Funding rules that promote equity in climate adaptation outcomes.

Many climate policies adopt improving equity as a key objective. A key challenge is that policies often conceive of equity in terms of individuals but introduce strategies that focus on spatially coarse administrative areas. For example, the Justice40 Initiative in the United States requires 518 diverse federal programs to prioritize funds for "disadvantaged" census tracts.

Exact projected entangled pair ground states with topological Euler invariant.

We report on a class of gapped projected entangled pair states (PEPS) with non-trivial Euler topology motivated by recent progress in band geometry. In the non-interacting limit, these systems have optimal conditions relating to saturation of quantum geometrical bounds, allowing for parent Hamiltonians whose lowest bands are completely flat and which have the PEPS as unique ground states. Protected by crystalline symmetries, these states evade restrictions on capturing tenfold-way topological features with gapped PEPS.

Topologically ordered time crystals.

Time crystals are a dynamical phase of periodically driven quantum many-body systems where discrete time-translation symmetry is broken spontaneously. Time-crystallinity however subtly requires also spatial order, ordinarily related to further symmetries, such as spin-flip symmetry when the spatial order is ferromagnetic. Here we define topologically ordered time crystals, a time-crystalline phase borne out of intrinsic topological order-a particularly robust form of spatial order that requires no symmetry.

Health literacy and COVID-19 pandemic impacts among adults in rural northern Arizona.

Introduction: Limited health literacy - the ability to access, process, and use health information and services - contributes to persistent health inequities. Yet little is known about associations of limited health literacy with impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for US adults in rural areas. This study sought to determine associations of limited health literacy with impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic among a diverse sample of adults in rural Northern Arizona.

Lactate dehydrogenase can be used for differential diagnosis to identify patients with severe polytrauma with or without chest injury-A retrospective study.

Background: Chest injury is an important factor regarding the prognosis of patients with polytrauma (PT), and the rapid diagnosis of chest injury is of utmost importance. Therefore, the current study focused on patients' physiology and laboratory findings to quickly identify PT patients with chest injury.

Method: Data on 64 PT patients treated at a trauma center level I between June 2020 and August 2021 were retrospectively collected.