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EdgeCross: Cloud Scale Traffic Management at Peering Edges
Authors: Wang Xiaoliang , Mi Penghui , Zhu Yong , An Baoyi , Wang Yinhua , Wang Lixiang , Yu Xuezhi , Xie Qiong , Huang Xiang , Yin Mingliang , Ji Chaoyang , Sun Wei , Lv Yihang , Chen Yuhang , Nguyen Cam-Tu , Tian Chen , Fu Xiaoming 
Published: November 2024

Cloud providers deployed dozens of PoPs and data centers globally to serve billions of geo-distributed users. The traffic management at peering edges has become a key capability of cloud network operators to meet the diverse demands of users. With the rapid growth of cloud applications, users have recently announced new performance requirements, e.g., achieving latency as low as possible instead of maintaining a specified delay. The conventional inter-domain bandwidth allocation approach, which aims to reduce the high operating expenditures of bandwidth usage, fails to meet these new requirements. We further reveal that the flow scheduling among PoPs may fail due to the limited link capacity hidden by the cloud private backbone network controller. Therefore we seek a new traffic management at peering edges.
We propose a new controller framework, EdgeCross, that satisfies not only users' emerging demands but maintains low operating costs. The large number of fine-grain application-aware flows and the consideration of backbone links' capacity lead to very high complexity of routing computation and verification for the controller. EdgeCross introduces a two-phase operation that first achieves the low-expense bandwidth allocation according to the standard 95th percentile billing model and then allocates specified flows to peering edges based on users' requirements. EdgeCross further reduces large memory consumption by proposing an effective routing table compression approach. The evaluation based on a production network with 16 PoPs has shown that EdgeCross can successfully process the routes of 1 billion flows in 10 seconds, reduce the average delay for performance-sensitive flows by 2 milliseconds compared to traditional BGP, and is able to save the bandwidth cost by 10-26% compared to the state-of-the-art Cascara.
Accurate Visualization and Interaction of 3D Models Belonging to Museums’ Collection: From the Acquisition to the Digital Kiosk
Authors: Apollonio Fabrizio I. , Zannoni Michele , Fantini Filippo , Garagnani Simone , Barbieri Luca 
Published: November 2024

Since 2019 the authors of this article were involved in the digital acquisition and storytelling of artifacts belonging to museum collections. This work showcases on purpose various related case studies to illustrate key issues in the field. They are the
Orcinus Citoniensis
paleontological finding (representative of a complex geometry to be acquired), the
Annunciation
by Beato Angelico (representative of materials with articulate behaviors to light such as the gold foil and tempera), and the Giovanni Battista Amici’s
Microscope
(representative of non-cooperative specular materials). Since they refer to such different contests, they are a valid test field to bring into the discussion methods and techniques for:

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the digitization and interactive representation of multicomponent finds;

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a reliable visualization of pictorial works with complex optical behaviors;

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a cost-effective, rapid digitization of extensive collections with non-cooperating materials.

The article outlines a pipeline from accurate digitization to 3D modeling, texturing, and optimization, culminating in the production of interactive experiences. The aim is the introduction of our experience in authoring high-resolution digital surrogates for scholars and museum visitors, to be explored in museums and cultural institutions through conventional devices or digital interactive kiosks. It emphasizes logistical challenges in photogrammetry for acquiring artifacts, including 3D or 2D objects, paleontological finds, and optically non-cooperating items, with a focus on accurate color acquisition and rendering. The developed pipeline enhances the user experience of 3D digital replicas via visualization apps designed for exhibitions and permanent collections.
Ileocaecal Volvulus With an Intestinal Rotational Abnormality and Internal Hernia in a Paediatric Patient: A Case Report
Authors: Soini Venla , Hilska Matias , Sallisalmi Marko , Juusela Risto , Virkki Ella , Raitio Arimatias 
Published: November 2024

Background: Caecal volvulus in the paediatric population is uncommon, yet at worst this condition is a life‐threatening surgical emergency. In children, caecal volvulus can be associated with a variety of predisposing factors such as chronic constipation, intestinal malrotation, or neurological disease.Case Representation: We present a rare case of caecal volvulus, internal hernia, and an intestinal rotational abnormality in a previously healthy 8‐year‐old boy. The patient presented with a history of abdominal pain and vomiting for 3 days and was admitted to the hospital in a severe septic shock. After the initial stabilisation with fluids and vasopressors, an emergency laparotomy was performed. A necrotic caecum volvulus, a transmesocolic hernia, and an abnormal rotation of the small intestine were diagnosed. The necrotic bowel segment was resected in a right‐sided hemicolectomy, after which a resection distal to medial colic artery was cut‐off to achieve normal anatomy. The patient was discharged on the 12th postoperative day in good health and has since returned to normal active life without any health issues within the follow‐up of 5 months.Conclusions: Caecal volvulus and internal hernia can lead to a life‐threatening condition requiring immediate surgical treatment. Rare causes of abdominal pain in children should be kept in mind when severe symptoms are present.
The Association of Sleep Duration and Sleep Quality With Depression and Anxiety Among Chinese Commercial Pilots
Authors: Chen Pan , Sun He-Li , Feng Yuan , Zhang Qinge , Si Tong Leong , Su Zhaohui , Cheung Teris , Ungvari Gabor S. , Zhang Erliang , Chen Minzhi , Zhang Jie , Zhang Lin , Ren Bin , Jin Qingqing , Smith Robert D. , Xiang Mi , Xiang Yu-Tao 
Published: November 2024

Background: Sleep problems are known as risk factors for depression and anxiety, but research on this subject with commercial pilots is limited. This study aimed to explore the effects of sleep problems on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese commercial pilots.Methods: Adults who participated in the baseline assessment of the Civil Aviation Health Cohort of China between December 2022 and March 2023 formed the study sample. Depressive and anxiety symptoms and sleep quality were assessed using standardized scales. Sleep duration was measured with standardized questions. Logistic regression and restricted cubic splines (RCSs) were used to analyze the association between sleep problems and depression/anxiety symptoms.Results: A total of 7055 pilots were included in this study. The overall prevalence of depression and anxiety among pilots was 23.3% (n = 1642; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 22.3%–24.3%) and 17.0% (n = 1196; 95% CI = 16.1–17.8%), respectively. Logistic regression analyses revealed that short sleep duration (<7 h) was significantly associated with a higher risk of depression (odds ratio [OR] = 2.491; p  < 0.001) and anxiety (OR = 2.555; p  < 0.001), while poor sleep quality was also associated with a higher risk of depression (OR = 7.297; p  < 0.001) and anxiety (OR = 7.469; p  < 0.001). After adjusting for confounders, there was an inverse, J‐shaped nonlinear relationship between sleep duration and both depression (inflection point: 7.64 h) and anxiety (inflection point: 7.48 h). Similarly, a J‐shaped nonlinear relationship was found between sleep quality and depression/anxiety with an inflection point of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) = 4 points for both. The major limitation of the study was that causal relationships between variables could not be inferred due to the cross‐sectional study design.Conclusion: This study found that depression and anxiety were common among Chinese commercial pilots. Insufficient length and poor quality of sleep were associated with an increased risk of depression and anxiety. Implementing targeted strategies to improve sleep patterns is crucial for reducing the risk of depression and anxiety in this population.
Incidence of Serious Complications following Screening Colonoscopy in Adults Ages 76 to 85 Years
Authors: Chubak Jessica , Ichikawa Laura E. , Merchant Sophie A. , Dalmat Ronit R. , Ziebell Rebecca A. , Jensen Christopher D. , Lee Jeffrey K. , Corley Douglas A. , Ghai Nirupa R. , Green Beverly B. , Skinner Celette Sugg , Schottinger Joanne E. , Breslau Erica S. , Levin Theodore R. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract

Background:
Screening colonoscopy harm data are limited for adults ages 76 to 85 years.

Methods:
We conducted a retrospective cohort study of screening colonoscopies versus fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) and general population matched comparators ages 76 to 85 years within three integrated healthcare systems (2010–2019). The primary outcome was death or overnight hospitalization within 30 days. A secondary outcome also included nine harm diagnoses. Adjusted risk estimates and risk differences (RD) were obtained using Poisson regression. Narrow analyses excluded outcomes after the next lower endoscopy or colorectal procedure, whereas broad analyses included them.

Results:
Patients undergoing screening colonoscopy (N = 4,435) had a higher 10-day cumulative incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding {0.18% [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.09%–0.35%]} and perforation [0.09% (95% CI, 0.03%–0.23%)] than those with FIT (N = 17,740) and the general population (N = 44,350) in the narrow analysis. Screening colonoscopy patients had a 1.04% (95% CI, 0.74%–1.34%) risk of death or hospitalization within 30 days in the narrow analysis, similar to those with FIT [RD = 0% (95% CI, −0.36% to 0.35%)] and the general population [RD = −0.07% (95% CI, −0.39% to 0.25%)]. In the broad analysis, risk following colonoscopy was 2.30% (95% CI, 1.85%–2.75%) with RD = 1.13% (95% CI, 0.67%–1.60%) versus general population [ages 76–80 years: RD = 0.93% (95% CI, 0.45%–1.41%) and ages 81–85 years: RD = 2.14% (95% CI, 0.74%–3.54%)]. Secondary outcomes followed a similar pattern by age.

Conclusions:
At ages 76 to 85 years, screening colonoscopies including downstream procedures are associated with an increased short-term risk of death or hospitalization.

Impact:
Harm data can be combined with benefit data to guide screening colonoscopy decisions among older adults.
Response-Adaptive Surgical Timing in Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy Demonstrates Enhanced Pathologic Treatment Response in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Authors: Mastrolonardo Eric V. , Nunes Kathryn L. , Llerena Pablo , Nikitina Anastasia , Sobol Anastasia , Scott E. Reilly , Tuluc Madalina , Davitt Christopher J.H. , Scher Jessica , Tekumalla Sruti , Mann Derek , Henao Camilo , Jegede Victor , Gargano Stacey , Harshyne Larry A. , Alnemri Angela , Tyshevich Andrey , Kushnarev Vladimir , Chasse Madison , Sookiasian Danielle , Axelrod Rita , Zhan Tingting , Leiby Benjamin E. , Old Matthew , Seim Nolan , Mahoney My G. , Martinez-Outschoorn Ubaldo , Cognetti David M. , Curry Joseph M. , Prendergast George , Argiris Athanassios , South Andrew P. , Linnenbach Alban J. , Johnson Jennifer M. , Luginbuhl Adam J. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract

Purpose:
We evaluated whether indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO1) inhibitor (IDOi) BMS986205 + PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab enhanced T-cell activity and augmented immune-mediated antitumor responses in untreated, resectable head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). We employed response-adaptive surgical timing to identify responders to immunotherapy and enhance their response.

Patients and Methods:
Patients with HNSCC were 3:1 randomized to receive nivolumab with or without BMS986205 orally daily (NCT03854032). In the combination arm, BMS986205 was initiated 7 days prior to nivolumab. Patients were stratified by human papillomavirus (HPV) status. Response-adaptive surgical timing involved response assessment by radiographic criteria 4 weeks after treatment with nivolumab in both arms. Nonresponders underwent surgical resection, whereas responders received 4 more weeks of randomized therapy before surgery. Biomarker analysis utilized pathologic treatment response (pTR) and RNA sequencing.

Results:
Forty-two patients were enrolled, and the addition of IDOi to nivolumab did not result in greater rate of radiographic response (P = 0.909). Treatment was well tolerated, with only 2 (5%) patients experiencing grade 3 immune-related adverse events. The addition of IDOi augmented rates of pTR in patients with high baseline IDO1 RNA expression (P &lt; 0.05). Response-adaptive surgical timing demonstrated reliability in differentiating pathologic responders versus nonresponders (P = 0.009). A pretreatment NK cell signature, PD-L1 status, and IFN-γ expression in the HPV− cohort correlated with response. The HPV+ cohort found B-cell and cancer-associated fibroblast signatures predictive of response/nonresponse.

Conclusions:
Response-adaptive surgical timing enhanced treatment response. IDOi BMS986205 augmented pTR in patients with high IDO1 expression in baseline samples, indicating a need for identifying and targeting resistant nodes to immunotherapy. HPV status–dependent signatures predicting response to immunotherapy in HNSCC warrant further study.
Collaborative Robot Teleoperation in Mixed Reality Environment for Inspection Tasks
Authors: Rivera Andoni , Aceta Cristina , Kildal Johan , Fernández Izaskun , Lazkano Elena 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Collaborative robots are increasing their presence in the industrial production context due to their flexibility in the tasks they can perform. However, programming and teleoperating them could be a difficult task from the perspective of an unqualified worker. In cases where the worker has to collaborate remotely with a robotic arm, the probability of collisions between the robotic arm and the environment increase. In this work, we describe the design and implementation of a mixed-reality multimodal interface for a worker to teleoperate a robotic arm by interacting with its holographic digital twin, while remaining aware of surrounding obstacles to avoid any collisions. To teleoperate the robot, we have developed a multimodal interface with which the user can communicate naturally with voice (through a semantics-based task-oriented dialogue system), and by performing manual actions on holographic objects. The application also provides audiovisual information to the user about the status of the collaborative robot as well as the actions commanded. We compute and command the behavior of the robotic arm with ROS (Robot Operating System) and “MoveIt!” (motion planning framework), and we represent computed trajectories and the real-time pose of the robot in the mixed reality environment.
The Qumran Copper Scroll—A Post-apocalyptic Journey?
Authors: Høgenhaven Jesper 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Post-apocalyptic fiction triggers images of survivors of a catastrophe, forced to set out on a journey into a brutal and a dangerous world, struggling to ensure continued existence. Predators, zombies, and hostile bands are potentially lurking behind every corner. The sceneries of post-apocalyptic narratives are the remnants and ruins of the civilization that has collapsed. Buildings, roads, and bridges have been left empty and unattended; there is an atmosphere of uncanny strangeness. The landscape is often seemingly deserted, and yet it is impossible to know what hides in the shadows. This article attempts to read the landscape and the journey prescribed in the Copper Scroll (3Q15) in the light of images and sceneries found in “post-apocalyptic” fiction. I intend to show that this instructed journey leads through a landscape that has an affinity with the landscapes and journeys often portrayed in post-apocalyptic descriptions. The scroll depicts a landscape without any other human presence than the anonymous instructing voice and the anonymous addressee. The treasures are hidden in caves, ruins, empty decaying buildings, water installations, and tombs. As in post-apocalyptic narratives, 3Q15 gives the impression of a desolate world, where remnants of the past abound, but their significance has become ambiguous. Drawing on recent studies on post-apocalyptic fiction, I attempt to shed light on why Jerusalem, the temple, and the most sacred temple vessels are never explicitly mentioned in the scroll.
The nominales, Sempiternal Truth, and Tensed Propositional Contents
Authors: Wciórka Wojciech 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This article distinguishes between two historical ways of presenting the catchphrase “Once true, always true” (semel verum, semper verum), associated with the twelfth-century logical school of the nominales. Within the Time-Jumping Model, a hypothetical tenseless propositional content (enuntiabile) is treated as the common significate of differently tensed statements, such as “Socrates will die” and “Socrates died,” uttered before and after Socrates’s death. This hypothetical enuntiabile is “always true” thanks to its tenseless nature. By contrast, the Fixed-Present Model preserves the tensed character of enuntiabilia. By revealing an implicit temporal index, the nominales could apply “Once true, always true” to enuntiabilia such as Christum venisse (that Christ has come), which not only is true and will always be true but also – paradoxically – has always been true. It has always been true because it amounts to the propositional content that Christ came before this instant, where “this instant” rigidly denotes the present moment. The Fixed-Present Model alleviates the worry that the nominales confused truth-bearers with truthmakers.
Spindle or Mace? A Hypothesis on One of the Attributes of the Statuette of the God Teišeba Discovered in Karmir Blur
Authors: Badalyan Mikayel , Galstyan Vahram 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Teišeba was the weather god of the Urartian State. Following the supreme god Ḫaldi, he was the second highest-ranked god in the Urartian pantheon. In all probability, the statuette of the beardless deity found during the Karmir Blur excavations could be identified with the Urartian weather god. It is generally accepted that with his left hand he clasps an axe against his chest, while his right hand swings a mace in front of his knees. Instead of this explanation we propose that this deity holds not a mace but a spindle. In this context it is noteworthy that according to A. Petrosyan, the name of the Urartian god Teišeba is deriving from Proto-Indo-European *teḱs – which means “axe”, but also “to weave”. *Teḱs also characterizes the cosmogonic action of the creator god, who in the context of the thunder-god myth, is to be identified with the thunder god.
“The Voice of Agitation Should Roll across the Broad Atlantic”
Authors: Graden Dale 
Published: November 2024

Abstract

Scholars have provided impressive analyses of the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas and its demise over the past four decades, this led by contributions to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (
https://www.slavevoyages.org/
). England played a decisive role in the suppression of that traffic after prohibition of British participation in 1808, this partly achieved by British interceptions of slave vessels by its West Africa Squadron (1819–1867) and the establishment of Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1819–1871). Given a North Atlantic Ocean current clockwise gyre and South Atlantic counterclockwise gyre, a major northern slave vessel route connected Africa to the Caribbean and a second southern route connected Africa to Brazil.1 Africans disembarked in the Caribbean had diverse origins in West Africa (Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria) and West Central Africa (Congo, Angola). Brazil received fewer Africans from West Africa (there was a long-term connection between Benin and Bahia), large numbers of African slaves from West Central Africa and a small number from Southeast Africa (Mozambique) at or near Rio de Janeiro. Language difference (Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Danish in the North Atlantic, Portuguese in the South Atlantic) contributed to a conceptual separation of those two regions, particularly evident in historiographies related to slavery and abolition. The Scottish diplomat David Turnbull was one of the few observers of the nineteenth century who connected Caribbean islands with Brazil. Turnbull asserted to the British Foreign Office that subaltern resistance by slaves and free blacks in both the British and non-British Caribbean could aid in England’s quest to extinguish the transatlantic slave trade. Turnbull organized a petition campaign in Jamaica in the late 1840s to pressure England’s Foreign Office to pursue more aggressive actions at sea and on land to halt slave disembarkations in Cuba and Brazil. Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston’s positive response combined with slave resistance in Brazil contributed to Brazil’s imperial government decision to act decisively to halt further slave disembarkations in 1850–1851.
Revolutionizing copper pipe durability: Shielding against corrosion with graphene oxide through electrophoretic application
Authors: Fuseini Mohammed , Yousry Zaghloul Mai Mahmoud , Abakar Djibrine , Yousry Zaghloul Moustafa Mahmoud 
Published: November 2024

This research endeavors to utilize electrophoretic deposition (EPD) to coat copper (Cu) pipes with graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets, aiming to bolster their resistance against corrosion. To achieve this, a stable aqueous colloidal suspension of GO was meticulously prepared via liquid exfoliation in deionized water. This suspension served as an electrolytic solution for EPD. The EPD process involved the meticulous application of varied operational parameters such as deposition time, applied voltage, and GO nanosheet concentration to facilitate anodic deposition on the copper pipe’s surface. To gauge the efficacy of the GO coating, evaluations were conducted to assess adhesive force and stabilization using specialized coating adhesion scratch testing equipment. Further analysis of the resulting film on the Cu pipe was executed employing X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Raman spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). These methods provided detailed insights into the characteristics and properties of the GO material post-deposition. The study yielded noteworthy outcomes, revealing the achievement of a uniform, unbroken, and consistent coating film on the Cu pipe. This was accomplished by employing specific parameters as 60 s of deposition time, a GO concentration of 0.5 mg/mL, and a voltage of 20 V. Impressively, when subjected to a corrosive solution containing 3.5% sodium chloride, the corrosion protection exhibited a remarkable twofold enhancement compared to untreated copper tubing, boasting an efficiency (η) of 90.48%. These findings suggest that the Cu pipe, coated with GO using the EPD technique, holds significant promise for utilization in demanding industrial settings susceptible to corrosion challenges.