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The smoking paradox in ischemic stroke patients treated with intra-arterial thrombolysis in combination with mechanical thrombectomy–VISTA-Endovascular
Authors: Kufner Anna , Ali Huma Fatima , Ebinger Martin , Fiebach Jochen B. , Liebeskind David S. , Endres Matthias , Siegerink Bob ,   on behalf of the VISTA-Endovascular Collaborators
Published: May 2021

Background
The smoking-paradox of a better outcome in ischemic stroke patients who smoke may be due to increased efficacy of thrombolysis. We investigated the effect of smoking on outcome following endovascular therapy (EVT) with mechanical thrombectomy alone versus in combination with intra-arterial (IA-) thrombolysis.

Methods
The primary endpoint was defined by three-month modified Rankin Scale (mRS). We performed a generalized linear model and reported relative risks (RR) for smoking (adjustment for age, sex, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, stroke severity, time to EVT) in patient data stemming from the Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive—Endovascular database.

Results
Among 1,497 patients, 740(49.4%) were randomized to EVT; among EVT patients, 524(35.0%) received mechanical thrombectomy alone and 216(14.4%) received it in combination with IA-thrombolysis. Smokers (N = 396) had lower mRS scores (mean 2.9 vs. 3.2; p = 0.02) and mortality rates (10% vs. 17.3%; p<0.001) in univariate analysis. In all patients and in patients treated with mechanical thrombectomy alone, smoking had no effect on outcome in regression analyses. In patients who received IA-thrombolysis (N = 216;14%), smoking had an adjusted RR of 1.65 for an mRS≤1 (95%CI 0.77–3.55). Treatment with IA-thrombolysis itself led to reduced RR for favorable outcome (adjusted RR 0.30); interaction analysis of IA-thrombolysis and smoking revealed that non-smokers with IA-thrombolysis had mRS≤2 in 47 cases (30%, adjusted RR 0.53 [0.41–0.69]) while smokers with IA-thrombolysis had mRS≤2 in 23 cases (38%, adjusted RR 0.61 [0.42–0.87]).

Conclusions
Smokers had no clear clinical benefit from EVT that incorporates IA-thrombolysis.
Trends of HIV/Syphilis/HSV-2 seropositive rate and factors associated with HSV-2 infection in men who have sex with men in Shenzhen, China: A retrospective study
Authors: Mao Sha-Sha , Feng Shui-Dong , Zheng Chen-Li , Hu Wei , Li Hao , Tang Jie , Yang Zheng-Rong , Zhao Jin 
Published: May 2021

Objectives
To analyze the trends of HIV/syphilis/HSV-2 seropositive rate and explore the related factors with HSV-2 infection to provide the basis for adjusting STD intervention strategies and formulating prevention and control measures among MSM in Shenzhen.

Methods
Time-location sampling was conducted among MSM in Shenzhen in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. Data on demographics, sexual behaviors and the laboratory test results of HIV, syphilis, HSV-2 were collected. The χ2 trend test was used to analyze the trends of HIV/syphilis/HSV-2 seropositive rate. The binary logistic regression model was used to explore the factors associated with HSV-2 infection.

Results
The seropositive rate of HIV fell significantly from 15.9% in 2012 to 8.7% in 2018 (Ptrend = 0.003), syphilis seropositive rate was significantly decreased from 20.4% in 2012 to 14.8% in 2018 (Ptrend = 0.025), HSV-2 seropositive rate had no significant change (16.7% in 2012 to 14.0% in 2018; Ptrend = 0.617). In principal component logistic regression analysis showed that FAC1_1 (X1 = Ever had sex with female, X2 = Gender of first sexual partner, X3 = Marital status, X4 = Age group), FAC2_1 (X5 = Education, X6 = Monthly income (RMB), X7 = Frequency of condom use in anal sex with men in the past 6 months), and FAC4_1 (X9 = History of STDs) were significantly associated with HSV-2 infection.

Conclusions
The seropositive rates of HIV and syphilis have dropped significantly but are still high. HSV-2 seropositive rate had no significant change and maintained a high level. It is necessary to continue strengthening HIV and syphilis interventions among MSM in Shenzhen. HSV-2 detection and intervention are urgently required for MSM, which might be another effective biological strategy further to control the HIV epidemic among MSM in Shenzhen.
Natural Killer Cell Enteropathy With Extraintestinal Involvement: Presenting as Symptomatic Anemia
Authors: Panigrahi Manas Kumar , Patra Susama , Kumar Chandan , Nayak Hemanta Kumar , Ayyanar Pavithra , Bhat Sunil Jee , Chouhan Mohd Imran , Samal Subash Chandra 
Published: May 2021

ABSTRACT
Natural killer (NK) cell enteropathy is a newly described disease entity with benign behavior and an indolent clinical course, characterized by the atypical proliferation of NK cells throughout the gastrointestinal tract. The exact etiology is unknown. It closely mimics NK/T-cell lymphoma. We describe this atypical entity in a young adult man presenting with vague upper gastrointestinal symptoms and anemia requiring blood transfusion. The response to budesonide therapy points toward a possible low-grade autoimmune process. Considering the benign behavior and self-limiting course, recognizing this entity is essential to avoid over the investigation and aggressive, inappropriate therapy.
Permanent Ink: Comic Book and Comic Strip Art as Aesthetic Object
Authors: Molotiu Andrei 
Published: May 2021

Andrei Molotiu, the Senior Lecturer in the Art History Department at Indiana University, Bloomington, explores the formal characteristics of comic art and the fragmentation caused by showing framed pages that were originally created for publication and separated from their indigenous context, wondering if this separation is ultimately an act of creativity or an act of violence. This chapter explains white-out, margin notations, and how the eye is drawn to different things in an image when it’s isolated on the wall. In this 2006 essay, he focuses on the art of Jack Kirby, Ivan Brunetti’s Schizo 4, Metamorpho, Joe Palooka, Archie, Josie, Tom and Jerry, and "Sooper Hippie.” In this 2018 update to his 2006 essay, Andrei Molotiu, the Senior Lecturer in the Art History Department at Indiana University, Bloomington, returns to his analysis of the formal characteristics of original comic art as seen in exhibitions, exhibit catalogs, and high-end artist’s editions that faithfully reproduce full size comics originals, such as the IDW Artist’s edition of David Mazzucchelli’s and Frank Miller’s Daredevil: Born Again (images). Molotiu briefly discusses the proliferation of comic art exhibits and contrasts the experience of reading a full issue of Jack Kirby’s Kamandi on the wall at the Comic Book Apocalypse show at CSU Northridge and in print in an artist’s edition.
Exhibitions at the Museum of Cartoon Art: A Personal Recollection
Authors: Walker Brian 
Published: May 2021

The Museum of Cartoon Art was the first full-service collection institution dedicated to comic art, founded by the cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois) in Greenwich, CT in 1974. In this 2009 essay, Mort’s son, Brian Walker, who became the museum’s director and curator, writes of his memories of how the museum was established and operated, key shows the museum organized, and the challenges of running a small non-profit museum. The essay was written when the Walker Collection was donated to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and Library at The Ohio State University. Images: Brian Walker at Mead Mansion, 1975; drawing of Ward’s Castle by John Cullen Murphy. Includes list of exhibitions 1975-1992 and list of cartoonists inducted into the Museum’s Hall of Fame.
Comic Connoisseurs
Authors: Deitcher David 
Published: May 2021

This chapter includes a 1984 article by art historian David Deitcher criticizing The Comic Art Show (Whitney, 1983) and the show catalog edited by John Carlin and Sheena Wagstaff. Deitcher explains: “A recent exhibition devoted to the complex, often antagonistic relation between comic strips and modern art submitted the comics to a paradigm of excellence derived from a fine art tradition, thereby reinforcing rather than reducing the familiar distinction between high and popular culture.”
Cracking the Comics Canon
Authors: Jones Leslie 
Published: May 2021

This chapter includes a 2005 article by Leslie Jones of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with John Carlin, curator of Masters of American Comics from the perspective of a curator of works on paper. This chapter discusses comic art’s place in the fine art world, if canons still matter after post-modernism, Carlin’s selection criteria for the geniuses in the show, how the exhibit is organized, the challenges of finding high quality pieces for the show, and Jones pondering who is missing from the roster of the 14 male artists. Images: three exhibit photos from the Hammer Museum.
Remasters of American Comics: Sequential Art as New Media in the Transformative Museum Context
Authors: Duffy Damian 
Published: May 2021

This chapter includes a 2009 essay by multi-faceted University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Damian Duffy highlighting the curatorial philosophies that avoid confronting the conceptual challenge of bringing the comics medium into the museum by attempting to fit comics, to one extent or another, into traditional fine art frameworks, including as examples the 2003 Contemporary Art Museum Houston exhibition Splat, Boom, Pow!, Masters of American Comics 2005, UCLA Hammer Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art, Comic Release! from Carnegie Mellon University, and his own curatorial work in partnership with John Jennings on the exhibitions Other Heroes: African American Comics Creators, Characters, and Archetypes. This chapter discusses new media, if we still need canons, comics versus fine art, comics as non-art, lone genius versus collaboration, display tactics, narrative, and racial inclusion.
After Masters: Interview with Gary Panter
Authors: Munson Kim A. 
Published: May 2021

This chapter includes a brief commentary between art historian Kim A. Munson and artist Gary Panter about the legacy of the Masters of American Comics exhibition (2005, Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) after the show’s ten-year anniversary passed in 2017. This chapter discusses roadblocks and benefits to doing comics shows, the difficulty of being a comics expert, valuation of comic art, kid-friendly shows, problems of the comics canon and categories.
No System of Justice: At the Margins with Toni Morrison’s Intertextual Characters
Authors: Eaton Alice Knox 
Published: May 2021

“No System of Justice: At the Margins with Toni Morrison’s Intertextual Characters,” reads Morrison’s novel through the lens of her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in which a young mother cannot love the daughter she finds “ugly.” Eaton argues that ugliness becomes a code word for, particularly the blackness of very dark-skinned African Americans. Throughout her eleven novels, Morrison never wavers in her conviction that a formal justice system cannot heal the traumas of mothers and children torn apart by slavery, Jim Crow, endemic racism, and internalized racial self-hatred. Morrison employs intertextual characters between novels, including Pecola and Lula Ann, that emphasize her disdain for formal justice and her fascination with characters existing in extra-narrative spaces. Eaton explores Morrison’s rejection of institutional justice through the lens of lawyer/theorist Patricia J. Williams, as well as through Morrison’s essays on the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings and on the O.J. Simpson trial.
Hollywood Hates Hitler!
Authors: Yogerst Chris 
Published: May 2021

In September of 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for war-mongering. The United States was largely divided on the possibility of entering the European War, yet the immigrant moguls in Hollywood were acutely aware of the conditions in Europe. After Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the gloves came off. Warner Bros. released the first directly anti-Nazi film in 1939 with Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Other studios followed with films such as The Mortal Storm (MGM), Man Hunt (Fox), The Man I Married (Fox), and The Great Dictator (United Artists). While these films represented a small percentage of Hollywood’s output, senators took aim at the Jews in Hollywood who were supposedly “agitating us for war” and launched an investigation that resulted in Senate Resolution 152. The resolution was aimed at both radio and movies that “have been extensively used for propaganda purposes designed to influence the public mind in the direction of participation in the European war.” When the Senate approved a subcommittee to investigate the intentions of these films, studio bosses were ready and willing to stand up against the government to defend their beloved industry. What followed was a complete embarrassment of the United States Senate and a large victory for Hollywood as well as freedom of speech.
Groove Theory
Authors: Bolden Tony 
Published: May 2021

This chapter explains the meaning of funk as a concept and introduces readers to salient precepts and characteristics. The chief argument is that (a) the phenomenon known as the funk/spirit—or, more simply, the funk—operates as a distinct form of black vernacular epistemology, and that (b) funk comprises the secular counterpart of “the spirit”—what Albert Murray calls “paroxysms of ecstasy”—in black church worship. This sensation, which is usually generated by the interplay between motion and emotion, has been a vital aspect of the production of knowledge in music-making within African American working-class performance venues. Funk foregrounds the body and sensuality as indispensable aspects of a musician’s ability to play certain notes and to create desired timbres and soundscapes. This sort of psychosomatic epistemological modality calls into question the normative mind-body split; and, as such, it stands at variance with the prototypical notions of knowledge in the Western tradition. It points up the limits of reason, and constitutes a recognition of other ways of knowing, multiple ways of knowing. Combining musicology, literary scholarship, and elements of philosophy, the chapter examines song lyrics in conjunction with musicians’ memoirs, fiction, and interviews. In doing so, Bolden creates a philosophical approach to funk as he examines recordings by James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, and others.
Songbird
Authors: Bolden Tony 
Published: May 2021

This chapter examines Khan’s development into a powerhouse singer and talented songwriter as the frontwoman of Rufus. Drawing Khan’s childhood experiences described in her memoir, as well as musicologist Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.’s notion of black community theater, the chapter demonstrates how she transposed her rebellious spirit, evidenced briefly during high school as a volunteer worker for the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, into a self-conscious and contrarian artist who epitomized funk aesthetics. As one of the few women funk singers who didn’t have a gospel background or grow up in a musical family, Khan developed a jazz-inflected vocal technique and a singular, Chicago-based, rhythm-and-blues sound that became a funk trademark. At the same time, the chapter demonstrates that Khan’s interpretation of funk as a concept, particularly its nonconformity, which she exemplified in exhilarating eroticism during live performances, proved to be a double-edged sword. While she captivated music fans, Khan battled executives at ABC Records over racialized images of her sexuality.
2016 and the Sounds of Normalization
Authors: Storhoff Timothy P. 
Published: May 2021

The final chapter focuses on official and unofficial cultural diplomacy efforts that have been organized to celebrate the United States and Cuba restoring diplomatic relations. Spring 2016 included a visit to Cuba by Barack Obama and free concerts by Major Lazer and the Rolling Stones in Havana. The following month, the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities led a delegation to Havana with various federal agencies represented. Unofficial musical diplomacy initiatives continued as well, such as a trip with Musicians Across the Straits, a program that brought performers from St. Augustine, Florida to Havana for a residency at the Fábrica de Arte Cubano.
Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor
Authors: Gentry Marshall Bruce 
Published: May 2021

Flannery O’Connor’s work can be unsettling to read, inviting a wide range of responses because of her peculiar mixture of violence, grace, and humor. However, a few persistent readerly habits have shaped popular and critical understandings of Flannery O’Connor, overly narrowing interpretations of her work. This collection seeks to disrupt those habits, reconsidering a giant of southern literature in a range of ways. The essays featured here begin with new methodologies, including object-oriented ontology and "crip-queer" theory, among others. Some essays in this collection introduce new contexts, like gothic science fiction, by way of approaching O’Connor. Others draw out unlikely comparisons with writers not normally considered alongside O’Connor, including Hannah Arendt, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath. And in the final section, two essays reevaluate familiar arguments regarding O’Connor’s legacy, both in terms of her legal estate and as a formative figure in the rise of the creative writing workshop. Thus, this volume pursues questions that productively complicate the commonplace assumptions of O’Connor scholarship while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention.
Generalizations and applications of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s integral associated with infinite Fourier sine transforms in terms of Meijer’s G-function
Authors: Qureshi Mohammad Idris , Dar Showkat Ahmad 
Published: May 2021

Abstract
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Impact of wall movements on the location of passive Earth thrust
Authors: Bouali Meriem F. , Karkush Mahdi O. , Bouassida Mounir 
Published: May 2021

Abstract
The general assumption of linear variation of earth pressures with depth on retaining structures is still controversial; investigations are yet required to determine those distributions of the passive earth pressure (PEP) accurately and deduce the corresponding centroid location. In particular, for rigid retaining walls, the calculation of PEP is strongly dependent on the type of wall movement. This paper presents a numerical analysis for studying the influence of wall movement on the PEP distribution on a rigid retaining wall and the passive earth thrust location. The numerical predictions are remarkably similar to existing experimental works as recorded on scaled test models and full-scale retaining walls. It is observed that the PEP varies linearly with depth for the horizontal translation, but it is nonlinear when the movement is rotational about the top of the retaining wall. When rotation is around the top of the wall, the resultant of PEP is located at a depth that varies between 0.164 and 0.259H of the wall height measured from the base of the wall, which is lesser than 1/3 of the wall height. The passive earth thrust location is highly affected by the soil–wall friction angle, especially when the friction angle of the backfill material increases. Despite the herein presented results, further experiments are recommended to assess the corresponding numerical predictions.
Grounding Personal Persistence
Authors: Baber Harriet E. 
Published: May 2021

AbstractModal counterpart theory identifies a thing’spossibly being Fwith its having a counterpart that isFat another possible world; temporal counterpart theory identifies a thing’shaving been Forgoing to be F, with its having a counterpart that isFat another time.Benovsky, J. 2015. “Alethic Modalities, Temporal Modalities, and Representation.”Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy29: 18–34 in this journal endorses modal counterpart theory but holds that temporal counterpart theory is untenable because it does not license the ascription of the intuitively correct temporal properties to ordinary objects, and hence that we should understand ordinary objects, including persons, as transtemporal ‘worms’. I argue that the worm theory is problematic when it comes to accounting for what matters in survival and that temporal counterpart theory provides a plausible account of personal persistence.
Photosynthetic textile biocomposites: Using laboratory testing and digital fabrication to develop flexible living building materials
Authors: Stefanova Assia , In-na Pichaya , Caldwell Gary Stephen , Bridgens Ben , Armstrong Rachel 
Published: May 2021

AbstractUrban development and the construction industry account for a considerable proportion of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Emerging biological materials, such as those proposed in this paper, seek to utilize the metabolic functions of living microorganisms to reduce some of the negative impacts of humans on the environment. The material explorations demonstrated in this paper propose a living photosynthetic carbon capture textile for the built environment. We demonstrate making practices that integrate living microorganisms within experimental methods of digital fabrication; specifically, harnessing photosynthetic microalgae that feed on waste and are capable of sequestering CO2from internal building settings. These new biocomposites incorporate flexible textile substrates, i.e. cotton, hessian, polyester, and canvas, which provide a range of algae laden matrices that continue to develop and change during the useful part of the material’s lifecycle. This paper explores biological 3D printing fabrication processes and studies the development of mixtures that are compatible with the fabrication method and support microalgae (Chlorella vulgaris) metabolic processes. A range of incubation methods are assessed, highlighting the need for a support environment. The biocomposites’ performance is tested using imaging pulse amplitude modulation fluorometry (Imaging-PAM) to investigate changes in microalgae chlorophyll fluorescence over a 14 day period.