008 to 2018, we find that the relationship between supplier instability and CSR performance varies throughout a firm's lifecycle. At the growth and maturity stages, supplier instability can negatively affect a firm's external and internal CSR performance, respectively. At the decline stage, this negative relationship is insignificant. Further, we unravel the moderating effects of different complexity reduction practices. This paper has significant implications for both research and practice in the increasingly important domain of CSR management in supply chains.
Feasibility and outcome of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in patients with Crohn's disease: Single‐centre experience at Saudi Arabia
Authors: Ahmad Khaled S. , Alenazi Naif A. , Essa Mohamed S. 
Published: August 2022

AbstractBackgroundCombined obesity and Crohn's disease (CD) are becoming an increasing issue worldwide and in Saudi Arabia. In this series, we evaluate the feasibility and the outcomes of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) in obese patients with CD.MethodsThis series is a retrospective analysis of our database with patients undergoing LSG from 2015 to 2020. Obese patients with CD were included.ResultsSixty‐one obese patients with CD underwent LSG with a mean preoperative body mass index (BMI) of 42.6 ± 4.3. The mean excess weight loss (% EWL) at 3, 6, 9 months, and 1 year was 41 ± 1.8, 51 ± 2.3, 67 ± 1.2, and 71 ± 3.1, respectively. There were no identified intra‐operative complications. The mean intra‐operative time was 40 ± 20. Only one patient developed a postoperative leak and was treated conservatively. No late postoperative complications were reported. During the follow‐up period, 6 (9.8%) patients were noted to have CD‐related medications discontinued (azathioprine and sulfasalazine), and 8 (13.1%) patients showed a reduction in the dosage of their medications.ConclusionLSG appears to be a safe and effective option for carefully selected patients with CD.
A call for clean code to effectively communicate science
Authors: Filazzola Alessandro , Lortie CJ 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

Effective coding is fundamental to the study of biology. Computation underpins most research, and reproducible science can be promoted through clean coding practices. Clean coding is crafting code design, syntax and nomenclature in a manner that maximizes the potential to communicate its intent with other scientists. However, computational biologists are not software engineers, and many of our coding practices have developed ad hoc without formal training, often creating difficult‐to‐read code for others. Hard‐to‐understand code can thus be limiting our efficiency and ability to communicate as scientists with one another.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a primer on some of the practices associated with crafting clean code by synthesizing a transformative text in software engineering along with recent articles on coding practices in computational biology. We review past recommendations to provide a series of best practices that transform coding into a human‐accessible form of communication.

Three common themes shared in this synthesis are the following: (a) code has value and you are responsible for its organization to enable clear communication, (b) use a formatting style to guide writing code that is easily understandable and consistent and (c) apply abstraction to emphasize important elements and declutter.

While many of the provided practices and recommendations were developed with computational biologists in mind, we believe there is wider applicability to any biologist undertaking work in data management or statistical analyses. Clean code is thus a crucial step forward in resolving some of the crisis in reproducibility for science.
Bulgaria: Political Developments and Data in 2021
Authors: SPIROVA MARIA 
Published: August 2022

Abstract2021 was a turbulent political year in Bulgaria. Event‐wise, it saw three rounds of legislative elections, one presidential election, two caretaker cabinets and a lot of institutional struggles. In terms of results, 2021 saw the end of Citizens for a European Development of Bulgaria/Grazhdani za evropeysko razvitie na Bulgaria (GERB) dominance in political life, challenges to the links between the state and economic strongmen established during its government, and a new, reform‐minded, coalition Cabinet taking power. New parties made an entrance on the legislative scene: There Is Such a People/Ima takuv narod (ITN) led by Slavi Trifonov won one election (July) and then lost the next one (November), when a brand new party We Continue the Change/Prodalzhavame promyanata (PP) won a plurality of votes. Another surprising outcome was the acceptance of the Bulgarian Socialists/BSP za Balgariya (BSP) as a legitimate coalition partner after July 2021. The year also saw an inconsistent pattern of anti‐Covid‐19 policies, low vaccination and high death rates.
Daily diary study of loneliness, alcohol, and drug use during the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Authors: Bragard Elise , Giorgi Salvatore , Juneau Paul , Curtis Brenda L. 
Published: August 2022

AbstractBackgroundResearch conducted during the COVID‐19 Pandemic has identified two co‐occurring public health concerns: loneliness and substance use. Findings from research conducted prior to the pandemic are inconclusive as to the links between loneliness and substance use. This study aimed to measure associations of loneliness with three different types of substance use during COVID‐19: daily number of alcoholic drinks, cannabis use, and non‐cannabis drug use.MethodData were obtained between October 2020 and May 2021 from 2,648 US adults (Mage = 38.76, 65.4% women) diverse with respect to race and ethnicity using online recruitment. Participants completed baseline surveys and daily assessments for 30 days. A daily loneliness measure was recoded into separate within‐ and between‐person predictor variables. Daily outcome measures included the number of alcoholic drinks consumed and dichotomous cannabis and non‐cannabis drug use variables. Generalized linear multilevel models (GLMLM) were used to examine within‐ and between‐person associations between loneliness and substance use.ResultsThe unconditional means model indicated that 59.0% of the variance in the daily number of alcoholic drinks was due to within‐person variability. GLMLM analyses revealed that, overall, people drank more on days when they felt a particularly high or particularly low degree of loneliness (positive quadratic effect). There was a negative and significant within‐person association between daily loneliness and the likelihood of cannabis use. There was also a positive and significant within‐person association between daily loneliness and the likelihood of non‐cannabis drug use.ConclusionsAssociations between loneliness and substance use vary with substance type and whether within‐ or between‐person differences are assessed. These findings are relevant to the persistence of substance use disorders and thus of potential clinical importance. Individuals who do not experience severe loneliness at intake but who show daily increases in loneliness above baseline levels are at heightened risk of alcohol and non‐cannabis drug use. Future research could profitably examine just‐in‐time adaptive interventions that assess fluctuations in loneliness to prevent the development or exacerbation of substance use disorders.
Brain volume and magnetic susceptibility differences in children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure
Authors: Nakhid Daphne , McMorris Carly , Sun Hongfu , Gibbard William Benton , Tortorelli Christina , Lebel Catherine 
Published: August 2022

AbstractBackgroundPrenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) can negatively affect brain development thereby increasing the risk of cognitive deficits, behavioral challenges, and mental health problems. Brain iron is important for a number of physiological processes for healthy brain development. Animal studies show that PAE reduced brain iron; however, this has not been investigated in human children with PAE.MethodsWe studied 20 children and adolescents with PAE and 44 unexposed children and adolescents aged 7.5 to 15 years. All children underwent quantitative susceptibility mapping and T1‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging scans. Susceptibility and volume measurements of the caudate, putamen, pallidum, thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, and nucleus accumbens were extracted using FreeSurfer. ANCOVAs were used to compare volume and susceptibility between groups for each region of interest, controlling for age and gender. For structures where susceptibility differed by group, we also tested for an association between intelligence quotient (IQ) and susceptibility.ResultsThere were no significant group differences in susceptibility after multiple comparison correction, though the PAE group had higher susceptibility in the thalamus compared to unexposed participants before correction (p = 0.032, q = 0.230). There was no association between IQ and thalamus susceptibility. The PAE group had significantly lower volume in the bilateral caudate, bilateral pallidum, and left putamen.ConclusionsThese findings suggest susceptibility may be altered in children and adolescents with PAE, though more research is needed. Volume reductions are consistent with previous literature and likely underlie cognitive and behavioral deficits associated with PAE.
Frontoparietal and temporal white matter diffusion MRI in children and youth with prenatal alcohol exposure
Authors: Gómez María José C. , Beaulieu Christian , McMorris Carly A. , Gibbard Ben , Tortorelli Christina , Lebel Catherine 
Published: August 2022

AbstractBackgroundPrenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) is associated with brain alterations and neurocognitive deficits, but relationships between brain alterations and neurocognitive deficits remain unclear.MethodsDiffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data were obtained from 31 participants with PAE and 31 unexposed controls aged 7–15 years. Mean diffusivity (MD) and fractional anisotropy (FA) were derived from the genu, body, and splenium of the corpus callosum (CC), bilateral cingulum, and inferior and superior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF, SLF). Participants completed language subtests from the NEPSY‐II. Executive functioning was measured using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning (BRIEF‐PR) and verbal learning was assessed using the California Verbal Learning Test‐Children's Version (CVLT‐C) only in children with PAE. Group differences in diffusion metrics and cognitive scores were tested. Principal component analysis was used to reduce redundancy in cognitive and behavior variables; associations between components and brain measures were then assessed.ResultsChildren with PAE had lower MD in the right SLF compared with unexposed controls. FA was positively related to age in 6 of 9 tracts and MD negatively related to age in all tracts; there were no significant age‐by‐group interactions. Participants with PAE scored lower than unexposed peers on the NEPSY‐II Comprehension of Instructions and Phonological Processing and above population norms (indicating worse performance) on the BRIEF‐PR. Children with PAE had a negative association between a principal component closely associated with Speeded Naming and FA in the left SLF (PAE: p = 0.002) and left ILF (PAE: p = 0.002); unexposed controls showed no significant associations.ConclusionWe found widespread cognitive difficulties in children with PAE, but relatively limited differences in brain metrics and associations with age. Different brain–cognitive relationships were found in children with PAE compared with controls. Overall, the results provide additional evidence that PAE may lead to cognitive difficulties and disrupt typical brain–function relationships.
Checking bioclimatic variables that combine temperature and precipitation data before their use in species distribution models
Authors: Booth Trevor H. 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThe 19 BIOCLIM variables available from the WorldClim databases have become the most widely used set of climatic variables for creating species distribution models (SDMs) and ecological niche models (ENMs). Nevertheless, in recent years, there has been an increasing trend to exclude four of these variables from SDM/ENM analyses. The four values concerned are interactive as they combine both temperature and precipitation assessments. Their exclusion was justified initially due to discontinuities in their interpolated surfaces observed in a study using data from version 1 of WorldClim. The discontinuities were thought to be artefacts of the measures used, and such sudden changes were unlikely to be biologically meaningful. A freely available biodiversity database and an open access geographic information system were used here to check the four interactive variables for discontinuities in data from both versions 1 and 2 of WorldClim. Over most of the world, the four interactive BIOCLIM variables from WorldClim were found to change smoothly. Major and minor discontinuities, however, were noted for all four variables in specific parts of some of the six continents (excluding Antarctica) covered by WorldClim databases. Discontinuities were related to sudden changes in the quarterly periods used to calculate the variables. These discontinuities were often found in equatorial regions where there are only small changes in temperature across the year. Bimodal precipitation distributions may also cause problems. It is recommended that the quick and simple method described here should be used to facilitate visual inspection and numerical checking for possible discontinuities of these variables before SDM/ENM analyses. If discontinuities are found for an interactive variable in the study area, it is recommended that the variable should not be used. Ways in which the four variables could be recalculated when new databases are created are suggested to reduce discontinuity problems.
Ctenostegus hansoni sp. nov., a new species of spider wasp endemic to Lord Howe Island (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Authors: Rodriguez Juanita , Evangelista Olivia 
Published: August 2022

AbstractLord Howe Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a highly endemic biota and a history of recent species extinction. During the 2017 and 2018 Australian Geographic Society expeditions to Lord Howe Island, spider wasps in the genus Ctenostegus Haupt, 1930 were collected from various sites. A new species – C. hansoni sp. nov. – is described based on this material. The external morphology and male genitalic features are illustrated for all constituents of the C. immitis species‐group, for which an identification key is provided. New distribution data for the Hymenoptera of Lord Howe Island include an additional genus of Pompilidae (Fabriogenia sp.) and the first record for the family Mutillidae (Ephutomorpha sp.). Ctenostegus hansoni sp. nov. is one of the few spider wasps restricted to an oceanic island and constitutes an intriguing new record of long‐distance dispersal from mainland Australia followed by speciation.
Native bees with floral sonication behaviour can achieve high‐performance pollination of highbush blueberry in Chile
Authors: Cortés‐Rivas Benito , Smith‐Ramirez Cecilia , Monzón Víctor Hugo , Mesquita‐Neto José Neiva 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Blueberry is one of the most relevant buzz‐pollinated crops worldwide and Chile is the most important global producer of fresh blueberries during wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere. Thousands of exotic Bombus terrestris are imported from Europe to pollinate blueberries. However, no study has investigated the performance of the native Chilean fauna to pollinate blueberry or other crops. Therefore, we aimed to compare the performance of native Chilean floral visitors with managed visitors to pollinate highbush blueberry.
Per‐visit pollination performance (stigmatic pollen deposition) and floral visitation were measured and the presence of sonication behaviour of flower visitors was evaluated for five cultivars in two blueberry orchards located in southern Chile.
Floral visitors showed a preference for one or more blueberry cultivars, instead of visiting all cultivars equally. Floral visits with sonication deposited more conspecific pollen on stigmas than visits without sonication. Some native sonicating bees (Cadeguala and Bombus), especially Cadeguala occidentalis, were efficient pollen vectors of blueberry and better pollinators than honeybees (5.8 times more pollen transferred) similar to that of the managed bee B. terrestris.
The results indicate that some Chilean native bee species, especially those with sonication behaviour, can provide pollination service to highbush blueberry crops.
Participant perspectives of an online co‐design process to develop a prevention‐focused mental health and well‐being platform for primary producers
Authors: Binder Marley J. , Beks Hannah , Versace Vincent L. , Macdonald Joanna , Mckay Claire , Cunningham Sally , Wall Gavin , Barnes Kelly , Cornell Sarah , Cock Malcolm , Kennedy Alison , Namara Kevin Mc 
Published: August 2022

AbstractObjectiveTo explore participant experiences of an online co‐design process to develop a web‐based preventative mental health and well‐being intervention targeting primary producers in rural Australia.SettingRural Victoria, Australia.ParticipantsParticipants from a primary producer background, including horticulture, fisheries, animal cultivation and farm consultancy, were eligible for the study if they had participated in both the co‐design and beta testing processes for a primary producer platform.DesignA qualitative study using semi‐structured phone‐based interviews was undertaken. A reflexive inductive approach to data analysis was employed to develop themes.ResultsEleven participants were interviewed, with an average age of 51 years, of which 7 were female. Five main themes were developed. These included: (1) participant diversity, (2) impact of online delivery on co‐design participation, (3) experiences of the co‐design process, (4) maintaining a shared vision and goals and (5) acting on the co‐design recommendations. Use of online methods was a clear enabler to engage participants who were geographically dispersed and offers an alternative to more conventional approaches to co‐design using face‐to‐face methods. Some aspects of participant engagement may need a greater focus when conducted online compared with face‐to‐face.ConclusionsUsing an online co‐design method to develop a preventative mental health and well‐being web‐based platform for primary producers was novel. Findings address a gap in the literature around the experience of participants engaging in a co‐design process and identify opportunities to improve participant engagement and experience with the online format.