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Preparation of Titanium Foam-based SnO2-Sb Electrode for Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Phenol
Authors: Zhao Mingming , Sun Hong , Liu Zhigang , Zhao Hong 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The titanium foam-based SnO2-Sb electrode has received more and more attention due to its high electrocatalytic activity, which is enabled by the unique porous structure of the titanium foam substrate. However, the electrode is constrained by the preparation method, exhibiting poor stability and a limited service life. An electrodeposition method was developed for preparing a high-efficiency, low-energy-consuming, and long-lasting foam titanium-based SnO2-Sb electrode, with the regulation of experimental parameters, including current density, counter electrode materials, and electrodeposition cycles. The results demonstrate that the prepared electrode coatings are well dispersed with improved grain refinement. The electrode surface exhibited multiple catalytically active sites and exhibited a low phenol decomposition potential (1.74 V). It achieved 98.39% phenol removal and 91.85% chemical oxygen demand removal within 180 min with high current efficiency (30.56%) and low reaction energy consumption of 0.13 kWh/g. The electrode life is extended when electrodeposition is performed twice, resulting in an actual service life of 1130.20 hours. In conclusion, this study presents a novel approach to the fabrication of foamed titanium-based SnO2-Sb electrodes with high performance for the electrochemical oxidation process.
A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Elastic Compressive Dressing and the TR Band After Transradial Coronary Intervention
Authors: Daralammouri Yunis , Awwad Fateh , Azamtta Murad , A. Salim Hamza , M. Zakaria Ghaith , Musmar Basel , S. Mosleh Yahya , Alkaissi Aidah 
Published: February 2025

Background: Transradial coronary intervention has been shown to be both safe and effective, with several benefits, such as limited access to site complications and earlier patient discharge. Radial compression devices, on the other hand, add to the total expense of the procedure and have not been adequately compared to traditional compressive dressings. The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and efficacy of elastic compressive dressing with gauze swabs and crepe bandages to balloon compression devices with the TR Band (Terumo) for maintaining radial hemostasis following cardiac procedures.Method: A total of 402 patients were randomly assigned to receive either a TR band or an elastic compressive dressing for radial hemostasis following cardiac intervention in a prospective, partially blinded, randomized clinical study. The main outcome was the hemostasis time and the occurrence of hematoma. Patient satisfaction, postprocedure pain, vascular problems, and the cost of the compression device used were all secondary outcomes.Results: The two groups had similar baseline characteristics and procedural data. The majority of patients (79%) were very satisfied with both hemostasis techniques. The elastic dressing group achieved hemostasis significantly faster than the TR band group (83.8 ± 142.8 min vs. 116.3 ± 122.7, p = 0.017). Significant differences in the incidence of hematoma (8% elastic dressing vs. 18.4% TR band, p = 0.003) and postprocedural pain (0.84 ± 1.2 elastic dressing vs. 1.39 ± 1.4 TR band, p ≤ 0.001) were observed. The incidence of early radial artery occlusion was higher in the elastic dressing group (7 patients) than in the TR band group (2 patients), although the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.09). Finally, the TR band was significantly more expensive than the elastic dressing used in the trial.Conclusion: Elastic compressive dressings are a safe, low‐cost, and effective alternative to TR band. They decrease hemostasis time, enhance patient comfort, and reduce both the number and size of hematomas. When compared to the TR band, these dressings have a similar rate of radial artery patency at discharge.Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT05409716
Neighborhood disinvestment predicts shorter cancer survival time among Black women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer
Authors: Plascak Jesse J. , Xing Cathleen Y. , Mooney Stephen J. , Rundle Andrew G. , Schootman Mario , Qin Bo , Zeinomar Nur , Llanos Adana A M. , Iyer Hari S. , Pawlish Karen S. , Ambrosone Christine B. , Demissie Kitaw , Hong Chi-Chen , Bandera Elisa V. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Background: Observed neighborhood disinvestment is a chronic social determinant that is understudied in relation to cancer outcomes. This study investigated associations between neighborhood disinvestment, stage at diagnosis, and breast cancer-specific survival time. Methods: Individual-level data included 844 women, diagnosed 2013-2019, from the Women’s Circle of Health Follow-up Study, a population-based cohort of breast cancer survivors self-identifying as Black or African American. Neighborhood disinvestment was from a virtual audit of 6 indicators – garbage, graffiti, dumpsters, building conditions, yard conditions, abandoned buildings – within 14,671 Google Streetview streetscapes estimated at residential addresses using Universal Kriging. We fit accelerated failure time models of breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) time as functions of neighborhood disinvestment by stage, adjusted for covariates (sociodemographic, lifestyle, tumor and treatment-related factors). Participants not experiencing an event at the end of follow-up (August 13, 2023) were right-censored. Results: With median follow-up time of 89 months, there were 91 breast cancer-specific deaths. Disinvestment and stage statistically interacted (p &lt; 0.01). For stage III and stage II diagnoses, BCSS time decreased by 27% (95% CI: 1%, 48%) and 37% (95% CI: 5%, 58%), respectively, with each standard deviation increase in disinvestment after adjustment for covariates. There was little evidence of associations between disinvestment and survival time among stages I and IV. Conclusions: The tumor stage-dependent association between greater neighborhood disinvestment and shorter survival time could reflect chronic stress exposures suspected to adversely accumulate over time. Impact: Neighborhood disinvestment might be an important, independent marker of social disadvantage impacting breast cancer survival.
On the use of the Doubly Stochastic Matrix models for the Quadratic Assignment Problem
Authors: Santucci Valentino , Ceberio Josu 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Permutation problems have captured the attention of the combinatorial optimization community for decades due to the challenge they pose. Although their solutions are naturally encoded as permutations, in each problem, the information to be used to optimize them can vary substantially. In this article, we consider the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) as a case study, and propose using Doubly Stochastic Matrices (DSMs) under the framework of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. To that end, we design efficient learning and sampling schemes that enable an effective iterative update of the probability model. Conducted experiments on commonly adopted benchmarks for the QAP prove doubly stochastic matrices to be preferred to other four models for permutations, both in terms of effectiveness and computational efficiency. Moreover, additional analyses performed on the structure of the QAP and the Linear Ordering Problem (LOP) show that DSMs are good to deal with assignment problems, but they have interesting capabilities to deal also with ordering problems such as the LOP. The article concludes with a description of the potential uses of DSMs for other optimization paradigms, such as genetic algorithms or model-based gradient search.
Divergent and Convergent Creativity Relate to Different Aspects of Semantic Control
Authors: Krieger-Redwood Katya , Lanzoni Lucilla , Gonzalez Alam Tirso RJ , Jackson Rebecca L. , Smallwood Jonathan , Jefferies Elizabeth 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Past work has demonstrated a link between semantic memory and verbal creativity. Yet, few studies have considered this relationship through the lens of the controlled semantic cognition account, which anticipates that multimodal concepts in long-term memory interact with semantic control processes to generate goal and context-appropriate patterns of retrieval. In particular, while the creativity literature has distinguished divergent and convergent aspects of creativity, little is known about their relationship with separable aspects of semantic control, or the semantic intrinsic functional architecture of the brain. We investigated whether tasks with greater reliance on controlled semantic retrieval (assessed through weak association) versus semantic selection (assessed through semantic feature matching) were differentially linked to divergent creativity (assessed with the unusual uses task; UUT) and convergent creativity (assessed with the remote associates task; RAT). Better performance on the RAT was linked to semantic selection, while stronger performance on UUT was linked to more efficient retrieval of weak associations. We also examined individual differences in the intrinsic functional architecture of the semantic system using resting-state fMRI. Greater coupling between the anterior temporal lobe (multimodal semantic store) and left inferior frontal gyrus (in the semantic control network) was linked to stronger convergent creativity. This pathway also correlated with semantic feature matching performance, but not the retrieval of weak associations. In contrast, better divergent creativity was linked to greater coupling between left inferior frontal gyrus and language-related auditory-motor regions, and decoupling from the default mode and frontoparietal networks. These connections correlated with the retrieval of weak associations. Interestingly, while decoupling of LIFG with default mode and frontoparietal networks correlated with the retrieval of weak associations, coupling of LIFG with these networks correlated with semantic feature matching. These behavioural and neurocognitive dissociations show that semantic control and creativity are highly related yet multifaceted constructs that depend on the underlying intrinsic architecture of key sites related to semantic cognition.
Africa Rising
Authors: Bamidele Seun 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This study explores the evolving dynamics of multilateralism in the context of Africa’s geopolitics and growing involvement in global governance. Historically, multilateral institutions have been dominated by Western powers, but the shifting global balance of power has given rise to new actors, including African nations. Studies have argued that Africa’s position and growing influence is gradually changing long-held narratives about Africa’s role in global decision-making, international relations and the governance structures of multilateral institutions, but the extent is largely unknown. They provide the basis for interrogating Africa’s growing influence in multilateral organisations and the implications of this influence on the continent and across the entire globe. Through an analysis of key case studies and recent developments in international diplomacy, this study examines the constraints and opportunities faced by Africa in its efforts to influence global policies. The findings suggest pathways for strengthening Africa’s geopolitical agency and advancing a more inclusive and equitable global order.
Testing the Relative Influence of Three Key Factors in Mind-Based Models of Religion: Template Categories, Utility, and Threat
Authors: Fleming Shannon , Robertson Paul , Turek Daniel , Tanrikulu Ömer Dağlar 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The traditional Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) mind-based model suggests that humans understand the world through ontological categories and make socially strategic inferences to avoid threats and focus on utility. This study used an image choice task to test three key factors – category templates, threat, and utility – believed to influence people’s preferences within the CSR framework. The study had three main goals: (1) to refine previous CSR research by providing a more accurate, empirically scaled measure of these three factors using the image choice task; (2) to assess how each factor affected participants’ image preferences; and (3) to explore any interactions between these factors. In a pilot study, we first quantified the threat and utility levels for each image stimulus. Our main study found that, contrary to some previous findings, category templates significantly influenced image preferences, though not in the hierarchy proposed by traditional CSR models. Threat and utility also had independent, significant effects on preferences. However, category templates had the strongest influence on participant choices. The effects of threat and utility varied depending on whether the influence of category templates was accounted for. These findings support certain CSR theories but challenge the proposed hierarchical structure. We also confirmed some previous findings, clarified the relative impact of the three factors, and provided empirical measures of template typicality, utility, and threat for future research.
Silvestro Pietrsanta (1590–1647) on Ancient Coins: Symbols of Nobility and Moral Education
Authors: Czarski Bartłomiej 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
In this article, I discuss the presence of ancient coins in the works of the Jesuit scholar Silvestro Pietrasanta (1590–1647). I focus primarily on the treatise De symbolis heroicis. First, however, I present the author’s profile and review his writings. Then I discuss the relationship of ancient numismatics to emblematics and its place in the set of universal symbols. The article primarily discusses the second book of De symbolis heroicis, where Pietrasanta presents coins, mainly Roman, as carriers of individual symbols related to coats of arms and impresas. The author categorizes the coins into distinct groups based on the iconography depicted on their surface. The Jesuit scholar identifies two principal categories of monuments. The initial group evokes the past through the portrayal of a family’s progenitor or commemoration of a distinguished ancestor’s achievements. The subsequent group encompasses representations that foreshadow future events and are predominantly propagandistic in nature. Pietrasanta treats Roman coins from the republican and imperial periods separately. With regard to the latter group, he demonstrates a particular interest in the monuments associated with Christian iconography. For the author, ancient coins served as a pedagogical tool for moral education. They provide visual evidence of virtue and significant accomplishments, thereby bearing resemblance to pre-heraldic symbols.
About the Jesuits of Paris and Their Coin Collections: A Study of the 1763–64 Auction Catalogs
Authors: Rambach Hadrien J. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The two seats of the Paris Jesuits, the professed house and the Clermont college, each had a separate library, both of which owned books on coins as well as a numismatic collection. The discovery of their respective catalogs, annotated with auction results—prices and buyers’ names—has enabled an analysis of their contents and fates. The auction catalogs describe around fifteen thousand and thirteen thousand “medals” over just a few pages, but the descriptions are too brief to identify individual items, save for a Roman weight now preserved in the Louvre Museum. The Paris Jesuits owned many more ancient coins than modern ones, and their commercial value was much higher than modern coins. However, in both cases, the value of the coin cabinets was only a fraction of the total value of the libraries themselves.
“Bellum Pollanum”: A Numismatic War of Pens in Eighteenth-Century Vienna and Joseph Eckhel’s First Publication on Ancient Coinage
Authors: Woytek Bernhard 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This is the first full analysis of a scholarly controversy in the 1760s regarding the authenticity of a bronze coin depicting Vespasia Polla, the mother of the Roman emperor Vespasian. The piece (in the collection of Johann Joseph Hauer in Vienna) was correctly identified as a fake by the Jesuit numismatist Joseph Khell in a 1761 publication. Five years later, the ex-Jesuit Joseph Monsperger defended the coin as genuine in a book written in the collector’s name, thereby triggering a flood of additional articles on the topic. The present contribution, partly based on unpublished archival material, discusses a new specimen of a Polla fake of the same type as Hauer’s and argues that the early Joseph Eckhel participated in the debate: in all probability, he authored a twelve-page-article in support of Khell upon the latter’s request, under the pseudonym “Houyhnhnm,” a name taken from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. This was Eckhel’s first numismatic publication, which hitherto went unrecognized.
The Man-Statue
Authors: Falque Emmanuel , Emma-Adamah Victor 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The touching-touched does not only originate with Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. It also has its source in the debate between Condillac and Maine de Biran, around the famous example of the marble statue. Rooted in Aristotle’s question of touch, this discussion about the “first man” (Buffon) takes on particular importance when it comes to the question of whether everything comes from me (proper body) or whether there is something foreign in me (improper body). This confrontation between Condillac and Maine de Biran is not confined to auto-affection or the flesh (Michel Henry), but endeavors to show that I am sometimes hetero-affected, or even outside myself. In this way, the entire history of philosophy will be read differently, beginning with Maine de Biran, in the notion of an “outside-in-itself,” that gives rise to a new image of the thinker of Bergerac.
The Experience of Weakness and Power in Maine de Biran
Authors: Emma-Adamah Victor 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The originality of Maine de Biran’s philosophy is his discovery of the apperceptive intuition of effort as the basis for the constitution of the conscious (my)self. Yet, although Biran routinely associates this effort with the exercise of force, his late philosophy is often characterized as a philosophy of the renunciation of power for a quietist embrace of passivity. Biran’s life-long struggle with physical debilitation perhaps speaks in support of a philosophy of weakness over strength. However, this paper takes the opposite view and sees in Biran’s personal experience of sickness, not weakness but ‘phenomenology’ of a will to triumphing power. Further, it argues that in this desire for strength is a Biranian theological opening to a power, which impossible to give myself, is the ground for a transcending aspiration into the power of God. The experience of weakness is the experience of a deeper longing for the transformation of effort.
The Illusion of Evidence-Based Policy: Climate Change and Migrant Women in the MENA Region
Authors: Saggiomo Valeria 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Is climate-induced migration addressed by policies and projects aimed at protecting women from being more vulnerable to poverty?
In the last decade there is a growing understanding of the phenomenon of climate change induced migration, also with a gender perspective, in the MENA Region and above. Increased knowledge and understanding however, scarcely impact the policy domain in transit countries and therefore hardly generate social change in development and humanitarian contexts. This leads to what we call the illusion of evidence-based policy.
An evaluation in Jordan conducted by the author serves as a case to reflect on what mechanism can facilitate the link between knowledge, evidence and policy making, providing explanatory cases in which research generates a positive impact on the lives of migrants in certain circumstances, and cases and circumstances in which impact is hindered.
This article suggests that there is a missing link between research on climate-change induced migrations and social change that lies in the “distance” between those who promote research and the policymakers and in the absence of a diplomacy space where researchers, policy makers and humanitarian actors gather and take decisions grounded on evidence and needs, in the best interest of the vulnerable.
The article concludes that when conducted with an open-ended approach to discover the dynamics of social change, evaluation can produce knowledge useful for reading climate change phenomena with a gender perspective, providing policy directions for international cooperation and local governance, and contributing to improving the lives of migrants, particularly women. In addition, evaluative research can facilitate the creation of a diplomacy space for its proximity to institutional stakeholders in humanitarian and development contexts, and for being at the intersection between sound evidence-based research and the policy domain.
The Empowering Kitchen: Women, Cooking, and the Environment in Egypt
Authors: Soliman Mounira 
Published: February 2025

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This paper explores the relation between women, community kitchens, and climate change. Community kitchens in Egypt have mushroomed in recent years. Most of them are run by women. These kitchens have shown diverse ways of addressing climate change through local sourcing, seasonal menus, reducing food waste, etc. They have also helped in preserving the Egyptian culinary heritage by collecting traditional recipes, organising training workshops on traditional local cuisine, and outsourcing to the community. Women have played a significant role in adapting to climate change. By raising their awareness of the impact of climate change upon their immediate ecosystem and enhancing their capacities to deal with it, women develop a more resilient and creative approach to the global warming crisis.
The Role of the Paris Agreement in Addressing Gender-Based Violence through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC s): A Comparative Study of Egypt and Tunisia
Authors: Shaheen Haneen Mahmoud 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
This paper explores the extent to which the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC s) of Egypt and Tunisia align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) exacerbated by climate change. The study involves a comprehensive review and analysis of the NDC s and related policies of both countries, assessing their responsiveness to the gender dimensions of climate action. While both countries recognize the importance of gender considerations in their climate policies, the analysis reveals significant disparities in the integration and operationalization of gender-sensitive approaches within their NDC frameworks. The paper suggests that despite some progress, substantial gaps remain, particularly in addressing the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women in the context of climate-induced GBV.