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Can natural preservatives serve as a new line of protective technology against bacterial pathogens in meat and meat products?
Authors: Cheng Changyong , Jiang Lingli , Li Xiaoliang , Song Houhui , Fang Weihuan 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Contamination of meats and meat products by pathogenic microorganisms is responsible for a significant percentage of outbreaks of foodborne illness. There are also concerns over the carcinogenic potential of dietary nitrate and nitrite in processed meat products. The past few decades have seen an extensive search for novel technologies alternative to synthetic chemical preservatives to reduce the level of contamination of foods by pathogenic and spoilage microbes. This review provides a general overview of natural preservatives with potential applications in the meat industry, including phages and their endolysins, bacteriocins, microbial lipopeptides, antimicrobial peptides of plant or insect origin, and essential oils or extracts of plant origins. Instead of providing summary data from the published literature, we attempt to elaborate the challenges facing the development of novel natural preservatives as antimicrobial hurdles, taking into consideration the sharp contrast between extensive studies in this particular field and very limited industrial use. More specifically, we emphasize the great importance of having streamlined approaches and methodological guidelines in the research and development of natural preservatives so that the journey to their industrial use for safer meats and meat products could be shortened or made easier.
Altering river flow impacts estuarine species and catches: lessons from giant mud crabs
Authors: Blamey Laura K , Plagányi Éva E , Robins Julie , Kenyon Rob , Deng Roy A , Hughes Justin , Kim Shaun 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Anthropogenic alterations to river flow could have repercussions for flow-dependent species downstream but few studies account for these dynamic relationships or quantify impacts of altered river flow. Scylla serrata—a widely distributed portunid crab—was used as an example of a flow-dependent species to model impacts of altered flow on species abundance and catch. Crab population dynamics were modelled across a large semi-enclosed tropical sea in northern Australia. Environmental drivers, primarily river flow, but also temperature and the Southern Oscillation Index were linked to crab dynamics to explain variability in historical catches. Catch and abundance could then be predicted under altered flow scenarios. River flow significantly improved the ability to explain historical catches for some regions but not all, and the strength of this relationship varied across catchments. Altered flows had negligible effects for perennial rivers but for ephemeral and temporally variable rivers, predicted decreases in abundance and catch ranged from 36 to 46% on average. Our modelling approach showcases a way to dynamically and rigorously quantify impacts of altered river flow on a key species with potential to help inform natural resource management, including policy decisions on the timing, quantity, and method of water removed from rivers.
“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Authors: Jay Zoë 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This article examines children’s political agency in the context of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The Eurovision Song Contest is widely recognized as a political arena—a space for nation branding and soft diplomacy, narratives of European musical and democratic harmony, and protests over global political events. But despite filling similar roles to their adult counterparts, the young performers’ age and the organizers’ emphasis on ensuring the event is safe and fun mean these dynamics are frequently downplayed or overlooked at Junior Eurovision, with significant consequences for how we understand children’s political and politicized roles in international cultural spaces. I work with Lauren Berlant’s concepts of genre and the juxtapolitical to argue that recognition of children’s political—as opposed to artistic—agency by adults is tempered by both the format of Eurovision as entertainment and by broader conceptions apparent in international discourses of children as apolitical innocents. I suggest that while each of these genres can work separately to quiet the political dimensions of events, issues, and identities, it is Junior Eurovision’s double-edged status as a spectacular musical event and one starring and aimed at children that keeps the young performers from being recognized as having political identities and agency twice over.
Use of Pantoea agglomerans ASB05 as a biocontrol agent to inhibit the growth of Salmonella enterica on intact cantaloupe melons
Authors: Lee Sang In , Tran Thao D , Hnasko Robert , McGarvey Jeffery A 
Published: October 2023

Abstract

Aims
To identify biocontrol agents to prevent the growth of Salmonella enterica on cantaloupe melons during the pre- and postharvest periods.

Methods and Results
We created a produce-associated bacterial library containing 8736 isolates and screened it using an in-vitro fluorescence inhibition assay to identify bacteria that inhibit the growth of S. enterica. One isolate, Pantoea agglomerans ASB05, was able to grow, persist, and inhibit the growth of S. enterica on intact cantaloupe melons under simulated pre- and postharvest conditions. We also demonstrated that the growth inhibition of S. enterica by P. agglomerans ASB05 was due to the production of a phenazine type antibiotic.

Conclusions
Pantoea agglomerans ASB05 is an effective biocontrol agent for the prevention of S. enterica growth on intact cantaloupe melons in both the pre- and postharvest environments.
Imprints of dark matter–massive neutrino interaction in upcoming post-reionization and galaxy surveys
Authors: Dey Antara , Paul Arnab , Pal Supratik 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT
We explore possible signatures of the interaction between dark matter (DM) and massive neutrinos during the post-reionization epoch. Using both Fisher matrix forecast analysis and Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation, we conduct a thorough investigation of the constraints and imprints of the scenario on the upcoming post-reionization and galaxy surveys. Our investigation focuses on two key parameters: the strength of the DM–massive neutrino interaction (u) and the total neutrino mass (Mtot), on top of the usual six cosmological parameters. We utilize future 21-cm intensity mapping, galaxy clustering, and cosmic shear observations in order to investigate the possible constraints of these parameters in the future observations: Square Kilometre Array (SKA1 and SKA2) and Euclid, taking both conservative and realistic approaches. All these missions show promise in constraining both the parameters u and Mtot by few orders compared to the current constraints from Planck18 (SKA2 performing the best among them). Although we do not find much improvement in H0 and σ8 tensions from our forecast analysis, SKA2 constrains them better in conservative approach. We further perform a brief investigation of the prospects of some of the next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) missions in combinations with large-scale structure experiments in improving the constraints. Our analysis reveals that both SKA2 and CMB-S4 (Cosmic Microwave Background Stage-4) + Euclid + SKA1 IM2 (Square Kilometre Array1 Intensity Mapping Band2) combination will put the strongest bounds on the model parameters.
Introduction
Authors: Cox Pamela , Shoemaker Robert , Shore Heather 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to the work. It opens with three historical cases which demonstrate crime victims’ changing experiences of, and engagement with, the process of criminal justice between the late seventeenth and late twentieth centuries. It outlines existing research on the history of victims and the development of the field of victimology. It discusses the concept of ‘access to justice’ and how this book will approach it from a historical perspective. It then moves on to outline the methodology and key datasets used in the study. It provides an overview of general patterns of prosecution over time and finishes by summarizing the aims and structure of the book.
Hidden Victims
Authors: Cox Pamela , Shoemaker Robert , Shore Heather 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines the many victims whose complaints did not reach court or who were unwilling or unable to fully engage with the criminal justice system of the day. It offers an overview of victims’ traditional obligations to prosecute, outlines the numerous disincentives to doing so, profiles the types of victims who were least likely to engage with the judicial process (notably victims of sexual offences), and describes some of the alternative tactics available to them. Those who chose to prosecute, but whose cases did not make it to trial, and thus whose identity as ‘victims’ was rejected, are also considered. While all these victims are not the focus of this study, their absence from the courts provides vital context, explaining the state’s substantial efforts over time to reduce those disincentives and ensure that more crimes were prosecuted, efforts which led to significant redefinitions of the role and entitlements of the victim.
From Prosecutors to Victims
Authors: Cox Pamela , Shoemaker Robert , Shore Heather 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter documents changes to the role of complainants in the criminal justice system as they evolved from ‘prosecutors’ to ‘victims’, and it considers how these changes affected victims’ access to justice over time. From the late seventeenth century, the state sought to incentivize victims to initiate more prosecutions. These incentives, which took various forms, encouraged more prosecutions, but at the price of sidelining complainants’ role in the prosecution process. Initially the state offered rewards for convictions, and then reimbursed the costs of prosecution and introduced allowances for time and trouble. These facilitated the growing role of prosecuting counsel and policing agents, who became ubiquitous in nineteenth-century trials. Further legislation which reformed punishments, established wider definitions of offences, and authorized the growing use of summary jurisdiction, substantially affected victims. The chapter shows how early modern English conceptualizations of victims as actors with legal obligations to prosecute endured even as nineteenth-century interventions by the state and voluntary organizations tended to marginalize them. From the eighteenth century, and accelerating in the nineteenth century, professionals assumed a greater role in the criminal justice system, ostensibly supporting the victims’ interests but simultaneously sidelining them as direct participants. The chapter ends by outlining post-Second-World-War efforts to support victims outside the criminal justice system, which completed the process of transforming victims into marginal figures in the courtroom.
Public Prosecution
Authors: Cox Pamela , Shoemaker Robert , Shore Heather 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines the complex and uneven rise of public prosecution, exploring how it developed on the ground through police and court practice, how it was framed in public political debate, and the compromises which eventually led to the creation of the Director of Public Prosecutions in 1879 and the Crown Prosecution Service in 1986. It considers early forms of state prosecutions (for a limited range of offences) and prosecutions by agents of the crown such as the Mint, the Bank of England, and the Post Office. These formed the foundations of later developments, notably the locally initiated growth of police prosecution from the late eighteenth century, and the eventual, but initially limited, acceptance of state-managed prosecutions in 1879. From the mid-nineteenth century to the late-twentieth century, a significant proportion of prosecutions for serious crime, and the investigations that preceded them, were funded by the government and managed by the police and their solicitors and barristers. Through this incremental process, England eventually acquired a system of public prosecution. This had the not necessarily intended consequence of sidelining victims.
Post-war Victims and the Pains of Prosecution
Authors: Cox Pamela , Shoemaker Robert , Shore Heather 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter provides a new historical reading of the emergence of calls for victims’ rights after the Second World War. It sets these in the context of the displacing of the victim in prosecution practice documented in the preceding chapters. It focuses on post-war Old Bailey trials relating to domestic violence, sexual offences, and what would become recognized as homophobic hate and racially aggravated offences, exploring representations of the victims involved, the development of campaigns aiming to support them, and the state’s response to these. It suggests that the victims of these offences experienced what we have termed particular ‘pains of prosecution’. The chapter offers a new historical reading of the emergence of ‘victim support’ as a concept and as a set of cultural practices.
Introduction
Authors: Newby Zahra 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Much of our knowledge of festivals from the ancient world comes from material culture, especially inscriptions, which detail the running of festivals, or the victories achieved by individual performers. Civic coinage and architectural decoration also sometimes advertised festivals and religious traditions, while festival activities were framed by the spaces and periods in which they took place. This introduction sets out the ways in which such material has been studied in recent years, drawing attention to scholarship on the epigraphic habit, the materiality of art and text, and the spatial turn. It sets out the wider frameworks within which the individual chapters are set, asserting the importance of considering individual pieces of material evidence as the result of deliberate choices of what to record, and where and how to record it. It also indicates the social frameworks within which civic festivals proceeded, outlining the important roles played by emperors, elites, and cities.
Greek Festival Culture and ‘Political’ Games at Nikaia in Bithynia
Authors: Calomino Dario 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The political life of Nikaia under the Roman empire has been traditionally seen as a reflection of its long-standing rivalry with Nikomedia, the other major Bithynian centre and the provincial metropolis, as per Louis Robert’s memorable comparison between each city’s enumeration of honorific titles on inscriptions and coins. However, a more in-depth analysis of the coinages of Nikaia and Nikomedia at the pinnacle of their reciprocal opposition—between the mid-second century ad and the Severan age, shows that they were adopting different political strategies. The message conveyed through Nikaian coinage, which was much larger and more varied than that of its rival, laid greater emphasis on the glorification of the imperial family, probably to compensate for being disallowed to host a neokoros temple after the city had sided with Pescennius Niger in the conflict against Septimius Severus. This contribution outlines the political message delivered by the Nikaian coinage from the reign of Commodus to that of Gallienus, with a special focus on the use of festivals honouring the imperial family to demonstrate loyalty and enhance the community’s provincial rank. It will look particularly at the special relation of Nikaia with the Severan family and the visual language adopted on its coinage to link the civic festivals and games to the worship of the Severan emperors.
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World
Authors: Herd David 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human addresses the current drive towards a politics of expulsion by considering a moment when the realities of expulsion were actively understood and contested. The contemporary starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical non-personhood in which detention and its proxies results. To understand this emerging condition, the book returns to a post-war discourse in which geopolitical non-personhood was grasped as a new reality and countered across a range of disciplines and settings. Building on Lefebvre’s account of the production of space, the book argues that, in the period following the war, expulsion was understood as a new condition of geopolitical space. The production of such expulsive space was visible in the legacy of the concentration camps, the suspensions of displaced persons camps, the exclusion zones of settler colonial regimes. Drawing on contemporary histories of forced displacement, eye-witness accounts, international legal documents, and a range of emblematic cross-disciplinary texts and authors (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Hannah Arendt, Charles Olson, Frantz Fanon), the argument shows how mid-century writers documented the lived experience of expulsion and asserted forms of thinking and human relation by which expulsion would be prevented. The book details the non-place of expulsion, the languages of recognition through which mid-century writers initiated a response, and the relationalities of moving, making, and speaking through which a space for the human can be made.
The Networked Financier
Authors: Meyer David R. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Interviews with experienced financiers in global financial centres reveal the strategic network behaviour which they employ to access social capital. This enhances their performance. Referrals were used to acquire interviewees. This methodology provided access to top financiers in the financial centres of London, Zurich, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, and Mumbai. Digitally recorded interviews focused on financiers’ network behaviour in corporate and investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, fund management, real estate investment, insurance, and private banking. Extensive quotes are mechanisms to explain how financiers behave. Social network theory supplies the lens to interpret that behaviour. Financiers face a dilemma. They need sophisticated knowledge to perform their jobs but accessing that knowledge demands extensive time. This detracts from their performance. Their networks help resolve that dilemma. Financiers use face-to-face interactions in formal and informal meetings to acquire knowledge resources and build relationships. Alumni ties and organizational memberships constitute components of current networks, but financiers disagree about their usefulness. They devise sophisticated network strategies to initiate a contact. Non-face-to-face and face-to-face mechanisms help to build and maintain relationships. In every financial centre and sector, trust is the foundation of relationships. Financiers incorporate advances in telecommunications, changes in the workplace, and reconsideration of approaches to long-distance travel into their network behaviour. Fintech is an adjunct to financiers’ practice. The interviewees play important roles in their respective sectors; therefore, the results reveal the ‘best practices’ of financiers.
Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900
Authors: Gustafson Sandra M. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840–1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the first peace societies in 1815 and the mid-century peace congresses, to the postbellum movement’s consequential emphasis on arbitration. The Civil War is the central axis for the book, with three chapters organized around readings of novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne spanning the period from 1840 to 1865. Cooper had personal connections to the movement and thought deeply about the issues it addressed. Literary interest in peace at times overlapped with abolitionism, as was true for Stowe. And, in the case of Hawthorne, attention to peace advocacy arose out of a mixture of skepticism regarding perfectionist impulses, a desire to explore the nature and limits of violence, and fear of civil conflict. The second group of chapters explores fiction engaged with problems arising in the aftermath of that war, including novels by Henry Adams and John Hay on political corruption and class conflict; works on the failures of Reconstruction by Albion Tourgée and Charles Chesnutt; and the varied treatments of Indigenous experience in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and Simon Pokagon’s Queen of the Woods. All of these writers focused on issues related to the cause of peace, expanding its thematic reach and anticipating key insights of twentieth-century peace scholars.
Preachers and Minstrels
Authors: Bennett Alastair 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter explores Piers Plowman’s critique of corrupt, self-interested preaching through a reading of Study’s complaint in the third vision and the feast of Conscience in the fourth. Study condemns preachers who deliver sermons on esoteric subjects at St Paul’s Cross and encourage an indiscriminate desire for arcane knowledge, comparing them with obscene entertainers, but contrasting them with virtuous minstrels who tells stories from the Bible and encourage charity and penitence; at the feast of Conscience, the dreamer encounters a preacher like this at dinner, but also hears the kind of minstrelsy that can counteract his sermons. Esoteric sermons erode their listeners’ capacity to think in narrative terms, the poem suggests, because they make it hard to distinguish or prioritize among different events, but virtuous minstrelsy encourages these skills, making narrative understanding available again. This chapter also considers the dispute between William Taylor and Richard Alkerton as an example of contentious preaching at St Paul’s Cross.
The Germ of Justice
Authors: Green Leslie 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter treats the relation between justice and law. One influential argument says that although a law may be ‘substantively’ unjust, ‘formal’ justice requires that it be applied strictly according to its terms. On this basis, H. L. A. Hart says that whenever law is constantly applied, we have ‘the germ of justice’. This chapter rejects Hart’s argument. Following Plato, David Lyons, and John Gardner, it denies that strict rule-following is any kind of justice. But it defends a different connection between law and justice, based not on any consideration of ‘form’ but on two necessary features of every legal system. First, owing to its content, law is always apt for appraisal as just or unjust. Second, in contemporary societies, a legal system supervised by judges is a necessary means to securing justice. There is, then, a necessary connection between law and justice, and one that is compatible with legal positivism.
The Role of a Judge
Authors: Green Leslie 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Every legal system has people who fulfil the role of judges. This chapter attempts to clarify the judicial role and its relation to the law. Contrary to a suggestion by Michael Moore, there are many considerations on which it is appropriate for judges to rely when performing their role that are nevertheless not the law. The judicial role includes three families of obligation: obligations to apply the law, to improve the law, and to protect the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions. Judicial creativity can be justified by the second and third of these. There is no reason to promote the myths that judges are to apply the law and only the law, or that everything they have a duty to apply is already the law. The scope of the judicial role is larger than that, and the boundaries of the law are smaller.