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Rendering lineament induced stream alignment in Upper Krishna Basin, India: a geospatial approach
Authors: Pardeshi Suchitra S. , Pardeshi Sudhakar D. , Autade Sumant E. , Raut Tushar P. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractLineaments play an important role in drainage development, stream alignment and groundwater recharge. These are traced as surface or subsurface feature. A linear feature that is associated with dislocation and deformation is known as lineament. The present study was aimed to identify the influence of lineaments extracted from satellite images in the Upper Krishna River basin in India. Objective set for the present study is to characterize and analyse the spatial organization of lineaments from ASF-DEM and sentinel-2 satellite data which may help to determine the role of lineaments in groundwater flow and to identify groundwater potential zones. High resolution spatial data allows determining the linear features for considerable distance and play an important role to identify mineral potential areas (Mohammadpour et al. in Geotectonics 54:366–382, 2020). Comprehensive understanding of regional lineament maps is important in terms of their prospectivity for mineral exploration (Richards in SEG Newsl 42:1–20, 2000). Remote sensing datasets are considered the best option when using image enhancement techniques for extracting lineaments. Lineament studies are useful for groundwater and mineral exploration and also in the field of engineering geology (Anbazhagan in Bhu-Jal News 8:8–12, 1994; Anbazhagan et al. in New approaches to characterizing groundwater flow, 2001. http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/16176, http://hdl.handle.net/100/2781) more generally in the geomorphological studies like forms of surface features and structural geological fields also in physical setting and control over the rocky terrain. The availability of high-resolution satellite data and image processing techniques have rendered it further convenient to map lineaments. In the present study, lineaments were extracted from Sentinel-2 images with a resolution of 10 m, using various image processing techniques. A total of 1314 lineaments were extracted from the study area with a total length of 3983.44 km. The analysis of the extracted lineaments revealed that the lineament density was higher in the upper reaches of the basin, where the undulating hilly region which is located in Western Ghats. This finding implied that these regions have a high structural deformation and a higher groundwater infiltration potential. Moreover, 15% of the total stream length was observed to be influenced by the lineaments. The maximum influence of lineaments was observed in the source region. The lineament extraction results of the present study would assist in understanding the geomorphology of this region and the structural control on the streams and groundwater potential zones, particularly as a contribution to water resource management in this region.
When is vancomycin prophylaxis necessary? Risk factors for MRSA surgical site infection
Authors: Nguyen Cynthia T. , Baccile Rachel , Brown Amanda M. , Lew Alison K. , Pisano Jennifer , Pettit Natasha N. 
Published: January 2024

Abstract

Background:
The 2022 SHEA/IDSA/APIC guidance for surgical site infection (SSI) prevention recommends reserving vancomycin prophylaxis to patients who are methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonized. Unfortunately, vancomycin prophylaxis remains common due to the overestimation of MRSA risk and the desire to cover MRSA in patients with certain healthcare-associated characteristics. To optimize vancomycin prophylaxis, we sought to identify risk factors for MRSA SSI.

Methods:
This was a single-center, case-control study of patients with a postoperative SSI after undergoing a National Healthcare Safety Network operative procedure over eight years. MRSA SSI cases were compared to non-MRSA SSI controls. Forty-two demographic, medical, and surgical characteristics were evaluated.

Results:
Of the 441 patients included, 23 developed MRSA SSIs (rate = 5.2 per 100 SSIs). In the multivariable model, we identified two independent risk factors for MRSA SSI: a history of MRSA colonization or infection (OR, 9.0 [95% CI, 1.9–29.6]) and hip or knee replacement surgery (OR, 3.8 [95% CI, 1.3–9.9]). Hemodialysis, previous hospitalization, and prolonged hospitalization prior to the procedure had no measurable association with odds of MRSA SSI.

Conclusions:
Patients with prior MRSA colonization or infection had 9–10 times greater odds of MRSA SSI and patients undergoing hip and knee replacement had 3–4 times greater odds of MRSA SSI. Healthcare-associated characteristics, such as previous hospitalization or hemodialysis, were not associated with MRSA SSI. Our findings support national recommendations to reserve vancomycin prophylaxis for patients who are MRSA colonized, as well as those undergoing hip and knee replacement, in the absence of routine MRSA colonization surveillance.
An Ecofeminist Politics of Chicken Ovulation: A Socio-Capitalist Model of Ability as Farmed Animal Impairment
Authors: Narayanan Yamini 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThrough a combined ecofeminist, and critical disability philosophical analysis of the commodification of female farmed animal reproduction, the paper conceptualizes ability as a socio-capitalist construct that can carry the potential for harm. Patriarchal farmed animal capitalism relies upon the idea of naturalized ability of farmed females to be hyper-reproductive/hyper-ovulatory/hyper-lactative. This paper frames the introduced condition of hyper-ovulation in “egg” hens, or the amplification of their ability to lay through selective breeding, as reproductive impairment, and an act of violent patriarchal commodification and capitalization of female reproduction. Impairment, then, functions not just as disability, but also as ability. Focusing on our rescued chickens, the paper argues that such intentionally bred hyper-fertility manifests for individual hens in its least harmful form as chronic illness with the likelihood of everyday pain and inflammation, anxiety, and metabolic hunger; and in its most harmful form as a life-threatening condition. It then examines the subversive ecofeminist politics of using contraception for chickens in a fraught attempt to restore a closer pace of avian ovulation cycles that existed prior to their selective breeding. In allowing infertility to be restored to hen bodies, chicken contraception highlights the disappearance of intentionally introduced reproductive impairment to materialize the patriarchal-capitalist ableist construct of hens who naturally ovulate daily. Ideas of normal and natural can also thus operate in the service of ability. Ultimately, the paper positions the infertile hen as central to a fuller feminist resistance to the governance and control of the female reproductive body.
Potential underreporting of treated patients using a Clostridioides difficile testing algorithm that screens with a nucleic acid amplification test
Authors: Guh Alice Y. , Fridkin Scott , Goodenough Dana , Winston Lisa G. , Johnston Helen , Basiliere Elizabeth , Olson Danyel , Wilson Christopher D. , Watkins Jasmine J. , Korhonen Lauren , Gerding Dale N. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractObjective:Patients tested for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) using a 2-step algorithm with a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) followed by toxin assay are not reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network as a laboratory-identified CDI event if they are NAAT positive (+)/toxin negative (−). We compared NAAT+/toxin− and NAAT+/toxin+ patients and identified factors associated with CDI treatment among NAAT+/toxin− patients.Design:Retrospective observational study.Setting:The study was conducted across 36 laboratories at 5 Emerging Infections Program sites.Patients:We defined a CDI case as a positive test detected by this 2-step algorithm during 2018–2020 in a patient aged ≥1 year with no positive test in the previous 8 weeks.Methods:We used multivariable logistic regression to compare CDI-related complications and recurrence between NAAT+/toxin− and NAAT+/toxin+ cases. We used a mixed-effects logistic model to identify factors associated with treatment in NAAT+/toxin− cases.Results:Of 1,801 cases, 1,252 were NAAT+/toxin−, and 549 were NAAT+/toxin+. CDI treatment was given to 866 (71.5%) of 1,212 NAAT+/toxin− cases versus 510 (95.9%) of 532 NAAT+/toxin+ cases (P < .0001). NAAT+/toxin− status was protective for recurrence (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.65; 95% CI, 0.55–0.77) but not CDI-related complications (aOR, 1.05; 95% CI, 0.87–1.28). Among NAAT+/toxin− cases, white blood cell count ≥15,000/µL (aOR, 1.87; 95% CI, 1.28–2.74), ≥3 unformed stools for ≥1 day (aOR, 1.90; 95% CI, 1.40–2.59), and diagnosis by a laboratory that provided no or neutral interpretive comments (aOR, 3.23; 95% CI, 2.23–4.68) were predictors of CDI treatment.Conclusion:Use of this 2-step algorithm likely results in underreporting of some NAAT+/toxin− cases with clinically relevant CDI. Disease severity and laboratory interpretive comments influence treatment decisions for NAAT+/toxin− cases.
A five-year quasi-experimental study to evaluate the impact of empiric antibiotic order sets on antibiotic use metrics among hospitalized adult patients
Authors: Kufel Wesley D. , Steele Jeffrey M. , Mahapatra Rahul , Brodey Mitchell V. , Wang Dongliang , Paolino Kristopher M. , Suits Paul , Empey Derek W. , Thomas Stephen J. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractObjective:Evaluation of adult antibiotic order sets (AOSs) on antibiotic stewardship metrics has been limited. The primary outcome was to evaluate the standardized antimicrobial administration ratio (SAAR). Secondary outcomes included antibiotic days of therapy (DOT) per 1,000 patient days (PD); selected antibiotic use; AOS utilization; Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) cases; and clinicians’ perceptions of the AOS via a survey following the final study phase.Design:This 5-year, single-center, quasi-experimental study comprised 5 phases from 2017 to 2022 over 10-month periods between August 1 and May 31.Setting:The study was conducted in a 752-bed tertiary care, academic medical center.Intervention:Our institution implemented AOSs in the electronic medical record (EMR) for common infections among hospitalized adults.Results:For the primary outcome, a statistically significant decreases in SAAR were detected from phase 1 to phase 5 (1.0 vs 0.90; P < .001). A statistically significant decreases were detected in DOT per 1,000 PD (4,884 vs 3,939; P = .001), fluoroquinolone orders (407 vs 175; P < .001), carbapenem orders (147 vs 106; P = .024), and clindamycin orders (113 vs 73; P = .01). No statistically significant change in mean vancomycin orders was detected (991 vs 902; P = .221). A statistically significant decrease in CDI cases was also detected (7.8, vs 2.4; P = .002) but may have been attributable to changes in CDI case diagnosis. Clinicians indicated that the AOSs were easy to use overall and that they helped them select the appropriate antibiotics.Conclusions:Implementing AOS into the EMR was associated with a statistically significant reduction in SAAR, antibiotic DOT per 1,000 PD, selected antibiotic orders, and CDI cases.
Cambrian trilobites and associated fossils from the Uinta Mountains of Utah (USA)
Authors: Foster John R. , Sundberg Frederick A. , Hagadorn James W. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractFossils are rare in Cambrian strata of the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah, and are important because they can help integrate our understanding of laterally adjacent but discontiguous rock units, e. g., the Tintic Quartzite of Utah and the Lodore Formation of Utah-Colorado. New body fossils from strata previously mapped as Tintic or Cambrian Undifferentiated, but here interpreted as the Ophir Formation, include indeterminate hyoliths and hyolithids, brachiopods including a linguloid, and the trilobites Trachycheilus Resser, 1945 and Elrathiella Poulsen, 1927. The last two assign these strata to the Ehmaniella Biozone (uppermost Wuliuan Stage; Miaolingian Series) or traditional Laurentian middle Cambrian. These data, together with fossil occurrences elsewhere in Utah, require that the Tintic Quartzite was deposited prior to and/or during the early Wuliuan, and suggest that the unit could be correlative to much of the Lodore Formation of Utah and Colorado.
De Finetti’s control problem with a concave bound on the control rate
Authors: Locas Félix , Renaud Jean-François 
Published: January 2024

AbstractWe consider De Finetti’s control problem for absolutely continuous strategies with control rates bounded by a concave function and prove that a generalized mean-reverting strategy is optimal in a Brownian model. In order to solve this problem, we need to deal with a nonlinear Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. Despite the level of generality of the bound imposed on the rate, an explicit expression for the value function is obtained up to the evaluation of two functions. This optimal control problem has, as special cases, those solved in Jeanblanc-Picqué and Shiryaev (1995) and Renaud and Simard (2021) when the control rate is bounded by a constant and a linear function, respectively.
The effect of lexicalization biases on cross-situational statistical learning of novel verbs
Authors: George Nathan R. , Ciaccio Sabina , Berry Lucia , Weiss Daniel J. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractLanguages vary in the mapping of relational terms onto events. For instance, English motion descriptions favor manner (how something moves) verbs over path (where something move) verbs, whereas those of other languages, like Spanish, show the opposite pattern. While these lexicalization biases are malleable, adopting a novel lexicalization pattern can be slow for second language learners. One potential mechanism for learning non-native verb mappings is cross-situational statistical learning (CSSL). However, the application of CSSL to verbs is limited and does not explicitly examine how lexicalization biases may complicate adults’ ability to resolve the referential uncertainty of multiple referents. We ask English-speaking monolingual adults to learn the mappings of ten verbs via CSSL. Verbs mapped onto either manner or path of motion, with the other event component held constant. Adults in both conditions demonstrated successful learning of novel verbs, with adults learning the manner verbs showing more consistent performance across accepting correct referents and rejecting incorrect ones. Our results are the first to demonstrate adults’ use of CSSL to acquire verb meanings that both align with and cut against native lexicalization biases and suggest a limited influence of lexicalization biases on adults’ learning in idealized CSSL conditions.
Community, Place, and Identity in Middle Formative Coastal Ecuador: Human Burials at Salango, a Machalilla Phase Fishing Village
Authors: Lunniss Richard M. , Ubelaker Douglas H. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThirty-one individuals buried at Salango, a Machalilla phase fishing village, constitute the only significant Middle Formative funerary assemblage so far recovered for the coast of Ecuador. Our description and discussion of the burials in the context of the nature, location, and history of the settlement and a comparison with preceding coastal Valdivia and contemporary highland Cotocollao funerary practices show that, although they represent a new general tradition, Machalilla burial rituals at Salango reflected specific social conditions and concern with community identity. In particular, the elaborate burial of an adult female not only points to the continuing authority of women in coastal Ecuadorian Formative communities but also expresses the spiritual and economic importance of the sea for Machalilla phase Salango.
The AKP’s clientelist–machine politics and the role of Kurdish brokers: the case of Bağcılar
Authors: Kuran İbrahim 
Published: January 2024

AbstractAlthough there are numerous studies showing the significance of clientelism in the electoral mobilization of the poor in Turkey, scant attention has been paid on the specific clientelistic strategies employed by the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) among the Kurdish population in İstanbul. Addressing this gap, this study focuses on the AKP’s clientelist politics among Kurdish voters in Bağcılar, a lower-income district on the European side of İstanbul. Drawing on fieldwork, this study argues that the AKP successfully mobilizes Kurdish voters through machine politics and relational clientelism, which are facilitated by co-ethnic brokerage and intermediary linkages. By analyzing different modalities of Kurdish brokers – Kurdish (male) entrepreneurs, Kurdish housewives and Kurdish associations – the study discloses the intricate dynamics of the AKP’s clientelist–machine politics at the local level. It reveals that the AKP’s co-ethnic brokers not only distribute material benefits but also cultivate enduring personal relationships with Kurdish voters, providing problem-solving networks for the Kurdish poor in everyday life. The AKP’s co-ethnic brokerage relations foster trust, care, solidarity, and affectivity among Kurds. The study concludes that the AKP employs both material and symbolic dimensions of clientelism to mobilize the Kurdish electorate in İstanbul.
Superabsorbent polymers in soil: The new microplastics?
Authors: Buchmann Christian , Neff Janina , Meyer Maximilian , Bundschuh Mirco , Steinmetz Zacharias 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
The extensive use of synthetic polymers in our everyday lives has resulted in significant plastic pollution. Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) are yet another class of anthropogenic materials with uncertain environmental implications. SAPs, like polyacrylates (PAA) or polyacrylamides (PAM), find applications in personal care products, construction, wastewater treatment, agriculture and soil remediation. However, when SAPs enter the soil, weathering may change their intended properties, potentially forming plastic-like solid residues over time. This review aims to evaluate the current scientific understanding of the application and environmental fate of SAPs in soil, focusing on the processes driving their potential transformation into solid residues. We explore analytical techniques for the qualitative and quantitative characterization of SAPs and solid SAP residues. Our research provides first insights into the potential mechanisms and conditions governing SAP aging and transformation, advancing our understanding of the fate of SAPs in soil and their impact on soil properties and functioning. There are specific knowledge gaps regarding the influence of climate change on the application and transformation of SAPs in soil. To facilitate future research, we suggest scrutinizing relevant processes of SAP transformation in the field, critically (re)evaluating SAP application to the soil and establishing robust monitoring methods.
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and ICE Reporting Interest: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Web Search Data
Authors: Krupenkin Masha , Hill Shawndra , Rothschild David 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis paper studies whether media cues can motivate interest in reporting suspected unauthorized immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Using web search data and automated content analysis of cable news transcripts, we examine the role of media coverage on searches for how to report immigrants to ICE and searches about immigrant crime and welfare dependency. We find significant and persistent increases in news segments on crime by after Trump's inauguration, accompanied by a sharp increase in searches for how to report immigrants. We find a strong association between daily reporting searches and immigration and crime coverage. Using searches during broadcasts of presidential speeches, we isolate the specific effect of anti-immigrant media coverage on searches for how to report immigrants to ICE. The findings indicate that the media's choices regarding the coverage of immigrants can have a strong impact on the public's interest in behaviour that directly harms immigrants.
Qing China and Its Offshore Islands in the Long Eighteenth Century
Authors: Po Ronald C. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractA significant paradigm shift in the examination of China’s engagement with the maritime world has taken place over the past decade. The conventional image of the Qing dynasty in the long eighteenth century as being merely land-orientated has now become obsolete. Historians are no longer satisfied with this stereotype and have put aside the conception that the Qing only realized the importance of strategic marine governance after the First Opium War. In view of this historiographical turn, I seek to deepen our understanding of the Great Qing in relation to the sea. By focusing on a series of sea charts, alongside some relevant palace papers, from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, I will argue that the Qing’s process of locating and charting those offshore islands was an essential, indicative, and demonstrative step for the central authority to project its imperial power onto the waters off the coast of China long before the arrival of Western gunboats in the age of global rivalry.
Advances in diagnostic approaches to Fasciola infection in animals and humans: An overviews
Authors: Aftab A. , Raina O.K. , Maxton A. , Masih S.A. 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Fasciolosis, caused by Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica, is an impediment to the livestock industry’s expansion and has a massively negative socio-economic impact due to its widespread prevalence in livestock. It is a waterborne zoonosis affecting human populations in the countries where rural economies are associated with livestock rearing. Conventional diagnosis of Fasciola infection is done by detecting parasite eggs in the faeces of infected animals or by immunological methods. Accurate and quick immunodiagnosis of Fasciola infection in animals and humans is based on the detection of antibodies and specific antigens expressed in the prepatent stage of the parasite. Both molecular and serodiagnostic tests developed thus far have enhanced the reliability of Fasciola diagnosis in both man and animals but are not widely available in resource-poor nations. A pen-side diagnostic test based on a lateral flow assay or a DNA test like loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) would be simple, fast, and cost-effective, enabling clinicians to treat animals in a targeted manner and avoid the development of drug resistance to the limited flukicides. This review focuses on the recent advances made in the diagnosis of this parasite infection in animals and humans.