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The Effect of Modifying the Macrocyclic Ring Size on Zn3Ln (Ln = Dy, Er, and Yb) Single‐Molecule Magnet Behavior
Authors: Feltham Humphrey L. C. , Clérac Rodolphe , Peng Yan , Moreno‐Pineda Eufemio , Powell Annie K. , Brooker Sally
Published: July 2018

Three tetranuclear heterometallic ZnII‐LnIII complexes of the 30‐membered [3+3] hexaimine macrocycle (LEt)6–, with general formula ZnII3LnIII(LEt)(NO3)2OAc·5H2O (LnIII = DyIII, ErIII, YbIII), were prepared using our established one‐pot synthesis methodology, whereby the individual components of the whole system are poised to assemble themselves into a mixed 3d/f4f macrocyclic system. This uses a 3:1:3:3 reaction of ZnII acetate, the appropriate LnIII nitrate, 1,4‐diformyl‐2,3‐dihydroxybenzene, and 1,2‐diaminoethane. These ten individual building blocks readily assemble into tetrametallic complexes, analogous to our previously reported examples with larger macrocycles. Identity was confirmed by IR spectroscopy (imine), micro‐ (C, H, N) and metal‐ (Zn, Ln) analysis, TGA (solvent content), and mass spectrometry. Magnetic properties were studied down to 2 K and with ac susceptibility measurements were used to check for slow relaxation of the magnetization characteristic of Single‐Molecule Magnet (SMM) behavior. As is often the case for single ion systems (only Ln is paramagnetic) no such behavior was observed. However, under an applied dc field, an out‐of‐phase ac susceptibility signal is seen for all three complexes. We speculate that shrinkage of macrocyclic ring size (30) compared to that of the original ZnII3DyIII system (33) has led to a less favorable coordination arrangement for the DyIII and ErIII ions through a change in the imposed coordination environment of the LnIII ion.
Taming the ϵ-expansion with large spin perturbation theory
Authors: Alday Luis F. , Henriksson Johan , van Loon Mark
Published: July 2018

Abstract

We apply analytic bootstrap techniques to the four-point correlator of fundamental fields in the Wilson-Fisher model. In an ϵ-expansion crossing symmetry fixes the double discontinuity of the correlator in terms of CFT data at lower orders. Large spin perturbation theory, or equivalently the recently proposed Froissart-Gribov inversion integral, then allows one to reconstruct the CFT data of intermediate operators of any spin. We use this method to compute the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients of leading twist operators. To cubic order in ϵ the double discontinuity arises solely from the identity operator and the scalar bilinear operator, making the computation straightforward. At higher orders the double discontinuity receives contributions from infinite towers of higher spin operators. At fourth order, the structure of perturbation theory leads to a proposal in terms of functions of certain degree of transcendentality, which can then be fixed by symmetries. This leads to the full determination of the CFT data for leading twist operators to fourth order.
Dating of Columbite-tantalite and Monazite from Pegmatites of the Kawadgaon–Challanpara Area, Bastar Craton, Central India
Authors: Singh Yamuna , Sastry D. V. L. N. , Bagora Sanjay , Pandit P. S. C. , Rai S. D. , Verma M. B.
Published: July 2018

The results of geochronological studies on columbite-tantalite and monazite from the rare metal pegmatites of the Kawadgaon – Challanpara area in Bastar craton, central India are presented. Columbite-tantalite yielded U-Pb concordia upper intercept age of 1978±16 Ma (MSWD = 0.18). Radiogenic 207Pb*/206Pb* (T7/6) ages on 4 out of 5 columbite-tantalite vary in a narrow range of 1903 to 2077 Ma and are similar to U-Pb age, whereas, one sample shows younger 207Pb*/206Pb*(T7/6) age of 1728 Ma. Younger Pb-Pb age of 1744 ± 250 Ma (MSWD = 150) has also been indicated by these columbite-tantalite samples. Four out of five monazite samples define Pb-Pb errorchron age of 2050±370 Ma (MSWD = 165) and radiogenic 207Pb*/206Pb* (T7/6) ages on 3 out of 5 monazites show a narrow range of 1983 to 2083 Ma. Other two samples show younger 207Pb*/206Pb*(T7/6) ages as 1254 Ma and 1592Ma. Both monazite and columbite-tantalite indicate disturbance in Pb and U isotopic systematics as revealed by high MSWD. However, selected samples from both monazite and columbite-tantalite indicate age of their formation as c. 2000 Ma. Younger ages, i.e., 1254 to 1744 Ma are indicative of later geological disturbances. Reported age of c. 2000 Ma is comparable to Rb-Sr date of pegmatitic muscovite (1850-2330 Ma) from this area and is younger to intrusive granites of c. 2500 Ma. By analogy, therefore, it may be inferred that the age of the rare element mineralization may be ∼2000 Ma old, and linked with younger granitic activity that spanned over the period from 2300 to 2100 Ma in the Bastar craton.
Quantitative Geomorphological Analysis to Infer the Hydrological Behaviour of Streams Draining into the Vembanad Lake – A Ramsar Site along the Southwest Coast of India
Authors: Chandran M. S. Shylesh , Ajaykumar B.
Published: July 2018

Vembanad lake system (VLS) is a Ramsar wetland of premier importance along the south west coast of India. This system spread over 13098 km2 accounts for 33.7% of total geographic area of Kerala state. VLS sustains by the input of six main river systems of Kerala viz., Achankovil, Pampa, Manimala, Meenachil, Muvattupuzha and Periyar. Central focus of this study is to find out the influence of morphometric variables on hydrological processes using geo-informatics and correlation analysis and to analyse the scale dependence of basin hypsometry in steady state topography and hydrology. The study also examines the contribution of each river in making the entities of this wetland system by portraying the morphometric and hypsometric parameters of its watershed. The results of this analysis reveals that the Manimala river basin has survived with rapid denudation activities and run off mechanism, while Periyar and Pampa river basins have culminating stage of development and are tectonically active. This study immensely contributes to the knowledge on the influence of morphometric variables on hydrological process and scale dependence of basin hypsometry in steady state topography including hydrology of VLS. The results will shed some light on hydrologic makeup of inflow rivers and will be beneficial for the sustainable management of India’s one of the premier wetlands.
Analysis of the Tectonic Stress Field of SE Sichuan and its Impact on the Preservation of Shale Gas in Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation of the Dingshan Region, China
Authors: Yong Tang , Fan Yang , Lv Qi Q. , Tang Wen J. , Wang Hai K.
Published: July 2018

Tectonic stress is one of the most active deformation factors in the Earth’s crust. Therefore, determinations of its mode of action and form of conversion are critical for guiding research that evaluates preservation conditions in shale gas. Through a survey that targeted many structural features, such as vertical folds and conjugated joints, we investigated the revolution characteristics of the tectonic stress field, the mode of action and the sequence of tectonic stress in the Dingshan region of SE Sichuan by structural analysis methods. Meanwhile, based on a geologic analysis of tectonic stress mechanisms, the structural stress in the region using finite element numerical simulations is quantitatively analyzed. The results show that the region has experienced tectonic stress fields over four different periods and in four different orientations: NW–SE, nearly N–S, nearly E–W and NE-SW. The NW-SE force occurred earlier than that of the nearly N–S force, followed by nearly E–W compression, and finally N–E force. It is concluded that the structural framework of the study area was formed by the effects of the NE-SW compressional stress, which is still active today. The simulation demonstrated that overlapping parts of the intensive strain zone had a higher maximum principal stress, particularly in areas of energy concentration. As for mud and shale, which show excellent sealing capacity, the key to preserving shale gas is the accumulation of energy and a low degree of breakage. Considering the nip-out line of the Longmaxi Formation in the Dingshan region, the buried depth limit of shale-gas production (4500 m), and fault length, the preservation conditions of shale gas and identified favorable targets within the Longmaxi Formation is evaluated.
Assessing Groundwater Resource Vulnerability by Coupling GIS-Based DRASTIC and Solute Transport Model in Ajmer District, Rajasthan
Authors: Joshi Pranjay , Gupta Pankaj Kumar
Published: July 2018

Groundwater aquifer vulnerability has been assessed by incorporating the major geological and hydrogeological factors that affect and control the groundwater contamination using GIS-based DRASTIC model along with solute transport modeling. This work demonstrates the potential of GIS to derive a vulnerability map by overlying various spatially referenced digital data layers (i.e., depth to water, net recharge, aquifer media, soil media, topography, the impact of vadose zone and hydraulic conductivity) that portrays cumulative aquifer sensitivity ratings in Kishangarh, Rajasthan. It provides a relative indication of groundwater aquifer vulnerability to contamination. The soil moisture flow and solute transport regimes of the vadose zone associated with specific hydrogeological conditions play a crucial role in pollution risk assessment of the underlying groundwater resources. An effort has been made to map the vulnerability of shallow groundwater to surface pollutants of thestudy area, using soil moisture flow and contaminant transport modeling. The classical advection-dispersion equation coupled with Richard’s equation is numerically simulated at different point locations for assessing the intrinsic vulnerability of the valley. The role of soil type, slope, and the land-use cover is considered for estimating the transient flux at the top boundary from daily precipitation and evapotranspiration data of the study area. The time required by the solute peak to travel from the surface to the groundwater table at the bottom of the soil profile is considered as an indicator of avulnerability index. Results show a high vulnerability in the southern region, whereas low vulnerability is observed in the northeast and northern parts. The results have recognized four aquifer vulnerability zones based on DRASTIC vulnerability index (DVI), which ranged from 45 to 178. It has been deduced that approximately 18, 25, 34, and 23% of the area lies in negligible, low, medium and high vulnerability zones, respectively. The study may assist in decision making related to theplanning of industrial locations and the sustainable water resources development of the selected semi-arid area.
Non-Conventional Energy Sources: A Geo-Spatial Study of Site, Situation, Production and Economy of Wind Farms in Satara District
Authors: Sule Bharat M.
Published: July 2018

Wind energy is a popular from the non-conventional energy sources in the World. In India states like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Orissa, and Maharashtra are as regarded as superior areas with respect to this type energy. The installed capacity of wind in India till December 2010 was 13,056.37 MW, principally distributed throughout the Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, etc. In Maharashtra, there are 38 wind farms and the 3655 wind machines are installed with the 3431.86MW capacity of power generation up to September 2013. In Satara district, 17 wind sites and also other some sites are discovered. At present there are 1636 wind turbines are installed with its capacity of power generation is 1122.61MW and the production of wind energy of 2183745.15KWh average per annum in Satara district.

The main objectives of the present paper are to assess the scope of non-conventional energy resources especially the power generation from wind and to analyze the trend and distribution of the wind mills and wind farms in Satara district. It is find out the amount of recovered from the power generation comes around 12 years without subsidy and around 8 years with subsidy. The total life span of wind turbines is 25 years. It is very much clean and does not cause any problem to the environment as well as to the survival on the surface of the earth. Therefore, it is inferred that the generation of power from wind is not only cheaper and permanent energy source but also a non-polluting, freely available source. It is helpful for the development of economically and socially in a region especially in rural development. With these consequences the income level will increase and it will further help in minimising the social disparities.
Functioning mediates help-seeking for mental problems in the general population
Authors: Michel Chantal , Schnyder Nina , Schmidt Stefanie J. , Groth Nicola , Schimmelmann Benno G. , Schultze-Lutter Frauke
Published: July 2018

Aims:

Absent or delayed help-seeking is considered to aggravate the immense personal and societal burden caused by mental disorders. Therefore, we cross-sectionally examined rates and clinical and sociodemographic moderators of early help-seeking for current clinician-assessed non-psychotic mental problems/disorders in the community.

Methods:

Altogether, 2683 individuals of the Swiss Canton Bern (16–40 years old, response rate 63.4%) were interviewed by telephone for current axis-I problems/disorders using the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview, for psychosocial functioning using the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale, and for help-seeking for mental problems.

Results:

In total, 1122 (41.8%) reported mental problems. Of these, 769 (68.5%) affirmed any one screening question and 353 (31.5%) fulfilled criteria for any current axis-I disorder, and 396 (35.3%) reported any lifetime help-seeking (28.3% sought help in the past and 7.0% were in current treatment). In path analyses, current help-seeking was associated mainly by type and number of mental problems/disorders mediated by functional impairment, in addition to older age, no current partner, and past treatment.

Conclusion:

Our cross-sectional data indicate a gap in help-seeking for mental problems/disorders. The relationship between number of mental problems/disorders and help-seeking mediated by functional impairment confirm that individuals commonly do not seek help until problems are severe enough to cause problems in occupational and psychosocial functioning, driving the already immense costs of mental disorders. Thus, campaigns promoting early help-seeking, including early diagnostic clarification of and support for subthreshold mental problems in terms of an indicated prevention, should focus on psychosocial functioning, aside from signs of mental illness.
Decrease in Intercourse Satisfaction in Men Who Recover Erections After Radical Prostatectomy
Authors: Terrier Jean E. , Masterson Melissa , Mulhall John P. , Nelson Christian J.
Published: July 2018

Introduction

Recovery of erections after radical prostatectomy (RP) is assumed to lead to recovery in sexual satisfaction. Although data suggest a relationship between sexual function and sexual satisfaction, it is unclear whether presurgical levels of sexual satisfaction are attained for men who “recover” erections post-RP.

Aim

The goal of this analysis is to determine whether the recovery of erectile function restores presurgical levels of sexual satisfaction.

Methods

We assessed 229 men pre-RP and 24-months post-RP. At both time points, participants completed the Erectile Function Domain (EFD) and the Intercourse Satisfaction Domain (ISD) of the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF). Erectile function recovery at 24 months was defined as (1) (EFD≥24) or (2) EFD back to baseline (BTB). One hundred sixty-six men with penetration hardness erections (PHEs) at baseline (EFD >24) were included in the analyses. Repeated measure t-tests were used to compare changes in ISD scores and effect size (Cohen's d) was calculated to determine the clinical significance of these changes. Multivariable analyses (MVA) were used to test the relationship between EFD and ISD.

Results

The mean age of men was 58 (SD = 7) years. The mean EFD score at baseline was 29 (SD = 2), which declined significantly to 20 (SD = 10) at 24 months. ISD also decreased significantly between baseline and 24 months (12 to 8.3, P < .001, d = 0.87), even among men with PHEs at 24 months (12.3 to 11.3, P < .001, d = 0.50) and men who achieved BTB erections at 24 months (12.4 to 11.7, P = .02, d = 0.35). For men with PHEs at 24 months, MVAs identified baseline ISD (beta = 0.46) and 24-month EFD (beta = 0.23) as the only significant predictors of 24-month ISD. However, among men who achieved BTB erections at 24 months, baseline ISD (beta = 0.49) was the only significant predictor of 24-month ISD.

Clinical Implications

These findings underscore the importance of the integration of psychological support and medical care to best meet the needs of patients. Furthermore, these results can be used to facilitate pre-RP communication and counseling with patients to improve understanding and manage post-RP expectations.

Strengths & Limitations

The study methodology, specifically the use of BTB as a means of defining erectile function and the longitudinal, prospective study design are relative strengths. Despite the longitudinal design, the study did not include a control group of healthy, age-matched men.

Conclusion

Results highlight the enduring impact of sexual dysfunction, namely erectile dysfunction, on intercourse satisfaction following RP and suggest that restoration of function in and of itself does not ensure the restoration of satisfaction.
Pelvic Floor Muscle Morphometry and Function in Women With Primary and Secondary Provoked Vestibulodynia
Authors: Fontaine Félix , Dumoulin Chantale , Bergeron Sophie , Mayrand Marie-Hélène , Khalifé Samir , Wadell Guy , Morin Mélanie
Published: July 2018

Introduction

Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) can be categorized as primary PVD affecting women from their first sexual intercourse or secondary PVD, which appears after a period of pain-free intercourse. There is growing evidence that these subgroups may be distinct entities presenting different pathophysiological mechanisms. Although there are documented pelvic floor muscle alterations in provoked vestibulodynia, no study has yet evaluated whether the pelvic floor muscle morphometry or function differed between women with primary and secondary provoked vestibulodynia.

Aim

To assess and compare pelvic floor muscle morphometry and function in women with primary and secondary provoked vestibulodynia.

Methods

A total of 212 women with provoked vestibulodynia (primary = 75 and secondary = 137) participated in the study after completing a gynecologic exam to confirm their diagnosis.

Main Outcome Measure

Pelvic floor muscle morphometry was evaluated at rest and during maximal contraction using 3D/4D transperineal ultrasound and pelvic floor muscle function (tone, strength, speed of contraction, endurance) was assessed with a dynamometric speculum.

Results

Pelvic floor muscle morphometry at rest and during contraction was not statistically different between women with primary and secondary provoked vestibulodynia (P > .327 adjusted for the duration of symptoms; P > .137 unadjusted t-tests). Regarding pelvic floor muscle function assessed with the dynamometric speculum, no differences were found in tone, strength, speed of contraction, endurance between the 2 groups (P > .144 adjusted for duration of symptoms; P > .118 unadjusted t-tests).

Clinical Implications

Women with primary and secondary PVD do not differ on pelvic floor muscle morphometric or dynamometric characteristics, suggesting that physical therapy modalities should be offered to both subgroups of PVD.

Strengths & Limitations

The current study used a large and mixed clinical and community sample providing more representative findings. Moreover, the analyses were adjusted for relevant variables such as duration of symptoms. Although the inclusion of nulliparous women below 45 years of age ensured the homogeneity of the sample, it may limit the external validity.

Conclusion

These findings suggest that primary and secondary subgroups of provoked vestibulodynia cannot be differentiated by morphometric or dynamometric characteristics. Pelvic floor muscles alterations in provoked vestibulodynia are therefore not influenced by the onset of the symptoms.
Sexual Functions in Male and Female Patients With Bipolar Disorder During Remission
Authors: Elkhiat Yasser Ibrahim , Abo Seif Ahmed Fathy , Khalil Mohamed A. , GamalEl Din Sameh Fayek , Hassan Nahla Saad
Published: July 2018

Introduction

Bipolar disorder is an episodic mood disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood and affects the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.

Aim

Evaluation of the sexual function in men and women with bipolar disorder during remission.

Methods

60 men and women with bipolar disorder and 60 age-matched control subjects were included. A Structured Clinical Interview of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition was performed to confirm the diagnosis, and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) to assess the depressive symptoms and Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) to assess the manic symptoms. We assessed sexual function in both sexes using international indices of erectile function for men and sexual function of women.

Main Outcome Measures

Scores of HAM-D, YMRS, Arabic versions of International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and female sexual function (FSFI).

Results

Depressive symptoms showed insignificant adverse correlation with the IIEF in men, whereas they revealed adverse significant correlations with the items of female sexual function index (FSFI) except pain (correlation coefficients [r] = 0.349 [P = .059], r = 0.680 [P < .001], r = 0.574 [P = .001], r = 0.517 [P = .003], r = 0.569 [P = .001], r = 0.532 [P = .002], r = 0.609 [P < .001], r = 0.342 [P = .065], respectively). Interestingly, the manic symptoms were associated with sexual hyperfunctioning in the men and were insignificantly correlated with the different items of FSFI in the women (r = 0.414 [P = .023], r = 0.043 [P = .821], r = 0.100 [P = .601], r = 0.108 [P = .571], r = 0.183 [P = .332), r = 0.086 [P = .651], r = 0.022 (P = .907), r = 0.109 [P = .565], respectively). There was a positive correlation between the affected women’s satisfaction and their partners’ score (r = 0.374, P =.042). Finally, the mean score of pain was statistically higher in the female cases than the normal ones (mean ± SD = 3.6 ± 0.4, 3.4, ± 0.6; P = .036).

Clinical implications

A different approach may be mandatory for manic female patients.

Strengths & Limitations

This study is one of the few studies that evaluated the sexual function in patients with bipolar disorder especially during remission. Some limitations of this study must be mentioned. We failed to evaluate the female partners of the diseased males. Quality of life of the recruited patients was not assessed. Finally, the study included patients who were not drug free.

Conclusion

Manic symptoms in female bipolar I patients are associated with sexual hypofunctioning.
Lumbar Stability in Healthy Individuals and Low Back Pain Patients Quantified by Wall Plank‐and‐Roll Test
Authors: Lee Joonnyong , Yoon Chiyul , Kim Keewon , Cho Minkyung , Kim Hee Chan , Chung Sun Gun
Published: July 2018

Background

Low back pain (LBP) has been linked to the degree of lumbar stability, but evaluating lumbar stability has remained a challenge. Previous research has shown that inertial sensors could be used to quantify motor patterns during the wall plank‐and‐roll (WPR) test, and that LBP may cause deviations in movement from the general motor patterns observed in healthy individuals.

Objective

To generalize the lumbar motor patterns during the WPR test in healthy individuals, and to analyze the effect of aging and LBP on the motor patterns during the WPR test.

Design

A descriptive, exploratory research with a convenience sample. This study is registered at the Clinical Research Information Service (Korea) under public trial registration numbers KCT0002481 and KCT0002533.

Setting

A biomechanics laboratory of a tertiary university hospital.

Participants

57 healthy individuals (23 men 36.7 ± 15.4 years old and 34 women 42.4 ± 17.7 years old) and 17 patients (5 men 48.4 ± 10.9 years old and 12 women 33.7 ± 9.9 years old) with axial LBP.

Methods

Participants performed the WPR test with 2 inertial sensors placed on the thoracic spine and sacrum. Relative angles between the sensors were calculated to quantify and examine lumbar motion in 3 anatomical planes: axial twist, kyphosis‐lordosis, and lateral bending.

Main Outcome Measures

General motor patterns during the WPR test in healthy participants were examined, stratified based on age, and changes based on age were analyzed. Motor patterns of LBP patients were compared with those from the healthy group.

Results

Movement in the kyphosis‐lordosis and lateral bending axes showed little variation in healthy participants, whereas in the axial twist axis there were 2 dominant patterns. A χ
2 test revealed that the distributions of 2 motor patterns in the axial twist axis between the younger group and the older group were significantly different (P < .05). Furthermore, the older group had decreased lordosis at the static position (P = .02) and at the maximal rotating position (P = .03). Compared with the healthy group, LBP patients showed increasing lateral bending at the maximal rotating position (P = .007) and increased lateral bending excursion angle (P = .04) during the WPR test.

Conclusions

A general lumbar motor pattern was observed during the WPR test in the healthy participants, but age contributed to variations in this general pattern. Comparison of motor patterns between healthy individuals and LBP patients revealed a different type of variation in the LBP patients. The results presented should be scrutinized with further research, characterizing specific variations in different subgroups of LBP patients.

Level of Evidence

III
Growing a Nature Kindergarten That Can Flourish
Authors: Elliot Enid , Krusekopf Frances
Published: July 2018

Growing a nature kindergarten that can flourish takes a community, careful planning, and sustained support. In 2011, the Sooke School District in British Columbia, Canada undertook the project of creating a nature kindergarten when outdoor programs of this kind did not exist in the Canadian public school system. Inspired by the well-established forest school and nature preschool models in northern Europe, a program to take 22 kindergarten students outside into nature every morning, regardless of the weather, was developed. This article explores how a unique framework and set of guiding principles were co-created by a diverse advisory committee. It also describes how the hiring, education, and ongoing support of the program's two educators — a kindergarten teacher and an early childhood educator — became critical to its success. The article offers an overview on steps taken, including how the idea was born, working within the public school system, building a framework and principles, hiring and education, preparing the educators, learning from our first year, ongoing support, and remaining questions. The authors’ intention is not to articulate best practices, but to share key aspects of the program's development and implementation phases that allowed the nature kindergarten to thrive over the last 5 years.
La société civile, juge des droits de l’homme: à propos du Tribunal International Monsanto
Authors: LE BRIS CATHERINE
Published: July 2018

Fruit de la société civile, le Tribunal International Monsanto a siégé à la Haye en octobre 2016. Dans son “avis consultatif” du 18 avril 2017, ce tribunal d’opinion apprécie juridiquement les comportements de Monsanto au regard des droits à un environnement sain, à l’alimentation, à la santé, à la liberté scientifique ainsi qu’à l’aune des crimes de guerre et d’écocide. Le présent article se propose d’examiner le contenu de cet avis, tout en le replaçant dans le contexte juridique international. Dans la mesure où l’entreprise Monsanto n’a pas pris part au débat, la question du procès équitable est, dans un premier temps, examinée, tant son implication sur le fond peut être déterminante. Concernant l’avis lui-même, la position du Tribunal est en demi-teinte: alors qu’il est sans appel s’agissant des atteintes aux droits de l’homme par Monsanto, il est plus réservé, en l’état du droit positif, pour ce qui est relatif aux violations des normes internationales pénales. Dans ce contexte, le Tribunal propose deux mesures pour rééquilibrer l’ordre juridique international, à savoir, d’une part, hiérarchiser celui-ci au profit des droits de l’homme et, d’autre part, faire des entreprises des débiteurs directs des obligations internationales découlant de ces droits.
Robust features of a turbulent boundary layer subjected to high-intensity free-stream turbulence
Authors: Hearst R. Jason , Dogan Eda , Ganapathisubramani Bharathram
Published: July 2018

The influence of the large scale organisation of free-stream turbulence on a turbulent boundary layer is investigated experimentally in a wind tunnel through hot-wire measurements. An active grid is used to generate high-intensity free-stream turbulence with turbulence intensities and local turbulent Reynolds numbers in the ranges $7.2\,\%\leqslant u_{\infty }^{\prime }/U_{\infty }\leqslant 13.0\,\%$ and $302\leqslant Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706},\infty }\leqslant 760$, respectively. In particular, several cases are produced with fixed $u_{\infty }^{\prime }/U_{\infty }$ and $Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706},\infty }$, but up to a 65 % change in the free-stream integral scale $L_{u,\infty }/\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$. It is shown that, while qualitatively the spectra at various wall-normal positions in the boundary layer look similar, there are quantifiable differences at the large wavelengths all the way to the wall. Nonetheless, profiles of the longitudinal statistics up to fourth order are well collapsed between cases at the same $u_{\infty }^{\prime }/U_{\infty }$. It is argued that a larger separation of the integral scale would not yield a different result, nor would it be physically realisable. Comparing cases across the wide range of turbulence intensities and free-stream Reynolds numbers tested, it is demonstrated that the near-wall spectral peak is independent of the free-stream turbulence, and seemingly universal. The outer peak was also found to be described by a set of global scaling laws, and hence both the near-wall and outer spectral peaks can be predicted a priori with only knowledge of the free-stream spectrum, the boundary layer thickness ($\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$) and the friction velocity ($U_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}$). Finally, a conceptual model is suggested that attributes the increase in $U_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}$ as $u_{\infty }^{\prime }/U_{\infty }$ increases to the build-up of energy at large wavelengths near the wall because that energy cannot be transferred to the universal near-wall spectral peak.
Dialect Contact and the Acadian French Subjunctive: A Cross-Varietal Study
Authors: King Ruth , LeBlanc Carmen L. , Grimm D. Rick
Published: July 2018

This study investigates mood choice for five Acadian French communities in Atlantic Canada which have intertwined settlement histories but which differ in terms of type and degree of dialect contact. The two communities with least contact with supralocal French preserve the highly salient imperfect subjunctive, moribund or absent from most other present-day spoken French varieties. While four communities exhibit high selection rates for the present subjunctive, in line with variationist analyses of other French varieties, one community has surprisingly low rates of such usage, along with absence of the imperfect subjunctive. This dichotomy is explained by the local prestige of the smaller of two founder groups for the community, settlers from Haute-Bretagne, France, a dialect area for which the historical record reveals low levels of subjunctive forms. The results highlight the importance not only of demographic factors but also of local identity construction in the formation of new contact varieties.
PETITIONS AND PATHWAYS TO THE ASYLUM IN BRITISH MANDATE PALESTINE, 1930–1948
Authors: WILSON CHRIS
Published: July 2018

This article draws on a collection of petitions by Palestinian Arabs and Jews to explore how families negotiated the admission of mentally ill relatives into government mental institutions under the British mandate between 1930 and 1948. In contrast to the conclusions of the existing literature, which focuses largely on the development of parallel Jewish institutions as establishing the foundations of the Israeli health system, these petitions reveal that the trajectories of both Arab and Jewish mentally ill were complex, traversing domestic, private, and government contexts in highly contingent ways. The second part of this article examines the petitions themselves as dense moments of engagement by Palestinian Arabs and Jews with the British mandate, in which the anxieties and priorities of the mandate were strategically re-deployed in order to secure admission into chronically underfunded and overcrowded institutions. Petitioners also sought to mobilize other actors, often within the state itself, as intercessors, a strategy which attempted to thread together state and society in a meaningful and advantageous way at a time when both seemed to be unravelling. Taken together, these pathways and petitions foreground the space of interaction between the British mandate and its subjects, thereby offering new perspectives on both.
The Body–Mind Challenge: Theology and phenomenology in Bengal-Vaishnavisms
Authors: SARBADHIKARY SUKANYA
Published: July 2018

Recent studies of Asian religious traditions have critiqued Western philosophical understandings of mind–body dualism and furthered the productive notion of mind–body continuum. Based on intensive fieldwork among two kinds of devotional groups of Bengal—claimants to an orthodox Vaishnavism, who focus on participating in the erotic sports of the Hindu deity-consort Radha-Krishna in imagination and a quasi-tantric group, which claims to physically apprehend Radha-Krishna's erotic pleasures through direct sexual experience—I demonstrate that, although these devotional groups stress on combating theologies, with emphases respectively on the ‘mind’ and the ‘body’, in their narrations of religious experiences, however, both groups allude to rarefied phenomenological states of cognition and embodiment. So, while influenced by ideas of (mental) ‘purity’ and (bodily) ‘actuality’, respectively, practices of both groups rely on similar states of mind–body continuum. So I argue that the mind–body complex has intensely nuanced articulations in the discursive and experiential domains of these non-Western religious contexts. Through my analyses of the texts and embodiments of these opposed devotional groups, I show that theology gets both organically entangled with as well as challenged by phenomenological experiences. I further argue that explorations in the tenor of religious studies sharply enrich the anthropology of religiosities. Also, such engagements between theology and anthropology have been relatively lacking and need more emphasis in studies of contemporary South Asian religions.
EMOLUMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE FAILURE OF BUREAUCRATIC REFORM IN THE YUAN DYNASTY
Authors: Ha Yiming
Published: July 2018

Beginning in 1260, the Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan embarked on the creation of a Chinese-style bureaucracy to govern his realm more effectively. At the same time, the court began to promulgate a salary code for its officials. Though both processes were led in large part by Chinese scholar-officials, this group continually complained about the shortcomings of the salary code and its negative effects on the bureaucracy. By studying their writings on salaries and official government records, this article will demonstrate that the Chinese literati used their complaints about the salary code to level criticisms against flaws in the administration and to push for bureaucratic reform, and that the Yuan court was genuinely concerned about the salary problem and took measures to alleviate it. Yet the court never actually reformed, and this article will ultimately aim to show how the response to the issue of salaries reflected the Mongols’ desires to cling to the power and privilege that was afforded to them by a bureaucratic structure which preserved much of their traditional steppe institutions and values.
PEASANT SOCIETY IN JAPAN'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON RURAL LABOUR AND FINANCE MARKETS
Authors: Tanimoto Masayuki
Published: July 2018

This study aims to discuss the significant role of “peasant society” in understanding the economic history of both modern and early modern Japan.

Independent peasant households proliferated in Japan in the seventeenth century, and from around the turn of the eighteenth century onwards they underwent a transformation into entities calledie,which owned family properties and bore responsibility for conveying these properties to the next generation. Although the development of the market economy also contributed to maintaining and activating the peasant society, the function of the labour market was strongly influenced by the strategy of peasant households to pursue the optimal utilization of slack labour generated by the seasonally fluctuating labour demand from agriculture. Under these constraints, peasant households tended to deliver non-agricultural employment opportunities to their members, forming a kind of barrier against mobilizing family workers outside the household. These barriers were supported by region-based industrial development such as a weaving industry adopting the putting-out system most suitable to the requirements of peasant households. Rural-based capital accumulation together with the workings of the regional financial markets contributed to maintaining particular peasant household behaviours by supporting region-based industrial development, which featured in Japan's path of economic and social development from the early modern to the modern period.
The role of abiotic factors on both mango infestation and Sternochetus mangiferae abundances in mango agroecosystems in Benin
Authors: Dassou Anicet G. , Gnanvossou Désiré , Hanna Rachid , Bokonon-Ganta Aimé H.
Published: July 2018

To develop management strategies for the mango seed weevil (Sternochetus mangiferae), we surveyed infestation levels of the pest in three agroecological zones of Benin and determined the influences of abiotic factors on mango infestation levels and population dynamics in mango orchards at IITA-Benin from 2009 to 2011. We collected immature and mature fruits from the canopy and fallen fruits from under the canopy from three randomly selected trees per cultivar, per orchard. Samples were examined to determine the number of the mango seed weevil eggs to adults during the rainy seasons of three years of the study. Our results show that the highest abundance of both the weevil and its eggs was from March to May of each year. In the first year of sampling, the cultivar Eldon was more infested than the other two cultivars, while during the second and third years, the cultivar Alphonse was most infested. The occurrence of the weevil was almost nil in the hot agroecological zones, while for the mango cultivars of IITA-Benin the percentage of infested fruit increased or decreased according to the studied variables, such as temperature, rainfall, and relative humidity. We found that the period from March to May with low temperatures and high rainfall was favourable to the population increase of mango seed weevils. We discuss possible implications of our findings for the management of the pest.
Enforcing the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive in Ireland: Evolution of the Standard of Judicial Review
Authors: Ryall Áine
Published: July 2018

The specific characteristics of each national system of judicial review reflect the indigenous legal framework and well-established administrative culture. It is necessary, therefore, to contextualize judicial review against the background of the idiosyncrasies of the local legal and administrative systems and what the national system regards as ‘unlawful’ decision making. An analysis of the contemporary jurisprudence of the Irish courts – in the specific context of enforcement of environmental impact assessment law – reveals a complex web of principles, which continue to evolve and to be influenced by European Union (EU) law. The article maps the development of these principles and assesses whether the standard of review (or the intensity of scrutiny) applied by the Irish courts is compatible with the EU law principle of effective judicial protection.
Rereading ‘Biogenetics of Race and Class’ 50 Years Later
Authors: Turkheimer Eric
Published: July 2018

In 1968, long before the publication of Stephen J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve, or Arthur Jensen's Bias in Mental Testing, Irving Gottesman published a book chapter that addressed head-on the issues that would define the relationship between the genetics of social behavior and large-scale social theory for the next 50 years. That he could do so with his characteristic scholarly thoroughness and scientific tough-mindedness without once lapsing into regressive hereditarianism is a testimony to the scope of his scientific knowledge and the generosity of his intellectual spirit.
Understanding Mechanisms of Genetic Risk for Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: The Mediating Role of Parenting and Personality
Authors: Su Jinni , Kuo Sally I-Chun , Bucholz Kathleen K. , Edenberg Howard J. , Kramer John R. , Schuckit Marc , Dick Danielle M.
Published: July 2018

Genetic predispositions play an important role in the development of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Understanding the mechanisms through which genetic risk unfolds to influence these developmental outcomes is critical for developing prevention and intervention efforts, capturing key elements of Irv's research agenda and scientific legacy. In this study, we examined the role of parenting and personality in mediating the effect of genetic risk on adolescents’ major depressive disorder and conduct disorder symptoms. Longitudinal data were drawn from a sample of 709 European American adolescents and their mothers from the Collaborative Studies on Genetics of Alcoholism. Results from multivariate path analysis indicated that adolescents’ depressive symptoms genome-wide polygenic scores (DS_GPS) predicted lower parental knowledge, which in turn was associated with more subsequent major depressive disorder and conduct disorder symptoms. Adolescents’ DS_GPS also had indirect effects on these outcomes via personality, with a mediating effect via agreeableness but not via other dimensions of personality. Findings revealed that the pattern of associations was similar across adolescent gender. Our findings emphasize the important role of evocative gene–environment correlation processes and intermediate phenotypes in the pathways of risk from genetic predispositions to complex adolescent outcomes.
Walnut Response to Multiple Exposures to Simulated Drift of Bispyribac-Sodium
Authors: Galla Mariano F. , Al-Khatib Kassim , Hanson Bradley D.
Published: July 2018

A field study was established to evaluate symptoms, growth, yield, and nut quality of walnut trees subjected to multiple exposures of simulated bispyribac-sodium drift. Nut yield the year following simulated drift treatment was also evaluated because tissue differentiation for future fruiting position occurs in the prior season. Bispyribac-sodium was applied four times, at weekly intervals, at 0.5% and 3% of the use rate in rice (45 g ai ha-1). Injury from the 0.5% rate exceeded 5% after three applications. In general, the severity of the symptoms peaked 14 d after last application (23% and 40% injury for 0.5% and 3% rate, respectively) and subsequently remained nearly constant over the duration of the study. Growth of shoots treated with the 0.5% rate was initially delayed during the treatment regime but recovered after treatments ended; however, walnut shoots exposed to the higher rate had fewer internodes than nontreated trees at the end of the season. No measurable reduction in walnut yield or average nut weight either in the year of exposure or in the subsequent year was observed. However, both rates negatively affected walnut kernel color in the year of exposure.
Magnetosonic Harmonic Falling and Rising Frequency Emissions Potentially Generated by Nonlinear Wave‐Wave Interactions in the Van Allen Radiation Belts
Authors: Liu Nigang , Su Zhenpeng , Zheng Huinan , Wang Yuming , Wang Shui
Published: July 2018

Magnetosonic waves play a potentially important role in the complex evolution of the radiation belt electrons. These waves typically appear as discrete emission lines along the proton gyrofrequency harmonics, consistent with the prediction of the local Bernstein mode instability of hot proton ring distributions. Magnetosonic waves are nearly dispersionless particularly at low harmonics and therefore have the roughly unchanged frequency time structures during the propagation. On the basis of Van Allen Probes observations, we here present the first report of magnetosonic harmonic falling and rising frequency emissions. They lasted for up to 2 hr and occurred primarily in the dayside plasmatrough following intense substorms. These harmonic emission lines were well spaced by the proton gyrofrequency but exhibited a clear falling (rising) frequency characteristic in a regime with the temporal increase (decrease) of the proton gyrofrequency harmonics. Such unexpected structures might be produced by the nonlinear interactions between the locally generated magnetosonic waves at the proton gyrofrequency harmonics and a constant frequency magnetosonic wave propagating away from the Earth.
Solar Cosmic Ray Dose Rate Assessments During GLE 72 Using MIRA and PANDOCA
Authors: Copeland Kyle , Matthiä Daniel , Meier Matthias M.
Published: July 2018

Ground level enhancement (GLE) 72, which occurred 10 September 2017, is the most recent of two solar particle‐induced enhancements in ground level measurements of cosmic radiation secondary neutrons in solar cycle 24. GLEs have been unusually rare in this solar cycle. GLEs can significantly increase ionizing radiation dose rates at aviation altitudes for hours to days, leading to concern among crewmembers. Real‐time monitoring and preliminary evaluation of solar proton events, including GLEs, in regard to effective dose rates at aviation altitudes has been ongoing since the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration began operating its Solar Radiation Alert System (SRAS) in 2002. Since then, SRAS has been revised multiple times. In this report, model calculations of dose rates during GLE 72 from Maps of Ionizing Radiation in the Atmosphere (MIRA), the latest SRAS software based on CARI‐7A, are compared with those from the model Professional Aviation Dose Calculator (PANDOCA) developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‐ und Raumfahrt). At very low cutoff rigidities model calculations agree within 40% and indicate no significant increase in radiation exposures at commercial aviation altitudes. The larger than expected differences at very low cutoff rigidities indicate Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite particle flux data alone that are insufficient to produce consistent solar particle dose estimates.