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Influence of appropriate emergency department utilization and verbal communication on physicians’ (dis)satisfaction with doctor–patient interactions with special consideration of migrational backgrounds
Authors: Pötter Anna Rahel , Sauzet Odile , Borde Theda , Naghavi Baharan , Razum Oliver , Sehouli Jalid , Somasundaram Rajan , Stein Hendrike , David Matthias 
Published: July 2022

SummaryIn recent years, utilization of emergency departments (EDs) has increased continuously, both in Germany and internationally. Inappropriate use of EDs is believed to be partly responsible for this trend. The topic of doctor–patient interaction (DPI) has received little attention in research. However, successful DPI is not only important for adherence and treatment success, but also for the satisfaction of medical staff. This non-interventionl cross-sectional study attempts to identify factors influencing physicians’ satisfaction with DPIs, with a particular focus on the appropriate utilization of EDs and verbal communication. We carried out tripartite data collection in three EDs of major referral hospitals in Berlin between July 2017 and July 2018. Migration experience, communication and language problems, level of education, and a large gap between physicians’ and patients’ perceived urgency regarding the utilization of EDs influence the quality of the doctor–patient relationships and interactions.
Social traits and credit card default: a two-stage prediction framework
Authors: Gaganis Chrysovalantis , Papadimitri Panagiota , Pasiouras Fotios , Tasiou Menelaos 
Published: July 2022

AbstractOver the past years, studies shed light on how social norms and perceptions potentially affect loan repayments, with overtones for strategic default. Motivated by this strand of the literature, we incorporate collective social traits in predictive frameworks on credit card delinquencies. We propose the use of a two-stage framework. This allows us to segment a market into homogeneous sub-populations at the regional level in terms of social traits, which may proxy for perceptions and potentially unravelled behaviours. On these formed sub-populations, delinquency prediction models are fitted at a second stage. We apply this framework to a big dataset of 3.3 million credit card holders spread in 12 UK NUTS1 regions during the period 2015–2019. We find that segmentation based on social traits yields efficiency gains in terms of both computational and predictive performance compared to prediction in the overall population. This finding holds and is sustained in the long run for different sub-samples, lag counts, class imbalance correction or alternative clustering solutions based on individual and socio-economic attributes.
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Development and application of equilibrium optimizer for optimal power flow calculation of power system
Authors: Houssein Essam H. , Hassan Mohamed H. , Mahdy Mohamed A. , Kamel Salah 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThis paper proposes an enhanced version of Equilibrium Optimizer (EO) called (EEO) for solving global optimization and the optimal power flow (OPF) problems. The proposed EEO algorithm includes a new performance reinforcement strategy with the Lévy Flight mechanism. The algorithm addresses the shortcomings of the original Equilibrium Optimizer (EO) and aims to provide better solutions (than those provided by EO) to global optimization problems, especially OPF problems. The proposed EEO efficiency was confirmed by comparing its results on the ten functions of the CEC’20 test suite, to those of other algorithms, including high-performance algorithms, i.e., CMA-ES, IMODE, AGSK and LSHADE_cnEpSin. Moreover, the statistical significance of these results was validated by the Wilcoxon’s rank-sum test. After that, the proposed EEO was applied to solve the the OPF problem. The OPF is formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem with conflicting objectives and subjected to both equality and inequality constraints. The performance of this technique is deliberated and evaluated on the standard IEEE 30-bus test system for different objectives. The obtained results of the proposed EEO algorithm is compared to the original EO algorithm and those obtained using other techniques mentioned in the literature. These Simulation results revealed that the proposed algorithm provides better optimized solutions than 20 published methods and results as well as the original EO algorithm. The EEO superiority was demonstrated through six different cases, that involved the minimization of different objectives: fuel cost, fuel cost with valve-point loading effect, emission, total active power losses, voltage deviation, and voltage instability. Also, the comparison results indicate that EEO algorithm can provide a robust, high-quality feasible solutions for different OPF problems.
Improving citizen science data for long-term monitoring of plant species in the Netherlands
Authors: van Strien Arco J. , van Zweden Jelle S. , Sparrius Laurens B. , Odé Baudewijn 
Published: July 2022

AbstractIn 2012, a new volunteer-based recording scheme for vascular plants was launched in the Netherlands. Its purpose is to track the changes in the number of occupied 1-km grid cells for as many native plant species as possible between survey rounds of 8 years. We did not prescribe a strict field protocol to minimize variation in observer effort, but instead chose to statistically correct for this variation with occupancy models. These models require replicated visits to a grid cell per season, which was implemented by having two independent observers survey grid cells and record all plant species observed. Now that a first survey round has ended (2012–2019), we evaluate our approach, i.e. we tested whether the scheme has the potential to produce proper trend estimates. The number of occupied grid cells in the first round was estimated per species, using an occupancy model with day of year, visit duration and observer experience as covariates for detection. The detection probability, which was 0.43 on average, strongly depended on visit duration and day of year. It was possible to estimate the number of occupied grid cells quite precisely for several hundreds of species, such that the statistical power is expected to be high enough to detect changes of 10% between survey rounds. For rare species, however, the power to detect changes is expected to be quite low. We conclude that the approach works well, but further improvements are suggested.
Inconsistencies between Subjective Reports of Cognitive Difficulties and Performance on Cognitive Tests are Associated with Elevated Internalising and Externalising Symptoms in Children with Learning-related Problems
Authors: Williams Kira L. , Holmes Joni , Farina Francesca , Vedechkina Maria ,   The CALM team, Bennett Marc P. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractChildren with learning difficulties are commonly assumed to have underlying cognitive deficits by health and educational professionals. However, not all children referred for psycho-educational assessment will be found to have deficits when their abilities are measured by performance on cognitive tasks. The primary aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of this inconsistent cognitive profile (ICP) in a transdiagnostic sample of children referred by health and education service providers for problems related to attention, learning and memory (N = 715). A second aim was to explore whether elevated mental health problems were associated with ICPs. Findings suggest that approximately half of this sample could be characterised as having an ICP. Cognitive difficulties, whether identified by parent ratings or task performance, were associated with elevated internalising and externalising difficulties. Crucially, a larger discrepancy between a parent’s actual ratings of a child’s cognitive difficulties and the ratings that would be predicted based on the child’s performance on cognitive tasks was associated greater internalising and externalising difficulties for measures of working memory, and greater externalising difficulties for measures of attention. These findings suggest that subjective cognitive difficulties occurring in the absence of any task-based performance deficits may be a functional problem arising from mental health problems.
Critique and the Coloniality of Being: Rethinking Development Discourses of Encounter
Authors: Chandler David 
Published: July 2022

AbstractFleur Johns argues that the contraposition of a ‘bottom-up’ approach of politics of prototypical technique rather than the ‘top-down’ politics of the master plan or normative principle no longer seems as straightforwardly radical as it appeared when James C Scott posited the value of local knowledge or métis against grand plans of high modernization, just over 20 years ago. This paper seeks to follow Johns’ call, ‘to capture and probe some of the effects of sensibility, rationality or style widely reproduced in the details of development work’. It draws upon fieldwork in Nairobi to open up a discussion of a shift in sensibility from a ‘bottom-up’ or ‘postliberal’ approach to a framing of open-ended encounter. The paper critiques this imaginary of relational encounter by engaging contemporary work in critical black studies. It suggests that the problem of critique is that it reproduces the problems of governing imaginaries, continually seeking to rework the human subject via adaptive capacities, sensitivities to difference and openness to alterity, while leaving intact the coloniality of being, the antiblack world.
Implicit gender-science stereotypes and college-major intentions of italian adolescents
Authors: De Gioannis Elena 
Published: July 2022

AbstractGender stereotypes are often viewed as one of the root causes of the gender gap in STEM. According to Eccles’ model, they would indirectly influence major choices by shaping expectations of success and values attached to the viable options. However, empirical findings on the link between implicit gender-science stereotypes and college major intentions are limited. To fill this gap, the current study examines this association in a mixed-gender sample of 302 Italian high-school students. Logistic regression analysis revealed that implicit gender stereotypes were directly associated with females’ intention of majoring in STEM. Unlike previous findings, the mediation analysis could not confirm that other relevant factors, i.e., interest in the subject, performance at school, identification with the subject, and value attributed to the job’s salary and social utility, moderated this association.
Specification decomposition for reactive synthesis
Authors: Finkbeiner Bernd , Geier Gideon , Passing Noemi 
Published: July 2022

AbstractReactive synthesis is the task of automatically deriving a correct implementation from a specification. It is a promising technique for the development of verified programs and hardware. Despite recent advances in terms of algorithms and tools, however, reactive synthesis is still not practical when the specified systems reach a certain bound in size and complexity. In this paper, we present a sound and complete modular synthesis algorithm that automatically decomposes the specification into smaller subspecifications. For them, independent synthesis tasks are performed, significantly reducing the complexity of the individual tasks. Our decomposition algorithm guarantees that the subspecifications are independent in the sense that completely separate synthesis tasks can be performed for them. Moreover, the composition of the resulting implementations is guaranteed to satisfy the original specification. Our algorithm is a preprocessing technique that can be applied to a wide range of synthesis tools. We evaluate our approach with state-of-the-art synthesis tools on established benchmarks: the runtime decreases significantly when synthesizing implementations modularly.
Sedimentary conditions based on the vertical distribution of radionuclides in small dystrophic lakes: a case study of Toporowe Stawy Lakes (Tatra Mountains, Poland)
Authors: Szarłowicz Katarzyna , Stobiński Marcin , Jedrzejek Filip , Kubica Barbara 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThe aim of this work was to prove the use of radionuclides deposited in sediment core taken from an overgrowing dystrophic lakes surrounded by marsh-peat vegetation to estimate sedimentary conditions. Sediment core samples were taken from the Toporowe Stawy Lakes (Niżni (TSN) and Wyżni (TSW); Tatra Mountains). The sampling was done using a Limnos corer. After the physical sample preparations, gamma measurements were performed. Radiochemical analysis was applied with the aim of determining 210Pb radioactivity by means of 210Po. The mean values for TSN lake are as follows: 137Cs ~ 123 Bq∙kg−1, 40 K ~ 389 Bq∙kg−1, 228Th ~ 55 Bq∙kg−1, 226Ra ~ 86 Bq∙kg−1, 241Am ~ 5 Bq∙kg−1, and 210Pbuns ~ 180 Bq∙kg−1. For TSW lake, the radioactivity levels of 226Ra and 241Am are comparable to the TSN. The mean values of 137Cs, 40 K, and 228Th are almost twice as high as in TSN. The level of 210Pb in uppermost layer of TSN is higher than in TSW. Sediments were dated by use of 210Pb method, and the rate of sedimentation of each layer was also estimated. Basic chemometric tools were used to confirm the way of deposition of radionuclide, find the correlations between variables, and compare analyzed lakes. It was concluded that the presented type of lakes are a valuable source of information and the vertical distribution of radionuclide can be used to interpret the source of material supply and factors that influence the sedimentation process in recent 150–200 years.
Over-expression of a YUCCA-Like Gene Results in Altered Shoot and Stolon Branching and Reduced Potato Tuber Size
Authors: Roumeliotis Efstathios , Kloosterman Bjorn , Oortwijn Marian , Kohlen Wouter , Bouwmeester Harro J. , Bachem Christian W. B. , Visser Richard G. F. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractAuxin is known to be involved in various developmental processes, including meristem identity, shoot branching and initiation of potato tubers. The previously identifiedStYUCCA8gene in potato that exhibits a peak in gene expression after tuber induction and prior to tuber swelling was cloned and over-expressed in order to study the effects of altered auxin content on shoot and stolon architecture and tuber development. The potato plants transformed with the 35S::StYUCCA8construct exhibited increased shoot and stolon branching, reduced leaf size, lower average tuber fresh weight and enhanced adventitious and lateral root formation. Investigation of the IAA content revealed that the concentration of auxin was not altered in the shoot apex but was significantly lower in the basal part of the stem despite the several 100-fold increase of expression of theStYUCCA8gene in three independent transgenic clones. This is the first time a potatoYUCCAgene is used in an experiment in order to identify the role of endogenous auxin biosynthesis in potato plant development. Our research helps elucidate the importance of small changes of auxin content on several developmental events of the potato plant, such as shoot, stolon and root architecture.
Customer comfort during service robot interactions
Authors: Becker Marc , Mahr Dominik , Odekerken-Schröder Gaby 
Published: July 2022

AbstractCustomer comfort during service interactions is essential for creating enjoyable customer experiences. However, although service robots are already being used in a number of service industries, it is currently not clear how customer comfort can be ensured during these novel types of service interactions. Based on a 2 × 2 online between-subjects design including 161 respondents using pictorial and text-based scenario descriptions, we empirically demonstrate that human-like (vs machine-like) service robots make customers feel more comfortable because they facilitate rapport building. Social presence does not underlie this relationship. Importantly, we find that these positive effects diminish in the presence of service failures.
Luminal and Glandular Epithelial Cells from the Porcine Endometrium maintain Cell Type-Specific Marker Gene Expression in Air–Liquid Interface Culture
Authors: Schmidhauser Meret , Ulbrich Susanne E. , Schoen Jennifer 
Published: July 2022

AbstractTwo different types of epithelial cells constitute the inner surface of the endometrium. While luminal epithelial cells line the uterine cavity and build the embryo-maternal contact zone, glandular epithelial cells form tubular glands reaching deeply into the endometrial stroma. To facilitate investigations considering the functional and molecular differences between the two populations of epithelial cells and their contribution to reproductive processes, we aimed at establishing differentiatedin vitromodels of both the luminal and the glandular epithelium of the porcine endometrium using an air–liquid interface (ALI) approach. We first tested if porcine luminal endometrium epithelial cells (PEEC-L) reproducibly form differentiated epithelial monolayers under ALI conditions by monitoring the morphology and the trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TEER). Subsequently, luminal (PEEC-L) and glandular epithelial cells (PEEC-G) were consecutively isolated from the endometrium of the uterine horn. Both cell types were characterized by marker gene expression analysis immediately after isolation. Cells were separately grown at the ALI and assessed by means of histomorphometry, TEER, and marker gene expression after 3 weeks of culture. PEEC-L and PEEC-G formed polarized monolayers of differentiated epithelial cells with a moderate TEER andin vivo-like morphology at the ALI. They exhibited distinct patterns of functional and cell type-specific marker gene expression after isolation and largely maintained these patterns during the culture period. The here presented cell culture procedure for PEEC-L and -G offers new opportunities to study the impact of embryonic signals, endocrine effectors, and reproductive toxins on both porcine endometrial epithelial cell types under standardizedin vitroconditions.Graphical AbstractCreated withBioRender.com.
On Rectifiable Measures in Carnot Groups: Existence of Density
Authors: Antonelli Gioacchino , Merlo Andrea 
Published: July 2022

AbstractIn this paper, we start a detailed study of a new notion of rectifiability in Carnot groups: we say that a Radon measure is$${\mathscr {P}}_h$$Ph-rectifiable, for$$h\in {\mathbb {N}}$$h∈N, if it has positiveh-lower density and finiteh-upper density almost everywhere, and, at almost every point, it admits a unique tangent measure up to multiples. First, we compare$${\mathscr {P}}_h$$Ph-rectifiability with other notions of rectifiability previously known in the literature in the setting of Carnot groups, and we prove that it is strictly weaker than them. Second, we prove several structure properties of$${\mathscr {P}}_h$$Ph-rectifiable measures. Namely, we prove that the support of a$${\mathscr {P}}_h$$Ph-rectifiable measure is almost everywhere covered by sets satisfying a cone-like property, and in the particular case of$${\mathscr {P}}_h$$Ph-rectifiable measures with complemented tangents, we show that they are supported on the union of intrinsically Lipschitz and differentiable graphs. Such a covering property is used to prove the main result of this paper: we show that a$${\mathscr {P}}_h$$Ph-rectifiable measure has almost everywhere positive and finiteh-density whenever the tangents admit at least one complementary subgroup.
Decline of Lanna ceramic group production in northern Thailand (Ban Bo Suak site) confined by radiocarbon and luminescence dating
Authors: Srisunthon Prapawadee , Mueller Daniela , Preusser Frank 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThe Lanna group is a traditional ceramic production style from Southeast Asia, with several kiln sites found distributed all over present northern Thailand. However, its origin and development are considered controversial and chronological constraints are scarce. Applied here are radiocarbon dating to charcoal remains and luminescence dating to ceramics, kiln wall material, and fluvial sediments from the Ban Bo Suak archaeological site near Nan, northern Thailand. The site has been suspected to have been abandoned due to destruction by a flood. Unexpectedly, the ceramic samples lack proper thermoluminescence signal properties and only two samples could be dated using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). These ages in combination with published radiocarbon ages point towards a ceramic production around AD 1700. The kiln wall material and fluvial sediments reveal evidence for partial resetting of the OSL signal, which is unexpected for heated material. Supported by some radiocarbon ages, the OSL ages imply a temporal connection between the last use of the kilns and the flood deposits, during the fifteenth century AD. Besides general methodological considerations, the data reported here indicates that while a flood apparently dismantled several kiln sites, this did not stop the production of Lanna style ceramics in the region.
Complete remission of recurrent multiple insulin-producing neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas with somatostatin analogs: a case report and literature review
Authors: Tartaglia Andreas , Busonero Giulia , Gagliardi Lorenza , Boddi Valentina , Pieri Federica , Nizzoli Maurizio 
Published: July 2022

AbstractHyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia is most commonly caused by a single, sporadic insulinoma. Multicentric insulinoma disease (insulinomatosis) as well as metachronous neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas, known also as neuroendocrine adenomatosis, represent a very rare condition, if not associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 syndrome (MEN1) or Von Hippel Lindau disease. We report a 9-year follow-up of a 41-year-old woman, initially presenting with hypoglycemic syndrome caused by two insulin-producing tumors, who underwent subtotal pancreasectomy in 2012, with histology compatible with multiple small neuroendocrine tumors. An approximately 1-cm insulin-producing tumor recurred at subsequent biochemical and radiological follow-up, and was cured with the somatostatin analog octreotide as a single treatment, until remission of symptoms and complete regression of the pancreatic lesion achieved after only 16 months of treatment. The possible mechanisms for these findings are discussed and the literature is briefly reviewed.
Analyzing voter behavior on social media during the 2020 US presidential election campaign
Authors: Belcastro Loris , Branda Francesco , Cantini Riccardo , Marozzo Fabrizio , Talia Domenico , Trunfio Paolo 
Published: July 2022

AbstractEvery day millions of people use social media platforms by generating a very large amount of opinion-rich data, which can be exploited to extract valuable information about human dynamics and behaviors. In this context, the present manuscript provides a precise view of the 2020 US presidential election by jointly applying topic discovery, opinion mining, and emotion analysis techniques on social media data. In particular, we exploited a clustering-based technique for extracting the main discussion topics and monitoring their weekly impact on social media conversation. Afterward, we leveraged a neural-based opinion mining technique for determining the political orientation of social media users by analyzing the posts they published. In this way, we were able to determine in the weeks preceding the Election Day which candidate or party public opinion is most in favor of. We also investigated the temporal dynamics of the online discussions, by studying how users’ publishing behavior is related to their political alignment. Finally, we combined sentiment analysis and text mining techniques to discover the relationship between the user polarity and sentiment expressed referring to the different candidates, thus modeling political support of social media users from an emotional viewpoint.