This article examines how Black communities in New York City and Atlanta responded to the crack epidemic of the 1980s and how their grassroots activism shaped the rise of order-maintenance policing. Although much scholarship attributes the development of order-maintenance policing to top-down neoliberal and conservative forces, we demonstrate that residents—facing daily violence, open-air drug markets, and social collapse—demanded more aggressive enforcement. Drawing on extensive archival research, including municipal records, police files, oral histories, and congressional testimony, this study analyzes the formation of Tactical Narcotics Teams in New York and Operation Red Dog in Atlanta. We find that community activism was both a catalyst for and a constraint on policing strategy. Ultimately, this article complicates dominant accounts of contemporary policing by showing how demands for authority and public order, forged from the ground up, helped pave the way for order-maintenance policing.

An infant with junctional ectopic tachycardia developed tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for circulatory failure. After oxygenation withdrawal became feasible following intravenous antiarrhythmics, tachycardia recurred with oral transition. Subsequent ivabradine administration resulted in heart rate control and improved cardiac function. We emphasise the role of ivabradine in heart rate control and cardiac function stabilisation in junctional ectopic tachycardia.

This article offers a new way to think about objects of memory, focusing on how a single item can take on various roles – from a cherished personal keepsake through a commercial product to a powerful political symbol. By examining the ‘Bring Them Home’ dog tags created in response to the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel in 2023, the article explores how these dog tags emerged as expressions of empathy for the hostages and their families, then evolved into a powerful symbol of the current historic moment, and eventually came to reflect diverse political positions on the conflict and even on broader human rights issues. Drawing from media reports, interviews, and visual evidence, the article highlights how these dog tags were worn during local protests, featured in international discussions, dominated the Israeli public space, and were integrated into everyday life, serving as a compact representation of both political identity and protest.

This article discusses cases of phonological abstractness and opacity and shows how they are eminently learnable, given certain assumptions about the innate cognitive endowment that learners bring to acquisition. I argue that opacity is not a learning problem but its solution. I propose that a distinction in patterning between two types of i in Inuit dialects is best explained by positing that surface [i] represents a merger of two underlying vowels. The apparently similar case of /i/ in Uyghur is shown to require a different type of solution. A review of contrasting approaches to prefix selection in Esimbi shows that opacity plays no role in evaluating their relative learnability. Though a celebrated case of opacity in Polish appears to have been misanalysed, an abstract analysis can still be motivated to account for alternations in certain lexemes. Uniting these cases is a preference for phonological analyses over diacritics or suppletion.

Dairy polar lipids have demonstrated anti-inflammatory properties and protective effects on intestinal integrity, potentially mitigating the adverse impacts of weaning in piglets by modulating microbiota composition and intermediary metabolism. This study evaluated a dairy by-product rich in polar lipids on the microbiome and plasma lipid mediators of weaned piglets. A total of 240 male piglets (21 days old; 6.3 ± 0.5 kg) received either a soybean lipid-based diet (SD) or a polar lipid-based diet (PD) from weaning to day 21, followed by a common diet until day 42. Within each diet, animals were provided with one of the three milk replacers (MRs) for the first 7 days: (1) Commercial MR (CO); (2) Polar lipid-based MR (PO); and (3) Soybean lipid-based MR (SO). Fecal and plasma samples were analyzed to assess microbial composition and lipid mediator profiles. Taxonomical distance between diets increased over time, whereas MR type had no effect. The PD diet significantly altered microbiota composition, increasing, for instance, the relative abundance of Firmicutes-belonging genera of the Lachnospiraceae family (Coprococcus, Roseburia), and increasing levels of ethanolamides (e.g., AEA, PEA, SEA, and DPEA). In contrast, the SD diet increased pro-inflammatory lipid mediators (e.g., 13-HODE, 13-KODE) derived from linoleic acid. Polar lipid supplementation in diet, but not in MRs, influenced microbiota diversity and lipid mediator profiles, suggesting a potential long-term impact on immune regulation and metabolism, highlighting their potential to enhance resilience during early-life stress. Future studies should explore these effects under traditional weaning conditions or other stress models.

Rapid mass displacement can transform active conflict into a broader public health emergency by compressing shelter demand and continuity-of-care needs into a narrow time frame. The March 2026 escalation in Lebanon provides a timely case to examine these dynamics within a health system already operating under severe constraints. This paper analyzes the early response phase, focusing on how displacement reshaped shelter operations, access to primary care, continuity of medications, and referral pathways. Much of the resulting health risk emerges from treatment interruption and weakened linkage to essential services. Beyond being a humanitarian outcome, displacement should be understood as a health systems event that can amplify secondary morbidity. In fragile settings, preparedness must prioritize health-protective sheltering, continuity of care, and coordinated referral mechanisms under conditions of disruption.

Our aim in this article is to establish new characterizations of hyperplanes in Euclidean space via mild constraints on the higher-order anisotropic mean curvatures of an immersed complete hypersurface. Our approach is based on the study of the behavior of the height and angle functions naturally attached to a hypersurface, jointly with the use of appropriate maximum principles dealing with the notions of convergence at infinity and polynomial volume growth. In this context, we also obtain lower estimates for the minimum anisotropic relative null index of an immersed complete hypersurface, which can be regarded as a measure of how close such a hypersurface is to being flat.

Understanding the American Revolution requires moving beyond a simple “Americans vs. Britain” narrative and viewing it within a global context. The conflict was part of a larger, global war between European colonial powers, which saw alliances formed based on international strategic interests rather than just a new nation’s ideals. As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in July 2026, the question of who secured American independence from Britain is an important but complex one. Traditional narratives focus on patriots and George Washington, which is particularly misleading. The American Revolution would likely have failed without the support of a diverse coalition of nations and peoples. Its victory was fueled by assistance from French, Spanish, and other Europeans, Native Americans, and enslaved and free Black Americans. Acknowledging the financial and military contributions of European powers, the scouting, intelligence, and military power provided by members of Indigenous nations, and the manpower offered by Black Americans does not weaken the story of 1776. It strengthens it. After 250 years, it is time to learn about and embrace the whole story, with all its complexities. Doing so lends true meaning to the U.S.’s national motto: “Out of the many, one,” or E Pluribus Unum.

Flumioxazin is a preemergence herbicide that is widely used pretransplant on conventional sweetpotato hectarage as part of weed management programs in North Carolina; despite this, some growers have concerns that flumioxazin may be injurious to sweetpotato, even at recommended rates if rain falls near application. Thus, field studies were conducted in 2021 and 2022 in Clinton, North Carolina, to evaluate the performance of flumioxazin under several simulated rain conditions. Studies evaluated a complete factorial arrangement of treatments with three flumioxazin rates and three simulated rain treatments. Herbicide treatments included no herbicide, and two rates of flumioxazin (107 g ai ha−1 and 214 g ai ha−1). Irrigation treatments included 1.9 cm of simulated rain applied before flumioxazin, 1.9 cm applied after flumioxazin, and no simulated rain. No visual injury from herbicide or rain treatments was observed. Yields of No. 1 and marketable sweetpotatoes were reduced by 25% and 14%, and total yield was reduced by 11% when the higher rate flumioxazin (214 g ha−1) was applied compared to the no-herbicide treatment. However, the lower (registered) rate of flumioxazin (107 g ha−1) did not lead to a reduction in yield compared with yield from the no-herbicide treatment. No interactions between irrigation timing and herbicide were observed, and irrigation timing alone did not affect sweetpotato yield. Average length-width ratio (LWR) was calculated for No. 1 sweetpotato storage roots as a metric of root shape. In 2021, herbicide did not affect LWR. In 2022, compared with the no-herbicide treatment, the LWR of No. 1 sweetpotato was smaller after the higher rate of flumioxazin (214 g ha−1) was applied compared with LHR of the no-herbicide treatment, resulting in rounder sweetpotato roots. Flumioxazin applied at 107 g ha−1 did not reduce LWR compared with the no-herbicide treatment. The results of this study highlight both the safety of flumioxazin when applied at registered rates and the importance of appropriate application procedures to prevent overapplication.