Mechanical Performance of Three-Dimensional Printed Lattice Structures: Assembled Versus Direct Print.

Lattice structures are composed of a collection of struts with different orientations. During slicing, the inclined struts generate multiple disjoint contours along the build direction in additive manufacturing (AM). These contours are substantially smaller in size due to the narrow cross-section of the individual lattice struts, and they can lead to contour plurality in AM processes. Contour plurality reduces the amount of continuous contact region between two successive layers, thus resulting in poor interlayer adhesion, structural integrity, and mechanical properties of the printed lattice structure. A new interlocking and assemble-based lattice structure building approach is investigated by increasing continuity in layers and avoiding support structure to minimize contour plurality. Two lattice configurations in the form of cubic and octet lattice structures are examined. The compressive performance of the designed lattice structures is compared with the traditional single-build direct three-dimensional printed lattice structures. The mechanical performance (e.g., peak stress, specific energy absorption) of the assembled structures is found to be generally better than their direct print counterparts. The empirical constants of Ashby-Gibson power law are found to be larger than their suggested values in both direct print and assembly techniques. However, their values are more compliant for octet assembled structures, which are less susceptible to manufacturing imperfections.

Economic valuation of wildlife conservation.

This paper reviews concepts and methods for the economic valuation of nature in the context of wildlife conservation and questions them in light of alternative approaches based on deliberation. Economic valuations have been used to set priorities, consider opportunity costs, assess co-benefits of conservation, support the case for conservation in public awareness and advocacy, and drive novel schemes to change incentives. We discuss the foundational principles of mainstream economic valuation in terms of its assumptions about values, markets, and human behaviour; propose a list of valuation studies in relation to wildlife protection; and explain the methods used. We then review critiques of these approaches focusing on the narrow way in which economics conceives of values, and institutional, power, and equity concerns. Finally, we complement conventional approaches commonly used for wildlife valuation with two forms of deliberative valuation: deliberated preferences and deliberative democratic monetary valuation. These are discussed in terms of their potential to address the drawbacks of mainstream economics and to realise the potential of valuation in bridging conservation of nature for its own sake and its important contributions to human well-being. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10344-023-01658-2.

Investigation of the Relationship Between Animacy and L2 Learners' Acquisition of the English Plural Morpheme.

It has been argued that languages differ in the extent to which they allow plural forms of nouns according to the Animacy Hierarchy. Japanese distinguishes between animate and inanimate nouns; the latter are less likely to receive plural markers (e.g., ?hon­tachi), unlike English. This L1-L2 difference might cause difficulty in acquiring the plural morpheme. The present study thus investigates the influence of animacy on the processing of the English plural morpheme in online sentence processing. In this study, 34 Japanese university students engaged in a moving window version of a self-paced reading task, during which they also judged whether the number of words presented was one or two when prompted. If animacy matters, Japanese EFL learners might not show an interference effect of this second task for inanimate nouns. However, as no such effect was found, the prediction based on the animacy hierarchy was not confirmed.

Between Rocks and Hard Places: Good Governance in Ethically Divided Communities.

This article, prompted by Heidi Crowter's campaign to eliminate the discriminatory aspects of current abortion law, outlines the challenges to good governance in a context of bioethical plurality. First, the nature of the plurality is sketched. Secondly, some reflections are presented on how those who have governance responsibilities might ease the tensions engendered by the plurality; and, at the same time, how the discontented governed might reasonably press their views. Thirdly, a model of good governance (demanding integrity by those who govern and respect for the global commons) is introduced. The conclusion is that good faith governance merits our respect, but it does not guarantee particular outcomes or positions that will meet with the approval of all bioethical constituencies or individuals. Accordingly, we have to learn not only to live with rocks and hard places but also to find civilized ways of debating our differences.

Balanço do desenvolvimento epistemológico da Educação Física brasileira / Epistemological development overview of Brazilian Physical Education / Balance del desarrollo epistemológico de la Educación Física en Brasil

RESUMO Este artigo apresenta um balanço do desenvolvimento epistemológico da Educação Física brasileira. A análise histórica revela a constituição de um campo plural, caracterizado por propostas, abordagens, vertentes e metodologias diversas. No entanto, o debate epistemológico tem sido permeado por dualidades, o que dificulta a busca por uma abordagem integrada e relacional. Essa situação demanda formas de abordar a Educação Física de maneira integrativa, considerando a complexidade da área e buscando superar as premissas dualistas.

ABSTRACT This article presents an overview of the epistemological development of Brazilian Physical Education. Through a historical analysis, the article reveals the constitution of a diverse field characterized by various proposals, approaches, perspectives, and methodologies. However, the epistemological debate has been marked by dualities, which hinders the quest for an integrated and relational approach. This situation calls for innovative ways to address Physical Education in an integrative manner, considering the complexity of field and striving to overcome dualistic assumptions.

RESUMEN Este artículo presenta un balance del desarrollo epistemológico de la Educación Física brasileña, destacando su consolidación como un espacio autónomo de producción del conocimiento. El análisis histórico revela un campo plural, caracterizado por propuestas, enfoques, corrientes y metodologías diversas. Sin embargo, el debate epistemológico ha estado impregnado de dualidades, lo que dificulta la búsqueda de un enfoque integrado y relacional. Esta situación demanda formas de abordar la Educación Física de manera integradora, considerando la complejidad de la área y buscando superar las premisas dualistas.

A Short History of Panspermia from Antiquity Through the Mid-1970s.

Panspermia is the philosophical proposition that the precursors of life are present in space and able to initiate life on reaching a suitable environment (especially the Earth). Only in the past century has the subject advanced from the lowly status of a dreamy hypothesis to a vibrant new science that is testable and observable. This history of panspermia presents the major figures associated with such hypotheses. It examines their motives, methods, and arguments, situated when possible in their historical context and culture rather than their impact on the present. From antiquity to the early modern period (1500-1800), the debates on the plurality of worlds and panspermia overlapped considerably. In the later modern period (1800 to the present), the narrative thread interweaves panspermia with the origin of life and the theory of evolution, and we can see authentic inputs from scientists rather than philosophers. In the interests of concision, I have omitted topics such as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, the exploration of the solar system by probes and landers, planetary protection (the inverse of panspermia), and the discovery of exoplanets. The historical literature is sometimes confusing: to correct for that, I have personally examined the original sources of every work cited rather than simply accepting the published findings of other scholars at face value.

In the Shadow of the 1919 Total Solar Eclipse: The Two British Expeditions and the Politics of Invisibility.

This paper addresses the legendary total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919. Two British teams confirmed the light bending prediction by Albert Einstein: Charles R. Davidson and Andrew C. C. Crommelin in Sobral, Brazil and Arthur S. Eddington and Edwin T. Cottingham on the African island of Príncipe, then part of the Portuguese empire. By jointly analyzing the two astronomical expeditions supported by written and visual sources, I show how, despite extensive scholarship on this famous historical episode and the historiographical emphasis on the plural dimensions of knowledge construction, many human and non-human actors have been kept in the shadow of the eclipse. I do so by focusing on what I call knowledge from the periphery together with knowledge from below, grounded literally on how localities (sites) affect choices and events, and growing outward to encompass a wide range of participants. I show how the geopolitical status of the two nations where the observational sites were located, and specifically Portugal's condition of colonial power, affected main decisions and events, while highlighting the active role of participants, ranging from experts from the peripheries and those involved in the travels to local elites and anonymous peoples, some of whom contributed to the observation of totality.

Distributing epistemic and practical risks: a comparative study of communicating earthquake damages.

This paper argues that the value of openness to epistemic plurality and the value of social responsiveness are essential for epistemic agents such as scientists who are expected to carry out non-epistemic missions. My chief philosophical claim is that the two values should play a joint role in their communication about earthquake-related damages when their knowledge claims are advisory. That said, I try to defend a minimal normative account of science in the context of communication. I show that these epistemic agents when acting as communicators may encounter various epistemic and practical uncertainties in making their knowledge claims. Using four vignettes, I show that the value of openness to epistemic plurality and the value of social responsiveness may best serve their epistemic and practical purposes across different contexts by reducing their epistemic and practical risks associated with the knowledge claims they communicated. The former may reduce the risks of prematurely excluding epistemic alternatives and is conducive to two types of epistemic plurality; the latter is supposed to reduce the risks of making self-defeating advisory claims and harmful wishful speaking by minimizing the values in tension that can be embedded in the social roles the epistemic agents play.

Interculturality: a place to experience multiplicity.

The mobility of people around the world is nothing new and brings with it different impacts on interpersonal relationships. In this paper we will reflect on this subject starting from certain questions: what dialogues can be had from those who bring new ideas from their travels with the keepers of traditions in their communities? Is it possible to entertain the image of a pluralistic and globalized world? We begin by tracing the movement of peoples through the centuries, the two major ways in life which developed: nomadism and sedentarism - and how the differences generated conflicts and discrimination. Finally, we reflect on the attributes of the god Hermes from which there is the possibility of creating space to live out our intercultural encounters with reciprocity and generosity within the hospitality ritual of 'giving and receiving'.

La mobilité des personnes dans le monde entier n'a rien de nouveau et amène avec elle différents impacts sur les relations interpersonnelles. Dans cet article nous réfléchirons sur le sujet en partant de certaines questions: quels dialogues peuvent se produire nourris par ceux qui amènent de nouvelles idées de leurs voyages avec ceux qui sont les gardiens des traditions dans leurs communautés? Est-il possible de concevoir l'image d'un monde pluraliste et globalisé? Nous commençons par retracer le mouvement des peuples au travers des siècles, et les deux principales manières de vivre qui se sont développées: le nomadisme et la sédentarité - et comment les différences ont généré des conflits et de la discrimination. Finalement, nous attirons l'attention sur quelques épitaphes du dieu Hermès, qui nous donnent la possibilité de créer de l'espace pour vivre les rencontres interculturelles avec réciprocité et générosité au sein du rituel d'hospitalité: 'donner et recevoir'.

La movilidad de las personas alrededor del mundo no es algo nuevo y trae consigo impactos diferentes en las relaciones interpersonales. En el presente trabajo reflexionamos sobre este tema comenzando con algunas preguntas: ¿Cuáles son los diálogos posibles con quienes brindan nuevas ideas a partir de sus viajes con los cuidadores de la tradición en sus comunidades? ¿Es posible considerar la imagen de un mundo globalizado y plural? Comenzamos por trazar los movimientos de las personas a través de los siglos, los dos modos principales de vida que se han desarrollado: nomadismo y sedentarismo - y cómo las diferencias han generado conflictos y discriminación. Finalmente, ponemos de manifiesto algunos epitafios del dios Hermes, desde lo cual es posible crear espacio para vivir encuentros interculturales con reciprocidad y generosidad al interior del ritual de la hospitalidad del 'dar y recibir'.

A mobilidade de pessoas em todo o mundo não é novidade e traz consigo diferentes impactos nas relações interpessoais. Neste artigo, refletiremos sobre esse assunto a partir de certas perguntas: Quais diálogos podem ser tidos daqueles que trazem novas ideias de suas viagens com os guardiões das tradições em suas comunidades? É possível entreter a imagem de um mundo pluralista e globalizado? Começamos traçando o movimento dos povos ao longo dos séculos, os dois principais modos de vida que se desenvolveram: nomadismo e sedentarismo - e como as diferenças geraram conflitos e discriminação. Finalmente, trazemos à luz alguns epitáfios do deus Hermes, dos quais há a possibilidade de criar espaço para viver os encontros interculturais com reciprocidade e generosidade dentro do ritual de hospitalidade de "dar e receber".

Child mortality of twins and singletons among late preterm and term birth: a study of national linked birth and under-five mortality data of Korea.

Twins involve a higher risk of perinatal complications compared to singletons. We compared the risk of under five mortality between twins and singletons among late preterm and term births. The national birth data of South Korea pertaining to the years 2010-2014 linked with the mortality record of children aged under 5 years in 2010-2019 was analyzed. The final study population was 2,199,632 singletons and 62,351 twins. We conducted a survival analysis of under-five mortality with adjustment for neonatal and familial factors. Overall under-five mortality rates during the study period were 3.6 and 2.0 for twins and singletons, respectively. Although the unadjusted overall under-five mortality was higher in twins (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.80, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.57, 2.06, overall risk), twin birth was associated with comparable or lower risk (HR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.58, 0.85, overall; 0.70, 95% CI: 0.56, 0.87, excluding neonatal mortality; 0.59, 95% CI: 0.40, 0.86, excluding infant mortality) after controlling for both neonatal and familial factors. Twins born at a gestational age of 34-35 weeks showed a generally lower risk of under-five mortality than their singleton counterparts, regardless of model specification.Conclusion: Among late preterm and term birth, under-5-year mortalities for twins were lower than singleton births when adjusted for neonatal and familial risk factors. This highlights the differential implication of gestational age at birth between twin and singleton in the child mortality.

The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses.

We study how payoff valence affects voting behavior on the distribution of monetary outcomes framed as gains or losses in a group when using standard plurality voting (PV) procedures and when using approval voting (AV). The latter method allows the subjects to approve of as many alternatives as they wish and has been shown to eliminate the incentives to vote strategically. For both methods, we observe that voters express higher support for egalitarian allocations (and lower support for selfish options) when sharing gains than when sharing losses. Moreover, the average number of approved alternatives per ballot is higher when distributions are framed in terms of gains than when they are framed in terms of losses. We also discuss under which circumstances the shift in voting behavior is more likely to produce changes in the electoral outcome. The results suggest that framing manipulations (payoff valence) can significantly impact voting behavior.

Transition Design in Latin America: Enabling Collective Learning and Change.

Latin American societies currently confront numerous social, economic, and environmental issues. The complex and interlinked nature of these issues demands responses that fully and equally engage with the social and environmental domains in creative and integrative ways that blur traditional dichotomies and disciplinary boundaries. Most importantly, they need to weave in and reflect the plurality and specificity of the contexts in an autonomous and non-colonialist fashion. In this paper, we draw inspiration from approaches that emerged in the Global North such as Resilience Thinking, Policy Design, and Transition Design, all of which strive for knowledge plurality and synthesis applied to systemic transformational processes. To contribute to this pluralistic motivation and to promote critical reflection and learning, in this work we outline the main contributions of such approaches and have them converse with Latin American perspectives and practices. Through the application of a Transition Design lens, a practice-oriented perspective aimed at catalyzing societal transitional processes towards sustainable futures, we act as practitioners and interlocutors that adopt, adapt, and expand its theoretical and methodological applications in collective learning spaces, processes, and platforms. The action-oriented nature of this approach allows us to analyze particular cases of application, their contexts, and their theoretical or methodological nuances which determine their potential or degree of success in generating actual change. The structure of this article moves from outlining and introducing the main frameworks and notions relevant for adopting a Transition Design approach in Latin America, to describing cases developed in different pedagogical or action-research platforms, culminating with a collection of reflections stemming from our experiences applying Transition Design in Latin America. The first section offers a theoretical compass to expand a more robust framework that supports and enables socio-environmental transitions in the region. The second part presents three case studies to illustrate the application and interpretation of different methods and the challenges and opportunities presented. We conclude by offering insights into potential future pathways for embracing and deepening holistic and systemic approaches like Transition Design in Latin American settings.

Quantification: The View From Natural Language Generation.

Quantification is one of the central topics in language and computation, and the interplay of collectivity, distributivity, cumulativity, and plurality is at the heart of the semantics of quantification expressions. However, its aspects are usually discussed piecemeal, distributed, and only from an interpretative perspective with selected linguistic examples, often blurring the overall picture. In this article, quantification phenomena are investigated from the perspective of natural language generation. Starting with a small-scale, but realistic scenario, the necessary steps toward generating quantifier expressions for a perceived situation are explained. Together with the automatically generated descriptions of the scenario, the observations made are shown to present new insights into the interplay, and the semantics of quantification expressions and plurals, in general. The results highlight the importance of taking different points of view in the field of language and computation.

Trends and predictors of eclampsia among singleton and multiple gestations in the United States, 1989-2018.

OBJECTIVE: To examine temporal trends of eclampsia by plurality in the US spanning three decades (1989-2018); and to investigate risk factors for eclampsia among singleton and multiple pregnancies in the US during the study period. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Natality data files, including information on all births within the gestational age of 20-42 weeks from 1989 through 2018. We used joinpoint regression analysis to evaluate trends in rates of eclampsia over the study period. We employed logistic regression models to examine the association between plurality and eclampsia after adjusting for socio-demographic and gestational factors. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary outcome was eclampsia among singleton and multiple pregnancies. FINDINGS: There was a 2.8% (95% CI: -5.4, -0.1) average annual reduction in eclampsia rates among singletons, whereas among multiples there was a decline of about 3.7% (95% CI: -6.4, -1.0) annually. Mothers with multiple pregnancies had three-fold increased adjusted odds (OR = 95% CI: 2.95-3.21) of experiencing eclampsia when compared to those with singleton gestations. Non-Hispanic (NH) Black mothers with singletons had 37% greater adjusted odds of developing eclampsia than their NH-White peers (95%CI: 1.33-1.42). CONCLUSION: There was an overall decreasing trend in eclampsia incidence in the US from 1989 to 2018, regardless of plurality. The occurrence of eclampsia was associated with plurality, race/ethnicity, maternal age and maternal BMI. Given the heterogeneity in clinical presentations of eclampsia, personalized/standardized risk prediction models are needed to enable consistent diagnosis and timely intervention.

Public values and plurality in health priority setting: What to do when people disagree and why we should care about reasons as well as choices.

CONTEXT: 'What does 'The Public' think?' is a question often posed by researchers and policy makers, and public values are regularly invoked to justify policy decisions. Over time there has been a participatory turn in the social and health sciences, including health technology assessment and priority setting in health, towards citizen participation such that public policies reflect public values. It is one thing to agree that public values are important, however, and another to agree on how public values should be elicited, deliberated upon and integrated into decision-making. Surveys of public values rarely deliver unanimity, and preference heterogeneity, or plurality, is to be expected. METHODS: This paper examines the role of public values in health policy and how to elicit, analyse, and present values, in the face of plurality. We delineate the strengths and weaknesses of aggregative and deliberative methods before setting out a new empirical framework, drawing on Sunstein's Incompletely Theorised Agreements, based on three levels: principles, policies and patients. The framework is illustrated using a recognised policy dilemma - the provision of high cost, limited-effect medicines intended to extend life for people with terminal illnesses. FINDINGS: Application of the multi-level framework to public values permits transparent consideration of plurality, including analysis of coherence and consensus, in a way that offers routes to policy recommendations that are based on public values and justified in those terms. CONCLUSIONS: Using the new framework and eliciting quantitative and qualitative data across levels of abstraction has the potential to inform policy recommendations grounded in public values, where values are plural. This is not to suggest that one solution will magically emerge, but rather that choices between policies can be explicitly justified in relation to the properties of public values, and a much clearer understanding of (in)consistencies and areas of consensus.

A Scientific Marketplace.

Cognitive science thrives on the diversity of its (sub-)disciplines, and topiCS is the ideal journal for bringing the diversity to bear. In this welcome address as its incoming Executive Editor, I outline my view of the journal and my vision for how to sustain its inviting and integrative power.

The Effect of Language-Specific Characteristics on English and Japanese Speakers' Ability to Recall Number Information.

The current paper presents two experiments investigating the effect of presence versus absence of compulsory number marking in a native language on a speaker's ability to recall number information from photos. In Experiment 1, monolingual English and Japanese adults were shown a sequence of 110 photos after which they were asked questions about the photos. We found that the English participants showed a significantly higher accuracy rate for questions testing recall for number information when the correct answer was "2" (instead of "1") than Japanese participants. In Experiment 2, English and Japanese adults engaged in the same task as in Experiment 1 with an addition that explored reasons for the results found in Experiment 1. The results of Experiment 2 were in line with the results of Experiment 1, but also suggested that the results could not be attributed to differences in guessing patterns between the two groups or the type of linguistic constructions used in the test situations. The current study suggests that native language affects speakers' ability to recall number information from scenes and thus provides evidence for the Whorfian hypothesis.

A Critical Essay on the Historiography of East Asian Medicines: New Horizons beyond Dichotomy and "Tradition".

One of the main topics discussed by historians, including those of science, in the late twentieth century is the historical introspection into "modernism," a term based on a teleological view of the world. According to the conventional understanding of world history, the historical process to modernity that has led to the Civil Revolution, Scientific Revolution, and Capitalism is linear and universally inevitable, and this-in other words, Eurocentrism-implies that only the historical experiences of Europeans are relevant. This mainstream view of world history has spread the dichotomous analytic framework of historiography and reinforced cultural essentialism, which has eventually given a Euro- or Sino-centric hierarchical presentation of history. This type of world view rests on the assumption that there are intrinsic and incommensurable differences between cultures or localities, which a lot of commentators and scholars have constantly countered by arguing that that presumption does not comply with what historical sources say. Drawing on some trail-blazing scholarship of cultural studies and others, this essay turns away from this "conventional" framework of historiography and presents a world view that is framed in the context of trans-locality, interconnectedness, plurality, heterogeneity, polycentricity, and diversity. In recent years, in an attempt to search for new analytic frames, some endeavors have emerged in the field of cultural or science studies to go beyond just providing critical commentaries or case studies. Furthermore, researchers and scholars in the history of science, technology and medicine in East Asia have put an effort into conceptualizing and establishing such new analytic frames. Among those approaches are attempts to shed light upon the trans-local yet global interconnectedness (emphatically in pre-modern periods), diverse historical trajectories to modernities, and polycentric as well as plural landscape of scientific enterprises over time and across the world. On top of these new visions of world history, this essay further elaborates on and proposes some conceptive ideas: (1) "Tradition" as a set of recipes, which could replace the idea of the living yet dead tradition; (2) "Medicine" as a problem-solving activity, which calls more attention to historical actors of East Asian medicine; (3) "East Asian medicines" as a family of trans-locally related practices in East Asia, which would lead to going beyond the nationalist historiography such as Sino-centrism; (4) "Problematique" as the system of questions and concepts which make up East Asian medicine, which should reveal what East Asian medicines have been about; (5) "Styles of Practice" for the historiography of East Asian medicines, as opposed to the cultural account, epistemological historiography or praxiography; and, as an illustrative example, (6) "Topological Bodies" for the history of anatomy in East Asia. Going beyond tradition and dichotomous historiography, these new methodologies or conceptual ideas will contribute to the understanding of the history of East Asian medicines.

'Ghosts from other planets': plurality of worlds, afterlife and satire in Emanuel Swedenborg's De Telluribus in mundo nostro solari (1758).

In 1758 in London, Swedish natural philosopher and mystic theologian Emanuel Swedenborg published De Telluribus in Mundo nostro Solari (Earths in our solar system), a treatise on the plurality of worlds and life on other planets. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these topics formed a heterogenous literary genre which encompassed theology, astronomy, philosophy and satire. In De Telluribus, Swedenborg made detailed claims of communication with extraterrestrial spirits in the afterlife, through which he sought to spread his theology to new audiences. The paper will explore the role of De Telluribus in Swedenborg's career, explain its content and analyse its polarized reception. It will show that De Telluribus combined for the first time the literary codes of two popular genres during the period, namely those concerning the plurality of worlds and the dialogues of the dead. By doing so, the paper revises current scholarly understanding of Swedenborg by showcasing him as a versatile yet ill-fated recombiner of literary genres. More broadly, the paper will shed light upon previously unnoticed eighteenth-century literary interactions along with a wider overview on the reception of themes such as the plurality of worlds, mysticism and satire in Scandinavia and Germany.