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Highlights •Fiscal decentralization has a significant positive effect on social security.•Catch-up strategy plays a negative moderating role between fiscal decentralization and social security.•Eastern group is significantly higher than the full-sample coefficient.

Objectives Weekend catch-up sleep (WCS), defined as the difference between weekend and weekday sleep duration, may be a modifiable factor associated with stroke risk. This study examined the association between WCS and stroke prevalence in a nationally representative sample of adults.Methods Data from 9,096 participants in the 2017-2020 NHANES were analyzed. WCS was categorized as:

Highlights •A methodology for designing multi-layer foam soft catch systems is proposed.•This allows for retrieval of ballistic projectiles without further damage.•The methodology was validated for 0.50-cal. projectiles traveling at 1 km/s.•Projectiles were caught in multi-layer urethane foam targets with no damage.

Throw and catch are fundamental motor skills that are closely related to eye-hand coordination, reaction speed, and spatial awareness in children. Current research on throw and catch mainly focuses on the impact of attentional focus, anticipatory knowledge, and training on visuomotor control. Little work has been done on the synchronized movements of eyes and joints during the throw and catch. To understand how these synchronized movements contribute to the success rate of throwing and catching, we proposed a video-based framework named Synchronized Eye and Joint Analysis (SEJA). This framework locates, extracts, and analyzes the essential eye and joint movements from untrimmed first-person and third-person view videos. Using the proposed framework, throw and catch events in long untrimmed videos were successfully identified, and whether each catch was successful was accurately assessed. Additionally, detailed metrics related to predictive gaze behaviors and predictive hand movements for each catch event were obtained. On a dataset consisting of videos from 56 children aged 7 to 10, the proposed framework delivered an average precision (AP) ranging from 0.5 to 0.95 at 0.881 for task localization and achieved an accuracy of 0.985 in predicting whether a catch was successful. Our research indicated that children with higher catch success rates showed shorter delays in predicting the ball’s trajectory, smaller amplitudes of body movement, and more pronounced predictive saccades (rapid eye movements to anticipate the ball’s position). These findings are crucial for comprehending and improving the development of motor skills in children.

This study explores whether weekend catch-up sleep (WCS) influences the risk of major neurological and psychiatric disorders—including depression, anxiety, dementia, stroke, and Parkinson's disease (PD)—in a cohort of 91,665 participants from the UK Biobank, tracked over an average of 7.98 years. Accelerometer-measured sleep data were used to categorize WCS duration into four groups: no WCS (≤0 h), short (>0 to

The Greenlandic lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) fishery is among the largest lumpfish fisheries in the world and serves as an important source of income for many local small-scale fishers. The fishery primarily targets females for their highly valued roe, using gillnets deployed from smaller vessels. However, challenges with unwanted bycatches raise concerns about the sustainability of the fishery. This study examines the impact of three different gillnet mesh sizes on the catch efficiency of lumpfish and non-target species. Results demonstrate that reducing the mesh size from the currently regulated 135 mm–120 mm (half mesh) can increase the catch probability of female lumpfish by 32 % while the capture for male lumpfish was estimated to increase by 240 %. Conversely, increasing the mesh size to 150 mm (half mesh) reduces female lumpfish catches by 70 % and 94 % for males respectively. The species composition was not affected to the same extent by changing mesh size. Despite the increased catch efficiency of lumpfish with smaller mesh sizes, the potential for higher seabird bycatch remains a significant concern, preventing recommendations for regulatory changes based on the current data.