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History & Philosophy Of Science
Christian Kietzmann
Summary: In recent years, philosophers have proposed the Reasoning View of normative reasons, claiming that normative reasons are premises of sound reasoning. This view has faced criticism, mainly due to counterexamples that suggest something can be a premise of sound reasoning without being intuitively a normative reason, or can be a normative reason without being a premise of sound reasoning. In this paper, three recently proposed examples are considered and rejected, which helps to clarify the Reasoning View in important aspects.
Article
Political Science
Jack Seddon
Summary: The collapse of monetary regimes is not solely due to external shocks, but rather strategic choices made by hegemonic powers. These choices drive the trajectory of the regime and can explain different patterns of destabilization. Structural vulnerabilities in contemporary regimes are also identified through this analysis.
PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Textiles
Xinxin Huang, Xiaoming Tao, Rong Yin, Shirui Liu
Summary: The study introduces a Relative Hairiness Index (RHI) to evaluate the tucking and securing of fiber ends in yarns, providing valuable insights into the effectiveness of spinning parameters and methods and predicting the potential for hairiness formation. The RHI serves as a significant reference for spinning process design and yarn quality control.
TEXTILE RESEARCH JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Textiles
Tanyu Wang, Jun Xie, Zhaoguang Zuo, Jin Li, Hao Liu, Sha Li
Summary: The method of using entanglement for measuring the dynamic coefficient of friction between yarns is easy to use and highly accurate, providing a reliable basis for yarn quality control and evaluation of surface properties.
JOURNAL OF THE TEXTILE INSTITUTE
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Yaping Zhu, Varun Grover
Summary: A consistent positivity bias is found in many sharing economy platforms, which leads to meaningless review systems, misleads the public, deteriorates users' trust, and negatively affects consumers' participation. However, there is limited research on the impact of privacy concerns on review behaviors. This study aims to investigate consumers' privacy concerns in writing negative reviews and the effects of these concerns on review intentions, as well as the influence of contingent factors. The study also examines the effectiveness of two fair information practices in mitigating privacy concerns.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Salva Duran-Nebreda, Michael J. O'Brien, R. Alexander Bentley, Sergi Valverde
Summary: This study explores the relationship between diversity and innovation in cultural evolution, finding that when a cultural domain expands to the point of exceeding the supply of experts, diversity decreases and information redundancy increases, with imitation replacing invention. The model predictions are validated through case studies, revealing the dynamics of boom and bust in innovation.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Dismas Matovelo, Pendo Ndaki, Victoria Yohani, Rose Laisser, Respicious Bakalemwa, Edgar Ndaboine, Zabron Masatu, Magdalena Mwaikambo, Jennifer L. Brenner, Warren M. Wilson
Summary: This study found that illiterate women in rural Tanzania do not seek maternal healthcare services primarily because they cannot read public health information or understand the Swahili language used by healthcare providers, relying instead on family and neighbors to navigate these barriers. Despite understanding the potential benefits of maternal healthcare, they face challenges related to language communication and illiteracy.
BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maria Loconsole, Lucia Regolin
Summary: Newborn domestic chicks quickly learn to recognize and prefer familiar individuals. We conducted experiments to examine if lack of physical contact or social feedback during familiarization would affect affiliative preference, and hypothesized the importance of social responsiveness. The results showed that despite the absence of haptic interaction or being seen by its cagemate, chicks still preferred the familiar individual. However, when the familiar individual was socially unresponsive, chicks developed a preference for the unfamiliar individual. These findings emphasize the significance of social interaction in the early stages of life, regardless of familiarity.
Review
Business, Finance
Maureen O'Hara, Xing (Alex) Zhou
Summary: This article provides a critical evaluation of the fixed income market crisis in March 2020, summarizing the causes of the market breakdowns, the role of the Federal Reserve in resolving the crisis, and the potential lasting effects. It highlights the fragilities and interconnectedness of the current fixed income market structure, suggesting that periodic instability may remain a characteristic of this market.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Review
Pediatrics
Modupe Coker, Morenike O. Folayan, Ian C. Michelow, Regina E. Oladokun, Nguavese Torbunde, Nadia A. Sam-Agudu
Summary: Children aged zero to 19 in sub-Saharan Africa bear a disproportionate burden of global communicable and non-communicable diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted child health and major disease control efforts, highlighting social and ethical issues. More research and action are needed to mitigate the pandemic's ripple effects on this population.
PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Lucas Dawson, Marine Elbakidze, L. E. Kraft van Ermel, Ulf Olsson, Yfke P. Ongena, Christina Schaffer, Karl -Erik Johansson
Summary: Urban greenspace is important for human wellbeing, but has been reduced due to urban expansion. This study analyzes an online survey in Sweden to identify the main constraints to using greenspace. The findings show divergent perceptions of constraints among different groups. Overall, there is a need to prioritize the planning and accessibility of greenspace.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sparsha Saha
Summary: Building on literature from political science and psychology, this study argues that political attention on animals and animal-friendly political candidates leads to voter backlash. The author conducted two types of experiments with large, representative samples and found that overall, focusing on the need to reduce meat consumption for environmental reasons caused strong opposition from voters compared to other issues. However, the effects varied based on partisan identification, with Republicans being more opposed than Democrats. Surprisingly, candidates who emphasized farm animal rights faced no backlash and even received significant support, especially from Black women and Latinas.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Shuting Wang, Jianshu Gao, Fuqi Lu, Fang Wang, Zhongyuan You, Meidong Huang, Weihai Fang, Xiufeng Liu, Yunliang Li, Ying Liu
Summary: In this work, the authors propose a battery-free human motion sensing system using a shoes-ground comprised natural triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and a conductive PVA-PEDOT:PSS hydrogel. They also develop an AI-based fall detection system based on the TENG, which can detect fall accidents during walking in real time and send instant messages for notification. The experimental results demonstrate the potential of the TENG system in wearable electronic devices and provide a viable reference for other applications related to human motion detection.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
S. M. Yasir Arafat, A. K. M. Bazlul Karim
Summary: This study examined memory disturbances in 14 cases of non-fatal hanging, finding that all cases had retrograde amnesia and 42.9% had both anterograde and retrograde amnesia. The preliminary findings add insight to the under-researched area and suggest the need for further empirical studies to generalize the results.
Article
Economics
Jens Dietrichson, Jens Gudmundsson, Torsten Jochem
Summary: Team collaborations often face coordination problems due to limited information sharing, even with small communication costs. Mandating communication improves coordination, and increasing incentives for coordination is more important than subsidizing communication costs.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
David B. Stein, Gabriele De Canio, Eric Lauga, Michael J. Shelley, Raymond E. Goldstein
Summary: Studies have shown a transition from spatially disordered cytoskeleton to an ordered state with cell-spanning vortical flow during streaming in the oocyte development of fruit flies.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Mechanics
George T. Fortune, Alan Worley, Ana B. Sendova-Franks, Nigel R. Franks, Kyriacos C. Leptos, Eric Lauga, Raymond E. Goldstein
Summary: Circular milling behavior is observed in a plant-animal worm, and is investigated experimentally and theoretically from a fluid dynamical viewpoint. Singularities such as source dipoles and Stokes quadrupoles are expected to dominate the flow fields generated by a mill, unlike other systems modeled as force dipoles. A model treating a circular mill as a rigid rotating disc that generates a Stokes flow captures basic experimental results and provides insights into the emergence and stability of multiple mill systems.
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Nicolas Bruot, Pietro Cicuta, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadelha, Raymond E. Goldstein, Jurij Kotar, Eric Lauga, Francois Nadal
Summary: The oscillation frequencies of eukaryotic flagella are high, requiring an understanding of global unsteady flows. A direct Lagrangian measurement of this unsteady flow was conducted for the first time, indicating that tracer particles display elliptical Lissajous figures in the microscale regime.
PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Francesco Boselli, Jerome Jullien, Eric Lauga, Raymond E. Goldstein
Summary: The cilia bundles in MCCs behave as active vortices, limiting their rate of work and shearing the tissue at a finite but low area coverage, which mirrors findings for other sparse distributions such as cell receptors and leaf stomata.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Biology
Thomas C. Day, Stephanie S. Hohn, Seyed A. Zamani-Dahaj, David Yanni, Anthony Burnetti, Jennifer Pentz, Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Hugo Wioland, Hannah R. Sleath, William C. Ratcliff, Raymond E. Goldstein, Peter J. Yunker
Summary: The prevalence of multicellular organisms is due to their ability to form complex structures. This study quantifies the statistics of cellular neighborhoods in two different multicellular eukaryotes and finds that the cell neighborhood sizes closely fit a gamma distribution. This suggests that gamma-distributed cell neighborhood sizes are a general feature of multicellularity, providing predictability in cell packing.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Ennio Lavagnini, Joanne L. Cook, Patrick B. Warren, Christopher A. Hunter
Summary: Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations are used to verify the Setschenow relationship in nonionic surfactants with added salt. The optimized ion-specific interaction parameters show transferability and follow the same trends as the empirical Hofmeister series, providing a systematic method to parameterize the interactions between salt ion beads and surfactant beads.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
George T. Fortune, Nuno M. Oliveira, Raymond E. Goldstein
Summary: This study investigates the growth of biofilms in confined spaces. By utilizing a poroelastic framework, the radial growth mechanism of biofilms is revealed, and it is found that the growth of biofilms is limited by the Poisson's ratio of the matrix.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
David J. Bray, Richard L. Anderson, Patrick B. Warren, Kenneth Lewtas
Summary: Developing a dissipative particle dynamics model to study the behavior of alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons under ambient conditions is important for understanding the properties of these industrially significant materials.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Joseph C. R. Thacker, David J. Bray, Patrick B. Warren, Richard L. Anderson
Summary: We used advanced machine learning methods to explore the prediction of surfactant phase behavior, using a data set for twenty-three nonionic surfactants. Most machine learning classifiers tested were able to fill in missing data in a partially complete data set. However, strong data bias and a lack of chemical space information generally resulted in poorer results for entire de novo phase diagram prediction. Although some machine learning classifiers performed better than others, these observations were largely robust to the particular choice of algorithm. Finally, we examined how de novo phase diagram prediction can be improved by including observations from state points sampled by an analogy to commonly used experimental protocols. Our findings indicate the factors that should be considered when preparing for machine learning prediction of surfactant phase behavior in future studies.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Richard L. Anderson, Tseden Taddese, Ennio Lavagnini, Patrick B. Warren, David J. Bray, David S. D. Gunn
Summary: We propose a dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) model that can effectively describe the liquid state phase behavior of nonionic surfactants from the alkyl ethoxylate (CnEm) family. The model is an improved version based on previous work and incorporates molecular dynamics simulations to control the molecular structure more accurately. Our results show that changes to the surfactant geometry have minimal impact on the properties of micelles and water-octanol partition coefficients. With these modifications, the model successfully reproduces the binary water-surfactant phase behavior of nine surfactants with good accuracy.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
(2023)
Article
Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Patrick B. Warren
Summary: This article critically examines the concept of the partial osmotic pressure of ions in an electrolyte solution. The individual partial osmotic pressures are found to be extrathermodynamic quantities dependent on the electrical structure at the wall, similar to attempts to define individual ion activity coefficients. The analysis also considers the case where the wall is a barrier to only one species of ion, recovering the classic Gibbs-Donnan membrane equilibrium and providing a unifying treatment.
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Pierre A. Haas, Maria A. Gutierrez, Nuno M. Oliveira, Raymond E. Goldstein
Summary: Recent theoretical work has shown that clonal microbes can stabilize microbial communities by switching between different phenotypes. This switching can be stochastic or in response to environmental factors. The study explores the ecological effects of responsive switching and shows that it can stabilize coexistence, even when stochastic switching does not affect community stability.
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Christophe Raufaste, Simon Cox, Raymond E. Goldstein, Adriana Pesci
Summary: This study investigates the collapse of a catenoidal soap film when the supporting rings are moved beyond a critical separation. By dividing the catenoid with a glass plate, two identical hemicatenoids with a surface Plateau border (SPB) on the plate are formed. The collapse of the hemicatenoids is governed by frictional forces arising from viscous dissipation in the SPBs. Numerical studies confirm the relationship between the frictional force and the capillary number on wet surfaces. This study is significant for understanding the fragmentation of bubbles in highly confined geometries.
Article
Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Raymond E. Goldstein, Adriana Pesci, Christophe Raufaste, James D. Shemilt
Summary: The study investigates a robust geometric feature in the collapse of catenoidal soap films of various viscosities, which is found to be universal and independent of film viscosity prior to the pinchoff event. The approach to the conical structures is viewed as passage close to an unstable fixed point of conical similarity solutions. The overall analysis provides the basis for the systematic study of more complex problems of surface instabilities triggered by deformations of the supporting boundaries.
Article
Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Pierre A. Haas, Raymond E. Goldstein
Summary: The study derives a shell theory for large intrinsic bending deformations by asymptotically expanding three-dimensional incompressible morphoelasticity in the limit of a thin shell, highlighting geometric material anisotropy and the elastic role of cell constriction. Using the invagination of the green alga Volvox as a model developmental event, the results of this theory are shown to differ from those of classical shell theory and reveal how geometric effects stabilize invagination.
