bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Gender Differences in Lay Knowledge of Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms Among Community-dwelling Caucasian, Latino, Filipino, and Korean Adults - DiLH Survey
Authors: Fukuoka Yoshimi , Bender Melinda S. , Choi JiWon , Gonzalez Prisila , Arai Shoshana
Published: September 2014

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to explore gender differences in lay knowledge of type 2 diabetes symptoms among community-dwelling Caucasian, Latino, Filipino, and Korean Americans.

Design and Methods

A cross-sectional survey was administered to a convenience sample of 904 adults (172 Caucasians, 248 Latinos, 234 Koreans, and 250 Filipinos) without diabetes at community events, community clinics, churches, and online in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego from August to December 2013. Participants were asked to describe in their own words signs and/or symptoms of diabetes. A multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the association of lay symptom knowledge with gender after controlling for potential confounding factors.

Results

Overall, the average age of the sample populations was 44 (SD ±16.1) years, 36% were male, and 58% were married. Increased thirst/dry mouth following increased urinary frequency/color/odor and increased fatigue/lethargy/low energy were the most frequently reported signs and symptoms (19.8%, 15.4%, and 13.6%, respectively). After controlling for known confounding factors, women were 1.6 (95% confidence interval, 1.2-2.3, P = .004) times more likely than men to report at least 1 diabetes symptom. However, this gender difference in knowledge of diabetes signs and symptoms did not significantly differ across Caucasians, Latinos, Filipinos, and Korean Americans ( P = .87).

Conclusion

The findings underscore the importance of improving public knowledge and awareness of signs and symptoms of diabetes, particularly in men.
Tracks of My Tears: Smokey Robinson and the Art of Loving
Authors: Back Les
Published: September 2014

This piece written for Valentine’s Day 2014 links the love songs of Smokey Robinson with writing on romantic love from classical theorists to feminist writers like Mary Evans and bell hooks. Through a discussion of Smokey Robinson’s biography it argues that the political and affective key of his songs is similar to the arguments provided by feminist theory. It makes a case for holding to a ‘love ethic’ that is a doing, not confined to one person alone but rather circulated and routed within wider communities.
Thinking Historically about Neoliberalism: A Response to William Davies
Authors: Gane Nicholas
Published: September 2014

This brief response to Will Davies clarifies and expands a number of the core arguments of the article ‘The Emergence of Neoliberalism: Thinking through and Beyond Michel Foucault’s Lectures on Biopolitics’ (published in TCS 31(4): 3–27). It is argued that it is a mistake to treat Foucault as a neoliberal because his lectures on biopolitics centred on the emergence of different trajectories of neoliberal reason. Instead, Foucault’s genealogy of neoliberalism can be read as a critical history, one that is partial and incomplete but which nonetheless can be used as a starting point to think historically and critically about neoliberalism. It is suggested that a more nuanced history of neoliberalism, however, can be developed by paying closer attention to the complex relationship between neoliberal reason and the earlier liberal ideas of the 19th century – in particular those of John Stuart Mill. Finally, a claim is made for the value of historical analysis for understanding and responding to the challenges of the post-crisis present, to a situation in which neoliberal ideas appear to have a near-hegemonic grip over popular politics and discourse.
Transnational Mobilities and the Making of Creative Cities
Authors: Kong Lily
Published: September 2014

This review essay on the literature on creative cities pays particular attention to the ways in which transnational mobilities contribute significantly to the making of such cities. The paper reviews critically both the literature and phenomena of creative cities and their transnational flows by framing the discussion around the mobility of ideas (creative economy/creative city discourse), the mobility of people (the migration of the creative class), the mobility of technology (the travel of the creative cluster and architectural iconism phenomena), the mobility of finances (capital and investment flows), and the mobility of images (transnational artistic collaborations and products).
Improvisational Provisioning in Disaster
Authors: Baker Stacey Menzel , Hill Ronald Paul , Baker Courtney Nations , Mittelstaedt John D.
Published: September 2014

This article explores the logic underlying alternative marketing exchange systems in community and the conditions under which each operates. Through ethnographic work in a town impacted by a tornado, we observe how a local exchange system morphs and evolves to reveal the functions, mechanisms, and meanings of two different yet complementary exchange systems: a commercial marketing exchange system and an ad hoc marketing exchange system. While these systems operate for unique purposes, they often meet consumer needs through the exact same consumption offerings. This results in confusion or tension for people who may participate in an ad hoc system while operating under assumptions of a commercial system. Thus, by extending exchange theory to the community level, we expose the logic, nature, and operation of these competing systems, and offer the marketing field theoretical and practical bases from which to transcend prevailing stereotypes about marketing and its role in society.
Acute promyelocytic leukaemia with a PML-RARA insertional translocation and a chromosome 21 abnormality in XYY syndrome: Case report
Authors: He Yi , Li Xudong , Wang Dongning , Zhang Erhong , Hu Yuan , Wang Wenwen , Huang Renwei , Xiao Ruozhi
Published: September 2014

The concomitant presence of the XYY syndrome with haematological malignancies is rare. This report presents a case of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) with the promyelocytic leukaemia-retinoic acid receptor alpha ( PML-RARA) gene insertional translocation and a chromosome 21 abnormality in a 29-year-old XYY male patient. Karyotype analysis revealed an abnormal karyotype of 47,XYY [14]/46,XYY,–21[16]. Fluorescence in situ hybridization and reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction analysis showed the existence of a PML-RARA fusion gene. The patient was treated by all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and chemotherapy. Laboratory results revealed that the coagulopathy improved and the patient achieved complete remission, based on bone-marrow morphology. The patient then received sequential monthly therapy using arsenic trioxide, followed by ATRA, followed by chemotherapy; he has survived disease-free for 36 months. Our findings suggest that the additional chromosomal abnormalities involving the sex chromosomes and chromosome 21 did not affect the prognosis of APL, and that the sequential treatment strategy had a good clinical effect without being associated with severe side-effects.
Man versus State: Contested Agency in the United Nations
Authors: Schindler Sebastian
Published: September 2014

The research on international organisations (IOs) continues to be dominated by two distinctions: on the one hand, the distinction between rational choice and social construction; on the other hand, the distinction between IOs as arenas for states and IOs as actors in their own right. In this article I argue that these two distinctions structure not only our theoretical debates on IOs, but also what our theories aspire to explain: political conflicts in IOs. Through an in-depth study of two debates during a conflict in the world food organisations, I show how the distinctions were used to create lines of dispute. I conclude that research that itself establishes the distinctions on a theoretical basis is unable to grasp what conflict in IOs, since it fixes theoretically what is contested politically. What is called for is instead a practice-theoretical approach.
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: Clinical nosography and field-testing of the ICHD diagnostic criteria. A case-control study
Authors: Yri Hanne M , Jensen Rigmor H
Published: September 2014

Aims

The aims of this article are to characterize the headache in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and to field-test the ICHD diagnostic criteria for headache attributed to IIH.

Materials and methods

We included 44 patients with new-onset IIH. Thirty-four patients with suspected but unconfirmed IIH served as controls. Headache and other IIH-related symptoms were assessed by a detailed standardized interview. In participants referred before diagnostic lumbar puncture ( n = 67), we recorded headache intensity before and after cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) withdrawal.

Results

Headache in patients with IIH was daily occurring in 86%, focal in 84% and pulsating in 52%. Aggravation of headache by coughing or straining and relief after CSF withdrawal were significantly more frequent in patients than in controls ( p ≤ 0.002). From the ICHD-2 to the ICHD-3 beta classification the sensitivity increased from 60% to 86% whereas the specificity decreased from 86% to 53%. Based on our data the headache criteria can be revised to increase sensitivity to 95% and specificity to 65%.

Conclusion

Aggravation of headache by coughing or straining, relief after CSF withdrawal, retrobulbar pain and pulsatile tinnitus may suggest intracranial hypertension. Based on data from a well-defined IIH cohort, we propose a revision of the ICDH-3 beta diagnostic criteria with improved clinical applicability and increased sensitivity and specificity.
New thin shells made of composite structural insulated panels
Authors: Uddin Nasim , Du Wenfeng
Published: September 2014

Thin shells made of a new material named composite structural insulated panels were presented in this paper. Traditional concrete thin shells have the advantages of beautiful geometrical appearances and efficient structural shapes, but many shortcomings including the labor intensive and time consuming limit their applications. Composite structural insulated panels, consisting of E-glass/polypropylene laminates as face sheets and expanded polystyrene foam as core, have the potential to remedy the drawbacks of traditional concrete thin shells because of their high strength-to-weight ratio, excellent thermomechanical properties, and superior corrosion resistance. The new composite structural insulated panels thin shells were investigated in this paper comparing with traditional concrete thin shells. The static analysis results show the maximum von-Mises stress of composite structural insulated panels thin shells is 31.67% smaller than that of concrete thin shells. And results of Eigen-value buckling analysis and geometrical nonlinear analysis demonstrate that the composite structural insulated panels thin shells can bear larger nonlinear buckling load excluding its self-weight than concrete thin shells. Moreover, by modal analysis and time history analysis it can be obtained that composite structural insulated panel thin shells have better dynamic performances as the maximum Von-Mises stress is 48.2% less than that of the concrete thin shell under earthquake load. In addition to the excellent bearing capacities the composite structural insulated panel thin shells have the advantages of light weight, easy construction, time saving, low cost, thermal insulation, corrosion resistance, and fire retardant. This research confirms that the composite structural insulated panel thin shells are applicable and competitive. Finally, the connection, supports, and construction steps of the composite structural insulated panel thin shell were studied.
The Effects of Positively and Negatively Worded Items on the Factor Structure of the UCLA Loneliness Scale
Authors: Dodeen Hamzeh
Published: September 2014

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the factor structure of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale and examine possible wording effects on a sample of 1,429 students from the United Arab Emirates University. Correlated traits-correlated uniqueness as well as correlated traits-correlated methods were used to examine the scale’s eight-factor models. The results of confirmatory factor analysis with maximum likelihood estimation indicated two models provided the best fit. The first, a one-dimensional model, assumes the correlation of the standard errors in the positive items. The second assumes a one-dimensional model and two method factors that correspond to the negative and positive items.
Between indifference and coercion: Third-party intervention techniques in ongoing disputes
Authors: Corbetta Renato
Published: September 2014

Research on third parties’ conflict management has traditionally proposed a stark dichotomy between neutral mediators and non-neutral military joiners. Recent studies have blurred this dichotomy but have not investigated joiners’ use of techniques other than military action. Using data from Corbetta and Dixon (2005) on non-neutral interventions in post-Second World War interstate disputes, this paper explores non-neutral third parties’ choice of diplomatic, economic or military intervention techniques. It hypothesizes that such a choice is a function of third parties’ intensity of preferences for one side in conflict and antagonism toward the other side, which result from social proximity to the disputants.
Isolated Microtia With Anterior Hemispheric Polymicrogyria
Authors: Rai Birendra , Gouda Rudra , Moka Sudha , Dunbar Liz Elizabeth
Published: September 2014

We report on a male infant who presented with neonatal clonic seizure and was found to have isolated left-sided microtia on clinical examination. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain revealed extensive polymicrogyria over the bilateral perisylvian and frontal cortex. He had no other associated anomaly on physical examination, genetics, metabolic, and radio imaging studies. The study of the data collected from the Italian Birth Defect Registry reported the incidence of microtia-anotia as 1.46/10 000. Microtia-anotia can also be found in association with other anomalies that characterizes oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum. Although oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum has been associated with various cerebral malformations, isolated microtia usually does not have such association. We could not find any report of polymicrogyria in a case of isolated microtia.
Chronic Statin Use and Long-Term Rates of Sepsis
Authors: Wang Henry E. , Griffin Russell , Shapiro Nathan I. , Howard George , Safford Monika M.
Published: September 2014

Purpose:

“Statins” have immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects and may attenuate the risk of infections. We sought to determine the association between chronic statin use and long-term rates of sepsis events.

Materials and Methods:

We used data from 30 183 adult (≥45 years old) community-dwelling participants in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort. The primary exposure was statin use. The primary outcome was hospitalization or emergency department treatment for sepsis. Using Cox proportional hazards models, we determined associations between statin use and first sepsis events, adjusting for patients demographics, health behaviors, chronic medical conditions, degree of medication adherence, baseline high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), and propensity for statin use.

Results:

Approximately one-third of participants reported statin use (n = 9475, 31.4%). During the 10-year follow-up period from 2003 to 2012, there were 1500 incident sepsis events. Statin use was not associated with rates of sepsis after multivariable adjustment for demographics, health behaviors, chronic medical conditions, medication adherence, abnormal hsCRP, and propensity for statin use, hazard ratio 0.93 (95% confidence interval: 0.81-1.06). Statin use was not similarly associated with rates of sepsis when stratified by propensity for statin use or medication adherence.

Conclusion:

In the REGARDS cohort, statin use at baseline was not associated with rates of future sepsis events.
Explicating the Role of Sexual Coercion and Vulnerability Alcohol Expectancies in Rape Attributions
Authors: Starfelt Louise C. , Young Ross McD. , White Katherine M. , Palk Gavan R. M.
Published: September 2014

Despite evidence suggesting that alcohol expectancies may influence people’s rape perceptions, no study to date has measured context-specific expectancies comprehensively. This study represents an initial investigation of the role of sexual coercion and vulnerability alcohol expectancies in young Australian adults’ rape blame attributions. Using a vignette method, it was hypothesized that participants’ stronger expectancy endorsement would predict lesser perpetrator blame and greater victim blame. Participants ( n = 210; 34.9% males; 18-25 years) read a hypothetical rape scenario and rated dimensions of blameworthiness attributed to the intoxicated sexual perpetrator and victim. Participants completed the Sexual Coercion and Sexual Vulnerability subscales of the Drinking Expectancy Sexual Vulnerabilities Questionnaire for the targets self, men, and women in addition to measures of traditional gender role attitudes and rape myth acceptance. Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed that, as expected, stronger sexual coercion expectancy predicted lower perpetrator blame and greater victim blame. Self-oriented expectancy predicted evaluations of the perpetrator whereas other-oriented expectancy predicted victim evaluations. These effects were robust after controlling for gender role attitudes and rape myth acceptance. Alcohol expectancies appear to be part of a network of beliefs and attitudes which perpetuate biased rape attributions and may be useful to challenge in altering rape perceptions.
Singular perturbation adaptive control and vibration suppression of free-flying flexible space manipulators
Authors: Yu Xiao Yan , Chen Li
Published: September 2014

Singular perturbation adaptive control is designed for free-flying space manipulators with multiple flexible links and unknown physical parameters. The dynamical Lagrange equation was established based on assumed mode technique and linear momentum conservation theory. A singular perturbation model has been formulated and used for designing a reduced-order controller. This controller consisted of a slow control component and a fast control component. An adaptive control law was constructed for the slow counterpart of the flexible manipulator. The flexible-link fast subsystem controller would damp out the vibrations of flexible links by optimal linear quadratic regulator method. Numerical simulations by undertaking a computer simulation of a two-flexible-link space manipulator using the fourth-order Runge–Kutta integration method showed that the link vibrations had been stabilized effectively with good tracking performance.
Employment insecurity and life satisfaction: The moderating influence of labour market policies across Europe
Authors: Carr Ewan , Chung Heejung
Published: September 2014

This article tests whether the link between employment insecurity and life satisfaction is moderated by the generosity of labour market policies across Europe. Employment insecurity provokes anxieties about (a) the difficulties of finding a new job and (b) alternative sources of non-work income. These components can be related to active and passive labour market policies, respectively. Generous policy support is thus expected to buffer the negative consequences of employment insecurity by lowering the perceived difficulty of finding a similar job or providing income maintenance during unemployment. Based on data for 22 countries from the 2010 European Social Survey, initial support for this hypothesis is found. Perceived employment insecurity is negatively associated with life satisfaction but the strength of the relationship is inversely related to the generosity of labour market policies. Employment insecurity, in other words, is more harmful in countries where labour market policies are less generous.
Friendship: Towards a radical grammar of relating
Authors: Mentinis Mihalis
Published: September 2014

The article discusses friendship as a centrifugal movement away from commonality, identity, similarity, and sameness. In contradistinction to approaches that tend to look for the essence of friendship and discuss it as a relationship that takes place in a chronotopic vacuum, the argument presented here is based on a particular diagnostics which holds that the condition of the contemporary subject and its relational fabric are largely centripetal in nature, and entangled with discourses of the common, security, and trust as per the requirements of the contemporary psycho-political demand for the production of shielded and encapsulated personhoods. Drawing on Esposito’s notion of community not as a common property or a fusion of individuals, but, rather, as constituted by lack and abstraction, and with reference to anthropological evidence on the notion of friendship among the Mapuche indigenous population of Chile, the article attempts to prefigure friendship as entailing the opening-up of the individual to the outside, a relational experimentation, a radical grammar of relating that can resist the domination of centripetal tendencies and the consequent impoverishment of the relational fabric.
Jackknife variance of the partial area under the empirical receiver operating characteristic curve
Authors: Bandos Andriy I , Guo Ben , Gur David
Published: September 2014

Receiver operating characteristic analysis provides an important methodology for assessing traditional (e.g., imaging technologies and clinical practices) and new (e.g., genomic studies, biomarker development) diagnostic problems. The area under the clinically/practically relevant part of the receiver operating characteristic curve (partial area or partial area under the receiver operating characteristic curve) is an important performance index summarizing diagnostic accuracy at multiple operating points (decision thresholds) that are relevant to actual clinical practice. A robust estimate of the partial area under the receiver operating characteristic curve is provided by the area under the corresponding part of the empirical receiver operating characteristic curve. We derive a closed-form expression for the jackknife variance of the partial area under the empirical receiver operating characteristic curve. Using the derived analytical expression, we investigate the differences between the jackknife variance and a conventional variance estimator. The relative properties in finite samples are demonstrated in a simulation study. The developed formula enables an easy way to estimate the variance of the empirical partial area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, thereby substantially reducing the computation burden, and provides important insight into the structure of the variability. We demonstrate that when compared with the conventional approach, the jackknife variance has substantially smaller bias, and leads to a more appropriate type I error rate of the Wald-type test. The use of the jackknife variance is illustrated in the analysis of a data set from a diagnostic imaging study.
Deliberative Mapping of options for tackling climate change: Citizens and specialists ‘open up’ appraisal of geoengineering
Authors: Bellamy Rob , Chilvers Jason , Vaughan Naomi E.
Published: September 2014

Appraisals of deliberate, large-scale interventions in the earth’s climate system, known collectively as ‘geoengineering’, have largely taken the form of narrowly framed and exclusive expert analyses that prematurely ‘close down’ upon particular proposals. Here, we present the findings from the first ‘upstream’ appraisal of geoengineering to deliberately ‘open up’ to a broader diversity of framings, knowledges and future pathways. We report on the citizen strand of an innovative analytic–deliberative participatory appraisal process called Deliberative Mapping. A select but diverse group of sociodemographically representative citizens from Norfolk (United Kingdom) were engaged in a deliberative multi-criteria appraisal of geoengineering proposals relative to other options for tackling climate change, in parallel to symmetrical appraisals by diverse experts and stakeholders. Despite seeking to map divergent perspectives, a remarkably consistent view of option performance emerged across both the citizens’ and the specialists’ deliberations, where geoengineering proposals were outperformed by mitigation alternatives.
Experiences of Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients in Turkey
Authors: Inan Figen Şengün , Günüşen Neslihan Partlak , Üstün Besti
Published: September 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study is to describe the experiences of women in Turkey during the diagnostic phase of breast cancer. Design: In the research, the phenomenological approach was used. The data were collected through semistructured in-depth interviews. The sample comprised nine breast cancer patients in the diagnostic phase. Results: The data were categorized into four themes: facing the breast cancer diagnosis, uncertainty, avoidance, and holding on to life. Women experience intense uncertainty about the disease, treatment, and social relationships and thus exhibit avoidance behavior. Implications: Nurses should be aware of psychosocial difficulties suffered during the diagnostic phase and provide care for patients. It is important that nurses provide information about the diagnostic phase to women with breast cancer and encourage them to ask questions and express their feelings.
Facilitating Communication About Sexual Health Between Aging Women and Their Health Care Providers
Authors: Hughes Anne K. , Lewinson Terri D. W.
Published: September 2014

Many women experience changes in sexual health as they age, and discussing these changes with health care providers is an essential component of optimal health management. The purpose of this study was to understand aging women’s perspectives about communicating with providers about sexual health. We used the integrative model of behavioral prediction as a theoretical lens to explore women’s attitudes, perceived norms, and perceived self-efficacy that promote or inhibit the likelihood of communicating about sexual health. In this theory-based qualitative study, we interviewed 28 community-dwelling older women in the Midwestern United States. Through thematic analysis, we identified both positive and negative attitudes about communicating with providers. Women seemed most inclined to discuss sexual health if they perceived that important patient–provider conditions, such as trust and rapport, were in place. Despite situational obstacles and perceived norms, these women held strong beliefs about their abilities to discuss sexual health topics with providers.
A serious game for introducing set-based concurrent engineering in industrial practices
Authors: Kerga Endris , Rossi Monica , Taisch Marco , Terzi Sergio
Published: September 2014

This article proposes a Serious Game about ‘Set-Based Concurrent Engineering’, which is one of the elements of lean practices in product design and development. Although Set-Based Concurrent Engineering is becoming popular in academia, in practice, understanding and adoption of it are low. Thus, the game presented in this article is designed to bring hands-on experience to practitioners to understand its principles and associated enablers. The game is structured in two stages, simulating the traditional approach to concept development, called ‘Point-Based Concurrent Engineering’, and the lean approach, called Set-Based Concurrent Engineering, respectively. Performance metrics are provided in the game to track teams’ performances in the two stages. Several practitioners have played the game. This article also presents the feedback obtained from a game session to illustrate the educational purposes and effectiveness of the game.
Arthroscopic Treatment of Talus Osteochondral Lesions With Particulated Juvenile Allograft Cartilage
Authors: Giza Eric , Delman Connor , Coetzee J. Chris , Schon Lew C.
Published: September 2014

Osteochondral lesions of the talus (OLT) are commonly associated with traumatic injury to the ankle joint. Treatment options depend on the grade, location, and size of the lesion. Operative intervention is frequently required with initial management involving marrow stimulation techniques, such as microfracture/curettage. Larger lesions often require a secondary procedure, such as osteochondral transplantation or autologous chondrocyte implantation. The advent of particulated juvenile articular cartilage (PJAC) provides an alternative method for OLTs refractory to traditional treatments. This article describes the technique of PJAC transplantation for the treatment of osteochondral lesions of the talus.

Level of Evidence: Level V, expert opinion.
Perfectionism Cognitions Are Multidimensional
Authors: Stoeber Joachim , Kobori Osamu , Brown Anna
Published: September 2014

We reply to Flett and Hewitt’s commentary on our findings focusing on the multidimensionality of the Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (PCI) and the question of whether the Multidimensional Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (MPCI) represents an alternative to the PCI. In addition, we reiterate the importance of considering suppression effects when examining different dimensions of perfectionism and, in concluding, invite researchers to join forces to further advance the assessment of multidimensional perfectionism cognitions.
A review of the evidence for occupational exposure risks to novel anticancer agents – A focus on monoclonal antibodies
Authors: King Julie , Alexander Marliese , Byrne Jenny , MacMillan Kent , Mollo Adele , Kirsa Sue , Green Michael
Published: September 2014

Introduction

Evidence of occupational exposure risks to novel anticancer agents is limited and yet to be formally evaluated from the Australian healthcare perspective.

Methods

From March to September 2013 medical databases, organizational policies, drug monographs, and the World Wide Web were searched for evidence relating to occupational exposure to monoclonal antibodies, fusion proteins, gene therapies, and other unclassified novel anticancer agents.

Results

Australian legislation, national and international guidelines, and drug company information excluded novel agents or provided inconsistent risk assessments and safe handling recommendations. Monoclonal antibody guidelines reported conflicting information and were often divergent with available evidence and pharmacologic rationale demonstrating minimal internalisation ability and occupational exposure risk. Despite similar physiochemical, pharmacologic, and internalisation properties to monoclonal antibodies, fusion proteins were included in only a minority of guidelines. Clinical directives for the safe handling of gene therapies and live vaccines were limited, where available focusing on prevention against exposure and cross-contamination. Although mechanistically different, novel small molecule agents (proteasome inhibitors), possess similar physiochemical and internalisation properties to traditional cytotoxic agents warranting cytotoxic classification and handling.

Conclusion

Novel agents are rapidly emerging into clinical practice, and healthcare personnel have few resources to evaluate risk and provide safety recommendations. Novel agents possess differing physical, molecular and pharmacological profiles compared to traditional cytotoxic anticancer agents. Evaluation of occupational exposure risk should consider both toxicity and internalisation. Evidence-based guidance able to direct safe handling practices for novel anticancer agents across a variety of clinical settings is urgently required.
Helical buckling of thick-walled, pre-stressed, cylindrical tubes under a finite torsion
Authors: Balbi Valentina , Ciarletta Pasquale
Published: September 2014

We study the occurrence of torsional instabilities in soft, incompressible, thick-walled tubes with both circumferential and axial pre-stretches. Assuming a neo-Hookean strain energy function, we investigate the helical buckling under a finite torsion in three different classes of boundary conditions: (a) no applied loads at the internal and external surfaces of the cylindrical tube, (b) a pressure load P acting on the external surface or (c) on the internal surface. We perform a linear stability analysis on the axisymmetric solutions using the method of small deformations superposed on finite strains. Applying a helical perturbation, we derive the Stroh formulation of the incremental boundary value problems and we solve it using a numerical procedure based on the surface impedance method. The threshold values of the torsion rate and the associated critical circumferential and longitudinal modes at the onset of the instability are examined in terms of the circumferential and axial pre-stretches, and of the initial geometry of the soft tube.
Responsible management education in UK business schools: Critically examining the role of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education as a driver for change
Authors: Burchell Jon , Kennedy Steve , Murray Alan
Published: September 2014

As examinations of the ethics of business practice have increased so too have questions regarding the role of business schools. A key aspect of this re-evaluation has been the emergence of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education, reflecting the growing emphasis upon ‘soft regulation’ and voluntary action within new governance frameworks around responsible business practice. This article focuses upon the changing nature of responsible management education within UK business schools and examines the potential role of Principles for Responsible Management Education in shaping these developments. The article examines the findings of two surveys of responsible management education conducted in 2006/2007 and 2009/2010, and qualitative data derived from case studies of five Principles for Responsible Management Education signatory schools. The article questions whether there is any direct evidence for Principles for Responsible Management Education as a driver of curriculum change. It suggests that its primary impact may lie with its facilitative capacity and the ability of active faculty members in utilising this capacity.
Internal party democracy in former rebel parties
Authors: Sindre Gyda Marås
Published: September 2014

Intraparty democracy is considered an important feature of former rebel movements’ adaptation to democracy more generally. What conditions intraparty democracy in former rebel parties? This article traces internal debates about and organizational adaptation to intraparty democracy in Partai Aceh (Indonesia) and Fretilin (East Timor), paying specific attention to the interaction between party leaderships and the wider rebel organization. Leaning on theories of party change and organization, the article finds that even in the presence of formal procedures that prescribe inclusive decision-making, the nature and persistence of decentralized wartime command structures and relative strength and dependence on these networks limits intraparty democracy.
Construction of the ‘other’ in social workers’ discourses of asylum seekers
Authors: Masocha Shepard
Published: September 2014

This article analyses how asylum seekers are constructed as an out-group in some of the narratives provided by practitioners who were interviewed as part of a wider research study of social workers’ discourses of asylum seekers.

Findings

Using discursive psychology, the article identifies interpretative repertoires that were used by social workers in their formulations of asylum seekers as the other. The article explores the linguistic resources that were deployed in these formulations.

Applications

The article highlights the potential contributions of discursive perspectives to social work research, teaching and practice as it illuminates the pivotal role that language plays within the profession in the construction of subjectivities, and specifically in relation to the protection, perpetuation and normalisation of discrimination.
Numerical modelling of propulsion, control and ship motions in 6 degrees of freedom
Authors: Martelli Michele , Viviani Michele , Altosole Marco , Figari Massimo , Vignolo Stefano
Published: September 2014

This work presents the main steps for the development of a multi-physic simulation platform, able to represent the dynamics of a twin-screw ship in 6 degrees of freedom, taking into account the complete propulsion system including automation effects. The simulation platform has to be used in the preliminary design phase in order to study and design the propulsion plant and its control system. The ship motion model has been developed including roll motion, in order to capture the ship heel angles during tight turning circles, which may be significant for a fast naval vessel. Moreover, the simulation model includes a simplified representation of the asymmetric behaviour of the two propeller shafts during manoeuvres, which cannot be neglected when dealing with the propulsion plant behaviour. Several sub-models have been developed and calibrated by means of a set of experimental tests, in model and full scale. The sea trial campaign is finally used to validate and tune the developed simulator; thus, the final version may be adopted as an optimization tool for other future designs (or sister ships) and training purposes. Although the presented case study has been validated on a specific ship, most of the discussed models have a general application.
Ex Ante and Ex Post Expectations of Outcome Uncertainty and Baseball Television Viewership
Authors: Chung Jigyu , Lee Young Hoon , Kang Joon-Ho
Published: September 2014

Sporting event attendance is determined by ex ante expectations about the quality of the game, but because changing television channels costs nothing, sporting event viewership is influenced by actual game progression. This implies that demand determinants for televised baseball may change as games progress. This study examined the dynamic relationship between demand for televised baseball games and the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis (UOH). In particular, we analyzed inning-varying coefficients in a television rating regression equation. According to our empirical study, there are large dynamics in TV viewership demand for sports events and the marginal effects of factors on viewership changes significantly as innings progress. The estimation results can be summarized as (1) the UOH was shown to be significant not only statistically but also economically; (2) although ex ante variables were more effective in earlier innings and ex post variables were more effective in later innings, we found that ex ante expectations of outcome uncertainty remain significantly influential in later innings; and (3) after the matchup, the ex ante game quality is the second most significant factor among the examined effects on ratings.
Before the Creative Class
Authors: Scott Damon
Published: September 2014

During the summer of 1964, the Haight Theater in San Francisco operated briefly as “gay movie house” that screened B-movies, held drag shows, and hosted male physique contests. For Haight-Ashbury neighborhood activists, already engaged in a fight to block a planned freeway and reverse the attrition of white families from the community, the reopened theater presented an existential threat to the family-oriented character of the neighborhood. They saw the growing visibility of gay men in the area as a harbinger of social disintegration that could, if allowed to continue, result in the classification of the area as blighted, making it a candidate for demolition and renewal. The moral anxieties of Haight residents are best understood not simply as the manifestation of an inherent, latent homophobia but as part of the broader struggle of neighborhood activists to stave off the destructive impacts of urban renewal and freeway expansion. The episode reveals the degree to which taken-for-granted assumptions about the social and economic impacts of gay men on urban space have changed as postwar planning discourses about blight and social disorganization have been eclipsed by more contemporary narratives of gay-led urban revitalization and the productivity of creative capital.
Percutaneous Endovascular Reconstruction With Bare Stent Implantation for Isolated Superior Mesenteric Artery Dissection
Authors: Lü Peng-Hua , Zhang Xi-Cheng , Wang Li-Fu , Shi Hai-Bin
Published: September 2014

Background:

Spontaneous isolated superior mesenteric artery dissection (ISMAD) is exceedingly rare. The therapeutic options range from observation to medical treatment to surgery or endovascular repair. We present our experience of the clinical management of ISMADs.

Methods:

Sixteen patients with ISMAD from January 2008 to July 2012 were retrospectively analyzed. The decision to intervene was based on anatomic suitability, patient comorbidities, and symptoms. Percutaneous endovascular reconstruction with bare stents was carried out in 7 patients in this study, for patients with persistent abdominal pain despite conservative treatment or signs of bowel ischemia. The patients were kept on antiplatelet therapy from 6 to 10 months postoperatively.

Results:

All attempted bare stent placements were successfully accomplished without any treatment-related complication. Of the 7 patients with ISMADs, 4 were treated by single stents, 2 by double overlapping stents, and 1 by triple overlapping stents. The abdominal pain alleviated after procedure and disappeared gradually within 3 days. None of the patients had ISMAD symptoms during follow-up (median, 21.7 months; range, 11-32 months). Follow-up computed tomography (CT) and CT angiography revealed patent stent and patent superior mesenteric artery (SMA) branches with complete obliteration of the dissection.

Conclusion:

Isolated SMA dissection may be managed successfully in a variety of ways based on the clinical symptoms. In this small series, percutaneous endovascular reconstruction with bare stent implantation is a feasible treatment choice with a high success rate and good clinical outcome.
Pressing Play
Authors: Pierce-Grove Ri
Published: September 2014

Interactive art often requires viewers to interact playfully with it in order to experience it fully, so it is reasonable to ask how game techniques and the theory of play can aid in its creation and interpretation. This article introduces the idea of “magical objects,” familiar things given unexpected and fantastical properties by concealed technology, and analyzes certain interactive art installations in this light. As a case study, it uses Fragments, an installation of interactive silk tapestries that whispered verse to the viewer when passed or touched. Fragments drew on techniques from digital games and play to reimagine the materiality of the book and engage contemporary urban experience. In doing so, it offered a model for the incorporation of playful thinking into the design of both installation art and educational displays.
Which Personality Attributes Are Most Important in the Workplace?
Authors: Sackett Paul R. , Walmsley Philip T.
Published: September 2014

Employees face a variety of work demands that place a premium on personal attributes, such as the degree to which they can be depended on to work independently, deal with stress, and interact positively with coworkers and customers. We examine evidence for the importance of these personality attributes using research strategies intended to answer three fundamental questions, including (a) how well does employees’ standing on these attributes predict job performance?, (b) what types of attributes do employers seek to evaluate in interviews when considering applicants?, and (c) what types of attributes are rated as important for performance in a broad sampling of occupations across the U.S. economy? We summarize and integrate results from these three strategies using the Big Five personality dimensions as our organizing framework. Our findings indicate that personal attributes related to Conscientiousness and Agreeableness are important for success across many jobs, spanning across low to high levels of job complexity, training, and experience necessary to qualify for employment. The strategies lead to differing conclusions about the relative importance of Emotional Stability and Extraversion. We note implications for job seekers, for interventions aimed at changing standing on these attributes, and for employers.
Registered Replication Report
Authors: Alogna V. K. , Attaya M. K. , Aucoin P. , Bahník Š. , Birch S. , Birt A. R. , Bornstein B. H. , Bouwmeester S. , Brandimonte M. A. , Brown C. , Buswell K. , Carlson C. , Carlson M. , Chu S. , Cislak A. , Colarusso M. , Colloff M. F. , Dellapaolera K. S. , Delvenne J.-F. , Di Domenico A. , Drummond A. , Echterhoff G. , Edlund J. E. , Eggleston C. M. , Fairfield B. , Franco G. , Gabbert F. , Gamblin B. W. , Garry M. , Gentry R. , Gilbert E. A. , Greenberg D. L. , Halberstadt J. , Hall L. , Hancock P. J. B. , Hirsch D. , Holt G. , Jackson J. C. , Jong J. , Kehn A. , Koch C. , Kopietz R. , Körner U. , Kunar M. A. , Lai C. K. , Langton S. R. H. , Leite F. P. , Mammarella N. , Marsh J. E. , McConnaughy K. A. , McCoy S. , McIntyre A. H. , Meissner C. A. , Michael R. B. , Mitchell A. A. , Mugayar-Baldocchi M. , Musselman R. , Ng C. , Nichols A. L. , Nunez N. L. , Palmer M. A. , Pappagianopoulos J. E. , Petro M. S. , Poirier C. R. , Portch E. , Rainsford M. , Rancourt A. , Romig C. , Rubínová E. , Sanson M. , Satchell L. , Sauer J. D. , Schweitzer K. , Shaheed J. , Skelton F. , Sullivan G. A. , Susa K. J. , Swanner J. K. , Thompson W. B. , Todaro R. , Ulatowska J. , Valentine T. , Verkoeijen P. P. J. L. , Vranka M. , Wade K. A. , Was C. A. , Weatherford D. , Wiseman K. , Zaksaite T. , Zuj D. V. , Zwaan R. A.
Published: September 2014

Trying to remember something now typically improves your ability to remember it later. However, after watching a video of a simulated bank robbery, participants who verbally described the robber were 25% worse at identifying the robber in a lineup than were participants who instead listed U.S. states and capitals—this has been termed the “verbal overshadowing” effect (Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990). More recent studies suggested that this effect might be substantially smaller than first reported. Given uncertainty about the effect size, the influence of this finding in the memory literature, and its practical importance for police procedures, we conducted two collections of preregistered direct replications (RRR1 and RRR2) that differed only in the order of the description task and a filler task. In RRR1, when the description task immediately followed the robbery, participants who provided a description were 4% less likely to select the robber than were those in the control condition. In RRR2, when the description was delayed by 20 min, they were 16% less likely to select the robber. These findings reveal a robust verbal overshadowing effect that is strongly influenced by the relative timing of the tasks. The discussion considers further implications of these replications for our understanding of verbal overshadowing.