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The Early Life of Charles Butler (1750–83)
Authors: Abercrombie Nigel J.
Published: February 2017

Charles Butler was born on 14 August 1750. His father, James, and his uncles Charles and Alban, the hagiographer, were by then the last male representatives of an old Catholic Northamptonshire family, connected with Plowdens and Jerninghams in closer kinship than with any others.
Thomas Dalton of Thurnham: A Lancashire Royalist Colonel
Authors: Gratton J. M.
Published: February 2017

One of the more welcome aspects of recent studies of the English Civil War is the renewal of interest in the military history of the Northern Counties, through the work of B. G. Blackwood and more particularly P. R. Newman, both of whom have served, in the case of Lancashire, to illuminate Ernest Broxap’s pioneering tome of 1910. Newman has done a useful service in drawing attention to the active role in the fighting played by Northern Roman Catholics, who made substantial contributions to the Royalist war effort, a view which modifies the neutrality theory of Dr K. J. Lindley.
Who was Fr Thomas Whitbread?
Authors: Bennett J. S.
Published: February 2017

The Jesuit Provincial Thomas Whitbread (alias Harcourt), executed at Tyburn on 20 June 1679, was the most eminent ecclesiastical victim of the so-called ‘Popish Plot’, and has been beatified. Who exactly was he? There is apparently still some uncertainty. His parentage and early background are in one sense irrelevant to the dramatic public events at the close of his life. Nevertheless it is tantalising not to be able to ‘place’ an historical character. This paper re-examines the question with the aid of some scraps of fresh evidence.
A Topographical Index of Hiding Places
Authors: Hodgetts Michael
Published: February 2017

This index is an appendix to my series of articles in Recusant History (1972-77) and a supplement to Granville Squiers, Secret Hiding-Places (1933). The 177 houses listed below can therefore be divided into three groups. Twenty-eight, of which twenty-two were in Squiers, have been discussed before in Recusant History and are only dealt with briefly here. Another thirty-four are houses where Squiers now needs correcting or amplifying. The remaining 115 are not in Squiers at all but contain (or contained) something definite enough to justify recording. Houses in Squiers on which there is nothing much to add have been omitted here, and so have all but seven of the places listed in Winifred Haward’s two booklets, Secret Rooms of Yorkshire (1956) and Secret Rooms of North-West England (1964). Ninety-five other houses, none of them in Squiers or Haward, have been considered and discarded, either for lack of sufficient evidence or because the ‘hides’ are inauthentic examples of no interest.
No Ordinary Residence: Bishop York and the ’Forty-Five
Authors: Anthony Williams J.
Published: February 2017

In February 1747, Bishop William Laurence York, O.S.B., coadjutor since 1741 to the Vicar-Apostolic of the Western District, wrote to Propaganda lamenting that for the past eighteen months he had been ‘a fugitive from my ordinary residence, and have as yet no fixed abode’. The bishop’s ‘ordinary residence’ was the Bell-tree house in Bath whence he had fled at the time of the ‘Forty-five after the mayor had been handed a letter ostensibly implicating Dr York in Jacobite activity and promising him the see of Carlisle if the Young Pretender proved victorious (in one of the documents here printed Bath and Wells is mentioned in the same context!). The mayor advised him to withdraw from Bath for a time, and this he did. The documents which follow and which are among the uncalendared State Papers (Domestic) in the Public Record Office, shed a little light upon the sequel.
Some Letters from Suffolk, 1763–80 Selection and Commentary
Authors: Holt T. G.
Published: February 2017

The letters from which the extracts that follow have been selected were all, with one exception, addressed to Edward Galloway, a Jesuit priest who was stationed in Norwich fromc. 1759-74 and who was the superior of his Jesuit colleagues working as missionaries in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge and Essex. They form a collection known simply as ‘Galloway Letters’ in the Archives of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (AEPSJ). The letters contain much in the way of trivial matter submitted to Galloway for his information, approval or advice, and most of this has been omitted in making this selection, the primary object being to choose such letters and passages as concern those places in Suffolk at which Jesuit priests were stationed or which they used as bases at the time—Bury St Edmund’s, Coldham Hall, near Bury and Gifford’s Hall, near Stoke-by-Nayland, and also places they visited to minister to the scattered Catholics. The method adopted in presenting this selection is to give first the number of the letter in the collection preserved in the Jesuit Provincial Archives, then the passage chosen (retaining the original spelling but with some punctuation added), then editorial comment.
Lawrence Anderton, S.J. A Postscript
Authors: Allison A. F.
Published: February 2017

In a recent article in this periodical on the identity of the early seventeenth-century controversialist who wrote under the pseudonym ‘John Brereley’, I published some biographical notes on the Jesuit, Lawrence Anderton (1575-1643) who is sometimes mistakenly credited with authorship of the ‘Brereley’ books. These notes included new evidence on a hitherto very obscure phase of Anderton’s career, the five or six years after he left Cambridge in 1597 to become a Catholic and go abroad to study for the priesthood. I was able to show that he studied at the English College at Seville and returned to England, a priest but not yet a Jesuit, a few years later. The date of his return seemed to be determined by an entry in the College accounts stating that his viaticum was collected on 24 March 1603. Of his life at the College, however, I could discover nothing beyond the fact that, while there, he went by the alias Lawrence Rigby or Ribe. Since publishing my article I have come across a piece of evidence which throws a little further light on his career at the College and which also suggests that he left Seville to come on the mission a few months earlier than the date of the viaticum would seem to indicate.
Elizabethan Priest-Holes: IV — Harvington
Authors: Hodgetts Michael
Published: February 2017

On the Great Staircase and in the Little Drawing Room at Coughton Court in Warwickshire hangs a family group of portraits which came from Harvington Hall in Worcestershire. The earliest, of Humphrey Pakington (1555-1631), is dated 1599 and shows him in an oval frame, with receding hair, goatee beard and dark, slightly protruding eyes. He is wearing a ruff and black doublet, and the long fingers of his left hand lightly grasp a pendent jewel. His lips are set in a straight line, and the general effect is one of woodensolemnity. Close by is the portrait by Cornelius Jansen of Humphrey’s second wife, Abigail Sacheverell, a much more vivid character. She is a podgy woman with a double chin, in a magnificently padded and slashed dress of blue and silver and an enormous lace collar set off by jewellery. Here, beyond doubt, was a capable and masterful woman, an impression which is confirmed by her surviving letters. The portrait is signed by Jansen above theleft sleeve, and is dated 1630, the year before Humphrey’s death. The series continues with two portraits of their elder daughter Mary Yate (one by the school of Jansen); with one of their younger daughter Anne Audley (also attributed to Jansen); with one of Sir John Yate, who married Mary; and with one by Adriaen van der Werff of Sir Charles Yate, son of Sir John and Mary. Finally, there is a portrait (school of Lely) of Sir Charles’s daughter, another Mary Yate, whose marriage to Sir Robert Throckmorton took the Harvington estates to the Throckmortons in 1696.
English Translations of the Imitatio Christi in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Authors: Crane David
Published: February 2017

Thirteen translations of the Imitatio Christi and three paraphrases seem to have been published between 1500 and 1700. Of the grand total of sixteen versions, nine were Catholic and seven Protestant. There can be little doubt that in addition to these printed versions a number of renderings were made, in whole or in part, which remained in manuscript. There is evidence, then, of the great and continuing popularity of this classic of the spiritual life, both with Catholic and Protestant readers. I intend to consider here the printed translations of the Imitatio with three questions in mind. What relationship is revealed between Catholic and Protestant translators? What attempt is made by Protestant translators to modify distinctively Catholic elements in the Imitatio? Is any general literary development apparent between 1500 and 1700? Conveniently, the answers to these questions can be divided into those appropriate for the sixteenth and those appropriate for the seventeenth century.
The True Identity of George Ravenscroft, Glassman
Authors: Rendel Rosemary
Published: February 2017

This paper is a tribute to two people whose perceptive and persevering research I have merely continued. Sister Francis Agnes Onslow, now of the Poor Clare Convent, Woodchester, using Franciscan sources more than ten years ago, thought that George Ravenscroft had been wrongly identified but was not able to prove her hypothesis because the Douai College diaries after 1654 are missing for a long period. The late Patrick Knell, working on the Ravenscroft family of Barnet, Herts, as an example of ‘schismatic’ Catholic parents who yet educated all their sons at Catholic colleges abroad, also correctly identified the glassman. The importance of this identification passed him by, however, because he was not familiar with the history of glass and did not think, in consequence, to cross-reference the recusant sources he was using with the State Papers Venetian in the Public Record Office. It is an indication of the limited sources used in the past by historians of art that, in spite of this information being available, it was possible for George Ravenscroft, the man who initiated English lead crystal in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, to remain wrongly identified for nearly fifty years.
Papist-Protestant - Puritan: English Religious Taxonomy 1565-1665
Authors: Clancy Thomas H.
Published: February 2017

It is wel knowne ... that in the realme of Ingland at this day, there are three different and opposite bodies of religion that are of the most bulk and that do carry most sway and power, which three bodies are knowne commonly in Ingland by the names of Protestants, Puritanes, and Papists, though the latter two do not acknowledge these names, and for the same cause would I not use them neither, if it were not only for cleerness and brevities sake, for that, as often I have protested, my meaning is not to give offence to any side or partye.

The idea for this paper came to me a dozen years ago while re-reading Will Herberg’s Protestant - Catholic - Jew, subtitled ‘An Essay in American Religious Sociology’. Mr Herberg made extensive use of survey data which, of course, are not available to the student of Elizabethan-Stuart England, but some of his most pertinent insights came from his analysis of manners of contemporary American speech. I began at that time to note and classify the ways in which Englishmen of this period described religious beliefs and attitudes. The conviction slowly formed that terminology not only flowed from religious thought and belief but in its turn influenced religious thought.
Elizabethan Priest-Holes: V—The North
Authors: Hodgetts Michael
Published: February 2017

The choice of houses for this fifth article was not easy. In the first of the series I argued that the building of priest-holes took place in three stages, divided roughly by the Armada and the Gunpowder Plot, the events which mark the beginning and the end of Nicholas Owen’s work. In the second, I discussed a group of hides from the early period, at Ufton, Mapledurham and Compton Wynyates. In the third and fourth I dealt with two groups of houses where there is evidence of Owen’s work: in East Anglia at Oxburgh, Braddocks and Sawston, and in Warwickshire and Worcestershire at Baddesley Clinton, Hindlip and Harvington. In the sixth (and last) article I shall deal with the most fully documented hides of the third period, namely those used by Charles II after the Battle of Worcester. But with such a wealth of material to draw on, which houses should go into the remaining article on the middle period ?

The third and fourth articles were illustrations of the work of two of the Jesuits who met at Baddesley Clinton in October 1591: John Gerard in East Anglia and Edward Oldcorne in Worcestershire. Even to complete the picture for these two priests would require another three articles. No county is richer in hiding-places than Worcestershire and the neighbouring parts of Warwickshire, and Oldcorne’s work extended much further afield, into Herefordshire and even into Wales.
The Rev. Simon George Bordley, Schoolmaster
Authors: Smith W.Vincent
Published: February 2017

Catholic educational endeavour in England during the eighteenth century depended not only on the enterprise of individuals, but also on the fluctuations of the political situation and the degree of local complaisance. Schools were often ephemeral, though one or two founded during the century proved to be permanent, and in some recusant areas, notably in south Lancashire, Durham County, York, the North Riding and London, educational activity was persistent. Catholics had no counterpart in England for the standard offered in Grammar and Public Schools, Dissenting Academies and the Universities. They had to look for this education to their colleges and schools on theContinent, and their educational activities at home were usually designed to prepare boys for these further studies. It is against this background that this article attempts to assess the educational work of the secular priest, Simon George Bordley.

The earliest and the best known of the schools in Lancashire in the eighteenth century was that of ‘Dame Alice’ Harrison at Fernihalgh. Started in the early years of the century, the school continued until she retired shortly before her death in 1760. During her last years another well-known school, one for boys, had been started by Simon Bordley. Our knowledge of this school has been greatly increased by an account book kept by him from 1759 to 1771, and preserved at St Edmund’s College, Ware.The manuscript consists of a quire of paper folded into folio sheets and is in the original paper cover.
Lady Londonderry and The Irish Catholics of Seaham Harbour: ‘No Popery’ out of Context
Authors: Cooter R.J.
Published: February 2017

When the Newcastle Chronicle in an editorial on ‘Irishmen in England’ in 1867 declared that ‘Tyneside is famous for itshospitality’, it was not merely voicing a random appeal for calm during the tense days of the Fenian scare. In spite of the fact that the North-East had by 1861 the fourth highest ratio of Irish to English in all England and Wales, the region had been, and continued to be, remarkably free from anti-Irish and anti-Catholic hostility. This was not because Irish immigration had been gradual: between 1841 and 1851 the Irish-born of Newcastle and County Durham—nearly all of whom were Catholic—had increased their numbers by over 200%. By the latter date, the Irish-born numbered over 25,000 and together with their English progeny comprised most of the 38,000 Catholics estimated to be in Newcastle and County Durham in 18525. In the 1830’s the Irish presence had been negligible, but by 1851 the Irish-born alone made up 5.1% of the total populationand 8% of Newcastle’s population. By 1861 a correspondent of the Nation reported of the Irish within a ten-mile radius of Newcastle that ‘except in London, Liverpool, and Manchester, there is no such Irish force to be met with in England’. Yet, despite this, only one anti-Irish riot of significance ever took place in Newcastle. This was during the No-Popery agitation of 1851 when a street preacher (by legend ‘Ranter Dick’) began a harangue in the midst of the dense population of Irish Catholics in the Newcastle slum of Sandgate. That the riotingwas never repeated nor matched elsewhere in the North-East, and that it wassoon rendered into a Geordie song more amusing than bitter, is only one of the many indications of the ephemeral nature of the No-Popery crusade in the North-East. Together with the evidence of bonhomie shown toward the Irish Catholics by, for example, Poor Law officials and city corporations, the region stands in contrast to those areas of England, Scotland and Wales where the Irish Catholics appear to have been surrounded by acrimony.
‘When the saints go marching in’: constructions of senior volunteering in Norwegian government white papers, and in Norwegian senior volunteers’ and health-care professionals’ stories
Authors: BLIX BODIL HANSEN , HAMRAN TORUNN
Published: February 2017

This study explores policy makers’, health-care professionals’ and senior volunteers’ perceptions of senior volunteers. Two Norwegian government white papers regarding older adult care and welfare services, which were published over a period of 19 years, were selected for close examination. Furthermore, focus group interviews with a purposeful sample of five senior volunteers and 15 health-care professionals were conducted. The study explores the discursive formations of senior volunteers in the government white papers and how they are negotiated in the senior volunteers’ and the health-care professionals’ narratives. Two dominant discourses were presented in the white papers: a prevention discourse (in which volunteering was presented primarily as a means to prevent volunteers’ loneliness and need for care services) and a sustainability discourse (in which the volunteers were presented as instrumental in future sustainable care services). Both discourses echo a common overarching discourse about a capacity crisis due to the ageing population. The senior volunteers were positioned as partners and active agents in both their own narratives and the health-care professionals’ narratives. Their position as independent and as spokespersons for the less empowered were evident only in the senior volunteers’ own narratives. Only the health-care professionals referenced the prevention discourse and capacity issues. The senior volunteers presented themselves as competent, efficient political actors, and they resisted both the prevention and sustainability discourses. In the senior volunteers’ narratives, social and political participation were interrelated. The study demonstrates that new discursive landscapes must be created to capture the diversity among senior volunteers and their efforts. While senior volunteers must be meaningfully involved in decision making, planning and design, their positions as independent and active agents must also be ensured. Authentic partnerships between senior volunteers and public care services involve a balance between involvement and independence.
John Abbot (1588 – ? 1650)
Authors: Rogers D.M.
Published: February 2017

JOHN ABBOT, who abroad used the alias of Ashton (C.R.S. XXX, 105) and in England called himself John, or Augustine, Rivers, was born of a London family in 1588. Our chief authority for his early life is entry 289 in the Registers of the English College at Valladolid (C.R.S. XXX). From this we learn that he was aged 21 in 1609, a Londoner born of respectable but non-Catholic parents. A passage taken by Foley (VII, 1152) from the Annual Letter of the English Jesuit College of St. Omer for 1609 adds to our knowledge of his family: “The fathers … received many Protestants into the Church; among whom was an Oxford student of great talent belonging to the Aobot family (a family most hostile to the Catholic faith, two members having been its bitterest foes, viz. a bishop and a dean)”. This can only refer to George Abbot (1562–1633) who at the time of writing was Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in 16l0 was made Bishop of London, and in 1611 became Archbishop of Canterbury (D.N.B. I, 5), and to his brother Robert Abbot (1560–1617) who in 1609, though not apparently a dean, was chaplain in ordinary to King James and in that year was made Master of Balliol College, and later became Bishop of Salisbury (D.N.B. I, 24). Both brothers published noted anti-Catholic controversial works, and George as bishop was an active persecutor of Catholics. Since the brothers were of a Guildford family, their relationship to John Abbot may not have been close, but it is perhaps significant that all three went to Balliol.
The Englefields and their Contribution to the Survival of the Faith in Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Leicestershire
Authors: Trappes-Lomax T.B.
Published: February 2017

The original home of the family was at Englefield House (1) in the parish of Englefield, five and a half miles South-West of Reading. It had been in the family’s possession from at least as early as the middle of the twelfth century. When Elizabeth came to the throne it was the property of Sir Francis Englefield (2) who left the country, never to return, in April 1559, having settled Englefield on his brother John. John died in 1567 and was succeeded by his son Sir Francis Englefield, 1st Baronet, who survived to 1631, though his ownership of Englefield ceased in 1586 on its forfeiture to the Crown. This was the culminating act in a long dispute with the Crown which had begun with its sequestration in 1563.
Father Thomas Wright: A Test case for toleration
Authors: Stroud Theodore A.
Published: February 2017

The struggle of the English Catholics during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I to achieve toleration has already proved itself a challenging feature of Renaissance culture. It is surprising, therefore, that few of the personalities in this conflict have been studied in detail, especially the Catholic leaders who facilitated rather than resisted the submission of the Catholic population to the government. Perhaps a study of these men, who were subject to correction by the forces at either extreme, would lend to our comprehension of the period a degree of objectivity not to be found among the deluge of partisan accounts. At least their careers can complement, as biography always does history, the existing surveys (1), giving them continuity and human significance.
The Birthplace of the Blessed Robert Anderton
Authors: Trappes Lomax T. B.
Published: February 2017

The poem here printed shows that this martyr was born, not in Lancashire as has been generally thought, but in the Isle of Man. It occurs onp. 145 of a MS. book known as “The Great Hodge Podge” which has always been in the possession of the Blurdell family of Crosby Co. Lanc.

It is probably in the handwriting of William Blundell of Crosby who was born i n 1560, i n the same year, that i S, as Anaerton. Blundell was consequently twenty six years old when Anderton was executed in the Isle of Wight in 1586. He died in 1630.
The Catholic Recusancy of the Yorkshire Fairfaxes. Part I.
Authors: Aveling Hugh
Published: February 2017

In the middle ages the Fairfaxes ranked amongst the minor landed gentry of Yorkshire. They seem to have risen to this status in the thirteenth century, partly by buying land out of the profits of trade in York, partly by successful marriages. But they remained of little importance until the later fifteenth century. They had, by then, produced no more than a series of bailiffs of York, a treasurer of York Minster and one knight of the shire. The head of the family was not normally a knight. The family property consisted of the two manors of Walton and Acaster Malbis and house property in York. But in the later fifteenth century and onwards the fortunes of the family were in the ascendant and they began a process of quite conscious social climbing. At the same time they began to increase considerably in numbers. The three main branches, with al1 their cadet lines, were fixed by the middle of the sixteenth century – the senior branch, Fairfax of Walton and Gilling, the second branch, Fairfax of Denton, Nunappleton, Bilhorough and Newton Kyme, the third branch, Fairfax of Steeton. It is very important for any attempt to assess the strength and nature of Catholicism in Yorkshire to try to understand the strong family – almost clan – unity of these pushing, rising families. While adherence to Catholicism could be primarily a personal choice in the face of family ties and property interests, the history of the Faith in Yorkshire was conditioned greatly at every point by the strength of those ties and interests. The minute genealogy and economic history of the gentry has therefore a very direct bearing on recusant history.
The Venerable George Errington.
Authors: Forster Ann M.C.
Published: February 2017

Foley (Records, vol. V, p.740) quotes a communication received from Lord Arundell, in which he attempts to present a pedigree of the Erringtons, but fails to show the connections of Ven. George Errington, merely stating that he “may fairly be treated as presumably a younger branch of the Erringtons of Errington.” The pedigree, as given, is not quite correct, and concerns mainly the Erringtons of Walwick Grange, with whom George Errington could only have been remotely connected.
Recusancy in the North Riding of Yorkshire (c. 1590).
Authors: Southern A.C.
Published: February 2017

The verses set out below occupy pages 31 to 34 of an early mmusaript (Z 3.5.2) in Marsh's Library, Dublin, and are hem printed, for the firat tbe as far aa 9s known, by the Hnd pem%ssion of the Governors of the Library. The history of this manuscript is obscure.
Ven. Robert Sutton of Stafford a Note on his Family and Early Life
Authors: Rogers D.M.
Published: February 2017

Robert Sutton is a name that occurs quite often in sixteenth century records. It was borne by two of the English martyrs under Elizabeth I, the only two, among the three hundred and sixty martyrs at present officially listed, to bear identical names. One of these was a layman, a school-master, hanged at Clerkenwell in October 1588 for being reconciled to the Catholic faith (1). The other was a secular priest hanged, drawn and quartered at Stafford a year earlier (2). The present note concerns the priest, but since further contemporaries of these two martyrs also had the same name, others, too, will be mentioned in the course of investigating the early years of the Ven. Robert Sutton, the priest martyr of 1587.
Secular Priests Mentioned in the Mawhood Diary. 1764–1790
Authors: Reynolds E.E.
Published: February 2017

Over 120 priests are named in William Mawhooa’ s Diary during the years 1764 to 1790. It has not proved possible to identify all of them, and one purpose of the following annotated list is to ask the help of readers in adding to the Information given, or, where no information is given, in suggesting possible identifications. It must be admitted that a surname and the date of its first use in the Diary do not constitute a promising clue; moreover Mawhood’a spelling is often phonetic. Such additional information will make the annotation of the forthcoming edition of the Diary more comprehensive.
Generalised Dirichlet to Neumann maps for linear dispersive equations on half-line
Authors: FOKAS ATHANASSIOS S. , WANG ZIPENG
Published: February 2017

A large class of initial-boundary problems of linear evolution partial differential equations formulated on the half-line is analyzed via the unified transform method. In particular, explicit representations are presented for the generalised Dirichlet to Neumann maps. Namely, the determination of the unknown boundary values when an essential set of initial and boundary data is given.
Drivers of bird diversity in an understudied African centre of endemism: The Angolan Central Escarpment Forest
Authors: CÁCERES AIMY , MELO MARTIM , BARLOW JOS , FAUSTINO DE LIMA RICARDO , MILLS MICHAEL S. L.
Published: February 2017

Natural habitats are being rapidly lost due to human activities. It is therefore vital to understand how these activities influence biodiversity so that suitable guidelines can be established for conservation. This is particularly important in understudied, high biodiversity, areas such as the Angolan Escarpment. Here we examine which habitat characteristics drive bird diversity and endemic species presence at Kumbira Forest, a key site in the Central Escarpment Forest. Bird diversity was sampled by 10 min bird point counts, whereas habitat characteristics were measured by a combination of ground-based vegetation surveys and remotely sensed data modelling of Landsat images. GLM, multi-model inference and model averaging were used to determine the most important variables driving species richness and the presence of endemics. The remote sensing variables performed poorly in predicting presence of Red-crested Turaco Tauraco erythrolophus and Gabela Bushshrike Laniarius amboimensis but they contributed significantly to explain species richness and Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela presence, both of which were associated with greater canopy cover. Liana density and elevation were also important explanatory variables in certain cases. Conservation actions at Kumbira should focus on increasing canopy cover and maintaining forest integrity (as measured by liana density), as these actions are likely to have the most positive outcomes for the avifauna.
Multi-focused cut elimination
Authors: BROCK-NANNESTAD TAUS , GUENOT NICOLAS
Published: March 2017

We investigate cut elimination in multi-focused sequent calculi and the impact on the cut elimination proof of design choices in such calculi. The particular design we advocate is illustrated by a multi-focused calculus for full linear logic using an explicitly polarised syntax and incremental focus handling, for which we provide a syntactic cut elimination procedure. We discuss the effect of cut elimination on the structure of proofs, leading to a conceptually simple proof exploiting the strong structure of multi-focused proofs.
Claims / Injury Management and Rehabilitation for Injured Workers: Initial Results of a Partnership Approach
Authors: Roberts-Yates Christine
Published: February 2017

Acritical life event such as a significant work injury imposes on the individual a heavy burden in terms of suffering, social exclusion, stigmatisation, negative role transition, and emotional, and financial costs. Such events, therefore, have multi-level implications relating to the functional restoration of workers, the professional efficacy of their service providers, industry productivity and economic viability at individual, organisational, community and state levels. In accord with this viewpoint, discussions have been held with a range of the key stakeholders, including employers, workers, case managers, WorkCover personnel and vocational and medical providers from which a larger research study has been designed. This paper sets the scene for an investigation into a learning partnership approach to claims / injury management and rehabilitation that is pragmatic, timely and consistent in fundamental principles, and which links well with the treating medical experts, employers, insuring agents, workers and close family members involved.
The Development and Utility of an Interactive Assessment Protocol for Evaluating Company Based Responses in Managing Employees on Long-term Absence
Authors: Thome Julie M. , McAnaney Donal F. , Biggs Herbert C. , Wynne Richard F.
Published: February 2017

This paper presents the results of Phase 3 of The RETURN Project, a European Study which aimed to reduce long term absenteeism in the workplace. Phases 1 and 2 have been described in detail elsewhere. The study adopted an iterative approach that explored LTA from three different perspectives: the System, the Expert and the Employer. This paper describes how the outputs of both the System and the Expert phases in combination with other tools focused on Disability Management (DM) were used to generate an interactive multi-jurisdictional assessment protocol tool for evaluating company based responses in managing employees on long term absence. The RETURN Protocol was field tested in different regulatory contexts using a company case study approach. Results of the field test carried out in six European companies are presented and the future and appropriate use of the protocol tool is discussed.
Generating natural language descriptions using speaker-dependent information
Authors: FERREIRA THIAGO C. , PARABONI IVANDRÉ
Published: February 2017

This paper discusses the issue of human variation in natural language referring expression generation. We introduce a model of content selection that takes speaker-dependent information into account to produce descriptions that closely resemble those produced by each individual, as seen in a number of reference corpora. Results show that our speaker-dependent referring expression generation model outperforms alternatives that do not take human variation into account, or which do so less extensively, and suggest that the use of machine-learning methods may be an ideal approach to mimic complex referential behaviour.
Factors associated with high consumption of soft drinks among Australian secondary-school students
Authors: Scully Maree , Morley Belinda , Niven Philippa , Crawford David , Pratt Iain S , Wakefield Melanie
Published: February 2017

Objective

To examine demographic and behavioural correlates of high consumption of soft drinks (non-alcoholic sugar-sweetened carbonated drinks excluding energy drinks) among Australian adolescents and to explore the associations between high consumption and soft drink perceptions and accessibility.

Design

Cross-sectional self-completion survey and height and weight measurements.

Setting

Australian secondary schools.

Subjects

Students aged 12–17 years participating in the 2012–13 National Secondary Students’ Diet and Activity (NaSSDA) survey (n 7835).

Results

Overall, 14 % of students reported consuming four or more cups (≥1 litres) of soft drinks each week (‘high soft drink consumers’). Demographic factors associated with high soft drink consumption were being male and having at least $AU 40 in weekly spending money. Behavioural factors associated with high soft drink consumption were low fruit intake, consuming energy drinks on a weekly basis, eating fast foods at least once weekly, eating snack foods ≥14 times/week, watching television for >2 h/d and sleeping for <8 h/school night. Students who perceived soft drinks to be usually available in their home, convenient to buy and good value for money were more likely to be high soft drink consumers, as were students who reported usually buying these drinks when making a beverage purchase from the school canteen/vending machine.

Conclusions

High soft drink consumption clusters with other unhealthy lifestyle behaviours among Australian secondary-school students. Interventions focused on reducing the availability of soft drinks (e.g. increased taxes, restricting their sale in schools) as well as improved education on their harms are needed to lower adolescents’ soft drink intake.
Unusual Twinning Resulting in Chimerism: A Systematic Review on Monochorionic Dizygotic Twins
Authors: Peters Henrike E. , König Tamar E. , Verhoeven Marieke O. , Schats Roel , Mijatovic Velja , Ket Johannes C. F. , Lambalk Cornelis B.
Published: February 2017

Traditionally, it is understood that dizygotic (DZ) twins always have a dichorionic placenta. However, with 8% blood chimerism in DZ twins, placental sharing is probably more common than previously has been recognized. In this article, we will review all available cases of monochorionic dizygotic (MCDZ) twins. A total of 31 twins have been described in literature. A monochorionic diamniotic placenta is reported in all cases. Assisted reproductive technology is responsible for the origin of the pregnancy in 82.1% of the cases. In 15.4% of the sex-discordant twins, a genital anomaly was reported in one of the twins. Chimerism is demonstrable in 90.3% of the twins, leading to various diagnostic difficulties. As this review shows that most MCDZ twins are discovered by accident, it can be argued that it is far more common than has been assumed until now. However, the prevalence is still unclear. Awareness of MCDZ twinning is important, with subsequently correct medical strategies. Similarly, the resulting (blood) chimerism is essential to consider in diagnostic procedures, pre- and postnatally. More research on the effect of placental transfusion between sex-discordant twins is required.
Oxidative injury associated with stenting of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
Authors: Saraçoğlu Erhan , Vuruşkan Ertan , Çekici Yusuf , Kiliç Salih , Ay Halil , Ergün Uğur
Published: March 2017

Abstract. Background: After carotid artery stenting (CAS), neurological complications that cannot be explained with imaging methods may develop. In our study we aimed to show, using oxidative stress markers, isolated oxidative damage and resulting neurological findings following CAS in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis. Patients and methods: We included 131 neurologically asymptomatic patients requiring CAS. The neurological findings were evaluated using the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) prior to the procedure, one hour post-procedure, and two days after. Patients with elevated mRS scores but with or without typical hyperintense lesions observed on an MRI and with changes of oxidative stress marker levels at the time (Δtotal-thiol, Δtotal antioxidative status [TAS], and Δtotal oxidant status [TOS]) were evaluated. Results: In the neurological examination carried out one hour prior to the procedure, there were 92 patients with mRS = 0, 20 with mRS = 1, and 12 with mRS = 2. When Δtotal-thiol, ΔTAS, and ΔTOS values and the mRS were compared, it was observed that as the difference in oxidative parameters increased, clinical deterioration also increased proportionally (p = 0.001). Conclusions: We demonstrate a possible correlation between oxidative damage and neurological findings after CAS which could not be explained by routine imaging methods.
Regulation of atypical MAP kinases ERK3 and ERK4 by the phosphatase DUSP2
Authors: Perander Maria , Al-Mahdi Rania , Jensen Thomas C. , Nunn Jennifer A. L. , Kildalsen Hanne , Johansen Bjarne , Gabrielsen Mads , Keyse Stephen M. , Seternes Ole-Morten
Published: March 2017

The atypical MAP kinases ERK3 and ERK4 are activated by phosphorylation of a serine residue lying within the activation loop signature sequence S-E-G. However, the regulation of ERK3 and ERK4 phosphorylation and activity is poorly understood. Here we report that the inducible nuclear dual-specificity MAP kinase phosphatase (MKP) DUSP2, a known regulator of the ERK and p38 MAPKs, is unique amongst the MKP family in being able to bind to both ERK3 and ERK4. This interaction is mediated by a conserved common docking (CD) domain within the carboxyl-terminal domains of ERK3 and ERK4 and the conserved kinase interaction motif (KIM) located within the non-catalytic amino terminus of DUSP2. This interaction is direct and results in the dephosphorylation of ERK3 and ERK4 and the stabilization of DUSP2. In the case of ERK4 its ability to stabilize DUSP2 requires its kinase activity. Finally, we demonstrate that expression of DUSP2 inhibits ERK3 and ERK4-mediated activation of its downstream substrate MK5. We conclude that the activity of DUSP2 is not restricted to the classical MAPK pathways and that DUSP2 can also regulate the atypical ERK3/4-MK5 signalling pathway in mammalian cells.
A genetically encoded toolkit for tracking live-cell histidine dynamics in space and time
Authors: Hu Hanyang , Gu Yanfang , Xu Lei , Zou Yejun , Wang Aoxue , Tao Rongkun , Chen Xianjun , Zhao Yuzheng , Yang Yi
Published: March 2017

High-resolution spatiotemporal imaging of histidine in single living mammalian cells faces technical challenges. Here, we developed a series of ratiometric, highly responsive, and single fluorescent protein-based histidine sensors of wide dynamic range. We used these sensors to quantify subcellular free-histidine concentrations in glucose-deprived cells and glucose-fed cells. Results showed that cytosolic free-histidine concentration was higher and more sensitive to the environment than free histidine in the mitochondria. Moreover, histidine was readily transported across the plasma membrane and mitochondrial inner membrane, which had almost similar transport rates and transport constants, and histidine transport was not influenced by cellular metabolic state. These sensors are potential tools for tracking histidine dynamics inside subcellular organelles, and they will open an avenue to explore complex histidine signaling.
Autocatalytic association of proteins by covalent bond formation: a Bio Molecular Welding toolbox derived from a bacterial adhesin
Authors: Bonnet J. , Cartannaz J. , Tourcier G. , Contreras-Martel C. , Kleman J. P. , Morlot C. , Vernet T. , Di Guilmi A. M.
Published: March 2017

Unusual intramolecular cross-links present in adhesins from Gram-positive bacteria have been used to develop a generic process amenable to biotechnology applications. Based on the crystal structure of RrgA, the Streptococcus pneumoniae pilus adhesin, we provide evidence that two engineered protein fragments retain their ability to associate covalently with high specificity, in vivo and in vitro, once isolated from the parent protein. We determined the optimal conditions for the assembly of the complex and we solved its crystal structure at 2 Å. Furthermore, we demonstrate biotechnological applications related to antibody production, nanoassembly and cell-surface labeling based on this process we named Bio Molecular Welding.
Effects of multiple genetic loci on the pathogenesis from serum urate to gout
Authors: Dong Zheng , Zhou Jingru , Jiang Shuai , Li Yuan , Zhao Dongbao , Yang Chengde , Ma Yanyun , Wang Yi , He Hongjun , Ji Hengdong , Yang Yajun , Wang Xiaofeng , Xu Xia , Pang Yafei , Zou Hejian , Jin Li , Wang Jiucun
Published: March 2017

Gout is a common arthritis resulting from increased serum urate, and many loci have been identified that are associated with serum urate and gout. However, their influence on the progression from elevated serum urate levels to gout is unclear. This study aims to explore systematically the effects of genetic variants on the pathogenesis in approximately 5,000 Chinese individuals. Six genes (PDZK1, GCKR, TRIM46, HNF4G, SLC17A1, LRRC16A) were determined to be associated with serum urate (PFDR < 0.05) in the Chinese population for the first time. ABCG2 and a novel gene, SLC17A4, contributed to the development of gout from hyperuricemia (OR = 1.56, PFDR = 3.68E-09; OR = 1.27, PFDR = 0.013, respectively). Also, HNF4G is a novel gene associated with susceptibility to gout (OR = 1.28, PFDR = 1.08E-03). In addition, A1CF and TRIM46 were identified as associated with gout in the Chinese population for the first time (PFDR < 0.05). The present study systematically determined genetic effects on the progression from elevated serum urate to gout and suggests that urate-associated genes functioning as urate transporters may play a specific role in the pathogenesis of gout. Furthermore, two novel gout-associated genes (HNF4G and SLC17A4) were identified.
Susceptibility profiles of Nocardia spp. to antimicrobial and antituberculotic agents detected by a microplate Alamar Blue assay
Authors: Zhao Pan , Zhang Xiujuan , Du Pengcheng , Li Guilian , Li Luxi , Li Zhenjun
Published: March 2017

Nocardia species are ubiquitous in natural environments and can cause nocardiosis. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole has long been the monotherapy treatment of choice, but resistance to this treatment has recently emerged. In this study, we used microplate Alamar Blue assays to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of 65 standard Nocardia isolates, including 28 type strains and 20 clinical Nocardia isolates, to 32 antimicrobial agents, including 13 little studied drugs. Susceptibility to the most commonly used drug, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, was observed in 98% of the isolates. Linezolid, meropenem, and amikacin were also highly effective, with 98%, 95%, and 90% susceptibility, respectively, among the isolates. The isolates showed a high percentage of resistance or nonsusceptibility to isoniazid, rifampicin, and ethambutol. For the remaining antimicrobials, resistance was species-specific among isolates and was observed in traditional drug pattern types. In addition, the antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of a variety of rarely encountered standard Nocardia species are reported, as are the results for rarely reported clinical antibiotics. We also provide a timely update of antimicrobial susceptibility patterns that includes three new drug pattern types. The data from this study provide information on antimicrobial activity against specific Nocardia species and yield important clues for the optimization of species-specific Nocardia therapies.
Atomically informed nonlocal semi-discrete variational Peierls-Nabarro model for planar core dislocations
Authors: Liu Guisen , Cheng Xi , Wang Jian , Chen Kaiguo , Shen Yao
Published: March 2017

Prediction of Peierls stress associated with dislocation glide is of fundamental concern in understanding and designing the plasticity and mechanical properties of crystalline materials. Here, we develop a nonlocal semi-discrete variational Peierls-Nabarro (SVPN) model by incorporating the nonlocal atomic interactions into the semi-discrete variational Peierls framework. The nonlocal kernel is simplified by limiting the nonlocal atomic interaction in the nearest neighbor region, and the nonlocal coefficient is directly computed from the dislocation core structure. Our model is capable of accurately predicting the displacement profile, and the Peierls stress, of planar-extended core dislocations in face-centered cubic structures. Our model could be extended to study more complicated planar-extended core dislocations, such as <110> {111} dislocations in Al-based and Ti-based intermetallic compounds.
Correlation Characterization of Particles in Volume Based on Peak-to-Basement Ratio
Authors: Vovk Tatiana A. , Petrov Nikolay V.
Published: March 2017

We propose a new express method of the correlation characterization of the particles suspended in the volume of optically transparent medium. It utilizes inline digital holography technique for obtaining two images of the adjacent layers from the investigated volume with subsequent matching of the cross-correlation function peak-to-basement ratio calculated for these images. After preliminary calibration via numerical simulation, the proposed method allows one to quickly distinguish parameters of the particle distribution and evaluate their concentration. The experimental verification was carried out for the two types of physical suspensions. Our method can be applied in environmental and biological research, which includes analyzing tools in flow cytometry devices, express characterization of particles and biological cells in air and water media, and various technical tasks, e.g. the study of scattering objects or rapid determination of cutting tool conditions in mechanisms.
Herbicide exposure induces apoptosis, inflammation, immune modulation and suppression of cell survival mechanism in murine model
Authors: Sengupta Aaveri , Manna Krishnendu , Datta Siddhartha , Das Ujjal , Biswas Sushobhan , Chakrabarti Nilkanta , Dey Sanjit
Published: March 2017

The present study demonstrates paraquat induced cellular toxicity in spleen and associated ROS generation, mitochondria dependent cellular apoptosis, inflammation and splenomegaly inSwiss Albinomice.
Intercalation behaviour of magnesium into natural graphite using organic electrolyte systems
Authors: God C. , Bitschnau B. , Kapper K. , Lenardt C. , Schmuck M. , Mautner F. , Koller S.
Published: March 2017

Use of natural graphite based electrodes as insertion anodes in rechargeable magnesium-ion batteries.