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The Violence of Economies of Dispossession in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends
Authors: Seger Maria 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
This article reads Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends (1857) as imagining how extralegal violence might advance economies of dispossession—those mechanisms through which capitalism racializes property, subjection, and expropriation to facilitate accumulation—in free Black communities. This claim extends work in critical ethnic studies on economies of dispossession by turning our attention to the nineteenth century. It also complements Carla L. Peterson’s reading of the novel’s imagination of Black resistance to racial capitalism with attention to the novel’s precise analysis of how racial capitalism might function. The Garies and Their Friends conceptualizes how quotidian economies of dispossession (namely, hampering intergenerational wealth transfer and proto-gentrification) rely on blatantly racist forms of extralegal violence to manufacture catastrophes that orchestrate and manage the devaluation and dispossession of Black property for accumulation by the white elite. Put another way, it illustrates how racialized and racializing extralegal violence advanced economies of dispossession through a traditional inheritance plot and an innovative displacement and proto-gentrification plot. In the novel, extralegal violence, alongside the law and legal violence, furthers dispossession by attempting to enact strict definitions of race and to regulate privately owned space. Thus, the novel points to how extralegal violence attempted to definitively contain and perform shifting and undefinable notions of race across the nineteenth century. Ultimately, attention to a more varied set of nineteenth-century forms of dispossession, alongside slavery and settler colonialism, sheds light on how capitalism’s expansion has always depended on the predation, fraud, and thievery facilitated by racialization, then as now.
CSST strong lensing preparation: forecasting the galaxy–galaxy strong lensing population for the China space station telescope
Authors: Cao Xiaoyue , Li Ran , Li Nan , Li Rui , Chen Yun , Ding Keyi , Shan Huanyuan , Zhan Hu , Zhang Xin , Du Wei , Cao Shuo 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
Galaxy–galaxy strong gravitational lensing (GGSL) is a powerful probe for the formation and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, while the sample size of GGSLs leads to considerable uncertainties and potential bias. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST, to be launched in late 2026) will conduct observations across 17 500 square degrees of the sky, capturing images in the $ugriz$ bands with a spatial resolution comparable to that of the Hubble Space Telescope. We ran a set of Monte Carlo simulations to predict that the CSST’s wide-field survey will observe $\sim$160 000 galaxy–galaxy strong lenses over its lifespan, increasing the number of existing galaxy–galaxy strong lens samples by three orders of magnitude. This is comparable to the capabilities of the $\it Euclid$ telescope but with the added benefit of additional colour information. Specifically, the CSST can detect strong lenses with Einstein radii about $0.64\pm 0.42 ^{\prime \prime }$, corresponding to the velocity dispersions of $217.19 \pm 50.55 \, \text{km/s}$. These lenses exhibit a median magnification of $\sim$5. The apparent magnitude of the unlensed sources in the g band is $25.87 \pm 1.19$. The signal-to-noise ratio of the lensed images covers a range of ${\sim} 20$ to ${\sim} 1000$, allowing us to determine the Einstein radius with an accuracy ranging from ${\sim} 1~{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ to ${\sim} 0.1~{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$, ignoring various modelling systematics. Our estimates indicate that CSST can observe rare systems like double source-plane and spiral galaxy lenses. The above selection functions of the CSST strong lensing observation help optimize the strategy of finding and modelling GGSLs.
Impact of nuclear matter properties on the nucleosynthesis and the kilonova from binary neutron star merger ejecta
Authors: Ricigliano Giacomo , Jacobi Maximilian , Arcones Almudena 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
Material expelled from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can harbour r-process nucleosynthesis and power a kilonova (KN), both intimately related to the astrophysical conditions of the ejection. In turn such conditions indirectly depend on the equation of state (EOS) describing matter inside the neutron star. Therefore, in principle the above observables can hold valuable information on nuclear matter, as the merger gravitational wave signal already does. In this work, we consider the outcome of a set of BNS merger simulations employing different finite-temperature nuclear EOSs. The latter are obtained from a Skyrme-type interaction model where nuclear properties, such as the incompressibility and the nucleon effective mass at saturation density, are systematically varied. We post-process the ejecta using a reaction network coupled with a semi-analytic KN model, to assess the sensitivity on the input EOS of the final yields and the KN light curves. Both of them are found to be non-trivially influenced by the EOS, with the overall outcome being dominated by the heterogeneous outflows from the remnant disc, hosting a variable degree of neutron-rich material. The dynamical ejecta can be more directly related to the EOS parameters considered; however, we find their role in the yields production and the KN emission too entangled with the other ejecta components, in order to infer solid correlations. This result highlights the strong degeneracy that intervenes between the merger outcome and the behaviour of the intrinsic nuclear matter, and places itself as a limit to the employment of EOS-constraining approaches of such kind.
Impact of vegetation albedo on the habitability of Earth-like exoplanets
Authors: Bisesi E , Murante G , Provenzale A , Biasiotti L , von Hardenberg J , Ivanovski S , Maris M , Monai S , Silva L , Simonetti P , Vladilo G 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
Vegetation can modify the planetary surface albedo via the Charney mechanism, as plants are usually darker than the bare surface of the continents. We updated ESTM (Earth-like surface temperature model) to incorporate the presence, distribution and evolution of two dynamically competing vegetation types that resemble grasslands and trees (the latter in the double stages of life: adults and seedlings). The newly developed model was applied to estimate how the climate-vegetation system reaches equilibrium across different rocky planetary configurations, and to assess its impact on temperature and habitability. With respect to a world with bare granite continents, the effect of vegetation-albedo feedback is to increase the average surface temperature. Since grasses and trees exhibit different albedos, they affect temperature to different degrees. The ultimate impact on climate depends on the outcome of the competition between these vegetation types. The change in albedo due to vegetation extends the habitable zone and enhances the overall planetary habitability beyond its traditional outer edge. This effect is especially relevant for planets that have a larger extension of continents than Earth. For Earth, the semimajor axis d = 1.04 au represents the turning point where vegetation enhances habitability from h = 0.0 to 0.485 (in the grass-dominance case), to h = 0.584 (in the case of coexistence between grasses and trees), and to h = 0.612 (in the tree-dominance case). This illustrates the transition from a snowball state to a planet with intermediate habitability at the outer edge of the circumstellar habitability zone.
The sizes of bright Lyman-break galaxies at z ≃ 3–5 with JWST PRIMER
Authors: Varadaraj R G , Bowler R A A , Jarvis M J , Adams N J , Choustikov N , Koekemoer A M , Carnall A C , McLeod D J , Dunlop J S , Donnan C T , Grogin N A 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
We use data from the JWST Public Release IMaging for Extragalactic Research survey to measure the size scaling relations of 1668 rest-frame UV-bright Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at $z=3\!-\!5$ with stellar masses $\mathrm{log}_{10}({\it M}_{\star}/{\rm M}_{\odot }) \gt 9$. The sample was selected from seeing-dominated ground-based data, presenting an unbiased sampling of the morphology and size distributions of luminous sources. We fit Sérsic profiles to eight NIRCam bands and also measure a non-parametric half-light radius. We find that the size distributions with both measurements are well-fit by a lognormal distribution at all redshifts, consistent with disc formation models where size is governed by host dark-matter halo angular momentum. We find a size–redshift evolution of $R_{\rm e} = 3.51(1+z)^{-0.60\pm 0.22}$ kpc, in agreement with JWST studies. When considering the typical (modal) size over $z=3\!-\!5$, we find little evolution with bright LBGs remaining compact at $R_{\rm e}\simeq 0.7{-}0.9$ kpc. Simultaneously, we find evidence for a build-up of large ($R_{\rm e} \gt 2$ kpc) galaxies by $z=3$. We find some evidence for a negatively sloped size–mass relation at $z=5$ when Sérsic profiles are used to fit the data in F200W. The intrinsic scatter in our size–mass relations increases at higher redshifts. Additionally, measurements probing the rest-UV (F200W) show larger intrinsic scatter than those probing the rest-optical (F356W). Finally, we leverage rest-UV and rest-optical photometry to show that discy galaxies are well established by $z=5$, but are beginning to undergo dissipative processes, such as mergers, by $z=3$. The agreement of our size–mass and size–luminosity relations with simulations provides tentative evidence for centrally concentrated star formation at high redshift.
Gravity or turbulence? – VI. The physics behind the Kennicutt–Schmidt relation
Authors: Ballesteros-Paredes Javier , Zamora-Avilés Manuel , Román-Zúñiga Carlos , Palau Aina , Cervantes-Sodi Bernardo , Gutiérrez-Dávila Karla , Camacho Vianey , Jiménez-Andrade Eric , Gazol Adriana 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
We explain the large variety of star formation laws in terms of one single, simple law that can be inferred from the definition of the star formation rate and basic algebra. The resulting equation, ${\rm SFR}= {\epsilon _\mathrm{ff}}\ M_\mathrm{collapse}/{\tau _{\rm ff}}$, although it has been presented elsewhere, is interpreted in terms of clouds undergoing collapse rather than being turbulence supported, an idea that different groups have pursued this century. Under such assumption, one can explain the constancy of ${\epsilon _\mathrm{ff}}$, the different intra-cloud correlations observed in Milky Way’s molecular clouds, as well as the resolved and unresolved extragalactic relationships between SFR and a measurement of the mass in CO, HCN, and CO + HI. We also explain why the slope of the correlation changes when the orbital time ${\tau _{\rm orb}}$ is considered instead of the free-fall time, and why estimations of the free-fall time from extragalactic observations skew the correlation, providing a false sublinear correlation. We furthermore show that the apparent nearly linear correlation between the star formation rate and the dynamical equilibrium pressure in the mid-plane of the galaxies, $P_{\rm DE}$, is just a consequence of $P_{\rm DE}$ values being dominated by the variation of the column density of molecular gas. All in all, we argue that the star formation law is driven by the collapse of cold, dense gas, which happens to be primarily molecular in the present Universe, and that the role of stellar feedback is just to shut down the star formation process, not to shape the star formation law.
JWST PRIMER: a new multifield determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 9 – 15
Authors: Donnan C T , McLure R J , Dunlop J S , McLeod D J , Magee D , Arellano-Córdova K Z , Barrufet L , Begley R , Bowler R A A , Carnall A C , Cullen F , Ellis R S , Fontana A , Illingworth G D , Grogin N A , Hamadouche M L , Koekemoer A M , Liu F -Y , Mason C , Santini P , Stanton T M 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
We present a new determination of the evolving galaxy ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function (LF) over the redshift range $8.5&lt; z&lt; 15.5$ using a combination of several major Cycle-1 JWST imaging programmes – Public Release IMaging for Extragalactic Research, JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, and Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public Survey. This multifield approach yields a total of $\simeq 370$ arcmin2 of JWST/NIRCam imaging, reaching (5-$\sigma$) depths of $\simeq 30$ AB mag in the deepest regions. We select a sample of 2548 galaxies with a significant probability of lying at high redshift ($p(z&gt; 8.5)&gt; 0.05$) to undertake a statistical calculation of the UV LF. Our new measurements span $\simeq 4$ mag in UV luminosity at $z=9-12.5$, placing new constraints on both the shape and evolution of the LF at early times. Our measurements yield a new estimate of the early evolution of cosmic star-formation rate density ($\rho _{\rm {SFR}}$) confirming the gradual decline deduced from early JWST studies, at least out to $z \simeq 12$. Finally we show that the observed early evolution of the galaxy UV LF (and $\rho _{\rm {SFR}}$) can be reproduced in a ${\rm \Lambda }$cold dark matter Universe, with no change in dust properties or star-formation efficiency required out to $z \simeq 12$. Instead, a progressive trend towards younger stellar population ages can reproduce the observations, and the typical ages required at $z \simeq$ 8, 9, 10, and 11 all converge on $\simeq 380-330$ Myr after the big bang, indicative of a rapid emergence of early galaxies at $z \simeq 12 - 13$. This is consistent with the first indications of a steeper drop-off in $\rho _{\rm {SFR}}$ we find beyond $z \simeq 13$, possibly reflecting the rapid evolution of the halo mass function at earlier times.
Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease-TAFRO after COVID-19: A case report
Authors: Shiina Tatsuro , Yamamoto Eriko Kashihara , Yamada Hirotaka , Sendo Sho , Kanzawa Maki , Saegusa Jun 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
TAFRO syndrome, a rare disease characterised by thrombocytopaenia, anasarca, fever, reticulin fibrosis, and organomegaly, is thought to be caused by hypercytokinaemia. It is a heterogeneous clinical entity, and a recent comprehensive international definition defined TAFRO syndrome with lymph node histopathology consistent with idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) as iMCD-TAFRO. Herein, we present a rare case of iMCD-TAFRO following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. A 62-year-old Japanese woman, initially diagnosed with COVID-19, developed a persistent fever and fluid retention, prompting the diagnosis of iMCD-TAFRO. Following the initiation of prednisolone and cyclosporine, her symptoms gradually resolved. Therefore, we discuss the potential pathophysiological link between COVID-19 and iMCD-TAFRO, emphasising the role of cytokine storms. This case report highlights the importance of recognising the spectrum of inflammatory states after COVID-19 and differentiating iMCD-TAFRO after COVID-19 from the COVID-19 cytokine storm syndrome.
Performing Te: Gesture and Timbre in Fujikura Dai’s neo for Solo Shamisen
Authors: Momii Toru 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
This article proposes an intercultural analysis of gesture and timbre in Fujikura Dai’s neo for solo shamisen (2014). I analyze neo through the concept of te, a term used by shamisen players to refer to 1) recurring melodic patterns; and 2) their characteristic fingerings, hand positions, and performance techniques. My analysis of neo highlights how a performer’s use of te can shape the form of a piece. Through aural and visual analysis of performances by shamisen player Honjoh Hidejirō, I demonstrate how the form of neo unfolds through changes in te. Weaving together the embodied knowledge of shamisen players, Japanese and U.S./Canadian theories of fretboard topography, and performance analysis, my consideration of te serves as an intercultural mode of analysis that reflects Fujikura’s and Honjoh’s backgrounds in Western art music, shamisen performance, and rock.
DDInter 2.0: an enhanced drug interaction resource with expanded data coverage, new interaction types, and improved user interface
Authors: Tian Yao , Yi Jiacai , Wang Ningning , Wu Chengkun , Peng Jinfu , Liu Shao , Yang Guoping , Cao Dongsheng 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Drug interactions pose significant challenges in clinical practice, potentially leading to adverse drug reactions, reduced efficacy, and even life-threatening consequences. As polypharmacy becomes increasingly common, the risk of harmful drug interactions rises, underscoring the need for comprehensive and user-friendly drug interaction resources to ensure patient safety. To address these concerns and support healthcare professionals in optimizing drug therapy, we present DDInter 2.0, a significantly expanded and enhanced update to our drug interaction database. This new version incorporates additional interaction types, including drug-food interactions (DFIs), drug-disease interactions (DDSIs), and therapeutic duplications, providing a more complete resource for clinical decision-making. The updated database covers 2310 drugs, with 302 516 drug–drug interaction (DDI) records accompanied by 8398 distinct, high-quality mechanism descriptions and management recommendations. DDInter 2.0 also includes 857 DFIs, 8359 DDSIs and 6033 therapeutic duplication records, each supplemented with detailed information and guidance. Furthermore, the enhanced user interface and advanced filtering options in this second release facilitate easy access to and analysis of the comprehensive drug interaction data. By providing healthcare professionals and researchers with a more complete and user-friendly resource, DDInter 2.0 aims to support clinical decision-making and ultimately improve patient outcomes. DDInter 2.0 is freely accessible at https://ddinter2.scbdd.com.
Assembling bacterial puzzles: piecing together functions into microbial pathways
Authors: Chung Henri C , Friedberg Iddo , Bromberg Yana 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Functional metagenomics enables the study of unexplored bacterial diversity, gene families, and pathways essential to microbial communities. However, discovering biological insights with these data is impeded by the scarcity of quality annotations. Here, we use a co-occurrence-based analysis of predicted microbial protein functions to uncover pathways in genomic and metagenomic biological systems. Our approach, based on phylogenetic profiles, improves the identification of functional relationships, or participation in the same biochemical pathway, between enzymes over a comparable homology-based approach. We optimized the design of our profiles to identify potential pathways using minimal data, clustered functionally related enzyme pairs into multi-enzymatic pathways, and evaluated our predictions against reference pathways in the KEGG database. We then demonstrated a novel extension of this approach to predict inter-bacterial protein interactions amongst members of a marine microbiome. Most significantly, we show our method predicts emergent biochemical pathways between known and unknown functions. Thus, our work establishes a basis for identifying the potential functional capacities of the entire metagenome, capturing previously unknown and abstract functions into discrete putative pathways.
Aggressive high-grade NF2 mutant meningiomas downregulate oncogenic YAP signaling via the upregulation of VGLL4 and FAT3/4
Authors: Parrish Abigail G , Arora Sonali , Thirimanne H Nayanga , Rudoy Dmytro , Schmid Sebastian , Sievers Philipp , Sahm Felix , Holland Eric C , Szulzewsky Frank 
Published: August 2024

Abstract

Background
Meningiomas are the most common primary central nervous system tumors in adults. Although generally benign, a subset is of higher grade and ultimately fatal. Around half of all meningiomas harbor inactivating mutations in NF2, leading to deregulation of oncogenic YAP1 activity. While benign NF2 mutant meningiomas exhibit few genetic events in addition to NF2 inactivation, aggressive high-grade NF2 mutant meningiomas frequently harbor a highly aberrant genome. It is unclear if NF2 mutant meningiomas of different grades are equally reliant on YAP activity.

Methods
We analyzed bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq data from a large cohort of human meningiomas for the expression of YAP1 target genes and Hippo effectors as well as in vitro cell line experiments.

Results
Aggressive NF2 mutant meningiomas harbor decreased expression levels of YAP1 target genes and increased expression levels of the YAP1 antagonist VGLL4 and the upstream regulators FAT3/4 compared to their benign counterparts. Decreased expression of YAP1 target genes as well as high expression of VGLL4 and FAT3/4 is significantly associated with an increased risk of recurrence. In vitro, overexpression of VGLL4 resulted in the downregulation of YAP activity in benign NF2 mutant meningioma cells, confirming the direct link between VGLL4 expression and decreased levels of YAP activity observed in aggressive NF2 mutant meningiomas.

Conclusions
Our results shed new insight into the biology of benign and aggressive NF2 mutant meningiomas and may have important implications for the efficacy of therapies targeting oncogenic YAP1 activity in NF2 mutant meningiomas.
Cannabis Use and Subsequent Cigarette Discontinuation Among U.S. Adults in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, Waves 1–5
Authors: Sedani Ami E , Frank-Pearce Summer G , Beebe Laura A , Campbell Janis E , Peck Jennifer D , Chou Ann F , Cohn Amy M 
Published: August 2024

Abstract

Introduction
This study examined the association between the current co-use of cannabis and cigarettes in the past 30 days and subsequent cigarette discontinuation (past 30-day point-prevalence abstinence) among U.S. adults with established cigarette use in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study. Additionally, we investigated the impact of co-use on the subsequent discontinuation of all combustible tobacco products.

Aims and Methods
A total of 26 381 observations contributed by 8218 adults with established cigarette use (ie, smoked ≥100 cigarettes in their lifetime, and currently smoking cigarettes every day or some days) from waves 1–5 of the PATH Study were included in the analysis. Weighted generalized estimating equations (GEE) models were used to evaluate the association between current co-use at baseline (waves 1–4) with the outcomes assessed at the subsequent wave (cigarette and combustible tobacco discontinuation at waves 2–5). Final models included: Demographic characteristics (age, sex, race and ethnicity, and educational attainment), behavior characteristics (intention to quit, internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms, and substance use problems), and wave-pair.

Results
Over one-third (35.91%) of the adults currently smoking cigarettes self-reported co-use during the study period. Cannabis use among adults with established cigarette use increased over time. Co-use was associated with decreased odds of cigarette smoking discontinuation at follow-up, after adjusting for covariates (aOR: 0.81; 95% CI: 0.72, 0.93; p = .0018). Similar effect sizes were observed for the discontinuation of all combustible tobacco products (aOR: 0.75; 95% CI: 0.65, 0.86; p &lt; .0001).

Conclusions
Cannabis use among adults with established cigarette use was inversely related to subsequent cigarette discontinuation, suggesting that co-use may reduce the likelihood of successful tobacco cessation.

Implications
Findings demonstrate that cannabis use may lead to lower odds of discontinuation among adults with established cigarette use; therefore, individuals who co-use cigarettes and cannabis may need additional tobacco cessation support. Notably, this study observed an increase in the co-use of cigarettes and cannabis, emphasizing the need for researchers and public health programs to shift their focus toward understanding and addressing concurrent substance use among adults who smoke cigarettes.