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Preliminary Assessment of Liquefaction Vulnerability using Microtremor Analysis in North Lombok
Authors: Taruna R M , Septiadhi A , Sungkono  , Mase L Z , Mashuri  
Published: October 2024

Abstract
One of the disasters associated with the Mw 6.9 Lombok earthquake on August 5, 2018 was liquefaction. The liquefaction took the form of sand boil and lateral spreading, causing damage to buildings, docks, and wells in the North Lombok region. Therefore, liquefaction vulnerability assessment in this region is necessary to prevent future damage. This study presents an assessment of the liquefaction vulnerability in North Lombok using microtremor analysis. Single-station microtremor measurements were conducted at 37 sites, including around the liquefaction sites caused by the 2018 event. The soil susceptibility index (Kg
) was estimated from these recordings using the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) and compared with geological conditions and liquefaction history. A comparison of the spatial distribution between Kg values and liquefaction sites shows that almost all liquefaction events occur at Kg
values greater than 6. Our results also show that liquefaction events occur mostly in coastal areas, illustrating a strong influence of groundwater level on liquefaction potential. This research finds that microtremor analysis combined with groundwater level information can adequately illustrate the liquefaction potential of an area. Therefore, this study can also identify highly liquefiable zones in North Lombok.
Preliminary study of coda wave attenuation around Yogyakarta based on Meramex temporary stations data
Authors: Prasetio A D , Anggono T , Triahadini A , Putra A S , Syuhada  , Ramdhan M , Febriani F , Setyonegoro W , Dewi C N , Hasib M 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
The tail of a seismogram record, the coda, usually comes from the high-order scattered waves from some heterogeneities in the earth’s crust. Coda waves can be used to estimate the earthquake attenuation, site amplification and to determine the magnitudes. This preliminary study investigates the seismic attenuation property around the Yogyakarta region, Indonesia, from the Meramex temporary network. The Meramex network was installed from May to October 2004. We estimated the coda wave attenuation using the back-scattering model. We presented results from two station measurements (AJ1 and AI1) in this preliminary study. We analyzed shallow earthquakes (<40km) with distances less than 3 degrees. We bandpass filter the data with central frequencies of 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 Hz. The coda window begins from twice the S-wave arrival time with a window length between 20 and 80 seconds. We estimated the coda quality factor (Qc) for each central frequency. The Qc at reference frequency 1 Hz yields the estimation for Q0
and the frequency-dependent factor (η) of 64 - 134 and 1.14-0.95, respectively. The Q0
value increased significantly in the window length of 20 to 30 seconds and was relatively stable in the window length of 30 seconds, but the η value is the contrary. The rise of the Q0
and decrease of η is apparently due to the heterogeneity of the earth’s crust, and the flat may be associated with the uniformity of the upper mantle.
Getting There from Here
Authors: Beaulieux Michele 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This memoir, manifesto, and manual provide a road map for Contact Improvisation jams wanting to create “safer brave spaces”—spaces that consciously support consent culture, making being brave safer, especially for marginalized people. The author uses her experience of sexual violence in an open jam and its aftermath to contrast groups supporting rape culture and those creating consent culture. The Beaulieu Test measures whether jam guidelines prioritize looking after each other and the group and listening for “yes,” or taking care of oneself, setting boundaries, and saying “no.” Community accountability, democratic governance, and sensitive response processes grounded in restorative, transformative, and transitional justice can operationalize consent culture values. A precipitating event often mobilizes outside pressure and committed insiders to transition to safer brave space. Past harm may be embodied in the jam, so it is best addressed. The chapter applies to other voluntary groups in which participants risk vulnerability, especially with touch.
Gender, Power, and Equity in Contact Improvisation
Authors: Horrigan Kristin 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter argues that gendered power dynamics in Contact Improvisation (CI) negatively impact the experience of some dancers more than others, inequitably limiting access to full participation. While in its core principles, CI rejects gender roles, in practice, ideas about gender influence CI dancing in many ways. A significant number of dancers find their access to CI impeded by the effort it takes to protect themselves from gender-based power dynamics on the dance floor—including misgendering, objectification, stereotyping, sexual misconduct, and bias. This chapter lays out many of the ways that gender and gendered power dynamics show up in Contact Improvisation dancing and identifies aspects of CI that can lead us to replicate oppressive patterns from society. Additionally, it highlights aspects of CI that help dancers resist repeating daily social hierarchies in their dancing and proposes a series of practices to work toward a more equitable and inclusive CI.
Not
Authors: Smith Joy Mariama 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Contact Improvisation (CI) is often touted as an egalitarian, improvisational dance form in which neutral practitioners explore fundamental physical principles such as gravity, weight, and momentum. Perhaps this is why it looks and feels oddly similar no matter where on the planet or by whom it is being practiced. This chapter looks at the practice from a non-white, queer, nonconforming view, revealing the imprint of the ontologically expansive white culture in which CI arose (and for the most part remains embedded). This chapter activates the reader with questions, scores, methods, and exercises to participate in the evolution of CI pedagogies; infusing them with strategies of consent and accountability. Delving into their lived experience, the author argues that CI will become truly improvisational and inclusive when practitioners make space for the weight and gravity of diverse cultures, histories, genders, sexualities, racialized identities, abilities, and other invisible but impactful forces.
Underscoring Nancy Stark Smith’s Legacy
Authors: Young Sarah 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter explores the undercurrents of the Underscore, a group framework for dance improvisation originated by Contact Improvisation (CI) pioneer, Nancy Stark Smith (1952–2020). The author describes three experiences, including an influential encounter with Nancy Stark Smith at a weekly Underscore practice in Northampton, Massachusetts; an Underscore with 150+ participants during a 50th anniversary celebration of CI; and an Underscore posthumously honoring Nancy Stark Smith at her alma mater, Oberlin College. In sourcing personal stories, as well as Caught Falling (Smith and Koteen, 2008) and terminology and pictorial “glyphs” from the written outline of the Underscore, this chapter reflects on the far-reaching contributions of the Underscore as part of Nancy Stark Smith’s legacy and considers how the form will expand and evolve in the years to come.
The Small Dances of Listening
Authors: Greco Lesley 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
The Stand, also known as the small dance, is a form of meditation described by Steve Paxton in the early 1970s as a means of mitigating physical dangers that Contact Improvisation (CI) dancers navigate. It is now being recognized within the global CI community that the challenges being navigated are not simply physical. The ability to stabilize attention and the skills of staying awake within disorientation are increasingly challenged, yet remain critical foundations in CI. Aside from the obvious physical risks CI dancers navigate, the potential for enmeshed, harmful, and fraught interactions in CI is massive. Through concepts of interpersonal neurobiology, osteopathic philosophy, and CI practice research, the Stand is explored as a listening practice, as a means of training awareness, of stabilizing attention, of developing trust in one’s own rapidly self-organizing system in gravity, and as a pragmatic way of establishing connection with oneself before making contact with another.
Introduction
Authors: Aiyar Yamini 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Too often, debates on State capacity in India, have dismissed the voices of the frontline, as no more than the complaints of an apathetic, corrupt, incompetent bureaucracy, seeking to legitimize its corrupt ways and apathy toward the goal of delivering quality public services to all. But what if we paid attention to rather than dismissed these complaints? Could we learn something new about the challenge of weak state capacity that plagues India’s public service delivery systems? Through the voices of frontline education bureaucrats, this chapter makes the case for a constructive engagement with the perspectives at the frontlines of the state and in so doing, lays out the key argument of this book. It sets the stage for making the case that building state capacity is a challenge that goes beyond techno-managerial solutions. Rather it requires engaging with the realities of the frontlines, the organizational culture—norms, rules and hierarchies—that shape the behaviour of frontline actors. This chapter ends with a brief overview of the research methods and structure and organization of the book.
Inside the Classroom
Authors: Aiyar Yamini 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This chapter turns its gaze to the dynamics of reform inside the classroom. It draws on detailed classroom observations, interviews, and surveys with teachers to capture the dynamics of resistance and disruption that shifted the pedagogical needle within the classroom. The chapter highlights the specific infusions of reform, the mentor teachers, the sites of deliberation opened by the training sessions, the repeated reading missions and explores the subtle ways in which these served to shift teacher perspectives on the classroom. It describes how the teachers evolved from active resistance to Chunauti to grudging acceptance and eventual agreement with reformers on the relevance of ideas like the Mission Buinyad and the mandate to focus on learning levels of students in the classroom. To test the stickiness of these reforms, the research phase ended with a survey of teacher perceptions after schools reopened from COVID-19 induced closures and demonstrated the effects of the nearly five year long effort of reforms that preceeded COVID-19. Through these observations, this chapter offers perspectives on the effectiveness of the school reforms.
An experimental study on distinguishing gel pen ink stains using desorption electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy combined with the K-means algorithm
Authors: Yuan Yiting , Tao Yu , Qin Da 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
In the realm of document examination, the identification of suspicious alterations to handwritten documents is an important factor in case characterization. Investigating the differences in gel pen ink compositions has significant implications. In this study, we used desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) to analyze the ink compositions of gel pens. The methodology involved the following steps. (i) Sample selection: a total of 227 gel pens available in the market were procured for the study. (ii) Pre-experimental parameter exploration: preliminary experiments were performed to optimize the experimental parameters. (iii) Analytical technique: DESI-MS was used to collect compositional data from the gel pen ink samples, without requiring pre-treatment of the samples. (iv) Data analysis: the obtained data were analyzed using the Davies–Bouldin index, Calinski–Harabasz index, and K-means algorithm for ink sample classification. The experimental findings indicated that DESI-MS is a viable method for examining the ink compositions of gel pens. Notably, the testing process is minimally destructive and does not necessitate pre-treatment of the samples. Furthermore, variations in the ink compositions were observed among different models of gel pens within the same brand, and the extent of the variation in the composition varied across brands. Additionally, there were instances in which the ink compositions of different brands of gel pens exhibited similarities.
Evaluation and Real-world Experience of a Neutralization Susceptibility Screening Assay for Broadly Neutralizing Anti–HIV-1 Antibodies
Authors: Pahus Marie Høst , Zheng Yu , Olefsky Maxine , Gunst Jesper Damsgaard , Tebas Pablo , Taiwo Babafemi , Søgaard Ole S , Peluso Michael J , Lie Yolanda , Reeves Jacqueline D , Petropoulos Christos J , Caskey Marina , Bar Katharine J 
Published: October 2024

Abstract

Background
Development of a screening assay for the clinical use of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) is a priority for HIV therapy and cure initiatives.

Methods
We assessed the PhenoSense Monoclonal Antibody Assay (Labcorp-Monogram Biosciences), which is Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) validated and has been used prospectively and retrospectively in multiple recent bnAb clinical trials.

Results
When performed on plasma and longitudinal peripheral blood mononuclear cell samples (before and during antiretroviral therapy, respectively), as sourced from a recent clinical trial, the PhenoSense assay produced robust reproducibility, concordance across sample types, and expected ranges in the susceptibility measures of bnAbs in clinical development. When applied retrospectively to baseline samples from 3 recent studies, the PhenoSense assay correlated with published laboratory-based study evaluations, but baseline bnAb susceptibility was not consistently predictive of durable virus suppression. Assessment of assay feasibility in 4 recent clinical studies provides estimates of assay success rate and processing time.

Conclusions
The PhenoSense Monoclonal Antibody Assay provides reproducible bnAb susceptibility measurements across relevant sample types yet is not consistently predictive of virus suppression. Logistical and operational assay requirements can affect timely clinical trial conduct. These results inform bnAb studies in development.
Can Voluntary Business and Human Rights Norms be Effective? Exploring a Multidimensional Perspective of Norm Effectiveness in Africa
Authors: Andrews Nathan , Alorse Raynold W 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Although the concept of human rights was rarely visible in corporate documents prior to the 2000s, many corporations today publicly espouse strong commitments to respect human rights due to normative mechanisms such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) introduced in 2008. Contributing to ongoing scholarly discussions around the known gap between human rights rhetoric and performance, this article draws upon the global norm diffusion literature to conceptualize the effectiveness of business and human rights (BHR) norms as output, outcome, and impact. This multi-dimensional understanding of effectiveness reveals why a norm—embraced by a variety of stakeholders such as corporations, governments, and civil society groups—could still face contestation and implementation challenges at the grassroots, implying a lack of impact effectiveness. The article contextualizes this discussion within specific cases in Africa, using primary fieldwork data collected in Ghana and South Africa alongside other secondary data. Our overall objective is to contribute to both theoretical and practical discussions of how BHR norms spread and become useful to purported beneficiaries or ‘end-users’ of such norms. In doing so, the article showcases a deeper understanding and contextualization of human rights in the ‘real world’ of places where extractive corporations operate.
A single-center case study series assessing the effect of selumetinib use in patients with neurofibromatosis-related plexiform neurofibromas
Authors: Passos João , Soares Marta P , Salgado Duarte , Nunes Sofia , Cavaco Daniela , Garrido Pedro M , Coutinho Mónica , Carvalho Inês Patrocínio , Vilares Miguel , Ferreira Mafalda , Lacerda Cristina 
Published: October 2024

Abstract

Background
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common genetic disorder of phenotypic variability with age-dependent penetrance. This study describes the diagnosis, clinical characterization, management, and outcomes of a large patient cohort with plexiform neurofibroma (PN) treated with selumetinib in a real-world clinical setting.

Methods
This single-center observational study consecutively enrolled patients with NF1-PN treated with selumetinib from April 2018 to 2023. Data on clinical features, tumor types and locations, and results from genetic tests were recorded at baseline; details of disease management with selumetinib and surgical intervention and disease evolution including imaging data and evaluations of pain and function were documented.

Results
Overall, 54 patients with a median age (range) of 16.4 (4.5–58.0) years were enrolled. Most had cutaneous manifestations (88.9%), including cutaneous neurofibromas and PN. Patients underwent [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET/CT imaging before treatment to rule out malignant lesions. Initial evaluations included directed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which facilitated future comparisons and allowed for the assessment of PN resectability. Pharmacological treatment with selumetinib (with surgery, without surgery) resulted in the following proportion of patients achieving stable disease (58.8%, 54.3%), partial response (29.4%, 28.6%), and improved pain (58.8%, 37.1%), deformity (17.6%, 20.0%), and functional (17.6%, 20.0%) outcomes, respectively.

Conclusions
Results from this study demonstrate that NF1-PN can be managed effectively with selumetinib with surgical intervention in some patients. Most patients achieved tumor stability and improved symptom control, and the majority of patients continue under treatment. Effective diagnosis and management were achieved through individualized utility of FDG-PET/CT and MRI imaging and targeted resource allocation.
Scotland and Scottish Literature
Authors: Shields Juliet 
Published: October 2024

Until recently, Victorian Scottish literature has been ignored or marginalized both within Scottish studies and Victorian studies. Scholars in the latter field have tended to regard Scotland as an afterthought or appendage to England, while those in the former viewed the Victorian era as a fallow period in Scotland’s literary history. Falling between the Romantic era, when Edinburgh rivalled London as a vibrant center of literature and culture, and the Scottish literary renaissance of the early twentieth century, which sought to foster a new cultural nationalism, the Victorian period seemed to be marked by a dearth of literary creativity. This supposed dearth has been attributed to the seamlessness of 19th-century Scotland’s cultural and political incorporation in Great Britain. Many Scottish authors resided in London, the metropolitan center of Britain’s literary empire; and consequently, some of the most prolific and best-known of these authors, such as Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Arthur Conan Doyle, sometimes are not even recognized as Scottish. Much of the fiction and poetry that is unequivocally Scottish in linguistic register, form, or content was relegated by 20th-century critics to the Kailyard, a term that literally describes a kitchen garden, but that became a pejorative label suggesting the home-grown simplicity of much mid-Victorian Scottish literature. Scholars dismissed Kailyard literature, epitomized by the works of James M. Barrie, Samuel R. Crockett, and Annie S. Swan, as sentimental, parochial, and inauthentic. Since the early twentieth-first century, scholars have begun to question the biases of the literary historical narratives constructed by 20th-century critics. Work on the impact of imperial expansion and emigration and on the formation of the Free Church of Scotland has transformed our understanding of Kailyard literature as a response to economic and social change. Research on the history of print has redirected our attention from London’s literary marketplace to local literary cultures in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee, in addition to other, less urban sites. These developments have begun to redress the exclusion of women and working-class writers from the study of Victorian Scottish literature. Writers working in Gaelic continue to be marginalized, although explorations of fin de siècle Celticism have revealed their impact on those writing in Scots and in English. This article includes sources on literature written in all of Scotland’s three languages: English, Scots, and Gaelic.
Dragonetti’s Virtuosity of Arrangement
Authors: Nachtergaele Shanti 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This study takes as its starting point a popular anecdote about Ludwig van Beethoven and the celebrated double bassist Domenico Dragonetti. The two virtuosos reportedly met in Vienna in 1799, and together they played Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2. Since Dragonetti never notated his adaptation of the cello part, the anecdote bears potential for the exploration of historically informed transcription. As an approach to Arrangement Studies, historically informed transcription shifts the focus of study from the arrangement itself to the act of arranging and its associated aural, visual, and tactile experiences. Transcribing the cello sonata highlights the relationship between Dragonetti’s instrument and his performance idiom and provides insights into the possible motivations behind his penchant for arrangement as a medium for virtuosic display.
Building Partnerships
Authors: Kranke Matthias 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Even though the International Monetary Fund (IMF) features among the most closely studied contemporary international organizations (IOs), we know surprisingly little about its interactions with other IOs. This chapter remedies this blind spot. It does so by reviewing the literature on the IMF for contributions on inter-IO dynamics and by providing basic profiles of the IMF’s interactions with six partner IOs: the World Bank, the European Union (EU), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations (UN), and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The overview developed in this chapter illustrates that our grasp of often quite routine interactions between IOs significantly lags behind our understanding of processes within IOs.
The IMF and World Bank
Authors: Clegg Liam 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Conventional wisdom presents the International Monetary Fund and World Bank as “Bretton Woods twins,” with approaches to economic governance that are highly similar if not in identity. By assessing dynamics surrounding inter-institutional collaborative work, this chapter probes this prevailing characterization. In relation to financial sector stability, poverty reduction, and climate change, we see that an initial period of senior-management-driven deep collaborative working rolled back to shallower information sharing and consultation, with at times significant points of tension arising between the organizations. Effective collaboration across 19th Street is, it seems, difficult to establish, and difficult to maintain.