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Late infection of a breast prosthesis with staphylococcus aureus in a healthy woman: a case report
Authors: Dartaha Rami , Brimo Alsaman Muhamad Zakaria , Jobran Afnan W M 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
Infection following breast augmentation is a rare event with an incidence rate of 1–2.5%. Late onset infections following breast augmentation are very rare. Herein, we present a case of breast implant infection in a 29-year-old female patient who underwent a bilateral augmentation mammoplasty with a silicone gel prosthesis. After 8 uneventful post-operative years, she presented with right-sided signs of breast infection. She initially treated medically but without improvement. Then, she underwent surgical washout and debridement with removal of the bilateral breast implants. Culture demonstrated Staphylococcus aureus. The clinical history and management of this unusual case are described. Because most of the infections occurs in the first few weeks after augmentation mammoplasty, there is a paucity of data about late onset infections. The most common cultured organism in the early infection is S. aureus.
A case of intussusception caused by cecal duplication after COVID-19
Authors: Satoyoshi Rika , Kotanagi Kei , Kichiraku Takuya , Yoshino Kei , Kudoh Kazuhiro , Sawada Toshiya , Miyazawa Hideaki , Kotanagi Hitoshi 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was thought to have respiratory symptoms as the main manifestation, but it has become clear that extrapulmonary symptoms such as gastrointestinal disorders also occur. There are several reports of intussusception associated with COVID-19 in children, but these are rare in adults. In this report, we present a case of cystic intestinal duplication that enlarged during the course of COVID-19 treatment and resulted in intussusception. Right hemicolectomy was performed for intussusception due to the cystic lesion. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first resected case of intussusception due to alimentary tract duplication after COVID-19 infection.
2018 August 15 stellar occultation by minor planet (134340) Pluto
Authors: Silva-Cabrera José Sergio , Castro-Chacón Joel Humberto , Reyes-Ruiz Mauricio , Lehner Matthew J , Guerrero Carlos Alberto , Huang Chung-Kai , Alvarez-Santana Fernando Iván , Chang Yin-Chang , Ling Hung-Hsu , Porras-Navarro Issac , Hernández-Águila Joannes Bosco , Pérez-Arce Rosa L , Rojas-Quintero Juan Antonio , Avila Remy , Wang Shiang-Yu , Alcock Charles , Chen Wen-Ping , Granados Contreras Agueda Paula , Cook Kem H , Geary John C , Hernández-Valencia Benajmín , Kavelaars J J , Norton Timothy , Sánchez Edilberto , Szentgyorgyi Andrew , Yen Wei-Ling , Zhang Zhi-Wei 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT
We present photometric light curves of the stellar occultation event of the star UCAC4 341-187633 on 2018 August 15 by the minor planet (134340) Pluto. Photometric observations were carried out using the 2.1-m telescope at the San Pedro Mártir Observatory and the 1.3-m telescopes at Sites 2 and 3 of the Trans-Neptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II) project, and using a portable 0.4-m telescope from Bahía Asunción, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Different filters were used with the 2.1-m telescope and the TAOS II telescopes, whilst observations with the portable system were performed with no filter. The resulting light curves from the San Pedro Mártir Observatory show clear structures, with at least two bright spikes observed on ingress and one more observed on egress as the star traverses the atmosphere of the dwarf planet. The light curve from the portable telescope (440 km away) measured a longer duration for the occultation event, because the shadow of Pluto was observed at a lower latitude. Normalized light curves were created for the 2.1-m telescope, the Site 3 telescope of the TAOS II and the portable telescope. These normalized light curves show a difference in amplitude.
New analysis of the fraction of observable nights at astronomical sites based on FengYun-2 satellite data
Authors: Wang Xian-Yu , Wu Zhen-Yu , Liu Jing , Hidayat T 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT
The fraction of observable nights is an essential parameter for selecting astronomical sites. In recent years, meteorological satellite data have played an essential role in recognizing and providing statistics of observable nights. We present a method to estimate the fraction of observable nights based on the FengYun-2 series of geostationary meteorological satellites and weather records of multiple astronomical sites. We have calculated the fraction of observable nights at 27 sites in Indonesia and two astronomical sites in China to validate the method. The results derived from our method show good agreement with previous works. Furthermore, we have derived the yearly distribution of the fraction of observable nights above China, which indicates that the area near 40°N has more observable nights than other areas in China.
Late-time X-ray observations of the transient source Cygnus A-2
Authors: Snios Bradford , De Vries Martijn , Nulsen Paul E J , Kraft Ralph P , Siemiginowska Aneta , Wise Michael W 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACTWe examine Chandra observations of the powerful Fanaroff–Riley class II (FR II) radio galaxy Cygnus A for an X-ray counterpart to the radio transient Cygnus A-2 that was first detected in 2011. Observations are performed using the High-Resolution Camera (HRC) instrument in order to spatially resolve Cygnus A-2 and the central active galactic nucleus (AGN) at a separation of  0.′′42. Simulated images are generated of the emission region, and radial profiles for the region of interest are extracted. A comparison between the simulations and observations reveals no X-ray detection of Cygnus A-2 to a 0.5–7.0 keV flux upper limit of $1.04 \times 10^{-12}\rm \, erg\, cm^{-2}\, s^{-1}$, or a rest-frame 2–10 keV luminosity of $8.6\times 10^{42}\rm \, erg\, s^{-1}$. We estimate the black hole mass of Cygnus A-2 based on our X-ray flux limit and find it to be consistent with a flaring black hole rather than a steadily accreting source. The HRC observations are additionally compared with archival Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) data from 2016 to 2017, and both the overall morphology and the flux limits of the AGN complex agree between the two data sets. This consistency is despite the pile-up effect in ACIS which was previously considered to bias the observed morphology of the AGN. The agreement between the data sets demonstrates the viability of utilizing the archival Chandra data of Cygnus A to analyse its AGN at an unprecedented level of precision.
Model-independent constraints on Ωm and H(z) from the link between geometry and growth
Authors: Ruiz-Zapatero Jaime , García-García Carlos , Alonso David , Ferreira Pedro G , Grumitt Richard D P 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT
We constrain the expansion history of the Universe and the cosmological matter density fraction in a model-independent way by exclusively making use of the relationship between background and perturbations under a minimal set of assumptions. We do so by employing a Gaussian process to model the expansion history of the Universe from present time to the recombination era. The expansion history and the cosmological matter density are then constrained using recent measurements from cosmic chronometers, Type-Ia supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillations, and redshift-space distortion data. Our results show that the evolution in the reconstructed expansion history is compatible with the Planck 2018 prediction at all redshifts. The current data considered in this study can constrain a Gaussian process on H(z) to an average $9.4 {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ precision across redshift. We find Ωm = 0.224 ± 0.066, lower but statistically compatible with the Planck 2018 cosmology. Finally, the combination of future DESI measurements with the CMB measurement considered in this work holds the promise of $8 {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ average constraints on a model-independent expansion history as well as a five-fold tighter Ωm constraint using the methodology developed in this work.
Completing the protostellar luminosity function in Cygnus-X with SOFIA/FORCAST imaging
Authors: Cheng Yingjie , Gutermuth Robert A , Offner Stella , Heyer Mark , Zinnecker Hans , Megeath S Thomas , Pokhrel Riwaj 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT
We present a new SOFIA/FORCAST mid-infrared survey of luminous protostars and crowded star-forming environments in Cygnus X, the nearest million-solar mass molecular cloud complex. We derive bolometric luminosities for over 1000 sources in the region with these new data in combination with extant Spitzer and UKIDSS photometry, with 63 new luminous protostar candidates identified by way of the high-quality SOFIA/FORCAST data. By including FORCAST data, we construct protostellar luminosity functions (PLFs) with improved completeness at the high luminosity end. The PLFs are well described by a power-law function with an index of ∼−0.5. Based on the Herschel temperature and column density measurements, we find no obvious dependence of the PLFs on the local gas temperature, but PLFs in regions of high stellar density or gas column density exhibit some excess at higher luminosities. Through the comparison between our observed PLFs and existing accretion models, both the turbulent core and the competitive accretion models are consistent with our results, while the isothermal sphere model is disfavoured. The implications of these results on the star formation process are discussed.
Investigation of rotational (de-)excitation of cyanic acid (HOCN) by collision with He atoms
Authors: Naouai Manel , Jrad Abdelhak 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT
The rotational inelastic (de-)excitation of the cyanic acid (HOCN) molecule by collision with helium (He) atoms is studied. A new three-dimensional potential energy surface (3D-PES) for the HOCN−He van der Waals system is given. Explicitly correlated coupled cluster approach with single, double and perturbative triple excitation (CCSD(T)-F12a) in conjunction with augmented-correlation consistent-polarized valence triple zeta (aVTZ) Gaussian basis set is adopted to generate the ab initio 3D-PES. A global minimum with a well depth of 87.59 cm−1 localized at R = 5.9 bohr, θ= 76°, ϕ = 90° is found. Rotational inelastic cross-sections relevant to the 21 first rotational levels (up to $J_{K_aK_c}=8_{08}$) are investigated for total energy up to 550 cm−1 using coupled-states approach. Thermal rate coefficients are obtained for temperatures ranging between 0 and 90 K. |ΔJ| = 1 with |ΔKa| = |ΔKc| = 0 processes are found to be the predominant ones.
Spatially resolved evidence of the impact of quasar-driven outflows on recent star formation: the case of Mrk 34
Authors: Bessiere P S , Ramos Almeida C 
Published: February 2022

ABSTRACT
We present the results of our spatially resolved investigation into the interplay between the ages of the stellar populations and the kinematics of the warm ionized outflows in the well-studied type II quasar Markarian 34 (Mrk 34). Utilizing integral field spectroscopy data, we determine the spatial distribution of the young stellar population (YSP; tYSP &lt; 100 Myr) using spectral synthesis modelling. We also employ the [O iii] λ5007 emission line as a tracer of the warm ionized gas kinematics. We demonstrate a spatial correlation between the outer edges of the blue side of the outflow and an enhancement in the proportion of the YSP flux, suggesting that the outflow is responsible for triggering star formation in this region. In regions with more highly disrupted gas kinematics, we find that the proportion of YSP flux is consistent with that found outside the outflow region, suggesting that the increased disruption is preventing a similar enhancement in star formation from occurring. Our analysis suggests that Mrk 34 is an example of quasar-driven outflows simultaneously producing both ‘positive’ and ‘preventive’ feedback, further demonstrating the complex nature of the relationship between quasars and their host galaxies.
Convergent Adaptation of Ootheca Formation as a Reproductive Strategy in Polyneoptera
Authors: Du Erxia , Wang Shuai , Luan Yun-Xia , Zhou Caisheng , Li Zhaoxin , Li Na , Zhou Shutang , Zhang Tingting , Ma Wentao , Cui Yingying , Yuan Dongwei , Ren Chonghua , Zhang Jianzhen , Roth Siegfried , Li Sheng 
Published: February 2022

AbstractInsects have evolved numerous adaptations and colonized diverse terrestrial environments. Several polyneopterans, including dictyopterans (cockroaches and mantids) and locusts, have developed oothecae, but little is known about the molecular mechanism, physiological function, and evolutionary significance of ootheca formation. Here, we demonstrate that the cockroach asymmetric colleterial glands produce vitellogenins, proline-rich protein, and glycine-rich protein as major ootheca structural proteins (OSPs) that undergo sclerotization and melanization for ootheca formation through the cooperative protocatechuic acid pathway and dopachrome and dopaminechrome subpathway. Functionally, OSP sclerotization and melanization prevent eggs from losing water at warm and dry conditions, and thus effectively maintain embryo viability. Dictyopterans and locusts convergently evolved vitellogenins, apolipoprotein D, and laminins as OSPs, whereas within Dictyoptera, cockroaches and mantids independently developed glycine-rich protein and fibroins as OSPs. Highlighting the ecological-evolutionary importance, convergent ootheca formation represents a successful reproductive strategy in Polyneoptera that promoted the radiation and establishment of cockroaches, mantids, and locusts.
Healthcare Costs Attributable to Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Indian Adults
Authors: John Rijo M , Dauchy Estelle P 
Published: February 2022

AbstractIntroductionIn India, 38.7% of adults are exposed to SHS at home and 30.2% at work. This paper estimates the direct economic costs of diseases attributable to secondhand smoking (SHS) in India for persons aged 15 years and above.Aims and MethodsNationally representative data on healthcare expenditures, healthcare utilization, and SHS prevalence were used to estimate economic costs attributable to SHS. A prevalence-based attributable risk approach was used for estimating the attributable direct costs. To estimate the SHS-attributable fraction, the excess utilization of healthcare among SHS exposed non-smokers compared to unexposed non-smokers was estimated using a method of propensity score matching (PSM).ResultsThe annual direct economic costs attributable to SHS from all diseases in India in the year 2017 for persons aged more than 15 years amounted to INR 566.7 billion (USD 8.7 billion). This amounted to INR 705 per adult non-smoker. The SHS attributable costs were higher among the youngest age group 20 to 24, and women bear 71% of the direct medical costs attributable to SHS.ConclusionsThe annual direct economic costs of SHS amount to approximately 0.33% of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or 8.1% of total healthcare expenditures in India. It is also much larger than the total excise tax revenue from cigarettes and bidis. As bidi smoking is the most popular form of smoking in India and bidis are mostly consumed by the poor, a disproportionate burden of SHS is likely borne by poor households in India.ImplicationsIn India, 38.7% of adults are exposed to SHS at home and 30.2% at work. However, there is no estimate of the economic burden of any kind from SHS exposure in India. This study used a prevalence-based attributable risk approach combined with a PSM technique to estimate excess healthcare utilization for SHS exposed non-smokers and the annual direct economic costs of SHS in India. Annual direct SHS-attributable costs in India is INR 566.7 billion (USD 8.7 billion) SHS costs constituted 0.33% of GDP and 8.1% of healthcare expenditures in India.
Avian botulism is a primary, year-round threat to adult survival in the endangered Hawaiian Duck on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, USA
Authors: Malachowski Christopher P , Dugger Bruce D , Uyehara Kimberly J , Reynolds Michelle H 
Published: February 2022

AbstractAdult survival is the most important demographic parameter influencing population dynamics for many bird taxa. Thus, understanding how survival probabilities and causes of mortality vary throughout the annual cycle is critical for developing informed and effective management strategies. In this study, we used radio-telemetry data to evaluate the effects of biotic (e.g., sex, peak [September–April] vs. off-peak [May–August] nesting seasons) and abiotic factors (e.g., rainfall, year, bi-monthly interval) on adult survival, estimate annual survival probabilities, and identify primary sources of mortality for Hawaiian Ducks (Anas wyvilliana), an endangered, non-migratory dabbling duck, on the island of Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, USA over 2013 and 2014. Additionally, we used contemporaneous Hawaiian Duck carcass recovery and surveillance data to examine temporal and climatic associations with avian botulism outbreaks. Our results suggested bi-monthly survival decreased with total rainfall during the preceding 2-month interval. Survival did not vary with sex, between peak and off-peak nesting seasons, or between the two years of this study. Annual survival probabilities (62–80%) were relatively low compared to the closely related Laysan Duck (Anas laysanensis) on Laysan Island. Primary causes of mortality included avian botulism and presumed predation by cats (Felis catus). The botulism surveillance dataset revealed support for the effect of rainfall on the number of sick and dead birds recovered (n = 216), with generally a greater number of recoveries during months with middle-range total rainfall during the concurrent and preceding months. Our study provides critical baseline demographic data for population monitoring and highlights the importance of managing botulism risk and non-native mammalian predators for the recovery of the endangered Hawaiian Duck.
Jonathan Harvey and Spectralism as “Spiritual Breakthrough”
Authors: Whittall Arnold 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
This chapter explores Jonathan Harvey’s understanding of spectralism as enabling him to connect his spiritual concerns with technical developments in electro-acoustics. After his early contacts with the thinking of Milton Babbitt and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Harvey was instinctively drawn to retain aspects of traditional techniques and approaches to sound alongside the new possibilities emerging from electronic and digital technologies. Nor did the evolution of a particular interest in Buddhism require the exclusion of Christian or more secular associations. Rather, he relished the multivalence and ambiguity that he believed to be the essential quality of art in his time. The “spiritual breakthrough” that spectralism represented for him was also a technical breakthrough facilitating an approach to harmony and form that has been called “spectral tonality.”
Moral Responsibility and Existential Attitudes
Authors: Russell Paul 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
We might describe the philosophical issue of human freedom and moral responsibility as an existential metaphysical problem. Problems of this kind are not just a matter of theoretical interest and curiosity: They address issues that we care about and that affect us. They are, more specifically, relevant to the significance and value that we attach to our lives and the way that we lead them. According to the orthodox view, there is a tidy connection between skepticism and pessimism. Skepticism threatens a wide range of interests and concerns that themselves rest on the foundation of our self-conception as responsible moral agents. From this perspective, whereas skepticism licenses a degree of pessimism about our human predicament, the defeat of skepticism serves to vindicate optimism. In recent years this orthodox view of the relationship between skepticism and pessimism has been challenged. It has been argued, for example, that skepticism may be defended in much more optimistic terms. While we have reason to accept skepticism, we have no reason to draw any bleak or depressing consequences from this. Another way of severing the orthodox connection between skepticism and pessimism is to reject skepticism but deny that this will serve to secure or salvage any unqualified form of optimism. This chapter reviews and contrasts these various positions and approaches, beginning with an account of P. F. Strawson’s particularly influential statement of the relationship between the skeptical challenge and pessimism.
Manipulation Arguments Against Compatibilism
Authors: Pereboom Derk , McKenna Michael 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
This chapter surveys the debate focused on manipulation arguments against the compatibility of moral responsibility in the basic desert sense and the naturalistic determination of an action by factors beyond the agent’s control. Manipulation arguments draw an analogy between such causal determination and intentional deterministic manipulation by other agents, claiming that because the intentional determination precludes responsibility, so does causal determination. The dialectical structure of these arguments is analyzed, and the main sorts of objections are discussed. Compatibilist responses to manipulation arguments can be divided into two categories. Soft-line replies do not resist the intuition that the manipulated agent is not morally responsible, and instead aim to show that an agent who is merely naturalistically determined differs from the manipulated agent in a way relevant to moral responsibility. Hard-line replies, by contrast, resist the intuition, essential to the incompatibilist’s case, that the intentionally and deterministically manipulated agent is not morally responsible. Versions of each type of reply are critically assessed.
Attributionist Theories of Moral Responsibility
Authors: Talbert Matthew 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
According to attributionism, assessments of moral responsibility are centrally concerned with the morally significant features of an agent’s orientation toward others that are attributable to her, and an agent is eligible for moral praise or blame solely on the basis of these attributions. In this context, attributionists often focus on an agent’s evaluative judgments, as revealed through her actions, omissions, beliefs, and attitudes. According to attributionism, we are interested in these judgments because we are interested in how other agents stand with respect to us and to one another: Do their judgments, and the actions they inform, indicate an appropriate degree of respect and concern for us and for others, or not? This chapter discusses the recent development of attributionist accounts of moral responsibility, the components that these accounts have in common, and the central criticisms that have been leveled against attributionism. Particular attention is paid to attributionism’s rejection both of the claim that you are morally responsible only for what is under your control, and of the claim that you are responsible for wrongdoing only if you could have responded to the moral considerations that spoke against your behavior. Attributionists reject these two conditions on moral responsibility for the same reason: Agents may reveal features of their selves, in a way that is sufficient for moral responsibility, even when these conditions are not met. The roles that moral protest and negative emotional responses (such as resentment) play in attributionist accounts are also discussed in some detail.