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Azimuthal imaging of rock fractures by incorporating single borehole radar and optical data
Authors: Shen Jian , Liu Liu , Li Shaojun , Shi Zhenming , Wang Yiteng , Peng Ming , Zheng Minzong 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Single borehole radar detection suffers from azimuthal ambiguity, while borehole optical tests only provide information about the borehole wall. These limitations prevent either detection method from revealing the complete spatial patterns of rock fractures on their own. In this paper, we address these challenges by proposing a joint imaging method that combines the advantages of both borehole detection methods. Geological azimuthal parameters are extracted from optical images by fitting the fracture curves to sinusoidal functions. A two-dimensional (2D) Kirchhoff time migration is then implemented using radar common offset gather. Up-dip and down-dip events are separated by the f-k transform or τ-p transform, depending on their geometric relation. The complete fracture planes, including trend, dip angle, gap width, and extension length, are finally reconstructed in three-dimensional (3D) space by mapping the migration profile using azimuthal information from optical images. The method is proven reliable and high-resolution through both numerical tests and real field data.
The role of the United Nations in ensuring equitable tax policies for developing countries
Authors: Titus Afton 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The international tax system has historically marginalized developing countries, leading to economic disparities and exclusion from critical decision-making processes. This paper advocates for creating a United Nations (UN) tax body to ensure more inclusive and equitable international tax governance in furtherance of the Draft Terms of Reference (Draft ToR) for a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. It evaluates the existing tax governance structures to create strategies for the formation of more inclusive structures in the future and draws guidance from the Draft ToR. The paper proposes that a UN tax body should facilitate the direct involvement of developing countries in decision-making and agenda-setting processes, ensuring their voices are heard. The paper underscores the potential of regional cooperation, exemplified by Africa’s push for a unified stance on tax issues through the African Continental Free Trade Area and the African Tax Administration Forum. By leveraging existing regional structures, the proposed UN tax body could create a more balanced global tax framework that genuinely represents and benefits developing countries, as envisaged by the Draft ToR. Establishing such a body would be a pivotal opportunity to rectify historical injustices and foster global economic stability through equitable tax policies.
Genre Analysis and Religious Texts: A Methodological Model of Ḥadīth Commentary
Authors: Ardıç Nurullah , Karagözoğlu Mustafa Macİt 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This article proposes a methodological model of genre analysis to apply to Muslim exegesis on the compilations of Prophetic traditions, known as ḥadīth commentary. Inspired by John Swales’s approach to genre analysis, and drawing upon 23 Sunni ḥadīth commentary texts from the tenth century to the present, the model consists of a number of analytical strategies and research questions, as well as specific generic analyses, in four steps: identifying the main generic features of these commentary texts, including the characteristics of their expository and hortatory discourses; examining their internal structures as constructed by commentators; and applying the move analysis of rhetorical structures twice—to both their introduction and the body of the text. The proposed model offers a way to make ḥadīth commentary texts more accessible and manageable, and helps explore the structural commonalities and differences within the commentary tradition across generations and throughout the Muslim world.
Surgical management of an extensive nasal mass in an adolescent: insights from diagnostic imaging and histopathology
Authors: Asteguieta Sebastian , Diaz Carlos , Alarcon Javier , Godinez Vanessa 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
A 17-year-old female presented with a mass in the right nasal fossa and eye protrusion. Imaging revealed a large osseous mass originating from the right turbinates, causing exophthalmos without tissue invasion. A partial resection via the Caldwell–Luc approach was performed, but hemodynamic instability halted the procedure, leaving a residual mass. Histopathology confirmed an osseous lesion with osteoblasts in a hypocellular stroma. The patient required blood transfusions postoperatively due to significant blood loss, but recovered well with antibiotics and supplements and was discharged after mild nausea was managed.
CT navigation-assisted intraoral extraction of large submandibular gland stones: a minimally invasive approach
Authors: Kubilay Utku , Kertmen Canberk , Delice Orçun 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Sialolithiasis is a common cause of salivary gland obstruction, leading to symptoms such as pain and swelling. In cases of intraparenchymal submandibular stones and proximal ductal stones larger than 7 mm, interventional sialendoscopy may fail, necessitating sialoadenectomy. As an alternative, intraoral stone extraction can be performed with CT-guided navigation. This case report describes a 52-year-old male with previous sialadenitis complaints. Imaging confirmed a fixed intraparenchymal stone measuring 21 × 18 mm. Using CT navigation, the stone was located and removed intraorally. Salivary flow resumed through Wharton’s duct on the same day postoperatively and the patient was discharged without further complaints or new stone formation during a 1-year follow-up. This minimally invasive method, utilizing CT navigation, allows for the preservation and functional recovery of the submandibular gland, avoiding skin scarring and reducing the risk of nerve damage.
Gestational gigantomastia with pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia – a case report of rare entities
Authors: Moore Sophia , Neblett Carlos , Appiah Kenneth , Thompson Rory 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Gestational gigantomastia (GG) is a rare and severe clinical complication of pregnancy. It is characterized by dramatic and uncontrolled growth of the breasts, often leading to physical discomfort, psychological distress and significant surgical complications. Its pathophysiology is poorly understood; management options include conservative pharmacological and surgical interventions. Pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia of the breast is a very rare, incidental, and histological diagnosis seen predominantly in women aged 30–40 years old, with the management generally involving surgical excision. The authors herein discuss an unusual case of bilateral GG complicated by pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia in a premenopausal Caribbean woman, which is the second reported case in this population, with the first reported by one of our authors.
A genome-wide survey of DNA methylation reveals hyper-methylation regulates after-ripening and dormancy of recalcitrant Panax notoginseng seeds
Authors: Ge Na , Jia Jin-Shan , Wang Qing-Yan , Li Chao-Lin , Huang Min , Chen Jun-Wen 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
DNA methylation plays a crucial role in regulating fruit ripening and seed development. It remains unknown about the dynamic characteristics of DNA methylation and its regulation mechanisms in morpho-physiological dormancy (MPD)-typed seeds with recalcitrant characteristics. The Panax notoginseng seeds are defined by the MPD and are characterized by a strong sensitivity to dehydration during the after-ripening process. We performed DNA methylomes, siRNA profiles, and transcriptomes of embryo and endosperm in P. notoginseng seeds at different after-ripening stages. Herein, we find that the hyper-methylation contributes to the increase in DNA methylation during the after-ripening process. The endosperm genome is hyper-methylated compared to the embryo genome. The hyper-methylation is caused by the high expression level of DNA methyltransferase PnCMT2 in the seeds. The hyper-methylation alters gene transcription levels to regulate the after-ripening and dormancy of recalcitrant seeds. For example, it inhibits the expression of genes in embryo development to make seeds maintain a dormant status. Together, our findings reveal an increase in DNA methylation and its vital driver in gene expression, and thus elucidate how hyper-methylation regulates the after-ripening in recalcitrant MPD-typed seeds. This work establishes a key role for epigenetics in regulating the dormancy of MPD-typed seeds with recalcitrant characteristics.
Mixing by internal gravity waves in stars: assessing numerical simulations against theory
Authors: Morton J , Guillet T , Baraffe I , Morison A , Le Saux A , Vlaykov D G , Goffrey T , Pratt J 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACT
Here we present a study of radial chemical mixing in non-rotating massive main-sequence stars driven by internal gravity waves (IGWs), based on multidimensional hydrodynamical simulations with the fully compressible code MUSIC. We examine two proposed mechanisms of material mixing in stars by IGWs that are commonly quoted, relating to thermal diffusion and sub-wavelength shearing. Thermal diffusion provides a non-restorative effect to the waves, leaving material displaced from its previous equilibrium, while shearing arising within the waves drives weak localized flows, mixing the fluid there. Using IGW spectra from the simulations, we evaluate theoretical predictions of mixing rates due to these mechanisms. We show, for $20\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$ main-sequence stars, that neither of these mechanisms are likely to create mixing sufficient to correct inaccuracies in current stellar evolution models. Furthermore, we compare these predictions to results obtained from Lagrangian tracer particles, following a method recently used for global simulations of stellar interiors to measure mixing by IGWs in their radiative zones. We demonstrate that tracer particle methods face significant numerical challenges in measuring the small diffusion coefficients predicted by the aforementioned theories, for which they are prone to yielding artificially enhanced coefficients. Diffusion coefficients based on such methods are currently used with stellar evolution codes for asteroseismic studies, but should be viewed with caution. Finally, in a case where tracer particles do not suffer from numerical artefacts, we suggest that a diffusion model is not suitable for time-scales typically considered by 2D numerical simulations.
Adaptive Significance of Non-coding RNAs: Insights from Cancer Biology
Authors: McDonald John F 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The molecular basis of adaptive evolution and cancer progression are both complex processes that share many striking similarities. The potential adaptive significance of environmentally-induced epigenetic changes is currently an area of great interest in both evolutionary and cancer biology. In the field of cancer biology intense effort has been focused on the contribution of stress-induced non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in the activation of epigenetic changes associated with elevated mutation rates and the acquisition of environmentally adaptive traits. Examples of this process are presented and combined with more recent findings demonstrating that stress-induced ncRNAs are transferable from somatic to germline cells leading to cross-generational inheritance of acquired adaptive traits. The fact that ncRNAs have been implicated in the transient adaptive response of various plants and animals to environmental stress is consistent with findings in cancer biology. Based on these collective observations, a general model as well as specific and testable hypotheses are proposed on how transient ncRNA-mediated adaptive responses may facilitate the transition to long-term biological adaptation in both cancer and evolution.
Whole-genome automated assembly pipeline for Chlamydia trachomatis strains from reference, in vitro and clinical samples using the integrated CtGAP pipeline
Authors: Olagoke Olusola , Aziz Ammar , Zhu Lucile H , Read Timothy D , Dean Deborah 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is pivotal for the molecular characterization of Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct)—the leading bacterial cause of sexually transmitted infections and infectious blindness worldwide. Ct WGS can inform epidemiologic, public health and outbreak investigations of these human-restricted pathogens. However, challenges persist in generating high-quality genomes for downstream analyses given its obligate intracellular nature and difficulty with in vitro propagation. No single tool exists for the entirety of Ct genome assembly, necessitating the adaptation of multiple programs with varying success. Compounding this issue is the absence of reliable Ct reference strain genomes. We, therefore, developed CtGAP—Chlamydia trachomatis Genome Assembly Pipeline—as an integrated ‘one-stop-shop’ pipeline for assembly and characterization of Ct genome sequencing data from various sources including isolates, in vitro samples, clinical swabs and urine. CtGAP, written in Snakemake, enables read quality statistics output, adapter and quality trimming, host read removal, de novo and reference-guided assembly, contig scaffolding, selective ompA, multi-locus-sequence and plasmid typing, phylogenetic tree construction, and recombinant genome identification. Twenty Ct reference genomes were also generated. Successfully validated on a diverse collection of 363 samples containing Ct, CtGAP represents a novel pipeline requiring minimal bioinformatics expertise with easy adaptation for use with other bacterial species.
William Apess
Authors: Zuck Rochelle Raineri 
Published: January 2025

William Apess (b. 1798–d. 1839) was a writer, activist, ordained Methodist minister, member of the Pequot Tribe, and adopted member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Apess was born in Colrain, Massachusetts, and spent most of his life in New England. His parents were William and Candace Apes (Apess later changed the spelling of his last name). His father was of Pequot and white ancestry; Drew Lopenzina’s biography Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass notes that records list Candace Apes as a “Negro woman” owned by Captain Joseph Taylor. Apess also claimed descent through his mother from the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip), whom he would later celebrate in his Eulogy on King Philip (1836). Apess spent his early years as an indentured servant to white New England families before running away at age fifteen and being conscripted into the army during the War of 1812. In 1821, Apess married Mary Wood and, according to Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass, the couple had seven children. He received his preaching license from New York’s Methodist Society and published his autobiography, A Son of the Forest, in 1829 and brought out a second edition of the autobiography in 1831. Apess’s work is the first known book-length autobiography published by an Indigenous person. That same year, he published a sermon entitled “The Increase of the Kingdom of Christ.” During this time, Apess circulated as an itinerant minister and lecturer as well as a writer. In 1833, he visited the Mashpee Wampanoag community on Cape Cod and learned of their political and religious grievances, including their opposition to Harvard-appointed overseers and minster Reverend Phineas Fish. Apess, who was formally adopted by the Mashpee, worked with tribal members to agitate for Mashpee sovereignty and self-government (including control of timber resources and use of their church building) and for them to have a minster of their own choosing. In what came to be known as the Mashpee Revolt (or Woodland Revolt), Apess and other Mashpee members prevented four white men from removing timber from Mashpee lands, and he chronicled his involvement with the Mashpee Revolt in Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts (1835). Apess delivered his famous lecture Eulogy on King Philip at Boston’s Odeon Theater twice in January 1836 and later published it. Subsequently, Apess moved with his family (which included his second wife, Elizabeth) to New York City in search of employment. He died in New York City at the age of forty-one.
Vaccination Against Influenza and Pneumococcus During Pretravel Health Consultations in the United States: Interventions and Missed Opportunities
Authors: Kakoullis Loukas , Rao Sowmya R , Ryan Edward T , Walker Allison T , Chen Lin H , LaRocque Regina C 
Published: January 2025

Abstract

Background
Infections by Streptococcus pneumoniae and influenza viruses are vaccine-preventable diseases causing great morbidity and mortality. We evaluated pneumococcal and influenza vaccination practices during pre–international travel health consultations.

Methods
We evaluated data on pretravel visits over a 10-year period (1 July 2012 through 31 June 2022) from 31 sites in Global TravEpiNet (GTEN), a consortium of US healthcare facilities providing pretravel health consultations. Data were collected using an online structured questionnaire utilized by GTEN providers. We obtained summary statistics and performed multivariable logistic regression models to identify characteristics associated with receiving the vaccinations.

Results
At 116 865 pretravel visits, 28 754 (25%) travelers were eligible to receive pneumococcal vaccination and 56 150 (48%) travelers were eligible to receive influenza vaccination. A total of 19 557 (68%) pneumococcal vaccine–eligible travelers were not offered the vaccine at the pretravel visit. Among influenza vaccine–eligible travelers, 8592 (15%) were not offered the vaccine, and an additional 16 931 (30%) travelers declined the vaccine. Influenza vaccine was not available for 8014 (14%) eligible travelers. Nonadministration of the influenza vaccine was most frequent in the months of April through September. Compared to nonacademic centers or centers in the South or Midwest, travelers seen in academic centers or centers in the Northeast were more likely to receive either vaccine.

Conclusions
Increasing awareness of global influenza transmission patterns and improving access to routine vaccines at the pretravel encounter may enhance vaccination for respiratory pathogens in departing US international travelers.
Multi-layered apoplastic barrier underlying the ability of Na+ exclusion in Vigna marina
Authors: Wang Fanmiao , Tanoi Keitaro , Yamauchi Takaki , Naito Ken 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Soil salinization and ground water depletion are increasingly constraining crop production. Identifying useful mechanisms of salt tolerance is an important step toward the development of salt-tolerant crops. Of particular interest are mechanisms that are present in crop wild relatives, as they may have greater stress tolerance than crop species. The coastal species Vigna marina is one of the promising plant resources for salt tolerance. Vigna luteola is another wild species with diverse habitats, including seaside and riverbank, hereafter V. luteola-beach and V. luteola-river, respectively. By comparative transcriptome and histological analyses, this study elucidated one important aspect of how V. marina achieves an extraordinary ability to suppress Na+ uptake. Under salt stress, V. marina specifically upregulated genes involved in Casparian strip formation and developed a multi-layered lignified apoplastic barrier around endodermis, whereas V. luteola-beach formed typical, band-like Casparian strips and V. luteola-river formed only spot-like Casparian strips. As such, the ability of developing apoplastic barrier strongly correlated with those of suppressing Na+ uptake. The disruption of lignified barrier led to a dramatic increase of Na+ allocation to the shoot in V. marina, which was manifested in leaf etiolation and burning. Interestingly, despite the presence of reinforced apoplastic barrier, V. marina maintained the transport of essential ions including K+, Mg2+, and Ca2+. This study shows that the multi-layered Casparian strip-like structure plays an important role in salt tolerance.
Partisan identity, scientific and religious authority, and lawmaker support for science policy
Authors: O'Brien Timothy L , Johnson David R 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This article examines mechanisms related to lawmaker support for public policies based on scientific evidence and supportive of organized science. We propose that Republican lawmakers are more likely than Democrats to oppose these policies because Republicans are less likely than Democrats to base policy decisions on scientific authority and more likely than Democrats to base decisions on religious authority. We tested this hypothesis using data from a survey of state legislators from all 50 states (n = 941). Our structural equation model shows that compared to Democrats, Republicans’ policy decisions rely less on information from scientists and other experts and more on information from religious leaders. We also find evidence that lawmakers’ reliance on scientific and religious authority plays intermediary roles between their partisan identities and their attitudes about energy, vaccine, and biomedical research policies. Specifically, party differences in support for each kind of policy are associated with Democratic lawmakers’ greater reliance on science and Republicans’ greater reliance on religion. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for research on science, religion, politics, and policymaking.
The Trx–Prx redox pathway and PGR5/PGRL1-dependent cyclic electron transfer play key regulatory roles in poplar drought stress
Authors: Guangxin Ji , Zheyuan Wang , Jiaqi Song , Hongrui Zhang , Kexin Wang , Jingjing Xu , Nan Sun , Tanhang Zhang , Siyue Qi , Changjun Ding , Huihui Zhang 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Understanding drought resistance mechanisms is crucial for breeding poplar species suited to arid and semiarid regions. This study explored the drought responses of three newly developed ‘Zhongxiong’ series poplars using integrated transcriptomic and physiological analyses. Under drought stress, poplar leaves showed significant changes in differentially expressed genes linked to photosynthesis-related pathways, including photosynthesis-antenna proteins and carbon fixation, indicating impaired photosynthetic function and carbon assimilation. Additionally, drought stress triggered oxidative damage through increased reactive oxygen species production, leading to malondialdehyde accumulation. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis revealed that differentially expressed genes closely associated with physiological responses were enriched in cell redox homeostasis pathways, specifically the thioredoxin-peroxiredoxin pathway. Key genes in this pathway and in cyclic electron flow, such as PGR5-L1A, were downregulated, suggesting compromised reactive oxygen species scavenging and photoprotection under drought stress. Notably, ZX4 poplar exhibited higher drought tolerance, maintaining stronger activity in cyclic electron flow and the thioredoxin–peroxiredoxin pathway compared with ZX3 and ZX5. Genes like PGR5-L1A, 2-Cys Prx BAS1, PrxQ and TPX are promising candidates for enhancing drought resistance in poplars through genetic improvement, with potential applications for developing resilient forestry varieties.