bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
On Turbellaria and polygordius from the brazilian coast
Authors: Marcus Eveline Du Bois-Reymond
Published: March 2017

Convoluta cenata, sp. n. (Fig. 1-7) do plancton do canal de São Sebastião assemelha-se muito a C. illardata (Löhner & Micoletzky 1911), sendo diferentes as glândulas e a musculatura. Como C. illardata acompanha C. pelagica Löhn. & Mic., assim C. cenata foi encontrada juntamente com sua presa, C. henseni Böhm. Os ovos de C. cenata são, provavelmente, libertados por ruptura da parede do corpo. Isto leva, em muitos casos, à bipartição do corpo, e, em geral, as duas partes assim originadas regeneram-se.
The pharmacology of the insect heart
Authors: Mendes Erasmo G.
Published: March 2017

Foi estudada a ação da acetilcolina e da adrenalina sôbre o coração de dois insetos hemipteros aquáticos (Belostoma e Lethoceroa), conhecidos por baratas d'água.
Contribution à l'étude de la composition chimique du sang de certains sélaciens du Brésil
Authors: Pereira Rubens Salomé , Sawaya Paulo
Published: March 2017

No decorrer de pesquisas feitas sôbre a ação da adrenalina e da noradrenalina sôbre a frequência e sôbre a amplitude dos batimentos cardíacos de certos selaceos brasileiros (U. von Euler e P. Sawaya - trabalhos inéditos) fomos levados a estudar composição química do sangue dêsses animais com o fito de preparar soluções perfusoras convenientes e como contribuição ao estudo da bioquímica dos peixes que vivem no litoral brasileiro.
On the action of ions on the uterine mechanics
Authors: Grinkraut Chaim N. , Sawaya Paulo
Published: March 2017

Foram estudadas as ações dos ions Na+, K+, Ca++ e Mg++ sôbre a mecânica uterina de ratos albinos (Wistar). Sempre que a concentração de um certo ion foi diminuída, o efeito osmótico foi compensado com glicose, a fim de que fôsse mantida a mesma pressão osmótica (o. p.) em tôdas as experiências.
On Hastula cinerea
Authors: Marcus Eveline , Marcus Ernst
Published: March 2017

Para as espécies das Terebridae comum nas costas de São Paulo, na areia fina das praias de declive gradual, usamos o nome Hastula cinerea (Born, 1780), apesar de nela ocorrerem 28-36 não 45-50 costelas axiais na margem apical de cada volta. Os animais comem poliquetos. Tentáculos e olhos são pequenos; a margem anterior do pé e o grande osfrádio (Fig. 3), intensamente inervados. Como nos Pycnonephridia de Perrier os espaços sanguíneos do sitema renal acessório são diminutos.
Estudo com o microscópio eletrônico do retículo endoplasmático em fibras musculares de carangueijos
Authors: Lavallard Roger
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
On Tricolia affinis cruenta
Authors: Marcus Eveline , Marcus Ernst
Published: March 2017

Tricolia affinis cruenta Robertson, 1958, é frequente nas algas do litoral superior, principalmente em Sagassum, na Base Norte do Instituto Oceanográfico de São Paulo, 14 Km. a oeste de Ubatuba. O ângulo apical da concha (Fig. 2, 3) varia de 130º nos caramujos mais jovens observados, até 45º nos mais crescidos. Também a forma do opérculo (Fig. 2, 4) e o umbigo modificam-se com o crescimento.
Sôbre a ocorrência de Strophocheilidae (Molusco gastrópode) no Rio Grande do Sul
Authors: Sawaya Paulo , Petersen Jorge Alberto
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
A Peripatus from Barbados
Authors: Froehlich Claudio G.
Published: March 2017

Peripatus (s. str.) dominicae barbadensis, n. subsp., proveniente da ilha de Barbados nas Pequenas Antilhas, é descrito. A nova subespécie assemelha-se a P. d. dominicae e a P. d. antiguensis. aproxima-se da primeira pela distribuição das papilas da pele, da segunda pela disposição do tubérculo excretor do 4º e 5º pares de patas, que é independente do 3º arco do pé. Todos exemplares da nova subespécie têm 31 pares de patas, o que indicaria ter em média um a dois pares a mais que as duas outras subespécies.
Studies on Columbellidae
Authors: Marcus Eveline Du Bois-Reymond , Marcus Ernst
Published: March 2017

Estudámos 1) Anachis brasiliana, 2) A. sparsa, 3) A. obesa, 4) A. veleda (têrmo popular: "felicidade", nome não certo: lyrata), 5) Nitidella dichroa, 6) Mitrella lunata, 7) Columbella mercatoria e 8) C. rustica. Espécies 1-6 ocorrem durante o ano inteiro em Sargassum cymosum stenophyllum na Base de Pesquisas de Ubatuba (Enseada do Flamengo) do Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo. Columbella mercatoria obtivemos na Ponta da Prainha, na costa do Canal de São Sebastião, perto do Bairro de são Francisco; C. rustica, de Nápoles.
Sôbre Pentacta peterseni spec. nov. (Echinodermata - Holothurioidea)
Authors: Ancona Lopez Anna Amélia
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
Sobre as glandulas cutaneas de Siphonops annulatus (Mikan)
Authors: Sawaya Alzira
Published: March 2017

Não consta resumo no artigo
Diminuição rítmica do volume nuclear do fígado e do pâncreas nos girinos de anuros
Authors: Schreiber G. , Schreiber M. Romano
Published: March 2017

Estudamos os volumes nucleares do fígado e do pâncreas numa série de girinos de Anuro, compreendida entre o 10º dia depois da eclosão e o fim da metamorfose. Os estadios foram definidos pelo número de dias até o início da metamorfose e, durante esta, por meio de estadios "padrões" (segundo a classificação de G. Schreiber, 1937). Calculamos o valor modal pasra cada estadio do desenvolvimento da larva e estudamos a variação deste valor durante o período pre-metamórfico e metamórfico.
Sôbre Dipteropeltis hirundo Calman, crustáceo (Branchiura) parasito de peixes dágua doce
Authors: Carvalho João De Paiva
Published: March 2017

O presente material que serve como base para a re-descrição de Dipteropeltis hirundo Calm. Consistem em quatro fêmeas nas quais foram encontrados Tretagonopterus aureus e T. rutilis em um pequeno rio do estado de S. Paulo, afluente do rio Paraná. O material original de Calman (1912) veio do Rio Paraguai (Corumbá) e espécimes de Moreira (1913; 1913a) foram coletados no mesmo rio. Dipteropeltis hirundo Calm. inclui, depois Moreira (1915), Talaus riberoi (mais tarde Moreiriella riberoi), mas este último trabalho tem sido negligenciado por Wilson (1932) que mencionem ambos os gêneros, Dipteropeltis Calm e Talaus Moreira como somente um válido. Como Dipteropeltis hirundo não parece ocorrer em tão grande número como as espécies de Argulus e Dolops, as vezes, o parasita não pode ser considerado muito nocivo aos peixes.
Contribuição para a fisiologia do aparelho de apreensão dos alimentos e da glândula do intestino médio de Ostrácodo. Ação de substâncias colinégicas
Authors: Sawaya Paulo
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
Sôbre Naididae do Brasil
Authors: Marcus Ernst
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não possui resumo.
Sôbre Turbellaria brasileiros
Authors: Marcus Ernst
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
A embriologia de Bugula flabellata (J. V. Thompson) (Bryozoa ectoprocta)
Authors: Corrêa Diva Diniz
Published: March 2017

Na Paleontologia e na Zoologia os Briozoos transformaram-se de um grupo insignificativo e anexado vagamente a vários filos dos invertebrados, em entidade que merece interêsse geral. São fósseis-índices grandemente importantes. Apesar de serem protostomia, possuem relações com os Pterobranchia (Deuterostomia, enteropneusta). Nexo entre protostomia e deuterostomia parece imaginável apenas na base dos triploblastica (Coelomata).
On Vallentinia gabriellae, N. SP. (Limnomedusae)
Authors: Mendes Marta Vannucci
Published: March 2017

O ciclo evolutivo de Vallentinia gabriellae, spec. nov. é metagênese típica, como é regra nos Hydrozoa. A fase polipóide é representada por polipos solitários de 0,6-0,8 mm de comprimento, que vivem durante alguns meses e produzem outros polipos, assexualmente, por meio de frústulas. Os polipos dão origem a medusa por brotamento. Estas alcançam 5,5 mm. de diâmetro, são transparentes, teem manúbrio curto quadrilabiado, estômago cônico, 4 canais radiais, dos quais pendem as gônadas saculiformes, e um canal circular com divertículos para todosos tentáculos.
Turbellaria brasileiros (8)
Authors: Marcus Ernst
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
A new loxosomatid from Brazil
Authors: Marcus Eveline Du Bois-Reymond
Published: March 2017

Encontrei tubos de Terebellidae no costão do forte Itaipú (Santos), perto da linha da vasante e, nêstes, uma nova espécie das Loxosomatidae, Loxocalyx mortenseni. A glândula do pé (g) situa-se a longa distância da placa adesiva (p). O sulco glandular (h) que liga a glândula ao pé, no botões, involue nos adultos. A placa basilar adere ao substrato por meio de células secretoras (c) que orlam o bordo da placa hexagonal. A única espécie do gênero, em que semelhantes células glandulares basilares ocorrem, é L. neapolitana (Kow.), mas aí são pouco numerosas, 2 maiores, externas e 2 menores, internas. Além disso, L. neapolitana não possue placa adesiva, e o sulco da glândula do pé persiste nos adultos, como nas outras espécies de Loxocalyx
On the Branchiostoma [Amphioxus] of the coast of São Paulo
Authors: Sawaya Paulo , Carvalho João De Paiva
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
Achelia besnardi, n. sp. (Pantopoda - Ammotheidae)
Authors: Sawaya Michel Pedro
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
Turbellaria brasileiros (10)
Authors: Marcus Ernst
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
Relation of growth and environmental factors to respiration of broca do café, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari)
Authors: Edwards George A. , Pérez González Maria Dolores
Published: March 2017

O consumo de oxigênio de Hypothenemus hampei (Broca do café) foi medido em vários estágios do desenvolvimento do inseto, desde a fase de ovo até a de adulto. Determinou-se também a influência de vários fatôres do ambiente sôbre o consumo de oxigênio, assim como certos aspectos da relação entre o grão do café infestado e o inseto infestante.
Muscular action in Holothuria grisea
Authors: Pantin C. F. , Sawaya Paulo
Published: March 2017

Holothuria grisea é um dos animais comuns nas praias rochosas do sul do Brasil. A forma e a construção do corpo é tal que os seus movimentos dependem das construções de paredes musculares do corpo atuando contra o volume do fluído que se encontra dentro da cavidade do corpo. Êste sistema de ação é característico dos animais com um esqueleto hidrostático - os "hohlorganartige Tiere" de Jordan (1914; 1929). No presente trabalho trataremos da mecânica de ação muscular dêste sistema nêste animal.
A influência de certos agentes químicos sôbre o metabolismo da broca do café
Authors: Edwards George A. , Pérez González Maria Dolores
Published: March 2017

Este artigo não contém resumo.
20-HETE Signals Through G-Protein–Coupled Receptor GPR75 (G
q
) to Affect Vascular Function and Trigger Hypertension
Authors: Garcia Victor , Gilani Ankit , Shkolnik Brian , Pandey Varunkumar , Zhang Frank Fan , Dakarapu Rambabu , Gandham Shyam K. , Reddy N. Rami , Graves Joan P. , Gruzdev Artiom , Zeldin Darryl C. , Capdevila Jorge H. , Falck John R. , Schwartzman Michal Laniado
Published: March 2017

Rationale:

20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE), one of the principle cytochrome P450 eicosanoids, is a potent vasoactive lipid whose vascular effects include stimulation of smooth muscle contractility, migration, and proliferation, as well as endothelial cell dysfunction and inflammation. Increased levels of 20-HETE in experimental animals and in humans are associated with hypertension, stroke, myocardial infarction, and vascular diseases.

Objective:

To date, a receptor/binding site for 20-HETE has been implicated based on the use of specific agonists and antagonists. The present study was undertaken to identify a receptor to which 20-HETE binds and through which it activates a signaling cascade that culminates in many of the functional outcomes attributed to 20-HETE in vitro and in vivo.

Methods and Results:

Using crosslinking analogs, click chemistry, binding assays, and functional assays, we identified G-protein receptor 75 (GPR75), currently an orphan G-protein–coupled receptor (GPCR), as a specific target of 20-HETE. In cultured human endothelial cells, 20-HETE binding to GPR75 stimulated Gα
q/11
protein dissociation and increased inositol phosphate accumulation and GPCR-kinase interacting protein-1-GPR75 binding, which further facilitated the c-Src–mediated transactivation of epidermal growth factor receptor. This results in downstream signaling pathways that induce angiotensin-converting enzyme expression and endothelial dysfunction. Knockdown of GPR75 or GPCR-kinase interacting protein-1 prevented 20-HETE–mediated endothelial growth factor receptor phosphorylation and angiotensin-converting enzyme induction. In vascular smooth muscle cells, GPR75–20-HETE pairing is associated with Gα
q/11
- and GPCR-kinase interacting protein-1–mediated protein kinase C–stimulated phosphorylation of MaxiKβ, linking GPR75 activation to 20-HETE–mediated vasoconstriction. GPR75 knockdown in a mouse model of 20-HETE–dependent hypertension prevented blood pressure elevation and 20-HETE–mediated increases in angiotensin-converting enzyme expression, endothelial dysfunction, smooth muscle contractility, and vascular remodeling.

Conclusions:

This is the first report to identify a GPCR target for an eicosanoid of this class. The discovery of 20-HETE–GPR75 pairing presented here provides the molecular basis for the signaling and pathophysiological functions mediated by 20-HETE in hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.
Prayer as Trinitarian and Transformative Event in Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality, and the Self
Authors: Green Chris E.W.
Published: March 2017

This paper explores Sarah Coakley’s understanding of prayer as a Trinitarian and incorporative act and the implications of that understanding for Christian orthodoxy in general and pentecostal theology and spirituality in particular. Beginning with a brief history of the incorporative vision of prayer, the paper then asks what gifts Coakley has for pentecostals and what gifts they have to offer her in return.
Lamenting in Tongues: Glossolalia as a Pneumatic Aid to Lament
Authors: Torr Stephen C.
Published: March 2017

Vocalisation of pain and suffering in the form of lament is an important biblical practice that enables the sufferer to maintain honest relationship with God amidst the suffering. However, what needs to be vocalised can often fracture the limits of language leaving the sufferer struggling for words. This essay explores the possibility that the gift and practice of glossolalia as experienced most prominently and recently within Pentecostal and Charismatic spirituality could, in certain circumstances, be a divine gift that bridges the gap between silence and impossible speech with ‘sighs too deep for words’. In such circumstances, lamenting in tongues could pave the way to healing whilst also being a sign of the inbreaking of the Kingdom of God.
The Word to the World: Johannine Trinitarian Missiology (John 20.21–22)
Authors: Moe David Thang
Published: March 2017

This paper will read Jn 20.21–22 as a missional text of Johannine Trinitarian Missiology. It will argue that mission is proper first to the being and the act of the Trinity, and secondarily a concept in the church—the witness of the Trinity. The aim of this paper is threefold. First, it will explore the nature of the Trinity as a missionary God who sent the Son/incarnate Word and the Spirit/the cosmic Breath into the world. Secondly, it will examine how Christ as the Word and witness of the Father moves from the sent to the caller and sender of apostles into the world through the power of the Spirit. Third, seeing the world as the scope of the mission of Christ and apostles, this paper will study Christ’s boundary-crossing mission of incarnation and reconciliation as a model of the Church’s boundary-crossing mission witness in a pluralistic and Spirit-present world.
The Definition of Civilians in Non-International Armed Conflicts
Authors: Bissonnette Camille Marquis
Published: March 2017

This article analyzes the perceptions of armed groups regarding the concept of civilians in non-international armed conflicts, through their codes of conduct and other commitments. It intends to shed light on the implementation by these non-state actors of the very critical principle of distinction, the exact articulation of is hotly debated in non-international armed conflict. It thus presents the different approaches to the principle of distinction in non-international armed conflict: the specific-act approach, the membership approach, the functional non-privileged combatancy approach, and the direct participation in hostilities with extended temporal scope in light of the commitments and undertakings of various armed groups. It concludes with the findings made on the basis of the study of the commitments made by armed groups, underlying in particular the issues that remain problematic regarding the principle of distinction in non-international armed conflict, as well as the issues on which a consensus in conceivable.
Dislocating France
Authors: Siskind Mariano
Published: March 2017

This paper reconceptualizes the ways in which marginal modernists have used and appropriated French culture, against the reductionist and pejorative accusation of Francophilia on the part of the critical tradition. It analyzes the tension between their desire for Paris and the French signifier. With special attention to the writings of Rubén Darío and Jules Supervielle, it underscores their attempts to displace and dislocate the worlds of modernism structured around Paris, and how this opens new interpretative horizons to conceptualize world literature, not as a field or a corpus, but as a critical and aesthetic discourse set on dislocating the world.
An Episode in Provincial Cosmopolitanism
Authors: Fernández Bravo Álvaro
Published: March 2017

This article explores the relationship of the work of the Argentine poet Juan L. Ortiz with Chinese poetry, which he not only translated into Spanish, but also read and referred to in his own writing. In the first part of this paper, I read Ortiz’s oeuvre as building a position in the Argentine literary system from the margin, the “province” of Entre Ríos where the author lived and published his books. In the second part, I use the notion of provincial cosmopolitanism to perform a World Literature reading of two poems that may illuminate aspects of a literary formation that a national reading framework is not able to recover. Poetry can be provincial and cosmopolitan at the same time, as my approach to Ortiz’s poems—as a contribution to the erosion of national hegemony in the reading of literature—intends to demonstrate.
Masculinity and the Bible
Authors: Smit Peter-Ben
Published: March 2017

Most characters in the Bible are men, yet they are hardly analysed as such.Masculinity and the Bibleprovides the first comprehensive survey of approaches that remedy this situation. These are studies that utilize insights from the field of masculinity studies to further biblical studies. The volume offers a representative overview of both fields and presents a new exegesis of a well-known biblical text (Mark 6) to show how this approach leads to new insights.

By presenting the field of masculinity studies, the volume performs a service for those working in biblical studies and related disciplines, but do not have explored this approach yet. At the same time, the volume shows, by surveying the past two decades of publications in the field, what results have been achieved so far and where open questions remain. In the exegesis of Mark 6, it becomes clear that one of these challenges, the often very specific and intersectional character of masculinity, can be addressed successfully when consciously combining approaches such as narrative and ritual analyses.
Trust, Trump, and the Turnout: A Marketers Point of View
Authors: Tracey Sean
Published: March 2017

The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States was considered shocking for many pundits and political-communication scientists. Nonetheless, the success of Mr. Trump was predictable from a marketing point of view. This article tells a narrative about how two campaigns connected differently with people. The rhetorical and media techniques of Trump enabled him to connect with working-class folks from “Middle America.” In contrast, the face of the Hillary campaign did not connect well with this segment of the population.
Cost Analysis of a Multidisciplinary Aerodigestive Clinic: Are Such Clinics Financially Feasible?
Authors: Mudd Pamela A. , Silva Allison L. , Callicott Susan S. , Bauman Nancy M.
Published: March 2017

Objective:

Multidisciplinary clinics offer important value to pediatric patients with complex conditions that overlap specialties; however, such labor-intensive clinics are difficult to facilitate. We performed a cost analysis of our pediatric multidisciplinary aerodigestive clinic (MADC) to assess its financial feasibility at our tertiary care institution.

Method:

Revenue was based on net collections for clinic, professional, and hospital setting charges generated during 12 consecutive monthly MADCs beginning August 2013. Clinic charges included facility and speech pathologist fees. Professional charges included clinic and operative fees generated by providers and anesthesiologist. Hospital setting fees included facility and material charges for technical procedures. Direct expense calculations included all providers and staff salaries, benefits, and supply costs.

Results:

Charge capture for 54 consecutive patients seen during the study time included new visits 99203-99205 (n = 63), consults 99243-99245 (n = 60), and follow-up visits 99212-99215 (n = 196). Sixty percent of patients underwent a clinic nasopharyngeal or laryngeal endoscopy (92511 or 31575), and 60% underwent subsequent intraoperative procedures with 1 (n = 8) or 2 to 3 services (n = 24). Program net revenue totaled $828 136 and direct costs $518 867, accounting for a net positive margin of $309 269.

Conclusions:

When including direct downstream revenue, our MADC operates on a net positive margin, making it financially feasible.
With a Little Help From The People? The Role of Public Opinion in Advocacy Success
Authors: Rasmussen Anne , Mäder Lars Kai , Reher Stefanie
Published: March 2017

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in research on advocacy success, but limited attention has been paid to the role of public opinion. We examine how support from the public affects advocacy success, relying on a new original data set containing information on public opinion, advocacy positions, and policy outcomes on 50 policy issues in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Claims by advocates are measured through a news media content analysis of a sample of policy issues drawn from national and international public opinion surveys. Our multilevel regression analysis provides evidence that public support affects advocacy success. However, public opinion does not affect preference attainment for some of the lobbying advocates whose influence is feared the most, and the magnitude of its impact is conditional upon the number of advocates who lobby on the policy issue in question.
Production and characterization of epoxy syntactic foams highly loaded with thermoplastic microballoons
Authors: Dando Kerrick R , Cross William M , Robinson Marc J , Salem David R
Published: March 2017

Glass microballoon syntactic foams consisting of 60–70 vol% hollow glass microballoons and epoxy resin matrix have gained considerable attention in recent years due to their unique combination of mechanical properties and low density, with applications in the naval and aerospace industries. An important limitation of these materials is the volume fraction ceiling (∼0.74) and subsequent density limit (0.36 g/cm3). Utilizing thermoplastic microballoons, syntactic foams were produced with densities as low as 0.067 g/cm3, achieved by developing a method that produces epoxy/microballoon compositions comprising an unusually high volume fraction of microballoons (0.75–0.95). The resulting morphology features microballoons which, having expanded in a restricted volume, are deformed into irregular shapes that efficiently pack together and are encapsulated by a thin coating of epoxy. The compressive yield strength, tensile strength and initial modulus of these highly loaded syntactic foams exhibit a non-linear decrease with increasing microballoon volume fraction to values typical of highly porous polymers, but display a high degree of recovery, or rebound, from large compressive strain compared with glass microballoon syntactic foams.
The Grass Is Always Greener? Armed Group Side Switching in Civil Wars
Authors: Otto Sabine
Published: March 2017

Why do armed groups switch sides during civil wars? Most theories of conflict assume that armed groups have a fixed alignment with the government throughout their entire life span, ignoring the fact that armed groups switch between fighting on behalf of and against the government. In this article, I propose a theoretical framework that integrates armed groups’ willingness to switch sides and their capacity to do so. Armed groups are motivated to switch sides if it contributes to maintaining or improving organizational objectives. I therefore expect armed groups to switch sides as the number of other armed groups with the same alignment increases and when the state is weak. I also argue that armed groups require the capacity to switch sides in order to overcome the internal coordination problem. I propose that non-state armed actors that are the product of prior splintering are more homogeneous and cohesive than other groups. Hence, they are in a better position to attempt to switch sides. I test the propositions using a novel data set, the History of Armed Actors Dataset, containing data on when and where armed groups have switched sides during civil wars between 1989 and 2007. The results reveal that both incentives and capacity influence side switching.
Measurement Invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale Across 26 Countries
Authors: Jang Seulki , Kim Eun Sook , Cao Chunhua , Allen Tammy D. , Cooper Cary L. , Lapierre Laurent M. , O’Driscoll Michael P. , Sanchez Juan I. , Spector Paul E. , Poelmans Steven A. Y. , Abarca Nureya , Alexandrova Matilda , Antoniou Alexandros-Stamatios , Beham Barbara , Brough Paula , Carikci Ilker , Ferreiro Pablo , Fraile Guillermo , Geurts Sabine , Kinnunen Ulla , Lu Chang-qin , Lu Luo , Moreno-Velázquez Ivonne F , Pagon Milan , Pitariu Horea , Salamatov Volodymyr , Siu Oi-ling , Shima Satoru , Schulmeyer Marion K. , Tillemann Kati , Widerszal-Bazyl Maria , Woo Jong-Min
Published: March 2017

The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a commonly used life satisfaction scale. Cross-cultural researchers use SWLS to compare mean scores of life satisfaction across countries. Despite the wide use of SWLS in cross-cultural studies, measurement invariance of SWLS has rarely been investigated, and previous studies showed inconsistent findings. Therefore, we examined the measurement invariance of SWLS with samples collected from 26 countries. To test measurement invariance, we utilized three measurement invariance techniques: (a) multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA), (b) multilevel confirmatory factor analysis (ML-CFA), and (c) alignment optimization methods. The three methods demonstrated that configural and metric invariances of life satisfaction held across 26 countries, whereas scalar invariance did not. With partial invariance testing, we identified that the intercepts of Items 2, 4, and 5 were noninvariant. Based on two invariant intercepts, factor means of countries were compared. Chile showed the highest factor mean; Spain and Bulgaria showed the lowest. The findings enhance our understanding of life satisfaction across countries, and they provide researchers and practitioners with practical guidance on how to conduct measurement invariance testing across countries.
The Human Empowerment Sequence and the Development of Libertarian Values: A Theoretical and Empirical Adjustment to the Human Empowerment Sequence
Authors: Dunn Kris , Griffiths Evelyn , Lamb Sarah , Shortt Rebecca , Theochari Eleanor
Published: March 2017

Building on the work of Inglehart and colleagues, Welzel sets out a step-by-step theory explaining how democracies arise from processes of modernization. The intermediary stages in the causal chain he sets out explain the connection between action resources and emancipatory values. In short, Welzel provides strong evidence that people must first have the material, intellectual, and connective resources to exercise certain freedoms before they develop values that will motivate them to seek out those freedoms. Although we are convinced by much of Welzel’s argument, we also note a substantial overlap between these intermediary stages of Welzel’s theory and the individual-level authoritarianism literature. Integrating current theory on authoritarianism into Welzel’s thesis at the point of overlap provides for a distinct set of hypotheses and a more nuanced understanding of how individual differences work in Welzel’s theory. Analyses of data from Wave 5 of the World Values Survey and Vanhanen provide some initial evidence in support of our amended view of the intermediary stages of Welzel’s modernization thesis.
Genetic Susceptibility Contributing to Periodontal and Cardiovascular Disease
Authors: Aarabi G. , Zeller T. , Seedorf H. , Reissmann D.R. , Heydecke G. , Schaefer A.S. , Seedorf U.
Published: March 2017

Periodontal disease (PD) and coronary artery disease (CAD) are common diseases characterized by an overaggressive inflammatory response to diverse stimuli. Whereas PD leads to destruction of the tooth-supporting structures, CAD is a chronic inflammatory condition ultimately causing myocardial infarction via narrowing and occluding of blood vessels. Classical twin studies led to the conclusion that both complex diseases have a similar degree of heritability and that a significant fraction of the genetic factors accounting for this heritability is shared. Recent genome-wide association and large-scale candidate gene studies highlight that variations in >50 genes are associated with premature CAD, while variations in only 4 genes showing nominally significant associations with aggressive periodontitis and/or chronic periodontitis have so far been identified. Remarkably, 3 of the PD loci (75%) show shared associations with CAD ( ANRIL/CDKN2B-AS1, PLG, CAMTA1/VAMP3), suggesting involvement of common pathogenic mechanisms. In this critical review, we highlight recent progress in identifying genetic markers and variants associated with PD, present their overlap with CAD, and discuss functional aspects. In addition, we answer why a significant fraction of the heritability of PD is still missing, and we suggest approaches that may be taken to close the gap.
Young Road Fatalities
Authors: Øvstedal Liv R. , Moe Dagfinn , Dyregrov Atle , Dyregrov Kari
Published: March 2017

This study presents the findings from in-depth interviews with 24 people from 15 families in Norway who lost their young son or daughter in a traffic accident. Their grief has several dimensions: the loss of a young life, the loss of life quality, the effect on family events and their meaning, and the new responsibilities brought onto family members. For each young fatality, many relatives and friends are affected with a wide range of emotional and socioeconomic consequences. Parents report that grief is more overwhelming during the first few years and never disappears, while over the years they slowly learn to cope with it. Here we especially highlight the role of traffic authorities and what professional actors can do to meet the bereaved with empathy and minimize negative effects.
Let’s get rid of art education in schools
Authors: Gregory Danny
Published: March 2017

A writer, arts enthusiast, and online ambassador for visual storytelling has a modest proposal for K-12 education: Let’s stop teaching art. The arts are too often marginalized and too easily targeted for elimination by budget-conscious school administrators. Creativity, on the other hand, is central to every part of life, work, and citizenship.
A districtwide commitment to arts integration
Authors: Mackin Eileen , Mackin Robert , Obremski John , McKie Katherine
Published: March 2017

Like many school systems in economically stressed parts of the country, the Everett, Mass., school district had cut back on arts instruction over the years, to the point where most students were getting only a single art class per week. But since 2013, and thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Everett has designed and implemented a new model of arts integration in its elementary and middle grades, providing teachers with intensive support and coaching to help them combine their regular instruction with serious lessons in theater, the visual arts, design, and more.
Washington View
Authors: Ferguson Maria
Published: March 2017

Despite the Trump administration’s worrisome embrace of “alternative facts,” education researchers have cause for optimism: They now have access to richer and more reliable data than ever before. Two data sets — the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection and the Stanford Education Data Archive — offer unprecedented opportunities to study not just academic achievement but a whole range of important factors influencing student success, including school discipline, bullying, chronic student absenteeism, teacher and student equity, preschool education, and college- and career-readiness.
Under the Law
Authors: Underwood Julie
Published: March 2017

How would the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court (presuming he is confirmed by the U.S. Congress) affect the court’s dynamics, its ideological balance, and specifically its decisions on cases that bear upon K-12 education? Is he likely to be another Justice Antonin Scalia, will he be less conservative, or will he be more so? The author looks for clues in the opinions Gorsuch has written for the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Backtalk
Authors: Torres José M.
Published: March 2017

Give students real-world problems to solve if you want them to become serious about STEM learning. The author draws from the experience of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, Ill.
Adolescent Civic Engagement and Perceived Political Conflict
Authors: Taylor Laura K. , Townsend Dana , Merrilees Christine E. , Goeke-Morey Marcie C. , Shirlow Peter , Cummings E. Mark
Published: March 2017

Adolescents are often exposed to the lasting effects of political conflict. Complementing existing research on negative outcomes in these settings, this article focuses on the role of the family ( N = 731 mother/adolescent dyads, 51% female, M = 14.72, SD = 1.99, years old at Time 1) in promoting constructive youth outcomes in response to perceived conflict in Northern Ireland. Exploratory factor analyses revealed two related forms of youth civic engagement: volunteerism and political participation. Structural equation modeling revealed that compared with males, female adolescents reported more volunteerism. Older adolescents reported higher political participation and lower volunteerism. Moreover, over three time points, the primary model test revealed that the impact of perceived political conflict on adolescent volunteerism and political engagement was partially mediated by family cohesion. These findings suggest that amid protracted political conflict, the family may be a key factor underlying adolescents’ contributions to post-accord peacebuilding.
Adolescent perceptions of resiliencepromoting resources: the South African Pathways to Resilience Study
Authors: van Rensburg Angelique C , Theron Linda C , Rothmann Sebastiaan
Published: March 2017

Resilience, or being well-adjusted despite facing adversity that predicts negative life outcomes, is a process that is scaffolded by resilience-enabling supports. How well resilience-enabling resources support positive adjustment depends, in part, on adolescents’ perceptions of the availability and usefulness of such resources. Currently, there is limited quantitative, generalisable evidence of the aforementioned. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to document how two groups of Sesotho-speaking adolescents perceived available social-ecological resources and how significantly varied perceptions related to these adolescents’ use of formal supports. The advisory panel to the Pathways to Resilience Study clustered participating adolescents into a resilient group ( n = 221) and vulnerable, or service-using, group ( n = 186). In comparison with the service-using adolescents, resilient adolescents reported significantly higher perceptions of physical and psychological caregiving. Analyses of variance revealed that higher perceptions of caregiving were associated with higher voluntary and lower mandatory service usage. We concluded that relationship-building was a crucial resilience mechanism and would, therefore, encourage psychologists to both prioritise and facilitate caregiving.
Seeing Race
Authors: Seguin Charles , Nierobisz Annette , Kozlowski Karen Phelan
Published: March 2017

Students commonly hold erroneous notions of a “post-racial” world and individualistic worldviews that discount the role of structure in social outcomes. Jointly, these two preconceived beliefs can be powerful barriers to effective teaching of racial segregation: Students may be skeptical that racial segregation continues to exist, and abstract statistical representations or other sociological research may not be sufficiently vivid or compelling to dissuade students from their prior beliefs. In this article, we present an exercise that uses an interactive map of racial residence patterns to help students see evidence of racial segregation for themselves. Qualitative and quantitative findings, from testing this exercise in Introduction to Sociology courses at two distinct schools by separate instructors, suggest that this exercise is effective at helping college students grasp the extent of racial segregation in America.
Resisting Neoliberalism in Colombia: The Role of Human Rights
Authors: Chambers Paul A.
Published: March 2017

The Colombian government’s noncompliance with the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement’s Labor Action Plan calls into question not only the government’s intentions but also the efficacy of human rights activism and discourse for social resistance to neoliberalism. Colombia has managed to adjust the narrative on human rights and improve its international image, paving the way for U.S. ratification of the free-trade agreement despite the fact that the human rights situation continues to be very serious. Its success in this is due to the way in which the debate on the agreement and human rights was framed—with a very narrow focus on trade unionists’ rights and a discourse that did not link civil and political rights to economic and social rights—and to the ideological affinity between neoliberalism and the dominant liberal discourse on human rights.

El incumplimiento del Plan de Acción Laboral por parte del gobierno colombiano, en el marco del TLC con Estados Unidos, pone en tela de juicio no solo las intenciones del gobierno, sino la utilidad y eficacia del activismo y discurso de los derechos humanos para la resistencia social al neoliberalismo. El Estado colombiano ha logrado ajustar la narrativa sobre los derechos humanos y mejorar su imagen internacional, lo que le permitió ser “premiado” con la ratificación del TLC a pesar de que la situación de derechos humanos siguiera siendo grave. Esto se debe a la forma en que se enmarcó el debate sobre el TLC y los derechos humanos—con un enfoque demasiado restringido y un discurso que no integró los derechos civiles y políticos con los derechos económicos y sociales—y a la afinidad ideológica entre el neoliberalismo y el discurso dominante de los derechos humanos.
Making Sense of Indigenous Youth Night Patrols
Authors: Sims Margaret , Cooper Trudi , Barclay Elaine , Scott John
Published: March 2017

We use Weick’s sense-making and Lipsky’s street-level bureaucracy to tease out understandings and perspectives about youth night patrol services in New South Wales, Australia. We examine synergies, tensions, and contradictions in the different ways participants make sense of the purpose of youth night patrols and their role in service delivery. Although all the service were based on the same model, used the same program logic, and reported against the same measureable outcomes, they all looked different on the ground. We explore these differences in the light of participants’ sense-making efforts, demonstrating that a unitary policy does not necessarily result in similarity of program delivery.
Comments on “An intelligent CMAC-PD torque controller with anti-over-learning scheme for electric load simulator”
Authors: Macnab Chris JB
Published: March 2017

This paper points out problems in a paper which appears in the Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control entitled “An intelligent CMAC-PD torque controller with anti-over-learning scheme for electric load simulator” by Bo Yang, Huatao Han and Ran Bao (Vol. 39, No. 2, pp.192–200, 2016). Their proposed neural-network weight update makes no intuitive sense: it introduces a term that keeps the output of the neural network close to its input. Here, a standard linear analysis shows that their proposed update applied to adaptive parameters will result in a large steady-state error in general; however for their machine a low steady state error results only because the ideal numerical value of the control signal in Volts happens to be close to the numerical value of the desired input signal in Newton-meters. Furthermore, the authors claim their weight update prevents overlearning, but do not conduct a Lyapunov analysis or even graph a measure of their weights in the results section. This paper shows that a standard Lyapunov analysis (which establishes uniformly ultimately bounded signals for traditional robust update modifications like leakage) fails to reveal a bound on signals for the proposed method. Moreover, simulations demonstrate weight growth that continues at a linear rate during a long simulation when using the proposed method.
Data centre adaptive numerical temperature models
Authors: Tsachouridis Vassilios A , Scherer Thomas
Published: March 2017

Research results are presented regarding the online derivation of temperature state space models for air cooled data centre rooms. Using exclusively real time temperature measurements from indoor sensors, filter algorithms are programmed for the numerical computation of the parameters of discrete time varying state space models. These control oriented models are adaptive and can predict the temperature distribution across data centre rooms where air-conditioning units are used to compensate heat loads generated by the computing equipment. The research has been conducted for the European Union project GENiC and the adopted approach has been tested and validated on a real data centre facility.
Nonlinear ℋ∞ state and output feedback control schemes for an autonomous underwater vehicle in the dive plane
Authors: Mahapatra Subhasish , Subudhi Bidyadhar
Published: March 2017

This paper addresses the development of a nonlinear ℋ∞ diving control algorithm for an autonomous underwater vehicle. It employs both state and output feedback control techniques in designing a nonlinear ℋ∞ controller such that the autonomous underwater vehicle tracks the desired depth profile. The diving control problem is formulated as a disturbance attenuation problem, in view of achieving the desired performance by attenuating the internal as well as the external disturbances by ensuring internal stability and robustness. Two Hamilton–Jacobi–Isaacs inequalities have been formulated in the form of a Taylor series technique to determine solutions to the control algorithms. The solution of the first Hamilton–Jacobi–Isaacs inequality renders a state feedback control law whereas the second inequality is exploited to design a nonlinear observer for estimating the autonomous underwater vehicle states in order to realize an output feedback controller. These control algorithms are implemented firstly using the MATLAB/Simulink environment and then, the experimental validation of the developed control algorithm has been performed in order to ensure the effectiveness of the control scheme.
Air Pollution in the Making
Authors: Garnett Emma
Published: March 2017

This article traces an emergent tension in an interdisciplinary public health project called Weather Health and Air Pollution (WHAP). The tension centered on two different kinds of data of air pollution: monitored and modeled data. Starting out with monitoring and modeling practices, the different ways in which they enacted air pollution are detailed. This multiplicity was problematic for the WHAP scientists, who were intent on working across disciplines, an initiative driven primarily by the epidemiologists who imbued the project with meaning and value as the protagonists of “health.” To work collaboratively implies a stable, singular, and shared research object, however: one kind of data, one version of air pollution. In detailing two attempts by researchers to address the inadequacies of modeled and monitored data, this article explores the ways in which difference and multiplicity were negotiated and transformed. In doing so, this article suggests that it is the mobility and instability of data that are particularly fruitful for exploring the facilitation and enactment of new realities, while also making explicit the emergent problematics and partialities which inevitably result.
Linguistic Style Accommodation Shapes Impression Formation and Rapport in Computer-Mediated Communication
Authors: Muir Kate , Joinson Adam , Cotterill Rachel , Dewdney Nigel
Published: March 2017

Communication accommodation theory predicts that social power plays an important role in influencing communicative behaviors. Previous research suggests these effects extend to linguistic style, thought to be a nonconscious aspect of communication. Here, we explore if these effects hold when individuals converse using a medium limited in personal cues, computer-mediated communication. We manipulated social power in instant messaging conversations and measured subsequent interpersonal impressions. Low power induced greater likelihood of linguistic style accommodation, across between- (Study 1) and within-subjects (Study 2) experiments. Accommodation by those in a low-power role had no impact on impressions formed by their partner. In contrast, linguistic style accommodation by individuals in a high-power role was associated with negative interpersonal impressions formed by their lower power partner. The results show robust effects of power in shaping language use across computer-mediated communication. Furthermore, the interpersonal effects of linguistic accommodation depend on the conversational norms of the social context.
The Analytic and the Relational: Inquiring into Practice
Authors: Dalal Farhad
Published: March 2017

In this article I track the shift in my practice from the ‘analytic’ towards a ‘relational’. I contrast the positivist stance of the classical analyst with a post-modernist stance of the relationist. I argue that whilst the ‘analytic’ norm requires the therapist to be opaque and detached, the ‘relational’ stance requires the therapist to be involved and transparent. I suggest that a form of radical uncertainty is at the heart of the therapeutic process. I argue for the therapist navigating the turbulent waters of radical uncertainty not through composed neutrality, but through a value-laden commitment to their partial sense of things in the moment.