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Vibration suppression of thick plates with attached piezoelectric patches using 1D Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF) based finite element models
Authors: Nadi Azin , Mahzoon Mojtaba , Azadi Yazdi Ehsan 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThe first six vibration modes of a thick plate with 10 piezoelectric sensor‐actuator pairs are suppressed using advanced beam elements based on the one‐dimensional Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF). A three‐dimensional model is developed by combining one‐dimensional beam elements with two‐dimensional Lagrange expansions in this paper. For the reduction of vibration of a thick cantilever plate, a PIDF type control is designed and tuned. Based on the results of the simulation, it can be concluded that the simulation of thick plate models with impulse inputs is efficient as well after model order reduction.
Archiving the Trauma of Internment Camps in Film: Jacqueline Veuve’s Journal de Rivesaltes, 1941–1942 (1997)
Authors: Edgar Brenda Lynn 
Published: December 2022

AbstractIn 1997, independent Swiss filmmaker and anthropologist Jaqeuline Veuve (1930–2013) released her documentaryJournal de Rivesaltes, 1941–1942based on the journal kept by Friedel Bohny-Reiter (1912–2001) while working as a nurse for the Swiss Red Cross/Aid to Children at the Rivesaltes internment camp in southwest France. This chapter will show how Veuve’s film brought public attention to hitherto unknown women humanitarians and contributed to shaping a new understanding of Switzerland’s role in the Second World War. It will also examine the film as a performance of both the trauma of others in the past and that of the public facing this history in the late 1990s, thus constituting an important source for the history of emotions.
Inter-State Diplomacy Within the OSCE Permanent Council
Authors: Schade Daniel 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThis chapter considers the work of the OSCE Permanent Council as the OSCE’s central body for decision-making and diplomatic interaction. It is particularly interested in the types of alliance behaviour present and how this affects the OSCE’s ability to perform its duties successfully. The chapter highlights the prevalence of collective activity by the EU’s member states and numerous regular partners, and the near absence of organized collective activity by other groups of states. It then discusses how these existing cooperation patterns hamper the OSCE’s ability to successfully mediate conflicts such as that between Russia and Ukraine.
Women’s Transformative Power in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Authors: Ditel Claudia 
Published: December 2022

AbstractA protracted ethnic conflict generates strongly nationalist and exclusive rhetoric through the processes of dehumanizing and othering externally, and promotion of militarism and patriarchy internally. Drawing from theories of gender and conflict studies, this chapter illustrates how, in Armenia and Azerbaijan, some women oppose an inclusive culture of peace in favour of nationalist and dehumanizing discourses. Evidence from the two countries suggest that grassroots and community-driven approaches to peacebuilding can constitute confidence-building measures that transform the paradigm of “women as victims” into “women as agents of change.”
The Belt and Road Initiative and Sustainable Urban Development in Central Asia
Authors: Dankov Artem 
Published: December 2022

AbstractAgainst the background of the expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this chapter analyses the phenomenon of urbanisation in Central Asia and its political and social implications. The main argument is that major cities have emerged as important economic and political centres, but that these also are focal points for ethnic and social conflict which threatens regime stability. While the BRI contributes to sustainable urban development, it has so far done little to attenuate the problematic political and social consequences of urbanisation.
Opportunities and Risks from the Belt and Road Initiative in Ukraine
Authors: Poita Yurii 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThis study attempts to reveal the specifics of political, economic, and defence relations between Ukraine and China within the framework of the BRI in terms of opportunities and risks for Ukraine. The article argues that, despite a number of opportunities, the BRI will not bring economic or technological development to Ukraine, nor will it bring security, including in the conflict with Russia. At the same time, the intensification of relations between Ukraine and China may create a number of geopolitical, technological, and informational challenges for Ukraine. In addition, there may be risks associated with the indirect impact of the BRI on democracy in Ukraine, some signs of which are already being observed.
The OSCE ODIHR and Regional Organisations as Norm Entrepreneurs: The Case of Post-pandemic Kyrgyzstan
Authors: Anghelescu Ana-Maria , Dzardanova Svetlana 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the illiberal trends already witnessed by experts and civil society in the OSCE region through increased corruption and lack of transparency in emergency response, as well as through abuses in terms of human rights and restricting civic participation. Building upon the existing literature on protective integration (Alexander Libman) and virtual regionalism (Roy Allison) in Central Asia, which argues that authoritarian leaders pursue various forms of regional cooperation in order to ensure regime survival, we intend to assess the place of the OSCE among the other regional organisations in which the Central Asian states are currently participating, as well as to evaluate how the OSCE Human Dimension has been transformed over the past few years. In this chapter, we intend to discuss the impact of the public health crisis on the democratic normative agenda. In this sense, we aim to analyse the OSCE-ODIHR Human Dimension agenda in Central Asia, specifically in Kyrgyzstan, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the capacity of the OSCE to determine the respect for democratic standards in a contested area where multiple norm entrepreneurs are active.
‘Leaving No One Behind’ – Sustainable Development of Sámi Reindeer Husbandry in Norway
Authors: Johnsen Kathrine I. , Eira Inger Marie Gaup , Mathiesen Svein Disch , Oskal Anders 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWithin pastoral systems there is deep knowledge of the dynamics of the landscape and nature; and the Sámi traditional reindeer herding understanding of sustainable reindeer husbandry holds adaptive mechanisms for dealing with changing conditions in nature and extreme weather events. The Norwegian state has had policies for sustainable reindeer husbandry since the early 1990s. This chapter discusses two conceptualizations of sustainable reindeer husbandry – that of the state and that based on Sámi traditional reindeer herding knowledge. Based on public documents and empirical data from a workshop where herders shared observations and reflections from an extreme winter event (goavvi) in Finnmark 2019/2020, we discuss the different knowledge systems and tools for dealing with change embedded in the two conceptualizations. Norway is a strong supporter of the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development building on the principle of ‘leaving no one behind’, yet herders argue that policies and regulations for sustainable reindeer husbandry policies make their livelihoods vulnerable to climate change and other types of environmental change. The gap between the state’s and the participating herders’ understanding of ‘sustainability’ and tools for maintaining the wellbeing of the herd create misunderstandings and mistrust between the actors. Moreover, state decisions undermine the traditional knowledge and practices and push herders to practice a ‘Norwegianized’ type of pastoralism. In the current public management of reindeer husbandry, Sámi traditional reindeer herding knowledge and practices have been left behind.
Towards the Creation of Effective Partnerships with the Private Sector for Sustainable Development
Authors: Shimoda Yukimi 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched to promote partnerships to enhance developmental effectiveness. This is especially apparent in Goal 17. The private sector is one of the prospective partners for the realisation of a sustainable society. Collaboration with it has accelerated internationally to challenge various development issues through businesses. This trend is impelled by both the public and private sectors, whose activities have different aims and purposes. Both multilateral and bilateral donors, including Japan, have planned and implemented various development projects in collaboration with untraditional partners, such as corporations. This chapter examines how partnerships with the private sector have been formed, focusing on Japan. First, it briefly studies international initiatives to understand the process by which previously separated entities—public and private sectors—gradually move closer to solve development problems. It then explores the way the Government of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, who are responsible for the public sector, have come to create or support projects in collaboration with companies. Their shift in the direction of international development responds to international calls for sustainable development. The chapter concludes by discussing the prospect of partnership with the private sector to realise the sustainable future that the SDGs aim to create.
Education in SDGs: What is Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education?
Authors: Tonegawa Yoshiko 
Published: December 2022

AbstractEducation was positioned as Goal 4 (i.e., SDG4) in SDGs. SDG4 aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” The lack of education and the inability to read and write often limit access to information and disadvantage the livelihoods of people. From the perspective of acquiring knowledge and skills, along with developing human resources, it is clear that the elements of education are present across all 17 SDGs. In other words, education is a cross-cutting discipline that influences a variety of areas (Kitamura et al. 2014) and, as such, plays an important role in achieving all SDGs. The main objective of this chapter is to examine “inclusive and equitable quality education.” First, this chapter provides a brief overview of international trends in educational cooperation from 1945 to 2015, covering the Education for All (EFA), Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and SDGs. It then discusses “inclusive and equitable quality education,” the core of SDG4. It specifically addresses discussions on equity, inclusion, and the quality of education. Furthermore, the quality of education is examined from four perspectives: school environment, educational attainment, learning achievement, and non-cognitive skills. This chapter also presents the case of education for children with disabilities in Ethiopia.
[This chapter was written by modifying the following chapter: Tonegawa Y (2018) “Kokusai kyouiku kyouryoku (International cooperation in education)” in Yamada M (ed) Atarashii kokusai kyouryoku ron (New international cooperation theory), Revised edition, Akashi Shoten, Tokyo]
Social Impacts of Infrastructure Construction: Sociological Approaches to Development
Authors: Hamamoto Atsushi 
Published: December 2022

AbstractThis chapter helps readers unfamiliar with sociology to obtain a concrete picture of what a sociological approach to development is. It presents arguments based not only on previous research in the English-speaking world, but also on research trends in Japan. Sociological studies of development can be divided into two fields based on their disciplinary origins and research orientation: ‘Sociology of Development’ and ‘Development Sociology’. First, this chapter explains the difference between these research areas. Furthermore, as a case study, the issue of displacementand resettlement induced by dam construction is presented to examine what kind of sociological analysis has been conducted in these research areas. Accordingly, the author presents research perspectives that are considered unique to sociology in development issues: power relations among actors at development sites; secondary, indirect, mid-, and long-term impacts of development projects; macro–micro linkages among international, national, and regional transformations; and values, culture, and discourse on development. Finally, a discussion is presented on the role of sociological research in the debate on sustainability and how it can play a significant part.
Applying a Random Forest Approach to Imbalanced Dataset on Network Monitoring Analysis
Authors: Chen Qian , Zhang Xing , Wang Ying , Zhai Zhijia , Yang Fen 
Published: December 2022

AbstractSince the rapid growth of big data technology and the continuous development of information technology in recent years, the significance of network security monitoring is increasing consistently.
As one of the major tools to secure the system environment, organizations use various monitoring devices to govern the utilities of networks, hardware and applications. Meanwhile, massive and redundant data are produced by these devices constantly, which make a huge problem for analysts and scientists who are willing to extract useful information from them, and even impact the accuracy and efficiency of the monitoring systems. In this paper, we employ random forest algorithm and propose an ensemble learning model under certain scenarios with fixed data features. We use a preprocessing method to balance positive and negative samples, and then use 6 different intrusion detection systems as weak classifiers, which satisfy the rules of “partial sampling” and “partial features selection” of ensemble learning. Finally, we test three combination strategies, including relative majority voting, weighted voting and stacking, to combine the predictions. Experiments show that stacking has a better performance than the other two, with a score of 98.25% in recall, and achieves a 47.91% precision.
On the optimal domain for minimizing the buckling load of a clamped plate
Authors: Stollenwerk Kathrin 
Published: December 2022

AbstractWe prove the existence of an optimal domain for minimizing the buckling load among all, possibly unbounded, open subsets of$${\mathbb {R}}^n$$Rn($$n\ge 2$$n≥2) with given measure. Our approach is based on the extension of a two-dimensional existence result of Ashbaugh and Bucur and on the idea of Alt and Caffarelli to focus on the eigenfunction.
Speech comprehension in noise—considerations for ecologically valid assessment of communication skills ability with cochlear implants
Authors: Hey Matthias , Mewes Alexander , Hocke Thomas 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Background
Nowadays, cochlear implant (CI) patients mostly show good to very good speech comprehension in quiet, but there are known problems with communication in everyday noisy situations. There is thus a need for ecologically valid measurements of speech comprehension in real-life listening situations for hearing-impaired patients. The additional methodological effort must be balanced with clinical human and spatial resources. This study investigates possible simplifications of a complex measurement setup.

Methods
The study included 20 adults from long-term follow-up after CI fitting with postlingual onset of hearing impairment. The complexity of the investigated listening situations was influenced by changing the spatiality of the noise sources and the temporal characteristics of the noise. To compare different measurement setups, speech reception thresholds (SRT) were measured unilaterally with different CI processors and settings. Ten normal-hearing subjects served as reference.

Results
In a complex listening situation with four loudspeakers, differences in SRT from CI subjects to the control group of up to 8 dB were found. For CI subjects, this SRT correlated with the situation with frontal speech signal and fluctuating interference signal from the side with R2 = 0.69. For conditions with stationary interfering signals, R2 values <0.2 were found.

Conclusion
There is no universal solution for all audiometric questions with respect to the spatiality and temporal characteristics of noise sources. In the investigated context, simplification of the complex spatial audiometric setting while using fluctuating competing signals was possible.
Potential protective effect of 3,3′-methylenebis(1-ethyl-4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1H)-one) against bleomycin-induced lung injury in male albino rat via modulation of Nrf2 pathway: biochemical, histological, and immunohistochemical study
Authors: Hafez Sara Mohamed Naguib Abdel , Saber Entesar Ali , Aziz Neven Makram , Kamel Maha Yehia , Aly Ashraf A. , Abdelhafez El-Shimaa M. N. , Ibrahim Manar Fouli Gaber 
Published: December 2022

AbstractAcute lung injury is a serious condition accounting for the majority of acute respiratory failure. Bleomycin (BLM) is an antibiotic that was first described as a chemotherapeutic agent. 3,3′-methylenebis(1-ethyl-4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1H)-one) was reported to have anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic, and anti-oxidative properties. The current work aimed to assess the possible protective effects and the mechanism of protection of 3,3′-methylenebis-(1-ethyl-4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1H)-one) on BLM-induced lung injury in addition to the effect and underlying mechanisms of nuclear factor-erythroid-related factor 2 pathway against this injury. Rats were equally divided into four groups: control group, BLM group, 1-ethyl-4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1H)-one-treated group, and BLM with 1-ethyl-4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1H)-one-treated group. At the end of the work, the blood samples were proceeded for biochemical study. Lung specimens were obtained for biochemical, histological, and immunohistochemical study. The results exhibited a significant increase in both malondialdehyde and tumor necrotic factor-α with a significant decrease in glutathione, superoxide dismutase, IL 10, surfactant protein A, and nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 in BLM group. The lung histological results showed various morphological changes in the form of disturbed architecture, inflammatory cell infiltration, and intraluminal debris. This group also displayed a significant increase in the mean surface area fraction of anti-cleaved caspase 3, while group IV exhibited amelioration in the previously mentioned parameters and histological alternations that were induced by BLM. It could be concluded that 3,3′-methylenebis(1-ethyl-4-hydroxyquinolin-2(1H)-one) has anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic protective effects against BLM-induced lung injury.
CCR and CAR Algebras are Connected Via a Path of Cuntz–Toeplitz Algebras
Authors: Kuzmin Alexey 
Published: December 2022

AbstractFor$$q \in {\mathbb {R}}$$q∈R,$$|q| < 1$$|q|<1we consider the universal enveloping$$C^*$$C∗-algebra of a$$*$$∗-algebra ofq-canonical commutation relations (q-CCR), which is generated by$$a_1, \ldots , a_n$$a1,…,ansubject to the relations$$\begin{aligned} a_i^* a_j = \delta _{ij} 1 + q a_j a_i^* . \end{aligned}$$ai∗aj=δij1+qajai∗.It has a distinguished representation$$\pi _F$$πFcalled the Fock representation, which is believed to be faithful. In this article we denote the image of the universal enveloping$$C^*$$C∗-algebra ofq-CCR in the Fock representation by$$\beth _{n,q}$$ℶn,q. The question whether$$C^*$$C∗-isomorphism$$\beth _{n,q} \simeq \beth _{n,0}$$ℶn,q≃ℶn,0holds has been considered in the literature and proved for$$|q| < 0.44$$|q|<0.44. In this article we show that$$\beth _{n,q} \simeq \beth _{n,0}$$ℶn,q≃ℶn,0for$$|q| < 1$$|q|<1.
Duplicate prescriptions in the emergency department: a retrospective cohort study
Authors: Heck Johannes , Krichevsky Benjamin , Groh Adrian , Schulze Westhoff Martin , Laser Hans , Gerbel Swetlana , Strunz Patrick-Pascal , Schumacher Carsten , Klietz Martin , Stichtenoth Dirk O. , Höner zu Siederdissen Christoph , Krause Olaf 
Published: December 2022

Abstract
Purpose
To determine the nature and frequency of duplicate prescriptions (DPs) in the emergency department (ED) by utilization of a novel categorization of DPs which differentiates between appropriate DPs (ADPs) and potentially inappropriate DPs (PIDPs).

Methods
In this retrospective cohort study, adult patients who presented to the ED for internal medicine of a large university hospital in northern Germany in 2018 and 2019 were screened for the presence of DPs. Descriptive statistical methods were used to characterize the nature and frequency of PIDPs compared to the frequency of ADPs.

Results
A total of 4208 patients were enrolled into the study. The median age of the study population was 63 years (interquartile range (IQR) 48–77), 53.9% were female. The patients took a median of 5 drugs (IQR 3–9). 10.9% of the study population were affected by at least one PIDP (at least one grade-1 PIDP: 6.1%; at least one grade-2 PIDP: 4.5%; at least one grade-3 PIDP: 1.1%). Non-opioid analgesics accounted for the majority of grade-1 PIDPs, while inhalatives were most frequently responsible for grade-2 and grade-3 PIDPs. Nearly half of the study population (48.6%) displayed at least one ADP.

Conclusion
PIDPs pose a frequent pharmacological challenge in the ED. The medication review should comprise a systematic screening for PIDPs with a particular focus on non-opioid analgesics and inhalatives. ADPs were detected more frequently than PIDPs, questioning the predominant notion in the medical literature that DPs are exclusively deleterious.