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Sparse sensing to dense assessment: Incorporating spatial autocorrelation for assessing flood impacts
Authors: Chen Yudi , Ji Wenying 
Published: May 2024

AbstractA rapid and comprehensive assessment of flood impacts is critical to assist emergency managers in conducting effective relief operations. With advances in information technologies, various types of sensors have been widely used to assess flood impacts promptly as they are capable of providing rapid flood impact information. However, sensor‐driven approaches are limited in the provision of a comprehensive impact assessment as sensors are often sparsely distributed. In this research, the authors integrate the sparse flood impact information obtained from sensors and the spatial autocorrelation of flood‐impacted areas, in order to achieve a rapid and comprehensive flood impact assessment. To achieve such a purpose, a systematic approach is proposed to (1) extract flood impact information from sparsely distributed sensors; (2) model the spatial autocorrelation of flood‐impacted areas based on flood evolution and geography principles; (3) learn the parameters of the spatial autocorrelation model through a gradient descent method; (4) infer the flood impacts of sensor‐uncovered areas based on the sparsely sensed impacts and the modeled spatial autocorrelation. To illustrate the proposed approach, we studied flood impacts on Highways in Houston, Texas during Hurricane Harvey. Results show that the spatial autocorrelation model presents a decent generalization capability in inferring the probability of neighboring highway blocks having the same flood impacts. Compared to purely sensor‐driven approaches, the proposed approach is capable of greatly extending the coverage of flood impact assessment while maintaining the nearly same accuracy.
The donation method: A new behavioral measure for white collar crime?
Authors: Constantin Katie , Reese Bruce , Boyett Kirstie 
Published: May 2024

AbstractTo comprehensively grasp, predict, and address the complexity of white collar crime, robust measurement tools are imperative. The burgeoning interdisciplinary interest in this domain has spurred the development of diverse assessment tools aimed at capturing offending behavior and its proxies. In the present paper, we provide an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of several commonly employed measures, including official statistics, victimization surveys, self‐report surveys, and (quasi)experimental measures. Drawing insights from this review, we then introduce a novel behavioral measure: the donation method. Although the task was originally designed to examine behaviors of interest to behavioral economists, we carefully outline strategies to refine and implement the donation method to assess white collar crime, addressing challenges such as task suitability and controlling for respondent behavior. Additionally, we provide a sample task to illustrate how such a tool could be used within this field. We conclude by underlining the appeal of adopting innovative measurement tools like the donation method to advance our collective understanding of white collar crime. By advocating for its widespread adoption and providing guidance for its use, we endeavor to catalyze progress in the field, facilitating unique insights and, potentially, more efficacious strategies for confronting and surmounting the methodological obstacles inherent in studying this elusive form of criminal activity.
Liberalising non‐tariff measures through regional trade agreements: The impact on multinational production
Authors: Raimondi Valentina , Scoppola Margherita 
Published: May 2024

AbstractModern Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) include, among other chapters, ones concerning sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and technical barriers to trade (TBT). Drawing on recent literature highlighting the relationship between “deep” RTAs and the global organisation of production, this paper empirically investigates whether these SPS and TBT provisions affect multinational production in the food, beverages and tobacco industry. To this end, we combine two different databases to estimate, in a panel gravity framework, both the intensive and extensive margins of multinational production. Because the extensive margin of multinational production may be persistent, a dynamic probit specification is used. Our results show that legally enforceable SPS sections in RTAs, in particular, influence multinational production, though with a rather differentiated pattern in terms of intensive and extensive margins; further, the impact changes depending on the country of origin and destination.
Spurious hyperbicarbonatemia and a negative anion gap in a cat and a dog with severe rhabdomyolysis
Authors: Bouschor Jennifer , Shiprack Christopher S. , Lake Zachary , Racette Molly A. , Heinrich Daniel A. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractA 3‐year‐old male neutered domestic shorthair cat and a 2‐year‐old male neutered Labrador‐mix dog were separately presented to the Veterinary Medical Center for evaluation after sustaining significant muscle trauma due to a dog attack and seizure activity, respectively. In both cases, biochemical analysis was consistent with rhabdomyolysis. Additionally, a markedly increased measured serum bicarbonate concentration and negative calculated anion gap were observed. As these biochemical abnormalities were not expected and deemed incompatible with life, an interference with the analyzer measurement of bicarbonate involving marked increases in pyruvate and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) following myocyte injury was suspected. Venous blood gas analysis calculated bicarbonate concentration and anion gap were within reference interval, while measured LDH activity was markedly increased. These findings supported an analyzer‐generated interference. This is the first published report of a previously described chemistry analyzer interference of markedly increased LDH activity with serum bicarbonate concentration measurement in dogs and cats. Awareness of this interference is important, particularly in the emergency setting, as it may influence case management.
Teaching Philippine English through schoolscapes
Authors: Bernardo Alejandro S. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractSchools in general and their so‐called linguistic schoolscape in particular have become an interesting object and subject of (socio)linguistic investigation over the past few years. This article, therefore, explores how schoolscapes may be turned into a potential pedagogical arsenal for teaching and learning a local variety of English – Philippine English – and an avenue for a conceptualisation that English is indeed a plural language. One may note that in spite of the fact that schoolscapes are (socio)linguistically intricate and a learning space itself, the literature about linguistic schoolscapes as an instructional apparatus for teaching English and its varieties remains scant, and thus this article hopes to be a touchstone for an ongoing conversation about the pedagogical promise of schoolscapes more specifically in English language teaching in the Philippine setting. Put more succinctly, this article hopes to further explore the fertile intersection between schoolscape and slanted towards Philippine English pedagogy.
Analysis of Dyonic ModMax black hole through accretion disk
Authors: Shahzad M. R. , Abbas G. , Rehman H. , Ma Wen-Xiu 
Published: May 2024

AbstractIn the present study, we probe the geodesic motion and accretion of particles around the spherically symmetric Dyonic ModMax black hole using isothermal fluid. The geodesic motion of the particles around the black hole leads to the formation of disk like structure during the accretion process. We compute the radiant temperature, radioactive efficiency, radiant flux energy, circular orbits and observe the behavior of particles within stable circular orbits in the equatorial plane. We examine how the particles are perturbed during the process by using restoring forces and the oscillatory behavior of the particles surrounding a compact object and also investigate the fluid’s critical flow and maximum accretion rate. Our findings demonstrate how the black hole parameter $$\gamma $$
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and charge Q affect the circular geodesic of particles as well as the maximum accretion rate of the Dyonic ModMax black hole.
Explaining the $$B^+\rightarrow K^+ \nu \bar{\nu }$$ excess via a massless dark photon
Authors: Gabrielli Emidio , Marzola Luca , Müürsepp Kristjan , Raidal Martti 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThe Belle II collaboration has recently observed the rare decay $$B^+\rightarrow K^+ \nu \bar{\nu }$$

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→

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, finding an excess with respect to the Standard Model prediction. We explore the possibility that the data entails long-distance interactions induced by a massless dark photon, $$\gamma _{\scriptscriptstyle {D}}$$

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. This couples at the tree-level to an invisible, dark sector and to the Standard Model via higher-dimensional operators, such as the chromomagnetic-dipole coupling that we use to explain the excess. As the process $$B^+\rightarrow K^+ \gamma _{\scriptscriptstyle {D}}$$

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→

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D

is forbidden by angular momentum conservation, the transition mediated by the off-shell dark photon yields a three-body final state comprising a pair of dark fermions that show as a missing energy continuum in the detector, faking the neutrino signature. We show that the Belle II data is explained for perturbative values of the parameters of the model. This scenario predicts new contributions to the neutral B meson decays $$B^0\rightarrow K^* \gamma _{\scriptscriptstyle {D}}$$

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→

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, in which the emission of a on-shell dark photon is allowed, yielding a monochromatic missing energy signature. Analogously, an excess due to the emission of a dark photon is predicted for the $$B^0_s\rightarrow \phi + E_\textrm{miss}$$

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decay that could be scrutinized next at the LHCb experiments.
DIRTY INPUTS IN POWER PRODUCTION AND ITS CLEAN UP: A SIMPLE MODEL
Authors: SEN PARTHA , MITRA SIDDHARTHA 
Published: May 2024

This paper develops a model in which a country, which only has access to a dirty technology for producing electric power in the short run, looks to expand its production in the long run by only permitting new power plants based on clean technology. The model mimics current reality in which major developing countries are being pushed by factors, such as the Paris Climate agreement of 2015 and the large burden of mortality and morbidity resulting from use of fossil fuels, to rely more on clean technologies. Our model shows how emissions and emission intensity of power output after the adoption of clean technologies are increasing in the targets for power production set by the government before availability of such technology and supply variables such as the wage rate and expenses on fixed capital, and decreasing in the tax on power production before the availability of clean technologies. Finally, it is seen that for low enough cost of the clean resource input, a country with a higher demand is able to set a higher target for production with the dirty technology when the clean technology is not available and yet achieves lower emissions and emission intensity in the long run.
Informal Institutions and Audit Pricing: Cross-Country Evidence of National Culture and Audit Fees
Authors: Gull Ammar Ali , Atif Muhammad , Usman Muhammad 
Published: May 2024

Synopsis The research problem In this study, we examined the effect of an important informal institution, namely, national culture, on audit fees in an international context. Motivation In recent years, extant literature has increasingly focused on country-level differences in the audit environment, as these might have a significant influence on how financial statement audits are conducted across the globe. We contribute to this stream of literature by investigating the impact of national culture on audit fees. The test hypotheses Based on the demand- and supply-side perspectives of audit fees, we hypothesized that national culture dimensions — namely, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, individualism versus collectivism, and masculinity versus femininity — affect audit fees. Target population We used a sample of 27,670 firm-year observations across 22 countries over the 2002–2019 period. Adopted methodology We used ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions as baseline technique and entropy-balanced method (EBM) and system-generalized method of moments (GMM) to address endogeneity concerns. Analyses We examined the impact of Hofstede’s four national culture dimensions — uncertainty avoidance, power distance, individualism versus collectivism, and masculinity versus femininity — on audit fees. We also tested the robustness of results using alternative measures of national culture, subsample analyses, and additional firm-level factors. Findings Consistent with our hypotheses, we find that audit fees are higher (lower) in countries with higher uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity (power distance) scores. Our further analyses reveal that earnings management proxied by abnormal accruals does not impact the relationship; however, country-level creditor rights influence audit fees in high power distance and masculine cultures. We also note that national culture influences auditor choice and audit opinion. Our main findings are robust to alternate proxies and subsample analysis, as well as to address potential endogeneity concerns. Overall, our findings offer important implications for firms operating in global markets and for the audit profession.
The Realist Discursive Study of Religion
Authors: Schilbrack Kevin 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Filip Rasmussen (2024) argues that the discursive study of religion is misunderstood when one assumes that it focuses only on discourse, ignoring material entities and forces. A discursive approach, he proposes, need not deny the existence or the effects of the material world, and so it is not in conflict with, for example, a critical realist approach to social theory that seeks to explain social behavior in terms of material mechanisms. Rasmussen’s synthesizing position gives us an opportunity to consider the relationship between the apparently rival theories of the discursive approach and critical realism – and, in particular, the relationship between discourse and the material realities in the world that do not depend on discourse for their existence or powers. My view is that Rasmussen is right and that a discursive approach combined with critical realism gives us the best account of forms of life, like religions, that combine discursive and nondiscursive elements. This paper therefore argues for the coherence of a realist discursive study of religion.
Understanding Chinese Governance by Critiquing ‘Religion’
Authors: Gao Zhe 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
As an indirect response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn’s “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?” this article aims to explicate what ‘critical religion’ as a distinct theoretical framework means for the author in terms of how it has provided them a critical framework for understanding the history of China, especially its transition of self-identification from tianxia (天下, all under Heaven) to a secular nation state, and some of its pressing ‘religious’ issues today. Upon the identification of a postcolonial condition in modern China where the indigenous elite have uncritically accepted ‘religion’ and other interdependently arisen modern categories, not only will the differentiation between ‘Chinese religion’ and ‘Chinese politics’ be demonstrated as an illusion, but ‘negotiating religion’ will be proved by means of two case studies as a more adequate approach to understanding the governance by the Chinese Communist Party in contemporary China.
Studying ‘Religion’ Critically and the Decolonial Turn: Lessons for Critical Terrorism Studies
Authors: Khan Rabea M. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Being ‘critical’ when studying religion, whilst it does not have to be limited to studying religion’s discursive (and colonial) employments only, it certainly has to begin with it, if we aim to contribute to much-needed decolonial efforts across the social science disciplines. Critically studying religion, as I argue in this article, means starting with a normative and moral responsibility and aspiration towards a more just, equal, and progressive social world that grapples with the coloniality, and structures of white supremacy we are all embedded in. In this article I will reflect on the contributions of Critical Religion (CR) especially to fields like (Critical) Terrorism Studies and related disciplines which regularly discuss ‘religion’ and religiously-inspired violence but never actually acknowledge ‘religion’s’ colonial and gendered implications, definitional instability, or Euro- and Christian-centric invention. The work Critical Religion does in uncovering and excavating the modern-colonial origins of the term ‘religion’, I argue, is essential in realising and contributing to the decolonial turn we are currently experiencing and which disciplines like (Critical) Terrorism Studies can only benefit from.
Speaking Theory to Power
Authors: Simmons K. Merinda 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Religious studies scholars invested in something called “method and theory” seem intent on remaining stuck in a conversation dictated by proving our political worth in the world. That desire to move outside the walls of the academy ironically keeps us trapped inside one of its smallest and most unfortunate corners, where a theory/praxis binary is manufactured and propagated, kept alive by our personal anxieties about our professional value. My comments here aim to address this proliferating anxiety that continues to have an overdetermined presence in the field – an anxiety that manufactures a moral panic out of critical theory, limiting our intellectual possibilities and keeping us talking in circles in the process.
The Compatibility of Mandatory Vaccination with the European Convention on Human Rights: Implications for a National Vaccination Policy
Authors: Simons Rogier C. , Ploem M. Corrette , Legemaate Johan 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
This contribution examines the compatibility of mandatory vaccination with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) through an analysis of the relevant ECHR rights and related case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). By focusing on Article 8 (Right to Private Life), Article 2 (Right to Life) and Article 9 (Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion) ECHR, we formulate conditions under which mandatory vaccination legislation is justified. With that, this analysis aims to provide national legislators with guidance on responsible legislative policy. Additionally, this article discusses the legal framework underlying the Dutch vaccination policy, including developments therein since COVID-19. Furthermore, the role of the European Union in the context of vaccination is briefly discussed. The importance of an extensive societal and parliamentary debate before implementing a mandatory vaccination policy is stressed, as is the need for proportionality in enforcement.
Promoting Individual Health Responsibility in the Welfare State
Authors: Friedlein Nicole 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The public health insurance in Germany will face huge economic challenges in the upcoming years. New diagnostic and therapeutic methods as well as the demographic change contribute to constantly rising expenditure. Although incentives for health-promoting behaviour or financial sanctions for an unhealthy lifestyle have been already discussed in the past, there has been a general reluctance to legally establish corresponding mechanisms for fear of eroding solidarity and increasing state control. In the course of the Coronavirus pandemic however, a stronger awareness rose to the fact that personal health-related life choices can have a huge impact on the stability of the healthcare system including public health insurance. Not only in Germany but throughout much of Europe, the pandemic led to a new and more fundamental debate about the relationship between individual responsibility for personal health and the wider responsibility for public health assumed by the community of solidarity.
Theorising Girls Room Graff: Networking Affirmation to Counter Misogyny
Authors: Nicholls Tracey 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The harmful impact of misogyny on women as we take part in public life is not a new problem. And despite its early promise as a space open to all, the online world has not tempered misogynistic responses to women having opinions. What is easier to see in online interaction is the ‘networking’ of misogyny— hostile commentators ‘piling on’ and coordinating harassment.
I explore the need for solutions by surveying contemporary feminist analyses of online misogyny, and considering whether the ‘mobbing’ theorised in bullying literature might be useful in understanding ‘pile on’ behaviours. My case study, a 2013 Tumblr site called Girls Room Graff, archives graffiti taken from women’s public bathrooms in bars and restaurants, thereby serving a purpose subversive of networked misogyny: it piles on validation and affirmation to empower the reader. I argue this is one way of doing politics of care from a feminist peace studies standpoint.
“You Have to Be a Doctor First”: Trauma Surgeons’ Perspectives on Police Interactions in the Hospital
Authors: Jones Emily V. , Bourgois Philippe , Song Ji Seon , Chong Vincent E. 
Published: May 2024

Background Police activity in emergency medical settings has been shown to complicate the care of patients and impact patient-provider relationships. Recent scholarship has called for clear hospital policy outlining the terms of police access to patients and the role of clinicians. Despite regular contact between trauma surgeons and police, research on the impact of police activity on trauma care has been limited. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with attending trauma surgeons and general surgery residents (N = 13) at 3 urban hospitals about their interactions with police in clinical settings. Participants were recruited using snowball sampling. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed for recurrent themes using an iterative grounded theory process. Results Participants reported routine contact with police that required active negotiation of the scope of clinical and police authority in the hospital. These negotiations were shaped by prior experiences, perceptions of police, officer behavior, and institutional culture. Surgeons felt compelled to advocate for patients, but reported intimidation in moments of conflict. Participants noted uncertainty around the legal dimensions of their relationship to police and a lack of universal guidance on appropriate responses. Discussion This data points to the need for improvements in both policy and workflow to regulate and reduce the burden of these interactions and protect clinicians’ priorities from being subordinated to those of police. Further research is needed to understand how police presence impacts patient outcomes, and to guide best practices for regulating and mitigating potential negative impact.