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ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of Adamantylbenzocrown Ethers
Authors: AVERINA N. V. , SAMOSHIN V. V. , ZEFIROV N. S.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Acid‐Catalyzed Transformations of 1‐Chloro‐2‐nitrobenzylcyclopropanes. The First Stable N‐Oxo‐2,1‐benzoxazepinium Ions.
Authors: MOCHALOV S. S. , TROFIMOVA E. V. , FEDOTOV A. N. , SHABAROV YU. S. , ZEFIROV N. S.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: The Sila‐Wittig Rearrangement.
Authors: KAWACHI A. , DOI N. , TAMAO K.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Aminostannylation of Aminoiminophosphoranes.
Authors: HAENSSGEN D. , OSTER T. , NIEGER M.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of 2‐Germatranylmethylsuccinimides.
Authors: ZHANG Z. , CHEN R.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: The Synthesis of a Fluorescent Cholesteryl Oleate Analogue.
Authors: BEST W. M. , MORTIMER B.‐C. , REDGRAVE T. G. , STICK R. V.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: 1‐Cyano‐1,2,4‐triazole in the Synthesis of Phthaloylglycylglycine Methyl Ester (III).
Authors: PAN'KOV S. V. , PURYGIN P. P.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of Glycofuranosides from S‐Glycofuranosyl Dithiocarbonates ( Xanthates) and Dithiocarbamates.
Authors: BOGUSIAK J. , SZEJA W.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Enantioselective Approach to 7‐Azabicyclo(2.2.1)heptane Ring Systems Using D‐(‐)‐Quinic Acid as the Chiral Educt: Application to the Formal Synthesis of (+)‐Epibatidine.
Authors: ALBERTINI E. , BARCO A. , BENETTI S. , DE RISI C. , POLLINI G. P. , ZANIRATO V.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: An Abnormal Reaction of Esters of 3‐Hydroxy‐3‐methylbutan‐2‐one. A Rapid Synthesis of Bullatenone and Geiparvarin.
Authors: VILLEMIN D. , JAFFRES P.‐A. , HACHEMI M.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Constituents of the Moraceae Plants. Part 29. Formation of the Dihydrobenzoxanthone Skeleton from 3‐Isoprenylated 2′,4′,5′‐ Trioxygenated Flavone.
Authors: AIDA M. , YAMAGAMI Y. , HANO Y. , NOMURA T.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of (.+‐.)‐Xanthocidin.
Authors: TIUS M. A. , DRAKE D. J.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: A New Stereoselective Synthesis of (‐)‐Isoavenaciolide and (‐)‐ Avenaciolide.
Authors: RODRIGUEZ C. M. , MARTIN T. , MARTIN V. S.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: The First Total Synthesis of Calbistrin A, a Microbial Product Possessing Multiple Bioactivities.
Authors: TATSUTA K. , ITOH M. , HIRAMA R. , ARAKI N. , KITAGAWA M.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Layered Ternary and Quaternary Metal Chalcogenides
Authors: PELL M. A. , IBERS J. A.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis, Characterization, and Formation Mechanism of the Mesoporous Molecular Sieve MCM‐41
Authors: KLINOWSKI J. , CHENG C.‐F. , LUAN Z. , ALBA M. D. , HE H. , ZHOU W. , MOKAYA R.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Characterization of Incomplete Cubane‐Type and Cubane‐Type Sulfur‐ Bridged Clusters
Authors: SAKANE G. , SHIBAHARA T.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Chemistry of Transition‐Metal Cyanide Compounds: Modern Perspectives
Authors: DUNBAR K. R. , HEINTZ R. A.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of Pyrido(2,3‐b)(1,4)‐ and ‐(2,3‐b)(1,5)Benzodiazepines and Their Derivatives (a Review)
Authors: JOSHI B. C. , CHAUHAN M.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Ultrasound as a New Tool for Synthetic Chemists
Authors: MASON T. J. , LUCHE J. L.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Chiral Bicyclic Lactams: Useful Precursors and Templates for Asymmetric Syntheses
Authors: MEYERS A. I. , BRENGEL G. P.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Electrophilic Species That Can React with Benzene Are Dicationic
Authors: SHUDO K. , OHWADA T.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Kinetic Influences on the Enantioselectivity in Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation
Authors: SUN Y. , WANG J. , LEBLOND C. , LANDAU R. N. , JOSEPH LAQUIDARA JOSEPH LAQUIDARA , SOWA J. R. JUN. , BLACKMOND D. G.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Glutamate and 2‐Methyleneglutarate Mutase: From Microbial Curiosities to Paradigms for Coenzyme B12‐Dependent Enzymes
Authors: BUCKEL W. , GOLDING B. T.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Investigation on μ‐Hydridobridged Carbocations in Superacids: The Effect of Ring Size on Transannular Participation
Authors: SORENSEN T. S.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Preparation and Compressive Strength Behavior of Porous Ceramics with . beta.‐Ca(PO3)2 Fiber Skeletons.
Authors: OTA Y. , KASUGA T. , ABE Y.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Highly Effective NPN‐Type Tridentate Ligands for Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones.
Authors: JIANG Y. , JIANG Q. , ZHU G. , ZHANG X.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Iodotrimethylsilane‐Promoted 1,4‐Addition of Copper Acetylides to . alpha.,β‐Unsaturated Ketones and Aldehydes.
Authors: ERIKSSON M. , ILIEFSKI T. , NILSSON M. , OLSSON T.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Superacid‐Catalyzed Reductive Friedel‐Crafts Reaction of Arenes Using Arenecarbaldehyde Acetals.
Authors: FUKUZAWA S. , TSUCHIMOTO T. , HIYAMA T.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Zeolite‐Mediated Cyclization of an Epoxide‐Containing Polyene.
Authors: SEN S. E. , ZHANG Y. Z. , ROACH S. L.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Aromatic Ring Annelation Using the 3‐Carbomethoxy‐1(3H)‐ isobenzofuranone and Methyl 2‐Carbomethoxybenzylcarboxylate.
Authors: RHO Y. S. , YOO J. H. , BAEK B. N. , KIM C. J. , CHO I. H.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Aminomethylation of Picolines.
Authors: MOEHRLE H. , PYCIOR M. , LESSEL J.
Published: August 2010

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ChemInform Abstract: Concise Synthesis of Conformationally Constrained Pybox Ligands.
Authors: DAVIES I. W. , GERENA L. , LU N. , LARSEN R. D. , REIDER P. J.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform Abstract: Diastereoselective Total Synthesis of (‐)‐Solavetivone via a Copper‐ Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Me3Al to a Cyclohexa‐2,5‐dienone Intermediate.
Authors: TAKEMOTO Y. , KURAOKA S. , OHRA T. , YONETOKU Y. , IWATA C.
Published: August 2010

ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Zur Synonymie von Macropodus chinensis (Bloch, 1790) und M. opercularis (Linné, 1758) und zur Rehabilitation von M. ocellatus Cantor, 1842 (Pisces, Belontiidae)
Authors: Paepke Hans‐Joachim
Published: August 2010

On the Synonymy of Macropodus chinensis (Bloch, 1790) and M. opercularis (Linné, 1758) and the Rehabilitation of M. ocellatus Cantor, 1842 (Pisces, Belontiidae)

The scientific name Macropodus chinensis (BLOCH, 1790) applied to the Roundtailed Paradisefish by MYERS (1932) is a junior synonym of Macropodus opercularis (LINNÉ, 1758), a related species with pronounced dark bars and a forked tail. This fact was clarified on the basis of the holotype of Chaetodon chinensis BLOCH, 1790 believed to be missing for a long time and now identified by the author. The correct scientific name for the Roundtailed Paradisefish should be Macropodus ocellatus CANTOR, 1842. The two type specimens of this taxon, stored in the British Museum (Natural History), are described and a lectotype is selected.
𝒞1 continuous discretization of gradient elasticity
Authors: Fischer Paul , Mergheim Julia , Steinmann Paul
Published: August 2010

For the modeling of size effects, gradient continua can be applied. In this contribution, strain gradients are used in a nonlinear hyperelastic material model. The resulting partial differential equations are solved numerically in terms of a Galerkin scheme requiring 𝒞1 continuity of the shape functions. The performance of three 𝒞1 continuous finite elements and the 𝒞1 Natural Element method is compared. (© 2009 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Validation of a Nomogram for Predicting Overall Survival After Resection of Pulmonary Metastases from Colorectal Cancer at a Single Center
Authors: Kanemitsu Yukihide , Kato Tomoyuki , Komori Koji , Fukui Takayuki , Mitsudomi Tetsuya
Published: August 2010

Background

The goal of this study was to validate a survival nomogram at a single center, originally developed at multiple institutions in Japan, which combines readily available preoperative variables to predict overall survival after resection of pulmonary metastases from colorectal cancer.

Methods

An external patient cohort from a prospective pulmonary metastases database at the Aichi Cancer Center in Japan was used to test the validity of the pulmonary metastases from a colorectal cancer nomogram. The cohort included 58 consecutive patients who had surgery between January 1999 and December 2005. Nomogram predictions for 3‐ and 5‐year overall survival were calculated for each patient and compared with actual survival. The concordance index was used as an accuracy measure.

Results

Data for all necessary variables were available for all patients. At the last follow‐up, 30 patients were alive, with a median follow‐up of 39 (range, 5–94) months. The 1‐, 2‐, 3‐, and 5‐year overall survival rates were 96.6, 84.5, 70.5, and 48.9%, respectively. The nomogram concordance index was 0.81 with excellent calibration for both 3‐ and 5‐year overall survival rates.

Conclusions

The high predictive accuracy of pulmonary metastases from a colorectal cancer nomogram demonstrates that this predictive tool derived at multiple institutions can be applied to a small cohort of patients in a single center.
Gastric Tube Reconstruction by Laparoscopy‐Assisted Surgery Attenuates Postoperative Systemic Inflammatory Response after Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer
Authors: Tsujimoto Hironori , Ono Satoshi , Sugasawa Hidekazu , Ichikura Takashi , Yamamoto Junji , Hase Kazuo
Published: August 2010

Background

Conventional open procedures have been supplanted in part by less invasive approaches, such as laparoscopic surgery developed for treating gastrointestinal malignancies. However, it is unclear whether laparoscopy‐assisted gastric tube reconstruction (LAGT) can attenuate the postoperative systemic inflammatory response after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.

Methods

We investigated the postoperative clinical course of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in patients who underwent an esophagectomy for esophageal cancer by LAGT (LAGT group) and gastric tube reconstruction by conventional open surgery (Open group).

Results

Compared with the Open group, the LAGT group had a significantly shorter operative time (539.6 min vs. 639.8 min), shorter duration of postoperative mechanical ventilation (1.1 days vs. 2.8 days), and shorter length of stay in the intensive care unit (2.1 days vs. 4.4 days). The LAGT group also had a significantly shorter SIRS duration (1.4 days vs. 2.7 days), a significantly lower incidence of SIRS, and a smaller number of positive SIRS criteria. Throughout the investigation period, the postoperative white blood cell count was lower in the LAGT group than in the Open group. Additionally, in the LAGT group, the heart rate was lower on each postoperative day (POD), and the respiratory rate was significantly lower on postoperative days (PODs) 1 and 4. There was no difference in postoperative oxygenation, morbidity, and mortality between the groups. The C‐reactive protein level on PODs 3 and 4 was significantly lower in the LAGT group than in the Open group.

Conclusions

Laparoscopy‐assisted gastric tube reconstruction significantly attenuates postoperative SIRS, and it is therefore a potentially less invasive surgical procedure.
Amelioration of functional, biochemical and molecular deficits by epigallocatechin gallate in experimental model of alcoholic neuropathy
Authors: Tiwari Vinod , Kuhad Anurag , Chopral Kanwaljit
Published: August 2010

Long term alcohol consumption leads to decreased nociceptive threshold characterized by spontaneous burning pain, hyperalgesia and allodynia. The mechanism involved in this pain includes increased oxidative‐nitrosative stress, release of pro‐inflammatory cytokines and neuronal apoptosis. The present study was designed to explore the protective effect of epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate against alcoholic neuropathic pain in rats. Rats fed with alcohol (35%) for 10 weeks showed markedly decreased tail flick latency in tail‐immersion test (thermal hyperalgesia), vocalization threshold in Randall—Sellito test (mechanical hyperalgesia) and paw‐withdrawal threshold in von‐Frey hair test (mechanical allodynia) along with enhanced oxidative‐nitrosative stress and inflammatory mediators (TNF‐α, IL‐1β and TGF‐β1 levels). Co‐administration of epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate (25–100 mg/kg) significantly and dose‐dependently prevented functional, biochemical and molecular changes associated with alcoholic neuropathy. In conclusion, the current findings suggest the neuroprotective potential of epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate in attenuating the functional, biochemical and molecular alterations associated with alcoholic neuropathy through modulation of oxido‐inflammatory cascade.
Queering Katrina: Gay Discourses of the Disaster in New Orleans
Authors: RICHARDS GARY
Published: August 2010

Within certain conservative narratives imposed upon the events of 2005, New Orleans has been demonized as a site promoting gay licentiousness and therefore meriting divine retribution. In queer narratives, New Orleans has been valorized as promoting that same licentiousness but lamented for having those hedonistic excesses tempered by the widespread destruction of the city. Especially in the latter scenario, there is a significant degree of nostalgia, an element that also marks other queer understandings of the city that focus not so much on the hedonism as on the day-to-day warp and woof of pre-hurricane gay communities. The main focus of this essay is on how, as gay communities have been reconfigured in the aftermath of the hurricane by temporary and permanent evacuations, job relocations, and other alterations, gay responses have continued to evince a range of emotions, including anger, bitterness, resignation, and optimism. This essay focusses on gay literary production responding directly to the hurricane to examine essays and poems published as Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections of New Orleans (2006) and Blanche Survives Katrina in FEMA Trailer Named Desire, Mark Sam Rosenthal's off-Broadway show structured around a parody of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire that, as a result of this structure, faced legal action instigated by the University of the South, owner of the intellectual rights to Williams's literary production. The collection and the play are sustained queer responses to Katrina's flooding of the city that showcase both the energizing and problematic aspects of these responses.
“You Can't Photograph Everything”: The Acts and Arts of Bearing Witness in Joseph Rodríguez's Still Here: Stories after Katrina (2008)
Authors: BERNIER CELESTE-MARIE
Published: August 2010

Joseph Rodríguez re-creates and represents African American experiences which yet remain hidden or elided in mainstream memorializations of Hurricane Katrina. Intent upon giving “a voice to the voiceless,” Rodríguez relies upon an aesthetics of rupture and juxtaposition to create multiple narratives resistant to any reformist impetus towards cathartic trajectories of moral uplift. Fragmented and elliptical, his photographs, diary entries and textual captions operate in slippery relation to one another to signify upon unimaginable traumas. Rodríguez's subjects maintain agency by engaging in political, cultural and social acts of resistance. Signifying on the documentary mode, he creates self-reflexive compositions which rely on a symbolic visual language to challenge white mainstream tendencies towards depicting African Americans as types rather than as individuals. Refusing to objectify, appropriate or colonize private black testimonies by documenting the black body as a spectacular site of suffering, he turns instead to individual identities as intertwined with family histories as the only effective way in which to begin to explore the atrocities enacted in the aftermath of Katrina. Anti-explication, anti-exhibition and anti-sensationalism, Rodríguez's Still Here is a work of disjuncture, reimagining and experimentation.
Regeneration through Genre: Romancing Katrina in Crime Fiction from Tubby Meets Katrina to K-Ville
Authors: YOUSAF NAHEM
Published: August 2010

This essay examines detective fiction that takes New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina as setting and theme. It explores the ways in which stories told in novels and prime-time TV shows across the interlocking genres of police procedural and crime thriller have steered a sensationalist course through the recovery of the city over the last five years. It considers the role and representation of the New Orleans Police Department in particular, and of law enforcement officials more broadly, as post-Katrina protagonists who protect and serve the city, a rejoinder to media-made myths according to which they deserted their posts in the days after the storm. It closes with a case study of FOX TV's K-Ville, the first television series to depict New Orleans post-Katrina in a sustained way, and investigates the extent to which it was judged harshly for translating the disaster into a formulaic cop show. Deep-seated assumptions about genre, narrative form, the burden of representation and popular ideas about this particular locale inform the reception of these genre fictions.
Assault Rifles, Separated Families, and Murder in Their Eyes: Unasked Questions after Hurricane Katrina
Authors: PENNER D'ANN R.
Published: August 2010

This essay critiques the trauma literature that includes African Americans who endured Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. It is concerned with possible dissonance between scholars' and subjects' agendas. Drawing on narratives from the the Saddest Days Oral History Project that Penner directed in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, she explores divergences between the most urgent traumatic concerns of her study's narrators and the dominant questions of Katrina mental health literature. Her focus is the survivors' perceptions of rescuers' intentions, a primary consideration in the assessment of potentially traumatizing events. The mental-health specialists, with minor exceptions, correctly predicted an overall surge in traumatic and depressive symptoms for Hurricane Katrina survivors. They were less effective in identifying causation, specifying type, and appreciating major differences between social groups and communities. For almost all of the African American narrators trapped in the city after the storm, the trauma of Katrina was experienced as the product of human beings, mainly armed law enforcement personnel and soldiers, brandishing assault rifles, acting disdainfully, and separating families. The event was made cataclysmic not by the winds or the floodwaters but by their descent into a militarized zone in which narrators seemed singled out for persecution because of their race/ethnicity (and gender). The traumatizing events that were omitted from the structured interview protocols, in particular the impact of the militarized response, have had the deepest impact on survivors' identity and ability to trust others.
‘The D'Oyly Carte Boarding School’: Female Respectability in the Theatrical Workplace, 1877–1903
Authors: Goron Michael
Published: August 2010

In this article, Michael Goron examines the working lives of the ‘refined girls’ employed in what was popularly referred to as the ‘D'Oyly Carte Boarding School’ – the working environment in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company of the 1880s and 1890s, in which backstage gender segregation was strictly enforced, and where a patriarchal management personally regulated the private behaviour of female performers. Here, the attempted ‘gentrification’ of the West End theatrical milieu in the later nineteenth century was transposed by Richard D'Oyly Carte to the popular musical stage. Just as ‘unwholesome’ elements of late-nineteenth-century burlesque were absent from both the content and presentation of comic opera at the Savoy, so the ‘respectability’ of its female performers, offstage as well as on, was actively promoted to forestall middle-class antitheatrical prejudice. The working lives of these performers helped to create an image of theatrical respectability which transformed public perceptions of musical theatre in the final decades of the Victorian era. Michael Goron is a PhD student and part-time Associate Lecturer at Winchester and Southampton Solent Universities.
Song of the Goat Theatre: Artistic Practice as Life Practice
Authors: Porubcansky Anna
Published: August 2010

In this article Anna Porubcansky discusses the work of Song of the Goat Theatre not only in its artistic practice, but as a life practice. Based in Wrocław in Poland, the group continues a Polish tradition of experimental theatre practice as seen in the work of Juliusz Osterwa, Jerzy Grotowski, and Włodzimierz Staniewski. A fundamental influence on Song of the Goat has been the belief in Buddhism of its co-founders Grzegorz Bral and Anna Zubrzycki, which has shaped a performance practice rooted in the principles of interconnection and compassion. The group focuses its work on ‘coordination’, an approach that seeks to create a profound sense of harmony within and between each actor and every element of his or her work through training, improvising, and research on diverse songs, dances, myths, and rituals. Maintaining connection to the world through this material, Bral and Zubrzycki extend the group's artistic work through social projects such as the Brave Festival, which celebrates lost and dying cultural traditions in an attempt to create a performance practice that is actively integrated with the social world. Few academic publications are available on Song of the Goat, and this article draws on three years of extensive fieldwork with the company, utilizing interviews and personal observations of training, rehearsals, expeditions, and performance development for its most recent production, Macbeth. Anna Porubcansky is currently completing her PhD in the Department of Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Experimental management of Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli in central Northland, New Zealand
Authors: ROBERTSON HUGH A. , COLBOURNE ROGAN M. , GRAHAM PETER J. , MILLER PATRICK J. , PIERCE RAYMOND J.
Published: August 2010

The population growth of Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli was measured under four different management regimes: unmanaged, predator trapping, predator poisoning, and Bank of New Zealand Operation Nest Egg™ (BNZONE) — the removal of eggs for artificial incubation and return of resultant subadults to the wild. Life table analysis revealed that high adult mortality (7.3% per annum), caused mainly by domestic dog Canis familiaris and Ferret Mustela furo predation was the critical factor affecting Brown Kiwi populations in central Northland. The 13.8-year life expectancy of adults was only one-third of what can be expected in the absence of these two predators. Predation of Brown Kiwi chicks and juveniles (< 1 kg) by Stoats Mustela erminea and, to a lesser extent, domestic cats Felis catus, was also important. Unmanaged populations declined at 2.5% per annum. Trapping pests in a 200 ha area was largely ineffective, with the population declining by 1.7% per annum. Poisoning pests allowed Brown Kiwi populations to increase at 3.3% per annum. BNZONE proved to be by far the most effective tool, resulting in a 12.5% annual population increase, mainly due to 83% chick survival to six months old, compared with 10% survival in unmanaged sites. There were no observable behavioural problems associated with chicks being reared ex situ, but BNZONE was the most expensive tool and benefited only the Brown Kiwi. This study has helped to develop a range of tools that are now being used to facilitate recovery of populations of all four threatened species of kiwi in New Zealand, and the experimental approach used has wider application in management of other threatened species.
Kataraktoperation – Relevantes für den Grundversorger
Authors: Amstutz  , Thiel  , Kaufmann
Published: August 2010

Die altersabhängige Katarakt entsteht als Folge von akkumuliertem oxidativem Stress in den Linsenepithelzellen und manifestiert sich in abnehmender Sehschärfe, erhöhtem Lichtbedarf und Blendungsempfindlichkeit. Die Kataraktoperation stellt die einzig nachweislich wirksame Therapie der störenden Linsentrübung dar. Das Prinzip der Phakoemulsifikation beruht auf dem Fragmentieren der natürlichen Linse mittels Ultraschall, dem Absaugen der Linsenpartikel und der Implantation einer künstlichen Intraokularlinse. Das hausärztliche Zeugnis bei Patienten mit bedeutsamen systemischen Komorbiditäten, insbesondere kardiopulmonalen Erkrankungen, hat entscheidenden Anteil an der insgesamt niedrigen Komplikationsrate. Den wachsenden Ansprüchen an die Kataraktoperation im Sinne einer vollständigen postoperativen Brillenunabhängigkeit kann durch die gleichzeitige Korrektur von Astigmatismus oder Presbyopie bis zu einem gewissen Grad entsprochen werden.
Fine scale modeling of wintertime aerosol mass, number, and size distributions in central California
Authors: Zhang Yang , Liu Ping , Liu Xiao‐Huan , Pun Betty , Seigneur Christian , Jacobson Mark Z. , Wang Wen‐Xing
Published: August 2010

In light of nonattainment of PM2.5 in central California, the CMAQ‐MADRID 1 model is applied to simulate PM2.5 mass, number, and size distributions observed during the California Regional PM10/PM2.5 Air Quality Study (CRPAQS) winter episode of 25–31 December 2000. The simulations with 12 and 24 size sections at a horizontal grid resolution of 4 km reproduce well the 24 h average mass concentrations of PM2.5 (with normalized mean biases (NMBs) of −6.2% to 0.5%), but with larger biases for organic matter, nitrate, and elemental carbon (with NMBs of −67% to 40.2%) and a weaker capability of replicating temporal variation of PM2.5 and its components. The coagulation process leads to a 40%–91% reduction in simulated PM2.5 number concentrations. The 24 section simulation with coagulation shows the best agreement with the observed PM number and size distributions (with an NMB of −13.9%), indicating the importance of coagulation for predicting particle number and the merits of using a fine particle size resolution. Accurately simulating PM2.5 number and size distributions continue to be a major challenge, due to inaccuracies in model inputs (e.g., meteorological fields, precursor emissions, and the initial size distribution of PM emissions and concentrations), uncertainties in model formulations (e.g., heterogeneous chemistry and aerosol formation, growth, and removal processes), as well as inconsistencies and uncertainties in observations obtained with different methods.
New Earth Science Research Opportunities: Committee Seeks Input
Authors: Lange Mark
Published: August 2010

In 2001, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) published Basic Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences, which helped define the priorities for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) over the past decade. Motivated by this report, EAR funded key components of the EarthScope initiative, established a network of Critical Zone Observatories, and expanded its postdoctoral fellowship programs.

Ten years later, again at the behest of NSF, NAS has assembled the Committee on New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences at the National Science Foundation. The committee will, among other things, identify high‐ priority new and emerging research opportunities in the Earth sciences over the next decade, including surface and deep Earth processes and interdisciplinary research with fields such as ocean and atmospheric sciences, biology, engineering, computer science, and social and behavioral sciences. The committee also will identify key instrumentation and facilities needed to support these new and emerging research opportunities.
Roundtable Explores Remote Sensing for Disaster Relief
Authors: Showstack Randy
Published: August 2010

Against a backdrop of recent natural disasters—including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake—an 8 July roundtable at the U.S. National Academies explored ways to improve the use of remote sensing data before, during, and after disasters.

At the “From Reality 2010 to Vision 2020” roundtable in Washington, D.C., speakers from U.S. federal government agencies and the private sector generally agreed that there would likely be continued improvements in remote sensing instrumentation, including reduced size and weight and the capability for more rapid dissemination of remote sensing data. However, they also stressed the need for closer collaboration among agencies and settling political and turf battles, overcoming security and other restrictions such as with sharing high‐ resolution data, and responding better to user needs.
Obama Administration Announces Ocean Policy
Authors: Showstack Randy
Published: August 2010

With the U.S. Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force final report in hand, U.S. president Barack Obama issued an executive order on 19 July largely adopting its recommendations. These include establishing a National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Coasts, and Great Lakes; creating a National Ocean Council, which will hold its first meeting later this summer; strengthening the ocean governance structure; and providing for the development of coastal and marine spatial plans.

The task force report indicates that U.S. ocean policy includes protecting, maintaining, and restoring ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources; increasing scientific understanding and using the best available science and knowledge to inform decisions about them; and improving the understanding and awareness of changing environmental conditions.
Designing, Deploying, and Operating Instrumentation in the Polar Regions: 6th Annual Polar Technology Conference; Boulder, Colorado, 25–26 March 2010
Authors: Johns Bjorn , Stehle Roy , Chetty Satish
Published: August 2010

The 6th annual Polar Technology Conference was held to discuss technical challenges and innovative solutions for polar research. Eighty polar researchers and equipment vendors from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom attended the event, and speakers presented challenges and solutions for geophysical research applications. The conference included an interactive discussion format with the theme “Users helping users–reducing the barriers to entry and increasing the likelihood of success with power, communication, and deployment challenges.” These discussions facilitated working‐level connections among researchers in different disciplines faced with similar problems. The sessions were also an opportunity for vendors and support providers to hear firsthand the technical and logistical challenges faced by the polar research community.
New Format for AGU Print Journals
Authors: Cook Bill
Published: August 2010

AGU has adopted a new print format for Journal of Geophysical Research, Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letters, and Reviews of Geophysics, starting with the July 2010 issues. In the new format, pages are condensed and rotated so that two pages of journal text fit side by side on one printed page.

Why has AGU chosen to go this route? The rising costs of print, the decline of print subscriptions, and the need to conserve resources used in printing have led us to consider many options in delivering our journals to our customers. The most effective version, of course, is the electronic version, but many customers still require print copies for various purposes. As long as there is a demand for print, we will attempt to meet that demand and to explore all possibilities for reducing the costs of the format.
Distinct Spatiotemporal Patterns of Spreading Depolarizations during Early Infarct Evolution: Evidence from Real-Time Imaging
Authors: Kumagai Tetsuya , Walberer Maureen , Nakamura Hajime , Endepols Heike , Sué Michael , Vollmar Stefan , Adib Sasan , Mies Günter , Yoshimine Toshiki , Schroeter Michael , Graf Rudolf
Published: August 2010

Experimental and clinical studies indicate that waves of cortical spreading depolarization (CSD) appearing in the ischemic penumbra contribute to secondary lesion growth. We used an embolic stroke model that enabled us to investigate inverse coupling of blood flow by laser speckle imaging ( CBFLSF) to CSD as a contributing factor to lesion growth already in the early phase after arterial occlusion. Embolization by macrospheres injected into the left carotid artery of anesthetized rats reduced CBFLSF in the territories of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) (8/14 animals), the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) (2/14) or in less clearly defined regions (4/14). Analysis of MCA occlusions (MCAOs) revealed a first CSD wave starting off during ischemic decline at the emerging core region, propagating concentrically over large portions of left cortex. Subsequent recurrent waves of CSD did not propagate concentrically but preferentially circled around the ischemic core. In the vicinity of the core region, CSDs were coupled to waves of predominantly vasoconstrictive CBFLSF responses, resulting in further decline of CBF in the entire inner penumbra and in expansion of the ischemic core. We conclude that CSDs and corresponding CBF responses follow a defined spatiotemporal order, and contribute to early evolution of ischemic territories.
α-MSH: A Potential Neuroprotective and Immunomodulatory Agent for the Treatment of Stroke
Authors: Savos Anna V , Gee J Michael , Zierath Dannielle , Becker Kyra J
Published: August 2010

Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) is a neuropeptide with profound immunomodulatory properties; we evaluated the effects of α-MSH on stroke outcome and its ability to modulate the postischemic immune response. In Lewis rats subjected to 3 hours of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO), plasma concentrations of α-MSH rapidly decreased and returned to baseline over the course of days. Exogenous administration of α-MSH (100 or 500 μg/kg) improved 24 hour outcome in animals subjected to 2 hours MCAO; α-MSH 500 μg/kg also decreased infarct volume at this time point. Both doses of α-MSH were ineffective in improving outcome or decreasing infarct volume in animals subjected to 3 hours MCAO. The splenocyte response to phytohemagglutin in animals treated with α-MSH was attenuated at 24 hours after MCAO. At 1 month after MCAO, treatment with α-MSH 500 μg/kg at the time of stoke was associated with a decrease in TH1 response to myelin basic protein (MBP) in animals subjected to 2 hours MCAO, although treatment was not associated with improved outcome at this time point. Given the early benefits of α-MSH treatment and its effect on immunologic outcome, further studies to evaluate the utility of α-MSH for the treatment of cerebral ischemia are warranted.
Comment on Recent Modeling Studies of Astrocyte–Neuron Metabolic Interactions
Authors: Jolivet Renaud , Allaman Igor , Pellerin Luc , Magistretti Pierre J , Weber Bruno
Published: August 2010

Recent years have seen a surge in mathematical modeling of the various aspects of neuron–astrocyte interactions, and the field of brain energy metabolism is no exception in that regard. Despite the advent of biophysical models in the field, the long-lasting debate on the role of lactate in brain energy metabolism is still unresolved. Quite the contrary, it has been ported to the world of differential equations. Here, we summarize the present state of this discussion from the modeler's point of view and bring some crucial points to the attention of the non-mathematically proficient reader.
Tumor Necrosis Factor α Primes Cerebral Endothelial Cells for Erythropoietin-Induced Angiogenesis
Authors: Wang Lei , Chopp Michael , Teng Hua , Bolz Marianne , Francisco Moniche Ãlvarez , Aluigi Danielle Marie , Wang Xin Li , Zhang Rui Lan , Chrsitensen Søren , Sager Thomas N , Szalad Alexandra , Zhang Zheng Gang
Published: August 2010

Erythropoietin (EPO) enhances angiogenesis in the ischemic brain. Stroke induces secretion of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α). We investigated the effect of TNF-α on EPO-induced in vitro angiogenesis in cerebral endothelial cells. Using a capillary-like tubular formation assay, we found that transient incubation of primary rat cerebral microvascular endothelial cells (RECs) with TNF-α substantially upregulated EPO receptor (EPOR) expression and addition of EPO into TNF-α-treated RECs significantly augmented the capillary-like tube formation. Blockage of TNF receptor 1 (TNFR1) suppressed TNF-α-upregulated EPOR expression and abolished EPO-induced tube formation. Attenuation of endogenous EPOR with small interfering RNA (siRNA) also inhibited EPO-enhanced tube formation. Treatment of RECs with EPO activated nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) and Akt. Incubation of the TNF-α-treated endothelial cells with EPO activated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), VEGF receptor 2 (VEGFR2), angiopoietin 1 (Ang1), and Tie2. Blockage of VEGFR2 and Tie2 resulted in reduction of EPO-augmented tube formation. These data indicate that interaction of TNF-α with TNFR1 sensitizes cerebral endothelial cells for EPO-induced angiogenesis by upregulation of EPOR, which amplifies the effect of EPO on activation of the VEGF/VEGFR2 and Ang1/Tie2 pathways. Our results provide the evidence for crosslink between TNF and EPOR to coordinate the onset of angiogenesis in cerebral endothelial cells.