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Dynamic Response of Machine Foundation Resting on End Bearing Piles
Authors: Fattah Mohammed Y. , Hamood Mohammed J. , Al-Nakdy Ibtihal A.M. 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
Herein, a finite element software (ANSYS. 11) is adopted which provides an effective tool for dynamic analysis and structural design of machine-foundations. As a case study, machine foundation on piles in sandy soil is investigated. Machine foundations supported by end-bearing piles are introduced. Sinusoidal dynamic load is applied. A study of parameters is conducted to investigate the influence of a number of parameters that include: geometry of the piles below the foundation, the dynamic load amplitude, damping ratio and frequency of the load. Linear elastic model is adopted for modeling the piles and their cap for machine foundation using eight node isoparametric (solid 65) element, while elastic model is adopted to model the soil behavior and eight node isoparametric elements are used to model the soil through (solid 45) element. It is concluded that the frequency ratio decreases with increase of spacing between piles values due to increase in natural frequency, except in the case of 3 m spacing where it increases due to decrease in natural frequency as the mass was increased obviously. The increase in spacing caused the increase of natural frequency by about 6% in the model having 1.5 m spacing more than the 1.25 m case and by about 3% for the 1.75 m spacing more than the 1.5 m reference case. The increase in pile cap length caused the natural frequency to decrease by about 18% for the 3.75 m pile cap length as compared with the reference case and by 29% in the case of 5 m less than the reference case. In the case of increasing pile cap thickness, there was only a slight difference in the values of natural frequency.
Evaluating and Modeling of Modified Asphalt Binder at Elevated Temperatures
Authors: Abed Yasameen Hadi , AL-Haddad Abdulhaq H.Abedali 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
Many regions in Iraq with high weathering temperature suffer from very hot climate during a long summer season continue to more than 5 months with temperature rise to more than 50C°. Also, increasing road traffic and axial loads causing a permanent deformation that leads to decrease pavement performance and reducing its life. Asphalt binder is considered one of the most significant keys in flexible pavement and its characteristics have a great impact on asphalt mixtures so choosing the suitable type of asphalt binder may improve its performance and control on permanent deformation failures. In this research, Daurh and Basrah asphalt binders were chosen to be characterized and enhanced their properties by using some modifiers. Three types of modifiers were selected with different percentages, styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS), butyl rubber (BR) and BG plus anti-stripping agent. The results showed Multi Stress Creep and Recovery (MSCR) test is a suitable technique to evaluate the improvement of asphalt cement. The degrees of improvement in the percent of recovery %R and the non-recoverable compliance Jnr values and percent of reduction accumulated strain at 0.1 and 3.2 kPa after asphalt modification is higher for the SBS followed by BR then BG plus and Durah asphalt binder has better rutting resistance than Basrah asphalt cement. The behavior of modified asphalt cement modeled as viscoelastic materials and predicted the sigmoidal model as a suitable mechanical model to represent this behavior.
Injectable Filler Technique for Face Lifting Based on Dissection of True Facial Ligaments
Authors: Cong Li-Yao , Duan Jing , Luo Cheng-En , Luo Sheng-Kang 
Published: December 2020

Abstract

Background
Strengthening weakened ligament tissues with injectable fillers to improve their supportive effect may achieve the aesthetic goal of face lifting.

Objectives
The aim of the study was to design an injectable technique for enhancing the true facial ligaments and dissect the ligaments to provide anatomical guidance for effective injection.

Methods
Six true facial ligaments were chosen as target anatomical sites for injection. Specimens were dissected, and 3-dimensional (3D) images were reconstructed to confirm the exact location of each injection site and to confirm that the proposed injection routes will not cause dangerous vascular damage. A total of 5 patients received the injections; 3D images were taken before and after the injections for comparison and clinical outcome assessments.

Results
The injection technique was designed to target 6 true facial ligaments, as follows. Site 1 targeted the temporal ligamentous adhesion region to lift the lateral ends of the eyebrows. Site 2 targeted the region of the lateral orbital thickening to lift the lateral canthus. Site 3 and site 4 targeted the zygomatic retaining ligaments and zygomatic cutaneous ligaments, respectively, to augment the soft tissues of the midface. Site 5 targeted the region of the maxillary ligament to lessen the nasolabial folds, and site 6 targeted the mandibular ligament to reduce the marionette line.

Conclusions
This site-specific injection technique targeting the true ligaments may lead to increased efficiency and accuracy of face rejuvenation and exert a lifting effect.

Level of Evidence: 4
Renoprotective role of bariatric surgery in patients with established chronic kidney disease
Authors: Morales Enrique , Porrini Esteban , Martin-Taboada Marina , Luis-Lima Sergio , Vila-Bedmar Rocío , González de Pablos Ignacio , Gómez Pilar , Rodríguez Elías , Torres Lucia , Lanzón Borja , Rodríguez Ana Elena , Maíz María , Medina-Gómez Gema , Praga Manuel 
Published: December 2020

Abstract

Background
Bariatric surgery (BS) has been postulated as the most effective measure for weight reduction. Weight loss improves metabolic parameters and exerts changes in renal function that lead to the amelioration of absolute or relative glomerular hyperfiltration, a condition that may be renoprotective in the long term. However, few studies have demonstrated the influence of BS in patients with severe obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Our objective was to analyse the evolution of renal function, adipose tissue–derived molecules and inflammatory parameters in patients with CKD after BS.

Methods
This is an observational and prospective study. Thirty patients were screened and 12 were included between January 2016 and January 2018 with a 24-month follow-up. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was determined by plasma iohexol clearance. Adipokines, cytokines, circulating hormones and fibrotic parameters were evaluated before and 12 months after BS using the Bioplex system.

Results
The mean age was 50.6 years and 58.3% were males. Seven patients had a body mass index &gt;40 kg/m2 and 66.7% were diabetic. Twenty-four months following BS there was a significant decrease in body weight (36.4%). Proteinuria decreased by 63.7 ± 28.2%. Measured GFR significantly diminished from before surgery to Month 24 after surgery (94 ± 44 to 79 ± 44 mL/min, P = 0.03). There was a significant decrease in adipocyte-derived molecules (leptin and vifastin) as well as in pro-inflammatory cytokines [interleukin (IL)-1β, tumour necrosis factor α, IL-6 and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1] and other circulating factors (vascular endothelial growth factor and transforming growth factor β isoforms).

Conclusions
BS is an effective option to prevent kidney damage in obese subjects with CKD due to the improvement of glomerular hyperfiltration, adipocyte cytokines metabolic and inflammatory parameters.
Optimization of Data Assignment for Parallel Processing in a Hybrid Heterogeneous Environment Using Integer Linear Programming
Authors: Boiński Tomasz , Czarnul Paweł 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
In the paper we investigate a practical approach to application of integer linear programming for optimization of data assignment to compute units in a multi-level heterogeneous environment with various compute devices, including CPUs, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phis. The model considers an application that processes a large number of data chunks in parallel on various compute units and takes into account computations, communication including bandwidths and latencies, partitioning, merging, initialization, overhead for computational kernel launch and cleanup. We show that theoretical results from our model are close to real results as differences do not exceed 5% for larger data sizes, with up to 16.7% for smaller data sizes. For an exemplary workload based on solving systems of equations of various sizes with various compute-to-communication ratios we demonstrate that using an integer linear programming solver (lp_solve) with timeouts allows to obtain significantly better total (solver+application) run times than runs without timeouts, also significantly better than arbitrary chosen ones. We show that OpenCL 1.2’s device fission allows to obtain better performance in heterogeneous CPU+GPU environments compared to the GPU-only and the default CPU+GPU configuration, where a whole device is assigned for computations leaving no resources for GPU management.
Humanity and revolution in José Fuentes Mares’La joven Antígona se va a la guerra
Authors: Carrete Andrés A 
Published: December 2020

AbstractJosé Fuentes Mares’ La joven Antígona se va a la guerra (‘Young Antigone Goes to War’) is a Mexican adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone written and first performed in 1968. The play, full of unique accomplishments, demonstrates a deep engagement with the Sophoclean original and has a complex original performance context. It premiered a week after the biggest student massacre in Mexican history, the Tlatelolco Massacre of 2 October 1968. In this article, I bring attention to Fuentes Mares’ work as an exceptional contribution to the Latin American reception of Sophocles’ Antigone. I detail the play’s explicit invitations to be read against Sophocles’ original and highlight the playwright’s choices to reframe Antigone’s resistance by reworking long-standing dualisms. I argue that Fuentes Mares’ adaptation of Antigone advises introspection, compassion, and endurance in the face of violent oppression. This function differs from other Latin American adaptations of Antigone, which tend to give a voice to the marginalized with calls for organized social action or pleas for the acknowledgment of ongoing abuses. This analysis should help expand our understanding of the reception of Sophocles’ Antigone as a multifaceted instrument varying in its response to oppressions throughout Latin America.
Role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in cardio-oncology
Authors: Saunderson Christopher E D , Plein Sven , Manisty Charlotte H 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
Advances in cancer therapy have led to significantly longer cancer-free survival times over the last 40 years. Improved survivorship coupled with increasing recognition of an expanding range of adverse cardiovascular effects of many established and novel cancer therapies has highlighted the impact of cardiovascular disease in this population. This has led to the emergence of dedicated cardio-oncology services that can provide pre-treatment risk stratification, surveillance, diagnosis, and monitoring of cardiotoxicity during cancer therapies, and late effects screening following completion of treatment. Cardiovascular imaging and the development of imaging biomarkers that can accurately and reliably detect pre-clinical disease and enhance our understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of cancer treatment-related cardiotoxicity are becoming increasingly important. Multi-parametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is able to assess cardiac structure, function, and provide myocardial tissue characterization, and hence can be used to address a variety of important clinical questions in the emerging field of cardio-oncology. In this review, we discuss the current and potential future applications of CMR in the investigation and management of cancer patients.
‘Nothing but Thought, Was It?’: Berkeley, Idealism and Woolf’s The Years
Authors: Townsend Chris 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
Although scholarship has noted that the ‘faded brown book’ mentioned in Woolf’s The Years – in which the world is ‘nothing but thought’ – is a probable reference to the eighteenth-century philosopher George Berkeley, the full extent of Woolf’s adoption of Berkeleian ideas has not been accounted for. In this essay I argue that Woolf’s use of specifically Berkeleian images – including a coin-like moon and mind-dependent trees – feeds into a larger narrative technique in The Years relating to semblance: the way things seem or appear to be. Although The Years is sometimes understood as a comparatively ‘realist’ work by critics, I show that even its most apparently ‘objective’ scenes retain a semblance of subjectivity, upon which Woolf’s idiosyncratic realist mode depends. Reading Woolf alongside Berkeley, I develop a case study in the ways in which literary aesthetics can take up, and also challenge, philosophical theories of knowledge.
Variation in the Sensory Space of Three-spined Stickleback Populations
Authors: Mobley Robert B , Boughman Janette W 
Published: December 2020

SynopsisThe peripheral sensory systems, whose morphological attributes help determine the acquisition of distinct types of information, provide a means to quantitatively compare multiple modalities of a species’ sensory ecology. We used morphological metrics to characterize multiple sensory modalities—the visual, olfactory, and mechanosensory lateral line sensory systems—for Gasterosteus aculeatus, the three-spined stickleback, to compare how sensory systems vary in animals that evolve in different ecological conditions. We hypothesized that the dimensions of sensory organs and correlations among sensory systems vary in populations adapted to marine and freshwater environments, and have diverged further among freshwater lake-dwelling populations. Our results showed that among environments, fish differed in which senses are relatively elaborated or reduced. When controlling for body length, littoral fish had larger eyes, more neuromasts, and smaller olfactory tissue area than pelagic or marine populations. We also found differences in the direction and magnitude of correlations among sensory systems for populations even within the same habitat type. Our data suggest that populations take different trajectories in how visual, olfactory, and lateral line systems respond to their environment. For the populations we studied, sensory modalities do not conform in a predictable way to the ecological categories we assigned.
Scenarios of fish waste deposition at the sub-lagoon scale: a modelling approach for aquaculture zoning and site selection
Authors: Chary Killian , Callier Myriam D , Covès Denis , Aubin Joël , Simon Julien , Fiandrino Annie 
Published: December 2020

AbstractSpatial planning, including zoning and site-selection steps, is necessary to determine locations that minimize environmental impacts of aquaculture and respect ecosystem carrying capacities. This study aimed to analyse potential benthic waste deposition in a broad range of fish farming situations to facilitate zoning. To this end, we simulated waste dispersion for 54 aquaculture scenarios combining three red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) farm types (Small, Medium, and Large) based on real farm characteristics and 36 sites with contrasting hydrodynamics in Mayotte’s North-East Lagoon. Key forcing variables and parameters of the particle-dispersion model for farms (layout and solid waste fluxes), species (feed- and faeces-settling velocities) and sites (depth and barotropic currents) were obtained. From the outputs of the 54 simulations, relationships between hydrodynamic regimes and deposition rates, area of influence and distance of influence of the farm were analysed. Critical limits of current intensity that reduced deposition rate below selected deposition thresholds were identified. For instance, to prevent deposition rates greater than 12 kg solids m−2 year−1, the mean current intensity should exceed 10.2 and 6.8 cm s−1 for Medium and Large farms, respectively. The study confirmed that production level is not the main factor that influences deposition rates; instead, management of the entire farm (cage position, distance between cages) must be considered to predict impacts more accurately and guide site selection.
Special Values ofL-functions for GL(n)Over a CM Field
Authors: Raghuram A 
Published: December 2020

AbstractWe prove a Galois-equivariant algebraicity result for the ratios of successive critical values of $L$-functions for ${\textrm GL}(n)/F,$ where $F$ is a totally imaginary quadratic extension of a totally real number field $F^+$. The proof uses (1) results of Arthur and Clozel on automorphic induction from ${\textrm GL}(n)/F$ to ${\textrm GL}(2n)/F^+$, (2) results of my work with Harder on ratios of critical values for $L$-functions of ${\textrm GL}(2n)/F^+$, and (3) period relations amongst various automorphic and cohomological periods for ${\textrm GL}(2n)/F^+$ using my work with Shahidi. The reciprocity law inherent in the algebraicity result is exactly as predicted by Deligne’s conjecture on the special values of motivic $L$-functions.
Chigger Mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Chiloé Island, Chile, With Descriptions of Two New Species and New Data on the GenusHerpetacarus
Authors: Silva-de la Fuente María Carolina , Stekolnikov Alexandr A , Weitzel Thomas , Beltrami Esperanza , Martínez-Valdebenito Constanza , Abarca Katia , Acosta-Jamett Gerardo 
Published: December 2020

AbstractThree species of chigger mites are recorded in our collections from four species of cricetid rodents on Chiloé Island (southern Chile, Los Lagos Region), an area endemic to scrub typhus (Orientia sp.). Two species are described as new—Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) eloisae sp. nov. and Quadraseta chiloensis sp. nov. One species, Paratrombicula goffiStekolnikov and González-Acuña 2012, is for the first time recorded on a mammal host (one species of cricetid rodent), and its distribution is extended to the Los Lagos Region of Chile. The genus ProschoengastiaVercammen-Grandjean, 1967 is synonymized with the subgenus Herpetacarus (Abonnencia)Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960, and four new combinations are established: Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) herniosa (Brennan and Jones, 1961), comb. nov., Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) insolita (Brennan and Jones, 1961), comb. nov., Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) macrochaeta (Brennan and Jones, 1961), comb. nov., and Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) antarctica (Stekolnikov and Gonzalez-Acuña, 2015), comb. nov.
Irreligion, Alfie Evans, and the Future of Bioethics
Authors: Camosy Charles C 
Published: December 2020

Abstract
Timothy Murphy has done those of us in the field of bioethics a great service by being forthright about how irreligious centers of power work against theology and theologians. This has opened the door to direct and honest conversation about some facts that were previously known (especially to theologians working in the field) but rarely discussed publicly. Now, eight years after Murphy’s important article appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, there is room to engage the facts and arguments surrounding the (lack of a) role for theology in the field. It is important, first of all, to agree that if theology is to be excluded while other normative traditions included this must be defended on the basis of a coherent set of defensible claims, not merely raw assertions and power plays. Once the field comes to terms with the fact that no coherent set of defensible claims exist which can justify excluding theology from the field, this will create the conditions for the possibility of the kind of intellectual solidarity which can transform bioethics into a field that is at once much more diverse and inclusive while also of its very nature interested in robust debate which includes references first principles and metaphysical foundations.
Performance of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, Synthetic Mammography, and Digital Mammography in Breast Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Authors: Alabousi Mostafa , Wadera Akshay , Kashif Al-Ghita Mohammed , Kashef Al-Ghetaa Rayeh , Salameh Jean-Paul , Pozdnyakov Alex , Zha Nanxi , Samoilov Lucy , Dehmoobad Sharifabadi Anahita , Sadeghirad Behnam , Freitas Vivianne , McInnes Matthew DF , Alabousi Abdullah 
Published: December 2020

Abstract

Background
Our objective was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the breast cancer detection rate (CDR), invasive CDR, recall rate, and positive predictive value 1 (PPV1) of digital mammography (DM) alone, combined digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and DM, combined DBT and synthetic 2-dimensional mammography (S2D), and DBT alone.

Methods
MEDLINE and Embase were searched until April 2020 to identify comparative design studies reporting on patients undergoing routine breast cancer screening. Random effects model proportional meta-analyses estimated CDR, invasive CDR, recall rate, and PPV1. Meta-regression modeling was used to compare imaging modalities. All statistical tests were 2-sided.

Results
Forty-two studies reporting on 2 606 296 patients (13 003 breast cancer cases) were included. CDR was highest in combined DBT and DM (6.36 per 1000 screened, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 5.62 to 7.14, P &lt; .001), and combined DBT and S2D (7.40 per 1000 screened, 95% CI = 6.49 to 8.37, P &lt; .001) compared with DM alone (4.68 per 1000 screened, 95% CI = 4.28 to 5.11). Invasive CDR was highest in combined DBT and DM (4.53 per 1000 screened, 95% CI = 3.97 to 5.12, P = .003) and combined DBT and S2D (5.68 per 1000 screened, 95% CI = 4.43 to 7.09, P &lt; .001) compared with DM alone (3.42 per 1000 screened, 95% CI = 3.02 to 3.83). Recall rate was lowest in combined DBT and S2D (42.3 per 1000 screened, 95% CI = 37.4 to 60.4, P&lt;.001). PPV1 was highest in combined DBT and DM (10.0%, 95% CI = 8.0% to 12.0%, P = .004), and combined DBT and S2D (16.0%, 95% CI = 10.0% to 23.0%, P &lt; .001), whereas no difference was detected for DBT alone (7.0%, 95% CI = 6.0% to 8.0%, P = .75) compared with DM alone (7.0%, 95.0% CI = 5.0% to 8.0%).

Conclusions
Our findings provide evidence on key performance metrics for DM, DBT alone, combined DBT and DM, and combined DBT and S2D, which may inform optimal application of these modalities for breast cancer screening.