Important Message Research Articles

Exploring spin states by hybrid functional methods to define correct trends in electrocatalytic activity of SACs embedded in N-doped graphene

Embedding transition metal atoms in graphene is a promising strategy to make it an effective electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution (OER) and reduction (ORR) reactions, which are crucial processes for the success of the energy transition. In this regard, theoretical investigations can be valuable complementary tools to experimental work, but only if they are able to adequately describe the system under examination. Transition metal atoms trapped in graphene pose serious challenges due to the presence of strongly correlated d-electrons, which can lead to complex spin configurations to be explored. In this work, by hybrid density functional theory (DFT) calculations we investigated several first-row transition metal atoms embedded in N-doped graphene as potential electrocatalysts for the OER and ORR. A detailed spin-dependent search has been performed to define the lowest energy spin state configurations for all intermediates along the associative path, finding Ni and Fe as the most promising systems for the OER and ORR, based on overpotential values (η) of 0.58 V and 0.52 V, respectively. Interestingly, if the study is limited to low-spin configurations, the resulting overpotential values differ within the range of 0.5 V, changing the order of activity between the various electrocatalytic systems. The most striking case is that of Fe, where according to the low-spin state reaction path it would suggest this to be the worst electrocatalyst for ORR. Thus, this work conveys a very important message and general warning to the community on trusting only data that come from a full spin optimization.

TikToks Lead to Higher Knowledge and Perceived Severity of Sexual Violence among Adolescent Men.

Social media communication is a promising way to deliver important health messages about sexual violence to a key population of adolescent men. The researchers conducted an online, between-participants experiment to examine the impact of personal narrative TikToks about sexual violence on adolescent men. Participants were adolescent men (n = 580) aged 15 to 19 (M = 17.3, SD = 1.43). Participants were randomly assigned to treatment (personal narrative TikToks about sexual violence) or control (hair braiding TikTok tutorials) conditions. Adolescent men who viewed personal narrative TikToks about sexual violence had higher knowledge of consequences and higher perceived severity of sexual violence. Additionally, adolescent men found personal narrative TikToks more attention-grabbing (vs. control) and did not have negative reactions. Findings that short (approximately one-minute) TikTok videos led to differences in knowledge and beliefs among, and were interesting and not aversive to, adolescent men are important for sexual violence prevention research. Health messages on TikTok can help shift adolescent perceptions of sexual violence, which is a key starting point towards changing norms.

Sosialisasi Pembuatan Puding Daun Kelor (DAUKEL) Di Desa Rukma Jaya

Increasing awareness of the importance of a healthy diet and nutrition for rural communities is the main goal of the XI 2023 National Service Service project. In this context, this journal documents community service efforts in Rukma Jaya Village through the outreach program for making Moringa Leaf Pudding (DAUKEL). Moringa leaves as a source of nutrients that are rich in essential substances, are the main focus of this program. Villagers, especially housewives, are invited to recognize the benefits of Moringa leaves and integrate them into their daily diet through creative innovations such as Moringa leaf pudding. The active participation of the community in this activity is a driving force in achieving program objectives. The results of this journal provide an overview of the effectiveness of a practical and participatory approach in conveying important messages about nutrition and healthy eating patterns to rural communities. The socialization of making Moringa leaf pudding (DAUKEL) not only creates awareness, but also provides insight into the diversification of local food ingredients that are nutritious and environmentally friendly

Sociodemographic determinants of environmental attitude, environmental knowledge, emotional affinity and responsible behaviour among tourists: a case study of the Western Himalayas (Determinantes sociodemográficos de la actitud ambiental, el conocimiento ambiental, la afinidad emocional y la conducta responsable de los turistas: un estudio de caso del Himalaya occidental)

ABSTRACT Environment-nature discourse is characterized by significant variation in the drivers of environmental attitudes and perceptions, making it difficult to draw broad generalizations about their relevance for specific localities. This study attempts to determine the sociodemographic determinants of environmental knowledge, behavioural intention, emotion affinity and resultant responsible behaviour. The data from 400 samples were collected through the primary survey in tourist destination regions. A model was developed using the structural equation modelling approach to analyse the relationship between the variables. Results from the structural equation modelling indicate that behavioural intentions were the most robust predictor, followed by emotional affinity. Results also show that gender, age, education and average monthly income positively affect environmental knowledge and behavioural intention. The research provides an essential result with practical significance for environmental policymakers since it identifies specific environmental behaviour antecedents. One important message that emerges from the finding is that planners in the province must consider diversity issues (age, gender, education) when planning for infrastructural provisions, leisure and other related activities.

Institutional perception of e-recruitment adoption in Nepal: Evidence from structural equation modeling

Awareness of the significance of adapting e-recruitment and applying various management strategies has increased in private corporate organizations. This study aims to investigate the institutional perception of e-recruitment adoption in Kathmandu valley, Nepal by employing the notion of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Self-Disclosure Theory (SDT). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and AMOS softwares are used to analyze data gathered from 286 Nepalese private organizations in Kathmandu valley between February 13 and March 10, 2022. The results indicate that private organizations in the Kathmandu valley are wary of completely embracing e-recruitment due to trust and privacy issues. This paper can be seen as an important message to Nepalese Human Resources sector, policymakers, the government and customers. Moreover, it has important theoretical implications explained from the standpoint of TAM and SDT theories. Practically, this is one of the latest attempts to assess and report on the breadth of e-recruitment adoption in Nepal’s private sector.

Empirical facts about Erythritol’s effects on whole body systems: A systematic Review

Background: There is an important public health message concerning obesity, diabetes, and the reduction of sugar consumption. Erythritol seems like the sweetener of choice but contrasting evidence exists so there is therefore a pertinent need to establish rigorous facts to ensure Erythritol ‘dosage’ is correct and to improve the nation’s health. Objectives: To plot the landscape by assessing all robust research to discover ‘safe erythritol use’, ‘acceptable’ side effects, and most importantly the whole ‘body systems’ impact and interactions. Also, to establish whether 25g/day could be safely doubled, maximum laxative thresholds, and unique Erythritol characteristics. Methods: All knowledge type/outcomes and grey data were eligible and reported according to ‘body system’s using EQUATOR and PRISMA guidelines. Bias was kept to a minimum via BEME rigor checklists. Results: 256 papers were included in the review. ‘Safe use’ Erythritol amounts and maximum thresholds were established. No disadvantages of Erythritol were found providing thresholds were not exceeded. Erythritol has unique properties which produced important new findings: Erythritol is metabolised differently for ‘Diabetic versus non-diabetic’, and ‘Early-stage versus late-stage diabetic’; In the ‘obese versus lean’; and if taken within ‘Solids versus liquids’. Conclusions: New knowledge on safe Erythritol ‘dosage’, maximally effective period, and body systems were gained which affect and inform the nation’s weight and health choices.

Social values in musical art in the context of intercultural communication: international experience

The purpose of the article is to analyse the role of Ukrainian musical art in the contemporary world cultural process and the integration of Ukrainian music into the European cultural space. The main method used to conduct the research was a survey. The methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis, synthesis, and content analysis used to study the scientific literature on the subject were used to reveal its results. The results demonstrate that in the context of Russian aggression, Ukrainian music has become a means of presenting Ukrainian culture at the international level and pointing out the uniqueness of the Ukrainian people from the Russians. The study showed that the vast majority of respondents listen to music several times a day or several times a week. This high popularity makes it possible to use music to convey important social messages and pointers to solutions, including to audiences from other countries. The study also confirms the understanding of the role of music in intercultural communication, which is realised through listening to special musical compositions with an intercultural context or national (state) orientation. The conclusions emphasise that the understanding of music as part of cultural diplomacy remains an under-researched aspect in the Ukrainian context, as the global understanding of the role of musical art in the political arena still needs to be further developed. A promising area for future research could be to explore the possibilities of using music as an element of soft power in politics.

Metaphors at work: Reconciling welfare and market in Danish digitalisation policies

The way in which we describe processes of automation, the digital society and the technology companies that deliver many of its services carry implicit and sometimes contradicting values and ideas about the society envisioned. In this paper, we are interested in unfolding some of the metaphors that guide political discourses on digitalisation in Denmark, particularly those related to the nexus between the welfare state and the market. We propose that metaphorical analysis of policy documents serves to tease out and confront the implicit values and tensions related to how welfare ideologies are reconciled with market logics. This carries important messages about the Danish government’s imaginary of digitalisation and citizens, such as which role citizens are expected to play vis-à-vis digital services and welfare provisions. This paper argues that in contrast to the EU’s declared goal of human-centric digitalisation, the Danish government relies on metaphors that are technology-centric rather than human-centric.

A unique association? A narcolepsy type 1 case comorbid with Primary Biliary Cholangitis

The aim of the study was to present a woman affected of a narcolepsy with cataplexy (narcolepsy type 1) comorbid with an asymptomatic Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC). The HLA haplotype was DRB1*15:01, DQA1*01:02, DQB1*06:02. The allele DQB1*06:02 has been considered until now protective for PBC and dual pathology has not been published.We think the important clinical message of the Case would be of continuing to monitor adults with narcolepsy type 1 for late complications that may be associated with other autoimmune conditions. Clinicians should be aware of the relationship between Narcolepsy and PBC. This highlights the need for screening and management in these individuals.

Prevalence and Persistence of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants in the Gut of Travelers Returning to the United Kingdom is Associated with Colonization by Pathogenic Escherichia coli.

The gut microbiota constitutes an ideal environment for the selection, exchange, and carriage of antibiotic resistance determinants (ARDs), and international travel has been identified as a risk factor for acquisition of resistant organisms. Here, we present a longitudinal metagenomic analysis of the gut resistome in travellers to "high-risk" countries (Gutback). Fifty volunteers, recruited at a travel clinic in London, United Kingdom, provided stool samples before (pre-travel), immediately after (post-travel), and 6 months after their return (follow-up) from a high-risk destination. Fecal DNA was extracted, metagenomic sequencing performed and the resistome profiled. An increase in abundance and diversity of resistome was observed after travel. Significant increases in abundance were seen in antimicrobial genes conferring resistance to macrolides, third-generation cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, and sulfonamides. There was a significant association with increased resistome abundance if the participant experienced diarrhea during travel or took antibiotics, but these two variables were co-correlated. The resistome abundance returned to pre-travel levels by the 6-month sample point but there was evidence of persistence of several ARDs. The post-travel samples had an increase in abundance Escherichia coli which was positively associated with many acquired resistant determinants. Virulence and phylogenetic profiling revealed pathogenic E. coli significantly contributed to this increase abundance. In summary, in this study, foreign travel remains a significant risk factor for acquisition of microbes conferring resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics, often associated with symptomatic exposure to diarrhoeagenic E. coli. IMPORTANCE A future where antimicrobial therapy is severely compromised by the increase in resistant organisms is of grave concern. Given the variability in prevalence and diversity of antimicrobial resistance determinants in different geographical settings, international travel is a known risk factor for acquisition of resistant organisms into the gut microbiota. In this study, we show the utility of metagenomic approaches to quantify the levels of acquisition and carriage of resistance determinants after travel to a "high-risk" setting. Significant modulation to the resistome was seen after travel that is largely resolved within 6 months, although evidence of persistence of several ARDs was observed. Risk factors for acquisition included experiencing a diarrheal episode and the use of antibiotics. Colonization by pathogenic Escherichia coli was correlated with an increase in acquisition of antimicrobial resistance determinants, and as such established public health guidance to travelers on food and water safety remain an important message to reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance.

SOPHISTIC EDUCATION AS A SPIRITUAL MADRASAH FOR EARLY CHILDREN

The goal of national education mandates three important messages from other messages namely faith, piety and noble character. The mandate of Law No. 20 of 2003 needs to be implemented in an activity called education. Education that is oriented towards the three components of this goal tends to be oriented towards the realm of Sufism as its embodiment. Therefore, this study examines how the construction of Sufistic education is focused on early childhood. Remembering that educating children is like carving on stone, it will be very easily imprinted in their soul. This qualitative research uses the literature study method to describe data that is interpreted from the ideas of Sufism related to children's education to be contextualized in building a style of Sufistic education. As part of the research, content analysis techniques were carried out in interpreting the finding data. The results of this study indicate that the concept of tazkiyatun nafs functions as a spiritual madrasah (ribath) by training one's soul through mujahadah and riyadhah so that the soul is clean. The implication of Sufistic education for early childhood is that a child is expected to know (ma'rifah) and love (mahabbah) only to God.

Quando tutto comincia con uno spazio vuoto. Eutopia (2022) di Trickster-p o il gioco dell’Antropocene


 
 
 The essay reflects on the installation-performance Eutopia (2022), conceived and directed by the Swiss-Italian collective Trickster-p, i.e. by Cristina Galbiati and Ilija Luginbühl in collaboration with game designer Pietro Polsinelli, Zeno Gabaglio for the sound space and Studio CCRZ for the graphic design. Eutopia addresses the environmental crisis we are becoming aware of with significant delay in raising cultural and political awareness to counteract the ongoing process of individual and collective removal. The essay inquires the theoretical assumptions on which this installation- performance is based and how it conveys the important message that inspired its creators to investigate how the performing arts can contribute to imagining the future of our planet. As a board game of the Anthropocene, Eutopia transforms the performative space into a political space in which people exchange and discuss ideas and visions about the environment and how to care for it actively.
 
 

Politics Identity in Christian Perspective and the Implication for Christian Politicians in Indonesia

This research examines political identity from the Christian perspective and the Implication for Christian politicians. In 2024, Indonesia will run the presidential election. The most apparent phenomenon of identity politics in the history of Indonesian democracy was the election for the Jakarta area in 2017. It was done by a handful of people considering the success of identity politics in 2017. They want to repeat their success in 2017 in the forthcoming 2024 election. Politicians and Christians must be different; they must stand firm in their Christian identity and bring important messages to Indonesia. The study adopted a literature study which is a library study method research technique that involves seeking sources that offer factual information or expert opinions relevant to a research question. This method utilizes various library resources, such as books, scholarly journals, and online databases, to collect reliable information. The authors carefully analysed works to build a frame of mind to answer the problem that was formulated. Data analysis techniques were based on careful content analysis. All data are presented descriptively. The result and key finding of the study is that Christian politicians must play their roles as prophetic politicians.

Islamic Articulation of the Carpe Diem Motif in Herrick's "To Daffodils": A Post-Structuralist and Intertextual Inquiry

While Herrick is known for his religious poetry, the intersection of Islam and his work has not been explored in existing literature. The article examines the potential for Islamic meanings within Robert Herrick's poem "To Daffodils" through post-structuralist and intertextual lenses of literary analysis. The study employs the tenets of post-structuralism to explore the poem's thematic significance in relation to Islam. The analysis takes into account the temporal context of Herrick's 17th century era and the emergence of secularism, as well as the notion of the universality of Islam. The study concludes that the poem serves as a powerful reminder of the transient nature of human life, which is also a central theme in Islamic ethos. Herrick's work can be seen as an exemplar of Islamic knowledge, which imparts messages to humans about the temporality of life and its purposes and its eventual end. This article highlights the importance of Islamic reading of Herrick’s literature conveying important messages about the human condition and the significance of contemplating the ephemeral nature of life.

Social media as a disruptor for academic congresses

Over the past few years, social media has become integral to surgical communication, research, and patient education. Furthermore, they have revolutionized how academic congresses have been held over the past 10 years. There are several benefits resulting from social media integration in scientific meetings, such as disseminating content, increasing engagement, highlighting important messages, and educating patients and physicians. Furthermore, social media platforms provide free and equal engagement of all users; no matter the experience, the level of training, or the socioeconomic background, all participants are free to express their opinion and discuss with world-renowned experts—an opportunity that was available only for the few and privileged ones in the past. Nevertheless, when talking about social media, one must bear in mind that there is a huge variety of platforms that are not all equally used or universally accessed. Besides the benefits highlighted above, this new social media–enhanced reality has some disadvantages as well: lack of any control of content along with anonymity can sometimes lead to dangerous and hostile behaviors as well as set the playground for personal feuds, ulterior financial motives, and bullying.Furthermore, the accuracy of content could be somewhat controversial, especially when pieces of presentations are taken out of context. Violations of intellectual property and copyrights are also to be considered. Social media platforms are a great tool for enhancing academic congresses when appropriately used. It is undebatable that social media has changed how information, content, and material are shared and promoted. Nevertheless, as with everything in life, their use needs to be in “good measure”—appropriate, mindful, and respectful—so that social media can be a powerful tool instead of a dangerous weapon in inappropriate hands.

Endogenous Photosensitizers in Human Skin.

Endogenous photosensitizers play a critical role in both beneficial and harmful light-induced transformations in biological systems. Understanding their mode of action is essential for advancing fields such as photomedicine, photoredox catalysis, environmental science, and the development of sun care products. This review offers a comprehensive analysis of endogenous photosensitizers in human skin, investigating the connections between their electronic excitation and the subsequent activation or damage of organic biomolecules. We gather the physicochemical and photochemical properties of key endogenous photosensitizers and examine the relationships between their chemical reactivity, location within the skin, and the primary biochemical events following solar radiation exposure, along with their influence on skin physiology and pathology. An important take-home message of this review is that photosensitization allows visible light and UV-A radiation to have large effects on skin. The analysis presented here unveils potential causes for the continuous increase in global skin cancer cases and emphasizes the limitations of current sun protection approaches.

Welfare economics: Promoting equality through general policies

Welfare economics: Promoting equality through general policies Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, Monash University, continues a discussion about welfare economics, focusing on efficiency supremacy in specific areas, arguing that equality should be promoted through general policies. In the April issue, I published a piece on ‘An Economic Analysis of Social Welfare’ and in an Open Access Government eBook, a piece on ‘The Welfare Foundation of Public Policies and Its Implications’. Here, and in subsequent pieces in October 2023, January and April 2024, I will discuss some important messages of welfare economics for public policies.

Vector Quarkonia at the LHC with Jethad: A High-Energy Viewpoint

In this review, we discuss and extend the study of the inclusive production of vector quarkonia, J/ψ and Υ, emitted with large transverse momenta and rapidities at the LHC. We adopt the novel ZCW19+ determination of fragmentation functions to depict the quarkonium production mechanism at the next-to-leading level of perturbative QCD. This approach is based on the nonrelativistic QCD formalism well adapted to describe the formation of a quarkonium state from the collinear fragmentation of a gluon or a constituent heavy quark at the lowest energy scale. We rely upon the NLL/NLO+ hybrid high-energy and collinear factorization for differential cross-sections, where the collinear formalism is enhanced by the BFKL resummation of next-to-leading energy logarithms arising in the t-channel. We employ the method to analyze the behavior of the rapidity distributions for double-inclusive vector quarkonium and inclusive vector quarkonium plus jet emissions. We discover that the natural stability of the high-energy series, previously seen in observables sensitive to the emission of hadrons with heavy flavor detected in the rapidity acceptance of LHC barrel calorimeters, becomes even more manifest when these particles are tagged in forward regions covered by endcaps. Our findings present the important message that vector quarkonia at the LHC via hybrid factorization offer a unique chance to perform precision studies of high-energy QCD, as well as an intriguing opportunity to shed light on the quarkonium production puzzle.

Rebreather Forum Four consensus statements.

Closed circuit rebreathers have been widely adopted by technical divers as tools for reducing gas consumption and extending depth and duration capabilities. Rebreathers are technologically complex with many failure points, and their use appears associated with a higher accident rate than open circuit scuba. Rebreather Forum Four (RF4) was held in Malta in April 2023 attracting approximately 300 attendees and representatives of multiple manufacturers and training agencies. Over two and a half days a series of lectures was given by influential divers, engineers, researchers and educators on topics of contemporary relevance to rebreather diving safety. Each lecture was followed by a discussion session with audience participation. Potential consensus statements were drafted by the authors (SJM and NWP) during the course of the meeting. These were worded to be confluent with some important messages emerging from the presentations and subsequent discussions. The statements were presented one by one in a half-day plenary session of participants, and discussion was invited on each. After discussion and any necessary revision, the participants voted on whether to adopt the statement as a position of the forum. A clear majority was required for acceptance. Twenty-eight statements embracing thematic areas designated 'safety', 'research', 'operational issues', 'education and training', and 'engineering' were adopted. Those statements are presented along with contextualising narrative where necessary. The statements may help shape research and teaching initiatives, and research and development strategies over subsequent years.

EFL teacher agency in mediating the socialisation of multilingual learners

English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers are seemingly ideally placed to mediate the successful socialisation of multilingual learners into the new school environment for two major reasons. Firstly, as they have effective command of both L1 and L2 and often have experience of living abroad, they tend to exhibit higher levels of openness to new situations, empathy and understanding of the difficulties faced by multilingual learners. Secondly, the English class can itself be a platform for mutual understanding where learners are able to develop both English communication skills and intercultural competence (cf. Hopp, Jakisch, Sturm, Becker & Thoma 2020; Krulatz, Neokleous & Dahl 2022). As English is the language of instruction, it also has the potential to maintain levels of multilingual competence among those learners who already speak English as their heritage language (Banasiak & Olpińska-Szkiełko 2021), e.g. migrant children returning from the UK/Ireland. Drawing on data from a larger project (Rokita-Jaśkow, Wolanin, Król-Gierat & Nosidlak 2022), which consisted of interviewing 23 primary school EFL teachers in various contexts, this paper analyses the possible factors that impact teacher agency in the socialisation of multilinguals. It has been found that teacher agency in that respect appears to stem from teachers’ plurilingual competence and prior teaching experience. Surprisingly, personal experiences of intercultural encounters (e.g. time spent living abroad) or verbalised empathy, had little impact on teacher agency. This finding implies that even language teachers find it difficult to put themselves in the position of the multilingual learner and need specialist training in order to work with multilingual learners, which may convey an important message for educational decision-makers with reference to the formulation of future teacher education guidelines and curricula.