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First fossil Phatnoma (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae: Cantacaderinae), in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic
Authors: JEPSON JAMES E. , PENNEY DAVID , GREEN DAVID I.
Published: February 2019

A new species of fossil lace bug, Phatnoma mattijoae sp. nov., is described from a single specimen in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic. It represents the first fossil record of the genus, extending its known range by approximately 16 million years. The new fossil appears to be most closely related to the extant P. ovatum Champion, 1897, from Guatemala.
The genus Brachyptera Newport (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in the Peloponnes, Greece
Authors: MURÁNYI DÁVID
Published: February 2019

A new species of the genus Brachyptera (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae), B. kontschani sp. n. is described on the basis of a male and eight female adults collected in the Peloponnes, Greece. Remarks on the closely related and poorly known B. dinarica Aubert, and notes on the distribution and ecology of the Brachyptera species known from the Peloponnes are also presented.
Five new species of fur mites (Acariformes: Sarcoptoidea) from small mammals in Laos
Authors: BOCHKOV ANDRE V. , ABRAMOV ALEXEI V. , HUGOT JEAN-PIERRE
Published: February 2019

Five new fur-inhabiting mites of the superfamily Sarcoptoidea (Acariformes: Astigmata) are described from small mammals associated with tower karstic landscape in Khammouane Province of Laos: Listrophoroides oconnori sp. n. from Saxatilomys paulinae Musser et al. (Rodentia: Muridae) and Atopomelus megalotis sp. n. from Hylomys megalotis Jenkins and Robbinson (Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae)—Atopomelidae; Afrolistrophoroides laonastes sp. n. from Laonastes aenigmamus Jenkins et al. (Rodentia: Diatomyidae), A. saxatilomys sp. n. from Saxatilomys paulinae, and Pteromychirus menetes from Menetes berdmorei (Blyth) (Rodentia: Sciuridae)—Listrophoridae.
A taxonomic study on Hypogastrura Bourlet, 1839 (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) from China
Authors: JIA JUNLI , SKARŻYŃSKI DARIUSZ , KONIKIEWICZ MARTA
Published: February 2019

A new species of the Hypogastrura trybomi group is described from Shanxi province, China. Because of the presence of prolonged maxillary lamellae and 6 setae on the dens, H. manghe sp. nov. resembles H. hexasetata Jiang & Yin, 2010. H. yosii Stach, 1964, equal to H. sheyangensis Jiang, Tang & Chen, 2010, is redescribed based on syntypes. The latter species was recognized as a junior synonym of the former. A key to the Chinese Hypogastrura Bourlet, 1839 species is also given.
Catalogue of aquatic Oligochaeta (Annelida: Clitellata) of Montenegro, exclusive of Naidinae and Pristininae
Authors: ŠUNDIĆ DANIJELA , RADUJKOVIĆ BRANKO M. , KRPO–ĆETKOVIĆ JASMINA
Published: February 2019

The aquatic oligochaete fauna of Montenegro was recently studied in order to improve the knowledge of this group in the Balkan region. This study was carried out on sediments collected from 70 sampling sites (the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea drainage basins) during three years (2005–2008). Forty-one species were identified, from seven following families: Naididae, Enchytraeidae, Haplotaxidae, Lumbriculidae, Lumbricidae, Criodrilidae and Branchiobdellidae (exclusive of Naidinae and Pristininae). Sixteen of them represent first record for the Montenegrin oligochaete fauna: Embolocephalus velutinus, Ilyodrilus templetoni, Psammoryctides deserticola, Spirosperma ferox, Tubifex ignotus, Bathydrilus adriaticus, Bothrioneurum vejdovskyanum, Rhyacodrilus coccineus, Cernosvitoviella atrata, Enchytraeus buchholzi, Mesenchytraeus armatus, Haplotaxis gordioides, Rhynchelmis limosella, Stylodrilus heringianus, Tatriella slovenica and Trichodrilus strandi. The list of species from the subfamilies Naidinae and Pristininae was published previously (Šundić et al. 2011), and it comprises 36 species. Altogether, the present study and literature data show that Montenegrin aquatic oligochaete fauna consists of 77 species. Concerning similarity, values of Jaccard’s index are the highest between Montenegrin and Serbian oligochaete fauna (57 %), and the lowest between Montenegrin and Albanian oligochaete fauna (27.77 %). Species richness estimators (Mao Tau, Uniques Mean, Chao 1, Chao 2, Jack 1, Jack 2, Bootstrap, ACE and ICE) indicate that findings of new oligochaete species in Montenegro are expected.
List of coastal fishes of Islas Marías archipelago, Mexico, with comments on taxonomic composition, biogeography, and abundance
Authors: ERISMAN BRAD E. , GALLAND GRANTLY R. , MASCAREÑAS ISMAEL , MOXLEY JERRY , WALKER H. J. , ABURTO-OROPEZA OCTAVIO , HASTINGS PHILIP A. , EZCURRA EXEQUIEL
Published: February 2019

The first comprehensive list of 318 coastal fish species recorded from the Islas Marías Archipelago, Mexico, was compiled from recent fieldwork, archival museum collections, and literature references. The jacks (Carangidae, 18 species) and the labrisomid blennies (Labrisomidae, 16) were the most speciose families. Most recorded species occur throughout the tropical eastern Pacific (160 species), while a significant proportion have wider ranges in the eastern Pacific (39), eastern Pacific and Indo-Pacific (39), eastern Pacific and Atlantic (3), or are circumtropical (39) in distribution. Three species occur in the Northeast Pacific, twenty-five are endemic to the Pacific coasts of Mexico, five are endemic to the Gulf of California, and three are endemic to Islas Marías. Cephalopholis panamensis (Epinephelidae), Epinephelus labriformis (Epinephelidae), Mulloidichthys dentatus (Mullidae), Stegastes flavilatus (Pomacentridae), Acanthurus xanthopterus (Acanthuridae), Pseudobalistes naufragium (Tetraodontidae), and Sufflamen verres (Tetraodontidae) were the dominant conspicuous species observed during underwater surveys in 2010. The absence or low abundance of commercially valuable shark, ray, and grouper species throughout the archipelago is discussed.
Three new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) infesting fruit yielding plants from India
Authors: CHAKRABARTI SAMIRAN , SARKAR SANJAY
Published: February 2019

Three new species of eriophyoid mites namely Aculops spondiasis n. sp. infesting Spondias pinnata Kurz. (Anacardiaceae), Phyllocoptruta citricola n. sp. infesting Citrus maxima (J. Burm.) (Rutaceae) and Tegonotus fisus n. sp. infesting Mangifera indica (L.) (Anacardiaceae) are described from India. Relationships of new species with other eriophyoid species are also provided.
Phylogeny, taxonomy, and zoogeography of the genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 with the revalidation of G. reevesii Gray, 1831 (Sauria: Gekkonidae)
Authors: RÖSLER HERBERT , BAUER AARON M. , HEINICKE MATTHEW P. , GREENBAUM ELI , JACKMAN TODD , NGUYEN TRUONG QUANG , ZIEGLER THOMAS
Published: February 2019

A review of the taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography of all currently recognized Gekko species is provided based on morphology (including size, scalation, color, and pattern) and mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. We distinguish six morphological (phenotypic) species groups within the gekkonid genus Gekko: the G. gecko, G. japonicus, G. monarchus, G. petricolus, G. porosus, and G. vittatus groups, all of which receive support from molecular phylogenetics. The taxon G. reevesii, formerly evaluated as a synonym of G. gekko, is revalidated herein at specific rank. Furthermore, a preliminary identification key of all currently recognized Gekko taxa is provided.
Type specimens and type localities of birds collected during the Hemprich and Ehrenberg expedition to Lebanon in 1824
Authors: MLÍKOVSKÝ JIŘÍ , FRAHNERT SYLKE
Published: February 2019

The 1824 expedition to Lebanon by Wilhelm Hemprich and Christian Ehrenberg resulted in the description of at least 28 bird species new for science. Despite its importance, however, this collection has never been fully studied or published. We used manuscripts, catalogues, and specimens archived at the Museum fur Naturkunde (ZMB), Berlin, to identify the type specimens, revise nomenclatural and (where appropriate) taxonomic status of species described on the basis of Hemprich and Ehrenberg’s material, and determine type localities and collection dates of these taxa.
Description of a new species of worm salamander (Caudata, Plethodontidae, Oedipina) in the subgenus Oedopinola from the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras JAMES R. MCCRANIE & JOSIAH H. TOWNSEND (USA)
Authors: MCCRANIE JAMES R. , TOWNSEND JOSIAH H.
Published: February 2019

We describe a new species of Oedipina (subgenus Oedopinola) from Parque Nacional Pico Bonito in the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios in north-central Honduras. The new species was previously assigned to O. gephyra, but a combination of molecular analyses and its differences in foot morphology diagnose it from O. gephyra.
Description of a new Otacilia species from China, with transfer of two species from the genus Phrurolithus (Araneae: Corinnidae)
Authors: HU DONG-SHENG , ZHANG FENG
Published: February 2019

A new species, Otacilia liupan, is diagnosed, described and illustrated. Two species, Otacilia hengshan (Song, 1990) comb. nov. and O. foveata (Song, 1990) comb. nov., are transferred from the genus Phrurolithus. The male of O. foveata is reported for the first time. A distribution map of those three species is provided.
Triplophysa sanduensis, a new loach species of nemacheilid (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from South China
Authors: CHEN SHI-JING , PENG ZUO-GANG
Published: February 2019

A new species of Nemacheilidae, Triplophysa sanduensis sp. nov., is described here based on specimens collected from a small cave in Dengguang Village, Zhonghe Town, Sandu County, Guizhou Province, China. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: branched dorsal-fin rays 8–9; branched pectoral-fin rays 8–9; branched pelvic-fin rays 5; branched anal-fin rays 5; vertebrae 4+37; snout length 45.5–50.1% of head length; postdorsal length 39.0–42.8% of standard length; caudal-peduncle depth/caudal-peduncle length range from 56.4% to 71.9%; the posterior chamber of the gas bladder degenerated; body elongated, covered by scattered scales; eyes present and normal in size, not reduced or absent; and a complete lateral line. A phylogenetic analysis based on the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene resolved Triplophysa sanduensis as sister to Triplophysa longliensis. Kimura's 2-parameter genetic distance of the COI gene sequences between these two species was 1.9%.
The Climatological Impact of Recurving North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones on Downstream Extreme Precipitation Events
Authors: Pohorsky Roman , Röthlisberger Matthias , Grams Christian M. , Riboldi Jacopo , Martius Olivia
Published: February 2019

This study provides the first climatological assessment of the impact of recurving North Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) on downstream precipitation extremes. The response is evaluated based on time-lagged composites for 146 recurving TCs between 1979 and 2013 and quantified by the area affected by precipitation extremes (PEA) in a domain shifted relative to the TC–jet interaction location, which often encompasses major parts of Europe. The statistical significance of the PEA response to the TCs is determined using a novel bootstrapping technique based on flow analogs. A statistically significant increase in PEA is found between lags +42 and +90 h after the TC–jet interaction, with a doubling of the PEA compared to analog cases without recurving TCs. A K-means clustering applied to the natural logarithm of potential vorticity fields [ln(PV)] around the TC–jet interaction points reveals four main flow configurations of North Atlantic TC–jet interactions. Two main mechanisms by which recurving TCs can foster precipitation extremes farther downstream emerge: 1) an “atmospheric river–like” mechanism, with anomalously high integrated vapor transport (IVT) downstream of the recurving TCs and 2) a “downstream-development” mechanism, with anomalously high IVT ahead of a downstream trough. Hereby, the analog bootstrapping technique separates the impact of the TC from that of the midlatitude flow’s natural evolution on the PEA formation. This analysis reveals an unequivocal effect of the TCs for the atmospheric river–like cases, while for the downstream-development cases, a substantial increase in PEA is also found in the analogs without a TC.
Book Review: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee, eds, India and Iran in the Longue Durée
Authors: Bharadwaj Deeksha
Published: February 2019

Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee, eds, India and Iran in the Longue Durée, University of California, Irvine: Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2017, 167 pp.
Student-empowered curricular change
Authors: Brown Lyn Mikel , Flaumenhaft Jenny
Published: February 2019

Lyn Mikel Brown and Jenny Flaumenhaft describe the use of student-centered principles to engage in curricular reform in an underresourced rural elementary school. With a specific focus on student empowerment and self-determination, and in collaboration with students and teachers, Transforming Rural Experience in Education (TREE) integrated students’ desire for more movement and time outdoors into the curriculum through project-based activities called somedays and microadventures. Making the curriculum more student-driven has been especially helpful for students who have experienced trauma and a loss of control. In the second year of the curricular redesign, students and teachers are more engaged, school climate has improved, and standardized test scores are up.
Symbolic Class Struggles and the Intersection of Socioeconomic, Cultural and Moral Categorisations
Authors: Harrits Gitte Sommer , Pedersen Helene Helboe
Published: February 2019

The symbolic categorisation of social groups has become prominent in studies of social class. This article addresses a tension in this research regarding the relationship between different symbolic categories. We argue that the potential of moral categorisations to change or oppose the order of socioeconomic or cultural categorisations depends on whether moral categories are subordinate in a hierarchy or co-exist in a heterarchy of multiple symbolic categories. We explore the relationship between cultural, socioeconomic and moral categorisations by combining focus group and survey data among Danish citizens in a mixed-methods research design. Our study shows that moral categorisations are opposed but also subordinated to socioeconomic categorisations. Such categorisations therefore serve to legitimise rather than transform class inequality. This has important implications for understanding class relations in modern societies as well as for the study of symbolic categorisations, and it highlights the importance of studying the interrelationship between multiple symbolic categories.
Do Employers “Walk the Talk” After All? An Illustration of Methods for Assessing Signals in Underpowered Designs
Authors: Brauer Jonathan R. , Day Jacob C. , Hammond Brittany M.
Published: February 2019

This article presents two alternative methods to null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) for improving inferences from underpowered research designs. Post hoc design analysis (PHDA) assesses whether an NHST analysis generating null findings might otherwise have had sufficient power to detect effects of plausible magnitudes. Bayesian analysis with default priors offers advantages over NHST for assessing null findings and detecting signals in underpowered data. Both methods are illustrated by application to Pager and Quillian’s influential study on attitude-behavior correspondence. PHDA results suggest the original study lacked sufficient power to detect strong associations between employers’ attitudes and behaviors. Bayesian analysis confirms strong attitude–behavior associations cannot be ruled out given the data. Together, these results question a frequently cited conclusion about attitude–behavior incongruence in survey vignettes. Overall, the examples illustrate how these analytical tools can be useful for describing uncertainty surrounding estimates and for improving substantive and theoretical debates across sociology.
A latent variable model for improving inference in trials assessing the effect of dose on toxicity and composite efficacy endpoints
Authors: Wason James MS , Seaman Shaun R
Published: February 2019

It is often of interest to explore how dose affects the toxicity and efficacy properties of a novel treatment. In oncology, efficacy is often assessed through response, which is defined by a patient having no new tumour lesions and their tumour size shrinking by 30%. Usually response and toxicity are analysed as binary outcomes in early phase trials. Methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of analysing response by utilising the continuous tumour size information instead of dichotomising it. However, these methods do not allow for toxicity or for different doses. Motivated by a phase II trial testing multiple doses of a treatment against placebo, we propose a latent variable model that can estimate the probability of response and no toxicity (or other related outcomes) for different doses. We assess the confidence interval coverage and efficiency properties of the method, compared to methods that do not use the continuous tumour size, in a simulation study and the real study. The coverage is close to nominal when model assumptions are met, although can be below nominal when the model is misspecified. Compared to methods that treat response as binary, the method has confidence intervals with 30–50% narrower widths. The method adds considerable efficiency but care must be taken that the model assumptions are reasonable.
Mutiny under the Sun: The Connaught Rangers, India, 1920
Authors: Draper Mario
Published: February 2019

This article re-examines the causes of the Connaught Rangers mutiny and argues that institutional failings in the British Army were far more influential in the breakdown of discipline than the oft-supposed politicization of its participants. New and under-used source material demonstrates how the popular myth surrounding the actions of James Daly and his co-conspirators was nothing more than a self-serving exaggeration of events designed to fit an idealized Nationalist narrative of Irish resistance to British rule. More compelling is the argument that demobilization left the regiment with an imbalance in officer–man relations that tipped a combustible situation over the edge.
Concept synthesis of dignity in care for elderly facility residents
Authors: Hasegawa Nanako , Ota Katsumasa
Published: February 2019

Background:

Protecting the dignity of elderly residents of facilities and providing dignified care can be difficult. Although attempts have been made from several aspects, dignity is considered an area in which less real impact has been made in both theory and practice.

Objective:

The objective of this study is to characterize the concept of dignity in care for elderly subjects in residential facilities from a practical perspective through concept synthesis.

Research design:

This study includes in-depth interviews with residents of elderly facilities and a literature review.

Participants and research context:

A total of 12 residents of seven facilities in three prefectures in Japan were recruited via purposive sampling, and 27 interviews were conducted. Each digitally recorded interview was transcribed verbatim. The interview data were analyzed based on hermeneutic phenomenological research. The literature was searched using PubMed, CINAHL, and Web of Science with combinations of terms such as dignity, elderly, and residential facilities and then selected according to the predefined inclusion criteria. The descriptions about dignity in the included studies were divided into codes and compared with the results of the interviews.

Ethical considerations:

This study was approved by the institutional review board of Nagoya University’s Graduate School of Medicine.

Findings and discussion:

There were 1728 data codes for the interviews from which four themes were generated. In the literature review, 3716 titles were searched, and 28 articles were selected. Combining these results, five following themes and a conceptual matrix were obtained: individual dignity not affected by others; dignified care in a narrow sense; elements of the staff side; dignity in relation to family members, friends, society, and other residents; and dignity in relation to nursing care facilities and the nursing care system.

Conclusion:

According to the established matrix, we must consider the role of the care system, facility, family, and society in providing care with dignity and the individual dignity to residents and dignity in daily care.
Economics of Subsidies in a Welfare State: Dynamics of Populist Policies and Farm Profitability
Authors: Panigrahi Ramakrushna
Published: February 2019

Economic gains from subsidies provided by welfare states have remained contentious in the literature due to their inherent paradoxical consequences in promoting competition, economic growth and equitable distribution in developing economies. State largesse on farm subsidies has increasingly become a populist tool for political gains. The politics involved with subsides have immense emotional appeal than fulfilling the objective of social and economic justice. Despite international consensus of removal of farm subsidies, its magnitude has grown in recent years. In India, the arguments in favour of farm subsidies have gained larger acceptance due to sudden spurts in farmer suicides during last two decades. Since electoral fortunes are hugely dependent on populist policies on subsidies, Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) and farm loan waivers, policymakers have not been able to introduce necessary reforms to make Indian agriculture competitive. The agricultural sector has become excessively dependent on government grants and remained unprofitable for most of the small and marginal farmers. The results of this study find that subsidies are poorly correlated with cost of cultivation and farm profitability with collateral interactions with other sectors of Indian economy.
Relation between Labour Productivity and Export Competitiveness of Indian Textile Industry: Co-integration and Causality Approach
Authors: Dhiman Rahul , Sharma Manoj
Published: February 2019

The most important factor impacting the export competitiveness (EC) of an industry is productivity trends. One such significant variable of productivity can be labour productivity (LP). The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between LP and EC for the Indian textile industry in the post-liberalization period, that is, from 1991 to 2015. The present study uses Johansen and Juselius test for examining the co-integration between select variables and reveals the long-run relationship between the select variables for Indian textile industry. The study uses Granger causality test to explain the direction of causation between the select variables for the analysis. The results of the present study show the absence of feedback effects among the variables, and only unidirectional causality is found. The result of the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) reveals that there is no long-run or short-run causality running from independent variable to dependent variable. The diagnostic tests are performed, and the result indicates that the model has the property of goodness of fit. The study recommends that the productivity-based wages policy should be implemented by textile firms.
Adjusting to new employment landscapes: Consequences of precarious employment for young Australians
Authors: Chesters Jenny , Cuervo Hernan
Published: February 2019

As economies transition from industrial to post-industrial, the types of jobs available and employment conditions change. Research indicates that youth employment has been negatively impacted by these changes. For young people seeking to enter the labour market, particularly those combining employment and study, precarious employment has become the norm. However, precarious employment is, for many, no longer a stepping stone on the path to permanent employment. Many young Australians, even those with higher education qualifications, experience prolonged periods of precarious employment. To examine how new employment landscapes are experienced by young workers, we conduct analysis of data collected by the Life Pattern Project, a longitudinal mixed-methods study. Our results show that precarious employment is related to lower levels of job satisfaction and autonomy in young adulthood.

JEL Codes: J20, J28, J41
Needle revision outcomes after glaucoma filtering surgery: survival analysis and predictive factors
Authors: Rabiolo Alessandro , Marchese Alessandro , Bettin Paolo , Monteduro Davide , Galasso Mario , Dolci Maria Paola , Di Matteo Federico , Fiori Marina , Ciampi Carlo , Bandello Francesco
Published: February 2019

Purpose:

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of needle revision and examine factors predictive of failure.

Methods:

In total, 157 eyes of 131 patients that underwent needle revision augmented with either 5-fluorouracil or betamethasone for trabeculectomy failure were included in this retrospective study. Complete failure was defined as additional glaucoma surgery, ciliodestructive procedures, loss of light perception, sight-threatening complications, hypotony maculopathy, and surgical bleb revision. Success was defined as intraocular pressure ⩽ 18 (criterion A), ⩽15 (criterion B), and ⩽12 mmHg (criterion C) reached with (qualified) or without (complete) medications, and absence of any criteria of complete failure.

Results:

The median (interquartile range) follow-up was 25.0 (41.0) months. Complete failure rates were 19%, 26%, and 31% at 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively. For criterion A, qualified and complete success rates were, respectively, 77% and 69% at 1 year, 66% and 51% at 2 years, and 60% and 47% at 3 years. For criterion B, qualified and complete success rates were, respectively, 67% and 61% at 1 year, 48% and 42% at 2 years, and 44% and 39% at 3 years. For criterion C, qualified and complete success rates were, respectively, 43% and 41% at 1 year, 27% and 25% at 2 years, and 24% and 23% at 3 years. High baseline intraocular pressure and primary surgery were associated with higher and lower risks of complete failure, respectively.

Conclusion:

Needle revision is an effective and safe procedure to rescue failing trabeculectomy postponing or avoiding further glaucoma surgery. Eyes with low target intraocular pressure may have poor long-term outcomes.
Antithrombotics in stable peripheral artery disease
Authors: Kaplovitch Eric , Rannelli Luke , Anand Sonia S
Published: February 2019

Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) are at high risk for ischemic cardiovascular complications. While single antiplatelet therapy (SAPT), predominantly aspirin, has long been the standard antithrombotic treatment in stable PAD, there have now been greater than 40,000 PAD patients randomized to varying antiplatelet and/or anticoagulant regimens. In this review, we provide a summary of the current evidence for antithrombotics in stable PAD, focusing on the rates of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), major adverse limb events (MALE), and major bleeding. SAPT has a limited role in the treatment of asymptomatic PAD, particularly in the absence of concomitant coronary artery disease. In symptomatic PAD, SAPT is effective in preventing MACE, though treatment with a thienopyridine appears marginally superior to aspirin. Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) suggests benefit over SAPT in reducing MACE and MALE, though studies to date are not conclusive and/or are associated with excess major bleeding. Combining moderate to high intensity vitamin K antagonists with antiplatelet therapy does not reduce MACE or MALE and increases life-threatening bleeding. Rivaroxaban 2.5 mg BID in addition to aspirin reduces the incidence of both MACE and MALE as compared to aspirin alone, without increasing life-threatening bleeding. This regimen is associated with a reduced severity of MALE when it does occur. Comparisons across antithrombotic trials in PAD are challenging given the heterogeneity of patient populations and the differing assessment of outcomes. The vascular medicine practitioner can reduce ischemic cardiac and limb events, as well as minimize life-threatening bleeding, by choosing the optimal antithrombotic regimen in their PAD patients.
Notes on language games as a source of methods for studying the formal properties of linguistic events1
Authors: Garfinkel Harold
Published: February 2019

One of three distinct approaches to his famous ‘Trust’ argument, this paper written by Garfinkel in 1960, and never before published, proposed a rethinking of rules, games and linguistic classifications in interactional terms consistent with Wittgenstein’s language games. Garfinkel had been working in collaboration with Parsons since 1958 to craft an approach to culture that would replace conceptual classification with the constitutive expectancies of interaction and systems of interaction. The argument challenged the work of cultural anthropologists influenced by zoology and biology, who called themselves ‘ethnoscientists’ and studied culture in terms of linguistic classification systems. Garfinkel had proposed an alternative sociological ‘ethnoscience’ of culture and language that would focus on how culture was made, on how linguistic events are achieved, and on the rules of their making. This ‘Language Games’ approach followed Wittgenstein in seeking what Garfinkel called a literal description of cultural/linguistic events: meaning by ‘literal’, a step-by-step account of the constitutive and preferred rules participants use to create a recognizable event-in-a-language. Made famous three years later in version associated with Schutz, Garfinkel’s Trust argument also appears in a 1962 text (Parsons’ Primer, published in 2019) in a version built on Parsons.
Trade Impacts of South Asian Free Trade Agreements in Sri Lanka
Authors: Taguchi Hiroyuki , Rubasinghe Don Chalani Imasha
Published: February 2019

This article aims to examine the trade effects of the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) with a focus on Sri Lanka, by applying a gravity trade model. The study targets the following three FTAs: the SAFTA, the India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA), and the Pakistan–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (PSFTA). The outcomes of the gravity trade model estimation suggested that the trade creation effects were identified in the ISFTA, while those were not verified in the SAFTA and that the PSFTA had the trade creation effects only on the Sri Lankan imports. Those results seem to reflect the differentials in the preferential tariff rates. In particular, ISFTA could have the predominant positive effects on Sri Lankan trade flows due to its lowest preferential tariff rates, and thus the SAFTA effect might be crowded out at the current stage of Sri Lankan trade.

JEL: F13, F14, O53
Parallel Stent Graft Technique for Hypogastric Aneurysm Repair With Flow Preservation of Distal Pelvic Circulation
Authors: Skripochnik Edvard , Spentzouris Georgios , Loh Shang A.
Published: February 2019

Hypogastric artery aneurysms (HAA) necessitate repair due to significant morbidity and potential mortality associated with rupture. Coverage or coiling of HAA are not always possible, as the risk of pelvic and spinal cord ischemia become especially significant in bilateral hypogastric disease as well as with prior extensive aortic coverage. We report 2 cases of endovascular HAA exclusion using parallel stent grafts for preservation of flow through the distal hypogastric artery branches and external iliac artery in patients with prior thoracic and abdominal aortic repairs, contralateral hypogastric disease, and significant anatomic constraints.
Electric vehicle energy predictive optimal control by V2I communication
Authors: Bo Zhu , Di Wu , MinYi Zheng , Nong Zhang , Lin He
Published: February 2019

To achieve a better energy-efficient and comfortable vehicle driving, electric vehicle energy predictive optimal control was discussed in this article. It used Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication of traffic light distance and time gap to make velocity decision in order to improve whole driving performance. Based on the data of standard New European Driving Cycle, this article put forward a real-time cycle including traffic light position and time information at first. Then, a preview and optimal decision controller was built. Four evaluating indexes were set for optimal decision making to decide the optimal expected speed, according to the pass time that the forward traffic lights allowed and the distance or the forward vehicle speed and distance. After that AMESim and Simulink co-simulation platform was used to build the vehicle dynamics model and to exploit the control algorithm. The simulation results indicated that vehicle with V2I can effectively improve the operating condition of the whole vehicle and reduce the frequency of vehicle starting and stopping, which makes the vehicle driving smoother and steady. Moreover, it can reduce vehicle energy consumption and improve endurance mileage. Meanwhile, the vehicle acceleration and jerk have decreased dramatically with better comfortable performance.
Parameterization dynamics visual design platform for missile launching system
Authors: Yang Haigen , Fu Xiao , Zhan Zhihuan , Xin Weigang
Published: February 2019

The missile launching system is a typical complex mechanical system, which is becoming increasingly larger in scale and more complicated in structure. Designing these types of products often requires repeated complex and time-consuming model design, calculation, and analysis of the dynamics of the system. The most time-consuming is repeatedly modifying the geometric and dynamics models. In this article, we put forward a new method for bidirectional-driving parameter between CAD and CAE, by changing the geometric model parameters, which directly changes the dynamics model. A parameterized multibody system dynamics modeling and analysis software for missile launching system are proposed, which gathered modeling, solving, visual simulation as a whole, and realized design parameters seamless transfer between geometric models and dynamics models for missile launching system. In order to examine the correctness of the simulation results, a parameterized experimental platform for missile launching system is designed, which can modify the key parameters as designed in simulation software. Finally, a missile launching system simulation and test examples are given, and the simulation analysis and experiment results demonstrate that the overall trend of the simulation results of multi-rigid and rigid-flexible coupling dynamics model is consistent with the experiment results.
A monocular-based navigation approach for unmanned aerial vehicle safe and autonomous transmission-line inspection
Authors: Hui Xiaolong , Bian Jiang , Zhao Xiaoguang , Tan Min
Published: February 2019

This article presents a monocular-based navigation approach for unmanned aerial vehicle safe and continuous inspection along one side of transmission lines. To this end, a navigation model based on the transmission tower and the transmission-line vanishing point was proposed, and the following three key issues were addressed. First, a deep-learning-based object detection and a fast and smooth tracking algorithm based on the kernelized correlation filter were combined to locate transmission tower timely and reliably. Second, the vanishing point of transmission lines was computed and optimized to provide unmanned aerial vehicle with a robust and precise flight direction. Third, to keep a stable safe distance from transmission lines, the transmission lines were first rectified by optimizing a homography matrix to eliminate the parallel distortion, and then their interval variation was estimated for reflecting the spatial distance variation. Finally, the real distance from transmission tower was measured by the triangulation across multiple views. The proposed navigation approach and the designed UAV platform were tested in a field environment, which achieved an encouraging result. To the best of authors’ knowledge, this article marks the first time that a safe and continuous navigation approach along one side of transmission lines is put forward and implemented.
A new structure of sociotechnical system processes using resilience engineering
Authors: Said Saloua , Bouloiz Hafida , Gallab Maryam
Published: February 2019

In the context of a world dominated by growing uncertainty, complex sociotechnical systems find themselves confronted with unexpected disruptions, which may lead to significant losses. To cope with these adverse events, modern sociotechnical systems constantly seek out ways of enlarging their ability to absorb and recover from disturbance, a capacity that we call resilience. With the aim of helping systems fulfill this mission, many research works have been conducted to develop methods for measuring, evaluating, and increasing the system’s resilience. One of the approaches, which arise from these works, is resilience engineering, a paradigm within which this article proposes a new structure of sociotechnical system processes, characterized by the introduction of resilience processes and their association with the other process categories. To illustrate the new proposed structure, we implemented a metamodel using the systems modeling language. Then, we focused on the resilience process behavior in a crisis through a qualitative and quantitative study accomplished by applying system dynamics approach. This article also develops a scoring system to assess the resilience of sociotechnical system processes and rank them based on the results.
Fostamatinib for the treatment of chronic immune thrombocytopenia
Authors: Connell Nathan T. , Berliner Nancy
Published: February 2019

Fostamatinib is a spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor recently approved for the treatment of chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in patients without adequate response to at least 1 prior line of therapy. This article reviews fostmatinib’s mechanism of action and its clinical safety and efficacy in 2 industry-sponsored multicenter phase 3 randomized controlled trials in North America, Australia, and Europe (FIT1 and FIT2). Cost comparisons are discussed as well as the role of fostamatinib in relation to other options for chronic ITP.
Management of acute promyelocytic leukemia: updated recommendations from an expert panel of the European LeukemiaNet
Authors: Sanz Miguel A. , Fenaux Pierre , Tallman Martin S. , Estey Elihu H. , Löwenberg Bob , Naoe Tomoki , Lengfelder Eva , Döhner Hartmut , Burnett Alan K. , Chen Sai-Juan , Mathews Vikram , Iland Harry , Rego Eduardo , Kantarjian Hagop , Adès Lionel , Avvisati Giuseppe , Montesinos Pau , Platzbecker Uwe , Ravandi Farhad , Russell Nigel H. , Lo-Coco Francesco
Published: February 2019

Since the comprehensive recommendations for the management of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) reported in 2009, several studies have provided important insights, particularly regarding the role of arsenic trioxide (ATO) in frontline therapy. Ten years later, a European LeukemiaNet expert panel has reviewed the recent advances in the management of APL in both frontline and relapse settings in order to develop updated evidence- and expert opinion–based recommendations on the management of this disease. Together with providing current indications on genetic diagnosis, modern risk-adapted frontline therapy, and salvage treatment, the review contains specific recommendations for the identification and management of the most important complications such as the bleeding disorder APL differentiation syndrome, QT prolongation, and other all-trans retinoic acid– and ATO-related toxicities, as well as recommendations for molecular assessment of the response to treatment. Finally, the approach to special situations is also discussed, including management of APL in children, elderly patients, and pregnant women. The most important challenges remaining in APL include early death, which still occurs before and during induction therapy, and optimizing treatment in patients with high-risk disease.
Potentiation of complement regulator factor H protects human endothelial cells from complement attack in aHUS sera
Authors: Pouw Richard B. , Brouwer Mieke C. , de Gast Marlon , van Beek Anna E. , van den Heuvel Lambertus P. , Schmidt Christoph Q. , van der Ende Arie , Sánchez-Corral Pilar , Kuijpers Taco W. , Wouters Diana
Published: February 2019

Mutations in the gene encoding for complement regulator factor H (FH) severely disrupt its normal function to protect human cells from unwanted complement activation, resulting in diseases such as atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS). aHUS presents with severe hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and renal disease, leading to end-stage renal failure. Treatment of severe complement-mediated disease, such as aHUS, by inhibiting the terminal complement pathway, has proven to be successful but at the same time fails to preserve the protective role of complement against pathogens. To improve complement regulation on human cells without interfering with antimicrobial activity, we identified an anti-FH monoclonal antibody (mAb) that induced increased FH-mediated protection of primary human endothelial cells from complement, while preserving the complement-mediated killing of bacteria. Moreover, this FH-activating mAb restored complement regulation in sera from aHUS patients carrying various heterozygous mutations in FH known to impair FH function and dysregulate complement activation. Our data suggest that FH normally circulates in a less active conformation and can become more active, allowing enhanced complement regulation on human cells. Antibody-mediated potentiation of FH may serve as a highly effective approach to inhibit unwanted complement activation on human cells in a wide range of hematological diseases while preserving the protective role of complement against pathogens.
Leptin Receptor Signaling in Sim1-Expressing Neurons Regulates Body Temperature and Adaptive Thermogenesis
Authors: Cakir Isin , Diaz-Martinez Myriam , Lining Pan Pauline , Welch E Brian , Patel Sachin , Ghamari-Langroudi Masoud
Published: February 2019

Leptin signals to regulate food intake and energy expenditure under conditions of normative energy homeostasis. The central expression and function of leptin receptor B (LepRb) have been extensively studied during the past two decades; however, the mechanisms by which LepRb signaling dysregulation contributes to the pathophysiology of obesity remains unclear. The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) plays a crucial role in regulating energy balance as well as the neuroendocrine axes. The role of LepRb expression in the PVN in regard to the regulation of physiological function of leptin has been controversial. The single-minded homolog 1 gene (Sim1) is densely expressed in the PVN and in parts of the amygdala, making Sim1-Cre mice a useful model for examining molecular mechanisms regulating PVN function. In this study, we characterized the physiological role of LepRb in Sim1-expressing neurons using LepRb-floxed × Sim1-Cre mice. Sim1-specific LepRb-deficient mice were surprisingly hypophagic on regular chow but gained more weight upon exposure to a high-fat diet than did their control littermates. We show that Sim1-specific deletion of a single LepRb gene copy caused decreased surface and core body temperatures as well as decreased energy expenditure in ambient room temperatures in both female and male mice. Furthermore, cold-induced adaptive (nonshivering) thermogenesis is disrupted in homozygous knockout mice. A defective thermoregulatory response was associated with defective cold-induced upregulation of uncoupling protein 1 in brown adipose tissue and reduced serum T4. Our study provides novel functional evidence supporting LepRb signaling in Sim1 neurons in the regulation of body weight, core body temperature, and cold-induced adaptive thermogenesis.
“Die Amerikanerin Scolds!”
Authors: Houwink ten Cate Lotte
Published: February 2019

This article, based on unpublished materials from the Scholem Library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the digitized Arendt Papers at the New School, New York, seeks to illuminate Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem’s long friendship, their exchange about Eichmann in Jerusalem, and especially the publication of this exchange. Although Scholem had mixed views on Eichmann in Jerusalem, he suppressed his more positive assessments while crafting his first letter to Arendt so as to write the most critical reaction he could muster. Arendt was not aware that Scholem intended to have their private communication published in both the Jewish and the Gentile, and European and American, worlds, and she was unpleasantly surprised when she discovered that Scholem had alerted his friend Isaiah Berlin to this correspondence, and that Berlin had acted as a go-between with the London-based magazine Encounter.
Statelessness, Refugees, and Hospitality
Authors: Kattago Siobhan
Published: February 2019

As the war in Syria and the destruction of the Calais camp in France in 2016 bitterly demonstrate, declarations of human rights and asylum devolve into empty promises without a common sense of solidarity and an implicit understanding that we share responsibility for the world and one another. Today’s refugee crisis demonstrates that many of the problems that Hannah Arendt identified during the first half of the twentieth century are still with us. National security and the state of exception increasingly place refugees and migrants at the borders of international law. This article argues that Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace and Arendt’s postwar reflections on the stateless as modern pariahs continue to frame current debates on hospitality, human rights, and responsibility. Without a recognition of our common humanity and shared world, sovereign states will continue to find exceptions to the legal status of refugees and migrants, thus enabling their exclusion from political life and the very laws that should protect them. Falling outside human rights law and the rights of refugees leads to the uncertainty of the pariah.
Secularization between Faith and Reason
Authors: Griffioen Sjoerd
Published: February 2019

The contemporary “postsecularism debate” has reintroduced the problem of the relation between modernity and religion to philosophy. In this context, attention is also paid to earlier debates on secularization—notably, the Löwith-Blumenberg debate—in the hope that it will illuminate the contemporary discussion. This article contends that such an endeavor would first require a critical reinvestigation of this debate to correct two widespread misinterpretations: that Hans Blumenberg “decisively refuted” Karl Löwith and that their positions are more similar than their polemic suggests. The debate should be seen as an unresolved dispute between incompatible philosophical positions, in which Löwith represents a “Stoic retreat” from modernity and Christianity and Blumenberg a modest defense of modernity against the metaphysical burden of its Christian past.
Financial Market Misconduct and Public Enforcement: The Case of Libor Manipulation
Authors: Gandhi Priyank , Golez Benjamin , Jackwerth Jens Carsten , Plazzi Alberto
Published: February 2019

Using comprehensive data on London Interbank Offer Rate (Libor) submissions from 2001 through 2012, we provide evidence consistent with banks manipulating Libor to profit from Libor-related positions and to signal their creditworthiness during distressed times. Evidence of manipulation is stronger for banks that were eventually sanctioned by regulators and disappears for all banks in the aftermath of the Libor investigations that began in 2010. Our findings suggest that the threat of large penalties and the loss of reputation that accompany public enforcement can be effective in deterring financial market misconduct.

This paper was accepted by Adams, Renee, finance.