bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Isolated methylmalonic acidemia with unusual presentation mimicking diabetic ketoacidosis
Authors: Dejkhamron Prapai , Wejapikul Karn , Unachak Kevalee , Sawangareetrakul Phannee , Tanpaiboon Pranoot , Wattanasirichaigoon Duangrurdee
Published: November 2015

Hyperglycemic ketoacidosis is an acute, life threatening condition requiring early etiologic recognition and management to prevent serious morbidity/mortality. The most common cause is diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Organic acidemias (OAs) are inheritable disorders caused by defects in protein metabolism resulting in acid accumulation. Patients with metabolic decompensation usually present with acidosis, with/without hypoglycemia. Hyperglycemia is a very rare manifestation. At least 16 cases of OAs presenting with hyperglycemia have been reported. Six of the 16 were diagnosed with isolated methylmalonic academia (MMA) and three of the six passed away from late diagnosis.

We describe a 2-year-old Thai girl who presented with hyperglycemia, acidosis and ketosis. She has underlying delayed development, seizures, optic atrophy and poor growth. An initial diagnosis of DKA was made and standard treatment was started. After 4 h of treatment, the patient partially responded to treatment; blood sugar decreased but acidosis and ketonemia persisted. HbA

Inherited metabolic disorders should be included in differential diagnosis in hyperglycemia ketoacidosis patients who respond poorly to standard DKA treatment. Unusual findings, e.g. hyperammonemia, lactic acidosis, pancytopenia, abnormal basal ganglia in MRI or underlying delayed development may indicate underlying OAs. Determining the etiology of hyperglycemic ketoacidosis is important and can lead to good outcomes.
Nedestruktivní zkoušení trubek pomocí metody LFET, UT a ET / Nondestructive testing of tubes using the LFET, UT and ET methods
Authors: Mráz M.
Published: November 2015

Dlouhodobým cílem programu řízení životnosti tlakových částí kotlů je eliminace poruchových odstávek a bezpečné provozování těchto zařízení. K detekci kritických blokací ohybů trubek odloupnutými částicemi epitaktické vrstvy byla ve spolupráci s EPRI vybrána metoda LFET (Low Frequency Electromagnetic Testing) a pro měření celkové tloušťky oxidické vrstvy metoda UT (Ultrasonic Testing), které nacházejí uplatnění zejména v USA. Ultrazvukový tloušťkoměr je použitelný pouze pro feritické materiály. Upravená metoda vířivých proudů (ET) bude sloužit ke stanovení tloušťky epitaktické vrstvy na austenitických ocelích.
Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients with Severe Carotid Artery Stenosis / Ar Veselību Saistītās Dzīves Kvalitātes Novērtējums Pacientiem ar Nozīmīgu Miega Artērijas Stenozi
Authors: Pūcīte Elīna , Šlisers Marius , Miglāne Evija , Krieviņš Dainis , Millers Andrejs , Blimhena Inese
Published: November 2015

Information about changes of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after revascularisation as well how revascularisation procedure influences daily activities, cognitive functioning and general health is controversial. The objectives of our study were to evaluate and describe the HRQoL among patients with severe carotid artery disease; to evaluate the difference of HRQoL between symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid artery disease; and to explore the possible associations between some demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with carotid artery disease and HRQoL. The cross-sectional study included 33 patients who were referred for carotid artery endarterectomy. Data assessment was done one to three days before surgery. The HRQoL was assessed using the Medical Outcome Survey Form 36 (SF-36v2). Patients with symptomatic carotid artery disease had the lowest mean SF-36v2 scores for physical functioning, role-physical, general health and mental health. There was moderate correlation (rs = 0.441) between mean SF- 36v2 scores of mental health and Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale (MoCA) scores. There is also indirect indication for probable correlation between MoCA test scores and mean SF-36v2 scores of social functioning, which might become statistically significant if more patients would be included. Patients with severe carotid artery disease in our study had lower mean SF-36v2 scores for role-physical, for bodily pain and for perception about their health status (general health). HRQoL in patients with severe carotid artery, stenosis was poorer in patients with symptomatic carotid artery disease and was not affected by gender and other clinical characteristics.
Research on Social Anxiety in Patients with Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease in a Sample of the Latvian Population / Sociālās Trauksmes Izpēte Pacientiem ar Esenciālu Tremoru un Parkinsona Slimību Latvijas Populācijā
Authors: Smeltere Ligita , Kuzņecovs Vladimirs , Smelters Roberts
Published: November 2015

Essential tremor is considered to be one of the most common movement disorders in the world, but its non-motor symptoms have been studied relatively little in clinical practice. The objective of this study was to identify the symptoms of social anxiety and their association with motor symptoms in 40 patients with essential tremor (ET), in comparison with 35 patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and 39 patients of the control group from the Latvian population. This was conducted by neurological investigation, five patient self-assessment questionnaires (DASS, BDI, SIAS, SPS, STAI), and clinical interviews. The findings are as follows: using SIAS (Social Interaction Anxiety Scale), in ET patients there was no significant correlation between the severity of tremor and anxiety during social contacts (p > 0.05), but there was a moderate positive significant correlation with the social phobia scale (SPS) score (rs=0.35; p < 0.05). In the ET group, social anxiety (phobia) disorder was found in 50% of the patients according to ICD-10, but in 35% according to DSM-5. In the PD group, the diagnostic criteria of social anxiety disorder were met by 42.86% according to ICD-10 and 25.71% according to DSM-5. In the control group mild social anxiety was found and the criteria met by 20.51% according to ICD-10 and 7.69% according to DSM-5.
First Experience and the Effectiveness of Immunomodulating Treatment in Inflammatory Demyelinating CNS Diseases: Analysis of Nine Patients / Imūnmodulējošās Terapijas Efektivitāte Centrālās Nervu Sistēmas Iekaisīgu Saslimšanu Gadījumos: Deviņu Pacientu Analīze
Authors: Vainšteine Lana , Kostiks Andrejs , Karelis Guntis , Ķēniņa Viktorija , Zlobina Natalja , Krūmiņa Angelika
Published: November 2015

Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is used in many neurological disorders to remove immunoglobulin and other immunologically active substances. We observed patients that were admitted in Rīga East Clinical University Hospital “Gaiļezers”, Clinic of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Multiple Sclerosis Unit, and were diagnosed with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), according to McDonald criteria 2010 (five patients), Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) spectrum disorders (three patients) and one with NMO, according to Wingerchuk 2006 criteria. All relapses were confirmed according to clinical criteria. Visual acuity was assessed by an ophthalmologist, and neurological status by a neurologist. All patients received at least 1 cycle of 1000 mg methylprednisolone intravenous for five to seven days. The expanded disability status scale score in the MS patient group was in range 4.0-9.0 before TPE and 3.5-6.5 range after TPE. Best improvement was observed in the MS group: mean symptom reduction of 20%. Patients with NMO spectrum disorder had an EDSS score of 8.0-8.5 range on admission and 6.5-8.0 range after TPE. After one month, one patient in the NMO spectrum disorder group had good response to TPE and EDSS was 3.5, two patients had only slight improvement (EDSS scores 8.0 and 7.5). Condition of patients with NMO did not improve even after a month.
Anatomic patterns of maxillary sinus drainage
Authors: Derjac-Arama Andreea – Ioana , Mihai Stefania Anca , Sandulescu Mihai , Rusu Mugurel Constantin
Published: November 2015

Background. Functional endoscopic sinus surgery may be indicated when certain anatomic variations impede the normal drainage of the paranasal sinuses through the ostiomeatal complex. We aimed at studying the drainage system of the maxillary sinus which consists of the maxillary infundibulum, the main ostium of the maxillary sinus, the ethmoidal infundibulum and the hiatus semilunaris inferior.

Material and methods. The study was performed retrospectively on cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans of 60 subjects (N=120 maxillary sinuses). The anatomical pattern of the maxillary sinus drainage was studied on coronal scans.

Results. As related to different morphological possibilities in the supero-lateral limit of the maxillary sinus drainage system, five different patterns were defined: in type I (55%) there was no pneumatization in that situs, in type II (18%) there was an infraorbital recess of the maxillary sinus placed above the sinus ostium, in type III (14%) an ethmoidal recess of the maxillary sinus was expanded within the ethmoid bone, above the ethmoidal infundibulum, in type IV (3%) there were Haller cells above the sinus ostium, while in type V (10%) there were non-infraorbital ethmoid air cells above and draining into the ethmoidal infundibulum.

Conclusion. It appears that CBCT is a reliable tool to make an anatomical distinction of the variable pattern of pneumatization impeding a normal drainage of the maxillary sinus, between maxillary sinus- and ethmoid-derived air-filled spaces.
Measuring Changes in Blood Vessel Diameter in the Tail of the Goldfish
Authors: Oakley Julia , Williams Claudia M.
Published: November 2015

This laboratory exercise enables students to measure changes in blood vessel diameter in the tail of the goldfish (Carassius auratus) using ImageJ software. The lab can be adapted for different course levels and equipment. Students can also perform statistical analyses on the results.
The USP8 mutational status may predict drug susceptibility in corticotroph adenomas of Cushing's disease
Authors: Hayashi Kyohei , Inoshita Naoko , Kawaguchi Kohei , Ibrahim Ardisasmita Arif , Suzuki Hisanori , Fukuhara Noriaki , Okada Mitsuo , Nishioka Hiroshi , Takeuchi Yasuhiro , Komada Masayuki , Takeshita Akira , Yamada Shozo
Published: November 2015

Context

Somatic mutations in the ubiquitin-specific peptidase USP8 gene were recently detected in one- to two-third(s) of corticotroph adenomas of Cushing's disease (CD). These mutations may lead to the deubiquitination of EGFR, thereby increasing EGFR signaling, which has been implicated in ACTH hypersecretion.

Objective

Our objective was to determine the impact of USP8 mutations on the clinicopathological features of CD.

Subjects and methods

USP8 mutations as well as clinicopathological characteristics were examined in 60 corticotroph adenomas including 15 Crooke's cell adenomas (CCAs), a rare histological variant presenting with generally aggressive behavior, using qRT-PCR and/or immunohistochemistry.

Results

USP8 mutations were exclusively detected in women, except for one case, with a prevalence of 42.2% in non-CCA and 13.3% in CCA (overall 35%). Clinically well-behaved presentations including microadenoma and curative resection were more common in mutated cases. The expression of EGFR was not associated with the mutation status. In contrast, mutated tumors expressed significantly higher levels of POMC, SSTR5, and MGMT.

Conclusions

Microadenomas that strongly express POMC were common among mutated tumors, which may lead to the mechanisms by which very small adenomas secrete excess ACTH to present overt CD. While USP8 mutations were less likely to enhance tumorous ACTH hypersecretion via EGFR-mediated activation, the presence of USP8 mutations may predict favorable responses to the somatostatin analog pasireotide, which exhibits high affinity for SSTR5. In contrast, non-mutated aggressive tumors such as CCA may respond better to the alkylating agent temozolomide because of their significantly weak expression of MGMT.
Emerging role of PLAG1 as a regulator of growth and reproduction
Authors: Juma Almas R , Damdimopoulou Pauliina E , Grommen Sylvia V H , Van de Ven Wim J M , De Groef Bert
Published: November 2015

Pleomorphic adenoma gene 1 (PLAG1) belongs to the PLAG family of zinc finger transcription factors along with PLAG-like 1 and PLAG-like 2. The PLAG1 gene is best known as an oncogene associated with certain types of cancer, most notably pleomorphic adenomas of the salivary gland. While the mechanisms of PLAG1-induced tumorigenesis are reasonably well understood, the role of PLAG1 in normal physiology is less clear. It is known that PLAG1 is involved in cell proliferation by directly regulating a wide array of target genes, including a number of growth factors such as insulin-like growth factor 2. This is likely to be a central mode of action for PLAG1 both in embryonic development and in cancer. The phenotype of Plag1 knockout mice suggests an important role for PLAG1 also in postnatal growth and reproduction, as PLAG1 deficiency causes growth retardation and reduced fertility. A role for PLAG1 in growth and reproduction is further corroborated by genome-wide association studies in humans and domestic animals in which polymorphisms in the PLAG1 genomic region are associated with body growth and reproductive traits. Here we review the current evidence for PLAG1 as a regulator of growth and fertility and discuss possible endocrine mechanisms involved.
Checklist of ferns and lycophytes from the Parque Estadual Turístico do Alto Ribeira, Iporanga, São Paulo, Brazil
Authors: Mazziero Frederico Fregolente Faracco , Labiak Paulo Henrique , Paciencia Mateus Luis Barradas
Published: November 2015

We present the floristic survey of ferns and lycophytes from the “Parque Estadual Turístico do Alto Ribeira” (PETAR), a remnant of Atlantic Rain Forest of Southeastern Brazil, in São Paulo state. Besides a complete list of species, we also provide information on habit, geographic distribution, and conservation status. Among the 237 taxa, there are 235 species, one variety and one hybrid, distributed in 29 families and 74 genera. Ferns are represented by 223 taxa, whereas the lycophytes were represented by 14. The most representative families are Polypodiaceae (31 spp.), Pteridaceae (29 spp.) and Dryopteridaceae (28 spp.). The most diverse genera are Thelypteris (23 spp.), Asplenium (19 spp.), Elaphoglossum and Blechnum (10 spp. each). Noteworthy is the presence of Ctenitis anniesii, Dicksonia sellowiana, Elaphoglossum iguapense, E. prestonii, E. strictum, Thelypteris concinna, T. araucariensis and T. hatschbachii, all of them considered as endangered species in São Paulo state.
A new record of Lewis’s Woodpecker, Melanerpes lewis (Gray, 1849) (Aves, Picidae) from Chihuahua, with comments on its status in Mexico
Authors: Torres-Vivanco Adrián , Vital-García Cuauhcihuatl , Moreno-Contreras Israel
Published: November 2015

We present a new record of Lewis’s Woodpecker, Melanerpes lewis (Gray, 1849), a rare winter visitor to northern Mexico, in a riparian-grassland corridor at La Regina, Buenaventura Municipality, Chihuahua, on 11–12 January 2014. The record represents the fourth record of this species in the state, and the first record for both the northern portion of the Chihuahua region and the Mexican ecoregion level IV “Foothills and Plains with grasslands, xerophytic scrub and conifer oak forests”. We also comment on its current status and distribution in Mexico.
Assessment of fish assemblage in an urban system, Itapecerica River, upper São Francisco River basin, Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Authors: Domingos Fabrício F.T. , Thomé Ralph G. , Ribeiro Rosy I.M.A. , Souza Helena A.V. , Santos Hélio B.
Published: November 2015

Despite the economic and ecological importance of the Itapecerica River, there is no information about the local fish fauna. The aim of the present study was to provide a list of fish species in Itapecerica River, a tributary of the upper São Francisco River basin, inside an urban area. The specimens were collected quarterly from May 2010 to February 2012, using casting nets, trawl net and gillnets. We listed 29 species belonging to 21 genera of 14 families and 4 orders. Characiformes were represented by 16 species, Siluriformes by nine, Gymnotiformes and Perciformes by two each. Three alien species and five migratory fish were recorded. The low number of species found in this study in relation to São Francisco basin, could be reflecting the high level of degradation of waters in the Itapecerica River.
Vascular flora in dry-shrub and wet grassland Cerrado seven years after a fire, Federal District, Brazil
Authors: Amaral Aryanne Gonçalves , Munhoz Cássia Beatriz R. , Eugênio Chesterton Ulysses Orlando , Felfili Jeanine Maria
Published: November 2015

Studies of temporal dynamics for grassland sites report that fire suppression plays a crucial role in floristic changes. The objective of this study was to verify whether after seven years without fire, communities showed variations in terms of composition, life forms, pollination and dispersal syndromes. The first survey (T0) was conducted from September 1999 to October 2000, while the second (T1) took place from August 2006 to August 2007. The floristic results in T1 were compared with the survey in T0 through the Sorensen similarity index and Chi-square tests. Over time, there were differences in the composition, life forms and pollination and dispersion syndromes. The evidence of changes suggests that the frequency of the fire regime can be considered the main agent for change in the flora of these communities.
Polychaeta (Annelida) from the continental shelf off Aveiro (NW Portugal): Species composition and community structure
Authors: Ravara Ascensão , Moreira Maria Helena
Published: November 2015

The present study provides a checklist of the polychaete fauna collected on the continental shelf off Aveiro (NW Portugal), within an area located between latitudes 40°30’N and 40°50’N and longitudes 8°40’W and 9°20’W, and a depth range of 8 to 185 m. The list includes 136 species, belonging to 37 families, from which 19 are new records for the Portuguese coast (Isolda pulchella, Mesochaetopterus sagittarius, Aphelochaeta multibranchis, Chaetozone cf. vivipara, Diplocirrus hirsutus, Goniadella gracilis, Gyptis mediterranea, Lumbrinerides crassicephala, Eumida bahusiensis, Eumida ockelmanni, Nereiphylla paretti, Phyllodoce rosea, Glyphohesione klatti, Malmgreniella arenicolae, Prionospio aluta, Pseudopolydora paucibranchisata, Pseudopolydora pulchra, Scolelepis mesnili, Polycirrus cf. medusa). The shelf off Aveiro presents a well- defined pattern of sediment distribution, with finer sand on the inner (8–22 m depth) and the outer (94–184 m depth) parts of the shelf and coarser sediments on the mid-shelf. The distribution of polychaete assemblages follows closely the aforementioned sedimentary pattern, showing different specific composition and structure in each of the three areas. Depth was also found to play an important role in the distribution of some polychaete species.
Fish fauna of headwater streams of Perobas Biological Reserve, a conservation unit in the Atlantic Forest of the Northwestern Paraná state, Brazil
Authors: Delariva Rosilene Luciana , Silva Jislaine Cristina da
Published: November 2015

The Perobas Biological Reserve is a Conservation Unit characterized by two physiognomies of the Atlantic Forest: Semideciduous Seasonal Forest and Mixed Ombrophilous Forest. The reserve is situated on a ridge watershed between the basins of the Piquiri and Ivaí rivers, Upper Paraná River and had its fish fauna surveyed for the first time. Fishes were collected quarterly from December 2010 to March 2012, using electrofishing in five stretches of 50 m along the four streams, and gillnets only at one site in December, 2010. A total of 2628 individual were collected, belonging to 34 species in 25 genera, 13 families and six orders. Ten taxa may be new species or part of a complex of species within each genus, and requiring more detailed taxonomic revisions. Nine species are the first records for the Piquiri river basin.
Ecpleopus gaudichaudi Duméril and Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) and Psychosaura agmosticha (Rodrigues, 2000) (Squamata: Scincidae): distribution extension and new records from Atlantic Forest in Bahia state, Brazil
Authors: Dias Eduardo José dos Reis , Rocha Carlos Frederico Duarte
Published: November 2015

We present the first record of Ecpleopus gaudichaudi and Psychosaura agmosticha for the state of Bahia, in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Ecpleopus gaudichaudi was found in the southernmost portion of the state, in the Restinga de Nova Viçosa, municipality of Nova Viçosa, whereas Psychosaura agmosticha was found in the northernmost portion of the state in the Restinga de Costa Azul, municipality of Jandaíra. This is the first time these lizard species were recorded in restinga habitats, and the first record of P. agmosticha in the Atlantic Forest domains.
First record of two molossid bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from Piauí state and distributional review for Brazil
Authors: Novaes Roberto Leonan Morim , Laurindo Rafael De Souza , Oliveira Marcione Brito de , Barreto Camila De Rezende , Avilla Leonardo Dos Santos
Published: November 2015

The Family Molossidae has a cosmopolitan distribution; it is common in urban areas as well as in agricultural and forested environments. In Brazil, the group comprises seven genera with 25 species. In spite of the representative number of taxa, Molossidae is insufficiently documented in biological inventories. Thus, there is a gap in knowledge about the actual distribution of most species. Here we present new records of tow molossids, Cynomops planirostris and Neoplatymops mattogrossensis, for the state of Piauí, Northeastern Brazil, and review locality records for species throughout the Brazilian territory.
Range extension of Plumarius brasiliensis Penteado-Dias and Scatolini, 2003 (Hymenoptera: Plumariidae) in Northeastern Brazil
Authors: Waichert Cecilia , Azevedo Celso O. , Ferreira Rodrigo B. , Williams Kevin A.
Published: November 2015

Plumarius brasiliensis is only known from the type locality, the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. We expand its distribution 1,193 km south of the type locality, in the states of Bahia and Ceará, Brazil. This species is possibly restricted to the dry areas of Northeastern Brazil.
Pericelis cata Marcus and Marcus, 1968 (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida): first record from northeast of Brazil
Authors: Queiroz Vinicius , Sales Licia , Neves Elizabeth G. , Johnsson Rodrigo
Published: November 2015

The polyclad Pericelis cata has been reported in two distinct localities along the North Atlantic: Curaçao and the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Recently identified from the Southwestern Atlantic, the species was first described from the Cabo Frio region (23°S) (Rio de Janeiro State), a transitional zone between warm and cold water species located southeastern Brazil. The second location is in the northeastern coast in warm waters, in the entrance of the Todos-os-Santos Bay, a geographic area within the Brazilian Biotic Province, an important center of marine biodiversity of the Tropical Atlantic.
First record of Scinax tripui Lourenço, Nascimento and Pires, 2010 (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) from Espírito Santo state, Brazil
Authors: Silva Guilherme Ramos da , Luna-Dias Cyro de , Hepp Fabio Silva Fernandes dos Santos , Silva Sergio Potsch de Carvalho e
Published: November 2015

Scinax tripui is a medium sized frog that belongs to the Scinax catharinae clade. We provide a new record of Scinax tripui from Serra de Torres, Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil. This is the first record outside the specie’s type locality (Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais) and the first record from the state of Espírito Santo.
Range extension of Neoporus superioris (Balfour-Browne, 1944) (Insecta: Coleoptera) into Wyoming, USA
Authors: Bish J. Cody , Tronstad Lusha M. , Brown Kelsey M.
Published: November 2015

We report a new state record of Neoporus superioris (Balfour-Browne) from Crook County, Wyoming, USA. This new record represents the most southern extent of N. superioris known.
Erythrolamprus oligolepis (Boulenger, 1905) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae): first record for the state of Acre, Brazil
Authors: França Daniella Pereira Fagundes de , Freitas Marco Antonio de , Bernarde Paulo Sérgio , Uhlig Vívian Mara
Published: November 2015

We present the first record of Erythrolamprus oligolepis for the state of Acre, Brazil, which extends the species distribution by approximately 560 kilometers from Jaci-Paraná in the state of Rondônia, Brazil.
Pecluma recurvata (Kaulf.) M.G. Price (Polypodiopsida: Polypodiaceae): distribution extension in Atlantic Forest, Brazil
Authors: Santiago Augusto César Pessôa , Xavier Sergio Romero da Silva , Pietrobom Marcio Roberto , Barros Iva Carneiro Leão
Published: November 2015

Pecluma recurvata (Kaulf.) M. G. Price has been recorded in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil (Atlantic Forest). Our work further extends the distribution of P. recurvata to northeastern Atlantic Forest in Brazil, in state of Pernambuco, representing a range extension of ca. 880 Km north.
Juliomys rimofrons Oliveira and Bonvicino, 2002 (Rodentia: Cricetidae): Distribution extension
Authors: Fonseca Raul , Bergallo Helena Godoy , Delciellos Ana Cláudia , Rocha-Barbosa Oscar , Geise Lena
Published: November 2015

Until now, Juliomys rimofrons Oliveira and Bonvicino, 2002 has been known only from the type locality, the county of Itamonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Based on morphological and karyological examinations, in this study we identified two new records for this species. Both records correspond to individuals collected at Serra da Bocaina National Park, in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. These records increase the species’ geographic range southwards, approximately 100 km from the type locality.
Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae, Neusticomys monticolus (Anthony, 1921): noteworthy records of the Montane Fish- Eating Rat in Colombia
Authors: Velandia-Perilla Jorge Horacio , Saavedra-Rodríguez Carlos Arturo
Published: November 2015

We document the presence of the Montane Fish-eating Rat, Neusticomys monticolus, in two páramo ecosystems of the Colombian Andes, in the departments of Valle del Cauca and Cauca at 3558 and 3300 m respectively. For small mammals, páramo ecosystems are underexplored zones in a biogeographic context.
Primates, Pitheciidae, Callicebus coimbrai Kobayashi and Langguth, 1999: new localities for an endangered titi monkey in eastern Sergipe, Brazil
Authors: Marques Eduardo La Noce , Jerusalinsky Leandro , Rocha Juliana Cristina A.G. , Santos Paloma Marques , Beltrão-Mendes Raone , Ferrari Stephen Francis
Published: November 2015

Coimbra-Filho’s titi monkey, Callicebus coimbrai Kobayashi and Langguth, 1999, appears to be endemic to the northern Atlantic Forest, south of the lower São Francisco River in east of the state of Sergipe and north-east of the state of Bahia. This study presents 13 new records of the occurrence of the species in the São Francisco and Japaratuba basins of eastern Sergipe, extending its range in the state over a distance of some 40 km. This represents an important advance in the known range and total number of populations of this endangered primate.
Guest Column—On “Learning to Read”
Authors: Ender Evelyne , Lynch Deidre Shauna
Published: November 2015

The theories and methodologies feature of this issue ofPMLAcontains a cluster of essays devoted to the subject of reading. At a time when many states in the United States are in the throes of a major public-education reform designed to prepare better-educated, more literate citizens for tomorrow's world, we collected these essays in the belief that scholars belonging to the MLA might be interested in reflecting on this effort in the light of their research. Hence our title, “Learning to Read,” and our appeal to our contributors to consider what they, with their scholarly expertise and pedagogical experience, might contribute to the charged debates about the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI)— debates that remind us of the high stakes involved in training good readers. We hope thatPMLAreaders will agree with us that the question of how the architects of the Common Core have defined the uses and measures of literacy education affects much of the MLA membership—professors, adjuncts, and graduate instructors alike.

For some years now, test results have indicated that American schoolchildren read more poorly than many of their peers abroad (Heitin). A distinctive feature of the Common Core (the shorthand title for an extraordinary effort to align educational requirements and standards nationwide) lies in its effort to devise a graduated progression in the standards for the English language arts (ELA) that is anchored in the skills of close reading. Given that the changes in teaching objectives defined and prescribed by the standards might transform the way children in America learn to make sense of the written word, it is only natural that our professional body would respond. The decisive, and some might say aggressive, manner in which the architects of the Common Core have recast the fundamentals of the ELA has provoked strong reactions, not only among K-12 teachers but also in higher education. Concerns were voiced early on in sessions at MLA conventions starting in 2013, and those conversations have continued onMLA Commons(e.g., Ferguson).
The Doctor versus the Dagger: Comics Reading and Cultural Memory
Authors: Pizzino Christopher
Published: November 2015

While the graphic novel has gained a measure of respectability in the United States, the medium of which it is a part has not. Even in the claim that comics are “not just for kids anymore,” adult comics readers are still stereotyped as immature. his paradoxical situation calls for a new assessment of the midcentury moment when comics were attacked and threatened with censorship and of the igure of Fredric Wertham, a famous anticomics crusader who is still hated in comics culture today. Far from being symptoms of immaturity, as they are sometimes described, attacks on Wertham are evidence of the longterm efects of illegitimacy on the experiences of comics readers and creators. Subject even now to regulatory discourses of maturity, contemporary comics are best understood not as a literature reaching adulthood but as the basis of a vital literacy still struggling with a long history of marginalization.
A Genealogy of Queer Detachment
Authors: Price Matthew Burroughs
Published: November 2015

Despite their widespread attention to the conluence of queer sexualities and “decadence” in in- de- siècle writing, queer theorists have yet to overcome the two concepts' persistently destructive conlation. his essay explores the latent positive ainities of queerness and decadence in Walter Pater'sRenaissance, which links them through what I call queer detachment. A balance of engagement with and withdrawal from history, this critical perspective anticipates queer theory's methodologies as well as other queer modernist productions. ExaminingGoodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood's chronicle of decadent Weimar Germany, I demonstrate how queer detachment becomes an increasingly politicized method of literary and social world making, a means of reengaging the politics and aesthetics of queer history. hese works, and others like them, encourage scholars to realize decadence's positivity, to conceptualize a queer theory that refuses to acquiesce to residual historical narratives and philosophical systems—without, for all that, refusing their value entirely.
The Common Core and the Evasion of Curriculum
Authors: Guillory John
Published: November 2015

Although the common core state standards initiative was adopted with little controversy in forty-eight states, it soon became the target of attacks both on the right, for the mistaken perception that public education was being taken over by the federal government, and on the left, in response to the institution of an all-too-real draconian testing regime that served the needs more of the testing companies and other corporate agents than of students or teachers. Despite these attacks, it seems likely that the initiative will prevail in most states, perhaps both for better and for worse. My position is that real national standards—not simply state standards— are a desirable goal for the United States today, and long overdue. The “local control” of public education by states and school districts has been, let us admit, the greatest flaw of the K-12 system and a powerful obstruction to the reform of that system. On the other hand, I agree with many (Bryant; Hacker and Dreifus; Ravitch) who see the Common Core as a misguided effort at reform, fatally undermined by the use of punitive, high-stakes testing as the driver of implementation (Loveless). Opting for this strategy, the promoters of the Common Core unfortunately imposed a top-down procedure just where it is least appropriate. Testing, by its very nature, ought to arise from the classroom, the scene of a unique relation between teacher and students. This is not to deny that universal testing is possible and even necessary but rather to acknowledge that the more distant tests are from the scene of teaching, the more limited their informational value.
What Literary Scholars Can Learn from the “Simple View of Reading”
Authors: Elfenbein Andrew
Published: November 2015

According to what educational psychologists call the “simple view of reading,” learning to read requires two sets of skills: decoding (translating “graphic shapes into linguistic form”) and linguistic comprehension (Hoover and Gough 128). The possession of these best predicts success in reading, even beyond such factors as students' gender and socioeconomic status (Kendeou, Savage, and van den Broek; Juel). For humanists who thrive on the complexity of reading, the simple view may look not just simple but crude. But it looks so only if it is supposed to account for every aspect of learning to read rather than for the skills that explain the most variance in students' performance. Understood in the latter sense, it helps teachers know where to focus their efforts in teaching reading. It provides three predictions about why students might have trouble: problems with decoding, problems with understanding, or both. In this light, the model's reductiveness is less a weakness than an achievement in clarifying preconditions for literacy.
The Language of Fiction and the Fiction of Language
Authors: Holquist Michael
Published: November 2015

Learning to read is inseparable from teaching to read. The foundational assumption of the common core state standards initiative (CCSSI) master plan in the English language arts is that its method for teaching reading will eventuate in students' learning to read (as well as speak and write) better. Teachers and students come at their shared task from different perspectives, but both are presumed to be working in the same project of engaging something unproblematically called “language,” the program's middle name (as it is of the MLA). The Common Core's framers assume a correspondence between the phenomenon they call language in their methodological recommendations and language as it is used by them and their students—and everyone else who speaks English—in the world outside the classroom. The standards are based on a theory of language.
The “German” Origin of the Birth of Theory
Authors: Newman Jane O.
Published: November 2015

When Walter Benjamin gave his so-called baroque book its title—Ursprung Des Deutschen trauerspiels (origin of the German Tragic Drama; 1928)—he was clearly in dialogue with Nietzsche's project in Die Geburt der Tragödie (The Birth of Tragedy; 1872). Indeed, it is the difference between the traditional concept of birth (Geburt) and the Benjaminian notion of origin (Ursprung)—and thus the failure of the mourning play's origin to be a matter of its genesis (Entstehung) in ancient tragedy—that helps us see what Benjamin claims is the difference between the two genres and the way he would have us read the “historical” periods aligned with each (Newman 74). Moreover, precisely because the origin of the Trauerspiel is not a monodirectional birth for Benjamin, his commentary on the complex amalgam of ancient and medieval, Renaissance and baroque, and Lutheran and Catholic ideological forces and aesthetic forms that battle it out in the historical seventeenth-century Silesian dramas that he takes as his subject can be read both as an account of the multiple temporalities that shaped these odd plays and as a reflection on how those same forces traveled forward in time to shape the social, political, and existential concerns of his own, early-twentieth-century German modernity—which of course had helped produce his account of the early modern in the first place (Koepnick; Newman). Benjamin's famous association of his theory of Ursprung with a “Strudel… im Fluss des Werdens” (“eddy in the stream of becoming”) thus helpfully confounds the conventional directionality of Geburt by literally muddying the waters of just where the origin of any period's meaning might lie (226; my trans.).
The Birth of Theoryand the Long Shadow of the Dialectic
Authors: Rosenberg Joed/ana
Published: November 2015

Theories, like people, need their fetishes. I'm speaking not of the object fixations of the contemporary humanities but rather of those figures that, while extrinsic to a theory's methodology—even striking a sour or discordant lexical note—come to possess and animate that theory. Such, at least, was true for Marx'sCapital, which derives a good deal of its analytic force from the sacramental magnificence of the spirit world. Indeed, the religious language of the fetish—irreducible to the logic of exchange value and the mechanics of equivalence thatCapitalextrapolates—is the motor of the text. It is so because the language of the fetish lies outside the terms of political economy. The fetish—Capital's indispensable outlier—denaturalizes the banal, violent fungibilities that are the capitalist lifeworld, wreaking its stomach-turning unveilings as if from another planet.Capitalwould not beCapitalwithout its fetish.
He Who Enriched Our Visions of Psychology. Remembering Vladimir Zinchenko (August 10, 1931 — February 6, 2014). Essay.
Authors: Guruzhapov V.A.
Published: November 2015

This essay focuses on the figure of a prominent Russian scientist and psychologist Vladimir Zinchenko, illu¬minating the unity of his life and professional activities. The author reminisces about meetings with this out¬standing person and emphasizes his influence over professional identity of a whole generation of Russian psy¬chologists. He also reveals Zinchenko's role in explorations of the relationships between cultural-historical psychology and other fields of research in humanities. The essay concludes with a non-academic interpretation of some of the problems raised by Zinchenko for future non-classical psychological research.
The Use of Social Networks in Education and Socialization of Adolescents: an Analytical Review of Empirical Studies (International Experience)
Authors: Koroleva D.O.
Published: November 2015

We present a review of foreign studies on the use of social networks in teaching practice. We provide the description of social media as a potential new resource, providing the organization of teacher-student interaction, group communication of students, increasing the involvement of students in the learning process. It is shown that social networking services are relevant to the teenagers request: the pursuit of intimate-personal communication. For the review were selected publications about social networking in education over the past 3 years, satisfying the criteria of describing the details of empirical research. Comparative analysis showed that social media are used in two main ways: 1) as support and operationalization of existing forms of educational work, and 2) to development of the learning process. We confirmed the presence of the «digital gap» between students and teachers that is not in favor of the latter: the described positive results are associated with a wide variety of activities of students, and negative -with low technological literacy and higher workload of teachers.
Physiological and Behavioral Indicators of School Anxiety
Authors: Tarasova S.J. , Osnitsky A.K.
Published: November 2015

We describe the results of a longitudinal study (2007-2012; 2013 to present), in which the regularities of the relationship between psychological and physiological indicators of children’s adaptation to the conditions of schooling are revealed. In particular, it was found that the risk of formation of school anxiety is associated with status of the child in the class position. Physiological marker of experienced anxiety in children in this risk group is cortisol in saliva samples. We revealed sensitivity of sympathoadrenal tone index to the state of anxiety in “inadequately calm” children. These students are consistently isolated in pupils group and exhibit behavioral disorders. We describe the preliminary results of three consecutive measurements of indicators of school anxiety and aggressiveness. The extent is revealed to which the risk of aggressive behavior is associated with hostility as the negative personality attitude. It was found that hostility is positively correlated with the school, self-evaluation and interpersonal anxiety of the children.
Modeling of Targeted Training and Employment in the System of Pedagogical Education
Authors: Fedorov A.A. , Sedykh E.P.
Published: November 2015

Discussed the problem of target training in higher education. Proposed a new model of selection and target training for psycho-pedagogical activity. Substantiates the mechanism of target enrollment in higher education and training. Argued that the proposed planning process of educators is more accurate, creates an environment of healthy competition among students and provides a competitive basis for the targeted training of the most successful and motivated learners.
Model and Training Modules for Applied Bachelors for Work in the Sphere of Pre-school Education
Authors: Gogoberidze A.G. , Golovina I.V.
Published: November 2015

The article describes the major characteristics of the new model and training modules for undergraduate applications in the field of pre-school education developed in the Herzen University in the framework of the modernization of the pedagogical education. The target, content, tools and productive characteristics of the model, which is focused on a set of measurable educational results, confirming to requirements of the standards of professional activity of the teacher of preschool education, the standard of preschool education and the standard of higher education are described. The structure of the pilot platform for testing is given, the principles and requirements for the participants of the pilot platform are described.
Integrated Educational Environment of the University and the School as a Basis for Practice Oriented Teachers Training
Authors: Vinogradov V.L. , Panfilov A.N. , Panfilova V.M. , Rakhmanova A.R.
Published: November 2015

The article discusses the issue of teacher training modernization according to the requirements of the teaching professional standard. One of the most important mechanisms of practice-oriented teachers training is to organize a networking of university and school. We suggest a model of educational environment with integrated education process, which is basically different from the traditional interaction between institutions of higher pedagogical education and general secondary education. The authors validate the list of activities and appropriate teacher competence, which may be the subject of integrated educational environment of university and school, and one of the basic features of networking.
Aplicação de Modelagem Matemática para Otimização da Logística de Exportação do Milho do Estado do Mato Grosso
Authors: Oliveira Andréa Leda Ramos de , Mascarenhas Calistênia , Lopes Bruna Fernanda Ribeiro , Morini Cristiano
Published: November 2015

O objetivo do presente trabalho é estimar os fluxos das principais rotas do milho brasileiro produzido no Estado do Mato Grosso com destino à exportação. As estimativas foram feitas por meio de um modelo matemático baseado em matrizes origem-destino e avaliaram-se dois cenários: no primeiro analisou-se apenas as rotas que utilizam o modal rodoviário e, no segundo, acrescentaram-se rotas intermodais selecionadas. Como principais resultados, tem-se que o Porto de Santos é o principal destino da rota de exportação do milho mato-grossense, seguido pelo Porto de Paranaguá. No cenário dois, com a inclusão das opções intermodais de escoamento, a função objetivo teve uma redução de 6,3%. A rota rodo-hidroviária com destino ao Porto de Santarém/Manaus possui destacada vantagem competitiva, em termos de custos logísticos, para o milho produzido no Norte do Mato Grosso. Também se observou que a intermodalidade é uma das melhores formas para se alcançar uma maior eficiência na cadeia do milho, pois, além de reduzir os custos com frete, poderá refletir vantagens competitivas no mercado internacional.
Elasticidade da Demanda da Carne Suína Brasileira Exportada (1995-2013)
Authors: Melz Laércio Juarez , Marion Filho Pascoal José , Bender Filho Reisoli , Vieira Kelmara Mendes , Coronel Daniel Arruda
Published: November 2015

O objetivo deste artigo foi estimar as elasticidades-preço e elasticidade-cruzada da demanda de carne suína exportada entre janeiro de 1995 e junho de 2013. O período foi escolhido devido à estabilidade econômica gerada após a implantação do Plano Real. Foram coletadas séries mensais de quantidades exportadas, preços de exportação, preços internos das carnes de suínos, bovinos e frangos, além do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) brasileiro e taxa de câmbio do dólar nos bancos de dados do Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior (MDIC) e do Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA). Foi estimada regressão por Mínimos Quadrados com Quebras. Pelo procedimento de Bai-Perron foi localizada quebra estrutural no mês de fevereiro de 2002. A quebra foi justificada pela alta dos insumos, milho e soja, seguida pela queda dos preços internacionais da carne suína. Antes da quebra, o preço externo da carne suína e o preço interno da carne bovina eram preditores da demanda. Após a quebra, os preditores passaram a ser os preços internos da carne bovina e de frango e a renda nacional. A direção do sinal na regressão indicou que a carne suína é complementar da carne bovina e substituta da carne de frango no mercado internacional.
Variação Sazonal na Dieta ne Astyanax aff. paranae Eigenmann, 1914 em uma Região de Cabeceira na Bacia do Rio Ivaí
Authors: Carvalho Nathalie Regina de , De Souza Fagner , Deprá Gabriel De Carvalho , Silva Rodrigo Francklin da
Published: November 2015

A ecologia trófica permite compreender mais intimamente as características ecológicas específicas de cada organismo, como as formas de forrageio e as inter-relações com outros organismos. Para entender a estrutura de um ecossistema vários fatores ecológicos podem ser analisados, um destes fatores pode ser o estudo dos recursos alimentares, quanto à origem dessas fontes, as relações com as áreas adjacentes e as variações sazonais. O objetivo deste trabalho foi de quantificar e analisar a dieta de A. aff. paranae entre os períodos sazonais, testando a hipótese de que a dieta da espécie se altera em períodos sazonais diferentes. Foi realizado o método volumétrico e calculado o índice alimentar (iai) comparando a dieta entre os períodos amostrados. Diferenças foram encontradas entre os períodos, principalmente em relação aos recursos alimentares na dieta da espécie, sendo que os recursos de maior representatividade no período de seca foram os de origem autóctones e no período de chuva, principalmente os de origem alóctones. A formação de remansos no período de seca e a imprevisibilidade ambiental neste tipo de ecossistema são responsáveis pela alteração da dieta e a seleção de organismos neste ambiente.