Her Own Divinity

Cassandra Bousquet is a sophomore Creative Writing Major minoring in both History and Music. Her work is featured in the collaborative poem, Breathe, which appeared in Nature & Culture 2021 Festival Book (Copenhagen: Red Press Kulturhuset Islands Brygge & Københavns Kommune, 2021). Her poem “Dear Human at the Edge of Time” is featured in the anthology of the same title edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and Jeremy S. Hoffman., and is available in the Roger Williams University Library! Last April, she was a Writer-in-Residence at Bristol\u27s historic mansion, Linden Place. Spending time in and protecting the natural world is very important to her and tends to influence her poetic work

Lost and Found

Cassandra Bousquet, from Brisbane, CA, is the recent recipient of the Poetry Lighthouse Prize and received an Honorable Mention from the Ruth Weiss Foundation in their 2024 poetry contest. Her poem, “Dear Human at the Edge of Time” appears in the 2023 anthology of the same title, edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and Jeremy S. Hoffman. In April 2023, she was a Writer-In-Residence at Bristol\u27s own historic mansion and museum, Linden Place

Interferometric Single-Shot Parity Measurement in an InAs-Al Hybrid Device

The fusion of non-Abelian anyons or topological defects is a fundamental operation in measurement-only topological quantum computation. In topological superconductors, this operation amounts to a determination of the shared fermion parity of Majorana zero modes. As a step towards this, we implement a single-shot interferometric measurement of fermion parity in indium arsenide-aluminum heterostructures with a gate-defined nanowire. The interferometer is formed by tunnel-coupling the proximitized nanowire to quantum dots. The nanowire causes a state-dependent shift of these quantum dots' quantum capacitance of up to 1 fF. Our quantum capacitance measurements show flux h/2e-periodic bimodality with a signal-to-noise ratio of 1 in 3.7 $\mu$s at optimal flux values. From the time traces of the quantum capacitance measurements, we extract a dwell time in the two associated states that is longer than 1 ms at in-plane magnetic fields of approximately 2 T. These results are consistent with a measurement of the fermion parity encoded in a pair of Majorana zero modes that are separated by approximately 3 $\mu$m and subjected to a low rate of poisoning by non-equilibrium quasiparticles. The large capacitance shift and long poisoning time enable a parity measurement error probability of 1%.Comment: Added data on a second measurement of device A and a measurement of device B, expanded discussion of a trivial scenario. Refs added, author list update

ISARIC-COVID-19 dataset: A Prospective, Standardized, Global Dataset of Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19

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Neurological manifestations of COVID-19 in adults and children

Different neurological manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adults and children and their impact have not been well characterized. We aimed to determine the prevalence of neurological manifestations and in-hospital complications among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and ascertain differences between adults and children. We conducted a prospective multicentre observational study using the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) cohort across 1507 sites worldwide from 30 January 2020 to 25 May 2021. Analyses of neurological manifestations and neurological complications considered unadjusted prevalence estimates for predefined patient subgroups, and adjusted estimates as a function of patient age and time of hospitalization using generalized linear models. Overall, 161 239 patients (158 267 adults; 2972 children) hospitalized with COVID-19 and assessed for neurological manifestations and complications were included. In adults and children, the most frequent neurological manifestations at admission were fatigue (adults: 37.4%; children: 20.4%), altered consciousness (20.9%; 6.8%), myalgia (16.9%; 7.6%), dysgeusia (7.4%; 1.9%), anosmia (6.0%; 2.2%) and seizure (1.1%; 5.2%). In adults, the most frequent in-hospital neurological complications were stroke (1.5%), seizure (1%) and CNS infection (0.2%). Each occurred more frequently in intensive care unit (ICU) than in non-ICU patients. In children, seizure was the only neurological complication to occur more frequently in ICU versus non-ICU (7.1% versus 2.3%, P < 0.001). Stroke prevalence increased with increasing age, while CNS infection and seizure steadily decreased with age. There was a dramatic decrease in stroke over time during the pandemic. Hypertension, chronic neurological disease and the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were associated with increased risk of stroke. Altered consciousness was associated with CNS infection, seizure and stroke. All in-hospital neurological complications were associated with increased odds of death. The likelihood of death rose with increasing age, especially after 25 years of age. In conclusion, adults and children have different neurological manifestations and in-hospital complications associated with COVID-19. Stroke risk increased with increasing age, while CNS infection and seizure risk decreased with age

I have come to be held by the trees

Cassandra Bousquet is a freshman here at Roger Williams University, hailing from Brisbane, CA. Her work is featured in the collaborative poem, “Breathe,” which appeared in Nature & Culture 2021 Festival Book (Copenhagen: Red Press Kulturhuset Islands Brygge & Københavns Kommune, 2021). You can see more of her work at speakpoetry.org under the youth and ecopoetry section. Cassandra is a graduate of the Youth Climate Ambassador program in San Mateo County, CA and is continuing her climate activism through her Instagram @unitedagainstclimatechang

Her Own Divinity

Cassandra Bousquet is a sophomore Creative Writing Major minoring in both History and Music. Her work is featured in the collaborative poem, Breathe, which appeared in Nature & Culture 2021 Festival Book (Copenhagen: Red Press Kulturhuset Islands Brygge & Københavns Kommune, 2021). Her poem “Dear Human at the Edge of Time” is featured in the anthology of the same title edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and Jeremy S. Hoffman., and is available in the Roger Williams University Library! Last April, she was a Writer-in-Residence at Bristol\u27s historic mansion, Linden Place. Spending time in and protecting the natural world is very important to her and tends to influence her poetic work

Lost and Found

Cassandra Bousquet, from Brisbane, CA, is the recent recipient of the Poetry Lighthouse Prize and received an Honorable Mention from the Ruth Weiss Foundation in their 2024 poetry contest. Her poem, “Dear Human at the Edge of Time” appears in the 2023 anthology of the same title, edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and Jeremy S. Hoffman. In April 2023, she was a Writer-In-Residence at Bristol\u27s own historic mansion and museum, Linden Place