bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Investigating personal information management motivation in a mandatory adoption of content management systems
Authors: Hwang Yujong
Published: June 2016

Technology adoption has been studied extensively within the IS discipline. However, few if any have studied end users’ acceptance of newly implemented technologies within organizational contexts before end-users start using the technology. Additionally, information management motivation is one of the areas that have not yet been sufficiently integrated with the technology acceptance literature. The present research investigates the personal information management motivation and its sub-dimensions, such as proactiveness, sharing, transparency, and formality, based on the extant literature from information systems (IS), social psychology, and knowledge management fields, and their relationships to behavioral intention to adopt content management systems in a mandatory setting. The proposed model was empirically tested using the data collected from 148 end users using PLS. The study findings provide important insights on understanding information management motivation in a mandatory adoption environment.
The need for unity: an interview with Vishnu Sharma
Authors: Punja Harsh
Published: June 2016

Vishnu Sharma (1921–1992) came to Southall, West London, in 1957 as a seasoned political organiser in the peasant and trade union movements of the Punjab, who had already, under the Raj, been imprisoned for his political activities. A member of the Communist Party for most of his life, a vice-chair of the 1960s’ Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD) and a founder of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, where he also worked for many years, he was involved in a number of national organisations including the National Council for Commonwealth Immigrants (from which he resigned in protest in 1968), the National Council for Civil Liberties, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and the Anti-Nazi League. He talked, in 1982, during the filming of A Town Under Siege – one of a series of films made by IRR’s sister company in the early 1980s for Channel 4 – about his early life in Southall.
Super-high thermal conductivity of polyamide-6/graphene-graphene oxide composites through in situ polymerization
Authors: Chen Jingjing , Chen Xiangnan , Meng Fanbin , Li Dan , Tian Xin , Wang Zeyong , Zhou Zuowan
Published: June 2016

Graphene is often used to improve the thermal conductivity of polymers but usually with high amount. The key factor that limits the thermal conductivity is graphene agglomeration as well as the incompatible interface between graphene and polymer. Here, we report super-high thermal conductivity of polyamide-6 (PA6) composites achieved by adding small amounts of graphene oxide (GO)-stabilized graphene dispersions (graphene-GO). The introduction of GO not only acts as an effective dispersant for graphene due to the non-covalent π-stacking interactions but also participates in PA6 polymerization. Therefore, the issues associated with graphene dispersion in PA6 can be resolved and the interface adhesion enhanced by adding small amounts of graphene-GO. Furthermore, this approach reduces the tendency for decreased crystallinity. All these factors enhance the formation of heat conducting pathways among the graphene sheets. Thus, compared with graphene, graphene-GO enhances thermal conductivity at lower filler loading levels by enhancing graphene dispersion and interface adhesion.
Characteristics of phase changes induced by ultra-precision raster milling at the surface layer of Zn-Al alloy
Authors: Zhang Shaojian , To Sandy
Published: June 2016

Ultra-precision raster milling induces phase changes and crystal orientation changes of Zn-Al alloy at its machined surface up to a thickness of several hundreds of nanometers. In this study, the phase change characteristics of Zn-Al alloy at different penetration depths have been discussed using X-ray diffraction and nano-indentation tests. A phase-change-distribution function to depth has been proposed to calculate phase change thickness based on the X-ray diffraction measurement, which was verified by the nano-indentation tests. It is found that phase changes sharply decrease along the penetration depth and the Bragg angle first decreases and then increases back, less than the original value. Significantly, the proposed method is nondestructive to characterize phase change characteristics and measure phase change thickness.
Factual accuracy and the cultural context of science in popular media: Perspectives of media makers, middle school students, and university students on an entertainment television program
Authors: Szu Evan , Osborne Jonathan , Patterson Alexis D.
Published: June 2016

Popular media influences ideas about science constructed by the public. To sway media productions, public policy organizations have increasingly promoted use of science consultants. This study contributes to understanding the connection from science consultants to popular media to public outcomes. A science-based television series was examined for intended messages of the creator and consulting scientist, and received messages among middle school and non-science university students. The results suggest the consulting scientist missed an opportunity to influence the portrayal of the cultural contexts of science and that middle school students may be reading these aspects uncritically—a deficiency educators could potentially address. In contrast, all groups discussed the science content and practices of the show, indicating that scientific facts were salient to both media makers and audiences. This suggests popular media may influence the public knowledge of science, supporting concerns of scientists about the accuracy of fictional television and film.
Brute Force or Combat Finesse? The Evolving Role of Firepower in US Amphibious Operations against the Imperial Japanese Forces, 1941–1945
Authors: Ford Douglas
Published: June 2016

The article explains how US commanders in the Pacific theatre modified their methods of deploying firepower to cope with the challenges which the Japanese forces put up. Although American doctrines for amphibious warfare demonstrated an understanding of the tasks that they needed to carry out, they did not fully envisage the scale of effort required to capture well-defended positions. Commanders therefore had to learn through combat experience that their capabilities required substantial modifications. By the closing stages of the campaign, the Americans had developed a meticulous set of procedures which relied on a calibrated use of firepower to overcome Japanese defences.
Effect of Body Weight on Hemodynamic Response in Patients Receiving Fixed-Dose Vasopressin for Septic Shock
Authors: Hodge Emily K. , Hughes Darrel W. , Attridge Rebecca L.
Published: June 2016

Background: Fixed-dose vasopressin is an adjunctive therapy to norepinephrine (NE) to raise mean arterial pressure (MAP) and decrease NE requirements in patients with septic shock. It is unknown if weight affects hemodynamic response to vasopressin or if a weight-based vasopressin strategy is superior to fixed dosing. Objective: The primary objective was to evaluate effect of body weight on response to vasopressin as measured by change in MAP 1 hour post–vasopressin initiation. Methods: A single-center, retrospective study was performed in patients with septic shock. Baseline characteristics, catecholamine and vasopressin requirement, response to therapy, and adverse events were collected. Results: Forty patients were included who received a fixed-dose vasopressin in addition to catecholamine infusions. No correlation was found in the primary outcome of change in MAP at 1 hour after vasopressin initiation compared with vasopressin dose relative to patient weight or body mass index (BMI). Change in MAP at 6 and 12 hours was not significant. In the obese population (n = 9), there was a significant negative correlation between BMI and change in MAP at 6 hours (correlation coefficient r = −0.951; P = 0.0009). Linear regression analysis confirmed that vasopressin dose relative toweight was independently associated with change in MAP at 1, 6, and 12 hours, whereas changes in NE dosing were not. Conclusion: Increasing weight-based dosing of vasopressin did not correlate with change in MAP when used with catecholamine vasopressors in septic shock. However, fixed-dose vasopressin may not be sufficient in obese septic shock patients with a BMI ≥30 kg/m2.
Treatment of Foot and Ankle Neuroma Pain With Processed Nerve Allografts
Authors: Souza Jason M. , Purnell Chad A. , Cheesborough Jennifer E. , Kelikian Armen S. , Dumanian Gregory A.
Published: June 2016

Background:

Localized nerve pain in the foot and ankle can be a chronic source of disability after trauma and has been identified as the most common complication following operative interventions in the foot and ankle. The superficial location of the injured nerves and lack of suitable tissue for nerve implantation make this pain refractory to conventional methods of neuroma management. We describe a novel strategy for management using processed nerve allografts to bridge nerve gaps created by resection of both end neuromas and neuromas-in-continuity.

Methods:

A retrospective review of a prospectively maintained database was performed of all patients who received a processed nerve allograft for treatment of painful neuromas in the foot and ankle between May 2010 and June 2015. Patient demographic and operative information was obtained, as well as preoperative and postoperative pain assessments using a conventional ordinal scale and PROMIS (Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) Pain Behavior and Pain Interference assessments. Twenty-two patients were identified, with postoperative pain assessments occurring at a mean of 15.5 months after surgery.

Results:

Neuromas of the sural and superficial peroneal nerves were the most common diagnoses, with 3-cm nerve allografts being used as the interposition graft in the majority of cases. Eight patients had end neuromas and 18 patients had neuromas in continuity. Analysis of paired data demonstrated a mean ordinal pain score decrease of 2.6, with 24 and 31 percentage-point decreases in PROMIS Pain Behavior and Pain Interference measures, respectively. All changes were significant ( P < .002).

Conclusion:

The painful sequelae of superficial nerve injuries in the foot and ankle was significantly improved with complete excision of the involved nerve segment followed by bridging of the resulting nerve gap with a processed nerve allograft. This approach limits surgery to the site of injury and reconstitutes the peripheral nerve anatomy.

Level of Evidence:

Level IV, retrospective case series.
Do Not Stand Corrected
Authors: Karlsson Michael , Clerwall Christer , Nord Lars
Published: June 2016

The accelerating news cycle means there is a risk that errors become more common, but digital media also allow for correcting errors continuously and being transparent about this. In this study, we investigate Swedish citizens’ attitudes toward errors and corrections. The results demonstrate that citizens have strong expectations that news media publish correct information and they have little tolerance for errors. People’s background and media use do not affect attitudes toward errors and corrections to any large extent, but media trust explains a small fraction of the results—It is only those who already trust the media that appreciate corrections.
Feminizing political parties
Authors: Childs Sarah L , Kittilson Miki Caul
Published: June 2016

Party member women’s organizations were early features of party development. While some contemporary studies maintain these are important sites for the substantive representation of women, there is also a claim that they are in decline. Our primary purpose here is to establish the existence of party member women’s organizations – as one test of the first dimension of party feminization: the inclusion of women. We draw on new survey data of 17 European countries provided by Scarrow, Poguntke and Webb. We establish that almost half have a party member women’s organization. The new data also permits analysis of relationships between party member women’s organization and gender quotas for the top party leadership body (National Executive Committee (NEC)), women’s presence among the party leadership and candidate quota rules. Together we see these (i) as a means to establish whether women are marginalized within the party, thereby limiting descriptive representation and (ii) as surrogate measures for women’s substantive representation. We importantly find that the presence of a party member women’s organization does not come at the cost of women’s presence on the NEC. In the final section, we turn our attention to building a new comparative research agenda that more fully addresses substantive representation.
Emancipated party members
Authors: Kölln Ann-Kristin , Polk Jonathan
Published: June 2016

Party members across European democracies exercise increasing influence on parties’ policy platforms or personnel choices. This article investigates ideological (in)congruence on the left–right spectrum between members and their parties by drawing on a party membership survey of more than 10,000 individuals across seven political parties in Sweden. The results show that around two-thirds of members are not perfectly congruent with their party. In a two-step analysis, the article argues that emancipated members, with higher political interest and with a more independent self-conception, are more comfortable being ideologically incongruent with their party. We also provide evidence that ideological incongruence matters for members’ exit, voice and loyalty behaviour. It is associated with a more negative evaluation of the party leader (voice) and with a higher probability to either vote for another party (loyalty) or even to leave the current one (exit). The findings indicate that ideological incongruence within parties is not a trivial matter, but is rather substantial in size with potentially important consequences for party competition.
What seems attractive may not always work well: Evaluative and cardiovascular responses to morality and competence levels in decision-making teams
Authors: van Prooijen Anne-Marie , Ellemers Naomi , van der Lee Romy , Scheepers Daan T.
Published: June 2016

People are particularly attracted to groups that value morality. However, in social and work life, team decision-making sometimes involves balancing moral considerations with achievement goals in ambiguous situations. We examined how the importance attached to morality and competence in experimentally created task teams influenced perceived team attractiveness and motivational responses. Results showed that team attractiveness was fully determined by value attached to morality in a team. However, cardiovascular responses revealed that when actually engaging in a team interaction where unanimous decisions had to be made about competing considerations, value attached to both morality and competence in a team influenced participants’ motivational states. Congruence between the value attached to morality and competence elicited adaptive challenge responses, while incongruence between these team features elicited maladaptive threat. These results have important theoretical and practical implications.
State-of-the-art review on bridge weigh-in-motion technology
Authors: Yu Yang , Cai CS , Deng Lu
Published: June 2016

Weigh-in-motion technology is an effective tool that has been extensively used to monitor traffic on highways. Pavement-based weigh-in-motion systems usually have poor durability and will cause traffic interruption during their installation and maintenance process. The recently developed bridge weigh-in-motion technology provides a more convenient and cost-effective alternative to the pavement-based weigh-in-motion technology. Bridge weigh-in-motion systems can be installed without interrupting the traffic. Also, bridge weigh-in-motion systems have the potential to deliver better accuracy than pavement-based weigh-in-motion systems. Due to these significant advantages, the bridge weigh-in-motion technology has been playing an increasingly important role in bridge health monitoring and overweight truck enforcement, and many studies have been conducted to continuously improve the bridge weigh-in-motion technology. In this review, the common algorithms for bridge weigh-in-motion are discussed in detail, and the typical instrumentation of bridge weigh-in-motion systems is also introduced. Meanwhile, much effort is made to identify the remaining issues in the application of bridge weigh-in-motion technology, and the corresponding future research is proposed.
Dam safety prediction model considering chaotic characteristics in prototype monitoring data series
Authors: Su Huaizhi , Wen Zhiping , Chen Zhexin , Tian Shiguang
Published: June 2016

Support vector machine, chaos theory, and particle swarm optimization are combined to build the prediction model of dam safety. The approaches are proposed to optimize the input and parameter of prediction model. First, the phase space reconstruction of prototype monitoring data series on dam behavior is implemented. The method identifying chaotic characteristics in monitoring data series is presented. Second, support vector machine is adopted to build the prediction model of dam safety. The characteristic vector of historical monitoring data, which is taken as support vector machine input, is extracted by phase space reconstruction. The chaotic particle swarm optimization algorithm is introduced to determine support vector machine parameters. A chaotic support vector machine–based prediction model of dam safety is built. Finally, the displacement behavior of one actual dam is taken as an example. The prediction capability on the built prediction model of dam displacement is evaluated. It is indicated that the proposed chaotic support vector machine–based model can provide more accurate forecasted results and is more suitable to be used to identify efficiently the dam behavior.
Social Support, Depression, Self-Esteem, and Coping Among LGBTQ Adolescents Participating in Hatch Youth
Authors: Wilkerson J. Michael , Schick Vanessa R. , Romijnders Kim A. , Bauldry Jessica , Butame Seyram A. ,   the Montrose Center
Published: June 2016

Evidence-based interventions that increase social support have the potential to improve the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth. Hatch Youth is a group-level intervention that provides services four nights a week to LGBTQ youth between 13 and 20 years of age. Each Hatch Youth meeting is organized into three 1-hour sections: unstructured social time, consciousness-raising (education), and a youth-led peer support group. Youth attending a Hatch Youth meeting between March and June 2014 (N = 108) completed a cross-sectional survey. Covariate adjusted regression models were used to examine the association between attendance, perceived social support, depressive symptomology, self-esteem, and coping ability. Compared to those who attended Hatch Youth for less than 1 month, participants who attended 1 to 6 months or more than 6 months reported higher social support (β1-6mo. = 0.57 [0.07, 1.07]; β6+mo. = 0.44, 95% confidence interval [CI; 0.14, 0.75], respectively). Increased social support was associated with decreased depressive symptomology (β = −4.84, 95% CI [−6.56, −3.12]), increased self-esteem (β = 0.72, 95% CI [0.38, 1.06]), and improved coping ability (β = 1.00, 95% CI [0.66, 1.35]). Hatch Youth is a promising intervention that has the potential to improve the mental health and reduce risk behavior of LGBTQ youth.
Calculating Matter and Recombinant Subjects
Authors: de Freitas Elizabeth
Published: June 2016

Because different mathematical practices are aligned with different ontologies, it matters what kind of mathematics we bring to bear in social theory. This article explores the open and urgent question as to whether and how calculation becomes an inventive practice that doesn’t simply serve the control society. In search of a non-axiomatic mathematical problematic, I examine the infinitesimal for its enigmatic role in calculation and show how Deleuze and Guattari use the infinitesimal to (a) rethink the relationship between matter and meaning, and (b) describe a recombinant fractal subject well suited to our digital times. The infinitesimal is a sort of changeling number with one foot in the virtual and one foot in the actual, and thus pivotal to considerations of vitalist new mixtures of number and matter.
In Situ Rhetoric
Authors: Endres Danielle , Hess Aaron , Senda-Cook Samantha , Middleton Michael K.
Published: June 2016

This special issue examines intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry through (re)introducing rhetorical fieldwork. We define rhetorical fieldwork as a set of approaches that integrate rhetorical and qualitative inquiry toward the examination of in situ practices and performances in a rhetorical field. This set of approaches falls within the participatory turn in rhetorical studies, in which rhetorical scholars increasingly turn to fieldwork, interviews, and other forms of participatory research to augment conventional methodological practices. The special issue highlights four original articles that employ, exemplify, and reflect on the value of rhetorical fieldwork as a form of critical/cultural inquiry. In this introduction, we not only introduce the key themes and articles in the special issue but also compile our take on the state of the art of rhetorical fieldwork in an effort to introduce this form of research practice to those who have not encountered it before.
Going to Work at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch
Authors: Dunn Jennifer C.
Published: June 2016

Most studies of media focus on production, representation, or audience. Using rhetorical analysis and ethnographic field methods, my article offers one way to study media production contexts, representations, and audience interactions in relation to one another. For this project, I conducted a narrative rhetorical analysis of the reality docu-series Cathouse that takes place in a legal brothel in Nevada, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. In addition, I visited the brothel and used ethnographic field methods of participant observation and interviewing to investigate the lived experiences of the women working at the Ranch. My analysis revealed a web of intertextual discourses of prostitution that I could not have accessed had I not used these methods in conjunction with one another. By bringing perspectives from rhetorical inquiry, cultural and media studies, and ethnography into conversation with one another, I provide a framework for analyzing production, representation, and audience for the Cathouse series, while attending to both the content of the women’s stories and how these participants rhetorically constructed and performed their identities. Finally, my analysis offers insights into ethnographic and textual “crises of representation” in relation to the concept of “rhetorical authenticity” in media representations, the relationships between audience members, production, and representation in reality television, and material impacts for the women who work at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch that I could not have accessed without using these methods together.
First-Generation Sociology Majors
Authors: Spalter-Roth Roberta , Senter Mary S.
Published: June 2016

First-generation immigrants studying as sociology majors see excellent employment outcomes.
Romancing the Data
Authors: Page Letta , Ali Syed
Published: June 2016

A review of Aziz Ansari and Erik Klinenberg’s Modern Romance.
From Charity to Change
Authors: McKinney Jennifer , Snedker Karen
Published: June 2016

Seattle Pacific University brought a “tent city” to campus to help students engage with and better understand the challenges facing homeless populations.
Telavancin in the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia: clinical evidence and experience
Authors: Liapikou Adamantia , Dimakou Katerina , Toumbis Michael
Published: June 2016

Telavancin (TLV) is a lipoglycopeptide derivative of vancomycin (VAN), which has activity against Gram-positive aerobic bacteria, and is especially effective against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Gram-positive bacteria resistant to VAN. Comparative clinical studies of TLV have demonstrated noninferiority compared with VAN in the treatment of hospital-acquired Gram-positive pneumonia, with high cure rates for TLV-treated patients with monomicrobial S. aureus infection, including isolates with reduced VAN susceptibility. The results based on the patients’ clinical response were supported by supplemental post-hoc analyses of 28-day mortality. In Europe and the USA, TLV is approved as a useful alternative for patients with difficult-to-treat, hospital-acquired MRSA pneumonia when there are very few alternatives. The present article reviews TLV’s pharmacological characteristics and clinical efficacy resulting from clinical trials giving a detailed picture of its properties and position in the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia.
High-dose beclometasone dipropionate/formoterol fumarate in fixed-dose combination for the treatment of asthma
Authors: Corradi Massimo , Spinola Monica , Petruzzelli Stefano , Kuna Piotr
Published: June 2016

The high-strength formulation of extrafine beclometasone dipropionate/formoterol fumarate (BDP/Form) 200/6 µg has been developed to step up inhaled corticosteroid treatment, without increasing the dose of the bronchodilator, in patients who are not controlled with previous therapies. Two clinical studies have evaluated efficacy of high-strength BDP/Form as compared with another high-dose fixed combination and BDP monotherapy. Overall, data show that BDP/Form 200/6 μg improves lung function and has beneficial effects on symptoms, use of rescue medication and asthma control, with an acceptable safety profile comparable with that of high-dose fluticasone propionate/salmeterol. Therefore, BDP/Form 200/6 μg could be considered as an effective and safe treatment for patients with asthma who are not adequately controlled with high doses of inhaled corticosteroid monotherapy or medium doses of inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting β2-agonist combinations.
Comparison of Time to Recurrence of Instability After Open and Arthroscopic Bankart Repair Techniques
Authors: Virk Mandeep S. , Manzo Richard L. , Cote Mark , Ware James K. , Mazzocca Augustus D. , Nissen Carl W. , Shea Kevin P. , Arciero Robert A.
Published: June 2016

Background:

The results of open and arthroscopic instability repairs have been shown to be equivalent in recent literature.

Purpose:

To compare the time to recurrence (TTR) of instability and disease-specific outcome measures in patients undergoing open and arthroscopic Bankart repair.

Study Design:

Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3.

Methods:

Patients with recurrent traumatic anterior shoulder instability and a Bankart lesion on diagnostic arthroscopy underwent either open Bankart repair (OB) or arthroscopic Bankart and suture capsulorrhaphy (ABSC) using suture anchors. There was a minimum follow-up of 24 months. The primary outcome measures included Western Ontario Shoulder Instability Index (WOSI) score and time to recurrence of instability (dislocation or subluxation). Rowe score, Simple Shoulder Test, Constant score, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score, and Short Form–12 (SF-12) score were also compared.

Results:

A total of 82 shoulders in 80 patients (ABSC, n = 58; OB, n = 24) were evaluated at a mean of 39 months postoperatively. There were 4 clinical failures in the OB group (4 dislocations) and 7 clinical failures in the ABSC group (2 dislocations and 5 subluxations; P = .72 vs OB). The mean time to recurrence of postoperative instability was significantly shorter in the ABSC group (12.6 ± 2.7 months) compared with the OB group (34.2 ± 12 months; P = .04). The WOSI score in the OB group (265 ± 48.1) was better but not statistically significantly compared with the ABSC group (449.8 ± 63.8; P = .06).

Conclusion:

The time to recurrence of instability after open Bankart repair is significantly longer compared with arthroscopic Bankart repair.

Clinical Relevance:

Delayed time to recurrence after open Bankart repair suggests that the open technique may be more suited to withstand the high stress and demands of a heavy-duty profession (contact athletes and heavy manual labor).
Exploiting expression patterns across multiple tissues to map expression quantitative trait loci
Authors: Acharya Chaitanya R. , McCarthy Janice M. , Owzar Kouros , Allen Andrew S.
Published: June 2016

Background

In order to better understand complex diseases, it is important to understand how genetic variation in the regulatory regions affects gene expression. Genetic variants found in these regulatory regions have been shown to activate transcription in a tissue-specific manner. Therefore, it is important to map the aforementioned expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) using a statistically disciplined approach that jointly models all the tissues and makes use of all the information available to maximize the power of eQTL mapping. In this context, we are proposing a score test-based approach where we model tissue-specificity as a random effect and investigate an overall shift in the gene expression combined with tissue-specific effects due to genetic variants.

Results

Our approach has 1) a distinct computational edge, and 2) comparable performance in terms of statistical power over other currently existing joint modeling approaches such as MetaTissue eQTL and eQTL-BMA. Using simulations, we show that our method increases the power to detect eQTLs when compared to a tissue-by-tissue approach and can exceed the performance, in terms of computational speed, of MetaTissue eQTL and eQTL-BMA. We apply our method to two publicly available expression datasets from normal human brains, one comprised of four brain regions from 150 neuropathologically normal samples and another comprised of ten brain regions from 134 neuropathologically normal samples, and show that by using our method and jointly analyzing multiple brain regions, we identify eQTLs within more genes when compared to three often used existing methods.

Conclusions

Since we employ a score test-based approach, there is no need for parameter estimation under the alternative hypothesis. As a result, model parameters only have to be estimated once per genome, significantly decreasing computation time. Our method also accommodates the analysis of next- generation sequencing data. As an example, by modeling gene transcripts in an analogous fashion to tissues in our current formulation one would be able to test for both a variant overall effect across all isoforms of a gene as well as transcript-specific effects. We implement our approach within the R package JAGUAR, which is now available at the Comprehensive R Archive Network repository.
Optimizing the impact resistance of high tenacity Nylon 66 weft knitted fabrics via genetic algorithm
Authors: Semnani Dariush , Hassani Farshad , Hadjianfar Mehdi , Rezazadeh Tehrani Pedram
Published: June 2016

The aim of the present research is evaluating the impact resistance of weft knitted fabrics which are knitted in basic patterns from the high tenacity Nylon 66. The woven fabrics have been applied for manufacturing technical and ballistic textiles so far. Although woven fabrics have been demonstrated satisfactory tensile properties, but they have not been resisted against impact, because of their poor strain against tensile forces. This research is important because knitted fabrics are applied in wide range of applications including technical textiles such as, package belts, safety belts, ballistic belts, and can be used to remove ice from airplane wings. Various knitted fabrics with different knitting elements such as knit, tuck and miss loops were produced. Mechanical properties including strength, work of the rupture and impact resistance of knitted samples were tested. The artificial neural network was used to predict mechanical properties of fabrics produced from the knitted structure as fitness function in genetic algorithm. After that, genetic algorithm was applied to find the optimum structure of knitted fabric with maximum impact resistance. The results of the genetic algorithm show that optimum structure of the fabric is cross-miss and rib structure with high stitch density.
Fashionable styles and information sources: an exploratory study of Hangzhou, China
Authors: Chen Dandan , Ha Jisoo
Published: June 2016

The exploratory study aims to examine Hangzhou fashion in the context of globalization and localization through in-depth interviews. Sixteen young females from Hangzhou were interviewed. In the 1990s young females from Hangzhou had a weak concept of fashionable style and they just had a preference for the feminine style, which is derived from a regional culture. In the 2010s, young females’ concept regarding fashion have changed from fashionable (时髦) to stylish (有型), leading to a variety of fashionable styles. The popular Korean, European and minimalist styles mostly originate from foreign dramas and fashion advertisements from the Internet. This qualitative research verified that there was a diminishing sense of locality and cultural identity in young females’ fashion in Hangzhou. However, the impact of globalcultural eclecticism and mass media imagery appears larger for young females’ fashion in the city, especially through the Internet, especially in the spread of SNS, online shopping malls, and online video sites. Therefore, fashion brands should expand the brand culture influence through online media. Presently, the mobile apps in Hangzhou such as Wechat and Instagram may be the most helpful tool for brand culture spreading.
Live and let die: a REM complex promotes fertilization through synergid cell death in Arabidopsis
Authors: Mendes Marta Adelina , Guerra Rosalinda Fiorella , Castelnovo Beatrice , Silva-Velazquez Yuriria , Morandini Piero , Manrique Silvia , Baumann Nadine , Groß-Hardt Rita , Dickinson Hugh , Colombo Lucia
Published: June 2016

Fertilization in flowering plants requires a complex series of coordinated events involving interaction between the male and female gametophyte. We report here molecular data on one of the key events underpinning this process – the death of the receptive synergid cell and the coincident bursting of the pollen tube inside the ovule to release the sperm. We show that two REM transcription factors, VALKYRIE (VAL) and VERDANDI (VDD), both targets of the ovule identity MADS-box complex SEEDSTICK-SEPALLATA3, interact to control the death of the receptive synergid cell. In vdd-1/+ mutants and VAL_RNAi lines, we find that GAMETOPHYTIC FACTOR 2 (GFA2), which is required for synergid degeneration, is downregulated, whereas expression of FERONIA (FER) and MYB98, which are necessary for pollen tube attraction and perception, remain unaffected. We also demonstrate that the vdd-1/+ phenotype can be rescued by expressing VDD or GFA2 in the synergid cells. Taken together, our findings reveal that the death of the receptive synergid cell is essential for maintenance of the following generations, and that a complex comprising VDD and VAL regulates this event.
Conditional deletion of AP-2β in the cranial neural crest results in anterior segment dysgenesis and early-onset glaucoma
Authors: Martino Vanessa B. , Sabljic Thomas , Deschamps Paula , Green Rebecca M. , Akula Monica , Peacock Erica , Ball Alexander , Williams Trevor , West-Mays Judith A.
Published: June 2016

Anterior segment dysgenesis (ASD) encompasses a group of developmental disorders in which a closed angle phenotype in the anterior chamber of the eye can occur and 50% of patients develop glaucoma. Many ASDs are thought to involve an inappropriate patterning and migration of the periocular mesenchyme (POM), which is derived from cranial neural crest cells (NCC) and mesoderm. Although, the mechanism of this disruption is not well understood a number of transcriptional regulatory molecules have previously been implicated in ASDs. Here we investigate the function of the transcription factor AP-2β, encoded by Tfap2b, which is expressed in the NCC and its derivatives. Wnt1-Cre mediated conditional deletion of Tfap2b in NCC resulted in postnatal ocular defects typified by opacity. Histological data revealed that the conditional AP-2β NCC knockout mutants exhibited dysgenesis of multiple structures in the anterior segment of the eye including defects in the corneal endothelium, corneal stroma, ciliary body and disruption in the iridocorneal angle with adherence of the iris to the cornea. We further show that this phenotype leads to a significant increase in intraocular pressure and a subsequent loss of retinal ganglion cells and optic nerve degeneration, features indicative of glaucoma. Overall, our findings demonstrate that AP-2β is required in the POM for normal development of the anterior segment of the eye and that the AP-2β NCC KO mice may serve as a new and exciting model of ASD and glaucoma that is fully penetrant and with early post-natal onset.
Shoulder girdle rotation, forelimb movement, and the influence of carapace shape on locomotion inTestudo hermanni(Testudinidae)
Authors: Schmidt Manuela , Mehlhorn Martin , Fischer Martin S.
Published: June 2016

Studies into the function of structures are crucial for making connections between morphology and behaviour of organisms, but are still rare for the terrestrial Testudinidae. We investigated the kinematics of shoulder girdle and forelimb motion in Hermann's tortoise Testudo hermanni by using biplanar X-ray fluoroscopy with a two-fold aim: firstly, to understand how the derived shapes of shoulder girdle and carapace together influence rotation of the girdle and, secondly, how girdle rotation affects forelimb excursion. The total degree of shoulder rotation in the horizontal plane is similar to a species with a less domed shell, but due to the long and nearly vertically-oriented scapular prong, shoulder girdle rotation contributes more than a third to the horizontal arc of the humerus and nearly 40 percent to the rotational component of step length. The antebrachium and manus, which act as a functional unit, contribute to roughly fifty percent to this component of the step length due to their large excursion almost parallel to the mid-sagittal plane. This large excursion is the result of the complex interplay between humerus long-axis rotation, counter-rotation of the antebrachium, and elbow flexion and extension. A significant proportion of forelimb step length results from body translation due to the propulsive effect of the other limbs during their stance phases. Traits that are similar to other tortoises and terrestrial or semi-aquatic turtles are the overall slow walk due to a low stride frequency, and the lateral-sequence, diagonally-coupled footfall pattern with high duty factors. Intraspecific variation of carapace shape and shoulder girdle dimensions has a corresponding effect on forelimb kinematics.
Investigation of Heat-Treated Cultivation Medium for Mammalian Cells with near Infrared Spectroscopy
Authors: Szabó Éva , Párta László , Zalai Dénes , Gergely Szilveszter , Salgó András
Published: June 2016

A chemically defined medium powder for Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell cultivation was investigated regarding its response to heat treatments with different exposure times (1 hour, 7 hours and 13 hours) and temperatures (30 °C, 50 °C and 70 °C). The heat treatments were performed according to a design of experiments approach. Spectra of the control and the treated powders were collected to compare the sample groups using a dispersive and a Fourier transform (FT) near infrared (NIR) spectrometer. Multivariate data analysis including unsupervised classification as principal component analysis and supervised classification as soft independent modelling of class analogy was employed to identify the treatment-induced variations in the samples. Samples were separated according to the temperature set points of heat treatments and the control samples were successfully discriminated based on second-derivative NIR spectra. In order to evaluate the impact of the treatments on the growth rate of CHO cells, shake flask cultivation experiments were also performed. The viable cell density results showed that both treatment temperature and treatment duration were significant factors ( p = 0.05). Additionally, the sensitivity of change detection for medium powders was higher in the case of NIR and FT-NIR measurement and spectrum analysis compared to traditional shake flask cultivation.
Εκ του εν ισχύει διά Β. Δ. της 12 Φεβρουαρίου 1903 Καταστατικού
Authors: ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ (ΧΑΕ)
Published: June 2016

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Εκ του εν ισχύει διά Β.Δ. της 12 Φεβρουαρίου 1903 καταστατικού
Authors: ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ (ΧΑΕ)
Published: June 2016

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Inducement of tissue regeneration of harvested hamstring tendons in a rabbit model
Authors: Tabuchi K. , Soejima T. , Murakami H. , Noguchi K. , Shiba N. , Nagata K.
Published: June 2016

Objectives

The objective of this study was to determine if the use of fascia lata as a tendon regeneration guide (placed into the tendon canal following harvesting the semitendinosus tendon) would improve the incidence of tissue regeneration and prevent fatty degeneration of the semitendinosus muscle.

Materials and Methods

Bilateral semitendinosus tendons were harvested from rabbits using a tendon stripper. On the inducing graft (IG) side, the tendon canal and semitendinosus tibial attachment site were connected by the fascia lata, which was harvested at the same width as the semitendinosus tendon. On the control side, no special procedures were performed. Two groups of six rabbits were killed at post-operative weeks 4 and 8, respectively. In addition, three healthy rabbits were killed to obtain normal tissue. We evaluated the incidence of tendon tissue regeneration, cross-sectional area of the regenerated tendon tissue and proportion of fatty tissue in the semitendinosus muscle.

Results

At post-operative week 8, the distal end of the regenerated tissue reached the vicinity of the tibial insertion on the control side in two of six specimens. On the IG side, the regenerated tissue maintained continuity with the tibial insertion in all specimens. The cross-sectional area of the IG side was significantly greater than that of the control side. The proportion of fatty tissue in the semitendinosus muscle on the IG side was comparable with that of the control side, but was significantly greater than that of the normal muscle.

Conclusions

Tendon tissue regenerated with the fascia lata graft was thicker than naturally occurring regenerated tissue. However, the proportion of fatty tissue in the semitendinosus muscle was greater than that of normal muscle. Cite this article: K. Tabuchi, T. Soejima, H. Murakami, K. Noguchi, N. Shiba, K. Nagata. Inducement of tissue regeneration of harvested hamstring tendons in a rabbit model. Bone Joint Res 2016;5:247–252. DOI: 10.1302/2046-3758.56.2000585.
Resistance and reinvention: Representations of the belly dancing body in Raja Amari’s Satin rouge/Red Satin (2002)
Authors: Davies Hayon Kaya
Published: June 2016

During the French colonial era, belly dancers were defined in terms of their somatic alterity and their bodies were constructed as sites of degradation, lasciviousness, exoticisation and eroticisation. Though belly dancers remain key signifiers of eastern exoticism in both eastern and western societies today, a number of feminist critics and practitioners have (re)claimed the belly dancing body as a space of agency and empowerment (Keft-Kennedy 2005; Moe 2008). This paper argues that Raja Amari’s film, Satin rouge/Red Satin (2002b), contributes to such debates through its unusual focus on a Tunisian housewife and mother’s (sexual) liberation through belly dancing and her body. Through close analyses of key sequences in the film, I argue that Amari (re)conceptualises the belly dancing body as the primary means by which her protagonist is able to resist the restrictive roles of mother, housewife and widow imposed upon her by dominant Tunisian society. Reading the film alongside Reason and Reynolds’ (2012) work on ‘kinesthetic empathy’, I illustrate how Amari draws the spectator into an empathic kinesthetic relationship with her heroine that undermines the distance necessary for visual objectification and opens up new, more ethical ways of representing the belly dancing body. This paper concludes that Amari’s film resists dominant orientalist images of Maghrebi femininity and reinvents the belly dancing body as a symbol of (female) agency and power.
Constructions of sexuality in recent Maghrebi films by women film-makers
Authors: Caillé Patricia
Published: June 2016

Since 1978 in Algeria and Tunisia and since 1982 in Morocco, women film-makers have sought to account for the oppression of women, for their struggle for freedom including artistic freedom. For the last ten years, films by women film-makers have become more numerous much more diverse moving away from naturalism and the narratives of emancipation that made the commercial success of Maghrebi films in Europe. Dealing with sexuality is complex because such images are often taboo and transgression may not be liberating for women film-makers who need to find a way to expose the shackles of patriarchy without catering to the pleasure of western audiences keen on orientalist fictions. This article that focuses on more recent films, like Karin Albou’s Le Chant des Mariées (2008), Raja Amari’s Les Secrets (2010) or even Leila Kilani’s Sur la planche (2010), or social films like Nadia Cherabi’s L’envers du miroir (2007), Myriam Bakir’s Agadir-Bombay (2011), explores national and regional specificities regarding images of sexuality. The goal of this analysis is to understand the terms within which such images that entail sexual pleasure or repression, rape and masturbation may redefine relationships of power.
The sacrificial sheep in three French-North African films: Displacements and reappropriations
Authors: Carpenter-Latiri Dora
Published: June 2016

In this article I will examine three films featuring Maghrebi migrant families between the 1960s and the present day, Le Gone du Chaâba (1997) by Christophe Ruggia, Inch’Allah Dimanche (2001) by Yamina Benguigui and Le Grand Voyage (2004) by Ismaël Ferroukhi. Each film portrays tensions between generations, between sexes, between societies and between beliefs and values. The tradition of the sacrifice of a sheep in Islam features in all three films and I use this theme to highlight how different members of the families sacrifice themselves or are sacrificed in the process of accommodating to a new way of life. I also deconstruct other subtextual references to Islamic culture and belief as representations of dilemmas and forms of reconciliation and belonging.