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Digital Readiness, Academic Motivation, Learning Strategies: A Structural Approach to Motivation in Writing Performance of Freshmen College Students
Authors: Porque Eufemia B. , Napil Melissa C. 
Published: November 2022

Aims: To determine the best influencing motivation in the writing performance of students in Region 12, in the Philippines.
Study Design: This research used the descriptive-causal design.
Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted among freshmen students from different universities in Region 12 during the school year 2021-2022.
Methodology: The respondents of the study were 400 selected freshmen students from different universities in Region 12. The respondents were chosen using stratified random sampling.
Results: The results of the study showed that the level of digital readiness, academic motivation, learning strategies, and motivation in writing performance were high. Likewise, the data revealed that digital readiness, academic motivation, and learning strategies had a significant relationship with motivation in students' performance. The result of structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed three exogenous variables which had significant influences as predictors of motivation in writing performance. However, among the five models, model 5 appeared to be the most suitable model of motivation in writing performance because all its indices met the set criteria against the obtained model fit value.
Conclusion: The high level of digital readiness implies that have conducted the foundation regarding the use of digital equipment. Likewise, the high level of academic motivation among students indicates that teachers ensure that there are feedbacks that the students receive regarding the submitted work so that they can be guided in what they are doing. The high level of learning strategies is contributed to the teachers’ having consultation time so that students can ask questions about things they do not understand well. Lastly, the student's high level of motivation in writing indicates that teachers used different writing strategies. The study implies that the writing performance of freshmen college students is better achieved if it is anchored on digital readiness, academic motivation, and learning strategies.
A Comparative Study on Generation X and Y Thai Consumers’ Awareness and Mitigating Behavior towards Climate Change
Authors: Arttachariya Patricia 
Published: November 2022

Climate change is ubiquitous and perceived as the greatest challenge to all living species on earth. This phenomenon has already had devastating impacts in SE Asia, and Thailand, in particular, which is experiencing heat waves, flooding, tropical cyclones and rising sea levels, among others.
Aims: This exploratory study examined differences between two generations, X and Y Thai consumers, in terms of their awareness and mitigating behavior towards climate change. These two generations were chosen as they account for the two largest segments, approximately 55 percent of the Thai population.
Sample: A total of 421 respondents (201 Generation X and 220 Generation Y) was selected for the study, using purposive sampling.
Methodology: Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data obtained via self-administered questionnaires. The four hypotheses posited in this study were tested by independent samples t-test.
Results: The findings revealed significant differences in environmental knowledge and interpersonal influence on awareness of climate change, with Generation Y demonstrating higher levels of awareness than Generation X. However, no significant difference between media and awareness was observed, nor was there any significant difference between generations in terms of awareness and mitigating behavior toward climate change. The study adds to the extant literature; the findings will provide policy makers, marketers, and consumer groups with empirical knowledge to help create and target optimal marketing strategies, policies and promotional programs to the two specified generations to better cope with climate change in the Thai context.
Radiative Heat Transfer on Optically Thick Fluid Past an Oscillating Vertical Plate with Variable Temperature
Authors: Ghosh S. K. 
Published: November 2022

A theoretical study of radiation heat transfer with reference to an optically thick fluid past an oscillating vertical flat plate with variable temperature in the presence of convection and radiation has been presented. The fluid is considered to be a gray, absorbing-emitting radiation but non- scattering medium. The Rosseland flux approximation plays an important role in determining the effect of radiation heat transfer contribution. This problem is an improvement of Stoke’s first and second problem to justify the physical signifance on this problem. This problem is solved by employing Laplace transfrom method. Numerical results of velocity and temperature distributions are depicted graphically. Also, numerical results of frictional shearing stress and critical Grashof number are presented in tables.
Socioeconomic determinants of long sickness absence affected by work, family, and personal health-related characteristics: A longitudinal study of the Japanese civil servants
Authors: Nose Saori , Sekine Michikazu , Tatsuse Takashi , Yamada Masaaki 
Published: November 2022

Abstract

Objectives
Sickness absence is increasingly affecting society at different levels. This study explores how work, family, and personal health-related characteristics will contribute to socioeconomic status (SES) differences in future long sickness absence (7 days or more) with respect to sex differences.

Methods
A total of 1562 civil servants worked for the Local Japanese government and were considered from 2003 to 2014 for this study. Logistic regression analyses were performed to examine whether there were employment-grade differences in long sickness absence after 11 years and whether such SES differences were associated with work, family, and personal health-related characteristics or sexes.

Results
Male low-grade employees had a significantly higher odds ratio (OR) for long sickness absence (age-adjusted OR = 1.75, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.04–2.95]). However, after adjustment for work characteristics, the association of significance disappeared (OR = 1.65, [0.96–2.84]). Female low-grade employees had a significantly lower OR for long sickness absence after 11 years (OR = 0.26, [0.08–0.86]). Male employees working long hours and male and female employees in high job demand take less sickness absence. Meanwhile, male employees working short hours take longer sickness absence.

Conclusions
This study showed that male employees at low grades take longer sickness absence than those at high grades; however, this was alleviated by work characteristics. Female employees at low grades take less sickness absence than those at high grades. Japanese female employees with low grades, male employees with long working hours, and both sexes with high job demands take less sickness absence, although they may be unhealthy because of work stress.
Method of determining the exponent in the formula to predict yielding and maximum capacity under combined stress for bending moment‐resisting joints with drift‐pins
Authors: Odani Ryuki , Murakami Masahide , Inayama Masahiro 
Published: November 2022

AbstractAn engineering judgment is often used to determine the exponent of the verification formula for combined stresses applied to moment‐resisting joints using drift‐pins. In this study, the exponent was determined based on a mechanical model. (1) The exponent of the verification formula for moment‐resisting joints with drift‐pins subjected to combined stresses was theoretically derived considering the effect of the grain angle given by Hankinson's formula. (2) The combined stress verification formula was validated by numerical analyses, experiments, and past experimental studies. It was confirmed that the method of determining the exponent in this formula is reasonable.
It's better when I see it: Students benefit more from open‐book than closed‐book teaching
Authors: Sibley Leonie , Fiorella Logan , Lachner Andreas 
Published: November 2022

AbstractTeaching previously learned contents to (fictitious) peers is regarded as a beneficial activity that aids learning. However, it is still an open question which cognitive mechanism (generating versus retrieving information) account for this learning‐by‐teaching effect. To examine the role of retrieval during generative processing while learning‐by‐teaching, we conducted an experiment. After a learning phase about the human respiratory system, university students (N = 108) either taught the learned contents with (open‐book teaching) or without (closed‐book teaching) access to the learning material. Students in the control group restudied the contents. Results indicated that teaching was not more beneficial than restudying regarding students' learning outcome (i.e., retention, drawing knowledge, transfer knowledge). However, open‐book teaching was more effective than closed‐book teaching regarding students' retention. This effect was mediated by the richness (i.e., number of concepts) and completeness of students' explanations. The findings suggest that retrieval failure may constrain potential effects of closed‐book explaining.
Membership functions dependent adaptive sliding mode fault‐tolerant control for uncertain T–S fuzzy systems with performance bounds
Authors: Tu Weiwei , Dong Jiuxiang 
Published: November 2022

SummaryThis article is concerned with the problem of adaptive sliding mode control for uncertain Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy systems in the presence of actuator faults. In order to accommodate fuzzy systems, a membership function weights dependent sliding function is first given. Compared with the existing linear sliding function based results, a reduced‐order fuzzy sliding motion through parallel distributed compensation structure is obtained, then less conservative results are achieved. By exploiting a restricted potential function, a continuous sliding mode fault‐tolerant control scheme is established. Then the closed‐loop system trajectory is maintained in practical sliding mode with a preset sliding band, which improves the robustness performances of system especially for the occurrence of abrupt actuator faults. Moreover, with the usage of the property of fuzzy product inference engines through equivalence class in set theory, a less conservative stability criterion in terms of linear matrix inequalities is derived to guarantee the uniformly boundedness of the reduced‐order sliding motion. At last, some illustrative examples are offered to validate the effectiveness of our proposal.
Set‐theoretic localization for mobile robots with infrastructure‐based sensing
Authors: Li Xiao , Li Yutong , Li Nan , Girard Anouck , Kolmanovsky Ilya 
Published: November 2022

AbstractIn this article, we propose a set‐membership based localization approach for mobile robots using infrastructure‐based sensing. Under an assumption of known uncertainties bounds of the noise in the sensor measurement and robot motion models, the proposed method computes uncertainty sets that over‐bound the robot 2D body and orientation via set‐valued motion propagation and subsequent measurement update from infrastructure‐based sensing. We establish theoretical properties and computational approaches for this set‐theoretic localization method and illustrate its application to an automated valet parking example in simulations, and to omnidirectional robot localization problems in real‐world experiments. With deteriorating uncertainties in system parameters and initialization parameters, we conduct sensitivity analysis and demonstrate that the proposed method, in comparison to the FastSLAM, has a milder performance degradation, thus is more robust against the changes in the parameters. Meanwhile, the proposed method can provide estimates with smaller standard deviation values.
3D Printed Supercapacitor: Techniques, Materials, Designs, and Applications
Authors: Li Mengrui , Zhou Shiqiang , Cheng Lukuan , Mo Funian , Chen Lina , Yu Suzhu , Wei Jun 
Published: November 2022

AbstractSupercapacitors (SCs) offer broad possibilities in the rising domain of military and civilian owing to their intrinsic properties of superior power density, long lifetime, and safety features. Despite of low‐cost, facile manufacture, and time‐saving, 3D printing technology unleashes the potential of SCs in terms of achieving desirable capacitance with high mass loading, fabrication of well‐designed complicated structures, and direct construction of on‐chip integration systems. In this review, first, the representative printing technologies for SCs and advanced printable materials are scrutinized for SCs and advanced printable materials. Then the structure design principles of electrodes and devices are respectively highlighted and reported cases are systematically summarized. Next, configurations of the SCs and their applications in various areas are described in detail. Finally, the promising research directions for the future are discussed. The perspectives reviewed here are expected to provide a comprehensive understanding of 3D‐printed SCs and guidance in realizing their promise in various applications.
Emerging Nonplanar van der Waals Nanoarchitectures from 2D Allotropes for Optoelectronics
Authors: Ouyang Decai , Zhang Na , Li Yuan , Zhai Tianyou 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe unique atomic thickness and mechanical flexibility of 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials endow them with spatial designability and constructability. It is easy to break the inherent planar construction through various spatial manipulations, thus creating vdW nanoarchitectures with nonplanar topologies. The basic properties before evolution are retained and tunable by architecture‐related feature sizes, and other newly generated properties are inspiring as they are beyond the reach of 2D allotropes, bringing great competitiveness for their encouraging applications in optoelectronics. Here, these representative nonplanar vdW nanoarchitectures (i.e., nanoscrolls, nanotubes, spiral nanopyramids, spiral nanowires, nanoshells, etc.) are summarized and their structural evolution processes are elucidated. Their fascinating nascent properties based on their distinctive structural features, focusing on generally enhanced light–matter interactions and device physics, are further introduced. Finally, their opportunities and challenges for in‐depth experimental exploration are prospected. It is a brand‐new idea to modify the properties of 2D vdW materials from micro‐ and nanostructural design and evolution, offering a solid platform for twistronics, valleytronics, and integrated nanophotonics.
Energy Harvesting and Sensing Integrated Woven Structure Kneepad Based on Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Authors: Wang Guiying , Liu Xinzhi , Wang Yiqun , Zheng Zhihao , Zhu Zewan , Yin Yajiang , Zhu Lianqing , Wang Xiaofeng 
Published: November 2022

AbstractTriboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are extensively studied because of their great potential in energy harvesting and sensing. Traditional chemical batteries cannot meet the requirements of wearable electronic products because of their inherent limitations such as large weight, large size, limited endurance, and limited lifespan. To address the issue, the self‐powered energy harvester has attracted considerable interest among researchers. Here, the woven structure TENG consists of flexible silicone mixed with polyvinylidene fluoride as dielectric layers, silver fabric, and conductive tape as electrodes. The electrical output performance of the pattern structure processed by tip design is nearly three times higher. The whole TENG and flexible printed circuit board are encapsulated by polydimethylsiloxane film, reducing inconvenient, and discomfort sensation during wearing. The woven structure TENG can not only harvest energy to power wearable electronic devices but also be used to recognize human motion as the waveforms changing when people are in different states. Taking the knee bending angle data as an example to conduct machine learning, it is able to classify different states of human motion. This work extends the application of the woven TENG as an integrated device for sensing and energy harvesting.
Management of Polaron Dynamics: A Key Factor for the Long Operational Stability of Exciplex‐Forming Cohost‐Based Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes
Authors: Lee Kyung Hyung , Jeon Soon Ok , Chung Yeon Sook , Kim Jae‐Min , Lee Jun Yeob 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe device performance of phosphorescent organic light‐emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) is improved by using the exciplex‐forming cohost with the thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) property. This work comprehensively investigates the excitons and polarons management of exciplex host and dopant to understand the device degradation of PHOLEDs with various host materials. The recombination and accumulation of polarons is newly integrated in the numerical model for understanding transient electroluminescence in order to theoretically characterize a diversity of the polaron dynamics. Based on the unique excitons kinetics, polarons kinetics, and recombination coefficients coming from the exciplex host materials, the device degradation is examined. As a result, it is revealed that the longer device lifetime is attributed to the suppression of the exciton–polaron interaction by minimizing the steady‐state polarons via fast polaron recombination. The combination of the exciton–polaron coupled kinetics model and the device degradation model show that the recombination coefficient should be considered a key parameter of the host materials to design long‐lived PHOLEDs.
Soil energetics: A unifying framework to quantify soil functionality
Authors: Wacha Kenneth , Philo Allen , Hatfield Jerry. L. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractMassive quantities of energy flow through soils during a year. Emerging views indicate that when supplied with abundant energy, soil biology acts as a self‐organizing system as soil microbes forge their habitats into a porous, well‐aggregated structure with high functionality. The flow of energy to power these self‐organizing processes has not been accounted for in present soil models, which concentrate on static pools of soil organic matter (SOM) and carbon and their relationship to soil functionality. To address this, we introduce a new conceptual energetics framework that quantifies the net energy flows within a soil control volume (CV) using a suite of energetic components including mechanical, biogeochemical, and hydrological processes. This framework is presented at a conceptual level and can be expanded to more granular levels with further study. To assess its present capabilities, management systems of conventional‐till (CT) and no‐till (NT) corn (Zea mays L.)–soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] rotations and a grassland system (GS) were evaluated using the model. Net energy fluxes over a growing season were found to be negative for the CT, net zero for NT, and positive for GS. The energetics framework shows it can provide a first‐order assessment of soil health and advise which management practices provide adequate supplies of energy to soil biology to effectively enhance soil functionality.
Expanding the spectrum of ADNP‐related disorder‐Antenatally diagnosed congenital diaphragmatic hernia and a novel de novo mutation in ADNP gene
Authors: Asegaonkar Prashant , Kotecha Udhaya , Dongre Mayuresh , Mistri Mehul , Sharda Sheetal 
Published: November 2022

AbstractDe novo heterozygous ADNP variants have been associated with a complex neurological phenotype characterized primarily by neurodevelopmental delay. Cardiac and renal anomalies have additionally been observed in a few patients. All reported cases to date have been ascertained postnatally. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) has been previously observed in one child diagnosed with a de novo ADNP‐related neurodevelopmental disorder. We report a fetus who presented with syndromic CDH associated with a de novo heterozygous ADNP variant.
Evaluating population histories in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Chile, using ancient mitochondrial and Y‐chromosomal DNA
Authors: Balentine Christina M. , Alfonso‐Durruty Marta , Reynolds Austin W. , Vilar Miguel , Morello Flavia , Román Manuel San , Springs Lauren C. , Smith Rick W. A. , Archer Samantha M. , Mata‐Míguez Jaime , Wing Natalie , Bolnick Deborah A. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractObjectivesThis study aims to characterize the genetic histories of ancient hunter‐gatherer groups in Fuego‐Patagonia (Chile) with distinct Marine, Terrestrial, and Mixed Economy subsistence strategies. Mitochondrial (mtDNA) and Y‐chromosome data were generated to test three hypotheses. H0: All individuals were drawn from the same panmictic population; H1: Terrestrial groups first populated the region and gave rise to highly specialized Marine groups by ~7,500 cal BP; or H2: Marine and Terrestrial groups represent distinct ancestral lineages who migrated independently into the region.MethodsAncient DNA was extracted from the teeth of 50 Fuegian‐Patagonian individuals dating from 6,895 cal BP to after European arrival, and analyzed alongside other individuals from previous studies. Individuals were assigned to Marine, Terrestrial, and Mixed Economy groups based on archeological context and stable isotope diet inferences, and mtDNA (HVR1/2) and Y‐chromosome variation was analyzed.ResultsEndogenous aDNA was obtained from 49/50 (98%) individuals. Haplotype diversities, FST comparisons, and exact tests of population differentiation showed that Marine groups were significantly different from Terrestrial groups based on mtDNA (p < 0.05). No statistically significant differences were found between Terrestrial and Mixed Economy groups. Demographic simulations support models in which Marine groups diverged from the others by ~14,000 cal BP. Y‐chromosome results showed similar patterns but were not statistically significant due to small sample sizes and allelic dropout.DiscussionThese results support the hypothesis that Marine and Terrestrial economic groups represent distinct ancestral lineages who diverged during the time populations were expanding in the Americas, and may represent independent migrations into Fuego‐Patagonia.
Mugharet el'Aliya: Affinities of an enigmatic north African Aterian maxillary fragment
Authors: Röding Carolin , Stringer Chris , Lacruz Rodrigo S. , Harvati Katerina 
Published: November 2022

AbstractObjectivesThis study uses a virtual framework to examine the left maxillary fragment of the juvenile fossil from Mugharet el'Aliya, Morocco, found in association with an Aterian lithic industry. Previously, this fossil had been ascribed to modern humans or the Neanderthal lineage based on its “archaic”/“Neanderthal‐like” features and apparent large size. Here, we conducted a novel 3D shape comparative analysis of the maxillary fragment to clarify its taxonomic affinities with regard to its size and ontogeny.Materials and MethodsEighty Computed Tomography and surface scans representing ontogenetic samples of Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis were used to capture species‐specific differences. The toolkit of geometric morphometrics in combination with surface registration and an elastic iterative closest point algorithm were used to create a dataset of meshes with an identical number of corresponding vertices for the maxillae. Multivariate statistics were applied to Procrustes superimposed coordinates derived from the vertices of this dataset.ResultsOur analysis showed affinities of the Mugharet el'Aliya individual with our H. sapiens sample, especially with a subadult individual from Qafzeh. No size‐independent affinities with Neanderthals of comparable dental age could be identified.DiscussionOur results add to the evidence connecting fossils from western Asia, especially Qafzeh and Skhul, and the North African Aterian. Furthermore, Mugharet el'Aliya adds to our knowledge of the ontogenetic development of adult morphology that is frequently used to characterize hominin groups, for example, Neanderthals and modern humans.