Book Review: Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora by Pelaud, I. T., Duong, L., Lam, M. B., & Nguyen, K. L. (Eds.)

Book review of Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora by Pelaud, I. T., Duong, L., Lam, M. B., & Nguyen, K. L. (Eds.

Publisher Correction: Non-invasive assessment of exfoliated kidney cells extracted from urine using multispectral autofluorescence features (Scientific Reports, (2021), 11, 1, (10655), 10.1038/s41598-021-89758-4)

In the original version of this Article Saabah B. Mahbub and Long T. Nguyen were omitted as equally contributing authors. Additionally, Sonia Saad and Ewa M. Goldys were omitted as jointly supervised authors. This error has now been corrected in the PDF version of the Article; the HTML version was correct from the time of publication

Book Review: Nguyen, V. T. (2016). The Sympathizer: A Novel. New York, NY: Grove Atlantic. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-1543618020

Book Review by Linh Dang: Nguyen, V. T. (2016). The Sympathizer: A Novel. New York, NY: Grove Atlantic

Assessment of earthquake-induced ground liquefaction susceptibility for Hanoi city using geological and geomorphologic characteristics

In this paper, the earthquake-induced liquefaction susceptibility of Hanoi city is assessed using the recent published geological and geomorphologic data. A combination of classification methods based on the distribution of sedimentary deposits proposed by Youd and Perkins (1978) and geomorphologic units proposed by Iwasaki (1982) was applied. The subsurface lithology and geomorphologic maps were combined in a GIS platform for assessing the liquefaction susceptibility of Hanoi city.The resulting map shows that the liquefaction hazard of Hanoi city classified into four categories: high, moderate, low liquefaction potential and not likely areas. In the most of Hanoi area, the ground liquefaction potentials are moderate. The high liquefaction likely areas spread along the river beds and around the lake areas. The not likely and low liquefaction potential areas are observed mainly in the northwest and northeast of the study region such as Chanchim, Soc Son, and Bavi mountains. The present map can help the scientists, engineers, and planners to have the general information on regional liquefaction potential of the Hanoi city. ReferencesBird JF, Bommer JJ, 2004b. Earthquake Losses due to Ground Failure. Submitted to Engineering Geology, 75(2), 147-179.Bird Juliet F, Bommer Julian J., 2004a. Evaluating earthquake losses due to ground failure and identifying their relative contribution (Paper no. 3156). In Proceedings of the 13th world conference on earthquake engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, august 1-6.Bui Van Duan, Nguyen Cong Thang, Nguyen Van Vuong, Pham Dinh Nguyen, 2013. The magnitude of the largest possible earthquake in the Muong La-Bac Yen fault zone. J. Sci. of the Earth, 35(1), 53-59.Dao Dinh Bac, Dang Van Bao, 2010. Geomorphologic characteristics, the ancient river beds system of the capital city and their values to the development of the Thang Long - Hanoi. International Workshop commemorating the 1000 years of Thang Long, Hanoi. Vietnam national University, Hanoi.Ganapathy, G. P., Rajawat, A. S., 2012. Evaluation of liquefaction potential hazard of Chennai city, India: using geological and geomorphological characteristics. Natural hazards, 64(2), 1717-1729.Goyal, A., Sinha, R., Chaudhari, M. and Jaiswal, K., 2001. Performance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Ahmedabad during Bhuj Earthquake January 26, 2001. Workshop on Recent Earthquakes of Chamoli and Bhuj: Volume I, Roorkee, India, May 24-26.Iwasaki, T., Tokida, K., Tatsuoka, F., Watanabe, S., Yasuda, S., Sato, H., 1982. Microzonation for soil liquefaction potential using simplified methods. In Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on microzonation, Seattle, 3, 1310-1330.Kuribayashi E., Tatsuoka, F., 1975. Brief review of liquefaction during earthquake in Japan,” Soils and Foundations, 15(4), 81-92.Lew M, Naeim F, Huang SC, Lam HK, Carpenter LD, 2000. Geotechnical and geological effects of the 21 September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan. Structural Design of Tall Buildings, 9, 89-106.National Research Council, 1985. Ishihara 1985. Liquefaction of Soils During Earthquake, National Academy press, 240, p.34. Nguyen Hong Phuong (Project Manager), 2002. Study of seismic risk of Hanoi city. Project code 01C-04/09-2001-2. Institute for Marine Geology and Geophysics, VAST.Nguyen Hong Phuong (Project Manager), 2007. Application of GIS technology to Development of a model for seismic risk analysis for Hanoi city. Institute for Marine Geology and Geophysics, VAST.Nguyen Hong Phuong (Project Manager), 2014.  Estimation of Site Effects and Assessment of Urban Seismic Risk for Hanoi city. National Scientific Research Project Final report, Institute of Geophysics, VAST.Nguyen Hong Phuong and Pham The Truyen, 2014. Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for South Central Vietnam. J. Sci. of the Earth, 36(4), 451-461.Phan Trong Trinh, Hoang Quang Vinh, Nguyen Van Huong, Ngo Van Liem, 2013. Active fault segmentation and seismic hazard in Hoa Binh reservoir, Vietnam. Cent. Eur. J. Geosci, 5(2), 223-235.Phan Trong Trinh, Ngo Van Liem, Nguyen Van Huong, Hoang Quang Vinh, Bui Van Thom, Bui Thi Thao, Mai Thanh Tan, Nguyen Hoang, 2012. Late Quaternary tectonics and seismotectonics along the Red River fault zone, North Vietnam. Earth-Science Reviews 114, 224-235.Susumu Yasuda, Nozomu Yoshida, Hiroyoshi Kiku, Hidenori Abo, and Masato Uda, 2001. Analyses of Liquefaction-Induced Deformation of Grounds and Structures by a Simple Method (March 26). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, p.27. http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session04/27.Updike, R. G., Egan, J. A., Moriwaki, Y., Idriss, I. M., Moses, T. L., 1988. A model for earthquake-induced translatory landslides in Quaternary sediments. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 100(5), 783-792.Vu Thanh Tam (Project Manager), 2014. Study and propose a reasonable threshold for preventing the subsidence caused by ground water exploitation, pilot application for downtown area of the Hanoi city. Final report of the Scientific research and technology development Project, National Center for water resource planning and investigation. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.Youd T. L., 1993. Liquefaction, ground failure and consequent damage during the 22 April 1991 Costa Rica earthquake. Abridged from EERI Proceedings: U.S. Costa Rica Workshop, http://nisee.berkeley.edu/costarica/Youd T. L., and Hoose S.N., 1977.  Liquefaction Susceptibility and Geologic Setting, Proceedings, 6th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi, India, 6, 37-42.Youd T. L., and Perkins D. M., 1978. Mapping liquefaction-induced ground failure potential. Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, 104, GT4, 433-446

Steiner Point Removal with Distortion O(log⁡k)O(\log k)

In the Steiner point removal (SPR) problem, we are given a weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set of terminals $K\subset V$ of size $k$. The objective is to find a minor $M$ of $G$ with only the terminals as its vertex set, such that the distance between the terminals will be preserved up to a small multiplicative distortion. Kamma, Krauthgamer and Nguyen [KKN15] used a ball-growing algorithm with exponential distributions to show that the distortion is at most $O(\log^5 k)$. Cheung [Che17] improved the analysis of the same algorithm, bounding the distortion by $O(\log^2 k)$. We improve the analysis of this ball-growing algorithm even further, bounding the distortion by $O(\log k)$

Brugada Syndrome: Presentation and Management of the Atypical Patient in the Emergent Setting

Introduction: Brugada syndrome is a genetic disorder of the heart’s electrical system that increases a patient’s risk of sudden cardiac death. It is a syndrome most prevalent in Southeast Asians and is found 36 times more commonly in Asians than in Hispanics.Case Report: We report and discuss a case of a 68-year-old Hispanic male who presented with clinical and electrocardiogram abnormalities consistent with Brugada syndrome.Discussion: The patient’s age and ethnicity represents an atypical presentation of this rare syndrome and the lack of reported studies in the literature pertaining to these demographics reflect this.Conclusion: Further studies and characterizations are necessary as manifestations continue to be unearthed. As such, Brugada Syndrome should be considered in the differential diagnosis for a myriad of patient populations

Engineering Disease Resistance through Generation of an iPSC-derived P. Maniculatus Chimera

The goal of this project is to develop methods to manipulate the genome of Peromyscus maniculatus for the future eradication of diseases such as Hantavirus and Lyme disease that this species can transmit to humans. The initial thrust of this project is to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from P. maniculatus mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) using an engineered Sendai Virus vector system. The Sendai Virus vector is a non-integrating viral vector that delivers four transcription factors necessary to reprogram normal somatic cells to a pluripotent, stem cell-like state. Subsequent, a plasmid will be used to insert DNA into the genome of the iPSC that codes for a fluorescent protein. In the future, the fluorescence will be used to confirm that Mus musculus cells are able to combine with the P. maniculatus cells in a chimeric blastocyst. Because many notable diseases are transmissible to humans from P. maniculatus, the genetic manipulation and creation of a disease resistant P. maniculatus using iPSCs could help to eradicate the spread of these diseases.