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Against the “Prison/Psychiatric State”: Anti-violence Feminisms and the Politics of Confinement in the 1970s
Authors: Thuma Emily
Published: August 2014

The article examines the grassroots organizing efforts of the Coalition to Stop Institutional Violence, a broad-based alliance of prisoners’ rights, mental patients’ rights, and feminist groups in Greater Boston that opposed the expansion and medicalization of maximum-security units for women in Massachusetts’s prisons and state mental hospitals in the 1970s. The case of the coalition, it argues, illustrates how grassroots feminist opposition to incarceration produced an epistemology of “violence against women” that complicated and contested liberal feminist demands for more aggressive criminalization and law enforcement of sexual and domestic violence during this period. The coalition forged an understanding of institutional violence that linked the politics of mental health to the repressive punishment of women prisoners’ agency, and the expansion of medicalized incarceration to hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexuality. The article explores how activists’ critique of what they termed the “prison/ psychiatric state” engendered alternative conceptions of health, safety, and justice that, in turn, suggest the need for a more capacious understanding of opposition to gendered violence in the feminist 1970s.
A Cruel but Ancient Subjugation?: Understanding Hume’s Attack on Slavery
Authors: Watkins Margaret
Published: August 2014

This essay argues that Hume’s criticism of slavery in “Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations,” despite its contribution to the British Enlightenment’s anti-slavery movement, is not truly abolitionist in character. Hume’s aim was not to put an end to contemporary slave practices or forestall their expansion. Nonetheless, the criticism of slavery proves significant for reasons that transcend the demographic questions of the essay. It supports an argument that Hume develops throughout the Essays and Political Discourses . The conclusion of this argument warns against reverence for either ancient systems or modern progress. Like all forms of factionalism, these divisive tendencies threaten to compromise both our moral sensibility and our rational judgment.
Hume on the Normativity of Practical Reasons
Authors: Weller Cass
Published: August 2014

It is well known that Hume both denies that reason in the strict sense is practical and claims that no end an agent adopts is contrary to reason. Many conclude from this that Hume denies that there are action-guiding reasons and that a person can be blamed for failing to do what she acknowledges as means to her end or for remaining indifferent to the acknowledged means to her end. This paper argues against this reading by mining the texts for Hume’s account of the relation between desiring an end and willing the means to that end. The first part of the paper argues that for Hume, willing an end and willing the acknowledged means to that end form a complex of passions of a sort, so that it is not within human nature to remain indifferent to the acknowledged means to an end. In this sense, willing a certain action is a necessary response to having an end in view and believing that that action will achieve it. In the second part, the paper argues that for Hume, when willing an action as a means to an end is defeated by a contrary desire, the agent is blameworthy for having acted contrary to reason in a sense to be defended. Calm passions, while often confused with reason, play some of the roles ascribed to reason. For example, an agent sets ends through calm passions, thereby imputing value to objects that would otherwise remain objects of mere desire. It is through calm passions that we endorse the objects of lower-level desires as constituting our happiness and good. These features of calm passions help to explain why in choosing to φ as a means of achieving a valued end, an agent acknowledges that φ-ing is valuable in relation to that end and that she ought to φ in the sense that she has a defeasible reason to φ. The calm passions are thus sources of defeasible action-guiding reasons. Strength of mind is a case of managing, in the face of a competing passion, to do what one has reason to do. Its counterpart, weakness, is an example of culpably failing to do what one has reason to do. Here willing the means to a given end is motivationally weaker than a competing desire whose object is either not endorsed or negatively valued. The agent is blameworthy for failing to do what she ought, despite willing it.
Girls Ruin Everything: An Analysis of the Framing of the Removal of Baseball and Softball from Olympic Competition
Authors: Smith Lauren Reichart
Published: August 2014

In 1996 women’s softball made its first ever appearance in the Summer Olympic Games. Not 10 years later, the International Olympic Committee announced softball and baseball would no longer be included in the Summer Olympic Games after 2008. Research is rich on the role mass media plays in shaping opinions and framing attitudes. Using framing theory as the theoretical basis, this study compares the coverage of the women’s softball and men’s baseball teams prior to, during, and following the news of the two sports being removed from Olympic competition. A consensus sample from four major media outlets ( espn , Sports Illustrated, usa Today , and The New York Times ) analyzed the amount of coverage devoted to each sport and the descriptors used to ascertain how each gender was framed in the face of being excluded from the Olympics. Notable findings include criticism of the US women for being too good, too dominant, and ruining the sport for the rest of the world, while the US men were criticized for not being dominant enough. Study findings do not support traditional research with respect to coverage amounts and descriptors with respect to gender.
Bromosubstituted norbornadienes and their reversible photolytic transformation to quadricyclanes
Authors: Hammershøj Peter , Sørensen Thomas Just , Madsen Anders Ø. , Nielsen Martin M. , Bechgaard Klaus
Published: September 2014

Two new model systems for use within the rapidly developing ultrafast time resolved x-ray scattering techniques have been prepared. Their photoisomerisation from norbornadiene to quadricyclane was found to be a suitable reaction to follow. Simulations of scattering patterns (not included in this report) showed that if heavy atoms are included in these molecular structures, then the transformation can be followed by transient X-ray scattering techniques. Two new bromosubstituted norbornadienes were synthesised and characterised. Absorption spectroscopy showed that the norbornadienes are converted quantitatively to quadricyclanes under ultraviolet irradiation. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies showed that the process was fully reversible and that the norbornadienes could be completely recovered even without addition of catalysts. Furthermore, it was shown that the formation of quadricyclane from norbornadiene was unaffected by triplet sensitisers. The two new model systems synthesised thus are strong candidates for use in time-resolved X-ray scattering studies in both gas and condensed phases.
Cinéma Indochina
Authors: Weghofer Beate
Published: September 2014

Bereits lange vor der international erfolgreichen Verfilmung von Marguerite Duras' Roman »Der Liebhaber« Anfang der 90er Jahre existierte Indochina als (post-)koloniale Filmkultur. Diese Studie stellt erstmalig das durch Indochina inspirierte Filmschaffen von 1895 bis 1975 vor, in dem eine Reihe französischer Cineasten ihre Reise-, Kriegs- und Kindheitserfahrungen in der Kolonie verarbeiten. Beate Weghofer untersucht die aus diesen Verortungserfahrungen resultierenden Formen der Kinematographie und verbindet die Geschichte der kolonialen Vergangenheit Frankreichs mit der Geschichte des frühen Films, der Genres und der kinematographischen Strömungen.
Tragödie als Bühnenform
Authors: Schmidt Christina
Published: September 2014

Die Niederlage des tragischen Sprechens ist vor allem ein räumliches Problem. Anhand Einar Schleefs Beschäftigung mit der antiken Tragödie und deren Transformationen in der Moderne analysiert Christina Schmidt die Figur des Chors und seine konflikthafte »Rückkehr« in das Theater. Sie zeigt, dass sich Schleef mit dem Theater der Tragödie weniger philologisch als vielmehr topografisch auseinandersetzt, indem er die Orte der Figuren, der verhandelten Konflikte, der theatralen Verlautbarungen und deren damit zusammenhängende Macht-Konstellationen untersucht. Schmidt geht dieser politisch-topologischen Auffassung des Bühnenraums nach und rückt somit die Thematik der »Tragödie als Bühnenform« ins Zentrum.
Bedrohung, Gastrecht, Integrationspflicht
Authors: Schwarz Tobias
Published: September 2014

Ausweisung ist eine Ausschlusstechnik: Sie verhilft Konzepten gesellschaftlicher Zugehörigkeit und Differenz zu ihrer Durchsetzung. Durch einen historischen Rückblick und anhand von aktuellen medialen und juristischen Debatten rekonstruiert Tobias Schwarz die Wissensordnung des Ausweisens und zeigt, wie darin die Abwehr »bedrohlicher Fremdheit« fortlaufend aktualisiert wird. Der Autor macht deutlich, dass die kulturalistische Fiktion eines homogenen Kollektivs, das vom bedrohlichen und kulturell fremden Anderen klar abgrenzbar ist, stets neu gefestigt wird: »Wer sich nicht anpasst, wird ausgewiesen.«
Zwischen Wirkung und Erfahrung - eine Geschichte der Psychopharmaka
Authors: Balz Viola
Published: September 2014

Die Einführung der »Antipsychotika« in den 1950er Jahren gilt als Meilenstein der Psychiatriegeschichte - und markiert zugleich den Beginn der Auseinandersetzungen um ihre Wirkungsweisen. Diese Studie stellt die Frage nach den kulturabhängigen Effekten von Psychopharmaka und zeigt auf, wie ein als objektiv geltender Wirksamkeitsbegriff erst durch lokale Praktiken konstruiert wird. Anhand der Analyse von Krankenakten wird erstmalig die Geschichte der Neuroleptika von den ersten Versuchen bis hin zur verifizierten Therapie untersucht. Wichtige Bezugspunkte sind die neuere Wissenschaftsgeschichte, die Science and Technology Studies sowie die Psychiatrie. Der Band wurde im August 2010 mit dem Nachwuchspreis der Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft für Naturwissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte ausgezeichnet.
Die Suche nach der Liebe im Netz
Authors: Dombrowski Julia
Published: September 2014

In diesem Buch wird eine moderne, auf Liebe basierende Variante der Partnersuche als wissenschaftliches Forschungsobjekt vorgestellt: das Online-Dating. Im Zentrum der ethnologischen Studie stehen die Emotionen der Online-Dater, ihre Liebesvorstellungen und ihre Vorgehensweisen. Julia Dombrowskis Analyse, die das Geschehen sowohl innerhalb als auch außerhalb der Dating-Börsen verfolgt, entwickelt eine Grundlage zur Erforschung neuer Wege der Partnersuche im interkulturellen Vergleich.
Klänge im Zeitalter ihrer medialen Verfügbarkeit
Authors: Binas-Preisendörfer Susanne
Published: September 2014

Die Digitalisierung hat die Debatten um Segnungen und Gefahren medialer Verfügbarkeit auf die gesellschaftliche Agenda gesetzt. Der freie Umgang mit kulturellen Errungenschaften der Menschheit und das erodierende Urheberrecht bestimmen die Auseinandersetzungen um die Legitimität kultureller Praktiken. Musik und Klänge stehen dabei im Zentrum - insbesondere Popmusik spielt eine dominante Rolle. Medientechnologien und Medienunternehmen machen Musik aus jeder Zeit und von überall verfügbar und stellen - seit nunmehr etwa 100 Jahren - maßgebliche Voraussetzungen ihrer kulturellen Globalisierung dar. Das Buch nimmt die mediale Reise eines melanesischen Wiegenliedes zum Anlass, erstmals den Folgen von technischer Speicherung, Bearbeitung und Aneignung in verschiedenen musikkulturellen Kontexten und Segmenten der Musikwirtschaft umfassend nachzugehen.
Jung - rechts - unpolitisch?
Authors: Dierbach Stefan
Published: September 2014

Ist Rechte Gewalt nicht mehr als eine altersbedingte Krisenreaktion? Aufgrund des meist jungen Alters der Täter wird bei der Analyse rechter Gewalttaten oft angenommen, dass diese nicht primär ideologisch begründet sind. Stefan Dierbach zeigt auf, welche Risiken mit einer solchen Diagnose von »Jugendgewalt« im Hinblick auf ein Verständnis der Akteure als bewusst handelnde Subjekte verbunden sind. Er verweist in diesem Zusammenhang besonders auf das Problem einer Ausgrenzung des Politischen und der Ausblendung der Opfer innerhalb der Ursachenforschung. - Eine engagierte Studie für alle, die sich abseits gängiger Erklärungsmuster mit dem Thema »Jugend, Gewalt und Rechtsextremismus« beschäftigen wollen.
Technik als Erwartung
Authors: Kaminski Andreas
Published: September 2014

Was haben ein Lichtschalter, die Nanotechnik oder die Risiken der Atomtechnik gemeinsam? Ob bei der Interaktion mit oder der Entwicklung von Technik - das Technische besteht in verschiedenen Formen des Erwartens. Im Alltag heben wir etwa die Hand, um Karte und Geld zu entnehmen, noch bevor sie am Bankautomaten erscheinen. Entwicklungsvorhaben bestehen in der Erwartung, etwas zum Funktionieren zu bringen, das nicht funktioniert. Riskante Technologien rufen Misstrauen oder Vertrauen hervor, d.h. Erwartungen einer bestimmten Zukunft. Visionäre Technologien sind gar ausschließlich in Form von Erwartungen gegeben - es gibt sie nur in Kommunikationen, Bildern und Szenarien. »Technik als Erwartung« ist der Vorschlag, auf dieser Grundlage eine allgemeine Technikphilosophie zu bilden.
Ein Wissenschaftsmuseum geht unter die Haut
Authors: Schmitt Susanne B.
Published: September 2014

Sensory Turn: Diese experimentelle Ethnographie beleuchtet erstmalig ein Wissenschaftsmuseum aus der Perspektive leiblicher Erfahrung. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Frage nach Diskursen und Erfahrungen von den Sinnen und von Sinnlichkeit in einer Institution des Kulturbetriebes, die sich dem Thema »Körper« widmet. Susanne B. Schmitt stellt die Perspektiven von Museumsmitarbeitern in den Mittelpunkt und hinterfragt ihr Erleben des Deutschen Hygiene-Museums als durch den Körper erfahrenen Ort. In ihrer ethnologisch informierten Studie beleuchtet sie dabei kritisch die Hierarchisierung und Klassifizierung der »Sinne« als lokale und lokalisierbare Weisen der Wahrnehmung.
The pathophysiology of abdominal adipose tissue depots in health and disease
Authors: Walker Gillian E. , Marzullo Paolo , Ricotti Roberta , Bona Gianni , Prodam Flavia
Published: September 2014

Obesity is currently the most important contributor to ill health and expenditure worldwide. More alarming is the fact that the pediatric population parallels adults, with obesity closely associated to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), cardiovascular disease, hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, vitamin D deficiency (VDD) and certain types of cancer. The observation in the early 1950s that android or truncal adipose tissue (AT) distribution compared to gynoid had a greater association with metabolic dysfunction, in particular T2D and cardiovascular disease risk, led to the hypothesis that obesity-associated complications are not associated with fat mass per se, but the pattern of fat distribution. This concept was further supported by groups of individuals with metabolic dysfunction despite a lean phenotype, and healthy obese people protected from metabolic dysfunction. It is now well recognized that an increase in visceral AT is an independent risk factor for the development of obesity-associated comorbidities with AT depot distribution, their anatomic, cellular and molecular features defining their role. The differences and the plasticity of subcutaneous, visceral and ectopic ATs to store and release fatty acids and to synthesize and secrete adipokines, defines the metabolic outcomes. The present review will examine the phenotypic and pathophysiological differences between the different AT depots, with a particular focus on the abdominal depots and their link to metabolic complications.
Field of Genes
Authors: Shaffer H. Bradley
Published: September 2014

Genomicists study genetic information to understand how animals and plants survive and breed in their habitats, and how evolution happens to enhance survival. Shaffer describes how his study of genomics has colored the way he sees the world, the possibilities it opens up, and two examples of how the field has shaped understanding of species in California: the desert tortoise and the California tiger salamander.
John Muir
Authors: MacDonald Glen M.
Published: September 2014

A century after John Muir’s death, Glen MacDonald examines his legacy and argues that while Muir’s message of the value of wilderness to society might need to evolve for a twenty-first century audience, it is still relevant. For instance, Muir believed in the transformative power of visiting remote wildernesses such as Yosemite and urged everyone to do so, and his conception of nature preservation as preserving nature in a specific moment in time is now understood to be misguided. His specific prescriptions for relating to the natural world now seem old-fashioned, but his core values and his passion for getting Californians out in nature is just as important today, whether those natural places are national parks or city parks.
Nature’s Haunted House
Authors: Waldie D.J.
Published: September 2014

This essay considers the fluid lines between history, nature, and the urban realm. Beginning with land cultivated by the Bixby family near Long Beach, California from 1878 into the mid-twentieth century, Waldie discusses how the landscape has changed by the Bixbys and those who came before and since. He then turns his attention to his own suburban neighborhood and California more broadly, and the way a sense of place, history, community, and nature are bound up in them.
Chez Panisse: Building an Open Innovation Ecosystem
Authors: Chesbrough Henry , Kim Sohyeong , Agogino Alice
Published: September 2014

The case study provides a history of Chez Panisse and Alice Waters. Throughout Chez Panisse's history, Waters and her team had built a local and now global ecosystem using an “open innovation” strategy with stakeholders such as suppliers, alumni chef and staff, food writers, and others. The Chez Panisse ecosystem case study uses an open innovation framework to analyze how Chez Panisse grew. The case study allows students to learn how a small firm thrived and became a business success based on building a successful business ecosystem that shares knowledge, encourages individuals' growth, and embeds trust among participants.
Is Revenue Sharing Right for Your Supply Chain?
Authors: Altug Mehmet Sekip , van Ryzin Garrett
Published: September 2014

Many firms have enjoyed remarkable success using revenue-sharing contracts to improve supply chain performance. The video rental industry and its pioneering deal with movie studios is one such example. At the same time, other firms have struggled to make it work. What accounts for this difference? When can revenue sharing create significant value and what are the implementation costs? By comparing and contrasting several case examples, this article develops a general framework that helps answer these questions, which is based on the fundamental sources of added value and added costs.
In utero exposure to persistent organochlorine pollutants and reproductive health in the human male
Authors: Vested Anne , Ramlau-Hansen Cecilia H , Olsen Sjurdur F , Bonde Jens Peter , Støvring Henrik , Kristensen Susanne L , Halldorsson Thorhallur I , Rantakokko Panu , Kiviranta Hannu , Ernst Emil H , Toft Gunnar
Published: September 2014

Persistent organochlorine pollutants (POPs) are ubiquitous, bioaccumulative compounds with potential endocrine-disrupting effects. They cross the placental barrier thereby resulting inin uteroexposure of the developing fetus. The objective of this study was to investigate whether maternal serum concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) andp,p′-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (p,p′-DDE) during pregnancy are associated with son's semen quality and reproductive hormone levels. During 2008–2009, we recruited 176 male offspring from a Danish cohort of pregnant women who participated in a study in 1988–1989. Each provided semen and blood samples that were analyzed for sperm concentration, total sperm count, motility, and morphology, and reproductive hormone levels, respectively. The maternal blood samples were collected in pregnancy week 30 and were analyzed for the concentrations of six PCBs (PCB-118, -138, -153, -156, -170, and -180) andp,p′-DDE. The potential associations betweenin uteroexposure to ΣPCBs (pmol/ml), Σdioxin like-(DL) PCBs (PCB-118 and -156) (pmol/ml), andp,p′-DDE and semen quality and reproductive hormone levels were investigated using multiple regression. Maternal median (range) exposure levels of ΣPCB, ΣDL-PCB, andp,p′-DDE were 10.0 (2.1–35.0) pmol/ml, 0.8 (0.2–2.7) pmol/ml, and 8.0 (0.7–55.3) pmol/ml, respectively, reflecting typical background exposure levels in the late 1980s in Denmark. Results suggested thatin uteroexposure to ΣPCB, ΣDL-PCB, andp,p′-DDE was not statistically significantly associated with semen quality measures or reproductive hormone levels. Thus, results based on maternal PCB andp,p′-DDE concentrations alone are not indicative of long-term consequences for male reproductive health; however, we cannot exclude that these POPs in concert with other endocrine-modulating compounds may have adverse effects.
Oviductal secretion and gamete interaction
Authors: Ghersevich Sergio , Massa Estefanía , Zumoffen Carlos
Published: September 2014

Experimental evidence from the last 30 years supports the fact that the oviduct is involved in the modulation of the reproductive process in eutherian mammals. Oviductal secretion contains molecules that contribute to regulation of gamete function, gamete interaction, and the early stages of embryo development. The oviductal environment would act as a sperm reservoir, maintaining sperm viability, and modulating the subpopulation of spermatozoa that initiates the capacitation process. It could also contribute to prevent the premature acrosome reaction and to reduce polyspermy. Many studies have reported the beneficial effects of the oviductal environment on fertilization and on the first stages of embryo development. Some oviductal factors have been identified in different mammalian species. The effects of oviductal secretion on the reproductive process could be thought to result from the dynamic combined action (inhibitory or stimulatory) of multiple factors present in the oviductal lumen at different stages of the ovulatory cycle and in the presence of gametes or embryos. It could be hypothesized that the absence of a given molecule would not affect fertility as its action could be compensated by another factor with similar functions. However, any alteration in this balance could affect certain events of the reproductive process and could perhaps impair fertility. Thus, the complexity of the reproductive process warrants a continuous research effort to unveil the mechanisms and factors behind its regulation in the oviductal microenvironment.
Global Regulation of a Differentiation MAPK Pathway in Yeast
Authors: Chavel Colin A , Caccamise Lauren M , Li Boyang , Cullen Paul J
Published: September 2014

Cell differentiation requires different pathways to act in concert to produce a specialized cell type. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergoes filamentous growth in response to nutrient limitation. Differentiation to the filamentous cell type requires multiple signaling pathways, including a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. To identify new regulators of the filamentous growth MAPK pathway, a genetic screen was performed with a collection of 4072 nonessential deletion mutants constructed in the filamentous (Σ1278b) strain background. The screen, in combination with directed gene-deletion analysis, uncovered 97 new regulators of the filamentous growth MAPK pathway comprising 40% of the major regulators of filamentous growth. Functional classification extended known connections to the pathway and identified new connections. One function for the extensive regulatory network was to adjust the activity of the filamentous growth MAPK pathway to the activity of other pathways that regulate the response. In support of this idea, an unregulated filamentous growth MAPK pathway led to an uncoordinated response. Many of the pathways that regulate filamentous growth also regulated each other’s targets, which brings to light an integrated signaling network that regulates the differentiation response. The regulatory network characterized here provides a template for understanding MAPK-dependent differentiation that may extend to other systems, including fungal pathogens and metazoans.
Exploiting Natural Variation of Secondary Metabolism Identifies a Gene Controlling the Glycosylation Diversity of Dihydroxybenzoic Acids in Arabidopsis thaliana
Authors: Li Xu , Svedin Elisabeth , Mo Huaping , Atwell Susanna , Dilkes Brian P , Chapple Clint
Published: August 2014

Plant secondary metabolism is an active research area because of the unique and important roles the specialized metabolites have in the interaction of plants with their biotic and abiotic environment, the diversity and complexity of the compounds and their importance to human medicine. Thousands of natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana characterized with increasing genomic precision are available, providing new opportunities to explore the biochemical and genetic mechanisms affecting variation in secondary metabolism within this model species. In this study, we focused on four aromatic metabolites that were differentially accumulated among 96 Arabidopsis natural accessions as revealed by leaf metabolic profiling. Using UV, mass spectrometry, and NMR data, we identified these four compounds as different dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHBA) glycosides, namely 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (gentisic acid) 5-O-β-D-glucoside, 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid 3-O-β-D-glucoside, 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid 5-O-β-D-xyloside, and 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid 3-O-β-D-xyloside. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping using recombinant inbred lines generated from C24 and Col-0 revealed a major-effect QTL controlling the relative proportion of xylosides vs. glucosides. Association mapping identified markers linked to a gene encoding a UDP glycosyltransferase gene. Analysis of Transfer DNA (T-DNA) knockout lines verified that this gene is required for DHBA xylosylation in planta and recombinant protein was able to xylosylate DHBA in vitro. This study demonstrates that exploiting natural variation of secondary metabolism is a powerful approach for gene function discovery.
Psychophysiological states and special performance of boxers with different styles of fight
Authors: Aksutin V.V. , Korobeynikov G.V.
Published: August 2014

Purpose : The style of the fight is one of the important factors that affect the quality of the arts in boxing. Particularly important factor in the modern boxing are the mental processes that are involved in forecasting and analyzing the situation that arises in the ring and are associated with cognitive functions. Purpose - to examine the psychophysiological state and a special performance for skilled boxers with different styles of input match. Material : 22 highly qualification boxer aged 18-23 years were studies. The absolute and the relative strength of serial and single strikes were studied. Definition of special performance and power strokes performed on a special simulator. Recorded the absolute and relative strength of serial and single strikes. Results : The results show that the attacking style of the fight in boxing is accompanied by the presence of a high level of efficiency, reduction of fatigue, anxiety, and depending on the condition of vegetative functions. Showed a reduction in the growth of autonomy and heteronomy in the structure of psycho-physiological state of boxers with the attacking style of the fight, which indicates the presence of compromise and avoidance of external failures. Conclusions : Boxers with attacking style of fight characterized by high values of the left side impact forces and reduce the values of the right direct strike force, compared with boxers protective style of fight.
Physical training of young biathletes in step preliminary preparation
Authors: Burla Artem A. , Burla Anton A. , Kudrenko A.I. , Liannyi M.O.
Published: August 2014

Purpose : To examine the effectiveness of different allocation of general and special physical training of young biathletes in the preparatory and competitive periods of the annual cycle at the stage of preparation. Material : The study included 24 young athletes (age 13-15 years, have been employed 1 year or more). Results : shows dynamics of the various components of fitness of young biathlon (running at 30 meters from the place of 1000 and 3000 meters, pulling up on crossbeam flexion and extension hand in the emphasis lying down, raising and lowering legs Wies, long jump with space shuttle run 4 x 9 meters). Recommended for general physical training in the preparatory period allocate 65% of the time, a special and comprehensive training - 35%. Time on general fitness is distributed as follows: Power - 50% of the time, speed and speed-power - 25%, the development of general and special endurance - 20%, improving flexibility and coordination skills - 5%. Conclusions : lessons for biathlon in the early years of training should not be aimed at increasing the level of general and special endurance. In more classes should be directed at improving the physical fitness of versatile, high-speed, speed-strength and power qualities of athletes.
Correction of psycho-emotional state of athletes playing sports with the consequences of injuries of the lower extremities
Authors: Zheleznuy O.D. , Zasik G.B. , Mukhin V.M. , Grinchuk O.M.
Published: August 2014

Purpose : development of techniques for using factors of psychological support for the recovery of athletes playing sports after injuries of the lower extremities. Material : The study involved 44 sportsmen. During 2008 - 2013 years was recorded 558 injuries. Results : The results psychodiagnosis injured athletes procedure K. Leonhard additions to copyright. Recommended approaches such psychological rehabilitation: gaining an understanding of real prospects athlete restore lost functions; mobilization will athlete to actively participate in the rehabilitation process; help in facing traumatized and need opportunities to participate in training-competitive process. Conclusions : The proposed package of measures for psychological support provided athletes decrease recovery times for 1 - 3 weeks and return to training-competitive process.
Allocation algorithm for athletes group to form tactical tasks in game team sports using the methods of multivariate analysis (illustrated women Ukrainian team basketball with hearing impairments)
Authors: Kozina Zh.L. , Sobko I.N. , Kolomiec N.A. , Jagiełło Władysław , Jagiełło Marina
Published: August 2014

Purpose : develop and prove experimentally allocation algorithm athletes in groups to form a tactical tasks in team sports game using methods of multivariate analysis. Material : The study involved 12 basketball hearing impaired 20-25 years old - female players team of Ukraine on basketball. Analyzed the results of testing and competitive activity 12 basketball players with hearing impairments - Lithuanian team players. Results : An algorithm for distribution by groups of athletes for the formation of tactical tasks. The algorithm consists of the following steps: 1 - testing of athletes; 2 - A hierarchical cluster analysis performance testing; 3 - Distribution of sportsmen groups, analysis of the characteristics of athletes, the formation of tactical tasks. Found higher rates of reaction rate at the offensive players. We pivot revealed a higher level of absolute strength. The defenders found a higher frequency of movement and jumping. Conclusions : The algorithm is the basis for determining the best options mutual combination players in the development and implementation of tactical combinations, the selection of partners when working in pairs and triples in training.
Algorithm of physical rehabilitation of athletes in polyclinic stage of treatment of osteochondrosis
Authors: MAKAROVA E. V. , VASYLIEVA I. V.
Published: August 2014

Purpose: develop an algorithm which improves the physical rehabilitation of athletes with osteochondrosis on polyclinic stage of treatment. Material: processed of scientific literature and Internet. Results: this research analyzes traditional recovery of athletes with spinal osteochondrosis on polyclinic stage of treatment. The practical and clinical study showed that etiopathogenesis injuries and diseases of the musculoskeletal system of athletes of different specialties have similar evidences. Therefore, a recovery of sports working capacity during medical rehabilitation treatment does not differ from ordinary patients. We propose an algorithm of physical rehabilitation, aimed for the fast recovery of health of athletes and return them to the athletic training, and conducting therapeutic exercises with specific objects such as balancing disk and preventive "Osan". Conclusions : established that the physical rehabilitation of athletes at polyclinic stage of treatment similar to the rehabilitation of patients non-athletes, and improved algorithm for the physical rehabilitation of athletes with osteochondrosis in the polyclinic stage of treatment.
THE PHYSICAL AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT OF 9-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN ATTENDING FOOTBALL CLASSES IN "FOOTBALL SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN"
Authors: Klimczyk Mariusz , Stec Martyna
Published: August 2014

Purpose : The purpose of the study was to determine the physical development and physical fitness of the boys at the age of 9 years old attending football classes. Material : The study covered 12 boys at 9 years old attending football classes in "Football school for children" in Jabłonowo Pomorskie. The assessment of the physical development was conducted by examining height and body weight and, on this basis, the somatic built indicator was calculated according to Rohrer index. To evaluate physical fitness, the Physical Fitness Index by Zuchor was used. Results : The studied exceed with height and weight their peers from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship. The level of physical fitness of the studied boys aged 9 years old did not show much diversity. Conclusions : The results improvement was not observed in most physical fitness tests.
Gestão de serviços em salões de beleza: do diagnóstico à melhoria de qualidade
Authors: Martins Cristina , Venâncio Daniella Macedo , Fiates Gabriela Gonçalves Silveira , Roman Darlan José , Erdmann Rolf Hermann
Published: September 2014

O presente artigo objetiva analisar a qualidade de serviços de uma rede de salões de beleza da grande Florianópolis. Para tal, utilizou-se do instrumento de diagnóstico de processo produtivo e geração de recomendações do Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos em Gestão da Produção e Custos (NIEPC)/UFSC. Na forma de um estudo de caso, a pesquisa é de caráter descritivo com abordagem predominantemente qualitativa. Os principais resultados indicaram que: (i) apesar de se considerar flexível para demandas e atendimentos, a rede coloca como desafio constante o embate entre a qualidade e o tempo de ciclo de serviço, já que é uma demanda que depende da necessidade dos clientes; (ii) há consciência por parte da gestão a respeito da complexidade do segmento de serviço e de suas caraterísticas, contudo, há dificuldades de conscientização junto aos profissionais autônomos; (iii) apesar da utilização de sistemas de informações para geração de relatórios, a utilização destas informações é comprometida muitas vezes pela falta de tempo ou de profissionais habilitados para tal tarefa.Palavras-chave: Qualidade. Gestão de Serviços. Salões de Beleza.
Intervenção na gestão de inovação de produtos em pmes: casos firmas moveleiras
Authors: Melo Filho Leonel Del Rey , Gonçalves Carlos Alberto , Cheng Lin Chih
Published: September 2014

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar uma aplicação de um framework e um procedimento de intervenção (atividades que objetivam a introdução de novas formas de trabalho por meio de uma série de ações focadas nas organizações) em práticas gerenciais de inovação de produtos configuradas, que seriam Capacidades Dinâmicas (CD). Desenvolveu-se um programa de intervenção induzido por uma organização de apoio empresarial, o qual auxiliou 4PMEsmoveleiras localizadas no conglomerado industrial da região da cidade de UBÁ/MG. A abordagem metodológica utilizada foi a pesquisa-ação, a qual foi associada com a aplicação de diferentes métodos de coleta de dados (ex. protocolo de busca e armazenamento de informações, análise de documentação e entrevistaestruturada). O programacontribuiu para a implantação de práticas gerenciais de inovação de produtos, sendo estas adaptadas às contingências organizacionais relacionadas com as CDsde detecção, apreensão e reconfiguração tecnológica. Durante o programa, algumas PMEsconseguiram desenvolver e lançar com sucesso novos produtos, enquanto outras apresentaram melhorias dasrespectivas rotinas organizacionais, dentre outros resultados qualitativos.Palavras-chave: Intervenção. Capacidades Dinâmicas. Gestão da Inovação de Produtos. PMEs.
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Authors: Franco Renato Júnio
Published: September 2014

Ao longo da época moderna, as Santas Casas de Misericórdia foram as principais instituições de auxílio à pobreza do império português. A partir do modelo de Lisboa, organizavam-se estabelecimentos semelhantes do ponto de vista organizacional, que pretendiam exercer a caridade a partir das 14 obras de misericórdia. No entanto, apesar de um ideal universalizante, as Misericórdias eram muito diferentes entre si. Este artigo discute a dinâmica institucional do império, centrando-se no exemplo da América portuguesa entre o século XVI e o início do século XIX.
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Authors: Guimarães Paula Cristina David
Published: September 2014

Este artigo traz à tona a influência discurso da psicologia sobre a educação da infância pobre em Minas Gerais durante a década de 1920. Para isso, investiga as publicações da Revista do Ensino, periódico mineiro responsável por formar e informar professores que atuavam nas escolas públicas do estado naquele período. As análises apontam que o discurso da psicologia produziu diversas relações de poder, efeitos de verdade e de saber sobre a educação da infância dentro do espaço escolar, sobretudo a partir do momento em que defendia uma escolarização diferenciada para esses alunos.
Orthodontic Treatment of Binder Syndrome: A Case Report with 5 Years of Follow-up
Authors: Cossellu Gianguido , Biagi Roberto , Faggioni Giulia , Farronato Giampietro
Published: September 2014

We report here the case of orthodontic nonsurgical treatment in a patient with Binder syndrome. This rare syndrome (<1/10,000) is a deforming alteration of the middle third of the face, also known as maxillonasal dysplasia/dysostosis. The therapeutic approach often undertaken is an orthodontic-surgical protocol, which includes several invasive interventions such as LeFort I or II. In this patient and early diagnosis made it possible to intervene on an orthodontic level only, thus avoiding highly invasive surgical procedures (as of a 5-year follow-up).
Test Study on Strength and Permeability Properties of Lime-Fly Ash Loess under Freeze-Thaw Cycles
Authors: Zhang Zhiquan , Zhang Yufen
Published: September 2014

In order to study the application of lime-fly ash loess in permafrost subgrade engineering, uniaxial compressive test, fast direct shearing test and permeability tests were carried out on lime-fly ash loess under different curing ages and freeze-thaw cycles. Uniaxial compressive strength of lime-fly ash loess increases slowly with the curing ages, and can reach 3.5 Mpa after the curing ages of 90 days (This strength is called 90d strength). 14d strength of lime-fly ash loess has already reached 50% of 90d strength; later strength including 28d strength and 90d strength is basically stable under different freeze-thaw cycles, so lime-fly ash loess has good water stability and freeze-thaw stability. Fast direct shear strength decreases with the number of freeze-thaw cycles without consideration of moisture content; the coefficient of permeability increases with the number of freeze-thaw cycles．All test data show that lime-fly ash loess with good behaviors can be applied in permafrost subgrade engineering.
QSPR study of supercooled liquid vapour pressures of PBDEs by using molecular distance-edge vector index
Authors: Jiao Long , Wang Xiaofei , Bing Shan , Xue Zhiwei , Li Hua
Published: September 2014

The quantitative structure property relationship (QSPR) for supercooled
liquid vapour pressures (PL) of PBDEs was investigated. Molecular
distance-edge vector (MDEV) index was used as the structural descriptor. The
quantitative relationship between the MDEV index and lgPL was modeled by
using multivariate linear regression (MLR) and artificial neural network
(ANN) respectively. Leave-one-out cross validation and k-fold cross
validation were carried out to assess the prediction ability of the developed
models. For the MLR method, the prediction root mean square relative error
(RMSRE) of leave-one-out cross validation and k-fold cross validation is 9.95
and 9.05 respectively. For the ANN method, the prediction RMSRE of
leave-one-out cross validation and k-fold cross validation is 8.75 and 8.31
respectively. It is demonstrated the established models are practicable for
predicting the lgPL of PBDEs. The MDEV index is quantitatively related to the
lgPL of PBDEs. MLR and L-ANN are practicable for modeling this relationship.
Compared with MLR, ANN shows slightly higher prediction accuracy.
Subsequently, an MLR model, which regression equation is lgPL = 0.2868 M11 -
0.8449 M12 - 0.0605, and an ANN model, which is a two inputs linear network,
were developed. The two models can be used to predict the lgPL of each PBDE.
Adiponectin Induces A20 Expression in Adipose Tissue to Confer Metabolic Benefit
Authors: Hand Laura E. , Usan Paola , Cooper Garth J.S. , Xu Lance Y. , Ammori Basil , Cunningham Peter S. , Aghamohammadzadeh Reza , Soran Handrean , Greenstein Adam , Loudon Andrew S.I. , Bechtold David A. , Ray David W.
Published: September 2014

Obesity is a major risk factor for metabolic disease, with white adipose tissue (WAT) inflammation emerging as a key underlying pathology. We detail that mice lacking Reverbα exhibit enhanced fat storage without the predicted increased WAT inflammation or loss of insulin sensitivity. In contrast to most animal models of obesity and obese human patients, Reverbα−/− mice exhibit elevated serum adiponectin levels and increased adiponectin secretion from WAT explants in vitro, highlighting a potential anti-inflammatory role of this adipokine in hypertrophic WAT. Indeed, adiponectin was found to suppress primary macrophage responses to lipopolysaccharide and proinflammatory fatty acids, and this suppression depended on glycogen synthase kinase 3β activation and induction of A20. Attenuated inflammatory responses in Reverbα−/− WAT depots were associated with tonic elevation of A20 protein and ex vivo shown to depend on A20. We also demonstrate that adipose A20 expression in obese human subjects exhibits a negative correlation with measures of insulin sensitivity. Furthermore, bariatric surgery–induced weight loss was accompanied by enhanced WAT A20 expression, which is positively correlated with increased serum adiponectin and improved metabolic and inflammatory markers, including C-reactive protein. The findings identify A20 as a mediator of adiponectin anti-inflammatory action in WAT and a potential target for mitigating obesity-related pathology.
High-Intensity Statin Therapy Alters the Natural History of Diabetic Coronary Atherosclerosis: Insights From SATURN
Authors: Stegman Brian , Puri Rishi , Cho Leslie , Shao Mingyuan , Ballantyne Christie M. , Barter Phillip J. , Chapman M. John , Erbel Raimund , Libby Peter , Raichlen Joel S. , Uno Kiyoko , Kataoka Yu , Nissen Steven E. , Nicholls Stephen J.
Published: September 2014

OBJECTIVE

Although statins can induce coronary atheroma regression, this benefit has yet to be demonstrated in diabetic individuals. We tested the hypothesis that high-intensity statin therapy may promote coronary atheroma regression in patients with diabetes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

The Study of Coronary Atheroma by Intravascular Ultrasound: Effect of Rosuvastatin Versus Atorvastatin (SATURN) used serial intravascular ultrasound measures of coronary atheroma volume in patients treated with rosuvastatin 40 mg or atorvastatin 80 mg for 24 months. This analysis compared changes in biochemistry and coronary percent atheroma volume (PAV) in patients with (n = 159) and without (n = 880) diabetes.

RESULTS

At baseline, patients with diabetes had lower LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) and HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) levels but higher triglyceride and CRP levels compared with patients without diabetes. At follow-up, diabetic patients had lower levels of LDL-C (61.0 ± 20.5 vs. 66.4 ± 22.9 mg/dL, P = 0.01) and HDL-C (46.3 ± 10.6 vs. 49.9 ± 12.0 mg/dL, P < 0.001) but higher levels of triglycerides (127.6 [98.8, 163.0] vs. 113.0 mg/dL [87.6, 151.9], P = 0.001) and CRP (1.4 [0.7, 3.3] vs. 1.0 [0.5, 2.1] mg/L, P = 0.001). Both patients with and without diabetes demonstrated regression of coronary atheroma as measured by change in PAV (−0.83 ± 0.13 vs. −1.15 ± 0.13%, P = 0.08). PAV regression was less in diabetic compared with nondiabetic patients when on-treatment LDL-C levels were >70 mg/dL (−0.31 ± 0.23 vs. −1.01 ± 0.21%, P = 0.03) but similar when LDL-C levels were ≤70 mg/dL (−1.09 ± 0.16 vs. −1.24 ± 0.16%, P = 0.50).

CONCLUSIONS

High-intensity statin therapy alters the progressive nature of diabetic coronary atherosclerosis, yielding regression of disease in diabetic and nondiabetic patients.
IV ATP Potentiates Midazolam Sedation as Assessed by Bispectral Index
Authors: Sakurai Satoru , Fukunaga Atsuo , Ichinohe Tatsuya , Kaneko Yuzuru
Published: September 2014

In this study, by measuring bispectral index (BIS), we tested the hypothesis that intravenous adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP) infusion would deepen the level of midazolam-induced sedation. Ten healthy volunteers underwent 2 experiments with at least 2 weeks' interval: immediately after intravenous bolus administration of midazolam (0.04 mg/kg), they received continuous infusion of either ATP infusion (100 μg/kg/min) or placebo (saline) for 40 minutes in a double-blind, randomized, crossover manner. Changes in BIS values and responsiveness to verbal command as well as cardiorespiratory variables were observed throughout the study periods. Administration of midazolam alone reduced BIS value from control: 97 ± 1 to 68 ± 18 at 25 minutes, which was accompanied by significant cardiopulmonary depressant effects, while maintaining responsiveness to verbal command (consciousness) throughout the study period. Coadministration of ATP with midazolam further reduced BIS value to 51 ± 13, associated with complete loss of consciousness without adverse effect on the cardiorespiratory systems. We conclude that the addition of ATP infusion to midazolam significantly enhances midazolam sedation without disturbing cardiorespiratory functions.