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Characterization of wild yeasts isolated from cereal sourdoughs and their potential for leavening wheat dough
Authors: Kasegn Melaku Mekonen , Abrha Getachew Tafere , Weldemichael Micheale Yifter , Berhanu Addisu Dessalegn , Semere Tesfakiros , Bayratsion Yemane Tsehaye , Menghistu Habtamu Taddele , Weldeabzgi Lijalem Tareke , Kassa Abraha Birhan , Mesele Etsay , Yaekob Ashenafi Teklay , Mossa Mohammed Mebrahtu , Haftu Samson Zemikael , Gebremedhn Hailay Mehari , Meresa Birhanu Kahsay , Redda Yisehak Tsegaye 
Published: January 2024

AbstractFermentation of cereal-made dough was the primary Ethiopian food for many years. Sourdough is believed to have many beneficial fermenting micro-floras depending on the source of dough and environmental conditions. The study aimed to isolate and characterize yeasts from fermenting cereal dough and evaluate their leavening potential for wheat dough. Morphological and biochemical characterizations such as sugar fermentation, glucose tolerance test, growth at different pH and temperatures, and agitation effect were employed to select potent yeasts. Accordingly, 16 potential yeast isolates were selected and subjected to further analysis. Finally, the yeasts were tested and compared for their leavening activity on the wheat dough at 37 °C and room temperature. Results revealed marvelous CO2 producer mesophile yeasts that degrade various sugars and tolerate up to 60% glucose concentration. The overall characterization assigned all the yeast isolates to the genus Saccharomyces and the Candida humilis. ANOVA showed that leavening activity by the yeast isolates was statistically higher at 37 °C compared to room temperature. The highest dough volume (6.2 mL) was recorded from Wh17, Wh5, and Ba12 isolates. Sor9 isolates were among the yeast that raised a minimum dough volume (0.7 mL). In contrast to commercial yeasts, the present study detected exceptional yeasts that matured within 24 h. Therefore, the discovered potential yeasts can be used for leavening dough in a short fermentation time and add aroma to baked products, making them a candidate in the baking industry. It could also be cost-effective as it could reduce media consumption and electricity utilization.
Inside the Black Box: Uncovering Dynamics and Characteristics of the Chilean Central Government Bureaucracy with a Novel Dataset
Authors: Brieba Daniel , Herrera-Marín Mauricio-René , Riffo Marcelo , Garrido Danilo 
Published: January 2024

ABSTRACTThis article examines bureaucracies using a novel dataset of Chilean central government employees from 2006 to 2020. Unlike perception-based sources, this dataset provides objective, disaggregated, and longitudinal insights into bureaucrats’ characteristics and careers. The authors validate it against official employment statistics and conduct an exploratory and descriptive analysis, presenting six descriptive findings about the Chilean bureaucracy that cannot be discovered using available aggregate data. The analysis reveals significant degrees of personnel stability and professionalization in the civil service, but with considerable rigidity in careers and substantial interagency heterogeneity in turnover, wages, and exposure to political cycles. These findings suggest that the Chilean national bureaucracy is mostly well developed along Weberian lines, though not uniformly so. These measurements also serve as a benchmark for comparing other Latin American bureaucracies in the future.
A “Church of / for Poetry”: Revue Aguedal and The Friends of Amazigh Literature
Authors: Boum Aomar 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis article examines the literary and spiritual initiatives undertaken by Henri Bosco and his collaborators, notably Captain Léopold Justinard, in interwar colonial Morocco. Focusing on the Revue Aguedal, inaugurated by Bosco in Rabat in 1935, I highlight the revue's primary role as a cultural conduit between French and indigenous Amazigh and Arab intellectuals. Bosco's concept of a “poetic church,” championed by contributors such as René Guénon and Ahmed Sefriou, sought to document, safeguard, and translate Amazigh and North African literature. Although the Aguedal literary project experienced interruptions during World War II, it accentuated indigenous perspectives through sections like “Propos du Chleuh,” overseen by Justinard. I also underscore Bosco's simultaneous advocacy for French culture, challenging stereotypical colonial narratives while amplifying Amazigh voices within them. Despite financial challenges leading to the revue's demise after the war, the literary circle fostered enduring literary relationships and left an indelible mark on the nexus of colonial scholarship, literature, and spirituality.
Reading Slimane Azem as a Poet of Wisdom
Authors: Bedrani Ghalia 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe celebrated Kabyle singer Slimane Azem is known as a poet of exile due to his expatriation in France. His mastery of the mother tongue is inherited from both the Kabyle oral tradition and great poets such as Si Moh Oumhand. His repertoire tackles a variety of themes such as freedom, exile, culture and identity, in songs that celebrate peace and tolerance. His poems “Syadi L3uqal,” “Si Moh Yenna-d” and “A Yul-iw Utub” are calls for self salvation through reliance on both God and origins. Others such as “A Taqbaylit a Tigejdit” and “Ssut n Tsekrin” reconsider the status of women in Kabyle society, and “A Wid Ijebden Leqlam” vindicates the Kabyle identity. Though Azem is an engaged poet, his texts are devoid of provocative language, and this is what distinguishes him from many other Kabyle singers. This article aims to study Azem's transcendence of violent language in songs that convey revolt against entrenched social, cultural and political issues. In particular, it analyzes his work in reference to Paul Baltes's psychological implicit theory of wisdom, distills seven properties of wisdom. His principles are prominent in Azem's songs which venerate ancestral values of respect, peace and equality on all levels.
NON TAMEN INSECTOR: YOUR MUSE NO MORE (PROPERTIUS 4.7.49–50)
Authors: Paul Joshua M. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThis note on Propertius 4.7 argues that Cynthia, repeatedly cast in the role of the poet's Muse, rejects the burden of inspiration through a learned choice of words (non tamen insector, 4.7.49). The verb insector constitutes a clear reference to the invocation of the Camena in Livius Andronicus and of the Muse in Ennius. Cynthia recalibrates the parlance of poetic inspiration to end her relationship with Propertius, both as his puella and as his Muse.
On a variant of the product replacement algorithm
Authors: Leedham-Green C.R. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractWe discuss a variant, named ‘Rattle’, of the product replacement algorithm. Rattle is a Markov chain, that returns a random element of a black box group. The limiting distribution of the element returned is the uniform distribution. We prove that, if the generating sequence is long enough, the probability distribution of the element returned converges unexpectedly quickly to the uniform distribution.
Boosted income, busted environment: a tradeoff in the wider economic impacts of transport corridor investments?
Authors: Melecky Martin , Sharma Siddharth , Subhash Hari 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe literature on the impacts of transport corridors points to a tradeoff between income and environmental quality. We estimate the impacts of India's Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West highways on income and environmental quality to test this tradeoff hypothesis. Applying the difference-in-difference method to district level data, we find that the highways increased both local income and particulate matter air pollution. The estimated increase in air pollution is robust to using an instrumental variables approach, while that in income is not. Examining heterogeneity in these impacts, we find that the income–environment tradeoff was less steep in districts with initially higher educational attainment rates because they experienced a smaller increase in air pollution due to the highways.
Recommendations for healthy aging as documented by health professionals: a summative content analysis of health records
Authors: Nivestam Anna , Haak Maria , Westergren Albert 
Published: January 2024

Abstract

Aim:
To identify what type of recommendations were recorded in older adults’ health records by health professionals during preventive home visits.

Background:
To promote health and prevent ill health, health professionals can give support and recommendations to older adults. The preventive home visit for older adults is one example of an intervention where health professionals such as nurses, social workers, and assistant nurses can give recommendations. By exploring what recommendations are recorded and within what areas, we can also gain knowledge about areas where provision of recommendations seems lacking. This knowledge would provide health professionals with guidance in their counseling with the older adult.

Methods:
Records from preventive home visits (n = 596; mean age 78.71) were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed.

Findings:
The most frequently recorded recommendations were related to physical or mental illness, falls, and then nutrition. The results showed that recommendations could be sorted into ten sub-categories related to physical or mental illness, falls, nutrition, physical activity, preparation for the future, social participation, finances, getting help from others, municipal services, and security at home. These ten sub-categories were classified into the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health categories body functions & structure (including one sub-category), activity (including four sub-categories), participation (including three sub-categories), and environmental factors (including two sub-categories). From the results, we could conclude that the major focus was on risk prevention and less focus was on health promotion. Thus, the visitor’s recommendations most likely mirror the older adult’s explicit needs ‘here and now’ to a great extent. However, health visitors also need to focus on intrinsic capacities to promote health. Besides recommendations relating to the person’s intrinsic capacities, environmental aspects should be focused upon, to improve healthy aging.
TheSharing of theProfits of theCarrera deIndias: The Actors of the Hispanic Colonial Trade and Their Monopolistic Practices in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Authors: Bartolomei Arnaud 
Published: January 2024

AbstractTheCarrera de Indias, considered as a set of circuits connecting Hispanic America to world markets, does not appear as a “monopoly” reserved solely for the Spanish merchants of Cadiz, but rather as a complex commercial system, structured into three autonomous segments, each of them dominated by a mercantile corporation, more or less formalized. In the central part, which linked the two shores of the Atlantic, the merchants registered in the Consulado of the Indies of Cadiz (cargadores) obviously dominated the market. However, these were in turn dominated by the merchants from the consulates of Mexico and Lima in the inland trade (comercio de tierra adentro), which linked the great American ports and fairs with the markets of the interior of the continent, and by the foreign merchants of Cadiz, structured into “nations,” in the exchanges that linked the Andalusian port with the rest of Europe and the world. Thus, the beneficiaries of the Spanish colonial trade in the second half of the eighteenth century were neither onlycargadores, nor foreign “smugglers” enjoying the weakness of the Spanish empire as the historiography of theCarrera de Indiashas traditionally postulated, but those three groups of traders.After highlighting this singular structure of colonial trade in the Spanish Atlantic, we will consider the different institutional and relational factors that could explain it. Obviously, it is because the different groups of actors involved in these exchanges had a specific social, relational, cultural, and institutional capital that they had a comparative advantage over their rivals in certain segments of theCarrera de Indiascircuits, and that they were able to obtain the dominant position that we observe.
Effect of Horizontal Resolution on a Meso‐β‐Scale Vortex Simulation in an Extreme Rainstorm on 22 May 2020 Over South China: A Contrastive Study Based on Different‐Resolution Ensembles
Authors: Zhang Guanshun , Zhang Xubin , Yang Zhaoli 
Published: January 2024

AbstractA transient extreme rainstorm that occurred over Guangzhou city, China, on 22 May 2020, has been investigated based on two ensemble prediction systems (EPSs), one with 9‐km (TRAMS9km‐EPS) and the other with 3‐km (TRAMS3km‐EPS) grid spacings, respectively. The results show that the better performance in the rainstorm event of TRAMS3km‐EPS than that of TRAMS9km‐EPS has been attributed to the reasonable simulation of an eastward propagating meso‐β‐scale convective vortex (MβCV). The composite evolution of the good‐performing members for the two EPSs has verified the important role of the MβCV in modulating the structure of low‐level jet (LLJ) to converge toward the Guangzhou city, facilitating the formation of the rainstorm. In comparison to the gravity wave disturbance when LLJ passed through the mountains in TRAMS3km‐EPS, the topographic effect induced the moist air to ascend deeply in TRAMS9km‐EPS, which directly led to earlier outbreaks of convection and rainstorm processes and affected the structural intensity of the upstream MβCV. Quantitative PV diagnosis has demonstrated that the dispersedly strong high‐PV systems in TRAMS3km‐EPS were caused by positive feedback effect between meso‐scale convective systems and diabatic heating, and were favorable for the entire cyclonic development of MβCV. The unsymmetrical PV tendency around the moving MβCV under the combined effect of diabatic heating and advection process in TRAMS9km‐EPS resulted in a rapid propagation of this system. However, the symmetrically developed PV system within the MβCV in TRAMS3km‐EPS allowed the enhanced cyclonic circulation to persistently affect Guangzhou city, inducing extreme rainstorms similar to the observations.
Mafic Alkaline Magmatism and Rare Earth Element Mineralization in the Mojave Desert, California: The Bobcat Hills Connection to Mountain Pass
Authors: Watts K. E. , Miller D. M. , Ponce D. A. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractOccurrences of alkaline and carbonatite rocks with high concentrations of rare earth elements (REE) are a defining feature of Precambrian geology in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California. The most economically important occurrence is the carbonatite stock at Mountain Pass, which constitutes the largest REE deposit in the United States. A central scientific goal is to understand the genesis of the carbonatite ore body in the context of widespread REE‐rich igneous activity. A swarm of mafic alkaline (shonkinite) dikes has been mapped and sampled at Bobcat Hills, 65 km southeast of the Mountain Pass mine. Whole‐rock geochemistry and zircon geochronology demonstrate a clear affinity to the ca. 1.4 Ga Mountain Pass intrusive system. Bobcat Hills dikes have comparably high REE concentrations (La ∼1,000× chondritic) and an error‐weighted mean 207Pb/206Pb zircon crystallization age of 1,426 ± 2 Ma (2σ). Unlike the alkaline intrusions at Mountain Pass, which have abundant inherited zircon from Paleoproterozoic basement rocks and crustally influenced oxygen isotope compositions (δ18Ozircon = 6.5–7.5‰), the Bobcat Hills dikes lack any evidence of crustal assimilation and have oxygen isotope values that overlap a mantle range (Bobcat Hills average δ18Ozircon = 5.6 ± 0.3‰). The dikes were a high‐temperature, early center of mafic alkaline magmatism in the Mojave Desert that serve as a snapshot of melt generation from a spatially extensive, metasomatized mantle source. We propose that modification of the crust over many tens of Myr at Mountain Pass created an environment that favored crustal assimilation and enabled ascent of late‐stage, REE‐rich carbonatite magmas.
On the Vertical Structure and Propagation of Marine Heatwaves in the Eastern Pacific
Authors: Köhn Eike E. , Vogt Meike , Münnich Matthias , Gruber Nicolas 
Published: January 2024

AbstractMarine heatwaves (MHWs) have been recognized as a serious threat to marine life, yet, most studies so far have focused on the surface only. Here, we investigate the vertical dimension and propagation of surface MHWs in the Eastern Pacific (EP) using results from a high‐resolution hindcast simulation (1979–2019), performed with the Regional Ocean Modeling System. We detect MHWs using a seasonally varying percentile threshold on a fixed baseline and track their vertical propagation across the upper 500 m. We find that nearly a third (∼29%) of the MHWs extend beyond the surface mixed layer depth (MLD). On average, these deep‐reaching MHWs (dMHWs) extend to 110 m below the MLD and last five times longer than MHWs that are confined to the mixed layer (184 vs. 36 days). The dMHWs can cause stronger temperature anomalies at depth than at the surface (maximum intensity of 5.0 vs. 1.9°C). This general subsurface MHW intensification even holds when scaling the temperatures with the respective local variability. A clustering of dMHWs reveals that 41% of them are block‐like, that is, continually remain in contact with the sea surface, 24% propagate downward, 20% propagate upward, while 15% appear at the surface multiple times. Although the water column MHW duration, intensity and severity are only moderately correlated with their corresponding surface‐based MHW characteristics, dMHWs have the potential to be detected from the surface. Our study can help to augment the remote sensing‐based monitoring of upper ocean exposure to MHWs.
Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) for Hurricane Disturbance and Recovery
Authors: Shi Mingjie , Keller Michael , Bomfim Barbara , Li Lingcheng , Koven Charlie , Kueppers Lara , Knox Ryan , Needham Jessica , Kao Shih‐Chieh , Thornton Peter E. , Thornton Michele M. , Leung L. Ruby 
Published: January 2024

AbstractTropical cyclones are an important cause of forest disturbance, and major storms caused severe structural damage and elevated tree mortality in coastal tropical forests. Model capabilities that can be used to understand post‐hurricane forest recovery are still limited. We use a vegetation demography model, the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator, coupled with the Energy Exascale Earth System Model Land Model (ELM‐FATES) to study the processes and the key factors regulating post‐hurricane forest recovery. We implemented hurricane‐induced forest damage, including defoliation, structural biomass reduction, and tree mortality, performed ensemble model simulations, and used random forest feature importance. For the simulation in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, we identified factors controlling the post‐hurricane forest recovery, and quantified the sensitivity of key model parameters to the post‐hurricane forest recovery. The results indicate a tendency for the Bisley forests to shift toward the light demanding plant functional type (PFT) when the pre‐hurricane biomass between the light demanding and shade tolerant PFTs is nearly equal and forests experience hurricane disturbance with mortality >60% for both the two PFTs. Under more realistic conditions where the shade tolerant PFT is initially dominant, mortality >80% is required for a shift toward dominance of the light demanding PFT at Bisley. Hurricane mortality and background mortality are the two major factors regulating post‐hurricane forest recovery in simulations. This research improves understanding of the ELM‐FATES model behavior associated with hurricane disturbance and provides guidance for dynamic vegetation model development in representing hurricane induced forest damage with varied intensities.
One‐Dimensional Variational Ionospheric Retrieval Using Radio Occultation Bending Angles: 1. Theory
Authors: Culverwell I. D. , Healy S. B. , Elvidge S. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractA new one‐dimensional variational (1D‐Var) retrieval method for ionospheric GNSS radio occultation (GNSS‐RO) measurements is described. The forward model implicit in the retrieval calculates the bending angles produced by a one‐dimensional ionospheric electron density profile, modeled with multiple “Vary‐Chap” layers. It is demonstrated that gradient based minimization techniques can be applied to this retrieval problem. The use of ionospheric bending angles is discussed. This approach circumvents the need for Differential Code Bias (DCB) estimates when using the measurements. This new, general retrieval method is applicable to both standard GNSS‐RO retrieval problems, and the truncated geometry of EUMETSAT's Metop Second Generation (Metop‐SG), which will provide GNSS‐RO measurements up to about 600 km above the surface. The climatological a priori information used in the 1D‐Var is effectively a starting point for the 1D‐Var minimization, rather than a strong constraint on the final solution. In this paper the approach has been tested with 143 COSMIC‐1 measurements. We find that the method converges in 135 of the cases, but around 25 of those have high “cost at convergence” values. In the companion paper (Elvidge et al., 2023), a full statistical analysis of the method, using over 10,000 COSMIC‐2 measurements, has been made.
The E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIM39 modulates renal fibrosis induced by unilateral ureteral obstruction through regulating proteasomal degradation of PRDX3
Authors: Jian Jun , Liu Yunxun , Zheng Qingyuan , Wang Jingsong , Jiang Zhengyu , Liu Xiuheng , Chen Zhiyuan , Wan Shanshan , Liu Hao , Wang Lei 
Published: January 2024

AbstractRenal fibrosis is considered to be the ultimate pathway for various chronic kidney disease, with a complex etiology and great therapeutic challenges. Tripartite motif-containing (TRIM) family proteins have been shown to be involved in fibrotic diseases, but whether TRIM39 plays a role in renal fibrosis remain unexplored. In this study, we investigated the role of TRIM39 in renal fibrosis and its molecular mechanism. TRIM39 expression was analyzed in patients’ specimens, HK-2 cells and unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) mice were used for functional and mechanistic studies. We found an upregulated expression of TRIM39 in renal fibrosis human specimens and models. In addition, TRIM39 knockdown was found efficient for alleviating renal fibrosis in both UUO mice and HK-2 cells. Mechanistically, we demonstrated that TRIM39 interacted with PRDX3 directly and induced ubiquitination degradation of PRDX3 at K73 and K149 through the K48 chain, which resulted in ROS accumulation and increased inflammatory cytokine generation, and further aggravated renal fibrosis. It provided an emerging potential target for the therapies of renal fibrosis.