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The factorization method for a mixed inverse elastic scattering problem
Authors: Xiang Jianli , Yan Guozheng 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This paper is concerned with the extension of the factorization method to the inverse elastic scattering problem by a mixed scatterer which is the union of a penetrable obstacle and an impenetrable object. Having established the well-posedness of the direct problem by the boundary integral equation method, we study the factorization method to reconstruct the shape of the mixed obstacle, that is, recovering the shape of the mixed scatterer from a knowledge of the far-field pattern at a fixed frequency. Some numerical examples are also presented to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the factorization method.
Band Width and the Rosenberg Index
Authors: Kubota Yosuke 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
A Riemannian manifold is said to have infinite $\mathcal {K}\mathcal {O}$-width if it admits an isometric immersion of an arbitrarily wide Riemannian band whose inward boundary has non-trivial higher index. In this paper, we prove that if a closed spin manifold has infinite $\mathcal {K}\mathcal {O}$-width, then its Rosenberg index does not vanish. This gives a positive answer to a conjecture by Zeidler. We also prove its “multi-dimensional” generalization; if a closed spin manifold admits an isometric immersion of an arbitrarily wide cube-like domain whose lowest dimensional corner has non-trivial higher index, then the Rosenberg index of $M$ does not vanish.
Toxicological, Behavioral, and Horizontal Transfer Effects of Cycloxaprid Against Formosan Subterranean Termites (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)
Authors: Zhang Lang , Zhang Jianlong , Wang Changlu , He Yinghao , Wen Xiujun , Xu Zhiping , Wang Cai 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Cycloxaprid, 9-((6-chloropyrid-3-yl)methyl)-4-nitro-8-oxa-10,11-dihydroimidazo-[2,3-a]-bicyclo-[3,2,1]-oct-3-ene, is a cis-configuration neonicotinoid insecticide. In the present study, the lethal and sublethal effect of cycloxaprid against Formosan subterranean termites, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae), was evaluated and compared with fipronil. Toxicity bioassays showed that cycloxaprid had slightly lower toxicity than fipronil. The minimum cycloxaprid concentration in sand and soil that causes 100% termite mortality was 100 ppm. Similar to fipronil, cycloxaprid significantly reduced wood consumption and tunneling activities of termites. In the tunneling-choice tests, termite tunneling activity measured in both length and area was significantly lower in sand treated with cycloxaprid (10 or 100 ppm) than that in untreated sand. In the aggregation-choice tests, cycloxaprid exhibited inhibition to termite aggregation starting from 100 ppm. In addition, cycloxaprid exhibited significant horizontal transfer effect at 10 ppm. In conclusion, our study showed that cycloxaprid is slightly less toxic than fipronil and more repellent to C. formosanus than fipronil. Future studies are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of cycloxaprid against subterranean termites in the field.
Is there a relationship between parental age and offspring sex ratios in meadow voles?
Authors: Scauzillo Ryan C , Rohrer Karl N , Ferkin Michael H 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Deviations from a 50:50 sex ratio by producing either more sons or daughters can provide fitness benefits for the parents. This is especially true for species where one sex has skewed reproductive success, in most cases males. The factors responsible for these shifts are not fully understood, but some relationships have been uncovered such as parental age. We looked for a potential relationship between the parental age of meadow voles and offspring sex ratios using a captive population. A trending linear relationship was found with paternal age and a significant quadratic relationship was found with maternal age. For males, older fathers tended to sire more sons compared to younger fathers which may be the result of selective forces of competition because of skewed reproductive success. For females, middle-aged mothers sired more sons compared to younger or older mothers. Middle age for a female could represent an optimal point for producing sons that are able to survive and compete with other males for reproductively available females.
Adjuvant skin-sparing electrochemotherapy in a breast cancer patient with a prosthetic implant: 5-year follow-up outcomes
Authors: Campana Luca G , Balestrieri Nicola , Menin Nicola 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
A 55-year-old woman with previous skin-sparing mastectomy and prosthetic reconstruction for multifocal ductal carcinoma developed homolateral axillary recurrence. Following nodal dissection, partial periprosthetic capsulectomy and the overlying breast skin excision, the pathology report revealed a positive cutaneous margin. Since further breast skin excision or radiotherapy would have compromised the prosthetic implant, and the patient was adamant about avoiding any endangering intervention, the multidisciplinary recommendation included skin-directed electrochemotherapy (ECT) in the frame of a multimodal treatment strategy. The procedure lasted 20 minutes under mild general sedation and included a bolus of intravenous bleomycin followed by local application of electric pulses using a needle electrode. The postprocedural course was uneventful, except for mild dermatologic toxicity. At 5 years, the patient is disease-free with the implant in situ. This report illustrates the proof-of-concept of adjuvant skin-sparing ECT to sterilize resection margins, preserve a breast implant and highlight procedural details to avert toxicity.
Total resection of sellar and suprasellar epidermoid cyst by using endoscopic endonasal approach: a case report
Authors: Alabdullah Muhammad Nour , Awad Abdulrahman , Abdullah Ammar , Alabdullah Hadi 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Epidermoid cysts (EC) are benign lesions resulting from incomplete separation of the neuroectoderm during embryonic development. The investigation of choice for EC is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Surgical resection is the treatment of choice. Full resection of EC including the cyst wall to prevent recurrence and malignant transformation should be considered when possible. Two main approaches were described in the literature and included craniotomy and endoscopic endonasal approach (EEA). Using of EEA to accomplish total resection could be challengeable. To best of our knowledge, only 6 manuscripts (with a total of eight patients) reported total resection of EC by using EEA. Our case should be the ninth such cases in the literature. In this paper, we reported a case of sellar and suprasellar epidermoid cyst which was resected completely by using EEA. We revealed the safety and efficacy of this approach in management of such cases.
Multichannel convolutional neural networks for detecting COVID-19 fake news
Authors: Samadi Mohammadreza , Momtazi Saeedeh 
Published: April 2022

AbstractBy the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), started in late 2019, people have been exposed to false information that not only made them confused about the scientific aspects of this virus but also endangered their life. This makes fake news detection a critical issue in social media. In this article, we introduce a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model for detecting fake news spread in social media. Considering the complexity of the fake news detection task, various features from different aspects of news articles should be captured. To this aim, we propose a multichannel CNN model that uses three distinct embedding channels: (1) contextualized text representation models; (2) static semantic word embeddings; and (3) lexical embeddings, all of which assist the classifier to detect fake news more accurately. Our experimental results on the COVID-19 fake news dataset (Patwa et al., 2020, Fighting an infodemic: COVID-19 fake news dataset, arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03327) shows that our proposed three-channel CNN improved the performance of the single-channel CNN by 0.56 and 1.32% on the validation and test data, respectively. Moreover, we achieved superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art models in the field proposed by Shifath et al., 2021, A transformer based approach for fighting COVID-19 fake news, arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.12027 and Wani et al., 2021, Evaluating deep learning approaches for COVID-19 fake news detection, arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04012.
A new measurement method of Chinese texts’ difficulty based on the digital analysis of two-character continuations
Authors: Zhou Dongjie , Zheng Zezhi 
Published: April 2022

AbstractA new measurement method of Chinese texts’ difficulty based on the digital analysis of two-character continuations is proposed, which is ‘i + 1’ measurement model of language difficulty. The new method shifts the focus of the measurement of text difficulty from language units and grammatical complexity to combinations of language units, which breaks the limitations of existent methods of the measurement of Chinese texts’ difficulty. First, the effectiveness of the two-character continuations in the differentiation of texts difficulties is verified. Second, for the application of the ‘i + 1’ model in measuring text difficulty, the pedagogy and language acquisition theories are analyzed to check its rationality. Third, a corpus of two-character continuations is built up, with which the empirical values of ‘1’ for two-character continuations with various difficulty levels in the ‘i + 1’ measurement model are obtained. Subsequently, the testing texts, the two-character continuations corpus, and the empirical values of ‘1’ are integrated to test the validity of the ‘i + 1’ model in the measurement of text difficulty. The research shows that, compared to those methods based on the complex features of language, the ‘i + 1’ measurement model based on two-character continuations, with fewer indicators and more convenience in the measurement, demonstrates better measurement result of text difficulty.
Sahlqvist correspondence theory for second-order propositional modal logic
Authors: Zhao Zhiguang 
Published: April 2022

AbstractModal logic with propositional quantifiers (i.e. second-order propositional modal logic ($\textsf {SOPML}$)) has been considered since the early time of modal logic. Its expressive power and complexity are high, and its van Benthem–Rosen theorem and Goldblatt–Thomason theorem have been proved by ten Cate (2006, J. Philos. Logic, 35, 209–223). However, the Sahlqvist theory of $\textsf {SOPML}$ has not been considered in the literature. In the present paper, we fill in this gap. We develop the Sahlqvist correspondence theory for $\textsf {SOPML}$, which covers and properly extends existing Sahlqvist formulas in basic modal logic. We define the class of Sahlqvist formulas for $\textsf {SOMPL}$ step by step in a hierarchical way, each formula of which is shown to have a first-order correspondent over Kripke frames effectively computable by an algorithm $\textsf {ALBA}^{\textsf {SOMPL}}$. In addition, we show that certain $\varPi _2$-rules correspond to $\varPi _2$-Sahlqvist formulas in $\textsf {SOMPL}$, which further correspond to first-order conditions, and that even for very simple $\textsf {SOMPL}$ Sahlqvist formulas, they could already be non-canonical.
Indian plate paleogeography, subduction and horizontal underthrusting below Tibet: paradoxes, controversies and opportunities
Authors: van Hinsbergen Douwe J J 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThe India–Asia collision zone is the archetype to calibrate geological responses to continent–continent collision, but hosts a paradox: there is no orogen-wide geological record of oceanic subduction after initial collision around 60–55 Ma, yet thousands of kilometers of post-collisional subduction occurred before the arrival of unsubductable continental lithosphere that currently horizontally underlies Tibet. Kinematically restoring incipient horizontal underthrusting accurately predicts geologically estimated diachronous slab break-off, unlocking the Miocene of Himalaya–Tibet as a natural laboratory for unsubductable lithosphere convergence. Additionally, three endmember paleogeographic scenarios exist with different predictions for the nature of post-collisional subducted lithosphere but each is defended and challenged based on similar data types. This paper attempts at breaking through this impasse by identifying how the three paleogeographic scenarios each challenge paradigms in geodynamics, orogenesis, magmatism or paleogeographic reconstruction and identify opportunities for methodological advances in paleomagnetism, sediment provenance analysis, and seismology to conclusively constrain Greater Indian paleogeography.
Effects of dietary polyphenols in the glycemic, renal, inflammatory, and oxidative stress biomarkers in diabetic nephropathy: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Authors: Macena Mateus de Lima , Nunes Lara Fernanda da Silva , da Silva Andreza Ferreira , Pureza Isabele Rejane Oliveira Maranhão , Praxedes Dafiny Rodrigues Silva , Santos Juliana Célia de Farias , Bueno Nassib Bezerra 
Published: April 2022

Abstract

Context
Polyphenols have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-glycation properties.

Objective
To assess the effects of dietary polyphenols, from food sources or supplements, on the anthropometric, glycemic, renal, inflammatory, and oxidative stress markers in adults with diabetic nephropathy (DN).

Data sources
Systematic searches for randomized clinical trials were performed in MEDLINE, Embase, CENTRAL, Web of Science, LILACS, SciELO, opengrey.eu, and ClinicalTrials.gov databases until December 2021.

Data extraction
Studies with adults with DN were included. Random-effects meta-analyses were conducted. Risk of bias of the studies and Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation assessment were carried out.

Data analysis
The searches resulted in 5614 unique occurrences, and 34 full-text articles were retrieved. Of these, 17 studies were included in the qualitative synthesis. Most of the studies used soy protein or milk (n = 5; 0.5–1 g/kg of body weight/d of soy protein, or introduction of 240 mL/d of soy milk) or turmeric/curcumin (n = 5; dose range, 80 to 1500 mg/d) as the intervention. The following outcomes were analyzed: body mass index, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), proteinuria, creatinine clearance, glomerular filtration rate (GFR), urinary albumin to creatinine ratio, and levels of fasting blood glucose, insulin, serum urea and creatinine, C-reactive protein, serum tumor necrosis factor-α, and serum malondialdehyde (MDA). The polyphenol intervention significantly decreased HbA1c (n = 7 studies; –0.27% [95%CI, –0.51%, –0.04%]), proteinuria (n = 5 studies; –109.10 [95%CI, –216.57, –1.63] mg/24 h), and MDA (n = 5 studies; z-score: –0.41; 95%CI, –0.71, –0.10), and significantly increased GFR (n = 7 studies; 3.65 [95%CI, 0.15–7.15] mL/min/1.73 m2). Overall, studies showed a high risk of bias, and outcomes showed a low or very-low quality in the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation assessment.

Conclusions
There is a clinically modest effect of dietary polyphenols intervention in HbA1c, proteinuria, GFR, MDA, and C-reactive protein levels in patients with DN. It is impossible to establish clinical recommendations, because the evidence was of’ low or very-low quality and because of the heterogeneity of types and dose regimens used in the studies.

Systematic Review Registration
PROSPERO registration no. ID245406.
Wild Sound
Authors: Cimini Amy 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
“We haven’t even made it to breakfast!” Composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009) often used this phrase to marvel at critical and partial approaches to knowledge production across the vast artistic, technical, and scientific discourses with which she worked. Her musical thought encompassed original presentational formats in existing and speculative media as well as approaches to sound and ways of listening that conjoined real and imagined social worlds. In these conjunctions, this book discerns meeting points between frameworks for life that emerged from Amacher’s multidisciplinary study of sound and listening: within acoustical spectra, inside human bodies and ears, across cities and edgleands, amid hypothetical creatures, and between virtual, fictive, or distanciated environments. These figurations guide interpretative study of six signal projects: Adjacencies (1965/1966); City-Links (1967–1988); Additional Tones (1976/1987); Music for Sound-Joined Rooms (1980–2009); Mini Sound Series (1985–2009); and Intelligent Life (1980s), and countless sketches, notes, and unrealized projects. The book explores Amacher’s working methods with an interpretive style that emphasizes technical study, conceptual juxtaposition, intertextual play, and narrative transport. This book also takes up Amacher’s work as a guiding thread across shifting social discourses on life in the late twentieth-century United States. Her projects convoked figurations of life and technoscience that could be partially and ironically accessed or conceptualized via complex auditory thresholds. This nascent epistemology rooted in feminist science and technology studies centers biopolitical questions about difference and power in artistic and critical work that counts Amacher among its precedents.
“I Want to Make a Music . . .”
Authors: Cimini Amy 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Who was Maryanne Amacher? In episodes that span the years 1965–1990, this chapter introduces Amacher in relation to feminist science and technology studies (through her working notes), realized and unrealized projects in broadcast, architectural staging, and dramatic formats (through her writings, scores, project notes), as well as personal and artistic aspirations (in her letters). This survey emphasizes speculation, deferred or distributed audibility, and ongoing drama within auditory sensitivities as organizational logics across Amacher’s work. The chapter builds on these logics to orient listening toward expressions of social tense and mood. By denaturalizing the structuring conditions under which sounds can be heard together, Amacher’s work prompts questions about how sound and listening are co-materialized across disparate social locations in a shared present or uncertain future. Attention to these transits can reveal a situated politics of life in the late twentieth-century United States and intersects a music and sound studies with whom Amacher shares interlocutors in feminist science studies and epistemology.
Amacher’s House for Strange Life
Authors: Cimini Amy 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This chapter examines how Amacher developed diegetic involvements, in her Music for Sound-Joined Rooms (1980) and Mini Sound Series (1985), that redoubled participants’ listening within fictive narrative structures that entangle acoustical and speculative conditions of audibility. To do so, it illuminates what Amacher called structure-borne sound, which created three-dimensional sonic shapes to guide listeners through a clue-filled architectural setting. Her 1980 Living Sound (Patent Pending)—a reference to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that granted patents to laboratory-created life forms—paired social discourses on microorganismal life with interaural perceptual geographies in a fictional laboratory environment. Though its structure-borne sound cannot be reconstructed, this chapter embraces Living Sound’s fictive world with abandon and rigor, unpacking its clues and set pieces in order to discern ambivalent articulations of life and a critical address to high-tech environments that Amacher expressed, in a different way, in the unrealized media opera Intelligent Life.
Two Offshoots of Progressivism
Authors: Winner Ellen 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This chapter examines two tenets of the American progressive movement in art education: the belief that the arts should be connected with the academic curriculum (which would also be a way of getting more arts into the classroom) and the recognition of the importance of aesthetic experience in human development. These two principles helped propel both the arts integration and the aesthetic education movements. Both movements were attempts to make the arts available to all children at the elementary school level, and both often involved the use of teaching artists brought in from arts organizations rather than the classroom teacher.
Studio Thinking
Authors: Winner Ellen 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
This chapter tells the story of how the author and colleagues responded to the anger caused by their report on the lack of causal evidence for arts boosting academic performance. They decided that if they wanted to change the conversation about why arts education is important, they needed first to determine what could plausibly be claimed about the effects arts education on thinking and behavior. They therefore set out to observe and document the kind of teaching taking place in exemplary visual arts classes at the time. They found the explicit and implicit teaching of big broad habits of mind that are indisputably important but unlikely to be captured by test scores and grades in standard academic subjects. These habits of mind are forms of thinking that are central to art making and important in life. They dubbed these the eight Studio Habits of Mind: Craft, Engage & Persist, Envision, Express, Observe, Reflect, Stretch and Explore, and Understand Art Worlds. The framework they presented caught the imaginations of art teachers, who told the researchers that this is what the teachers had been doing all along but that this framework gave them a language to explain what they are doing so that parents and school administrators do not write off art education as a frill. Hence, the Studio Habits are referred to as the “real benefits of visual arts education.”
Race for Revival
Authors: Jin Kim Helen 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
In 1973, Billy Graham, “America’s Pastor,” held his largest ever “crusade.” But he was not, as one might expect, in the American heartland, but in South Korea. Why there? Race for Revival seeks not only to answer that question, but to retell the story of modern American evangelicalism through its relationship with South Korea. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the first “hot” war of the Cold War era, a new generation of white fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals forged networks with South Koreans that helped turn evangelical America into an empire. South Korean Protestants were used to bolster the image of the United States as a nonimperial beacon of democratic hope, in spite of ongoing racial inequalities. At the same time, South Koreans used these racialized transpacific networks for their own purposes, seeking to reimagine their own place in the world order. They envisioned Korea as the “new emerging Christian kingdom,” which would beat the American evangelical empire in a race for revival. Yet these nonstate networks ultimately foreshadowed the rise of the Christian Right in the United States and South Korea in the 1980s and 1990s. Employing a bilingual and binational approach, Race for Revival re-examines the narrative of modern evangelicalism through an innovative transpacific framework, offering a new lens through which to understand evangelical history from the Korean War to the rise of Ronald Reagan.