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Identification agronomic character of local durian parent trees as a step to develop a durian center in Sukowono and Sumberjambe
Authors: Sugiyarto S , Kurniasari L , Harlianingtyas I , Wijayanti R R
Published: April 2023

Most of the durian plants in Indonesia come from old and grow wild trees, not from tree selection. The durian developed by farmers in Sukowono and Sumberjambe is a local durian trees. This is a factor causing the erosion of germplasm, so that the existence and sustainability of local durian plants is threatened. This fact certainly requires attention from all parties in preserving the parent tree of germplasm, especially by knowing the diversity of durian variants and planting in collection gardens. The parent tree is an individual tree that has the requirements as a seed-producing tree. Steps to determine the diversity of durian can be done by mapping and identifying the character of the durian parent tree. The mapping was carried out through a series of exploration, inventory and characterization activities for durian plants. This activity will help efforts to develop durian fruit that has commercial value while also preserving its genetic resources from extinction. Activities will be held from August to December 2022 in Sukowono and Sumberjambe, Jember Regency. The parameters observed in this activity were tree age, tree height, stem circumference, petiole length, leaf shape, leaf length, leaf width, leaf color, and plant productivity in fruiting each season.
Development of low carbon agriculture and animal husbandry in Thekelan Hamlet, Indonesia using the participatory rural appraisal approach method
Authors: Syafrudin  , Hardyanti N , Juliani H , Octaviani Y N
Published: April 2023

Thekelan Hamlet has residents with the majority working in the agricultural and livestock sector. Village development through agricultural education and low-carbon animal husbandry is a strategy for utilizing natural potential. Biomasses of livestock manure can be used as liquid organic fertilizer which will increase the selling price of agricultural products and be beneficial to the environment. The potential for the use of livestock manure has not been fully exploited because of the low education, knowledge, and capital that residents have. The Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) method is used to develop agriculture and low-carbon farms in Thekelan Hamlet. There are three aspects; biogas as the treatment of livestock gas waste, the use of liquid organic fertilizer from livestock manure, and the use of organic pesticides. The results of this study indicate that the community in Thekelan District can apply agriculture and low-carbon farms. The technology used by utilizing livestock manure can reduce household gas emissions in the production process, increase production yields, and increase the level of the community economy. Therefore, the community agrees to contribute and join the development of this program because this can improve the welfare of farmers and benefit the environment.
Effect of modified cassava flour and purple sweet potato flour formulations on the physical and sensory qualities of meses
Authors: Santoso A , Apriliyanti M W , Ardiyansyah M , Prastiwi D
Published: April 2023

Tubers are one of the local commodities that must be developed and have several advantages. This study aims to determine the effect of the formulations of mocaf and purple sweet potato flour on the physical and sensory qualities of the meses. Physical qualities include color, hardness, fracture strenght, volume, while the sensory are color, taste, aroma, texture and aftertaste. The research designs used a completely randomized designs with a ratio of mocaf and purple sweet potato flour treatments. The results of the Analysis of Variance showed the effect of the formulations of mocaf and purple sweet potato flour had significant effects on color (L, a, and b values), hardness, fracture strength, color, taste, and texture. The results had no significant effects on volume, aroma, and aftertaste. Determination of the best treatment using the De Garmo methods is showed the formulation of Mocaf and purple sweet potato flour at 20:80.
Detection of borax on snacks for school children (cilok and siomay) in subang district
Authors: Putri D P , Yulianti L E , Susanti N D , A Putri S K D F
Published: April 2023

Cilok and siomay are popular snacks for primary to high school students. However, there have been many findings on the addition of harmful additives in these snacks. The aim of this study was identify borax on cilok and siomay qualitatively and quantitatively. The research was conducted using a survey method with a purposive sample. A total of 6 samples of cilok and 8 samples of siomay were obtained from merchants in various schools in Subang district. The detection of borax was carried out by qualitative tests (turmeric paper test, AgNO3 solution test, decay test), quantitative test (titration), texture analysis and color analysis. Based on turmeric paper and AgNO3 solution test, all samples showed positive results. Based on decay test, the cilok and siomay samples could only be stored at room temperature (28°C) for 24 hours. Titration analysis showed that the range of borax content in cilok 0.0907 to 0.5393 % and in siomay from 0.2906 to 1.0550 %. Based on the texture and color analysis, it was found that there was a change in the texture and color of the sample during storage.
Business Development Strategy for Porang Jember Seeds
Authors: Kurniawan B P Y , Galushasti A , Kurniawati Y I
Published: April 2023

The porang plant has great economic value and is a significant export product; nevertheless, seeds are scarce. Because the government has only provided one kind so far, not all demand for porang seedlings can be satisfied. This study includes exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory research. Before proceeding with descriptive analysis, it is carried out to acquire in-depth information on weighing and ratings. They establish numerous company growth methods that may be adopted through theoretical studies and past research. The SWOT matrix is one of the data analysis tools used to discover alternative corporate growth plans. Five possible techniques for developing the porang seed industry on Indobreed Agro Nusantara are suggested. The technological formula is the industry’s major strength, but acquiring porang seeds is a crucial problem. The primary potential is increased demand, while the immediate danger from the sector is government control of porang product distribution. This study yielded various potential tactics that might be implemented to grow the porang seed business at Indobreed Agro Nusantara. People’s business loans can be used to increase business capital by applying to banks and developing manufacturing capability. Modifying the outside form of items into porang flour adheres to the existing porang product industry’s level of exclusivity.
Assessment of the impact of climate change and cultivation conditions on rice yield in Vietnamese Mekong Delta. A case study in Vinh Thanh District, Can Tho city
Authors: Dang L T T , Tran A H , Vu T L T , Nguyen T A T
Published: April 2023

There has been noticed that the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD) is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather situations. Some underlying effects of global climate change may cause the hydrological conditions of this delta to shift, and this could eventually cause serious issues for the socio-economic and agricultural systems. Besides, a key part of agricultural productivity is also played by cultivation practices, particularly fertilizer management. Inadequate and inappropriate application of nitrogen will negatively impact the environment and affects the economic value of farmers. Crop simulation models demonstrate their effectiveness in simulating and evaluating nitrogen fertilizer management in order to increase nitrogen use efficiency and prevent environmental contamination. Our research intends to identify how farming and climate affect rice productivity. In this study, the ideal N ratio and the climate change’s impact on paddy rice growth stages in Vinh Thanh district, Can Tho City were determined by using the DSSAT-CERES-Rice. With the value of Correlation coefficient (R2) = 0.8 and index of agreement (d-value) = 0.96, the DSSAT-CERES-Rice model was suitable for simulating rice yield, according to research findings. Additionally, rice yield will alter as meteorological parameters change in the future, and temperature will have the greatest influence on rice output. When the nitrogen fertilization rate in the rice cultivation process is changed to 0, 40, 80, 120, and 160 kg ha−1, the research results demonstrate that there is no noticeable distinction when comparing the efficiency of nitrogen use as well as the economic efficiency at the above nitrogen ratios. Nevertheless, research findings clearly indicated that fertilizing with nitrogen at a rate of about 80 kg ha−1 will be more effective economically and in terms of nitrogen utilization than other treatments.
Application of GIS and SWMM model to assess urban flooding in Metro Residential Area of Ninh Kieu District
Authors: Ngan Nguyen Thanh , Trung Nguyen Hieu
Published: April 2023

Ninh Kieu District is an urban district with a rapid urbanization rate and a complex dimension. This factor has made urban flooding in this district very serious. Metro Residential Area is one of the areas currently being strongly affected by urban flooding in Ninh Kieu District. This research is conducted to apply GIS and SWMM model to assess urban flooding in Metro Residential Area. GIS is used to digitize the drainage system, while SWMM model is used to simulate urban flooding in the study area. Research results have shown the flood level, flood time, flood volume, flow velocity and frequently flooded locations in Metro Residential Area. This is an important basis for the development of solutions to reduce flooding, thereby reducing the impact of urban flooding and improving the quality of life of the residential community living in the study area.
Impacts of urbanization and climate change on surface runoff in Thu Duc City, Vietnam
Authors: Quang C N X , Giang N N H , Thinh N T P
Published: April 2023

Thu Duc City (TDC), a sub-city of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, has undergone rapid transformation in land use - land cover (LULC) over the past few decades. Flooding is one of the biggest challenges to the sustainable development of the city. Quantifying excess runoff induced by urbanization and climate change is essential for developing an efficient flood risk management strategy. This research aims to evaluate the effects of the impervious surface expansion (a key indicator of urbanization) and the rainfall increase caused by climate change on the excess runoff depth in TDC. The dataset derived from LANDSAT satellite images was used to explore the spatial-temporal dynamics of impervious surface areas from 1985 to 2020. The EPA-SWMM urban rainfall-runoff model was employed to investigate the effects of increased impervious surface and climate change on excess runoff depth. The satellite data showed that TDC has 24% of the impermeable surface area currently, much lower than 75.6% in areas located in the central districts such as Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe (NL-TN) basin, and that impermeable areas have expanded rapidly in the north-south and west-east directions since 2010. The simulated results indicated that impervious surface development increased excess runoff depth by 14.0mm between 1985 and 2020. It also showed that increasing rainfall due to climate change could raise the average excess runoff depth by 18.2%, 64.0%, and 49.4%, respectively, at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the century compared to the current stage. It suggests mainstreaming stormwater retention and detention systems into urban development plans for adapting to the future uncertainties of urbanization and climate change. It also recommends that the impervious surface areas must be maintained within design thresholds to control runoff and mitigate floods in practice. The research findings could assist policymakers and stakeholders in formulating a long-term vision to propose an efficient urban stormwater management strategy in TDC and similar growing cities.
A Combination of Low-cost, Dual-frequency, Multi-GNSS Receiver and CORS Network for Precise Positioning Applications in Vietnam
Authors: Tran Nhut-Thanh , Nguyen Huynh-Nhu-Y , Le Vo-Quang-Thai , Nguyen Chanh-Nghiem , Nguyen Chi-Ngon
Published: April 2023

Although Real-time kinematic (RTK) is a positioning technique with high accuracy at the centimeter level, the investment cost for this positioning technique is relatively high. To reduce the investment cost, low-cost, dual-frequency, multi-Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers can be considered. In Vietnam, the Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) network has operated and covered the whole country. Therefore, the combination of low-cost, dual-frequency, multi-GNSS receivers and the CORS network can make RTK positioning easier and less expensive. The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential of applying the RTK positioning technique using a low-cost, dual-frequency, multi-GNSS receiver and the CORS network in Vietnam. In this study, four positioning experiments were performed in static and kinematic modes, and at near and far locations in which the rover was about 3 km and 30 km from the CORS station, respectively. Experiments conducted near the CORS station gave good results with the average standard deviation of 0.2 cm for static positioning and average deviation of 2.2 cm for kinematic positioning, and the FIX rate of greater than 95%. Therefore, the experimental results show the excellent potential of RTK positioning using low-cost, dual-frequency, multi-constellation receivers with the CORS network in Vietnam.
Creating a database with information about Vietnam’s administrative boundaries
Authors: Phan T N Q , Dinh T B H , Hoang N L , Pham T D
Published: April 2023

This study is based on the current state of management and legal documents in Vietnam. The documents related to national borders and territories, documents signed by Vietnam, and international treaties to which Vietnam is a member. Administrative boundaries on the mainland have documents guiding the determination of administrative boundaries. The administrative boundary consists of the land part and the sea part. There is no record of defining administrative boundaries at sea. This study proposes a number of options for determining maritime boundaries (internal waters) for the coastal provinces of Vietnam. Administrative boundary records, maps, and national geographic databases are used to build the administrative boundary database. The research results provide suitable technical solutions to determine the maritime boundary, taking into account the morphological features of the coast. The administrative boundary database is fully built, legal, unified, and included in the management system. The administrative boundary database management system is centrally managed and is capable of providing information to organizations and individuals in need.
Single-cell multi-omics sequencing and its application in tumor heterogeneity
Authors: Sun Yuqing , Liu Zhiyu , Fu Yue , Yang Yuwei , Lu Junru , Pan Min , Wen Tian , Xie Xueying , Bai Yunfei , Ge Qinyu
Published: April 2023

In recent years, the emergence and development of single-cell sequencing technologies have provided unprecedented opportunities to analyze deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid and proteins at single-cell resolution. The advancements and reduced costs of high-throughput technologies allow for parallel sequencing of multiple molecular layers from a single cell, providing a comprehensive insight into the biological state and behavioral mechanisms of cells through the integration of genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics and proteomics information. Researchers are actively working to further improve the cost-effectiveness, stability and high-throughput capabilities of single-cell multi-omics sequencing technologies and exploring their potential in precision medicine through clinical diagnostics. This review aims to survey the cutting-edge advancements in single-cell multi-omics sequencing, summarizing the representative technologies and their applications in profiling complex diseases, with a particular focus on tumors.
Molecular language models: RNNs or transformer?
Authors: Chen Yangyang , Wang Zixu , Zeng Xiangxiang , Li Yayang , Li Pengyong , Ye Xiucai , Sakurai Tetsuya
Published: April 2023

Language models have shown the capacity to learn complex molecular distributions. In the field of molecular generation, they are designed to explore the distribution of molecules, and previous studies have demonstrated their ability to learn molecule sequences. In the early times, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were widely used for feature extraction from sequence data and have been used for various molecule generation tasks. In recent years, the attention mechanism for sequence data has become popular. It captures the underlying relationships between words and is widely applied to language models. The Transformer-Layer, a model based on a self-attentive mechanism, also shines the same as the RNN-based model. In this research, we investigated the difference between RNNs and the Transformer-Layer to learn a more complex distribution of molecules. For this purpose, we experimented with three different generative tasks: the distributions of molecules with elevated scores of penalized LogP, multimodal distributions of molecules and the largest molecules in PubChem. We evaluated the models on molecular properties, basic metrics, Tanimoto similarity, etc. In addition, we applied two different representations of the molecule, SMILES and SELFIES. The results show that the two language models can learn complex molecular distributions and SMILES-based representation has better performance than SELFIES. The choice between RNNs and the Transformer-Layer needs to be based on the characteristics of dataset. RNNs work better on data focus on local features and decreases with multidistribution data, while the Transformer-Layer is more suitable when meeting molecular with larger weights and focusing on global features.
How a Rising Power Treats Small States amid Power Transition: Evidence from the Sui and Tang Dynasties
Authors: Wan Xiao , Wu Yu-Shan
Published: April 2023

In a world buffeted by chaos emanating from the power transition between the USA and China, the behaviour patterns of a rising power carry considerable significance. This article explains a rising power’s choice of policies towards small states and why it adopts them. We then test the competing “power” and “culture” hypotheses by analysing asymmetric interactions during the “power transition” between the Turkic/Eastern Turkic Khanate and Sui-Tang China. The policies of Sui-Tang China towards Tuyuhun, Koguryo, and the Serindian oasis city-states confirm the materialist logic whereby it is the power balance between the major powers that determines a rising power’s strategic tendency when confronting the hegemon and which, in turn, generates the overall approaches of its policies towards small countries. However, the most-similar sub-cases invalidate the cultural affinity hypothesis. The study undermines the Chinese exceptionalism argument through its provision of a causal chain connecting great-power relations and asymmetric relations. Our findings suggest that, prior to overtaking the USA, China will maintain a defensive posture towards the USA and adopt moderate policies towards lesser nations.
Arterial wall inflammation assessed by 18F-FDG-PET/CT is higher in individuals with Type 1 diabetes and associated with circulating inflammatory proteins
Authors: Janssen Anna W M , van Heck Julia I P , Stienstra Rinke , Aarntzen Erik H J G , van Diepen Janna A , Riksen Niels P , Tack Cees J
Published: April 2023

Aims

The article investigates whether chronic hyperglycaemia in Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is associated with a proinflammatory immune signature and with arterial wall inflammation, driving the development of atherosclerosis.

Methods and results

Patients with T1D (n = 41), and healthy age-, sex-, and body mass index–matched controls (n = 20) were recruited. Arterial wall inflammation and haematopoietic activity were measured with 2′-deoxy-2′-(18F)-fluoro-D-glucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography. In addition, flow cytometry of circulating leucocytes was performed as well as targeted proteomics to measure circulating inflammatory markers. 18F-FDG uptake in the wall of the abdominal aorta, carotid arteries, and iliac arteries was higher in T1D compared with that in the healthy controls. Also, 18F-FDG uptake in the bone marrow and spleen was higher in patients with T1D. CCR2 and CD36 expressions on circulating monocytes were higher in patients with T1D, as well as several circulating inflammatory proteins. In addition, several circulating inflammatory markers (osteoprotegerin, transforming growth factor-alpha, CX3CL1, and colony-stimulating factor-1) displayed a positive correlation with FDG uptake. Within T1D, no differences were found between people with a high and low HbA1c.

Conclusion

These findings strengthen the concept that chronic hyperglycaemia in T1D induces inflammatory changes that fuel arterial wall inflammation leading to atherosclerosis. The degree of hyperglycaemia appears to play a minor role in driving this inflammatory response in patients with T1D.
Meat fermentation at a crossroads: where the age-old interplay of human, animal, and microbial diversity and contemporary markets meet
Authors: Leroy Frédéric , Charmpi Christina , De Vuyst Luc
Published: April 2023

Despite being part of the now often unfavourably perceived category of processed meats, fermented meats remain of substantial nutritional, economic, and cultural importance in today’s foodscapes. This translates into a vast assortment of different products. Fermentation is driven by microorganisms (e.g. in fermented sausages), although the terminology is sometimes used to also designate products in which microbial contributions are less dominant and that depend primarily on the activity of endogenous meat enzymes (e.g. in raw hams). A summary is given of the main microbial groups that characterize various types of meat and, in particular, their fermented derivatives. Moreover, it is argued that producers of fermented meat products struggle to adapt to a contemporary dietary context of change. On the one hand, they wish to reassure consumers by reaffirming the position of fermented meat products as traditional strongholds. On the other hand, producers are trying to alleviate some of the perceived concerns through technological innovation, for instance related to the impact of processing on food safety and health. This review raises the point that these sometimes contradictory trends can affect the choice of meat type, ingredients, and processing parameters, and how these choices, in turn, can affect microbial diversity.
The Hunger Games as the Key to Happily Ever After?
Authors: Deere Jacques A , Xu Clarice , Adelmant Celestine , Aboobaker Aziz , Salguero-Gómez Roberto
Published: April 2023

The world’s human population is reaching record longevities. Consequently, our societies are experiencing the impacts of prolonged longevity, such as increased retirement age. A major hypothesized influence on aging patterns is resource limitation, formalized under calorie restriction (CR) theory. This theory predicts extended organismal longevity due to reduced calorie intake without malnutrition. However, several challenges face current CR research and, although several attempts have been made to overcome these challenges, there is still a lack of holistic understanding of how CR shapes organismal vitality. Here, we conduct a literature review of 224 CR peer-reviewed publications to summarize the state-of-the-art in the field. Using this summary, we highlight the challenges of CR research in our understanding of its impacts on longevity. We demonstrate that experimental research is biased toward short-lived species (98.2% of studies examine species with <5 years of mean life expectancy) and lacks realism in key areas, such as stochastic environments or interactions with other environmental drivers (eg, temperature). We argue that only by considering a range of short- and long-lived species and taking more realistic approaches, can CR impacts on longevity be examined and validated in natural settings. We conclude by proposing experimental designs and study species that will allow the discipline to gain much-needed understanding of how restricting caloric intake affects long-lived species in realistic settings. Through incorporating more experimental realism, we anticipate crucial insights that will ultimately shape the myriad of sociobioeconomic impacts of senescence in humans and other species across the Tree of Life.
Addendum to “On Irreducibility of Tensor Products of Yangian Modules”
Authors: Nazarov Maxim , Tarasov Vitaly
Published: April 2023

We observe that our previously published results imply a basic property of irreducible finite-dimensional modules of the Yangian of the general linear Lie algebra.
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means
Authors: Coyne Lewis
Published: April 2023

In recent years the phenomenological approach to bioethics has been rejuvenated and reformulated by, among others, the Swedish philosopher Fredrik Svenaeus. Building on the now-relatively mainstream phenomenological approach to health and illness, Svenaeus has sought to bring phenomenological insights to bear on the bioethical enterprise, with a view to critiquing and refining the “philosophical anthropology” presupposed by the latter. This article offers a critical but sympathetic analysis of Svenaeus’ efforts, focusing on both his conception of the ends of phenomenological bioethics and the predominantly Heideggerian means he employs. Doing so reveals certain problems with both. I argue that the main aim of phenomenological bioethics as set out by Svenaeus needs to be reformulated, and that there are important oversights in his approach to reaching this end. I conclude by arguing that to overcome the latter problem we should draw instead on the works of Max Scheler and Hans Jonas.
Phenomenological Bioethics
Authors: Ferrarello Susi
Published: April 2023

Eudaimonia, that is, the experience of flourishing and welfare at the center of Greek philosophical investigations, describes the qualitative experience of being able to feel well in our bodies. Reductionism in medicine as well as in philosophy would instead reduce well-being to a set of standards that the human body or its mind must meet in order to be recognized as functioning. This journal issue, dedicated to a phenomenological approach in bioethics, represents a way to overcome this dangerous constraint thanks to the methodological support of the phenomenological investigations. The authors invited to write in this journal issue will tackle the problem of reductionism in bioethics through a phenomenological approach.
The Logic of Pregnancy
Authors: Bornemark Jonna
Published: April 2023

This article takes its point of departure in Bracha Ettinger’s discussion on the “matrixial borderspace”: the structure of the experience of “the womb,” both from a “mother-pole” and a “fetus-pole”. Ettinger describes this borderspace as a place of differentiation-in-co-emergence, separation-in-jointness, and distance-in-proximity. The question this article poses is what kind of logic this experience is an expression of, as there seems to be a discrepancy in relation to the classical Aristotelian logic of identity. As an alternative to classical Aristotelian logic, Nicholas of Cusa’s logic of the non-aliud is explored as a paradigm more in line with Ettinger’s description of pregnancy specifically and more generally, to an understanding of life as a co-poietic emergence of structures of pactivity and permeability.
The Phenomenology of Objectification in and Through Medical Practice and Technology Development
Authors: Svenaeus Fredrik
Published: April 2023

Objectification is a real problem in medicine that can lead to bad medical practice or, in the worst case, dehumanization of the patient. Nevertheless, objectification also plays a major and necessary role in medicine: the patient’s body should be viewed as a biological organism in order to find diseases and be able to cure them. Listening to the patient’s illness story should not be replaced, but, indeed, developed by the physical examination of his body searching for the causes of his complaints. Whereas phenomenologists have so far mainly been identifying the back sides of objectification in medicine, in this paper the aim is to analyze differences between detrimental objectifications and objectifications that do not deprive the patient of his subjectivity but, rather, at least in some cases, may lead the patient to feel more at home with his body.
The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study
Authors: Visser E Lianne , van Hulst Merlijn
Published: April 2023

Deliberation is ubiquitous in street-level work. Scholars and practitioners increasingly promote it, as it has the potential to improve existing practices and procedures and provide customized, yet consistent, services. Little is known, however, about the situated performance of deliberation in street-level work. Drawing on Routine Dynamics Theory and based on an ethnographic study of street-level decision-making in child and family services in the Netherlands (including document analysis, ~300 hours of observations, and interviews in two teams in one organization), we uncover the performance of deliberative routines and their development over time. Demonstrating how contextual factors and the prioritization of particular ends play a role in these routines, we contribute to a better understanding of the dynamic and reflective performance of street-level deliberation. In addition, providing a more nuanced view of routines and elaborating on some possibilities for enabling management thereof, we contribute to a better understanding of the complex and iterative organization of street-level work.
Subcoronal inflatable penile prosthesis implantation: indications and outcomes
Authors: Feng Carol L , Langbo William A , Anderson Lauren K , Cao David , Bajic Petar , Amarasekera Channa , Wang Vinson , Levine Laurence A
Published: April 2023

Background

While implantation of an inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP) is commonly performed via infrapubic or penoscrotal approaches, the subcoronal (SC) approach for IPP implantation may safely and reliably allow for additional reconstructive procedures through a single incision.

Aim

The aim of this study is to report outcomes, including complications, of the SC approach and to determine common characteristics of patients undergoing the SC approach.

Methods

A retrospective chart review from May 11, 2012, to January 31, 2022, was performed at a single, tertiary care institution to identify patients with IPP implantation via the SC approach.

Outcomes

Postoperative information was reviewed and extracted from all clinic notes available following the date of IPP implantation in the electronic medical record, detailing any complications including wound complications, need for revision or removal, device malfunction, and infections.

Results

Sixty-six patients had IPP implantation via the SC approach. Median follow-up duration was 29.4 (interquartile range 14.9-50.1) months. One (1.8%) patient had a simple wound complication. Two (3.6%) experienced postoperative infection of the prosthesis, which resulted in explantation of the device. One of these infected prostheses later experienced partial glans necrosis. Revision for mechanical failure or unsatisfactory cosmetic result was performed in 3 (7.3%) IPPs placed via a SC incision.

Clinical implications

The SC approach for implantation of IPP is safe and feasible with low complication and revision rates. It offers urologists an alternative to the classic infrapubic and penoscrotal approaches, both of which would require a second incision for additional reconstructive procedures required to adequately address deformities associated with severe Peyronie’s disease. Therefore, urologists who treat these specialized populations of men may benefit from having the SC approach in their array of techniques for IPP implantation.

Strengths and limitations

The limitations of this study include its retrospective nature, risk of selection bias, lack of comparison groups, and sample size. This study reports on early experience with the SC approach performed by a single high-volume reconstructive surgeon, who treats a specialized population of patients requiring complex repair during implantation of an IPP, particularly those with Peyronie’s disease.

Conclusion

The SC incision for IPP implantation has low rates of complications and remains our approach of choice for IPP implantation in patients with severe Peyronie’s disease, including curvatures >60°, severe indentation with hinge, and grade 3 calcification, which are unlikely to respond adequately to manual modeling alone.
Fractured Fifties
Authors: Sprengler Christine
Published: April 2023

Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade presents a two-pronged argument that (1) cinema has helped define the 1950s by contributing in considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization and thus a general conception of the decade, and (2) cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s. It challenges a reductive and fairly cohesive set of tropes with a complex amalgam of representations that also intervene in debates about historiography, historicity, cultural memory, mediation, nostalgia, and periodization. In other words, cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s, yielding in the process a series of 1950s types or kinds (e.g., The Leave It to Beaver Fifties, The Jukebox Fifties, The Cold War Fifties, The Retromediated Fifties) as well as a wealth of critical insights into myriad pasts, presents, and the evolving relationships between them.
Periodization, Cinema, and the Decade
Authors: Sprengler Christine
Published: April 2023

Chapter 1, “Periodization, Cinema, and the Decade,” excavates a series of theoretical concerns, dealing specifically with periodization as a process, the significance of the decade as a historically specific measure of time, and the cinema as a phenomenological vector embroiled in the machinations of the first two. It also reflects on the contributions made by discussions around “period films” and considers the relationship between the 1950s and the Fifties, surveying the various ways in which this distinction has been articulated and used. This chapter examines a number of theoretical and historical projects that have had a hand in determining the questions posed in relation to the case studies pursued in this book. In particular, it looks to Michel Serres and Penelope Corfield’s work on periodization and time, Fred Davis’s and Jason Scott Smith’s isolated studies on the decade, and Susan Buck-Morss’s analysis of the phenomenology of cinema in relation to mass events.
The Leave It to Beaver Fifties
Authors: Sprengler Christine
Published: April 2023

Chapter 3, “The Leave It to Beaver Fifties,” is concerned with cinematic representations of suburban life and domesticity, particularly in relation to gender and race. The title of this chapter is pirated from the postwar sitcom of the same name because of its continued currency as a shorthand in political and cultural realms, an expression that invokes a certain vision of family life in the 1950s, both for those who idealized its power structures and relations and for those who sought to critique its internal oppressions and external exclusions. This chapter starts with a few examples from the 1990s and 2000s that deserve mention, but then concentrates its analysis on Revolutionary Road (2008) and Suburbicon (2017), concluding with a consideration of the television anthology series, Them (2021).
The Cold War Fifties
Authors: Sprengler Christine
Published: April 2023

Chapter 5, “The Cold War Fifties,” is expansive in scope and includes three definitive subcategories that concern the first phase of the Cold War (1947–62): The Korean War Fifties, The McCarthyite Fifties, and The Atomic Fifties. The Korean War Fifties offers the first instances of retrospective representations of the 1950s in several films released during the early 1960s. A recent resurgence in cinematic interest in the conflict has resulted in several titles, including Steve Wallace’s independent R&B opera film, Hal King, the primary case study here, as well as the television series Lovecraft Country (2020). The McCarthyite Fifties focuses on the trials and consequences of the House Un-American Activities Committee, often in an effort to shed light on contemporary ideological conflicts. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) and Trumbo (2015) occupy the center of this analysis. The Atomic Fifties includes a body of films concerned primarily with the space race during the 1950s and early 1960s. The focus in this section is on Hidden Figures (2016), a film that not only invokes questions about historicity but also provides a point of contact with Hal King through the situation of the civil rights movement in relation to the Cold War. The ways in which Hidden Figures negotiates this relationship—and also the ways in which it fails to—are particularly instructive for thinking through the connections between the new civil rights movement (Black Lives Matter) and the New Cold War, both of which are implicitly acknowledged by the film.
The Retromediated Fifties
Authors: Sprengler Christine
Published: April 2023

Chapter 6, “The Retromediated Fifties,” examines films that are ostensibly about other media practices in the 1950s and often tell their stories through the aesthetic lenses of these media. As such, they are engaged with the mediation of historical periods and the role of film and photography in shaping conceptions of earlier moments. It begins with a brief analysis of Hail, Caeser! (2016) and La La Land (2016) as instances of what might be called a “Hollywood Fifties” subtype for their investments in both the aesthetics and practices of postwar cinema, that is, an engagement with a kind of deliberate archaism. In a marked departure, Sylvie’s Love (2020) fully and unabashedly inhabits its genre of choice, melodrama. This chapter briefly considers this approach before turning to an example of retromediation that leaves film behind: Carol (2015). Directed by Todd Haynes, the film documents the developing love affair between a socialite and shop girl, but does so through an aesthetic template borrowed from 1950s street photography.
The New Judicial Federalism
Authors: Williams Robert F. , Friedman Lawrence
Published: April 2023

Part II covers the New Judicial Federalism, the development of state court interpretations of some state constitutional rights provisions to be more protective than the same or similar federal constitutional provisions as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. The New Judicial Federalism has been the driving force in the increased interest in, and relevance of, state constitutions in the past several generations. Because state constitutional interpretation in rights cases has been so dominated by concerns over whether state courts should follow or diverge from federal constitutional doctrine, this part treats these issues separately from more general interpretation issues. This part focuses on techniques of analysis in the very important area of America’s dual enforcement of constitutional norms, with examples drawn from many state courts.
Lockstepping State Constitutional Rights with Federal Constitutional Law
Authors: Williams Robert F. , Friedman Lawrence
Published: April 2023

This chapter explores state court adoption of federal constitutional doctrine and the forms of lockstepping state and federal constitutional analyses. It addresses judicial approaches to the adoption of federal constitutional doctrine as a matter of state constitutional law, including examination of the phenomena of unreflective adoptionism; reflective, case-by-case adoptionism; and varieties of prospective lockstepping. The chapter looks specifically at efforts to lockstep equality doctrine by focusing on state constitutional equality provisions and the interpretation of these provisions by state courts. The chapter critiques the practice of prospective lockstepping and concludes by asking whether the practice reflects a considered judicial strategy.
The State Judicial Branch
Authors: Williams Robert F. , Friedman Lawrence
Published: April 2023

This chapter examines the work of state supreme courts and their development, in comparison to the institutional role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the federal system. The chapter covers the nature of the judicial power, judicial review, judicial selection, the rules of practice and procedure, the regulation of practice and procedure, the regulation of the practice of law, the inherent powers of the courts, and advisory opinions and certified questions. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the position and function of the state judiciary in the state constitutional scheme of government, and the ways in which the position and function of the state judiciary differ from their federal counterpart.
Digital Mediations of Sexual Identity and Personal Disclosure
Authors: Duguay Stefanie
Published: April 2023

This chapter introduces the book’s theoretical framework of identity modulation. It builds on foundational literature pertaining to sexual identity, the management of identity on social media, and digital self-representation to develop the concept of identity modulation as the combination of processes through which individuals and platforms shape how personal elements of identity are created, circulated, and received on social media. Identity modulation includes the dynamics of personal identifiability, reach, and salience, which are modulated through individual decision-making and platforms’ infrastructures, business models, and governance approaches. The chapter introduces the book’s approach to researching queer women who participate in identity modulation on the mobile apps Tinder, Instagram, and Vine. Their experiences and self-representations provide a sense of the opportunities and hurdles encountered in processes of identity modulation, many of which are likely also experienced by individuals disclosing other personal aspects of identity.
#Lesbehonest
Authors: Duguay Stefanie
Published: April 2023

This chapter investigates how queer women integrate sexual identity into their self-branding on Instagram and Vine. These platforms’ digital affordances, especially Instagram’s filters and Vine’s looping video, provide users with heightened ability to attract attention and broaden the reach of identity-based self-representations. The queer women interviewed drew on these affordances to self-brand in support of their day jobs and side gigs, or in hopes of attracting fame through social media. They imbued self-branding with elements of sexual identity through three forms of labor: intimate affective, formulating relatable personal disclosures that convey intimate details; developmental aesthetic, acquiring and practicing skills necessary to create a persona aligned with one’s target audience; and aspiring relational, attempting to build relationships with those who have large followings on the basis of shared identity. The women dually experienced this digital labor as exploitative and alienating while also opening opportunities for greater social and economic participation.
Conclusion
Authors: Duguay Stefanie
Published: April 2023

This chapter emphasizes the need for individuals to have greater agency over how they create, circulate, and manage personal aspects of identity on social media. It closely examines challenges that the queer women interviewed encountered when exercising their agency, including forms of exclusion, devaluation of platform labor, and insufficient protection from harassment and censorship. Approaches for addressing these problems are proposed at multiple levels, which include technological changes as well as shifts to the social, cultural, and economic contexts in which platforms operate. The chapter discusses the deplatforming of sexuality, identifying the need for social media platforms to support consensual sexual expression. Beyond sexual identity, it argues that individuals’ agency over their digital self-representation should be recognized as a right within their overall digital citizenship, which platforms have a responsibility to uphold and preserve.
Introduction
Authors: Nedelsky Jennifer , Malleson Tom
Published: April 2023

The introduction provides an overview of the book. The premise is that care involves work and good work involves care. We offer a diagnosis of the interconnected problems of work and care: inequality for care-givers, family stress, time scarcity, and the care/policy divide that generates policy makers ignorant of care and excludes care givers as policy makers. It outlines the solution of new norms: no one does paid work for more than 30 hours a week, and everyone contributes roughly 22 hours of unpaid care to family, friends, or their chosen community of care. The challenges of norm transformation are also addressed. The introduction outlines each chapter: “CARE” and “WORK” explain the new norms and structures we propose. The final chapters explain the feasibility of these transformations for high income countries in the current global economy.
Work
Authors: Nedelsky Jennifer , Malleson Tom
Published: April 2023

“Work” examines how to restructure work so that everyone can be a care giver. It elaborates on the idea of good part-time work for all, and describes how the new work norms might look in practice. It discusses the expected benefits of good part-time work for all, and contrasts our vision with other well-known feminist proposals (such as those of Anne Marie Slaughter, universal breadwinning, and Wages for Housework). It also responds to concerns that reducing work hours to part-time will undermine creative work and excellence (doesn’t excellence require single-minded devotion, which will be undermined by forcing experts to care?), as well as the frequent worry that “my job couldn’t possibly be done part-time. I’m barely managing as it is!” The chapter argues for the transformation of the meaning of “work” in people’s lives, and the depth of the cultural transformation of equally valuing “work and care.”
Transitioning
Authors: Nedelsky Jennifer , Malleson Tom
Published: April 2023

What kind of concrete economic institutions would be necessary to foster and facilitate an equitable division of caregiving work? These final two chapters examine the big picture viability of Part-Time for All. This chapter discusses transition. In other words, what is necessary to help societies move toward PTfA? The question of transition has two important components. One is the question of how to reform our economic institutions so that everyone has the option of working a high-quality, flexible, part-time job. The other is how to enhance the desire for such jobs. After all, it is not enough to simply create available options for part-time work. Unless there is a corresponding change in norms, values, and desires, many people (particularly men) will refuse to undertake such work, preferring the status and financial rewards associated with full-time work. This chapter examines these two fundamental issues in turn.