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Atypical presentation of dermatophytic skin infections and their antifungal susceptibility pattern
Authors: Bora Archana , Rathore Laxmi , Khullar Shivani , Maurya Vinod Kumar , Puri Pooja , Khatri Prabhat Kiran 
Published: December 2024

Abstract

Objective:
Dermatophytosis is a type of superficial mycosis affecting skin, hair and nails. The disease is becoming prevalent in India. With antifungal formulations containing potent steroids and also due to antifungal resistance the clinical presentation of the disease is changing. In Skin OPD many cases of dermatophytosis are being encountered with an atypical presentation that cannot be diagnosed only on clinical ground. These fungal infections mimic clinical pictures of non-infectious conditions and require microbiological evaluation for confirmation. In this study, we are evaluating the antifungal susceptibility pattern of dermatophytes with atypical skin lesions.

Methods:
This is a cross-sectional study. In this study, skin scrapping was examined for a fungal element using a KOH mount. Samples were cultured on sabouraud dextrose agar. Species were phenotypically identified using LPCB mount and colony characteristics. Antifungal sensitivity testing was performed as per CLSI M38A2 guidelines.

Result:
A total of 24 patients were recruited into the study, who showed an unusual presentation of dermatophytic infection. Patients with a history of the application of topical antifungal formulation containing steroids were found to be significantly associated with unusual presentation and recurrent infection. Fungal growths of, Trichophyton mentagrophytes (n = 14), Trichophyton rubrum (n = 5), Trichophyton tonsurans (n = 2), Trichophyton concentricum (n = 1), Microsporum gypseum (n = 1), and Microsporum canis (n = 1) was observed. MIC of most of the isolates was higher for fluconazole ranging from 0.06 ≥ 64 μg/ml and terbinafine ranging from 0.03 ≥ 32 μg/ml.

Conclusion:
Most of the patients with unusual presentation had a history of chronic use of topical steroids. Trichophyton concentricum and Microsporum gypseum may give an atypical presentation without any history of topical or systemic steroids abuse.
Pellagroid rash secondary to cabozantinib
Authors: Chandrashekhar Rane Meghana , Arun Mahajan Sunanda 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Cabozantinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor used to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and medullary thyroid cancer. Adverse cutaneous events include hand-foot skin reaction, generalized pigment dilution and/or hair depigmentation, xerosis, scrotal erythema/ulceration, and nail splinter hemorrhages. Here we discuss a case of pellagra like rash in a 61 year old man having renal cell carcinoma induced by cabozantinib not described in literature so far.
Titanium Elastic Nail in Boxer’s Fracture: A Case Report
Authors: Ghosh Soham , Keshkar Sanjay 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This case report aimed to assess the outcome of antegrade intramedullary fixation with titanium elastic nail (TEN) in displaced fifth metacarpal neck fractures (boxer’s fracture). An adult male presented to us with a fracture of the neck of the fifth metacarpal with angulation in his right dominant hand. Antegrade intramedullary fixation was done using the TEN system (TENS). Post-operatively, the patient obtained anatomical reduction, and the healing time was 6 weeks with no sign of nonunion. The head-shaft angle of the fifth metacarpal and the range of motion (ROM) of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint were evaluated. The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand questionnaire were used to assess upper arm function. The head-shaft angle of the affected side and ROM of the MCP joint were significantly improved post-operatively following antegrade intramedullary fixation using TENS. No marked difference was observed between the affected and unaffected side in the head-shaft angle and ROM. Therefore, antegrade intramedullary fixation with TENS is recommended as an easy, reliable and minimally invasive surgical technique for treating displaced boxer’s fractures.
Approximating optimization problems in graphs with locational uncertainty
Authors: Bougeret Marin , Omer Jérémy , Poss Michael 
Published: December 2024

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as the search for a subgraph that satisfies certain properties and minimizes the total weight. We assume here that the vertices correspond to points in a metric space and can take any position in given uncertainty sets. Then, the cost function to be minimized is the sum of the distances for the worst positions of the vertices in their uncertainty sets. We propose two types of polynomial-time approximation algorithms. The first one relies on solving a deterministic counterpart of the problem where the uncertain distances are replaced with maximum pairwise distances. We study in details the resulting approximation ratio, which depends on the structure of the feasible subgraphs and whether the metric space is Ptolemaic or not. The second algorithm is a fully-polynomial time approximation scheme for the special case of $s-t$ paths.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2109.00389
Inovasi Penggunaan Limbah Pertanian sebagai Media Filter Air Melalui Pengolahan Air Skala Rumah Tangga di Halmahera Barat
Authors: Ahmad Badrun , Saputra Muhammad Taufiq Yuda , Alkatiri Hilda 
Published: December 2024

This community service aims to improve the quality of life of the people in Braha Village by providing affordable access to clean water. Currently, the water condition in Braha Village is murky, especially during the rainy season. This is due to poor sanitation, direct disposal of domestic waste into the ground, and leaking septic tanks, which are close to residents' wells, causing the water to become turbid. By utilizing agricultural waste as a water filter media, the community not only obtains clean water but can also reduce water treatment costs. Through a socialization process and the creation of simple water filtration technology, the community is encouraged to utilize local waste such as fruit peels and leaves as filter raw materials. The results show a significant improvement in water quality, as well as increased public awareness of the importance of maintaining environmental cleanliness. This innovation is expected to serve as a model for other villages in Indonesia to address similar problems.

Pengabdian masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kualitas hidup masyarakat Desa Braha melalui penyediaan akses air bersih yang terjangkau. Saat ini, kondisi air di desa Braha berwarna keruh, apalagi pada saat musim hujan. Hal ini karena buruknya sanitasi, pembuangan limbah domestik ke tanah secara langsung, dan septik yang tidak kedap air, berdekatan dengan sumur warga menjadi penyebab kekeruhan air. Dengan memanfaatkan limbah pertanian sebagai media filter air, masyarakat tidak hanya mendapatkan air bersih, tetapi juga dapat mengurangi biaya pengolahan air. Melalui proses sosialisasi dan pembuatan teknologi penyaringan air secara sederhana ini, masyarakat diajak untuk memanfaatkan limbah lokal seperti kulit buah dan daun sebagai bahan baku filter. Hasilnya menunjukkan peningkatan kualitas air yang signifikan, serta peningkatan kesadaran masyarakat akan pentingnya menjaga kebersihan lingkungan. Inovasi ini diharapkan dapat menjadi model bagi desa-desa lain di Indonesia dalam mengatasi permasalahan serupa.
DECODING DIGITAL YOUTH:COMMUNICATION TRENDS IN THE INTERNET ERA TION
Authors: Kochunts Karine 
Published: December 2024

The article focuses on increasing developments in the structure of the language of online communication. It is already common knowledge that online communication or otherwise, multimedia communication has set quite specific language rules, especially in the ways of encoding and, consequently, decoding messages. The so-called “new normal” has gradually crept into reality, even if virtual, unnoticed, and seems to have stayed. The “new normal” does not remain the same and changes with time and the new requirements of the users. The ever-growing striving of people to make things work faster has not left the sphere of human communication untouched, particularly, informal online communication. Thus, most of the changes in the means of encoding a message primarily aim at brevity and efficiency. It is noteworthy that changes are mainly implemented by young users of online space. It is usually they who set new trends in the ways and means of coding meaning in the text, often posing challenges and risks in balancing personal and professional boundaries.
Garbage Classification: A Deep Learning Perspective
Authors: Sri Kruthika M  , Rajadevi R  , Sathya D  , Varshini Shilin S  , Sowbharanika Janani JS  , Suresh Babu K  
Published: December 2024

Garbage Classification using deep learning focuses on techniques to automate and improve the sorting of waste materials. The objective is to enhance recycling processes and promote environmental sustainability by accurately categorizing waste into six types: glass, paper, cloth, trash, cardboard, and plastic. The study implements advanced convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to analyze and classify images of garbage, automating a task that is traditionally manual and labor-intensive.To achieve this, several deep learning models were used, including MobileNet, NASNet, LeNet, Inception, and DenseNet. These models were trained on a carefully curated dataset to ensure balanced representation across all waste categories, allowing them to extract complex features from the images and make precise classifications. Each model was evaluated based on its performance, with NASNet delivering the highest accuracy, making it the most suitable for real-world applications where resources might be limited, such as mobile or edge devices.The results demonstrate that NASNet is the most effective algorithm for garbage classification, outperforming the other models in terms of accuracy. By automating the classification process, this research offers a practical solution to improve recycling efficiency, reduce the need for manual sorting, and contribute to sustainable waste management. The study highlights the significant role that deep learning can play in transforming waste management systems for a cleaner and more sustainable environment.
Low-Resource Chinese Named Entity Recognition via CNN-based Multitask Learning
Authors: Wu Tao , Cao Xinwen , Jiang Feng , Cui Canyixing , Li Xuehao , Xian Xingping 
Published: December 2024

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental subtask for information extraction that aims to locate and classify named entities in unstructured text into predefined categories. Recently, large-scale language models (LLMs) have achieved SOTA performance on a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, because NER is a sequence labeling task in nature while LLMs is a text-generation model, the performance of LLMs on NER is still significantly below supervised baselines, and NER remains a difficult task. Meanwhile, the word boundary and semantic information of Chinese words are usually quite vague, as words contained in Chinese texts are not separated by spaces. Thus, the NER task still requires supervised learning paradigm and heavily relies on large amounts of labeled data, such as entity type and boundary information. However, the cost of labeling data can be prohibitively large, and the purely supervised approaches usually suffer from poor generalization capability. In this article, we propose a multitask learning-based bidirectional iterated dilated convolution model, BCNN-CWS, for low-resource NER via leveraging word boundary information of Chinese word segmentation (CWS) task. Specifically, to efficiently recognize named entities, an iterated dilated convolutional model with a limited number of layers is implemented. In addition, a bidirectional causal convolution mechanism is presented for contextual information extraction. Results of extensive experiments on public Chinese datasets demonstrate that BCNN-CWS achieves superior performance over state-of-the-art models, and it yields up to about 50% speed improvement over existing methods. It is worth noting that BCNN-CWS can be further improved by combining with a pretrained model.

Received: 25 Spetember 2024 | Revised: 4 November 2024 | Accepted: 28 November 2024

Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement
The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Github at https://github.com/jiangfeng13/BCNN-CWS.

Author Contribution Statement
Tao Wu: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Supervision. Xinwen Cao: Resources, Data curation. Feng Jiang: Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft. Canyixing Cui: Data curation, Writing -review & editing. Xuehao Li: Resources. Xingping Xian: Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition.
Pentecostal Liturgical Theology
Authors: Rice Monte Lee 
Published: December 2024

This book explores how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost.A liturgical turn has marked recent Pentecostal studies, producing a growing body of liturgical theologies. This cutting edge work analyses four theologians at its forefront: Tanya Riches, Daniela Augustine, Chris E.W. Green, and Wolfgang Vondey.It does so through a "liturgy as primary theology" approach, which defines liturgy as "the church at prayer”. Here, Rice shows how Pentecostal experience clarifies liturgy as the church at prayer on the altar.
Drawing from critical discourse analysis, continental philosophy, and Aristotelian wisdom, this incisive book proceeds by narrating a healing soteriology that makes humanity willed to the common good signified by Pentecost. Working from Walter Hollenweger’s insights on the ecumenical promise of Pentecostal liturgy, Rice identifies inclusivity, liberative spirituality, Majority World epistemology, gift-sharing community, and scholarly re-oralization as apt benchmarks for Pentecostal liturgical theology. This inclusive multi-faceted form reveals how Occidental voices dominate the Pentecostal discourse, yet conversely offers augmenting pathways toward a more globally representative theology, summoning the Pentecostal academy to the altar.
The foremost pathway this book presents is its theology of Pentecostal meaning-full worship. Through the lens of liturgy as a cosmic gift economy, Rice shows how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost. Through engaging Ricoeurean/Aristotelian narrative theory, this eye-opening work thus climaxes with a briefly constructed Pentecostal theology of the altar. It shows how Pentecostal meaning-full worship fosters moral formation as worshippers place themselves on the altar of sacrifice, becoming priestly partners with God; fuelling the gift economy that flourishes his household, till all creation be willed to Pentecost.
Stolen Nation
Authors: El-Malak Lena 
Published: December 2024

While Palestinians continue to face the threat of expulsion from their homes, identifying legal mechanisms that can be used to assert Palestinian’s property rights is needed more than ever. This book provides a legal analysis of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees under international law for the destruction and expropriation of their property during the Nakba . Discussing the legal landscape related to property ownership prior to the creation of the State of Israel and the legal basis for the right to reparation under international law, Lena El-Malak advocates for a law-based approach to enforce this right and the form it should take.
The book demonstrates how the legal rights of Palestinian refugees, specifically as related to their properties, have been marginalized and excluded from the political discourse of the “peace process”. Here, the legal rights of Palestinian refugees are demonstrated, challenges for invoking these rights in international and domestic courts are determined, and forms of restitution and compensation outlined. This study offers a timely contribution to provide a comprehensive legal, as opposed to a political, economic or historical analysis, of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees for their property losses. Additionally, the book seeks to demonstrate the importance of adopting a legal framework in any future negotiation for a peaceful resolution to this long standing struggles for liberation.
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Ward Kiron 
Published: December 2024

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction.Chapters provide important new insights into the new ways that authors approach, reclaim, and use ’totality’—as a method for approaching the contemporary, rather than an object to be represented. In this, we find some of the most radical and challenging attempts in recent fiction to reimagine our world on the back of a contested history and in the face of an unstable future.
Where major studies of literary encyclopaedism have historically tended to draw from the canon, this book looks to move beyond this tradition, and pays particular attention to work from Indigenous, Asian American, and Latin American contexts. In doing so, it looks to address the challenges of reading world literature in the contemporary.
Donald Rodney
Authors: Hylton Richard 
Published: December 2024

Donald Rodney (1961-1998) was one of the most gifted, perceptive, and innovative contemporary British artists of his time.A protagonist from the first generation of Black British-born art students in the early 1980s, Rodney and his peers brought a new dynamic to British art – a hitherto unseen interplay between aesthetics, politics, humour and Black consciousness.Donald Rodney: Art, Race and the Body Politicis the first book-length study of a protean practice which spanned the early 1980s to the late 1990s and included a prodigious output of work across painting, photography, collage, assemblage, sculpture, installation, and new technologies.
Across eight meticulously researched chapters, the book examines the social and cultural events which inspired Rodney's artwork and the responses it elicited. From his formative years in the West Midlands as a leading exponent of ‘Black Art’, to a subsequent decade of unbridled visual innovation and social critique, the book ventures new detailed analyses of key works, exhibitions, artistic influences and collaborations.
Deploying recurring metaphors of the ‘diseased’, traumatised and ‘raced’ body, Rodney addressed racial and social inequality, legacies of slavery, police brutality, sport, and Black male identity in novel and powerful ways. Attending to the artist’s material dexterity and visual acuity, the book considers how and why Rodney’s innovative practice uniquely challenged delineations between the political and non-political, personal and public, representation and visibility. Over a generation has passed since Rodney’s premature death from the effects of the hereditary blood disorder sickle cell anaemia at aged thirty-six. Despite this, Rodney's work continues to speak to our contemporary moment in a multiplicity of ways. As such, the book provides a much-needed critical perspective and insight to the work and legacy of a nonpareil British artist.
Problems and Possibilities of Neoliberal Education Reforms
Authors: Toprak Mustafa 
Published: December 2024

Neoliberal education reforms promise (but often don't succeed) to improve student outcomes and provide more equitable educational opportunities to students with different backgrounds.
They hold schools accountable for their performance through high-stakes testing and linking performance to rewards and sanctions, and by empowering parents. This book presents a critical and objective appraisal of these neoliberalist education reforms. Mustafa Toprak considers the practical elements of neoliberal reforms, including voucher systems, choice, accountability, competition within and between schools, educational inequalities, and high-stakes testing, and in doing this, contributes to social justice debates and the idea of education as a common good. He uses reforms in Chile as a case study and offers a critique of its neoliberal educational reforms. Rather than discrediting all the central tenets of neoliberal education, Toprak considers the pros and cons of these reforms for students, teachers, schools, and societies and proposes new reforms to ensure that policies accurately and responsively address the needs of all stakeholders.
Experimental American Poetry and the New Organic Form
Authors: Paulo Guimarães João 
Published: December 2024

Arguing that the 19th century concept of “living form” (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a number of contemporary experimental poets.Indebted to 19th century science, the notion of a “living form” endured throughout the 20th century and the poetic vanguard’s word games and collages mirrored the disjunctive frameworks that redefined how scientists made sense of life in the age of networks and non-linear systems.
Featuring readings of texts from poets including Ed Dorn, A.M.J. Crawford, P.Inman, Chris Vitiello, and Christian Bök, this book shows how a number of vanguardist poets explores the commonalities they detected between nature’s processes of creation and their own methods of composition. In doing so, it highlights devices like punning, paragrammatic play, metamorphic figuration and memetic repetition, mechanisms these poets find at work in the cybernetic, genetic and digital systems they investigate in their poems.
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood
Authors: Franks Hallie M. 
Published: December 2024

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the “fit” American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.In this historical moment, 19th-century anthropometric methods, the anti-corset dress reform movement and early fitness culture were united in their goal of identifying and producing healthy, procreative female bodies. These discourses presented ancient statues of Venus – most frequently, the Venus de Milo – as the supreme visual model of a superior, fit, feminine physique. An America of such Venuses would herald the future prosperity of the “American race” by reviving the robust health and moral righteousness of the ancient Greeks.
Venuses had long been symbols of beauty, but the new situation of Venus statues as an aesthetic and moral destination for women set up a slippage between ideal sculpture and living bodies: what did it mean for a woman to embody – or to try to embody – the perfect health and beauty of an ancient statue? How were women expected to translate this model into flesh? What were the political stakes to which this vision of a nation of American Venuses was bound? Who was believed to conform to this ideal, and who was excluded from it? In taking on these questions, Franks engages with physical culture and dress-reform media, modern artwork that adapts Graeco-Roman traditions, anthropological texts, art histories of ancient Greece, film, advertising and medical reporting on women’s health.