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The rationale and design of TransCon Growth Hormone for the treatment of growth hormone deficiency
Authors: Sprogøe Kennett , Mortensen Eva , Karpf David B , Leff Jonathan A
Published: September 2017

The fundamental challenge of developing a long-acting growth hormone (LAGH) is to create a more convenient growth hormone (GH) dosing profile while retaining the excellent safety, efficacy and tolerability of daily GH. With GH receptors on virtually all cells, replacement therapy should achieve the same tissue distribution and effects of daily (and endogenous) GH while maintaining levels of GH and resulting IGF-1 within the physiologic range. To date, only two LAGHs have gained the approval of either the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA); both released unmodified GH, thus presumably replicating distribution and pharmacological actions of daily GH. Other technologies have been applied to create LAGHs, including modifying GH (for example, protein enlargement or albumin binding) such that the resulting analogues possess a longer half-life. Based on these approaches, nearly 20 LAGHs have reached various stages of clinical development. Although most have failed, lessons learned have guided the development of a novel LAGH. TransCon GH is a LAGH prodrug in which GH is transiently bound to an inert methoxy polyethylene glycol (mPEG) carrier. It was designed to achieve the same safety, efficacy and tolerability as daily GH but with more convenient weekly dosing. In phase 2 trials of children and adults with growth hormone deficiency (GHD), similar safety, efficacy and tolerability to daily GH was shown as well as GH and IGF-1 levels within the physiologic range. These promising results support further development of TransCon GH.
Perspectives on the co-treatment with GnRHa in female patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Authors: Cima Luminita Nicoleta , Colita Anca , Fica Simona
Published: September 2017

Outcomes after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for patients with both malignant and nonmalignant diseases have improved significantly in recent years. However, the endocrine system is highly susceptible to damage by the high-dose chemotherapy and/or irradiation used in the conditioning regimen before HSCT. Ovarian failure and subsequent infertility are frequent complications that long-term HSCT survivors and their partners face with a negative impact on their QoL. Several meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials showed that gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) administration in advance of starting standard chemotherapy decreases the risk of gonadal dysfunction and infertility in cancer patients, but GnRHa use for ovarian protection in HSCT patients is not fully determined. In this review, we are discussing the potential preservation of ovarian function and fertility in pubertal girls/premenopausal women who undergo HSCT using GnRHa in parallel with conditioning chemotherapy, focusing on the current data available and making some special remarks regarding the use of GnRHa.
Spirits and Nature
Authors: Allison Elizabeth
Published: September 2017

While religious belief and environmental practice can be at odds with each other in a reductionist paradigm, both are aligned in service of environmental conservation in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan. Government documents assert that the nation’s unique sacred cosmology, a blend of Animism, Bön, and Vajrayana Buddhism, has protected Bhutan’s natural environment, allowing about two-thirds of the nation to remain under forest cover. The widespread belief in spirits and deities who inhabit the land shapes the ways that resource-dependent communities conceptualize and interact with the land. Local beliefs reveal a deep aflnity for and care of the landscape. In this way, local beliefs support the modernist goals of environmental conservation, while arising from a decidedly different ontology. The Bhutanese case highlights the potentials for both convergence and conmict inherent in the precarious intersections of traditional ecological knowledge and scientilc epistemologies of the environment
Political Ecology of Shifting Cosmologies and Epistemologies Among Berber Agro-Sylvo-Pastoralists in a Globalizing World
Authors: Dominguez Pablo
Published: September 2017

In this article, I examine how local religious traditions and environmental management interact with each other, as well as how both relate to new globalizing inmuences such as emerging State structures and ideologies, mass media, migrations, market integration, tourism, NGOs, modernist conceptions of nature, and present Islamic movements. Through an ethnographic study of the Berber Mesioua tribe of the Moroccan High Atlas, I focus on the agdal, a locally produced agro-sylvo-pastoral governance system prohibiting access to particular natural resources for a given period in order to optimize its yield and assure its sustained and equitable use. The integration of agdals into local religiosity and their associated ethics entail a local conservationist and egalitarian set of principles. I conclude that, strained in great part by the socio-economic and cultural-political forces implicated in the globalization of cosmologies and epistemologies, the replacement of local worldviews and the decline of the agdal governance system are interlinked. The consequences include increasing environmental degradation and social inequality.
The Material-Discursive Spaces of Outdoor Recreation
Authors: Boggs Kyle
Published: September 2017

In this article, I confront settler colonial practices as they occur in the under-examined spaces of outdoor recreation. ‘Spaces of outdoor recreation’ refers to a theoretical and meaningful interpretation of outdoor recreational spaces that are implicated by both discourse and material reality. I argue that such a theoretical position is necessarily interdisciplinary and crucial to understanding rhetorical exclusion. Using the controversy over development by a ski resort on the San Francisco Peaks, which is held sacred to at least thirteen regional tribes of the southwestern United States, as a case study, I analyze some of the ways rhetorical exclusion is embedded in spaces of outdoor recreation. By revealing the way in which privilege and oppression are constructed in the spatial arrangements of the resort, I argue that this discourse always already works to the benelt of pro-development stakeholders, in this case the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort. By establishing how rhetorical exclusion operates through the ever-expanding spaces of outdoor recreation, I highlight the need for more critical scholarly engagement of such spaces as one of the many communicative practices that maintain settler colonialism.
Effect of surcharge magnitude on soil-nailed wall behaviour in a geotechnical centrifuge
Authors: Sabermahani Mohsen , Ahimoghadam Faraz , Ghalehnovi Valiollah
Published: September 2017

The current research was undertaken to study the effect of surcharge magnitude on soil-nailed wall behaviour by modelling an excavation using a geotechnical centrifuge and analytical software. An acceleration of 50g was applied to the models in the geotechnical centrifuge and the excavation was modelled in an in-flight centrifuge at 50g by lowering the saltwater level inside a transparent Latex container in front of the soil-nailed wall. Changes in the safety factor (SF) and stability of the soil-nailed wall were investigated. Next, the centrifugal acceleration was increased to 80g in 5g increments and the effect on the parameters was determined. An increase in centrifugal acceleration (N) was found to decrease the SF of excavation gradually until it reached the stability limit (SF = 1), which is the failure initiation criterion. The occurrence of failure in the physical model agreed with the pattern developed in the numerical models and illustrates and verifies the accuracy of models. Nail density (Dn) is introduced as a functional parameter having a major role on the performance of soil-nailed walls. An empirical relation is developed between the external stability SF and the deformation components which can be normalised using the value for nail density.
A Novel Framework to Use Association Rule Mining for classification of traffic accident severity
Authors: Gupta Meenu , Kumar Solanki Vijender , Kumar Singh Vijay
Published: September 2017

Introduction: Traffic accidents are an undesirable burden on society. Every year around one million deaths and more than ten million injuries are reported due to traffic accidents. Hence, traffic accidents prevention measures must be taken to overcome the accident rate. Different countries have different geographical and environmental conditions and hence the accident factors diverge in each country. Traffic accident data analysis is very useful in revealing the factors that affect the accidents in different countries. This article was written in the year 2016 in the Institute of Technology & Science, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, up, India. Methology: We propose a framework to utilize association rule mining (arm) for the severity classification of traffic accidents data obtained from police records in Mujjafarnagar district, Uttarpradesh, India. Results: The results certainly reveal some hidden factors which can be applied to understand the factors behind road accidentality in this region. Conclusions: The framework enables us to find three clusters from the data set. Each cluster represents a type of accident severity, i.e. fatal, major injury and minor/no injury. The association rules exposed different factors that are associated with road accidents in each category. The information extracted provides important information which can be employed to adapt preventive measures to overcome the accident severity in Muzzafarnagar district.
Engineering Students´ Academic Performance Prediction using ICFES Test Scores and Demo-graphic Data
Authors: Merchán Rubiano Sandra , Beltrán Gómez Adán , Duarte García Jorge
Published: September 2017

Introduction: This paper is part of a research project that aims to construct a predictive model for students’ academic performance, as result of an iterative process of experimentation and evaluation of the pertinence of some data mining techniques. Methodology: This paper was written in 2016 in the Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia, and presents a comparative analysis of the performance and relevance of the J48 and Random Forest algorithms, in order to identify the most influential demographic and icfes score variables, as well as the classification rules, to predict the first year academic performance of the Engineering Faculty students, in Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia. Results: The analysis process was carried out on 7,644 students’ records, and it was developed in two phases. Firstly, the data needed to feed the mining process was extracted and prepared. Secondly, the data mining process itself was implemented through preprocessing data and executing the classification algorithms available in Weka. Some significant variables and rules to predict academic performance are found, according to the studied population characteristics. Conclusions: The academic risk seen as the cause of the desertion phenomenon must be studied as a phenomenon itself. Establishing its causes facilitates the creation of preventive strategies for the accompaniment of students through their process, aimed to mitigate the risk of both phenomena.
Cyberculture and Occupational Therapy: Creating Connections
Authors: Ferigato Sabrina Helena , Silva Carla Regina , Lourenço Gerusa Ferreira
Published: September 2017

This paper explores the contemporary challenges and possibilities that cyberculture adds to occupational therapy. This analysis is necessary because we are experiencing a gradual and irreversible virtualisation of our everyday life and actions along with the expansion of cyberspace. The theoretical techniques of occupational therapy and the theories of Pierre Levy suggest that these challenges are at a minimum on two levels: (1) the need to update our object of intervention: human participation and occupation in the context of cyberculture, and (2) the identification and creation of current demands and new methods of intervention, respectively, in this field that originate from the ethical, aesthetic, political, and social shaping of human relations. Key words: Occupational therapy, cyberculture, social participation, communication, human occupation
FIIs Investment and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Indian Economy
Authors: Tripathi Neeta
Published: September 2017

A major feature of economic reforms in India since 1991 has been a progressive liberalisation of external capital flows, especially non debt creating ones like Foreign Direct investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII).This opened a new door for the foreign investors to invest in India due to which a large number of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) flocked towards India. In this paper, we make an effort to study cause and effect relationship between FIIs' inflows and economic growth in India. The study covers the period from 1994 to 2016. The pragmatic relationship between FII inflows and economic growth has been examined by applying Engle- Granger Co-integration test, Granger Causality test and further VAR model. The results of the study have given no backing to the speculation that FII inflows have the capability of impacting the process of economic growth in India. Further, we have also found that economic growth is not a substantial determinant of FII inflows in India.
Augmented Footprint of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in India: An Empirical Analysis of Indian Chemical Industry
Authors: Sharma S. P. , Singh Rohit
Published: September 2017

Chemical industry plays a vital role in the functioning of most of the key sectors of an economy which includes agriculture, infrastructure, healthcare, textiles among others. This paper attempts to analyse the dynamics of international trade in chemical sector both at the macro and micro level for the period 2012, 2013 and 2014. The study has also looked into export potentiality and competitiveness of Indian chemical products in international market with special emphasis to FTA markets. An attempt is also made to study in depth the trade structure of these products, how far erosion of protection is pronounced and the extent FTA partners are responsible for India’s rising imports. In case of implication of FTA, erosion of ‘effective rate of protection’ has been looked into. Further, several trade indices have been calculated both on import and export data to understand quality of exported and imported products, possibility of exploiting economies of scale, extensive and intensive margins, degree of concentration both at product and country level, revealed comparative advantage and possibility of intra-industry trade. The paper conducts an in-depth analysis on selected products to demystify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to Indian chemical industry in the world, especially putting the lens on various FTA groups.
Basic Human Immunology Protocols v1
Authors: Goyal Girija , Long Jaclyn , Curran Danielle
Published: September 2017

These are protocols that which were successfully taught by a postdoc to undergraduate interns.
Obtaining concentrated extract of lipases from orange waste v1
Authors: Okino-Delgado Clarissa , Francisco Fleuri Luciana
Published: September 2017

The crude extracts were obtained from orange wastesprocessed for juice. These crude extracts were concentrated by precipitation with ammonium sulfate. The lipases contained in the concentrated extracts were identified by zymography with the MUF-butyrate as substrate.
Introduction to the Issue: “Promoting Children’s Participation in Research, Policy and Practice”
Authors: Aldridge Jo
Published: September 2017

It is more than twenty years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child gave governments and states an international mandate to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and to promote their participation in decisions that affect their lives. Considerable advances have been made since that time that have, in some but not all instances, seen transformations in the status, roles and responsibilities of children and young people and in the ways in which they are perceived and treated. These advances have included greater inclusion of children’s voices in research, policy and practice underpinned by children’s rights to participation and ‘best interests of the child’ decision-making. Bringing together a unique collection of international articles from authors with considerable expertise in researching and working with children and young people, this thematic issue explores some of the ways in which facilitating constructive dialogues with children and young people, and engaging them more directly in consultation about their lives, has led to genuine improvements in the way they are treated and understood. It also considers some of the barriers that exist to prevent children and young people from full participation in public life, some of which occur as a result of structural or systemic factors, while others are the result of the decisions adults make on their behalf.
Incorporating Children and Young People’s Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Using The Family Model
Authors: Hoadley Benjamin , Smith Freya , Wan Cecilia , Falkov Adrian
Published: September 2017

Mental illness in children and young people is increasing in frequency and complexity, is emerging earlier and is persisting into adulthood. This is a global issue with implications for research, policy and practice. Children and young people require the experience of safe, nurturing relationships for optimal lifelong outcomes. Despite awareness of this in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, a focus on the relational context in which children and young people present is not universal. A challenge in family focused practice is to ensure that no individual’s voice is ‘too loud’ and that children and young people’s voices are heard. This article illustrates how a balance between individual and systems understanding can be achieved in therapeutic work by incorporating the voices of children and young people and concerns of other family members. This article describes an approach to improving family focused practice in a public Child and Adolescent Mental Health service. Use of The Family Model, as a family focused practice tool, is presented across three service settings. The Family Model intervention is briefly described, outlining the way in which it supports collaborative practice and assists clinicians to achieve the balance described above. Vignettes will demonstrate how children and young people’s voices are explicitly incorporated in formulating mental health issues with two generations to generate developmentally informed care plans.
Consultations with Children and Young People and Their Impact on Policy in Ireland
Authors: Horgan Deirdre
Published: September 2017

This article will examine the participatory structures for consulting with children in Ireland. It provides a background with reference to the National Strategy on Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision-making (Department of Children and Youth Affairs, 2015)—the first of its kind in Europe—its key objectives, and recent progress in meeting these. Examples of two consultations with children, on health and afterschool care, and their impact on policy, will be discussed. The potential for consultations of this kind to influence and child-proof policy will be reflected on; the argument in this article is that there are different levels of participation for different purposes. The author worked with colleagues on two national consultations in 2015 and 2016 involving children between 5 to 17 years of age utilising a variety of child-centred activities. The methods are strengths-based consultative approaches that allow children to identify and explore issues based on what they know and experience in their everyday lives. Initial reflections indicate that consultations with children can be an important and challenging tool in accessing their views on policy issues of importance to them which help to child-proof policy and ensure it is in the best interests of children.
Acknowledging Children’s Voice and Participation in Family Courts: Criteria that Guide Western Australian Court Consultants
Authors: Banham Vicki , Allan Alfred , Bergman Jennifer , Jau Jasmin
Published: September 2017

The Australian family courts introduced Child Inclusive Conferencing after the country adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The legislation governing these conferences is minimalistic but the Family Court Consultants in the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court have well-developed and documented guidelines. The Family Court of Western Australia is, however, a separate entity and in the absence of regulatory guidelines its Family Consultants developed their own process and criteria. This model is unique, in Australia at least, because it has been organically developed by the practitioners providing the Child Inclusive Conferences with very little, if any, statutory and regulatory guidance. This model therefore serves as an example of how practitioners think child inclusive services should be offered. The model is, however, not documented and the aim of this study was to understand and document Family Consultants’ decision making regarding if and when they will conduct a Child Inclusive Conference in the Family Court of Western Australia. Ten Family Consultants were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis was conducted on the transcripts of the interviews identifying 12 themes. Overall the data suggested that Family Consultants take into account a range of criteria and although they were very cognisant of the importance for the child to be engaged in decision making they noted specific challenges regarding how they could use Child Inclusive Conferencing to do this. These findings provide a basis for the development of regulations that ensure that Child Inclusive Conferences are used optimally to improve the inclusion of children in the family court procedures in Western Australia and potentially elsewhere. Further research is, however, necessary before such regulations can be finalised.
The Voices of Young Carers in Policy and Practice
Authors: Phelps Daniel
Published: September 2017

This article presents examples from England of the participation of children with caring responsibilities (young carers) in policy and practice at both local and national levels. The ‘voices' of young carers themselves have become more prominent at many levels and in diverse contexts such as through local young carers’ fora and through dialogue with decision makers, including social care commissioners and Members of Parliament. This participation has for a number of years in England, been strongly advocated for and facilitated by voluntary sector services in particular. Drawing on a number of practice examples, the article will highlight a range of young carers' participatory activity and the extent to which this is woven into policy development and practice. It will consider the processes and protocols of recruitment and safeguarding and the outcomes of young carers' participation, including the influence of their ‘voices’ in bringing about real change and the impacts on themselves as individuals. Consideration will be given as to whether the voices of young carers has been truly representative of children and young people with caring responsibilities and where particular attention may need to be focused when listening to their voices. The potential risks of young carers' participation at a practical level will be explored as well as the barriers to participation for young carers and approaches for enhancing their participation.
Advocating for a More Relational and Dynamic Model of Participation for Child Researchers
Authors: Ergler Christina R.
Published: September 2017

Primary school children participating as researchers has become a moral obligation to meet the goal of children’s participation rights. Yet, critical voices rarely question the ethical and practical implications of turning young children into mini-clones of adult researchers. While enabling and constraining aspects of participatory methods and inherent power issues per se are widely discussed, adult researchers still seem to struggle to critically engage with celebratory accounts of children as researchers. In particular, the practical obligations, ethical challenges and tensions that impact on primary school children’s research experiences, are underexplored. Findings from two projects on play, which engaged children as active researchers, suggest that more attention needs to be paid to the messy realities of becoming and being a child researcher. In particular, researchers should be more attuned to children’s capabilities and the ethical hurdles for child and adult researchers. This article argues therefore for a more dynamic, meaningful and realistic model of participation, that speaks to the messy realities of becoming and being a child-researcher. In other words, the article questions the dominant orthodoxy of children as researchers as the ‘gold standard’ of participatory research with children.
A translator can not help but be a text-writer. In occasion of translations of stories of young Chekhov
Authors: Ghini G.
Published: September 2017

The article deals with the textual decisions made by editors and translators of Chekhov’s works in the editing process of his early short stories. The aim is to show to what extent the choices made by editors’ and translators’ depend on the configuration of the academic Polnoe sobranie sochineniĭ (Complete works). Here, in the volumes devoted to the work of the young Chekhov, the first versions of his short stories are placed in the critical appendix, whereas the main text provides later versions of the same stories. As a consequence, works of the “mature Chekhov” are presented as works of the “young Chekhov”, which leads to a misunderstanding scholars, editors and translators, especially the ones not familiar with a textological approach.
Structural analysis of Nicholas II's speeches
Authors: Kuzmina E.V.
Published: September 2017

A quantitative analysis of the structure of Nicholas II's speeches was made in the period 1894-1906, in comparison with his speeches, presented in the journal Niva in 1916. The basis for the analysis is the total number of words in the sentences that make up the analyzed speech. A significant change in the total number of words in sentences pertaining to the dates considered has been revealed.
Adyghe rural prose as a source of spiritual and moral meanings
Authors: Latyshev O.Y.
Published: September 2017

Taking into account the fact that most of the Adygeans live in the countries of the Middle East, we elect to consider the rural prose of the Adygeyan writers who lived in the former USSR. This allows us to see the typological convergence of the literature of the Adygs and other peoples living on the territory of the Soviet Union, placing emphasis on the ways in which their interethnic relations arise. Maintaining the deep folk traditions, imprinted on the pages of Adyghe village prose works, is seen by us as a source of enhancing the stability of modern society.
Principles of the transmission of texts during the publication of the Old Russian letters in XX-XXI: history and perspectives
Authors: Konyavskaya E.L.
Published: September 2017

The article is devoted to the review of the history of publications of acts in the Soviet and post-Soviet period and the principles of the transmission of texts in such publications, including those fixed in the "Rules" and "Methodological Recommendations".
Graffiti in Italian cities as a linguistic material
Authors: Litvin E.A.
Published: September 2017

The article focuses on several examples of graffiti written in Italian language: their main structural and thematic features and their potential as a didactic tool at the lessons of Italian as a foreign language. It demonstrates which syntax and grammar constractions are typical for graffiti texts. Examples of language game and intertext in are also taken in the consideration.
The trinity chapel flooring of Canterbury cathedral: symbols of the way to heavenly Jerusalem
Authors: Tsykunov I.V.
Published: September 2017

Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury is the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the Trinity chapel of cathedral is located a marble pavement with complex symbolism. Experts often argue when was created this pavement and circumstances. Researchers agree only that the Italian or French craftsmen were authors of this pavement. The author of this article proves that the Italian marble craftsmen Cosmati were creators of a mosaic pavement. Craftsmen are known for creation of pavement in a presbytery of the Westminster Abbey in London. The author of this article deciphers symbolism of marble pavement. The author of this article assumes this Cosmati floor mosaics symbolize the opening way of man to Heavenly Jerusalem.
Contributions of Neuroscience to a New Empathy Epistemology: Implications for Developmental Training
Authors: VanCleave Diane S.
Published: September 2017

The difficulty in comprehending the epistemology of empathy lies in shifting paradigms which have resulted in empathy being viewed as vague and elusive. Such elusive understanding of empathy has confused research, practice, and advancement of therapeutic principles. Empathy is the core of all social and intellectual transformation. Humankind is biologically programmed to use empathy for survival, health, and well-being. Pursuing and understanding empathy frees human capacity for wisdom. Studying the epistemology of empathy is operationally and scientifically relevant in the synthesis of an empathic practice theory. Clear epistemic definition and neuroscience provide the foundation for an expanding discovery of rational frameworks for a clinician’s empathic training and teaching. A clinician’s empathic ability requires competency in reflective, global, affective, cognitive, and interpersonal perspective-taking. Once understood, renewed curriculum for teaching and training are recommended that would produce more finite outcomes. Epistemic review culminates in empathy skills training over the course of curricula at the undergraduate (BSW) and graduate (MSW) levels.
“I Feel Like I Am Finding Peace”: Exploring the Use of a Combined Art Therapy and Adapted Seeking Safety Program with Refugee Support Groups
Authors: Ely Gretchen E. , Koury Samantha , Bennett Kim , Hartinger Cari , Green Susan , Nochajski Thomas
Published: September 2017

This paper describes the creation and implementation of a trauma support group intervention which combined aspects of the Seeking Safety model with an art therapy technique in an effort to reduce trauma-related symptoms in a population of refugees.  A preliminary assessment was carried out to evaluate the potential effectiveness of the combined approach with trauma-exposed refugees.  Based on facilitator notes from 8 sessions of two women’s refugee groups and one men’s group, three themes were identified: mandala creation enhanced the Seeking Safety content, language barriers impacted the potential for implementation, and the trauma support group was a means of personal growth for participants. Reports from facilitators and participants also suggested a reduction in trauma-related symptoms and an increase in participant use of safe coping skills as a result of group participation. While additional research is needed, these exploratory results suggest that this combined approach holds promise for positively impacting trauma symptoms in trauma-exposed refugees.
Working With Refugees in the U.S.: Trauma-Informed and Structurally Competent Social Work Approaches
Authors: Ostrander Jason , Melville Alysse , Berthold S. Megan
Published: September 2017

Social workers, government, and non-governmental organizations in the United States have been inadequately prepared to address the impact of trauma faced by refugees fleeing persecution. Compounding their initial trauma experiences, refugees often undergo further traumatic migration experiences and challenges after resettlement that can have long-lasting effects on their health and mental health. Micro and macro social work practitioners must understand the impact of these experiences in order to promote policies, social work training, and clinical practice that further the health and well-being of refugees and society. Social workers are in a unique position to provide multi-dimensional, structurally competent care and advocacy for diverse refugee populations. The experiences of Cambodian refugees will be used to examine these issues. We will explore the benefits of an ecological perspective in guiding interventions that support refugees, and will apply the framework of structural competence to highlight multidimensional implications for social work with refugee populations.
Child Attributions Mediate Relationships Between Violence Exposure and Trauma Symptomology
Authors: Collins Kathryn S. , Clarkson Freeman Pamela A. , Unick George Jay , Bellin Melissa H. , Reinicker Polly , Strieder Frederick H.
Published: September 2017

Violence and trauma exposure have been increasingly investigated as contributing to a range of negative outcomes in child physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and psychological functioning, particularly among youth who are racial/ethnic minorities. This study presents findings related to children's attributions of their violence and trauma exposure. Attributions are inferences made about the cause of an event, situation, or action, with internal, stable, and global attributions most likely to lead to negative psychological outcomes. Data were drawn from an on-going clinical intervention study with families at risk for child maltreatment and/or neglect residing in a large metropolitan city on the East Coast. Mediation models provide evidence for a mediated relationship between violence exposure and PTSD through child attribution. Children develop their definitions of violence, formulate reasons why the violence occurs, and react to violence based on interpreting and developing cognitive attributions and schema about their experiences with violence in order to adaptively cope.
Equine-Facilitated Therapy and Trauma: Current Knowledge, Future Needs
Authors: Staudt Marlys , Cherry Donna
Published: September 2017

Equine-facilitated therapy (EFT) is a relatively new treatment for trauma and PTSD. EFT as well as animal assisted interventions in general have been introduced and implemented in mental health treatment for children and adults, though the research in support of these interventions has not kept up with practice. The purpose of this review is to examine the use of EFT for clients suffering from trauma/PTSD. Studies were included if PTSD/trauma was assessed and/or was measured as an outcome. A search of relevant databases resulted in nine peer-reviewed studies that met criteria. Studies are summarized and implications for future research are discussed. In general, findings suggest that EFT is a promising intervention for trauma/PTSD. Recommendations include a call for more research that includes veterans as well as for research that explicates the mechanisms by which EFT may be effective.   Key words: trauma, PTSD, equine, equine therapy
Creating a Trauma-Informed Community Through University-Community Partnerships:An Institute Agenda
Authors: Keesler John M. , Green Susan A. , Nochajski Thomas H.
Published: September 2017

The impact of trauma on wellness has been identified as a community health crisis. The alliance of universities and communities is a plausible response to address the scope of the problem given their wealth of resources. The Institute on Trauma and Trauma-informed Care (ITTIC) is an exemplar of a university-community partnership and unique approach that has fostered a common language within and between organizations to foster at the community level an awareness and understanding of trauma. The present article provides an overview of university-community partnerships and their importance to social work practice. It describes the formation of the Institute and discusses its model and contributions to the local community and abroad. The implications of ITTIC for the School, University and community are discussed. An iterative process that includes active engagement, evaluation, and reflection, is recommended for the integration and advancement of trauma-informed care through university-community partnerships.
Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Becoming Gender-Sensitive and Trauma-Informed
Authors: Elkins Jennifer , Crawford Katherine , Briggs Harold E.
Published: September 2017

While there is a wide body of literature examining the behavioral, emotional, and social consequences associated with being sexually abused, comparatively few studies have focused on males. Sexual abuse victimization among males remains largely under-reported, under-treated, and under-recognized by researchers, practitioners, and the public. Researchers trying to clarify why sexual abuse in males has been overlooked point to prevailing cultural norms, myths, assumptions, stigma, and biases about masculinity. Consequently, there is often an assumption that males are not negatively affected by sexual abuse. Drawing extensively from the literature, this article provides a critical review of: (1) the nature, experience and impact of sexual abuse victimization for males; and (2) the multidimensional processes that promote and inhibit resilient outcomes. It concludes with a discussion of trauma-informed and gender-responsive recommendations and future directions for social work practice, policy, and research.
Relationships Between Tonal Stability and Metrical Accent in Monophonic Contexts
Authors: White Christopher
Published: September 2017

Recent corpus analyses have provided evidence for interactions between tonal and metric hierarchies by illustrating that tonally stable pitches occur disproportionately often on strong metrical positions while tonally unstable pitches occur more frequently on weaker metrical positions. This study begins to investigate whether this observed property is salient to listeners' identification of metrical accents: by presenting participants with tonally-determined but metrically ambiguous beat patterns, we ask how tonal hierarchies might influence listeners' interpretation of these metrical-accent patterns (as measured via a tapping task). In Experiment 1, participants heard patterns alternating tonally stable and unstable pitches, and it was found that tonal stability did not affect metric interpretations. In Experiments 2 and 3, listeners heard an atonal artificial hierarchy prefaced by an exposure session using music generated by this artificial hierarchy; exposure did not influence the subsequent tapping task. Flipping the paradigm, in Experiment 4, participants heard a metrically defined but tonally-ambiguous melody, and selected the most appropriate chord. The metrical context affected participants' harmonization choices. Although a tendency to align strong beats with chord tones accounted for some of the data, further analysis shows that changing the metrical context influenced chord choices, providing evidence for a joint tonal-metric hierarchy.
Style and Flow: A Commentary on Duinker & Martin
Authors: Katz Jonah
Published: September 2017

Duinker and Martin's excellent study presents a wealth of new data, findings, and analyses. It represents a welcome focus on the details of musical aspects of hip-hop, as well as an effort to combine those details with more global aspects of recordings in order to clarify what our notions of hip-hop 'style' or 'sound' are based on. The examination of instrumental backgrounds and production parameters is particularly novel. I would suggest, however, that the study could have benefitted from the use of details pertaining to flow, particularly in the examination of trends over time and stylistic sub-groupings. I show that several parameters pertaining to the complexity, rhythmic placement, and repetitiveness of rhymes help track changes in hip-hop style over time, distinguish between more and less similar songs, and capture effects of apparent time within the same actual time period.
Editor’s Note
Authors: M Daniel , Shanahan Daniel
Published: September 2017

No abstract available.
Screening of cultivable endophytic bacterial isolates for their plant growth promoting activity in rice
Authors: Firdous Jannathul , J. Bhore Subhash
Published: September 2017

Large amounts of chemical fertilizers are being used to enhance the growth and development of the rice (Oryza sativa L.) crop. Chemical fertilizers are too expensive; hence, endophytic bacteria with growth promoting activity can be considered to promote the crop plant growth to minimize the usage of chemical fertilizers and to have sustainable rice cultivation. This study was undertaken to explore the potential of endophytic bacterial isolates (EBIs) which were isolated previously. The objective of this study was to evaluate 800 EBIs for auxin-like activity and its effect on early seedlings growth of rice. Surface sterilized rice seeds were treated separately with different EBIs and allowed to grow in Petriplates (containing sterile cotton) for 10 days. On the 10th day, the root length of the rice seedlings was measured and recorded to determine the auxin-like activity of EBIs. Results showed that 9 different isolates out of 800 EBIs screened to have significant effect on rice root and shoot growth when compared to control. The increase in root length was in the range of 58.30% to 81.68%, in comparison to root length of seedlings from control category. Based on the results, it was concluded that the positive root growth promoting response of rice seedlings could be due to the production of auxin-like compounds by the EBIs. These research findings could be useful in developing endophytic bacteria based formulation to enhance the growth of rice crop.
Genetic variability, correlation and path coefficient analysis for quantitative traits in chickpea genotypes
Authors: Bhanu A. Nishant , Singh M. N. , Tharu Rajendra , Saroj S. K.
Published: September 2017

Fifty three germplasm of chickpea were undertaken to determine relationships among yield and some yield components using direct (variability, heritability, and genetic advance) and indirect selection parameters (correlation and path coefficient analysis). The present investigation was carried out at the Agriculture Research Farm of Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi during the rabi season of 2011-12. Significant genetic variations were observed among the genotypes for days to flower, days to maturity, plant height, number of branches plant-1, number of pods plant-1, 100-seed weight and seed yield plant-1. Correlation studies revealed that seed yield was positively and significantly correlated with number of primary branches, number of secondary branches and number of pods plant-1. The path coefficient analysis based on seed yield, as a dependent variable, showed that pods plant-1 had the greatest direct effect on seed yield (0.81) followed by number of secondary branches. Both correlation and path analysis indicated that pods plant-1 and number of secondary branches were the major direct contributors to seed yield.
Comparative yield gaps, economic impact and constraint analysis in front line demonstrations of soybean and black soybean in Uttarakhand hills
Authors: Bhartiya Anuradha , Chandra N. , Pal R. S. , Aditya J. . , Bajeli Jyoti
Published: September 2017

Soybean and black soybean are important kharif crops which play a vital role in nutritional and livelihood security in Uttarakhand hills. Considering the scope of improvement in productivity through the improved varieties and recommended production technologies, front line demonstrations were conducted by ICAR-VPKAS, Almora during Kharif 2015 and 2016. The present study revealed that the average technology gap for black soybean (1.58 q/ha) was lower than soybean (7.87 q/ha) at farmer’s field which is suggesting the need to further develop better performing varieties in black soybean than existing ones as the potential yield levels of improved varieties are easily achievable in given environment. The extension gap for black soybean (5.57 q/ha) and soybean (6.25 q/ha), exhibiting the potential of improving productivity by understanding the causes of yield gaps and abridging them with proper interventions. In terms of economic impact based on benefit cost ratio in front line demonstrations, the cultivation of black soybean (1.0) was found more profitable than soybean (0.94) besides, better feasibility of improved technological interventions in black soybean at farmer’s field revealed by lower technology index of black soybean (12.72%) than soybean (39.10%). An insight on various constraints causing yield gaps and potential interventions to mitigate them have also been discussed.
Olaparib shows significant progression-free survival benefit in phase III SOLO2 trial
Authors: Marth Christian
Published: September 2017

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Patterns and Trends in Contemporary Canadian Verse-Novels for Young People
Authors: Brenna Beverley A. , Liu Yina , Sun Shuwen
Published: September 2017

This qualitative content analysis identified patterns and trends in a contemporary set of Canadian verse-novels for young people. Twenty-two books were located in our search for titles published between 1995 and 2016, and many of these emerged as award-winners in various contexts including the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature (text). Dresang’s notion of Radical Change, adapted for this interrogation, illuminated particular elements of these societal artifacts worthy of notice. While studies have occurred regarding textual forms or formats and reader characteristics, specific work with the verse-novel and its use with struggling and reluctant readers is limited, with professional articles appearing in place of research-oriented discussions. Scrutiny of available verse-novels is important as it opens a door for explorations of these resources with participants in classroom settings.
Cultura escolar e os povos coloniais: a questão dos assimilados nos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (PALOP)
Authors: Cá Lourenço Ocuni
Published: September 2017

Os estudos sobre a história da educação escolarizada, pública ou particular e sobre suas práticas pedagógicas têm avançado muito nos últimos anos, em parte graças às imbricações teórico-metodológicas de pesquisas que transitam tanto no campo da história da educação quanto no campo que se convencionou chamar cultura escolar. Esses estudos têm contribuído, entre outros, desde a década de 1990, para dessacralizar antigos mitos historiográficos, entre os quais os que buscaram interpretar as políticas e a legislação estatais, seus embates, seus pressupostos e suas realizações, muitas vezes como não realizações e/ou como realizações de cópias de políticas educacionais gestadas em contextos alhures.
Apontamentos sobre a educação no Brasil Colonial (1549-1759)
Authors: Silva Gleidson , Amorim Simone Silveira
Published: September 2017

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar aspectos da educação relacionados com a instrução dos gentios e a educação dos órfãos de posse no Brasil Colonial (1549-1759). A metodologia aqui utilizada configura-se como histórica e bibliográfica, com abordagem qualitativa. Foram utilizadas na pesquisa produções de Casimiro, Chambouleyron, Santos e Saviani.