Muhlenberg College

This special issue explores a new strategy for addressing an old problem in queer theory and queer Asian studies: how to effectively challenge Western hegemony and provincialize Euro-American experiences of gender and sexuality. Specifically, we are interested not only in how a critical regional and transnational queer studies can generate new knowledge and insight about non-normative genders and sexualities in Asia and Asian diasporas, but also, and perhaps more importantly, how the growing field of queer Asian studies may be uniquely positioned to broaden, challenge, decolonize, expand, and generate new theoretical frameworks and understandings of queerness, both in Asia and beyond. Working from locations as diverse as China, Pakistan, South Korea, and Vietnam, the contributors to this special issue examine how the various communities with whom we work are creating, imagining, questioning, resisting, and witnessing what it means to be queer in Asia, including how the very paradigm of queerness itself can often obscure some Asian experiences of gender, sexuality, and (anti)normativity. By seeking to move the field of queer Asian studies from “queer studies in Asia ” to “queer theory from Asia ,” we hope to offer another possible path toward the centering of queer Asias within queer studies and theory.

Beginning in 2017, the groups of Nicewicz, Burton, Lambert, and others have reported an ever‐widening array of formally redox neutral nucleophilic aromatic substitution (S N Ar) reactions that proceed via an aromatic radical cation intermediate. However, the roots of this reaction extend far back more than 50 years to foundational work by Nyberg, Kochi, Cornelisse, and Eberson. Unfortunately, much of this early precedent appears to have been overlooked, despite the fact that it offers many potentially useful mechanistic insights into the more modern transformations. Additionally, it is found that this early work has not previously been reviewed in the unified context of nucleophilic aromatic substitution. In this review, a glimpse into the past is provided before discussing the exciting developments of the last decade in this area. The review is concluded with an overview of some of the potential growth opportunities that remain.

Recent measurements of J/ψ production as a function of event charged-particle multiplicity at the collision energies of both the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) show enhanced J/ψ production yields with increasing multiplicity. One potential explanation for this type of dependence is multiparton interactions (MPI). We present the first study of potential autocorrelations at RHIC energies and forward and backward rapidity of self-normalized J/ψ yields and ψ(2S) to J/ψ ratio, as a function of self-normalized multiplicity in p+p collisions. In addition, detailed studies tuned to RHIC energies were performed to investigate the MPI impacts. We find that the PHENIX data at RHIC are consistent with recent LHC measurements and can only be described by calculations that include MPI effects. The forward and backward ψ(2S) to J/ψ ratio is found to be less dependent on the charged-particle multiplicity.

We present a gene model for the ortholog ofGlycogen phosphorylase(Glyp) in theD. ananassaeMay 2011 (Agencourt dana_caf1/DanaCAF1) genome assembly ofDrosophila ananassae(GenBank Accession: GCA_000005115.1). This ortholog was characterized as part of a developing dataset to study the evolution of the insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway (IIS) across the genusDrosophilausing the Genomics Education Partnership gene annotation protocol for Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences.

This study explores the experiences of menstruators who do not identify as cisgender women. One hundred and forty-five menstruating, non-cisgender participants were surveyed to assess their level of self-objectification, gender dysphoria, attitudes toward menstruation, and awareness of and willingness to use a menstrual cup. Self-objectification and gender dysphoria were found to predict negative attitudes toward menstruation, which also predicted negative reactions to the cup and feelings that it would trigger discomfort about identity and the body. Gender dysphoria was also linked to feelings that the cup would cause these discomforts.

Because animals threatened by visually oriented predators may respond in sun-lit daytime but not at night, invertebrate responses to predatory challenges may yield varying results based on the time period within the 24 h daily cycle. We predicted that in laboratory experiments aquatic isopods exposed to kairomones from predatory fish would spend more time immobilized in daylight to avoid detection than those not exposed to kairomones but that this difference would disappear under the cover of nighttime darkness. We further predicted that isopods in the absence of kairomones would move at elevated rates in the daytime compared with night, seeking a precautionary proximity to shelters. However, contrary to our predictions, Caecidotea communis isopods exhibited consistent activity (movement rate and proportion of time spent moving) when exposed to kairomones or in the absence of such cues, at all of the three diurnal cycle periods examined. Thus, Caecidotea communis displayed cathemerality (sometimes called metaturnality), the first documented case of this behavior in crustaceans.

This paper describes a simple hands-on activity to introduce sampling distributions and bootstrap sampling. The activity is based on a real-world problem, estimating the population size of Florida manatees using the capture–recapture method. The activity is ideal for courses using simulation-based inference, can be completed in a single class period, involves group & class collaboration, and adheres to the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) Report recommendations for in-class activities. The materials needed are minimal and can easily be reused for future classes.