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Radiation modes in FRB 20220912A microshots and a Crab PSR nanoshot
Authors: Katz J I 
Published: November 2023

ABSTRACT
A microshot from FRB 20220912A (Hewitt et al. 2023) satisfies the uncertainty relation ΔωΔt ≥ 1 by a factor of only ⪅3. A Crab pulsar nanoshot (Hankins & Eilek 2007) exceeds this bound by a similar factor. The number of orthogonal plasma modes contributing to the coherent radiation is also ≈ΔωΔt, placing constraints on their excitation and growth.
VLBI detection of the AE Aqr twin, LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9
Authors: Jiang Pengfei , Cui Lang , Liu Xiang , Zhang Bo , Huang Yongfeng , Cao Hongmin , An Tao , Yang Jun , Shu Fengchun , Tan Guiping , Yuan Jianping 
Published: November 2023

ABSTRACT
LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9 (J0240+1952) was recently identified as the second AE Aquarii (AE Aqr)-type cataclysmic variable, possessing the fastest known rotating white dwarf. We performed a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observation of J0240+1952 utilizing the European VLBI Network at 1.7 GHz, to obtain the first view of the radio morphology on mas scale. Our high-resolution VLBI image clearly shows that the radio emission is compact on mas scale (≲2 AU), with no evidence for a radio jet or extended emission. The compact radio source has an average flux density of ∼0.37 mJy, and its brightness temperature is given at ≳2.3 × 107 K, confirming a non-thermal origin. The emission exhibits irregular variations on a time-scale of tens of minutes, similar to the radio flares seen in AE Aqr. The measured VLBI position of J0240+1952 is consistent with that derived from Gaia. Our results favour the model in which the radio emission is attributed to a superposition of synchrotron radiation from expanding magnetized blobs of this system.
Cross-species investigation into the requirement of XPA for nucleotide excision repair
Authors: Kose Cansu , Cao Xuemei , Dewey Evan B , Malkoç Mustafa , Adebali Ogün , Sekelsky Jeff , Lindsey-Boltz Laura A , Sancar Aziz 
Published: November 2023

AbstractAfter reconstitution of nucleotide excision repair (excision repair) with XPA, RPA, XPC, TFIIH, XPF-ERCC1 and XPG, it was concluded that these six factors are the minimal essential components of the excision repair machinery. All six factors are highly conserved across diverse organisms spanning yeast to humans, yet no identifiable homolog of the XPA gene exists in many eukaryotes including green plants. Nevertheless, excision repair is reported to be robust in the XPA-lacking organism, Arabidopsis thaliana, which raises a fundamental question of whether excision repair could occur without XPA in other organisms. Here, we performed a phylogenetic analysis of XPA across all species with annotated genomes and then quantitatively measured excision repair in the absence of XPA using the sensitive whole-genome qXR-Seq method in human cell lines and two model organisms, Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster. We find that although the absence of XPA results in inefficient excision repair and UV-sensitivity in humans, flies, and worms, excision repair of UV-induced DNA damage is detectable over background. These studies have yielded a significant discovery regarding the evolution of XPA protein and its mechanistic role in nucleotide excision repair.
Lessons learned from phase 3 trials of immunotherapy for glioblastoma: Time for longitudinal sampling?
Authors: Chen Ethan , Ling Alexander L , Reardon David A , Chiocca E Antonio 
Published: November 2023

AbstractGlioblastoma (GBM)’s median overall survival is almost 21 months. Six phase 3 immunotherapy clinical trials have recently been published, yet 5/6 did not meet approval by regulatory bodies. For the sixth, approval is uncertain. Trial failures result from multiple factors, ranging from intrinsic tumor biology to clinical trial design. Understanding the clinical and basic science of these 6 trials is compelled by other immunotherapies reaching the point of advanced phase 3 clinical trial testing. We need to understand more of the science in human GBMs in early trials: the “window of opportunity” design may not be best to understand complex changes brought about by immunotherapeutic perturbations of the GBM microenvironment. The convergence of increased safety of image-guided biopsies with “multi-omics” of small cell numbers now permits longitudinal sampling of tumor and biofluids to dissect the complex temporal changes in the GBM microenvironment as a function of the immunotherapy.
Perspectives on the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma
Authors: Rafae Abdul , van Rhee Frits , Al Hadidi Samer 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The treatment of multiple myeloma has evolved significantly over the past few decades with the development of novel therapeutics. The introduction of proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulatory drugs, monoclonal antibodies, and high-dose chemotherapy followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has led to improved response rates and survival outcomes. The use of bispecific antibodies and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is currently under study, and early results are showing promise. Although outcomes for patients with MM have improved with the development of new treatments, there remains a subset of patients with high-risk disease who have a particularly poor prognosis. Therefore, it is critical that future clinical trials focus on developing new therapies specifically for high-risk multiple myeloma. Here we review the literature and provide guidance on treating patients with multiple myeloma for practicing oncologists.
Measurement
Authors: Koenig Harold G. , VanderWeele Tyler J. , Peteet John R. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter provides measures and scales for quantifying religiosity, and to some extent, for spirituality as well. The focus, however, is on religiosity and religious involvement. First, different types of measurement are examined (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods), then methods of administration are explored (self-rated, interviewer-administered, combined), followed by single measures of religiosity, multi-item measures of religiosity, and religion-specific scales. The most widely used scales in research are then examined, and recommendations are made on the best scales to use depending on the purpose of the research. Developing a new scale from scratch, determining its psychometric properties, and translating a scale into a different language are then described.
Ambiguous Evidence for God
Authors: Byerly T. Ryan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter argues that there is a sizable population of individuals with ambiguous evidence for the God of minimal theism. It does this by supporting arguments for a limited version of agnosticism that claims that the total public evidence for God neither strongly supports God’s existence nor strongly supports God’s nonexistence. To support agnosticism in this way, the chapter evaluates the intrinsic probability of minimal theism, a sample of theistic and atheistic arguments, and higher-order evidence about the evidence for God. Included is an updated discussion of the author’s own previous proposed solution to the gap problem facing theistic arguments. The chapter also introduces and defends a version of higher-order agnosticism, which claims that the publicly available evidence for God strongly supports that it neither strongly supports God’s existence nor God’s nonexistence. A variety of pathways whereby individuals may acquire ambiguous evidence for God is thereby identified.
Introduction
Authors: Kundu Manujendra 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The introductory chapter endeavours to contextualize the articles in this volume traversing more than two centuries’ socio-politico-cultural-scape vis-à-vis women’s position/challenges/negotiations as performers/cultural workers in Bengal and Bangladesh touching upon/considering those areas that the contributors chose to discuss in their articles. On the basis of an argument that ‘home’ (not just the place of abode but workplace as well) is the most ‘treacherous terrain’ vis-à-vis women performers’ precarity, the Introduction is a synopsis of the processes of construction of women in Bengal and Bangladesh and their resistance to it. It has been attempted to conflate the intellectual exercises of bhadramahila (gentlewoman) writers-thinkers-activists and women performers-thinkers (both bhadra, i.e. gentle and ‘fallen’) in concatenation. The word ‘performer’ has been seen to denote them who labour for an audience as entertainers and/or artistic preceptors and those who belong(ed) to other types of social, political agencies, yet also influence(d) cultural/artistic performances through various industrious performances/processes. It has been argued that the trials and tribulations of women performers have to be read together with the challenges of writer/activist/reformer and performer, and not in isolation. However, in spite of improvements, with time, this contested locale has transformed itself to appear more ‘democratic’, ‘equitable’, and ‘permissive’, but the elemental truths have remained unchanged, more so because of rising religious fundamentalism coupled with deep-seated misogyny and poor economic policies. So far, it has been a story of existential dialectics which will persevere to settle and unsettle in this part of South Asia!
Feminine Experiences in the Bengali Stage
Authors: Banerjee Sumanta 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The first generation of Bengali actresses in the late 18th century, when the Western-style proscenium was established in Calcutta, was recruited from the city’s red-light areas, because of the traditional expertise of the prostitutes (who were otherwise looked down on as ‘patita’s or ‘fallen women’ in contemporary Bengali parlance) in performances like singing that they had learnt to entertain their clients. Over the next hundred years and more, their descendants emerged as eminent actresses on the Bengali stage. They also trained a new generation of aspiring Bengali young women coming up from the educated middle classes (known as bhadramahilas) who wanted to enter the stage. The Bengali theatre has turned full circle with the reentry of the modern descendants of the ‘patita’s in the Bengali performance space, this time with their own original plays. This chapter is a portrayal of that journey.
Actresses in a Period of Transition (1947–1952)
Authors: Dutt Bishnupriya 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Actresses and women performers, although very active in the Calcutta amateur theatre scene during the 1940s and 1950s, have been grossly neglected in the writing of its histories. The amateur theatre scene in the purview refers to activities affiliated to St. Xavier’s College and The Amateur Shakespeareans, who performed Shakespeare in English with actresses from various communities in Calcutta at that time: English, Anglo Indians, and Jews. The chapter aims to look at the meagre archive which exists to retrieve the names and backgrounds of these actresses and locate them within the historical transition from the pre- to postcolonial period; to understand their contribution to postcolonial theatre practice, particularly Utpal Dutt’s theatre which draws its lineage from The Amateur Shakespeareans. The chapter highlights the postcolonial cosmopolitanism inherent in the practice distinct from envisaging the nation along the lines of ethnic-Indian identities.
Women in Search of a Play
Authors: Sinha Roy Mallarika 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter intends to unpack the complex connection between political activism and the politics of theatricality in the context of the Naxalbari movement (1967–1975). The principal argument makes an attempt to unravel the relationship between the theatre that served the political ideology of the movement and the nature of political actions that became mass spectacles. The analytical angle for such an analysis remains gender, as the interplay between ideals of masculinities and femininities has the potential to unpick through the intricate seams of ideology, revolutionary romanticism, and activism within the larger context of women’s participation in cultures of the left beginning with the Indian People’s Theatre Association in the 1940s. The substantive argument of the chapter focuses on Utpal Dutt’s play text Teer (Arrow, 1967), and the public spectacle of Naxalite murtibhanga (iconoclasm) activism. The chapter proposes to read ‘acts’ and ‘actions’ in these two uneven yet deeply connected texts in the history and memory of Naxalbari.
Survival, Agency, and the Politics of Compromise
Authors: De Madhubanti 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Historically, women performers of Bengal have demonstrated a tendency to traverse different media, moving seamlessly from theatre to television and the film industry. In a similar vein, more recently, actresses from the stage in Bengal have also worked in digital media (OTT platforms) in addition to these fields. The intermedial (situated at the intersection of different media) nature of the actress’ work, alongside its sporadic documentation, problematizes any effort to trace a historiography of her work, bringing it into negotiation with the category of memory. This chapter attempts to examine the place held by women in their public lives as performers in Kolkata through recollections, correspondence, and essays by and interviews with veteran and contemporary actresses, directors, playwrights, and technicians working full-time as well as freelancers on individual projects, film/television, and web serials. Through these sources, the chapter seeks to trace the emergence of a new intermedial field rife with structural and interpersonal inequalities, within which these performers negotiate their survival through a unique politics of agency and compromise.
Desire, Decadence, and a ‘Dirty’ Dancer
Authors: Chakraborty Aishika 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In the immediate aftermath of India’s partition, Arati Das, a struggling refugee girl from East Pakistan, rose to fame as a celebrated cabaret dancer in Calcutta by the name of Miss Shefali (1947–2020). This interview walks through the moments of conflicts and reconciliations where the cabaret queen of yesteryear forges new concepts of history and subjectivity against the hegemony of law, moral policing, and sexual hypocrisy of the democratic state. The liminality, within which the erotic gyrations of her body were mapped, negotiated the underbelly of performance culture vis-à-vis the opulent niches of the middle-class elite. Weaving together many conversations, this chapter presents some crucial moments of her life, as Miss Shefali returns her gaze to the patriarchal state and Bengali bhadralok, her biggest customers, who once ogled her dance and then stripped her of her claims to culture and livelihood.
‘Extending’ Uday Shankar’s Dance Pedagogy?
Authors: Munsi Urmimala Sarkar 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Amala Shankar (1919–2020) often told her students—the essayist being one of them—the stories of her first prolonged tour of Europe, as a small child of eleven years, with Uday Shankar and his dance troupe. Over the years, the essayist has tried to imagine the glory and grandeur of their dance explorations, in which Amala was first an apprentice, then a troupe member, and finally Uday’s wife, a fellow performer, and a pedagogue of repute. Amala’s book Sat Sagarer Pare (Beyond the Seven Seas) about her first tour with Uday, the innumerable anecdotes she often shared with her students, and her national and global tours with them as the Director of Uday Shankar India Culture Centre motivated the essayist to write about Amala’s deep love for dance—trying to create a nuanced understanding of her agency and contributions as a modern dancer/choreographer/teacher in her own rights.
Feminist Technofutures
Authors: Atanasoski Neda 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this chapter, Atanasoski problematises two different approaches to sex robots. The first, a liberal feminist approach, characterises sex robots as a threat to women’s rights, and in doing so, roots itself in technology’s relationship to the figure of the human within the juridical realm of rights. The second, a feminist approach centred on diversity, makes use of and commodifies proliferating categories of human difference and life itself by calling for the ‘diversification’ of sex robots beyond white, Eurocentric beauty norms. Atanasoski thus considers how diversified technologies still uphold rather than disrupt racialised notions of use and value, commodifying those differences seen as profitable. She concludes by considering what a queer approach to technological speculative futures might look like through an analysis of the art project ‘Lauren AI’.
The False Binary of Reason and Emotion in Data Visualisation
Authors: D’Ignazio Catherine , Klein Lauren 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this chapter, D’Ignazio and Klein call for the incorporation of emotions and embodied experiences into data visualisation practices. They ask: how did the field of data communication arrive at conventions that prioritise rationality and exclude emotion? Ignazio and Klein argue that data selection and presentation is always political, and should be visualised in such a way as makes this evident. The piece features a number of stunning data visualisations created by artists and designers that bring to life their feminist emphasis on ‘elevating emotion’ and ‘stories from a standpoint’. Ultimately, D’Ignazio and Klein argue that rebalancing emotion and reason enlarges the data communication toolbox and allows one to focus on what truly matters in a data design process: honouring context, gathering attention and taking action in service of rebalancing social and political power.
Digital Ageism, Algorithmic Bias, and Feminist Critical Theory
Authors: Nyrup Rune , Chu Charlene H. , Falco Elena 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this chapter, Nyrup, Chu, and Falco coin the term digital ageism to highlight the interplay between social inequality and tech development, aligning with feminist work that views society and technology as co-constitutive. The essay details the results of encoded ageism, including medical technologies that offer less accurate diagnoses on older populations, the unequal division of resources, and the perspective that younger people are inevitably better at using new technologies. Drawing on the work of Sally Haslanger and Iris Marion Young, they explore how technical limitations and the insufficient representation of older people in design and development teams are shaped by self-reinforcing structural inequality. This essay therefore offers a crucial intervention in the debate by identifying and tracking ageist harms and their intersections with disability, race, gender, and class-based injustices.
A Relational Ethics of Immigration
Authors: Bulley Dan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Understanding the ethics of immigration needs to start from the way it is enacted and understood by everyday actors: through practices of hospitality and hostility. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist understandings of ethics and hospitality, this book offers a new approach to immigration ethics beginning from state and societal responses to immigration from the global north and south. Rather than treating ethics as a determinable code for how we ought to behave towards strangers, the book treats hospitality as a relational ethics—an ethics without moralism—that aims to understand and possibly transform the way we already do embrace and deflect obligations and responsibilities to each other. Building from specific examples in Colombia, Turkey, and Tanzania, as well as the EU, US and UK, hospitality is developed as a structural and emotional practice of drawing and redrawing boundaries of inside and outside; belonging and non-belonging. It thereby actively creates a society as a communal space with a particular ethos: from a welcoming home to a racialised and nationalist hostile environment. Hospitality is therefore treated as a critical mode of reflecting on how we create a ‘we’ and relate to others through entangled histories of colonialism, displacement, friendship, and exploitation. Only through such a reflective understanding can we seek to transform immigration practices to better reflect the real and aspirational ethos of a society. Instead of simple answers—removing borders or creating global migration regimes—the book argues for grounded negotiations that shape local capacities to respond to immigration.
Indigenous Audibilities
Authors: Minks Amanda 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folklore in the Americas. Indigenous Audibilities follows the social relations that created these collections in four interconnected case studies linking the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Chile. Indigenous collections were embedded in political projects that negotiated issues of cultural diplomacy, national canons, and heritage. The case studies recuperate the traces of marginalized voices in archives, paying special attention to female researchers and Indigenous collaborators. Despite the dominant agendas of national and international institutions, the diverse actors and the multidirectional influences often created unexpected outcomes. The book brings together theories of collection, voice, media, writing, and recording to challenge the transparency of archives as a historical source. Indigenous Audibilities presents a social-historical method of listening, reading, and thinking beyond the referentiality of archived texts, and in the process uncovers neglected genealogies of cultural music research in the Americas.
Between the Ear and the Letter
Authors: Minks Amanda 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Chapter 1 examines a collection of Indian and Pioneer oral histories in the state of Oklahoma, formerly Indian Territory, which is also a lens for exploring Southwest borderlands history. This collection was connected to the US Works Progress Administration, a key site for reconfiguring discourses of national and regional heritage in the 1930s. The chapter analyzes the representation of music, language, and dance in this oral history collection, as well as the differential functions of orality and aurality. The chapter argues that the constructedness of oral histories, their production through historical and cultural processes, should not invalidate them as sources. Rather, like all historical sources, oral histories are the product of multiple voices and political forces, some visible and audible, and others obscured in the archive. We need to listen and read beyond the referential function of this genre to place it in its own social-historical context and consider what it may reveal.
Folklore, Region, and Revolution in Nicaragua
Authors: Minks Amanda 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Chapter 3 analyzes folkloric discourse in the writings of Nicaraguan intellectuals and poets, including Pablo Antonio Cuadra and Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, and the great nineteenth-century poet Rubén Darío. While Indigenous peoples in western Nicaragua were considered sources for national heritage, Indigenous peoples in eastern Nicaragua were excluded from national heritage. The eastern, Caribbean coast of Nicaragua had initially been colonized by England prior to annexation by Nicaragua (with US support) in the late nineteenth century. The region included many English speakers with a range of racial/ethnic identities; those with some African ancestry were especially subject to exclusion from national belonging in folkloric writings. This Nicaraguan case study brings out the contestation of who counts as Indigenous, tracing the different positioning of Indigenous peoples in western and eastern Nicaragua, as well as the exclusionary ideologies around African ancestry. There is also a tension in this chapter between political repression and psychological repression, suggesting that repressed voices are not entirely silenced.