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Efficiency of embryo complementation and pluripotency maintenance following multiple passaging of in vitro-derived bovine embryos
Authors: McGraw Maura S. , Bishman Jordan A. , Daigneault Bradford W. 
Published: June 2024

Context Current methods to obtain bovine embryos of high genetic merit include approaches that require skilled techniques for low-efficiency cloning strategies. Aims The overall goal herein was to identify the efficacy of alternative methods for producing multiple embryos through blastomere complementation while determining maintenance of cell pluripotency. Methods Bovine oocytes were fertilised in vitro to produce 4-cell embryos from which blastomeres were isolated and cultured as 2-cell aggregates using a well-of-the-well system. Aggregates were returned to incubation up to 7 days (Passage 1). A second passage of complement embryos was achieved by splitting 4-cell Passage 1 embryos. Passaged embryos reaching the blastocyst stage were characterised for cell number and cell lineage specification in replicate with non-reconstructed zona-intact embryos. Key results Passage 1 and 2 embryo complements yielded 29% and 25% blastocyst development, respectively. Passage 1 embryos formed blastocysts, but with a reduction in expression of SOX2 and decreased size compared to non-reconstructed zona-intact embryos. Passage 2 embryos had a complete lack of SOX2 expression and a reduction in transcript abundance of SOX2 and SOX17, suggesting loss of pluripotency markers that primarily affected inner cell mass (ICM) and hypoblast formation. Conclusions In vitro fertilised bovine embryos can be reconstructed with multiple passaging to generate genetically identical embryos. Increased passaging drives trophectoderm cell lineage specification while compromising ICM formation. Implications These results may provide an alternative strategy for producing genetically identical bovine embryos through blastomere complementation with applications towards the development of trophoblast and placental models of early development.
A selective and sensitive mercury sensor for drinking water based on fluorescence quenching of pure rhodamine B
Authors: Radiul Seikh Mustafa , Hazarika Simanta 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
The escalating threat of industrial pollutants, particularly heavy metals, in water sources poses a significant risk to global populations. Among these heavy metals, mercury stands out as a severe contaminant with detrimental health implications. This paper introduces a novel and efficient method for the selective detection of mercury ions in drinking water, employing laser-induced fluorescence with pure rhodamine B as the sensing probe. The method achieves a low detection limit of 7 ppb, closely approaching the World Health Organization’s maximum permissible limit. The simplicity of the procedure, coupled with the use of pure rhodamine B, distinguishes this approach from others relying on complex chemical procedures and derivatives of rhodamine B. The sensing mechanism involves the fluorescence quenching of rhodamine B due to complex formation with tetraiodomercurate. Noteworthy is the method’s selectivity, demonstrated by its resistance to interference from common ions present in water (e.g. Magnesium, calcium, sodium, and potassium), ensuring accurate detection of mercury ions. Extensive testing with tap water samples, considering potential interference, validates the robustness of the sensor, with recovery percentages of 99.25% and 109.2%. In summary, this study contributes a practical solution to the critical challenge of mercury detection in drinking water, addressing issues of sensitivity, selectivity, and on-site applicability. The proposed method holds promise for widespread implementation, enhancing efforts to safeguard public health and ensure the safety of water resources.
Pollution acceleration before braking: Evidence of environmental deterioration from the anticipated steel restriction policy in China
Authors: Qiang Will W , Luo Chen , Shi Shuai , Lyu Huaiqian , Wen Tianzuo , Yim Steve H L , Lee Harry F 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This research employs China’s steel restriction policy as a backdrop to investigate environmental policies’ unintended and counterproductive effects. Using high-resolution satellite-derived data and panel Difference-in-Differences regression, we found that the air pollution concentration in cities implementing the steel restriction policy is 5.688 μg/m3 higher than in control group cities. Additionally, the growth rate of air pollution in these cities is 6.577% faster. This quantitative evidence substantiates the backfire effect of the anticipation of environmental policy, where the delay between a policy’s announcement and its enforcement leads to a short-term surge in pollution levels. For China and other emerging economies, the development of a thorough and deliberate intergovernmental cooperation strategy is critical when formulating environmental policies. It involves synchronizing the efforts of different government levels in applying pollution controls and diminishing the interval of potential intense pollution in the pre-implementation phase.
Glorification of Terrorist Violence at the European Court of Human Rights
Authors: Sobol Ilya 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This article examines the European Court of Human Rights’ approach towards restrictions on expression glorifying terrorist violence. This is done by situating the Court’s case law against two objections to respective criminal offences: their inherent overbreadth and their incompatibility with the restraining demands of the ‘harm principle’. In doing so, the article discusses how the ‘harm principle’ relates to the proportionality test and how the Court’s categorisation of expression glorifying violence responds to the objection of overbreadth. In arguing that the tool of categorisation has not been determinative in driving the outcomes in relevant decisions, the article suggests that engaging the existence of a competing public interest and reviewing the admissibility of reasons for such restrictions would appropriately elevate the Convention standard. Finally, the article argues that inconsistencies across decisions are best explained by the Court’s deference-giving practices, particularly in cases involving claims about the recency of terrorist violence.
Tiny Amphibious Insects Use Tripod Gait for Traversal on Land, Water, and Duckweed
Authors: O’Neil Johnathan N , Yung Kai Lauren , Difini Gaetano , Walker Holden , Bhamla Saad 
Published: June 2024

Synopsis
Insects exhibit remarkable adaptability in their locomotive strategies in diverse environments, a crucial trait for foraging, survival, and predator avoidance. Microvelia americana, tiny 2–3 mm insects that adeptly walk on water surfaces, exemplify this adaptability by using the alternating tripod gait in both aquatic and terrestrial terrains. These insects commonly inhabit low-flow ponds and streams cluttered with natural debris like leaves, twigs, and duckweed. Using high-speed imaging and pose-estimation software, we analyze M. americana movement on water, sandpaper (simulating land), and varying duckweed densities (10%, 25%, and 50% coverage). Our results reveal M. americana maintain consistent joint angles and strides of their upper and hind legs across all duckweed coverages, mirroring those seen on sandpaper. Microvelia americana adjust the stride length of their middle legs based on the amount of duckweed present, decreasing with increased duckweed coverage and at 50% duckweed coverage, their middle legs’ strides closely mimic their strides on sandpaper. Notably, M. americana achieve speeds up to 56 body lengths per second on the deformable surface of water, nearly double those observed on sandpaper and duckweed, which are rough, heterogeneous surfaces. This study highlights M. americana’s ecological adaptability, setting the stage for advancements in amphibious robotics that emulate their unique tripod gait for navigating complex terrains.
Audre Lorde
Authors: Rutter Emily Ruth 
Published: June 2024

Born in Harlem to Caribbean immigrant parents, Audrey Geraldine Lorde (b. 1934–d. 1992) dropped the “y” on her first name early in her career so that her printed name achieved poetic symmetry; late in her career, Lorde also adopted Gamba Adisa (meaning warrior: she who makes her meaning clear) in an African naming ceremony. A self-proclaimed “Black lesbian feminist mother warrior poet,” Lorde refused to privilege one part of her experience at the expense of another, embracing the multiple aspects of her being and self. Her professional achievements include being a co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first press operated by and expressly for women of color, poetry editor for the influential feminist quarterly Chrysalis: A Magazine of Female Culture, a longtime professor at both John Jay College for Criminal Justice and Hunter College, New York poet laureate (1991–1992), and mentor and namesake in Hunter College’s Audre Lorde Women’s Poetry Center. Perhaps most importantly, Lorde had a profound impact on the landscape of American poetry, Black feminist praxis, and the literature of illness and healing. Before the term was coined, Lorde was practicing the art of the auto-theoretical text, braiding the personal, theoretical, and political, in her prose and poetry alike. As an artist-activist, Lorde also engaged in a range of interconnected struggles for liberation. During the 1960s and 70s, she was part of the movements for civil rights, lesbian and gay rights, and women’s rights. She was a staunch Black feminist, and collaborated with the Combahee River Collective and ThirdWorld and postcolonial feminist activists and writers. She advocated for the establishment of a Black Studies department at John Jay College, for educational equity at City College of New York, and against institutionalized racism in New York City public schools. As she battled cancer in the last decade of her life, Lorde turned her attention to health-care inequities and environmental injustices while continuing to militate against systemic racism, drawing connections between racial apartheid in South Africa and similar racial hierarchies in the United States and across the African diaspora. Indeed, whether living in the United States, Europe, or the Caribbean, Lorde’s activism and community work were never separated from her prose and poetry but instead the fulcrum around which her writing pivoted. The thread that best characterizes Lorde’s capacious corpus is her steadfast refusal of the “master’s tools,” or the doxas that serve to divide and conquer and, therefore, stymie coalition-building and progressive change.
Learning to Perform Music in the Hadhrami Arab Community
Authors: Hilarian Larry Francis 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
The aim of this study is to explore the significance of learning to perform music and dance in the Hadhrami Arab society mainly in Singapore and the wider Malay world. More specifically, this research focuses on the proliferation of a specific music and dance genre known as sharah and its associated musical instruments, focusing on it as an important symbolic expression of the Hadhrami Arab consciousness. Sharah musical practices retain a strong Hadhrami Arabian cultural identity. Musical instruments such as the gambu, marwas, jidur, tabl fakhar, tombak, and kompang are specifically of Arabian origins and are commonly deployed in this musical genre. The author surveys the fundamental philosophical aspects of music and discuss the perceptions held about music in some Islamic tenets. This leads to an exploration of the delicate balance between the philosophies of music and the functionality of music in contemporary Muslim society.
Nā-kojā-Ābād
Authors: Niknafs Nasim 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
The founder of the Illuminationist (Ishraq) philosophy, Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi (1154–1191) ranks as one of the most prominent Persian philosophers. Suhrawardi’s command of logic and philosophy and his mastery of Sufi spirituality led him to develop his masterwork, the Philosophy of Illumination, where he laid his groundwork on the nature of knowing. In the current chapter, by explicating this philosophy in its original context and detailing some of its salient constructs, including the Imaginal World, Light of Lights, and Nā-kojā-Ābād (Place of No-where), the author posits that this philosophy has much to contribute to neglected ideas of trust, conviction, and self-recognition in the philosophy of music education. The author contends that bestowing trust, and guidelines to self-recognition to reach a place of serenity with music is the most significant element in the Illuminationist philosophy.
Historical, Philosophical, and Educational Thought and the Music of the Turks
Authors: Levendoğlu N. Oya , Jones Steven 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
The author presents the meşk tradition as the foremost method of memory transmission of the culture from the Ottoman Period through the contemporary world within a multi-dimensional perception, concentrating on music which is one of the fundamental elements of Turkish art containing a profound world of meanings in a meticulous philosophical and spiritual background. This chapter contains both theoretical and practical aspects. The philosophical background reveals that the spiritual perception is as important as the musical sound, described in the first section referring to Ottoman sources. The second section includes the results of applications aiming to revive the meşk tradition in which systematic and conscious revival in contemporary circumstances is a critical necessity for the young generation in their professional life and spiritual apprehension.
“Let’s Talk about Sex”
Authors: Schwartz Jessica A. 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Women’s voices and spaces for talking and sharing their health concerns are of primary importance to the possibility of empowerment. Discussions about the body and sexuality, while often mapped onto female-assigned persons, have historically been treated as taboo. Without conversations around the bodymind, well-being, and sex, heteropatriarchal controls over women’s bodies persist. In the age of Trump and abortion bans, it is crucial for marginalized groups to reclaim their means of bodily and sexual empowerment. This chapter suggests that humor and other rhetorical and poetic compositional devices are important means of health-based subversion in the punk and rap feminist trios discussed. Humor is a helpful way to break down some of the fear, anxiety, and stigma surrounding women talking about (and) feeling, including touching, their bodies. This chapter affirms how the ear, as an idealized body part in which information supposedly penetrates, is constitutive in reclaiming women’s health.
Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, and the “Parting of the Ways”
Authors: Jackson-McCabe Matt 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This essay surveys Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles in the context of scholarly discussion of the “parting of the ways” between Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles present significant challenges for historians interested in reconstructing the historical separation of Christianity from Judaism—a separation that was not merely a function of cultural values or social interaction, but most especially of taxonomic assertions about distinct group identities. Analysis of these disparate works illustrates the problems with making broad generalizations about some singular, historic “parting of the ways.” Hebrews aggressively strips ethnic identity from the scriptural traditions and cultic concepts of the Judeans, appropriating them for a transethnic people of God whose identity is based on claimed possession of a divine spirit rather than ethnic descent. While broadly similar approaches to identity seem to be at work in 1–2 Peter and 1–3 John, the partings with which these works are chiefly concerned are not with Jews or Judaism but with either “the Nations” from which their members have come or other, rival Jesus groups. The Letter of Jude, while obviously related to 2 Peter, is more ambiguous where matters of ethnicity are concerned. The Letter of James, finally, gives no indication that its cultivation of Judean scriptural tradition represents an appropriation either by or for a people defined over against ethnic Israel.
Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, and Pauline Christianity
Authors: Dyer Bryan R. 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
The aim of this essay is to put Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles into conversation with Pauline Christianity. Questions of historical relationships, content, and form will be examined in connection with the letters of Paul and the sketch of his career provided by the Acts of the Apostles. Notwithstanding the methodological challenges, there is heuristic value in putting the Catholic Epistles into conversation with Pauline Christianity. The level of agreement among these texts is noteworthy, all the more so when one considers that they were produced in disparate locations and by members of a movement without centralized coordination and only a nascent sense of orthodoxy. All are concerned with the person of Jesus Christ, his messianic identity and lordship, and the communities that have emerged to worship him. Each of these texts understands Jesus Christ to be a continuation of the work of God as revealed through Israel’s sacred Scriptures. When read alongside Paul, Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles offer striking agreement in terms of their content but also their form. In some places, Paul may have set the theological agenda and vocabulary these later writers adopt. The communities addressed in these writings struggled with many of the same issues: a delayed parousia, false teachers, persecution, and the like. Yet Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles stand out in how they address different questions and offer different solutions, and when they are read alongside Paul, the signal contributions of these often neglected texts come into sharper relief.
The Reception of Hebrews in the Roman Catholic Tradition at the Council of Trent
Authors: Mitchell Alan C. 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This essay considers the use of Hebrews in the deliberations at the Council of Trent (1545–63) in response to the theological challenges posed by the Protestant Reformers. The reception of Hebrews at the Council of Trent stressed the importance of the sermon in countering the Reformers on very important doctrinal issues. First, the numerous textual citations from Hebrews show its acceptance in the canon of Scripture as an authoritative voice to counter the teachings of the Reformers on particular issues like Original Sin, justification, the Eucharist, the sacrificial character of the Mass, and the distinction between external and internal priesthoods vis-à-vis the Reformers’ understanding of the priesthood of all believers. Second, the many appeals to Hebrews by the bishops and theologians of Trent place the sermon at the heart of the worship life of the Roman Catholic Church, the pastoral side of its reception in Catholicism joining the doctrinal side. This reception, however, is not without its problems, chief among which is the long-standing practice of interpreting Hebrews as evidence for supersessionism, the rejection and replacement of Judaism with Christianity. Fortunately, that changed with the promulgation of the decree Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council’s “Declaration on the Church’s Relation to Non-Christian Religions,” in 1965.
Apocalyptic Traditions in the Catholic Epistles
Authors: Marcar Katie 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This essay examines the influence of apocalyptic literature and the significance of apocalyptic themes in the Catholic Epistles. While none of the Catholic Epistles is an apocalypse by genre, they all manifest various apocalyptic themes. James reflects a synthesis of apocalyptic and wisdom traditions. The letter of 1 Peter is saturated with apocalyptic themes. This essay therefore selectively investigates the apocalyptic influence in three specific passages: 1 Pet 1:10–12, 3:18–22, and 4:1–6. Jude and 2 Peter, treated together, are deeply saturated in the world of Jewish apocalyptic literature, with Jude directly quoting from 1 Enoch. The essay briefly examines these connections, with particular attention to epistemology, otherworldly places and beings, and eschatology. Apocalyptic themes in the Johannine Epistles are investigated, with particular attention to how the themes of epistemology, cosmology, and eschatology are transmitted through the dualism of the letters.
Anonymity, Orthonymity, and Pseudonymity in Hebrews and the Catholic Letters
Authors: Baum Armin D. 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This essay considers the dynamics of authorial attribution in early Christian letter writing, including anonymity, orthonymity, and pseudonymity, in the Catholic Letters. The authorial attributions in the Catholic Letters must be interpreted within a broader context. The corpus of the Apostolic Fathers also contains both named and anonymous letters. While the meaning of orthonymity is rather obvious and the meaning of pseudonymity has been investigated in depth, literary anonymity can be explained more precisely than in previous research. First, the anonymity of early Christian letters had a practical precondition. As Galen of Pergamon’s comments on his anonymous texts demonstrate, texts that were designed for students and friends did not need inscriptions with the author’s name since the intended readers knew who the author was. Likewise, personal relationships with their readers allowed the writers of Hebrews and the so-called Johannine Letters to write their texts anonymously. Second, the anonymity of early Christian letters had a programmatic purpose. This can be deduced from the concept of literary anonymity in ancient narratives, where it was much more common. The anonymous authors of the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews wanted to express that they were not the creators of their messages but only witnesses of what they had seen and heard and transmitters of the teaching of Jesus and his apostles.
Freeform Radio and the History of Music Streaming
Authors: Razlogova Elena 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
This chapter uses freeform radio history to critique the current media studies research agenda focused on streaming platforms at the expense of alternatives. It argues that the freeform radio format’s affinities with hacker culture drove technological innovation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the pre-web era of Bulletin Board Systems and Gopher sites. In this period, the freeform format thrived in nonprofit college radio, mixing emerging and historical music genres. The final part of the chapter analyzes telephone and online distribution experiments at WFMU, a freeform station at Upsala College, New Jersey. Its volunteer engineers and online services they set up were embedded in WFMU’s analog mutual-aid networks of New York art and music scenes, national zines, and international tape exchange routes. This history provides a model of solidarity and survival for alternative media, crucial for the centralized music streaming present.
Through the Wild Dark
Authors: Whitehead Gregory 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Written from the perspective of a lifelong radiomaker, this chapter explores the poetic qualities latent within broadcast radio space as the raw material for radio art; a broadcast practice emerging from the audio cassette underground during a time of inverted utopia; radio listening as unstable spontaneity and free association; radio art as a sounded play of charged disclosure; the aesthetic implications of a fungal media ecology; Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems as prototypes for schizophonic textuality; and radio art as a practice of vulnerology, hearing evidence within a space of trauma and recuperation.