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The Black Atlantic Monthly: Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship
Authors: Dworkin Ira 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This article argues that Nicholas Said’s “A Native of Bornoo” exposes the limits of literary and political inclusion in the Atlantic Monthly, where it was published in 1867, and in the larger cultural milieu the magazine represents. Said arrived in the United States in 1860 as a freed person after a period of enslavement in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and with “A Native of Bornoo” he reached the seeming pinnacle of white literary culture. Although Said served in the US Civil War, he wrote nothing about his experience in the war. Instead of using his US bona fides as a war veteran to appeal for citizenship, he wrote about his homeland in today’s northeast Nigeria, a part of the world the he recognized as “so imperfectly known to the civilized nations of Europe and America.” Said uses the pages of the Atlantic to inscribe African intellectual, political, and military history onto a site of European/American ignorance, ultimately refusing incorporation into a US national project in a manner that is instructive for reading a wider tradition of Black writing in North America.
Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health
Authors: Lockwood Samaine 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This article explores how queer feminisms of the first wave relied on white supremacism and US exceptionalism to contest medical discourses about neurasthenia and sexual inversion. In particular, the author analyzes theories of women’s health, physical mobility, and sensitivity to civilization advanced by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, particularly in her short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” as well as by members of the Women’s Rest Tour Association (WRTA), a late nineteenth-century collectivity of women committed to traveling abroad without men. Constellating Gilman’s contestation of S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure with Mitchell’s writings, as well as the archival records of the WRTA’s innovative rest tour, reveals the roots of white women’s self-care practices and their biopolitical investments. We also gain insight into how queer communities have long leveraged discourses of family, whiteness, and “civilized” cultural inheritance to forge a space for themselves and their loved ones within mainstream US culture. These insights are particularly valuable in our current historical moment as we continue to suffer the consequences of and learn from the immobilities suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as ongoing threats to women’s health and reproductive freedom.
Xenophobia and Labor Migration in a Global Perspective: The Case of Colonial Burma, 1820–1940
Authors: Lucassen Leo 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This Burmese–Indian case study breaks new ground in global labor history on the question of why and how people turn against immigrant workers. The widespread riots against Indians in the 1930s were far from unique and, beyond their idiosyncratic South Asian and colonial context, bear a number of interesting similarities with clashes between workers worldwide in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead of dismissing mob violence in Asia and Africa as communal or tribal, the Burma case study shows that such Orientalist interpretations hide fundamental mechanisms that explain why and how violent collective conflicts between workers are rooted in attributed group characteristics. As in Europe and the Americas, in other parts of the world the rise of the nation state mobilized nativist sentiments.
An Unfair Fight: Why Labor Unions and Dust Bowl Migrants Were Defeated in California's Fields during the Great Depression
Authors: Shaw Christopher W. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Among the many different groups that have labored in California's fields over the years, scholars have singled out white migrants during the Great Depression from Oklahoma and adjacent states—often referred to as “Okies”—as particularly anti-union. This ostensible aversion to labor unions—attributed to the group's cultural characteristics—allegedly precluded agricultural unionization during the period, derailing organized labor in the fields of Depression-era California. In fact, cultural traits had an equivocal influence and do not explain this outcome. Instead, structural factors determined the prospects for farm unions during the Depression.
Kinematics and energetics of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) when jumping from compliant surfaces
Authors: Taylor Jessica , Deeming D. Charles , Sutton Gregory P. 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT
Animals often leap from substrates that give way under them, such as leaves, soft ground or flexible branches. This provides an added complexity for latch-mediated spring-actuated (LaMSA) jumping animals because the spring-loaded system often works so quickly that neural feedback cannot adjust for errors caused by a yielding substrate. We studied a LaMSA jumper, the grasshopper, to determine how the mechanical properties of a substrate giving way under them would affect the kinematics of the jump. We measured this by allowing grasshoppers to leap from two diving boards, a long one that could generate a whole range of relative stiffnesses, and a shorter, much lighter, but stiffer board. Substrate stiffness was manipulated by then placing the grasshopper on different locations on that diving board, presenting from 30% of the grasshopper's leg stiffness to 200 times the grasshoppers leg stiffness. For platform stiffnesses that were less than that of the grasshopper, take-off velocity and kinetic energy were reduced, but jump elevation (the jump trajectory) was unaffected. For stiffnesses that were greater than that of the grasshopper, there was no effect on take-off velocity and kinetic energy. When jumping from an extremely light and stiff substrate, recoil of the surface allowed the grasshopper to recover some of the lost energy. Consequently, when jumping from substrates that are less stiff than they are (such as floppy leaves), grasshoppers must contend with lower take-off velocities, but jump direction is unaffected.
The metabolic cost of producing joint moments is greater at the hip than at the ankle
Authors: Fallah Negin , Beck Owen N. 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT
Older adults walk using their hips relatively more and their ankles relatively less than young adults. This ‘distal-to-proximal redistribution’ in leg joint mechanics is thought to drive the age-related increase in metabolic rate during walking. However, many morphological differences between hip and ankle joints make it difficult to predict how, or whether, the distal-to-proximal redistribution affects metabolic rate during walking. To address this uncertainty, we compared the metabolic rate of participants while they repeatedly produced isolated hip and ankle moment cycles on a dynamometer following biofeedback. Overall, participants produced greater joint moments at their ankle versus hip and correspondingly activated their largest ankle extensor muscle more than their largest hip extensor muscle. Cycle average muscle activation across other hip and ankle extensors was nondifferent. Despite producing greater joint moments using slightly more relative muscle activation at the ankle, participants expended more net metabolic power while producing moments at the hip. Therefore, producing joint extension moments at the hip requires more metabolic energy than that at the ankle. Our results support the notion that the distal-to-proximal redistribution of joint mechanics contribute to greater metabolic rate during walking in older versus young adults.
A dietary analysis of Phyllostomus discolor with potential evidence of mammal predation
Authors: Rodríguez-Segovia Marco A. , Brito Jorge , Ordóñez-Garza Nicté 
Published: December 2024

Phyllostomus discolor es considerado omnívoro, con un alto consumo de néctar. Nunca se ha documentado el consumo de vertebrados en P. discolor. Sin embargo, hay un ataque documentado a Eptesicus furinalis y se encontraron restos de rana debajo de una colonia de esta especie. Obtuvimos una muestra fecal de P. discolor, que contenía un registro potencial de depredación en mamíferos. El principal objetivo de este estudio fue comparar esta muestra con la anatomía de algunos pequeños mamíferos presentes en el Chocó, así como reportar otros hallazgos de esta muestra. Se contrastó una parte de la muestra con fotografías de garras de murciélagos y roedores. Aplicamos un análisis PCA para comparar esta parte de la muestra con el tamaño de las garras de murciélagos y roedores. Usamos guías de campo y literatura para identificar insectos, semillas y minerales. La muestra contenía insectos, grava, una semilla, espinas y una garra. Las espinas encontradas estaban morfológicamente más relacionadas con las espinas identificadas en Neacomys marci en comparación con Heteromys australis. Aunque la forma y el tamaño de la garra eran similares a los de N. marci, algunos murciélagos tenían una apariencia similar y las diferencias eran pequeñas. Esta nota representaría el primer registro potencial de P. discolor cazando un mamífero en condiciones naturales, pero recomendamos análisis y comparaciones adicionales sobre su composición dietética.
First record of a Physalopteridae parasitizing a specimen of Bassariscus astutus from Hidalgo, México
Authors: Aquino-Camacho Mitzi F. , Lira-Guerrero Georgina , Falcón-Ordaz Jorge 
Published: December 2024

El estudio de helmintos en los Procyonidae de México es escaso, registrándose 4 especies de acantocéfalos, 8 especies de nematodos y 6 especies de platelmintos. Para Bassariscus astutus se conocen los céstodos Mesocestoides bassarisci y Taenia pencei, así como larvas de nematodos sin identificar. El objetivo del presente trabajo es agregar un nuevo registro de un nematodo a la helmintofauna que parasita B. astutus. Se obtuvieron 4 B. astutus muertos en 3 localidades del estado de Hidalgo. Las vísceras de los hospederos fueron revisadas, encontrándose un nematodo en el estómago de un hospedero. El helminto fue fijado y mantenido en alcohol al 70 % para su identificación. Una larva, en tercer estadio de desarrollo, de la familia Physalopteridae fue identificada por contar con 2 pseudolabios laterales en la región cefálica, formados por 3 labios. El labio medio tiene 4 dientes, 3 internolabiales y 1 externolabial. Cada labio lateral presenta un área rugosa. Por último, la región cefálica se encuentra rodeada por un pliegue cuticular llamado capuchón. Este es el primer registro de un Physalopteridae parasitando B. astutus en México. En la familia Physalopteridae se encuentran los géneros Physaloptera y Turgida, ambos exhiben 4 dientes en el labio medio, nuestro ejemplar al exhibir los rasgos anteriores además de la presencia de un capuchón, se podría considerar miembro del género Turgida. Sin embargo, debido a la ausencia del número de ramas uterinas que diferencian a los adultos de ambos géneros, no podemos confirmar que se trate de Turgida.
New field records document the survival of the Altamira jackrabbit (Lepus altamirae)
Authors: Cervantes Fernando A. , Cruz-Reséndiz Gabriel A. , Hernández Mauricio 
Published: December 2024

Lepus altamirae es una liebre poco conocida del noreste de México. Recientemente se restableció su validez taxonómica y se alertó sobre la ausencia de sus registros de campo. Se redescubrió recientemente, pero desconocemos su distribución geográfica completa y si sobrevive en su localidad tipo. Este estudio pretende confirmar su presencia en su localidad tipo y contribuir con recomendaciones para su supervivencia. Buscamos liebres en caminos y brechas utilizando un carro y caminando en áreas naturales y perturbadas en Altamira y sus alrededores de junio a agosto de 2020. Anotamos los registros visuales de las liebres encontradas y pedimos permiso a cetreros encontrados casualmente para usar sus datos de captura de liebres. Confirmamos la identificación taxonómica de las liebres con referencias especializadas. No encontramos liebres en la localidad tipo, cuyo habitat ya se encuentra degradado, pero registramos visualmente ejemplares en las inmediaciones de Altamira. Asimismo, encontramos registros adicionales de L. altamirae en la literatura científica y en un portal de ciencia ciudadana que muestran localidades donde previamente se desconocía su presencia en distintas direcciones geográficas de la localidad tipo, incluyendo el estado de Veracruz. Lepus altamirae ya no existe en su localidad tipo, en donde se ha incrementado su nivel de urbanización. Sin embargo, se sabe de su presencia en áreas que incrementan su distribución geográfica previamente conocida. Se requiere continuar explorando su distribución potencial para proponer medidas apropiadas para su conservación, además de promover la inclusión de su nombre en las listas de mamíferos mexicanos.
Mississippi Log Trucking Liability Insurance Premiums: A Hedonic Analysis
Authors: Shannon James T. , McConnell T. Eric 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Rising liability insurance premiums have negatively impacted log trucking businesses in Mississippi and across the southeastern United States. A statewide mixed-mode log trucking business owner survey was used to study factors impacting liability insurance for Mississippi timber transportation. A hedonic regression model was developed to identify operational characteristics that significantly influenced insurance premiums. Marginal implicit prices were calculated to reveal an average per unit monetary contribution of each significant attribute while holding the others constant. The 3-year inflation-adjusted average for Mississippi companies was $12,466 per truck per year, with a minimum value of $4,000 per truck per year and a maximum of $24,404 per truck per year (all values in US$). On average, each year of owner experience provided a mean insurance premium discount of $72.42. Each additional 1,000 miles (1600 km) traveled by log trucks at the mean insurance premium was valued at $50.00; each safety violation was valued at $3,322; and an overweight violation was valued at $1,311. Implementation of safety practices and safety equipment did not significantly impact insurance premiums. Companies were not directly rewarded for using safety equipment and safety practices but were penalized through increased policy rates when cited for safety and overweight violations. Investing in safety practices (e.g., regular truck inspections, truck driver training, repair and maintenance programs, etc.) and safety equipment (truck scales, cameras, truck tracking, telematics, etc.) would reduce roadside inspection citations and crashes, which contribute to rising liability insurance premiums.
High-Speed Chemical Imaging via Compressive Raman Microspectroscopy
Authors: de Aguiar Hilton 
Published: December 2024

I will introduce the concept of compressive Raman imaging: by exploiting the sparsity and redundancy in Raman data sets, one can considerably simplify and speed up the spectral image acquisition, reaching speeds compatible with video-rate imaging by detecting just a handful of photons. I will discuss the different ways of performing compressive Raman, in particular focusing on challenges for bio-imaging, and also show more recent results applied to long-time imaging of electrochemical systems.
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The Broadband Aluminum Oxide Integrated Photonics Platform: Applications in Spectroscopy
Authors: Bonneville Dawson , Hendriks Ward , Chahir Nadia , Dijkstra Meindert , García-Blanco Sonia 
Published: December 2024

The Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> waveguide platform demonstrates broadband operation with low loss, enabling UV enhanced Raman spectroscopy that is spectrally separated from autofluorescence. Material fabrication, recent results, and future work towards sensing and integration will be discussed.
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Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy to Detect Harmful Compounds as SARIN Gas or Vanillin
Authors: Taliercio Thierry , Fehlen Pierre , Thomas Guillaume , Gonzalez Posada Fernando , Guise Julien , Najem Melissa , Cerutti Laurent , Spitzer Denis 
Published: December 2024

Heavily doped semiconductor or aluminium-based plasmonic resonators have been developed to detect organophosphorus gas or vanillin molecules by surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy.
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Quantitative Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Gases and Aerosols
Authors: Bozoki Zoltan 
Published: December 2024

IExamples of successful implementation of the photoacoustic gas concentration measurement method in various applications including oil and natural gas industry, soil science, airborne and exhaust measurements, etc. are given. Furthermore, the unique application possibilities opened up by the use of the combination of an external cavity mid-infrared interband cascade laser combined with a dual cell photoacoustic system are discussed.
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Spectroscopy for Everyday Life: Precision Agriculture, Food and Healthcare
Authors: Saadany Bassam 
Published: December 2024

In this talk, we discuss the use of micro spectrometers – as tiny optical sensors- with lab-grade performance for precision agriculture, food testing as well as healthcare applications. Showing how the small size, light weight and scalability of a MEMS based sensor enables in-field testing through hand-held and connected scanners. We will be showing the widespread use of applications and the positive impact in real life examples.
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Estimation of spectral spacing and linear ICI effects using IQ constellation images and CNN in gridless WDM systems
Authors: Martinez Zapata Kevin D. , Torres Jhon J. Granada 
Published: December 2024

The estimation of spectral spacing (guard band) among optical channels
in gridless WDM systems would be decisive for making swift decisions
in reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) to avoid
linear interchannel interference (ICI) effects during the channel
aggregation process in transit nodes. In this work, we propose a
method based on the construction of heat scatter images from
constellation diagrams along with convolutional neuronal networks
(CNN) to identify when optical channels are spectrally overlapped as
well as the value in GHz of the channel separation in a specific
optical channel without adjacent channels information. We validate our
method in a gridless 16-QAM Nyquist-WDM system with
different channel spacing and optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR).
Experimental results demonstrated that overlap detection can be
achieved with 3×16GBd accuracy. Additionally, the
estimation of spectral spacing achieved an error (RMSE) of less than
0.6 GHz. The penalty in accuracy and RMSE is only ∼98% and , respectively, when there is no
knowledge of the OSNR value. Thus, this method has the potential to be
integrated into monitoring tools designed for future dynamic gridless
optical transmission systems.
Scanning-Free Volumetric Imaging Based on Light Correlations
Authors: D'Angelo Milena , Massaro Gianlorenzo , Pepe Francesco V. 
Published: December 2024

Correlation plenoptic imaging enables scanning-free 3D imaging by exploiting spatio-temporal correlations of light. SPAD arrays and AI are shown to potentially lead to real time high-resolution volumetric. Extension to hyperspectral imaging is also presented.
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Novel Structured Illumination Microscopy System
Authors: Saavedra Genaro , Preza Chrysanthe 
Published: December 2024

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) provides accurate 3D images of translucent samples by using non-uniform irradiance patterns in combination with digital post processing. We present here a novel setup, tunable SIM, that provides shorter registration times, higher signal-to-noise ratios, and increased optical sectioning capabilities respect to classical SIM implementations.
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Creatividad polinizadora
Authors: Torre Saturnino de la 
Published: December 2024

Para concluir este artículo, me permito mencionar algunos de los rasgos que podrían servir para caracterizar la creatividad polinizadora aplicada a las políticas públicas. Tres de estas características corresponden a tres principios de la polinización: generar mejoras permanentes (principio de evolución y pervivencia); carácter socializador (principio de cooperación). Aquí destacaría el carácter humano sobre el técnico o material; Equilibrio entre la tendencia a la unidad y a la diversidad (Principio de complementariedad) Los opuestos terminan siendo complementarios en algún momento, como la onda y la partícula, el día y la noche, la luz y la sombra, el blanco y el negro, ... Los opuestos son una forma de categorizar la realidad. Estos tres principios debieran regir las actuaciones de las políticas públicas. Generar mejoras que se mantengan en el tiempo, que vayan más allá de los periodos de gobiernos de los dirigentes. Ello se consigue con el diálogo y cooperación interinstitucional y entre partidos políticos. Es preciso terminar con leyes d que cambian al cambiar el partido político dominante por falta de diálogo y consenso. Y en tercer lugar conjugar lo global con lo local; lo colectivo con lo individual, porque no existen contrarios, sino complementarios desde una mirada compleja de la realidad. A ellos debo añadir rasgos como la flexibilidad en las actuaciones. Esa flexibilidad a la hora de tomar decisiones supone sopesar ventajas e inconvenientes y no aplicar las leyes o reglas porque así están establecidas. Valorar el factor humano por encima del material. Es la capacidad de adaptación teniendo en cuenta las circunstancias. Novedad en los planteamientos es avanzar con propuestas nuevas, diferentes a las existentes siempre que conlleven valor. No vale lo nuevo por ser nuevo ni lo joven por ser joven. Ha de ir acompañado de valor social. Colaboración durante todo el proceso. Las genialidades individuales son la excepción. Los avances suelen venir de la cooperación, tomando como base aportaciones anteriores. Es por ello por lo que la colaboración es clave en la subsistencia celular y en la política. Para el genetista Bruce Lipton (2007), la agrupación celular resulta fundamental para su subsistencia. La supervivencia no está en el dominio del más fuerte, como proponía Darwin, sino en la agrupación y cooperación. El resultado de esta forma sabia y creativa de proceder en políticas públicas (fructificación) es dejar marcas constructivas. Esas marcas son como el polen que liberado va transformando la sociedad evolutivamente. Esas marcas o huellas se perpetuán, generación tras generación, contribuyendo al bien común en forma creación de servicios, de instituciones o entidades culturales, educativas, artísticas, jurídicas, de salud; en nuevas construcciones al servicio del ciudadano. La polinización, escribe Vetterlein (2024), tiene un papel fundamental en la ecoformación, En suma, contribuyen al progreso real de la sociedad.