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The architectural instrumentalist – exploring spatio-temporal interdependence in the composition of performed music and architectural space
Authors: Matthews Emma-Kate
Published: September 2017

Sound, space and time are inextricably linked. As an architect and musician, I am interested in the simultaneous capacities of architecture to influence the composition and experience of performed music – and of performed music to influence the composition and experience of architectural space. My architectural research project – the Augmented Instrumentalist (tAI) – sets out a methodology by which architectural spaces are understood as and designed to be instruments – as a means of replicating the unique acoustic profile of the city of Venice during the acqua alta. In tandem with the development of acoustically generative themes within my architectural research; my musical compositions actively appropriate architectural spaces as musical instruments, by responding to the acoustic qualities of specific performance spaces. When performed, my pieces exploit acoustical phenomena such as reverberance / echo and sympathetic resonance to articulate and augment musical motifs. For example, by using excessive reverberance to construct a harmonic sequence, or by suggesting a rhythm from an echo. Architectural acoustics have long had an effect on the development of musical ideas: ‘...in the old churches the walls were in fact powerful instruments which the ancients learned to play upon... [When it was discovered that] more than one tone could be heard at the same time with pleasing results, the harmonies produced by the coinciding of notes began to be regulated and used. From this partsinging developed [polyphonic music]’ (Rasmussen, 1962: 230)

This article investigates spatio-temporal interdependence between architecture and performed music within the context of my ongoing research.
The intentionally ruptured and temporal self of do-it-yourself architecture
Authors: Smith Cathy
Published: September 2017

This article focuses on the collapse of temporality, subjectivity and objectivity involved in particular forms of do-it-yourself (DIY) construction and their attendant discourses. Contrary to the consistent historical association of DIY with a cohered and stable self-identification, this article instead associates do-it-yourself with a nomadic and ‘non-unitary’ (Braidotti, 2002: 172) subject. As such, the ‘time crime’ committed here is the deliberate displacement of a particular chronological history of ipseity and the essentialist relations between self, time and space upon which this history is arguably founded.

Since its emergence in post-WWII North America, the DIY phenomenon has been presented as a methodology for circumventing a reliance upon mainstream, industrialized and discretized systems of production in order to create an accordant sense of worth and identity through independent self-production. Yet despite the perceived benefits of DIY, there remain historically persistent and unresolved questions concerning the phenomenon’s relation to mainstream consumerism and its attendant binding of all subjectivity to fiscal pursuit. From its earliest incarnation in post-World War II DIY in North America, through to ‘off-grid’ countercultural DIY and, more recently, the maker movement of the new Millennium; the do-it-yourselfer is frequently positioned as an ideologically consistent subject resisting institutional and economic control through project self-initiation and production. Yet the frequent reliance of self-producers on commercially-produced DIY products, materials and systems is also seen to simultaneously thwart their capacity to create ‘genuinely’ liberated selves. To explore these contradictions further, I will deploy contemporary poststructuralist and feminist accounts of subjectivity in order to trouble the conservative image of do-it-yourselfer. To this end, I will also posit my own small acts of DIY as specific instantiations of the complexities and challenges of self-production within, and in spite of the capitalist apparatus – and the architectural envelopes which contain and sustain it. By highlighting the complexities of my own DIY practice, and its potential links to consumerist behaviours, it will be argued that do-it-yourself is not only symptomatic of the conceptual schisms and temporal hybridity of particular architectural acts, but the inherent discordance of the makers themselves, professional or otherwise.
Publishing as architectural practice
Authors: Aling Mike
Published: September 2017

Appropriating its title from the recent collection of essays, Publishing as Artistic Practice (ed. Annette Gilbert, Sternberg Press, 2016) – in which publishing is explored as a recently appropriated form of artistic practice in itself – this article begins by asserting that, contrary to the art world, the act of publishing has always been an integral aspect of architectural practice, arguably dating back to Vitruvius, at which time the architectural publication was founded as a means of authenticating, distributing and subsequently developing architectural discourse and practice. This article focuses on architectural books – the book being architecture’s longest running, most abundant and most celebrated form of publishing – and book design in particular as a publishing practice. Although there is a considerable existing body of research canonizing the history and development of the architectural book, particularly between the mid-sixteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the majority of this research has focused on book content rather than book design. The book is still intrinsic to the proliferation of architectural discourse, culture and the profession, but the lack of debate and development around the theories of its form and its futures is limiting the architectural book to become increasingly self-referential as a designed entity. The market-led restrictions imposed by the publishing industry are limiting the architectural book – this is the principal time crime outlined here – the design of the architectural book is in stasis due to the publishing industry: it is stuck in time. This article looks to determine how architectural book designing can be considered as relational to architectural practice, through an exploration of how book design has been theorized as a formal and material interplay and manifestation of spatial ideas – chiefly through the theories of ‘book usage’, ‘intermedia’, ‘topological’ and ‘ergodic’ literatures, ‘visual language’ semiotics and ‘metamediality’, originating from studies in literature, design, media and comics. Examples from my own architectural book design research praxis are discussed in relation to these theories, with a more thorough examination of three recent book works that are used as an armature to speculate on the potential futures of architectural book design, making and publishing practice. One hopes that this article will arouse debate and encourage more enthusiasm for book works as designed manifestations of spatial ideas. One might even go so far as declaring architectural book designs to be architectural projects.
Accommodating New Age: Understanding the needs of a growing segment
Authors: Poulston Jill , Pernecky Tomas
Published: September 2017

The New Age phenomenon is an under-examined research topic in tourism and hospitality. According to a 2005 Gallup survey, around three out of four Americans believe in paranormal phenomena, which are closely aligned to New Age beliefs, and indicates a unique and potentially untapped market segment. Previous research has examined the views of New Age products and services providers, but perhaps because of the heterogeneity of the New Age phenomenon, little has been done to determine New Age consumers’ needs. This study therefore explores the accommodation, food and leisure services preferences of New Age consumers, to identify potential products and services to meet their needs and conceptualize New Agers as an important market segment of future tourism.
Passionately yours: Managing emotional and spatial boundaries in lifestyle-based hospitality businesses
Authors: Ikonen Hanna-Mari
Published: September 2017

This article examines the boundary work done by self-employed men and women in rural areas, whose goal is to accomplish their lifestyle aspirations. Their business model is to host people, specifically dog owners, at their homes, offering a space to spend some leisure time and train in dog sports in a rural setting. For the hostentrepreneurs, the work is also their lifestyle and, therefore, the conventional boundaries between professional and personal life are constantly blurred. The article suggests that the emotionally demanding work of crossing the boundaries between private and public is motivated by their passion for their lifestyle – a desired attribute in the new economy. Although they appear to be ideal workers as per the rules of the new economy, the business and lifestyle depend on their infinite passion.
Keeping the rock rolling: Art activism and the avant-garde
Authors: Guastamacchia Nicola
Published: September 2017

Much recent critical and philosophical thinking on the relationship between art, politics and society chronologically grounds itself on linear understandings of the transformations of art and history. The first two decades of this century witnessed a wave of socially engaged artistic practices confused with activist strategies of political revolt. This article is an examination of the relationship between recent forms of art activism and the discontiguities of the different revolutionary claims of the history of the avant-garde. Counterposing the ideas of ‘a pure world of art’ – of art conceived as an autonomous domain from society – and of the ‘self-suppression of art in life’, or art’s identification with society, the article distinguishes recent forms of art activism from both political uses of artistic devices and artists’ individual commitment to politics in order to question what kind of art and what kind of politics art activism actually is.
Necessitating my alliance: A meditation on the Plaszow concentration camp
Authors: Spicer Gary
Published: September 2017

The writing that follows is a part theoretical, part-discursive response to a site of Holocaust memory and is an interaction with extracts from my ongoing journals. It is an examination of how established positions of objectivity and subjectivity as defined by the traditional academic thesis can be challenged when fused with practice and explores whether there are ways of bridging the gap between different writing genres in order for new forms to emerge. The article discusses writing as a further agency of my creative practice, its potential as an artistic form and as an additional method of critical enquiry. The article then investigates how the gesture of drawing as a projection of the body and the mediator between mind and world is an alternative vehicle to be ‘with’ and encounter the topography of the Holocaust. In relation to events as ineffable as the Holocaust, the article concludes by looking at how, by reaching for meaning through written or arts practice, we can perhaps begin to determine a contribution to what is, as Ava Hoffman describes in her book After Such Knowledge, an appropriate and measured response before, as we approach a time without living survivors, the Holocaust passes fully into history and myth.
A reflection on practice-related research – the case of radio journalism
Authors: Coleman Josephine
Published: September 2017

A reflection on conducting and articulating practice-related research, based on a reading of the article entitled ‘Radio journalism as research – a Ph.D. model’, by Mia Lindgren (2014) in The Radio Journal – International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 12:1&2, pp. 169–182. Lindgren’s case study was her Ph.D. thesis, ‘Journalism as research: Developing radio documentary theory from practice’ (2011), Murdoch University, Perth.
Exhibition Review
Authors: Ferreira Inês Monteiro
Published: September 2017

Incoming, Richard Mosse, Barbican’s Curve Gallery, London, 15 February–23 April 2017
YOLOCAUST Project, Shahak Shapira, Berlin, 2017
Authors: Szewczak-Harris Emma
Published: September 2017

Debate on (in/) appropriate behaviours at Holocaust sites has been raging ever since the field of ‘dark tourism’ (tours of sites of atrocities) rose to prominence in the 1990s. It has peaked in recent years with the appearance of the ‘Holocaust selfie’ (selfies taken at various Holocaust sites, generally designated for online publication). In 2017, Shahak Shapira launched his online project YOLOCAUST: a compendium of such selfies drawn from social media superimposed onto graphic Holocaust imagery. The project intended to shine light on the phenomenon and possibly shame its participants. This article critiques YOLOCAUST and its intentions, probing its cohesion and questioning Shapira’s success in offering a social comment on this new mode of online behaviour.
Space and value in the contemporary art museum: The journey of a performance document at Tate
Authors: Finbow Acatia
Published: September 2017

The space of the museum, rather than being monolithic and heterogeneous, is complex, fluid and fractured. As an institution, its multiple spaces relate to a variety of activities, motivations and attitudes towards the objects it collects, conserves and displays. By using Michel Foucault’s 1967 notion of the ‘heterotopia’ to read the museum as a space of spaces, and focusing on the complex object of the performance document, this article traces the link between the placement of objects in a specific space, and how this can be read as a perspective on their value. In tracing the journey of the Joseph Beuys performance document Four Blackboards (1972) through various spaces at Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) and Tate Modern, this article will demonstrate those acts of valuation being undertaken over a 50-year period in the institution, and explore how changing value perspectives result in a changing space, both physically and conceptually, for the performance document.
Re-ghosting the ‘haunted stage’: The Epidaurus Festival and the resignification of (theatre) space
Authors: Lignou Tsamantani Ariadni
Published: September 2017

Since the official opening of the annual Epidaurus Festival in 1955, the ancient theatre of Epidaurus had been hosting (with very few exceptions) only performances of ancient Greek drama. This exclusive use of Epidaurus for productions of ancient drama had defined not only the Festival’s orientation but also the perception of the theatre space itself. Given the importance of antiquity for the construction of modern Greek identity, Epidaurus often became a site where different convictions of heritage and ‘linear’ historical continuity have been expressed and challenged both onstage and by the spectators/critics. Yet, in 2007, the Epidaurus Festival started hosting, for the first time in its history, productions of non-ancient drama. Based on Carlson’s analysis of ‘ghosting’, the aim of this article is to explore how the Festival, through these productions, attempted not only to reflect on its own tradition but to resignify this (ideologically) charged theatre space. My notion of ‘re-ghosting’ aspires to describe the possible effect that this short-lived attempt to ‘open’ Epidaurus may still have upon the perception of the ‘haunted’ ancient theatre.
A typology of silence
Authors: Griffiths Linda Marshall
Published: September 2017

Does silence exist and if so where and how? Is it an aural concern alone, or is it perceived and experienced? Can we recognize it and what is its function in plays? This developing typology of silence examines the materiality of silence, how playwrights frame it and what it communicates. Silences that unword language and create an underworld of space that lingers between noise and silence, words and silence. The continually renegotiated space of silence and words, silence and sound that challenge and dismantle meaning, whilst acknowledging the power and danger of a silence imposed. Do words break silence, or does silence devour words?
Evading narcissism: Methexis and ecology in immersive performance
Authors: Osmond Will
Published: September 2017

This article identifies a trend in scholarship on immersive theatre practice towards a prioritization of the internal and private. It proposes that for some performances that have been characterized as ‘immersive’, these analytic strategies prove ineffective. It proposes the concept of methexis as an alternative conceptualization and strategy for analysing interactive performance events. The argument draws on the ontologies of Plato and the aesthetics of Paul Carter and Barbara Bolt to construct a case for using methexis as a tool for analysing Coney’s Early Days (of a better nation).
Interview with Arnold Aronson
Authors: Aronson Arnold
Published: September 2017

Our guest editorial takes the form of an interview between the JAWS editorial team and the Professor of Theatre at Columbia University, Arnold Aronson. Given how JAWS is collaborating with the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) in this issue, it seemed only fitting that we interview an academic whose work in theatre has contributed so much to how we understand our wider visual culture.
Gaps, lapses and (hyper)links: On queerness and virtuality
Authors: Castro Niculescu Sebastian
Published: September 2017

This article works in response to a series of my own performances that explore the valences of what I will call ‘queer virtuality’. The work aims to textually and performatively understand the ways in which virtuality has allowed for the embodiment of a queer identity and how the virtual can be conceptualized as queer. It does so through a mode of argumentation that is faithful to the projects of scrolling, Google searches and cruising. While arguing for the links between queerness and virtuality, it discusses and engages with diverse references in passing as hyperlinks dictating a not-so-linear path of argument.
Glamour’s gaze and two modes of glamour
Authors: Theobald Alice
Published: September 2017

Glamour is seldom defined as an inward disposition. However, the inward constituents of glamour contain the key to its lasting allure. Audrey Hepburn is held to be a paragon of glamour yet she continually disrupts glamour’s tendency towards static, idealized forms. In Funny Face (Donen, 1957) she plays an inquisitive woman unfazed by ‘fashion magazines’, endorsing ‘self-impressions’ and hence an introspective mode of evaluation. Repeatedly, Hepburn’s characters give glamour a parodic edge. We are led towards a mode of glamour defined by how it is lived and how it regards itself. The significance of this is brought into sharp contrast by comparison with the glamour exhibited by Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka. In 1966 Audrey Hepburn and Tamara de Lempicka graced the museums of Paris – Hepburn in William Wyler’s film, How to Steal a Million (1966), and de Lempicka in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs’s exhibition, which consecrated Art Deco style. The apparently antagonistic modes of glamour presented by Hepburn and de Lempicka, who was herself infatuated with Hollywood, highlight how glamour’s defining feature lies in how it is lived. The most significant gaze ultimately belongs to the subject itself rather than to the viewer.
Towards a post-materialist practice in expanded cinema
Authors: Doing Karel
Published: September 2017

Structural/materialist film and expanded cinema, as practised within the United Kingdom, found their origins within the ‘London Filmmakers’ Co-op’. This article argues that structural/materialist practice has evolved and while some of the original pre-occupations leading towards this type of work remain, others have changed significantly. The focus of this article is on expanded cinema work, as within this domain, this shift can be seen most clearly. Four contemporary expanded cinema works are described and discussed, demonstrating and revealing the underlying ideological concerns.
The repeating self: Sarah Lucas’ Self-Portraits (an experiment in art writing)
Authors: Garnsey Eliza
Published: September 2017

In Self-Portraits, Sarah Lucas employs Barthes’ notion of the punctum like an overused punch line: forcing an intentional moment when the puzzle pieces come together and trigger a ‘prick’. To bring together the object of analysis – Lucas’ self-portraits – and the text of analysis, I employ in writing the same intentional punctum (a rupturing of the prose through the written repetition of themes, arguments and questions) that Lucas employs through photography. This adaption in writing of Lucas’ strategy of representation reveals further, and different knowledge, than other forms of art writing might in unpacking the central question, what does repetition in Lucas’ selfportraits reveal about identity and gender? Repetition is fundamental to the ways in which Lucas both displays and disarms her ‘self’ through the photographic portraits. Lucas’ repetitive visual vernacular leaves her identity paradoxically unstable – simultaneously constituted but punctured by that which it seeks to tear down – while the deliberate and repeated use of psychoanalytic citations and gender performance leaves Lucas inhabiting a state of inbetweeness.
Examination of decision-making styles of Turkish Basketball Federation referees
Türkiye Basketbol Federasyonu klasman hakemlerinin karar verme stillerinin incelenmesi
Authors: Kırımoğlu Hüseyin , Zorba Ercan , Zorba Havva Nur , Dikkaya Selin
Published: September 2017

The current study focused on decision-making styles of basketball classification referees under Turkish Basketball Federation. In the study; “Personal Information Form” designed by the researchers and “Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire” developed by Mann et al. (1998) and adapted into Turkish by Deniz et al. (2004) that explore decision-making styles were employed.  Decision-making styles of the participant referees were compared in terms of sex, age, refereeing duration, province, average number of matches conducted during the season, whether or not being affected by spectator pressure, education, perceived economic income and marital status. The population of the study was composed of a total of 251 basketball classification referees (31 female referees and 220 male referees) under TBF (2015-2016 Season). The sample was consisted of a total of 197 basketball classification referees who volunteered to join the study (25 female referees and 172 male referees). As a result; vigilance decision-making of the basketball classification referees who worked under TBF decreased as their educational status increased. It was identified that those basketball classification referees who were married used buck-passing, procrastination and hyper-vigilance decision-making styles more than those who were single. It may be argued that as age increased, basketball classification referees preferred hyper-vigilance decision-making styles.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetBu çalışma, Türkiye Basketbol Federasyonu (TBF) bünyesindeki, basketbol klasman hakemlerinin karar verme stillerinin incelenmesine odaklanmıştır. Araştırmada, araştırmacıların geliştirdiği “Kişisel Bilgi Formu” ve karar verme stillerini belirlemek için Mann ve diğerleri (1998), tarafından geliştirilmiş olan ve Deniz (2004) tarafından Türkçe uyarlaması yapılan “Melbourne Karar Verme Stilleri Ölçeği” kullanılmıştır. Katılımcıların karar verme stilleri, cinsiyet, yaş, hakemlik yılı, il, sezonda yönettiği ortalama maç sayısı, seyirci baskısından etkilenip-etkilenmeme, eğitim, algılanan ekonomik gelir ve medeni durumları açılarından mukayese edilmiştir. Araştırmanın evrenini TBF’na bağlı olarak görev yapan (2015-2016 Sezonu), 31’i kadın, 220’si erkek olmak üzere toplam 251 klasman hakeminden oluşmaktadır. Örneklem ise, genel evren içerisinden çalışmamıza gönüllü olarak katılmayı kabul eden 25’i kadın,172’si erkek klasman hakem olmak üzere genel toplamda 197 basketbol klasman hakeminden oluşmuştur. Sonuç olarak; TBF’na bağlı olarak klasman statüde görev yapan hakemleri n, eğitim seviyelerinin yükseldikçe, dikkatli karar verme alt boyutunda azalma olduğunu, evli olan katılımcıların, bekâr olan katılımcılara oranla daha çok kaçıngan, erteleyici ve panik karar verme stilini kullandıklarını, yaşın ilerlemesine bağlı olarak kaçıngan karar verme stilini tercih ettikleri söylenebilir.
Place attachment to university scale: Turkish adaptation study
Authors: Yaşaroğlu Cihat
Published: September 2017

This study was carried out in order to adapt the “Place Attachment to University Scale” to Turkish. For this purpose, a study group of 246 people consisting of Bingöl University students was carried out in 2016/2017 education year. Factor validity, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency coefficients for reliability studies were examined. In the analysis of the explanatory factor analyses, it was determined that the scale had a one-factor structure and in the confirmatory factor analysis, this structure was tested. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to confirm the model for EFA. In the analyzes x2/sd (221.40 / 116 = 1.91) ratio showed excellent agreement. Fit indices (RMSA .80, GFI .90, AGFI .95, SRMR .048, NNFI .94 and CFI .95) indicate that the scale is valid. The fit indices obtained as a result of confirmatory factor analysis confirm that the scale is a one-factor structure. Finally, internal consistency coefficient was found as .91.
Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file.
Özet
Bu çalışma “Üniversite Yer Bağlılığı Ölçeği”nin Türkçeye uyarlanması amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu amaçla 2016/2017 eğitim yılında Bingöl Üniversitesi öğrencilerinden oluşan 246 kişilik bir çalışma grubu üzerinde uygulamalar yapılmıştır. Yazardan gerekli izinler alındıktan sonra ölçeğin Türkçeye çevirisi yapılmıştır. Gerekli işlemlerden sonra denemlik form hazırlanmış ve uygulanmıştır. Ölçeğin geçerlik, güvenirlik çalışmaları için AFA, DFA ve iç tutarlılık katsayılarına bakılmıştır. Yapılan açımlayıcı faktör analizinde ölçeğin tek faktörlü bir yapıda olduğu belirlenmiştir. Ölçek 17 maddeden oluşmakta, toplam varyansın %43.637’sini açıkladığı ve özdeğerinin 7.418 olduğu görülmüştür. Doğrulayıcı faktör analizinde ise ortaya çıkan bu yapı test edilmiştir. AFA’ya ilişkin modelin doğrulanması için doğrulayıcı faktör analizi (DFA) yapılmıştır. Yapılan analizlerde x2/sd (221.40/116=1.918) ile uyum indekslerinin (RMSA .80, GFI .90, AGFI .95, SRMR .048, NNFI .94 ve CFI .95) ölçeğin geçerli bir yapıda olduğunu göstermektedir. Doğrulayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda elde edilen uyum indeksleri, ölçeğin tek faktörlü bir yapıda olduğunu doğrulamıştır. Son olarak iç tutarlılık katsayısı .917 olarak bulunmuştur.
Comparing the effects of discretionary tax changes between the US and the UK
Authors: Hussain Syed M. , Liu Lin
Published: September 2017

The remarkable similarities of the effects of discretionary tax changes between the US and the UK, shown in (Cloyne, J. 2013. “Discretionary Tax Changes and the Macroeconomy: New Narrative Evidence from the United Kingdom. American Economic Review 103: 1507–1528.), raise the obvious concern whether the effects of tax changes at disaggregated levels in the UK still resemble those in the US. This paper investigates the issue along three dimensions – corporate and personal income tax changes, anticipated and unanticipated tax changes, and positive and negative tax changes. An important contribution of this paper is to construct a data set on exogenous changes of corporate and personal income taxes in the UK, identified from narrative sources along the lines of Cloyne (2013).
The acquired form of ADAMTS-13 deficiency as the cause of thrombotic microangiopathy in a pregnant woman with recurrent cerebral circulation disorders, venous thromboembolism, preeclampsia and fetal loss syndrome
Authors: Bitsadze Viktoriya O. , Khizroeva Jamilya , Makatsariya Alexandr D.
Published: September 2017

Background

Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is one of the most difficult thrombotic complications, characterized by damage of microvessels of various organs and accompanied by thrombocytopenia and hemolytic anemia. Today, TMA includes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, hemolytic-uremic syndrome, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count (HELLP) syndrome. A key characteristic in the development of TMA is endothelial dysfunction. Recent discoveries suggest that this pathology is more widespread than it was previously. One of the most important triggers for TMA is pregnancy.

Methods

The clinical observation of a patient with an inhibitory form of a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondrin type 1 motif, member 13 (ADAMTS-13) deficiency, recurrent thrombotic and “typical obstetric” severe complications is presented.

Results

We diagnosed a reduction in the activity of ADAMTS-13, an increase in the level of antibodies to ADAMTS-13 and disturbances in functioning of the protein C system along with symptoms of disorders of blood flow in the mother-placenta-fetus system as a poor prognosis in regard to both thrombotic and placenta-mediated combinations.

Conclusions

An analysis of cases such as this patient immediately pushes the clinician to the idea of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). It is questionable whether this patient could be regarded as an APS patient if her symptoms do not correspond with the classic diagnostic criteria for the syndrome. At the same time, the discovery of molecular mechanisms of TMA warrants a fresh look into the pathogenesis of thrombotic complications associated with pregnancy, as well as the pathogenesis of placental obstetric complications, including severe forms of preeclampsia, premature detachment of normally situated placenta and septic shock.
Electronically Reconfigurable Varactor-Loaded HMSIW Bandpass Filter
Authors: Song Jing-Pan , Wang Xin-Yi , Wei Feng , Shi Xiao-Wei
Published: September 2017

A varactor-loaded half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) reconfigurable bandpass filter (BPF) is proposed in this paper. The proposed BPF is composed of complementary split-ring resonators (CSRRs) and varactors. Meanwhile, a nonmetalized via is employed in the center of the CSRR. It is noted that the varactor is embedded into the nonmetalized via, which can significantly reduce the tunable filter size. By changing the reverse bias voltage of the varactor, the resonant frequency of the proposed filter can be adjusted. Moreover, low insert loss (IL) and wide tuning range can be achieved. In order to validate its practicability, a BPF with the frequency ranging from 1.9 GHz to 2.5 GHz is fabricated and good agreement between the simulated and measured results is observed.
The color of fat and its central role in the development and progression of metabolic diseases
Authors: Gaggini Melania , Carli Fabrizia , Gastaldelli Amalia
Published: September 2017

Excess caloric intake does not always translate to an expansion of the subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and increase in fat mass. It is now recognized that adipocyte type (white, WAT, or brown, BAT), size (large vs. small) and metabolism are important factors for the development of cardiometabolic diseases. When the subcutaneous adipose tissue is not able to expand in response to increased energy intake the excess substrate is stored as visceral adipose tissue or as ectopic fat in tissues as muscle, liver and pancreas. Moreover, adipocytes become dysfunctional (adiposopathy, or sick fat), adipokines secretion is increased, fat accumulates in ectopic sites like muscle and liver and alters insulin signaling, increasing the demand for insulin secretion. Thus, there are some subjects that despite having normal weight have the metabolic characteristics of the obese (NWMO), while some obese expand their SAT and remain metabolically healthy (MHO). In this paper we have reviewed the recent findings that relate the metabolism of adipose tissue and its composition to metabolic diseases. In particular, we have discussed the possible role of dysfunctional adipocytes and adipose tissue resistance to the antilipolytic effect of insulin on the development of impaired glucose metabolism. Finally we have reviewed the possible role of BAT vs. WAT in the alteration of lipid and glucose metabolism and the recent studies that have tried to stimulate browning in human adipose tissue.
Assessment of health literacy with the Newest Vital Sign and its correlation with body mass index in female adolescent students
Authors: Olyani Samira , Tehrani Hadi , Esmaily Habibullah , Rezaii Mohammadreza Mohammadzadeh , Vahedian-shahroodi Mohammad
Published: September 2017

Background

One of the significant outcomes of health education is health literacy (HL), which should be expanded to improve health promotion.

Objective

The aim of this study was to assess HL and its relationship with Body Mass Index (BMI) in female adolescent students.

Subjects

This study was conducted on 235 female students (aged 13–15 years) which were selected with cluster sampling.

Methods

For assessing HL, the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) was used and BMI Z-score was evaluated following the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.

Results

Based on this study’s results, 11.5%, 37% and 51.5% of adolescents had adequate HL, limited HL and inadequate HL, respectively. There was a negative correlation between adolescents HL and BMI, rs= −0.233 (p < 0.001).

Conclusion

Most of adolescents had limited HL and students with higher BMI had a worse HL score. As a matter of fact, as adequate HL has a significant role for promoting health in the society policy makers must design educational programs for adolescents especially in non-medical settings such as schools where adolescents spend most of their time.
3D CFD Simulations of Local Carbon Formation in Steam Methane Reforming Catalyst Particles
Authors: Behnam Mohsen , Dixon Anthony G.
Published: September 2017

The deactivation of catalysts is an important problem in the strongly endothermic steam methane reforming reaction. The local carbon laydown on the catalyst surface may lead to local hot spots, breakage of catalyst particles, and blockage of the reactor tube. Local carbon formation was studied at different operating conditions using particle-scale 3D CFD models of full and hollow cylindrical particles. The results showed that a low steam-to-carbon ratio may cause local carbon formation at high temperature (\gt900K) on the surface of the catalyst particle. The risk of carbon formation was highest at the surface hot spots and inside the catalyst particles where the methane cracking reaction rate exceeded those of the gasification reactions. The internal surface in the 1-hole catalyst particle showed favorable conditions for carbon formation and deposition, similarly to the external surface of the particle. 3D CFD simulations of a 0.76 m length of a full tube of spherical catalyst particles with tube-to-particle diameter ratio 5.96 showed that the rate of carbon formation was much higher next to the heated tube wall and decreased significantly from the tube wall to the tube center.
Implementation of an Improved Incremental Conductance MPPT Control Based Boost Converter in Photovoltaic Applications
Authors: Necaibia Salah , Kelaiaia Mounia Samira , Labar Hocine , Necaibia Ammar
Published: September 2017

The Photovoltaic systems have a slow dynamics of convergence toward the maximum power point (MPP), especially those equipped by the Boost converter based on the Conventional Incremental Conductance technique. This paper presents the simulation and hardware implementation of auto-scaling variable step-size MPPT in low cost and low power consumption μ-controller (PIC16F877A). Design and simulation of the proposed system are presented using ISIS PROTEUS. The two MPPT techniques, conventional IncCond method and variable step-size method are simulated in the ISIS PROTUES environment. The simulation results show the high tracking accuracy and fast speed convergence of the proposed method. Indeed, the experimental results are closely similar to those of simulation and also prove the advantages of the proposed technique, such as its reliability and accuracy in tracking the MPP. The suggested MPPT system reduces the complexity in implementation and cost of the photovoltaic systems.
Valorisation of the Brewers’ Spent Grain Through Sourdough Bread Making
Authors: Aprodu Iuliana , Simion Alina Beatrice , Banu Iuliana
Published: September 2017

The effect of brewers’ spent grain addition on the thermo-mechanical properties of white and wholemeal wheat flour was investigated. The possibility to improve bread quality and antioxidant properties by using the sourdough fermentation was also considered. Increasing the level of brewers’ spent grain caused the increase of water absorption from 58.1 to 65.2% and from 63.8 to 73.6% in case of white and wholemeal flour, respectively. Similarly, the dough development time increased from 1.27 to 6.18 min, and from 3.37 to 5.42 min. Starch gelatinization significantly increased (p<0.05), while the stability of starch gel, starch retrogradation, and cooking setback significantly decreased (p<0.05) with the level of brewers’ spent grain. The specific volume of the wheat bread significantly decreased (p<0.05) and crumb hardness increased (p<0.05) by incorporation of brewers’ spent grain. Sourdough addition improved bread characteristics and the total phenolic content and antioxidant activity of the bread with brewers’ spent grain.
Thermoelectric and Thermomagnetic Effects in Kaluza’s Kinetic Theory
Authors: Sagaceta-Mejía Alma R. , Sandoval-Villalbazo Alfredo , García-Perciante Ana L.
Published: September 2017

A five-dimensional treatment of the Boltzmann equation is used to establish the constitutive equations that relate thermodynamic fluxes and forces up to first order in the gradients for simple charged fluids in the presence of electromagnetic fields. The formalism uses the
Crystal structure of 11-oxo-2,3,6,7-tetrahydro-1H,5H,11H-pyrano[2,3-f]pyrido[3,2,1-ij]quinoline-10-carbaldehyde - a julolidine derivative, C16H15NO3
Authors: Liu Yingfan , Mao Kaiming , Li Xiaochuan , Son Young-A
Published: September 2017

C16H15NO3, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 9.802(1) Å, b = 14.492(1) Å, c = 9.667(1) Å, β = 112.027(1)°, V = 1272.9 Å3, Z = 4, R
gt(F) = 0.0422, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1249, T = 296 K.
Improving likelihood-ratio-based confidence intervals for threshold parameters in finite samples
Authors: Donayre Luiggi , Eo Yunjong , Morley James
Published: September 2017

Within the context of threshold regressions, we show that asymptotically-valid likelihood-ratio-based confidence intervals for threshold parameters perform poorly in finite samples when the threshold effect is large. A large threshold effect leads to a poor approximation of the profile likelihood in finite samples such that the conventional approach to constructing confidence intervals excludes the true threshold parameter value too often, resulting in low coverage rates. We propose a conservative modification to the standard likelihood-ratio-based confidence interval that has coverage rates at least as high as the nominal level, while still being informative in the sense of including relatively few observations of the threshold variable. An application to thresholds for US industrial production growth at a disaggregated level shows the empirical relevance of applying the proposed approach.
Chromosome Healing Is Promoted by the Telomere Cap Component Hiphop inDrosophila
Authors: Kurzhals Rebeccah L , Fanti Laura , Ebsen A C Gonzalez , Rong Yikang S , Pimpinelli Sergio , Golic Kent G
Published: September 2017

The addition of a new telomere onto a chromosome break, a process termed healing, has been studied extensively in organisms that utilize telomerase to maintain their telomeres. In comparison, relatively little is known about how new telomeres are constructed on broken chromosomes in organisms that do not use telomerase. Chromosome healing was studied in somatic and germline cells of Drosophila melanogaster, a nontelomerase species. We observed, for the first time, that broken chromosomes can be healed in somatic cells. In addition, overexpression of the telomere cap component Hiphop increased the survival of somatic cells with broken chromosomes, while the cap component HP1 did not, and overexpression of the cap protein HOAP decreased their survival. In the male germline, Hiphop overexpression greatly increased the transmission of healed chromosomes. These results indicate that Hiphop can stimulate healing of a chromosome break. We suggest that this reflects a unique function of Hiphop: it is capable of seeding formation of a new telomeric cap on a chromosome end that lacks a telomere.
Rapid DNA Synthesis During EarlyDrosophilaEmbryogenesis Is Sensitive to Maternal Humpty Dumpty Protein Function
Authors: Lesly Shera , Bandura Jennifer L , Calvi Brian R
Published: September 2017

Lesly, Bandura, and Calvi show that rapid DNA synthesis during early Drosophila embryogenesis is highly sensitive to mild mutations...

Problems with DNA replication cause cancer and developmental malformations. It is not fully understood how DNA replication is coordinated with development and perturbed in disease. We had previously identified the Drosophila gene humpty dumpty (hd), and showed that null alleles cause incomplete DNA replication, tissue undergrowth, and lethality. Animals homozygous for the missense allele, hd272-9, were viable, but adult females had impaired amplification of eggshell protein genes in the ovary, resulting in the maternal effects of thin eggshells and embryonic lethality. Here, we show that expression of an hd transgene in somatic cells of the ovary rescues amplification and eggshell synthesis but not embryo viability. The germline of these mothers remain mutant for the hd272-9 allele, resulting in reduced maternal Hd protein and embryonic arrest during mitosis of the first few S/M nuclear cleavage cycles with chromosome instability and chromosome bridges. Epistasis analysis of hd with the rereplication mutation plutonium indicates that the chromosome bridges of hd embryos are the result of a failed attempt to segregate incompletely replicated sister chromatids. This study reveals that maternally encoded Humpty dumpty protein is essential for DNA replication and genome integrity during the little-understood embryonic S/M cycles. Moreover, the two hd272-9 maternal-effect phenotypes suggest that ovarian gene amplification and embryonic cleavage are two time periods in development that are particularly sensitive to mild deficits in DNA replication function. This last observation has broader relevance for interpreting why mild mutations in the human ortholog of humpty dumpty and other DNA replication genes cause tissue-specific malformations of microcephalic dwarfisms.
The impact of dry unit weight and cement content on the durability of sand–cement blends
Authors: Consoli Nilo Cesar , Tomasi Lennon Ferreira
Published: September 2017

Increasing the dry unit weight (γd) through vibration/compaction and the addition of Portland cement are among promising ground improvement procedures to enhance the endurance performance of granular materials. The present investigation intends to compute the impact of cement content (C) and γd on the durability of Osório sand–Portland cement blends. An experimental programme of wetting–drying cycle tests considering distinct γd and C was carried out to assess that influence. A steadiness of the characteristic loss of mass (CLM) during 12 wetting–drying cycles for distinct specimens (of each particular γd and C) is observed and suggests a possibility of carrying out just a few cycles, making possible to extrapolate the results up to the required 12 cycles, reducing the time needed to assess the durability of such blends. It is also shown that the CLM of each specimen is reduced on increasing the γd and C. The CLM and accumulated loss of mass of compacted sand–cement mixes during wetting–drying cycles were originally perceived in the present research to be directly associated with the porosity/cement index. This broadens the applicability of such index, demonstrating that it controls not only the strength but also endurance performance of sand–cement blends.
Acceptance of Game-Based Learning and Intrinsic Motivation as Predictors for Learning Success and Flow Experience
Authors: Ninaus Manuel , Moeller Korbinian , McMullen Jake , Kiili Kristian
Published: September 2017

There is accumulating evidence that engagement with digital math games can improve students’ learning. However, in what way individual variables critical to game-based learning influence students' learning success still needs to be explored. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the influence of students’ acceptance of game-based learning (e.g., perceived usefulness of a game as a learning tool, perceived ease of use), as well as their intrinsic motivation for math (e.g., their math interest, self-efficacy) and quality of playing experience on learning success in a game-based rational number training. Additionally, we investigated the influence of the former variables on quality of playing experience (operationalized as perceived flow). Results indicated that the game-based training was effective. Moreover, students’ learning success and their quality of playing experience were predicted by measures of acceptance of game-based learning and intrinsic motivation for math. These findings indicated that learning success in game-based learning approaches are driven by students’ acceptance of the game as a learning tool and content-specific intrinsic motivation. Therefore, the present work is of particular interest to researchers, developers, and practitioners working with game-based learning environments.
EscapED: A Framework for Creating Educational Escape Rooms and Interactive Games to For Higher/Further Education.
Authors: Clarke Samantha Jane , Peel Daryl J. , Arnab Sylvester , Morini Luca , Keegan Helen , Wood Oliver
Published: September 2017

Game-based learning (GBL) is often found to be technologically driven and more often than not, serious games for instance, are conceptualised and designed solely for digital platforms and state of the art technologies. To encourage a greater discussion on the potential benefits and challenges of a more holistic approach to developing GBL that promote human centered interactions and play for learning, the authors present the escapED programme. The escapED programme was conceived following the recent entertainment trend of escape rooms and is used for developing non-digital GBL approaches within education. escapED aids the design and creation of educational Escape Rooms and Interactive Gaming Experiences for staff and students in further/higher education settings. The paper first presents a pilot study that was used to assess the feasibility and acceptance of University teaching staff of embedding interactive GBL into a higher education environment. The authors then present the escapED theoretical framework that was used to create the prototype game for the pilot study as a tool to aid future design and development of on-site interactive experiences. The paper also presents an external developer report of using the escapED framework to develop a prototype game for teaching research methods to Southampton University students. Finally, the authors present a discussion on the use of the escapED framework so far and plans for future work and evaluation in order to provide engaging alternatives for learning and soft skills development amongst higher education staff andstudents.