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Successful management of malignant colovesical fistula using covered colonic self-expanding metallic stent: a case report
Authors: Takahashi Goro , Matsuda Akihisa , Yamada Takeshi , Uehara Kay , Shinji Seiichi , Yokoyama Yasuyuki , Iwai Takuma , Takeda Kohki , Kuriyama Sho , Miyasaka Toshimitsu , Kanaka Shintaro , Terayachi Tai , Okino Tetsuya , Yoshida Hiroshi 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Background
A colovesical fistula (CVF) is commonly treated by resection of the intestine containing the fistula or creation of a defunctioning stoma. We herein report a case of successful fistula closure and avoidance of colostomy after placement of a covered colonic self-expanding metallic stent (SEMS) as a palliative treatment for a malignant CVF.

Case presentation
A 75-year-old man undergoing infusional 5-fluorouracil and irinotecan chemotherapy plus bevacizumab for recurrent peritoneal dissemination of rectal cancer was admitted to our hospital because of fecaluria with a high-grade fever. Blood tests showed a moderate inflammatory reaction (white blood cell count, 9200/mm3; C-reactive protein, 11.03 mg/dL; procalcitonin, 1.33 ng/mL). Urinary sediment examination showed severe bacteriuria. Abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed intravesical gas, thickening of the posterior wall of the bladder, and irregular thickening of the sigmoid colon wall contiguous with the posterior bladder wall. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) clearly showed a fistula between the bladder and sigmoid colon. Colonoscopy revealed a circumferential malignant stricture 15 cm from the anal verge, and a fistula to the bladder was identified by water-soluble contrast medium. We diagnosed a complicated urinary tract infection (UTI) associated with a CVF due to peritoneal dissemination and started empirical treatment with sulbactam/ampicillin. Given the absence of active inflammatory findings around the fistula on MRI and the patient’s physical frailty, we decided to place a covered SEMS to close the fistula. Under fluoroscopic and endoscopic guidance, a covered colonic SEMS of 80-mm length and 20-mm diameter was successfully deployed, and the fistula was sealed immediately after placement. Urine culture on day 3 after stenting was negative for bacteria, and a contrast study on day 5 showed no fistula. The patient was discharged home on day 6 with no complications. The UTI did not recur for 4 months after discharge.

Conclusions
A covered colonic SEMS was useful for sealing a malignant CVF in a patient unfit for surgery, and MRI was valuable to determine the status of the fistula. A covered colonic SEMS could be an alternative to surgical treatment for CVFs in patients who require palliative care.
Isolating the female agency-driven development factor in external sovereign emerging market debt
Authors: Henide Karim , Ahmar Zaryab 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe underlying literature hypothesises and provides randomised evidence for the positive impact of promoting the broad-based inclusion, empowerment, and representation of women on regional ecosystems. This study seeks to isolate a female agency-driven development factor in external sovereign emerging market debt and finds evidence for superior risk-adjusted returns from tilting towards female agency leaders. We propose the female agency factor as an additional scope in the modern investor’s toolbox of holistic credit assessment, allowing investors to isolate the issuers which are the most effective sovereign transmission mechanisms of sustainable development capital. This contribution to the corpus supports the notion of integrating sustainability factors into portfolio construction and reinforces the argument for supporting female-led development from a financial markets’ perspective.
An external validation of the Kidney Donor Risk Index in the UK transplant population in the presence of semi-competing events
Authors: Riley Stephanie , Tam Kimberly , Tse Wai-Yee , Connor Andrew , Wei Yinghui 
Published: November 2023

AbstractBackgroundTransplantation represents the optimal treatment for many patients with end-stage kidney disease. When a donor kidney is available to a waitlisted patient, clinicians responsible for the care of the potential recipient must make the decision to accept or decline the offer based upon complex and variable information about the donor, the recipient and the transplant process. A clinical prediction model may be able to support clinicians in their decision-making. The Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) was developed in the United States to predict graft failure following kidney transplantation. The survival process following transplantation consists of semi-competing events where death precludes graft failure, but not vice-versa.MethodsWe externally validated the KDRI in the UK kidney transplant population and assessed whether validation under a semi-competing risks framework impacted predictive performance. Additionally, we explored whether the KDRI requires updating. We included 20,035 adult recipients of first, deceased donor, single, kidney-only transplants between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2018, collected by the UK Transplant Registry and held by NHS Blood and Transplant. The outcomes of interest were 1- and 5-year graft failure following transplantation. In light of the semi-competing events, recipient death was handled in two ways: censoring patients at the time of death and modelling death as a competing event. Cox proportional hazard models were used to validate the KDRI when censoring graft failure by death, and cause-specific Cox models were used to account for death as a competing event.ResultsThe KDRI underestimated event probabilities for those at higher risk of graft failure. For 5-year graft failure, discrimination was poorer in the semi-competing risks model (0.625, 95% CI 0.611 to 0.640;0.611, 95% CI 0.597 to 0.625), but predictions were more accurate (Brier score 0.117, 95% CI 0.112 to 0.121; 0.114, 95% CI 0.109 to 0.118). Calibration plots were similar regardless of whether the death was modelled as a competing event or not. Updating the KDRI worsened calibration, but marginally improved discrimination.ConclusionsPredictive performance for 1-year graft failure was similar between death-censored and competing event graft failure, but differences appeared when predicting 5-year graft failure. The updated index did not have superior performance and we conclude that updating the KDRI in the present form is not required.
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist
Authors: Guillory John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This essay takes as its point of departure the later writing of I. A. Richards, which never achieved the influence of his famous books of the 1920s. In these later writings Richards was concerned largely with issues in language education and, relatedly, with the emergence of new media, chiefly visual media. Richards attempted in this later work to adapt new media such as television to the teaching of language, as well as to the teaching of literature. In the 1950s he attempted to use television to teach his audience how to read works of poetry. These experiments failed because his use of new media was premature, inadequate to his ambitious aims. Nonetheless, his anticipation of our obsession with “screens” was prescient and is worth a careful reconsideration.
Partisanship and the Pandemic: How and Why Americans Followed Party Cues on COVID-19
Authors: Mehlhaff Isaac D. , Tarillo Matías C. , Vanegas Ayelén , Hetherington Marc J. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The United States underperformed its potential in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors use original survey data from April 2020 to March 2022 to show that political partisanship may have contributed to this inconsistent response by distinguishing elites and citizens who took the crisis seriously from those who did not. This division was not inevitable; when the crisis began, Democrats and Republicans differed little in their viewpoints and actions relative to COVID-19. However, partisans increasingly diverged when their preferred political leaders provided them with opposing cues. The authors outline developments in party politics over the last half century that contributed to partisan division on COVID-19, most centrally an anti-expertise bias among Republicans. Accordingly, Republicans’ support for mitigation measures, perception of severity of COVID-19, and support for vaccines gradually decreased after the initial outbreak. Partisan differences also showed up at the state level; Trump's vote share in 2016 was negatively associated with mask use and positively associated with COVID-19 infections. Diverging elite cues provided fertile ground for the partisan pandemic, underscoring the importance of political accountability even in an era of polarization.
Polarization, the Pandemic, and Public Trust in Health System Actors
Authors: Del Ponte Alessandro , Gerber Alan S. , Patashnik Eric M. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Context: Public opinion on the performance of health system actors is polarized today, but it remains unclear which actors enjoy the most or the least trust among Democrats and Republicans, whether the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced how people view their own physicians, and whether doctors have retained the ability to influence public beliefs about policy issues.
Methods: The authors conducted two national surveys in 2022 and 2023 to examine these questions.
Findings: Democrats rated the performance of medical research scientists and public health experts during the pandemic more highly than did Republicans and independents. About three in ten Republicans said the pandemic decreased their trust in their personal doctors. Nonetheless, most Americans reported confidence in physicians. The authors replicated the findings of Gerber and colleagues (2014) to demonstrate that respondents continued to have more positive views of doctors than other professionals and that public opinion was responsive to cues from a doctors’ group.
Conclusions: What polarizes Democrats and Republicans today is not the question of whether medical scientists and public health experts are competent but whether the advice offered by these actors is in the public interest and should guide policy makers’ decisions. Democrats strongly believe the answer to these questions is yes, while Republicans exhibit skepticism.
The multifunctional LBC-Corpora: different aims depending on the user
Authors: Flinz Carolina 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Corpora are nowadays the primary source of many dictionaries and the core element of various platforms and information systems. Lexicographers have therefore a variety of new possibilities which were unthinkable in the past with different types of corpora available for use in the data collection phase of the lexicographic process (Flinz 2021). Not only lexicographers, but also other types of users (academics, translators, teachers, students etc.) can profit from them, especially when corpora are public and can be accessed using corpus linguistic tools (Ballestracci/Buffagni/Flinz 2020; Flinz/Farina 2020). The LBC-corpora are monolingual specialized comparable corpora, already online (http://corpora.lessicobeniculturali.net/) and, as monitor corpora (Lemnitzer/Zinsmeister 2015: 140), they will be augmented over time. They can be analysed using the open source tool NoSketchEngine (Billero 2020). The LBC-Corpora are also the lexicographic primary source of the LBC multilingual dictionary, which is in preparation: the provisional entry lists of different languages (Spanish, German, and French) are now ready (Billero/Farina/Nicolás Martínez 2020) and together with a selection of KWICS, which have been carefully selected following a quantitative-qualitative procedure (for German see Buffagni/Flinz/Ballestracci in prep.), will soon be online (Flinz et al. in prep.). The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the LBC-corpora from a double perspective: from the user of the LBC-platform and from the lexicographic team. In the first case following an overview of the principal characteristics of the LBC-Platform, the focus will be on the accessible corpora showing the tools which can be used (§ 2). In the second case the LBC-corpora will be examined in their function as a data basis for the LBC-Dictionary (§ 3). The attention will be on the data preparation phase: after discussing the procedure for the realization of the LBC-provisional lemma candidate lists, the focus will be on the adopted procedure for finding equivalence relations and for the individuation of other types of relations between the entries (synonymy, belonging to the same semantic field etc.). In § 4 the focus will be on the LBC-provisional lemma candidate lists and their related KWICs. Conclusions and an outlook to the future can be found in the last section (§ 5).
A novel way of extracting full-fledged terminologies from multilingual texts
Authors: Gromann Dagmar , Heinisch Barbara , Wachowiak Lennart , Lang Christian 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Terminology as a term refers to terminology science and simultaneously to practically curated terminological resources (TR). The latter fall within the scope of language resources. Manually curating such a TR is labor- and time-intensive. Thus, it has been a long-standing research endeavor to reduce this effort by automating the TR creation process. However, to this point such endeavors have focused on terms rather than on interrelations. Instead of directly interrelating terms, they are conventionally grouped by synonymy and equivalence into concepts, and relations are established between concepts. This paper introduces preliminaries of terminology science and practice, common models of interrelating terminological concepts, and especially focuses on a new way to define terminological relations and a system to extract terminological information from texts across domains and languages by means of recent neural methods.
Anonymity and Online Search: Measuring the Privacy Impact Of Google’s 2012 Privacy Policy Change
Authors: Cooper James C. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
One of the most vexing problems in privacy policy is identifying consumer harm from unwanted observation; because it is highly subjective and is likely to vary greatly throughout the population, it doesn’t lend itself to easy measurement. Yet, these types of situations increasingly are the focal point of privacy policy discussions, including the Supreme Court’s recent decisions regarding standing and the FTC’s recently announced commercial surveillance rulemaking. The primary approach to attempt to quantify subjective harms has been to measure consumers’ willingness to exchange personal data for money in an experimental setting. This study takes a different tack, using field data to measure actual consumer response to a real-world reduction in the anonymity of online search. In March 2012, Google began to combine user information across platforms. To the extent that Google’s policy change reduced the anonymity associated with Google search, it may have diminished incentives to search sensitive topics. Using Google Trends (GT) data and a difference-in-difference estimator with top non-sensitive search terms as the control group, the results suggest that there was a 3–7 % short-term (1–2 months) reduction in sensitive search (relative to the non-sensitive search control group), as measured by GT. I examine heterogenous treatment effects, and find that the largest measured impact is for health-related search. There is no measured difference in reaction between high- and low-privacy demand states.
Hubert Treiber and the
Sociology of Law
of Max Weber: From the Ideal Types of Legal Rationality to the Plurality of Law
Authors: Coutu Michel 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Hubert Treiber has established himself as one of the world’s leading scholars of Weber, in particular of his Sociology of Law. Especially, Treiber defends Weber’s decisive contribution to legal pluralism, comparable to Eugen Ehrlich’s, although from a quite different perspective. Indeed, it is not possible to analyse Weber’s distinction between state and non-state law (a central distinction for legal pluralism) without taking into consideration what he means, sociologically, by “law” on the one hand and by “the state” on the other. Weber’s ideal typical construction of social relations under the category “law” requires an Archimedean point, which is the formal rationality of law, closely associated, at the end of an historical development, with the efforts of legal abstraction and systematisation by the proponents of Pandectism in modern Germany. In the following text, linked to some of Treiber’s major works, the author addresses first Weber’s analysis of the rationalities of law, and then deals with the question of the plurality of law, as these two aspects are closely intertwined.
RZZ‐Spindly and CENP‐E form an integrated platform to recruit dynein to the kinetochore corona
Authors: Cmentowski Verena , Ciossani Giuseppe , d'Amico Ennio , Wohlgemuth Sabine , Owa Mikito , Dynlacht Brian , Musacchio Andrea 
Published: November 2023

AbstractChromosome biorientation on the mitotic spindle is prerequisite to errorless genome inheritance. CENP‐E (kinesin‐7) and dynein–dynactin (DD), microtubule motors with opposite polarity, promote biorientation from the kinetochore corona, a polymeric structure whose assembly requires MPS1 kinase. The corona's building block consists of ROD, Zwilch, ZW10, and the DD adaptor Spindly (RZZS). How CENP‐E and DD are scaffolded and mutually coordinated in the corona remains unclear. Here, we show that when corona assembly is prevented through MPS1 inhibition, CENP‐E is absolutely required to retain RZZS at kinetochores. An RZZS phosphomimetic mutant bypasses this requirement, demonstrating the existence of a second receptor for polymeric RZZS. With active MPS1, CENP‐E is dispensable for corona expansion, but strictly required for physiological kinetochore accumulation of DD. Thus, we identify the corona as an integrated scaffold where CENP‐E kinesin controls DD kinetochore loading for coordinated bidirectional transport of chromosome cargo.
A multi‐layered network model identifies Akt1 as a common modulator of neurodegeneration
Authors: Na Dokyun , Lim Do‐Hwan , Hong Jae‐Sang , Lee Hyang‐Mi , Cho Daeahn , Yu Myeong‐Sang , Shaker Bilal , Ren Jun , Lee Bomi , Song Jae Gwang , Oh Yuna , Lee Kyungeun , Oh Kwang‐Seok , Lee Mi Young , Choi Min‐Seok , Choi Han Saem , Kim Yang‐Hee , Bui Jennifer M , Lee Kangseok , Kim Hyung Wook , Lee Young Sik , Gsponer Jörg 
Published: November 2023

AbstractThe accumulation of misfolded and aggregated proteins is a hallmark of neurodegenerative proteinopathies. Although multiple genetic loci have been associated with specific neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), molecular mechanisms that may have a broader relevance for most or all proteinopathies remain poorly resolved. In this study, we developed a multi‐layered network expansion (MLnet) model to predict protein modifiers that are common to a group of diseases and, therefore, may have broader pathophysiological relevance for that group. When applied to the four NDs Alzheimer's disease (AD), Huntington's disease, and spinocerebellar ataxia types 1 and 3, we predicted multiple members of the insulin pathway, including PDK1, Akt1, InR, and sgg (GSK‐3β), as common modifiers. We validated these modifiers with the help of four Drosophila ND models. Further evaluation of Akt1 in human cell‐based ND models revealed that activation of Akt1 signaling by the small molecule SC79 increased cell viability in all models. Moreover, treatment of AD model mice with SC79 enhanced their long‐term memory and ameliorated dysregulated anxiety levels, which are commonly affected in AD patients. These findings validate MLnet as a valuable tool to uncover molecular pathways and proteins involved in the pathophysiology of entire disease groups and identify potential therapeutic targets that have relevance across disease boundaries. MLnet can be used for any group of diseases and is available as a web tool at http://ssbio.cau.ac.kr/software/mlnet.
The life and activities of Jonas Matulionis
Authors: Pekarskas Vidmantas , Pekarskienė Aldona 
Published: November 2023

A brief biography of the mathematician prof. J. Matulionis is presented. The accent is made on the most significant links of his life – the study period and the longevous work at the Kaunas University of Technology.The textbook ` ` Higher mathematics'', prepared by J. Matulionis, is analysed. The textbook appears to be the very first (after the war) means on mathematics in Lithuanian, for higher technical schools.
Determination of symmetry plane on human brain CT images
Authors: Grigaitis Darius , Meilūnas Mečys 
Published: November 2023

A method of automatic detection of human brain symmetry plain in computed tomography (CT) images is described. An algorithm consists of four steps: region of interest, symmetry curve detection, symmetry axis evaluation and calculation of symmetry plane. Symmetry plane are calculated using vertex slices of human brain CT images. There are approximately 40 which has symmetry curve `` ` Falx cerebri'' property. In the first, using this feature symmetry axis in slice detected. In second, coordinates of detected symmetry axis and least square method are used to calculate symmetry plane. In others images where symmetry property is not available symmetry axis is projection of calculated plane.
DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF ULTRALIGHT SUBORBITAL ROCKET COMPLEXES
Authors: Кулик О.В. , Санін А.Ф. , Солнцев В.А. , Сухий К.М. , Зайчук О.В. , Карпович І.І. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract. Vehicles are called suborbital if they either move along a ballistic trajectory with a flight velocity sufficient to reach altitudes of up to 100 km or more, but insufficient for becoming an orbiter, or fly to altitudes of 100 km or more strictly vertically, but do not become artificial satellites of the planet, even if they reach sufficient velocity at some point. In both the first and second cases, this will be considered a space flight if its height exceeds 100 km (the Kármán line). Despite the active development of the suborbital rocket science in the world as a means of solving many scientific and technical problems in the space and defense industries, scientific research and engineering education, the development of suborbital rocket science in Ukraine has so far remained, at best, at the level of achievements of the 1960s and 1970s and has been supported by numerous amateurs. This article presents the results of the creation and development of a design and technological system for the development and operation of ultralight suborbital rocket systems as the basis for the creation of new models of domestic space rocket systems, rocket and missile weapons systems, the development of innovative technologies in the field of rocket science in general, practical training of highly qualified specialists for the space industry. This paper presents structural and layout diagrams of the developed suborbital rockets, design and technological solutions for the creation of on-board radio-electronic equipment and rocket engines, design modeling, bench and flight tests. The presented design and technological system is already used today at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University for comprehensive practical training of specialists in the field of creation and operation of rocket technology and missile and rocket weapons.