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Randomized comparison of precut papillotomy versus an endoscopic ultrasound-guided rendezvous procedure for difficult biliary access in malignant distal biliary obstruction
Authors: Dhir Vinay , Singh Vivek Kumar , Dalal Ankit , Patil Gaurav Kumar , Maydeo Amit 
Published: January 2025

AbstractDifficult biliary cannulation (DBC) is a marker for prolonged procedure time and a higher rate of adverse events (AEs) during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). We previously showed that endoscopic ultrasound-assisted rendezvous (EUS-RV) procedures had a higher single-session success rate than precut papillotomy (PCP) in cases of DBC. The present randomized study aimed to compare the technical success and AE rates of the two approachesThis was an open-label randomized controlled trial in a tertiary care setting. Patients with malignant distal biliary obstruction (MDBO) and DBC were enrolled. The patients were randomized to PCP with a needle-knife or EUS-RV. The primary outcome was technical success; secondary outcomes were the AE rate, procedure duration, and length of hospital stay (LOS).208 patients were enrolled, 104 in each group. There were no statistically significant differences in technical success (93.3% PCP vs. 97.1% EUS-RV; P = 0.33; odds ratio [OR] 0.4, 95%CI 0.1–1.6) and overall AE rate (11.5% PCP vs. 5.8% EUS-RV; P=0.14; OR 0.5, 95%CI 0.8–5.9). Pancreatitis was higher in the PCP group (8.7% vs. 1.9%; P=0.06; OR 4.8, 95%CI 1.0–22.9). The mean duration of the procedure was significantly higher for EUS-RV (47 vs. 27 minutes; P<0.001). LOS was similar in the two groups (1.2 PCP vs. 1.1 days EUS-RV; P=0.25).Both PCP and EUS-RV have comparable rates of success, AEs, mortality, and LOS. EUS-RV could be used as an alternative to PCP in patients with MDBO and DBC.
Exploring a new Biocultural Credit Assessment Framework: case study for Indigenous-led fauna management from the Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area, Australia
Authors: Smuskowitz Daniel G. , Ens Emilie J. , Campbell Bridget , Wunuŋmurra Bobby M. , Wunuŋmurra Bandipandi , Waṉambi Luḻparr George , Wunuŋmurra Brendan Banygada , Marrkula Butjiaŋanybuy Thomas , Waṉambi Darren G. 
Published: January 2025

Warning This article contains names and/or images of deceased Aboriginal Peoples. Context The global biological-diversity crisis has resulted in a widespread uptake of market mechanisms to promote conservation. Despite widespread recognition of Indigenous-led contribution to biodiveristy conservation, market mechanisms are often derived from Western scientific approaches that do not appropriately incorporate Indigenous cultural values and objectives. Aims This research sought to produce a proof-of-concept case study for a novel ‘Biocultural Credit Assessment Framework’ (BCAF) to facilitate design of an Indigenous-led biocultural conservation project in response to ongoing decline of culturally significant fauna in north-eastern Arnhem Land, Australia. The BCAF is underpinned by Indigenous identification of project dimensions, combining biological and cultural values and aspirations, which could form assessable foundations of a potential Indigenous-led biocultural credit project. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine Yolŋu Elders over 2 days. A three-stage thematic analysis using pre-defined coding categories and both latent and semantic level analysis were used to elucidate key components of a biocultural project from Elder responses, including biocultural concerns, actions, targets and indicators. Key results Yolŋu Elders expressed six key concerns about local fauna, including the following: that some animals were no longer seen; youth were not learning cultural knowledge; invasive-species impacts; reliance on shop food; and Western influences. These concerns were linked to three key targets, including improved cultural transmission, access and use of more bush foods, and seeing ‘species of decline’ again. Ten key indicator groups assessed by a mix of Indigenous and Western methodologies were identified and revolved around biophysical and cultural learning parameters to measure the impact of actions to progress targets. In total, six actions were identified, including spending more time on Country, science-based environmental management strategies and knowledge sharing. Conclusions The BCAF elucidated key components of an Indigenous-led biocultural conservation project as identified by Elders. A mix of biophysical and cultural learning indicators assessed both qualitatively and quantitatively could be used to feed into a potential biocultural credit market to enhance project delivery. Implications Further research is required to progress this conceptual framework with Cultural Advisors and real financial partners to further elucidate challenges, opportunities, and next steps towards an inclusive biocultural market.
Nonclassicality of photons in mean-field anisotropic quantum light-matter interacting lattices: Two-photon correlation function and quadrature squeezing
Authors: Xu-Min Chen , Pei-Yao Chen , Chen Wang 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The generation of nonclassical photons via quantum light-matter interactions is of fundamental importance in quantum optics. Here we investigate steady-state two-photon correlation function and photon squeezing in an open anisotropic Rabi lattice by applying quantum dressed master equation embedded with the mean-field approximation. The expanded antibunching effect of photons due to anisotropic qubit-photon interaction, is strongly suppressed by including inter-site photon tunneling, whereas the giant photon bunching keeps robust with weak inter-site photon tunneling strength. The microscopic processes for photon antibunching and bunching effects are presented based on incoherent transitions between eigenstates. The photon squeezing is also analyzed under the influences of qubit-photon coupling and anisotropic factor. The quadrature squeezing shows persistency by tuning on the inter-site photon tunneling, and becomes dramatically pronounced at the small anisotropic factor. Moreover, the increasing number of qubits significantly enhances quadrature squeezing with strong qubit-photon interaction. We hope such results may provide physical insights into efficient generation and manipulation of nonclassical features of photons in quantum light-matter interacting lattice systems.
Controlled propagation and particle manipulation of off-axis-rotating elliptical Gaussian beams in strong nonlocal media
Authors: Chen Rong-Quan , Xiao Rui-Lin , Wang Wei , Chu Xi-Xi , Song Yu-Qing , Hu Xu-Dong , Chen Ming 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Off-axis-rotating elliptical Gaussian beams(OareGB) oblique incidence in strong nonlocal medium exhibit novel propagation properties.The analytical expressions of semi-axial beamwidths, and center-of-mass trajectory equations for transmitting off-axis-rotating elliptical Gaussian beams in strong nonlocal media are obtained using the ABCD transfer matrix method. The study revealed that the trajectory of the mass’s center in the cross-section can be controlled by changing the sizes of the OareGB parameters c, d, ζ, and f. The gradient force of the light field causes the spot region to form a spatial potential well in the media, and this spatial potential well can effectively capture nanoparticles. The particles captured by the light field can move along with the beam, realizing the effective manipulation of the particle trajectory. These laws may be applied to modulating the propagation path of light beams and optical tweezer technology.
The co-excitation of electrostatic ion-cyclotron wave and ion Bernstein-like wave launched from a grid
Authors: Sun Hongyu , Ma Jinxiu , Zhao Yaodong , Tao Wan , Liu Qi 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Electrostatic ion-cyclotron wave (EICW) and ion-Bernstein wave &#xD;(IBW) are two typical normal modes of plasma propagating &#xD;vertically to a magnetic field. &#xD;These modes satisfy the extreme conditions &#xD;$\omega \ll k_{\parallel} v_{\rm te}$ and $\omega \gg k_{\parallel} v_{\rm te}$, &#xD;where $\omega$, $k_{\parallel}$, and $v_{\rm te}$ are the wave &#xD;angular frequency, wave number parallel to the magnetic field, &#xD;and the electron thermal speed. Between these extremities, &#xD;there exist IBW-like waves that have not been studied. &#xD;In this paper, the co-excitation of the EICW and IBW-like wave in &#xD;an experiment is presented. It is shown that, in an argon (Ar) &#xD;discharge, the EICW appears in the fundamental and second &#xD;harmonic frequency bands of the ion-cyclotron frequency. &#xD;In contrast, the IBW-like wave appears in the higher &#xD;harmonic frequency bands and in the case of a relatively &#xD;strong magnetic field. In a helium (He) discharge, the IBW-like &#xD;wave is excited in the fundamental frequency band, &#xD;but the wave behaviour becomes complicated in the harmonic &#xD;frequency bands. The measured dispersion relations of the &#xD;excited EICW are in agreement with the results of the fluid and &#xD;kinetic models in some range of frequencies, but those of the &#xD;excited IBW-like wave are only in qualitative agreement with &#xD;the kinetic model of the IBW. &#xD;This study is important for identifying the &#xD;IBW-like mode that may have potential application in plasma &#xD;heating via Landau damping.
Integrated Assessment and Policy Optimization: A Brief Introduction
Authors: Kelleher J Paul 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter provides a brief introduction to climate change economics and to the integrated assessment models (IAMs) it employs. It then describes the main features of policy-optimization IAMs, which have social cost of carbon estimates as one of their main outputs. The chapter explains the role of objective functions in policy-optimization IAMs and warns against reading too much into the fact that an IAM incorporates an objective function. For example, philosophers tend to assume that the presence of an objective function makes an IAM essentially normative. But that might be a mistake, as it is possible to derive seemingly identical objective functions from within radically different analytical frameworks.
The Social Cost of Carbon in Social Choice Climate Economics
Authors: Kelleher J Paul 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter explains the basis and methods of what the book calls social choice climate economics. This framework uses a social welfare function to place intertemporal paths of consumption into a ranked ordering. The chapter explains that the framework requires two key assumptions: that individual well-being is cardinally measurable and that it is interpersonally comparable. It also explains how two different social cost of carbon (SCC) concepts emerge from the framework, and how the economic technique of discounting is involved in this. Finally, it relates each SCC concept to its own distinct task in climate economics. One of these tasks concerns climate change cost-benefit analysis, while the other concerns the identification of so-called optimal climate policy.
The Social Cost of Carbon in General Equilibrium Climate Economics
Authors: Kelleher J Paul 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter explains the basis and methods of what the book calls general equilibrium climate economics. This framework is concerned to study Pareto efficient intertemporal allocations of goods, services, and environmental amenities, and the decentralized policy instruments that can steer the world toward any pre-selected Pareto efficient allocation. It explains that each Pareto efficient allocation is the solution to a policy-optimization problem whose objective function looks like a social choice social welfare function, but which is fundamentally different. The mathematics of these new functions—which the chapter terms character functions—permits the derivation of two new social cost of carbon concepts, only one of which is useful for policy analysis.
A Foundation for (Discounted) Utilitarian Social Welfare Functions
Authors: Kelleher J Paul 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter discusses two different approaches to deriving discounted and undiscounted utilitarian social welfare functions in social choice climate economics. It explains and critically evaluates Tjalling Koopmans’s axiomatic derivation of discounted utilitarianism, as well as his exploration of undiscounted utilitarianism. It then sympathetically explicates John Harsanyi’s derivation of a social welfare function that is consistent with weighted and unweighted versions of utilitarianism and its rival prioritarianism. Drawing heavily on work by John Broome, the chapter explains assumptions required to vindicate an unweighted utilitarian social welfare function. These assumptions concern the possibility of interpersonal comparisons of well-being, and the ability to aggregate well-being across times within each person’s life and then across different lives within a given intertemporal outcome. In the Harsanyi-Broome framework, the ability to aggregate in these ways turns on the ability to aggregate across different possible states of the world.
The Social Cost of Carbon in Applied Climate Change Policy Analysis
Authors: Kelleher J Paul 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter summarizes the book’s central arguments and then puts some of its principal conclusions to work. It explicates and evaluates efforts by the U.S. federal government to produce official social cost of carbon estimates for use by federal agencies. And it criticizes guidelines that had—until very recently—forbidden the use of social choice climate economics in these federal SCC efforts. Invoking normative abridgement, the chapter then rebuts several objections to social choice climate economics that were lodged by economists who peer-reviewed the recent policy change. The chapter ends with a brief but sympathetic discussion of Pareto-improving climate policy.
Introduction
Authors: Catala Amandine 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The Introduction presents the aim of the book, namely, to develop a systematic account of epistemic power and agency by turning to the dynamics of epistemic injustice, or the many forms epistemic injustice can take, the different sites and mechanisms through which it operates, and the various transformations consequently required to move toward greater epistemic justice. The Introduction explains the choice of standpoint theory as the book’s methodology in order to ground theory in practice by centering the lived experience and experiential knowledge of non-dominant groups. It further explains how the book will highlight the problematic dynamics that generate and maintain unjust credibility and intelligibility economies by focusing on important social issues such as deliberative impasses, colonial memory, academic migration, the underrepresentation of members of non-dominant groups in certain fields, the marginalization of minoritized minds like intellectually disabled people, and the transformative experience of receiving an autism diagnosis in adulthood. The Introduction also provides basic definitions of key terms and clarifies the distinction between epistemic injustice and epistemic oppression. Finally, the Introduction offers an overview of each chapter, surveying some of the key points developed in the book, such as a pluralist account of knowledge and epistemic agency, meta-epistemic injustice, structural explanation, testimonial domination, hermeneutical domination, epistemic affordances, meta-epistemic filters, linguistic epistemic injustice, and existential hermeneutical injustice.
Colonial Memory, Epistemic Affordances, and Political Equality
Authors: Catala Amandine 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Chapter 4, titled “Colonial Memory, Epistemic Affordances, and Political Equality,” starts from the observation that most Western democracies have been, or continue to be, involved in colonialism. Yet, whether in Europe, North America, or Australasia, colonial memory is either severely distorted or lacking entirely—a situation that this chapter characterizes as colonial erasure. Focusing on the case of colonial memory in the context of Belgium’s colonization of the Congo, this chapter argues that (i) colonial erasure is a problem of epistemic injustice; that (ii) this situation of epistemic injustice undermines political equality in contemporary societies because of what this chapter calls meta-epistemic filtering; and that (iii) securing epistemic justice and political equality therefore requires, among other things, a collective duty of colonial memory. To make its case, this chapter introduces the concepts of epistemic affordance, disaffordance, dysaffordance, and misaffordance—all of which track the differential epistemic opportunities and obstacles that individuals face based on their social position and thereby capture different ways in which epistemic agency can be constrained or facilitated.
Mistaking Linguistic Privilege for Epistemic Privilege
Authors: Catala Amandine 
Published: January 2025

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Chapter 5, titled “Mistaking Linguistic Privilege for Epistemic Privilege: Academic Migration and Linguistic Epistemic Injustice,” focuses on undue differentials in epistemic power as they arise in the philosophically understudied case of academic migration. This chapter develops a systematic account of the various ways in which the spread of English as a lingua franca in academia produces linguistic epistemic injustice for academic migrants who are non-native English users. The chapter begins by proposing a broad conception of academic migration, spelling out what it encompasses and why it normatively matters, before focusing the discussion on the specific academic context of Anglo-American analytic philosophy. Next, it outlines the normative significance of a politicized conception of language, including linguistic privilege, for understanding linguistic epistemic injustice. The chapter then proceeds to show how academic migrants who are non-native English users face several types of linguistic epistemic injustice in both agential and institutional forms. Finally, it considers possible avenues to move toward greater epistemic justice in Anglophone academia. The chapter adopts an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on the interaction between racial and linguistic biases that is captured in linguistic racism and raciolinguistic ideologies. This chapter thereby contributes to theories of epistemic injustice, which mostly have not discussed the rise of English as a lingua franca; to theories of linguistic justice, which mostly have not identified the rise of English as a lingua franca as a source of epistemic injustice; and to theories of migration, which mostly have not focused on academic migration.
Becoming Who You Are
Authors: Catala Amandine 
Published: January 2025

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Chapter 6, titled “Becoming Who You Are: Hermeneutical Breakthroughs, Transformative Experience, and Epistemic Empowerment,” addresses the process of epistemic empowerment by connecting the literature on epistemic injustice to the literature on transformative experience. In contrast to the predominant focus on the implications of transformative experience for rational choice and decision theory, this chapter focuses on some of the normative, justice-oriented aspects of transformative experience by turning to the philosophically neglected intersection of gender and neurodiversity. This chapter argues that accessing an autism diagnosis constitutes a hermeneutical breakthrough that is the source of a transformative experience for previously undiagnosed Autistic women, and that accessing a diagnosis is a matter of both epistemic and social justice. After some terminological clarifications, this chapter begins by showing how hermeneutical breakthroughs give rise to transformative experience and epistemic empowerment, and how hermeneutical breakthroughs can impact Autistic women’s social, economic, and mental well-being. It then shows how hermeneutical injustice can preempt hermeneutical breakthroughs, which involve hermeneutical representativeness and improved self-understanding. This chapter identifies a new type of epistemic injustice, which it terms existential hermeneutical injustice, which specifically affects a person’s sense of identity or who they take themselves to be, by preventing a person from knowing and becoming who they are. Finally, the chapter shows that moving toward hermeneutical justice, so that Autistic women may access a diagnosis and become who they are, requires attending to the gender biases that pervade both the social and the medical spheres.
Conclusion
Authors: Catala Amandine 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The conclusion provides a review that both summarizes the main contributions of the book while showing how they all fit together. These contributions include: a pluralist account of epistemic agency and injustice that identifies their non-propositional, experiential (practical, tacit, embodied, and affective) dimensions in addition to their propositional ones; a structural explanation of epistemic agency that identifies its individual and structural dimensions; the concepts of meta-epistemic injustice; of testimonial and hermeneutical domination, of epistemic affordances, disaffordances, dysaffordances, and misaffordances, of meta-epistemic filters, of linguistic epistemic injustice, of existential hermeneutical injustice; a detailed account of hermeneutical breakthroughs and their connection to transformative experience and epistemic empowerment; and a systematic account of epistemic power, including epistemic power-to, power-over, and power-with.
Optimizing Closed-Approach Preservation Rhinoplasty by Ultrasonic Piezo-assisted Techniques for Enhanced Precision
Authors: Guilarte Ruben , Malzone Gerardo 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Background
Preservation rhinoplasty, particularly dorsal preservation, has gained prominence with the advent of piezoelectric instruments, which minimize trauma and enhance precision in bone reshaping. This approach presents unique challenges, especially in closed techniques, where spatial limitations complicate the use of piezotomes.

Objectives
The aim of this study was to evaluate outcomes of piezo-assisted preservation rhinoplasty performed with specialized instrumentation to enhance visibility, precision, and postoperative recovery in closed rhinoplasty procedures.

Methods
In a cohort of 734 patients undergoing primary rhinoplasty between May 2021 and April 2023, piezoelectric instruments facilitated closed preservation techniques. Cases were documented with a focus on instrument adaptation, bone reshaping precision, and the mitigation of postoperative complications.

Results
A 6% revision rate was observed, predominantly for dorsal contour adjustments, with minimal intraoperative bleeding, swelling, and postoperative pain, demonstrating the effectiveness of piezoelectric assistance. Woodpecker (Guilin, China) SS18 and SS4 inserts were specifically optimized to enhance cutting efficiency for removal of the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid, and for lateral and transverse osteotomies.

Conclusions
Piezo-assisted rhinoplasty improves precision and reduces trauma, supporting advanced closed preservation rhinoplasty techniques. Although all osteotomies can now be performed with ultrasonic piezotomes, enhanced instrument design may further refine outcomes, facilitating minimally invasive, aesthetically superior results.

Level of Evidence: 4 (Therapeutic)