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Boosting the efficacy of fungal biocontrol: miRNA339‐5p‐mediated mosquito immunity regulation
Authors: Zhang Ruonan , Kang Zehong , Dong Shengzhang , Shangguan Duanwen , Shoukat Rana Fartab , Zhang Jie , Zafar Junaid , Wu Hongxin , Yu Xiao‐Qiang , Xu Xiaoxia , Jin Fengliang 
Published: December 2024

AbstractBACKGROUNDAedes mosquitoes are vectors for numerous viral diseases, including dengue, zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever. Therefore, underscoring the urgent need for eco‐friendly alternatives to combat insecticide resistance and the scarcity of effective vaccines. Entomopathogenic fungi present a sustainable alternative to chemical insecticides; however, their widespread application is limited by their relatively low virulence.RESULTSHere, we investigated the immunological interactions between Metarhizium anisopliae and Aedes albopictus, demonstrating that fungal infection significantly up‐regulated immune‐related genes in the Toll and melanization pathways, thereby enhancing antifungal and antibacterial defenses at 48 h post‐infection (hpi). Small RNA sequencing identified miR339‐5p as a crucial modulator, targeting the immune genes Gram‐Negative Binding Protein 1 (GNBP1) and CLIP‐domain Serine Protease B15 (CLIPB15), which are critical for Toll and phenoloxidase (PO) pathway activation. The administration of a synthetic miR339‐5p mimic increased fungal virulence, resulting in a higher mortality rate among adult mosquitoes and a significant increase in the mortality rate of mosquito larvae within 24 hpi. GNBP1 was found to regulate both Toll and PO pathways, while CLIPB15 specifically modulated the PO system by cleaving prophenoloxidase (PPO).CONCLUSIONThis research highlights the potential of leveraging Ae. albopictus‐encoded miR339‐5p through advanced genetic engineering techniques to bolster the efficacy of existing fungal‐based mosquito control strategies, providing a promising approach in the fight against mosquito‐borne diseases. © 2024 Society of Chemical Industry.
Softening index‐based equivalent linear modeling approach for bolt‐connected precast concrete frame
Authors: Yi Jie , Zhao Bin , Wu Di , Zhu Huiqing 
Published: December 2024

AbstractPrecast concrete structures with bolt‐connected joints have been widely constructed in the world, and their prospective application market is still considerable. Considering the clear load transferring path and damage mechanism, simplified analysis method is feasible for the bolt‐connected precast concrete frame. This paper proposes an equivalent linear modeling approach (ELMA) for this type of structure, which is convenient and high efficiency to help the preliminary design of structures and seismic assessment of existing buildings. In this method, a series of linear models are established to simulate the real structure in different seismic intensity levels. The softening indices summarized from the variation of modal frequencies are defined to represent the stiffness degradation of structures. In order to obtain specific softening indices, a shaking table test for a bolt‐connected precast concrete frame was implemented. Based on the test results, the recommended softening indices, applicable to bolt‐connected frames with similar design performance objectives, are 0.325, 0.713, and 0.816 for the minor, moderate, and major earthquake levels, respectively. Following the ELMA, the numerical model of the test frame was constructed and its equivalent seismic behaviors were analyzed. By comparison with the test results, the convenience and effectiveness of this method is validated, and the precision of simulation meets the requirement of engineering application. The ELMA is also applicable for precast frames with different joints or design requirements, if the softening indices are appropriately defined by shaking table test of the structure or cyclic loading test of its single‐connection model.
Impact of a Priori Gravity Field Models on SLR Data Processing
Authors: Geisser Linda , Meyer Ulrich , Arnold Daniel , Jäggi Adrian 
Published: December 2024

AbstractSatellite Laser Ranging (SLR) is essential for the geodetic parameter determination, e.g., geocenter and station coordinates, and, therefore, for long-term stable reference frame realizations. However, the orbit modeling and the quality of the parameter estimation partially depend on the background models. This study analyses the impact of static and time-variable a priori gravity field models provided by the Center for Space Research (CSR), the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS), and the Combination Service for Time-variable Gravity Fields (COST-G) on the SLR data processing of spherical geodetic SLR satellites (LAGEOS-1/2 and LARES) at different orbital altitudes, by comparing the estimates of Earth rotation parameters, station coordinates and observation residuals. The COST-G model is further used to examine the impact of the mean pole model and the replacement of the spherical harmonic coefficients $$C_{21}/S_{21}$$

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according to convention provided by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS).While for LAGEOS-1/2 SLR data processing the a priori gravity field model has only a minor impact, the lower flying LARES satellite is more sensitive to the Earth’s gravity field and requires a more sophisticated gravity field modeling, e.g., COST-G Fitted Signal Model (FSM). In order to achieve higher consistency and thus improved solutions, the same mean pole model should be used in the SLR data processing as for the generation of the used a priori gravity field model.This study confirms the high quality of the COST-G FSM and demonstrates its suitability for potential use in the ILRS operational SLR processing.
Spatial Statistics of Three-Dimensional Growth Dynamics of Spindle Microtubules
Authors: Yamashita Norio , Morita Masahiko , Yokota Hideo , Mimori-Kiyosue Yuko 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe latest high-resolution 3D live-cell imaging technology, lattice light-sheet microscopy (LLSM), has successfully tracked the dynamics of microtubule growth throughout the entire mitotic spindle with unparalleled precision. By using green fluorescent protein-labeled end-binding protein 1 (EB1-GFP) as a marker for growing microtubule ends, LLSM has generated an extensive collection of multidimensional datasets mapping the positions and trajectories of these growing microtubule ends. Processing this data requires statistical analysis in three-dimensional space. This chapter describes the spatial statistical methods developed for this purpose, illustrated with practical examples. Finally, we discuss future prospects for analyzing complex, large-scale image data.
Setting the Scene for Automated Mobility: A Comparative Introduction to the Mobility Systems in Germany and Japan
Authors: Kuhnimhof Tobias , Miyoshi Hiroaki , Taniguchi Ayako , Suzuki Shoichi , Hasegawa Yu , Fleischer Torsten , Eisenmann Christine 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter presents a comparative analysis of the mobility systems in Germany and Japan, providing insights into how these systems might influence the implementation of vehicle automation. This comparison begins by exploring the historical evolution of transport in both countries, noting that both have long-established infrastructures shaped by unique geographical and historical contexts. Germany’s transport system, for instance, developed within a landlocked nation with extensive rail networks, while Japan’s transport was influenced by its island geography and mountainous terrain. The chapter then examines key dimensions of the current transport systems, including demography, settlement patterns, road transport governance, public transport infrastructure, and the automotive industry’s role. Comparative statistics are provided, illustrating the differences and similarities between Germany and Japan. The analysis highlights how these existing systems serve as both enablers and barriers to the integration of automated vehicles. The chapter concludes that the introduction of vehicle automation will not revolutionize these transport systems overnight but will gradually adapt to existing frameworks. The success of vehicle automation depends on the interplay between technological advances and established transport policies, regulations, and cultural norms. This chapter suggests that understanding the deep-rooted structures of transport systems in Germany and Japan can offer valuable insights into how vehicle automation might unfold in other regions with mature mobility markets. In conclusion, the chapter provides a holistic framework for analyzing the potential impacts of vehicle automation, stressing the importance of considering the existing transport system’s legacy and the multifaceted nature of mobility in Germany and Japan.
Social Acceptance of CAD in Japan and Germany: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Insights
Authors: Fleischer Torsten , Taniguchi Ayako , Schippl Jens , Yamasaki Yukari , Tanaka Kosuke , Nakao Satoshi 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIt is widely acknowledged that social acceptance of automated vehicles (AVs) is a crucial factor for the future development and deployment of the technology in mobility systems. In general, mobility systems are sociotechnical systems. Their design and development depend on a multitude of technical and non-technical factors, including aspects of public or social acceptance. However, as will be shown in this chapter, social acceptance can have different meanings and can be addressed by various approaches. Different objects of acceptance (e.g. trust in robots, AVs as a useful means of transport etc.) as well as different subjects of acceptance (users, citizens, industrial interest groups etc.) can be distinguished. In addition, the subjects can be in different relationships to the objects (use, approval, protest etc.). Against this backdrop, we start this chapter with an in-depth conceptualization of social acceptance. Following this, we present empirical material that sheds lights on different dimensions of acceptance. We draw on two surveys carried out in Japan and Germany in recent years. The surveys provide insights on relevant public perceptions and attitudes towards AVs, and make it clear that not only public perceptions but also the views and attitudes of many other actors are relevant for acceptance and diffusion of AVs. To give an additional perspective on this topic, we provide insights on media reporting on AVs in Japan and Germany.
Transportation Effects of CAD in Japan
Authors: Miyoshi Hiroaki , Watanabe Shoji , Kii Masanobu 
Published: December 2024

AbstractAs part of the Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program of Automated Driving for Universal Services (SIP-adus) spearheaded by Japan’s Cabinet Office, we construct microeconomics-based models to simulate the market diffusion of AVs, using the predictions of these models as a common source of basic numerical data to characterize the impact of AVs in various sectors. In this chapter, we briefly introduce our way of classifying automated driving systems, and two models developed to simulate the diffusion of AVs. We then present the results of a variety of variable-sensitivity analyses conducted using these models, and their policy implications. The main finding of the analyses is that enhancement of consumer expectations will be crucial for ensuring the diffusion of AVs in the future.
Variations on 44: The Verbivocovisual Sophistication of Dieter Roth’s Non-Semantic Poetry
Authors: Rosenau Maggie 
Published: December 2024

AbstractSwiss-Icelandic artist Dieter Roth is largely celebrated as a visual artist who redefined the book as an art-object. While many of his artist’s books present typographical experiments and collaged language material, investigations rarely include close readings. This chapter highlights his poem “Some Variations on 44”—both as a single unit and part of the larger work in which it exists—and argues that, despite its non-linguistic composition and graphic design appearance, the work visually articulates rhetorical elements central to lyrical poetry. Aesthetic response theory is useful for interpreting the visual iconicity of concrete poetry. Drawing on Iser’s concept of “gestalt” as an organized whole that emerges through the process of reading, Roth’s aesthetic object reveals both a conceptual whole and an unexpected readability. Although Roth has created a categorically concrete and therefore almost unutterable work of poetry, it is capable of engaging in a discourse on any aspect of the verbivocovisual.
Aurality and Cyborg Poetry
Authors: Silva Ana Marques 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter intends to discuss aurality and the notion of cyborg poetry in the context of generative literature, or literature that is programmed to be automatically generated. By aurality we mean reading as listening (orality refers to speaking, aurality to listening). By cyborg poetry we mean a hybrid form of textuality. This reflection is based on two cybertexts in which language is inscribed through sound rather than written signs: THE LISTENERS, by John Cayley, and AIM BAD, by Jhave, both brought to the public in 2015. THE LISTENERS is a linguistic performance that takes place between humans and Alexa, Amazon’s home voice assistant. With this work, the author began to explore the concept of “aurature”: if literature comes from littera (letter), “aurature” comes from auris (ear). AIM BAD is an example of what Jhave calls cyborg poetry: the author programs a generator that produces texts that are read aloud non-linearly and intuitively as they are generated, making this reading a form of writing.
On Antiviral Music
Authors: Lyon Eric 
Published: December 2024

AbstractWith the technological annihilation of personal privacy in modern society due to various tendrils of surveillance capitalism, both public and private, a radically private art has become a spiritual necessity of the twenty-first century. Antiviral music is an early twenty-first-century art form that serves this growing need. In the search for antiviral music, we look for Internet-accessible music that has largely averted the gaze of the attention economy as indicated by low numbers of views or hits, and that possesses a latent strangeness that is redeemable as an artistic experience. The scope of this chapter is limited to music. However, the concept of antiviral music can be applied to many other art domains, especially digital and networked art forms.
Ciao! Manhattan: The Rise and Fall of the Underground
Authors: Kaloudi Kostoula 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIn 1972, after five years of intermittent filming, John Palmer and David Weisman completed their film Ciao! Manhattan, starring Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s muse and for a brief period in the mid-1960s, an icon of New-York counterculture. The film tells the story of a former underground cinema superstar who looks back on a past that strongly resembles Edie Sedgwick’s own story. Considered a unique example of avant-garde cinema, Ciao! Manhattan uses a weird, boundary-breaking narrative. Is it a biopic of a real-life celebrity or a docudrama? Each reference conjures up a different chapter of underground mythology, along with widespread drug use, self-destruction, abuse, and sexual addiction. Ciao! Manhattan is a “a requiem for the Sixties.” Successfully depicting the transition of a generation and its culture from euphoria, non-stop partying and pushing the limits to decline and exhaustion, the film still holds a special place in the landscape of underground cinema.
Invisible Environments: CAyC and Countercultural Cybernetics
Authors: O’Sullivan Jye 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIn 1971, the artistic collective Centro de Artes y Comunicación participated in the Argentine Biennial with the exhibition Arte de Sistemas. Luis Benedit’s Laberinto Invisible, a dematerialized labyrinth that required the interactor to navigate a complex series of invisible boundaries, formed part of the core of this exhibition. Expanding on his earlier Laberinto de Hormigas (1970), Benedit created a distinct cybernetically informed political statement by treating the human as a variable element in a system of invisible control. Despite the international profile of this exhibition, however, CAyC and Benedit have remained invisible in the art historical canon. This chapter explores CAyC’s contribution to the global postmodern avant-garde through an engagement with cybernetics, makes explicit the difference between a counterculture within a neoliberal democracy and a military dictatorship, and demonstrates through CAyC how the use of a cybernetic mode of interpretation can illuminate otherwise obscured systems of communication and technocratic control through sound.
Spillane, by John Zorn: Aural Cinema and the Lettrist Legacy
Authors: Duarte Anabela 
Published: December 2024

AbstractJohn Zorn’s interest in Mickey Spillane, the master of hardboiled novels, or what might be called postpulp, is fascinating and brings to the fore lesser-known issues in literature, music, and experimental cinema. Based on the 1987 release of Spillane and the 1999 CD edition of Godard/Spillane, this work aims to explore the notion of “aural cinema” as introduced by the composer in the liner notes to G/S, and the influence of Lettrism, an avant-garde artistic movement of the 1940s, on the building and development of such a concept. In our view, aural cinema opens up the field of possibilities for experimental film and a cinema without images by placing the emphasis on aural perception and speech rather than on the filmed image. However, as much as Godard and others have contributed to this new cinema of the ear, there is an overwhelming neglect of the true perpetrators of this paradigm shift: the Lettrists and the Lettrist legacy.
Sound as Model: Lucier Versus Murail
Authors: Van Herck Bert 
Published: December 2024

AbstractWhen the properties of sound become the center of the work, we might think of sound art. By focusing on sound, we may escape the traditional architecture of classical composition. However, sound art may be more of an attitude than a focus on sound. When Alvin Lucier composed “I’m sitting in a room,” he literally showed the result of a repeated recorded loop at work. Exactly the same idea is used by Tristan Murail in “Mémoire, Érosion”: he composed from the deterioration of the sonic properties of sound as if it were played in a loop. The theory of Michael Polanyi is used in this chapter to study and compare these two approaches, with a specific focus on how a composition is the result of the perspectives held by the composer—even if they take the same phenomenon as a starting point.
Gravitas: An Audiovisual Cadavre Exquis for Times of Lexicon Reduction
Authors: Brandão Daniel , Alvelos Heitor 
Published: December 2024

AbstractGravitas is an audiovisual piece that brings together three creative outputs generated independently: a concert, an audio reconstruction/edit, and a video. All three converge in the final piece while the overall motto (acoustic ascension / figurative revelation) remains consistent. The piece signals a migration of the avant-garde onto a broader sphere of resonance, by weaving pure acoustics with field recordings, visual abstraction with tangible figuration, semiotic deconstruction with narrative allure. However, while the avant-garde can no longer afford its own traditional entrenchment, visibility as a duty in contemporary culture may demand dilution to the point of irrelevance. Gravitas attempts to untangle this conundrum.
Gothic as the First Avant-Garde Art
Authors: Lima Antónia 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIf avant-garde means an anti-conventional passion for change and renewal in any art form, then the Gothic can be considered the first avant-garde art. Many modern art movements have much in common with the Gothic: the same interest in the collapse of traditional values of authoritarian systems, the desire to transgress and escape from conventional processes of representation, a curiosity about irrational and perverse impulses inherited from the primitive man. Throughout its history, the Gothic has also been an anti-realist protest, a rebellion of the imagination, an aesthetic of excess. Some contemporary artists, such as Mike Kelley, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin or Douglas Gordon, produce their works not only as expressions of profound transformations in artistic practices, but also as manifestations of contemporary fears. Horror still connects us to our primal emotions and desires. Perhaps this is why some of the most innovative works in contemporary art are often Gothic art.
Eugene Jolas and the Revolution of Language
Authors: Sokolova Olga , Feshchenko Vladimir 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe chapter examines the concept of universal language of the American-French avant-garde poet, literary critic, and publisher Eugene Jolas. Universal language was a project aimed at an “interracial synthesis” of all the languages “being spoken in America today.” In this conception, Jolas goes beyond multilingualism as an integration of languages to a transformation of the very basis of language. Central to this transformation is Jolas’s theory of the universal language as a “mantic compost,” that is constantly changing and developing at all linguistic levels. The study focuses on such issues as the images of language in Jolas’s works; the “revolution of language” as the dominant feature of his linguistic theory; the transformation of the linguistic and communicative aspects of his aesthetic program in the process of transition from the concept of “vertical poetry” to a new understanding of creative communication between individuals, which he called “vertigralism.”
Dada Countercultural Practices at the University of Iowa
Authors: Floyd Kathryn M. , Van Hoesen Brett M. 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis essay argues that academic scholarship and artistic actions centered on the history of Dada can themselves enact critiques that resonate with Dada’s original resistance to institutional power. Specifically, we discuss the under-examined case of Dada-related studies, exhibitions, and activities at the University of Iowa. Beginning in the 1960s, a unique group of scholars and art practitioners who were interested in and influenced by German Dada converged in this academic setting. Led by professors Stephen C. Foster, Rudolf Kuenzli, Hans Breder, and others in the arts and humanities, this interdisciplinary group nurtured Dada-derived experiments and critical approaches that directly and indirectly called into question the very institutional structures that helped bring them forth. In other words, Dada studies at the University of Iowa mimicked and reinforced the self-critical and interventionist tactics of historical Dada. Current histories of the movement often speak more to the corporatized theatrics of contemporary art institutions and cultural centers, frequently overlooking the truly integrated and authentic countercultural approaches that were integral to Dada and, in turn, the Iowa spirit. This essay presents an urgently necessary historical overview and legacy of the fortuitous constellation of countercultural programs, events, spaces, and collections at the University of Iowa.
Kafāla in Belgium: Private International Law as an Essential Tool to Establish Migration Law Consequences?
Authors: Bruijnen Leontine 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter explains how kafāla-cases are handled in Belgium, including the respective migration case law and migration legal framework. This article emphasises that a kafāla should be characterised as a child protection measure under the 1996 Child Protection Convention but that the Convention does not solve all issues relating to kafāla. The Belgian general recognition rules offer a solution for kafālas outside the scope of the 1996 Child Protection Convention. It is suggested that the private international law framework should be considered when determining whether a makfūl (ward) can be regarded as an unaccompanied minor.