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Amphipoda (Crustacea; Peracarida) from the Hydrothermal vent system of the Juan De Fuca Ridge, Escabana trough and Gorda ridge, Northeast Pacific. Part I. Lysianassidae and Sebidae
Authors: LARSEN KIM
Published: June 2019

The amphipod fauna from hydrothermal vent habitats on the Juan de Fuca Ridge and from experimental wood deployments are examined. The material revealed, among others, a number of lysianassid species belonging to the genera, Paronesimoides Pirlot, 1933 and Schisturella Norman, 1900, and a species of the family Sebidae, belonging to the genus Seba Bate, 1862. The new species: Paronesimoides voightae, Schisturella hansgeorgi, and Seba bathybia are described. A key to Paronesimoides and Schisturella are given
Acanthocephalans of Amphibians and Reptiles (Anura and Squamata) from Ecuador, with the description of Pandosentis napoensis n. sp (Neoechinorhynchidae) from Hyla fasciata
Authors: SMALES LESLEY R.
Published: June 2019

In a survey of 3457 amphibians and reptiles, collected in the Napo area of the Oriente region of Ecuador, 27 animals were found to be infected with acanthocephalans. Of 2359 Anura, 17 animals were infected with cystacanth stages of Oligacanthorhynchus spp., one frog with cystacanths of Acanthocephalus and one, Hyla fasciata, with a neoechinorhynchid, Pandosentis napoensis n. sp. Of 1098 Squamata, two colubrid snakes were infected with cystacanths of Oligacanthoryrchus sp., two with cystacanths of Centrorhynchus spp. and one with unidentifiable cystacanths; one lizard, a gekkonid, was infected with cystacanths of Centrorhynchus sp. and one lizard, an iguanid, with an Oligacanthoryhnchus sp. The new species, P. napoensis can be differentiated from its congenor Pandosentis iracundus in having a proboscis formula of 14 rows of 3 hooks as compared with 22 rows of 4 hooks and the lemnisci longer than the proboscis receptacle rather than the same length or shorter. Pandosentis napoensis may represent a host capture from fresh water fishes. Cystacanths of Centrorhynchus and Oligacanthorhynchus have been previously reported from South American amphibians and reptiles. Surprisingly, no adult Acanthocephalus were collected in this survey, although five species are known to occur in South American amphibians and reptiles.
A new species of Temple Pitviper (Tropidolaemus Wagler, 1830) from Sulawesi, Indonesia (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae)
Authors: KUCH ULRICH , GUMPRECHT ANDREAS , MELAUN CHRISTIAN
Published: June 2019

The Asian Temple Pitviper Tropidolaemus wagleri is a widespread polytypic species complex with a complicated taxonomic history, a lengthy species synonymy list, and a geographic distribution encompassing Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, portions of Indonesia, and the Philippines. As a prelude to a comprehensive review of this species complex, we describe a new species of Temple Pitviper based on five historic museum specimens from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The new species can be distinguished from sympatric members of the Tropidolaemus subannulatus complex and other congeners on the basis of its conspicuous color pattern and scalation characters. Available collecting data suggest that the new species has a wide distribution in rainforests and lower montane wet forests of Sulawesi Utara and Sulawesi Tengah provinces.
First description of the male of the millipede Eurygyrus euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901) (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae)
Authors: STOEV PAVEL
Published: June 2019

The external morphology and the shape of gonopods of the male of Eurygyrus euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901), a species hitherto known only from a single female specimen collected more than 100 years ago on the Greek island of Euboea, is documented for the first time. The structure of gonopods indicates that the species belongs to the E. xanthinus group, and is closely related to the Anatolian species E. ochraceus C.L. Koch, 1847. The new find extends the species’ range ca. 60 km in a northwestern direction.
Terrestrial and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of the High Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard
Authors: COULSON STEPHEN JAMES
Published: June 2019

An overview of the terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate fauna of the High Arctic archipelago of Svalbard is presented. Sixty seven additional species to the previous checklist are listed and the described terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate fauna of Svalbard now stands at 1,107 species. Species presented are cross referenced to the literature.        A brief comparison with the invertebrate fauna of Greenland indicates that Svalbard may be under-represented in Hymenoptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera but over-represented in Collembola and Acari. However, since 82% of Svalbard primary source manuscripts originate from three locations along the west coast, there is a resulting likely bias in our knowledge of the invertebrate fauna. The west coast has a mild climate for the northerly latitude due to the influence of the West Spitsbergen Current, a northerly flowing branch of the North Atlantic Drift. The faunistically poorly known east coast is hypothesised to have a different invertebrate fauna due to the predominant winds and currents originating from the north east and hence this coast will have a different history of immigration and colonization from the west coast.        The use of checklists is therefore cautioned due to possible sampling bias and omissions created by a concentration of work on popular groups and at a limited number of localities. However, this does not detract from their importance as baseline databases, especially during a period of rapid environmental change.
A review of the genus Bruchia Weise 1906 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
Authors: STAINES C. L.
Published: June 2019

The species of Bruchia are reviewed.  Bruchia armata from Brazil, Colombia and Peru, and B. scapularis from Colombia are described as new.  Each species is described and illustrated and a key to the species is provided.
Two new bithecal earthworms of the genus Amynthas (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Laos
Authors: HONG YONG
Published: June 2019

Earthworm specimens collected from Nam Phouin NBCA, Laos were found to be two new species of megascolecid earthworms: Amynthas namphouinensis sp. nov. and Amynthas chandyi sp. nov. They belong to the zebrus species group with a pair of spermathecal pores in 7/8. A. namphouinensis has male pores on small round porophores in XVIII, genital papillae always paired equatorial in XVII, presetal, widely paired in XIX, and mid-ventral in 17/18. A. chandyi has male pores on circular porophores in XVIII, and genital papillae paired in 18/19 posterior to the porophores, postsetal in XVIXIX, and presetal in XVIII, XX.
Cytogenetics and morphotaxonomy of the Simulium (Gomphostilbia) ceylonicum species group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Thailand
Authors: JITKLANG SANAE , KUVANGKADILOK CHALIOW , BAIMAI VISUT , TAKAOKA HIROYUKI , ADLER PETER H.
Published: June 2019

The polytene chromosomes of 1,612 larvae of three described morphospecies in the Simulium (Gomphostilbia) ceylonicum species group—S. asakoae, S. inthanonense, and S. sheilae—were examined from 52 sites in Thailand. A standard map for the S. ceylonicum group was established. Ten cytoforms, plus an eleventh from the literature, are revealed on the basis of unique suites of fixed and floating inversions; sex chromosomes are microscopically undifferentiated in all cytoforms. A cytodendrogram, based on shared inversions, shows seven lineages in a polytomy derived from a hypothetical ancestor. Morphological descriptions of the known life stages of each cytoform and keys to larvae, pupae, and polytene chromosomes also are provided. Despite small sample sizes for some cytoforms, all segregates appear to be good species, supported by both chromosomal and morphological evidence. Three reproductively isolated cytoforms for which adequate material is available are formally described as new species. The existence of chromosomally distinct entities within established morphospecies of the S. ceylonicum group supports a recurrent trend of hidden biodiversity in Southeast Asian black flies. The differentiation of taxa that we found in the S. ceylonicum group between northern and southern Thailand conforms to a similar biogeographic trend in diverse organisms.
Definition of Lepidocyrtus lusitanicus Gama, 1964 species-complex (Collembola, Entomobryidae), with description of new species and color forms from the Iberian Peninsula
Authors: MATEOS EDUARDO
Published: June 2019

Lepidocyrtus lusitanicus is one of the species with greater color pattern variability within the genus Lepidocyrtus. Four subspecies have been described in relation to its body color variation. The study of various populations of Lepidocyrtus from the Iberian Peninsula has allowed me to describe the new chromatic form L. lusitanicus form A, as well as the new species L. bilobatus, which is very closely related to L. lusitanicus, and also shows high color pattern variability. The high similarity among species L. lusitanicus, L. selvaticus and L. bilobatus sp. nov., the high color pattern variability of their populations, the overlapping geographical distribution of many studied populations, and the presence of three dorsal macrochaetae between trichobothria m2 and a5 of the second abdominal tergum, led me to define the group Lepidocyrtus lusitanicus species-complex. This group included the three abovementioned species with all of their color forms.
Diversity of small Amazonian Dendropsophus (Anura: Hylidae): another new species from northern Bolivia
Authors: MORAVEC JIŘÍ , APARICIO JAMES , GUERRERO-REINHARD MARCELO , CALDERON GONZALO , KÖHLER JÖRN
Published: June 2019

A new small species of Dendrospsophus is described from lowland Amazonia of the Departamento Pando, northern Bolivia. The new species is mainly characterized by smooth dorsal skin with scattered minute tubercles, relatively large distal subarticular tubercle on first toe, lack of tarsal folds, light brown to dark reddish or purple brown dorsum with numerous small dark markings and spots, dark colouration of loreal-tympanic region sharply outlined and contrasting against dorsal head colouration, one or two small white spots below the eye, yellow vocal sac in life, and advertisement call consisting of two notes with strong amplitude modulation. The new species is tentatively grouped with species placed in the Dendropsophus microcephalus group. It has rather arboreal habits and occurs in the tree canopy along swampy or flooded shores of smaller streams running through terra firme rainforest.
Two distinctive new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Cordillera Oriental with a distributional synopsis of strabomantids in Central Peru
Authors: DUELLMAN WILLIAM E. , CHAPARRO JUAN CARLOS
Published: June 2019

Two new species of the genus Pristimantis (Pristimantis) that are tentatively placed in the Pristimantis unistrigatus Group are described from the Yanachaga-Chemillén region in Departamento Pasco, Peru, where 24 species of strabomantid frogs are known. Both new species inhabit the humid montane forest on the slopes of the Andean Cordillera Oriental, and one of the new species apparently is a cryptic relative of another inhabitant of the region. Among 60 species of strabomantids recorded in a two-degree wide transect from the Amazonian lowland to the crest of the Cordillera Oriental, only three of the species restricted to mid-elevations are known from transects in northern or southern Peru. High elevations are dominated by terrestrial Phrynopus, whereas the lowlands and forested slopes of the Andes are dominated by arboreal Pristimantis. Within clades there is no elevational correlation with the presence or absence of a tympanum.
Five new species of chirostylid crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from Taiwan
Authors: BABA KEIJI , LIN CHIA-WEI
Published: June 2019

Five new species of chirostylid crustaceans from Taiwan are described. Eumunida chani sp. nov. is characterized by the absence of a pad of densely-packed setae on the pereopod 1, the anterior branchial margin bearing two spines, and the carpus of first pereopod with only two spines. Uroptychus anacaena sp. nov. and U. anatonus sp. nov. are similar but separated from each other by the shape of sternite 4 and relative length of the antennal scale. These species closely resemble U. maori Borradaile, 1916 and U. brucei Baba, 1986, but lack a ventral subterminal spine on the ischium of pereopod 1. Uroptychus orientalis sp. nov. is separated from U. occidentalis Faxon, 1893 by the shorter antennal scale and P2–4 dactyli with ultimate and penultimate spines subequal in size. Uroptychus singularis sp. nov. is distinguished from U. australis (Henderson, 1885) by the single, unpaired terminal spine on the flexor margin of pereopods 2–4.
A new species of Megadineura Malaise (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) and a key to the known species of the genus
Authors: WEI MEICAI , NIE HAIYAN
Published: June 2019

Megadineura leucotarsis Wei, a new species of Nematinae (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) from China is described. The genus Megadineura Malaise, 1931 is redescribed and a key to known species is provided. The difference between Megadineura and Mesoneura Hartig, 1837, Renonerva Wei & Nie, 1998, Katsujia Togashi, 1964 is also discussed briefly. The type specimens of the new species are deposited in the Insect Collection of Central South University of Forestry and Technology, China.
Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of Diabrotica (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae)
Authors: CABRERA NORA , GÓMEZ DANIEL R. SOSA , MICHELI ADRIANA
Published: June 2019

The new species Diabrotica wartensis Cabrera & Sosa-Gómez was found feeding on roots and leaves of sunflower and soybean in the north of the state of Paraná. A set of characters of diagnostic value: mouthparts, hind wing venation, binding patch, metendosternite, and details of male and female genitalia previously overlooked in the genus was provided. In addition to the morphological characterization, the molecular analyses of the COI mitochondrial gene and the ITS-1 rDNA nuclear region were included. The analysis of the ITS-1 nuclear region alone suggests proximity of D. wartensis to the Diabrotica fucata group, whereas molecular evidence based on combined analysis of COI and ITS-1 region suggest that this new species is distantly related to the Diabroticina with known sequences deposited in the GenBank.
A new species of Traverella Edmunds, 1948 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Brazil
Authors: NASCIMENTO STÊNIO R. S. , LIMA LUCAS R. C. , AZEVÊDO CARLOS A. S.
Published: June 2019

A new species of Traverella Edmunds (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) is described based on male imagoes from the state of Maranhão, northeastern Brazil. The main characteristics that distinguish the new species from the other species are: 1) subgenital plate forming two lateral, broad projections with two fine, long spines dorsally recurved; 2) penis lobe triangular and apically rounded, with a small ventral projection at apex and a ventral longspine slightly curved and directed to midline.
Phylogenetic structure of Holbrookia lacerata (Cope 1880) (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae): one species or two?
Authors: HIBBITTS TOBY J. , RYBERG WADE A. , HARVEY JOHANNA A. , VOELKER GARY , LAWING A. MICHELLE , ADAMS CONNOR S. , NEUHARTH DALTON B. , DITTMER DREW E. , DURAN C. MICHAEL , WOLAVER BRAD D. , PIERRE JON PAUL , LABAY BENJAMIN J. , LADUC TRAVIS J.
Published: June 2019

Species delimitation attempts to match species-level taxonomy with actual evolutionary lineages. Such taxonomic conclusions are typically, but not always, based on patterns of congruence across multiple data sources and methods of analyses. Here, we use this pluralistic approach to species delimitation to help resolve uncertainty in species boundaries of phrynosomatid sand lizards of the genus Holbrookia. Specifically, the Spot-tailed Earless Lizard (H. lacerata) was historically divided into a northern (H. l. lacerata) and southern (H. l. subcaudalis) subspecies based on differences in morphology and allopatry, but no research has been conducted evaluating genetic differences between these taxa. In this study, patterns in sequence data derived from two genes, one nuclear and one mitochondrial, for 66 individuals sampled across 18 counties in Texas revealed three strongly supported, reciprocally monophyletic lineages, each comprised of individuals from a single geographic region. Distinct genetic variation evident across two of these regions corresponds with differences in morphology, differences in environmental niche, and lines up with the presumed geographic barrier, the Balcones Escarpment, which is the historical subspecies boundary. The combined evidence from genetics, morphology and environmental niche is sufficient to consider these subspecies as distinct species with the lizards north of the Balcones Escarpment retaining the name Holbrookia lacerata, and those south of the Balcones Escarpment being designated as Holbrookia subcaudalis.
1. From a Tweet to a Blog, to a Podcast, to a Book
Authors: Rowell Chris
Published: June 2019

This book explores the impact of social media on higher education institutions, as analysed from a plethora of different professional perspectives. Rowell underlines the diverse backgrounds of the contributors to the book – some accustomed to writing for journals, others in more contemporary styles, that is, for blog posts and tweets. He then discusses the changing dynamics with regard to technology and higher education, remarking that HE institutions are having to adapt by incorporating a variety of digital equipment, resources and software into their tuition. Likewise, HE staff are also expected to engage with virtual learning environments, electronic forms of assessment and digital modes of communication.
5. Ten Days of Twitter
Authors: Warnes Mark
Published: June 2019

Warnes’ chapter describes the process of running an online course for staff working at his university. After a brief description of the course content and how ‘digital badges’ were introduced, Mark assesses the impact of the course using the Twitter analytics tool and a course satisfaction survey. As the course was created with a Creative Commons licence it is freely available and has now been run by several other universities.
7. Exploring the Use of Social Media in the Higher Education Classroom
Authors: Avramenko Alex , Nerantzi Chrissi
Published: June 2019

This chapter is based on the research of both Avramenko and Nerantzi into how final year students use smartphones in lecturers and seminars. Within the scope of this small-scale study they noted that all students in their study had used, and continued to use smartphones during classes to access various social media platforms. This is unlikely to surprise those currently teaching in HE and has led some tutors to ban mobile devices in lectures or tutorials. The authors make several practical recommendations for practitioners on how to approach and reengage these students in the learning process. Similarly, Serena Gossain’s chapter discusses how she introduced specific social media tools into her teaching. The case study shows how she used Instagram and Pinterest with students studying a BA in Advertising at the London College of Communications. She explains the rationale of these changes and relates them to contemporary theories of education and learning.
10. Bursting Out of the Bubble: Social Media, Openness and Higher Education
Authors: Blake Jennie , Millson Chris , Aston Sam
Published: June 2019

This chapter provides an excellent insight into the blogging platform Medium. The authors discuss the reasons why they chose Medium as opposed to other more conventional blogging platforms and then give some reflections on the experience of delivering the course through this form of social media.
11. Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and Understanding Social Media Beyond the Screen
Authors: Sujon Zoetanya
Published: June 2019

Zoetanya aims to contextualise some of the learning challenges of teaching social media in the classroom. The study uses Facebook’s interactions with Cambridge Analytica to explore the importance of personal data collection in social media and ‘surveillance capitalism’. It gives practical advice, and examples of different approaches to teaching these topics that other lecturers will find useful.
12. Leadership and Social Media
Authors: Hall Julie
Published: June 2019

In her chapter, Hall argues that good leadership in universities requires effective communication and this includes the use of social media. University staff in a leadership role can use social media to broadcast information to their staff and students, raise the profile of the university and build both external and internal relationships. Julie also outlines how such public engagement can create uncertainty and fear as it ‘fractures’ the more traditional modes of communication.
14. Building Cohort Identity through Social Media
Authors: Webster David
Published: June 2019

Webster’s chapter considers the role of social media in fostering cohort identity on a Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course at the University of Gloucestershire. Initially a blog was set up to provide a noticeboard and area for debate for the course. This was followed by a course Facebook group, Twitter account and video blog. This short case study shows that social media can reinforce the sense of the communal experience, but it also has ethical concerns that affect minority groups who might experience abuse or troubling interactions.
15. Creating a Sense of Belonging and Connectedness for the Student Arrival Experience in a School of Arts and Humanities
Authors: Challen Rachel
Published: June 2019

Challen’s chapter describes how her university used Facebook Live to help new students gain a sense of belonging and orientation before they arrived and during their induction week. Students who had already accepted a place on a course could watch the Deputy Dean of School conducting a tour of the campus and facilities, introducing them to key members of staff and allowing students to ask questions about their course, or related issues. With over 6000 views of the event and really positive feedback from the students, they plan to repeat the virtual tour at the start of the next academic year.
16. Joint Reflection on Twitter, Phenomenography and Learning Friendships
Authors: MacMillan Margy , Nerantzi Chrissi
Published: June 2019

The next chapter in this section by Margy MacMillan and Chrissi Netantzi discusses how they used Twitter first to connect with one another and then to develop a relationship around their shared interest in phenomenography. Chrissi was using phenomenography as her research methodology in her PhD and initially sent out a tweet asking for help. Margy responded, sent Chrissi some links to related articles and then the conversation took off! This ‘conversational’ chapter is very different in style from the other contributions to the book and is a particularly good example of how social media enables academics to meet those working within their research field in other institutions or even on different continents.
17. PressEd - Where the Conference Is the Hashtag
Authors: Lockley Pat , Lafferty Natalie
Published: June 2019

Pat Lockley’s chapter describes the process of setting up a Twitter conference called #pressedconf2018. During the conference presenters would tweet out their presentation, in a series of tweets over fifteen minutes, which was followed by a Twitter conversation with participants from all around the world. There have been similar conferences, but his was the first with a focus on the use of WordPress in education. Pat shows that this type of conference has many of the benefits of physical conferences but without some of the drawbacks, like travelling to the destination or the cost of the venue/accommodation. The rest of the chapter gives some detailed quantitative data on the participants’ Twitter activity during the conference. This striking innovation has the potential to be replicated by others in HE in years to come.
21. Academics’ Understanding of Learning Spaces
Authors: Vasant Santanu
Published: June 2019

Santanu Vasant develops similar themes when discussing academics’ attitudes and practices in relation to learning spaces. Starting with some clear definitions of Twitter chats, Twalks and learning spaces, Santanu outlines how social media can be introduced to raise awareness about the importance of teaching and learning spaces. Twitter chats such as the #LTHEchat bring together developers, academics and learning technologists from different institutions and widen the debate about the spaces we use for learning within the institution.
Relationship between Tropical and Extratropical Diabatic Heating and Their Impact on Stationary–Transient Wave Interference
Authors: Park Mingyu , Lee Sukyoung
Published: June 2019

During boreal winter, the climatological stationary wave plays a key role in the poleward transport of heat in mid- and high latitudes. Latent heating is an important driver of boreal-winter stationary waves. In this study, the temporal relationship between tropical and extratropical heating and transient–stationary wave interference is investigated by performing observational data analyses and idealized model experiments. In line with stationary wave theory, the observed heating anomaly fields during constructive interference events have a spatial structure that reinforces the zonal asymmetry of the climatological heating field. The observational analysis shows that about 10 days prior to constructive interference events, tropical heating anomalies are established, and within 1 week North Pacific and then North Atlantic heating anomalies follow. This result suggests that constructive interference involves a heating–circulation relay: tropical latent heating drives circulation anomalies that transport moisture in such a manner as to increase latent heating in the North Pacific; circulation anomalies driven by this North Pacific heating similarly lead to enhanced latent heating in the North Atlantic. This heating–circulation relay picture is supported by initial-value model calculations in which the observed heating anomalies are used to drive model circulations. Our results also show that the constructive interference driven by both tropical and extratropical diabatic heating generates a relatively large-amplitude wave in high latitudes and leads to particularly prolonged Arctic warming episodes, whereas when both the tropical and extratropical diabatic heating are weak, constructive interference is confined to midlatitudes and does not lead to Arctic warming.
Estimating the Local Time of Emergence of Climatic Variables Using an Unbiased Mapping of GCMs: An Application in Semiarid and Mediterranean Chile
Authors: Chadwick Cristián , Gironás Jorge , Vicuña Sebastián , Meza Francisco
Published: June 2019

The time at which climate change signal can be clearly distinguished from noise is known as time of emergence (ToE) and is typically detected by a general circulation model (GCM) signal-to-noise ratio exceeding a certain threshold. ToE is commonly estimated at large scales from GCMs, although management decisions and adaptation strategies are implemented locally. This paper proposes a methodology to estimate ToE for both precipitation and temperature at local scales (i.e., river basin). The methodology considers local climatic conditions and unbiased GCM projections to estimate ToE by using the statistical power to find when the climate significantly differs from the historical one. The method suggests that ToE for temperature already occurred in three Chilean basins (Limarí, Maipo, and Maule). However, in terms of precipitation, an earlier ToE is clearly identified for the Maule basin, indicating that risk assessment and adaptation measures should be implemented first in this basin.
Measuring Real-Time Team Cognition During Team Training
Authors: Gorman Jamie C. , Grimm David A. , Stevens Ronald H. , Galloway Trysha , Willemsen-Dunlap Ann M. , Halpin Donald J.
Published: June 2019

Objective

A method for detecting real-time changes in team cognition in the form of significant communication reorganizations is described. We demonstrate the method in the context of scenario-based simulation training.

Background

We present the dynamical view that individual- and team-level aspects of team cognition are temporally intertwined in a team’s real-time response to challenging events. We suggest that this real-time response represents a fundamental team cognitive skill regarding the rapidity and appropriateness of the response, and methods and metrics are needed to track this skill.

Method

Communication data from medical teams (Study 1) and submarine crews (Study 2) were analyzed for significant communication reorganization in response to training events. Mutual information between team members informed post hoc filtering to identify which team members contributed to reorganization.

Results

Significant communication reorganizations corresponding to challenging training events were detected for all teams. Less experienced teams tended to show delayed and sometimes ineffective responses that more experienced teams did not. Mutual information and post hoc filtering identified the individual-level inputs driving reorganization and potential mechanisms (e.g., leadership emergence, role restructuring) underlying reorganization.

Conclusion

The ability of teams to rapidly and effectively reorganize coordination patterns as the situation demands is a team cognitive skill that can be measured and tracked.

Application

Potential applications include team monitoring and assessment that would allow for visualization of a team’s real-time response and provide individualized feedback based on team member’s contributions to the team response.
“All These Look to You”: Reading Psalm 104 with Animals in the Anthropocene Epoch
Authors: Stone Ken
Published: June 2019

Psalm 104 is associated with biblical creation theology, but it seldom receives as much attention as the book of Genesis. Yet Genesis has been and continues to be used to justify human dominion over other animals, which has contributed to a new era in the earth’s history known as the “Anthropocene” epoch. In contrast, Psalm 104 provides an ecological representation of creation that recognizes God’s care for animals. Humans appear in the psalm, but only as one creature among others. A focus on Psalm 104 may foster an approach to biblical creation theology that is more attentive to animals and useful as an ecological frame for reading Genesis and other texts.
In the Sanctuary of Animals: Honoring God’s Creatures through Ritual and Relationship
Authors: Wilmer Amelie A.
Published: June 2019

In the past thirty years, animal blessings and related rituals and ceremonies involving household pets have increased dramatically in the U.S. and abroad. This article will trace this phenomenon to its roots in Scripture, and to the stories, narratives, art, hagiography, and rituals of the ancient and medieval church. It will explore the evolution of the human-animal relationship from early Christianity through the present day, offer examples of contemporary animal blessings and other rituals, and consider the factors that have contributed to the demand for fuller inclusion of animals in the ritual and pastoral life of the church, as well as address some of the ethical and theological challenges this presents.
Course and Program Outcomes Assessment Methods in Outcome-Based Education: A Review
Authors: Premalatha K.
Published: June 2019

In Outcome-Based Education (OBE), the assessment of the Course Outcomes (COs) is the most prominent aspect required to improve the quality of education. The COs for each course are based on the Program Outcomes (POs), Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs), and other requirements. There are various understandings toward the concept of OBE that resulted in various attainment to PO based on the CO. This article describes the framework of OBE and detailed survey on CO-PO mapping and its attainment models. This article serves as guidelines of writing COs, and mapping CO and PO and its attainment.
Schooling Experiences and Educational Outcomes of Latinx Secondary School Students Living at the Intersections of Multiple Social Constructs
Authors: Jang Sung Tae
Published: June 2019

Based on the critical quantitative intersectionality framework, this study examined the relationships between Latinx students’ multiple intersecting social categorizations (i.e., gender, ethnicity, home language, socioeconomic status [SES], immigration status), their diverse schooling experiences, and educational outcomes. This study found that specific ethnic backgrounds for Latinxs were significantly associated with both their schooling experiences and educational outcomes. Latinxs’ SES was a critical factor in creating the intersectional effects associated with other social constructs for schooling experiences and educational outcomes. Living in poverty created greater challenges in experiencing school suspension for Latinos compared with their Latina counterparts.
Distributive politics in China: Regional favouritism and expansion of construction land
Authors: Lu Shenghua , Wang Hui
Published: June 2019

Land conversion control in China remains in the shadow of the planned economy. Highly hierarchical governments fully control both land quotas and land approval, which are indispensable for each added area of construction land. But the actual mechanisms of land resource distribution, because they are masked by the ambiguity of institutional provisions, are opaque. This article discusses the theoretical influence of regional favouritism to birthplace on the expansion of construction land. Using a provincial-level dataset and detailed information about political cadres in the Ministry of Land and Resources, we estimate an econometric model that reflects the relationship between regional favouritism and construction land expansion. The results indicate that, all else equal, the birthplaces of political cadres receive a larger scale of construction land expansion than other locations. We further explore the paths of regional favouritism influencing construction land expansion. The results show that land approval and tolerance of illegal land due to regional favouritism together contribute to the expansion of construction land.
Improving Affordability and Equity in Medicare Advantage
Authors: Song Zirui , Basu Sanjay
Published: June 2019

Facing projected growth in federal deficits, policymakers may increasingly look to Medicare for opportunities to slow spending. Medicare Advantage, which has grown to over one-third of the Medicare population, now costs the federal government over $230 billion a year. Competition in the program is weak in many parts of the country and federal subsidies are distributed unevenly to beneficiaries who are enrolled. This article offers a potential approach toward reforming the Medicare Advantage payment system, which could lower federal costs and enhance equity in the program. It builds a simple framework containing policy options and uses 2015 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data to estimate the stylized impact on federal spending and enrollee benefits.
Marked elevation of serum lipase in scrub typhus without pancreatitis: a report of three cases
Authors: Bhargava Anurag , Ali Sathiq , Rajeevan Rohit , Udyavara Raghavendra
Published: June 2019

Scrub typhus, a re-emerging acute febrile zoonosis can present as an undifferentiated fever often complicated by potentially fatal systemic involvement. Acute pancreatitis is a rare complication of scrub typhus which can result in a marked elevation of serum lipase. We report three cases of scrub typhus who presented with acute undifferentiated fever, where a marked elevation of serum lipase occurred without any evidence of acute pancreatitis, or other causes of elevated lipase levels. Scrub typhus should be considered as a cause of marked elevation of serum lipase, which can occur in the absence of pancreatitis.
Treatment of postscabies prurigo with diflucortolone and chlorquinaldol in a group of African refugees
Authors: Veraldi Stefano , Schianchi Rossana , Esposito Luigi , Pontini Paolo , Nazzaro Gianluca
Published: June 2019

Postscabies prurigo (PSP) is caused by a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to antigens of the mite. Treatment is based on potent topical or intralesional corticosteroids. We present the results of a study on the effectiveness of a topical combination of diflucortolone and chlorquinaldol. Eighteen African patients who had been previously affected by scabies and treated with permethrin were enrolled. The diagnosis of PSP was made by excluding other causes through microscopic examinations. All patients were treated with the drug combination by two applications daily for two weeks. The primary study objective was to evaluate the itch by a visual analogue scale (VAS) of 0–100. Fifteen patients (83.3%) could be evaluated. All reported improvements: from 86/100 at the start to 29/100 (−57/100) at the end of treatment. Chlorquinaldol, known as an antiseptic agent, demonstrated, according to results of this study, an important anti-itch action.
Acquired diaphragmatic hernia in a preterm low birth weight neonate
Authors: Captain Mustafa , Natu Sanjay , Parekh Anjali , Naik A , Behera MK
Published: June 2019

Iatrogenic diaphragmatic hernia is rare in children and we report a preterm low birth weight neonate with a presumably acquired diaphragmatic hernia due to trauma caused by treatment following pneumothorax.
“This Must Be Looked Into”: A Corpus Study of the Prepositional Passive
Authors: Schwarz Sarah
Published: June 2019

This paper addresses the need for a comprehensive, corpus-based study of the prepositional passive in the recent past. Sets of prepositional passives from 1870 to 1999 were collected from the Corpus of Historical American English and compared with a control group of “regular” passive sentences. After presenting the diachronic frequency of prepositional passives over the time period, the study explores a number of special characteristics that have been suggested as being typical of the prepositional passive: lexicalization of verb + preposition, participle + noun + preposition combinations with light verbs such as made use of, coordination with another passive verb, “affectedness,” and the perceived significance of the subject referent. The results of the corpus-based investigation add new dimensions to our understanding of the construction’s use.
Non-overshooting control of linear system by a simple asymptotic gain scheduling method
Authors: Du Huanchao , Hu Xiaoguang , Ma Chaoqun
Published: June 2019

In this paper, a simple yet effective method has been raised for non-overshooting control of linear higher order plant. It is based on Posicast control, asymptotic gain scheduling and dominant pole placement by modified proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers, including PI-D, I-PD, PI-PD and PD-PID. The control system is composed by two closed-loops, that is, the inner loop where modified PID controllers are used to stabilize the plant by dominant pole placement, and the outer loop where asymptotic gain scheduling is used to shape the non-overshooting step response. Use of the modified PID controllers is the key to secure success of asymptotic gain scheduling, for dominance of the specified poles and phase lag dominant pole control system can be designed by these controllers in the inner loop. Three numerical examples are used to validate the method; results show that a non-overshooting control with relatively short settling time and small undershoot can be realized.
Continuous-wave ultrasonic tomography for oil/water two-phase flow imaging using regularized weighted least square framework
Authors: Liu Hao , Tan Chao , Dong Feng
Published: June 2019

Two-phase flow is a regime that commonly existed in many applications of process industry, on which the technique of ultrasonic tomography (UT) could provide reliable measurement with benefits of non-invasion, non-radiation and low-cost. In order to provide considerable visualization of low acoustic impedance contrast configurations in two-phase flow, a regular weighted simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (RW-SART) using continuous-wave excitation is proposed and presented in detail. With measurement strategy and formulized reconstruction model introduced, the measurement system is introduced with modification on continuous-wave excitation module and fan-beam angle transducers. A regularized weighted least square (RWLS) framework combining total variation (TV) regularization and SART reconstruction is derived and presented in detail to address the problem that under-determined and ill-conditioned situation couldn’t be resolved simultaneously. Both numerical simulation and experimental investigation are conducted to validate the feasibility of continuous-wave excitation and the improvement of proposed reconstruction strategy, from which the distribution of oil-water two-phase flow is effectively reconstructed. The implementation of measurement system provides an option of continuous high-voltage excitation and measurement in UT. By utilizing both the geometric information and penalty constraint, the proposed reconstruction approach provides a framework that introduces regularization information to the algebraic iteration reconstruction. Consequently, it has better reconstruction result than TV, Landweber, L1, filtered back projection (FBP) and SART method.
The Self-Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Inventory: Development and Psychometric Evaluation
Authors: Matarese Maria , Clari Marco , De Marinis Maria Grazia , Barbaranelli Claudio , Ivziku Dhurata , Piredda Michela , Riegel Barbara
Published: June 2019

This study developed two instruments, the Self-Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Inventory (SC-COPDI) and the COPD-Self-Care Self-Efficacy Scale (SCES), and tested their psychometric properties on a convenience sample of 498 patients from Northern, Central, and Southern Italy. First, the domains and the items of the SC-SCOPDI were generated based on the middle-range theory of self-care of chronic illness, comprising the dimensions of self-care maintenance, self-care monitoring, and self-care management, and the SCES-COPD was developed accordingly. Second, we assessed the content validity of each scale. Third, we conducted a multicenter cross-sectional study to test their structural validity, convergent and discriminative validity, internal consistency, and test–retest reliability. The theoretical dimensions of the two instruments were confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis. Convergent validity was demonstrated by the correlation among the three self-care scales and the Self-Efficacy Scale, and discriminative validity by higher self-care scale scores in individuals with greater COPD severity and poorer health status. The global reliability index ranged from .78 to .92 for all scales. The intraclass correlation coefficients were higher than .70. Further studies are needed to confirm the psychometric properties of the two instruments in different COPD populations and countries to extend their use in clinical practice.
Behavior-Specific Praise in Pre-K–12 Settings: Mapping the 50-Year Knowledge Base
Authors: Ennis Robin Parks , Royer David James , Lane Kathleen Lynne , Dunlap Kristin Diane
Published: June 2019

Behavior-specific praise (BSP) is a low-intensity strategy widely used to encourage appropriate behavior. We sought to explore the vast literature base for BSP, which spans 50 years, to better understand for whom and under what conditions BSP has demonstrated effectiveness. We conducted a comprehensive review of school-based intervention studies ( k = 57) involving BSP with school-age students. First, we identified outlets in which these 57 studies (from 52 articles) were featured. Second, we described the 1,947 total student participants and the educational contexts in which these interventions occurred—the vast majority of students were served in general education and many displayed challenging behaviors (e.g., students with emotional and behavioral disorders). Third, we examined how BSP was implemented and evaluated with the Pre-K–12 population, noting three distinct areas of research: teacher-delivered BSP, student-delivered BSP, and professional learning to increase BSP. Fourth, we examined how BSP was employed as an independent and dependent variable, with more than 96% of studies featuring BSP as an outcome measure. Finally, we investigated the extent to which social validity (33 studies), generalization (11 studies), and maintenance (26 studies) were assessed. We conclude with a discussion of limitations and directions for future inquiry.
Cushing syndrome: a rare presentation of bronchial carcinoid tumor
Authors: Kohli Pavneet , Penumadu Prasanth , Rao K Chandrashekhar , Prasad Sreevathsa KS , Kamalanathan Sadishkumar
Published: June 2019

Cushing syndrome is a very rare clinical feature of typical pulmonary carcinoid, caused by hypercorticism, and despite advances in imaging techniques, it poses a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. We report the case of a patient presenting with Cushing syndrome associated with ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion from a bronchial carcinoid, whose management presented diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
Mobile composing: Professional practices and impact on students’ motivation in popular music
Authors: Chen Jason Chi Wai
Published: June 2019

This pilot study focuses on the use of mobile tablets to allow secondary students to compose in class with the application GarageBand. The empirical research has two aims: to demonstrate the possibility of using mobile tablets as a composing device, and to examine professional practices for using mobile technologies in music learning. A 12-week e-learning curriculum was specially designed for students to learn to use mobile tablets to compose popular music. A total of 159 secondary school students participated in the study and responded to a set of pre- and post-activity questionnaires, modelled on items developed for a motivational study by McPherson and O’Neill (2010). The paired sample t-test compared the mean score changes in the dimensions of intrinsic value, attainment value, utility value, perceived cost and expectancy in motivation. Furthermore, one-way analysis of variance compared the mean scores for scale questions on learning motivation between groups based on number of years spent learning to play an instrument as revealed by the student survey. The findings of SPSS analysis reveal that both non-instrument learners and instrument learners showed significant increases in motivation when using mobile tablets as an instrument to compose popular music in class. Different modes of learning, limitations and suggestions are also discussed in mobile composing.