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Embedding aligned nanofibrous architectures within 3D-printed polycaprolactone scaffolds for directed cellular infiltration and tissue regeneration
Authors: Meng Zijie , Mu Xingdou , He Jiankang , Zhang Juliang , Ling Rui , Li Dichen 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Three-dimensional (3D) printing provides a promising way to fabricate biodegradable scaffolds with designer architectures for the regeneration of various tissues. However, the existing 3D-printed scaffolds commonly suffer from weak cell-scaffold interactions and insufficient cell organizations due to the limited resolution of the 3D-printed features. Here, composite scaffolds with mechanically-robust frameworks and aligned nanofibrous architectures are presented and hybrid manufactured by combining techniques of 3D printing, electrospinning, and unidirectional freeze-casting. It was found that the composite scaffolds provided volume-stable environments and enabled directed cellular infiltration for tissue regeneration. In particular, the nanofibrous architectures with aligned micropores served as artificial extracellular matrix materials and improved the attachment, proliferation, and infiltration of cells. The proposed scaffolds can also support the adipogenic maturation of adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) in vitro. Moreover, the composite scaffolds were found to guide directed tissue infiltration and promote nearby neovascularization when implanted into a subcutaneous model of rats, and the addition of ADSCs further enhanced their adipogenic potential. The presented hybrid manufacturing strategy might provide a promising way to produce additional topological cues within 3D-printed scaffolds for better tissue regeneration.
Will high-entropy carbides and borides be enabling materials for extreme environments?
Authors: Wang Fei , Monteverde Frederic , Cui Bai 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
The concept of multi-principal component has created promising opportunities for the development of novel high-entropy ceramics for extreme environments encountered in advanced turbine engines, nuclear reactors, and hypersonic vehicles, as it expands the compositional space of ceramic materials with tailored properties within a single-phase solid solution. The unique physical properties of some high-entropy carbides and borides, such as higher hardness, high-temperature strength, lower thermal conductivity, and improved irradiation resistance than the constitute ceramics, have been observed. These promising properties may be attributed to the compositional complexity, atomic-level disorder, lattice distortion, and other fundamental processes related to defect formation and phonon scattering. This manuscript serves as a critical review of the recent progress in high-entropy carbides and borides, focusing on synthesis and evaluations of their performance in extreme high-temperature, irradiation, and gaseous environments.
Production process networks: a trophic analysis
Authors: Hazan Aurélien 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In this article, production process databases originating from environmental sciences, more specifically from life cycle inventory (LCI), are considered as bipartite directed random networks. To model the observed directed hierarchical connection patterns, we turn to recent development concerning trophic coherence. Extending the scope to include bipartite networks, we compare several LCI networks to networks from other fields, and show empirically that they have high coherence and belong to the loopless regime, or close to its boundary.
Synchronization of online social rhythms via avatar communications
Authors: Takano Masanori 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In this study, we consider users’ online communication rhythms (online social rhythms) as coupled oscillators in a complex social network. Users’ rhythms may be entrained onto those of their friends, and macro-scale pattern of such rhythms can emerge. We investigated the entrainment in online social rhythms and long-range correlations of the rhythms using an avatar communication dataset. We indicated entrainment in online social rhythms to emerge if the strength of a new connection reaches a threshold. This entrainment spread via densely-connected clusters. Consequently, long-range correlations of online social rhythms extended to about 36% of the network, although offline social life naturally restricts online social rhythms. This research supports an understanding of human social dynamics in terms of systems of coupled oscillators.
Calibration of quantum decision theory: aversion to large losses and predictability of probabilistic choices
Authors: Kovalenko T , Vincent S , Yukalov V I , Sornette D 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
We present the first calibration of quantum decision theory (QDT) to a dataset of binary risky choice. We quantitatively account for the fraction of choice reversals between two repetitions of the experiment, using a probabilistic choice formulation in the simplest form without model assumption or adjustable parameters. The prediction of choice reversal is then refined by introducing heterogeneity between decision makers through their differentiation into two groups: ‘majoritarian’ and ‘contrarian’ (in proportion 3:1). This supports the first fundamental tenet of QDT, which models choice as an inherent probabilistic process, where the probability of a prospect can be expressed as the sum of its utility and attraction factors. We propose to parameterize the utility factor with a stochastic version of cumulative prospect theory (logit-CPT), and the attraction factor with a constant absolute risk aversion function. For this dataset, and penalising the larger number of QDT parameters via the Wilks test of nested hypotheses, the QDT model is found to perform significantly better than logit-CPT at both the aggregate and individual levels, and for all considered fit criteria for the first experiment iteration and for predictions (second ‘out-of-sample’ iteration). The distinctive QDT effect captured by the attraction factor is mostly appreciable (i.e. most relevant and strongest in amplitude) for prospects with big losses. Our quantitative analysis of the experimental results supports the existence of an intrinsic limit of predictability, which is associated with the inherent probabilistic nature of choice. The results of the paper can find applications both in the prediction of choice of human decision makers as well as for organizing the operation of artificial intelligence.
Significant Correlates of Nocturnal Hypertension in Patients With Hypertension Who Are Treated With Antihypertensive Drugs
Authors: Maruhashi Tatsuya , Kinoshita Yoshihiko , Ozono Ryoji , Nakamaru Mitsuaki , Ninomiya Masanori , Oiwa Jiro , Kawagoe Takuji , Yoshida Osamu , Matsumoto Toshiyuki , Fukunaga Yasuo , Sumii Kotaro , Ueda Hironori , Shiode Nobuo , Takahari Kosuke , Hayashi Yasuhiko , Ono Yujiro , Nakano Yukiko , Takahashi Masakazu , Kihara Yasuki , Higashi Yukihito 
Published: February 2023

Abstract

Background
Nocturnal hypertension assessed by a home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) device is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events. However, it is still difficult to assess nighttime blood pressure (BP) frequently. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to identify significant correlates of nocturnal hypertension assessed by an HBPM device in patients with hypertension who are treated with antihypertensive drugs.

Methods
We measured nighttime BP, morning BP, and evening BP by an HBPM device for 7 consecutive days in 365 medicated patients with hypertension.

Results
Of the 365 subjects, 138 (37.8%) had nocturnal hypertension defined as a mean nighttime systolic BP of ≥ 120 mm Hg. Receiver operating characteristic curve analyses showed that the diagnostic accuracy of morning systolic BP for subjects with nocturnal hypertension was significantly superior to that of evening systolic BP (P = 0.04) and that of office systolic BP (P &lt; 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that morning systolic BP of 125–&lt;135 mm Hg (odds ratio [OR], 2.26; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.13–4.58; P = 0.02), morning systolic BP of ≥ 135 mm Hg (OR, 16.4; 95% CI, 8.20–32.7; P &lt; 0.001), and a history of cerebrovascular disease (OR, 3.99; 95% CI, 1.75–9.13; P = 0.001) were significantly associated with a higher risk of nocturnal hypertension and that bedtime dosing of antihypertensive drugs was significantly associated with a lower risk of nocturnal hypertension (OR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.32–0.97; P = 0.04).

Conclusions
Morning systolic BP of ≥ 125 mm Hg, a history of cerebrovascular disease, and bedtime dosing were significant correlates of nocturnal hypertension in medicated patients with hypertension, and may help detect this risky BP condition.

Clinical trials registration
University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN000019173).
Melville, Insurrection, and the Problem of the Nation
Authors: Hoberek Andrew 
Published: February 2023

AbstractIn contrast with the standard reading of Moby-Dick (1851) as marking a turn in Melville’s writing from the realist to the symbolic, this chapter focuses on Melville’s realistic representation of insurrection in the chapter entitled “The Town-Ho’s Story.” It does so to argue that Melville understands insurrection as both central to democracy and at odds with politics organized around the nation. Moby-Dick is thus global not only in its setting, but in its formal engagement with the problem of democracy.Moby-Dick strongly suggests that Melville understands the politics of insurrection in opposition to the politics of the nation.
Odds on Erasure: The Status of the Novel on the Receding Horizon of Democracy
Authors: Esteve Mary 
Published: February 2023

AbstractLiterary sociology’s recent turn to contemporary publishing has brought renewed attention to Percival Everett’s acclaimed novel, Erasure (2001), which satirizes late twentieth-century media and publishing culture and raises concerns about the status of the literary novel. An episode in which literary-prize jurors cast their votes suggests the novel’s engagement with the discourse of democracy as well. This essay sets Everett’s novel in dialogue with the historian James Kloppenberg’s recent monumental study, Toward Democracy (2016). In contrast to literary sociology, which generally inflects its critical assessments with uncontroversial conceptions of democracy that rarely extend beyond egalitarian pluralism, Kloppenberg presents his work not merely as a history of centuries-long struggles with democratic practices but as a plea that we regard democracy as a conceptual and ethical horizon. Its entailments go far beyond popular sovereignty and participatory action. They include principles of autonomy and equality as well as premises of deliberation, pluralism, and reciprocity. Kloppenberg’s insistence on the relevance of these conditions dovetails with Everett’s narrative of—or implicit demand for—the relevance of aesthetic conditions that give rise to the same autonomous literary art that his fictional protagonist and Everett himself ordinarily write.[Erasure’s realism] makes visible a world populated with liberal democratic institutions that enjoy many degrees of separation from a neoliberal media and publishing world afflicted with unreality hunger.
Racial and Social Democracy in Sam Greenlee’sThe Spook Who Sat by the Door
Authors: Mitchell Justin 
Published: February 2023

AbstractIn 2011, Kenneth Warren boldly asserted that the collapse of Jim Crow spelled the end of African American literature. While many have sought to refute Warren on the grounds that the social conditions which originally underwrote African American literature persist in the guise of structural racism and mass incarceration, this essay focuses on Warren’s claim that such literature “constitutes a representational and rhetorical strategy.” Drawing on the work of political scientist Preston H. Smith II, it argues that African American literature represented an attempt to resolve the tensions between “racial democracy,” on the one hand, and social democracy on the other. The essay suggests that Sam Greenlee’s 1969 spy novel The Spook Who Sat By the Door anticipated some of Warren’s concerns and now allows us to see clearly how the demise of Jim Crow rendered any future rapprochement between racial and social democracy narratively untenable. In this way, Greenlee’s novel invites us to consider whether too much of a focus on how African American literature ends tends to distract us from the perhaps more important task of analyzing how it fails as an aesthetic practice in a post-Jim Crow world.Refracting Warren’s counterintuitive claim through the lens of Smith’s dialectic . . . makes clear that the demise of Jim Crow constitutes an aesthetic problem whereby African American literature enters a vexed, less clearly collaborative relationship with leftist politics.
Exceptionalism and Difference in American (Literary) Studies
Authors: Lawrence Jeffrey 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis essay evaluates contemporary approaches to the study of American Exceptionalism through a review of two recent books: Ian Tyrrell’s American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea (2021) and Jordan Carson’s American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent (2020). The essay argues that the two books provide compelling accounts of how discourses of American exceptionality have come to organize political, intellectual, and literary life in the US. However, it suggests that Tyrrell’s and Carson’s critiques of those discourses would benefit from a clearer heuristic distinction between the exceptionalist belief that the US is a singularly providential country and the empirically valid belief that it possesses a specific historical trajectory that differentiates it from other nation-states.After more than three decades of postexceptionalist scholarship that has trained us to look for circuits, symmetries, and solidarities across national lines, we would do well to return to . . . [asking] how particular US economic, political, and social differences have been created and maintained over time.
A Survey of the Literature
Authors: Lubin Joan 
Published: February 2023

AbstractDatafication has a literary history. This essay takes up that history to repair to the apparent novelty of contemporary mass personalized politics the history of the novel as one cultural technology for personifying the masses. The machinery of mass personalization was set in motion long ago. However discrepant its emergent scenes may now seem, they have been multiply fused along the way, issuing from a common substrate of survey culture. Section 1 considers a magazine humor column linking the Elmira Community Study of voting and the Kinsey Reports on sex on the basis of their shared statistical methods. Section 2 considers the American Statistical Association’s proposition that statisticians are exemplars of democracy and its warning against the popular mistrust of their cultural prominence. Section 3 recasts the “death of the novel” as a name for the disruptive force of survey culture on literary value and the displacement of the classical genre system by the mass cultural genre system. Taking up mathematical formalism in the service of social realism, popular genres—science fiction, crime fiction, and erotica—and minority literatures ascendant in the mid-century US—gay, Black, and ethnic literatures—developed modes of narrative representation for an age of statistical aggregation.
Daggers at the Throat of Democracy: Democratic Erosion in the US and Abroad
Authors: Trabold Bryan 
Published: February 2023

AbstractNineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics (2021), edited by Patricia Bizzell and Lisa Zimmerelli, and Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas (2021), edited by Adriana Angel, Michael L. Butterworth, and Nancy R. Gómez, both examine the complex relationship between rhetoric and democracy. In terms of their immediate scholarly objectives, these volumes clearly succeed. Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics, a 24-essay collection that employs a broad range of rhetorical approaches both classical and contemporary, provides a more comprehensive overview of rhetorical activism during that period in US history than any book published to date. Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas, with its 11 essays written by scholars from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and the US, who write not only about conditions in those countries but also in Cuba, Guatemala, and Venezuela, contains a range of perspectives in one volume that, to my knowledge, does not exist anywhere else. Taken together, both collections also provide compelling insights into the democratic erosion currently taking place around the world by illustrating how the intersection of violence, white supremacy, and religion pose an existential threat to democracy, particularly in the US.Taken together, both collections analyze rhetoric in vastly different times and places to identify and illuminate how the intersection of violence, white supremacy, and religion pose an existential threat to democracy, particularly in the US.
Novel Theory Beyond Democracy
Authors: Bronstein Michaela 
Published: February 2023

AbstractWhy has scholarship persistently treated novels about politics as irrelevant to the politics of fiction? This essay examines moments when scholarship sidelines novelistic representation of political activism and action, and suggests that novels of politics trouble a persistent gesture in scholarship by which novels and their characters are treated as representative—individuals standing in for classes, novels standing in for societies. But novels of politics often foreground tactical questions that fail to be representative; they look at political strategies that can’t or shouldn’t stand in the societies they hope to create, or at the way taking political action estranges individuals from the communities they hope to act for. Novels of politics look at what happens when individuals set out to trouble realism’s sense of “the way things happen” (James), and, in doing so, they raise broader questions about the gaps between means and the ends that are supposed to justify them.Scholarship of the novel . . . tends to see politics not as something that people . . . do, not a form of action, but as . . . a kind of mimesis: a problem of how social structures and populations . . . are made visible.
On the Uses and Abuses of Fascism
Authors: Bernstein Sanders Isaac 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis essay reviews Bruce Kuklick’s Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture (2022). It discusses how the book contributes to ongoing debates about defining fascism by offering a wide-ranging historical survey of the term’s use in the US and by, ultimately, questioning the term’s analytic value. Fascism Comes to America tracks the concept in the US over the past century, drawing on journalism, mass entertainment, and academic scholarship to illuminate its many contradictory applications. Considering both evolving uses of fascism leading up to World War II and its enduring legacy since, Kuklick’s historical survey posits that fascism has become little more than one of the “political swear words,” a sign of contempt without consistent descriptive content. It suggests scholars should consider jettisoning the term. While valuable for its rigorous scholarship, Fascism Comes to America does, though, overlook how fascism’s polysemy might resolve to more specific and consistent uses within distinct traditions within America. Rather than succeeding as an argument for why scholars should abandon the concept of fascism in a US context, Fascism Comes to America succeeds in illuminating how important it is to historicize one’s use of it.[T]o name something “fascist” is both a matter of analytic value and politics. For Bruce Kuklick, . . . the analytic value of the term fascism should be called into question.
Liberalism and Critique
Authors: Jelly-Schapiro Eli 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe three books under discussion here evince the dialectic of liberalism and critique, and the imperative of joining critique and self-critique. Rachel Greenwald Smith’s On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal (2021) is a trenchant meditation on the cultural logics of liberalism in the moment of its putative triumph and global generalization. Patricia Stuelke’s The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique (2021) clarifies the origins and political consequence of reparative thinking and feeling—a cultural and intellectual tendency that has, Stuelke submits, permitted or encouraged artists, activists, and scholars to reconcile themselves to recent iterations of “US neoliberal empire” and the longer histories of racial capitalism and settler-colonial dispossession. The affinity that Stuelke reveals, between the language of imperial power and the language of its imagined transcendence, is anatomized by Erica Edwards, in The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (2021)—a cogent examination of the reciprocal relationship between the making of race and the making of war, and the complex positionality of Black women within the contemporary US imperium.The co-belonging of liberalism and critique often appears, to the critic or cultural producer, like complicity. There is an unsettling affinity . . . between the language we use to critique capital and the state, and the ideological lexicon of the forces that rule us.
“Why Talk About the Children?”: James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, and the Future of Care
Authors: Ibrahim Habiba 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis essay argues that the child—especially the unborn child that is all potential—has a notably figurative function in the Black literary imagination of the 1970s. The child shifts the emphasis from an ideal nationalist subject (or the aspiration to be such) toward the interactions and ethics of care work. This shift is explored in the novel form, so this essay turns to James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979). As these novels reveal, in a reactionary era when the emergence of neoliberal governance intensified the vulnerability of Black life, the child occasioned literary exploration of care—waged, unpaid, invisible, delegitimated, cross-gendered labor that has sustained Black lives for generations. On such an occasion, the child has a Janus-faced function. From the standpoint of an uncaring present, the child prompts a glance into the life-sustaining practices of the past, while it invites speculation over what future practices could be.As the conduit among imagined states of time, the child exhibits an unspoken interest in reimagining temporal movement—beyond nationalism’s progressive linearity—in an era of disillusionment.