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Dwelling habitus and urban out-migration in Denmark
Authors: Aner Louise G
Published: May 2014

This paper examines young Danish families’ motives for leaving the city. By drawing on theories of Bourdieu and Giddens and combining them with a notion of place drawn from human geography, an analytical framework for studying people’s motives for moving is developed. In this framework the concept “dwelling habitus” is central. By applying the analytical framework to the study of Danish middle-income families with children, their motives for out-migrating from Copenhagen are explored. Two broad categories of motives for moving are identified: the housing and the anti-urban. The housing motive is based on changes in housing needs during family formation and on the limited opportunities in the Copenhagen housing market. The anti-urban motive is based on a wish to bring up children in a non-urban milieu. The paper argues that an understanding of motives that focuses on the interrelationship of habitus and sense of place, the “dwelling habitus”, can inform studies of migration processes and make them more nuanced.
The Links Between Group Development and Health in Manufacturing Industry
Authors: Jacobsson Christian , Rydbo Niklas , Börresen Jon Erik
Published: May 2014

This study focuses on the relation between levels of group development and three health-related aspects of working life: work satisfaction, emotional exhaustion, and sick leave. This article presents a study with 30 groups in a manufacturing company. Data were collected from 274 group members of the 30 groups, using Group Development Questionnaire, self-reported measures of work satisfaction and emotional exhaustion, as well as company data on occurrence of sick leave occasions. The results indicate a strong relationship between levels of group development and work satisfaction, a moderately strong relation with emotional exhaustion, and a weaker or less clear relation with sick leave. Practical implications are discussed and future research suggested.
The Process of Team Boundary Spanning in Multi-Organizational Contexts
Authors: Harvey Sarah , Peterson Randall S. , Anand N.
Published: May 2014

Work teams must increasingly operate in complex environments characterized by multiple external actors beyond team and organizational boundaries. Although previous research demonstrates the importance of boundary spanning activities to team effectiveness, it reveals relatively little about the process of boundary spanning in these environments. In this article, we investigated the processes of boundary spanning across multiple external actors in 10 cross-organizational teams. We identified three sequences for reaching out to external actors: (a) moving inside-out from vertical actors inside the host organization to horizontal actors outside of the host organization, (b) moving outside-in from horizontal actors to vertical, and (c) staying-inside with vertical actors from the host organization. Our observations suggest that inside-out and outside-in sequences were more successful than simply pleasing the host organization. We build on our empirical findings to develop a process theory of how team boundary spanning activities across multiple external actors influence team effectiveness. Our research underscores the importance of a team’s interactions with actors in its external environment beyond those in an immediate supervisory role and provides insight into the dynamics of boundary spanning in multi-organizational contexts.
Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) Immune Reconstitution Syndrome (IRIS) With Reduced Susceptibility to Ethambutol in an HIV-Infected Patient
Authors: Adams Immaculata B. , Schafer Jason J. , Roberts Amity L. , Short William R.
Published: May 2014

Objective: To describe a case of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lymphadenitis complicated by immune reconstitution syndrome (IRIS) and reduced susceptibility to ethambutol. Case Summary: A 24-year-old man was diagnosed in October 2012 with advanced HIV infection upon hospitalization for multiple opportunistic infections (OIs). Within 5 months of starting antiretroviral therapy, the patient developed significant cervical lymphadenopathy concerning for MAC/IRIS. Acid-fast bacilli were detected in the primary lymph node biopsy smear, and culture results confirmed the presence of MAC. Susceptibility testing revealed an organism susceptible to azithromycin, with an elevated minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) to ethambutol (8 µg/mL). Currently, there is no interpretation for an ethambutol MIC of 8 µg/mL for MAC. A review of the primary literature revealed the possibility of decreased ethambutol susceptibility when the MIC is above 1 µg/mL, and therefore, therapy was replaced by rifabutin in combination with azithromycin. Discussion: Current guidelines recommend a 2-drug regimen for the treatment of MAC, specifically a macrolide plus ethambutol. Guidelines also emphasize MAC susceptibility testing for macrolides only. Susceptibility results from this patient’s biopsy prompted an evaluation of the effectiveness of his antimycobacterial regimen. Conclusions: Reduced ethambutol susceptibility in this patient triggered a search of the primary literature that resulted in the decision to replace ethambutol with rifabutin. Additional clinical trials are needed to define susceptibility breakpoints for ethambutol and other antimycobacterial agents used for MAC infection treatment and to direct clinical decisions when elevated MICs to primary agents are identified.
Detection of In Vivo Foot and Ankle Implants by Walkthrough Metal Detectors
Authors: Chan Jeremy Y. , Mani Sriniwasan B. , Williams Phillip N. , O’Malley Martin J. , Levine David S. , Roberts Matthew M. , Ellis Scott J.
Published: May 2014

Background:

Heightened security concerns have made metal detectors a standard security measure in many locations. While prior studies have investigated the detection rates of various hip and knee implants, none have looked specifically at the detection of foot and ankle implants in an in vivo model. Our goals were to identify which commonly used foot and ankle implants would be detected by walkthrough metal detectors both in vivo and ex vivo.

Methods:

Over a 7-month period, 153 weightbearing patients with foot and ankle hardware were recruited to walk through a standard airport metal detector at 3 different program settings (buildings, airports, and airports enhanced) with a base sensitivity of 165 (arbitrary units), as currently used by the Transportation Security Administration. The number of implants, location and type, as well as the presence of concomitant hardware outside of the foot and ankle were recorded. To determine the detection rate of common foot and ankle implants ex vivo, different hardware sets were walked through the detector at all 3 program settings.

Results:

Seventeen patients were found to have detectable hardware at the buildings, airports, and airports enhanced settings. An additional 3 patients had hardware only detected at the airports enhanced setting. All 20 of these patients had concomitant metal implants outside of the foot and ankle from other orthopaedic procedures. All patients with foot and ankle implants alone passed through undetected. Seven hardware sets were detected ex vivo at the airports enhanced setting.

Conclusion:

Our results indicate that patients with foot and ankle implants alone are unlikely to be detected by walkthrough metal detectors at standard airport settings. When additional hardware is present from orthopaedic procedures outside of the foot and ankle, metal detection rates were higher. We believe that these results are important for surgeons in order to educate patients on how they might be affected when walking through a metal detector such as while traveling.

Level of Evidence:

Level II, prospective comparative study.
Plasticity of the Axonal Trigger Zone
Authors: Adachi Ryota , Yamada Rei , Kuba Hiroshi
Published: May 2014

The axon initial segment (AIS) is a specialized axonal compartment that is involved in conversion of synaptic potentials into action potentials. Recent studies revealed that structural properties of the AIS, such as length and position relative to the soma, are differentiated in a cell-specific manner and shape signal processing of individual neurons. Moreover, these structural properties are not fixed but vary in response to prolonged changes of neuronal activity, which readjusts action potential threshold and compensates for the changes of activity, indicating that this structural plasticity of the AIS works as a homeostatic mechanism and contributes to maintain neuronal activity. Neuronal activity plays a crucial role in formation, maintenance, and refinement of neural circuits as well as in pathogenesis and/or pathophysiology of diseases. Thus, this plasticity should be a key to understand physiology and pathology of the brain.
Participatory Theater as a Science Communication Tool in Timor Leste
Authors: McGillion Chris , McKinnon Merryn
Published: May 2014

This article examines the trial of participatory theater for disseminating new agricultural knowledge among subsistence farmers in Timor Leste, a small underdeveloped country in the Asia-Pacific region. The aim of the trial was to provide information on improved seed varieties and appropriate agronomic practices to maximize their yield among rural communities where rates of adult illiteracy are high and the reach of mass media forms of communication is low. The findings highlight the potential for entertainment-education forms to provide effective science communication tools in contexts where approaches more typical in developed countries are severely constrained.
Bendamustine treatment in a heavily pretreated Hodgkin lymphoma patient
Authors: Elsoueidi Raymond , Mulat Alem , Mourad Hesham
Published: May 2014

Hodgkin lymphoma is a curable disease in the vast majority of cases with a cure rate approaching 85 to 95% with initial therapy. However, some patients experience relapse and in patients with relapsed/refractory disease, prognosis remains poor and active agents are needed in this setting. Bendamustine is an alkylating agent with clinical activity against various lymphomas including follicular, mantle, diffuse large B cell lymphoma, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia; however, its activity in Hodgkin lymphoma is not yet well established. We report a case of a 55-year-old man with relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma that is heavily pretreated and was successfully treated with four cycles of single agent bendamustine (90 mg/m2) with complete response after two cycles and without any significant toxicity. These findings suggest that bendamustine is highly active in Hodgkin lymphoma.
Corruption and the Composition of Public Spending in the United States
Authors: Cordis Adriana S.
Published: May 2014

I investigate the relation between corruption and the composition of state government spending in the United States. The analysis reveals that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption documented in cross-country studies. Corruption lowers the share of state government spending devoted to higher education and raises the share of spending devoted to other and unallocable budget items. These results are robust to the use of political variables to instrument for corruption. There is also some evidence that corruption lowers the share of spending on corrections and public welfare and raises the share of spending on health and hospitals, housing and community development, and natural resources.
Airborne microfungi in Oncology Service of Medical School Hospital of Trakya University
Authors: Ökten Suzan , Şen Burhan , Asan Ahmet , Bahadir Nurcan
Published: May 2014

This study was performed in six different stations – drug preparation, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and three different patient rooms – in Oncology Service of Trakya University Medical Hospital in Edirne. Indoor air samples of equal volumes of 100 L were taken twice a month during the six-month study period. The analysis of samples showed that 8540 microfungi colonies were present in a total of 7.2 m3 air sample. November and April were found to be the months during which the highest numbers of fungal spores were isolated with 2570 CFU/m3 and 2060 CFU/m3, respectively, while the lowest spore counts were isolated during January (730 CFU/m3). Penicillium was found to be the most commonly isolated fungal genus with 2950 CFU/m3/spore followed by Cladosporium with 2110 CFU/m3. The other fungal genera isolated during the study are Aspergillus (640 CFU/m3), Alternaria (200 CFU/m3), Trichoderma (70 CFU/m3) and Rhizopus (40 CFU/m3). Among the most frequently isolated fungal species, Penicillium brevicompactum was the most common species with 960 CFU/m3 followed by Cladosporium cladosporioides with 930 CFU/m3. Aspergillus fumigatus, the fungal species of paramount importance in terms of human health, was also reported with a 410 CFU/m3. Statistical analyses were performed in order to reveal the relationship between microfungal colony numbers isolated and station temperature and relative humidity.
Laugh through it: Assembling difference in an American stand-up comedy club
Authors: Thomas James M.
Published: May 2014

Through an examination of a Midwestern professional comedy club, this article theorizes stand-up comedy as part of the broader affective-cultural assemblage that is nightlife entertainment. Using the Deleuzian notion of assemblage, this analysis builds on poststructural accounts of the dynamic and transient properties of culture, and the relationship between space, culture, and affect. As a specific affective-cultural assemblage, stand-up comedy operates as both constrainer and enabler of racial and heteronormative order through the bringing together of a variety of diverse logics and practices. I argue that stand-up comedy should no longer be thought of strictly in discursive or symbolic-interactionist terms that over-determine the roles of particular agents (i.e. comics). Instead, when described as emergent, transient, and fundamentally affective, stand-up comedy and other cultural forms can be seen for their openness and multiplicity, both contributing to racial and heteronormative order as well as upending it.
Effect of breakup model on large-eddy simulation of diesel spray evolution under high back pressures
Authors: Kitaguchi Koji , Fujii Tatsunori , Hatori Soichi , Hori Tsukasa , Senda Jiro
Published: May 2014

A breakup model has been developed and optimized for diesel spray simulation with a large-eddy simulation. Previously, diesel spray analysis has been carried out using a breakup model such as the Kelvin–Helmholtz and Rayleigh–Taylor model. The Kelvin–Helmholtz and Rayleigh–Taylor models are used for high Weber number conditions. However, even when fuel is injected at high pressures, the downstream region of spray corresponds to relatively low Weber number conditions. Hence, a hybrid breakup model that combines the Kelvin–Helmholtz and modified Taylor analogy breakup models (Kelvin–Helmholtz–modified Taylor analogy breakup) has been developed. The Kelvin–Helmholtz and modified Taylor analogy breakup models are used to model the primary and secondary breakup, respectively. The modified Taylor analogy breakup model is more suitable than the Rayleigh–Taylor model to describe secondary breakup. Spray simulations under non-evaporative and evaporative conditions were performed to validate the Kelvin–Helmholtz–modified Taylor analogy breakup model. It is found that the simulation results of Kelvin–Helmholtz–modified Taylor analogy breakup are in good agreement with experimental measurements of non-evaporative and evaporative spray.
Inspection and monitoring of wind turbine blade-embedded wave defects during fatigue testing
Authors: Niezrecki Christopher , Avitabile Peter , Chen Julie , Sherwood James , Lundstrom Troy , LeBlanc Bruce , Hughes Scott , Desmond Michael , Beattie Alan , Rumsey Mark , Klute Sandra M , Pedrazzani Renee , Werlink Rudy , Newman John
Published: May 2014

The research presented in this article focuses on a 9-m CX-100 wind turbine blade, designed by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories and manufactured by TPI Composites Inc. The key difference between the 9-m blade and baseline CX-100 blades is that this blade contains fabric wave defects of controlled geometry inserted at specified locations along the blade length. The defect blade was tested at the National Wind Technology Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory using a schedule of cycles at increasing load level until failure was detected. Researchers used digital image correlation, shearography, acoustic emission, fiber-optic strain sensing, thermal imaging, and piezoelectric sensing as structural health monitoring techniques. This article provides a comparison of the sensing results of these different structural health monitoring approaches to detect the defects and track the resultant damage from the initial fatigue cycle to final failure.
Genome features of Pseudomonas putida LS46, a novel polyhydroxyalkanoate producer and its comparison with other P. putida strains
Authors: Sharma Parveen K , Fu Jilagamazhi , Zhang Xiangli , Fristensky Brian , Sparling Richard , Levin David B
Published: May 2014

A novel strain ofPseudomonas putidaLS46 was isolated from wastewater on the basis of its ability to synthesize medium chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs).P.putidaLS46 was differentiated from otherP.putidastrains on the basis of cpn60 (UT). The complete genome ofP.putidaLS46 was sequenced and annotated. Its chromosome is 5,86,2556 bp in size with GC ratio of 61.69. It is encoding 5316 genes, including 7 rRNA genes and 76 tRNA genes. Nucleotide sequence data of the completeP. putidaLS46 genome was compared with nine otherP. putidastrains (KT2440, F1, BIRD-1, S16, ND6, DOT-T1E, UW4, W619 and GB-1) identified either as biocontrol agents or as bioremediation agents and isolated from different geographical region and different environment. BLASTn analysis of whole genome sequences of the tenP. putidastrains revealed nucleotide sequence identities of 86.54 to 97.52%.P.putidagenome arrangement was LS46 highly similar toP.putidaBIRD1 andP.putidaND6 but was markedly different thanP.putidaDOT-T1E,P.putidaUW4 andP.putidaW619. Fatty acid biosynthesis (fab), fatty acid degradation (fad) and PHA synthesis genes were highly conserved among biocontrol and bioremediationP.putidastrains. Six genes inphaoperon ofP. putidaLS46 showed >98% homology at gene and proteins level. It appears that polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthesis is an intrinsic property ofP. putidaand was not affected by its geographic origin. However, all strains, includingP. putidaLS46, were different from one another on the basis of house keeping genes, and presence of plasmid, prophages, insertion sequence elements and genomic islands. WhileP. putidaLS46 was not selected for plant growth promotion or bioremediation capacity, its genome also encoded genes for root colonization, pyoverdine synthesis, oxidative stress (present in other soil isolates), degradation of aromatic compounds, heavy metal resistance and nicotinic acid degradation, manganese (Mn II) oxidation. Genes for toluene or naphthalene degradation found in the genomes ofP. putidaF1, DOT-T1E, and ND6 were absent in theP. putidaLS46 genome. Heavy metal resistant genes encoded by theP. putidaW619 genome were also not present in theP. putidaLS46 genome. Despite the overall similarity among genome ofP.putidastrains isolated for different applications and from different geographical location a number of differences were observed in genome arrangement, occurrence of transposon, genomic islands and prophage. It appears thatP.putidastrains had a common ancestor and by acquiring some specific genes by horizontal gene transfer it differed from other related strains.
Anisotropic 3D inversion of towed-streamer electromagnetic data: Case study from the Troll West Oil Province
Authors: Zhdanov Michael S. , Endo Masashi , Yoon Daeung , Čuma Martin , Mattsson Johan , Midgley Jonathan
Published: May 2014

One of the critical problems in the interpretation of marine controlled-source electromagnetic geophysical data is taking into account the anisotropy of the rock formations. We evaluated a 3D anisotropic inversion method based on the integral equation method. We applied this method to the full 3D anisotropic inversion of towed-streamer electromagnetic (EM) data. The towed-streamer EM system makes it possible to collect EM data with a high production rate and over very large survey areas. At the same time, 3D inversion of towed-streamer EM data has become a very challenging problem because of the huge number of transmitter positions of the moving towed-streamer EM system, and, correspondingly, the huge number of forward and inverse problems needed to be solved for every transmitter position over the large areas of the survey. We overcame this problem by exploiting the fact that a towed-streamer EM system’s sensitivity domain is significantly smaller than the area of the towed-streamer EM survey. This approach makes it possible to invert entire towed-streamer EM surveys with no approximations into high-resolution 3D geoelectrical sea-bottom models. We present an actual case study for the 3D anisotropic inversion of towed-streamer EM data from the Troll field in the North Sea.
The Structure of Repetition in the Cinema: Three Hollywood Genres
Authors: Shaham Inbar
Published: May 2014

The structure of repetition, as Meir Sternberg (1978) defines it, consists in the repeated presentation of a fabulaic event along the text continuum. It has three types of component members: (1) forecast (e.g., command, scenario); (2) enactment (representing the forecast’s objective realization, as communicated by an authorized narrator); and (3) report (about an enactment, a forecast, or another report, all delivered by some character). This research examines the repetition structure in cinematic narrative: specifically, in heist, adventure, and military operation films. Throughout, the argument proceeds with special reference to these genres, as well as to the cinema’s medium, practice, and conventions in general, often citing literary parallels or precedents for comparison. It examines the different elements that serve to (re)compose the repetition structure for certain ends; the types of member brought together within the structure; their size, number, forms of transmission, order of appearance, representational proportion, and possible interrelations (overlap, partial overlap, contradiction, expansion or summary of a previous member). Above all, the analysis relates these interplays themselves to the structure’s functions at the level of plot, meaning, and rhetoric, notably including their generic variations, as exemplified by the three focal genres.
Development of Direct Aromatic Coupling Reactions by Transition-Metal Catalysis
Authors: Miura Masahiro , Satoh Tetsuya , Hirano Koji
Published: May 2014

Transition-metal-catalyzed aromatic cross-coupling reactions are highly useful for constructing various organic fine chemicals. The conventional methods, however, usually require the preactivation of aromatic substrates such as stoichiometric halogenation and metalation before the coupling event, which increases the steps leading to target molecules and yields inevitable salts as by-products. In order to cope with these problems, catalytic C–H transformation reactions on aromatic substrates have been one of the most intensive subjects in the area of catalytic organic synthesis. Summarized herein are our efforts for developing direct aromatic and heteroaromatic coupling reactions by using a number of transition metals as catalysts.
Vibration of Non-Homogeneous Plate Subject to Thermal Gradient
Authors: Khanna Anupam , Kaur Narinder
Published: May 2014

A mathematical model is developed for the use of design engineers to analyze temperature-thickness coupling problem of a non-homogeneous isotropic visco elastic rectangular plate. Here, authors considered that temperature varies bi-parabolic i.e. parabolic in x– and parabolic in y– direction while thickness of plate varies linearly in one direction. The non-homogeneity of the plate's material is characterized by assuming an exponential variation of poisson's ratio of the plate's material. The first two modes of time period and deflection are reported here for various combinations of frequency parameters i.e. non-homogeneity constant, thermal gradient, taper constant and aspect ratio of the plate. Numerical results for time period and deflection for both the modes of vibration are shown in tabular form.
Numerical Study of Wind Resource Assessment of a Complex Terrain
Authors: Polanco Geanette , Muhammad S. Virk
Published: May 2014

Wind resource assessment of a complex terrain like Narvik area in North Norway, was carried outusing computational fluid dynamics based numerical approach. The research work is aimed at understanding the effects of different operating and geometric variables such as terrain size, surface roughness as well as the height of atmospheric boundary layer on the resultant wind profile in complex terrains. Numerical results were also compared with the field data from two meteorological stations located at different locations in the surroundings of the Narvik area. The comparison was done for a short period from October-November 2012. Different scenarios based on five domains (terrains) extensions, three roughness scales and two boundary layers heights were numerically analysed. Results show that for a specific velocity direction the selection of domain has the major influence on the simulated wind field when compared with the roughness scale used and the boundary layer. A good agreement between the simulation results and the reported experimental data for the two selected locations was found.
Wind Energy Facility Siting: Learning from Experience and Guides for Moving Forward
Authors: Tuler Seth P. , Ram Bonnie , Kasperson Roger E.
Published: May 2014

Renewable energy technologies, like wind turbines, solar arrays, and biomass (and biogas) plants, and carbon reduction technologies, such as carbon storage and sequestration (CSS), will be a critical part of future energy supplies as the United States and other countries seek ways to reduce carbon emissions. Renewable energy technologies can be perceived as hazardous and undesirable, much to the surprise of some. Siting failures can be high and unexpected. Broad, general support for renewable energy can give way to more polarization about specific proposals. While a growing literature exists about the formation of public support and opposition to wind and other renewable energy technologies, lessons relevant to the wind industry can be found from past experiences relating to hazardous technologies, including chemical processing plants, nuclear waste facilities, nuclear power plants, incinerators, and hazardous and municipal landfills, and locally unwanted land uses, such as airports, transmission lines, schools, and housing developments. There has been little direct application of this broad source of knowledge to wind or other renewable energy siting literature. We review this literature to identify factors that contribute to public support and opposition. Substantial increases in the contribution of wind energy to the US energy mix will require leadership at both the federal and state levels. We end by proposing several strategies for improving future wind energy siting efforts.
The Flutterwing WindPumps: Design, NonLinearities, & Measurements
Authors: Farthing S.P.
Published: May 2014

A preceding linear stability analysis showed that the pitch and roll flutter of a wing can stop in high winds. The built-in protection and variable stroke motivated development of a flutterwing windpump, because rotors pumping with a fixed stroke usefully convert only 10% of the Betz limit of the wind's annual power. Here the stroke has to be negligible at small roll not to stiffle the start of flutter in the lightest of winds, but ultimately must increase fast to safely limit the roll amplitude by absorbing all the power of the strongest oscillation. It must be largely single-acting, just as for a piston pump down a deep well, to allow a suddenly-becalmed wing to return to vertical and then restart with a new wind. The more non-linear the pump's stroke, the larger its stiffening side effect. Other non-linearities at large amplitude include the apparent wind, the centrifuging effects of roll speed and the saturation of pitch. Smoke observation of light wind flow at full +/−90° tangent pitch shows remarkable stall delay until at the end of the roll swing the leading edge sheds a massive vortex to completely reverse the wing circulation. Such a wide vortex street maximises the swept area in the actuator limit where tangent blades of constant chord keep the circulation constant between stalls. Runaway of frequency and amplitude with wind speed is avoided by static gravity imbalance replacing some dynamic imbalance and the inertia and softening of a gravity pendulum, both as favoured by large scale and low design wind speed. Also helpful are not too high pitch inertia centrifuging and an aircushion on the output pipeline which reduces the stresses and pipe frictional loss as well as the pump stiffening. Then in moderate winds, the pitch can unsaturate and the wing start to feather at lower reduced frequency, containing the power and especially the downwind bending moment. In higher wind the wing then becomes stable just leaning with the wind veer. The niche is pumping as much as the prairie rotary windpumps of diameter equalling the wing length, but with only 1/2 of the mean wind or 1/8 the mean windpower density, and with much less material. Both floating and well bases and pumps have been developed for the same pendulum, wing, and nonlinear pump winch.
Residual Fatigue Life Assessment of Damaged RC Bridge Slabs Based on Site-Inspection for Cracking: A Quantitative Discussion
Authors: Tang X.J. , Fujiyama C. , Shang F. , Maekawa K. , An X.H.
Published: May 2014

There exist in-service RC bridge slabs suffering greatly from the fatigue loads of moving vehicles and serious cracking may often be observed. For quantitative assessment of residual fatigue life of bridge slabs under expected future loads, the past traffic loads' record is not available in most cases. Then, this paper aims to present pseudo-cracking approach to remaining fatigue life assessment of existing RC bridge slabs based on site crack inspection data alone. First, inspected crack width and its spacing are converted to the space-average strain field, on which finite element analysis can be carried out to predict the residual fatigue life of the cracked slabs. To prove the applicability of this simulation system proposed, parametric analysis is conducted to compute the S-N diagram of the damaged slabs and comparison is made with simplified deterioration grades specified in the manual of maintenance based upon experiences of bridge management. Furthermore, two bridge slabs in service with real crack inspection data were examined as a case study of application.
Performance-Based Seismic Design Principles and Structural Analysis of Shanghai Tower
Authors: Jiang H.J. , Lu X.L. , Liu X.J. , He L.S.
Published: May 2014

Shanghai Tower is a 632 m high super tall building adopting innovative steel-concrete hybrid mega frame-core tube-outrigger lateral structural system. Since both of the height and irregularity of Shanghai Tower are far beyond the current Chinese design code provision, non-prescriptive performance-based seismic design (PBSD) approach is required to employ in the seismic design of this super tall building. The general PBSD methodologies of code-exceeding tall buildings are briefly introduced at first. According to PBSD principles of code-exceeding tall buildings, the seismic performance objectives are selected for Shanghai Tower. The design criteria for structural components and systems consistent with the performance objectives are established. The elasto-plastic time-history analysis of the structure under frequent, basic and rare earthquakes, respectively, is carried out with the aid of ABAQUS program. Seven sets of ground motions are selected as the input motions. The detailed numerical simulation results, such as the structural dynamic characteristics, the displacement responses, the base shear, the overturning moment, and the damage conditions, are presented. The structural analysis results indicate that the structure can meet the predetermined performance objectives with relatively large safety margin.
Conserved expression of lincRNA during human and macaque prefrontal cortex development and maturation
Authors: He Zhisong , Bammann Hindrike , Han Dingding , Xie Gangcai , Khaitovich Philipp
Published: May 2014

The current annotation of the human genome includes more than 12,000 long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNA). While a handful of lincRNA have been shown to play important regulatory roles, the functionality of most remains unclear. Here, we examined the expression conservation and putative functionality of lincRNA in human and macaque prefrontal cortex (PFC) development and maturation. We analyzed transcriptome sequence (RNA-seq) data from 38 human and 40 macaque individuals covering the entire postnatal development interval. Using the human data set, we detected the expression of 5835 lincRNA annotated in GENCODE and further identified 1888 novel lincRNA. Most of these lincRNA show low DNA sequence conservation, as well as low expression levels. Remarkably, developmental expression patterns of these lincRNA were as conserved between humans and macaques as those of protein-coding genes. Transfection of development-associated lincRNA into human SH-SY5Y cells affected gene expression, indicating their regulatory potential. In brain, expression of these putative target genes correlated with the expression of the corresponding lincRNA during human and macaque PFC development. These results support the potential functionality of lincRNA in primate PFC development.
Educational advantages gained by delving into the visual brain
Authors: Alo Theresa
Published: May 2014

The purpose of this article is to examine the benefit of the inclusion of the arts in all students’ education. Since all human activity is a product of the organization of our brains, it stands to reason that understanding how the visual brain works will solidify arts education in every student’s curriculum. Research shows that the visual sense engages more areas of the brain than any other of our five senses. Provided within this article is the workings of the visual brain that should be utilized to provide educational advantages to all students. Through the research cited within this paper, the reader will begin to understand the workings of the visual brain and the benefits of instruction in the arts.
Victor D’Amico’s art teaching philosophy from 1968 to 1979
Authors: Jalil Rabeya
Published: May 2014

Victor D’Amico was a pioneer and milestone in art education and served as Director of the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art for more than 30 years. This article is based on an analysis of primary and secondary documents by and related to Victor D’Amico to construct an account of his art teaching philosophy from 1968 to 1979. I discuss his ideology about the need for the staff of an art institute or art department to possess a profound and homogeneous philosophy based on specific curriculum recommendations that, he emphasized, should draw from contemporary trends in art and art education. I highlight his vision of an art department’s relation to other disciplines in the University, to the community and to the reality of living in the current world (of his time), particularly focusing on an art institution’s flexible or rigid practices to new thoughts and methods. I further discuss his opinions about the rapport between faculty and students and the presence of mutual respect and sensitivity. This article also involves D’Amico’s perspectives on the adequacy of infrastructure and physical facilities being an asset or a handicap to making changes and developing a strong art programme. He strongly believed in conducting comprehensive research in the field, seeking solutions to old problems and improving the status quo in an art education setting. Finally, I discuss how some of D’Amico’s philosophies and ideologies, which evolved almost 35 years ago, are still relevant and being practised in contemporary art pedagogy.
A/r/tography as indisciplinary turning
Authors: Kalin Nadine M.
Published: May 2014

This article considers the disciplinary disturbances of recent turns in contemporary art in relation to processes of a/r/tographical enquiry. Specifically, it looks at the pedagogical and socially engaged turns in art practices that reverberate with the multiple disciplines that can exist within a/r/tography. These sites of disturbance are contrasted with the disciplinary debates that include traditional schools of art and design in order to delve further into notions of knowledge production and reproduction within disciplines yet to come aimed to inspire gatekeepers at universities towards reinvention. Moreover, the potentialities of Derrida’s iterability and Rancière’s indisciplinary knowledge are described as concepts significant to a rethinking of a/r/tography in ways that demonstrate Rogoff’s notions of the repractising and relocalization of disciplines through enquiry. Throughout, this article is structured as a series of interconnected turns that engage a/r/tography theoretically, artistically and disciplinarily in an expansive and speculative manner in order to animate methodological possibilities while stimulating disruptive movement generated within indisciplinary turning.
The courage to curate: Mapping communities of artistic practice within c/a/r/tography
Authors: McCartney Laura Lee
Published: May 2014

This article maps how an a/r/tographic enquiry designed to interrogate curator identity as a way of being in both public and private realms is unpacked through the practice of curating the exhibition ‘Dress Stories’ at the University of North Texas. Throughout the curatorial process, there were opportunities to unpack, unfold and undo clothing as a way into curator, artist, researcher and teacher self-study. Each of Parker Palmer’s community models is interrogated as a means to ask: who is the curator who curates in community?
A critique and a proposal: A/r/tography and arts-based research as a methodology of intuition
Authors: Boulton-Funke Adrienne
Published: May 2014

This article draws on Gilles Deleuze’s work with Bergson’s concepts to theorize a/r/tography as a methodology of intuition. Intuition in this work is understood as a particular form of knowing that is activated in a disruption to tacit perceptions in what Inna Semetsky refers to as ‘perception becoming’. To do so, this article explores a recent critique of the theoretical underpinnings of a/r/tography and the assertion that as a methodology, a/r/tography does not provoke an encounter with perception, with the virtual as ‘the unconscious Real’. This article develops this proposal through Deleuze’s work to examine this precise methodology of intuition as a way to examine the provocation of difference within the pragmatism of a/r/tography and arts-based research. It will also explore two a/r/tographical renderings: openings and reverberations to examine the actualization of creative thought in the real through intuition.
Effects of shrimp cage farming on sediment nutrients in a subtropical estuary
Authors: Pereira Leandro Angelo , Ventura Robson , Perbiche-Neves Gilmar , Silva Manuela Dreyer , Boeger Walter , Ostrensky Antonio
Published: May 2014

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of shrimp (Litopennaeus vannamei) cage farming on sediment nutrients concentration. The farm were located in a subtropical estuary (Guaratuba Bay) in the south of Brazil andÂ  held 300 cages (size: 3.6m x 3.6m x 2m) made of PVC distributed over an area of approximately 4200mÂ². Shrimps were fed with two types of commercial feeds, one developed specifically for shrimp and other for fish. Five sampling points were defined, one was located at the center of the farm area, one was set 1000m away from the farm, in an area with similar hydrodynamics conditions, and the others were located 200m away from the culture in west, northeast and southwest directions. During one year, monthly sediment sampling was performed at each station. Carbon (C), phosphorus (P), calcium (CaÂ²+), and potassium (K+) concentrations were determined. The results consistently indicate that in the studied shrimp farm the nutrients concentration increased significantly below the cultivation cages. We also obtained an indication that under the studied conditions the raise in the levels of nutrients can reach distances in the range of 200m.
Spurensuche?
Authors: Hölscher Lucian
Published: May 2014

On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestant Churches in Germany face the difficult task of avoiding the confessionalistic and nationalist mistakes of earlier centenaries. This essay argues for a celebration which does not fall behind the progress of historical research on the reformation of the past decades: This applies first to the postulate of confessional equity brought up by the paradigm of confessionalization and second to the revocation of an all-encompassing socio-political prerogative of interpretation, upheld by church and theology in the past, within the sociological model of secularization. This contribution considers the danger of a continued neglect of contemporary Catholicism, Judaism and secularism as regards the development of modern society, which would lead to Protestantism’s aggrandized claim of modernity in the style of cultural Protestantism, and of a reduction of modern religious and church history to a mere Protestant culture of remembrance.
Ein Gerechter unter den Völkern
Authors: Huber Wolfgang
Published: May 2014

Stephan H. Pfürtner (1922-2012) was a Catholic theologian who in the last stage of his academic career taught Social Ethics in the Department of Protestant Theology at Philipps-University in Marburg. The text, originally a lecture in commemoration of Stephan Pfürtner and his work, shows the close connection between biography and theology, between ethical experience and ethical reflection in his case. Empathetic
Courage is shown by him in his successful effort to save three young Jewish women from death in the Concentration Camp of Stutthof near Danzig in 1944. Ecumenical Resistance is performed by a group of young Christians around four ministers who became sentenced to death in 1943. A Liberated
Conscience is decisive for Pfürtner’s position in a deep conflict with the Roman-Catholic Church on the ethics of human sexuality. Ethics of Reponsibility is the conception that he develops in his Marburg years. Evangelical Catholicity characterizes the spiritual dimension of Stephan Pfürtner’s legacy.
Evangelische Offenheit im Interesse des Kindeswohls
Authors: Theißen Henning
Published: May 2014

This study explores the relevance which the adoption of children has gained in the German and in the English speaking theological ethical discourse (I) and proposes that a combination of normative and hermeneutical factors will contribute to an ethical assessment of adoption (II). A core objective of the study is to implement openness as a Protestant value into the practice of adoption placement. It is argued that theories of enablement serve as a theoretical framework for an ethics of adoption.
Aus Kinderschutzfehlern lernen
Authors: Biesel Kay , Wolff Reinhart
Published: May 2014

Im November 2007 kam es in Schwerin zu einem bundesweit aufsehenerregenden Kinderschutzfall. Dabei machte man insbesondere den im Jugendamt tätigen Fachkräften Schuldvorwürfe: Warum war es nicht möglich, den Tod der fünfjährigen Lea-Sophie zu verhindern? Das Buch zeichnet nach, wie es gemeinsam mit den am Geschehen beteiligten Fachkräften des Jugendamtes der Stadt Schwerin und ausgewählten Praxispartnern unter Beteiligung der Familienmitglieder des verstorbenen Kindes gelang, den Fall mit der Methode des dialogisch-systemischen Fall-Labors zu rekonstruieren und daraus Lehren für die Kinderschutzarbeit zu ziehen.
Bodies We Fail
Authors: Sturm Jules
Published: May 2014

This book explores the productive effects of bodily ›failure‹ in the sphere of visuality. The aim is to reflect on the human body's constant exposure to visual constraints and distortions, which are incorporated so strongly in everyday images of our bodies that they become invisible, while yet representative of cultural norms. By analyzing artistic literary and visual representations of imperfect, disabled, aging, queer, and monstrous bodies, this project exposes the »handicaps« of normative vision and opens up new ways of recognizing a multitude of corporeal existences and practices outside the norm.
Produktive Differenzen
Authors: Ibert Oliver , Müller Felix C. , Stein Axel
Published: May 2014

Welches sind die produktiven Unterschiede, aus denen kreative Wendungen in Innovationsprozessen hervorgehen? Welche Menschen und Orte treten dabei miteinander in Kontakt? Welchen Einfluss haben die verschiedenen Formen von Nähe und Distanz auf die Ergebnisse gemeinsamen Lernens? Anhand eines Vergleichs von Innovationsbiographien aus der Rechtsberatung und der Biotechnologie werden in diesem Band typische Beziehungskonstellationen herausgearbeitet, in denen neuartige Ideen entstehen und sich durchsetzen. Die dabei eingenommene Forschungsperspektive eröffnet eine neue, dynamische Sichtweise auf die Räumlichkeit von Innovationsprozessen, die einige vermeintliche Gewissheiten aus der Innovations- und Regionalpolitik in ein neues Licht tauchen.
Ästhetische Impulse der Netzkommunikation
Authors: Ibach Jörg
Published: May 2014

Der Erfahrungsraum Internet ist ein Ort der Netzkommunikation. Er begünstigt visuelle Artikulationsweisen, die produktiv in die Designpraxis übertragbar sind. Jörg Ibach zeichnet nach, wie aus musterhaften Sichtbarkeiten Relevanzstrukturen abgeleitet werden können, die Information in einen bedeutsamen Inhalt wandeln. Da sich so signifikante Gestaltungsmerkmale generieren lassen - wie bereits in zeitgenössischen Entwürfen erkennbar -, werden die Netzdiskurse als Impuls für die Produktsprache entdeckt. Im Rückgriff auf Foucault skizziert der Autor, wie Designtheorie als eine Form der Kommunikationstheorie verstanden werden kann.
ATRIBUIÇÕES DO FARMACÊUTICO EM UNIDADE DE ASSISTÊNCIA DE ALTA COMPLEXIDADE EM ONCOLOGIA
Authors: SANTOS Hozana , BATISTA Giumara , MOTA Gabriel , MARTINS Max , NUNES Sheila
Published: May 2014

Nos últimos anos, o farmacêutico especializado em oncologia, tem-se mostrado cada vez mais importante e preparado para exercer seu papel diante da sociedade. Ele é o principal instrumento da Farmacoterapia e importante em várias etapas da terapia antineoplásica. Com objetivo de identificar as atribuições, competências e atuação do farmacêutico no serviço de oncologia recém-implantado na segunda maior cidade do estado do Maranhão se propuseram a realização desta pesquisa. Os dados foram coletados através de visitas e entrevista com o farmacêutico responsável pela farmácia de oncologia do hospital. A distribuição dos dados levantados foi consolidada em termos de capacidade instalada, categoria profissional e atividades desenvolvidas. Nas atividades desenvolvidas observou-se a atuação privativa do profissional na manipulação dos agentes citostáticos. Destacou-se a utilização de citotásticos como Doxorrubirina, Daunoblostina, Paclitaxel, Citorabina, Daumoclastma, Citarabina, Anastrozol, Uimorelbina, Bussulfano, Oxaliplatina dentre outros. Foi possível acompanhar a rotina da farmácia oncológica e destacar a importância do profissional desde a avaliação da prescrição médica, dispensação, manipulação, avaliação e registro de RAM entre outras atividades.